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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.
Even as the fallout grew from Biden’s debate performance, ‘Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House‘ revealed that Congressional Black Caucus members “laid down a marker: if Biden exited the race, they would accept no option other than Vice President Kamala Harris”.
Racial tensions exploded among Democrat insiders right after the debate. “I watched the black-white stuff start on Thursday night,” an elected official recalled.
At a private chat, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the first ranking House Democrat and Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third ranking House Democrat, “had watched next-generation white governors lay the groundwork to battle Harris for the nomination” and agreed that, “they would not let their party skip over the first Black woman vice president, not without a fight.”
Former DNC Chair Donna Brazile and other black Democrats who had been helping the campaign with black turnout began lobbying delegates to back Kamala even before Biden dropped out. “We’re not going to let anyone skip over the VP,” Brazile had warned.
Obama had helped touch off the takedown of Joe Biden. His allies, loyalists and operatives had seeded doubt about Biden’s functionality and jumped on him when he faltered at the debate. But Obama had not done it for Kamala, he had done it to replace Biden with one of his own people, and yet after pulling strings on white establishment players, like Pelosi and George Clooney, his path forward was being blocked by the Congressional Black Caucus members with whom he always had an uneasy relationship. The CBC had initially backed Hillary Clinton over him. And while it was forced to hail him as the first black president, the same old time Dems like Jesse Jackson who once bragged on TV, “I want to cut his nuts off”, resented him.
Obama did not want Kamala, but that made black Democrats want her even more. Elevating Kamala would eclipse Obama. And Obama’s opposition to her only reinforced their mistrust of his racial solidarity. Black political activists of any generation had never trusted Obama to stand with the black community and his campaign missteps once Kamala became the nominee, which included attacking black men, only reinforced their doubts whether he was really one of them.
And they had a point. Obama was far more comfortable with the white Democrat power players than with the old black establishment that was busy cutting off his plans by rallying for Kamala. Obama was heavily reliant on white operatives like David Axelrod or his Pod Save America cohort who were of far less use against Kamala and the black activists laboring for her. His white operatives were afraid of crossing racial lines and Obama preferred to work behind the scenes, but the former community organizer had never been good at actual organizing.
That ineptitude was part of a larger problem. Obama thought of himself as an idea man. He expected others to do the hard work. His efforts to interfere in the 2020 primary by putting forward his own candidate had collapsed badly. And whatever candidate he had in mind for his mini-primary shell game in 2024 went unnamed. Obama correctly warned that Kamala would lose but he never revealed who his dream candidate was going to be. And that may be because the candidate would not make an appearance unless Kamala had already been sidelined.
Some speculated that Obama was going to put forward his wife. There is no way to know, but it’s likelier that Obama’s dream candidate was not black or even a woman. The CBC had been right about Obama. He was a leftist before he was anything else and his allegiance to the black community had always been a political facade to advance his radical agenda.
Obama could have put his wife forward before he could put forward a white leftist woman or man up against Kamala. The only way that could happen was if black Democrats had joined him in opposing Kamala and despite his best efforts, Obama could not get any takers.
Black Democrats had colluded to put forward Kamala, not because they believed in her personal abilities or because they thought she was the best candidate, but because she was black. Time and time again, black establishment players emphasized that she was black, was the first black vice president and would be the first black female president rather than any rationale rooted in her actual candidacy. The same irrational tribal logic that had elevated Obama was now being used to elevate Kamala. And Obama couldn’t do anything to stop it.
After Kamala’s defeat, party narratives and campaign books have attached most of the blame to Biden. But it wasn’t Biden whom voters rejected on Election Day. It was Kamala.
And how did Kamala come to be the party’s standard bearer in 2024?
Biden had picked Kamala because he had been obligated to pick a black woman and his choices were sparse. It had been either Kamala, future Los Angeles Mayor (and Castro sympathizer) Karen Bass and, somewhat bafflingly, Obamaite operative Susan Rice who had never held elected office. When it came time to replace Biden, Kamala got in because of race.
Democrats picked Kamala as their vice presidential and presidential candidate for the wrong reason. The resulting political disaster had less to do with Biden’s health than their racism.
Racism made Kamala the candidate and cost Democrats the White House.
Biden pledged in 2024 to have a female vice-president, a pledge which gave him decent options. Blacks insisted it had to be a black female, on the grounds that black females are the most loyal Democrat voting bloc. Which left Kamala as the ONLY option. The Lord works in mysterious ways…
second best by one point
Harris had not one drop of African DNA. Her mother was born in India and her father came from a long line of Irish slaveholders on the island of Jamaica.
