DIVIDING AMERICA WAS OBOMB’S AGENDA FROM DAY ONE. IT WAS ALL REQUIRED TO PREPARE AMERICA FOR AN OBAMA THIRD TERM FOR LIFE.
OBAMA DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR BLACK AMERICA FOR 8 YEARS.
Abunimah’s piece -- and Obama’s numerous anti-Semitic associations -- got little attention. Throughout his life Barack Obama has been close friends with numerous virulent anti-Semites: Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Khalid al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi and others. PAMELA GELLER
"We know that Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C. home to plan and execute resistance to the Trump administration and his legislative agenda. None of these people care about the American people, or the fact that Trump won the election because millions of people voted for him." Patricia McCarthy
As Rating
America’s Presidents shows, Obama did nothing to heal America’s
racial divisions, and a great deal to make them worse. Bob Woodward is claiming that
Trump called Obama “overrated.” That’s a generous assessment.
Obama is
Responsible for Racial Tensions in America Today
Racism
is America’s original sin, and despite a century and a half and more of efforts
to put it behind us, it is more of an issue than ever. A great deal of this is
the responsibility of a man whose election to the presidency was hailed as the
beginning of a new, post-racial era in American society, a man who was supposed
to embody America’s rejection of racism: Barack Hussein Obama.
There
were many people who opposed Obama who nonetheless hailed his election to the
presidency for what it showed about the United States. There are vanishingly
few countries that have ever elected as their head of state someone from a
minority group that previously faced discrimination. Obama’s election was
supposed to herald the end of racism and the beginning of an era in which human
beings truly were judged by the content of their character rather than by the
color of their skin.
Things
didn’t work out that way. As Rating
America’s Presidents: An America-First Look at Who Is Best, Who Is Overrated,
and Who Was An Absolute Disaster demonstrates, throughout his
tenure, Obama stoked racial tensions rather than calming them. When he
took office, the Justice Department was pursuing a case against the New Black
Panther Party for voter intimidation in Philadelphia. Obama’s attorney general,
Eric Holder, abruptly dropped the case in May 2009 and refused to cooperate
with further investigations, giving the impression that the Black Panthers were
getting away with voter intimidation because of their race.
Even
worse, Obama’s response to several widely publicized incidents also exacerbated
racial tensions. On July 16, 2009, black intellectual Henry Louis Gates found
himself locked out of his Massachusetts home and began trying to force his way
in. An officer arrived to investigate a possible break-in; Gates began berating
him and was arrested for disorderly conduct. Obama claimed that the police
“acted stupidly” and noted the “long history in this country of
African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by police disproportionately,”
although there was no indication of racial bias in the case. He invited Gates
and the police officer to the White House for a “beer summit,” which the media
hailed as a manifestation of his determination to heal racial divisions, when
in fact it was just the opposite: he was taking a case of misunderstanding and
disorderly conduct and portraying it as a racial incident requiring presidential
reconciliation.
Obama
made a similar rush to judgment in the case of Ahmed Mohamed, a Muslim high
school student who was arrested in September 2015 after bringing what appeared
to be a suitcase bomb to his Texas high school. Mohamed claimed it was a
homemade clock and that he was a victim of “Islamophobic” bigotry. Obama
invited him to the White House, making the boy a symbol of the nation’s
“Islamophobia” and the need to overcome it. Mohamed’s father filed a lawsuit
against the school district, which was dismissed when he failed to establish
that the school had engaged in any prejudice or discrimination.
In
line with all this, shortly after taking office, Obama embarked upon two world
tours that critics quickly dubbed the “apology tours,” as at every stop the
President of the United States had some negative words for the country he
governed. He had little to say about America being the most generous, and most
free, nation on earth.
As Rating
America’s Presidents shows, Obama did nothing to heal America’s
racial divisions, and a great deal to make them worse. Bob Woodward is claiming that
Trump called Obama “overrated.” That’s a generous assessment.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the
David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 19 books, including the New York
Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic
History of the Middle East Peace Process. Follow
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OBAMA AND BILL AYERS!
“Professor Paul Kengor has
extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include David
Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist
Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power.”
