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A look back at Obama’s plans for his post-presidency

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If you have a mordant sense of humor, looking back at this piece makes for amusing reading – both for the fulsome fawning of its author Jeff Stein at Vox, and for the delicious irony of certain claims (that Trump’s “wiretapping” accusation was “without proof”). But to me it’s not the least bit amusing.

Written in March of 2017, the article – called “Barack Obama has a plan for the Trump era” – is notable for the light it sheds on Obama’s post-presidency plans. Obama “aides” weren’t shy about telling us what those plans were, at least in general terms. The article is quite informative, although you’ll have to ignore a lot of hogwash along the way.

It starts with what’s labeled a joke:

In the cafes of New York City and the offices of Chicago, blue America seeks [Obama’s] wisdom like he’s a prophet or a sage. What should we do? they ask. Show us the path.

He likes to respond with a joke — a dad joke.

“Well, you could move to Wyoming or North Dakota,” Barack Obama has taken to telling city liberals, according to one of his senior aides.

Actually, it might not have been bad advice, considering what was about to happen in New York and other large blue cities, circa 2020. But obviously, Obama was not thinking about their quality of life when he made the joking suggestion – one that I have to conclude was at least half serious. He was thinking about how relatively easy it would be to turn low-population red states blue. He was thinking about changing the voting profile of America to favor Democrats gaining permanent or at least lengthy ascendancy and power. Even in jokes, that was his focus.

The writer goes on [additions in brackets mine]:

But even as Obama tries to [make it appear as though he wishes to] transcend partisanship, his jokes suggest political aims [do they ever!]. This is the tension that already dominates his post-presidency, as revealed by interviews with six current and former aides to the former president: Obama wants to [make it appear as though he wishes to] rise above the partisan muck, but he’s also eager to accomplish goals that are inescapably political in nature.

The following is a telling paragraph [emphasis added and additions in brackets mine]:

Obama’s aides say he believes that if he can take [seemingly] politically neutral steps to improve democracy — by bringing [leftist] people together through “civic engagement,” or by giving grassroots [leftist] activists the tools for community organizing — then that will change the political landscape that culminated in Donald Trump’s election, while also [seemingly] keeping Obama himself above the fray.

In other words, continue the fundamental transformation of the United States through what Obama knows best, community organizing, while now wearing the mantle of lofty eminent ex-president. Furthermore [emphasis and bracketed comments added]:

That model, as Obama envisions it, appears to require him avoiding the public resistance movement against Trump. Obama views it as a priority to not get dragged down into a personal back and forth with the current president, or to openly criticize the Republican Party, six aides to the president said in separate interviews. Even when Trump asserted without proof [sic] that his predecessor had “wiretapped” Trump Tower, Obama relied on an aide to knock down the charge in a statement rather than speak out publicly himself [directing things from behind the scenes and keeping his public hands clean].

“It’s a return to the president’s core principle of grassroots activism. That principle is going to be what drives a lot of his activity in the post-presidency,” says Eric Schultz, an Obama adviser…

Obama’s post-presidency will involve leading an an attack with former Attorney General Eric Holder on Republican gerrymandering, encouraging young progressive political talent, and shaping the Democratic Party.

He certainly has had a huge hand in doing just that – mostly from behind the scenes while preserving his facade, just as described in the article. I have long seen the selection of Joe Biden as nominee as Obama’s doing, and I strongly suspect he is one of the main people coordinating the efforts to relax the laws for voting when COVID presented the Democrats their golden opportunity. More I cannot say, although I would not be surprised if he also had a hand in the voting fraud efforts. Obama must figure that thwarting a Trump second term and installing Biden guarantees both the preservation of Obama’s own legacy and the furtherance of his overarching leftist goals.

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A look back at Obama’s plans for his post-presidency — 14 Comments

  1. Our first President from a “community organizer” background was also the first President in ages (since the ailing Woodrow Wilson) to remain resident in Washington, DC. All other ex-Presidents left the District and mostly soft-pedaled political involvement, Bill Clinton excepted in the involvement sense.

