When Obama selected Biden as his running mate, my conclusion was that he chose him so that anyone who thought about assassination would think again, knowing that someone as inept as Biden would take over as President. I also think in eight years of Biden serving as his VP, he realized that Biden had the added bonus of giving him another term (or two) as a puppet.

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“…if Obama and Michelle were ruthlessly serious about transforming America they wouldn’t have left it up to Joe Biden and now Kamala Harris to make that happen.”

Except that they didn’t leave it up to them.
IOW, the Democrat Party Politburo doesn’t operate that way.

Sure, they can plot and twist the knife. But ruthless “by any means necessary” to fundamentally transform America — not really.

Obama is smarter, more articulate and more charismatic than Harris. But I see them both as lazy and unwilling to put themselves on the line beyond putting up with a politician’s life

Would either have marched at Selma with Martin Luther King? Or put themselves in the sights of assassination like MLK, Malcolm X or Medgar Evers? Or Donald Trump? Or gone underground like Bill Ayers and the Weatherfolks?

No, of course not. Obama and Harris are happy with comfortable luxury.

I still say that if Obama and Michelle were ruthlessly serious about transforming America they wouldn’t have left it up to Joe Biden and now Kamala Harris to make that happen.

Regardless of where you want to put them on the economic class ladder neither grew up in blue-collar working-class families of the kind JD Vance did.

However, Obama was able to spin “born to a single mother from Kansas” in such a way as to obscure that his childhood in Indonesia and Hawaii (including a private school education) was far from the typical life story reflected in that phrase.

I don’t know whether or not Harris actually worked in McDonald’s but it is pretty clear that this was another of her attempts (along with born in Oakland and bussed to a school outside her neighborhood) to spin her life story into something that would conjure up an image of a young woman rising up out of The ‘Hood. If she was more verbally adept she probably could have made it work but she wound up making it sound like she worked there during her high school years in Canada which didn’t make much sense.

Brown has a driving, naked ambition to advance herself, her career, at any cost. But the cost has been mostly reputational, or derived from the impact on the underclasses that suffer from her policies. She doesn’t have Obama’s brilliance, the intelligence to spot weaknesses in the existing system, and she doesn’t have the cunning to plot their exploitation. As we have seen during this campaign, she doesn’t have the creative arrogance to synthesize a winning message to the masses, either. She’s not able to communicate effectively, to campaign persuasively, to inspire. She’s just personally ambitious.

As ruthless as she needs to be.

“Both are committed leftists– committed to the total transformation of the country to some progressive ideal.” Brian E

Therein lies the source of their ruthlessness… the end justifies the means.

even after he left office he pours copious salt in the wound in the spring of 2020 he fanned the flames when some cities might have been spared

The skids were greased for him from the very start. Even before the start. At the Harvard Law Review he was a do-nothing figurehead. His whole life has been a skate.