Just Who IS This Obama Guy Anyway?

Atlanta Journal Constituion ^ | June 9, 2009 | Jay Bookman

[nickcarraway]

To some people, Barack Obama is just a hard guy to figure out. He won’t fit easily in the usual mental pigeon holes, and that gets frustrating. Just this week, Rush Limbaugh referred to the president as “a half-black, half-white human being with no experience running anything of substance.”

I have no idea what made that “half-black, half-white” thing relevent. But apparently it’s an important observation, at least in Rush’s World.

Then there’s the matter of Obama’s religion. Over at Politico, they noted that “Barack Obama invokes Jesus more than George W. Bush.”

“In his speech Thursday in Cairo, Obama told the crowd that he is a Christian and mentioned the Islamic story of Isra, in which Moses, Jesus and Mohammed joined in prayer.

At the University of Notre Dame on May 17, Obama talked about the good works he’d seen done by Christian community groups in Chicago. “I found myself drawn — not just to work with the church but to be in the church,” Obama said. “It was through this service that I was brought to Christ.”

And a month before that, Obama mentioned Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount at Georgetown University to make the case for his economic policies. Obama retold the story of two men, one who built his house on a pile of sand and the other who built his on a rock: “We cannot rebuild this economy on the same pile of sand,” Obama said. “We must build our house upon a rock.”

But in the Washington Times, the increasingly loony Frank Gaffney insists that appearances not withstanding, Obama is actually … well, why not let Frank explain it to you:

“…. there is mounting evidence that the president not only identifies with Muslims, but actually may still be one himself. Consider the following indicators:

• Mr. Obama referred four times in his speech to “the Holy Koran.” Non-Muslims — even pandering ones — generally don’t use that Islamic formulation.

• Mr. Obama established his firsthand knowledge of Islam (albeit without mentioning his reported upbringing in the faith) with the statement, “I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed.” Again, “revealed” is a depiction Muslims use to reflect their conviction that the Koran is the word of God, as dictated to Muhammad.

• Then the president made a statement no believing Christian — certainly not one versed, as he professes to be, in the ways of Islam — would ever make. In the context of what he euphemistically called the “situation between Israelis, Palestinians and Arabs,” Mr. Obama said he looked forward to the day “. . . when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon them) joined in prayer.”

…. In the final analysis, it may be beside the point whether Mr. Obama actually is a Muslim. In the Speech and elsewhere, he has aligned himself with adherents to what authoritative Islam calls Shariah — notably, the dangerous global movement known as the Muslim Brotherhood … “

So, to review:

Half black, half white. Half Christian, half Muslim. Half American, half Other….

Why, he’s President Half and Half! Pour him in your morning coffee and — voila! — suddenly it’s a little lighter in color, and a little less bitter on the taste buds.

And you know, maybe that’s the problem: I suspect that some folks prefer to swallow their bitterness straight up, no chaser. They prefer to see the world in stark black and white, with no shades of subtle gray.

And certainly no shades of mocha.

[evets]

Gay Kenyan crackhead

[Dan Middleton]

I have no idea what made that “half-black, half-white” thing relevent. But apparently it’s an important observation, at least in Rush’s World.

What makes it important is that some people find it VERY important that Obama is the "first black president," which is factually untrue unless we've reverted to the days of slavery/segregation were a percentage threshold of "black" blood made one "black."

[jessduntno]

This guy Bookman is a putz...don’t read beyond his byline and take a guesss that what he says is bullshite...

[Texas Fossil]

Lying Kenyan Commie Traitor who sleeps in the White House.

[EGPWS]

Gawd, the giver of all.

CNN and MSNBC say so.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Typical of the left leaning AJC and precisely why their circulation and subscribers are falling.

[Texas Fossil]

Obozo = Failure-In-Chief

[EGPWS]

Lying Kenyan Commie Traitor who sleeps in the White House.

That too!

[lilylangtree]

Dunno. obozo was propelled into political awareness by elitists monied people who spent millions of dollars to buy the presidency for him. obozo doesn’t have any background in politics or management of any type of business. his background papers where people could view and vet are missing or unable access the paperwork to find who the hell is obozo. the lid on his path through life is tighter than an NASA’s O-ring.

[americanophile]

This strikes me as a rather Socratic article - meandering through current affairs on the presidential scene, pointing out the observations of others but unable to formulate any kind of impression or draw any conclusions. One wonders why this was published...it’s lousy.

