Inside Obama's secret meetings with 2020 contenders

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Barack Obama has in recent months met with at least nine prospective 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and Deval Patrick, pulling them in for one-on-one sessions at his Washington office.

All the meetings were arranged quietly, without even some close advisers to the people involved being told of the conversations, in part because of how much Obama bristles at his private meetings becoming public knowledge. All have been confirmed to POLITICO by multiple people who have been briefed on the secretive sit-downs.

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Meanwhile, people who have been told about other meetings confirmed that they’re going on with some of the lesser known potential 2020 candidates, too. Mitch Landrieu, the former New Orleans mayor being urged to run for president — including by some Obama alumni — sat with the former president in the fall. Jason Kander, the failed 2016 Missouri Senate candidate who’s looking at making an against-all-odds White House run, stopped by in January. And Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who’s thinking of a run of his own, was in to see Obama at the end of last year.

Eric Garcetti, the mayor of Los Angeles and one of the early supporters of Obama’s 2008 campaign, hasn’t been to the Washington office, but he got his private meeting when Obama was in town to attend a dinner in May for the American Constitution Center, say several people who were told of that meeting.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/11/obama-2020-elections-sanders-warren-635165

[moose65]

1. How can "secret" meetings be splashed all over the news?

I don't like the headline of this article. It makes it sound like Obama is sneaking around and doing something shady, when he is not. It's not a crime to have meetings, is it? Obviously, the web site found out about the meetings, so they're not exactly a secret!

[FSogol]

2. Politico's agenda is to make the Democrats seem divided and up to nefarious practices.

It outrages people and drives traffic to their website. Take whatever they say with a grain of salt.

[Wwcd]

3. Exactly. Politico has become a second class hack site grabbing attention however it can, for their

millionaire investors.

Pay attention to how & who they sensationalize

They exemplify the 'Money & Media' we've heard about.

Piss on their investors.

They don't give a shit.

Btw, this is the THIRD OP with this article & link today.
Wonder why.

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. What's with all these mayors wanting to run for President? Nt

[maxsolomon]

5. 2020 America will never elect someone named "Buttigieg".

2020 America is on the brink of sliding into open Fascism.

Our candidate has to be able to stand toe-to-toe with President Asshole as expose him as the hollow shell of a human that he is. They need to be able to deploy ridicule and facts in equal measure. They need to yank his hand back like Macron does.

I know Sanders and Warren aren't up to that task. I don't know who is.

Kamala Harris? Obama might want to meet with her.