See also my essay entitled “Obama Relegated Aunt Who Resides Illegally in US to the Shadows While Taking Her Campaign Contributions”

Obama, according to the Associated Press, did not know his Aunt Zeituni, the child of Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, was residing in the United States illegally while he was accepting her campaign contributions. I quote the AP:

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday he didn’t know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed.

The Associated Press found that Obama’s aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya. The woman, Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUHN on-YANG-oh), is living in public housing in Boston and is the half-sister of Obama’s late father.

A statement given to the AP by Obama’s campaign said, “Senator Obama has no knowledge of her status but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws be followed.”

The campaign said it was returning $260 that Onyango had contributed in small increments to Obama’s presidential bid over several months. Federal election law prohibits foreigners from making political donations. Onyango listed her employer as the Boston Housing Authority and last gave $5 on Sept. 19.

One would think Obama would know the immigration status of his aunt after he rendered her into a textual spectacle in his 1996 memoir entitled Dreams of My Father. One would also think a relative would have contacted him in 2004 in order to inform the aspiring US Senator and Illinois political official that auntie needed assistance with her asylum petition. After all, auntie attended Obama’s swearing-in to the US Senate the same year her asylum petition was unfavorably adjudicated. Moreover, one would think that Obama would have been informed by someone related to his aunt that she donated tainted money to his campaign. And furthermore, the Obama campaign must have asked Obama a question or two after an article on Obama’s aunt surfaced a few days ago in the London Times. Surely they would have asked about the aunt’s immigration status after it was revealed she fraudulently donated $260 to the campaign from her public housing address in South Boston.

Also pertinent to this line of questioning is Auntie Zeituni’s claim that she could not speak to reporters until November 5. “’I can’t talk about it, I just pray for him, that’s all,’ she said, adding: ‘After the 4th, I can talk to anyone.’” Who asked her to remain silent? Did she receive a directive from David Axelrod?

But Obama claims he had “no knowledge” about his aunt’s willful violation of this country’s immigration laws. Are we surprised? Obama, it seems, knows nothing about anything. Similar to Alberto Gonzales, he “does not recall” anything whenever he is confronted about his lack of judgment or about his record of problematic affiliations with convicted felons and known terrorists. Let us review:

1. Obama had no knowledge of the deportation order submitted against his paternal aunt.

“Senator Obama has no knowledge of her status but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws be followed.”

2. Obama did not know Bill Ayers was a terrorist when he raised campaign funds in Ayers’s home and worked with Ayers on the Annenberg Challenge in inner city Chicago.

On Monday, Obama chief strategist David Axelrod said Obama was not aware of Ayers’ terrorist background when he attended a political coffee at Ayers Hyde Park home at the beginning of his state senate race sometime in the fall of 1995. Ayers and Obama first crossed paths in 1995 while involved in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation dealing with urban education issues.

3. Obama did not know convicted slumlord Antoin “Tony” Rezko, the man who provided the seed donations to Obama’s first political race in 1995, the man who chaired the Finance Committee of his US Senate bid in 2004, and the man who helped Obama purchase the mansion he and Michelle could not afford, was mismanaging the funds Obama secured at his behest for his slum landlord empire while defrauding investment firms seeking to do business with Illinois’s various pensions funds.

In a statement, Obama said that he was “saddened” by the verdict. “This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew,” he said, adding that the charges against Rezko “once again shine a spotlight on the need for reform.” Obama has repeatedly said he did no favors for Rezko. He was never a focus of Rezko’s trial.

4. Obama did not hear anything controversial when sitting in the pews of Reverend Wright’s “God Damn AmeriKKKa” Church in inner city Chicago.

The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation. When these statements first came to my attention, it was at the beginning of my presidential campaign. I made it clear at the time that I strongly condemned his comments. But because Rev. Wright was on the verge of retirement, and because of my strong links to the Trinity faith community, where I married my wife and where my daughters were baptized, I did not think it appropriate to leave the church.

What does Obama know? Does he know anything? Or is he really as vacuous as I and others believe? Diabolically disingenuous when asked to justify his past actions, his affiliations and his complete and utter lack of judgment, Obama is the Democratic Party’s version of Alberto Gonzales. Indeed, he is a thug whose friends and family break laws without apology.

