Baphomet Obama



Baphomet Obama was Barack Obama dressed as Baphomet at a private event during his second term of presidency. The photo was leaked in January 2017.

Standing to the right of Baphomet Obama, is Artur Davis wearing a Chicago jacket. Davis is an American attorney and politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives for Alabama's 7th congressional district from 2003 to 2011. He was also a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Alabama in the 2010 election. Davis was an early supporter of Barack Obama's 2008 bid for the presidency, and one of the national co-chairs for Obama's 2008 campaign. Obama was raised by non-religious parents who were "detached from religion". Obama described his father as a "confirmed atheist" and his stepfather as "a man who saw religion as not particularly useful." In 2008, Obama pointed out how, through working with black churches as a community organizer while in his twenties, he came to understand "the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change." In running for the US presidency, Obama identified as a devout Protestant Christian.

The symbol of Baphomet is an icon that was employed into Freemasonry throughout the Colonial Revolution, and most predominantly into the Hellfire Club. Such clubs employed meeting places for "persons of quality". In the United States, one known popular meeting place for US government officials to "let loose" is Bohemian Grove located in Sonoma, California. Private events have been witnessed and film recorded of performing sacred rights and acts of what appeared to be ritual sacrifice.

Bohemian Club tradition, is that every summer in July, for two weeks, high ranking officials meet for 'off the record conversations'. There are 122 distinct camps on 2,700 acres of land. With private events held, as many as 2,000 officials and businessmen (predominantly from the Western world) have met in one gathering on Bohemian grounds. High Club tradition, like Bohemian, can be traced back to London in the 1700s. Visitors must have invitations and sign in and out; cooks and other workers must wear ID badges. The club (and hired staff) are all male, and traditionally all memberships are white. In 1980 Rick Clogher, a writer for MOTHER JONES magazine, was able to enter the encampment for four days with the help of an insider. Clogher witnessed a ceremony called "The Cremation of Care ritual" which takes place in front of a large rock carved owl. Members in robes were witnessed coming out to burn a doll that represented "Dull Care". The highlight of camp is the Grove play, which is written exclusively for the club. All the female roles are played by men in drag, similar if not identical to what Barack Obama was wearing as Baphomet.

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The image was first uploaded to Instagram. The photo tested negative for image tampering.