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Oh dear Lord, the ego has landed. Former president Barack Obama went on his former campaign strategist and senior advisor David Axelrod’s podcast, because there’s nothing Barack Obama loves as much as talking about himself.
This time, though, as these two meandered down memory lane with such barftastic moments as this:
David Axelrod: … You mentioned that economics and the impact of technology on economic change and the unsettlement there, a lot of it falling on small towns and rural communities while central cities and suburbs prosper. But the other half is cultural and culture and race. One thing I wanted to ask you was how much of what we have seen since you, we got on that plane in 2004 and since you got elected president, how much was a reaction to you, I mean, to the election? You were a living, breathing symbol of change.”
President Barack Obama: Yeah, well, and we did put it on our posters.”
David Axelrod: Yes. Yes. I was trying to draw people to hope, but.”
President Barack Obama: [laughter] We can’t entirely blame people.”
David Axelrod: No, it’s true.”
President Barack Obama: For thinking that.”
David Axelrod: Yeah, they got it. They definitely got it.”
Good gravy, could Axelrod massage that massive ego any more? He might have missed a spot. Obama spent a lot of time doing his usual shtick of whining about how mean Republicans are and have always been, but then he moved on to Senator Tim Scott. Apparently, Scott’s optimism is just too much for Obama, because any REAL black man just knows that life isn’t fair, and no matter how hard you try, it will never be fair, and no Republican is willing to “understand” those grievances. Not even Tim Scott, who clearly lacks the life lessons and wisdom of Barack Obama. *snort*
David Axelrod: I – I’ve mentioned to your team that I was going to ask you about this, because it really fascinates me. I listened to Tim Scott, who’s running for president, and half of it sounds a lot like us. Half of it sounds a lot like what you were talking about in the speech in 2004 and in all of our speeches from that point on, which was, I am living proof that we are making progress as a country. I wouldn’t be here but for that progress. It takes a different turn at the end when he when he says, and I’m wondering, have you heard what he said? And what do you say? Because the end of it is sort of like, yeah, it’s cool, I’m here. And so, you know, that’s part of the past, and we don’t need to worry so much about it.”
President Barack Obama: I haven’t spent a lot of time studying Tim Scott speeches. I think there is a long history of African-American or other minority candidates within the Republican Party who will validate America and say, everything’s great, and we can all make it. I mean, Nikki Haley, I think, has a similar approach.”
David Axelrod: She does, yeah.”
President Barack Obama: Right. Look at me. I’m a Asian Indian-American woman. And my family came here and we worked hard. Clarence Thomas has probably gave the same speech at some point, I guarantee in some commencement, as did Alan Keyes, the first guy that I ran against.”
David Axelrod: Yeah.”
President Barack Obama: I don’t think it’s a. And look, I’m not being cynical about Tim Scott individually. I am maybe suggesting that the rhetoric of can’t we all get along? And those quotes you made about, you know, from my speech in 2004 about there’s a United States of America, that has to be undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and our present. And so if a Republican, who may even be sincere in saying I want us all to live together, doesn’t have a plan for how do we address crippling generational poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism in the society, and we need to do something about that. If that candidate is not willing to acknowledge that, you know, again and again, we’ve seen discrimination in everything from job practice, you know, getting a job to buying a house to how the criminal justice system operates and so that somebody who does the exact same offense, the kind of sentencing, the likelihood that they do jail time is going to be different based on their race. If somebody is not proposing both acknowledging and proposing elements that say, no, we can’t just ignore all that and pretend as if everything’s equal and fair, we actually have to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. If they’re not doing that, then I think people are rightly skeptical. And, you know, maybe there will come a time in which, and this goes to the point I made earlier about within the Republican Party, people who are actually more conservative is in some fashion, but are serious about working class issues. There may come a time where there’s somebody in the Republican Party that is more serious about actually addressing some of the deep inequality that still exists in our society that tracks race and is a consequence of our racial history. And if that happens, I think that would be fantastic. I haven’t yet seen it.”
Oh yes, Barack Obama, please tell me more about how people in the criminal justice system are treated differently on the basis of race. Daniel Penny was unavailable for comment. The former president sure used a lot of words to try and say that Tim Scott isn’t really a black man like him, didn’t he?
We have addressed Senator Tim Scott’s personal history, and his outlook on American life when he decided to run for president. Tim Scott has been unfailingly solid in his outlook on life, and he even went on “The View” to directly rebut those harpies who believe as Obama does.
But because he doesn’t play the race card, or Obama’s favorite economic card – “no one can get ahead in America without government” – then Tim Scott just can’t be taken seriously by Barack Obama.
Tim Scott has a plan — Obama just doesn’t like it. This is classic, gross Obama. https://t.co/K7qoieBUTf
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 16, 2023
Tim Scott is speaking out in his own defense, and pointing out Obama’s huge failure at “bringing people together” when he was president.
Meanwhile, Scott pushed back on Obama in a Thursday interview with Mark Levin, telling the radio host that Obama failed to bring the country together.”
“When it comes to race, don’t you think Barack Obama missed a massive opportunity to pull the country together? To get people to accept each other for who they are instead of building into this group-ism?” Levin asked.”
“Mark, he missed a softball moving at slow speed with a big bat,” Scott responded. “You can’t miss this opportunity. America was hungry for bringing our country together, this coalition building where you can see Black kids and White kids and red ones and brown ones, as MLK [Martin Luther King, Jr.] spoke about, joining hands and singing with new meaning, ‘My country ‘tis of thee.’”
