Victor Davis Hanson
American Greatness
Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Biden nomination—and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years.
As such he and his coterie proved the virtual architects of the Biden administration, one of the most unpopular and failed presidencies in American history.
Recall earlier that after a flailing candidate Joe Biden lost the first three 2020 primaries and caucuses, his inert campaign was headed nowhere.
Barack Obama and fellow Democratic insiders abruptly engineered the withdrawal of his rival 2020 presidential candidates: hard left but likely sure-loser candidates, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg.
The Obamas ignored or withheld from the public their own firsthand knowledge that Biden was suffering from signs of dementia.
Instead, they found Biden’s cognitive decline and his former concocted reputation as workingman’s Joe useful as a veneer for a veritable Obama third-term, “phone it in” administration. Or as wistful Obama once conditioned his dream of a third term—”If I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or front woman, and they had an earpiece in.”
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.
An inert Biden is departing office with a 36 percent favorability rating in a recent Emerson poll. His Democratic nominee replacement, losing presidential candidate Vice President Harris, also has virtually vacated her office with 40 days left of her tenure.
Failed candidate Harris has been roundly faulted by staffers and donors for blowing through some $2 billion in assorted 2024 campaign money.
She ended up doing worse against Trump than Biden himself had in 2020.
Many Democrats believe that they might have done just as well had Biden stayed on the ticket even in his vastly diminished state.
The Obamas were further blasted for nullifying the wishes of 14 million primary voters by forcing Biden off the ticket—ironically in the same backroom, anti-democratic manner they had cleared the way for him in 2020.
Obama emerged from his comfortable retirement to hit the 2024 campaign trail, schooling the country that President-emeritus Donald Trump was a dictator, a fascist, a tyrant, and, of course, a “racist.”
The more Trump polled even with, or ahead of, Kamala Harris, the more an exasperated and ignored Obama talked down to supposedly low-information voters.
But by the time Harris lost the election, voters had tuned out a nagging and patronizing Obama—and his stale, now-dated hope-and-changey boilerplate speeches.
What Obama did not mention, but what the voters knew, was that the border was more secure under Trump than during either the Obama or Biden tenure.
Vladimir Putin invaded countries during the Obama and Biden administrations but stayed put on Trump’s watch.
Barack Obama’s bizarre vision of a new Middle East had sought to empower Iran as a supposed counterweight against moderate Arab nations and our ally Israel.
Years ago, Obama invited the Russians into Syria, empowered dictatorial Syria, berated Israel nonstop, and all but ignored the terrorist violence of Iran’s surrogate terrorists of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
But after October 7, Israel retaliated to the mass slaughter of Jewish civilians with all-out war against Hamas and Hezbollah—rendering these once feared terrorists nearly impotent.
In an exchange of air attacks with Iran, Israel showed the world that Iran was as militarily weak as its chanting and threats were tiresome and shrill.
Iran is now tottering on the brink, as its terrorist appendages—including most recently the Assad dynasty—are melting away.
Israel and the moderate Arab regimes are in ascendance, as the entire crazy Obama-envisioned Middle East agenda melts away.
The 2024 anemic Democratic campaign and the Trump electoral college and popular vote victories—combined with record defections of Hispanic and African-American voters from the Democratic Party to Trump—proved a resounding rejection of the Obama legacy and his surrogates’ left-wing visions.
Yet after the people spoke in the election, the more Obama whined that democracy itself had failed him. Voters, he remonstrated, who disagreed with him were written off as racist and sexist.
Obama again harped that constituents did not know what was good for them.
And then, the disappointed former community organizer suddenly disappeared—pondering to which of his own four mansions his private jet would fly him home to commiserate.
Worst Presidents
I can remember back to the Eisenhower presidency.
I would say Joe Biden has had the worst presidency and cabinet that I can remember.
I would further say Barack Obama is the worst president, in addition to Victor Davis Hanson’s comments, he did a reverse Johnny Appleseed planting zealots throughout the swamp.
Jimmy Carter is now third worst.
Ike and Johnny Appleseed references, indeed good sir indeed!
Peanut farmer can now finally rest easily.
He is now only third worst.
Jimmy can go home and play with his oeanuts!
Jimmy can go home and play with his peanuts!
Such a usual last name you have. I had a doctor with the very same last name. He was the best doctor I’ve ever had. Oh, and I agree with your comment too.
Cleaver that you have reordered the worst presidents with Jimmy Carter being the third worst. Carter was truely anemic and put the country into a downward spiral on the world stage. I think Lyndon Johnson was actually the third worst president. Johnson used deceit (Gulf of Tonken resolution) to escalate the Vietnam War which led to thousands of needless deaths. Johnson also created the Big Society program which resulted in the destruction of structure of tge traditional black family.
You are right about Johnson being the 3rd worst, except I put Biden as the worst then Jimmy Carter and lastly Johnson. None of them knew what they were doing, and should not have been President
In his longer commentary on Biden’s VP pick, Obama said he “nailed it” by selecting Harris.
