Friday, April 29, 2011

Questioning Obama's Americanism

By Robert Parry
April 29, 2011

Some Americans, especially on the Left, seem to have almost forgotten that Barack Obama is an African-American whose rise to the presidency was one of the most unlikely political stories in U.S. history.

Read on.

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7 comments:

Mike Strong said...

Then too who cares? Really. Even if he had been born outside the USA he was a citizen by means of his mother's citizenship. And what if he had been born in say, Oklahoma, to some globetrotting family (military, diplomatic, corporate) where the kids grew up more overseas than at "home?" Or so what about Hawaii's status? A territorial citizen is also a citizen, just as when we were colonists we were citizens of England. I'm always amazed how the worst hysterics seem to be from the least factual or completely made up claims.

Sat Apr 30, 09:30:00 AM 2011
Mad Angel on FB said...

Here's the REAL birth certificate

It clearly shows Obama's grandmother registered Obama as born in Kenya, Africa and registered in Honolulu...it explains why the signature of Ann Dunham looked altered....it was...it covered up his grandmothers signature

It also clears up a few other discrepancies but this is enough for now.

http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2011/04/30/is-this-obamas-real-colb/

Sat Apr 30, 02:20:00 PM 2011
William Brandon Shanley said...

Bob, I gotta tell you, Obama brought this birth certificate issue on himself. Years ago he could have released the real McCoy and cleared up the matter. Instead, he and his administration have stone-walled, leaving many to question "what's he got to hide?" and others lamenting "if he had one he'd show it." But this is not the only festering question about Obama's past. He has blocked access to his college transcripts, his thesis, his relationship, and that of his family to the CIA, his mother's work for CIA-fronts Ford Foundation and AID in Indonesia and his step father's role on Suharto's genociding team the year before Young Barack moved there. The 2008 election, was yes, a great day showing that America had moved beyond race, but his resume, apparently all the billions of words written during election about who he really is was imaginal and symbolic but hardly real. The Brand Obama industry funded him 3to 1 over his Republican opponent, had the entire press, even Rupert Murdoch, in the end, slobbering over him shamelessly, despite his in your face about faces on FISA, war, credit card ceilings, you name it. He is a Wall Street puppet, has done more to betray his base and create cynicism in this country about the presidency than anyone imaginable. He has failed to enforce the laws at the highest levels of government yet is leader of a national security complex and eternal war machine that kills, mains, imprisons unjustly, here and abroad, tortures and violates every article of the Bill of Rights. People are so addicted to the endorphins that shot down new dendrites in the brains during the election, that they still are in the thrall of the neurochemistry that they still can't see that he's a product of Empire and works for Empire and always will. No Republic-an, here.

Sat Apr 30, 07:48:00 PM 2011
Marilyn A. Frith said...

William Shanley said it all; nothing much to add or amplify his summary. I agree with Bob Parry on 99% of issues; however, he drops the ball with Obama's BC. As Phil Berg offered, even if BO was born in Hawaii (he wasn't, IMO), his US citizenship was compromised when he was adopted by Lolo Soetoro and became a citizen of Indonesia. Obama never reinstated US credentials, was probably using an Indonesian passport on a trip to Pakistan in 1981, not to mention using Indonesian student status to gain special perks to Occidental College as a foreign exchange student. Those are the documents he wishes to expunge from his history. Dig a little deeper. The facts won't square with liberal bias but the truth will out! GW Bush said the Constitution was just a G-d damn piece of paper; Obama is proving it to be a nonissue and sets the precedent for anyone who lands on US soil to pose as a concerned native in their quest for White House residency. "Birther" I am, but also a lifelong progressive. I call myself a 'rational romantic.'

Sun May 01, 02:27:00 PM 2011
Anonymous said...

Call it like it is; Obama is bi-racial. His mother was white, and overlooking this fact by calling him Afro American is invalidating his heritage as a child of both races. I thought the purpose of electing such a candidate was to bring sides together rather than championing one race over another. Maybe there would be less hatred by his opponents if they were to focus less on race and birth issues. Then again, they just want to hate, perhaps.

Sun May 01, 07:21:00 PM 2011
William Brandon Shanley said...

This is not about hate. This is about Obama deceiving voters with a phony resume, which the media bought hook line and sinker, even though anyone who has tried to penetrate the brick wall surrounding his work for a CIA front company, his mother's apparent work for CIA/AID/Ford Foundation in blood-drenched Indonesia thanks in part to his mother's husband and Obama's step father, Soetero, is repelled. Read investigative reporter Wayne Madsen about Obama's deep CIA family heritage. Also, historian Webster Tarpley. As Helen Thomas told me months ago, "if Obama had a birth certificate he would produce it." But this is about far more than the birth certificate issue; this is about having a CIA operative in the White House doing the CIA's bidding. Hence, no laws are enforced against oligarchs and Wall Street the CIA has always acted for against the people and the interests of the USA as a whole. That's why we're always at war, the people are herded, exploited and harvested like industrial farm animals, and Obama has done NOTHING for the poor or unemployed except appoint GE's Jeff Immelt to head up the Jobs and Competitiveness Board and JP Morgan's Midwest Chief Daley as his chief of staff--surefire ways to send another million jobs overseas! Andrew Jackson threw open the doors of the White House to the common man, Obama has opened them to hedge fund hyenas, zombie bankers, war criminals, the greatest swindlers of our era. Don't believe me, just read the list of names who attended the State Dinner in January honoring China's leader: Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, Henry Kissinger... Do you get the picture?

Sun May 01, 08:01:00 PM 2011
Victor said...

Well, we have Obama's birth certificate. Now let's see if we can get Bush's military record.

Sun May 01, 09:21:00 PM 2011

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