I am not a 'Birther' but I do find the background of Barack Hussein Obama (or is it Barry Obama or is it Barry Soetoro?) suspicious. His paternal grandmother says he was born in Kenya. His maternal grandmother says he was born in Hawaii. His teacher at the madrasah in Indonesia where he was educated said he's Indonesian. A parliamentarian in Kenya said he was Kenyan. His Hawaiian birth certificate was issued on word of his maternal grandmother only. And each time a story, article, or even a blog is made about this issue with proof it seems to be scrubbed from teh interwebs. It's suspicious and it keeps fanning the flames of distrust further stoked by the 'Birthers'.
In my opinion he may have been born in Hawaii but ideologically he's no more American than his Father was; he proved that to me on his American Apology Tour last year. He proved that to me when he bowed to the Saudi king...and the Japanese Emperor. No President makes that gesture to anyone I don't care if you're Emperor of the Universe. He proved that to me again when he evicted the bust of Winston Churchill from the White House.
I think that commentator Dorothy Rabinowitz hit the nail on the head last week when she wrote the following in the Wall Street Journal, all emphasis is my own as usual:
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{I}t was clear from the first that this president—single-minded, ever-visible, confident in his program for a reformed America saved from darkness by his arrival—was wanting in certain qualities citizens have until now taken for granted in their presidents. Namely, a tone and presence that said: This is the Americans' leader, a man of them, for them, the nation's voice and champion.
Those qualities to be expected in a president were never about rhetoric; Mr. Obama had proved himself a dab hand at that on the campaign trail. They were a matter of identification with the nation and to all that binds its people together in pride and allegiance. These are feelings held deep in American hearts, unvoiced mostly, but unmistakably there and not only on the Fourth of July.
A great part of America now understands that this president's sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs. He is hard put to sound convincingly like the leader of the nation, because he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class. He is the alien in the White House, a matter having nothing to do with delusions about his birthplace...
Full article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703302604575294231631318728.htmlSo write what you will defending this man, give him all the cover you want, but he'll still be the Kenyan to me until the day he is evicted from the White House by the electorate...and Winston Churchill's bust is back.
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