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Vetting Obama

I want to give special mention this morning at both the top of the Morning Briefing and the top of RedState to the Washington Examiner. Often, conservatives complain that Barack Obama has not been vetted. Honestly, he hasn’t really been vetted. We do not know a lot about Barack Obama from his time before the United States Senate. Much of what we could learn has conveniently disappeared. The few things we do know — like his connections to terrorist Bill Ayers — are dismissed by the media.

The Washington Examiner has spent a lot of time and a great deal of effort vetting Barack Obama in a way the majority of the press corp never would and still won’t. They did it objective, including dismissing some urban legends about the President. But there is a lot there, from a childhood more privileged that the Obama campaign would have you believe to a law practice less noble than they would have you believe.

You need to click this link and check it out. The rest of the media won’t do this. At least the Washington Examiner did. They did a great job too.

COMMENTS

  • willik

    Well worth the time to read.

  • http://www.ajharaldson.com lakeworthcane

    If I was wearing a hat, I’d take it off to the Washington Examiner’s editors and reporters. first for doing what, until now, no other news organization in America has dared to do and, second, for doing a very good job of it. They took on a large task: a fact- and witness-based story of Obama’s life, from his childhood to his presidency, with named sources. Unlike a lot of press employees these days, they maintained journalistic integrity, so their story about Obama cannot be challenged. It’s good, old-fashioned news.
    They debunked Obama’s political image: all of it.
    It’s the kind of information every American should have about the people who run for public office; the kind of information we look to our press corps to provide about our candidates before we vote for them.
    So, it’s kind of ironic–part, in my opinion, of the decidedly bizarre phenomena that Barack Obama has become–that now, at the end of Obama’s first term as President of the United States, we finally get some substantial information about him.
    That’s why I think the real story about Obama isn’t really about him. He’s just another run-of-the-sleazy-mill politician who–this is my observation again–marketed his skin color for all it was worth. He walks, talks, acts and thinks like politicians typically do: not all politicians, but a lot of them. The only thing new about him is that he has dark skin, and he knew–given the current political and social climates in the US–that his skin color could take him a long, long way and, to America’s shame, it has; Obama would likely not be president today if he didn’t have dark skin.
    I think the real story about Obama is how the media have, until now, sheltered him. The Washington Examiner has substantially pulled back the curtain and exposed him for what he is: a fraud. But all the Examiner’s editors and reporters did to accomplish this were their jobs. They investigated. The looked at records and talked to people. They took notes, documented Obama’s past, and wrote about him.
    FOX news could have done this years ago, but didn’t. ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Reuters, the Associated Press, NewsMax, any major newspaper in any major city, any major on-line news provider: any of them could have done this years ago but didn’t.

    Why not? Why haven’t the organizations with the resources to tell America about its presidential candidates–before the 2008 election–or its president–after Obama won in 2008–done their jobs and told us what the Washington Examiner has finally revealed?
    Does Obama’s and his political allies’ ruthlessness frighten them? Do they agree with what Obama’s trying to do? Did they abandon their natural journalistic skepticism and simply buy into his skillfully-delivered rhetoric, no questions asked?
    Was it some kind of informal “affirmative action” movement, in which the US press corps gave Obama a free pass to the presidency because of his skin color? Was it simply that our generation–the “Woodstock/Peace” baby-boomers–wanted so much to be right, to show the world that we could change it into a better place, that we ushered into office the first dark-skinned man who successfully pantomimed, with vague words and gestures, the message and the leader whom we thought would lend credence to our youthful slogans: who’d rescue our “movement” from the futility to which it has sunk?
    Why? Why is it only now, after the man has been president for nearly four years, that our press corps has finally provided us with the kind of examination of him that we should have had years ago?

  • jboran12

    Thanks to the Examiner for doing what most media outlets won’t do. It’s pretty scary when you see all of those items in one place. The country has closed it’s eyes and taken their “Obamacin” but the drug isn’t working.

  • ihateliberals

    Great job of vetting but useless unless you read the Examiner or Redstate. The average person isn’t going to see or hear about this. It is great for the confirmation to us that already knew or thought we knew the truth but it isn’t going to get to enough of the right people. Other news agencies will not give any acknowledgment to the Examiner’s work and wil most likely dismiss it like they always do of bad news about their Messiah.

