OBAMA IS BACK AND...NOBODY CARES – AT 12:24 P.M. ET:  Obama's weak speech, upon returning to the campaign trail, gives President Trump an opportunity.  From the great Michael Goodwin at the New York Post:   

With Hillary Clinton already part of the midterm scrum, Barack Obama’s entry last Friday shows the old band is getting back together again. So far, the music is uninspiring.

Clinton, as usual, is all about the money. Her latest slush fund, ­Operation Together, sent an ­e-mail offering donors a “Resist” sticker if they send her $5. I was able to resist the offer.

Obama, meanwhile, gave his first campaign speech since leaving the White House and his ­media handmaidens instantly swooned like giddy teenagers.

Twitter promoted it as a “candid speech,” which is accurate only if you think Obama is an honest politician. Twitter’s bias is showing again.

It’s true there were some clever and cutting lines about Trump being divisive, but to appreciate them you had to forget Obama’s eight years in the Oval Office. Those without amnesia will recall that polls said Americans thought the nation was more divided when he left than when he started, ­including along racial lines.

Obama’s harsh partisan tone Friday, complete with his typical mocking of Republicans, was in striking contrast to the odes to ­bipartisanship voiced at Sen. John McCain’s funeral. Too bad Obama wasn’t there . . . oh, wait, he was.

Not surprisingly, he seemed bitter about the way the country is moving on without him. It still hasn’t dawned on him that, by 2016, America wasn’t buying what he was selling.

While campaigning for Clinton then, he said it would be a “personal insult” if young people and nonwhites didn’t turn out in big numbers. That they didn’t could explain why much of his speech had a scolding tone about voting.

But as someone said about empty sports stadiums, you can’t force people to go to the game if they don’t want to.

COMMENT:  Read the whole thing.  Goodwin is worth it.  Obama flopped in his return to politics because he had nothing to say, and his scolding "I am your daddy" tone was a turnoff.  His failure to understand how conditions have improved for millions of people was a major flaw.  The leftists, and he is one of them, never seem all that interested in people.  People are pawns, means to a larger, more Utopian end.

Put the gross, bragging, vulgar Trump on a stage with Obama, and I think Trump would win.  A job for most people is better than an inspirational speech.

September 9, 2018