Obama: The Early Years

The article below was written during the presidential campaign and contains may items which Team Obama wanted us to read and several topics he did not want us to know ..... There will be a series of posts on the topics Team Obama did not want us to know in the next few weeks.

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Not only did Barack Obama have the support of main stream media, he had a vast network of community "get out the vote" organizers (working as non-profit groups which he himself has funded) and he has a league of online minions to plaster message boards and blogs with his talking points.



Below is a list of "exceptions" and major issues dealing with the candidacy of Barack Obama.



This list will be updated regularly as information is obtained from across the net .... please feel free to use/dissiminate this information and to add links with additional information in the comments section.

Early Life & Experiences

Embellished Resume?
Embellished Work History?

Experience ... well ... errrr ... ummmm .... uhhhhh .... how about ... uhhhhh .... well ....

Obama as Community Organizer:

Dreams from My Father: a son's odyssey to fulfill his father's political ambitions ....

If there is a mystery at the heart of Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father, one thing is not left a mystery, the fact that Barack Obama organized his life on the ideals given to him by his Kenyan father.

Obama tells us, "All of my life, I carried a single image of my father, one that I .. tried to take as my own." (p. 220)

And what was that image? It was "the father of my dreams, the man in

my mother's stories, full of high-blown ideals .." (p. 278)

What is more, Obama tells us that, "It was into my father's image .. that

I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself."

And also that, "I did feel that there was something to prove .. to my father" in his efforts at political organizing. (p. 230)

Barack Obama, the father, was a radical economist and socialist.

Barack Obama's father, a Harvard trained economist, attacked the economic proposals of pro-Western 'third way" leader Tom Mboya from the socialist left, siding with communist-allied leader Oginga Odinga, in a paper Barack Obama's father worte for the East Africa Journal.

As Odhiambo and Cohen write, "The debates [over economic policy] pitted .. Mboya against .. Oginga Odinga and radical economists Dharam Ghai and Barrack Obama, who critiqued the document for being neither African nor socialist enough."

The social and economic policies proposed by Barack Obama the son -- candidate for the Presidency of the United States -- reflect the influence of his father's radical and socialist aspirations.

A paper written by Barack Obama's father, titled "Problems Facing Our Socialism" (published July, 1965 in the East African Journal, pp. 26-33), expressed the father's positions on socialism and planning in Kenya:

1. Obama advocated the communal ownership of land and the forced confiscation of privately controlled land, as part of a forced "development plan", an important element of his attack on the government's advocacy of private ownership, land titles, and property registration. (p. 29)

2. Obama advocated the nationalization of "European" and "Asian" owned enterprises, including hotels, with the control of these operations handed over to the "indigenous" black population. (pp. 32 -33)

3. Obama advocated dramatically increasing taxation on "the rich" even up to the 100% level, arguing that, "there is no limit to taxation if the benefits derived from public services by society measure up to the cost in taxation which they have to pay" (p. 30) and that, "Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed." (p. 31)

4. Obama contrasted the ill-defined and weak-tea notion of "African Socialism" negatively with the well-defined ideology of "scientific socialism", i.e. communism. Obama views "African Socialism" pioneers like Nkrumah, Nyerere, and Toure as having diverted only "a little" from the capitalist system. (p. 26)

5. Obama advocated an "active" rather than a "passive" program to achieve a classless society through the removal of economic disparities between black Africans and Asian and Europeans. (p. 28) "While we welcome the idea of a prevention [of class problems], we should try to cure what has slipped in .. we .. need to eliminate power structures that have been built through excessive accumulation so that not only a few individuals shall control a vast magnitude of resources as is the case now .. so long as we maintain free enterprise one cannot deny that some will accumulate more than others .. " (pp. 29-30)

6. Obama advocated price controls on hotels and the tourist industry, so that the middle class and not only the rich can afford to come to Kenya as tourists. (p. 33)

7. Obama advocated government owned and operated "model farms" as a means of teaching modern farming techniques to farmers. (p. 33)

8. Obama strongly supported the governments assertion of a "non-aligned" status in the contest between Western nations and communist nations aligned with the Soviet Union and China. (p. 26)

NOTE: Please read the comments section for the above resource and the referenced Yahoo article.

Updates pending ....