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The Obama Timeline: 1961-2008

The following timeline presents the important aspects of Barack Obama’s life, from birth to the present. Every attempt has been made to present accurate information, names, and dates. If errors or significant omissions are noted, please free to contact the author at colony14@gmail.com. Although the timeline’s content will frequently change as events occur, the author will gladly send you a .pdf version if you would find that useful.

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Note also the following web sites, with up to date information on Obama’s birth certificate, citizenship, and other issues relating to Obama’s past:

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/

http://www.obamabirthcertificatefacts.org/

http://www.obamacitizenshipfacts.org/

http://naturalborncitizen.wordpress.com/

http://www.obamacrimes.com/

http://f2a.org/coast2coast/obamacitizenship.htm

http://theobamafile.com/

http://americamustknow.com/default.aspx

http://sites.google.com/site/obamabirth/

1961-1966

Barack Obama Jr. is born on August 4, 1961, allegedly in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Stanley Ann Dunham (1942-1995). Ann Dunham (who understandably dropped the “Stanley”) purportedly married Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr. (1936-1982), on February 2, 1961. Obama, Sr., an Arab-African Muslim by birth, but an atheist by admission, already had two children with a woman in Kenya named Kezia (b. 1938). It is possible, however, that Obama, Sr. was not legally married to Kezia (their marriage was perhaps only a tribal marriage), making his marriage to Dunham (if there was a marriage) legal. (Obama and Kezia eventually re-unite after he separates from Ann Dunham, and Kezia bears two more of his children.) [1,3,7,289,299,324]

Note that Barack Obama, Sr.’s Hawaiian education was being sponsored partly by the Laubach Literacy Institute (LLI), which has links to the Nation of Islam, and which considers a socialist world without national borders one of its goals. A financial supporter of the LLI was Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, who co-authored books with its founder, Charles Laubach; Kirk was also a friend of civil rights activist Malcolm X. It is likely that Malcolm X met Obama, Sr. while visiting the Secretary general of the Kenya Federation of Labour, prominent Kenyan politician Tom Mboya, in 1959, because Mboya and Obama were close friends. [527]

Obama Sr. was able to attend the University of Hawaii also through the efforts of Mboya, who visited the United States in 1959 and 1960 to obtain financial support for the American education of 81 Kenyan students. Candidate Obama is incorrect in relating that Obama Sr. was part of a “Kennedy airlift” of Kenyan students; that did not occur until after Obama was already in Hawaii. (Further, of course, Kennedy was not sworn in as President until January of 1961.) The “JFK helped my father” lie was intended to further attach some of the Kennedy “mystique” to the Obama candidacy. [561]

If Obama was born in Hawaii, he was then both an American citizen and a British citizen because his father was a citizen of the British East African Protectorate of Zanzibar (which became the independent nation of Kenya in 1963). If Obama was born in Hawaii, Obama’s British/Kenyan citizenship automatically expired when he turned age 21. If Obama later became a citizen of Indonesia by virtue of being adopted by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro, Obama lost his Kenyan and American citizenship at the point of adoption, because Indonesia has not allowed dual citizenship since 1945. (Note that because Kenya had, in 1961, not yet declared its independence from Great Britain, Obama was, like his father, a British citizen under Section 32(1) of the British Nationality Act of 1948. Both Obama, Sr. and Obama, Jr. then automatically became Kenyan citizens when the independent nation was formed in 1963.) [219,258,492,549]

Only one of Obama’s parents was American. Thus, if Obama was born in Kenya (or any country other than the United States), he cannot legally serve as President of the United States because he is not a “natural born citizen,” even though he may be a citizen. Obama’s American citizen parent, Ann Dunham, had to have been a resident of the United States for 10 years, at least five of which were over the age of 14; Dunham did not meet that requirement until her 19th birthday in November of 1961 – three months after Obama was born.

Obama is neither a natural born citizen of the United States, nor is he an “African-American.” His father, Barack Obama, Sr., is allegedly one-eighth African (on his mother’s side, from the Luo tribe in Kenya) and his father’s remaining ancestry is purported to be Arabic. Candidate Obama is thus more accurately referred to as “Arab-American.” Obama is not (like many black Americans) the descendant of African slaves owned by white American slave-owners. Having Arab ancestors, Obama is, in fact, most likely a descendant of slave owners, because Arabs have, for many centuries, traditionally owned slaves and been active slave traders. Further, the names Barack and Hussein are of Arab origin. (Note: There is insufficient publicly-available evidence to state with certainty the percentages of Obama’s national ancestries.)  [513,514]

Although a reported divorce of Obama, Sr. and Ann Dunham in 1964 suggests they had been married on Thursday, February 2, 1961, there are no disclosed records or witnesses to indicate a marriage, and Obama’s wife Michelle states in an interview that Ann Dunham was “very young and very single when she had him (Barack Obama, Jr.).” In any event, Dunham was unmarried and barely 18, or possibly even under age 18, when she became pregnant. A divorce may simply have been for the purpose of “establishing” a marriage after the fact. [4,6,8,10,324,352,564]

Dunham is an atheist, an “Adlai Stevenson liberal,” a secular humanist, leftist social-activist, and a student of cultural anthropology. Ann Dunham meets Barack Obama Sr. while both are studying Russian at the University of Hawaii. Dunham is an excellent debater at school, and excels at defending the concepts of Karl Marx’ “The Communist Manifesto.” [2,4,5,9,10,324,612]

In 1955, Ann Dunham had moved with her parents from Dorado, Kansas, to the Seattle, Washington area. (It has been alleged that Stanley Armour Dunham, had been suspected of espionage during World War II and that Boeing has a 1944 security file on Dunham in connection with suspected sabotage of B-17 aircraft at its Wichita, Kansas plant, and the theft of B-29 blueprints - which made their way to the German intelligence agency, the Abwehr; those suspicions may have prompted Dunham to move his family from Kansas to Washington.) Ann Dunham attended Mercer Island High School. The Mercer Island School Board was led by John Stenhouse, who was a member of the Communist Party USA, according to his testimony to the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Dunham’s teachers included communists Jim Wichterman, whose assignments included the reading of Karl Marx’ “The Communist Manifesto.” The hallway between Wichterman’s class and that of another leftist teacher, Val Foubert, was known as “anarchy alley.” Dunham graduated from high school in 1960. Dunham attended the East Shore Unitarian Church in Bellevue, which was known as the “little Red church on the hill” because of its communist leanings. [527,558,612]

In 1960, Dunham emphasized her “free spirit” with this statement to high school friends, "I don’t need to date or marry to have children.” Teacher Wichterman later recalled that Dunham would question anything, asking “What’s so good about democracy? What’s so good about capitalism? What’s wrong with communism? What’s good about communism?” [408,527,612]

Dunham was apparently a “free spirit” sexually. One former friend said that “She couldn’t be the girl you went steady with, but she could be the one you spent time with.” That friend was not alone in that opinion. Dunham was also known to engage in inter-racial relationships; friend Susan Blake said that Dunham never dated “the crew-cut white boys.” [564,614]

Shortly after Dunham’s high school graduation in 1960, the family had abruptly left Washington and moved to Hawaii, where she briefly attended the University of Hawaii. Taking his daughter with him to Hawaii was perhaps Stanley Armour Dunham’s way of keeping an eye on her; he may have been reluctant to leave her behind at the University of Washington, after at least one “false pregnancy” scare. At the University of Hawaii in her freshman year, Dunham was described as shy and reluctant to participate in classroom discussions; out of the classroom she was friendly with the boys, frequently flirting and repeatedly touching them. [558,564]

Knowing of her sexual reputation, Obama, Sr. supposedly told Dunham, “It’s not mine” when she informed him, in December of 1960, that she was pregnant. Obama, Sr.’s classmates knew he had a wife in Africa. [564]

Dunham’s acquaintances recall that they often had difficulties knowing when she was telling the truth. One remarked that, “She would make you believe anything while you were face-to-face but, a few minutes after she'd leave, you're realize what she said wasn't very… realistic or true," explained one. Another friend recalls joining Dunham for dinner with her parents. Dunham tells an incredible story about a car accident; her skeptical mother lets her finish the story and then says, “That never happened.” [564]

One birth theory speculates that Dunham’s parents were disturbed by the news of the pregnancy (understandably, considering the scandal an unwed pregnancy would bring in 1961), and likely tried to persuade her to give the child up for adoption and then claim she had miscarried. There is speculation that Dunham left Hawaii and gave birth to Obama in Washington State (or perhaps Canada) at a facility for unwed mothers, and then decided to keep the baby. She returned to Hawaii, registered the child’s birth, claiming the child was born at home in Hawaii (thus resulting in two different birth certificates for Obama), and then promptly visited a friend in Seattle that same month, August of 1961. Her friend recalls having to show Dunham how to change the diaper. Dunham collects food stamps for a time. [564]

Almost immediately after giving birth to Obama in 1961, Dunham returns to Washington State to attend the University of Washington, leaving her infant to be cared for by her mother, and leaving Obama, Sr. at the University of Hawaii. [527]

In the fall of 1962, Obama’s father leaves Hawaii to attend Harvard and then to return to Kenya, with a woman named Ruth Nidesand, who he met at Harvard. Obama, Sr. marries Nidesand in Kenya in 1967; they are eventually divorced; Nidesand claims physical abuse. Obama, Sr. eventually has at least eight other children with four women (two of those additional children are borne by his former wife Kezia, while he is still married to Nidesand.) Obama, Sr. does not see Barack Jr. again until 1971, when he visits Hawaii for one month to attend a gathering of former classmates; he is eventually killed in 1982, at age 46, in an automobile accident. (A year earlier, Obama, Sr. had been in an automobile accident and had both legs amputated as a result of the incident. Alcohol is believed to have been a factor in the final, fatal accident. The earlier accident was an apparent attempted hit-and-run assassination in retaliation for Obama’s testifying against the man who murdered his friend Tom Mboya in 1969.) [6,7,11,271,324,527,562]

The 1961 birth certificate posted on the Internet by the Obama campaign is suspected of being a forgery. If Obama does have a legitimate Hawaiian birth certificate, it possibly does not list a father if Dunham and Obama, Sr. were not married. (At that time, the custom was to omit the father’s name when the father and mother were not married). Or, the document may list a father other than Obama. Sr., or a birth place other than Hawaii. By July, 2008, there were unfounded allegations that the forgery had been performed by a Jay McKinnon, who describes himself as a “Department of Homeland Security-trained document specialist.” [12,325,494,548]

The Internet site “FactCheck.org” states that the birth certificate provided by the Obama campaign is legitimate, but it should be noted that FactCheck.org is affiliated with the Annenberg Public Policy Center of Pennsylvania, which is run by Obama supporters and funded by the Annenberg Foundation, which also funded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where Obama and William Ayers distributed tens of millions of dollars to leftist organizations. (It should also be noted that most - if not all - of the people who have declared the birth certificate to be either authentic or a fake have seen only photocopies or scanned images, and not an original paper document. [302,548]

The birth certificate provided by the Obama campaign lists the father’s race as “African,” a term that would likely not have been used for the newborn’s race in 1961; instead, a birth certificate would have listed the race as “negro” or “colored.” The use of the word “African” further suggests that the document provided by the Obama campaign was a newly-created fabrication. [372]

On August 13, 1961, nine days after his birth, an Obama birth notice appears in a Honolulu newspaper, which indicates that “Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama” had a son on August 4. [362]

There has also been speculation that Obama was born in Kenya and brought to Hawaii as an infant, because the airlines would (in 1961) not have allowed a pregnant Dunham to return home to Hawaii. Relatives of Obama in Kenya, who likely are unaware of the eligibility requirements of the U.S. Presidency, state that he was born in Kenya. [197,199,248]

Obama’s campaign has given the names of two different Hawaiian hospitals where he was supposed to have been born (Kapiolani Medical Center and Queens Medical Center, both in Honolulu). No one has been able to confirm the birth from either hospital’s records. There is allegedly a register of the birth in the public records office, dated August 8, 1961, one week after the birth, but it supposedly does not list a place of birth. (Note that a register of birth is not the same as a birth certificate.) [248]

Note that between November 20 and December 2 of 2008, 13 separate Hawaiian hospitals were contacted to determine if Obama had been born there; none of them could or would confirm it was the facility where he was born; the hospitals contacted included Queen’s Medical Center (where Obama says be was born) and Kapiolani Medical Center (where Obama’s half-sister Maya says he was born). [584]

A writer for “Online Journal” publishes an article on June 9, 2008 claiming that a research team went to Mombasa, Kenya, and located a certificate of the Kenyan birth of Barack Obama, Jr. It is unclear why that story, if it is true, did not get “traction.” There is also speculation that certified copies of a Kenyan birth certificate, with embossed raised seals and with birth witness signatures, are now in the hands of three individuals; the documents allegedly state that Obama was born at 7:24 p.m., on August 4, 1961, at Coast Provincial General Hospital, in Mombasa, Kenya. Government authorities in Kenya have stated that all documents regarding Obama would be under seal until after the November 4 election. (If Obama was born in Hawaii, of course, Kenya would have no Obama birth documents to seal.) [248,299,301,407]

The Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, allegedly has done some investigating and purportedly believes Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya. The British Secret Service, MI6, allegedly has documents relating to Obama, Sr., because he was politically active at a time when Kenya had not yet received its independence from England. [558]

There have been claims that Obama’s paternal grandmother (his father’s mother), Sarah Hussein Obama (or Sarah Onyango Obama) (b. 1922), told reporters that Barack Obama, Jr. was born in Kenya, when her son Barack, Sr. came to visit accompanied by a pregnant Ann Dunham - who was very close to her delivery date. Sarah Hussein Obama further states that she was present in the delivery room when Obama was born in Kenya. One half-brother and one half-sister of candidate Obama also claim he was born in Kenya. This would be consistent with a reported stop by Dunham in the state of Washington on the return trip to Hawaii, and with the possible existence of only a Hawaiian “register of birth,” rather than an actual birth certificate. The Chicago Tribune was told by Dunham friend Susan Blake that Dunham visited her in Seattle with the newborn infant shortly after his birth. [248,289,299,324,367]

Note that Hawaiian law (Hawaii Revised Statute 338-17.8) allows the State of Hawaii to issue a certificate of live birth even if the child is born outside the State, provided the parents have been legal residents of Hawaii for at least one year immediately preceding the birth. (Arguably, Obama, Sr. may not have been a legal resident of Hawaii for at least one year prior to August, 1961. Ann Dunham graduated from Mercer Island High School in Washington in 1960; if, as of August, 1961, she had been a legal resident of Hawaii for at least one year, it was just barely one year.) Such a certificate of live birth does, however, require that the place of birth be correctly recorded. Thus, had Obama been born in Kenya and shortly thereafter brought to Hawaii, Dunham could have requested a Hawaiian birth certificate for her son, but that document would have been in addition to the birth certificate issued in Kenya. Such a Hawaiian certificate, if issued, does not, of course, make the child a United States citizen; it is merely a birth-recording convenience offered by the State. [301]

Hawaii Revised Statute 338-17.8 reads, in part, as follows, “Certificates for children born out of state. (a) Upon application of an adult or the legal parents of a minor child, the director of health shall issue a birth certificate for such adult or minor, provided that proof has been submitted to the director of health that the legal parents of such individual while living without the Territory or State of Hawaii had declared the Territory or State of Hawaii as their legal residence for at least one year immediately preceding the birth or adoption of such child.” [583]

Note that states typically have a “long form” (certificate of live birth) and a “short form” (certification of birth) for their birth documents. The long form, or vault copy, contains the more detailed information, such as the hospital name, names of parents, date, time, infant’s weight and length, footprint, doctor’s name, mother’s signature, and certified signature of the doctor. In the pre-computer time of 1961, the long form document would have been filled in by hand or typed on a typewriter. The short form (or “abstract”) contains more limited information, and is the less desirable of the two forms when “absolute” proof is desired. When someone requests a copy of a birth certificate from a state (or county), the document provided is typically the short form, computer-printed at the time of the request, and based on information on computer databases; the vault copy is generally not retrieved and examined. The short form is then stamped or embossed with an official seal before being given to the person who requested it. Had Obama been born in Kenya, Ann Dunham could have returned with him to Hawaii and had his birth recorded there; the long form would state the place of birth as Kenya, while the short form would make no mention of the birthplace. [694]

The birth document provided by the Obama campaign, whether valid or forged, is the short form. Note that even the long form, or “vault copy,” per Hawaiian Statute, allows the birth in another state or country to be registered in Hawaii. (Box 7C of the Certificate of Live Birth - the long form – even asks whether the birth was in Hawaii or another state of country.) Thus having a Hawaiian birth certificate proves only that the birth was registered in Hawaii, it does not prove that the named individual was born in Hawaii. The place of birth is recorded on the vault copy document - but that is the document which Obama refuses to produce. [492,574]

Only a few sources have been listed here for the many Obama birth speculations; there are far too many, and rumors and stories can readily be found on the Internet. Speculation will not end until original birth and citizenship documents are released, and the likelihood of that may be minimal. A lawsuit has been filed by attorney Philip Berg (a Democrat, Clinton supporter, and former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania) to block Obama from running for and becoming President without first proving he is an eligible U.S. citizen; it alleges that Obama was born in Kenya. Whether that lawsuit leads to anything remains to be seen, but if the truth damages Obama, there will certainly be continued efforts by many to keep that truth successfully hidden. [13,543]

Even if Obama was born in Hawaii, an important issue may also be whether he became and is still an Indonesian citizen. [258,305]

One of Obama’s official web sites, “Fight the Smears,” states that “When Barack Obama Jr. was born on Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Kenya was a British colony, still part of the United Kingdom’s dwindling empire. As a Kenyan native, Barack Obama Sr. was a British subject whose citizenship status was governed by The British Nationality Act of 1948. That same act governed the status of Obama Sr.’s children. Since Sen. Obama has neither renounced his U.S. citizenship nor sworn an oath of allegiance to Kenya, his Kenyan citizenship automatically expired on Aug. 4, 1982.” This statement by the Obama campaign thus admits that he was a British (Kenyan) citizen at birth. With such “split loyalties” at birth, he is arguably not a “natural born citizen” and is ineligible to serve as President of the United States. [507]

Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the U.S. Constitution states that “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution shall be eligible to the Office of President.” The “grandfather clause” portion of the rule refers only to those persons who were living in the United States at the time the Constitution was ratified, and is therefore irrelevant to anyone living today. Thus, for all people alive today, the requirement is essentially, “No person except a natural born Citizen shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

Note that some have argued that Section 1 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution allows Obama to serve as President. The relevant part reads, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” This Amendment was meant to prevent the Supreme Court from ruling as unconstitutional the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (which granted citizenship to former slaves). Nothing in the 14th Amendment, however, changes the requirement that a President must be a “natural born citizen,” rather than simply a “citizen” or a “naturalized citizen.” (California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was born in Austria, is a “naturalized citizen,” but he nevertheless cannot legally serve as President because he is not a “natural born citizen.”) The 14th Amendment notwithstanding, an individual can serve as President only if he or she is a natural born citizen of the United States. (Note that the term “natural born citizen” appears in the U.S. Constitution only in Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5.) [509]

According to the University of Hawaii (UH), Ann Dunham first attended classes at UH on September 26, 1960. Dunham was also a student at UH between the spring of 1963 and summer of 1966, and sporadically at other times between 1972 and 1992. She received a BA in Mathematics in the summer of 1967, an MA in Anthropology in the fall of 1983, and a PhD in Anthropology in the summer of 1992. [408]

According to the University of Washington (UW), Dunham was enrolled at UW in the fall of 1961 (almost immediately after having given birth to Obama), the spring of 1962, and the winter of 1962. Note that the Obama campaign places Dunham only in Hawaii until she later moves to Indonesia with Lolo Soetoro; it omits any reference to her attending UW. These dates indicate that Ann Dunham was not even living with Barack Obama, Sr., because she attended UW while he remained at UH. [408]

Further complicating the Obama history is the alleged existence of July, 1961 photographs of Ann Dunham taken by a school friend on a Honolulu beach; in the photos, Dunham is wearing a bikini and is decidedly not pregnant. (The media has not broadcast  interviews with any former school friends of Dunham who remember her being pregnant; on the other hand, the media has not broadcast many interviews at all of people from Dunham’s or Obama’s past.) The photos were likely not from July of 1961. The originator of the July bikini story also suggests that Dunham attended Notre Dame de Jamhour in Lebanon, because of a possible “NDJ” emblem seen on Dunham clothing in a childhood photograph. That school, however, did not admit female students before 1975. Clearly, jumping to conclusions is not only possible, it can readily be stimulated by a candidate who is less than forthcoming about his past. [558]

In 1965, Obama’s father writes in the “East Africa Journal” an article called, “Problems Facing Our Socialism,” in which he criticizes Kenya for not being socialist enough. He writes, “Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed." Obama the Presidential candidate has so far suggested an income tax rate of “only” 39.6 per cent (not counting Social Security and Medicare taxes, and state income taxes). [271]

Obama, in his second book, “The Audacity of Hope,” clearly states that, like his father, he is also no great fan of the American system of free enterprise capitalism; he describes capitalism as “chaotic and unforgiving,” and has a desire to roll back the “ownership society.” [271]

1966-1970

In 1967 (possibly 1966), Ann Dunham marries Indonesian Muslim Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo (1936-1987), who she met at the University of Hawaii. Soetoro then returns to Indonesia. (Note that Soetoro was originally from Malaysia, but lived in Indonesia most of his life.) Obama and his mother later move to Indonesia to join Soetoro, probably in 1967. Soetoro likely adopted Obama, whose name is changed to Barry Soetoro. Elementary school records in Indonesia list Obama’s name as Barry Soetoro, his religion as Islam, and his citizenship as Indonesian. Obama attends Franciscus Primary School (1967-1969) and Besuki State Elementary School Menteng 01 in Jakarta (1969-1971). [6,14,172,289,324,329]

Lolo Soetoro is an executive with American Mobil corporation, and is a key liaison between the oil company and the Suharto regime; Suharto had been “installed” as the American-friendly Indonesian President/dictator in 1967, after a CIA-engineered 1965-1967 coup that deposed President Sukarno (who was considered soft on communism and a threat to American oil interests). Strangely, the leftist Ann Dunham, who would have been more politically sympathetic to the deposed Sukarno, married a man with ties to the bloodthirsty dictator Suharto. [615]

Obama practices Islam half-heartedly, irregularly attending prayer services at the mosque. According to one of his Indonesian school principals, Tine Hahiyary, the young Obama studies “Mangaji” (or “Mengagi”), which involves the recitation of the Quran. Note that Mangaji, in Indonesian schools, requires learning to recite the Quran in the Arabic language, and not the student’s native tongue. Non-Muslims or even moderate Muslims would not send their child to Mangaji classes; it is much more involved that a Christian child attending “Sunday School” class. (Many Indonesians, in fact, wonder why Obama is hiding his Muslim past.) [15,251,332,336]

A former classmate of Obama in Indonesia, Rony Amiris, in 2007, describes Obama as having enjoyed football, playing marbles, and being a very devout Muslim. Amir said, "Barry was previously quite religious in Islam." Classmate Emirsyah Satar stated that Obama “was often in the prayer room wearing a sarong.” Obama was often observed in the school’s prayer room and at the local mosque for traditional Friday prayers. [332,521]

Publicly, Obama denies he ever was a Muslim and claims he is a devout Christian. (He also alleges he was never in church when his pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, was spewing anti-white and anti-American rhetoric in his sermons.) Many, if not most, of the world’s Muslims feel that “Obama may not want to be counted as a Muslim but Muslims are eager to count him as one of their own.” One Obama problem may be that if he is seen by radical Islamists as someone who denounced the Muslim religion to become a Christian, his background can be exploited to “argue that an apostate is leading the war on terror…” which can then help terrorists “…galvanize (additional) sympathizers into action.” [252]

If it is assumed that Obama is legally adopted by his Indonesian step-father, Lolo Soetoro, Obama becomes an Indonesian citizen, according to Indonesian law. Because Indonesia does not allow dual citizenship, Obama thus loses his U.S. citizenship when he becomes an Indonesian citizen, in or about 1967. At this point Obama also ceases to be a Kenyan citizen, according to Indonesian and Kenyan law. Ann Dunham would have been required to renounce her U.S. citizenship, under Indonesian law, for her marriage to Lolo Soetoro to be considered legal in Indonesia. If, after Obama returned to Hawaii, he applied for and was granted American citizenship, he would be a naturalized citizen (like California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger) and not a natural-born citizen, and would therefore be ineligible to serve as President of the U.S. It is possible that Obama did not even bother to become a naturalized citizen of the United States, and remains an Indonesian citizen. Appropriate federal records would exist if Obama made application for naturalization; if they exist, they have not been made public. [258,300,305,492]

Note that Indonesia’s policy of not allowing dual citizenship must be respected by the United States, in accordance with the Hague Convention of 1930. Note also that Obama, as a child, was not required to personally renounce his U.S. citizenship; that could have been accomplished for him by his mother. [492]

Note also that, according to Indonesian legal experts, it is difficult for non-Indonesian citizens to enroll in public schools in that country; this further supports the assumption that Obama was adopted by Soetoro. Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro, has also stated that Obama was adopted by her father. [329]

In 1967, Oginga Odinga, a comrade of Obama’s father and possibly his brother-in-law, is arrested in Kenya for holding a rally that turns into a riot. In 2006, candidate Obama supports Odinga’s son, socialist Raila Odinga, in his run for the Presidency in Kenya. [271]

1971-1979

In 1971 or 1972, Obama is sent back to Hawaii to live with his mother’s parents; his mother remains in Indonesia. (Dunham likely traveled with Obama to Hawaii, and then promptly returned to Indonesia without him, but with his half-sister, Maya Soetoro.) Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham (1918-1992), manages a furniture store, and his grandmother, Madelyn Lee Payne Dunham (b. 1922), is a bank vice-president. [16,289,324,329]

In December of 1971, Barack Obama, Sr. returns to Hawaii to attend a party and visit with former University friends Neil Abercrombie and Pake Zane. Obama, Sr. apparently spends very little time with his son during that visit. A few photographs of Obama, Sr., Ann Dunham, and Obama, Jr. are taken at the airport. Note that in later years, Abercrombie state they have no recollection of ever seeing Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr. together. Abercrombie later becomes Hawaii’s first district’s Congressman and member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus; he works openly with the Democratic Socialists of America. [527,562]

