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Barack Obama - America’s Half-Blood Prince
November 2nd, 2008 10:35 am | by Jake4Constitution | Published in Commentary, Constitution, Election, Liberty, Obama | Comment
A comment on Steve Sailer’s new book on Barack Obama
by Jake, the Champion of the Constitution
Originally published November 1, 2008 at http://www.nolanchart.com/article5360.html
A scant three days remain until Election Day 2008, but there is still time for everyone to check out an upcoming book from Steve Sailer. Mr. Sailor’s book “America’s Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama’s Story of Race and Inheritance” is a worthy investigative report into the mind of Barack Obama. Mr. Sailer has made his book temporarily available here in PDF format, but plans to close the link shortly and publish the book later this month.
Mr. Sailer delves into Obama’s psyche. And it’s not that of a confident, benevolent hero or “The One” or the messiah as many of Obama’s supporters believe him to be. It is not even that of “the Barackcuda,” my own personal label for the junior Senator from Illinois. In fact, I have a queasy feeling that Sailer’s version is wildly different than that of just about any of Tuesday’s voters’.
obSailer’s version is of a boy wracked by an identity crisis of a double abandonment; his father’s abandonment of his mother and him at age two, his mother’s abandonment of him in Hawaii to pursue academic studies in Indonesia. America’s Half-Blood Prince’s version is of a man who grew up not knowing who he is, whether he is “black enough,” and whose main skill in life seems to be finding a way to “fail upwards.” The picture is painted of a child and man who self-torments himself with an identity crisis, and creates racial identity delusions that he then proceeds to bludgeon his sophisticated mind with. Sailer suggests that in a way, even his wife may just be a psychological and political salve for this grievous self-inflicted wound. It is ironic that the “abandoned” Barack then chose to disown the only pseudo-paternal relationship it seems he ever had, with the now infamous Reverend Wright.
So how can Sailer claim to have insight into Obama’s mind? Well, he did a lot of research, but what makes it so compelling is that his main piece of evidence is Obama’s self-written 1995 autobiography, Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. He writes that “fundamentally [the] book consists of a debate between Obama and Obama’s own autobiography” and that he is merely the “emcee.”
I agree with this assessment. I’ve read the book and welcome it as a solid piece of research presenting an alternative view of Obama, far more logical and empathetic than the typical streams of soundbites and blabberings from the remainder of our corporate-run state media. Here are a few teasers from the book:
* Learn where the phrase “The Audacity of Hope” really came from. (Not to be confused with Vaughn’s recent cool article “The Absurdity of Hope.”) Find out on page 108!
* Hint: it came from this fellow. Sailer covers why and how this person looks very similar to the Libertarian presidential candidate, Bob Barr. See page 169.
* Can anyone pick out little Barack in his 5th grade class photo from Hawaii? Sailer covers Barack’s education in depth.
* What is Black Liberation Theory? Does Barack believe in it?
* How is Barack’s life similar to Major League Baseball? Check out his great analogy on pages 95 and 229, although the rest of the book is needed to put this in full context.
* Did you know Obama vacation for a summer in Pakistan while a college student in 1981? Hope he didn’t visit any “camps.” See page 155.
* Note Michelle Obama’s collegiate racial views in her 1985 Princeton senior thesis, “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.” She lamented that white professors and classmates always saw her as “Black first and a student second.” She was frightful of her future, writing that “further integration and/or assimilation into a White cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.” And that her “experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘Blackness’ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.”
I will close with a sentiment from Sailer that I strongly agree with. After he paints a fairly critical picture of the Obamas’ racial beliefs, he notes “that doesn’t necessarily mean Mr. and Mrs. Obama still feel the way about race as they did when they wrote about the topic at length. Maybe they’ve changed their minds over the years. But shouldn’t somebody ask them about it? I realize a lot of people think it would be an invasion of their privacy, but they are running for the White House.”
As I wrote here, “Can Barack Obama Be President? - THE SAGA CONTINUES! (10/29 Update)“, the media has completely failed to do this in regards to Obama’s constitutional eligibility to be POTUS as well.
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In Liberty,
Jake, the Champion of the Constitution
www.CampaignForLiberty.com
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