Time is Long Overdue for Barack Obama to Leave Washington and Exit US Politics

[OneZero]

Now that his shadow Presidency has gone down in flames, the time has arrived for Barack Obama to leave Washington and exit US politics.  If Obama would finally just get out of the way, & stop stirring the pot, US society could more easily heal & move on.

 

I make no secret of my contempt for Obama's presumptuous & DEI ambulance chasing style.  He continues to peer over & hang on US society's shoulders, like a worn-out suit.  His apparent, but certainly not admitted, egotistical purpose is to perpetuate & defend his faulted legacy.  Obama will insert his sanctimonious, pontificating snout into any situation where he smells a narcissistic opportunity to remind people that “Hope and Change” is an Obama legacy, not proxy Biden’s.  He also apparently assumes he has the right to lecture minority groups, especially the "brothers & sisters", on the virtue of his sermons, particularly about what & how to think.  Obama is a catalyst for polarization in US society.

 

The Death of Obamaism and the Historic MAGA Opportunity | Opinion - Newsweek

Josh Hammer Discusses Trump's Dominant Win & The Political Realignment Accompanying It (rumble.com)

How Trump crushed Obama's legacy - UnHerd

Is Obama's Kingmaker Era Over? (tomklingenstein.com)

 

 

 

[mdr224]

Agreed. Anti american sentiment started during his term. Americans werent proud of being american anymore after him. The left are now just a bunch of america and israel haters

Edited November 11 by mdr224

[riclag]

Spot on ! He tried to install his choice for leader of the free world with the help of other Woke millionaires !

 

They lost , Their agenda lost!

 

Pronouns are back to being just words and not a description of how you feel for yourself or others.

[madone]

and still the <deleted> flows unabated.

[Srikcir]

There is environmental pollution. And then there is literacy pollution. Thank you onezero for your examples..

[Cryingdick]

Obama is a shadow of his former self. He isn't as bad as Bill Clinton who is completely demented but time hasn't been good to Barry. 

Edited November 11 by Cryingdick

[Sorted2024]

Him and BIg Mike can jog on into the wildness hopefully! 

[jippytum]

I agree and take Michelle with him

 

[Thingamabob]

His 'support' for Harris seems to have worked against her.

[spidermike007]

After this defeat, the leadership of the democratic party absolutely must admit not only their irrelevance, but the fact that they are taking the party down with them. I say dismantle the entire party and attempt the rebuild it with more youthful Americans who have a vision for the nation that excludes the radical left. 

[newbee2022]

22 hours ago, OneZero said:

Now that his shadow Presidency has gone down in flames, the time has arrived for Barack Obama to leave Washington and exit US politics.  If Obama would finally just get out of the way, & stop stirring the pot, US society could more easily heal & move on.

 

I make no secret of my contempt for Obama's presumptuous & DEI ambulance chasing style.  He continues to peer over & hang on US society's shoulders, like a worn-out suit.  His apparent, but certainly not admitted, egotistical purpose is to perpetuate & defend his faulted legacy.  Obama will insert his sanctimonious, pontificating snout into any situation where he smells a narcissistic opportunity to remind people that “Hope and Change” is an Obama legacy, not proxy Biden’s.  He also apparently assumes he has the right to lecture minority groups, especially the "brothers & sisters", on the virtue of his sermons, particularly about what & how to think.  Obama is a catalyst for polarization in US society.

 

The Death of Obamaism and the Historic MAGA Opportunity | Opinion - Newsweek

Josh Hammer Discusses Trump's Dominant Win & The Political Realignment Accompanying It (rumble.com)

How Trump crushed Obama's legacy - UnHerd

Is Obama's Kingmaker Era Over? (tomklingenstein.com)

 

 

 

Freedom of speech? 

Or where you're coming from? Russia???

[bangadang]

All he ever was was a good talker. He achieved nothing when in office when he could have been great, as I thought he would be. Go retire and dwell on what could have been Mr.O

[wwest5829]

44 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

After this defeat, the leadership of the democratic party absolutely must admit not only their irrelevance, but the fact that they are taking the party down with them. I say dismantle the entire party and attempt the rebuild it with more youthful Americans who have a vision for the nation that excludes the radical left. 

I am thinking both parties … the Republican Party is no more, taken over by Trump because he gave voice to the justified frustration/anger within the working middle class. Motivated by emotion not reason they want the system now exiting to undergo radical change (seemingly at any cost). The Democrats, likewise, seen as part of the same, having compromised or supported policies actions/inactions bringing the working middle class to where we are. My crystal ball is clouded … is the outcome the destruction of the current system at the hands of an authoritarian oriented person like Trump? Or will it end with the majority of Americans coming to the realization that Trump and his Project 2025 ilk are not the answer to addressing their needs and yet not seeing a Democrat Party which is controlled by the same rich and famous? Bernie again hammers on this point in his article in the Boston Globe.