Obama’s maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, age 86, still resides in Hawaii. The Obama campaign has kept her off-limits, and prohibits interviews with her. (Note: Madelyn Dunham dies on November 3, 2008, the day before the election.) [329,515]

Aside from a few visits to Hawaii, Ann Dunham spends most of the rest of her life based in Indonesia, but she travels extensively, to Ghana, Thailand, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and China. Dunham took her daughter Maya with her on a 1986 trip along China’s “silk road.” Dunham returns to Hawaii before her death in 1995. [329,614]

While in Indonesia, Dunham spent time in Yogyakarta, where she studied native handicrafts; she eventually returned to the University of Hawaii to receive a 1992 PhD in anthropology, and wrote a dissertation “Peasant Blacksmithing in Indonesia: Surviving and Thriving Against All Odds.” Dunham’s employment included teaching English at the American embassy in Jakarta, consulting for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), “program officer” work for the Ford Foundation, some form of consulting work in Pakistan, and employment with Women’s World Banking. Note that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is alleged to have used both the USAID and the Ford Foundation as “front” agencies. Whether Dunham had any CIA connections is unknown, but it is also unclear how Dunham could afford a life of globe-trotting and post-graduate education without significant employment. Note that Dunham was passingly fluent in Urdu (the national language of Pakistan) and several other languages, something the CIA would find valuable. [607,608,609,610,611,612,613,614,615]

After returning to Hawaii and upon turning age 18, Obama could possibly have relinquished his Indonesian citizenship and become a naturalized U.S. citizen, with the proper paperwork filed through the U.S. State Department and by swearing an oath of allegiance to the United States. It is believed that Obama did not do so. [258,300,301]

If Obama did not relinquish his Indonesian citizenship and become a naturalized U.S. citizen, he remains an Indonesian citizen, and has not been a U.S. citizen since being adopted by Lolo Soetoro in Indonesia in 1966 or 1967. Thus, he is ineligible to be President of the United States. (He is also ineligible to be a United States Senator.) Obama’s repeated failure to provide documentation to prove he is a U.S. citizen suggests to many that it does not exist, and he is therefore possibly perpetrating a colossal fraud on the 300 million citizens of the United States. Obama may, in fact, be an illegal resident alien, subject to expulsion from the United States Senate, arrest, and deportation to Indonesia. Obama could also be subject to a massive class action fraud lawsuit by everyone who made donations to his campaign (over $600 million), under the mistaken belief that he was eligible to serve as President. [258,300]

Obama attends the elite, expensive, private Punahou High School (1971-1979). The school is racially diverse and whites are not in the majority. The young Obama is sometimes called “Barry the Butt” (because he was pudgy in his earlier years). In public schools in Hawaii (but perhaps not at the Punahou private school) is traditionally known as “Kill Haole Day” (“Kill Whitey Day”), where Caucasian students are beaten up, usually in the school bathrooms. [16,17,324]

Because of his drug abuse, Obama’s grades are poor in his final two years of high school. Obama later writes that “Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though.” (Note: by “blow,” Obama means cocaine; “smack” means heroin.) His grades may also have been affected by peer pressure, as his “choom gang” friends on the basketball court and football field would likely have teased him for having good grades. His jock friends are known as “choomers” (smokers), who smoked pakalolo (pot) and drank beer (alcohol could be legally purchased at age 18 in Hawaii). Obama also sang in a school chorale group. [18,575]

Bryon Leong, a former classmate of Obama’s at Punahou, states that Obama “…was known as a partier, as a guy looking for a good time, but not much more," and, “There was pot in Hawaii in the 1970s, but it wasn't a big deal.” [332]

Dunham leaves Soetoro in 1972 and returns to Hawaii. She divorces Soetoro in 1980. [289]

Ann Dunham rarely sees Obama after 1975. [324]

By his own admission, Obama’s high school grades are not exemplary; rather than do homework, he reads the works of black authors like James Baldwin (who believed that America was hopelessly irredeemable), communists Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Ralph Ellison, and W.E.B. DuBois, and civil rights activist Malcolm X (who was killed in 1965, and whose history led Obama to write in “Dreams From My Father” that “Only Malcolm X's autobiography seemed to offer something different. His repeated acts of self-creation spoke to me"). [20,190,558]

High school friend Keith Kakugawa relates later that Obama “…made everything out like it was all racial.” After Obama complains about being picked on at the basketball court because of his race, Kakugawa’s father tells Obama, “No, Barry, it’s not because you’re black, it’s because you missed two shots in a row.” [20]

While a teenager in Hawaii, Obama spends considerable time with Frank Marshall Davis (whose identity Obama hides by describing him only as “Frank” in his book, “Dreams From My Father”). Davis is a dope-smoking drinking buddy of Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Dunham; Dunham and Davis had known each other in Kansas. Obama had met Davis shortly after arriving in Hawaii, at age 10, but was most influenced by him during his high school years. In place of his absent father and stepfather, Davis becomes Obama’s mentor. [19,21,389]

Davis is a member of the Communist Party of the USA, a poet, propagandist, “bitter opponent of capitalism,” and radical agitator; in 1948, Davis had fled Chicago after the FBI and the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated his subversive anti-American activities. Davis is also a bi-sexual, sex pervert, child molester (bragging of repeated sexual encounters with a 13 year-old girl), and pornographer, and is the author of the book “Sex Rebel: Black” under the pseudonym Bob Greene. Davis “…would cruise in Hawaii parks looking for couples or female tourists to have sex with. He derived sexual gratification from bondage, simulated rape and being flogged and urinated on. He boasted that ‘the number of white babes interested in at least one meeting with a Negro male has been far more than I can handle’ and wished ‘America were as civilised as, say, Scandinavia.’” He concluded: ‘I regret none of my experiences or unusual appetites; for me they are normal.’” [21,259,261]

Obama joins Davis at his home on most evenings, shares alcohol and drugs, is tutored in socialism, and taught not to trust the white establishment. "They'll train you so good," Davis said, "you'll start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit." Davis teaches Obama, “Black people have a reason to hate” and “You may be a well-trained, well-paid nigger, but you’re a nigger just the same.” [22,33,261]

Davis sometimes works as a street vendor, selling hot dogs from his Chicago-style wheeled cart near his home in Waikiki. From the cart Davis also sells drugs (marijuana and cocaine), frequently accompanied by Obama and his grandfather. Davis is the main source of drugs used by Obama while in high school. [429]

It is believed that Davis was a close friend of Thomas Ayers (father of William Ayers) in Chicago, and that it was Davis who encouraged Obama to attend Columbia College in New York and hook up with William Ayers. [259]

Davis’ Marxist-inspired poetry includes lines like, “Smash on, victory-eating Red Army!” Titles of his poems include, “Christ is a Dixie Nigger.” [261]

In Davis’ autobiography, he writes of his seduction of a young white girl, age 13, named “Anne.” This fuels speculation that the “Anne” in Davis’ book is Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, and that Obama may actually be the child of Frank Marshall Davis. Obama’s grandfather and Davis were close friends, but there is no hard evidence that Obama’s father was Davis. When Ann Dunham moved to Hawaii with her parents in 1959 or 1960 she was already age 16 or 17. Davis had known the Dunhams in Kansas, however, so Davis would have had contact with Ann Dunham before she moved to Hawaii. The Dunhams also lived in Seattle, where Ann Dunham attended the very liberal Mercer Island High School. There is speculation that Davis had been in Seattle, doing organizing work for the communist-infiltrated International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU); that may have placed Davis with Dunham when she was 13. The ILWU is linked to the Honolulu Recorder, the newspaper Davis worked for in Hawaii. Lastly, nude photos of a woman purported to be Ann Dunham and alleged to have been taken by Frank Marshall Davis are circulating on the Internet, but faked photos are not terribly difficult to produce using computers. [21,259,260,365,370,389]

This Davis-as-father speculation is listed here only to provide the reader with as much information as possible about Obama’s background; it is not meant as an endorsement of the speculation itself. If additional information is obtained which confirms or refutes the speculation, it will be presented here.

Some have noted that Frank Marshall Davis’ son, Mark Davis, bears a reasonable resemblance to candidate Obama, and what some would consider a stronger resemblance than shared by Obama Jr. and Obama Sr. The mother of Mark Davis, Helen Canfield, was, like Ann Dunham, a white woman. One could speculate that Obama’s father was not Barack Obama, Sr., but Frank Marshall Davis. Because Davis and Ann Dunham could certainly not have let that relationship be known (Davis was married and age 55, Dunham was only 17, and Davis was Stanley Dunham’s friend), Dunham may have convinced Obama, Sr. that he was the father-to-be. When he, Obama, Sr., later learned that was not the case, he abruptly left Dunham, moved on to Harvard and then returned to Kenya. There has been speculation that Dunham and Obama, Sr. never actually lived together in Hawaii and never got married; this speculation is supported by the fact that Obama, Sr. continued to attend the University of Hawaii, while Dunham attended the University of Washington during late 1961 and early 1962, before returning to Hawaii to again attend UH. [369,408]

If the Davis-as-father speculation is true, Dunham may have continued the lie for the benefit of her son and her own parents. Davis would later be eager to be Obama’s mentor if he was, in fact, Obama’s father. Obama may not have learned the true identity of his father for some time, perhaps not until after the death of his grandfather, Stanley Dunham in 1992. It was not until after his grandfather’s death that Obama began work on his book, “Dreams From My Father.” At that point he may have understood who his real father was. His book needed to include the “Kenyan history” in order to continue the charade for his planned political career, but the “dreams” Obama needed to pursue had more to do with a continuation of Davis’ legacy. It is worth noting also that Obama’s reluctance to give financial support to his poverty-stricken half-brother George, in a Nairobi slum, or to his destitute aunt in Boston, may be due to his knowing that they are not actually related to him at all. This is speculation based only on photographs and circumstantial evidence; the disclosure of appropriate original documentation by Obama would resolve unanswered questions and end speculation. The remainder of this timeline continues with the assumption that the father of Barack Obama, Jr. was Kenyan Barack Obama, Sr. [369]

There is also speculation that Obama is the son of the civil right activist, Malcolm X (Malcolm Little), who was murdered in 1965, allegedly by members of the Nation of Islam. (Ann Dunham graduated from high school in the Seattle area in 1960, and Malcolm X formed the Nation of Islam Temple No. 67 in Seattle that same year, and was a guest speaker at various universities, including the University of Washington.) It is not difficult to see that Obama resembles Malcolm X much more than he resembles Barack Obama, Jr., but a resemblance is of course not the same as hard evidence. Perhaps the truth will never be known without the release of original birth records or DNA testing… and the likelihood of that is minimal. Dunham was already in Hawaii, however, when she became pregnant in late 1960. In order for Malcolm X to be the father, he had to have been in Hawaii in late 1960 or Dunham had to leave Hawaii to be with him; no evidence of either circumstance has been produced. [524,526,527]

Note that the Malcolm-X-as-father scenario would, however, explain why Obama seemed to be “looked after” - both financially and otherwise - throughout his college years. Obama would later receive a letter of recommendation for Harvard from Percy Sutton, who was Malcolm X’s attorney. Khalid al-Mansour (aka “Donald Warden”) becomes the main financial backer for Obama; al-Mansour has been a close associate of Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Louis Farrakhan, and Malcolm X, who was the national spokesman for NOI. It is not unreasonable to assume that, if Obama was indeed the son of Malcolm X, those who were close to the civil rights leader would “look after him” in any way possible, making sure he was taught in the ways of Islam and socialism, funded by Arab and Syrian financiers. Obama’s benefactors would include Tony Rezko, Percy Sutton, Khalid al-Mansour, Muhammadian Mian Soomro, Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said, and William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who would have known Malcolm X and associates like Black Panther members Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Note also that a close neighbor of Obama’s in Chicago is Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Malcolm X split with the Nation of Islam partly over the issue of the illegitimate children of its leader, Elijah Muhammed. If Malcolm X then fathered his own illegitimate child (Obama), he would have had to cover that up in order to retain his reputation of being “above the fray,”- and to protect his son from the criminal record, death threats, and violence he himself experienced. Barack Obama, Sr., who Malcolm X had met in Kenya, became the fall guy. Many pieces of the puzzle would fit – and the Obama birth certificate is one of the key pieces.

That the father of candidate Obama was someone other than Barack Obama, Sr. is speculation. Right or wrong, therefore, the remainder of this timeline continues with the assumption that the father of Barack Obama, Jr. was Kenyan Barack Obama, Sr.

1979-1981

Obama moves to Los Angeles, and attends Occidental College, where he plays basketball and continues taking drugs. He becomes friends with Pakistani Muslims Mohammed Hasan Chandoo (perhaps Chandio) and Wahid Hamid, and Indian Vinai Thummalapally. At Occidental College (a private school for wealthy kids whose grades weren’t good enough to get them into the University of Southern California), Obama indulges in alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine. He becomes interested in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. While at Occidental, Obama is mentored by an openly gay professor, Lawrence Goldyn, who has a strong influence on Obama’s acceptance of gays. Fellow student Thummalapally lives with Obama in the summer of 1980. [20,28,188,189,191,245,332]

Obama’s freshman year roommate at Occidental is Imad Husain, a Pakistani. [332]

At Occidental, Obama allegedly meets a professor of politics who happens to be a CIA expert on the Soviet Union and an associate of Zbigniew Brzezinski (who would later be the National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter). Without the release of his school records, it is impossible to determine whether Obama was a student of Brzezinski. [615,616,618]

Obama’s friends at Occidental tend to be the more politically active blacks, foreign students, Chicanos, Marxist professors, structural feminists, and punk-rock performance poets. Obama is rebuked on one occasion for calling another black student, who wasn’t “black enough,” an “Uncle Tom.” One female student criticizes Obama with the remark, “You always think it’s about you.” [187,192]

While at Occidental, Obama joins the Students for Economic Democracy (SED), which is a branch of the Campaign for Economic Democracy (CED), a group that was founded by radical, anti-American, Marxist activist Tom Hayden (former husband of actress Jane Fonda), who was also active with the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). William Ayers’ subsequent radical group, the Weather Underground, was comprised of many former SDS members; in 1969 the Weather Underground - then called simply “Weatherman” - declared “war on Amerikka.” In 1970, Ayers explains the philosophy of he movement, "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home; kill your parents; that's where it's really at." Ayers dedicated his book, “Prairie Fire,” to Sirhan Sirhan (Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin) and others he considered “”political prisoners.” Obama’s first known public speech takes place at an Occidental College event sponsored by the SED. [259,332,432,454]

An FBI informant who had infiltrated the Weather Underground witnessed a meeting at which the group discussed a future communist takeover of America in which some 25 million "diehard capitalists" would need to be killed. The members discussed a future in which Cuba, North Korea, China, and the Soviet Union would establish "re-education centers" in the Southwestern United States. [373]

Obama may have made a 1980 trip to Kenya to visit his father. During that trip, he may also have visited Pakistan, and Indonesia (to visit his mother). It is possible, however, that the reports of a 1980 trip are mistaken, and Obama’s only such trip was in 1981. [194,195,196]

During his college years, Obama maintains contact with his father through correspondence, until his death in 1982. [271]

Probably in late 1980, Obama decides to stop using the name Barry Soetoro and returns to the name Barack Obama, Jr. [194]

Obama is disappointed in a grade he receives from political science Professor Roger Boesche, and complains he is being graded “on a different curve” because of his race. [20]

In 1981, Obama visits his mother and half-sister in Indonesia, and then continues on for three weeks to Karachi, Pakistan and Hyderabad, India, with his friends Chandoo and Hamid, and finally to Kenya to visit his father’s family. Obama’s mother had returned to Hawaii in 1980 to file for divorce from Lolo Soetoro; it is unclear whether she was actually in Indonesia at the time of Obama’s 1981 visit. [23,25,26,194,195,196,245,549]

Note that Indonesian passports expire every five years. If Obama became a citizen of Indonesia through adoption by Lolo Soetoro in 1967 and was then issued a passport, by 1982 he would need to again renew the document. Obama turned age 18 in 1979. If he renewed his Indonesian passport at any point after his 18th birthday, Obama would have officially lost U.S. citizenship – if he even still had it – according to 8 USC Sections 1481(a)(2) and 101(a)(1), because of “…taking an oath or making allegiance or other formal declaration of allegiance to a foreign state… after having attained the age of 18.” [549]

Obama stays with the family of Hassan Chandoo while in Karachi. Another of Obama’s hosts, in Jacobabad, Pakistan, is Muhammadian Mian Soomro, Obama’s senior by 11 years, son of a Pakistani politician (Ahmadmian Soomro, the deputy speaker of the West Pakistan Assembly) and himself a politician, who later becomes interim President of Pakistan when Pervez Musharraf resigns in August of 2008. Soomro states that “someone” personally requested that his father “watch over” Barack Obama, but Soomro will not name that individual - who allegedly is an American, possibly with CIA ties, now living in South America. [24,615,617]

It is unknown who financed Obama’s costly, multinational 1981 trip.

Note that a trip to Pakistan in 1981 was not possible for Americans, except for those who were on official government business, because it was on the list of dangerous nations banned by the State Department for U.S. travelers. Pakistan was also under martial law at that time. It is possible that Obama was able to enter Pakistan on an Indonesian passport, but he would have had that document only if he was an Indonesian citizen; if he had become an Indonesian citizen, he was no longer an American citizen and his use of an American passport would have been illegal. Pakistan, being almost 100 per cent Muslim, would have welcomed foreign Muslim visitors in 1981. The U.S. State Department would not have known Obama was in Pakistan had he traveled on an Indonesian (or a Kenyan or British) passport. [549]

Note that Obama’s Pakistani host, Soomro, worked for several major banks, including the Bank of America, which owned the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). BCCI has been involved in money laundering, bribery, terrorist support, tax evasion, smuggling, and illegal immigration; its nickname is the “Bank of Crooks and Criminals International.” American intelligence used BCCI for funneling money to the mujahadeen to assist in its fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. [617]

Obama’s school records from Occidental College have been kept secret. This may simply be to hide poor grades. It is also possible that those records list Obama as an Indonesian, and not an American, citizen. [259,380]

1981-1984

Obama moves to New York City and enrolls at Columbia University. He attends socialist conferences “for inspiration.” His roommate is Pakistani Muslim Sohale Siddiqi. Siddiqi is a drug user; Obama allegedly stops using drugs while at Columbia. Living a few blocks away from Obama and Columbia is William Ayers (at 520 West 123rd Street). [26,27,206,297]

Obama’s English professor at Columbia is Edward Said, a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel activist. [387]

Obama may have met Zbigniew Brzezinski while at Columbia, as Brzezinski taught international relations at the school. [618]

At Columbia, Obama studies political science and international relations. His thesis is allegedly on nuclear disarmament. (The Obama campaign will not release copies of that document.) Obama graduates from Columbia in June of 1983, with a degree in political science, without honors. [29,264]

Note: Both at Occidental College in California and at Columbia College in New York, Obama’s roommates are foreign Muslims. This may be indicative of something, and it would be worth knowing if the students themselves chose roommates or had them assigned to them. Whether chosen or assigned, were the pairings because of Muslim backgrounds, or foreign backgrounds, or foreign citizenship? Do Obama’s hidden college records reveal the answers to those questions?

After graduation from Columbia, Obama joins the New York Public Interest Research Group, an organization founded by Ralph Nader. Obama becomes an organizer at Harlem’s City College, working with student volunteers on recycling programs. [31]

Like his Occidental College papers, Obama’s academic files from Columbia have been kept secret. While attending Columbia, Obama lived off campus, near William Ayers. It is possible Obama first met Ayers during those years, 1981-1983. There is speculation that Frank Marshall Davis arranged for Obama to meet William Ayers in New York, and their being neighbors was not a coincidence; Ayers then  possibly suggested that Obama return to Chicago with him. (Was Ayers the reason Obama moved to Chicago?) Years later, Obama and Ayers are again neighbors, in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood. [259]

Looking for evidence of Obama’s past, Fox News contacted 400 Columbia students from that time period; none remembered Obama. Wayne Allyn Root was, like Obama, a political science major at Columbia who also graduated in 1983. In 2008 Root says of Obama, "I don't know a single person at Columbia that knows him, and they all know me.  I don't have a classmate who ever knew Barack Obama at Columbia. Ever! ... Nobody recalls him. I'm not exaggerating, I'm not kidding.” Root adds that he also was “Class of ’83 political science, pre-law” and “You don't get more exact than that. Never met him in my life, don't know anyone who ever met him. At the class reunion, our 20th reunion five years ago, 20th reunion, who was asked to be the speaker of the class? Me. No one ever heard of Barack! Who was he, and five years ago, nobody even knew who he was... the guy who writes the class notes, who's kind of the, as we say in New York, the macha who knows everybody, has yet to find a person, a human who ever met him. Is that not strange? It's very strange...” Note that Obama’s photograph does not appear in the school’s yearbook, and Obama consistently declines requests to talk about his years at Columbia, provide school records, or provide the name of any former classmates or friends while at Columbia. [332,346]

Obama and Ayers share a mutual friend, Edward Wadie Said, a Palestinian-American, political activist, anti-Israel professor at Columbia; Said was called the “professor of terror” by the American magazine, “Commentary.” In 1998, Obama and his wife attend a banquet at which Said is the keynote speaker; Obama is seated next to Said at the well-attended dinner. [332,334,335]

Obama regularly attends Marxist-socialist conferences at Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Manhattan. [332,337]

Obama works briefly for Business International Corporation in New York, a small newsletter-publishing firm that prints articles relating to global business; Obama later “embellishes” that job, saying he was hired as a “research assistant” by a “consulting house to multinational corporations,” had his own private secretary, and dealt with Japanese financiers and German bond traders. His former co-workers say Obama’s accounts of his job are grossly inflated - he wore jeans, shared cubicles with others in a dumpy office, had no secretary, and merely re-wrote articles for newsletters. Obama remarks later in life that the job exposed him to the “coldness of capitalism.” [30,31,32]

In 1983, Obama falls in love with a white woman, but ends the relationship after he realizes he will have to adapt to her white world, rather than the other way around. [357]

1985-1988

Obama moves to Chicago, and hangs out with black militants and leftists. Obama works as a “community organizer” for the “Industrial Areas Foundation” (IAF), an organization founded by Marxist and radical agitator Saul Alinsky. Its national activities have included a “Citizens USA” project to obtain citizenship for over one million illegal aliens. (Coincidentally, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s senior honors thesis at Wellesley College, “There is Only the Fight,” is about Alinsky; in 1968 Alinsky offered Clinton a job, which she declined.) [33,45,46,192,229]

Obama also works with the Alinsky group “Developing Communities Project” (DCP), and “ACORN” (the “Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now”) and Project Vote, both Alinsky-network creations. Obama’s duties include organizing residents of the Altgeld Gardens housing project on Chicago’s south side. ACORN is an off-shoot of what had been the National Welfare Rights League (NWRL), a militant 1960s group that staged protests in welfare offices and, often successfully, demanded increased benefits with threats of violence. ACORN was founded by William Ayers’ SDS associate, Wade Rathke, and is currently the largest and most powerful leftist organization in the United States. [45,324,227,322]

Obama’s Altgeld Gardens work allegedly involves forcing a clean-up of asbestos. Obama’s mentor during his time on the project was Hazel Johnson, who argues that she discovered the asbestos problem and led the efforts to resolve it; according to Johnson, Obama exaggerated his role in the project in his book, “Dreams From My Father.” [345]

Alinsky’s “training manual” for community organizers, “Rules for Radicals,” states that community organizers are primarily agitators, who must "Fan the resentments of the people of a community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression - he must search out controversy and issues... An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontentment [sic].... He knows that values are relative.... Truth to him is relative and changing." [315]

Note that Alinsky’s work also influenced the creation of the “Cloward-Piven Strategy,” named after Columbia University professors Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Their strategy involves taking action to force deliberate failure in society, to foster change toward socialism, by overloading the bureaucracy with impossible demands, lawsuits, holding officials to the extreme letter of the law, etc. The Cloward-Piven method is to push society into an economic collapse, thus forcing a fear and resentment of capitalism, making it easier to usher in socialism. The Cloward-Piven strategy is one of the tactics used by “community organizers” (e.g., storming welfare offices and violently demanding immediate action) to impose intentional strains on the system, and to force the hiring of more government workers than necessary to deal with their ever-increasing demands. [327]

Obama has probably already met William Ayers by this time, and likely still remains in contact with him. [259]

While at IAF, Obama reports to Gerald Kellman. Kellman is a follower of Alinsky, whose book “Rules for Radicals” was widely read by 1960s radicals, such as members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Weather Underground, and the youths who rioted at the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago. (Obama’s line about “the world as it is and the world as it should be,” which his future wife swooned over and which she repeated twice in her speech to the Democrat National Convention, comes from Chapter 2 of Alinsky’s book.) [20,33,352]

Obama is hired with $25,000 Kellman receives from the Woods Fund. Obama will later serve on the Woods Fund board, along with former Weather Underground domestic terrorist, Pentagon bomber, radical, leftist, communist, and fugitive from justice, William Ayers. [33,204]

Note that the Woods Fund was founded by the Woods family, which owned a coal business that was a major supplier of coal to Commonwealth Edison; the CEO of Commonwealth Edison was Thomas Ayers, father of William Ayers. [346]

Gerald Kellman later relates that Obama’s job “largely consisted of interviewing community members and creating a narrative out of their experiences, the problems the community faced.” [190]

As a community organizer, Obama, despite being a “master of agitation,” has limited success working for more welfare programs for the poor on the south side of Chicago. Obama is less a “community organizer” than a “community agitator,” getting people to demand more welfare benefits and government hand-outs. [35,47]

Obama also works on voter registration drives during this period, and comes into contact with leftist political groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and Socialist International (SI); Obama is likely to have met Carl Davidson during this period; Davidson is a former member of the radical group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and later is a member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), which organized the 2002 rally where Obama announces his public opposition to the looming Iraq War. [34]

Obama learns from the Alinsky crowd the method for getting people to support radical change they would ordinarily not be willing to accept. "They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.” Thus, just as it has been the theme of most Democrat Presidential campaigns over the last 30 years, so is it Obama’s: “Everything is terrible and headed in the wrong direction, your lives are in shambles, greedy capitalism is at fault, and you need to trust a bigger government and my plans to solve all your problems.” [192]

