{"id":3218,"date":"2026-06-29T04:08:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2026-06-29T04:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:08:34","slug":"miranda-devine-dems-are-in-desperate-need-of-a-new-leader-as-communists-overrun-their-party-but-all-they-got-is-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=3218","title":{"rendered":"Miranda Devine: Dems are in desperate need of a new leader as communists overrun their party — but all they got is Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just as his party is overrun by communist revolutionaries, Barack Obama has decided to take center stage in a frenetic public relations campaign, ostensibly to promote his so-called library.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s here, there and everywhere, silkily opining about everything under the sun, except the only thing that matters: the disintegration of his party. Like Nero playing the fiddle while Rome burned, Obama is curiously detached from the disaster he helped create.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Democrats desperately need a leader to rally around, but all they have is Obama.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He is the only former Democratic president who is still sharp, charismatic and dynamic enough to take up the mantle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton, while reasonably well-liked and not crazy, despite his wife, has significant health problems and is in no shape to do more than make the occasional token appearance and help raise money.<\/p>\n

Clearly, Joe Biden, the only other living former Democratic president, can barely function in public, as was evident in his Saturday night performance at a fundraiser for the Maryland Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

Quite why he \u2014 or Dr. Jill \u2014 would want to mark the second anniversary of his disastrous final debate humiliation against Donald Trump by fumbling through his first keynote address in a casino at a boxing-themed \u201cFight Back & Win\u201d gala is a mystery.<\/p>\n

Trump derangement<\/h2>\n

Maybe it\u2019s because he can\u2019t rest unless he is exorcising the Trump monster still living in his head.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe even hired his old pool guy to fix the Reflecting Pool. Whoa, what a loser,\u201d Biden said of his predecessor-turned-successor.<\/p>\n

The audience clapped like seals because all the establishment wing of the party has, by way of policies or aspiration, is Trump derangement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So all eyes turn to Obama, a lithe and relatively youthful 64, whose God-given gifts still shine brightly, as the savior who will lead them out of the wilderness of \u201cDemocratic Socialism,\u201d open borders and rigged elections, and back to the promised land of common sense policies and voter enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

But he has nothing.<\/p>\n

He is out and about promoting his $850 million Obama Presidential Center that squats menacingly on the shores of Lake Michigan in 19 acres of public parkland gifted to Obama by the City of Chicago when his former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, was mayor. But what he\u2019s really promoting is himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The granite-clad building\u2019s grim, brutalist design is an unwitting symbol of his benighted presidency, despoiling its beautiful surroundings and offering nothing uplifting or ennobling to the chumps who pay $30 to go inside.<\/p>\n

Dubbed \u201cThe Obamination,\u201d it\u2019s been likened to a Klingon prison, a megalith, a toilet and a trash can.<\/p>\n

But inside is where the fun starts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The grand opening two weeks ago \u2014 on the fake new racial holiday Juneteenth, of course \u2014 was attended by Obama-worshipping luminaries such as Oprah Winfrey, Tom Hanks, George Lucas (perhaps looking for inspiration for the next Death Star), Stephen Colbert, Stevie Wonder (who at least was spared the ugliness), Bruce Springsteen and Bono. Obama basked in their adulation as they oohed and ahhed at the wonders of his creation.<\/p>\n

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All the living presidents except you-know-who attended. Obama did the chummy routine he\u2019s adopted lately with Republican George W. and Laura Bush, palling around and grinning for photographs as if the ex-presidents are all one big happy bipartisan family, only ruined by the dreaded Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the end of the ceremony, Obama played air guitar on stage, and Dr. Jill abandoned her befuddled husband to scurry off with the cool kids, yet again shirking her duty of ensuring Joe wasn\u2019t embarrassed in public by his inability to find the exit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Enjoys Joe humiliation<\/h2>\n

Obama, the host, didn\u2019t mind that Joe was humiliated. All the better to showcase his superiority, just like that time during the campaign when he led the disoriented then-president off stage in ostentatiously attentive fashion at a George Clooney-hosted fundraiser in LA. Poor Joe probably won\u2019t ever get a library because the donors want to forget he ever existed, and that suits Obama down to the ground. He wants nobody to overshadow his legacy.<\/p>\n

Just like the ceremony, the library-that-is-not-a-library is a monument to the self-regarding former president.<\/p>\n

Obama is the central focus of the entire museum, with enormous portraits and photographs of Barack and Michelle as imperial rulers, and dozens of installations, interactive exhibits and videos depicting his inspirational life story as the first black president.<\/p>\n

His blackness is depicted as the essence of his presidency, although technically, he only half qualifies. The parts of the museum that aren\u2019t devoted to him are shrines to black people, artists, storytellers, activists, community organizers and regular black people from Chicago\u2019s South Side, which the Hawaii-born Obama has appropriated for his origin story. Just as his presidency was never all-inclusive, so, too, does his center seek to divide and conquer.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s dulcet tones echo through every room like the disembodied voices in \u201c1984\u201d or \u201cBrave New World\u201d that tell citizens what to think, who to hate, what to believe and how to behave:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m asking you to believe, not in my ability to bring about change but in yours,\u201d he intones.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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That doesn\u2019t sound too different from the hypnopaedic slogans in \u201cBrave New World,\u201d\u00a0 Aldous Huxley\u2019s sci-fi classic: \u201cEveryone belongs to everyone else;\u201d \u201cI\u2019m glad I\u2019m not an Epsilon;\u201d \u201cProgress is lovely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even lefty New York Magazine was appalled by the narcissism, describing the Obama center as \u201ca dimly lit multistory shrine to the president as prophet [with] messages of humility [blazing] from every wall and screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The biggest gaslight of all is seen in the 4-foot-high, monumental concrete letters engraved atop the building in which Obama humbly quotes himself: \u201cThe single most powerful word in our democracy is the word \u2018We.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u201d doesn\u2019t mean what we think it means. It means racial division, Obama style, which was the single legacy of his presidency, paving the way for Trump\u2019s ascension and laying the ground for the Democrats\u2019 current civil war.\u00a0 One day, somebody should take a chisel to those concrete letters and replace \u201cWe\u201d with \u201cMe.\u201d At least that would be historically accurate.<\/p>\n

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