"Cold War historian Paul Kengor goes deeply into
Obama's communist background in an article in
American Spectator, "Our First Red Diaper Baby President," and in an
excellent Mark Levin interview. Another Kengor article describes the Chicago communists whose
younger generation include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and
Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into
power." Karin
McQuillan
"We
know that Obama and his inner circle have set up a war room in his D.C.
home to plan and execute resistance to the Trump administration and his
legislative agenda. None of these people care about the American people,
or the fact that
Trump won
the election because millions of people voted for him." Patricia McCarthy
In their 1969
declaration, You Don’t Need a Weatherman to
Know Which Way the Wind Blows, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, and other
revolutionary leaders of the Weather Underground spoke of black people not so
much as the reason for their push to destroy American society and institute
world Communism, but as a means to achieve their goals.
September 1, 2020
The Social Order
The protests that sprang
up in the wake of George Floyd’s killing in Minneapolis seemed like spontaneous
outpourings of grief and anger. They weren’t entirely. Though many who joined
their ranks may have been moved by outrage at the images of Floyd’s death,
those operating behind the scenes have prepared for this moment for a long
time.
Indeed, the leaders of
the Black Lives Matter organizations fueling this summer’s disturbances were
trained by self-described Marxist revolutionaries who have long used the plight
of black Americans as justification for overthrowing America’s constitutional
order.
They frankly admit that such “organizing” is the key to their goal of world
revolution. Our political leaders owe it to themselves and to their fellow
Americans to understand this blueprint before rhetorically embracing, let alone
implementing, the radical changes that the protesters and rioters are
demanding.
The goal of upending the
American system is, moreover, also evident among the consultants now conducting
“anti-racism training” within major corporations and foundations. These
facilitators of anti-white struggle sessions disdain the capitalist system and
seek its replacement—and the mainstream media cheers them on. In a July New York Times article
on the BLM movement, Douglas McAdams, professor emeritus at Stanford, wrote: “It
looks, for all the world, like these protests are achieving what very few do:
setting in motion a period of significant, sustained, and widespread social,
political change. We appear to be experiencing a social change tipping
point—that is as rare in society as it is potentially consequential.”
But who initiated this
demand for change? After the initial protests following Floyd’s death, public
outrage was channeled—by trained activists working from a playbook—into
manifestations that often grew riotous. The Black Lives Matters Global Network
and Movement for Black Lives organizations have been the nerve center of the
protests. They have been laying the groundwork for years, carefully cultivating
a network of groups that could organize protests when the moment came and
amplify the message through social media.
Consider the BLM Global
Network. The three women who thought
up the BLM name in 2013, and then added the hashtag, later founded the
global network. They remain in charge. As the New York Times Magazine explained, “while much of the
nation’s attention drifted away from Black Lives Matter, organizers and
activists weren’t dormant.” One of the three founders, Alicia Garza, said that
“the movement’s first generation of organizers has been working steadily to
become savvier and even more strategic over the past seven years, and have been
joined by motivated younger leaders.”
As the Times report elaborates, “One of the reasons there have been
protests in so many places in the United States is the backing of organizations
like Black Lives Matter. While the group isn’t necessarily directing each
protest, it provides materials, guidance and a framework for new activists.”
Deva Woodly, a professor at the New School, told a Times reporter that, “those activists are taking to social media to
quickly share protest details to a wide audience. . . . These figures would
make the recent protests the largest movement in the country’s history.”
Melina Abdullah, of BLM’s
Los Angeles chapter, told an interviewer that the
demonstrations in that city had been strategically planned: “We built kind of
an organizing strategy that said, build black community [to] disrupt white
supremacy.” Their targets, she said, were the neighborhoods where “white
affluent folks” lived. “That’s one of the reasons the marches and the protests
were in Beverly Hills.”
A Los Angeles Times story emphasizes the
central role that the BLM organization played, saying: “The unprecedented size
and scope of recent rallies speaks to how Black Lives Matter has transformed
from a small but passionate movement into a cultural and political phenomenon.”
