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[Order Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Not so long ago, America had a great economy, the lowest unemployment ever for a range of demographic groups, energy independence, an increasingly secure southern border, a strong international profile, and no new wars. It had freedom. It had national pride. And all because it had a highly skilled president of unabashed patriotism who was devoted to the best interests of his people.
Now we’re being readied to eat bugs while our overlords dine on steaks. To live in “fifteen-minute cities” while they fly to conferences in Fiji. To tighten our belts to prevent rising sea levels while they luxuriate in sea-level mansions in Malibu and Martha’s Vineyard. In a direct challenge to parental authority, common-sense values, and sensible pedagogical priorities, government schools indoctrinate children in Critical Race Theory and transgender ideology. To shatter our sense of security and restrict our freedom of movement, Soros prosecutors turn major cities over to violent felons. Patriots rot in jail for meandering around the Capitol for a couple of hours two years ago while young people are encouraged by their teachers to celebrate Antifa and BLM thugs who’ve burned houses down. Blacks who love liberty are smeared as “white supremacists” while Muslims who love jihad are depicted as virtuous victims.
Then there’s what happened during the pandemic. Churchgoing was banned, violent street protests permitted. Small businesses were forced to close and went bankrupt; giant chain stores stayed open and reaped record profits. Americans, but not illegal immigrants, were ordered to mask and vaccinate. Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi, with imperial condescension, violated their own lockdowns.
In this new world order, “our democracy” means the tyranny of the unelected (including the FBI, CIA, DHS, and DOJ), propped up by a Pravda-like corporate media. Their message? If we want to be known as supporters of equality, models of compassion, and friends of the planet, we’ll knuckle under, obey them, and parrot their progressive creed – as spelled out in that chilling Independence Hall speech in which Joe Biden, against a Bismarckian blood-red backdrop, demonized MAGA voters as enemies of freedom.
Of course this dystopia in the making didn’t begin with Biden. It’s a carry-over from the Obama years, interrupted by that Belle Époque, the Trump interregnum. “To understand the crisis of the Biden administration,” observes Daniel Greenfield, “we have to go back to its origins in the Obama administration.” This statement appears in Greenfield’s introduction to an engaging and definitive new collection of essays, Barack Obama’s True Legacy, which, under the editorship of Jamie Glazov, does precisely that: it ponders Obama and his appalling presidential tenure from a number of angles, and in doing so gives us what seems to me the most comprehensive and penetrating account yet of who Obama really is, what he did to America, and why.
Political scientist John Drew recalls the Obama whom he met in 1980 when they were both students dreaming of Communist revolution. At first glance, Obama struck Drew as a child of “wealth and privilege”: he “carried himself with the dignity and poise of a model,” he “talked like a white guy,” he came off “like a foreign prince visiting the United States.” Drew also thought Obama was gay – an impression later confirmed, sort of, by a letter in which Obama wrote: “I make love to men daily, but in the imagination.” Politically, soon enough, both Drew and Obama shifted to “a more practical view,” deciding that politics, not revolution, was “the preferred route to socialism”; Drew eventually left the left entirely, but, as we know, alas, Obama did not.
New Zealand author and filmmaker Trevor Loudon also reaches some distance into the past, tracing Obamacare to the 1930s, when Quentin Young, a young Communist doctor in Chicago, first began thinking about socialized medicine. In the 1990s he advised Hillary Clinton on health care; later still (he lived until 1992), he collaborated with Bernie Sanders and Ted Kennedy. As it happens, Young shared his medical practice for two decades with Obama’s personal physician, David Scheiner, and was present at the meeting, hosted by former terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, at which it was announced that Obama, also present, would be running for Congress. Along the way he played a huge role in shaping Obama’s views on health-care coverage.
