Obama: Arab American?

Kenneth Lamb, journalist of some note, posits an interesting argument to Obama Hussein's roots on his blog, Reading Between the Lines . Please go here and read it all.Yes, it's important. Add it to the troubling pot of where Obama Hussein's allegiances lie. Obama Hussein, descendant from Arab slave traders. Ouch. Spin that.

The thing is,  the media and the Democrats are  touting his "African American" background and using it to mine white liberal guilt (millions of white folks are voting for him to prove they are not racists!) So it stands to reason that we expose his actual descendancy from Arab slave traders - the worst practitioners of racism and human trafficking (even still, even now.) Hardly the "only man that can fix America's soul" as Michelle Barack keeps reminding us. BTW, there is nothing wrong with the American soul.

Brack Obama: Washington Post, Chicago Tribune investigations confirm autobiography lies; now asking: Is "African-American" a lie too

Synopsis: The author opens citing the work of Mr. Richard Cohen of the Washington Post. Mr. Cohen’s columns about the “composites,” rearranged timelines, and complete fabrication of events in Sen. Obama’s autobiography are the basis for a further investigation into Mr. Obama’s claim to be “African-American.”

(NOTE: This IS NOT a rehash of the discredited discussion of either his education in Islamic schools, or any other ties to Islam. His religion, and education, outside of citing his Harvard attendance, play no role whatsoever in this article. THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS NEW, PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED documentation concerning his ethnic identity claims. It is based upon original research that the author openly invites for further inquiry and academic verification in his preface to Mr. Cohen.)

I disagree with Lamb on this. I think Obama's time in Indonesia is seminal. Even when CNN attempted to "debunk" it - all they could do is discuss the level of religiosity -   "I came here to Barack Obama's elementary school in Jakarta looking for what some are calling an Islamic madrassa ... like the ones that teach hate and violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan," Vause said on the "Situation Room" Monday. "I've been to those madrassas in Pakistan ... this school is nothing like that."

CNN acknowledged Obama lived in Indonesia as a child, from 1967 to 1971, with his mother and Muslim  stepfather and has acknowledged attending a Muslim school, but "an aide said it was not a madrassa".

Documentation of his actual ethnic background demonstrates Mr. Obama is not an “African-American” as defined in United States law. This research was initiated by a request from a daily news publication of international reputation in New York City.

The story then moves to documenting his father’s genealogy. This study indicates Sen. Obama is actually Arab-American. The significance of this is that “the soul and substance of Mr. Obama’s claim to fame” rest entirely on his being “the first” African-American to achieve whatever it is that Mr. Obama is claiming at the time. If Mr. Obama is not legally an African-American, then his claims collapse. While there may still be historic firsts, for example, being the first Arab-American to be the president of the Harvard Law Review, those claims are not the star-appeal of his entire political life, and the basis of his current celebrity star status. If he is not African-American, then he is not what has propelled him up the political ladder; he is not, as described by one journalist riding Mr. Obama’s campaign plane, what is currently capturing America’s “cult” attention.

The author includes a section that notes the double-standard Oprah Winfrey applied in her handling of Mr. Obama’s autobiographical fabrications vis a vis her reaction to much less in a book by another author she promoted. It calls upon her to explain her double-standards, and asks, reasonably under the circumstances, if her double-standards are racist.

Go read it all ................ there is a lot there to absorb, particularly his correspondence to Richard Cohen at WaPo.

Comments

[Hope]

Seriously, someone should get this to the Hillary camp stat. She's the only person who might possibly get a media outlet to carry the story. Do you have any connections there, Atlas? Not that I care a wit about his ethnic background, but I do think it's wrong that African Americans (and the rest of us) are being pressured to vote for someone based mostly on his ethnicity. "Descendant of Arab slave traders" just doesn't have as much cache as "son of a poor Kenyan goat herder."

[reliapundit - the astute blogger]

i think he is technically a Kenyan-American.

and he is far less connected to the civil rights struggle than me.

i marched with mlk - he did not.

he is unconnected to the great society, jim crow, the civil war, slavery - unconnected to EVERYTHING which defines African-American identity, EXCEPT: LEFTIST IDEOLGY.

