President Barack Obama defended Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Friday.
Wasserman Schultz has faced criticism this campaign season from Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) who has backed her primary opponent in Florida.
“She’s had my back, I want to make sure we have her back,” Obama said at a fundraiser in Miami, Politico reported.
Obama has not endorsed either candidate in the 2016 election.
Obama said Wasserman Schultz was “somebody who I don’t know how she does it, because she’s everywhere all the time, non-stop, and she’s a mom and a wife and has been just incredibly supportive of my agenda.”
Fair enough. I disagree with the president, but she has, in his eyes, done more good than bad. That’s politics.
Can we just stop all the hatred toward DWS? I never understood the amount of vitriol she’s commanded from people who just don’t like a Jewish woman in the job. She’s done a decent job. Get off her back. Grow up and stop it already.
Obama likes her. That’s good enough for me.
Step One in the President’s actions to shut down Bernie’s whining about losing the nomination.
I couldn’t care less whether she’s an androgenous, purple-skinned Pastafarian or a pasty-faced WASP. She simply hasn’t produced results for the party. She ran away from supporting fellow Democrats in South Florida, she hasn’t expanded they party numbers at any level, in fact presided over a contraction with little or no plan to stench the bleeding, and she repeated these failures over more than one election cycle.
So other that her being a Jewish woman, what is it about her that you support?