The former US leader described her as the “ideal partner to help him [Biden] tackle the very real challenges America faces right now.”
The Biden-Harris Administration will go down in United States history if not world history as the Obama Marxist attempt to destroy America and the U.S. Constitution by wresting away the innate, natural-born rights of the American dispossessed majority of legacy descendants of the original, born-in-fire and blood American Patriots.
You are spot on! It’s such a shame that our country had to endure the past 4 yrs. of such a decline in every field it seems. Along with Biden making his family and himself rich on “pay to play” from some of our worst enemies, we have Soros, a “wanted” criminal in Hungry, who has a penchant for taking countries down, every way possible. Just look at the marxist DA’s, prosecutors, etc. I hope President TRUMP will be able to get out of these disasters within the 4 yrs. I do have faith that he will try hard!
Don’t forget LBJ. Much of todays problems stemmed from him. He paved the path for the Carters, Obamas, and Bidens.
He’s the devil. It was all intent to pick a feeble 8iden, who was in serious decline at the time picked for vp. A con job. The biggest fool on America in history, so 08ama could puppet him knowing he could be totally controlled. Ruin our country on purpose. Destroy everything America. Make 8iden the one who is responsible for all the carnage, and keep on going to destroy America. Kamala was the next puppet. She was a willing dupe. Thank God she didn’t win. Now 08ama and the subversive treasonous democrats and media are in panic. I hope the truth of this conspiracy cabal finally gets out. Did you ever notice how many really stupid people running for democrat offices are ushered in by the party simply for diversity? Not for their qualifications. Just because they are the first black. Or they are the first woman. I mean seriously stupid. Like “Will Guam tip over if we send too many troops to the island. 08ama can puppet all these dumb people. He is the biggest, worst Sphengaly in the history of the world. Treason, Subversion, all planned in college as a choomganger. Admitted drug abuser.
you nailed it Erin
Barry fired all the old guys with integrity and hired fellow travelers
Possibly but Carter did at least bring peace to Egypt and Israel.
Bull cookies, Egypt and Israel achieved peace without peanut boy. He forced them to come and make it look like he was reason peace achieved, I cannot wait to watch his nuts roasting in the fiery furnace
Temporarily.
Agree with your order.
I also remember the media going after Eisenhower for playing too much golf. That’s laughable now in light of what the current prez has done. I also remember Harry Truman stopping his campaign railroad car in small town Kent, Washington. He offered a few words to the supportive crowd and then the train headed to Seattle.
Excellent summary of facts.
Barack Hussein Obama was a “Communist” Organizer and an anti American. In addition, he is, like his puppet Biden, an opportunist. A grifter.
Doesn’t he know by now that he’s overstayed his welcome, or is he too hubristic to realize it?
Surely the latter
Once a narcissist, always a narcissist
That’s a rhetorical question, correct?
It was not any kind of question but a declarative statement.
The late, great Charles Krauthammer often referred to Obama as “dangerously narcissistic”. My guess is he will not go quietly into the night.
Sorry, but either of those two behaviors would require at least a trace of cognition.
Ergo, it ain’t never gonna happen.
Why just yesterday, he advised us that he is leaving the Nation in better condition than he found it
4-years ago. Those 4-years feel like 20 years.
Where would the Democratic Party be if it were not for demagoguery? Just imagine if they had to argue for their positions without it and all their euphemisms.(e.g. “reproductive health care”).
Having Trump re-elected gives me great hope for our country and our world. Its leaders saw what this man withstood from our law fare, etc., and yet still he prevailed. I believe most know that you either get behind him, or out of his way.
The great Rush Limbaugh once said that the American people are overwhelmingly conservative and if it weren’t for 99% of the media pushing liberal narratives, the Democrats would never win an election. Maybe with the help of the new podcasters we have a chance to pull the country back from decades of hard leftism?
Exactly! Well said
Thanks for the good observations on the use of demagoguery and euphemisms.
Joni is finding out the hard way.
9 I have prayed for years that the truth about them and their political compadres, would be shouted from the mountaintops. I asked God to push them into the pits they have dug for us, their enemies. Also that every snare they laid for us that they , themselves, would be caught in them and every stone they have rolled against us would be rolled back on them. This is scripture. When I pray God’s word back to Him, He is pleased that I have hidden his words in my heart and it is not a sin to repeat Gods words to Him. These scriptures are found in Proverbs. I am happy and blessed to say that my prayers are being answered.
I appreciate this is not entirely on topic, but following Governor Trudeau’s most recent feminist rant, Musk called him an insufferable tool. Tool…fool…quite interchangeable.
I never “believed” in him. There was plenty of public evidence that he was a hustler, a race-baiter, and a big-government progressive, when he ran for the Senate.
And plenty of public evidence in the form of comments from people who knew and worked with him, that he is a rotten human being, an arrogant jerk.
