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Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"6"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6792509647216090333"},"published":{"$t":"2021-06-28T23:03:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-06-28T23:03:00.088-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"America"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Obama and the Broken Nation He Made Come Of Age"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Barack Obama turns 60 over the summer. The AARP cover with Barry posing next to a basketball and a shelf of bestselling non-fiction books he hasn’t read can’t be too far away.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--7lUFPdjObk\/YNqNWmMPFoI\/AAAAAAAATUw\/5dhQRZfbfncJ1Wua0tehO_EO2cT0rWqLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s706\/image_2021-06-28_200249.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"454\" data-original-width=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--7lUFPdjObk\/YNqNWmMPFoI\/AAAAAAAATUw\/5dhQRZfbfncJ1Wua0tehO_EO2cT0rWqLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-06-28_200249.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EOnce the symbol of youthful hipness, the former boss of Hope and Change now lectures “young people” on what they should be doing. His legacy is being carried forward by 78-year-old Biden and the 81-year-old Pelosi. That’s above the average age of 80 of the House Dem leadership.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe average age of the Biden cabinet is two years older than President Trump’s cabinet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe gerontocratic technocracy uses AOC as its younger foil, but she’s been a stalking horse for Bernie Sanders who will hit the big 80 in the fall. The big donors behind the American Left are even older with George Soros due to hit 90 the same month Obama gets to 60. The even bigger reservoirs of cash flowing into the leftist machine are coming from the foundations of men who were born in the 19th century like Henry Ford, John D. MacArthur, and John D. Rockefeller.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s about right for a 19th century ideology whose followers keep trying to make it look young.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYouthful leftism is anarchic. It’s CHAZ, BLM, and Antifa. It’s open air heroin markets, smashed store windows, and political assassinations. Turning that anarchy into collectivism requires hysterical propaganda and rallies that appear anarchic, but are actually tightly controlled, ideas that seem edgy, but are actually the work of men who were born during the age of the steam.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you think Bernie’s old, Karl Marx celebrated his 203rd birthday in May.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama’s policies have aged as badly as Marx, Biden, or their front man. But instead of moderating as they grow older, they only grow more radical. Obama equivocated on gay marriage, while Biden entirely erases the existence of women by calling them “birthing people”. Obama covertly weaponized the government against conservatives, while Biden is doing it openly. Everything from election rigging through H.R.1 to indoctrinating every government employee with critical race theory is happening more openly and blatantly under Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYouthful leftist revolutions break the system while leftist gerentocrats impose the tyranny.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMaking tyranny look like freedom requires hefty doses of chaos and outrage that make it appear that the system is being broken when it’s actually being built up. Or as George Orwell wrote in 1984, “One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” The revolution is the thing it’s revolting against.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe end of history keeps arriving only to vanish like a mirage when the youth reach for it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal,\" Obama told his followers. Two years later, he privately snapped, \"What does he think I'm supposed to do? Put on my f------ Aquaman gear and swim down there myself with a wrench?\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThirteen years have passed and if the planet has begun to heal, Democrats won’t admit it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe moment of epochal change can never be allowed to arrive because it would interrupt the permanent crisis. Salvation is always here and also always out of reach. But there’s always a new generation available to be fooled again because they know the past doesn’t matter.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHistory is radically revised every generation not just for what it teaches, but for what it doesn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA revisionist history work like the 1619 Project doesn’t just impose a radical new racist history, it displaces the past. Another revisionist history will come along to displace the 1619 Project because manufacturing history churn is vital to destroying any continuity with the past. All the academic lenses being swapped one for the other like a mad ophthalmologist leaves a new generation with a lot of theories, but no clue that they’re being indoctrinated into a lost cause.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Left has no new ideas. Like Hollywood, it makes old ideas seem new by rebooting them, by making them appear hip and trendy, and by destroying a meaningful connection with the past. And that way audiences don’t realize they’re just seeing the same movie remade over again. What might be creative bankruptcy in a movie theater is a more seriously sisyphean problem described by Churchill as, “Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut how does a new generation learn from a past that isn’t allowed to exist on its own terms?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemonizing the past is a convenient way of obscuring it. The only thing students are taught about the past is that it was a horrible time, its people backward, its customs savage, its learning wicked, its institutions racist, and its ideas horrifying. In postmodern history, the past exists only as a cautionary tale gleaned for historical struggles that fit into the new narrative.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHistory is an incomplete present whose revolutions were never fully fulfilled. It’s a revolutionary story of a world ruled by villains until they were overthrown by the forces of good. And this revolution against history must continue until all of the past is negated by the present.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe destruction of statues and burning of books forces ‘presentism’ for the past to conform to the dogmas of the moment. The biggest problem with the past isn’t that it’s politically incorrect, but that it’s repeating itself. The Black Lives Matter movement transparently harkens back to the 70s. So do most of the radical social impulses in which the Left cloaks its real power agenda.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe revolutionary chaos is doomed to fail again, but each oscillation breaks the country more.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe social activism is window dressing. A proper Marxist regime has little use for militant minorities, feminism, gay rights, police defunding, transgender bathrooms, pipeline protests, abortion, or any of the other issues the radicals have been using to waste our time. If you doubt that, go look at how many of any of the above you can find in China, Cuba, or North Korea.