Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/24/barack-obama-abdul-el-sayed-michigan

Barack Obama told a Detroit crowd on Saturday that Abdul El-Sayed was “fighting for change, real change, that will get money out of politics and put money in your pocket”, as he threw his weight behind the Democratic Senate candidate and the rest of the ticket on the first day of early voting in Michigan.

Obama said in front of thousands of onlookers at Cass technical high school in Detroit that El-Sayed would “finish the job we started with the Affordable Care Act and guarantee quality, affordable healthcare to every single American”.

What job was that, Obama?

It's right in the summary, but he's taking about the ACA.

I’m mostly giving him shit because the job he wants to finish is status quo capitalism.

I didn’t catch the one in Michigan, but the one in Ohio was a goddamn banger. Spent the whole time ripping Trump a new fucking asshole, and it was absolutely hilarious!

Obama is more to blame than Hillary for our current situation...

In 09 he could have appointed anyone he wanted to the DNC chair, and they would have been able to do whatever they wanted...

Instead he ignored the DNC for both terms and let Neoliberals maintain control.

The DNC went bankrupt and didn't have the money to run the 2016 primary, and was still controlled by Clintons neoliberals.

So they agreed to let Hillary's campaign pay for the primary she was running in, and in exchange she got final say on everything the DNC said and did, even if Bernie won that primary she could have told the DNC to pick her instead.

If Obama had taken the five minutes to pick literally any progressive he knew to head the DNC, we'd have gotten a fair 2016 primary, Bernie would have won, and likely have won 2020 as well, and we'd be two years into his VPs first term.

But Obama was pissed the DNC favored Hillary in 08, so he didn't try to save it or change it. He let it wither and it fucked us for decades.

Much better to have somewhat regulated capitalism than the fuck up we have now.

That’s not what would happen though, as history shows. There is no onward march to utopia. It’s a constant fight that the lefties gave up on. Buy a gun!

Why? So they can get shot by ICE?

There is no utopia, and using a gun certainly won't go in that direction. A functioning democracy is the best chance we've got. Yeah, it's gone off the rails now, but blowing up the train won't help. And it's better to have a conductor trying to steer the thing in a better direction than a worse one.