Barack Obama's Timeline
1959
Barack Obama's father,
Barak Obama Sr.,
was a socialist from Kenya, and because of his father's wealth and
influence, was awarded an American sponsored scholarship in economics to
the Univ of Hawaii.
Barack Obama, Sr.'s Hawaiian
education
was sponsored partly by the Laubach Literacy Institute (LLI), which has
links to the Nation of Islam, and which considers a socialist world
without national borders one of its goals. A financial supporter of the
LLI was Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, who co-authored books with its founder,
Charles Laubach. Kirk was also a friend of civil rights activist and
black nationalist Malcolm X (Malcolm Little). It is possible that
Malcolm X met Obama, Sr. during a 1959 visit to the Secretary General of
the Kenya Federation of Labour, prominent Kenyan politician Tom Mboya,
because Mboya and Obama were close friends.
At the age of 23 Barack Obama Sr. leaves behind his pregnant Kenyan
wife
Kezia (the mother of four of Obamas half-siblings, Abongo, Auma,
Bernard and Abo) and their baby son and arrives in the United States to
study math and economics at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu.
Barack Obama Sr. is the first African
student in the university. Barak Hussein Obama (Senior) was born in Nyangoma-Kogello, Siaya District, Kenya in 1936.
He was a member of the Luo tribe and grew up in the sleepy village of Alego-Kogello.
1961
February 2, 1961 -
Barak Obama Sr., 25, who relatives say he was already a slick womaniser, promptly persuaded a fellow student a naive 18 year old
Ann Dunham, a white American student he meets in a Russian-language class only a few months earlier to
marry him.
Ann Dunham
has been described by former classmates as a "fellow traveler." (a
communist sympathizer). Ann Dunham was, at various times, an atheist, an
Adlai Stevenson liberal, a secular humanist, leftist social-activist,
socialist, and student of cultural anthropology. She was reportedly an
excellent debater at school, and allegedly excelled at defending the
concepts of Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto.
Barack Obama jr. writes: "The values she taught me continue to
be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics."
The ceremony takes place at Maui. At the time of their wedding,
Ann Dunham is already three months pregnant with Barack Obama, Jr., and she doesn't know
Barak Obama Sr. has a wife and children in Kenya.
The couple settles in Honolulu, or at least this is how Obama told the story. See
Ann Dunham's time line. Or
Check out the Malcolm X theory.
August 4, 1961 - Barack Obama Jr. is born at the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii so they say.
Obama states he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. If that is the case,
he was then both an American citizen and a British citizen at birth
because his father was a citizen of the protectorate of British East
Africa. Because the region had, in 1961, not yet declared its
independence from Great Britain, Obama was, like his father, a British
citizen under Section 32(1) of the British Nationality Act of 1948. Both
Obama, Sr. and Obama, Jr. then automatically became citizens of Kenya
when that independent nation was formed in 1963. Obama's British/Kenyan
citizenship automatically expired when he turned age 21, but he was born
with dual citizenship and split loyalties, and thus was arguably not a
natural born citizen of the United States.
15 days following Barack Obama Junior's birth,
Ann Dunham and Obama Jr.returns to Washington state where
Ann attends the University of Washington.
1962
In June 1962, Barack Obama, Sr., after graduating from the University of
Hawaii, left Hawaii to travel to Cambridge, Massachusetts to begin
graduate study at Harvard University.
1963
Ann and Obama Jr. return to Hawaii where
Ann
resumes spring classes at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her
parents, Barack Obamas' grandparents, help take care of baby Barack
Obama.
1964
Ann Dunham files for divorce from
Barak Obama Sr.
After a while
Ann
falls in love with another foreign student, Lolo Soetoro of Indonesia,
and the two start dating. Soetoro met Ann Dunham at the East-West Center
while both were
students
at the University of Hawaii. In 1962, Soetoro, then a civilian employee
of the Indonesian Army, obtained an East-West Center 21-month grant
from September 1962 to June 1964 for graduate study in geography at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa.
1965
Soetoro and
Dunham are
married in Hawaii.
Barak Obama Sr.
completes his Masters degree at Harvard and goes back to Keyna with
Ruth Nidesand, a teacher and a person of some means. Obama confided in
friends that he was attracted to Nidesand in part because, "she was able
to pay for some of the social activities that he could not afford,"
Ruth becomes his third wife.
Barak Obama Sr. aspires to put his education to use in poverty stricken Kenya. He and Ruth moved to Kenya where he
worked
for a period of time with a U.S. oil company. Later he joined the
government of Jomo Kenyatta, working for his early patron Tom Mboya in
the Ministry of Economic Planning as a senior economist.
Barak Obama Sr. was an abusive husband and brutally beat Ruth in drunken rages. They were divorced after having two sons, Mark and David.
1966
Soetoro returned to Indonesia in 1966 and
Ann and her son moved into her parent's house. Obama attended kindergarten in 1966 and 1967 at Noelani Elementary School
1967
In October 1967,
Dunham
and her six-year-old son moved to Jakarta to rejoin her husband.
Jakarta, Indonesia is Lolo's hometown. For two and a half years Soetoro,
his wife and stepson lived in a new modest stucco and red tile house in
a newly-built neighborhood in the Menteng Dalam administrative village
of the Tebet subdistrict in South Jakarta. Soetoro owned a new Japanese
motorcycle.
Soetoro likely adopted Obama, whose name is changed to Barry Soetoro.
Elementary school records in Indonesia list Obama's name as Barry
Soetoro, his religion as Islam, and his citizenship as Indonesian. Obama
attends Franciscus Primary School (1967-1969) and Besuki State
Elementary School Menteng 01 in Jakarta (1969-1971).
Obama practices Islam half-heartedly, irregularly attending prayer
services at the mosque. According to one of his Indonesian school
principals, Tine Hahiyary, the young Obama studies "Mangaji" (or
"Mengagi"), which involves the recitation of the Quran. Note that
Mangaji, in Indonesian schools, requires learning to recite the Quran in
the Arabic language, and not the student's native tongue. Non-Muslims
or even moderate Muslims would not send their child to Mangaji classes;
it is much more involved that a Christian child attending "Sunday
School" class. (Many Indonesians, in fact, wonder why Obama is hiding
his Muslim past.)
A former classmate of Obama in Indonesia, Rony Amiris, in 2007,
described Obama as having enjoyed football, playing marbles, and being a
very devout Muslim. Amir said, "Barry was previously quite religious in
Islam."
Note that, according to Indonesian legal experts, it is difficult for
non-Indonesian citizens to enroll in public schools in that country;
this further supports the assumption that Obama was adopted by Soetoro.
Obama's half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has also stated that Obama was
adopted by her father.
January 1968 to December 1969,
Ann
taught English and was an assistant director of the Lembaga
Persahabatan Indonesia Amerika (LIA), the Indonesia America Friendship
Institute, which was subsidized by U.S. government. Barack Obama Jr.
attends Franciscus Assisi Primary School for 1st, 2nd, and part of 3rd
grade. This was a Catholic school.
1969
Lolo Seotoro, Barack Obama's stepfather, is promoted in the American oil
company he works for, and he relocates the family to a better
neighborhood. Consequently, Barack Obama leaves the Catholic school and
attends a public school closer to the family's new residence.
1970
Barack Obama's half sister Maya Soetoro is born. However,
Ann Dunham's second marriage begins to disintegrate. She misses her home in the U.S. and wants her children to grow and be educated there.
1971
When Barack Obama is 10, his mother sends him back to Hawaii, to live
with his white grandparents in their two bedroom apartment. His
grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham arranged Obama's mentorship by
Communist Party member
Frank Marshall Davis who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress opened investigations into his subversive, un-American activities.
