Genius: His name is Obama (And a WEIRD dream I had about him and Michelle)

With Time magazine comparing Obama to Jesus, I guess we should be relieved that, this week, liberals are only comparing him to Abraham Lincoln.The one thing every liberal on TV seems to know about Lincoln is that he put rivals in his cabinet, as subtly indicated in the title to historian and plagiarist Doris Kearns Goodwin's book: "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln." Like Lincoln, Goodwin is always open to contributions from her rivals, although Lincoln was better at crediting their words.And hasn't Obama talked to former rival Hillary about becoming his secretary of state? Hasn't he had a sit-down with Sen.John McCain? Did I imagine this, or is he even now brokering peace talks between Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck?Ergo: Obama is a genius.Indeed, historians have just named Obama the best president-elect ever.I don't recall the media swooning when President George W. Bush reached out to rivals, such as Sen. Teddy Kennedy, who was asked to co-write Bush's education bill. In fact, the way I remember it, Bush is liberals' most hated president ever (only because they can't remember George Washington or they'd hate him, too).And yet no modern president has ever done more to bridge partisan divides and show respect to his opponents than George W. Bush. I do not say this with admiration; it is simply a fact.Throughout the year and again in his convention speech during the 2000 presidential campaign, Gov. Bush bragged that he had "no stake in the bitter arguments of the last few years. I want to change the tone of Washington to one of civility and respect."(As a side note: Bush would never have been elected president if not for the "bitter arguments of the last few years," in which Republicans exposed and impeached Bill Clinton, which then killed Al Gore's presidential ambitions. So you're welcome.)But the point is: Bush was massively chummy with his enemies -- Democrats, communists and the Congressional Black Caucus. So chummy that even they began to wonder if he was a little daft.In his first few weeks in office, Bush met with more than 150 members of Congress, half of them Democrats -- including five events with America's leading liberal menace, Sen. Teddy Kennedy.Bush's very first social event at the White House was movie night with the Kennedy family to watch "Thirteen Days," a falsely heroic portrayal of JFK's disastrous handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis. This suggests to me that Obama's first social move as president will have to be to invite Lindsey Graham over to a screening of "Larry the Cable Guy Saves Christmas."Naturally, Bush also had primary rival John McCain and his wife, Cindy, over to dinner at the White House.Bush was the first president in memory to attend the congressional retreats of the opposing party. After two weeks in office, a Wall Street Journal column noted that Bush's charm offensive was "disorienting the local Hatfields and McCoys." (Again: You're welcome.)Bush even made a special point to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus upon taking office, which -- given their feelings toward Bush -- would be the equivalent of Obama holding a special meet-and-greet session with the upper management of the Ku Klux Klan.Bush invited the Democratic black mayor of the District of Columbia to the White House, attended a majority black District church service and appointed the first black secretary of state.And that was all before Feb. 1, 2001. (By the end of his presidency, he would have appointed the first two black secretaries of state.)Though it was small potatoes after all that palling around with Teddy Kennedy, this is the same George W. Bush who had Muslim "spiritual leaders" to the White House a week after 9/11.Bush also famously said of then-Russian president, former KGB agent Vladimir Putin, that he looked him in the eye and "was able to get a sense of his soul."(This made Bush's critics almost as apoplectic as if he had said, "I looked into Putin's eyes and, frankly, I just don't trust the guy." No matter what Bush did, liberals were incensed.)As president, Bush scuttled the playing of "Hail to the Chief" in his honor and repeatedly reminded his staff to act humbly.This is as opposed to Obama, who I believe is the first president-elect in history to have his own "Office of the President-elect" seal commissioned.Like I always say, even if you don't like the current president-elect, you should still have some respect for the office of the presidency-elect.

-Ann Coulter

Now for my dream!!!

