Posted on 11/10/2010 5:36:43 AM PST by nycteacher
We've all heard President Barack Obama's American journey. Twice. In "Dreams From My Father" and "The Audacity of Hope," Obama told his glossy, airbrushed story: son of a black father and single mother with international background but American values, a man who overcame his personal struggle with race to become a great uniter.
Then there are the untold parts of his background that we've heard from other sources: his associations with Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright. His real estate dealings with corrupt businessman Tony Rezko. His political backstabbing in Chicago.
Finally, there are the parts of his story we never hear about at all: the stories from his childhood and adolescence. The most formative time of our lives are the years between birth and age 21, when we explore who we are and learn from those who surround us. We know virtually nothing about this time in President Obama's life. But we're learning.
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Young Barry Obama spent the ages from 6 to 10 attending school in Indonesia after his mother married Lolo Soetoro. During that time, according to Obama’s third-grade teacher, the “fat, curly-haired, curious” Barry studied Quran and went to Islamic classes over the protestations of his mother, Ann. Ann apparently showed up at the school demanding to know why the religious teacher had accepted young Barry into class. “But,” said Barry’s teacher, “he kept going to the classes because he was interested in Islam. He would also join the other pupils for Muslim prayers.”
Even as young Obama reportedly embraced the Quran, his nanny was teaching him about other lifestyles. According to The New York Times, “His nanny was an openly gay man who, in keeping with Indonesia’s relaxed attitudes toward homosexuality, carried on an affair with a local butcher, longtime residents said.” The nanny was part of a transvestite volleyball group who called themselves the Fantastic Dolls.
Perhaps, the most enlightening detail from that Times article came from one of Obama’s childhood friends, Slamet Januadi. One time, Januadi related, Obama asked some of his friends whether they’d rather be the president, a businessman or a soldier. The soldier would be armed, the businessman would be rich, and the president would have nothing. The boys gave various answers.
“Then,” Januadi recalled, “Barry said he would become president and order the soldier to guard him and the businessman to use his money to build him something. We told him, ‘You cheated. You didn’t give us those details.’”
As a teenager back in Hawaii, Obama hung out with a neighborhood friend he calls “Frank” in “Dreams From My Father.” “Frank” was Frank Marshall Davis, a highly vocal member of the Communist Party, a rancid racist, a pornographer and child rapist. During college, Obama traveled to Pakistan with a college friend. In those years, the country was ruled by General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, a radical Islamist who actually established Shariah rule in the country.
What do these seemingly disconnected events tell us about President Obama?
First, they tell us that he always had — and still has — a tremendous love for Islam and radical Muslims. Obama famously described the Islamic call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.” Traveling to an Islamist country would scare most people — for Obama, it was like traveling back to his childhood. It’s no wonder that Obama took the opportunity to bash Israel while in Jakarta, Indonesia, this week — that, too, must have brought back nostalgic memories.
Second, Obama’s childhood shows us that he was comfortable with militant homosexuals, black racists and communists/socialists, along with radical Islamists. That’s an odd combination for a child, but Obama had an odd childhood. And that conglomeration of interests — gay rights militants, black racists, socialists and radical Muslims — now form the core of Obama’s idealistic base.
Third, Obama’s childhood shows us that he was always a narcissist concerned with his own power. Not only did he want to be president, he thought the presidency was all about him. Soldiers were there for defending him; businessmen were there for supporting him. Presidents were kings. That’s why he wanted to be president.
Obama’s perspective on the presidency hasn’t changed. Soldiers are “photo ops.” The media is there to praise him. Businessmen are there to be taxed, so he can name bridges and schools after himself and take credit for a phantom recovery.
People don’t change. Obama hasn’t since childhood. And the more we learn about President Obama’s childhood, the scarier he becomes.
The layers of deception, obstruction, and obfuscation are gradually being chipped away.
He didn't know who Barry was and only recognized him years later when he saw pictures of him from back in those days.
The truth will come out, it always does, sometimes it takes a while, but it will come out.
What the election of 08 told us was, people are mostly like ostrages with their heads in the sand, no, more like people plugged into the Matrix. We are doomed as a free and civil society...
...but the tremendous damage done to the United States in the meantime....
Not the problem. The problem, IMHO, is that he IS the sitting POTUS. The challenge: WTF do we do about it?
(1) Prevent a second term by getting just one (1) Republican Governor to demand a ruling on his status as a Natural Born Citizen by keeping him off (1) state ballot. Article II is either up or down. This simply must be decided now, especially since Republicans are making Jindal-Rubio noises, and neither of those two stalwarts is, imho, a Natural Born Citizen. Do we have a Constitution? Hello?
No one from GW to Mark Levin will discuss legitimacy: this 900-pound gorilla in the room. If one more elected Republican replies to my queries on the subject with, "...well, he was born in Hawaii ..." I may have to travel to DC and thrash some mealy-mouthed RINO SOB with my cane!
(2) Keep pounding the boys in the house to come up with a Program, a Plan, A Leader, and some kind of clue as to how they plan to halt, roll back, and eliminate the socialist agenda Obama has established.
Obama has a plan for 2012. He is going to blame the 10-year Depression we are spiralling into, on the Öbstructionist" Republicans. You know what? That could work.
Obama is only the manifestation of the electorate’s naivete. A majority of the public willing to install to the highest office of the land a man with an unvettted past and no serioues accomplishments or executive experience, all because he was cool (American Idolazation of our elections). I am just as concerned of half the country that chose to put their families and livelihoods in the hands of this fraud.
I hereby nominate your astute observations as “POST OF THE DAY”.
The US’s biggest problem with Barry is he looks at the world through a child’s eyes. His entire framing is done through the looking glass that was his childhood. This is The Lord of the Flies on Steroids.
Ping for later.
Yeah, right!
Maybe young Barry should been pen-pals with Amy Carter so they could have discussed "nukular non-perliveration."
There's the correct answer! And it all goes back to education ... and I'm talking school. When "they" took over the education system, radicalizing the teachers and the teachers unions, it gave them direct access to the kids. And the result we are seeing is part of a revolution (in the real sense of the word) that we are seeing now. Amazing, we've been "taken over" by our own people who were taught to "overthrow" the USA. Subtle, no bullets ... even more dangerous because most didn't see it coming.
But as another comment was made here ... OK, that's what it is ... now what do we do about it.
My favorite line.
Sounds familiar.
Pot smokers are not power hungry types. For someone to declare his lust for power while half baked is quite troubling. Scary.
Bobby Jindal born Baton Rouge, Louisiana on June 10th, 1971.
Marco Antonio Rubio, born May 28, 1971 Miami, FL
He becomes more pitiable, too. I'd like to hit "Rewind" and give the little boy a decent childhood.
Don’t know if this was mentioned before, but thought I bring it up. O’Reilly the other night, who imo has been light on O, made the comment “I don’t know who the hell this guy is”. After interviewing him and looking into his background as much as possible, O’Reilly seemed troubled. Maybe the truth teller is not that far away.
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