In New Biography, Obama Asks: Am I an American?

The Washington Examiner ^ | Monday, May 7, 2012 | Byron York

[kristinn]

...the Maraniss book published last week in Vanity Fair reveals a portrait of Obama that might have enriched the voters' understanding of him in the 2008...

The excerpt focuses on Obama's brief time in New York after his graduation from Columbia University. The son of a Kenyan father and an American expatriate mother, Obama emerges as a man questioning whether he viewed himself, or wanted to be viewed by others, as an American. Not in a citizenship sense -- Obama was born in the United States and that was that -- but in the sense of how he saw the world and wanted to be seen by it.

Obama had a lot of Pakistani friends; Maraniss writes that if Obama and his girlfriend socialized as a couple, "it was almost always with the Pakistanis." Obama appeared to identify with his friends as fellow non-Americans. "For years when Barack was around them, he seemed to share their attitudes as sophisticated outsiders who looked at politics from an international perspective," Maraniss writes. "He was one of them, in that sense."

But Obama was ambitious. Appalled by the "dirty deeds" of "Reagan and his minions" (as he wrote in "Dreams from My Father"), Obama became increasingly interested in, as Maraniss writes, "gaining power in order to change things." He couldn't do that as an international guy hanging around with his Pakistani friends; he needed to become an American.

So he did. One of those Pakistani friends, Beenu Mahmood, saw a major change in Obama. Mahmood calls Obama "the most deliberate person I ever met in terms of constructing his own identity," according to Maraniss. The time after college, Mahmood says, "was an important period for him, first the shift from not international but American, number one, and then not white, but black."

[Sicon]

Not in a citizenship sense -- Obama was born in the United States and that was that

Now, I KNOW that Byron York is not ignorant. And yet, this statement screams ignorance, and it must be willful.

Obama could have been born in the Lincoln Bedroom and delivered by Betsy Ross - he still would not be a "Natural Born Citizen" of the United States, because his father was not a U.S. citizen. Doesn't matter whether Zero was born in Hawaii, or anywhere else in the U.S.

Of course, Obama has never really proven that he WAS born in Hawaii, so he's not a citizen on that score either, as far as we know.

[Vendome]

No and he had a lot of Pakistani friends because he registered as a foreign student in college.

[Bellflower]

He seems to struggle to try to be perceived as an American, but he is very awkward about it. He obviously doesn’t think, talk, nor act like an American. Even leftist, liberals have a certain American way of being when they have been born and raised here. Not Obama. He is strange, in every sense of the word.

[Chode]

if you actually have to ask yourself that question, the answer is definitely no...

[crosshairs]

Obama is to American what east is to west.

[crosshairs]

I watched the “anarchist” on Hannity - the 29 year old guy who has been occupying...and all I could think is - where are the real men? This isn’t a real man - this is a whiney baby. A real man would figure out what to do and do it. But Obama and the left have been very effective in de-manning our society and creating a nation of mama’s boys, not to mention women who demand the government take care of them since the men won’t. I can’t stand it when men, who have been beaten into submission, talk about their “feminine side” - how would they like it if I talked about my “masculine side”?

It's even worse than that. By design, they have efeminated the white male. An example is commercials on television, where the white male is depicted as the bumbling, incompetent, squirrely idiot, and the black male is the suave, smart, capable one. I see it all the time. The only other reason might be people would scream racism if it were reversed, so the creators of the commercials may their hands tied.

[MrB]

“American” is a mindset.
A mindset that 0bama does not have.

[Josephat]

How disgusting and twisted this all is.

A trademark of Satan.

[ckilmer]

obama held dual citizenship status until age 21.

Obamas own organization — the annanberg foundation byo factcheck.org admits he was a dual citizen until age 21

http://factcheck.org/2008/08/obamas-kenyan-citizenship/

the story above coincides with obamas change of citizenship status.

[edge919]

This is why he called himself a “citizen of the world” in 2008. And he went to Chicago to build up his street cred so he could play the part of an African-American instead of just a British-Kenyan.

[edge919]

His natural citizenship was to Great Britain. His legal citizenship is most likely Indonesian after being adopted at age four. As president Obama has pushed Kenya to allow for dual citizenship. He has a vested interest in still being Kenyan on top of being Indonesian.

[MHGinTN]

The nationality of little barry bastard commie is not relevent so long as the elected representatives in House and Seante will not honor their oath to OUR CONSTITUTION. The little bastard could be from Mars as far as the feckless enablers are concerned. They are too frightened of their own shadows to open their eyes, so they continue to violate their oath to OUR CONSTITUTION. Damn them all to Hell for their treachery.