4um: Barack Obama: Washington Post, Chicago Tribune investigations confirm autobiography lies; now asking: Is "African-American" a lie too?

Title: Barack Obama: Washington Post, Chicago Tribune investigations confirm autobiography lies; now asking: Is "African-American" a lie too?
Source: Reading Between The Lines
URL Source: http://kennethelamb.blogspot.com/20 ... ma-questions-about-ethnic.html
Published: May 18, 2008
Author: Kenneth E. Lamb
Post Date: 2008-05-18 10:06:40 by christine
Keywords: None
Views: 597
Comments: 33

The following article with preface may be distributed. If used, please contact the author before editing and publication. The author has written and researched for the New York Times, the Miami Herald, the St. Petersburg Times, and the Jewish Information Network, among others.

Synopsis: The author opens citing the work of Mr. Richard Cohen of the Washington Post. Mr. Cohen’s columns about the “composites,” rearranged timelines, and complete fabrication of events in Sen. Obama’s autobiography are the basis for a further investigation into Mr. Obama’s claim to be “African-American.”

(NOTE: This IS NOT a rehash of the discredited discussion of either his education in Islamic schools, or any other ties to Islam. His religion, and education, outside of citing his Harvard attendance, play no role whatsoever in this article. THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS NEW, PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED documentation concerning his ethnic identity claims. It is based upon original research that the author openly invites for further inquiry and academic verification in his preface to Mr. Cohen.)

Documentation of his actual ethnic background demonstrates Mr. Obama is not an “African-American” as defined in United States law. This research was initiated by a request from a daily news publication of international reputation in New York City.

The story then moves to documenting his father’s genealogy. This study indicates Sen. Obama is actually Arab-American. The significance of this is that “the soul and substance of Mr. Obama’s claim to fame” rest entirely on his being “the first” African-American to achieve whatever it is that Mr. Obama is claiming at the time. If Mr. Obama is not legally an African-American, then his claims collapse. While there may still be historic firsts, for example, being the first Arab-American to be the president of the Harvard Law Review, those claims are not the star-appeal of his entire political life, and the basis of his current celebrity star status. If he is not African-American, then he is not what has propelled him up the political ladder; he is not, as described by one journalist riding Mr. Obama’s campaign plane, what is currently capturing America’s “cult” attention.

The author includes a section that notes the double-standard Oprah Winfrey applied in her handling of Mr. Obama’s autobiographical fabrications vis a vis her reaction to much less in a book by another author she promoted. It calls upon her to explain her double-standards, and asks, reasonably under the circumstances, if her double-standards are racist.

The article concludes by citing the importance of recognizing that Mr. Obama’s image of himself is built on lies. It challenges the reader to ask if his or her own racist presumptions of ethnic identity tied to physical appearance are at play.

The encapsulation of the final question put to the reader is to ask, “If we elect a person whose entire image is based on lies, and citing again the documentation of Mr. Cohen and the Washington Post to show he continues to lie without conscience as a matter of habit, should the burden fall upon him when we feel the anger of being lied to, or in fact, is it we who should be the object of our anger when it is we who first lied to ourselves when we decided to accept his lies, knowing all along that he was lying to us?”

Earlier today, I sent you an email about Sen. Obama. In the course of reviewing it for final draft, I made some changes; for one thing, I upped the number of references to your columns. What follows below is the final draft – it varies significantly from the prior draft by placing more responsibility upon “us” of the American body politic for lying to ourselves, and using racist presumptions to allow Mr. Obama to lie to us as well.

With this amendment, I send to you what I hope will be the first read of the article, and hopefully it may provoke all of us to reexamine ourselves in light of the Obama mania sweeping America.

That said, the rest of the email and article follows with the introduction I sent below for the sake of continuity with my previous communication to you. While similar at first, it is now much more pointed in its condemnation of us for lying to ourselves, again, about whom we elect, and why.

A politician LIED? Nah, that couldn't be, could it? I don't know how much more of these revelations my poor old heart can take!

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

This looms large; or, that is, it would in a sane society. Then, there's this: "The encapsulation of the final question put to the reader is to ask, “If we elect a person whose entire image is based on lies......." Hmmm..bill clinton comes to mind here; hillary, too. Also, george bush and john mccain...the one trying to one-up daddy while pleasing his neo-con handlers, and the other trying to compensate for not rising to Admiral-status as his daddy did. The author's right - ultimately it's the fault of us citizens who are foolish enough to pay five dollars for a two-dollar bag of manure.

"The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." lodwick

To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

The question is who is a African American...are all those born in Africa who become US citizens African Americans?.... in my case the answer is no the fact is African blacks and American blacks have nothing in common outside the colour of skin and even that is a stretch ...I guess Barak has the Tiger Woods problem

further, i'm putting it up for discussion. your characterizing it as i'm insinuating obama isn't black enough is absurd. it was the term African American that the author is disputing, not his black color.

Saying someone isn't African-American enough isn't the same as saying he's not black enough? And the point of the article isn't that he's not African-American because his father was not enough of a Negro, i.e., a black?

Interesting that that organization appears in the author Lamb's profile at the link.

By that definition, I'm just as "black" as Obama is, but I'm colored completely differently.

So, should I go collect Affirmative Action and other benefits given that I don't look anything like a Sub-Saharan African yet I've got some of that blood in me?

Back when I was getting WAY too much natural vitamin D, I was lots darker than BHO - for whatever that's worth.