So the night before last I had the oddest dream. I'll skip all the really weird stuff, but I was in Argentina where I served my LDS mission for about 18 months and I was with a mob of people who were all American's an on foot going to protest some dude's wife who had been cheating on him. Anyway, on the way there we stopped at one of the slummy parks to rest for a bit. It was a park that was loaded with bums and homeless families, major crime and danger, filth and disease and sewage. So, I go to sit down on a curb and I look to my right and see Barack and Michelle standing amongst a HUGE pile of trash! Most of the park was like this, mind you, but this area was especially messy. They were picking up this trash and throwing it into a huge dumpster. There was a big, black cadilac, I think is what it was, parked next to them. And get this, this is the funniest and oddest part, they were dressed like Adam & Eve!! Only they had cardboard covering their private parts instead of leaves. So I walk up to them and tear up and say, "thank you for doing this! I didn't realize you cared about other people so much!" Then I shook Barak's hand. I was really impressed with their charity. Nobody else seemed to be paying them any mind at all. It was like I was the only one that noticed. Anyway, as I walked away thinking about it something hit me. They were helping a 3rd world country, NOT OUR COUNTRY. They were being so nice and charitable FOR SOMEONE ELSE. I was like, WOW.

So that was my dream. You can take from it what you want.

Barack Obama's Heritage

Obama's Heritage [this article was pulled off the internet almost as soon as it appeared by Obama backers who are becoming more militant every day] An Atlas reader's well researched analysis of the Mansourian candidate. Pulls together nicely much I have been running for over 18 months. And interestingly enough, Raila <http://www.breakingnewskenya.com/2008/01/08/do-luos-really-follow-raila-lik e-sheep/> Odinga hardly speaks for all Luo depsite Obama's tacit support. AN IN-DEPTH VIEW OF THE OBAMA HERITAGE Will Burnett As the 2008 Presidential campaign progressed, bits and pieces of the information about Barack Obama that were being presented by the media did not fit the actual pattern of life of the potential first family. Thus, our curiosity caused us to do in-depth research and analysis on some of the facets of Obama's life. Our information was gathered from historical books and documents, other later-published sources, and from recent history in daily newspapers, both domestic and international. We feel this information should be known to every voter before the November election. In 1959/60, the first two airlifts of youth from Kenya were made to the United States. The purpose of the airlifts was to educate African youth so that they could then return to Kenya as leaders. Obama's father was one of the students, and shortly after his arrival in Hawaii he met Obama's mother. Obama was born in 1961. By birth Obama was automatically a member of the African Luo tribe. Shortly after the first airlifts, the African American Student Foundation was formed which has since sponsored educations for Luos including those claiming 'political asylum'. Obama's father and many of the young Africans who participated in the airlifts were radical Arab Muslim Luos. This was a turbulent period in Kenyan history, with the Luos in open rebellion against European colonial authority, engaging in terrorism and having Communist associations and close ties to Russia and China. Once in the United States, the Luo youth organized with the intention of affecting Kenyan politics from here. They also involved themselves in United States politics, which began to focus on African-American uprisings. Obama's father left his mother and him after two years to go to Harvard. It went beyond a desire to get an education, the Luos were working towards large political goals on the mainland. During the absence of Obama's father, Kenya had declared its independence; and a Luo, Jaramongi Oginga Odinga, reportedly Obama's uncle, had been elected Vice President of the new government. Obama's father went to work for the government when he returned to Kenya. However, Oginga Odinga's radical Muslim and communist ideas soon made inevitable a collision with Kenya's President Kenyatta. In 1965, Kenyatta assumed an anticommunist stance; and in 1966, Odinga's left wing was driven out of the party. Obama's father was involved, and Obama has simply said that a conflict with Kenyatta destroyed his father's career, failing to give the reason why. The Kenyan government then centralized with a single-party system, however the Luos continued to violently agitate. In 1978, Daniel arap Moi became Kenya's second President, and the Luos together with others attempted a coup in 1982. The assassination of a Luo in 1990, pressured Moi into allowing a multi-party election. The pre-election period was characterized by deadly ethnic violence between the Luo Muslims and the Christians. In 1992, the elections were held. Oginga Odinga ran for President, but he was defeated; and his son, Raila Odinga was elected to the Parliament. In the summer of 1992, Barack and his wife-to-be Michelle visited Kenya. Presumably Obama <http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/06/odinga-and-obam.htm l> was campaigning for the Odingas, just as he later did in 2006 for Raila's run for the Presidency of Kenya. By the way, this was the same summer that Obama says he worked as a community organizer in