Posted on 11/25/2016 7:30:06 AM PST by Louis Foxwell
Obama Plans to Rule America Outside the White House…and he might get away with it.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam.
Barack Obama has two faces. After Trump’s victory and Hillary’s defeat, the public Obama has been gracious and diplomatic. His lectures to Trump, directly and indirectly, are couched in praise. He echoed the feeling of millions on both sides when he said, "We are now all rooting for his success”.
That’s a lie. Or rather a disguise.
Obama and his aides had, in one insider narrative, decided to don the “mask of decorum”. The contempt for Trump still seeps through the mask. And the mask hides Obama’s next big move.
President Obama is over. He knows that. There are still some things that he can do before he leaves office, but everything except the most destructive, can be undone by his successor. The next phase of his campaign will not be fought from the White House. It will be fought against the White House .
The other Obama is emerging in conference calls with his supporters. “One of the challenges that I’ve discovered being president is I’d like to be organizer-in-chief, but it’s hard,” he said in one call.
Obama can no longer be commander-in-chief. Instead he’s plotting to become organizer-in-chief.
The infrastructure for the organization was put into place long before anyone thought that Hillary might lose. Organizing for Action gave him his own organizing hub. If Hillary had won, it would have been a pressure group. Now that Trump won, it’s an axis to build a personal counterrevolution around.
In his post-election conference call with his OFA troops, Obama told them, “I’m giving you like a week and a half to get over it”. Then it would be time to “move forward not only to protect what we’ve accomplished, but also to see this as an opportunity”. What opportunity could there be in Trump’s win?
Obama is now the only major national figure still standing among the Democrats. After Hillary’s defeat, he’s worked hard to attribute the loss to her shortcomings, not his policies and decisions. That’s not just to soothe his ego. If he’s going to dictate the future of his party, he can’t afford to be blamed for its latest disaster. And Obama is still determined to dictate the future of the party and the country.
In conventional politics, Obama is done. There’s no way back into the White House. And Hillary’s fate won’t leave much enthusiasm for nominating the uncharismatic spouse of a charismatic ex-president.
But Obama is not a conventional politician. He’s an organizer and a campaigner at the vanguard of a radical movement that seeks to control traditional institutions, but doesn’t feel bound by them. Unlike Bill Clinton, his plans don’t begin and end with the White House. As an organizer, Obama is equipped to build bases of power outside traditional institutions. And that is exactly what he is doing.
The demoralization of the Democrats is, as Obama put it, an opportunity. Social chaos is a time for the left to overthrow and undermine traditional institutions. Fear, anger and despair are radicalizing. The left has always operated by throwing bombs and then profiting from the fallout. That’s Obama’s agenda. Having wrecked the country and the Democrats, he sees that not as a setback, but as an opportunity.
“The network that you represent, you're perfectly poised to do that,” Obama told his OFAers. “In other words, now is the time for some organizing.”
While the leftist rioters in the streets are garnering the most attention, the real threat comes from the network of staffers dubbed Obama Anonymous which are beginning to organize and coordinate. OFA is Obama’s equivalent of the Clinton Foundation. The Clintons built Clintonworld around staffers, but its goal was harvesting money. Obama Inc. is being built around organizing and activism. Like Clintonworld, it will be a network encompassing a variety of political and non-profit institutions. Unlike them, it will be much less focused on directing money to its bosses in preparation for an election. Instead it will function like a traditional leftist movement, merging influence operations with crowdsourced mobilization.
OFA will be far more dangerous in the wild than the Clinton Foundation ever was. The Clintons hoped to ride back to power on a giant wave of money. Obama is taking a much more radical course.
The staffers exiting government are being wired into Obama Inc. whether or not they take jobs directly working for him. The OFA alumni are building networks across organizations while taking their marching orders from him. They expect Obama to lead them back from the wilderness and into the halls of power.
He’s told them so.
“I'm going to be constrained in what I do with all of you until I am again a private citizen. But that's not so far off,” he assured them. “I'm still fired up and I'm still ready to go.” His next comments promised that radical political change could and would take place.
Obama isn’t going to retire. He’s not going to spend years puttering around with a presidential library. He’s not even going to set up a Clintonesque slush fund and try to make his wife president. Instead he wants to force radical change from outside the White House by using the network he’s built.
