Posted on 04/23/2011 11:35:56 AM PDT by upchuck
Two days ago, Matt Drudge linked to a new book by Jerome Corsi, unflinchingly titled Where’s the Birth Certificate? The book immediately leapt to number one on Amazon.com, where it has remained ever since. The media has shown its usual incredulity at the indisputable stupidity of the American people. How could so many people question President Obama’s birthplace? How could they wonder about his origins? Are they all simply racist?
The answer, of course, is that Americans are desperately seeking an answer to a simple question: why does President Obama appear to be so un-American? The term un-American here is not synonymous with anti-American (though Obama has been that on occasion); instead, it merely signifies that President Obama is unconcerned with typical American principles and traditions. He sees capitalism as selfish and evil, religion as dangerous and oppressive; he sees the Constitution as antiquated and entrepreneurialism as exploitative. He is the representative of the Fareed Zakaria ideology at work, celebrating the post-American world.
When America elects a president like this, many Americans begin wondering how it happened. There are always two answers to such difficult questions: the first is optimistically externally-oriented, while the second is realistically reflexive. It is far easier to believe that the problem of un-Americanism lies outside our borders, that within we are unified. Hence the oddly persistent belief that politics stops at the water’s edge, that our politicians unify around foreign policy. But that belief has been obsolete since the 1960s; hence the persistent outrage when certain politicians (see Pelosi, Nancy) travel abroad and then criticize their fellow American officeholders (see Bush, George W.). We like to think that if we hang together, we will not hang separately.
Thus the stubborn belief that President Obama is born outside the United States. If he was, the unspoken logic goes, we can understand where he picked up his un-American philosophy. He is not one of us – he is rather a member of the same global community that despises America and tolerates Islamism, that slams American consumerism and praises Chinese communism, that rips evangelical Christianity while ignoring Muslim-imposed clitorectomy. We need not worry about our domestic institutions, goes the line of thought – instead, we must focus on protecting ourselves from foreign infiltration.
More realistically, however, President Obama is the culmination of a century of foreign infiltration already in place. The turning of America’s institutions of higher education took place decades ago; it is too little too late to focus on such infiltration now. Beginning in the early 20th century, America’s colleges and universities were infiltrated by German thought, then thought to be the most sophisticated in the world. That school of thought, a merger of Hegelian utopianism and Marxist classism, quickly infected America’s halls of power. Theodore Roosevelt, always trendy, bought into the new “progressivism” with alacrity, jettisoning the Constitution and capitalism in the process. Bringing this perverse ideology to American shores, Teddy announced, “We of to-day who stand for the Progressive movement here in the United States are not wedded to any particular kind of machinery, save solely as means to the end desired.” This was the philosophy of incipient dictatorship. It was brought to its near-term apex under a college professor, Woodrow Wilson, who thought that the Constitution itself needed to be stripped away.
Even as Wilson and Roosevelt began implementing German philosophy in American government – with disastrous results including the decimation of growing American industries and a bizarre foreign policy focused on global institutions rather than American interests – Europeans abroad began to plan the next step of the American takeover. Members of the Frankfurt School, German philosophers who recognized that class conflict would not take place openly, traveled to the United States, where they proceeded to agitate for an even more extreme version of German Hegelian-Marxism.
Frankfurt School philosophers believed that Marxism had failed to produce widespread transnational class uprisings because societies were already too ensconced in a culture of capitalism. Culture and society themselves had to be destroyed in order to make way for a new brand of equality. And the first step toward such a revolution was destruction of traditional logic, destruction of traditional mores, and destruction of America’s homegrown culture. Men like Herbert Marcuse led the charge here, telling members of President Obama’s generation to make love, not war, and to fight the powers that be. America was cruel, and only by indoctrinating Americans in a new way of thinking could that cruelty be fought.
The philosophy of the Frankfurt School, making an alliance with trendy French post modernism, spread like wildfire through the academic world. Traditional history courses were torn down in favor of “queer” studies, black studies, Asian studies, women’s studies; language was deconstructed in order to remove its capitalistic foundations; traditional sexual mores were torn asunder in the name of “tolerance.”
President Obama was the result. He grew up abroad, to be sure, but he spent most of his educational career right here in the United States, indoctrinated in the traditions of the progressives and the Frankfurt School. Ironically enough, the biggest problem for America arises if President Obama was born here – because if he was, the problem of un-Americanism is now internal rather than external. Perhaps that is why so many Americans wonder about the birth certificate – they hope against hope that President Obama is a symptom of a foreign ill rather than a domestic one. No matter whether Jerome Corsi comes up with evidence of Obama’s foreign birth, however – it is clear that the problem of Obama-esque un-Americanism is now endemic to American culture herself. We have an ideological problem in our midst, and no amount of digging in Kenya and Indonesia is going to solve a problem that now starts right here.
The lamestream media have busted their asses trying to suppress the birther movement. Perhaps the rating of Mr Corsi's book says a lot? Perhaps the birther movement has more legs than the LSM ever imagined?
LOL. Huge backfire on the lapdog, sycophantic lamestream media.
Yes, and I don’t think the issue is driving Donald Trump, but Donald Trump is driving the issue. He has tapped into a part of the nations’ psyche by bringing up this bc thing.
“Obama sure doesn’t act much like an American, so maybe he isn’t one”
Not according to Islam.
The only religion he ‘hates’ is Christianity.
He seems to have an inordinate affiliation with Islam. In fact, he seems to love it.
Are they all simply racist?
As I tell people when they call me a racist because I cannot stand Hussein Obama nor his policies,
“Hey, I do not like the “white” half of Obama either.
