Report: Obama Worried About 2024 Biden Campaign, Aides Dish on Tension Between Camps

  RedState

"And why are they backing off of it now and telling the truth? Could it be because at least some of the Obama people can read the room - and want to distance themselves from all the failure that is Joe Biden - even though they might want him to win in 2024."

"There's a fascinating new report from the Washington Post about how worried Barack Obama is about Joe Biden's chances of winning in 2024. 

"According to the report, Obama's first concern about the campaign is about the structure, that Biden's chief advisers are in Washington, D.C., while his campaign is in Wilmington, Delaware. Obama thinks the top people should either be in Wilmington or that the people there should be empowered to make campaign decisions, because as it is now, according to the report, they have to go through D.C. Obama believes that doesn't make for an agile, quick response campaign. 

"While Obama hasn't recommended anyone to help the Biden team, he has mentioned David Plouffe, the Obama report says. 

"That's sort of fascinating because when he was on MSNBC the other day, Plouffe was urging the tactic of liberal voters coming out to vote for Nikki Haley in the primaries to sabotage Trump or extend the primary. . . .

The relationship between Obama and the man who served as his vice president for eight years is a complex one. The two men developed a strong working relationship and their families bonded well, but aides to both men say the “bromance” depicted in some pop culture accounts was always an exaggeration.

"No kidding, but it was Obama and Biden who were doing the exaggerating about it, not just the media. Just another thing to try to deceive the public. " . . .

Anti-Israel Girl Who Attacked Teenager in IDF Sweatshirt Graduated From Barack Obama School for Social Justice UPDATED, 1/9

 Legal Insurrection

The chick who lost her mind on a 16-year-old in an IDF sweatshirt graduated from the Barack Obama School for Social Justice.

Not kidding. Palisade Preparatory School in Yonkers, NY, changed its name to the Barack Obama School for Justice at the start of the 2022-23 school year.

UPDATE: the assailant in this video has been identified as Marla Bonilla Hernandez of Yonkers, NY.

She is a graduate of the Barack Obama School for Social Justice. https://t.co/V95a93moOt pic.twitter.com/jhDVSxsVy5

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) January 3, 2024

"From earlier today:

A few anti-Israel dumbs accosted a family of four at the American Dream Mall in New Jersey because the 16-year-old wore an IDF sweatshirt.

"Her 12-year-old sister was with her.

"The Jerusalem Post reported that the American Dream Mall is known for its “kosher dining options and being a location frequented often by local Jewry.”

"Disgusting: “You’re a wh*re! Your mother is a wh*re! Your grandmother is a wh*re!”

"She sounds lovely: “Free Palestine! F*cking die, b*tch!” . . .

This is the Obama school this girl learns from:  Palisade Preparatory School in New York - U.S. News Education (usnews.com)

Anti-Israel Girl Who Attacked Teenager in IDF Sweatshirt Graduated From Barack Obama School for Social Justice

The jackboot of Jewish imperialism?

 Mark C. Ross - American Thinker   

"A common fallacy is that Israeli Arabs are second-class citizens, sequestered by a form of apartheid.  There have been Arab members of the Knesset since the first day of Israeli independence.  Arab citizens of Israel have enjoyed complete legal equality since 1966." 

"Oy!  Those Jews...conquering the world, one Palestinian at a time.  As per the mainstream media, the dinky little sliver of dirt known as Israel is an aggressive expansionist empire.  History, however, offers a different perspective.

"In his book Migrations and Cultures (1996), Thomas Sowell has a chapter titled “The Jews of the Diaspora.”  In it, he describes how, during the 19th century, Jews who were scattered throughout Eurasia began to move back into their ancestral homeland — known then as Palestine, which was then part of the Ottoman Empire — to escape various forms of persecution.  Other historians have described Jews as the last remaining citizens of the Roman Empire — which, during its heyday, provided the conduit for the diaspora in the first place.  

"Ignorance of this series of events was most conspicuously showcased by Barack Obama’s “Cairo Speech” of 2009.  In it he parroted the standard Palestinian Liberation narrative, accusing Zionists of being foreign invaders of their ancestral homeland.  Various internet trolls contend that Ashkenazi Jews (typically eastern European) have no historical connection to Palestine whatsoever, since they were made Jewish by the conversion of the Khazars to Judaism centuries ago.  Most scholars dismiss this theory as both bogus and thinly veiled antisemitism." . . .

