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Neocolonial Dreams from Obama’s Mother

By George Neumayr on 9.16.10 @ 6:09AM

The patronizing white liberalism of his Ford Foundation-anthropologist mom influenced him too.

Newt Gingrich said to National Review Online recently, “What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anticolonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” Gingrich’s comment sparked off Dinesh D’Souza’s Forbes article, which argues that America is “governed by the ghost” of Obama’s “Luo tribesman” father.

But let’s not forget the white-liberal neocolonialism of his mother, which influenced him too. In Dreams from My Father, Obama reveals just as many or more dreams from his mother, the Ford Foundation anthropologist who introduced enlightened liberal ideology to the native tribes of Indonesia. There in that “land” of “fatalism,” Obama writes, “she was a lonely witness for secular humanism, a soldier for New Deal, Peace Corps, position-paper liberalism.”

The patronizing tone that Obama adopts in the book when discussing his father’s failures makes him sound more like a neocolonialist cut from his mother’s cloth than an anticolonialist. While he approves of the anticolonials’ anti-western anger, he still thinks they could use some direction from western liberals. He expresses disappointment with his father for not swallowing the liberal faith whole. His father lacked “faith in people” and held too tightly to certain Luo ways — “too much of its rigidness, its suspicions, its male cruelties.” If only, he implies, the African anticolonials were less stubborn and let neocolonialists at the Ford Foundation guide them to Planned Parenthood clinics and schools bankrolled by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, all would have been well.

It is an open question how much of the book is real or made up. Obama casually drops into the introduction that quotes in the book are “an approximation of what was actually said or relayed to me,” and that for “the sake of compression, some of the characters that appear are composites of people I’ve known, and some events appear out of precise chronology.” One wonders if he too is a composite in his postmodern memoir. The book is long on affected literary flourish and short on candor. He does a lot of “listening to the wind and its whispers of mortality.”

But here and there amidst the pretentious throat-clearing he makes some accidental revelations. I didn’t know that his Kenyan grandfather converted from Christianity to Islam, which comes out in a story told to Obama by his grandmother, a story that doesn’t exactly lend credence to Obama’s Islam-is-a-religion-of-peace line: “What your grandfather respected was strength…This is also why he rejected the Christian religion, I think. For a brief time, he converted, and even changed his name to Johnson. But he could not understand such ideas as mercy towards your enemies, or that this man Jesus could wash away a man’s sins. To your grandfather, this was foolish sentiment, something to comfort women. And so he converted to Islam — he thought its practices conformed more closely to his beliefs.”

Obama writes about his trip to Kenya with the anthropological detachment of his mother, not so much learning from his relatives during the “emotional odyssey” as looking down on them. But he is happy when his sozzled half-brother Roy turns up at his Jeremiah Wright-presided-over wedding as a convert to Islam. “The person who made me proudest of all,” he writes of the reception, “was Roy.” He had decided to “reassert his African heritage,” “converted to Islam,” and “sworn off pork and tobacco and alcohol.” His “conversion has given him solid ground to stand on, a pride in his place in the world.”

But Obama can’t resist a final moment of looking down on him. “Not that the changes in him are without tension… The words he speaks are not fully his own, and in his transition he can sometimes sound stilted and dogmatic,” he writes.

The implication left from all the self-important ruminations about “his divided inheritance” is that the anticolonial dreams of his father can only be completed through the neocolonial dreams of his mother.

About the Author

George Neumayr, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is co-author, with Phyllis Schlafly, of the new book, No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom.

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Eric Cartman| 9.16.10 @ 6:54AM

" 'The person who made me proudest of all,'he writes of the reception, 'was Roy.' He had . . . 'converted to Islam,' and 'sworn off pork and tobacco and alcohol.' " He said while eating a BLT, drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette.

Just like you should give up on the idea of getting an education and seeking your millions to serve the "community" in whatever capacity Mr. & Mrs. Obama bless (Of course as she works at her $330K no-show job at the "community" hospital or from his state job as, well, professor, senator, community agitator or any number of parasite endeavors he chased.)

Just like Obama thinks being part of a terrorist, racist organization is bad - like the TEA Party. But if your a Lefty scum it's okay to be friends with - and soul brother to - Bill Ayers, an actual terrorist. Or The New Black Panther Party thugs, who intimidate voters with racist remarks while standing around a with billy clubs - nothing to see here, move along! That's perfectly normal.

Gee, where are the Republicans like Carl Rove enumerating these character flaws? Too busy looking for their balls, I guess.

Alan Brooks| 9.16.10 @ 9:22AM

But just for forestalling the gerontocracy of John McCain alone, Obama's face ought to be on Mt. Rushmore.

Sam Vaughn| 9.16.10 @ 9:52AM

Alan, I know you're got a thought rattling around. Make your point not just a jab. If your point is that too much power has accumulated in the hands of too few to the detriment of the rest of us I agree. McCain was foisted on an unsuspecting public as just another member of the ruling class. Dem. or Rep. they both run in the same cocktail circles. They only disagree on how to rule the disagreable mobs in fly-over country...
But Obama on Mt. Rushmore? Why not just give him the nobel laureate for speaking with a teleprompter (wooops, slipped into sarcasm)

Alan Brooks| 9.16.10 @ 10:02AM

There is no alternative to a ruling class, to think otherwise is marxist or libertopian. My judgment call is Obama is the better choice for 2012 than whatever compromise candidate is nominated at the GOP convention (less than 2 years from now).
The GOP is lying when it even hints it can give us another Reagan: the Cold War is over and thus GOP unity is over-- such has been amply demonstrated in the last 21 years.

Alan Brooks| 9.16.10 @ 10:05AM

... oh, wait, I forgot; some here think the Cold War never ended; okay, then, the demise of the Warsaw Pact.
Is that good enough?

Blah blah blah| 9.16.10 @ 2:54PM

putz

T| 9.16.10 @ 3:50PM

Yep...I agree. Alan is a putz. Not much room taken up in that vast skull except the liberal talking points.

W.R.Monger| 9.16.10 @ 7:56PM

Allan you are a macro head with a micro brain and it's only functioning at 2%... get a clue and save your breath because as bad as barry is screwing over America you're gona need it

W.R.Monger| 9.16.10 @ 8:07PM

BTW alan in case you didn't hear the individual States are revamping their vetting process so that if barry can't prove his eligibility BEFORE he gets on the ballet his name will be vacant. that means the documents and process it takes to get into the Miitary and to aquire a top secret clearance are the same documents and process he will be exposed to. he will have to explain the conflicting SSN's, his passport discrepancy, his lack of a long form BC and all of his time must be accountable for along the lines of the last 10 years or perhaps more. his "friends" and family will be put under a microscope and probed not by one state but by several if the laws are passed and i see no reason why they won't pass! your boy barry's number is coming up and soon...

David C| 9.16.10 @ 11:05AM

So once again, and again and again…your argument is that the republicans and Bush are what we should be discussing, not our magnificent young president who was elected king (or messiah). Your theme is consistent and always tiresome.

Obama is toast. America has awakened... even with the white guilt we carry from the centuries of enumerated atrocities...which like opium induced our apathetic stupor (the IV has been removed by the ONE). The Islamic worldview Obama has revealed will result in a historical turning point in our electorate.

Unintended consequences, Newton’s law, whatever… Obama has done what no figure in our history could have accomplished….awakened America.

Athough we know war is perpetual.... we now finally know we are in one and that our adversaries are more cunning than we had imagined.

This will be interesting. Churchill's bust is grinning....

Don| 9.16.10 @ 7:24PM

Americans are dumb. They will vote the dimwitted, authoritarian Democratic majority out of Congress. And, then in 2012, they will re-elect BO back in office after the Republicans save his ass, just like Clinton. Then the dimwitted Democrats and independents will remember the golden age of BO and purposely forget that the Republicans saved the country from BO's maleviolence.

Radegunda| 9.17.10 @ 2:23PM

The same way that Democrats controlled the legislature and the power of the purse during the time when they claim it was GWB who "drove the economy over the cliff."

Democrats in Congress congratulate themselves on their massive programs to interfere with our lives. Then when it's convenient, they act as though Congress has no power to affect the country.

W.R.Monger| 9.16.10 @ 7:59PM

i wish barry hadn't given that bust back to the U.K.... we might need it to redecorate after barry vacates the office!

Gerald Stephens| 9.17.10 @ 5:40PM

I suspect the Brits will give it back with a hardy congratulatory note when one of two things occur...
1. His ineligibility is determined.
2. His impeachment.

Think you can assist the effort?

Albert| 9.16.10 @ 11:16AM

The notion that President Bozo is a better choice for 2012 than ANYONE is absurd. My DOG would make a better President. And I mean that literally. My dog is at least honest and loyal, two traits that Bozo completely lacks. And my dog would not run the economy in to the ground, as Bozo is doing right now. There is absolutely nothing too vote FOR when voting for Obama, and you offer nothing. All you offer is voting against someone else, anyone else! This is not sufficient.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 11:59AM

Your judgement call? Whatever compromise candidate the republicans nominate? No alternative to ruling class?

Your judgement is dangerous, as is this marxist empty suit affirmative action disaster will complete the destruction of our Republic if he is not sent back to wherever he comes from in 2012. This halfrican american puppet had wrought so much damage in less than 2 years it is almost beyond comprehension. He foments class warfare every time he reads his teleprompter, he has been the most racially devisive human I have ever witnessed, he jumps to his idiot conclusions every time he opens his smarmy mouth. I can envision open rebellion by the patriots of our nation who will defend our Constitution that he ignores and seeks to shred (his own words, you fool, just do the research of his prior speeches).
You seem to think you know when the GOP is lying, but it displays your profound ignorance. The GOP is more united than it has been in a generation, all motivated to STOP THIS MARXIST DANGER.

He will fall, and you will have egg on your leftist America hating face.

Yes, this post is nasty. Too f-ing bad.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 12:56PM

Man am I lovin' your posts! And the halfrican American thing, LOL!

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 1:12PM

Yes, those little racist jokes are a scream, aren't they?

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 1:26PM

Yeah RCV racist just like Biblical Christians are haters for speaking the truth to lies.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 4:33PM

Oh, so you are the arbiter of racism? You liberal anti-semetic slavery enablers?
The fact that the affirmative action president (a policy of race-based preference) was crated by you libs. Therefore Mr. RCV - j'accuse.
You are the racist because I said so.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 4:41PM

should read "created" not crated.

Tom| 9.16.10 @ 5:07PM

To call him an affirmative action president removes the blame for Obama's election from those whom it belong to: The people who voted for him.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 6:22PM

Tom, I do understand your point. The fool leeches who are the recipients of the productive citizens are to blame, hoever he would never have been nominated to begin with had he not been the beneficiary of affirmative action at every step of his life. Had be been anything but his particular skin tone, he would have been ignored for his complete lack of ANY type of practical experience or ability. No nomination - no election victory. All race-preferenced for him.

W.R.Monger| 9.16.10 @ 8:16PM

harry reid even said the DNC picked him for his skin color!! they didn't even have the decency to hide that fact! but they did hide everything else about his past...

kodo| 9.16.10 @ 8:01PM

uhhhh, he was elected with the help of the Pravda Press, aka, no truth allowed. Just make him look good! Nothing good be worse than a Conservative in office, so no truth - even if it hurts!

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 8:07PM

Well, you're the guy I respect, TR!