Obama developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis,
listening to his poetry and getting advice on his career path.
Obama spends considerable time with Frank Marshall Davis (whose
identity Obama hides by describing him only as "Frank" in his book,
"Dreams From My Father"). Davis is a dope-smoking drinking buddy of
Obama's grandfather, Stanley Dunham. (Obama had met Davis shortly after
arriving in Hawaii, at age 10, but was most influenced by him during his
high school years.) In place of his absent father and stepfather, Davis
becomes Obama's mentor.
Davis is a member of the Communist Party of the USA, a poet,
propagandist, "bitter opponent of capitalism," and radical agitator; in
1948, Davis had fled Chicago after the FBI and the House Un-American
Activities Committee investigated his subversive anti-American
activities. Davis is also a bi-sexual, sex pervert, child molester
(bragging of repeated sexual encounters with a 13 year-old girl), and
pornographer, and is the author of the book "Sex Rebel: Black" under the
pseudonym Bob Greene. Davis would cruise in Hawaii parks looking for
couples or female tourists to have sex with. He derived sexual
gratification from bondage, simulated rape and being flogged and
urinated on. He boasted that "the number of white babes interested in at
least one meeting with a Negro male has been far more than I can
handle" and wished "America were as civilised as, say, Scandinavia." He
concluded: "I regret none of my experiences or unusual appetites; for me
they are normal."
Obama joins Davis at his home on most evenings, shares alcohol and
drugs, is tutored in socialism, and taught not to trust the white
establishment. "They'll train you so good," Davis said, "you'll start
believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American
way and all that shit." Davis teaches Obama, "Black people have a reason
to hate" and "You may be a well-trained, well-paid nigger, but you're a
nigger just the same."
It is believed that Davis was a close friend of Thomas Ayers (father
of William Ayers) in Chicago, and that it was Davis who encouraged Obama
to attend Columbia College in New York and hook up with William Ayers.
With the help of Ann's parents, Barack Obama gets a scholarship to
Punahou, Obama attends the elite, expensive, private Punahou High School
(1971-1979). The school is racially diverse and whites are in the
minority. The final day of school is traditionally known as "Kill Haole
Day" ("Kill Whitey Day").
Because of his drug abuse, Obama's grades are poor in his final two
years of high school. Obama later writes that "Pot had helped, and
booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though."
Bryon Leong, a former classmate of Obama's at Punahou, states that
Obama "was known as a partier, as a guy looking for a good time, but not
much more," and, "There was pot in Hawaii in the 1970s, but it wasn't a
big deal."
Barack Obama's separation from his mother has a tremendous impact on him.
Barak Obama Sr. arrived some time in December 1971 and left some time in January 1972.
There was a big family blowup during his visit.
Senior
told Barry to turn off the TV and go study, but Barry wanted to watch
"How the Grinch Stole Christmas." This small incident caused the
long-buried hurts and resentments, about how Senior had allegedly acted
in 1961, to surface between the three Dunhams and Senior. By the time
the arguing had ended Barry was only able to watch the last few minutes
of the special.
So, out of the blue, Barry's long-lost father stepped briefly into
his life, and just as quickly disappeared. Obama and Senior would never
see each other again. It was not an easy month, and what stuck in the
boy's memory was the basketball that Senior gave him as a present at the
airport.
Now, here's the mystery. Why would Senior fly halfway across the
world to make his only visit to his son at this moment in time?
Remember, this was in the era before the deregulation of the airlines.
Round-trip airplane tickets from Kenya to Hawaii must have cost a small
fortune even by American standards -- much less third-world Kenyan
standards. The Dunhams surely paid for the airline tickets. We know
they paid for an apartment in their building for the month that Senior
was in town, and were undoubtedly providing him with some walking-around
money. The sad truth is Senior spent most of his time partying with
with his old snack bar buddies from the University of Hawaii, Neil
Abercrombie and Pake Zane.
Senior had no money. He had already fallen into disfavor with the
ruling Kenyan government. His mentor and protector, Tom Mboya, was
assassinated in 1969. Senior was present at the assassination and
testified at the subsequent trial, essentially ending his political
career, and causing a hit and run attempt on his life. He was spending
most of his time drinking scotch and crashing his Mercedes-Benz.
It is clear that the Dunhams underwrote Senior's visit, but why?
It would seem reasonable to conclude that Senior's pilgrimage had something to do with Barry and Punahou, but what?
What happened in these four weeks? What was so important that caused
Senior
to travel 20,000-plus miles? What kind of deal was made? What papers
did he have to sign? Was there a payoff?
The Dunhams were getting ready to put Barry Soetoro into Punahou.
Whatever Senior was doing in Hawaii was connected to that -- my
speculation is that it was to establish or re-establish paternity, or
clean-up an Indonesian adoption -- and as soon as the paperwork was
completed and he got his payoff he returned to Kenya and never thought
about the bunch of them for the rest of his miserable life.
As an aside, it's pretty clear that the Dunhams were going all the way
for little Barry, and it's equally clear that Senior couldn't give a
rat's ass.
So why would Obama ever make the core of his autobiography, this statement:
"It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa,
that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself..."
Until this trip, Senior never acknowledged Barry, and never mentioned
him upon his return to Kenya. He was a serial bigamist. He abandoned
his wives and children. He became a wife beater and drunk. His
arrogance destroyed his government career. He killed a man and lost
both legs in alcohol-related accidents and eventually killed himself
behind the wheel, hammered!
That's some role model.
1972
Ann Dunham returns from Indonesia to Hawaii with 2 years old Maya to join Barack, now 11. She leaves her husband, Lolo Soetoro, behind.
In Hawaii
Ann Dunham
pursues a master's degree in anthropology at the University of Hawaii.
She and her two children live in a small apartment in Honolulu.
1975
While in high school, Barack Obama joins the basketball team and becomes
a leader in class. However, Barack doesn't feel he fits in. Barack
tries to act tough so he drinks beer, smokes marijuana and tries
cocaine, at least this is what Obama says.
1979
Barack Obama begins his first year at Occidental College, Los Angeles
as BARRY SOETORO with his Indonesian passport and NOT as Barack Obama.
Obama's freshman year roommate at Occidental is Imad Husain, a
Pakistani.
Obama's friends at Occidental tend to be the more politically active
blacks, foreign students, Chicanos, Marxist professors, structural
feminists, and punk-rock performance poets. Obama is rebuked on one
occasion for calling another black student, who wasn't "black enough,"
an "Uncle Tom." One female student criticizes Obama with the remark,
"You always think it's about you."
While at Occidental, Obama joins the Students for Economic Democracy
(SED), which is a branch of the Campaign for Economic Democracy (CED), a
group that was founded by radical, anti-American, Marxist activist Tom
Hayden (former husband of actress Jane Fonda), who was also active with
the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). (William Ayers' subsequent
radical group, the Weather Underground, was comprised of many former SDS
members; in 1969 the Weather Underground - then called simply
"Weatherman" - declared "war on Amerikka.") Obama's first known public
speech takes place at an Occidental College event sponsored by the SED.
An FBI informant who had infiltrated the Weather Underground
witnessed a meeting at which the group discussed a future communist
takeover of America in which some 25 million "diehard capitalists" would
need to be killed. The members discussed a future in which Cuba, North
Korea, China, and the Soviet Union would establish "re-education
centers" in the Southwestern United States.
Obama's school records from Occidental College have been kept secret.
This may simply be to hide poor grades. It is also possible that those
records list Obama as an Indonesian, and not an American, citizen.
