SubscribeCo-Workers: Obama Inflated His Resume
It has been noted by Charles Krauthammer and others that very few people have stepped forward to vouch for Barack Obama.
Indeed, there would seem to be an especially conspicuous absence of witnesses to the years after graduated from Columbia and before he moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer.
Well, it turns out that one of his co-workers, Dan Armstrong, has in fact written about Mr. Obama during those days. And while he is an admitted fan of Obama’s, he claims that he has inflated his resume considerably.
Others who worked with Obama at Business International have subsequently chimed in.
First, Mr. Obama’s version as presented in from Dreams From My Father, pp 55-6:
CHAPTER SEVEN
… And so, in the months leading up to graduation, I wrote to every civil rights organization I could think of, to any black elected official in the country with a progressive agenda, to neighborhood councils and tenant rights groups. When no one wrote back, I wasn’t discouraged. I decided to find more conventional work for a year, to pay off my student loans and maybe even save a little bit. I would need the money later, I told myself. Organizers didn’t make any money; their poverty was proof of their integrity.
Eventually a consulting house to multinational corporations agreed to hire me as a research assistant. Like a spy behind enemy lines, I arrived every day at my mid-Manhattan office and sat at my computer terminal, checking the Reuters machine that blinked bright emerald messages from across the globe. As far as I could tell I was the only black man in the company, a source of shame for me but a source of considerable pride for the company’s secretarial pool. They treated me like a son, those black ladies; they told me how they expected me to run the company one day…
Nevertheless, as the months passed, I felt the idea of becoming an organizer slipping away from me. The company promoted me to the position of financial writer. I had my own office, my own secretary, money in the bank. Sometimes, coming out of an interview with Japanese financiers or German bond traders, I would catch my reflection in the elevator doors-see myself in a suit and tie, a briefcase in my hand-and for a split second I would imagine myself as a captain of industry, barking out orders, closing the deal, before I remembered who it was that I had told myself I wanted to be and felt pangs of guilt for my lack of resolve.
Then one day, as I sat down at my computer to write an article on interest-rate swaps, something unexpected happened. Auma called. I had never met this half sister; we had written only intermittently…
[A] few months after Auma called, I turned in my resignation at the consulting firm and began looking in earnest for an organizing job…
We are supposed to believe that “something happened” and the rest is history.
Here, however, is a somewhat different perspective on Obama’s halcyon days as a “spy behind enemy lines,” from a site called Analyze This:
Barack Obama Embellishes His Resume
July 9th, 2005
[by Dan Armstrong]
Don’t get me wrong - I’m a big fan of Barack Obama, the Illinois freshman senator and hot young Democratic Party star. But after reading his autobiography, I have to say that Barack engages in some serious exaggeration when he describes a job that he held in the mid-1980s. I know because I sat down the hall from him, in the same department, and worked closely with his boss. I can’t say I was particularly close to Barack - he was reserved and distant towards all of his co-workers - but I was probably as close to him as anyone. I certainly know what he did there, and it bears only a loose resemblance to what he wrote in his book.
Here’s Barack’s account:
Eventually a consulting house to multinational corporations agreed to hire me as a research assistant. Like a spy behind enemy lines, I arrived every day at my mid-Manhattan office and sat at my computer terminal, checking the Reuters machine that blinked bright emerald messages from across the globe. As far as I could tell I was the only black man in the company, a source of shame for me but a source of considerable pride for the company’s secretarial pool.
First, it wasn’t a consulting house; it was a small company that published newsletters on international business. Like most newsletter publishers, it was a bit of a sweatshop. I’m sure we all wished that we were high-priced consultants to multinational corporations. But we also enjoyed coming in at ten, wearing jeans to work, flirting with our co-workers, partying when we stayed late, and bonding over the low salaries and heavy workload.
Barack worked on one of the company’s reference publications. Each month customers got a new set of pages on business conditions in a particular country, punched to fit into a three-ring binder. Barack’s job was to get copy from the country correspondents and edit it so that it fit into a standard outline. There was probably some research involved as well, since correspondents usually don’t send exactly what you ask for, and you can’t always decipher their copy. But essentially the job was copyediting.
