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Comrade Barack Obama

President of the United Socialist States of America

by Shaun Willcock

The election of Barack Obama to the White House is the greatest disaster for the United States of America in its entire history

Of course, the fawning millions who voted for him don’t believe that. Throughout his campaign they hung on his every word, and gazed on him adoringly as if he were a messiah. And as the truth dawned that he had won, millions of people, not only in America but even around the world, stood and openly wept. Marxists, liberals, New Agers, Muslims, sodomites, illegal immigrants, and the dumbed-down masses in general, all rejoiced in the streets. The only thing comparable to it was the election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa in 1994. Mandela himself gushed over Obama after he won, saying his victory was an inspiration to people all over the world. But just as the rainbow began to lose its sparkle very soon after Mandela came to power in the “rainbow nation”, so the glitter will fade from Obama’s victory. This latest “Marxist Messiah” will be no better than the one before him.

It was incredible enough when, just a few years ago, Americans voted the immoral Socialist Bill Clinton into office, and got two for the price of one as his militantly leftist wife Hillary wore the pants and wielded the power. Incredible as that was to even contemplate at the time, they then proceeded to do it again, four years later! So it must be remembered that a nation that could be so deceived as to put Clinton into the White House, not once but twice, was already, back then, a long way along the road to Socialism. And now they have elected Obama, a radical Marxist.

His sycophantic supporters hotly deny it of course, but the facts can’t be denied: Obama is an outright racist Communist. He calls himself a centrist, but he is very far to the left of centre. His words, actions, and friends reveal him to be a Communist. Like every Communist, he believes that the wealthy should be heavily taxed, so that their wealth can be “redistributed” by the government to others. He has spoken of “recasting” the welfare net that Roosevelt cast, of rolling back the “winner-takes-all” market economy (i.e. he is anti-Capitalist), and of “restoring fairness to the economy” – all classic Communist/Socialist jargon and plans. Of course, he has disguised all this behind other, less dangerous-sounding terms – such as his constant use of the terms “universal” (as in “universal health care”), “fair” (as in “fair trade” and “fair labour practices”), and “free” (as in “free college tuition”, “free child care”, etc.). He knows of course that nothing in this world is, or can be, free. But sadly his ignorant followers don’t know it. They really believe his grand promises are all achievable, little realising that when Communists speak of “free” this and that, they mean that people pay for it through hugely burdensome taxation. He also knows that not much in this world is “fair”, and that some will always be richer than others – himself included! As the Lord Jesus said, “For ye have the poor with you always” (Mk. 14:7) – no amount of State “redistribution” of wealth, by the Robin Hood tactics of stealing from the rich to give to the poor, will ever eliminate poverty from the earth. It’s all pie-in-the-sky nonsense. It will only increase poverty, as proved in Marxist countries the world over.

In addition, in true Communist style, Obama is very pro-gun control; he favours repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and is pro-sodomy; he is very pro-abortion and has criticised the decision of the Supreme Court to uphold a ban on partial birth abortion; he supports “universal” health care; and supports affirmative action. Make no mistake, this is a man with vast Socialist ambitions.

Obama is totally in favour of open US borders, with virtually no restrictions on either legal or illegal immigration! As president, he wants to give the millions of illegal immigrants the right to vote in the USA, as well as free education, welfare benefits, and free health care. He favours the North American Union, which will eliminate the borders between the USA, Canada, and Mexico, and open the way for millions of Central and South American immigrants to pour into the USA, legally and illegally.

And Obama’s Marxist ideology leads him, naturally, to be a globalist as well; a One-Worlder, a full-fledged supporter of moves towards the One World Order, with a World Government, fully committed to giving the United Nations as much power worldwide as possible. He cares not a whit for America’s sovereignty; he wants to merge it into the New World Order. Not only that, but he wants to use the UN to get the USA to “redistribute” its wealth to the world! He introduced a bill in the Senate, the purpose of which is to get American taxpayers, via a massive “wealth redistribution” scheme, to fund the world’s poor. It would provide the United Nations with 0.7% of the United States’ gross national product! This would, it is estimated, amount to something like $845 billion in taxpayers’ money for welfare payments to Third World countries.

Constitutionalist columnist Devvy Kidd wrote, “America took the single largest step towards becoming a communist nation in my lifetime with this alleged election of a Marxist-Leninist. In April, I began describing Obama as a Marxist. My mail box filled up with angry email insisting that Obama is a ‘progressive,’ liberal Democrat. This is the ignorance of a dumbed down population who have no idea what Marxism means: The political and economic ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as developed into a system of thought that gives class struggle a primary role in leading society from bourgeois democracy under capitalism to a socialist society and thence to communism. Redistribution of wealth is the major tenet of communism. It is also Obama’s plan.”[1]

Obama, in addition to being a Marxist, is very pro-Muslim. His father was a Muslim. Barack was educated in Islamic schools in Indonesia. And he himself wrote, in his book Audacity of Hope, “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.” No wonder Muslims the world over are enamoured with him, including the radical Middle Eastern Muslim terrorist outfit, Hamas. It is absolutely incredible that just seven short years after September 11, 2001, a terrorist atrocity carried out by Muslims, Americans have been so astonishingly gullible, naive and foolish as to elect a man who is an outright Marxist, and in addition a Muslim sypathiser, as president of once-free America. Incredible, yes...but tragically true. The lunatics are running the asylum. How is it possible that American voters apparently went stark, staring mad? We shall see.

