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Obama’s Muslim Daddies

By David Gutmann on 8.5.10 @ 6:07AM

Making those dreams from his father come true.

The Israeli intelligence website DebkaFile has reported that Obama is now seriously considering an attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities. His change of heart is not, according to Debka, prompted by the Israeli Netanyahu — whose nation is most directly threatened by Iranian nukes — but by an ultimatum from King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who told Obama that his nation could not tolerate Iranian WMD, and would develop its own if Iran was allowed to acquire them. In other words, Netanyahu’s threat of a Middle Eastern conflict that could devastate Israel and escalate to all-out nuclear war carried less weight with Obama than the far less severe consequences threatened by the Saudis. Nevertheless, their threat moved them to the head of the queue. We know that Obama doesn’t want a nuclear weapons arms race, but is he also afraid of offending the Islamic monarchs before whom he dutifully genuflects?

It is, finally, all of a piece. Obama once promised an even-handed approach to the Middle-Eastern conflict, but in practice his seeming neutrality has barely disguised a decidedly Pro-Arab and pro-Palestinian bias. Thus, without first taking serious steps to check Palestinian terrorism, he has pushed for the two-state solution that would inevitably lead to Hamastan, and the conversion of the West Bank into yet another launching pad for Katyusha missiles. In addition, Obama continually leans on Israel to sign a nuclear non-proliferation treaty that would cripple its major deterrent against an all-out attack by surrounding Arab nations. Smelling blood, those neighbors, now including the once-friendly Turkey, are becoming provocative and their terrorist residents are agitating for war. Angry because Israel would not stop building new housing for its growing population in Jerusalem, Obama went out of his way to publicly humiliate Netanyahu. He only relented and made nice when it became evident that his Israel-bashing was going to cost him many Jewish votes and much Jewish money.

Obama’s evident bias has been much noted and much discussed. The rationalizers and explainers usually refer to the influence of his radical base at a time when Israel has become the Left’s Little Satan. Others have pointed to his long-term associations with the noisily anti-Semitic Reverend Jeremiah Wright, as well as with his fellow Chicagoans, Rashid Khalidi and Ali Abunimah, both of them plausible academic propagandists for the Palestinian cause.

As a psychodynamic psychologist my tendency is to look into my research subject’s early associations, particularly with parents and siblings, as well as with his current colleagues. Perhaps clues to Obama’s notable Islamophilia can be found there. This search into Obama’s past history uncovers my kind of psychologists’s pay dirt. Thus, I am impressed to learn that Obama’s Muslim father abandoned him and his mother to return to Africa, when young Barack was barely out of diapers. Nevertheless, in his heart Obama never abandoned his father. He is sometimes critical of the mother who, as a single parent, sacrificed to raise him, but not of the absent Obama Senior, to whom he devoted the recent book, Dreams from My Father. He sees his father as a rather tragic figure, of superior intelligence and large ambitions who temporarily held a high political office in Kenya, but who died a failure in his own eyes.

A note of unrelinquished longing for the absent father runs through the Dreams text, and is best summed up by a photograph of Obama and his father, taken on the one occasion when Senior Obama revisited his ex-wife and son in the States. Little Barack, only waist-high to his begetter, smiles rapturously at the camera as, with both hands, he presses his father’s hand to his own breast. If a picture is worth a thousand words, this one is worth a full doctoral dissertation. It tells us of a passionate, unrelinquished but unrealized hunger for the absent father that — judging from the recently published Dreams — persists into the present.

Such data reveal a probable source of Obama’s Islamophilia. My contention is that Barack still woos his Muslim father in the persons of the Muslim rulers that share his bitterness, and that he bows down to. He cannot ease his dead father’s sense of failure, but he can alleviate the Muslim Daddy’s crushing sense of inferiority towards the west and Israel. Thus, he assigns his head of NASA, who should be planning all-out for Mars, the major task of repairing the fragile self-esteem of the Arab scientific community: they are to be assured of their major contribution to our space program.

But this is token stuff. The Father’s real therapy calls for an Islamic triumph over an ascendant Israel that has so often humiliated its Arab neighbors. Obama will not give his Muslim Daddies the destruction of the Third Temple; that would cost him too dearly in votes, treasure, and historic reputation. But he will give them if he can a castrated Israel, diminished to a Jewish Vatican City or Tel-Aviv DOT COM. He would give them an Israel guarded by resentful UN troops, an Israel without WMD, Israeli Dhimmis existing on Islamic sufferance amidst a hostile Arab majority.

Daddy would be so pleased.

About the Author

David Gutmann is a professor emeritus of psychology at Northwestern Medical School and a veteran of the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.

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Asfaw| 8.5.10 @ 7:09AM

I read all the story it made me sense about the fate of israel very nice work.
Asfaw from ethiopia

Timothy L. Pennell| 8.5.10 @ 8:08AM

Here we go again.
He's MUSLIM. Can we PLEASE stop denying the 8oo lb Gorilla in the room? (And I'm not talking about the one in Spain.)
His Father was Muslim. His Step Father was Muslim. His Mother converted to Islam. He was raised in Kenya and Indonesia. He went to Muslim Schools.(Madrassa) They taught him: "Barack. Look out! There's a JEW behind that rock. KILL HIM!" He went to MOSQUE, where he learned about the BIG SATAN, and the LITTLE SATAN. He knelt on his Prayer Rug, facing Mecca, and prayed 5 times a day to Allah.
These are FACTS. There's a REASON that he BOWS to the Saudi King, and NOT to the English Queen.
Read his BOOKS. Like he says, he's doing EXACTLY what he said he would. Not on the Campaign Trail. But in his Book dedicated to his Marxist, Muslim, DRUNK of a Father. A man who ABANDONED him and his Mother, only to die DRUNK, in a Kenyan gutter. (Typical Black Man.)
Don't ever doubt these things.

Mike Rogers| 8.5.10 @ 8:55AM

Tim,
Your comments make a great deal of sense, but you blow it with the throwaway line "Typical Black Man". NO! An irresponsible bum, is an irresponsible bum, and Obama Sr had many documented flaws - there is no need to cast racial aspersions to make your point.

Stan Redmond| 8.5.10 @ 11:12AM

For crying out loud. STOP GIVING AMMO TO THE LEFT WITH IDIOTIC STATEMENTS LIKE "TYPICAL BLACK MAN!!!" Even if I assume the context was in response to Obama's "typical white woman." We got another post throwing out this crap and we don't need any more. Two simple thread posts in one day just threw any debate on AS in the garbage. Just when the brilliant "Ruling class" essay came out and the blogsoshpere, political debate, and media are all focusing on that essay here at American Spectator. It's just what the liberals need to discredit everyone here at American Spectator as racists.

dnha14| 8.5.10 @ 12:18PM

Edgar Allen Poe died in a gutter and he was white.

Interested Conservative| 8.5.10 @ 5:15PM

And apparently also wrote all the works credited to him!

sasob| 8.5.10 @ 11:32PM

And apparently also wrote all the works credited to him!

Probably - but he was accused of plagiarism by one of his contemporaries.

jeff| 8.5.10 @ 1:10PM

You are exactly correct my friend. That isn't the whole story but most of the high points are there.

Vasu Murti | 8.5.10 @ 2:31PM

Obama is a "Muslim"? What difference does it make?