He is also a complete and utter dolt who issues sanctimonious pronouncements when he is caught with his hand in the cookie jar: only now does he believe his aunt should adhere to immigration laws; only now will he return his aunt’s illegal and fraudulent donation; and only now does he believe Illinois politics should be reformed. A thug who portrays himself as a dolt, Obama cannot and should not serve as President of the United States.

Bring People Out of the Shadows

Obama and Biden support a system that allows undocumented immigrants who are in good standing to pay a fine, learn English, and go to the back of the line for the opportunity to become citizens.

Obama also outlines his (laughable) record on immigration reform. Conveniently elided from this list, however, is his aunt from Kenya. On 30 OCT 2008 we learned that Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, the child of Obama’s paternal grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama, resides in a dilapidated public housing block in South Boston. Although residents of the same metropolitan area, she and Obama led parallel lives: he edited the Harvard Law Review and gamboled about Harvard Square, while she lived in squalor with other immigrants in an economically depressed area of Boston.

He did describe her affectionately in his memoir entitled Dreams of My Father, however. Recounting his first meeting with Onyango, Obama recalls how she said, “You take good care of Barry now.” “Make sure he doesn’t get lost again,” she admonished Obama’s cousin. But as Obama climbed the political and social ladders of the Ivy League and of inner city Chicago, he became more and more “lost” to the relatives about whom he waxes poetic in a text he wrote for personal and political profit.

“I have been coming to America ever since 1975,” Obama’s aunt boasts when interviewed by a London Times reporter. But there is one problem: Obama’s aunt is not a United States citizen. In fact, she received a deportation order in 2004, when her application for political asylum was rejected. I quote the New York Times:

Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as ”Aunti Zeituni” in Obama’s memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango’s case.

Zeituni Onyango’s status as illegal immigrant begs a few questions.

• How did she contribute a total of $260 to her nephew’s campaign in a series of small donations from her South Boston address if she is not a United States citizen?
• Are many illegal immigrants and foreigners submitting small donations to the Obama campaign in order to avoid scrutiny by the FEC?
• How does she qualify for public housing if she is not a United States citizen?
• How is Obama to be trusted to reform the immigration system if his relatives are breaking immigration laws and living illegally in this country?
• And why did the Senator not file a form I-130, a Petition for Alien Relative, on behalf of his aunt after her request for political asylum was rejected? As a United States Senator, he certainly could expedite the adjudication of such a petition.

Obama claims he desires to “bring people [immigrants living illegally in the United States] out of the shadows.” And yet, instead of assisting his aunt with her immigration problems, he swept her aside into the margins of society: not only did he leave her in squalor; he allowed her to stay in the country he desires to represent as President illegally. He did accept her campaign contribution, however. I guess this is what Obama considers “oversight.”

One can only characterize Obama’s treatment of his aunt as heartless. Exploiting her in his memoir while allowing her to live in this country illegally and in poverty, he once again demonstrates that he is nothing more than a careerist who has utter disregard for his family and for the laws of this country. Because he relegated a member of his family to the penumbra instead of assisting her with her problems, one can only assume he can run neither his house nor the White House.

I quote Michelle Obama:

And no, role models do not allow family members to break our country’s immigration laws. They also do not accept campaign contributions from those who are not US citizens.

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The image at the top of the story comes from the Fox News story, “Obama’s Aunt Reportedly Living Illegally in Boston.”

UPDATE at 11:20 a.m. ET: This story is featured at the top of Memeorandum.com.

Thanks to reader Mark for the link.

You know Cousin Odinga right? He’s the guy who claims to be in touch with his Cousin Obama a lot. He’s also the guy who lost the Kenyan Presidential election, So, In preparation for his next run, he decided to perform genocide on the people who wouldn’t vote for him. Nice guy, Cousin Odinga. He’s got the election thing down pat. Kill off the people who don’t want you around and win next time by a landslide. He would do really well in Chicago. Then he could register all the people he killed to vote and fill out their absentee ballots for them. ACORN could help him.

Presumably to shut him up and before he killed off half of Kenya, he recently became Kenya’s Prime Minister. Here’s Raila Odinga’s Web Site, where he pimps an extremely familiar “Hopey-Changey” theme.

Jerome Corsi, author of the book The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, took a little trip to Kenya to find out more goodies about Obama, since any real history on Barack Obama beyond his fictional books Autobiographical writings is either “lost,” has “disappeared,” “never existed,” or is sealed.

