Who the Hell is Barack Obama?

That's right, I'm asking it and the whole country probably is too. Less than one month out from the election for President, and Barack Obama has been able to hide remarkable portions of his professional and personal record from the American people. In my next entry of the From Within The Veil series I'm going to attempt to metaphorically shed some light on just who the hell Barack Obama certainly is. Until then, however, Jay Tea at Wizbang asks the proper foundational questions that demonstrate what would never have been allowed to occur for any other Presidential candidate prior to the rise of this proxy-of-all-proxies cherry-picked by unseen forces much too fond of totalitarian tendencies:

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[L]ook beyond the official biography, and you end up with far more questions than answers.

This is brought into even starker contrast when you compare what we know about Barack Obama with what we know about John McCain.

For example, we know that John McCain graduated almost at the bottom of his class at Annapolis. We have no idea how Obama did, academically, either as an undergraduate or in law school.

We know that McCain showed reporters over 1800 pages of his medical records. Obama released a single page from his doctor that said "yup, he's fine."

We know that McCain, after his release as a prisoner of war, went on to command a training squadron before retiring from the Navy and running for Congress. We don't know just what Obama did in his legal career.

As remarkable as Obama's official biography is, it's the items that are omitted that are really enlightening. One of the biggest weaknesses people cite in Obama is his lack of executive experience, but that's not entirely accurate.

Barack Obama served on the boards of two very large organizations. He spent seven years with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (the first four in charge) and eight years as a director of the Joyce Foundation. But he doesn't want to talk about those 15 years of executive experience.

Could it be because he was an abject failure at both?

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Yepper!

Read the whole thing, there's much more. The day of reckoning is coming and the mask is going to be lifted -- for all those who care to see, that is.

Comments

[Royce]

You say it all with..."proxy-of-all-proxies cherry-picked by unseen forces" ... I keep looking in the background for faces or names I recognize, but pretty much come up blank. As articulate, handsome, polished, etc., etc., Obama is, common sense tells me "somebody" has chosen him, and if it hadn't been him, it would have been another mask.

[Love My Marine]

Thank you for this blog post. It is something I have been saying for a long time.

Obama's disingenuousness about his past, his academic record and his track record while in government really bothers me.

He seems to lack character in even the most basic things.

I visited Baldilock's blog to donate some money for the Obama school in Kenya. I find that a test of his character -- or lack thereof -- that he would fly over there, promise them help, and then do NOTHING. It's very troubling and sad.

Likewise, what has he done for the residents of Grove Parc, his old district? Why was he not putting that Harvard education and ability to network to good use to help his constituents?

The whole thing really upsets me.
We have a right to know how Barack Obama is, not what he is marketing.

[EarthTone]

Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=516664

[RattlerGator]

Further begging the rather obvious and pregnant question, EarthTone -- why no release of the transcripts there or at Columbia or Occidental?

[RattlerGator]

And, by the way, why has he not been hounded by questioning about this.

Both facts are equally curious.

[EarthTone]

OK, 4 things.

[1] I was amused by the comment that "We have no idea how Obama did, academically, either as an undergraduate or in law school." The fact that Obama was magna cum laude @ Harvard Law is common knowledge to hardcore Dems/progressives (like those @ DailyKos).

Unfortunately, most of us get our information from sources that mirror our beliefs, instead of challenging them.

[2] I don't know Obama's grades @ Occidental. But I can tell you this. Columbia is an Ivy League school, in a metro area that has 10 million people.

A person with just Cs and Ds is not getting a transfer into Columbia. (Unless they have the benefit of a legacy admission/AKA affirmative action for white Americans.)

[3] The reason nobody is hounding or questioning this academic stuff is because, the overwhelming majority of people don't care.

Consider this: McCain: bottom of his class.

Obama: Columbia (Ivy League school) grad; magna cum laude graduate of harvard Law; president of the Law Review; lecturer at Chicago Law.

Let's assume the "best" for him, that Obama was an excellent student everywhere he went. Would you or any of other McCain supporter say or "concede" that McCain is an inferior candidate because he lacked academic Obama's credentials?

