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Blogger admits Hawaii birth certificate forgery, subverting Obama claims (Uh-oh)
Israel Insider ^ | 3 July 2008 | Reuven Koret

Posted on 07/03/2008 4:35:19 PM PDT by SE Mom

Jay McKinnon, a self-described Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist, has implicated himself in the production of fraudulent Hawaii birth certificate images similar to the one endorsed as genuine by the Barack Obama campaign, and appearing on the same blog entry where the supposedly authentic document appears.

The evidence of forgery and manipulation of images of official documents, triggered by Israel Insider's revelation of the collection of Hawaii birth certificate images on the Photobucket site and the detective work of independent investigative journalists and imaging professionals in the three weeks since the publication of the images, implicate the Daily Kos, an extreme left blog site, and the Obama campaign, in misleading the public with official-looking but manipulated document images of doubtful provenance.

The perceived unreliability of the image has provoked petitions and widespread demands for Obama to submit for objective inspection the paper versions of the "birth certificate" he claimed in his book Dreams from My Father was in his possession, as well as the paper version of the Certificate of Live Birth for which the image on the Daily Kos and the Obama "Fight the Smears" website was supposedly generated.

Without a valid birth certificate, Obama cannot prove he fulfills the "natural born citizen" requirement of the Constitution, throwing into doubt his eligibility to run for President.

McKinnon, who says he is 25-30 years old, operates a website called OpenDNA.com and uses the OpenDNA screen name on various web sites and blogs, including his comments and diary on The Daily Kos. In recent years he has divided his time between Long Beach, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a Democratic political activist, frequent contributor to the left wing Daily Kos blog, and a fervent Barack Obama supporter.

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To: Calpernia

It seems to be him for sure.


7,341 posted on 03/12/2009 9:48:34 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gama Tamasi Ma Jyotir Gama)
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To: little jeremiah

Makes for a whole different thought process if he knew of Obama when he just arrived to the island then, huh?


7,342 posted on 03/12/2009 10:34:36 AM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Calpernia

Needs a whole chapter in his book... /sarc

The man is such an incredible fraud. As much as people have researched to find the truth, I am sure there is so much more that will shock the tar out of us when it is finally discovered. (to use a strange analogy...)


7,343 posted on 03/12/2009 11:20:19 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gama Tamasi Ma Jyotir Gama)
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To: Calpernia; Chief Engineer

Yusuf Acar, 40, who has worked in the technology office since 2004, was charged with bribery, conspiracy, money laundering and conflict of interest. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Hibarger told a federal judge that Acar is a flight risk because agents seized $70,000 in cash in his house and because in recorded conversations, he boasted that he could easily flee to his native Turkey. Acar also told the informant that he could use computers to create fake D.C. birth certificates, Hibarger said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/12/AR2009031201426.html


7,344 posted on 03/12/2009 9:49:45 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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To: Jet Jaguar; penelopesire; BulletBobCo; seekthetruth; Kevmo; gunnyg; television is just wrong; ...

He’s already lied about signing statements,
after blasting Pres. Bush about them when
he was campaigning, but **listen** and
bookmark his statements at the end about
the Constitution.

http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/video/obama_on_presidential_signing_statements/

This silver-tongued socialist ideologue would
and will pay a dime to lie if telling the truth
is free.

__________________________________________

For posterity to the thread:

52 days, 52 mistakes

Let me count them up, in no particular order. Some are big. Some are small.

We all make mistakes. Here’s his:

