The Real Barack Obama is Finally Exposed to Everyone

There is no reason for the Democratic Party to exist.
– Jimmy Dore

I’ve been surprised by the number of people who lived in total denial about who Barack Obama actually was throughout his entire administration, suddenly pointing out the ethical and demoralizing implications of his recent decision to accept $400,000 for a speech to Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald.

For myself and countless others, the writing was on the wall from virtually day one when he appointed Wall Street sycophants Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers to senior positions within his administration. Then came the policies, which were even more generous to Wall Street than any cynic could imagine. I posted countless pieces on Obama’s cronyism throughout his Presidency, constantly referring to him as an oligarch-coddling fraud, which his record unquestionably confirms.

It wasn’t just Wall Street either. Although his protection and empowerment of that industry was particularly shameless, he coddled and elevated corporatism and cronyism generally throughout his eight years. As I observed in the 2015 post, Cronyism Pays – Eric “Too Big to Jail” Holder Triumphantly Returns to His Prior Corporate Law Firm Job:

Trying to determine Barack Obama’s most corrupt, crony appointee presents a virtually impossible task. Every single person he’s appointed to a position of power over the course of his unfathomably shady, violent and unconstitutional presidency, has been little more than a gatekeeper for powerful vested interests. Obama’s job was to talk like a marxist, but act like a robber baron. In this regard, his reign has been an unprecedented success.

So why am I writing about Barack Obama? He’s no longer President, and we once again face many of the exact same issues under President Trump. I’m addressing it because I think the fact so many people are finally having this conversation is a very good thing. We can’t have an honest dialogue about such an existential issue without admitting to ourselves the sad truth about who Barack Obama is.

While I certainly understand it would’ve been far more beneficial had many of these people faced reality years ago, we don’t get to decide when people come around to admitting to themselves the truth about a person they worshipped (as my screaming into the wilderness for eight years can attest).

Denial is an extremely powerful thing, and tens of millions of Democrats were completely bamboozled by Obama due to their personal obsession with the man. This is precisely why cult of personality worship is so dangerous and counterproductive when it comes to politics. We need to grow up as a culture and start supporting policies over people, logic over emotion. If you become attached to a politician or a political party like a sports team, that individual or institution can very easily manipulate and betray you. We see this over and over again, and until we move to a higher level of understanding about the world around us, we will continue to be victimized by disingenuous, opportunistic shysters.

Today’s post will highlight two excellent exposes of the real Barack Obama by two individuals who were not fooled by Obama’s soaring rhetoric and false promises, Matt Stoller and Jimmy Dore.

Let’s start with excerpts from Matt’s recent Medium piece, Obama the Hamiltonian:

Obama, like Bush, is a Hamiltonian. He believed that those at the top of large concentrated financial institutions are experts, with top-tier credentials, and, therefore, rightful rulers. As Mr. Obama put it, Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JP Morgan Chase, and Lloyd Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, were just “smart businessmen.”

Behind this is a deep moral debate that goes back hundreds of years, to the days of Hamilton and Nicholas Biddle. Since the Boston Tea Party revolt against the British East Indies Company’s attempted monopolization of the tea trade in 1773, Americans understood local commercial institutions as enabling key decisions to be made closer to the people who bore the costs of those decisions. Advocates of centralization, like Hamilton, believed that this was an unstable and weak model for how to craft a nation-state, and that a quasi-aristocratic class should rule.

The policy path of the Obama administration, like the Bush and Clinton administrations before it, and in some ways like Hamilton’s Treasury Department, was largely construed around aiding the big, and hurting the small. Local banks lost out during the crisis, as did community-oriented banks. Black-owned banks, for example, were ten times less likely to receive bailout money than non-black-owned banks. This hit at the individual level as well. People in foreclosure were treated with one set of rules, while large Wall Street firms with significant debt were treated with another.

As all of you must know by now, my personal convictions and philosophical leanings call for the exact opposite approach.

This Hamiltonian process of concentrating power was most obvious in the banking sector, but it is also part of an overall trend towards the monopolization of our commercial society and increasing control over our lives, our liberties, and our democracy by private financiers. Some within the Obama administration noticed problems towards the end of the administration. His administration challenged the Comcast-Time Warner merger and issued an executive order on monopoly. Antitrust chief Renata Hesse made a speech explicitly rejecting the modern pro-concentration treatment of antitrust. But this was far too little, loo late.

