EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Obama Factor

Via CTH ("A Non-Pretending Discussion About Barack Obama"), we are led to a monumentally important article by David Samuels, writing at The Tablet. This article was so compelling and so comprehensive that I asked a reasonable AI model to summarize it for us all. Below, an executive briefing of a must-read article called The Obama Factor .

This is the Executive Summary from an AI model --- with no human edits.

Obama's Fictionalized Self
 

According to historian David Garrow, Barack Obama constructed a fictionalized

narrative of his past in his memoir Dreams from My Father. Garrow's biography, Rising Star, used interviews and historical records to reveal many inaccuracies in Dreams about Obama's girlfriends, personal relationships, and even ideological stances. Obama refused to condemn clear anti-Semitism by a Chicago politician while dating Sheila Miyoshi Jager, who disputes Obama's account of their breakup. His need to portray events in ways that cast himself as a triumphant protagonist seems to have overridden truth or principles. This fictionalized self-narrative allowed the rootless Obama to gain the presidency.

Rejection of Shared National Values

As president, Obama alarmingly rejected American exceptionalism, the idea America has a unique moral mission and role in the world. This rejection of a unifying national myth and embrace of an anti-imperialist, socialist-tinged worldview is toxic for national unity. Obama also showed little loyalty to past friends and associates, consistent with his lack of roots in American community. He was the first president steeped in the globalist billionaire foundation-NGO complex rather than American provincial life.

Expansion of the Security State

Obama criticized government surveillance as a Senator, only to expand intrusive powers as president through acts like unleashing the NSA. His administration spied extensively on political enemies, abusing national security powers for political ends. Obama officials like James Clapper lied to Congress to conceal the truth. Obama also sought to downplay radical Islamic terror threats rather than address them. His administration helped birth conspiracy theories it knew to be false to discredit political opponents.

Race Relations Decline

Rather than improve race relations as many expected, they declined through Obama's second term. But he showed little interest in addressing racial issues as president, rejecting the role many voters hoped he would fill. This distancing precipitated current tensions. Obama's DOJ gave preferential treatment to minorities. Race relations turned sharply negative around 2014 during a spate of riots, showing the failure of Obama's presidency on this front.

Inequality and Monopolies

While campaigning as an outsider, Obama presided over the entrenchment of monopoly power in technology, media, academia and other sectors. Partisan censorship of dissent has intensified. Wealth inequality soared to record levels as Wall St was bailed out but Main St forgotten. Obama evidenced little concern with these problems or interest in addressing them. He catered to celebrity culture and wealthy donors while middle America suffered.

Shadow Government Control

Alarmingly, Obama has remained in Washington D.C. since leaving office, working behind the scenes to exert influence and control policy via his network of loyalists installed throughout the federal bureaucracy. With Biden clearly declining mentally, Obama may be the real decision-maker on key policies. He is creating a shadow government not constitutionally accountable to voters, fundamentally threatening democracy.

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This concerning portrait suggests Obama's fictionalized personal narrative, rejection of traditional American values, expansion of the security state, worsening of race relations and inequality, and creation of an unaccountable shadow government network make him an important precipitant of our current national crisis, not its solution.

Please read it all: The Obama Factor, by David Samuels.