The Independent View

The com­mon theme from Obama’s ador­ing media in these last hours before the polls open is that he did not know that his aunt’s asy­lum claim was denied and that she was ordered deported, did not know that she was in the coun­try for the past four years ille­gally in defi­ance of that depor­ta­tion order, did not know that she was liv­ing ille­gally in Boston pub­lic hous­ing, and did not know that she had con­tributed sev­eral hun­dred dol­lars to his cam­paign. Fur­ther, it has been recently noted that he also did not know that his Kenya-​residing grand­mother, Sarah Hus­sein Obama, was liv­ing in squalor. On top of this incred­u­lous set of cir­cum­stances, Obama’s nut­roots gangs are push­ing the talk­ing point that this is all a smear, based on data that no one should know about.

Yeah, right. If there is no other defin­ing char­ac­ter trait fit­ting for Barack Obama it is that he is a patho­log­i­cal liar always ready with an “I did not know, I did not hear, and I did not see.” In almost every case that Obama has used this defense it has even­tu­ally been proven a lie.

As you read this, keep in mind Barack Obama’s recent statement:

“Most peo­ple under­stand that if you are not car­ing for your fam­ily, then you are prob­a­bly not the kind of per­son who is going to be car­ing for other people.” — Barack Obama, Octo­ber 23, 2008

We now know that Obama had con­tact with his aunt as recently as 2006, two years after her depor­ta­tion order, which implies that he knew she was here ille­gally. What is more, it seems that Obama and Gov­er­nor Patrick col­luded to help his aunt.

• Has he finan­cially helped her? If not, why not?
  
• And, as a newly minted U.S. Sen­a­tor, why didn’t he help his aunt with her asy­lum claim in 2004?
  
• How does he jus­tify his recent com­ment that, “this is a coun­try of laws and that his aunt should be deported (!)” with the evi­dence that he knew she was still here?
  

Then there is the mat­ter of finan­cial assis­tance for is fam­ily, the very issue raised y Amer­i­can Girl In Italy in her post ref­er­enced above. Why is his dear grand­mother in Kenya liv­ing in squalor? Obama has been a penny pincher with regards to char­i­ties (2000−4: 0.88% of his AGI, 2005 – 6: 5.22%) but has spoke often of fam­i­lies and the sup­port and care they should share with each other. He has vis­ited Kenya on sev­eral occa­sions and can­not cred­i­bly say that he did not know where his grand­mother lived and in what con­di­tions. Why did he not help her? Addi­tion­ally, why did he not spon­sor her to join in him in the U.S.? Why is his brother still liv­ing in squalor? What hap­pened to being his brother’s keeper? Or his grandmother’s? Or his aunt’s?

Well, one thing is for sure, Obama was not con­strained by finances. His adjusted gross income:

• 2000: $240,505
• 2001: $272,769
• 2002: $259,394
• 2003: $238,327
• 2004: $207,657
• 2005: $1,655,106
• 2006: $983,826
• 2007: $4,139,965
  

Back to the “I didn’t know, didn’t hear, and didn’t see” mantra that exem­pli­fies Obama’s cam­paign sea­son. It is sim­ply unbe­liev­able. Like I said, we’ve heard it all before from him on a num­ber of issues. There are two major exam­ples that high­light his dupic­ity: Rev­erend Wright and domes­tic ter­ror­ist William Ayers:

Rev­erend Jere­miah Wright.

• Barack Obama described Rev­erend Wright as his spir­i­tual guide, men­tor, and friend.
  
• Barack sat in Rev­erend Wright’s church pews for over 20 years.
  
• Rev­erend Wright mar­ried Barack and Michelle Obama. He also bap­tized their two daugh­ters.
  
• Together Barack Obama and Rev­erend Wright helped their mutual friend, Min­is­ter Louis Far­rakhan, orga­nize his 1995 Mil­lion Man March.
  
• Obama directed tens of thou­sands of dol­lars to his church from orga­ni­za­tions he directed.
  
• When details of Trin­ity United Church of Christ and Rev­erend Wright came out, Obama lied and claimed he had not heard any­thing con­tro­ver­sial from his pas­tor friend or from his church.
  
• Obama said he did not know his church and pas­tor pro­moted Marxist-​oriented Black Lib­er­a­tion The­ol­ogy.
  
• Obama said he did not know his church and rev­erend pro­moted the view that the United States was a white racist nation and that the white church was the Antichrist.�
  
• Obama said he did not know that his church and pas­tor repeat­edly praised their mutual friend, Min­is­ter Far­rakhan.
  
• Obama said he did not know his pas­tor and church blamed the U.S. as the source of the AIDS epi­demic, nor that they claimed its goal is to wipe out minori­ties.
  
