Barack Obama got enough electoral votes in the right places to become president in 2008. But the truth is, Americans didn’t really elect Barack Obama the man. They elected the idea of a well-educated black man, the first to govern in the nation's history.

Voters did not know that Obama, the man, is not really a good person. And, truth is, the 72-year-old Republican alternative that year wasn't all that exciting. //

Then, win or lose, former presidents usually go away. They served the purpose they were given and had carefully sought with intent, ambition, and other people’s money. They get overpaid to hire ghostwriters to create their memoirs. They construct a presidential library, give speeches, and never drive their own car again. //

Most ex-presidents depart the Swamp. Not Barack Obama, who was only 54 when he left office. Note to Self: Young ex-presidents tend to hang around. //

Barack and Michelle disregarded their own apocalyptic warnings about global warming. They bought two estates right on the ocean, one on Martha’s Vineyard and another in Hawaii.

But surprisingly, Obama also bought a D.C. mansion. And now we know why: He wasn’t done with his Swamp work, engineering “the radical transformation” of America that he had promised even before his first election.

Today, thanks to stunning revelations by the current Director of National Intelligence, we now know it was Obama and his henchmen embedded in the Deep State in 2016 who concocted and anonymously drove the malicious, fictitious Russiagate hoax in a receptive media. All in direct contradiction of the intelligence community's findings.

The goal was to paint Donald Trump as a perverted Putin puppet to undermine and cripple the Republican’s first administration that threatened Obama’s gains and Democrat power. //

The signs of Obama’s arrogant and malevolent side have been there all along. Sensing victory just before the 2008 election, the Democrat candidate addressed a Missouri crowd so enthused that it would have cheered an Obama burp:

We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.

Such ambition was impressive. At the time, that D.C. rookie was not even halfway through his first and last Senate term, basically a political unknown nationally. But this single sentence of 13 words unveiled a scheme far beyond the plans of a standard incoming president. //

There were other signs of concern. During the 2008 campaign, Michelle Obama, a native of Chicago's South Side who got to go to Princeton and Harvard, declared:

For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.

She's still complaining.