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This is an article from [[FIGU Special Bulletin 55]], published in August 2010.

==President Barack Hussein Obama, his wise politics and his opponents==

It  is a distinguishing characteristic of many human beings of Earth that  they very quickly change their opinions and standpoints according to the  inner or outer circumstances. Due to a lack of conscious selfcontrol  and self-mastery, they succumb to very strong feeling-vacillations which  lead to first abandoning themselves to a strong enthusiasm and fit of  excitement concerning an event, a person or a project, whereby after  some time these then abate and give room to feelings such as suspicion,  hate, disappointment, frustration, vexation, etc. towards the former  source of excitement.

The  unsteadiness, instability, and susceptibility to vacillations of the  world of feelings and world of thoughts of many human beings of Earth  are undoubtedly the cause of great individual and societal  crisis-situations of political, economic and social kinds on our earth,  which, however, could be prevented or at least contained if human beings  would learn to control and equal out, i.e. to direct onto  neutral-positive tracks, their own thoughts and feelings as well as  emotional outbursts. The importance of this control- and equalling  out-process of one's own world of thoughts and world of feelings, which  leads away from a strong polarisation and towards a neutral-positive  condition of the psyche and of the consciousness, becomes clearly  apparent when one considers that a society, a country and – in the end –  the entire humanity of Earth is made up of the sum of the individual  human beings of Earth and that for this reason a present and future  reality is nothing other than the product and result of the human  beings' intentions, bearings, proposed deeds, decisions and wishes of a  conscious or unconscious kind that are thought and felt as well as  partially put into action.

In  democratic countries, a president and head of government is directly or  indirectly elected by the people, but very often human beings vote on  the basis of feeling-related conditions, moods and stirrings, i.e. on  the basis of sympathy or antipathy, which a candidate conveys through  his or her rhetoric, gestures and his or her appearance, while the  programs as well as the ideas, contents and motives of his or her  politics are hardly paid attention to.

As  the government-candidates are for the most part conscious of how easily  human beings are influenced, they attempt to impress their voters  through targeted image strategies and media appearances and to appear as  sympathetic and radiant as possible to them, in order to thereby  achieve their consensus. Everything possible is done to have an effect  on the voter's vacillating world of feelings. The candidate who masters  this art of trickery the best is normally elected to president; but then  he or she must live up to these artificially produced sympathies,  expectations and wishes of the voters which is usually very difficult.  So politicians are able, through media-manipulations and exciting  promises and deliberate stagings, which target the creation of  enthusiasm and euphoria or also anxiety and fear, to bring entire masses  of human beings on their side as well as to also give a false picture  of themselves and their politics. Thus, it can for example be feigned  that they campaign for peace, prosperity, and inner security and defence  of the country against external threats and dangers even if this does  not correspond to the actual facts and is a pure illusion. The voters,  which are led around by the nose through targeted techniques of opinion  manipulation, are thus, on account of constant bombardments through  false news, tendentious messages as well as through hammering political  propaganda, no longer capable of separating the fiction and the shine  from the true reality and of discovering the deception that they have  fallen victim to.

So it  happens that a president and head of government who has come to might  through such deceptive means completely ruins his or her land  economically, financially and socially by accumulating mountains of  debt, betraying the constitution, sending his or her fellow countrymen  to war – whereby many innocent people must die – and leaving behind a  contaminated environment to the future generations, without being called  to account for it by his or her gullible and indoctrinated voters.  However, the truth gradually comes out and the population (or at least a  part of it) becomes conscious of the illusion, the deception and the  manipulation of opinion that they have fallen prey to, and as if waking  up from an evil dream they turn their backs on their former great hero  and idol and even begin to hate and to damn him or her.

