“Muslim Indonesian oil manager”
Wow, this is interesting, considering Obabma’s Muslim background is off limits, ignored, denied.
Check out this email a friend just sent me:
Say What, Barrack?
>
> By Paul R. Hollrah
>
> Tuning in to C-Span recently, I found myself listening to a speech by
> Senator Barrack Hussein Obama, Jr. He was standing in the pulpit of a
> black church in Selma, Alabama, and as I studied the body language of
> the dozen or so black ministers standing behind the senator, I couldn’t
> help but be reminded of the little head-bobbing dolls that people used
> to place in the rear windows of their 1957 Chevrolets. If their
> reactions are any indication,! the new “Schlickmeister” of the Democrat
> Party is actually a pretty accomplished public speaker.
>
> However, as he spoke, I found my b.s. alarm going off, repeatedly. But I
> couldn’t quite figure out why until I actually read excerpts of his
> speech several days later. Here’s part o f what he said:
>
> “...something happened back here in Selma, Alabama. Something happened
> in Birmingham! that sent out what Bobby Kennedy called, “ripples of hope
> all around the world.” Something happened when a bunch of women decided
> they were going to walk instead of ride the bus after a long day of
> doing somebody else’s laundry, looking after somebody else’s children.
>
> “When (black) men who had PhD’s decided ‘that’s enough’ and ‘we’re going
> to stand up for our dignity,’ that sent a shout across oceans so that my
> grandfather began to imagine something different for his son. His son,
> who grew up herding goats in a small village in Africa could suddenly
> set his sights a little higher and believe that maybe a black man in
> this world had a chance.
>
> “So the Kennedy’s decided we’re going to do an airlift. We’re going to
> go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and
> give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful
> country America is.
>
> “This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came
> over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great-
> grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some
> craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided
> that we know that, (in) the world as it has been, it might not be
> possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something
> stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama,
> because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got
> together and Barack Obama Jr. Was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a
> claim on Selma , Alabama. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma,
> Alabama.”
>
> Okay, so what’s wrong with that? It all sounds good. But is it?
>
> Obama told his audience that, because some folks had the courage to
> “march across a bridge” in Selma, Alabama, his mother, a white woman
> from Kansas, and his father, a black Muslim from Africa, took heart. It
> gave them the courage to get married and have a child. The problem with
> that characterization is that Barrack Obama, Jr., was born on August 4,
> 1961, while the first of three marches across that bridge in Selma
> didn’t occur until March 7, 1965, at least five years after Obama’s
> parents met.
>
> Obama went on to tell his audience that the Kennedys, Jack and Bobby,
> decided to do an airlift. They would bring some young Africans over so
> that they could be educated and learn all about America. His grandfather
> heard that call and sent his son, Barrack Obama, Sr., to America.
>
> The problem with that scenario is that, having been born in August 1961,
> the future senator was not conceived until sometime in November 1960. So
> if this African grandfather heard words that ‘’sent a shout across
> oceans,’’ inspiring him to send his goat-herder son to America, it was
> not a Democrat Jack Kennedy he heard, nor his brother Bobby, it was a
> Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
>
> Obama’s speech is reminiscent of Al Gore’s claim of having invented the
> Internet, Hillary Clinton’s claim of having been named after the first
> man to climb Mt. Everest, even though she was born five years and seven
> months before Sir Edmund climbed the mountain, and John Kerry’s
> imaginary trip to Cambodia.
>
> As one of my black friends, Eddie Huff, has said, “We need to ask some
> very serious questions of the senator from Illinois. It’s not enough to
> be black, it’s not enough to be articulate, and it’s not enough to be
> eloquent and a media darling. The only question will be how deaf an ear,
> or how blind an eye, will people turn in order to turn a frog into a
> prince.”
>
Excellent find.