Make no mistake about it, when it comes to the Democrat Party no one possesses more influence and power than Barack Obama.
Even though the former President maintains a much lower profile than anyone would have expected when he left office in 2017, he’s still pulling many of the strings behind the scenes.
And now Barack Obama finally broke his silence with one jaw-dropping declaration about replacing Joe Biden.
“You don’t have to do this, Joe”
Few, if any, top Democrats worked harder to convince President Joe Biden not to run in the lead-up to the 2016 election than former President Barack Obama.
As numerous reports – not to mention Biden’s own memoir – have documented at length over the years, Obama went out of his way to urge Biden not to run for President in 2016, believing instead that former First Lady Hillary Clinton was the “stronger” candidate.
Obama even went so far as to urge Biden not to run in 2020 as well, with The New York Times reporting that he begged his former Vice President not to enter the race.
“You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t,” Obama told Biden, per The Times.
But despite all of the former Democrat President’s efforts to keep him from running in the first place – not to mention the disaster that has been his Presidency – Obama recently put his public stamp of approval on the idea of Biden remaining as Democrats’ Presidential nominee.
“Bad debate nights happen,” Obama claimed on X. “Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself.”
“Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit,” he added. “Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November.”
Obama’s lackeys still do the dirty work for him
The only problem is, that statement of support may have been the most transparent lie the former President has ever told – and that’s saying something.
That’s mainly because virtually all of Obama’s top lackeys – individuals who wouldn’t dare make any moves that go against his wishes – are demanding Biden be replaced immediately.
“If he does not [step aside], it will be Biden’s age, and not Trump’s moral and ethical void, that will dominate the rest of this most important campaign and sully the president’s historic legacy,” former Obama chief strategist David Axelrod wrote in an op-ed published by CNN.
In fact, some of Obama’s top lackeys are even going so far as to demand that Vice President Kamala Harris be made the Party’s nominee.
“While I think it is possible that the party enters into a process of sorts to determine who the Democratic nominee might be, I believe that the only viable outcome is the selection of the highly competent and qualified Vice President Kamala Harris,” former Obama deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton wrote on social media.
And as a cherry on top, even former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder – who has long referred to himself as Obama’s “wingman” – even suggested that Democrats being in total chaos over Biden’s nomination just months before Election day somehow proves the Party is “a responsible political party and not a pathetic, dangerous cult.”
No objections from the Democrats’ true leader
Clearly, none of those individuals would publicly go against President Biden if they didn’t know that Obama agreed with them privately.
That was proven beyond any doubt recently after Politico reported that actor George Clooney sought Obama’s counsel before penning a recent New York Times op-ed in which he demanded a new Democrat nominee on the basis of Biden’s significant physical and cognitive decline.
Politico noted that “while Obama did not encourage or advise Clooney to say what he said, he also didn’t object to it, we’re told from people familiar with their exchange.”
“The lack of pushback is an eye-popping revelation given that the former president was one of the first big voices defending Biden following his abysmal debate performance (while many of his former aides have been some of the incumbent’s biggest critics),” the report added.
No matter how you slice it, it’s clear that President Biden is quickly running out of friends within the Democrat Party.
And it could be only a matter of time before Barack Obama and other holdouts finally throw in the towel on Joe Biden.
Then again, many have long speculated Obama has enjoyed plenty of influence over Joe Biden during the current President’s tenure – and the rumor mill went wild with ‘third term’ talk after an Obama interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in November 2020.
WATCH Obama wanting a 3RD TERM BIDEN PUPPET to pull his strings. "If I could make an arrangement where I had a standin, a frontman or a frontwoman & they had an ear piece in & I was just in my basement with my sweats looking through the stuff & I could sort of deliver the lines."… pic.twitter.com/9Ym19wfChs
— 5DME81 (@5dme81) February 10, 2024
If Joe Biden could somehow still win, it’s not that crazy to think Obama would still want to have someone around whose ear he had regular access to.
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