One just has to look at a man’s friends to see what kind of a man he really is. And Obama’s friends are real gems. Let’s look at them:

By his own admission, his mentor until he was 18 was one Frank Marshall Davis, a black Communist who fled Chicago (Obama’s home town) after he came under investigation by the FBI and Congress for his subversive, un-American activities. He was a member of the Communist Party USA, and affiliated to a number of Communist front organisations which distributed inflammatory racial propaganda. This was the man who tutored the teenaged Obama, growing up in Hawaii in the 1970s, with such Communist and racist garbage as the following: “Never trust the white establishment. They’ll train you so good you’ll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that — [expletive deleted].”[2] No wonder Obama is the anti-white racist he is. Although his own mother was white, he wrote in his book, Dreams from my Father, “I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.” Ironic then, isn’t it, that even with the almost 100% support he received from the black community, he could not have been elected without the support of a very large percentage of white Americans, who are still in the majority in the US. In true Commie fashion, he is more than willing to make use of the very people he despises if it will get him to where he wants to be.

After college Obama worked as a “community organiser” in Chicago, where his boss was one Gerald Kellman, a man who followed the philosophy of Saul “The Red” Alinsky, a Chicago Socialist who wrote Rules for Radicals. In this book Alinsky said he was a disciple of Karl Marx. In it he also paid homage to Lucifer as the “first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom”![3] Obama became a disciple of Alinsky’s and took a national training course taught by Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation.

Obama later served on the board of the Woods Fund, alongside a terrorist named Bill Ayers, of the Communist terrorist organisation, Weather Underground. Ayers is a professor at the University of Chicago. But in the 1970s the Weather Underground was involved in the bombings of the US Capitol, the Pentagon, a State Department building, and various police stations in which people were killed. Yet he brazenly admitted, in his memoir, “I don’t regret setting the bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” His wife, Bernadette Dohrn, who was also a Weather Underground member, praised the Manson family for murdering Sharon Tate and others, and actually said, “Bring the revolution home, kill your parents – that’s where it’s at.” They were not imprisoned because of alleged illegal break-in tactics used by the FBI to obtain information on the Weather Underground. And yet this husband and wife terrorist team held at least one fundraising campaign for Barack Obama! They are his friends and supporters.

Obama also travelled to Kenya, because his late father had been Kenyan. Obama Sr. was a Socialist, who pushed for the elimination of private farming in Kenya, the nationalisation of businesses owned by Asians and Europeans, and had proposed huge taxes on the rich for the purpose of “redistribution”. All straight out of the Communist handbook! And in the recent riots in Kenya, Obama privately called Raila Odinga, the leader of Kenya’s opposition party and a man who named his own son after Fidel Castro, to express his support.

Another buddy of Obama’s, Tony Rezko, an important fundraiser for Obama, a man Obama had been associated with since 1990, and who assisted Barack and Michelle Obama to buy their mansion in Chicago, was found guilty in June 2008 on 16 of 24 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, etc.

Obama also won his Illinois State Senate seat with support from the New Party. Yet this party was “an explicitly anti-capitalist party of ex-Communists, socialists and activists from ACORN, the hard-left group that’s constantly in trouble over voter fraud. The New Party didn’t ask for Obama’s association; he asked for the New Party’s endorsements.”[4] But to get that endorsement, he had to sign a contract with the New Party mandating that he had a visible and effective relationship with it!

Then there’s Michelle Obama, Barack’s wife, who, in her senior thesis at Princeton University, declared that the USA was founded on “crime and hatred” and that whites in the US were “ineradicably racist”. Hmmm...the same whites who made it possible for blacks like her to go to Princeton in the first place. More recently she has said: “The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”[5] A classic Red statement if ever there was one! And of course, by “someone” she didn’t mean her extremely wealthy self. Oh no. Socialists never intend giving up any of their own slice of the pie. Columnist Mark Steyn said on CNN that Michelle Obama is “Kim Jong-Il dressed up with a bit of Oprah Winfrey dressing.” He described her as “a conventional university Socialist”, and said, “Her language is riddled with Socialism.”

Barack Obama hangs out with Communists, terrorists, and racist thugs. As they say, a man is known by the company he keeps.

But there’s much more! We’re not done looking at his friends. Obama calls himself a Christian, and millions believe him. But he is not a Christian! It is a lie, a lie which he has spouted in order to win over the millions of Americans who call themselves Christians. Let’s look at Obama’s so-called “Christianity”. We’ll start with his religious friends, and then look at what he believes. Hold on to your seats, because this is where it gets really ugly.

The place to begin is with Barack’s association, in Chicago, with radical black racist and Marxist liberation theology pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and his large church, Trinity United Church of Christ. Liberation theology can be described as “religious Marxism”. It is the devilish doctrine that has devastated Latin America, Africa, and parts of Asia – and is spreading fast in America’s black churches.[6]

Obama was a member of this church for twenty years. He was happy to refer to Wright as his “uncle” and spiritual mentor. Wright presided at Obama’s wedding and “baptized” their children. Yet this wolf in sheep’s clothing hates whites, and has supported Cuban and Nicaraguan Communists, as well as Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan, both black Muslims. He called Farrakhan, the founder of the Nation of Islam and a man who considered Hitler to be a great man, “one of the most important voices in the 20^th and 21^st century”, and his church honoured Farrakhan with a lifetime achievement award. Wright even travelled to Libya with Farrakhan to meet with Muammar Gaddafi. In one of his sermons Wright said, “God damn America!”

Wright’s church has a mission statement declaring its purpose to be “agents of change for God who is not pleased with America’s economic maldistribution”. Wright’s webpage declared the church to be “a church whose theological starting perspective starts from the vantage point of Black liberation theology being its center.”[7]

Wright, in his church bulletin of July 22, 2007, published a Hamas manifesto which defended terrorism, refused to recognise Israel’s right to exist, and compared Hamas’ official charter to America’s Declaration of Independence, even though it calls for Jews to be murdered![8] So here we have the spectacle of a supposedly “Christian” pastor publishing a Muslim terrorist manifesto in his church’s bulletin! And this is the evil man Obama has called his mentor and “uncle”, and with whom he happily associated for two decades!

