There are great similarities between Barack Obama’s path to the Presidency and Michelle Obama’s possible bid for the White House in 2024. Obama once ran a voter registration organization called “Project Vote” and so does Michelle Obama with “When We All Vote”. Both Barack and Michelle have written two books. Barack Obama spoke at the 2004 Democratic Convention and Michelle Obama will do the same at the 2024 Democratic Convention to be held next year in her hometown of Chicago.
The DNC is skipping the Iowa Caucus and going right to South Carolina where the Democrats have a large black electorate and is her grandparents’ home state. The path has been paved for Michelle Obama to be the nominee for the Democrats.
In 2018, Michelle Obama went on a national book tour and was the focus of the 2023 Netflix documentary, “The Light We Carry: Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey”. She is a pop-culture phenomenon and loved by millions. Michelle Obama has 22 million followers on Twitter, over 55 million followers on Instagram and has over 19 million Facebook followers.
As the Democratic Party comes to the reality that Joe Biden will not be the 2024 Presidential nominee, the door is wide open for Michelle Obama.
Joel Gilbert is the author and creator of the book and full-length feature film, “Michelle Obama: 2024”. I have interviewed him several times and he has taken the deep dive on the real Michelle Obama. According to Gilbert, Michelle Obama claims to have grown up on the tough streets of Chicago, but in fact is from the South Shore of east Chicago, a major difference, especially in the 1960s where the South Shore was a safe middle-class mixed-race community.
Her father was a precinct captain for the Chicago Democratic party machine, Michelle walked door to door with him as a child. She led a “privileged life” and didn’t go to her local South Shore high school but went to the elite Whitney Young Magnet School, $3,500 per year at the time in the early 1980s. Michelle went on to Princeton University and got her law degree from Harvard.
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Why is this relevant? Barack Obama’s first run for the Illinois state Senate was launched with a fundraiser in the home of Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn. Barack downplayed his relationship with Bill Ayers at the time by saying Ayers was just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” but Obama and Ayers were in fact partners at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Gilbert documents also Michelle Obama’s early relationship with senior advisor to President Obama, Valerie Jarrett. Jarrett hired Michelle while she was the Deputy Chief of Staff for Chicago Mayor Richard Daley in 1981. Michelle Obama worked for the elite Chicago Democrat machine and this was where she met Barack. These relationships explain a lot about Obama’s origins in politics and what drives them.
Whether she runs in 2024 or later, there is a glide path for Michelle Obama to become the Democratic Presidential nominee. Her entire childhood and adult life have put her on this course. Her political and policy agenda is not to be taken lightly as Michelle Obama is deeply rooted in the Democratic Party and represents a radical agenda for the left. The main-stream media which fawns over her will propel her into spotlight once again. Roger Stone recently speculated this as well and that we could see an Obama/Newsome ticket as things appear to be moving in this direction.