Regardless of how you feel about gun control, does it really matter which church Jim and Sarah Brady worship at?

In the secular, political arena, one’s religious identity must be completely irrelevant.

In her essay "Life and Peace," for example, Juli Loesch describes her attendance at a Holly Near concert to benefit a local antinuclear group. She encounters literature tables for Native American folkways, Save the Whales, Ban the Bomb. Peace. Humanity. Abortion.

"Abortion?" she writes. "It was as if I’d been handed a flowered note that contained a death threat. My hands went cold. I went back to my seat, my heart clogged. The irony was that I’d come to oppose abortion as a direct result of my own antinuclear activism."

Loesch writes that when she spoke out against abortion at an antinuclear gathering, she:

"...tried to present a meticulous secular case against abortion. I marshalled all the scientific evidence...I followed it up with the most basic principle found in every human ethical system...do not do to others what you would not like done to you.

"This was rewarded by a brief silence, which was broken by a single question:

'Are you a Catholic?’

‘Am I a Catholic? That has nothing to do with...’

‘So you are a Catholic?’

‘Yes, but...’

‘Well, then. You’re imposing your religious beliefs...’

"And, therefore, I suppose, I lose."

It's a scientific fact that individual life is a continuum from fertilization until death. Does it really matter whether this fact is spoken by a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim, a Krishna devotee, a Buddhist, a Wiccan or an atheist?

Why does the right regard abortion as a secular political topic but treat animal rights and welfare issues as sectarian? Why does the right obsess over religious identity in this regard?

In 1787 when the framers excluded all mention of God from the Constitution, they were widely denounced as immoral and the document was denounced as godless, which is precisely what it is. Opponents of the Constitution challenged ratifying conventions in nearly every state, calling attention to Article VI, Section 3: “No religious test shall be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.”

An anti-federalist in North Carolina wrote: “The exclusion of religious tests is by many thought dangerous and impolitic. Pagans, Deists and Mohammedans might obtain office among us.” Amos Singletary of Massachussetts, one of the most outspoken critics of the Constitution, said that he “hoped to see Christians (in power), yet by the Constitution, a papist or an infidel was as eligible as they.”

Luther Martin, a Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 wrote that “there were some members so unfashionable as to think that a belief in the existence of a Deity, and of a state of future rewards and punishments would be some security for the good conduct of our rulers, and that in a Christian country, it would be at least decent to hold out some distinction between the professors of Christianity and downright infidelity or paganism.” Martin’s report shows that a “Christian nation” faction had its say during the convention, and that its views were consciously rejected.

The United States Constitution is a completely secular political document. It begins “We the people,” and contains no mention of “God,” “Jesus,” or “Christianity.” Its only references to religion are exclusionary, such as the “no religious test” clause (Article VI), and “Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” (First Amendment)

The presidential oath of office, the only oath detailed in the Constitution, does not contain the phrase “so help me God” or any requirement to swear on a Bible (Article II, Section 1). The words “under God” did not appear in the Pledge of Allegiance until 1954, when Congress, under McCarthyism, inserted them.

Similarly, “In God we Trust” was absent from paper currency before 1956, though it did appear on some coins beginning in 1864. The original U.S. motto, written by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson, is “E Pluribus Unum” (“Of Many, One”) celebrating plurality and diversity.

In 1797, America made a treaty with Tripoli, declaring that “the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” This reassurance to Islam was written under Washington’s presidency and approved by the Senate under John Adams.

We are not governed by the Declaration of Independence. Its purpose was to “dissolve the political bonds,” not to set up a religious nation. Its authority was based upon the idea that “governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,” which is contrary to the biblical concept of rule by divine authority. The Declaration deals with laws, taxation, representation, war, immigration, etc., and doesn’t discuss religion at all.

The references to “Nature’s God,” “Creator,” and “Divine Providence” in the Declaration do not endorse Christianity. Its author, Thomas Jefferson, was a Deist, opposed to Christianity and the supernatural.

“Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern, which have come under my observation, none appear to me so pure as that of Jesus,” wrote Thomas Jefferson. However, Jefferson admitted, “In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man and that other parts are the fabric of very inferior minds...” It was Thomas Jefferson who established the separation of church and state. Jefferson was deeply suspicious of religion and of clergy wielding political power.

Jefferson helped create the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786, incurring the wrath of Christians by his fervent defense of toleration of atheists: “The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts as are only injurious to others. But it does no injury for my neighbor to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.” Jefferson advocated a “wall of separation” between church and state not to protect the church from government intrusion, but to preserve the freedom of the people:

“I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest morality that has ever been taught;” he observed, “but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invested by priestcraft and established by kingcraft, constituting a conspiracy of church and state against the civil and religious liberties of mankind.”

Jefferson and the founding fathers were products of the Age of Enlightenment. Their world view was based upon Deism, secularism, and rationalism.

“The priests of the different religious sects dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight,” wrote Jefferson. “The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his Father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter...we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this...”

As late as 1820, Jefferson was convinced everyone in the United States would die a Unitarian. Jefferson, Madison and Paine’s writings indicate that America was never intended to be a Christian theocracy. “I have sworn upon the altar of God,” wrote Jefferson, “eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.”

In his 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists, Jefferson wrote: “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.”

Similarly, in an 1824 letter to John Cartwright, Jefferson expressed anger at judges who had based rulings on their belief that Christianity is part of the common law. Cartwright had written a book critical of these judges, and Jefferson was glad to see it. Observed Jefferson, “The proof of the contrary, which you have produced, is controvertible; to wit, that the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced, or knew that such a character had ever existed.”

Jefferson challenged “the best-read lawyer to produce another script of authority for this judicial forgery” and concluded, “What a conspiracy this, between Church and State!”

As president, Jefferson put his “wall of separation” theory into practice. He refused to issue proclamations calling for days of prayer and fasting, insisting that they violate the First Amendment. As early as 1779, Jefferson proposed a bill before the Virginia legislature that would have established a series of elementary schools to teach the basics—reading, writing, and arithmetic. Jefferson even suggested that “no religious reading, instruction, or exercise shall be prescribed or practiced, inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.” Jefferson did not regard public schools as the proper agent to form children’s religious views.

As president, James Madison also put his separationist philosophy into action. He vetoed two bills he believed would violate church-state separation. The first was an act incorporating the Episcopal Church in the District of Columbia that gave the church the authority to care for the poor. The second was a proposed land grant to a Baptist church in Mississippi. Had Madison, the father of the Constitution, believed that all the First Amendment was intended to do was bar setting up a state church, he would have approved these bills. Instead, he vetoed both, and in his veto messages to Congress explicitly stated that he was rejecting the bills because they violated the First Amendment.

Later in his life, James Madison came out against state-paid chaplains, writing, “The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of equal rights, as well as of Constitutional principles.” He also concluded that his calling for days of prayer and fasting during his presidency had been unconstitutional.

In an 1819 letter to Robert Walsh, Madison wrote, “the number, the industry and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.” In an undated essay called the “Detached Memoranda,” written in the early 1800s, Madison wrote, “Strongly guarded...is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States.”