Glazov’s book includes several contributions on Islam and the Middle East. Highlighting Obama’s hideous 2012 statement at the UN criticizing “those who slander the prophet of Islam,” counterintelligence expert Stephen C. Coughlin recounts the Obama Administration’s purging of counterterrorism pros (largely in response to pressure from terrorist-linked CAIR) and reports that Muslims at DHS, founded to combat Islamic terrorism, shifted its focus 180º to target “Islamophobes” – that is, American patriots who dare to worry about terrorism. In other essays, former Knesset member Dov Lipman corrects “historical inaccuracies” about Israel in Obama’s memoir A Promised Land, and Greenfield and Clare M. Lopez supply cogent takes on Obama’s treachery toward Israel and championing of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Then there’s Raymond Ibrahim on Obama’s abominable treatment of Middle East Christians: his refusal to use U.S. leverage on their behalf, his resistance to Capitol Hill pressure to address religious freedom, his prioritizing of Muslim over Christian refugees, and his denial that Muslim-on-Christian violence in Nigeria had a religious basis. (Ibrahim quotes Newt Gingrich: “This is an administration that never seems to find a good enough excuse to help Christians, but always finds an excuse to apologize for terrorists.”) And in three trenchant pieces, Robert Spencer studies Obama’s refusal to label the Fort Hood massacre as a terrorist act (thus denying certain benefits to victims and their families), his insistence that the Islamic State had nothing to do with Islam, and his attitude, at the time of the Iran deal, that “the side that needed to show a good faith commitment to peace was not Iran, but the United States.”
There are two strong items on immigration: Loudon considers Obama’s desire to bestow citizenship on millions of illegals, and Matthew Vadum ponders Obama’s view “that immigration…was a right.” And J.R. Nyquist tackles Obama and Russia, pointing out in his opening sentences that Obama’s parents met in a Russian language class. Why, he wonders, were they there? We know they hated capitalism; did they love the USSR? Certainly Obama’s Russia policy, posits Nyquist, was “exactly what one might expect from a president who was born of pro-Soviet parents and mentored by a likely KGB agent (i.e., Frank Marshall Davis).” Nyquist also serves up a couple of fascinating anecdotes that, if true, would fill in a big piece of the Obama puzzle: in 1983, a Communist speaker at UC Irvine reportedly said that his fellow Reds were “infiltrating the left wing of the Democratic Party”; in the 1990s, American physicist Tom Fife claims to have encountered Obama at a social event in Moscow where the later was described as being groomed by the Soviets to be America’s first black president.
The closing pages of Barack Obama’s True Legacy take us to the end of Obama’s presidency and beyond. Greenfield reflects on the truly tragic way in which Obama’s “naked racial rhetoric…transformed America” from an essentially post-racial country into the present “war-torn nation deeply divided by race.” In three incisive essays, Joseph Klein indicts Obama for his persecution of General Michael Flynn (who, by the way, contributes a solid foreword to this book); argues that Obama should have been impeached for what Andrew McCarthy has rightly called his singular pattern of “presidential lawlessness” (which Klein catalogs at illuminating length); and details Obama’s nefarious and unprecedented attempt, after his own presidency was over, “to sabotage the legitimacy of his duly elected successor.”
When Donald Trump took the oath of office, most of us thought the Obama era was over. We were wrong. Our 44th president was still operating behind the scenes – scheming with his old cronies to blunt Trump’s effectiveness, to pack the media with lies about him, to keep the violent far-left wing of the Democratic Party in a constant state of anti-Trump outrage, to engineer his impeachment, and much more; and since Trump’s departure from the White House, Obama has, at the very least, been one of those who’ve been pulling the strings of the current puppet-in-chief. But of course all this malicious mischief was nothing new for the man who once said that “the sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer”: as Spencer puts it in his savvy afterword, Obama was, from the beginning of his term until – well – this present moment, “actively working against the interests of the United States.” That he managed to do so much damage to this country and its people is breathtaking to behold – as is the fact that there remains a large cohort of low-information Americans who actually revere this traitor as a paragon of virtue and wisdom.
Originally published at AmericanThinker.com.
During the Obama administration a friend of mine worked in the intelligence community on counter-terrorism. He retired early because he got sick of his reports being returned by his superiors. They told him they couldn’t use them because the White House would reject anything that discussed Islamic doctrine or practice in relationship to terrorism. Also, it is never discussed just how much he conducted warrantless surveillance on American citizens. I won’t repeat it here as I’ve posted on it before but, in 2012 he gave 17 “private contractors” access to the NSA’s “702” database, named for Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act. A 2016 audit of their use of the database over just a 6 month period found that the 17 had made tens of thousands of database period during the six months and that 85% were unlawful. He has never even been asked about this. Obama was and remains a danger to this country.
Of course Obama is a danger not only to America but the West in general because he is a Russian plant, as revealed at a dinner party in Moscow of Foreign Diplomats where it was revealed even his name ( his real name is Barry Soweto ) . NOT eligible to be President as he was not born in America, and is not American but Kenyan where he was born ( photos exist ) He is Muslim, as when born was whisked off with his mother to Indonesia where he developed his religious affinity. There till his early teens , got into America via Honolulu, then to Chicago where he lodged and was groomed by a Communist husband and wife. Reputedly liked oral sex with older white males. Hence HIS agreement with IRAN, which he didn’t get them to sign or got it passed by The Senate. Is the power behind Biden, wanted an ofice in the White House. Anti British because of his father in Kenya. Wrote a book about it. Remember the difficulty in getting him to produce his Birth Certificate.