  • hart65

    Mark Twain would have said… “It’s not what you don’t know about Obama that got you in trouble; it’s what you know that just ain’t so.”

  • mutantone

    Call in the Military to follow their oaths. Declare Martial Laws. Arrest and Charge Obama and administration with Treason. Thus forcing Him to prove his identification. As well as the very Important removal of Muslim Brotherhood from inside our government. Who gave them clearances?
    Stop all aid to foreign Nations as ours is in the process of Political Unrest, and may not want ties to that Nation and their Political or policies. Close the borders! Secure the rights of the People under the Constitution of the United States Of America.
    Place Military staff in charge of their home areas civil affairs, with Nation wide assistance. Over see the elections. verify Identifications. Keep the votes secure.
    Military tribunals for the trials, no Delays, quick and efficient, past experience!

    Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act,

    “Article
    III Section 3

    I for one an a witness just the violations of the security acts should be enough? but still not one move by any?

  • streiff

    to bad you didn’t do this in ALL CAPS with lots of exclamation marks. That would have given more of the true flavor of of the comment.

  • http://aeroelectric.com Robert Nuckolls III

    Despotic progressivism (an escalating series of dishonorable acts without empathy for the ‘victim’) is in our DNA. We are born DesPros. If we could not command the time, attention and resources of others to quiet our discomforts as infants, we would not survive.

    Our DNA is similarly wired for love of liberty and a sense of property. There is not a creature on the planet that does not feel a sense of accomplishment and ownership of their work product . . . whether to obtain food, shelter or other goods germane to existence of the species.

    When raised by honorable, independently self-sufficient citizens enjoying individual liberty who are thriving in a state of communal liberty (free market trade of value) then prospects for following in our parents and teacher’s footsteps are good. Clearly, the present leadership in Washington demonstrates that the practice of despotic progressivism doesn’t require much talent, capital, or will toward independent self-sufficiency. Indeed, most of what is pawned off as ‘constitutional’ government in the United States is a manifestation of despotic progressivism in its highest form . . . chronological adults who take their cues from teenaged flashmobs.

    These individuals (who rose to power on the vote of an ignorant electorate willing to trade security for liberty) are rapidly becoming our masters. They are criminals in the constitutional sense in that they live on plunder. I think it is clear that these individuals are simply manifesting traits that served them well as infants and children and for a combination of reasons they simply failed to grow up. They demonstrate this daily by their actions, demeanor and inability to string a series of words together in an intelligent, honorable thought. Unfortunately, in a nation ignorant of the values given us by the Founding Fathers, ANYONE can grow up to be senator, judge on a high court and yes, president.

    We are endowed with the capability of being either honorable or despotic. The Founding Fathers gave us a mission statement (the Declaration) and a policy and procedures manual (the Constitution). Both are simple documents, easy to read, easy to teach, and easy to follow. They are a vaccination against despotism. But unless the vaccine is given generously and often throughout a citizen’s upbringing, there is great risk that the DesPro virus will reach pandemic proportion. Under the worst conditions it will bring down nations . . . and perhaps entire planets.

    Sadly, this cabal of intellectual children in black robes and powerful office are about as far removed from honorable behavior (guardianship of liberty) as one can get.

  • skip1982

    Anyone with half a brain would know that Obama spent most of his childhood as an upper middle class brat. Only the Left would think someone whose grandmother and main mother figure was VP of a Bank was underprivileged as long as he agreed with them.

  • http://hehasfailed.wordpress.com/ HopeHeFails

    Oh, I’ve saluted Obama for a long time. It only takes one finger.

  • proudmarinemom

    “traits that served them well as infants and children.” Exactly. Any competent parent knows that children will attempt to manipulate those around them to satisfy their wants, and any competent parent knows that giving in will give rise to more of the same behavior. “Kids will not continue to do what does not work,” we were told by the parenting experts twenty years ago. But all of us have seen those parents who reinforce selfishness, entitlement, envy, aggression and petulance. The mother who is too tired to argue, the absentee father who assuages his own guilt by showering the kiddies with expensive toys.

