Choose Your Fighters

Obama's political messages since being elected president has been, "just vote" and "vote harder," and "shame on you for not voting hard enough." He regularly does a rare intervention to make sure nobody does anything else with the timely power they have.

A call to Barack Obama from a small group of players including NBAPA president Chris Paul and Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James helped convince NBA players to end their strike in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake and return to the court to finish the playoffs. 

How'd that one work out?

This isn't about Obama, really, it is about people in power not using the power they asked for (for the reasons they supposedly wanted) and also making sure nobody else has any power either.