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« Reply #45 on: July 28, 2009, 08:34:58 pm »

Obama tells Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad that he “supports the rights of Palestinians to East Jerusalem, as well as their right to a stable, sovereign state,” but asks them to keep his pledge confidential. Obama’s promise is meant to calm Palestinian fears that developed from a June speech in which he said that if he is elected, “Jerusalem would remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided.” [512]

            When asked about his commitment to protect the Jewish state at a press conference in Sderot, Israel Obama responds, “Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee—which is my committee—a bill to call for divestment from Iran as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon.” (The committee is not Obama’s; the Senate Banking Committee is chaired by Christopher Dodd.) When former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu later asks Obama how his trip is going, Obama responds, “I could fall asleep now standing up.” [1608]

                It is reported that on a daily basis Obama receives two e-mails from his staff. One e-mail briefs him on major world events over the prior 24 hours, the other e-mail is a set of questions he is likely to be asked during the day—with suggested answers. [353]

            Obama sponsors the Global AIDS Spending Bill. The bill adds $50 billion to the $200 billion in tax dollars already spent on fighting HIV/AIDS around the world. The bill also lifts a ban on the entry of AIDS-infected aliens into the United States. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that U.S. taxpayers will end up spending $83 billion treating those aliens and their HIV-infected children. [351]

            In July, the American flag is removed from the tail of the Obama campaign plane and replaced with his trademark “O” campaign logo. After receiving considerable and immediate criticism, a much smaller U.S. flag is added. (Some have noted a striking similarity between Obama’s “O” logo and the symbol of William Ayers’ Weather Underground Organization.) [353, 2447]

            On July 14, Obama speaks to the National Council of La Raza (“The Race,” the nation’s largest Hispanic special interest group) and promises amnesty for the 12–20 million illegal immigrants in the United States, saying, “That’s why we need to offer those who are willing to make amends a pathway to citizenship. That way, we can reconcile our values as both a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws.” (A “pathway to citizenship” is already in place, of course, but it involves following the existing laws of the United States—which Obama apparently considers too great a burden for immigrants.) [342]

          In Berlin, Germany on July 24, Obama addresses a large crowd that had already conveniently gathered for a free rock concert. The crowd estimate ranges from 20,000 to 200,000, but the number of people present is likely closer to the lower number than the higher number. (The percentage of people in the crowd who understand English and know what Obama is saying is unknown.) Obama had originally wanted to give his speech at Berlin’s historic Brandenberg Gate, where Presidents Kennedy and Reagan had given speeches, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel was opposed to that because Obama is merely a candidate, not a president, and is thus only electioneering o his visit. Berlin’s socialist mayor, Klaus Wowereit, eventually manages to arrange for Obama to speak to the rock concert audience. (Some argue that expenses incurred by the city of Berlin to accommodate and protect Obama, because he is only a candidate, represent an illegal campaign contribution from a foreign source and a complaint is filed with the FEC on February 26, 2009.) During the same trip, Obama cancels a visit to wounded soldiers at an Army hospital after he learns the military will not allow campaign photographers to politicize the event. (There is no point in bothering to look sympathetic and caring if no cameras are around to record the event.) [353, 1407, 1408, 1409, 2631]

          While on his tour of Iraq and Europe, Obama meets with the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. In private, Sarkozy refers to Obama’s position on Iran as “utterly immature” and consisting of “formulations empty of all content.” According to Israeli sources, Sarkozy tells Obama that if the next American president changes his country’s policy toward Iran, that would be “very problematic.” [415]

          Obama visits Jerusalem in late July and places a written prayer in the “wailing wall.” The paper is almost immediately removed and published in the Maariv daily newspaper. The prayer read, “Lord—Protect my family and me. Forgive me my sins, and help me guard against pride and despair. Give me the wisdom to do what is right and just. And make me an instrument of your will.” There is immediate criticism that the private prayer was taken and published, but it is inconceivable that Obama would not have expected its retrieval. [2648, 2649]

          Unburdened by even an ounce of humility, Obama tells a group of Democrat lawmakers on July 29 that he represents the “world’s hopes for America” and “This is the moment the world is waiting for.” He adds, “I have become a symbol of restoring America to its best traditions.” [170]

            In July and August of 2008, the head of Nigeria’s stock market holds Obama fundraisers in Lagos, Nigeria. An estimated $900,000 is raised, despite the fact that it is illegal for the campaign to collect contributions from residents of other countries. The media neglects to investigate the many charges of illegal Obama campaign contributions but, in response to a comedy skit on NBC’s Saturday Night Live that mocked Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, does manage to send a reporter to Alaska’s remote Little Diomede island in order to confirm whether Russia can, in fact, be seen from the United States. (It can; Alaska and Russia are separated by only 2.4 miles of open water at their closest point, something that can be ascertained without dispatching a reporter to Alaska.) [245, 1658]
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     The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that a Clark County official “sees rampant fraud in the 2,000 to 3,000 registrations ACORN turns in every week.” Nevada is a state targeted by Obama as one he believes he can switch from Republican to Democrat; expected vote fraud may be one of the reasons for his confidence. [240]

            At an early August campaign appearance in Elkhart, Indiana a seven-year-old girl asks Obama why he wants to be president. He responds, “America is… uh, is no longer, uh… what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, I don’t want that future for my children.” [2512]

            Obama vacations in Hawaii, where he spends a mere one hour with his maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham. He is not accompanied by his wife or two daughters, who are likely never again to see Dunham, age 86. [329]

            In a letter to a homosexual rights group called the Family Equality Council Obama pledges to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. [337]

            At a campaign appearance in Albuquerque, New Mexico Obama says he prefers a single-payer (socialized medicine) health care system. “If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system.” Although Obama’s preference is for a single-payer socialized system that would eliminate private insurance companies and have the government pay all health care bills with tax dollars, he remarks “People don’t have time to wait… My attitude is, let’s build up the system we got [sic], let’s make it more efficient, we maybe over time… (can insure) that there are other ways for us to provide care more effectively.” In other words, Obama will use a back-door approach to implementing socialized medicine. [426]

            The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that Obama’s tax plan would add at least $3.4 trillion to the national debt, including interest, by 2018. (In less than a year it is obvious that the $3.4 trillion figure is a gross underestimate of the increase in debt that appears likely.) [171]

            The media reports that Obama’s half-brother, George Obama (b. 1982), lives in poverty in a slum outside Nairobi. Obama provides his brother with no financial assistance (possibly because doing so would do nothing to help his candidacy), but he does support a United Nations anti-global poverty tax that would cost Americans approximately $65 billion per year, with much of it going to Africa through the incompetent, fraud-plagued United Nations. [173, 174, 175, 277, 289]

            In addition to Obama’s half-brother George in a Nairobi slum, it is learned that the candidate has a half-aunt and half-uncle living in a Boston, Massachusetts slum neighborhood. Zeituni Onyango walks with a cane and, despite being poor and on public aid, manages to scrape together a $260 donation for the Obama campaign. She refuses to talk to the media about Obama, but says she will do so after the election. (Onyango is in the United States illegally; her request for asylum was rejected by a judge in 2004.) Onyango’s brother, Omar Onyango Obama, also lives in poverty in Boston. He had been evicted from a one-room flat for failing to pay his rent. [427, 441, 968]

            Obama’s anti-global poverty program, to the extent it follows the United Nations Millennium Goals on which it is based, would be paid for with a “currency transfer tax,” a “tax on the rental value of land and natural resources,” a “royalty on worldwide fossil energy production—oil, natural gas, coal… fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for the airplane use of the skies, fees for the use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on the carbon content of fuels.” Obama has already introduced the legislation as Senate Bill S 2433. Co-sponsors of the bill include Democrats Maria Cantwell of Washington, Dianne Feinstein of California, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey, and Republicans Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Richard Lugar of Indiana. [277]

            Reporter Stanley Kurtz asks to view the historical public records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), an education reform program led by Obama and William Ayers. There is an initial refusal to release the records, orchestrated by Ken Rolling, former executive director of the CAC and an associate of Obama and Ayers. The 132 boxes of records are eventually released, after being “cleansed” of sensitive documents by Rolling and others. Rolling, like Obama and Ayers, is a former board member of the Woods Fund. [176, 177, 2656]

            Obama states, “Nobody has spoken out more fiercely on the issue of anti-Semitism than I have,” a claim that is widely ridiculed for its outrageousness. Obama also states that Hizbullah and Hamas have legitimate grievances, and offers to sit down with their leaders and the leaders of Muslim nations to listen to their complaints. (Their primary grievance is the very existence of Israel and Jews.) [202]

 
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« Reply #47 on: July 28, 2009, 08:36:31 pm »

The Democrat National Convention

 

Obama gains enough of the uncommitted delegates at the Democrat National Convention to win the party’s nomination. He selects Senator Joe Biden (D-MD) as his vice-presidential running mate. Strangely absent from the convention is the usual parade of lifelong friends and co-workers of the candidate giving testimonials about his decades of wonderful accomplishments and the positive impact he had on their lives. Two of the people who probably know Obama better than most, Reverend Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers, were certainly not going to be invited to address the crowd. Instead, the “show” is limited to the pre-packaged image of the candidate that Obama wants them to see. Hillary Clinton’s speech is dutiful and uninspiring, and she even skips a line that is in the prepared text: “I’ve come to know this man…” Columnist Charles Krauthammer points out that although Clinton’s withholding of the line “…was vindictive and self-serving,” it was “jarring, too, because you realize that if she didn’t do it, no one else would.” [2464]

            At the four-day event, despite the enormous convention center being good enough for the Kennedy and Clinton speeches, Obama insists on giving his acceptance speech at a football stadium that seats 76,000. Saul Alinsky’s son, Lee David Alinsky, praises Obama for learning his father’s socialist revolution “lesson well.” The over-inflated Obama ego is consistent with Alinsky’s advice that “Ego must be so all-pervading that the personality of the organizer is contagious, that it converts the people from despair to defiance, creating a mass ego.” [267, 272]

