Posted on 10/25/2026 12:01:58 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Former President Barack Obama kept his promise and returned to the campaign trail, rallying in Michigan for Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. As we pointed out previously, the visit was a clear sign El-Sayed knows he's in trouble, if not desperate. El-Sayed spent nearly a decade calling Obama's presidency a failure, and now he needs the man he trashed to rescue his campaign.
So it's hardly surprising that, as PJ Media's Tim O'Brien noted, Obama's speech seemed more self-serving than focused on El-Sayed. The former president used the stage to settle scores, and he saved his sharpest jabs for President Donald Trump's handling of the Iran war.
That's a bold move from a man whose own foreign policy record was devastatingly awful. The evidence stacks up fast.
Start with Syria. Obama warned Bashar al-Assad that using chemical weapons would cross a "red line," then backed away from planned strikes after al-Assad’s chemical attack on his own people in 2013. America's word lost its weight overnight, and every adversary on the planet took notice.
Then there's Libya. Obama's stupid 2011 intervention toppled Moammar Gadhafi, a dictator who was contained and posed no threat, and the country spiraled into years of instability and factional violence, leading to the rise of ISIS.
Then, in 2012, when terrorists attacked U.S. facilities in Benghazi and killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens, he lied about what really happened.
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On the other hand, having Obama campaign for you has been the kiss of death in the past.
I feel good about the mid-terms.
I was helping my son study his 8th grade social studies textbook, more than 15 years ago.
In the section on the Middle East, they were claiming that Islam was the first religion to recognize the equality of women, and to grant them equal rights.
I jumped up and started ranting. Up until that day, I had always been careful about not expressing my conservative politics to my children. But when I read that, I just couldn’t keep up the facade anymore.
I remember my son’s shocked expression, when I said “these people are going to take your freedom right away from you.”
He was shocked because I was practically shouting, walking back and forth like a wild man.
When is el sad boy gonna bring karmela in?
0 gave them the IRGC the money to buy the uranium Hell gave Russia.
It was, I think, actually the Byzantines who did that
Cutting out a woman’s ability to experience orgasm is not equality.
“Obama also badly underestimated ISIS, which seized huge stretches of Iraq and Syria in 2014.”
Why does the writer assume Obama considered this a failure?
“Anyone can make legitimate criticisms of the current war with Iran.”
Such as what, specifically?
Can anyone do a hit piece on Obama without getting a dig in on President Trump? No.
Obama was MIA when the attack in Benghazi occurred. To this day, he has never explained his whereabouts during the hours the attack took place.
Wait till people get that little bit of info
They will still criticize Trump. The people who call themselves conservative Trump supporters are the most offensive, in my experience
“Islam was the first religion to recognize the equality of women, and to grant them equal rights”
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Maybe they meant women and men are equal but men are more equal than women?
“It was, I think, actually the Byzantines who did that”
Well the Muslims have never done it and never will
Every morning, Obama can be heard singing in the shower, ♪♪Me me me me me♪♪.
“ Obama was MIA when the attack in Benghazi occurred. To this day, he has never explained his whereabouts during the hours the attack took place.”
Only if you look at it from the perspective that Obama was acting as US CiC or even U.S. President. He was not. And he wasn’t missing in action
0 was issuing orders to stand down. Remember, #2 took over in seconds when Africom’s general wanted to send support. 0 wanted every US person there dead.
You can’t just go around DESTROYING a US former president.
NBA champ takes issue with Obama’s pitch to Michigan voters amid hotly contested Senate race
They meant that men and women are equal as long as the women do as they are told and that the equal men can beat on and kill the equal women if they get out of control. They recognize that women are more emotional than men and that they need protection when they are pregnant and they are naturally more useful as mothers so they are equal to men who are less emotional and more protective and stronger.
At all.
It’s also worth pointing out that Libya now has slaves again. How about that? the self-described champion of so-called black minorities, which really are not minorities if you look at the world‘s population, has caused black slaves taken and use the slaves in Libya again. Or so I’ve read.
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