Falling Out of Love with Obama: What changed? By Roger Kimball

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Roger Kimball


I always found the literary critic Harold Bloom (1930-2019) distinctly curate’s-eggish. You ask, “How is your egg this morning, curate?” “Good in parts,” comes the reply. But Bloom made one observation that stuck with me. Lots of literature, Bloom wrote somewhere, deals with the phenomenon of falling in love. But equally poignant is the story of falling out of love.

Bloom was thinking primarily of personal romance. However, the emotional dialectic he limned works itself out on the larger stage of political life as well. There is a certain mystery about both sides of the process. The public’s enthusiasms are as fickle as they are extravagant. What explains the infatuation with figures like Barack Obama? In retrospect, it is possible to offer more or less plausible explanations. Obama’s race, his smooth, non-confrontational manner, and his ability to dress up radical policy proposals in an emollient jelly of seeming common sense all help explain his political success.

Obama has occupied an enviable place in the magic circle of celebrity since his first election in 2008. It persisted through Donald Trump’s first term and for most of Joe Biden’s. There were signs that Obama’s star was fading during the later stages of Kamala Harris’s disastrous campaign. Trump’s resounding victory on November 5 crystallized the eclipse. Speaking at a “Democracy Forum” last week, Obama attempted to wheel out his old standby: that Republicans were in the habit of “weaponizing” the DOJ and other institutions in order to steal elections and cement their hold on political power. “One side tries to stack the deck and lock in a permanent grip on power,” he said, “ either by actively suppressing votes or politicizing the armed forces or using the judiciary criminal justice system to go after opponents.”

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Perhaps the moronic Dems are awakening to the fact that all the things they put emphasis on has little to no value after the glass ceiling has been broken.  Obama broke that with his becoming POTUS.  We do not need to vote for folks because of their race, gender, sexual orientation or any of the other nonsense things the Dems put stock in.  Substance does matter, more than anything.  Policies matter more than anything, and the Dems are completely devoid or either.

I mean, what did Harris stand for, other than the murder of our most vulnerable element in our society.  All she campaigned on was abortion, the killing of our unborn babies.  And in a nation where we have a declining birth rate, one that does not sustain this nation, I also consider it unpatriotic to push abortion. 

Take a good look at Russia, for it is a dying nation, and their primary means of birth control is abortion.  ANd we are sprinting to be just like it, courtesy of the Democommies.  No joke!!!