            Obama is able to get away with such arrogance because he knows how to play the crowd (and knows he has the media in his corner). In his book, Dreams From my Father, he wrote, “It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved—such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time.” Obama has anger, but he is skilled at hiding it. [337]

            Obama’s acceptance speech is wildly applauded by Democrats and the media. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann swoons, “For forty-two minutes not a sour note, and spellbinding throughout in a way usually reserved for the creation of fiction.” (More open-minded critics listening to the speech likely believe it is in fact a work of fiction.) One language and hypnosis expert who has analyzed Obama’s speeches in detail reports how skillfully he uses “linking statements” to get the listener to accept what they might not ordinarily accept. If Obama states, “We need change, to fix blah-blah-blah… and that is why I will be your next president,” listeners agree so much with the need for change and the areas he lists in which change is needed that they subconsciously also accept the end of the statement (“Obama will be president”) without applying rational thought processes. The listeners rely on emotion rather than logic, which is precisely what Obama wants (and what he learned from Saul Alinsky’s community activist methods of gaining support). The linking statement technique enables a speaker to say, “2 + 2 = 4, 2 + 3 = 5, 2 + 4 = 6, and 2 + 5 = 8”—and get the listener to react unthinkingly, “Sure, I agree with that.” Obama’s other techniques include slow speech, rhythm (sounding much like the late Malcolm X), tonalities (also mimicking Malcolm X), vagueness (“hope and change”), visual imagery (“a breeze is blowing across this nation”), metaphors (“write the next chapter in American history”), and raising of emotion. The vagueness of Obama’s repeated use of “hope” and “change” allows the listener to fill in the blanks with regard to what Obama might do as president, but most people are unable to detail what was said in his speeches and can only remark afterward, “He made me feel good.” That, of course, is his intention… to make the voters feel rather than think. [1588, 2048]

 
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Obama versus McCain

 

The Obama campaign runs an anti-McCain ad criticizing him for not being computer savvy and not using e-mail. Apparently, Obama’s team did not realize McCain has his wife and other people type e-mail responses for him because the North Vietnamese broke his fingers and shattered his arms while he was imprisoned in Hanoi. The Obama campaign never issues McCain an apology. [185]

            Obama receives about $300,000 in contributions each year from Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Countrywide Financial, and Washington Mutual. After less than four years in office, those companies and their employees had given Obama a total of $1,093,329. Just over half is from Goldman Sachs alone. [212]

            Obama ousts his campaign’s Muslim outreach director, Chicago lawyer Mazen Asbahi, when questions about his ties to a radical Muslim imam and the Muslim Brotherhood surface, along with links to the Islamic Society of North America (an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terrorist funding case). Asbahi was a board member of the Allied Asset Advisor Fund (associated with the North American Islamic Trust). A fellow board member was Jamal Said, the imam of a radical Chicago area mosque who raised money for Hamas and families of its suicide bombers. Despite losing his official position with the campaign, Asbahi continues to work for Obama, participating in conference calls. [131, 419, 829]

            On August 18, Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf resigns. The move is welcomed by Obama, who states, “President Musharraf has made the right decision to step down as President of Pakistan,” and “A year ago, I advocated that the US move from a ‘Musharraf policy’ to a ‘Pakistan policy.’ I hope all of Pakistan’s friends will now seize the opportunity created by Musharraf’s exit to focus on the urgent issues of today: confronting the threat of extremist violence, dealing with food and energy shortages, and helping the Pakistani people build a stable, secure, democratic future.” (Obama should hope it is Musharraf’s friends and not his enemies who “seize the opportunity.” If the loss of Musharraf leads to Islamic radicals taking over the country the result may be disastrous for the region… and for the United States. For all his faults, Musharraf, as AtlasShrugs.com’s Pamela Geller points out, “did a fine job of holding that Islamic tinderbox together.”) [2639, 2640]

            In late August, the Washington Post reports that Obama sought more than $3.4 million in congressional earmarks for clients of lobbyist Hunter Biden, son of Senator Joe Biden. That same month Obama obtains $192,000 for St. Xavier University, in Orland Park, Illinois, although he requested $1.4 million. [839]

            When Chicago’s WGN radio interviews David Freddoso, author of The Case Against Barack Obama, Obama’s campaign sends an “Obama Action Wire” to key supporters encouraging them to protest the program by calling in repeatedly to tie up the station’s telephone lines so that regular listeners can’t get through. The same had been done when WGN interviewed Stanley Kurtz, a reporter who had been prevented from trying to gain access to public documents of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. [183, 184]

            It is learned that the Obama campaign funneled over $800,000 to Citizens Services, Inc. (CSI), a shell corporation set up by ACORN in December of 2004. (There are conflicting reports of the name; it may be Citizens Consulting, Inc., or there may be two related organizations.) To hide the fact that Obama was giving money to ACORN, the money was instead given to CSI. The campaign then misled the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) by listing the funds as going toward “stage, lighting, and sound” expenses when in fact the cash went toward get-out-the-vote projects. CSI and ACORN headquarters have the same business address. (ACORN and CSI also have over $3 million in outstanding IRS tax liens.)  [284, 285, 400, 1971]

            In an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopolous, Obama discusses his lack of military experience, stating, “I had to sign up for selective service when I graduated from high school. I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honorable option.” Obama then makes the remarkable statement that he chose not to enlist only because the war in Vietnam had ended: “I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren’t engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it’s not an option that I ever decided to pursue.” Obama is making the outlandish argument that he did not enlist only because the United States was not at war, and expects people to believe he would have eagerly joined if only he had had the chance to serve in combat in Vietnam. Stephanopolous accepts the statement at face value. (Obama did not in fact have to sign up for Selective Service when he graduated from high school in 1979. Draft registration ended on March 29, 1975 and was not reinstated until July 21, 1980… more than a year after Obama’s high school graduation.) [483, 991, 1002]

            On September 4, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is at 11,188.23 and Senator John McCain leads Obama in a Gallup poll, 48–45 per cent. McCain has his largest lead, 49–44 per cent, on September 6. Word then spreads that mortgage giant Fannie Mae is having financial problems. [1237, 1238, 1385]

            On Thursday, September 11, 2008, with the DJIA at 11,433.71 and John McCain leading Obama in the polls, an unprecedented amount of cash is electronically withdrawn from money market accounts, perhaps as much as $550 billion over a period of a few hours. (Some state the transactions occurred on September 18.) The unprecedented electronic run on the banks leads the Treasury Department to place a temporarily halt on withdrawals. Some speculate the withdrawals are part of an organized, orchestrated plan of economic terrorism to disrupt the American and world economy and lower the value of many banks and investment firms, making it easier for others to swoop down and purchase them at reduced prices, while also creating confusion, fear, and uncertainties to help elect Obama and make it easier to expand the role of government in socialist directions. The intentional run on the money market accounts has barely been publicized and, if it has been investigated, the results of the investigation have not been disclosed. Billionaire George Soros is among the buyers of the suddenly de-valued businesses. (While many investors are losing money, Soros makes an astounding $2.4 billion in 2008, much of it by betting on a rise in the price of oil and a collapse of the housing market. While most are losing 40 per cent of their 401(k) and IRA investments, Soros’ $17 billion Quantum Endowment Fund earns 32 per cent. His successes lead some to wonder if Soros was able to manipulate events for his purposes, as he had successfully done in the past with currency manipulations in Europe. For tax purposes, the Quantum Fund—like most Soros enterprises—is based outside the United States.) [1152, 1177, 1183, 1201, 1215, 1238, 1389, 1390]

            Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fail, partly because of manipulative accounting practices and partly because of subprime mortgage investments encouraged by the federal government over almost three decades. The two firms are rescued in a multi-billion dollar federal bailout. An Obama economic and housing policy advisor, Franklin Raines, had been chief executive of Fannie Mae in 2002. When staff advised him of bookkeeping problems and earnings manipulations, Raines fired the whistleblowers rather than correct the problems. Raines also forced Fannie Mae employees to falsify accounting records to enable him to receive larger pay bonuses. Another recipient of improperly inflated bonuses was Jamie Gorelick, formerly of the Clinton Administration. Raines was eventually forced out of Fannie Mae because of accounting fraud, after receiving nearly $50 million in improperly calculated bonuses. Raines was forced to pay back only a small portion of that amount. Raines was also involved in the collapse of Countrywide Financial, which provided “special loan rates” for “well-connected” people like James A. Johnson (an advisor to Obama who was on his vice-presidential selection team and who preceded Raines as CEO of Fannie Mae), and Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CN), chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Obama and Christopher Dodd are the top Senate recipients of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Democrats added tens of millions of dollars for ACORN in the original Fannie Mae bailout bill. (Those funds were removed before the final bill was passed, but were restored by Democrats in a subsequent bill). [179, 284, 364]

            Although the Obama campaign states that Raines has not been an official advisor, the Washington Post reports that Obama has sought “his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.” [364]

            On September 12, Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy protection. The DJIA is at 11,421.99 [1238]

            Evidence accumulates to suggest that the Obama campaign is using an experienced public relations firm to create smear videos attacking Sarah Palin that are posted on YouTube.com. They are professionally produced and seemingly use the same female announcer hired for some Obama television ads. The videos violate FEC rules because they do not include required references that they are sponsored by the Obama campaign. (They lack the required “I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message” statement.) [2514]

            In Dover, New Hampshire Obama states, “I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes,” and “You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.” (Obama later breaks that pledge just two weeks into his presidency when he raises cigarette taxes from $0.39 to $1.01 per pack.) [1076, 2099]

           
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            On September 13, Obama suggests re-instating the military draft. He remarks that his job as president would include demanding that the American people recognize an “obligation” for military service. “If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some.” [340]

            On September 14, according to a Gallup poll, Obama re-takes the lead from opponent McCain, 47–45 per cent. [1237]

