Posted on 08/21/2008 6:41:37 AM PDT by ETL
[from pg 2 of 2] Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. ...
Barack Obama is a clever fellow who imbibed hatred of America with his mother's milk, but worked his way up the elite ladder of education and career. He shares the resentment of Muslims against the encroachment of American culture, although not their religion. He has the empathetic skill set of an anthropologist who lives with his subjects, learns their language, and elicits their hopes and fears while remaining at emotional distance. That is, he is the political equivalent of a sociopath. The difference is that he is practicing not on a primitive tribe but on the population of the United States.
There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is," wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture. Listening to Obama speak, Sinclair Lewis' cynical tent-revivalist Elmer Gantry comes to mind, or, even better, Tyrone Power's portrayal of a carnival mentalist in the 1947 film noire Nightmare Alley. The latter is available for instant viewing at Netflix, and highly recommended as an antidote to having felt uplifted by an Obama speech.
(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...
Is his mother still alive? I haven’t heard anything about her death, nor about her being alive. Anyone know?
Fascinating point! Great observation! (not serious)
You mean besides the funeral director?
"Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro (November 29, 1942 – November 7, 1995), known as Ann Dunham, and later as Ann Sutoro[1] was the mother of United States Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama.[2] Dunham was an anthropologist who later specialized in rural development. Born in Kansas, Dunham attended high school near Seattle, Washington and spent most of her adult life in Hawaii."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Dunham
ping
After reading this article, one might easily understanding why Obama sought love and companionship from cocaine and gay men.
I believe she died of cancer. He made mention of her some time back in advocating a national health care program.
It explains where he got his communist tastes from.
So does this .
Just an observation. In the many years I’ve been posting to freerepublic, feedback on pictures has been a part of the online conversation. It’s the first thing I thought of when I saw her picture.
“What does that have to do with anything?”
You don’t think that having radical socialist parents affected his viewpoint is important?
Nothing in high school. A white girlfriend for a year while at Columbia.
Nothing until he runs into Michelle.
That's two?
That ain't manly.
BTTT for later reading
You don’t think that having radical socialist parents affected his viewpoint is important?
Did you have your morning coffee yet? Please check the thread again. Also my FR Home page. I was responding to post#2, which read: "I personally think she looks like a young Caroline Kennedy."
For much more on the ObamaRats and the strong communist angle in all this, i.e. the one being largely ignored by both the left AND most of the right-wing media, particularly the more popular personalities like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingram, Bill O'Reilly, etc, please check out my FR Home page. Thanks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl
I see. Thanks for the clarification. :)
Mentored by Frank Davis, another known communist, who hated America.
Passed off to the Rev Wright in Chicago, a black liberation militant who wants God to damn America.
Gee, I wonder if Obama hates America?
But the fool gets mad when anyone questions his patriotism.
It was the Chicago Tribune and Asia Times (atimes.com)
"Naivete" is a euphemism for Ann Dunham's motivation. Friends describe her as a "fellow traveler", that is, a communist sympathizer, from her youth, according to a March 27, 2007, Chicago Tribune report.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html
Later.
Did he look like Skeletor?
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