Not since Rousseau’s (probably apocryphal) “great princess” wittered, “Let them eat cake!” has there been such an ostentatious display of the disdain of the elite for the masses. It was as if the Capitol elite of The Hunger Games had decamped to party on the world’s most exclusive beach.
I’m talking, of course, of the self-indulgent peacockery that was Barack Obama’s 60th birthday party.
For someone who prides himself on optics, Barack Obama just gave us quite an ugly spectacle.
As the rest of America struggles with uncertain employment status and school reopenings, shifting mask mandates, anxiety over vaccinations and variants, the health of the economy and the citizenry at large, Obama had to go and throw himself a huge, epic, three-day birthday bash on Martha’s Vineyard.
In fact, Obama’s orgy of self-worship is a perfect example of the sheer gall and hypocrisy of the American left-elite on almost every level. Even the choice of venue: climate campaigning elites ranting about sea-level rises, while at the same time buying fancy digs on the beach-front. From Covid to climate change, the message was clear: F*#k You, You Peasants.
Here was our climate czar, John Kerry, flying in private. His mode of travel was preferred by a host of left-leaning eco-warrior celebs, all Obama’s “close friends,” of course, descending on an already understaffed and emotionally depleted Vineyard.
“His birthday party is insane,” one of Obama’s caterers told The Post last week. “What is he thinking?”
Clearly, Obama thought to do whatever he damn well pleased — even after such backlash caused him to effectively cancel his party.
“This outdoor event was planned months ago in accordance with all public health guidelines and with COVID safeguards in place,” Obama spokesperson Hannah Hankins told the press last week. “Due to the new spread of the delta variant over the past week, the President and Mrs. Obama have decided to significantly scale back the event to include only family and close friends.”
That, we now know, was a lie.
The Obamas hosted hundreds of guests, all free to go unmasked, while their 200 servers were reportedly forced to mask up. The tiny island’s residents, meanwhile, endured “a s—t-show” of traffic and sudden road closures enforced by the Secret Service.
Is there a more disgusting display of elitist “Rules for thee, not for me” than this?
Like the Ancien Régime kings of Versailles, the ostentatious lifestyle of the elite only serves to highlight the grievances of the masses.
No wonder the vaccine is still politicized. No wonder there remains two Americas, despite Obama’s constant, self-aggrandizing promises to unite us.
On Sunday, Dr. Anthony Fauci went on “Meet the Press” to warn that the Sturgis, SD, motorcycle rally (code for “MAGA crowd”) might be a superspreader event.
Then on Monday, a New York Times reporter went on CNN and quoted a Vineyard resident as saying the Obamas were fine because they invited “a sophisticated, vaccinated crowd.”
That says it all.
Obama’s galactic ego is already the stuff of legend, but his callous disregard of others, in blatant contrast to his car-salesman-like exterior, was on full display. Long-time associates and key political allies were cruelly thrown over for a crowd of ego-stroking hangers-on and celebrities.
Famously close friend David Axelrod[…]the adviser most responsible for getting Obama elected in the first place — was, according to the New York Times, cut from the guest list[…]The uninvited, according to the Times, were “abruptly cut.” It tells you just where the Obamas’ post-presidential priorities are: Hollywood, podcasts, Netflix deals, and socializing with celebrities[…]
Close campaign strategists and loyal staffers[…]were heartbroken to be thrown over for the likes of Chrissy Teigen, famous for little more than her marriage and her cyber-bullying.
These longtime loyalists, the Times said, “generally credit themselves with helping create the Obama legacy that has allowed the former president to settle in so comfortably with the A-list crowd” and all of them had “been looking forward to the reunion after an isolated year.”
New York Post
What happened instead, says it all, indeed.
Not just about the notoriously egoistic Obama, but about the American left-elite. As Charles Murray has said, “the new upper-class holds ordinary Americans in contempt. Disdain. And they’re not even hiding it any more.”
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