Posted on 07/11/2024 7:55:12 AM PDT by Red Badger
Longtime allies of former President Barack Obama are pouncing on President Joe Biden as he and his family fight to maintain power within the White House.
Biden and his campaign have insisted that the president is not going anywhere, despite deafening calls for him to end his reelection bid from fellow Democrats. His defiance has not done much to mute the critics within his own party. Individuals in Obama’s orbit are increasingly piling on, arguing that Biden should step aside due to his age and mental decline.
Perhaps the biggest domino yet fell Wednesday, when Democratic donor and actor George Clooney admitted that he noticed a severe decline in Biden at a recent Hollywood fundraiser. Clooney, notably, is a close personal friend of Obama’s dating back years.
Clooney hosted the fundraiser in California that featured former President Bill Clinton, Obama and Biden. In a viral clip, Biden was seen freezing for several seconds before Obama grabs his wrist and appears to lead him off stage. The White House decried the video as a “cheap fake,” falsely saying it was edited to make the president look bad.
Clooney, however, wrote Wednesday that the president was showing signs of cognitive decline at the fundraiser.
“In the last four years, he’s won many of the battles he’s faced,” Clooney wrote in a New York Times op-ed. “But the one battle he cannot win is the fight against time. None of us can. 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.”
Clooney’s assessment was quickly backed up by other notable Obama allies, such as David Axelrod, Obama’s chief campaign strategist, and Jon Favreau, a former aide who co-founded the successful liberal media company, Crooked Media.
“That is devastating,” Axelrod said of Clooney’s op-ed. “It’s devastating, and it’s what people fear.”
“It was not surprising to any of us who were at the fundraiser,” Favreau added.
Axelrod, and Favreau’s colleagues at Crooked Media, have been calling for Biden to drop out since the debate. After Biden’s primetime interview with ABC News, Axelrod wrote in a CNN column that “duty and love of country” should compel Biden to “step aside.”
“I respect those who genuinely believe Biden has the best shot of winning in November. I disagree, but we’re all making our best guess based on available information,” Tommy Vietor, a former Obama administration staffer and Favreau’s co-host on ‘Pod Save America,’ wrote in a tweet. “But the people who say shut up, stop talking about it, ignore data like this should be laughed out of politics.”
“I think it was a f****** disaster,” Favreau said on a June 28 episode of their podcast. “I think it was the worst debate I’ve ever seen in my entire life.”
Dan Pfeiffer, another co-host and former aide, gave his thoughts immediately following the debate in a Substack post.
“I have no doubt about Joe Biden’s ability to be President, but last night raised serious questions about his ability to be a candidate who can make a clear and compelling case against the most flawed politician in history,” Pfeiffer wrote.
Hours behind Clooney, Marie Harf, a foreign policy adviser to Obama, told Fox News that Democrats are asking him to take a “serious look” at his campaign because polls are nosediving.
“I think that there’s a lot of frustration that they are trying to turn the page and say, ‘We’re not having this conversation about the debate anymore,’ but the problem, Bill, is that voters are having that conversation,” Harf said of Biden’s inner circle. “It’s not just pundits, it’s not just members of Congress.”
In the immediate minutes following the debate, former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe called the president’s performance a “DEFCON 1 moment.”
“Biden did have a couple of good moments, but I think at the end of the day the overwhelming reaction — again it doesn’t matter quite frankly what people like us say, it’s what voters say, and if they were already concerned about it, and the way I think about it is, sadly, it really pains me to say this, [Trump and Biden] are three years apart. They seemed about 30 years apart tonight. And I think that’s going to be the thing voters really wrestle with coming out of this,” Plouffe said.
Former Biden press secretary and Obama communications aide Jen Psaki even showed a moment of vulnerability about her former boss.
“I worked for him. I respect him and I care about him deeply,” Psaki said during her Monday MSNBC show. “But if I sat here every night and told you that every question being asked out there is unfair, I wouldn’t be respecting you. So I’m not going to do that.”
Obama himself has remained rather quiet on the issue, aside from a post-debate tweet backing his former running mate.
“Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know,” Obama tweeted. “But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit. Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November. http://joebiden.com.”
The former president’s support came as Biden, the first lady and the rest of his family huddled at Camp David to discuss the 81-year-old’s political future. Hunter Biden is reportedly pushing the hardest for his dad to stay in the race, even showing up for some meetings with aides in the aftermath of the debate.
Biden’s team is on a mission to quell the concerns about the president’s age and ability to serve another four years in the White House. Since the debate, Biden has made several campaign stops and appeared on local radio stations. The president, who has repeatedly ducked TV interviews and press conferences throughout his administration, sat down with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos for a primetime interview on Friday.
In the interview, the president denied numerous polls showing him trailing in key swing states, his low approval rating and the calls for him to exit the race.
“Obama world” must have their eye on a replacement. Who is it?
More like jackals circling a sick hyena.
