This Michelle Obama for President narrative is just way too much fun to let it escape without a column.
Cindy Adams says the former first lady is likely to enter the political fray in late spring as part of a lifesaving scheme by Barack to save the Democrat Party from its looming political suicide led by the Vacationer in Chief, who was hailed as a savior as recently as 2020.
If you don’t know who Cindy Adams is, shame on you. You’ll never be invited to the most inane parties in New York City.
Cindy – everyone calls her that as part of the social suck-up in Gotham — has been the gossip queen of New York since the Dutch owned it, long before it became a rat-infested crime dump calling itself a Sanctuary City until 100,000 gullible illegal immigrants arrived thinking the city meant it.
Well, not quite. Cindy’s reign began in the 1970s. She turns 93 this year. She lives and works in a nine-room Park Avenue apartment with a 1,000-square-foot veranda. That’s how important gossip is in New York.
Anyway, if you’re in the know, you know that if Cindy reports something in her must-read N.Y. Post gossip column, it might be true. You can count on that.
And if it turns out false, the buzz is all over the place anyway, gossipers have moved on, thousands of papers were sold, and many mouses were clicked.
At RedState, we’ve already had several Cindy posts about the wife of the 44th president becoming the 47th president and deliciously showing up Hillary Clinton, who planned on being the first female commander in chief.
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And then we had another post when Megyn Kelly talked about the Michelle POTUS story, saying Obama is already fundraising. It is a rather exciting mid-winter, slow-news idea, I confess. Since no one, except Jill and the guy telling the 81-year-old Joe what to do, wants this zombie to remain president until 2029. Oh, and Hunter and his cronies.
Never mind truth; that's so pre-Woke. Anything Cindy says draws a lot of attention.
Anyway, Michelle Obama just turned 60. (Didn’t know that because I wasn’t invited to the party.) Cindy, who writes like she dislikes Biden intensely, reports as usual without sourcing that the Obamas are “working” to take Biden “out” of this year’s presidential race. And that Michelle will “wiggle into” the nomination contest, maybe come May.
The Obamas, who now have a lot of money but no presidential power, are said to worry that Donald Trump might actually win in November and that Biden is being a passive wuss about that threat.
I would suggest Biden is a serious threat, since he has access to the nuclear launch codes but doesn't seem to know where he is or what he's saying. He lost it again this weekend in a South Carolina speech, doing his scary yelling and incoherent slurring thing that intrigues our overseas opponents so much.
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Never forget it was Obama himself who foisted Joe Biden on America for eight years when he phoned the senator during Jill’s dental appointment and asked him to be on the 2008 ticket. Obama needed a partner with more D.C. experience than his but someone who brought no competing intelligence to the table.
Like his wife, Obama is very rich now. You wonder if they really need the hassle of responsibilities? Then, I remembered Obama disappeared for the entire Benghazi massacre. So, he’s OK with skipping stuff.
Besides his mansion in D.C., Obama has two oceanside estates, one on Martha’s Vineyard and one back in Hawaii. Both would be totally inundated and destroyed if "climate change" is real and the oceans rise, as Obama has said, is the greatest, certain threat to U.S. national security. But no one's supposed to mention this hypocrisy.
Here’s how these political coups work: Nothing overt at first. Just ominous rumors and rumbles in media, kind of like mob warnings about the possibility of fire in factories whose owners don’t pay up.
Lots of private meetings and plotting. Aides are assigned to contact media pals in New York and the Washington Swamp, who might kill their mother for an Obama exclusive.
Remember all the destructive “informed source” leaks that distracted Trump’s presidency? Different target. Same method. No fingerprints because they may want to disavow the whole scheme if this trial balloon attracts too much heat.
So – off the record, of course – these aides tell media that Obama, like every other Ivy League graduate, is seriously worried about another Trump presidency. Maybe tell Cindy Adams, too; she dislikes Biden.
They even involved David Axelrod, the former reporter and Obama strategy aide, who went public with his serious concerns on CNN. (Heck, this whole thing could be David's idea.)
And somehow, word got out that the ex-president had a Come-to-Barack meeting with Joe about getting his ass out of that Delaware beach chair and into political action. Some shouting may have occurred.
You let those rancid rumors spread a while. Other media pick them up as far away as India, perhaps add some details, and run with the story.
Somehow, the white knight from Delaware, who’s taken 40 percent of his term off, is no longer the genial Joe who will restore normalcy to a country traumatized by Donald Trump.
One report said, "Barack and Michelle Obama 'Convinced' Bumbling Joe Biden, 81, Has 'Lost His Grip' Ahead of Election.” That headline was at Radar Online, the web outlet for the National Enquirer. So, you know its credibility.
Cindy really came through, too:
Biden won’t debate. Can’t. Our codger-in-chief can’t even read the prewritten script in front of him fast enough to pronounce the words. So, forget him — which most of us already have.
Coming back now -- Obama. Not him. HER!
Megyn Kelly added that Obama has already contacted potential donors for his wife’s campaign.
We hope Michelle still feels good about the United States. In 2008, with her husband the Democrat nominee, she proclaimed to a campaign crowd that, “For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country.”
By the way, it's important for everyone to know there’s now an historical marker in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood marking the precise spot where the lawyer love birds first kissed. I can give you directions.
Michelle has also been quoted numerous times that she has no interest in running for anything. But, you know, things change. More recently, however, she told an interviewer she was absolutely “terrified” at what could happen come November. She is no longer alone, but for different reasons.
According to unverified rumors, the plan is for Michelle to announce in May. That saves her any primary campaigning or unpleasant, up-close exposure to ordinary people who want selfies with her.
My advice would be to wait a little closer to the National Convention Aug. 19-22 in – wait for it – Chicago, a short drive from the vacant Obama mansion on the South Side.
Michelle’s anointment makes so much sense. Being black, she could get rid of Kamala Harris, the unserious vice president of color. Michelle is not known for giggles,
She’s already lived in the White House, knows the staff that walked their presidential image dogs, and hates media but understands manipulating them. Most importantly, Michelle has 18 million Likes on Facebook.
Just last week, she turned 60, which seems quite young for today’s leading presidential wannabes. And unlike hubby, she doesn’t have one single grey hair.
Michelle Obama also has foreign policy chops. She took the required First Lady solo trip to Africa. And she went to Copenhagen to make an official presentation to the Olympic Committee for Chicago as a future site.
In her speech, she reminisced fondly about sitting in her father’s lap while watching a previous Olympics. She’d have been 18 then, but media let it go.
Since her husband got the Nobel Peace Prize in Scandinavia before investing months of bombing to oust Libya’s leader, Michelle summoned the President of the United States to join her for a surprise finale to the official presentation.
On their way home over the Atlantic aboard Air Force One, the first couple got news that Chicago had been eliminated on the committee’s first vote.
Barack said nothing, but when the next Olympics opened in nearby Canada, he was unable to attend. He sent Joe, who had a lot of fun.
My RedState colleagues remain unconvinced that the Michelle Movement will take off. Let’s not sweat details. This is too much fun to think about, fret over, and chuckle.
One serious problem does remain, however: It’s Joe Biden. He still occupies the Oval Office a little bit some days. Maybe White House calendars could be changed, and come May, Joe Biden is told his term is over. Give Jill a real doctorate to go along.
As a huge fan of “Wag the Dog” and “Dave,” I’m sure something could be arranged.
