Bush’s record in the Texas Air National Guard, and
confidential records WRT how often he made it to roll call....
but nothing about Obama.
Posted on 12/01/2013 4:19:40 AM PST by Libloather
Maybe with the complete and utter failure of Obamacare – an initiative that the mainstream media swallowed hook, line and sinker – the mainstream media will finally vet Obama.
We don’t know much about the man. We knew what Bush’s grade point average was at Yale, and that his grade point average was actually higher than that of Secretary of State John Kerry, who ran against Bush in 2004. We know all about Bush’s record in the Texas Air National Guard, including records that are supposed to be confidential, such as how often he made it to roll call.
We have no idea how well Obama did at Occidental College. We don’t even know if he played basketball there. The coach says he did. Some players who have been interviewed have said that he may have played but they don’t remember.
Wouldn’t it be nice just to know?
It would be interesting to know how he got from Occidental to Columbia University. He says that he wasn’t much of a student at Occidental, so how did he manage to get in one of the top universities in the country?
The New York Times spent three months investigating whether or not Sen. John McCain had an affair with a lobbyist. The final report was that McCain’s staff thought he spent too much time with this lobbyist, but they couldn’t come up with any evidence of an affair. The New York Times ran the story on the front page anyway.
But it doesn’t appear that any of the mainstream media that have the resources to devote to really digging into a rumor to find out if it is a story or not has ever delved into Obama’s background. Most of what we know about Obama comes from his books about himself, and even Obama admits that he made up characters and situations. In other words, it’s not really an autobiography as much as it is a novel about himself.
Why is there no curiosity by the mainstream media about this man who has been president for more than four years and still has more than three left in the White House?
How did Obama get in Harvard Law School? He certainly didn’t light any fires when he was at Columbia. According to the news reports, it’s hard to find anyone who even remembers him at Columbia. Most of the people who get into Harvard Law School did more during their college careers than just attend classes and make decent grades. What did Obama do that caused his application to go into the accepted pile rather than the pile of straight-A students who didn’t get in?
If he has such a great legal mind, where are the publications where he proves that he does? He was a law professor who didn’t spend much time at the law school and didn’t publish any papers.
We don’t even know what religion Obama is, other than he says that he is a Christian. But he wasn’t raised a Christian and he has completely rejected the pastor and the teachings of the only Christian church he ever attended for any length of time. We do know that while he claimed to be an active member of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s church, he didn’t contribute to the church in any meaningful way. He and his wife were making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, and then millions of dollars a year, yet his church contributions were miniscule.
He completely rejects the religion preached by Wright, he didn’t contribute to the church, and yet he claims that he was an active member of the church. Couldn’t somebody do a little research and find out if Obama is telling the truth about being an active member of Trinity United Church of Christ.
Obama’s mother was an atheist and his father and his stepfather were both Muslims. It is a huge deviation from his upbringing if Obama really is a Christian, but we don’t even know that about him, other than what Obama says.
Why is it wrong to ask questions about the president of the United States? We know these things about past presidents, and even about people who ran for president, but if you ask any questions about Obama then it means you are a “birther,” which means you are some kind of nut. Why did he refuse to release his birth certificate for so long? It is not a document that most people consider confidential.
Even the story of his parents’ relationship is most often inaccurately reported in the press. Most reports state that after they were married for two years his father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., left the family and went to Harvard. What is not reported is that his mother had already left his father and was attending school in Washington State. His mother only moved back to Hawaii, where Obama was born, after his father left for Harvard. How could his father leave his mother by leaving Hawaii when she wasn’t even in Hawaii? It may be that the two never lived together. If they did, it was for a very short time.
Marriages break up all the time. It certainly doesn’t reflect badly on President Obama if his parents married and immediately split up. Today most likely they wouldn’t bother to get married at all, but the 1960s was a different era.
Why doesn’t some journalist do what journalists do and find the documentation that would give the American people some information on the background of their president that doesn’t come from the president’s own fictionalized account of his life?
