B-Man Posted December 15, 2024 Posted December 15, 2024 'Nagging and Patronizing': VDH Lays Bare the End of Barack Obama's 'Mystique' By Mike Miller "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away." The famous phrase, paraphrased from an old Army ballad, was spoken by retired General Douglas MacArthur before a joint session of Congress on April 19, 1951. While Barack Obama, America's 44th president, neither served in the U.S. military nor is particularly old, I thought about MacArthur's words as I began to write this article — but with a significant twist: Obama's words and actions during the waning months of the 2024 presidential election likely signaled the end of the Obama mystique and his role as the unquestioned Democrat Party power broker. But unlike Douglas MacArthur, Barack Obama isn't fading away; he bears much of the blame for engineering both cognitively declining Joe Biden becoming the 2020 Democrat presidential nominee and also Biden being kicked to the curb in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris and her ill-fated 2024 presidential campaign. As author and conservative political commentator Victor Davis Hanson put it: "Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination — and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years." {snip} VDH nailed the following, which I read with a smile on my face, save for the part about wrecking the nation. The Obamaites then got their wish for four years of enacted hard-left directives that 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, spiraling 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. By the time Kamala Harris lost the election in spectacular fashion, VDH noted, "Voters had tuned out a nagging and patronizing Obama — and his stale, now-dated, hope-and-changey, boilerplate speeches." https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2024/12/15/nagging-and-patronizing-victor-davis-hanson-lays-bare-the-end-of-barack-obamas-mystique-n2183231 . 1
JDHillFan Posted December 28, 2024 Posted December 28, 2024 10 minutes ago, B-Man said: Could Michelle Obama Be More Insulting and Out of Touch? by Matt Margolis Michelle Obama recently shared a holiday message on Instagram, lamenting how “difficult” the last few months have been, and how Americans are feeling “anxious” as we head into the New Year. "Happy holidays, everyone!” she began, keeping everything generic and non-Christmasy. “I know it’s been a difficult few months for so many of us — and that folks are feeling a little bit anxious and uncertain.” Umm, says who? The fact is, Michelle Obama’s message of anxiety and uncertainty feels wildly out of touch with the reality many Americans are experiencing. In fact, a recent CBS News/YouGov poll found that 57% of Americans are hopeful https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/12/28/could-michelle-obama-be-more-insulting-and-out-of-touch-n4935486 She was addressing tiberius and redhawk directly. 1 2
B-Man Posted June 23 Posted June 23 BE GENTLE, HE’S LOST A LOT OF FRIENDS IN THE LAST WEEK OR SO: Barack Obama Lets the Mask Slip Again. Barack Obama, now a gray-haired elder statesman of the left, appeared at the Connecticut Forum in Hartford on Tuesday and engaged in a lengthy discussion with a sycophantic historian, Heather Cox Richardson. The welcoming environment apparently led the left’s revered hero to relax a bit too much, for he let the mask slip and demonstrated once again that what leftists want to do most is use the full force of the federal government to muzzle patriots, so that only the leftist perspective can be heard. {snip} And Obama wants to do more than just shout down the view of those whom he and his fellow leftists fear and hate. He called for active government censorship, saying: How do we train and teach our kids to distinguish between those things, that I think is one of the big tasks of social media. By the way, it will require, I believe, some government regulatory constraints around some of these business models in a way that’s consistent with the First Amendment but that also says, “Look, there is a difference between these platforms letting all voices be heard versus a business model that elevates the most hateful voices, or the most polarizing voices, or the most dangerous in the sense of inciting violence voices.” That I think is going to be a big challenge for all of us that we’re going to have to undertake. So there’s the left’s new plan, which is, predictably, same as the old plan: brand its opponents “hateful” and “polarizing,” and silence them accordingly. The chief flagship organizations of the left’s defamation industry, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the ADL, have been smearing patriots in this way for years. Obama wants to follow up these smears with a federal muzzle. https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/06/21/barack-obama-lets-the-mask-slip-again-n4941041
B-Man Posted July 14 Posted July 14 LOL. Barack Obama: Dems Just Need to 'Toughen Up' By Ward Clark https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/07/14/barack-obama-dems-just-need-to-toughen-up-n2191609
Andy1 Posted July 17 Posted July 17 5 hours ago, Big Blitz said: RIP to this clown’s entire legacy Is it wrong to have gay friends? Trumps legacy will be a statue of him describing him as being undefeated in the Trump open at his golf course.
