An Israeli MK, Dov Lipman, recently examined those parts of Barack Obama’s just-released A Promised Land that treat of Israel and its conflict with the Arabs. Lipman is appalled by what he found, and he holds up for examination and criticism Obama’s dreamy misinformation about that history and his almost comical self-assurance about matters he knows so little about. You can find Lipman’s scathing review here.
I have never criticized former U.S. President Barack Obama publicly—neither during my time in the Knesset nor anywhere else—despite my having disagreed with many of his policies. I am of the strong opinion that Israelis should not engage in or interfere with American politics, and I regularly offer a blanket thank you to all American presidents, including Obama, for their economic and military support for Israel.
However, his memoir, A Promised Land, is filled with historical inaccuracies that I feel the need to address. His telling of Israel’s story (at the beginning of Chapter 25) not only exhibits a flawed understanding of the region—which clearly impacted his policies as president—but misleads readers in a way that will forever shape their negative perspective of the Jewish state.
Obama relates, for example, how the British were “occupying Palestine” when they issued the Balfour Declaration calling for a Jewish state. But labeling Great Britain as an “occupier” clearly casts doubt on its legitimacy to determine anything about the future of the Holy Land—and that wasn’t the situation
While it is true that England had no legal rights in Palestine when the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917, that changed just five years later. The League of Nations, precursor to the United Nations, gave the British legal rights over Palestine in its 1922 “Mandate for Palestine,” which specifically mentions “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”
The League also said that “recognition has thereby been given to the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.”
The former president’s noted omission of the internationally agreed-upon mandate for the British to establish a home for the Jews in Palestine misinforms the reader, who will conclude that the movement for a Jewish state in Palestine had no legitimacy or international consent.
Obama refers to the British as “occupying” Palestine when the Balfour Declaration was written in 1917; it would be truer to history to describe the British in that year as still fighting with the Ottoman Turks; the British liberated Palestine from the Ottoman yoke only in 1918.
As Lipman notes, Obama misses entirely the most important development in the history of modern Israel: the Mandate for Palestine. He never mentions it. It was the League of Nations that created the system of mandates, by which certain former Ottoman territories were entrusted to European states – the holders of the Mandates, the Mandatories –who were to create the conditions for the independence of those territories. There were several mandates pertaining to the Arabs – in Syria/Lebanon and in Iraq. There was one mandate for the Jewish people – the Mandate for Palestine – which was entrusted to Great Britain in 1922. The territory included in that Mandate, which would eventually constitute the Jewish National Home, was all the land from the Golan Heights in the north, to the Red Sea in the south, and from the Jordan River in the east to the Mediterranean in the west. In fact, before the Mandate was formally announced, it was originally to have included all the territory east of the Jordan River “out to the desert,” but in the end, the British separated eastern Palestine from Palestine west of the Jordan River, and turned what then constituted 78% of the proposed Mandate for Palestine into the Emirate of Transjordan, as a kind of consolation prize for the Hashemite Emir Abdullah, whose younger brother Feisal had been previously put on the throne of Iraq by the British.
Obama seems to think the British were there in Palestine as an “occupying power” and then, without so much as a by-your-leave, simply decided to stick around for three decades while preparing to hand over the territory, for some unknown reason, to the Jews. Obama does not mention the League of Nations, nor the Mandate for Palestine; he never describes Great Britain as having been entrusted, as Mandatory, with “Palestine” for the sole purpose of turning it into the Jewish National Home. Obama very likely has never read the Mandate for Palestine, and in particular, does not know Articles 4 and 6:
ART. 4.
The Zionist organization, so long as its organization and constitution are in the opinion of the Mandatory appropriate, shall be recognised as such agency. It shall take steps in consultation with His Britannic Majesty’s Government to secure the co-operation of all Jews who are willing to assist in the establishment of the Jewish national home.
ART. 6.