Incorrect. His father was Frank Marshall Davis. He was born in Hawaii to a 17-year-old girl whose parents were fellow, but secret members of the CPUSA. Need proof? Compare Obama’s picture at about 50 something to Frank Marshall Davis. He’s a dead ringer.
“Highlighting Obama’s hideous 2012 statement at the UN criticizing
‘those who slander the Prophet of Islam’ . . . “
Picture Muslim terrorists attacking and murdering a United States
Ambassador and three other Americans in Benghazi. Then think
about the American President’s (Obama) reaction to this. He spins
a lie about how the terrorists were offended by a video which
allegedly disparaged the Prophet of Islam. Then he goes before
the UN and indignantly criticizes those who slander the Prophet of
Islam. And – he does not criticize the Muslim killers.
Obama is evil incarnate. This is one more tidbit to add to Bruce
Bawer’s excellent encapsulation of Jamie Glazov’s array of scholars’
penetrating insights into such evil.
Good points. I remember that. Bareback Hussein Osama is utter scum.
He’s a Satanist, straight up. He’s the picture of malignant narcissism.
When Obama was President he was terrible, in many very treasonous ways.
As has been revealed in the book by Jamie Glazov which had the title JIHADIST PSYCHOPATH , for on pages 38,39 the reader is informed about the subversion of the United States of America by reckless unchecked mass immigration that “By importing so many masses of people who hate America and seek to destroy its way of life, the Left succeeds in severely damaging the United State and making it more vulnerable to attack This explains why President Obama worked so hard to flood the US with Muslim refugees and why the Left is now fighting Trump’s efforts to protect America from refugees who hail from terror –infested nations.”
It might be of interest to a few people that during the summer month of August in the year of 2010 I had attended a lecture in a church about the subject of Islam. The guest speaker was a man who in times past was a Muslim and a Hezbollah member as well as an Iranian citizen. Now he’s Christian and an American citizen. After the lecture, during the question and answer part, he was asked “Is Obama a Muslim?” The speaker replied that “I don’t know if he is a Muslim but his deception is Islamic.” Then he added about Obama “Whenever he talks he sounds just like a Muslim.” Moreover the guest speaker further said about Obama “He is going to hurt this country.” As just keyboarded above that lecture was hold in the year 2010 and since then Obama had ,indeed, hurt America by and through his words , actions , politics and polices .
First, when he thanked John McCain on George Stephanopolis’ Sunday Morning program for not making an issue of “my Muslim faith” Stephanopolis threw himself on the grenade and quickly said, “you mean your Christian faith.” But that would have made no sense. Why would his “Christian faith” have been an issue at all? All American Presidents had been Christians. So why would McCain have made it an issue and why would Obama have thanked him for not doing so? Clearly, Obama had accidentally committed the truth. Second, at his meeting at an African leaders’ summit in D.C. during his second term, Obama was photographed giving the Muslim leaders the one index finger (as in, “we’re number one”) Muslim salute/recognition signal. This was often displayed by, for instance, ISIS members in photographs from Syria and elsewhere. But our garbage “news media” would, of course, never confront him about these obvious indications.
Thank you for the reminder. It was obvious he was a Muslim to all those that paid attention to his actions and policies.
Obama is a moslem alright, although he’s impious. I don’t think he practices islam because he’s so ignorant he once referred to his “moslem faith” and had that human turd, George Stephanapolis, save him by saying “your Christian faith.”Practicing moslems know to say their “islamic faith.” I don’t believe that piece of shit prays or reads the unholy koran, hadith or sura but he definitely wants islam to dominate other religions. The dolt doesn’t understand what that would mean to his pampered lifestyle.
Obama is neither Christian or Moslem. He’s a hard-core white-hating Marxist and who doesn’t worship God, Jesus or Mohammed. His religion is whatever gets him votes for the moment.
When Obama was in the Office of President, he was the one who actually should have had been in impeached, after how terrible turned against the United States military.
