AOC isn’t alone in thinking she should’ve gotten more than 96 seconds at the Democratic National Convention.
President Barack Obama, the biggest party heavyweight of them all, says Democrats made a mistake by not giving a more prominent platform to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)
“She speaks to a broad section of young people who are interested in what she has to say, even if they don’t agree with everything she says,” Obama told Vanity Fair. “You give her a platform.”
“New blood is always good,” the ex-prez added.
Obama actually overestimated the time slot given to AOC, saying she “only got, what three minutes or five minutes?” In reality, DNC organizers allotted just one minute to the party’s brightest star on social media but she went about 36 seconds over that limit.
The popular former president weighed in as AOC has come under attack by moderate fellow Democrats in a round of post-election finger-pointing.
Democrats succeeded in ousting President Trump but surprisingly lost seats in the House of Representatives and failed, for now, to retake the Senate as most pollsters predicted.
They accuse the progressive firebrand of turning off middle-of-the-road voters by pushing an agenda including #DefundThePolice and Medicare for All.
Obama, who is famous for seeking to build consensus even with Republicans, agreed that some slogans are not productive.
“You lost a big audience the minute you say it,” Obama said, “which makes it a lot less likely that you’re actually going to get the changes you want done.”
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Yep Barack, AOC and communism is a great for a “broad section of young people”. Oh, I apologize Barack, I am white, so I am a racist. I am sorry I offended you Barack and I am sorry I offended all of those people in their safe spaces.
more prominent?
she should not be allowed in american politics PERIOD.
The worst president the country ever had wanting a babbling idiot like AOC elevated to a position of power and importance…… I would say she has the I. Q. of an earth worm, but that would insult the worm.
On the other hand, look who the dem-rats elected as their president.
Babbling Biden.
The only place she should be “promanent in”, is the LOCAL JAIL!
“Democrats succeeded in ousting President Trump”
Not yet
Four states, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia all posted massive ballot increases for Biden in the early morning hours following the election,
In Pennsylvania alone 570,000 ballots were recorded for Biden to President Trump’s 3,200 for this early morning time period, 99.4% to 0.6%.
All four of these states this recording of ballots in the early morning changed the vote count from Trump winning to Biden
Here is how it was done in Georgia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keANzinHWUA
And Michigan is now deleting election data
IF michigan IS DELETING election data, that should AUTOMATICALLY result in jail time, for EVERYONE IN THE ELECTION OFFICES< who's ordering those deletions.
FOR DELIBERATELY destroying evidence…
obama is determined to destroy this country. He and his equally despicable, anti American, islamist terrorist loving traitor spouse are the (N)astiest Chips — EVER!! They are raising their two daughters to be extremely racist anti American haters by allowing them to organize and March with blm. Hey folks, it’s our money paying secret service to shadow these two monkeys while they’re instigating the “peaceful protests” in major cities across the USA!!! Black obama said he’s so proud that they are doing this and nobody knows it’s them, because they’re wearing their masks. How pathetic, you can’t even make this stuff up.
“Democrats succeeded in ousting President Trump….”
Did they? Did they really? There’s so much smoke in the air right now it’s hard to tell if Democrats have succeeded or if We The People have held on to our republic.
The evidence, and there is a lot of it, all indicates an organized coup is in effect.
Unless the scotus overturns their outright theft, it certainly looks like they will succeed in their ousting of trump.
I think he’s right, for probably the first time! If she would have gotten more exposure more of the country would have actually seen how far from the ordinary citizen her radical plans veer. Dems could have lost more seats than they did and probably the Presidency. Whoever was in charge of the scheduling probably figured that out and limited her as much as possible.
Does anyone really care what Obama has to say? Or AOC for that matter?
“She speaks to a broad section of young people who are interested in what she has to say, even if they don’t agree with everything she says,” Obama told Vanity Fair. “You give her a platform.”
She speaks to the Far Left Radical Loons like you and Micheal, Jug Ears. Could that be why you want to give her more of a plateform.