It  can, however, also happen – although rather infrequently – that a  presidential candidate achieves, on account of his or her authentic and  in no way feigned charisma, his or her speaking skills, as well as the  truthfulness and honestness of his or her ideas and projects, widespread  sympathies and a large consensus among voters which is not produced  artificially but arises spontaneously in the human beings because he or  she is actually capable of convincing voters through the – applied for  positive purposes – might of his or her words and thoughts of the  goodness and effectiveness of his or her intentions. This was, for  example, actually the case with the election of president Barack Obama,  who had aroused a broad wave of sympathy and was elected with great  enthusiasm to president of the USA. As president he has been celebrated  by many million fellow American citizens as that statesman who would  return dignity and honour to his country and set a political course that  would awaken new hope and open up a better outlook for the future. As  the first black president in the history of the USA, he embodies for  many million of voters of differing ethnic origins values such as new  beginning, renewal, peace, freedom, progress, and equality, as well as a  fair leader-figure who is able to carry out the final steps for the  overcoming of a still creeping racial discrimination of black and other  ethnic minorities. Thus, for the large masses of human beings in the USA  and elsewhere in the world, Obama represents a true and long yearned  for glimmer of hope, who after the dark Bush-era – during which many  countries of Earth wanted to arm themselves in order to be able to  defend themselves against the insane warmongering of the USA –, would  practice a reconciliatory peace-politic. These hopes and expectations,  as was already clearly and distinctly shown after the first months of  his administration, were in no way disappointed because Obama took  decisions 
and measures that represent the consequent implementation of  his election promises. Yet soon after his election, a smear campaign and  a malicious mudslinging were launched by his political opponents,  fanatic media-gurus, partisan newspapers and interest groups as well as  by delusional religious preachers and doomsday prophets in order to put  the newly elected president in a bad light and using every opportunity  to run him down by blaming him for things, problems and accusations  which were the doings of others – especially some of his predecessors in  office – and for which he bears no responsibility.

The  American foreign policy, so goes one of the leitmotifs of the  anti-Obama propaganda, is too soft, too willing to compromise, and too  weak, that is to say, too little self-confidence and not aggressive  enough against other world-mights like China, Russia as well as the  Islamic countries. Also racist sects and associations have become loud  against Obama because to them he is as a black president a thorn in  their eye.

That president  Obama in relation to other world-mights, countries and peoples puts  dialogue first and does not immediately use threatening might-words in  order to put others under pressure and to terrorise them is something  that appears to a part of the American people as a sign of weakness and  not knowing what to do and even as cowardice, because their mentality is  still strongly marked by the stereotype of the gunman and cowboy, which  is inclined to rely on weapons and Gewalt (The German word Gewalt is  definied as «to use physical, psychical, mental, and  consciousness-related powers, abilities and skills with all available  coercive means in order to carry through and carry out actions and  deeds.) as the sole means for the solving of problems. Apparently this  part of the US-population has very little interest and respect for other  cultures and peoples because it is of the view that everything  revolves, or should revolve, around the USA and that the entire world  should submit itself to the USA or should at least adapt to the “US way  of life”. In contrast, Obama is a president who is open to the world,  modest and eloquent, knows and esteems other peoples, religions and  cultures, and for this reason does not constantly boast of US-values in  order to impose these on all the others. Therefore, it could not have  turned out any differently than his being hated by that part of the  American people who only knows the language and gestures of the use of  Gewalt, the threat of war, the exploitation of the economy, and the  brutal domination of the world, and that they also attempt to vilify the  president and to insult him and to expose him as being incompetent with  all means, whether through television programs, caricatures, cover  pictures, newspaper articles, political smear campaigns, satirical  internet sites and all possible propaganda tricks, in order to destroy  his public and private image. While doing so, these brainless critics  and evil slande
rers never consider what positive results the Obama  politics have already brought not only America, but the entire world.  The following are some of them:

*  With regards to foreign policy he has within one year eased the great  and dangerous tensions between the USA and other world-mights, offered  the Islamic countries dialogue instead of war as well as started or got  underway a nuclear disarmament process with Russia which is on a scale  that has not happened in decades.
* He has ordered the  closing of the human-rights violating prison camp in Guatánamo and  imposed the ban of torture practices by intelligence services and police  officials as a means for extorting confessions from suspected  terrorists.
* He has openly criticised Israel's expansion  and settlement politics as well as taken a neutral position in the  Israel-Palestine conflict and encouraged both parties to dialogue and to  concrete peace negotiations.
* He has distanced himself  from the reprehensible US-practice with regard to foreign affairs of  again and again interfering militarily or with the secret service in the  internal affairs of other countries and acting as the world-police  everywhere.
* Instead he has treated other countries as  equal partners in talks and offered them co-operation and partnership,  and also, when necessary, made help available as for example in the case  of the earthquake in Haiti, and that without pursuing deceitful world  domination objectives.
* He has explained the complete  and step-wise withdrawal of US troops as necessary and initiated it, as  well as put in place plans to solve the Afghanistan-question.
*  With regards to domestic politics he has put into power a historical  healthcare reform which has secured over 35 million Americans a form of  healthcare which they previously could not afford.
* He  has initiated a government investment plan in the amount of 787 billion  dollars for the rescue of the US economy and of the banking system,  which as massive stimulus of the economy has had an effect and has cared  for that the worst effects of the crisis, such as mass unemployment and  impoverishment of society, were contained or substantially softened,  which were caused by the predator-capitalists who are driven by  unrestrained greed for money and who trample under foot every ethic,  moral and all human-values because they are ready to go over corpses for  the sake of profit.
* He has bluntly attacked the  excessively high extra-payments for bank managers – through which the  businesses and banks that they manage are driven into ruin – and in  doing so has announced limits for the managers' salaries.
*  He has signalled a constructive attitude towards the progress of the  economy and in connection with this has repealed some of the bans and  restrictions on stem-cell research and genetic engineering that were  pushed through by G.W. Bush, as well as removing the bans and  restrictions of their financing by the government. In return he was  heavily criticised by the Roman Catholic church.
* He put  an end to the undignified practice dubbed “Don't ask, don't tell”,  according to which homosexuals were only then allowed to be accepted  into the Military if they kept their homosexuality a secret.
*  He spoke honest words of reconciliation and deep respect towards the  human beings of Islamic faith and emphasised that America shall no  longer be viewed and considered as an enemy by these human beings but as  a friend, because it does not want to lead a crusade against Islamic  countries. In doing so, he called upon the representatives of the  monotheistic religions to overcome their mutual hostilities and  suspicions and instead to discover again the common roots and values and  to foster them.

