The Identity President

Never in human history has identity been so relentlessly, ruthlessly, and successfully manipulated as with Barry Barack Hussein Soetoro Obama. This man, mediocre prior to his presidential election, had no notoriety other than a phony racial credential; yet in photo and print, he has been favorably compared to Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, even Ronald Reagan, to name only a few.  Yet, Barack, the “intellectual giant,” is the first president too insecure to disclose his educational record to public scrutiny.  Barack Obama fears that release of his education record will expose some unscripted, identity-related flaw. If he had something to celebrate, you can be sure that the President would have had it published in banner headlines.         

Obama, his self, and those who promote him, literally, have been trying to condition/program us into believing his identity propaganda through a kind of verbal saturation bombing.  Moreover, the strikingly successful misinformation bombardment has had world-wide collaborators. You surely recall that Barack Obama was selected as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate only two weeks after being elected United States president and as the winner, only two months later—all during a time when he was directing two wars.  Had the Prize selection been this year, the committee might have read the May 30, 2012 New York Times editorial explaining Obama’s latest Middle East peace mission:

It has been clear for years that the Obama administration believes the shadow war on terrorism gives it the power to choose targets for assassination, including Americans, without any oversight. On Tuesday, The New York Times revealed who was actually making the final decision on the biggest killings and drone strikes: President Obama himself. And that is very troubling…A unilateral campaign of death is untenable. To provide real assurance, President Obama should publish clear guidelines for targeting to be carried out by nonpoliticians, making assassination truly a last resort, and allow an outside court to review the evidence before placing Americans on a kill list. And it should release the legal briefs upon which the targeted killing was based.

Peacemaker and assassin.  If you are President Barack Hussein Obama, there is no identity contradiction here.   As we all heard during the 2008 campaign, the commander in chief is “comfortable in his own skin” and anyone who thinks otherwise is a racist or “right-wing nutcase.”  So, harkening back to great leader parallels, we conclude that Obama also compares favorably to other “great” assassins, such as John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald.  Now there’s notoriety:  Could Obama be like two great presidents and their two “great” assassins simultaneously?  On the other hand, the analogy suffers since none of the four ever won a Nobel.

Why so much obsession about Barack’s identity?   It begins with Obama himself.  As all conflicted narcissists, he always has been preoccupied with who he is and who he isn’t.  He, in fact, carves-out his identity by cutting-out identity straw men, often race-based.  Barack is not bi-racial; he is black.  If he is biracial, how can he claim to be the first black president?  Biracial is too complicated and too ambiguous for Barack Obama.  He reduces identities to either-or. 

So, when in April 2008 the President refers to working-class whites by saying, "They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations," he really is commenting about himself.  He is setting up his identity straw men in order to rationalize and to dismiss “small town voters” as persons who will not support him because of their identities.

Barack Obama knows who he is and he knows who everyone else is.  He puts people in neat little categories, labels them, embraces the “good” ones, and mocks and marginalizes the “bad” ones.