Obama Campaigns for Obama

President Obama visited Durham, New Hampshire, on Monday to campaign for President Obama. Well, actually he went there to campaign for Hillary Clinton — but you’d hardly know it based on the vast amount of time he spent lauding his own accomplishments.

Obama didn’t really have anything good to say about Clinton other than the fact that she will protect his legacy. He told the crowd to vote for Clinton not because of what progress she can achieve, but to vote for her “if you want to protect the progress we’ve made.”

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“We can choose the politics of blame and divisiveness and resentment,” Obama said — conveniently ignoring the fact that he has spent eight years fanning racial division and resentment and blaming Republicans whenever possible. “Or you can choose … whether we continue the journey of progress,” he said.

But Obama’s “progress” is nothing more than a gilded lump of coal. Obama extolled the fact that “wages are up and poverty is down,” despite the fact that the gap between rich and poor is at its widest in decades. He praised the fact that “20 million [people] have health insurance that didn’t have it before,” neglecting to mention that most of those people are insured through Medicaid expansion while millions more are facing rising premium costs and fewer health care options.

“There hasn’t been enough talk about this economy in this election,” Obama said. “We’ve created jobs for 73 months in a row now … just last week, the unemployment rate was at 4.9 percent,” he continued.

Of course, the bitter truth is that many of those new jobs are in the service industry or fueled by public sector spending (particularly in health care), and the unemployment rate has plummeted because the number of people who have dropped out of the workforce entirely has skyrocketed.

When Obama stopped talking about his own terrible legacy long enough to praise Clinton, he often had to resort to laughable falsehoods. “She would never divide people to win an election,” Obama claimed.

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But Hillary Clinton has done nothing but divide people throughout this campaign. She famously put Donald Trump’s supporters in a “basket of deplorables.” She has cast honest, hardworking Americans concerned with immigration as racists. She has also adopted the Black Lives Matter myths of systemic racism in law enforcement, continuing to stoke dangerous racial division in the quest for power.

Obama’s legacy is one of racial division and economic decline. If Clinton will truly protect and further that legacy, the results will be disastrous.