The Administration of Palestine, while ensuring that the rights and position of other sections of the population are not prejudiced, shall facilitate Jewish immigration under suitable conditions and shall encourage, in co-operation with the Jewish agency referred to in Article 4, close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste lands not required for public purposes.
In his book, Obama fails to mention any of this, which requires of the Mandatory that it “facilitate Jewish immigration” and “close settlement of Jews on the land.”
What land? All the land included in the Mandate maps, showing the territory from – let’s repeat it – from the Golan to the Red Sea, and from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean. But Obama doesn’t know about those Mandate maps, just as he doesn’t know about the Mandate. He doesn’t understand that the Mandates system became part of international law. He’s never heard of the U.N. Charter’s Article 80 (“the Jewish people’s article”), which commits the U.N. to continue the system of Mandates it inherited from the League of Nations. The British weren’t in Palestine for the next thirty years by accident. Great Britain was the Mandatory, entrusted by the League of Nations in 1922 with the task of turning Mandatory Palestine into the Jewish National Home — which would then naturally turn into the Jewish state of Israel. But in Obama’s understanding, which leaves out that internationally-recognized role for Great Britain as Mandatory, the British are in “Palestine” illegally.
Over the next 20 years, Zionist leaders mobilized a surge of Jewish migration to Palestine,” Obama writes, creating the image that once the British illegally began the process of forming a Jewish state in Palestine, Jews suddenly started flocking there.
The truth is that Jews, who maintained a continual presence throughout the 2,000 years that most were exiled from the land, had already been moving to Palestine in large numbers way before then; considerably more than 100,000 immigrants arrived in the late 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. Then, in the 1920s, high numbers fleeing anti-Semitism in Europe could only find safe haven in Palestine, due to the United States having instituted quotas in 1924 on the number of Jews who could enter America….
Obama seems not to realize that Jewish immigration – the return to Zion – began several decades before the Mandate for Palestine began. Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe were starting to move to Palestine in the late 19th century, even before Theodor Herzl organized the First Zionist Congress, held in Basel in 1897. As Lipman notes, more than 100,000 Jews arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Palestine, on their own, needing no encouragement from the future Mandatory .
Obama gives no hint of understanding how difficult life was for Jews once they were in Palestine. He fails to mention that the British not only never did “facilitate Jewish immigration” or “encourage close settlement by Jews on the land” as they were supposed to, under Article 6 of the Mandate, but worse still, made it positively difficult for the Jews to live in Palestine. When the Arabs started to attack Jews during the Jerusalem Riots in 1920, and the Zionist leader Zev Jabotinsky tried to arm the Jews for self-defense, he was arrested by the British and given a 15-year sentence for possession of weapons. A worldwide outcry led to his being freed, but the incident was revealing: the British were not terribly interested in helping the Jews to defend themselves. In the 1930s, one British officer, Orde Wingate, was deeply sympathetic to the Jews and helped them organize “Special Night Squads” to carry the fight to the marauding Arab enemy. Instead of being praised by his superiors for this undertaking, Wingate was sent out of Palestine, never to return. He had been marked as too friendly to the Jews.
Nor does Obama discuss how hard it was for Jews, at the moment of their greatest need, just before and during World War II, to find refuge in Palestine. According to the White Paper of 1939, issued by the British government, Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine would be limited to 15,000 a year for five years, after which all such immigration would be subject to an Arab veto – which effectively meant an end to Jewish immigration. So much for the British duty, as Mandatory, to “facilitate Jewish immigration” into Palestine, without limit. The British prevented ships with Jewish refugees from landing in Palestine, sending them back to Europe. Many hundreds of thousands of Jews might have been saved from the Nazis, had the British helped, rather than hindered at every step, Jewish immigration to Mandatory Palestine.