When the truth about Wright surfaced for the world to see, Obama claimed to have never heard any of Wright’s racist, hate-filled rantings during the twenty years he was a member of his church! He at first refused to disown Wright, but the pressure was on, and if he wanted a shot at the White House he had to distance himself from his pastor. This he accordingly did (and we can be sure, very reluctantly too!). Ann Coulter’s sarcasm is true: “If it takes Obama 20 years to notice that his pastor is a traitorous, racist nut-job, it will probably take him his full term in office to realize that the US has been invaded and subdued by al-Qaeda. Let’s just hope President Obama pays closer attention during national security briefings than he did during 20 years of the Rev. Wright’s church services.” [9]

But Jeremiah Wright was not Barack Obama’s only radical ecclesiastical buddy. The next gem he has associated with, and spoken of as one of his spiritual mentors, is a Roman Catholic priest by the name of Michael Pfleger. This man, a strong supporter of Louis Farrakhan, was invited to speak at Wright’s church, at the invitation of Otis Moss, Wright’s replacement and a longstanding friend of Obama’s, a man described by Obama as a “wonderful young pastor.” Well, this “wonderful young pastor” invited Popish priest Pfleger to speak, calling him “a friend of Trinity... a brother beloved... a preacher par excellence... a prophetic, powerful pulpiteer... our friend... our brother.”

The priestly “preacher par excellence”, the “prophet”, Michael Pfleger, stood up behind the pulpit of Obama’s church and let rip. Here is part of the transcription of his sermon: “When Hillary [Clinton] was crying [here Pfleger gestured tears, which caused the audience to roar with laughter] – and people said that was put on – I don’t really believe it was put on. I really believe that she just always thought, ‘This is mine. I’m Bill’s wife. I’m white. And this is mine. And I just’ gotta get up. And step into the plate.’ And then out of nowhere came, ‘Hey, I’m Barack Obama.’ And she said, ‘Oh, d—n! Where did you come from? [at this point the crowd was ecstatic, and Pfleger himself was screaming]. I’m white! I’m entitled! There’s a black man stealing my show’ [Sob]. She wasn’t the only one crying. There was a whole lotta white people crying!”[10] Oh, a real “preacher par excellence”, this one.

Continuing with his diatribe from the pulpit, Pfleger claimed that white people have a moral obligation to surrender their assets, which, he suggested, properly belong to blacks. Communist ideology, plain and simple! Yet this is a man Barack Obama has described as another of his spiritual mentors!

So as regards Obama’s claim that he is a “devout Christian” of “deep faith”: it’s just not true. He is a Marxist with deep sympathy for the Islamic religion. He belonged to a church, yes, but a church preaching the diabolical doctrines of liberation theology (religious Communism), a church full of racist white-haters and lovers of Islam. These things alone show that he is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a Christian. But there is much, much more evidence:

He has lied about his Muslim background, adamantly insisting he was never a Muslim. Yet his own sister says he was, and when he went to a Roman Catholic school in 1968 he was registered as a citizen of Indonesia and a Muslim.[11] He himself has admitted that he studied the Koran at a public school in Jakarta, and his former principal remembers him studying the recitation of the Koran in Arabic. There can be no doubt that Obama was a Muslim, at least at one time. And true Christians do not consistently lie like he has.

And then too, when we examine the kind of “Christianity” he professes to hold now – even aside from the liberation theology blasphemy of his pastor – we are given still further proof that his “Christianity” is a farce. In an interview in 2004 he said that Christians “may presume a set of doctrines” that “I don’t necessarily subscribe to.” He added, “If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe [in] Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that’s all there was to it, people wouldn’t have to keep coming to church, would they?” Asked to define sin, he replied, “Being out of alignment with my values” (an answer as far removed form the biblical definition in 1 Jn. 3:4 as it is possible to be!). And asked if he believes in heaven, he replied, “Do I believe in the harps and clouds and wings? I don’t presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die.” In fact, he identified “heaven” with feeling that he cares for his daughters and that he is teaching them his mother’s values! In his book, Audacity of Hope, he said that when his daughter asked him about the afterlife and he told her she was too young to worry about it, “I wondered whether I should have told [my daughter] the truth, that I wasn’t sure what happens when we die, any more than I was sure of where the soul resides or what existed before the Big Bang.”

Now if Obama was a true Christian, he would love the Lord Jesus Christ, and know who He is! Yet when asked, “Who’s Jesus to you?” he replied, “Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher. And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.”[12] To him, then, the Lord Jesus Christ was merely a figure in history, a great teacher among many other great teachers, and one bridge between God and man, but certainly not the only one.

And yet in the 2004 interview he said: “I am a Christian. So, I have a deep faith. So I draw from the Christian faith.” He denies the doctrines of Christianity and yet claims to be a Christian? He went on to say, “On the other hand, I was born in Hawaii where obviously there are a lot of Eastern influences. I lived in Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world... intellectually, I’ve drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith... So I’m rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people.”[13] This reveals he is anything but a Christian! If he is anything at all, he is a religious syncretist, an interfaith supporter. He rejects the plain truth of John 14:6, believing rather in Satan’s lie of “many paths to the same place”. The truth is, Obama calls himself a Christian, but has defined himself (in 2006) as “Christian and skeptic.” He has said, “I think religion at its best comes with a big dose of doubt.”

Another of his lies from 2004: “my mother was a Christian.” No, she wasn’t! She became a Marxist in high school, and called herself an atheist! And four years after the interview where he said his mother was a Christian, Obama admitted she wasn’t when he said, in July 2008, that his mother “never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know.”[14] He has also described his mother as an agnostic and a secular humanist. And she, according to his own testimony, “had as much influence on my values as anybody”. He said she was “very suspicious of the notion that one particular organized religion offered one truth”, but merely believed in a “higher power” common to all religions. “In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad-Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology,” he said.[15]

In March 2008, he said to voters at a public meeting, “I’m a Christian and what that means for me is that I believe Jesus Christ died for my sins and that his grace and mercy and his power – [that] through Him that I can achieve everlasting life.” And he added: “My mother was not a believer in the way I was,” but “I’m sure that she’s in heaven even though she may not have subscribed to everything I subscribed to.”[16] Firstly, Christians don’t merely “subscribe” to a set of beliefs like Muslims do; they have felt the power of Christ’s resurrection in their hearts. Secondly, just a few years before, as shown by the quotes above, he was very skeptical of heaven and everlasting life; yet now he professed to believe in it. Thirdly, as shown from the quotes above, he has categorically claimed his mother was a Christian; yet in March 2008 he declared she was not. This man is a Mr Facing-both-ways, a man who will say anything and everything, depending on the audience. He is utterly untrustworthy; a man to whom lying comes as naturally as breathing.

