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.