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Victor Davis Hanson: The Evaporation of the Obama Mystique
American Greatness ^ | 12 Dec, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 12/12/2024 6:11:51 AM PST by MtnClimber

Obama's behind-the-scenes political maneuvering culminated in a failed Biden presidency that ultimately led to a significant Democratic electoral defeat and rejection of his political legacy.

Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Biden nomination—and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years.

As such he and his coterie proved the virtual architects of the Biden administration, one of the most unpopular and failed presidencies in American history.

Recall earlier that after a flailing candidate Joe Biden lost the first three 2020 primaries and caucuses, his inert campaign was headed nowhere.

Barack Obama and fellow Democratic insiders abruptly engineered the withdrawal of his rival 2020 presidential candidates: hard left but likely sure-loser candidates, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg.

The Obamas ignored or withheld from the public their own firsthand knowledge that Biden was suffering from signs of dementia.

Instead, they found Biden’s cognitive decline and his former concocted reputation as workingman’s Joe useful as a veneer for a veritable Obama third-term, “phone it in” administration. Or as wistful Obama once conditioned his dream of a third term—”If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in.”

The Obamaites then got their wish for four years of enacted hard-left directives that they could only have dreamed of while in actual power.

But their radical menu since 2021 had divided and nearly wrecked the nation—hyperinflation, 12 million illegal aliens, a ruined border, spiraling crime, a shattered foreign policy of appeasement, the popular backlash against DEI/Woke/trans chauvinism, partisan lawfare, and weaponization of the government.

And the ruling radicalism beneath the Biden facade eventually cost the Democrats nearly everything—the presidency, the House, and the Senate.

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: grifter; lightworker; marxism; obama; obamanation; vdh; victordavishanson
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1 posted on 12/12/2024 6:11:51 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The voters just didn’t know what was good for them Dear Leader Zer0 explained.


2 posted on 12/12/2024 6:12:01 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 12/12/2024 6:12:28 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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George Clooney ‘Furious with Obama’ for Using Him as a ‘Patsy’ for Kamala’s Defeat
Breitbart ^ | 12/01/2024
Posted on 12/1/2024 by ChicagoConservative27

The bromance between George Clooney and Barack Obama is reportedly on the rocks, with the Hollywood star said to be “furious” with Obama for setting him up as the “patsy” to end President Joe Biden’s career and then absorb the blowback following Kamala Harris’ election defeat.

“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,” an unnamed entertainment industry source told Radaronline.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


4 posted on 12/12/2024 6:17:12 AM PST by Liz (As West Texas ranchers occasionally say: “THAT boy had one too many years of college.”)
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To: MtnClimber

The last three sentences of this article say it all about Obama.

He can ridicule those who vote for Trump as “racist/sexist”...basically stupid...then hop on his private jet to one of his beautiful homes. He sits high, like a god, above the fray. But, he’ll mock those who actually do the work in this country.

If you could put a picture next to the word “grifter” in the dictionary, it would be his...and his wife’s.


5 posted on 12/12/2024 6:20:17 AM PST by woweeitsme
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VDH-—Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Biden nom—
and was the whispering nudge in the subsequent lost Biden years........to the detriment of Americans.

Obama and his cohorts, as virtual architects of the Biden years, gave we, the
people, one of the most unpopular and failed presidencies in American history.


6 posted on 12/12/2024 6:23:00 AM PST by Liz (As West Texas ranchers occasionally say: “THAT boy had one too many years of college.”)
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To: MtnClimber

O’Bozo could only come out, what? ... a mere 3 days ahead of the election to endorse Harris??

Seriously! What politician with ANY class does that? It was desperation and very OBVIOUS desperation!!

O’Bozo is and always has been a punk!


7 posted on 12/12/2024 6:27:31 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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It’s hilarious watching George Clooney go ballistic trying to walk back his now-infamous
op-ed piece declaring how much we needed Harris to run since Biden is such a nothing.

Clooney loved being a power-broker, so darn pleased with himself
for forcing Biden out and letting the “joyful black woman” have at it.

Obama really REALLY convinced Clooney “Harris had what it takes.”

Rotflol.


8 posted on 12/12/2024 6:28:12 AM PST by Liz (As West Texas ranchers occasionally say: “THAT boy had one too many years of college.”)
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To: MtnClimber
Correction:

The Obamas ignored or withheld from the public their own firsthand knowledge that Biden was suffering from signs of dementia.

No way they could have ignored the unmistakable signs of Biden's dementia. Obama and his democrat party propagandist mainstream media bamboozled the American people.