            On September 17, the DJIA is at 10,609.66. The Federal Reserve Board lends $85 billion to insurance giant American International Group (AIG) to avoid bankruptcy. (AIG’s U.S. business had been successfully led by Maurice R. “Hank” Greenberg from 1962 until early 2005, when New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer went after Greenberg and AIG business practices, some say largely to enhance his public image for a later run for Governor. Spitzer’s pressure led the AIG board to replace Greenberg with Martin Sullivan, who promptly led AIG to colossal losses. Spitzer was elected Governor of New York in 2006, proposed a bill legalizing same-sex marriages and issued an executive order allowing illegal aliens to get drivers licenses. After being identified as a frequent patron of prostitutes, Spitzer, citing “private failings,” resigned in March of 2008. New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson had called Spitzer the “future of the Democratic Party.”) [1238, 1741, 1742]

            At a campaign stop in Nevada on September 17, Obama scratches his head while mentioning John McCain and childishly makes the “L” (“loser”) sign with his thumb and forefinger, in order to mock his opponent’s economic policies. (Obama had made the same gesture when mentioning McCain during an August 4 appearance.) [2048]

            Key decisions in the handling of the Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and AIG bailouts are made by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, and New York Federal Reserve Bank president Timothy Geithner. Success or failure of the bailouts belongs to that threesome. The Washington Post writes (under the headline, “In the Crucible of Crisis, Paulson, Bernanke, Geithner Forge a Committee of Three”), “As they chart a government response to the crisis, the stakes could hardly be higher. If they succeed, they could tame the economic downturn and orchestrate a restructuring of Wall Street with minimal collateral damage. If they fail, the toll could be millions of jobs, trillions of dollars in lost wealth and a crisis of confidence in global capitalism.” The trio allowed Lehman Brothers to fail but bailed out AIG. (It is later learned that $12.9 billion of the AIG bailout ended up going to Goldman Sachs, Paulson’s former employer, which had heavily invested in AIG.) [1785, 1786]

            On September 18, President Bush announces that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is stepping up its enforcement actions “against illegal market manipulation.” Bush does not elaborate on what those manipulations were, but one might suspect that Bush was referring to the $550 billion in money market withdrawals. On September 19, President Bush announces that the SEC has “…launched rigorous enforcement actions to detect fraud and manipulation in the market. Anyone engaging in illegal financial transactions will be caught and persecuted [sic].” It is unclear if Bush is referring to the money market withdrawals. The SEC announces, on the same day, a “sweeping expansion of its ongoing investigation into possible market manipulation in the securities of certain financial institutions.” [1215]

            Federal Election Commission records reveal that Obama received $137,950 in campaign contributions from Fannie Mae (and $68,750 from Freddie Mac), second only to Christopher Dodd (who received $165,400 from Fannie Mae). John Kerry is in third place with $111,000. As of September, 2008, Obama’s senate and presidential campaigns had also received significant contributions from failed financial institutions that included Bear Stearns ($570,614) and Lehman Brothers ($370,524). Lehman Brothers is owed at least $250 million by BNP Paribas, a French bank whose biggest shareholder is Nadhmi Auchi. Auchi, a friend and financer of Tony Rezko and contributor to Obama campaigns, had made a fortune through the United Nations Oil for Food scandal with Saddam Hussein. [178, 179, 180, 181, 182]

            Practicing his old community activist methods, Obama encourages supporters to be rude to Republicans and undecided independents, telling them, “I want you to argue with them and get in their face.” [213, 214]

            On September 24, the last day to file a response, lawyers for Obama and the Democrat National Committee file a Joint Motion to Dismiss the case of Berg v. Obama, which alleges that Obama is ineligible to be president of the United States because he was born in Kenya. Inasmuch as it would have been easier to produce proof of Obama’s birth and citizenship than fight the lawsuit, the delay tactic suggests Obama does not in fact have that proof. One of Obama’s lawyers is Joe Sanders, of the Washington law firm of Sandler, Reiff, and Young. Sanders also represents the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization with terrorist ties that is an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holyland Foundation Hamas Funding trial. (Interestingly, out of more than one million lawyers in the United States available to represent him, Obama chose one with direct ties to CAIR, a co-conspirator in a case involving fraud and a terrorist organization.) [216, 226, 325, 368]

            Lawsuits demanding Obama’s proof of citizenship continue to be filed throughout the latter half of 2008. Although lawsuits challenging Obama’s status as a natural born citizen may be unlikely to get him removed from office as they are thrown out by judges for various technical or ideological reasons, they may have the effect of prompting several states to toughen the rules for getting his name on a future ballot. Obama may find it impossible to appear on the ballots of some states in 2012 unless he provides those states with proof that he is, in fact, a natural born citizen. (In early 2009 Oklahoma State Representative Mike Ritze proposes a bill requiring that anyone running for elected office show proof of U.S. citizenship, and Ohio Representative Diana Fessler proposes a resolution that asks the Electoral College to “exercise due diligence to ensure that the persons for whom they cast their ballots for president and vice-president of the United States are citizens of the United States” by examining candidates’ birth certificates.) If even one state keeps Obama off its ballot because of his failure to prove he is a natural born citizen, the media, try as it might, will find it impossible to ignore the story. The resulting nationwide attention given the issue could prompt other states to question Obama’s eligibility, and the snowball effect could doom any chances of re-election—or cause him to be forcibly removed from office if he cannot produce proof of his eligibility to serve. It would also be the case that if Obama cannot provide proof of eligibility to satisfy even one state’s rules, it may be evidence that he lied on his candidate papers filed in all 50 states; that could possibly subject him to perjury charges. [1328]
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            On September 24, as the Wall Street crisis is unfolding and his Republican rival John McCain returns to Washington, Obama remains on the campaign trail and gives a press conference. When asked if he would be going back to Washington, he responds, “So, you know, I think the message is, if you need us, if I can be helpful, I’m prepared to be there at any point.” (In other words, “If they need me they’ll call me.”) Neither Obama nor McCain make any public comments about the $550 billion withdrawn from money market accounts on September 11, which arguably precipitated the economic crisis, and neither candidate calls for an investigation of the unprecedented withdrawals, which would disclose who made the withdrawals and for what purpose. [1200, 1201]

            On Friday, September 26 the House of Representatives rejects the first attempt at the $700 billion Bush-Paulson bailout plan. The DJIA is at 11,143.13. On Monday, the DJIA drops to 10,365.45. [1238]

            Leading Code Pink activists and Obama fundraisers Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York in September. While in New York, Ahmadinejad gives a speech at Columbia University. His appearance is coordinated by long-time Obama friend Rashid Khalidi, and possibly encouraged by Zbigniew Brzezinski, an anti-Semite and Obama foreign policy advisor who taught international relations at Columbia University. [215, 220, 395]

            Obama and his wife attend the wedding of one of Rashid Khalidi’s daughters. Other guests include William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. (The date of the event was likely in the months immediately preceding the November election.) [521]

            Obama enlists St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, and Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer as a so-called truth squad in an effort to intimidate radio and television stations into not airing ads critical of Obama. They warn citizens that they will bring criminal libel prosecutions against anyone who makes false statements about Obama. The thug-like tactic is immediately criticized by Missouri Governor Matt Blunt, who says, “The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.” [221, 256]

            In the first presidential debate with Senator McCain on September 26, Obama brings attention to a bracelet he is wearing in honor of a slain Wisconsin soldier, Brian Jopek—despite requests from Jopek’s family that Obama stop wearing it and referring to it. McCain proposes a spending freeze on all federal spending other than defense, veterans, and entitlement programs. Obama ridicules McCain, saying that would be “using a hatchet when you need a scalpel”—but Obama is unable or unwilling to name any significant programs he would cut. [222, 1205]

            Public Middle Schools in Racine, Wisconsin issue a new student textbook that contains 15 pages complimenting candidate Obama on his “life of service.” The book is published by McDougal, Littell and Company. Alfred L. McDougal contributes to the Obama campaign, and is apparently confident enough he will win the election to have the excessively adulatory books printed. [401, 402]

            In late September, former presidential candidate and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson tells a group of Hispanics “Barack Obama is the best candidate for the Hispanic community because our community wants a united country. Obama is an immigrant. When he speaks to Latinos, he doesn’t just speak about immigration and civil rights…” Richardson does not elaborate on what he means by “Obama is an immigrant.” It may be an inadvertent public recognition by Richardson that he knows Obama was not born in the United States. [629]

            The Military Times conducts a weeklong poll of all members of the military (active, reserves, and retired). McCain leads overwhelmingly in all categories of questions, except for black respondents. (For all respondents, 68 per cent favor McCain; 79 per cent of black respondents favor Obama. [2333]

            In September and October of 2008, an auditor at the Federal Election Commission requests a formal investigation into the Obama campaign, suspecting it of collecting $200 million or more in illegal contributions, including illegal foreign donations. The auditor states, “I believe we are looking at a hijacking of our political system that makes the Clinton and Gore fundraising scandals pale in comparison.” [231]

            In September, because it appears that the expanded military actions are succeeding, all references to Obama’s previous opposition to the successful troop surge in Iraq are removed from the official Obama Web sites. [270]

            The Obama staffers in charge of the campaign’s “small” (less than $200) Internet campaign contributions are Obama’s former college roommates from Pakistan, Muhammad Hassan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid. Those “small” contributions total at least $223 million and many are believed to be illegal contributions from foreign countries. Campaigns are required to keep track of donor names and verify their nationality as U.S., but the Obama campaign does not—in direct violation of federal election laws. (In addition to working directly for the Obama campaign, Chandoo and his brother maintain a Web site that is arguably anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-women… and vulgar.) [245, 332]

            Allegations surface that proof of Obama’s Indonesian citizenship and adoption are being suppressed by the Indonesian government in exchange for cash and political favors. U.S. Congressman Eni Faleomavaega (a non-voting Democrat Congressman from American Samoa and an Obama supporter) visited Indonesia’s President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, in July of 2007 and is suspected of having secured government records damaging to Obama’s candidacy. In exchange for document turnover and document suppression, money was allegedly to be given to the school attended by Obama, more cash for the government would come later, and the Congressman would attempt to foster a hands-off policy with regard to the Indonesian government’s continuing suppression of the rights of Christians in Papua. If these allegations are true, and Faleomavaega acted at Obama’s request, both are guilty of felonies and violations of the Logan Act. [303, 321, 323, 337, 1017, 2298]

