Will this pair ever leave us alone?
Barack and Michelle. We don’t even need a last name. They’re like those infernal ads that pop up on your timeline. They just won't go away.
The Obamas inhabited the White House for eight years — and the public stage and the media’s mind. In an adoring way, of course, not like the hate cell that the current incumbent is placed in.
Barack Obama got enough electoral votes in the right places to become president in 2008. But the truth is, Americans didn’t really elect Barack Obama the man. They elected the idea of a well-educated black man, the first to govern in the nation's history.
Voters did not know that Obama, the man, is not really a good person. And, truth is, the 72-year-old Republican alternative that year wasn't all that exciting.
Now, you don’t have to be a good person to become president. We’ve had some. The Reagans. The Carters. Both Bushes were the latest. They come. They do their job as best they can. They succeed sometimes. They endure at others.
Most Americans generally put up with the ones they dislike, although long years of the scary Joe and Jill Senior Show were like a real-life "Weekend at Bernie's."
Then, win or lose, former presidents usually go away. They served the purpose they were given and had carefully sought with intent, ambition, and other people’s money. They get overpaid to hire ghostwriters to create their memoirs. They construct a presidential library, give speeches, and never drive their own car again.
Jimmy Carter volunteered to work on thousands of homes for others. George W. Bush declined his presidential pension of nearly a quarter-million dollars a year and took up painting.
Bill Clinton went on to pursue his interests.
Of course, the Obamas got rich from books and media after 2016. Not as rich as Nancy Pelosi, of course, who’s been amazingly successful in stocks while canceling Joe Biden’s primary election wins and squeezing in votes for her $174,000 House salary.
Most ex-presidents depart the Swamp. Not Barack Obama, who was only 54 when he left office. Note to Self: Young ex-presidents tend to hang around.
Chicago, which erected an historical marker where Barack and Michelle say they first kissed, was just a convenient staging area for his political career. It was a good Heartland symbol, but only for as long as necessary.
Barack and Michelle disregarded their own apocalyptic warnings about global warming. They bought two estates right on the ocean, one on Martha’s Vineyard and another in Hawaii.
But surprisingly, Obama also bought a D.C. mansion. And now we know why: He wasn’t done with his Swamp work, engineering “the radical transformation” of America that he had promised even before his first election.
Today, thanks to stunning revelations by the current Director of National Intelligence, we now know it was Obama and his henchmen embedded in the Deep State in 2016 who concocted and anonymously drove the malicious, fictitious Russiagate hoax in a receptive media. All in direct contradiction of the intelligence community's findings.
The goal was to paint Donald Trump as a perverted Putin puppet to undermine and cripple the Republican’s first administration that threatened Obama’s gains and Democrat power.
An Obama spokesman denies the allegations, and allies are mounting a specious defense.
The detailed Obama plot was one of many ensuing Democrat attempts on multiple levels to ruin their former donor (think "lawfare") who had, among other things, forcefully questioned if Obama was a native-born American and therefore, eligible to be president. Maybe you thought pols don’t take attacks personally.
Sympathetic Washington media, who would later try to ignore Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop, delightedly ran with the Russia story for many months before it was proven totally false, which somehow did not receive the same attention.
Now, as they did over Hunter's laptop, they’re trying to ignore and bury Tulsi Gabbard’s devastating intelligence revelations as old news.
The always-astute Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist has an excellent summary here:
.@MZHemingway breaks down the week's explosive news exposing the truth behind the Russia collusion hoax — and the media's complicity pic.twitter.com/pgV5TyZxzo
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) July 25, 2025
The signs of Obama’s arrogant and malevolent side have been there all along. Sensing victory just before the 2008 election, the Democrat candidate addressed a Missouri crowd so enthused that it would have cheered an Obama burp:
We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.
Such ambition was impressive. At the time, that D.C. rookie was not even halfway through his first and last Senate term, basically a political unknown nationally. But this single sentence of 13 words unveiled a scheme far beyond the plans of a standard incoming president.
To the voting public, the newcomer spoke of promise (remember the "HOPE" poster?) and appeared to offer an historic, refreshing change after eight years of Republican rule and a GOP ticket headed by another senator, John McCain.
The year before Obama tapped Joe Biden as VP for his long D.C. experience, the gaffe-prone Delaware senator was quoted: "I mean, you got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."
Obama always had media’s enthusiastic help. They ignored his Chicago machine ties, a profitable land deal with the shady insider Tony Rezko, chronic unpaid traffic tickets, a law practice representing slumlords, and long friendships with anti-war radicals.
Naively or dishonestly, national publications called him a reformer from Chicago, stronghold of the century-old Democrat machine, where reformers go to die of frustration.
This enabled a curious and hopeful public to etch onto the blank Obama slate anything good that they wanted to see. And Obama had no intention of getting in the way of that.
That candidate was ominously vowing a radical transformation of a generous nation about to freely elect him as its first black commander in chief. That failed to register.
There were other signs of concern. During the 2008 campaign, Michelle Obama, a native of Chicago's South Side who got to go to Princeton and Harvard, declared:
For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.
She's still complaining.
Obama later tried to cover for his wife, claiming she meant to say “proud of the politics of America.”
