Posted on 07/30/2024 8:42:01 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The people have spoken, and last week former President Barack Obama called Vice President Kamala Harris to tell her. His endorsement of her run for the presidency was captured in a short video documenting the candidate’s reaction. “Although you called for an open process,” said Obama, “and you know, Democrats have, have put in place an open process, it appears that people feel very strongly that you need to be our nominee.”
But without a primary, without a popular referendum, without even the open convention that Obama was rumored to favor, how did the people make their will known, and strongly? Was it social media influencers? Mass rallies across the country? Media chronicling the excitement surrounding a Harris candidacy? No, it was nothing like that. Obama is the people. The people are Obama.
The endorsement was more than five years in the making. Obama had long wanted her in that spot. Their families are old friends. Like him, Harris is progressive, multiracial, physically attractive, nominally hip, a child of academics—in other words, according to Obama-friendly media, she’s a “female Barack Obama.” He directed donors to support her 2020 presidential campaign, Capitol Hill sources told me at the time. More billionaires, 47, backed her campaign than any other candidate’s—with Obama strongholds in Hollywood (Steven Spielberg and George Lucas) and Big Tech (Reid Hoffman, Laurene Powell Jobs, Craig Newmark, etc.) leading the way.
Obama got her the vice presidential nod even when she was forced to drop out of the primary race after hitting just 3 percent in the polls. Jill Biden objected—Harris had called her husband a racist! The First Lady’s reported recent tantrums show that even after four years, she never fully grasped the arrangement the party had made with her husband. Biden was just an imperfect placeholder for Obama, and it was only a matter of time before the superior avatar would be slotted in.
The question is when, exactly, did it become clear to Obama that it was time for Harris to finally replace Biden? Was it after Biden’s disastrous debate with Donald Trump? After the attempted assassination of Trump? No, it seems the countdown officially began Oct. 7. The Palestinians’ murderous assault on communities in southern Israel exposed Biden’s limited ability to represent the interests of the party he was tapped to temporarily preside over. It didn’t require an especially refined moral sensibility to be appalled and terrified by the carnivalesque depravity of Oct. 7—but to give Biden credit, he evidently was. And that was the signal his time was up.
He‘s no John Fetterman. Biden is not a particularly courageous friend of the Jewish state, nor does he appear to much value the strategic importance of an ally that lessens America’s burden in a region vital to U.S. interests. When it comes to Israel, the 81-year-old president is just a normal late-20th-century Democrat who likes the country well enough, recognizes Jews as an important albeit small voting bloc and a crucial source of campaign funds, and performs ritualistic contempt for Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
But last Wednesday’s pro-Hamas riots in Washington, D.C.—in which domestic left-wing extremists linked arms with Middle East terror supporters and other foreigners to burn the American flag, deface monuments, and brawl with police, all in the name of protesting Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress—was only the latest evidence that the crux of Biden’s Oct. 7 problem was not that Michigan and Minnesota’s voter rolls are swollen with advocates of Muslim and Arab terror. The issue was not a party constituency at all, but rather the party itself and its leader. Barack Obama fundamentally reshaped the party when he struck the 2015 deal legalizing the nuclear weapons program of Hamas’ sponsor, Iran. By legitimizing the apocalyptic foreign policy aims of the world power that embodies Jew hatred, Obama sidelined the Jews and other centrists and made the progressive, anti-Israel faction the party’s new center of gravity.
The media did yeoman’s work obscuring the details and purpose of the agreement, but the fact is, by putting Iran’s bomb under a protective American umbrella, Obama was arming an American adversary to make it his own ally. The Iran deal was the first clear sign that Obama was not a normal U.S. commander in chief. When Biden extended even half-hearted, halting support to Israel’s response to Oct. 7, he crossed the only real red line Obama has ever had. Harris—who, unlike Biden, has no foreign policy beliefs or instincts of her own—never will.
Like friends, our favored allies reflect back to us the qualities we are flattered to find in ourselves. For instance, when Netanyahu spoke of the lions of the IDF, the elected representatives of the American people were stirred not only by the thought of Israeli boys and girls on the front lines but also—in fact, primarily—by the image he implicitly evoked: the image of our best and brightest, our lions, risking their lives to serve America. When he spoke of the God of Israel, the Americans might as well have struck their chests like patriarchs and shouted, “That’s us, too, brother—America also has a covenant and with the same God!”
0bama is a great friend of Iran and radical islam. Yet many Jewish people vote for democRATs. It is insane.
BTTT
The main diff between Dorkbama, the Muslim eunuch quota baby and regular leftist liars is the fact that he’s one smooth lying little turd.
Bathhouse Barry is a con artist, no doubt about it.
I do believe there will be a contested convention to try to convince the people we have who we must have. POTUS Trump must not debate her or anyone else until after the DNC Convention.
“No Drama Obama” hides behind the scenes very well as he controls the Dems and the Left.
Since at least Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat party has been sliding down into the sewer and doing their best to take the rest of us with them.
Who murdered Obomba’s chef?
I never understood why the Jewish people gravitate towards totalitarians like Obama and his ilk. The Democrat party of today is not the same as it was during JFKs error. But even back then, there were totalitarian tendencies like with FDR - The only president to serve 3 terms and would have served more if he didn’t die.
Melanin armor. White folks be crazy with white guilt. White guilt is literally destroying (suiciding) western civilization.
“Nominally hip...child of academics”?
Uh, no. Neither for both.
“Who murdered Obomba’s chef?”
Is the chef’s death under investigation?
He won’t be controlling anything when he hits the Lake of Fire in his bare feet.
I still remember when Barack said during his campaign:
“We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” — Barack Obama, October 30, 2008
and Michelle saying:
“We are going to have to change our conversation; we’re going to have to change our traditions, our history; we’re going to have to move into a different place as a nation.”
She also said:
“For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.”
I wonder what the reaction had been from BLM, Congressional Black Caucus and Lame Street Media would have been if white politicians had said this?
Buncha fools in this country thought they were gonna elect a magic negro and cure us of racism.
All he did was ramp it up by a power of 1000.
If not for the skin color difference, one could easily conclude that the Obozo is George Soros’ bastard son.
Seems we’ve been conned for many years by many people. Bathhouse Barry was another in a long list, but he caused a very singular type of damage to our nation.
Thank you for posting this Tablet article— it is phenomenal in the clarity of the FACTS behind the continuing COUP of
obamaumao the One! HE “the People” indeed. Marxist/Communist BILGE. A candidate not put forward by ANY primary, and NOT even in the original primary Biden had in 2020, because kaMAla never got ONE democrat primary vote, then and NOW!
This cannot be— but it is the way the democrat totalitarian machine has been run— since Woodrow Wilson, and definitely since FDR.
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