1. A do-over on the oath of office.
2. Tim Geithner.
3. Bill Richardson.
4. Tom Daschle.
5. Eric “Nation of Cowards” Holder.
6. Leon Panetta.
7. Arne “Cappuccino” Duncan.
8. Hilda Solis (OK, her husband has the tax liens).
9. Nancy Killefer.
10. Charles Freeman Jr.
11. Ron Kirk.
12. Adolfo Carrion.
13. Banning offshore oil again.
14. Letting Nancy Pelosi write the $787 billion “stimulus’ plan.
15. Relying on Tim Geithner to explain it.
16. It is a $13-a-week stimulus, or as his wife said of Bush’s plan: “You’re getting $600. What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything. But maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn’t pay down every bill every month.”
17. Going to a press conference without a TelePrompTer. I… Uhh… Umm… Could you repeat the question?
18. Using a TelePrompTer at a press conference. Big boys don’t need training wheels.
19. “Good evening, everybody. Please be seated. Before I take your questions tonight, I’d like to speak briefly.” 1,228 words later he took his first question.
20. Going after Rush Limbaugh.
21. Going after Rick Santelli.
22. Going after Jim Cramer.
23. “Never waste a good crisis.”
24. Obama supporter Warren Buffett: “I don’t think anybody on December 7th would have said a ‘war is a terrible thing to waste, and therefore we’re going to try and ram through a whole bunch of things and — but we expect to — expect the other party to unite behind us on the — on the big problem.’ It’s just a mistake, I think.”
25. Writing a love letter to Vlad and Dmitry.
26. Putting Poland under the bus.
27. Putting Tibet under the bus.
28. Putting Israel under the bus.
29. Taking Cuba out from under the bus.
30. Having his tax cheat go after the tax cheats in Switzerland. Cognitive dissonance.
31. “Karzai has a bunker mentality.”
32. Iran has plans to Marine One helicopters.
33. “I won.”
34. BlackBerry singing in the middle of the night/ Take these golden secrets and learn to fly…
35. Obama: “If Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.” CEO: No. There will be more layoffs.
36. DVDs to Gordon Brown.
37. “You can’t take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime.” Vegas convention bookings nosedive.
38. Wagyu.
39. Reset/overcharge button given to Russia.
40. Taking a 4-day holiday weekend before signing “emergency” legislation.
41. “I did think it might be useful to point out that it wasn’t under me that we started buying a bunch of shares of banks. It wasn’t on my watch. And it wasn’t on my watch that we passed a massive new entitlement — the prescription drug plan — without a source of funding. And so I think it’s important just to note when you start hearing folks throw these words around that we’ve actually been operating in a way that has been entirely consistent with free-market principles and that some of the same folks who are throwing the word ’socialist’ around can’t say the same.”
42. Stiffing Chicago for nearly $2 million for that Election Night par-tay.
43. Caroline Kennedy.
44. Bombing Pakistan.
45. Sending the bust of Sir Winston Churchill back to the British.
46. “President Obama has accomplished more in 30 days than any president in modern history.”
47. A window is not a door.
48. Doctors must perform abortions.
49. Signing earmarks while denouncing them.
50. Adding signing statements while denouncing them.
51. Quadrupling the deficits, while denouncing them.
52. Missing the Gridiron Club dinner.

But be of good cheer. He has 1,409 days left to make up for his stumbles out of the starting gate.

http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/2009/03/12/52-days-52-mistakes/


7,345 posted on 03/13/2009 1:25:26 AM PDT by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: Coffee200am

“Me thinks by now, the original can not be found...”
**************************

Yeh—

perhaps that’s what that quik-trip to Hawaii was all about—Grandma may have had some embarrassing original documents stashed away in a dresser drawer, etc. No more....


7,346 posted on 03/13/2009 5:04:16 AM PDT by gunnyg
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To: Polarik
“I never heard of Barack Obama until he gave his keynote address at the 2004 DNC. The only reason I watched it was because the media was going on about him like he's the next JFK and who is “being groomed” to run for President in 2012.
After listening to him talk and watching his body language and facial expressions, his arrogance, posturing, and empty rhetoric, I thought, “Nah...he's just an empty suit and it put me off. Yet, seeing how much the Dems were going ga-ga over him that I thought, “Watch, they're not going to wait until 2012. They'll stick him on the ticket as Hillary's Vice-President in 2008.” Well, right year, wrong half of the ticket.”

But, the one thing in his speech that really bothered me was when he recited this line from “Dreams of My father”:

“If there's an Arab American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that threatens my civil liberties.”

“How does that threaten his civil liberties?,” I said to myself, “He's African-American, so why does he sound like he's a spokesperson for Arab-Americans? Like someone from CAIR (a Muslim advocacy group who also supports Hamas and are apologists for Islamic terrorism) who claimed these things happened after 9/11.

Actually, with a name like Barack Hussein Obama, can you blame me?”

Certainly don't blame you! I also remember another quote that truly frightens me: “I have to side with Justice Breyer’s view of the Constitution—that it is not a static but rather a living document and must be read in the context of an ever-changing world.”

I can not and will not ever refer to Barack Hussien Obama aka Barry Soetoro as my President. He is nothing but a ursurper who hates America!

7,347 posted on 03/13/2009 7:20:05 AM PDT by seekthetruth
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To: Fred Nerks

Interesting!


7,348 posted on 03/13/2009 8:01:08 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: seekthetruth; Fred Nerks; MHGinTN

Yuppers. Omani Arab.


