Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
|
Like Robert Spencer, many people wonder why Joe Biden and his henchmen “are considering sending $10 billion to the Islamic Republic of Iran, the chief funder of Hamas.” David Samuels had some thoughts on the subject in “The Obama Factor,” a landmark Tablet interview with David Garrow, author of Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.
“Why are they still fixated on Iran after the Iran deal failed, it’s premises are exploded?” wonders Samuels, Tablet’s literary editor. “I don’t follow the Iranian stuff super carefully,” Garrow replied, “but I have been puzzled at the Biden administration’s continuing attachment to the Iran deal.” Samuels is on to it.
“The easy explanation, of course, is that Joe Biden is not running that part of his administration. Obama is. He doesn’t even have to pick up the phone because all of his people are already inside the White House. They hold the Iran file. Tony Blinken doesn’t.”
“Rob Malley was the guy on that,” Garrow recalls.
“Rob Malley is just one person,” responds Samuels. “Brett McGurk. Dan Shapiro in Israel. Lisa Monaco in Justice. Susan Rice running domestic policy. It’s turtles all the way down. There are obviously large parts of White House policymaking that belong to Barack Obama because they’re staffed by his people, who worked for him and no doubt report back to him. Personnel is policy, as they say in Washington, which to me is a very odd and kind of spooky arrangement. Spooky, because it is happening outside the constitutional framework of the U.S. government, and yet somehow it’s been placed off the list of permitted subjects to report on. Which is a pretty good indicator of the extent to which the information we get, and public reactions to that information, is being successfully controlled.” For Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winner for Bearing the Cross, this is a serious matter.
“Well, for Barack, everything has to be a success,” Garrow explains. “Everything has to be a victory” and the composite character has been at it for a while.
The former Barry Soetoro, who spent early years in Indonesia, believed that it was possible to negotiate with an Islamic regime that in 1979 took 52 Americans hostage and held them captive for 444 days. The regime’s mantra is “Death to Israel! Death to America!” but toward the end of his second term, the composite character took his support for the regime to a new level.
Obama sent a planeload of cash to the regime, the chief funder of terrorism in general and Hamas in particular. With all his people in the White House, as Samuels noted, he continues the funding. “Everything has to be a victory,” Garrow explains, so by his own standard, Obama wants the Iranian-Hamas axis to win, but that’s not all he wants.
“He wants people to believe his story,” Garrow told Samuels. “For me to conclude that Dreams from My Father was historical fiction – Oh God, did that infuriate him.” All told, Garrow finds that Obama is “not normal, as in not a normal politician or a normal human being.
After reading Rising Star, Samuels still finds Obama, “deeply sympathetic as a person” and identifies with him emotionally. On the other hand, “there was something about this fictional character that he created actually becoming president that helped precipitate the disaster that we are living through now.”
That was in early August, before 10/7, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. The “genocidal pogrom,” as Bari Weiss put it, sent armies of anti-Semites into the street calling for the annihilation of Israel and the killing of Jews everywhere. Shortly after the attack, the composite character said the attack was “horrific” but issued no outright condemnation of Hamas.
On the other hand, Obama decried the “occupation,” the term Osama bin Laden used three times in his 2002 letter to America now making the rounds on social media. “What is happening to the Palestinians is unbearable,” the composite character also said, striking moral equivalence between the Hamas terrorists and their Jewish victims. As David Garrow said, he’s not a normal person and not a normal politician.
In 2008, the composite character promised to fundamentally transform the United States of America. That transformation continues through Joe Biden, who is now being pressured by Obama’s narrator, David Axelrod, to step aside, possibly to make way for Michelle. She was unreadable in college, as the late Christopher Hitchens noted, but she now has two auto-hagiographies in the best Axelrod style.
