obama by cindy adams

​Last week the Harvard presidency job was offered to Obama. He deferred the suggestion. Didn’t outright reject. Deferred.
’94 I met hotshot law student Barack. We shared literary agent Jane Dystel who rep’d the biggies. Her dad, Oscar, the power of Bantam, created the pocketbooks concept. Jane rep’d unknown Obama’s ’95 book “Dreams of My Father,” which sold no place.
She babysat it. He became known. Her edited, newly rejuiced version sold like the Bible. His gratitude? He told me, “I am cool, never sweat, never nervous.” Turning on her professionally, financially, he went to Clinton’s book agent.
Michelle gave him permission to run for president. Now he’s pushing her.
The plan: Indictments tie DJT up in court. Obama — whose presidency began the far left/anti-Israel/pro-Iran shift — back in control. Obama people are White House staffers.
High level pols deny Michelle’s a candidate — despite people involved saying it. Supposedly this information’s firsthand. So, believe it or not.
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A survey to several Dem donors admitted that summer 2022, Michelle met top NYC execs saying, “I’d like your support.” Replacing placeholder Joe was not to be revealed until late May, when he’d drop out.
https://nypost.com/2024/01/23/opinion/barack-obamas-deferral-means-he-could-be-harvards-next-president/

Adams, an insider but too old to be arrogant, knows how to write: her clipped style is just right for opinion journalism. I have a sick feeling that the prediction, her ‘gossip’, is correct, and sometimes gossip is just analysis that hits first page first. I wager she wrote this piece short of 30 minutes.

Illustration by Tom Bachtell care of The New Yorker

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