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What Obama Has Said about His Own Birth
American Thinker
While Democrat Congressman Frank Pallone read the “natural born Citizen” clause of the U.S. Constitution on the House floor last Thursday, a spirited female in the audience shouted out, “Except Obama! Except Obama! Help us, Jesus!”
Later that day, NBC’s Brian Williams improbably chose to assign blame for the woman’s outburst on newly elected House speaker John Boehner. “How much responsibility do you feel?” Williams asked pointedly.
“The state of Hawaii has said Obama was born there,” said Boehner, who is no more intimate with the “Birther” movement than Williams himself. “That was good enough for me.”
The person Williams should have been asking about “responsibility” is the president. Obama’s conspicuous fabrications over the years have caused even the sober among us to doubt his origins story.
Photo challenges Obama nativity story
Suggests father had relationship with grandfather before meeting mother
Posted: January 05, 2010
1:00 am Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
A photograph circulating on the Internet has raised new questions about the officially accepted account of President Obama’s birth and early childhood.
The photo shows Barack Obama Sr. at a dock, apparently arriving in Hawaii in 1959, welcomed by Stanley Dunham without his daughter, Ann Dunham.
The photo raises the question whether Barack Obama Sr. had a connection to Stanley Dunham before Ann Dunham supposedly met him in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii.
 Undated photo shows Barack Obama Sr., with leis, and Stanley Dunham, immediate right, President Obama’s grandfather |
Barack Obama Jr. admitted in his autobiography “Dreams from My Father” that his grandfather, Stanley Dunham, introduced him to Frank Marshall Davis, the well-known communist author and journalist from Chicago. The introduction suggested Stanley Dunham was comfortable with close ties to well-known leftists in Hawaii.
On pages 76-77 of “Dreams from My Father,” Barack Obama Jr. said Davis “would read us his poetry whenever we stopped by his house, sharing whiskey with Gramps out of an emptied jelly jar.”
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In the photograph, Barack Obama Sr. is seen surrounded by well wishers, wearing an ample supply of traditional Hawaiian leis.
Stanley Dunham is seen in the photograph standing casually to the immediate left of Barack Obama Sr. with his hands in his pants pockets.
In the photograph are what appear to be two seamen in naval uniforms, one of whom is wearing an officer’s cap.
The occasion of the photograph and the others in the photograph are so far unidentified.
Stanley Ann Dunham, the mother of the future president, is not in the group photograph.
The occasion could be the departure of Barack Obama Sr. from Harvard to the mainland where in 1962 he travelled to Cambridge, Mass., to begin graduate studies at Harvard.
But Stanley Dunham’s presence at the departure of Barack Obama, Sr. would not likely be such a cordial event, given that even the official Obama narrative maintains that by leaving Hawaii for Cambridge, Mass., Barack Obama Sr. was leaving behind his wife, Ann Dunham, and his son.
WND has reported that contrary to President Obama’s statement, his father did not abandon the family in Hawaii when he accepted an invitation to study at Harvard in 1962.
Instead, his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, abandoned Barack Obama Sr., when she moved from Hawaii to Seattle where she was enrolled in extension courses beginning Aug. 19, 1961, only 15 days after Barack Obama Jr. was born, according to Dunham’s grade transcript that WND obtained from the University of Washington.
The Polk city street directory for Seattle in 1961-1962 has Obama’s mother listed as a student living at 516 13th Ave. E., apartment 2, in Seattle’s Capitol Hill area, where babysitter Mary Toutonghi reported Obama’s mother attended night classes at the university that began at 4:30 p.m., as part of her extension school curriculum.
Documents uncovered by WND have raised questions whether President Obama’s parents ever lived together as husband and wife, despite Obama’s repeated assertions his parents lived together in Hawaii during the first two years of his life.
WND further reported the Polk city street directory for Honolulu for 1961-1962 indicates Obama’s grandparents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, lived at 6085 Kalanianaole Highway, the address listed for Obama’s birth in the announcement published in the Hawaiian newspaper at the time. Barack Obama Sr., meanwhile, maintained a separate bachelor pad at an 11th Avenue address, closer to the University of Hawaii.
Still, the nativity birth myth that Barack Obama, Sr. abandoned Ann Dunham when he left for Hawaii matches the nativity story he told on page 126 of Dreams from My Father.
There, Obama related a story his mother allegedly told him, writing: “When your father graduated from UH (University of Hawaii), he received two scholarship offers. One was to the New School, here in New York. The other one was to Harvard. The New School agreed to pay for everything – room and board, a job on campus, enough to support all three of us. Harvard just agreed to pay tuition. But Barack was such a stubborn bastard, he had to go to Harvard. How could I refuse the best education? he told me. That’s all he could think about, proving that he was the best. …”
WND can find no indication if Ann Dunham worked while she continued attending the University of Washington, where she was enrolled in the Spring 1962 term as a full-time student taking courses at the campus.
