OBAMA TRIVIA
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Here are some more or less known facts about the brilliant orator and presidential hopeful:

- he used alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine during his teenage years to
"push questions of who I was, out of my mind"

- according to his own claims both parents were declared atheists

- His first name Barak is a specific Arabic first name and his middle name Hussein is
a specific Muslim name

- Despite the fat that he claims that he has never been raised as a Muslim, in the
various schools he attended in Jakarta, Indonesia, he was registered as a Muslim;
also, according to his sister Maya Soetoro, "the family did not attend the mosque
for regular worship, but for communal events"

- his father was a polygamist, as he was already married with a child in Kenya,
when he married Barak Jr.'s mother: Ann Dunham; before divorcing her, he married
a 3rd woman, Ruth, while studying in Boston, MA

- four years after his father's death, Obama Jr. traveled to his father's ancestral
Kenyan village. There he learned the full story of his father's life and met some of
his relatives

- after his father, he has 6 step-brothers and a step-sister

- after his own told recollections, he was tortured by fellow pupils - who let out monkey hoots -
and turned into a disenchanted teenage rebel, experimenting with cocaine, marijuana and alcohol
However a former classmate, Alan Lum, radically contradicts Barak's claim:
"Hawaii is such a melting pot that it didn't occur to me when we were growing up that
he might have problems about being one of the few African-Americans at the school. Us kids didn't see color. He was easy-going and well-liked."

- While at Columbia University, his book claims, "no matter how many times the
administration tried to paint them over, the walls remained scratched with blunt
correspondence (about) niggers."
But one of his classmates, Joe Zwicker, 45, now a lawyer in Boston, said:
"That surprises me. Columbia was a pretty tolerant place.
There were African American students in my classes and I never saw any evidence
of racism at all."

- According to Chicago Sun of Feb 13, 08, a volunteer setting up an Obama office in Texas
had a Cuban flag with a picture of Che Guevara tacked up in her office

- the Italian translation of the book "Audacity of Hope" was published with an introduction
by Walter Vetroni, a former leader of the Italian Communist party

- One of Obama's good friend, campaign contributor and advisor is Tony Rezko, an Arab American, born in Syria, who is currently facing federal charges of attempted extortion, money laundering, and fraud; Obama had actually received nearly three times more campaign cash from Rezko and his associates than he has publicly acknowledged

- Interestingly, Obama's campaign has relied heavily on people such as Kenneth Griffin, a
Chicago-based hedge-fund manager who reportedly earned $1.4bn last year

- Obama's spiritual leader and counselor is Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who said in the
newly disclosed video that the 9/11 attacks were brought on by US "terrorism."

- Obama's congregation invited the leader of the terrorist organization Hamas, to post
political opinions in their printed flier

-Obama's wife Michelle ( possible First Lady) publicly declared that she is for the first time
proud for her country, when her husband is runing for President

- Barak has close association with the domestic terrorist organization
members like:
- William Ayers, who bombed high-profile government buildings,including the Capitol (in 70 and 72),
- Carl Davidson or Bernardine Dohrn, members of the "Weathermen" underground radical
leftist group that referred to itself as a revolutionary organization of men and women,
whose purpose was to carry out a series of attacks that would achieve the revolutionary
overthrow of the US Government

- Barak, while living in Hawaii, developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Frank Marshall Davis,
outstanding member of the US Communist Party, by listening to his “poetry” and getting
advice on his career path

- he repeatedly ducked controversial stands in an apparent attempt to make it easier
to be elected to higher office. For example, as a state senator in Illinois,
he voted "present" rather than "aye" or "nay" nearly an astounding 130 times

- he is endorsed by former Black Panther Charles Barron, and by Louis Farrakhan, the leader
of the "Nation of Islam", as well as other senior memebers of the Nation of Islam

- According to the National Journal, Obama is the most liberal of all 100 senators, who has
absolutely no military, executive or foreign policy experience

You know what? You're right! "Having something to put butter on than the side we butter it on." That is exactly right! Why isn't TPM covering this?!

Yvaughn: Check out the whole "Magic" CD. It's one hell of a critique on the past 7+ years... Enjoy! :)

Hey troll-boy. Wassup?

And don't forget Nadhmi Auchi. He deserves a pat on the back too.

Or Judy Garland. Let's hear it for drinking shots and beers! Yeah! That's what we need!

gdubs: That video was horrendous. I fdeel used and abused... =(

littleblackpropaganda: Come on... Doesn't Bruce's collaboration with Patti Smith give him the necessary punk cred? Also, there are no more subversive lyrics out there today than Bruce's MAGIC CD that I've seen.

Because the Night (Patti Smith) -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px__SsVXX_0