Obama, whose want of sympathy for the Zionists is palpable, depicts the Jews as arriving en masse in Palestine, without the least difficulty either in entering the land or, once there, in establishing themselves. Obama does not mention how the British imprisoned Jabotinsky for daring to arm defenseless Jews, nor does he explain the expulsion of Capt. Orde Wingate for the crime of having helped train Jews in self-defense; he doesn’t mention the White Paper that so severely limited Jewish immigration into Palestine from 1939 on, nor describe the desperation of the Jews who tried to flee Europe and make it safely to Palestine. In Obama’s telling, there seemed to be no obstacles to the Jews entering and settling peacefully in Palestine – no British blockade of ships laden with Jewish refugees, and once in Palestine, no attacks by marauding Arabs.
mortimer says
Obama feels its alright for him to be prejudiced against the Zionist movement in a way he would not be prejudiced against nationalist movements in Africa, Asia or elsewhere.
Obama is not aware that most of the ‘Pallies’ were migrants (mostly illegal ones) from Arab lands who arrived in Mandatory Palestine after 1890. They are as much immigrants to the region as the European Ashkenazis who arrived after 1850.
Bonnie Prince Charlie says
Obama doesn’t care. He hates Israel because Israel refused to bow to his demands when he was telling the world what to do.
Rudolf Bruil says
That may be true. But the main reason seems to be that Obama wants his book to be distributed and sold by the thousand in Muslim countries and read by Muslims without offending them with the truth.
Jeff Gonez says
Obama is an islamophilic asshole, plain and simple.
Brenrod says
Obama’s apparent ignorance was intentional, He seeks to spread lies with full knowledge.
Patriot1776 says
FORMER President Obama was the worst mistake that this Country made 2 twice.
Kepha says
One
Big
Awful
Mistake,
America
Frank Adam says
Gladstone – four ties British Prime Minister was known as the GOM – Grand Old Man or God’s Only Mistake – depending whihc side of the House you voted.
Artist says
actually we are on the verge of an even LARGER mistake, installing a demented Chinese Communist Meat puppet pedophile whose “administration” is nothing but obama retreads… it will just be obama 2.0……….
doomsday
Wellington says
For many years now I have asserted that Obama has the most overrated intellect in the Western world. His ignorance not just about Israel but about the world at large is astounding. He’s ignorant and, worse, doesn’t think he’s ignorant. Some examples of his ignorance follow.
Obama in 2008 didn’t know the difference between Memorial Day, which honors dead American veterans, and Veterans Day, which honors all Veterans. On Memorial Day in 2008 he spoke to a group of New Mexico veterans and said that America honors you this day. The look on many of the veterans’ faces said a lot.
Obama also asserted that Abraham Lincoln was one of the founders of the Republican Party. No, he wasn’t. The Republican Party was founded in 1854, Lincoln had nothing to do with its founding and he did not join it until a couple of years later. Till then he remained a Henry Clay Whig.
Obama also, and on more than one occasion, pronounced “corpsmen” as though it was phonetically written as “corpsemen,” in effect sounding the “ps” which is, to put it mildly, not the correct pronunciation. It was a hoot to listen to this man with a greatly exaggerated notion of his own self-importance pronounce this particular word wrong. Yep, quite risible—and an insult to Navy corpsmen.
When Obama spoke before the UN he said that the future should not belong to those who slander Mohammed. You can’t slander a dead person, only a living person, and Obama, the Harvard Law graduate, was clueless here as on so many other matters.
When discussing his intended and eventually disastrous Affordable Care Act he said that pharmaceutical companies would provide birth control prescriptions for nothing. For nothing? Did he not realize that one way or another the cost would be passed onto the consumer? After all, businesses are not in business to provide free anything and this is not a criticism of business, this is simply the way business works but the community organizer was clueless again.
Then there is my personal favorite. When Obama was in Austria in April of 2009 he was asked a question and replied that he didn’t know what the term might be in “Austrian.” Yes, Obama thinks “Austrian” is a language. You can still find the some 30 second clip of this on the Internet.