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Russian Futurists vowed to throw the art and literature of the past overboard from the “steamship of modernity”. But the Bolsheviks were not looking for disruptive art and when the revolution arrived, modern art was tossed overboard and the former revolutionaries settled down to producing socialist realism and recreating the art of the past for the Soviet Union.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter a brief permissive period, the Soviet Union criminalized homosexuality and insisted on traditional marriages and roles for women. Those feminists who resisted were soon shown their place with one of the more notorious free love figures being forcibly married off by Lenin.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe dictatorship had eclipsed the revolution and the past was quickly rewritten all over again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Obama approaches his sixtieth birthday, the age at which Khrushchev struggled for control of the USSR and Mao launched his Great Leap Forward, two events that would require a good deal of historical editing, our American past is already being rewritten. Only those who are at least in their thirties will remember that there wasn’t a racial crisis before Barack Obama.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd there hadn’t been such a crisis for a generation before he took power.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOur racial crisis is not a legacy of 1619, but of 2008. Obama’s victory was not a revolution against a crisis, but the revolution that created the crisis. To a new generation, the racial crisis is a permanent feature of life. They have always lived under the crisis and expect to always live under it. That is why critical race theory and white privilege rants have become so pervasive.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWithout a generation coming of age in a world shaped by the toxic idea that all white people are evil and all minorities are victims, no one outside academic circles would have willingly accepted them. And if that generation seems all too easy to radicalize into supporting the most insane policies, that’s because it grew up in a world defined by the hysteria of manufactured crises.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe world as they know it is doomed by melting ice caps, the rich getting richer, and the genocide of black people at the hands of the police. Every radical program is backed by a sense of urgent crisis which is killing people and destroying the future. They can’t imagine a present without the crisis and don’t remember ever living in a world not defined by crisis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Obama gets closer to his AARP cover, a generation lives in the world that he made.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELike Obama, his radical political movement speaks endlessly about the past, but has no actual past. Its past is always being reinvented and retold through new narratives, but with no facts.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Obama revolution has come and gone. We have skipped past it to the Soviet Union of Chernenko and Andropov, of gerontocrats building the tyranny with the beams of revolution. The decline is everywhere as the theories fail, the factories close, and the stores stand empty.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe youth are being rallied to cheer for the revolutionary tyranny of Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and Chuck Schumer who are promising a new era in history no one believes in anymore. Since the election their cause is no longer free college, it’s federalizing elections through H.R.1.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFederalizing elections, eliminating the filibuster, and packing the Supreme Court are compelling issues in Washington D.C., but the regime plotting new coups has little to say to the ordinary people facing high prices for gas and bread. Land, Bread, and Peace has given way to a race for total power over the country as the revolution of Hope, Crisis and Change comes of age.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s no change without crisis, and without hope, there’s only hate.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6792509647216090333\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/obama-and-broken-nation-he-made-come-of.html#comment-form","title":"7 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6792509647216090333"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6792509647216090333"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/06\/obama-and-broken-nation-he-made-come-of.html","title":"Obama and the Broken Nation He Made Come Of Age"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/--7lUFPdjObk\/YNqNWmMPFoI\/AAAAAAAATUw\/5dhQRZfbfncJ1Wua0tehO_EO2cT0rWqLACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-06-28_200249.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"7"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-8879347787098523440"},"published":{"$t":"2021-01-26T13:27:00.003-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-01-26T13:27:55.706-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"riots"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Impeach Obama for Inciting Black Lives Matter Riots"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"On May 31st, a violent Black Lives Matter mob burned American flags, threw bottles at police officers, and started a fire in the historic ‘Church of Presidents’ which had been visited by almost every president. Another building was set on fire, and windows across the area were smashed by the rampaging BLM mob wielding baseball bats, bricks, and even more lethal weapons.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-g1skbbRy6gM\/YBBfIiBXPSI\/AAAAAAAASvk\/lVtOt5VJxzAgczpVdV2qcIwH2VpNpzv3wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s798\/obama%2B60%2Bminutes%2Bframe.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"496\" data-original-width=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-g1skbbRy6gM\/YBBfIiBXPSI\/AAAAAAAASvk\/lVtOt5VJxzAgczpVdV2qcIwH2VpNpzv3wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/obama%2B60%2Bminutes%2Bframe.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EHelicopter footage showed the Washington Monument wreathed in smoke from the fires set by the massive BLM assault on the center of our government. But while the BLMers assaulted numerous buildings, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, and had vandalized historical landmarks, including the Lincoln Memorial, the real target of the radicals was the White House.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E60 members of the Secret Service and 150 law enforcement officers in total were eventually injured. As the BLM mob assailed the White House, the Secret Service took President Trump and his family to a bunker: an eventuality meant to deal with terrorist or nuclear attacks.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBlack Lives Matter mobs didn’t break through to the White House, but they \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrEricAngelo\/status\/1267295971664371712?s=20\"\u003Emanaged to set the\u003C\/a\u003E White House guardhouse on fire. Instead of condemning this extremist assault on our nation, Democrats supported the rioters and falsely claimed that law enforcement had assaulted “peaceful protesters” for a “photo op”, and demanded the removal of the National Guard.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDemocrats and their media allies sneered at President Trump for retreating to a bunker.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBarack Obama, as the first black man to sit in the White House, a D.C. resident, and the politician who had done the most to bolster the racist and radical BLM movement burning American cities, had the opportunity to put out the fires. Instead he poured on more gasoline.