For three years, Obama is the director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), part of the “Gamaliel Foundation,” another Alinsky-like group which uses “in your face” tactics and threats against banks to obtain more loans to people in poor neighborhoods. Gamaliel’s co-founder and executive director is Gregory Galluzzo, who served as a trainer and mentor during Obama’s community activist days in Chicago. [227,228,337]

Probably in 1987 or 1988, Obama joins the Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC); it’s pastor is Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a fiery orator who preaches Marxism, black liberation theology (a Marxist version of Christianity that worships a white-hating black Jesus), gives controversial sermons, supports communists in Cuba and Nicaragua, and who later says America deserved the 9/11 terrorist attacks and that America intentionally spread the AIDS virus to remain wealthy at the expense of poor Africans. (Some accounts state that Obama joins TUCC as late as 1992.) Note that joining the church requires swearing an oath of belief in its black liberation theology. Obama will eventually attempt to distance himself from Wright’s outrageous remarks which are, arguably, not crazy or unusual outbursts but expressions of standard Black Liberation Theology – which one may assume is why Obama joined the church in the first place. [33,268,324,336,688]

For what it calls a “commitment to truth, education, and leadership,” Obama’s church magazine, “Trumpet Newsmagazine,” gives a “lifetime achievement award” to Louis Farrakhan, a virulent anti-Semite whose quotes include, “Hitler was a very great man,”  “Judaism is a gutter religion,” and “white people are potential humans, they haven’t evolved yet.” Obama alleges that his church is “fairly conventional,” and that he “wasn’t in church” when Wright made his more inflammatory statements. [36,37,38,39]

Reverend Wright, along with Louis Farrakhan, visits Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi in 1984. Obama’s church presents Louis Farrakhan with its “Empowerment Award.” (References to that award are, in 2008, removed from the church’s web site after Obama’s relationships with Wright and Farrakhan are questioned.) [315]

Obama considers Wright to be his “moral compass,” “sounding board,” and “confidant.” Obama is likely an agnostic or perhaps an atheist, like his mother and father (or a “mystic” like his future avid supporter, Oprah Winfrey), but joins the church for “street cred,” probably to please his wife, and to end the flak he receives from people in the community for his lack of religion. [202,239,271,336]

Obama alleges that he was baptized at TUCC, but no one has been able to find records of the event. [336,564]

Lolo Soetoro, Obama’s step-father, dies of a “liver ailment” in 1987. [560]

1988 – 1991

In the spring of 1988 (possibly 1985 or 1986), Obama visits his family in Kenya. [40,329]

It is believed that Obama visited his mother, Ann Dunham, in Pakistan some time during 1987 and 1992, while she was working there. [329]

In the fall of 1988, Obama begins his studies at Harvard Law School; helping Obama gain acceptance at Harvard is a letter of recommendation from civil rights activist and Malcolm X attorney Percy Sutton; Sutton is asked to write the letter by Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour (aka “Donald Warden”), a radical Muslim and vitriolic anti-Semite, mentor of Black Panther Party founders Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, close associate of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and acquaintance of Obama. Al-Mansour alleges in his 1995 book, “The Lost Books of Africa Rediscovered,” that the United States is plotting genocide against black Americans. (Mansour has called for a national “bloodbath” of white Americans, and has said that the black “killing and mutilating” of whites and Jews is part of God’s plan.)  Mansour is believed to have been the main financial backer and planner for Obama for as long as 25 years, and is a principle advisor to Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the world’s 19th wealthiest person ($29.5 billion), and nephew of Saudi Arabia’s King Adballah. (It is unclear why a financial advisor to one of the world’s richest men would have an interest in funding the education of the young Obama, whose grades at Occidental College had been less than stellar because he was more interested in drugs than studying.) [41,43,380,381,382,527,558]

Note that Alwaleed bin Talal also donated $20 million to Harvard to fund “Islamic Studies.” [380]

It has been suggested that it was William Ayers who persuaded Khalid al-Mansour to raise funds for Obama’s Harvard tuition. Ayers associated with al-Mansour when he was still known as Donald Warden. Warden was a lawyer and advisor to the Black Panther Party, whose offices were next door to Warden’s. Ayers, Warden, Dohrn, and others planned the overthrow of the United States at a marina in San Francisco, where Ayers, Dohrn, and other radicals were hiding from the authorities. [259,380]

A Harvard letter of recommendation for Obama is also written by John McKnight, who serves on the Gamaliel Foundation’s Board of Directors, as well as the board of National People’s Action (NPA), another group of Alinsky-inspired agitators that pickets homes of business leaders and politicians. The NPA consists of Alinskyite thugs and agitators who, when picketing the homes of business and government leaders to demand more benefits and hand-outs, sing: "Who's on your hit list, NPA? Who's on your hit list of today? Take no prisoner, take no names. Kick 'em in the ass when they play their games." [230,267]

It is unclear how Obama gets into Harvard Law School, which has exceptionally high admissions standards, with applicant LSAT scores expected in the 98 to 99 range, and a grade point average of 3.8 or higher. It is assumed that if Obama had such scores, his campaign would be bragging about them; it has not, and will not release his school records. One assumption is that Obama had connections, such as Khalid al-Mansour, who both paved his way and paid his way; al-Mansour’s friend Percy Sutton states that al-Mansour had been “raising money” for Obama. Obama denies knowing al-Mansour, but al-Mansour, in an interview with Newsmax reporter Kenneth Timmerman, admits he had spoken with Obama and told him he would keep a “low profile” in order to avoid embarrassing the candidate. [56,264,315]

It is also unclear how Obama paid for his education, especially his years at Harvard Law School. (Occidental College and Columbia are also far from cheap.) He appears not to have held any steady jobs during the period, and he also took several extensive and expensive trips overseas. (Obama doesn’t mention his Pakistan trip(s) in his books.) He and his wife later say they needed many years to pay off student loans, but those loans are not recorded on financial disclosure statements Obama was required to submit when he became a Senator.

Attorney Percy Sutton tells reporters in 2008, “I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money for him. The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour.” Gifts from al-Mansour may have funded Obama’s years at Harvard. In April of 2008, however, Obama’s wife states that Obama had “just paid off his loan debt” for his Harvard Law School education. That statement, however, is not consistent with a review of Obama’s financial disclosures, which go back to 2000 and which did not list any outstanding college loans. (As a candidate for the U.S. Senate, Obama was required, in 2004, to file a financial disclosure form detailing his assets, income, consulting contracts, and liabilities. Obama listed zero for liabilities in 2004 and in all subsequent U.S. Senate financial disclosure forms. [211]

If Obama’s school loans had been paid off earlier, then his wife’s statement that he “had just paid off his loan debt” was a lie; a pandering lie intended, no doubt, to make the two of them appear to be “just another struggling middle class family.” If the loans had, in fact, just been paid off, then the candidate lied on his financial disclosure forms, which could subject him to impeachment from the Senate.

Another possibility is that candidate Obama and his wife are both lying, and the school loans were actually gifts from Khalid al-Mansour, which were expected to be paid back with future political favors – such as promoting a Palestinian state at the expense of Israel. If Obama’s tuition and expenses were financed by others without any expectation of direct reimbursement, they were thus gifts that should have been listed on his income tax filings. Obama’s failure to do so would mean he violated income tax regulations and is subject to additional taxes, interest, and penalties - and perhaps criminal charges.

Obama is selected as one of 40 editors of the Harvard Law Review (HLR), but he apparently wrote only one article for the HLR, in which he argued against placing any limits on abortion, with the remarkable statement that abortions would “…prevent increasing numbers of children born into lives of pain and despair.” His fellow editors elect Obama President of the HLR, partly in response to the demands of Professor Derrick Bell that a black woman be appointed to the law faculty. [55,56,385]

While at Harvard, Obama is already planning his political career. Former Harvard classmate Christine Spurell states, "It was clear to me from the day I met him that he was thinking about politics.” [332]

While on a break from class at Harvard, Obama spends eight days in Los Angeles taking a national training course taught by Saul Alinsky's “Industrial Areas Foundation.” [47]

In 1989, Obama works briefly at the Sidley Austin LLP Law Firm, as a summer associate from Harvard law School, where he meets future wife Michelle LaVaughan Robinson; she is his mentor at the law firm. Also working at the firm is Bernadine Dohrn (1984-1988), former Weather Underground radical, terrorist bomber, fugitive from the FBI (having achieved “most wanted list” status), and wife of fellow radical William Ayers. (Although Dohrn works for the law firm, her criminal record prevents her from being admitted to the Illinois bar.) [50,55,324]

Obama’s summer job at Sidley Austin is likely arranged by William Ayers and Ayers’ father, Tom Ayers, (CEO of Commonwealth Edison, 1975-1986). [259]

In 1990, Obama serves as a summer associate at the law firm Hopkins and Sutter in Chicago. [357]

In 1990, Obama turns down a job offer from Antoin “Tony” Rezko’s low-income housing development company; this may have been one of Obama’s first contacts with Tony “the fixer” Rezko. Rezko, born in Aleppo, Syria, maintains varied contacts with Obama until he is convicted and jailed in 2008. It is not known how Obama first met Rezko. (Ayers, Obama, and Rezko have all dealt with the Broadway Bank in Chicago, run by the mob-tied Giannoulias family, and it may have been Ayers or a Giannoulias family member who brought Obama’s name to the attention of Rezko.) That first Obama-Rezko contact was initiated by David Brint, a Rezko partner (along with Daniel Mahru). [48,245,664]

Note that Rezko has been alleged by some to have had ties with the Syrian Mukhabarat, or Shu’bat al-Mukhabarat al-‘Askariyya (Department of Military Intelligence). [558]

In 1991 Obama receives his law degree from Harvard Law School. [55]

1991-1992

Obama returns to Chicago in 1991, where he is named the Illinois head of “Project Vote” (an affiliate of “ACORN,” a group infamous for its involvement in vote fraud), to help increase the number of black voters. Project Vote is required to remain non-partisan to retain its tax-exempt status as a 501(c)(3) organization under the IRS Code, but it adds an estimated 125,000 new voters in Illinois in 1992, mostly Democrats, to help Carol Moseley Braun win a United States Senate seat. [45,240,283]

In 1991, Michelle Robinson is hired by Valerie Jarrett to work for the City of Chicago, for $60,000 per year; Jarrett is rumored to be the likely chief of staff in an Obama Administration; she was born in Iran in 1956, to American parents, while her father was working there on the staff of the Nemazee hospital. It is said that Obama makes few major decisions without referring to Jarrett. [245,246,352,664]

Note that Valerie Jarrett is the daughter-in-law of the late Vernon Jarrett; Vernon Jarrett was a friend of Frank Marshall Davis, with whom he worked at the Chicago Defender, a leftist newspaper that advocated the radicalism of the Communist Party. Vernon Jarrett later became the Chicago Tribune’s first black syndicated columnist, and was a strong supporter of Chicago’s black mayor Harold Washington, who had defeated the “Daley machine’s” candidate with the help of Chicago’s Communist Party and the Democratic Socialists of America. Valerie Jarrett is CEO of Habitat Co., a company which managed Grove Parc Plaza, a 504-unit housing project in Chicago that fell into disrepair and is famous for its pathetic living conditions (collapsed roofs, unrepaired fire damage, rodents, and backed up sewage). Another even larger of Chicago’s subsidized housing complexes managed by Jarrett’s company was seized by the federal government in 2006 after widespread problems were identified. Note that Jarrett was CEO of Habitat at the same time she served as Chicago Mayor Daley’s planning commissioner, suggesting significant conflicts of interest. [478,479,480,545]

On December 17, 1991, Obama is admitted to Illinois Bar, enabling him to practice law. On his application he lies at least three times, failing to disclose that he had previously used the name “Barry Soetoro,” neglecting to disclose his record of drug use, and failing to disclose his approximate $400 in unpaid parking fines. [345]

In 1992 Obama marries Michelle LaVaughan Robinson. The ceremony is performed by Reverend Jeremiah Wright, at Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. [329]

One of Obama’s tasks at ACORN, where he works with Madeline Talbott, is training “community activists” how to use “direct action” and be more forceful in demanding change. The “in your face” style is preached by Obama, and used by activists to stage sit-ins and demonstrations at banks to garner publicity and support for more bank loans for unqualified poor people. (ACORN stages a two-day sit-in at the House Banking Committee room in1991.) Tactics include picketing at the homes of bank executives and calling them racists for not lending to the poor. Among the banks targeted by Talbott and Obama is Chicago’s Bell Federal Savings (which no longer exists). The Chicago Tribune, in September of 1992, referred to the ACORN agenda as “affirmative action lending.” Critics later refer to those types of loans as “Ninja” loans (“No Income, No Job, no Assets”). [225,227,491]

Obama plans his first book, “Dreams From My Father.” He receives a $125,000 advance from publisher Simon and Shuster, but fails to write the book (which is supposed to be about race relations, not an autobiography). Obama travels with his wife to Bali to gain the “peace and quite” to write, but still produces no manuscript. The contract is canceled, and Obama is asked to return part of the advance payment he receives. Obama returns to Chicago, signs a new contract (with Times Book, a Random House Division) for $40,000, and subsequently delivers a completed manuscript. It is believed that “Dreams From My Father” was ghost-written by Obama’s friend, William Ayers, based on the startling similarities of Ayers’ writings and the Obama book, the fact that Obama’s only previous public writings were atrocious poetry he had written in college, and Obama’s inability to speak well when not reading from a script or off a teleprompter. (Some also argue that the later audio version of the book, recorded by Obama, comes across as unnatural, as though the words are not entirely his.) The book is a critical and financial dud – until Obama becomes famous and it is re-printed. [57,58,224,250]

In 1992, Obama helps found “Public Allies,” a voluntary public service organization (modeled after Alinsky’s AIF) that recruits youths to perform “public service” while they are indoctrinated in socialist ideology; Obama’s wife Michelle becomes the group’s Executive Director in 1993. The program is the model for candidate Obama’s “Universal Voluntary Public Service” program, which he stealthily promotes as an expansion of Kennedy’s “Peace Corps.” [51,52,461]

1993 – 1996

Obama is hired by Miner, Banhill and Galland, a law firm that specializes in making government deals to develop low-income housing, and which deals with Tony Rezko’s firm “Rezar.” Obama’s specific duties at the law firm are not known. (He refuses to provide a list of his clients.) Obama is also a law lecturer at the University of Chicago during these years. Obama likely remained on the payroll of the law firm until his 2004 Senate campaign, although his law license became inactive in 2002; he worked only during the summers after 1996. It is believed that Obama never actually tried a case in court; he worked on teams with other lawyers to draw up briefs and contracts. [42,53,245,324,345,420]

Note that Judson Miner had been a classmate of Bernadine Dohrn at the University of Chicago Law School in the late 1960s, when both were involved in anti-war activity. Miner had also been counsel to Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, and former Illinois Senator Carol Mosely Braun had worked briefly at the firm. Mr. Allison Davis, co-founder of the firm, later became a Chicago land developer, with ties to Tony Rezko. [345]

Note that Allison Davis has 51 per cent ownership in several Chicago real estate development businesses; because he is black, his ownership allows him to take advantage of laws favoring “minority ownership;” Davis is, however, a multimillionaire with no need for special minority treatment, and he is merely taking advantage of rules meant to help others. As a state senator, Obama steers millions in state development money to firms owned by Rezko and Davis. Some of the housing developments built by Davis are managed by a company owned by Davis’ son, Cullen Davis. [664]

In 1993, Obama is placed on the board of the Woods Fund by William Ayers. (The period Obama serves on the Woods Fund board may be 1997 to 2002; conflicting dates have been presented in the media.) [259,297]

While on the Woods Fund board in 1993, Obama votes to approve a $1 million payment to the Neighborhood Rejuvenation Partners, a partnership run by Allison Davis; Davis is the founder of the law firm where Obama works, Miner, Banhill and Galland. [664]

In 1993, Obama runs leadership training sessions on the subject of “power” for ACORN leaders, and continues to do so until at least 2003. Obama also helps train the staff of high-ranking ACORN leader Madeline Talbott; Talbott is arrested for heading a protest confrontation at the Chicago City Council. [283]

About 1993 (possibly later), Obama buys a townhouse in Chicago, with a loan provided by the city’s Broadway Bank. His down payment is $110,000. The bank, owned by the politically-connected Giannoulias family, is alleged to have long-standing mob ties, as well as connections with Tony Rezko and William Ayers. Allegedly Obama gets a “sweetheart” deal on the townhouse, ostensibly in exchange for future favors. Obama later endorses Alexi Giannoulias when he runs for Illinois State Treasurer. [281,291,329]

Obama’s townhouse is allegedly purchased by or for him in 1993, but various names are listed as the owner and the payer of the property tax while Obama lives there. The Warranty Deed changes from the name of the prior owner, Stephen Anderson, to Obama, in 1993, but the release of the Anderson mortgage is not recorded until 1998, at which point it is sent to Obama’s former law firm. There may be reasonable explanations for the various names and events, or Cook County bookkeeping may be less than perfect, but the oddities (not all of which are listed here) may also be the result of a complicated real estate “deal” arranged for Obama. [291]

Sometime in 1993, Michelle Obama’s law license is suspended, revoked as a result of a court order; it is unclear why. [677]

In 1994, Obama represents ACORN in a lawsuit against redlining. [225]

In 1994, Obama represents a client suing Citibank for denying mortgages to blacks, essentially forcing the bank to give loans to poor credit risks. [263,497,531]

In the fall of 1994, Obama’s mother becomes ill with ovarian cancer. [324]

In 1995 Obama’s first book, “Dreams From My Father,” is published. It sells only a few thousand copies and has to be remaindered; critics call it “overwrought” and “self-indulgent.” The book is re-published in 2004, with some changes, after Obama becomes famous, and it earns him a fortune. [57,58]

A 1995 article in the “Chicago Reader” describes how Obama had rejected the “…unrealistic politics of integrationist assimilation.” [264]

In 1995, Obama sues the State of Illinois on behalf of ACORN to get the state to comply with the federal “Motor Voter Law” law, which Republican Governor Jim Edgar correctly argues will invite voter fraud, partly because government officers registering new voters are “under orders not to ask anyone for identification or proof of citizenship.” ACORN has been prominent in the fight against photo I.D. for voting and other means of voter identification. ACORN specifically sought out Obama to represent them in the lawsuit (it was not simply assigned to him by a law firm). [54,240,255,284]

In 1995, urged by Obama, the Woods Fund gives more money to “community organizer” groups like ACORN. The Woods Fund publicly lies about its ideology, which allows it to obtain donations from many who aren’t aware of its radical intentions. Obama’s committee’s own report even brags that its claim to be “…non-ideological has enabled the Trustees to make grants to organizations that use confrontational tactics against the business and government ‘establishments’ without undue risk of being criticized of partisanship.” During Obama’s tenure with the Woods Fund, the organization gives out more than $200,000 to ACORN. [232,297]

William Ayers (who may have met Obama as early as 1981) selects Obama as chairman (1995-2000) of the “Chicago Annenberg Challenge on Excellence in Education” (CAC), an educational reform program that proves to be remarkably unsuccessful. (A 2003 audit states, "There were no statistically significant differences between Annenberg schools and non-Annenberg schools in rates of achievement gain.”) Ayers and Obama approve grants of $175,000 and $482,662 to groups founded by Ayers and run by former communist party leader Mike Klonsky. Obama may have worked with the CAC as early as 1993. [59,60,61,155,156,201,204,428]

Note that for several years (at least until 1999 or 2000) the offices of the CAC are at 115 South Sangamon in Chicago. Bill Ayers’ “Small Schools Workshop” (of which Mike Klonsky is co-director) is also located at 115 South Sangamon. Both organizations are on the third floor. [366]

Obama approves so many grants with CAC money that the “Chicago Reader” refers to Obama as a “philanthropist.” Obama’s time with the CAC is his only “executive experience.” While with the CAC, Obama and Ayers distribute an amount in the neighborhood of $100 million, and achieve essentially none of the group’s stated educational goals. [297,428]

It should be noted that the selection of Obama, a 33 year-old junior lawyer at a small law firm, as chairman of the educational reform group CAC is strange, inasmuch as the board also includes several older and experienced university presidents – one of whom, Stanley O. Ikenberry of the University of Illinois, later remarks, “It was unusual, here you had a person trained in the law chairing a board on school reform.” [65]

In 1995, Obama’s political career starts with a fundraiser at the home of Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn. Ayers and Dohrn are former 1960s radicals and former Weather Underground militants, who disappeared in 1970 after their bomb, designed to kill army officers in New Jersey, accidentally destroys a Greenwich Village townhouse; they eventually turn themselves in to authorities in 1980; but because of improper FBI surveillance Ayers and Dohrn are never prosecuted for their involvement in 25 bombings. [60,66,67,71]

Ayers and Dohrn (who has met with communists in Cuba and Viet Cong representatives in Budapest) are alleged to have been occasional baby-sitters for the Obama children. Obama falsely claims that the 1995 fundraiser is the first time he met William Ayers. [68,69,70,71,259]

The North Vietnamese have presented both Ayers and Dohrn with rings made with metal from an American plane shot down in North Viet Nam. [69]

An interesting side note: Ayers and Dohrn are the adoptive parents of Chesa Boudin, whose parents, David Gilbert and Kathy Boudin, are serving three consecutive 25 year prison terms for felony murder, having killed three Brinks guards in a 1981 robbery to get cash to fund their Weather Underground, SDS, Black Liberation Army, and Black Panther Party activities. Chesa Boudin was named a Rhodes Scholar, through the help of Dennis Hutchinson, a professor at the University of Chicago, where Ayers and Obama taught. [205]

In October of 1995, Obama attends the male-only “Million Man March,” organized by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. [284,286]

Obama successfully seeks the endorsement of the “New Party” (NP), a Marxist third party in Chicago, for his 1996 state senate run. The endorsement of the New Party requires that the candidate “…sign a contract with the NP. The contract mandates that they must have a visible and active relationship with the NP.” Obama receives the endorsement with an in-person appearance with the NP; it is not an unsolicited endorsement. After his victory in the election, the NP states that “Barack Obama, victor in the 13th State Senate District, encouraged NPers to join in his task forces on Voter Education and Voter Registration.” [72,243,253,431]

Obama also receives the support of the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA); Obama was then (and may still be) an associate of the DSA’s Chicago branch. The members of the New Party, the DSA, and ACORN are, to a great extent, interchangeable. [239,243,253,432]

Obama is a panelist for a discussion, “Employment and Survival in Urban America,” sponsored by the DSA on February 25, 1996. [432]

The Marxist New Party refers to Obama as one of its own party members in an October, 1996 “Running to Win: The Key Races” announcement, that reads, “Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary).” [244,422]

The “Progressive Populist” magazine runs an editorial that says, “New Party member Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate seat from Chicago.” The New Party’s parent organization is the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA). The New Party’s short-term objective is to move the Democrat Party far to the left, helping establish the conditions for an eventual Marxist party. [253]

Obama’s state senate run also receives the support of Dr. Quentin Young, a neighbor of Obama’s and a long-time advocate of a single-payer, national health care system; Young is believed to be a member of the Communist Party of the USA, and had been active in Chicago socialist circles since the 1930s; in 1992 Young received from the Chicago Democratic Socialists its highest honor, the (Eugene) Debs Award; while in the Illinois State Senate, Obama supports Young’s single-payer health care program and introduces several bills in failed attempts to get it established. [73,74]

On November 7, 1995, Obama’s mother dies of ovarian cancer. Her body is cremated and there is no funeral. Involved with his State Senate campaign, Obama is not with her in her final days. Obama did not attend a memorial service for Dunham held at the University of Hawaii, but reportedly helped scatter her ashes in the ocean. (Obama rarely saw Dunham after 1975.) [324,560]

Note that although Ann Dunham allegedly died of cancer in Hawaii in 1995, researchers have not been bale to identify the hospital where she was treated. There are unconfirmed reports that Dunham’s Social Security Number, 535-40-8522, is purportedly still active and being used by “Kelly Ann Dunham” or “Anna Soetoro.” Even if the Social Security Administration reissued Dunham’s number after her death, how likely is it that it would have been assigned to someone with either of those names? (Note also that the first three digits, 535, are used for numbers assigned in the state of Washington.) [674,675,676]

1996-1997

In September of 1996, prior to the November election, Obama completes a candidate questionnaire. In the document, Obama states he supports increasing the personal exemption “as part of a shift to higher income tax,” supports increasing income taxes to reduce local property taxes, supports public campaign financing, favors adding sexual orientation to the (Illinois) Human Rights Act, opposes mandatory ADS testing for insurance or employment, favors “comparable worth” programs, supports the right of public employees to strike, supports a single-payer health plan for Illinois, supports Medicaid funding of abortions, supports parental abortion notification only for the very young (age 12-13), opposes all other abortion restrictions, supports cost-of-living adjustments for public aid recipients, supports “workfare” (only if coupled with government-funded training, child care, and health care), opposes restrictions on welfare benefits for teen mothers, opposes restrictions on benefits for women on welfare who have additional children, favors repealing the six-month limit on general assistance benefits, supports energy assistance for the poor, supports more tax money for the Chicago Transit Authority, opposes electronic eavesdropping, opposes capital punishment, opposes mandatory sentencing guidelines, opposes the manufacture, sale, and possession of handguns, and supports banning assault weapons.

