Former President Barack Obama declared Monday that women are better leaders than men, musing that the world’s living standards would increase if the fairer sex ran the world.
Speaking in Singapore at a private event on leadership, Obama conceded that while women have their flaws, he argued that they are “indisputably better” than men, the BBC reports.
“Now women, I just want you to know; you are not perfect, but what I can say pretty indisputably is that you’re better than us [men],” the former president said. “I’m absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything… living standards and outcomes.”
Obama went on to argue that older men in power are largely responsible for many of the world’s most pressing problems and urged for a younger generation of leaders to take their place.
“If you look at the world and look at the problems it’s usually old people, usually old men, not getting out of the way,” he stated. “It is important for political leaders to try and remind themselves that you are there to do a job, but you are not there for life, you are not there in order to prop up your own sense of self importance or your own power.”
Obama’s remarks come as he and former first lady Michelle Obama are in southeast Asia to promote women’s education in as part of the Obama Foundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance program. Last week, Michelle Obama, Hollywood actress Julia Roberts, and former Miss Malaysia Deborah Henry visited a high school in Vietnam, where they spoke to female students about the importance of education and leadership.
Our
betters in the MSM, and related ruling-class mouthpieces, have set the
narrative: the lackluster, too-crazy pack of Democrat presidential
candidates, even with a few token billionaires, will ultimately give way to the
entry of Michelle Obama into the race. The former First Lady, author of
an apparently best-selling memoir, will inject palpable blue energy throughout
the nation, return black America to a 95+% Democrat voting bloc, consolidate
the Obama voting coalitions that won two presidential elections, and the evil
interloper Trump will be sent packing.
Don’t
buy this narrative.
In
a country of 320+ million people, there is always a sizable segment who will
not be willing or able to discern or question anything beyond what they are
told by the MSM, and will follow the narrative. That segment is actually
becoming smaller every year; the reality of fake news has diluted the MSM’s
influence to a far greater degree than they understand. But that’s not
why I’m not buying the narrative.
Here’s
why:
‘Obama’ is how we got Trump . For all the
gigabytes devoted to explaining how Donald Trump was elected President of the
United States, the simplest two-word explanation has always been: Barack
Obama.
Most
Americans never agreed with the radical left-wing policies that President Obama
instituted, nor did they appreciate his subtle, persistent denigration of
America’s character, identity and place in the world. But Americans did salute
to the notion that we should be especially careful not to criticize America’s
first black President.
In
short, the absence of strong criticism of President Obama and his policies was
not due to their popularity, but rather due to a surrender to the political
reality enforced in great degree by the MSM that any such criticism would be
labeled as racist. His policies and view of America were in fact alarming
to many Americans, who silently bided their time until he was out of office.
The
truth is that Barack Obama was and is a radical leftist ideologue who in his
own words sought to fundamentally transform America. A few
observers saw this agenda from the beginning of Obama’s appearance on the national
scene, but they were voices in a wilderness dominated by a sycophantic
media. The American people never supported a fundamental transformation
of their country -- in leftist terms, a shredding of America’s Judeo-Christian
heritage in favor of a godless, George Soros-vision of an Open Society,
directed and controlled by almighty secular government -- and the more they
understood the truth of who Obama was and what he was trying to do, the angrier and more resentful they
became .
Donald
Trump was the anti-Obama for one simple reason: he loves America.
And
so…the “Michelle Obama riding on the residual goodwill of the Obama name!”
campaign narrative, doesn’t resonate.
‘Blexit’ is real . Candace Owens deserves tremendous credit
for branding and building the “Blexit” movement, and for devoting her amazing
intelligence and energy to its articulate messages. Yet well before
Blexit was a thing, Donald Trump planted the seed with black Americans when he
said in August 2016: “ What
do you have to lose by trying something new, like Trump ?”
