Former president has given series of blistering speeches to help candidates in key races – and deployment has proved a hit with party’s progressive wing That could have been awkward. Barack Obama, campaigning for Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, acknowledged that his fellow Democrat has criticised some aspects of the Obama presidency. “Yeah, Abdul didn’t agree with some things we wanted to do – that our administration was doing – when I was president,” he told a rally in Detroit. “You know who e…
He also didn’t use the levers of power he had effectively. He was playing gentleman’s rules whilst the real threat to the country (from within) waited for him to get out of the way.
The Supreme Court nominations is the obvious one, but he should have been reinforcing all the checks and balances in the system, possibly even relinquishing powers away from the Office of the President where they have accumulated over 250 years.
Bin Laden wasn’t the threat. His own position was.