It seems that Mr. Corsi has run into a bit of trouble there in Kenya. Shocking, isn’t it?

NAIROBI, Kenya — The American author of a book critical of Barack Obama is being detained in Kenya while his immigration status is checked, a senior immigration official said Tuesday.Jerome Corsi, who wrote “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality,” was being held at immigration headquarters in Nairobi after police picked him up from his hotel Tuesday, said Carlos Maluta, a senior immigration official in charge of investigations.

“We still haven’t decided what to do with him,” Maluta told The Associated Press.

He said Corsi did not have a temporary work permit needed to conduct business in Kenya.

So as I listened to Michelle Obama introduce her husband at the DNC, I wondered why she didn’t include his educational achievements. Since the multi-racial Obama poses as an African American (although he is not descended from slaves and his family never suffered under Jim Crow), and uses the “self-made man” mythology to sell himself–raised by a single mother, fed on food stamps, etc–you would think that graduating from Columbia and going to Harvard Law would be hawked in detail. We have heard that he was the first African American to become president of the Harvard Law Review, only to learn it was a political move by Harvard during a time of racial tensions on campus.

Moreover, Obama appears to have never actually written anything. That’s sort of like becoming the head chef of a fancy restaurant but never cooking.

In fact, Obama’s educational history has been intentionally omitted throughout his political primetime. When asked about his undergraduate training at Columbia University, The New Times states that Obama “declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release his Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student, co-worker, roommate or friend from those years.” Why would that be?

What we know is that Obama graduated from a Hawaiian prep school with a B- GPA. He then went to Occidental College, about which we know little to nothing, and then to Columbia University. According to conservative journalist, Jack Cashill:

We know enough about Obama’s Columbia grades to know how far they fall below the Harvard norm, likely even below the affirmative action-adjusted black norm at Harvard.

So how did Obama get into Harvard Law School five years after graduating from Columbia? if his LSAT scores had been something to brag about, you know he would be bragging.

Connections are everything, as the saying goes, and that is nowhere more true than in academia. During his time at Columbia, Obama made two very important connections: Bill Ayers and Edward Said. Cashill reports:

There are any number of possible reasons for Obama’s reticence about Columbia: his grades, the courses he took, his writing samples and, of course, his associations.

At that time, for instance, both Bill Ayers and Obama fell within the orbit of left-wing Columbia superstar Edward Said. Just recently out of hiding, Ayers was attending the Bank Street College of Education, which adjoins the Columbia campus.

Edward Said (pronounced Sayeed)

Edward Said became famous for his critique of American attitudes toward eastern cultures, particularly Islamist Arabs. His scholarship contributed to the concept of “the other,” a useful way of understanding prejudices and biases The idea that some people discriminate against others whose beliefs, skin color, sexual orientation, gender, etc, differs from their own is helpful in understanding and correcting discrimination and in teaching our children to be open minded.

However, this theory is now put into service by the so-called “progressives,” who use it to ridicule people who differ from them: Clinton Democrats, Republicans and certain strata of Americans. Rooted in anthropology and literary theory’s appropriation of Marxism, the postcolonial theory of Said et al is at the root of Obama’s distain for the “bitter” working class Americans who cling to their guns and their religions.

It is of course ironic that the educated latte drinking members of the so-called “Whole Foods Nation” find “others” inferior to themselves. As anthropologist Clifford Geertz writes:

What [educated people] worry about is provincialism — the danger that our perceptions will be dulled, our intellects constricted, and our sympathies narrowed by…acceptance of our own society.

Provincialism is not a compliment. It means unsophisticated and “country”–as in country-and-western, backward, rural, redneck, hick, shitkicker and so on. Said taught that Americans were biased against Arabs, but the American students who studied with him use this theory as justification to be biased against America.

Obama studied with Said at Columbia. Said was a Palestinian by birth and a pro-Palestinian activist in life. He said that he was a “Christian wrapped in a Muslim culture.” Said’s essay, Between Worlds, reveals an even greater connection between student, Obama, and professor, Said:

With an unexceptionally Arab family name like Said connected to an improbably British first name (my mother much admired the Prince of Wales in 1935, the year of my birth), I was an uncomfortably anomalous student all through my early years: a Palestinian going to school in Egypt, with an English first name, an American passport and no certain identity at all.