            On October 1, Congress passes a bailout bill called the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. The legislation gives more than $700 billion to the Treasury Secretary to distribute to Wall Street firms to rescue them from bad investments, such as sub-prime mortgages—mortgages that had been aggressively encouraged by the government itself for 30 years. When asked where the $700 billion amount came from, a Treasury Department spokesman responds, “It’s not based on any particular data point. We just wanted to choose a really large number.” The bailout bill includes over $112 billion in “pork,” including $6 million in tax breaks for wooden-arrow manufacturers in Oregon, $148 million in tax breaks for wool-producing companies, $128 million in tax breaks for the builders of auto race tracks, $10 million in tax breaks for television and film producers, $223 million in tax breaks for Alaskan fishermen, and $192 million in tax breaks for rum producers in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Both Obama and his opponent, John McCain, vote for the bailout bill. Over the next seven trading sessions, the stock market drops 24 per cent. The legislation is arguably unconstitutional because Article I of the U.S. Constitution requires that “All legislative powers herein shall be vested in” Congress, yet the bill essentially gives $700 billion to the Executive Branch (specifically to the Treasury Department) to spend as it sees fit, a clear violation of the separation of powers. (Congress passes the legislation anyway.) [247, 1151, 2068, 2307]
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            The bailout bill also includes $33 million in tax breaks for corporations operating in American Samoa. One of the two largest employers there is Star-Kist Tuna. Star-Kist’s parent company, Del Monte, has headquarters in San Francisco, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s district. Star-Kist is also a major Pelosi contributor, and Pelosi’s husband owns considerable Star-Kist stock. Star-Kist is also the only company operating in U.S. territories that is exempted from federal minimum wage laws. Despite the obvious conflict of interest, Pelosi supports the Star-Kist tax breaks. Obama raises no objections and votes for the bill. [397, 398, 399]

            On October 6, 2008, Obama and the Democrat National Committee file a “Joint Motion for Protective Order to Stay Discovery Pending a Decision on the (9/24/2008) Motion to Dismiss.” With that legal maneuver Obama and the DNC attempt to further stall a lawsuit demanding that Obama provide his original long form birth certificate to prove he is a natural born U.S. citizen eligible to become president. The assumption is that Obama cannot provide a certified copy of a Hawaiian long form birth certificate because it damages his candidacy, perhaps by confirming a place of birth other than Hawaii or a father other than Barack Obama, Sr. The attorney who filed the lawsuit, attorney Philip J. Berg—who believes Obama was born in Kenya—asserts that Obama is ineligible to be president, and that he “…is an illegal alien and therefore should be arrested, tried, and deported. He certainly cannot hold his Senate seat.” [241, 299]

            On October 7 WorldNetDaily.com (WND) staff reporter, researcher, and author (The Obama Nation) Jerome Corsi is detained by authorities in Kenya just as he is about to hold a press conference in which he planned to describe evidence of Obama’s dealings and connections with controversial Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga. The news conference was meant to “expose details of deep secret ties between U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and a section of Kenya government leaders, their connection to certain sectoral groups in Kenya and subsequent plot to be executed in Kenya should Senator Obama win the American presidency.” Corsi’s detainment is ordered by Obama’s cousin, Raila Odinga, who had received almost one million dollars in campaign support from Obama. (While on a taxpayer-funded trip to Kenya in 2006, Obama appeared publicly with Odinga to support his pro-Shari’ah candidacy.) [242, 726]

            During the October 7 televised debate with John McCain, Obama states, “I’m cutting more than I’m spending so that it will be a net spending cut.” Obama neglects to state what he will be cutting. [718, 1048]

            In October of 2008, Obama’s newly appointed Muslim Outreach Advisor, Minha Husaini, is criticized for having met with extremist Islamic groups on September 15. Husaini’s predecessor had resigned because of connections to a radical Muslim cleric. Among those meeting with Husaini was Mazen Asbahi (who Husaini had just replaced as outreach director), Mahdi Bray, who has publicly supported Hamas and Hizbullah, and Johari Abdul Malik, a Falls Church, Virginia cleric who told followers in November of 2004, “You will see Islam move from being the second largest religion in America to being the first religion in America.” [254, 829]

            In October, ACORN works to remove potentially damaging information connecting Obama with the group from its Web pages. Among the items deleted is an article that discusses Obama’s training of ACORN leaders. By October, the campaign erroneously claims that Obama had never organized with ACORN and had nothing to do with voter registration drives. [283]

            On October 10, stories surface that Tony Rezko may be giving up incriminating information about Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, and Obama, in order to receive a lighter prison sentence for his 16 felony convictions for receiving kickbacks for political favors. Word also leaks that federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is leading a team of FBI investigators in 10 states working on a RICO case involving ACORN. The investigation may be focused on a conspiracy to commit multi-state voter fraud on Obama’s behalf. Fitzgerald is the prosecutor who convicted Tony Rezko and Lewis “Scooter” Libby. (If elected, Obama can fire prosecutor Fitzgerald and shut down the investigation.) [281, 282, 290, 315]

            At an October 12 campaign appearance in Holland, Ohio Obama is asked by a self-employed plumber, Joe Wurzelbacher why he must pay higher taxes for everyone else’s benefit. Obama’s response is, “It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success too.” Obama then adds a sentiment straight from the socialist handbook, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” [295, 312]

            After John McCain mentions “Joe the plumber”  in the third presidential debate in order to illustrate Obama’s socialist leanings, Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services, approves a search of the state’s child-support records in an attempt to find damaging information on Wurzelbacher. Jones-Kelley, who contributed $2,300 to the Obama campaign, states there were “no political reasons” for the query. It was later disclosed that Jones-Kelly also looked into whether Wurzelbacher had ever received welfare assistance or was behind in unemployment compensation taxes. At least four separate government agencies conduct improper checks into his background. Ohio’s Inspector General states he will investigate the incidents. Ohio Governor Ted Strickland (a Democrat) states he is satisfied there were no “political overtures” in Jones-Kelley’s actions. [405, 436]

            It is worth noting, in relation to Obama’s response to “Joe the plumber,” that Obama advisor Cass Sunstein advocates Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposed “second bill of rights” in his book, The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever. Roosevelt’s list of rights includes a right to an education, home, health care, and protection against monopolies. (Giving everyone a “right to a home,” however, necessarily also entails giving those people a “right to someone else’s money” in order to buy that home. In fact, there is no such thing as a “right” if it is at someone else’s expense.) [403, 404]

            It is reported that Obama’s public relations staffer, Marilyn Katz, was the security chief for the Students for a Democratic Society, and was involved in the 1968 Democrat Party Convention riots in Chicago. Katz advocated throwing studded nails in front of approaching police car, and throwing plastic bags of human excrement, cans of urine, and golf balls with nails at the police.  As PR person for Obama, one of Katz’s jobs is to downplay the candidate’s past relationship with William Ayers. Katz herself, as a prominent SDS leader, was an associate of Ayers in the 1960s. Of her 1960s activism, Katz says she was for “sexual freedom and a democratic socialist paradise.” Katz, a member of Obama’s National Finance Committee, has held fundraisers for Obama in her home and has collected between $50,000 and $100,000 on his behalf. (A revived SDS was behind some of the violence at the 2008 Republican National Convention.) [320, 837, 1282]

            On October 15, 2008, in what later appears to be a massive hoax, African Press International (API) reports that Michelle Obama telephoned its offices to complain about reports of people challenging her husband’s eligibility to be president. In the conversation she purportedly states, “African Press International is supposed to support Africans and African-American view(s). It is strange that API has chosen to support the racists against my husband. There is no shame in being adopted by a stepfather. All dirt has been thrown onto my husband’s face and yet he loves this country. My husband and I know that there is no law that will stop him from becoming the president, just because some American white racists are bringing up the issue of my husband’s adoption by his stepfather. The important thing here is where my husband’s heart is at the moment. I can tell the American people that my husband loves this country and his adoption never changed his love for this country. He was born in Hawaii, yes, and that gives him all the right to be an American citizen even though he was adopted by a foreigner.” [306, 307, 308, 309, 317]
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            The story is likely no legitimate but, if true, the candidate’s wife, in her statement, unknowingly admits that Obama was adopted by Indonesian Lolo Soetoro, which may mean he may still be an Indonesian citizen ineligible to be U.S. president. She is incorrect in saying there is “no law” that will stop him; there certainly are laws defining the eligibility requirements, and if he does not satisfy them he cannot be president. Obama’s wife also allegedly tells API that if it writes a “complimentary story” about her husband they will then be invited to Obama’s inauguration ceremony. The Obama campaign denies that his wife spoke with API. API says the conversation was recorded and the tape will be released, after it gives Michelle Obama a chance to clarify her side of the story. [306, 307, 308, 309, 317]

            API purportedly agrees to allow Fox News to broadcast the tape of the telephone call from Michelle Obama, but the network denies the story. In late October, API is allegedly offered $2 million by Ed Hale, president of Plains Radio in Texas, to cancel its agreement with Fox. The Obama campaign itself then purportedly offers API a $3 million bribe to suppress the information, withhold the tape, and renege on its agreement with Fox. API says it will work with its lawyers and treat the cash offer as an illegal bribery attempt. Because the alleged recording is never released, it is likely that the entire API story is untrue (or a substantial amount of money was paid to keep the recording secret). [417, 435]

            A review of major Obama contributors shows the name James Reynolds, Jr., of Loop Capital Markets, LLC. Reynolds, a close friend of Obama, was caught in FBI wiretaps arranging a sham consulting contract and dealing in no-bid contracts; Obama nevertheless places him on his National Finance Committee. [833]

