The dark past of Barack Hussein Obama

-The truth is Obama is a far left liberal with Marxist leanings

Wall Street Journal: "The Obama We Don't Know" June 4, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121254834844844045.html

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "The Obama Triangle" Posted Friday, February 15, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=287969471192801

Wall Street Journal: "Obama's Tax Plan is Really a Welfare Plan" August 19, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121910303529751345.html


-Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, was a left-wing radical

Chicago Tribune: "Obama's mom: Not just a girl from Kansas" published March 27, 2007
www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0703270151mar27,0,1310554.story

Seattle Times: "Obama's mother known here as 'uncommon'" April 8, 2008
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004334057_obama08m.html


-Obama's father, Barack Obama, Sr. was a Harvard Trained Economist in the Kenyan government who had Marxist beliefs

"His father's critique of Kenya's economic policy was published in the East Africa Journal under the title 'Problems Facing Our Socialism.' One discovers after reading just a few pages into his eight-page tract, where he waxes quixotic about 'communal ownership of major means of production' that he wasn't criticizing the government for being too socialistic, but not socialistic enough.

Obama Sr. described his own economic plan, his counterproposal, as it were, as 'scientific socialism inter alia communism.' Yes, Obama's father was a communist who wanted to put socialist theory into action by 'force.'"

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Like Father, Like Son" Posted August 18, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303952499910291


-Obama's "cousin" (probably not an actual cousin), is the Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, head of the same Luo tribe to which Obama's late Muslim father belonged, is a Marxist who has made deals with Islamic Extremists


-Obama's brother, Abongo "Roy" Obama is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim

"In the bloody conflict there, which already has claimed some 700 lives, Obama appears to have sided with opposition leader Raila Odinga, head of the same Luo tribe to which Obama's late Muslim father belonged.

Obama's older brother still lives there. Abongo 'Roy' Obama is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must 'liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture.' He urges his younger brother to embrace his African heritage.

Beyond family politics, these ties have potential foreign policy, even national security, implications.

Odinga is a Marxist who reportedly has made a pact with a hard-line Islamic group in Kenya to establish Sharia courts throughout the country. He has also vowed to ban booze and pork and impose Muslim dress codes on women moves favored by Obama's brother.

With Al-Qaida strengthening its beachheads in Africa from Algeria to Sudan to Somalia the last thing the West needs is for pro-Western Kenya to fall into the hands of Islamic extremists.

Yet Obama interrupted his New Hampshire campaigning to speak by phone with Odinga, who claims to be his cousin. He did not speak with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki."

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama's Church" posted January 15, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=289784519414202


-Obama's friend "Frank" to whom in refers to in "Dreams From My Father" is the late communist Frank Marshal Davis

"A careful reading of Obama's first memoir, 'Dreams From My Father,' reveals that his childhood mentor up to the age of 18 a man he refers to only as 'Frank' was none other than the late communist Frank Marshall Davis, who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress opened investigations into his 'subversive,' 'un-American activities.'"

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Young Obama's Red Mentor" Posted August 05, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302827467707515

Political Affairs: “Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party” March 28, 2007 (See last paragraph)
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/5047/


-Obama attended a church for 20 years which is based on the teachings of Dr. James Cohen and Black Liberation Theology which mixes black Christianity with Marxism

Wall Street Journal: “Obama and the Minister” March 14, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120545277093135111.html

RenewAmerica: “Obamination” February 21, 2007
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/rush/070221

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “No End Of Bile From Obama's Bully Pulpits” May 30, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=297039683804574


-Reverend Jeremiah Wright was the minister of this church and claims Dr. James Cohen as his mentor

AMERICAN THINKER: "Obama's Mentor's Mentor" February 22, 2008
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/obamas_mentors_mentor.html

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Not So Fast, Barack" Posted Tuesday, June 03, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=297384729501947

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama: Stealth Socialist?" Posted Friday, May 16, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=295831088444972

AMERICAN THINKER: "Obama, Black Liberation Theology and Karl Marx" June 05, 2008
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/obama_black_liberation_theolog.html

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/06/obama_black_liberation_theolog_1.html

Commentary Magazine: “Obama's Pastor Rejects ‘Middleclassness,’ All Right” April 04, 2008
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/3266


-James H. Cone; Black Theology & Black Power; p. 150

"The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto)."


-James H. Cone; Black Theology & Black Power; p. 150

"Whiteness, as revealed in the history of America, is the expression of what is wrong with man. It is a symbol of man's depravity. God cannot be white, even though white churches have portrayed him as white. When we look at what whiteness has done to the minds of men in this country, we can see clearly what the New Testament meant when it spoke of the principalities and powers."


-Use of the term "Principalities and Powers" in the New Testament refer to evil


-Barack Obama frequently uses the term "Principalities and Powers" to refer to those who are resistant to "change".

Does his change refer to the sort of change which is referred to in Black Liberation Theology teachings?


