Our complicated relationship with Barack Obama – goodbye Mr President

By
Martyn Bradbury
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And he’s gone.

Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United states steps aside after 8 years.

We loved Barack because of his incredible oratory, because he voiced the vision of what we all believed we wanted America to be.

He succeeded in dramatically lowering unemployment (despite many millions leaving the work force), he put together a health plan that helped some but was far from universal and he wept lots about gun violence while being able to do nothing about it. He won marriage equality and killed Bin Laden. He danced with Ellen and Michelle became the coolest person on the face of the planet.

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He failed to reign in the racist American Police who murder blacks with a regularity that is sickening.

He bailed out the corporate banks in 2007 and 2008, rewarding their greed and never recovered from the anger of the ordinary people who ultimately paid the price for those bankers greed. Their revenge came last year when they elected Trump.

Internationally, he signed up to a Paris climate change agreement that meant nothing, he finally forced America to be an adult about Cuba, he failed to close Gitmo, he increased drone strike assassinations, he green lighted the arrest of Kim Dotcom in an attempt to extend US jurisdiction into cyberspace, he tried to push through the TPPA which would see American Corporate Hegemony grow, he empowered the 5 eyes for more mass surveillance and he couldn’t stop the military industrial complex from continuing with its regime change butchery.

Ultimately, Obama showed us that no matter who you put in charge of the death machine that is America, you can’t change the horror that it is.

Obama humanised that death machine but with the election of a fully fledged fascist like Trump, that mask has slipped and reminded us of how truly murderous it is and can be.

So farewell Mr President, your words were remarkable and you allowed us all to hope that you could change Amerika. That hope lays still born as Trump crushes it with his boot and he stomps towards inauguration.

This is America, and it’s what it always was.

27 COMMENTS

  1. “One month before the presidential election of 2008, the giant Wall Street bank Citigroup submitted to the Obama campaign a list of its preferred candidates for cabinet positions in an Obama administration. This list corresponds almost exactly to the eventual composition of Barack Obama’s cabinet.” wikileaks emails, Podesta, Oct. 6, 2008

    Get that, ONE MONTH BEFORE. Thats what I call ‘remarkable’.
    There never was any ‘Hope’.
    He was quite the salesman, and who doesn’t like a pretty face.

  2. Good riddance to pure sleaze, as they worked on Obama and he was a perfect “stool pigeon” like Jon Key both adapted to suit the role all so well, so next we will see Obama & key on the Golf course next eh?

  3. Another sly prick promised lots but sold out ……… shit now its another retard with even worse hair……..!!

    • I don’t see it as the way you do..
      Obama started out with great intention but was stymied in all directions.

      Mostly it was because he did not have the numbers in congress or senate, the Republicans had control and no way was Obama going to get his policies through, they were, and still are plain ignorant shits.

      But also, the American political system got at him, the CIA and the Pentagon especially.
      It is them that control the USA, any President is a puppet to the System.

      Obama could have been one of the great Presidents, but in the end it wasn’t to be.
      But he did try hard.

      • I disagree with you and Martyn on a few points. I get frankly tired of the constant U.S. bashing. America – ” a horror and death machine ??? ” Yes those in charge have annihilated the country but the people have been lied to, manipulated and poisoned and that is not their fault. I am a dual citizen and I am proud of my beautiful second country, America, but loathe those in control of the govt. and the media. Neither Clinton or Trump would have helped the country / people and voters are not in charge of who gets to be president. It is all a sham and America was meant to be destroyed long ago.
        Obama, like the Clintons and Bush’s etc. are all psychopathic liars and some of the biggest terrorists around — ( along side with Britain and France )

        Obama ( and baby Bush ) were intentional puppets for the criminal elite : the Rothschilds Khazarian Mafia; the Cabal ; the upper 1% criminal corporations – all of whom call the shots. They were all set up to mislead the people and lie to them and he ( Obama ) did not much for them but sure served his corporate bankster elite buddies who put him in office. Now Trump will carry on the legacy but on steroids. Obama destroyed Hillary’ s chances and this was all set up long ago. The people are not in charge in the states and never have been but boy have they been brainwashed.
        Trump is the choice for the criminals in charge and that is who was meant to be president.

