The Obama Nation

This page was started February 1, 2008 shortly after taking Barack Obama's run for president seriously.  At the end of this compilation of items which have caught my eye, there are also two links to other posts I've done at the bottom after I stopped adding stuff about Obama to this page, for your reference.

Just look at this page as a listing of issues that may or may not interest you:

What does it mean when Barack Obama won't wear a flag lapel pin and says those that do don't really represent true patriotism calling it a substitute.  You know, it's no big deal that he doesn't wear the pin but what he said about those who do is insulting.

What does it mean when Obama doesn't put his hand over his heart, at least, during this National Anthem?

October 1, 2007 Time picture:  Senator Barack Obama, Governor Bill Richardson, Senator Hillary Clinton and Ruth Harkin stand during the national anthem

Or what about the fact that Obama belongs to a church that subscribes to a Black Value System, which promotes a type of racial separatism which I wrote more about in a post titled Barack Obama's Judgment.  Think about it, what color of skin do you need to have in order to go to his church?

In a January 21, 2007,  Chicago Tribune article we read Rev. Wright earned another master's in the history of religions with a focus on Islam at the University of Chicago Divinity School.   

Hellooooooo???  Anybody paying attention here?

What does it mean when Obama issues a statement that decries racism when Obama's very own self-named spiritual mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright's preaching is more aligned with Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan than not?

Barack Obama voted 130 times "present" rather than yes or no as a legislator in Illinois.  In the U.S. Senate, his voting record shows he has missed over 150 votes since running for President.  What does this mean?  Obama sure doesn't tell us.

But he did manage to co-sponsor Illinois Senate Bill 750 in 2001 creating the "Halal Food Act," providing for inspections by the Department of Agriculture to ensure that all food labeled Halal is prepared according to Islamic law so that each animal is slaughtered by a Muslim after an Islamic prayer is said.

Or what about Obama and Tony Rezko? 

"Obama's letters, written nearly nine years ago, for the first time show the Democratic presidential hopeful did a political favor for Rezko -- a longtime friend, campaign fund-raiser and client of the law firm where Obama worked -- who was indicted last fall on federal charges that accuse him of demanding kickbacks from companies seeking state business under Gov. Blagojevich.

The letters appear to contradict a statement last December from Obama, who told the Chicago Tribune that, in all the years he's known Rezko, "I've never done any favors for him.''   Chicago SunTimes 6/07

What does it mean when it appears he was caught in a lie?

What does it mean when Obama, who has not completely even one term in the U. S. Senate, has introduced a bill that would impose a Global Poverty Tax on America?  Is his rhetoric different from his record?

Or that he missed a key vote classifying the Iranian Revolutionary Guard the designation of a terrorist organization responsible for killing U.S. troops - which passed overwhelmingly, 76-22.  Apparently, Obama would have voted against it since he sent out a mailer to Iowans targeting Clinton for her affirmative vote! 

"What I've insisted is, we have to completely rethink foreign policy and diplomacy. ... We have to talk not just to our friends but also to our enemies. That includes Iran. That includes Syria," Obama said at a house party in Merrimack, N.H.

Why is this amendment so dangerous?" Obama's mailing said. "Because George Bush and Dick Cheney could use this language to justify keeping our troops in Iraq as long as they can point to a threat from Iran, and because they could use this language to justify an attack on Iran as part of the ongoing war in Iraq."

What does it mean that Obama employed Nation of Islam followers in his campaign and senate office?  Is this article accurate?  Again, Obama is silent.

Or campaigned for far left-leaning (socialist) Bernie Sanders.  Watch the video of Obama praising Sanders.  No question here what Obama did.

He told a French magazine he wants "to bridge the gap growing each day between Muslims and the West." Obama would seek direct talks with countries like Iran and Syria.  Wouldn't this be like holding talks with someone with the mindset of Hitler? 

Or that we should end the embargo in Cuba?

What does it mean when Obama said: "...My father---was born Muslim but as an adult became an atheist.---if we don't reach out to evangelical Christians and other religious Americans and tell them what we stand for (who is the "we" he's referring to here?),then the Jerry Falwells and Pat Robertsons and Alan Keyeses will continue to hold sway.--- "Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers." - "Call to Renewal" Keynote Address which doesn't really match a December article where Obama explained his connection to Islam but never mentioned his father was a Muslim:

"My father was from Kenya,” he said, “and a lot of people in his village were Muslim. He didn’t practice Islam. Truth is he wasn’t very religious. He met my mother. My mother was a Christian from Kansas, and they married and then divorced. I was raised by my mother. So, I’ve always been a Christian. The only connection I’ve had to Islam is that my grandfather on my father’s side came from that country. But I’ve never practiced Islam."

