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Who Is This Guy?

I've read everything I could get my hands on about this guy in the last two years and I know less about him now than I did at the beginning.  He's definitely not who you think he is, whatever that is. Despite his "poor-boy" myth, Obama is: •  a privileged African-American, educated at the finest schools, who has not shared the black American experience •  by birth, blood and training, a Muslim, who became a member of a Marxist, Black-African church •  a socialist whose politics are rooted in Marx and whose tactics were conceived by the communist, Alinsky •  a master at shaping his own mythology •  completely unqualified to be Commander in Chief •  and, he is not now, nor ever has been, a "natural born citizen"

The Press Is Absent

Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life.  Not things.  Not ideas.  Not institutions.  Just himself. Everything we know about Obama comes from "Dreams...," critical historical stuff is disappearing or hidden by lawyers, and all we have left is Obama's idealized version of events.  Now, this undocumented stranger, who has repeatedly been rewarded for the work of others, is sitting in the Oval Office.   He has nothin' to say and that's just fine with the Fourth Estate.

I Don't Think Obama Knows

I don't think Obama knows much about the first 3 or 4 years of his life.  No doubt there's the family stories and stuff.  But I don't think Obama knows, for a fact, the events proceeding his birth to his mother's filing for divorce from Barack Sr. Part of the exercise of writing "Dreams...," was to create a history -- a foundation, upon which to anchor a life. Obama's father, Barack H. Obama Sr., left Obama's life long before Obama became aware.  When Obama became aware, he was "Barry," and about to become Barry Soetoro.

"At Birth," Barack Obama Was A Kenyan Citizen And A British Subject

From Obama's "Fight the Smears" website:    "When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4,1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire.  As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948.  That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.‘s children."   "Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4,1982."     In my understanding, Article II Requires that one be a "Natural Born Citizen", and in terms of the Law as understood by the Framers, anyone with Dual Citizenship could not be "Natural Born".  It does not matter that they no longer hold that Citizenship, they fall into the same bracket as a "Naturalized Citizen" because they have/had Divided Allegiance.  That is my view and I haven’t moved an inch on it. However, the Kenyan Citizenship Issue may not be the main point here, WAS HE, OR WAS HE NOT, an INDONESIAN CITIZEN?  The Senator isn’t saying, isn’t mentioning it, is trying to avoid producing any Paperwork at all.  Why?  If he is/was an Indonesian Citizen, too, the Senator’s entire narrative is a fiction and he should be ashamed of himself. He’s lied about Kenya, at least by omission, for months/years, so why should I assume he isn’t lying about Indonesia?  Note Kenyan Citizenship automatically lapses if it isn’t renewed at age 21.  Indonesian Citizenship doesn’t.  If he was an Indonesian Citizen he would have to actively repudiate that Citizenship.  Did he?  Has he?  Because if he hasn’t, Senator Obama is Dual National Indonesian at this moment, subject to the Laws of BOTH Countries, equally. Obama is a Constitutional lawyer which means that he knows, and has always known, that he is probably ineligible to hold the Office of POTUS, or that, at the very least, there is a strong Legal Argument that that is the case. If Lolo Soetoro adopted him, Obama ceased to be a US Citizen in the mid 1960s, BY INDONESIAN LAW.  He also ceased to be a Kenyan Citizen, BY INDONESIAN LAW.  By Kenyan and US Law he retained his Original Citizenships, until his 21st Birthday.  By Indonesian Law he could have given up Indonesian Citizenship at age 18, but did he?  If he didn’t he was, albeit accidentally, displaying a Legal Intention to void his US Citizenship, since he knew he could not Legally hold both Citizenships. This new material at "Fight the Smears" displays arrogance, hubris and bad faith, in my opinion.  It is the Senator’s reaction to Phillip Berg’s Law Suit (next item), and, basically, it amounts to an open admission of mens rea.  He is flaunting his bad faith and in so doing destroys his own case. Obama's website also contains the bogus Certification of Live Birth, that has been labeled, "Barack Obama’s Official Birth Certificate." The "Certification of Live Birth" is NOT a birth certificate.