And voting for someone based on skin color is perhaps the worst reason anyone could give to vote for a candidate. I was saddened by family and friends who did just that. They were foolish to do so.
At least now, more and more people see him for what he really is.
I did vote for Obama the first time due to my lack of investigation. All I knew at the time was that Mc Cain was a crook and a murderer.
The Left seems purposefully anti-American and self-destructive. Hopefully, people feel less pressure now to conform to the pervasive leftist message.
A perfect encapsulation of my thoughts, exactly. I was sick of his smug and arrogant attitude as well.
I’m an old white guy. I can remember when, seeing it was inevitable that Obama would be elected, I thought to myself, “I hope that he doesn’t ruin it for black people. I hope he doesn’t screw it up.” It was a naïve thought, based upon what we already knew about him at that time. But, I hoped it would work out. It, obviously, didn’t.
Yeah, and then along came a spider, er, i mean, Emanuel, David, and Bill Ayers.
Obama was also a black nationalist who had sat in the pews of Jeremiah Wrights black nationalist church for years.
Remember when he claimed he’d never heard the bombastic things we all heard from Wright’s sermons? I didn’t believe him. Because he was half black, he was given secret service protection earlier than anyone who ever ran for POTUS (he announced his run in Feb of 2007 and was being protected starting on May 3, 2007). So they had been protecting him for 10 months when the Jeremiah Wright scandal hit the news in March of 2008. And you KNOW they had full records on where he’d been every minute of every day during that time period.
But nobody ever asked them to provide it. It would have tanked his candidacy had the truth about Obama come out then.
David Brooks still loves the crease in Obama’s pants.
Obama is a hack. Always has been.
It’s why he sealed his college transcripts.
Will Trump finally expose where Obama was truly born – biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.
I voted for Obama twice, being loyal to the Democrat party. By the end of his second term, I was glad to see him go. His taking sides during the Ferguson episode, before anything came to trial, clearly showed he was biased and not interested in caring for the whole of the country.
My sincere hope is that Mr. Trump can realize the opportunity of unity that Mr. Obama simply did not want. Mr. Obama had the opportunity to be the most unifying figure in American history and simply chose, in my opinion, the exact opposite path.
This, above all, should be the Obama legacy. Those of us who didn’t vote for him had hope that his election would put the final nails in the coffin of a supposed racist America. What we got, as you state, was the exact opposite.
Matthew 12:25…”Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.”
There is much to be done to gain agreement in our country. Minds and attitudes need to be changed, and for that to happen, the justice system and the news media need to function properly. The Trump administration may let a lot of past dealings go uninvestigated for the sake of momentary unity. However, investigating potential misdeeds from the last eight years seems like the just thing to do regardless of consequences.
So that’s where Lincoln got that from.
Yes, most people attribute the quote to Lincoln, but Lincoln got it from Matthew. Me, I’m Jewish, and the Christian Bible is not on my required reading list. But I went to St. John’s College and studied the Great Books and read it anyway.
Yehoshua – Matthew is quoting Jesus who did the works of God and was accused to be doing miracles by the power of Satan. Jesus’ rebuttal is that the charge doesn’t make sense because if he was an agent of Satan then his miraculous deeds would be undermining Satan’s rule in the world. Hence, Jesus words, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand.”
Jesus claimed to be God in John 10:30, “I and the Father are one.” The Jews picked up stones to kill him as blasphemy is capital crime. Jesus replied, “If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me, but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” (John 10:30-39).
Interestingly, Yehoshua can be shortened to Yeshua which is the Hebrew name for Jesus.
The meaning of Yeshua pertains to salvation and Jesus came to save people from their sin by paying its penalty by dying on the cross as a sin offering to God and raising from the dead to show himself to be God incarnate.
Although I am not a physical Jew, I am a spiritual Jew (Romans 2:29) and I regard the Torah as God’s word.
Correction: I regard all of the Hebrew Bible as the word of God not just the Torah, but the Prophets and Writing as well.
You must be kidding, Peter!!
Obama was the true pied piper and those parading behind him, for the indefinite future, must be watched and monitored? Marxists do not normally find G.d and forgiveness is a quick path to national ruination.
Professor Hanson is incorrect in say that our border was less secure under Biden. The BORDER was intentionally left open and the harm done to our country by these left wing nihilists is incalculable. A class action mass tort suit should be filed by the American people against the democrat party. Of course that’s less than wishful thinking. Let’s urge the Trump administration to fully investigate any suspected crimes committed by anyone in the Biden-Obama administration, including treason and let the chips fall where they must.
THE SAFE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY WILL BE SAFER.
Hello Bob – Thanks for thinking through the potential culpability of those preceding the past 8 years. It would be beneficial for the country and the justice department to prosecute all crimes at every level as it would restore a sense of justice under the law.
