Obama Steps from the Shadows


We are living through Obama’s third term. Since 2008, Obama has been the Democrats’ savior. Obama cemented the Democrats’ coalition of color plus white progressives, bringing blacks, Hispanics, and suburbanites to Biden’s White House victory, accompanied by the media’s “Trump racism” drumbeat.

Now, Biden is failing. Roll Call’s David Winston sums up:

Americans have seen his management of the COVID-19 response falter, a disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, a continuing crisis at the border, rising inflation, a worrisome economy and a growing credibility problem.

A British cabinet member told the Times (U.K.) that the US failure to realize that Afghanistan was on the brink of collapse shows that America is “looking inward and is unwilling to do even a modest amount to maintain global order.”

Biden emphasizing domestic over foreign matters is pure Obama, who the Spectator’s Matt Purple pointed out, surmounted Middle East chaos “by focusing on his domestic agenda.” Obama allowed the “JV Team” Isis back into the Iraq we sacrificed to liberate, then told his generals to get us out of Afghanistan.

Obama is a complex child of affirmative action, unclear about how much he owes his success to race. Race, however, has secured his place as Democrats’ leader using race, not class, to split America. 

As president, Obama divided us using the 2012 Trayvon Martin affair, then Michael Brown’s 2014 Ferguson, Missouri death. He expects his race-based coalition to “have an impact,” to change “5 percent of the electorate,” enough to win.

Obama is a socialist who in 1998 said wealth redistribution “make[s] sure that everybody’s got a shot.” That’s “to each according to his needs” — Marxism.

Now, Obama has told ABC’s Robin Roberts that Biden’s infrastructure bill is something “America desperately needs:”

[I]t’s paid for by asking the wealthiest of Americans .   .   .  to pay a few percentage points more in taxes in order to make sure that we have an economy that's fair for everybody. [S]pend money on providing childcare tax credits -- making those permanent to help families[, help] a single mom gets childcare support [and] make sure that our communities aren't inundated by wildfires and floods.   .   . climate change.

This is Obama stepping forward to save Biden’s $3.5 to $5.5 trillion (depending on estimates used) social infrastructure bill that, if passed, will remake America into a European-type social welfare state.

So racial division isn’t the end. It’s the means to democratic socialism.

Obama famously said in 2008 about poor whites, they have been betrayed by capitalism without realizing it:

You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Trump reversed Obama’s grim vision. When asked who he thought was actually running America now — Trump replied, “It could be Obama. It could be Obama’s people. Maybe a combination of both,” 

In a similar vein, longtime Chicago Tribune pundit John Kass wrote that 

Ron Klain, the White House chief of staff, is now openly referred to as President Klain. Perhaps the president is former Obama adviser Susan Rice, now in charge of Biden’s domestic programs. [emphasis added].

Rice is Obama’s most loyal servant, in the White House to carry out the former president’s bidding. Klain is an indirect agent of Obama via his loyalty to Biden.

Grace Curley, in the Spectator, is more straightforward about the arrangement:

Biden’s goal is to carry the torch for his former boss and hero, President Barack Obama. Joe isn’t just copying Barry’s tan suit — he’s also following the former president’s blueprint for what Obama in 2008 called “the fundamental transformation” of America.

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