1980
Ann Dunham files for divorce from her second husband, Lolo Seotoro.
Probably in late 1980, Obama decides to stop using the name Barry Soetoro and returns to the name Barack Obama, Jr.
1981
In 1981, Obama visits his mother and half-sister in Indonesia, and
then continues on for three weeks to Karachi, Pakistan and Hyderabad,
India, with his friends Chandoo and Hamid, and finally to Kenya to visit
his father's family.
One of Obama's hosts in Pakistan is Muhammadian Mian Soomro, Obama's
senior by 11 years, son of a Pakistani politician and himself a
politician, who later becomes interim President of Pakistan when Pervez
Musharraf resigns in August of 2008. Soomro states that "someone"
personally requested that he "watch over" Barack Obama, but Soomro will
not name that individual, who today allegedly lives in South America.
It is unknown who financed Obama's costly 1981 trip.
Note that a trip to Pakistan in 1981 was not possible for Americans,
except for those who were on official government business, because it
was on the list of dangerous nations banned by the State Department for
U.S. travelers. Pakistan was also under martial law at that time. It is
possible that Obama was able to enter Pakistan on his Indonesian
passport, if he remained an Indonesian citizen. Pakistan, being almost
100 per cent Muslim, would have welcomed foreign Muslim visitors in
1981. The U.S. State Department would not have known Obama was in
Pakistan had he traveled on an Indonesian passport.
Barack Obama was a transfer student from California's Occidental
College when he came to Columbia University, New York City, in 1981 as a
20-year-old junior.
He attends socialist conferences "for inspiration." His roommate is
Pakistani Muslim Sohale Siddiqi. Siddiqi is a drug user; Obama allegedly
stops using drugs while at Columbia. Living a few blocks away from
Obama and Columbia is
William Ayers (at 520 West 123rd Street).
At Columbia, Obama studies political science and international
relations. His thesis is allegedly on nuclear disarmament. (The Obama
campaign would not release copies of that document.) Obama graduates
from Columbia in June of 1983, with a degree in political science,
without honors.
Note: Both at Occidental College in California and at Columbia
College in New York, Obama's roommates are foreign Muslims. This may be
indicative of something, and it would be worth knowing if the students
themselves chose roommates or had them assigned to them. Whether chosen
or assigned, were the pairings because of Muslim backgrounds, or foreign
backgrounds, or foreign citizenship? Do Obama's hidden college records
reveal the answers to those questions?
After graduation from Columbia, Obama joins the New York Public
Interest Research Group, an organization founded by Ralph Nader. Obama
becomes an organizer at Harlem's City College, working with student
volunteers on recycling programs.
Like his Occidental College papers, Obama's academic files from
Columbia have been kept secret. While attending Columbia, Obama lived
off campus, near William Ayers. It is possible Obama first met Ayers
during those years, 1981-1983. Looking for evidence of Obama's past, Fox
News contacted 400 Columbia students from that time period; none
remembered Obama. There is speculation that Frank Marshall Davis
arranged for Obama to meet William Ayers in New York, and their being
neighbors was not a coincidence; Ayers then possibly suggested that
Obama return to Chicago with him. (Was Ayers the reason Obama moved to
Chicago?) Years later, Obama and Ayers are neighbors in Chicago's Hyde
Park neighborhood.
Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at
Columbia who also graduated in 1983. In 2008 Root says of Obama, "I
don't know a single person at Columbia that knows him, and they all know
me. I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia.
Ever! Nobody recalls him. I'm not exaggerating, I'm not kidding." Root
adds that he also was "Class of 83 political science, pre-law and You
don't get more exact than that". "Never met him in my life, don't know
anyone who ever met him". At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five
years ago, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever
heard of Barack! Who was he, and five years ago, nobody even knew who
he was, the guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say
in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a
human who ever met him. Is that not strange? It's very strange".
Note that Obama's photograph does not appear n the school's yearbook,
and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at
Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former
classmates or friends while at Columbia.
1982
Barack Obama, now 21, receives notice about his father's untimely death.
Barack Obama Sr. was involved in a car accident and died at the age of 46.
Barack Obama applies and is accepted to Harvard Law School. He takes student loans to pay his tuition, so they say.
Obama works briefly for Business International Corporation in New
York, a small newsletter-publishing firm that prints articles relating
to global business; Obama later "embellishes" that job, saying he was
hired as a "research assistant" by a "consulting house to multinational
corporations," had his own private secretary, and dealt with Japanese
financiers and German bond traders. His former co-workers say Obama's
accounts of his job are grossly inflated. He wore jeans, shared cubicles
with others in a dumpy office, had no secretary, and merely re-wrote
articles for newsletters. Obama remarks later in life that the job
exposed him to the "coldness of capitalism."
1985 - 1988
Developing Communities Project,
Alinsky
model of community agitation, wherein paid organizers learned how to
"rub raw the sores of discontent,"; in Alinsky's words. Obama's
community organizing days involved training grievance-mongers from the
far-left
ACORN.
For three years, Obama is the director of the Developing Communities
Project (DCP), part of the "Gamaliel Foundation," another Alinsky-like
group which uses "in your face" tactics and threats against banks to
obtain more loans to people in poor neighborhoods. Gamaliel's co-founder
and executive director is Gregory Galluzzo, who served as a trainer and
mentor during Obama's community activist days in Chicago.
Alinsky's "training manual" for community organizers, "Rules for
Radicals," states that community organizers are primarily agitators, who
must "Fan the resentments of the people of a community; fan the latent
hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression, he
must search out controversy and issues. An organizer must stir up
dissatisfaction and discontentment... He knows that values are
relative.... Truth to him is relative and changing."
Obama's line about "the world as it is and the world as it should
be," which his future wife swooned over and which she repeated twice in
her speech to the Democrat National Convention, comes from Chapter 2 of
Alinsky's book.
Note that Alinsky's work also influenced the creation of the
"Cloward-Piven Strategy," named after Columbia University professors
Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their strategy involves
taking action to force deliberate failure in society, to foster change
toward socialism, by overloading the bureaucracy with impossible
demands, lawsuits, holding officials to the extreme letter of the law,
etc. The Cloward-Piven method is to push society into an economic
collapse, thus forcing a fear and resentment of capitalism, making it
easier to usher in socialism. The Cloward-Piven strategy is one of the
tactics used by "community organizers" (e.g., storming welfare offices
and violently demanding immediate action) to impose intentional strains
on the system, and to force the hiring of more government workers than
necessary to deal with their ever-increasing demands.
1987
Lolo Soetoro died, age 52, on March 2, 1987 of liver failure.
Probably in 1987 or 1988, Obama joins the Trinity United Church of
Christ (TUCC); it's pastor is Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a fiery orator
who preaches Marxism, black liberation theology (a Marxist version of
Christianity that worships a white-hating black Jesus), gives
controversial sermons, supports communists in Cuba and Nicaragua, and
who later says America deserved the 9/11 terrorist attacks and that
America intentionally spread the AIDS virus to remain wealthy at the
expense of poor Africans. Some accounts state that Obama joins TUCC as
late as 1992.
For what it calls a "commitment to truth, education, and leadership,"
Obama's church magazine, "Trumpet Newsmagazine," gives a "lifetime
achievement award" to Louis Farrakhan, a virulent anti-Semite whose
quotes include, "Hitler was a very great man," "Judaism is a gutter
religion," and "white people are potential humans, they haven't evolved
yet." Obama alleges that his church is "fairly conventional," and that
he "wasn't in church" when Wright made his more inflammatory statements.