    It seems that we have a nation being dragged around the schoolyard by such children who never grew up.

  • proudmarinemom

    Follow the money. NBC < GE < Communist China.

  • proudmarinemom

    You should see his high school, Punahou. It looks more like a country club you’d see in “Lifestyles of the Rich and Nervous”. The tuition is higher than at any prep school here in the D.C. area. Georgetown Prep, by the way, runs around $30,000 a year, last time I looked.

  • mdduckfan

    I went to Punahou. It was an excellent school at the time – Obama is a ’79, my brother is an ’80 and I graduated in ’84. It was and is an expensive school, but many students there were from middle class families who worked very hard to put their kids through private school to avoid the atrocious public school system in Honolulu. A good portion of public school principals had their kids in private school in Hawaii at the time as well. And yes, his grandmother was VP at Bank of Hawaii – so boo hoo if he feels he was underpriviledged. Sounds like he envied what others had – which for some was ALOT, but hey, get and education and WORK FOR IT!

  • slowburn

    After actually reading the whole series, what strikes me is how little Obama did in his pre-election life, good or bad, public or private, and how small a figure he really is. Next to him the pre-election lives of even mediocre or bad presidents, vice presidents and candidates, even say Jimmy Carter, seem colossal. Stand this guy next to somebody like Dick Cheney or Mitt Romney and he’s barely a speck. Something is deeply wrong about the state of America when somebody so shallow can be elected president.

  • jaykali

    We had to wait until 3.5 years in before Obama got his first tough interview – by UNIVISION?!?!?

  • westcoastpatriette

    Romney should use this Washington Examiner piece to create new ads — especially Chapter IV. That’s the one that exposes Obama’s career in a law firm where he defended a slumlord that threw out tenants in Chicago in the middle of winter (11 degrees below zero) without due process rather than fix the broken down heating system. Obama succeeded in preventing the slumlord from facing huge fines and turned his back on the poor tenants — caring man that he is and all.

  • fightnright

    I’m don’t care so much how and where the zer0 got his education, it’s the way he’s applying it that is the problem.

    O and Michelle have enjoyed their upward mobility and the luxury perks that accompany having power and influence. They worked for them it’s true (to some degree (pun), Obama’s school records are kept out of sight, and if you’ve ever read Michelle’s Princeton thesis you’d mourn the Progressive standards of an Ivy League school in granting her sheepskin) . However now they’re disparaging others from striving to achieve their level of prosperity and success, to settle for a future of fighting for a share of the crumbs from their elite table.

    If Obama likes to think he’s a God dictating outcomes and manipulating the futures of a population of mindless drones, let him get a copy of DOSBox and play Lemmings.

  • tertius

    @frightnright What should become common knowledge is why the American Bar Association required Michelle to hand over her law degree or else. Obama voluntarily gave his up too. So, why won’t the ABA say why? Newts divorce papers can be dug up by Obama’s minions, but somehow the Obama background check never happens.
    Courage and Godspeed

  • fightnright

    thank you and the same to you tertius =)

  • rabun1016

    Direct hit.

  • deltawing

    It’s rather telling that he didn’t author a single paper during his time at the Harvard Law Review or at the University of Chicago. A second-rate intellect if I’ve ever seen one.

  • Viet71

    Telling? Screaming.

    I graduated from a Tier one law school, big deal. I’ve had over 20 articles published in professional journals. Again, big deal.

    Obama was a certified big deal. But he’s a null set intellectually.

  • tnfriendofcoal101368

    I thought the part where he did the minimum to get by as a lecturer (Constitutional Law Professor – man the President would get crap canned at any business in America for lying on his resume like that), state senator, & US Senator while taking advantage of the poor to line his supporters pockets. Wow, that is noooo resemblence to him now.

  • conservartive

    Speaking of vetting and the media… I wanted to discuss with
    Erick on his radio program the radically different ways the media has dealt
    with the Libyan disaster vs. the way they inflated the Valerie Plame affair,
    which amounted to nothing. However, his call screener said “he would never
    go there” and promptly hung up on me. I would like him to discuss it in
    print or on the radio, because it is (unless I am missing something) a clear example of media corruption.