I can’t be the only one who wishes Barack Obama would fade peacefully away into retirement. Remember when former presidents used to do that? President Reagan retired peacefully to his California ranch. His successor, George H.W. Bush, quietly withdrew from public life when his one term was up. But President Obama continues to insert himself into national affairs, probably because the guy who, under normal circumstances, would have replaced him at the helm of the Democratic Party, Joe Biden, is in his Rehoboth Beach house drooling into a pudding cup.
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Barack Obama still feels like he needs to publicly advise his fellow Democrats, and if we’re being charitable, we can suppose that, yes, someone has to pull the brake on this crazy train. But the former president’s advice isn’t anything about not being crazy; he’s advising Democrats to “toughen up.”
Former President Obama’s message to Democrats is to “just