In 1833 Madison responded to a letter sent to him by Jasper Adams. Adams had written a pamphlet titled “The Relations of Christianity to Civil Government in the United States,” which tried to prove that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. Madison wrote back: “In the papal system, government and religion are in a manner consolidated, and that is found to be the worst of government.”

Madison, like Jefferson, was confident that separation of church and state would protect both the institutions of government and religion. Late in his life, Madison wrote to a Lutheran minister about this, declaring, “A due distinction...between what is due to Caesar and what is due to God, best promotes the discharge of both obligations...A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity.”

In the early part of the 19th century, a general understanding existed that the government should not promote religion, or favor one religion over another. In 1829, Senator Richard Johnson of Kentucky wrote:

“It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine what religion is true, or what is false,” Johnson observed. “Our Government is a civil and not a religious institution. Our Constitution recognizes in every person the right to choose his own religion, and to enjoy it freely, without molestation. Whatever may be the religious sentiments of citizens, and however variant, they are alike entitled to protection from the Government, so long as they do not invade the rights of others...

“Among all the religious persecutions with which almost every page of modern history is stained, no victim ever suffered but for violation of what Government denominated the law of God. To prevent a similar train of evils in this country, the Constitution has wisely withheld from our Government the power of defining the divine law.”

Ruffslitch| 8.5.10 @ 2:49PM

One word. Sharia law. ( Well, okay, TWO words. )

ML| 8.6.10 @ 8:40AM

Check out http://www.thereligionofpeace.com to see what Sharia Law entails. Chilling. Why the left is okay with Sharia Law is mind-boggling. Google also: Zakat and Obama. Interesting video of him telling muslims he will work to ensure they can fulfill ZAKAT. Very, very scary.

Tinmouth| 8.5.10 @ 8:41PM

Islam IS intolerance. It is the enemy of freedom and will not recognize the legitimacy of a secular state. It is definately not benign.

Whit| 8.25.10 @ 11:23AM

I appear to have wandered into some sort of racist funhouse.

Boy, you people sure put my mind at ease about the right. When you're ready to actually talk about our country, we'll be out there,waiting. Have fun on you websites, bigots!

BREDNG10| 8.5.10 @ 9:34PM

Vasu Murti says:
"Obama is a "Muslim"? What difference does it make?
In the secular, political arena, one’s religious identity must be completely irrelevant."
Since before 9/11 they have been at war against us
(U.S.) and most of the rest of the civilized world.
According to Hussein Obama, Islam is the religion of peace. He says, "The call to prayer is the most beautiful sound on earth."
On atleast one occasion, he mentioned traveling to most of the 57 states of America. There are 57 states in the Islamic world. Any 12 year old knows there are 50 states in the U.S.
One of his 1st calls after becoming president was to AL Jazierra, to reach out to his Muslim brothers.
Obama`s 1st trip outside the U.S. was to Egypt, to apoligize to the Muslims for America`s past sins, real and imagined. He equated the Holocaust, to tha Palestinians plight.
Since becoming president, he has continually disreguarded Islam as the cause of terrorists attacks. Fort Hood shooter, Christmas bomber, Times Square bomber, every time, the firstwords out of his or his apologists mouths were to cast blame else where.It`s either an isolated incident, or a right wing nutjob, or man made disaster, anything BUT a Muslim terrorist. BUT in every instance that`s exactly what it was, a terrorist, a Jehadist, killing or trying to kill in the name of ALLAH, Barrach HUSSEIN Obama`s so called religion of peace.
Before being elected president it WAS almost racist to mention the middle name "HUSSEIN". After becoming president, he suddenly was proud of his middle name. How things have changed !

Ted| 8.6.10 @ 10:24AM

Mr. Murti,

The first three sentences of your post indicate you don't understand one basic fact: to a good, true Muslim, one's secular and political identity are the same. There's no difference. That's why it matters.

Mark James| 8.6.10 @ 12:41PM

Well written and well conceived, but your statement that "the biblical concept of rule by divine authority. " is not accurate. The Bible teaches that we rule ourselves on this earth and in doing so we have fallen away from God, His Glory, and His Righteousness. His sacrifice was to allow us to rejoin Him if we so choose. There is no "divine rule" mandated or required.

Dave2| 8.8.10 @ 6:23PM

Who really knows if Obama is a Muslim? If he is he certainly doesn't practice it...

What he DID practice for 20 years was going to Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church...and yes, that SHOULD matter...given what he was taught there!

Serge from Wellington| 8.9.10 @ 8:03PM

Dave2 wrote:

"What he DID practice for 20 years was going to Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church...and yes, that SHOULD matter...given what he was taught there! "

The most important detail of Rev. Jeremiah's faith is that he had converted to his sort of "christianity" from Islam. Note, that no fatwa was issued to punish his apostasy. Why?

Because he is as Christian as Anna Chapman is chaste. And so is his most famous disciple.

Keith| 8.5.10 @ 6:00PM

His father was a Muslim, but he lost his faith and became a athiest. His stepfather Lolo was indeed a Muslim, but Barack only knew him from when his was six to when his was ten. His mother did NOT convert to Islam. Rather she was skeptical of religion-if not a outright atheist. Barack himself admitted in one of his books that he shared her skepticism about religion. He even told one of his daughters that he didn't know what would happen aften one died. Nevertheless he knew that his father was a former Muslim and he idolized him-even though it turned out that he was a less than ideal father to say the least.

AdFontes| 8.6.10 @ 2:53AM

The fact that he bows to the Saudi king proves he is not a Muslim. A true Muslim bows to nobody, only to Allah.

Skohayes| 8.6.10 @ 3:51PM

How can one be a practicing Muslim and a drunk (excuse me, DRUNK) at the same time ?

Reinhard| 8.7.10 @ 7:01PM

Typical racist..perhaps your sheet was too tight?

CU2| 8.21.10 @ 2:04PM

What is a typical black man? No offense to white men who are wise, but it sounds like you are a typical white racist. I can't say you are for sure but your comments give us all a tip.

Stephanie| 8.5.10 @ 8:42AM

Hey Tim, you need to tone it down just a little bit!
Not all black men die in gutters. You're feeding into what they say about us on t he right, that we're all racists. Easy boy.

RCV| 8.5.10 @ 10:44AM

Tim IS a racist, and you really have no problem with that or his whole racist rant. Y ou just want him to hide the fact so the rest of the readers won't recognize the fact of the right's rampant racism .

You're a sorry lot. Change has come, but it's so hard for you Neanderthals to live in the modern world.

chester arthur| 8.5.10 @ 10:15PM

Oh,yes,it's the right that divides people by race at every opportunity.Maybe,just maybe,it's the left that divides in order to conquer those who disagree with them.Maybe it's the left that vilifies and name calls those with a different point of view.And what do they desire?Merely to impose political and societal systems that very few want,based on teachings by 'philosophers' whose ideas have been repeatedly proven to be the worst of all possible systems of governance.Marxist,Keynesian academics who never lived in the real,modern world,and whose ideas fail every time they're inflicted on societies.So those who believe in freedom and individualism are 'neanderthals'?Don't you just love it when the free-thinkers-in-lockstep think they're insulting people who actually know what they're talking about?Back to your professor's basement,little fellow.

John II| 8.5.10 @ 10:26PM

No, Ricky. YOU'RE the "racist," because you obsess over the matter of race. That's what a racist IS.

