Barack Obama Doesn’t Even Believe His Feminist Fantasy

"Even when I was president, I sometimes fantasized about if you put women in charge of every government for like, two years," Obama said. "And then just kind of saw, all right, how are things going? I have a strong belief that things would, they wouldn't be perfect. But they'd be better. I'm confident about that. I really do so."

FUN FACT: Obama doesn't even believe what he's saying here:
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He's full of it, and he knows it. He doesn’t believe this, and his own record proves it.

Let’s start with 2008. Obama won the Democrat nomination that year by defeating a woman, Hillary Clinton, in a primary fight that dragged on for months and left both camps bruised. His central argument against her was her judgment, specifically her 2002 vote to authorize the Iraq War.

"In the single most important decision of our generation, the war in Iraq, I think I showed the judgment of a commander in chief and I think Senator Clinton was wrong in her judgment," Obama said during the campaign.

He hammered that point again and again. "On the war in Iraq, Senator Clinton's judgment was wrong," he insisted on another occasion. "If we had followed my judgment, we wouldn't be standing here five years later debating how to end the war in Iraq, because we never would have fought it."

Once he locked up the nomination, Obama had the perfect chance to put a woman one step from the Oval Office. He passed. Instead of Hillary, he picked Joe Biden, an old white man who had been sitting in the Senate since 1973. If Obama truly believed women would make things better, that was his moment to prove it, and he didn’t take it.

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Then came the general election, and suddenly his campaign found a woman it considered disqualifying. Obama's team leaned hard on the warning that Sarah Palin would be "a heartbeat away from the presidency" if John McCain won. Putting a woman in charge was apparently a threat worth campaigning against when the woman was a Republican.

That raises an obvious follow-up question. Does Obama think the world would improve with Giorgia Meloni, Alice Weidel, and Marine Le Pen calling the shots in Rome, Berlin, and Paris for two years?

Spoiler alert: he doesn't. His fantasy only works if the women in charge share his politics.

There's a more basic problem, too. The same left that wants to hand women the keys to every government can't tell you what a woman is. It's hard to take a pitch for female leadership seriously from a movement that treats the definition of the word as a matter of personal opinion.

I'm also tired of the notion that women are inherently morally superior to men.

It's absurd, and Obama picked a lousy moment to push it. Consider the Lindsay Clancy trial in Massachusetts, which ended in a mistrial earlier this month. Clancy killed her three young children, and when the jury deadlocked, the lone holdout arguing she was guilty was a man, while every woman on the jury voted not guilty.

So spare me the claim that women would make things better simply because they're women.

A scene from the 1994 adaptation of Little Women came to mind here. In the middle of a debate over women's suffrage, Jo March, played by Winona Ryder, says, “I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good, they vote because they are male. And women should vote not because they are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country."

The same logic applies to running governments. Women are human beings, every bit as smart as men and every bit as capable of bad judgment. Obama understood that perfectly well in 2008, when he built his whole case against Hillary on the idea that she got the defining vote of her Senate career wrong.

So spare us the virtual signaling, Barry.