More: "For a while, I lived in Indonesia because my mother was teaching there. And that’s a Muslim country. And I went to school. But I didn’t practice. But what I do think it does is it gives me insight into how these folks think, and part of how I think we can create a better relationship with the Middle East and that would help make us safer is if we can understand how they think about issues."

Obama says he Muslim born father was an atheist when he met his mother - yet he named his son the family acquired Muslim name, Barack Hussein Obama.  What does it mean?

In a New York Times article on Obama's website we read: "...but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics -- and more likely to be aware of their nationalism (to Islam?)-- if he once studied the Koran with them.  Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. ---Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ''one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset...''  What?

In his speech, The War We Need to Win, given last August, Obama said:  "...He could not support "a dumb war, a rash war" in Iraq.---our President misrepresents our enemies.--- (Yet) our enemies seek to create a repressive (Islamic)caliphate.---By refusing to end the war in Iraq, President Bush is giving the terrorists what they really want, ---When I am President, we will wage the war that has to be won, with a comprehensive strategy with five elements: getting out of Iraq and on to the right battlefield in Afghanistan and Pakistan; --- Al Qaeda and its allies operate in nearly 100 countries. ---This is not just about our security. It is about the common security of all the world.--- We will open "America Houses" in cities across the Islamic world, with Internet, libraries, English lessons, stories of America's Muslims---Through a new " America's Voice Corps" we will recruit, train, and send out into the field talented young Americans who can speak with -- and listen to -- the people who today hear about us only from our enemies..." 

Obama calls Bush an invader and the source of all our country's problems, the enemy within, while acknowledging the serious world threat of an creeping Islamic caliphate but then only offers up a plan to change the location of the battlefield to Pakistan and open Internet coffee shops throughout the Islamic world---and an American Voice Corps, to talk people out of Islamism.  Give me a break.  Do you think there's one Islamic country that would allow this? 

What does it mean that Obama would meet with countries that have been designated state sponsors of terror by the State Department? 

Or that he blamed the U.S. for the continuing genocide in Darfur in a speech in 2007.

photo from Muslims for Obama website

He would do this using the advice from his foreign policy advisors who are less than kind towards Israel and who assure the Islamic world Obama is a secular Christian and not to worry - Jesus will not enter into the picture.  Seriously, what, in the hell, does this all mean?

Or that one of his distant foreign policy advisors, Zbigniew Brzezinski, arrived in Syria to talk to top officials, the same day a top Hezbollah leader was blown up in a car bomb.  What does it mean to talk to a regime that backs Hezbollah?

Or what could it mean that Kenya's opposition leader, Muslim-backed Raila Odinga,  said he was Obama's cousin in January right after Obama called him on the phone.  Yet, Obama has neither confirmed or denied this himself, which leads to this conclusion: it's likely true.  Then there's the controversial pact made between Muslims leaders and Odinga to secure the Muslim vote which is very troubling - yet Obama is silent.  Why?

Obama felt it necessary in "Dreams" to tell us Barack means "Blessed"in Arabic.  Obama's father was a Muslim who sired a number of children. Statements put out by Obama"s office or Obama often just refer to his father simply as an atheist, or he didn't practice Islam.  Really?  In his second memoir, "The Audacity of Hope", Obama added: "Although my father had been raised a Muslim, by the time he met my mother he was a confirmed atheist."  But, yet, his family wanted him buried as a Muslim, Obama quoted his brother, Roy, as saying in "Dreams."

Think about it, in the Islamic world, if your father was a Muslim, you're a Muslim and if the world largest Islamic body, the Organization of Islamic Conferences had their way - you know how they would rule.

In his autobiographies, Obama writes that his teacher at the school (in Indonesia) sent a note home to his mother that Obama made trouble by making faces while the class was studying the Koran.

"In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school," he wrote in his first memoir, "Dreams from my Father." "The teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies."

What does it mean when Obama expressed in "Dreams" his respect and admiration for Malcolm X, a man who often expressed his dislike of "white people"?

"...Malcolm X's autobiography seemed to offer something different, Obama wrote. "His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me; the blunt poetry of his words, his unadorned insistence on respect, promised a new and uncompromising order, martial in its discipline, forged through sheer force of will.

He added: "Malcolm's discovery toward the end of his life, that some whites might live beside him as brothers in Islam, seemed to offer some hope of eventual reconciliation."

Here is  a bit of Malcolm X in a conversation with Alex Haley, Playboy Magazine, May, 1963, in case you are wondering what he was like.

"All of them (black men) will be Muslims when they wake up; that's what's meant by the Resurrection."---But I know the time is near when the white man will be finished. The signs are all around us.

PLAYBOY: If Muslims ultimately gain control as you predict, what do you plan to do with white people?