        America is a beautiful country with tons of wonderful and loving and caring people and great things happening to promote PEACE so stop with all the slagging off of what you are unaware of.
        Point the finger at those who deserve the exposure. Why is TDB not focusing on the ROTHSCHILDS ; THE KHASARIAN MAFIA and the rest of the
        maggot criminal psychopaths behind the curtain trying to destroy American and any other country that gets in their way of greed and war mongering domination ?

  4. He also destroyed Libya which was the richest African country and secular leaving it over run by ISIS, supported Al Nusra and the many rebel factions in Syria who fought against their own people, supplied arms to Saudi Arabia to carry out the killing of over 10,000 Yemen civilians and leaving 500,000 children suffering malnutrition, jailed more whistle blowers than all other US presidents put together, and droned thousands of innocent civilians through collateral damage, instigated the coup in Kiev to topple a democratically elected leader and unleashed the Stuxnet cyber virus on Iran . I can go on Martyn but I guess you get that I’m pleased to see the back of this bastard.

    • Hillary ordered the murder of Kaddafi through NATO.
      Kaddafi was a wonderful leader and a truly great man and most are completely unaware of this. What he did for his country was truly good and honorable and he stood up against the U.N. and other ugly greedy forces that wanted to rape his country.

  5. ‘We loved Barack because of his incredible oratory’

    No we didn’t. We saw through him from the beginning -a war monger and professional liar in the service of the military-industrial-financial complex……that is when he wasn’t enriching himself or playing golf.

    Obama certainly changed America: he made life there a lot worse for most of the inhabitants -which is why America is on track for collapse, and very likely another civil war.

  7. Watching videos at CNN it’s pretty obvious that the military/neolib establishment were infinitely happier with Obama than they expect to be with the Donald.
    I give him only 70% chance only of making it to inauguration , and no more than 50% chance of living through the next 12 months if he gets inaugurated.
    Cheers D J S

  8. FYI The Aircraft Carrier pictured is French, and weighs only 42000 tonnes… Even if it was a photo of an American Carrier it would way 102000 tons maximum. I’m down with the sentiment of the article, but these days, more than ever, accuracy is paramount. The very people you need to convince will not get any further than the obviously mistaken image, and will write off everything you say afterwards.

  9. Obama The War Criminal Butcherer of Women and Children

    Paul Craig Roberts

    There is no doubt that US President Barak Obama is a war criminal as are his military and intelligence officials and most of the House and Senate.

    Obama is the first president to keep the US at war for the entirety of his eight-year regime. During 2016 alone the US dropped 26,171 bombs on wedding parties, funerals, kid’s soccer games, hospitals, schools, people in their homes and walking their streets, and farmers tilling their fields in seven countries: Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan. http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2017/01/05/bombs-dropped-in-2016/

    What does the administration have to show for eight years of illegal military interventions in seven countries, none of which comprised a danger to the US and against none of which the US has declared war? Terrorism was created by US invasions, no wars have been won, and the Middle East has been consumed in chaos and destruction. Worldwide hatred of the United States has risen to a record high. The US is now the most despised country on earth.

    The only purposes of these crimes is to enrich the armaments industry and to advance the insane neoconservative ideology of US world hegemony. A tiny handful of despicable people have been able to destroy the reputation of the United States and murder millions of peoples, sending waves of war refugees to the US and Europe.

    We call these “wars,” but they are not. They are invasions, largely from the air, but in Afghanistan and Iraq from troops on the ground. The invasions by air and land are entirely based on blatant, transparent lies. The “justifications” for the invasions have changed a dozen times.

    The questions are: If Trump becomes president, will Washington’s massive crimes against humanity continue? If so, will the rest of the world continue to tolerate Washington’s extraordinary evil?

    http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/01/11/obama-the-war-criminal-butcherer-of-women-and-children/

  11. He was a figurehead to please the masses, nothing more. There was supposed to be a woman next but seems that didn’t happen as planned. oops.

    • Wrong – it was and never has been about pleasing the masses.
      Dig deeper and find out who is in charge of which president gets in and why.

  12. Obama out Trump in and already we see cleaner air: http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-01-11-donald-trump-announces-plan-to-attack-big-pharma-monopoly-profits-by-requiring-competitive-bidding-government-drug-purchases.html
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-appoints-robert-kennedy-jr-chair-vaccine-safety-committee-sceptic-autism-conspiracy-a7520351.html
    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-01/first-time-world-war-ii-no-us-carriers-are-deployed-anywhere-world
    Welcome to the Republic of the United States. Goodbye US Inc.

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