Private jets and no masks – how Obama’s party was at the height of elite hypocrisy

For someone who prides himself on optics, Barack Obama has just given us a pretty ugly spectacle.

As the rest of America grapples with uncertain employment status and school reopens, shifting mask mandates, anxiety over vaccinations and variants, the health of the economy and citizens in General, Obama had to go throw himself a huge, epic, three-day birthday party on Martha’s Vineyard.

You’d think a former president – one who clearly considers himself smarter and more sensitive than most – would show restraint.

Or at least understand that it was an extremely evil look.

Here’s our climate czar, John Kerry, flying in private. His mode of travel was preferred by a host of left-wing eco-warrior celebrities, all of Obama’s “close friends”, of course, descending on an already understaffed and emotionally exhausted vineyard.

“His birthday party is crazy,” one of Obama’s caterers told The Post last week. “What is he thinking?

Obviously, Obama thought about doing what the hell he liked – even after such a reaction caused him to effectively cancel his party.

“This outdoor event was planned months ago in accordance with all public health guidelines and COVID safeguards in place,” Obama spokeswoman Hannah Hankins told reporters last week. “Due to the new spread of the Delta variant over the past week, the President and Mrs. Obama have decided to drastically reduce the event to include only family and close friends.”

This, we now know, was a lie.

The Obamas have hosted hundreds of guests, all free to unmask, while their 200 servers are said to have been forced to hide. The inhabitants of the small island, meanwhile, endured the “as-t-show” of traffic and sudden road closures imposed by the secret service.

Is there a more disgusting demonstration of elitist “Rules For You, Not For Me” than this?

Famous close friend David Axelrod – who sat for a three-part hagiographic documentary on HBO Obama that premiered last week, who just referred to Obama as an “apostle of hope” in the Washington Post, and advised him on most responsible for the election of Obama in the first place – was, according to the New York Times, removed from the guest list.

Yes, David Axelrod was not invited at the last minute so that “close friends” such as HER, former “Real Housewife of Atlanta” Kim Fields, Bradley Cooper and Stephen Colbert – for none. name a few – can attend.

It’s cold stuff.

Uninvited guests, according to the Times, were “abruptly cut off.” It tells you exactly where the Obamas’ post-presidential priorities are: Hollywood, podcasts, Netflix offerings, and celebrity socializing.

There isn’t much daylight here between the Obamas and the Markles. Who would have thought?

Consider that Jackie O, the most famous woman of her time, lived a very low-key life on the vineyard. Sure, she owned an estate, but she did not move about ostentatiously.

Throwing a lavish party filled with hundreds of A-listers as America remained in the grip of a pandemic?

Jackie would never do it.

Barack, however, was playing 18 holes with Don Cheadle and getting rocked by Alicia Keys. He was training on the dance floor with Erykah Badu while his guests drank premium alcohol and smoked cigars and dined from a menu curated by Questlove.

And the mainstream media are encouraging it!

“Even downsized, Barack Obama’s birthday party is the event of the season,” said Vanity Fair.

“Danced the night away,” People magazine said of Obama. “He never stopped smiling.”

No wonder the vaccine is still politicized. No wonder there are two Americas left, despite Obama’s constant and self-glorifying promises to unite us.

On Sunday, Dr Anthony Fauci went on “Meet the Press” to warn that the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, SD (code for “MAGA crowd”) could be a big event.

Then on Monday, a New York Times reporter took to CNN and quoted a Vineyard resident as saying that the Obamas were okay because they had invited “a sophisticated, vaccinated crowd.”

That says it all. Even Twitter has erupted.

“Of course viruses don’t attack sophisticated people, Muffy! said one.

Perhaps Obama should have narrowed his list down to his close campaign strategists and loyal employees – those who the Times said were heartbroken to be cast for Chrissy Teigen, famous for little more than her marriage. and his cyberbullying. .

These longtime devotees, the Times said, “generally credit themselves with helping to create the legacy of Obama that allowed the former president to sit so comfortably with the A-List crowd” and all had “eagerly awaited reunion after a lonely year.

Let them eat cake, indeed.