These  efforts of Barack Hussein Obama that are marked by wisdom,  broad-sightedness, rationality, tolerance, love for one's fellow human  being and peace have already in a short period of time decisively  contributed to easing the tension in the world situation in many places  as well as to building up peaceful and progressive relationships between  the countries of Earth. One asks oneself what other politicians in his  position could have brought about even half of that which he has already  achieved in less than one and a half years. But in spite of the support  of the “small” people in the USA and in all of the world Obama's  political effects run up against many dark powers such as the financial  elite, economic centres of might, the armaments industry, the insurance  lobby, the fanatical-religious and extreme right-wing groups as well as  some mass media and Republican opponents, because he acts counter to  their egotistical self-interests and also endangers them through his  deeds serving the public interest by reaching decisions which serve the  common good of his people as well as indirectly also the entire  humankind. In addition many of his incapable opponents and critics envy  his talent of speech, his intellectual brilliance and the excellent  ability to recognise problems quickly and to find effective short,  medium, or long term solutions for them, which the opponents and critics  are completely incapable of doing. And as if that was not bad enough,  there are those who also strive to kill him in order to silence him  definitely.

The line of  Obama's opponents is much longer than one could imagine at first glance,  as many anti-globalisation fanatics, conspiracy theorists and other  left-wing extremists and ideologists also do not like him because they  accuse him in an unfair way of not allowing banks and financial  institutions, which were responsible for the economic crisis, to go  bankrupt instead of having them rescued from collapse through government  subventions and massive injections of funds. It does not occur to these  dumb groaners that if Obama had responded like they wished, namely to  just sit back and watch the greatest financial crisis, then the entire  economic system would have broken down and these world-changers would  have become beggars, homeless people and unemployed, and their dollars  would have had almost no value. But that is not all, for also the  obstinate worshippers and protectors of the predator-like capitalistic  system and its financial sharks keep on and on and accuse Obama of  socialism, because he has injected large sums of tax dollars into the  economic and financial sectors and provided government support to  heavily hit private industries, especially the auto industry. Apparently  these quarrelsome and cynical ideologists are not in any way interested  in the destiny of millions of workers just as they are also not  interested in the existential situation of the large masses of human  beings, whose future is threatened by great poverty and impoverishment.  According to these critics, Obama is simultaneously, on the one hand, a  faithful friend of the banks and the financial system and, on the other  hand, however, a dangerous socialist who wants to nationalise everything  – which is completely absurd. Thus, this clearly shows how unfounded,  slanderous and pretextual these attacks are, since they serve to  convince the public that this president is good for nothing and is  ruining everything in the USA

In  reality Obama has already put much of that into effect what he had  promised before the election whereby the majority of his predecessors  totally failed in all these things or – if one wants to express this  weakly – roundly neglected everything. One only has to think of the  historical contract with Russia for nuclear disarmament. According to  this agreement the number of nuclear warheads, as well as their carrier  systems, must be halved within seven years. With this Obama had the  courage to express a clear vision of a world without nuclear weapons and  has begun to take the first steps in putting into effect his valuable  idea. However, regarding this the nasty critical voices have also become  louder, which say that Obama's intentions are utopian and unrealistic  since the reduction of the nuclear weapons arsenal only concerns the two  super-mights USA and Russia, but not the many other countries that  possess nuclear weapons, such as China, India, Pakistan and Israel etc.  But the fact is that someone among the nuclear-mights must begin with  the disarmament, and if one starts with the weapons arsenal of the  former archenemies USA and Russia, it is so much the better; then an  important sign is set by this that has a signal-effect with regard to  the necessity of a nuclear disarmament, which other willing countries  worldwide can then follow. The more mighty nations, foremost the USA,  shall serve as an example according to Obama's vision and spur on all  the others to do the same. To expect that the others take the first  steps in the direction of disarmament is extremely foolish, illusory and  irresponsible.

