Obama: The Postmodern Coup - Making of a Manchurian Candidate

Author Tarpley has written an expose of Obama as the next Manchurian Candidate (the first was Carter), recruited, trained, husbanded, financed and handled by the Bilderbergs and their American subsidiary, the Trilateral Commission. Unfortunately, the book is VERY repetitive, going over and over the same material, and loaded with invective and really scurrilous personal attacks and ill-advised adjectives. Apparently it is impossible for the author to mention many names without using descriptive adjectives like reactionary, doltish, evil, idiotic, fascist, scoundrel, etc. The use of such terms is hardly scholarly, and indeed the author makes no pretense of offering a scholarly work, preferring instead to offer a polemic. The author includes essays by others than himself, but who offer essentially nothing new or different that those points made in his own chapters. In essence, more than half of the book can be skipped without missing anything. The theme is that Obama was spotted and recruited by Zbigniew Brzezinski for his eventual election to President while Obama was studying political science at Columbia. Zbig was teaching there at the same time (1982-83), and Obama wrote his senior paper on a subject of Zbig's primary interest, "Soviet Nuclear Disarmament." Obama has provided essentially no information concerning his time at Columbia and the influence of Zbig. Lest this seem unbelievable to the reader who is unfamiliar with Zbig's role as co-founder (with David Rockefeller) of the Trilateral Commission (TC), the author serves up a few relatively undisputed facts. Zbig was put on to Jimmy Carter in 1973 by George Franklin when Carter was an unknown governor of Georgia. Zbig liked what he saw and understood that Carter would be subservient and easily handled, so took Carter to Rockefeller and the two catapulted Carter into the Presidency. It must be remembered that Carter came from nowhere, and only seven months before his nomination, was preferred by only four percent of the Democrats. The Trilateral influence was brought to bear and it proved decisive. And Zbig became Carter's National Security Advisor, TC, CFR (Council on Foreign Relations) and Bilderberg Paul Volcker took over the Federal Reserve. In fact, Carter's cabinet was stuffed with TC, CFR and Bilderberg members, as has every administration had their cabinets and top bureaucratic positions including the CIA filled by Bilderbergs, TC & CFR members since then. Unfortunately Carter was totally inept, and Ronald Reagan's "Reagan Democrat" revolt proved to be a nasty surprise for the Bilderbergs, Zbig & David Rockefeller. The first George Bush was better (also a CFR & TC member), but he still did not move the country into a public-private partnership of socialism and giant international corporations to control the country on a national and international level. Pamela Harriman introduced Bill Clinton to the Bilderbergs in 1991, and he was anointed by them to be the next President a year before he was actually elected. Zbig was back in power, if a little behind the scene. Incredibly, George W. Bush stole the election from the approved Al Gore, and even held his own against Bilderbergs John Kerry and John Edward. But now there would be no fooling around. It was time to bring someone forward who was totally bred and groomed for the Presidency and one who would dance every tune the Bilderbergs and TCs played. Although Bill Clinton was a Bilderberg, TC & CFR, Hillary was not. Enter Barack Obama. The author cites how Obama's career was managed for him: from his assisted entry into Harvard Law School, Editor of the Law Review, his movement to Chicago and receiving a position to teach constitutional law, then his election to the Illinois State Senate (unopposed, as the expensive Bilderberg lawyers were able to have all Obama's opponents' names taken off the ballot), and even his election to the US Senate. In that campaign, the Democratic front runner was destroyed by the timely breaking of a scandal story, and then his popular Republican opponent, Jack Ryan, was destroyed and forced to abandon his candidacy when Obama's handlers were able to get an LA judge to unseal Ryan's divorce settlement and give it to the press. Obama walked in against little more than a token protest vote. In the Senate Obama was instructed to avoid voting on controversial bills so his carefully coached controlled voice and cadenced speeches would be the only face he would present. The author points out that Obama is strictly a nothing front man, but his vacuous speeches are able to almost hypnotize his audiences. Much like Mussolini, Chavez, Castro and Hitler were able to do. These are the main elements of the author's theme, but he also spends a good of space on fascism, and the One World Order goals of the Bilderberg, TC and CFR organizations. The surprising element in all this is that the author is a committed leftist, and his criticism of Obama comes from the left. He puts Obama more readily under the fascist label than the socialist, although clearly the two labels become blurred together is the state envisioned by Zbig, the Bilderbergs & company. There is much to ponder in this book, particularly in view of the collapse of the US economy predicted by the author that was to be engineered by the Bilderbergs at the right time to ensure Obama's election. The price of oil almost terminated Obama's candidacy, but the Bilderbergs were able to get the price under control and reduced by their financiers in Europe and Asia. If this book's themes seem improbable or the Bilderbergs, TC or CFR are unknown to the reader, he would be advised to read Daniel Estulin's "The True Story of The Bilderberg Group", James Perloff's "The Shadows of Power - The Council on Foreign Relations And The American Decline", and Robert Ross's "Who's Who of the Elite - Members of the Bilderbergs, Council on Foreign Relations & Trilateral Commission". As I said, these is truly much here to read and ponder, but the presentation was awful. The overblown content rated five stars; the presentation and writing only one. So I compromised on three. Still, I recommend the reader buy and read this book.

