Posted on 04/02/2025 10:04:52 AM PDT by Libloather
Former President Barack Obama reportedly advocated against Democrats nominating Vice President Kamala Harris in the wake of President Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 presidential election — because Obama didn’t think Harris could win, according to an upcoming book.
The 44th president reportedly argued for an open convention rather than anointing Harris as the nominee after Biden’s shocking drop-out, despite her having support from other Democrats, according to reporter Jonathan Allen, co-author of “FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House.”
“President Obama absolutely did not think that Joe Biden should continue, according to our sources close to President Obama and he also didn’t want Kamala Harris to be the replacement for Biden,” Allen said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday.
“He didn’t think that she was the best choice for Democrats, and he worked really behind the scenes for a long time to try to have a mini-primary, or an open convention, or a mini-primary leading to an open convention. [He] did not have faith in her ability to win the election,” Allen said.
“He was really working against her,” he emphasized.
Allen further revealed that on a phone call with the veep on the very day Biden “passed the baton” to Harris, Obama refused to endorse her candidacy as the nominee.
Obama’s reticence was apparently known among other Democratic power players.
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Hussein Obama is a good example of a politician who left office mysteriously wealth.
No mystery to it. Zero has always been a grifter.
When he phoned in his endorsement to her, that said it all.
What he was actually doing was working to secure a position of king maker. He wanted someone in who would do his bidding. Throwing his support behind someone else’s choice would have been a waste of his presumed power and position because it gained him nothing and benefited whoever put Kammala into that position.
Politics is like lifting a rock in the forest. All sorts of critters run from the light.
Gotta sell books
Good point
All these guys got rich and they are maybe going to investigate them all. Sounds reasonable to me.
I know there were MANY people here who said this from the beginning.
When Jill found out the Golden Life was ending. . .she struck back. Which is why Biden named Kamalalladingdong as his successor. . .
“Hussein Obama is a good example of a politician who left office mysteriously wealth.”
I think it took him and Michelle a few weeks after leaving office to get dozens of million$ from book & Netflix? deals.
Hillary and Bill didn’t have to wait long after Bill left office to get rich either.
How are Joe & Jill making out?
ndtvworld.com
George Clooney “Furious” At Barack Obama For Manipulating Him.
Clooney has reportedly been a close confidante of former President Obama, and it was the latter that allegedly convinced Mr Clooney to publically ask Mr Biden to step out of the race.
Written by: Sanstuti Nath, World News, Dec 02, 2024
George Clooney is now “complaining” that Mr Obama “manipulated him into doing the dirty work.”
California, US: Following Democrats’ devastating losses in the 2024 US presidential election, actor George Clooney is reportedly ‘furious’ at former President Barack Obama using The American star to push President Joe Biden out of the poll race. Days before Mr Biden ended his Presidential campaign, George Clooney wrote a strongly worded op-ed questioning if the 81-year-old could remain president, casting a shadow of doubt over his health and cognitive abilities.
The Ocean’s Eleven actor has reportedly been a close confidante of former President Obama, and it was the latter that allegedly convinced Mr Clooney to publicly ask Mr Biden to step out of the race. However, after Donald Trump officially secured a second term in the White House, the actor has been facing a backlash from the Democrats’ loss, as it was his article that was widely credited for changing the course of the election.
Mr Clooney is now “complaining that Obama who sort of manipulated him into doing the dirty work on his behalf has left him to take most of the blame for the election loss,” according to a report by Sky News.
A report by OK! Magazine said, “Obama and Clooney have been tight for years, and George became Barack’s surrogate in leading the charge for Joe to step away. “George is furious with Obama for disappearing after the election disaster and leaving him holding the bag for pushing the plan with his Hollywood pals,” the article quoted an insider as saying.
As per the report, Mr Obana knew “he would look like a traitor if he publicly called for Joe to be cut loose. And now, he’s trying to walk away from it all.”
Now, amid public backlash over his article, the actor is reportedly feeling “duped” and “vows he’s not going to be anyone’s political water boy anymore.” “George feels he stepped up and took a bullet for the team,” the report said.
George Clooney’s Op-ed
Days before Mr Biden endorsed his Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidential race, Mr Clooney wrote a widely read opinion article for the New York Times, highlighting the President’s poor performance during his debate against his Democratic rival. The article claimed it would not be possible for the 81-year-old leader to win the head-on-head competition against Mr Trump.
“It’s devastating to say it, but the Joe Biden I was with three weeks ago at the fund-raiser was not the Joe “big F-ing deal” Biden of 2010. He wasn’t even the Joe Biden of 2020. He was the same man we all witnessed at the debate,” the article read.
“Was he tired? Yes. A cold? Maybe. But our party leaders need to stop telling us that 51 million people didn’t see what we just saw. We’re all so terrified by the prospect of a second Trump term that we’ve opted to ignore every warning sign,” it added
The Dems knew Biden had dementia and that Kamala couldn’t win, as did everyone. The media did their best to cover all this up.
Bottom line, they couldn’t get Biden to cooperate and their plans for a possible mini-convention went up in smoke like a Hunter spliff.
Victory has a thousand fathers.
Defeat is an orphan.
Obama got outplayed.
By Biden, a demented Biden at that.
No. Jill was the player, here. . .
“Biden’s shocking drop out”
Sure
“How are Joe & Jill making out?”
Joe is getting ready for his reward
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