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 ...
I just finished reading it. Some of it is convoluted for sure but Kurtz’s book sounds like a must read. Not sure what to make of the CIA stuff, but part of the CIA IS a festering fountain of leftwing ideology. I never thought that I would ever live in an America that thought communism was a viable alternative to freedom! Yes....damn them all!
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Thanks for the ping. A most amazing article.
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I do believe that .. I think the CIA has been operating for decades at cross purposes, for whatever reason the brainiacs thought they could manipulate. They can be very, very dangerous, and the oldtime civil servants seem to be able to just be arbitrary and clandestine in their manipulations.
I pray Petraeus is for US all the way, and can work some small wedge into that bureaucracy and to unveil and end the skullduggery that hurts us so insidiously.
God knows, he’s aware of their despicable leaks of military intel and operations and the harm they’ve done. Pray for our troops.
EXACTLY!
The greeting photo suggests that Dunham may well have been one of these, and hence that the Kenyan did not meet Dunham's daughter, Ann, in a classroom. This would fit the chronology: Classes started on September 26. Ann was pregnant by early November. Obama was housed at the University of Hawaii's East-West Center facility funded by the Asia Foundation, itself funded by CIA.
Interesting! Valid? Anybody on here have any knowledge of this sort of thing?
I am confused about the CIA. What were they trying to do? Lefties are OK as long as they are not Russians? I would like someone to explain this.
"black" American is artificial. Neither genes nor experience equips him for the role. Yet he practiced the speech cadence, the walk, and the aggrieved-but-proudly-restrained attitude well enough to pass for one if you don't look too closely.
EXACTLY!
The greeting photo suggests that Dunham may well have been one of these, and hence that the Kenyan did not meet Dunham's daughter, Ann, in a classroom. This would fit the chronology: Classes started on September 26. Ann was pregnant by early November. Obama was housed at the University of Hawaii's East-West Center facility funded by the Asia Foundation, itself funded by CIA.
Interesting! Valid? Anybody on here have any knowledge of this sort of thing?
I am confused about the CIA. What were they trying to do? Lefties are OK as long as they are not Russians? I would like someone to explain this.
"black" American is artificial. Neither genes nor experience equips him for the role. Yet he practiced the speech cadence, the walk, and the aggrieved-but-proudly-restrained attitude well enough to pass for one if you don't look too closely.
Yup. But FReepers have been talking the CIA angle for awhile. We knew. I know you've seen that research too.
The weapons available to Obama, The Justice Department, CIA, government run media, must be diminishing as his tenure fades and America's international stature weakens. No one should forget what a criminal justice department was permitted, even by the president for whom it worked, to do to Scooter Libby, prosecuting him with the full public assistance of a compliant press, after a confession had been proffered by Dick Armitage working for Colin Powell.
Almost all current and former intelligence agents know about these connections. Codevilla didn't mention John Brennan, Deputy CIA Director, who has been at Obama’s elbow for five or more years, or old Communist sympathizer Leon Panetta, first at CIA and now Sec Def. Codevilla he has compiled a rationale for Obama’s motivations about a class of society with which Codevilla was connected, but with few of us have any direct experience.
I had not thought about Cord Meyer for several decades, and would never have made the connection. He retired from the CIA in 1977, but Codevilla's mention caused bells to ring. I hope Codevilla expands his analysis into a book, or collection of articles, because it will connect many others, not necessarily attempting to foment revolution, but whose behavior has been certainly constrained by what and who they know, and what roles they have performed in the past.
What seems to be taking shape is that Obama’s is a presidency shaped by a powerful faction with strong connections, if not its origin, in our CIA.
FReepers have been investigating, as much as they can, the CIA angle for a long time.
bttt
It would probably be very instructive to comb through some of the old FReeper archives on the matter one of these days. One thing is certain..the 20% of Americans who identify with left-wing communism and marxism mean to force the majority of this country to accept their ‘plans’ for the United States by force if neccessary. I’ve never seen it this bad in all of my 50 years on this planet.
This is a BRILLIANT ARTICLE.
Nothing less, it should be required reading for EVERYONE.
Wow. Those of you already familiar with Angelo Codevilla will hardly be surprised by the depth of his insights or the breadth of his knowledge. And yet, he has captured the essence of Barack Obama in quite a unique fashion, by reference to the universe in which he was raised, the (known) facts of his upbringing and painstakingly logical suppositions beyond that which we can know for certain.
All of which leads to a brilliant summation in which Obama is confirmed to be that which many of us have long known: an artificial man of rootless parentage, radical influences, and intellectual pretension; one whose emotional attachment to the country he now leads is as superficial as the campaign that helped elect him.
I think the first tip off that FReepers got were Ann Dunhams connections to CIA funded projects. When it was offered as a possibility they were pooh-poohed as being nuts and conspiracy theorists. They persevered and found little Timmy Geithner’s Daddy and stuff started adding up.
Loved this:
since he seems to have been reading from a teleprompter all his life, and since words certifiably his own are both few and opaque, it is most fruitful as well as relevant for us to focus on whom and what he has been following.
Scary....very scary.
We'd better get a true American back in the executive leadership role, or the stain will finish us off.
This would explain why no one in a position of power is inclined to investigate zerO.
Thanks DJ!!
Will have to save for later.
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