I’ve tweaked my original impressions of Obama. I still believe he is quite shallow and incurious - and not very smart. I’ve always believed that he was purely a media creation and empty suit. Remember how in 2008 we were told he was simply the best public orator since Winston Churchill? That phony narrative certainly was allowed to die sometime in 2010.
The idea that he controls “the deep state” from Tahiti or the Virgin Islands is nonsense. The shallow man has been released from his 8 years of servitude, so he’s off celebrating like a teen on spring break.
What is clear now is that Obama was always much more of a figurehead and shill for others. The question is who and what, exactly?
EXCERPTED---In recent months, Clinton Foundation director, Donna Shalala, said foundation officials have offered advice for former President Obama and his wife, Michelle, on their own foundation, which will focus on national and international community building programs.
“They called and asked some questions,” Ms. Shalala said.
QUOTE SOURCE https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/hillary-bill-clinton-foundation.html
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GET READY FOR ANOTHER POLITICAL MONEY-MAKING MACHINE ---The Obamas already have two Clintonesque get-rich-quick foundations (two that we know of)....the mission statements sounding suspiciously like the Clintons.
SOURCE http://www.barackobamafoundation.org/
President Obama said, "the change we seek will take longer than one term or one presidency. Real change—big change—takes many years and requires each generation to embrace the obligations and opportunities that come with the title of Citizen. " (TRANSLATION: Me and Michelle want the money pouring in faster than we can spend it.)
FOUNDATION MISSION STATEMENT (cue laugh machine): The Obama Foundation will inspire the next generation of young leaders all over the world. It will convene the brightest minds with the newest ideas from across the political spectrum and draw strength from the rich diversity and vitality of Chicago, the city where the President and First Lady started a family and raised their daughters.
But most of all, the Foundation will ask all of us to take on big challenges and to believe that we can meet them together. Our history and President Obama’s legacy give us hope that even the most difficult change is possible, and the Foundation exists to carry on that great, unfinished project of renewal and global progress.”
Inform visitors about our civic rights and responsibilities and inspire citizens to get engaged.
Empower individuals who are leading change around the world, and help develop new ways to enable all citizens to take action.
Connect people from different communities and disciplines to create new approaches to solving our biggest challenges.
Translate new ideas into concrete actions that will have a measurable impact, enlisting partners across all sectors to scale what works.”
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Obama is operating at the level typical of his breed. Father to his daughters; surely you jest. He will visit Tahiti but he is not staying there; too easy to be terminated. He will come back to the protection of the United States, a land which he detests but values for its benefits to him.
Remember -- this is the guy who would use a teleprompter when making a speech to a classroom full of young children.
You and I agree. He is to damn dumb to be his own man. He works for the Muslims like CAIR . his trip to “Pawkistan” was no mistake. His Muslim Bro crap is no mistake. Egypt wised up fast.
OH lord please, no pictures of him or Moochell twerking!
As you say, the 'loving family' have been in different places literally around the globe since the inauguration.
Although generally hushed or ignored by the press, this so-called close marriage was anything but. The duplicate airliners were costly but mandatory in their view since they couldn't stand to stay in the same place together for very long.
Staff or onlookers at Martha's Vineyard spilled the beans at least once: Obama stayed in bed - in a separate bedroom - all hours of the day chain smoking, drinking, eating and watching TV...unless, of course, he had a game of golf on the schedule.
The First Family observed at least two consecutive Father's Days by....having the wife and daughters fly off to Europe for shopping & going to pop concerts, leaving the nation's most visible father home alone.
Oh, and as usual, Mother Robinson enjoyed all the trappings of the presidency without earning or meriting a nickel of it. She was universally regarded as a demanding, ungrateful holy terror who enjoyed even more of a press blackout than the Obamas.
At least half a dozen trashy celebrity magazines managed to push Jen Aniston and Ben Affleck off their covers for a month to print 'commemorative editions' (*puke*) of the Obama couple in a thinly-veiled effort to a) promote the Dem candidate in the election and b) to portray these two charlatans in a loveless marriage as close.
It was widely reported that Michelle Obama could not wait to leave the White House - no doubt her utter failure to gain pop culture icon status despite a staff of 50+ (!) had something to do with her bitterness. Or maybe it was the Hindenburg-scale PR disaster that was her school lunch and nutrition program. The media moved heaven and earth to portray her as funny, hip, appealing (see also: Clinton, Hillary) but not even hand-picked audiences were having it. I'm sure you noticed that without a taxpayer-funded army of shills that nobody is interested much in what Michelle Obama has to say. Yet Barack Obama, at least, remained in the White House until the very last minute even though he had a newly-renovated luxurious house just blocks away in DC.
It can only mean that Obama wanted to remain in the WH until the very last minute, even with its suffocating smallness and surfeit of security types, because he wanted to preserve his access to intelligence, surveillance and communications. He was scorching the earth as much as he was able.
He is a fraud, a saboteur and a poor sport. She is a fraud with a chip on her shoulder. Their daughters are sullen and sulky.
When people complain about Trump I point out that he was inaugurated in January and it's still mid-March. I suppose I should take a dose of my own medicine and note that the Obamas have only been out of office for two months and some change and that many, many more secrets about their sham marriage and sham presidency will emerge once their protectors move on to other things, lose their jobs or write revealing memoirs.