The Arab-American Who Would Be President. Did he mention he's "black."

Subject: In His Own Words (from his books)

This guy wants to be our President and control our government. He also talks about unifying everyone. Does this sound like one who really wants to unify?

Pay close attention to his last comment.

From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.' Barack Hussein Obama got tired of explaining his multi-racial (or bi-racial) background and since he "looked" black, it was easier to just say so or to infer so and not admit to the truth. What is essentially misleading is that he's entitled the book "Dreams of my Father" and yet he glosses over the verifiable fact that his father is an Arab-African from Kenya. In the book, he claims he does not identify with the "Arab-ness" of his father, and he hides behind the "blackness" and "African-ness" and assumed (by others) "Negro-ness" of his skin color. Wonder why?

From the article http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_03_12/feature.html 'He found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against his mother's race.' Barack Hussein Obama did not actually write this, although he inferred it in his book.


'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.' This is taken out of a few paragraphs about his first job and the man who hired him, but the tone of the words conveys the message whether you read it in context or out.

'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.' In context, Barack Hussein Obama is trying to distance himself from those who classed themselves as "multi-racial" and wanted to know about all of their heritage rather than to chose just one aspect (or the higher percentage "race" or "culture" or "ethnicity") and who felt that it was the black community who refused to allow them to be "multi-racial" by forcing them to choose one aspect of their ethnic background and stick to it. So, he chooses, "black" as in "Negro-African" when he has 1/16 of this ethnicity and 7/16 of "Arab-African" ethnicity. Barack Hussein Obama is 1/2 Caucasian and had he wished to do so, he could have stated he was "white" whether his skin color indicated so or not. So, he is confused about his multi-racial background and tries to hide his "Arab-ness" by being "black" and by inference "Negro-African."

'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.' Rewording of two separate statements. But the truth is there, however obscure in the misquote above, that Barack Hussein Obama measures himself by his Arab Kenyan father and not by his Caucasian mother and grandparents whom he knew well and who nurtured him with total disregard of his skin color or his perceived 'difference.' I liken it to someone who has a Native American in their genealogy and who studies his Native American heritage and then attempts to emulate by words, deeds, and thoughts, his Native American-ness.


Here's the entire quote:

All my life, I had carried a single image of my father, one that I had sometimes rebelled against but had never questioned, one that I had later tried to take as my own. The brilliant scholar, the generous friend, the upstanding leader — my father had been all those things. All those things and more, because except for that one brief visit in Hawaii, he had never been present to foil the image, because I hadn't see what perhaps most men see at some point in their lives: their father's body shrinking, their father's best hopes dashed, their father's face lined with grief and regret.

Yes, I'd seen weakness in other men — Gramps and his disappointments, Lolo [my adoptive father] and his compromise. But these men had become object lessons for me, men I might love but never emulate, white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela. And if later I saw that the black men I knew fell short of such lofty standards; if I had learned to respect these men for the struggles they went through, recognizing them as my own — my father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up, black man!

Now, as I sat in the glow of a single light bulb, rocking slightly on a hard-backed chair, that image had suddenly vanished. Replaced by ... what? A bitter drunk? An abusive husband? A defeated, lonely bureaucrat? To think that all my life I had been wrestling with nothing more than a ghost!

We know what Barack Hussein Obama writes, but we do not know what he thinks, what's in his heart. He writes for his audience and he glosses over what he doesn't wish his audience to know about himself. He's hidden his grandmother away and refuses to bring her forward for interviews. Why? What's he afraid of? The truth? Written as he's describing his 1992 wedding:
"The person who made me proudest of all," Obama wrote, "was Roy. Actually, now we call him Abongo, his Luo name, for two years ago he decided to reassert his African heritage. He converted to Islam, and has sworn off pork and tobacco and alcohol."

There is a photo on the campaign trail of Senator Barack Hussein Obama with a glass of beer in his hand "sipping" the beer. I have no documentation that he actually did more than touch his lips to the rim of the glass, trying to look "blue collar" or something ingratiating to Pennsylvania voters. If you have more information, please pass it along to me.

From Audacity of Hope: 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'

The original contains no specific mention of "Muslims":

In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

So what is he really implying? That he will support the Constitution of the United States from enemies foreign and domestic? Or not? Is this why he refuses to revere the National Anthem and the Flag of the United States of America? Is he secretly harboring animosity (as his wife has inferred in her words and actions) toward the USofA? Or just Republicans and "whites" and Conservatives and me?

Typical of Snopes http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ownwords.asp
to stand on the fence on this one, afraid to verify some easily verifiable information which Barack Hussein Obama has left out of his books for themselves, which leads me to think they're not centrist, but leaning quite noticeably to the left.


But you can be your own judge of his moral character, integrity, honesty, leadership, and experience. I've already made up my mind that the only thing Barack Hussein Obama is experienced in is hiding the truth about himself from the Voters.