ELECTION 2020

[Carsman]

Both Joe & Bernie are using Barack in their commercials, and Barack has not put a stop to that, so it seems he has to be OK with it appearing as he's backing them. If I was Barack, I would have put a stop to it.
But that's just me.

 
If he even wanted to.....Obama doesn’t have the ability to simply put a stop to it, Cars.   

During his 8 years in the White House....he made positive statements about former Vice President Biden, about senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, about senator and former presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren, about former NYC mayor and former presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg, and hundreds of other people with whom he worked.  

Since those statements were made publicly by an elected official, there is no restriction on them being used in political advertisements.  Freedom of speech and expression and all that good stuff.   

Obama did however halt a Republican ad which featured his public speech — he was motivated and able to put a stop to it because it was false advertising (the ad took negative comments he’d made about something unrelated and claimed they were about Joe Biden).  

Anyway, as Duchess said, Obama has not endorsed any Democratic candidate for president in the primaries and has clearly stated that he will not.  He said he’ll wait til after the Democratic nominee is elected/chosen and  then he’ll campaign for him or her in the general election.

Being who he is, he can have "them" revise their commercials to display a "date" when he made those accolades!

I saw that a date of the accolades was added in the Bloomberg commercials. It should be on Joe's and Bernie's as well!