As to Tim: see below at 9:09, posted before your contrived show of indignation.

As to RCV: Whoa, what a gasbag! Just like Vasu.

viking| 8.6.10 @ 8:46AM

We are in the 21st century and racism was almost completely dead. No more segregation and back of the bus. BO and all the A-holes screaming racist this and racist that has been pushing us all back into the 60`s and beyond. Soon there will be race riots in the streets. Maybe even segragation back in the schools. It will be to dangerous for a white kid to be in a school that has black or brown boy`s in it.
The Mayans just might have it right. They said the world will end december 2012. Right after the elections in 2012. Iran will nuke Israel,They will nuke Iran and a few others. A few will nuke us Korea, maybe even Pakistan and we`ll nuke them back. India might even pitch a few. God said the world will end in fire. And BO the muslim will let it start. By the time we can run him off in 2012 it will be to late to stop it.

ML| 8.6.10 @ 8:42AM

"Change has come." Ha ha ha ha ha!!! What great change!

loulou| 8.5.10 @ 10:52AM

You need to get a sense of humor.

I don't let my enemies define me.

Ken (Old Texican)| 8.5.10 @ 8:49AM

Timothy,
I was pretty much with you until your last sentence (Parenthetical) destroyed any credibility you might have garnered.

I just happen to know too many fine Christian black men.

Mr. Gutman
I have often posited that Obama is a Muslim...in Muslim eyes and law.
'Nuff said.

canuckistani| 8.5.10 @ 9:13AM

So, when 41 and Junior are holding hands with the king of Saudi Arabia, they are simply talking about the weather?
When Rumsfeld is shaking hands in Hussein's office and then Turkmenbasi's during the second Gulf War, they're talking about box scores?
I think there needs to be a correction in the perceptions that this president is any more or less "pro-Israeli" than previous ones. The only difference in reality is that neocons ramped up their participation in US foreign policy with a pro-Israel bent after daddy refused to go into Baghdad in '92.
I do not see any change in foreign policy under Obama, do you?
Iran is a reality any president needs to tackle. Junior didn't do it, daddy didn't do it, RR actually made deals with them (or was he catatonic at the time?), Nixon underwrote the Shah and Ike put him there. Obama has secured the toughest sanctions on Iran in a generation....more than his GOP predecessors either attempted or dared in 30 years.
The simple truth is that Israel has become less secure since Bolton, Perle, Wolfowitz, Fleischer, Cheney and the rest of the gang got close to the action since '73. To suggest otherwise is lazy and wrong.
True or not true?

ShortNSweet| 8.5.10 @ 10:32AM

"Less pro-Israeli" is the truth. Being diplomatic, and turning down the steam in order to save your polical career are nowhere near the same. His actions more than any pres since I've been paying attention have proven his position...Pro-Israeli? - NOT....

dnha14| 8.5.10 @ 12:20PM

Shaking hands while looking one in the eyes is far different than shaking and bowing below their waist.

Tim*| 8.5.10 @ 4:53PM

Jefferson had no problem with Chairs of Theology and Theology being taught at his native University of Virginia . His only stipulation was that various sects would pay their salaries . Jefferson also admired the use of The Albemarle County Court House for Religious Services .
Of The 55 Signers of The Constitution , 3o were Episcopalian/Anglican ( Franklin worshipped at Episcopal Church and was a Christian Deist ) , 16 Presbyterian , 8 Congregationalists , 3 Quakers , 2 Catholics ,2 Methodists , 2 Lutherans ,2 Dutch Reformists .
Apparently , the word 'God' or "God Almighty" is mentioned in all preambles of all 50 States Of The United States.

The Federal Government was never meant to usurp matters of religion within the Individual States .

VanZorge| 8.5.10 @ 8:53AM

i have no doubt but that obama IS a muslim, and that he has some very very deep-seeded emotional issues.
unfortunately, our country has been swept up into obama's psycho-trauma-drama.

i agree with the author's psychological profile of obama (i have a doctorate in psychology myself).

loulou| 8.5.10 @ 10:55AM

Correct, Obama is a Muslim.
In addition, he is not a natural born citizen of the US.

I recall that not so long ago, one didn't dare say Obama was a Muslim. Now it is an accepted fact. His convoluted citizensihip status is the next fact to be exposed.

Louis Jenkins| 8.5.10 @ 11:14AM

Yes loulou, his convoluted citizenship status will eventually be expsed. We'll keep plugging away until the full birth certificate see the light of day. We may be really old by that time, and Obama may not be (we hope) in office, but it will come to pass.

granny3| 8.5.10 @ 4:50PM

For heaven's sake. His MOTHER was an American citizen. He was BORN to an American citizen. Why on earth are we still discussing this. The man has far more problems - don't waste time on this kind of lost cause.

majjohn| 8.5.10 @ 6:20PM

Someone born in another country to an Americaln and a non American is not a citizen. Both parents must be citizens or you must be born on this soil. Study the law before opening your clap trap. The birthers contention is that he was not born in Hawaii and hence the controversy. They don't see it as a lost cause.

Rich Rostrom| 8.6.10 @ 12:55AM

Majjohn: Read the law yourself. The child of an American citizen and a non-citizen, born outside the United States, is a natural born citizen if certain conditions are met. At the time of Obama's birth, the condition was that the citizen parent must have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years, including 5 years after the age of 14. Later that requirement was reduced. The object of that requirement was to establish that the citizen parent was really an American with a genuine connection to the U.S.

Stanley Dunham certainly lived in the U.S. for ten years - there is no evidence that she left the U.S. at all before Obama's birth. If she was out of the country at that time, she would fail the 5 years after 14 test, because she was not yet 19 - but I wouldn't make a call on that, because it's clearly a glitch in the rule. It would apply to any parent under 19, even one who had never left the U.S. till the day before the birth, not just the pseudo-Americans it was intended for.

Johanjj| 8.5.10 @ 6:29PM

The reason his parentage and birthplace is still an issue is because BHO chooses to make it so. The original place the phrase 'natural born citizen' appears in a text by Emerrich De Vattel, called "the Law of Nations", published in 1757, and known to have had 3 copies at the Constitutional Convention which were used for research by Ben Franklin, and others. The quote is :
§ 212. Citizens and natives.
The citizens are the members of the civil society: bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. . . .
The issue then is one of who and what determines citizenship when both parents are citizens different countries, or the birthplace is in doubt. Under US law at the time of BHO's birth, his mother could NOT confer citizenship on him, due to her age. His father was a citizen of Kenya, which was a province of Great Britain - Obama Sr. was a British citizen, and in accordance with British law, his issue ( children) were also british citizens. Therefore, BHO was a british citizen at birth, making him a non-natural born citizen via Juris Sanguinis, or blood-jurisdiction (inheritance). The second prong which must be satisfied is lacation (Juris Solis). There is some debate as to whether BHO was born in Kenya (according to his maternal grandmother, he was) or in Hawaii. What IS known is that his mother was out of the country around the time of his birth, and that Hawaii allowed a COLB to be issued for children that were born at home vice a hospital, and a doctors signature was not required, allowing for the possibility that young BHO was born overseas, and his mother took him back to Hawaii and claimed he was born there.
Whether or not he was born in Hawaii, the fact remains that he was born a British citizen, and was NEVER a natural born citizen.