It may be that our country has much deeper problems that also need to be delt with. People need to change for the country to improve. This will take time to gain unity in heart and action.
Peter, bravo for your idealism. I’m surely too much of a cynic and believe that cultures only heal and alter with the pressure of positive historical forces. The u.S. may have missed the last train.
Tribalism is not dead and can be complicated. How long can we survive on inertia? Does the military -industrial complex have the final word? Are we on the course of Rome? A beautiful historical accident when the stars aligned?
Bob – With only two years to implement policy and demonstrate the benefits of conservatism, it may be best to deemphasize or minimize some criminal investigations that don’t impact the operation of the government in the present.
Justice will be hard to come by from a Democrat party and career administrators who knew how to protect themselves. Go for broke investigations serve to be a distraction from an America First policy and now is the time to show people that conservatives have the country’s best interests in mind to win future elections.
Proverbs 29:26 Many seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the LORD that a man gets justice.
True justice does not come in this lifetime under man but is ensured when God is the judge.
God will judge justly and satisfy his righteousness.
Yep, and thanks to Obama’s complete incompetence we got Trump.
Twice.
Yes, thankfully.
Race relations had been improving for years until Obama arrived.
He screwed the country because his side can only win when they divide the population into controllable little pieces Saul Alinsky tactics. That’s all he knows.
Not a good person.
I totally agree and very well stated thank you. I too seen the improvement in race relations and felt good about it until Obama started running for the presidency and could tell right away he wasn’t sincere. It really started to show during his years as president. I was shocked and upset with all the irresponsible voters that voted because of color and ignoring the important reasons for voting such as the overall good of the country and everyone. Then to watch it all over again totally ignoring his poor record of his previous term. If that wasn’t enough they allowed him a third term by electing his dementia stricken puppet. The most I may hope for now is that all those voters realize the damage they brought down on us and learn to vote responsibly.
With only four years and this country overrun with illegals, “unity” is an objective that will have to wait for another day.
President-elect Trump would do well to find a cabinet or deputy assistant job in his administration for Mr. Hanson.
Yes, Victor would be a great asset for the president!
Amen, Mike! Obama, IMO, threw away an A. Lincoln class opportunity to drive the final nail in the coffin of American racism. His choice in favor of identity politics was a tragedy for himself and our beloved USA.
“We are not the Red States or the Blue States of America, but rather the United States of America!”
This was the infamous quote of Obama that launched his national political career. Now, as we look back on his presidency, it is clear that he sought to pit Americans against each other by denigrating those who did not agree with him.
He had the greatest opportunity in my lifetime to unite the country and instead, he blew it with divisive, destructive, and deceptive tactics throughout his presidency. The negative consequences of his presidency exploded in the Biden administration and our country will have to spend millions of dollars and many precious years to recover from this debacle.
I am enjoying his irrelevancy as the passage of time reveals his true nature.
For various reasons, many of these politicos of the past are now political dinosaurs, to include the Obamas, Clintons, Gore, Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Carville, even the Bushes, Romney, Paul Ryan and certainly the Cheneys. They’re out of touch with the concerns of average Americans.
Even Bush the Younger looks silly at this point. WMD?
Trump completely changed American politics.
Reagan still shines, however.
True, and I believe Trump will rise to the occasion in his own way, as people come to understand his virtues.
So Hussein didn’t gas the Kurds. mmm.
It was never about gas and you know it. Chemical weapons deployed on the battlefield in mass were introduced in ww1 and abandoned in WW2 because of its ineffectiveness.
WMD always meant nuclear weapons and Iraq never had them. We all know this now.
You can try to rewrite history but for us that lived through this know the truth. The Bush Administration either lied or were grossly incompetent on this issue; which one is it?
Exactly right. Reagan was a populist too and against war. But like Trump, Reagan had guts to call evil for what it is. And that’s how he won the Cold War which Dems have tried to reverse. Ronnie is smiling that Obama’s corrupt shadow government was defeated and that Trump with same guts as the Gipper’s Will Make America Great Again.
Obama crafted his policy and planning to punish a nation he hates. To think that he and his minions are becoming irrelevant would be a grave mistake. There are many people who still worship at his alter. We need to build and maintain vigilance. Beware.
Jerry,
“God bless America, no, no, no God (blank) America…”
This was Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright in 2003. Obama spent 20 years in this guy’s pews listening to Black Liberation Theology, yet America voted for him twice. Hopefully, we’ve learned our lesson.
Obama and his minions are not becoming irrelevant. They are still in positions of power that is consistently wielded against us. There are those who consider, still, him to be worthy of worship. He needs to be watched. He can still bite. Beware. Obama has, and will continue to harm our nation.
Thank you Dr. Hanson. I fear we have not seen the last of Obama. His personal sense of entitlement runs strong.
The legacy media bear some blame in the success of the Obama deception and betrayal.
DEFINITELY!!!!!
