Oh, now Barack Obama is concerned. He wasn’t concerned when Joe Biden was throwing the borders open to who-knows-who from who-knows-where, a mess that the Trump administration is trying to clean up. He wasn’t concerned when our federal government was turning the money printers on High and cranking out trillions in fiat dollars that caused inflation to spike, a mess that the Trump administration is trying to clean up. And he wasn’t concerned with Iran’s resurgence as the number-one state sponsor of Islamic terrorism after Joe Biden relaxed sanctions on the rogue nation, a mess that the Trump administration is trying to clean up.
No, now the former president is concerned about the Trump administration trying to clean all this up.
Obama rebuked Trump without explicitly naming him over the federal government’s threats against universities and students who exercise free speech, its targeting of law firms, and the new tariffs imposed on foreign countries.
“I don’t think what we just witnessed in terms of economic policy and tariffs is going to be good for America, but that’s a specific policy,” Obama said in his remarks at Hamilton College in New York. “I’m more deeply concerned with a federal government that threatens universities if they don’t give up students who are exercising their right to free speech,” he said.
Note how all this is framed. Barack Obama is, to put it very bluntly, lying through his teeth.
The federal government is not making “threats against universities.” Nor are they targeting “students who exercise free speech.” The Trump administration is putting pressure on universities who look the other way or take meaningless, symbolic actions when campuses are taken over by radicals who support Islamic terror groups like Hamas, radicals who conceal their identities with masks, who call for the destruction of Israel, who attack Jewish students, who take over and occupy campus buildings. That is well beyond the bounds of free speech. That is domestic terrorism, using violence or the threat of violence to push a political agenda.
Furthermore, many of these “students” are here on student visas, many from the very countries who have the destruction of Israel – the United States’ best ally in the Middle East – as a matter of national policy. There’s no reason why we, as a nation, should tolerate this, and the Trump administration is correct in identifying these people and sending them home. A visa is not a guarantee; these people are guests in the United States and are here only as long as they behave.
Worse, Barack Obama is no one to be running his mouth on this. As my Townhall colleague Matt Vespa points out, Obama’s own hands are far from clean.
The former president did the ‘could you imagine’ game, where he lists what the Trump administration has done that he finds disagreeable regarding pro-terrorist students in our colleges—we’re deporting them—or yanking press access to media outlets—which isn’t new.
“Imagine if I had done any of this,” said Obama.
The issue here Barry is that you did: You spied on former Fox News reporter James Rosen, even naming his as a spy in court affidavits, you seized the phone records of a dozen Associated Press reporters, there’s palace intrigue regarding meetings with the brass of the Internal Revenue Service which led to the reported targeting of conservative non-profit groups. Mr. President, you were quite Nixonian when it came to leakers and whistleblowers, turned down more FOIA requests than any other administration in history, and your Department of Justice engaged in a prolonged and illegal spy operation against the candidate of the rival party on trumped-up and now thoroughly debunked charges of Russian collusion.
Interestingly, Democrats will still listen to Barack Obama, who was only a mediocre president on the best day he ever had. When he was elected, his resume wasn’t even a mile wide and an inch deep; it was an inch wide and an inch deep. He was lauded as an orator, but when speaking extemporaneously, he is awful. One really good measure of intelligence, in fact, is the ability to speak extemporaneously. Ronald Reagan was good at that, Donald Trump is good at that, and to be fair, Bill Clinton was as well. Barack Obama is terrible; listening to him speak off-prompter is about as much fun as having a prostate biopsy.
So, why do Democrats still put Barack Obama on a pedestal? Simple: He’s all they’ve got. Bill Clinton is pretty old now and not in the best of health. Joe Biden has disappeared from view and is likely drooling into a bib somewhere. The less said about Kamala Harris, the better. And there are still a few Democrats who realize that AOC, Jasmine Crockett, and their ilk are barking nuts.
That’s why, when we read that Barack Obama is “concerned” about the Trump administration, we should ask, “Who cares?”
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