Posted on 11/03/2021 5:45:02 PM PDT by bitt
Just like the 2016 Brexit campaign, Obama's intervention may well have backfired.
In April 2016, just months before he was due to leave the White House, then-U.S. President Barack Obama travelled to London, England to engage in a far shadier attempt at “foreign intervention” in another country’s election process than Donald Trump was ever party to.
Arriving in London, he told an audience that Britain would find herself “at the back of the queue” for a trade deal with the United States if the public insisted on voting to leave the European Union.
At that point in the campaign, the “Remain” or anti-Brexit side had a 10 point lead in the polls, according to Ipsos Mori. Thanks to Mr. Obama, that lead would soon be transformed into an unprecedented victory for team Brexit, who capitalized on the former President’s remarks to highlight the elitist, globalist ambitions of the European Union.
Obama was still a relatively popular figure back then, even in Britain. But if there’s one thing Britons share with our cousins in the Commonwealth of Virginia: it’s that we loathe being patronized, and lament being told what to do by someone so far removed from ordinary people’s lives and experiences.
Brexit, much like the gubernatorial vote in Virginia this week, was not just an expression of rebellion, it was one of revolution.
After the June 23rd vote in 2016, critics suddenly became less bullish about candidate Clinton’s chances against the new bruiser on the block, Donald J. Trump.
“Brexit and Trump are inextricably linked,” former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon was oft-heard to remark. His linking of these two, world-changing, populist sentiments were echoed by the fact that Donald Trump himself welcomed Brexit leader Nigel Farage onto multiple campaign stages as November 2016 drew closer.
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Evil never sleeps. Never.
Was there EVER a time when an Obama endorsement was NOT the kiss of death?
Not the first time Obama has had the Reverse-Midas effect on a campaign. Probably won’t be the last.
Obama Effect: What happens when one camps downwind from the outhouse.
That's obozo's specialty! In fact it's his only talent.
Sheikh Obama never won a race on the issues, he only ever won on dirty tricks to suppress the voter turnout for his opponent. Why would you think his like would have coattails?
When was he not the kiss of death? The Olympics in Chicago. Yeah . . . NO!
Lord that was a funny one.
Clintons too.
It was a 2-bagger
Raheem, what we are looking at is Reconstruction 2.0, the party that hated it in 1865 if possible hates it even more today. That party still sees its self as the ruling class and the rest of us as servants and useful idiots.
Today, at least for today the servants of 2021 have revolted.
Democrats are in desperation mode.
Desperate people do desperate things.
Democrats will do as much damage as they can before they have to give up power. Biden is their tool, and the house and senate democrats don’t have to do anything. All their damage will be done through the White House, and Biden won’t know about it, and doesn’t need to know. Pelosi and Schumer and ‘the squid’ and Sander will try to get as much from the administration as they can before ‘his’ 4 years are up.
All they really have is their bought-and-paid-for media propping them up.
Those people never give up.
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