OBAMA - A CHAMELEON?
As updated on 10-11/12-08
The most charitable spin on this record (see below) is that Barack Obama has always sought to blend in wherever he is, leaving as few traces of his true beliefs and affiliations as possible. But I am forced to note that his longest term Christian affiliation was in a “black liberation theology” setting that was fully consonant with the doctrinaire left ideology of Ayers-Dorn and also with some of the fiery rhetoric of a Louis Farrakhan, the black Muslim leader, once lauded by Rev. Wright’s church.
Resistance or opposition within these shifting cultural environments would have made Barack stand out, but that is not chameleon behavior.
In the primary campaign, for example, Barack constantly tacked to the left of Hilary Clinton, courting the anti-military “Code Pink” fringe at every opportunity. Now that he is in the general election, he has picked “Dick Cheney lite" as a running mate, toughened up his rhetoric and is trying to sound like a JFK hawk.
Chameleons change colors to survive. Stealth candidates change colors to slip into power, then blossom with their true colors.
What are the true colors of Barack Obama?
JBG
As Published On
→The Human Conspiracy Blog: http://www.jaygaskill.com/blog3
→The Policy Think Site: http://www.jaygaskill.com
All contents, unless otherwise indicated are
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 by Jay B. Gaskill
Permission to publish, distribute or print all or part of this article (except for personal use) is needed. [Permission for use in group discussions is almost always routinely given.]
Please contact Jay B. Gaskill, attorney at law, via e mail at law@jaygaskill.com
The Dick Morris comments are included as “fair comment” excerpts, and are copyright 2008 by Dick Morris. Link: http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2008/10/08/the-obama-ayers-connection/
THURSDAY
READER BEWARE – THIS POLITICAL COMMENTARY & OPINION IS NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT
[][][][]
BARACK OBAMA
Profile of a Political Chameleon
[][][]
Senator Obama and Those Uncomfortable Associations
With Muslims,
The Radical Left and A Syrian-Born Crook
[][]
OPACITY AND TRANSPARENCY
Three of the four candidates running at the national level present no problems of opacity, ambiguity or internal conflict.
What you see is what you get with Senator Biden, Governor Palin and Senator McCain.
Warts included, these three politicians are transparent.
[][]
BARACK’S SELF-DEFINITION PROJECT
But Barry (Barack Hussein) Obama appears to be a life long project in self-redefinition. He was born in ethnic, social and religious ambiguity, the son of a somewhat temperamental Ethiopian intellectual and a new age American born mother.
[][]
THE "I’M NOT A MUSLIM" FLAP
Flash forward to young Barack’s Indonesian-Muslim period when Mom had remarried and young Obama was enrolled in a local school – his religion was listed as Muslim. This is no surprise since both of Mom’s husbands were Muslim.
But the senator has made very clear statements to the contrary:
“I've always been a Christian.”
“The only connection I’ve had to Islam is that my grandfather on my father’s side came from that country [Kenya]. But I’ve never practiced Islam."
“I have never been a Muslim -- other than my name and the fact that I lived in a populous Muslim country for 4 years when I was a child [Indonesia, 1967-71] I have very little connection to the Islamic religion.”
To be fair, Obama will – when pressed – say that he meant to limit his statements to his adult experiences.
But –
Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng explained to Jodi Kanto – writing for the New York Times:
"My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim."
The Associated Press ran a story in which that "documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim" while at a Catholic school during first through third grades.
The Chicago Tribune ran a story confirming that Obama was "listed as a Muslim on the registration form for the Catholic school.
Other plausible but less well sourced reports assert that “Barack Hussein Obama was registered under the name Barry Soetoro … and entered the Franciscan Asisi Primary School on 1 January 1968 and sat in class 1B. His religion was listed as Islam.”
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Indonesians who knew Obama when he lived in Jakarta. They confirmed that he “was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools he attended.”