The Birthplace

Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, has said that Obama was born in two different Hawaii hospitals. In a November 2004 interview with the Rainbow Newsletter, Maya told reporters her half-brother Sen. Barack Obama was born on Aug. 4, 1961, at Queens Medical Center in Honolulu; then in February 2008, Maya told reporters for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that Obama was at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children. Last week in Hawaii, World Net Daily retained a top private investigator with extensive FBI training and tasked him with visiting both the Queens Medical Center and the Kaliolani Medical Center to investigate claims that Obama birth certificates existed at either hospital. But the private investigator reported that sheriff's deputies were stationed at both hospitals to fend off press inquiries about Obama's birth certificate. No hospital in Honolulu will even confirm his birth there.  That is highly suspicious given the historic nature of Obama's presidency.  Hawaii has never before been able to boast a presidential birth -- let alone the first black president.  Why would a hospital not make a claim?  Why would one not be renaming a wing after its most famous patient?  Why would it not be sending out press releases?  Why all the mystery?  I also consider it strange that the only living person in the world who claims to have been present for his birth is his Kenyan grandmother.  No doctor, no nurse, no relative, no family friend has come forward to say they can confirm his birth in Honolulu.  And, of course, the biggest question of all is: Why won't he release the one document that can confirm this -- his long-form birth certificate?

Elementary School

Obama began his education in Hawaii's public schools.  He was enrolled in Ms. Sakai’s kindergarten class at Noelani Elementary School in 1967.  He was only there a couple or three months before he was off to Indonesia.  There he attended a school run by Catholic nuns, and later an Indonesian public  school.  Obama would remain in Jakarta, Indonesia until the age of 11.

The Formative Years

The Dunhams enrolled "Barry Obama" in the prestigious Punahou School, starting in the fifth grade.  He attended Punahou on a scholarship, and walked the five blocks from his grandmother's apartment on Beretania to the school. With more than 3,000 students, Punahou is the largest private school in the country, and it sits on a lush, sprawling campus in Honolulu.  The school is elite and wealthy.   Grandpa was the driving force behind Barry being accepted at Punahou and he took Barry to Punahou for the entrance exams in 1971 and he also accompanied Barry to Punahou on his first day of classes in 1972.  It was grandpa Stanley who brought the communist and pornographer, Frank Marshall Davis, into Barry's life.

Frank Marshall Davis

During Barry's middle and high school years, Frank Marshall Davis, a radical black communist, fed the impressionable Barry a constant diet of Marx and "blackness."  He was introduced to Obama by grandfather Stanley -- they were drinkin' buddies and Stanley thought the Obama should have a black influence.  He picked a beauty!   Davis's parting words to Barry 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." Obama, who grew up in a comfortable white household, has struggled to find an identity as a righteous black men ever since.  Obama accepted "the pure and heady breeze of privilege" to which he was exposed as a teenager, but rejected his "white skin privilege" -- or at least tried to.

Barry's Birth Certificate

"I discovered this article, folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination forms, when I was in high school.  It's a short piece, with a photograph of him.  No mention is made of my mother or me, and I'm left to wonder whether the omission was intentional on my father's part, in anticipation of his long departure.  Perhaps the reporter failed to ask personal questions, intimidated by my father's imperious manner; or perhaps it was an editorial decision, not part of the simple story that they were looking for.  I wonder, too, whether the omission caused a fight between my parents." From "Dreams..." (Pg. 26 last paragraph)

Barack's Social Security Card

The affidavit, with true and correct copies, of Susan Daniels is here.  It was filed by Dr. Orly Taitz in the Barnett v. Obama case.  Susan Daniels is a private investigator, licensed by the State of Ohio. In her affidavit, Daniels states that she has located Barack Obama's Social Security Number.   She states it was issued between 1977 and 1979 in the State of Connecticut.  She states that it is the only Social Security Number Barack Obama ever used. The number assigned to Barack Obama "appears to be associated with someone born in the year 1890."

Occidental College

At Occidental, Obama sought out the more politically active black students.  The foreign students.  The Chicanos.  The Marxist professors and structural feminists.   There is an open question regarding Obama's status as a student at Occidental.  The question is, did Obama receive student aid as a foreign student?  Obama is vigorously fighting the release of his Occidental College records and has paid . At Occidental, a few of his friends had already begun to call him Barack, and he'd come to prefer that.  The way his half sister, Maya, remembers it, Obama returned home at Christmas in 1980, and there he told his mother and grandparents: "no more Barry."  However, Occidental, it turns out, wasn't black enough for him and after two years he headed east to Columbia University -- on the edge of Harlem.