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter the White House attack, Obama delivered a speech at his own foundation’s event which made no mention of the assault on the house he had formerly occupied or the threat of violence to his successor. Obama then spoke to Brittany Packnett Cunningham, described as, “one of the most prominent activists behind the Black Lives Matter movement” whom he had appointed to serve on his Task Force on 21st Century Policing after the Ferguson riots.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama began his speech by once again accusing America of racism, which he described as an \"original sin\", and praised the mobs terrorizing the country. Instead of condemning the violent attack on the White House, he falsely claimed that the violence was the work of a \"tiny minority\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThen, putting the lie to his false claim, he chatted with Brittany Packnett Cunningham who had previously urged attendees to \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.ppaoregon.org\/2020\/06\/01\/our-commitment-black-lives-matter\/\"\u003Erepeat \u003C\/a\u003Ea chant by domestic terrorist Assata Shakur still wanted by the FBI for her role in the murder of a police officer. Shakur is the icon of BLM and while Democrats accuse Republicans of being domestic terrorists, the movement they embraced is built around one of the FBI’s top ten most wanted terrorists from a violent racist hate group.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe month before, she had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mspackyetti\/status\/1266028826028580866?lang=en\"\u003Etweeted\u003C\/a\u003E Martin Luther King's quote about a riot being the \"language of the unheard\" while appending her own text, \"Property damage at protests, 101\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot only wasn’t the violence coming from a tiny minority, but Obama’s own event was complicit.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama’s speech described the turmoil as “profound as anything that I’ve seen in my lifetime”, and urged that, \"at some point, protests start to dwindle in size. And it's very important for us to take the momentum that has been created… and say, let's use this to finally have an impact.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvery American man and woman who had been assaulted, robbed, and threatened by Obama’s mobs felt the impact. The police officers in the hospital, the shopkeepers sifting through the rubble, and the dead in the BLM riots felt the impact. Obama could have stopped the violence, instead his political support for the violent racist BLM terrorists helped keep the riots going.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile in the White House, Obama had helped incite the racist BLM movement.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen the Ferguson riots broke out after Michael Brown robbed a convenience store and assaulted a police officer, Obama and his administration incited violence by spreading false claims without evidence that Brown had been an innocent victim of police racism.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe DOJ attempted to suppress the surveillance video showing Brown’s attack on a minority store clerk, and Democrats refused to stop spreading false claims that he had been murdered.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERecently, Senator Kamala Harris doubled down on the lie, inciting violence by falsely claiming that “Michael Brown’s murder forever changed Ferguson and America.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama claimed that “the anger and the emotion that followed his death awakened our nation”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe BLM racial terrorist movement, backed monetarily by left-wing foundations and corporations, timed its riots to coincidence with election years. These were not mere race riots: they were and are election riots that exploit the shooting of a criminal to help the Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe biggest years of BLM and proto-BLM riots in 2014, 2016, and 2020 were election years.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Obama and the Democrats fed the racial supremacist agenda of BLM, they were engaging in a campaign of political terror to turn out votes and tilt elections in their favor.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2016, the BLM riots surged again.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn July 7, 2016, Obama delivered a speech from the Marriott in Warsaw falsely accusing the police of racism against black people. That same day, Micah X. Johnson, who had attended BLM rallies, set out to murder as many white Dallas police officers as he could. He killed 5.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama spoke at the funeral of the police officers in defense of the racist hate group that killed them, and\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/obamas-obscene-exploitation-dallas-massacre-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003E continued to\u003C\/a\u003E incite violence by falsely accusing police officers of “the killing of Alton Sterling of Baton Rouge and Philando Castile of Minnesota” at a funeral for police officers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESterling had raped a 14-year-old girl and was shot by police officers after reaching for a gun.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Even those who dislike the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter,’ surely we should be able to hear the pain of Alton Sterling’s family,” Obama had urged.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarlier that year, Obama had invited BLM organizers, including Brittany Packnett Cunningham and DeRay Mckesson, as well as Al Sharpton, to the White House. Mckesson had been sued that year by a Baton Rouge police officer who suffered brain trauma and lost teeth after being assaulted by a McKesson organized mob at a BLM protest for child rapist Alton Sterling.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama had invited a man accused of having “incited the violence” that crippled a police officer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Supreme Court case of Mckesson v. Doe, in which the racist movement was represented by Covington \u0026amp; Burling attorneys, was tossed by the Supreme Court with Justice Thomas, the court's only black justice dissenting, but it's already playing a role in the attempt to impeach President Trump over false allegations that he had somehow incited the Capitol riot.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrats would like to continue impeaching President Trump even after he leaves office.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut if a president can be impeached even after he leaves office for supporting protests that turn violent, then Obama’s impeachment should be next. Obama’s long history of supporting Black Lives Matter is a matter of public record. Obama’s defenders will argue that he urged peaceful protests. So did President Trump. It hasn’t stopped Obama’s cronies from impeaching Trump.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrat case against President Trump hinges on using the word, “fight” in his speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt Obama's BLM event at the White House,  Brittany Packnett Cunningham had urged, \"we have to take the fight everywhere.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn the campaign trail for Biden in Philadelphia Obama had ranted, \"We can't abandon those protesters who inspired us. We've got to channel their activism into action, we can't just imagine a better future. We've got to fight for it.