Obama talks about whether he's `black enough'.

Byline: William Douglas

LAS VEGAS _ With puzzlement and a touch of humor, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama weighed in Friday on a question posed by some in the African-American community about whether he's "black enough" to represent them in the White House.

Speaking to a packed ballroom at the National Association of Black Journalists convention here, Obama said he found the question curious because it appeared to go deeper than his brown skin or his record as a U.S. senator from Illinois or a member of that state's legislature.

"It's not my track record. It's not that I can't give a pretty good speech; from what I've heard I can preach once in a while," he told the audience. "What it really does lay bare, I think, in part: We're still locked into the notion that somehow if you appeal to white folks then there must be something wrong."

Some blacks have questioned his ethnicity because he was raised by a white American mother and an African father, who left the household when Obama was young.

Obama added that his educational background _ he attended Harvard Law School _ might contribute to some people doubting his racial pedigree.

"There's some of that `Is he keeping it real because he went to Harvard,' which a lot of you in the audience had to deal with ... you'd think that we'd be over that by now," he said.

The Illinois senator, who trails Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., in most national presidential polls, is regarded as the first African-American candidate with a legitimate shot at the Democratic presidential nomination.

Early conventional wisdom was that African-American voters _ a key Democratic voting bloc _ would enthusiastically flock to Obama's campaign, making the path to the nomination more difficult for Clinton, former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and the rest of the large Democratic presidential field.

That hasn't come to pass. Clinton, armed with former President Bill Clinton's connections, has aggressively pursued the African-American vote and endorsements from key African-American leaders in the political, business and entertainment arenas.

The "blackness" issue dogged Obama early in the race. Some African-American leaders such as the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton _ both former presidential candidates _ initially told African-American voters that they should cast their ballots based on their political interests, not skin color.

Clinton held a commanding lead over Obama among African-Americans early in the race. An ABC News/Washington poll in January showed Clinton ahead of Obama among African-Americans 60 percent to 20 percent.

But Obama has closed the gap. A Gallup poll released in June showed Clinton leading Obama among African-Americans 43 percent to 42 percent, a virtual dead heat.

Obama arrived in Las Vegas prepared to confront the "blackness" question, which was the subject of one of the convention's panels.

He used elements from the old joke about time and so-called "colored people time" as the reason that he was late for Friday's convention events.

"You guys keep asking if I'm black enough," he said with a straight face. "I thought I'd just stroll in."

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Unfortunately, to a lot of people, including seemingly some on this thread, it is color more than character that matters.

So since there are folks on this thread who think "black enough" is not something that should be discussed and HOW DARE YOU do such a thing, I'm throwing my hat into the ring.

I'm colored like Opie. Always have been. Got just a hair less "African-American" blood in me than Obama does and can't tan. I'm white as snow with no possibility of getting any darker; I've tried - it just doesn't work.

So, am I "black enough" to go hang with the homies given that I share a bloodline with them or would they just diss me instead?

Which leads to another question - given that the bloodline comes from former slaves held by the Cherokee, legally, I'm entitled to register with BIA, collect benefits, and be counted on the census as an "African American" while looking like something straight out of Braveheart. Should I go for it or not and why or why not?

Yes, I am making fun of the whole Affirmative Action and Racial Spoils System because it is a crock of crap. Its even more fun to make light of it given that I qualify for it without looking anything like its intended recipients.

No, because you have too much snap, initiative, and pride to become a ward of the state. imo

Duke Ellington Take the A Train Soundie 1940's

Obama claimed his parents were inspired to marry when the Selma Alabama marches took place in 1965. They were married years before that time. Obama will say and do anything to get what he wants. People who trust him are fools who must also think we have 57 states.

Or as my FIL told Mrs.L when she was a little girl and asked him, "Daddy, why don't you become President?"

"Because you have to be crazy, or a criminal, or both; to want to be President."

BTW, what's with the Chicago Trib and Washington Post citation? Show me where this nonsense appears in either.

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot

Sen. Obama's autobiography is filled with "composite" characters, rearranged timelines, and fantasy events that never occurred. I read that twice in the Washington Post - read Richard Cohen's columns of Jan. 1, 2008, and March 27, 2007, for yourself.

There are more articles than that, by more authors than just Mr. Cohen, but I wanted to get started by saying that what follows isn't just something I'm pulling out of thin air. What follows is serious, documented, and not at all what those who want to write history about the election of the first so- called "African-American" president, want in the least to admit is true - and why its truth matters more than their desire to ignore the truth for the sake of their desire to write history.

Has your fear and loathing of Obama actually caused you make common cause with neocon/Zionist shills like Richard Cohen?

Obama, an Arab? LOLROTFLOMGWTF?....there is apparently no limit to how low these creeps will stoop to hold on to power.

But, rather than recoil from this WMD-esque neocon howler, you actually take it seriously?

Here's a picture of Obama's father, of which there are scads to be found on the internet.

Look like any Arab you've ever seen? Obama's father is a Black African Muslim, which of course has never been denied. Are Indonesian Muslims Arabs?

Obama's blackness has not prevented him from becoming the presumptive nominee of the Democrat party so now the Obamaphobes are going to try to turn him into an Arab?

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot

i don't have a fear or loathing of Obama beyond the fact that, like hillary and mcCain and all but a few of our politicians, he's establishment and a globalist.

as for the article, i posted it for discussion purposes. i admit i didn't read every article linked to which Lamb was referring.