from ihub "Opinion, Who is this guy?
I've read everything I could get my hands on about this guy in the last 18 months and I know less about him now than I did at the beginning.
Is he a Muslim? -- I don't think so. But, I don't think he's a Christian, either.
He's a socialist.
There is a part of Obama that is Muslim. There's the prepubescent youngster, living in a Muslim household, in a Muslim country, attending a Muslim school and eager to please his peers and teachers, and doing his best to be a good little Muslim boy to please his new step-father.
The Jesuits would say, "Give me the child, and I will mould the man."
But then! -- Shazaaaam! -- young Obama is in Hawaii.
During the day, he's going to school with the children of the Islands' elites, telling his classmates that his father was an African prince, the leader of a proud and successful people.
But, during the evening, he's being tutored by Frank Marshall Davis, grampa Stanley's drinkin' buddy. It is during his formative years, under the influence of Davis, that Marx replaces Muhammed in the young man's life. But, there's still some Muslim in there somewhere -- some influence -- some sensitivity -- some empathy.
Davis, a radical black communist, feeds the impressionable Obama a constant diet of "pissed off" and "blackness" all through his high school years. Davis's parting words to Obama on his leaving for Occidental College were, "college is an advanced degree in compromise" and he warned Obama not to forget his "people" and not to "start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit."
At Occidental, Obama sought out the more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists. But, even though Obama had a full-boat scholarship, Occidental wasn't black enough for him and after two years he headed east to Columbia University -- on the edge of Harlem.
Obama's Columbia experience is a complete mystery. No one, absolutely no one, remembers Obama from Columbia -- Fox News asked 400 ex-students and all Fox got was shrugs. There is no picture of him in the yearbook. The only thing we really know about this period is that Obama spent a lot of time at the Marxist-Socialist conferences at Cooper Union and African cultural fairs in Brooklyn.
Obama stopped drugging sometime during this period. Obama had started abusing marijuana and cocaine at Punahou. "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though," he wrote.
After a brief flirtation with New York, Obama answered a help-wanted ad for a position as a community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC) in Chicago. The "Project" was funded by Bill Ayers' Woods Fund.
Obama was 24 years old, unmarried, and according to his memoir, searching for a genuine African-American community.
Both the CCRC and the DCP were built on the Alinsky model of community agitation, wherein paid organizers learned how to "rub raw the sores of discontent," in Alinsky's words.
Alinsky viewed as supremely important the role of the organizer, or master manipulator, whose guidance was responsible for setting the agendas of the People’s Organization. "The organizer," Alinsky wrote, "is in a true sense reaching for the highest level for which man can reach -- to create, to be a 'great creator,' to play God."
One of Obama's early mentors in the Alinsky method was Mike Kruglik, who had this to say to an interviewer of The New Republic, about Obama:
"He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation, who could engage a room full of recruiting targets in a rapid-fire Socratic dialogue, nudging them to admit that they were not living up to their own standards. As with the panhandler, he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot of hope that they could make things better."
Watch Obama work a crowd at a town hall meeting. He comes out, says a few words in greeting and then begins his laundry list of all the stuff that's wrong with America, getting the audience all revved up. When the crowd is engaged, Obama presents a solution to the all the things that are aggravating them -- himself, as president.
Alinsky's goal was to slowly turn the United States into a Communist dictatorship; to this end he tried to convince various groups of poor people and labor unions to push for legislation in that direction; he did this by appealing to their self-interest -- whether valid or not -- instead of using charismatic leadership -- but now we have Obama, who is skilled in the Alinsky method and charismatic.
When Obama wasn't agitating, he was elbow to elbow with Bill Ayers on one project or another. During the
Thus began Obama's "Alinsky and Ayers" period. Alinsky supplied the method and Ayers supplied the means that allowed Obama to grow his activism into political office.
When Obama undertook his agitating work in Chicago's South Side poor neighborhoods, he was un-churched. Yet his office was in a Church and most of the folks he needed to agitate and organize were Church people -- pastors and congregants, who took their churches and their church-going very seriously. Again and again, he was asked by pastors and church ladies, "Where do you go to Church, young man?"
So, at 28, Obama finally joined a church, in part to deepen what one friend called "a whole web of relationships" in the community that gave him a strong political base and a well-connected mentor.
In the paperback version of "The Audacity of Hope," in the chapter entitled "Faith," beginning on page 195, and ending on page 208, Obama is telling us that he doesn’t really have any profound religious belief, but that in his early Chicago days he felt he needed to acquire some spiritual "street cred."
