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    October 08, 2008

    The Four Strangest Mysteries About Obama

    THE MYSTERIES

    There are some strange mysteries about Obama, which he is stonewalling everybody on. Let's look into them.

    Mystery #1: Why, as editor of Harvard Law Review, did he never publish one single article, even though publishing articles in the Harvard Law Review can be key to success for a legal career?

    Mystery #2: Why, fresh out of college, did he give up his $50k a year job in NY to move suddenly to Chicago, where he didn't know anybody?

    Mystery #3: How can it be that in Chicago, with no experience other than community organizing, Obama was appointed Chairman of the Board of a commission that gave away $50 million?

    Mystery #4: How can it be that Obama does not have one life-long friend who can step forward and vouch for his character during this Presidential campaign?

    Not one single article did he publish in the Harvard Law Review, even though he was editing it. How can that be?

    Why did he suddenly quit his job and move to Chicago where he didn't know anybody? Wasn't there community organizing to be done in New York?

    How, with no prior acquaintances in Chicago, did Obama get put in charge of giving away $50 million?

    And why doesn't he have even one life-long friend to come forward and vouch for his character at such a time as this? From the NY Times:

    Obama has declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release is Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student, co-worker, roommate or friend from those years...

    No friend from later years has emerged either, to vouch for Obama's character. Why?

    INVESTIGATION AND ANALYSIS

    Since Obama is stonewalling and refuses to explain, it is of interest to investigate. Here are relevant facts:

    Obama's Connections to Radicals Helped Him Get Into College

    Obama was helped into Harvard by Khalid al-Mansour. Khalid Al-Mansour is a radical, and can be seen on video here calling for people to kill white people.

    "I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him," Sutton told NY1 city hall reporter Dominic Carter.

    "The friend's name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas," Sutton said. "He is the principal adviser to one of the world's richest men. He told me about Obama."

    Sutton, the founder of Inner City Broadcasting, said al-Mansour contacted him to ask a favor: Would Sutton write a letter in support of Obama's application to Harvard Law School?

    "He wrote to me about him," Sutton recalled. "And his introduction was there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends up there because you used to go up there to speak. Would you please write a letter in support of him?"

    Sutton said he acted on his friend al-Mansour's advice.

    "I wrote a letter of support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly," Sutton told NY1.

    Obama's Connections to Unrepentant Terrorist Ayers Helped Him Get Started in Politics

    Author and Journalist Andy Martin (video link, 1:06 minutes in):

    I think a community organizer, in Barack Obama's case, is somebody that was in training for radical overthrow of the government. You have to really stretch to believe his story that he was living in New York City, he was earning 50 or 60 thousand dollars a year, and he left this to come to Chicago, to a city where he knew no one, to suddenly start quote, organizing, unquote, people. In my opinion, Barack Obama had already been influenced by his radical ideology and philosophy, probably had met William Ayers in New York, and was coming here to lay the foundations for what he thought would be some sort of political movement that he would be a part of.

    From Dick Morris:

    In Chicago, Obama was named the chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), which gave away $50 million. Obama was mysteriously named Chairman of the Board of the CAC by domestic terrorist William Ayers.

    The records of the administration of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), released last week by the University of Illinois, show that the Ayers-Obama connection was, in fact, an intimate collaboration and that it led to the only executive or administrative experience in Obama's life.

    After Walter Annenberg's foundation offered several hundred million dollars to American public schools in the mid-'90s, William Ayers applied for $50 million for Chicago. The purpose of his application was to secure funds to "raise political consciousness" in Chicago's public schools. After he won the grant, Ayers's group chose Barack Obama to distribute the money. Between 1995 and 1999, Obama distributed the $50 million and raised another $60 million from other civic groups to augment it. In doing so, he was following Ayers's admonition to grant the funds to "external" organizations, like American Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) to pair with schools and conduct programs to radicalize the students and politicize them.

    Reading, math and science achievement tests counted for little in the CAC grants, but the school's success in preaching a radical political agenda determined how much money they got.

    Barack Obama should have run screaming at the sight of William Ayers and his wife, Bernadette Dohrn. Ayers has admitted bombing the U.S. Capitol building and the Pentagon, and his wife was sent to prison for failing to cooperate in solving the robbery of a Brink's armored car in which two police officers were killed. Far from remorse, Ayers told The New York Times in September 2001 that he "wished he could have done more."

    Obama had political ambitions from his earliest youth. From ABC:

    Fermina Katarina Sinaga Suhanda, Obama's third-grade teacher, remembered him distinctly because he looked different.

    "He's the only black, he's the only one with curly hair," she said, adding that he was also bigger than the other children.

    She also remembered a telling essay from the Illinois senator.

    "He wrote like this," Suhanda said in Bahasa, the local language. "I am Barry Soetoro. I am in third grade [at] Fransiskus Asisi Elementary School."

    He wrote about his friends, parents, Indonesia and ended the essay with "I want to be the president."
    Obama was raised from the ages of 6 to 10 in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he was likely exposed to radical views of America.