Alan Brooks| 9.16.10 @ 5:33PM

RCV, these GOP fools said the same about Clinton in sept. 1994, and he was re-elected. If only there were some way we could talk them out of running another Bush, Dole, or McCain in 2012 and '16. But they will make the same mistakes over 'n' again, running substandard candidates in the general elections. Bob Dole wasn't even good enough to be vice president, yet they ran him on top of the ticket-- pushing the vastly better Jack Kemp (who didn't have a racist bone in his body) to the bottom of the ticket.
And they think we have to respect them? Literally fantastic. And get this: in '08 the GOP made the same mistake as in '96: foisting an inferior candidate, and blaming the Dems for exploiting their weakmindedness! In America!
The end of the Cold War has unhinged the GOP, no doubt in my mind.
As of November '08, the GOP were o-5, and still, STILL, they will mess it up again. And again:
wasting our time and theirs' with mediocrities.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 8:06PM

Alan: That's why I always laugh at their delight in the President's "approval ratings". We don't hold referenda on presidents. We choose between the candidates offered to us. When you look out at the field of likely GOP contenders, it's hard to identify anyone who can even satisfy a plurality of Republican voters, let alone convince the American people to let them run the country after the shape they left it in at the end of 2008.

W.R.Monger| 9.16.10 @ 8:21PM

you and alan are idiots... i would have preferred hillary over barry any day of forever!! and i'm a full blown conservative!! you guys screwed her over so big time it had to be a set up. she lost before she even decided to get in the race...

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 8:48PM

She had the race won, but ran one of the worst organized primary campaigns imaginable -- all media money and no field organization. She was out-organized in the caucuses, which is why she won. That said, she would have been a fine President as well.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 8:49PM

read "lost"

TR| 9.16.10 @ 5:48PM

I responded to yur comment earlier, but after thinking some more I would like an answer:
Exactly what racist joke? It is liberals who love hyphenated-american identifiers, and I have heard and read liberal media tyoes call ObaMao as the first african-american president. But in fact, he is only half-black. You libs discount his mother's caucasionness. Therefore, he is half-black, or halfrican-american.
Is that a racist joke, or mere observance of fact by your own liberal standards? Just asking..

JimE| 9.16.10 @ 6:14PM

They are hilarious, much more funny than your white-guilt rants.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 6:26PM

WTF??? I have absolutely no guilt, I am not responsible for actions that occurred over 100 years before I was born. I am thankful that members of my race fought to end it, however. Too bad the same can't be said for Africans that still hold slaves to this very day.

combatvetkorea'50| 9.16.10 @ 6:07PM

This illegal, islam, muslim, alien, baby murderer, cultist is 50% white, 45% arab, and only 5% black where 95% blacks think he is black, so they all voted for the color of his skin, instead of the content of his character that Martin Luther King, Jr. said to do.

W.R.Monger| 9.16.10 @ 8:12PM

not nasty enough but i liked your post none the less. when are you running and for what office, i'll vote for you!!

W.R.Monger| 9.16.10 @ 8:24PM

that last comment at 8:12 was directed at TR. he rocks... halfrican...lol

JF| 9.16.10 @ 4:40PM

Your "judgment call" shows what kind of judgment - or lack thereof - you have. I guess, Alan, that you need to be ruled. I really think the best thing for this country is to reinstitute slavery, and let people like yourself volunteer for it rather than attempt to conscript those of us who are capable of dealing with life.

jrjr| 9.16.10 @ 4:49PM

A partial answer ".. to a ruling class.." is term limits on every gubbermint job, appointed, anointed, selected, elected, hired, etc. For the liberal thinkers, just think "Obama" and ruling the United States. He was a complete failure as a Senator, voting "present." Failure of government organizations -- SEC, FEC, FECAL, OMB , Fannie, Freddie, Ag, Health & Human Services, EPA, FDA (did you get your salmonella shots) and ____.

John II| 9.16.10 @ 5:01PM

Well, the main trouble with Professor Obama, apart from his colossal ignorance and his addiction to a bloated self-image, is that he is utterly without wisdom or judgment. Is THAT what you find so appealing about him, Alan?

Alan Brooks| 9.16.10 @ 5:47PM

RCV is the only one who will pay attention, so I'll address this to him. I would write
'let the GOP botch it up again',
however they will mess it up for all of us. As with, for instance, Bush 41, whom they ran again in '92, despite his having blown it.
From 1989 Bush 41 had the opportunity to build on Reagan's success in helping the people of Eastern Europe dissolve the Soviet Empire; but Bush dithered for four years. Since then one wasted opportunity after another.
The GOP keeps saying trust us, we'll do better next time, but they never do-- one hack after another in '88, '92, '96, 2000, 2008. And now, like suckers at Vegas, we are expected to trust them yet again, when no reason to trust the GOP exists; neither will they accept any interest in a third party-- a genuinely conservative party that sincerely attempts to conserve something, rather than elect candidates who d just enough to allow them to write their memoirs, and keep a detestable Karl Rove in business. I told Rove I don't like the Bush dynasty, and he replied, "oh, so you don't like families?" Rove is despicable, reprehensible-- a Chuck Colson character.

If the GOP doesn't respect us, we are dis-obligated from respecting them.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 6:51PM

"Scuze me Alan. Chuck Colson is NOTHING like Karl the Rovinator. Unless of course you already do know that he has long since genuinely repented for about 35 years now. He has a Christian prison ministry and is a genuine Christian brother. Maybe you mean past tense?

W.R.Monger| 9.16.10 @ 8:30PM

guess you didn't get the memo that the clinton surplus was created under a GOP House and Senate and the Bush deficit was created under a Dem controled House and Senate. but those details shouldn't be brought up just who's administration it was... Dems destroy America and We the People have to suffer for their greed, lust for power and stupidity!

combatvetkorea'50| 9.16.10 @ 6:19PM

Obama was never a professor. He was only a teleprompter lecturer. Any 5th grader can read a teleprompter. He was being above what his pay grade warranted. Then he beame a community agitator not a community organizer.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 6:47PM

You got that right, combatvetkorea'50!

He's no different than a day-laborer. a per-diem employee.

Fortunately he's still a temp-worker and his contract is about up!

Alan Brooks| 9.16.10 @ 8:32PM

"Don| 9.16.10 @ 7:24PM
then in 2012, they will re-elect BO back in office after the Republicans save his ass, just like Clinton."

So you admit it, Don? all those guys-- including at least one writer (not a blogger)-- who wrote at AS that Obama will resign (!) or not be re-elected, are propagandizing? just as they did pre- '96 election concerning Clinton's fate?
What concerns me most is the violent over-reaction to Obama; every time you say we are not racists, you are less convincing than the time before:
"we hate that goddamn negro Obama, but it is nothing personal"
"We just want the black bastard to shrivel up and disappear, that's all. Nothing to get excited about @#&%@#!!!"
I didn't vote for Obama in '08, because I didn't know enough about him; it takes two years IMO and there wasn't enough time before the election to ascertain what Obama's character is like. I didn't vote for Clinton ever because there were too many credible rumors about him, however Obama's personal morality is higher than Clinton's-- so there is no reason IMO not to vote for him.
The violent reaction of the GOP has decided me in favor of voting Democratic; hopefully enough pressure will be brought to bear on the GOP so they will put up or shut up (as Reagan said) in 2016.

A Real Republican| 9.17.10 @ 12:03PM

History can be the most damning thing to understand. It confuses, it leads to false statements, it is often read in startling error. And that is for those who either by design or ignorance, do not understand history. For a Party lacking unity over, you say, the last 21 years, that disjointed Party took back The House in 1994, the first time that had happened in 40 years. They yielded back in 2006. And as of this moment in time, odds are that a tsunami will sweep Republicans back into The House and they have a legitimate shot at The Senate. It takes some degree of unity to pull that off. But it takes a misreading of history to not know it.
By the way, if you have taken the time to read The Communist Manifesto, you would realize that Mr. Obama's phrasing/scolding/lecturing/Government knows best demeanor would fit rather cozy-like into that document. If you think Obama-Pelosi-Reid do not represent, perhaps by default, Marxism in motion and ideology, then you're not remotely qualified to weigh in on matters of history. By the way, you did prove just that. Listen to what is said, how it is said, how that trio sees The People, how they often dismiss The People with suggestions of not knowing their own plight *again, that language would cozy well into The Communist Manifesto* and then continue a determination that they are not a ruling class, which can indeed be Marxist/Socialist, then you are equally inept in the area of politics and the history of politics.

RacerJim| 9.18.10 @ 11:27AM

Obama/Soetoro won't even be a choice for 2012.

Eric Cartman| 9.16.10 @ 3:01PM

Okay - I agree. Mount Rushmore it is for the O-man! BUT! Only if there is a spot behind the faces on the mountain where, say, Teddy's butt should be. You can carve Obama there, with his mouth open so the intermountain rivulets drain out of it so it appears Obama is in his natural state: An ass spewing forth crap.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 8:11PM

Eric - Your constant focus on bodily functions and gay sexual acts would be a field day for arm-chair psychiatrists.

Eric Cartman| 9.17.10 @ 1:51AM

Really? Well I can explain it to you so you don't have to go and find one, RCV - Liberal Aholes like yourself aren't worth much more than bodily functions and hamster abuse jokes. It's really that simple.

RCV| 9.17.10 @ 5:21PM

I think it's much deeper, Eric.

Eric Cartman| 9.19.10 @ 5:17PM

You would.

,ooperio| 9.16.10 @ 6:45PM

It is true the the RINO McCain supported amnesty for the mostly Mexican invaders, the bank bail out, and waffled on taxes. His defeat allowed him to move a bit closer to conservative values, as it will the Republican party also. Obama thought he was Roosevelt, but he's got the script for Hoover. I guess time can run backwards.

David C| 9.17.10 @ 3:09PM

Wow, what a response from this AS group. The posts are very impressive in their number.

Alan, I may have been wrong about your participation on this site. Seems you create the same passion in this group that our magnificent young president has had on 60% of the populace in this phobic, racist, illiterate and unenlightened land we call home.

Certainly the masses do not have the benefit of the level of higher education afforded to his magnificence and his elite followers. If they had they would not be responding to his grace in such an ungrateful way and would be reaching for his robe to be cleansed. Dirty filthy unclean masses we are.

Keep up the good work, tick tock… tick tock

P.S. Any more interesting comments about how poorly we chose in the past, and why we are destined to repeat our ignorant destiny?

Loshooligan| 9.16.10 @ 10:10AM

"Gee, where are the Republicans like Carl Rove enumerating these character flaws? Too busy looking for their balls, I guess."

Revised Burke Quote-

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men spend time looking for their balls.

Alan Brooks| 9.16.10 @ 10:14AM

"The American people are warming to Bush and cooling to his successor."
--Victor Davis Hanson, lead piece in today's NRO.

Notice, Hanson does not mention McCain at all, as if Bush and not McCain was the candidate in '08.

Anthony| 9.16.10 @ 10:55AM

Yes, and Michelle Antoinette Obozo also told Carla Bruni that being first lady was "hell".
Not to worry, Michelle Antoinette, you will soon be relieved from your misery.
Perhaps you and Barry Soetoro will become roving ambassadors for the UN. We'll also try and arrange a Nobel Prize for you, for just showing up as America's first lady. Oh, the drudgery!!

TR| 9.16.10 @ 4:43PM

Yeah, taking milti-million dollar taxpayer funded vacations to Europe with a hundred of your "peeps" is Hell. Spending your time lecturing us on what we WILL learn to eat no matter our own personal prefernces anc choices, is Hell.
Well Michelle ObaMao, you can go to Hell since you are obviously comfortable there.

combatvetkorea'50| 9.16.10 @ 6:42PM

Yeah, Michelle it really is hell taking 7 vacations in 18 months at taxpayers' expense.

I feel sorry for you having to take 40 friends in your entourage, to the most luxurious hotel in Spain, on the goodness of American Taxpayers is really hell, while Obama was at the Obama ChicagoGayMen'sClub, where he is a lifetime member.

Google: ObamaChicagoGayMen'sClub and
ourcountryman.

Albert| 9.16.10 @ 11:19AM

Since President Bozo blames everything wrong in America, from deficits to toilets that do not flush properly, on Bush, and not on McCain, you now have the context for Mr. Hanson's comment. It is time to stop ranting and start actually thinking.

