President Obama does one thing, and brand Obama gets you to believe another. Chris Hedges, author Empire of Illusion
A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get whenever you can get it. Barack Obama, Cooper Union speech
At moments of great peril in the past century our leaders ensured that America by deed and by example led and lifted the world, that we stood for and fought for the freedoms sought by billions of people beyond our borders. Barack Obama
Contrary to the rumours you’ve heard I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here to save the planet Earth. Barack Obama
I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that. Barack Obama
I’m really good at killing people. Barack Obama, cited Halperin & Heilemann, ‘Double Down’
I’ve now been in fifty-seven states: I think one left to go. Barack Obama
Now is the time to build new bridges across the globe as strong as the one that binds us across the Atlantic ... This threat is real and we cannot shrink from our responsibility to combat it. If we could create NATO to face down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partnership to dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Oman, London and Bali, Washington and New York. Barack Obama, Berlin New World Order speech
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries. Barack Obama
The United States ... leads the world in battling immediate evils and promoting the ultimate good. We must lead by building a twenty-first century military to ensure the security of our people and advance the security of all people. Barack Obama
Throughout its history, Israel has been anxious to make peace with its Arab neighbors. Barack Obama 2000
Unlike my opponent I will not let oil companies write this country’s energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. Barack Obama
We let the special interests put their thumbs on the economic scales. We’ve excused and even embraced an ethic of greed. Barack Obama, Cooper Union speech
We must not rule out military force against long-standing adversaries such as Iran and Syria. Barack Obama
We will close Guantanamo Bay. Barack Obama
When I was a kid I inhaled frequently. That was the point. Barack Obama
Mr Obama decided to attack us. Now you want to win votes by attacking Venezuela. Don’t be irresponsible. You are a clown. A clown. Leave us in peace ... Go after your votes by fulfilling that which you promised your people. Hugo Chavez
Welcome to Obama’s America: nearly half the population is not represented on a taxable return – almost exactly the same proportion that lives in a household where at least one member receives some type of government benefit. We are becoming the 50–50 nation – half of us paying the taxes, the other half receiving the benefits. The voters now face a stark choice. They can let Barack Obama’s rambling, solipsistic narrative continue until they find themselves living in some American version of Europe, with low growth, high unemployment, even higher debt – and real geopolitical decline. Or they can opt for real change: the kind of change that will end four years of economic underperformance, stop the terrifying accumulation of debt, and re-establish a secure fiscal foundation for American national security. Niall Ferguson, Newsweek August 2012
Now we are doing imperialism with a black face. Chioma Oruh
Barack Obama has failed America. When he took office, the economy was in recession. He made it worse. And he made it last longer. Three years later, over 16 million Americans are out of work or have just quit looking. Millions more are underemployed. Three years later, unemployment is still above 8%, a figure he said his stimulus would keep from happening. Three years later, foreclosures are still at record levels. Three years later the prices of homes continue to fall. Three years later, our national debt has grown nearly as large as our entire economy. Families are buried under higher prices for food and higher prices for gasoline. It breaks my heart to see what’s happening in this country. These failing hopes make up President Obama’s own misery index. It’s never been higher. Mitt Romney, presidential campaign 2012
There are always a few questionable police shootings in the news, and every so often someone dies in police custody under suspicious circumstances. It has been a long time since riots have occurred over such things. So, why now? Well, my theory is that it is frustration with Barack Obama. After six years of an Obama administration, Obama has done next to nothing for black people. He has paid off various leftist constituencies, but things for African-Americans have only gotten worse. Worse unemployment. Worse poverty. Worse income. Worse education. Baltimore, like Detroit, dominated for decades by Democrats, has lost population, lost business, lost jobs, and sunk further into poverty, all in a state where the ruling class lives high on the hog in the counties around Washington DC. No Democrat is going to say that Obama has done nothing to help black people, much less nothing but help them become more dependent on the government. And, to the extent that black voters are deceived by the Democrats, they may not even be prepared to say this themselves. But it's the truth. And the sense of frustration and failure ‘in the community’ is evident. After the riots, the Democrats, including the whole city government of Baltimore, and President Obama, had nothing they could say but that they just needed to spend more money, after they have now been spending trillions of dollars on ‘anti-poverty’ programs since 1964, all of them failures. Kelley L Ross, cited The Police State 2015
He’s luckier than a dog with two dicks. Bill Clinton
For millions the election of Barack Obama to the Oval Office marked a new era of hope. The young energetic president was eager to take on the challenges of his time. But change would be harder than Obama had predicted. Inside Obama’s White House: 100 Days, BBC 2016
Obama had been battling the recession for three months when he bailed out the motor industry … One promise in particular had inspired the world to believe he could restore America’s ideals: ‘Order to close the detention facility at Guantanamo’. ibid.
Obama knew it would be unrealistic to create an American NHS. Instead he set out to fix the insurance-based system. Inside Obama’s White House II: 100 Days Obamacare
A young energetic president was eager to restore America’s reputation with the rest of the world. Inside Obama’s White House III: Don’t Screw It Up
By the end of his first term Obama had realized Change was harder than he had predicted. Inside Obama’s White House IV: The Arc of History
Obama’s coalition of women, gays, African-Americans and first-time voters was coming together. ibid.
Obama had inspired euphoria and hatred in almost equal measures. For every change he proposed he faced unprecedented opposition from Republicans in Congress. ibid.
Obama’s presidency has amassed the worst record in US history for persecuting, prosecuting and jailing government whistleblowers. The Corbett Report: Obama’s Hypocrisy, James Corbett online 2011
The gulf that exists between the Obama of the campaign trail and Obama’s actions since taking office has been glaringly obvious … There have been no shortage of examples of Obama’s duplicity. The Corbett Report: Obama’s War on Whistleblowers, Corbett Report online 2013
The war on whistleblowers his administration has been waging since the moment he took office … More prosecutions on whistleblowers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all previous presidents combined. ibid.
Speaking with the hubris and complete inversion of reality that has defined his entire political career, Obama ends his time in office exactly as he started it: lying through his teeth.
But this lie about a ‘scandal-free presidency’ is especially galling because it encapsulates all of the lies in the past eight years.
In reality, as even a cursory examination of the record demonstrates, the administration of President Barack Obama has been nothing but eight years of unrelenting lies and scandals. The Corbett Report: Obama: A Legacy of Ashes, 2017
‘That means no more illegal wire-tapping of American citizens.’ ibid. Obama
But despite the endless litany of broken promises that Obama has left in his wake, his most striking betrayals of the public’s trust weren’t lies at all. Instead, the mass hysteria that surrounded his ascent to the Oval Office – that ‘hope and change’ delirium that swept up untold millions – caused others to project their ideas and ideals on to him. Suddenly, he was being anointed as a man of peace before making a single substantive decision. ibid.