-James H. Cone; Black Theology & Black Power; p. 152

"The real questions are: Where is your identity? Where is your being? Does it lie with the oppressed blacks or with the white oppressors? Let us hope there are enough to answer this question correctly so that America will not be compelled to acknowledge a common humanity only by seeing that blood is always one color."


-Reverend Wright made the false statement that there are "more black men in prison than in college", which Obama has parroted in numerous speeches until he was told it was not true

Rev. Jeremiah Wright Sermon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfNEfEBYIZs

Most Revealing Fibs: Barack Obama: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2007/12/most_revealing_fibs_barack_oba.html


-Obama was trained to be a community organizer by an organization which stems from Saul Alinsky


-Saul Alinsky started "community organizing" which is otherwise known as agitating for revolution


-Saul Alinsky "motivated" the "poor" to rise up by getting them to believe they were victims of government and society


-Saul Alinsky wrote a book called "Rules for Radicals", which discusses the need for "change"


-Obama has connections to William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former members of the Weathermen, a radical left-wing organization


-Bernardine Dohrn also became a Saul Alinsky "Community Organizer"

FrontPageMagazine.com: "Democrats' Platform for Revolution" 5/5/2008
http://www.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30778

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obamastan" Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=295659438660017

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama's Marxist Axis Of Friends" Posted Monday, May 05, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=294880428846293

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama's Academia Nuts" Posted Friday, April 25, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=294017418782123

AMERICAN THINKER: "Barack Obama and Israel" January 16, 2008
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/barack_obama_and_israel.html

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama Finds An ACORN" Posted August 06, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=302914868143810

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Obama's Radical Roots And Rules" Posted August 14, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303605575673142

The New Republic Online: “The Agitator - Barack Obama's unlikely political education” March 09, 2007 / March 19, 2007
http://www.pickensdemocrats.org/info/TheAgitator_070319.htm


-L. David Alinsky, Saul Alinsky's son, commended Barack Obama on his use of Alinsky methods at the Democratic National Committee

The Boston Globe: "Son sees father's handiwork in convention" August 31, 2008
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/08/31/son_sees_fathers_handiwork_in_convention/


-Obama has close ties to ACORN, a left-wing organization which promotes "Affordable Housing" and actively promotes voter registration of people who are likely supporters of left-wing candidates

A number of ACORN members in multiple states have been found guilty of voter registration fraud.

"Obama, who once represented ACORN in a lawsuit against the state of Illinois, was hired by the group to train its community organizers and staff in the methods and tactics of the late Saul Alinsky. ACORN would stage in-your-face protests in bank lobbies, drive-through lanes and even at bank managers' homes to get them to issue risky loans in the inner city or face charges of racism.

In the early 1990s, reports Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Policy Center, Obama was personally recruited by Chicago's ACORN to run training sessions in "direct action." That's the euphemism for the techniques used under the cover of the federal Community Reinvestment Act to intimidate financial institutions into giving what have been called "Ninja" loans - no income, no job, no assets - to people who couldn't afford them."

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "ACORN's Senator" Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307667123149723


-Obama sat on two foundation boards with William Ayers, The Woods Foundation and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Foundation

The New York Times: "Obama and '60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths" October 4, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/us/politics/04ayers.html

"Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists."

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"The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," and "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis." Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I've recently spent days looking through them."

Wall Street Journal: "Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools" September 23, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html

"When he served on the board of the Woods Fund for Chicago with Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, the Woods Fund frequently gave ACORN grants to fund its activist agenda."

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "ACORN's Senator" Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=307667123149723


-Obama was endorsed by Alice Palmer, a Socialist politician, for the Illinois State Senate

"In 1995, Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well-known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former members of the terrorist Weather Underground."

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"Who Alice Palmer is and what she believed is the real story here.
Ten years earlier she was an executive board member of the U.S. Peace Council, which the FBI identified as a communist front group, an affiliate of the World Peace Council, a Soviet front group.

Palmer participated in the World Peace Council's 1983 Prague Assembly, part of the Soviet launch of the nuclear-freeze movement. The only thing it would have frozen was the Soviet Union's military superiority.

In June 1986, while editor of the Black Press Review, she wrote an article for the Communist Party USA's newspaper, the People's Daily World, now the People's Weekly World. It detailed her experience attending the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and how impressed she was by the Soviet system.

Palmer gushed at the 'Soviet plan to provide people with higher wages and better education' and spoke of the efficiency of the Soviets' most recent five-year plan, attributing its success to 'central planning.' She praised their 'comprehensive affirmative action program, which they have stuck to religiously - if I can use the word - since 1917.'"

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: "Alice In Obamaland" Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304210671922915


-Obama won his first election in 1996 by having all four of his opponents disqualified on technicalities, including the incumbent

“In the end, Mr. Obama disqualified all four opponents -- including the incumbent state senator, Alice Palmer, and three minor candidates. Ms. Palmer, a former ally of Mr. Obama, had gathered 1,580 signatures, more than twice the 757 required to appear on the ballot. A minor, perennial candidate had gathered 1,899 signatures, suggesting the Obama team invested much time working even against him.

The act of throwing an incumbent off the ballot in such a fashion does not fit neatly into the narrative of a public-spirited reformer who seeks to make people less cynical about politics.”

