LOS ANGELES – Barack Obama's message to the Democrats: Stop dreaming of him.
Speaking at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser Thursday in the lush courtyard of two megadonors in Beverly Hills, Obama warned of a country and the world on the edge – "you're right to worry, "he told the crowd. d flub their chance to change that if they continued to languish for a magical savior.
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"Do not wait for the perfect message, do not wait to feel a tingling in your spine because you expect politicians that they are so inspiring and poetic and moving that in a certain way, "OK, I" leave my couch after all and go through the 15-20 minutes that I need to vote, "Obama said in his first public comments for months, that only a few journalists and no cameras were allowed to vote. "Because this is part of what happened in the last election. I have heard too much. "
" Reduce it, "Obama said, reiterating an argument he made on the campaign trail for Ralph Northam in 2017 on the existential challenge that Trump poses to America." we do not vote, so this democracy does not work. "
He almost accepted some of the blame for the party's state, although he did not say so much because the DNC s & d. He was in the White House and he was struggling with his reelection debt and more because people were making the mistake of falling in love with him too much.
"I will be honest with you, if I have a regret during my presidency, it is that people were so focused on me and the battles we had, especially after the loss of the House , that people have stopped paying attention and down the poll, "said Obama.
