Happy Birthday Barack and Princess Meghan: How The Obama Myth Is Beginning to Collapse... And Meghan Is About To Be A Legend
Today is the birthday of two very powerful people — the American president and the American princess, Barack Obama and Meghan Markle.
Each of them, I think, offers a kind of model of Black leadership sorely needed in the American discourse.
Obama is a failure much like multiculturalism itself while Markle represents the American dream — the little black girl who grows up to marry a prince. It’s not supposed to happen this way. You’re supposed to play a role. It helps if you’re already an actress.
Obama is feted by celebrities and billionaires whilst Markle and her husband Harry, who, like Obama, has his own disputed parentage, are working to break the Murdoch-Chisraeli defamation machine.
In the end noblesse obliges. It always does. It always will.
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There’s so much to be said about the strange interview between Obama biographer David Garrow and David Samuels. But I suspect what I object to most of all is that the Likud world is now discarding Obama who had so dutifully done more or less everything they wanted.
The Obama presidency failed because Obama was blackmailed and bribed. The Joe Biden presidency is working because Joe doesn’t give a damn what you do to him. Obama works for the Chinese-financed tech companies — Netflix, Spotify, Illumina — while Joe Biden works for America. You might even say that Obama, like a lot of Harvard-Yale-Stanford-MIT alumni — works for China. He certainly ultimately worked for Israel and for Russia. He failed to repel the Israeli ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I get this in some detail in my piece from June in which I discuss how the bribing and blackmailing of Obama really worked.
Samuels, the literary editor at Tablet, plagiarized yours truly’s research.
In his piece this past week, Samuel writes the following:
How could David Samuels have known that bit about Obama’s alleged fantasies had I not published this earlier?
Here’s the part of David Garrow’s Rising Star (2017) which didn’t make the cut in the final book. “You see, I make love to men daily, but in the imagination," Garrow wrote in a section of book that ultimately was never published at Obama’s request. “My mind is androgynous to a great extent and I hope to make it more so.”
And here’s the section that ultimately ended up in Garrow’s book.
Garrow notes in the interview with Samuels that Bob Bauer, Obama’s lawyer, told him not to ask about Obama’s father.
Here’s the relevant exchange:
Garrow: Bob is Barack’s lawyer, but he was also coaching me. My clearest memory, and there’s nothing officially off the record with Bob, so I think I can say this, and boy, it’s the clearest thing I remember of all my conversations with Bob. … This is close to a quote: “Whatever you do, don’t ask him about his father.”[Emphasis mine]
Samuels: From the author of Dreams from My Father, that’s very strange.
Garrow: He’s not normal—as in not a normal politician or a normal human being.
Garrow told me that Obama wanted two things removed from the book — his sexuality and all mentions of Frank Marshall. Why?
We will need an answer about this question. Was Obama lying about his father? Why is Obama allowed to cash in with foreign compromised Illumina but not be genetically sequenced?
We are going to go here whether or not Obama likes it. Both the closet and false paternity are national security risks.
What would you do to avoid a secret coming out? Are you one of the most narcissistic presidents around?
These national security risks continue to the present moment.
The closet can be a coffin.
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I’m not sure I quite buy the story proffered by Sheila Miyoshi Jager about Obama’s revulsion to a play about Chicago’s Spertus Institute about the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Jager was trained by Marshall Sahlins, a cultural anthropologist of Russian Jewish origin. Her family was a part of the Communist resistance to Nazism in Denmark and remembered by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Israel to which I am a donor.
I’d like to believe Jager’s story but that sort of thing is terribly complicated and colored by time. Jager worked for Oberlin, after all. What a weird place filled with weird people.
In Samuels’ telling, Obama continued to lead a sort of Resistance against Donald Trump. If only that were true.
Samuels puts Obama at the center of efforts to invalidate Trump’s election, taking careful pains to avoid mentioning the well documented Israeli collusion in 2016.
Like a good Likudnik Samuels obsesses about Obama and the Iran deal but the Iran deal was the U.S. deep state telling Likud that the policy of sanctioning Iran to drive down the price of Iranian oil only to sell to China wouldn’t do any longer.
You should read about this triangle trade in the rather great piece about “The Brass Ring.”
That alliance between China and Israel is at play when we consider the career of one Rupert Murdoch.
We’ve hitherto talked about Murdoch’s ties to the Chinese through the $100m loan he got from the Bank of China. We’ve also looked closely at how he lent Netanyahu his London apartment.
Now Harry and Meghan are challenging the tabloids who tormented them.
This is what it means to be royal. This is what it means to rule. This is what it means to sacrifice for the public good. And this is what millennial leadership looks like.
Let’s go!