[Vince]

Holy cow!!

I left the following comment on the Chicago Sun Time's Reporter Lynn Sweet's blog *it's pending approval... so they may not even let it get out*

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/02/sweet_column_mccain_gop_hits_o.html#comments

What I want to know is why is Obama's true heritage not being investigated and reported upon?

This is information originated by a Kenneth Lamb.

I just stumbled upon it tonight. I'm not sure if hyperlinks are allowed here, so if you want the source, just copy and paste one of these sentences into google and you'll find it.

Exceprt:

"Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian, that from his mother. What those who want Mr. Obama to write history by becoming "America's first African-American president" ignore is that his father was ethnically Arabic, with only 1 relative - a maternal grandparent, ethnically African Negro.

That means that Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side, and 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side.

The question no one wants to answer - particularly Mr. Obama and his supporters, is, "Why do you think he has an Arabic name? Why does his father have an Arabic name? Why does every ancestor on his father's side have an Arabic name?"

The answer is obvious: They have Arabic names because his father's side of the family tree is Arabic.

Need proof? Research the Kenyan records for yourself. You will find that his father was officially classified as "Arab African" by the Kenyan government."

[Vince]

The URL was too long,, so i have broken it up into 4 lines... just make it be one line again to go there...

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet

/2008/02/

sweet_column_mccain_gop_hits_o

.html#comments

[chsw]

I couldn't care if his father was from Lappland. Obama's policies will be terrible for the USA. His tax and economic policies will cause a contraction, not just a recession. His national security policies will leave us defenseless. What more is there?

chsw

[miira]

Certainly helps explain this Muslim Americans for Obama Video weird . . . and very angry.

[hutchrun]

The Speech Obama Never Gave:

My fellow Americans,

The time has come for me to set the record straight. Failing to do this would just make things worse, and I think I owe it to the American people.

I am a Christian. In my early years I had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of my Indonesian step-father. Denying that would just be denying the truth. At the age of six I regularly attended services in his mosque.

Does this matter? It does because I am seeking to be the president of the greatest country on Earth. It matters where I come from, because where I come from affects where I stand today.

It would be years later that I read about Islam and understood what I had been reciting as a boy. As an American I realized that my values enshrined in the US Constitution are incompatible with certain tenets of Islam: the concept of jihad, the relationship of Muslims towards non-believers; and Islam's attitude towards apostates.

http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/12629.htm

[hutchrun]

The Arab`s Church:

IF I AM MUSLIM AND I BELIEVE IN PROPHET MOHAMMED, PEACE BE UPON HIM AND I ALSO BELIEVE IN JESUS, PEACE BE UPON HIM, DO I HAVE TO GIVE UP MY ISLAMIC FAITH TO BE A MEMBER IN YOUR CHURCH?" SHE ANSWERED, "NO. WE HAVE MANY MUSLIM MEMBERS IN OUR CHURCH." It is important to note that Muslims would not attend church.

http://pedestrianinfidel.blogspot.com/2008/02/about-that-african-supremacist-church.html

[RISE_UP]

Hutchrun said:"It is important to note that Muslims would not attend church."

It is also important to note, that muslims are allowed to lie, according to the koran,in certain circumstances. And in order to gain a foothold against the infidel, they can lie. And I imagine, in order to become a muslim president of the united states would be one of those circumstances. Just to be on the safe side, I will stick to my own convictions about Obama. I smell camels

[Vince]

Oh Leftists like Goldie.. please... PLEASE get a new script.

Rove is no longer working in the White House.

Bush is out of office in less than a year.

What are you people going to perseverate about when he's gone?

[Vince]

Oh Leftists like Goldie.. please... PLEASE get a new script.

Rove is no longer working in the White House.

Bush is out of office in less than a year.

What are you people going to perseverate about when he's gone?

[RISE_UP]

Goldie, is your last name Locks? Because if it is, it would explain your fantasy of what is to come.And As time goes by I take back what I once said about GWB being worse than Carter. When I see what we have to choose from, I might think GWB is a gem.

[joeblough]

Read the Kenneth Lamb material. Dismaying, but not shocking.

2 things ...

