Obama’s White House Visit Underlines Story Democrats Need To Tell About Themselves And GOP

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Last week, for the first time in five years, former President Barack Obama returned to the home he occupied for eight years, from 2008 to 2016, to tout what will likely go down in history as the signature achievement of his time in the White House, the passage of the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare.

Obama’s visit to celebrate the re-shaping of the American health insurance system to expand coverage and provide healthcare security to tens of millions of more Americans served as a very necessary reminder of not just of what Democrats have fought for to make the lives of the most vulnerable as well as the majority of Americans better, at great political price, but also of what Republicans have fought so hard to deprive Americans of.

This last point is key:

Democrats — and frankly the media as well — must tell the story of what Republicans have viciously and vociferously fought to deny Americans, especially as the nation approaches midterm elections this November.

The telling of this story is key for American voters because they are the ones who pay the price eventually for their decisions and the degree to which those decisions are accurately and thoughtfully informed.