Obama’s waning influence is a small subset of the implosion of the mainstream media. He (Obama) was a 100% creation of the mainstream media gaslighting the electorate. Post partisan, post racial middle of the road democrat. Not one bit. Hyper partisan, Ivy League racial arsonist far left activist. On a broader scale America has had 3 governing consensus. From 1776 to the Civil War ( states rights, agrarian & slavery) from 1865 to the New Deal ( small government, capitalism, protectionist & isolationist) and from 1945 to the 2008 melt down (big government, interventionist & free(er) trade. Regardless of which Party was in power they operated within the parameters of the governing consensus. Obama, the media & the globalists tried to impose their vision for a 4th consensus & almost succeeded. Trump was elected in 2016 with his vision: MAGA/ America 1st. The 2000 & 2024 general elections (IMO) only served to show that there is still not a governing consensus ready to secure the future. I am delighted that the Obama/media/globalist vision has been slowed down, I am not quite ready to declare victory. There is much work that remains to be done. I think DJT knows it, I think it’s the reason he got into politics but he will be, like Washington, Lincoln & FDR one of the giants. And if someone would have told me 4 years ago DJT would be on my list of giants but RWR wouldn’t be I don’t think I would have believed you. At all. One bit.
Obama and Biden have been the most corrupt and just plain evil folks in politics. Not just these two but their families and their administration! A disgrace to America! Their values are not the values of Americans!
Hanson perfectly on target again.
Obama and Kamala will be remembered as the failures of the American DEI experiment. I hope all Americans remember the lessons learned from this failed experiment: look at policies and advocacy for the American people when choosing your candidate and not just race or gender.
It is well documented that Obama preached the gospel of Saul Alinsky in his community organizer days. A read of the later’s “Rules for Radicals” sets forth the Obama tactics in undisguised form. Rule # 13: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” The genesis of identity politics.
kudos to this article and thoughtful comments!
At 70 and taking a broader brush I’m reversing a life long anti union belief to realize the American blue collar family is now at the short end of the stick.
Healthcare quality at an all time low and the white collar meritocracy drumbeat is totally focused on self-serving personal wealth. Executive and celebrity wages are sky rocketing. Investments and the financial markets queerly without a roof. AI and technical warfare are the new wealth class’s toys.
It is the day to day Americans who kept the lights on, transport our commodities, build our homes, fix our appliances, and clean our sewers who the real losers in the immediate future. They are yet again the forgotten man. Serfdom’s hell on earth will reach new lows hell on earth.
Obama was programmed almost from birth to destroy America by behind-the-scenes manipulation. Ayers and Dohrn, two of his later mentors, had realized from prior defeat that a frontal assault wouldn’t work, so they wormed themseves and then Obama into the political system.
One hundred percent 💯
I once speculated that the Obama presidency was a deal with the devil. A failed community organizer and Ilinois legislature back-bencher made a deal to get all the things he desperately wanted and couldn’t secure: The presidency, fame, fortune, power and influence. If Obama was Biden’s* puppet master, he could be said to have gotten a magic third term where he could act without concern for people, polls or popularity. And with Biden’s* reelection, he was gunning for a fourth.
But no deal with the devil is ever free. There’s always a price to pay. It is possible Obama is coming to the point where payment is coming due. If Trump accomplishes even half of what he intends, Obama will watch much of his accmplishments, his legacy, discredited and dismantled. Certainly Israel has gotten a jump on dismantling the Obama vision for the middle east.
“But GOD … “
“But GOD … “
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When Obama won in 2008, I was hopeful. However, his presidency and his subsequent “ghost term” divided this country in ways that I once thought impossible. I wouldn’t say Biden was the worst President as I don’t see him as a President at all. He was a placeholder for Obama. I personally believe that Biden put his support behind Harris as a middle finger to the Obama’S and pelosi. The night Michelle talked down to women and bark ‘schooled’ black men was the deaths of their reign.
Obama knows he has shrunken into an insignificant footnote to the Age of Trump and he cannot stand it.
Obama’s sole intent is control through the UN. Doubtful he will give up, he was this ” close.
Hopefully whites and others drop the high school routine of voting for the black guy, just to show they aren’t racist and are down for the struggle. It is embarrassingly silly and the worst sort of racism.
As happy as I am that Iran is teetering on the edge, there is little if anything moderate about their arab neighbours. Syria was just won by sunni islamists, which is good for Israel, bad for Iran, but don’t expect them to become a beacon of democracy. Saudi Arabia is run by Islamist fundamentalists and so are many other Arab nations. Nonetheless, Iran’s current regime in the dust would be good news for global freedom and safety.
Malo VDH.
