Posted on Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 07:26 pm:

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Article from the Wall Street Journal Forum by Eddie
Sessions:

"I have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he's
led a kind of make-believe life in which money was
provided and doors were opened because at some point
early on somebody or some group took a look at this
tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man
with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he
could be guided toward a life in politics where his
facile speaking skills could even put him in the White
House.

In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very
big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs
before the age of 45? "Dreams of My Father" was
published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The
"Audacity of Hope" followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did
write them himself. There are some who think that his
mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself
a "communist with a small 'c'" was the real author.

His political skills consisted of rarely voting on
anything that might be deemed controversial.. He went
from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the
Senator from that state because he had the good fortune
of having Mayor Daley's formidable political machine at
his disposal.

He was in the U.S.. Senate so briefly that his bid for
the presidency was either an act of astonishing
self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that
had been determined before he first stepped foot in the
Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a
2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that
nominated John Kerry when virtually no one had ever
even heard of him before?

He outmaneuvered Hillary Clinton in primaries. He took
Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the
state with a very small black population, he oozed
"cool" in a place where agriculture was the antithesis
of cool. He dazzled the locals.. And he had an army of
volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real
substance..

And then he had the great good fortune of having the
Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for
the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did
something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown
female governor from the very distant state of Alaska .
It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984's Walter
Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to
defeat.

The mainstream political media fell in love with him.
It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators
like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man.
The venom directed against McCain and, in particular,
Palin, was extraordinary.

Now, nearly a full year into his first term, all of
those gilded years leading up to the White House have
left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own
instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing
at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he
could not deliver even the briefest of statements
without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.

Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to "wish
away" some terrible realities, not the least of which
is the Islamist intention to destroy America and
enslave the West. Any student of history knows how
swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors
of Europe , having gained a foothold in Spain ..

The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his
campaign "world tour" were no substitute for having
even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of
a world filled with really bad people with really bad
intentions.

Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political
experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy
the Democrat Party's hold on power in Congress because
in the end it was never about the Party. It was always
about his communist ideology, learned at an early age
from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme
leftist friends and colleagues.

Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about
a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous"
Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans
against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer
at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar." The absurdity
of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded
this by calling the Christmas bomber "an isolated
extremist" only to have to admit a day or two later
that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.

He is a man who could strive to close down our
detention facility at Guantanamo even though those
released were known to have returned to the battlefield
against America .. He could even instruct his Attorney
General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial
when no one else would ever even consider such an
obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days
before having anything to say about the perpetrator of
yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have
to elaborate on his remarks the following day because
his first statement was so lame.

The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any
problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks
to wish away the truth.

Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack Obama
exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the
people who have maneuvered and manufactured this
pathetic individual's life.

When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a
birth certificate, this man has spent over a million
dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents,
the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been
sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe
life whose true facts remain hidden.

We laugh at the ventriloquist's dummy, but what do you
do when the dummy is President of the United States of
America?"

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