During his presidential campaign he made far more “evangelical” statements than before. For example, in January 2008 he stated, “I am a Christian. I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that that faith gives me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life.” And he also stated: “I have been a member of the same church for almost twenty years, and I have never practised Islam.”[17] Well, we know what kind of “church” he was a member of; but when, allegedly, did this great change occur? Allegedly, as far back as 1987-8 he became a believer in Christ crucified and risen – or so the interviewer (the hardly biblical Christianity Today magazine) claimed.

Whoa! If he experienced a conversion to Christ back in 1987-8, then what was he doing denying Christ and His Gospel in 2004 and 2006, as shown above? And why did he remain a member in a Christ-denying, Gospel-denying false church? Plainly Barack was lying again. The man is a liar, a chameleon who changes his colours to match his audience at any given moment.

In a Newsweek article in July 2008 he said of his “conversion”, “what was intellectual and what was emotional joined, and the belief in the redemptive power of Jesus Christ, that he died for our sins, that through him we could achieve eternal life... I found that powerful.” When asked about the role of doubt in faith, he now played down the skepticism and doubt that he had expressed so strongly before. He said: “I wrote about this in Audacity of Hope, that even after I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, that doesn’t mean that I don’t have doubts. I had doubts when my mother died. I have doubts every time I pick up the newspaper.”[18] Of course, even true Christians may be troubled by doubts at times, as part of the evil one’s assault on them; but here is a man who tells us he is very “devout”, with a “deep” Christian faith, and yet every time he reads the newspaper he doubts his faith! That tells us enough. And added to it is Obama’s constant deceit: for in the book he declared himself to be a “Christian and skeptic”, and the quotes above show how skeptical he really was; yet now he plays it down.

Further evidence of his deceit: he claimed to have attended Wright’s church for twenty years regularly; but in July 2008 he stated that he “didn’t hear a lot of sermons at Trinity”. In 2004 he declared that he attended the church “every week. 11 o’clock service. Ever been there? Good service.” But in 2008 he declared that during 2004 “we might not have gone to Trinity for two, three months at a time”. Again, the man is a liar.

And as late as August 2008, at the false “Saddleback Church”, he defended abortion, the deliberate murder of the unborn. In fact, he cynically said it was “above my pay grade” to know when a baby acquires the rights of a human being.

Obama is not a true Christian. And yet black Americans, including those millions who sit in churches every Sunday, turned a blind eye to the facts; as did millions of whites. Only a tiny percentage of black Americans were courageous enough to refuse to vote for him. In the words of one of them, a Christian lady who wrote to the present author: “Here in the USA I know many blacks who claim to be Christian but who are supporting Obama just because of his skin color. The expectation is – I should be supporting him, too. But as a Christian there is no way I can support this man.... Clearly, by his fruit he’s not a true Christian – though he claims to be.”[19] “What we have here is a baptized Marxist who denies the biographical reality of his Muslim background, takes pride in his skepticism, is the center of his universe, is posing as a Christian, [and] esteems [what he believes to be] the power of the christ myth”.[20]

But why, when he clearly rejects Christianity at heart, did Barack Obama feel it so important to pose as a Christian? Was it only because he knew this would cause millions of professing “Christians” to vote for him?

That was one very important reason, without any doubt. He was playing to the gallery. But it was not the only reason. As dishonest and deceptive as that motive was, there was another, very sinister one. His pal Saul Alinksy, whose acquaintance we made above, believed that churches were an ideal vehicle for advancing Marxism, as indeed have so many Commies the world over, which is why liberation theology in Latin America and Africa has so powerfully advanced the Communist cause. Obama swallowed this ideology, but he needed to belong to a church in order to make use of the churches from within. So he cast about for a suitable church, and his ambitious Red eye fell upon Jeremiah Wright and his Chicago church. It was a marriage made in Obama’s own version of heaven! For him, religion is just a means to an end – to advance the cause of Marxism. As he himself has stated in his book, Audacity of Hope: “We need to take faith seriously not simply to block the religious right [for he and his fellows are all radical leftists] but to engage all persons of faith in the larger project of American renewal.” It could be a statement straight out of the mouth of Nelson Mandela or any other Red political leader who is prepared to use the churches to advance Marxism. “For Obama, that ‘larger project’ of his agenda is America’s servitude to Marxist socialism, for which Christian verbiage can be made a tool of manipulation.”[21]

It’s not that Obama has to be a Christian to be president. That’s not the issue at all. The issue is his deceitfulness, the lies which he spewed out of his mouth. All the above goes to the character of Barack Obama. It reveals him to be a Marxist liar and deceiver, using pious-sounding Christian terminology for his own wicked ends.