    Providing tools for community organizing includes funding and directing numerous not-for-profit entities, which is our huge and growing political cancer and scandal. NFPs are perfect vehicles for political activism, their governing laws allow for little transparency along with an enormous leeway for defining and carrying out their supposed mission. Leftists always claim they are pursuing the public good and justice, and the lines between partisan and electoral activism and purportedly altruistic public good advocacy are essentially non-existent.

    There is a massive web of NFPs with interlinking financial and activist connections, all pursuing a leftist transformation. Obama is a key locus, with Tides Foundation, Ford Foundation, Soros’s Open Society Foundation, Change.Org, and scads of others. Obama is pulling strings, others are smoothing his paths, and their shared goals mean that there does not need to be a hierarchy pulling it all together.

    This ecosystem of activist NFPs needs to be attacked, and we need better regulation and disclosures to prevent these deep states parallel to the governmental deep state from truly screwing our future.

  3. The recent video of Barack talking about a trird term under the covers and 4 years of Trump Russian collusion accusations from his cronies puts him squarely in the knowing and abetting in my eyes.

  4. Obama has been behind much of what has happened since 2016. Remember “Organizing For America?”
    “Yes, Obama has an army of agitators — numbering more than 30,000 — who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency. And Obama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House.”
    Read more here:
    https://theblacksphere.net/2020/06/obama-planned-for-the-riots/

    Trump could do the same. The struggle for the Republic is on and we must engage. Hopefully Trump will be willing to lead the fight. We are75 million or more strong. Our cause is just. Be happy warriors. Our and our children’s futures are on the block. We know the enemy. They have clearly identified themselves. We know the tactics and strategy. They use Psyops and gaslighting to the nth degree. The BLM/Antifa brown shirts are their muscle They will use COVID as a control tool as long as possible. After that, the next field of citizen control will be climate change. Get ready for that. WattsUpWithThat.com has recognized the coming challenge. Anthony Watt has upped his game in preparation. We have to anticipate what is coming. Be ready to engage with facts, resistance where necessary, and never letting the gaslighting/propaganda go unchallenged. Lawfare must be used to challenge the Biden agenda. Red sate AGs and lower court judges have to do the same to Biden as Obama’s minions did to Trump. Every avenue to get the message of conservatism out to more people must be explored.

  5. That Magical N-Word has only as much talismanic magic as stupid fools are willing and credulous enough to credit him / his archetype with.

    This awful destructive pathology won’t be done away with until we dissect the Why of stupid self-hating Whites attributing magical qualities to same.

    Foundations Run Wild, Soroses, other villains are part of the problem given that they backed the unstoppable rise of Artful Pants Seams, and have demoralized the population for so long that there are no POLITE ways to attack a cancer cell like O.

    But ultimately, the fault is in ‘Us’. (No… STFU Tonto, you’re not one of Us). We have to decide we’re not going to take it anymore.

    And here, folks is the problem. An Obama or anything like him cannot be countered in the current year without stepping outside the limits of accepted politeness and supposed common decency. Are you willing to go there?

  8. I don’t think so.

    Obama kept trying his soaring rhetoric against Trump, and Trump kept shutting him down.

    My guess is more of the Traditional Black Democratic Groups pushed Biden, and were the soldiers on the ground for voter fraud. A disturbing article:
    https://www.unz.com/article/electoral-fraud-in-black-and-white/

    And lawfare that created the environment for voter fraud was pushed by Leftists groups, including a lot of Soros Funding. The Bush V Gore was the catalyst for the Secretary of State capture by leftists. My guess there is also a lot of corruption that pushed the buying of Dominion Machines.

    >He certainly has had a huge hand in doing
    >just that – mostly from behind the scenes
    >while preserving his facade, just as
    >described in the article.

  9. With so much of Obama’s background and upbringing still obscured along with the shady aspects of his parent’s various doings, with scorn still being kept ready to heap upon anyone who dares ask about these things, Obama still begs the question: What is his purpose? All of his political career is continuously hagiographed by the media, the constant re-gilding leaving only the recent aspects of his life available for viewing.