Bigfoot| 8.5.10 @ 8:57PM

If Obama is not qualified to be President then all the laws signed by him and the orders given by him are not legal nor binding. We may want to celebrate such an eventuality, but in fact it would cause huge problems for our governance and our foreign relations. What is equally disturbing to me is that the man is hiding every substantial record of his past. Whatever he may be - citizen or alien, Muslim or Christian, hard communist or soft socialist - it is becoming daily more clear that he is false to his core.

sasob| 8.6.10 @ 12:05AM

"Whatever he may be - citizen or alien, Muslim or Christian, hard communist or soft socialist - it is becoming daily more clear that he is false to his core."

He's a jive talking con artist just like his bigamist old man. Just a damned liar.

viking| 8.6.10 @ 9:03AM

We don`t even know what day, month or year b o was born. He could have been 2 or 3 or any age when mommy applied for the Hawaiian certificate. Maybe somone told mommy ahe would have naturalise him since he was not a citizen. Just get him a certificate from Hawaii that he was born there and cut all the red tape.
I don`t think the hospital in Bombassa Kenya issued birth certificates back in the early 60`s. Maybe he don`t show one because he don`t have one to show.

ML| 8.6.10 @ 8:46AM

It always comes out in the end. Bill Clinton: "I did not . . . . with that woman." John Edwards: "That is NOT my child." Al Gore: "We are separating because we have grown apart." Tiger Woods, Nixon, etc., etc. It's just a matter of time. Definitely google the "Zakat and Obama" video.

RCV| 8.5.10 @ 7:06PM

LouLou - It is an "accepted fact" only among the very small universe of deluded rightists who occupy this board.

chester| 8.5.10 @ 10:18PM

I guess the professor left the window open and little man escaped again.Next time he won't take the manacles off at beddy-bye time.

mary| 8.5.10 @ 9:09AM

Agreed with what Timothy said until "(Typical Black Man)" Geez, you were making sense, why did you have to blow it?!

canuckistani| 8.5.10 @ 9:16AM

Perhaps VanZorge can explain, with his doctorate and all.

blackknights1802| 8.5.10 @ 11:27AM

I don’t have a doctorate, however I am neither deaf, dumb or blind about this president. In my humble opinion, he has some deep-seated problems stemming from his childhood that he has carried into the White House with him. Why did he send the bust of Churchill back to the UK?

canuckistani| 8.5.10 @ 12:03PM

Perhaps we have a problem in how we select presidents.
Clinton was from a broken home. Junior was a silver-spoon drug addict, Reagan was b-movie divorcee that was comatose most of his last term.
Only daddy was a truly representative of the best and brightest in the last 30 years....war hero, successful businessman, deep government connections.....and he was the most pragmatic pres we've had in a ong time. Hmmm.

sasob| 8.6.10 @ 12:19AM

"Junior was a silver-spoon drug addict,"

Really? You're saying Dubya was a heroin junkey? Because, you know, that's what the phrase "silver-spoon" would imply in the context of drug addiction.

Alex Knisely| 8.5.10 @ 2:37PM

Perhaps the bust of Churchill is an irrelevance to most Americans -- like me. I'm of French and Swedish and Hungarian ancestry. Yes yes yes Jenny Jerome and dukedoms and one adultery after another and and Blenheim and First Lord of the Admiralty. Blenheim, Lord thisandthat, coronets -- alohomora, accio wand, expelliarmus! Incantations, spells, magicks that enchant only those who WANT to run a hot bawwwrth and not a hot bath. Ask yourself: How may countries' heads of state keep busts of George W. Bush in their offices? We are storing up for ourselves hate and bitterness in measures even that earlier Empire could not have hoped for.

coal carrier| 8.6.10 @ 4:04PM

The reason the bust was returned is because Obama’s Marxist grandfather was tortured by the British.

L.ward| 8.5.10 @ 1:55PM

People, he was parody-ing obama's comment about his "grandmother, typical white woman.." morons..

Timothy L. Pennell| 8.5.10 @ 9:09AM

Hey Stephanie, I didn't say ALL black men die in the gutter. Apparently you're too stupid to get the TYPICAL BLACK MAN analogy. He said that his Grandmother was a "TYPICAL WHITE PERSON". Remember? The ABANDONED part, was the TYPICAL BLACK MAN reference. Idiot.
Oh, by the way. I DON'T CARE what they say about "US". It's time to treat EVERYBODY the same. But then, I'm sure that if those were WHITE SKINHEADS, standing outside of a Polling Place in Philadelphia Mississippi, and threatening and harassing Blacks coming up to vote, they too, would have been given a PASS by this Black President, and his Black Attorney General. Right? So don't lecture ME about Race relations. There's a REASON that HUSSEIN has an 88% Approval Rating among Blacks. And it ain't because of anything he's DONE. Gee. I wonder WHY they like him so much?

loulou| 8.5.10 @ 10:58AM

Tim, I got your reference.
All these nervous nellies having hissy fits seem to lack a sense of irony. Very concrete in their thinking.

Stan Redmond| 8.5.10 @ 11:19AM

And when that shows up anytime a debate uses a reference from American Spectator anyone is going to care about the context? Unfortunately conservatives have to educate the stupid class that votes for people like Obama. All the stupid class needs to do is see "Typical black man died drunk in the gutter" , regardless of the context, and you lost them.

Nancy in NC| 8.5.10 @ 11:55AM

Tim, I do see your reference and you are correct. But the rules are different for white people. After all, don't you know black people can't be racist? The rules seem to be different in lots of areas. Example: we have to get into college on our merit OR deep pockets, not so if you're black. If a black person does something wrong or dishonest (Charlie Rangel or OJ) and they are taken to task, then it's all about race.

I guess I just don't understand. Blacks clambered to be equal...seems they really don't want equality, but for us to be the slave and they the master.

Gianni| 8.5.10 @ 5:12PM

Nancy, your comment about the rules being different in lots of areas is very true!
Three months before Med School, there is something called, "The Jump Start Program" that was only offered to the African Americans Entering Med. School.
More heinous, is the unwritten law in the JOD that doesn't allow a caucasion to bring a civil suit to court against a black person.
But that couldn't have been why those 2 thugs, waving billy clubs, at a voting both were excused! After all, they were indicted on the charge of voter intemeidation, for Gods sakes, it was on video and audio tape, an open an shut case, but it just disapeered. Why and by who?

Gianni| 8.5.10 @ 5:15PM

Nancy, do you mean Supremacy... not Equality?!!

Bigfoot| 8.5.10 @ 9:04PM

I disagree, Nancy. Black people in America apparently have a deep seated need for someone to be their master and take care of them; why else would they always vote Democrat.

skohayes| 8.6.10 @ 3:57PM

LOL, and just a few comments above this, someone was denying that conservatives are racists.
One only has to view these comments, or the comments attached to the "No Mosque" article to realize that not only are there racists among you, but there are a hell of a lot of them.
I think I need a shower.

dnha14| 8.5.10 @ 12:23PM

I got the reference. Just because Obama used the phrase doesn't mean others should use it, especially since it is so easy to take out of context. Let Obama be the one to publicize his racist ignorance. Two wrongs...

