Iran CleanUp In Aisle Three: Obama Says You Caused The Mess

“What Hamas did was horrific, and there is no justification for it. And what is also true is that the occupation, and what’s happening to Palestinians, is unbearable… You have to admit that all of us are complicit to some degree.”— Barack Obama

It might come as a surprise to you that, as you went about your daily drudge, you were complicit in unspeakable terror in Israel and Gaza. Coming from most people this kind of inane comment might seem absurd. But as it comes from Barack Obama— God’s mouth to his ears— this fiction has gained traction among the fashionably afflicted.

And so heads are bowed at the profundity. The raiment is kissed. Joe Biden has new speaking notes from his boss. Chaos, in the words of Yeats, is loosed upon the land.

The fact that Obama has a shred of credibility left after his eight years of turning America into a struggle session is that the special people have imprinted their most virtuous selves upon him. They bought the nonsense about halting waters and ending warmth. The wine moms and radical dads can no more point out his fatuousness and policy implosions than they can put on a new skin. 

None more so than the Canadians cognoscenti who, let down by the failures of Boy King Justin, have doubled down on their worship for America’s first black, sexually ambivalent, crackhead, hipster president. Canadian media’s reverence for this cipher is truly repellent. For instance, their utter incuriosity at the story of his chef drowning on Obama’s property, shortly before he was set to publish a book on the ex-president, was remarkable. But not surprising. 

To paraphrase the old Star Kist commercial, Canadians want tunas with good taste, not tunas that taste good. 

That this same Barack Obama could somehow parcel out blame for his Iran policy that is fuelling the Gaza carnage is absurd. It was he who abandoned America’s long-standing balancing act among the various players in the Middle East, indulging his predilection for third-world kleptocrats and anyone who hates the British and Israelis. 

By throwing Iran $6 billion to re-start their nuclear bomb program in return for a packet full of lint, Barry empowered the mullahs, gave hope to the Gaza Mafia and made America’s allies in the region wonder WTF was going to happen next. 

While Trump suspended the Obama hare-brained scheme for four years— authoring the Abraham Accords and getting the Saudis to the edge of co-operation— Obama mouthpiece Biden re-started the clock again in 2021. Result: Chaos. Hence where we are today, drowning in gore and poised for nuclear destruction. But, hey, Barry says “All of us are complicit to some degree.”

How did this man achieve Total Consciousness in the middle-class mind? We tracked the ascent of the Manchurian President in May. “how did the radical Left, crushed by Nixon in 1972, re-emerge today to finally achieve its agenda? Enter: Barack Obama, the Manchurian President. For those who missed the 1962 film, The Manchurian Candidate, Laurence Harvey portrayed a former soldier brainwashed by communists in Korea and trained to assassinate a presidential candidate when a specific playing card was shown to him. Allowing the baddies to control the nation.

In this updated real telling a Democratic candidate is the vessel selected by defeated ‘60s radicals to complete their power grab. Hunkered down after their murderous bomb-throwing past, radicals like Bill Ayres and wife Bernadette Dohrn searched for the ideal candidate to get them that power. Like all good Marxists they were willing to play the long game. And if a few bodies hit the floor— well, that was collateral damage.

They first hoped Bill Clinton might get them there, but his sexual peccadilloes and triangulation with GOP left them disappointed. Eventually they saw the prophet in their Chicago living room, the embodiment of their hopes. Glib but not too glib. Black but not too-black. Hip but not too hip, Barry “Call Me Barack” Obama would succeed where Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis, Al Gore and Hilary Clinton had failed in transitioning the culture.

Fawned over by the SJWs and elected as a moderate supporter of The Sanctity of Marriage Act, he was bullish on markets, equal opportunity versus equal outcome and other traditional Democratic policies on immigration, education and foreign policy. 

Once in the White House, however, the Manchurian President was shown his trigger card in 2009. Faster than you can say Henry Louis Gates, Obama and his coterie of ambitious advisors— Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, Valerie Jarrett, Samantha Power— sent the Department of Justice into police forces, universities, government offices and the military to implement a radical diversity program. (See Heather Mac Donald’s brilliant The Diversity Delusion

Using the template his wife Michelle Obama had used in implanting critical race theory, small-time black gender fluidity, white privilege and cultural appropriation into Chicago’s school and hospital system, they sought to make cultural guilt the most prominent fact of American life. Clever replaced wise. 

Inflating isolated sad cases of black petty criminals like Michael Brown, Treyvon Martin and George Floyd, the Obama crowd manufactured a victim culture for dim liberal whites. Obama fed it like red meat to a media voracious for glib psychobabble. 

Every story played out through this prism. Including the current rationalization of the most cruel behaviour by Hamas against Israel. Leading Obama, the squire of Martha’s Vineyard, to his suggestion that somehow we are all culpable of this horror. And having vast swaths of America and Canada lick it up. 

Sorry, Barry. It was on your watch. You own it. Leave us out of it. You can start by handing back your bogus Nobel Peace Prize.

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Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his new book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via http://brucedowbigginbooks.ca/book-personalaccount.aspx