Two Racial Grievance Girls: Michelle and Meghan

 Victoria White Berger - American Thinker

"How much do Meghan Markle, duchess of Sussex, and Michelle Obama, ex–first lady, have in common?  It’s odd how much, yet how little of distinction or substance is in that muchness — given the strong hints of vacuity in both women, and in spite of the gushing excesses of “personality” in their public profiles.  There are so many legitimately accomplished and courageous female heroines, past and present.  It is an unfortunate characteristic of reportage that the likes of these two get the insistent “coverage” withheld from those far more deserving.

"The two women share middle-class backgrounds and higher education (Michelle Ivy League, Meghan top-tier) degrees.  Both women have been (Michelle) and are (Meghan) using their own mothers to “help” raise their children, in a sort of familial au pair capacity.  Both have high-fashion tastes and use private jets for travel.  Both are frequent commentators on their own racial victimization.

"The serious press doesn’t run much on Meghan, yet just enough to legitimize the tabloids; social media; and bored, dissatisfied individuals across the world who opine that the duchess is something worth thinking about.

"Michelle Obama, by contrast, is heavily reported, always, in the MSM.  Michelle does revolving books (or someone does for her).  Apparently, she has a heavy hand in the Obama Netflix MAGA attack theatre.  She routinely fills up the Obama unearned privilege tank with loads of cash, to spend or invest, from wildly overpaid speeches and “cameo” appearances.  Never has grifting been so easy.  At last count, Michelle has four mansions to “live in” and enjoys her subsidized, international celebrity vacation tours annually." . . .

Target Customer Asks Michelle Obama For Help; First Lady Believes Request Was Racially Motivated   ..."Numerous commenters have pointed out that Michelle Obama stands at 5’11” and anyone at that height would get asked by a shorter person to grab an item off a high shelf for them. Many have also pointed to their own experiences of being asked to grab something from a shelf despite not being black."...

What's the Worst, Most Divisive Thing Michelle Obama Has Said as First Lady? "While delivering the commencement speech at City College in New York City, Michelle Obama notably referred to waking up every day in a house built by slaves. Mrs. Obama never misses an opportunity to bait racism and divide the country. She's made many divisive remarks during her tenure as first lady."  "Which is the worst?"

NYC Girls' Basketball Game Canceled After Home Team Hurls Antisemitic Slurs at Visiting Jewish School

  RedState   

I'm with Robin Boswell. No way would I have shaken hands with an opponent who had called me a "f***ing Jew" if I were a Leffell player.  

Israeli Boy Taunted Eerily Similar to Famous Holocaust Photo

"A high school girls' basketball game in Yonkers, New York, was abruptly ended on Thursday after players on the home team hurled antisemitic slurs at their Jewish opponents, who ultimately needed security guards to escort them off the court to safety.

"Members of Leffell School, a private Jewish school in Hartsdale, NY, faced "substantially more jabs and comments" than they had "experienced in the past."  

“I support Hamas, you f–king Jew,” a Roosevelt player hurled at a Leffell player, according to The New York City Public Schools Alliance, a group of parents and teachers fighting antisemitism.

"This incident was beyond troubling, given that the offending members of the Roosevelt High School team likely had little or no knowledge or understanding of the history of the Middle East — and, one would hope, given some of the disgusting slurs, of Hamas — and were simply parroting left-wing bigotry that they picked up from others.

"Senior Leffell player Robin Bosworth wrote in an op-ed for the school's student newspaper, "The Lion’s Roar":

Throughout the first half of our game against Roosevelt High School in Yonkers, there was a somewhat hostile environment, with substantially more jabs and comments thrown at theplayers on our team than what I have experienced in the past. Despite this, our team chose to let their aggressiveness fuel us going into the second half of the game, as we continued to play passionately. 

However, all of that changed in the third quarter. Members of our team started to get injured from the other team’s physical style of play. At the end of the quarter, players on the opposing team started shouting “Free Palestine” and other antisemitic slurs and curses at us. 

Joe's history of demagoguery

Biden Delivers Angry Attack on Trump and Jan. 6 in Valley Forge Speech, but Trips Over Reality – RedState    . . ."He claimed our freedom, including our freedom to vote, was on the ballot. 