7,349 posted on 03/13/2009 8:06:31 AM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: STARWISE

I’ve sent the list to a bunch of nonfreepers along with the video website above. Thanks.


7,350 posted on 03/13/2009 10:08:20 AM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: lilylangtree

;)


7,351 posted on 03/13/2009 11:10:23 AM PDT by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: penelopesire; BulletBobCo; seekthetruth; Kevmo; gunnyg; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; ...

From Leo D:

###

Open Letter To United States Attorney Jeffrey Taylor
Posted in Uncategorized on March 13, 2009 by naturalborncitizen

March 13, 2009

United States Attorney Jeffrey Taylor
United States Attorney’s Office
555 4th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20530

Dear Mr. Taylor,

I am writing to make you aware of a brewing danger to members of our active military who have been influenced to join law suits challenging the eligibility of President Barack Obama as Commnader In Chief.

I hope you will deem it proper to take appropriate action to protect our military and the nation from further damage.

Recently, 1st Lt. Scott R. Easterling, currently serving in Iraq, agreed to be a plaintiff in a pending law suit being brought on behalf of several active and retired military persons by California attorney, Orly Taitz. Easterling agreed to sign a consent form for participation in this action. Beside asking for a publicity photograph and donations, the consent form requests a signature below the following language:

Attn. Orly Taitz, Esq.
26302 La Paz, Ste. 211
Mission Viejo, CA 92691

I agree to be a plaintiff in the legal action to be filed by Orly Taitz, Esq. in a PETITION FOR A DECLARATORY JUDGEMENT whether Barry Soetoro, citizen of Indonesia and possibly still citizen of Kenya, aka BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IS QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT of the U.S or TO BE COMMANDER IN CHIEF of the U.S. ARMED FORCES, in that I am or was a sworn member of the U.S. military (subject to recall) and I could conceivably be given unlawful orders by a Constitutionally unqualified Commander In Chief, and by following such orders I can be subject to court martial.

I further understand that additional arguments may be inserted into this lawsuit at the above-mentioned attorneys deem necessary. Please attach a copy of your military ID card.

Signature: ______________________

As Attorney Orly Taitz is performing this service for her country Pro Bono, any amount that you can contribute will be most helpful. Please, attach your picture in the uniform, a short bio and a letter to fellow citizens and elected officials

[See attached consent form copied directly from the official Orly Taitz web site at http://defendourfreedoms.org/ATTENTIONALLMILITARYPERSONNEL.htm ]

On February 23, 2009, this story broke via World Net Daily with the following headline:

Soldier doubts eligibility, defies president’s orders ‘As an officer, my sworn oath to support and defend our Constitution requires this’