But here’s where it starts to get really spine-chilling. Blacks across America actually view the man as their “messiah”, divinely sent to deliver them from “white oppression”! And they openly refer to him as such! “Exploiting what Obama regards as the christ myth, his campaign has derived his religio-political image from Wright’s ‘theology’ – as a black messianic hero coming to establish social justice, repair racial inequities, heal America’s broken soul and save the planet from the United States.”[22]

This is all deliberately stage-managed. “When reading from the teleprompter he speaks unfathomable generalities with an aura of thoughtfulness, creating for the masses an illusion of nuance, conviction and depth. Charmed by his voice’s cadence, audiences project on Obama their personal views, without concern to evaluate who he really is.... Crowds chant his name, and women mesmerized by his presence have fainted in Obamanic swoons. New Age Gnostics identify Obama as an angelic lightworker bringing the world to a higher plane of consciousness.... Feeling a thrill go up his leg, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews verified: ‘This is the New Testament.’ Oprah Winfrey, the TV evangelist for New Age fundamentalism... invoked the messianic motif of a hoped-for deliverer in hailing Obama: ‘He is The One! He is The One!’”[23]

One journalist gushed, comparing him with Christ: “He is not the Word made flesh, but the triumph of word over flesh, over color, over despair”.[24] Incredibly, just as in evangelistic crusades people share their testimonies of how they came to Christ, Obama’s rally organisers encouraged people to share their personal testimonies of how they “came to Obama”! And Congressman Jesse Jackson, infamous black American preacher, went into the realm of blasphemy when, in praising Obama’s presidential nomination as “the single most extraordinary event” in American history, he added, “The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.”[25]

This man has been set up as a messiah, there’s no doubt about it – and he himself knows it, and uses out-of-context biblical references, in true liberation theology fashion, to promote himself as a messiah, such as in his speech of February 5: “We are the hope of the future; the answer to the cynics who tell us our house must stand divided [a misuse of Matthew 12:24-28].... Because we know what we have seen and what we believe [a misuse of 1 John 1:1-3 and John 3:11]– that what began as a whisper has now swelled to a chorus that cannot be ignored; that will not be deterred; that will ring out across this land as a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, and make this time different than all the rest.” And again, in true liberation theology fashion, he believes that Marxism will create an earthly utopia: “I am confident that we can create a kingdom right here on earth.”[26] So outrageously vain and deluded is this man that he believes he can heal not only America, but save the entire world! Deceitfully calling himself a Christian, he exalts himself in the place of Christ! Make no mistake, there are powers at work here, dark spiritual forces. This man demonstrates the same kind of power over an audience as Hitler did. This is Satan’s man for the United States at this time.

The false system of biblical prophetic interpretation known as Futurism declares that the Antichrist will be a super-politician, charming, handsome, who will mesmerise the masses and rule the world. It’s utterly false, but extremely popular in many of America’s Charismatic “churches” and others. Considering how these unscriptural “churches” have in the past sought to identify the likes of Kissinger, Gorbachev, Saddam, and others with the Antichrist, one could expect that at some point they will start to brand Obama as the Antichrist too...except for one thing. Most are unlikely to do it, firstly because so many of their own flocks voted for him, and secondly because they would be afraid of having their church buildings burnt to the ground by angry mobs of blacks who view him as their “messiah”! And if the reader thinks this an exaggeration, keep reading.

Now let’s just take a brief look at Comrade Obama’s running mate, Joe Biden, who will now be vice president. Biden is a Roman Catholic! He is not a “good” Roman Catholic in every way: he is pro-abortion, for example, supporting federal abortion funding and stem cell research. But the Vatican has always been willing to turn a blind eye to such matters if it believes the “greater good” will be accomplished by doing so. For as reported in the Roman Catholic weekly, The Southern Cross, Biden “supports legal abortion but on other issues has been an ally for the Church’s public policy interests.”[27] Ah, that’s what counts in this case. Rome is prepared to overlook a man’s sinful position on certain matters if his position is “right” on others. All for “the greater glory of God”, of course, as the Jesuits would say. And what, precisely, are some of the “public policy interests” where he follows his “Church”? Such issues as immigration, a minimum wage, providing “universal health care” for all children and reinstating the ban on assault weapons. On these issues this Socialist is an ally of the “Church” of Rome, which takes a very Socialist position on all of them.

And this is precisely why the estimated 54% of American Roman Catholics who voted for Obama[28] – a man who does not support Rome’s stance on abortion and sodomite “marriages” – will receive little more than a rap over the knuckles by their priests! Despite his stance on these issues, the Roman Catholic hierarchy supports him for other ones. American Papists voted for Obama, ignoring their “Church’s” teaching on abortion and sodomite “marriages”, because they felt Obama would be better for the economy (more of a bread-and-butter issue for people at this time, when the American economy is in dire straits), and also because a large percentage of American Papists do not agree with their “Church” on abortion. And a third reason is because the priestly sex scandals have shaken the confidence of many American Roman Catholics in their “Church”. But the hierarchy was prepared to overlook all this because it saw the potential in Obama for its various other causes to be promoted. Most notably his position on immigration, for as we have shown in a previous article,[29] this will in the future vastly increase the Roman Catholic vote in the United States, as millions more illegals, predominantly Roman Catholics from Mexico and Latin America, flood into the country. Rome was prepared to “turn a blind eye” to Obama’s other sins, if only to gain the long-term benefit to the “Church” of Rome which his policies will help to bring about.

Well, we have looked at the facts about Comrade Barack. But now we must look at the causes of this tragedy. How did this state of affairs come about? How did it happen that just seven short years after Muslim terrorists blew up the World Trade Center in New York, Barack Obama, a radical, Communist, pro-Muslim politician, was elected as President of the United States of America? How is it possible that this once-great nation, once so free, prosperous, and safe, could fall so far?

The most important reason of all is that a creeping Socialist revolution has been taking place in the United States for decades now, in fact for pretty much all of the 20^th century; and it has paid off handsomely in this election. This revolution has not been a bloody revolution, fought with guns and bombs as it has been in Africa and Latin America. Instead, it has been a quiet, subtle, creeping cultural revolution, one that has transformed America into a Socialist country without the majority of its citizens even being aware of it. In the 1940s Norman Thomas, a U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate, said, “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism,’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day, America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”[30] He was absolutely right, and that day has come.