MALCOLM X: It's not a case of what would we do, it's a case of what would God do with whites. What does a judge do with the guilty? Either the guilty one repents and atones, or God executes judgment.

Obama's respect and admiration for this man scares the living daylights out of me. 

What does all this mean? 

Updates to this story:

1/24/08:  8 things you need to know about Obama and Rezko  Chicago Sun Times

2/14/08:   To Obama's Zbigniew Brzezinski; how's it going in Damascus?  zTruth

2/15/08:  Muslim Americans for Obama Video - Weird and Angry zTruth

2/17/08:  Cracking Obama Open  zTruth

2/17/08:  Oh boy.  Allegation have surfaced about Obama from a man who says he did some pretty bad stuff with and to Obama in 1999 on two separate occasions.  WND reports they have requested interviews about this with no response.  Obama is strangely silent.  This vicious lies cannot be allowed just to linger out there - so why are they?

What does it mean when Sen. Barack Obama said on Monday, 2/18/08,  that he doesn't think it's a big deal that he borrowed lines from his friend,  Massachusetts Gov. Daval Patrick, although he probably should have given him credit.

2/19/08:  Barack Obama's socialist connections  zTruth

2/19/08:  Michelle Obama has insulted America to its core.  zTruth

Michelle Obama proclaimed yesterday that for “the first time” in her adult life,” she was proud of America, as she spoke during a rally to support her husband’s presidential bid. 

2/21/08: ..."America's soul is broken---Barack is the only person that can heal this nation---Change will be hard---Barack will never let you go back to your lives as usual - uninvolved, uninformed---We can change the world..."  Michelle Obama  Listen to the audio

2/21/08:  CNN debate:  Senator Obama, just to follow up, you had said in a previous CNN debate that you would meet with the leaders of Cuban, Iran, North Korea, among others, so presumably you would be willing to meet with the new leader of Cuba.

OBAMA: That's correct. Now, keep in mind that the starting point for our policy in Cuba should be the liberty of the Cuban people. And I think we recognize that that liberty has not existed throughout the Castro regime. And we now have an opportunity to potentially change the relationship between the United States and Cuba after over half a century.

I would meet without preconditions, although Senator Clinton is right that there has to be preparation. It is very important for us to make sure that there was an agenda, and on that agenda was human rights, releasing of political prisoners, opening up the press. And that preparation might take some time.

2/22/08:  Obama's spin doctors  zTruth

2/24/08:  Senator helped fund organization that rejects 'racist' Israel's existence  WND

Obama  also served on the Wood's Fund board alongside William C. Ayers, a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971.

2/25/08:  Farrakhan: "Obama is the hope of the entire world"  zTruth

2/25/08:  Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim Somali Elder  zTruth

2/26/08:  Obama would make deep cuts in our nuclear weapons 

2/26/08:  Obama distances himself from the press  zTruth

2/26/08:  Obama dressed as a Muslim again?  zTruth

2/29/08:  Best I can tell Obama did not reject Louis Farrakhan's endorsement of him.  zTruth.

2/29/08:  Michelle Obama: Barack's middle name "Hussein" is ultimate fear bomb.  zTruth

2/29/08:  Is Barack Obama lying to Americans about NAFTA?  zTruth

2/29/08:  Obama's remarks on Farrakhan dissected  zTruth

3/1/08:  Raila Odinga, who claims he's Obama's cousin, to share power in Kenya.  zTruth

3/3/08:  Barack Obama too busy to do his Senate job   zTruth

3/4/08:  Obama makes bold statement in ad  zTruth

3/4/08:  Barack Obama dodges questions  zTruth

3/5/08:  Obama operative warns against stealing election against first African-American in history to have earned it.   zTruth

3/8/08:  Another video about Obama from Muslims.   zTruth

3/9/08:  Barack Obama's about-face on the Palestinian cause.   zTruth

3/13/08:  Shortly after Barack Obama was elected his wife received a $195,000 pay increase!   zTruth

3/13/08:  Barack Obama's campaign mixes church, politics and campaign donations zTruth

3/13/08:  Barack Obama's Rev. Jeremiah Wright: "I am sick of 'Negr*** who just do not get it  zTruth

3/14/08:  Obama: My church preaches social justice!  zTruth

3/16/08:  "Fox News Sunday" launched the "Obama Watch"  zTruth

3/16/08:  Obama's website removed testimonial from Rev. Wright  zTruth

3/16/08:  Video:  Barack Obama: A special shout out to my pastor, my friend  zTruth

3/17/08:  Did Obama attend Rev. Wright's sermon of hate?  zTruth

3/17/08:  Obama to speak on Rev. Wright: "I think the caricature that is being painted of him is not accurate."   zTruth

