I’ll wait a bit in this Epic Rant before I really say anything mildly controversial. For instance, I’m not going to get into this birth certificate thing. At one point I was pretty much convinced that Obama was born in Hawaii and was, therefore, eligible to serve as president. Now, after watching this man openly and blatantly lie and work so hard to hide the truth from the American people (Fast & Furious, Benghazi, IRS), I’m not as sure as I once was. So … for now I’ll just leave the birth certificate stuff along. It’s enough to say that Barack 0bama presents the greatest threat to the survival of our Republic since the War Between the States,[1] regardless of where he was born.
Simply put, Obama was the least-qualified man ever to be elected to President of the United States. His is not a lifetime of notable accomplishments. Maybe that’s why he has gone to such great lengths to maintain the privacy of his college records. Editor of the Harvard Law Review? To my knowledge Obama is the first such editor to occupy that post without ever writing one law review article. Now just why do you think that happened? Could it possibly be that it was more political correctness than recognition of accomplishment at work? Sort of like that Nobel Peace Prize he won.
I particularly like these Obama myrmidons who like to remind us that he was a Constitutional Law professor. Uhhhhhh … not really. He was a lecturer and a senior lecturer for most of his tenure at the University of Chicago Law School. Only by stretching the definition could you call a lecturer a “Constitutional Law Professor.” Even then, most of the courses he taught centered on civil rights and the Constitution.
Even Obama’s elections to public office showed no great crowd-pleasing electoral achievement. Right up to the presidential election of 2008 0bama pretty much won every electoral contest by using lawyers and operatives to dig up dirt on his opponents until they were forced to withdraw.
Here, in a nutshell, is what I think about 0bama’s American pedigree. This, to me, is our 44th president: Obama was born to a Kenyan male and an American woman who despised America. In his father’s absence he was raised by a mother who, as I said, harbored a deeply felt animosity toward our country. Obama’s father was a dedicated Communist, as was his mother. After his mother’s marriage to Obama went south 0bama’s mother met and then married a man named Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo and moved to Indonesia with her son. At this point 0bama had spent almost no time living in the United States except (possibly) for a short period of time in Hawaii. 0bama’s mother, not being a fan of American capitalism, eventually became disgusted with her husband’s Soetoro’s associations with American businessmen. She soon decided that her son, Barack, needed to be shielded from the increasingly pro-American attitude of her husband. So, to keep her son from hearing favorable comments about the evil American capitalist system, she shipped him off to Hawaii to live with maternal grandparents; two people who shared quite a bit of the animosity toward America held by Barack’s mother.
OK .. now let’s deal with Hawaii. Yes, it’s a state, but it’s a state like no other. You need to get over this idea that being born and raised in Hawaii makes you anything like someone born and raised in Michigan, Florida, California … even Alaska.
. My point here, and one you should be aware of as you consider Barack Obama, is my experience has taught me that Hawaiians were then -- and they are now -- Hawaiians first and Americans second. Many native Hawaiians consider the United States to be essentially a conquering power, a colonial power. This past summer, as I traveled away from the Maui resort area and back into areas inhabited by natives, I noticed quite a few signs of anti-national fervor. There were hand painted signs on less-traveled roads proclaiming your entry into, as I remember, Hawaiian federation territory or the Republic of Hawaii. There were far more Hawaiian and native flags flying than there were American flags. In fact, I cannot remember one single American flag except those I saw flying at resort hotels and on government property. Now I’m not trying to be negative toward the Hawaiian people. I love the place (will probably make another visit within the next few months) and I love the people. They’re really lovely and as friendly as any I’ve met anywhere. But they are, as I said, Hawaiians FIRST.
Think about this:
- Hawaii is the only state with its own native language.
- Hawaii is the only state with its own alphabet (12 letters, by the way, or 13 if you count the apostrophe).
- Hawaii is the only state that once had a King and a Queen
Are you getting the picture here? Hawaii, 0bama’s likely birthplace and the state where he grew into young adulthood, is unlike any other state, and growing up in Hawaii is nothing like growing up in any of the other 49. Are you eligible to run for President of the United States? Yes. Do you have the same cultural and educational background as pretty much any citizen educated in the lower 48? No. Not even close. On paper, Obama is an American. In his mind when he came to California in 1979 to attend college at Occidental, he was pretty much a foreign student,[3] a foreign student with a lifelong resentment toward the country he would one day “lead.”
So .. recap. 0bama’s father despised America as a colonialist power, not unlike the United Kingdom which colonized his father’s Kenyan homeland. Obama’s mother and her parents felt the same way. Obama grew up in two cultures, Indonesia and the post-war Hawaii, that pretty much resented America. This is why I have repeatedly said that when 0bama first arrived on the American mainland in 1979 it was, for all practical purposes, the first time 0bama had experienced life in the United States. And just what was that experience? He started life in America as a freshman at a liberal arts college in California for two years. His social life at Occidental, by his own admission, centered around Marxist student groups and Communist professors. Don’t believe me? Read his books.
