Obama : The Come Back Kid.

Barack Obama may be the only
logical choice in reshaping
the fledging Democratic
party .

In Politics there are always "rumors" . While the biggest one I heard is that Obama (1)>>"might be looking into 2020" However. One cannot say that Obama is thinking of a third term. In fact, it is doubtful that even he himself could say at this point if he wants it. But if he were thinking about it, he would be acting as he is, and as Roosevelt did: Deny any such intention, but at the same time ensure that no strong Democratic candidate emerges, and keep the personal political machine intact.  Obama has been quietly re-entering Democratic politics, asserting his role as presidential kingmaker ahead of the 2020 election. While Obama has steered clear of the upcoming midterms, Politico reports that he has met with at least nine possible Democratic presidential candidates in recent months, including the nominal democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders, former Massachusetts governor and close friend Deval Patrick, and financial-reform crusader Elizabeth Warren, among others.  For the (2)>>Democratic Party as a whole , while the midterms look a "bit" rosy , not as bright as I thought . The Democrats are in fact in  trouble , their list of potential front runners even for 2020 are a bunch of nobodies except for  Sanders . With a political party , its a game . You need to have someone that is widely known. If the Democrats would pull a Republican curb ball by throwing in a mega superstar into the race it would not surprise me . The biggest question I have is,  can another woman run again on the Democratic ticket ? Mrs. Clinton has exhausted any chance for 2020 return . So where is the New Democratic generation?  The Constitution limits the Presidency to two consecutive four-year terms of office.  Then again.............
Obama could come back .

    In January, before he had officially entered office, Trump confirmed he would run again in the 2020 presidential election. The US President said he had decided ‘Keep America Great’ would be his 2020 reelection campaign slogan and on January 20, 2017, he filed a form with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) declaring his candidacy for the 2020 Presidential election. For the next two years the Democrats have to get themselves back on track . The Republican party controls Congress , the Supreme Court as well .  Trump is setting up a lot of Damage for the Democrats before November . The Democrats have a lot of work to do , their not so Progressive enough right now . This issue here for example is immigration , the separation of children from parents of illegals an issue that Democrats felt so strongly about now seem to have their hands tied up . They can't do anything about anything . So could Mr. Obama motivate the party back from that slumber ? Way back in 2016 (3)>>majority of Democrats would have canceled the 2016 presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump if it meant President Obama could serve another term, a new poll found.Data provided to The Hill by the conservative polling outlet WPA Research found that 67 percent of Democrats would take a third term for Obama over a potential Clinton administration. Only 28 percent said they’re ready to move on from the Obama White House, while 6 percent are undecided. So what can Mr. Obama besides just giving speeches ? For generations, Americans and politicians veered away from the concept of a third-term President. Washington had set an unofficial precedent in 1796 when he decided several months before the election not to seek a third term. What I know is that Obama has consulted with a range of people, from current and former advisers to historians, about how he should conduct himself in his post-presidency, doing much of his thinking during long days on the golf course throughout his Hawaiian vacation. Obama will have to remain more immersed in politics than he’d planned, it remains a mystery what that role will now look like. Certainly he’ll be asked to help rebuild the Democratic Party. For the Democrats , Obama is a strong voice of opposition . For the next decade , perhaps past 2020 AD he might just become revolutionary .

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>"might be looking into 2020" .  He has served two full terms. Once you have done that, you can never be President again, no matter how many years pass since you have left office. It also does not matter whether your two terms are consecutive or not. Theoretically, a president could serve one four year term, step down, and then come back and win a second four year term 20 years later, and at the end of that second term, would be ineligible to run again. All that matters is the total number of years you have been president, not when those years occurred.  Unless we have some government catastrophe However. (2)>>Democratic Party as a whole , while the midterms look a "bit" rosy . Progressive candidates would be winning at a historic clip in Democratic House primaries so far in the 2018 midterm elections, according to new research released,  1,600 House and Senate candidates across nearly 600 Democratic primary elections. They found that this year an unprecedented number of self-identified progressive candidates are running for office: 280 nonincumbents in House primaries in the 31 states that have held primaries so far, up from a mere 60 in 2014.They are winning more than ever too: 81 progressives have either won those Democratic House primaries or advanced to a runoff so far in 2018, versus just 24 six years ago and 31 in 2016. But as a whole party the Democrats still face a battle. (3)>>majority of Democrats would have canceled the 2016 presidential election . Yes they are still trying , like me they have not accepted the fact that Hillary lost.The Mueller investigation pretty much as I see it is not a legit "investigation" , its more political mudslinging and dirt digging on Trump , basically trying to de-legitimatize the fact they he won . Its 2018 , the majority of the Democrats just can't get out of the same trap that trapped the Republican party which was the idea that Obama was born in another country . If you remember its on the similar lines of the "birther movement" which tried to make Obama not a legitimate American in order for him  NOT to be President of the United States .  For Trump this is the conspiracy that it was the Russians who meddled , helped him win . Its the same metaphoric insanity .