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Barack Obama, the Hannibal Lecter of politics
American Thinker ^ | 19 Sep, 2025 | Jeannie DeAngelis

Posted on 09/20/2025 6:02:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Through clever innuendo and seemingly noncommittal suggestion, Barack Obama has spent two decades subtly dividing America socially, racially, and politically.

Obama is known for making his points with surgical precision. No one can deny that, armed with a sharpened teleprompter, an emotionally detached Barack Obama appears as a methodical, unemotional speaker skilled at disguising deep-seated hostility as civility.

The former president’s detached eloquence bears resemblance to that of the fictional character, serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter.

Hannibal had a complex psyche that could be hidden behind a refined manner of expressing rage, with his wrath concealed behind a façade of feigned grace and collegiality; that is precisely what Barack Obama does.

From the beginning, Obama worked hard to craft the narrative that the real threat to this nation was patriotic Americans who adhered to the Constitution. It started in April 2009, when the newly elected president directed Janet Napolitano’s DHS to focus on nonexistent right-wing threats in America. The administration’s assessment titled, "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Radicalization and Recruitment," became the basis for a tone that would define an aggressive presidency — where everyone from pro-lifers to the military, pro-Second Amendment activists, and Americans advocating for immigration law were viewed as threats.

The racial element that sparked division in America was fueled by the statement in the document that mentioned recruitment for right-wing extremism was vigorous among those most upset about “the election of the first African-American president.”

Fast forward sixteen years, and like Hannibal Lecter sending condolences to his victim’s family, at the Jefferson Educational Society’s 17th annual global summit in Erie, Pennsylvania, a blasé former president decided he needed to extend sympathy for the death of Charlie Kirk, who was murdered on September 10th by a trans activist’s assassin’s bullet

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KEYWORDS: 2009; 200904; lawfare; leftism; leftwingextremism; trumprussiahoax; weaponizedfedgov
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To: MtnClimber
The author is really quite clever with this piece. Some may not get the gist without reading the entire post. For example, one key passage:

When an extremist is authorized to use the “weight of the United States government” to indoctrinate and oppress a nation for eight years, and then calls those exposing that corruption “extremists,” that’s when it’s time to point out that he’s the one who’s “got a problem.”

Fictional character Hannibal Lecter is depicted as a master manipulator who uses gaslighting tactics against his enemies, which is not surprising. A former forensic psychiatrist, Lecter is skilled at blurring the line between rapport and rivalry, causing his victims to lose their ability to think clearly or know who to trust. This is similar to how Barack Obama’s twisted interpretation of facts has affected the American public’s ability to discern that they have been victims of his psychological manipulation.

In the wake of Kirk’s death, the man known for insisting that the First Amendment should be limited to control his definition of “disinformation” took the opportunity to accuse the current White House of seeking to “silence discussion.”

Obama shared that the Trump administration promised to take action against social media users who celebrated Charlie’s death. Like Hannibal Lecter using his position to frame his colleague, the man who publicly and privately silenced every critic — from the Supreme Court to conservative businesses seeking tax-exempt status to critics of Benghazi — dared to accuse the Trump administration of exactly what his far-left critics have been guilty of doing for years.

Obama, whose party labeled patriotic Americans racists, extremists, terrorists, and fascists, exploited projection like Hannibal Lecter, yielding a karambit knife when he said:

When I hear not just our current president, but his aides, who have a history of calling political opponents ‘vermin,’ enemies who need to be ‘targeted,’ that speaks to a broader problem that we have right now, and something that we’re going to have to grapple with — all of us.

Attempting to place a proper-fitting “bite restraint muzzle” on Obama, the Trump White House spokeswoman, Abigail Jackson, responded to the former president’s comments in the following way:

Barack Hussein Obama is the architect of modern political division in America — famously demeaning millions of patriotic Americans who opposed his liberal agenda as ‘bitter’ for ‘cling(ing) to guns or religion,’ Obama used every opportunity to sow division and pit Americans against each other, and following his presidency more Americans felt Obama divided the country than felt he united it.

His division has inspired generations of Democrats to slander their opponents as ‘deplorables,’ or ‘fascists,’ or ‘Nazis. If he cares about unity in America, he would tell his own party to stop their destructive behavior.

Barack Obama set the table and, during his eight years in office, he carefully sliced up his political enemies while displaying both the charm and brutality embodied by the fictional character Hannibal Lecter.

I could have written this piece. She does a very fine job tearing down zero and isolating the man behind the teleprompter (regardless who actually wrote his words).

Ironically, this was also posted this morning, highlighting words posted by Michael Shellenberger:

Independent Journalist Nails What's Led to the Left's Frenzy for Political Violence
Twon Hall ^ | 19 Sep 2025 | Matt Vespa
Posted on 9/20/2025, 6:48:23 AM by Rummyfan

From that piece referencing Shellenberger's post, Left’s Dehumanization Of MAGA Behind Rising Support For Violence:

…the environment that led to Kirk’s death was created by the Left in its decades-long demonization and dehumanization of conservatives. For 80 years, schools, universities, and the media have used Hitler, Nazism, and fascism as symbols of ultimate evil. To call someone a “Nazi,” “fascist,” or “far-Right,” is therefore to imply that they are part of this evil, and like the historical Nazis, must be eliminated. Over the last 10 years, not just the radical Left but the mainstream news media, including the New York Times, and mainstream Democrats like Newsom, repeatedly characterized Trump and his supporters as Hitler-adjacent fascists. The New Republic openly depicted Trump as Hitler.

