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"hope-and-changey boilerplate speeches." Big Grin

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Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Biden nomination—and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years.

As such he and his coterie proved the virtual architects of the Biden administration, one of the most unpopular and failed presidencies in American history.

Recall earlier that after a flailing candidate Joe Biden lost the first three 2020 primaries and caucuses, his inert campaign was headed nowhere.

Barack Obama and fellow Democratic insiders abruptly engineered the withdrawal of his rival 2020 presidential candidates: hard left but likely sure-loser candidates, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg.

The Obamas ignored or withheld from the public their own firsthand knowledge that Biden was suffering from signs of dementia.

Instead, they found Biden’s cognitive decline and his former concocted reputation as workingman’s Joe useful as a veneer for a veritable Obama third-term, “phone it in” administration. Or as wistful Obama once conditioned his dream of a third term—”If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in.”

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.

An inert Biden is departing office with a 36 percent favorability rating in a recent Emerson poll. His Democratic nominee replacement, losing presidential candidate Vice President Harris, also has virtually vacated her office with 40 days left of her tenure.

Failed candidate Harris has been roundly faulted by staffers and donors for blowing through some $2 billion in assorted 2024 campaign money.

She ended up doing worse against Trump than Biden himself had in 2020.

Many Democrats believe that they might have done just as well had Biden stayed on the ticket even in his vastly diminished state.

The Obamas were further blasted for nullifying the wishes of 14 million primary voters by forcing Biden off the ticket—ironically in the same backroom, anti-democratic manner they had cleared the way for him in 2020.

Obama emerged from his comfortable retirement to hit the 2024 campaign trail, schooling the country that President-emeritus Donald Trump was a dictator, a fascist, a tyrant, and, of course, a “racist.”

The more Trump polled even with, or ahead of, Kamala Harris, the more an exasperated and ignored Obama talked down to supposedly low-information voters.

But by the time Harris lost the election, voters had tuned out a nagging and patronizing Obama—and his stale, now-dated hope-and-changey boilerplate speeches.

What Obama did not mention, but what the voters knew, was that the border was more secure under Trump than during either the Obama or Biden tenure.

Vladimir Putin invaded countries during the Obama and Biden administrations but stayed put on Trump’s watch.

Barack Obama’s bizarre vision of a new Middle East had sought to empower Iran as a supposed counterweight against moderate Arab nations and our ally Israel.

Years ago, Obama invited the Russians into Syria, empowered dictatorial Syria, berated Israel nonstop, and all but ignored the terrorist violence of Iran’s surrogate terrorists of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.

But after October 7, Israel retaliated to the mass slaughter of Jewish civilians with all-out war against Hamas and Hezbollah—rendering these once feared terrorists nearly impotent.

In an exchange of air attacks with Iran, Israel showed the world that Iran was as militarily weak as its chanting and threats were tiresome and shrill.

Iran is now tottering on the brink, as its terrorist appendages—including most recently the Assad dynasty—are melting away.

Israel and the moderate Arab regimes are in ascendance, as the entire crazy Obama-envisioned Middle East agenda melts away.

The 2024 anemic Democratic campaign and the Trump electoral college and popular vote victories—combined with record defections of Hispanic and African-American voters from the Democratic Party to Trump—proved a resounding rejection of the Obama legacy and his surrogates’ left-wing visions.

Yet after the people spoke in the election, the more Obama whined that democracy itself had failed him. Voters, he remonstrated, who disagreed with him were written off as racist and sexist.

Obama again harped that constituents did not know what was good for them.

And then, the disappointed former community organizer suddenly disappeared—pondering to which of his own four mansions his private jet would fly him home to commiserate.


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Maybe Obama can go paddle boarding to find some solace.


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Of course, the empty suit was never there, despite what they'd have us believe.




