“If what you are doing requires no sacrifice at all, then you can do more,” Obama told the tony crowd at a sweeping multi-million-dollar Beverly Hills home. “If you are one of these folks who is watching cable news at your cocktail parties with your friends and you are saying ‘civilization is collapsing’ and you are nervous and worried, but that is not where you are putting all your time, energy and money, then either you don’t actually think civilization is collapsing … or you are not pushing yourself hard enough and I would push harder.”
Mr President,
I guess you don’t think things are that bad. What are YOU doing? Writing a $40,000,000 book, making $300,000 speeches and hanging out with Richard Branson, Bruce Springsteen and Steven Spielberg? That much money buys a lot of insulation from Trump’s actions. You’re set for life and your kids will do well. What’s to worry? Oh, did I mention Michelle’s $20,000,000 book?
The irony of this situation is that, even though you are largely responsible for this mess-for what you didn’t do during your eight years- you are the only Democrat who can unite the party against Trump and the Republicans. The tragedy is that you won’t. You think that because GW Bush didn’t criticize you, that it would be out-of-bounds for you to criticize Trump. But Bush left in disgrace- economic meltdown, Katrina, WMD, etc. His best strategy was to say nothing because to do otherwise would have given you an opening (though you wouldn’t have used it, of course) to criticize the policies and actions of Republicans to their detriment in the mid-terms.
You don’t realize the upside of speaking out. Your haters hate you regardless of what you say or do. The downside is already there. The upside is that, by speaking out, you will galvanize Democrats and Progressives. When we show up at the polls, we win.
I wonder if you actually have it in you to do the hard work of leading a cause. 2008 was a relative cakewalk. Nearly any Democrat was going to win the Presidency and the Democratic primary was an exercise in relative civility, quaint by today’s standards.
But hey, a book, speeches and hanging out with famous people is much more fun than defending the rights of oppressed people and fighting for Democratic principles. Do you even care about anyone who isn’t in your socio-economic class? Did you ever?
Get off the sidelines and into the game. A Twitter war with the Donald would be entertaining- for our side, finally.
Incompetent, Irrelevant & Immaterial! 