Obama didn't join just any church, but a huge black nationalist church, the Trinity United Church of Christ (UCC). Its pastor, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, a former Muslim and racist black nationalist, unabashedly preached a "black" gospel" and the Marxist "Black Liberation Theology."
Membership in this congregation gives Obama the political cover he needed. He now introduced himself as a Christian, although he has never been baptized. Swearing allegiance to the "Black Value System" of a church whose foundation is "Black Liberation Theology" does not a Christian make. But it is good politics.
Harvard Law School changed everything. Being the first affirmative-action president of the Harvard Law Review nets Obama a book deal -- which he boots -- he spends the money but doesn't produce a book -- but he gets a second advance and heads off to Bali, Indonesia, to finish his fable, "Dreams From My Father," the source of almost everything we know about Obama.
In the early 90's, Obama gets married and practices civil rights law for a couple of years and then, with the publication of "the book," Obama starts blossoming out. He cuts back on his law practice. He begins teaching at the University of Chicago. He chairs the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
And, finally, Obama gets the chance to run for the state senate in a district that included Hyde Park, the home of the University of Chicago and some of the poorest ghettos on the South Side.
Obama challenged hundreds of signatures on the nominating petitions of state Sen. Alice Palmer, his political mentor and longtime progressive activist from the city's South Side. Obama kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama's four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot.
The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it.
During his run, Obama, an associate of the Chicago branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), received the endorsement of the DSA for the Illinois state senate seat. Later, the Chicago DSA newsletter reported that Obama, as a state senator, showed up to eulogize Saul Mendelson, one of the "champions" of "Chicago’s democratic left" and a long-time socialist activist.
Obama has spent his entire political career trying to win the next step up. Every three years, he has aspired to a more powerful political position.
When Obama was considering a run for the US Senate in 2003, he paid an intriguing visit to Emil Jones, Jr., a gravel-voiced, dark-skinned African-American known for chain-smoking cigarettes on the Senate floor, who was the Illinois Senate Majority Leader.
"You have the power to elect a U. S. senator," Obama told Jones, a former Chicago sewers inspector, who had risen to become one of the most influential African-American politicians in Illinois.
Jones looked at the ambitious young man smiling before him and asked, teasingly: "Do you know anybody I could make a US senator?"
According to Jones, Obama replied: "Me." It was his first, audacious step in a spectacular rise from the murky political backwaters of Springfield, the Illinois capital.
Jones had served in the Illinois Legislature for three decades. He represented a district on the Chicago South Side not far from Obama's. He became Obama's kingmaker.
Several months before Obama announced his U.S. Senate bid, Jones called his old friend Cliff Kelley, a former Chicago alderman who now hosts the city's most popular black call-in radio program.
I called Kelley last week and he recollected the private conversation as follows:
"He said, 'Cliff, I'm gonna make me a U.S. senator.'"
"Oh, you are? Who might that be?"
"Barack Obama."
Jones appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills.
"I took all the beatings and insults and endured all the racist comments over the years from nasty Republican committee chairmen," State Senator Rickey Hendon, the original sponsor of landmark racial profiling and videotaped confession legislation, yanked away by Jones and given to Obama, complained to me at the time. "Barack didn't have to endure any of it, yet, in the end, he got all the credit.
"I don't consider it bill jacking," Hendon told me. "But no one wants to carry the ball 99 yards all the way to the one-yard line, and then give it to the halfback who gets all the credit and the stats in the record book."
Every bill Obama passed as a state senator was passed his last year. During his seventh and final year in the state senate, Obama's stats soared. He sponsored a whopping 26 bills passed into law -- including many he now cites in his presidential campaign when attacked as inexperienced.
It was a stunning achievement that started him on the path of national politics -- and he couldn't have done it without Jones.
When Obama decided to run for the U. S. Senate he was virtually unknown in his own state. Polls showed fewer than 20 percent of Illinois voters had ever heard of Barack Obama.
But he got a boost, when, on June 2004, the billionaire, George Soros threw a big fund-raiser at his New York home for Obama’s Illinois Senate campaign. Soros and family personally chipped in $60,000.
Then the Democratic Party introduced Barack Obama to the nation on July 27th, 2004, when Obama delivered his now-famous speech before the Democratic National Convention.
During the senate campaign, Obama ridiculed as "a silly question" whether he would run for president or vice president before his term ends in 2011. "I’ve never worked in Washington," he said. "I can unequivocally say I will not be running for national office in four years, and my entire focus is making sure that I’m the best possible senator on behalf of the people of Illinois."