Chicago. President Moi had resisted the 1992 election, saying that the Muslims did not deserve government representation because they were "behind the slave trade during which thousands of Africans were sold outside the continent." He was making reference to the fact that the Luos are Middle Eastern Arabs who moved to Sudan in the 1400s, and emigrated from there to many African nations. The Luo's primary economic activity was slave trading African blacks to the Arab lands. Reportedly, the practice still continues. Ironically, early Luo slave trade routes crossed to the Americas. In Africa, generally the Luo do not inter-marry with African blacks, although it has been reported that Obama has one African black ancestor in his father's side, making him about 6% African black, 44% Arab and 50% white. If not for her, Obama would be half-Arab and half-white. This means that he is not legally African-American. For those who missed it, some information is repeated here that is contained in "Where Has Obama Been?" In 1996, bin Laden issued his fatwa, or declaration of war against the United States, that urged the killing of Americans worldwide. By 1998, he bombed the United States Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. It is not coincidence that he started in Kenya. He had lots of support there from the Luos. Also, it is not coincidence that bin Laden went to Sudan in 1992, after he was kicked out of Saudi Arabia. Sudan is the Luo homeland. There is that year of 1992 again, when Obama was in Kenya. Although he visited at least 4 other nations during his 2006 trip, not much is out there on his 1992 visit. And it is not coincidence that Obama was in the Middle East in college, and that he has long associations with terrorists, ETC. Overlooking the many coincidences in the Luo and Obama pasts is a dangerous kind of denial. Since the mid-1990s, bin Laden's al Qaeda has spread across Africa, incorporating tribal battles into it own jihad. As part of its thrust, al Qaeda is providing support to opposition leaders during elections who will agree to implement sharia law if elected. Raila Odinga, the same mentioned above who is reportedly Obama's first cousin, is one opposition leader who signed a memorandum of understanding to implement sharia law if elected in his run for President of Kenya in 2007. As mentioned above, during Obama's visit to Kenya in 2006, Obama campaigned for Odinga against our ally, the Kenyan government, all the while lecturing the Kenyan government on its corruption. The Kenyan government filed a formal complaint against Obama with the United States government, and called him "Odinga's stooge." When Odinga lost the election, the killings started, and over a thousand Christians were killed until he was taken into the Kenyan power structure as Prime Minister. Claiming election fraud and election killings have become classic jihad in Africa. We need to ask what Obama's full role was in the recent election in Kenya. Obama contacted Odinga frequently when the post-election revolution was going on and when terrorist killings slew the Christian voters supporting the other party. To go a step further, what has Obama's role been in African politics over the past 25 years? Obama has told us that he made at least two other trips to Kenya. We know that he was there during the campaign period for the 1992 elections, but we also need to ask what he was doing in Kenya during his trip in the 1980s. Similar events to those in Kenya recently happened in the Zimbabwe election. As in Kenya there is only a 10% Muslim population, so attacks were against Christians; in Zimbabwe, we saw a battle between Mugabe, representing a moderate Muslim government, and Tsvangirai, representing the hardliner radical Muslims. Tsvangirai lost the election against Mugabe, then he claimed election corruption and the killings started. This is jihad m.o., but there was a chilling twist to what happened in Zimbabwe. Raila Odinga interjected himself into the Zimbabwe situation; and as Mugabe struggled to fight off the radical opposition, Odinga and others painted him as the problem and demanded that he step down. Ultimately, Mugabe was forced to take Tsvangirai into the power structure. Also noteworthy is the fact that 2004 news reports said that Zimbabwe had become al Qaeda's newest hub, and news reports have placed Odinga in contact with opposition leadership in Zimbabwe since at least 2006. What we have is Odinga, with Obama's support and countenance, at the cutting edge of bin Laden's jihad in Africa. Odinga's and al Qaeda's names surface in common in terrorist activities in many African nations. Obama's trip to Kenya and 4 other African nations in 2006, were covered by the international press, with mention of side meetings with opposition leaders, and that Odinga was often by his side. Odinga has also visited Obama in the United States many times, and allegedly they have stayed in regular contact, with Obama shying from him only since feeling heat from the relationship in his own campaign for President of the United States. The political chaos and guerrilla activity in Africa over the past 10 years has been viewed by Africans as old tribal battles. In reality, they appear to be part of a takeover by Arab extremists who intend to establish Africa as an Islam nation. The list starting with Kenya and Zimbabwe, can be extended to Somalia, and so on throughout Africa. Obama is directly tied to what is happening in Africa. It is about controlling oil, and implementing sharia law. This