That’s Weird?… Forbes ‘Manchurian Candidate’ Article on Obama Disappears Down the Memory Hole

Gateway Pundit ^ | March 25, 2012 | Jim Hoft

[2ndDivisionVet]

Earlier today Forbes posted an excerpt from the book Hope Is Not a Strategy by John Mariotti and D. M. Lukas. The author provided an excerpt from the book for the article where he describes Barack Obama as a “manufactured candidate” whose history remains sealed. Mariotti then calls Obama the “Manchurian candidate.”

But, after the article was posted for a few hours it suddenly disappeared down the memory hole.

Here is the article which was posted at Courage in America blog before it disappeared.

“There is something very wrong when the sitting president refuses to divulge huge pieces of information about his background. What is he hiding? Maybe the “birthers” were a little extreme, but is there something wrong with this “manufactured candidate,” whose history remains sealed from public view? What is he hiding?

Could the “Hawaii birth certificate” be a forgery? Is there something much worse—like “sponsorship” by an unnamed special interest? I don’t know. I do know that the man in the White House now is an imposter. The only question is which kind of an imposter: an incompetent “pretender” or a genuine phony, a “Manchurian candidate,” who is a liberal, ½ black and ½ white, and an obvious Muslim sympathizer.

Will this campaign expose him as the imposter, and the pretender his behavior has revealed? Will it expose his hidden history and murky background. We know about his failures and mistakes.

For those who don’t, here is another in this series of revealing excerpts from Hope Is Not A Strategy: Leadership Lessons from the Obama Presidency.

Excerpt from the chapter: Beware the Pretender:

…”No matter how many times President Obama refers to the “problems he inherited,” he has now been in office three years. Certainly many of the current problems can be traced back to events that happened during the eight years that Bush held the top office, and some can be traced back to even earlier presidencies — but far from all of them.

Many of the problems are newly created (or made worse), and Barack Obama owns them. Candidate Obama stepped up and essentially said, “I want the job, and everything that comes with it” by running for president. After three years in office, the problems now belong to him and his presidency. He caused them, made them worse, or didn’t solve them. Either way, they are his now.

…In leadership, you cannot “pretend” to be a leader. You either are — or you aren’t — a leader. One or the other will become apparent very quickly.

If you want the leadership job, you must step up and take full ownership of it. A “pretender” or “poser” is like an actor who has learned all the right lines, but has no idea what they mean. Once the script has been followed (or deviated from), the actor is clueless about what to do next. This is the job of the leader.

Unfortunately, in this government, the “directors” often seem clueless, having learned in academia where results and wins/losses are theoretical, or in politics where success (at getting elected) is more a matter of rhetoric than results.

If you are not ready for a position, or do not believe that you have what it takes to rise to the challenge (or clean up the mess even if you believe it is not your mess), then do not take the job. This was Barack Obama’s fundamental mistake. He grossly underestimated the difficulty of the position he was running for, and overestimated his preparedness to actually do the job. Just because he could “talk a good game” (thanks to a phalanx of speech writers and the omnipresent teleprompters) does not mean he actually knew what to do or how to do it. The presidency of the United States of America is not a place for heavy OJT (On-the Job-Training)….”

After the first three plus years of the presidency, it is painfully clear that Barack Obama was a “pretty face,” and “glib speaker” and a lightweight liberal politician with a community organizer/radical background. The American people should be outraged at this man’s behavior and even his candidacy. Why are they not? Because of the misinformation delivered by sympathetic liberal/mainstream media who loves his nonsensical form of governing.

…”Obama’s perceived preparedness for the presidency is a terrible delusion, from which it is difficult to escape. Mistakes build upon each other and result in even more complex problems. Difficult problems that are mishandled become even more difficult to fix. When you have too little experience, lack substance (other than the words of your latest speech), then leading, managing and problem solving simply don’t happen. And that is what has occurred. When you compound the problem by surrounding your self with like-minded theorists, lacking in real-world experience, things become worse yet. The theoretical solutions to problems often don’t work due to the messiness of the real world — and the reasons are almost unfathomable to these rookie executive/politicians. …”

What should Americans think about this “imposter?” Will he divulge his true background so we can all see who he is and where he came from — really? If not, is this just a man who should never have been sworn into the office of President in the first place, and who has crippled Americans miserably during his term?

