Posted on 09/03/2008 4:25:04 PM PDT by Libloather
Obama still unvetted after all these years
By Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The Washington Post reported that John McCain’s vetting process for picking Governor Sarah Palin included an FBI background check. Other reports dispute this.
But when did the FBI investigate Obama? Who vetted him?
We are living witnesses to an incredible media double standard, whereby a Republican vice-presidential candidate’s personal life is being torn apart, while the Democratic presidential candidate continues to get a free ride.
Obama received his “first high level briefing” on Tuesday from the office of the Director of National Intelligence, CNN has reported. “Obama was given the briefing at the FBI field office in Chicago,” the cable channel said, from a “team of intelligence experts.”
Obama has a 30-year history of associating with questionable figures, beginning with communist Frank Marshall Davis and continuing with Jeremiah Wright and acknowledged terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Such contacts would conceivably present issues in his obtaining a security clearance in the government that he wants to run.
The major media have investigated Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and her husband’s driving record, but have not raise the security issues in Obama's background.
The leftist DailyKos website started digging into Palin’s past and claimed that her fifth child wasn’t really hers. The charge fell apart when pictures surfaced of the governor pregnant with the child. Nevertheless, the media, which have been so quick to ignore questions about Obama’s background, joined in the inquiry into Palin’s private family matters and forced the governor to disclose that one of their daughters is pregnant out of wedlock. This is what passes for investigative reporting these days.
A daughter’s pregnancy, of course, has nothing to do with whether Palin is fit for the job of vice-president or even president and is entitled to a security clearance. But one’s associations with communists who hate the United States might emerge as a cause for concern.
It is worth noting that the DailyKos site is the same site that a liberal blogger named Lee Stranahan says banned his comments about Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards needing to answer reports that he had had an extramarital affair. Those reports, which came from the “tabloid” National Enquirer and not from any “respectable” major media outlet, turned out to be true.
It also turns out that the DailyKos got the leak from the Obama campaign of the candidate’s alleged birth certificate, an announcement intended to put to rest all of the questions about whether Obama is a natural-born citizen and passes the basic constitutional requirement to be president. Is the document real? I have not seen any investigative reporters from the major media assigned to this story. Instead, they’re sniffing around Palin’s family, which is something they had no desire to do while John Edwards was cheating on his cancer-stricken wife.
In contrast to the Palin story, which will probably continue for weeks, the Obama birth certificate controversy has been left alone by the major media. They have simply assumed — because they favor his candidacy — that Obama, with a history of being moved from country to country under different names, is a legitimate U.S. citizen. A lawsuit has been filed challenging Obama’s qualifications to be president and some bloggers say the birth certificate is a fraud. But it’s not an issue for the major media. They would rather examine photos of Bristol Palin’s tummy.
An FBI investigation of Obama might get at the truth about the Democratic candidate. But an FBI background check is something that the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party has not been forced to undergo. How many people even know that?
But whether the FBI investigated Palin is now becoming a controversy.
In contrast to the focus on Palin and her family, the Post on August 24 ran a 10,000-word piece about Barack Obama’s growing-up years in Hawaii that completely ignored the role of his acknowledged mentor, communist Frank Marshall Davis. There was not one word devoted to an identified communist, who also stands accused of drug use, alcohol abuse, and child molesting, being in intimate contact with the Democratic presidential nominee for about nine years of his young life.
The author of that Post story, David Maraniss, told us that he didn’t think Frank Marshall Davis was worth even one mention in that 10,000-word story. He even said that Obama’s own book was incorrect in ascribing a significant role to Davis in mentoring the candidate. As the facts show, Davis became Obama’s father-figure when his real father abandoned the family. The mystery is why Obama only referred to Davis as “Frank” in his book and concealed his true identity. But the Post doesn’t want its readers to know anything about it. But we do have a right to know that Bristol Palin is pregnant.
