What are you afraid of?
If "they" can make you believe Obama was legit, what else are they capable of?
Editor’s note: 8/10/2022, I’m adding a couple of new findings to this newsletter to enhance the overall theme in Patricia Reed’s essay which follows. The first, is a video interview of David Garrow by Tucker Carlson. “Who’s David Garrow?”, you might ask. Well, he’s the author of “Rising Star; The Making of Barack Obama”. Garrow is arguably the most knowledgeable author there is when it comes to Barack Obama’s history. Here’s Tucker interviewing the author…
The second video is one I just discovered with Megyn Kelly interviewing David Garrow on some of Obama’s more secretive times. Am I trying to make a point here? Absolutely! Where was the mainstream press? Why weren’t they digging into Obama’s past? I’ll let the readers figure that out. Here’s Megyn talking with Garrow:
As I mentioned earlier, these two videos will provide a good lead-in to Patricia’s essay where she asks questions that were largely overlooked during Obama’s ascendancy to commander in chief. Here’s Patsy:
Americans have short memories even of things that happened in their own lifetimes. As for events that happened before their lifetimes--their chances of getting an accurate version of those events from anything they are taught in school or college are very small indeed. So the fact that the USA has more or less survived as long as it has, may be pure dumb luck. Nevertheless, I remain a believer in the importance of accurate history, and I try to do as much as one insignificant individual can do with her aged fingers on her aged computer in her one-bedroom Aberdeen SD apartment, to contribute to accurate history--sometimes my own history, which is of importance only to the extent that it typifies a certain place and time which are in danger of being soon forgotten....and sometimes the history of "public" people and events. They all do matter, profoundly....
WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?
In a recent thread of comments on an article about Pres. Obama by Ron Fournier, a commenter asked me: “What exactly don't we know about this man exactly? What is it about him that scares you so? Hmmm.”
Well, when you ask me a question—you will probably get an answer.
The short answer is: I am afraid that we elected (twice) a President who does not have the best interests of the United States at heart, and who for whatever reason has a biography that is substantially fabricated where it does not have as many holes as Swiss cheese.
PART I. OBAMA'S “BIOGRAPHY”
What is the evidence for the existence of a marriage between Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Obama (Sr.), and the birth of their child? Typical evidences would be: birth certificate (slow in appearing and declared a forgery by numerous experts); signature or some evidence of identity of attending doctor-- none; wedding picture-- none; marriage license-- none; identities of guests or attendants--none; casual photos of Dunham and Obama together-- none; pictures of Obama as a newborn-- none; pictures of Dunham and Obama with their newborn-- none.
Oddly enough, this absence of documentation was by way of being a “family tradition” in the Dunham family. There is no marriage license extant for Obama's maternal grandparents and no birth certificates for either his mother, her parents, or her grandparents.
Obama once claimed his parents had met on the Selma march. When it was pointed out that this was chronologically impossible (he was born three years before the march took place), that fable was retired from active service. Obama lies habitually. He has lied about Benghazi, the IRS, Fast and Furious, Obamacare, the VA, Bo Bergdahl, the Iran agreement, and a thousand other things. His autobiography Dreams of My Father is replete with documented inaccuracies. He finally admitted it was a “composite" rather than a factual memoir. Oh.
Obama's putative biological father, Barack Obama Sr., met his son exactly once, when he visited for a few days when young Barack was around eight. Obama Sr. had never lived with Barack's mother, before or after Barack's birth. He never mentioned his American wife and child to his friends, even in Hawaii, who were unaware of her existence. Barack's mother left for Seattle, her tiny son in tow, a few months after his birth. Barack Sr. left for Boston. There was no known contact afterward except, rarely, by mail. They were divorced, long distance, after a couple of years.
Why did they marry? Barack Sr. provided legitimacy for young Barack, still important in those days. (Barack Sr. was already married, but not to an American at that time, and the native marriage was not recognized in America.) In return, Barack acquired a supposed American wife and son, making it easier for him to stay in America. A win-win!