            A lawsuit is filed in the State of Washington by Steven R. Marquis demanding that the Secretary of State obtain proof that Obama is eligible to be president of the United States or remove his name from the November 4 ballot. [307, 331, 406]

            James Pethokopukis, a reporter for U.S. News and World Report, relates on October 16 that a University of Chicago professor he spoke with and who knew Obama considered him “…as close to a full-out Marxist as anyone who has ever run for president of the United States.” [314]

            A report alleges that at an October 15 Sarah Palin campaign event in Scranton, Pennsylvania, someone in the crowd shouted, “Kill him!” when Obama’s name was mentioned by the speaker, Congressional candidate Chris Hackett. The report gets quick, widespread coverage by the pro-Obama media, despite the fact that no one in the crowd heard the shout—except a reporter for the ScrantonTimes-Tribune. Secret Service agents and police officers present state they did not hear the threat, and everyone they later interview denies having heard it. [311]

            Key Obama policy aide Jason Grunet, executive director of the National Commission on Energy Policy, states that if Congress does not move within 18 months to tighten rules with regard to carbon dioxide emissions Obama would instruct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to institute its own unilateral enforcement crackdown anyway. (In other words, if Congress doesn’t pass the global warming laws Obama wants he’ll go ahead and implement his own regulations on carbon dioxide emissions.) Grunet assumes that Congress—even a Democrat Congress—may be unlikely to go along with excessive taxes on carbon emissions because they would cause skyrocketing prices, business failures, and massive job losses. Obama can avoid the issue of Congressional approval by simply ordering the EPA to enforce strict “pollution” guidelines (despite carbon dioxide not being a pollutant), but that would have the same disastrous effects of increasing prices and rising unemployment. (Rules for Radicals author Saul Alinsky specifically suggested using environmental issues as a convenient, and possibly non-legislative, way for a socialist-leaning government to control industry and take over businesses.) [330]

            There is speculation that Obama would reward Hillary Clinton with a Supreme Court nomination if he is elected. [337]

            Obama receives the endorsement of General Colin Powell, who says on NBC’s Meet the Press that Obama “is a transformational figure.” Powell admits that Obama has a thin resume but is “surrounding himself with people who will be able to give him the expertise that he at the moment does not have.” For the endorsement, Powell receives considerable criticism from his fellow Republicans, although Powell is known to be a “Republican in Name Only” (RINO) because of his generally weak—if not sometimes almost non-existent—commitment to conservative principles. Powell cites no concrete or logical justifications for endorsing Obama, leading many to believe the move was primarily due to race. [1596]

            At a Democrat fundraiser in Seattle, unaware that print journalists are present, Joe Biden states, “Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here, if you don’t remember anything else I said, ‘Watch, we’re going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.’” Biden cautions, “I promise you, you all are going to be sitting here a year from now going, ‘Oh my God, why are they there in the polls, why is the polling so down, why is this thing so tough?’ We’re going have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years. I’m asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point because you’re going to have to reinforce us.” Biden later remarks, “I probably shouldn’t have said all this because it (finally) dawned on me that the press is here.” [363, 2644]

            Obama complains to a North Carolina crowd about attacks suggesting he is Muslim, warning, “they (meaning whites and Republicans) will try to hoodwink you, to bamboozle you.” His words are immediately recognized by blacks as those of Malcolm X, repeated in Spike Lee’s film biography of the slain civil rights leader: “You’ve been hoodwinked, bamboozled, led astray, run amok.” (Ironically, Obama uses the words of a black, Muslim socialist to attack those he says are calling him a racist, Muslim, and a socialist.) Being half-black Obama is able to use socialist code words with black audiences (such as “tax fairness” to mean “soak the rich white folks”) while enjoying the enviable position of deflecting almost any criticism (valid or not) simply by suggesting his attackers are racist. [1594, 1595, 1596]

            In Fayetteville, North Carolina, a heckler shouts “Socialist, socialist, socialist!” at Obama until his supporters make her stop. [1596]
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            On October 23 attorney Philip J. Berg states he has a recording of a telephone conversation in which Obama’s paternal step-grandmother, speaking long distance to someone in the United States, confirms the candidate was born in Kenya and that she was present in the hospital delivery room. The same day Obama heads to Hawaii to visit his ailing maternal grandmother. There is speculation that another purpose of Obama’s trip may be to search Madelyn Dunham’s apartment to find and destroy incriminating documents related to the lawsuits challenging his eligibility to serve as president. [367, 371, 558, 580]

            The Urban Institute Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center analyzes the McCain and Obama tax policies and calculates that McCain’s proposals would cut taxes by $628 billion over 10 years, while Obama’s would raise them by $734 billion over the same period. [337]

            Obama’s list of accomplishments in the U.S. Senate consists of getting two bills passed: one to send foreign aid to the Congo and another to name a post office. [337]

            By October 24, at least seven lawsuits are filed in state and federal courts in Hawaii, Washington, California, Florida, Georgia, New York, and Connecticut to demand that Obama release his birth records. Lawsuits in Washington and Georgia seek to force the state’s secretary of state, as the chief state elections officer, to require Obama to produce original birth records or remove him from the November 4 ballot. [372]

            On October 24, Federal Judge R. Barclay Surrick in Philadelphia, a Clinton appointee, tosses out the Berg lawsuit, claiming Berg does not have “standing.” A plaintiff, such as Berg, who wishes to have standing to sue, must show (1) a particularized injury-in-fact, (2) evidence showing that that the party being sued actually caused the plaintiff’s particularized injury-in-fact, and (3) that adjudication of the matter would provide redress. Inasmuch as Berg is an American citizen, that in and of itself should suggest he has standing with regard to the issue in dispute. Judge Surrick chooses to avoid responsibility in the case and instead dumps the matter in the lap of Congress, certainly knowing that a Democrat Congress will not address the issue. (Coincidentally, Christopher B. Seaman, former law clerk for Judge Surrick, is currently employed by Sidley Austin LLP, the former employer of Obama, Michelle Robinson Obama, and Bernardine Dohrn.) [374, 375, 425]

            Judge Surrick states, “If, through the political process, Congress determines that citizens, voters, or party members should police the Constitution’s eligibility requirements for the Presidency, then it is free to pass laws conferring standing on individuals like Plaintiff. Until that time, voters do not have standing to bring the sort of challenge that Plaintiff attempts to bring in the Amended Complaint.” This response by the judge suggests that a presidential candidate need not have been born in the United States; it is apparently sufficient for him to say that he was born in the United States and the voters cannot do a thing about it—unless and until Congress feels like passing a law. Attorney Philip J. Berg will likely appeal to the Supreme Court. [374, 375, 376]

            Judge Surrick illogically states that challenger Berg “would have us derail the democratic process by invalidating a candidate for whom millions of people voted and who underwent excessive vetting during what was one of the most hotly contested presidential primary [sic] in living memory.” Berg’s lawsuit could not of course invalidate an eligible candidate; it could only lead to the removal of an ineligible candidate from the ballot. Berg is thus only asking the Court to require proof of eligibility, not to deny anyone the right to vote for a qualified candidate. In a remarkable statement that many voters might vehemently disagree with, Judge Surrick argues that a “candidate’s ineligibility under the Natural Born Citizen Clause does not result in an injury in fact to voters.” (According to the judge, voters are not harmed by fraud perpetrated by an ineligible candidate.) [424]

            On October 24, Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) tells the editorial board of the Standard-Times that Obama and the Democrats will slash military spending by 25 per cent, forcing the United States to withdraw troops from Iraq. [377]

            In October, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) suspends all of its funding for ACORN, Obama’s main voter-registration drive organization, after learning that $948,507.50 had been embezzled from ACORN by Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke (friend of William Ayers and former SDS member). The embezzlement occurred in 1999, but the information did not become public until June of 2008; Wade Rathke had kept the embezzlement secret even from ACORN board members. No charges have been filed against Dale Rathke, and Wade Rathke was fired by ACORN. Wade Rathke also ran a subsidiary of the Tides Foundation called the Tides Center, a “social action” network and community activist group; he is currently on a “leave of absence.” The Tides Foundation (a favorite charity of wealthy heiress Theresa Heinz Kerry, wife and benefactor of Senator John Kerry) contributes to leftist organizations like ACORN, the ACLU, CAIR, Earth Justice, PETA, National Lawyers Guild, Center for American Progress, and the Institute for Policy Studies. Drummond Pike, founder of the Tides Foundation, allegedly personally reimbursed ACORN for the embezzled funds. (There is also a related “Tides Network.”) [390, 391, 1280, 1971, 2666, 2667]

            U.S. District Court Judge Edmund Sargus, a 1996 Clinton appointee, rules that Ohio counties must allow homeless voters to list park benches and other locations that are not buildings as their addresses. [410]

            The Obama campaign intentionally fails to apply basic security measures to prevent illegal and anonymous contributions from being submitted by credit card via the Internet. Approximately two-thirds of the $150 million Obama collected in September of 2008 came through Internet credit card donations, including untraceable pre-paid gift cards that can readily conceal illegal contributions (such as foreign contributions or donations in excess of the $2,300 individual limit). [423]

            Pittsburgh attorney Heather S. Heidelbaugh tries a case against ACORN in October alleging voter fraud, misrepresentation, and violation of the equal protection clause and due process. A witness testifies in court about Obama’s links to ACORN. Although CNN has a reporter and camera at the trial, the story is not aired. Heidelbaugh is told by CNN, “We’re not going with this story, (because) it’s a game-changer.” She is told essentially the same thing by ABC, which also did not want to air a story detrimental to Obama close to election day. CNN and ABC thus intentionally ignore a legitimate, important, and relevant story only because it would hurt Obama, their favored candidate. [1469, 1472]

