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The Amateur by Ed Klein
Personal Liberty Alerts ^ | 7/20/12 | Self

Posted on 07/20/2012 7:17:55 AM PDT by Jerrybob

Ed Klein told nearly 2,000 conservatives and libertarians who jammed the main ballroom at FreedomFest last week several shocking stories he heard while conducting the nearly 200 interviews that formed the basis of his bestselling book, The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House. But none was more gripping than what he learned during his three-hour interview with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s longtime pastor in Chicago.

“At first I had no interest in talking to Rev. Wright,” Klein told us. “But several African-Americans I spoke with said he had a story I had to hear.” Somewhat to his surprise, Wright not only agreed to meet with Klein but gave him permission to record the interview.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amateur; bho; edklein; jeremiahwright; obama
Excellent book. I've read it twice, may go back through it again.
1 posted on 07/20/2012 7:17:57 AM PDT by Jerrybob
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To: Jerrybob

so what is the big secret


2 posted on 07/20/2012 7:22:08 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Jerrybob
Go to the link to read the rest of this interview. Scary. Personal Liberty.
3 posted on 07/20/2012 7:27:50 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic (ABO)
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To: yldstrk

When BO first came to Rev. Wright, he was “steeped in islam” according to the Rev. BO and MO are not “church people” according to the Rev.

The Rev. was offered $150K to dummy up during BO’s Campaignulation. This one is not news.

Bill Clinton called BO an amateur, tried to get Hillary to run against him this year.


4 posted on 07/20/2012 7:32:50 AM PDT by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: Steely Tom

thank you


5 posted on 07/20/2012 7:34:37 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Jerrybob

There’s something wrong with the time signature. I’m writing this at 10:223 EDT on my computer clock.


6 posted on 07/20/2012 9:09:26 AM PDT by imardmd1
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To: imardmd1
My post #6 was at 10:23 AM EDT. The tag read:

6 posted on Fri Jul 20 2012 12:09:26 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) by imardmd1

Neither the hour at EDT nor the minutes was correct.

It is now 10:31 AM EDT on my computer clock.

7 posted on 07/20/2012 9:16:50 AM PDT by imardmd1
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To: yldstrk; Fred Nerks; LucyT; sickoflibs; SandRat
(Rev) Wright told Klein that Barack Obama was “steeped in Islam” when he first met him, but knew little about Christianity. “Barack and Michelle are not church people,” Wright said. “They didn’t even send their daughters to Sunday School.”

Obama's secret life is strange enough a radical black minister finds it odd...

8 posted on 07/20/2012 9:42:41 AM PDT by GOPJ (Political correctness is simply George Orwell's Newspeak by a non-threatening name. FR- Bernard Marx)
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To: Jerrybob

It is a better read than I expected. I am only half way through, however, there is only so much about the subject character that I can tolerate without digestive problems.


9 posted on 07/20/2012 9:50:30 AM PDT by KC Burke (Plain Conservative opinions and common sense correction for thirteen years.)
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To: yldstrk; Liz
Wright told Klein that after the controversy erupted, he was approached by one of Obama’s closest friends and offered $150,000 if he would promise to keep his mouth shut during the 2008 election. When Wright refused, he said he got a phone call a few days later from the candidate himself, asking to meet with him privately in some “secure location.”

“I told him we didn’t need to meet in a ‘secure location,’” Wright told Klein. “I said he could just come to my home. After all, he’d been there before at least a hundred times.”

Obama wanted a 'secure location' because he feared his own minister might tape him. This is how members of organized crime families and spys act - it's NOT how honest citizen act.

How would the suck-ups at the New York Times and Washington Post react if Romney met with his minister and offered him a hundred and fifty THOUSAND dollars to keep quiet? I suspect they're cover that story - for the next 5 months. When it's their boy, they keep quiet. Obama doesn't have to pay off the New York Times - they 'don't snitch' for free. eff 'em.

10 posted on 07/20/2012 9:57:40 AM PDT by GOPJ (Political correctness is simply George Orwell's Newspeak by a non-threatening name. FR- Bernard Marx)
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