Columbia College

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.   Oh, and he lived down the avenue from Bill Ayers, who was getting his masters at Bank Street College. Obama stopped drugging sometime during the Columbia period.  He 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.

Obama Tries Work

Obama graduated from Columbia College in 1983 and briefly entered the commercial world, staying in New York for a little more than a year after graduation.  He  was employed by Business International Corporation before moving to the activist New York Public Interest Research Group. Business International Corporation (BI) was a publishing and advisory firm dedicated to assisting American companies in operating abroad.  In 1986, Business International was acquired by The Economist Group in London, and eventually merged with The Economist Intelligence Unit.    Obama's recollection of this period demonstrates his tendency towards puffery, writing in "Dreams...," (p. 135), that his first job after graduating Columbia was as a "research assistant" in "a consulting house to multinational corporations," with "my own office, my own secretary" and "myself in a suit and tie, a briefcase in my hand." But as one of his former fellow workers (and an Obama supporter) has written, it wasn't a consulting house; it was a small company that published newsletters on international business, "a bit of a sweatshop" where casual attire and low pay were the norm.  His job was essentially copyediting "in the cramped three Wang terminal space we called the bull pen."   Here's an interesting account of the BI period from several of Obama's co-workers. Obama rejected the commercial world and joined the agitators at The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG).  Created by Ralph Nader in the 1970s, NYPIRG is New York State's largest student-directed consumer, environmental and government reform organization.  It is a not-for-profit group, established to effect policy reforms while training students and other New Yorkers to be advocates.  Since 1973, NYPIRG has played the key role in fighting for more than 120 public interest laws and executive orders. During this period, Obama spent three months working for a NYPIRG offshoot up in Harlem, trying to convince the minority students at City College about the importance of recycling.

Anna Freaks Obama

To Obama, his mother is a Kumbaya-era liberal.  He feels that she messed up her life due to naïve faith in Third World countries and Third World men.  Obama would write, "My mother was that girl with the movie of beautiful black people playing in her head." In the early eighties, when he’s working on Wall Street, he’s creeped out by his visiting mother’s insistence on seeing her favorite film, the 1959 Brazilian art-house classic "Black Orpheus."  He belatedly realizes that his very fair-skinned mother is sexually attracted to dark men.  He pompously intones, "The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves.  Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart." Wallace-Wells mentions in Rolling Stone: There is an amazingly candid moment in Obama’s autobiography when he writes of his childhood discomfort at the way his mother would sexualize African-American men.  "More than once," he recalls, "my mother would point out Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet."  What the focus groups his advisers conducted revealed was that Obama’s political career now depends, in some measure, upon a tamer version of this same feeling, on the complicated dynamics of how white women respond to a charismatic black man. Early in his run for the U.S. Senate in 2004, Obama’s pollsters discovered that women loved him, especially nice white ladies who like personalities more than politics and definitely don’t like political arguments.

Organizing

Obama was then hired by 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, which raises the question, "did Obama do a deal with Ayers" while both were students in New York?  They lived and attended school in the same neighborhood.  Now, a year later, they bump into each other.  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, in Alinsky's words, "rub raw the sores of discontent."

Saul Alinsky

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." Alinsky wrote, "Rules for Radicals," a book he dedicated to Lucifer, whom he called the "first radical'"  For Alinsky, "Change" was his mantra.  By "Change," Alinsky meant a quiet, Marxist revolution achieved by slow, incremental, Machiavellian means that turned society inside out.  This had to be done through systematic deception, winning the trust of the naively idealistic middle class, and by using the language of morality to conceal an agenda designed to destroy it.  And the way to do this, he said, was through "people’s organizations'" 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 and sufficiently "pissed off," Obama presents a solution to the all the things that are "pissing them off" -- the chosen one, the anointed one, the Obama -- 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.

Bill Ayers

The unrepentant terrorist, Bill Ayers, was a constant during Obama's "Alinsky" period.  Alinsky supplied the method but Bill Ayers supplied the money and the connections to the Chicago Left that allowed Obama to grow his activism into political office.  When Obama wasn't agitating, he was elbow to elbow with Bill Ayers on one project or another.

