The incredible lightness of Barack Obama – JNS.org
(November 9, 2023 / JNS)
U.S. President 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 re-entering the arena.
Last week, he came out as the overseer of the Biden administrations AI agenda, even as his foundations Democracy Forum was warning Americans about the need for inclusive capitalism and the pathologies of material consumptionall this from a multi-mansioned multimillionaire.
Now, Obama is weighing in on the Gaza war by undercutting his third-term presidential proxy.
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 Bidens unpopularity derives from his continuation of Obamas 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 whats 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 nobodys hands are cleanthat all of us are complicit to some degree.
In truth, Obamas 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 worldbut little else except corruption, poverty and violence for all concerned.
Obama again seemed unaware of his own confession when he lectured, nobodys 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 United States from Israel; and created the media echo chamber that empowered the disastrous Iran deal.
The rest was history.
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