Newsduke| 8.5.10 @ 2:16PM

Tim, how about if I say this; "Your typical conservative is an ignorant racist moron!" But it's okay, because I didn't say that ALL conservatives are ignorant racist morons. Don't you feel less insulted?

canuckistani| 8.5.10 @ 9:30AM

If you wonder why they like him so much, why don't you ask them?
When GOP senators start entertaining 14th amendment chatter - in 2010 - , how do you think minorities will react? You deny deny deny, but the perception, and it's a palpable one, is that the simmering underbelly of the right is truly bigoted. Bigotry is based on fear, fear is a sign of weakness and weakness is a sign of insecurity about one's own standing.
I do not fear the Black Man like you do. It was not their ancestors that gamed the system in their favor, EVERY SINGLE TIME, until smarter white men realized it had to stop and shoved CRA down every redneck that refused to emerge from the prehistoric ooze.
Your skinhead analogy would only apply if they were standing in front a mostly white precinct, and I bet the people walking by them would give them the same indifferent treatment.
Your fear appears to suggest your "manhood" is inadequate and your "wimmin" are waiting for a better alternative.

not ej dionne| 8.5.10 @ 11:21AM

the GOP is not "entertaining 14th amendment chatter," lindsey graham and john mccain are (both RINOS if there ever were one); E.J. Dionne from the Washington Post (unabashed hardcore progressive) knows next to nothing about conversations happening in the right. This from the same Washington Post who can't even find a conservative blogger to cover the right neutrally.

canuckistani| 8.5.10 @ 12:06PM

They are both elected GOP-ers, and they are asking for a review. Arizona will re-elect McCain and Graham will be too. Are Arizonans and Carolinians RINOs as well? Probably, but so is America.
The WaPo is having trouble, because a journalist cannot cover the right neutrally without checking reason and sense at the door.

Dustoff| 8.5.10 @ 12:26PM

Well. As a now retired fire medic. Working the I-805freeway area in San Diego ( near the border). I can say I delivered many mexican babies from women would crossed at night and into their 9th month.

Like it or not. The 14th is being abused.

JimE| 8.5.10 @ 6:35PM

Moron.

Granny Jan| 8.5.10 @ 9:51AM

Small point: Dreams wasn'r written recently. It was written in 1995 when BHO was 33. Although it was largely written by Bill Ayres I'm sure those were his sentiments in it. Audacity was the recent book.

Po| 8.5.10 @ 10:02AM

Such hatred from canuckistani, no facts just made up stories and name calling, and there are people that believe this kind of hogwash. Mr. Pennell's typical blackman statement is soooo poor and out of context as since a lot of us have not read the book, really poorly put. There are so many wonderful black families, good people, good Christians who are going to heaven. This Reverand Write, you certainly will not be seeing him in heaven. Such distruction to the faith. "You will know Christians by the way they treat each other".

Tim*| 8.5.10 @ 10:06AM

Obama Senior was a Post Colonial African Socialist Atheist Economist , who fell out of favor with his Kenyan Government , became a drunk , lost his legs in a car crash and finally died in a car crash .

This psycho-babble is amusing .

Diagnosis : Junior is a Socialistic Screw Up , like his Old Man .

That' ll be $ 140.00 and your 50 minute hour is up .

Next patient !

Paul Streitz | 8.5.10 @ 10:08AM

Who says that Obama, Sr. is Obama Jr's father>

The more likely suspect is Frank Marshall Davis, communist from Chicago who moved to
Hawaii. This does not invalidate the notion that Obama, jr, considers himself a Muslim.

The reason for hiding the info on Obama was not an issue of citizenship, but that he was the son of Communist organizer in Chicago. Read dreams of My Father.

paul streitz

RCV| 8.5.10 @ 7:10PM

You folks get nuttier by the minute.

chester| 8.5.10 @ 10:22PM

And yet your little mind is enthralled.Don't you have a tree to hug and a professor to cut down?Or is it the other way around?

John II| 8.5.10 @ 10:30PM

Ricky is a racist! Ricky is a racist! Nyah, nyah.

Or, as Curly would say, "Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk."

And now back to the sanity of The Three Stooges.

Timothy L. Pennell| 8.5.10 @ 10:14AM

Get over the TYPICAL BLACK MAN crack. It was a DIG at Obama calling his WHITE GRANDMOTHER a Typical White Person. Are you people IDIOTS?
"A lot of us haven't read the book." That's not my problem. You're criticizing ME, and you don't even know what you're talking about.
I KNOW that there are LOTS of good Black men. I'm not talking about THEM. I'm talking about the MUSLIM NACISSIST in the White House.
BUT! If you want to get technical? 83% of all Black Children are born to single parent households. NO FATHERS. This is FACT. If me stating it is a PROBLEM for you? TOO BAD.

canuckistani| 8.5.10 @ 12:12PM

Ok, then what are you implying? Is being Black a genetic flaw or is it something else?
I have no problem reading your true feelings. It will be freeing for you by not having to temper your venom with veiled descriptions.
Take the chance, you may find kindreds here.
Moses was born to Hebrews and almost became Pharoah...was that a problem for you too?

JimE| 8.5.10 @ 6:37PM

Moron.

skohayes| 8.6.10 @ 4:01PM

Wow, TIM, you seem to be HAVING A PROBLEM with your caps LOCK key.
By the way, Sarah Palin's grandson was born to a single parent household. His FATHER is too BUSY getting LAID in HOLLYWOOD.

Tim*| 8.5.10 @ 10:19AM

Obama's father probably could be Chin Ho from Hawaii 50 or Don "Tiny Bubbles " Ho.

Read James Mitchner's : Hawaii .

It's all in there .

Adler Young| 8.5.10 @ 10:37AM

I'm inclined to believe the Frank Davis story;but when did Barack know it and how much did he know? His training suggests he has been a Moslem. I wonder how he seems not to know any Arabic,Kikuyu or Malay. The Davis story suggests an answer to the question who was looking out for him? The Gutman article is certainly plauseable. Apropos : he should do an analysis of TIM. Communicators should communicate. Private language is a symptom of schitzophrenia.

canuckistani| 8.5.10 @ 12:15PM

And Haley is a born and raised Sikh who became Christian.
Do you not believe the holy spirit can be alive in non-believers?

You better tell every Christian org to quit the evangelism racket, because, according to you, it's pointless.

james wilson| 8.5.10 @ 10:59AM

If you look at the dogs that don't bark, Mr. Gutmann, you will see a different picture of Obama's family, and his make-up. The waist-high Obama did not know anything untoward of his parantage. He does now.

There is no sentiment toward his African family, including his penniless half-brother or illegal alien great aunt, because he knows Obama sr. was not his father. His African "relatives" are only a potential embarrassment, his own version of Oakies across the pond.

The curious lack of love he exibits for his mother quite resembles the lack of motherly instincts she exibited for him on so many occasions. What "sacrifices" she once made were that of a sister playing her role as a fellow traveler. In the same spirit, Obama sr, an alcoholic malignant narcissist on his own, should not be blamed for an abandonment that was in fact only an arrangement to establish an identity.

Obama so easily threw his grandmother under the bus because she was not a blood relation, but only the breadwinner and stooge for her husbands need for a son. Naming his own daughter Stanley, his own name, is a clue.

Obama got into the swing of things with his book, truly about the dreams fellow travelers make. Everything is negotiable, the truth is what you make it.