It will be coming out that Obama’s mentor, Davis, was the subject of an FBI investigation for 19 years and that his FBI file is 600 pages long. Davis was included in the FBI’s “security index,” meaning that he could be arrested and detained in the event of a national security emergency. But the young person he sent off to college, who would admittedly attend socialist conferences and pick Marxist professors as his friends, doesn’t have to undergo an FBI background check and will run the FBI should he become president.
In contrast to the coverage of Palin, the major media have not highlighted that, for all of his “experience” in foreign affairs, Senator Joseph Biden, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, is an exposed and admitted plagiarist. I have watched countless hours of coverage of the campaign on the cable and broadcast networks and haven’t seen one detailed story about Biden’s history of plagiarism.
But can you imagine the outcry if it came out that Palin, who graduated from college in journalism and became a sportscaster, had been caught plagiarizing?
Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is already claiming to have found a skeleton in Palin’s closet. An Obama spokesman, Marak Bubriski, charged that Palin once supported Pat Buchanan for president because she was spotted years ago wearing a Pat Buchanan button. And since Buchanan has been charged by some with being a “Nazi sympathizer,” that means that Palin is tainted and has to explain herself. Buchanan, a commentator on MSNBC and columnist, has exposed this as nonsense. But he is not the main target, of course. It is Palin and McCain. It is a campaign dirty trick designed to smear the Republican ticket and hurt its chances with Jewish voters.
Assuming that this is a legitimate topic, when will Obama explain his association with a Moscow-line Communist for nine years of his life? And his failure to come clean about that relationship in his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father? This seems to be more serious than wearing a button.
For the record, it is reported that Palin actually supported Steve Forbes and wore the Buchanan button as a courtesy to the candidate when he visited Alaska. In a related development, pro-Israel bloggers claim to have seen photos and video of an Israeli flag on Palin’s left lapel and an Israeli flag in her office. So it would appear that she is a supporter of Israel, the exact opposite of what the Obama campaign was trying to imply. Now that this is out of the way, how will Obama explain Davis? Or will he ever be asked to?
For its part, the Washington Post has assigned at least two reporters to dig up dirt on Palin. One controversy is that Palin is under investigation for trying to fire a state trooper who threatened members of her family. On two straight days, August 30 and 31, Post reporters James V. Grimaldi and Kimberly Kindy authored articles about whether this trooper should have been fired or not, and what role Palin played in the controversy.
Since trying to fire a trooper who threatened your family doesn’t strike most people as improper or illegal, the Post now seems to be taking a new direction. The Tuesday paper carries a page one story about how, when Palin was mayor of a town in Alaska, she sought federal grants.
Tomorrow it will be something else.
McCain has a blogger, Michael Goldfarb, who is supposed to be an attack dog when it comes to media misdeeds. He calls a report by Elisabeth Bumiller of the Times “fiction” and offers her a link to the McCain press line.
This is said to be tough stuff from the McCain campaign. They obviously don’t understand what they’re up against.
How many are digging up Hussein Obomber's past?
That sure is a good question. I certainly hope that the FBI has vetted the messiah.
Palin has been vetted more in the past 5 days than Obama has been in his whole life.
He is shrouded in tephlon because he is black!
The only way the American public is going to know about Obama’s dark side is if the GOP goes after him in their advertising. The MSM has already decided to turn their collective heads to the vehement attacks on Palin. Talk about distraction politics.
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Here’s how I’ve been bumping Palin/Obama threads today.
Sung to the tune of “Oh! Susanna, don’t you cry for me.”
“Oh, no Bama, please don’t lie to me... for I’m off to Free Republic with a laptop on my knee.”
I come from Minnesota with my laptop on my knee;
I’m goin’ to Free Republic my true love for to see.
It rained all night the day I left,
the weather it was dry;
The sun so hot I froze to death,
Obama don’t you lie.
Oh! No Bama, don’t you lie to me;
I come from Minnesota,
with my laptop on my knee.
I had a dream the other night,
When everything was still;
I thought I saw Obama dear,
A-coming down the hill.
The smearing lie was in Duluth,
The tear was in his eye,
Said I, I’m coming for the truth
Obama don’t you lie.
