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Obama
Deported Millions, Killed Thousands and Now He’s Out
to Slyly Depose His Successor
By Piers
Morgan
March 10, 2017
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- That Barack Obama’s a lovely guy, right?
Handsome,
intelligent, eloquent, charming, witty; he can sing,
dance, shoot hoops, and make speeches that stir the
soul.
Oh, and he’s a
great husband, father, son and friend.
In fact, to
many around the world, President Perfect is the
complete antithesis of his replacement Donald Trump.
That’s why
millions have marched to protest against the current
POTUS, who they brand the ‘new Hitler
Why, they
squeal with rage, can’t ‘Monster’ Trump just be more
like ‘Saint’ Obama?
Hmmm.
Forgive me if
I don’t join the ecstatic global race to canonize Mr
Obama quite so enthusiastically.
For beneath
his ever-smiley beatific halo lies a rather
different, far murkier reality.
My favourite
question for the anti-Trump brigade is this: ‘How
many people did Barack Obama deport from America
during his eight years as President?’
Most people
guess 5,000, maybe 10,000. Even those with a good
knowledge of how the real world of US immigration
policy works rarely respond with a number higher
than around 500,000.
In fact, Obama
deported nearly THREE MILLION people.
That is the
most deported by any president, ever.
His appalled
critics even dubbed him ‘Deporter-in-Chief.’
When
challenged, Obama loved to pretend that he was only
deporting ‘criminals’.
The truth is
very different. Over half of all immigrants deported
under Obama had no criminal convictions. Many others
were slung out for minor offences involving traffic
violations or marijuana possession.
Obama also
loved to make out that when it came to killing
people, he was a very reluctant dove; a man of
peace, not war.
Again, the
truth is the complete opposite.
He was at war
longer than any president in US history, and is the
only president to have served two whole terms with
America at war.
By contrast,
the much-maligned Jimmy Carter never ordered a US
military bullet to be fired in anger during his
four-year tenure.
Obama was a
hawk, alright, and a lethal one.
Recently
released figures revealed that in 2016, US special
operations were active in 70% of the world’s
nations, or 138 countries. This was a 130% increase
over Bush’s administration.
In the same
year, Obama ordered his military to drop at least
26,171 bombs. That’s 72 a day, or three every hour.
They rained
relentlessly down on seven majority-Muslim countries
– Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia
and Pakistan.
Yes, Bomber
Barack deliberately targeted Muslims, folks.
Only he wasn’t
exposing them to ‘extreme vetting’ as Trump wants to
do, he was killing them.
Obama ordered
10 times more drone strikes than George W. Bush, a
mind-blowing statistic.
Yet when he
left office, his administration laughably tried to
claim only 117 civilians died in all this bombing.
That was an
obvious lie.
Independent
assessors put the estimated death toll massively
higher, in the 1000s.
So Obama
killed a lot of innocent people but prefers us not
to know about it.
He also
allowed a lot of other innocent people to die in
Syria by choking when President Assad crossed
Obama’s chemical weapons ‘red line’.
That empowered
both Assad and Vladimir Putin, and weakened America.
This wasn’t
the only time Obama said one thing and did another.
His lofty
moral principles were never more startlingly exposed
than with his broken election pledge in 2008 to shut
Guantanamo Bay.
‘As president,
Barack Obama will close the detention center
facility at Guantanamo,’ it stated.
Not ‘might’ or
‘will try’ but ‘will’.
Yet, it’s
still open, eight years later, and remains a
toweringly disgraceful monument of illegal detention
and torture that makes a mockery of Obama’s claim to
stand for justice and fairness.
Broken
promises became a theme of Obama’s tenure.
Under him,
over 250,000 people in America died from gun
violence.
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Obama
tearfully vowed to the parents of the 20 slain
children at Sandy Hook elementary school he would
‘get action’ on new gun control laws, a message he
repeated ad nauseam after each mass shooting.
But he
failed to get anything done at all. Instead, he
was battered into submission by the NRA, and the
mayhem and slaughter has continued, unabated.
There have
been more than 180 shootings at schools and
colleges in the US since Sandy Hook alone.
Obama also
promised to bring ‘hope and change’ to
Washington but again, failed miserably. Asked
about this near the end of his presidency, he
admitted to Vice News: ‘Well, that didn’t work
out. There is no doubt that one of the central
goals that I had was to make the politics in
Washington work better. I haven’t accomplished
that.’
His other
failures make equally unedifying reading.
Drug abuse
in America, particularly involving opiates,
rocketed to obscene levels in the Obama years.
Racial
tensions, especially between police and
civilians, worsened to levels not seen since the
60s and 70s.
Violent
crime, on a downward curve for several decades,
spiked by 15% in each of the last two years.
(Obama’s
hometown Chicago, run by his former chief of
staff Rahm Emanuel is one of the cities most
responsible for that spike.)
Even
Obamacare, his once-vaunted flagship health
program, has disintegrated amid bitter acrimony
and soaring costs to millions of Americans.
As for
‘Monster’ President Trump’s war with the media,
arguably the single worst offender in
presidential history when it came to attacking
press freedom was…you’ve guessed it, Barack
Obama.
Under
Obama, the Justice Department and FBI spied on
reporters by monitoring their phone records, and
pursued Fox News reporter James Rosen’s private
emails, then misled Congress about it.
His
administration set a record for failing to
provide information requested by the press and
public under the Freedom of Information Act.
It
used the Espionage Act to prosecute
whistle-blowing leakers more than all of his
predecessors combined.
Veteran New York Times reporter James Risen
said Obama’s administration was ‘the
greatest enemy of press freedom that we have
encountered in at least a generation.’
Others say it was even worse than in the
Nixon era.
Mr
‘Transparent’ turned out to be as
transparent as the heavily fortified doors
on the presidential car, The Beast.
So,
no, I don’t share the view that Barack Obama
was a great or even good president.
History will, I suspect, judge him far more
harshly than the current blindly-loyal
sycophants who love the way he sings like Al
Green.
Even
less impressive than his record as president
is Obama’s behaviour since leaving office.
His
predecessor George W. Bush was a divisive
and polarizing president, particularly due
to his appalling misjudgement in waging the
Iraq War.
Yet he
vowed when he left office not to publicly
criticize his successor, believing the job
to be hard enough as it is, and to his great
credit, he kept his word.
There
must have been many things Obama did or said
which Bush disagreed with, but he never
stirred the media pot about them or plotted
against him.
Obama, by contrast, seems hell-bent on
bringing Trump down.
A
close Obama family friend told
DailyMail.com last week that Obama’s
goal now was to oust Trump by forcing
his resignation or through his
impeachment.
He’s turned his new home in Washington,
just two miles from the White House,
into a nerve center for the mounting
insurgency against Trump, even moving
his long time consigliere Valerie
Jarrett into the mansion.
Obama’s former Attorney General Eric
Holder told reporters: ‘It’s coming.
He’s coming. And he’s ready to roll.’
I’m sure he is.
But as ‘Saint’ Obama rolls against
‘Monster’ Trump, it may be worth
remembering just what a deadly,
deporting, press freedom-destroying, and
generally weak president he was
himself.
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