Obama’s Lasting Legacy – The Hugh Hewitt Show

Mon, Jul 11, 2022  | 
By John Schroeder

Obama’s Lasting Legacy

Salena Zito dropped a bombshell in this morning’s weekly gab with the host.  The existing Biden administration is the very first administration considering the fact that Richard Nixon was in business office not to find the sagacity and wisdom of Henry Kissinger.  Let that sink in for a minute, as I have, and see the place your thoughts convert.  Mine turned to Barack Obama.

What solitary characteristic finest described Obama?  To my head it was vanity.  Individuals love to chat about Trump’s self-obsessed ego, but that is a quite unique point than Obama’s haughty vanity.  Trump exhibited the kind of schoolyard braggadocio born of insecurity and a deep have to have for consideration.  Obama, on the other hand, just did not care what other persons assumed.  Ego may be self-absorbed, but conceitedness is self-contained.

Obama’s arrogance was clearly exhibited in his now notorious “I received,” and his now SCOTUS-disgraced “pen and phone.”  However as SCOTUS sends Obama’s governing achievements into the squander bin of background, his vanity continues to be.  We see it in this failure to access out to a person the most attained diplomats in background.  Democrats stay arrogant and see no require for the knowledge of other individuals.  We see this conceitedness exhibited in Gavin Newsom’s trash speak adverts in Florida of the Independence Day long weekend.  As if persons in Florida are dying to be just like California.  This unlistening, unresponsive arrogance seems to be Obama’s longest-long lasting legacy.

It is difficult to know where this sort of arrogance arrives from – most folks have it crushed out of them by the very simple vicissitudes of existence.  But then a person factor Obama and Newsom have in prevalent is a comparatively simple path to their political ascendancies.  Newsom has never experienced to genuinely get the job done for political victory.  Among the politics of California frequently and his marrying rather very well, his victories have come with small energy and maximal posing.  Obama is a incredibly unique tale.  He experienced the exact same Chicago device that elected JFK at his again.  Additionally, he was, just after all, the Holy Grail of Democrat politics – an African-American with the equipment to arrive at the White House.  Joe Biden himself said it soon after Obama tackled the 2004 Democratic Convention, “I indicate, you received the initially mainstream African-American who is articulate and vivid and thoroughly clean and a great-seeking guy. I signify, that is a storybook, person.”  Obama was topped much much more than he was elected.

The challenge is that Joe Biden lacks these pure benefits that make these kinds of utter arrogance tolerable.  Frankly Newsom does as perfectly, as he will shortly learn when he ventures out of the Golden Condition.  This could go a extensive way to conveying Biden’s amazingly dismal approval ratings.  No one likes an arrogant jerk.

There is an old adage, “Pride goeth ahead of a fall.”  Turns out its biblical.  If it holds correct and if Democrats do not soon jettison this overpowering stage of vanity, then the correct lasting legacy of Barack Obama might be the dying of his bash.