Alan Brooks| 9.16.10 @ 5:57PM

"Since President Bozo blames everything wrong in America, from deficits to toilets that do not flush properly, on Bush, and not on McCain, you now have the context for Mr. Hanson's comment."

But that only demonstrates that Obama was correct: McCain WAS in fact Bush's quote sidekick unquote. The shoe fits!
Look, do what you want, I'm not going to vote for foolish old GOP candidates such as Dole and McCain. A vote to me is sacred, not to be squandered on hacks. Perhaps you are saying we owe you for Reagan?

After 21 years, that debt has EXPIRED.

rrebell| 9.17.10 @ 2:03PM

Something else is coming not the republicans, no more Bushes, Doles, McCains, Castles, Arlen Specters. Even the remaining rinos will try to behave as conservatives now. Of course they will be weeded out in the next elections. If you do not see it then you are a fool. Reagan was for another time and he is an idol. There will be a lot of new people with other views than the "old republicans.
This guy your president whom you prefer, woke up the American people. Before him no president went so blatantly against the country, he has no chance to be reelected no matter what the republicans or he will do. Unless of course if he will be able to take over the country with a coup d'etat like his marxist predesedors the Castros, Lenins, Maos, Chavezes, Moraleses,Allendes, and other third world champions have done before him.

rrebell| 9.17.10 @ 2:03PM

Fredrick Ward| 9.20.10 @ 3:29PM

Well, if you voted for Obama then you voted for a hack, Alan. Worst yet he has done more damage to this country than any other Democrat or Republican in history. So much for your sacred vote.

combatvetkorea'50.| 9.16.10 @ 7:16PM

The illegal, islam, muslim, alien baby murderer, cultist should take a trip to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. I was there in 1977. in the main airport building lobby. When I asked for the men's room, I was shown a slit trench in the lobby of the airport. They didn't have any flush knobs or ever toilet seats. you had to straddle the slit trench and relieved yourself, while the person in front of you was defecating almost in your face. Plus there was no toilet tissue. I found out what it meant when I was told to never shake hands with an arab.
Saudi Arabians would relieve themselves publicly anywhere the got the urge whether on the sidewalk, street, or any place convenient. It was OK to watch, but you would lose your camera if you took pictures

Obama would really have trouble flushing open air toilets and slit trench toilets without flushing knobs or seats.

Their sewer system was nothing more than an open air street as wide as an 8 lane highway. In Riyadh the open air sewage street was called Jazeer St. Obama would love to walk down this street with Michelle and his daughters.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 8:15PM

Well, there you have it! Obama should visit Riyadh to find out they don't have flush toilets! The suggestions conservatives have for governing are so impressive!

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 9:33PM

It's what he deserves. He behaves like a King on his throne with the taxpayers money along with his America hating wifey and you respect the creep.

Birds of a feather.

mzk| 9.16.10 @ 3:09PM

He wasn't. I could have sworn Obama ran against him.

I like Scott Ott's line that the Obama Presidential library will be co-located with the Bush library, since he appears unable to separate himself from his predecessor.

mzk| 9.16.10 @ 3:10PM

Sorry. The first sentance should have ended in a question mark. Nothing as horrible as sarcasm that has to be explained.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 8:43PM

Well, there'd certainly be room for Obama's books there.

Rigdum Funidos| 9.16.10 @ 4:01PM

maybe its because Democrats continue to blame everything on Bush and never mention McCain at all--a guy the press loved when he criticized Republicans but turn on viciously when they found out he actually was one.

JF| 9.16.10 @ 4:43PM

Alan, if you read and digest the quote, what Mr. Hanson is saying is that people who think are finally waking up to the fact that GW Bush was not the imbecile he was made out to be. The term "successor" refers to the individual who followed Mr. Bush into the presidency. Obviously, you learned to read in a government school - and passed!

Alan Brooks| 9.16.10 @ 6:18PM

"the fact that GW Bush was not the imbecile he was made out to be."

Neither was Clinton; neither is Obama. You are actually meaning to say "the 11th Commandment: thou shalt not critize a Republican."
However that doesn't hold any more. The debt I owe to the GOP for Reagan has EXPIRED; that will written again and again until you understand.

rrebell| 9.17.10 @ 2:08PM

After reading many of your messages, I firmy believe that you are an imbecile. Alan is it?

Eric Cartman| 9.16.10 @ 3:33PM

Well said, Loshooligan! I doff my hat to you.

loulou| 9.16.10 @ 11:42AM

Genius!!
Ball-less Rove has no problem bullying a woman who interferes with his schemes.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 12:57PM

Never thought I'd say it but the ball-ess RINO Rove is ball-less indeed.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 4:39PM

After I saw Rove on Hannity Tuesday, I lost any respect I once had for him. It's time to ignore him and find a new "architect".

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 6:44PM

Hear, hear! Someone like Sarah Palin for one!

Alan Brooks| 9.16.10 @ 8:41PM

Palin is alright-- but can she win in '16? that is question #1 regarding Palin.
Will she have the experience to win, is question #2.

Appleby| 9.16.10 @ 7:06AM

I have a relative who has made up a history for herself that she likes a whole lot better than the history she has lived. She is so deeply entrenched in this past that she has retailed it to my bewildered mother and other mystified relatives. There was a time when she really did not want to think she was a blue collar child of farmers and waitresses and factory workers from small-town roots in flyover country, and so she convinced herself she in fact was not.

Obama apparently believed he could snooker the world with the same fantasy life -- and the sad thing is that these folks really do believe in the life they have not lived.

Doctor Right| 9.16.10 @ 8:08AM

Appleby:

I think this phenomena also applies to Obama's mother, who apparently disdained the fact that she had white skin and was born into the most prosperous society that has ever existed.

To make amends for these "sins", she became a self-appointed crusader for the downtrodden peoples of the 3rd world, disavowing not only her country but her culture. She once told her own mother that "These people [Americans] are not 'my people' ". Note the intentional use of "My", as if by merely asserting her philosophical allegiance with the poor peoples of the 3rd world, she could become one of them. A smarter, smugger, more enlightened one, no doubt, but one of "them", nonetheless.

And of course, to prove her "creds" to the little brown people who are in desperate need of her liberal, western wisdom, she offered her body to their men...Thus, we have cute l'il Barack, the son of an anti-colonialist, pseudo-revolutionary, drunken, wife-beating, absentee father.

It's a strange psychological pathology.

Steve| 9.16.10 @ 10:04AM

Excellent insight into Stanley Ann Dunham. It is strange to us, although an everyday occurence among the female elitists and would-be elitists. Hence the offer by the Time reporterette to service Bill Clinton to maintain his liberalism; or most recently the masseuse who referred to ALgore as a crazed sex poodle was told to shut up for the good of the team. Ah, hippie chicks...some things never change.

Albert| 9.16.10 @ 11:20AM

By the way, who names a GIRL "Stanley?"

loulou| 9.16.10 @ 11:44AM

An overbearing father who rejected his girl child.

Ah, the pathology...

Michael| 9.18.10 @ 11:44PM

The only pathology is the one in your cerebrum which is sadly unamenable to medication or surgery.

Ned| 9.16.10 @ 12:14PM

Why, her mother, "Al", of course....

PJ| 9.16.10 @ 8:10AM

Your posting about your relative kinda reminds me of Alger Hiss.

Hiss was accused of spying for the Soviet Union after WWII. Of course he denied it. Hiss even denied it when he sparred w/Richard Nixon in the Wall Street Journal's opinion pages in the early 1990s--- AFTER the Soviets Union collapsed & the new Russian government opened up their files finding Hiss did indeed share American secrets w/them. Until his dying day, Alger Hiss refused to admit he spied for the Soviet Union. What I find so incredible about this man & after reading his Wall Street Journal rebuttals against Nixon is he truly believed he never passed secrets to the Soviet Union & was a patriot American. He was convinced of this until his dying day.

Ned| 9.16.10 @ 12:50PM

My son did very much the same thing... however, he was FOUR at the time...

Alan Brooks| 9.16.10 @ 8:44PM

"What I find so incredible about this man & after reading his Wall Street Journal rebuttals against Nixon is he truly believed he never passed secrets to the Soviet Union & was a patriot American. He was convinced of this until his dying day."

And Nixon always said he himself was not a crook. He and Hiss deserved each other. Above all, thanks to tricky Dick for helping to give us Jimmuh. Thanks alot, Dick.

PJ| 9.16.10 @ 11:26PM

Didn't see it from your angle when writing the post, but there is something very darkly humorous about a liar outing another liar!

Timothy L. Pennell| 9.16.10 @ 8:04AM

I don't care WHO he thinks he is, or who somebody else thinks he is. I care WHAT he is. He's an Anti-White, Anti-Semitic, Anti-America Narcissist, with a GOD complex.
Frank Marshall Davis, Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Louis Farrakhan, Khalid Rashidi, The Black Panthers, ACORN, SEIU? He's a Far Left America Hating Radical. He still believes, with all his heart, that the good guys LOST the Cold War.
This can not end well. How is it possible that this ABBERATION came to be in this position?
"And I saw the BEAST rise from the Sea. And he was given a MOUTH to speak Haughty and Blasphemous words. And he was allowed to exercise authority for forty two months."
That would be JUNE 2012.
I guess we'll find out, won't we?

Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 9.16.10 @ 8:16AM

Don't start thinking this guy's the Anti-Christ, he's not!! The Anti-Christ wouldn't need a Tele-prompter to get through two sentences at a time. It's like thinking David Koresh was the second coming of Christ, he wasn't either!! Jesus would've sung and played the guitar a lot better than that guy did. I'm starting to think, that Obama's the best thing that ever happened to us, he woke us all up, to our real enemies, to our real problems (The Democratic Party). But the Anti-Christ? No way!! He's a nerd!!

Denver Todd| 9.16.10 @ 8:53AM

I don't think Obama is the antichrist, but I do think he is a type of antichrist.

Anastasia Mather| 9.16.10 @ 9:24AM

My husband says he's the practice run for the real thing.

Aelfgyva| 9.16.10 @ 10:32AM

This is a very insightful comment. Do you remember Ron Paul preaching the disaster of the deficit? No one paid any attention to the "crack pot" until BO came along and gave deficit spending a whole new definition.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 3:53PM

Yes but R. Paul also votes with Barney Frank to DEFUND the Military and is an anti-war Libertarian. That cancels out his "so- called conservatism."

Tim*| 9.16.10 @ 8:00PM

Who You Kiddin' NeoCon Margie , You voted for The Serial Traitor to Conservatism , John McCain .

John McCain's "so-called conservatism "was canceled out with McCain-Lieberman , McCain-Kennedy , McCain-Feingold , Gang of 14 , Opposing Bush 2001 &2003; Tax Cuts , Aaaaand TARP .

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 9:26PM

Oooh here we go again. Don't you ever tire of your pathetic behavior?

You aren't kidding anyone scumbag.

Tim*| 9.16.10 @ 10:05PM

Aaaaand , You're The Scum in The Scumbag. Lovely Sweet Religious Thing .

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 10:29PM

Tim* is allowed to believe a lie. We know that. It's OK Tim*. It's a free country. Maybe someday you'll mature and repent but till then, feel free to be an anti-semite and liar. OK?

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 9:29PM

Tim* here is an anti-semite of the lowest form. He cannot bear the fact that I told the truth about his anti-semitic R. Paul who votes against Israel and our military. Tim* is a believer in Replacement Theology which says that his church has REPLACED Israel. That Israel is NULL & VOID.

A rabid hater of the Bible and God and all those who preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

He threatens me and others with physical harm along with spewing his vile hate here and not many seem to mind. As well as AMSPEC.
Sad indeed.

Tim*| 9.16.10 @ 10:03PM

Speakin' of Pathetic,Margie here is a Serial Badmouther of Catholicism and Our Nuns, Priests and Mary .