overlays other serious matters, such as the affair known as Wantagate, which places Obama in the position of a conflict of interest with the United States, Africa and other global parties. More about that another time.. For now, the question needs to be asked, is Obama working in the best interest of the United States? In 2006 while campaigning for Odinga, he hadn't yet been elected to the Senate. Or has he been working in the interest of himself, his tribe and his pals? In light of the fact that Obama has taken many steps to hide and spin his ties to Islam and his activities in Kenya and at least 4 other countries in Africa, he is suspect. Most Americans are unaware of the extent of the Obama-Africa-Luo connections because the liberal media is protecting him at all costs to get him elected, even to the detriment of the citizens of the United States. And what has happened to our updated and expanded intelligence service? There are questions of all kinds surrounding Obama that would have already been scrutinized and reported upon with other politicians. The American public needs to be made aware of the movement of the global jihad in Africa, and Obama's and Odinga's ties to al Qaeda and other Muslim extremists there. There is much controversy about the birth certificate that challenges whether Obama was actually born in Hawaii. There have been reports that Obama may have been born in Kenya, when his mother visited there near the end of her pregnancy term. This issue is raised in a lawsuit filed by a past Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney General. Why aren't government agencies clarifying this accusation? There is also controversy about other documents from Obama's past. It is reported that he had an Indonesian passport, and used it to visit Pakistan in 1981; and that his application to law school states he had no other prior name, when actually the names Barry Dunham and Barry Soetoro appear on his earlier documents. Since Obama is running for President of the United States, isn't it reasonable that any questions regarding his identity are resolved before the election? Where do the massive amounts of Obama campaign contributions come from? Are the irregular donations that have been reported being investigated by the established agencies of government? Obama's association with Chicago mobsters are brushed off as ho-hum. As mentioned above, in the summer of 1992, yes, the same summer that he campaigned for the Odingas in Kenya, Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago. A community organizer in Chicago is like a ward boss for recruiting blacks and for performing other go-fer errands for crime-controlled administration. This group is rife with corruption and should be investigated before the election. We should insist that police intelligence files are looked at to see what they have to say. And how about Obama's association with the Chicago black Muslims, and the Chicago school meals program? The radical Luos in Europe jokingly refer to themselves as the taliban there. England, Germany, France and other countries have also provided educations to the Luos. Raila Odinga was educated in East Germany. Odinga and Obama have both carried on in their fathers' footsteps. Obama said in one of his books that after a conflicted youth, he found himself after he came to know about his father. He changed his name from Barry Soetoro to Barack Hussein Obama, his father's name. His African family says that in 1980, he announced this name change in order to reassert his African heritage. This was a year before the reported visit to the Middle East on an Indonesian passport. Today we see that those early airlifted students started a push that has propelled the Luos a long way. Barack Obama and his cousin Raila Odinga have risen to the top of United States and African politics. Why haven't United States citizens been made aware of this and how it came about? This leads to just a few more questions. Mohamed El-Erian, a British-educated Egyptian financier and past member of the Harvard faculty, just moved from managing Harvard University's $35 billion endowment fund, and has arrived in Newport Beach, California, to manage PIMCO's $740 billion in assets. PIMCO is German owned. What is the relationship in this consortium? Did Obama receive school support from this group at Harvard? PIMCO, under El-Erian's management, is now in discussions with The New York Federal Reserve Bank to manage huge parts of the $700 billion bailout. Why not? UPDATE: For those who have not seen Michelle Obama's thesis, here are links to the complete document (if they are still up): Part 1: <http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_1-251.pdf>Part 2: <http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_26-501.pdf> Part 3:<http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_51-751.pdf>Part 4:<http://dyn.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_76-981.pdf> (I dropped the wrong draft into the post and it was mentioned). "My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before," the future Mrs. Obama wrote in her thesis introduction. "I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second." Posted by Pamela Geller on Monday, October 13, 2008 at 01:33 AM in AtlasShrugs2000: Muslim in the White House?<http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/muslim_in_the_white_house> Link to this article as it appeared before being blackballed:<http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/10/obamas-heritage.html>