The New York Times and just about everyone else in the media think that the Democratic National Committee’s plan “to radically reorder” the traditional primary process was done at the behest of Joe Biden.
Los Angeles filmmaker and author Joel Gilbert thinks otherwise. Earlier this year, Gilbert released a compelling documentary and companion book, “Michelle Obama 2024, Her Real Life Story and Plan for Power.” In it, he makes a much stronger case than the Times does for the Dems’ power play.
The impressively naive headline of the Times reads “Biden, Demoting Iowa and Prizing Diversity, Wants S.C. as First Primary.” The subhead is just as wide-eyed: “The plan came as the president asked that ‘voters of color have a voice in choosing our nominee much earlier in the process.'”
There is more going on here than meets the willfully blind eyes at the Times. With this move, the Dems have all but written Iowa off as a potential win in the 2024 general election.
Obama won the state in 2012. Barring the unforeseen, Biden could not possibly win in 2024. The bellwether Iowa caucus was a highly important tradition in the state. Iowa Democrats have just been sandbagged, and they know it.
“Diversity” is a zero-sum game. South Carolina wins, and Iowa loses, but “diversity” is not the issue here. Power is, and Joe Biden doesn’t have it, never did.
The man who holds the power now, or at least seems to, is Jim Clyburn, the South Carolina congressman and kingmaker. In 2020, the Washington Post tells us, “The South Carolina lawmaker’s endorsement helped the former vice president overcome a string of damaging early-state losses to win the state’s Democratic primary in 2020.”
Clyburn had been down this road before. During the 2008 primary campaign, Bill Clinton found himself in hot water for using the term “fairy tale” in regard to Barack Obama’s shallow opposition to the war in Iraq, but the race-baiters in Obama’s camp pulled the phrase out of context to paint Clinton and, by extension, wife Hillary, as racists.
Writes Obama in his latest memoir, “Promised Land,” “There were Black folks who heard it as a suggestion that the notion of me as president was a fairy tale.” Obama adds that Clyburn, at that time America’s most powerful black leader, publicly rebuked Clinton over the remark.
Of course, Obama could have exonerated Clinton before the primary – he knew what Clinton meant – but that would not have helped him secure the black vote. On Election Day, he received 80% of “a massive black turnout” and 24% of the white vote to win the primary easily over a surging Hillary Clinton.
Gilbert makes the case that South Carolina is Michelle’s for the asking. “If Biden was running,” Gilbert tells me, “no one would run against him, so there is no need to move the first primary out of Iowa.”
The fact is that Biden is no longer a viable candidate if he ever was one. He “won” the presidency in 2020 only because the FBI conspired with Big Tech and Big Media to keep the contents of the Hunter Biden laptop out of the news.
The media can ignore the Twitter reveals by Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk, but too many people know too much now to take Biden seriously. Congressional hearings into Biden Inc. will kill even the illusion of a serious Biden candidacy.
While the GOP beats up on Biden, the exquisitely sensitive Michelle Obama waits in the wings for the call to save her party and her country. As Gilbert points out in “Michelle 2024,” Michelle’s family hails from South Carolina.
In 2008, dressing down in both fashion and language, Michelle worked the state hard on behalf of her husband. “My people are from South Carolina,” she said at one tour stop. “I don’t know if y’all knew that. In fact, my brother and I came down last week for a mini family reunion at my grandparents’ church.”
In 2024, Gilbert argues, it’s Michelle’s turn. Like Barack, Michelle positioned herself with an autobiography, the wildly popular “Becoming.” Like Barack, too, she gave the keynote speech at a Democratic National Convention in the prior convention, Barack’s in 2004, Michelle’s in 2020.
If a further parallel were needed, Michelle, like her husband, cut her political teeth leading a get-out-the vote organization, hers called When We All Vote.
On Saturday night, in Atlanta of all places, Michelle kicked off the tour for her latest book, “The Light We Carry.” Although written like the last one by a young Jewish woman, Michelle will position herself as the very picture of authenticity.
And if her rediscovered black southern accent rings false, it is much better than Barack’s and a whole lot better than Hillary’s or Joe Biden’s. And besides, Michelle was not the one who humiliated Iowa.
Of course, not.
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