Commentary

While former First Lady Michelle Obama appears on podcasts making odd remarks about the former president and their marriage, and Joe Biden has been absent, Barack Obama “is one of the best surrogates” the party has at the moment, according to Democrat strategist Andrea Riccio.

He made campaign appearances for the gubernatorial winners in New Jersey and Virginia and recently he was in Texas spinning for gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa and senate candidate James Talarico. But it was his appearance on one of Stephen Colbert’s last “Late Show” dates that he joined others on the left, critical of Trump’s relationship with his attorney general.

“The White House shouldn’t be able to direct the attorney general to go around prosecuting whoever the president wants prosecuted,” he said.  “The idea is that the attorney general is the people’s lawyer, it’s not the president’s consiglieri.”

Obama conveniently forgets there are archives and tapes of quotes made during his presidencies. I recall how shocked I was when I heard his attorney general, Eric Holder, boldly say in 2013, “I’m still enjoying what I’m doing, there’s still work to be done. I’m still the president’s wingman, so I’m there with my boy.”  Only another black could get away with referring to another as “boy.”

So cock sure of himself, Obama foolishly told Colbert that “he talked to Eric Holder all the time,” claiming it was about policy issues, not who to charge. “That’s different,” he said.

And surely, Biden conferred with Merrick Garland, too.

While Riccio may see Obama as the Dem’s best surrogate, most of the recent attention in the party is attracted to radicals like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez and her followers, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib. 

In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, running for senate, once said he “shared a lot of ideals” with the Democrat Socialists.  And in Maine, Republican Sen. Susan Collins is facing a challenge by another controversial Democrat, Graham Plattner. As I write this, Plattner has a slight lead in polls over Collins, who must win despite her weak-kneed support for Trump.

Frankly, there is no single leader in the Democrat Party. None of the above and certainly not Harris or Newsom.  There’s a move in the party to force the resignation of DNC Chair Ken Martin, who recently released the pathetic autopsy of the left’s 2024 campaign after stating he wouldn’t.

With all that going on, Jeffries and Schumer continually talk about chaos in the GOP, while their status quo party is split with progressives, socialists.  No moderates there.

Speaking of the Democrats-President Trump, known for adopting nicknames for individuals, recently began calling Democrats “Dumnocrats,” but it serves no purpose other than to poke fun of the opposition.

I recall an in-print feud I had with a Texas Democrat strategist when I began my blog in 2014.  Like Rush Limbaugh then, I referred to the party as the “Democrat” Party rather than the “Democratic” Party because I didn’t consider them democratic.  NPR blamed Rush for popularizing Democrat Party over Democratic Party.  He said, “There’s nothing democratic about the Democrat Party,” he said.

The Guardian considers it an insult. So?

I also use “the left” and “leftists” when I am writing about the Democrat Party or its members.

But now, as I am faced with the growing transition of many on the left referring to the Socialist Democratic Party, I intend to simply refer to “Socialist(s).

There are those in the Republican party who feel uneasy about the GOP‘s position in the midterms in view of Trump’s decision to end, once and for all, the threat of Iran having nuclear weapons and it’s support of terror around the world.

Of course, it isn’t the decision so much as it is the effect of it on the price of gas at the pump.  Seeking patience, Trump promises prices will ease after negotiations.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.