Obama is elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996; he takes the seat long held by Democrat State Senator Alice Palmer (also an official of the U.S. Peace Council, an affiliate of the World Peace Council, a Soviet front group), who agrees to let Obama run for her state seat only if she loses her bid for U.S. Congress; Palmer loses the Congressional primary, but Obama reneges on his agreement and works with lawyers to get Palmer and three other opponents removed from the primary ballot on technicalities, in order to insure his opponent-free victory. On January 2, 1996, a group of Obama operatives descends on the offices of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners to challenge, one by one, all the signatures on the nominating petitions of all of Obama’s challengers; they do not stop until Obama is the sole name on the ballot. [75,269]

The Congressional seat Alice Palmer had tried to win had been held by disgraced Congressman Mel (“I won the Lotto”) Reynolds, who resigned after allegations of sex with an underage campaign volunteer; Alice Palmer lost the primary to Jesse Jackson Jr. (Note: This explains some of the animosity between Obama and Jesse Jackson; had Jackson’s son not entered the Congressional race, Alice Palmer would have won the seat and Obama would not have had to resort to signature challenges to get Palmer off the State Senate ballot. The main animosity, of course, is that Obama may win the Presidency which Jackson failed to win because he was considered too “radical,” when, in fact, Obama is exponentially more radical than Jackson ever was.) [269]

With the Palmer petition signature challenges, Obama follows the practice preached by Davis and Alinsky (and Axelrod): don’t try to beat the opponents, remove them from the playing field entirely. Obama’s reliance on petition challenges runs counter to his self-made image of a reformer and crusader for voter’s rights. (Palmer will campaign for Hillary Clinton in 2008.) [75,329]

Timuel Black, a mutual friend, tries unsuccessfully to mend the rift between Obama and Palmer; Black is a long-time socialist, who associated with communists and Trotskyists in the 1930s, allegedly joined the Communist Party of the USA, was active in the Progressive Party, was president of the local chapter of the allegedly communist Negro American Labor Council, and was frequently involved with the annual Chicago Debs Day Dinners, an awards celebration for Illinois socialists. [74]

Obama’s campaign is alleged to have received financial assistance from the politically-connected Giannoulias family, possibly in exchange for future favors. (Obama will later support and endorse the young, inexperienced Alexi Giannoulias in his run for Illinois State Treasurer.) [281]

In January and February of 1997, renters of several Chicago slum tenements owned by Tony “the fixer” Rezko go without heat for five weeks; Rezko doesn’t come up with the money to turn on the heat, but manages to contribute $1,000 to Obama’s Illinois State Senate political campaign; Obama then seeks state funds for even more Rezko housing developments. (The Syrian-born Rezko can afford to travel widely in the Middle East, yet at one time has as many as 11 run-down and foreclosed properties in Obama’s State Senate District.) Obama continues to have associations with Rezko and other corrupt housing developers in Chicago; Obama gets state money for them and, in exchange, they contribute to his campaigns. Obama thus becomes, indirectly, one of the biggest slum-lords in Chicago. [76,238,527]

Note that the City of Chicago sued Rezko’s real estate development company, Rezmar, at least a dozen times during 1966-1997 to get heat turned on it its apartment buildings. [664]

In the Illinois State Senate, Obama introduces Senate Resolution 110, declaring November 1, 1997 “Islamic Community Day.” [347]

In 1997, Obama and Ayers appear together as speakers on several occasions; at the University of Chicago, their topic is, "Should a child ever be called a ‘super predator?’” The announcement of their November, 1997 appearance together states, “Ayers will be joined by Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the Law School, who is working to combat legislation that would put more juvenile offenders into the adult system.” [71,83,237]

In 1997, Obama endorses William Ayers’ book on juvenile justice, with an article praising it in the Chicago Tribune in which Obama calls the Ayers book a “searing and timely account of the juvenile court system.” Michelle Obama (who at this time is the University of Chicago’s dean of student services and director of the school’s Community Service Center) hosts a panel discussion of the book, in which both Obama and Ayers participate. In 2008, seeking to distance to Obama from Ayers, the campaign claims Obama did not “write a blurb for his book.” [77,84,279,333]

Ayers mentions Obama in his book, where he writes, “Our neighbors include Muhammad Ali, former mayor Eugene Sawyer, poets Gwendolyn Brooks and Elizabeth Alexander, and writer Barack Obama. Minister Louis Farrakhan lives a block from our home and adds, we think, a unique dimension to the idea of 'safe neighborhood watch': the Fruit of Islam, his security force, has an eye on things twenty-four-hours a day." In April of 2008, when Obama’s relationship with Ayers is brought up in a primary debate, Obama lies, saying he doesn’t know him well and that he is only “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” [78,279,297,333]

1998-1999

In March, 1998, Obama delivers the eulogy at the funeral of Saul Mendelsen, a leader of Chicago’s far left and a socialist “community organizer” and activist. [79]

In October, 1998, Obama writes a letter supporting plans for low-income senior citizen housing. The project’s site, an empty lot owned by the city of Chicago, is sold to Obama’s friend Tony Rezko, and Obama’s former law-firm boss, Mr. Allison Davis, for one dollar. The project, “Cottage View Terrace,” eventually consumes $14.6 million in taxpayer dollars, with a substantial amount going to Rezko and Davis as development fees. Taxpayer funds are later given to Rezko for additional housing projects, despite the fact that some of his prior projects fell into significant disrepair. In 2007 and 2008, Obama says he “never did any favors” for Rezko. Obama’s former boss, Davis, donates more that $400,000 to dozens of political campaigns, including those of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and Obama. [80]

In 1998 Obama is re-elected to Illinois State Senate.

In 1998, Obama’s daughter Malia Ann is born.

Obama attends a speech given by Columbia University Professor Edward Said, who called for a non-violent campaign “against settlements, against Israeli apartheid.” [387]

In 1999, Obama casts the only vote against Illinois Senate Bill 485, which makes felons convicted of sexual abuse crimes serve their full sentences without getting credit for time served in the county jail. [93]

Obama votes against a bill that specifically allows homeowners the right to use a gun in self-defense during a home invasion. The Illinois Governor vetoes the bill; Obama votes to uphold the veto. [315]

In 1999, Obama proposes increasing Illinois firearm and ammunition excise taxes by 500 percent. (For example, a $55 tax on a $500 rifle would increase to $330.) The tax would thus change from a fee to fund wildlife preservation programs into a gun-punishing penalty. [444]

Until 2002, Obama serves, with William Ayers, on the board of the Woods Fund, a liberal Chicago non-profit organization. Grants from the fund are given out to Reverend James T. Meeks (a fiery, anti-white and anti-Semitic Chicago preacher, in the style of Obama’s reverend Jeremiah Wright), and Father Michael Pfleger (perhaps best known encouraging his parishioners to buy time from prostitutes as a way of inviting the women to counseling and job training). [81]

The Woods Fund also gives money to ACORN, which registers voters in poor black neighborhoods, to garner additional support for Obama. Arguably, these actions by Obama and ACORN are illegal because, as an allegedly independent, apolitical, tax-exempt, non-profit group, ACORN cannot legally “pimp for Obama” - but that is essentially what it does in registering voters while drumming up support for the candidate who is financing its operations; its tax-exempt status is thus flagrantly violated by ACORN. [227]

2000-2001

In January of 2000, Obama and the controversial Father Michael L. Pfleger are involved in an ACORN demonstration protesting “payday loans.” [284]

In 2000, Obama enters the primary for U.S. Congress. In a television interview during the campaign, he cites as a qualification his experience with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the educational reform project on which he worked with William Ayers. (The project ends up wasting over $100 million, without accomplishing any of its stated goals.) [60,204]

To help finance his run for Congress, Obama secures a $20,000 personal loan. [332]

The Chicago scuttlebutt is that Obama’s 2000 campaign for Congress is funded by what some call the “Hyde Park mafia,” a group of University of Chicago leftists, and that there is a master plan to “push him up the political ladder.” [86]

Obama’s tone in the campaign comes off as condescending by many (“I gave up a career with a high-priced law firm to run for public office”), and he loses the primary to opponent Bobby Rush, who defeats him by 30 per cent; Rush describes Obama as an “elitist” who is not “black enough” to serve the district. Obama reviews the demographics of his loss and works with Democrat consultant John Corrigan to get the district’s borders re-drawn (“gerrymandered’) to favor his political goals; they establish a new district that is still heavily black, but which also includes liberal North Shore whites who would be more inclined to vote for Obama than Rush (a former member of the radical Black Panthers). [87,88,193]

In 2000, Obama campaign volunteer Kenny B. Smith donates $550 to Obama’s Illinois State Senate campaign; in 2001, Obama steers $100,000 in tax dollars to a newly-formed Smith organization to build a gazebo, “parrot sanctuary,” and “walk of fame” in a blighted Chicago neighborhood; by 2008 only the gazebo has been built, the neighborhood is still blighted, and there is no sign of the rest of the $100,000. [89]

In 2000, Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative who justified Palestinian terrorism as contributing to "political enlightenment," hosts a fundraiser for Obama. Khalidi taught at a university in Beirut in the 1970s, and spoke to reporters on behalf of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Organization. From 1976 to1982, Khalidi was reportedly director of the Palestinian press agency, Wikalat-al-Anba al-Filastinija (WAFA), which was operating in exile from Beirut with the PLO. In the 1990s, Khalidi advised the Palestinian delegation during peace negotiations; he is currently a professor of Arab studies at Columbia University. Khalidi also taught at the University of Chicago, lived near the Obamas in Hyde Park, and was their friend and frequent dinner companion. [384,387,395,416,521]

Obama reported income from speaking fees on his 2000 and 2002 tax returns. It is illegal for Illinois State Legislators to accept fees for speeches; he was thus in violation of Illinois law both those years. [394]

In 2001, Obama’s daughter Sasha is born.

In 2001, Obama votes against Illinois House Bill 1812, a law designed to toughen penalties for crimes committed in furtherance of organized gang activities. [92]

In 2001, Obama votes against a bill that would allow people who receive protective orders (such as domestic violence victims) to carry firearms. When the bill fails, Obama remarks, "…authorizing potential victims to carry firearms would potentially lead to a more dangerous rather than less dangerous situation; it was a bad idea and I'm glad it failed.” [444]

While Obama serves on the board of the Woods Fund, it approves (in 2001) a $40,000 grant to the “Arab American Action Network” (AAAN); a second grant, for $35,000, is approved in 2002. President of the AAAN is Mona Khalidi, wife of Rashid Khalidi, a professor Obama met while at Columbia University. Khalidi, a former spokesman for Yassir Arafat, anti-Semite, strong critic of Israel, and supporter of Palestinian terrorism and the PLO, later holds fundraisers for candidate Obama. AAAN calls the founding of Israel a “catastrophe,” supports liberal immigration reform in the United States, and encourages giving drivers licenses to illegal aliens. [85,395]

Serving on the board of the AAAN is Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian-American, anti-Semite, co-founder of “Electronic Intifada,” and long-time friend of Obama. Abunimah refers to Jews as malicious liars, and even suggests they lied about the Holocaust, writing, “if Zionists could lie about their present and ongoing torment of my (Palestinian) people, usurpation of my homeland and arrogation of my rights, and they do it rather obscenely, couldn't they likewise lie, equally obscenely, about the holocaust, an event that took place over half a century ago?" [335]

Other groups receiving money from the Woods Fund include the voter-registration group ACORN (which has been highly criticized for thousands of questionable and illegal registrations), Bernadine Dohrn’s “Children and Family Justice Center,” and Trinity United Church of Christ (Obama’s church, and home of Reverend Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright). [62,63,64,82]

In 2001, Obama gives a radio interview to Chicago station WBEZ-FM, in which he discusses the “redistribution of wealth” from whites to blacks. Obama remarks, “…and one of the, I think, the tragedies of the civil rights movement was, because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and, and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change. And, uh, in some ways we still suffer from that.” He continued, “I’m not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts. The institution just isn’t structured that way.” (Obama is not opposed to the redistribution of wealth, he merely feels the courts shouldn’t be the institution forcing it.) “You can craft theoretical justifications for it legally.” (After Fox News broadcasts the interview in October of 2008, the Obama campaign cries foul, charging Fox with creating a “fake news controversy.” [383,386,396]

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Obama writes, in a “blame America” op-ed piece in the Hyde Park Herald, that the essence of the tragedy “derives from the fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others,” that the terrorist attackers “lacked empathy,” and their attitude “…grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.” [90]

In August of 2001, William Ayers is photographed trampling on the American Flag, for a cover article in the “Chicago Magazine” titled “No Regrets.” (Note: the magazine is very popular in Chicago and is prominently displayed on newsstands throughout the city; Obama would have had a difficult time not seeing the magazine cover.)  [279]

In a September 11, 2001 article in the New York Times, William Ayers is quoted as saying, “I don’t regret setting bombs… I feel we didn’t do enough.” At the time Ayers makes that statement, he and Obama are serving together on the Board of the Woods Fund. [279]

At least six of the 19 terrorists involved in the attacks of September 11 are illegally registered to vote in the United States, partly because of ACORN’s activities in spreading “motor voter” laws. [240]

In 2001, Obama introduces Senate Bill 750, the “Halal Food Act,” which requires the Department of Agriculture to conduct inspections to insure that all food labeled Halal is prepared according to Islamic law. [348]

Obama opposes a bill that defines as a “person” a fully born baby who survives an abortion. [346]

Obama votes “present” on legislation that would require doctors to give medical attention to babies who survive abortions.  Obama argues that defining “…a pre-viable fetus" that survived an abortion as a "person" or "child would essentially bar abortions, because the Equal Protection Clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an anti-abortion statute." Testifying in favor of the law is an Illinois nurse, Jill Stanek, who had witnessed infants being left to die by abortionists, and who later writes, “Obama articulately worried that legislation protecting live aborted babies might infringe on women's rights or abortionists' rights. Obama's clinical discourse, his lack of mercy, shocked me.” [346,412]

2002-2003

Obama is re-elected to Illinois State Senate, with no opponent on the ballot.

In 2002, Obama, as an Illinois legislator, votes against the “Induced Infant Liability Act,” a law meant to protect the lives of babies who “inadvertently” survive attempted abortions and then need medical attention to survive; Obama’s is the sole vote against the bill, and a similar bill later passes unanimously in the United States Senate. This vote is consistent with the Alinsky philosophy (in “Rules for Radicals”) that “…all values are relative in a world of political relativity.” [91,272]

Obama votes against an Illinois bill banning state funding of late term abortions.

Obama is the only Illinois State Senator to vote against a bill that prohibits early release for sexual predators. Obama votes to make a criminal out of a homeowner who used a gun in his own defense in his own home. Obama refuses to vote for a bill in the Illinois State Senate that would increase penalties for drug traffickers. Obama votes against making it a criminal offense for convicts on probation or on bail to have contact with a street gang. Obama votes against a bill that imposes the death penalty to gang members who murder first responders (paramedics, firemen, police officers). [346]

In 2002, Ayers and Obama appear together at the University of Illinois for a discussion called, “Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?" [94]

During the course of his Illinois State Senate career, Obama votes “present” at least 130 times, in an effort to avoid being pinned down on issues that might later be used against him by an opponent in a campaign. [95,96]

Obama is the sole “present” vote on a bill to allow victims of sexual crimes to petition judges to seal court records to protect their privacy. All other State Senators (Democrats and Republicans alike) vote in favor of the bill. [328]

While a State Senator, Obama votes for a bill that would ban most hunting rifles, shotguns, and target rifles; the bill would also authorize the Illinois State Police to raid homes and forcibly confiscate banned guns. Obama also votes for a bill that would shut down Illinois firearm manufacturing businesses (Springfield Armory, Armalite, Rock River Arms, and Les Baer). Obama votes for a bill prohibiting Illinois citizens from purchasing more than one gun per month (S 2579). [326,445]

Obama votes four times during his Illinois State Senate career against legislation that would allow a homeowner to use a firearm in defense of his home and family. To avoid criticism of his anti-gun agenda, Obama enlists an organization known as the “American Hunters and Shooters Association” (AHSA) to distribute literature stating that he is “pro-Second Amendment;” the AHSA supports hunting, but also supports strict gun controls on non-hunters. (The AHSA is known to be a “sham” organization set up solely to endorse leftists who need political cover for their anti-gun leanings.) [326,353]

Democrats take control of the Illinois Senate after the November 2002 election. Essentially non-productive during his previous years in the State Senate, Obama persuades Senate President Emil Jones to “steer bills” his way in 2003 so he can make a name for himself; Democrat colleagues in the Illinois State Senate are critical of Obama’s legislative tactics in getting credit for bills he had virtually nothing to do with; State Senator Ricky Hendon says, “No one wants to carry the ball 99 yards all the way to the one-yard line, and then give it to the half-back who gets all the credit and the stats in the record book.”  (Hendon is the original sponsor of racial profiling and videotaped confession legislation; Jones takes it away from Hendon to give to Obama so Obama can put his name on it as his.) Once in the U.S. Senate, Obama repays Jones with tens of millions of dollars in federal spending for his district, which Jones glibly refers to as “steak” rather than “pork.” [98,99,239,292]

With a slew of Jones-fed legislation now under his belt and “substance” for him to run on, Obama starts working on his plans to enter the 2004 U.S. Senate race; aiding him is longtime Chicago political pro David Axelrod.

In 2003, Tony Rezko arranges a fundraiser for Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign. [245]

The Illinois State Archives never receives any request from Obama to archive any records in his possession, suggesting it was his intention to personally retain details of his work and not make records public. [346]

During Obama’s seven year Illinois State Senate career he works, on average, less than two days per week, has virtually no accomplishments during his first six years, and then gets 26 bills passed in his final year – with the help of Senate President Emil Jones, who has Obama’s name placed on bills that others wrote. [346]

In 2003, Obama attends a dinner held in honor of Rashid Khalidi, a former PLO operative, harsh critic of Israel, and advocate of Palestinian rights. Obama, who has consistently denied a close relationship with Khalidi (the Obamas have dined more than once at the home of Khalidi and his wife, Mona, and used them as occasional baby-sitters), praises Khalidi during the decidedly anti-Semitic event. William Ayers attends the party, and both Ayers and Obama sign Khalidi’s “guest book.” The event is a going away party for Khalidi, who is leaving Chicago and moving to New York. The Los Angeles Time has a videotape of the event, but refuses to release it.” The dinner is sponsored by the Arab American Action Network, to which Obama had funneled cash while serving on the board of the Woods Fund. One speaker remarks that if Palestinians cannot secure a return of their land, Israel “will never see a day of peace.” [384,387,395,418,419]

The Los Angeles Times has a videotape of the Khalidi dinner, but refuses to make it public; it is assumed the tape’s contains are damaging to candidate Obama, likely because the event included anti-Semitic sentiments. Appearing as entertainment at the Khalidi dinner was a children’s dance group, the “Sanabel AlQuds Dabka” troupe. The Milwaukee-based Muslim children’s dance group typically performs the “debka,” a Middle-Eastern dance. That dance group’s performance has been known to include “simulated beheadings” with fake swords, and stomping on American, Israeli, and British flags. [438,439]

It has also been alleged that, in his speech at the Khalidi dinner, Obama states that “Israel has no God-given right to occupy Palestine,” and there has been “genocide against the Palestinian people by (the) Israelis.” [440]

In 2003, Obama tells the AFL-CIO that "I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program… and that's what I'd like to see. But as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House, we have to take back the Senate, and we have to take back the House." Throughout the 2008 Presidential campaign, Obama denies that he seeks a single-payer universal healthcare system. [404]

In 2003, the Born Alive Infant Protection Act again comes up in the Illinois Senate; as chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee, Obama shelves the bill, preventing it from even being brought to the Senate floor for a vote. [412]

Obama’s Health and Human Services Committee is known for its “kiss of death” treatment of any legislation that is not leftist. Although “specialty license plate” legislation (e.g. license plates to honor veterans or support other causes) is normally directed to the Transportation Committee, legislation supporting “Choose Life” and “Choose Adoption” license plates is instead directed to Obama’s committee, where he won’t allow a vote. Obama states he is “not in favor of a (license) plate benefiting adoption," while on the campaign trail he says he “favors adoption as a means to reduce abortion." [412,413]

Reverend Scott and Janet Willis, whose six children were killed in a tragic accident involving a truck driver who had obtained his commercial drivers license through bribery, drive three hours to the state capital in Springfield to testify in favor of a “Choose Life” license plate; proceeds from the specialty license plate would be used to help fund adoption expenses. Echoing pro-abortion groups, Obama calls the issue “contentious.” NARAL calls it "aggressive propaganda," and the vice president of the Illinois National Organization for Women calls it "a violation of free speech." Reporters fill the hearing room, eager to record the expected emotional Willis testimony; Obama calls only his friendly witnesses, ignores Scott and Janet Willis, and then abruptly adjourns the hearing. Obama reconvenes the hearing the next day, after the reporters have returned to Chicago, listens to testimony, and then has his Democrat-controlled committee kill the legislation. [412,413,414]

Obama votes, in 2003, for a bill that classifies most single-shot and double-barreled shotguns as “semi-automatic assault weapons” and bans them, along with hundreds of models of rifles and handguns. (Had the bill had passed, Illinois residents would have had 90 days to turn their guns in or face felony charges.) [444]

2004

Obama, in 2004, illegally uses state funds for a political mailing. [97]

Obama pushes legislation in the Illinois Senate (SB1332) to reduce the number of members of the Health Facilities Planning Board from 15 to 9, and (with the help of Tony Rezko, Stuart Levine, and Governor Rod Blogojevich) gets three of his campaign contributors appointed to the Board. One of the doctors on the Board, Robert Weinstein, is later convicted, along with Stuart Levine, of embezzling millions from charities and a medical school. FBI agents record Rezko telling Levine that he influences the Board. Michael Malek, one of the people appointed to the board, donates $10,000 to Obama on June 3, 2003, and $25,000 to Governor Rod Blagojevich in July 25, 2003; appointee Fortunee Massuda gives the governor $25,000, and $2,000 to Obama; Dr. Imad Almanaseer gives $3,000 to Obama. [207,209,346]

In 2004 Obama enters the Democrat primary for U.S. Senate; there are 15 candidates, Obama’s most formidable is wealthy executive Blair Hull; Obama’s campaign manager is David Axelrod, a long-time political pro in Chicago; Hull leads in the polls, but four weeks before the primary, an operative (perhaps Axelrod) leaks to the Chicago Tribune information that Hull’s divorce documents reveal a request for an “order of protection” from Hull’s wife; a wife-beating assumption (true or not) sinks Hull, and Obama wins the primary handily with the help of Chicago’s large black population. [100]

Michelle Obama, in February of 2004, sends a fund-raising letter with "alarming news" that "right-wing politicians" had passed a law preventing partial-birth abortions, which she called "a legitimate medical procedure;" she asks supporters to pay $150 to attend a luncheon for her candidate husband, who would fight against "cynical ploy[s]" to stop late-term abortions. [412]

By 2004, Obama and ACORN are “old friends.” Over the years Obama receives campaign support and voter registration help from ACORN; in exchange, Obama helps obtain funding for ACORN via the Woods Fund, Joyce Foundation,  and the legislature, and attempts to introduce “ACORN-friendly” legislation (like massive minimum wage increases, preventing the construction of new Wal-Mart stores, forcing banks to lend more to poor people and donate to voter turn-out drives, rolling back welfare reform, and forcing businesses that flee the city of Chicago to pay “exit fees”). [243]

While serving as director of the Joyce Foundation board, Obama gives millions of dollars to gun control organizations like the Council Against Handguns and the Violence Policy Center. (Between 1994 and 2001, the Joyce Foundation gave $18.6 million to about 80 anti-gun and anti-Second Amendment projects, including $1.5 million to the Violence Policy Center.) [346,444]

In 2004, Obama says he is "…consistently on record and will continue to be on record as opposing concealed carry," and that he would back "federal legislation that would ban citizens from carrying weapons, except for law enforcement." [444]

In March, 2004, Obama votes to allow prosecution of citizens how use guns for self-defense in their own homes (SB 2165). [445]

The Chicago Communist Party endorses Obama for the U.S. Senate; he receives volunteer support from the Young Communist League. [101]

In April of 2004, Iraqi-born billionaire Nadhmi Auchi attends a dinner party held in his honor at the home of Tony Rezko. In 2005, Auchi lends Rezko $3.5 million, three few weeks before Rezko’s wife, Rita, pays full price ($625,000) for an empty lot adjacent to a $1.95 million mansion Obama buys on the same day – at a $300,000 discount, for $1.65 million. The coordinated deal has Rezko overpaying for the empty lot in order to allow Obama to purchase the house at a discount; both the house and the empty lot are owned by Fredric Wondisford and Sally Radovick, of Hyde Park. Rezko was under federal indictment at the time; Obama proceeded with the deal anyway. (Rita Rezko had a position on a Cook County board.) [296,651]

Note that bank employees inflated the price of the vacant lot by 25 per cent as part of the deal for Obama; Obama bought the house at a discount, but the sellers lost little because Rezko overpaid for the adjacent vacant lot. The lot was appraised at less than $500,000 by bank employee Kenneth J. Connor; his appraisal was later replaced with a more generous appraisal of $625,000 in order to finalize the deal for Rezko and Obama. Connor was then fired by the bank for complaining about its appraisal practices. (The FBI later interviews Connor in late 2008 for information regarding the Rezko-Obama house purchase deal.) [696]

In June of 2004, leftist billionaire George Soros (who bankrolls the radical web site moveon.org) hosts a fundraiser in New York for Obama’s Senate campaign; Soros chips in $60,000; the total “take” for the evening is unknown. [239]

On July 27, 2004, Obama gives the keynote address at the Democrat National Convention which nominates John Kerry for President.

