"...Which people have so drastically derailed the
Obama juggernaut over the past few weeks? We
would never have known about any of them if the
liberal media had been successful in concealing
what they=E2=80=99ve known for years..."
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Obama=E2=80=99s Psyche
By Joan Swirsky, Featured Writer
May 5, 2008
We all know of people who make strange choices, but what about those
who make self-defeating choices over and over and over again, so
magnetized are they by spouses (and others) who are bad for them? The
woman who marries a drunk, then a gambler, then a philanderer =E2=80=93
the
man who marries a gold digger, then a nag, then an iceberg.
Time after time, this type ends up with a variation on an off-note
theme, while friends and colleagues shake their heads and remark,
=E2=80=9CB=
ut
he=E2=80=99s so smart=E2=80=A6she=E2=80=99s so experienced.=E2=80=9D
That seems to be the universal reaction to last week=E2=80=99s
near-implosio=
n
of Sen. Barack Obama presidential campaign, which left him the
daunting challenge of explaining to a mystified electorate why his
soft-spoken, non-combative, let=E2=80=99s-get-beyond-race-and-anger agenda
h=
as
been threatened-cum-sabotaged by the people he is most attracted to.
His archrival Hillary doesn=E2=80=99t have this problem. After decades in
th=
e
public eye, the electorate is never surprised to learn about yet
another unsavory character, shady deal, or questionable legality.
But the seemingly idealistic Obama =E2=80=93 who says he stands for
=E2=80=
=9Chope=E2=80=9D and
=E2=80=9Cchange=E2=80=9D =E2=80=93 has now run into a firewall of
opposition=
.. Why?
Who Hates Obama?
Not the American electorate, which in caucuses and primaries over the
last many months has awarded him a majority of popular and electoral
votes.
Not young people, ages 18 to 45, who have turned out in unprecedented
numbers =E2=80=93 into the multimillions =E2=80=93 to register to vote and
w=
ho have
actually voted for him! This is remarkable given that in every
election cycle Democrats have spent zillions to get out the youth
vote, but always failed.
Not Independent voters who are turning out in record number to vote
for the Illinois senator.
Not the leftwing media whose members have embraced his candidacy with
both giddy enthusiasm and undisguised passion.
Not moneybags (like George Soros) and the Socialist and Marxist campus
intellectuals who have jumped on the Obamessiah bandwagon.
So Who Does Hate Obama?
Which people have so drastically derailed the Obama juggernaut over
the past few weeks? We would never have known about any of them if the
liberal media had been successful in concealing what they=E2=80=99ve known
f=
or
years. Thanks only to conservative journalists and pundits were these
liberal ****lls dragged kicking and screaming out of their closets and
forced to expose the other =E2=80=9Cclose=E2=80=9D relation****ps Obama has
h=
ad in both
his personal and political life.
Exhibit No. 2 (No. 1 to follow): None other than Rev. Jeremiah Wright,
the man Obama has considered for over 20 years his trusted and valued
=E2=80=9Cfriend=E2=80=9D and =E2=80=9Cspiritual=E2=80=9D inspiration.
As Ben Wallace-Wells reminds us in Rolling Stone, Obama chose this
minister and his church very carefully. He =E2=80=9Ccould have picked any
church =E2=80=93 the spare, spiritual places in Hyde Park, the awesome
pomp
and procession of the cathedrals downtown. He could have picked a
mosque, for that matter, or even a synagogue. Obama chose Trinity
United. He picked Jeremiah Wright. Obama writes in his autobiography
that on the day he chose this church, he felt the spirit of black
memory and history moving through Wright, and `felt for the first time
how that spirit carried within it, nascent, incomplete, the
possibility of moving beyond our narrow dreams.=E2=80=99"
That was then. Last week, Rev. Wright =E2=80=93 bristling at the young
upstart=E2=80=99s audacity to go public in distancing himself from his
pastor=E2=80=99s egregious anti-American, anti-Semitic, and blatantly
racist=
pronouncements =E2=80=93 seized the moment of Obama=E2=80=99s upcoming
prima=
ries in
Indiana and North Carolina to speak his mind to PBS=E2=80=99s Bill Moyers
an=
d
the National Press Club. As Daniel Henninger noted in the Wall St.
Journal, =E2=80=9Cthe angry and antic prophet Jeremiah rose to smite
him.=E2=
=80=9D
The result: effectively to implant Obama=E2=80=99s feet in concrete, the
better to deep-six his chance to win the presidency.
The day after Wright=E2=80=99s sabotage, Newt Gingrich told an interviewer
that the recently- retired leader of Chicago=E2=80=99s Trinity Church
"went
out of his way to weaken Obama...I think Reverend Wright has a greater
interest in his self-im****tance."
