THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume XII, Issue # 1, January 2, 2010
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
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OBAMA'S MAKE-BELIEVE LIFE
By Alan Caruba
WAS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA NURTURED & GROOMED FOR THE U.S. PRESIDENCY BY WEALTHY, INFLUENTIAL, &
CONNIVING MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN HARD LEFT? WHO TOOK A GOOD LOOK AT OBAMA DURING HIS EARLY
ADULTHOOD & DECIDED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO HELP PUT HIM IN THE WHITE HOUSE? WHO PROVIDED
MONEY & OPENED DOORS FOR OBAMA'S ADVANCEMENT ALONG THE WAY THROUGH ILLINOIS POLITICS & U.S. ELECTIONS
TO THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT? THE POLITICAL WEAKNESSES OF OBAMA AS PRESIDENT -- HOW HE MAY DESTROY
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY'S HOLD ON POWER IN CONGRESS
FULL STORY:
I have this theory about Barack Hussein Obama. I think he’s led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided
and doors were opened because at some point, early on, somebody or some group took a look at this tall, good looking,
half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in
politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.
In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before
the age of 45? Dreams of My Father was published in 1995, when he was only 34 years old. The Audacity of
Hope followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill
Ayers, a man who calls himself a “communist with a small ‘c’” was the real author.
His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in
the Illinois legislature to the U.S. Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley’s
formidable political machine at his disposal.
He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the Presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part
of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder,
was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democratic Party National Convention that nominated John Kerry when
virtually no one had ever even heard of Obama before?
He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with
a very small black population, he oozed “cool” in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals.
And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.
And, then, he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the
Presidency since Bob Dole. And, then, John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female
governor from the very distant state of Alaska. It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984’s Walter Mondale and Geraldine
Ferraro, and they went down to defeat.
The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews
swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.
Now, nearly a full year into his first term, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to
be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke
that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.
Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to “wish away” some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist
intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It
knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain.
The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign “world tour” were no substitute for having even the slightest
grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.
Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democratic Party’s
hold on power in Congress because, in the end, it was never about the Party. It was always about Obama's Communist
ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme Leftist friends and colleagues.
Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an “obstreperous” Harvard
professor-friend, but would warn Americans against “jumping to conclusions” about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who
shouted “Allah Akbar.” The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas
bomber “an isolated extremist,” only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qa'ida plot.
He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo, even though those released were known to
have returned to the battlefield against America. He could even instruct his Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11
a civil trial, when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before
having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his
remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.
The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.
Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Hussein Obama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the
people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual’s life.
When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man has spent over a million dollars to deny
access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived
a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.
We laugh at the ventriloquist’s dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States of America?
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Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, commentator and business and science writer,
he is the Founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about "scare campaigns" designed to influence
public opinion and policy.
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