Obama considers Wright to be his "moral compass," "sounding board,"
and "confidant." Obama is likely an agnostic or perhaps an atheist, like
his mother and father, but joins the church for "street cred," probably
to please his wife, and to end the flak he receives from people in the
community for his lack of religion.
Obama alleges that he was baptized at TUCC, but no one has been able to find records of the event
1988
Barack Obama is now 26 years old. Before beginning his law studies, he
decides to visit Kenya. He arrives in the village of Alego, situated on
Lake Victoria, his father's hometown. He arrives there because he knows
very little of his father. He wants to know who his father was, so he
can understand his own identity.
In Alego, Barack Obama meets his late father's family for the first
time. He meets his grandmother and half siblings, cousins, nieces and
nephews. The trip to Kenya helps Barack Obama realize the struggles that
his father went through. It gives Barack a sense that the work he is
doing is directly connected to his Kenyan family and their struggles.
Barack Obama says: "[the visit] helped unify my outward self with my
inward self in an important way".
In the fall of 1988, Obama begins his studies at Harvard Law School;
helping Obama gain acceptance at Harvard is a letter of recommendation
from civil rights activist and Malcolm X attorney Percy Sutton; Sutton
is asked to write the letter by Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour (aka
"Donald Warden"), a radical Muslim and vitriolic anti-Semite, mentor of
Black Panther Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, close
associate of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and acquaintance of
Obama. Al-Mansour alleges in his 1995 book, "The Lost Books of Africa
Rediscovered," that the United States is plotting genocide against black
Americans. Mansour is believed to have been the main financial backer
and planner for Obama for as long as 25 years, and is a principle
advisor to Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the world's 19th wealthiest person
and nephew of Saudi Arabia's King Adballah.
Note that Alwaleed bin Talal also donated $20 million to Harvard to fund "Islamic Studies."
At the end of his first year, a top law firm hires Obama and he works
briefly at the Sidley Austin LLP Law Firm, as a summer associate from
Harvard law School, where he meets future wife Michelle LaVaughan
Robinson; she is his mentor at the law firm. Also working at the firm is
Bernadine Dohrn (1984-1988), former Weather Underground radical,
terrorist bomber, fugitive from the FBI (having achieved "most wanted
list" status), and wife of fellow radical
William Ayers. (Although Dohrn works for the law firm, her criminal record prevents her from being admitted to the Illinois bar.)
It has been suggested that it was William Ayers who persuaded Khalid
al-Mansour to raise funds for Obama's Harvard tuition. Ayers associated
with al-Mansour when he was still known as Donald Warden. Warden was a
lawyer and advisor to the Black Panther Party, whose offices were next
door to Warden's. Ayers, Warden, Dohrn, and others planned the overthrow
of the United States at a marina in San Francisco, where Ayers, Dohrn,
and other radicals were hiding from the authorities.
It is unclear how Obama gets into Harvard Law School, which has
exceptionally high admissions standards, with applicant LSAT scores
expected in the 98 to 99 range, and a grade point average of 3.8 or
higher. It is assumed that if Obama had such scores, his campaign would
be bragging about them; it has not, and will not release his school
records. One assumption is that Obama had connections, such as Khalid
al-Mansour, who both paved his way and paid his way; al-Mansour's friend
Percy Sutton states that al-Mansour had been "raising money" for Obama.
Obama denies knowing al-Mansour, but al-Mansour, in an interview with
Newsmax reporter Kenneth Timmerman, admits he had spoken with Obama and
told him he would keep a "low profile" in order to avoid embarrassing
the candidate.
It is also unclear how Obama paid for his education, especially his
years at Harvard Law School. He appears not to have held any steady jobs
during the period, and he also took several extensive and expensive
trips overseas. He and his wife later say they needed many years to pay
off student loans, but those loans are not recorded on financial
disclosure statements Obama was required to submit when he became a
Senator. And "Student Loans" don't cover housing, food, clothing and
world travel.
Attorney Percy Sutton tells reporters in 2008, "I was introduced to
(Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him. The friend's name is
Dr. Khalid al-Mansour." Gifts from al-Mansour may have funded Obama's
years at Harvard. In April of 2008, however, Obama's wife states that
Obama had "just paid off his loan debt" for his Harvard Law School
education. That statement, however, is not consistent with a review of
Obama's financial disclosures, which go back to 2000 and which did not
list any outstanding college loans. (As a candidate for the U.S. Senate,
Obama was required, in 2004, to file a financial disclosure form
detailing his assets, income, consulting contracts, and liabilities.
Obama listed zero for liabilities in 2004 and in all subsequent U.S.
Senate financial disclosure forms.
If Obama's school loans had been paid off earlier, then his wife's
statement that he "had just paid off his loan debt" was a lie; a
pandering lie intended, no doubt, to make the two of them appear to be
"just another struggling middle class family." If the loans had, in
fact, just been paid off, then the candidate lied on his financial
disclosure forms, which could have subjected him to impeachment from the
Senate.
Another possibility is that candidate Obama and his wife are both
lying, and the school loans were actually gifts from Khalid al-Mansour,
which were expected to be paid back with future political favors, such
as promoting a Palestinian state at the expense of Israel. If Obama's
tuition and expenses were financed by others without any expectation of
direct reimbursement, they were thus gifts that should have been listed
on his income tax filings. Obama's failure to do so would mean he
violated income tax regulations and is subject to additional taxes,
interest, and penalties and perhaps criminal charges.
At the end of his second year, Barack Obama applies for the president of the Harvard Law Review.
1990
February 5, 1990 - Barack Obama becomes the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review.
Obama is selected as one of 40 editors of the Harvard Law Review
(HLR), but he apparently wrote only one article for the HLR, in which he
argued against placing any limits on abortion, with the remarkable
statement that abortions would "prevent increasing numbers of children
born into lives of pain and despair." His fellow editors elect Obama
President of the HLR, partly in response to the demands of Professor
Derrick Bell that a black woman be appointed to the law faculty.
A search of the HeinOnline database of law journals turns up exactly
nothing credited to Obama in any law review anywhere at any time.
In 1990, Obama turns down a job offer from Antoin "Tony" Rezko's
low-income housing development company; this may have been one of
Obama's first contacts with Tony "the fixer" Rezko. Rezko, born in
Aleppo, Syria, maintains varied contacts with Obama until he is
convicted and jailed in 2008. It is not known how Obama first met Rezko.
(Ayers, Obama, and Rezko have all dealt with the Broadway Bank in
Chicago, run by the mob-tied Giannoulias family, and it may have been
Ayers or a Giannoulias family member who brought Obama's name to the
attention of Rezko.)
1991
Barack Obama graduates from Harvard with a Juris Doctor magna cum laude.
A 1990 New York Times profile on Obama's election as Harvard's first
black president caught the eye of agent Jane Dystel. She persuaded
Poseidon, a small imprint of Simon & Schuster, to authorize a
roughly $125,000 advance for Obama's proposed memoir.
Barack Obama signs with a publisher and begins to write an autobiography titled,
Dreams from My Father".
In this book Obama discloses his past and personal struggles. He
receives the $125,000 advance from publisher Simon and Shuster, but
fails to write the book. Obama travels with his wife to Bali to gain the
"peace and quite" to write, but still produces no manuscript. The
contract is canceled, and Obama is asked to return part of the advance
payment he received. Obama returns to Chicago, signs a new contract
(with Times Book, a Random House Division) for $40,000, and subsequently
delivers a completed manuscript. It is believed that "Dreams From My
Father" was ghost-written by Obama's friend, William Ayers, based on the
startling similarities of Ayers' writings and the Obama book, the fact
that Obama's only previous public writings were atrocious poetry he had
written in college, and Obama's inability to speak well when not reading
from a script or off a teleprompter. (Some also argue that the later
audio version of the book, recorded by Obama, comes across as unnatural,
as though the words are not entirely his.) The book is a critical and
financial dud – until Obama becomes famous and it is re-printed.