[…]

This was all part of a deliberate dehumanization campaign. Kirk, Trump, and other conservatives, Democrats argued, are white supremacists and misogynists who “hate” black people and women, who are committing “trans genocide,” and who are destroying “our democracy.” For progressives who truly believe this rhetoric, killing such individuals would be as justified as killing Hitler and his supporters 80 years ago. After all, this act would not only save the lives of black and trans people, but would also save the entire country from an authoritarian fascist dictatorship.

The same leftists who had for decades produced studies, books, movies, essays, songs, and poems about how the Nazis dehumanized their enemies dehumanized, without hesitation, MAGA conservatives. They falsely claimed Trump had praised white supremacists in Charlottesville in 2017. And reporters who had for decades covered Trump’s rise to wealth and power in 2016 reported as truth the outlandish conspiracy theory that Trump was a Manchurian candidate controlled by Russian president Vladimir Putin – another alleged Hitler-like fascist.

Why did the Left spread so much hatred of Kirk and other conservatives? Why did they engage in so much dehumanization for so long?

In large part because Kirk challenged Left-wing mythology on gender, race, and modern feminism. One cannot change one’s sex through drugs, surgery, or magical thinking, Kirk and other conservatives noted. There is no epidemic of police officers killing black men; in fact, the numbers declined dramatically from the 1970s to the birth of Black Lives Matter. Black Americans commit crimes at numbers clearly disproportionate to their share of the population. And some research does suggest that liberal, secular women report more mental health issues and lower life satisfaction than conservative, religious women, who are more likely to be married and to have children.

The Left cannot tolerate these challenges to its worldview, so it resorts to censorship and silencing.

[…]

The logical conclusion of the Left’s intolerance is that those who continue to speak about reality, if they cannot be censored, should be eliminated.

Indeed.

I - for one - am happy to thrust the mirror in front of both lefist leaders and their useful idiots now projecting hate & violence as they intended, but reading these posts I echo my own words from just yesterday:

To those who were hysterically beholden to the 'religion' of COVID - from bottom all the way up to those making & enforcing policy - and now stubbornly defiant in justification of your rhetoric and your supporters' threats of violence against us on the right - the latest as of this writing against WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt - as you continue to dramatically expose your deep hatred of those with whom you disagree:

We...are...watching...you.


21 posted on 09/20/2025 7:18:31 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: logi_cal869

B.O. stinks!
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Fundamentally Transform America!


22 posted on 09/20/2025 7:30:47 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

“I can’t stand now, nor could I ever stand...Obungo”

Me, either. I instantly disliked him with burning passion when he burst on the national scene as the “keynote” speaker at the DNC convention.

I had to laugh at Ms. DeAngelis’ very first description of him: “Obama is known for making his points with surgical precision.” I have NEVER EVER seen him do that. He really is a poorly educated imbecile with a penchant for vicious politics. He will knife anybody to get ahead. He had no great, grand ambition for America other than to destroy it.

How people could NOT see that, how they could get taken in by this charlatan, this mountebank is beyond me.


23 posted on 09/20/2025 7:32:00 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: MtnClimber

Hannibal had a complex psyche that could be hidden behind a refined manner of expressing rage.

That fits O 100%


24 posted on 09/20/2025 7:33:55 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: All

From the beginning, ghetto-raised Obama worked hard to “invent” the position
<><>that the real “threat” here was patriotic Americans who adhered to the Constitution.
<><>in April 2009, Blackman told Napolitano’s DHS to focus on “nonexistent right-wing threats.”
<><>the ghetto kid’s stupid assessment was written and introduced
<><>stupidly titled, “Rightwing Extremism Fueling Radicalization and Recruitment,”
<><>that was the basis for defining a ghettoized aggressive Black presidency
<><> pro-lifers, the military, pro-2A’ers, immigration law advocates, all viewed as “threats.”


25 posted on 09/20/2025 7:41:01 AM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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To: MtnClimber

In a just world, Obama would spend the rest of his days in prison.


26 posted on 09/20/2025 7:50:29 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
How people could NOT see that, how they could get taken in by this charlatan, this mountebank is beyond me.

In the middle of a war, we elected a feckless America-hating fraud and intellectual lightweight (fifty-seven states? In Austria they speak Austrian... Corpse-man.... wee wee'ed up....if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.... that sycophantic racist Holder as AG.... and Big Mike.... and the Iranian-loving Val Jarrett at his ear the whole time).

27 posted on 09/20/2025 8:03:40 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.👨 )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

As a citizen of occupied Alberta, I found that the ex-Crime Minister of Canaduh, Justin(e) Castreau, was basically, a paler version of Oboogaloo, though having even less intelligence. Both have less intellect than a fence post.