Aaaaaand , She's an Israel Firster Apocalyptic Religious Crank , who plays Her Anti-Semite Card against Real Conservatives Who don't bow to her Israel Agenda .

You're Up Crank Lady .

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 10:27PM

Get a life, loser. You're allowed to be an anti-semite. You're allowed to believe a lie, OK? Feel better now?

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 1:06PM

He seems like a nerd doesn't he? But he's actually a snake. Smooth as silk, and aren't they all? Think of Billy Boy Clintoon for example. No, on second thought, I'd rather not. They seem to say all the right, wonderful, lovey-dovey things about "helping the poor helpless people" (by stealing from the rich by means of highway robbery to "give" to them.) But in truth and in reality they are HATING the poor.

Yes, Liberalism has a way of smooth talking you into a slow slumber while they destroy the economy and the moral of the people. Well thanks to this smooth talking snake, we are waking up AND VOTING in droves for conservatives so the joke is on him.

John II| 9.16.10 @ 5:11PM

Billy-Boy Clinton? That reminds me of another, older national embarrassment: Billy Carter, the late brother of you-know-whom.

I was a child in his thirties when this happened, but I shall NEVER forget Billy's deathless comment on Middle Eastern affairs, in which he inadvertently summed up the mindset of the liberals he embarrassed after his brief foray into foreign relations at the invitation of Muammar Qaddafi: "They's a helluva lot mo' A-rabs 'round here than they is Jews!"

RCV| 9.17.10 @ 12:32PM

I'd almost forgotten the national embarassment that was Billy Carter. He was a gem.

Charles Martel| 9.16.10 @ 2:14PM

A real anti-Christ would poll better.

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Margie| 9.16.10 @ 2:29PM

And he will poll well when he comes on the scene. The Bible says he'll do PRETENDED signs and wonders:

"The coming of the lawless one by the activity of Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are to perish, because they refused to love the Truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion, to make them believe what is false, so that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thess. 2:9-13.

So, those who refuse to love the Truth are going to be fooled. Do they love the Truth, or practice falsehood now? Do they lie about Christ and His miracles and mock Him, because if they do, lotsa luck!

Nunya| 9.16.10 @ 5:38PM

Margie,

One question:

"...because they refused to love the Truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends upon them a strong delusion..."

Isn't this an exact description of the Bush-hating liberal idiots that voted this moron into office?

Make no mistake, I don't think he's the Antichrist, but he is certainly not a Christian, no matter what the NY Times says. It's interesting to me, many if not most of the liberals I've known in my life refuse to believe in Christ, or completely reject the Bible (the truth that saves). The ones I know either deny the existence of God entirely, or they flock to "alternative" religions (not the least of which is environmentalism), and believe "we are God" or "God is everything", or some other blather.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 5:53PM

Good response, Nunya.
It is true for me also, most every liberal I have known rejects Christ but they embrace as their religion whatever "new age" nonsense comes along. Reference global warming -- oops, they now call it climate change since there is no warming.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 6:26PM

Nunya,

I'll answer that question with what Jesus says:

"Jesus said to him, "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one comes to the Father, but by Me."Jhn 14:6.

Since Jesus says He IS the Truth, we can simply draw our own conclusions.

Liberalism is by definition insanity therefore they are warped in their thinking from the get-go. Heh. Ok, sorta kidding there but in truth I'd say you're generally right. 'Cause Liberalism is basically "anything goes" philosophy so they generally reject anything having to do with the straight and narrow, so that's why they make up their own Religion.. but that's human nature anyway. Apart from Christ we all want to make up our own way. But Jesus says He IS the Way. That's serious and He is either telling the truth or He's a liar. We all have to judge Him finally with our own individual lives.

From experience I know that He's a much better Lord than I am and when I listen to Him life's a lot easier!

There's this spirit out there these days that says any old way you choose is ok and this one Religion baloney. Nope. There's only one Way, and that's Him. All the rest is a lie.

joli| 9.16.10 @ 4:33PM

I'll reserve my opinion on the Anti-Christ matter until I hear the report of a fatal head wound. Nevertheless, the Bible says there will be an antichrist in every age, because Satan does not know the time of Christ's return, so he has to be ready at any time. I think it entirely possible that the 0 is the antichrist for this age. Time will tell. Whether or not he is the final Anti-Christ remains to be seen.
LLL, if there is a fatal head wound, I have no doubt that the creature that is resurrected from it will have no need of teleprompters.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 6:39PM

Yes, the Bible says there is an Anti-Christ coming, the Anti-Christ, and that is also called the Man of Lawlessness. (2 Thess. 2:3 & 4.) (But God also says that there are many "antiChrists" (people who are simply anti-Christ), in the world already. (1 Jn. 2:18). And that was said back when the New Testament was written. (1 Jn. 2:22, 2 Jn. 2:7, 1 Jn. 4:3).

It doesn't say head wound though. Just says wound. In Rev. 13:3 & 12.

rrebell| 9.17.10 @ 2:15PM

He still could be the antiChrist. There is no requirement for total excellence. The left thinks he is the anointed one don't they? I used to think that Klinton was the antiChist. Yes the teleprompter is not a right sign, maybe it is only for to confuse us.

jstan442| 9.16.10 @ 10:09AM

in rev. it talks about 2 beasts-one political (rising out of the 'sea' which speaks of the gentile nations)-and one religious (one rising out of the 'land' speaking of israel)

Judy Lyford| 9.16.10 @ 3:58PM

You're right about the Beast rising from the sea, which is the sea of people. There are to be many spirits of the anti-christ before the Reserection. Big O may not be the anti-christ, but he is definitely a spirit of the anti-christ, as was Hitler, Lenin and several others. Isn't it a crock that he thinks we should be run same as a 3rd world country (Kenya) and have Islaam forced on us? This man is insane.

Alan Brooks| 9.16.10 @ 8:48PM

"And I saw the BEAST rise from the Sea. And he was given a MOUTH to speak Haughty and Blasphemous words. And he was allowed to exercise authority for forty two months
That would be JUNE 2012."

White trash eschatology.
I guess we'll find out, won't we?

Michael| 9.18.10 @ 11:45PM

Yeah, an "anti-semite" that hires Jewish People: Emmanuel, Axelrod, etc. Idiot.

Dave M. (now in S. Korea)| 9.16.10 @ 8:05AM

I am sorry, but if you are a Christian, your brother converting to Islam should not make you proud of him. It should terrify you.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 12:04PM

Unless, of course, that you are a closet muslim, born to a marxist muslim father, and "converted" to a hate and racist filled form of what he calls Christianity led by an evil "pastor" Jeremiah Wright. Then you would be proud.

And him as our President does terrify me. We are in grave danger.

Michael| 9.18.10 @ 11:46PM

Yes, that grave danger is no longer in office - GWB.

drgene| 9.16.10 @ 1:06PM

Any conversion from (real--not evangelical
emotional)Christianity to Qur'an or Shariah
Islam is pure REGRESSION.

Jesus Ideals of truth, patient compassion, &love;
like each one's own true ABBA, & invitation
to a personal communion with the Eternal
One as one's own (real)Father are too much
for Muslims who thirst for a Supreme Lord
Dictator God, patriarchal sexism, intolerant
self-righteous violence against All other
religions . . . . .

Not only Obama's Kenyan kin are proof of
this Regression, but Obama does the same:he opts
for a racist pseudo-Christianity(Rev Wright)mixed with the racist Nation of Islam
(of Louis X) and ties them together with a
fantasy of Islam as a religion of "peace">

Religiously, Obama is so screwed up even a
professor of comparative religions like me
couldn't induce him to free himself from such
narcissist religious garbage--exactly the kind of
religious junk-food Jesus exposed and offered
a much more truly religious alternative. But the
religiously lost, prefer staying lost in this Regressive caricature of religion!

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 1:09PM

Excuse me? (not evangelical Christianity?) Care to clarify according to the Bible on this one?

Judy Lyford| 9.16.10 @ 4:01PM

If he were a Christian, the Muslims would have had him executed by now. According to the Quran, leaving the Islaamic way is unforgiveable. Even murder can be condoned, because "Allah is merciful."

TR| 9.16.10 @ 4:46PM

Also agreed.

Martine| 9.16.10 @ 4:08PM

Agreed.

Dr Spock| 9.16.10 @ 8:19AM

More likely his dreams run, "How long before the majority of people realize being born with dual citizenship is by definition Not Natural Born."

Louis Jenkins| 9.16.10 @ 9:09AM

Dr. Spock:

Wait a minute! Do I sense underlying tones of birtherism here? The posters here do not like birthers, as I have found out. But, hey Obama, were's the long form birth certificate at?

Dr Spock| 9.16.10 @ 11:06AM

Nope - Frankly Obama could have been born on the Capital Steps and the event entered into the Congressional record. His farther was a Kenyan Citizen and British Subject and the U.S. State Department has stated Obama had dual citizenship at birth - which by definition is not a Natural Born Citizen as required by Art 2 Sect 1 of the U.S. Constitution. So Obama is not eligible by definition - don't care where he was born.

mzk| 9.16.10 @ 3:15PM

This is interesting. I'm a dual citizen myself. Why not?

Martine| 9.16.10 @ 4:11PM

Because "natural born" according to the Founding Fathers meant that both a person's father and mother were American citizens.

And by the way, that is exactly how it should be.

Joe Oliva| 9.16.10 @ 4:33PM

Being a dual citizen is hogwash. Either you are an American or you are not. Go back and read Teddy Roosevelt. Even that progressive understood that.

Hey Joe| 9.16.10 @ 5:42PM

Joe read art2 sec 1 of the U.S. Constitution - for President and the immediate replacement V.P. Citizen isn't good enough as it is for Senator or whatever lower position - you must be a Natural Born Citizen which means both your parents were citizens at birth. Had Obama's dad been Naturalized as a US Citizen he would have qualified however he was not and Obama is NOT Eligible.

RCV| 9.17.10 @ 12:06PM

Sorry, Joe. The United States Supreme Cpurt, long ago, ruled that every person born in the United States or its territories was a "natural born citizen" because this is what the common law of England had been at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898)

loulou| 9.16.10 @ 11:45AM

Barry will NOT produce his long form birth certificate because he doesn't what to have to plaster it on his forehead.

And the dog ate his homework.

Alan Brooks| 9.16.10 @ 8:54PM

White Trash eschatology plus Tinhat conspiracy theory. What next? Obama control-demolished the WTC?

He mother fluoridated JFK's water in Dallas?

Yeah Right| 9.16.10 @ 9:52PM

Hey Alan your tactic are LAME - try addressing the FACTS!
Argue against these two libs!
Obama HIMSELF has claimed that his birth status was governed by the British Nationality Act of 1948 which reads: Subject to the provisions of this section, a person born after the commencement of this Act shall be a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies by descent if his father is a citizen of the United Kingdom and Colonies at the time of the birth.
Number two - In the Supreme Court Case--Tuan Anh Nguyen v. INS--Justice Ginsberg made the following statements ... affirming that the world recognizes "birthrights" of the Father (not the mother), and bloodline rather than birth place as the foundation for inherited citizenship by birthright. Thus Obama was born a British subject and is irrefutably ineligible to be President of the U.S.
So Phuck Off - Justice is Coming You better Pray your Not Too Close!

rrebell| 9.17.10 @ 2:20PM

His mother has not poisoned anything only liked to have sex only with moslem men.

Charles Martel| 9.16.10 @ 2:19PM

How many times do I have to refute this? Dual birth-citizenship does NOT disqualify you from being a "natural born" citizen of the United States, so long as one of those citizenships is in fact American.

Please -- finally -- familiarize yourself with Title VIII US Code Section 1401.

I know this because I had dual-citizenship from birth, and I *am* a natural born US citizen. Go ahead and argue that I am not, but you'll only further tarnish yourself.

