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2023-11-09 Fifth Column
VDH: The Incredible Lightness of Barack Obama
[Twitter-VDH] Joe Biden is caught in a quadfecta of corruption, cognitive decline, a failed agenda, and eroding polls. Amid this apparent vacuum, an opportunistic Barack Obama — who used to be more discreet in managing his third term—is reentering the arena.

Last week, he came out as the overseer of the Biden administration’s AI agenda, even as his foundation’s “Democracy Forum” was warning Americans about the need for “inclusive capitalism” and the pathologies of “material consumption”—all this from a multi-mansioned multimillionaire.

Now, Obama is weighing in on the Gaza war by undercutting his third-term presidential proxy.

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Yet just as he seems somewhat clueless about the contradictions of an erstwhile “community organizer” turned into a hyper-capitalist, consumption-addicted elite, so too Obama has little self-awareness about how much of Biden’s unpopularity derives from his continuation of Obama’s own agendas on the economy, border, crime, race, foreign policy, and energy.

His apparent obliviousness continues with his most recent odd assertion that, “The occupation and what’s happening to Palestinians is [sic] unbearable.”

But Obama surely concedes that Gaza has been autonomous and free of Israelis since 2005, and governed by a “one man, one vote, once” Hamas clique since January 2006.

Obama added that, “If you want to solve the problem, then you have to take in the whole truth, and you then have to admit nobody’s hands are clean – that all of us are complicit to some degree.”

In truth, Obama’s blanket accusation is absurd.

Over the last 17 years, an autonomous Hamas has managed to create both a hierarchy of billionaires ensconced in luxury Qatari hotels, and the most sophisticated subterranean tunnel city in the world—but little else except corruption, poverty, and violence for all concerned.

Obama again seemed unaware of his own confession when he lectured, “nobody’s hands are clean” and “all of us are complicit”.

Not quite, Barack.

Those most culpable for the current catastrophe are Obama and his team, who invited in Robert Malley to be their point man on Hamas; cooked up the “Shiite crescent” misadventure; snubbed the grass-roots Green Movement that sought to overthrow the Iranian theocracy; invited the Russians back into the Middle East after a 40-year hiatus; fled Iraq and fueled the ISIS caliphate; lifted sanctions on Iran, giving it a multibillion-dollar war chest that armed to the teeth Hezbollah and Hamas; estranged the U.S. from Israel; and created the media echo chamber that empowered the disastrous Iran Deal.

The rest was history.
Posted by 3dc 2023-11-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ]  Top
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#1 VDH forgets the Ukrainian War started by USA engineered overthrow of the pro Russian (meaning it understood that war with Russia = end of Ukraine) government.
The morons hoped to end Russian involvment in Syria by taking Sevastopol port from Russia.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-11-09 03:02||   2023-11-09 03:02|| Front Page Top

#2 The morons hoped to end Russian involvment in Syria by taking Sevastopol port from Russia.

You gotta be joking. THAT was the strategic motivation?
Posted by badanov 2023-11-09 04:49||   2023-11-09 04:49|| Front Page Top

#3 And there's me thinking it's (mostly) "Those are our wars now."
Posted by Butch Clusose1419 2023-11-09 05:18||   2023-11-09 05:18|| Front Page Top

#4 #2 Yes.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-11-09 06:00||   2023-11-09 06:00|| Front Page Top

#5 IMO the rot started with LBJ and the racist program of 'affirmative action'
Posted by irish rage boy 2023-11-09 09:33||   2023-11-09 09:33|| Front Page Top

#6 The Ukraine travails were engineered by neocons who found co-opting the Republican Party to their "hate anything Russian" agenda was the way to go.

The Pubs are lost in the wilderness until they completely stop listening to neocon zealotry.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-09 09:57||   2023-11-09 09:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Just because Obama's hands are covered with blood, he thinks everybody's hands are dirty.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-11-09 11:43||   2023-11-09 11:43|| Front Page Top

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