It’s also not true that Barack was the only black man in the company. He was the only black professional man. Fred was an African-American who worked in the mailroom with his son. My boss and I used to join them on Friday afternoons to drink beer behind the stacks of office supplies. That’s not the kind of thing that Barack would do. Like I said, he was somewhat aloof.
… as the months passed, I felt the idea of becoming an organizer slipping away from me. The company promoted me to the position of financial writer. I had my own office, my own secretary; money in the bank. Sometimes, coming out of an interview with Japanese financiers or German bond traders, I would catch my reflection in the elevator doors—see myself in a suit and tie, a briefcase in my hand—and for a split second I would imagine myself as a captain of industry, barking out orders, closing the deal, before I remembered who it was that I had told myself I wanted to be and felt pangs of guilt for my lack of resolve.
If Barack was promoted, his new job responsibilities were more of the same - rewriting other people’s copy. As far as I know, he always had a small office, and the idea that he had a secretary is laughable. Only the company president had a secretary. Barack never left the office, never wore a tie, and had neither reason nor opportunity to interview Japanese financiers or German bond traders.
Then one day, as I sat down at my computer to write an article on interest-rate swaps, something unexpected happened…. I had never met this half sister; we had written only intermittently. …[several pages on his suffering half-sister] …a few months after Auma called, I turned in my resignation at the consulting firm and began looking in earnest for an organizing job.
What Barack means here is that he got copy from a correspondent who didn’t understand interest rate swaps, and he was trying to make sense out of it.
All of Barack’s embellishment serves a larger narrative purpose: to retell the story of the Christ’s temptation. The young, idealistic, would-be community organizer gets a nice suit, joins a consulting house, starts hanging out with investment bankers, and barely escapes moving into the big mansion with the white folks. Luckily, an angel calls, awakens his conscience, and helps him choose instead to fight for the people.
Like I said, I’m a fan. His famous keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention moved me to tears. The Democrats - not to mention America - need a mixed-race spokesperson who can connect to both urban blacks and rural whites, who has the credibility to challenge the status quo on issues ranging from misogynistic rap to unfair school funding.
And yet I’m disappointed. Barack’s story may be true, but many of the facts are not. His larger narrative purpose requires him to embellish his role. I don’t buy it. Just as I can’t be inspired by Steve Jobs now that I know how dishonest he is, I can’t listen uncritically to Barack Obama now that I know he’s willing to bend the facts to his purpose.
Once, when I applied for a marketing job at a big accounting firm, my then-supervisor called HR to say that I had exaggerated something on my resume. I didn’t agree, but I also didn’t get the job. But when Barack Obama invents facts in a book ranked No. 8 on the NY Times nonfiction list, it not only fails to be noticed but it helps elevate him into the national political pantheon.
As Mr. Armstrong suggests, if Obama would exaggerate about such things as this, what else has he exaggerated or made up out of whole cloth?
The comments to this post are also quite intriguing, such as:
Comment from Bill Millar
Time: October 30, 2007, 8:17 am
Cathy Lazere [another commentor] calls Barack self-assured? That’s putting a nice spin on it. I found him arrogant and condescending.
The thing is, I worked next to Barack nearly every day he was at Business International –- on many days angling for possession of the best Wang word processing terminal.
I had MANY discussions with Barack.
I can tell you this: even though I was an assistant editor (big doings at this “consulting firm”) and he was, well, he was doing something there, he certainly treated me like something less than an equal.
Funny thing… A journalism/political science major… Writing about finance… Pretending in his book to be an expert on interest rate swaps.
I remember trying to explain the nuance of these instruments to him in the cramped three Wang terminal space we called the bull pen. In contrast to his his liberal arts background, I had a degree in finance and Wall Street experience, so I knew what I was talking about.
But rather than learn from a City College kid, the Ivy Leaguer just sort of rolled his eyes. Condescendingly. I’ll never forget it. God forbid he leave the impression that a mere editor like myself knew more about something than did Barack.
He was like that…
But know what? I can forgive him for being immature–which is probably all that was at the time. Don’t we all believe we know everything at just around that age?
That said…he was a lot older when he wrote his book. Mature enough by this time to realize that his account of his time at Business International could be described as embellishment…
By the way, there should be no doubt as to Mr. Armstrong’s bona fides on this subject. Even the New York Times has cited him as an authority for an article on this period of Mr. Obama’s storied life.
