Posted on 09/13/2008 4:25:08 PM PDT by bahblahbah
So now the media really cares precisely which foot of Sarah Palin may or may not have been across a border on one overseas trip? Kornblut, who already has a story which had to be edited to at least make it appear truthful (WaPo didn't disclose that), citing the Globe.
WASILLA, Alaska -- Aides to Gov. Sarah Palin are scrambling to explain details of her only trip outside North America -- which, according to a new report, did not include Iraq, as the McCain-Palin campaign had initially claimed.
Obama aides described the new revisions to Palin's account as part of a growing pattern of deception.
Okay, that does it - I've had it. Aren't there some overseas travel and subsequent events in Obama's life the media seems to not care about at all? Isn't that fair game to discuss given the above?
Maybe it's time the media did some serious looking into the early travels of a fellow who wants to be President, not Vice President of the United States - Barack Obama.
This isn't crazy Obama Muslim Manchurian candidate stuff. Remember the Clintonite who off-handedly dropped the "drug dealer" line during the primaries? Well, anyone can source this below based upon MSM accounts, the news at the time or the few simple links provided. It's certainly enough to make me curious about some things.
By 1980 at Occidental Obama ran partly with a circle of wealthy, drug using Pakistani friends. He traveled to Pakistan between Occidental and Columbia in 1981. That was during the Second Military Era (1977-1988) - Pakistan was under Sharia Law and not the most welcoming to foreign visitors, especially without some graft or connections.
Based upon documented accounts, Obama seems to have also traveled the country-side, not just in the cities. By 1981 Pakistan had become the world's number one supplier of Heroin. Upon his return Obama took up residence with one of the drug using Pakistanis in a run down, presumably drug infested part of NYC in an apartment they couldn't qualify for based on income.
For a college kid out of California via Hawaii who ends up in a NYC slum via Pakistan partying with admitted drug users - using well beyond what Obama has ever admitted to, especially given the particular era, that Pakistan voyage is one very curious trip no matter how you slice it. And I don't mean for any possible Muslim/terror related reasons.
For example, if they had to lie about income to get the apartment cited below - how is it they paid for it seems a fair question? Did he deal drugs at Columbia? He certainly seems to have had the location and friends for it and the Obama campaign has gone to great lengths to cover up that period of his life. Frankly, I want to know why and I think America deserves to know, as well.
In 1981, Obama transferred from Occidental to Columbia. In between, he traveled to Pakistan.
"He was clearly shocked by the economic disparity he saw in Pakistan. He couldn't get over the sight of rural peasants bowing to the wealthy landowners they worked for as they passed," says Mifflin, who makes a brief appearance in Obama's memoir.
When Obama arrived in New York, he already knew Siddiqi -- a friend of Chandoo's and Hamid's from Karachi who had visited Los Angeles.
The Obama campaign declined to discuss Obama's time at Columbia and his friendships in general.
In about 1982, Siddiqi and Obama got an apartment at a sixth-floor walk-up on East 94th Street. Siddiqi managed to get the apartment thanks to subterfuge.
"We didn't have a chance in hell of getting this apartment unless we fabricated the lease application," Siddiqi said.
Siddiqi fudged his credentials, saying he had a high-paying job at a catering company, ....
While Obama has acknowledged using marijuana and cocaine during high school in Hawaii, he writes in the memoir that he stopped using soon after his arrival in New York. His roommate had no such scruples.
But they obviously hung out together cruising clubs and such? What's next? Obama going to put designated driver on his resume right below community organizer? Is anyone buying that? Come on, Barry - what are you hiding from us? Fess up!
"We were always competing," he said. "You know how it is. You go to a bar and you try hitting on the girls. He had a lot more success."
.... The two, along with others, went out for nights on the town. "He wasn't entirely a hermit," Siddiqi said.
Siddiqi said his female friends thought Obama was "a hunk."
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Michelle was on The View going on and on about how they love to eat bacon!
Obamas got lots of “arab” or “muslim” freinds...he has gone to Pakistan at least 1 time (this is not good) - to many Muslim connections...
How can America elect a muslim - muslims killed 3000 people on 9-11 whats wrong with Americans.....????
BUMP!
Love to eat bacon? You’re kidding right.
i dont see why Palin not going overseas is such a big deal. She is part of the working class in Alaska and Idaho. Many Americans do not take exotic vacations (cannot afford to) and with her children it would be a logistic nightmare. They spent their time working hard and raising a family instead of traveling the globe, what is wrong with that.
Seems that no one has the guts to keep pounding that fact home and inform the American people. No gonads!
Whenever a news writer says someone is scrambling to do something I quit reading.
Eggs are scrambled. The press needs to have a better vocabulary.
This is a pattern in Obama campaigns. When he cannot beat the opponent on issues he looks for dirt to unseat them.
Its been the way he has handled every election he has run.
Why cant people see this? This is a point that has to be told over and over so that people can see that he is doing it again.
He waits till its too late and finds a way to cripple them. Twice he used divorce papers...getting his minions to get the court to open sealed documents even. The opponents..Hull and Ryan were shaken by the things that were leaked out ..cough cough...to the press.
He used the Chicago corrupt system to aid him to win his elections. Axelrod has been with him all this time.
This is what he is trying to do to Palin now.
This man needs to be stopped.
Resume of: B HUSSEIN OBAMA
1.) COLB
Proven fake by more than one source
2.) Sketchy childhood
We know some details - Lots of gaps - muslim?
3.) College thesis has vanished
Was it anything like Micheles?
4.) Overseas travel
Pakistan? Why? On what passport?
5.) Law records
What cases did he represent?
6.) Senate records disappeared
What was he trying to hide?
7.) Associations
Rev Wright, Ayers, Rezko, Michele etc.
8.) Senate voting record
That speaks for itself
9.) SCOTUS
Who would his choices be?
10.) Proven Liar
11.) Inexperience
12.) Racist, Sexist, Radical, Marxist views
His judgement in the people he associates with and his radical/marxist views scare the hell out of me.
After Charlie, the gotcha game has reached the goal. Obama is now in the mode of making attacks personally. Leave him hanging out there, too little, too late, with his character jabs, looking like a little boy flailing on about lipstick and pigs and Iraq visits.
The big kids have already left the playground. Now it's time to finish him off with solid emphasis on policy. IMO
Why doesn’t Sarah plan a whirlwind Iraq Afghanistan trip to shut up the media’s pieholes.
Prior to 9-11 it was possible for a US citizen to travel just about anywhere in the western hemisphere except Cuba without a passport (all the way from Halifax to Tierra del Fuego). In Europe prior to the EU, most Europeans needed a passport just to travel 200-300 miles.
Yeah, but was it pork bacon?
Saw something on that awhile back.....
"I just a good 'ol boy....love my bacon, eggs and toast for breakfast....just like the rest of America!.......
'cept I didn't swallow the bacon....for some reason...uh..uh.."
Things are starting to break slowly to McCain.
If there is a Ayers stomping on the Flag and bombing the Capitol ad on Monday, saying we didnt do enough on 9-11, it will break fast. They were working on the same board on 9-11 in an organization Ayers co-founded. What is their relationship and shouldnt voters have a right to know?
Of course there is not a thing in the world wrong with that. But it is so important to the Eastern elites that you sip coffee chez Aux Deux Magots, talk with familiarity about the Pompidou and its spectacular renovation, wax poetic about Firenze, recall deep thoughts on the Spanish Steps and the Piazza San Marco, you know, all that enlightening stuff that makes you part of the "other" tribe, the internationalists. Just being an American and loving it simply is not enough.
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