INTRODUCTION: OBAMA FROM THE FORD
FOUNDATION TO THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION
You know, I’ve come to the conclusion that poverty is closer to the root of the problem than
color. – Robert F. Kennedy, 1968This book marks my first foray into the field of presidential candidate biography since the
publication of my George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992). I have been impelled to
return to the business of presidential candidate biography by a profound sense of alarm and national
emergency, because of the threat to the American people and to the future survival of the world
posed by the Trilateral Commission puppet and Manchurian candidate, Barack Hussein Obama.
During the early months of 2008, I issued a series of articles which analyzed the dynamics of
Obama’s postmodern coup d’état from the standpoint of comparing the Illinois Messiah’s lemming
legions and Kool-Aid cult fanatic following with the incipient and inchoate fascist movement which
coalesced around the young Benito Mussolini between 1919 and 1922, in a period of crisis similar
to the one we are traversing today. These articles were supplemented by a theoretical introduction
restating the basic characteristics of a fascist mass movement, and also by an extended comparison
between Obama’s campaign platform and the record in office of Jimmy Carter, who is the most
recent example of a puppet president controlled by the Trilateral-Rockefeller banking elite. I also
benefited from valuable contributions from my friends Bruce Marshall and Jonathan Mowat.
The resulting book was entitled Obama the Postmodern Coup: the Making of a Manchurian
Candidate, and was offered to the public for the first time on Monday, April 7, 2008, thanks to the
superlative efforts of the eminent publisher John Leonard of Progressive Press in California. Our
original intention had been to include a biography of the mystery candidate Barack Hussein Obama,
but in the end we decided that it was better to issue a first volume well in advance of the April 22
Pennsylvania primary. Now, a few months later, we are delivering a second installment in the
continuing process of exposing and unmasking the enigmatic Messiah Obama. We ask for the
reader’s indulgence for the fact that this book had to be assembled in haste, but we are confident
that it contains the concepts necessary to understanding the threat posed by Obama, from the
standpoint of elementary class consciousness.
THE ONLY STUDY BASED ON AN EXPLICIT CLASS ANALYSIS
OF ELITISTS VS. WORKING PEOPLE
The 2008 campaign has been remarkable for having had the great merit of focusing attention on
the issue of class, elitism, and oligarchy, with Obama furnishing the obvious villain on the elitist
side. This book is a product of the anti-oligarchical or American school of historical writing. The
analysis is conducted from the standpoint of the New Deal tradition. Class consciousness as used
here means first of all the method exemplified by Plato in his Republic, above all awareness of the
abuses of the one (tyranny), the few (oligarchy), and the many (mob rule or ochlocracy). Our world
is generally a world of oligarchy, which is now threatening to pass through an interlude of mob rule
and then into tyranny. This book is also based on the class analysis of Machiavelli’s Discourses,
which is infinitely superior to that of Marx. In Machiavelli’s terms, the Obama campaign is a
project of the nobility (gentiluomini) and the urban bankers (ottimati or patrizi, in Britain as well as
the US) to mobilize the city mob, especially excitable youth (plebe) against the middle class
(popolo), under extreme crisis conditions. This book is also founded on the experience of the