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September 14th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
The only real suprise here is why someone would still be a “big fan” of Obama’s after finding out that, basically, he lies about himself.
September 14th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Another former co-worker weighs in:
September 14th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
It’s a regular reunion over there….every single one of them confirming that Obama’s a bit of a confabulator.
September 14th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
The more and more I read and hear about Obama, the more I fear him becoming president. His ego is HUGE. He has never been a public servant. He wants people to serve HIM.
September 14th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Somehow after reading this over-blown self-serving account, visions of Clark Kent, Lois Lane and Perry White, complete with Jimmy Smith, Cub Reporter come to mind.
In your dreams, Walter Mitty!
September 14th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
John Batchelor talking about Obama’s Columbia career right now.
They are discussing the article Obama’s Lost Years in the WSJ
http://tinyurl.com/6ayhal
September 14th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Obama not supplying his campaign offices with pens and pencils.
http://everythingwebrelated.com/obama.php
September 14th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
This is disturbing on so many levels. Either he is a phycopathetic liar or he has really serious mental problems. Neither one is a good thing to have in a POTUS.
September 14th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
It’s not a matter of either/or 1st, it’s both.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
An inflated resume to match an inflated ego. Sounds about right.
Barry reminds me of the puffer fish (aka blowfish). It self inflates to create the illusion it is not a small fish - and it is poisonous as well.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Is there anything about this Obama that he has not totally lied about? I agree with Sarah Palin he has never ran anything but his mouth. I am beginning to think that the only ones who are voting for him are very gullible people who do not have a clue, young college age kids who have been totally brainwashed by the far left wing college establishment. Blacks who are voting for him for being black and those who really know what he is all about but want to further spread Marxist principles and policies in our government to destroy the middle class so they can achieve the one world Utopian society they so much want to shove down our throats, by force if necessary. So that is why they want our guns so bad huh?
September 15th, 2008 at 6:46 am
An “ONLY IN AMERICA: the Legend of Barack Obama Special! It’s “Chow Time”!
“Et pour vous, Monsieur le Présidente, la specialitié du maison: un abstraction of hand raised, milk fed veal from le beau pays Normande, avec un rétardation de seasonal vegetables et un petit jus of Norwegian cloudberries” murmured the Headwaiter.
“Mercy, Pierre” answered Barack Obama. “That looks trés bong”.
Pierre winced slightly. “La plaisir to serve you is tout ours, Monsieur le Présidente. Would your Excellency perhaps consider to allow us to rename the restaurant dans votre honneur?”
“Huh? Rename it what?”
“’L’Aigle Brun’ was notre top choice, Excellency”.
“What’s that mean?”
“It means ‘The Brown Eagle’” answered Michelle. “We’ll think about it, Pierre. Now shoo”.
“But of course” grovelled the lackey. “Bon appetite”.
“How’s your wine?” queried Michelle.
“Trés bong” said her husband. “Provocative yet daintily discreet; and with a distinct flavour of peppermint”.
Michelle sighed.
“The chef here’s great” said Obama, chewing away. “We should hire him for the White House kitchen”.
“Duly noted”.
“Excuse me, Mr and Ms President” apologized Obama’08 campaign aid Kevin Shitt, who materialized at their table. “May I have a word with you, Sire?”
“Kevin – how’d you get in here?” exclaimed Barack. “This is a classy joint!”
“I know people. Sorry to interrupt your meal but I have important news for you”.
“What is it?” asked the Change We’ve Been Looking For.
“Its current information of which the recipient has not already been apprised” said Kevin, articulating the rest of the ancient gag. “But that’s not important now; what’s important are these latest poll findings – they’re a disaster!”
“Get back to me when they’re a catastrophe” said Obama. “I’m busy”.
“But our polling now shows that a majority of ordinary commoners find you ‘out of touch’, ‘arrogant’ and ‘too big for his boots’ – this is serious, Sire!”
