Well, it looks like Barack Obama
was born
in Kenya. At least that’s what a booklet produced by his former literary
agency said in 1991. Distributed throughout the publishing industry, and
touting Obama’s first book—Journeys in
Black and White—which was later abandoned, the brief biography claims that,
“Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review,
was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” The agency continued to
tout Obama’s Kenyan birth until April 2007, just after he announced his bid for U.S. President.
While distancing itself from the
“Birther” narrative, Breitbart News, who obtained the booklet, declared that it
was rehashing Obama’s birth past due to the “complicit mainstream media
[refusing] to examine President Obama's ideological past, or the carefully
crafted persona he and his advisers had constructed for him… [the pamphlet] is
evidence--not of the President's foreign origin, but that Barack Obama's public
persona has perhaps been presented differently at different times.” In other
words, who knew: Barack Obama was the original “Birther!”
Whether Obama was born in Kenya , the U.S. , or the Cherokee nation, the promotional
booklet is more evidence for all too common an occurrence that Breitbart also
points out: whether the President himself, his handlers, or his supporters,
Obama’s public persona is manipulated whenever it’s expedient. With his cloudy
birth records, composite girlfriend, dying mother, bombastic former pastor, gay
marriage-revolution (he has not “evolved” on the issue, but rather “revolved,”
as in full-circle), and so on, the President has often presented convenient
narratives for the betterment of his political future.
Speaking of convenient
narratives, it seems that editing Obama’s past to further his political future
isn’t enough. The Obama administration has now taken to editing
the official online White House biographies of nearly every U.S. president within the last 100
years. According
to Fox News, each edit (which provides a link) finds a way to tout “a host of Obama administration
initiatives, ranging from the health care overhaul to the so-called ‘Buffett
Rule’ to his green-energy policies.”
Speaking of the Cherokee nation,
composite women, and political expediency, Elizabeth Warren appears
to have caught on to Obama’s methods. For decades now the Massachusetts senate candidate has claimed
to be 1/32 Cherokee to further (or attempt to further) her career. As recently
as late April of this year, Ms. Warren said, “I’m very proud of my Native
American Heritage.”
For nearly a decade prior to
receiving a job as a Harvard Professor, Warren
listed herself as a Native American in a directory of law professors. Her
senate race opponent, GOP Senator Scott Brown, has accused her of
“participating in Harvard's diversity sham.” In spite of Brown’s calls for her
to “come clean,” Warren
doubled down and declared, “Being Native American is part of who our family is
and I'm glad to tell anyone about that.”
A Cherokee genealogist has
recently blasted Warren
saying, “Ms. Warren, some of us have independently done our own research and we
know you have no documentation supporting your claim of Cherokee ancestry… You have claimed something you had no right to claim -- our history
and our heritage and our identity…These are not things we choose to embrace
when they benefit us and then cast aside when we no longer need them, but that
is what you seem to have done…”
The Mainstream Media (MSM) is all
too eager—even yearning, to play up these narratives, whether accurate or not,
because it fits with their radical liberal worldview. Just as Bill Clinton was
the “first black President,” Barack Obama, with his recent statement in support
of same-sex marriage, has
been anointed the “first gay President.” (Never-mind
that he was for it before he was against it before he was for it—I told you
it was a circle!)
Though they can find a near 50-year-old
tale of a Mitt Romney prank (that
is full of holes), the MSM virtually ignores Obama’s past, even when it is
in print. Thus we are left with the alternative media to get to the truth in
these matters. Oh well, at least that makes for more interesting political
game. I just hope the country is not the loser in the end.
Copyright 2012, Trevor Grant Thomas
At the Intersection of Politics, Science, Faith, and Reason.
Trevor and his wife Michelle are the authors of: Debt Free Living in a Debt Filled World
tthomas@trevorgrantthomas.com
Trevor and his wife Michelle are the authors of: Debt Free Living in a Debt Filled World
tthomas@trevorgrantthomas.com
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