Posted on 06/25/2023 8:36:49 AM PDT by george76
Reflections on when a gigantic biographical inconvenience was successfully hidden and denied.
Americans have an abiding fascination with their presidents, especially with their foibles and secrets. Who lied? Who ordered illegal operations? Who had mistresses?
Thus was the country transfixed by Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, and the tawdry drip-drip of their liaison. When newly declassified documents revealed hitherto unknown CIA connections to Lee Harvey Oswald, this made a media splash, with Tucker Carlson asking: “Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy?”
But that fascination dies when it comes to Barack Obama, the Left’s quasi-sacred figure. About him, no curiosity, please, no gossip, and no hint of impropriety. When he falsely claimed in 1991 to have been born in Kenya, and not in Hawaii, blame fell on a sloppy literary agent. When Stanley Kurtz proved that Obama lied about not being a member of Chicago’s socialist New Party and a candidate for it, the Obama P.R. machine smeared Kurtz and the story disappeared.
When clear evidence showed that Obama had lied about having been born and raised a Muslim, the researcher who made the case was reviled, his investigation scorned, and his argument vaporized.
I should know, as I was that researcher. I wrote five times on this topic in 2007-08, during Obama’s first presidential campaign (three of those times in FrontPageMag.com) and then aggregated all this information, plus new details, in a long and (so far) definitive September 2012 article, “Obama’s Muslim Childhood,” serialized in the Washington Times.
All those writings emphasized that Obama was now a Christian. The first one began with:
“If I were a Muslim I would let you know,” Barack Obama has said, and I believe him. In fact, he is a practicing Christian, a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ. He is not now a Muslim. But was he ever a Muslim or seen by others as a Muslim?
I answered in the affirmative and showed how contradictory evidence concerning Obama’s religious background – from Obama’s father and name, from years in Indonesia, from his family, and most of all from himself – conclusively points to his being born and raised a Muslim.
Throughout, I emphasized not the Islam issue but the character issue; if Obama lies about something so fundamental, how can he be trusted? His other lies, such as Kenyan birth and socialist party non-membership, confirm this problem.
Responses came fast and hard. Ben Rhodes’ “echo chamber” nearly fainted at the impudence of my lèse majesté. Like Kurtz, I was slandered without the facts I presented ever addressed. Here’s a small sampling of the deluge:
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The McCain and Romney campaigns both treated the topic like Kryptonite. The issue of Obama’s lies had no impact on either presidential campaign, both of which – of course – Obama won.
I expect that, at some future time when Barack Obama loses his sacral quality, historians will take great interest in his childhood religious affiliation. They will wonder how, in the information-heavy, politically-riven, and celebrity-mad culture of early twenty-first century United States, so gigantic a biographical inconvenience could be successfully hidden and rendered taboo. They will study how, in a modern democratic society, a determined candidate can suppress even the most important and relevant information.
I look forward to the vindication.
What’s important is that he was an atheist by the time he became president.
The Liberal Media provided cover for the Manchurian Candidate.
Another foolhardy conservative fighting a lost cause. How sad the state of intellectual conservatism today!
Al Taqqiya.
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Anyone remember how pissed Barry was when Roddy Blagojevich tried to sell Barry's senate seat to someone other than Jesse Jackson Jr, (Who used his campaign funds as a personal bank account.), without even giving Barry a taste?
The rule in Chicago is that you can't trust an honest man. If he can't be indicted for something, he has nothing to lose if he rats out an enemy.
(I speak from having grown up there. Only bought 2 cops, an alderman and a traffic court judge, so by Chi-town standards, I'm incurably honest.)
Indeed note the church he attended as a front to play the good guy and the photos the media hid of him and the rev before the election.
The media is as guilty as the democrat party when it comes to rigging things.
Thanks
Twenty items regarding Obama that were kept quiet from us, or at a minimum were downplayed:
Drug use during his younger years
Mostly raised by well to do white grandparents
Brth certificate not released for years
Once released, any analysis of the certificate, which raised questions, was then downplayed or ignored
School records at Occidental
Admissions report at Occidental
School Records at Columbia
Admissions Records at Columbia
Papers written at Harvard Law school
Admissions report at Harvard
Who paid tuition fees at: Occidental, Columbia, Harvard Law
What was source of living expenses for Obama at those schools
Relationship with William Ayers (Weather underground)
Obama Relationship with Acorn
Relationship with and politics of Frank Marshal
Truth regarding his alcoholic, womanizing father
Obama's influence regarding the Pigford case
Relationship with radical minister Jeramiah Wright
Report that he was introduced as a "foreign exchange student" while visiting at William Ayers parents house
Feel free to add to the list
IMO he’s a crypto-Muslim, Black Supremacist, and communist, but I’m not sure in what order.
Cultural Muslim, practicing narcissist
“I look forward to the vindication.”
History is written by the victors. The author may be looking forward to something that will never occur.
The Obama-Jackson saga is an excellent example of how we lose by ignoring the truth when it doesn’t fit our confirmation bias.
The rift between Obama/machine faction and Jackson faction was real, both personal and ideological. A smart steategist would have used that to advantage.
But we seem to lack smart strategists. We have no plan how to build and structure a story. We think just blurting it out will somehow be convincing.
not just his muslim childhood. but also most everything else about his life before his presidency.
I had heard Mooslimbs don’t look kindly on faggots.
Where are the Koranic enforcers of the apostasy laws?
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