A Toronto Star reporter went to the Jakarta public school Obama attended and reported that “Three of his teachers have said he was enrolled as a Muslim.”
[]
THE SYRIAN BORN CROOK
After attending college in the New York, Barack met Antoin (Tony) Rezko. Mr. Rezko was a crook. He was born in Aleppom Syria. Rezko’s fortune was made as a Chicago real estate developer and dealmaker who kept public officials on a surreptitious payroll. He is in federal custody and “singing” as I write this.
Ironically, Mr. Rezko, was honored as "Entrepreneur of the Decade" by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association".
When Obama finished Harvard Law, he was hired by Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland - the firm that represented “Rezar”, Tony Rezko's firm.
Mr. Rezko was a huge Obama financial backer when Barack first ran for office in Chicago. Later, Rezko threw a fundraiser for Obama that the Chicago Tribune described as the “seed money” for Barack’s U.S. Senate race.
In 2005, Barack was able to buy a house in the exclusive Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million - this is apparently a bargain price! Rezko's wife simultaneously bought the next-door empty lot for full price – it was later given over to Barack in another “bargain”.
The London Times has run a story that one Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born billionaire, had “loaned” Tony Rezko $3.5 million just three weeks before the Obama home deal.
[][]
CAMPAIGN FRIENDS, NEW, OLD AND UNDER THE BUS
Flash forward to the campaign. Obama’s trusted advisor was dismissed when it came to light that he was in regular contact with Hamas.
Michele Obama practiced law in the same firm that employed Bernadine Dohrn, the 60’s Weatherman terrorist who married the radical Weatherman, confessed bomber, Professor William Ayers. Both were prosecuted for terror crimes. Ayers would have served serious prison time but for his release on a technicality. Bernadine did serve a short prison term. It is beyond credibility that this famous 60's radical would not have come to the attention of Barack's wife or that William's terror background could not have been well known to Barack himself at a very early stage. The Senator's protestations to the contrary are incredible.
Barack has stubbornly minimized his relationship with Ayers – for good reason, it appears.
[][][]
THE DICK MORRIS SUMMARY
Dick Morris has pointed out the following:
“The records of the administration of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), released last week by the University of Illinois, show that the Ayers-Obama connection was, in fact, an intimate collaboration and that it led to the only executive or administrative experience in Obama's life.
“After Walter Annenberg's foundation offered several hundred million dollars to American public schools in the mid-'90s, William Ayers applied for $50 million for Chicago. The purpose of his application was to secure funds to "raise political consciousness" in Chicago's public schools. …Ayers's group chose Barack Obama to distribute the money. Between 1995 and 1999, Obama distributed the $50 million and raised another $60 million from other civic groups to augment it. …
…
“… Ayers has admitted bombing the U.S. Capitol building and the Pentagon, and his wife was sent to prison for failing to cooperate in solving the robbery of a Brink's armored car in which two police officers were killed. Far from remorse, Ayers told The New York Times in September 2001 that he "wished he could have done more."
[]___[]
MY SUMMARY
The most charitable spin on this record is that Barack Obama has always sought to blend in wherever he is, leaving as few traces of his true beliefs and affiliations as possible. But I am forced to note that his longest term Christian affiliation was in a “black liberation theology” setting that was fully consonant with the doctrinaire left ideology of Ayers-Dorn and also with some of the fiery rhetoric of a Louis Farrakhan, the black Muslim leader, once lauded by Rev. Wright’s church.
Resistance or opposition within these shifting cultural environments would have made Barack stand out, but that is not chameleon behavior.
In the primary campaign, for example, Barack constantly tacked to the left of Hilary Clinton, courting the anti-military “Code Pink” fringe at every opportunity. Now that he is in the general election, he has picked “Dick Cheney lite" as a running mate, toughened up his rhetoric and is trying to sound like a JFK hawk.
Chameleons change colors to survive. Stealth candidates change colors to slip into power, then blossom with their true colors.
