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Why Won't Barack Obama Go Away?

2018-03-16

[American Thinker] Why do those who criticize Donald Trump for not being a "traditional" president fawn over President Obama not being a "traditional" post-presidential citizen?

I would say Michelle and Barack Obama are back in the news, but they've never left the news since the 22nd Amendment mercifully exiled them from the Oval Office last year. When President Clinton took the oath of office in 1992, President George H.W. Bush went away. When President George W. Bush assumed power in 2000, President Clinton went away (until the prospect of being the first gentleman came a-knockin'). When President Obama placed his hand on President Lincoln's Bible in 2008, President Bush went away.

When President Trump made his miraculous win constitutionally official last year, President Obama went away, back to Chicago, to administer the death and destruction left in the wake of 30,000 consecutive days of Democrat rule over the Windy City.

Just kidding: Obama moved into a $5-million D.C. mansion ‐ but only after the wall surrounding the 8,000-square-foot mansion was completely erected. Oh, and Obama's former senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, moved in with the Obamas, which is just bizarrely weird. It's like House of Cards meets Three's Company; rumor has it that Val makes a mean Belgian waffle with an Iranian secret touch.

Posted by:Besoeker

#14 Sociopath

Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-03-16 22:52

#13 It's not any kind of surprise. Obama needs a high profile to keep on raking in money for his political sermons, which are heavy on inspiration and light on substance. That money keeps him in the style to which he has become accustomed. Politics has taken the place of traditional religion in modern life.

As Pope of the far left, but without the vow of poverty, he gets to make speeches for mucho dinero as long as he keeps his name in the news. For people who fund his musings before large audiences, it's the equivalent of religious tithing, except it's done with corporate or non-profit money, which is the best way (from a personal financial perspective) to tithe. It's not so much that Obama is a narcissist, as liberals and far leftists alike have anointed him a saint. All Obama is doing is cashing in.

Posted by: Zhang Fei 2018-03-16 17:14

#12 I can haz statue!

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2018-03-16 16:57

#11 The next Marion Barry. Drugs and DC, such a deal.

Posted by: Dale 2018-03-16 11:43

#10

Posted by: Skidmark 2018-03-16 10:35

#9 Why Won't Barack Obama Go Away?

Why won't they put him away ("They" being the DOJ)? Both he and Hillary committed have broken our laws.

#8 Sock Puppet of Doom: What would your Dr. SPOD say about Hillary? Would Hilda also be classified as a toxic narcissist?

Posted by: JohnQC 2018-03-16 10:22

#8 Actually Mullah Richard, he's what would be defined in the DSM as a toxic narcissist.

My wife the psychotherapist (really, she is one) listened to one of his speeches and said that she thought we were all in trouble because he was a toxic narcissist.

Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-03-16 10:09

#7 This is why we should pick old people to be President. WE're gonna have him popping in and out of poltiics for decades.

Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-03-16 10:05

#6 Because he's the first former President who's a professional leftist agitator.

Posted by: Raj 2018-03-16 09:13

#5 Clinical Passive-Aggressive Narcissist

Posted by: Mullah Richard 2018-03-16 08:12

#4 Because he can't.

Posted by: Shart Jinemp5975 2018-03-16 05:52

#3 Because nobody is willing to take him in?

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-03-16 04:52

#2 He is a leftists like all parasites. Even islam is a parasite.
Do not give them power.

Posted by: newc 2018-03-16 03:56

#1 A strong deterrent example. A nearly decade long object lesson we must live with. Like the Clintons, he too must be encouraged to remain active.

Posted by: Besoeker 2018-03-16 02:51

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