Practical Eschatology: Obama: The Divider-In-Chief

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Obama: The Divider-In-Chief

Barack Obama has come out of wherever divisive ex-presidents hide and plot and scheme to tell all us who are unworthy of his presence his thoughts on the Charlie Kirk assassination. Like a good magic trick, it begins with misdirection:

Former President Barack Obama believes the nation is at an “inflection point” following Charlie Kirk’s assassination as the Democrat said in his first public comments on the tragedy Tuesday that the conservative commentator’s violent death was a “tragedy” regardless of his views.

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“Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific and a tragedy.”

But then the agreed upon leftist messaging came out: "He also accused President Trump and his administration of fueling the sharp political division across the United States." Followed by "the big lie":

“But I’ll say this — those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the United States government behind them,” he claimed, according to the Erie Times-News.

Yes, Obama was such a uniter that "[s]ix months before Obama left the White House, a national survey found that 60% of Americans believed that race relations had deteriorated under Obama." And we can't forget this:

Notably, shortly before turning the White House over to then-President-Elect Donald Trump, Obama launched a program, in concert with his secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, to smear Trump as a Russian agent and discredit Trump’s national security advisor, retired U.S. Army General Michael Flynn. The plot consisted of manufacturing enough “evidence,” including the infamously vulgar Steele Dossier, to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants in order to illegally spy on Trump’s transition team. The Obama-Clinton program resulted in riots upon Trump’s election, continued claims of “Russian interference” in the 2016 election, and eventually an unsuccessful impeachment effort against Trump.