last night. i want to read to you another quote he mentioned, this came right after christina aguilera had performed and he basically said, this isn t what politics is always like. he turned to the crowd and said, we shouldn t expect politics to be entertaining all the time. christina aguilera was wonderful, but you don t need to have an amazing singer at every event. sometimes you re just in the church basement making phone calls and eating cold pizza. he went a step further and turned to the audience after a 12-minute answer to a first question posed by dnc chair tom perez and said enough moping. this is a mope-free zone. it seemed look a casual, more laid back barack obama, but he had a distinct message he wanted to get out to democrats, and that was we can t just complain, we actually have to do something about it. the timing can t be ignored here. this was a planned fund-raiser, but this also comes less than 48 hours after we learned that president trump will get to name
been devoting himself to fund-raising foror his library d writing his memoirs, obama is now on a dnc fund-raising swing commanding more than $100,000 a plate. and without mentioning trump, he told the sankey crowd, this is a moment of great swanky crowd. this is a moment of great urgency and you re right to be concerned. with the self-referential heir, he mused, we shouldn t expect politics to be entertaining all the time. christina aguilera was wonderle, you don t need to have an amazing singer at every event. sometimes you re in a church basement making phone calls and eating a cold pizza. that s easy for him to say. he spent a lot of time over the last year at richard brandon s private island. cold pizza for the other people. in many ways, the explosion of protests that tilts to the left and the ineffective democratic of this is the if you willtillment of what obama first ushered into his party.