Actually the question is, if it’s such a non-issue.
Why doesn’t the POTUS produce his COLB.
And to a slightly lesser extents.
Why does the media actively rush to the defense of the PTOUS instead of doing exhaustive research.
Why did the governor of Hawaii swear to produce the COLB ‘as a matter of prinicipal’ only to rescind his statement after failing to produce the COLB?
Why did Hawaii feel the need to enact a policy of no longer releasing the COLBs of its citizen only after Obamas’ eligibility came into question?
While Shapiro makes many valid points in his essay, in the above statement, he flat out misses the mark! In fact, he is deceitful! He is attempting to distract his reader from the fact that HE** FAILED** TO DO HIS JOB!!!
Also, Shapiro, by now, should KNOW that this is NOT about a birth certificate, even though that is part of the question. It is a SIMPLE question of Obama’s natural born citizenship!
While Americans are concerned that Obama is unAmerican and part of the domestically generated education indoctrination system, the simple question remains! Is Obama a natural born citizen???
Is Shapiro stupid, or is he maliciously throwing out the red herring of Obama’s unAmericanism merely to distract the reader from Shapiro's own neglect of the important question of Obama’s natural born citizenship?
**Obama claims that his father was a Kenyan and British national. ( Alarm bells go off here! Where was Shapiro?)
** It appears that he was adopted by a foreign national from Indonesia. ( More alarm bells. Where was Shapiro?)
** His Kenyan grandmother claims that she was a witness to his birth in KENYA! Multiple Kenyan officials have on occasion claimed he was born in Kenya. ( Huh? Where was Shapiro?)
** Obama posts a COLB that appears to be an obvious forgery. Also, it is a known fact that these COLBs were given to people who are known to have been born in foreign counties. ( The smoke alarm is ringing loudly, now. Where was Shapiro?)
** Obama spends millions of tax and private dollars sending government and private attorneys around the nation to prevent the release of COMMON documents that ordinary Americans provide routinely! ( The conservative media continues to sleep through the alarms. Where was Shapiro?)
** Obama sends a decorated officer to prison rather than release his long form birth certificate. ( Most of the conservative media remains in a coma. Where was Shapiro?)
Mr. Shapiro,.......That is NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT the question!!!!
The question is: “Is Barack Obama a natural born citizen?????!!!!”
Mr. Shapiro, you have ignored this important question for THREE YEARS!!!!!! This article of yours is merely an attempt to cover your naked body with fig leaves. For financial, social, and political reasons you failed to do your job! SHAME on you!
The deflection continues.
Even if Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama had been birthed in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House he is NOT a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN.
born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York, NY (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Frederick Christ Trump, born October 11, 1905 in Queens, NY, died June 1999 in Queens, NY
Mary Ann MacLeod, born May 10, 1912 in SCOTLAND, died August 7, 2000 in Queens, NY. Arrived in US October 5, 1935. Naturalized as a US Citizen March 10, 1942.
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of his birth (Meets the Jus Sanguinis Requirement)
Donald Trump is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN unlike Comrade Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama.
I recall reading some crap about Kenyan officials stealing his laptop, and something else happenned and then something else happenned, and he never could hold up the smoking gun....I hope I'm wrong though.
That question has a very simple answer!
Had Barry Soetoro been a Republican, the TPM would have been all over it and solved before you could blink an eye!!
We would have had a plethora of Pulitzer a-la the "Woodward/Bernstein/Deep Throat" type candidates falling and crawling all over one another digging deep!!!
this was posted on drudge as well,
are they talking about the one posted on line?
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA_BIRTH_CERTIFICATE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-04-23-09-58-07
Saw George Stepawhatshisface on ABC’s morning program the other day “interviewing” Michelle Bachmann...Out of the box George pulls a copy of Obama’s COLB and demands Bachmann admit that’s all The One needs to be POTUS.
Depressing thing is she agreed. She seemed almost apologetic on behalf of stupid conservatives who want to see the real LFBC.
I will never vote for this woman.
Yup, Bachmann blew it in so many ways, especially saying that she would take the President at his word. The fact that she went out of her way to raise the BC issue in the first place, and then caved immediately when challenged on it shows that she did not do her homework and was merely parroting what others were saying about the BC. Staphalococcus then handed Bachmann her arse. Trump, on the other hand, handed Staphie his arse. This is why Trump is getting support and weak, unprepared conservatives are scewing the pooch.
Interesting history lesson about TR and Woodrow Wilson trying to subvert the Constitution.
This publication should have led the eligibility fight, but didn't.
Interesting, thank you, I concur with you.
” Why did Hawaii feel the need to enact a policy of no longer releasing the COLBs of its citizen only after Obamas’ eligibility came into question? “
Best question of all.
So,,, when junior was born, he had, at best, dual citizenships; US, and British. Then he’s adopted by Soetoro, and gains Indonesian citizenship. As Indonesia does not accept dual citizenships, much less triple citizenships,, junior loses he British and US citizenships. He’s then a citizen of Indonesia. Then he gets shuffled off to Grampa and Gramma, in Hawaii. What steps were taken to reclaim his US “Papers?” Are any steps required? That,, I don’t know. Perhaps someone here can tell me.
Then there’s the name thing,,, Is he BHO,Jr? Steve Dunhame? Barry Soetoro? Did he legally change his name? It’s all so confusing!
I always tell people I hate his policies and the fact that he is black is just a bonus. The fact is that the Race card is hardly effective anymore. Simply put it in their face. They are the racists. They are the elite who believe that blacks can not get ahead without a hand out. They are the believers in Affirmative Action and quotas.
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