The open markets in which entrepreneurs thrive, in which workers have bargaining power, in which business is conducted honestly and effectively for the benefit of society, was fundamentally weakened during the eight years of the Obama administration, just as they had been during the Bush administration before it. The result is a bipartisan corrosive cynicism towards democracy,

Americans have been saying no to this for ten years. In 2006 and 2008, Americans threw the governing Republican Party out of power. In 2010 and 2014, they did the same to the Democrats, installing Obama in power. Then, in 2016, Donald J. Trump beat both 16 Republican candidates, and then Hillary Clinton. It’s hard to see these electoral tremors as anything other than a rejection of the moral framework of both party establishments.

For virtually his whole Presidency, President Obama operated according to a Hamiltonian worldview in which social justice and concentrated capital went hand-in-hand, where technocracy was seen as superior to democracy. It is that same moral vision that animated Obama in accepting nearly half a million dollars in speaking fee money. Obama was the damn President — he’s a smart guy, and yeah, this is who he should be spending time with and naturally this transfer of wealth is a just reward for him to live the lifestyle to which the virtuous class is entitled.

Obama’s good society was one in which a few actors in this class organize our culture using their power over our lives and liberties, because their virtue has enabled them to have the capital or credentials to do so. It’s why his policy agenda on the challenges of today’s political economy was education, early childhood education, and a higher minimum wage, rather than any means to liberate us from the concentrated financiers that organize our markets and our communities. They are doing this for our own good, for one day, maybe not you or me, but perhaps our children might be able to scratch and claw into this rarefied class. If, of course, they have the virtue and intelligence to do so.

Many people believe in this system. Many don’t. But now we can actually have the argument in an honest way.

The entire post is excellent and you should read it in full and share. He makes the very critical point that we as a people cannot move forward until we admit to ourselves what this country has actually become. Perhaps a shattering of the Obama illusion for the millions of those who were until recently somehow still clinging on to the dishonest “hope and change” rhetoric can serve as a starting point for some real change.

Finally, I want to share Jimmy Dore’s latest rant on the topic. Readers know how much I love his show based me consistently highlighting it on these pages, but this might be his best one yet.

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18 thoughts on “The Real Barack Obama is Finally Exposed to Everyone”

  1. You are only scratching the surface of just who Obama really is and what he stands for. There are many, many unanswered questions concerning his origin, what citizenship he really holds, who is REAL friends are and what drives the man. My guess is that the American people will NEVER know the real Obama. His supposed father (there is even a question of who his REAL mother and father are believe it or not) was a strong anti-colonialist who despite barely being in Barack’s life managed to instill in him a hatred of everyone white and colonial. That’s why when Obama moved into the White House he had the Winston Churchill’s bust removed. A bust of someone White, British and colonial was not something that he was going to tolerate.

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    • What an idiot you are.
      Even worse than this sham column shocked, shocked…that an ex pre took money for speaking fee’s. Ronny Raygun took a mill from Japan situ to start.
      Peddle this tripe to people who don’t know any better.

    • Stop trolling.

      You know, as well as everyone else here, that I never expressed any “shock” at all about what Obama did. In fact, I wrote multiple times over the years that this is exactly what he was going to do once he left office, to be rewarded for protecting and further enriching banker criminals.

  2. I fell for Obama’s “hope and change” bullshit in 2008, I hate to say. It has taken me embarrassingly, shamefully long (despite a Masters-level education and 46 years on planet Earth) to begin to wake up to the realities of what’s going on in my country and the world, but now that I’m waking up, I donated and will continue to donate to your site and others who are speaking truth to power. And if this can happen for someone as thick-headed as me, surely many others will be doing the same.

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  3. Winston Churchill was no saint… if you’re looking for ‘even questions’… let’s start with 9-11… the unanswered questions regarding that are legion… and expertly buried. It was the best thing that ever happened to W. I find these are the questions that enlighten most situations and they are rarely, if ever, answere… ‘Cui Bono?’ (who benefits?) ‘Would they, if they could?’ and ‘follow the money’. So tragic that these faux Christians worship so blatantly a the altar of Mammon.
    Again…secession may be our only hope ….

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    • “So tragic that these faux Christians worship so blatantly a the altar of Mammon”.

      Agree. But that doesn’t exempt the secularists for worshiping mammon as well. They are both equally as guilty, and both will get their just rewards. Death is the great equalizer.

      9-11 was just one step of many steps started decades ago leading towards the final coup de gras.

      As to “follow the money”. Edward Mandel House handled Woodrow Wilson like a well trained German Shepherd and wallah the Federal Reserve came into being.