WND can find no documentary evidence indicating how Ann Dunham paid her tuition at the University of Washington or where she got sufficient funds to pay rent and living expenses for herself and her infant son while she was living in Seattle from Aug. 1961 until she returned to Hawaii, after Barack Obama Sr. had left for Harvard.
WND also can find no documentary evidence that Ann Dunham ever returned to Hawaii to visit Barack Obama Sr. while he continued his studies at the University of Hawaii in her absence; nor can WND find any evidence Barack Obama Sr. ever traveled from Hawaii to visit Ann Dunham while she lived in Seattle.
The newly discovered photograph of Barack Obama Sr. at the dock without Ann Dunham joins a group of photos of Obama’s father at the University of Hawaii, where WND reported Barack Obama Sr. was photographed again without Ann Dunham.
WND has previously reported three photos of Barack Obama Sr. attending a University of Hawaii party in the early 1960s surfaced on the Internet, showing the president’s father enjoying the company of his fellow university students without the presence of Ann Dunham.
Barack Obama Sr.’s evident demeanor from the three photographs suggests a familiarity with women and an ease as a single man that would give no indication he was regarded as engaged to be married or already wed to Ann Dunham.
While the possibility remains the photographs were taken prior to the time Obama Sr. met Ann Dunham, the testimony from Obama’s fellow students at the University of Hawaii that accompany the photographs makes no mention whatsoever that Barack Obama Sr. was ever associated with Ann Dunham, at the time the photographs were taken, or later.
A reasonable interpretation of the photographs and accompanying testimony would be that at the time of the party in Hawaii, Barack Obama Sr. was a bachelor enjoying the free and easy company of his peers, unencumbered by a fiancée or a wife.
WND has previously reported Michelle Obama stated at a public event that her husband’s mother, Ann Dunham, was “very young and very single” when she gave birth to the future U.S. president.
WND has reported the only documentation for Ann Dunham’s marriage to Barack Obama Sr. comes from their divorce documents that list the marriage date as Feb. 2, 1961.
In actuality, it isn’t clear Obama’s parents were married, since official records have never been produced showing a legal ceremony took place. No wedding certificate or photograph of a ceremony for Dunham and Obama Sr. has ever been found or published.
In his book “Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage,” former Time magazine contributing editor Christopher Anderson elaborates: “There were certainly no witnesses (to the alleged civil marriage ceremony on Maui in 1961 between Obama’s parents) – no family members were present, and none of their friends at the university had the slightest inkling that they were even engaged.”
Anderson further quoted Rep. Neil Abercrombie, D-Hawaii, a self-described friend of Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham in 1961, as saying that “nobody” was invited to the wedding ceremony.
Obama himself, on page 22 of his autobiography, wrote of his parents wedding: “In fact, how and when the marriage occurred remains a bit murky, a bill of particulars that I’ve never quite had the courage to explore. There’s no record of a real wedding, a cake, a ring, a giving away of the bride. No families were in attendance; it’s not even clear that people back in Kansas were fully informed. Just a small civil ceremony, a justice of the peace. The whole thing seems so fragile in retrospect, so haphazard.”
WND’s search for documentary evidence has established the following timeline for his mother:
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The timeline indicates, contrary to President Obama’s contentions that his parents lived together in Hawaii for two years after he was born and that the father abandoned the family when he went to Harvard toward the end of 1962, that his mother, Ann Dunham, abandoned the family in the month of Obama’s birth, with the parents never again living together in Hawaii or anywhere else.
Obama the Red Avenger
Dec. 15, 2009
The American Thinker
By James Lewis
The French called Hitler a “revanchiste” — a Kaiser soldier of World War I who was aching to avenge that defeat. Hitler made no secret of his desire for revenge. He made it a Nazi slogan. Well, you can have ideological revanchisme as well — for instance, a Marxist determination to take revenge for America’s victory against world Communism in the Cold War.
The word “Marxist” is now used as a kind of a sly boast in academia; I just talked with a professor who calls himself a “Marxist historian,” and smiles to himself when he says it. He obviously thinks he’s a hero by being a Marxist in America. But according to Marxist historians themselves Red regimes killed at least 100 million people in “crimes, terror and repression,” with still more dying today in North Korea. That’s not even counting the dead and wounded in wars fought by Communist regimes.
Obama’s early life indicates that young Barry may have been brought up as a Red Avenger against America. We know that he talks like an anti-capitalist and an anti-Constitutionalist, and that he compulsively apologizes for American actions during the Cold War. The Cold War was not something we started; it was started by Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and other totalitarian mass murderers long before the Korean War and the Vietnam War, our two hot proxy wars in the Cold War.
What we haven’t understood is how deeply Obama was indoctrinated in the war against America from childhood onward. But every intelligence agency in the world has to have it figured it out, because it’s all in the public record. Leftists around the world have also known it from day one, and that includes the leading Democrats. Obama was not an unknown to Democrat Party apparatchiks. Or the media. Only the American people were kept in the dark. The media and the Democrats are still doing their Obama cover-up today, and hoping they will get away with it.
