Today is the unveiling of Barack Obama’s presidential library. These moments, like funerals for American dignitaries, are always an example to whitewash their crimes and paint a revisionist history to indoctrinate the masses.
If the truth was allowed to be spoken at this ridiculous event, the public would’ve heard the following about the 44th president . . .
• Obama authorized over 540 drone strikes in countries including Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. Killing thousands of innocent civilians in the process.
• Obama was the first president who claimed the authority to assassinate American citizens. He exercised that power by ordering the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son.
• Obama invoked the Espionage Act more than all his predecessors combined. Who did he target? Heroic whistleblowers like Thomas Drake, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden. He used it as a pretext to target reporters such as James Rosen, Wikileaks and the Associated Press.
• Obama had his administration selected by Citigroup. A 2016 WikiLeaks release of hacked e-mails revealed that in October 2008, Citigroup executive Michael Froman sent an e-mail to Obama's presidential transition team. The e-mail contained a list of recommended candidates, and a significant portion of those individuals were ultimately selected for Obama's first-term Cabinet.
• Obama authorized Shell to conduct limited exploratory oil drilling in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska in 2015. He consistently bragged in interviews he made America the oil producing nation of the world.
• Obama expanded the role of the surveillance state under his administration. This was revealed thanks to the heroism of Snowden. When his Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was asked about the program during his congressional testimony, he committed perjury by denying such a program existed.
• Obama implemented a healthcare plan out of the Heritage Foundation. The Affordable Care Act was the same plan Republican Senator Bob Dole ran on as the nominee for president in 1996 and Mitt Romney implemented as governor of Massachusetts.
• Obama came into office after President George W. Bush authorized torture and Wall Street committed fraud. After the Bush administration ordered torture/detained innocent prisoners and Wall Street held America hostage, the Obama administration refused to prosecute any of the criminals.
• Obama signed into law Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act. Under this provision, the executive branch has the authority to detain Americans indefinitely. The Obama administration tried to assuage the fears of Americans by telling them they never intended to use this provision. I am sure it was a coincidence after the provision was signed into law, Obama violated his campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay.
• Obama oversaw the loss of over 1000 seats of Democratic officeholders. Implementing a neoliberal agenda crippled the Democratic Party and paved the way for a demagogue like Donald Trump.
None of that will be mentioned at this event.
Related Off-site Links:
Obama Presidential Center Opens with Star-studded Celebration – Justin Kaufmann (Axios, June 18, 2026).
“More Like a White Man Than a Brother”: As Obama Opens His Monument, Kenya Reckons with His Legacy – Jon Jeter (The Kansas City Defender, June 19, 2026).
Obama’s New Presidential Center and His Tricky Relationship with the South Side – Gene Demby (NPR News, June 16, 2026).
People Can’t Read the Lettering on the Obama Presidential Center Tower – Hunter Schwarz (Fast Company, February 25, 2026).
Meditations On the Notion That Obama “Never Had Any Scandals” – Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter, February 19, 2025). Of Towers and Toilets: A Tale of Two Developments – Yasmin Nair (Current Affairs, January 18, 2022).
Barack Obama Is A War Criminal – Prince Williams (Harvard Political Review, September 29, 2021).
From Torture to Drone Strikes: The Disturbing Legal Legacy Obama is Leaving for Trump – Jennifer Williams (Vox, January 10, 2017).
How President Obama Solidified the Transition to Perpetual War – The Takeaway (January 18, 2016).
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Jeff Cohen on How Obama’s “Corporate Liberalism” Led to the Rise of Trump
• Genny Harrison on Brian Tyler Cohen’s Interview with Obama: “A Careful Meditation That Comforts More Than It Challenges”
• Progressives and Obama (Part 1)
• Progressives and Obama (Part 2)
• Progressives and Obama (Part 3)
• Progressives and Obama (Part 4)
• Progressives and Obama (Part 5)
• Progressives and Obama (Part 6)
• Progressives and Obama (Part 7)
• Historic (and Wild)!
• Reality Check
• One of Those Moments
• Obama, Ayers, the “S” Word, and the “Most Politically Backward Layers in America”
• Obama a Socialist? Hardly
• Thoughts on Tomorrow’s Presidential Election (2008)
• “Change Has Come to America”
• A Night of Celebration
• The Challenge for Progressives with an Obama Presidency
• Exposing the Dark Money Network Secretly Funding Establishment Democratic Influencers
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