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what’s
really going on in obama’s head?
[originally written in
September, 2008]
 obama
and lying
obama and islam
abelard’s opinion
obama and
infanticide
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obama and
lying
From Dreams
of my father by Barack
Obama, pp94-95. He describes an interaction with his mother,
in the context of a friend being arrested with drugs.
At the time, Obama was also engaged with pot, cigs and
cocaine, which last he calls ‘blow’:
“I had given her a reassuring smile and patted her hand and
told her not to worry, I wouldn't do anything stupid. it was usually
an effective tactic another one of those tricks I had learned: people
were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no
sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved - such
a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t
seem angry all the time.”
(It seemed not to work for him on that occasion.)
Biden on Obama:
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is
articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy ... I mean, that's
a storybook, man.” [Quoted from blogs.usatoday.com]
obama and
islam
“Obama’s
verbal slip fuels his critics”
“ST. LOUIS, Mo. -” Sen. Barack Obama's foes seized Sunday
upon a brief slip of the tongue, when the Democratic presidential nominee
was outlining his Christianity but accidentally said, "my Muslim
faith."
“The three words -- immediately corrected -- were during an exchange
with ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week," when he was
trying to criticize the quiet smear campaign suggesting he is a Muslim”
From Dreams
of my father by Barack Obama
“The person who made me proudest of all, though, was [half brother]
Roy ... He converted to Islam.”
—
“In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school.”
“I studied the Koran.”
From Audacity of Hope:
Lolo (Obama's step father) followed a brand of Islam : “I looked
to Lolo for guidance.”
—
“I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift
in an ugly direction.”
These book quotes collected by PJ O'Donovan"
Barack Obama:
I am a Christian, and I am a devout Christian. I believe in the redemptive
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I believe that that faith gives
me a path to be cleansed of sin and have eternal life. But most importantly,
I believe in the example that Jesus set by feeding the hungry and healing
the sick and always prioritizing the least of these over the powerful.
I didn't 'fall out in church' as they say, but there was a very strong
awakening in me of the importance of these issues in my life. I didn't
want to walk alone on this journey. Accepting Jesus Christ in my life
has been a powerful guide for my conduct and my values and my ideals.” [Quoted from christianitytoday.com, 23/01/2008]
My opinion
is:
With the Obama coterie doing
everything to smear Sarah Palin with an unending stream
of ludicrous lies, it would appear that they are also
trying to use prejudice as a political weapon.
Meanwhile, the real questions about Obarma go on and
on and on...
Obama’s skin reflectivity is not really the main
issue driving his positives down. Rather it’s his dubious associations,
his continual shifty ‘adjustments’, his lack of any real political
substance and his general record of poor judgment, even the constant ‘attacks’
fashioned from very little fabric.
Obama’s putting forward very little serious policy,
but trying to get by as a pop star. So the balloon goes pop. What else
is to be expected among intelligent or serious voters?
As Obama is so secretive, I have made efforts trying to dig into what,
if anything, he really ,’believes’.
Is he a muslim? I doubt it. Is he a christian in any
real sense? I doubt it. To my own probing, it looks like he is a atheist
marxist; or, when it hides under a christianist hat, it is often called liberation
theology.
Obama may be a bit of a luke-warm theist. I see no
real sign that he’s a christianist.
He has unitarianism and islam in his background - both
lots regard christianism as polytheist. I don’t believe he is
uneffected by that in the dark of the night.
Here is a snippet I dug out while researching
him:
“[...] We need to take faith seriously not simply to block the
religious right but to engage all persons of faith in the larger project
of American renewal.” [Quoted from time.com]
He looks like a politician trying to maneuver, rather
than a conviction christianist.
Or
as Wright said:
“WRIGHT: It went down very simply. He's a politician, I'm a
pastor. We speak to two different audiences. And he says what he has
to say as a politician. I say what I have to say as a pastor. But they're
two different worlds. I do what I do. He does what politicians do. So
that what happened in Philadelphia where he had to respond to the sound
bytes, he responded as a politician.”
Looks about ‘Wright’ to
me!
From Obama’s 06/10/2008
San Francisco fund-raiser speech:
“And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or
religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment
or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” [Quoted from speech transcript in huffingtonpost.com]
The more Obama is probed, the more
that he is revealed as an empty cardboard cut-out. That
looks to me to be the central reason he’s sinking.
And that’s pretty much damn all to do with his
light reflectivity.
Biden on Indians
“ "I've had a great relationship," said Biden. "In
Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving
from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you
have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking."
“ At the time, these remarks drew a hail of criticism from Indian-Americans,
including Vijayanagar.”
Biden on Obarma
“I think he can be ready, but right now I don’t
believe he is. The presidency is not something that
lends itself to on-the- job-training.”
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obama and infanticide
In the Illinois Senate, Obama struggled
successfully against a state law prohibiting infanticide.
Since becoming a national politician, he has continually
lied and obfuscated, while attempting to cover up this
fact.
