Michelle Obama plotting for nomination?

Rumors are surfacing that Michelle Obama is about to replace Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic Presidential nomination. Chatter that began ten months ago has now given way to a definite prediction of a “hostile takeover.” Obviously all questions about the health or mental fitness of Joe Biden would become moot. But policy questions would not, because Michelle Obama advocates the same theory of government as Joe Biden himself.

Current Michelle Obama chatter

Two events have happened this week to lend credence to a rumor about Michelle Obama replacing Joe Biden. Most Americans know about Michelle Obama herself expressing “terror” about President Donald J. Trump winning reelection this fall. (Trump would then become the second President to return to office for a non-consecutive second term since Grover Cleveland.) The Blaze had a brief prose story, and an X post:

Headline USA also carried a transcript of Mrs. Obama’s remarks, which she made on a podcast hosted by Jay Shetty.

Apparently she believes people on the left have lost interest in voting. Then she expressed this fear:

There’s such a thing as knowing too much and when you’ve been married to the president of the United States, who knows everything about everything in the world — sometimes you just wanna turn it off. What keeps me up are the things that I know.

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Those are the things that keep me up because you don’t have control over them and you wonder where are we in this, where are our hearts? What’s gonna happen in this next election? I am terrified about what could possibly happen because our leaders matter, who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit. It affects us in ways that I think sometimes people take for granted.

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You know, the fact that people think that government — “Eh, does it really even do anything?” — And I’m like, “Oh my God, does government do everything for us, and we cannot take this democracy for granted.” And sometimes, I worry that we do. Those are the things that keep me up.

Lay aside whether she believes in God or not. (Her actions and attitudes suggest not.) Concentrate instead on that statement about “government do[ing] everything for us.” That was never the intention of the Framers. Then again, her husband Barack famously lamented that the Constitution was, as he put it, “a charter of negative liberties.”

The substitution plan

But what people might not realize is that Barack Obama has lately been intervening – or interfering – in the Biden campaign. Juliana Frieman of The Daily Caller reported that Barack Obama had a secret lunch meeting, apparently with Biden. She cited The Washington Post and this X post from The Daily Mail:

Meetings like this have been happening at least since August of 2023, again according to The Daily Caller. This time, Obama told his former Vice-President to hire more people to concentrate on defeating Trump. Obama did not make any specific recommendations.

Then came Michelle Obama’s podcast interview on Monday. That very day, Jesse Watters said flatly that the Obamas intended a “hostile takeover” of the campaign. In sum, if they can’t sink Donald Trump’s poll numbers by (Democratic) convention time, Michelle Obama will offer herself to replace Biden.

Bill O’Reilly offered his own perspective: that Michelle Obama would not have appeared on Jay Shetty’s podcast “without a reason.” He also reminded viewers he had warned them in August to “keep an eye on” her.

In fact, Merrill Matthews of The Hill said in March 2023 that Michelle Obama would be the Democrats’ best candidate. Moreover, Roger Stone predicted in August that Michelle, not Biden, would be the candidate.

This stands in stark contrast to Michelle’s attitude in the summer of 2020. Then, she told The Daily Mail’s women’s section she considered herself clinically depressed.

Other shrill, “terrified” voices

Mrs. Obama is not the only prominent Democratic or Democratic-aligned female voice to say desperately that they can’t afford to see Trump come back. In November of last year, Hillary Clinton said the same, according to influencer Deep Blue Crypto:

More recently, Charlie Kirk (Turning Point USA) shared video of Whoopi Goldberg, member of the View panel, expressing similar sentiments. She even tried to persuade former Rep. Liz Cheney (RINO-Wyo.) to run for President as an independent.

Lay aside that not only did Liz Cheney lose her primary by a lopsided margin, but she also faces a lawsuit over her handling of her job as Vice-Chairman of the House January 6 Committee. Liz Cheney did indeed position herself as a third 2024 candidate – in August of 2022. But since Republicans flipped the House at Midterms, the country has not heard from her again.

More recently, Whoopi Goldberg wasn’t finished.

In using such language, Mrs. Clinton and Ms. Goldberg make clear they would support “any means necessary” to stop Trump.

What are they afraid of?

What must they really fear? Have either of them done something that would cause anyone to with them “put away”? Hillary Clinton certainly has. Apart from recent revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein files, she has a reputation for embezzlement and influence peddling. Whoopi Goldberg shouldn’t have to fear paying penalties for anything that severe. More likely she’s afraid that all the things she wants government to do for her and her fellow ethnics, and to whites (especially white males), would be non-starters in a Trump administration.

Michelle Obama, on the other hand, is not so much expressing fears, as playing to them. That Barack Obama has been the shadow President since January 20, 2021, should be no secret to anyone. “Private luncheons” with Biden himself are strictly for show. Surely Barack Obama knows better than anyone that Joe Biden couldn’t organize a group bathroom trip, much less a campaign. (Well, perhaps the White House Physician knows that better even than the Obamas.) In fact, Barack Obama must be fed up with his proxy being the butt of so many old-fogey jokes. The Constitution – thus far – will not allow him to run for President for a third term. Joe Biden was his third term. Michelle Obama is to be his fourth and fifth. And she (he?) is more than willing.

But can Michelle Obama pull it off?

Or so they think. In August of 2023, Bill O’Reilly expressed concern Michelle Obama could stitch together a leftist female/minority coalition none could beat. That was then; this is now. Now the Democrats are losing the support of the very people who would be part of that coalition. Those people want practical results, and those results have not been forthcoming. Lately some have looked to Donald Trump to deliver those practical, tangible results. And he could deliver them – without stealing from other people.