[roses of sharon]

I swear, this essay sounds just like one from my son's High School newspaper.

[RobRoy]

>>Mr. Obama referred four times in his speech to “the Holy Koran.” Non-Muslims — even pandering ones — generally don’t use that Islamic formulation. <<

Christians do not refer to the koran as holy.

[Big_Monkey]

Obama is very much as advertised, but not for the reasons advertised. His supporters would have you believe that he transends not just color, but faith and even nationality as well. They would probably use the term, "Citizen of the world." Bollocks

Obama is a classic narcissist, and a powerfully successful one as well. In the mold of Koresh, or Jones or the half dozen other 20th century, totalitarian or cult leaders. In Obama's mind, there isn't race or religion or even a country of origin, there's just Obama.

There's simply not room for anything else in his heart and mind given the size of his own ego. Anything else he talks about is just part of his big seduction to the targeted audience de jour.

[MrB]

Notice, in the following how Obama refers to Jesus simply as an "historical figure" and how John tells us to detect the anti-christ and the "spirit of error". I'm not saying that 0bama is the anti-christ, just that he works for him.

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GG: Who’s Jesus to you?

OBAMA: Right. Jesus is a historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher. And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.

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Now, what do John and God have to say about this answer?

1 John 4
Test the Spirits
1Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

4You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit[a] of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

[RobRoy]

>>Mr. Obama established his firsthand knowledge of Islam (albeit without mentioning his reported upbringing in the faith) with the statement, “I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed.” Again, “revealed” is a depiction Muslims use to reflect their conviction that the Koran is the word of God, as dictated to Muhammad. <<

Nails it. No Christian would say that is where it was revealed. They may say that is where it originated, but the word revealed. No way. No how.

[hoosiermama]

Atlanta Journal Constitution...Are we MSM yet?

[jessduntno]

“I swear, this essay sounds just like one from my son’s High School newspaper.”

That clown is plagerizing, then, because he ain’t that good..

[demsux]

Wasn't Bookman the "super" for the Evans in "Good Times"?

AKA Buffalo Butt

[Just another Joe]

Obama said. “We must build our house upon a rock.”

And he's thinking the whole time, "Preferrably the rock with that pretty golden dome on it."

[RobRoy]

>>Then the president made a statement no believing Christian — certainly not one versed, as he professes to be, in the ways of Islam — would ever make. In the context of what he euphemistically called the “situation between Israelis, Palestinians and Arabs,” Mr. Obama said he looked forward to the day “. . . when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon them) joined in prayer.” <<

Again, absolutely spot on. That is not the way a person with Christian (and I don’t mean “western”) sensibilities would verbalize such a thing. Not even close.

[Texas Fossil]

May be this is a job for the Mossad to get to the bottom of.

Looks like for a while our “spooks” will be of no assistance for they are working for the “dark side”. At least outwardly.

[a fool in paradise]

I have no idea what made that “half-black, half-white” thing relevent.

Beause we are told that he is America's first REAL black president, to replace our previous "first" black president Bill Clinton (although an earlier president may have have bloodline to claim it).

He tans. He NOTICEABLY tans. He went to Hawaii twice last year. Once before going to denver (tanned and rested for his nomination at the DNC convention) and once before his corronation.

Look up the photos of him at the beach. He's a pale guy.

Why must he deny the white component of his ethnic makeup?

[SERKIT]

B.U.M. Black Urban Marxist

[a fool in paradise]

Then there’s the matter of Obama’s religion. Over at Politico, they noted that “Barack Obama invokes Jesus more than George W. Bush.”

I must be oblivious to these references to Jesus.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

In his own words, he’s a Mutt.

[a fool in paradise]

At the University of Notre Dame on May 17, Obama talked about the good works he’d seen done by Christian community groups in Chicago. “I found myself drawn — not just to work with the church but to be in the church,” Obama said. “It was through this service that I was brought to Christ.”

That was at a Catholic church that he was brought to Jesus. Was he then baptized Catholic?

Why did he instead go to the former muslim Jeremiah Wright's church of black separatist hate for 20 years?

If he still is a Christian, where does he take his children for religious upbringing? He hasn't been to church but two times since he won. He went to a Unitarian service for his grandmother and he went to Easter Sunday service.

[Texas Fossil]

Bingo, We have a Winner!