On July 28, 2004, Obama tells a crowd in Boston that the United States has an "absolute obligation" to remain in Iraq long enough to make it a success. "The failure of the Iraqi state would be a disaster," he then says at a Christian Science Monitor luncheon. "It would dishonor the 900-plus men and women who have already died. It would be a betrayal of the promise that we made to the Iraqi people, and it would be hugely destabilizing from a national security perspective." Obama later changes his tune. [346]

Obama’s Republican opponent in the fall campaign for the U.S. Senate is Jack Ryan, a handsome, articulate, and wealthy investment broker with three Ivy  League degrees. The press works to get Ryan’s sealed divorce documents unsealed (his ex-wife is actress Jeri Lynn Ryan), and an embarrassed Ryan withdraws from the race. The Republicans field a last-minute replacement, Alan Keyes, a black, anti-abortion, fiery speaker who is ridiculed by the press and never taken seriously. (The ultra-conservative Keyes does not help his case by saying things like “Jesus Christ himself would not vote for Barack Obama.”) Obama wins easily. [102,103,359]

In 2004, the “Code Pink” anti-war group delivers $600,000 in cash and supplies to Iraq – not to American soldiers, but to the terrorists who are fighting them in Fallujah. Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, later donates $2,300 to the Obama Presidential campaign. Evans says in a June, 2008 interview that Osama bin Laden had a “valid argument” for the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 [104,355]

In 2004, Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi (who lives in London) flies to Chicago in a private jet and meets at the Four Seasons Hotel with Tony Rezko, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, and Obama. At this point, both Blagojevich and Obama are aware that Rezko is already under investigation for illegal activities involving kickbacks for political favors. [249]

In November of 2004, before he is even sworn in as a United States Senator, Obama has “toe in the water” conversations with close associates about his running for President in 2008. Publicly, however, Obama says “I can unequivocally say I will not be running for national office in four years, and my entire focus is making sure that I’m the best possible senator on behalf of the people of Illinois.” [210,239]

2005

After Obama is elected to the U.S. Senate, he tells reporters asking if he will run for President that is “a silly question." He continues, “I’ve never worked in Washington. I can unequivocally say I will not be running for national office in four years, and my entire focus is making sure that I’m the best possible senator on behalf of the people of Illinois." [351]

In early 2005, the mass media adopts its long-term “suck up to and cover up for Obama” posture, with Time Magazine naming Obama one of “The World’s Most Influential People.” (MSNBC’s Chris Matthews will later say of Obama, “He seems to have the answers. This is the New Testament." A starry-eyed Oprah Winfrey will gush that Obama's "tongue (is) dipped in the unvarnished truth,” and author Deepak Chopra will predict that an Obama Presidency will "represent a quantum leap in American consciousness.”) [239,351,358]

Obama buys more than $50,000 of stock in two companies whose major investors include his biggest political donors. One of the companies is developing a drug to treat avian flu. Two weeks after buying shares in the company, Obama pushes for federal spending to battle the disease; the fear of the disease is hyped way out of proportion by the media, with incessant scare stories not backed up by facts. Obama also buys stock in a satellite communications business backed by four friends and donors who had raised $150,000 for him. [351]

Obama hires the son of one of his campaign donors, Joseph Aramanda, for a coveted summer job as an intern in his Washington, D.C. Senate offices. Campaign donations were funneled to Obama through Aramanda as part of a kick-back scheme involving a $50 million deal with Glencoe Capital; Obama’s part in the various deals was to grant favors when he was chairman of the Illinois Senate Committee on health and Human Services. [664]

In June, 2005, Obama purchases a mansion in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, for $1.65 million ($300,000 less than the asking price), with the help of friend, fundraiser, and political “fixer” Tony Rezko; Rezko’s wife, who earns $37,000 per year, purchases the empty lot adjacent to the Obama house for the full price of $625,000, with a down payment of $125,000. Obama’s 5.625 per cent mortgage is for $1.32 million, through the Northern Trust Bank. At the time of the purchase, it is already widely known that Rezko is under investigation by federal authorities; Obama deals with him anyway. Three weeks before the purchase, $3.5 million is loaned to Rezko by Nadhmi Auchi, a wealthy Iraqi who lives in England. (Rezko is convicted in 2008 of receiving kickbacks for political favors.) Mrs. Rezko then sells a 10-foot strip of the empty lot to Obama, for $104,500. (The transaction leaves Rezko with an unusable empty lot with no street access.) Rezko later asks Obama to help Auchi obtain a visa to travel in the United States in 2005; the State Department refuses – partly because Auchi, a member of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party and former high-ranking official in his oil Ministry, had been found guilty of corruption charges in France. [105,106,249,329]

Note that Mrs. Rezko borrowed the money for the empty lot from the Mutual Bank of Harvey, which is run by Rezko pal Amrish Mahajan. Mahajan’s wife, Anita, has been charged with fraudulently receiving millions of Illinois taxpayer dollars for drug tests her company never performed; as of November, 2008, she is awaiting trial. (Her company’s computers suddenly disappeared right before  investigators arrived to take them away for evidence.) The wife of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, Patti Blagojevich, is a real estate agent whose dealings with both Tony Rezko and the Mutual Bank of Harvey are under scrutiny by federal investigators. [530]

Living within a few blocks of Obama’s mansion are Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers, and Toni Preckwinkle. Preckwinkle in Chicago’s 4th Ward Alderwoman [329]

The Syrian-born Rezko’s money ties to Iraq may go back decades, and to Saddam Hussein. Nadhmi Auchi, who is apparently Rezko’s main money man, dealt with Hussein as early as 1959 and in a failed assassination attempt on Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qasim. [249]

In May of 2005, a Panamanian company, Fintrade Services, lends money to Obama fundraiser Rezko. On Fintrade’s board of directors is Ibtisam Auchi, wife of Nadhmi Auchi. [249,351]

One of Auchi’s companies helps finance a power plant in Iraq, working with Rezko and Aiham Alsamarrae; Alsamarrae is a Chicago resident with dual (U.S. and Iraqi) citizenship, and is accused of graft with Iraqi construction projects; Alsamarrae is imprisoned for four months in Iraq in a $2 billion corruption case. Obama is thus a critic of the War in Iraq at the same time he is receiving political favors and contributions from Rezko, who is, in turn, dealing with Iraqis and kickback schemes. [249]

In April of 2005, while Alsammarae is Iraq’s Minister of Electricity, a $50 million contract is negotiated with “Companion Security” to train Iraqi security guards in Illinois; Companion Security is run by Daniel T. Frawley and a partnership between Tony Rezko and Daniel Mehru. [249]

In 2005, Virginia officials reject 83 per cent of ACORN’s Project Vote new voter registrations as fraudulent. [204]

Obama votes against the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, which would prevent minors from being taken across state lines without the consent of the parents in order to have an abortion. [108]

In 2005, Obama votes for an energy bill that includes billions of dollars in subsidies for oil and natural gas production. [109]

In 2005, Obama votes for a bill (S 397) classifying most rifle ammunition larger than .22 caliber as “armor piercing ammunition” and prohibiting its manufacture for civilian use. The bill fails to pass. [444,445]

On June 25, 2005, Michelle Obama is named a “non-executive director” of the board of TreeHouse Foods, a supplier of Wal-Mart. Her annual salary is $51,200, and she is also given 7,500 TreeHouse stock options, worth approximately $72,375; she has no experience in the retail industry or private sector which would justify giving her the appointment. [677]

In July of 2005, Obama votes to allow extensive lawsuits designed to bankrupt the firearms industry (SB 397). [445]

During 2004 and 2005, the FBI takes note of repeated visits by Obama and Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to the offices of Rezmar Corporation, a joint business venture of Daniel Mahru and Tony Rezko. The purpose of the visits is unclear. [207]

Suggesting he cares less about the letter of the law and more about the status of the litigants, Obama argues against the nomination of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, saying that the role of the justice is to favor the weak over the strong; “I hope he will recognize who the weak are and who the strong are in our society.” [344,445]

2006

Obama’s second book, “The Audacity of Hope,” is published. The book’s title is inspired by Obama’s controversial pastor, Reverend Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright. [137]

Obama pushes for a $1 million earmark for the University of Chicago Hospitals; his wife, Michelle Obama, is promoted to “Vice President of Community and External Affairs” for the hospitals; her salary jumps from $121,900 to $316,962; her main responsibilities, in promoting an “Urban Health Initiative,” are to encourage the poor, uninsured to go to neighborhood clinics rather than diminish hospital profits by using the hospital emergency rooms; assisting her with the public relations is David Axelrod. [110,111,112]

Note also that an executive vice-president of the University of Chicago Hospitals is Eric Whitaker; Obama had arranged for Whitaker to be hired as the head of the Illinois Department of Public Health, at a salary of $150,000.  [664]

The Board of Trustees of Chicago’s Adler Planetarium raises $250,000 for Obama’s Presidential campaign; Obama then obtains a $3 million earmark for the planetarium; $300,000 had been sought by the Trustees to upgrade a projector system. [113]

On January 31, 2006, Obama votes against the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Roberts. [445]

In February of 2006, anti-military Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) votes against suspending aid to Hamas; his is the only vote against the bill. Abercrombie, an Obama supporter from Hawaii, had been a friend of Obama’s father and mother at the University of Hawaii, and is linked to the Socialist New Party. [388]

In February of 2006, Sarah P. Herlihy, an associate of the Chicago law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, writes a document called, “Amending the Natural Born Citizen Requirement: Globalization as the Impetus and the Obstacle,” in which she argues for eliminating the “natural born citizen” requirement of the U.S. Constitution, which she calls the “stupidest provision” in the document, because the rule “discriminates” against naturalized citizens. (That, of course, was the intention of the Constitution’s framers.) Note that the employees of Kirkland & Ellis (which does not specialize in Constitutional law) later contribute $87,722 to the Obama campaign, and $642 to McCain. Bruce I. Ettleson, a partner in Kirkland & Ellis, is a member of Obama’s campaign finance committee. [581,582,588,598]

In April of 2006, Companion Security (run by Frawley, Rezko, and Mehru) works with Governor Rod Blagojevich to lease an Illinois military facility for training Iraqi security guards. In August of 2006, Frawley works with Obama’s Senate staff to complete the deal. [249]

Obama is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Europe, but never convenes the committee for a meeting. [114]

On May 5, 2006, John McCain and 19 other Republican Senators send a letter to the Senate Majority Leader urging the passage of Senate Bill S190, which is intended to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (and could possibly have reduced the likelihood of the economic crisis in 2008). Obama does not sign the letter of support. The bill is not approved. When McCain introduces it again, it is blocked by Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, and his fellow Democrats, and the bill never makes it to the Senate floor for a vote. [278]

McCain's letter, signed by nineteen other senators, said that it was "...vitally important that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac)...operate in a safe and sound manner. More importantly, Congress must ensure that the American taxpayer is protected in the event that either...should fail." [278]

Obama, on June 7, 2006, votes against a resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution authorizing Congress to prohibit the desecration of the United States flag. [432]

In the summer of 2006, homes in Obama’s Chicago neighborhood are reassessed for property tax purposes. Houses surrounding Obama’s are reassessed for, on average, 28 per cent more. Obama’s house is assessed at six per cent more, saving him a considerable amount in property taxes. [329]

The federal government, in 2006, shuts down an Islamic charity called “KindHearts” because of its fund-raising for terrorist groups, including Hamas; the chairman of the organization, Hatem El-Hady, then directs his fund-raising efforts to Obama’s election. [115]

Obama proposes legislation prohibiting gun stores from operating within five miles of a school or a park; inasmuch as most communities have schools and parks scattered widely throughout their areas, the legislation would effectively ban gun stores. [339]

Obama visits Kenya in 2006, and gives support to Raila Odinga, a Muslim socialist candidate for President who has ties to both al Qaeda and Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi and was educated in communist East Germany, and who hopes to get Sharia Muslim law established. Odinga is a cousin of Obama; Odinga’s mother is the sister of Obama’s father. [294,329,452]

During his 2006 Kenya visit, Obama makes a speech to university students in Nairobi, in which he criticizes the existing pro-American Kenyan government, rallies the students against it, and talks of the need for change. This action is seen as an endorsement by Obama of Odinga, the Kenyan President’s opponent. By making his speech, supporting Odinga, and standing beside Odinga at rallies, Obama violates the stated conditions of his Official Government Visa (“to nurture relations between the (African) Continent and the United States”). The Kenyan government lodges an official protest of Obama’s passport abuse and misconduct, and Obama’s actions are denounced by the U.S. State Department as being in direct opposition to U. S. National Security. After Odinga loses the election in December of 2007, his followers burn women and children alive - in a Christian church where they had sought refuge. Over 1,500 people are ultimately killed in riots, and Odinga is ultimately given the position of Prime Minister to placate his radical supporters and stop further bloodshed. [126,127,207,208,271,293,313,329]

In support of Odinga, Obama raises approximately $950,000. The cash for Odinga comes from private meetings in 2006 arranged for Odinga by Mark Lippert, a foreign policy advisor on Obama’s staff. Odinga visits Obama during three separate trips to Washington in 2004, 2005, and 2006. Odinga promises his supporters in Kenya that he will “rewrite the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Shariah as the only true law sanctioned by the Holy Quran for Muslim declared religion.” [313]

In early 2006, Lippert had been sent by Obama to Kenya, at taxpayer expense, on a “fact-finding” mission, and to do advance work for Obama’s later visit.

In a December 22, 2006 e-mail, Obama personally informs Odinga that "all our correspondence (should be) handled by Mr. Mark Lippert,” and says that using Lippert as their common contact would be for his (Obama’s) “…own security now and in future." [313] The Kenyan visits by Obama and Lippert may have been in violation of the Logan Act.

Note the following pledges of candidate Odinga, who received support from Obama: Re-write the Constitution of Kenya to recognize Muslim Sharia law for Muslim regions; facilitate the establishment of a Sharia court in every Kenyan divisional headquarters; order every primary school to conduct daily Madrassa classes; impose a total ban on open-air Christian gospel crusades; outlaw gospel programs on KBC; impose a total ban on the consumption of alcoholic beverages; and impose an immediate ban on women’s public dressing styles that are considered immoral and offensive to the Muslim faith. [329]

Alexi Giannoulias runs for Illinois State Treasurer in 2006 and receives a strong endorsement from Obama, who states Giannoulias is “…one of the most outstanding young men I could ever hope to meet” - despite the candidate’s youth (he is 29), total lack of experience, mob connections, and his family bank’s (Broadway Bank) financing of a Chicago crime figure; one year later Giannoulias raises $100,000 for Obama’s Presidential campaign. Giannoulias is elected, but likely would not have won without Obama’s endorsement. Ten years earlier, the Giannoulias family had been rumored to have helped Obama with campaign financing, and also provided an alleged “sweetheart deal” mortgage for his Chicago townhouse (Obama’s residence before Tony Rezko helped him buy his Hyde Park mansion). [116,117,281]

Giannoulias is the money-man for Michael “Jaws” Giorango, a Chicago thug with convictions for bookmaking and promoting prostitution. Giannoulias is so tainted by mob connections that the powerful Illinois Speaker of the House and State Democrat Party Chairman Michael Madigan refused to endorse Giannoulias for State Treasurer; the Democrat Party does not endorse Democrat Giannoulias in the November election; Obama endorses him anyway. Obama uses Giannoulias’ Broadway Bank for his personal business and his Senate campaign fund. [318,319]

Obama campaigns in Vermont for socialist Senator Bernie Sanders; Sanders calls rookie Senator Obama “one of the great leaders of the United States Senate;” by the 2008 Presidential election, Obama’s voting record is more to the left than that of socialist Sanders. [118]

Illinois’ Cook County Board President John Stroger becomes ill during the 2006 primary election campaign; Chicago Democrats keep his illness a secret until the deadline for candidate filings passes, and then manage to place the name of his son, Todd Stroger, on the ballot. Despite his total lack of experience and history as a corrupt, machine-style ward boss, Obama supports the young Stroger, calling him a “good, progressive Democrat.” More qualified Democrats are outraged, especially those who support reform of the corrupt and deficit-spending Cook County Board. As predicted by many, Stroger proves to be a disaster. [119]

In an article in the Jakarta Post of November 29, 2006, Julia Suryakusuma, a long-time friend of Obama’s mother and an outspoken feminist writer, states that Obama could run for President of Indonesia; it is assumed she means that Obama retains his Indonesian citizenship; because Indonesia does not allow dual citizenship, Obama cannot be an American citizen if he has not relinquished his Indonesian citizenship. [120]

2007

In early 2007, Obama announces his candidacy for U. S. President; Obama’s main campaign strategist is David Axelrod (the “Karl Rove” of the Obama campaign). Two weeks before he launches his Presidential campaign, Obama pays $375-$400 for two decades worth of parking tickets received while at Harvard Law School. (He manages to avoid the late fees and penalties a “normal” person would be charged.)  [121,353,356]

Arguably (and putting his tremendous ego aside), Obama may have decided to run for President, rather than attempting first to be the Vice-President of the more likely candidate, Hillary Clinton, partly because he knows he would never make it through the VP vetting process.

At the time of his candidacy announcement, Obama has been present for work in the Senate a total of 143 days. Obama’s announcement includes this statement, “I know that I haven’t spent a lot of time learning the ways of Washington. But I’ve been there long enough to know that the ways of Washington must change." [349,351,353]

On January 24, the “Obama Exploratory Committee” releases this statement, “To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the (Trinity) United Church of Christ in Chicago.” On March 14, that statement is clarified, as follows: "Obama was never a practicing Muslim." Obama’s web site eventually includes this statement: "Obama Has Never Been A Muslim." [353]

In early 2007, Obama states in a filing with the federal Election Commission that he would work out an agreement with the Republican nominee to accept public campaign financing. On an FEC questionnaire, Obama states, “If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.” [433]

On February 26, during a primary debate in Cleveland, Obama states he will work with John McCain to ensure they both use public financing. The Obama campaign never does so. (In his 1996 candidate questionnaire when running for the Illinois State Senate, Obama responded “Yes” to the question, “Do you support public financing of election campaigns?” [433]

New York Times reporter Nicholas Kristof interviews Obama and writes, “Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated... Mr. Obama described the Muslim call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’” The interview has since been deleted from the New York Times web pages. (Interestingly, although Obama says he was never a Muslim and never practiced the religion, he is able to recite from memory something he learned in a school in Indonesia more than 30 years earlier.) [122,353]

Robert Wolf, CEO of the American branch of the Swiss banking giant USB, collects more than $370,000 in campaign contributions for Obama; USB lies to the government and conceals the identities of over 19,000 clients in order to help them avoid paying U. S. income taxes. [123,448]

In 2007, the Obama campaign receives $32,000 from companies affiliated with Robert Blackwell. While an Illinois State Senator, Obama had received $112,000 from Blackwell in monthly $8,000 retainers, funneled through the law firm at which he had previously worked. Obama had persuaded the Illinois legislature to award $320,000 in state grants to Blackwell’s company, “Killerspin.” (Killerspin is a company that promotes table tennis (“ping pong”) and sells equipment and apparel and promotes tournaments.) [207]

Note that the University of Chicago Medical Center, with Michelle Obama’s encouragement, had granted a $650,000 contract to a local contractor for upgrading the center’s intranet; that contractor was (Robert) Blackwell Consulting. [352]

On March 4, 2007, Obama appears at the Brown Chapel A. M. E. Church in Selma, Alabama, and incorrectly states that it was the Selma civil rights march that brought together Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr. (Obama was born in 1961, four years prior to the 1965 Selma march.) Obama also incorrectly states that his father was able to attend school in the United States because of the “Kennedy airlift” to help African students. (Obama’s father attended the University of Hawaii even before Kennedy had been elected.) These incorrect statements by Obama were likely to give him “street cred” in the civil rights movement and to associate himself with the “Kennedy mystique.” [564]

On April 27, Obama tells Fox News host Chris Wallace, “I have promised that I would sit down with John McCain and talk about can we preserve a public [financing] system.” Obama never does that. [433]

In 2007, Obama tells the Des Moines Register that “…nobody’s suffering more than the Palestinian people.” [387,419]

Obama, a member or the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, arrives late or leaves early for its meetings on May 17, 2005, September 28, 2005, April 26, 2006, May 18, 2006, July 13, 2006, September 13, 2006, September 19, 2006, January 17, 2007, January 23, 2007, and February 8, 2007. [421]

In July, 2007, Obama says he would meet, without pre-conditions, the leaders of Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela. [353]

On July 25, Obama tells media big-wigs and corporate CEOs in a meeting at the Time-Warner Center in Manhattan, “One thing I'm very confident about is my judgment in foreign policy is, I believe, better than any other candidate in this race, Republican or Democrat.” [353]

To raise money for her husband’s campaign, Obama’s wife charges $500 to have a photo taken with her. [124]

Obama gets Marshall Ganz to help train organizers and volunteers for his presidential campaign; employees and volunteers go through several days of intense training session, called “Camp Obama.” The sessions are led by Ganz and Mike Kruglik (one of Obama’s past fellow “community organizers”). Ganz, Kruglik, and Obama all have long associations with ACORN and Alinsky-style activism and agitation methods. [284,287]

Five ACORN employees are convicted in Washington State in “the worst case of election fraud” in the state’s history. [240]

In 2007, Obama works to stop Hans von Spakovsky, an official in the Justice Department, from being named to the Federal Election Commission, because von Spakovsky had supported a Georgia photo I.D. law. Like his ACORN supporters, Obama opposes voter I.D. laws. ACORN also opposes welfare reform and the strengthening of U.S. border security. [255]

In an April, 2007 speech, Obama, paraphrasing a line from Saul Alinsky’s book, “Rules for Radicals,” says “We don't care about the world as it is, we imagine the world as it might be.” [353]

In April, 2007, Obama endorses the idea of “comparable worth pay” by supporting a bill by Iowa Senator Tom Harkin. Under a “comparable worth” scheme, the federal government would define the value of every job in the United States, and then force employers to follow those rules. (A kindergarten teacher, for example, might be considered “worth” 82.7 per cent of a truck driver, while a truck driver might be considered to be “worth” 56.6 per cent of an electrical engineer. (The alleged “logic” of the plan is that it would eliminate “wage discrimination.” In practice, it would lead to substantially increased costs for all businesses, and introduce lawsuits into every aspect of wages and salary determinations.) [354]

In April, 2007, chief campaign strategist David Axelrod meets with Obama in Obama’s Senate office; Congressional ethics rules prohibit such use of federal office space for political and campaign activity. [356]

On April 30, 2007, in an interview with the New York Times, Obama’s half-sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, says, “My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim.” [353]

On May 8, Obama criticizes U.S. automakers for not making more hybrid vehicles, like those manufactured by Honda and Toyota; Obama drives a Chrysler 300C with a large, gas-guzzling, Hemi V-8 engine. [353]

To a gathering in Oregon, Obama talks about the need to “lead by example” with regard to “global warming,” and remarks that “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.” [481]

On May 24, 2007, Obama votes to cut off all funding of military efforts in Afghanistan; on the campaign trail Obama says more American troops need to be shifted from Iraq to Afghanistan. [125]

Despite a long history of corruption in the Teamsters Union, Obama tells the union he will end its federal oversight if he is elected. Obama receives substantial campaign donations from the Teamsters Union. Obama also promises to support legislation allowing unions to avoid secret ballots in organizing campaigns, and legislation making it illegal for an employer to hire new workers to replace striking employees. [128,256]

On July 18, 2007, ABC News reports that Obama told Planned Parenthood that sex education for kindergartners is “the right thing to do.” [337]

In a Colorado campaign appearance, in a proposal worthy of Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro, Obama announces plans for a “civilian national security force.” After a flurry of inquiries about Obama’s intentions with his “security force,” the proposal is dropped from his speeches and all references to it are deleted from the campaign’s official web site. [129,276]

Obama tells friend Ali Abunimah, a Palestinian rights activist in Chicago, that he was sorry he wasn’t talking more about the Palestinian cause, but his primary campaign had “constrained” what he could say. Abunimah tells radio talk show “Democracy Now!” he knew Obama for many years and “when he used to attend events in the Palestinian community in Chicago all the time.”  Abunimah responds to Obama’s sudden about-face and soft support of Israel during the campaign by remarking, "He is merely doing what he thinks is necessary to get elected and he will continue doing it as long as it keeps him in power." 130,223,335]

Obama receives support from Zbigniew Bzrezinski (Obama’s Chief Foreign policy Advisor and Carter Administration re-tread who, as National Security Advisor was instrumental in encouraging Carter’s betrayal of the Shah of Iran and which subsequently led to the takeover of Iran by Ayatollah Khomeini, the American hostage situation, and the rise of Ahmadinejad); Robert O. Malley; Samantha Power (senior foreign policy advisor); General Merrill A. McPeak (senior military advisor, who believes the U.S. drove Iran to hate Israel and America); Joseph Cirincione (Obama’s advisor on nuclear threats, who denies the known fact that North Korea assisted Syria in the development of a plutonium plant); and Daniel Kurtzer (Middle East advisor) – all known for their anti-Israel views. Kurtzer has received criticism from some quarters for pushing Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights.  [356]

Note that the aforementioned Robert O. Malley’s father, Simon Malley, was an Egyptian-born journalist, member of the Egyptian Communist Party, close friend of Yassar Arafat, anti-Semite, and anti-American. Malley had been expelled from France in 1980 for, according to government officials, “political activities which do not correspond with, and even run contrary to, French interests in certain countries…” and some articles written by Malley were “genuine appeals to murder foreign chiefs of state.” Simon Malley’s son, Robert, served as Clinton’s Special Assistant for Arab-Israeli Affairs (1998-2001). In May of 2008, Obama removes Malley from his list of official advisors after it is learned that he had met with the terrorist group Hamas. [453]

Also advising Obama are Richard Clark (foreign policy advisor), who has said that if he is captured, Osama bin Laden should be allowed to appeal his case in U.S. courts; Wesley Clark (who commanded his Fort Hood military forces at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, in which 76 people – including 21 children – were killed); Richard Danzig (national security advisor, who said the U.S. war on terrorism should follow a lesson from the pages of Winnie the Pooh); Sam Grahan-Felsen (Obama’s official “blogger,” who has written a socialist magazine); Austan Goolsbee (chief economic advisor who, in 2007, wrote a defense of sub-prime mortgage loans); Penny Pritzker (financial chairperson, and former head of Chicago’s Superior Bank, which failed because many of its assets were invested in sub-prime mortgages, resulting in $360 million in penalties); and Susan Rice (a known anti-Semite, and senior foreign policy advisor who, as assistant secretary of state under Bill Clinton, and with Richard Clark, persuaded Clinton not to accept Sudan’s offer to hand over Osama bin Laden to the U.S.). [356,360]

It is worth noting that Obama economic advisor Goolsbee wrote, in 2006, that, “Future increases in tax rates potentially threaten to significantly reduce the value of your retirement savings and may even mean that you should not save in 401(k) accounts at all.” He was perhaps looking ahead to working with Obama and a Democrat majority in Congress, because it is reported in October of 2008 that “House Democrats are looking at eliminating most of the $80 billion in annual tax breaks for 401(k) investors.” That would allow capital gains to be taxed every year, instead of deferring the taxes to retirement. [378,379]

Obama ousts his campaign’s Muslim outreach director, Chicago lawyer Mazen Asbahi, when questions about his ties to a radical Muslim imam and the Muslim Brotherhood surface, along with links to the Islamic Society of North America (an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas-terrorist-funding case). [131,419]

On September 17, at a gathering in Indianola, Iowa, Obama is photographed holding his hands together below his waist, while primary opponents Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton respectfully hold their right hand over their heart during the playing of the National Anthem. [353]

In September, Obama agrees to use public financing for his campaign; he makes that promise several more times, but eventually disregards it. [353]

