A new report from the Tablet online magazine alleges that former President Barack Obama is the power behind much of what happens in President Joe Biden's White House, controlling key decisions through an army of Obama administration alumni.
The lengthy article, "The Obama Factor," consists of a lengthy introduction by author David Samuels, followed by an interview with civil rights historian and Obama biographer David Garrow.
The most important portion for current political debates - made relevant by new reports that Obama had advised Biden on the dangers of a Trump candidacy in 2024 - is that Obama is the prime mover in his former vice president's administration.
That Obama might enjoy serving as a third-term president in all but name, running the government from his iPhone, was a thought expressed in public by Obama himself, both before and after he left office.
In previous weeks Obama had continued his role as central advocate for government censorship of the internet while launching a new campaign against gun ownership, claiming it is historically linked to racism.
In the absence of what was once American journalism, it is hard to know which portrait of Obama's post-presidency is truer to life: Obama as a celebrity-obsessed would-be billionaire, or as a would-be American Castro, reshaping American society from his basement, in his sweats.
Samuels describes Obama's public persona as a literary creation by Obama himself: "So the conclusion I've come to in time is that that best way to understand Barack Obama is that he is a literary creation of Barack Obama, the writer, who authored the novel of his own life and then proceeded to live out this fictional character that he created for himself on the page."
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/04/report-obama-pulls-strings-in-joe-biden-white-house/
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