When Obama first started becoming a brand name in the political world, people had a great deal of mixed reaction. Those on the left proclaimed that upon the Chosen One's election, we'd experience a new golden age of togetherness and unity. The right rambled about Obama being a communist, a Muslim, and a socialist. This book does neither. It is an indictment against what an Obama presidency would mean for the world, and even more significantly, it attacks Obama from the left. It attacks him from the perspective of someone who is a New Deal, American System Traditionalist Democrat. Tarpley cuts through all the nonsense of "socialism" and new "golden ages" and calls Obama what he is: a Wall Street puppet. Tarpley proclaims that Obama is the new Jimmy Carter, in that he will promise much, but his loyalties to Wall Street and his puppet status will crush and mortify any hope of carrying out much needed reform.Tarpley dedicates a great deal of time to examining the presidency of Jimmy Carter in an attempt to get a feel for what Obama would do if he were to win the presidency (this book was written before Obama even got the Democratic nomination). Tarpley examines the aspects of the Carter presidency in which Carter talked with a populist tone, but in the end, demanded sacrifice from the American people during a terrible economic time. Amazingly, we are seeing this unfold before our eyes today. Perhaps the most chilling warning deals with Obama's foreign policy advisor and main controller Zbigniew Brzezinski. Those who know about Brzezinski know that his main stock and trades consist of his hatred of Russia and orchestrating "people power coups" to turn foreign countries into tools of aggression against other nations. It was done with Carter and there's a very good chance that what we are witnessing in the Middle East and in Africa are a reflection of the Brzezinski policy in action. Another amazing prediction by Tarpley was that the US would intervene in Africa under the pretext of human rights, which is currently underway in Libya.The easiest way to know what a president will do is by examining their advisers, which is another part of The Post Modern Coup that is extremely important. Tarpley goes through the ideology and the background of Obama's known advisers at the time - Susan Rice, Samantha Power, Brzezinski, and Austan Goolsbee to paint a picture of deep budget cuts, continuation of the Bush wars, starting new wars under different pretenses than that of Bush, and other orgies of disaster. There is also a great deal of writing dedicated to examining the history of fascism and how a mass movement of fanatics historically have had catastrophic results. It served as an ominous warning in the midst of the shameless groveling of the media at the feet of the Chosen One. Unfortunately, few listened.Part of what hinders Tarpley's work is the fact that he often comes to conclusions that, while logical to those who have some background information, are not always readily understood by the average person. He'll often declare something to be true, but not provide all the necessary groundwork for the reader to fully understand his analysis. This is unfortunate, because Tarpley has a tremendous gift of intellect, but his approach is often not easily understood by people who do not have the same historical perspective. Another aspect that hinders the book is the fact that Tarpley repeats himself several times throughout the book, which gives the feeling that it was a book that was written with a great deal of haste.Since this book was written prior to Obama even winning the Democratic nomination, it's an important text to reflect on. Tarpley had Obama figured out possibly before anyone else.

Webster Tarpley is a bit difficulty to read. He makes some great points but he goes on long pretentious sounding rants.

I bought this book because I wanted to get under the skin of the man, see what was really making him tick.I have no doubt that Mr Terpley knows a lot about Obama and his background and this book should have been a gold mine of information and revelation.The first problem with it is that itis written primarily for a US readership. A good half of it is inside info, attacks, jokes, invective etc. on last years presidential campaign and on post-war US politics ingeneral, that only Americans or foreigners intimately familiar with US politics would understand.Then it seems a very disjointed document. His writing style is a mixture of intelligence gathering and sharing, political journalism and gutter press. It is not an easy mixture to wade through. He has very strong and forthright opinions on individuals; fine. But he seems to provide very little evidence for his claims about Obama or his background. It reads very much like 'I'm Webster Terpley - of course I'm right, how could you doubt me..?'I almost wishhe had written a straightforward intelligence report on Obama; it would have been more persuasive. I really found it just too much trouble wading through all the speculation, supposition and invective to dig up his solid information. And how solid it is is questionable, because he doesn't back it up or reveal sources.This book to my mind really is a huge missed opportunity. Seems I'll have to look elsewhere forthe reality of Obama.

You can tell the book was rushed out. There are repetitions and the structure is not great towards the end.....BUT....Tarpley was predicting Obama's victory when Clinton was still the frontrunner. He has the inside track somewhere.He predicted every nuance of Obama's agenda and every betrayal that has since come to pass.He said that the first thing that Obama would do is bomb Pakistan. This happened.He said Obama's program would be Malthusian and fascistic (with 'left-cover'). So it is.He said Obama would be an owned creature of Wall Street. Paulson, Geithner, the TARP, the bail-out.......say no more.Terrifyingly, he says that Obama is a much more dangerous lunatic that Bush (who attacked little countries that couldn't hit back)....that he would challenge and risk getting in a fight with Russia and China!!!.....don't bet against it.