{"id":1700897,"date":"2022-10-18T08:06:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700897"},"modified":"2022-10-18T08:18:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T12:18:44","slug":"barack-obama-unloads-on-cancel-culture-and-buzzkill-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barack-obama-unloads-on-cancel-culture-and-buzzkill-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama Unloads on Cancel Culture and \u201cBuzzkill\u201d Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbarack-obama-unloads-on-cancel-culture-and-buzzkill-democrats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700897&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/barack-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama<\/a> offered some advice to his party heading into the fast-approaching November midterms, warning Democrats not to be \u201cbuzzkills\u201d and calling for a move away from <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/what-jk-rowling-can-teach-us-about-surviving-cancel-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cancel culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Obama joined the hosts of the \u201cPod Save America\u201d podcast for a wide-ranging interview that was released on Saturday, and he discussed everything from the ongoing war in Ukraine to the Supreme Court \u2014 but when it came to the midterm elections, he had some very specific advice for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democrats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Dan Pfeiffer, who served as a senior advisor in Obama\u2019s White House, opened the podcast with a question about the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll right, we\u2019re going to start with the midterms,\u201d he said, and Obama replied, \u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause we\u2019re getting serious here,\u201d Pfeiffer continued. \u201cSo these midterms, like 2010, are happening in let\u2019s say a sub-optimal economic environment. But sort of unlike 2010, Democrats have a handful of pretty powerful arguments that seem to be moving voters about who Republicans are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say the Democrats could win by pushing narratives that could be used to paint Republicans as more \u201cextreme,\u201d such as abortion access and the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill. He asked Obama to weigh in on whether or not he felt those things could be threaded together into a cohesive narrative on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>Obama said that he believed the main message had to be about preserving democracy \u2014 and for Democrats to do that, they had to find a way to build a \u201cdurable majority\u201d in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy family, my kids, work that gives me satisfaction, having fun. Hell, not being a buzzkill. And sometimes Democrats are,\u201d Obama continued.\u00a0\u201cSometimes people just want to not feel as if they are walking on eggshells, and they want some acknowledgment that life is messy and that all of us, at any given moment, can say things the wrong way, make mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to address his party\u2019s apparent fascination with cancel culture and made it clear that he thought it was a losing proposition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think where we get into trouble sometimes is where we try to suggest that some groups are more \u2013 because they historically have been victimized more \u2013 that somehow they have a status that\u2019s different than other people and we\u2019re going around scolding folks if they don\u2019t use exactly the right phrase,\u201d he explained. \u201cOr that identity politics becomes the principle lens through which we view our various political challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama offered some advice to his party heading into the fast-approaching November midterms, warning Democrats not to be \u201cbuzzkills\u201d and calling for a move away from cancel culture. Obama joined the hosts of the \u201cPod Save America\u201d podcast for a wide-ranging interview that was released on Saturday, and he discussed everything from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}