{"id":186265,"date":"2018-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/obama-the-comeback\/"},"modified":"2018-10-02T14:09:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T18:09:46","slug":"obama-the-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/world\/usa\/obama-the-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama, the comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama came back after almost two years of absence to energize the Democrats\u2019 bases and try to mobilize his vote for the midterm elections, to be held next November. It is true: as a rule, the outgoing presidents have not interfered or criticized the policies of their counterparts, at least while they are in office.<\/span><\/p>\n

But this is no longer the case. He has put on his armored suit again and not resorting to euphemisms or ellipses but rather naming the things from his perspective, which is like saying from the other side of a divided country. A strategist has said it: \u201cThis election is going to be all about Donald Trump. If you\u2019re going to enter the ring, you have to name your enemy.\u201d And that\u2019s exactly what he has done. Calling him a trafficker in fear, a demagogue who promises \u201csimple solutions to complex problems.\u201d But, at the same time, making it clear that Trump is \u201cthe symptom, not the cause\u201d of one of the problems that Americans are witnessing today: authoritarianism.<\/span><\/p>\n

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His Party\u2019s high command has commissioned him to lay on his charisma and with this contribute to rolling back the defeat in a presidential election in which the yellow imposed itself against all odds, and against all forecasts. \u201cI need you,\u201d said Obama to thousands of his followers during a demonstration in Cleveland backing the candidate for governor of Ohio, Richard Cordray. \u201cBut what\u2019s most important is that the country needs you,\u201d with which he seemed to evoke a famous speech by John F. Kennedy. His message, very clear: staying at home, washing their hands, crossing their arms is not the way out if they want to snatch the Republicans\u2019 majority in Congress: they have to go out and vote.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Barack Obama speaking during a campaign event in favor of candidates to congressional posts for California, Saturday September 8, 2018, in Anaheim, California. Photo: Ringo H.W. Chiu \/ AP.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For November, the forecasts are shaping up favorably for the Democrats in a scenario marked by a president consumed by the <\/span>Russian plot<\/span><\/a>, Mueller\u2019s investigation, the corruption and sex scandals, the administrative chaos, the sentencing of two members of his electoral campaign – George Papadoupolos and Paul Manafort \u2013 and an ex personal attorney, Michael Cohen, who has proclaimed the Declaration of Independence once he fell into the hands of the feds.<\/span><\/p>\n

The graphs place the Democrats, for example, as favorites to win the Senate seats for Nevada and Arizona, and give Senator Joe Manchin broad possibilities of retaining his seat for West Virginia. Claire McCaskill, from Missouri, and Heidi Heitkamp, from North Dakota, are around that same road.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you still don't think the midterms will affect you, @BarackObama<\/a> is back to spell out just how important they are pic.twitter.com\/5dghmZwp2m<\/a><\/p>\n

— NowThis Impact (@nowthisimpact) September 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n