Posted on 03/23/2014 3:01:21 PM PDT by Seizethecarp
This Thursday, Mr. Obama will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican after a three-decade divergence with the church. By the late 1980s, the Catholic hierarchy had taken a conservative turn that de-emphasized social engagement and elevated the culture wars that would eventually cast Mr. Obama as an abortion-supporting enemy. Mr. Obama, who went on to find his own faith with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.s Trinity United Church of Christ, drifted from his youthful, church-backed activism to become a pragmatic politician and the president with a terrorist kill list. The meeting this week is a potential point of confluence.
A White House accustomed to archbishop antagonists hopes the president will find a strategic ally and kindred spirit in a pope who preaches a gospel of social justice and inclusion. Mr. Obamas old friends in the priesthood pray that Francis will discover a president freed from concerns about re-election and willing to rededicate himself to the vulnerable.
But the Vatican aware that Mr. Obama has far more to gain from the encounter than the pope does, and wary of being used for American political consumption warns that this will hardly be like the 1982 meeting at which President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II agreed to fight Communism in Eastern Europe.
As in many reunions, expectations, and the possibility for disappointment, run high.
As Mr. Obama helped expand the program from Catholic parishes to megachurches and Protestant congregations, he felt that need slaked by the prevailing black liberation theology, inspired by the civil rights movement and preached by African-American ministers like Mr. Wright of Trinity. The notion that Jesus delivered salvation to communities that expressed faith through good deeds suited Mr. Obamas instincts and perhaps his interests.
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"American Free Press" is a neo-Nazi, anti-Jewish source. It is (or was) run by Willis Carto and is the successor to the "Liberty Lobby" and its newspaper The Spotlight.
Nothing of Carto's belongs on Free Republic.
Lol I’m trying to picture this Grunhildah in my mind. He/she would be about right for 0 Fit right in to whatever mood 0 was in that night!
“Seems to me Barry was looking for a paycheck and something to do. As a young Choom Ganger, this fit the bill.”
Hmmmm...I wonder what Barry and the priest were smoking up on the roof? Seems rather out of the way for just a cigarette...
From the article:
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Mr. Obama had a small office with two cloudy glass-block windows on the ground floor of Holy Rosary, a handsome red brick parish on the South Side, where he would pop down the hall to the office of the Rev. William Stenzel, raise a phantom cigarette to his lips and ask, Want to go out for lunch? Besides sneaking smoke breaks with the priest on the roof, Mr. Obama listened to him during Mass.
As the presidents relations with Catholic leaders reached their nadir, Father Stenzel, Mr. Obamas old smoke-break friend, visited the White House. As they walked into the Oval Office, Mr. Obama joked to his staff that the priest had given him his first office in Chicago. Father Stenzel reminded him that his old surroundings were far humbler: The office I gave you had two rows of glass-block windows!
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I found another Finnish woman and numerous Indian women named Saila.
No AAs, yet...
I did a search on Saila “born” 1961 (as a first try to find one about Barry’s age) and found a Swedish Member of Riksdag (parliament), Saila Quicklund. She is blond and blue-eyed, and is VERY easy on the eyes. It might be a while before I can look into whether she was in Chicago in 1988...
http://www.riksdagen.se/en/Members-and-parties/Members/Ledamoter/Quicklund-Saila-0519740099915/
Maybe a FReeper got at pics can put her photo up...
It’s Sheila.
Near the bottom, he writes “Siene” and the bottom of the ‘S’ swings over , right into the top of the ‘i’.
In “Sheila”, he brings the bottom of the ‘S’ straight up the the top of the ‘h’, which he then brings straight down. The it comes back up to the right at a 45 degree angle. It then comes down and curves back up and loops around completing a squished ‘e’. A number of his lower case ‘e’ are like that.
If the vertical line at the right of the ‘S’ is not the start of an ‘h’ the what it it. If it’s a ‘G’, it’s a VERY strange ‘G’. Or a figure ‘8’?