What are the true colors of Barack Obama?
JBG
The most charitable spin on this record (see below) is that Barack Obama has always sought to blend in wherever he is, leaving as few traces of his true beliefs and affiliations as possible. But I am forced to note that his longest term Christian affiliation was in a “black liberation theology” setting that was fully consonant with the doctrinaire left ideology of Ayers-Dorn and also with some of the fiery rhetoric of a Louis Farrakhan, the black Muslim leader, once lauded by Rev. Wright’s church.
Resistance or opposition within these shifting cultural environments would have made Barack stand out, but that is not chameleon behavior.
In the primary campaign, for example, Barack constantly tacked to the left of Hilary Clinton, courting the anti-military “Code Pink” fringe at every opportunity. Now that he is in the general election, he has picked “Dick Cheney lite" as a running mate, toughened up his rhetoric and is trying to sound like a JFK hawk.
Chameleons change colors to survive. Stealth candidates change colors to slip into power, then blossom with their true colors.
What are the true colors of Barack Obama?
JBG
As Published On
→The Human Conspiracy Blog: http://www.jaygaskill.com/blog3
→The Policy Think Site: http://www.jaygaskill.com
All contents, unless otherwise indicated are
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 by Jay B. Gaskill
Permission to publish, distribute or print all or part of this article (except for personal use) is needed. [Permission for use in group discussions is almost always routinely given.]
Please contact Jay B. Gaskill, attorney at law, via e mail at law@jaygaskill.com
The Dick Morris comments are included as “fair comment” excerpts, and are copyright 2008 by Dick Morris. Link: http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2008/10/08/the-obama-ayers-connection/
THURSDAY
READER BEWARE – THIS POLITICAL COMMENTARY & OPINION IS NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT
[][][][]
BARACK OBAMA
Profile of a Political Chameleon
[][][]
Senator Obama and Those Uncomfortable Associations
With Muslims,
The Radical Left and A Syrian-Born Crook
[][]
OPACITY AND TRANSPARENCY
Three of the four candidates running at the national level present no problems of opacity, ambiguity or internal conflict.
What you see is what you get with Senator Biden, Governor Palin and Senator McCain.
Warts included, these three politicians are transparent.
[][]
BARACK’S SELF-DEFINITION PROJECT
But Barry (Barack Hussein) Obama appears to be a life long project in self-redefinition. He was born in ethnic, social and religious ambiguity, the son of a somewhat temperamental Ethiopian intellectual and a new age American born mother.
[][]
THE "I’M NOT A MUSLIM" FLAP
Flash forward to young Barack’s Indonesian-Muslim period when Mom had remarried and young Obama was enrolled in a local school – his religion was listed as Muslim. This is no surprise since both of Mom’s husbands were Muslim.
But the senator has made very clear statements to the contrary:
“I've always been a Christian.”
“The only connection I’ve had to Islam is that my grandfather on my father’s side came from that country [Kenya]. But I’ve never practiced Islam."
“I have never been a Muslim -- other than my name and the fact that I lived in a populous Muslim country for 4 years when I was a child [Indonesia, 1967-71] I have very little connection to the Islamic religion.”
To be fair, Obama will – when pressed – say that he meant to limit his statements to his adult experiences.
But –
Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng explained to Jodi Kanto – writing for the New York Times:
"My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim."
The Associated Press ran a story in which that "documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim" while at a Catholic school during first through third grades.
The Chicago Tribune ran a story confirming that Obama was "listed as a Muslim on the registration form for the Catholic school.
Other plausible but less well sourced reports assert that “Barack Hussein Obama was registered under the name Barry Soetoro … and entered the Franciscan Asisi Primary School on 1 January 1968 and sat in class 1B. His religion was listed as Islam.”
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Indonesians who knew Obama when he lived in Jakarta. They confirmed that he “was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools he attended.”
