Barack Hussein Obama has planted seeds that will be bearing bitter fruit for years, and probably decades, to come. He is the worst President in American history. Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan? Yes, the doughface Presidents made the Civil War inevitable, but worse came later. Grant? Blind to corruption and out of his depth, but there have been worse than he as well. Wilson? That black-hearted Presbyterian bigot arguably gave the world Hitler and World War II, so he is definitely in the Final Four. Harding? Nah: his tax cuts and return to “normalcy” got the American economy, and the Twenties, roaring. FDR and LBJ gave us the modern welfare state and dependent classes automatically voting Democrat; the full bill on the damage they did hasn’t yet been presented. Nixon? A crook and an economic Leftist, who betrayed Taiwan for the People’s Republic; his record certainly isn’t good. Carter? Nothing good can be said about his four years of sanctimony and incompetence.
But there is one thing Barack Obama has on all competitors: treason.
He has showered hundreds of billions of dollars on the Islamic Republic of Iran. The definition of treason is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran order their people to chant “Death to America” in mosques every Friday, and repeatedly vow that they will ultimately destroy the United States of America and the state of Israel. How is giving them billions not treason? Other Presidents have been incompetent, corrupt, dishonest, but which has committed treason on a scale to rival the treason of Barack Hussein Obama?
The Iranians also operate a global network of jihad terror organizations, one of which, Hizballah, is quite active in Mexico now, with the obvious ultimate intention of crossing the border and committing jihad massacres of Americans. Obama has given a tremendous boost to these initiatives, as well as to Iran’s nuclear program, with his nuclear deal that has given the Iranians hundreds of billions of dollars and essentially a green light to manufacture nuclear weapons, in exchange for absolutely nothing.
There is no telling when the worst consequences of Obama’s aid and comfort to the Islamic Republic of Iran will be felt. But they likely will be felt in one way or another. Even if Trump moves swiftly to restore sanctions and put Iran on notice that its nuclear activity and global adventurism will not be tolerated, those billions cannot be recovered, and they will be spent. And they will be spent in ways intended to harm the U.S. and its allies.
Here are a few of his other ignominious accomplishments:
1. Removing all mention of Islam from counter-terror training, and denying that Islamic texts and teachings have any role in inciting jihad terrorists to commit acts of violence. Given Trump’s repeated upbraiding of Obama and Hillary Clinton during the campaign for their refusal even to say “radical Islam,” there is reason to be confident that Trump will once again allow our law enforcement and intelligence officials to study the motivating ideology of the jihad terrorists, which is an indispensable prerequisite to defeating them. However, large organizations such as the FBI, the CIA, the DHS and others don’t turn on a dime; Obama has made for an institutional culture of denial and political correctness that is now deeply embedded. All too many FBI agents and others who should know better think that the best thing they can do when confronted with a terror-tied mosque is conduct “outreach” and reassure the Muslims there of their good will. Investigate it? Heavens to betsy, that would be “Islamophobic.” Attempts by Trump to ensure that the enemy ideology is indeed confronted realistically will be met with fierce resistance from with the law enforcement and intelligence agencies themselves.
It is also likely that these agencies have been thoroughly infiltrated with Muslim Brotherhood operatives who won’t be so easily displaced; that infiltration had already started during the George W. Bush administration (when, for example, the Pentagon’s sole expert on Islamic law, Major Stephen Coughlin, was dismissed at the behest of a Muslim Brotherhood-linked official), but under Obama, it has galloped ahead, with any concern about it dismissed as “Islamophobia.”
2. Inundating the U.S. with Muslim migrants. Obama didn’t bring Muslim migrants to the U.S. at the rate that his friend Angela Merkel brought them to Germany, but his administration consistently showed a decided preference for Muslims over non-Muslim migrants: it was clearly more interested in social engineering than refugee relief. And so there is an unknowable number of Islamic jihadis now inside the United States, who came in with these migrants. They have supposedly been vetted by Obama administration officials, but how can those officials vet for jihadist tendencies when they don’t even admit that there is a jihad? How can they possibly know what to look for? San Bernardino jihad murderer Tashfeen Malik was thoroughly vetted: she passed five separate background checks from five different U.S. agencies. So among these “vetted” refugees is any number of ticking time bombs. What’s more, even among those who will never mount a jihad attack are many who come with a ready-made model of society and governance, Sharia, that they consider superior to any system of government devised by Infidels. As those Muslim migrants begin to make clear their determination to live by what they think to be the law of Allah rather than manmade law, there will be increasing conflict and civil strife. And all of it will bear the imprimatur of Barack Hussein Obama.
3. Betraying Israel. Resolution 2334 legitimized the United Nations’ vendetta against Israel, but it was just the culmination o eight years of Obama’s thinly veiled contempt for Israel and constant presumption that the Jewish state was the sole obstacle to peace, and the sole party that had to make concessions. Obama has given the jihad against Israel a standing and foundation in international law that will make its efforts to defend itself all the more difficult. Trump has vowed to roll all this back; it won’t all be rolled back completely, however, unless his administration challenges the very legitimacy of the Palestinian jihad, and acknowledges its maximalist and genocidal intent.
The Leftist world order that created a world in which concessions to and remuneration of an avowed enemy, combined with betrayal of and contempt for an ally, were considered wise and prudent moves is now in its death throes, and it cannot vanish from the scene quickly enough. But it isn’t going to go quietly. The legacy of its patron and foremost exponent, the traitor Barack Hussein Obama, will be the chaos, havoc, death and destruction that it has yet to cause.
“Barack Obama Ranked 12th Best U.S. President Ever in Major Survey of Historians,” by David Von Drehle, Time, February 17, 2017:
Barack Obama has been whisked to a very good table at the club of former presidents, according to a C-SPAN survey of 91 presidential historians published on Friday. Obama’s 12th-place ranking only a month after leaving office is the best for any president since Ronald Reagan, who ranks ninth in the new survey. The list updates previous C-SPAN surveys compiled in 2009 and 2000.
Historians gave Obama high marks for pursuing equality, managing the economy, public persuasion and “moral authority.” On the other hand, he was judged to have been below-average in handling international relations. Overall, he placed ahead of such generally well-regarded chief executives as James Monroe and James Polk.
History’s view of the best and worst presidents was unchanged since 2009. The top spot once again went to Abraham Lincoln — the quintessential self-made man who saved the Union, emancipated the slaves, and launched the Transcontinental Railroad. He ranked no lower than fourth in all ten of the criteria by which presidents were judged. He finished first in crisis leadership, administrative skill, vision setting, and pursuit of equal justice; second in economic management, moral authority, and “performance within the context of the times”; third in public persuasion and international relations; and fourth in working with Congress.
Lincoln was followed by George Washington, with the two Roosevelts — Franklin and Theodore — in third and fourth place. The bottom spots went to the men who served just before and just after Lincoln: James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson.
“Once again the Big Three are Lincoln, Washington and FDR — as it should be,” said one of the shepherds of the survey, Douglas Brinkley of Rice University in Houston. “That Obama came in at number 12 his first time out is quite impressive,” Brinkley added.
But Howard University historian Edna Greene Medford, another of C-SPAN’s consultants on the project, thought Obama might have ranked even higher. She was surprised to see him in the middle of the pack for administrative skills, and thought that his rapidly rising approval ratings during the last months of his administration might give him more of a boost. “Of course,” Medford said, “historians prefer to view the past from a distance, and only time will reveal his legacy.”…
Oh, indeed. Only time will reveal how future historians who love freedom will curse his name.