The ‘a’ in ‘mail’ is not the same as the character in the disputed name. Look at the ‘a’ in ‘maddening’ and ‘political.’ He makes them the same way he maid the ‘a’ in ‘mailbox.’ Some of his ‘a’ he writes the normal way. That is, he starts at the top and goes counter-clockwise around until he hits the starting point and then he curves back down to the right, as in ‘wander’ and ‘painter.’
But, since he is left-handed, that is probably awkward for him, so he makes other of his ‘a’ by coming in from the bottom and going counter-clockwise more than all the way around, but just a bit past there, he changes direction and moves the pen into the next letter. As in ‘mailbox’, ‘maddening’, and ‘political.’
Now look again at the first ‘a’ in your ‘Gaila’. It is not all all like the ‘a’ in ‘mailbox.’ I comes in low from the left and loops all the way around, but doesn’t make that little hitch as he does in ‘mailbox.’ As far as I can tell, only one of his ‘e’, the second one in ‘seen’ looks like an the ‘a’ in ‘mailbox.’ They are smooth, while the ‘a’ often have the hitch. The one in ‘mailbox’ needs it since it has to go over to the right to start the ‘i’.
The little loop to the left of the ‘i’ in the name is clearly different from his letter ‘a’. It is ‘e’, which follows ‘h’.
Excuse my misspellings and incorrect words. I was typing as fast as I could so I didn’t lose my train of thought.
Then, I posted without proofreading, which was a dumb thing to do with a complex argument.
Sorry.
Thanks for the information- I was not familiar with that site, I actually found the article at texasconservativenews.com. I began having misgivings about the site after my post and then looking around there. I will not go back there again.
Soebarkah is queer.
So the the postcard from France was actually mailed from Spain? Look at the stamps.
I can see an “h” in-between the S and e.
I still see Saila.
Did you see the blond, blue-eyed Saila from Sweden? She is the same kind of Scandinavian recessive-type that Barry took to his High School prom, if you remember the photos in Time.
OK. Some of us who are inclined can look for Sheila born circa 1961 who was in Chicago in 1988 and the rest can continue to look for Saila...
No problem.
I’m sure New York Times reporter Jason Horowitz really understands the Catholic Church. That’s where anybody would go for an authentic analysis, right?
This is the paper supporting the pro-abortion, pro-gay “Nuns on a Bus,” the anti-Catholic advocacy group SNAP that took advantage of the (gay) priest scandal, and the multitudinous Planned Parenthood front organizations that have the word “Catholic” (not copyrightable, I guess) in their names, such as “Catholics for a Free Choice.”
Its all about fund raising. If zero looks good with the pope its X number of dollars into the regimes coffers all that count. Plus maybe buy a few more votes with hispanos.
drifted from his youthful, church-backed activism
I always thought they were referred to as mosques.
Of course, it would be crazy to search for Sheila due to the large numbers. It would also be crazy to search for Saila and Gaila since they don't exist. They are only the figment of incorrect handwriting analysis.
I realize that odds are the “S..la” person is somebody who never became anyone “important” enough to have a strong web presence and/or wikipedia article. Nevertheless, Sheila Nix and Sheila Simon were up and coming Illinois dems around the right time frame.
Of those two, Sheila Simon was born in 61 but is the much less likely possibility, because it looks as though the Land of Lincoln Legal Services where she would have worked in those days was downstate from Chicago. Also, she was already married to someone by else 1989, and I think the postcard was from ‘88.
Sheila Nix, however, has been heavily involved in the Obama machine and was a Chicago native. In her case, though, I haven’t yet gathered any of the basic details about her family background. As far as I know she too was already married by the late 80s. Or perhaps there’s a significant age difference between her and Barack.
Just getting some thoughts out there. I don’t personally feel convinced there are sordid skeletons lurking in the shows behind that minuscule reference to this name on the postcard. Still it’s nice to see more details come together about who Barack really was, instead of being left with only his “composite” sketches.
Oh, scratch Sheila Simon altogether. She was married in 1987.
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