Oboogaloo has been trained well, to look impressive while speaking, hiding his disdain for the common people well. Castreau instead, speaks down to people, as a teacher would speak to a Grade 1 class.

Both are narcissists and demonstrate great disdain for Jesus and Christianity. Their eternal trajectories are not positive. Only Jesus can change that.


28 posted on 09/20/2025 8:06:27 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (All we need is 177k signatures to get a referendum on freedom in Alberta!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

How people could NOT see that, how they could get taken in by this charlatan, this mountebank is beyond me.

++++++++++

I still very vividly remember the day after this scum bag was elected. I was at work walking around the office in disbelief. I was shell-shocked. No one else seemed to be bothered as I was. I know why Rush (RIP) said - I hope he fails.


29 posted on 09/20/2025 9:23:38 AM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: mund1011

The only time I was more shocked than when he was elected in 2008 was when he got RE-ELECTED in 2012. I thought he had a 0.01% chance of getting re-elected after those disastrous four years and the full exposure of his low class and virulent anti-white, anti-Americanism.


30 posted on 09/20/2025 9:27:52 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Netz

“He was smart, quick, intellectual and was a traitor to the US Constitution and the People of America.”

The only thing that ‘saved us’ to fight another day is that Barry is also financially corrupt and pretty lazy. He hit the right with several good shots but let us off the ropes. Joe Biden tagged-in and he was as totally corrupt as his administration was incompetent.


31 posted on 09/20/2025 9:28:49 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: poinq
He is the women that told you, you did not build that. That being your life’s work...

I call this the "Therefore" game:

He told you math was white...Therefore
He told you our forefathers were bad people...Therefore
America was built on slavery...Therefore
White people can’t help but be racist. Black people can’t be racist...Therefore
Speech is violence. Violence is protesting...Therefore
Conservatives are NAZI’s...Therefore
Communists are Social democrats...Therefore
Showing up on time and working hard is white...Therefore

32 posted on 09/20/2025 9:42:59 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (How it started: Covfefe - - - - - How it is going: COVFAFO)
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To: antidemoncrat

He wasnt a traitor to those who installed him.

Obama like AOC and Mandami and many many others is a contruct, a creation, there is nothing real about these people at all except for their goals and who it is they serve.


33 posted on 09/20/2025 9:59:25 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: MtnClimber

The comparison fails when one realizes that Dr. Lecter, though evil, was incredibly intelligent.


34 posted on 09/20/2025 10:09:35 AM PDT by DPMD (u)
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To: Netz

” . .an agent of the world terror group called the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Exactly, I’ve told people this and would get blank stares,

He promoted them in Egypt and many Christians died because of his evil ‘color revolution’ actions ousting Hosni Mubarak and installing that monster Morsi.


35 posted on 09/20/2025 11:33:06 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: MtnClimber
Obama was evidently a Red Diaper baby who grew up to become an aristocratic Communist.

By virtue of his super-affluent upbringing, his being bestowed a Columbia undergraduate degree THEN a Harvard Law Degree and Law Review credentials, just shows the highly placed, invisible network of Communists who installed him as the Post Turtle of all time.

It is downright depressing to see all of the academics, media people, politicians, rich donors, election fraudsters, and probably international Communists like Soros who groomed and installed this Communist fraud into the Oval Office.

It's all becoming plain, even the hardest-to-convince are pretty much hip to the Communists by now.

McCarthy?

I only wish he was just a misguided paranoid crank, and that the Communists he feared were merely figments of his imagination.

Unfortunately, they were and are real, and very numerous. And now they are scrambling to remain alive. Beware of what they may say or do, because they are cornered.

36 posted on 09/20/2025 12:30:53 PM PDT by caddie (Going forward we all need to become Trump, and also Captain Obvious, and Charlie Kirk too. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

So I wonder if the Kenyans were telling the truth when they said Barack was born there?


37 posted on 09/20/2025 12:48:42 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: MtnClimber
"From the beginning, Obama worked hard to craft the narrative that the real threat to this nation was patriotic Americans who adhered to the Constitution."


38 posted on 09/20/2025 6:07:02 PM PDT by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: poinq

America last to level the playing field.
The police acted stupidly.


39 posted on 09/21/2025 4:04:51 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: captmar-vell

Amazing how people either forget or were not paying attention. BHO’s visit to Cairo paved the way for a landslide of horrific events:

1) Revolution in Egypt, the ascent of the Muslim Brotherhood (who killed Sadat in 1981).
2) Upheavel in Syria, Libya, the PALEOstinians in Israel, AL-Qaeida in Iraq, Iranian terror growth and a reenergized nuclear program, Hezbollah growth, HAMAS growth, Houthi rebels conquering parts of Yemen and finally the loss of Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

THAT is just the foreign policy debacles.

Domestically he cause a rift between whites and blacks and one thousand other disruptive and destructive events within the USA.

Ha, ha, ha then they brought in Sleepy Joe.


40 posted on 09/21/2025 5:03:43 AM PDT by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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