Well,, this is just a sampling from the man who arguably did more harm to America than any other person in American history. He certainly stoked racial division on a regular basis, even continuing to assert that the 2014 Ferguson, Missouri incident, whereby a young black man (Michael Brown) was killed by a white police officer (Darren Wilson), was evidence of racism even though a mixed race grand jury decided not to bring any charges against Officer Wilson because he acted in self defense since Brown tried to take away his gun (and Brown never had his hands up—that was another lie). And yet long after Officer Wilson was vindicated Obama kept pushing the mantra that the killing was racist in nature. What a liar as well as being ignorant. Well, this is enough, but there are plenty more examples of Obama the Ignoramus preaching and pontificating about many matters he knows little to nothing about. And now this as detailed by Hugh Fitzgerald.
Keys says
Amen, and then some !
I’d love for you to write about Obama’s deceit and manipulation while in office, but since he excelled in that regard, as the community organizer of the “most transparent administration” in American history, you’d be writing a book.
He’s still “community organizing” with the rest of his party, so a second volume will be necessary.
Like Islam – it’s despicable and exhausting !
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
An excellent and fact-filled post, my compliments.
Wellington says
Thank you, James, and thanks to Keys as well. Much appreciated.
That Obama is still extolled by untold millions, and he most certainly is, only demonstrates that so often mankind in the aggregate is an idiot.
Fitting, though immensely sadly so, since Obama is an idiot at the individual level; you know, that “special” way overeducated (in fact, undereducated) nothings think they are somethings. Obama can serve as Exhibit #1 here.
Ah, the harm he did and is still doing. And the bastard was the ringleader of the take-down of Trump from the get-go. The January 5th, 2017 meeting in the Oval Office can serve as one example in Obama’s traitorous role in maliciously and mendaciously pulling down an in-coming President. Thus, show me someone who admires Obama and I will show you an uniformed person at best, a malicious fool at worst. No exceptions.
katherine says
This Indonesian pretender to US citizenship ( Mubarak Hussein Obama ) has an uncannily similar equivalent in the neighboring country of Malaysia where a Kerala Indian by the name of Mahathir Mohd. had always claimed to be a thoroughbred Malay.
Praised as an intellectual giant for his juvenile paperback publication which became the basis of a disastrous racist national policy, he has lately displayed his ignorance and warped interpretation of history in speeches, twits and interviews.
Obama shares the same Islamic views on current issues regarding Jews, Palestinians, the Kashmir Conflict and the Absolute Primacy of Muslims, but was slightly more diplomatic in not asserting that Muslims have the god-given right to kill a million Frenchmen.
Kepha says
Did you mention that the only secret America can keep is the academic record of the supposedly most intelligent POTUS ever?
However, speaking as a professional swindler of the young, oops, public high school social studies teacher, I’ve reached the unhappy conclusion that ignorance is the new ejjikashun (I won’t dignify it with the right spelling). I’ve written to textbook publishers complaining of matters of fact they got wrong in textbooks. The idea that Islam is “tolerant” is entrenched in curricula and textbooks; as is the folly that it preserved the classical Greek tradition, as if there were no East Roman Empire. There’s also the idea that China became “independent” in 1949, which I read in one travesty unleashed on impressionable kids.
Had it not been for a stupefaction of America that calls itself ejjikashun, the O would never have happened.
Daniel Triplett says
Good summary by you, Hugh, and all the other commenters here. This opportunistic America-hating grifter has no redeeming qualities. There are plenty of great black guys we could’ve chosen to be the first black president. It’s a disgrace America chose this fool. (Notice he never talks about his white half, only his black half from a worthless misguided black father)
Democrats have no judgment. There are plenty of great women too who are great leaders. But instead of supporting someone like South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, (R), they pick the evil self-serving Grifter-in-Chief Hillary Clinton to be the “first” woman.
At a campaign appearance, Obama said, “It is just wonderful to be back in Oregon. And over the last 15 months we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in *57 states*; I think one left to go.”