Louis Jenkins| 8.5.10 @ 11:22AM

The fact is that Obama is a Kenyan. He was raised as a Muslim, acts as a Muslim, and quacks like a Muslim. He may very well be a Muslim. And if not a dyed in the wool Muslim, then about as close as one can get. One cannot cast aside your upbringing easily. As far as the photo, you be the judge. It's far easier to look at the actions than to determine the meaning of words.

canuckistani| 8.5.10 @ 12:18PM

and what about Haley?
Her too?
Say it, you know you want to. I dare you, I tempt you, I laugh at your inability to be a man.

Evangelism is dead, as is the Holy Spirit - you imply it, now you have to say it. Do it. Do it now for us to be free.

Tim*| 8.5.10 @ 12:35PM

Nah ! Nikki's Cool .

We like Sikhs & Methodists .

However , I once shot down an over-opinionated pseudo-intellectual canuck in Manhattan , just to watch him die.

Granny3| 8.5.10 @ 4:58PM

AMERICAN MOTHER - AMERICAN CHILD
For heaven's sake. I'm sick of this. He has 1,000,000 things you could criticize. Get over this!

buddha8| 8.5.10 @ 11:35AM

As a scholar/professor in comparative religions
I can say the obvious:
Either BHObama II was and still is a Muslim
by choice or parental Shahadah Or BHObama II
is an apostate(kafir) to Islam having converted
to a racist form of American Protestantism
(an Oxymoroan:racist-Christian):United Church
of Christ(an American invention transformed
by Black Liberation Theology into a racist
form of American Christianity).

This is BHObama's dilemma:Either way he's
a racist:Islam is racist--by belief in a new chosen People of God--the Arabs,esp Quraysh,Rev J Wright is racist). Both are also sexist and
advocates of violence against all alleged
oppressors whose oppression consists in the
simple fact that either/both they are NOT
Muslim or NOT Black.

Those dumb white women who elected this
man-child(still looking to please his daddys)
should be ashamed, and repent!!

canuckistani| 8.5.10 @ 12:22PM

Palin thinks the earth is 6000 years old and Barney Rubble is REAL.
What is more dangerous?

Dustoff| 8.5.10 @ 12:29PM

Hmmmmm care to prove that.

Tim*| 8.5.10 @ 12:37PM

Canucks with hockey sticks !

Keith| 8.5.10 @ 6:11PM

That's just a myth. The only source for that is a radical Leftist named Phil Munger who gave no proof to support his claim. My money is that Munger is a liar. He's also a Trig Truther-they're just as crazy as the 9/11 Truthers. Ironically, while you criticize people for believing myths like Obama is a Muslim, you are apparently not reluctant to believe other myths about conservatives.

chester arthur| 8.5.10 @ 10:27PM

No,conservatives think Helen Thomas is 6000 years old and Barney Fwank is real....uh,forget it.What is more dangerous?How about falling asleep in the park and waking up in Barney's basement?

Andy Krow| 8.5.10 @ 12:47PM

"Palin thinks the earth is 6000 years old and Barney Rubble is REAL.
What is more dangerous? "

Who is likely to slit your throat sooner??

Jack Kinch(1uncle)| 8.5.10 @ 12:54PM

He was elected because he is black. I can understand that. The first opportunity. Too bad. We have to live with it two more years. "Change' congress in November. Get the rest of the socialists out of there. When we later prove that he is not legal , maybe we can undo some of the damage.

Dustoff| 8.5.10 @ 1:32PM

At the speed O-bummer is pissing off American's he could be the last black man is quite some time.
Nice job O-bummer. You wrecked it for so many other followers.

sasob| 8.6.10 @ 12:47AM

At the speed O-bummer is pissing off American's he could be the last black man is quite some time.

I'm hoping he'll be the last far-left statist for some time.

ML| 8.6.10 @ 8:51AM

Herman Cain may be running. Check out his speeches on youtube.com. He also has a radio show. He is trying valiantly to draw black people off the welfare plantation and into hard work. He has a lot of common sense. He has spoken at hundreds of tea party rallies and says he has not experienced or seen racism. Check out Herman Cain.

skohayes| 8.6.10 @ 4:06PM

Actually, he was elected because he got more votes. I know that's not how Republicans usually win (see Bush v. Gore), but that's the real deal, folks.
What will you do to the republicans when they don't deliver on their promises to take over Congress in November?

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ML| 8.6.10 @ 8:52AM

I think Alex Jones is a nut and not a REAL website. Avoid it like the plague.

skohayes| 8.6.10 @ 4:12PM

Whoo boy, someone call the guys in the white suits.
New aggressive species of SALMON? Cross species chimeras?? Flouride?
All the things that threaten us in the world today, and Alex Jones is talking about flouride?

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Adam Baig| 8.5.10 @ 2:00PM

Gutmann, I think you are A HUGE GUTTER of SHIT
You have NO GUTS/ NO BRAINS/NO FAITH.
I pity shit suckers like you. Go To Hell,Mad idiot.

JeffW| 8.5.10 @ 2:32PM

Adam,
Let me guess, your a rabid liberal Obama Supporter? Just a shot in the dark.

chester arthur| 8.5.10 @ 10:29PM

Geez,Adam,another invitation to Barney's basement?This week's special guest,the star of the King of Queens,Elena Kagan.

Newsduke| 8.5.10 @ 2:15PM

Marc Jeric| 8.5.10 @ 2:50PM

Abu Hussein al-Mombassa (or wherever in Kenya this marxist Muslim was born), our Community Organizer-in-Chief hashigher goals in mind. After a rash on nationalizations he is working on an executive order on amnesty for 20 million

davelnaf| 8.5.10 @ 2:56PM

Putting Obama’s upbringing and early development aside, you don’t have to be a trained psychologist to know what makes him tick. It is something he can’t help but reveal each time he appears in public. This guy does not like this country and he does not like its majority population. And, despite the claim that he has a narcissistic personality, he actually does not like himself—how else does one explain his mania for changing the country: he is trying to alter it so that it becomes a better fit with the inner Obama, not the public persona.

YEEEECH| 8.5.10 @ 2:58PM

My husband is sure Obama is a Muslim, I think he is a 24 Karat fraud. He's a "progressive"? But he admires a religion that approves of giving children to men to "marry"; stoning women; murdering women for supposed or real infidelity; forces women to wear shrouds, hates Jews, makes war on unbelievers.....Yuck to both Obama and the Muslim religion.

Bob Miller| 8.5.10 @ 3:13PM

When was the last time a rogue politician was brought under control or retired from office because of expert armchair psychology?

Anyway, the quality of personal badness is the most obvious cause of Obama's political actions.

Ray Burke| 8.5.10 @ 3:56PM

Is Obama real? Could a carefully crafted Writ of mandamus pry open his tightly sealed personal records? If not, why not?

JimE| 8.5.10 @ 6:40PM

Obama seems to fit the stereotype, lazy, shiftless, never held a real job.

