Hi mate, great day isn’t it?
Although I do not usually take something for granted especially from the internet, but I found some kind of interest in finding information against mainstream media, something about fake news. I guess I am not alone in that bandwagon so I would like to share it with you. I am not trying to sermon you here or telling you what is right and wrong, I leave that to you to decide. Good luck mate!
The article is copied from RT.com to read from original source, please click here.
Prologue
This is well written article about some of Barrack Obama’s achievements and facts. So I applaud the writer and credit him to bravely bring this out.
Obama as we know is the first African-American to be the President of USA. Consequently, as he carried that status, there was new hope among the people of the world since he essentially looks different and looks more peaceful than the warmonger Bush, which means something good could finally happens (dead wrong).
We can safely assume that under Obama, US can finally end its world policing agenda which have been executed since warmonger and terrorist Bush Jr, but sadly no. Instead of promoting peace, Obama did promote war, and war and more war than Bush. American and the world must face bitter and ugly truth, that Obama is actually uglier than his predecessor, the terrorist Bush.
To put in a nutshell, I am not mocking or talking bad about Obama, I just condemn all his hypocrisy, which is nicely covered up by his outstanding performance on staged (curious where the guy learned it).
I just wang to remind you, Obama like the man before him, is one great example of a political puppet, not free and authentic person as we thought to be, so get used to it and face the reality!
Written by Nile Bowie
Judging from how the mainstream media has characterized the legacy of Barack Obama so far, the outgoing president will be most remembered for his many rousing aspirational speeches and well-timed shows of emotion.
His talent as a persuasive public communicator and the strength of his personal brand, bolstered by years of apple-shining from liberal magazines and newspapers, has been Obama’s most valuable asset.
This perception of Obama that has been propagated from the top, the view that he is essentially a benevolent figure with deep integrity or the personification of a modern liberal-statesmen, is a stunning smokescreen.
The contradiction between the high-minded rhetoric of the president in contrast to the actual policies pursued by his administration has been stark and utterly scandalous.
To hear Obama wax poetic about ‘the politics of hope’ and ‘how ordinary Americans can steer change’ feels deeply perverse coming from a figure that has institutionalized a vast, unaccountable permanent warfare state.
In the face of Obama’s global covert assassination program, his numerous secret wars without congressional approval, a mass electronic surveillance capability unprecedented in history, the speeches reveal themselves as little more than banal platitudes and vapid sloganeering.
As the sun sets on Obama’s presidency, to say the press has given him a pass is a grand understatement. Some outlets have occasionally run criticism of Obama’s drone policies or inconvenient relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Other voices invert reality altogether, chastising Obama for his reluctance to militarily engage Syria, despite the US dropping over 12,000 bombs on the country in 2016 alone.
Contrary to his predecessor, Obama had a firmer grasp on the political risks inherent in the large-scale deployment of US troops in sustained military campaigns, but his strategic objectives differed little, and his belief in American exceptionalism was total.
Rather than ‘shock and awe,’ Obama proffered ‘leading from behind,’ culminating in NATO support and air power for insurgents that toppled the Libyan government on the pretext of defending human rights, turning the country into a cauldron of rival fiefdoms and lawlessness.
The Obama administration and the CIA fueled a proxy war in Syria with arms and training for insurgents, many of whom took up arms with ISIS or Al-Qaeda affiliated groups. The US military’s presence in Syria and support for non-state actors abjectly violates international law, and John Kerry’s leaked comments make clear how the administration cynically leveraged the threat of ISIS against the Syrian government.
Not only did Obama fail in his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay torture facility, he effectively replaced enhanced interrogation with an unaccountable covert assassination complex, endowing himself with the roles of judge, jury, and executioner.
By virtue of his suave and benevolent public persona, top-tier entertainers and figures of the liberal intelligentsia were largely willing to acquiesce to the precedent set by Obama’s unrestrained executive powers, exercised in near-complete secrecy.
They believed Obama would use the entrenched military and surveillance capacities of the US government judiciously. They swallowed the Democrats’ rhetoric of social inclusion and focused their political energies largely on identity issues.
Liberal figures didn’t protest against the president’s ability to spy on countless Americans suspected of no crime, nor did they organize against the president’s extrajudicial assassinations of American citizens and non-Americans without trial or due process.
Liberals hardly spoke out against the thousands of civilians killed by Obama’s drone bombings. Oddly enough, many seemed more outraged at Trump’s campaign rhetoric against Muslims and Mexicans than the reality of President Obama engaging in military hostilities against seven Muslim countries and deporting more people than any president in history.
Frankly, far too many Americans have been utter cowards in the face of the outgoing Democratic presidency. Obama will soon leave office as the only president in American history to serve two complete terms at war.
Despite his tense relationship with the Israeli prime minister and token opposition to the expansion of settlements, Obama signed the single largest pledge of bilateral military assistance to Israel in history, enabling the cancerous Israeli occupation and further brutalization of Palestinians.
As the Saudi military ceaselessly bombarded towns and cities across impoverished Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest country, in a botched attempt to reinstall an ousted proxy government, the Obama administration offered muted criticism and a $115 billion arms deal.
Obama’s administration has in fact brokered more arms sales than other since the second world war. Despite campaigning on the building of ‘the most transparent administration in history,’ he has waged war against whistleblowers and official leakers, invoking the 1917 Espionage Act more than all previous presidents combined.
