I'd explain it this way: Barack Obama himself was highly implausible in the 2000s, given what people thought they knew about the USA. The entire Barack Obama phenomenon felt lifted from some movie-script, surreal, not plausible. The Michelle Obama "conspiracy" carries over that same energy.
I'd explain it this way: Barack Obama himself was highly implausible in the 2000s, given what people thought they knew about the USA. The entire Barack Obama phenomenon felt lifted from some movie-script, surreal, not plausible. The Michelle Obama "conspiracy" carries over that same energy.
The implausibility of Obama, a complete non-entity, being ushered up to the presidency out of nowhere, also explains the "birth certificate movement." (I I often like to remind people, is how Donald Trump got his start in active politics, when he came out in favor of the "birth certificate is fraudulent" side in 2011; previously no one had thought Trump at all a political-commentator, sporadic barstool-type remarks notwithstanding. To a larger extent, the Trump phenomenon could be called an indirect product of the Obama phenomenon.)
By the way ---- this summer is twenty years past the debut of Barack Obama himself on the national stage. It was arranged for him, a no-name nobody people thought was an immigrant Wunderkind out of Egypt, based on his looks, to give the DNC keynote address, late-July 2004. Within about two years, Barack was actively campaigning for president.
When that anniversary comes around, we hope that Steve Sailer delivers some fitting retrospective: "Twenty Years of Obama: Sailer's synopsis."
Barack was an extremely plausible candidate. An improbable candidate? Sure! How many other Luo, Hawaiian-born prep-school attendees with Indonesian stepfathers even exist? But he was:
* Tall
* Dark
* Handsome
* Black
* High IQ
* Harvard graduate, magna cum laude
* Senator
* No big public scandal with his personal life
The moment he ran, the only question was whether he picked too early, not whether he'd be PotUS. He had as many variables working in his favor, in his era, to be president as any candidate we've had. So much so the media was happy to confine any examination of the more sordid parts of his politics to right-wing safespaces, like the fact that his parents and his most important intellectual mentor legitimately were reactionary socialists who hated the United States and wanted the Soviets to win the Cold War. (Exactly what Obama himself believes is unclear, as he's long known many of his views are unpopular and talks and writes in a way as to maintain ambiguity, as well as also outright lying about his beliefs, like when he pretended to be against gay marriage to win elections, which worked so well it made him senator and president.)
You're right, Mr. Samiz.
I'd explain it this way: Barack Obama himself was highly implausible in the 2000s, given what people thought they knew about the USA. The entire Barack Obama phenomenon felt lifted from some movie-script, surreal, not plausible. The Michelle Obama "conspiracy" carries over that same energy.
The implausibility of Obama, a complete non-entity, being ushered up to the presidency out of nowhere, also explains the "birth certificate movement." (I I often like to remind people, is how Donald Trump got his start in active politics, when he came out in favor of the "birth certificate is fraudulent" side in 2011; previously no one had thought Trump at all a political-commentator, sporadic barstool-type remarks notwithstanding. To a larger extent, the Trump phenomenon could be called an indirect product of the Obama phenomenon.)
By the way ---- this summer is twenty years past the debut of Barack Obama himself on the national stage. It was arranged for him, a no-name nobody people thought was an immigrant Wunderkind out of Egypt, based on his looks, to give the DNC keynote address, late-July 2004. Within about two years, Barack was actively campaigning for president.
When that anniversary comes around, we hope that Steve Sailer delivers some fitting retrospective: "Twenty Years of Obama: Sailer's synopsis."
Barack was an extremely plausible candidate. An improbable candidate? Sure! How many other Luo, Hawaiian-born prep-school attendees with Indonesian stepfathers even exist? But he was:
* Tall
* Dark
* Handsome
* Black
* High IQ
* Harvard graduate, magna cum laude
* Senator
* No big public scandal with his personal life
The moment he ran, the only question was whether he picked too early, not whether he'd be PotUS. He had as many variables working in his favor, in his era, to be president as any candidate we've had. So much so the media was happy to confine any examination of the more sordid parts of his politics to right-wing safespaces, like the fact that his parents and his most important intellectual mentor legitimately were reactionary socialists who hated the United States and wanted the Soviets to win the Cold War. (Exactly what Obama himself believes is unclear, as he's long known many of his views are unpopular and talks and writes in a way as to maintain ambiguity, as well as also outright lying about his beliefs, like when he pretended to be against gay marriage to win elections, which worked so well it made him senator and president.)