{"id":10401,"date":"2025-11-03T10:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=10401"},"modified":"2025-11-03T10:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T10:16:52","slug":"as-barack-obama-stumps-for-other-democrats-the-party-gets-to-see-what-it-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=10401","title":{"rendered":"As Barack Obama stumps for other Democrats, the party gets to see what it lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"92\" data-end=\"176\"><strong data-start=\"92\" data-end=\"176\">Obama\u2019s Wit and Wisdom Highlight What Democrats Have Lost \u2013 Too Bad He Can\u2019t Run<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"178\" data-end=\"338\">\u201cIt\u2019s not as if we didn\u2019t see this coming,\u201d Barack Obama joked to a packed arena in Norfolk, Virginia. \u201cI did warn y\u2019all!\u201d The crowd laughed, half in despair.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"340\" data-end=\"572\">After Trump\u2019s 2024 return to the White House, Obama has re-emerged as the Democrats\u2019 sharpest voice. Once content to stay out of politics, he\u2019s now a regular presence, filling the void left by Joe Biden\u2019s retreat from public life.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"574\" data-end=\"861\">Campaigning for Democrats in battleground states, Obama mixes humor and scorn. \u201cEvery day this White House serves up new lawlessness, recklessness, and craziness,\u201d he said, rattling off Trump\u2019s abuses of power before quipping, \u201cIt\u2019s like every day is Halloween\u2014only tricks, no treats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"863\" data-end=\"1113\">He mocked Trump\u2019s vanity projects\u2014gold-plating the Oval Office and paving the Rose Garden\u2014while lamenting how ordinary Americans face soaring costs and shuttered services. \u201cIf you can\u2019t see a doctor,\u201d he joked, \u201cdon\u2019t worry\u2014he\u2019ll save you a dance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1115\" data-end=\"1353\">Obama\u2019s biting humor underscored his enduring charisma and moral clarity. As he praised candidate Abigail Spanberger and rallied Democrats, the crowd\u2019s cheers made one thing clear: their best candidate for 2028 is the one who can\u2019t run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama\u2019s Wit and Wisdom Highlight What Democrats Have Lost \u2013 Too Bad He Can\u2019t Run \u201cIt\u2019s not as if we didn\u2019t see this coming,\u201d Barack Obama joked to a packed arena in Norfolk, Virginia. \u201cI did warn y\u2019all!\u201d The crowd laughed, half in despair. After Trump\u2019s 2024 return to the White House, Obama has re-emerged&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=10401\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;As Barack Obama stumps for other Democrats, the party gets to see what it lost&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10403,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions\/10403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}