Three-plus
years later, with black unemployment the lowest in recorded history, polls that
show roughly a third of likely voting black Americans supporting President
Trump are not an accident or a fluke. (And they may just mark the floor of his support in
2020.) They reflect conscious recognition among black Americans of simple
truths: black lives generally did not get better under eight years of Obama;
black lives generally have gotten much better under less than three years of
President Trump.
And
so…the “Michelle Obama will bring back the good old days of black prosperity!”
campaign narrative falls flat.
Barack Obama is the elephant in the room re Barr/Durham . Of all the names that
engaged Americans associate with the Russia Collusion hoax -- Brennan, Clapper,
Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, Rosenstein, Simpson, Steele, etc. --
there is one that is going to loom larger and larger in public thought as the
Horowitz IG report and Barr/Durham followup becomes public: Barack
Obama.
Our
own guess is that when the truth finally comes out , Americans across the
political spectrum will be stunned at the level of criminality and corruption
in the Obama administration. It will shock the collective
conscience of the nation that all of this was directed to brazenly and
arrogantly overturning the will of the American people for the ugly but simple
reason that Donald Trump was an outsider who threatened the
Obama/leftist/globalist hold on power.
If
the Horowitz report and Barr/Durham follow-up reveals, as seems increasingly
likely, the deliberate and nefarious concoction of the Russia Collusion Hoax by
leaders in the CIA, FBI, and DoJ, the vast majority of Americans, including
millions who have historically identified themselves politically as Democrats,
will be fiercely offended at this historic, unconscionable abuse. And who
is at the top of all the plotting and scheming and lying and weaponization of
government against the will of the people? Barack Obama.
And
so…the ”Michelle Obama will bring back the days of the scandal-free Obama
administration!” campaign narrative reeks.
Michelle’s heart isn’t in it… and may not be a happy heart anyway . Mrs. Obama is on record
saying she has no interest in running, and of course, those words by themselves
mean nothing as to whether she will enter the race. But we think they do
signal that at her core, her heart is not in it. And ‘it’ refers to the
pressure, the nastiness, the unrelenting spotlight, the
every-word-and-every-smirk-on-video scrutiny of an American presidential race.
Michelle
Obama’s eight years in a soft, adulatory spotlight as First Lady are not the
same as the brass tacks rough-and-tumble of a presidential campaign. And
even if the MSM did everything in its power to shield her (and it surely
would), the MSM is not the gatekeeper it once was. Plus, winners
tend to be happy warriors. There has always seemed to be an undercurrent
of anger in Michelle Obama’s countenance, and if it ever flared on the campaign
trail, she could quickly find herself in a big hole. Anger doesn’t win
elections.
Michelle
Obama may or may not get into the race; it’s probably a 50/50 proposition at
this point. And if she does get in, she’ll have access to the best
messaging talent the left can buy. So she’d make waves for a
while. But soon enough, the reality of Barack Obama’s un popularity, the reality
of the criminal abuse by his administration in trying to frame and otherwise
take down President Trump, and the reality of a booming economy helping all Americans, would
take the air out of her balloon. “Bring Back Barack” is not a winning campaign
theme. And if a tweet or two happened to get under her skin, the result
could be ugly.
“Michelle
Obama for President” is not inevitable or invincible.
Eric Georgatos is a former corporate lawyer who operated the
Brushfires of Freedom blog from 2008-2016 (a book of top postings from the blog
is available at America, Can We Talk? ).
THE OBOMB WAS COUNTING ON ILLEGALS VOTING FOR HIM AGAIN!
Obama ‘Very Confident’ He Would’ve
Won
Third Term
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Former President Barack Obama said on Tuesday
that he was “very confident” he would have won a third term had the
Constitution and his wife allowed him to run again.
Speaking to his former
top adviser David Axelrod at a live recording of the “The Axe Files” podcast at
the University of Chicago, Obama said he
believes voters felt that he had “taken the job seriously, worked hard, been
true to my oath, observed and hopefully strengthened the norms and the rules
and the values of our democracy.”
