Victor Davis Hanson // National Review
Each day that the Obama administration fades into the past, its wrongdoings manage to wander back into the present.
After years of suppression, all sorts of strange events keep popping up to remind us of what little is left of the Obama years — the Susan Rice memo, Christopher Steele deleting his computer records, FBI-doctored and lost 302s, text messages wiped clean, the bizarre Obama January 5, 2017, Oval Office meeting, the ambush interview of Michael Flynn, the unmasking and leaking of redacted names swept up in reverse-targeting surveillance operations, the administration fraud perpetrated on the FISA courts. The list is so overwhelming and bizarre that it ensures that anything at any time can now appear. And the result keeps reminding Americans of how corrupt were the years between 2009 and 2017 and how untruthful was the coverage of such institutionalized wrongdoing.
Feet of Clay
Emeritus Barack Obama now and then ventures out to go through the motions of an enfeebled defense for what is becoming an increasingly discredited administration. But his heart is not in it. His mind is elsewhere. His cause is no longer social activism and community organizing, if it ever was, but lucre and the perceived well-earned good life. The arc of his moralizing universe is long, but for the anointed like him, it apparently bends toward the just deserts of riches and material bounty.
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Don't forget the plight of Christians at the hands of the indefatigable Taliban or ISIS/ISIL or Kali fate, or what ever the next name he was going to proclaim, who weren't really Muslim and so prohibited Law Enforcement from using this Title as a basis for Terrorist profiling while searching religious Sisters and the UN recognized Christian Genocide, overall, was perfectly acceptable. U.S. Troop presence devolved into terrorist supply infrastructure. BUT "they" were defeated by Trump's B.O.-era's Middle East policy reversals though B.O. had already welcomed these wolves among the sheep. -and neither have they proved to be CCP Covid-proof, either. (Psst,...i got 20% of the US "yellow cake" market for sale, buddy, does ya want in...B.O. sold that already, you liar.) ) Still, we are too focused on "... using the language of dismay and despair at the prospect before us instead of, with the high spirit of the warrior, going out conquering and to conquer." -(Blessed Cardinal Newman).
This column is astonishing. Nothing else I have read comes close to capsulizing the events of recent years than this one. Truly superb.
You need to accept that Barack was and continues to be essentially a lazy stoner and I am so grateful for that. If he had half of Donald Trump's drive and ambition we would be the USSA by now.
It is interesting that many democrats use their political position to become wealthy. Clintons, Obamas, Pelosi Feinstein and of course Biden, whereas republicans like Bushes and Trump make their money and then go into politics.
Dear Mr. Hanson- I wrote you last week w/ my thought about "by the book" being Rules for Radicals. Now I have another comment- the mainstream media, in my view, are Democrat soldiers who see their responsibility as forming a "TRUTH BLOCKADE."Just thought I would share that with you. Thanks for all you do! Sincerely, Noël Pfeffinger, your fellow Central Valley native
A nail-head hitter. Best Rip
This is the first summarized version I have read of St. Barack the Terrible’s reign of terror. It is breathtakingly pernicious. I hope serious scholarship will cement his place in history amongst the gallery of rogues.
Obama's legacy will be of only one stark reminder. First person of color to be elected President. The rest of his tenure will be forever mentioned as being corrupt, maligned, mismanaged, and to be blunt, a disaster. Once Biden is soundly defeated, the last of Obama's Administration shall fade from our memories forever.