Barack Obama breaking bread with Edward Said

No Quarter has many excellent posts on radical Bill Ayers and his long relationship with Barack Obama. And to complete this three-way embrace, Edward Said wrote a back-cover endorsement on Bill Ayers’ 2001 Fugitive Days. Said reveals how close they are, at least ideologically, when he wrote:

“For anyone who cares about the sorry mess we are in, this book is essential, indeed necessary reading.”

Khalid al-Mansour

Donald Warden (aka Khalid Al Monsour), founded the Berkeley based African-American Association (AAA) and became the mentor of Huey Newton, one of the founders of the Black Panthers. The Black Panthers are said have broken from Warden’s AAA group due to disagreements about economics. According the UC Berkeley’s chronology of the Black Panthers:

(1961) Huey Newton, a black militant activist student, meets Bobby Seale while attending Merritt College (Oakland, California). Both join the Afro-American Association, a black cultural organization led by Donald Warden.”

(1965) Huey Newton’s mentor, Donald Warden, creates Economic Night in a storefront located next door to the future Black Panther Party office on Grove Street, Oakland.

Larry wrote this piece on Khalid al-Mansour, the person who helped Obama get into Harvard. Al-Mansour is a Texas-born African American whose birth name was Donald Warden. Among other things, he is known by some for his rabid anti-Semitism (see this video). And Cashill adds this:

As far back as 1988, however, Obama had serious pull. He would need it. As previously reported, Khalid al-Mansour, principle adviser to Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, lobbied friends like Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton to intervene at Harvard on Obama’s behalf.

An orthodox Muslim, al-Mansour has not met the crackpot anti-Semitic theory he could not embrace. As for bin Talal, in October 2001, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani sent his $10 million relief check back un-cashed after the Saudi billionaire blamed 9/11 on America.

Percy Sutton, a Manhattan Borough president for 12 years was among the most powerful black politicians in New York. In the YouTube below (previously posted by Larry, but please watch it again), Sutton describes how al-Mansour introduced him to Barack Obama, asking him to help get Obama into Harvard.

Cashill writes:

“I was introduced to [Obama] by a friend,” Sutton told the interviewer. Sutton named the friend as “Dr. Khalid al-Mansour.” Sutton described al-Mansour as “the principal adviser to one of the world’s richest men.” The billionaire in question is Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal.

Knowing that Sutton had friends at Harvard, al-Mansour asked Sutton to “please write a letter in support of [Obama] … a young man that has applied to Harvard.”

So who is this Dr. Khalid al-Mansour? A quick Google search finds this biography from African Venture Partners:

Dr. Khalid Abdullah Tario Al-Mansour is an internationally acknowledged advisor to Heads of State and business leaders in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and North America. He has been actively involved in structuring investments and joint ventures worldwide for over 35 years. Dr. Al-Mansour was also responsible for the Africa investment activities of Kingdom Holdings, Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal’s investment company. During his distinguished career, Dr. Al-Mansour has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University, Bombay University, Columbia University, UCLA, University of Kenya, London School of Economics and the University of Ghana.
In addition to Africa Venture Partners, Dr. Al-Mansour sits on the Boards of: Saudi African Bank; Kingdom Holdings, Africa; Multimedia Super Corridor (Malaysia); Space Tech Inc.; AmNet Corp. International; New Avenues Fund Ltd; United Bank for Africa; United Networks; and Landmark Entertainment.

Dr. Al-Mansour has authored 24 books and is listed in Who’s Who in the World; International Who’s Who in the Arab World; Two Thousand Men of Achievement; Royal Blue Book of London; World’s Who’s Who of Intellectuals and American Hall of Fame.

Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard University (Phi Beta Kappa) and Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of California at Berkeley.

In a fascinating academic article entitled The US Organization, Black Power Vanguard Politics, and the United Front Ideal: Los Angeles and Beyond, Scot Brown discusses the history of various Black nationalists groups. He states this pertinent information about Donald Warden/Khalid al-Mansour:

IN 1963, KARENGA met with Donald Warden, a bay area nationalist who headed the Afro-American Association. Bay Area activists Ernie Allen, Jr. (Ernie Mkalimoto), Huey Newton, Bobby Seale and Ken Freeman were also members of this group. Karenga accepted Warden’s invitation to head the Los Angeles chapter of the group. Ayuko Babu, Tut Hayes, Akida Kimani, and Lloyd Hawkins figured prominently in the association’s Los Angeles chapter. The association functioned primarily as a study group and lecture forum — members frequently spoke outdoors to black community audiences (sometimes called “street speaking”).

