Will the Real Barack Obama Please Stand Up?

Barack Obama just got a new makeover. His campaign has finally realized that some of the things about him they thought they could explain away are actually issues that ordinary Americans take offense with. Most recently Obama has been seen wearing a flag pin on his lapel. And all the time we thought that he meant what he said about not needing to prove his patriotism. But ever since Hamas endorsed him the flag has been Barry’s best friend.

And just yesterday it was revealed that the leader of The New Black Panther Party, Malik Shabbaz has endorsed Obama. Shabbaz said a few interesting things. Apparently the Nation of Islam believes that Obama is the chosen one spoken about in their theology. They believe he is the black man that will rule the world and restore Africa and black people to their rightful place as rulers over everyone else. And if that isn’t troubling enough, Shabbaz made it clear that his mentor Farrakhan has not only endorsed Obama, he is backing and supports him “”from a safe distance”.

So why hasn’t the media covered these revelations? What is it about Obama’s past that he finds the need to either hide from or run away from as fast as he can? Could it be his past experiences with Muslim theology? His father was Muslim. And we know that as a young child he was registered as a Muslim and bragged that he was able to speak Indonesian. Then when he matured a little and moved back to the United States his favorite book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X. In Obama’s autobiography, Dreams of My Father, he reminisced fondly about reading the official organ of the Nation of Islam, The Final Call.

I would occasionally pick up the paper [The Final Call] from these unfailingly polite men, in part out of sympathy to their heavy suits in the summer, their thin coats in winter; or sometimes because my attention was caught by the sensational, tabloid-style headlines (CAUCASIAN WOMAN ADMITS: WHITES ARE THE DEVIL). Inside the front cover, one found reprints of the minister’s [Farrakhan’s] speeches, as well as stories that could have been picked straight off the AP news wire were it not for certain editorial embellishments (”Jewish Senator Metzenbaum announced today…”).

“Dreams From My Father,” page 201

So we know that he is at least VERY familiar with the religion of Louis Farrakhan, long time friend of Obama spiritual mentor Reverend Jeremiah Wright. And both of these larger than life religious leaders have nothing but contempt and hatred for white people. And very probably Obama shares some of that belief, belonging to a supposedly Christian Church that believes above all else in the supremacy of Black Liberation Theology.

Perhaps that is why Obama now claims to the people in Kentucky that he is an active member in the Trinity Unity Church of Christ. Because if he can hoodwink the good people of Kentucky into believing that he is one of them he believes he can turn things around. But I wonder how many of the average Kentuckians accept that the Black Value System and Black Liberation Theology are the same things they learn and sing about on Sunday mornings?

Was Jesus really Black?

Nonetheless, this is Obama’s new strategy.

Obama Campaign Responds to Cross Flyers

“These fliers are part of the Obama campaign’s sincere effort to communicate the values of Senator Obama’s own Christian faith and the hope that people of all faiths and moral backgrounds will come together to address the needs of the ‘least of these’ in our nation and in our world. We’re using them (the fliers) primarily at American Values forums and other campaign events. We are very careful to not campaign within houses of worship and respect both the philosophical boundaries between the church and the campaign, and the very real Internal Revenue Service restrictions related to campaigns and houses of worship.”

So apparently Obama has decided that the bitter people clinging to guns and religion isn’t exactly the most appropriate campaign slogan. Obama is probably following an Axelrod maxim: When in doubt lie. So Barack now LOVES people that go to church. He respects them so much he is one of them now. He is an active member in church except for when anything controversial or insulting to ordinary Americans is going on. Then he is always somewhere else. Nothing like a cross in the background to add a little legitimacy to one’s credentials. Even if the real credentials are membership in a radical Afrocentric church with strong ties to The Nation of Islam.

I think it is about time that the press did it’s job and started asking Obama some legitimate questions . So that we can ALL put this Muslim thing behind us.

Here are a few sample questions to help them get started.

1) Has Barack Obama ever met Louis Farrakhan? If so, what did they talk about.

2) Does he admire Farrakhan like his spiritual mentor Jeremiah Wright does?

3) Does Obama have members of the Nation of Islam employed on his Campaign or Senate staffs?

4) And finally, does Barack Obama agree with this characterization of Louis Farrakhan?

Transcript: Rev. Wright at the National Press Club

Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains. He did not put me in slavery. And he didn’t make me this color.

Perhaps the good people of the Kentucky press will ask Barack Obama these questions. After all, they deserve to know whether Obama is serious about his religion. Or is he just using the thought of it to hoodwink the folks of Kentucky into believing that he is one of them?