    ANSWERS

    Here is a single coherent narrative that is consistent with these facts, and explains all four mysteries.

    Obama knew from an early age that his views were consistent with those of people who had radical views of America, such as those who later met and helped him, including the radical al-Mansour and the unrepentant terrorist Ayers. He was also gifted from an early age in producing rhetoric that cloaked those views in acceptable-sounding language. Obama's talents and political ambitions were recognized by Khalid Al-Mansour, who helped him get into Harvard with the specific view of pushing forward a young man who shared Al-Mansour's views.

    Answer to Mystery #1 - Why Obama Published Not One Paper in the Harvard Law Review: Al-Mansour and Obama agreed that Obama would never publish any papers in the Harvard Law Review, so as to never give the public any clue as to Obama's true views about this country.

    Answer to Mystery #2 - Why Obama Gave up a $50k-a-Year Job to Move to Chicago: In New York, Obama's talents came to the attention of unrepentant terrorist Ayers. Ayers told Obama that he would send Obama to Chicago to prove himself. If Obama proved himself in Chicago, Ayers would reward him by putting him in a tremendously powerful position, with the intention of ultimately getting Obama into politics, possibly even into Congress. Ayers wanted Obama to be in Chicago because Ayers knew it would be far easier to get Obama elected in Chicago, than in New York. Obama was willing to give up his job in exchange for the powerful patronage of the unrepentant terrorist Ayers.

    Answer to Mystery #3 - How Obama, with Little Suitable Experience, Was Put in Charge of Giving Away $50 Million: Ayers made Obama Chiarman of the Board of the CAC specifically to help Obama amass local political power and stature, so as to help him get elected to Congress. The local power and stature that comes to the person in charge of giving away $50 million is substantial.

    Answer to Mystery #4 - Why Obama Doesn't Have One Life-Long Friend Who Can Vouch For Him During This Presidential Campaign: Obama's views made it impossible for him to associate with most people, out of fear that his views would be discovered and exposed. As a result Obama's life-long friends have been radicals such as himself, including Ayers, Reverend Wright, Michael Pfleger, Tony Rezko, and others whom Obama must now pretend not to know.

    If people reading this have a cogent theory other than this that explains these, the top four strangest mysteries about Obama, please post it in the comment section.

    CONCLUSION

    In its history, this country has never been in so much danger - the danger of having a president who has a view of this country so radical, that he must disavow all his life-long friendships.


    Replies: 14 comments

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    rk   on  10/10/08  at  12:09 PM   United States  #1

    I dunno.  I strongly suspect part of the reason he doesn't have friends coming forward to vouch for him has  much to do with his having been a doper in school.  Like many of the generation in high school in the '70s, plenty of my high school and college associates are now... uh... embarrasments or burdens to society, and therefore not the sorts one brings forth to vouch for me. I'm lucky in that I attended small enough schools that I was forced to associate with others, as well (everybody knows everybody), and ended up with some real, helpful friends.  When you go to the larger academic institutions as one plankton in a sea of students, you end up in much tighter circles, and it's harder to associate with those outside a very narrow set of interests.

    He probably didn't hide his radicalism, back then, any more than any goth or emo kid hides, these days.  He just can't dredge up any of his old friends because  those who have mellowed don't want to steep themselves in current politics and those who haven't mellowed are a political liability he won't want to admit to knowing until after the election.



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  10/10/08  at  12:52 PM   United States  #2

    rk, these are good points, but Obama's in his 40's - he should have at least one friend from his post-college years who can vouch for him. But so far, not one such person has come forward.



    rk   on  10/10/08  at  05:59 PM   United States  #3

    True, and, to be frank, I'm on your side of the argument.  I think he's been lying to us and hiding a whole lot, and, as an IL resident, it bugs the bejeebers out of me that he launched himself from here (and that our state's political mess made this whole disaster possible).   But you can see how easy it would be to 'splain away as, "My narrow range of youthful ties have been severed since I quit dopin', and I can't call upon those sorts to vouch for me now."



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  10/12/08  at  05:42 PM   United States  #4

    Crisis is the friend of the State.



    Steve   on  10/15/08  at  12:42 PM   United States  #5

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    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  10/19/08  at  07:59 PM   United States  #6

    if he were a doper in those days it would be a lot of old friends poppin up from everywhere to tell about his past like president clinton and gov. swhartszenegger



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  10/19/08  at  08:22 PM   United States  #7

    I agree!

    and also with all the weird stuff I think I am believeing that he is truley the anitchrist!! VERY SCARY!!!

    He wont stand for our flag and he goes against everything the usa stands for so why does he was to be pres??