“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.”
As the kids say today: Girl, he’s just not that into you.
In the 2020 Democratic primaries, Kamala had great name recognition but was a terrible candidate, polling somewhere around 1%, just above pond scum but still below dog shit. After her debate performance where she basically called Biden a Grand Kleagle, her stock went up, but as soon as voters actually listened to her speak contemporaneously and not in pre-packaged soundbites, they went back to detesting her.
After she dropped out of the race, her campaign said it was due to…can you guess? Come on. I know you have a guess.
Racism. Did you guess racism? You did? Whaddaya want, a pony?
Anyways, her campaign said she failed because of racism. For the first time in modern history, the Democrat Party actually told the truth and admitted that their members are racists who don’t like black people.
Excellent coverage and insights.
This piece is probably quite accurate. However what it really underlines is the actual way our country is governed. The republicans are no different than the socialists. The US citizen is merely a small piece of the puzzle. The only “service” the political business provides is to themselves. Affluence in our society has over ridden the concept and responsibility of a peoples’ government. The coming disasters will accent the flaws in our system and ourselves.
MAGA republicans promote what the USA is – a capitalist republic democracy – today’s demoncraps are the socialist marxist commies
All USA citizens have a stake in the USA – entrepreneurs in USA have a greater stake which makes MAGA the best friend to entrepreneurs
I have been on both sides and lemme tell y’all – being an entrepreneur in USA is the best life one can have while on Earth and still keep a strong bond with YHVH GOD ALMIGHTY who guides us –
Let us not forget how many times the Bible mentions being on the right side – as we say right and left –
Jesus sits at the right side of the throne of GOD – Jesus instructs his apostles to fish off the right side of the boat and they could not haul in the net because the catch was bigger than their fishing boat –
These are not non sequiturs – these are instructions from Heaven!
There are plenty of politicians who care about the citizens, especially President Trump. Unfortunately for us, there are a Hell of a lot more of the ones you describe.
Total liberal nonsense..
“Black Democrats had colluded to put forward Kamala, not because they believed in her personal abilities or because they thought she was the best candidate, but because she was black.”
Except that she isn’t black. She is of Indian extraction. So her entire candidacy was built on a lie.
So how stupid are black democrats? Back in 2008 guilty white liberals were so desperate to have a black president they fell hook line and sinker for a leftist/Muslim grifter who hated America.
4 years ago black democrats were so desperate to have another black president, this time in the guise of a vapid, stupid Indian woman pretending to be black, they pushed and pushed. But this time around white America wasn’t buying it. That, in large part, was why Trump won in a landslide. The word salad banshee just couldn’t compete.
Thank God we dodged that bullet.
I don’t think black democrats are stupider than Jewish democrat voters – let’s see in the upcoming NYC mayor race – I only pray they all wake up and smell the coffee – so they can smell the shit on the sidewalk who is the front runner in that race
Let’s hope you are right. Re: Jews and stupidity, my empathy meter is rapidly getting closer to zero. They always seem to vote for their own executioners.
Mamdami has already locked in the win. It will be a rout.
One parameter is not obvious. Compared to most we are political junkies.
Most of the population gets the varnished view and it would be shock and awe, basically unbelievable to them if they ever were able to get through the shield of the left and the institutional misinformation
every word is correct.
the PEOPLE, black and white bear responsibility for kam-kam. for different reasons stated above!
it is time for the PEOPLE to forget race as a factor in politics and become AMERICANS.
AMERICANS educate themselves, make up their own minds, then vote.
the political process DEMANDS 2 sides of the coin and facts!
The vacuous airhead had admitted she had never talked one on one with any world leader. In fact she has never talked to a world leader.
perhaps we could push for the w. house to be rebadged as the black house . ? what a bunch of sycophants and troglodytes inhabit dc . on both sides of the aisle . go the don !!
I wish I popped some popcorn before I sat down to read the article.
Oh, the politics of racism. The black caucus is made up of deranged racists who are under the impression that a black president would solve all of the racial problems in America, real or imagined. But the divide increased during the eight years of the Obama administration. This proved that their theory was corrupt. These black leaders are exhausting the patience of the white people who understand that the race baiting is opportunistic and there are no slaves in America, with one exception: the Democratic party. From the extremes of the clan to the Al Sharpton’s, race has been the exploitation by the low intelligence crowd who does not realize that America could be better off without them. Imagine America without these racists. Think of the peace that we all could enjoy without them clogging up the vestals of freedom with their interference.
