Percy Sutton, a former Manhattan Borough president told a New York cable channel that a controversial black activist and adviser to Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, Khalid Al-Mansour, was taking an interest in Obama and was raising money for him and seeking recommendations for him to help him get into Harvard. For some reason someone very connected with the Saudi royal family was helping Obama and we really do not know just how much. My gut feeling is that it was quite a lot and Obama owes them for his fortune in life and that is at least part of the reason that he automatically genuflected to them. That and their common religious goals and beliefs.
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/obama_harvard_/2008/09/23/133199.html
So if the figures cited by the Obama campaign for the Senator’s student loans are accurate, that means that Obama came up with more than $32,000 over three years from sources other than loans to pay for tuition, room and board.
Where did he find the money? Did it come from friends of Khalid Al Mansour? And why would a radical Muslim activist with ties to the Saudi royal family be raising money for Barack Obama?
That’s the question the Obama campaign still won’t answer.
Politico’s following the 0 talking points, per usual .. they’re SO predictable .. LOL.
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Barack Obama bowed to Japanese emperor as ‘protocol’
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By MIKE ALLEN | 11/14/09 11:59 PM EST
SINGAPORE – A senior administration official said President Barack Obama was simply observing protocol when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon arriving at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.
“I think that those who try to politicize those things are just way, way, way off base,” the official said. “He observes protocol. But I don’t think anybody who was in Japan – who saw his speech and the reaction to it, certainly those who witnesses his bilateral meetings there – would say anything other than that he enhanced both the position and the status of the U.S., relative to Japan.
It was a good, positive visit at an important time, because there’s a lot going on in Japan.”
The Drudge Report gave a banner headline to a photo of the encounter: “OBAMA BOWS BEFORE JAPAN’S EMPEROR.” Drudge linked to a Los Angeles Times blog post that headlined the photo: “How low will he go?”
That led to a raft of e-mail to POLITICO asking why we weren’t covering this big story.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29529.html
Those comments need the addition of accurate info from folks who know about Japanese cultural practices. It’s a free login, then you can post a comment. Lots of uninformed folks there.