“President Biden ran as the great uniter, and he has been the great divider. I have heard more negative things about people under his leadership than I have in a long time. I’ll tell you, the one thing the far left does not want a Black person to be in this country is a conservative,” he continued. “It is possible for Americans to come together not because of the color of our skin, but because of the consistency of our value system.”
Let us not forget we are a land of opportunity, not a land of oppression.
Democrats deny our progress to protect their power. The Left wants you to believe faith in America is a fraud and progress in our nation is a myth.
The truth of MY life disproves the lies of the radical… https://t.co/lxbcdDZKJ9
— Tim Scott (@votetimscott) June 15, 2023
The tweet reads in full:
Let us not forget we are a land of opportunity, not a land of oppression.
Democrats deny our progress to protect their power. The Left wants you to believe faith in America is a fraud and progress in our nation is a myth.
The truth of MY life disproves the lies of the radical Left.
We live in a country where little Black and Brown boys and girls can be President of the United States. The truth is – we’ve had one and the good news is – we will have another.
Funny how Barack Obama is “bitterly clinging” to his grievance politics. He is now a rich man, a twice-elected president, and he still wants to whine about how unfair this country is. His current punishment is, of course, that he has to watch Joe Biden shuffle through the White House with his cognitive function fading. And now he is watching Tim Scott run for president with a more authentic American success story than he ever had. No wonder Barack Obama went to David Axelrod’s podcast – he needed a balm for his bitter giant ego.
Featured image: original Victory Girls art by Darleen Click
Stephen C says: Obama has no inner city housing project roots nor was he raised dirt poor and treated as an inferior. He has no slave ancestry, He is an interloper. Another grifter. Wannabe dictator.
Ming O'Mongo says: Oh, I don’t believe B, Hussein Obama is a wannabe dictator. IMO, a being a real dictator would seem too much work for him. I think almost all of us grow into a sense of what is deserved or earned, and what is not. Some feel some sort of discomfort with the unearned and engage in unusual behaviors, as some celebrities do. Others gloat in a sense of having deceived–wannabe Lokis. IMO, BHO exploited “I’m a poor orphan” and the tide of affirmative action. “I fooled you all, and live like a king; money for nothin’, suckers.”
GWB says: He adopted the mantle of “suffering discriminated-against black man.”
Sort of like how his communist step-father adopted him.
Kevin says: As a person of color, you don’t have to have a direct ancestor who was enslaved to be treated unfairly. Step out of your “comfort zone” and ask anyone of color if they’ve every been stereotyped or discriminated against; whether they were descendants of former slaves or not.
Darleen Click says: As a person you don’t have to have a direct ancestor who was enslaved be anything to be treated unfairly.
FTFY, Kev. There are very very few individuals that go through life without one bit of adversity. Though half-white male Obama’s very privileged upbringing puts him in the silver-spooned piehole category.
GWB says: Hey, Kevin, why not ask me that question?
I certainly have been discriminated against because of my race.
And, interestingly, I probably do have ancestors who were enslaved.
And I don’t fit into your box of the people who should be able to claim that. But I know history better than you, it seems.
NTSOG says: “I probably do have ancestors who were enslaved.”
Apparently Kevin and his like don’t know that people from many lands and of different races were enslaved over millennia. For instance the Vikings took thousands of [Caucasian] slaves all around England, Ireland and Europe and on-sold them to others. The Viking slave trade also extended across the Mediterranean from Spain to Egypt. Thus it’s likely that some of my ancestors suffered the depredations of the Viking slavers in centuries past in England and Scotland. Of course the main source of Black African slaves was their own fellow African tribal chieftains who captured them and on-sold them. However that particular truth doesn’t fit the anti-white political narrative of the whining Left.
Cameron says: According to liberals like him, the only slavery that ever existed was blacks being enslaved by whites in the US. And saying that it was Africans selling their own people is raysis.
Cameron says: News flash, little Epsilon. Everyone gets treated unfairly at some point.
Lloyd says: “Curious George” pulled the wool over America’s eyes for 8 years and left Washington rich. An American success story paid for us taxpaying suckers!
GWB says: how do we address crippling generational poverty that is a consequence of hundreds of years of racism in the society
Yeah, though it’s not hundreds of years of racism, just the last 60-70 when Johnson gave us the War On Poverty and gov’t welfare.
Kevin says: “And now he is watching Tim Scott run for president with a more authentic American success story than he ever had.” VG (Vicious Girls) is a little too premature in their assessment of Senator Scott as being more “authentic” than the previous twice elected … overwhelmingly … (never impeached, never indicted, never hoarded top secret documents, married once, top if his class … and the list goes one) former president. Let’s wait until November 6, 2024, to see if Scott “has what it takes” to win.
Darleen Click says: We get it, Kev. Obama is your “The One” that you promised to worship. That your tin-plated god, his history and his *accomplishments*, are little more than a Potemkin act that you refuse to consider says more about the paucity of meaning in your life than anything else.
Pity.
GWB says: No. Darleen’s point is that Scott is already a true American success story.
0bama’s background was very privileged. He never suffered for his (half) race. He never achieved anything between graduating and being elected (through a scam) to the Senate. He never achieved anything in the Senate. He was chosen because he was a cypher upon which they could write the message “Vote for a black man, or you’re racist! Assuage your guilt!” Sadly, it worked with a lot of Americans.
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