While the abortions laws vary greatly
between states in the USA, what is called ‘late
term abortion’ is often legal and occurs as a small
proportion of overall abortions. Some of these abortions
result in a viable delivery. What Obama fought against
was the application of civil rights to these viable births,
against an attempt to insist that civil rights, including
medical intervention to tend the aborted child, were available.
There
are reported cases of doctors, after abortion, putting
viable infants aside and allowing them to die. Quoting
Obama on a law crafted to stop this. The law was “designed
simply to burden the original decision of the woman and
the physician”. Thus, it
is crystal clear that Obama’s real concern was that
the end result of the abortion did not inadvertently end
with the woman ‘burdened’ with an ‘inconvenience’.
“Don’t take my word for it. There’s
a transcript of a state senate debate, which took place
on April 4, 2002. That transcript is available here
(the pertinent section runs from pages 31 to 34). I
quote it extensively below (italics mine). After being
recognized, Obama challenged the Born-Alive bill’s
sponsor as follows:
“OBAMA: Yeah. Just along the same lines. Obviously,
this is an issue that we’ve debated extensively
both in committee an on the floor so I — you
know, I don’t want to belabor it. But I did
want to point out, as I understood it, during the
course of the discussion in committee, one of the
things that we were concerned about, or at least I
expressed some concern about, was what impact this
would have with respect to the relationship between
the doctor and the patient and what liabilities the
doctor might have in this situation. So, can you just
describe for me, under this legislation, what’s
going to be required for a doctor to meet the requirements
you’ve set forth?
“SENATOR O’MALLEY: First of all, there
is established, under this legislation, that a child
born under such circumstances would receive all reasonable
measures consistent with good medical practice, and
that’s as defined, of course, by the …
practice of medicine in the community where this would
occur. It also requires, in two instances, that …
an attending physician be brought in to assist and
advise with respect to the issue of viability and,
in particular, where … there’s a suspicion
on behalf of the physician that the child …
may be [viable,] … the attending physician would
make that determination as to whether that would be
the case…. The other one is where the child
is actually born alive … in which case, then,
the physician would call as soon as practically possible
for a second physician to come in and determine the
viability.
“SENATOR OBAMA: So — and again, I’m
— I’m not going to prolong this, but I
just want to be clear because I think this was the
source of the objections of the Medical Society. As
I understand it, this puts the burden on the attending
physician who has determined, since they were performing
this procedure, that, in fact, this is a nonviable
fetus; that if that fetus, or child — however
way you want to describe it — is now outside
the mother’s womb and the doctor continues to
think that it’s nonviable but there’s,
let’s say, movement or some indication that,
in fact, they’re not just coming out limp and
dead, that, in fact, they would then have to call
a second physician to monitor and check off and make
sure that this is not a live child that could be saved.
Is that correct?
”SENATOR O’MALLEY: In the first instance,
obviously the physician that is performing the procedure
would make the determination. The second situation
is where the child actually is born and is alive,
and then there’s an assessment — an independent
assessment of viability by … another physician
at the soonest practical … time.
“SENATOR OBAMA: Let me just go to the bill,
very quickly. Essentially, I think as — as this
emerged during debate and during committee, the only
plausible rationale, to my mind, for this legislation
would be if you had a suspicion that a doctor, the
attending physician, who has made an assessment that
this is a nonviable fetus and that, let’s say
for the purpose of the mother’s health, is being
— that — that — labor is being induced,
that that physician (a) is going to make the wrong
assessment and (b) if the physician discovered, after
the labor had been induced, that, in fact, he made
an error, or she made an error, and, in fact, that
this was not a nonviable fetus but, in fact, a live
child, that that physician, of his own accord or her
own accord, would not try to exercise the sort of
medical measures and practices that would be involved
in saving that child. Now, it — if you think
there are possibilities that doctors would not do
that, then maybe this bill makes sense, but I —
I suspect and my impression is, is that the Medical
Society suspects as well that doctors feel that they
would be under that obligation, that they would already
be making these determinations and that, essentially,
adding a — an additional doctor who then has
to be called in an emergency situation to come in
and make these assessments is really designed
simply to burden the original decision of the woman
and the physician to induce labor and perform
an abortion. Now, if that’s the case —
and — and I know that some of us feel very strongly
one way or another on that issue — that’s
fine, but I think it’s important to understand
that this issue ultimately is about abortion and not
live births. Because if these are children who are
being born alive, I, at least, have confidence that
a doctor who is in that room is going to make sure
that they’re looked after.
“This is staggering. As Obama spoke these words,
he well knew that children were being born alive but
precisely not looked after by the abortion doctors whose
water the senator was carrying. As Stanek put it, as
many as one in five — twenty percent — were
left to die. That was what prompted the legislation
in the first place.”
[Quoted from nationalreview.com]
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The
Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American
Dream
by Barack Obama |
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Vintage, 2008, pbk
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Canongate Books, 2008, pbk
ISBN-10: 1847670830
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