What was Barack Obama like in 1990?

Toronto Star ^ | January 18, 2009/February 6, 1990 | Tammerlin Drummond

[Loyalist]

Hard to believe it was almost 19 years ago that the Star first ran this photo and feature on Barack Obama. Today, his ambitious goals and youthful views – not to mention the reactions to them – seem eerily prophetic.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Barack Obama stares silently at a wall of fading black-and-white photographs in the muggy second-floor offices of the Harvard Law Review. He lingers over one row of solemn faces, his predecessors of 40 years ago.

All are men. All are dressed in dark-coloured suits and ties. All are white.

It is a sobering moment for Obama, 28, who in February became the first black to be elected president in the 102-year history of the prestigious student-run law journal.

[Loyalist]

Every morning at 5, his mother would wake him to take correspondence classes for fear he would forget his English.

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Ironically, he has come under the most criticism from fellow black students for being too conciliatory toward conservatives and not choosing more blacks to other top positions on the law review.

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But few students at the Law Review were prepared for the deluge of interview requests for Obama from newspapers, radio and television stations.

Some students made light of the media invasion, posting a memo titled "The Barack Obama Story, a Made for TV Movie, Starring Blair Underwood as Barack Obama."

There were a few rare prescient minds at Harvard Law School who recognized the narcissistic opportunist and publicity hog back then.

And there were media hacks worshipping him uncritically, even then.

Would that we all had had such foresight in 1990.

[ritewingwarrior]

I think he must have been a procrastinator. I mean how long does it take to apply for US Citizenship after he had it revoked in Indonesia? Still hasn’t done it to date. The 1990’s were too filled up with Socialist Party meetings for him to do much else.

[silverleaf]

Like other photos I have seen of him at
“Harvard”= the head seems overly large for the body in this photo

as if it was photoshopped

anyone else?

[Sacajaweau]

Anyone really believe his mother woke him up at 4 for an English lesson?? Dead people tell no tales.

[Sacajaweau]

Harvard Law Review President: First woman: Susan Estrich, noted as “Democratic Political Operative” per Wiki

[Jeff Head]

He was a marxist activist looking for an avenue to more power. Now he has found it.

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS

[Hildy]

I find this paragraph interesting as I search for anything to like about him:

"He's willing to talk to them (the conservatives) and he has a grasp of where they are coming from, which is something a lot of blacks don't have and don't care to have," said Christine Lee, a second-year law student who is black. "His election was significant at the time, but now it's meaningless because he's becoming just like all the others (in the Establishment)."

It also shows how libs are so close minded to anything but they're own ideology.

[ETL]

"Barack Obama, shown Feb. 6, 1990 during his student days at Harvard, has inspired near euphoria among his supporters as they watch history being made."

VIDEO: Malcolm-X lawyer claims Black radical, Kalid Al-Mansour, helped finance Obama [to Harvard]

Obama's Benefactor: Dr. Khalid al Mansour, I presume ...
August 27, 2008
"Percy Sutton, NYC political icon in the African American community, tells a news reporter that Dr. Khalid al Mansour solicited favor and recommendation on behalf of Barack Hussein Obama in order to secure Barack's entry into Harvard."
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/08/obamas-benefact.html
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Percy Sutton [middle] with Malcolm X [front] at a Harlem
rally on Seventh Avenue between 125th and 126th streets (1963).

***Here is the original video:
YouTube: "Percy Sutton (Malcom X's Lawyer) Says Barack Obama Knows And Was Financed By The Racist Radical Muslim And Saudi Advisor Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour, Part II"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIVO8MZYXo8
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Here's another video from a special edition of Hannity's America, October 5, 2008
Episode title: "Obama & Friends: History of Radicalism"
YouTube: "Another Obama Mentor [Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour] Caught Ranting Against Whitey":
“whatever you do to [white people], they deserve it, God wants you to do it and that’s when you cut out the nose, cut out the ears, take flesh out of their body, don’t worry because God wants you to do it.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4DsaWLrJoY
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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour

"Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour is a Muslim lawyer and a black nationalist who made news in 2008 when it was revealed that he had been a patron of Barack Obama and had recommended the latter for admission to Harvard Law School in 1988.

Before becoming a Muslim, al-Mansour in the 1960s was named Don Warden. He was deeply involved in San Francisco Bay Area racial politics as founder of a group called the African American Association. A close personal adviser to Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, al-Mansour helped the pair establish the Black Panther Party but later broke with them when they entered coalitions with white radical groups."
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Al-Mansour is an outspoken hater of the United States, Israel, and white people generally. In recent years he has accused the U.S. of plotting a “genocide” designed “to remove 15 million black people, considered disposable, of no relevance, value or benefit to the American society.” He has told fellow blacks that “whatever you do to [white people], they deserve it, God wants you to do it and that’s when you cut out the nose, cut out the ears, take flesh out of their body, don’t worry because God wants you to do it.” Alleging further that Palestinians in Israel “are being brutalized like savages,” he accuses the Jews of “stealing the land the same way the Christians stole the land from the Indians in America.”
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/katalm.html

[Bender2]

Re: What was Barack Obama like in 1990

The whole world... wonders--

Bender2, you best have a good mudder efing reason... for posting that! And, say, why did you put all those mudder efing snakes on my moother efing plane?

Hey, Barack could have come to me back then... I'd have really, really liked a diversion from all of Hill's bitching and moaning!

[sportutegrl]

He looks like Michael Jackson would look if he didn’t have any plastic surgery.

[blackie]

Save me a toke.

[DDLL]

I guess my question is; How did he get “elected” when his classmates (who were interviewed) never remember him in any of their law classes?

[FreedBird]

While the country is put to sleep by the news media, Obama will wreck the country forevermore.

[fanfan]

Ping.