But Geoffrey P. Hunt of The American Thinker thought otherwise. It was
=E2=80=9Cfor a more cynical reason than ego-preservation...[but for]
keeping=
the pledge payments flowing and collection plates full. Wright's root
agenda, in perfect alignment with the far-left Democratic Party
politics of indignation, has been to capitalize on the misfortunes of
others, to stoke both race and class resentment, offer a platform and
voice pipe for the permanently aggrieved all to fill his own
coffers.=E2=80=9D
The reverend=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cworst nightmare,=E2=80=9D Hunt adds,
=E2=80=
=9Cwould be Barack Obama as
president...because [Wright=E2=80=99s] raison d'etre would
eva****ate.=E2=80=
=9D
Now for Exhibit No. 1: Obama=E2=80=99s wifey Michelle, who told a crowd in
Milwaukee, =E2=80=9CFor the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my
country.=E2=80=9D Michelle also poured out how =E2=80=9Cbitter=E2=80=9D
she =
was toward America
in her Princeton thesis. And proving that an acid nature doesn=E2=80=99t
sweeten over time, she told one interviewer that Obama =E2=80=9Chad bad
brea=
th
in the morning,=E2=80=9D and informed the crowd at a fundraiser in Feb.
2007=
:
"I have some difficulty reconciling the two images I have of Barack
Obama. There's the phenomenon=E2=80=A6and then there's the Barack Obama
that=
lives with me in my house, and that guy's a little less impressive."
I think it=E2=80=99s safe to say that Exhibit No. 1 and Exhibit 2
=E2=80=93 =
the two
most powerfully influential people in Obama=E2=80=99s life =E2=80=93 are
not=
on his
side!
Okay, you may say, everyone has a few bad apples in their
=E2=80=9Ccircles.=
=E2=80=9D A
few maybe, but not a bushel!
We have also learned of Obama=E2=80=99s not-so-casual relation****p with
the
indicted Chicago =E2=80=9Cfixer=E2=80=9D Tony Rezko, and a laundry list of
a=
ssociates
who openly hate America, among them domestic terrorist William Ayers,
and the official blogger of his campaign, Sam Graham-Felsen.
Then there are the America-hating groups and people who endorsed him:
Hamas, the Black Panther Party, and the Marxist president of
Venezuela, Daniel Ortega, as well as Obama fundraiser Ra****d Khalidi,
a =E2=80=9Cconfessed domestic terrorist,=E2=80=9D according to Aaron
Klein.
Why is it that the mild-mannered, seemingly non-combative Obama is
attracted to such a large number of America haters? And why does he
inspire them to give him their passionate allegiance, their
enthusiastic endorsements, and their barrels full of money?
Inside Obama=E2=80=99s Psyche
A caller to a radio show recently theorized that mixed-race "mulattos"
like Obama are resentful that while they're half-white, they always
come out black. They can never take advantage of their white half
because while the black community accepts them, the white community
doesn=E2=80=99t.
I=E2=80=99d say this is a legitimate reason for anger, probably the same
rag=
e
that fuels Rev. Wright, given that he is clearly of
=E2=80=9Cmixed=E2=80=9D
parentage.
The result, others theorize, is anger at the white parent (or
grandparent) =E2=80=93 or their symbols, like big bad America =E2=80=93
whic=
h is
probably why Obama wrote in his book Dreams of My Father:
=E2=80=9CI ceased to advertise my mother=E2=80=99s race at the age of 12
or =
13, which
I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to
whites.=E2=80=9D
When he was questioned about Rev. Wright=E2=80=99s racist statements,
Obama
initially replied:
=E2=80=9CI can no more disown [him] than I can disown my white
grandmother, =
a
woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for
me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world,
but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed her by
on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or
ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.=E2=80=9D
Asked to explain this totally weird comparison =E2=80=93 20 years of
hearing=
his pastor=E2=80=99s racist rants vs. his grandmother=E2=80=99s one-time
con=
fession =E2=80=93
Obama replied that his grandmother was a =E2=80=9Ctypical white
person.=E2=
=80=9D
Conclusion: Obama defends the indefensible, embraces those who say the
indefensible, and trashes the people who love him.
Why? Because the indefensible crowd speaks for him! It is not in
Obama=E2=80=99s nature to be aggressive and confrontational, insulting or
hurtful, vicious or adversarial. But all of these traits are clearly
in his heart and soul and psyche! Why else would he defend them?
Obama is a typical passive-aggressive personality who pretends to be a
nice guy by using fuzzy language and a let=E2=80=99s-all-get-together
mantra=
to seduce his acolytes, but who relies on his surrogates =E2=80=93 wifey,
minister, terrorist endorsements, et al =E2=80=93 to express his real
agenda=
,
i.e., getting back! But getting back at whom?
My theory is that Obama wants to =E2=80=9Cget back=E2=80=9D at all those
evi=
l
capitalists and racist entities that robbed his Marxist mother,
father, and stepfather of the respect he thought they deserved.
