WorldNetDaily has long feared the possibility of Michelle Obama running for president — and the fact that she has repeatedly denied interest in doing so hasn’t stopped it from pushing that baseless speculation anyway. It has published outside articles hyping the (non-existent) possibility:
- Speculation wild as Michelle Obama joins Clintons, Biden alone on Air Force One
- Network anchor makes troubling prediction about Michelle Obama (WND didn’t explain why its Michelle speculation is so “troubling”)
- Michelle Obama running for president? Top Obama adviser makes prediction
Despite the vague, dishonest teaser headline, that last article states that the adviser “emphatically dismissed the idea” and that she has a “longstanding disinterest in a political career.” Still, the dishonest teasing continued. Jim Darlington spent his Jan. 26 column insisting that the consistent denials are just a “head fake”:
Head fake No. 1: Well, it’s really up to Joe, whatever he decides to do. [Not.]
Head fake No. 2: Michelle O. really doesn’t want to get her hands dirty. Maybe she’s just too sensitive or too lazy. [Not.]
Head fake No. 3: Barack’s team isn’t really running the show. Joe is in charge now. He only has half of Barack’s old staffers, working as half of Joe’s new staffers, because Obama’s just a generous guy. [Not.]
Head fake No. 4: Michelle’s not even running a primary challenge, so it’s all out of the question. [Not.]
There are voices on the right, just now coming out of the ether, acknowledging the high probability of Joe stroking out (or whatever) just after his nomination is confirmed, leaving the Dems “no choice” but to name a favored replacement. Michelle Obama will take to the mic and claim it’s not a job she wants, but to save the country she is willing. And never you mind about my qualifications. Because I will have the most qualified adviser in America by my side.
Remember this. Michelle remains among America’s most beloved. The women’s vote. The black vote. Everything the Dems have to rely on. Plus, the Obama name has long since proved its mettle. And, if Trump prevails, the same manner of lawfare unjustly used against him may well be justly addressed to vanquish the treasonous, who have been doing all things possible to destroy America. So, think about it Michelle. You and Barack could play good cop/bad cop all day long, and all of America will still love you, as if your name were Oprah Obama.
The point here is that, for now, campaigning against Biden may be the fools’ mission of the century. The most logical thing is to raise the alarm, identify Biden, once and for all, as the Obama proxy that he is, and address the Obama-Biden regime as one and the same, a nation-destroying team, with our erstwhile heroine, Michelle, the next bitter slugger on deck.
The Obama-obsessed Jack Cashill revived an old conspiracy theory, with the help of his favorite discredited charlatan filmmaker, in his Feb. 14 column:
In the dreams – and schemes – of many, the replacement of choice for Biden is Michelle Obama.
With the release in 2022 of his film and accompanying book, “Michelle Obama 2024: Her Real Life Story and Plan for Power,” Los Angeles filmmaker Joel Gilbert anticipated this movement and, paradoxically, provided the ammunition for its detonation.
A dogged researcher, Gilbert knows more about Michelle than Barack does. His film and book make for the most entertaining oppo research since the Steele dossier, the difference being that Gilbert’s work is accurate, and no one pees on anyone.
The part of Michelle’s history that has long intrigued me is her sojourn at Princeton University. Princeton was my college of choice out of high school, but I could not begin to afford the tuition. Neither could Michelle.
The advantage I had over Michelle was my SAT scores. I tested well. Michelle did not. “Told by counselors that her SAT scores and her grades weren’t good enough for an Ivy League school,” writes Christopher Andersen in a sympathetic biography, “Michelle applied to Princeton and Harvard anyway.”
Cashill then turned in a racial direction, as he has been prone to do of late, arguing that Obama was too stupid (or at least not as brilliant as he himself claims to be) to get into Princeton, but got in anyway due to affirmative action:
In her various books and speeches, Michelle refuses to admit how she did get into Princeton. Simply put, universities then and now give black students a huge preference and usually enough money to make the preference count in their books.
Michelle cannot concede the reality because her persona as “South Side girl” is constructed around the Orwellian conceit that she has excelled in spite of the racist barriers she has faced. The fact that she began her thesis in 1984 proved to be portentous.