While the public Obama wraps up business at the White House, concludes yet another world tour, alternating between praising Trump and offering him condescending advice, the other Obama is preparing to deploy a network that will dominate the Dems and set the agenda on the left.
If Obama succeeds, then he will get another shot at picking his White House successor. But beyond that, he’s been handed the keys to an organizing machine that will allow him to set even more of the agenda for his party than ever before. And he has a cause that is sending the party reeling back into his arms.
Obama believes that he can rule America from outside the White House. And he might be right.
Political norms and old rules have been falling faster than leaves in an autumn wind. If Obama sets out to move the center of power outside the White House and into an organization that will control national politics through the left, it would be dangerous to assume that he can’t and won’t succeed.
The Democrats didn’t respond to their defeat, one of a sequence, by trying to move to the center. Instead there is every sign that they are moving further to the left. Keith Ellison, a radical leftist with an anti-Semitic past, is tipped to head the DNC. Schumer still has the Senate, but Elizabeth Warren may have it before too long. Combine that with Obama as the president-in-exile and the Dems will be more radical and extremist than they were even when Obama was sitting in the White House.
The Democrats are ceasing to be a national party. Instead they are becoming a nationalizing party. They are losing their presence in much of the country, from state legislature to state legislature, and becoming the party of major cities and the national government. Their agenda is to move power from local areas to central ones, from the villages and the suburbs to the cities, from states to D.C. and from locally elected legislators in D.C. to the satellite bureaucracies of the Federal government.
Obama sees Hillary’s defeat as an opportunity to burn the Dem’s last bridges with the larger country and its “bitter clingers”, to double down on nationalizing power and to define the political narrative around the agendas of urban elites. The left crippled the Democrats. Now it wants to utterly consume them.
Barack Obama is still being vague and coy about his plans. He informs reporters that he will attack Trump when it comes to "core questions about our values and ideals". But the “faithful” are getting much clearer signals. “You’re going to see me early next year, and we’re going to be in a position where we can start cooking up all kinds of great stuff to do.”
The election was a catastrophic disaster for the Democrats, but it opened all sorts of doors for Obama.
Hillary’s defeat removes the Clintons, his only real internal rivals, off the stage. Trump’s triumph in working class areas cuts more ties with the traditional Dem base and transforms it into a party of left-wing urban elites and their radical agendas. And the popular figures on the left, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Keith Ellison, lack his national stature, speaking skills and organization.
Obama will move to consolidate the left. And then the Democrats. He will function as a president-in-exile heading up the opposition to Trump. When it comes to verbally challenging Trump, Obama will be more likely to be interviewed and heard than Ellison or Schumer. And his people will coordinate responses across the left from street level organizing to think tanks and policy moves.
Some of it is ego.
Obama believes that he can find the key to beating Trump in the traditional tactics of the left. But most is ideology and power. Obama is not done transforming America. And America isn’t done with him yet.
0bama will be busy playing golf an schmoozing with Hollywood elites while ValJar still runs the show.
When that happens I hope it’s being recorded; right down to the pink mist.
Anyone who aligns with obamao is as corrupt and America hating as he is. My prayer is obamarx is destroyed by shame even though he is immune to feeling any emotion other than anger. Most of the country is not immune to that feeling.
If the take down of one of America’s worst enemies (obama) happens in a more violent fashion; so be it. While I don’t condone it; I certainly would celebrate it - loudly with some and quietly with others.
If the birth certificate issue and foreign student issue is brought to light then brought to light he defrauded the American people in the biggest con ever; not only will he be destroyed, so will will pelosi and anyone else (harry reid) who knew he wasn’t eligible. It was pelosis’ job to vet his qualifications so the old hag would go down too.
Wouldn’t it be great if about the same time the sexual deviants involved in pedophilia and/or the clinton crime foundation was exposed then all players indicted?
ROTFLOL.....love love love it.
He’s an organizer? like a bomb everything he touched blew up in his face he can’t even put a puzzle together.
” Obama can no longer be commander-in-chief. Instead he’s plotting to become organizer-in-chief.”
Make that “agitator in chief”.
Just like as President Obama will be the face and mouthpiece of the organization. meanwhile ValJar the Sorus groups and heads of news organizations will be coordinating the war.