Weeks after Floyd was killed, BLM members were “continuing to channel their
outrage and grief over his killing into a sustained mass campaign for profound
social change. The group has political sway that would have seemed unimaginable
just a few months ago.”
In a 2015 interview,
Patrice Cullors, another of the three founders, said that she and Garza were
“trained Marxists.” Abdullah, of the Los Angeles BLM chapter, was born a
red-diaper baby—“Raised in the 70s, in the picket lines of Oakland, by activist
parents,” as the interviewer put it. Her paternal grandfather was Gunter
Reimann, a member of the German Communist Party. Garza cut her organizing teeth
as director of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), founded by
Marxists Garth Ferguson, Patty Snitzler, Regina Douglas, Brian Russell, and
Steve Williams. To Williams we owe the concept of “transformative organizing,”
which insists “that effective
organizing for social change cannot simply be based on an apolitical and highly
specific analysis of what is possible in the short term.”
Cullors trained for a
decade as a radical organizer in the Labor/Community Strategy Center,
established and run by Eric Mann, a former member of the Weather Underground,
the 1960s radical faction identified by the FBI as a domestic terrorist group.
The “Weathermen” explained in their 1969 foundational statement that they were
dedicated to “the destruction of U.S. imperialism and the achievement of
classless world: world communism.” The ties between the BLM Global Network and the
Weathermen run deep. National Review’s Andrew McCarthy
revealed in a recent exposé that Weather
Underground supporter Susan Rosenberg, whose 1984 sentence of 58 years
in prison for possession “of 740 pounds of
explosives, an Uzi submachine gun, an M-14 rifle, another rifle with a
telescopic sight, a sawed-off shotgun, three 9-millimeter handguns in purses
and boxes of ammunition” was commuted by President Bill Clinton, serves as vice
chair of the board of directors of Thousand Currents—the radical, grantmaking
institution that until July sponsored the BLM Global Network. Rosenberg was
also sought on federal charges that she aided the 1979 prison escape of Joanne Chesimard,
a Communist now living in Cuba, and whom Cullors quotes approvingly in
her book When They Call You a Terrorist. (Since July, the
Global Center has become “a project” of the Tides Center, another donor and
supporter of the hard Left and its ideas).
Mann, who served 18
months in prison for assault and
battery and disturbing the peace, remains committed to overthrowing the
American system and achieving world revolution through organizing. He calls his
Strategy Center the “Harvard of Revolutionary graduate schools,” or “the
University of Caracas Revolutionary Graduate School.” The Center’s purpose,
he told a seminar at the
University of California, San Diego in 2008, is “to build an anti-racist,
anti-imperialist, anti-fascist united front.”
Mann says that the Center
must teach people to organize strategically because “people think they can join
an organization, and go out, and change the most dictatorial country in the
world by just showing up. We don’t think so. Organizing is a skill, is a
vocation.” During the Center’s “six-month, intensive training program,” classes
offer a mix of theory—Mann’s wife teaches a class on “problems of imperialism,
women’s studies, strategies and tactics”—with street activism, where students
are held accountable. “How many people did you organize? How did it go?”
They also teach how to
raise funds. “If we’re going to build a revolution, you gotta ask people for
money . . . the poor must pay for their own liberation, so we need to teach you
to ask for money,” Mann told the students. “I spend my time organizing mainly
young people who want to be revolutionaries,” Mann said. If you’re not in
organizing, “your life is meaningless,” and you risk becoming a “bourgeois pig.”
The challenge for
students, Mann told the class, was to ask themselves, “Am I making decisions to
change the system? Am I being tied to the masses?” Universities serve as vital
centers of recruitment and radicalization. “The university,” Mann explained,
“is the place where Mao Zedong was radicalized, where Lenin and Fidel were
radicalized, where Che was radicalized. The concept of the radical middle class
of the colonized people, or in my case the radical middle class of the
privileged people, is a model of a certain type of revolutionary.” The goal for
students, he told his class, was to “Take this country away from the white
settler state, take this country away from imperialism and have an anti-racist,
anti-imperialist and anti-fascist revolution.”
