“Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.”
The famous phrase, paraphrased from an old Army ballad, was spoken by retired General Douglas MacArthur before a joint session of Congress on April 19, 1951.
While Barack Obama, America’s 44th president, neither served in the U.S. military nor is particularly old, I thought about MacArthur’s words as I began to write this article — but with a significant twist: Obama’s words and actions during the waning months of the 2024 presidential election likely signaled the end of the Obama mystique and his role as the unquestioned Democrat Party power broker.
But unlike Douglas MacArthur, Barack Obama isn’t fading away; he bears much of the blame for engineering both cognitively declining Joe Biden becoming the 2020 Democrat presidential nominee and also Biden being kicked to the curb in favor of Vice President…
