With former First Lady Michelle Obama off with her brother doing her terrible podcast, former President Barack Obama seems to be either rattling around one of his mansions, taking exotic trips with exotic friends, or doing speaking engagements. The luster of "First Black President" and "fundamental transformation of America" had tarnished long before he decided to back the failure that is former Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency, but with revelations from Michelle about how much she hated the White House, doesn't really like her children, and probably doesn't really like Barack, the tarnish may be covering up some deep rot.
Yet, Obama continues to delude himself that what he has to say holds any relevance or weight. Proof that it doesn't? Obama, like others who have fallen from the annals of political grace, made these fact-devoid and inflammatory comments across the pond in the United Kingdom. It is interesting that he and his ilk dig into these criticisms of America and its current administration in foreign countries, rather than being challenged by the people they were supposed to be serving when they were in power.
On Wednesday, the former president hosted "An Evening with Barack Obama" in London's O2 Arena, where he decided to wax ineloquent about how he felt about President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's initiative to isolate the root causes of autism.
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We have the spectacle of my successor in the Oval Office, making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproved. And... the.. the degree to which... uh, that undermines public health. The degree to which that can do harm to women who are pregnant. The degree to which that creates anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic. Which, by the way, itself, is subject to a spectrum, and a lot of what is being trumpeted as these massive increases actually have to do with a broadening of the criteria across that spectrum so that people can get services and help. All of that is violence against the truth.
What is truth? Pontius Pilate said this when he was deciding whether Jesus Christ should be crucified on the cross. It fits Obama, who like Pilate, is cleansing his hands from the blood of the lives limited to poor health options and exorbitant costs because of his Affordable Care Act. Mr. "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor," didn't feel true when he uttered those words. Or the way Obama weaponized his Department of Justice and intelligence arms against journalists, and then President Donald Trump. Lots of blood exists on those bony hands, and as more gets declassified and uncovered (thank you, DNI Tulsi Gabbard), it appears Barry needs to throw stones to distract from the cracks in his own glass house.
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Not content to end his ramblings with trashing American leadership, Obama then added more fuel to the fire that his marriage is on shaky ground.
Barack Obama admitted to “digging” himself “out of [a] hole” with his wife, Michelle Obama, following their time in the White House.
“I was digging myself out of the hole I found myself with Michelle,” the former President of the United States told historian David Olusoga and the audience at the O2 Arena in London Wednesday, per the Daily Mail.
“Now I’m at about level ground,” he quipped.
In April, Barack, 64, elaborated on how he had to fix the issues in his marriage to Michelle, 61, after the politician’s back-to-back terms in office from 2009 to 2017 took a toll on their relationship.
“I was in a deep deficit with my wife,” he told Hamilton College president Steven Tepper in a conversation at the time.
“So I have been trying to dig myself out of that hole by doing occasionally fun things,” Barack added.
And in May 2023, the “Our Oceans” narrator said being out of the White House allowed him to “have a little more time with her.”
No word on whether Michelle Obama is in London with him. Last week, on the couple's Portofino, Italy vacation aboard Steven Spielberg's $250 million superyacht, the pair arrived separately but did cruise together. But obviously, the scent of trouble in the Obamas' marriage still lingers in the air.
Riddle me this: if you were a former president of the United States, why would you need to mention your marriage at all? Are there not a wealth of topics you could discuss, particularly on the world stage? It is a curious choice for a critical time. Distraction, deflection, and ginning up sympathy are some of Obama's signature tricks. So, expect him to keep pulling these tactics out as the walls of his legacy continue to crumble.
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