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The Chosen One (Who is Obama Really?) - Must Read
Claremont Review of Books ^ | July 1, 2011 | Angello M. Codevilla

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.

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Groundbreaking.

Read the whole thing.

1 posted on 07/13/2011 12:27:44 PM PDT by mojito
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To: mojito

His use of the phrase: ‘folks who.......’ tells me all I need to know.

We are ‘folks who fit into little boxes’ - in his world, we are not individuals but samples, specimens, categorized by income, race and usefulness.


2 posted on 07/13/2011 12:32:44 PM PDT by sodpoodle
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To: mojito

PFL


3 posted on 07/13/2011 12:34:08 PM PDT by Batman11 (Obama's poll numbers are so low the Kenyans are claiming he was born in the USA!)
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To: mojito

ping


4 posted on 07/13/2011 12:34:35 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: mojito

Wow! I am reading this now. BTTT!


5 posted on 07/13/2011 12:38:53 PM PDT by defconw
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To: mojito

It’s very good. Recently someone I thought I respected described Obama to me as a “disadvantaged black kid” from Hawaii. I could NOT believe the ignorance! I have forwarded the article, of course!


6 posted on 07/13/2011 12:41:20 PM PDT by browniexyz
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To: mojito

thanks for the post


7 posted on 07/13/2011 12:44:15 PM PDT by all the best
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To: mojito

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8 posted on 07/13/2011 12:45:07 PM PDT by PMAS
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To: mojito

bttt


9 posted on 07/13/2011 12:47:36 PM PDT by deweyfrank
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To: Billthedrill

Interesting to see what someone from an Intelligence background thinks.


10 posted on 07/13/2011 12:53:56 PM PDT by Publius
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To: mojito

very interesting reading


11 posted on 07/13/2011 12:54:49 PM PDT by Mr. K (CAPSLOCK! -Unleash the fury! [Palin/Bachman 2012- unbeatable ticket])
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To: Nachum

armchair reading ping


12 posted on 07/13/2011 12:55:40 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Democrats: debt, dependence and derision)
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To: mojito

Seems we have a nasty habit of educating OUR Enemies.


13 posted on 07/13/2011 1:01:16 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date that will live in Infamy.)
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To: mojito

mark


14 posted on 07/13/2011 1:01:38 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: mojito

Outstanding article. Thanks for posting it.


15 posted on 07/13/2011 1:02:57 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: mojito

bttt


16 posted on 07/13/2011 1:09:32 PM PDT by PogySailor (The ruling class will not go down easily. And neither will their paid hacks.)
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To: Loud Mime

bump for a closer read this evening...


17 posted on 07/13/2011 1:10:47 PM PDT by pgkdan (Time for a Cain Mutiny!)
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19 posted on 07/13/2011 1:16:07 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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"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, and who yearns to draw all of America's low-born (plus the rest of mankind) up through the same paths. But he is none of that. Equally imaginary is his vaunted understanding of and sympathy for foreign cultures. A typical multiculturalist, Obama speaks no language other than a peculiar version of English. His native language, loves, and hates are common to some of the most leftist elements of the current American ruling class."

"That class knows about America only that it must be changed, and looks at the vast majority of Americans the way carpenters look at warped pieces of lumber. Barack Obama is neither more nor less than its product and agent."

Add to that the fact that Obama is a classic, text book example of a malignant narcissist. He is a man with no real self-assurance hence always afraid of criticism, a pathological liar with no conscience, and possessing absolutely no empathy for anyone. He is a hollow, pliable imitation of a man who is without courage and unable to function without applause and adoration. This makes him susceptible to and easily manipulated by those who use him for their own goals while pretending to adore him...as long as they keep pretending.

20 posted on 07/13/2011 1:16:30 PM PDT by CitizenM (He who is silent is understood to consent)
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