In their 1969
declaration, You Don’t Need a Weatherman to
Know Which Way the Wind Blows, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, and
other revolutionary leaders of the Weather Underground spoke of black people
not so much as the reason for their push to destroy American society and
institute world Communism, but as a means to achieve their goals. American blacks were
considered a colonized subject of the United States, along with the people of
Vietnam and Bolivia—another victim of U.S. imperialism. Their liberation was
secondary to the general struggle; seeking black liberation for its own sake
was just a form of bourgeois nationalism. “No black self-determination could be
won which would not result in a victory for the international revolution as a
whole,” the document affirmed.
These are the ideological
sources for what could be the largest radical movement in American history—one
that could lead to real policy changes. One component is street pressure,
driven by the likes of Mann and Cullors. Another takes place in plusher
environments, such as Fortune 500 companies or the halls of Congress.
Consultants like White Fragility author Robin DiAngelo
told 184 Democratic legislators in a conference call in June that their
policies hurt black lives. DiAngelo told The New York Times that “capitalism is
so bound up with racism. … [it] is dependent on inequality, on an underclass.
If the model is profit over everything, you’re not going to look at your
policies to see what is most racially equitable.”
Up to now, the American
system has resisted socialism by offering prosperity and opportunity. Our
politicians today need to understand what they’re facing from the BLM movement
and what is at stake. The “white settler state” of Eric Mann’s fevered mind is
in reality the American constitutional order. The imperialism that Mann,
Rosenberg, DiAngelo, and others imagine is the American free-market system that
has been the most successful weapon against poverty ever devised. Political
leaders of either party feeling pressured to adopt BLM policies or even just
mouth the rhetoric should spend some time examining the movement’s intellectual
sources—and its political goals.
“Professor Paul Kengor has
extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly
Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power.”
Black Lives Matter Founder Mentored by
Ex-Domestic Terrorist Who Worked with Bill Ayers
CNN
The co-founder of the Black
Lives Matter (BLM) movement, Patrisse Cullors, was the protégé of a
communist-supporting domestic terrorist for over a decade, spending years
training in political organizing and absorbing the radical Marxist-Leninist
ideology which shaped her worldview.
Eric Mann, who mentored Cullors
for over a decade in community organizing, was a member of radical-left
militant groups: Students for a Democratic Society and the Weather Underground,
which bombed government buildings and
police stations in the 1960s and 1970s.
In a newly resurfaced video from 2015, Black Lives
Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors reveals that she and her fellow BLM founders
are “trained Marxists.”
In the video, Cullors is interviewed by Jared Ball of the Real
News Network and discusses the direction of the BLM movement.
“The first thing, I think, is
that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia in particular
are trained organizers,” she said. “We are trained Marxists. We are
super-versed on, sort of, ideological theories. And I think that what we really
tried to do is build a movement that could be utilized by many, many black
folk.”
In previous interviews in 2018,
while promoting her then-new book titled, “When They Call You a Terrorist: A
Black Lives Matter Memoir,” Cullors describes her introduction to and affinity
for Marxist ideology.
In an interview with Democracy Now!,
Cullors describes how she became a trained organizer with the Labor/Community
Strategy Center, calling it her “first political home” and the center’s
director, Eric Mann, her personal mentor.
She told The Politic that it was
there that she was trained from her youth and grew as a leader.
The Labor/Community Strategy
Center describes it’s philosophy as “an
urban experiment,” utilizing grassroots organizing to “focus on Black and
Latino communities with deep historical ties to the long history of
anti-colonial, anti-imperialist, pro-communist resistance to the U.S. empire.”
The center teaches and studies the history
of the “Indigenous rebellions against the initial European genocidal
invasions,” the “Great Slave Haitian Revolution of the 1790s,” and the “Great
Slave Rebellions that won the U.S. civil war for the racist north.”
The center also expresses its
appreciation for the work of the U.S. Communist Party, “especially Black
communists,” as well as its support for “the great work of the Black Panther
Party, the American Indian Movement, Young Lords, Brown Berets, and the great
revolutionary rainbow experiments of the 1970s,” while flaunting its roots in
the new communist movement.