If the composite character gets a fourth term through Michelle, the disaster we are living through now will continue. The free and prosperous nation Americans have known will cease to exist. The former Barry Soetoro will continue to fund the Iran-Hamas axis, and everything has to be a victory. So in his final solution, Israel also disappears. And all the peaceful protesters around the world will cry out, “Allahu Barackbar!”
Gary Hope says
Where to start? Never mind. I’m afraid to say what I really think. I’m old and America is in the worst and most scary and most calamitous shape that I’ve ever seen. It’s extremely depressing if not frightening or calamitous. Extremely dangerous. Hussein Obammy is actively working to destroy this country inconcert with many other left wing America haters. How are they getting away with this. Why is there no response or penalties for this treason and warfare? Hussein Obammy wants us all dead.
God somebody save us. PLEASE!
CharlieSeattle says
WTF is Obama not in prison awaiting execution for treason?
Ugly Sid says
Corruption. Deep, durable, redundant.
commonsense says
Obama went to Muslim schools, and probably learned about Muhammed’s treaty with the pagan Meccans at Hudaibiyya. If so, he must have known that his JCPA with Iran would be violated, resulting in an Iran with nuclear capabilities. If this can be proven in a court of law,, then this is high treason, punishable by death.
Kasandra says
Iran wouldn’t have had to violate the JCPOA. Its provisions would have automatically sunsetted and in 7 or 8 years (i.e., after Obama was out of office), Iran would have been free to have nuclear weapons under the terms of the “treaty”, itself.
commonsense says
Kasandra: You’re right. But Obama’s evident acceptance of Iran’s becoming a nuclear power is treasonous on its face, as Mullah-led Iran, steeped in religious fanaticism, would be more inclined to use nuclear weapons than even toxic Pakistan.
Kasandra says
Completely agree, but, then again, he and his party believe all sorts of delusional things.
Steve says
I think the “Rope” meme is much more appropriate than “Hope”.
Mandy123 says
Because he’s black.
Jeff Bargholz says
He’s a fake black but perception is reality for stupid people, especially stupid racists.
Jeff Bargholz says
All this support for Iran and its proxies obviously originates with Valerie Jarrett. Obama is just a conduit, as he was during his term as President..
SPURWING PLOVER says
Obama belongs in Prison with Holder Biden, Both the Clintons Gates Soros and Swabe and the rest of the UN/Globalists
David Ray says
I was thinking more along the lines of being dumped face-down in a landfill.
Jeff Bargholz says
Or butt up in a park so he can be used as a bicycle rack.
Proxima X says
A shadow has just passed slowly across my window pane. It’s the Composite Character. Now it’s at my door. It knocks. I’m not going to answer. It knocks with both hands, boxing at the door, a brutal tick-tock. I knew his father who said that he had stood on the Rock of Gibraltar and could see America from there but he was a liar just like his son. So now the Composite Character is standing at my bedside. I am certain that I am awake…which is a pity…
Noah Andeark says
I never cared that Lord Barackkk (pbuh) is gay and married to a man.
Steve says
The Iranians would care. Do they know?
Steven Brizel says
Obama is the first post modern intersectional president who was not proud of being an American and who consistently threw Israel under the bus .
Jeff Bargholz says
He’s probably our first gay President too.
Joe Esposito says
When historians write about this time in America’s political life it will be shown that one man a black man was the reason why America is no longer free and that man is Barry Obama a man who hates both the White and Black races in America.
THX 1138 says
You give that half-white and half-black mediocrity too much credit. Barry Soetoro, like the equally mediocre Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Castro simply came along at the right time to cash in on the collapse of his country. As a matter of fact jug-eared Barry publicly stated that he regretted that he arrived on the scene too early for an American dictatorship. But Barry is still there behind the scenes pulling the strings of Biden. Barry is convinced the complete collapse is coming and he will be back on the throne.
America has been collapsing at least since the 1890s with the passing of the republican-conservative “Sherman Anti-Trust Act”. FDR did more fundamental damage to America than BHO.