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albert constantine jr.| 9.16.10 @ 3:12PM

Pardonnez Moi, Monsieur Hammer. Though I've never questioned your own birth, or the natural born status eligibilty of dual status citizens, I have always presumed you were a Frank (and Merci beaucoup for your defeat of the marauding muslim hordes).

Charles Martel| 9.16.10 @ 5:13PM

Il n'y a pas de quoi. I'd happily do it again.

But this Frank was born in Florida to naturalized citizens. And I've never had a Frankish passport.

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J Thomas| 9.16.10 @ 6:29PM

"this Frank was born in Florida to naturalized citizens" Yeah - but Obama was not! That Is The Point! See Comments below.

Sorry Charley| 9.16.10 @ 5:46PM

Read Evertt Vattel's Laws of Nations - it's the second book our fledgling Congress acquired so that it could interact with other states. A Natural Born Citizen is defined as a person Born To Citizen Parents in the Nations Lands or Territories. - No and if or buts!

J Thomas| 9.16.10 @ 6:16PM

The Three N’s of Citizenship:
1) Naturalized Citizen, a foreigner who meets all of the states requirements on becoming a citizen.
2) Native Born Citizen, born to non citizen parents within the U.S. legal boundaries – augments about the current interpretation of the 14th amendment not withstanding.
3) Natural Born Citizen, born to any flavor of citizen parents within a countries legal boundary. Specifically required ONLY for the nations two highest offices so that those eligible did not by virtue of their birth be beholden to a foreign nation or be a Subject of a Crown. As BOTH a Legal Citizen of Kenya and a Subject of the British Crown Obama is doubly disqualified for the office of President and Vice president of the United States of America under article Two Section One of the U.S. Constitution.

Barry| 9.16.10 @ 8:33PM

J you forgot to add, "Checkmate!" to your comments.
:-)

soloman| 9.16.10 @ 9:47PM

Justice is coming Barry don't despair - document, document, document - the traitors are in the end their only enemies! They are undoing themselves and no mercy will be shown for any of the widowers sons, Republican or otherwise there has never been any doubt in the outcome only how may fools will volunteer to be hoodwinked to hell.

Derek Leaberry| 9.16.10 @ 8:21AM

Steve Sailer does a much thorough analysis of President Obama's relationship with Stanley Ann Dunham Soetero in "Half-Blood Prince". Barack Obama's mother was one of those 1950s rarities- a white person who had contempt for her own race. She encouraged Barack to identify with his black side but discouraged him from identifying with his white side.

Melvin| 9.16.10 @ 8:50AM

Ms. Dunham's philosophy was similar to Ms. Rodham's. One hated her race, and one hated men. Of course this was during their formative college years, and colleges are supposed to seek the truth.

Old Soldier| 9.16.10 @ 8:36AM

Two years after his election and nobody really knows who he is or what he believes. He seems to have collected every discredited anti-western, anti-capitalism, anti-freedom nonsense philosophy dreamed up over the past century.

I can't imagine a worse collection of beliefs - along the gullibility and hypocrisy necessary to contain it all in one vessel - for an American President.

Derek Leaberry| 9.16.10 @ 9:41AM

Bingo!

canuckistani| 9.16.10 @ 10:26AM

Try Junior....thrice bankrupted, coke addled drunk who was the laughing stock of the family.
He was rammed down our throats in 1999 as the next savior of conservative values after slick Willie's BJ. The horror we have as Americans is that we elected this dude that played on our basest instincts, not once but twice! I was fooled by his tripe and was wholly disappointed when he precipitated the greatest decline in American power projection in history. Everything he touched turned to sh!t and we sit here debating the philosophical underpinnings of BHO?
Old soldier, your boy Junior and his cabal of false Christ's soldiers have created a deficit in leadership in every American institution - especially the services. I suspect you do not agree with stop-loss, repeated pillaging of reserve and NG troops and ambivalence to veteran's needs?
These atrocities were conceived and perfected on Junior's watch and will imbue our psyche for a generation.
Let's start moving this country forward from this dark episode and work on real solutions in 2012.
This bigotted surveying we have here is only a distraction that my children do not deserve.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 12:11PM

Golly, Mr. Canuk, I thought that liberals always supported recovered addicts. Oh wait, that's only if they are marxists. And the marxist you love - the halfrican american marxist president in office right now is the only one who has admitted to cocaine use, and has been suspected of cocaine dealing in college. Bush has never has ANY evidence that he EVER used cocaine. So you prove your idiocy.
For starters, you are an ignorant fool when you call him junior. Algore's name is Algore Jr. Not GW Bush. So get your facts straight, although accuracy never matters to idiot liberals.
The rest of your puke is not worth commenting on, as I see your stupid posts dailoy, and I usually just scroll past, as I know how totally stupid you are.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 1:12PM

Ha ha ha! Awe-some!
Mega dittos.

canuckistani| 9.16.10 @ 2:35PM

TR, I voted for the Junior because I sensed the country needed a strong shift to a smaller, less ambitious government. We didn't get it.

I am one of the few on here that attempts to rattle the growing consensus (incorrect one) that is calling for a system of purity that is unworkable. Demint and others of his ilk would rather be members of a protest party than actually governing. I want to govern and whip strays into shape issue by issue.
This bigotted evaluation of BHO is unseemly and alienates the independents we MUST have in order to win.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 4:55PM

So you voted for Algore Jr expecting a smaller govt? Are you nuts? If you mean GW Bush, as stated earlier, you are incapable of learning truth, he IS NOT A JR. You idiot.
Now, as far as my comments being bigoted, once again j'accuse. A bigot bases opinion on ignorance and preconceived notions. I have no ignorance or preconceived notions about ObaMao, I SEE the destruction, race baiting, class envy, prejudices and lies he spews almost daily. He is pure evil, and it does not refelect bigotry to call a spade a spade. Oh sorry, to a liberal a$$ like you, even a deck of card reference to you would be racist, because you libs are racists and see your reflection in every comment made, no matter how clear and concise.

Nunya| 9.16.10 @ 5:54PM

I too make comments like Obamao, or Obeyme, or Obozo to describe our idiot in chief; however, I can assure you that I am no bigot, nor a racist of any kind. I just think the man's an idiot, and frankly, couldn't care less about the color of his skin--the content of his character has shown me he's not worthy of my respect.

To say otherwise is a LIE.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 6:34PM

Uh oh, Nunya, you quoted ML King, and that is FORBIDDEN unless you are a liberal. Prepare for the idiots accusing you of racism. Of course, we know that conservatives actually respect and practice his words of "content of character", whereas liberals respect and practice race-based/skin color preference rather than character content.

RCV| 9.17.10 @ 11:59AM

Nunya, I have never known you to make any comment that seemed in any way racist.

Old Soldier| 9.17.10 @ 8:26AM

I must have missed the big section about Bush in the article we are commenting on.

If you really need to know, I didn't vote for Bush in the 2000 primary because I thought he wasn't conservative enough. And I didn't agree with the way the Reserves were used in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But, I miss him dearly now.

Redstateboy| 9.16.10 @ 8:40AM

Is he the first President in American History whose favorite song could be the Temptations: "Papa was a rolling stone"? I think not. Were his parents seriously dysfunctional? No doubt.

Ret. Marine| 9.16.10 @ 8:55AM

It must be hard not to know who you really are, hard in fact to the point that daily you must remessage yourself to keep from going the way of the sword. Those who live by the sword........ I have no pity or love for this traitor of our Republic.

maverick muse| 9.16.10 @ 9:10AM

"If only, he implies, the African anticolonials were less stubborn and let neocolonialists at the Ford Foundation guide them to Planned Parenthood clinics and schools bankrolled by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, all would have been well."

You brought up Newt Gingrich. I'd mention that his knew micro plan to invest in developing the "third world" one town at a time, one business at a time, financed by AMERICANS sounds like what you found to criticize in Obama's ideal.

For the record, I don't support either as both of those men exemplify the worst greed of opportunistic politicians out to fleece their flocks.

Louis Jenkins| 9.16.10 @ 9:16AM

So what, or who is Obama? We still have no idea. Thanks for the article Mr. Neumayr, but I'm still lost on the origination of the Pretender n Chief. I know what he is not, but truly, what is he? Some people call him a traitor, white race hater, neocolonial, and even a lier. One thing is for sure, he is not my president. In my personal list of presidents he will be absent. The Pretender n Chief if the best term I can come up with.

Claire Solt| 9.16.10 @ 9:16AM

I think it is very interesting that the Dunhams hailed from Eldorado KS. Searching for the city of Eldorado, city of gold, was a dreamy if disillusioning idea. The Wizard of Oz was written there . It is worth a visit. Shimmering mirages on the windswept lonely roads of Western Kansas seem to lead to castles in the sky. Drive and drive until you find out that those castles are really cement grain elevators.

When, I wonder, will the anti imperialists give up on the 60's resentment that spurred independence and realize that the "Muslim world" is the empire that has oppressed people and raped the land for more than 1,ooo years?

Gayle| 9.16.10 @ 10:14AM

Romantic and dramatic, but seriously lacking in fact. El Dorado is not in western Kansas. Central KS if you're from eastern KS, eastern KS if you have a western bias. It's east of Wichita for pete's sake. El Dorado is in the beautiful, rolling landscape of the Flint Hills.
L. Frank Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz while living in Chicago, after leaving Aberdeen, SD when his newspaper failed. I'm not sure if he ever made it to Kansas, except in his vivid, populist imagination.
I don't think the Dunham family stayed in El Dorado very long anyway.

albert constantine jr.| 9.16.10 @ 3:32PM

Actually, El Dorado is in the top ten of my favorite John Wayne films, though I prefer its earlier near clone Rio Bravo. Each day, I hear the trumpets of the left playing De Guello, as we on the right hold the fort, and develop the plan to break the electoral impasse, and take back the town (I suppose I have my own fictional imagery, as well).

Aelfgyva| 9.16.10 @ 10:42AM

This boy-man has hubris matched only by the European dictators of the 1940's and Agamemnon. I marvel in horror at how the American electorate was so easily duped into electing this psychological miasma of confusion, illusion and delusion. What have we become? Jefferson said that any democracy that fails to educate its people is doomed to lose that government. Entitlement populism will be the death of this country and BO and his ilk are just the kind of sleazy hucksters to pull it off.

jd| 9.16.10 @ 11:11AM

Let's not forget that Ann Dunham's parents were also leftist kooks.

I agree with a previous blogger and marvel at the psychological mess that is Obama's parentage. And not to turn this into a birther commentary, but I agree that a dual citizenship does not equate with being a naturally-born citizen. I want to see proof of his birth certificate and educational transcripts as well.

D2| 9.16.10 @ 11:19AM

The more we find out about this man (not that it was hidden during the runup to his election, just purposely ignored) the more concerned true Americans should be. I do sense a surge of awakening within the true Conservatives and those who would like to see our Country resemble what the Founding Fathers envisioned rather than what it's become in 2010. I just hope it's lasting rather than a temporary blip. Remember how focused the 2 parties and the Country as a whole seemed right after 9/11? In just a few short years it's as though we've forgotten and the dirty politics is worse than I've ever recalled.

youfamissm| 9.16.10 @ 11:22AM

What's missing in this piece is Egobama's desire to vindicate his absent father, and install the father's (and mother's) version of Marxism in America. The father was persecuted in America - which, in Ego's mind, was causal for the father abandoning the family. A child will always blame themselves when adults separate. Ego has created a fantasy of his absent father - it was the evil conservative government that prompted the father to leave him - it wasn't his fault. Blaming others is set in Ego's behaviors. Ego also chooses to fancifully believe that capitalism is the root of all our troubles. His followers as a community activist required he increase their ire by using capitalism to inspire class warfare and hate. Rev. Wright taught him that much. There's $$$ is fanning racial flames.

DRed| 9.16.10 @ 11:53AM

Specifically, what has Obama done that is Marxist?

