While certainly hectic things are significantly better now that youre gone.
By Derek Hunter
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. Welcome back to the political arena President Obama. I caught your speech Friday. You can still read a teleprompter like nobodys business.
Petty is the word Id use to describe your speech. Its also an excellent descriptor of your whole administration so feel free to ding me of unoriginality or lack of a thesaurus. Doesnt make it any less true.
You cant get over the fact that things while certainly hectic from a news standpoint are significantly better now that youre gone.
Your attacks on Republicans were red meat for your base which was your goal. Thankfully they are hungry because President Trump stands on the verge of getting a second Supreme Court justice confirmed.
And I dont begrudge your breaking with tradition of former Presidents not criticizing their successors. You spent 8 years in office whining about your predecessor why should we expect anything different in the other end of those 8 years of awful?
Welcome back Mr. President. The media and crowds will fawn all over you as they always have but what resides in your wake hasnt changed.
We remember.
I do however have a couple of bones to pick with your speech. It shouldnt be surprising you were a horrible president so when you feed your obviously hungry ego people are bound to take issue with it.
You keep trying to claim credit for the economy. This is clearly a sore spot with you and I understand why.
The economy under your administration was sluggish awful really.
So much so that your sycophantic media minions tried to convince the public that 2 growth was The New Normal" in an attempt to make your failure look like a success like the best we could expect going forward.
And they did a good job of it.
There are people who couldnt find work under your administrations policies; They are now working.
We both know you didnt have anything to do with it but youve got to sleep right?
Your legacy cant just be flowery speeches stagnation and a Middle East in disarray. I mean it is. But you cant say that. Youve got a library/monument to yourself to build and you dont want a Libya wing.
So you have to belittle the guy who brought about some of:
- The Lowest Unemployment in Generations
- The Lowest Black & Hispanic Unemployment Ever
- And Spurred Economic Growth that makes your 2 Terms look like a soiled diaper.
I dont blame you.
Your line about how the economic recovery started under your administration was cute
and it played well with the drooling audience. You knew you were safe in saying that because journalists who just cant quit you werent going to report how while the growth rate in 2015 was 2.9 (so close to 3 but you just couldnt get there could you?) the rate the following year lost nearly 50 of that a pathetic 1.6.
When you know the downward trajectory youd created wasnt going to be reported you can say things like you did.
Again I dont blame you
Id be embarrassed of your economic record too.
I do however take issue with you claims of Republicans being responsible for the division in the country.
Like when you said President Trump was just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years." You
were implying complicity for yourself right?
Aside from the fact that people will always disagree about politics I seem to recall your administration and media cronies declaring everyone who dared to hold a contrary opinion from you to be a racist in one form or another.
And I dont remember you saying much about it. Considering you claimed to have learned about the scandals in your administration from the media Id assume you would have noticed those stories too. Unless you were lying. But you wouldnt do that right?
I get that you dont like the current President hes doing a better job than you did particularly for the people you claimed to care about most. The middle class is doing so much better without you. Thats got to suck. But to accuse Trump of what youre guilty of is sort of breaking with norms isnt it?
I thought leftists hated that?
Thats not to say President Trump isnt breaking norms as well he really is. The difference is hes never portrayed himself as above it all. Nor has he spent an inordinate amount of time whining about the mess you left him he just set about correcting it.
Some of the damage you did cant be undone. Well never get back those pallets of cash you gave to Iran. That money is likely already spread out untraceable funding terror around the world; which is why they
wanted cash. Electronic transfers can be traced dollars and euros cant. But you knew that of course. No one who comes up through the Chicago political machine is unaware of the power of cash.
And now youre back unable to retire gracefully. Youre young for a former President so it makes sense. Lord knows you have enough money
liberals always seem to leave government for huge piles of it. The only things for which you are left yearning are attention and praise.
And dont even get me started on your claims about how President Trump treats the press. You spied on them tried to jail them and named them as co-conspirators." Trump has tweeted and said mean things. Still because of ideology and ideology only they loved you and hate him.
I for one am glad youre back. While you won your elections you were like throwing a bag of sand to drowning man for everyone else down that ballot you supported. Please feed that ego beast and campaign often.
Your promises still ring hallow with a lot of people.
- There are 5 million Americans who lost their health insurance because of you.
- Millions more who remember how you used the IRS as a weapon...
- Sold guns to Mexican Drug Cartels
- Wasted billions of tax dollars on that Stimulus" bill that enriched your cronies
- Left 4 Americans to die and blamed it on an Internet video to protect your reelection bid... to
just name a few.
Seeing your face hearing your voice as you pound your own chest and make even more promises on behalf of others will only remind everyone of those things and more.
So please campaign.
Derek Hunter is Washington D.C. based writer radio host and political strategist. He helped found the Daily Caller where he is a contributor.