    On the other hand, there is not much about Trump that has remained free from scrutiny, including the cheap shots taken at his wife and kids, where even youngsters like Baron are on the table. His past was raked up, distorted, and outright fabricated from whole cloth during the first years of his term to paint him in the worst light possible. Consider the media’s fawning respect for Obama’s callow aloofness and contrast it with their dumpster-diving on Trump.

    All of Obama’s actions prior to, and after his Presidency define him as an actor whose ambition is focused on the personal consolidation of power for power’s sake, for use toward political ends that tend toward leftward outcomes, designed to overturn. All of Trump’s actions, on the other hand, define him as someone who works to leave the country better off for the sake of its citizens, in restorative ways. The list of his accomplishments is a long one. Compare the four-year term to the eight-year one.

    Which one would you say made a sacrifice? Which one would you say is satisfying a personal hunger? Obama will never be satisfied to stay behind the scenes; he’s driven to be adored – just from a distance. He hates Biden, who was a necessary evil to placate the old Irish eastern seaboard party machine to agree to a Chicago politician taking the office. It was pure consolidation tactics; Biden was useless then, aside from that, and he’s below useless now. Obama’s move will come when Harris takes the reins. It will be hailed as ‘transformative’.

  10. Adlai Stevenson was asked at the end of 1952 what he would be doing next. He said there were three schools of thought on that question. (1) those who thought he should devote himself to the welfare of the world by frequent talking; (2) those who thought God or the electorate had appointed him the scourge of the Republican Party; and (3) those who didn’t think it dishonorable for him to work for a living (“my sons are numbered among this last group”).

    What gets you about BO and Mooch is that neither of them have an authentic trade. As of 2017, neither one had practiced law in 20 years and there’s not much indication either was much good at it. They were for a modest run of years associates. His time on the University of Chicago faculty is notable for a complete absence of scholarly publications and a dearth of time teaching any essential courses. Barack Obama didn’t teach Contracts; he taught ___ & the Law. As for her, she was an apparatchik in a menu of public and philanthropic bureaucracies. As far as one can tell, she was always a zero-marginal-product employee. The disreputable Mr. Sailer bloc-quoted a puff piece about some nonsense she’d intersected with at the University of Chicago and remarked that it appears her job was to grease the wheels to making the University of Chicago a victim of the diversity racket.

    They don’t know what to do with themselves because neither has had a serious job in 20+ years.

  11. New texts, new sources out on Obamagate? Yes. Obama Team aimed to benefit the most from the disinformation plot! Not our country.

    Lee’s Smith in the Epoch Times, and John Solomon in Just The News: Russia had 30,000 Hillary emails, Russia on Zero and H communiques abroad: shows that Russia knew that FBI knew!

    Shows That the Russian purchase of US uranium was on the block — shows Hillary selling out the US cheap for personal change! This led the Deep State to pursue Russiagate plot to blame Trump on July 5th, 2016, the same day FBI Director Comey “exonerates” Hillary….
    Bongino on the case:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-tE4-Rf5H0&t=2958s

    If Congress begins the process for a possible contingent election on January 6th, then the Senate can also show the Obamagate plot benefiting Biden, too — not just Chinese, Iranian, Russian influence on voting — and therefore involves doing Russia’s bidding, selling the nation out to foreigner interests.

    If you’ve seen my most recent shares here, and if you read Glenn Reynold’s Instapundit, then you know what I mean by saying “All is proceeding as I have foreseen.”

    But will this airing of Obama—Hillary—Biden laundry achieve an outcome deciding tsunami? Sweeping away Dem respectability for many, many years?

  12. “here, folks is the problem. An Obama or anything like him cannot be countered in the current year without stepping outside the limits of accepted politeness and supposed common decency. Are you willing to go there?” Zaphod

    Yes. This IS a hill to die upon. That is, a hill for the enemy to die upon.

    “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.” George S. Patton

    General Patton had a few other things to say that apply to our situation;

    “Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

    May God have mercy for my enemies because I won’t.

