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The pathetic, slow-motion downfall of
Barack Obama

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Posted By: gaboy, 4/17/2025 3:17:48 PM

Houseguests and fish begin to smell after three days, as the saying goes. But ex-presidents who stay in Washington, D.C., reek almost immediately. In the history of the republic, former presidents have had the decency to get out of town rather than loom over their successor. The two exceptions appear to be Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama. Wilson, however, has the excuse that he was practically bedridden and expired within three years. Obama has no excuse at all.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: DougTN 4/17/2025 3:29:06 PM (No. 1934544)
There is a reason why an amendment to the Constitution was ratified in the early 1950’s to prohibit Presidents from being elected a third time. Obama couldn’t give it up and tried to be President by proxy for as long as possible. Hubris is a bad look Barry. We can’t miss you if you don’t go away.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Catherine 4/17/2025 3:30:26 PM (No. 1934545)
Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Maybe he might want to move back home to Kenya.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 4/17/2025 4:04:24 PM (No. 1934583)
He's a massive fraud. Most of what we are told about him is lies. I hope he falls very, very far and has a hard stop at the end.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: franco 4/17/2025 4:11:00 PM (No. 1934595)
I don't think Wilson had much of an excuse. He had plenty of fellow lovers of the vanquished Confederacy in his home town of Staunton, VA who would have gladly pooled funds to get him out of the capital of that dastardly Union. He chose to stay... or should I say, his wife decided that he would stay.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Roscoelewis 4/17/2025 4:36:13 PM (No. 1934613)
I can't feel the least bit sorry for these people.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 4/17/2025 4:46:24 PM (No. 1934622)
BO is a lousy politician that got to where he did through deceit and manipulation. The only thing he was good at selling was himself and that was largely because he had no past, the media was still competent in faking things up, and the American People still had some trust in the dem, media, and government. When you take a hard, clear look at BO, what did he accomplish? Nothing of significance. Why did he get elected? Because he was well packaged and sold, didn't have a history to critique, he was young, and Black. Now, the media and dems, the sales people for BO "our guy", are no longer trusted. BO now HAS a history and it isn't very good. He's no longer young and hip. And his arrogance and political failure is not playing well with his ego. He is grumpy is even attacking the people, Black men, that would have been supportive of him. Who DOES that? So, BO's act isn't playing well and that isn't necessarily due to significant changes in BO. He's always been a poor candidate. It's due to the collapse of the Left that loved to prop BO up. You have other new voices, AOC, ..., that have no need for BO and have no patience for the old style dem party that BO is part of. The dems have always been quick to dispose of those in the party that have become not useful. That's where BO now finds himself and that really has to hurt. It also has to hurt that perhaps the magic man didn't have all that much magic after all. The Left invested an enormous amount of support in BO and they now are left with a spent force and really have nothing much to replace it with.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: anniebc 4/17/2025 8:11:36 PM (No. 1934736)
I don't object to slow. As long as it happens.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: mifla 4/18/2025 6:54:52 AM (No. 1934911)
I take comfort in the fact that Obama is watching Trump dismantle his "fundamentally changed America" policy, one issue at a time.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Strike3 4/18/2025 7:05:40 AM (No. 1934921)
Dr. Jill Biden is suffering from the same malady and I would not be surprised at a feeble attempt from her to hang on to the trappings that she enjoyed so much. Fortunately for us, Joe does not know where he is so Delaware is just fine.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: walcb 4/18/2025 7:20:34 AM (No. 1934934)
Best take away sentence: "But his actions point to a man out of touch and befogged by his own delusions of genius." Underline delusions of genius.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: janjan 4/18/2025 8:07:07 AM (No. 1934965)
Obama is a narcissistic snake who won precisely because he’s half black. He had no other qualifications. He did nothing as President to move the country forward but started the carnage that Biden continued. He and his toadies controlled the Biden Administration. There is no other politician I despise more.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: udanja99 4/18/2025 8:34:09 AM (No. 1934975)
Wow. When a leftist loses The Hill, it’s pretty much over. And SO well deserved. I will go to my grave hating that SOB and what he did to this country.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: franq 4/18/2025 8:38:10 AM (No. 1934978)
Hussein should never have been president in the first place. A media creation. No wisdom or morality. The exact opposite of a true leader. But he cashed in big.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Venturer 4/18/2025 8:40:24 AM (No. 1934983)
Obama had people behind him. He didn't get where he was on his own. Someone paid for him to go to 3 different colleges---if he really did---we have seen no records from those colleges. Someone created a birth certificate for him.---We have no record of his birth except that. We aren't even sure who his father was.--The one she used was the only black man at the college his mother went to, and he was a drunkard. the other suspect was a Communist and then she married an Asian Muslim and sent the boy to a Muslim school. It is said some Arab paid his way to college. He was a Community activist who used dirty tricks to get elected to the Senate. While President he destroyed a hundred years of civility and progress among blacks and he is still trying to do that. His sexual preferences have always been in doubt, and itis said he pimped himself out during college and they don't call him bath house Barry for nothing. Obama is a problem , but the ones backing him are the bigger problem,.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: MickTurn 4/18/2025 9:20:33 AM (No. 1935016)
The Kenyan Criminal needs a DEEP RECONING!
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Zigrid 4/18/2025 10:30:47 AM (No. 1935069)
Nuff said!!
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 4/18/2025 11:06:34 AM (No. 1935104)
All I can say is what goes around, comes around. Obie made his own bed. Now he has to sleep in it. The chickens always come home to roost for communists.
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Califedup 4/18/2025 11:07:55 AM (No. 1935105)
The great Thomas Sowell recently on YouTube rated Barack Obama as the worst president in US history. Period.
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Reply 19 - Posted by: franco 4/18/2025 11:25:49 AM (No. 1935121)
#18: Dr. Sowell also had BO nailed before his presidency. On the day of the 2008 election, he was asked the leading question about how he could support the "disaster" that would be a McCain presidency. Dr. Sowell -- never one to shy away from a chance to own his intellectual opponents -- said that electing McCain might be temporarily disastrous, but electing Obama would lead to a permanent catastrophe. He expanded on the retort in a Wash Times column: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/2/a-perfect-storm/
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Luandir 4/18/2025 11:36:30 AM (No. 1935131)
Kommie-la-la is the "frontrunner" now solely because of name recognition. The 2028 nominee is likely to be some new face that gets the suburban moms all lathered up.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Roads 4/18/2025 11:37:17 AM (No. 1935133)
Poor bathhouse Barry, the limp wristed, jug eared, Loafer lovin, towel headed kenyon, just ain't feeling the love, even Big Mike is leaving him behind these days. Good riddance.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: Vincent Vega 4/18/2025 11:45:41 AM (No. 1935138)
My feelings exactly #11.............well said.
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Reply 23 - Posted by: Omen55 4/18/2025 3:58:36 PM (No. 1935293)
Hubris invites the wrath of the gods.
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Reply 24 - Posted by: Geoman 4/18/2025 6:48:37 PM (No. 1935372)
Wilson was one of the prime architects of the Progressive Era administrative state, which FDR later morphed into the deep state.
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