Is the former President at war with the new President?

... or is he at war with America?

As a general rule, the outgoing President rides off into the sunset to go work on his library, write a book, make some speeches, and basically stay out of the way of the incoming President. Short of the humorous prank of the outgoing Clinton staff removing all of the "W" keys from every White House computer keyboard, you don't see much for any interference.

However, Former President Obama does not appear as willing as his predecessors to simply move aside. Publicly the lame duck President pushed for investigations into allegations of election hacking by the Russians, made overtures regarding possible election fraud, and even pushed the narrative of collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign. They hastily rushed through the motions of their investigations, produced little verifiable evidence to the public, but still put into place sanctions against the Russian Government which unfortunately handcuffed the incoming administration. All this appeared to part of a race against time to make one more relevant move a President.

Now reports are surfacing that the Obama Administration had also made fairly concerted efforts to make things uncomfortable for the incoming Administration behind the scenes as well.  First it has been reported that the Obama administration twice made FICA requests to monitor Trump and his Advisers. The first was rejected, the more limited one was granted (giving the sitting President legal authority to eavesdrop on the opposition's election campaign?). This specific action alone should send a chill down the spine of any American. Then the former Administration started lowering classifications on the broad unspecific information they recovered from these wire taps which fundamentally encouraged leaks. Lastly we have more than enough evidence to suggest that the former President is basically promoting a true partisan us vs them attitude for any Obama loyalist who are still working in the so called "deep state".

My theory on President Obama was that he was an Obama loyalist first, a Democrat loyalist second, a global loyalist third, and a President of the American People somewhere in between his passion for golf and his love of the White Sox. If you want to know why American's elected Donald Trump and his "America First" platform, go back and read some of my old posts regarding Presidential elections being a reaction to what we did not like about the previous President.

Obama made multiple FICA requests to
monitor the Trump Presidential campaign. 

We elected an honest to a fault peanut farmer to replace Nixon (Ford), we elected an actor to replace the peanut farmer when he appeared incapable of providing a vision, we elected a young liberal to replace two old conservatives, we elected the god fearing conservative to replace the young liberal who was bit too liberal with the ladies, and we elected a great public speaker to replace the man who generally couldn't make it through more than a few sentences without making up a new word. So if you look for the worst quality of the lame duck President, you can generally expect we will elect someone who will shore that up for us. In the case of Obama, it was clearly that he placed Party and global affairs ahead of the American people. Thus Donald Trump wins the general election by promising to put America first and make it great again. It's actually fairly obvious when you look.

So it doesn't surprise me that Obama is bucking conventional attitudes of outgoing Presidents regarding being deferential to the incoming President. Rather the lame duck Obama Administration was monitoring the Trump campaign with wiretaps, declassified recovered information which basically left bread crumb trails to make sure unsubstantiated allegations were leaked,  made suggestions that the election was hacked, tossed around last minute sanctions, and is basically running a shadow campaign to undermine the new President. They are in essence, doing whatever they can to sabotage any success the new Administration is having. After all, success for the American people does not equate (right now) with success for the Democratic Party. Unfortunately that's what appears matters to Obama, the Democrats, much of the press, and most of Obama surrogates and loyalists.