“Tut, tut Kevin” soothed Obama. “What else did you expect? Of course, I’m not the same color as the presidents on the paper money, since I’m not green, and sure I have a funny sounding name, though not as funny as Millard Fillmore or Calvin Coolidge, so of course these thick-necked yokels, fearful and bitter, clinging to their guns and worshipping their primitive sky god, are going to show some resistance to my positive message of hope and change…”
Michelle drummed her fingers on the gleaming white tablecloth. She’s heard all this so many times before…
“But when the time comes I know they’ll flock to me for the simple answers and clear instructions which are all their tiny brains can absorb”.
“Well…maybe” murmured Kevin.
“Definitely!” said Obama. “Have I inspired you enough yet? Good.” Obama snapped his fingers. “Pierre!Por favor, have Chef get my lackey here some cold scraps from the kitchen, will you? Mercy”.
“But these polls” fretted Kevin. “Don’t you want to discuss..?”
“Allez, allez” urged Pierre, taking Kevin’s arm.
“Polls schmolls, Kevin” said Obama. “Everything’s fine. We’re on our way to Park Avenue!”
“Pennsylvania Avenue” corrected Michelle.
“Whatever. Its all good, its all trés bong!”
September 15th, 2008 at 8:35 am
artboyusa, thank you for putting a smile on my face on a Monday morning. Well done.
September 15th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Tres bong Artboy, tres bong, …LOL!
You’re always good for a loud guffaw in the wee hours of the morn sir, heh. ;o)
September 15th, 2008 at 11:33 am
Mercy boocoup, Maria et Gila. Votre mots gentil est la kind of chose that makes la vie worth clinging to.
September 15th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Also here is what I believe to be another Obama fairy tale. In his biographical video from the convention (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/28/obama-biography-video-at_n_122271.html ) he tells a charming tale about a favorite childhood memory—being taken by his grandpa to see some of the astronauts come back, sitting on Grandpa’s shoulder and waving a small American flag. And Grandpa said, “Boy, Americans—we can do anything if we put our minds to it!”
I was suspicious about that as soon as I saw it. With the news footage they showed along with this it sounded like they went down to the shore and watched one of the space capsules splashdown. It’s about an inch from the end of the tracking line below the video so you don’t have to watch the whole thing. There were only two splashdowns in the vicinity of Hawaii—Apollo 15, Aug. 7, 1971, 550 miles north of Honolulu and ASTP-Soyuz, July 24, 1975 and given the coordinates was probably about 275-400 miles from Honolulu. The splashdown they show looks identical to that of Apollo13 (http://tomsastroblog.com/?p=1852 ). The next part of his video shows astronauts coming out of a helicopter wearing orange suits which doesn’t match any pictures I can find in any of the photo galleries on the flights (all the pictures show the astronauts in blue suits) and then there’s a tickertape parade. The only reference I can find to any such parades are for Apollo 11 and Apollo 13. There are a couple of photos online for Apollo 11 but I cannot find any for 13. Anyway the video makes it look like he was there to see these things—all the while sitting on Grandpa’s shoulders and waving his little flag. However Apollo 13 did not happen till April 17, 1970 when he was 9 years old (Grandpa would have had to have very strong shoulders to be carrying the chubby Barry that we know him to be then) and still going to school in Indonesia. It’s interesting also to note that a few seconds before this touching biographical vignette he’s telling us about the values he learned from his mother and his grandparents like “HONESTY”!
I also found this out:
The Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) is a facility at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (Building 37) that was constructed to quarantine astronauts and material brought back from the Moon during the Apollo program to mitigate the risk of back-contamination. After recovery at sea, crews from Apollo 11, Apollo 12 and Apollo 14 walked from their helicopter to an isolation van on the deck of an aircraft carrier and were brought to the LRL for quarantine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.....Laboratory
Now just to be fair, the crew of Apollo 13 did go to Honolulu for a ceremony on April 18 but he was still in Indonesia. Apollo 15 having landed fairly close to Hawaii may have also gone there but he was too old for his story, Apollo 16—I haven’t been able to find out, and for Apollo 17, Dec. 19, 1972, I also found an article that said the crew flew to Honolulu and then on to the mainland but nothing about a public reception and besides he’s way too old.