Speaking with ACLU’s At Liberty
weekly podcast, Cullors described the center
as her “foundation,” claiming it was there that she developed the skills which
helped her found the Black Lives Matter movement, after having been recruited
by its director, Eric Mann.
Mann, an avowed communist
revolutionary, was the New England coordinator for Students for a
Democratic Society (SDS) in 1968. The following year, a more radical wing
splintered from the SDS, led by Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, calling for
violent “direct action” over civil disobedience.
The splintered faction became
known as the Weather Underground, with the stated goal of overthrowing the U.S.
government. As a result, the FBI classified the organization as a
domestic terrorist group in 1969.
Mann led a group of fellow
Weathermen who launched their own violent direct action at the Harvard
University Center for International Affairs.
In an article titled: “Band
Invades, Violently Disrupts Center for International Affairs,” the Harvard
Crimson reported that a band of 20 to 30
activists invaded the Center for International Affairs, “roughing up” several
staff members and employees before fleeing.
Several slogans, including
“Pig,” “Fuck U.S. Imperialism,” and “Imperialists Screw All Women,” were
sprayed on the building’s walls. Rocks thrown by the group broke several
windows and a telephone was damaged to prevent police from being notified.
Undergraduates who saw the
group leaving the building and chanting “Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh; NLF is going to
win,” said they recognized some of them as members of Weathermen, a militant
spin-off of the older New Left Caucus of SDS.
Mann was later charged with five counts of
assault and battery, disturbing the peace, damaging property, defacing a
building, and disturbing a public assembly, for which he spent 18 months in
prison.
At the 2010 United States
Social Forum in Detroit, under the
slogan “Another World Is Possible. Another U.S. Is Necessary,” the
Labor/Community Strategy Center sponsored a session titled: “Transformative Organizing
Theory: Conscious Organizers Seek to Build Anti-racist, Anti-imperialist
Politics Rooted in Working Class Communities of Color.” In it, Cullors––rising
to prominence––was chosen by Mann to be a panelist along with him.
There, Cullors spoke about growing up as a
working class, queer, Black woman, in a single-parent household, with a father
who was in and out of prison.
Cullors stated that
“positionality in this country is supposed to devastate us” and had done so
somewhat successfully, while stressing the need to “fight this thing.”
Both Cullors and Mann strongly
endorsed Bernie Sanders. Cullors was a primary speaker at a Sanders campaign
event the day before Super Tuesday, which Mann attended.
Cullors, viewing Biden as far
too moderate, pushed for the latter to end his
campaign, accusing him of having an “old guard mentality” and coming from an
“old establishment.”
Now with Biden leading as the
Democratic presidential nominee, Cullors and Mann are finding a sympathetic ear
for their radical agenda.
As Breitbart news reported, a group of 50 leading
national progressive groups representing millions of active members across the
country, are pressuring Biden to adopt the
radical platform of the Movement for Black Lives which was co-written by BLM.
The group is calling for Biden
to immediately incorporate their radical policies, including putting forward a
transformative and comprehensive policing and criminal justice reform laid out
by the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL).
Citing his “moral
responsibility in this moment” to make amends for past harms he had caused, the
groups demanded that Biden make commitments such as advance reparations and
defund police, prisons, and weaponry in order to fully fund healthcare,
housing, education, and environmental justice.
“We ask that you revise your
platform to ensure that the federal government permanently ends and ceases any
further appropriation of funding to local law enforcement in any form and
redirect those and additional resources towards much needed community-led and
community-controlled public safety efforts,” the letter reads.
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There is Nothing ‘Loony’ About Bill Ayers as Obama’s Muse
By Jack Cashill
This past week several people called my attention to a post by Scott Johnson on his influential PowerLine blog that
addressed the literary relationship between Barack Obama and his radical
friend, Bill Ayers.
In the post Johnson spoke of his high regard for David
Garrow’s “staggeringly researched” 2017 Obama biography, Rising Star. “Without
resolving all mysteries,” Johnson writes, “[Garrow’s] scholarship belies the
notion that [Dreams from My Father] was ghostwritten by Bill Ayers or
other such collaborator.”