Of course not. You'd find some way to say that the academic records of these two candidates is irrelevant in deciding whom to elect. Bottom line is, a candidate's scholastic record is not enough of a qualification (or dis-qualification) for the presidency that his campaign, or most of his supporters, are going to make a big deal about it.

(Although I guess it would make for an enticing thread on Free Republic.com.)

[4] For the record, the Obama campaign isn't touting his academic record as a reason to elect him. Note also that in many American sub-cultures, there is an anti-intellectual streak, a feeling that academic success makes one "less-wordly" or even "less-manly."

(In many parts of black America, there is a distaste for blacks who "talk white"... Obama has been accused of not being "black enough" due in part to this dynamic.)

So Obama isn't going to make this a talking point, even if it might be to his benefit.

- Sorry if this is long.

[RattlerGator]

Magna cum laude studying what, EarthTone?

Admitted as a transfer student to an Ivy League school (very rare and odd in and of itself) and pushed by whom for admission?

Focal area of interest in his Columbia studies, EarthTone, any idea??? No, and apparently you don't want to have any idea. That's very curious to me.

And forgive me for not being wowed that hard core Dems know that he graduated magna cum laude. Woop de doo.

Most odd in your response is the need to tell me, a black man, all about many parts of black America. Who cares if Obama is touting his academic record, the question I posed is why the hell is he HIDING his records? You've never addressed the legal career records, the health records, or the transcripts.

Eventually, EarthTone, this is going to catch up with him just as Alice Palmer, eventually, will have her revenge on this man for the underhanded way he knocked her off the ballot in Illinois.

[EarthTone]

{And forgive me for not being wowed that hard core Dems know that he graduated magna cum laude.}

I was just making the point that the comment in the post that We have no idea how Obama did, academically, either as an undergraduate or in law school" was false.

{Focal area of interest in his Columbia studies, EarthTone, any idea??? No, and apparently you don't want to have any idea. That's very curious to me.}

Explain to me why I should care? The additional detail on his studies or transcripts that you feel is being "hidden" would have *zero* effect on this race.

What are you trying to find... that maybe Obama was as horrible academically as McCain? Even if that were true, it would no impact on this election... the idea that this could somehow "catch up with him" is absurd.

{We know that McCain showed reporters over 1800 pages of his medical records. Obama released a single page from his doctor that said "yup, he's fine."}

John McCain is a 72 year-old cancer survivor. Obama is under 50, and in good health. The amount of actual material in Obama's file will of course be substantially less.

I don't know if what Obama released was 1 page or 10 pages. But if it shows Obama is in good health, what more do you need to know? What do you think he's "hiding"... his blood type? his allergies?

I'm sorry but, this emphasis on inconsequential minutia, while big issues such as the economy, health care, and the war loom large, explains why the McCain campaign is failing to connect with voters.

[Bailey727]

WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP SAYING OBAMA WENT TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY??? HE DID NOT! HE WENT TO OCCIDENTAL AND THEN TRANSFERRED TO COLUMBIA COLLEGE --- DIFFERENT THAN THE IVY UNIVERSITY AND COVERED UP.

[RattlerGator]

Bailey727, Columbia College *IS* Columbia University. This was one of its original names and as I understand it, the name is now used but one of its subordinate units. So, there's no functional difference. He attended that institution for his last two years of college and did Harvard Law for his professional degree.

Where's the issue?

Personally, I've never heard of anyone transferring into an Ivy League school and didn't know it was possible. Indeed, even though it is demonstrably possible I'd be willing to bet it is exceedingly rare. Yet another factoid about Barack Obama that is odd as hell and indicative of being a cherry-picked proxy.

But that's just my personal take.

[Marie]

Oh-bomb-a, just wait. I understand that it isn't the fact of where he studied but more,
-why the shying away from the degree
-why not be honest about things
-why does it feel like there is deception taking place?

I do not know about you guys,but when my gut tells me something isnt' right then something isn't right!

Tootles,