" 'Yet, it's the Democrats in multiple states trying to keep Trump off the ballot and depriving millions of people of the right to vote for their choice. That's not Trump posing that threat; that's Democrats. 

"Biden claims he ran to be a president for all the people, yet again, he attacked MAGA supporters as not believing in democracy. So once again, he says one thing and then contradicts himself in the next breath. 

"In talking about Jan. 6, he called it an insurrection when no one has even been charged with that, including Trump. He told multiple falsehoods, including saying that Trump didn't call for peace on Jan.6, when he most certainly did, first calling on people to act peacefully and patriotically, and then after the riot, telling people there had to be peace and they had to go home. 

"Biden also claimed that he went to the funerals of police officers who died as a result of that day. Yet, no police officers were killed during the riot. Brian Sicknick, who died the following day, suffered from a stroke. " . . .

"I UNDERSTAND POWER!" - Angry Joe Biden Attacks Trump and Trump Supporters in Valley Forge Speech (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila   . . .

Opinion | Biden’s Demagogic Voting Speech - POLITICO     . . ."Biden rightly excoriated former President Donald Trump, if not by name, for his conduct since the election, saying it’s been “selfishness,” not “statesmanship.” True enough. If Trump runs again in 2024 and loses again, there’s no reason to believe he wouldn’t, once again, claim he was robbed. There is a good case for tightening up the convoluted Electoral Count Act that might be used by partisans of Trump (or some other Republican or Democratic candidate in the future) to try to change an election outcome at the federal level.

"That’s not what Biden talked about, though. Instead, he lashed the Republican election bills. The approach seems designed to mirror Trump’s effort to undermine his side’s faith in the electoral process with a countervailing effort to undermine his own side’s faith in the electoral process.

"Indeed, if Democrats lose in 2022 or 2024, Biden’s speech may be seen by Democrats as providing an equally corrosive excuse—it was Republican voter suppression.

"This tack already got a successful test run by Stacey Abrams when she lost in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial campaign. She refused to concede and today almost all Democrats treat her as the rightful victor, even though there’s no evidence the election was anything but free and fair (with robust turnout)." . . .

Jonathan Turley Criticizes Biden's 'Anti-Free-Speech Administration' (townhall.com)   "George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley had a few choice words for President Joe Biden after he used his first 2024 campaign speech to assault democracy. 

"On Friday, Biden spent a significant portion of his campaign speech demonizing former President Trump and fear-mongering Americans by focusing on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill protests. 

"Turley suggested to Fox News that Biden’s speech was hypocritical by talking about the freedom to vote despite his own party attempting to strip Trump’s name from the 2024 ballot. 

"During his speech in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Biden said that defending democracy was a “central cause” of his administration. However, Turley pointed out that the Democratic Party has gone to great lengths to suppress the constitutional rights of Americans and their freedom to choose who they want running the country. " . . .

But this is what Joe does, even in 2023:  Biden’s Bleak Story About Race in America Is False - WSJ   

His warnings of ‘white supremacy’ would suit 1960 Alabama. In 2023 they’re merely demagogic.

 " Over a long career Joe Biden has delivered more than a few speeches that will take their place in the annals of cheap demagoguery. But he may have surpassed himself last weekend with his commencement address at Howard University in Washington.

"In keeping with the current tenor of political oratory, it was a low, dispiriting affair, one that aptly captured the low, dispiriting nature of his presidency: acerbic rhetoric from a partisan who demonizes opposition and divides Americans from one another; bottomless self-unawareness from a politician elected president almost accidentally in a moment of crisis, who continues to see himself as some sort of historical savior; cynical cant from a serial fabulist whose distortions are becoming as loathsome as the endless malign fictions of the predecessor he despises and whom he desperately needs as a foil." . . .

Conservative Methodist Exit Nears End Point

 The American Spectator | USA News and Politics 

 "The window that opened in 2019 to allow United Methodist churches to depart their embattled denomination closes in a week or so, at the end of the year, and at this late hour, approximately one-fourth of the member churches that constitute Protestantism’s second-largest denomination have climbed through that window.

"In the largest U.S. church schism since Civil War times, nearly 7,700 churches of the roughly 30,000 in the United Methodist Church (UMC) have voted to take their property and go elsewhere.

