The cheers are always presumed to be unanimous. Dissent from this party line is ignored. And no one asks about the profits. For the Obamas, greed is cast as just another inspiring voyage of self-discovery. TIM GRAHAM'
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
Michelle Obama: Having Children a ‘Concession’ that Cost Me ‘Dreams’
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Former first lady Michelle Obama said in her newly-released Netflix documentary Becoming that having children was a “concession” that cost her “aspirations and dreams.”
Obama made the remarks while talking about her desire to become “equal” to her husband, President Barack Obama.
“My relationship with Barack was all about our equal partnership,” Obama recalled. “If I was going to have a unique voice with this very opinionated man, I had to get myself up and set myself off to a place where I was going to be his equal.”
However, the birth of their two daughters, Malia and Sasha, “changed” the course of the couple’s relationship.
Watch below:
“The thing that really changed it was the birth of our children. I wasn’t really ready for that. That really made it harder,” the first lady explained. “Something had to give and it was my aspirations and dreams.”
“I made that concession not because he said ‘you have to quit your job,’ but it felt like ‘I can’t do all of this so I have to tone down my aspirations, I have to dial it back,'” she added.
Michelle Obama made headlines this week for a snippet Becoming in which she said it was a “slap in the face’’ that some black Americans opted against voting in the 2016 presidential election
“It takes some energy to go high, and we were exhausted from it … when you’re the first black anything,’’ Obama stated, referring to her and her husband’s failed efforts to help elect Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.
“You know, the day I left the White House, it was painful to sit on that stage, and then a lot of our folks didn’t vote — it was almost a slap in the face,” the former first lady continued.
“It wasn’t just in this election, but every midterm, every time Barack didn’t get the Congress he needed, that was because our folks didn’t show up,” she added. “After all that work, they just couldn’t be bothered to vote at all. That’s my trauma.”
The film, described as “an intimate look into the life of former first lady Michelle Obama” chronicles her 34-city book tour in 2018-2019 for her best-selling memoir “Becoming.” Obama’s promotional tour, managed by the concert promoter Live Nation, had the scale of a rock tour, with a string of dates at sold-out arenas.
The film debuted May 6 on Netflix. In a statement, Obama said the experience of the tour “drove home the idea that what we share in common is deep and real and can’t be messed with.”
“We processed the past and imagined a better future. In talking about the idea of ‘becoming,’ many of us dared to say our hopes out loud,” said Obama. “I treasure the memories and that sense of connection now more than ever, as we struggle together to weather this pandemic, as we care for our loved ones, tend to our communities, and try to keep up with work and school while coping with huge amounts of loss, confusion, and uncertainty.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Michelle
Obama, Saintly Buckraker?
The
Hollywood Reporter recently broke a scoop about the latest Netflix documentary
from the Obamas, designed to offer us an oasis of joy as we suffer through the
coronavirus pandemic. It's called "Becoming," and it will be
available worldwide on May 6. As the title suggests, it promotes Michelle
Obama's memoir of the same name, which has sold more than 10 million copies. So
let's get this straight. The Obamas were awarded a book deal worth an estimated
$65 million for their memoirs, hers and then his. They also struck an estimated
$50 million production deal with Netflix. (We don't have actual numbers. Could
someone in the media ask for a tax return?)
With this
self-aggrandizing documentary, their second deal is being used to accentuate
the profits of their first. The buckraking here is intense. President Donald
Trump surely admires their self-promotional moxie. The Obamas quickly became
super rich. Vanity Fair celebrated these "Obamoguls" and hailed
Michelle Obama for her "saintly popularity." This so-called saint
doesn't spurn the finer things. Last August, TMZ reported the Obamas were
buying a $15 million mansion on the coast of Martha's Vineyard to match their
$8 million Washington, D.C., mansion. Non-Fox network coverage? Zero. In
December, they actually bought said Martha's Vineyard mansion for $11.75
million. Non-Fox network coverage? Again, zero. There would be no denting
haloes by asking how much they're giving to charity. The documentary celebrates
Michelle Obama's "Becoming" book tour events at stadiums that charged
Obama superfans $300 or more a ticket, often with celebrities like Oprah
Winfrey along for the ride.
Media
outlets repeated Obama's self-puffery without rebuttal. "Those months I
spent traveling -- meeting and connecting with people in cities across the
globe -- drove home the idea that what we have in common is deep and real and
can't be messed with," she said in a statement. She augmented her new
status as a self-help guru with a workbook of sorts: "Becoming: A Guided
Journal for Discovering Your Voice," complete with "an intimate and
inspiring introduction by the former First Lady and more than 150 inspiring
questions and quotes to help you discover -- and rediscover -- your
story."
Not
everyone famous is praised for self-help books for women. The current
president's daughter Ivanka Trump wrote one in 2017, and The New York Times was
brutal. "It reads more like the scrambled Tumblr feed of a demented
12-year-old who just checked out a copy of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations from
the library," it wrote.
There are
never Republican critics of Obama in the "news" these days. In a
Washington Post story on the documentary, writer Sonia Rao quoted Anita
McBride, chief of staff to former first lady Laura Bush, who said Obama was
"a reluctant first lady" but then formed lasting public connections
through her "extraordinary use of media and pop culture and
television."
Is that
Michelle's gift to the media? No, it's the media's gift to Michelle. The
infatuated titans of "news" and entertainment media appear to have
granted her every "extraordinary" wish in building this
"billion-dollar brand."
The
cheers are always presumed to be unanimous. Dissent from this party line is
ignored. And no one asks about the profits. For the Obamas, greed is cast as
just another inspiring voyage of self-discovery.
Tim Graham is director of media
analysis a
But soon enough,
the reality of Barack Obama’s unpopularity,
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. Eric Georgatos
Barack
Obama: Women ‘Indisputably Better’ Leaders Than Men
Mohd
Rasfan/AFP/Getty Images
16 Dec 20192,733
1:44
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.
Forget
‘Michelle for President’
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 unpopularity, 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?).
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