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA week later, massive riots broke out in Philly that brought out the Pennsylvania National Guard. A curfew was imposed across multiple districts as mobs of thousands rampaged through the streets. Thirty police officers were injured: including a female officer who was hit by a car.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s how the “protesters” were fighting for that better future.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe case for impeaching Barack Obama is simple enough. He backed a violent racist hate group. He delivered multiple speeches in support of its extremist cause while falsely claiming that America was racist and that the racist protests were justified. After he used the word “fight” in a speech, devastating riots followed that brought a great American city to its knees.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s the same case that the Democrats have made for impeaching President Trump.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf it’s good enough to impeach President Trump, it’s good enough to impeach Obama.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama abused his office to support a racist hate group. He invited members of the racist hate group to the White House. Including those accused of inciting violence. He used his office to undermine law enforcement efforts to stop the extremist violence. And the end result has been thousands of injuries, numerous deaths, and billions of dollars in damages across America.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EImpeaching Obama won’t fix all of that. But it will offer justice to some of BLM’s victims.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThis article first appeared exclusively at\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/frontpagemag.com\/\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/8879347787098523440\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/01\/impeach-obama-for-inciting-black-lives.html#comment-form","title":"8 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8879347787098523440"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/8879347787098523440"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/01\/impeach-obama-for-inciting-black-lives.html","title":"Impeach Obama for Inciting Black Lives Matter Riots"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-g1skbbRy6gM\/YBBfIiBXPSI\/AAAAAAAASvk\/lVtOt5VJxzAgczpVdV2qcIwH2VpNpzv3wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/obama%2B60%2Bminutes%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"8"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-154127141545942143"},"published":{"$t":"2020-12-08T22:18:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-12-08T22:18:02.635-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Left"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Obama: It’s Impossible to Have a Democracy if People Disagree With You"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Obama is busy shilling for his book, A Promised Land, for which the American imprint of a subsidiary of a German publishing giant with a Nazi past, is paying him a fortune. And that means sitting down with his favorite shill, The Atlantic’s editor Jeffrey Goldberg, whose book was published by the same giant, for some pseudo-intellectual preening at America’s expense.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs usual, he has deep thoughts about why everyone who disagrees with him needs to shut up.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"The First Amendment doesn’t require private companies to provide a platform for any view that is out there. At the end of the day, we’re going to have to find a combination of government regulations and corporate practices that address this,\" Obama fussily declaims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-W9952qTAbyU\/X8_8I4M8O4I\/AAAAAAAASnk\/tJ2Q7IbyQHI4SUekqLYJOMrXdKgv4gnLgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s798\/obama%2B60%2Bminutes%2Bframe.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"496\" data-original-width=\"798\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-W9952qTAbyU\/X8_8I4M8O4I\/AAAAAAAASnk\/tJ2Q7IbyQHI4SUekqLYJOMrXdKgv4gnLgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/obama%2B60%2Bminutes%2Bframe.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EThe corporate practices by Big Tech companies that shut down Biden scandals are already in place. Government regulations to get rid of free speech are new, but not new for Obama.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama had become infamous for having the producer of The Innocence of Muslims thrown into prison after the disaster in Benghazi. “We’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video,” Hillary Clinton \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/archives.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/innocence-obama-daniel-greenfield\/\"\u003Ewould tell \u003C\/a\u003Ethe father of one of the men killed there, as if a YouTube video had killed Americans and then dragged their bodies through the streets of Libya.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama's DOJ \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/blogs\/ticket\/obama-admin-spied-fox-news-reporter-james-rosen-134204299.html\"\u003Eseized\u003C\/a\u003E phone records from reporters, dug through their emails, and followed them around. But the whole point of Big Tech censorship is that Democrats avoid pesky constitutional issues by outsourcing the censorship to huge corporate monopolies. The practice of calling in CEOs to the Senate to berate them about insufficient censorship should raise some constitutional questions about an oligarchy colluding to suppress political speech.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut it hasn’t yet.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat would Obama's speech police look like? He has nothing to say about that, just more deep thoughts about how impossible it is to have a democracy if people keep disagreeing with you.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. And by definition our democracy doesn’t work,\" he fumes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the whole point of a “marketplace of ideas” is that people decide that for themselves. If people don’t decide for themselves, there’s no marketplace of ideas, and no democracy. And in a democracy and a marketplace of ideas, people will disagree about what’s true or what isn’t.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf the government decides for people what’s true or false, then there’s no marketplace. Or rather there’s just the Soviet supermarket where there’s one option and you had better learn to like it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrat argument that a government and a society can’t function if people are allowed to choose ‘falsely’ has been widely accepted by an illiberal liberal elite who all sound like medieval theocrats or Communist bureaucrats musing about the impossibility of intellectual coexistence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama, despite his Harvard and Yale backgrounds, his fondness for dropping “epistemological” right after “marketplace of ideas” has no actual idea what these terms mean. And doesn’t care.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe term “marketplace of ideas” comes from an opinion by Justice William O. Douglas in United States v. Rumely. The issue at stake had been an investigation of an anti-New Deal publisher by Senate Democrats who had demanded to know the names of those who bought his books.