• Obama said he did not know his pas­tor and church blamed the U.S. for 9/​11.
  
• Obama said he did not know that his friend and pas­tor damned Amer­ica from the pul­pit of Obama’s church.
  
• After all of these claims, after 20 years of sit­ting in the pew, Obama aban­doned his friend and church for the polit­i­cal expe­di­ency of his pres­i­den­tial cam­paign. He’s since admit­ted he may have heard some con­tro­ver­sial things but refuses to dis­cuss it fur­ther.�
  

William Ayers.

• Barack Obama dis­missed William Ayers back in April as ‘just some guy in his neigh­bor­hood’ and claimed he knew noth­ing of Ayers’ ter­ror­ist past, even dis­miss­ing Ayer’s ter­ror­ism as some­thing that occurred when he was only eight years old. While Ayers’ founded the Weather Under­ground in the 1960s, he led it on a bomb­ing spree that lasted to 1981 in a quest to over­throw the U.S. He even called for youth to kill their par­ents. After escap­ing pros­e­cu­tion because of tech­ni­cal­i­ties, Ayers was quoted by David Horowitz in 1981 as brag­ging “Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. Amer­ica is a great coun­try.”
  
• Ayers remains unre­pen­tant to this day.
  
• “This guy” in the neigh­bor­hood shared com­mon cause in the 1980s work­ing through com­pan­ion orga­ni­za­tions funded by William Ayers’ father, Tom Ayers, to protest the local edu­ca­tion sys­tem in Chicago.
  
• “This guy” in the neigh­bor­hood hired Obama to chair his Chicago Annen­berg Chal­lenge in 1995. Together, from 1995 to 2001, they spent $160 mil­lion in failed edu­ca­tion projects, some that ben­e­fited their friends, includ­ing Rev­erend Wright.
  
• “This guy” in the neigh­bor­hood helped Obama begin his polit­i­cal career in 1995, host­ing a get-​together at his and domes­tic terrorist-​wife Berna­dine Dohrn’s home and by con­tribut­ing to his cam­paign.
  
• “This guy” in the neigh­bor­hood received money from orga­ni­za­tions that Obama headed. They also directed funds to Ayers’ fel­low ter­ror­ists, his wife Berna­dine Dohrn and Michael Klon­sky, who would become an advi­sor to Obama
  
• Obama wrote a short review for one of Ayers books in 1998.
  
• Obama joined Ayers in at least one joint panel orga­nized by Michelle Obama in 1997.
  
• Michelle Obama and Berna­dine Dohrn worked together at the law firm Sid­ley Austin. Among Sid­ley Austin’s clients were Com­mon­wealth Edi­son led by Tom Ayers, William’s father. Barack worked with them dur­ing a sum­mer intern­ship while in law school.
  
• Michelle Obama and ter­ror­ist Berna­dine Dohrn worked together with sev­eral local Chicago groups.
  
• Obama and Ayers trav­eled to New York City in 2003 and toasted their mutual friend, Rashid Kha­lidi, the for­mer spokesman for the Pales­tin­ian Lib­er­a­tion Orga­ni­za­tion (PLO). While a video of the event has not been released, there was a LA Times arti­cle that con­tained a num­ber of com­ments made dur­ing this din­ner, which included an anti-​Israel poem read by a young man. The next year, Kha­lidi and his wife Mona, also a for­mer mem­ber of the PLO, hosted fundrais­ers for Obama’s U.S. Sen­ate cam­paign.
  
• And Ayers, is not a “for­mer” ter­ror­ist, as Obama would like us to believe. Ayers is unre­pen­tant. In an inter­view pub­lished on Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001, he boasted “I don’t regret set­tings bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
  
• In 2002 Barack, Ayers, and Dohrn par­tic­i­pated together in a con­fer­ence and panel enti­tled “Intel­lec­tu­als: Who needs Them?”
  
• In pro­mot­ing his auto­bi­og­ra­phy, Ayers had him­self pho­tographed stomp­ing on the U.S. flag.
  
• Later, he says he con­demned Ayer’s actions. He even defended him­self say­ing that he was only 8 years old when Ayers, Berna­dine Dohrn, and Michael Klon­sky, were active terrorists. 

The bot­tom line is that Obama is a patho­log­i­cal liar who’s defin­ing char­ac­ter trait is the lies, mis­state­ments, and omis­sions of I did not know, I did not hear, and I did not see. In my opin­ion, that is not a qual­i­fi­ca­tion for pres­i­dent. I urge every­one to set party affil­i­a­tions aside and vote for Sen­a­tor John McCain and Gov­er­nor Palin.

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