Johnson emailed Garrow to follow up on the authorship
question, and Garrow responded, “I don’t recall exactly where the Bill Ayers
[stuff] got started, but it, like the Frank-Davis-as-father notion, is just
beyond loony, ’cause Dreams is already *in galleys* when
Barack and Bill first get to know each other.”
I did not advance this theory casually. I understood then
what Obama biographer David Remnick would later affirm, namely that my theory,
“if ever proved true, or believed to be true among enough voters, could have
been the end of [Obama’s] candidacy.”
My research on this topic, aided by several helpful literary
detectives, culminated in my 2011 book, published by Simon &
Schuster, Deconstructing Obama. I think I can safely assume
Garrow has never read it. I would invite those curious about the evidence to
read the book or even to read the preliminary article cited above.
That Garrow does not know the source of a theory he dismisses
offhand as “beyond loony” is, unfortunately, altogether typical of
establishment political writers. His airy dismissal, in fact,
reinforces the theme of my forthcoming book Unmasking Obama: The Fight
to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency.
In the book, I use the phrase “samizdat” -- Russian for
underground press -- to describe the loose coalition of conservative blogs,
online publications, talk radio shows, and legal monitors such as Judicial
Watch that challenged the Left -- and, occasionally, the “responsible” right --
for control of the Obama narrative.
For eight-plus years, the samizdat broke virtually every
major unflattering story about Obama and his presidency, some of which the
major media grudgingly confirmed, some of which they continue to suppress. In
the book I tell how the individuals in question managed to break these stories
out. In every case, as you might imagine, the samizdat journalists were met
with condescension, if not outright contempt, from the major media.
Obama’s biographers were among the more contemptuous.
Curiously, the four major biographers are all named David -- Mendell, Remnick,
Maraniss, and Garrow. The last three are Pulitzer Prize winners. To his credit,
Garrow was the only one of the four who refused to prop up what Remnick called
Obama’s “signature appeal: the use of the details of his own life as a
reflection of a kind of multicultural ideal.”
The story Obama told about his happy multicultural family at
the conventions was pure fiction. According to Garrow, Obama’s mother, Ann
Dunham, and Barack Obama Sr. “never chose to live together at any time
following the onset of Ann’s pregnancy.” Garrow quotes approvingly one
unnamed scholar to the effect that Obama Sr. was no more than “a sperm donor in
his son’s life.” All of this was common knowledge in the samizdat as
early as 2008, but it came as news to many of Garrow’s readers in 2017.
Like his fellow Davids, however, Garrow has no use for
information gleaned from the samizdat, especially information I introduced. On
the subject of the Obama poem “Pop,” for instance, Garrow notes, “Most
commentators presumed that Obama had written about his grandfather, Stan
Dunham, not Frank Marshall Davis.”
This much was true, but “hostile critics,” Garrow continues,
insisted the poem was about Obama’s bi-sexual Communist mentor, Davis. The
“hostile critics” Garrow cites in the footnotes are historian Paul Kengor and
me.
Instead of giving me credit for being the first to decode
“Pop,” Garrow describes me in the footnote as “someone who is cited with the
greatest reluctance.” What I did to deserve this slight is left unsaid,
especially since Garrow knows I nailed the identity of “Pop” two years before
anyone in the mainstream media did, including the other Davids.
As to Bill Ayers’s involvement in the writing of Dreams,
Garrow does not even deign to dismiss the possibility. He has a discovery of
his own, namely that outside literary help came from a law school buddy of
Obama’s named Rob Fisher. This is an important find if for no other
reason than it undercuts Obama’s 2008 boast to a crowd of schoolteachers,
"I've written two books. I actually wrote them myself."
An established economist before starting law school, Fisher
became good friends with Obama at Harvard. There, they co-authored a
manuscript that perhaps prophetically was never finished. One completed chapter
dealt with the always sexy topic of plant closings.
“The quest is to develop guidelines,” they wrote, “on how
politically progressive movements can use the market mechanism to promote
social goals.” Garrow quotes the unfinished manuscript extensively. Its style
is wonkish and ungainly throughout.
