OBAMA–MOVING ON UP IN CHICAGO POLITICS: PART TWO

(Please see, “Obama’s Tainted, Adoptive Town, Chicago: Part One [http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?paged=3, September 23, 2008.] )

Part One discussed Chicago, the early corrupt years, and Senator Obama’s middle years when he changed his nickname from Barry to his given, Muslim name, Barack, or “blessed one,” in Arabic.

He was moving on up.

Barry moved on up—to booze, pot and coke, according to his book—before entering Occidental College, then Columbia, and then up to the corporate world for a while.

He moved, laterally, to Chicago in 1985 and became a “community organizer” and joined Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ before entering Harvard Law in 1988. Not too shabby a vita for the son of a former shepherd.

In any event, all this name stuff is irrelevant—except that it does cast some doubt on Barry/Barack’s professed Christianity and it does link him to Islam, unfairly or not.

Obama professes to be a Christian and I’m certain he wouldn’t fib. As a good Catholic friend said of him, “Well, he says he’s a Christian, no?”

Actually, that depends on the meaning of “no.”

A Muslim planning a run for any office in predominantly Christian America would have to take great pains to establish his Christian credentials, such as marrying in a church rather than in a mosque and having his kids baptized in that church. Such actions would either prove that candidate had made a sea change in his religious belief– or that the candidate would resort to virtually anything to be elected.

Whether the Trinity United Church of Christ could accurately be described as a Christian church is debatable, however. TUCC does not exclude White people but its commitment to a “Black value system” as opposed to an American value system, its pastors’ racist, anti-American screeds, its adulation of Louis Farrakhan, and its reference to W.E.B. Dubois in its Mission Statement, lead one to think that Obama’s Chicago church may talk the Black values talk but falls far short of walking the Christian value walk.

Barack returned to the “City of the Big Shoulders,” as the socialist poet, Carl Sandburg called Chicago, after graduating Yale Law School. He became a civil rights attorney and social activist, always keeping up his attendance at TUCC, and then plunged headlong into Illinois politics as a State Senator from Chicago’s south side district of Hyde Park.

That area’s residents have included such illustrious figures as:...

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THE LITTLE ACORN THAT COULD CHANGE AN ELECTION

The Democratic machine politicians in Obama’s adopted home town of Chicago virtually codified that party’s injunction to its ward-heelers to get out the vote by any and every means necessary, to vote early and often. Amazingly, even the dead were known to vote in the Windy City.

Now, the shamelessly corrupt organization, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, ACORN, is taking the Chicago model national. From tiny acorns the mighty oaks do grow and this shadowy ACORN has been growing new voters mightily, and suspiciously.

Its office in Nevada was raided Tuesday by Nevada authorities searching for concrete evidence of voter registration fraud, ACORN workers have been jailed in Missouri, and in the state of Washington, “they signed a consent decree . . . to avoid criminal prosecution, . . . the management and the organization of ACORN acknowledged that if they were to continue activity as they had been they would subject to criminal liability.”

(http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=37133).

The Nevada raid dispelled any notion that it was a partisan investigation since it was organized by that state’s secretary of state, Ross Miller, a Democrat.

This is one nasty acorn, active also in Connecticut, Wisconsin, and Ohio, all, coincidentally, swing states in this year’s presidential sweepstakes. Not content with signing up legal registrants, ACORN, which has endorsed Obama, registered the (names of) Tony Romo and the rest of the Dallas Cowboys’ starting lineup.

On top of being perverse, ACORN also doesn’t seem very bright.

Brightness reigns supreme in the newsroom and editorial board of the so-called “Paper of Record,” the New York Times,... (Read the rest of this article @ http://genelalor.com/.)

SENATOR JOHN McCAIN’S ARTICLES OF SURRENDER

John McCain still doesn’t get it.

A good man, a proven war hero and a patriot, Senator McCain seems ready, willing, and able, to surrender the presidency rather than backtrack on his longstanding tendency to “reach across the aisle” and work with Democrats to find solutions for the many ills our nation faces.

That’s all very charitable and diplomatic of the senator from Arizona, this self-characterized maverick, but it makes no sense when sitting on the other side of the congressional aisle are other senators and congress people who have repeatedly demonstrated they care not a whit about this country except as it serves to extend their careers.

Why McCain cannot see that, cannot intellectually grasp that, is bewildering and infuriating as is his refusal to take off the gloves for the final twenty six days of this campaign and fight with all in his prodigious power to pummel Obama and his congressional surrogates with the truth.

McCain’s supporters understand quite well what’s happening in this race, as seen in this Washington Post article: ...

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