Fight the Smears: Spread the Truth About Obama [Viral E-mail to copy and circulate]

06/14/08 | Winged Hussar 1683

[Winged Hussar]

Fight the Smears: Spread the Truth About Obama

It is said that a lie can travel the world before the truth can get out the door, and this is certainly true of urban legends and unfounded rumors about Barack Obama. We therefore join his “Fight the Smears” campaign to quash these urban legends and unfounded rumors with proven and verifiable facts. Here are the rumors and urban legends in question:

(1) Obama's opponents misquote Obama's "Dreams From My Father"
(2) Obama's opponents accuse him of being a Muslim
(3) Obama's opponents claim that he won't say the Pledge of Allegiance
(4) Obama's opponents say that Michelle Obama used a racist word

Obama's Opponents are Misquoting "Dreams From My Father."

From Obama’s site at http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome/

The Smear
Smear:
Obama’s Books Contain Racially Incendiary Remarks

A recent email forward allegedly quotes passages from Senator Obama’s books related to race and religion. The majority of these are alterations, deliberate manipulations, and in one case, an outright fabrication of Obama’s words.

...SMEAR EMAIL

From Dreams From My Father: ‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.’

THE TRUTH

The above quote does not appear in the book, and here is what Barack Obama really wrote in "Dreams From My Father." The indicated page numbers are for the paperback edition, ISBN 978-1-4000-8277-3

I would occasionally pick up the paper [Louis Farrakhan’s “The Final Call”] from these unfailingly polite men, in part out of sympathy to their heavy suits in the summer, their thin coats in winter; or sometimes because my attention was caught by the sensational, tabloid-style headlines (CAUCASIAN WOMAN ADMITS: WHITES ARE THE DEVIL). Inside the front cover, one found reprints of the minister’s [Farrakhan’s] speeches, as well as stories that could have been picked straight off the AP news wire were it not for certain editorial embelleshments (”Jewish Senator Metzenbaum announced today…”).

Barack Obama, “Dreams From My Father,” p. 201 [Obama does not praise The Final Call's hate speech but he does not condemn it either.]


It contradicted the morality my mother had taught me, a morality of subtle distinctions–between individuals of goodwill and those who wished me ill, between active malice and ignorance or indifference. I had a personal stake in that moral framework; I’d discovered that I couldn’t escape it if I tried. And yet perhaps it was a framework that blacks in this country could no longer afford; perhaps it weakened black resolve, encouraged confusion within the ranks. Desperate times called for desperate measures, and for many blacks, times were chronically desperate. If nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.

If nationalism could deliver. As it turned out, questions of effectiveness, and not sentiment, caused most of my quarrels with Rafiq. [Rafiq al-Shabazz, a “self-professed [Black] nationalist” (page 198)]



“Dreams From My Father,” pp. 199-200

That was the problem with people like Joyce [a college classmate of Italian, African-American, Native American, and French ethnicity]. They talked about the richness of their multicultural heritage and it sounced real good, until you noticed that they avoided black people. …The truth was that I understood [Joyce], her and all the other black kids who felt the way she did. In their mannerisms, their speech, their mixed-up hearts, I kept recognizing pieces of myself. And that’s exactly what scared me. Their confusion made me question my own racial credentials all over again. …To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

“Dreams From My Father,” pages 99-100

Obama's Opponents Say He is a Muslim

From Obama’s site at http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome/

Smear:
Barack Obama is a Muslim

LIE: Barack Obama is a Muslim

LIE: Barack Obama attended a radical madrassa

LIE: Senator Obama was sworn into the US Senate using the Koran

THE TRUTH:

(1) Keith Ellison (D-MN) and not Barack Obama was sworn in on a Koran, not that there is anything wrong with this. Islam, as opposed to what Middle Eastern terrorists call Islam, is a religion like any other.

(2) Barack and Michelle Obama joined the Trinity United Church of Christ about twenty years ago. This was after its pastor, Jeremiah Wright, had accompanied Louis Farrakhan to Libya to meet with Moammar Khadafy. 

