By John Kass

Sunday August 17, 2025

Barack Obama is the new Nixon. There, I wrote it down and my name is on it. It’s not publicly approved speech yet, but it is no longer the Thought Crime it once was. Many Americans are thinking it. And some, like me, are saying out loud.

Barack Obama is our modern Nixon figure. Worse than Nixon, actually.

Nixon was considered devious. He was presented as demon by The Washington Post and most of the rest of American journalism as the devil who had to be crushed, his followers subjected to never ending ridicule, his political party was sent on a Walk of Shame. Facing certain impeachment conviction–the result of a botched burglary–Nixon resigned in 1974 rather than put the nation through more political hell.

And what of Obama, the creature and darling of the political left and  the beloved of the Post, New York Times, my old paper the now-woke Chicago Tribune, what remains of corporate legacy media?

It was Obama who orchestrated the FBI and CIA to create what is now understood as the “Russia Collusion Hoax” and used it in attempts to destroy his political rival President Donald Trump.  He set them like attack dogs on the American presidency, to rip it apart after the American people had elected Trump as their president. Once Obama’s cabal of Deep State secret intelligence chiefs were exposed, their methods opened to public scrutiny, the public began asking questions. The fall from grace is impossible for a political immortal.

And for that he can’t be forgiven.

According to Rasmussen Reports:

“In the wake of revelations about the so-called “RussiaGate” scandal, more than two-thirds of voters agree with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that there must be “accountability” for any crimes committed.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 54% of Likely U.S. Voters believe it’s likely that members of President Barack Obama’s national security team committed crimes when they manipulated and manufactured intelligence to promote a false narrative about Russia and Donald Trump, including 37% who consider it Very Likely. Forty-one percent (41%) don’t think it’s likely crimes were committed by Obama administration officials, including 28% who say it’s Not At All Likely.”

For Obama, once publicly adored as something of a demi-god, the fact that 66.6 percent of American voters agree with DNI Gabbard is devastating. The worm has turned.

I tried out my theory on the great NY Post columnist and best-selling author Miranda Devine. She will appear soon as a guest on the Chicago Way podcast that I co-host with WGN radio executive producer Jeff Carlin and send free as a bonus to subscribers of johnkassnews.com

We started talking about Obama, particularly Obama’s desperate desire for relevance and change of subject which is why Obama’s posse are pushing his recently hyped call New York Socialist mayor-to-be,  Zoran Mamdani.

“Barack Obama is finding relevance right now, probably not the relevance he’d planned, because he’s now fingered as the ringleader as Donald Trump now calls him, of the whole Russiagate Russia Collusion hoax (I’m linking to a recent column of hers on ‘Bumbling Obama Aides Actually Admit Russiagate was a smear campaign against Trump).

“It’s very fitting that Mamdani would try to set himself up as some sort of national figure by being ‘mentored’ by Barack Obama and setting himself against Donald Trump because he’s of course “too important” to battle against the likes of Andrew Cuomo and Eric Adams,” Devine told us.

Originally I had planned to write a different column about Obama, a light piece with the former president on the psychiatric couch being psychoanalyzed, worrying about the crease in his trousers, complaining about the conservative media, about his wife’s podcast, complaining about disloyal Democrats and the Federal Grand Jury examining his actions and those of his Deep State intelligence dogs and so on.

Who knows? I might return to it.

But I was trained as a newspaperman. And Miranda Devine is a hard news person, though she liked the idea of Obama on my comfy couch.

The thing about Obama is that his legacy is broken. Certainly, as an intelligent man, he must know this. The left can sense it. America can sense the panic.

His aides are under fire, and years after he was treated by the media as if he were some mythical flying horse like Pegasus,  creature, a majority of the American people believe that Obama’s Deep State has committed crimes in what we call “RussiaGate.”

The worm is turning.

”I totally agree,” Devine said, “and if you go on X they’re talking about Obama in quite negative terms.”

Of course they are, it’s angry and hateful, but consider: After Obama and his Democrats and media fed the American people a steady diet of hysteria about the hateful bad Orange Man destroying the American republic, you might understand why. The left has been stirring a boiling cauldron and now it’s foaming up and over, spilling on the wrist of the witches. Obama used the FBI and CIA to destroy the presidency, but some people developed an affection for the presidency.

They thought of it not belonging to Obama or Hillary Clinton or the editors of newspapers who despise them.

They thought the presidency belonged to them, the people.

And when they found out the true attitudes of the Obama-Clinton-Biden Democrats, they became angry.

There is no putting the genie back in the bottle. Not even a grand wizard like Obama can do it. Each day the people get angrier.

Obama is desperate for relevance and a change of subject, which is why he called New York Socialist mayor-to-be,  Zoran Mamdani. But does Obama help Mamdani?

Oh perhaps, but I’ve known the silky liar Obama for years since the American  terrorist William Ayers hatched him in Chicago’s Hyde Park. I was a copy boy for his word spinner David Axelrod, and I covered  Mayor Rahm Emanuel at Chicago’s City Hall, even after Rahm desperately tried to cover up and suppress the police killing of a black teenager.

Obama, like Richard M. Daley is his own favorite topic. Obama abandoned Chicago. He ignored the plight of black Chicago. Like all narcissists, Obama is a political one-way street. He cares only for himself.

He weaponized the FBI and the CIA and used the Internal Revenue Service to hunt and destroy conservatives who dared oppose him.

Former President Barack Obama’s newly revealed call with mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani is a nod that could help make the socialist more palatable to panicking high-level Democrats

He doesn’t mind being linked to Mamdani. All that is a distraction from what he’s done to the country. He wants to step away from what he’s done.

He doesn’t want to be linked to another president:

Richard M. Nixon.

But Nixon is his legacy now, and he knows it.

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