Steve A| 9.16.10 @ 12:29PM

Marxism, over simplified, basically is an attempt to eliminate class distinction & "exploitation" by exerting government control of the "means of production" (business). So to answer your question: Government control of GM, Pay Czar for banks & financial institutions, AIG & Bank bailouts causing government leverage, Financial Reform Legislation: government can now seize any business that poses a "systemic risk." Health Care Legislation; will ultimately give government control of the entire industry by bankrupting private insurers (force them to insure pre-existing conditions at standard rates) Shall I continue or have you had enough??

TR| 9.16.10 @ 4:56PM

Great explanation Steve A.

Nunya| 9.16.10 @ 5:58PM

Outstanding! And in only one paragraph! :-)

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 12:33PM

There's no point in asking that question on TAS. The posters here wouldn't know Karl from Groucho (John Paul exccepted). This is my favorite kind of TAS article because it brings out the psychotics in all their glory, from the birthers to the AntiChrist visionaries. The new GOP in full bloom.

Steve A| 9.16.10 @ 12:50PM

Hey RCV, Please go ahead & refute the above. I will stand by & listen to the crickets chirp as you non reply......

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 1:26PM

The essentials of Marxism are (1) a "dictatorship of the proleteriat", not to "eliminate class distinctions", but to insure that the working class is the class that exercises control; in the United States, this is not possible -- thank God -- because of the constitutional structure put in place by opur wise forefathers. President Obama is a freely and democratically elected President of our Republic. When your side comes up with a Presidential candidate who appeals to the majority of the American people -- a prospect highly unlikely given the array of potential candidates out there -- that candidate will be President. There is no "dictatorship of the proleteriet" in the US and never will be.
(2) Ownership of the means of production by the workers. Extending loans to GM to forestall massive layoffs and the collapse of the American auto industry is Marxism, it's good sense. GM is now on its way back to recovery as a profitable capitalistic enterprise, whose shares will be traded on American stock exchanges. Infusing cash into a credit-starved economy forestalled a second depression. It was a wise economic move, supported by both Republicans and Democrats and virtually all the capitalist economists who didn't live in dream worlds. As for regulatory oversight of business, we have had that at least since Teddy Roosevelt, thank God. Those who know how to read are well aware of the earmarks of unbridled and unregulated industry that existed in the past: child labor; slave labor working conditions and insufficient worker safety; adulterated foods and drugs. The list could go on and on. Laissez-faire capitalism, like Marxism, was an idea which only sounded good on paper. When you saw both of them in action, it made you sick. We're not going back there.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 1:29PM

I should proofread before hitting submit (spare me the Freduian slip stuff!): second paragraph should read "isn't Marxism, it's good sense"

Steve A| 9.16.10 @ 2:02PM

RCV, No big deal on the slip! A "dictatorship of the proletariat, " huh?? Whatever. Marxism is government control of the means of production. You can justify it, fluff it up as "good sense" & put a bikini on it if you want but there is no possible way to deny this is the track your pal is on. You can deny reality if you wish because it sounds bad for the label, but it fits. A dictatorship of the proletariat is a fancy way of saying that the ultimate goal is the elimination of class discinction. The middle (& only) class rules all. This is pure folly as no such utopia is possible & some lunatic at the top ALWAYS refuses to cede power. I believe that Obama is not a sinister, diabolical evil genius. He is truly trying to do the right thing. He just has absolutely no clue what makes the private sector tick & all of the above policies (you failed to refute as Marxist) display this. PS: You can also throw in Government Control of the student loan process, Fannie & Freddy as a couple more logs on the Marxist bonfire....

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 2:21PM

Steve: I fully agree with you that the so-called "dictatorship of the proleteriet" Marxists speak of is "pure folly as no such utopia is possible & some lunatic at the top always refuses to cede power." I'll go you one further: it's not a "utopia" in any sense. All people, no matter what "class" you put them in, deserve an equal say in their self-government. Most especially in America, where "class" is not a "caste" that one is born into and dies in, but simply a snapshot of everybody at any given moment. My parents were poor "working-class" people; thanks to this great country, their children all had the opportunity to go to school, work hard and move up to what others would consider a much higher rung on the economic ladder. No economic class has a monopoly on wisdom or rights in this country.

I'm glad that you at least recognize the President's sincerety in trying to do the right thing. I think he is a pragmatist who has chosen what he believes are the best of many bad alternatives given the crises he inherited when he came to office: the near collapse of the financial system, two costly and ill-strategized wars, and a host of other problems. Even if you disagree with all or some of the choices he's made, I respect that you reject the aspersions of some grand conspiracy on his part.

be well and take care

Steve A| 9.16.10 @ 2:26PM

RCV, Pleasure to debate a thinker. I think we both ultimately are seeking the same result. An environment where our kids have the same opportunity that we were given, if not better. Be good.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 3:50PM

Are you serious? RCV is a committed Leftist and Obama boot-licker. He's committed to spreading the wealth around and "leveling the playing field." He probably agrees that "Social Justice" is where every American gets what every other American has. Ya know, "What's mine is mine and what's yours is mine." Wasn't that the other Marx who said that? Ah yes well you do get the picture.

No, the Socialists do NOT want the same result. They want what Obama wants for every American. Punishment and slavery to the government with burdensome taxes and onerous regulations. Under Socialism there is NO room for freedom as it SUCKS the life out of the individual and forces the soul to be given over to its MONSTER.

No, RCV does NOT want what the country class wants. He wants what his idol wants.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 4:15PM

...and the Peace of the Lord be with you, Margie. God bless.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 6:05PM

He is. May you repent and come to know Him before it's too late.

God| 9.16.10 @ 8:15PM

Uh Oh ! Apocalyptic Crank Lady Is In The Building .

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 9:22PM

Tim* the coward has to hide behind a different handle to join in the Christian bashing with his Leftist pal, RCV. What a man you are Timmy!*

Tim* thinks his anti-semitic self can get away with lying before God. He believes God has replaced Israel with his church and claims the pope agrees.
Who's the liar?
God, the pope, or Timmy*?

Satan| 9.16.10 @ 10:19PM

Thank You for Your Anti-Catholic Hatred Margie . You are one of my most ardent helpers.

Now,What were you saying about that Pope and his Church My Chubby Devil ?

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 10:24PM

Punctuation, Timmy*. Gives you away every time. That along with the familiar diatribe of name calling with the "chubby wubbly" insults. Grow a pair, coward.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 4:14PM

Best wishes to you and your family as well, Steve.

Nunya| 9.16.10 @ 6:15PM

RCV:

What Bush and then Obozo did is completely and utterly unconstitutional. That's the FIRST problem that I have with it, and frankly, I don't care if he's sincere. He should have studied economics somewhere, because he doesn't have a CLUE as to what works and what doesn't. Spending money like there's no tomorrow is a sure way to bankrupt this country and turn us into Zimbabwe. Just because he's sincere doesn't mean he's not incompetent.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 7:03PM

He may be sincere (which I don't believe for a second), but he is still sincerely wrong!

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 7:25PM

Nunya: Yes, we can certainly have a debate as to his competence. I happen to believe he made the best of a lot of bad choices before him. When the
American financial system was at near collapse at the end of the Bush term, there was a near-total credit freeze in this country. That's the very same condition that many economists believe led to the worldwide Great Depression.

The government's only option as I saw it at the time was to stimulate the lack of cash flow in the economy by an infusion of cash. Money circulates, it is not a static commodity. When the government, even through deficit spending, makes cas avialable, that money gets lent to businesses, paid as wages, spent on materials; the people who receive that money then by groceries and cars and pay other people wages. Economic activity results.

Was this stimulus effective in producing this result? Economists can disagree, and do disagree, on whether and how much it did. But I have not yet read a convincing alternative course of action that wouldn't have produced far more dire economic results.

As a lawyer, I'm curious to know what provisions in the Constitution you think prohibited the actions that were taken.

Yeah Right| 9.16.10 @ 8:29PM

No Property rights - government takes what it likes fires people in private industry - ignores 200+ years of bankruptcy laws and cuts special deals with its croneys = Thugocracy, dictatorship - call it what you like all headed up by a fake communist doofus that makes Kim I'm Dumb of N Korea look brilliant! "Smart People Don't Seal Their Grades - Only Doofuses Do!" 57 states MORON - he said that twice!

DRed| 9.16.10 @ 1:29PM

Bank bailouts aren't even remotely marxist. As for GM, I would agree (I think) with you when I say the government should not be in the business of running car companies. As far as I can tell, GM will either fail or go public again, neither of which are particularly Marxist. How does temporary government ownership of GM lead to Obama's goal of a classless society?

Steve A| 9.16.10 @ 2:13PM

DRed, With all due respect, I do not think you have thought this thru to the end of the line. The GM bondholders got screwed, 50 Billion plus & counting was "loaned" to GM to float union pensions & jobs. Where did this $$ come from?? They printed it, along with the bank bailout $$ (TARP), stimulus & on & on. Where do you suppose this train track ends. Do you believe that there is no impact to this activity ?? The impact is an explosion of the capitalist model using crushing debt resulting in a transformation to a Marxist model. Hell, even freakin CUBA is admitting this garbage does not work. Europe is heading back away from this nonsense & Obama marches happily on down the road despite overwhelming historical evidence that this stuff fails every time it is tried. What, possibly, could be the alternate motive?

Charles Martel| 9.16.10 @ 2:25PM

As I was reading the foregoing, the words "the bondholders got screwed" were on my lips, along with the fact that the beneficiaries of the reorganization and the new owners of GM are the United Auto Workers union. You beat me to it, and so I endorse your post.

+++

DRed| 9.16.10 @ 2:54PM

The bondholders were screwed once the economy collapsed and GM went belly up. They might have made out even worse in a bankruptcy (perhaps that's why they voted for the fed's offer). If you want to call Obama an government interventionalist, that's fine. But I still don't see how the GM bailout is marxist, in any way.

Here, I found this article on some troskyite web site (and no, I'm not a socialist). But it's interesting to see what actual marxists think of the GM bailout-they seem to hate it as much as you do.

http://tiny.cc/2bbh0

Steve A| 9.16.10 @ 3:20PM

DRed, Come on dude. Obama has control enough to fire the CEO of GM, as he did in March, & this is "not Marxist in any way." No, this is business as usual in the good ole' USA free market system, correct?? Now, I know you want to go ahead & talk about how he had to do it & it's all for the best bla bla bla & we will just go ahead & part ways here my friend.

DRed| 9.16.10 @ 3:41PM

Was it business as usual? No, of course it wasn't. We were in the middle of the most severe financial crisis this country has faced in a long time. I think Obama did what he thought he had to do to get the country out of it. Do you think Obama ran for president planning to takeover GM?

As for Wagoner, Obama didn't fire him, he pressured him into resigning. That's actually an important distinction. I know you don't think we should have done anything to help GM. That's fine. It's certainly possible that they would have come out of bankruptcy in better shape than they are now, but we'll never know. The company is preparing an IPO. That's not marxist. The bondholders are still goign to get paid. That's not marxist.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 5:02PM

Also, how about ObaMao calling the pimary bondholders of Chrysler as "speculators" while giving the company to Fiat and his favored Unions? Lying marxist ba$tard that ObaMao.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 1:20PM

The high & Mighty RCV speaks again placing himself above all others. All of us country class peons, that is.

Meanwhile RCV mocks the miracle of Jesus' changing water into wine as a parlor trick and disagrees with God that homosexuality is sin. Yet he mocks Christians and calls us haters because we speak the truth to his phony power (that he thinks he has).

And Jesus was the True Anti-Christ Visionary. He gave us signs in the Bible (that book you pick and choose from) as to the how and when of his being revealed. But RCV is going to be one who follows him if he mocks Him.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 1:30PM

Spare us, Margie.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 1:37PM

As soon as you spare us with your lies, creep.
Everything I said above is true, Leftist butt kisser.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 1:40PM

The Peace of the Lord be with you, Margie.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 1:58PM

You mock God yet you use Him to bless me? Hypocrite!