The public is asked to believe Obama wrote
Dreams From My Father on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant.
Obama returns to Chicago in 1991, where he is named the Illinois head of
Project Vote,
(an affiliate of "ACORN," a group infamous for its involvement in vote
fraud), to help increase the number of black voters. Project Vote is
required to remain non-partisan to retain its tax-exempt status as a
501(c)(3) organization under the IRS Code, but it adds an estimated
125,000 new voters in Illinois in 1992, mostly Democrats, to help Carol
Moseley Braun win a United States Senate seat.
On December 17, 1991, Obama is admitted to Illinois Bar, enabling him
to practice law. On his application he lies at least three times,
failing to disclose that he had previously used the name "Barry
Soetoro," neglecting to disclose his record of drug use, and failing to
disclose his approximate $400 in unpaid parking fines.
1992
Barack Obama returns to Chicago and joins his then girlfriend Michelle Robinson.
Barack Obama begins working at the firm of Davis, Miner, Barnhill &
Gallard as a junior lawyer, hoping to work on civil rights cases.
October 10, 1992 Obama marries Michelle LaVaughan Robinson. The
ceremony is performed by Reverend Jeremiah Wright, at Trinity United
Church of Christ in Chicago.
Barack Obama claims he was
teaching constitutional law at the
University of Chicago Law School. Obama lied, most famously at a March
30, 2007 fundraiser saying he was a Professor, Obama's title at the
University of Chicago was "senior lecturer" and not "professor."
In 1992, Obama helps found "Public Allies," a voluntary public
service organization (modeled after Alinsky's AIF) that recruits youths
to perform "public service" while they are indoctrinated in socialist
ideology; Obama's wife Michelle becomes the group's Executive Director
in 1993. The program is the model for candidate Obama's "Universal
Voluntary Public Service" program, which he stealthily promotes as an
expansion of Kennedy's "Peace Corps."
1993
About 1993 (possibly later), Obama buys a townhouse in Chicago, with a
loan provided by the city's Broadway Bank. His down payment is
$110,000. The bank, owned by the politically-connected Giannoulias
family, is alleged to have long-standing mob ties, as well as
connections with Tony Rezko and William Ayers. Allegedly Obama gets a
"sweetheart" deal on the townhouse, ostensibly in exchange for future
favors. Obama later endorses Alexi Giannoulias when he runs for Illinois
State Treasurer.
Obama's townhouse is allegedly purchased by or for him in 1993, but
various names are listed as the owner and the payer of the property tax
while Obama lives there. The Warranty Deed changes from the name of the
prior owner, Stephen Anderson, to Obama, in 1993, but the release of the
Anderson mortgage is not recorded until 1998, at which point it is sent
to Obama's former law firm. There may be reasonable explanations for
the various names and events, or Cook County bookkeeping may be less
than perfect, but the oddities (not all of which are listed here) may
also be the result of a complicated real estate "deal" arranged for
Obama.
1994
Obama joined the Board of Directors of the Chicago-based
Joyce Foundation
in 1994 and served on its board until 2002. The Joyce Foundation
targets its grants toward organizations with agendas of social justice,
prison reform, increased government spending for social services and
radical environmentalism, with many of those recipient groups hostile to
the capitalist model.
In 1994, Obama represents ACORN in a lawsuit against redlining.
In 1994, Obama represents a client suing Citibank for denying mortgages to blacks.
1995
In 1995 Obama's first book, "Dreams From My Father," is published. It
sells only a few thousand copies and has to be remaindered; critics
call it "overwrought" and "self-indulgent." The book is re-published in
2004, with some changes, after Obama becomes famous, and it earns him a
fortune.
November 7, 1995 - Barack Obama's mother, dies of ovarian cancer.
Obama's memoir published in June 1995. Earlier that year,
Ayers helped Obama, then a junior lawyer at a minor law firm, get appointed chairman of the multi-million dollar
Chicago Annenberg
grant. In the fall of that same year, 1995, Ayers and his wife,
Weatherwoman Bernardine Dohrn, helped blaze Obama's path to political
power with a fundraiser in their Chicago home.
At the
Chicago Annenberg Challenge Obama was its chief executive officer and
William C. Ayers
the chief financial officer. Obama clearly aligned himself with Ayers's
radical views on education issues. With Obama heading up the board and
Ayers heading up the other key operating body of the Annenberg
Challenge, the two would necessarily have had a close working
relationship for years.
Obama approves so many grants with CAC money that the "Chicago
Reader" refers to Obama as a "philanthropist." Obama's time with the CAC
is his only "executive experience." While with the CAC, Obama and Ayers
distribute an amount in the neighborhood of $100 million, and achieve
essentially none of the group's stated educational goals.
It should be noted that the selection of Obama, a 33 year-old junior
lawyer at a small law firm, as chairman of the educational reform group
CAC is strange, inasmuch as the board also includes several older and
experienced university presidents, one of whom, Stanley O. Ikenberry of
the University of Illinois, later remarks, "It was unusual, here you had
a person trained in the law chairing a board on school reform."
In 1995, Obama sues the State of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to get
the state to comply with the federal "Motor Voter Law". A law, which
Republican Governor Jim Edgar correctly argues will invite voter fraud,
partly because government officers registering new voters are "under
orders not to ask anyone for identification or proof of citizenship."
ACORN has been prominent in the fight against photo I.D. for voting and
other means of voter identification. ACORN specifically sought out Obama
to represent them in the lawsuit (it was not simply assigned to him by a
law firm).
In 1995, urged by Obama, the Woods Fund gives more money to
"community organizer" groups like ACORN. The Woods Fund publicly lies
about its ideology, which allows it to obtain donations from many who
aren't aware of its radical intentions. Obama's committee's own report
even brags that its claim to be "non-ideological which enabled the
Trustees to make grants to organizations that use confrontational
tactics against the business and government "establishments" without
undue risk of being criticized of partisanship. During Obama's tenure
with the Woods Fund, the organization gives out more than $200,000 to
ACORN.
1996
Barack Obama runs for the Illinois State Senate. Obama was elected to
the Illinois State Senate from the south side neighborhood of Hyde Park,
in Chicago's 13th District. An element of controversy surrounded the
election, due to Obama's legal challenges to the petition signatures of
all 4 opponents in the race, resulting in their subsequent
disqualification.
Incumbent, Alice Palmer, following an unsuccessful bid at Congress,
chose to defend her Illinois Senate seat despite having less than 2 days
to gather the required petition signatures to run. Her campaign asked
Obama, who she had previously supported, to step down. Not only did he
not do so, he challenged the petition signatures of her and the other 3
candidates in the race, managing to disqualify enough to ensure he could
run unopposed on the ballot.
With the Palmer petition signature challenges, Obama follows the
practice preached by Davis and Alinsky (and Axelrod): don't try to beat
the opponents, remove them from the playing field entirely. Obama's
reliance on petition challenges runs counter to his self-made image of a
reformer and crusader for voter's rights.
Obama successfully seeks the endorsement of the "New Party" (NP), a
Marxist third party in Chicago, for his 1996 state senate run. The
endorsement of the New Party requires that the candidate "sign a
contract with the NP. The contract mandates that they must have a
visible and active relationship with the NP." Obama receives the
endorsement with an in-person appearance with the NP; it is not an
unsolicited endorsement. After his victory in the election, the NP
states that "Barack Obama, victor in the 13th State Senate District,
encouraged NPers to join in his task forces on Voter Education and Voter
Registration."