(3) The Obamas remained in the Trinity United Church of Christ when

• Its official bulletin published a blood libel that accused Israel of developing an “ethnic bomb” to kill Negroes and Arabs. (TUCC official bulletin, June 10 2007, http://tucc.org/upload/tuccbulletin_june10.pdf, link good as of June 14 2008)
• Its pastor blood libeled the United States by accusing it of developing the AIDS virus
• Its official bulletin published a guest opinion piece from a Hamas terrorist named Marzook (TUCC official bulletin, July 22, 2007. http://tucc.org/upload/tuccbulletin_july22.pdf, link good as of June 14 2008)
• Its pastor published a “War in Iraq IQ Test” that equated the United States to Iraq under Saddam Hussein
• Its pastor wrote “state” of Israel in the church’s official bulletin, as in “so-called state of Israel.” (TUCC official bulletin, July 8 2007. http://tucc.org/upload/tuccbulletin_july8.pdf, link good as of June 14 2008)
• Its pastor said that the United States got a wake up call after 9/11, with the context suggesting that the United States deserved 9/11
• It gave a Trumpet Award to Louis Farrakhan
• The church invited Father Michael Pfleger to give a guest speech in which he openly praised and defended Louis Farrakhan

(4) The Obamas belonged to a congregation that cheered, with some giving a standing ovation, to Michael Pfleger's "There were a whole lot of white people crying."

Obama's Opponents Claim That He Won't Say the Pledge of Allegiance

From Obama’s site at http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome/

Smear:
Barack Obama Won’t Say The Pledge of Allegiance/Won’t Put His Hand Over His Heart

LIE: Barack Obama won’t say the pledge

LIE: Barack Obama won’t put his hand over this heart during the pledge of allegiance

THE TRUTH: Obama stood with his hands folded over his crotch for the National Anthem, while all around him (Hillary Clinton and Bill Richardson were in the picture) had their hands over their hearts. You can verify this by searching YouTube (or Google Videos) for “Obama” and “National Anthem.”

Obama's opponents say that Michelle Obama used a racist word

From Obama’s site at http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fightthesmearshome/

SMEAR: Michelle Obama says "Whitey" on a tape

Until someone can produce this tape, let's stick with the facts. This is what Michelle Obama is actually on record as writing.

Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would use all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost. My experiences at Princeton have made me more aware of my “Blackness” than ever before. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson [Obama], “Princeton Educated Blacks and the Black Community,” page 2

These experiences have made it apparent to me that the path I have chosen to follow by attending Princeton will likely lead to my further integration and/or assimilation into a White cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson [Obama], “Princeton Educated Blacks and the Black Community,” page 2

Elements of Black culture which make it unique from White culture such as its music, its language, the struggles and a “consciousness” shared by its people may be attributed to the injustices and oppression suffered by this race of people which are not comparable to the experiences of any other race of people through this country’s history. However, with the increasing integration of Blacks into the mainstream society, many “integrated Blacks” have lost touch with the Black culture in their attempts to become adjusted and comfortable in their new culture–the White culture. Some of these Blacks are no longer able to enjoy the qualities which make Black culture so unique or are unable to share their culture openly with other Blacks because they have become so far removed from these experiences and, in some instances, ashamed of them because of their integration. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson [Obama], “Princeton Educated Blacks and the Black Community,” page 54

Unfounded and easily disprovable smears make Obama's opponents look bad while gaining him votes. Please help fight the smears by circulating these proven and on-record facts as widely was possible.

[Winged Hussar]

This is a direct response to Obama's "Fight the Smears" Web page. Note that it does not argue with or dispute a single assertion on that page; instead, it adds material that cannot possibly be contested or disputed.

Hopefully the HTML formatting will work if you copy and paste directly into the body of an E-mail. It did work for me.

[ETL]

here is what Barack Obama really wrote in "Dreams From My Father." The indicated page numbers are for the paperback edition, ISBN 978-1-4000-8277-3. I would occasionally pick up the paper [Louis Farrakhan’s “The Final Call”]

Not surprising Obama would be reading Final Call.

From the Louis Farrakhan/Nation of Islam website, Final Call...
Malik Zulu Shabazz, chairman of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPP):
"We are happy today to be standing side by side with the Nation of Islam. We believe, like the Nation of Islam and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad believe, in a nation of our own. We believe in a Black first philosophy and a Black Liberation Theology. We don’t worry about the criticism. We love all of those who labored in the Panther Party from the ’60s. Many are with us today."
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1858.shtml

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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES

excerpt...

"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.

Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.

The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."

To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."

Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969):
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html

The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine
Monday , May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]

(some key excerpts)

JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.

I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."

REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."

SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."

Source: The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html

Louis Farrakhan, at the Millions More Movement rally in DC, Oct 15, 2005: "...what Mao Tse Tung did was, he went to the cultural community, and they [Farrakhan spreads his arms beneficently] accepted his idea."..."Mao Tse Tung ... had a billion people whose lives he had to transform."..."the idea of Mao Tse Tung became the idea of a billion people, and China became a world power on the base of the culture and the arts community. If we had a ministry of art and culture in every city we'd create this movement [in the U.S.]."
Source: http://thedrunkablog.blogspot.com/2005/10/communist-plot-noted.html

Louis Farrakhan, Santiago de Cuba, February, 1998: "There is not a member of the black masses in the United States who is not proud of the example set by Cuba and its revolution, with Comandante Fidel at its head"
Source: http://www.fiu.edu/~fcf/farakhan21898.html#says

Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Obama's pastor and spirtual advisor "crazy uncle" of more than 20 years, honors "Honorable" Minister Louis Farrakhan with the "Jeremiah A. Wright Lifetime Achievement Trumpeteer Award" at the 2007 Trumpet Gala held at the Hyatt Regency Chicago.
[it appears the original video was removed, but this one is identical to it]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW2OhkZ0RSg

Louis Farrakhan, at the annual Saviours' Day celebration in Chicago, Feb. 25, 2008: "This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better"..."If you look at Barack Obama's audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed."
Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4337417

[TomasUSMC]

Obsama can’t touch this:

LARRY SINCLAIR and Obsama had sex and cocaine in a limo in 1999.

NATIONAL PRESS CLUB EVENT CHANGE
Posted by Larry Sinclair on Friday, June 13, 2008

The following changes have been made in the Wednesday June 18, 2008 News Conference originally scheduled for the Lisagor Room at the National Press Club.
The event is now scheduled for Wednesday, June 18, 2008 from 1-5:00 PM in the HOLEMAN LOUNGE at the National Press Club.
This change was due to capacity in the Lisagor Room was a maximum of 40 people. The Holeman Lounge has a capacity of 110. In addition the Holeman Lounge is available from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
It is also my understanding that a very special guest will attend to provide moral support.

EVENT PLANS TO BE STREAMED LIVE

On obambi’s fightthesmears.com there is no mention of cocaine or homosexuality maybe because it is not a smear.
if its not a smear it MUST BE THE TRUTH.

A HEARTFELT THANKS TO fightthesmears.com for confirming the truth of obsama’s cocaine dealinlg and homosex in 1999.

[RushingWater]

Why is it that when I type in

www.barackosama.com that I go directly to a Google page like I am searching for Obama??

[freespirited]

OK, the emailer has a point. As it turns out the following quote:

I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.

does not appear in Obama's book. It is a paraphrase of a reviewer's words ... i.e. the reviewer wrote that

[Obama] found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.

This is something to be proud of--that a reviewer found the book the work of an angry black man resentful toward the white people who had given him so much?

For the past couple of days, I have heard nonstop praise (from no less than Laura Ingraham et al) about how brilliant this fightthesmears website is. I have my doubts. I think it could very well result in a much closer vetting of his books than if he had not opened the site. And while admittedly, the above quote was wrongly attributed to him, there is plenty that he did put in the books to give his campaign some very unpleasant nightmares.

[freespirited]

[Obama] found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race

should read

[Obama] found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against his mothers race

[padre35]

I cannot make out what exactly that thread starter is saying Winged Hussar, seriously, what a jumble, and if there are counter accusations, could the be more clearly defined?

I notice Obama going with his loopey Mom to “Black Orpheus” was not mentioned at all, that was some disturbing stuff on Obamao’s part.

[padre35]

The Black Orpheus quote is apparently accurate however freespirited, and in that one Obamao details how a mixed race couple could never be compatible due to race.

[Winged Hussar]

Re: “And while admittedly, the above quote was wrongly attributed to him, there is plenty that he did put in the books to give his campaign some very unpleasant nightmares. “

That is EXACTLY the point I am making.

[Winged Hussar]

Re: “I cannot make out what exactly that thread starter is saying Winged Hussar, seriously, what a jumble, and if there are counter accusations, could the be more clearly defined?”