    I believe that everyone who votes for him is a complete dumba**

    god bless!

    pdr



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  10/30/08  at  04:41 PM   United States  #8

    It turns out that a few people HAVE come forward, from his Oxy years and high school, to completely deny that he was "a doper"; he was fastidious, jogged daily, ate carefully - certainly he drank a little and smoked with the crowd - but nothing like what he described inhis book!  Why create a narrative that deliberately adds something negative?  My theory: 1st, he didn't write the book Dreams (Ayers did); 2nd) it was a vehicle to create a narrative that would align him with the black american community (as his past, his prepschool upbringing, his worldy travels, his parenting, his elite colleges would most definitely not!)  The book was a fabrication to launch his political career.  Another disconnect (there are many) between his book version of himself and what people say is: he exhibited NO big dilemma over his black/whiteness, NO outsider feeling, NO big journey into who he was...that was all fabricated after the fact,.... WHY??  One thing is for sure - it is imperative that noone know Who He Really IS.



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  11/01/08  at  05:26 AM   United States  #9

    Strangely enough I understand the fear and hatred of the people of the jewish and christian faith but I don't agree with it........at one time in the United States the indiginous were strung out as barbaric, then the africans, then the people of asian ethnicities, gays, catholics, jews, etc....why shouldn't religious ideals be brought out as a form of ethnocentrism that is my culture in this case religion is dominant or better then your religion......so all 1.3 billion muslims are bad men...the lot of em.  Who are we kidding...you're telling me that Palestinians should have no rights in matters pertaining to Isreal that's hogwash.  That's like taking hmong people who have no real country of there own and giving them the state of Wisconsin and telling the people of Wisconsin they have no rights and you shouldn't be upset or struggle against being forced out of their homes.

    Common Sense would suggest that Palestinians have a morale obligation to be heard and as islaamic moderates speak and are ignored radicals bomb an are heard and heard only in a way that dimoralizes the good intentions of the islaamic faith.  You people banter on about liberals and conservatives like that means something....it doesn't mean anything.  Liberals and Conservatives alike don't sympathize with radicals who want to bring terror and destruction morons do.  So quit comparing people who want to plant trees and bring social order back to Washington to Islaamic fundamentalists...you're distorting reality.

    Also.....the twin towers.....Was it a symbol of judeo-christian society?  The Freedom Tower has three corners what does that symbolize....I think we're going to be having a threeway pretty soon.  By the way Jesus, Mohammed, and Moses are all in heaven...there's only one god there and I think Budah is hanging out with em and they'll all probably be having a reunion tour soon.........all you neocons get over yourselves I promise the rest of the moderates and weirdo liberals already have.  



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  11/01/08  at  05:39 AM   United States  #10

    Quit ripping on Obama......what are white roots and what are black roots?  I don't think you know your ass from your elbows.............he can reconnect with whomever he would like he's a politician....you think he's the first one to do that...hypocritical?  Obama....why do people fear him so much.

    Currently the U.S. has killed over 100,000 Iraqi citizens......sounds like numbers that are related to ethnic cleansing and you fear Obama?  I'd be more afraid of the families of those 100,000..............

    You want some numbers...some facts.......some educated reasoning from liberals then turn on the BBC....they aren't calling conservatives names.



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  11/01/08  at  10:28 AM   United States  #11

    w. dierks, your posts #9 and #10 appear to have nothing to do with the article at the top of this page. 



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  11/02/08  at  04:10 AM   United States  #12

    I was commenting more on everything I saw on this site......and had enough and entered it into the attack Obama section.....thanks for pointing that out.  First time on this site and felt like lashing out and venting. 

    Pertaining to Obama:

    Honestly I feel that probably everyone of our presidents has had some setting up by some special interest groups in the past...free masons, unions, other countries, etc......

    Obama has been groomed--sure--but what would look better to the world then having a half islaamic president--it would say hey we don't hate all Islaamics just crazy right winged ones.  I can't say I'm so crazy about right winged Christians either they're kinda creepy. 

    If you don't trust Obama then let's just see what happens....if he's messed up then we're going to have to rely on checks and balances--it's a good test for our system of government.

    Also Islaamaphobia is got to render itself dead just like Americanaphobia in middle east.....The middle East peace process has to go in a different direction.  Our foreign polcies have to change....don't you think that is why Obama is running for president.  He's a shoe in--

    ....................and by the way I'm a veteran--I have faith in our electoral process.  Both democrats and republicans are preordained to be in the highest office in the land.........could the republicans start working with some Ronald Regan DNA and maybe come up with a better candidate.  We're gonna get government change from the Maverick please it's like text messaging on rotary phone......it's just not going to happen.



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  11/02/08  at  01:07 PM   United States  #13

    Obama has been groomed--sure--but what would look better to the world then having a half islaamic president--it would say hey we don’t hate all Islaamics just crazy right winged ones.

    When asked if he is a Muslim, Obama replies that he is a Christian.  It sounds as though you are saying that Obama is being deceptive. You are saying that Obama is at least half Islamic.

    You may be correct.



    .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)   on  11/04/08  at  08:37 PM   United States  #14

    blah blah blah......

    He'll be your president in a few hours....nevertheless it's not a bad thing that he's half islaamic and when asked he said christian...fine so what.  A man or woman can't be right or wrong when he or she replies on what religion he or she is. 





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