Obama also receives the support of the Democrat
Socialists of America (DSA); Obama was then (and may still be) an
associate of the DSA's Chicago branch. The members of the New Party, the
DSA, and ACORN are, to a great extent, interchangeable.
Obama voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who
survive. He supported allowing retired police officers to carry
concealed weapons, but opposed allowing people to use banned handguns to
defend against intruders in their homes. And the list of sensitive
topics goes on. Obama introduced Senate Resolution 110, declaring
November 1, 1997 "Islamic Community Day."
1997
In 1997, Obama and Ayers appear together as speakers on several
occasions; at the University of Chicago, their topic is, "Should a child
ever be called a 'super predator?'" The announcement of their November,
1997 appearance together states, "Ayers will be joined by Sen. Barack
Obama, Senior Lecturer in the Law School, who is working to combat
legislation that would put more juvenile offenders into the adult
system."
In 1997, Obama endorses William Ayers' book on juvenile justice, with
an article praising it in the Chicago Tribune in which Obama calls the
Ayers book a "searing and timely account of the juvenile court system."
Michelle Obama (who at this time is the University of Chicago's dean of
student services and director of the school's Community Service Center)
hosts a panel discussion of the book, in which both Obama and Ayers
participate. In 2008, seeking to distance Obama from Ayers, the campaign
claims Obama did not "write a blurb for his book."
1998
Barack and Michelle Obama's first daughter is born. She is named Malia Ann.
Barack is rerelected to the Illinois Senate.
In October, 1998, Obama writes a letter supporting plans for
low-income senior citizen housing. The project's site, an empty lot
owned by the city of Chicago, is sold to Obama's friend Tony Rezko, and
Obama's former law-firm boss, Mr. Allison Davis, for one dollar. The
project, "Cottage View Terrace," eventually consumes $14.6 million in
taxpayer dollars, with a substantial amount going to Rezko and Davis as
development fees. Taxpayer funds are later given to Rezko for additional
housing projects, despite the fact that some of his prior projects fell
into significant disrepair. In 2007 and 2008, Obama says he "never did
any favors" for Rezko. Obama's former boss, Davis, donates more that
$400,000 to dozens of political campaigns, including those of Illinois
Governor Rod Blagojevich and Obama.
1999
Barack Obama runs for Congress. His rival is Rep. Bobby Rush, an
experienced politician. During the campaign, a pivotal vote on gun
control legislation is due in the State Senate. When the vote comes on
the floor, Barack Obama is in Hawaii visiting his 18 months old
daughter, Malia, who is ill. The gun control bill does not pass. Barack
Obama takes a lot of political heat for not attending the vote and
consequently loses the election by a 2 to 1 margin.
Barack Obama resumes his work at the Illinois State Senate and in the
course of several years succeeds to pass some twenty pieces of
legislation.
In 1999, Obama casts the only vote against Illinois Senate Bill 485,
which makes felons convicted of sexual abuse crimes serve their full
sentences without getting credit for time served in the county jail.
Woods Fund, 1999 to Dec. 11, 2002, Obama served on the Wood's Fund board alongside
William C. Ayers,
a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of
the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S.
Capitol in 1971. "The Fund supported the concept of an expanding welfare
state allocating ever-increasing amounts of money to the public school
system, and the redistribution of wealth via taxes."
The Woods Fund also gives money to ACORN, which registers voters in
poor black neighborhoods, to garner additional support for Obama.
Arguably, these actions by Obama and ACORN are illegal because, as an
allegedly independent, apolitical, tax-exempt, non-profit group, ACORN
cannot legally "pimp for Obama" but that is essentially what it does in
registering voters while drumming up support for the candidate who is
financing its operations; its tax-exempt status is thus flagrantly
violated by ACORN.
Note that the Woods Fund was founded by the Woods family, which owned
a coal business that was a major supplier of coal to Commonwealth
Edison; the CEO of Commonwealth Edison was Thomas Ayers, father of
William Ayers.
Obama served on the "Leadership for Quality Education" Board, while
he served on the LQE board in 1999, he had it within his power to help
direct funds from both the Joyce Foundation and the Chicago Annenberg
Challenge, upon whose boards he served simultaneously, to LQE.
2000
In 2000, Obama enters the primary for U.S. Congress. In a television
interview during the campaign, he cites as a qualification his
experience with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the educational reform
project on which he worked with William Ayers. (The project ends up
wasting over $100 million, without accomplishing any of its stated
goals.)
Obama's tone in the campaign comes off as condescending by many ("I
gave up a career with a high-priced law firm to run for public office"),
and he loses the primary to opponent Bobby Rush, who defeats him by 30
per cent; Rush describes Obama as an "elitist" who is not "black enough"
to serve the district. Obama reviews the demographics of his loss and
works with Democrat consultant John Corrigan to get the district's
borders re-drawn ("gerrymandered") to favor his political goals; they
establish a new district that is still heavily black, but which also
includes liberal North Shore whites who would be more inclined to vote
for Obama than Rush (a former member of the radical Black Panthers).
In 2000, Obama campaign volunteer Kenny B. Smith donates $550 to
Obama's Illinois State Senate campaign; in 2001, Obama steers $100,000
in tax dollars to a newly-formed Smith organization to build a gazebo,
"parrot sanctuary," and "walk of fame" in a blighted Chicago
neighborhood; by 2008 only the gazebo has been built, the neighborhood
is still blighted, and there is no sign of the rest of the $100,000.
2001
Barack and Michelle's second daughter is born. She is named Natasha (and often called Sasha).
While Obama serves on the board of the Woods Fund, it approves (in
2001) a $40,000 grant to the "Arab American Action Network" (AAAN); a
second grant, for $35,000, is approved in 2002. President of the AAAN is
Mona Khalidi, wife of Rashid Khalidi, a professor Obama met while at
Columbia University. Khalidi, a former spokesman for Yassir Arafat,
anti-Semite, strong critic of Israel, and supporter of Palestinian
terrorism and the PLO, later holds fundraisers for candidate Obama. AAAN
calls the founding of Israel a "catastrophe," supports liberal
immigration reform in the United States, and encourages giving drivers
licenses to illegal aliens.
2002
Obama is re-elected to Illinois State Senate, with no opponent on the ballot.
Obama struck a deal with then-head of the Illinois Senate, Emil
Jones, in a well-recorded conversation asking Jones to make him a U.S.
Senator, following which, Jones appointed him head of prominent,
headline-grabbing legislation worked on by other Senators to raise his
political profile, and had him craft legislation to meet major tragedies
in the news.
But what's interesting, and almost never discussed, is that he built
his entire legislative record in Illinois in a single year... Jones
appointed Obama sponsor of virtually every high-profile piece of
legislation, angering many rank-and-file state legislators who had more
seniority than Obama and had spent years championing the bills. During
his seventh and final year in the state Senate, Obama's stats soared. He
sponsored a whopping 26 bills passed into law, including many he then
cites in his presidential campaign when attacked as inexperienced. It
was a stunning achievement that started him on the path of national
politics, and he couldn't have done it without Jones.
2003
Barack Obama becomes chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee.
On January 2003, Barack Obama formally enters the race for the United States Senate.
