Racism Made Kamala the Candidate and Cost Dems the White House

[Timber Rattler]

https://www.frontpagemag.com/racism-made-kamala-the-candidate-and-cost-dems-the-white-house/

In the 2024 election, Barack Obama found himself in the unexpected position of fighting against the rise of the second black president. Opposing him was nearly every black Democrat, from Rep. Jim Clyburn, who helped put Biden in the White House in exchange for promises to appoint a black woman as his VP and to the Supreme Court, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and DNC Chair Jaime Harrison, who were determined to make Kamala the candidate.

Biden’s debate collapse had created a historic moment of the worst possible kind. Dems needed to oust the man at the top of their ticket before his nomination could be confirmed and pick a replacement. Obama wanted a mini-primary process to pick his chosen candidate, but virtually every other powerful black Democrat wanted to rubber stamp Kamala for the position.

Kamala had desperately wanted to become the next Obama and had obsessively pursued Obama’s approval, but despite the similarities in their backgrounds, both were the children of radical academics and absent foreign fathers, raised in an atmosphere of privilege before learning to blow racial dog whistles to win over black voters and guilty white liberals, he had remained cool to her. Kamala had been far more interested in Obama than he was in her.

And that had not changed just as Kamala was on the verge of following in his footsteps.

Obama could see the disaster coming a while away. Kamala was unpopular, as bad a speaker as her boss, lacked charisma and had no appeal to voters, from his perspective, she had nothing in common with him other than their tentative racial identification, but he was unable to convince top black Democrats who may have had their own private doubts about Kamala’s political skills, but were not about to pass up the opportunity of a second black president.

Kamala’s appointment, or at least that of a black VP, had been the promise they secured from Biden, and with the old white guy on his last political legs, they were determined to cash it in.

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I am curious as to who Obama wanted to replace Biden.  I'm pretty sure it wasn't Michelle because 1) she's made it abundantly clear over the years that she does not want the job and to nothing else to do with DC ever again, and 2) that her and Barry's marriage has obviously been a sham for some time.