[Cryingdick]

TLDR

[spidermike007]

3 hours ago, wwest5829 said:

I am thinking both parties … the Republican Party is no more, taken over by Trump because he gave voice to the justified frustration/anger within the working middle class. Motivated by emotion not reason they want the system now exiting to undergo radical change (seemingly at any cost). The Democrats, likewise, seen as part of the same, having compromised or supported policies actions/inactions bringing the working middle class to where we are. My crystal ball is clouded … is the outcome the destruction of the current system at the hands of an authoritarian oriented person like Trump? Or will it end with the majority of Americans coming to the realization that Trump and his Project 2025 ilk are not the answer to addressing their needs and yet not seeing a Democrat Party which is controlled by the same rich and famous? Bernie again hammers on this point in his article in the Boston Globe.

There is no question that both parties are broken, and both parties have sacrificed their morality and ethics. There's also no question that both parties fielded terrible candidates, and left America with one horrible choice. 

[mogandave]

Please God, keep Obama in place as spokesman for the party of hate and deceit. 

 

 

[G_Money]

I thought he already left D.C. 

 

Hanging out on Martha’s Vineyard when not in Greenwich Village.

[mokwit]

5 hours ago, Cryingdick said:

Obama is a shadow of his former self. He isn't as bad as Bill Clinton who is completely demented but time hasn't been good to Barry. 

The Presidency was though, came out of it a multi multi millionaire.

[mokwit]

4 minutes ago, G_Money said:

I thought he already left D.C. 

 

Hanging out on Martha’s Vineyard when not in Greenwich Village.

Isn't he worried about rising seal levels?

[ujayujay]

On 11/11/2024 at 9:27 AM, OneZero said:

Now that his shadow Presidency has gone down in flames, the time has arrived for Barack Obama to leave Washington and exit US politics.  If Obama would finally just get out of the way, & stop stirring the pot, US society could more easily heal & move on.

 

I make no secret of my contempt for Obama's presumptuous & DEI ambulance chasing style.  He continues to peer over & hang on US society's shoulders, like a worn-out suit.  His apparent, but certainly not admitted, egotistical purpose is to perpetuate & defend his faulted legacy.  Obama will insert his sanctimonious, pontificating snout into any situation where he smells a narcissistic opportunity to remind people that “Hope and Change” is an Obama legacy, not proxy Biden’s.  He also apparently assumes he has the right to lecture minority groups, especially the "brothers & sisters", on the virtue of his sermons, particularly about what & how to think.  Obama is a catalyst for polarization in US society.

 

The Death of Obamaism and the Historic MAGA Opportunity | Opinion - Newsweek

Josh Hammer Discusses Trump's Dominant Win & The Political Realignment Accompanying It (rumble.com)

How Trump crushed Obama's legacy - UnHerd

Is Obama's Kingmaker Era Over? (tomklingenstein.com)

 

 

 

Who´s OneZero

Edited November 12 by ujayujay

[G_Money]

12 minutes ago, mokwit said:

Isn't he worried about rising seal levels?

His body surfing skills he learned in Hawaii should come in handy.

[pattayasan]

18 minutes ago, mokwit said:

The Presidency was though, came out of it a multi multi millionaire.

 

I can just see Trump doing speakeship tours and writing books.

[mogandave]

2 minutes ago, pattayasan said:

 

I can just see Trump doing speakeship tours and writing books.

I thought you said he was illiterate? 

 

 

[radiochaser]

1 hour ago, mokwit said:

Isn't he worried about rising seal levels?

Probably.   When the sun goes nova and melts the ice caps, but he won't be around then. 

[radiochaser]

1 hour ago, pattayasan said:

 

I can just see Trump doing speakeship tours and writing books.

Moving to the dark side are ya?

[Hawaiian]

2 hours ago, mokwit said:

Isn't he worried about rising seal levels?

His Hawaiian beach side home is in imminent danger, but he got an exemption from local regulations to build a protective seawall, because Hawaii is controlled by the corrupt Democratic Party.

Edited November 12 by Hawaiian

[OneZero]

2 hours ago, G_Money said:

I thought he already left D.C. 

 

Hanging out on Martha’s Vineyard when not in Greenwich Village.

The following post-election link, dtd 08Nov2024, suggests Obama leave US politics: How Trump crushed Obama's legacy - UnHerd  The links first half rambles far too much.  I've quoted /copied pertinent parts below:

 

Barack Obama, campaigned very publicly and hard for Kamala Harris, often overshadowing the candidate herself. Obama’s role in the Harris campaign was truthfully less strange than the fact that the former President somehow remained in Washington after his time in the White House was over, instead taking meetings there in his Kalorama mansion ($8.1 Million), which is hardly the most valuable entry in his bulging portfolio of luxury properties — which also includes high Gilded Age mansions in Hawaii and Martha’s Vineyard. But it was surely the most important, serving as the center of his unprecedented Shadow Presidency.

