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Published Dec 13, 2024 • Last updated Dec 13, 2024 • 3 minute read
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US President Barack Obama (R) with Vice President Joe Biden addresses, for the first time publicly, the shock election of Donald Trump as his successor, on November 9, 2016, at the White House in Washington, DC. Photo by NICHOLAS KAMM /AFP via Getty Images
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Former president Barack Obama had long been rumoured as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination — and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years.
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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 Biden lost the first three 2020 primaries and caucuses, his inert campaign was headed nowhere.
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 found Biden’s cognitive decline and his former concocted reputation as working man’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.”
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The Obamaites got their wish for four years of enacted hard-left directives 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, spiralling 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.
An inert Biden is departing office with a 36% favourability rating in a recent Emerson poll. His Democratic nominee replacement, losing presidential candidate Vice President Harris, has also virtually vacated her office with 40 days left of her tenure.
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Staffers and donors have roundly faulted failed candidate Harris for blowing through some $2 billion in assorted 2024 campaign money. She ended up doing worse against Trump than Biden had in 2020.
Many Democrats believe they might have done just as well had Biden stayed on the ticket even in his vastly diminished state.
Obama emerged from his comfortable retirement to hit the 2024 campaign trail, schooling the country that president-emeritus Donald Trump was a dictator, a fascist, a tyrant and, of course, a “racist.”
The more Trump polled even with, or ahead of, Kamala Harris, the more an exasperated and ignored Obama talked down to supposedly low-information voters.
By the time Harris lost the election, voters had tuned out a nagging and patronizing Obama.
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Voters knew the border was more secure under Trump than during the Obama or Biden tenure.
Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded countries during the Obama and Biden administrations but stayed put on Trump’s watch.
Obama’s bizarre vision of a new Middle East had sought to empower Iran as a supposed counterweight against moderate Arab nations and our ally Israel.
Years ago, Obama invited the Russians into Syria, empowered dictatorial Syria, berated Israel non-stop and all but ignored the violence of Iran’s surrogate terrorists: Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
But after Oct. 7, 2023, Israel retaliated to the mass slaughter of Jewish civilians with an all-out war against Hamas and Hezbollah, rendering these once feared terrorists nearly impotent.
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In an exchange of air attacks with Iran, Israel showed the world that Iran was as militarily weak as its chanting and threats were tiresome and shrill.
Iran is now tottering on the brink, as its terrorist appendages — including most recently the Assad dynasty — are melting away.
Israel and the moderate Arab regimes are in ascendance, as the entire crazy Obama-envisioned Middle East agenda melts away.
The Democratic campaign and Trump electoral college and popular vote victories, combined with record defections of Hispanic and African-American voters from the Democratic Party, proved a resounding rejection of the Obama legacy and his surrogates’ left-wing visions.
After the people spoke in the election, Obama whined that democracy had failed him. Voters who disagreed with him were written off as racist and sexist.
Obama again harped that constituents did not know what was good for them.
And then, the disappointed former community organizer suddenly disappeared, pondering to which of his own four mansions his private jet would fly him home to commiserate.
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