"The issue of contention in the 19th century was slavery. Today, in the UMC, it’s LGBTQ-related issues. Liberals have been defying denominational rules banning same-sex marriages and the ordination of “self-avowed practicing homosexuals,” and conservatives have been taking advantage of a temporary rule passed in 2019 that allows their congregations to vote on whether to leave, taking their property and buildings with them.

"The number of leavers is greater than expected — Methodist insider Mark Tooley earlier this year put the low-ball number at 3,000 leavers, with an upper limit of 5,000. In actuality, a massive rush for the door by 5,642 departing congregations in 2023, the last year the deal is in effect, brings the current total to 7,659.

"How Things Got to This Point

"The UMC, as a church body, has resisted the tsunami of LGBTQ fervor that has swept through the rest of liberal Protestantism. Indeed, it has endorsed at every general convention since its initially passing in 1972 a stricture in the denomination’s Book of Discipline that declared the practice of homosexuality “incompatible with Christian teaching.”

"The vote at its most recent conclave, a special session of the General Conference in 2019, was more nail-biter than previous totals, however, as the group upheld, by a 438–384 count — that is, by a mere 54 votes — the church’s ban on same-sex marriage and “self-avowed practicing” gay clergy. Buoying the conservative tally was the presence of a sizable African contingent who, as a group, hew to much more traditional views regarding marriage and sexual issues. (READ MORE from Tom Raabe: On Drag Queens and the Methodist Breakup)" . . .

Anti-Woke Texas Rangers Win the World Series

  The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Perhaps there is justice in the sports world after all.

CatholicVote ad campaign rips LA Dodgers

"Perhaps the gods of political incorrectness are exacting revenge upon Major League Baseball’s screwy wokesters.

I recently wrote about the implosion of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Despite posting another 100-win season, the Dodgers pathetically failed to make it through the divisional round of the playoffs. They were trounced, outright swept by the second-place team in their division, the Arizona Diamondbacks, who won 16 fewer games than the Dodgers. The Dodgers registered a mark for futility.

"Of course, back in June the Dodgers had registered another mark for futility — actually, for obscenity. The team gave a “Community Hero Award” to a lewd anti-Catholic hate group, the so-called “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.” Despite outcry from pretty much the whole world, the Dodgers insisted on recognizing the hairy-legged, bearded weirdos during the team’s “Pride Night.” 

"That was June, with the team at its peak of winning streaks. Then came October, when the Dodgers struck out big time against the D-backs.

"For the Dodgers, pride came before the fall.

"Readers might recall a June 2023 piece I did on MLB and Pride Month. There, naturally, I took my shots at the dubious Dodgers. The especially astute reader might recall that in that piece I noted that the only MLB franchise not flying the rainbow banner was the Texas Rangers. In not swallowing the woke gobbledygook, the Rangers were condemned as gay baseball’s lone holdout. 

"Well, dear readers, I share exciting news: It was none other than the Texas Rangers who won the World Series this week. Yes, the one team that didn’t embrace the deadly sin of pride. "...

Full article here.

 San Diego State 'investigated' by Joe Biden's DoE for 'Islamophobia' after condemning October 7 attacks - American Thinker  

 "Ever wonder why Harvard's now-ex-president, Claudine Gay, could have such a hard time condemning calls for genocide against Jews in her congressional testimony?

"Sure, part of it, as she said, was that she "got caught up" with her questioner, GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik, whom she obviously thinks has cooties. 

"The other part, though, might be this, as Campus Reform reports:

The Biden administration’s Department of Education opened an investigation into San Diego State University after an administrator sent an email condemning Hamas and offering support after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, according to a school official.

A spokesperson for San Diego State University told Campus Reform it received a notice from the Department of Education on Tuesday about a complaint that the school “discriminated against Islamic, Arab and/or Palestinian students by sending an all-campus email on Oct. 9.”

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened a shared ancestry investigation into the university on Tuesday, government records show.

The complaint, according to the SDSU official, alleges that the email “promoted hate and racism against Arabs and Muslims.”

"So San Diego State, that lowly state school that has been rising in the university rankings lately, did the opposite of what Claudine Gay did, openly condemned the orgy of rape and murder of Jews put on by Palestinian Hamas, and now finds itself investigated by Joe Biden's minions for "Islamophobia."  Bad, bad, San Diego State, whose president can't quite hedge and waffle on an obvious issue the way Harvard's can. Call the cops.