  4. As soon as he took office in 2008 and brought in Geithner (Hank Paulson’s shine boy) and Summers (David Rockefeller’s shine boy) I started asking all of my friends who voted for him this question; “What’s the difference between how Bush handled the so called financial crisis and Obama is handling the so called financial crisis?”.

    They always had a puzzled look on their face and couldn’t provide an answer. So I’d give them the answer; “Not a goddamn thing!”. The cognitive dissonance was a testament to how well Neuro LInguistic Programming works.

    My far left brother still cannot bring himself to speak ill of the slimy little self-serving POS to this day.

    Conversely, all of my friends who did not vote for Obama couldn’t understand why I kept telling them that he was not a socialist, he was a corporatist, which is the mandatory lead in to establishing a fascist state.So Bush was a corporatist masquerading as a conservative Republican and Obama was a corporatist masquerading as a liberal Democrat.

    “Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.” – John T. Flynn

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  5. Thanks for the article. The Big O has to pay the bills just like Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton. Productivity be dammed the bills have to be paid. And I want the thank the ACA, the tax payers, and the red inkers in DC for paying for my homeless jobless friend’s hip surgery. He can walk again.

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  6. Certainly the speaking fee and the investment bank paying this money to Obama will finally break through to a small minority of those who believe in him. But largely if these Obamabots haven’t cottoned on yet it’s not likely they ever will. So be it, as there is damn well little we can do about that. My suspicions on Obama began the moment he was starting to be heralded by the MSM and as a candidate allowed to run in the Democratic primaries. Both speak volumes. I often wrote the same warnings about Trump as he made his way forward and upward. At the time I called it the slickest Madison Avenue political campaign ever as he took on the roll as an supposed ‘outsider,’ and yet the man was allowed to run in the Republican primaries and given MSM coverage as the ‘Duh’ signal. Let alone his actual background. This is because those who orchestrate these happenings knew Trump was controlled and controllable as really the bottom line for them. I also warned that whoever should seize the brass ring to expect more of the same only more so. I certainly suffered the slings and arrows of believers, especially the Trump supporters. It wasn’t all that difficult to figure out as Continuity of Agenda was and is pointing to an escalation of events going forward in its progressions on the many fronts and levels in its simultaneous operations. “To inventory and control all land, water, plants, animals, minerals, energies, means of production, construction, information, education, human habitation and all humans on this planet. Have I left anything out?” – Rosa Koire.

    Now of course these same pundits are singing about how Le Pen is going to shake up the order. All without delving into her background and her pro warmongering and corporatist stances. Just more of the same I’m afraid folks. I don’t know how anyone can think someone with right wing ideologies is going to level the playing field for the working classes in any form? Too few understand the immensity of the power of the financial and corporate corportocracy I guess.

    The last true peoples leader on a national scale, who awoke only late in his tenure to the forces arrayed in maintaining their rule was Martin Luther King Jr. Within a year of his full awakening he was assassinated by the state in service to the corportocracy for his political importance and the threat he posed to their singular rule

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  7. Obama is not running for anything… There is no influence to buy. Unlike the time Goldman paid HRC mucho dinero for a speaking gig. Why shouldn’t he cash in like everyone else who has served in a senior gig in government?

    It’s not like Trump is any better… 3 ex-Goldman Alumni… Mnuchin, Cohn and Bannon. Draining the swamp? Yeah… This is a systemic problem where Wall Street has done a reverse takeover of the levers of government power.

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  8. I really don’t think that Obama fooled the Democrats. They voted for him because he represented big government handouts. They could not have cared less about his sleeping with Wall Street power players. What is more they knew he was a slippery disingenuous character. They even knew he was a sexual deviate or was at one time. All that matters to Democrats is that they find ways to redistribute wealth.

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  9. I think not. This is paragraph after paragraph of rumor, fake news, and is written by one who it does not seem to me would be willing to have an open-minded dialogue.
    Read UPI and watch CSPAN, neither of which contain such vitriol.

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    • “This is paragraph after paragraph of rumor, fake news, and is written by one who it does not seem to me would be willing to have an open-minded dialogue” – Margaret Delaney

      Yes Margaret, he was “The One”.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mopkn0lPzM8

      The one who sold you and millions of others like you ocean front lots in the middle of a swamp 50 miles from the beach in south Florida.

      Yet you’re still defending him and thanking him for doing so.

  10. I have yet to meet an obama supporter who wasn’t in full accord with everything obama wanted and still wants. As for Hamiltonianism, trump is no different. His goals may be different but he believes those at the top of large concentrated financial institutions are experts, with top-tier credentials, and, therefore, rightful rulers and that he’s a “smart business man” who should be in charge.

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