Why is Obama so deeply, emotionally opposed to America’s defense of freedom and democracy in the Cold War? Because Barry Soetoro was born in 1961 and lived in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta from age six to ten, the years 1967-1971 — right after the bloodiest civil war in Indonesian history, which took place from 1965 to 1967. The Indonesian Communist Party, the PKI, was wiped out and massacred during that civil war. There is absolutely no way a Leftwing family living in Jakarta could not have been in a constant uproar during those years, even after the massacres had died down. After all, his parents were active sympathizers if not Party Members themselves, as was his biological father
Indonesia was host to millions of ethnic Chinese, some of whom were slaughtered in the “communal violence” which followed a failed coup. China was then in the middle of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which killed from 50 to 70 million people. Ann Dunham, Lolo Soetoro and Barry Soetoro were living in the very midst of the hottest front line between the West and totalitarian Communism.
Indonesia’s dictator General Sukarno was overthrown in 1965, either by the Communist Party (the PKI), or by the Indonesian army and Islamic parties — and probably by all three. The PKI was the third biggest Communist Party in the world outside of the Soviet Union and Communist China. (See The Year of Living Dangerously). PKI members were killed in the resulting riots and massacres throughout 1965 and 1966, starting in the capital city of Jakara, which is where Barry Soetoro’s family lived. Imaging living in Atlanta, GA, right after General Sherman got through marchin’ through Georgia, and not knowing anything about it?
There is simply no way those earth-shattering events could not have touched Barry Soetoro’s life in Jakarta from the age of six to ten. Barry’s temporary Dad Lolo Soetoro was originally a supporter of General Sukarno and the Left; Sukarno’s party had sent Lolo to Hawaii to get a graduate degree, where he met Ann Dunham. There is no real safety in such conditions. Revenge killings happened after World War II in Europe, and after the Civil War in the United States.
The big question is: why did Ann Dunham risk bringing her young child to Jakarta? She must either have been utterly naive politically, or, much more likely, she knew that she and Lolo were protected by powerful political forces.
Ann Dunham was at least an active fellow traveler with the Communist Party. Remember, this is just fifteen years after the death of Stalin, and after the American domestic reaction to Stalinist infiltration, now dubbed “McCarthyism.” We now know with historical certainty that the US Government was in fact infiltrated by Stalin’s Communist Party members, including the State Department and the White House, and that secrets of US nuclear bombs were instantly passed to the Soviet Union by Manhattan Project member Klaus Fuchs, who was honored by the East Germany Communist Party when he went back there. Stalinist Communists were also very powerful in Hollywood, in the newspapers and the universities.
Barry’s childhood and education under the guardianship of Communist Party rep Frank Marshall Davis, followed by an endless parade of far Leftist mentors from Hawaii to Harvard and Chicago, were all shaped by the identical political narrative. Every adult he ever knew told the same story. Everybody hated the same satanic enemy: American capitalism — also known as freedom and democracy — the CIA, the US military; Senator Joe McCarthy, President Eisenhower, and Richard Nixon. We now know that Nixon was overthrown by the American Left using the Watergate scandal, including the Washington Post’s Ben Bradlee, in close coordination with the FBI’s Assistant Director Mark Felt, who was Woodward and Bernstein’s Deep Throat.
The Jesuits used say “Give us a boy before he is ten and we will have him for life. That’s why the Ranting Reverend Wright’s Church of Marxism was such a natural place for the Obamas to go every Sunday, and to bring up their own girls. It’s what they were used to; it had that old home feeling.
When kids believe that their mothers and fathers are in danger, they often imagine themselves to be the saviors — they can get a Savior Complex. (Sound familiar?) Children in abusive families often feel that way. Barry Soetoro grew up needing to rescue his side in the Cold War — the Red side.
Human beings who think they are world saviors are narcissists from day one, because they believe they have God-like powers. How else can you Save the Planet? How else can you “keep the seas from riiiiising,” as Obama said in his acceptance speech to the Democrats? Narcissism is a standard character trait on the Left. It’s one of the basic differences between ideological Leftists and conservatives. Edmund Burke, the granddaddy of Anglo-American conservatism, pointed that out in his most important book, Reflections on The Revolution in France (1791). Conservatives are generally normal people. Ideological Leftists are ambitious World Saviors who turn out to kill a lot of people who resisted being saved by coercive force. Can you think of any American conservative who acts like Obama?
Take a kid with a savior complex and raise him with an endless slew of Leftist mentors, from Mom onwards. He is the savior child as far as they are concerned — the Red Avenger. He will redeem them in the bitter aftermath of the defeat of Communism. Barack Obama has had substitute parents — patrons who eased his way — throughout his life, including Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright and Emil Jones.
Notice that I have not said that Obama is dangerous. A lot depends on defeating ObamaCare, Cap and Trade, EPA regulation of CO2 and dozens of other mad and foolish schemes.
The American political system is resilient, but we must know the truth. I believe that “Red Avenger” is the ground truth of who Obama really is.
It’s not Obama’s blackness that’s at issue. It’s his redness.
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