1) It's standard operating procedure on the left to promote lies if they can be considered propaganda in a "good cause". On this case, marketing a white/arab guy as a black guy is undoubtedly intended to make black people feel good about themselves.

And we know that promoting racial identity and "self esteem" are top level leftist goals.

Nazi bastards that they are.

So marketing B. Hussein Obama as a black guy is pretty normal for the left.

2) I never get over the strange preoccupation that so many Americans have with Africa and blackness.

Especially in the sense that someone with the least tiny bit of Africa in his/her ancestry is instantly considered "black".

And that's supposed to mean something. Although I've never figured out just what.

It's weird.

[Underzog]

Pamela,

I raised or tried to raise the story of Obama's arab ancestor's on his father's side on the famous Howie Carr Show with Avi Nelson substituting for Howie Carr.

However, the person searching the information was incompetent and could not find it, so I mailed the Atlas Shrugs URL.

My sister also called Avi Nelson (subbing for Howie Carr talkmeister) and mentioned Obama's anti-Semitic advisor, Malley.

Avi Nelson didn't know who Malley was either. What's ironic about this is Avi Nelson is son of Rabbi Zev K. Nelson and Avi is also a physic's grad. He is quite a brilliant fellow.

Maybe my e mail will reach someone at that talkshow headquarters.

[Togeika]

Atlas squats. And it smells mighty bad...

Who would care if this lie was true, but a racist?

Lee,
in Keith Ellison's 5th District:

Keith Ellison, The man who had the courage to take the ceremonial oath on Thomas Jefferson's Koran. http://www.keithellison.org/

[GreenBuddha]

Please educate yourselves.
http://www.juancole.com/

Juan Cole has written a book : Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East ,
http://napoleonsegypt.blogspot.com/

which explains how Napoleon replaced secular government in Egypt with religous governement.
In our time, we caused the Ayatollahs to come to power because of our support of the Shah, We supported the religious Mujahideen against the Commies, and the elections we sponsored in Iraq created Shiite rule there.
26 years of Republican rule is too long.

We need to wrestle the country back: become unaddicted to oil (for national security reasons), and come home from where there were no enemies before we went there. Troops out of Iraq, and after Bin Laden. Then bring them home!

[2pacshakur]

This is fishy. First of all, I don't know there is a Federal law that says that to claim to belong to a minority, you have to have 1/8 as the article says. No law is specified in the blog, just that "there is a federal law"

Second, I couldn't find anything saying that Kenya does people classifications or did it in the past when supposedly BHO's father claimed to be an Arab.

It's true that Arabs can have dark skinned (Sudanese are arab and black) and also that Arabs practiced slave trading in Kenya. It's not so clear BHO's ancestors did or were Arab. Could be but I haven;t seen any corroboration.

The cult of personality still turns me off to BHO.

[Robert4]

2pacshakur is wrong -- kenneth lamb is a respected journalist and he would never lie about his sources, especially when they are federal laws that are out in the open and anyone can check.

also the part about kenya is wrong because kenya does classify people.

[2pacshakur]

Still fishy.

Can you post the Federal Law that applies?

Can you point to any confirmation that Kenya does classify people. To me Kenya is a 3rd world country with no resources to spend classifying people but I could be wrong.

I'm not saying it's not true just that I have not found anything to confirm it.

Bigger issues are there: The cult of personality. Ignorance about Islam and his own Islamic heritage. Lack of pride about America. Disrespect for his own mostly white cultural heritage and an obsession with black heritage he really didn't have. His refusal to accept responsibility for his own actions, it's always something else that is causing the problem be it Mr. Wright or his Grandma. For example he used the drugs not because it was the 70's in Hawaii and he wanted to get high, no it was some (bogus) exploration of what being black is.

[Robert4]

2paschakur, I agree about the problem of Obama. Please see Pamela's new BLOG about his drug problem. Needless to say, the American people should have the oppportunity to expect that our presidential candidates are not on drugs ... wheter to "get high" or to "bogusly explore being black" as you put it.

Like a good Lady once said in the White House, "just say NO"! I am afraid that we will lose that mentality back in the White House if the election doesn't turn out right!

[Robert4]

I forgot, here is the address of that BLOG

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/05/is-obama-on-dru.html?cid=116278992#comment-116278992