Will we continue to believe his misstatements (the politically correct term for lies)? Can he simply use the media to “erase and forget the past three years of misery and missteps?” Or will we learn from his imperialistic behavior and terrible results and throw him out in November?

[thouworm]

Hmmm... to the scrubbing. It’s not like we haven’t seen this before...but a book? lol

2DV: “No matter what happens in November, this probably won’t end up well.”

The facts are now inescapable....BUT we Americans are nothing but resourceful. Any many of us know we have a higher appeal beyond a tin-pot dictator (and it’s not SCOTUS).
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FYI: See post 8 for one thread linking the Forbes article.

Don’t miss LucyT’s cache of the Forbes article itself in post 15 (before it TOO is scrubbed). Nice catch LucyT!

And, finally, the first FR thread linking to the Forbes article:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2863545/posts

[Republican1795.]

Not looking forward to November.

[Republican1795.]

Not looking forward to November.

[NoLibZone]

Used to get hate mail here when we posted or commented on this sort of thing.

[Flotsam_Jetsome]

(This thread is not a duplicate)

That's what I thought it was at first. Thanks for the follow-up ping.

"No matter what happens in November, this probably won't end up well."

After the earthquake here a year ago, while the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima reactor complex was ramping up to its apex, I had this eerie, intense and prolonged rise in my fight-or-flight instincts. Not exactly a feeling of panic, but rather one of supreme wariness and of being ready to jump in the car and flee south (you don't stay and fight radiation) away from the plume, if it headed for Yokohama and environs.

I've had a similar feeling of late, especially since March 1st.

I've got a bad feeling about this.

[SueRae]

I read the article yesterday..was surprised it was on Forbes. Thought police must have been up late/early.

[txhurl]

W called the MinuteMen ‘vigilantes’. Zero called the New Black Panthers and offered a few thousand black men of is own for the Posse.

[Smokin' Joe]

Thanks, nully!

[Smokin' Joe]

Whose side are they on?

Theirs.

...900 FBI files on leading Republicans...

[lonestar]

Only Shep Smith have I noticed on Fox...can’t stand Shepard.

[ILS21R]

[butterdezillion]

The bigger story is one that even the Forbes article wouldn’t cover. Just imagine what would happen if Forbes told the world that Arpaio’s posse found probable cause for forgery and fraud involving both Obama’s long-form BC and draft registration - and reported it on the same day that Breitbart suddenly died and Rush received a bomb scare - but the press won’t report it because Soros operatives threatened the media heads with FCC/FTC annihilation (and the media companies followed up with threats to the careers, lives, and families) if they or any of their guests reported on the eligibility issue.

IOW, Sheriff Joe is now saying there’s not just smoke but fire. And the media has known at least since October of 2008 that there’s not just smoke but fire because that is when they were first held hostage by George Soros over this very issue.

This is what the posse has confirmed.

[RoosterRedux]

I would like a copy. Is it something you can Freepmail?

[ml/nj]

Interesting. Or maybe I should ask how you did this.

I just went to Google to search for the article. They had a link, which didn't work of course, but I saw no indication that they had cached whatever it was that caused them to report the link as a search result.

ML/NJ

[RoosterRedux]

Ignore my last comment...I just read the article at Google Cache.

[Freddd]

Obama is not going to win.

He will lose in a landslide.

[444Flyer]

BUMP Grrrr!

[444Flyer]

Soros is a corrupt, wicked, bitter, power lusting codger.

He best repent and get right with Jesus!

[butterdezillion]

Hard to do when you seriously believe you’re God, as Soros does.

[Mad Dawgg]

"That’s Weird?… Article Calling Obama the ‘Manchurian Candidate’ Disappears Down Memory Hole

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