How to Write Democrat Autobiographies (or Naked Came the Kenyan Cherokee)

American Thinker ^ | May 20, 2012 | Clarice Feldman

[jazusamo]

Maybe it was just a dream, but I feel certain that I read an essay titled "How to Write Democrat Autobiographies (or Naked Came the Kenyan Cherokee*)," authored by Barack H. Obama and Elizabeth Warren.

I can't remember the name of the publication it was in, or even the entire text, but certain things stand out about it and are as clear as if the article were in my own hands right now.

The authors advised that to really advance in life, it helps to make your background as exotic as possible. Warren suggested checking the Native American box or other ethnic preference boxes on all school and employment applications and went so far as to suggest that the reader submit recipes to ethnic cookbooks to provide "evidence" of one's claim to priority based on ethnic identity.

For "Pow Wow Chow," which billed itself as an American Indian cookbook, heavy on recipes using Wonder Bread, baloney, Velveeta cheese spread, and mayonnaise, Warren offered up her Cherokee family'straditional crab omelet. All right, so those recipes were Pierre Franey's...but heck, maybe he was from some French Cherokee tribe.

Obama said he had tried sending in his family's mbaazi , dog, and millet recipe, but no one would take it, so he told his literary agent just to say he was born in Kenya, figuring no one would scramble to Africa to see if the claim were true.

Don't worry about being called out on your ancestral fable-making, they advised.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Epic myths of the 21st century:

• Liz Warren is part Cherokee;
• Baraq Obama was born in Hawaii;
• Bill O'Reilly runs the "No Spin Zone."

[thecodont]

"What is the Constitution's Worst Provision"? legal scholars have asked.

And when have they asked it?

2008 -- When BO was running for POTUS.

"AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS COME—THE CURIOUS HISTORY, UNCERTAIN EFFECT, AND NEED FOR AMENDMENT OF THE “NATURAL BORN CITIZEN” REQUIREMENT FOR THE PRESIDENCY"
LAWRENCE FRIEDMAN*

http://slu.edu/Documents/law/Law%20Journal/Archives/Lawrence_Friedman.pdf

What is the Constitution's Worst Provision?, 12 CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY 191 (1995).

http://www.law.yale.edu/documents/pdf/Faculty/RPost_Publications.pdf

1995 -- When Dreams from My Father was published as BO's entree into public life.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

For the folks who do not get the allusion:

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

Naked Came the Stranger is a 1969 novel written as a literary hoax poking fun at contemporary American culture. Though credited to “Penelope Ashe”, it was in fact written by a group of twenty-four journalists led by Newsday columnist Mike McGrady.

[Fantasywriter]

Thank you, thank you. I knew about that stuff, but I did not have any links. I so appreciate your providing them. I intend to bookmark them as soon as I’m done w this post.