Reverend Wright

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?" 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." So, at 28, Obama finally joined a church, in part to deepen what one friend called "a whole web of relationships" in the community.  It also gave him a strong political base and a well-connected mentor. 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 introduces 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 on the South Side.

Harvard

Harvard Law School changed everything.  Being the first affirmative-action president of the Harvard Law Review netted Obama a book deal -- which he booted -- he spent the money but didn't produce a book -- but he got a second advance and headed off to Bali, Indonesia, to finish his fable, "Dreams From My Father," the source of almost everything we know about Obama.

ACORN

In the early 90's, Obama married and practiced civil rights law for a couple of years and then, with the publication of "the book," Obama started blossoming out.  He cut back on his law practice.  He began teaching at the University of Chicago.  He co-chaired the Chicago Annenberg Challenge with Bill Ares.  He did legal work and trained ACORN managers and staff.

Chicago Annenberg Challenge

One of Ayers' and Obama's schemes, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, spent $150 million to radicalize Chicago schoolchildren -- $110 million (including over $60 million in public funds) was spent on a project that,  according to the official review, yielded no discernable result.

Alice Palmer

And, finally, Obama saw 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.   Alice Palmer, Obama's political mentor, represented the state's 13th District.  She decided to run for the United States Congress and hand-picked Obama to run to replace her.   Palmer was an executive board member of the U.S. Peace Council, which the FBI identified as a communist front group, an affiliate of the World Peace Council, a Soviet front group.  She participated in the World Peace Council's 1983 Prague Assembly, part of the Soviet launch of the nuclear-freeze movement.  The only thing it would have frozen was the Soviet Union's military superiority. In June 1986, while editor of the Black Press Review, she wrote an article for the Communist Party USA's newspaper, the People's Daily World, now the People's Weekly World.  It detailed her experience attending the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and how impressed she was by the Soviet System.   Well, Alice lost the congressional race to Jesse Jackson, Jr., and decided that she wanted to hang onto that hard-won state senate seat.  Most of the community leaders tried to persuade Obama to withdraw and wait his turn.  He was a newcomer after all. Obama said no. Obama challenged hundreds of signatures on his rivals' nominating petitions and kept challenging petitions until every one of Obama's four Democratic primary rivals was forced off the ballot and won unopposed. 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.  And he did it more than once.

The Socialists

During his run for the Illinois state senate seat, Obama received the endorsement of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).  Obama was an associate of the Chicago branch of the DSA, and a member of the "New Party," and signed documents seeking their support. Obama actively sought and received the stamp of approval of a Marxist third party that operated briefly in Chicago between 1992 and 1998.  The group was called the "New Party" and was started in 1992 by Daniel Cantor (a former staffer for Jesse Jackson’s 1988 presidential campaign) and Joel Rogers (a sociology and law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison).    The New Party was a Marxist political coalition whose objective was to endorse and elect leftist public officials -- most often Democrats.  The New Party’s short-term objective was to move the Democratic Party leftward, thereby setting the stage for the eventual rise of new Marxist third party.    Most New Party members hailed from the Democratic Socialists of America (Obama was an associate of the Chicago branch), and the militant organization ACORN.  The party’s Chicago chapter also included a large contingent from the Committees of Correspondence, a Marxist coalition of former Maoists, Trotskyists, and Communist Party USA members.

Emil Jones

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., 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 U. S. senator?" According to Jones, Obama replied: "Me."  It was an audacious step in his 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 in the senate, 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.

Senator Obama

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.  No telling what Soros' buddies chipped in. 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 2004 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.

Presidential Prep

Almost immediately after Obama was sworn into the US Senate, Obama's beatification began.  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 it, 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 do -- represent the people of Illinois. On Tuesday, January 16th, 2007, less than two years after his swearing-in, 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.

Is Obama A Muslim

When Obama first showed up on the national scene, people wanted to know if Obama was a Muslim. I personally don't think so -- at least he's not a practicing Muslim.  But, I don't think he's a Christian, either. He's a Black Marxist and an Alinsky-style "community organizer."  Alinsky described himself as a communist  -- as do many of Obama's closest friends and associates. Yet, there is a part of Obama that is Muslim.  There's the prepubescent youngster who lived in a Muslim household, in a Muslim country, attended a Muslim school, undoubtedly 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." There's still some Muslim in there somewhere -- some influence -- some sensitivity -- some empathy -- but, he's not a Muslim -- could be an undercover Muslim, I suppose. Here's one Muslim's view -- yup, "he's a Muslim."