3/18/08:  Rev. Jeremiah Wright will be honored for his "radically different" preaching  zTruth

3/18/08:  Barack Obama: racism is real, Rev. Wright is part of my family; I could never disown him  zTruth

3/19/08:  Rev. Wright reprints "Hamas' Stand" in church bulletin!  zTruth

3/19/08:  Barack Obama's denials don't add up  zTruth

3/20/08:  Black Panthers endorsement of Obama added/removed from Obama's website  zTruth

3/20/08:Obama said grandmother typical of white racism.  zTruth

3/20/08:  Is Barack Obama the great pretender?  zTruth

3/24/08:  Easter sermon at Obama's church: How Do You Handle A Public Lynching? zTruth

3/24/08:  Hard time for many Americans? Obama enjoys vacation in St. Thomas  zTruth

3/25/08:  Barack Obama's church newletter: Israel occupies Palestinian land  zTruth

3/26/08:  Barack Obama and wife gave less than 1% to charity  zTruth

3/31/08:  Obama's Oil Spill:  Obama says he doesn't take money from oil companies. We say that's a little too slick.  FactCheck

5/16/08:  Barack Obama own words on meeting leaders of Iran, Syria, Cuba and North Korea  zTruth

5/19/08:  GOP ad in Tennessee uses Michelle Obama's own words - makes Obama mad   zTruth

Oh, heck, I've grown tired of adding everything I've written about this man, who concerns me greatly as a potential president of the United States.  You can review my newer posts on Obama here and read back or skim over to May 19th where I stopped added them to this page.

Update 1/20/09:  Now that Barack Obama has become president my writings on him continue here.

Comments

[LAWRENCE H. ROBERTSON]

AT THIS POINT IN MY LIFE I NOW KNOW WHY PEOPLE SAY AND DO WHAT THEY DO, IN THE WAYS THAT THEY DO, FOR THE LENGTH OF TIME THAT THEY DO IT, BUT IT HAS BEEN A 50 PLUS YEAR PROJECT OF MINE. STILL HAVE TO SAY THE THING THAT IS THE MOST UNFORTUNATE THINGS PEOPLE DO WITH THIER TIME AND ENERGY IS PROJECT THEIR PART OF REALITY UPON THOSE AROUND, TO KEEP FROM HAVING TO LOOK AT AND PROCESS THIER OWN LIFE. I BELIEVE WHEN EVERY INDIVIDUAL BEGINS TO TAKES FULL PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIER ACTIONS AND HOW THEY EFFECT PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS AROUND THEMSELVES, REGARDLESS OF WHO THEY ARE-THEN HUMANITY WILL BEGIN TO BE AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE, NOT AS IT IS.

[aes7878]

am not surprised that Obama is accused of harboring hatred for whites, nor that he sympathizes with Islam more than Christianity. What can you expect from a president who is pro-abortion? Some people might object to the reference in this article that Obama seeking to "bridge the gap" between the West and the Muslims is like Roosevelt trying to cater to Hitler, but I can see the similarity. Obama's stance on abortion is hauntingly like Hitler's view on unwanted humanity: get rid of them.

I don't care how Obama tries to redefine us as part of a global community intent on disobeying God. We are not going to join the rest of the world in their evil, any more than we joined with Hitlerian Germany. Whatever we once were, we still are. America is still a Christian nation and still wants to preserve the upcoming generation rather than murder them in the womb.

[mindy rodriguez]

barry soetoro barack obama is lower then scum...he jammed the stimulus bill down our throats saying without it the country would fail,..he lies everytime he opens his mouth; the stimulus bill was only created to make our government bigger...if senators vote for the health reform and energy bills THEY WILL NEVER HOLD AN ELECTED OFFICE AGAIN! Americans have had it! IMPEACH OBAMA NOW WHILE WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE TO SAVE AMERICA!

[Derek]

Steve you are an idiot and you are what's wrong with this country! Watch the video stupid!!

[Steve]

This picture is fake. It was created using multiple layers and you can tell because whoever created it forgot a very small area from layer one between Obama's left leg and the chair in respect to the flag and the grass field. You should only see the grass field instead you see a very little bit of the original picture. Also notice how Mr. Richardson is looking elsewhere!!

[Katlin]

What is the point of having a media, if they do not give us the total truth? Its no wonder more and more of us do not rely, at all, on any national media outlet for our news. It unbelievable what they do not tell us.

I found this post, which took me a while to read through it plus the links startling and an eye-opener. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[keith]

it really makes you wonder why the media continues to give Bar-rock star a hands off approach. What does he stand for? What does his record stand for? Is it the most absent votes in one session?

[Judy]

This is scary stuff to me. Obama has fooled many it seems. The truth has to come out.