\nI received an email today with a story that was supposed to have been written by Alan Caruba and published in the Wall Street Journal. Since I fact check these things before I post or email them I found some information that I thought some on this board might be interested in reading.<\/p>\n
\tFirst of all the story was never published in the WSJ but it was written by Alan Caruba as a blog entry in his daily blog entitled, "Warning Signs" on January 2, 2010.<\/p>\n
\tHere is that original blog:
\n\t(I list the link to the blog at the end)<\/p>\n
\n\tSaturday, January 2, 2010
\n\tObama’s Make-Believe Life<\/p>\n
\tBy Alan Caruba<\/p>\n
\tI have this theory about Barack Obama. I think he\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\tIn 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? \u201cDreams of My Father\u201d was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The \u201cAudacity of Hope\u201d 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 \u201ccommunist with a small \u2018c\u2019\u201d was the real author.<\/p>\n
\tHis 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\u2019s formidable political machine at his disposal.<\/p>\n
\tHe 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?<\/p>\n
\tHe 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 \u201ccool\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
\tAnd 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\u2019s Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.<\/p>\n
\tThe 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.<\/p>\n
\tNow, 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.<\/p>\n
\tFar worse, however, is his capacity to want to \u201cwish away\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
\tThe great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign \u201cworld tour\u201d 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.<\/p>\n
\tOddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\tObama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an \u201cobstreperous\u201d Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against \u201cjumping to conclusions\u201d about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted \u201cAllahu Akbar.\u201d The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber \u201can isolated extremist\u201d only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot.<\/p>\n
\tHe 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.<\/p>\n
\tThe pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth.<\/p>\n
\tKnock, 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\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
\tWhen 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.<\/p>\n
\tWe laugh at the ventriloquist\u2019s dummy, but what do you do when the dummy is President of the United States of America?
\n\tPosted by Alan Caruba at 9:53 AM<\/p>\n
\tObama’s Make-Believe Life<\/a><\/p>\n \t________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n \tNow you can see why I would not want to say that was published in the WSJ without researching it first. I found out the true story about that original blog in another blog by Alan Caruba written on July 15, 2012.<\/p>\n \tHere is that blog: \tSunday, July 15, 2012 \tBy Alan Caruba<\/p>\n \tOn January 2, 2010, I posted a commentary to my blog, \u201cObama\u2019s Make-Believe Life.\u201d Someone picked it up, slapped the phony name of Eddie Sessions on it, and then alleged that it has been published in The Wall Street Journal. That commentary has literally gone around the world several times on the Internet. Hardly a day goes by that I do not receive an email asking to confirm if I wrote it or the Journal published it.<\/p>\n \tLike everyone else, since the 2008 campaign and the years since Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office in 2009 I have tried to figure out \u201cthe truth\u201d about him. Who is he? What does he stand for? What are his guiding principles and values? Where is he taking the nation?<\/p>\n \tOn June 9th, addressing an audience at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said, \u201cYou cannot lead by being a mystery. You cannot lead by being an enigma. You cannot lead by being aloof.\u201d<\/p>\n \tMany books have been published about Obama and I have read quite a few. With the exception of his two memoirs, those who delved deeply into the known facts of his life did not like what they found.<\/p>\n \tIn the years since he assumed office, many Americans have come to the same conclusion, often as the result of having been victimized by policies that have exacerbated the harm done to the economy after the financial industry incurred a meltdown; itself a victim of federal government\u2019s housing agencies and banking policies.<\/p>\n \tInstead of stepping back from the precipice, government under the Obama administration engineered the takeover of one sixth of the economy with the passage of Obamacare, acquired a major interest in two leading automobile companies, invested and lost billions in \u201cclean energy\u201d companies, and via the Environmental Protection Agency has asserted virtual control over manufacturing and other sectors by falsely claiming that carbon dioxide is a \u201cpollutant\u201d that must be regulated under the Clean Air Act.<\/p>\n \tWhile this was occurring the amount of debt incurred has reached historical heights, now somewhere near $17 trillion dollars, actually exceeding the value of the Gross Domestic Product, the amount of money earned by American industry and other business enterprises.<\/p>\n \tBarack Hussein Obama remains an enigma. Since my 2010 commentary I have written others that concluded that he is \u201ca moron\u201d and \u201ca Communist.\u201d I know these are harsh judgments, but not being a psychiatrist, I have been reluctant to venture into psychological areas. Instead I have concluded that he is one of those over-educated fools that is devoid of an understanding of history and of common sense and that his biography clearly demonstrates an affinity with Communism in terms of his upbringing and choice of associates.<\/p>\n \tThere are other unsavory aspects to Obama\u2019s life, not the least of which is his two decade association with a racist and anti-Semite, Rev. Jeremiah Wright and others of his ilk. Never forget Rev. Wright\u2019s condemnation of America as the cause, not the victim of 9\/11, when he said \u201cGod damn America:, absolving Islam of any blame.<\/p>\n \tAt this point, four months out from the election, I was stunned to read that Obama believes his \u201cbiggest mistake\u201d was to concentrate too much on policy and not enough \u201cto tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times.\u201d<\/p>\n \tFew Presidents come to mind who have been as divisive as Obama and there is no evidence beyond his vague, unfilled promise of \u201chope and change\u201d that he has inspired anyone. He has \u201ctold a story\u201d to Americans unceasingly in every venue possible.<\/p>\n \tFranklin Delano Roosevelt was reelected three times precisely because he conveyed \u201ca story\u201d to voters of the era of the Great Depression that kept them believing he knew how to solve its problems. Instead, like Obama, he expanded what was always intended to be a limited federal government into a monolith. Obama has expanded it.<\/p>\n \tWhat I found most striking, however, was Obama\u2019s belief that his vaunted talent for delivering a speech had failed him. He confessed to CBS News\u2019s Charlie Rose that not only had he failed to \u201cexplain\u201d, but also to \u201cinspire.\u201d<\/p>\n \tLike everything else about Obama, this struck me as a calculated lie. I don\u2019t think he or his spokespersons have ever told the voters the truth. If his confession is to be taken on face value, he also has not grasped that Americans have been rejecting his \u201csolutions\u201d to all the problems he blamed on George W. Bush because those solutions were an anathema to them.<\/p>\n \tBetween blaming Bush and all previous Presidents, events in other parts of the world, and his concentration on \u201cpolicy\u201d, Obama appears to be ignorant of the fact that his policies have failed\u2014more than forty months of unemployment\u2014and the rejection of his \u201csignature\u201d piece of legislation that will massively increase taxation. Add to this his failure to understand that there are two other branches of government with whom he was expected to work, indeed to compromise, and to obey!<\/p>\n \tPerhaps the most astonishing aspect of his confession is the fact this he has been the most visible and vocal President in modern history, forever on the stump, forever seeking the spotlight, and always, always, always talking about \u201cme\u201d and \u201cI\u201d.<\/p>\n \t\u00a9 Alan Caruba, 2012
\n\t(I list the link to the blog at the end)<\/p>\n
\n\tPondering the Obama Enigma<\/p>\n
\n\tPosted by Alan Caruba at 2:54 PM<\/p>\n