DRed| 9.16.10 @ 1:41PM

The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these."

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 2:00PM

Another Scripture using Marxist? Does God love those who mock Him and His followers?
"Let not those rejoice over me who are wrongfully my foes, and let not those wink the eye who hate me without cause." Ps. 35:19.

DRed| 9.16.10 @ 2:14PM

What does he think of those of his followers who ignore his greatest commandments? Where's the love, Margie? At least give me something from the new testament, for christ's sake.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 2:22PM

Right. A Marxist liar using Jesus' name in vain, thus mocking and insulting Him is going to present Himself as a man of authority over a Christian, and talk about how I am not loving?

You cannot love God if you mock Him and His miracles, as RCV does and hate other Christians and lie about them. You love God by listening to Him and believing in Him. You have no idea what love is.
But Leftist Marxists by definition are liars and anti-God.

Eric Cartman| 9.16.10 @ 3:12PM

RVC: vtwin's Gayer, dumber brother.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 5:04PM

I wish I could be as pithy and knee-slapping hilarious as you Cartman. One short sentance has me still laughing. I love you man...in a hetero way!

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 5:14PM

Watch it, guys. Only Senator-to-be O'Donnell's sister's allowed to be like "that".

TR| 9.16.10 @ 5:59PM

I was talking to Cartman, not you, you commie ba$tard.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 6:21PM

Is the dollar sign in "bastard" a secret code? It's very clever. God bless you, kind sir.

Nunya| 9.16.10 @ 6:19PM

LOL!!

mzk| 9.16.10 @ 3:22PM

You have a point. Running the economy through control of independant corporations sounds more like fascism to me.

loulou| 9.16.10 @ 11:52AM

Let us not forget that we really don't know Barry's true lineage. There are some who say that Barry's parents are actually his grandfather and a random black woman. Dunham liked to pal around with the few blacks who were in Honolulu at the time.

Stanley was in school in Washington State just two weeks following Barry's birth. (What is she, Superwoman?) The senior Obama had absolutely no connection with Barry and may have agreed to do a good deed by pretending to be the father of the child.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 12:34PM

loulou, I think you win today's award.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 1:22PM

If RCV says someone wins today's award, like when Liberal Reader aka Nate used to react the most to someone's comment~ it usually means that the commentator is RIGHT ON!

gadfly| 9.16.10 @ 1:05PM

Is it just me or does he come across as a supercilious a**hole?

Inquirer| 9.16.10 @ 3:00PM

Don't forget that, during his first week in the Oval Office, Obama has a bust of Winston Churchill unceremoniously crated and returned to the British Embassy. The symbolism there was profound and disturbing: It confirms the suspicions of George Neumayr as well as Dinesh D'Souza's Forbes article.

Miss Dee| 9.16.10 @ 3:09PM

IF, and I very much doubt it will happen, I will never see it. Why in the world would you make such a STUPID statement?

Sam Deakins| 9.16.10 @ 4:00PM

http://www.americanthinker.com.....ite_r.html

AP| 9.16.10 @ 4:32PM

But Obama can't resist a final moment of looking down on [his half brother]. "Not that the changes in him are without tension… The words he speaks are not fully his own, and in his transition he can sometimes sound stilted and dogmatic," he writes.

This made me laugh. No doubt Bill Ayers was chuckling too when he wrote it.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 4:49PM

You guys are such conspiracy nut cases. Maybe Ayers ghost-wrote Palin's new book. Hard to imagine her reading one, let alone writing it.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 5:07PM

No, Ayers was way too busy instructing the marxist-in-chief how to destroy our Republic. He had no time to ghost-write for Sarah.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 5:11PM

Maybe "first dude" then.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 6:00PM

Rather "first dude" than "first marxist". You commie creep.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 6:15PM

No, TR, under your definition of "marxist", your name-sake Teddy Roosevelt, a -- gasp!!!-- progessive, was "first marxist". But if Palin does ever make it to the White House, we'll have lots of firsts: First Unwed-Mother First Daughter; First Iditarod First Family; First President Who Can See Russia From the White House, as well as Best English-Non-Speaker Since GWB.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 7:06PM

Spare us, RCV.

RiverRat2U| 9.16.10 @ 5:09PM

Come on guys,the Ford Foundation, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett. This is BIG MONEY at its best. Obama has ridden the coattails of MILLIONAIRES hardly any of which qualify as Workers. Just Millionaires using the Masses and Obama to add to their political spoils and POWER.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 5:12PM

So I guess we should continue their tax cuts, huh?

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 6:00PM

That's right. Conservatives are for freedom. The freedom from government for EVERYONE therefore against punishing the rich.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 6:19PM

Only freedom-from-taxes. But strict social control over people's sexual lives, in accordance with your own personal religious views. Oh, and no religious freedom for faiths you don't approve of. And, let's not worry about those silly Bill of Rights when it comes to suspected terrorists. Ah, freedom!

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 7:12PM

Really? What part of your sex life do you think I want to control? Ha ha ha. No, the thing about us Christians is that you get us all wrong. You see we founded this country and made it so that there is freedom OF Religion. You Leftists have ever since then been trying to make it freedom FROM Religion.

So as usual, you turn the truth upside down and backwards. The question is, are you aware of this or are you just a blatant liar? I suspect the latter. Actually, no. I don't suspect it, I am sure of it.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 7:57PM

Margie, that's funny, I missed you in my readings on the founding of the country. As to the real founders, I do know something about that. My wife is a descendant of Stephen Hopkins, one of the original Mayflower pilgrims. It's been a lot of fun over the years doing the family research and learning about the day to day lives of those brave men and women.

The Pilgrims were indeed religious pilgrims, but not real believers in freedom of religion. They had the habit of insisting that everyone believe just the way they did, so dissenters like Roger Williams ended up leaving their colonies and founding others of their own. The other founding groups of our country were also a various religious lot -- Quakers in Pennsylvania, Catholics in Maryland and Georgia, Jews in Rhode Island. All looking for a place to practice their own faith.

By the time we got to the 18th century, a new breath of freedom was sweeping the intellectual world. Bright young men like Jefferson and Madison had learned what happened when government and religion got entangled. Both of them ended up corrupted. Read their writings on religious freedom, especially Jefferson's as I have so often urged you to do.

In my First Amendment practice as a lawyer, I have represented many different churches in free exercise cases, and I know very well what the governing principles in the area are. We are free from the government entangling itself in religious affairs or imposing governmentally-mandated religious exercises; and, as you say, we have the freedom to exercise our religious beliefs. These are the two components of the First Amendment religion clauses. Each is essential to our freedom. From your comments on the rights of Muslim Americans, I don't believe you understand the principles of this precious freedom that our founders bequethed us.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 9:15PM

Liar. You just keep getting your kicks misrepresenting what I say, dontcha?

You prove yourself to be the lowest form of low, a boot-licking Leftist scumbag.

But that's OK~ it's a free country like you said. But I'll continue to call you out for what you are. A lying little creep.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 9:41PM

You MUST be an ACLU scumbag Lawyer, eh? Smooth as a lying snake.

RCV| 9.17.10 @ 2:39AM

God bless and keep you, Margie.

Nunya| 9.17.10 @ 10:22AM

RCV, you err on one point--it's the Federal government that is limited from ESTABLISHING a religion, or preventing the free exercise thereof. Several states had official religions when the country was founded, the limitation was strictly for the feds.

RCV| 9.17.10 @ 11:55AM

You were absolutely correct, Nunya, right up until 1868. (We went through this on another posting you may have missed.) The Bill of Rights only applied to the Federal Government. But after the Civil War, the Radical Republicans in Congress, who were distrustful of state government having just come out of the bloody Civil War, passed the the 13th through 15th Amendments. In the 14th Amendment, they expressly provided that, "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."

The Radical Republicans (Sumner, Stevens, et al.) had a deep distrust of state government, just as some of the Founders did of the new federal government they were creating. Each of them came out of different defining moments -- the Revolution vs. the Civil War. In the decades after the Civil War, the Republicans continued to rebalance the federal vs. state relationship by passing the 16th Amendment (expanding the federal government's taxing power), the 17th Amendment (providing for direct election of senators, rather than appointment by state legislatures) and the 18th Amendment (which federalized law on intoxicating liquors).

Pete| 9.16.10 @ 5:11PM

We know Obama can read (a teleprompter anyhow), but we have no real proof that he can write.

Daniel| 9.16.10 @ 5:15PM

It's not so hard to figure out Obama. He's a leftist European. Anti-American, anti-capitalist, thinking 'imagine' by John Lennon is not just a nice song but a party platform. The leftist ideology boils down to a hatred of the self. This is why they will always choose the option which is most detrimental to our survival. It gives them a sense of righteousness.

Rick Usher| 9.16.10 @ 11:32PM

Amen, Daniel, and amen!

Isabel| 9.16.10 @ 5:22PM

Well, should I go to my analyst and maybe he can help me digest all this information? No, don't need it..I think I have it...all on my own. This dude is one messed up piece of humanity...and as I go screaming into the night....he is the president of the USA!...NO!.....NO!.. (and Karl Rove was a total disappointment on Hannity.) I need my analyst now. Karl, tell me no, I never would have thought it. I hope our (WOMAN) Republican candidate in Delaware beats the tar out of her opponent in November....and all just for Karl..

John II| 9.16.10 @ 6:02PM

I believe and certainly hope that, in 2012, Professor Obama will be relegated permanently to the lecture circuit, on which the nation's morons may continue to hang on his every sound bite and swoon over his mellifluous inanities. For the rest of the nation, however, the retrospective on this fraud is likely to be even more puzzled and far more prolonged than the diminishing recollections of Clinton and Carter.

My guess (and I'm not likely to live long enough to see the retrospective play itself out) is that the keynote will be "first" this and "first" that, stretching way beyond "first black man to be President."

For the Professor is already the first postmodern President, the first President of no known previous accomplishment whatever, the first President whose school records are sealed from public scrutiny, the first President who's ever bowed to a foreign potentate, the first President to denounce (serially) the country he represents amid the enemies of that country, the first President to treat a visiting head of state with open contempt, the first President to reveal a a colossal ignorance of and indifference to history and economics both, the first President . . . well, nuts.

One struggles to get at the heart of it all. So far the keenest and most embracing characterization of the Professor seems to me to be Mark Falcoff's, in a passing remark a few days ago on this site: Professor Obama is the first American President who's a man without a country.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 7:20PM

Oh and to add to your list of First Presidents to.. he's the first Prez. to write 2 autobiographies before he's 30 yrs. old. that contain no achievements other than getting high, hanging out with Communists and generally not remembering historical events.

And the first Prez. to win a peace prize without achieving any peace anywhere at any time.

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 8:01PM

Have you read those books? I.....don't.....think....so.....

God bless.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 8:31PM

Red herring time!
Are you saying something I said is untrue?

God does bless me and without your phony contribution. I hope you repent and believe in Him so that He can bless you and before it is too late. That means you must agree with His words and not mock His miracles, and repent of lying.

Thomas| 9.16.10 @ 8:41PM

I think I doubt that .

RCV| 9.16.10 @ 8:46PM

May the Peace of the Lord be with you Margie.

Sharon | 9.16.10 @ 8:49PM

May You Get A Piece Tonight RCV

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 9:18PM

Liars go to Hell. Lotsa luck, RCV!

"Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of Life and that they may enter the city by the gates. Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and every one who loves and practices falsehood." Rev. 22:14 & 15.

The Reverend Mr. Hellfire | 9.16.10 @ 10:11PM

So do Haters like you Margie .

Repent Sinner !

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 10:21PM

Tim* Your stupid puncuation gives you away. So immachure. Get some gonads, dude.

The Reverend Mr.Hellfire | 9.16.10 @ 10:26PM

Your spelling gives you away Harlot .

Now take Tim's Gonads outta your mouth this very minute .