Americans have been Socialised in the name of “liberalism”! The American people have been so well indoctrinated, that in one AP poll only 6% of Americans described Obama as “liberal”. Note that – not as “Socialist” or “Communist”, but merely as “liberal”! This shows the level of ignorance about Communism/Socialism in America today. They think their world is divided simply into “conservatives” and “liberals”. They have no idea of the sinister and powerful forces behind the scenes. And those forces like it that way! If Americans and others think Marxists are merely “liberals”, well hey, that’s just fine. As columnist Devvy Kidd said, quoted above but it’s worth repeating: “In April, I began describing Obama as a Marxist. My mail box filled up with angry email insisting that Obama is a ‘progressive,’ liberal Democrat. This is the ignorance of a dumbed down population who have no idea what Marxism means”.

And this day was also predicted way back in 1962 by none other than Soviet President Nikita Khrushchev. In Bucharest, Romania he said, “But we do not want to make war on America or anyone else. We believe that some day the red flag will fly over the US too but the American people will raise it.” Well, on November 4^th, 2008, the American people essentially raised it. In the 1960s, also, US Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson [Cecil – who went on to become the earthly ‘head’ and living ‘Apostle’of the Mormon Church] met Khrushchev at the behest of President Eisenhower, and the following is from the transcript: “As we talked face to face, he [Khrushchev] indicated that my grandchildren would live under communism. After assuring him that I planned to do all in my power to assure that his and all other grandchildren would live under freedom, he arrogantly declared in substance, ‘You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept communism outright but we will keep feeding strong doses of socialism until you finally wake up and find you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you fall like over-ripe fruit into our hands.’”[31] He was absolutely right. And it has happened, precisely as he predicted. While here in Africa we were waging a bloody war of survival against Marxist terrorists, Americans were swallowing more and more large dollops of Socialism until their once-great country had been turned into a Socialist state without a bullet being fired.

The three primary tools used by the Reds to bring about the United Socialist States of America have been the churches, the media and entertainment industry, and education.

The liberal “churches” have played a huge role. In a country where the majority have always been churchgoers, Marxists early on realised the value of infiltrating churches and using them as “agents of change”. Many of the churches in the USA have been liberal for decades, denying the essential doctrines of the Gospel, and fully sympathetic to Socialism. The wolves in sheep’s clothing standing behind pulpits across the land have indoctrinated their flocks into the Socialist mindset, and have turned a blind eye to the immorality being committed by their very own congregants. They have allowed all kinds of sinful entertainment to be indulged in by their flocks. They have encouraged worldliness in morals, dress, speech, marriage. They have supported the sodomite movement, many of them even permitting sodomite “marriages” and ordaining sodomite ministers.

Then there is the media and entertainment industry. Communists in top positions in all fields of the media have been hard at work for decades. The vast majority of the newspapers and TV stations are in the hands of committed Socialists and Communists; and their influence over the minds of the public cannot be overestimated. This is a subject that deserves far deeper analysis than can be given to it here, of course. In the entertainment world, movies and music have brainwashed the young and the not-so-young, and turned them against the morals and values which once made America great. The press has exalted every filthy, immoral “star” imaginable in the entertainment world, who lose no opportunity to assault Christianity and morality. Hollywood and the music industry promote sodomy, fornication, adultery, gratuitous violence, gutter language, and much more, all packaged as entertainment – and this has succeeded in convincing a huge number of Americans that these things are good, even right. The morality of generations of Americans has been destroyed. Today, over 95% of teenaged Americans have engaged in free sex. A huge percentage have used drugs. Marriage is viewed by most as old-fashioned and unnecessary, and living together is the norm. Abortion is legal and literally millions of babies have been murdered in their own mothers’ wombs in the country that claims to stand for “human rights”.

Young people can hardly string two sentences together without making liberal use of profanity. Sodomy is viewed as an “alternative lifestyle”. Young people’s “heroes” today are movie and music “stars”. Americans have been turned into a people who worship at the shrine of mammon and pleasure. The US is in moral freefall. Americans get very angry when they hear how Muslims across the world refer to America as “the Great Satan”. But in all honesty, can they really blame them? When Muslims look at America, what do they see?

As for the education system: the nation’s universities are staffed by Communists and Communist sympathisers and the public school system has brainwashed children in the ideology of Communism without them or their parents even being aware of it. The youth in any country have always been cannon fodder for revolutionaries, “useful idiots”, too naive and immature to understand the real issues or the way the world really works. The Socialist revolutionaries have controlled education in America for decades now, and have used it to literally “dumb down” the youth to the point where millions of them are little more than zombies, unable to think critically yet arrogantly sure that they are bright and intelligent and discerning. This is why they spend endless hours watching mindless TV, listening to mindless and yet violent and sexual music, and surfing the Net. They hardly read, and when they do they read magazines extolling their favourite movie stars and singers, not useful books that could teach them, really teach them, something of true and lasting value.

And young voters – gullible, dumbed-down by an education system that has left them essentially uneducated, fed with feel-good sound-byte information that gave them no understanding of the real issues at stake here – turned out in droves to vote in this election. And they voted for Obama. Why? Yes, he was young for a presidential candidate, and that was attractive to them. But far more importantly, the youth of America today are the products of a Socialist educational system that has indoctrinated them so well, they have actually fallen for the Socialist lies and ideology of men like Obama. When he spoke of the need to “vote for change” they liked the sound of it even though they had no real idea what he meant by it.