JFKjr Posted July 17 Posted July 17 1 hour ago, Andy1 said: Is it wrong to have gay friends? Trumps legacy will be a statue of him describing him as being undefeated in the Trump open at his golf course. Gay people are synonymous with "empathy and kindness?" 1
B-Man Posted July 17 Posted July 17 4 hours ago, Andy1 said: Is it wrong to have gay friends? No one said that Andrew. The criticism is of Obama's "grouping" of all gay people as alike. Meanwhile: The Democratic Civil War Has Begun — and Obama Pulled the Trigger by Matt Margolis Last week, Barack Obama gave some advice to his party, and it’s astonishing how quickly his words turned into a self-inflicted political wound. He was once hailed as the Democrat Party’s unifying figure, but Obama’s recent scolding of his own party’s base didn’t just flop — it sparked a backlash even his defenders can’t ignore. As previously reported, during a ritzy gathering of party elites in New Jersey, Obama dismissed the rampant frustration among liberals, telling them to show “a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions.” "And it's going to require Democrats to just toughen up,” he said. Predictably, the base didn’t take it lying down, and frankly, I can’t blame them. This is the same party that cooked up the Russia collusion hoax, impeached President Trump twice for no legitimate reason, weaponized the justice system to try to throw him behind bars, sent the FBI to raid his home, tried to remove him from the ballot, and unleashed such venomous rhetoric that it helped inspire not one but two near-assassinations. It’s hard to imagine how much more aggressive they could be. Even pillars of the leftist media couldn’t stomach it. Whoopi Goldberg publicly unloaded on Obama for his patronizing lecture. https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/17/obamas-era-as-the-democrats-messiah-is-officially-over-n4941836 1
Andy1 Posted July 18 Posted July 18 11 hours ago, JFKjr said: Gay people are synonymous with "empathy and kindness?" Yea, if that’s the point, I guess I see that is a bit stupid. I just took it as Obama encouraging men to not discriminate which is legit too.
Big Blitz Posted July 18 Posted July 18 On 7/17/2025 at 7:29 AM, Andy1 said: Is it wrong to have gay friends? Nope: 2
CoudyBills Posted July 19 Posted July 19 On 7/17/2025 at 7:29 AM, Andy1 said: Is it wrong to have gay friends? Trumps legacy will be a statue of him describing him as being undefeated in the Trump open at his golf course. That's the question you came up with from that? ***** clown.
B-Man Posted August 18 Posted August 18 Obama is the New Nixon By John Kass Barack Obama is the new Nixon. There, I wrote it down and my name is on it. It’s not publicly approved speech yet, but it is no longer the Thought Crime it once was. Many Americans are thinking it. And some, like me, are saying out loud. Barack Obama is our modern Nixon figure. Worse than Nixon, actually. Nixon was considered devious. He was presented as demon by The Washington Post and most of the rest of American journalism as the devil who had to be crushed, his followers subjected to never ending ridicule, his political party was sent on a Walk of Shame. Facing certain impeachment conviction–the result of a botched burglary–Nixon resigned in 1974 rather than put the nation through more political hell. And what of Obama, the creature and darling of the political left and the beloved of the Post, New York Times, my old paper the now-woke Chicago Tribune, what remains of corporate legacy media? It was Obama who orchestrated the FBI and CIA to create what is now understood as the “Russia Collusion Hoax” and used it in attempts to destroy his political rival President Donald Trump. He set them like attack dogs on the American presidency, to rip it apart after the American people had elected Trump as their president. Once Obama’s cabal of Deep State secret intelligence chiefs were exposed, their methods opened to public scrutiny, the public began asking questions. The fall from grace is impossible for a political immortal. And for that he can’t be forgiven. {snip} The thing about Obama is that his legacy is broken. Certainly, as an intelligent man, he must know this. The left can sense it. America can sense the panic. His aides are under fire, and years after he was treated by the media as if he were some mythical flying horse like Pegasus, creature, a majority of the American people believe that Obama’s Deep State has committed crimes in what we call “RussiaGate.” The worm is turning. ”I totally agree,” Devine said, “and if you go on X they’re talking about Obama in quite negative terms.” Of course they are, it’s angry and hateful, but consider: After Obama and his Democrats and media fed the American people a steady diet of hysteria about the hateful bad Orange Man destroying the American republic, you might understand why. The left has been stirring a boiling cauldron and now it’s foaming up and over, spilling on the wrist of the witches. Obama used the FBI and CIA to destroy the presidency, but some people developed an affection for the presidency. They thought of it not belonging to Obama or Hillary Clinton or the editors of newspapers who despise them. They thought the presidency belonged to them, the people. And when they found out the true attitudes of the Obama-Clinton-Biden Democrats, they became angry. There is no putting the genie back in the bottle. Not even a grand wizard like Obama can do it. Each day the people get angrier. Much more at the link: https://johnkassnews.com/russia-hoax-reveals-obama-as-more-devious-than-nixon/ .
