You’d almost think he was illegally running for re-election at the wrong time. But no. Accompanied by oomph and steadfast charisma, ex-President Barack Obama has instead been out and about giving knock-’em-down speeches on behalf of fellow Democrats crying for help. They have been pretty much in control of Washington, D.C., and elsewhere, but their performances are about to be assessed in midterm elections by nationally distributed victims.
Although two terms of Obama’s own mistakes may have helped Donald Trump become president, Obama could well deliver Democratic victories in some close races, perhaps saving portions of his dubious legacy from Republicans taking over both the House and Senate. Helping candidates running for still other offices, he is heroically substituting for President Joe Biden who struggles to attract crowds unenthused by verbal fumbles. After all, Biden’s foremost campaign talent in his 2020 triumph was to stay mostly quiet in his Delaware basement.
Obama, a Harvard Law School grad, is hardly showering his audiences with sophisticated, deeply analytical, detailed discourse, but bombarding them with demagoguery, as in saying, “Democracy as we know it may not survive in Arizona” if Republicans are elected as U.S. senator, governor, secretary of state and attorney general. These candidates believe that Biden won election as president through fraud, and Obama thinks they will plot ways to win elections with fraud.