            A Washington State lawsuit challenging Obama’s eligibility to serve as president is dismissed by King County Judge John Erlick, who states the challenge “may be a positive idea,” but Washington law clearly prevents the Secretary of State from getting involved and performing any external fact-checking. [411]
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            On October 27, Leo Donofrio sues the Secretary of State of New Jersey (Donofrio v. Wells), demanding that she execute her duties to police the security of ballots from fraudulent candidates ineligible to hold the office of president. Along with Obama and John McCain, candidate Roger Calero, of the Socialist Workers Party, also appears on the New Jersey Ballot. Calero is a native of Nicaragua and is therefore not a natural born citizen of the United States, yet his name was allowed on the ballot by the New Jersey Secretary of State. Donofrio’s lawsuit argues that the Secretary of State, whose office is responsible for administering elections, should insure that a candidate is eligible to serve as president before adding his name to the ballot. (Secretaries of States in some states other than New Jersey had in fact properly refused to place Calero’s name on the ballot.) The Donofrio case appears to be heading to the Supreme Court. In 1968 the Peace and Freedom Party’s presidential candidate, Eldridge Cleaver, was not allowed on the California ballot because the state reviewed his birth certificate and confirmed that he had not met the required age of 35. (He was 34.) There is therefore precedent for reviewing a candidate’s birth certificate. [485, 507, 509, 585, 1581]

            After a late October campaign stop in Sarasota, Florida an Obama supporter named Peggy Joseph gushes to a reporter, “It was the most memorable time of my life. It was a touching moment, because I never thought this day would happen. I won’t have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won’t have to worry about paying my mortgage. You know, if I, if I help him (Obama), he’s gonna [sic] help me!” [449]

            In retaliation for their newspapers’ endorsements of John McCain, Obama prohibits reporters from the Dallas Morning News, the New York Post, and the Washington Times from boarding his campaign plane to prevent them from covering the final week of his campaign. They are replaced with writers from Glamour and other publications. [482]

            In response to an article critical of the decision in the Berg v. Obama lawsuit, columnist Devvy Kidd receives an angry e-mail from a woman named Magda Robinson. Robinson threatens, “You racist white ****! How dare you question the citizenship of the greatest hope our country has ever had for change? You lying honkeys are afraid of having a Black President that’s why you continue to spread the lie that he wasn’t born in Hawaii. You’re damned right we will burn this racist piece of **** country to the ground if we are denied our messiah. you white motherfuckers already stole two elections, we will not let you steal a third. Obama is the great hope of the oppressed masses, and he will win in a landslide. You racist whites better not try anything funny, or else you will pay. We will make the Watts riots look like a party you white lying ****. Power to the People! God bless Barack Obama!”  The sentiments expressed by Robinson are not unique and will frighten a substantial number of whites into voting for Obama out of fear of massive nationwide riots. [2593]

            On October 31, the Director of the Hawaii Department of Health, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, and the Director of the OHSM and State Registrar, hold a press conference and jointly state that they have “Obama’s original birth certificate on record.” They do not say what information the document contains, nor do they provide photocopies—they merely state that a document exists. The state’s long form birth certificate, per Hawaii Statute 883.176, allows a birth in another state or even another country to be registered in Hawaii. Merely having a Hawaiian birth certificate does not therefore prove one was born in Hawaii; the long form document itself must be examined to ascertain the place of birth. The Obama document in Hawaii is in a sealed envelope, unavailable for viewing by anyone other than Obama himself, and that document may very well indicate that his birth occurred somewhere other than Hawaii. [492, 1647]

            Fukino’s statement is “I as Director of Health for the State of Hawaii, along with the Registrar of Vital Statistics who has statutory authority to oversee and maintain these type of vital records, have personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Senator Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures.” Again, this statement means only that the document exists and that Fukino looked at it. It does not prove that Obama was born in Hawaii, because that state issues birth certificates to children born elsewhere. Hawaii will release the birth certificate only with Obama’s permission, but he refuses to grant that permission. (Obama wrote in Dreams From My Father that he found his birth certificate while looking through a book. He could easily make that document public without even having to contact Hawaiian officials.) [1647]

            On November 2, a San Francisco radio announcer at KGO 810-AM says on the air, “I want mother-**** Joe the plumber dead.” [451]

            New York Congressman Jerald Nadler appears at a gathering of voters in Boca Raton, Florida to drum up support for Obama. Asked by AtlasShrugs.com blogger Pamela Geller why Obama attracts such “unsavory endorsements” (Hamas, Hizbullah, Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, Muammar Qaddafi, etc.), Nadler ridiculously responds that they are using reverse psychology and “…endorse Obama so people will vote for McCain.” Asked why Obama did not denounce Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Nadler suggests that Obama didn’t have the “political courage” to make a statement by leaving the church. [522]

            On November 3, Obama congratulates McCain on “the tough race that he has fought.” While making the remark Obama—as he had done to Hillary Clinton during the primaries—scratches his face with his middle finger, childishly and rudely “flipping McCain off.” [456]

            Dr. Vibert White, Jr., a former top-ranking official of the Nation of Islam, confirms in an interview that Obama has deep ties to the group and its vitriolic, anti-Semitic leader, Louis Farrakhan. (Farrakhan had hailed Obama as the “new messiah” in his February 2008 endorsement of the candidate.) Farrakhan has a history of anti-Jew statements, calling them “bloodsuckers” and “satanic,” and says he enjoys an “open channel” of communication with Obama. [471, 558, 559]

            Obama aides confirm that his senior foreign policy advisor, Robert O. Malley, had been sent to Egypt and Syria to discuss the new administration’s Middle East plans and to pledge that Obama would “seek to enhance relations with Cairo (Egypt) as well as reconcile with Damascus (Syria).” The anti-Israel Malley had previously been pressured to leave the Obama staff because he had been in regular contact with the terrorist group Hamas. Obama eventually feels comfortable bringing him back on board, correctly assuming the media would not make Malley an issue. Obama also agrees to sell advanced F-16 fighter jets to Egypt—but will likely not sell the F-22 fighter to Israel. [472, 473, 474]

            Obama’s maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, dies on November 3. For the last 41 years of her life, she lived in the same 10th floor Punahou Circle apartment in Honolulu. Obama lived in the apartment with his grandparents from the time his mother deserted him in 1971, until 1979, when he moved to California to attend Occidental College. [329, 515, 2243]

            Obama continues to refuse to provide the media with school records, passports, college theses, law school records, law firm clients, medical records, Illinois State Senate files, and other documents about his record:

           
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Original vault copy (long form) birth certificate – not released

Certificate of live birth (short form) – alleged forgery released
Dunham-Obama marriage license – not released
Dunham-Soetoro marriage license – not released
Soetoro adoption records – not released
Besuki School application – obtained
Punahou School records – not released
Selective Service Registration – alleged forgery released
Occidental College records – not released
Passport (Indonesian) – not released
Passport (U.S.) – not releasedColumbia University records – not released
Columbia University thesis – not released

Harvard Law School records – not released
Harvard Law Review articles – none released
Baptism certificate – none released

Medical records – not released (except for a one-page statement saying Obama is healthy)
Illinois State Senate records – not released
Illinois State Senate schedule – not released (alleged to have been lost)
Law practice client list and billing records – not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles –  none released (and none perhaps ever written)

Campaign donor analysis – not released

List of all campaign workers who are lobbyists – not released

List of trips outside the United States before 2008 – not released

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The Election

 

On November 4, 2008, Obama is elected President of the United States. Obama wins 365 electoral votes; John McCain wins 173. Obama garners almost 53 per cent of the vote and McCain gets 46 per cent (with Ralph Nader, Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin, Cynthia McKinney, and others receiving the remainder). Approximately 66.8 million people cast votes for Obama; about 58.3 million vote for McCain. Muslim turnout in the election is approximately 95 per cent, the highest in history. Obama also garners roughly 95 per cent of the black vote. [457, 1112, 1984, 2510]

            Obama appears before a large crowd at Chicago’s Grant Park on election night to give his victory speech. Obama wears a black suit with a red tie. His youngest daughter, Natasha, wears a black dress; older daughter Malia wears a red dress; and Michelle Obama wears an arguably unattractive red and black dress that appears to represent a large “X.” The stark colors and the “X” suggest to some that the outfits are meant to honor Malcolm X (who some believe was Obama’s father). Red is the traditional color of socialism, and is associated with social democrat and socialist political parties; black is the traditional color of anarchism, and black power. [1093, 1094, 1591, 2178, 2179]

            During election night celebrations in Chicago, most people in the downtown crowds are orderly, partly because police search them to make sure liquor is not present. Nevertheless, several young people overturn portable toilets while people are using them (including an elderly woman who requires a walker); a Chicago Police vehicle is shot at in the 900 block of north Ridgeway; 14 other Chicago squad cars are damaged by people throwing bricks, bottles, and rocks, leaving six officers injured; clothing stores and liquor stores are broken into on Madison Street, Chicago Avenue, 16th Street, 47th Street, 63rd Street, Martin Luther King Drive, Cottage Grove Avenue, and Howard Street; police use tear gas to disperse crowds in the 2nd, 5th, 11th, and 15th police districts; in the 7th district 104 reports of shots fired are received within 30 minutes of Obama being declared the winner of the election; and snow plows are lined up as mobile barricades to control unruly crowds.
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Transition and Payback

 

On November 5, at the news of Obama’s election, the DJIA plunges almost 500 points, closing at 9,139.27, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev promptly announces that Russia will deploy missiles in Kaliningrad in response to U.S. plans to deploy a ballistic missile defense system in Poland and radar installation in the Czech Republic. [477, 1238]

            On November 6, the DJIA drops an additional 400 points, to 8,695.79. [1238]

            Obama meets for one hour with top intelligence officers for his first classified briefing on national security. He is not smiling when he leaves the meeting. [1756]

            Tough Chicago politician and Congressman Rahm Emanuel is chosen by Obama to be his chief of staff. The profanity-prone Emanuel, known as “Rahmbo” to many, has a take no prisoners approach and once sent a large, rotting, dead fish to a pollster who had ticked him off (in a manner reminiscent of the horse’s head scene in the film, The Godfather). Some observe that it does not bode well for Obama’s pledge of bi-partisan cooperation that Emanuel once said, “Republicans are bad people who deserve a two-by-four upside their heads.” Emanuel will be Obama’s “court Jew,” tasked with orchestrating dirty work but taking some of the heat off anticipated anti-Israel policies. (Any such criticism of Obama can be countered with, “Nonsense, even his chief of staff is Jewish!”) [458, 459, 966]

