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The Chosen One (Who is Obama Really?) - Must Read
Claremont Review of Books ^ | July 1, 2011 | Angello M. Codevilla

Posted on 07/13/2011 12:27:41 PM PDT by mojito

...But there was never anything silly, nor light-hearted, nor casual, about Barack Obama's efforts to keep the public's eyes from the basic facts of his life, from birth to his candidacy for president. On the contrary, this opacity is a deliberate policy. Why? The presumptive answer, absent testimony from those involved, is to ensure that real facts interfere as little as possible with the image and narrative that he and his associates have carefully crafted for him. Distinguishing between reality and that narrative would require above all a skeptical attitude, sure to be characterized by Democrats and the media in the most derogatory terms.

According to hagiography, Barack Obama was born to a hippy girl from an insignificant family and raised in poor circumstances, out of which he rose through brilliance. Yet his haughty demeanor, his stilted language when off the teleprompter, his cultural likes and dislikes, bespeak an upbringing in an environment at once so upscale and so leftist that it makes him almost a foreigner to ordinary Americans....

Consistent with the Barack Obama we know, however, are his real family, his real upbringing, and his real choices of profession and associates. His mother's parents, who raised him, seem to have been cogs in the U.S. government's well-heeled, well-connected machine for influencing the world, whether openly ("gray influence") or covertly ("black operations"). His mother spent her life and marriages, and birthed her children, working in that machine. For paradigms of young Barack's demeanor, proclivities, opinions, language, and attitudes one need look no further than the persons who ran the institutions that his mother and grandparents served—e.g., the Ford Foundation, the United States Information Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency—....It is here, with these people and institutions, that one should begin to unravel the unknowns surrounding him.

(Excerpt) Read more at claremont.org ...


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To: mojito

Excellent article!


141 posted on 07/15/2011 5:01:32 PM PDT by Gritty (Pull off the Band-Aid. Eat our peas. Now's the time to do it. - Obama on debt limit ceiling)
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To: mojito
bump...to...the...top

Where it belongs.

142 posted on 07/16/2011 12:38:10 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: mojito

Awesome, awesome post! Thank you so much!

“More importantly, U.S. international corporations in general had countless officers who were proud cooperators with U.S. covert activities abroad. Any serious attempt to sketch this network would result in something like an x-ray of the American ruling class’s skeleton.

The point here is that this network was formed precisely to help the careers of kindred folk, while ruining those of others, and to move the requisite money and influence unaccountably, erasing evidence that it had done so. Exercising influence abroad on America’s behalf—the network’s founding purpose—never got in the way of playing a partisan role in American life and, of course, of taking care of its own.”

This is way bigger than Obama and has been going on for a very long time.

“In short, the New Left saw America as a cancer upon the globe and themselves as the surgeons. It is impossible to overstate the importance of this attitude.”

There is so much more to this article. I hope everybody reads it in it’s entirety.


143 posted on 07/16/2011 1:16:23 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Age, skill, wisdom, and a little treachery will always overcome youth and arrogance!)
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To: sodpoodle

This is from someone who is in the intelligence community.

It’s worth reading the article.


144 posted on 07/16/2011 1:17:59 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Age, skill, wisdom, and a little treachery will always overcome youth and arrogance!)
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To: Publius

“Interesting to see what someone from an Intelligence background thinks.”

Yes, it is.

Thanks for the confirmation that he’s from Intelligence.

Very, very interesting article.


145 posted on 07/16/2011 1:20:06 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Age, skill, wisdom, and a little treachery will always overcome youth and arrogance!)
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To: dixiechick2000

Be sure to check out the links posted by No One Special at 137. They provide some essential background.


146 posted on 07/16/2011 9:44:31 AM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito

bookmark


147 posted on 07/16/2011 10:20:02 AM PDT by kitchen (Over gunned is better than the alternative.)
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To: All; dirtboy; Shermy; wolfcreek; sickoflibs
Okay. De Codevilla's premise is highly plausible.

Obama's roots may well reach back to the CIA. And his progress thru college and early adulthood may well have been managed by CIA-assets or the New Left usurpers of the network that the CIA created (along with their Soviet managers).

That is all quite conceivable. And, further, it is obvious that the product is a totally artificial one -- created by his managers and himself. But it leaves one important question unanswered: Who is running him now?. It is inconceivable that somebody so shy of native intelligence, common judgement and people skills could possibly be operating independently.

