Time was when candidate Barack Obama could roll up his sleeves and make women swoon from the campaign stump. Remember?
More likely, though, it was the heat, or the pregnancy, or the lock-legged standing in place while His Audaciousness droned on that caused those occasional fainting spells.
In any case, today’s embittered and increasingly irrelevant Barack Obama isn’t anything like circa 2008 Barack Obama. Indeed, today’s senior citizen seems more like an SNL caricature of his once-magnetic self. Come to think of it, has anyone seen Fred Armisen and Obama in the same room lately?
Perhaps sensing the lameness of his legacy and the Nike-esque freefall of his persuasive stock, the 65-year-old Obama headed back out on the campaign trail in an effort to pull the Democratic Socialist Ship El-Sayed into port before it runs aground on the Jew-hating shoals or the anti-American rocks.
“What is so radical about wanting everybody to have healthcare?” Obama asked his incurious audience, no doubt hoping that they’d focus on El-Sayed’s ObamaCare Medicare for All snake oil and not the spectacular failure of his own signature legislative, er, achievement, which is both a bottomless pit of taxpayer money and an irresistible font of healthcare fraud.
Hey, wasn’t ObamaCare supposed to fix our supposedly “broken” healthcare system?
What was most telling about Obama sharing the stage with a radical Muslim socialist, though, was that El-Sayed once told The New Yorker that our country wasn’t “better off” under Obama and that “the list of his failures goes on.” If that disparagement wasn’t clear, El-Sayed also called the Democrat Party’s brand “bullsh-t.
And now Obama is campaigning for the guy. Such is his thirst for a legacy, and such is the Democrats’ unquenchable thirst for power.
Obama tried to play it off, saying, “You know who doesn’t agree with everything I do? Michelle Obama.” He’s got a point here. And on second thought, maybe the guy just wants to get out of the house.
Recall that the last time we saw Barack Obama in the waning days of a political campaign was when he tried to ride to Kamala Harris’s rescue by haranguing authentically black men for being receptive to Donald Trump’s message rather than obediently falling in line behind the Democrat woman, Harris.
I mean, it’s understandable why Obama would want to chastise black men about not voting for Harris. After all, she’s as elitist and authentically half-black as he is.
But without a doubt the biggest howler of his stump speech for El-Sayed was his lament for a kinder, gentler time in American politics. He said he was tired of all this anger and division. As if he wasn’t on record telling his followers to bring a gun to a knife fight and to “stay angry.”
As for El-Sayed, he’s even more despicable. In a leaked comment from a Zoom meeting, he had this to say about pro-Israel Democrat centrist Senator John Fetterman, a man who would be El-Sayed’s senatorial colleague: “You put one ogre on a pike, and then everyone else gets the message, and all of a sudden starts to sound a lot different.”
Stay classy, you Jew-hating dog.
Obama seems obsessed with Donald Trump, which is understandable. Trump, after all, replaced him as president. Obama took a swipe at the Builder-in-Chief, comparing his White House improvements to “a Cheesecake Factory run by Saddam Hussein.”
“I mean, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but he seems very focused on home renovations,” Obama said. “He should be on HGTV.”
Really? That’s the best you can do? Obama has clearly lost his fastball. But, as my colleague Thomas Gallatin pointed out this morning, Obama never had a fastball when it came to campaigning for others. Only for himself.
His Cheesecake Factory comment was a bouillabaisse of all the snideness that has made him so off-putting to so many of us over the years. It reminded me of his derisive swipe at the special olympics, and his “spread the wealth around” exchange with Joe the Plumber, and his “you didn’t build that” attack on America’s entrepreneurial spirit.
Then, of course, there’s Obama’s Monument to Himself, his $1 billion presidential non-library — or, as I like to call it, Darth Vader’s Porta Potty.
Obama’s legacy is one of squandered opportunities and racial divisiveness. Oh, and that miserable failure of his gubmint healthcare program.
As for his diss of Trump the Builder, we should remember that aside from a couple of basketball hoops along the baselines of the White House tennis court, Obama never built anything. To the contrary, all he did during his eight years in office was tear down American institutions and pit one group of Americans against another.
No wonder he’s out there today trying to rewrite history and revise his sorry legacy.