            On November 6, Detroit radio station WRIF hosts Mike Clark, Trudi Daniels, and Marc Fellhauer conduct an on-air interview with Kenyan Ambassador Peter N. R. O. Ogego. Fellhauer asks, “One more quick question, President-elect Obama’s birthplace over in Kenya, is that going to be a national spot to go visit, where he was born?” Ogego responds, “It’s already an attraction. His paternal grandmother is still alive.” Fellhauer asks, “His birthplace, they’ll put up a marker there?” Ogego answers, “It would depend on the government. It’s already well known.” The remarks by Ogego further corroborate the theory held by some that Obama was born in Kenya. A spokesperson for Ogego later says she could not explain his comments but would later have him call the station to do so; he does not. [551]

            On November 7, ABC News reports that Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of Freddie Mac, the Government-Sponsored Enterprise which (along with GSE Fannie Mae) was involved in fraudulent bookkeeping and the massive sub-prime mortgage lending that contributed to the financial collapse in 2008. Emanuel, who served on the board of Freddie Mac during 2000–2001 (and received more than $320,000 for doing very little work over a 14-month period), was appointed to the position by Bill Clinton. Emanuel resigned from Freddie Mac in 2001 to run for Congress. (Fellow board member Neil Hartigan said Emanuel’s job at Freddie Mac was to explain to others how to grease the skids in Washington through “the dynamics of the legislative process and the executive branch at senior levels.” According to the Chicago Tribune, Freddie Mac illegally sponsored more than 80 fundraisers to collect $1.7 million for Congressional candidates… while Emanuel was on its board. Emanuel says he “can’t remember the meeting” at which the illegal fundraisers were approved.) Emanuel’s election to Congress was aided by assistance from City of Chicago patronage workers, who were illegally working for his campaign when they should have been performing work for the city’s taxpayers. (For efforts like that Chicago’s water department boss, Donald Tomczak, went to jail.) Emanuel also spent about two years at the New York investment firm of Wasserstein Perella where he earned more than $18 million. (Bruce Wasserstein is a Wall Street financier and big donor to Democrat campaigns.) In 2008, Emanuel was the top recipient of Congressional campaign contributions from hedge funds and private equity and investment firms. [464, 596, 1011, 1963, 1979, 2045]

            With regard to the Berg lawsuit, which argues that Obama is not an American citizen and is ineligible to serve as president of the United States, Supreme Court Justice David Souter issues a Writ of Certiorari (with the concurrence of at least three other Justices) and gives Obama and the Democrat National Committee (DNC) until December 1 to respond. [489]

            Shortly after the election, Obama’s official president-elect Web site (change.gov) is introduced. The site announces, “Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.” After being flooded with questions and complaints, the Obama staff modifies the language, and the word “require” is removed. In his book, The Plan: Big Ideas for America, Rahm Emanuel endorses mandatory service for all young Americans. He wrote, “We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, all Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service…” Emanuel concluded “…Republicans will squeal about individual freedom.” [460, 463]

            Web sites with the suffix “.gov” (“dot gov”) are limited to government agencies and government use. The General Services Administration (GSA) controls the use of “.gov” domain names, and the law specifically forbids political or campaign information on any “.gov” site, including organizations that engage in lobbying or political campaigning. The Obama campaign was originally (properly) denied the use of the “change.gov” domain name, but caved in to intense pressure from Obama staffers and illegally granted the use of the name. [734]

            At his first post-election news conference on November 7, Obama is asked if he had spoken with former presidents. He replies that he had, and adds, “I didn’t want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any séances.” (Obama’s comment is meant to ridicule Mrs. Reagan for having consulted with astrologers while in the White House, but it was Hillary Clinton who was said to have spoken with the “ghost” of Eleanor Roosevelt.) After an immediate firestorm of criticism, Obama calls Nancy Reagan to apologize for his remark. [465]

            At the press conference Obama also emphasizes, “Iran’s development of a nuclear weapon is I believe unacceptable. And we have to mount an international effort to prevent that from happening.” [2670]

            Obama has a telephone conversation with Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland. A Kaczynski staffer, Mariusz Handzlik, later relates that Obama promised he would proceed with plans to build the missile defense shield promised by President Bush. Obama senior foreign policy advisor Denis McDonough later denies that Obama made the pledge, as does the Polish Foreign Affairs Ministry. [470]

            On November 9, John Podesta, Obama’s transition-team chief, confirms that Obama is considering reversing President Bush’s executive orders on stem-cell research and oil and gas drilling. Obama would also likely reverse plans to open up 360,000 acres of land in Utah for oil and gas drilling, reverse a rule barring international family-planning groups which receive U.S. aid from counseling women about abortions, and allow California authorities to impose tougher automobile emissions standards than those required by the federal government. [462, 468, 476]

            ABC’s Ben Bradley reports that Valerie Jarrett is Obama’s preferred choice for filling his soon to be vacant Senate seat. He states, “Whether that is merely Obama’s personal opinion, or if he intends to lobby on Jarrett’s behalf, remains to be seen.” CNN also reports that Obama wants Jarrett in his Senate seat. (Obama attorney Gregory Craig later states that Obama that “ruled out communicating a preference for any one candidate.”) [667, 678, 679, 1945]

            Just days after the election—before Obama has even been sworn in, let alone accomplished anything—some supporters start pushing for a national holiday to honor the candidate. [488]

            USA Today reports that Obama staffers have already begun drafting plans to move prisoners of war from the military’s Guantanamo Bay facility (GITMO) to the United States for trials in criminal courts. [466]

            By November 10, Obama’s presidential-transition Web site, “change.gov,” is scrubbed of much of the agenda that had appeared on his campaign Web site, www.barackobama.com, suggesting that some of his campaign promises were nothing more than campaign promises. [469]

            Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, his chief of staff John Harris, Blagojevich’s wife Patti, and his Governor’s office general counsel, speak on a conference call for about two hours with an Obama transition team member and other “Washington, D.C.-based advisers” about an agreement in which the governor would name a replacement Senator desired by Obama (Valerie Jarrett) in exchange for Obama appointing the governor as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. They also discuss a less suspicious deal in which Blagojevich would appoint the desired replacement and Obama would assist the governor in getting a high-paid position with organized labor’s Change to Win organization. Blagojevich states in the conversation that he would not name Obama’s preferred choice, Valerie Jarrett, to Obama’s open Senate seat unless he is offered in return a position that pays between $250,000 and $300,000 per year. The call is secretly recorded by federal authorities who have been investigating Blagojevich. The identity of the person representing Obama and Valerie Jarrett in the conversation is not made public; it may have been someone from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), possibly Andy Stern or Tom Balanoff. [645, 656, 657, 658, 661, 678, 1165]

            Change to Win is a partnership founded by labor unions in 2005 to strengthen their power. The cooperating unions are the SEIU, United Here, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Laborers’ International Union of North America, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, and United Farm Workers of America. [667]

            Only hours after the Blagojevich marathon conference call earlier that day, on the evening of November 10 CNN reports that two anonymous Democrat sources confirmed that Valerie Jarrett will not be appointed to Obama’s Senate seat, and that he instead wants her serving him in the White House. This about-face suggests that Obama learned the Blagojevich conversation had been recorded and he chose to extricate himself from the situation as quickly as possible. [667, 678]

            It is learned on November 11 that the Obama campaign had been in contact with the terrorist group Hamas for months, but Hamas had been asked to keep the discussions secret until after the elections. There are reports that Obama plans to try a more “regional approach” to the war in Afghanistan and may work toward that by having high-level discussions with Iran. [475, 484]

            Despite massive evidence of the acceptance of illegal campaign contributions, the Obama campaign likely will not face an audit by the Federal Election Commission because its six commissioners are split evenly between Republicans and Democrats. [487]

            General Electric (GE) announces that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) would guarantee up to $139 billion in GE capital debt. The FDIC is a federal agency that insures banks, but GE is not a bank. It is, however, the parent company of NBC and MSNBC, two television networks that heavily promoted Obama’s candidacy by giving him largely uncritical and repeatedly soft coverage. GE’s indebtedness to the federal government likely means that its NBC and MSNBC coverage of the Obama administration will remain fawning, as it tries to avoid biting the hand that is feeding it. [494, 1155]

            On November 12, Obama associate Valerie Jarrett appears on The Newshour and tells host Jim Lehrer she is not interested in taking Obama’s open Senate seat. There is later speculation that Jarrett was placed out of the running because Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich couldn’t “get his price” for appointing her. [657]

            Obama remarks that his administration will offer Israel a “nuclear umbrella” against the threat of a nuclear attack by Iran, leading many to believe that he suspects he will not be able to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. Even worse, Obama may inadvertently be sending a signal to Iran that he will not try very hard to halt its nuclear program. In either case, Israel will not be impressed by any nuclear umbrella offer if it believes Obama will be reluctant to open it. [713]

            Ambassador Alan Keyes, presidential candidate of the American Independent Party, files a lawsuit against California’s Secretary of State, Obama, the DNC, and others, questioning Obama’s eligibility to run for and serve as president, and asking that the electors from the state of California be barred from casting their votes for Obama. (While the Keyes lawsuit may have some merit, it incorrectly asserts that “Box 7C” on the Hawaiian long form birth certificate, which is labeled “County and State or Foreign Country,” is for indicating the place of birth; it is instead for the place of the mother’s birth.) [492, 730]

            On November 12, Illinois Governor Blagojevich discusses a deal for Obama’s Senate seat with an SEIU official (SEIU president Andy Stern, or an Illinois union official, Tom Balanoff). Blagojevich considers the SEIU official to be the emissary or go-between with the Obama team, a third party used to keep some distance between Obama and Blagojevich in the event the deal is uncovered or goes sour. [678]

