To Rehabilitate Democratic Party, Obama Plans To 'Coach' Young Talent

[think]

To Rehabilitate Democratic Party, Obama Plans To 'Coach' Young Talent

December 19, 20165:00 AM ET

President Obama sees a role for himself in rebuilding the Democratic Party after he leaves office — coach.

"What I am interested in is just developing a whole new generation of talent," Obama told NPR's Steve Inskeep in an interview on Morning Edition.

"There are such incredible young people who not only worked on my campaign, but I've seen in advocacy groups," Obama said. "I've seen passionate about issues like climate change, or conservation, criminal justice reform. You know, campaigns to — for a livable wage, or health insurance. And making sure that whatever resources, credibility, spotlight that I can bring to help them rise up. That's something that I think I can do well, I think Michelle can do well."

The Democrats' deep hole

They'll have their work cut out for them. Republicans will control the House, Senate and White House when President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in Jan. 20. That's a reversal of the situation Obama found himself in when he took office eight years ago — the peak of massive Democratic electoral gains at the end of the Bush administration...

Read more and video interview with PResident Obama at link:
http://www.npr.org/2016/12/19/505549311/to-rehabilitate-democratic-party-obama-plans-to-coach-young-talent

[Mika]

1. Maybe he can teach them how to work with republicans.

Do I need this? -->

[guillaumeb]

2. Is Tulsi Gabbard part of that "young talent"? eom

[think]

3. Tulsi stood at Standing Rock. She is already leading the way. No other members of congress went.

[guillaumeb]

4. She also stands for a distrust of Islam.

Not really a positive message for a party that talks about inclusion and growing.

[uponit7771]

7. FUCK THAT!!! Fuck all tribalism ... thx for pionting this out

[Ainaloa]

9. Tulsi supports Muslims and people of all religion

The fact is that Tulsi is strongly supportive of Muslims. She co-sponsored HRes 569 condemning violence, bigotry and hatred towards Muslims. She also strongly spoke out against bigoted statements towards Muslims made by Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Lindsey Graham. She's one of the strongest supporters of separation of church and state in Congress and has been called a "refreshing voice for secularism." However there are those in the Democratic establishment who have tried to smear her literally since the day she resigned to DNC to support Bernie. Here's a helpful comment I found on Reddit that breaks down this specific accusation against her and why it is are completely false: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoDAPL/comments/5gcpt3/tulsi_gabbard_proves_once_again_that_she_is_the/dasmluz/

[guillaumeb]

10. Welcome to DU, and thanks for the link.

It might be a good thing for you to post.

[msongs]

5. she went at the last minute for a photo op. nt

[think]

6. She went with over 2000 fellow vets and the project was halted very soon after that so that a full

environmental impact assessment could be done.

The company had broken the pipeline into multiple smaller projects to get around the requirements for an environmental impact study.

http://www.sierraclub.org/planet/2016/12/whats-next-for-standing-rock-and-dakota-access-pipeline-fight

[Gothmog]

8. Yeah for President Obama

[KamaAina]

11. Too bad he didn't 'coach' some older talent this cycle.

He and Bill.