That’s one of the best ones are a long time Victor. The hangover from the Biden experimentation, and really Obama, will be long. Similar to Carter’s hangover in ‘80-‘82. They’ll be the obvious discoveries at first, but then they will get into the Edgar Allen Poe Cellar of Nightmares. I know this because I was the one that unraveled the financial crisis during the Obama administration. I wrote the software to evaluate all the failed loans in the failed banks. Sold bad banks to healthy banks. After, the Obama administration threatened me into hiding, even had me fired from my corporate career post FDIC. Multiple agencies have been weaponized in concert against any hired guns from the private sector that worked for them during the first Obama term. I have a hard time believing that President Trump will be able to eliminate the major players in those agencies, especially because of the massive NTEU union. They control everything, in every major agency. They are the ones behind it all, the Matrix. You cannot defeat them.
First Black President??? Obama had nothing in common with Black Americans who were decendents of slaves. His mother was white and father was Kenyan and both were highly educated. He was raised by white grandparents in Hawaii, a very diverse state, and educated in good schools. Joe Biden said he was “clean and articulate” and endorsed his candidacy, implying that he would be acceptable to white virtue signaling voters. He became a multi millionaire as a result of his presidency. Which mansion did he travel from to lecture and talk down to black male voters, demanding that they vote for Harris. They ignored him. As one prominent Black leader said, “He hasn’t been through The Struggle”!!!
Obama was sponsored by American and white hating power brokers. He was the original Mancurian Candidate. Like his father the anti-colonialiist and other mentor Davis, he hates this country and with the ego the size of King Kong assumed he was the creator of all this. He and his puppet, Biden have done more damage to our people and country than all know American figures in history.;
However, Obama and Biden made Trump possible.
Think about it. The change could easily be generational.
Look at all the great future candidates the R’s have.
Don’t forget about the 6’8” son.
That’s the irony. The extremism of the left (Obama & Biden) ushered in a populist (Trump).
Amen!
There’s nothing more dangerous than Arrogant Power. Obama and Pelosi both ossess that characteristic. It will be their ultimate downfall. Pride is one of the 7 DEADLY sins.
About damn time!!!
Jets away to One of 4 “cribs” to commiserate !FANEFFINGTASTIC
Like the emperor with no clothes, once people see it they see the truth behind it. Thanks BHO, we could have done without the visual picture.
Mr. Obama was never qualified to be the POTUS. He failed every test when elected, which was predictable. I listened to him twice before he was elected and heard nothing of merit. Haven’t wasted my time since.
Nice baritone voice. Bad off the teleprompter.
Laughably bad. Possibly deserving of a spirited horse-laugh.
Agreed. But, when he ran his principal opponent was Hillary. He failed every test as any form of political creature. His tenure in the senate was only for writing books and NOT establishing a record. If the republicans had fielded a solid candidate other than McCain, he would have lost. He is so gobsmacked by being made irrelevant that he now has difficulty speaking clearly. He needs to go away from the public scene permanently.
Don’t forget: K. Harris was also induced to withdraw before the first primary. What quid pro quo was made to her (whom Obama called the “the hottest Atty Gen in the U.S’)? Also, Netanyahu has just revealed that O. demanded the creation of a Palestinian state in their first meeting. His whole legacy is one failure after another.
I wish everyone could and would read this it hit the nail on the head how true it all is when when put in writing
BO could easily be convicted of Treason, if he was actually, “seriously”, investigated. Start with place of birth.
It is shocking that the media still buys the blatant doctored birth certificate; what’s going on there?
Watching from afar, thousand of miles and 20+ years paying attention, helped me to notice something else:
(1) For so many (too many IMO), electing a black guy to prove to be not racist is oxymoron, (like to prove to be not a racist somebody voted on a racist basis). It is absolutely a racist move.
(2) Obama proved he is not a doer but a talker (remember so many red-lines failures 10 years ago, clumsy moves behind DNC last 4 years for Biden and Harris?).
(3) If not a crisis in 2008 (W. Bush “achievement”), Obama would not be elected in 2008 (Just imagine what a disaster for the country was WB’s presidency). Though not sure if McCain victory would be much better.
(4) For many voting for Harris was only to have a woman POTUS first time, just for a “gender equality” sake.
(5) IMO these are signs of a serious crisis in the political system and many institutions of the country.
With Trump’s victory there is a real chance to heal the country.
Sounds like DNC should rethink itself, like RNC did, and join MAGA/MAHA movement 🙂
MAGA/MAHA+DNC ?
And then, after wreaking havoc in the entire Middle East, this fellow somehow managed to get a Nobel for peace. Such were those sick n hopeless times!
Love this spirited pushback writing style!
Obama has never been the brilliant politician the left believed in. He was plucked from an obscure job because of identify politics, he was (in Biden’s words) “clean” and presentable. He was groomed and promoted far beyond any actual accomplishments. He was the original DEI president.
Obama was only ever good at selling himself. That’s what he cares about. The country, other candidates, not so much.
Hopefully this will be the beginning of the end of the hate racism initiated by O & carried forward by the Dem elites.
But it is not assured and will take a decade of repair & digging out of our moral & financial corruption.
This assumes the alliance of evil of z Russia, China, N Korea, and Iran is contained.