In November, 2004, Obama was elected to the United States Senate, mostly through the self-destruction of his top opponents in both the primary and general elections.
Almost immediately after his swearing-in his beatification began when Time magazine named Obama one of "The World's Most Influential People." He was listed among other leaders and revolutionaries. The British journal, New Statesman, named Obama one of "10 People Who Could Change the World."
In the first 18 months of his first Senate term Obama was also writing his second book, "The Audacity of Hope." Immediately after finishing that, he built up support for his forthcoming Presidential campaign by campaigning for other Democrats in 2006, took part in a book tour, made a few appearances on entertainment shows, and began his campaign for the presidency. Not much time for doing what he was elected to the Senate to do -- represent the people of Illinois.
On Tuesday, January 16th, 2007, Obama, who has been repeatedly identified as the most liberal member of the U. S. Senate, took the first step toward running for president by filing papers to create a presidential exploratory committee.
Pretty much, everybody that cares, has watched what has gone on since. The elevation of Obama to cult status as the Obamamessiah. The "we can change the world" slogans and mass crowds. The Alinsky-inspired challenges about "the world as it is just won’t do -- that we have an obligation to fight for the world as it should be."
But, there was a downside to the campaign. The Rev. Wright's hateful, racist and anti-American sermons become public and Obama swore he didn't know anything about it.
The names Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn bubbled up and Obama went, "Who?"
His pal and money-man Rezko was found guilty and Obama said, "What?"
The Annenberg Challenge? The only executive experience on Obama's resume is missing from Obama's resume.
Obama doesn't know anybody or anything.
I've noticed Obama doesn't have any close friends. Obama doesn't have a "best friend," a pal or a buddy, who goes back to Punahou, or Occidental, or Columbia, or Harvard, or the projects -- no one.
But, the people that are around Obama all have one thing in common -- they all hate America.
His wife (Michelle), his mentor (Davis), his druggy buddy (Rafik), his pastor (Wright), his other pastors (Pfleger, Meeks, Watts), his associates (Ayers, Dohrn, Klonsky) or his supporters at the Daily Kos and Code Pink all have one thing in common -- they all hate America -- and they all say so, all the time -- and Obama feigns surprised that anyone would question his patriotism, even as he disrespects his country's symbols.
Obama and all his friends have clearly stated their goals. America, as it is, and has been, needs to change and the change they have in mind is socialism -- at best.
I know this is true, because all of these people have repeatedly and clearly said so. Their goal is the "quiet revolution," first described by the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci, and they feel it is at hand. They can taste it and it all hinges on Barack Hussein Obama.
As a result, there is a massive cover-up going on on the Internet. There isn't a day that doesn't go by that I don't get an email telling me this link, or that link, connects to a "Page not found -- 404 error." The body of knowledge about Barack Obama that has evolved over the last 20 years is shrinking. Stuff that's considered an Obama smear or unflattering is sent to the Obama '08 cyber shredding machine.
A good example is Kristof's famous New York Times article, in which Kristof quotes Obama saying that the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth" and in which Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent" -- that's gone -- and from The New York Times (I have it cached).
And, the Trinity UCC website has completely changed. Now, it's all sweetness and light. Gone are all those great Rev. Wright videos and Trumpet magazines.
Obama has lived for 48 years without leaving any footprints -- none! There is no Obama documentation -- no paper trail -- none.
Original birth certificate -- Not released
Obama/Dunham marriage license -- Not released
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license -- Not released
Soetoro adoption records -- Not released
Besuki School application -- Released
Punahou School records -- Not released
Selective Service Registration -- Released
Occidental College records -- Not released
Passport (Pakistan) -- Not released
Columbia College records -- Not released
Columbia thesis -- Not released
Harvard College records -- Not released
Harvard Law Review articles -- None (maybe 1, unsigned?)
Baptism certificate -- None
Medical records -- Not released
Illinois State Senate records -- None
Illinois State Senate schedule -- Lost
Law practice client list -- Not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles -- None
The Illinois State Archives told Judicial Watch that they never received any request from Senator Obama to archive any records in his possession. In 2007, Obama told Tim Russert that his records were "not kept."
In time, the entire Obama body of knowledge will consist of 3 documents, all written by Barack Hussein Obama: "Dreams From My Father," "The Audacity of Hope," and his latest, "Change We Can Believe In."
So, you understand why I say, I know less about Obama now than I did at the beginning.
And, this lifelong socialist could be president?" |
