His initial, three-sentence statement on the deadliest day for Jewry since the Holocaust didn’t come until Oct. 9, and was followed up a couple weeks later by an essay devoted almost entirely to scolding Israel while parroting Hamas’ accusations against it.
Where others saw a moment that demanded moral clarity, Obama saw an opportunity to muddy the waters, as is his custom.
Divide and conquer
More recently, the former president has emerged as one of the country’s leading advocates of partisan gerrymandering — for Democrats, of course.
In an exceedingly haughty statement issued last summer, Obama managed to at once claim the moral high ground, condemn Republican gerrymanders, and endorse Gov. Gavin Newsom’s carve-up of California.
Then this spring, he threw his support behind Virginia Democrats’ effort to leave purple Old Dominion with just one Republican-leaning congressional district.
He was even featured in an ad on its behalf, in which he accused Republicans of trying “to steal enough seats in Congress to rig the next election.”
As a schoolchild might put it on the playground: I know you are, but what am I?
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