 

As the leader of the Democratic Party, Obama was hardly a pretender to power in Washington. Rather, between 2008 and the evening of 5 November 2024, he was usually the foremost power in the land. After serving two elected terms in the White House, Obama then set up and captained the so-called “Resistance” to Trump — an activity that was contrary to all prior American norms and practices. After Trump left, Obama stayed in Washington and continued his role as unelected Party Leader during what had been advertised as the Biden Presidency.  

 

Obama’s method of avoiding scrutiny from the pliant DC press was entirely in character, alternately drawing back into the shadows and then, out of whatever ego weakness, announcing that he was the true mover of events. Free from normative oversight or responsibility, he and his retainers could also avoid answering questions about the size or sources of his personal fortune, which was rumored to amount to somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion. As a private citizen, Obama didn’t have to answer questions. He could have it both ways — state power, with no public responsibility. 

 

Until he mis-stepped. By compelling Biden to withdraw in favor of Harris, who turned out to be an even worse candidate.  It made it impossible, if only for a week or two, to maintain the fiction that Obama was simply living in Washington DC while staying out of politics. If Biden was senile, then who was actually running the country? Who had enough clout to order the President’s removal from the ticket?  The answer in both cases was Obama. And now he was on the hook not only for Kamala Harris, but retroactively for the more general mess that he and his operatives had helped to make of the country.

 

Now, in one night, the Obama machine, which he built on the model of the Chicago Democrat Party machine, & which he used to run the country, including the prestige institutions and the media, through a combination of bureaucratic capture and social pressure, accentuated by control of large tech platforms, was finally melting down. No wonder the press was in shock. None of the lines that they had been given could be reconciled with the numbers onscreen.  A reckoning will surely come. At the very least, the time has now arrived for Barack Obama to leave Washington and exit American politics, now that his Shadow Presidency — which proved to be even more counter-productive and chaotic than Trump’s first term in office — has gone down in flames.

 

  

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

2 hours ago, pattayasan said:

 

I can just see Trump doing speakeship tours and writing books.

 

He would probably need to read in order to write books. I understand he doesn't do that.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

12 minutes ago, OneZero said:

The following post-election link, dtd 08Nov2024, suggests Obama leave US politics: How Trump crushed Obama's legacy - UnHerd  The links first half rambles far too much.  I've quoted /copied pertinent parts below:

 

Barack Obama, campaigned very publicly and hard for Kamala Harris, often overshadowing the candidate herself. Obama’s role in the Harris campaign was truthfully less strange than the fact that the former President somehow remained in Washington after his time in the White House was over, instead taking meetings there in his Kalorama mansion ($8.1 Million), which is hardly the most valuable entry in his bulging portfolio of luxury properties — which also includes high Gilded Age mansions in Hawaii and Martha’s Vineyard. But it was surely the most important, serving as the center of his unprecedented Shadow Presidency.

 

As the leader of the Democratic Party, Obama was hardly a pretender to power in Washington. Rather, between 2008 and the evening of 5 November 2024, he was usually the foremost power in the land. After serving two elected terms in the White House, Obama then set up and captained the so-called “Resistance” to Trump — an activity that was contrary to all prior American norms and practices. After Trump left, Obama stayed in Washington and continued his role as unelected Party Leader during what had been advertised as the Biden Presidency.  

 

Obama’s method of avoiding scrutiny from the pliant DC press was entirely in character, alternately drawing back into the shadows and then, out of whatever ego weakness, announcing that he was the true mover of events. Free from normative oversight or responsibility, he and his retainers could also avoid answering questions about the size or sources of his personal fortune, which was rumored to amount to somewhere between $500 million and $1 billion. As a private citizen, Obama didn’t have to answer questions. He could have it both ways — state power, with no public responsibility. 

 

Until he mis-stepped. By compelling Biden to withdraw in favor of Harris, who turned out to be an even worse candidate.  It made it impossible, if only for a week or two, to maintain the fiction that Obama was simply living in Washington DC while staying out of politics. If Biden was senile, then who was actually running the country? Who had enough clout to order the President’s removal from the ticket?  The answer in both cases was Obama. And now he was on the hook not only for Kamala Harris, but retroactively for the more general mess that he and his operatives had helped to make of the country.

 

Now, in one night, the Obama machine, which he built on the model of the Chicago Democrat Party machine, & which he used to run the country, including the prestige institutions and the media, through a combination of bureaucratic capture and social pressure, accentuated by control of large tech platforms, was finally melting down. No wonder the press was in shock. None of the lines that they had been given could be reconciled with the numbers onscreen.  A reckoning will surely come. At the very least, the time has now arrived for Barack Obama to leave Washington and exit American politics, now that his Shadow Presidency — which proved to be even more counter-productive and chaotic than Trump’s first term in office — has gone down in flames.

 

  

 Obama is living rent-free in this author's head.

[mokwit]

Haven't seen Obama in my X feed since the election - did his handlers liquidate him for failure?