{"id":12394,"date":"2020-05-26T16:11:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T23:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12394"},"modified":"2020-05-26T16:14:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T23:14:19","slug":"the-remains-of-an-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-remains-of-an-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"The Remains of an Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each&nbsp;day that the Obama administration fades into the past, its wrongdoings manage to wander back into the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After years of suppression, all sorts of strange events keep popping up to remind us of what little is left of the Obama years \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Feet of Clay<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/05\/obama-administration-scandals-coming-to-light-legacy-in-tatters\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Each&nbsp;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 \u2014 the Susan Rice memo, Christopher Steele [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3dU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3424,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/libya-what-to-do\/","url_meta":{"origin":12394,"position":0},"title":"Libya, What To Do?","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim National Review Online As with Egypt, American sympathies instinctively side with Libya's oppositional forces as they seek to overthrow the tyrant Qaddafi \u2014 and rightfully so. 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