Barack and Michelle Obama are not well, and they have only themselves to blame. What is amazing is not their slide into irrelevance, but how quickly it came about. I guess the social media overexposure does that. A smart thing that George W. Bush did after his presidency was slip into obscurity. Aside from his tacky paintings, some of his philanthropic events, or a national event where former presidents show their faces, you rarely hear from or about him.
Instead of taking a page from his book, Barack Obama assumed he was so essential to the nation that we could not do without him. So, after he left the White House, he stayed in Washington, D.C. and engineered his shadow government that created the multitude of issues faced by President Donald Trump 45. But greedy man that he was, he also had his fingers in the pie of Hollywood, along with foreign policy pursuits. My colleague Jim Thompson wrote:
And then, there are the Obamas. Barack and Michelle. Barack sells himself. If he could bottle himself, he would. The power couple cut a deal in 2018 with Netflix worth an undisclosed amount. It was almost certainly for tens of millions of dollars. The Obama production company is called “Higher Ground.” What has “Higher Ground” produced? I don’t know.
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Crap productions and agita. Definitely agita. If the 2024 election proved anything, it is that people are not only sick of hearing from Obama, but their reaction to his words and presence is literally visceral distaste. And the longer the stench of his cologne lingers, that distaste slides into disdain. Any respect he once commanded is quickly fading.
Obama's latest X post to "commemorate" July 4 is a reflection of this. The president who did more to malign and marginalize America and Americans decided that on this Independence Day holiday, he would put back on his mantle of Lecturer-in-Chief and tell us what we're all about.
It's as ridiculous as you can imagine:
Independence Day is a reminder that America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word ‘We.’ ‘We The People.’ ‘We Shall Overcome.’ ‘Yes We Can.’ America is owned by no one. It belongs to all citizens. And at this moment in history—when core democratic principles seem to be continuously under attack, when too many people around the world have become cynical and disengaged—now is precisely the time to ask ourselves tough questions about how we can build our democracies and make them work in meaningful and practical ways for ordinary people.
No, "Happy Independence Day," or even words from the Declaration of Independence, whose author is way more eloquent than Obama. Nope. Just Obama's usual globalist psychobabble touting democracy and pluralism. America is a unique experiment in individual liberty and the government that is supposed to undergird and support it. But that's not the government Obama ever wanted or ever supported. Had the American people not acted on their individual rights and voted in President Donald Trump, Obama may have gotten his wish. But he did not, so now he is reduced to whining on X or to people who still will pay him mad money for the privilege, while his wife complains on her podcast about everything about her life, including him.
This post went over as expected, a clear indication that the gravy train has ground to a halt.
Facts. This commenter reminded him just what we bitter clingers accomplished.
Love the turnabout on the catch phrase that Obama used to dine out for far too long.
Even Obama's favorite audience, the citizens of the world who supposedly can't get enough of him, are saying give it a rest.
You, sir—alongside Mr. Biden—have done more to erode the principles and values upon which America stands than any president in living memory. Your so-called “Truth in Social Media” committees are a flagrant affront to the most sacred of liberties: the First Amendment. So kindly return to your latte and linen shirts on Martha’s Vineyard and spare the rest of us your sanctimony.
Ouch. That one's gonna leave a mark, or should. But like the fraud he has always been, Obama has probably slunk off to his private beach in Hawaii or Martha's Vineyard, with plenty of alcoholic beverages and connected "friends" on hand, and will watch fireworks and enjoy the blessings of liberty that he so despises himself and works to deny others.
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