Obama's official U.S. Senate and campaign biographies omit any
detailed discussion of his work for the Woods Fund, Joyce Foundation or
the Gamaliel Foundation or the Developing Communities Project, and with
good reason. Their inclusion would have invited a close look at his
involvement with these groups that would, in turn, reveal the leftist
goals of these organizations and pull back the curtain on Obama's
ultimate agenda for America
In 2003, Tony Rezko arranges a fundraiser for Obama's 2004 Senate campaign.
With a slew of Jones-fed legislation now under his belt and
"substance" for him to run on, Obama starts working on his plans to
enter the 2004 U.S. Senate race; aiding him is longtime Chicago
political pro David Axelrod.
During Obama's seven year Illinois State Senate career he works, on
average, less than two days per week, has virtually no accomplishments
during his first six years, and then gets 26 bills passed in his final
year with the help of Senate President Emil Jones, who has Obama's name
placed on bills that others wrote.
2004
Barack Obama wins the Illinois primaries with 53 percent of the vote.
In the general election, Barack Obama faces Republican candidate Jack
Ryan.
Jack Ryan's campaign is affected by sex scandal reports and Ryan is forced to quit the race.
The Illinois Republican Party drafts Alan Keyes, a former ambassador, to
run against Barack Obama for the U.S. Senate, in place of Jack Ryan.
During the campaign, Alan Keys challenges Barack Obama's Christianity and Blackness.
July 7, 2004 - Boston, Massachusetts: The Democratic National
Convention, 42 years old Barack Obama is chosen to deliver the keynote
speech. This inspiring speech is viewed as a defining moment in Barack
Obama's political career and it earns him a worldwide recognition.
November 2, 2004 - Barack Obama, 43, is elected for the U.S. Senate.
The outcome of the race is unprecedented. Barack Obama receives 70% of
the vote, while Republican Alan Keyes receives only 27%. Barack Obama is
the nation's fifth African-American Senator.
Obama pushes legislation (Senate Bill 1332) to reduce the number of
members of the Health Facilities Planning Board from 15 to 9, and (with
the help of Tony Rezko, Stuart Levine, and Governor Rod Blogojevich)
gets three of his campaign contributors appointed to the Board. One of
the doctors on the Board, Robert Weinstein, is later convicted, along
with Stuart Levine, of embezzling millions from charities and a medical
school. FBI agents record Rezko telling Levine that he influences the
Board. Michael Malek, one of the people appointed to the board, donates
$10,000 to Obama on June 3, 2003, and $25,000 to Governor Rod
Blagojevich in July 25, 2003; appointee Fortunee Massuda gives the
governor $25,000, and $2,000 to Obama; Dr. Imad Almanaseer gives $3,000
to Obama.
By 2004, Obama and ACORN are "old friends." Over the years Obama
receives campaign support and voter registration help from ACORN; in
exchange, Obama helps obtain funding for ACORN via the Woods Fund, Joyce
Foundation, and the legislature, and attempts to introduce
"ACORN-friendly" legislation (like massive minimum wage increases,
preventing the construction of new Wal-Mart stores, forcing banks to
lend more to poor people and donate to voter turn-out drives, rolling
back welfare reform, and forcing businesses that flee the city of
Chicago to pay "exit fees").
In June of 2004, leftist billionaire George Soros (who bankrolls the
radical web site moveon.org) hosts a fundraiser in New York for Obama's
Senate campaign; Soros chips in $60,000; the total "take" for the
evening is unknown.
In 2004, Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi (who lives in London) flies
to Chicago in a private jet and meets at the Four Season Hotel with Tony
Rezko, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, and Obama. At this point,
both Blagojevich and Obama are aware that Rezko is already under
investigation for illegal activities involving kickbacks for political
favors.
Barack Obama takes an active role in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
2005
January 4, 2005 - Barack Obama is sworn as a U.S. senator.
Barack's first law is passed with Republican Tom Coburn. The law allows
every American to go online and see exactly how tax dollars are spent.
Obama buys more than $50,000 of stock in two companies whose major
investors include his biggest political donors. One of the companies is
developing a drug to treat avian flu. Two weeks after buying shares in
the company, Obama pushes for federal spending to battle the disease;
the fear of the disease is hyped way out of proportion by the media,
with incessant scare stories not backed up by facts. Obama also buys
stock in a satellite communications business backed by four friends and
donors who had raised $150,000 for him.
In June, 2005, Obama purchases a mansion in Chicago's Hyde Park
neighborhood, for $1.65 million ($300,000 less than the asking price),
with the help of friend, fundraiser, and political "fixer" Tony Rezko;
Rezko's wife, who earns $37,000 per year, purchases the empty lot
adjacent to the Obama house for the full price of $625,000, with a down
payment of $125,000. Obama's 5.625 per cent mortgage is for $1.32
million, through the Northern Trust Bank. At the time of the purchase,
it is already widely known that Rezko is under investigation by federal
authorities; Obama deals with him anyway. Three weeks before the
purchase, $3.5 million is loaned to Rezko by Nadhmi Auchi, The wealthy
Iraqi who lives in England. (Rezko is convicted in 2008 of receiving
kickbacks for political favors.) Mrs. Rezko then sells a 10-foot strip
of the empty lot to Obama, for $104,500. (The transaction leaves Rezko
with an unusable empty lot with no street access.) Rezko later asks
Obama to help Auchi obtain a visa to travel in the United States in
2005; the State Department refuses, partly because Auchi, a member of
Saddam Hussein's Baath Party and former high-ranking official in his oil
Ministry, had been found guilty of corruption charges in France.
Living within a few blocks of Obama's mansion are Louis Farrakhan,
William Ayers, and Toni Preckwinkle. Preckwinkle is Chicago's 4th Ward
Alderwoman
Suggesting he cares less about the letter of the law and more about
the status of the litigants, Obama argues against the nomination of
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, saying that the role of the
justice is to favor the weak over the strong.
2006
Obama's second book, "The Audacity of Hope," is published. The book's
title is inspired by Obama's controversial pastor, Reverend Jeremiah
"God Damn America" Wright.
Obama pushes for a $1 million earmark for the University of Chicago
Hospitals; his wife, Michelle Obama, is promoted to "Vice President of
Community and External Affairs" for the hospitals; her salary jumps from
$121,900 to $316,962; her main responsibilities, in promoting an "Urban
Health Initiative," are to encourage the poor, uninsured to go to
neighborhood clinics rather than diminish hospital profits by using the
hospital emergency rooms; assisting her with the public relations
nightmare is David Axelrod.
The Board of Trustees of Chicago's Adler Planetarium raises $250,000
for Obama's Presidential campaign; Obama then obtains a $3 million
earmark for the planetarium; $300,000 had been sought by the Trustees to
upgrade a projector system.
In April of 2006, Companion Security (run by Frawley, Rezko, and
Mehru) works with Governor Rod Blagojevich to lease an Illinois military
facility for training Iraqi security guards. In August of 2006, Frawley
works with Obama's Senate staff to complete the deal.
Obama is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe, but never convenes the committee for a meeting.
During his 2006 Kenya visit, Obama makes a speech to university
students in Nairobi, in which he criticizes the existing pro-American
Kenyan government, rallies the students against it, and talks of the
need for change. This action is seen as an endorsement by Obama of
Odinga, the Kenyan President's opponent. By making his speech,
supporting Odinga, and standing beside Odinga at rallies, Obama violates
the stated conditions of his Official Government Visa ("to nurture
relations between the (African) Continent and the United States"). The
Kenyan government lodges an official protest of Obama's passport abuse
and misconduct. Obama's actions are denounced by the U.S. State
Department as being in direct opposition to U. S. National Security.
