{"id":1954435,"date":"2023-06-22T16:36:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T20:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-makes-secret-power-move-as-biden-continues-to-flounder-in-the-white-house\/"},"modified":"2023-06-22T16:38:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T20:38:01","slug":"obama-makes-secret-power-move-as-biden-continues-to-flounder-in-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obama-makes-secret-power-move-as-biden-continues-to-flounder-in-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Makes Secret Power Move as Biden Continues to Flounder in the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobama-makes-secret-power-move-as-biden-continues-to-flounder-in-the-white-house%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1954435&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Obama Makes Secret Power Move as Biden Continues to Flounder in the White House<\/h2>\n<p>Former President Barack Obama appears to be taking a more personal interest in the Democratic Party\u2019s future than he has in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Martin, politics bureau chief for Politico, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2023\/06\/22\/obama-next-gen-democratic-leaders-00103041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported Thursday<\/a> that Obama recently hosted several meetings with younger House Democrats. Described as \u201cinformal, but lengthy,\u201d the meetings \u201ctook place over cheese and crackers in Obama\u2019s Washington office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The question is why.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Obama\u2019s meetings were largely secret \u2014 \u201cprivate\u201d in Martin\u2019s word, and not publicly reported until now \u2014 but they weren\u2019t not entirely clandestine. According to Martin, \u201cObama\u2019s advisers took care to alert the Biden West Wing about the conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, a former Democrat president reaching out to current Democrat lawmakers under a sitting Democrat president does raise eyebrows.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The column also features the usual claptrap one would expect from an inside-baseball kind of story about Washington elites. Obama for instance, \u201cis no doubt aware\u201d that his meetings could fuel \u201cthe fever swamp right\u2019s racially unsubtle view that Obama is, alternately, secretly running the Biden White House or plotting his former vice president\u2019s ouster.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Having made the obligatory racial remark (which is basically meaningless in this context and not even mentioned elsewhere in the column), Martin went on to explain that Democrats are exploring ways to shed their elitist image.<\/p>\n<p>One hesitates to offer advice to members of a party that lacks even one redeemable quality. Better that it should perish and fade into history.<\/p>\n<p>However, if Democrats wish to shed their elitist image, they might start by ceasing to denigrate their working-class MAGA opponents as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tulsi-gabbard-blasts-politicians-labeling-rittenhouse-white-supremacist-terrorist-says-wanted-protect-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">white supremacists<\/a>. The Martin column\u2019s \u201cracially unsubtle\u201d line merely parrots the Democrats\u2019 slanderous language.<\/p>\n<p>It is not racist to wonder about a former president\u2019s role in a current administration and, in Obama\u2019s case, about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cruz-nixon-failed-making-doj-fbi-partys-political-arm-obama-biden-succeeded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his lingering influence<\/a> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/new-lisa-page-memo-confirms-right-comey-lied-everyone-house-senate-even-courts\/?ff_source=Email&#038;ff_medium=WJBreaking&#038;ff_campaign=ct-breaking&#038;ff_content=western-journal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">corrupt<\/a> federal bureaucracy.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the obvious subtext to Obama\u2019s meetings with House Democrats is Biden\u2019s sagging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-rocked-damning-new-poll-americans-reveal-really-feel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/other\/president-biden-job-approval-7320.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a> average for Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/for-biden-polls-are-probably-worse-than-they-seem\/\" title=\"For Biden, Polls Are Probably Worse Than They Seem\">job-approval rating<\/a> as of Thursday stood at 42.3 percent. This trails former Presidents Donald Trump (44.6 percent), Obama (47.8 percent), and George W. Bush (63.2 percent) at the same points in their respective presidencies.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever one thinks or suspects about Obama\u2019s motives, surely the former president is savvy enough to know that, while there is a solid voting base for the Democratic Party, there is no such thing as a \u201cBiden voter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 42.3 percent of Americans who supposedly approve of Biden\u2019s job performance are the same sort of voters who sent Pennsylvania\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-mystery-woman-can-barely-stifle-laugh-fetterman-struggles-democrats-idea-compassion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Fetterman<\/a> to the Senate. They will vote blue no matter who.<\/p>\n<p>From a conservative perspective, the heartening thing about Obama\u2019s meetings with House Democrats is that those meetings appear to signal Obama\u2019s awareness of Biden\u2019s floundering presidency.<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, this should not surprise us. Biden\u2019s brazen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-strange-response-reporter-confronts-alleged-bribery-tapes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">corruption<\/a>, political <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-tucker-carlson-takes-aim-wannabe-dictator-joe-biden-latest-twitter-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">persecution of opponents<\/a> and staggering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/foreign-news-ridicules-biden-school-shooting-embarrassing-free-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">incompetence<\/a> make us wonder who those 42.3% of people are and what exactly they approve of.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Democrats control the establishment media, the education system, the entertainment industry, and nearly all of the largest sources of information or opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these advantages, nearly 60 percent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-pledges-to-increase-pollution-for-another-decade\/\" title=\"China \u2018Pledges\u2019 to Increase Pollution for Another Decade\">country appears<\/a> to recognize the Biden administration for the corrupt and tyrannical failure it is.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these advantages, House Democrats need tutoring and a pep talk from the party\u2019s former leader.<\/p>\n<p>That is the real story.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-makes-secret-power-move-biden-continues-flounder-white-house\/\">Obama Makes Secret Power Move as Biden Continues to Flounder in the White House<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Barack Obama appears to be taking a more personal interest in the Democratic Party\u2019s future than he has in recent years. Jonathan Martin, politics bureau chief for Politico, reported Thursday that Obama recently hosted several meetings with younger House Democrats. Described as \u201cinformal, but lengthy,\u201d the meetings \u201ctook place over cheese and crackers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":1954436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1954435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1954436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}