A Toronto Star reporter went to the Jakarta public school Obama attended and reported that “Three of his teachers have said he was enrolled as a Muslim.”
[]
THE SYRIAN BORN CROOK
After attending college in the New York, Barack met Antoin (Tony) Rezko. Mr. Rezko was a crook. He was born in Aleppom Syria. Rezko’s fortune was made as a Chicago real estate developer and dealmaker who kept public officials on a surreptitious payroll. He is in federal custody and “singing” as I write this.
Ironically, Mr. Rezko, was honored as "Entrepreneur of the Decade" by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association".
When Obama finished Harvard Law, he was hired by Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland - the firm that represented “Rezar”, Tony Rezko's firm.
Mr. Rezko was a huge Obama financial backer when Barack first ran for office in Chicago. Later, Rezko threw a fundraiser for Obama that the Chicago Tribune described as the “seed money” for Barack’s U.S. Senate race.
In 2005, Barack was able to buy a house in the exclusive Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million - this is apparently a bargain price! Rezko's wife simultaneously bought the next-door empty lot for full price – it was later given over to Barack in another “bargain”.
The London Times has run a story that one Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born billionaire, had “loaned” Tony Rezko $3.5 million just three weeks before the Obama home deal.
[][]
CAMPAIGN FRIENDS, NEW, OLD AND UNDER THE BUS
Flash forward to the campaign. Obama’s trusted advisor was dismissed when it came to light that he was in regular contact with Hamas.
Michele Obama practiced law in the same firm that employed Bernadine Dohrn, the 60’s Weatherman terrorist who married the radical Weatherman, confessed bomber, Professor William Ayers. Both were prosecuted for terror crimes. Ayers would have served serious prison time but for his release on a technicality. Bernadine did serve a short prison term. It is beyond credibility that this famous 60's radical would not have come to the attention of Barack's wife or that William's terror background could not have been well known to Barack himself at a very early stage. The Senator's protestations to the contrary are incredible.
Barack has stubbornly minimized his relationship with Ayers – for good reason, it appears.
[][][]
THE DICK MORRIS SUMMARY
Dick Morris has pointed out the following:
“The records of the administration of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), released last week by the University of Illinois, show that the Ayers-Obama connection was, in fact, an intimate collaboration and that it led to the only executive or administrative experience in Obama's life.
“After Walter Annenberg's foundation offered several hundred million dollars to American public schools in the mid-'90s, William Ayers applied for $50 million for Chicago. The purpose of his application was to secure funds to "raise political consciousness" in Chicago's public schools. …Ayers's group chose Barack Obama to distribute the money. Between 1995 and 1999, Obama distributed the $50 million and raised another $60 million from other civic groups to augment it. …
…
“… Ayers has admitted bombing the U.S. Capitol building and the Pentagon, and his wife was sent to prison for failing to cooperate in solving the robbery of a Brink's armored car in which two police officers were killed. Far from remorse, Ayers told The New York Times in September 2001 that he "wished he could have done more."
[]___[]
MY SUMMARY
The most charitable spin on this record is that Barack Obama has always sought to blend in wherever he is, leaving as few traces of his true beliefs and affiliations as possible. But I am forced to note that his longest term Christian affiliation was in a “black liberation theology” setting that was fully consonant with the doctrinaire left ideology of Ayers-Dorn and also with some of the fiery rhetoric of a Louis Farrakhan, the black Muslim leader, once lauded by Rev. Wright’s church.
Resistance or opposition within these shifting cultural environments would have made Barack stand out, but that is not chameleon behavior.
In the primary campaign, for example, Barack constantly tacked to the left of Hilary Clinton, courting the anti-military “Code Pink” fringe at every opportunity. Now that he is in the general election, he has picked “Dick Cheney lite" as a running mate, toughened up his rhetoric and is trying to sound like a JFK hawk.
Chameleons change colors to survive. Stealth candidates change colors to slip into power, then blossom with their true colors.