When his mother remarried, young Obama was fortunate to be blessed with a kind stepfather by all accounts, Indonesian businessman Lolo Soetoro. Friends and relatives say that Lolo adopted Barack, and Barack henceforth went by the name “Barry Soetoro.” Lolo was Muslim and regularly took young Barry to mosque. Barry's school registration form listed his religion as Muslim and his citizenship as Indonesian (probably by virtue of being adopted by Lolo).
Indonesia did not permit dual citizenship, so Barry was not an American citizen at that time. He would have had to apply for it or reclaim it through a legal procedure, of which there is no record. If the school registration is accurate, and if he never changed his citizenship status after that, he is not an American citizen. There is also no record of a name change.
Lolo Soetoro was good natured-but to Ann Dunham he soon was boring, not anti-American enough to be interesting. She divorced him. Eventually young Barack—who was again Barack—ended up living with his grandparents in Hawaii. His grandfather introduced him to Frank Marshall Davis, a card-carrying Communist and self-proclaimed sexual adventurer including child molestation. He became young Obama's frequent companion and mentor. He taught him, “Black people have reason to hate.” There is a strong physical resemblance between Obama and Davis that have led some to speculate that Davis was young Obama's real biological father, and Obama was named as the father for the reasons mentioned above, making his marriage to Ann Dunham one of convenience. (Frank Davis was legally married.) We will probably never know.
Obama had no father whom he could claim as a father biologically, socially, and emotionally—the whole package. That simply was missing from his life. In its place, he had four “fathers” who each supplied various parts or substitute-parts of the missing package: Barack Obama Sr., Frank Marshall Davis, Lolo Soetoro, and Jeremiah Wright.
His mother, too, was often emotionally and sometimes also physically absent, leaving him in the care of her parents. He had no complete father package, he had no complete mother package. Tell me that this would not produce a man with deep anger, even hatred.
But who or what would supply a gratifying target for that hatred? Not the people who actually caused it, because with all their shortcomings, they were all he had. But wait! Everyone Obama knew in his young life, with the possible exception of his Indonesian stepfather, had taught him to hate America, white people, capitalism, and Christianity. Problem solved!
Obama is still not quite sure how to spin his early life. He is quoted in “A Singular Woman”, a biography of his mother, as saying that she supplied... “a sense of unconditional love that was big enough that, with all the surface disturbances of our lives, sustained me entirely.”
Well, maybe not entirely. In a 2008 interview with Time magazine, he said, “My choosing to put down roots in Chicago and marry a woman who is very rooted in one place, probably indicates a desire for stability that maybe I was missing.”
Obama wears his other family ties lightly. There is no indication of any real ongoing relationship between the President and any of the Dunhams, Soetoros, or Kenyan Obamas. The Soetoro and Obama clans include half-siblings to Obama.
For the record, I believe that Obama takes his own parental responsibilities seriously and is an excellent father. It's one good thing about him that I am almost sure is true.
According to the New York Times, Obama has repeatedly refused to discuss or answer questions about his supposed first year (1981) at Columbia University in New York City. No professors or students remember him from that year. His school records, from grade school through law school, are all unavailable. Strenuous efforts to come up with acquaintances from that period have produced three human beings: one is a Pakistani student with whom he had roomed while at Occidental College in Los Angeles; one is a mainstream American guy, Phil Boehmer (whew, found one!) whose memories of Obama are idyllic but weirdly vague. One is a for-real girl friend (Genevieve Cook) whose memories are not idyllic. That's it. Three, max.
We have no rental contracts or receipts, school papers, records, or receipts, tax returns, movie tickets, parking tickets, snapshots, nada. He left an exceeding light footprint on New York City that first year. The only thing we know (because a passport survives) is that he traveled to and in Pakistan for an undetermined length of time. We don't know why he went, what he did there—nada. He doesn't discuss it. Ever.
Obama's days at Harvard Law School, starting in 1988, are well supported by the usual evidence, and we have no doubt he was there. Moreover, he was chosen editor of the law review. It is likely that, as so often in his life, his selection was more the result of his seductive personality than of scholarly distinction. A check of law review databases turns up absolutely nothing attributed to Barack Obama, not anywhere anytime. Well, he may not have been a distinguished legal scholar but he was likable. Real likable. And he did graduate magna cum laude in 1991. No one can take that away from him.
