Obama banking on Hillary to preserve legacy

Apropos of last night's debate: If Hillary Clinton loses to Donald Trump, Barack Obama will be a loser as well. Big Time.

And that is because President Trump will most likely do to Obama what Obama did to George Bush, and that is to kick a man when he is down.

It is a trend Obama started when he became president. It now may come back to haunt him.

You will recall that when Obama became president eight years ago, he used outgoing President George Bush as a punching bag, not occasionally, but all the time. Everything was Bush's fault.

At first people made excuses for the president. He was new and would gain political maturity as he grew into the job.

The only legacy Obama's interested in is M/M O's post-presidency
get-rich quick plans modeled after the Clinton Foundation's modus operandi.

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But there is a big hitch to those plans: "What Does Obama Know about the Clinton E-mail and Foundation Scandals, and When Did He Know It?"

Since Obama NEVER received an email from a Clinton "state.gov" address during Hillary's four years as his Secretary of State, did Obama ever raise concerns with his White House staff about Clinton's use of a private email server?

Now, ponder this 1/29/16 State Department briefing. Spokesman John Kirby announced that the State Department would not release 18 emails found on Secretary Clinton's private server that were exchanged between President Obama and Clinton while she was Secretary of State.

Kirby added that "in accordance with the Presidential Records Act they will ultimately be released." Apparently, none of the emails were classified, if Kirby is to be believed. But, according to the transcript, several reporters were incredulous upon hearing that only 18 emails were found. Here is a sample from the transcript:

QUESTION TO KIRBY: Does that mean that they only emailed each other 18 times for the four years that she was his Secretary of State?

MR KIRBY: I can't speak to — QUESTION: That's 48 months. I mean, is that – have you gone through all of them and she only communicated with the President 18 times by email?

MR KIRBY: Of the 55,000 pages of traffic that were handed over by former Secretary Clinton to us to go through for release through FOIA, we have found these 18.

QUESTION: And no —

MR KIRBY: And I do not expect that there will be more.

QUESTION: Well, that's – does that strike you as being a bit unusual? I mean, my boss – I have 18 emails an hour with her sometimes.

MR KIRBY: Well, but —

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange reportedly has possession of Clinton's 30,000 deleted emails.....so its reasonable to surmise email exchanges between Clinton and Obama are likely to surface. Perhaps even some with classified material? Maybe hints of secret deals between the Clintons and Obama?

That will be a "game-changer".....not only will Obama be implicated directly into the web of Clinton's scandals but the President himself could be accused of national security violations

Obama's presidential legacy would be permanently tarnished, and his endorsement of Clinton considered suspect.

SOURCE: How Obama's legacy could be tarnished by Hillary's scandals Washington Examiner ^ | September 15, 2016 | Myra Adams / FR Posted by Kaslin

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UPDATE: (1) Obama never admitted he used a pseudonym to disguise his email correspondence w/ Secy Hillary. (2) Obama says he found out about her private server through the "news"....his standard cover-up excuse.

OBAMA STARTING TO PANIC OVER TRUMP
Frontpagemag.com ^ | September 27, 2016 | Daniel Greenfield / FR Posted by Biggirl

Wondering why Obama suddenly seems to be going all in for Hillary? It’s the smell of fear penetrating the privileged bubble of the left. The right side of history no longer seems so inevitable even in the rarified air of the ivory houses of D.C. That transformation of America that the left feverishly believes in as historical destiny has begun to look shakier than usual.

Going into Monday night’s debate, Obama’s team is feeling that same anxiety expressed by some top Hillary Clinton aides: maybe the country isn’t what they thought, maybe the resistance to Obamacare and gay marriage and the progress they’re so proud of is broader than the vocal fringe they’ve always dismissed. Maybe, the president’s aides – current and former – now concede, they’re going to have to live with the fact that Trump could end up in the Oval Office in part due to a backlash against Obama.

“There’s not a lot of mirth in the circles I run in about him,” said another former senior Obama campaign staffer.

It’s sad when the mirth goes. But it’s okay. You can expect the manchildren of Obama Inc. to have a serious pop culture based response to all this.

“I’m trying to think of a series to compare it to, which was a series that started as a comedy and became a high stakes drama,” said Ben LaBolt, a former White House aide and press secretary for Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign. “I feel like we’re maybe in the fifth season of ‘Breaking Bad’ here. We’re way beyond the laughs, and just sitting on the edge of our seats in terror.”

In retrospect, one of the things historians will wonder about it is how these idiots took over America.

For Obamaworld staffers who had just been starting to settle into a new buoyancy about the president’s climbing approval numbers, Trump’s growing strength is an agonizing reminder of how far short they have fallen in delivering on ‘hope.’

Sure. You wreck the economy. You openly set out to destroy entire industries. You force your twisted values on the entire country at gunpoint. You ridicule and humiliate anyone to the right of you at every opportunity and do your best to entirely lock them out of the culture and then political life. And you wonder why you can’t reach them and there’s a backlash.

Obama built this.

Though only a few weeks ago, current and former Obama aides would joke about how the president’s great political legacy might be the Republican Party destroying itself in front of him. Now, on the record, they push back on the very suggestion that Obama’s legacy should be viewed in any frame that Trump also occupies.

“I don’t think he thinks it’s his legacy, I don’t think any of us think it’s his legacy,” said Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior adviser to the president.

Denial. It fixes everything.

The only ways for the worst president in history to “solidify” his legacy is to become a respected ex-president by doing “good” works or by an even worst president coming along.

Unlike Jimmy Carter who had the good fortune of Barak Obama coming along after doing what mainly liberals consider “good” works by monitoring elections in foreign hell holes, Barak Obama is too imperial to do anything like monitoring elections in in pissantian places. He intends to become a thorn in the side of every red-blooded American until a shark eats him off the coast of Hawaii. Obama’s only hope is for someone worst and more un-American than he is to be elected to the presidence.

Obama as Princess Leia recording a message for Hillary: Rodman, er, Rodham, you are my only hope.

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