Numerous facts regarding the Biden years and Obama. Many suppositions regarding Obama; not what we normally get from VDH. Oh, how I wish those suppositions had some supporting evidence that might find Obama in a civil court, or even better a criminal court. Sans evidence it will be up to history to judge Obama being the puppet master of the debacle of the 46th presidency which was truly a massive failure.
Many excellent comments. Remembering Obama’s rise to the WH as well as his hatred for the US Constitution was often commented on.
In looking at the BIG picture, that 2020 was stolen from Trump may have some positive outcomes. FIrst being that Trump was reelected in a EC landslide while winning the national popular vote giving him a strong case for a mandate. Second being the nation saw the left for mostly what it was, including the lame stream media which is now fighting to remain profitable and relevant. Third Trump’s cabinet and administration picks are almost as tough as Trump on draining the swamp. Lastly, Trump appears more relaxed and confident he is the most powerful man. He can take on the Cristin Welkers with facts and assurance without arguing and shouting. Trump so much more composed in last Sunday’s “Meet the dePress”. If Trump had won in 2020, he would have still had a cadre of leftist and RINOs opposing him at every turn but now he has the fire to make things happen which should Make America Greater than had he won 2020.
This is EXACTLY 💯 right. I was off the charts angry with the stolen election. But this is why it happened. God intervened at that suicide attempt. He is anointed and now is his (and America’s) time.
I knew he was a phoney from the “get-go” Any semi-informed citizen didn’t have to even see or hear him. All you needed was info on where he came from: Chi-town’s tyrannically ruled buroghs. His so-called wife, Michele O, was equally corrupt. She got a politically gifted college education and post grad employment. I recall that her annual salary was over $300K. EVERYTHING was given to them in return for party loyalty. Her $100 million+ vacations while First Lady were purposeful Treasury raids. Both should be in jail.
Soon this Illegal Kenyan will be outed for and hopefully imprisoned for his Illegal Presidency!
I’ll go to my grave remembering during the very early stages of his first term without any real facts having been available, he called the Cambridge Police racist, because of an altercation between a Cambridge policeman and a truly racist person who was simply being asked for his identification by this policeman. He then went on to stoke and rekindle racism throughout his terms as president time and time again. He carries to this day a chip on his shoulder with which he spreads his own brand of racial division that looks to be by design. America has flushed out him and other black high profile individuals and we are starting to recover from this reverse race baiting of the last dozen or so years.
Obama did a laughably bad black dialect shtick. He was not from the ‘hood.
Then Kamala doubled down by attempting to copy Obama’s already bad impression.
I expect Liz Warren to follow up with a bad impression of Kamala’s bad impression of Obama’s bad impression, as she attempts to become more sincere and “real” with her constituency. But also infused with a smidge of Cherokee accent.
Trump always sounds the same, no matter who he is speaking with. However, he does dress for the occasion at times. Right when you thought he could not outdo the hamburger-flipping incident, he puts on a safety vest and jumps into a trash truck.
No fake accent required.
I’ll go to my grave remembering during the very early stages of his first term without any real facts having been available, he called the Cambridge Police racist, because of an altercation between a Cambridge policeman and a truly racist person who was simply being asked for his identification by this policeman. He then went on to stoke and rekindle racism throughout his terms as president time and time again. He carries to this day a chip on his shoulder with which he spreads his own brand of racial division that looks to be by design. America has flushed out him and other black high profile individuals and we are starting to recover from this reverse race baiting of the last dozen or so years.
Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama and the deep state have been a fast growing cancer on our beloved nation. Trump’s “therapy” in his first term slowed its growth. Biden stopped all “therapy” and fed its growth to stage 4.
By God’s grace, our nation may survive the cancer. Trump will do his part, and we need to do our part. We must have all hands on board. We must make sure we retain the House and Senate in 2026. We must create a tsunami of momentum, for a generation, to keep the House and Senate and elect Trump like presidents!
We will have strong opposition, and we know the cancer can return. I am optimistic.
This grifter with a character disorder accomplished what he wanted to happen, that is, a near total destruction of the United States. His mystique was nothing more than the illusions of the stupid and naive Americans who voted for him.
Absolutely spot on!
I think you nailed it. No accident that BHO had moved to DC. Have fun in Hawaii, Barry.
Barak Obama was one of Oprah’s favorite things.
For some reason the “sealed” divorce proceedings for Jack Ryan were opened. Thus the information about him enabled the Illinois Senatorial candidate to secure an easy win even though Ryan’s opponent was a lowly ex state senator from Illinois once handily defeated by Bobby Rush for a state office. The “birth” of Obama! Triumphed as a black hero, I don’t believe he has ever lived as anything but an anointed one.
First, release the J6ers.
Then let’s hear their stories.
Now that we know there were 26 FBI “informants” in and around the Capitol that day, we can find out who they were and what they were doing — and who sent them there. Wray’s self-termination timing is interesting.