B-Man Posted August 19 Posted August 19 Barry's library - currently 3x over budget and nearing a billion dollars to build
JFKjr Posted August 19 Posted August 19 And then there's the whole Chef Death thing. Throw in Seal Team 6 while we're at it.
B-Man Posted August 20 Posted August 20 OBAMA’S ‘OBSCENE MONUMENT TO HIS EGO’ DRAMATICALLY BACKFIRES AS $850M VANITY PROJECT SPARKS OUTRAGE: President Barack Obama’s promise to build and revitalize blighted neighborhoods was a centerpiece of his first term in the White House. But now, nearly nine years after he left the Oval Office, he might be destroying one critical area in the city he called home, the Daily Mail can reveal. His $850 million presidential center in Chicago – due to open in April – has come under fire from residents, community leaders and even onetime supporters who now warn that the massive 19.3-acre facility in Jackson Park is gentrifying the neighborhood, increasing rent and forcing families out. Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor, who represents much of the area where the center is being built, told the Daily Mail she is a fan of Obama and believes in the project but has fought aspects of it to protect her constituents. Her efforts have had mixed results. ‘We’re going to see rents go higher and we’re going to see families displaced,’ she told the Daily Mail. ‘Every time large development comes to communities, they displace the very people they say they want to improve it for,’ the Democrat added. ‘This was no different, and we’re living what is actually happening. The city of Chicago should have done a Community Benefits Agreement before the first shovel went into the ground, but they didn’t.’ A CBA is a legally binding document that outlines what a developer will provide for a project such as affordable housing, local hiring and environmental protections. C’mon — it’s a moment to a guy who said that merely winning the Democrats’ nomination to be president was “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” Surely you can trust his environmental intentions! In 2019, Jon Gabriel described the library as looking like “A discarded Chinese take-out box. The backside of a Star Wars sand crawler. The Washington Monument with the interesting bits lopped off. That’s what sprung to mind when confronted with the initial design of the Obama Presidential Center.” Over the past century, it’s a truism that the vast majority of modern architecture never looks as good when built as it does in model format. And the Obama Presidential Center was looking stillborn while still only styrene: https://archive.is/0fRUW
JFKjr Posted August 20 Posted August 20 11 hours ago, B-Man said: OBAMA’S ‘OBSCENE MONUMENT TO HIS EGO’ DRAMATICALLY BACKFIRES AS $850M VANITY PROJECT SPARKS OUTRAGE: President Barack Obama’s promise to build and revitalize blighted neighborhoods was a centerpiece of his first term in the White House. But now, nearly nine years after he left the Oval Office, he might be destroying one critical area in the city he called home, the Daily Mail can reveal. His $850 million presidential center in Chicago – due to open in April – has come under fire from residents, community leaders and even onetime supporters who now warn that the massive 19.3-acre facility in Jackson Park is gentrifying the neighborhood, increasing rent and forcing families out. Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor, who represents much of the area where the center is being built, told the Daily Mail she is a fan of Obama and believes in the project but has fought aspects of it to protect her constituents. Her efforts have had mixed results. ‘We’re going to see rents go higher and we’re going to see families displaced,’ she told the Daily Mail. ‘Every time large development comes to communities, they displace the very people they say they want to improve it for,’ the Democrat added. ‘This was no different, and we’re living what is actually happening. The city of Chicago should have done a Community Benefits Agreement before the first shovel went into the ground, but they didn’t.’ A CBA is a legally binding document that outlines what a developer will provide for a project such as affordable housing, local hiring and environmental protections. C’mon — it’s a moment to a guy who said that merely winning the Democrats’ nomination to be president was “the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” Surely you can trust his environmental intentions! In 2019, Jon Gabriel described the library as looking like “A discarded Chinese take-out box. The backside of a Star Wars sand crawler. The Washington Monument with the interesting bits lopped off. That’s what sprung to mind when confronted with the initial design of the Obama Presidential Center.” Over the past century, it’s a truism that the vast majority of modern architecture never looks as good when built as it does in model format. And the Obama Presidential Center was looking stillborn while still only styrene: https://archive.is/0fRUW The building looks obese. Like it could use some Architectural Ozempic.
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