He also played down the formative childhood years with his mother in a Muslim home in Jakarta.
But for a Harvard graduate, Obama showed unexpected moments of ignorance about the country he sought to lead. During a campaign stop in Oregon, he claimed to have visited nearly all 57 states. He once described the Marine Corps as the Marine corpse.
An intrepid Huffington Post reporter named Mayhill Fowler sneaked into a San Francisco campaign fundraiser and taped Obama’s private remarks. In his trademark patronizing way, Obama derided Midwestern voters:
It's not surprising they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Such elitist remarks cost him that Pennsylvania primary. And complaints about the high cost of arugula didn’t help his everyman image. But media let him move on. The same basic treatment as when Obama's longtime Chicago pastor got caught delivering racist, antisemitic sermons.
Remember the White House clinic where Obama was to tutor a bunch of inner-city kids about his beloved basketball? Instead, he let them watch his lay-ups and jump-shots for a half-hour.
Obama later stated that people in Austria speak Austrian; they actually speak German. He professed delight celebrating the Mexican holiday of “Cinco de Quatro.” Seeking to tout diversity, he falsely told a national TV audience in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, that the U.S. motto is E Pluribus Unum (Out of Many, One).
To have quoted the correct official United States motto would have required Obama to cite an infidel deity in his childhood homeland, “In God We Trust.” That was part of an early global trip, dubbed the apology tour for the new president's frequent mea culpas for U.S. excesses.
That all helped Obama win the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in the very first year of his presidency, before accomplishing anything.
Two years later, just before leaving on a South American tour with his wife and her mother, Obama made a stunning announcement.
Without notifying Congress, the winner of the prestigious peace prize ordered the U.S. military to join European forces ousting Libya’s ruler, Muammar Gaddafi. Years earlier, the same countries had promised to leave Gaddafi alone if he relinquished his nuclear weapons program.
Gaddafi fell for the promise. Ukraine did too. No doubt Iran and North Korea have taken note of such diplomatic duplicity.
As a direct result, with no central power, oil-rich Libya has turned into an active terrorist training ground and lawless state riven by warring factions.
Obama’s political reign was all about Obama. He ignored his party’s apparatus to arrogantly build his own that did little for down-ballot Democrats. He won in 2012 by relentlessly attacking Mitt Romney for the wealth that the Obamas would successfully seek.
But astute voters were learning about Obama. After a failed economic stimulus plan and the invention of ObamaCare jammed through Congress, his party suffered an historically devastating 2010 midterm election.
Democrats lost 63 House seats, the worst results in 74 years. Republicans gained seven Senate seats and upwards of 1,000 state and local officeholders, including four governorships. Even 15 years later, those losses are not yet fully recovered. Even today, the Democrat Party has its lowest approval rating in 35 years.
Those state losses were especially damaging since they enabled Republicans to control the nation’s 2010 state reapportionment processes, setting up numerous subsequent wins.
Although Obama can exude intense charm, he can also be cold. A prominent black Chicago leader recalls investing considerable time introducing newcomer Obama to the city’s power brokers. Later, the man asked Obama to speak to his university class. An ungrateful Obama refused, reportedly saying, “You know how this works.”
When Japan experienced its historic 2011 tsunami that killed 18,000, Obama played golf. When the president of NATO ally Poland died in a plane crash, Obama canceled plans to attend the funeral and played golf.
When Gen. Harold Greene became the highest-ranking U.S. officer to die in combat since the Vietnam War, Obama skipped his funeral for golf.
Widespread Mideast riots erupted on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, and four U.S. government workers, including an ambassador, died in a nightlong Benghazi terrorist attack that also destroyed the consulate. No support or rescue attempts were made.
Obama disappeared for the episode’s entire 16 hours.
Without any explanation or media questioning, the president reappeared in public the next day to falsely blame it on an obscure anti-Muslim YouTube video and to vow swift justice. He then flew off for a pair of campaign fundraisers in Las Vegas. Victims’ families still await justice.
In 2009, seeking to please Putin, Obama unilaterally killed a U.S. anti-missile system painstakingly negotiated with courageous East European allies without alerting them. The appeasement failed, of course. But it did please Putin because the U.S. defense against ICBM nuclear missiles was dead.
Obama has claimed in recent times that his eight years were free of scandal. Among other cases, that conveniently overlooks Solyndra, the IRS scandal, lying to a Foreign Intelligence Review about leaks, and, probably worst of all, foisting Joe Biden on the nation, first as vice president and then as pretend president.
Gabbard's documented revelations about Obama's attempted sabotage seem the most egregious. It is an old and fortunately failed plot, but no less seriously seditious and revealing for that.
Washington pols appear at times to have a silent, bipartisan non-accountability pact not to prosecute each other beyond photo-op rhetoric. Remember GOP House hearings on the lethal Benghazi screw-up that lacked preparation, security, and rescues? (Nine years later, the next Democrat president would screw-up the Afghan exit.)
Months of Trey Gowdy's fiery GOP House hearings on Benghazi produced video clips but no consequences for the deadly failures. Nothing.
Trump has asked the Department of Justice to investigate the far-reaching Obama hoax. But he admits such accountability is unlikely given the recent Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity that benefited him.