Oh! No Bama, don’t you lie to me;
I’m off to Free Republic,
with my laptop on my knee.
I fight in my pajamas,
It’s plain for all to see.
I aim to be the next Buckhead;
The media all hate me.
I fell in love with Sarah
When my sister bit a moose.
The Guvnor’s family ate it up
And then they set it loose.
Oh! No Bama, don’t you lie to me;
I’m off to Free Republic,
with my laptop on my knee.
She loves her sons, she likes her guns,
and Trigonometry.
The media will jump the shark
When Juan makes history.
Well, JimRob knows she’ll pave the trolls
So controversially,
And Berg will knock Obama down
With friends of Hillary.
Oh! No Bama, don’t you lie to me;
I’m off to Free Republic with a laptop on my knee.
I soon will be in Hawaii,
And then I’ll look all ‘round,
And when I find his birth record,
I’ll fall upon the ground.
But if I do not find it,
This Freeper’ll surely die,
And when I’m dead and buried,
Obama don’t you lie.
Oh! No Bama, don’t you cry for me;
I’m off to Free Republic with a laptop on my knee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2073903/posts?page=6#6
Maybe ABDNC can find out how Michelle got a $200,000 raise the day he was sworne in as senator?? Oh yeah, Rat corruption is ignored they have a 17 yr old pregnant girl to lynch.
Pray for W, the Palins and Our Freedom Fighters
How many repoerters does it take to publicly ask him *ONE* (01) question? To wit; What, exactly did you mean, when you spoke of creating a "civilian national security force" as well funded, and AS WELL-ARMED, as the military?
By my count, that would only require one reporter who actually was willing to do their job. Evidently, throughout the media, such an individual does not exist...
the infowarrior
You must be mistaken. Shep Smith just said he’s been vetted for the past 18 months. /s
“Obama received his “first high level briefing” on Tuesday from the office of the Director of National Intelligence, CNN has reported.”
Here’s hoping that this classified information will not end up in Muslim hands.
It’s time to hold the Dem’s feet to the fire. Barrack said if any of his staffers were involved in spreading rumors about Palin, they would be fired. Enter Marak Bubriskir who misrepresented her position about Pat Buchannan. Is he still working for the campaign? If so, why? Oh yeah...it’s just words...just a speech...Typical Democrat hypocracy.
You can count on it.
It's terrifying to know that this guy was briefed at that level in the first place. Dear God, we are going to hand over civilization's jewels to this freak?
How many are digging up Hussein Obomber's past?
This campaign is quite unusual. All of a sudden, the Democrat candidate for president is running against the Republican candidate for vice-president. Indeed, Obama is in a position above his pay grade. He should be running for vice-president, not president.
Bin Laden is undoubtedly reading it as we speak.
After all, isn't he a victim of American imperialism?
Does anyone know what the deal is with Senators who receive classified information? Are they given security checks? Or are they immune?
Certainly anyone working in the administration would have a security check—unless someone like Bill Clinton is in charge, and then the FBI is muzzled.
If Obama gets into the White House, NOBODY is going to get a security check. He’ll see to that, I’m sure.
Hopefully a 527 will bring that question to the fore.
been asking this for months now
How on earth can Obama with all his terrorist , radical black racists, shady dealing in real estate, his connections to a certain African radical Govt.
Not to mention his past , where was he at certain times, what was he doing over there I mean we still do not know if he actually attended a madrassa. or I don’t anyway
So how come this man with this background and I bet there is more can run for president, surely he needs to be investigated by the FBI.
can’t stand watching him, as soon as his show comes on the TV flicks over channel
can you imagine the likes of wright, Ayers, nation of islam, etc etc etc going to the white house
I would not be surprised to find that Obama or his wife would leak info to our enemies and even tell them that they are being watched etc
The whole picture just scares me to no end, he would do more damage to this country than Bin laden could do in 4 years.
It would take 50 years for this country to rectify the damage Obama would do
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