    The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is bearing arms.

    Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.

    Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles.

    Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I’ll win a battle… Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I’ll win a war.”

    The left is filled with prestigious ‘graduates’ and all we have are ‘deplorable’ Texicans… what ever shall we do when they try to impose tyranny upon free men and women?

  13. One of the most malignant presidencies we ever had to experience. He will be with us a long, long, time.

  14. Kind of late to this thread, but this post is quite illuminating about our magical president.

    https://prospect.org/culture/books/no-no-no-obama-said-but-he-went-on-anyway-promised-land-memoir/

    Ambition, expectations, disappointment
    BY DAVID J. GARROW DECEMBER 14, 2020

    Barack Obama’s memoir A Promised Land was the most anticipated book in many a year, but since the significantly overpriced volume appeared, reaction to it has been noticeably muted. That could well be because of its length; it could more likely be because some sections of its narrative read like papers drawn directly from the Journal of Policy History. Initial reviews were surprisingly mixed, with a young Black poet sharply critiquing it in Obama’s hometown Chicago Tribune and a highly knowledgeable progressive journalist slamming it forcefully in a long essay in The Week.

    Yet no commentator to date has even attempted to take the measure of what this book tells us about Obama himself that we did not previously know. As the author of a book about Obama’s pre-presidential life that is even longer than his new memoir, I find this is an easier task than most might imagine: A Promised Land does not tell us all that much new about the most widely recognized person on the globe. Yet there are a trio of themes that Obama repeatedly touches on, themes that do shed new light on a supremely guarded public figure. They are his deep, long-standing ambition to be president, his post-election fear that outsized public expectations had inescapably set him up for an underwhelming performance in office, and his painful realization that his administration’s acknowledged failures illuminated how neither he nor his deeply devoted wife Michelle had enjoyed the lives the presidency bestowed upon them.

    Pay particular attention to that ambition: it drove him to do things against Michelle’s wishes, almost like an alcoholic who just can’t give up the booze.
    Amazingly narcissistic — why that ambition, at such a young age?
    And his goal seemed only to be elected president, as he never actually did anything to prepare himself with the skills and knowledge to BE president.

    When Obama first broached the idea with his wife, Michelle was unsurprisingly furious. “When is it going to be enough?” she asked, and her anger echoed something she had told him years earlier: “It’s like you have a hole to fill … That’s why you can’t slow down.” Obama concedes the point. “Was I still trying to prove myself worthy to a father who had abandoned me” and was now long dead? “Whatever it was in me that needed healing, whatever kept me reaching for more” was the root of his unquenchable ambition, but Obama plumbs the question no further.

    Then comes the part that I find most interesting.

    Eight months later, on the night of November 6, 2006, Obama returned home after the last of countless campaign appearances on behalf of other Democrats, appearances at which crowds responded far more to him than to the actual candidates. In what is without question the most notable passage in A Promised Land, Obama recounts what he says is a dream that awoke him late that night. “I imagined myself stepping toward a portal of some sort … And behind me, out of the darkness, I heard a voice, sharp and clear … uttering the same word again and again. No. No. No. I jolted out of bed, my heart racing, and went downstairs to pour myself a drink. I sat alone in the dark, sipping vodka, my nerves jangled, my brain in sudden overdrive. My deepest fear, it turned out, was no longer of irrelevance … The fear came from my realization that I could win” the Democratic nomination and then the presidency, should he indeed declare his candidacy.
    …
    This is an indelible admission for a world-famous figure, yet to date not a single English-language commentator on Obama’s memoir has highlighted and quoted this passage, a comprehensive web search confirms. Yet it seems beyond doubt that some part of Obama’s brain was attempting to rein in his snowballing ambition, warning him—“No. No. No.”—not to pursue the chalice of which he had long dreamed. But as clearly as Obama remembered that late-night vision, he cast the warning aside and pursued the presidency just as he had long planned.

    He went up on the mountain and saw the kingdoms and glory of the world, and said, “Sign me up.”

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