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 10:33PM

Dear AmSpec:

If you are going to allow this creep to continue his filthy behavior (and you know who it is), I will no longer post here.

Have you no shame?

American Spectator | 9.16.10 @ 10:36PM

Thank Yewwww !

No,We Got No Shame .

RCV| 9.18.10 @ 8:59PM

If they had any shame, they wouldn't run National Enquirer-like garbage like this article.

DREd| 9.16.10 @ 8:36PM

Welcome back, John. You may well be right about your guess. Only time will tell, and I hope the death panels don't get you before you see it. I have to take issue with some of your firsts, though. Obama's not the first president to have bowed to a foreign ruler. Nixon, for example, bowed to Hirohito (Hirohito!). You can look it up.

And even if you're right about his ignorance of history and economics, you'd only have to go back one administration to find plenty of ignorance.

As for his school transcripts, well, I have to shrug. He should probably have released them, but I think that first (if it is a first) is probably going to be consigned to the dustbin.

John II| 9.16.10 @ 8:59PM

Oh. Well, perhaps the Professor's secret hero is Nixon. I guess I need a substitute, never mind that I never came close to finishing the list.

How about first President to rail obsessively and publicly against his critics? (Nixon did THAT only once, after he lost the race for governor in California--and it was more of a whine; the demonized Bushy never, ever, EVER did so.)

Anyhow, whaddaya mean, DReddie, by "welcome back"? When was I ever outa here except to watch an important movie?

And now back to "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939), in which Jimmy Stewart sets the standard which Professor Obama doesn't meet.

Dred| 9.16.10 @ 9:06PM

Didn't John Adams have some of his critics thrown in prison under the Sedition Act? Do you have Netflix? I think that HBO miniseries is available. It may be a trifle modern for your tastes, but I think it was pretty well received.

John II| 9.16.10 @ 9:24PM

Well--yes. But he did so with quietly fuming dignity and discretion, and of course there's the difference in modes of public communication between 1800 and 2010, which would ordinarily oblige the centerless Professor to exercise more discretion and not make such a spectacle of his own weak character. Apples and oranges, DReddie--I mean, I DID qualify the assignation with suitable adverbs.

Yes, I've heard of that miniseries, and my wife and I would be lost without Netflix to supplement the private collection. I'll try it out when we're through the interminable "Lost" series--which, though generally idiotic, depends in a fascinating way on traditional natural law morality for its intermittent dramatic appeal. I've never seen a biopic that wasn't similarly dependent, so the John Adams sounds appealing.

But, for now, back to Jimmy Stewart.

Rick Usher| 9.16.10 @ 11:25PM

And Geo. H. "Poppy" Bush bowed to Hirohito's son, the next emperor, when the sone ascended the throne folloowing his dad's death. Bush was a WW2 Navy fighter pilot fighting the Nips, and he bowed to the one he defeated. What is this nation coming to with such ditzy leadership?

RCV| 9.17.10 @ 2:43PM

Yes, but he made up for that by throwing up in the Japanese Prime Minister's lap. Remember?

Tucci78| 9.17.10 @ 7:26AM

"...in 2012, Professor Obama will be relegated permanently to the lecture circuit..."

Well, he'll need to make a living somehow. I understand his Chicago Climate Exchange fraud has gone completely toes-up.

Wally| 9.16.10 @ 7:00PM

Okay, so it is not enough to demonize President Obama as a dark, unAmerican "other" intent on destroying America. Now, let's demonize his dead mother too. Spectator reaches a new low every day.

Margie| 9.16.10 @ 7:13PM

Typical Liberal. If you simply tell the truth you are demonizer! It really is getting to be old hat.

TR| 9.16.10 @ 7:48PM

You can't "demonize" a demon, they are what they are.
And I have read enough about her to recognize her as one. Dead or not dead, she was one America hating piece of crap.

Brian Richard Allen | 9.16.10 @ 9:56PM

Wally, a couple of points:

1. Pathological Projection Syndrome, "Wally," is the compulsive, lizard-brain-driven, symptom by which those who, like you, suffer the (il)liberal's underlying, deeper, malaise: the Fascissocialist Psychosis; warn the world of your presence -- and of the danger you project and;

2. Speaking the Truth to the public record is not (out here, anyway, in reality) "demonization." Which, in any case, is a tactic reserved to and by the FasciSSocialist Left.

Quod Erat Demonstrandum!

(A little Latin Lingo for y'all there)

Tucci78| 9.17.10 @ 7:29AM

Well, it's heartening to recognize that Barry Soetoro (he never did legally change his name back to "Barack Hussein Obama" after he got adopted by Lolo Soetoro in Indonesia, did he?) is "unAmerican."

Were it in fact to be concluded that our present Fraudulence-in-Chief had anything to do with America, the country would be absolutely irretrievably down the tubes.

Michael| 9.18.10 @ 11:42PM

It's what these hate mongers do best, Wally.

Brian Richard Allen | 9.16.10 @ 9:26PM

.... The patronizing tones "Ozero's book" adopts when it discusses the failures of the Kenyan, Buraq Hussasyn bin Hussayn Ubama, are the patronizing tones of a neocolonialist like his mother. The book's tones are not those of an anti-colonialist.

No surprise there for they are also the tones of the book's authors, the totalitarian terrorist traitors, Herr and Frau Bill Ayres.

Bob K.| 9.17.10 @ 12:40AM

Mr. Neumayr,
Your essay's thesis has been discussed before by David Goldman, who also writes articles in Forbes magazine.

On 2/26/2008, writing in "Asia Times" under his pen name "Spengler" he wrote an essay titled: "Obama's Women reveal his Secret." ("He hates america.")

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html

This prescient article was written before Obama was elected and at a time when it was expected that Hilary Clinton would win the Democratic nomination.

Your article here did get many comments from many people who don't seem to read much of anything though. It brings to mind the phrase "A tempest in a teapot." The pun is intended.

PatriotUSA | 9.17.10 @ 1:43AM

Very interesting article and the mullah obamaham on Mt. Rushmore? Please, the only
place this loser's likeness should be is on the
'moon rock' in Mecca. Nothing like insulting
the one to get the demosocialistacrats out
off their nuts and in a blather.

No, he will not win in 2012 and by the time the
election rolls around there will be a very good
Conservative candidate to run against this liar,
poser, and creation of liberal entitlement society.

Call me racist, islamophobe whatever you left
wingers want. Am I? absolutely but I am at one
time or another prejudiced against all religions,
races etc, including myself at times. I suppose
that makes me dysfunctional and one of those dangerous 'domestic terrorists' that the potus and Eric Holder(another real racist) are so concerned about instead of going after one of the
real problems the world is battling, islam and sharia law.

You libtards bashed, hated and called for the
death of the last POTUS, George Bush for eight
years. Did you expect obuma to get a free pass?
Can't deal with it both ways and typical liberal
sniveling and whining.

To Bob K: Please enlighten us with what great
sources you read? Personally, Myself and those
I know are all very well educated and get their
news from MANY different sources, including
some very left leaning sources. Almost all our
friends who voted for this closet muslim(oops!)
are completely disgusted with him and what he
has done, and this is quite a few people. His
bowing to our enemies, appeasement, and the
stabbing in the back of our long time allies is
completely and totally disgusting. You mock this
article and rally to the aid of those who embrace
socialism and robbing those who work hard to give away to the slackers and suckers who only
want more entitlements and a free pass to absolve themselves from ANY PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Please go back to Huffy Po and the Daily Kos. Don't forget to drink your Kool Aid, Komrades.

Tucci78| 9.17.10 @ 7:38AM

"Did you expect obuma to get a free pass?"

Er, yeah, they did. Why d'you think they put up that melanin-enriched suit of empty clothes in place of a legitimate candidate in November 2008?

The National Socialist Democrat American Party (NSDAP) assumed that because Barry Soetoro was personable and dusky - and his past history was cloaked in hermetically sealed secrecy so nobody could get any real traction on him - the swing voters would fasten upon him, and the reasoned opposition to our Mombasa Messiah's pure odiousness could be dismissed as "racist."

Consider that the Republicans had given their slot to one of the most worthless Good Soldier Schweik types in the RINO ranks (a man so "bipartisan" in his practices that he had given public consideration to going over to the NSDAP several years ago, remember).

I mean, was there even the illusion that we were being given a choice in 2008?

Bob K.| 9.18.10 @ 9:06AM

Patriot USA,

Read my post again. I didn't mock the ARTICLE which was excellent.

Now read your post again. You will see what I meant.

Get some sleep next time before you comment on these things. OK?

Marc Jeric| 9.18.10 @ 1:32AM

A very lively debate here, but short of the truth. Abu Hussein al-Mombassa (or wherever in Kenya that marxist Muslim was born) is rapidly communizing America, irreversibly so. We have yet to see his local soviets (that's how the Russians called their community organizations) in action, fueled by the $8.7 billion in Obama's "stimulus bill" - ACORN, SEIU, AFL-CIO, NEA, AFSCME, ETC... MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD IS COMING!

Tenn Slime| 9.18.10 @ 8:11AM

Marc.
Check Google for Soros Secr'y of State 501(c) project. the State secr'ys have to certify EACH election.
W/O Certification there is NO winner.
We have an election coming that will surprise the dickens out of the MSM, lard the lawyers for months, deadlock Congress, and laden the Judicial Court system beyond repair.
Read and Heed.
end
Semper Fi

Yosemeti Sam| 9.18.10 @ 3:52AM

Yo - Leftoids:

If BHOs' mama had chosen to have a partial birth abortion, in her dreams - would ye have countenanced her CHOICE if she were to have chosen 'it' in reality?

And deprived you all of your fearless chimerical leader?

NO?

How come, then, BHO gets a pass for drop-kicking botched abortion babies to a closet?

Where's the exquisite moralistic distinction ?

Tenn Slim| 9.18.10 @ 8:08AM

Reviewing the posts.
1. The subject stirred the passions, greatly.
2. The posters reverted to Personal rants, quickly.
3. The initial subject was lost in the dust, very quickly.
4. Lots of electronic ink was wasted, while the USA Rome Burns.
end
Semper fi

Tenn Slim| 9.18.10 @ 8:17AM

Observed Old Newt on Fox last PM
Unable to clarify his Neo Colonial, Kenyan treatise to the satisfaction of the 'Greta" interviewer.

Re Newt's approach. His treatise is probably sound, basicallly. One has to consider, just exactly how much Obama's Parenting and Mentorships are affecting his daily approach to the problems of running the USA.
W/O a doubt, the background noise tells him to sway Left, choose Liberally, etc. However, the foreground noise of Podesta, Alexrod, etc, really drive the decisions. Add Mr G. Soros shouts from the back room and one gets a fairly clear picture of a day in the Oval office, (Side Room), as Obama avoids the Historical desk like the plauge.
end
Semper Fi

Michael| 9.18.10 @ 11:40PM

After reading this article, it's any wonder people think conservatives are wing nuts. His mother is a "neocolonialist" and from Dinesh D'Souza, his father whom Obama wasn't even raised by is an "anti-colonialist", yet somehow this doesn't "cancel out". Unbeliveable. It's any wonder how Christine O'Donnell, won the Republican primary and will end up losing the general election. She makes Sarah Palin look like a MENSA candidate.

Bob K.| 9.19.10 @ 9:32AM

Michael,
I don't think that the great majority of the people going to the polls this coming election read articles like this from any web site; whether or not they are written for wingnuts by or for members of Right or Left.

What they are reading is the bottom of line of their pay checks, if they have any!

They are no longer impressed by MENSA type leaders like Senator Dodd, Congressman Frank, The Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader, who did not have the time to read the bills that they forced through congress; not to mention the current resident of the White House and his high IQ appointees who brought us this great economic melt down!

They are ignoring the self appointed leaders from the MENSA class in both politics and the media and are looking for some common sense in government now. And you don't have to be a MENSA candidate to have that!

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