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Respondent represents a segment of the American press. Some may like what his group publishes; others may disapprove,” Douglas wrote. “Like the publishers of newspapers, magazines, or books, this publisher bids for the minds of men in the market place of ideas.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe First Amendment was based on \"the confidence that the safety of society depends on the tolerance of government for hostile as well as friendly criticism, that in a community where men's minds are free, there must be room for the unorthodox as well as the orthodox views.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA marketplace of ideas requires trusting free minds to have different points of view.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat Obama is actually saying is that the whole concept of a marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. A marketplace of ideas doesn’t work because some people will draw conclusions he disagrees with. And democracy, which he defines as Democrat rule, can’t function that way.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I can have an argument with you about what to do about climate change. I can even accept somebody making an argument that, based on what I know about human nature, it’s too late to do anything serious about this,\" Obama rambles on. \"I don’t know what to say if you simply say, ‘This is a hoax that the liberals have cooked up, and the scientists are cooking the books.’”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Where do I start trying to figure out where to do something?\" he concludes.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s a remarkable admission for a law school graduate, a community organizer, a politician who got to the highest job in the land by promising to bring the country together, to confess that he has no idea how to talk to half the country and can’t imagine even figuring out how to do it.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe confession here is an extraordinary indictment not only of Obama, but of an entire political class which can’t even imagine how to talk to someone who disagrees with its premises.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat Obama is really saying is that he can discuss global warming with someone who agrees with his premise, but disagrees with his proposed solution, that is to say a fellow lefty. He can’t however even understand how to discuss the issue with someone who rejects his premise.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe marketplace of ideas, in Obama’s mind and that of his political class, is there so that smart progressives can discuss the best way to tackle global warming, racism, or socialized medicine.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe same lefty elite that elevated Obama is unable to understand how to talk to someone who rejects any of its premises, for example, that America isn’t racist, that socialism isn’t the answer, or that its entire worldview is destructive and wrong. So it wants to censor it instead.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was the mindset of the New Dealers that Justice William O. Douglas had criticised when he coined the term, “marketplace of ideas” and warned of the “menace of the shadow which government will cast over literature that does not follow the dominant party line\" should Democrats continue pursuing their efforts to get around the law to censor the opposition.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA marketplace of ideas is a place where people disagree not just about the details of an approved worldview, but about the worldviews themselves. A marketplace of ideas that encompasses only a party platform is not a marketplace, it’s a socialist dumpster.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe trouble with Douglas’ metaphor for a socialist is right there in the concept.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJustice Douglas was using the metaphor of the free market, but the New Dealers and the Old Dealer socialists of today don’t believe in a free market. When Obama thinks of a marketplace, he thinks of the Obamacare marketplace which offered a variety of similar options that adhered to the same set of government regulations overseen by his administration. His marketplace of ideas are minor variations on the same thing that have already been cleared and approved.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut that’s not a marketplace of ideas. It’s a socialist distribution point of talking points.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIdeas are big things. A marketplace of ideas is full of stalls that challenge each other’s premises. And that’s what Obama and his allies are trying to censor out of existence by any means.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama’s argument, that some things should not be discussed or debated, would strike a sympathetic chord with many readers of The Atlantic, a publication subsidized by Steve Jobs’ widow, a major lefty donor, and the rest of the media landscape, but it doesn’t work for a country. It’s all very well for Manhattanites and San Franciscans to declare that they can’t even understand how to talk to Alabamans and Alaskans and shouldn’t even have to try.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd then someone like President Trump comes down an escalator and their entire world shakes. Their polls keep being proven wrong and new movements arise that they don’t understand. All their philosophizing about “democracy” and the “marketplace of ideas” is an echo chamber that shuts out much of the country and then tries to shut it down.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the only way to really do that is through escalating levels of force and then violence.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESharing a country with people whose premises you disagree with and whose worldviews you can’t even grasp is challenging. That was why America was such a bold experiment. And why Obama’s pathetic blotivations are an embarrassment to its greatness and its noble heritage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere’s no challenge in running a country where everyone agrees. And Obama isn’t interested in challenges. Neither are the Democrats still reeling from an electoral beating. If they had paid closer attention, the Latino voters in Texas and Florida who turned them down, the black and Jewish voters who came out for President Trump, wouldn’t have come as such a shock.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe problem with echo chambers is that you have no idea what’s going on outside them.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust ask King George III, the kings of France, or Czar Nicholas II. The virtue of a free country is that elections and arguments break up echo chambers. A marketplace of ideas may be discordant, chaotic, and include views that are false or terrible, but it keeps a society fresh and dynamic, instead of allowing it to ossify into an inbred oligarchy echoing its own idiocy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJust ask Obama. But don’t expect him to understand the question or a marketplace of ideas.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA socialism of ideas is as doomed as any other kind of socialism. When an oligarchy tries to choke the life out of the marketplace of ideas, it destroys the society and its own future.