What are the true colors of Barack Obama?
JBG
In the primary campaign, for example, Barack constantly tacked to the left of Hilary Clinton, courting the anti-military “Code Pink” fringe at every opportunity. Now that he is in the general election, he has picked “Dick Cheney lite" as a running mate, toughened up his rhetoric and is trying to sound like a JFK hawk.
Chameleons change colors to survive. Stealth candidates change colors to slip into power, then blossom with their true colors.
What are the true colors of Barack Obama?
JBG
As Published On
→The Human Conspiracy Blog: http://www.jaygaskill.com/blog3
→The Policy Think Site: http://www.jaygaskill.com
All contents, unless otherwise indicated are
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 by Jay B. Gaskill
Permission to publish, distribute or print all or part of this article (except for personal use) is needed. [Permission for use in group discussions is almost always routinely given.]
Please contact Jay B. Gaskill, attorney at law, via e mail at law@jaygaskill.com
The Dick Morris comments are included as “fair comment” excerpts, and are copyright 2008 by Dick Morris. Link: http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2008/10/08/the-obama-ayers-connection/
THURSDAY
READER BEWARE – THIS POLITICAL COMMENTARY & OPINION IS NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT
[][][][]
BARACK OBAMA
Profile of a Political Chameleon
[][][]
Senator Obama and Those Uncomfortable Associations
With Muslims,
The Radical Left and A Syrian-Born Crook
[][]
OPACITY AND TRANSPARENCY
Three of the four candidates running at the national level present no problems of opacity, ambiguity or internal conflict.
What you see is what you get with Senator Biden, Governor Palin and Senator McCain.
Warts included, these three politicians are transparent.
[][]
BARACK’S SELF-DEFINITION PROJECT
But Barry (Barack Hussein) Obama appears to be a life long project in self-redefinition. He was born in ethnic, social and religious ambiguity, the son of a somewhat temperamental Ethiopian intellectual and a new age American born mother.
[][]
THE "I’M NOT A MUSLIM" FLAP
Flash forward to young Barack’s Indonesian-Muslim period when Mom had remarried and young Obama was enrolled in a local school – his religion was listed as Muslim. This is no surprise since both of Mom’s husbands were Muslim.
But the senator has made very clear statements to the contrary:
“I've always been a Christian.”
“The only connection I’ve had to Islam is that my grandfather on my father’s side came from that country [Kenya]. But I’ve never practiced Islam."
“I have never been a Muslim -- other than my name and the fact that I lived in a populous Muslim country for 4 years when I was a child [Indonesia, 1967-71] I have very little connection to the Islamic religion.”
To be fair, Obama will – when pressed – say that he meant to limit his statements to his adult experiences.
But –
Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng explained to Jodi Kanto – writing for the New York Times:
"My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim."
The Associated Press ran a story in which that "documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim" while at a Catholic school during first through third grades.
The Chicago Tribune ran a story confirming that Obama was "listed as a Muslim on the registration form for the Catholic school.
Other plausible but less well sourced reports assert that “Barack Hussein Obama was registered under the name Barry Soetoro … and entered the Franciscan Asisi Primary School on 1 January 1968 and sat in class 1B. His religion was listed as Islam.”
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Indonesians who knew Obama when he lived in Jakarta. They confirmed that he “was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools he attended.”
A Toronto Star reporter went to the Jakarta public school Obama attended and reported that “Three of his teachers have said he was enrolled as a Muslim.”
[]
THE SYRIAN BORN CROOK
After attending college in the New York, Barack met Antoin (Tony) Rezko. Mr. Rezko was a crook. He was born in Aleppom Syria. Rezko’s fortune was made as a Chicago real estate developer and dealmaker who kept public officials on a surreptitious payroll. He is in federal custody and “singing” as I write this.
Ironically, Mr. Rezko, was honored as "Entrepreneur of the Decade" by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association".