On September 20, Obama submits a letter to a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) hearing encouraging diversity in the media and the promotion of “localism;” one month later Obama sends another letter to FCC Chairman Martin emphasizing that the Commission has failed in that regard. Note that the FCC “localism” rule can be used to remove a radio station’s broadcast license, putting it off the air and out of business. Note also that the liberal organization, “Center for American Progress” (CAP), issued a report in 2007 concluding there were too many conservatives on the radio and called on the FCC to use the localism rule accordingly; the CEO of CAP is John Podesta, former Clinton staffer and the eventual head of Obama’s White House transition team. Obama’s pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, had successfully lobbied the FCC to take away the broadcast license of a station it felt was not covering the civil rights movement fairly. [520]

In October of 2007, Obama co-sponsors legislation, the “Helping Families Save their Homes in Bankruptcy Act of 2007,” which makes it easier for homeowners to protect themselves from losing their homes; the bill is written to also intentionally shield ACORN and other “middleman” groups from being charged for violations of the “Truth in Lending Act” in connection with obtaining mortgages for clients. [310]

The New York Times, on October 30, 2007, reports that “Obama has declined repeated requests to talk about his New York years, release his Columbia transcript or identify even a single fellow student, co-worker, roommate or friend from those years…”

Obama promises Planned Parenthood that the first piece of legislation he will sign if elected will be the “Freedom of Choice Act,” which would overturn all state pro-life laws, including prohibitions against partial-birth abortions and parental notification requirements for minors seeking abortions. [132,133]

On November 1, Obama says, “We’ve got to make sure that people who have more money help the people who have less money.” [353]

In a November, 2007 speech to ACORN members, Obama brags that when he “…ran the Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it.” When, in 2008, critics connect Obama to ACORN and Project Vote, Obama disavows having working for or with the groups. [283]

In a November 9, 2007 interview on Iowa Public Television’s “Iowa Press,” Obama declares that Americans would have to change their habits because of global warming; he advocates government-created “price signals” to encourage people to use less electricity and gas. He states, “I think it is important for us to send some price signals to change behavior. You know, if electricity goes up, people start becoming more mindful of their electricity bill." Obama is here suggesting that government artificially force energy prices higher in order to change consumer behavior. [447]

On December 1, 2007, Obama speaks to the “Heartland Democratic Presidential Forum,” at a gathering held exclusively for community organizers and members of the Gamaliel Foundation and ACORN; Obama tells the group that even before he is sworn in as President, “During the transition (period) we’re gonna be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda,” and assures them that they will be actively involved in the first 100 days of his administration. [280]

Obama avoids casting a Senate vote on a November, 2007 resolution that declares the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, an elite part of the Iranian military, a terrorist organization. [351]

In December of 2007, Donald Young, a friend of Obama and the gay choir director of Obama’s church, is murdered, gangland style; the choir director “knew more,” according to a man named Larry Sinclair, who claims he shared drugs and homosexual “activities” with Barack Obama in the back of a Chicago cab, and again in a hotel in Gurnee, Illinois; the media has chosen not to interview the cab driver, Paramjit Singh Multani. (It should be noted that Sinclair has a long arrest record, and has committed crimes involving fraud and deceit. Sinclair’s accusations may be true, or they may be for the sole purpose of receiving donations from visitors to his web site.) One other gay member of Obama’s church, Larry Bland, is also murdered within a few weeks of Young. A third man, Nate Spencer, dies of an illness, and some have tried to suggest he was also murdered. [134,135,136,392,393,409]

During the Christmas service at Trinity United Church of Christ, Obama’s pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright says, “Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a process that is controlled by rich white men. Hillary can never know that, Hillary ain't ever been called a nigger!” (Yes, Wright made that statement during a Christmas service.) Obama contends he never heard such remarks from Wright, or he would have condemned them. Apparently the allegedly church-going Obama (who records show was in Chicago at Christmas in 2007) failed to catch that part of Wright’s sermon. Note that Obama does not give presents to his children at Christmas. [357,361]

2008

Obama is one of the Illinois politicians cited in the indictment of his long-time friend and fund-raiser, Tony Rezko, for having received political contributions from Rezko’s kickback funds. Obama allegedly returns between $85,000 and $250,000 in political contributions received from Rezko. [138,139,207]

In 2008, ACORN feverishly registers new Democrat voters in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, and other states to boost Obama’s chances of winning the primaries and the general election. In Cuyahoga County, Ohio alone, ACORN registers more than 75,000 new voters; fraud is certainly involved, inasmuch as the voter rolls in that county already exceed the number of adult residents living there by 200,000. ACORN’s Project Vote activity has a tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code, which prohibits its involvement in partisan political activity; it’s workers consistently violate those laws when they pass out Obama literature and advocate his candidacy as they register new voters. [54,240]

During 2007 and 2008, Obama requests $860 million in “earmarks” (according to Taxpayers for Common Sense); they include $1 million for his wife Michelle’s employer, $62 million for the “Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy,” $8 million for “Human Genome Expression,” $4.8 million for a “Light Emitting Diode Healing Program,” $2 million for a “Soybean Disease Biotechnology Center,” and money for projects linked to campaign donors. [140]

In January of 2008, Obama confirms that he supports drivers licenses for illegal immigrants (which his campaign refers to as “undocumented people”) and will take up immigration reform during his first year in office. [341]

On January 17, in a recorded interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Obama explains his expensive “cap and trade” tax to deal with “global warming.” With regard to using coal for power plants, Obama states, “So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.” (It is assumed Obama doesn’t repeat that remark when campaigning in coal-producing states like Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Colorado.) Note that roughly one-half of the nation’s electricity comes from coal-fired power plants, which would either be bankrupted or would have to charge much higher rates, based on Obama’s statement that he “…would put a cap and trade system in place that is as aggressive, if not more aggressive, than anybody else's out there.” [442,443,450]

Obama went on to say, “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket… even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas… you name it… whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations. That will cost money… they will pass that money on to the consumers.” [455]

In January, Obama tells “American Morning” host John Roberts that high taxes are in the best interest of the American economy. [ 53]

In January of 2008, Michelle Obama says, “…sometimes it's easier to hold on to your own stereotypes and misconceptions. It makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That's America.” [352]

On January 30, 2008, Obama reiterates his support for driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants. [353]

In February of 2008, the Obama campaign releases copies of his wife Michelle’s Princeton thesis on racial divisions. (It had originally planned on keeping the paper secret until after the election). In the introduction to the thesis, Mrs. Obama writes, "It is possible that Black individuals either chose to or felt pressured to come together… because of the belief that Blacks must join in solidarity to combat a White oppressor." Her thesis also includes the statement, "By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as a result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desparation (sic) of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an integrationist who is ignorant to (sic) their plight." Critics who have read the thesis say it is the most sophomoric, non-scholarly piece of drivel ever, and claim it exposes a lack of academic rigor at Princeton. [352,597]

In February of 2008, Michelle Obama remarks at a rally in Milwaukee, “…for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country.” The comment draws severe criticism and allegations that she is un-American, or at least unappreciative of the wealth she has been able to accumulate as an American. [352]

On February 29, Michelle Obama visits a daycare center in Zanesville, Ohio, where she complains about how difficult it is to survive financially in America, because she has to spend $10,000, on "piano and dance and sports supplements" and "summer programs and so on and so forth," for her daughters. [352]

In February, a photo is released that show a Cuban flag adorned with the picture of communist murderer Che Guevara hanging on the wall of Obama’s Houston campaign office. [353]

In February, Obama denies that a member of his staff told the Canadian government he does not mean what he says publicly about opting out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The Canadian government confirms that the statement was made. [353]

Obama names Penny Pritzker his national finance chairman; Pritzker is the former chairman of the board of the Superior Bank S&L, which went under because of irresponsible subprime mortgage lending in the 1990s. Obama names Martin Nesbitt treasurer for his presidential campaign; Nesbitt is also vice president of the Pritzker Realty Group, and is the chairman of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA); Nesbitt contributed at least $10,000 to Obama campaigns; the Pritzker name appears frequently in lists of Obama contributors. [353,664]

Note that a company called Habitat manages the housing program for the Chicago Housing Authority; Habitat is run by Valerie Jarrett, who hired Michelle Obama in 1991. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley had appointed Michelle Obama to the Chicago Landmark Commission, and Nesbitt as chairman of the CHA. [664]

Obama defends his association with William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn with the statement, “The notion that…me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago… somehow reflects on me and my values doesn’t make much sense.” Dohrn once publicly praised Charles Manson and his followers for killing actress Sharon Tate. Dohrn’s words were, “Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!” In 2007, Ayers describes the United States as an “…incipient fascist country,” and talks about overthrowing capitalism, while Dohrn, at a reunion of the radical group Students for a Democratic Society, says that “…living in America constitutes living in the belly of the beast” and “the heart of the monster.” [141,142,143]

When further criticized for his friendship with William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the Obama campaign issues a lengthy document trivializing their actions as 1960s radicals and defending them as “respectable fixtures of the mainstream in Chicago.” In a September 11, 2001 New York Times interview, Ayers says of his bombing history, “I don't regret setting bombs; I feel we didn't do enough.” In a memoir published by Ayers after 9/11, he wrote that America is “not a just and fair and decent place… it makes me want to puke.” The cover of Ayers’ book is a photograph of him trampling on an American flag. [143,144]

“Accountable America,” an organization which supports Obama, sends threatening letters to nearly 10,000 citizens who often contribute to Republican causes, warning them of potential legal problems if they finance conservative groups. [145,146,338]

Obama supports a Democrat housing bill that provides $200 million to community groups (including ACORN) for homeowner foreclosure counseling; ACORN pledges to spend $35 million in 2008 to register new Democrat voters. [147,148,149]

The audio book version of Obama’s “Dreams From My Father” is released; a line-by-line comparison with the print version shows that the audio version Obama recorded omits a substantial number of references that many white people might call controversial.

When Reverend Jeremiah’s controversial, anti-American sermons are brought up by the media, Obama says he knows nothing about such remarks, and adds, “I wasn’t in church that day.” [239]

Before the Ohio primary in 2008, Obama’s campaign gives ACORN $832,598, allegedly for get-out-the-vote activities; ACORN has a shameful track record of fraudulent and illegal activities. [240]

In March, 2008, Obama says of his controversial pastor, Jeremiah Wright, “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community.” [150]

On March 3, 2008, in San Antonio, several Chicago reporters question Obama about his connections with Tony Rezko. Obama avoids the questions, saying “These requests, I think, could just go on forever. At some point, what we need to try to do is respond to what's pertinent.” [249]

In March of 2008, Obama’s foreign policy advisor, Samantha Powers, resigns from his campaign after having been caught calling Hillary Clinton a “monster.” Powers nevertheless expects a top position in an Obama Administration, despite having publicly discussed the possibility of invading Israel to help create a Palestinian state. [233,234,235,236]

On March 18, Obama makes the remarkable comment, “All of the statements that have been the subject of controversy are ones that I vehemently condemn.” (In other words, “If anyone has ever said anything that offended you, then I’m against what he said.”)  [353]

In April of 2008, Obama remarks that residents of small-town America, because of lost jobs, “…get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or (become) anti-immigrant.” His comment draws severe criticism from gun-owners and church-goers. [273,315]

On April 10, Obama says he favors repealing Bill Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” practice for gays serving in the military. [337]

In April of 2008, Michelle Obama addresses a Pennsylvania crowd; the rally is staffed by volunteers from Carnegie Mellon student organizations, including Carnegie Mellon Students for Barack Obama, Student Senate, AB Political Speakers, and College Democrats. Obama’s staffers make a special effort to control the seating of people who will appear on camera behind Mrs. Obama. Witnesses hear one coordinator say to another, “Get me more white people, we need more white people.” [352]

In a debate on April 17, Obama makes the statement, “I believe that the Constitution confers an individual right to bear arms. But just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right." (While an Illinois State Senator, Obama voted four times against legislation that would allow citizens to use firearms to defend their homes and families.) [337]

Under political pressure, Obama, in May of 2008, half-heartedly disowns Reverend Jeremiah Wright and (at least temporarily) quits his controversial church. It is not clear if his wife and children still attend the church. [151]

Reverend Wright responds to Obama’s new-found criticism by saying, "He had to distance himself, because he's a politician, from what the media was saying I had said, which was anti-American." Wright tells the media that friends had written to him and said, "We both know that if Senator Obama did not say what he said, he would never get elected." Wright then added, "Politicians say what they say and do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls." [446]

A birth certificate purported to be Obama’s turns out to be that of his younger half-sister, Maya Kassandra Soetoro (b. 1970), which was altered to make it look like the candidate’s. (Note that Maya Soetoro was born in Indonesia, not Hawaii; shortly after Maya’s birth, her mother took her to Hawaii to have her birth registered there.) [153,289]

On April 10, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduces Senate Resolution 511 to “recognize that John Sidney McCain is a natural born citizen.” The resolution is allegedly meant to clarify that McCain is eligible to be President even though he was born in Panama. Because McCain’s parents were both Americans and he was born in Panama because his father was stationed there while in the military, existing law arguably already covers McCain and he is eligible to serve as President. McCaskill’s resolution is therefore unnecessary and serves no purpose – but an attempt is made by McCaskill and Obama to change the resolution’s language to provide a “blanket cover” for other foreign born candidates without military backgrounds (in order perhaps to enable Obama to be eligible to be President should it be discovered that he was not born in Hawaii). McCaskill and Obama have the following language inserted, “Whereas previous presidential candidates were born outside of the United States of America and were understood to be eligible to be President.” They also unsuccessfully attempt to remove the following language, “…and Whereas John Sidney McCain, III, was born to American citizens on an American military base in the Panama Canal Zone in 1936.” [301,303]

On April 29, Obama states, “I still believe in affirmative action as a means of overcoming both historic and potentially current discrimination.” [337]

In a primary debate statement that reveals Obama’s hatred of capitalism, Obama tells ABC’s Charlie Gibson, "I would look at raising the capital-gains tax for purposes of fairness," even though raising that tax would ultimately result in shrinking federal revenues. Gibson correctly points out that a higher capital gains tax typically means less tax revenue for the federal government, but Obama would raise it anyway - just to punish people who made money through the capitalist system. [265,295]

In May of 2008, the New York Times reports that Obama quietly dumps his anti-Israel advisor Robert Malley after the media learns he has regular contacts with the Iran-financed terrorist group Hamas.

In May of 2008, Nevada issues an arrest warrant for Tony Rezko, for having written at least $450,000 in bad checks to Caesar’s Palace and Bally’s; he also allegedly owes $331,000 to the Bellagio casino. The checks are from Rezko’s account at Broadway Bank, which is run by the mob-connected Giannoulias family. The checks date back to 2006, when the bank’s vice-president, Obama-endorsed Alexi Giannoulias, was running for Illinois State Treasurer. [319]

On May 15, Obama blows off a female reporter, WXYZ’s Peggy Agar, by ignoring her question and calling her “Sweetie.” [353]

In a commencement address at Wesleyan University, Obama advises graduates not to pursue the American dream, but to serve others, saying, “You can take your diploma, walk off this stage and chase only after the big house and the nice suits and all the other things that our money culture says you should. But I hope you don't." (In other words, “Do as I say, and not as my wife and I did.”) [276]

In June, Obama tours a solar power plant in Nevada, where he says that renewable energy “isn’t some pie-in-the-sky, far off future, it is now… providing cheap alternatives to $140 per barrel oil.” That facility powers only 75 homes, and took ten years to build, at a cost of almost $300,000 per home. [154]

On June 4, 2008, Obama says, “I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." [353]

When questioned about attempts by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to introduce legislation (a re-introduction of a “Fairness Doctrine”) that would restrict conservative radio talk show hosts like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, Obama’s campaign press secretary, Michael Ortiz, says Obama supports “media-ownership caps, network neutrality” and more “public broadcasting.” Obama will support the Pelosi legislation. Ortiz further states that Obama considers the fairness doctrine debate to be “…a distraction from the conversation we should be having about opening up the airwaves and modern communications to as many diverse viewpoints as possible.” Obama’s approach to silencing radio critics like Limbaugh and Hannity will likely rely, instead, on an existing “localism” rule in FCC regulations; that rule requires stations to serve the interests of their local communities in order to keep their FCC broadcast licenses. As President, Obama will have the opportunity to replace at least one FCC member, which could allow him to define “localism” in a way that reduces the influence of conservative broadcasters, and allows radio station licenses to be revoked and given to liberal minority owners. [152,520]

On June 4, Obama’s main money-man, Tony “the fixer” Rezko, is convicted of 16 (of 24) counts of felony charges for influence-peddling, fraud, money laundering, and bribery conspiracy. Obama’s response is, “I'm saddened by today's verdict.  This isn’t the Tony Rezko I knew, but now he has been convicted by a jury on multiple charges that once again shine a spotlight on the need for reform.” [316]

On June 12, 2008, Obama agrees to a Democrat budget proposal that calls for raising income taxes from 25 to 28 per cent for individuals with gross incomes of at $42,000 or more. [315]

In June, the pro-Obama web site “Daily Kos” receives from Tommy Vietor, of the Obama campaign, an alleged scanned copy of Obama’s “original birth certificate.” The original computer image is 2550 x 3300 pixels, and is provided to four pro-Obama organizations for on-line posting. Between June 12 and June 16, the “Daily Kos” site posts it at 2427 x 2369 pixels, “Fight the Smears” posts it as 575 x 585, “Factcheck” posts it at 2550 x 3300, and “Politifact” posts it at 811 x 786. (The various images may still possibly be available at dailykos.com, fightthesmears.com, factcheck.org, and politifact.com.) The posted “birth certificate” is not the long form with all the important birth details, but the “short form” – which the State of Hawaii will issue even if the child is born somewhere other than Hawaii but the parents are residents of Hawaii. (Note that the “Fight the Smears” image was originally posted at 1024 x 1100 pixels, but was replaced the very next day with an image of 575 x 585, possibly because some people were finding evidence of forgery in the larger document image.) [548,549]

Document experts examined the scanned image of the Obama “birth certificate,” subjecting it to over 700 tests, and determine that it is a forgery, created with the intent to defraud the American people into believing that the images were scans of an original, valid birth certificate. [548,549]

Those who are technically-minded may be interested in knowing that the image provided by the Obama campaign has text written with bitmap fonts, rather than vector fonts – an indication that the text was superimposed over a blank form, using a graphics program. Image Exif data also supports the argument that the document is a computer forgery. The original .jpg scan was likely saved as a .gif file, edited as a .gif image, and then saved as a .jpg file. This process explains, for example, the color loss that appears in between the letters of the words “CHILD’S NAME” on the document. [548,549]

The forgery process likely involved scanning someone’s valid Hawaiian document as a .jpg file, converting it to a .gif file, using a graphics program to cover the existing text with copied background image, placing the new Obama text over that, and then saving the file as a .jpg document with enough compression (a 45 per cent compression ratio) to attempt to hide the alterations. Lending credence to the forgery suspicion is the fact that the “certificate” used a 2007 form for the background but copied a 2008 seal and signature stamp. [548,549]

In June, 2008, two Muslim women at an Obama rally in Detroit are prevented from sitting behind Obama, in order to prevent the women’s headscarves from appearing in photographs or on television with the candidate. [353]

In June, Obama delivers a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, in which he states that if he is elected president, "Jerusalem would remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided." Immediately following the speech, Obama reverses himself during a CNN appearance, explaining he only meant that Jerusalem shouldn't be divided with any physical partition. [512]

In June of 2008, Obama’s campaign reveals a customized “Obama Presidential Seal” that hangs from the lectern as he speaks. The “seal” doesn’t last long, and its use is discontinued after intense criticism of Obama’s arrogance, and after the campaign is told that it is illegal to create and use a false seal. [353]

In June of 2008, Michelle Obama tells a crowd, "The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.” [352]

By June of 2008, apparently in support of Obama, Google had sporadically restricted access to at least seven anti-Obama (mostly Hillary Clinton-supporting) web sites. (Note that after Obama is elected, he is frequently seen accompanied by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who attends a closed-door meeting with Obama and his economic advisory team.) [353,467,505]

A writer for “Online Journal,” Wayne Madsen, publishes an article on June 9, 2008 claiming a research team went to Mombasa, Kenya, and located a certificate of the Kenyan birth of Barack Obama, Jr. [248]

Fearing additional publicity of his links to radical socialists, Obama removes all of Mike Klonsky’s blogs from his official campaign web site; Klonsky, a political activist and leader of the New Communist Movement, was a 1960s radical in the Students for a Democratic Society, and an avid advocate of Maoism, who formed a pro-Chinese sect called the October League, which then evolved into a Beijing-recognized Communist Party. Klonsky, a disciple of Saul Alinsky, was chairman of the party; he was one of the first westerner’s allowed to visit the People’s Republic of China, and was honored with state dinners in Beijing. [155,201,527]

In an interview with the New Republic, Mike Kruglik, one of Obama’s early mentors in the fine art of community activism, said of Obama, “He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation, who could engage a room full of recruiting targets in a rapid-fire Socratic dialogue, nudging them to admit that they were not living up to their own standards… he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot of hope that they could make things better.” That modus operandi  is what Obama follows on the campaign trail: list the many things that people believe are wrong with America, get the crowd riled up and angry and feeling hopeless, and then present himself as the one who can save them from their problems – regardless of whether he can. [239,337]

Obama’s lawyers file a complaint with the Justice Department, in an effort to stop the broadcasting of an “American Leadership Project” campaign ad linking Obama to William Ayers. [157]

According to the State Department, Obama’s federal passport file was improperly viewed at least three times, at least once by someone sympathetic to his campaign. [158]

In July of 2008, a complaint is filed with the Illinois Bar Association alleging that Obama should be disbarred as a result of lying on his bar application. His application concealed his use of another name (Barry Soetoro), his felony drug use (cocaine) in New York, and approximately $400 in unpaid parking fines. (The bar application requires listing fines in excess of $200.) [217]

In a July speech, Obama says, “But understand this, instead of worrying whether immigrants should learn English, they’ll learn English, you need to make sure your child can speak Spanish.” It is not known if Obama can speak another language, but he has recited the Muslim call to prayer, in perfect Arabic, to a New York Times reporter. [122,257,353]

Candidate Obama remarks about Hillary Clinton, "I am confident I will get her votes if I'm the nominee. It's not clear she would get the votes I got if she were the nominee." [159]

When discussing “slavery reparations” with a group of “minority journalists,” Obama states, “I consistently believe that when it comes to… reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds." Several days later, to calm fears of white taxpayers who read his remarks, Obama adds that he’s not calling for direct cash payments to descendents of slaves, but indirect aid through government programs to “close the gap” between white America and black America. The government programs will be “universal” - such as universal health care, mortgage credits, college tuition, job training, and even universal 401(k)s - programs that Obama feels "disproportionately affect people of color." In other words, Obama does not dare propose a program to directly tax whites to give payments to blacks, so he instead offers “universal” programs for everyone, but will design them so that blacks will benefit disproportionately. [275]

Obama continues to oppose school voucher systems, including the successful and popular experimental program in the Washington, D.C. system (where students do better using $7,500 vouchers at private schools than they do at the $13,400 per-student public schools). To gain the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers (union), Obama tells its members he won’t be swayed by “tired rhetoric about vouchers and school choice.” Obama’s own children attend the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where annual tuition ranges from $15,528 for kindergarten to $20,445 for high school; in a YouTube debate, Obama says that was “the best option” for his children. (In his 1996 candidate questionnaire when running for the Illinois State Senate, Obama responded “No” to the question, “Do you support vouchers or other means of public funding for private or parochial schools?”) [274]

Dr. Alveda King, a niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, remarks that Obama’s “…answer to the ills of society, of higher government spending, weaker national defense, continued tax dollars to Planned Parenthood, and support of gay marriage, are diametrically opposed to everything African Americans truly believe and an anathema to the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” [160]

Obama defeats Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the primaries to become the Democrat candidate for President of the United States. Obama arrives at the Democrat National Convention without having won enough delegates in the primaries to win the nomination, but manages to persuade enough “super delegates” to vote for him to win the nomination; the “persuasion techniques” include DNC Chairman Dean and his surrogates telling delegates they must vote for Obama or he will work to defeat them by funding primary challengers in their Congressional or local races. [161]

In an appearance at the Saddleback Church, Pastor Rick Warren asks Obama when he believes human life begins. Obama, wanting to avoid his controversial pro-abortion votes, responds, “Well (sigh). You know, I… I… eh, er, I think that whether you're looking at it from a theological perspective or, uh, a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity, uh, you know, is above my pay grade.” [315,430]

Obama’s campaign accuses the McCain campaign of being fed in advance the questions asked Senator McCain by Pastor Rick Warren at the Saddleback Church appearance, and makes sure NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell repeats the unfounded charges on the evening news; Warren categorically denies the charge; no apology to Warren or McCain is issued. [162]

Reverend Leah Daughtry is named by Obama and DNC chair Howard Dean to be the Democrat Convention chief; in Daughtry’s home-town “House of the Lord Church” in Brooklyn hangs a banner supporting slavery reparations, which reads, “They Owe Us.” [163]

Eric Holder, who was instrumental in persuading Bill Clinton to pardon members of the terrorist group FALN and fugitive financier Mark Rich, leads Obama’s team to select his Vice-Presidential running mate, and is rumored to be a potential Attorney General in an Obama Administration. Working with Holder on the selection committee is James Johnson, former CEO of Fannie Mae, who was found “cooking the books” at the mortgage giant to inflate its earnings and boost his executive bonus. Former CFO of Fannie Mae, Tim Howard, is a chief economic advisor to Obama. [164,353]

Among the groups supporting Obama is “Progressives for Obama,” founded by Mark Rudd (who had been trained by the KGB in Cuba), former Weather Underground member and close ally of William Ayers; Tom Hayden, former husband of actress Jane Fonda and principle founder of the radical Students for a Democratic Society, who traveled to North Vietnam to give support to the Viet Cong; Bill Fletcher, founder of the Marxist Black Radical Congress; Barbara Ehenreich, honorary chairman of the Democratic Socialists of America; and actor Danny Glover, recipient of $20 million from Venezuela’s dictator Hugo Chavez to make a movie about a Haitian communist revolutionary. Ayers is on the board of a Venezuelan government think tank assigned the task of bringing Cuban-style education to Venezuela. [218,262]

During the campaign, in support of abortion, Obama remarks that if his daughters ever make a mistake and get pregnant, he wouldn’t “want them punished with a baby.” [165,315]

