Americans are sick of seeing Obama. But he isn’t done just yet.
Now Barack Obama gloated after being given a dumbfounding victory.
Obama Celebrates Democratic Sweep as Proof Voters Reject “Cruelty” – Overlooks Violent Texts from Candidate He Championed
Former President Barack Obama surfaced Friday on the left-leaning podcast “Pod Save America” to declare this week’s off-year Democratic victories a resounding rejection of “cruelty,” while carefully avoiding any mention of the Virginia attorney-general candidate he helped keep on the ticket despite leaked messages fantasizing about murdering a Republican lawmaker and his children.
From Campaign Trail to Victory Lap: Obama Claims Moral High Ground
Fresh off stumping for Virginia governor-elect Abigail Spanberger in the final days of the campaign, Obama told hosts Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor that Tuesday’s results delivered a clear message.
“It was a good reminder that it turns out that the American people are paying attention. They don’t want cruelty,” Obama said. “They believe in community. They believe in treating people with decency and respect.”
He pointed to Spanberger’s defeat of Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, Rep. Mikie Sherrill’s capture of the New Jersey governor’s mansion, and democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s upset win in the New York City mayoral race as evidence that “candidates with integrity who believe in something and are in it for the right reasons” can still triumph when young voters turn out in force.
The Jay Jones Scandal Obama Refuses to Touch
Conspicuously absent from Obama’s 45-minute appearance was any reference to the firestorm that dominated Virginia’s closing weeks. Leaked text messages showed Democratic attorney-general nominee Jay Jones—Spanberger’s running mate—describing in graphic detail how he wanted to see GOP state delegate John McGuire and McGuire’s children executed.
Earle-Sears demanded Jones withdraw and Spanberger denounce him. Neither happened. Obama, who shared the stage with Spanberger at a packed Richmond rally on Saturday, never uttered Jones’s name publicly and declined to join calls for his removal from the ticket.
Spanberger went on to win by nearly seven points, dragging Jones across the finish line with her.
Same Lecture, Different Year: Trump “Mean-Spiritedness” vs. Democratic Silence on Death Threats
The contrast was stark. At that same Richmond rally, Obama had spent twenty minutes eviscerating the Trump administration:
“Our country and our politics are in a pretty dark place right now. It’s hard to know where to start, because every day this White House offers up a fresh batch of lawlessness and recklessness and mean-spiritedness and just plain craziness.”
Yet when presented with actual violent rhetoric from inside his own party’s ticket, the former president who once lectured the nation about the tone of its discourse offered nothing—no condemnation, no discomfort, no acknowledgment at all.
Podcast listeners who expected Obama to address the Jones texts heard only praise for the “good character” of Democratic standard-bearers and warnings that Republicans remain the party of cruelty.
As one Virginia Republican strategist put it after the episode dropped: “Obama spent years telling us words matter. Apparently only when Republicans say them.”