After Odinga loses the election in December of 2007, his followers burn
women and children alive, in a Christian church where they had sought
refuge. Over 1,500 people are ultimately killed in riots, and Odinga is
ultimately given the position of Prime Minister to placate his radical
supporters and stop further bloodshed.
In support of Odinga, Obama raises approximately $950,000. The cash
for Odinga comes from private meetings in 2006 arranged for Odinga by
Mark Lippert, a foreign policy advisor on Obama's staff. Odinga visits
Obama during three separate trips to Washington in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
Odinga promises his supporters in Kenya that he will "rewrite the
Constitution of Kenya to recognize Shariah as the only true law
sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared religion."
Obama campaigns in Vermont for self proclaimed socialist Senator
Bernie Sanders; Sanders calls rookie Senator Obama "one of the great
leaders of the United States Senate;" by the 2008 Presidential election,
Obama's voting record is more to the left than that of socialist
Sanders.
In an article in the Jakarta Post of November 29, 2006, Julia
Suryakusuma, a long-time friend of Obama's mother and an outspoken
feminist writer, states that Obama could run for President of Indonesia;
it is assumed she means that Obama retains his Indonesian citizenship;
because Indonesia does not allow dual citizenship, Obama cannot be an
American citizen if he has not renounced his Indonesian citizenship.
2007
In early 2007, Obama announces his candidacy for U. S. President;
Obama's main campaign strategist is David Axelrod (the "Karl Rove" of
the Obama campaign). Two weeks before he launches his Presidential
campaign, Obama pays $375-$400 for two decades worth of parking tickets
received wile at Harvard Law School. (He manages to avoid the late fees
and penalties a "normal" person would be charged.) Arguably (and putting
his tremendous ego aside), Obama may have decided to run for President,
rather than attempting first to be the Vice-President of the more
likely candidate, Hillary Clinton, partly because he knows he would
never make it through the VP vetting process.
At the time of his candidacy announcement, Obama had actually been
present for work in the Senate a total of 143 days. Obama's announcement
includes this statement, "I know that I haven't spent a lot of time
learning the ways of Washington. But I've been there long enough to know
that the ways of Washington must change."
In 2007, the Obama campaign receives $32,000 from companies
affiliated with Robert Blackwell. While an Illinois State Senator, Obama
received $112,000 from Blackwell in monthly $8,000 retainers, funneled
through the law firm where he had previously worked. Obama persuaded the
Illinois legislature to award $320,000 in state grants to Blackwell's
company, "Killerspin." (Killerspin is a company that promotes table
tennis ("ping pong") and sells equipment and apparel and promotes
tournaments.)
Note that the University of Chicago Medical Center,
with Michelle Obama's encouragement, had granted a $650,000 contract to a
local contractor for upgrading the center's intranet; that contractor
was (Robert) Blackwell Consulting.
In 2007, Obama works to stop Hans Von Spakovsky, an official in the
Justice Department, from being named to the Federal Election Commission,
because Von Spakovsky had supported a Georgia photo I.D. law. Like his
ACORN supporters, Obama opposes voter I.D. laws. ACORN also opposes
welfare reform and the strengthening of U.S. border security.
In April, 2007, Obama endorses the idea of "comparable worth pay" by
supporting a bill by Iowa Senator Tom Harkin. Under a "comparable worth"
scheme, the federal government would define the value of every job in
the United States, and then force employers to follow those rules.
Despite a long history of corruption in the Teamsters Union, Obama
tells the union he will end its federal oversight if he is elected.
Obama receives substantial campaign donations from the Teamsters Union.
Obama also promises to support legislation allowing unions to avoid
secret ballots in organizing campaigns.
On July 18, 2007, ABC News reports that Obama told Planned Parenthood
that sex education for kindergartners is "the right thing to do."
In a Colorado campaign appearance, in a proposal worthy of Hugo
Chavez or Fidel Castro, Obama announces plans for a "civilian national
security force." After a flurry of inquiries about Obama's intentions
with his "security force," the proposal is dropped from his speeches and
all references to it are deleted from the campaign's official web site.
In October of 2007, Obama co-sponsors legislation, the "Helping
Families Save their Homes in Bankruptcy Act of 2007," which makes it
easier for homeowners to protect themselves from losing their homes; the
bill is written to also intentionally shield ACORN and other
"middleman" groups from being charged for violations of the "Truth in
Lending Act" in connection with obtaining mortgages for clients.
The New York Times, on October 30, 2007, reports that "Obama has
declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release his
Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student,
co-worker, roommate or friend from those years".
On November 1, Obama says, "We've got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money."
In a November, 2007 speech to ACORN members, Obama brags that when he
"ran the Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was
smack dab in the middle of it." When, in 2008, critics connect Obama to
ACORN and Project Vote, Obama disavows having working for or with the
groups.
At a March 30, 2007, fundraiser Obama lied when he said, "I was a
constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I
actually respect the Constitution." Obama's title at the University of
Chicago was "senior lecturer" and not "professor."
2008
June 3, 2008 - After defeating Senator Hillary Clinton in the primaries,
Barack Obama becomes the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party
for the 2008 presidential election.
2009
The Nobel Peace Prize 2009 was awarded to Barack H. Obama "for his
extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and
cooperation between peoples".
He was a lame duck after he returned from Copenhagen empty handed in
September 2009, expecting the mere presence of his electro-magnetic
glow would secure the 2016 summer Olympics for Chicago.
On January 20th, 2009, Barack H. Obama was sworn in as the 44th
President of the United States of America - the first African-American
ever to hold the office of U.S. Commander-in-Chief.
Nearly a month after he was inaugurated in the midst of an economic
earthquake, the president travelled to Denver, where he used the venue
of the city's Museum of Nature & Science to sign the stimulus bill, a
law MSNBC characterized as a "mammoth" $787 billion plan "designed to
revive the economy and save millions of jobs."
2010
On the 24th of December the democratic controlled "lame Duck"
Congress jams Obamacare down Americas throat against a 52 to 38 percent
rejection poll. Voters disapprove 52 - 38 percent of the health care
reform proposal under consideration in Congress, and they disapprove 56 -
38 percent of President Obama's handling of health care. "With the
strokes of 22 pens, President Obama signed his landmark health care
overhaul. . . into law. . ."
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
On this day, which will live in U.S. diplomatic infamy, President Obama
abruptly walked out on Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, disrespectfully
announcing he was going to the White House living quarters to have
dinner and sarcastically mentioning the PM could let him know "if
there's anything new."
Between 2008 and 2010 Obama signs 79 Executive Orders increasing
the White House staff cost by $5.5 million dollars. The majority of the
Orders created frivolous commissions and agencies.
2011
Allowing radical racist communist in his administration - Van Jones;
Special Advisor for Green Jobs in the Obama administration (Former now)
This guy is so far out there that he signed his name to 911Truth.org
which is a group that does not believe the accepted, proven, and
established accounts of 9/11/01, this is a kin to denying the Holocaust,
claiming the Earth is flat (there are those that still believe this),
believe the Moon landings were fake, etc, etc.
This is also insulting to the families of the victims of the 9/11
terrorist attacks and bluntly almost as evil as the attacks themselves!
Shutting down of the oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico, along with his
mishandling of the BP Oil Spill including turning down real help from
the Dutch for Oil Spill Help; Obama says "Thanks, but no thanks"
Also with an economy that needs low oil prices for complete recovery,
Obama continues to lock up viable oil reserves in the US.
2012
"Solar-Gate"; There are two House investigations into a scandal
involving a $535 million federal loan failed solar company Solyndra, and
more than $4.7 billion for four additional loans for troubled solar
companies
