Did you Know that in 2018 the CIA had a code named plan to influence the media?

@Abstraction I apologize if I implied that Barack Obama was anywhere near being a communist...I only hoped to stress the fact that he and Brennan share some of the same beliefs.

"President Obama called Brennan “one of the hardest working civil servants I’ve ever known” and said that he valued Brennan’s integrity and commitment “to the values that define us as Americans.”

“He has worked to embed our efforts in a strong legal framework,” the President said. “He understands we are a nation of laws. In moments of debate and decision, he asks the tough question and he insists on high and rigorous standards.”

"To get there, Brennan needed the help of two men: George Tenet and Barack Obama. He met Tenet in the mid-1990s when they were both at the White House, Tenet as a member of the National Security Council and Brennan as the CIA’s daily briefer to the president. Two decades later, just after the 2008 presidential elections, he met Obama for the first time.

Both times the meetings came at just the right moment: before Tenet moved to the CIA and before Obama went to the White House. Each was looking for a guide, someone they could trust. And Brennan made sure he was exactly what they needed: a perfect deputy, loyal and devoted. “John knew how to show his superiors 'I pledge allegiance to you,'” one former co-worker told me."
https://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/how-cia-director-john-brennan-became-americas-spy-and-obamas?utm_term=.kg55vp7xP#.rt05v8M9b

"During the 2008 campaign, according to a report on NPR, Brennan had helped convince Obama to drop his opposition to the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act, which included an immunity clause for companies that had participated in the Bush administration’s program of warrantless wiretapping. Now he went to work on him a second time, explaining why programs and options Obama had opposed during the campaign he needed to embrace as president. Brennan wanted continuity, not upheaval. “The thing that John could do better than anyone else was explain sensitive operations to the president, make him comfortable with them, and help him manage them,” Michael Leiter, the head of National Counterterrorism Center at the time, told Newsweek."

"What may well prove to be Obama’s most lasting legacy took shape in Brennan’s cramped quarters. It was here, 35 quick steps from the Oval Office, that Brennan built the drone program. He was the architect, the man responsible for taking the raw infrastructure the Bush administration had left behind and molding it into an institution that would survive. He selected the targets, and he brought their names to the president. Everything ran through him."

Regarding Obama and South Africa, here is a segment from an article that describes where I heard it:

"Your News Wire relies heavily on an article from the blog Gateway Pundit that in turn primarily quotes and links to a segment on the Fox News show Tucker Carlson Tonight. During the show, Carlson criticized Obama’s praise for president Cyril Ramaphosa “inspiring new hope into this country” due to, as Carlson argues, Ramaphosa’s effort to “change the South African constitution, and he’ll do it for the explicit purpose of persecuting a racial minority; seizing their land without compensation.”

Thanks, that's very, very interesting. There are a number of things that I particularly deplore in Obama's term as president. He did disappoint in many areas. It appears as though Brennan was instrumental in most of them.

I think Carlson here is displaying the worst behaviours of current media on both sides - twisting a statement to provide a meaning of his own choosing. All the right wing media in this instance have jumped on whoever thought of this and so it's everywhere. I challenge anyone to find a single statement that Obama supports violent land reform.

I looked at one article where they've twisted multiple quotes: “we're going to have to figure out how do we close this widening chasm of wealth and opportunity both within countries and between them.” He clarified this statement by saying neither free markets nor “old-style command-and-control socialism from the top” would be involved. It's not socialist to believe that hard-working people deserve a decent wage when we're seeing the gap widening between rich and poor. It's not socialist to observe that company directors are walking away with millions without paying people properly, or that they shift assets overseas and take away American and Australian jobs whilst profiting personally with bonuses. It's not socialist to believe that the 'working poor' - people who work hard, sometimes multiple jobs, but can barely feed their children - should be paid properly. Not everyone is clever enough to make multiple millions, but their children deserve a decent education and access to health care. It's policies and government concessions that allow the wealthy individuals and corporations make money - these giveaways have fancy names. But when the genuinely down and out receive anything it's called welfare. Ok, I've gotten into a side rant - but what Obama said was called socialism and used to put more words in his mouth.
And we both know this happens to Trump too - I'm no fan as you know, but I don't believe everything they feed us.

@Abstraction I agree. I have come to know propanganda when I hear it...endless talking points.