[Editor’s note: Following is Shillman Fellow Daniel Greenfield’s introduction to Jamie Glazov’s highly acclaimed new bestseller, “Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.” Order it: HERE. The excerpt originally appeared at WND.com.]
Barack Obama’s presidency was historic. Pundits said it, celebrities tweeted it, and the community organizer from Chicago was not shy about constantly bringing it up.
And it was true.
Over a decade after his inauguration, we are still living in his shadow. His history of economic decline, racial division, and terrorist appeasement is our present. The third term of his presidency under Biden makes him inescapable even long after leaving office. The Biden administration is extending his fundamental transformation of America. Its open borders, woke military, critical race theory, terrorist appeasement, and wealth redistribution are a continuation of Obama’s war on our national sovereignty, on the middle class, on the family, and on free enterprise. From a new administration staffed with all his old people to the familiar economic misery that Americans thought they had left behind, it is as if the Obama administration never ended. And, as the nation endures a third term of Obama, many wonder if it will ever end.
His legacy of defeat abroad and division at home is all around us. From race riots to defeat in Afghanistan, from the war on the middle class to massive power grabs, we are not only still living out his history, but it’s clear that we will go on living there until we break free. Obama made history, but not the way that the mainstream media would have it. The truly historic elements of his presidency were not his accident of birth and choice of racial identification, which a political establishment obsessed with identity politics told Americans would serve as a national atonement for racism. Now that his third term is taking place under an old, white male figurehead, it is clearer than ever that identity is not history. The true legacy of Obama and Biden lies in the impact of their destructive radicalism on the country, not what box they checked on their census form. The community organizer from Chicago did not heal our racial wounds. Instead, he presided over a historically divisive era that reversed generations of improvements in race relations.
But Obama did not just divide Americans by race (“Punish your enemies”), but by gender (“You know, there’s a reason we haven’t had a woman president before”), by faith (“They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion”), by all the flavors of sexual identity, and by every sort of identity politics. He broke America, and the fractures of our time are the aftershocks of his destruction.
Obama powered a historic economic shift that took power away from workers and gave it to Big Tech, that took American jobs and shipped them to China, and that took jobs from black teenagers and gave them to illegal aliens. He oversaw a historic power slide away from America and to China, Russia, and the Islamic terrorists of the world laboring to build their caliphates. And under Biden, in Obama’s third term, all of this is worse than ever. To understand the crisis of the Biden administration, we have to go back to its origins in the Obama administration. And that is exactly what “Barack Obama’s True Legacy” does.
“Barack Obama’s True Legacy” grapples with the true history of a man who has produced multiple autobiographies, along with an unending stream of articles and interviews without actually telling us his true goals and the true history that is driving him. That’s why “Barack Obama’s True Legacy” meticulously traces his ideological origins with John Drew’s “Obama: The Young Communist I Knew” and that of his signature policy with Trevor Loudon’s “The Marxist Origins and Goals of Obamacare.”
“Barack Obama’s True Legacy” draws on experts and researchers who lay out and break down the insidious means by which Obama’s ideological affinity for radicals and contempt for America led him to betray our national security and Christians and Jews, while making allies of Islamic terrorists. The book delves into the Islamic alliances that created a historical realignment with America’s worst enemies while betraying our national security in Stephen Coughlin’s “Muslim Brotherhood’s Penetration of U.S. Under Obama,” how Obama abandoned persecuted Christians in the Muslim world in Raymond Ibrahim’s “How Obama Enabled Persecution of Christians,” and how he abandoned and betrayed Israel and Jews in Daniel Greenfield’s “Obama’s Betrayal of Israel and How Obama Funded the Murder of Israelis.”
In “Benghazi Betrayal and the Brotherhood Link,” Claire Lopez reveals the ideological agenda behind the infamous abandonment of our people in Libya. Jeff Nyquist’s “Obama’s Russian Collusion” tells the story of who was really colluding with Russia, and in three stunning essays, Robert Spencer expertly chronicles Obama’s treasonous collusion with the forces of the Jihad in “Obama’s Enabling of Jihad and Stealth Jihad,” “Obama’s Enabling of ISIS” and “The Iran Deal.”
Turning to the war on our border, Trevor Loudon’s “Obama’s Illegal Marxist Immigrant Amnesty Movement” and Matthew Vadum’s “Obama’s Damage to Border Security” expose Obama’s role in the historic invasion of America. Joseph Klein’s “ObamaGate: The Coup Attempt Against President Trump” zeroes in on the historically unprecedented abuse of national security by Obama, while Daniel Greenfield’s “Obama’s Enabling of Racial Strife and Domestic Terror” digs into his role in the racist movements and race riots that tore apart America’s body and soul.
In “An Ex-President’s Post-Presidential War on America” and “Why Obama Should Have Been Impeached and Removed from Office,” Joseph Klein sums up Obama’s post-election plots and his abuses in office. And finally, Dov Lipman, a member of Israel’s Knesset, takes on “Obama’s Revisionist ‘Promised Land,’” the dishonest manipulations of Israel’s story and its ideological poison.
These experts, researchers, thinkers, journalists, scholars and leaders have assembled a compelling history of Barack Obama’s true impact on America, on Israel and on the world.
That impact is not past tense. It is present tense.