ISRA???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isra

In Islamic tradition, the Night Journey, Isra and Mi’raj

The Isra begins with Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) (570–632) resting in the Kaaba in Mecca, when the archangel Gabriel comes to him, and brings him the winged steed Buraq, the traditional lightning steed of the prophets. The Buraq then carries Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to the “farthest mosque”. The location of this mosque is not explicitly stated in the Qur’an, but is traditionally considered to be the Noble Sanctuary (Temple Mount) in Jerusalem.

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This is certainly not something that a “Christian” would invoke. Notice the stead’s name. “Burak” or Barrack

Is that a significant contribution to his arrogance.

Does he have a surprise waiting for him!

[Red Dog #1]

Bingo...Most of Rush detractors never quite realize he’s satirizing leftist drivel.

[freekitty]

Another BS article trying to keep alive the concept of racism.

[clamper1797]

Lying Kenyan Commie MUSLIM enemy agent who pretends to be a natural born American who after duping the 53% of Americans who happened to be drooling friggin idiots sleeps in the White House.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

When you’re drawing flak you must be over the target. Good on ya, Mr. Gaffney.

[Natural Law]

I heard Obama is part Polish. Apparently his great grandfather, Edi Mandingo Obama, ate a Polish missionary......

[MuttTheHoople]

In 2000, the socialist Dems nominated Al Gore, an ugly white guy.

In 2004, they nominated another ugly white guy, John F. Kerry (who served in Vietnam)

Knowing that, in the 20th Century, the only man uglier than his opponent to win a Presidential election was Richard Nixon in 1972, the Dems trot out Barack Hussein Obama, a pretty Negroid.

A perfect storm of Democrat-driven recession, white guilt, and Republican incompetency (see John McCain) help put Stuttering Barry into the white House (not to mention John McCain is an ugly old man)

Personally, I don't think Barry Hussein is totally retarded, but I do think his handlers know that, if they dared take him off his scripted teleprompter, the offal spewing out of his pie-hole would sound like Robert Mugabe on a 3-day Khat-chewing bender.

[socialismisinsidious]

I agree. And the writer doesn't even have the guts to meander thorough anything of consequence. I don’t care that Obama is “mocha” but I do care that he’s a socialist. And as for the title: someone should tell the writer that he needed to ask that question over a year ago.

[RoadTest]

Everything BO says has an expiration date.

[EGPWS]

Americans who happened to be drooling friggin idiots

Dimocrat's who consider it a personal right to put their hands out to others and take others wealth for their own sustenance.

[Apercu]

Read “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis. Barry is Wormwood to the ‘T’.

[Republic]

That sure was a spot on post!

[randog]

The article: so much for original thought. Jot down a few things that other people said and come to some non-sequitur conclusion.

Obama’s faith: He musta had a chapel or prayer room put in the white house, cuz I haven’t seen him go to church/mosque except for Easter.

[Cacique]

btt

[Pagey]

BTTT!

[RWB Patriot]

He’s a snot-nosed rookie who couldn’t survive without an @$$-kissing media and political correctness. Reality will be very hard on him when he goes too far.

[Old Professer]

Maybe it messes with his sleep.

[Canadian Outrage]

Boy, that’s the truth!! This thug is a blank slate and he and his henchmen are literally steam rolling the US into more than Socialism - Marxism.!! He needs to be kicked right the hell out of that house - He does NOT belong there. What a FRAUD has been perpetuated against the United States. CO

[ClancyJ]

So very powerful - thank you for adding this. I went to my Bible to verify.

I often wonder how come so many do not see who Obama is and what he is doing. This passage explains it. It also explains the culture war going on between the liberals and the conservatives, the “clinging to their bibles” people.

The fact that he made the comment about “clinging to their bibles” is very telling.

[MrB]

Here's another one to look at:
John 8:42-47

[ClancyJ]

Thank you again. A great way to teach - bring in the Bible when discussing life issues.

[Fred Nerks]

Mr. Obama said he looked forward to the day “. . . when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon them) joined in prayer.”

That's straight out of the koran. That's when the mahdi comes...Jesus and the mahdi pray together, and Jesus tells the mahdi that he (the mahdi) is the rightful one.

Even the 'mahdi' is a plagiarism from the Hebrew Messiah. Arab parasites have no scripture of their own, they worshipped rocks.

[Rastus]

He’s the guy who moved Jimmy Carter from 44th to 43rd. In a little over four months.