Who is this "Chosen One"?
Posted on 07/13/2011 12:27:41 PM PDT by mojito
...But there was never anything silly, nor light-hearted, nor casual, about Barack Obama's efforts to keep the public's eyes from the basic facts of his life, from birth to his candidacy for president. On the contrary, this opacity is a deliberate policy. Why? The presumptive answer, absent testimony from those involved, is to ensure that real facts interfere as little as possible with the image and narrative that he and his associates have carefully crafted for him. Distinguishing between reality and that narrative would require above all a skeptical attitude, sure to be characterized by Democrats and the media in the most derogatory terms.
According to hagiography, Barack Obama was born to a hippy girl from an insignificant family and raised in poor circumstances, out of which he rose through brilliance. Yet his haughty demeanor, his stilted language when off the teleprompter, his cultural likes and dislikes, bespeak an upbringing in an environment at once so upscale and so leftist that it makes him almost a foreigner to ordinary Americans....
Consistent with the Barack Obama we know, however, are his real family, his real upbringing, and his real choices of profession and associates. His mother's parents, who raised him, seem to have been cogs in the U.S. government's well-heeled, well-connected machine for influencing the world, whether openly ("gray influence") or covertly ("black operations"). His mother spent her life and marriages, and birthed her children, working in that machine. For paradigms of young Barack's demeanor, proclivities, opinions, language, and attitudes one need look no further than the persons who ran the institutions that his mother and grandparents served—e.g., the Ford Foundation, the United States Information Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency—....It is here, with these people and institutions, that one should begin to unravel the unknowns surrounding him.
(Excerpt) Read more at claremont.org ...
“Obama is as close as one could imagine to a made-to-order front man for contemporary, upscale, shy-about-itself, nouveau socialism. From his earliest age, he shaped his dreams about himself to act out a character wholly fictitious, namely a black American from a humble background who rose up out of brilliance and merit...”
THIS is what I never understood. IF in fact “O” has such a ‘salt of the earth’ background… it is a very potent political advantage and nearly insurmountable challenge to opponents. Nothing on earth could or should interfere with his popularizing and capitalizing on this kind of ‘pedigree’ as much and as often as possible. What better way to embarrass the ‘Conservative’ boogey men that Liberals so love to demonize?
In fact… “O” CANNOT exploit this kind of VERY wholesome and very American ‘rags to riches’ yarn ... not with nostalgia (real or trumped up), not with school photos, not with family photos, not with testimonials of friends and colleagues, not with school records, etc.... these things DO NOT EXIST. This has all been scrubbed from the record of his ‘journey’ to the WH. “O” has a personal backgrould which is hermetically sealed and sanitized. The only peak we got into the sewer from which he launched himself was the video of his ‘Rev.’ Wright: Mr. ‘Goddam America!’
Mr. Nobody from Nowhere! That is our ‘President’
I downloaded the PDF. This is great reading.
There is a link at right where this essay can be downloaded in Adobe.PDF format, in case anyone is interested.
I’ve only read a portion of it, but the article seems to argue that Obama has a CIA connection. We know that Bush-42 had a CIA connection and therefore Bush-44 had one. It has been speculated that Clinton had a CIA connection.
I am getting tired of the CIA selecting our presidents. Is Hillary next in line?
Like everything I’va read by Proffesor Codevilla, this is concise, magisterial, and also full of felicitous, almost off-handedly brilliant phraseology.
I happened to pick up The American Spectator one day about 6 months ago at B&N, and started reading his great 18-page essay, which has since been published as a small paperback,
with additions of key Founding Father documents in the appendix. I was so thrilled by that essay, I told everyone I knew to read it. THen I found it reprinted in its entirety (I hope it’s till there)
on the TAS website. I will post a link later in this thread if I can find it.
A few days after I read it I turned on Rush’s program on the radio, and he was reading large chunks of it aloud to his listeners.
I must say, Codevilla is my new intellectual hero: he seems to have a relentlessly objective, eagle-eye view of our current crisis
better than anyone’s and delivers it with absolute authority.
“Is Hillary next in line?”
Not if Leon Panetta has anytbing to say about it.
I don’t think they know each other or have even met.
(SARC)
The guy is a joke.
But the MSM will always love him..........
Great read!
PING!
Here’s the link to The Ruling Class. Looking it up I was shocked to see it wss from TAS exactly a YEAR ago,not 6 months ago.
Hope the link works; if not just google
Angelo Codevilla Ruling Class
and the TAS essay is all right there:
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print#
It is worth reading. Long, detailed, convoluted .. but what ISN’T about these secretive, scheming cretins and their radical paths and affiliations? They are responsible .. they created and executed all the lies, smokescreens and treachery for which we suffer today and for decades going foward. Damn them !!!
Thaa aank YOO !
McCain should have jumped all over the arrogant crypto-commie with a comeback like: "I spent six years in a communist prison. Communism has nothing to do with sharing. It has everything to do with taking, by force. And killing."
A big reason Zero sits in the White House on the verge of collapsing the US economy is because McCain never took the gloves off, except to attack those on his right.
Will read later
Outstanding, I never knew.
bflr
Good read.
The Chosen One (Who is 0bama Really?) - Must Read
Thanks, DJ MacWoW.
None of what is there will be a surprise to the Constitutionalists. :-)
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