
Joan Swirsky
Obama’s Revenge
February 6, 200
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Once upon a time, a white teenager from Kansas got pregnant by her black
Kenyan boyfriend, Barack Obama Sr., or was it her husband? Whatever. (I
say no whatever because we’ve never seen either marriage or divorce
certificates). Some say the couple was in Kenya visiting relatives when
the birth of their son, Barack Obama Jr., occurred. No matter. (I say no
matter because we’ve never seen an authentic birth certificate). By the
time the baby was two years old his father abandoned him for his other
wife and child in Kenya.
I wonder how toddler Barry felt when his father left him, and never
reappeared until a single time when the boy was 10. Bewildered? Sad?
Lonely? Angry? What do two-year-olds do with those feelings?
It didn’t take long for Barry’s mother to meet and marry an Indonesian
native named Lolo Soetoro. They moved to Indonesia, where her child
became Barry Soetoro, took on Indonesian citizenship, and was presumably
schooled in public, Christian, and Muslim schools. (I say presumably
because we’ve never seen those school records). But when Barry was 10
years old, his mother sent him back to the U.S. to be raised by her
parents, Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, although she kept her baby daughter
Maya Soetoro with her.
I wonder how the by-now fully-sentient young Barry felt when his mother
sent him packing. Sad? Jealous of the baby who remained behind with
mommy? Confused and dizzy by the disparate cultures – languages,
customs, foods, sights, sounds, schooling – he had experienced?
Resentful? What did Barry do with those feelings?
By the time he was 10, the boy had been abandoned three times – by his
father, stepfather, and mother. And although he was raised by his white
grandparents in Hawaii – where "people of color” were not his color – he
found out soon enough that his mixed-race background rendered him, in
effect, an outsider. Did that make him feel self-conscious, indignant,
victimized?
But he wasn’t altogether an outsider. In Hawaii, young Barry met Frank
Marshall Thomas, his first and perhaps most influential mentor. The
infamous Marshall, a Communist activist (and self-confessed pedophile)
taught Barry – was it Obama, Soetero, Dunham? – that white people were
the devil incarnate and that blacks were the most "victimized” people on
earth.
Yet the abandoned and rejected child was lucky. His white-devil
grandparents gave him a comfortable life in Hawaii, and an education
that apparently qualified him to attend several prestigious schools –
Occidental College in CA, Columbia Univ. in NY City, and Harvard Law
School in Cambridge, MA.(I say apparently qualified because we’ve never
seen any of his college transcripts).
Barry Morphs into Barack
After his undergraduate days at Columbia, Obama chose not to go to
graduate school, but instead held various jobs in the Big Apple and then
moved to Chicago to become a community organizer. Although he had been
exposed to American exceptionalism through his life in the United States
and his privileged education, it is clear that his experiences in
impoverished Kenya and totalitarian Indonesia, as well as his exposure
to Marshall and the other radicals he had met during his years in New
York – among them the unrepentant domestic terrorists William Ayers and
Bernadine Dohrn of
Weather Underground infamy – made the deepest and most lasting
impressions.
Their messages of American imperialism and its white-devil culture
clearly resonated in the thrice-abandoned boy. In his young-adult and
adult years, free to choose his friends and pursuits, he opted
exclusively for far-left socialists and Marxists, and activities aimed
at relieving the suffering of people he perceived to be as victimized as
apparently he felt he had been. He understood their feelings of
helplessness, hopelessness, and impotent rage, as well as the pain of
fatherlessness. After all, his Harvard-educated father consciously chose
to leave him. And his mother gave him away. Was that depressing to
Barry? Infuriating?
When given the opportunity to join one of dozens of churches in Chicago,
Barry – who had morphed into Barack – opted for the Trinity United
Church of Christ, which was led by the fire-breathing Rev. Jeremiah
Wright, whose decades-long anti-American and anti-Semitic rants
apparently resonated in Obama’s rejected and abandoned heart and soul.
(I say apparently resonated because in over 20 years of regular
attendance, Obama said he heard nothing inflammatory or
anti-American, and we’ve never seen the videotapes of any sermon,
although each one was unfailingly recorded).