The Elevation

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, and 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, after 20 years, Obama swore he didn't know anything about it, saying, "I wasn't in church that day." 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 Obama has, is missing from his resume.   ACORN?  Nuts! Obama doesn't know anybody or anything.

A Healthy Ego

John Reiniers says, that in commenting upon Barak Obama's "Olympic ego trip" to Copenhagen, George Will noted that Obama used the personal pronoun 26 times in 46 sentences. In his first 41 speeches he mentioned himself 1,400 times. Everyone needs to have a healthy ego if they assume they have the experience and competency to be president of the United States.  But that ego needs to be coupled with a tinge of humility.  And it helps to make a distinction between two forms of egomania, given Obama's admitted lack of experience, which is even more obvious now. As to the first form of egomania, let me quote other presidential figures to make the point.  Those old enough to remember will recall the time Lyndon Johnson (no shrinking violet, he) was heading for the wrong helicopter when a young Air Force corporal pointed to the presidential helicopter: "This is your helicopter sir," to which Johnson replied," They're all my helicopters, son."  This is the statement of a guy who exuded command authority from years of experience of being boss.  Ludwig Erhard, German chancellor said to Johnson upon a visit to Texas, "I understand you where born in a log cabin," to which Johnson said, "No, no, no! You have me confused with Abe Lincoln.  I was born in a manger."  This was a quip by a seasoned totally self-confident Democratic political veteran with a healthy impression of himself. But now that other sort of ego that was present in Charles De Gaulle who proclaimed, "When I want to know how France thinks, I ask myself."  Or a surprising statement by President Woodrow Wilson who unsuccessfully championed our membership into the League of Nations: "Why has Jesus Christ so far not succeeded in inducing the world to follow His teachings in matters of world peace?  It is because he taught the ideal...  That is why I am proposing a practical scheme to carry out His aims."  (A strange Pope-like comment, coming from a progressive Democrat and former president of Princeton, whose racist views were hardly a secret.) Obama's ego is more of the flavor of Wilson's and De Gaulle's.  Nevertheless, these guys at least had lots of high level mileage that prompted their over-the-top egos.  Obama's is more of an elitist chutzpah that comes from being extremely clever, and being a performance artist at the level of any of our great motivational speakers.  More than 215,000 Germans attended his speech in Berlin before he was even elected pResident!  ("People of Berlin -- people of the world -- this is our moment.  This is our time.")  He won a Grammy for the Best Spoken Word for the CD version of his autobiography, "Dreams from my father."  He won his second Grammy award for Best Spoken Word album for "The Audacity of Hope."  These were the credentials that qualified him for the pResidency.  Two books all about himself.  (His Nobel prize came later.)  There really is nothing else, because he started his campaign for the presidency the day he was elected to the U.S. Senate. He may be more clever than smart.  He has chosen not to release his SAT, LSAT, or his GPA scores.  The Obama inner circle keeps these a closely guarded secret, Continue reading here . . .

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance and a deep need for admiration.  They believe that they're superior to others and have little regard for other people's feelings.  But behind this mask of ultra-confidence lies a fragile self-esteem, vulnerable to the slightest criticism. -- Source: The Mayo Clinic Remind you of anyone?

Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic

Sam Vaknin Ph.D. believes Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist. Granted, only a qualified mental health diagnostician (which he is not) can determine whether someone suffers from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) and this, following lengthy tests and personal interviews.  But, in the absence of access to Barack Obama, one has to rely on his overt performance and on testimonies by his closest, nearest and dearest. Narcissistic leaders are nefarious and their effects pernicious.  They are subtle, refined, socially-adept, manipulative, possessed of thespian skills, and convincing.  Both types equally lack empathy and are ruthless and relentless or driven. Perhaps it is time to require each candidate to high office in the USA to submit to a rigorous physical and mental checkup with the results made public. Read Vaknin's detailed assessment here . . .

