B-Man Posted December 10 Posted December 10 To Move Forward, Democrats Must Oust Obama. By John Kass Obama honors himself at every opportunity. But he is America’s one-eyed jack. And we’ve seen the other side of his face. But who would lead the attack against Obama and risk the enmity of the well-heeled Democrat interest groups? Most importantly, who in the Democrat Party can play the iconoclast and take on the party’s neo-Marxist creed of racial and other grievances? Obama pretends to rise above grievance, but he’s reliant upon it like an addict, like the “Revs” Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, though far silkier and smoother. Remember just weeks ago when Obama was lecturing young black men who weren’t enthralled with the presidential candidacy of Kamala Harris. Bitter and angry, he harangued them on what he could only understand as the sexism of the great unwashed. It was a rap he had used before. And it had treated him so well in the past. It reverberated in the halls of his many mansions. Perhaps even in that mansion on liberal Martha’s Vineyard, the vacation paradise for the immensely wealthy that was off limits to impoverished illegal migrants who’d crossed the border on Democrat invitation. Yet those young men who he tried to shame didn’t live among the elites of Martha’s Vineyard or the Gold Coast of Chicago. And they weren’t insulated from the poor economy and pressure from the illegals. Instead, Obama was revealed by his own mouth to be be a complete and utter phony. You could almost hear regular people, those who had been Democrats, shouting “F You Barack” from every corner in every swing state. Perhaps Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro could take on Obama. Maybe Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer would do it, or even that supremely, obviously ambitious Californian with the greasy hair, Gov. Gavin Newsom. But do any of them really want to challenge? Not just Obama but his acolytes, his proselytizers, his disciples, his praetorians. Obama’s third term was brutal for America — but given what we’re seeing at the moment from today’s left, who are busy attacking Israel and egging on assassins of CEOs, would an updated version of 1968’s “Clean for Gene” or the Democratic Leadership Council that championed a centrist-appearing Bill Clinton in 1992 even succeed among Democrats? (Trump’s she’s “for they/them, President Trump is for you” commercial was made all the more devastating with the footage of Kamala personally championing sex changes for prisoners and illegal immigrants, because she thought that’s what it took pander to the Democratic Party base in 2020.) https://johnkassnews.com/to-move-forward-democrats-must-first-deal-with-obama/
B-Man Posted December 15 Posted December 15 'Nagging and Patronizing': VDH Lays Bare the End of Barack Obama's 'Mystique' By Mike Miller "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." The famous phrase, paraphrased from an old Army ballad, was spoken by retired General Douglas MacArthur before a joint session of Congress on April 19, 1951. While Barack Obama, America's 44th president, neither served in the U.S. military nor is particularly old, I thought about MacArthur's words as I began to write this article — but with a significant twist: Obama's words and actions during the waning months of the 2024 presidential election likely signaled the end of the Obama mystique and his role as the unquestioned Democrat Party power broker. But unlike Douglas MacArthur, Barack Obama isn't fading away; he bears much of the blame for engineering both cognitively declining Joe Biden becoming the 2020 Democrat presidential nominee and also Biden being kicked to the curb in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris and her ill-fated 2024 presidential campaign. As author and conservative political commentator Victor Davis Hanson put it: "Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination — and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years." {snip} VDH nailed the following, which I read with a smile on my face, save for the part about wrecking the nation. The Obamaites then got their wish for four years of enacted hard-left directives that they could only have dreamed of while in actual power. But their radical menu since 2021 had divided and nearly wrecked the nation — hyperinflation, 12 million illegal aliens, a ruined border, spiraling crime, a shattered foreign policy of appeasement, the popular backlash against DEI/woke/trans chauvinism, partisan lawfare and weaponization of the government. And the ruling radicalism beneath the Biden facade eventually cost the Democrats nearly everything — the presidency, the House and the Senate. By the time Kamala Harris lost the election in spectacular fashion, VDH noted, "Voters had tuned out a nagging and patronizing Obama — and his stale, now-dated, hope-and-changey, boilerplate speeches." https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/12/15/nagging-and-patronizing-victor-davis-hanson-lays-bare-the-end-of-barack-obamas-mystique-n2183231 . 1
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