The story included the following text:

~~~

Rest at site;

http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/


7,352 posted on 03/13/2009 11:12:21 AM PDT by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: seekthetruth
"...it is not a static but rather a living document and must be read in the context of an ever-changing world.”

Like I tell people, "President Who?"

Not only did he apply that line to the Constitution, he also referenced the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount in the same way.

7,353 posted on 03/13/2009 11:18:14 AM PDT by Polarik ("A forgery created to prove a claim repudiates that claim")
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To: STARWISE
Protect our military Bull SHite!

They want to shut up those who are raising the issue.

And the issue is political, not an issue at law.

The bald idiocy of dem manipulation and disregard for personal freedoms is fascist inn nature, and in execution.

7,354 posted on 03/13/2009 3:50:46 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice againsnt fascism are ridicule, and derision. (member NRA)
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To: Candor7

From Leo D’s posting:

“The legal question I asked the court to decide was whether a person governed by the laws of Great Britain at the time of their birth could be considered a natural “born” citizen of the United States as required by Article 2 Section 1 Clause 5 of our Constitution. The question remains unanswered in any United States court.”


7,355 posted on 03/13/2009 3:54:39 PM PDT by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: Calpernia; Candor7; Polarik; LucyT; little jeremiah
Was obama’s grandfather really a victim of the British? The Mau Mau uprising dates from 1952. Barack Obama's grandfather was arrested in 1949. What are the connections between Malcolm X, Obama and Odinga?

TIMES ARTICLE DEC 2008

“Beatings and abuse made Barack Obama’s grandfather loathe the British The President-elect’s relatives have told how the family was a victim of the Mau Mau revolt”

To the best of my knowledge, the victims of the Mau Mau revolt were the white farmers and the natives who worked on the farms, a la Zimbabwe.

From Timesonline 1952 articles:

The growth of Mau Mau The aims of the Mau Mau are clear enough. While the Kenya African Union conducts a campaign above ground for political power, the purpose of the Mau Mau is to step up the pace by menacing the authority of the Government and fostering trouble at all levels and by all means...

THE ROOT OF THE MAU MAU REVOLT

The Times, Mau Mau 1952 Politics and Terrorism in Kenya.

One contradiction after another:

Times December 2008 Article:

“...Hussein Onyango Obama, Mr Obama’s paternal grandfather, became involved in the Kenyan independence movement while working as a cook for a British army officer after the war. He was arrested in 1949 and jailed for two years in a high-security prison where, according to his family, he was subjected to horrific violence to extract information about the growing insurgency...

SNIP

“...Mr Obama refers briefly to his grandfather’s imprisonment in his best-selling memoir, Dreams from My Father, but states that his grandfather was “found innocent” and held only for “more than six months”...

SNIP

“...Barack Obama Sr, Mr Onyango’s son and the President-elect’s father, seems to have inherited his father’s attitudes towards the colonial power. He was also arrested, for attending a meeting in Nairobi of the Kenya African National Union (Kanu), the organisation spearheading the independence movement. Mrs Onyango told Mr Obama that his father, unlike her husband, had been held only for a short time in the white man’s prison: “Because he was not a leader in Kanu, Barack was released after a few days.”

“...Mr Onyango was a victim of the fight for Kenyan independence, but his son became a direct beneficiary of that movement. In 1960, Barack Obama Sr travelled on a scholarship to the University of Hawaii, as part of a programme (sponsored by John F. Kennedy) to train young Kenyans to rule their own country...”

No he wasn’t, he arrived some time in 1959 long before Kennedy had anything to do with the airlift - AND HE WAS NOT on board the first contingent of students that landed at Idlewild in September 1959.

JOURNAL OF AMERCIAN HISTORY

SEE FOOTNOTE:[25] Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, and Jackie Robinson appeal letter, Aug. 24, 1959, box 3, Robinson Papers; Smith, “East African Airlifts of 1959, 1960, and 1961,” 25–43. Barack Obama wrote that his father “had been selected by Kenyan leaders and American sponsors to attend a university in the United States,” but a list of the students who landed in New York on September 9, 1959, does not contain the name of the elder Obama. Tom Shachtman, working in the African-American Students Foundation (aasf) papers for a book on the airlifts, has found that the elder Obama came in 1959 with support from the aasf but appears to have been routed a different way as he made his way to the University of Hawaii.

Curiously, look who was in Africa in 1959...

MALCOLM X TIMELINE

Malcolm X travels to United Arab Republic, Sudan and Nigeria

Announced at New York NOI meeting that Malcolm X has left for Holland. Travels from there to Egypt, Mecca, Iran, Syria, and Ghana as Elijah Muhammad's ambassador.

MALCOLM X BARACK OBAMA (sr)and OGINGA ODINGA

Odinga had an impact on human rights groups in the United States. While he was in the U.S., the State Department took him on a tour of America. The last stop was Atlanta, self-described as “The City Too Busy to Hate.” Odinga was housed at one of Atlanta’s two non-segregated hotels.

When Malcolm visited Africa in 1964, he visited Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. It was during that trip that he met with Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, Ugandan President Dr. Milton Obote, and President Julius K. Nyerere and Muhammad Babu of Tanzania. Babu, Malcolm and Leroi Jones (now Amiri Baraka) held a meeting during this period in New York City. Malcolm talked about meeting President Kenyatta. Malcolm, however, was also aware of Kenya’s Oginga Odinga.