When Obama finished Harvard Law, he was hired by Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland - the firm that represented “Rezar”, Tony Rezko's firm.
Mr. Rezko was a huge Obama financial backer when Barack first ran for office in Chicago. Later, Rezko threw a fundraiser for Obama that the Chicago Tribune described as the “seed money” for Barack’s U.S. Senate race.
In 2005, Barack was able to buy a house in the exclusive Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million - this is apparently a bargain price! Rezko's wife simultaneously bought the next-door empty lot for full price – it was later given over to Barack in another “bargain”.
The London Times has run a story that one Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born billionaire, had “loaned” Tony Rezko $3.5 million just three weeks before the Obama home deal.
[][]
CAMPAIGN FRIENDS, NEW, OLD AND UNDER THE BUS
Flash forward to the campaign. Obama’s trusted advisor was dismissed when it came to light that he was in regular contact with Hamas.
Michele Obama practiced law in the same firm that employed Bernadine Dohrn, the 60’s Weatherman terrorist who married the radical Weatherman, confessed bomber, Professor William Ayers. Both were prosecuted for terror crimes. Ayers would have served serious prison time but for his release on a technicality. Bernadine did serve a short prison term. It is beyond credibility that this famous 60's radical would not have come to the attention of Barack's wife or that William's terror background could not have been well known to Barack himself at a very early stage. The Senator's protestations to the contrary are incredible.
Barack has stubbornly minimized his relationship with Ayers – for good reason, it appears.
[][][]
THE DICK MORRIS SUMMARY
Dick Morris has pointed out the following:
“The records of the administration of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), released last week by the University of Illinois, show that the Ayers-Obama connection was, in fact, an intimate collaboration and that it led to the only executive or administrative experience in Obama's life.
“After Walter Annenberg's foundation offered several hundred million dollars to American public schools in the mid-'90s, William Ayers applied for $50 million for Chicago. The purpose of his application was to secure funds to "raise political consciousness" in Chicago's public schools. …Ayers's group chose Barack Obama to distribute the money. Between 1995 and 1999, Obama distributed the $50 million and raised another $60 million from other civic groups to augment it. …
…
“… Ayers has admitted bombing the U.S. Capitol building and the Pentagon, and his wife was sent to prison for failing to cooperate in solving the robbery of a Brink's armored car in which two police officers were killed. Far from remorse, Ayers told The New York Times in September 2001 that he "wished he could have done more."
[]___[]
MY SUMMARY
The most charitable spin on this record is that Barack Obama has always sought to blend in wherever he is, leaving as few traces of his true beliefs and affiliations as possible. But I am forced to note that his longest term Christian affiliation was in a “black liberation theology” setting that was fully consonant with the doctrinaire left ideology of Ayers-Dorn and also with some of the fiery rhetoric of a Louis Farrakhan, the black Muslim leader, once lauded by Rev. Wright’s church.
Resistance or opposition within these shifting cultural environments would have made Barack stand out, but that is not chameleon behavior.
In the primary campaign, for example, Barack constantly tacked to the left of Hilary Clinton, courting the anti-military “Code Pink” fringe at every opportunity. Now that he is in the general election, he has picked “Dick Cheney lite" as a running mate, toughened up his rhetoric and is trying to sound like a JFK hawk.
Chameleons change colors to survive. Stealth candidates change colors to slip into power, then blossom with their true colors.
What are the true colors of Barack Obama?
JBG
What are the true colors of Barack Obama?
JBG
As Published On
→The Human Conspiracy Blog: http://www.jaygaskill.com/blog3
→The Policy Think Site: http://www.jaygaskill.com
All contents, unless otherwise indicated are
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 by Jay B. Gaskill
Permission to publish, distribute or print all or part of this article (except for personal use) is needed. [Permission for use in group discussions is almost always routinely given.]
