9/4/2008: Michelle Obama Speaks of Barack; Fiction vs Fact:

Michelle Obama: “His family was so much like mine.”
Fact: Barack Obama’s father, a Harvard trained economist, fathered
eight children by four different women. Married one....the others????

Michelle Obama: “He was raised by grandparents who were working-class
folks just like my parents, and by a single mother who struggled to
pay the bills just like we did.”
Fact: One of the first two female vice presidents at Bank of Hawaii,
Madelyn Dunham, his grandmother, raised Barry Obama. She paid the
tuition to the prestigious Punahou School in Hawaii. Barack Obama’s
mother, Ann Dunham Obama Sutoro, described as a fellow traveler, spent
Barack’s formative years studying anthropology in Indonesia and
helping thousands of poor women. She is credited with creating a
microfinance program there.

Michelle Obama: “And like my family, they scrimped and saved so that
he could have opportunities that they never had for themselves.”
Fact: Michelle’s family was middle class and Obama’s father advocated
an “active” program to achieve a classless society by removing the
economic disparities between black Africans and Asian and Europeans.

Michelle Obama: “And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same
values, like you work hard for what you want in life.
Fact: After Obama was sworn in as U.S. Senator, Michelle’s salary went
from $121,910 to $316,962 at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Obama used his influence to request a $1 million earmark for the
hospital where Michelle works.

Obama’s half brother Malik Obango Roy Obama, a terrorist in Kenya
supported by the PLO and Hamas in his bid to make Kenya an Islamic
State, believes Barack to be a good Muslim. And this, coming from a
man who conducted genocide against people who don’t support his cause
and who openly attacks Christians. It was Malik who shared video of
Barack Obama declaring his faith to Islam and Muhammad.

Michelle: “That your word is your bond; that you do what you say
you’re going to do.”
Fact: Obama served as director of the Woods Fund board alongside
William C. Ayers, a founding member of the Weathermen terrorist group
which declared war against and sought to overthrow the U.S. government
and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971.

Michelle: “That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you
don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.”
Fact: Obama’s half brother George Hussein Onyango lives on the
outskirts of Nairobi in a hut surviving on less than a dollar a
month.”

Michelle: Barack…talked about the world as it is and the world as it
should be. And he said that all too often we accept the distance
between the two, and we settle for the world as it is, even when it
doesn’t reflect our values and aspirations.
Fact: Michelle believes the United States is a mean country guided by
fear and made up of cynics, sloths, and complacents. It’s hard to
empathize with her assessment knowing that Barack’s half brother Raila
Odinga who is married to the niece of Mohammad Taha, the Hamas leader
in the Gaza Strip and who is the head of the militant branch of Hamas,
Al Aqsa Mosque red Brigade, orders the firing of rockets into Israel.

Michelle: “See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq
responsibly.”
Fact: Mark Ndesandjo, Obama’s half brother who received a degree from
Brown University, a masters in physics from Stanford and an MBA from
Emory and has 3 wives (two Chinese and one African) is charged by the
UK with supporting terrorism and using his business, Worldnexus, to
funnel money to terrorists -including Osama Bin Laden.

Michelle: “(Barack will) build an economy that lifts every family, to
make sure health care is available for every American and to make sure
that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the
way from preschool to college.”
Fact: Obama’s two decades of public service work translates into going
to school, working for a law firm, writing a book and community
organizing. Michelle backed the Urban Health Initiative which was
designed to steer primarily black, poor, uninsured patients, to other
health care facilities instead of University of Chicago Medical
Center.

Michelle: He’ll achieve these goals the same way he always has: by
bringing us together and reminding us how much we share and how alike
we really are. You see, Barack doesn’t care where you’re from or what
your background is or what party, if any, you belong to.
Fact: Michelle wrote in her Princeton thesis, “As a member of the
black community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize all
of my present and future resources to benefit the black community
first and foremost.”

Michelle: He knows that thread that connects us – our belief in
America’s promise, our commitment to our children’s future – he knows
that that thread is strong enough to hold us together as one nation
even when we disagree.
Fact: The Woods Fund Board provided $75,000 in grant money to the Arab
American Action Network, headquartered in Chicago’s Palestinian
immigrant community, which works to empower Chicago-area Arabs. AAAN’s
co-founder Rashid Khalidi called Israel an “apartheid system and a
racist” state, labeling suicide bombings a response to Israeli
aggression.

In her speech at the Democratic Convention, Michelle Obama attempted
to paint a picture of her husband as a man who defied the odds, who
despite being raised by a single mother and his grandparents, worked
through adversity to achieve his success and who uses his
accomplishments to better his community and our world. She explains
that they have similar values and experiences and assures the American
people that when he becomes president they will change this country
for the better, to reflect their utopian vision for our society.

There’s just one sticky point. Anyone with more than a superficial
understanding of what they represent understands that Barack’s Mother
and father, and Michelle’s bitter feelings about the racial divide in
America have succeeded in distorting this man’s worldview into one
that is diametrically opposed to that which fosters pride in our
country and its accomplishments, respect for tradition, and an
understanding that a person’s character is built from self reliance
and independence. With such a distorted view of themselves and their
past, it would be a tragedy if the voters buy the Obama’s vision for
the future as their own.