According to the writer Spengler in a riveting L.A. Times article,
both his wife and mother =E2=80=9Creveal his secret: he hates
America.=E2=80=
=9D
He Hates America?
That=E2=80=99s crazy, you may say. But it does raise the question of how
anyone could love this country and want what both Obama and Hillary
=E2=80=
=93
with few variations =E2=80=93 have promised:
=E2=96=AA A white-flag surrender in Iraq and de facto
capitulation to the radical Islamists intent on
destroying our way of life. Obama even told
the AP that, =E2=80=9Cpreventing genocide is not a
sufficient reason to keep American troops in
Iraq.=E2=80=9D
=E2=96=AA The nomination of federal, appellate, and
Supreme Court judges who will legislate from
the bench and are in line with his stated
philosophy that the U.S. Constitution is a
=E2=80=9Cliving document=E2=80=9D that must be interpreted in the
context of the times.
=E2=96=AA Weakening America=E2=80=99s military, including,
among other things, making defense cuts
during war time, cutting spending on national
missile defense, refusing to weaponize space,
slowing development of future combat systems,
and seeking a "world without nuclear weapons.=E2=80=9D
=E2=96=AA Maintaining his 100-percent approval rating from
NARAL by sup****ting abortion on demand with the
same vigor he opposed notifying parents of minors
who get out-of-state abortions and the ban on
partial birth abortions.
=E2=96=AA Handing $845 billion of U.S. taxpayer money to
other nations to realize his Global Poverty Act.
=E2=96=AA Pu****ng for sky-high taxes.
=E2=96=AA Adding nearly $900 billion to the budget of new,
big-government programs over his first term in
office.
=E2=96=AA Sup****ting de facto amnesty for illegal aliens,
as well as awarding them drivers=E2=80=99 licenses,
welfare, Medicaid and participation in Social
Security.
=E2=96=AA Continued opposition to making English our
national language.
=E2=96=AA Across-the-board gun control.
=E2=96=AA Spending billions on the colossal hoax known as
man-made global warming.
Come to think of it, the political philosophies of both Obama and
Hillary echo those of all lefties. But where were all these like-
minded people when Obama was flailing last week, desperately trying to
stanch his fast-ebbing sup****t in Indiana and North Carolina?
In an ominous re****t, Daniel Henninger remarked: =E2=80=9CAt Barack
Obama's
darkest hour, not one prominent ally came forward to sup****t him.
Everyone abandoned Everyman.=E2=80=9D
=E2=80=9CNo prominent black clergyman came forth=E2=80=A6[but] Rev.
Wright, =
now
written off as a virtual nut case, got more sup****t from black
clergymen than did Obama.=E2=80=9D
His famous endorsers vanished from the scene. Henninger lists them:
Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Oprah, John Kerry, Chris Dodd, Patrick
Leahy, Tom Daschle, Amy Klobuchar, Claire McCaskill, Jay Rockefeller,
John Lewis, Toni Morrison, Roger Wilkins, Eric Holder, Robert Reich,
Ted Sorenson, Alice Walker, David Wilhelm, Cornel West, Clifford
Alexander, Donald McHenry, Patricia Wald, Newton Minow.
No big-city mayors in Obama=E2=80=99s camp spoke out in his defense:
Chicago=
's
Richard Daley, Cleveland's Frank Reynolds, Atlanta's ****rley Franklin,
Wa****ngton's Adrian Fenty, Newark's Cory Booker, Baltimore's Sheila
Dixon.
=E2=80=9CAny major op-ed page would have stopped the presses to print a
statement of sup****t from Ted Kennedy or such for the senator,=E2=80=9D
Henninger says. =E2=80=9CNone appeared.=E2=80=9D
Henninger explains that, =E2=80=9CEveryone has become used to watching
celebrity stars and athletes take it in the neck on their own. Even
someone running for the nation's presidency looks like just another
personal crack-up.
But To The Point=E2=80=99s Dr. Jack Wheeler explains it better.
=E2=80=9CIf you could bring the playwrights of Ancient Greece =E2=80=93
Soph=
ocles,
Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes =E2=80=93 from 5th century Athens to
watc=
h
the Democrat primary race of today, they would recognize it instantly.
It is a perfect Greek tragedy...nothing could be more blindingly
obvious=E2=80=A6any possible hope of Obama being elected president of the
United States has been obliterated by his madman pastor.=E2=80=9D
I still think that Obama will win the nomination. And I still hope
America is smart enough not to elect him. This ambitious young man
needs a few more years to plumb and purge his rage-infested psyche,
get rid of the people-baggage who continue to sabotage him, read up on
American history, and move to the middle.
Then we=E2=80=99ll talk!
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Joan Swirsky, is a Featured Writer for The New Media Journal. A New
York-based author and journalist, she was formerly a longtime health-
and-science and feature writer for The New York Times Long Island
section. She is the recipient of seven Long Island Press Awards...
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