“The devolution of education into fluff, outright nonsense, political correctness and sports-obsession has continued for so long that standardized tests (what few exist for rigorous academics) are dumbed-down every few years so that students can pass them. Remedial classes in the basics are ubiquitous at America’s colleges and universities. The 2008 election year has provided Americans an up-close-and-personal look at the fruits of intellectual neglect. The 40-year-long emphasis on teamwork, sex, mental health, anti-gang and drug abuse programs in our nation’s classrooms, combined with a smattering of junk science, fuzzy math, ‘transformational grammar’ and ‘whole language’ has ensured that today’s younger voters (below age 30) are unable to see past campaign slogans and rumor-mills.... Generations X, Y and their progeny have no grasp of history; no understanding of rhetoric; no stomach for philosophic deliberations, such as those that went into the framing of our Constitution; and no idea what constitutes a fallacy (such as ‘straw-man argument’).”[32]

And then, precisely because of the indoctrination of the masses that has gone on for decades, as described above, millions of Americans, black and white, voted for Barack Obama because he is black. Well, actually, he has a mixed ancestry. Black is a colour, it’s not a race. There’s no such thing as a “pure race” on earth; every single human being’s ancestry is all mixed up. If a man has a Scottish father and an Italian mother, for example, he is of mixed ancestry. But because both are called “white”, he is considered to be “white”. But “white” and “black”, these are colours, not “races” or people groups. Obama is called a “black” man because his father was a Kenyan whose skin colour was black (many Kenyans are white in colour), and he inherited that skin colour. Black Americans are rejoicing because he is a black man, and yet this literally is “skin deep”, for his mother was white. So all those who voted for him “because he is black” were basing this solely upon skin colour, nothing else. An insanely stupid reason, voting for a man merely because of his skin colour. But so it was. For those millions of voters, what Obama actually stands for, and believes, and intends to implement in America, was irrelevant; they wanted him as president for no other reason than that he has a black skin.

Blacks, of course, voted for him because he is black and looks like them. But millions of whites voted for him too, merely because he is black and doesn’t look like them (as pointed out in the quotation by Anne Wortham given below)! Polls showed him to have garnered in the region of 43% of all white votes, and 54% of the under-30 white votes. Why did they do so? They did so because they have been indoctrinated (via the “churches”, media, entertainment industry and education system) to feel somehow “guilty” for slavery and for segregation in the past; and voting for a black man was, to their warped way of thinking, a means of atoning for this supposed “guilt”. It’s all nonsense anyway, because one can only feel guilty for what one has personally done, not for what one’s ancestors may have done; but liberal pressure over decades has convinced whites, not just in the US but the world over, that they are guilty for the past, and need to atone.

The guilt was there already, drummed in over decades; and then when Barack Obama came along, they were taken in by his smile and courteous ways, without ever realising that this was all a ruse, part of his plan; for as a disciple of Saul Alinsky he well knew that Alinsky had written in his Rules for Radicals that it was important to be sensitive to middle-class “aversion to rudeness, vulgarity, and conflict. Start them easy, don’t scare them off.” He was quick to learn the value of this to pull the wool over peoples’ eyes, as he himself admitted in Dreams from my Father: “It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved – such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time.”[33] Oh but he certainly was an angry black man! Very angry, very racist, just like his white-hating pastor. He had just learned to hide it so well that he fooled millions of gullible people. Yet another striking similarity between him and South Africa’s Nelson Mandela. “His genial demeanor explains in part why many Americans are drawn to Obama.... They cannot admit to themselves that this nice, well-spoken man was mentored by Wright for two decades, is a longtime ally of an unrepentant domestic terrorist, and that he himself embraces their agenda. Obama’s charm is an effective tactic, one of those tricks that he learned.” [34]

The issue of race was milked for all it was worth in this election. Those who opposed Obama were branded as “racists” (if white) or “sell-outs” (if black). Take, as an example, this email from an irate Obama supporter, sent to Devvy Kidd, a writer with NewsWithViews.com: “You racist white [expletive]! How dare you question the citizenship of the greatest hope our country has ever had for change? You lying honkeys are afraid of having a Black President.... You’re d–d right we will burn this racist piece of [expletive] country to the ground if we are denied our messiah. You white [expletive] already stole two elections, we will not let you steal a third. Obama is the great hope of the oppressed masses, and he will win in a landslide. You racist whites better not try anything funny, or else you will pay. We will make the Watts riots look like a party you white lying [expletive]. Power to the People! God bless Barack Obama!”[35]

Sounds like South Africa! But no – it’s the United States of America. This black woman whines about black Americans being “the oppressed masses” etc., as so many black Americans have done for so long. And yet the American way of life, which millions of black Americans enjoy just like anyone else in that country, is far, far superior to anything experienced by multiplied millions of blacks living in Africa! In fact it’s far superior to how millions of whites live, even in many parts of Europe! Vast numbers of black Americans enjoy a standard of living unequalled by anyone the world over, except other Americans. Let them live, just for a month or two, in a squalid African squatter camp, and then they will know what real poverty and suffering is all about. If a black American lives in a decent apartment, owns a phone and TV, and eats three meals a day, he already lives like a king and possesses unimaginable wealth compared with millions of black Africans whose lives are a never-ending struggle for existence thanks to the Socialist policies of their corrupt governments – the very policies which so many black Americans voted for when they voted for Obama!

But it was far easier to whine and complain and threaten to burn down the United States if their beloved black “messiah” wasn’t elected. Even in this threat, they sound just like so many black Africans, always resorting to violence when they don’t get their way. Oh, and let’s not fail to notice the old black Communist cry, “Power to the People!” And by “the people”, of course, they mean blacks and no one else.

This election was turned into a racial one deliberately; but being against Obama has absolutely nothing to do with his colour, for thinking people who were able to look beyond such a shallow, “skin deep” reason for voting. Anne Wortham, one of a tiny minority of black Americans opposed to Obama, in an article entitled No He Can’t, wrote: “Fellow Americans, please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama.... I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America. I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There are no tears of triumph in my eyes. For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would... have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century. I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life. I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend. I would have to think it somehow rational that 94% of the 12 million blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared ‘progressive’ whites who voted for him because he doesn’t look like them.... Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting ‘Yes We Can!’.... So you have made history, Americans. You and your children have elected a black man to the office of the president of the United States, the wounded giant of the world.... You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to – Do Something! You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society. But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine – what little there is left – for the chance to feel good. There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.”[36]

Of course, it was not just something like 94% of all blacks, and 43% of all whites, who voted for Obama. Knowing his pro-illegal immigration position, and his pro-sodomite position as well, Hispanics and sodomites voted for him in huge numbers. Many female voters, many of whom were wont to faint during his rallies like ecstatic teenaged girls at a rock concert, voted for him based solely on his looks – just as they did for Bill Clinton some years ago! That is as pathetic as voting for him because he is black. But again, a sign of dumbed-down America, where looks count for more than substance, and a flashy smile and mesmerising voice sets female hearts a-flutter.