If they play by the rules *eyeroll,* it’s Harris.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WoundedGazelleGambit
Using self-inflicted injuries, real or fake, to deceive others and manipulate them into doing what you want. Often used to frame a third party, this strategy is particularly effective for, and often used by, women, due to societal prohibitions against hurting women. Named for the trick sometimes used by a mother gazelle (as well as certain birds and deer) of pretending to be injured, and thus an easy meal, in order to lure a predator away from her young. Once a safe distance is reached, the pretense can be dropped, and the mother can bound away, leaving the hapless predator in the dust.
Biden was wrong…THIS is the big f’ing deal…
First president to be removed from office? And by his own party?
Or just one too dumb to take a hint? Choose your legacy, Joe.
That’s a silly analogy. Biden is at worst a lion with his strength somewhat attenuated. As pointed out elsewhere, the current occupant of the White House has a serious perch with serious advantages.
Steve Sailer at Unz uses a hundred or so words to say what should be evident to anyone with a pulse - even if some other Democrat has a greater chance of winning 2024, it matters not at all to Biden, because the most important thing to Joe’s personal interest is that if anyone wins, that man is him. So long as he’s within striking distance, and he is - he’s staying in. He won’t quit and they can’t make him.
In general, leaders don’t quit unless they’re forcibly removed. Democrats simply lack the force to take Joe out of the race.
Obviously, the Establishment, whoever they are precisely, doesn’t want Trump to win. And they feel that Biden’s knuckleheaded refusal to now gracefully bow out is going to get Trump elected.
But, whaddaya whaddaya? Sure, we are the shadowy cabal of handlers, shotcallers, insiders, and global power-brokers. We are the people that Donald Sutherland warned you about in JFK (along with far more that he didn’t know about yet).
But Dr. Jill doesn’t want Joe to quit, Hunter doesn’t want Joe to quit, and Joe doesn’t want Joe to quit. Against the combined might of Dr. Jill, Hunter, and Joe, we are stumped.]
Jill, Hunter, James and their sister, nieces and nephews, the whole damn family is corrupt.......................................
Democrat candidates are looking at the dismal fund-raising;
the self-serving “big buck Bidens” are looking at the steal.
Biden’s campaign has already suffered a major slowdown in donations and officials are bracing for a seismic fundraising hit, with fallout from a debate nearly two weeks ago taking a sizable toll on operations, according to four sources close to the re-election effort.
“It’s already disastrous,” one of the sources close to Biden’s re-election said of fundraising. “The money has absolutely shut off” to the Biden campaign, another source close to Biden’s re-election said. Two of the sources said this month is on a path to be down by possibly half — “or much more,” one of them said — from large donors alone. (Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ..
The Obama scourge: the gift American voters gave to the republic to continue to march towards the national destruction.
This is why he is hanging on despite the widespread “Dump Biden” movement,
why the convicted parasite son and the ambitious “Vogue cover girl” are all smiles.
How they plan to steal it this time
Battleground America ^ | 7/10/24 | Tara Servatius
Posted on 7/11/2024, 8:06:56 AM by Babsig
Talk radio 989 WORD Greenville SC interview:
<><>they register illegals at the migrant centers,
<><>get the ballots mailed there so as to harvest them.
<><>most illegals dont even know they’re registered to vote,
<><>some have already moved away to rape and pillage Americans elsewhere
<><>but illegals will “vote” and their ballots used to boost Biden into a second term.
We need Biden to stay in as long as possible.
Dems need to take a hard line pro and against. Divide the party.
The media needs to clearly make a choice and publicize it.
Then, they need to explain how long they have known Biden is a vegetable. And how and why they have lied for that long.
Good quote from Sailer—raises a lot of interesting questions.
In his analogy what is needed to remove the old guy at the top (of any organization) is an organized plan by skilled and intelligent people.
That may be the issue here.
It is not that the Biden clan is so powerful—it is that their opponents are disorganized and not all that smart or skilled.
It's not a matter of his age, it's a matter of his mental acuity. Trump is the same age as Biden and he is not wandering off looking for ice cream. I've met any number of 99-year old's that are as sharp as a tack. In fact, this last Father's Day I ran into a 99-year old WWWII/Korean War veteran at IHOP that had the waiting area captivated by his witty banter.
more like a wounded skunk.
That is the question. Who do the Obama Bros want to replace Joe? It can’t be Kamala…
I’m running out of popcorn during this quirky melodrama.
Who will be sitting where when this game of Musical Chairs has ended?
This fight reveals one thing clearly. Obama has been running the country through his puppet and all of his old cronies.
The problem is the puppet is actually the President and won’t give it up though Obama is pushing hard to kick him out.
Biden is off the reservation and Obama is becoming Custer at The Little Bighorn River... Overconfident and doomed.
Obama is proving he is not very smart. He has underestimated the power of his enemy...Jill Biden.
[Jill, Hunter, James and their sister, nieces and nephews, the whole damn family is corrupt.......................................]
DemoRats elites foisted Biden on the nation and now Biden is foisting himself on them. Summer of DemoRat love.
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