I always see Obama as SnakeShit
Back in December of 2008, then President-elect Barack Hussein Obama said he’d use his middle name at his inauguration because of tradition (most presidents-elect use their full names at inauguration). But he also explained that simply by dint of having it — and, of course simply by being him, The One — he presented a “unique opportunity to reboot America’s image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular.”
Obama was absolutely cocksure he could sweep into the Middle East, riven by centuries of conflict, give a speech, and have the sun break out. Towards that effort he gave his very first post-inauguration interview to a Muslim outlet, Al Arabiya, then set off on his six-month long “apology tour.”
About five months into it, in June 2009, he went to Cairo for what the White House billed as the big kahuna, the major speech, the one he was no doubt sure would usher in his imagined Middle East Oasis of Peace. And sure enough, once again, he mentioned his middle name.
“…Much has been made of the fact that an African American with the name Barack Hussein Obama could be elected President.”
Of course, the effete and obsequious Cairo speech didn’t work, and by the sunset of his presidency, if not well before, the Muslim world had caught on to what a weakling and fraud he was and is and, well, I’ll let the below quote speak for itself. The speaker, “Abdulkhaleq Abdullah, a professor of political science at Emirates University” was referring to the Muslim world and is from the region:
“‘I don't think they have a deep respect, a deep trust for Obama and his promises.’”
That’s as gentle — and devastating — an assessment as could have been given. At the time he said it, the spring of 2015, just 18 months or so from the end of his second term, Obama was trying to get the region’s Sunni Muslim leaders on board with his Shiite Iran deal and they were having none of it. They knew he was a at best, a paper tiger, and at worst, in league with them.
“President Obama convened the May 13-14 [2015] Camp David summit with the Sunni Arab leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) [Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman] in pursuit of a grand bargain. If the Gulfies would mute their objections to his coveted nuclear agreement with Iran, he would compensate them with the American security guarantees against Iranian aggression in the region they sought.”
Professor Abdullah further asserted that 4 of the 6 invited “Gulf leaders were staying away to signal their displeasure over the nuclear talks.” That they blew off Obama at Camp David was a huge snub, and it was even reported so at the time by some in the legacy media. Notable among the absences was leader of Saudi Arabia, who Obama had been counting on. The Saudis, like the other three that skipped, sent a subordinate. It appeared Obama’s big Iran deal might have been dealt a fatal blow.
Pshaw. No matter. Obama plowed ahead, and by August 5, 2015, deal now firmly in pocket, he was in front of his teleprompter again, lying his skinny ass off. Check out this banger:
“… This is the strongest non-proliferation agreement ever negotiated."
Uh-huh. He further elaborated:
“[We’ve ensured] that all pathways to a bomb are cut off.”
Uh-huh. Not so much, Barry. Just 4 years and several pallets of cash later, Iran was known to be so flagrantly violating the agreement it was no longer possible to hide it. Via American Thinker’s columnist Clarice Feldman:
... [By] the middle of 2019 Iran violated the terms of the agreement, it exceeded the agreed upon 300 kg stockpile of enriched uranium; exceeded the enrichment of uranium to close to weapons grade; it expanded the number and type of centrifuges, resumed prohibited research and development and reduced the IAEA’s access and monitoring of its nuclear facilities. Such a deal! Such negotiators!
Within 10 years the Iranians had enough enriched uranium for eleven bombs.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) calculated in its September 2025 verification and monitoring report that on the eve of the June 2025 attacks by Israel and the United States, Iran had in its possession 440.9 kg of uranium enriched up to 60% of the explosive uranium isotope, U-235.
But we needn’t have worried. Obama had this all figured out. He done did the math. Once again, from his August 2015 speech. Emphasis mine:
“The defense budget of the United States is more than $600 billion. To repeat, Iran’s is about $15 billion. Our military remains the ultimate backstop to any security agreement that we make. I have stated that Iran will never be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.”
Yes, well, here’s your backstop now, Barry: Operation Epic Fury. (Notably, as of this writing, Obama still has not commented on Operation Epic Fury. Not. A. Peep.).
And what’s going on in the region? Unity. Behind Donald Trump. Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates have all united against Iran, urging President Trump not to stop short in the war, and finish them off for good.
Saudi Arabia has even threatened: “We reserve the right to respond militarily.”
Trump’s first term Abraham Accords brought the Muslim world together in ways previously unimaginable, normalizing relations between Israel and The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco. And recently, Kazakhstan and Somaliland have pledged to join the Accords.
Trump’s second term Operation Epic Fury has united the wider Muslim world in the effort to finally extinguish the threat Iran has posed to all of us for 47 years, and there are even some nascent rumblings about the Abraham Accords being expanded — possibly with Saudi Arabia leading the pack — once the dust has settled on the sandbox surrounding Tehran.
Can you imagine the swooning had Obama achieved such monumental unanimity? He wouldn’t just get the Nobel Peace Prize, they’d shut it down and name an entirely new prize after him. There would be statues, monuments, songs, celebrations, and fainting couches selling out all over the world’s most famous designer furniture houses. His name would be etched for all eternity on everything etch-able as The Peacemaker.
Obama believed he could simply show up, read a teleprompter competently, and the world would bend to his will. Trump knew showing up was merely the start, not the end of the job. (The posture of a man who has actually produced something of value in the private sector.).
The world’s press may still have an Obama love hangover, and will surely not notice or characterize Trump as The Peacemaker, but the many tens of millions of people in the Middle East and Western Europe upon whom peace not bombs will fall, may, quietly, whisper it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/03/obama_thought_he_could_unite_the_muslim_world_trump_actually_did.html
