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Posted on 04/05/2011 1:17:18 PM PDT by ebysan
The media are all over potential presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann for the "lies" she told about her family history during an Iowa stump speech.
Would that they had paid -- or will pay -- half as much attention to Dreams from My Father, the Barack Obama memoir that an untroubled David Remnick, the New Yorker editor and Obama biographer, blithely describes as a "mixture of verifiable fact, recollection, recreation, invention, and artful shaping."
"I'm actually even more than just an Iowan," Bachmann told her Hawkeye audience last week. "I'm a 7th generation Iowan. Our family goes back to the 1850s to the first pioneers that came to Iowa from Sognfjord, Norway."
According to a breathless Chris Rodda of OpEdNews, although Bachmann was born in Iowa, and although her family did come from Norway in the 1850s, her family made stops in Quebec, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas before retreating to Iowa and then only four generations ago.
"There are some cultures in which telling self-serving lies about your own ancestors would be so shameful as to be inconceivable," writes Nick Pinto in the Minneapolis CityPages presumably with a straight face. "Michele Bachmann's culture is apparently not one of these."
Those of us who have followed the Obama family saga have to marvel at the potentially terminal myopia of people like Pinto and Rodda.
Their guy built his candidacy on the shifting sands of a family lie, not from four generations back or seven, but from this one, Obama's own.
Speaking of "shameful," how about lying to the huddled masses of America's schoolchildren, shepherded together in September 2009 for their first presidential speech? "My father left my family when I was two years old," he told them, "and I was raised by a single mother."
That was not true, and Obama knew it was not true, but that was the story he told in Dreams and in his two convention speeches, and he was sticking to it, by gum.
Obama was reportedly born on August 4, 1961. As I point out in my book Deconstructing Obama, young Barry was not yet a year old at the time Obama Sr. left Hawaii for good. In fact, though, it did not much matter how old the future president was when his presumed poppa turned rolling stone because Barry was not in Hawaii to be abandoned.
Barry and his mom, the cruelly named Stanley Ann Dunham, had lammed out of Hawaii within a few weeks of his birth and were living low on the hog in Seattle, where Stanley Ann enrolled at the University of Washington.
In short, the family never lived together. There was no Obama family. The Obama camp surely knew this by the time he ran for president, but Obama kept dissembling about his origins nonetheless.
"My parents shared not only an improbable love," said Obama famously in his breakthrough 2004 Convention keynote, "they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation." Bull-beep!
Jack Cashill is the author of 'Deconstructing Obama'. He is an investigative Journalist who published well researched facts with evidence to back up the facts.
Well worth the Read.... I couldn't put it down.
The Congresswoman had laid a trap and the media is about to step in it.
She’s real. She’s just like you, except she’s an Iowan.
Michelle Bachmann was born in Iowa and her family came to the U.S. from Norway in the 1850s. That she overstated the number of Bachmann generations spent in Iowa is hardly a ‘lie’ that bears hysterical condemnation. Jack Cashill makes the valid point that Obama has lied his face off about his birthplace, his father and other family information yet the leftmedia gives him a pass and excoriates anyone who even questions Obama’s U.S. citizenship. I can’t believe the American people are not going to abandon the leftmedia as they have to realize the obscene double standard at work every day where they fawn and cover for lying Democrats while attacking and criticizing Republicans. Our media is totally corrupted and effectively just a propaganda arm of the State and the Democrat party. This is just example 10,000,001.
I know! I loved that book. Jack Cashill is right.
born April 6, 1956 in Waterloo, IA (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
David John Amble, born in MN
Jean Johnson, born in IA
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of her birth (Meets the Jus sanguinis Requirement)
Michele Bachmann is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN unlike Comrade Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama.
“Media double standard on steroids...”
Well said. It’s not as if her family is only along her paternal line, is it? If it were, I’d like to see someone of the complainer’s political stripe try to defend that stance to his (or her) comrades. It’s not as if a first generation Iowan is unable to marry into a third generation Iowa family, is it? 3+4=7 Just a thought...
I wouldn’t ordinarily hold Obama’s family against him, but the apple didn’t fall far from the leftist tree.
Obama comes from a radical leftie/commie family, his fathers (real and step) were non-American, his real father obviously didn’t give a damn about him or his mother, and then his mother pretty much abandoned him, too.
Parents were in both cases un-American selfish types.
Then the grandfather brings him to a left radical homosexual for mentoring.
Just what you want to build a future president.
Hey How about Sarah Palin what about her family history I think on her husband side of the family they were AMerican citizen way back in da day
I hope she this hand dealt to her by Obama’s media folks well. There is so much she needs to say regarding the hidden one in the Oval office.
Barry has to invent - he doesn't know who his daddy is.
As stated before MB is my second choice. That said, campaign embellishment looks too much like pandering. Shouldn’t do it.
Instead of spending $$$ covering up records he should have spent much less on DNA checks to determine which Commie is really his Daddy.
He might have lucked out and discovered it was Frank marshall Davis or Malcolm Little, who as American Citizens could have passed on NATURAL BORN CITIZEN status unlike Barack Obama (Sr.)
Some of us have. When any "national news" show comes on, the TV goes off. And I've deleted CNN from my cable channel memory, so it doesn't even show up when "channel surfing". The only news I watch is local, and that mostly for the weather forecast.
Yes, familiar with Cashill’s work. He uncovers quite a lot of interesting things
I am afraid that not only Liberal Media will use these types of attacks on Bachmann....the GOP Media and the left GOP candidates will use the same methods. On another thread already...a thread promoting a different female candidate...they are already posting bogus things about Bachmann.
And, I wonder if Fox News, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, and other GOP Liberal Media will rise to the defense of Michelle Bachmann....these people do when Obama’s birth certificate is questioned....
That be a topic for Maury Povitch show
Who your daddy Mr President LOL!
And, I wonder if Fox News, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, and other GOP Liberal Media will rise to the defense of Michelle Bachmann.
Wimpy Karl Rove was on O’Reilly’s Auto Parts tonite and he subtly dissed her just like he did Palin. BO (Mr. Body Odor) was also more aggressive with her than with many of the flamers that appear on his show. He’s a Brit Hume wannabe, except Hume is a REAL jounalist. BOs ego is so big, his head may explode one of these days. As for Rove, he’s becoming more and more a shill for Myth. Beginning to think that maybe a lot of Ws problems related to advice he got from this clown.
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