J. D. Pendry

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name ….” – William Shakespeare

John Sydney McCain repeatedly reminds us that he has the utmost respect for both of his likely opponents in the general election for the presidency. So much so that he apologized that someone so much as dared to use the given middle name of one of them during a political rally. With that approach, Senator McCain will never lay a glove on Barack Rose Obama, especially if he tries to spar him with political rhetoric and does not try to educate the voting populace about him. Sydney will get waxed while a complicit liberal media, eager to defeat any Republican, even the moderate, liberal leaning John Sidney McCain will turn its collective head in order to help.

Have you read about Antoin “Tony” Rezko? Syrian born “Arab American” Rezko is under federal indictment (pdf) for fraud. According to the Chicago Sun Times: “Obama and Rezko have been friends since 1990, and the Wilmette businessman has raised as much as $60,000 in campaign contributions for him.“ If I were an aspiring journalist, possibly working for the New York Times or some other august publication, I would be interested in learning more about Obama’s relationship with a man that is under indictment for kickbacks on government contracts, especially contracts steered by Illinois state politicians.

Obama, a former [state] lawmaker now in his first term in the Senate, once backed a proposal to grant public money to a company formed by Rezko, and the purchase of his home got tangled up with Rezko — something he [Obama] called a “boneheaded” mistake. – Chicago Tribune

It is an interesting real estate deal. It gets more interesting if you read about it, but of course it requires that you mine for the information that no single mainstream news organization wants to bring to the forefront. Another interesting character is also tied to Obama fundraising. His name is Nahdmi Auchi. An Iraqi born billionaire and former Baathist, if one can actually be a former Baathist. He was one of Saadam’s boys. Bill Gertz points out some interesting coincidence surrounding the possible Auchi-Rezko-Obama link in his Washington Times column.

Auchi gave at least $10.5 million to Obama fundraiser Antoin “Tony” Rezko, including a payment of $3.5 million that coincided with Mr. Obama’s purchase in 2005 of a $1.65 million Chicago house, the London Times reported Tuesday. The newspaper said the timing of the payment and the house purchase, along with the purchase of land next door by Mr. Rezko’s wife Rita from the same seller, raise questions about whether Auchi helped buy the house.

That $3.5 million loan is already in the crosshairs of the prosecutor. I wonder if this trial will happen before November.

The other thing that no one is allowed to do is display the picture of Obama dressed like a Somali. It is just a picture, but it may cause a certain sector of our country to recall that it was Somalis with the help of Al Qaeda terrorists that dragged the bodies of American Soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu.

Raila Odinga, the Kenyan opposition leader claims to be Obama’s cousin. Obama’s father was Kenyan and supposedly of the same Luo community as Odinga. I love his website, “Your agent for change. Register for change. Vote for change.” It was Odinga supporters who set fire to a church, burning alive its occupants and hunting down with machetes those who escaped the fire.

EVEN the children were burnt alive. In broad daylight, a crowd of Kenyans set a church filled with hundreds of terrified families on fire and listened to their screams as flames engulfed them.

Nothing quite like change is there?

Obama has other interesting acquaintances that deserve our attention. Did you ever hear of the Weathermen Underground? They were our own Vietnam era American bred terrorists. They liked to plant bombs in federal buildings. It turns out that Obama knows the leaders of that little outfit and actually met with them during his political rise. It is not just a passing acquaintance. He served as a director of the Woods Fund along with Weatherman William C Ayers. Ayers contributed to Obama’s senatorial campaign. The Woods fund gave money to an Arab organization that bemoans the “catastrophe” of Israel. The co-founder of that pro-Palestinian organization also held a fundraiser for Obama.

Although Obama might have some interesting associations, we are assured that he is a Christian. His spiritual mentor embraces some theological concepts that are personally troubling to me. He belongs to the Trinity United Church of Christ. His pastor, Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright preaches liberation and the Black Value System (pdf). I find some parts of it quite interesting. For example:

Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness”
Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that captors must keep the captive ignorant educationally, but trained sufficiently well to serve the system. Also, the captors must be able to identify the “talented tenth” of those subjugated, especially those who show promise of providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor’s control.

Maybe Jehoiada will examine this theology for us one day. Read the Reverend’s words in this Church bulletin, What’s Goin’ on? (pdf)

We have lost over 3,000 boys and girls in an illegal and unjust war, and the media is on a feeding frenzy about Barack Obama’s church. Where is the outrage about the 3,000 dead American military personnel and the 600,000 dead Iraqi civilians who are dead for no reason other than greed and ego? What’s goin’ on?

It is easy to see where Obama gets his voice on the war. It is scary, however, when you tie those views together with some of the relationships that, like his given name, are simply not to be mentioned. There is another interesting relationship that comes to Obama via his pastor. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has endorsed Obama.

“This young man [Obama] is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better.” – Farrakhan

Reverend Wright honored Farrakhan recently in his Church magazine (pdf) saying of him:

“When Minister Farrakhan speaks, Black America listens… “Minister Farrakhan will be remembered as one of the 20th and 21st century giants of the African American religious experience.”

Obama had to be cajoled to give a half-hearted rejection of Farrakhan in his last debate with Clinton. Reverend Wright tells us that when Farrakhan speaks Black America listens. If that is so, then this is what they hear:

White people are potential humans — they haven’t evolved yet” Wikipedia

“The Jews don’t like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that’s a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He rose Germany up from the ashes.” – USA Today

“The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning, that he never rise again to give any innocent black man, woman or child the hell that he has delighted in pouring on us for 400 years. – USA Today

John Sydney, I’m not quite sure that I know what to make of all of this. Except that you will probably apologize that I even brought any of it up.

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them. – Henry Fielding

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