![]() Black women thwarted disgraced former Alabama judge Roy Moore’s bid for the U.S. What undergirds such arguments is the annoying implication that Black women exist only to save America from its worst political impulses. While admitting that an Obama run is “improbable,” Schoen wrote, “She is the only alternative to Biden who could save the party from a grueling primary battle - one that would put intraparty divisions and rifts on display and delay Democrats’ pivot to the general election campaign.” Why would Obama subject herself to all that misogynoir? ![]() To say nothing of the way Vice President Kamala Harris has been treated. In an attempt to satirize irrational fears about the Obamas, a New Yorker cover illustration portrayed her as a gun-toting, Afro-wearing radical fist-bumping her husband, who was dressed as Osama bin Laden. Fox News called her “ Obama’s baby mama,” a loaded racist term. No doubt she remembers the racism her husband and their daughters faced during his presidency. In 2017, she called public service “worthwhile” and “important” but added, “I wouldn’t ask my children to do this again because when you run for higher office, it’s not just you. Of course, even though Obama could win her party’s nomination, she has often cited the toll it would take on her family as a deterrent to running. Whether it’s his age (80) or his middling job performance rating (which curiously fails to match what he’s actually accomplished), there are Democrats who won’t stop fantasizing about a better alternative to take on Donald Trump, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, or whoever floats to the top of the Republican cesspool.
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