"So what exactly was in the statement that was so very Islamophobic, so Islamophobic so as to require a federal investigation complete with federal investigators raining down on the school?

"Take a gander:    See for yourself.

What would the Antifa generation want Biden to do?

Fetterman Continues to Surprise With Truly Funny Take on Harvard's Leftism

  RedState  

"More and more of my colleagues are calling for it," Fetterman said. "It’s so strange. Why aren’t you calling for Hamas to surrender? If Hamas surrendered, and turned over their guns, all the killing and all the misery would [stop]." 

"Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) continues to surprise, as he calls out the people on the radical left. 

"This time Fetterman weighed in on the question of how Harvard has dealt with antisemitism and the case of Claudine Gay. Gay finally resigned as president of the university after her failure to say unequivocally that calling for genocide against Jewish people was against the Harvard Code of Conduct and being accused of a lot of instances of plagiarism. 

Fetterman just eviscerated Harvard's failure to properly deal with antisemitism and he slammed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. He said that he went to Harvard 25 years ago, and they had always been a little "pinko'."

"As an alum of Harvard — look, I graduated 25 years ago, and of course it was always a little pinko," Fetterman told Semafor this week "But now, I don’t recognize it."

Yes, he did go to Harvard for graduate school. He got a Masters in Public Policy degree from there. And he's right, it was always bad, but now it's beyond the beyond with how bad it is. 

He skewered the radicals, saying that it was Israel that was "a beacon of the kind of values, the American values and progressive ideals, that you want to see" in the area. 

"In that region, it’s our strongest ally, and we have a very special kind of relationship. I don’tunderstand how anybody could vote against the Iron Dome, or want to harm Israeli businesses or the nation or anything. I’ll never understand that. Calling them ‘colonizers’— like, where does this come from? It must be TikTok or some kind of obscure classroom talk."

He also ripped apart the calls for a ceasefire within the Democratic Party, pointing out how wrong that was, given the situation with Hamas. 

Joe Biden’s Valley Forge Speech About Trump’s ‘Threat to Our Democracy’ Was as Awful as You’d Expect

 “Biden had the nerve to say democracy is on the ballot, as his party tries to remove Trump from multiple state ballots.”

. . ."Joel Pollak of Breitbart News notes that this was just more of the same, tired strategy that Biden has used in the past:

President Joe Biden kicked off his reelection campaign on Friday near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, with recycled attack lines against Donald Trump that he had previously used in the 2020 presidential campaign.

Biden claimed — as if it were a fact — that Trump had called fallen soldiers (Biden called them “dead soldiers”) “suckers” and “losers,” an unsubstantiated accusation by unnamed sources that was refuted at the time by more than a dozen people who went on the record, including some who opposed Trump.

Biden also attacked Trump for considering the use of the Insurrection Act in 2020 — which Biden described as a frightening use of the military on American streets, omitting the fact that Black Lives Matter rioters were rampaging through America’s cities.

Much of the speech was devoted to the third anniversary of the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021; Biden moved his speech a day earlier to avoid bad weather. He made no mention of similar left-wing “insurrections,” such as a left-wing shutdown of the California State Assembly this week — which resulted in no arrests at all, even though legislators had to flee the building.

The important thing to remember here, is that Biden’s speech was a preview of the next ten months. His devoted followers in the media will repeat his argument for him between now and November. Prepare to hear a lot more of this rhetoric.

Today’s materialistic world cannot survive without crude oil

 - America Out Loud News

"The elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss is that crude oil is the foundation of our materialistic society as it is the basis of all products and fuels demanded by the 8 billion on this planet.

"As a reality check for those pursuing net-zero emissions, wind and solar do different things than crude oil. Unreliable renewables, like wind turbines and solar panels, only generate occasional electricity but manufacture no products for society.

"Crude oil is virtually never used to generate electricity but, when manufactured into petrochemicals, is the basis for virtually all the products in our materialistic society that did not exist before the 1800s being used at these infrastructures like transportation, airports, hospitals, medical equipment, appliances, electronics, telecommunications, communications systems, space programs, heating and ventilating, and militaries.

"Most importantly, today, there is a lost reality that the primary usage of crude oil is NOT for the generation of electricity but to manufacture derivatives and fuels, which are the ingredients of everything needed by economies and lifestyles to exist and prosper." . . .