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/154127141545942143\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/12\/obama-its-impossible-to-have-democracy.html#comment-form","title":"15 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/154127141545942143"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/154127141545942143"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/12\/obama-its-impossible-to-have-democracy.html","title":"Obama: It’s Impossible to Have a Democracy if People Disagree With You"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-W9952qTAbyU\/X8_8I4M8O4I\/AAAAAAAASnk\/tJ2Q7IbyQHI4SUekqLYJOMrXdKgv4gnLgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/obama%2B60%2Bminutes%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"15"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-486741155395079220"},"published":{"$t":"2020-01-21T00:42:00.002-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-04-30T09:30:16.414-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Bernie Sanders"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Obama"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"politics"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"US Election"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Obama Vs. Bernie"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"In November, Barack Obama paid a call on George Soros. After maintaining a low profile since leaving office, the former chosen one showed up at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in Washington D.C. where the Democracy Alliance was having its annual conclave to decide how to destroy the United States. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter a long Friday afternoon of hearing from assorted minions, members of the Democracy Alliance, who had contributed at least $200,000 to be part of Soros’ real-life SPECTRE alliance, minus the white cat, trooped into the Grand Ballroom for a “fireside chat” before a private dinner with Valerie Jarrett. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DyIYSEC2c0k\/XqrSvudLJMI\/AAAAAAAAR-c\/C3n1tV9M4Bc3VaBxaGr33Hw5mqV02lm_wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/obama-wears-tan-suit-149481242256.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"901\" data-original-width=\"1600\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-DyIYSEC2c0k\/XqrSvudLJMI\/AAAAAAAAR-c\/C3n1tV9M4Bc3VaBxaGr33Hw5mqV02lm_wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/obama-wears-tan-suit-149481242256.jpeg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EAnd Obama had a simple message for the mandarins in the Mandarin Oriental who had spent fortunes to elect lefties and transform the country. “The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it,” he told his radical audience. And warned that the Democrat agenda should not be driven by “certain left-leaning Twitter feeds or the activist wing of our party.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESoros and the Democracy Alliance’s activist wing elected Obama to implement a radical agenda. Now he was warning his old backers that they were in danger of backing agendas that were just too radical. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe outreach was striking because Obama had tried to keep his distance from George Soros. In an interview, Soros had complained about being frozen out by Obama. “He made one phone call thanking me for my support, which was meant to last for five minutes,” the leftist billionaire whined. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama had no interest in letting Soros set his agenda. But now he was trying to set Soros’ agenda. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHis sudden call for moderation had a target. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Politico writeup in November, ‘Waiting for Obama’, noted that, “Obama said privately that if Bernie were running away with the nomination, Obama would speak up to stop him.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If Bernie were running away with it, I think maybe we would all have to say something. But I don't think that's likely. It's not happening,” an anonymous Obama adviser said. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBernie supporters furiously shot back. Headlines like, \"The Real Barack Obama Has Finally Revealed Himself\", popped up on Jacobin: the Sandernista equivalent of Pravda, Der Sturmer, and Al Jazeera. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat same month, Deval Patrick, a favorite potential candidate of Valerie Jarrett and other Obamaworlders, suddenly and disastrously jumped into the 2020 race. With a Patrick event attracting two people, Obama switched his focus and began working behind the scenes to support Warren. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy December, Obama was urging Wall Street donors to back Elizabeth Warren. It didn’t work. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBernie Sanders shot up to second place. And Obama was not counting on Biden to stop him. “And you know who really doesn’t have it? Joe Biden,\" he had privately observed. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s January and Obamaworlders keep grousing about how to stop Bernie. And going nowhere. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The strongest argument against Bernie will be showing that you can defeat Donald Trump,” one recently complained. “And he cannot.” \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s certainly one problem. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBernie Sanders has zero appeal to anyone except the white lefties who once backed Obama. Meanwhile Obama’s black voters remain solidly behind Biden. Obama’s only real way to stop Bernie would be to call on black voters to solidly support Biden creating a deep racial divide within an already divided party. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut there’s also the personal element. It’s not just Hillary who hates Bernie. The average Democrat operative views the socialist as a foreign element who undermines the party when he doesn’t need it, and is bringing in a ragged mob of radicals to take it over and fundamentally transform it. And, unlike Obama’s radicals, they have no social skills and little interest in working together with anyone else. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Bernie base views Obama as a sellout. His signature policy trashes ObamaCare. And Obama cares. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBernie’s rise is Obama’s nightmare. A race between Bernie and Trump leads to two bad outcomes. Either Trump wins, becomes a two-term president, and trashes Obama’s legacy. Or Bernie wins, and trashes Obama’s legacy while purging his allies and staffers from the DNC and the government. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe return of Bernie divides the party the same way he did in 2016. Either he loses and many of his voters stay home. Or he wins and more moderate Democrats become the ones to sit out the race. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd yet the man who had turned the party into his own cult can’t stop the next cult of personality. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe lightworker, the anointed one, the messiah has discovered that not only George Soros, but the earnest young lefties who once swooned for him have moved on. The arc of history is no longer his. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama’s comments at the Democracy Alliance’s shindig also a reflect tactical difference between his preference for remaking the system without tearing it down, and Bernie’s call for socialism now. It’s the same old division between working within the system or destroying it that divided the American Left. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Obama era was the greatest triumph for the radicals, including the Weathermen, who ultimately decided that they could achieve more by working within the system than by setting off bombs. It was also the subject of that ancient argument between Vladimir Lenin and H.G. Wells about revolutions. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat consensus bypassed Bernie, once an obscure socialist crank, whose political life got a new lease when some ex-Obama marketers decided they need a way to cash in when Hillary wouldn’t hire them, and who was then embraced by a new generation of radicals who saw Obama as insufficiently radical. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBernie’s political philosophy has been massaged to make it more appealing for a new era. But underneath the new embrace of identity politics and open borders, things he once opposed, he’s an unreconstructed radical with no interest in tactics, strategy, and how things work in the real world. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHe just wants a revolution. That revolution threatens the hard work of Obama, Soros and many others. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd what does George think? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEarlier, Soros had been hinting that he might support Elizabeth Warren. He picked Hillary over Sanders in 2016. But Our Revolution, Bernie’s dark money organization, planned to solicit money from Soros. Due to the secrecy of both Soros and Our Revolution, it’s hard to know whether Soros ponied up. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut we do know that Our Revolution got its largest contribution of $100,000 from the Sixteen Thirty Fund which is partly funded by George Soros. And the activists powering Sanders, like Zack Exley, have often come through Open Society and other Soros network organizations. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama’s pitch to Soros and the rest of the radical donor class was that Bernie’s approach was outside the comfort zone of most Americans. Bernie, in George’s terms, was a bad investment who wouldn’t connect with voters and would hand President Trump another four years in the White House. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenator Bernie Sanders, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the squad, and the rest of the old new and new old radicals don’t actually do anything except talk. Bernie’s Medicare-for-All scam was so inept that it unintentionally brought down the campaigns of Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Kamala Harris. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOur Revolution lost a quarter of a million to an email scam. So much for that investment. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe single real-world accomplishment that Cortez has to her name took place outside the House, when she helped scuttle Amazon’s New York City HQ and the tens of thousands of jobs that came with it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorge Soros likes to invest in organizations and people who get things done. Obama wants a successor who will lock in and expand on his legacy. Neither of the two men are likely to get what they want. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESoros has already suggested that he won’t be supporting a primary candidate. Obama has tried two. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama is testing the waters. He’s hesitant to act openly because if he comes out against Bernie, and Bernie still sweeps through New Hampshire and Iowa, his credibility will be in ruins. Ever since leaving office, Obama has secretly nurtured the idea that he is the wise man and kingmaker of the party. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut what if he’s not? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama’s very real fear is that he’s irrelevant. Black voters will still follow him. Few others will. An endorsement from him would not be a profound game changer, but worth a few percent at best. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EComing out against Bernie would mean testing his brand against, not only Bernie, but Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, and dozens of radical Bernie proxies scattered across social media. While Obama vacationed, millennials like Cortez built social media cults of radical narcissism. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd Obama, the former radical narcissist-in-chief, has been out-radicalized and out-narcissicized. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe man who had once defined a political generation of Democrats has, like Bill Clinton, grown old and tired. The routines that Barack and Bill once pulled to seem hip, are passé. The celebrities they posed with are yesterday’s news. Their attempts to revive Kennedyesque political cool have become as antiquated as Jackie Kennedy’s pillbox hat and JFK’s preppy yachting outfits. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWorse still, Barry hasn’t been bypassed for a younger politician, but a formerly obscure elderly radical. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen your power is rooted not in ideas or principles, but hipness, then you live by the trend and die by it. George picked up Barry as his boy toy when he was a young crush. Now Barry’s old and only good for sonorously reciting clichés in the Mandarin Oriental while Soros uses him to collect another few million. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObama so often spoke of the future, whom it would belong to, and whom it wouldn’t. Now he faces the fact that the future has passed him by. Whomever the future belongs to, it will not belong to him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. 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By August, FEMA had stopped paying for the nearly 2,500 displaced Puerto Ricans who had been living in hotels after Hurricane Maria had wrecked their homes. But the FEMA times were good at Casino Del Mar. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESan Juan's Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz had become a CNN celeb by wearing a, \"Help Us We Are Dying\" t-shirt. But no one was dying at the luxury resort in San Juan with its 15,000 square feet of gaming tables and its seven restaurants. Except maybe some especially unlucky gamblers. Its blue neon wave walls were shimmering, the machines were jingling and there were some high rollers at the tables. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of those high rollers was a FEMA administrator. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAhsha Nateef Tribble’s job had been to get Puerto Rico working again. That’s why Ahsha had been appointed FEMA's Power Sector Chief and Infrastructure Chief for Recovery. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd she was certainly helping one part of Puerto Rico recover. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt Casino Del Mar, Donald Keith Ellison, the former president of Cobra Acquisitions, who has been indicted alongside Tribble, was seen in surveillance footage picking up $3,000 worth of casino chips. The indictment alleges that Tribble and Ellison were together at the gambling tables and the cash cage. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETribble and Ellison were gambling in more ways than one. The stakes would have easily broken the Casino Del Mar. Ellison’s Cobra had received $1.8 billion in federal contracts to restore Puerto Rico’s power grid. And Tribble had the authority to dispense $200 million in public assistance projects. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat was a mere $3,000 compared to the millions and billions that they were already playing with? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe indictments of Tribble and Ellison ended the game. The dice have come up snake eyes and the croupier is taking back all the chips. But the game of profiting from catastrophe was a fun one. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAt Casino Del Mar, Ahsha Nateef Tribble was enjoying the good life at the top of a meteoric career. But while her annual salary of $149,000 placed her among the top 10% of employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), it wasn’t enough to buy her everything she wanted. