Its the optics of how he presented himself that carried weight beyond the suit itself.
Just putting this out there: let's assume that Barack Obama
was not a black man, but instead a white American of Scotch-Irish ancestry named Barry O'Brien. Would the press have treated him with kid gloves across both terms? Or would he have been a one-term Democrat president before getting replaced by a Republican like Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, or Newt Gingrich, remembered purely for promising a big game and reneging on every single platform like George Bush the first?
When I was
deep in my InfoWars phase in high school during the first half of the Obama administration, I learned that there was a
ton of shit that the MSM glossed over. NSA PRISM happened under Obama's tenure, and it was a natural evolution of the surveillance framework that Bush instituted with the PATRIOT Act. Barack Obama's first term oversaw the passage of NDAA 2012, which explicitly has provisions for detaining American citizens on American soil without trial. Bush-era tax cuts were extended on the heels of a global financial crisis that was grossly exacerbated
by the Bush administration's lax handling of moral hazard. The American auto bailouts happened under Obama's tenure, and without any conditions that would otherwise require GM, Chrysler, and Ford to
not be shitty. Cash for Clunkers coupled with tightened emissions guidelines suddenly took tons of used cars off the market while artificially propping up hybrids and later EVs... and singlehandedly murdering the consumer diesel market thanks to the DEF ultra low sulphur bullshit. The "teaching coal miners to code" rhetoric emerged precisely
because of Barack Obama prioritising wealthy technocrats over the working man, whom the Democrats spent decades courting. The Obama administration categorically exacerbated looming structural flaws within our healthcare system with the ACA, regardless of its tangible policy successes like removing lifetime maximums. DACA was an Obama-era innovation that directly contravened established immigration law. He won a Nobel Peace Prize, but still authorised countless drone strikes. He reneged on withdrawing from Afghanistan, got us out of Iraq, but then put American boots on the ground in Libya and Syria.
No matter which way you slice it... Barack Obama's tenure across both terms was categorically negative for the American populace at large, and yet Obama still gets a pass
despite his flaws because he was a media-savvy president who ran Washington DC like a Chicago ward coasting off the fact that he was the first black president in US history. By all counts, both of Barack Obama's terms were hardly distinguishable from Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II. You almost
never see anyone who ain't a black conservative rightly call out Barack Obama's entitled, spiteful attitude toward his constituents. Yet it was black conservatives who highlighted Obama's condescension toward young black voters who weren't enthused to vote for Kamala Harris... all the while, Obama dragged his feet with the endorsement because of Biden's colossal gaffe during the 2024 general debates and allegations of his own discontent with Harris as Biden's standard bearer.
Like... I'm an exiled ex-leftist who was anathematised by my peer groups because I was willing to throw tons of shit at conservatives and reactionaries
alongside Democrat establishment darlings. I'm sorry,
what?! I ain't keeping up with Alex Jones no more, but it ain't like I forgot about his Bilderberg speech in 2005. Obama was, and still remains, a party
to the elites that we're supposed to be categorically against. They are not our kings, they are not our queens, they are not our gods, we do not belong to them, we are not their slaves. We're supposed to stand as free humans have stood since the beginning of time, against the strongman... but it doesn't fucking matter at the end of the day as long as the strongman in question is a well-spoken, media-savvy black guy who broke an arbitrary glass ceiling.
