Lashing out campaigning for his 77-year-old former Vice President Joe Biden, 58-year-old former President Barack Obama used his a campaign event in Flint, Michigan to get back at his successor. President Donald Trump, 74, did everything possible to dismantle all of Barack’s accomplishments, including the 2010 Affordable Care Act AKA Obamacare, the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [Iran Nuke Deal] and the 2015 Paris Climate Accord leading the country toward a green future, once again growing dependent of foreign energy. When it comes to Trump, it’s personal to Obama, since Trump and the GOP Senate led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) did everything possible to reverse Obama’s legacy. “Trump cares about feeding he ego. Joe cares about keeping you and your family safe,” Obama said, showing he’s not up-to-speed like he once was.
Obama’s campaign skills deteriorated over time reaching a peak in 2004 when he gave the speech of his life, keynoting the Democratic National Conventions backing form Secretary of State John Kerry for president. When he rain in 2008 against the late Sen. John McCain (R-Az.), Barack had a wind at his back, with the country looking for a change after the 2008 Financial crisis under his 74-year-old predecessor George W. Bush. Bush was in his hey day dealing with the ruins of Sept. 11, leaving the country mired in foreign wars with a crashed economy. Obama had nowhere to go but up from the 2008 Financial crisis, leaving the country ready for a change. Obama’s election spoke volumes about how far the country had come from its racist past, electing him twice first against a Vietnam War hero, then, in 2012, against a moderate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Mass.).
In many ways, Obama inherited the benefits of a bottomed-out stock market, losing some 40% of its value, before it rebounded in 2009, making him look good over the ensuing years. Actually, Barack did little to help the economy recover, other than being at the right-place-at-the-right-time. In many ways, he was far more fortunate than Trump, whose stock market was already so inflated that economists predicted a major correction and recessions in 2017 or 2018. Signing his tax cuts into law Dec. 22, 2017, Trump helped stave off recession until the novel coronvirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 struck the U.S. in early 2020. Shutting down an already fragile economy pushed the economy into recession, leading to Trump’s real dilemma only four days before the Nov. 3 election. If the economy were booming, Biden and his 56-year-old running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) wouldn’t have a chance.
So much of politics is luck, where a president fits into Wall Street’s endless boom-and-bust cycles. Trump did everything possible to keep the U.S. economy out of recession but, in the end, it took a once-in-a-100-years global pandemic to push the economy over the edge. Democrats and the U.S. press have done a good job of demonizing Trump, blaming him for the Covid-19 crisis and all its 230,009 U.S. deaths. Most rational voters know elected leaders can only do so much to stop a major infectious disease crisis. Biden’s plan of a national mask mandate won’t stop the global pandemic in the U.S. No other leader in Europe, Asia or around the planet has been blamed for Covid-19 and all its cases and deaths, other than Trump. Turning the Covid-19 crisis on Trump succeeded in turning voter away from giving Trump four more years. Obama’s attacks on Trump are deeply personal.
Obama talks about Trump’s ego but Barack and his 56-year-old wife Michelle became multimillionaires since leaving office, credited with good old-fashioned American capitalism. Joe, his 50-year-old son Hunter and his 75-yar-old brother James, traded on Joe’s name making deals in China, Russia and Ukaine during-and-after Joe’s service as Vice President. Joe became rich because of his son and brother’s deals with his full knowledge to the tune of $30 million. Yet that story broken by the New York Post Oct. 14 has been widely blacked out by the U.S. press, who have a vested interest in Trump’s defeat. At some point, the Biden family shenanigans will come out, regardless of today’s suppression by the press. “The president wants to get credit for the economy he inherited and zero blame for the pandemic he ignored,” Obama said, slapping Trump when he gets the chance.
Trump inherited about a one percent Gross Domestic Product [GDP] growth rate, the slowest U.S. growth since WW II. But Barack sees fit to toot his own horn, making you wonder about whose ego is really bruised. Barack doesn’t look like his old self campaigning for Joe, missing the same energy that propelled himself to the White House. Barack slammed Trump for talking about his past inauguration crowds that didn’t come close to Obama’s in 2008 when he became the first black president. When you look at the enormous size of Trump’s crowds in the 2020 campaign relative to Joe’s or Obama’s, you’d think Trump should pull it out on Election Day. But with a massive turnout in mail-in voting, it looks like Democrats will deny Trump a second term on Nov. 3. Campaigning for Biden, Obama says nothing about Biden or any Democrat plan to improve the economy or end the virus.