Obama tells Jeffrey Goldberg of “The Atlantic” that Israel is a “constant sore” that “infects all of our foreign policy” [343]

Obama takes credit in ads for “…extending health care for wounded troops who had been neglected,” referring to the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act; Obama was not present for voting when that bill was passed, nor was it drafted by him. [351]

A review of campaign donations filed with Federal Election Commission shows that Obama’s campaign receives a substantial number of contributions in unusual amounts, such as $74.37 or $42.95, suggesting they were illegal foreign contributions originally made in “even amounts,” which were then converted to U.S. dollars, resulting in “odd amounts;” the Obama campaign appears to have made no effort to identify or return illegal foreign contributions. Obama has over $200 million in contributions of less than $200, but his campaign has done little to insure that they are legal. The campaign illegally accepts contributions without requiring donor addresses. Hedge funds around the world are suspected of massive donations to the Obama campaign in an effort to influence his future actions as President. [166,167]

Obama’s wife criticizes President Bush’s $600 economic stimulus checks at a “working-women’s round table discussion,” saying, “The short-term quick fix kinda sounds good, and it may even feel good that first month when you get that check, and then you go out and buy a pair of earrings.” [168] 

Obama visits Iraq in July; although campaigning publicly for a quick and steady withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, Obama - not wanting the Bush Administration to receive credit for any successes - tries, in private, to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a reduction of American troops. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari confirms that Obama demanded the delay during discussions with Iraqi leaders, stating that Obama “…asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington.” Obama tells the Iraqis it is in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its "state of weakness and political confusion." Zebari relates that he responded to Obama, “As an Iraqi, I believe that even if there is a Democratic administration in the White House it had better continue the present policy instead of wasting a lot of time thinking what to do,” meaning that Obama was attempting to thwart U.S. policy, and Zebari was telling Obama not to not interfere. [169,200,350]

That action by Obama in Iraq is likely in violation of the Logan Act, which prohibits unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments; the crime is a felony, and can be punished with a three year prison sentence. After the story is disclosed, Obama denies having made the statements; either Obama or Zebari is therefore lying, but even Obama’s own protestations suggest Obama is making the false statements. (Note that Zebari is fluent in English, and thus would likely not have misinterpreted Obama’s words.) [203]

During the July trip, Obama privately remarks that it would be “crazy” for Israel to refuse a deal that would “give them peace with the Muslim world.” The source reporting the comment is likely Robert O Malley, an Obama advisor with strong anti-Israel leanings. [497]

In July, Obama tells Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad that he “supports the rights of Palestinians to East Jerusalem, as well as their right to a stable, sovereign state,” but asks them to keep his pledge confidential. Obama’s promise is meant to calm Palestinian fears that developed from a June speech in which he said that if he is elected, “Jerusalem would remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided.” [512]

At a meeting with Democratic lawmakers on July 29, Obama says he represents the “world’s hopes for America” and “This is the moment the world is waiting for.”  He then adds, “I have become a symbol of restoring America to its best traditions.” [170]

On a daily basis, Obama receives two e-mails from his staff. One e-mail briefs him on major world events over the prior 24 hours, the other e-mail is a set of questions he is likely to be asked during the day, with suggested answers. [353]

In July of 2008, Obama sponsors the Global AIDS Spending Bill; the bill adds $50 billion to the $200 billion in tax dollars already spent on fighting HIV/AIDS around the world; the bill also lifts a ban on entry into the U.S. of AIDS-infected aliens; The Congressional Budget Office estimates that U.S. taxpayers will end up spending $83 billion treating those aliens and their infected children. [351]

In July, the American flag is removed from the tail of the Obama campaign plane and replaced with his trademark “O” symbol. (After receiving criticism, a much smaller U.S. flag is added.) [353]

On July 14, Obama speaks to the National Council of La Raza (“The Race,” the nation’s largest Hispanic special interest group) and promises amnesty for the 12 million or more illegal immigrants in the United States, saying, “That's why we need to offer those who are willing to make amends a pathway to citizenship. That way, we can reconcile our values as both a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws.” [342]

In Berlin, Germany in July, Obama addresses a crowd estimated at 200,000 (already gathered for a rock concert), pretty much telling it what it wants to hear in order to ensure enthusiastic applause. During the same trip, Obama cancels a visit to wounded soldiers at an Army hospital after he learns the military won’t allow campaign photographers to politicize the event. [353]

While on his July tour of Iraq and Europe, Obama meets with the President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. In private, Sarkozy refers to Obama’s position on Iran as “utterly immature” and consisting of “formulations empty of all content.” According to Israeli sources, Sarkozy tells Obama that if the next American president changes his country's policy toward Iran, that would be “very problematic.”  [415]

In July and August of 2008, the head of Nigeria’s stock market holds Obama fundraisers in Lagos, Nigeria; an estimated $900,000 is raised for Obama, despite the fact that it is illegal for the campaign to collect contributions from foreign countries. The media fails to investigate illegal Obama campaign contributions, but sends a reporter to remote Little Diomede island in Alaska in order to see if Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin can “actually see” Russia from Alaska. [245]

The “Las Vegas Review-Journal” reports that a Clark Count (Nevada) official “sees rampant fraud in the 2,000 to 3,000 registrations ACORN turns in every week.” Nevada is one of the states targeted by Obama as one he can switch from Republican to Democrat; vote fraud may be the reason for his confidence. [240]

In August of 2008, Obama vacations in Hawaii. He spends one hour with his maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham; he is not accompanied by his wife or two daughters, who may very likely never again see Dunham, age 86. [329]

In an August, 2008 letter to a homosexual rights group called the “Family Equality Council,” Obama pledges he will overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. [337]

At a campaign appearance in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Obama states that he would eventually consider a single-payer health care system, but not immediately. He admits that, “If I were designing a system from scratch, I would probably go ahead with a single-payer system.” Although Obama’s preference is for a single-payer socialized system that would eliminate private insurance companies and have the government pay all health-care bills with tax dollars, he remarks that “People don’t have time to wait… My attitude is, let’s build up the system we got, let’s make it more efficient, we maybe over time… (can) that there are other ways for us to provide care more effectively.” [426]

The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates that Obama’s tax plan would add $3.4 trillion to the national debt, including interest, by 2018. [171]

The media reports that Obama’s half-brother, George Obama (b. 1982), lives in poverty in a slum outside Nairobi; [173] Obama provides his brother with no assistance, but supports a United nations “anti-global poverty tax” that would cost Americans approximately $65 billion per year, with much of it going to Africa (through the United Nations). [174,175,277,289]

In addition to Obama’s half-brother George in a Nairobi slum, the candidate has a half-aunt and half-uncle living in a Boston, Massachusetts slum neighborhood. Zeituni Onyango walks with a cane and, despite being poor, manages to scrape together a $260 donation for the Obama campaign. Onyango is in the United States illegally; she refuses to talk to the media about Obama, but says she will do so after the election. Onyanga’s brother, Omar Onyango Obama, also lives in poverty in Boston; he had been evicted from a one-room flat for failing to pay rent. [427,441]

Obama’s “global poverty program,” to the extent it follows the United Nations “Millennium Goals” on which it is based, would be paid for with a "currency transfer tax," a "tax on the rental value of land and natural resources," a "royalty on worldwide fossil energy production - oil, natural gas, coal…  fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for the airplane use of the skies, fees for the use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on the carbon content of fuels." Obama has already introduced the legislation as Senate Bill S 2433; co-sponsors of the bill include Democrats Maria Cantwell of Washington, Dianne Feinstein of California, Richard Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey, and Republicans Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Richard Lugar of Indiana. [277]

Reporter Stanley Kurtz asks to view the historical public records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), an education reform program led by Obama and William Ayers; there is an initial refusal to release the records, orchestrated by Ken Rolling, former executive director of the CAC and an associate of Obama and Ayers, but the records are later released - after being “cleansed” of sensitive documents by Rolling and others. Rolling, like Obama and Ayers, is a former board member of the Woods Fund. [176,177]

Obama states, “Nobody has spoken out more fiercely on the issue of anti-Semitism than I have,” a claim that is widely ridiculed for its outrageousness. Obama also states that Hezbollah and Hamas have legitimate grievances, and offers to sit down with their leaders and the leaders of Muslim nations to listen to their complaints. (Their number one grievance is the very existence of Israel and Jews.) [202]

At the Democrat National Convention, although the convention center is good enough for the Kennedy and Clinton speeches, Obama insists on giving his acceptance speech at a football stadium that seats 76,000. Saul Alinsky’s son, Lee David Alinsky, praises Obama for learning his father’s socialist revolution “lesson well.” The over-inflated Obama ego is consistent with Alinsky’s advice that “Ego must be so all-pervading that the personality of the organizer is contagious, that it converts the people from despair to defiance, creating a mass ego." [267,272]

Obama is able to get away with such arrogance because he knows how to “play the crowd.” In his book, “Dreams From my Father,” he wrote, “It was usually an effective tactic, another one of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied, they were relieved - such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn’t seem angry all the time." [337]

Obama receives about $300,000 per year from Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Countrywide Financial, and Washington Mutual. After less than four years in office those companies and their employees had given Obama a total of $1,093,329.00; just over half is from Goldman Sachs alone. [212]

When Chicago’s WGN radio interviews David Freddoso, author of “The Case Against Barack Obama,” Obama’s campaign sends an “Obama Action Wire” to key supporters, encouraging them to protest the program and call in repeatedly to tie up its telephone lines so that regular listeners can’t get through; the same had been done when WGN interviewed Stanley Kurtz, a reporter who had been prevented from trying to gain access to public documents of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. [183,184]

It is learned that the Obama campaign funneled over $800,000 to “Citizens Services, Inc.” (CSI), a “shell corporation” set up by ACORN in December of 2004. To hide the fact that Obama was giving money to ACORN, a vote fraud organization, the money was instead given to CSI. The campaign then misled the Federal Elections Commission by listing the funds as going toward “stage, lighting, and sound” expenses when, in fact, the cash went toward get-out-the-vote projects. Note that CSI and ACORN headquarters have the same address; ACORN and CSI also have over $3 million in outstanding IRS tax liens.  [284,285,400]

The Obama campaign runs an anti-McCain ad criticizing him for not being computer savvy and not sending e-mails; apparently Obama’s team did not realize McCain has his wife and other people type e-mail responses for him because the North Vietnamese broke his fingers and shattered his arms while imprisoned in Hanoi. [185]

On September 13, Obama suggests re-instating the military draft, with his remarks that his job as President would include demanding that the American people recognize an “obligation” for military service. “If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some.” [340]

In September of 2008, mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac fail, partly because of Enron-like accounting practices, and are rescued in a multi-billion dollar federal bail-out. An Obama economic and housing policy advisor, Franklin Raines, had been chief executive of Fannie Mae; in 2002, when staff advised him of bookkeeping problems and earnings manipulations, Raines fired the whistleblowers rather than correct the problems; Raines also forced Fannie Mae employees to falsify accounting records to enable him to receive larger pay bonuses; also receiving inflated bonuses were Jamie Gorelick (formerly of the Clinton Administration); Raines was eventually forced out of Fannie Mae because of accounting fraud, after obtaining nearly $50 million in improperly calculated bonuses; Raines paid back only a small portion of that amount; Obama and Christopher Dodd are the top Senate recipients of campaign contributions from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Raines was also involved in the collapse of Countrywide Financial, which provided “special loan rates” for connected people like James Johnson, advisor to Obama who was on his vice-presidential selection team, and who preceded Raines as CEO of Fannie Mae, and Senator Christopher Dodd. Note that Democrats added tens of millions of dollars for ACORN in the original “bail out” bill; those funds were removed before the final bill was passed. [179,284,364]

Federal Election Commission records reveal that Obama received $137,950 (Fannie Mae) and $68,750 (Freddie Mac) in campaign contributions from them, second only to Christopher Dodd (who received $165,400); John Kerry is in third place with $111,000. [178]

As of September, 2008, Obama’s Senate and Presidential campaigns had also received significant contributions from failed financial institutions, including Bear Stearns ($570,614) and Lehman Brothers ($370,524). Lehman Brothers is owed at least $250 million by BNP Paribas, a French bank whose biggest shareholder is Nadhmi Auchi (friend and financer of Toney Rezko, and contributor to Obama campaigns), and which made a fortune through the United Nations “Oil for Food” scandal with Saddam Hussein. [179,180,181,182]

Note that the Obama campaign states Raines has not been an official advisor; the Washington Post reported that Obama has sought “his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters;" he is perhaps only an unofficial advisor. [364]

Obama encourages supporters to be rude to Republicans and undecided independents, telling them, “I want you to argue with them and get in their face.” [213,214]

September 24, 2008, lawyers for Obama and the Democrat National Committee file a Joint Motion to Dismiss (on the last day to file a response) the case of Berg v. Obama, No. 08-CV-04083, which purports that Obama is ineligible to be President of the United States because he was born in Kenya. Inasmuch as it should have been easier to produce proof of Obama’s birth and citizenship than fight the lawsuit, this delay tactic suggests Obama does not, in fact, have the proof. One of Obama’s lawyers is Joe Sanders, of the Washington law firm of Sandler, Reiff, and Young; Sanders also represents the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization with terrorist ties, and is an un-indicted co-conspirator in the Holyland Foundation Hamas Funding trial. (Interestingly, out of more than one million lawyers in the United States available to represent Obama, he chose one with direct ties to CAIR and who is also named as a co-conspirator in a case involving fraud.)  [216,226,325,368]

Leading Code Pink activists and Obama fundraisers Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New York in September. While in New York, Ahmadinejad gives a speech at Columbia University; his appearance was coordinated by Rashid Khalidi, a long-time friend of Obama, and possibly encouraged by Zbigniew Brzezinski, an anti-Semite and Obama foreign policy advisor who had taught international relations at Columbia. [215,220,395]

Obama and his wife attend the wedding of one of Rashid Khaildi’s daughters; other guests include William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn; the date of the event is believed to be in the months immediately preceding the November elections. [521]

Obama enlists St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, and Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer as a so-called “truth squad” in an effort to intimidate radio and television stations into not airing ads critical of Obama; they warn citizens that they will bring criminal libel prosecutions against anyone who makes false statements about Obama. The tactic is immediately criticized by Missouri Governor Matt Blunt, who says, “The only conceivable purpose of Messrs. McCulloch, Obama and the others is to frighten people away from expressing themselves, to chill free and open debate, to suppress support and donations to conservative organizations targeted by this anti-civil rights, to strangle criticism of Mr. Obama, to suppress ads about his support of higher taxes, and to choke out criticism on television, radio, the Internet, blogs, e-mail and daily conversation about the election.” [221,256]

In the first Presidential debate with Senator McCain, Obama brings attention to a bracelet he is wearing in honor of a slain Wisconsin soldier, Brian Jopek, despite requests from Jopek’s family that Obama stop wearing it and stop referring to it. [222]

Public Middle Schools in Racine, Wisconsin issue a new (copyright 2008) textbook to students that contains 15 pages complimenting candidate Obama on his “life of service.” The book is published by McDougal, Littell and Company; Alfred L McDougal contributes to the Obama campaign. [401,402]

In late September, former Presidential candidate and New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson tells a group of Hispanics that, “Barack Obama is the best candidate for the Hispanic community because our community wants a united country. Obama is an immigrant. When he speaks to Latinos, he doesn’t just speak about immigration and civil rights…” Richardson does not elaborate on what he means by “Obama is an immigrant;” it may be a slip of the tongue and a recognition by Richardson that he knows Obama was not born in the United States. [629]

In September and October of 2008, an auditor at the federal Election Commission requests a formal investigation into Obama campaign contributions, suspecting it of collecting $200 million or more in illegal contributions, including illegal foreign donations; the auditor states, “I believe we are looking at a hijacking of our political system that makes the Clinton and Gore fundraising scandals pale in comparison.” [231]

In September, all references to Obama’s opposition to the successful troop surge in Iraq are removed from the official Obama web sites. [270]

The Obama staffers in charge of the campaign’s “small” (less than $200) Internet campaign contributions are Obama’s former college roommates from Pakistan, Muhammad Hasan Chandoo and Wahid Hamid; those “small” contributions total at least $223 million; many are believed to be illegal contributions from foreign countries. Campaigns are required to keep track of names of those who contribute more than $200 in aggregate, and verify their nationality as U.S., but the Obama campaign does not – in direct violation of federal election laws. [245]

Note that, in addition to working directly for the Obama campaign, Chandoo, with his brother, maintains a web site that is arguably anti-American, anti-Semitic, anti-women, and vulgar. [332]

In September of 2008, allegations surface that proof of Obama’s Indonesian citizenship and adoption are being suppressed by the Indonesian government in exchange for cash and political favors. U.S. Congressman Eni Faleomavaega (a non-voting Democrat Congressman from American Samoa and Obama supporter), visited Indonesia’s President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in July of 2007 and is suspected of securing government records damaging to Obama’s candidacy. In exchange for document turnover and document suppression, money would be given to the school attended by Obama, more cash for the government would come later, and the Congressman would attempt to foster a “hands off” policy with regard to the Indonesian government’s continuing suppression of rights of Christians in Papua. If these allegations are true, and Faleomavaega acted at Obama’s request, both are guilty of felonies and violations of the Logan Act. [303,321,323,337]

In October of 2008, Congress passes a “bail-out bill” to give more than $700 billion to Wall Street to rescue them from their investments in sub-prime mortgages – mortgages that had been aggressively encouraged by the government itself for 30 years. The bail-out bill includes over $112 billion in “pork,” including $6 million in tax breaks for wooden-arrow manufacturers in Oregon, $148 million in tax breaks for wool-producing companies, $128 million in tax breaks for the manufacturers of car-racing tracks, $10 million in tax breaks for small television and film producers, $223 million in tax breaks for Alaskan fishermen, and $192 million in tax breaks for rum producers in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Both Obama and his opponent, John McCain, vote for the bail-out bill. [247]

The bail-out bill also includes $33 million in tax breaks for corporations operating in American Samoa. One of the two largest employers there is Star-Kist Tuna; Star-Kist’s parent company, Del Monte, has headquarters in San Francisco, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s district; Star-Kist is a major Pelosi contributor; Pelosi’s husband owns $17 million in Star-Kist stock; Star-Kist is also the only company operating in U.S. territories that is exempted from federal minimum wage laws. Despite the obvious conflict of interest, Pelosi supports the Star-Kist tax breaks; Obama raises no objections and votes for the bill. [397,398,399]

On October 6, 2008, Obama and the Democrat National Committee file a “Joint Motion for Protective Order to Stay Discovery Pending a Decision on the (9/24/2008) Motion to Dismiss.” With that motion, Obama and the DNC attempt to further stall the lawsuit demanding that Obama provide his actual birth certificate to prove he is technically a U.S. citizen eligible to become President; the assumption is that Obama cannot provide a certified copy of a Hawaiian “vault” birth certificate because it does not exist. The attorney who filed the lawsuit, attorney Philip J. Berg, asserts that Obama is ineligible to be President, and that he “…is an illegal alien and therefore should be arrested, tried, and deported. He certainly cannot hold his Senate seat.” [241,299]

On October 7, WND staff reporter, researcher, and author (“The Obama Nation”) Jerome Corsi is detained by authorities in Kenya just as he is about to hold a press conference in which he planned to describe evidence of Obama’s dealings and connections with controversial Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga. The news conference would allegedly be used to "expose details of deep secret ties between U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and a section of Kenya government leaders, their connection to certain sectoral groups in Kenya and subsequent plot to be executed in Kenya should Senator Obama win the American presidency." [242]

In October of 2008, Obama’s newly appointed “Muslim Outreach Advisor,” Minha Husaini, is criticized for having met with extremist Islamic groups on September 15; Husaini’s predecessor had resigned because of connections to a radical Muslim cleric. Among those meeting Husaini was Mahdi Bray, who has publicly supported Hamas and Hezbollah, and Johari Abdul Malik, a Falls Church, Virginia cleric, who told followers in November of 2004, “You will see Islam move from being the second largest religion in America – to being the first religion in America.” [254]

In October of 2008, ACORN works to remove potentially damaging information connecting Obama with the group from its web pages; among the items deleted is an article that discusses Obama’s training of ACORN leaders. By October of 2008, the Obama campaign claims he had never organized with ACORN and had nothing to do with voter registration drives. [283]

On October 10, stories surface that Tony “the fixer” Rezko may be giving up incriminating information about Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, and Obama, in order to receive a lighter prison sentence for his 16 felony convictions for receiving kick-backs for political favors. [281,290,315]

On October 10, word leaks that federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is leading a team of FBI investigators in 10 states working on a RICO case involving ACORN; the investigation may be focused on a conspiracy to commit multi-state voter fraud on Obama’s behalf. Fitzgerald is the same prosecutor who convicted Tony Rezko (and Lewis “Scooter” Libby). If elected, Obama can fire prosecutor Fitzgerald and shut down the investigation. [281,282]

At an October 12 campaign appearance in Holland, Ohio, Obama is asked by a self-employed plumber, Joe Wurzelbacher, who was considering starting his own business, why he must pay more for everyone else. Obama’s response is, “It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody that is behind you, that they have a chance for success too.”  Obama then added a sentiment straight from the socialist handbook, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” [295,312]

After “Joe the plumber” was brought up by John McCain in the third Presidential debate to illustrate Obama’s socialist leanings, Helen Jones-Kelley, director of the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services, approved a search of the state’s child-support records to find damaging information on Wurzelbacher; Jones-Kelley, who contributed $2,300 to the Obama campaign, said there were “no political reasons” for the query. It was later disclosed that Jones-Kelly also looked into whether Wurzelbacher was receiving welfare assistance or was behind in unemployment compensation taxes; at least four separate government agencies have been found to have conducted checks into his background. Ohio’s Inspector General is investigating the incident; the Ohio Governor (Democrat Ted Strickland), is satisfied there were no “political overtures” in Jones-Kelley’s actions. [405,436]

It is worth noting, in relation to Obama’s response to “Joe the plumber,” that Obama’s advisors, Cass Sunstein, advocates Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposed “second bill of rights” in his book, “The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever.” Roosevelt’s list of rights includes a right to an education, home, health care, and a “right to protection against monopolies.” Sunstein argues that these rights should be instituted, but neglects to mention, for example, who will be paying for someone else’s “right to a home.” [403,404]

It is noted that Obama’s public relations staffer, Marilyn Katz, was the “security chief” for the Students for a Democratic Society; involved in the 1968 Democrat Party Convention riots, Katz advocated throwing studded nails in front of approaching police car tires, and throwing plastic bags of human excrement, cans of urine, and golf balls with nails at the police.  As PR person for Obama, one of Katz’ jobs is to downplay the candidate’s past relationship with William Ayers; Katz herself, as a prominent SDS leader, was likely an associate of Ayers in the 1960s. [320]

On October 15, 2008, in what appears to be a massive hoax, “African Press International” (API) reports that Michelle Obama telephoned its offices to complain about reports of people challenging her husband’s eligibility to be President. In the conversation, she allegedly states, “African press International is supposed to support Africans and African-American view(s). It is strange that API has chosen to support the racists against my husband. There is no shame in being adopted by a step-father. All dirt has been thrown onto my husband’s face and yet he loves this country. My husband and I know that there is no law that will stop him from becoming the president, just because some American white racists are bringing up the issue of my husband’s adoption by his step-father. The important thing here is where my husband’s heart is at the moment. I can tell the American people that my husband loves this country and his adoption never changed his love for this country. He was born in Hawaii, yes, and that gives him all the right to be an American citizen even though he was adopted by a foreigner.” [306,307,308,309,317]

The story is likely illegitimate but, if true, the candidate’s wife, in her statement, unknowingly admits that Obama was adopted by Indonesian Lolo Soetoro, which may mean he may still be an Indonesian citizen ineligible to be U.S. President. She is incorrect in saying there is “no law” that will stop him; there certainly are laws defining the eligibility requirements, and if he doesn’t satisfy them he cannot be President. Obama’s wife also allegedly tells API that if it writes a “complimentary story” about her husband they will then be invited to an Obama inauguration ceremony. The Obama campaign denies that his wife spoke with API. API says the conversation was recorded and the tape will be released, after it gives Mrs. Obama a chance to clarify her side of the story. [306,307,308,309,317]

API allegedly agrees to allow Fox News to broadcast the tape of the telephone call from Michelle Obama, but Fox News denies the story. In late October, API is allegedly offered $2 million by Ed Hale, President of Plains Radio in Texas, to cancel its agreement with Fox. The Obama campaign itself then allegedly offers API a $3 million bribe to suppress the information, withhold the tape, and renege on its agreement with Fox. API says it will work with its lawyers and treat the cash offer as an illegal bribery attempt. It is likely that the entire API story is untrue. [417,435]

A lawsuit is filed in the State of Washington by Steven R. Marquis demanding that the Secretary of State obtain proof that Obama is eligible to be President of the United States or remove his name from the November 4 ballot. [307,331,406]

James Pethokopukis, reporter for the U.S. News and World Reports, relates on October 16 that a University of Chicago professor he spoke with and who knew Obama considered him “…as close to a full-out Marxist as anyone who has ever run for President of the United States.” [314]

The media reports that, at an October 15 Sarah Palin campaign event in Scranton, Pennsylvania, someone in the crowd shouted “Kill him!” when Obama’s name was mentioned by the speaker, Congressional candidate Chris Hackett. The report gets quick, widespread coverage by the pro-Obama media, despite the fact that no one in the crowd heard the shout - except the reporter for the ScrantonTimes-Tribune. Secret Service agents and police officers present state they did not hear the threat, and interviewed attendees who all denied having heard it. [311]

Key Obama policy aide Jason Grunet, executive director of the “National Commission on Energy Policy,” states that if Congress doesn’t move within 18 months to tighten rules with regard to carbon dioxide emissions, Obama would instruct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to institute its own unilateral enforcement crackdown anyway. (In other words, if Congress doesn’t pass the “global warming” laws Obama wants, he’ll go ahead and make up his own regulations on carbon dioxide emissions.) Grunet is concerned that Congress – even a Democrat Congress - will be unlikely to go along with excessive taxes on carbon emissions, because they would cause skyrocketing prices, business failures, and massive job losses. Obama would avoid the issue of Congressional approval by forcing the EPA to enforce strict “pollution” guidelines - which will, however, have the same negative effects. [330]

