Is Obama’s Kingmaker Era Over?

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-30 15:44:19 | Updated at 2024-11-06 03:30:43 6 days ago

Is Obama’s Kingmaker Era Over?
tomklingenstein.com ^ | 29 Oct, 2024 | Peachy Keenan

Posted on 10/30/2024 7:56:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Last week, Barack Obama plaintively wailed at a rally for Kamala Harris, “I don’t understand how we got so toxic and just divided.” Who was this mystery culprit who injected so much hate into the national discourse? We must track down the man who did this to us!

I wanted to hand him a mirror.

Obama spent eight years in office tearing up American race relations, which we stupidly assumed had been solved when citizens of every race voted for him as president. But no: that was the start of a long national backslide — thanks to Obama himself.

As a loyal Alinskyite, Obama knew that division and full-blown race riots were the tried-and-true path to electoral victory for the Left, and he did not disappoint. He reignited animosities that had largely been sublimated, turned illegal immigration into a machete to use against American citizens’ sovereign rights, and, perhaps most cruelly, weaponized the federal government more brazenly against his political opponents than any previous president.

This election, the stakes are high for Obama: If Kamala loses, it will be the end of his pernicious shadow presidency once and for all.

Even worse, Democrats may finally realize who the prime architect of the catastrophe is: Obama himself. For he is the key figure responsible for the current predicament the Democrats find themselves in, hamstrung with a sputtering candidate and her bumbling running mate, handpicked for her by Eric Holder, longtime Obama confidant.

In 2020, Obama used all his considerable clout in the party to shut down all of Joe Biden’s primary opponents. He knew that in a race full of liberal women and Pete Buttigieg, only Joe could hang on to what remained of the Obama-Biden coalition and win. Plus, with Joe in the White House, Obama could keep running things from his estate on Martha’s Vineyard.

In 2020, Joe Biden was already nearing the end of his shelf life. The Hunter stuff was bad, but they could bury that. But how to hide Joe’s obvious decline? Ignore it and hope he could be dragged across the finish line.

When the 2024 debate disaster happened, Obama immediately posted on X that Joe just “had a bad night.” Incredibly, Kamala doubled down on Obama’s “bad night” excuse during her recent interview on NBC when a reporter pressed her on when she first saw the signs of Biden’s decline.

To date, Obama has never explained why one “bad night” was enough to end Biden’s campaign, but he was clearly desperate to protect his investment. He was betting that Joe was the only hope the Democrats had to win on their abysmal record. He still believed he needed Joe to stick around to be the “moderate” rust-belt face on his radical progressive agenda.

Because Obama knew Biden’s dopey-but-reassuring persona been the key to his political success for so many years in the Senate and again in 2020, he also must have known that Kamala, a wild-eyed radical way over her skis, who couldn’t speak coherently and was hated by her staffers, was going to be a long shot. That’s why Gavin Newsom was meeting with Obama in 2023, and touring the South, including Selma, Alabama, on his children’s spring break. Obama had Newsom do the Civil Rights pilgrimage in obvious preparation for a 2024 run.

When the Biden-Harris switch happened, the Obamas were silent. It took them three days to congratulate and endorse the new presumptive nominee. Imagine the panic in their mansion that weekend! Another four years of powerful influence blocked!? Trump — again?

I imagine holes being punched in walls of a tastefully decorated beige living room......SNIP

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1 posted on 10/30/2024 7:56:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber

To: MtnClimber

The brothers may not be voting for #Kamunism. Barak may get angry. Very angry indeed.

2 posted on 10/30/2024 7:57:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)

To: MtnClimber

Trump broke the Bushs.
Trump broke the Clintons.
Trump broke the Bidens.
Is he breaking Obama too?

God, I hope so!

3 posted on 10/30/2024 7:58:47 AM PDT by MMusson ( )

To: MtnClimber

4 posted on 10/30/2024 7:59:25 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)

To: MtnClimber

If they can’t cheat this election because trump is too far ahead, they will punish republican with lawfare, destroy their lives, then cheat next election while no one is looking

5 posted on 10/30/2024 7:59:43 AM PDT by Bob434

To: MtnClimber

We’ll see...whether he manages to turn a turd in to a President or not

6 posted on 10/30/2024 8:01:28 AM PDT by bigbob

To: MtnClimber

Obama - like Hillary - will be around for decades. He’ll be like the rat that dies while crawling around in the walls. There will be a “mysterious” stench for years.

7 posted on 10/30/2024 8:02:48 AM PDT by glorgau

To: MtnClimber

"I don't understand how we got so toxic and just divided" but Trump is "Hitler", and Republicans are "garbage."

So we can truncate Obama's BS to simply "I don't understand."

Gosh, that's "deplorable...."

To: MtnClimber

Even with his chi-town drop walk and conversatin’ with the ‘bruthas’, think brobama is done. Move along.

9 posted on 10/30/2024 8:04:09 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within ? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)

To: MtnClimber

Obama was always over-rated. He was never the puppet master as some on FR keep insisting - just another puppet.

I’ll concede he made a far more convincing puppet than, say, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris - but he was never the master of anything.

10 posted on 10/30/2024 8:04:52 AM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)

To: MtnClimber

Depends on who wins the Democrat civil war going on right now.

11 posted on 10/30/2024 8:04:58 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)

To: MtnClimber

Obama lecturing young black males how to be men was not well received. Word on the urban street tells the tale of what really happened to Obama’s cook and Obama’s relationship with the guy.

12 posted on 10/30/2024 8:05:05 AM PDT by allendale

To: brownsfan; MtnClimber

He is moving into war mode. a true marxist he will now want to have civil war

13 posted on 10/30/2024 8:06:59 AM PDT by Chickensoup

To: MtnClimber

Without the cover of full-on 24/7 deep-state narrative and media protection, Obama is revealing himself to be what he was all along

He’s clearly a homosexual, who married the awkward and manly Michelle as a beard. He’s smooth talking, but not deep, holding reactionary leftist views. He let the permanent bureaucracy/deep-state run the country in areas most important to them. The DNC neo-marxists took over the rest. In other words, he was the perfect puppet.

14 posted on 10/30/2024 8:11:38 AM PDT by PGR88

To: allendale

Kind of off topic, but I will never forget the first wookie referring to her husband’s “home country” of Kenya. The Obamination was not even born in the US.

15 posted on 10/30/2024 8:12:39 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)

To: MtnClimber

16 posted on 10/30/2024 8:13:05 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)

To: MtnClimber

Obama has lost the youth vote. It’s only around 16% of the vote, but Biden won 60% of them.

I believe it’s Trump’s youth now.

17 posted on 10/30/2024 8:29:20 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)

To: MtnClimber

Obama is so overrated. All he does is read from a teleprompter. He’s a puppet just like the rest of them.

18 posted on 10/30/2024 8:32:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)

To: MtnClimber

Is Obama’s Kingmaker Era Over?

No fourth term for the kenyan/indonesian muzzie b@st@rd!

19 posted on 10/30/2024 8:32:51 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (PRAY for AMERICA! and VOTE MAGA!)

To: MtnClimber

Shouldn’t kingmaker be queenmaker this time around?

20 posted on 10/30/2024 8:43:18 AM PDT by xp38

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