So Who Is Barack Obama?
By Hamid Golpira
26 November, 2008
Tehran
Times
When the Annapolis conference was held in 2007, Arab pundits said the name says it all, since "anna polis" means "I'm the police" in Arabic.
And George W. Bush and his neocon handlers certainly did adopt an "I'm the police" policy in regard to Palestine and the rest of the Islamic world.
As a matter of fact, the neocons adopted an "I'm the police" policy toward the entire world.
And now along comes Barack Obama.
He seems reasonable. He seems like a man of dialogue, not a man of dictates. He seems to be sympathetic toward the Palestinians, or at least he had that attitude some years ago.
He's Black, so he knows what racism, prejudice, and discrimination are all about. His father was a Black African. His grandfather was the first convert to Islam in his village in Kenya. He lived in Indonesia for some years as a child. His middle name is Hussein. He's obviously not going to be another wonder bread president.
It was a breath of fresh air.
Many Muslims around the world got the impression that Obama was saying, "I'm not the police."
And then disaster struck. Shortly after winning the presidential election, Obama selected arch-Zionist Rahm Emanuel to be his White House chief of staff.
It would be a colossal understatement to say this did not go over well in the Islamic world.
Muslims view Rahm Emanuel as an Israel Firster, a distinctly "I'm the police" kind of guy.
So what does this mean?
Some say Obama only picked Emanuel for the White House post to placate the Zionists.
After all, Obama once said, "Arab and Pakistani Americans… need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
But then again, New World Order mandarin Zbigniew Brzezinski is one of Obama's foreign policy advisors.
So who is Barack Obama?
Is he the world's candidate, a man who empathizes with the oppressed and sincerely wants to work for social justice, or is he just another pawn of the Trilateralists in their grand chessboard game of global domination?
Will the real Barack Obama please stand up?
Of course, corporate interests and the Trilateral Commission are the real power behind the throne in the United States, so the president doesn't really rule.
But could Obama be planning to attempt to seize real power? Other presidents have tried and failed, so the odds are against him if he tries such a move.
However, change really is in the air, so the odds might not be that bad. The mood of U.S. citizens is quite different as we come to the end of the first decade of the 21st century and their general level of awareness is higher in some regards than it was in the past.
Actually, we won't have to wait long to see the real Barack Obama, because he will begin charting his course and giving signs of his true intentions during the first few months after the inauguration.
Hopefully, he will stand with the oppressed people of the world and say, "I'm not the police."