Look for:
constant attacks by the media;
periodic massive demonstrations and disruptions opposing Trump’s policies in streets;
University faculty led disruptions to try and delegitimization his authority.
He needs to take on directly through policy changes:
Economic growth but more importantly job growth;
Ending executive action allowing unions in federal agencies;
Speak directly to the people and lower influence of old media;
Cut grants and federal funding not student for all activities not essential to national interest;
Minimize peer review in awarding grants because the committees are controlled by liberals and awards only go to friends;
Undertake review of education level requirements for all federal positions to lower the need for everyone to have a bachelor or higher degree except when directly related to a specific job skill;
Can’t rule America solely from the urban centers of Barry Obama’s power. They don’t produce anything. Separating Urban from Rural means they separate agitators from food. Cut off EBT cards and within hours the city burns. There is always a power counterbalance to the number of people in a city.
ITEM----Its next to impossible to believe this megalomaniac did not know what Hillary and the nefarious Clinton Foundation was up to.
US L/E sources indicate that the extensive DOJ probe was more focused on the possibility that Hillary's private server was used to protect messaging in which Secy Clinton allegedly discussed quid pro quo transactions with private donors to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for influence on U.S. policy.
There is an abundance of evidence to prove that this was going on.
ITEM--- REALITY COMES KNOCKING--A provision in the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) is intended to prevent the govt from co-opting United States citizens and companies
Significantly, EAR proscribes using US citizens as instrumentalities to advance a foreign government's foreign policy. This clearly describe the State Dept activities under Hillary. As a tax-paid govt employee, Hillary clearly used her tax-paid office for purely personal/political reasons.......involving the interests of foreign countries.......particularly foreign donors to the Clinton Foundation.
ITEM----CONCLUSION--The Export Administration Regulations (EAR) apply to all "U.S. persons" (defined to include individuals and companies located in the United States and their foreign affiliates).
The provisions are intended to prevent United States citizens and companies being used as instrumentalities of a foreign government's foreign policy.
Offending persons are subject to the EAR law when their activities relate to the sale, purchase, or transfer of goods or services (including the sale of information) within the United States or between the United States and a foreign country.
This covers exports and imports, financing, forwarding and shipping, and certain other transactions that may take place wholly offshore.....and/or across the borders with private donors to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for influence on U.S. policy.
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ITEM--- The Hobbs Act should also be employed to prosecute these POLITICAL offenders.
The Hobbs Act 18 U.S. Code § 1951, passed in 1946, is a federal law that prohibits robbery or extortion, or attempted robbery or extortion, that affects interstate or foreign commerce.
The Act originally was designed to target racketeering in labor-management disputes that were common at the time.
More recently it has been used to prosecute and jail politicans involved in graft and corruption b/c this is seen as impairing interstate and foreign commerce.
Trump has not started on Obama. These are blood enemies.
On mo more continuing funding bills. Give a balance as required by the law.
The budget must be 15% below 2016 in real dollar. If you don't do your job you will shut down the country. Last time I looked, America doesn't like Congress.
Possibilities include:
obama never has made friends with anyone. He will not be listened to.
If, at the end of Trump's Presidency, the EPA and the DOEs and the USDA and all the rest of them down to the original 4 Departments, and (no OR here, it is all AND)indeed, the Civil Service, still exist, then all of his improvements and the temporarily soaring economy will be once again swallowed up by the Permanent Government that is the Bureaucracy-the Agencies and Departments, all of which are in Democrat hands, and the effect will then be as permanent as it would be did Mrs Bill win the election.
Scary! I hope you are wrong...and greatly fear you are right.
Please add me to the Greenfield ping list?
Thanks in advance!
Obama is probably overjoyed that the Clintons lost the election
After all his campaigning he can blame Hillary
He hates the Clintons and vice versa
Once again he screws them over by becoming the voice of the democrats and taking away their $$$$ raising ability
Bill and Hill have to be out of their minds with hate
We only have one President at a time and Obama had his shot.Now it will be up to President Trump to repair the damage incurred from the Obama Presidency.
I hope that Donald Trump is more then capable of putting Obama in his place.
In that battle, you'd have R's and D's joining forces.
Investigate where BO has gotten all of this money. A kickback from his “Iran deal” perhaps?
Plus, he is lazy. He could have done way more damage
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