"God damn America,” Wright raged. "The chickens have come home to
roost,” he "preached” to his whooping and hollering congregation after
9/11. Obama heard nothing.
But it wasn’t only Wright who Obama was attracted to in Chicago. He was
also drawn to another hate-spewing radical, Rev. Louis Farrakhan, as
well as to the raving Father Michael Phleger, the radical Islamist
Khalid Rashidi, his friends and neighbors the Ayers, and to
equally-close friends "Tony” and Rita Rezko – Tony being the notorious
"fixer” and now-convicted-and-imprisoned felon for fraud, bribery, and
money laundering. What did the seemingly mild-mannered Obama find so
irresistible in these angry and/or crooked people and others like them?
Was it the same thing that a shy man finds in his attraction to a
flamboyant girlfriend – and alter-ego, a person who expresses what he
really feels but is unable to give voice to?
In these relationships and in community organizing – which offers
inner-city mostly-black residents job training, tutoring, and methods to
organize tenants’-rights groups and voter-registration drives, etc. –
the twenty-something Obama apparently found his calling, and also a
renewed and burning ambition.
With Friends Like These
While his community-organizing job paid a paltry $12,000 or so per year,
Obama somehow managed to pay his way through one of the priciest
graduate schools in the world, Harvard Law School. (I say somehow
managed because we have no record of his tuition payments). Even more
amazing, he became the first black president of the Harvard Law Review
without ever producing a written paper – or at least a paper that the
public has ever read.
There is a good deal of evidence that Obama’s acceptance at Harvard Law
– and his tuition – were facilitated by friends who had a vested
interest in the community organizer. Among them was Percy Sutton, a
former Manhattan borough president and ardent leftist, who was also
Malcolm X’s lawyer. In an interview last year, the octogenarian Sutton
stated: "I was introduced to [Obama] by a friend. The friend's name was
Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, and the introduction took place about 20 years
ago.” Sutton described al-Mansour as "the principle adviser to one of
the world's richest men" and suggested that al-Mansour was raising money
for Obama. Knowing that Sutton had friends at Harvard, al-Mansour asked
him if he would write a letter to Harvard recommending Obama, which
Sutton did most agreeably. This took place about 1988 when 27-year-old
Obama was applying to Harvard Law.
Journalist Jack Cashill has
credibly speculated that Obama’s two memoirs were actually written
by his pal Bill Ayers, who was and is a University of Illinois at
Chicago English professor, having escaped life in prison on a
technicality. Two years [after he was admitted to law school], Cashill
writes, "while still a law student, Obama improbably received an advance
to write a memoir that would be called `Dreams From My Father:
A Story of Race and Inheritance,’ which was published in 1995.” His
second memoir, published in 2006, was "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on
Reclaiming the American Dream.” (I suspect Cashill said "improbably
received an advance” because, as stated earlier, Obama had not produced
even one paper or distinguished himself in any way to have inspired a
major publishing company to approach him).
Al this begs the question: Who writes two memoirs about himself
before the age of 45? My own speculation is that it could be no one but
a narcissist. As most people know in this age of pop psychology, the
psychiatric disorder of narcissism derives from the Greek myth in which
Narcissus, a handsome young man, became obsessed with himself and fell
in love with his own image as he gazed into a pool of water. A lot of
people have some degree of narcissism, which is characterized by
grandiosity, an unquenchable need for admiration, unhealthy
self-absorption, dependence on the affirmation of others, and also a
lack of empathy, which is hidden by both personal charm and the kind of
earnest language that pretends to "feel your pain.”
Or he could be a
malignant narcissist., which psychiatrist Dr. Otto Kernberg, a
legendary leader in thought disorders, compares to a narcissist on
steroids. This variety involves paranoid traits (think of Obama’s
thin-skinned, quasi-hysterical reactions to Rush Limbaugh and Sarah
Palin), and ego-syntonic aggression, which means the person is perfectly
in-sync with people who have the courage he lacks to lash out.
But consider the source! Obama’s father was a self-aggrandizing
narcissist who thought nothing of throwing his son away to fulfill his
own ambitions and his mother also threw him away for the same reason.