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The 2024 anemic Democratic campaign and the Trump electoral college and popular vote victories—combined with record defections of Hispanic and African-American voters from the Democratic Party to Trump—proved a resounding rejection of the Obama legacy and his surrogates’ left-wing visions.

Yet after the people spoke in the election, the more Obama whined that democracy itself had failed him. Voters, he remonstrated, who disagreed with him were written off as racist and sexist.

Obama again harped that constituents did not know what was good for them.

Excellent!

Another good piece from VDH.



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I hope Barack and Michelle become persona non grata on the cocktail circuit and have to live out their days with each other.
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losing presidential candidate Vice President Harris, also has virtually vacated her office with 40 days left of her tenure
I bet she is still collecting her VP paycheck. Wouldn't that be fraud?



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I bet she is still collecting her VP paycheck. Wouldn't that be fraud?

No bigger fraud than if she were still in the office. Her paycheck for the next 40 days is of little concern.



"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
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I firmly believe Obama is no longer the bellwether of the Democrat Party, this election was his last stand, and he failed miserably. Most of America has rejected his agenda of identity politics, tranny insanity, anti-semitism, etc.



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I still believe even now that Obama was just a front man for more nefarious forces and Valerie Jarrett was the conduit for their instructions.


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FBHO, FJB, FKK, FBJC, FHRC, FNP...These old guard are relegated to irrelevancy, now. The leftists' next hope is pinned on the likes of Shapiro, Whitmer and Newsom.


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Once a pathetic commie shit-bag, always a pathetic commie shit-bag.

This headline from the Babylon Bee today gave me good chuckle today. . .

'Now Now, Let's Not Be So Hasty To Find And Assassinate Everyone Responsible For The Healthcare Crisis,' Says Nervous Obama"

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"Now, now, let's not get carried away here," said Obama, tapping the floor faster and faster as an eyebrow inadvertently twitched. "Surely the answer here isn't more violence. After all, we can't just go around slaughtering all of the people responsible for our messed-up healthcare system now, can we? All I'm saying is, let's not be overly rushed about this."

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Like a pile of crap that dries up and eventually blows away


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I had a very Liberal person tell me that the I disliked Obama because he was black.

My reply was “I don’t like his white half either”


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VDH’s analysis of the Obama/Biden Mideast policy was especially enlightening. To paraphrase a Middle Easterner, their policy was the Mother of All Charlie Foxtrots.


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Maybe he'll return his Nobel Prize. Even after reading this, I still don't know what The Magic Negro did to earn it.

https://www.nobelprize.org/pri...ce/2009/obama/facts/
 
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The Committee awarded a Nobel Prize to Barack Obama for not being George Bush.
 
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The 2024 anemic Democratic campaign and the Trump electoral college and popular vote victories—combined with record defections of Hispanic and African-American voters from the Democratic Party to Trump—proved a resounding rejection of the Obama legacy and his surrogates’ left-wing visions.

Yet after the people spoke in the election, the more Obama whined that democracy itself had failed him. Voters, he remonstrated, who disagreed with him were written off as racist and sexist.

Obama again harped that constituents did not know what was good for them.

Excellent!

Another good piece from VDH.


As far as the voters failing the dems, a commentator found a quote by Bertold Brecht following the 1953 East German Uprising described their thoughts:

“The Solution
After the uprising of the 17th of June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?”
 
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I had a very Liberal person tell me that the I disliked Obama because he was black.

My reply was “I don’t like his white half either”


Once knew a guy who believed any criticism of Barry or his policies was straight up RACISM!!!!
I then asked how we could criticize every other President and their policies before Barry, and no one considered that racism.
Received only angry looks and a response that only white people can be racist ( this guy was also white by the way).

Then I asked him since he was a racist, if his hatred of AR-15's was because they were black.
He stormed off and I was all smiles.


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The funniest part about it is that he doesn’t realize he has lost the IT factor. When he was talking to that young group of black men it couldn’t have been more clear that they weren’t believing a word of his b.s.
 
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