The Remains of an Administration

National Review ^ | May 26, 2020 | VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

[SJackson]

Each day that the Obama administration fades into the past, its wrongdoings manage to wander back into the present.

After years of suppression, all sorts of strange events keep popping up to remind us of what little is left of the Obama years

[Boogieman]

Well, Hanson’s a historian, so he’s looking at how things might get judged 50 years down the road, but really, most people in the here and now have no idea about these scandals, because the media is silent, and the DOJ won’t prosecute.

[slouper]

What do you expect when someone who is ineligible to hold the office in the first place is “elected”.

[Psalm 73]

Hard to believe the panty-waists at NR allow VDH articles to appear in their publication.

[laweeks]

And Valerie Jarrett, un-elected bureaucrat, led our country for 8 years because Obama didn’t know a damn thing about his office . . . Hope they pay tribute to her.

[Tench_Coxe]

Good article. And damning of the Obama “legacy”.

[skimbell]

Who cares if we get MLB this year?

VDH just put this one out of the park.

[Lurkinanloomin]

THERE NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN AN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.

HE IS NOT A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.

[Fungi]

Very well said, even though, as usual, it took a while to get there.

[Texas resident]

Obama, being a foreigner, had no idea of what the office means and what the job is. He enjoyed the perks of the office, but couldn’t lead anything because he had no experience.

[hinckley buzzard]

VDH is probably the only reason NR is still afloat.

[Dick Bachert]

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

The Obama Crowd just got VD, Hansoned that is!

[Reily]

To this day, any room Zero walks into he’s the least qualified person there!

[Verginius Rufus]

Hanson is an honest historian. In the past he said he was a Democrat but I don’t know if he still considers himself one. Professional historians are mostly in academia and are mostly Democrats. The most recent Presidential poll, from 2017, of 91 historians and other scholars, ranked Obama #12 among all of the Presidents—more overrated than Kennedy at #8. I wonder if the scandals will cause Obama’s ranking to drop—I would guess not, or only a little. Meanwhile, G. W. Bush was ranked #33 (lower than Carter).

[Texas resident]

Remember when he was trying to wean himself off the teleprompter? Couldn’t even do that.

[existentially_kuffer]

I just want to know if Obama had Coke parties in the Oval office.

[Liz]

(h/t VICTOR DAVIS HANSON) After years of suppression, Americans keep getting reminders of how corrupt the Obama years were,
how blatant his lies, the endless forms of Obama-created deception and how untruthful the MSM coverage of institutionalized wrongdoing.

<><> Susan Rice's last-minute really stupid email---justification for telling mountains of official lies;
<><> dossier author Christopher Steele deleting his computer records,
<><> the complicit FBI----doctoring and losing 302s,
<><> critical text messages wiped clean,
<><> the bizarre Obama/Biden January 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting,
<><> the ambush interview of Michael Flynn,
<><> the unmasking and leaking of redacted names
<><> Obama's reverse-targeting surveillance operations,
<><> the shocking administration fraud perpetrated on the FISA courts.

The list is so overwhelming and bizarre---like something out of a corrupt Third World-----
that it ensures that anything at all, at any time can now appear. And the result keeps reminding
trusting Americans how a vindictive Obama thumbed his nose at them and at our system of governance.

[bennowens]

Love VDH!

[Theophilous Meatyard III]

Simply wow. Saved and will send to “my circle.”