DONALD WARDEN RECORDED his association’s street-speaking style in an album called Burn Baby, Burn, released in the aftermath of the Watts explosion. An instrumental track and chorus-like affirming voices that call and respond to his assertions, accentuate this recording’s non-stop nationalist proselytizing.

For those of us who remember the Watts riots of 1965, the phrase “Burn Baby, Burn” has very specific associations of molotov cocktails, bloody street fights, “race” riots and death.

What does it take to get into Harvard Law School?

Khalid al-Mansour (aka Donald Warden) asked his friend, Percy Sutton, to help Obama get into Harvard. With friends like al-Mansour, who needs good grades, high scores or affirmative action?

The relationship between Obama and al-Mansour deserves further research.

We have written in detail about the Obamas’ associations with other Black nationalists, and this information about Khalid al-Mansour adds yet another layer to the story.

Check out other related No Quarter reports:

Black Liberation Theology

Obama the Stealth Socialist

What Lies Beneath Barack Obama

Wheel…of…Theology

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After the Standard in Kenya was burned, Obama decided to offer criticism of Kenya and the current president.

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Earlier this year discord broke out in Kenya. Odinga backers burned a church and hacked 50 people to death, some of them women and children. Do we want Obama who is backed by a fellow LUO tribesman, Odinga as our president? Why hasn’t Obama condemned Odinga?

The second one is a story you will find everywhere. Obama played the race card AGAIN! Once again, he is accusing his opponent of using racial attacks. This time, Obama said (three different times, three different campaign stops) McCain was trying to scare voters away from him by pointing out he had “a funny name, and he doesn’t look like all the presidents on the dollar bills and the five dollar bills.” (ALL the presidents on the dollar bills? I thought we had ONE president on the dollar bill, and a different president on the five dollar bill - that makes two dudes.)

Well, actually, Obama does resemble Lincoln a bit. They are both tall and skinny. But, who does Obama think he is, to compare himself to two of our greatest presidents in history? He isn’t even President! Does he actually think he belongs on a bill? Maybe he should be on the $3 bill.

The race card will allow voters to once again focus on the issue of trust with Obama. He did it against Hillary, he did it in Germany, and now he is doing it against McCain. And, back to Germany - he said that he does not look like other Americans who have spoken there. Again, he is comparing himself to Reagan and Kennedy, who were PRESIDENTS. But other Americans have spoken in Germany, and *gasp* they were (whisper) black (Powell, Rice to name a couple). Obama has already crowned himself King, and keeps comparing himself to our most beloved Presidents. He really, really needs to stop doing that.

Jake Tapper schooled Obama for it, too, Did Obama Accuse McCain of Running a Racist, Xenophobic Campaign ?

Another controversy that is growing, and swirling is the Wailing Wall prayer *scandal*. American Thinker has a breakdown of how the events unfolded. I have also read on other pro-Obama blog (which I will not name here) that they believe he gave the prayer to the media as well. And you can see the video, of an Obama campaign worker, retrieving the prayer from the wall. It is linked to, in the story.

And, there was ANOTHER scandalish story brewing this week, this time involving an Obama fan. Did you see the video Ludacris made? If not, here it is. Of course, Obama’s camp gave the ol’ *wink wink* type of condemnation. (you know, “ya, know I’m just messing with you, man”).

Burton said in an e-mail statement Wednesday. “This song is not only outrageously offensive to Sen. Clinton, Rev. Jackson, Sen. McCain and President Bush, it is offensive to all of us who are trying to raise our children with the values we hold dear. While Ludacris is a talented individual he should be ashamed of these lyrics.” So, in other words, *this is not the Ludacris we have known*. These are snipits from other Ludacris songs:

“Fuck That! Get the fuck back! Luda make your skull crack Tuck that Bitch, your whole town’s on my nutsack Cuff that Put it in your weed, nigga, puff that What’s that People gon’ die tonight”.

“Yeah come see this nigga come see this ol’ light-skinned mothafucka I seen him and I’m addicted disturbin tha peace is the clickplease tell these fake ass niggas who you are”

“You frostin’ like a flake and Ludacris feels grrreat! Who want come face me, face come want who? And women give me face until they’re face turns blue They can’t breathe, dick to mouth recessatation A tight squeeze witch stops the length to conversations”.