A further  example of the extremely illogical kind of critic of the Obama-politic  can be seen in some of the reactions to his decision for the withdrawal  of troops out of Iraq. The war in Iraq, which was instigated by his  predecessor in office, G.W. Bush, and the bloody military occupation  resulting from it, has plunged the country into a civil war and into  such chaos and misery that their consequences are immeasurable. However,  this war and the occupation brought very terrible consequences also for  the USA: A national debt that is driven to astronomical heights, many  thousands of dead and injured among the soldiers, and very many more  among the private militias and the uninvolved Iraqi population. An  entire generation of war-weary US soldiers as returnees, who return home  as persons who are psychically or physically damaged by war. As persons  harmed psychically and physically by the war experiences they are war  cripples and are no longer able to integrate themselves into society –  and it is not unusual for them to commit suicide. In view of this entire  disaster, there was and is on the part of those responsible in politics  and in the military no word of self-critic and of remorse to be heard.

Now,  Obama is given the heavy burden to pull the cart out of the mud and  even here vehement attacks are brought against him of all people,  according to which a withdrawal from Iraq is irresponsible and does not  represent a solution to the situation. On the other hand, the president  is also accused of not having kept his election promise regarding the  withdrawal of troops and as a result had received the Nobel peace prize  undeservedly.

How should  these self-opinionated would-be statesmen and would-be responsible ones  come to the insight that an abrupt immediate withdrawal of US-troops  from Iraq after years of occupation, terrorism and civil war would  plunge the country into a still worse anarchy because everything has  gone downhill and has worsened dramatically in all these years through  the corrupt governments that the US has supported.

Thus,  how can one expect that a leader comes along – be it also the best  strategist of the world – who shall be in a position within a few months  or years to magically repair the catastrophe, which has already  persisted for many years and has taken on worse and worse forms, and to  transform Iraq into a peaceful paradise! Where were these great  Obama-critics in all these years of the disastrous, criminal  Iraq-politics and above all, what have they actually done in order to  prevent the full extent of the disaster, or least to pillory it and to  expose it?

The fact is and  remains that a step-wise withdrawal of US-troops is only taking place  because of Obama's decision and the end of the longstanding criminal  military occupation of the country is drawing nearer. Obama's political  opponents also demand that he be more aggressive and more threatening  towards Iran and threaten this country with war. This, if it does not  forego its nuclear programme and also does not abandon its secret  nuclear weapons armament project, as is very strongly wished for by the  Israeli Leadership.

Should  those, who now accuse Obama of having capitulated to Iran as well as  Russia and China, and who declare that an especially violent  confrontation with Iran is necessary, come to take the helm in the USA  one day – which is not to be ruled out – then one asks oneself where  would they lead their country and the entire world through their insane  plans, and what then will become of us all and of our descendants. That  these fanatics through their delusional belief are already strongly  endangering the international peace through their ideas and also would  suggestively and forcefully bring about war if they took the helm of  might, can already be clearly and distinctly recognised. And the insane  ideas that they have – which would completely destroy the present-day  peaceful relations with Russia, the Islamic world and China, because,  due to their stubborn Rambo-politics, it would come to severe tensions  among the worldmights, which possibly could lead into a third world war –  are not at all taken into account by their reckless followers.

That  Obama is no rigid ideologist, rather a circumspect pragmatist and wise  rational-human being, who always attempts to make the best out of what  is feasible in the moment and in the future, and who is not subject to  any dangerous delusions, contributes to letting him appear unsympathetic  or also hostile to all those human beings who have lost all contact to  true reality and its truth, because they cling to all possible confused  fantasies and thought-processes, wild theories and rumours as well as  abstruse religious and sectarian teachings, through which they are  totally blinded and which hinders them from perceiving, wanting to  accept, and understanding, the effective reality in its entire breadth  and fullness. For this reason it is astonishing that a substantial part  of the US-American population is not in the position to come to the  insight that a president is at work in their country who in one year has  accomplished much more and brought about much more positive changes  than all of his predecessors added together. In spite of this one cannot  evade the ascertainment, how dumb, foolish, inane, arrogant, absolutely  superficial and irrational a human being must be in order to not summon  up any ability, intellect and rationality, to recognise the many  results already achieved by President Obama and therefore to give him  respect and esteem. In truth, he has since taking office, in accordance  with his election promises, already brought about much good and  positive, namely not only for his country and the population of the USA,  but for the entire humanity of Earth.