RCV| 8.5.10 @ 7:16PM

...and you seem to fit the other stereotype: bigoted, stupid, uneducated loser in life.

chester| 8.5.10 @ 10:33PM

But at least not a free-thinker-in-lockstep,the bain of anyone having a lucid thought.Maybe a government grant could buy you a vowel for that catchy name

JimE| 8.6.10 @ 2:23AM

RCV,
Get over your hero worship, obama is lazy, (so many vacations) shiftless( keeps changing his positions) and has never never had a job. You are in love the a socialist,criminal, islamic flunky who is also a liar. You keep licking his though and see waht it gets you. How much are you paid to post?

RCV| 8.7.10 @ 4:02PM

The same amount as I suspect you do. I'm sorry, JimE, that your world has turned upside down and you can't accept the fact that a black guy got to go to Columbia and Harvard, and you being a superior white guy didn't, and now the people have even chosen him to be President! What's this world coming to? I know change is hard, Jimmie, but get used to it and move on.

Colony14Author | 8.5.10 @ 8:05PM

Read The Obama Timeline. It exposes everything about the thug-in-chief's past.

Colony14Author | 8.5.10 @ 8:07PM

From The Obama Timeline:

A father, a mother, and a stepfather abandoned Obama and he grew up with self-doubt and feelings of inferiority. But the human psyche cannot willingly accept such rejection for long, and the young Obama understandably had to hold someone other than himself responsible. The daily tutoring of the angry Frank Marshall Davis led Obama to direct the blame for his rejection toward his mentor’s favorite targets. Unable to bring himself to believe that he had done something to warrant abandonment (and of course he had not), but unwilling to blame his mother and his fathers, Obama instead blamed white America—and everything for which it stood. The writings of Malcolm X, Frantz Fanon, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and W.E.B. DuBois fed the flames of his growing hatred. In subsequent years Derrick Bell, William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and Michelle LaVaughan Robinson poured gasoline on those flames. Andrew Cloward, Francis Fox Piven, and Saul Alinsky added cynicism and revolutionary tactics to Obama’s hatred. Associations with Tony Rezko and his crooked cohorts made him an expert at the con game, and his dealings with the Chicago machine taught Obama how to play political hardball—as evidenced by his choice of Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff.

Jake| 8.9.10 @ 6:10PM

Yeah, what Colony14Author said. Thanks for putting it so succinctly.

JD| 8.5.10 @ 8:54PM

It seems as though "Dreams From My Father" is Barack Obama's "Mein Kampf"; reading that book should tell us a lot of the true man behind the facade of Presidential stature. A small man bent on power to overcome his daddy issues.

John II| 8.5.10 @ 10:35PM

Yes--sounds like Clinton. Must be an epidemic.

John II| 8.5.10 @ 10:44PM

Can't we all just stop this bickering and hug one another?

And wait until some enterprising lone-star journalist cracks the secret of the Professor's school records?

Look, we know the man well enough to know that if his school records were something to boast about, they'd be public knowledge ad nauseam, yet there's a seal on the Professor's records as tight as the one on Clinton's medical records.

No conspiracy theory. No recriminations. No obscure psychologizing. Just simple logic. Like his supporters, he's a loser.

A dangerous loser.

Benjamin| 8.7.10 @ 2:35AM

Add to the missing school records his passport records, medical records, and of course his original birth certificate, and one has to wonder what he is hiding and why he has spent 1.8 million keeping these records sealed.

And oh, from WND, the State Department responded to a FOIA request for Stanley Ann Dunham's passport records, and it turns out her records prior to 1965 have been destroyed. Imagine that.

What's amazing is - if you even ask the question you're immediately labeled a birther and a loon. Lou Dobbs lost his job at CNN for doing just that.

The left and the media rely on a computer generated Certificate of Live Birth, originally posted on Daily Kos, that you could not even get a passport with, and a birth announcement in a Honolulu newspaper that could have easily been placed by his grandparents.

This is a problem that will not go away for our Fraud-in-Chief. A Republican congressman (can't recall his name) presented a bill that would require presidential candidates to prove their eligibility. Sounds pretty reasonable to me, but the Democrats voted it down unanimously. Now why would they do that? I think they KNOW Obama has a problem.

By 2012, we may have an answer since several states are in the process of passing legislation that will require presidential candidates to prove eligibility to get on the ballot.

RCV| 8.7.10 @ 6:14PM

States have no authority to impose regulations relating to eligibility for federal office. Any such laws will face the same fate as Arizona's attempt to be come the legislator of federal immigration policy. Those state legislators only pass these nuts bills to keep guys like you happy.

Steve Paramore| 8.6.10 @ 10:00AM

Muslims, Obama-Llama IS part of this group, rightfully deserve and belong in the Middle East, in the desert, where they can be with their own kind, crawling around in the dirt with their own ilk !

Mark James| 8.6.10 @ 1:05PM

The Arab men don't crawl around in the dirt, they make the women do that. You can thank Sharia for that as well.

RCV| 8.7.10 @ 6:17PM

It's the same part of the world the other two Abrahamic faiths -- Judaism and Christianity came from. The same desert dirt Moses and Jesus rolled around in, you ignorant bigot

MJF| 8.6.10 @ 11:09AM

Thank you Dr. Gutmann for your thoughtful article and service to Israel. Speaking of Presidential behavior, as an analog to the existence of the ICD-9 codes which in their way attempt to micro-manage the near infinite variations of human (mis)behavior, is not the urge to micro-manage itself a compulsion and therefore classifiable? (only a little tongue-in-cheek) After all, if it is known that a human mind cannot comprehend itself then why should our leaders get away with pretending to know enough about life and the world only to continually screw things up in the face of history's lessons? The US Constitution is a guide to avoiding this fate. I beleive you know well from your work that Newton's First Law works quite well in the organic, human sphere: the law of inertia. We know what force it took to create this exceptional nation. What will it take to restore it to a more rational path?

chris| 8.20.10 @ 6:14PM

Churchill said that Islam is the most dangerous movement ever. It is a thread to the western roman culture and want to end it. It is stated in the Qur'an that Christians and Jews are pagans and must be illiminated. The only religions mentioned in the Qur'an are the Jews and Christians. islam laws state that one is not allowed to convert to other religeons. I hope Obama is not a muslim. That will be the tragedy of the human race.

robert| 8.26.10 @ 12:45AM

According to Islamic Law, a child born from a Muslim father is, at birth, a Muslim. Obama may have never practiced Islam, instead "converting" to Christianity, but he was a Muslim until he was baptized. So, unlike his predicessor, George Bush who would be considered and "infidel", Obama is in fact an "apostate", which is much worse, acccording to Islam (and most other religions). Through the eyes of Islam, Allah granted Obama the privilege of being born a Muslim, which would (according to Islam) granted him a place in heaven; however, he rejected this honor and betrayed his natural born religion to practice Christianity. So Obama was a Muslim until he was baptized, so people on both sides of this agruement have a point. Is his conversion to Christianity a cover to fit in with the establishment, and he is covertly Islamic, or is his conversion genuine is something for conspiracy theorists to debate. Playing the devils advocate, a covert muslim in the white house could shift the balance of power in the middle east, at the detriment of israel, but his actions so far have proved to be quite the opposite. Conspire away!

maxwell| 9.3.10 @ 10:07PM

Try as I might, I can not find one interview or speech of Barack Obama stating something like "I am not a muslim, I do not believe in Islam, I'm a Christisn."

Until I hear him state that for himself I'll continue to wonder what prevents him from denying he is muslim unless he really is a muslim.

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