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Barack Obama’s Woke Awakening

Liberated by the departure of Bernie Sanders from the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama has finally stood up to endorse Joe Biden and set the stage for an awakened America.
By Peter Isackson • Apr 21, 2020
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Barack Obama’s farewell speech in Chicago, IL, USA on 1/10/2017. © John Gress Media Inc / Shutterstock

Most political observers sensed that former US President Barack Obama was keeping a close eye on the Democratic primaries with a view to engineering events leading up to this year’s convention. Months ago they had heard rumblings about his determination to prevent Senator Bernie Sanders from getting the nomination. In early March, the day before Super Tuesday, Obama demonstrated his capacity to pull all the necessary strings by arranging for all the moderate candidates to drop out of the race in favor of Biden, according to reports. Some judged that ploy to be not terribly democratic while admitting that it was exceedingly Democratic.


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Obama maintained a certain level of mystery — call it false objectivity — by not endorsing Biden himself after encouraging the other candidates to do so. Many suspected that if he hadn’t endorsed Biden, it meant that he would have preferred a different candidate than his former vice president. But when the others failed to gain any traction, Obama, still working in the wings, began setting things up for Biden’s emergence as the presumptive nominee for the November election. Then on cue, as soon as Sanders gave up the battle, Obama stood up to endorse Biden.

In times of a pandemic, Obama delivered his endorsement in a scripted video. It began with effusive praise of real people: “[M]edical professionals who are putting their lives on the line to save others” and “workers taking risks every day to keep our economy running.” He completed the list by mentioning “everyone who is making their own sacrifice at home with their families, all for the greater good.”

Here is today’s 3D definition:

The greater good:

The needs of society as a whole, which, when effectively addressed by living politicians, invariably turns out to be a response to the desires of the wealthy few

Contextual Note

To dispel the idea that Obama’s appreciation of Biden’s capacity to govern was tepid at best, the former president heaped effusive praise on the candidate’s “knowledge and experience, honesty and humility, empathy and grace.” Of the four qualities mentioned, the first two appeared truthful, which made the last four seem as though they might be as well. 

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