“You see I’m from a small town called “Fresh out a cop’s ass” Where Mr. Head-Potatoes are skinned they get mashed I smell puss from fifty yards Y’all not playin with full decks as if I jacked out ya Jacks and left fifty cards Catch me in Vegas spinnin’ the green”.

I’m not exactly sure what most of them say, but it doesn’t seem like this new song is that much different from his other ones…in fact, it seems more tame. I wonder if Obama will be deleting Ludacris from his iPod now?
And, I thought this one was most interesting. O’S TOUR DE FARCE - PHOTO OPS & FECKLESSNESS You really need to read the whole piece, but here is a snipit.

In private, though, Iraqi officials admit that Obama’s analysis is “way off the mark.” Without the surge, the Sunni tribes wouldn’t have switched sides to help flush out al Qaeda. And the strong US military presence enabled the new Iraqi army to defeat Iran-backed Shiite militias in Basra and Baghdad.

Nevertheless, in public at least, no Iraqi politician wants to appear more appreciative of American sacrifices than the man who may become the next US president.

Iraqis were most surprised by Obama’s apparent readiness to throw away all the gains made in Iraq simply to prove that he’d been right in opposing the 2003 overthrow of Saddam Hussein. “He gave us the impression that the last thing he wanted was for Iraq to look anything like a success for the United States,” a senior Iraqi official told me. “As far as he is concerned, this is Bush’s war and must end in lack of success, if not actual defeat.”

And if you ever wondered what, exactly, IS a community organizer, you can read this.

Oh, and one other thing. Rumors are swirling that the reason John Edwards endorsed Obama immediately after Hillary’s HUGE win in West Virginia, is because Obama threatened him with the baby scandal. It sure makes sense, to me. Edwards said for months that he would not endorse. And then BAM, out he comes. And then, now, the scandal comes out. Why? Well, it took me a few days to figure out why it would be leaked, but I don’t really think it was. I think National Enquirer really just caught him. They broke the story last year (wasn’t it right around the time John dropped out? I forget) so, they knew there was a story. They just couldn’t prove it. But, catching him in the hotel did it. And now, they have the birth certificate, and there is not a father listed.

So, I just want to say, I think America will forgive John his affair. After all, he does have a lot going on at home, and who knows what has been happening behind closed doors. We all have so much sympathy and respect for Elizabeth, but I wouldn’t doubt that she knows much more about this than anyone else. She seems very intelligent. My point it, she might very well have known about this from the beginning. People deal with trauma in different ways, I am not judging him for an affair. But, I will never forgive him, if he was blackmailed into supporting Obama, and never came forward with it. We know the story to be true, but out of respect for Elizabeth, the media is not talking about it. But, if John knows something about Obama, he needs to come forward. (I am not sure if this is coming across right….) Well, anyway, it sure was a busy week, chock full of WORMS (what Obama really means) and controversy, and scandal.

Can we have Hillary back now, please!?

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I find it astonishing that the press/media are generally ignoring the Odinga and Barack relationship. These men are cousins, at least from Odinga’s standpoint. And they have been in contact. Obama has been on the phone chatting with Odinga earlier this year during the Kenyan election brawl. Check out this video:

So why should we worry about Odinga? He is not a secular Muslim. Instead, he is committed to making Islamic law the law of Kenya. Last August, Odinga signed a pledge with the National Muslim Leaders Forum in Kenya. Here is a Raila Odinga MOU. I encourage you to read it.

This agreement is a security nightmare. For starters it calls for all Muslims residing in Kenya–and this includes Muslims from other countries–to be granted full National Identity Cards. Next, it specifically prohibits the Kenyan Government from turning over any Muslim suspected of “Terrorism or any other International crime” to a foreign govenment. And in within one year of his election, he promises to establish a “Shariah court in every Kenyan divisional headquarters.” Taken as a whole, these measures would make Kenya a safehaven for Islamic radicals–especially those who have attacked Americans. Until Odinga became Prime Minister, Kenya has been a reliable, responsible partner with the United States in battling Islamic extremists. Odinga has not yet been able to sunder that relationship, but he is on the record favoring terrorists who also happen to be muslim.