Ignorance…probably, or perhaps this was a Freudian slip, because he really sees himself as the caliph of the 57-state Dar al-Islam OIC. He did more to advance Islam than any single American has ever done.
Remember, he redefined the mission of NASA: to “Reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering..”
Outrageous. More outrageous is the legions of simps and suckers who fawn over this tool, and still do.
He’s the guy who wrote a whole book about his Muslim black father, who abandoned him at 4-years old, gushing about his wisdom and virtue. Simultaneously remaining silent about his white mother, and throwing his white grandparents who raised him under the bus as being racist.
Yes, Obama has the very dangerous dual pathology of arrogance and ignorance. Bad judgment and shallow intellect, while simultaneously believing he’s the smartest man in the world. Whether its doctors, pilots, presidents, or most any job, the arrogance/ignorance combo is deadly. It’s okay to be weak, as long as you realize you’re weak and respect your limitations. Obama thought he was the messiah.
Without a teleprompter, he’s a bumbling fool. Guys like Trump, and even Bill Clinton, are excellent speakers. Smart, lucid, charismatic, and persuasive. I’ve watched both speak in person for an hour and a half each. No notes. No teleprompter. But Obama and Biden are idiots without a script in front of them.
Obama was nothing more than a failed lawyer and community organizer who patronizes and lectures down to us. Trump, on the other hand, is a bazillionaire who built a global brand for himself, and with zero political experience, won the highest elected office in the world. Yet, he talks to us like he’s one of us, because he respects us. Listening to him is like having a conversation with a friend.
James Lincoln says
Daniel Triplett says,
“Whether its doctors, pilots, presidents, or most any job, the arrogance/ignorance combo is deadly.”
Yes, literally *deadly*.
I have personally witnessed this happen with both physician colleagues and US Naval Aviators / Air Force Pilots.
Everyone, no matter how high functioning, has limitations, and when they are not fully recognized they can actually kill themselves – and / or others.
Excellent post Daniel, my compliments…
Kepha says
I admit that I held my nose while voting for Trump in 2016, but very cheerfully voted for him in 2020. In any case, the whole Democratic leadership stinks to the heights. Maybe in we need a lot more talented amateurs challenging the political establishment.
James Russo says
It would not surprise me if, when the Democrats “pack” the Supreme Court, President Harris nominates the “Constitutional law expert” Obama to that bench.
Donald Breyer says
“The future shall not belong to those who slander the name of the prophet” is a declaration of Islamic supremacy and is not intended to be taken literally
gravenimage says
It can indeed be taken literally–that no one who dares to be critical of the hideous warlord “Prophet” Muhammed should have any future at all. This is *also* Islamic supremacy, as you rightly note.
L Mayor says
Some excellent citations of Hussein Obama, the muslim trojan horse, Wellington, which may explain why his academic records were, and, are still, sealed. Although this traitor did great damage to our country, I contend that Bill Clinton`s actions were even more harmful. Here are 3 of his most damaging actions: (1) NAFTA (enacted in 1994), (2) repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act (in 1999), and, (3) bringing the PRC into the WTO (in 2000). The results of just these 3 actions are the destruction of U.S. manufacturing, the destruction of the middle class, and, the corruption of our elected officials and many of our top business people by the PRC, which has also resulted in the infiltration of our schools and businesses, from which Chinese operatives have stolen trillions of dollars of ideas and technologies. Obama may be stupid, but, Clinton is not: he is a very, very bad actor, whose family has become very wealthy via his and his wife`s machinations.
Frank Adam says
One little point about, “birth control for nothing.” Even if on the books the health authorities or consumers pay for bitrth control the cost to the economy is nothing in that unwanted, so resented and damaged children, cost far more in disrupted education and criminal justice lawyers and warders etc.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Obama is a hate-filled snake. He reflects the hatred inherent in Islam. His treatise of Israel is a deliberate and conscious attempt to omit historical facts in an effort to stir up antithapy towards Israel. The man is neither ignorant nor innocent in this regard.
