{"id":3055,"date":"2025-12-07T19:53:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:53:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:53:17","slug":"our-most-important-battle-obama-privately-urges-freshman-dems-to-fight-cynicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=3055","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our most important battle\u2019: Obama privately urges freshman Dems to fight cynicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"37\" data-end=\"189\">Former President Barack Obama met with nearly three dozen freshman House Democrats this week, urging them to resist cynicism despite political setbacks.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"191\" data-end=\"380\">\u201cI get feeling worn out, tired, and embattled,\u201d Obama admitted, recalling how his team once used \u201cfight cynicism\u201d stickers as a reminder that discouragement is the real enemy in Washington.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"382\" data-end=\"667\">He drew parallels to 2004, when Democrats lost the presidency, House, and Senate, and Republicans touted a \u201cpermanent majority.\u201d \u201cTwo years later, Nancy Pelosi became Speaker, and four years later I was president,\u201d he said, emphasizing that tough moments can lead to major turnarounds.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"669\" data-end=\"836\">Obama also acknowledged mistakes from his presidency, noting he overestimated Republicans\u2019 willingness to negotiate in good faith during the Affordable Care Act fight.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"838\" data-end=\"1036\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Now acting as a mentor rather than a front-line politician, Obama says his focus is on helping the next generation of Democrats build momentum \u2014 and a sustainable party that can succeed without him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama met with nearly three dozen freshman House Democrats this week, urging them to resist cynicism despite political setbacks. \u201cI get feeling worn out, tired, and embattled,\u201d Obama admitted, recalling how his team once used \u201cfight cynicism\u201d stickers as a reminder that discouragement is the real enemy in Washington. He drew parallels &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}