Vivek Ramaswamy embodies Obama’s worst traits.

He’s a ‘skinny guy with a funny last name.’ An ‘outsider’ ⁣promising to bring ​change⁤ to Washington. Sound familiar?

What happened: Vivek Ramaswamy, the 38-year-old entrepreneur, introduced himself to ‌the American ‍public Wednesday night⁣ at the‌ first Republican primary debate ‍ in Milwaukee.

What happened next: Rival GOP candidates took turns hammering the⁤ new kid for his​ lack of political experience. Some observers remarked that Ramaswamy reminded them ​of a certain Democratic whippersnapper ⁤who burst onto the scene in 2004.

Barack Obama 3.0: Ramaswamy stole a line from former president Barack Obama’s ‍keynote address at the Democratic⁤ National Convention‌ in ⁢2004, describing himself as a “skinny guy⁤ with a funny last name.”

• During an exchange with former vice president Mike Pence about Russian president ‌Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine, ⁢Ramaswamy echoed Obama’s (ignorant, in retrospect) put-down of GOP candidate ‍Mitt Romney in​ 2012. ⁤”I have a newsflash,” Ramaswamy told Pence. “The USSR does not exist anymore. ⁣It fell back in 1990.”
• The comment reminded observers of the​ time Obama ‍mocked Romney’s foreign policy views by saying, “The 1980s are ⁢now calling to ask for their ⁣foreign policy back because ⁢the Cold ⁢War’s been ‌over for 20 years.”
• Ramaswamy cast himself as ​a fresh-faced “outsider” running against‍ “professional politicians”‍ stuck in their ways. “If you have⁤ a broken car,‍ you don’t‍ turn over the keys to the ‍people who broke it again, you⁢ hand‍ it over‍ to ‍a new generation to actually⁢ fix the problem,” he said. “That’s why‍ I’m in this race and we’re just getting warmed up.”

Obama used nearly identical ‍rhetoric⁤ during his acceptance speech at ⁢the Democratic National Convention⁤ in 2008, when he urged‌ Americas to reject “the‍ politics of the past” and chart​ a different course. “The greatest risk we‍ can take is to try the same old politics⁣ with ⁤the same old players and expect ‍a different result,” he said. “Change happens because the American ‍people demand it—because they rise⁢ up and insist on new‍ ideas and⁣ new leadership, a ‌new politics for⁣ a ‌new ​time.”

Crucial context: Pete Buttigieg,​ the U.S.⁢ transportation secretary who ran a⁣ failed campaign for president in 2020, was “Obama 2.0,” an overeducated, overachieving ⁢nerd who was technically (but not really) a minority because he married‍ a⁢ man. Ramaswamy represents a considerable upgrade.

Bottom line: Obama is ⁣America’s worst living president and one ⁤of the ⁣most obnoxious politicians⁤ of all time.