I'd bet that the books and stories are already written!
Transparent government is a must in a free country. Take a look at a speech John Kennedy gave at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on April 27, 1961. It is shocking. I believe Kennedy was warning Americans of this shadow government and I also believe this is why he was assassinated. Take a gander. Apologize in advance for the length of post, but y'all should check this out.
President Kennedy:
“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.”
For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence—on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.
Abbreviated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YafZkjiMpjU
Long version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8bkye4lt7o
Good read, but seems to discount that to vet Obama now would be to expose themselves. They would be suffering an even deeper credibility problem (hard to imagine) than “The Won” is. Like ALL Leftists, they will circle the wagons and try to weather it out - high rate of success for 50 years or more, so no reason to change tactics now.
If it helps Hillary they will. They will completely discredit Barry if that’s what it takes to make Clinton look like a moderate.
“’journalists’ won’t tell the truth, but historians will. It’s going to be ugly.”
I disagree. Historians are committed to Revisionist History. They’re teaching that democrats were responsible for all civil rights actions, that Thanksgiving was thanking the Indians (not God), that the KKK were evil Republicans (they were democrats), etc. Obama will come out spelling like a rose — an American Christian genius — none of which he is.
“Why is there no curiosity by the mainstream media about this man who has been president for more than four years and still has more than three left in the White House?”
Mr. Hammer needs to pull his head out and realize that
they do know. They know and they know what it means to
them. They know he’s a ruthless lowlife jug-eared lying
scumbag. They know he’s a two-bit fraud. They know because
he is one of them. The mainstream media is nothing but a
bunch of Obamas, run by a bunch of Obamas and owned by a
bunch of Obamas.
The media created Obama, in their own immage
without it he wouldn’t exist.
Obama is the true face of the MS media, he is exactly what
they made him too be.
The article title somehow assumes the mainstream media is not one in the same as the DNC’s public relations department.
Bush bought his grades. OK, I just made that up, but that’s about as much as we’ll ever get from the MSM when it comes to “vetting”.
“I disagree. Historians are committed to Revisionist History.”
No kidding look what they did with that lying, womanizing
meth addicted John F. Kennedy.
In answer to “Why doesn’t some journalist investigate”?
Perhaps they value their career and life. And, there is no record. It has already been cleansed.
MSNBC Guest: Obama White House ‘Most Hostile to Media in U.S. History’
8 Obummer operatives already went to Indonesia years ago, bribed the Indo officials and removed/destroyed all archived records of him there at the Direktorat Jenderal Imigrasi di Jakarta
Frankly, what evidence do you have that he was born in Hawaii? That photoshopped “thing” he touted is obviousy faked. And “African” listed as his dad’s race? REALLY? In 1961 the word NEGRO would have been used. “African” doesn’t tell you what color a person is. Person could be a white south african. And let’s not forget his PUBLISHER had that he was born in “Kenya.” Yeah, she just happened to pull that particular country out of her rear end when she got it wrong.
1) They are Fellow Travelers and will use any means necessary to hide any Socialist, Liberal, Communist or, like the current POTUS, Marxist ties and ideologies they can.
2) It's easier to get paid being a tool for the propaganda machine than actually doing classical journalism.
3)They like being able to create news and not be bored with reporting the news or investigative journalism, unless of course, it will destroy the reputation of any conservative or Repukelican.
4) They don't vet because they won't get invites to the swanky cocktail party that may be their chance to quit being reporters and become government employees or hired by some lobbying firm.
Hopefully when O’Bastard loses all cred with the sheeple, over the next three years, the MSM will go down with him.
Agreed. The media cannot afford to look into Obama’s past now. If they did it would be admission that they led us astray for the last 7 years.
I think Obamacare will kill Hillary in 2016. The media’s meme that it’s time for a woman won’t fly with the memory of Hillarycare.
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