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August 19, 2008
Obama's Rapid Response Backfires
Obama's Rapid Response Backfires
Barack Obama's fierce attack on Jerome Corsi's best-selling book, "The Obama Nation," has backfired. He has been forced to confirm things he'd hoped would stay buried.
Obama, for example, for the first time has acknowledged that the mysterious "Frank" in his 1995 autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," is in fact Communist Party USA member Frank Marshall Davis, who during the height of the Cold War was investigated by both the FBI and Congress as a pawn of Moscow.
As we've noted, the late Davis was Obama's early mentor with whom he shared whiskey and rage while growing up in Hawaii. The militant black poet influenced the young Obama's decision to become a pro-labor community organizer and agitator in his hometown of Chicago.
Corsi writes about Davis in his critical new book, "The Obama Nation," which has hit No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. In an unusual 40-page rebuttal posted on his campaign Web site, Obama tries to smear the entire book as a "series of lies."
Only, Corsi's book is basically a critique of Obama's own first book, "Dreams From My Father," written in 1995. It finds hole after hole in the narrative. Dates don't add up. Stories don't square with reality. Identities of central characters like Davis are hidden from view.
In his angrily worded report, Obama attempts to play down the influence Corsi says Davis had on him. But he doesn't dispute anything the book documents about Davis' un-American activities with the Soviets.
Instead, Obama takes issue with Corsi claiming Davis' angry poems provided "a voice for Obama's black rage." He calls it a "lie."
In fact, Obama's own words appear to support the claim. On Page 171 of "Dreams," Obama flies into a fit over chronic black poverty in Chicago's South Side, blaming whites who took flight to the crime-free suburbs and took jobs with them. He's overcome by the same black rage Davis radiated in his Waikiki bungalow years earlier.
Obama took to heart Davis' advice to "keep your eyes open" to signs of institutional racism. He became race-conscious like never before. He admits he never "let it go," even when he could see that overt racism was a thing of the past.
But that wasn't even the point Corsi was making in his section on Davis, which he subtitled "Obama's Communist Mentor." The issue of black rage was a side point. The main point is Davis' communist influence, something voters have a right to know more about.
Obama in his rebuttal leaves that point completely unaddressed. He doesn't want to go there — for obvious reasons.
Obama's rapid response to Corsi's alleged "swift-boating" backfires again in the same report when he defends his wife, Michelle, against the charge that she was influenced by another black Marxist revolutionist, Stokely Carmichael, in formulating her Princeton thesis on black separatism.
Again, Obama calls it a "lie." But turning to Page 139 of his memoir, "Dreams," we find that he himself was inspired by Carmichael, a civil rights leader turned militant black nationalist. Changing his name to Kwame Toure, Carmichael wrote a book on "Black Power" that propounds an explicitly socialist, Pan-African vision.
While living in New York, Obama says he was in "search of some inspiration" one day and "went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly Stokely Carmichael of SNCC and Black Power fame, speak at Columbia." He clearly knew the background of the source for his inspiration that day.
"At the entrance to the auditorium, two women, one black, one Asian, were selling Marxist literature and arguing with each other about Trotsky's place in history," he wrote, describing the scene. "Inside, Toure was proposing a program to establish economic ties between Africa and Harlem that would circumvent white capitalist imperialism."
Obama, who has family in Kenya, is proposing his own bailout of Africa.
Obama wants to run from this radical past, but his first memoir — written long before he had serious White House aspirations — is a peek into his soul. "Dreams" has become more of a nightmare, and he may just come to regret ever writing it.
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Wild Thing's comment..........
This is an excellent article.
LOL I like this part of the article:
"Corsi writes about Davis in his critical new book, “The Obama Nation,” which has hit No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. In an unusual 40-page rebuttal posted on his campaign Web site, Obama tries to smear the entire book as a “series of lies.”Only, Corsi’s book is basically a critique of Obama’s own first book, “Dreams From My Father,” written in 1995. It finds hole after hole in the narrative. Dates don’t add up. Stories don’t square with reality. Identities of central characters like Davis are hidden from view."
Hahahaha A 40 page rebuttal, that is a lot of work for someone that is not guilty.
HELLO Obama, this is Houston Control....YOU have a problem.
heh heh
Posted by Wild Thing at August 19, 2008 02:45 AM
Comments
THIS IDIOT IS A REAL PROBLEM!! HE IS SO DAMN FAKE,AND FULL OF CRAP, HIS EGO MUST BE BIGGER THAN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE-!! THANK YOU MEDIA FOR BRINGING US THIS SPECIAL MORON !! OBAMA SHOULD HAVE STEPPED DOWN AFTER THE REV WRIGHT CONTROVERSARY- - WHAT A LOSER!!!! OBAMA THE PUKE FACE LIAR!!!! FUNNY THE MEDIA STILL WON'T TAKE HIM ON FULL FORCE-- SO SCARED OF BEING IMUS'ED- OR DOG CHAPMANN'ED!! OUR AMERICAN MEDIA IS A FULL BLOWN DISASTER!!! BUNCH OF WHIMPS!! RACE- RACE- RACE-- WHAT IS THE PROBLEM HE IS HALF WHITE -HUH ??
Posted by: Cheryl Zee at August 19, 2008 09:25 AM
WT, he hasn't tried to buy back every copy of his book like Kerry did, that's true arrogance. I just love it when he furnished his own rope to hang himself with. Sigh!! Back to Martha Stewart Living:)
Posted by: Jack at August 19, 2008 01:40 PM
Where is Hanoi John, he was suppose to prevent the 'Swift-boating' of obama. Kerry knows first hand if he opens his mouth too wide someone will stuff a Boot in it. Then again, Corsi, was second to John O'neil in the first book.
So now we can see how effective Corsi is on his own. So far so good.
Posted by: Mark at August 19, 2008 05:49 PM
Cheryl, LMAO yes he does. I can't get over how he cannot speak. I am not making fun of people that truly do have a stuttering problem but that is not what Obama has. He is just too concerned with not saying something that he has to keep changing on over and over once he says it. haha It has to be something like that.
I agree so much and I never knew how much our being white was a problem. My goodness.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 19, 2008 07:52 PM
If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. Remember, this is STILL a free American Nation and Corsi can write whatever the heck he wants to. Toughen up that skin, Obamanation. You're going to need it if you want to win the big chair in the oval office. Otherwise, go away and crawl back down that hole from whence you came, demon.
Posted by: Lynn at August 19, 2008 07:54 PM
Jack, Hahahhaha oh my gosh I never knew about that with Kerry.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 19, 2008 07:54 PM
Mark,heh heh love how you put this.......
"Kerry knows first hand if he opens his mouth too wide someone will stuff a Boot in it. "....OH yesssss
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 19, 2008 08:00 PM
Lynn, yesss he sure is a cry baby.
Good to see you Lynn, and your so right so right winning the big chair.
Posted by: Wild Thing at August 19, 2008 08:04 PM