It just all goes into the fairy tale file that we are all so familiar with—a sweet tale to endear him to America but it makes you want to puke when it’s revealed for what it is. If it could in any way be possible for him to have been back in Hawaii (which I don’t believe could have been the case)to see the historic welcome for Apollo 13, then why not identify it as such? Anyone would have remembered that all their life and would have been proud to say they were there. And if it was any other, then it just doesn’t fit the cute mind-picture that he created and so it’s another deception. Barry, Barack, Barack II Dunham, Obama, Soetoro, Obama cannot be believed about ANYTHING that he has to say about himself and the life he has lived.
September 15th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Obama is so unqualified it is a joke. And where is the army of media people to ask real questions?
Have you ever wondered what Barack Obama’s qualifications are for president? What has he done in the Ilinois state senate and the Federal senate? Some guy knows and has compiled an extensive list of his many accomplishments in the book “The Accomplishments of Senator Barack Hussein Obama: Why he is Qualified to be President,” by Jeremy Amabo. See http://www.obamaresearch.com for details on how to purchase bulk copies of this cheap book for a discount.
Give it to misguided friends, confused liberals and college students, or just for the fun of it. Why? it is a real 40-page paperback good but it is BLANK. Money from every copy purchased goes to support our wounded veterans. I laughed hysterically. You will too. (Your liberal friends and co-workers won’t though!)
Martin
September 15th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Will Oprah denounce Bambi’s “autobiography” and point out it is fiction, akin to “A Million Little Pieces” author - who took liberty with a) how many drugs he really took , b) rehab stint and c) timelines of a drug induced “haze”????
Of course not - clearly her “Oprah Book Club” Top 10 usurps a black man running for President…
September 15th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Why not just send them a few pieces of blank copy paper. It would contain the same information.
September 16th, 2008 at 2:35 am
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September 16th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Wonder if Charlie Gibson would ask Obama the same question he asked Palin - the one about her “hubris” in running for office? Obama is all about hubris and nemesis always follows hubris, as he’s learning now.
September 16th, 2008 at 11:29 am
Actually Artboy, I seem to remember a blog doing that very thing in the last few days, comparing Gibson’s questions to Obambi with the recent Palin interview.
Hussein got nothing but softballs, no probing questions, nothing about Ayers or Rezko, no policy questions, nothing of any consequence.
If I can find the link again, I’ll post it.
September 16th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Maybe Oprah needs to put “BO”s book on her must read list. Heck, maybe she should buy copies and give it her audience and then they could have a literary discussion, wouldn’t that be interesting. Look, “BO” is an empty suit trying to get the highest office in the land with an embellished record that still doesn’t show any executive experience. Maybe Oprah can do a show with all those people “BO” helped, their life’s experiences with “BO” or something like that. Me thinks, Oprah is trying to maintain credibility here, no use putting out more lies that can be researched.
September 16th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I started reading this morning and didn’t have time to finish before taking kids to school, doc, etc. In my running around I listened to Laura Ingraham and she was reading parts of this post. Kudos to you!
September 16th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
Is this the same article you were looking for, Gila Monster?
http://blogsforjohnmccain.com/.....rack-obama
September 16th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Yes indeed Gipper, the Blogs for JM site has a link to where I originally read the post at The Anchoress.
http://tinyurl.com/5nlljo
Thanks for the memory jiggle, it’s hell to get old. Well, maybe it was the multiple tequila / lime juice on the rocks I had Saturday, yeah, I’ll stick with the latter.
September 16th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
That’s interesting, Albertafriend.
There’s a helpful post about various times Obama has told the Apollo story:
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2.....-anecdote/
September 16th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Thank you Squeek. That just proves what I said in my last sentence. And if you cannot believe what a man says about himself, you cannot believe in anything he promises or says he is going to do. He is utterly untrustworthy.
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September 16th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
“The Audacity of Barack” — He Slipped Racially Poisonous “Change” into the Bible “Quote” Dedicating His “Dreams”
Obama, who can stop the oceans from rising, can also bring “change” to the words of the Bible. And get away with it, unnoticed, like a pickpocket with two wallets.
Obama faked the Biblical “quote” in the dedication, “changed” it so that it works for him. Cleverly edited, the phony “quote” better fits the tone for his repeatedly bitter account of his personal feelings of racial alienation and visceral rage in America. He accomplishes his slight of hand by falsely telling his readers that 1 Chronicles 29:15 says “For we are strangers before THEM (emphasis added), and sojourners, as were all our fathers.” “Sojourners” of course means aliens in a foreign land, visitors who don’t really belong.