Barack also is getting is getting an indirect assist from Odinga in his Presidential campaign. Fox News Analyst, the toe-sucking, whoremonger Dick Morris, is frequently on air bashing Hillary Clinton. Before Dick started regularly bashing Hillary, he spent time in Kenya helping Barack’s cousin on a pro-bono basis. Here’s the evidence:

And this. Hanging with cousin Odinga.

Why does someone like Morris sign up to work for a Muslim candidate that touts sectarian strife? And why is someone like Morris allowed to be on air trashing Hillary Clinton when he has such an obvious conflict of interest?

In any event, Barack has further explaining to do about the antics of his cousin. From cousin Odinga’s perspective, he’s got a hook into the United States if Barack is elected. Let’s get Senator Obama on the record once and for all denouncing the ravings of cousin Odinga.

You are a disgusting race-baiter.

/QUOTING LARRY/ My neighbor, who is a prominent Republican lobbyist, was commenting … on the inspiring nature of the Obama campaign. … I then asked him about … Rezko and the disconnect between his rhetoric and how he actually votes. He was surprised and shocked. He said, “I haven’t heard any of this.” … [H]e is a politically astute, well-informed guy. When he heard the true story of Obama’s past (including Obama’s Kenyan ties and muslim relatives). He flipped. / END LARRY QUOTE /

This is the kind of asshole who forwards the madrassa email.

/QUOTING LARRY AGAIN / [W]e have to watch the equivalent of a papal coronation, as the media and fans exhult in the Obama Messiah, the black Jesus come to save us. / END LARRY QUOTE /

Go to hell.

by CarolinaNumber23, Wed Feb 13, 2008, 04:25:04 PM EST

It’s the typical hatchet job without proof. For counter-argument to the irrational, first, there’s Joe Wilson in his Baltimore Sun op-ed:

How will Mr. Obama respond to charges made by the Kenyan government that his campaigning activities in Kenya in support of his distant cousin running for president there made him “a stooge” and constituted interference in the politics of an important and besieged ally in the war on terror?

Then there are these essential-reading pieces at No Quarter that I included in my reply to CarolinaNumber23:

Obama’s African Hubris »
By Larry Johnson on Jan 31, 2008

Update on Kenya Update »
By Larry Johnson on Feb 11, 2008

Here’s the latest installment from Garrett Jones courtesy of FPRI. It is worth remembering that the Kenyan opposition leader, Odinga, insists that he is the cousin of Barack Obama. Although Obama was raised by his Caucasian grandparents and had no meaningful contact with his Kenyan father during his childhood (and did nothing to invest himself [...]

I also suggested to CarolinaNumber 23 that he check out:

And there are several more where those came from. Use this already set-up search string to find those pieces.

To which C. replied, thoughtfully (snark):

I read it, and he is a racist scumbag (as well as a really bad liar).

by CarolinaNumber23 on Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 06:51:03 PM EST

This is yet one more example of the smearing of anyone who dares to question Obama’s policies, statements, and supposed plans.

Obama should be ashamed of the kind of followers he’s mesmerizing and permitting to be so irrationally vicious.

From the air, Kenya is a country on fire. Plumes of blue smoke rise from villages across the Rift Valley. More fires burn in the sprawling townships on the edge of the capital, Nairobi. On the ground, the city is gripped by fear. Police officers man roadblocks across its main arteries and sirens wail on its outer edges. Violence is sporadic, and sudden. In the slum of Karobongi, witnesses said the feared Mungiki sect — a group that weaves Kikuyu tribal mythology with gang rule in the slums — hacked to death several people from rival tribes in reprisal killings, leaving the roads strewn with limbs. Clashes between tribes also erupted in the tin-shack slum of Mathare, preventing aid workers from delivering daily drops of food and medicine. … Read all.

My two cents. Forgive me, but I just found this out, and it bugs the hell out of me that Obama dissed Paul Wellstone — via HuffPo’s Glenn Hurowitz:

Chris Petersen, the president of the Iowa Farmers Union, just sent me the below message blasting Barack Obama for his attempts to paint himself as the most Paul Wellstone-like candidate in a conference call with ag supporters that has become very controversial in rural Iowa.

Hurowitz notes:

I would like to add to Chris’s eloquent statement that in an interview with David Sirota in The Nation, Obama “dismissively labeled Wellstone as merely a ‘gadfly’ in a tone laced with contempt.”

Hurowitz then follows with Chris Peterson’s powerful statement on rural issues.

Over and out! It’s your thread now.