“I feel very confident
that I was in a position—had it not been for both the Constitution and
Michelle—to continue in office,” Obama said.
Axelrod had earlier
said that some people would like Obama to serve in perpetuity and joked about
some of Obama’s supporters even wanting him to run for vice president.
The former president,
though, added that he is “not sure it is a healthy thing” to serve more than
two terms, pointing out that in countries without term limits, “even very good
people… lose their edge and get stale and comfortable in the position.”
Obama said it is
“useful to have a democracy have to continually evolve.”
Had Obama been allowed
to run for a third term, he would have faced off against Donald Trump in 2016.
But when Axelrod asked whether Obama believed he could defeat President Trump
in 2020 in a hypothetical one-on-one matchup, Obama did not take the bait.
“I will not answer that
direct question for obvious reasons,” Obama said.
MICHELLE
OBAMA ANNOUNCES SHE WILL RUN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE AND BE BARACK’S THIRD TERM FOR
LIFE.
MEXICO
WILL ELECT HER!
The main
objective of “political animals” like Obama and the Clintons is to get elected;
it’s not to fix a broken America, nor to protect her. There are people who
govern and there are people who campaign; Obama and the Clintons are the
latter. Just look at the huge Republican electoral gains under Obama and the Clintons.
It’s amazing that Democrats who still care about their party still support the
very people who have brought it down.
“Of course, one of the main reasons the nation is now “divided, resentful
and angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist, class warrior Barack
Hussein Obama was president for eight
long years. MATTHEW VADUM
Editorial Reviews: Obama Is Making You Poorer—But
Who’s Getting Rich?
GET THIS BOOK!
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and
Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs , GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same
“special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are
profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers,
small businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics , investigative
reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and
the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is
delivering corporate socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling
corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s
OBAMANOMICS TO SERVE THE RICH AND GLOBALIST BILLIONAIRES.
'Don't bet
against Michelle Obama': Tucker Carlson predicts former first lady will be 2020
Democratic nominee
Fox News host Tucker
Carlson told voters not to rule out the possibility of the 2020 Democratic
presidential nomination going to former first lady Michelle Obama, despite her
insistence that she isn't planning a run.
"If you're
wondering who the Democratic nominee will be, don't bet against Michelle Obama,"
he said on Monday's Tucker Carlson Tonight . "Last week, the
former first lady issued a statement claiming she has no interest in being
president, but there are signs that’s not true."
Carlson then pointed to
several examples that have made him suspicious about a potential Obama bid,
including David Axlerod's attacks on 2020 front-runner and former Vice
President Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama's refusal to endorse Biden
in the race so far, and reports that the former president tried to convince his
No. 2 not to enter.
"If Obama had
endorsed Biden, the race would be over ... Obama hasn’t endorsed Joe Biden
because he doesn't want to. Why? Maybe he’s got other plans," he
speculated. "Obama's presidential memoir was also supposed to come out
this year. Now, its release has been delayed until the middle of the Democratic
primaries. In other words, at exactly the moment when Democrats will be
thinking deeply about how to beat Trump, America will be talking about the
Obamas. Coincidence? Maybe."
He added, "Maybe
it’s also a coincidence that Michelle Obama just released yet another book last
week, one that will require her, of course, to get on the road and talk to
crowds ... The Democratic Party is ripping itself apart over race, and gender,
and class. Michelle Obama, let's be honest, is one of the only people who could
unite its warring factions."
Carlson then pointed
out that the former first lady was found to be the most admired
woman in the world in a recent poll. He also warned his viewers to expect the
unexpected.
"One of the main
lessons of Donald Trump's 2016 election is that you never really know.
Unexpected things happen far more often than we imagine," he said, before
playing a 2006 clip of Barack Obama insisting he wasn't planning on running for
the Oval Office in 2008. "Just months after he did that, Barack Obama
joined the presidential race. Three years later, almost to the day, he was
inaugurated president of the United States."