            On November 13, DebbieSchlussel.com breaks the story that the Selective Service System registration form showing Obama registered for the draft may be a forgery. The form’s document location number (DLN), 0897080632, indicates a 2008 entry into the federal system, because the first two digits (08) indicate the year. (Had Obama registered in 1980, the first two digits of the DLN would have been 80, rather than 08.) Obama’s document also appears to be a 1990 form, modified to look like a 1980 form. The date the form was signed is July 30, 1980, yet the form has a date stamp of July 29. A retired federal agent had requested the Obama form via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). It took almost a full year for the document to be found and a copy given to him. [483, 493]

            Obama’s story about registering for the draft has changed more than once. He originally said he registered for the draft in 1979, when he turned age 18, but there was no requirement to register at that time. Failure to register with the Selective Service System is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or up to five years in prison. It also renders the individual ineligible for any job in the Executive Branch of government or the U.S. Postal Service. (Thus, if Obama’s draft registration is a forgery, not only could he be removed from the Presidency he would not even be able to get a job with the Post Office.) One explanation for a (possibly) forged Selective Service registration form is that Obama neglected to register as required. Another explanation is that Obama was not required to register because he may still have been a citizen of Indonesia and not a U.S. citizen subject to Selective Service regulations. When the FOIA request for the document was received, someone loyal to Obama then contacted his campaign, which eventually “produced” the evidence. [483, 493]

            An Obama campaign spokesperson tells reporters that lawsuits attempting to force the candidate to prove he is eligible to serve as president are “garbage.” At the same time, Obama continues to refuse to produce his birth certificate and has sheriff’s deputies stationed at two hospitals in Honolulu to prevent media inquiries and other attempts to request copies of records. [490]

            Obama’s Weather Underground and Pentagon-bomber friend William Ayers appears at a Washington, D.C. coffeehouse, “Busboys and Poets,” to promote two of his books, City Kids, City Schools, and City Kids, City Teachers. [486]

            On November 14, Obama names Valerie Jarrett the Senior White House Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Liaison. [636, 678]

            The Wall Street Journal reports “Obama may decide he wants to keep the road open in certain cases for the CIA to use (enhanced prisoner interrogation) techniques not approved by the military.” This is in direct conflict with Obama campaign promises to apply the Army field manual interrogation standard to all agencies, including the CIA. (Publicly, Obama chastises the Bush administration, but he privately realizes he will need to follow some of the same policies he criticizes.) [501]
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            Obama resigns from his Illinois Senate seat on November 16, less than two weeks after the election. This surprises many because it eliminates the possibility of Obama being able to cast any critical votes in the Senate for two months—votes that may be especially important considering the financial crisis and the fact that his vote might be needed to prevent a filibuster. (The resignation may have been to give Obama two months as a private citizen, during which time he could negotiate book deals or other financial transactions without being subject to Senate ethics rules.) [704, 1825, 1913]

            On November 16, the British Times reports that Obama would support a Middle East peace proposal calling for Israel to return to its 1949 borders (known as the “Auschwitz borders”). Obama allegedly tells Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas that the “…Israelis would be crazy not to accept this initiative.” The one-sided agreement would require Israel to give up the entire eastern half of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount (the holiest site in Judaism), and retreat from the Golan Heights. Obama advisor Dennis Ross later denies that Obama is planning to make a deal based on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. [496, 498, 500]

            Obama appears on CBS’ 60 Minutes and confirms that he intends to close the military base at Guantanamo, Cuba and suspend military commission hearings meant to hear the cases of the detainees. Obama does not elaborate on what he intends to do with the approximately 250 terrorists and enemy combatants held there. Some documents describing the prisoners and their activities have been made public through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Even the leftist New York Times reports that the files contain “sobering intelligence claims against many of the remaining detainees.” (Ordinary soldiers or criminals these prisoners are not.) It is later reported by the Pentagon (January 13, 2009), that at least 61 former Guantanamo detainees have returned to terrorist activities since being released from custody. One former detainee, Said Ali al-Shihri, became the deputy leader of the al-Qaeda branch in Yemen. Another, Abdallah Ali al-Ajmi, made a martyrdom video before blowing himself up and killing 12 Iraqis. (Eric Holder, Obama’s likely pick for Attorney General, is a senior partner in the law firm Covington and Burling, which represents 17 Yemeni prisoners who are held at GITMO. Obama’s order to close GITMO increases the likelihood that Holder’s firm can obtain U.S. trials and their release from custody.) [544, 803, 901, 905, 960, 962]

 

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Parade of Appointments

 

Obama names Gregory Craig as his White House Counsel. Craig has a reputation for representing high-profile thugs. He is perhaps best known for defending John Hinckley, Jr., the man who shot President Ronald Reagan and his press secretary James Brady in 1981. Craig also defended Bill Clinton during his impeachment after the Monica Lewinsky cover-up, represented Elian Gonzalez’s father in order to get the child taken from his family in Miami and returned to Cuba, and defended former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan during the investigation of the Saddam Hussein oil for food scandal. Craig’s list of clients also includes Senator Edward Kennedy (during the **** trial of his nephew, William Kennedy Smith), Pedro Miguel Gonzalez Pinzion (a Panamanian who murdered a U.S. soldier), the Panamanian government (during the Manuel Noriega trial), and Victor Posner (a prominent Miami tax evader). [499, 502, 503, 848]

            Obama selects Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State, despite having said during the primary campaign debates that he did not trust her judgment and that she lacked foreign policy credentials. (Clinton’s confirmation hearing may be marred with questions about the millions of federal dollars she steered to a mall project at the same time its developer was donating $100,000 to her husband’s foundation.) [504, 573, 784]

            Eric Holder, who was Clinton’s Deputy Attorney General, is selected by Obama to be his Attorney General. Holder’s appointment is immediately controversial because he was instrumental in persuading Bill Clinton to pardon members of the Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN (to encourage votes for Hillary Clinton’s Senate run from New York Puerto Ricans). In exchange for donations from Denise Rich to the Clinton Presidential Library fund and Clinton’s legal defense fund (approximately $1 million), Holden worked for the pardon of her husband, Marc Rich, who had renounced his U.S. citizenship and fled to Switzerland to avoid prosecution for wire fraud, racketeering, tax fraud, and tax evasion. Holder’s role in securing the Clinton pardons was called “unconscionable” by a Congressional committee, partly because he kept the deliberations hidden until the last minute to avoid protests from U.S. District Attorneys. Holder was also second-in-command to Clinton’s Attorney General Janet Reno when he made the decision to send Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) officers with automatic weapons to kidnap Elian Gonzalez and return the child to Cuba. Holder wrote an amicus brief for the controversial District of Columbia v. Heller case in which he argued that Americans have no right to keep firearms in their own homes. (Obama also supported the D.C. ban on guns even though he should have known, as a former president of the Harvard Law Review and alleged constitutional law professor, that it would be found unconstitutional.) In the past, Holder has advocated government regulation and censorship of Internet speech. [164, 353, 408, 508, 530, 536, 566, 572, 796, 1326, 1662, 2171, 2500, 2629]

            Holder also worked to grant Clinton pardons for Susan Lisa Rosenberg and Linda Evans. Rosenberg and Evans were Weather Underground associates of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn who had been imprisoned for bombing government facilities. As with other pardons, Holder kept prosecutors from learning about the Rosenberg and Evans pardons to prevent objections. Bernardine Dohrn served prison time for refusing to testify against Rosenberg, who was the getaway driver in the Weather Underground robbery in which two police officers and a Brinks armored car driver were killed. Rosenberg was set free by Clinton on his last day in office. Holder also supported the intelligence “wall” between the FBI and the CIA that was implemented by Clinton and Janet Reno; that separation arguably contributed to the inability of U.S. intelligence agencies to “connect the dots” leading to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. [164, 408, 508, 530, 536]

            Holder supports federal licensing of all handguns, three-day waiting periods, one gun per month purchase limits, national gun registration, and strict limits on gun shows that would effectively shut them down. The Supreme Court’s decision in Boumediene v. Bush granted habeas corpus rights to terrorist prisoners at Guantanamo, prompting dissenting Justice Antonin Scalia to state that the decision “…will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.” Holder disagreed, and said the decision “…is an important first step but we must go further.” Holder did however say in a 2002 CNN interview that terrorist detainees “…are not in fact entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention.” Holder also supported the Patriot Act, which passed the Senate with 98 votes, and Obama (probably reluctantly) voted for its renewal in 2006. Holder is a senior partner in the law firm Covington and Burling, which represents 17 prisoners from Yemen who are imprisoned at Guantanamo in Cuba. In March 2004, Holder had been appointed as special investigator to the Illinois Gaming Board by Governor Rod Blagojevich, but Holder neglects to disclose that appointment in a 47-page questionnaire he is required to complete for the Senate Judiciary Committee. [536, 720, 815, 879, 960, 2629]

            On November 17, the Washington Times Weekly runs a full-page ad questioning whether Obama was born in Kenya, raising the issue of Obama’s possible Indonesian citizenship, and asking, “Does the Constitution Still Matter?” [506]

            Obama selects former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS). As HHS Secretary, Daschle would work toward a single-payer, nationalized health care system. In Daschle’s revealing book, Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis, he argues that the failure of the Clinton health care plan in 1993 was the result of providing too much detailed information, which its critics then used against it. Daschle instead recommends passing an intentionally vague bill, which would set up a “Federal Health Board… charged with establishing the system’s framework and filling in most of the details. This independent board would be insulated from political pressure.” In other words, Obama and Congress should intentionally deceive the American people in order to stage a national health care coup. As Senate Majority Leader, the pro-abortion Daschle blocked a Senate vote on the Partial Birth Abortion ban. Daschle has earned over $5 million in the last two years as an “unofficial” lobbyist for various industries; among them are health care businesses that paid him $220,000. [510, 556, 596, 1014]
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