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd that’s what Ellison was allegedly doing by, in the language of the indictment, promising, offering and giving “Ahsha Nateef Tribble a stream of things of value, including airfare, ground transportation, helicopter fights, hotel rooms, meals, entertainment expenses.” $149,000 a year only goes so far. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENot that Ahsha had anything to complain about. After earning a BS in Math from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, an MS in Meteorology from Florida State, she had traveled out of state to the University of Oklahoma for a PhD in Meteorology. And the year she graduated she was somehow already the Technical Chief of Staff at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Commerce at NOAA. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETwo years after graduating, she was the Executive Officer at the NOAA National Hurricane Center. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFive years after graduation, she was the Chief of the Climate Sciences Division for NOAA's National Weather Service. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith that kind of resume, Ahsha must have been brilliant. But her indictment doesn’t suggest a genius. Even an evil genius would have done a better job of cashing in than hotels, a casino and a copter. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere is, unfortunately, another explanation. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd it’s why the blame for the Puerto Rico mess falls squarely on the Obama administration. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnder Obama, the former Florida girl was in D.C. as a senior policy advisor coordinating with the White House. Obama's White House then put her on staff as a director at the National Security Council. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAhsha Nateef Tribble became Obama's Senior Director for Response and even served as an interim Deputy Homeland Security Advisor. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the waning days of the Obama regime, Ahsha was appointed a Deputy Regional Administrator at FEMA. Either Ahsha had guessed correctly that the next administration would not have the word 'Clinton' in it or she didn't have the right connections. But she had landed safely. And someone had decided that with her impressive resume, she would be perfect for tackling Puerto Rico's power crisis. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHadn't she served as a senior advisor to Obama's Secretary of Energy? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd, according to her FEMA bio, \"led or supported White House response coordination and operational policy for major disasters including Hurricanes Sandy and Irene.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was just one problem. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Institute for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency. Disaster relief needs competence, not diversity. But FEMA, like every other part of the government, had gone mad for diversity without ever recovering. For Black History Month, its Diversity and Inclusion unit had promoted a livestream of a transgender panel from the U.S. Air Force Academy. FEMA might not be very competent at managing disasters, but it was great at promoting random lefty social agendas and spending taxpayer money. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAhsha was the daughter of Israel Tribble Jr, an affirmative action advocate who claimed that the education system pandered to European elitism and was unsuited for those who were “dark or different”. The names of his children reflected the academic’s belief in his own form of Afrocentric Egyptology. In Puerto Rico, affirmative action ran into a wall of corruption and human misery. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA casino in San Juan was a long way from Ahsha’s glory days of traveling to disaster sites with Obama and Biden. Or representing the United States at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut there were still opportunities here. And she allegedly knew how to take them. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPuerto Rico was a crisis. And the thing to do with a crisis was play it up and then cash in. And Ahsha Nateef Tribble was allegedly influencing the payments going to her new friend’s company. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile contracts in the hundreds of millions of dollars were dispensed, she enjoyed the little things, a helicopter ride, a hotel room, and a fun time in a casino. Also riding the Puerto Rico gravy train was Jovanda Patterson, another FEMA employee and a good friend of Ahsha’s, who got a job with Ellison. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Thank you both for My day will be great when I get a picture of Ahsha getting her treatment today please,” Jovanda had emailed Ellison and Ahsha. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETimes were still hard in parts of Puerto Rico, but there were other priorities for FEMA’s best. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“I’m on it. I will get her down there at 1pm,” Ellison replied. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou didn’t have to be in a disaster area to get personal service like that. Just tasked with managing one. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA Twitter account with Jovanda Patterson’s name and tweets about FEMA and Puerto Rico, includes a retweet of anti-American racist activist Colin Kaepernick, Barack Obama and Senator Kamala Harris. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhy was Hurricane Maria so devastating? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe answer has little to do with President Trump and a great deal to do with the existing corruption by local officials in Puerto Rico, which has already resulted in multiple arrests, and within FEMA. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt was one of Obama’s NSC staffers who had traveled with him and with Biden, who allegedly conspired to rob taxpayers and to abuse money meant to help Puerto Ricans. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat happened in Puerto Rico is the same thing that happens in Chicago, Detroit and Baltimore. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn another hurricane procurement scandal, FEMA gave Tiffany Brown a $156 million contract to serve 30 million meals to hurricane victims. Brown's company had no employees and no experience in large-scale disaster relief. And was not able to actually provide the meals. But \"Dr. Brown\" does boast that her Tribute Contracting LLC is a \"a minority-owned government consulting firm\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe government can help people. Or it can help itself. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt can help the minorities it claims to care about. Or it can just help the well-connected ones. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA quick walk around Newark, Los Angeles or San Juan can clue you in on who’s really being helped. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe money that’s supposed to help people never actually reaches them. But that’s fine. There’s better uses for that money. And the worse things get, the more money will be spent on not fixing the crisis. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd, if you’re lucky, you can have a fun night in a casino in San Juan where everyone is always dying.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. 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