The national reaction to this embarrassing travesty is just starting.
Let us never forget what they did to our well-meaning patriotic brothers and sisters.
One hundred percent 💯
Very well written piece, as always. But Obama, like the modern Democratic Party is zombie-like, and will be back in his latest incarnation 2 years from now, spewing the same type of USA-hating bile that he has finally allowed himself to reveal. I think Trump would do well to bifurcate the next 2 years. On one hand, go full-throttle on all the changes, programs and Executive Orders that he can muster in order to disrupt this corrupt system we call a government, while at the same time, having a team go after and prosecute those that exhibited unlawful, even seditious behaviour undermining his first administration and weaponising the current administration against him. We cannot continue to play by the Marquis de Queensbury’s rules and let these demons get away with their deeds without just punishment, if found guilty of an actionable and illegal offence. Just let the Justice Department seek out true justice while Trump delivers a series of addresses to the American public outlining all of the corruption and illegality that occurs in congress so that he can get another 10%-15% of the American people behind him. Not rallies; he already has the support of those people. Addresses to those on the fence who truly want a better, less corrupt government and know something is wrong, but feel helpless to change anything. If Trump can show that he is actually changing Washington, and putting people in jail who have gotten away with their rank behaviour for decades, then we have a chance.
With all the expected opposition, the Trump team needs to work fast in these next two years. The backlash is likely to be considerate and conservatives need to work very hard now in order to retain majorities.
During his time as a state senator in Illinois, Barack Obama voted “Present” 129 times. As editor of the Harvard Law Review, he wrote not one word, the first and only time Harvard law school has had a do nothing editor. He used Biden as his proxy to implement the disastrous changes he was too cowardly to do himself. History will appropriately relegate him and his proxy to the dustbin in which they belong.
Presidents are puppets! The real power is their handlers! Mandell House for instance was Woodrow Wilson’s puppeteer!
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world. No longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” (President Woodrow Wilson, a few years before his death in reference to the Federal Reserve act of 1913, which he signed into law. The American Mercury, p. 56. 1919.)
Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.~Woodrow Wilson
Awaiting moderation? Afraid of being embarrassed!
Victor the clown Hanson needs to moderate comments that blow up his bull💩!
The left in all its manifestations overplayed their hand. The Machiavellian leadership wing figured they could lay waste to Heritage America by dynamiting all remaining norms in just 4 years, overrunning the society with easily-controlled invaders and simultaneously turning the machinery of the state against their opposition at all levels-from Trump all the way to parents at school board meetings. Handing out 1000 days in jail without trial for attending a political rally where planted Feds instigated the rioting was meant to scare us all into submission. They thought all this would frighten us into handing them power in perpetuity.
Boy were they wrong.
Instead their relentless persecution of Trump capped by his surviving a bullet to the head and under miraculous circumstances no less, have transformed him into a 50-foot colossus. Like a political Exorcist he put himself in harm’s way, suffered unimaginable assaults and now unflinchingly offers up his own life’s energy and remaining time to completely smash the left’s chokehold over government and secure all our freedoms. He is less than God but more than man.
The list of most consequential presidents will be as follows
1) Washington – Beat the British in hot war
2) Lincoln – Beat the Democrats in hot war
3) Trump – Beat the Democrats in Cold War
4) Reagan – Beat the Russians in Cold War
45) Carter – Got beat by OPEC
46) Biden – Looked beat from day one
47) Obama – Attempted to beat down traditional American society — and failed
You’re out of your mind if you think Iran is impotent. When they hit the genocidle Netanyahu criminals with strikes they warned them of what and where they were coming. Also for your selective writing Netanyahu has an arrest warrant on his head for war crimes. But obviously you do not bring this up as it doesn’t fit the fake narrative you pen. You’re nothing but another stooge pushing the narratives to keep you in standing with the rest of the criminals.
Truth. As always, thankful for your commentary.
Wait, you mean he didn’t bring light?
The way I see it, “THE COMMITTEE” (deep state, innumerable beaurocrats, Dr Jill, etc.) fell under their own weight, unable to navigate or artfully crafted central governmental system, and the actual authority, we the people. Those founders were gifted by the Lord.
VDH,
A must listen podcast not just for your followers, but all the crazies.
They need to hear the way you take apart and expose,The Man the Myth the Legend Barrack Obama.
Step by step how the community organizer/ three term President destroyed American.
I also hope that the brainwashing of both the young and old-by the education system and the mainstream media-will stop, but they seem to be growing more unhinged.
They have destroyed families by brainwashing the once good clear thinking men, women, and children who make up the family.
The destruction, based on indoctrination, the fear of being cancelled, has created a large scary clique, a pod like species worse than in the fictional 1950’s film The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which may be difficult to rein in, only four years of the MAGA Trump Administration may not be enough, a permanent MAGA future in America is in order.🇺🇸