Talk about DNA, which Obama perfectly exhibited when, during his
campaign, he unflinchingly dispensed with both his white grandmother and
his black "mentor” Rev. Wright for his personal ambition.
Grooming the Perfect Marxist Candidate
This leads me to only one conclusion, which I wrote about in a
former article: "Obama: The Trojan Horse.” My theory is that
President Obama’s narcissistic charm, even temperament, skill with words
(teleprompter included), hunger to please, radical agenda, and
subterranean rage at the "unfair” American system have been brilliantly
exploited by powerful leftist radicals and Marxists in the United
States, who for decades have plotted America’s path to socialism. He is
their pawn, totally dispensable but handy while the "aura” lasts.
These "handlers” saw in Obama the ideal blank slate on which to
actualize their agenda, and they made sure the slate remained blank by
concealing (or destroying) any evidence of his past, including his birth
certificate, Selective Service record, visa(s), school transcripts, and
other vital documents. All of which is costing his moneyed backers –
including America-loathing billionaire George Soros – multimillions in
lawyers’ fees to fight the proliferating lawsuits that seek the truth
about this stealth president.
In fact, former ambassador Alan Keyes, one of the many plaintiffs
seeking proof of Obama’s American citizenship, has
reported that Obama’s lawyers have now filed a motion "to quash our
effort to obtain the relevant documents…[which] confirms Obama's
ruthless determination to destroy anyone who continues to seek the
information the Constitution requires. Obama thus signals his intent to
bring financial ruin on those who won't accept his cover-up of the
circumstances of his birth is a tactical escalation. It confirms the
common sense suspicion that he won't act forthrightly in this matter
because he has something to hide.”
It is clear that Obama and his fellow radicals are restive. In the
less-than four weeks of his presidency, the new president has taken
volumes from the Marxian handbook, which dictates that the stupid masses
be blitzed with an overload of information, hollow press conferences,
appointments, dismantling of formerly effective national-security
programs, et al., in order to set the stage for a massive, Soviet-style
takeover of our government, including a civilian national security force
that Obama has said should be "just as powerful, strong and well-funded
as the U.S. military.” Echoes of Nazi Germany in 1938, anyone?
According to writer Kyle-Anne Shiver, in Obama’s ascendance:
"We have yet to see a more perfect collision of Murphy's Law with the
Peter Principle. In only three weeks' time, [he] has signaled to every
terrorist on the planet that we are a sorry, groveling, ashamed nation
ready to come to the diplomatic confessional. He is closing Gitmo within
one year, has suspended trials there, and dismissed the charges against
the U.S.S. Cole plotter. [He] has just put our money where his mouth is
and is using $20.3 million to bring in
Palestinian refugees from Gaza…[he] had the gall to pronounce the
so-called economic stimulus bill absolutely free of `earmarks’ and
`make-do work’…but according to the
Congressional Budget Office [this bill] will do worse to our overall
economy than no government action whatsoever.”
And Obama has done all this with the predictable double-speak that
characterizes malevolent intention, i.e., touting transparency while
concealing everything, speaking of integrity while appointing crooks and
incompetents riddled with conflicts-of-interest, supporting energy
independence while killing off-shore and domestic oil-drilling and
nuclear power, and feigning optimism while he speaks of impending
"catastrophe” in order to push through a pork-laden,
trillion-dollar-plus Stimulus plan that rewards the corrupt voter-fraud
organization Acorn with billions and unions with discriminatory
union-only labor agreements, paves the way for socialized medicine, and
threatens to take away the most cherished rights of We The People.
As blogger Eric Gurr has said: "We still talk about the health care
crisis, the environmental crisis, the oil crisis, the banking crisis.
Let me tell you my friends you are about to learn the meaning of the
only crisis that matters, the survival crisis.”
You can be sure that the sad-lonely-angry two-year-old, the
jealous-confused-resentful 10-year-old, the self-conscious-
cheated-victimized adolescent, and the man who found solace in and
identified with his hate-America mentors is now determined to redeem all
of his demons.
Unfortunately, he is acting out his rage on free-market capitalism, a
free press, property and gun rights, a limited constitutional
government, protection of the unborn, and everything else that is good
and great about our country.
This is
Obama’s revenge!