I thought that on Avalon we will not see questions like that.
I thought that up to now, was evidently that the current fight in the word is between the forces of light and those of darkness.
I would suggest you a link, but before laugh and mock, remember that the darkness forces just copied and reversed the deeds of God:
reversed the cross, they Reversed the Bible, etc They are able just to copy and in order to be opposite God, just simply reverse it. Applying their technique, why then also the speech cannot be reversed and see what is hidden there?
If you are able to watch to the end and try to think a little bit, just one small detail missing to not fulfill the Apocalypse scripts.
And to answer to your question:
"sometimes God is using the wicked and corrupted to advance his agenda for the benefit of the righteous"
If you think that the fantastic funds and energies consumed by TPTB to make advertising to Obama, even before he has any merit or did any appreciable deed, were just for that sake of him, than you are utterly wrong in your thought process. They are not moving one finger, nor spend one cent if there are not 3 benefits for them in the same time.
As some people find interesting meanings in old Aramaic language for the men name, you can search on youtube, seems that the effort of elites to put him in the limelight, meaning that they have great plans with him.
Didn't he already played down the nasty issue with European Missile Shield making happy the russians? I just wait him to solve superficially the problem of palestinians in Middle East and emerge as of Men of Peace in the World (soon you will see). SO, all the steps in Apocalypse are going to be fulfilled.
If you still ask, he is working for them or for us, please define us and them, first, then will be much simpler!