by Frank Holmes, reporter
The news media have become so arrogant that they’re finally admitting what patriotic Americans have assumed for years: former President Barack Obama is making policy for the “Biden-Harris administration.”
“Former President Barack Obama quietly advised the White House over the past five months on its strategy to address artificial intelligence,” admitted NBC News—the Obama administration’s favorite newtwork—recently.
The news came shortly after Joe Biden signed an executive order establishing a role for the government to test and shape A.I. … the technology that will be writing your reports, monitoring your emails, and supplying your kid’s homework answers in the very near future.
“Obama was particularly helpful,” reports NBC, in having tech companies “voluntarily sign on to have their AI models” government “pressure-tested” before they’re released to the consumer, says NBC.
The story Obama asked industry leaders “to consider risks beyond national security, including information integrity, bias and discrimination.” So, Artificial Intelligence will make sure you don’t use it to spread anything deemed “disinformation” or racist, sexist, “heterosexist,” or “transphobic.”
“Obama also reached out to advocacy groups,” to help define A.I., NBC points out.
Obama tried to claim even more credit, saying he had taken some baby steps during his second term to regular A.I., but it “became clear, much of the damage had already been done,” he wrote this week. “We can’t make the same mistake again.”
At the signing ceremony, Biden called A.I. “the most consequential technology of our time”—so he admitted in front of everyone in Washington that he had Barack Obama shape “the most consequential” industrial decision of his presidency.
NBC tries to spin Biden ad the one calling the shots, saying that after a June phone call, “Biden asked Obama to consult with his team to develop a policy.”
As if he needed to ask. 73 of Biden’s top 100 advisors worked for Obama, according to an analysis from the Miller Center at the University of Virginia—and some of the Biden administration’s leaders, like Susan Rice, were very close with the Obamas personally.
Barack Obama and Susan Rice “had a close relationship, they shared a bathroom, and were on the same hall together,” Obama family friend Valerie Jarrett told The New York Times. Chances are, the bathroom buddies have been in touch since she started putting the “Biden” administration in order.
The academics aren’t the only ones who have noticed that Obama has his fingerprints all over the Biden administration.
“What Most Biden Picks Have In Common: Time In Obama Administration,” reported NPR.
“Obama reunion? Biden fills Cabinet with former WH leaders,” said the world’s largest news agency, the Associated Press.
Even Joe Biden’s aides and advisors had to try to beat back stories that he was nothing but a stand-in for the last Democrat president. “Biden insists his presidency is not a third Obama term,” said USA Today six months into Biden’s term.
The AI policy was “the first time Biden has tapped his former boss to help shape a key policy initiative, aides said,” reports NBC, trying to defend Biden as the decider-in-chief. “He did it because Obama shares his views on the issue and brings a certain heft that could help move the process along quickly.”
NBC doesn’t explain why Obama has more “heft” in the Biden administration than President Biden himself.
There’s no doubt that Obama doesn’t speak with Biden regularly. News cameras have captured that fact that Joe Biden can’t get Barack Obama’s attention even when he’s standing next to him and desperately grabbing his shoulder.
PAINFUL: Barack Obama INSULTS Biden to his FACE as audience laughs at Humiliated Joe.
After mocking Biden the entire room IGNORES JOE as they fawn over Obama. Biden stands ALONE at White House.
In case you were wondering who the REAL President of the United States is. Wow pic.twitter.com/aY7uv5mr3m
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 5, 2022
Still, the NBC News story is significant for revealing Obama’s role in the 46th presidential administration. “It turns out Obama’s influence in the Biden administration has been more significant than just providing a template agenda for Biden to follow,” wrote Spencer Brown at Townhall.com.
“Obama is back to working with aides in the West Wing, liaising with the private sector on behalf of the U.S. government, and guiding policies being enacted by the actual president. All without the accountability of being an elected official.”
Some took the story to its logical conclusion: Barack Obama is running far more than just one of Joe Biden’s policies.
“OBAMA’S THIRD TERM,” declared Newsmax commentator Mercedes Schlapp. Barack Obama “has been secretly advising the Biden Administration for months on new AI policy.
Obama is “leading from behind,” said another commenter, recycling a phrase from the Obama administration.
Others laughed at the idea that Obama had pulled the administration’s strings “quietly.”
OBAMA’S THIRD TERM: @BarackObama has been secretly advising the Biden Administration for months on new AI policy. pic.twitter.com/01kQucatDk
— Mercedes Schlapp (@mercedesschlapp) November 6, 2023
Everyone in-the-know understood, for years that Barack Obama had run the Biden administration behind the scenes. The question is: Why is the media admitting it now?
Is Obama’s ego unwilling to take a backseat to his former vice president?
Is he trying to separate himself from the corruption that’s clinging to the Biden administration’s money-laundering and influence-peddling operations?
After almost three years, does he just feel safe coming out of the shadows?
Or, is he teeing something else up? Is he trying to claim credit for all the good, and “progressive,” accomplishments of the Biden administration without the corruption?
That kind of a break, when Joe Biden faces more opposition to his re-election than ever before, could show Obama is also making moves behind Biden’s back in the Democratic Party.
Why is Barack Obama touting his advisory status?
That raises another question about the 2024 primaries: Who is Barack Obama a closer adviser to than Michelle Obama?
“Democrats say Michelle Obama has the ‘it’ factor that could maybe beat Donald Trump in 2024,” reported Fox News in March. She has the name, the youth, and—most importantly—the connection and direction of her better half, Barack Hussein Obama.
Is Mr. Obama setting the stage for Mrs. Obama to take Joe’s place?
We’d ask Artificial Intelligence, but Obama has already rigged the answer.
Frank Holmes is a veteran journalist and an outspoken conservative that talks about the news that was in his weekly article, “On The Holmes Front.”