The Lid blogs on the story:
The Washington Examiner has investigated the narrative given to us by Barack Obama and the Democratic party and found it filled with lies. The truth is the president had a privileged up-bringing, went to the best schools throughout his life. His mother and step-father lived in the most exclusive neighborhood in Jakarta, Grandma who raised him in Hawaii was a bank VP. In Chicago he lived in the very upscale Hyde Park, and his clients were not the poor and underprivileged but the wealthy, some of who took advantage of Chicago’s poor. Oh and about his time as a professor, he wasn’t very popular–in fact it looks as if he mailed it in.
Bret Baier previewed the Washington Examiner report last evening. Go to the Lid to see the important video.
The report called The Obama You Don’t Know paints the portrait of
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a man quite unlike his image, not a visionary reformer but rather a classic Chicago machine pol who thrives on rewarding himself and his friends with the spoils of public office, and who uses his position to punish his enemies.
Peter Schweizer captures this other Obama with a bracing statistic in his book “Throw Them All Out,” published last year. In the Obama economic stimulus program’s Department of Energy loans, companies owned and run by Obama contributors and friends, like Solyndra’s George Kaiser, received $16.4 billion. Those not linked to the president got only $4.1 billion. The Energy Department is far from the only federal program in which favoritism has heavily influenced federal grants.
To paraphrase Tammany Hall’s George Washington Plunkitt, Obama has seen his opportunities and taken them, over and over.
Folks this report by the Examiner, is a must Read-Pass along-and read again! Please click here for the full Washington Examiner Report
The Washinton Examiner article makes an excellent point about how Obama leads a “double life” — one is the narrative spun out for the gullible, the other is reality. This “double dealing” extends to so many areas of Obama’s life — his religion (he runs around pretending to be like his mother a Christian, but, favors everything Islamic, like his father and step-father); his comfortable up-bringing in Hawaii (he and Michelle claimm he was “impoverished”, and living some sort of penurious existence); he claims to have been fighting for “civil rights” when he was litigating for slum landlords; his constant whine about racist America, when he lived as a wealthy, privileged, entitled taker– never once living in any black community. He is just a lying, clever con artist who’s fooled (probably) a majority of Americans. (He actually reminds me of Richard Nixon, only a hundred times worse.)
I wonder how Barry Os “average white people grandparents” managed to end up in not so very cheap to live in Hawaii? And what and who in grandma’s little ole nondescript bank did what in their far flung asian operations? Ah the intrigue, when it gets late in the day in Rome!