Snowfrog has a good synopsis.
Representative Byron Donalds who is running for Florida governor and folks like him is what we all need – color doesn’t matter as long as the job is done ethically and productive for all citizen constituents.
Byron Donalds is a good man. I see him on TV a lot.
Were I disagree with you is. I don’t believe Black Democrats really care if she IS actually black. They only care about how their racism lines their pockets.
So true. xhibribem is QED for that premise
Don’t forget the Democrats’ circular logic of blaming Americans who didn’t vote for Harris because they were racist. Which is racist in itself, for the logic being that the only reason to vote for Harris is due to the pigment of her skin.
Her pigment is curry colored.
Because her mother is from India and her father is of Irish heritage from the island of Jamaica..
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
We all dodged a bullet on 7-13-2024 – that is the extent the demoncraps feared President Trump – it took YHVH’S HAND )GOD ALMIGHTY) to protect President Trump.
Can you imagine if the devil that is in these wicked people had successfully taken out President Trump – this nation would be like the UK nations where speaking out against the demonic satanic myzzlym will get you locked up! Open borders, forget about it. “Escape from NY-Escape from LA” would be “Escape from USA” –
The majority of USA citizens wanted President Trump as our lifeline to the promise of USA and we have it so we will be moored to making USA strong and the things done in the 4 disastrous years of the installed POTUS 46 administration by coup d’etat of rigged and stolen 2020 election could be immediately reveresed and full speed ahead for the next 4 years to build a foundation to which hopefully JD Vance will be POTUS 48 with Marco Rubio the VPOTUS!
2 Chronicles 7:12-18 “And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.”
“If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;”
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
“Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.”
“For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.”
“And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;”
“Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.”
The context of II Chronicles 7:14 is the King of Israel, Solomon, and Israel. King Solomon had just finished the Lords house and King’s house (verse 11). When the Lord spoke to Solomon here, and said “my.people,” the.Lord was referring to Israel, not anyone else then, or in the future such as the USA. Israel and Israel only.
It is very important for Bible believer’s to understand this.
Why? America didn’t exist in the time of Solomon.
Jesus came 900 years after Solomon. There was only the Old Testament, the Torah of the Jews. The New Testament was formally written in 325 AD at the Council of Nicaea where the Nicaean Creed comes from. The Catholic Church under Constantine wrote the first formal New Testament the one that exists today.
I have yet to hear her give one coherent speech, what are her accomplishment Please give me just one, Shes a drunk, a coke abuse, a tramp of the first order (B/J queen of the DNC). Ask Willey.!
For me the worst thing about her was her parents and that she is a red diaper baby who is an ideologue communist. Maybe worse than malibu.
Thank GOD that Backs are SO ONE SIDED that they forcefully pushed for the one canadidate that was guaranteed to lose.
Their BLACKNESS has lead to their conntunous falure to be accepted as normal human benigs and citizens of the US because of their insistence of being seen as BLACK first, and not as regular Americans. They foolishly fight against the system that allows them to be successful.
Their RACISM toward Whites, criminal activities, and entitlement attitudes have kept them from being accepted by the rest of Americans.
i wish every rational AMERICAN CITIZEN could read this article!
We are dealing here strictly with the present and it’s not an all that rosy present at that.
If conservatives don’t take the issue of childhood education seriously enough to see to it that the next generation is raised on Judeo-Christian morals and ethics, instead of Democrap indoctrination, this nation will eventually sink just as Greece and Rome had before it.
In the meantime we may have a win here and there with which to flatter ourselves, but our most important cities will continue to follow on Detroit’s heels. San Francisco is already lost, Los Angeles’s decline and decay seems irreversible, DC and Chicago are criminal havens, and NY seems set to follow suit.
This is the trend that worries me. With every generation, our young emerge from their schooling/indoctrination more radical than the generation before. If this trend is not halted or reversed, neither will our decline.
Quote: “Obama could see the disaster coming”
So could anyone not wed to filling social justice check boxes. From her disastrous 2019 attempt to her speaking as VP to her inability to get any accomplishments as VP. She didn’t have the ability.
Where do you stand on the issues?
In the same place as the demented white guy that was underwater on major issues. I’ve even stole his reelection campaign website, just changing the name and pic at the top. (p.s. It was the same demented old guy that nominated her.)
Harris just like Clinton(Bill)Obama and Biden would have carried on with the UN/CFR Global Plans for a Global Government run by the Useless Nations