Every one of Biden’s executive orders, every illegal alien who crosses the border, every humiliating defeat on the world stage, every assault on the middle class and every betrayal of our allies is a reminder that we are still living through the Obama nightmare.
Obama’s presidency was historic. This is its true history.
“Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America,” edited by Frontpage Editor Jamie Glazov, is available at Frontpage’s Bookstore at a discounted price.
SKA says
Someday I hope future historians will have access to all the facts to determine whose election was valid and whose procured solely by fraud so that, just as the Catholic Church discerns its true Popes from its “anti-Popes,” the American people can discern their true Presidents from their “anti-Presidents.”
Walter SieruK says
When Obama was in the Office of President, he was the one who actually should have had been in impeached.
For example In the book written by the scholar on Islam and Islamic terrorism Jamie Glazov , which has the title of JIHADIST PSYCHOPATH on page 9, the reader is informed that “America’s suicidal disposition in the terror war reached a crisis level under Obama when American officials actually started seeking advice and direction from precisely those forces seeking to destroy the country
…With Obama in the White House , therefore ,the enemy was in effect , advising Americans and formulating their policy on how to promote their cause.”
This is an absurdly of madness. This reveals the Obama was, as President, far worse than grossly incompetent, Obama was traitorous to both the American people a as well as to the United State of America. Obama was therefore an affront and disgrace to the office of Chief Executive in the White House.
Therefore, the former President Obama in his Islamic subversion of America is not even limited to being a traitor to The USA but in his insidious he way and is dangerous to all the other nations of the West.
In addition, the sad and tragic reality is that Obama still has much insidious and subversive power in the White House .and therefore in the American government. because he has his useful idiot ,Joe Biden to use as his tool to use to subvert the US Constitution and impose Sharia law, and socialism in America.
Walter Sieruk says
It might be of interest to a few people that during the summer month of August in the year of 2010 I had attended a lecture in a church about the subject of Islam. The guest speaker was a man who in times past was a Muslim and a Hezbollah member as well as an Iranian citizen. Now he’s Christian and an American citizen. After the lecture, during the question and answer part, he was asked “Is Obama a Muslim?” The speaker replied that “I don’t know if he is a Muslim but his deception is Islamic.” Then he added about Obama “Whenever he talks he sounds just like a Muslim.” Moreover the guest speaker further said about Obama “He is going to hurt this country.” As just keyboarded above that lecture was hold in the year 2010 and since then Obama had ,indeed, hurt America by and through his words , actions , politics and polices .
Walter Sieruk says
When Obama was President he was terrible, in many very treasonous ways.
As has been revealed in the book by Jamie Glazov which had the title JIHADIST PSYCHOPATH , for on pages 38,39 the reader is informed about the subversion of the United States of America by reckless unchecked mass immigration that “By importing so many masses of people who hate America and seek to destroy its way of life, the Left succeeds in severely damaging the United State and making it more vulnerable to attack This explains why President Obama worked so hard to flood the US with Muslim refugees and why the Left is now fighting Trump’s efforts to protect America from refugees who hail from terror –infested nations.”
Walter Sieruk says
Barack Obama may accurately be seen as the personification of the twenty –first century phenomena known as the “Red/Green Alliance.”
PMK says
“Obama powered a historic economic shift that took power away from workers and gave it to Big Tech, that took American jobs and shipped them to China, and that took jobs from black teenagers and gave them to illegal aliens.”
To be fair to Obama, this process was underway while Obama was still a community organizer. Bill Clinton got NAFTA through Congress in his first year. Based on their subsequent treatment of free trade agreements, it’s doubtful Democrats would have passed NAFTA if Bush 41 had won in 1992.
Then, ten years before Obama ran for president, the Doha round of GATT was passed, allowing trade in services. That let foreign tech firms from India displace American tech workers. China entered the WTO under Bush 43. Jobs were being shipped to China and India under Bush 43. Obama’s administration merely continued the work of the three previous presidents The weakening of the American middle class has been an objective of elites in both parties for decades..
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Very true. And on the Conservative side, people like Rush Limbaugh publicly supported NAFTA as well as the offshoring of manufacturing, talking about people always having to adjust in the free market & change their jobs. I remember that even in those days when I was otherwise somewhat conservative, I never understood how it’s in America’s interest to let goods & services all come from outside
I daresay a country like Russia has a more healthy economy given that they don’t depend on China or India to make things for them, or provide them other services. There is something to be said for following traditional economic policies than going by things like “Modern Monetary Theory”
Wellington says
You might want to read the following, Infidel, respecting the health of the Russian economy. There is much else in this article by “streiff” but that Russia has become a client state of China is becoming more and more obvious by the year—and especially since its bone-headed invasion of Ukraine proper in February of 2022.
https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/06/29/putins-war-week-70-the-reckoning-for-the-wagner-revolt-continues-n768897
somehistory says
bo’s color helped him cheat his way into the White House where he could put his dirty feet on an expensive desk, lie and lie and lie again.
bo pretended to be Christian so he could cheat his way into power and then *scold,* *mock,* lie about, and betray Christians over and over.
If memory serves, bo even pretended to be part Jewish; but again, he betrayed those whom he pretended to bring close.
bo is a snake From his beginning, until his end, he will remain a snake, bo is a mozlum. From his beginning until his end, he remains a mozlum.
We will one day hear and see the last of bo, the snake, the mozlum, the liar, the evil pretender.