Obama spoke of his dramatic commitment to building a nuclear weapons-free world on the campaign trail. Once in office, he committed the country to a trillion-dollar modernization of US nuclear production facilities and weapons, including warheads with adjustable yields that, according to the New York Times, make the weapons “more tempting to use.”
One of the most consequential international developments to occur under Obama’s watch was the deterioration of US-Russia relations and the revival of Cold War antagonisms, marked by the covert American role in the 2014 coup in Ukraine that brought to power a crude, corrupt and pervasively anti-Russian regime.
The largest military build-up on Russia’s borders since the second world war has unfolded under Obama’s watch, and the White House has moved in lock-step with the US intelligence community to propagate the anti-Russian line that has now captured American politics.
His administration’s pivot to Asia policy aimed to transfer 60 percent of the US naval presence to the Asia Pacific region by 2020, while the now-botched Trans-Pacific Partnership sought to – in the words of Senator Charles E. Schumer – “lure”other countries “away from China.”
On the domestic front, there have hardly been any clear-cut achievements for President Obama. He has overseen an obscene transfer of wealth from the middle class to the billionaire class, becoming the first two-term presidency that has failed to post a three percent GDP growth on an annualized basis over two terms.
The much-touted streak of job recovery rests on the proliferation of insecure part-time and temporary jobs with the low protection characteristic of the gig economy, while the share of workers in temporary jobs has risen from 10.7 percent to 15.8 percent under his watch.
Wall Street banks hoarded funds fueled by the quantitative easing policies of the Federal Reserve to triple the size of stock values. Corporate profits reached an 85-year peak under Obama while the total compensation of employees’ wages and salaries slipped to levels last recorded in 1929.
The wealth of the richest 400 Americans increased from $1.57 trillion in 2008 to $2.4 trillion in 2016.
The market-driven Affordable Care Act, Obama’s primary domestic initiative, did extend medical coverage to segments of American society, while millions of others were forced to pay higher premiums for substandard care. This shifted health care costs from employers and the state to working individuals in a move that effectively amounts to a bailout for private insurers.
And finally, there is the obscene proliferation of police brutality that has unfolded under Obama’s watch, with offending officers rarely held to account for their actions. African-American males were found to be nine times more likely to be killed by police officers in 2015 than white men of the same age.
But despite Obama’s troubled and deeply hypocritical track record, he remains a figure that many Americans continue to admire and respect, especially as the country moves rapidly toward a new and highly divisive political era.
A great deal of Americans, especially those in African-American communities, desperately and sincerely wants to believe in the hope that Obama inspired in them. Unfortunately, Obama’s key achievement has proven to be his skillful usurpation of progressive rhetoric in the interest of an extremely militaristic and pro-corporate political agenda.
While many fear the specter of Donald Trump’s incoming presidency and the new forms of authoritarianism and state violence that will inevitably accompany it, none should forget that it was President Obama who set a precedent for the extreme executive authority that President Trump will soon enjoy.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.
Commentary
Ugh, So sad but true. Obama, unlike the warmonger bush who came before him, was hoped to help the world to carry spirit of humanity, that is peace to the world. Obama is just different puppet with the same agenda as terrorist Bush.
Small wonder that Bush Jr’s has left great legacy, the mastermind behind bloody conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq, established an endless war and left massive craps and left raging war in Syria, which drag the world into it, just in eight years of his presidency, great isn’t it? Nope, you have not seen what US of A government under Obama have done .
Moreover, Obama’s legacy of mess is even greater. You name it, debt of Obamacare, NSA surveillance, cold war with Putin, sell more arms to terrorist state of Israel and the best of Obama’s government war on terror creation; ISIS, the destruction of Islam and Muslim image. Also, point to remember, the guy almost started world war 3, yet most people do not even bother to see this fact. They were hypnotized by Obama’s nice speech and words.
Bottom line, these are some facts which mainstream media hide from people. Yes! All of us, American and the world have been fooled and deceived.
Obviously, Obama is not doubt a great actor, better than people in Hollyweed. The guy won Nobel Peace Prize yet had sent more drones into people, destroyed Libya, funded ISIS and taken no concrete action in Syria besides send more bombs, and make everybody forced to face their death. So, my question, what the hell is wrong with that guy? God knows better indeed.
Last, before we end this childish rants, let Sir Benjamin Franklin remind you to
believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.
To sum all up, Obama has taught us important lesson; never buy into politician nice rhetoric, again! Why? Because A politician should be honest (keep drinking) not deceitful as they are politician not Hollyweed actor. Hell, most politicians do lip service very well, better than most actors.
Finally, mind and probably most sane people in this world are going around with the inauguration of President Trump, will we finally see bright future? Yes and No. Well, hopefully yes. There is no sin in being optimistic right? (Fk no!)
Last and the least, truth is truth, it will stay as it is, no matter what. Keep that in your mind.
Nb. Webster describes politician as; a person primarily interested in political office for selfish or other narrow usually short-sighted reasons. Really Webster? Well, you did a great job.
Thank you for coming and spending time reading this article. Feel free to share your thoughts here. We welcome and appreciate your feedback. Read, Comment and Share.
Help us grow by sharing this article to your friends, simply choose your favorite button bellow. What you did is really meant to us, thanks again 😀
by omrizkiblog
A Place for Hopes and Humanity 
Leave a comment