Please contact Jay B. Gaskill, attorney at law, via e mail at law@jaygaskill.com
Please contact Jay B. Gaskill, attorney at law, via e mail at law@jaygaskill.com
The Dick Morris comments are included as “fair comment” excerpts, and are copyright 2008 by Dick Morris. Link: http://www.dickmorris.com/blog/2008/10/08/the-obama-ayers-connection/
THURSDAY
READER BEWARE – THIS POLITICAL COMMENTARY & OPINION IS NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT
[][][][]
BARACK OBAMA
Profile of a Political Chameleon
[][][]
Senator Obama and Those Uncomfortable Associations
With Muslims,
The Radical Left and A Syrian-Born Crook
[][]
OPACITY AND TRANSPARENCY
Three of the four candidates running at the national level present no problems of opacity, ambiguity or internal conflict.
What you see is what you get with Senator Biden, Governor Palin and Senator McCain.
Warts included, these three politicians are transparent.
[][]
BARACK’S SELF-DEFINITION PROJECT
But Barry (Barack Hussein) Obama appears to be a life long project in self-redefinition. He was born in ethnic, social and religious ambiguity, the son of a somewhat temperamental Ethiopian intellectual and a new age American born mother.
[][]
THE "I’M NOT A MUSLIM" FLAP
Flash forward to young Barack’s Indonesian-Muslim period when Mom had remarried and young Obama was enrolled in a local school – his religion was listed as Muslim. This is no surprise since both of Mom’s husbands were Muslim.
But the senator has made very clear statements to the contrary:
“I've always been a Christian.”
“The only connection I’ve had to Islam is that my grandfather on my father’s side came from that country [Kenya]. But I’ve never practiced Islam."
“I have never been a Muslim -- other than my name and the fact that I lived in a populous Muslim country for 4 years when I was a child [Indonesia, 1967-71] I have very little connection to the Islamic religion.”
To be fair, Obama will – when pressed – say that he meant to limit his statements to his adult experiences.
But –
Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng explained to Jodi Kanto – writing for the New York Times:
"My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim."
The Associated Press ran a story in which that "documents showed he enrolled as a Muslim" while at a Catholic school during first through third grades.
The Chicago Tribune ran a story confirming that Obama was "listed as a Muslim on the registration form for the Catholic school.
Other plausible but less well sourced reports assert that “Barack Hussein Obama was registered under the name Barry Soetoro … and entered the Franciscan Asisi Primary School on 1 January 1968 and sat in class 1B. His religion was listed as Islam.”
The Los Angeles Times interviewed Indonesians who knew Obama when he lived in Jakarta. They confirmed that he “was registered by his family as a Muslim at both schools he attended.”
A Toronto Star reporter went to the Jakarta public school Obama attended and reported that “Three of his teachers have said he was enrolled as a Muslim.”
[]
THE SYRIAN BORN CROOK
After attending college in the New York, Barack met Antoin (Tony) Rezko. Mr. Rezko was a crook. He was born in Aleppom Syria. Rezko’s fortune was made as a Chicago real estate developer and dealmaker who kept public officials on a surreptitious payroll. He is in federal custody and “singing” as I write this.
Ironically, Mr. Rezko, was honored as "Entrepreneur of the Decade" by the Arab-American Business and Professional Association".
When Obama finished Harvard Law, he was hired by Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland - the firm that represented “Rezar”, Tony Rezko's firm.
Mr. Rezko was a huge Obama financial backer when Barack first ran for office in Chicago. Later, Rezko threw a fundraiser for Obama that the Chicago Tribune described as the “seed money” for Barack’s U.S. Senate race.
In 2005, Barack was able to buy a house in the exclusive Kenwoood District of Chicago for $1.65 million - this is apparently a bargain price! Rezko's wife simultaneously bought the next-door empty lot for full price – it was later given over to Barack in another “bargain”.
