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This  \nHappened Here Where’s Obama?  \nBarack Von Obombdenburg Playing and Cashing In Joe Biden? Thanks, Obama  \nObama Being Obama: A Hollow Man Filled With Ruling Class Ideas Conclusion  \nAcknowledgments  \nIf someone had told me six months ago that I would soon be writing my third book with Barack Obama’s name in the title, I would have laughed.  \nBut when a great progressive leader like Ralph Nader speaks, I listen.  \nI owe the idea for this volume to Nader, for whom I have voted in at least three presidential elections.  \nThe notion that I might be the person to write it belongs to CounterPunch editors Joshua Frank and Jeffrey St. Clair.  \nUnderstanding the Obama post-presidency is impossible without a firm grasp of the Donald Trump presidency. I am indebted to St. Clair and Frank for granting me access to an excellent, widely consulted venue—the CounterPunch website—in which to reflect on the lethal nightmare that became the “Covid45” White House this year.  \nMy earliest writings on and against the Obama phenomenon (dating back sixteen years) were encouraged, inspired, and published by the brilliant radical commentators Bruce Dixon and Glen Ford at Black Agenda Report and by ZNet and Z Magazine’s venerable leaders Mike Albert and Lydia Sargent.  \nMy contributions to radical and real-time Obama historiography ( an often thankless field) have long been informed and stimulated by the writings and support of leading Left intellectuals, including John Pilger, Cornel West, Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Adolph Reed, Jr., Charles Derber, and Anthony DiMaggio.  \nI am deeply indebted to the excellent professional copyediting and content suggestions of Lucy Schiller. Ms. Schiller made invaluable contributions to the readability of this text on remarkably short notice.  \nMy fellow portside historian and journalist Terry Thomas put forward numerous angles of interpretation and  \nadvanced many sources that shaped my narrative and argument. Terry also gave my manuscript an early, highly skilled copy-edit.  \nJoshua Frank has been the indispensable intermediary and coordinator in bringing this project to completion.  \nI indebted also to Jay Becker, Lou Downey, and numerous other dedicated activists in the Chicago chapter of Refuse Fascism. Since Trump’s election, they have modeled actual and authentic popular resistance in ways that have richly informed my argument and narrative.  \nThanks are due also to the many thousands of young people (including some of my “History of Chicago” students at DePaul University) who rose up in a great popular rebellion after the racist lynching of George Floyd in the summer of 2020. I have marched, chanted, occupied intersections, and faced down police and state troopers with young adults and teenagers ( and a few oldsters) on numerous occasions in Iowa City and Chicago this summer.  \nThe George Floyd uprising was a needed reminder of what real mass and grassroots resistance looks, feels, sounds, smells, and tastes like (I shared tear gas with a few hundred people less than half my age in Iowa City in early June) and how different such resistance is from the “hollow resistance” advanced by Obama, Joe Biden, and other establishment elites in the corporate Democratic Party.  \nMy greatest debt is to my wife, Janet Razbadouski, who models natural and spiritual intelligence and repeatedly saves me from fall","cbCaisBFqc1wpw5A","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisBFqc1wpw5A","pdf",1112762,212,"English","# Introduction\n## No CounterPunch\n# Table of Contents","[{\"question\":\"What central relationship does the introduction emphasize between Obama and Trump?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that understanding Obama’s post-presidency is impossible without a clear grasp of the Trump presidency.\"},{\"question\":\"What example does the introduction use to illustrate Obama’s public role after leaving office?\",\"answer\":\"It describes a 2020 online message urging readers to thank Obama while promoting an effort framed as defeating Trump.\"},{\"question\":\"Who does the author credit for shaping the book’s development and research?\",\"answer\":\"The acknowledgments name CounterPunch editors Joshua Frank and Jeffrey St. Clair, along with other commentators and activists, and include Lucy Schiller for copyediting and content suggestions.\"}]","CounterPunch - No CounterPunch - Introduction | PDF",1789968027,534]