If a reader has any doubt regarding who Obama perceives as these “sojourners,” or who Obama thinks is the “them” in the verse, the answer is made clear on page four, where Obama recalls how he and his roommate together “enjoyed” verbally humiliating and “laughing at” solitary white pedestrians who strayed in front of their apartment in the “shifting border” of Harlem in Manhattan. .
Over more than 400 pages of “Dreams” we learn how implacably alienated Obama and his various roommates, beer and dope buddies, and fellow super cool party animals are, and believe they have every right to be. This alienation holds as constant as the Northern star, from Hawaii to New York and on to people he “organized” in Chicago. The alienation is endless, everlasting, and indelible, the consequence not only of rampant white racism, but simply of being a racial minority. Not enough “we,” too many “them.” It comes as welcome relief of sorts when Obama describes how much more comfortable he felt when he went “home” to Africa, where he enjoys “the freedom of not being watched.”
The more you read his “Dreams,” the more brilliant Obama’s choice of that Biblical dedication about being alien visitors in a foreign land seems. But there is just one minor problem: it isn’t true. Obama, not God, wrote the “quotation.” In his masterful, unseen hand, the “you” or “thou” (meaning God) becomes an unwelcoming “them,” and a semi-colon conveniently “changes” to a period. Obama’s inserted period cuts off the Biblical voice, and also cuts the reader off from any chance of grasping the true meaning of the real Biblical verse. Quickly and subtly, Barack alters the passage from a humble recognition of the power of God into something completely different– a Bible based indictment of a racist America. God’s (Obama’s actually) word adds enormous gravitas to Obama’s ensuing “chronicle” of racial anger, alienation, and resentment.
If Obama can cause the oceans to go down, this power must be weighed against the danger that with his “Dreams,” the smooth and clever Obama also has the power to command a very different ocean to rise– a sea of increased racial resentment and anger. Far from being the “great uniter” Obama may well become the greatest divider in American history. How will the alienated black Americans Obama describes throughout his “Dreams” react if Obama is not elected President? What “we” versus “them” recriminations and accusations will follow? How divided will America be in the aftermath of Obama’s misadventure? Will we then all feel we are unhappy “sojourners” in an alien land?
An Obama defeat might greatly increase the pernicious effect of his transformation of 1 Chronicles 29:15 from being a uniter of our common humanity before an almighty God, into a divider of America into “we” and “them.” America may well reap a whirlwind of racial alienation either way– if we do elect him, or if we do not elect him.
If we elect him, we hand the reins to a recklessly deceptive man, a cipher obsessed with his racial identity, endlessly going over and over the racial slights he has experienced. But if we do not elect him, many of his followers may conclude the worst about the “them” Obama has has inserted into 1 Chronicles 29:15.
If only Obama had been true to the actual prayer by David to God as written in 1 Chronicles 29:15, and taken it his heart– “For we are strangers before YOU (not “THEM”) (emphasis added), and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.” Then this man on the way to the White House might have been humbled by the awesomeness of God as compared to our transitory days on earth, rather than going, as he has, through his life with his nose out of joint, focused on his own anger and inner feelings about his racial identity. As it is, Obama is clearly not ready for prime time, much less for taking command of the helm in America next January 24th.
Terry R. Publius
September 18th, 2008 at 12:12 am
It gets better.
He’s not even (technically) black! 1/8 is the usual (NAACP, etc.) cutoff. He’s 8/16 Caucasian, 7/16 Arab, and 1/16 black. And he wasn’t even raised black: Indonesian and white. He’s “passing” as black because of the Affirmative Action points he scores with it.
Fundamentally Fake.
September 18th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Here’s another article that you can read about Obama’s behavior toward his co-workers. Go to http://www.rffm.org. This is absolutely true. I experienced this.
September 19th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
tpublius:
Well done! Absolutely brilliant and well written. It puts Obama’s mindset in perfect perpective and narrows down the focus to the very foundation. And if Obama can easily twist scripture for his own purposes, what can he do and what will he do? It is more than just changing punctuation and a word. It is a subtle representation of what Obama will do to push his mindset onto the American people, using while using a twisted verse most would think to be accurate. The whole truth, as you described, is very unsettling.