Michelle’s immunity to criticism has allowed her to fold her acceptance into Princeton into the larger story of the poor black girl fighting racism.
This is where Gilbert’s gumshoe work blows her cover.
[…]This story, in its many permutations, smelled to Gilbert. He then went and did what investigative reporters used to do, find the guidance counselor and ask her for her take.
Gilbert wanted to identify exactly the right person. His account of finding her makes for a great story in itself. With 100% confidence, Gilbert reports that the “they” in Michelle’s story telling was a sweet, much loved, churchgoing, black woman named Nan King.
Fortunately for Michelle, Ms. King died in 2002. Her death licensed Michelle to slander her on the 2008 campaign trail and beyond.
Unfortunately for Michelle, her Princeton thesis lives on, an enduring testament to her unfitness for a Princeton education. If Nan King discouraged Michelle from going, she was right.
As we noted way back in 2008, the senior thesis Obama insists is so troublesome merely documented attitudes among black Princeton alumni who attended the school in the 1970s, and wasn’t asserting her own personal views.
An anonymously written Feb . 18 article pushed the bogus story again, touting a right-wing writer’s speculation:
A prominent voice for women’s economic issues is suggesting that Michelle Obama will be the Democrat nominee for the fall’s election, not the mentally fading and increasingly unpopular Joe Biden.
Heather R. Higgins, CEO of Independent Womens’ Voice, has written at Real Clear Wire that, “Even Jill will face reality and … opt for the switcheroo.”
[…]She explained Biden is just “a placeholder” being used to suppress possible competition to “a much better bet,” Michelle O.
Of course Obama has said she doesn’t want the job, but the column points that was before Biden redefined the position as “a four-day workweek, consisting of one social obligation per day, and everything else delegated.”
And she warned people could go for it. After all, they went for Barack Obama twice.
[…]Further, “And just recently an entire special edition of Life magazine about the inspiring Michelle Obama parked itself for $14.99 at your nearest supermarket checkout line. The cover may say ‘The Post-White House Phenomenon,’ but everything post-White House is confined to five paragraphs in the first introductory pages – while the rest of the 112 glossy pages are one-third backstory and two-thirds Michelle in the White House, looking presidential.”
She noted in London, betting on American politics is legal, and more bets have been placed recently on Obama moving into the White House than Biden staying there.
The anonymous writer didn’t explain why gamblers should be trusted.
Even WND seemed to get tired of pushing a bogus story — though it didn’t stop writing dishonest teaser headlines hinting at the possibility. Larry Elder’s Feb. 29 column carried the headline “Will Gruesome Newsom or Michelle O. replace Biden?” despite stating in the opening paragraph that the answer is no and then elaborating further:
Neither California Gov. Gavin Newsom nor former first lady Michelle Obama will become the Democrats’ 2024 presidential candidate. No amount of President Joe Biden’s mental decline, forgetfulness, mumbling or stumbling can change that. If Biden can fog up a mirror come Election Day, he will be the nominee. If he cannot, Vice President Kamala Harris awaits, on deck, bat in hand.
[…]This brings us to Michelle Obama. For the reasons outlined above, black voters – particularly black female voters – would resent a ploy to cast Harris aside, but there is one caveat: The substitute would have to be a popular black female. Only two fit the bill: Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. Winfrey does not want the gig and, despite the hopeful speculation, neither does Obama. She hates politics.
WND gave it one last stab in a March 5 article reprinted from the discredited Gateway Pundit under the teasing headline “Michelle Obama running for president? Her office responds to rumors” — though it too had to resort to telling the truth by conceding that it wasn’t happening, even as it rehashed those same rumors:
Former First Lady Michelle Obama will not be running for president, her office confirmed.
Prominent political figures have recently predicted Michelle Obama will be the Democrat presidential nominee in 2024.
The majority of Democrat voters believe Joe Biden is too old to serve a second term so many are now speculating he will be replaced with California Governor Gavin Newsom… or perhaps Michelle Obama.
Ted Cruz previously said the Democrats are going to pull a surprise by drafting Michelle Obama to take Joe Biden’s place for the 2024 race.
[…]Michelle Obama’s office confirmed to NBC News that she will not be running for president in 2024.
Still, don’t expect this story to go away — Obama derangement trumps the facts at WND.
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