In addition to being
the most admired woman in the world, another poll found that Michelle
Obama would be a front-runner in New Hampshire, a key early voting state, if
she runs. While she's insisted there is "zero
chance" she'll seek the Oval Office, family friends of the
Obamas have publicly said she'd make a
"good president."
If she were to enter,
she'd be joining a crowded field of 18 Democrats and has already missed some
filing deadlines. However, that hasn't deterred other late-entry candidates,
including former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who launched his campaign on
Sunday.
The Washington Examiner 's
Joseph Simonson contributed to this report.
Ain’t
this sweet?
Michelle
Obama: ‘Many’ Around the World Feel Barack Is ‘Their President’
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Former first lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday
that her husband, former President Barack Obama, could have built his
presidential library anywhere in the world because many feel he is “their
president.”
Obama, speaking at the Obama
Foundation Summit at the Illinois Institute of Technology, explained
Chicago’s Jackson Park was selected as the site for the Obama Presidential
Center because it was close to the couple’s former home and situated near her
South Side childhood home.
“There’s power in the selection of
Jackson Park,” the former first lady said. “Barack and I don’t do things
incidentally. There’s a strategy.”
Obama then argued the library could
have even been built outside of the United States.
“Barack’s presidential library could
have been anywhere in the world, because there are so many people who feel like
he is their president,” she stated.
“New York wanted it. Hawaii wants
it. Because it’s also an economic engine,” she added.
Michelle Obama appeared at the
fireside chat with her brother, Craig Robinson, and interviewed by The Warmth of Other Suns author
Isabel Wilkerson.
In June, a federal judge ruled plans
to build the $500 million presidential center on Chicago’s lakefront could move
forward, dismissing advocacy group Protect Our Parks’s lawsuit objecting
to the use of public park land.
The
bottom line 3 is this: If Operation Crossfire Hurricane wasn’t a plot
to restore Barack Obama to the Presidency, why wasn’t the op shutdown
after the election was over? It wasn’t. Instead it ramped up with
the appointment of a special prosecutor whose only raison d’etre is to
cover up the original crimes during the primary season and in the run up
to the election.
“Obama
would declare himself president for life with Soros really running the show, as
he did for the entire Obama presidency.”
What
no one will say, but I will, is that the ObamaGate /MuellerGate /SpyGate
scandal is an ongoing plot to restore Barack Obama to the Presidency.
Before heads explode let me explain.
"That
phase of the takeover was started in 2008 by President Barack
Obama. Throughout his eight years in office, Obama practiced
divisiveness and hammered away at the Second Amendment while pouring gallons of
fuel on the fire of the "Black Lives Matter" lie. His
administration was rampant with corruption, pushing the envelope with every new
scandal." RICK HAYES
They Destroyed Our Country
“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they
promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they
made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They
understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him
king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)”
These people were engaged in a massive political
conspiracy. The Democrats made a decision from the outset—beginning with the
election campaign of the favored candidate of Wall Street and the CIA, Hillary
Clinton—that they would not oppose Trump on his anti-working-class social
policy or his authoritarian hostility to democratic rights and promotion of
anti-immigrant racism, but on issues of imperialist foreign policy.
“Obama’s new home in Washington has
been described as the “nerve center” of the anti-Trump opposition. Former
attorney general Eric Holder has said that Obama is “ready to roll” and
has aligned himself with the “resistance.” Former
high-level Obama campaign staffers now work with a
variety of groups organizing direct action against
Trump’s initiatives. “Resistance School,” for example, features
lectures by former campaign executive Sara El-Amine, author of the Obama Organizing.”
“Attorney General Eric Holder's tenure
was a low point even within the disgraceful scandal-ridden Obama years.” DANIEL
GREENFIELD / FRONTPAGE MAG
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