Sentences like the following suggest that one author wrote as
awkwardly as the other: “While Yuppies can afford the expensive frivolities
provided by The Sharper Image, others receive insufficient nutrition to allow
their minds to develop properly.”
I do not question Fisher’s involvement. Obama needed all the
help he could get. What I do question is Fisher’s ability to provide the
poetry, the rage, the postmodern rhetoric, and the Homeric structure that
inspired Oona King of the London Times to overpraise Dreams as “a
beautifully written personal memoir steeped in honesty.”
Garrow seems to dismiss my thesis for no more substantial
reason than his belief that Dreams was already in galley form
when “Barack and Bill first get to know each other.” Garrow traces the first
meeting of these two gentlemen to a breakfast some time in early 1995. He bases
this timing on the suspiciously well-remembered account of a common friend who
claims to have introduced them.
Garrow, however, has a problem with chronology. He writes
that Obama took six weeks off from his law firm job “in late spring 1994” to
finish Dreams. He needed time to complete the book’s third section,
the one on Africa. Garrow claims Obama worked largely from letters he sent in
1988 while in Kenya and retrieved from his girlfriend at the time, Sheila
Jager.
David Maraniss told a different story in his 2012 bio.
According to Maraniss’s source, Crown editor Henry Ferris, Obama made an
additional trip to Kenya for further research. Obama confirmed this trip when
interviewed by Marannis. Garrow makes no mention of this mysterious trip, which
would have taken place in 1994. No one else does either. Like much in his life,
Obama appears to have made it up.
A more likely possibility is that Obama lied to Ferris about
the trip. Instead of going to Kenya, Obama may have contented himself with
going to the local library and pillaging the memoirs of longtime
Kenya resident Kuki Gallmann.
This is the theory proposed by
tireless researcher Shawn Glasco. He was intrigued by the many words and
phrases in Dreams that also appeared in Gallmann’s book, African
Nights, which was published in 1994. These include Baobab [a tree], bhang
[cannabis], boma [an enclosure], samosa [a fried snack], shamba [a farm field],
liana [a vine], tilapia [a fish], kanga [a sheet of fabric], shuka [decorative
sashes], and many, many more.
Based on Garrow’s imprecise timeline, Obama flew to New York
to hand the completed book off to Ferris no later than early June 1994. In
other words, he spent six weeks to finish the last third of the 400-page book
between “late spring” 1994 and early June 1994, which is, in fact, late spring.
In his 2009 book, Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an
American Marriage, celebrity biographer Christopher Andersen offers a much
more credible account of how Obama managed to finish a project that hung over
his head ever since he finished law school.
According to Andersen’s two sources in Chicago’s Hyde Park,
Obama found himself deeply in debt and “hopelessly blocked.” At “Michelle’s
urging,” Obama “sought advice from his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill
Ayers.” Noting that Obama had already taped interviews with many of his
relatives, both African and American, Andersen elaborated, “These oral
histories, along with his partial manuscript and a trunkload of notes were
given to Ayers.” Andersen’s six-page account makes sense, logically and
chronologically, but Garrow fully ignores it.
Andersen is a best-selling, mainstream author. He even
appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball to discuss the book. Said Chris
Matthews at the end of the interview, “You‘re amazing, successful guy. You
have a winning streak here.” Matthews likely did not read the book. Garrow did
read it and cites the book in the footnotes but, oddly, not on the subject of
authorship.
Garrow nonetheless offers some valuable insights into the
Ayers-Obama relationship, insights that I believe strengthen my thesis. Once
Ayers helped launch Obama’s political career in 1995, Garrow writes, “Barack
and Michelle began to see a great deal more of not only Bill and Bernardine
[Dohrn] but also their three closest friends, Rashid and Mona Khalidi and
Carole Travis."
According to Garrow, the three couples attended "almost
nightly dinners” together up until the time Obama ran for the U.S. Senate in
2004. This information, of course, makes complete hash out of Obama’s infamous
claim during a 2008 debate that Ayers was “just a guy who lives in my
neighborhood.”