Yet Humble

If there was any doubt about who and what Obama is, this photograph ends that doubt, as the usurper humbles himself before King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. (video)            This disgraceful.  An American should stand erect and polite, and shake hands like a free man.  No American should ever show ANY deference to ANY monarch.  No monarch, including Elizabeth, have 1% of the legitimacy of of an American president.  They don' t even come close.   Remember, King Abdullah's Saudi regime spends billions of dollars each year promoting Wahhabism, one of fundamentalist Islam's most extreme movements.  Fifteen of the 9-11 terrorists were Saudi Wahabbis.   Al-Qaeda represents Wahhabism in its purest form -- a violent fundamentalist doctrine that rejects all non-Wahhabi Islam, especially the spiritual forms of Islam.  Wahhabism is an expansionist sect intolerant of Shi‘ite Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Hinduism; in fact, Wahhabists seek to challenge and destroy these faiths.  The Saudi-Wahhabi threat must not be underestimated Shame on Obama -- the clearest signal yet that he is indeed a bogus POTUS -- and probably a closet Muslim.  85% of all human  communication is non-verbal and this vulgar display will tell the entire Muslim world, the Ummah, who and what is occupying the Oval Office. Oddly, on Monday, September 12, 2005, the LA Times reported that the new Saudi king has ordered citizens not to kiss his hand, saying the traditional gesture of respect is degrading and violates Islam. "Kissing hands is alien to our values and morals, and is not accepted by free and noble souls," Abdullah told a delegation from Baha, in southwest Saudi Arabia, which came to the royal palace to offer congratulations on his accession.  "It also leads to bowing, which is a violation of God’s law.  The faithful bow to no one but God." You got that Obama, not only did you offend all real Americans, you offended Allah, too.   This will certainly make Obama the laughingstock of the G20, if not all of the Western Hemisphere.   Update:  As of Friday morning, I have been unable to find this photo in a single mainstream media source -- not one. If any of you do see this reported in the mainstream media, I would be interested in knowing about it.   I would also be interested in learning if anyone has ever seen Obama publicly bow and bend his knee when meeting someone prior to this?   The Washington Times, a conservative-leaning newspaper, finally addresses Obama dhimmitude, 5 days after the fact -- and doesn't publish the photo or link to the video.

Really Humble

How Low Can He Go?  Obama is in Japan and is not behaving very presidential.         The AP reported that upon arriving at the palace, Obama greeted the Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko with a deep bow and many subsequent smaller bows. In Japan, bowing is used as a way of greeting.  The depth of the bow has a lot of meaning.  In this bow, Obama sent the signal that the Emperor is his superior, whether he knows it or not, and by extension that Japan is the superior to the U.S. Foreigners should not bow in Japan until they learn the rules, which takes a very long time.  Obama's bow was a grievous breach of protocol on Obama's part.  It's almost like he wants the world to know that he is a child. The US Embassy here should have had these fine points scripted for Obama. American leaders do not bow to foreigners.  We are free, and it should show.  Other world leaders don't respect this kind of bowing and scraping.  It is not just a loss of face for Obama, but also for America.  Wait till the Chinese and the North Koreans see this picture.  There will be provocations from North Korea -- and soon. To any American soldier who gave his life at Pearl Harbor or throughout WWII at the hands of the Japanese, this is treason. It’s humiliating to see an American leader do this to any foreigner, and it's just a reminder of this.

And Patriotic

Friends And Associates

Have you 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 -- not one. But, the people that are around Obama all have one thing in common -- they all hate America -- and there's a bunch of them that are hard-core communists. 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 these people have repeatedly and clearly said so.  They're all up to their ears in the "quiet revolution," first described by the Italian Marxist, Antonio Gramsci, and they feel it is at hand.  They can taste victory and it all hinges on Barack Hussein Obama. The mainstream media provides cover for Obama.  It has completely abrogated its role and responsibility to vet him.

The Man Who Despises America

Mark Hyman says the very next paragraph is going to make the nut jobs on the far left excitable beyond belief.    I am not referring to all Democrats or even a majority of liberals.  I am singling out the "they've-lost-all-touch-with-reality" crowd.  This includes Media Matters for America led by the admitted hit-and-run, drunk-driving serial liar.  The group includes the unshaven, bathrobe-clad unemployed who live in their mother's basement and are devout followers of MoveOn.Org.  It is also the bitter, aging spinster working at the New York Times, the morbidly obese documentary film maker, and cable TV news' resident drama queen who hosts MSNBC's Countdown.  They are about to simultaneously suffer from brain aneurisms.  So without further delay, I'll say it.   Barack Obama despises America.       Continue reading here . . .