It alternates material from Obama’s site with facts that Obama would prefer that people not see. What is confusing about that?

[padre35]

All of the bolding, it should be:

Alleged Smear

Obamao’s reply

Fact of the matter

Instead it sort of runs off into BOLDED tangents, like the Farrakhan deal about “The Call” and Obamao’s readership of the same.

[Winged Hussar]

Re: “Instead it sort of runs off into BOLDED tangents, like the Farrakhan deal about “The Call” and Obamao’s readership of the same.”

The idea is to draw the attention of a reader who may have a short attention span to words like “Farrakhan” and “Jewish Senator Metzenbaum.”

[Mojave]

Q. Why does Obama claim that the madrassah where he trained wasn’t a “radical” one?

A. They didn’t train with live ammo.

http://barackobamajokes.googlepages.com

[yoe]

Wellllll, (Obama's vision for a 'safe' America)

Maybe the following excerpts were taken out of context, maybe not...whatever, they leave you with a sour taste in the mouth.

From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'

From Dreams of My Father : 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'

From Dreams of My Father: 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'

From Dreams of My Father: 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'

From Dreams of My Father: 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself , the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'

And FINALLY the Most Damming one of ALL of them!!!

From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'

Obama is a Marxist, a racist - he can't help being either, that is just who he, Michelle, and their friends are.

This election is about 'The Republic for which we stand...." or 'The Marxist regime for which we will fall.'

[ETL]

Why is it that when I type in www.barackosama.com that I go directly to a Google page like I am searching for Obama??

I don't know. Perhaps it's this guy's fault.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APx2YJ-_jos

[yoe]

(found this on google)

[ETL]

From a website called, AltMuslim.com:
"...speaking of hypocrisy, and the southside of chicago- and barak obama- one time i went to the bud milliken parade ( a very big event- about 6 hours long) and at one point- michelle obama appeared waving on top of an escalade, she was wearing torn jeans, a drumpled semi dirty t-shirt half tucked in and out- and her hair was crazy undone- then she made a small speech- and actually referred to barak as her "baby daddy" (not baby's daddy even you'll notice)

some of the crowd bought it- but i thought it was really over the top in the way of pandering, as i knew she was going to a state dinner that evening and can only assume her demeanor and dress would morph accordingly.

im still not on the obama bandwagon- not because i disagree with his policies- i just can't figure out what they are."
http://www.altmuslim.com/a/a/e/2676/

#1 Definition of "Baby Daddy", from urbandictionary.com:
"Usually a broke ass black man; Who you met through a friend and had sex wit when you was upset and confused. Now you don had his baby and he dont pay child support and denies yo son ray ray. He just my baby daddy"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=baby+daddy

MICHELLE OBAMA [on another occasion-CNN transcript]:
"My baby’s daddy Barack Obama. Yeah!"
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0411/02/se.06.html

#1 Definition of "Baby's Daddy", also from urbandictionary.com:
"A guy who is a lousy father, who gots one or more kids with one or more chicks and, thinks he's a pimp. And instead of takin care of the baby he goes out an finds another chick to ****. Until she too becomes just another baby's momma and he moves on. So on and so forth."

girl one:"Who is that?" girl two:"That's my dumbass baby daddy and his dumb ho"
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=baby's+daddy

[Bubba_Leroy]

(1) Obama's opponents misquote Obama's "Dreams From My Father"

Nope. Simply accurately pointing out his own written words.

(2) Obama's opponents accuse him of being a Muslim

Nope. He isn't a Muslim now. He was a Muslim. He quit being a Muslim when it became politically expedient to do so. The big problem is that he falsely denies that he was born and raised a Muslim.

(3) Obama's opponents claim that he won't say the Pledge of Allegiance

Nope. He did refuse to say the Pledge of Allegiance. He also refused to wear an American flag pin. Both changed when it became politically expedient. Basically he will say or do anything that will help him become President.

(4) Obama's opponents say that Michelle Obama used a racist word.

I don't know if she was recorded using a racist word or not. I have no doubt that she is a racist though.

[freespirited]

There are also some doozy quotes in this you tube item I posted the other day.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027978/posts

[Ron H.]

My ressponce is my belief that Obama was and maybe still is secretly a Muslim.