August 23, 2024
Obama’s Proxy Presidencies: No, You Can’t!
By Vernon Roken
Mattieu Mabin, France 24’s Washington correspondent, reported on Barack Obama’s DNC 2024 speech Tuesday, noting:
It is remarkable to see how little Barack Obama has changed. What’s even more surprising is that, after leaving the White House nearly eight years ago, he can pick up his presidential rhetoric exactly where he left off, adding some required updates, and most notably, as if he were himself a candidate in 2024.
Oui, Monsieur Mabin, you’re right! Barack Obama is, in effect, seeking his fourth term.
Obama served two terms as president from 2009 until 2017. Following Donald Trump’s four years in the White House, Joe Biden was elected. The Trump-Biden debate and Joe’s ouster as the 2024 candidate made it clear that Biden was not capable of being in charge for much of the past three and half years. So who was?
There are several candidates among the Democrat elite, among them the power pair, Bill and Hillary Clinton; Nancy Pelosi; Chuck Shumer; and Barack Obama. There are certain indications that it was mostly the last.
Approximately three quarters of Biden’s key aides served under Obama.
Biden’s key foreign policy posts (Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Wendy Sherman as deputy secretary of state, Victoria Nuland as undersecretary of state for political affairs, and Jon Finer as deputy national security adviser) were primarily promotions from the Obama administration.
Even the leftist Washington Post reported on January 5, 2021 that the “concern around Washington is that the same people who crafted and defended President Barack Obama’s foreign policy won’t be willing or able to recognize, much less rectify, its shortcomings. “
Those concerns have turned out to be well founded.
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