Even before then the philosophical seeds for collectivist totalitarianism were already planted. The Constitution had and has flaws in it. That’s why the Conservative idea that going back to the original Constitution will save freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is flawed.
The flaws in the original Constitution have to be worked out but that cannot happen without a philosophy of reason that validates down to the very roots the virtues of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The philosophical roots of Laissez-Faire Capitalism. That philosophy is Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism.
In the philosophical history of America it is earlier than we think.
“The Americans were political revolutionaries but not ethical revolutionaries. Whatever their partial (and largely implicit) acceptance of the principle of ethical egoism, they remained explicitly within the standard European tradition, avowing their primary allegiance to a moral code stressing philanthropic service and social duty. Such was the American conflict: an impassioned politics presupposing one kind of ethics, within a cultural atmosphere professing the sublimity of an opposite kind of ethics.” – Leonard Peikoff
Eeyore says
The real question is who is running Obama. We’ve all heard him speak. A lot. He’s just not very smart. He’s simply learned how to act the way the West’s ruling class (also post-smart) takes for intelligent.
Greg says
Who’s running the Kenyan? Some ex-jock named Reggie Love is often described as the Kenyan’s “body man.” Larry Sinclair’s salacious book– “Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex. Lies & Murder (2010)– makes the claim that the Kenyan has long been on the make for an agreeable man’s body. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, according to an episode of “Seinfeld.” Whoever is running the Kenyan, it sure ain’t his putative wife: Big Mike.
Jeff Bargholz says
Valerie Jarrett for one. Who knows who the others are, like you basically wrote.
Intrepid says
I think the concept of “Obama is the first black president” is way past its ‘sell by date’ and the American people should get over their fear of someone calling them racist for bagging on Barry.
I knew who and what this guy was the moment he spoke to the Kennedy loving liberals at the 2004 DNC convention. They had been waiting for another silver tongued lying orator since the Kennedy assassination. Well, they bought the grift hook line and sinker. Barry Soetoro is truly Satan’s handmaiden.
What would you expect from a president who has so much to hide: Muslim, gay, whitey hating and totally being propped up by our degenerate media.
And now our unneeded fundamental transformation is truly underway.
Trump ’24 MAGA. Time to clean house.
RS says
Time for constructive policies that actually work….The Left has botched every decision that was a success, made by our Founding Fathers that benefitted the inhabitants of America and also other countries.
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, I saw what a fraud he is at the 2004 DNC convention too. All the sloppy wet kisses he got from the fake news media afterwards convinced me he would run for President.
Angel Jacob says
It’s not too hard to understand, there’s no complications. In fact it’s so simple that it flies under the most intelligent people’s radar.
There’s a lot of islamists on Obama/Biden admin.
Wherever those people infiltrate there’s corruption, manipulations, lies and deception. The islamists have zero allegiance to any hosting nation, zero respect for the nation’s laws, it’s culture and it’s people. They see all of that as inferior, and targets for destruction.
Treason is the right word, but there is also “freedom of religion” and “democracy” which the islamists use to infiltrate their positions. And on top of that they pretend to be victims, while in fact they are the real fascists and oppressors.
Their allegiance is always to some other islamist, on top of the chart there’s always some mullahs/imams.
WE can not win the war on terrorism if we don’t target the ideology behind it.
Lee Ann says
The whole world is in the power of the wicked one. He has great wrath knowing his time is short. Barry and the cabal are Satan’s servants. If Yehweh were not to intervene, no flesh will survive.
RS says
The decisions being made to help Iran and fund their evil regime will result in total disaster for this earth.
Ed Snider says
He’s no different than other antisemites, but plays the biggest con.
danknight says
Bam Bam is about as “deeply sympathetic” as Jeffrey Dahmer …
… apologies to homosexual cannibals …
Pretty sure all of his victims agree. (See “Arab Spring” and “ISIS” for details …)
Never mind my healthcare insurance plan …
Just sayin’ the obvious.