Khalidi, a radical Palestinian, begins his 2004 book, Resurrecting
Empire, with a tribute to his own literary muse. “First,
chronologically and in other ways,” writes Khalidi, “comes Bill Ayers.” Unlike
the calculating Obama, Khalidi had no reason to be coy about this
relationship. He elaborates, “Bill was particularly generous in letting
me use his family’s dining room table to do some writing for the
project.” Khalidi did not need the table. He had one of his own. He
needed help from the skilled neighborhood editor and writer who obviously could
and would provide it.
There is nothing “loony” about Bill Ayers helping a good
friend finish his book. That is what Ayers did. He was grooming Obama for
higher office and was savvy enough to keep his writing relationship with Obama
under wraps. Being a friend of a terrorist, Ayers knew, would not exactly help
Obama’s career.
Jack Cashill’s most recent book, a political
thriller called “The Hunt” co-authored with Mike McMullen, is available
wherever you buy books. For a signed collector’s edition, see
www.TheHuntBook.com.
Democrats Allow Communists to Infiltrate Their Party Across the Nation
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/06/obamas-lackey-judge-blakey-hands-obomb.html
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“Professor Paul Kengor has
extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny include David
Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist
Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power.”
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We are all victims of the Obama cabal’s collusion with Russia –
President Trump’s voters and all Americans who believe in our free and fair
election process.
BARACK
OBAMA: Was he America’s first closet Communist president?
https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/05/karin-mcquilan-barack-obama-and-his.html
Obama choose Communists and Marxists
for the highest, most powerful positions in our land, including his closest
political advisors, and his head of the CIA. These facts are not in
dispute. Most are openly admitted by the people in question, as necessary
damage control. Our press chooses not to report them.
Professor
Paul Kengor has extensively researched the Chicago communists whose progeny
include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly
Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put
Obama into power.
OBAMA’S WAR ON THE JEWS
The
Democrats are now officially the party of Jew-hatred. This is largely due to
the disastrous presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. PAMELA GELLER
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https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-disaster-of-barack-obama-democrats.html
Abunimah’s piece -- and
Obama’s numerous anti-Semitic associations -- got little attention. Throughout
his life Barack Obama has been close friends with numerous virulent
anti-Semites: Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Khalid al-Mansour, Rashid Khalidi
and others.
PAMELA GELLER
THE OBOMBS AND HARVARD
OBAMA
AND HIS SAUDIS PAYMASTERS… Did he serve them well?
Malia, Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal https://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2019/03/malia-michelle-barack-and-college.html
Michelle was the next to attend Harvard, in her
case Harvard Law School. “Told by counselors that her SAT scores and her grades
weren’t good enough for an Ivy League school,” writes Christopher Andersen in
Barack and Michelle, “Michelle applied to Princeton and Harvard anyway.”
GOOGLE WHAT THE OBOMB
DID FOR HIS SAUDIS PAYMASTERS
Barack Obama’s back door, however, was unique
to him. Before prosecutors send some of the dimmer Hollywood stars to the
slammer for their dimness, they might want to ask just how much influence a
Saudi billionaire peddled to get Obama into Harvard.
“Of course, one of the main reasons the nation is now
“divided, resentful and angry” is because race-baiting, Islamist,
class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was president for eight
long years." MATTHEW VADUM
THE OBAMA MARXIST-MUSLIM
BANKSTER-FUNDED THIRD TERM for life:
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/03/obamas-marxism-still-hankering-for.html
"Cold War historian Paul Kengor
goes deeply into Obama's communist background in an article in
American Spectator, "Our First Red Diaper Baby President," and in an
excellent Mark Levin interview. Another Kengor article describes the Chicago communists whose
younger generation include David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and
Barack Hussein Obama. Add the openly Marxist, pro-communist Ayers, and you have many of the key players who put Obama into power." Karin McQuillan
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"We know that Obama and his inner circle
have set up a war room in his D.C. home to plan and execute resistance to
the Trump administration and his legislative agenda. None of these
people care about the American people, or the fact that
Trump won the election because millions of
people voted for him." Patricia McCarthy
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