Bonnie Prince Charlie says
You are absolutely correct.
moqifen says
Barak , the muslim – Muslim father , raised in a muslim country – hell he’s even named after mohammeds flying horse – doesn’t like jews. No surprise there.
Clifford says
He is an anti-American, anti-Semitic simian.
Rob says
Several years ago I described him as a ‘Messianic gratitude junkie’. That view hasn’t changed. About 2 years ago the great Thomas Sowell declared him to be the worst US President ever. He displaced Jimmy Carter and that takes some doing. I recall also him telling President Trump that North Korea is his ‘worst foreign policy threat’. Within months Trump had met with Kim. Remember also that Obama declared ‘those (manufacturing) jobs aren’t coming back’. Trump tweaked NAFTA and the jobs started ‘coming back’.
Watch Biden retain as many Trump policies as he can but renaming them so that people think he has rejected ‘Trumpism’.
Casey92 says
In my opinion, the reason Obama, democratic leaders and European leaders made the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, known as the “Iran Nuclear Deal,” (IND) was to strengthen Iran. Although the “IND” was sold as a nuclear free “Middle East Plan,” the purpose was obviously to give nuclear capabilities that would give Iran strength and hegemony over the Middle East Islamic Nations. Obama, democratic leaders and European leaders knew this is what would happen. They knew that with Iran having hegemony over the Middle East nations within 10 years, this would facilitate the beginning of the end to Israel. Obama, democratic leaders and European leaders know Iran would get it’s proxies, Shite Hezbollah, Shiite militias in Iraq and Shiite Houthis in Yemen activated and that Iran would then be calling for the arm Jihad against Israel and raising the “Black Flag” (jihadist flag.) Obama, democrats and European leaders also know they would get support from the Sunni Palestinian National Authority and Sunni Hamas in the arm jihad against Israel.
What Obama, democrats and European leaders didn’t see was the visionary intellectual capacity of President Trump. President Trump recognized this is what the Obama, democrats and European leaders Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action would accomplish and put into action his own plan, and started to work with Sunni nations in the Middle East. President Trump knew that if Iran has hegemony, it would be catastrophic to the other Sunni nations. Because of his visionary intellect, President Trump put in place a Sunni -Israel alliance against Iran in peace deals with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco.
This is the backbone of his peace plan, officially titled “Peace to Prosperity: A Vision to Improve the Lives of the Palestinian and Israeli People” to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. But most importantly, it puts a big dent in Iran’s power and hegemony over the Middle East and puts a big dent in Obama, democratic leaders and European leaders dream to the destruction of the Israel nation.
RCCA says
IOW, Trump accomplished something positive and monumental in the Middle East through negotiations based on mutual respect and self interest between Arab Middle Eastern countries and Israel. Great progress has been achieved.
Obama’s foreign policy was based on false humility, fake apology tours, grotesque attempts to buy off Iranian mullahs, and financial support and encouragement to the corrupt Palestinian leadership. Call it “The Corrupt Chicago Politician” school of diplomacy.
As long as Obama gets his adulation that’s all that matters to him.
Bonnie Prince Charlie says
I disagree. I think Biden will do everything in his power to overturn all of Trump’s policies, especially his ME one which is looking as if it might bring bring real progress towards peace where Obama/Biden/Kerry failed dismally. His VP has already promised to restore unconditional funding to the PA so we can expect to see a resurgence in the pay-to-slay policy which reduced when Trump removed these funds.
Walter Sieruk says
About that anti-Israel UN resolution that Obama may well have had a sinister hand in creating, or at least failed to veto, which called for the dividing of the State of Israel in to a “two state solution.”