No Records -- None -- Nada -- Zilch

Obama has lived for almost 50 years without leaving any footprints -- none!  There is no Obama documentation -- no bona fides -- no paper trail -- nothing.   Original, vault copy birth certificate -- Not released (lawyers' fees = $2,000,000 ~ birth certificate = $15) Certification of Live Birth -- Released -- Counterfeit Obama/Dunham marriage license -- Not released (if one exists) Obama/Dunham divorce -- Released (by independent investigators) Kindergarten records -- Records lost (this is a big one -- read two frames) Soetoro/Dunham marriage license -- Not released Soetoro adoption records -- Not released Fransiskus Assisi School  School application -- Released (by independent investigators) Punahou School records -- Not released Soetoro/Dunham divorce -- Released (by independent investigators) Selective Service Registration -- Released -- Counterfeit Social Security Number -- Under suspicion Occidental College records -- Not released Passport -- Not released and records scrubbed clean by Obama's terrorism and intelligence adviser. Columbia College records -- Not released Columbia thesis -- "Soviet Nuclear Disarmament" -- Not released Harvard College records -- Not released Harvard Law Review articles -- None Illinois Bar Records -- Not released. 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." And there's less on the web every day.  In time, the entire Obama body of knowledge will consist of 3 documents -- "Dreams From My Father" -- "The Audacity of Hope" -- and the latest -- "Change We Can Believe In" -- all written by Barack Hussein Obama or his "ghost-writers."   Just an accident?  I don't think so.

Scrub-A-Dub

On the Internet, there is an organized, systematic cleansing of Obama-related content. Every couple of days I get an email telling me this link, or that link, connects to a "Page not found -- 404 error."  The extensive body of Obama web-knowledge, 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.  And the campaign is getting help from some really big web service providers. 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 -- from The New York Times (It's here though). And, the Trinity UCC website has completely changed.  Now, it's all sweetness and light.  Gone are all those great Rev. Wright "God damn America" videos and anti-Israeli Trumpet magazine excerpts.

Eligibility Issues

All evidence points to the fact that Obama, who finds it hard to praise the United States for any achievement without mentioning some sin or grave shortcoming for balance, is, not even eligible for POTUS because he is not a "natural born" citizen of the United States.

Conspiracy

The one and only issue that matters are all of the fraudulent and illegal acts committed by Obama, his Campaign, his staff, his shills and co-conspirators in the news media, his ACORN affiliates, his foreign contributors, and an all-star cast of supporting characters in the biggest political cover-up since Watergate. The indisputable facts are that Obama never released his birth certificate to anyone, and that whatever Hawaii has on record for Obama is unknown.  No one in Hawaii has ever said or verified that he was born in Honolulu.  The question of his birthplace, birth date, and birth parents remain hidden from view, and are deliberately being withheld from the public. Obama is a fictitious character with a fairytale for a biography befitting the Brothers Grimm.

Obama's Security Force

Meanwhile, Obama has been building a cadre to lead his own "private army" -- his "Movement" -- for years. His "Movement" is structure around Alinsky's "people's organization" and training programs designed to build a core group of "community organizers" dedicated to "social change" in their communities.  Their charter will be to bring about "Change."  They'll do this through threats, pressure, tension and confrontation -- the tactics of Alinsky. Obama is cloning thousands of baby Obamas -- a "people’s organization" -- and on our dime.  He's got an Internet database of 14 million names that can be pointed at -- or away from --  an issue at the drop of a database-generated  email. Then there's ACORN, and the SEIU, and the DSA, and . . . A "movement" -- dedicated to social change -- and there will be thousands of them in the neighborhoods and hundreds of thousands more on the Internet. Just what do you think he has planned for these guys?

Remember This

On July 2nd, 2008, Obama spoke in Colorado Springs and hit themes of national service, foreign policy, and national security.  In that vein, Obama proposed a rather extraordinary idea -- that the US should spend as much money on a civilian national security force as it does on the military. (video) "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." And what color shirts will they wear? Lenin said this about socialism, "The goal of socialism is communism."   None of this is good.