Is it some controlling clique of the New Left? Is there still a remnant of Soviet control? Is it embedded in the CIA? Recall that the Plame Affair strongly suggested there was an element of the CIA which was aggressively left-wing and anxious to bring down the Bush administration.

Moreover, having gained power, will they willingly give it up?

The Tea Party has emerged for the specific purpose of ripping out everything that the Left has accomplished -- root and branch.

Having gotten where they are, will they now risk their gains?

If not, then what might they do to retain them -- and silence the forceful -- but, admittedly, amateur -- opposition?

Would Obama himself be vulnerable in this scenario?

Damn right.

In other words, if de Codevilla is correct in his deductions, how does this thing play out from here?

148 posted on 07/16/2011 2:01:14 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: okie01
It's an interesting premise, but we see this a lot where presidents are speculated as having ties to mysterious CIA elements.

I'm inclined to apply Occam's razor - Obama has hid his past because it shows he is hardly the brilliant person the media has made him out to be, and he has some ties to unsavory leftist figures such as Willian Ayers.

Instead, he has coasted through the system via the affirmative action path and cut his teeth in the corrupt Chicago machine. He is truly a man for an age where people just don't pay enough attention and institutions gladly exploit that.

149 posted on 07/16/2011 2:14:08 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: mojito
Interesting link/article on Obama background.

Social Security Fraud,Weathermen Underground, and the CIA

150 posted on 07/20/2011 6:26:30 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: mojito
Great atricle and very informative.

Communism's undeniable horrors forced the New Left to disassociate itself from "What Is to Be Done?" and once again to pretend that its socialism was neither oligarchic nor coercive, that somehow it was on the side of ordinary folks.

This huge lie and deception has forever changed Europe, Canada, and South America and is now attempting to change the USA. What the sheople can't see is that the left's socialism will ALWAYS lead to Oligarchic Oppression of man's inalienable rights.

151 posted on 07/20/2011 7:28:54 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: opentalk

Thanks.


152 posted on 07/20/2011 9:30:45 AM PDT by mojito
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To: okie01; All; dirtboy; Shermy; wolfcreek; sickoflibs
WARNING!

Whenever a left-wing SOB, e.g., Clinton, Kerry, and now the Preposterous One, gets into a tight corner, it has become somewhat of an MSM mini-tradition to trot out the possibility that there is a "CIA connection;" just to see if anybody buys it.

The Clinton Gang trotted out this gambit in order to explain Clinton's mysterious year behind the Iron Curtain after he was thrown out of Oxford after a date-rape scandal. The leftie PR guys tried it again to explain Kerry's shenanigans. It is just possible that Codevilla is "buying" it here in this article in regard to the Magic Marxist MF.

Anything to rationally explain how this Marxist MF got to be a Marxist MF? Hell, might even be a little bit true. I personally doubt it.

It IS ABSOLUTELY inconceivable that somebody so shy of native intelligence, common judgement, and people skills could possibly be operating independently.

153 posted on 07/21/2011 2:36:11 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (America. Could be too late to fix anything. And just a wee bit too early to start shooting.)
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To: yoe
The Naked Communism is a must read. It can be found on Amazon.com at the following link. The reviews of the book are also interesting with references to other must read books. If anyone hasn't yet read these books get them, read them and pass them on. They truly are eye openers!

http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Communist-W-Cleon-Skousen/product-reviews/1568493673/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

Also, listening to this is a must for those who have not yet heard it. An ex KGB officer talks about how the communist really works/worked when he was a KGB officer.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k5ezXdAjXyKVCblBt1

154 posted on 07/25/2011 3:59:20 AM PDT by Bellflower (Isa 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.))
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To: Bellflower
Important, repost at more populated time period:

The Naked Communism is a must read. It can be found on Amazon.com at the following link. The reviews of the book are also interesting with references to other must read books. If anyone hasn't yet read these books get them, read them and pass them on. They truly are eye openers!

http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Communist-W-Cleon-Skousen/product-reviews/1568493673/ref=cm_cr_dp_all_helpful?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

Also, listening to this is a must for those who have not yet heard it. An ex KGB officer talks about how the communist really works/worked when he was a KGB officer.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/k5ezXdAjXyKVCblBt1

155 posted on 07/25/2011 4:19:02 PM PDT by Bellflower (Isa 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said [to be] bountiful.))
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To: mojito

bookmark


156 posted on 07/25/2011 4:35:55 PM PDT by saleman (!!!!)
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