The many evil that Obama did are most despicable
One of them is exposed in book written by the scholar on Islam and Islamic terrorism Jamie Glazov , which has the title of JIHADIST PSYCHOPATH on page 9, the reader is informed that “America’s suicidal disposition in the terror war reached a crisis level under Obama when American officials actually started seeking advice and direction from precisely those forces seeking to destroy the country
…With Obama in the White House , therefore ,the enemy was in effect , advising Americans and formulating their policy on how to promote their cause.”
This is an absurdly of madness. This reveals the Obama was, as President, far worse than grossly incompetent, Obama was traitorous to both the American people a as well as to the United State of America. Obama was therefore an affront and disgrace to the office of Chief Executive in the White House.
Therefore, the former President Obama in his Islamic subversion of America is not even limited to being a traitor to The USA but in his insidious he way and is dangerous to all the other nations of the West.
The sad and tragic reality is that Obama still has much insidious and subversive power in the White House .and therefore in the American government. Because he has his useful idiot ,Joe Biden to use as his tool to use to subvert the US Constitution and impose Sharia law, and socialism in America.
I am sure the plan is for Kamala Harris to become President after Biden can’t continue and Obama to become Deputy President by title but in effect, THE President. He can’t become President as not allowed by American rules. very anti Israel and anti Britain.
When Obama was in the Office of President, he was the one who actually should have had been in impeached.
For example In the book written by the scholar on Islam and Islamic terrorism Jamie Glazov , which has the title of JIHADIST PSYCHOPATH on page 9, the reader is informed that “America’s suicidal disposition in the terror war reached a crisis level under Obama when American officials actually started seeking advice and direction from precisely those forces seeking to destroy the country
…With Obama in the White House , therefore ,the enemy was in effect , advising Americans and formulating their policy on how to promote their cause.”
This is an absurdly of madness. This reveals the Obama was, as President, far worse than grossly incompetent, Obama was traitorous to both the American people a as well as to the United State of America. Obama was therefore an affront and disgrace to the office of Chief Executive in the White House.
Therefore, the former President Obama in his Islamic subversion of America is not even limited to being a traitor to The USA but in his insidious he way and is dangerous to all the other nations of the West.
“KYLE RITTENHOUSE,because of the Kenosha shooting( Kyle was declared INNOCENT )”
Actually, he was found innocent. No one is ever “declared innocent” in the American justice system. When one is asked to make a plea they have two choices: Guilty, or Not Guilty. It is quite odd that one is considered innocent, until proven guilty, but a plea of innocence is not accepted.
One can plead innocent, but Not Guilty will be what is put in the record.
Yeah, our criminal injustice system will screw you every time and never apologize or admit guilt. It’s vile.
WHICH IS THE GREATEST DANGER TO AMERICA? JOE BIDEN, BARACK OBAMA OR THEIR PAYMASTER GEORGE SOROS???
“To understand the crisis of the Biden administration,” observes Daniel Greenfield, “we have to go back to its origins in the Obama administration.”
Victorious Democrats would also end congressional investigations into the Hillary-Deep State-DNC-Russian-Clinton Foundation collusion and corruption. All the players in these massive, sordid affairs will be deemed “too big to jail” – and too closely tied to the Democratic Party to be investigated further. Paul Driessen
Obama is the only Born Again Christian that embraced Jesus as his Lord and Savior and changed his Christian name,Barry Sotero to an islamic name like Barack Hussien Obama as normally any muslim concerting from islam to Christianity would change their muslim name to a Christian name but Obama did the exact opposite, from a Christian name to an islamic while becoming a Born Again Christian… What a scammer.
I call him Obummer as he is THE snake in the grass and I called him out the first time I watched him speak at the DemocRAT Convention.
When I seen him stroll up to the Podium to take a Press Meeting I mentioned to a friend that he reminded me of a Nigga Pimp Coke Head I often seen around 42nd St In Times Square NYC when I lived there.
A real ego tripping narcissistic waste of space that thinks he is god incarnate and yet his blind followers denigrated Trump constantly by calling him a narcissist.
There has never been a bigger narcissist in the White House than Obama, and that’s saying something. It was a game to guess how many times he would say “I” in his speeches and bet the over and under.
Obama was never a Christian, “born-again” or otherwise.
Yeah, he’s a fraud in every way.
“Can’t afford groceries, can’t afford gas, 81 million votes, my ass.”
Good one! 🙂 Joke Bidumd’s handlers have ruined this once great country.
Fuck the Syrians. I hope they all starve to death.
Syrians were part of the enemy since they became a country. Even the enemy of an enemy concept shouldn’t make them friends. Just like the old Iran-Iraq War, keep at it guys.