This shows some things about Obama .That he was very busy to do a much harm as possible in the short time he had before he left Office. This also exposes the falseness on his claim that he is “a Christian.” For a real Christian would take seriously the teaching of Jesus. By Obama backing the UN resolution Obama Obviously doesn’t care what Jesus taught . For Jesus taught “If a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.” Mark 3:24. {K.J.V.]
In addition , to risk sounding really far –out it had been reported that Obama’s national security advisor , James Jones, had declared the President Obama in the year 2009 had religious experience in the White House Office in the Obama believed that God appeared to him in a vision and told him the he should work for the dividing of the land of Israel into “two states.” [1] if this report of a supernatural experience of Obama actually occurred then the Bible contains the answer to this story . For the Bible teaches that Satan is so very deceitful that he can “appear as an angle of Light” Second Corinthians 11:14 .
Furthermore, to divide is showing that Obama ,who is for sure not the Anti-Christ is Nevertheless influenced by the spirit of the coming Anti-Christ who is predicted, in the Bible ,to come in the future. So to divide the land that composes Israel according to the Bible is wrong . So wrong ,in fact , when the real arch – villain who is will be the Anti Christs comes to power in the Middle East he “shall divide the land” Daniel 11:39. As for Obama is the reported religious vision he had in which supernatural being told him to “divide the land ” that this instruction is in contradiction to the Bible in Daniel 11 39. It’s thus in the light of Isaiah 8:20. An instruction in error, folly and darkness. Shame on Obama for wanting to “divide the land” and likewise being taken in by a deceptive religious experience.
[1] THE TERRORIST NEXT DOOR by Erick Stakelbeack pages 218. 219.
rubiconcrest says
Thank you Hugh for helping us understand Obama’s distorted view of history. There is no excuse to be so ignorant which leads to the obvious conclusion that his motives are anti-Semitic.
Savvy Kafir says
That absurd combination of arrogance and ignorance has become commonplace among the politically correct idiots of the Regressive Left. For self-righteous faux “progressives”, you don’t need to know jack-shit about an issue to preach to those who do.
curious george says
‘Chief Justice John Roberts Is Corrupt and Should Resign Immediately’ – Attorney Lin Wood Goes Nuclear
“Wood accused Roberts of having ties to billionaire Jeffrey Epstein and declared that this “may be the most important tweet of my life.”
https://newsla.localad.com/2020/12/18/chief-justice-john-roberts-is-corrupt-and-should-resign-immediately-attorney-lin-wood-goes-nuclear/
scribblerg says
Lin Woods is a megalomaniacal fool. You listen to him about anything at your peril. Google the lawsuit his partners have undertaken against him – they have the “receipts”. In this case, they released emails from Lin that are terrifying. He’s unstable, and has a messiah complex. He’s a pathological narcissist.
He completely messed up the Rittenhouse case, making legal mistakes on extradition from Illinois that cost him two months in jail. He’s been fired now. He also would not put the fundraising in Kyle’s Mom’s name, as is normally done for ethical reasons. He controlled the money raised – about 2 million – but he had to go raise more for bail?
You idiots cheerlead this whack job at your peril. He may have done a good job for Sandman – maybe he’s good at libel cases. But he made a mess of the election challenges to, go read what the judge said to him about his filing. He knows nothing about election law and is just grandstandig and raising money for himself.
The Right needs to stop flacking for idiots like Wood if we want to be taken seriously. I get it – he makes the right Christian noises. The Right had better get that the days of fundo Christians running things on the ground are over. We are not catering to your narrow beliefs anymore.
L Mayor says
You are employing the “royal” we, or, due to your immense ego, choosing yourself to speak for all of your fellow “usef-l idi-ts” of the left?
gravenimage says
Quite the rant. Note that this poster has previously noted that he is fine with the Jihad against Jews, and has said that Israel can disappear. Why is he even here? He is no Anti-Jihadist.
tim gallagher says
To me, as someone who lives in Australia and therefore doesn’t take all that much notice of Obama, he seems like an absolute wanker, but a very, very smooth talking con artist type of person. Just a smooth, silver tongued snake oil salesman is my impression of Obama. It seems that a lot of people have been taken in by the smooth style of salesmanship that this wanker comes out with. I suppose I just see things in a completely different way to the Obama view of the world. Maybe he has more depth to his thoughts than I can see there, but all I can see is this very smooth salesman type of character.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says,
“..Obama, he seems like an absolute wanker, but a very, very smooth talking con artist type of person.”