9 posted on 12/12/2024 6:28:48 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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BFF as Obama leads a stupified Biden offstage.....hand in hand.

10 posted on 12/12/2024 6:35:37 AM PST by Liz (As West Texas ranchers occasionally say: “THAT boy had one too many years of college.”)
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To: MtnClimber

Not enough attention has been paid to the negative influence of Michelle O. She gave some hateful speeches during the campaign. I hope we never hear from the First Wookie again.


11 posted on 12/12/2024 6:36:00 AM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: MtnClimber

“Mystique?”

Mistake! So many people would hoodwinked by his “race” and fake oratory.


12 posted on 12/12/2024 6:36:30 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
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To: Liz

“..Obama and his cohorts, as virtual architects of the Biden years, gave we, the
people, one of the most unpopular and failed presidencies in American history....”

That ain’t all this SOB and ilk gave us, and they weren’t finished had Harris/Waltz took the WH.
Check out the Joe Rogan/Marc Andreessen podcast if you dare. It’s kinda long, but gives a pretty good idea of what they have planned for us...and it’ pure evil. They plan to use govt. AI to identify every single Trump supporter, every conservative, every Christian, every gun owner, etc. Then, de-bank and cancel every single one of us completely out of society. No credit cards, no bank accounts, no nothing. One wouldn’t even be able to buy a piece of bubble gum.
There is no way we can continue “co-exist” with these communist basstids. They need to be brought to justice for this BS.


13 posted on 12/12/2024 6:36:48 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created..." )
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To: MtnClimber

The voters just didn’t know what was good for them Dear Leader Zer0 explained.

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The arrogance of that evil bastard is sickening.


14 posted on 12/12/2024 6:45:33 AM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: lgjhn23

No way we can continue “co-exist” with these communist
basstids. They need to be brought to justice for this BS.


Amen.


15 posted on 12/12/2024 6:48:03 AM PST by Liz (As West Texas ranchers occasionally say: “THAT boy had one too many years of college.”)
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To: DeplorablePaul

“I hope we never hear from the First Wookie again.”

She and Barack will be brought out periodically by the mainstream media when it serves the purpose of the left. In the same way Jimmy Carter was rolled out once in a while to serve as elder statesman commenting in a soundbite on a current issue.

Over the next four years expect to hear from Barack, Michelle, Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, George W. Bush, Laura Bush, the Bush children, Jeb Bush, Michael Steele, Paul Ryan, John Bolton and others when there is an orchestrated assault on the Trump administration about some issue. Biden may even be trotted out on a lucid day to read a brief teleprompter message.


16 posted on 12/12/2024 6:51:26 AM PST by Soul of the South (The past is gone and cannot be changed. Tomorrow can be a better day if we work on it.)
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To: MtnClimber
The Obamas ignored or withheld from the public their own firsthand knowledge that Biden was suffering from signs of dementia.

we all knew it, the Obamas didn't hide it alone, the entire corrupt media knew it and hid it, despicable. What, nobody noticed that the media did not hold a single actual real long form unrehearsed press conference during his entire term of 4 years?

17 posted on 12/12/2024 6:56:23 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: MtnClimber

And, it cost them the future. Because, in order to win they had to lie in the most abusive and blatant ways. This barrage of hatred and identity politics only appeals to a hard core base of demorats which I think includes the ghetto voters,the nutcases, and the “for the greater good” people. Not nearly enough for a ruling majority. Young voters may be naive but most are not stupid of delusional. The ones that bought into the Russia, Hitler, facist, vengeful MAGA movement will observe over the next 4 years that it was utter bullshit. Same for the soccer moms we did not get this time. It will be a lot harder to fool them again.


18 posted on 12/12/2024 6:59:45 AM PST by anton
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To: The_Media_never_lie

It was obvious to me during the 2020 campaign that Biden was on the dementia slide.

Everyone at a high level in the Dem Party, the Biden Administration, and the fake media had to have known it, and were lying to us. They were lying to us until they couldn’t, with the Trump debate.

This would include first and foremost Kamala Harris.

I ran across people while canvassing for Trump who would still not admit to Biden’s dementia after the debate. Dems are that immune to reality.


19 posted on 12/12/2024 7:07:22 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber

I can only see one way out of this mess...there was a movie made called ‘The Purge’ and one night a year no laws applied, I will let your mind think on that...


20 posted on 12/12/2024 7:10:32 AM PST by dpetty121263
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