The London Times has run a story that one Nadhmi Auchi, an Iraqi-born billionaire, had “loaned” Tony Rezko $3.5 million just three weeks before the Obama home deal.
[][]
CAMPAIGN FRIENDS, NEW, OLD AND UNDER THE BUS
Flash forward to the campaign. Obama’s trusted advisor was dismissed when it came to light that he was in regular contact with Hamas.
Michele Obama practiced law in the same firm that employed Bernadine Dohrn, the 60’s Weatherman terrorist who married the radical Weatherman, confessed bomber, Professor William Ayers. Both were prosecuted for terror crimes. Ayers would have served serious prison time but for his release on a technicality. Bernadine did serve a short prison term. It is beyond credibility that this famous 60's radical would not have come to the attention of Barack's wife or that William's terror background could not have been well known to Barack himself at a very early stage. The Senator's protestations to the contrary are incredible.
Barack has stubbornly minimized his relationship with Ayers – for good reason, it appears.
[][][]
THE DICK MORRIS SUMMARY
Dick Morris has pointed out the following:
“The records of the administration of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), released last week by the University of Illinois, show that the Ayers-Obama connection was, in fact, an intimate collaboration and that it led to the only executive or administrative experience in Obama's life.
“After Walter Annenberg's foundation offered several hundred million dollars to American public schools in the mid-'90s, William Ayers applied for $50 million for Chicago. The purpose of his application was to secure funds to "raise political consciousness" in Chicago's public schools. …Ayers's group chose Barack Obama to distribute the money. Between 1995 and 1999, Obama distributed the $50 million and raised another $60 million from other civic groups to augment it. …
…
“… Ayers has admitted bombing the U.S. Capitol building and the Pentagon, and his wife was sent to prison for failing to cooperate in solving the robbery of a Brink's armored car in which two police officers were killed. Far from remorse, Ayers told The New York Times in September 2001 that he "wished he could have done more."
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MY SUMMARY
The most charitable spin on this record is that Barack Obama has always sought to blend in wherever he is, leaving as few traces of his true beliefs and affiliations as possible. But I am forced to note that his longest term Christian affiliation was in a “black liberation theology” setting that was fully consonant with the doctrinaire left ideology of Ayers-Dorn and also with some of the fiery rhetoric of a Louis Farrakhan, the black Muslim leader, once lauded by Rev. Wright’s church.
Resistance or opposition within these shifting cultural environments would have made Barack stand out, but that is not chameleon behavior.
In the primary campaign, for example, Barack constantly tacked to the left of Hilary Clinton, courting the anti-military “Code Pink” fringe at every opportunity. Now that he is in the general election, he has picked “Dick Cheney lite" as a running mate, toughened up his rhetoric and is trying to sound like a JFK hawk.
Chameleons change colors to survive. Stealth candidates change colors to slip into power, then blossom with their true colors.
What are the true colors of Barack Obama?
JBG
With Muslims,
The Radical Left and A Syrian-Born Crook
The most charitable spin on this record is that Barack Obama has always sought to blend in wherever he is, leaving as few traces of his true beliefs and affiliations as possible. But I am forced to note that his longest term Christian affiliation was in a “black liberation theology” setting that was fully consonant with the doctrinaire left ideology of Ayers-Dorn and also with some of the fiery rhetoric of a Louis Farrakhan, the black Muslim leader, once lauded by Rev. Wright’s church.
Resistance or opposition within these shifting cultural environments would have made Barack stand out, but that is not chameleon behavior.
In the primary campaign, for example, Barack constantly tacked to the left of Hilary Clinton, courting the anti-military “Code Pink” fringe at every opportunity. Now that he is in the general election, he has picked “Dick Cheney lite" as a running mate, toughened up his rhetoric and is trying to sound like a JFK hawk.
Chameleons change colors to survive. Stealth candidates change colors to slip into power, then blossom with their true colors.
What are the true colors of Barack Obama?
JBG
