You can see that Barack Obama has aged during the three years (almost) of his presidency of the United States. I believe that he quickly realized, once he assumed the presidency, that he could get killed quite easily by powerful U.S. military/industrial/business forces. And so, Barack went along with the program, which is to say, he did the things which the “big boys” wanted him to do. The immediate and most dramatic of these “things” was printing money to bail out the same voracious Wall Street elements which had gotten the American financial system into the crises of 2007/2008.
But, even though Barack went along with the program, as time went along the stark reality of his blackness was an issue which became a serious undercurrent in a movement which wanted him out of the White House in the most passionate way. This was the Tea Party movement, which blasted the Democrats out of the U.S. Congress majority in the mid-term elections of 2010.
The Occupy Wall Street movement of the last two months has made a stay of execution possible for Barack. The base of the American socio-economic pyramid, the same people who were, to a substantial extent, abandoned by Barack when he decided to save his own skin, have risen in the major cities of the United States, and now the college students are becoming involved. For the time being, the Tea Party has been neutralized.
This Tuesday, November 22, marked the 48th anniversary of the Dallas, Texas assassination of U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Because of their relative youth, their style, and their appeal to American idealism, JFK and Barack enjoyed similar “vibes” when they entered the White House.
Kennedy got into trouble within three months after he assumed the presidency in January of 1961. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had had a plot on the table from the time of the previous administration, that of Dwight D. Eisenhower. That plot involved financing, arming, and training an army of Cuban exiles to invade Fidel Castro’s communist Cuba. This plot assumed the Cuban people were unhappy with Fidel, and would support the invasion once the exile forces achieved credibility. More important, the CIA plotters, as well as the Cuban exile leaders, believed that the invasion would be protected by American air power. The role of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the generals of the American armed forces, is not completely clear.
Before the invasion could take place, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, was embarrassed on the floor of the U.N. when it became clear that he had not been informed of the invasion plot. Stevenson’s personal embarrassment was an embarrassment for the entire Kennedy administration, and it took place just days before the invasion was scheduled to take place. Kennedy gave the go-ahead for the Bay of Pigs attack, but he refused to provide America’s supersonic air cover, and he insisted that no U.S. warships become involved. Without the air and sea support, the Bay of Pigs invasion turned out to be dead in the water. The American military and intelligence establishment, and the entire Cuban exile community, blamed President Kennedy for the fiasco at the Bay of Pigs. They felt he had betrayed them.
Kennedy had other very powerful enemies. The American Mafia was in bed with organized labor in the States in those days of the early Sixties, and the mob had helped to deliver the union vote for Kennedy in his narrow presidential election victory. JFK’s father, Joseph Kennedy, is considered to have been an Irish gangster of sorts, a bootlegger then, during Prohibition (1919-1933). But when John Kennedy entered the White House, his younger brother Bobby, whom he appointed Attorney General, went after the Mafia and corrupt union leaders like Jimmy Hoffa. The mob and the unions also felt the Kennedys had betrayed them.
Between 1861 and 1865, the American people fought a bloody civil war among themselves – the North versus the South, the Union versus the Confederacy, the manufacturing and financial sectors versus the slave plantation owners. The South lost, and the United States remained one nation, supposedly indivisible, but the divisions between the North and the South which had led to the Civil War, still exist, just beneath the surface of American socio-political life.
Both Kennedy and Obama are Harvard men. They represent some of the quintessential North, the intellectual elite of the northeastern United States. In places like Texas, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and other former Confederate states, they don’t like “pointy head” intellectuals. America has been rent asunder during the Obama presidency, and the Kennedy assassination 48 years ago provides tangible evidence that the most powerful man in the world can be taken out by forces which operate in the shadows.
Personally, no one can convince me that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting all on his lonesome, assassinated John Fitzgerald Kennedy. But, I’m not getting into that debate/argument right now. What I want to say to you is that the likelihood is that Barack Obama didn’t really know what he was getting into. And now that he’s in there, it’s difficult to get out. You have to understand this: if JFK’s life didn’t mean diddly to the big boys, do you think they have any tears to shed for Barack Hussein?