After two years at Occidental Obama transferred to Columbia in New York, arguably one of the most anti-American left-wing colleges in the country. Columbia, you might recall, actually hired, as an adjunct professor, a far left radical named Kathy Boudin. Does the name ring a bell? Boudin was convicted in 1984 for felony murder for her role, as a member of the Weather Underground, in the robbery of a Brinks armored truck in 1981. Two police officers and a security guard were murdered in that robbery. Boudin was released from prison in 2003 and is now at Columbia, Obama’s alma mater. I bring Kathy Boudin to your attention to give you an idea of the type of undergraduate education Obama received.[4]
So we now have a president who had never, right up until he came to the mainland as a college student, celebrated Independence Day or, for all we know, recited the Pledge of Allegiance. 0bama simply did not grow up as a typical American child … baseball, apple pie and Chevys. America was every bit as strange and foreign to 0bama in 1979 as it would have been to any immigrant from Indonesia or Kenya, save for the miniscule influences of six or seven years in Hawaii.
And just who was 0bama when he arrived at Occidental college in 1979? According to some who encountered him during those years – fellow students who hung around with 0bama and his circle – 0bama was a self-proclaimed Marxist dedicated to the cause of a violent overthrow of the government of the United States and putting a Marxist government in its place. One such fellow student, John C. Drew[5], was, like Obama, also a dedicated Marxist. There was one difference. Drew had been raised in America, unlike 0bama, and knew that the American people would simply not participate in a violent Marxist revolution. If America was to become a communist worker’s paradise he convinced the young Obama it would have to be done politically.
Here’s something I wish would really sink in with most Americans. First – you do know that Obama really never held a job – pretty much in his entire life – before he decided to enter the political arena. OK .. there was that six months he spent as some sort of financial analysis in the private sector … so there’s your job history. Most high school graduates in this country not only have more private sector work experience than Obama, but they know more about our Constitution than 0bama did at the time he was supposedly teaching it.
Now … here, really, is a nifty little fact I want to sink in here. When most politicians decide to announce that they’re going to enter the political fray, they’re very careful to chose a place to make that announcement that will give them the most political bang for their buck. They will chose a venue that in some way demonstrates or fortifies their own particular political and philosophical personality. Maybe they’ll be standing in front of a group of veterans at the local VFW, or in front of some police officers at the FOP headquarters. Maybe they’ll stand in front of a local school to emphasize their dedication to education. So where did 0bama chose to make his coming-out speech? He chose the living room of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. He chose the living room of two convicted anti-American Marxist terrorists. He chose the living room of someone who actually bombed government sites in Washington DC. By choosing that location for his announcement he was telling the State of Illinois just what he was and what he believed. It didn’t matter, though, because the constituency he was romancing felt pretty much the same way about this country that he did. He even enrolled in a church with a rabidly anti-American pastor (you remember Jeremiah Wright, don’t you?) to give him the credibility he needed with the voters whose support he sought.
0bama choosing the living room of a convicted anti-American terrorist to announce his entry into politics would be much the same thing as a white Southern candidate making his announcement at a KKK rally. 0bama, though, got away with it because, as a black candidate, he was pretty much untouchable. You don’t want to question or criticize Obama … that would be raaaaaacist!
So .. here we are. We now have a president who has actually admitted that he would be more than happy to honor his oath and promise to “faithfully execute” the laws of the United States .. if only the Republicans would pass the laws he wants and get rid of the ones he doesn’t want. But … since those evil Republicans won’t cooperate, he’ll just have to go ahead and do what he wants without the participation of the legislative branch. These are the actions of a despot .. the actions of a tyrant, a thug. The actions of someone dedicated to the destruction of American capitalism and the imposition of a government mandated and controlled economy in its place.
There … feel good about the future of our country now? Well, you shouldn’t.
(To be continued …. Pester me until I write some more!)
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[1] I don’t use the term “civil war” to describe this episode because it is factually incorrect. A civil war is a battle between two factions to gain control of the government. The South was not trying to gain control of the United States government. The Confederacy was trying to secede and establish its own government. Hence “War Between the States.”
[2] Do you find it rather odd that we still, 70 years after that attack, refer to it as the “Japanese (Sneak) attack on Pearl Harbor,” but we don’t use the word “Muslim” or “Islamic” when we refer to the attacks on New York and Washington DC on 9/11?
[3] Yes … I’ve familiar with the charge that Obama applied to Occidental as a foreign student and was accepted on that basis. For some reason the records that would establish this one way or the other haven’t been made available.
[4] I would also remind you that a huge percentage, perhaps a majority, of our most prominent American journalists went to the Columbia School of Journalism. You wonder where the leftist slant comes from? Well there you go!
[5] Dr. John C. Drew is now a political scientist and spends a good deal of his time trying to warn the people of American about Obama.
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