And let’s not overlook something else that’s hugely significant in this Obama “victory”: massive voter fraud! This has been a huge problem during the last few American elections in particular, and this one was no different. Just as in South Africa in 1994 when the fraud was rampant in the massively rigged election that brought the Communist-controlled ANC to power, so in the USA in 2008. And the truth is that “between dirty voting rolls, voter registration fraud, illegals voting and corrupted electronic voting machines and scanners, we have NO idea who was legally elected”.[37]

Finally, there’s the shadowy backing Obama received. Who was behind him? The so-called “Eastern Establishment”: mega-wealthy Americans, part of the secretive CFR/Illuminati elite, who are the real powers behind American presidents and have in fact been running America for many, many years. They are actually behind the choice of both candidates, each time an election comes around. For whether Republican or Democrat, there is little to choose between them. Both are Socialist parties, it’s just that the Republicans usually take longer to get to the same place as the Democrats, because they are perceived as being more “conservative”. John McCain was handpicked by them as well, but in all likelihood it was always planned that he would lose. He was what could be called the “designated loser”. “The fact that McCain conceded around 8:30 pm CST before half the states west of the Mississippi had even counted 20% of their votes, only confirms what millions of us already knew – he was the designated loser.”[38] Obama was their clear favourite. But by controlling both candidates, they could not lose.

The United States of America, as we have known it, is no more. What is emerging is a very different America, a radically altered country from what it was before. It is not a free country. It hasn’t truly been a free country in a long time. It is a Socialist country where the freedoms Americans once enjoyed have been steadily eroded; and a whole lot more will now be taken away. And it’s not a great country. It used to be; there was a time when it was the greatest country in the world. That time has passed. It is a shell of what it once was.

In 1994 South Africa became the darling of the world when Nelson Mandela, a Communist, came to power. In 2008 the United States became the darling of the world when Barack Obama, a Communist, came to power. As an American friend wrote to me two days after the election, “Guess we now have a better understanding of how you felt when the ANC and Mandela took over South Africa.” We well remember how we felt the morning after those fateful elections 14 years ago. We woke up in another country, although we hadn’t gone anywhere. Things would never be the same again.

Most Americans didn’t care when Marxist liberation theology ravaged Africa, delivering one African country after another into the hands of Communist terrorists; in fact they actively supported the Communist revolutionaries with vast amounts of money and moral support. They literally did all they could to foist Marxists onto other countries of the world. And now they have one! – a Marxist is president of their own country! Just like 9/11, this is, truly, divine retribution. Americans gave the terrorist Nelson Mandela a ticker-tape parade through the streets of New York, the man who turned once free and prosperous South Africa into a Marxist state, ruled by Communist terrorists responsible for the deaths of thousands and thousands of black and white South Africans; and then New York suffered the worst terrorist atrocity in world history. God is not mocked.

There are only two good things in what is otherwise an unmitigated disaster. One is that American blacks will never again be able to whine, with any justification, about being “oppressed” or “marginalised” or living in “racist America”. They haven’t had any just cause for doing so in decades, anyway; but now? Now, even though many will doubtless continue to do so, this has been exploded for the lie it is. Even South Africa’s “Red Bishop”, Desmond Tutu, admitted it when he blubbered, “It is just tremendous; it is saying to people of colour that for them, the sky is the limit.”[39] Well, if the sky’s the limit in supposedly “racist”, “bigoted” America, where so many blacks have blamed all their problems on whites and “racism”; if a black man can rise to become president, largely through the white vote (for whites are still in the majority); then America cannot, with any real justification, be branded a racist society, and American blacks can no longer claim that they are second-class citizens and “victims”.

White racism, then, is nowhere near as all-pervasive as it’s been made out to be. Black racism, however, is alive and well and very, very militant. Very probably many black Americans haven’t realised the implications of having a black president, for their perennial attempts to portray themselves as “victims” in a “racist” society; but when the euphoria wears off they’ll wake up to it. Ironically then, this moment of victory for black liberals could in the long run prove to be more harmful to their “victim” culture than anything else.

The other good thing is that, four years from now, or eight, Americans will realise just how disastrous an Obama presidency was for the United States. Obama has been ushered in on a massive tidal wave of emotional but misguided support. Yet the plain fact of the matter is that he will not make America a better place. And by the time he leaves office, many of his fanatical devotees will have had their blinkers ripped off. It will be too late by then of course, the damage will have been done. But at least there’s some small comfort in knowing that the present euphoria will in time give way to disillusionment. It always does, when men trust in the arm of flesh. Perhaps, then, there still is a glimmer of hope for the United States, a few years down the line. Time will tell. It is in the Lord’s hands.

In the meantime, Comrade Obama has become the president of what is now, in reality, the USSA: the United Socialist States of America. America has ceased to be great. It is rushing headlong into the New World Order, just like every other western nation. It no longer stands out. Sin has destroyed it, and judgment from heaven has fallen on the land. Its time of greatness has passed.

November 2008

Shaun Willcock is a minister of the Gospel and lives in South Africa. He runs Bible Based Ministries. For other news articles (which may be downloaded and printed), as well as details about his books, audio messages, pamphlets, etc., please visit the Bible Based Ministries website, or write to the address below. If you would like to be on Bible Based Ministries’ electronic mailing list, to receive all future articles, please send your details.

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