And he has done this within a short period of time and within a framework which no other US president before him was able to do.

To  conclude I, would like to make the following comments: Surely, it is  very hopeful and helpful if someone comes to have might who is wise and  whose consciousness-evolution-level is a stretch higher than that of the  broad mass of human beings. But if this mass of human beings, instead  of observing and considering their wise leader as an example and  allowing oneself to be inspired by his manner of thinking and acting,  burdens him with all possible terrible states of affairs, shift their  own responsibility concerning their own errors and negligence onto him,  then this mass of human beings are good for absolutely nothing. A  population is actually good for nothing if it acts according to the  motto, “You have to clean up the mess left by your predecessor alone, we  are not making any personal contribution towards this, because we do  not want to bear any responsibility for it; instead we only wait and see  that you do everything for us and if you should not succeed then  exactly for this reason you are guilty.” Such behaviour is a clear  symptom that the majority of the human beings concerned do not possess a  clear intellect and a clear rationality and logic and, as a result,  have not yet understood what and how life really is, how it functions  and how one as a true human being is to live. To this I will describe  some typical thought-processes, imaginations and inner  consciousness-conditions of these human beings (not only are those  fallible ones of the USAmericans, who fall exactly within this  framework, meant, but also those human beings in general of all other  countries around the world who are fallible concerning this matter):

*  First of all, I let myself be manipulated by all possible influences  through advertising, television, political propaganda, religions, sects  and films, without questioning their sense and purpose and as a result I  lose control over myself.
* Then I am ready, through my  applause and my support, to agree with every single guru, sectarian,  political leader or star and to ensure that he exploits my  consciousness-conditioning and inner unfreedom in order to be captivated  by him.
* Consequently, I do not recognise all of the  disasters that these false leaders and gurus have instigated and  triggered in my name and because of my support.
* The  consequence of this thought-process is that I bear no responsibility for  them and, should the occasion arise, push it onto someone else, who I  gladly put in my sights as a scapegoat or who is pointed out to me as  such.
* If others, human beings who are conscious of  themselves, acknowledge the entire disaster and there is someone to be  found who really has the ability to clean up the entire mess and dirt,  then I begin to view him as a disturbing factor and to blame him for  things for which he bears no responsibility.

What  Obama effectuates, one will be able to better assess in the future;  what is certain is that his politics requires time and patience and for  this reason he cannot, in the remaining two or one and a half years,  bring that to completion what he wants to achieve, but that he also  needs a second mandate in order for his activities to completely unfold.

Obama's  mission and the FIGU somehow run parallel and there exists a deep  connection that reaches back thousands of years. Regardless of whether  Obama is conscious of it or not, he can still bring about all kinds of  positive, progressive and evolutive things for the humanity of Earth and  prevent a third world war inferno which is still a threatening  possibility. But, whether his mission is crowned with success depends  mainly on the kind of thinking and acting of the US-citizens as well as  the entire population of Earth, because it depends on whether they are  willing to make an effort to drive forward their own  consciousness-evolution in order to really learn what needs to be  learned with regard to being human in the real and true sense, so that  everyone begins to live as a true human being among other human beings.  Everyone must decide whether he or she wants to walk along the path of  the positive, progressive and evolutive, which Obama and FIGU also walk  along, or if he or she decides against it and continues to go along and  vegetate away on the old pernicious and self-destructive tracks of hate,  of might-addiction, of cult-religious veneration and of fanaticism as  well as of inner unpeace and of inner enslavement. We all, regardless of  which consciousness-evolution-level we belong to, carry the full  responsibility for the course of our history. It is through our  responsibility that we determine whether we go along the path to bitter  suffering, which leads us continuously into enmity and into  all-destroying wars, or whether we turn ourselves towards love, harmony  and progress, and as a result true freedom as well as a lasting  worldwide peace among all peoples, regardless of whatever their race,  skin colour, mentality, opinion, and direction of belief and knowledge  may be.

''Written by Andrea Bertuccioli, Italy''

''Translation: Willem Mondria, Switzerland''

===Source===
* http://www.figu.org/ch/verein/periodika/sonder-bulletin/2010/nr-55