Spot on analysis, tim.
Interestingly, most Democrats in United States cannot see through this veneer…
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the comment, James. I really don’t listen to a lot of politicians and media wankers whose views I know I disagree with. At 70 years of age, maybe life is just too short to waste my time on them. I have heard their garbage for years and years. So I don’t listen to Obama but, as I said up above, I do find him to be an incredibly smooth, ultra slick talker. To me, I ignore the idiotic content of his speech, it’s just “blah, blah, bullshit, bullshit” but it is delivered so smoothly. As you say, a lot of people must not be able to see through the veneer. I suppose that I see things so differently from Obama’s agenda that, no matter how smoothly it is delivered, I’m not going to buy any of it.
somehistory says
Ugly vermin, believes himself to be smart, good-looking, and the one to tell the rest of us what to do, where to go and believes that this is his “third term.”
Makes my skin crawl to even look at his photo. He has a very slappable face.
And lips that lie while lecturing everyone else on how to behave.
He is very much like his father, the “father of lies.”
And to think, he claimed to be a Christian, all the while…and still…pandering to the wishes of moslims and praising islam, while condemning Christians and Christianity.
IMO, he is a psychopath, manipulating, lying for selfish gain, and looking for his next victims. And contrary to what some others believe, he is stupid due to his arrogance and his moslimness…those two go hand in glove. When one believes he knows everything, as ‘o’ does, it is impossible to learn anything.
Anyone know how many photos of himself he has in his multimillion dollar home?
Relic says
push push
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLvf7HaaRLA
Mojdeh says
Obama is sham eon you. When during Donkey Nejad , people protested for 3 days and you did not support it. Then 1000 of our people died in Evin prision. If you did support end of regime was there. Obama Obama shame shame shame. We Iranian will not forgive you nor Jimmy Carter treasonous that worked with queen of london give Iran to Ayatoolah Khomeini whom was born in India. I ask all see movie Golden Veil movie from any Amazon.
Set against a backdrop of greed, corruption and political intrigue, lies a story of love, power and betrayal . it is a story about money, oil , and a clandestine romance of an American journalist (CIA Agent) in love with a beautiful Iranian woman (SAVAK Agent) during the Iran hostage crisis. Based on a true story.
—Bahman Nassiri
gravenimage says
Khomini was born in Iran. Muslims think they can insult anyone by saying he was “born in India”.
And there is no such thing as the “queen of london”. This poster is just enraged that the ‘filthy Infidels’ of the West did not go to war to back his personal favorite.
don vito says
imam obama, the first foreigner to hold the title President of the United States, has alot to answer for as documented by earlier posts. This community organizer, so ignorant and arrogant has simply trayvoning the world in his newest released tome. Trying to dominate the narrative as he is wont to do.
ManchesterLad says
Of course the racist-left lap up his every word … after all, he’s black so is obviously wonderful. The left do not care about his policies etc, they only care about his skin colour – so they can virtue signal about how wonderful it is to have a black president.
With a white mother, he could just as easily been born more-white-than-black. Would the left still be falling over themselves to worship him if he’d had white skin? Of course not, he’d be a nobody.
His skin colour is of no consequence to sensible people, but to the racists on the left it is his most important quality. His entire life he has expertly played the race card, it says a lot for the stupidity and gullibility of the left that he can be elected to the most powerful position in the world based entirely on the colour of his skin.
gravenimage says
Obama was a nasty piece of work, and his influence is not over yet if we have a Biden administration.