Wall Street Journal: "Obama Played by Chicago Rules" August 20, 2008
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121918996082755013.html


-Obama’s connections to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Chicago Tribune: “Daley reins in radicals — the Chicago Way” October 11, 2008
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/oct/11/news/chi-kass-mk-bd-12-oct12

Wall Street Journal: “Grapes of Rathke” November 8, 2006
http://www.opinionjournal.com/diary/?id=110009214

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “ACORN's Bad Seed” October 14, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=308875644500971

Mr. Rathke was also a member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a radical left-wing organization from the 1960's, and from which the Weathermen / Weather Underground was an offshoot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_a_Democratic_Society_(1960_organization)

Mr. Rathke is also the publisher of “Social Policy” magazine which printed the following story on ACORN and Barack Obama.

"He is also the publisher and editor-in-chief of Social Policy, a magazine that explores issues, campaigns, and challenges in labor and community organizing."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke

Social Policy: “Case Study: Chicago – The Barack obama Campaign” Winter 2003, Vol 34, No 2 & Spring 2004, Vol 34, No. 3
http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/chicago-the-barack-obama-campaign.pdf

Marilyn Katz who is a friend of Obama and Ayers and who also was the security chief for the Students for a Democratic Society, is now an Obama fundraiser and contribution bundler.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-kass-mk-bd-12-oct12,0,5393672.column

http://townhall.com/columnists/GuyBenson/2008/08/31/obamas_radical_delegate

It is also interesting that Mr. Rathke is on Tides Foundation Board of Directors. The Tides Foundation is a non-profit organization which receives money from George Soros' Open Society Institute as well as partnering with the OSI to funnel money to Media Matters and left-wing fringe groups engaged in eco-terrorism, e.g., Sea Shepherds, Earth First! and the Ruckus Society.

http://waderathke.com/index.php?id=76 (Info removed, see Google cashe link below)

http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:mlLfoBZokI4J:www.waderathke.com/index.php%3Fid%3D112+tides+foundation+site:waderathke.com&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Rathke

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “The Soros Threat To Democracy” September 24, 2007
http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=275526219598836

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “George Soros: The Man, The Mind And The Money Behind MoveOn” September 20, 2007
http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=275181103776079


-Obama’s connections to Nation of Islam Supporters & Louis Farrakhan

Debbie Schlussel: “EXCLUSIVE - Obama's Nation of Islam Staffers, Edward Said & "Inflexible Jews" Causing Mid-East Conflict: An Obama Insider Reveals the Real Barack”
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2008/01/obamas_nation_o.html

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY: “Obama's Jeremiad” March 14, 2008
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=290386994770291

WorldNetDaily: “Nation of Islam activists on Obama camp payroll” June 03, 2008
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=66167


-Barack Obama Was Member Of Socialist 'New Party' In 1996

Politically Drunk On Power: "Web Archives Confirm Barack Obama Was Member Of Socialist 'New Party' In 1996" Wednesday, October 8, 2008
http://politicallydrunk.blogspot.com/2008/10/web-archives-confirm-barack-obama-was.html

The Progressive Populist" "Editorial: The next campaign" November, 1996

"New Party members and supported candidates won 16 of 23 races, including an at-large race for the Little Rock, Ark., City Council, a seat on the county board for Little Rock and the school board for Prince George's County, Md. Chicago is sending the first New Party member to Congress, as Danny Davis, who ran as a Democrat, won an overwhelming 85% victory. New Party member Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate seat from Chicago."

http://www.populist.com/11.96.Edit.html

New Party: "Running to Win : The Key Races" October, 1996

"New Party members are busy knocking on doors, hammering down lawn signs, and phoning voters to support NP candidates this fall. Here are some of our key races:

Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary)."

http://web.archive.org/web/20010306031216/www.newparty.org/up9610.html

Human Events: "Obama and the New Party" June 10, 2008

"Barack Obama, not needing to, chose to affiliate himself with this band of quasi-communists. As the nation moves closer to the election, it is clear that Obama chose to affiliate with assorted anti-American radicals. Machiavelli once noted that we can know a leader by the people he surrounds himself with. What does that say about Barack Obama, who chose to surround himself with people committed to overthrowing the United States and capitalism?"

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26913

Redstate.com "Barack Obama sought the New Party's endorsement knowing it was a radical left organization: There's no other conclusion when you see what the New Party was and who put it together" Posted in 2008 archives

http://archive.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/barack_obama_sought_the_new_partys_endorsement_knowing_it_was_a_radical_left_organization

http://redstatenetwork.com/stories/elections/2008/i_have_another_question_about_obama_and_the_new_party

WorldNetDaily: Newspaper shows Obama belonged to socialist party: Democrat's campaign denied allegations, but new evidence indicates membership October 24, 2008
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78945

WorldNetDaily: Obama participated in socialist party: Activist recalls president's time with radical Chicago political group August 23, 2009
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107731


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Research kindly provided to lgstarr by Kurt Vangsness