Obama's Lore

The birther issue has gone away for now.  I am sure it will be back.  It has been trivialized by the liberal press, and somewhat marginalized by the conservative press.  It has been characterized as being "dirty" or "whacko" with the proponents of the issue vilified to the point of irrelevance. 

Unfortunately, the real message about the birther issue has been lost across the board.  We will never know as long as Barack Obama is president whether he was born in Hawaii or Kenya.  The folks in Arizona seem to have been placated by information sent to them by Hawaii.  But the investigation by Sheriff Joe Arpaio still raises many questions. 

Notwithstanding, we have established one thing: Barack Obama is a liar.  He has either lied to the American public in his election bid, or he lied to his public when trying  to sell his book.  One way or the other, he lied.  And that goes to the character of the man who is aloof, elitist, and seems above the law.  Do you want a liar as President?

In 1991 his literary agent Acton and Dystel published at a great expense biographies of those authors it then had under contract.   Obama was to write a book for them entitled Journeys in Black and White.  It its promo piece it stated that Obama was born in Kenya and raised in Hawaii.  Others in the promo booklet included Ralph Nader, Joe Montana, and Tip O'Neill.

Breitbart News broke the story.  It reported that it had no luck in talking with the agents directly involved.  But that sources told them that the non-athletes under contract most likely approved the content of their bios prior to publishing.  Notwithstanding, nothing was done to change or correct the content of the promo.  I would guess that a person with Obama's ego more likely than not had more than several copies lying around, no pun intended.  

This story has been in the news for a few weeks.  Breitbart News stated that it believes that Obama was born in Hawaii.  But content aside, how come we are only now just hearing about this?  Where was the investigative press in 2008?  The Washington Post ran a story about how Mitt Romney hazed a classmate when he was in high school...and they couldn't find this?

The fact that these issues continue to flow beneath the surface shows that whether or not Obama was born in the United States still is an important issue.  For most of us, it's irrelevant because too much time has gone by and nothing can be done anyway.  Conventional Wisdom has made its decision.

That being said, I still cast a jaundiced eye to the story concluding that Obama is either a liar or incompetent...or both.  It is clear that he was a pothead in his youth.  It is clear he associated on a regular basis with known radicals, some of them violent.  It has now been disclosed that his love interest in Dreams of My Father was non-existent, rather an amalgamation of various girls he dated, a standard literary trick for sure...but one not expected of the President of the United States. And it is clear he either lied to either the American public during the campaign, or to his potential book purchasers back in 1991.

Playing fast and loose with the truth is a political hazard to all politicians.  Look at the babe in Massachusetts running for Senate claiming she is a native American...and she isn't.  She is still making those claims...and the press lets her get away with it.  It's in her "family lore", she says. 

What is Obama's lore?  And what is the truth?  We will never know until he is out of the White House and the press comes to its senses once again.  I only hope it is sooner rather than later.