The term Manchurian Candidate was tossed around throughout much of Barack Hussein Obama’s presidency—and rightfully so. Now again the term has been in use.
There is no confirmation of whether he is Shiite or Sunni moslem, however, his initiatives have certainly favored Shiite Iran.
This from frontpagemag.com.
From The Obama Factor:
Obama’s hostility to American exceptionalism also seemed linked to his hostility to Israel, or more specifically to America’s identification with Israel, which finally resulted in his determination during his second term to reach his agreement with Iran.
This said agreement contained as its main objective: To “integrate Iran into America’s security architecture in the Middle East, while limiting Israel’s power in the region.” And why?
The sheer amount of political capital and focus Obama put into achieving the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action] during his second term, to the near-exclusion of other goals, suggests that the deal was central to his politics.
It also carries more than a whiff of the kind of politics in which the American Empire is seen not just as unexceptional, but also, in some ways, as actively evil.
That was Tablet editor David Samuels, in a landmark August 2, 2023, interview with David Garrow, author of Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas committed the worse massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. In light of those events, and Iran’s recent attack on Israel, consider some of Samuels own statements from the interview.
Samuels contended:
The [stolen] election of Joe Biden in 2020 gave the Obamas even more reasons to stay in town. When Obama turned up at the White House, staffers and the press crowded around him, leaving Biden talking to the drapes—which is not a metaphor but a real thing that happened. These appearances were not mere social calls.
Samuels explained:
I have heard from more than one source that there are regular meetings at Obama’s house in Kalorama involving top figures in the current White House.
There are over a thousand reporters in Washington, and yet there are zero stakeouts of Obama’s mansion, if only to tell us who is coming and going. But he clearly has his oar in [particularly on Iran].
Samuels told Garrow:
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.
Garrow recalled Rob Malley prompting Samuels to add:
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.
For Samuels, it was a scary situation.
A new milieu had been created consisting of party operatives, the people in the FBI and the CIA who are carrying out White House policy, and the press. It is all one world now.
And that’s something people still seem loathe to admit, even to themselves, in part because it puts them in a state of dissonance with this new kind of controlled consensus that the press maintains, which is obviously garbage. But if you question it, you’re some kind of nut.
For Jews, this had major consequences.
Historically speaking, Jews are not, or were not, a particularly American obsession, except among some morons and leather fetishists on the right. But they are a major obsession on the periphery of the American empire, where envy and fear of the mythic role that Jews supposedly play in Washington, because of Israel, are defining emotions, regardless of the facts.
With Obama running the show, all Americans were involved.
Samuels noted:
In the absence of what was once American journalism, it is hard to know which portrait of Obama’s post-presidency is truer to life.
Obama as a celebrity-obsessed would-be billionaire, or as a would-be American Castro, reshaping American society from his basement, in his sweats.
Samuels also asked David Garrow about his revelation that Dreams from My Father was a novel and the author a composite character.
Garrow told Samuels:
He wants people to believe his story. For me to conclude that Dreams from My Father was historical fiction—oh God, did that infuriate him.
All told, Garrow regards Obama:
[As] not normal, as in not a normal
politician or a normal human being.
Samuels still found 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 applies to Americans and Israelis alike.
Obama sent a planeload of cash to the Iranian regime, the chief funder of terrorism in general and Hamas in particular.
As Garrow said, he’s not a normal person, but there’s more to it.
After 10/7, Obama decried the “occupation,” and said “what is happening to the Palestinians is unbearable,” striking moral equivalence between Hamas terrorists and their Jewish victims.
Garrow explained:
Well, for Barack, everything has to be a success. Everything has to be a victory.