The original caption for this photo, taken June 1, 1963, reads: “Nairobi, Kenya – Waving his ‘wisk’ the newly-elected Premier of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta (R, foreground), greeted throngs of cheering citizens as he rode through the streets of Nairobi. Accompanying Kenyatta are Tom Mboya (L), Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs; A. Oginga Odinga, Minister for Home Affairs; and James S. Gichuru, Minister for Finance. The motorcade was part of the National Holiday celebrations which marked the start of internal self-government for the African nation.” Photo: © Bettmann/CORBIS

MALCOLM X IN AFRICA.

On a visit to Kenya in August of 2006, Barack Obama was hosted by Raila Odinga, son of Oginga Odinga, and is said to have spoken in praise of him at rallies in Nairobi, for which Obama is roundly condemned in the right-wing blogosphere.

7,356 posted on 03/13/2009 5:07:41 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

BUMP!


7,357 posted on 03/13/2009 8:46:29 PM PDT by Candor7 (The weapons of choice against fascism are ridicule, and derision. (member NRA)
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To: Candor7; Calpernia; Polarik; LucyT; little jeremiah

AN IN-DEPTH VIEW OF THE OBAMA HERITAGE Will Burnett

As the 2008 Presidential campaign progressed, bits and pieces of the information about Barack Obama that were being presented by the media did not fit the actual pattern of life of the potential first family. Thus, our curiosity caused us to do in-depth research and analysis on some of the facets of Obama’s life. Our information was gathered from historical books and documents, other later-published sources, and from recent history in daily newspapers, both domestic and international. We feel this information should be known to every voter before the November election.

In 1959/60, the first two airlifts of youth from Kenya were made to the United States. The purpose of the airlifts was to educate African youth so that they could then return to Kenya as leaders. Obama’s father was one of the students, and shortly after his arrival in Hawaii he met Obama’s mother. Obama was born in 1961. By birth Obama was automatically a member of the African Luo tribe. Shortly after the first airlifts, the African American Student Foundation was formed which has since sponsored educations for Luos including those claiming ‘political asylum’.

This was a turbulent period in Kenyan history, with the Luos in open rebellion against European colonial authority, engaging in terrorism and having Communist associations and close ties to Russia and China.

Once in the United States, the Luo youth organized with the intention of affecting Kenyan politics from here. They also involved themselves in United States politics, which began to focus on African-American uprisings. Obama’s father left his mother and him after two years to go to Harvard. It went beyond a desire to get an education, the Luos were working towards large political goals on the mainland.

During the absence of Obama’s father, Kenya had declared its independence; and a Luo, Jaramongi Oginga Odinga, reportedly Obama’s uncle, had been elected Vice President of the new government. Obama’s father went to work for the government when he returned to Kenya. However, Oginga Odinga’s radical Muslim and communist ideas soon made inevitable a collision with Kenya’s President Kenyatta. In 1965, Kenyatta assumed an anticommunist stance; and in 1966, Odinga’s left wing was driven out of the party. Obama’s father was involved, and Obama has simply said that a conflict with Kenyatta destroyed his father’s career, failing to give the reason why...

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/obamas-heritage.html

Interesting: The African-American Students Foundation WAS FORMED AFTER OBAMA SNR’s arrival in Hawaii.

The article claims Obama Sr left Hawaii when obama was 2 years of age. In fact, he left Hawaii before the first birthday. ( That’s if the August 4 date is correct.)

So, who sponsored Obama Sr, who paid for his trip to Hawaii? It wasn’t the Afircan-American Students Foundation, and it wasn’t Tom Mboya:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Mooney_Kirk

Elizabeth Mooney Kirk (February 23 1914 - June 29 2004) spent her entire life advancing adult literacy. She worked with Frank Laubach using his “Each One Teach One” reading method. She traveled and taught worldwide including India, Africa and United States. While working in Kenya, she provided the financial support for Barack Obama, Sr. to come to the United States to study.

Kirk co-authored many books with Dr. Frank Laubach and son Dr. Robert Laubach, which are still in use to teach adults to read English. In this role, her work included running a mission boarding school in India and for two years she was head of a project for the British Government in Kenya training teachers and adults to read in some of the tribal languages.

In Kirk’s work in Kenya, she often helped find sponsorships for promising students study in the United States. An article by Michael Dobbs in The Washington Post, states that Kirk, provided most of the financial support in Obama Sr’s early years in the United States, according to the Tom Mboya archives at Stanford University. Kirk is also mentioned in Barack Obama’s 1995 book, Dreams from My Father (pg 427 hardcover) as writing college recommendation letters for Obama Sr.


7,358 posted on 03/13/2009 10:16:58 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Candor7; Calpernia; Polarik; LucyT; little jeremiah

Barack Obama, Sr.’s Hawaiian education was sponsored partly by the Laubach Literacy Institute (LLI), which has links to the Nation of Islam, and which considers a socialist world without national borders one of its goals. A financial supporter of the LLI was Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, who co-authored books with its founder, Charles Laubach. Kirk was also a friend of civil rights activist Malcolm “X” (Malcolm Little). It is likely that Malcolm X met Obama, Sr. while visiting the Secretary General of the Kenya Federation of Labour, prominent Kenyan politician Tom Mboya, in 1959, because Mboya and Obama were close friends. [408]

http://www.colony14.net/id41.html

The above assertion requires to be verified.


7,359 posted on 03/13/2009 10:33:13 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: Candor7

thanks, no Bumps...let it percolate.


7,360 posted on 03/13/2009 10:34:46 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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