Other, pesky questions do persist, however. How was he accepted at Harvard Law in the first place? All indications are that neither his previous college grades nor his test scores were adequate. But perhaps the things he did not know were even then more than compensated for by the people he did know. A recommendation was written for him by Malcolm X's attorney Percy Sutton at the behest of Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, a close bud of Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, one of the world's richest men, who happened to donate a few of his millions to an Islamic Studies program for Harvard. (The wheels, they go 'round and 'round.) But why were these men so interested in helping an obscure, confused, impecunious law student? I don't know.
Both Barack and Michelle have made vague references to student loans—she may actually have had some. There is no evidence in Barack's financial records of any loan receipts or repayments—for either of them.
In 1990, Obama received an advance of $125,000 from Poseidon Books to write his autobiography. He took the money but failed to produce a book. The contract was cancelled and he was asked to repay at least some of the money. He later signed a new contract with a different publisher for a smaller advance, and did produce a book. The book was a critical and financial failure, and languished until years later when Obama became famous. It was then reprinted and netted him a small fortune.
In 1991, Obama was admitted to the Illinois Bar. On his application, he lied several times by omission, failing to disclose having used a different name, having used drugs, and having unpaid traffic fines. Small stuff.
In 1996, Obama was elected to the Illinois State Senate. He soon decided he needed to make some waves there in order to attain his goal of getting into Congress. In a well-recorded conversation known to all media insiders but not passed on by them to the general public, Obama asked the head of the Senate, Emil Jones, to assign the most popular, high-profile bills that might come down the pike to his sponsorship, regardless of whether they were the result of that morning's headline or of years of ground-laying research by another legislator. The credit was going to go to Obama, period. Jones complied. (LINK to NBC article for verification)
In 2005, the Obamas bought an old Chicago mansion for 1.65 million dollars. Originally the house came with a lot next door that the Obamas could not afford. Moreover, they fretted that the lot might have to be sold and subsequently used in a way that would harm their property value. Enter racketeer Tony Rezko, whose wife bought the lot and then offered to sell the Obamas a 10-foot strip of the lot for a fraction of its value; though the strip was not large, it provided the lot's only street access. Without it, the lot lost much of its value and its attraction to pesky developers. The Obamas were delighted. That was plumb neighborly of the Rezkos!
In 2006, Obama's second book, “The Audacity of Hope” came out. Its title had been suggested by Obama's pastor, Rev. “God Damn America” Jeremiah Wright, whom Obama called his “moral compass.” Personally, I think the compass's needle was broken. Wright's church magazine “Trumpet Newsmagazine”, gave a Lifetime Achievement Award to Louis Farrakhan, who was not only not a Christian (minor detail) but was in the habit of saying rather provocative things like “Hitler was a very great man,” “Judaism is a gutter religion”, and “white people are potential humans, they haven't evolved yet.”
In 2006, Obama illegally meddled in Kenya politics (shouldn't he have been impeached?) by donating money to, and vociferously supporting, a supposed distant cousin, Raila Odinga, for President of Kenya. Odinga promised “to revise the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Shariah as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Arun for Muslim declared religion.” Think about that. A US Senator endorses the conversion of Kenya, an imperfect democracy, to a Muslim theocracy –in other words, a caliphate-- built on a foundation of Sharia law which tramples women's rights out of existence. Is it unreasonable to ask: Does this man really care about "democracy"? Or "women's rights"?
Or any human rights?
Editor’s note: There is so much more to this story, things that were buried by the mainstream press, that it is mind boggling. How Obama rose to power to begin with is not unlike the story (above) on how he managed to make it through school. Charisma and connections. Period. A political construct if there ever was one. One could convincingly argue that even his wife, Michael, err… Michelle, is fake and with Barack primarily for political theater. Then, there are his connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. I invite readers to research these factoids using anything but Google. Preferably, with Duckduckgo.