Monday, April 25, 2011

Obama Failed President - Best Actor


"The President Who Became an Actor": And This Year’s Oscar Goes To… Barack Obama
by Finian Cunningham

If Ronald Reagan was known as the actor who became a president, then perhaps Barack Obama should become known as the president who became an actor.

For every facial movement evinced, every gesture of the hand, every word enunciated by the 44th president turns out to be a complete charade.

This is the guy who ran for the presidency presenting himself before the US nation, hand on heart, as the candidate who would end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; end the killing of civilians in those countries; and the brutalizing of young American men. Two years on, Obama has donned the costume of US commander-in-chief with ever-frightening zeal. Far from ending the wars, Obama has not only ramped up America’s foreign wars of aggression, he has expanded them into new territories, including Pakistan, Libya and East Africa, adding countless more innocent lives to Washington’s global death toll.




This is the guy who promised to close the American gulag of Guantanamo Bay where hundreds of men have been rendered by kidnapping from various parts of the world, tortured and held without trial, not one of them convicted. Two years on, promise broken. US rendition and torture is still standard practice, a fact to which American soldier Bradley Manning can testify simply because he showed the moral courage to tell the truth about such US crimes against humanity.

This is the guy who promised with unctuous sincerity to make a new beginning in US foreign policy, to respect universal human rights. “Universal human rights begin in the lives of each and every individual,” he intoned with his by-now clichéd solemn voice and face. Two years on, US foreign policy has even less regard for human rights both abroad and at home. In Gaza, the world’s largest outdoor concentration camp besieged by the US-fuelled Israeli war machine, Obama’s rhetoric on respecting the rights of human beings stands as a grotesque mockery. Elsewhere in the Muslim world, this guy is seen as the genial peacemaker who let his mask slip to reveal an ugly warmongering face like all his other predecessors.




This is the guy who pretends to offer the best deal to the US public over the budget deficit by gallantly fending off Republican axemen. “I won’t slash you by $6 trillion, I’ll only slash you by $4 trilllion,” to paraphrase his fake logic. As if this is a benign alternative that the American people just can’t refuse. So the guy who once upon a time supposedly broke his heart over Chicago’s inner-city poor will now unleash massive austerity on many more of America’s poor and ground-down working class, by slashing $4 trillion worth of Medicaid and Medicare, public education, social welfare and jobs. Nowhere does our supposed chivalrous and cerebral hero Obama appear to be able or willing to think outside the box in which the corporate aristocracy has entombed their political vampires on Capitol Hill. How about ending the trillion-dollar wars he was supposed to end? Or re-appropriating the trillions of dollars that he lavished on the banksters? Or reversing tax breaks for the already obscenely wealthy. These alternatives would make a lot more economic sense, justice and peace than Obama’s attack on the very people who voted him in to make a change.

Above all, this is the guy who has shown that he can lie with a pious face, smile sweetly when he refers to murdering innocent people with aerial drones, and can almost bring a tear to the eye when he talks about “not being able to ignore humanitarian values in Libya” [while then proceeding to oversee the bombing of civilians in that country and in the same breath not giving a pause to murder of civilians by a US ally in Bahrain].

So at the next Oscar ceremony, a special category should be opened for Barack Obama, the acting president of the USA. He can then hang that along with his Nobel peace prize – which, come to think of it, could also be nominated for “funniest screenplay ever”. globalresearch

Finian Cunningham is a journalist and musician. He is Global Research's Middle East Correspondent.


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Below, October 09, Michael Moore on the Sean Hannitty Show. Push it on to 4m 50s mark because I'm sure you don't want to listen to gobshite Hannity, and listen to Michael Moore until 6m 15s. And I remind you, this interview was eighteen months ago. How you feeling now Michael?


7 comments:

Cletis said...

Obama has taken a toll on my spirit. I hate betrayal. Probably started when my first wife ran off with her hair stylist. I thought he was gay. Turns out he was just happy as hell because he was screwing half the women in town. Sorry, I haven't been by very much. Not feeling too great these days. My e-mail is jerrichards5@aol.com If that's not working, let me know. I hope spring is in your heart.

Himself said...

Email (second one) on its way to you.

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Himself said...

Academic now.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/27/obama-birth-certificate-r_n_854248.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=042711&utm_medium=email&utm_content=NewsEntry&utm_term=Daily%20Brief

TeeJay said...

Michael Moore- "What makes you think the Post Office exists to make a profit?" They have to at least break even don't they? If they don't, they can't pay for the expenses to move the mail, is this guy really that dumb that he thinks going bankrupt is a result of not making a profit? Even a not for profit business can go bankrupt if they don't make enough money to cover operating expenses Michael!

Himself said...

Essential services often need to be subsidised is what he is saying.

Just think what things would be like if there were no subsidies. There wouldn't be a US military for one, would there?

That would save a few million lives around the world.

Anonymous said...


So out-of-control is the delusional US president that it took his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to make a telephone call and remind Obama that he is a Nobel Peace Laureate and should act accordingly instead of playing with fire that might engulf the region and the entire globe.

“I would like to address Obama as a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. Before using force in Syria, it would be good to think about future casualties,” Putin said, as if he was addressing an imbecile, which he was. “Russia is urging you to think twice before making a decision on an operation in Syria.”

Apart from the world’s most reactionary and lawless regimes, Saudi Arabia and Israel, the rest of humanity is also urging the American government to think twice before it murders countless more people in a region already teetering on the brink of conflagration. Even the normally gung-ho British have backed away from such reckless adventurism.


http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/09/02/321757/criminal-insanity-of-us-regime/

Himself said...

Words of wisdom from Vlad the Bad.