There is speculation that Obama would reward Hillary Clinton with a Supreme Court nomination if he is elected. [337]

Obama’s Vice-Presidential running mate, Joe Biden, says to a public gathering (he does not realize that reporters are present) “Mark my words. It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. Remember, I said it standing here, if you don't remember anything else I said. We're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.”  Further details explaining that remark have not been released. [363]

On October 23, attorney Philip J. Berg states he has a recording of a telephone conversation in which Obama’s paternal grandmother, speaking long distance to someone in the United States, confirms the candidate was born in Kenya and that she was present in the hospital delivery room. [367]

On October 23, Obama heads to Hawaii to visit his ailing maternal grandmother. There is speculation that the purpose of Obama’s trip may also be to search her apartment for documents that will help him fight the lawsuits demanding that he prove he is eligible to serve as President. The State of Hawaii then states that the Obama document it has is valid, but does not say whether it has a certificate of live birth or a certification of live birth; they are not the same. The Hawaiian officials state only that a document exists; no mention of any specific information on the document has been made public. [371,558,580]

The Urban Institute Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center analyzes the McCain and Obama tax policies and calculates that McCain’s proposals would cut taxes by $628 billion over 10 years, while Obama’s would raise them by $734 billion over the same period. [337]

Obama’s list of accomplishments in the U.S. Senate consists of getting two bills passed: one to send foreign aid to the Congo and another to name a post office. [337]

By October 24, at least seven additional lawsuits have been filed in state and federal courts in Hawaii, Washington, California, Florida, Georgia, New York, and Connecticut to demand that Obama release his birth records. Lawsuits in Washington and Georgia seek to force the states’ secretary of state, as the chief state elections officer, to require Obama to produce original birth records from Hawaii, or remove him from the November 4 ballot. [372]

On October 24, Federal Judge R. Barclay Surrick in Philadelphia, a Clinton appointee, tosses out the Berg lawsuit. A plaintiff, such as Berg, who wishes to have standing to sue, must show (1) a particularized injury-in-fact, (2) evidence showing that that the party being sued actually caused the plaintiff’s particularized injury-in-fact, and (3) that adjudication of the matter would actually provide redress. Inasmuch as Berg is an American citizen, that in and of itself should suggest he has standing. Judge Surrick chose to avoid responsibility in the case and instead dumped the issue in the lap of Congress, knowing full well that a Democrat Congress will not address the issue. [374,375]

Coincidentally, Christopher B. Seaman, former law clerk for Judge Surrick, is currently employed by Sidley Austin LLP (which had previously employed Obama, Michelle Robinson Obama, and Bernadine Dohrn). [425]

Judge Surrick states, “If, through the political process, Congress determines that citizens, voters, or party members should police the Constitution’s eligibility requirements for the Presidency, then it is free to pass laws conferring standing on individuals like Plaintiff. Until that time, voters do not have standing to bring the sort of challenge that Plaintiff attempts to bring in the Amended Complaint.” This response by the judge suggests that a Presidential candidate need not have been born in the United States; it is apparently sufficient for him to simply say that he was born in the United States – and the voters can’t do a thing about it unless and until Congress feels like passing a law. Attorney Philip J. Berg will appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. [374,375,376]

Judge Surrick illogically states that challenger Berg “would have us derail the democratic process by invalidating a candidate for whom millions of people voted and who underwent excessive vetting during what was one of the most hotly contested presidential primary (sic) in living memory.” Berg’s lawsuit cannot “invalidate” an eligible candidate, it could only lead to the removal of an ineligible candidate from the ballot; Berg is only asking the Court to require proof of eligibility, not to deny anyone the right to vote for a qualified candidate. In a remarkable statement that voters might vehemently disagree with, Judge Surrick also remarks that a “candidate’s ineligibility under the Natural Born Citizen Clause does not result in an injury in fact to voters.” (According to the judge, voters are not harmed by fraud perpetrated by an ineligible candidate.) [424]

On October 24, Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) tells the editorial board of The Standard-Times that Obama and the Democrats will slash military spending by 25 per cent, forcing America to withdraw troops from Iraq. [377]

In October, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) suspends all funding for ACORN, Obama’s main voter-registration drive organization, after learning that $948,000 had been embezzled from ACORN by Dale Rathke, the brother of ACORN founder Wade Rathke (friend of William Ayers and former SDS member). The embezzlement occurred in 1999, but the information did not become public until June of 2008. No charges have been filed against Dale Rathke; Wade Rathke remains chief organizer for ACORN International LLC. [390,391]

In October, U.S. District Court Judge Edmund Sargus, a 1996 Clinton appointee, rules that Ohio counties must allow homeless voters to list park benches and other locations that are not buildings as their addresses. (One might assume those voters support Obama’s “redistribution of wealth” policies.) [410]

The Obama campaign intentionally fails to apply basic security measures to prevent illegal and anonymous contributions from being submitted by credit card via the Internet; approximately two-thirds of the $150 million Obama collected in September of 2008 come through Internet credit card donations, including untraceable pre-paid “gift cards” that can readily conceal illegal contributions (such as foreign contributions or donations in excess of the $2,300 individual limit). [423]

The Washington State lawsuit challenging Obama’s eligibility to serve as President is dismissed by King County Judge John Erlick, who states the challenge "may be a positive idea," but Washington law clearly prevents the Secretary of State from getting involved and performing any external fact-checking. [411]

On October 27, Leo Donofrio sues the Secretary of State of New Jersey (Donofrio v. Wells), demanding that she execute her duties to police the security of ballots from fraudulent candidates ineligible to hold the office of President. Candidate Roger Calero, of the Socialist Workers Party, also appears on the New Jersey Ballot. Calero, a native of Nicaragua, clearly is not a natural born citizen of the United States, yet his name was allowed on the ballot by the New Jersey Secretary of State. Donofrio’s lawsuit argues that the Secretary of State, whose office is responsible for running the elections, should insure that a candidate is eligible to serve as President before adding his or her name to the ballot; Secretaries of States in states other than New Jersey had refused to place Calero’s name on the ballot. The Donofrio case appears to be heading to the Supreme Court. [485,507,509,585]

After a late October Obama campaign stop in Sarasota, Florida, a supporter named Peggy Joseph gushes to a reporter, "It was the most memorable time of my life. It was a touching moment, because I never thought this day would happen. I won't have to worry about putting gas in my car. I won't have to worry about paying my mortgage. You know, if I, if I help him (Obama), he’s gonna (sic) help me!" (There is no evidence that the Obama campaign has promised he would pay for everyone’s gas and make their mortgage payments.) [449]

In retaliation for their newspapers’ endorsement of John McCain, Obama kicks reporters from the Dallas Morning News, the New York Post, and the Washington Times off his campaign plane to keep them from covering the final week of his campaign. They are replaced with writers from magazines like Glamour. [482]

On October 31, the Director of the Hawaii Department of Health, Dr. Chiyome Fukino, states that she has “personally seen” Obama’s birth records, but refuses to disclose any details about the documents, and does not indicate whether she has reviewed a Certificate of Live Birth (the “long form”) or a Certification of Live Birth. Note that, evening the “long form,” Hawaii Statute 883.176 allows a birth in another state or country to be registered in Hawaii; this merely having a Hawaiian birth certificate does not prove one was born in Hawaii, the document itself must be examined to see the place of birth. [492]

On November 2, a San Francisco radio announcer at KGO 810-AM is caught saying, on the air, “I want mother-fucking Joe the plumber dead.” [451]

On November 2, New York Congressman Jerald Nadler appears at a gathering of Jewish voters in Boca Raton, Florida, to drum up support for Obama. As Nadler leaves the synagogue, he is asked why Obama did not denounce Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Nadler suggests that Obama didn’t have the “political courage” to make a statement by leaving the church. [522]

On November 3, Obama congratulates McCain on “the tough race that he has fought.” While making the remark Obama, as he had done to Hillary Clinton in the primaries, scratches his face with his middle finger, “flipping McCain off.” [456]

Dr. Vibert White, Jr., a former top-ranking official of the Nation of Islam, confirms in an interview that Obama has deep ties to the group and its vitriolic, anti-Semitic leader, Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan had hailed Obama as the “new messiah” in his February, 2008 endorsement of the candidate. Farrakhan has a history of anti-Jew statements, calling them “bloodsuckers” and “satanic.” Farrakhan states that he enjoys an “open channel” of communication with Obama. [471,558,559]

Obama aides confirm that his senior foreign policy advisor, Robert O. Malley, had been sent to Egypt and Syria to discuss the new administration’s Middle East plans and to pledge that Obama would “seek to enhance relations with Cairo as well as reconcile with Damascus.” Note that the anti-Israel Malley had previously been pressured to leave the Obama staff because of he had been in regular contact with the terrorist group Hamas; Obama eventually felt comfortable bringing him back on board. Obama also agrees to sell advanced F-16 fighter planes to Egypt. [472,473,474]

Obama continues to refuse to provide the media with school records, passports, college theses, law school records, law firm clients, medical records, Illinois State Senate files, and other documents about his record:

Original vault copy (long form) birth certificate - not released

Certificate of live birth (short form) - counterfeit released
Obama/Dunham marriage license - not released
Soetoro/Dunham marriage license - not released
Soetoro adoption records - not released
Besuki School application - released
Punahou School records - not released
Selective Service Registration – counterfeit released
Occidental College records - not released
Passport (Pakistan) - not released
Columbia College records - not released
Columbia thesis - not released
Harvard College records - not released
Harvard Law Review articles - none
Baptism certificate - none
Medical records - not released (except for a one-page statement saying he is healthy)
Illinois State Senate records – not released
Illinois State Senate schedule – not released (alleged to have been lost)
Law practice client list - not released
University of Chicago scholarly articles -  none [23,29,56,186,239]

On November 4, 2008, Obama is elected President of the United States. [457]

During election night celebrations in Chicago, most people in the downtown crowds were orderly - because police searched people to make sure liquor was not present. Nevertheless, several young people overturned portable toilets while people were using them (including an elderly woman who required a walker); a Chicago Police vehicle was shot at in the 900 block of north Ridgeway, 14 other Chicago squad cars were damaged by people throwing brick, bottles, and rocks, leaving six officers injured; clothing stores and liquor stores were broken into on Madison Street, Chicago Avenue, 16th Street, 47th Street, 63rd Street, Martin Luther King Drive, Cottage Grove Avenue, and Howard Street; police used tear gas to disperse crowds in the 2nd, 5th, 11th, and 15th police districts; in the 7th district, 104 reports of shots fired were received within 30 minutes of Obama being declared the winner of the election; snow plows were lined up as mobile barricades to control unruly crowds.

The day after the election, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev announces that Russia will deploy missiles in Kaliningrad in response to the U.S. deployment of ballistic missile defense systems in Poland. [477]

On November 7, ABC News reports that Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of Freddie Mac, the Government-Sponsored Entity which (along with GSE Fannie Mae) was involved in fraudulent bookkeeping and the massive sub-prime mortgage lending that contributed to the financial collapse in 2008. Emanuel, who served on the board of Freddie Mac during 2000-2001, was appointed to the position by Bill Clinton. Emanuel resigned to run for Congress, where he voted against the Partial Birth Abortion Ban (three times). [464,596]

With regard to the Berg lawsuit arguing that Obama is not an American citizen and is ineligible to serve as President of the United States, Supreme Court Justice David Souter issues a Writ of Certiorari (with the concurrence of at least three other Justices) and gives Obama and the Democrat National Committee (DNC) until December 1 to respond. [489]

Shortly after the election, Obama’s official President-elect web site (change.gov) is introduced. The site announces that “Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year.” After being flooded with questions and complaints, the Obama staff modified the language, and the word “require” was removed. Note that, in his book, “The Plan: Big Ideas for America,” Rahm, Emanuel (Obama’s chief of staff) endorsed mandatory service for young Americans. He wrote, “We propose universal civilian service for every young American. Under this plan, All Americans between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five will be asked to serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service…” Rahm also wrote that “…Republicans will squeal about individual freedom.” [460,463]

Tough Chicago politician and Congressman Rahm Emanuel is chosen by Obama to be his chief of staff. Emanuel, known as “Rahmbo” to many, has a “take no prisoners” approach, and once sent a large, rotting, dead fish to someone who had ticked him off (in a manner reminiscent of the horse’s head in the film, “The Godfather”). [458,459]

On November 6, Detroit radio station WRIF hosts Mike Clark, Trudi Daniels, and Marc Fellhauer conduct an on-air interview with Kenyan Ambassador Peter N. R. O. Ogego. Fellhauer asks, “One more quick question, President-elect Obama’s birthplace over in Kenya, is that going to be a national spot to go visit, where he was born?” Ogego responds, “It’s already an attraction. His paternal grandmother is still alive.” Fellhauer asks, “His birthplace, they’ll put up a marker there?” Ogego answers, “It would depend on the government. It’s already well known.” A spokesperson for Ogego later said she could not explain his comments but would have him call the station to do so; he did not. [551]

At his first post-election news conference, on November 7, Obama is asked if he had spoken with former Presidents. He replies that he had, and added, “I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about doing any séances." (Obama’s comment was meant to ridicule Mrs. Reagan for having consulted with astrologers while in the White House; but it was Hillary Clinton who was said to have spoken with the “ghost” of Eleanor Roosevelt.) After an immediate firestorm of criticism, Obama calls Nancy Reagan to apologize for his remark. [465]

Obama has a telephone conversation with Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland. Kaczynski relates that Obama said he would proceed with plans to build the missile defense shield promised by President Bush; Obama senior foreign policy advisor Denis McDonough later denies that Obama made the pledge. [470]

On November 9, John Podesta, Obama’s transition-team chief, confirms that Obama is considering reversing President Bush’s executive orders on stem-cell research and oil and gas drilling. Obama would also likely reverse plans to open up 360,000 acres of land in Utah for oil and gas drilling, reverse a rule barring international family-planning groups (which receive U.S. aid) from counseling women about abortions, and allow California authorities to regulate automobile carbon dioxide emissions. [462,468,476]

ABC 7’s Ben Bradley reports that Valerie Jarrett is Obama’s preferred choice for filling his Senate seat. He states, “Whether that is merely Obama’s personal opinion, or if he intends to lobby on Jarrett’s behalf, remains to be seen.” CNN also reports that Obama wants Jarrett in his Senate seat. [667,678,679]

Just days after the election, before Obama has even been sworn in, let alone done anything, his supporters start pushing for a “national holiday” to honor their candidate. [488]

On November 10, USA Today reports that Obama staffers have already begun drafting plans to move prisoners of war from the military’s Guantanamo Bay facility (“GITMO”) to the United States for criminal trials. [466]

On November 10, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, his chief of staff John Harris, Blagojevich’s wife Patti, and his Governor’s office general counsel, speak on a conference call for about two hours with an Obama transition team member and/or other “Washington, D.C.-based advisers” about a “deal” in which the governor would name a replacement Senator desired by Obama (probably Valerie Jarrett) in exchange for Obama appointing the governor as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. They also discuss a less-suspicious deal in which Blagojevich would appoint the desired replacement and Obama would assist the governor in getting a high-paid position with the “Change to Win” organization. Blagojevich states in the conversation that he would not name Obama’s preferred choice, Valerie Jarrett, to Obama’s open Senate seat unless he is offered in return a position that pays $250,000 top $300,000 per year. The call is secretly recorded by federal authorities investigating Blagojevich. The identity of the person representing Obama in the conversation has not yet been made public; it may have been someone from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), possibly SEIU Andy Stern, or Tom Balanoff. [645,656,657,658,661,678]

Note that “Change to Win” is a partnership of unions founded in 2005 to strengthen union power. The unions are the SEIU, United Here, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters (which had separated from the AFL-CIO), Laborers’ International Union of North America, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, and United Farm Workers of America. [667]

By November 10, Obama’s Presidential-transition web site, “Change.gov,” had been “scrubbed” of much of the agenda which had appeared on his campaign web site. www.barackobama.com, suggesting that his campaign promises were perhaps nothing more than campaign promises. [469]

Only hours after the Blagojevich marathon conference call earlier that day, on the evening of November 10 CNN reports that two anonymous Democrat sources confirmed that Valerie Jarrett will not be appointed to Obama’s Senate seat, and that he instead wants her serving him in the White House. [667,678]

It is learned on November 11 that the Obama campaign had been in contact with the terrorist group Hamas for months, but Hamas had been asked to keep the discussions secret until after the elections. [475]

Despite massive evidence of acceptance of illegal contributions, the Obama campaign likely will not face an audit by the federal Election Commission, because its six commissioners are split evenly between Republicans and Democrats. [487]

Reuters reports that Obama plans to try a “more regional approach” to the war in Afghanistan and may work toward that by having “talks with Iran.” [484]

General Electric (GE) announces that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) would guarantee up to $139 billion in GE capital debt. The FDIC is a federal agency that insures banks; GE is not a bank; it is, however, the parent company of NBC and MSNBC, two television networks that heavily promoted Obama’s candidacy by giving him uncritical and repeatedly “soft” coverage. Note that the FDIC doesn’t have assets to cover $139 billion in debt. [494]

On November 12, Obama associate Valerie Jarrett appears on “The Newshour” and tells host Jim Lehrer that she is not interested in taking Obama’s open Senate seat. (There is later speculation that Jarrett was placed out of the running because Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich couldn’t “get his price” for appointing her.) [657]

On November 12, Ambassador Alan Keyes, Presidential candidate of the American Independent Party, files a lawsuit against California’s Secretary of State, Obama, the DNC, and others, questioning Obama’s eligibility to run for and serve as President, and asking that the electors from the state of California be barred from casting their votes for Obama. [492]

On November 12, Illinois Governor Blagojevich discusses a deal for Obama’s Senate seat with an SEIU official (SEIU President Andy Stern, or an Illinois union official, Tom Balanoff). Blagojevich considered the SEIU official to be the “emissary” or “go-between” with the Obama team. [678]

On November 13, allegations surface that the Selective Service System registration form showing that Obama registered for the draft is a forgery. The form’s document location number (DLN), 0897080632, indicates a 2008 entry into the federal system, because the first two digits (08) indicate the year. (Had Obama registered in 1980, the first two digits of the DLN would have been 80, rather than 08.) Obama’s document also appears to be a 1990 form, modified to look like a 1980 form. The date the form was signed is July 30, 1980, yet the form has a date stamp of July 29. The date stamp reflects the letters “USPO” for United States Post Office, but in 1980 the letters would have been “USPS,” for United States Postal Service. A retired federal agent had requested the Obama form via the Freedom of Information Act; it took almost a full year for the document to be “found.” Note that Obama’s story about registering for the draft has changed more than once. He originally said he registered for the draft on 1979, when he turned age 18, but there was no requirement to register at that time. Note that failure to register with the Selective Service is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or up to five years in prison; it also renders the individual ineligible for any job in the Executive Branch of government or the U.S. Postal Service [483,493]

An Obama campaign spokeswoman tells reporters that lawsuits attempting to force the candidate to prove he is eligible to serve as President are “garbage.” At the same time, Obama continues to refuse to produce his birth certificate, and has sheriff's deputies stationed at two hospitals in Honolulu, where they are preventing press inquiries and attempts to request copies of records. [490]

On November 14, Obama’s Weather Underground and Pentagon-bomber friend William Ayers appears at a Washington, D.C. coffeehouse, “Busboys and Poets,” to promote two of his books, “City Kids, City Schools,” and “City Kids, City Teachers.” [486]

On November 14, Obama names Valerie Jarrett the Senior White House Advisor and Assistant to the President for Intergovernmental Relations and Public Liaison. [636,678]

The Wall Street Journal reports that “Obama may decide he wants to keep the road open in certain cases for the CIA to use (prisoner interrogation) techniques not approved by the military.” This is in direct conflict with Obama campaign promises to apply the Army field manual interrogation standard to all agencies, including the CIA. [501]

Obama resigns from his Illinois Senate seat on November 16, shortly after the election. This surprises many, because it eliminates the possibility of Obama being able to cast any critical votes in the Senate for two months – which may be especially important considering the financial crises facing the government and his single vote could perhaps be needed to prevent a filibuster. It may be possible that the early resignation is meant to provide more time to “wheel and deal” for his Senate seat. [704]

On November 16, the British Times reports that Obama would support a Middle East peace proposal calling for Israel to return to its 1949 borders (known as the “Auschwitz borders”); Obama allegedly tells Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas that the “…Israelis would be crazy not to accept this initiative.” The one-sided “deal” would also require Israel to give up the entire eastern half of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount (the holiest site in Judaism), and retreat from the Golan Heights. Obama advisor Dennis Ross later denies that Obama is planning to make a deal based on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative. [496,498,500]

On November 16, Obama appears on “60 Minutes” and confirms that he intends to close the military base at Guantanamo, Cuba. Obama does not elaborate on what he intends to do with the approximately 250 terrorists and enemy combatants held there. Some documents describing the prisoners and their activities were made public through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA); even the New York Times reported that the files contain “sobering intelligence claims against many of the remaining detainees;” ordinary criminals these prisoners are not. [544]

Obama names Gregory B. Craig as his White House Counsel; Craig is best known for defending John Hinckley, Jr., the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981. Craig also defended Bill Clinton during his impeachment after the Monica Lewinsky cover-up, represented Elian Gonzalez’s father in order to get the child taken from his family in Miami and returned to Cuba, and defended former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan during the investigation of the Saddam Hussein “oil for food” scandal. Craig’s list of clients also includes Senator Ted Kennedy (during the rape trial of his nephew, William Kennedy Smith); Pedro Miguel Gonzalez Pinzion (a Panamanian who murdered a U.S. soldier in 1992); the Panamanian government (during the Manuel Noriega trial); and Victor Posner (a prominent Miami tax evader). [499,502,503]

Obama selects Hillary Clinton to be his Secretary of State, despite having said during the primary campaign debates that he did not trust her judgment and that she lacked foreign policy credentials. [504,573]

Eric Holder, who was Clinton’s deputy Attorney General, is selected by Obama to be his Attorney General. Holder’s appointment is immediately controversial, because he was instrumental in persuading Bill Clinton to pardon members of the Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN (to encourage votes for Hillary Clinton’s Senate run from New York Puerto Ricans). In exchange for large donations by Denise Rich to the Clinton Presidential Library fund and Clinton’s legal defense fund, Holden worked for the pardon of her husband, Marc Rich, who had renounced his U.S. citizenship and fled to Switzerland to avoid prosecution for wire fraud, racketeering, tax fraud, and tax evasion. Holder’s role in securing the Clinton pardons was called “unconscionable” by a Congressional committee, partly because he kept the deliberations hidden until the last minute in order to avoid protests from U.S. district attorneys. Holder was second-in-command to Janet Reno when he made the decision to send in INS officers with automatic weapons to kidnap Elian Gonzalez and return the child to Cuba. [164,508,527,530,536,566,572]

Holder also worked to grant Clinton pardons for Susan Lisa Rosenberg and Linda Evans; Rosenberg and Evans were Weather Underground associates of William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, who had been imprisoned for bombing government facilities; as with other pardons, Holder kept prosecutors from learning about the Rosenberg and Evans pardons to prevent objections. Bernadine Dohrn served one year in prison for refusing to testify against Rosenberg, who was the getaway driver in a Weather Underground robbery in which one Brinks armored car driver and two police officers were killed; Rosenberg was set free by Clinton on his last day in office. [164,508,527,530,536]

Holder is also antagonistic toward the Second Amendment right to bear arms, and had supported the Washington, D.C. ban on all hand-guns, even for self-defense in the home. (That law was later found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.) Holder supports federal licensing of all handguns, three-day waiting periods, one gun per month purchase limits, national gun registration, and strict limits on gun shows that would effectively shut hem down. [536]

On November 17, the Washington Times Weekly runs a full-page ad questioning whether Obama was born in Kenya, raising the issue of Obama’s possible Indonesian citizenship, and asking, “Does the Constitution Still Matter?” [506]

The mainstream media has clearly not bothered to investigate whether Obama is eligible to serve as President, and simply assumes that the “short form” document his staff posted on the Internet is sufficient “proof” that he is a natural-born citizen. Due to the almost total lack of news reporting and fact-checking regarding Obama's hidden “long form” birth certificate and his exact citizenship status, "fact"-type websites created by ordinary citizens emerge to counteract the web sites of official Obama organizations and Obama supporters. On November 17, two web sites are published by "Mountain Publius Goat" (aka “Goat”) at www.obamacitizenshipfacts.org and obamabirthcertificatefacts.org; links to those sites are provided at the beginning of this timeline.

Obama selects former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to be his Secretary of Health and Human Services. As HHS Secretary, Daschle would work toward a single-payer, nationalized health care system. In Daschle’s revealing book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis,” he argues that the failure of the Clinton plan in 1993 was the result of providing too much detailed information, which its critics then used against it. Daschle instead recommends passing an intentionally vague bill, which would set up a “Federal Health Board… charged with establishing the system's framework and filling in most of the details. This independent board would be insulated from political pressure." In other words, Obama and Congress should deceive the American people in order to stage a national health care coup. As Senate Majority Leader, the pro-abortion Daschle blocked a Senate vote on the Partial Birth Abortion ban.[510,556,596]

Speculation arises that Obama could easily eliminate the possibility of drilling for oil in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR) by simply reclassifying the area as a “National Monument,” something he could do without Congressional approval. [511]

On November 18, Obama telephones Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and promised to work to establish a Palestinian state as soon as possible. [512]

In mid-November, the United States Supreme Court schedules a “Rule of Four Conference” for December 5 to review the merits of the Donofrio v. Wells lawsuit challenging the inclusion of Obama’s name on New Jersey’s ballot; the lawsuit charges that the Secretary of State, Nina Mitchell Wells, failed to exercise her official duties by not disqualifying ineligible candidates. If at least four of the Supreme Court Justices vote to hear the Donofrio case, oral arguments from both sides could be scheduled. The Donofrio action questions whether Democrat candidate Obama, Republican candidate McCain, and Socialist Workers Party candidate Calero are considered “natural born citizens” and eligible to serve as President. [516,518,580]

Although there is no requirement for a Federal Election Commission (FEC) audit of the Obama campaign because it did not accept public financing, public statements by FEC officials suggest there may be an “audit for cause” because of widely-publicized allegations of fraud, donations in excess of the $2,300 limit, and indications of significant illegal foreign contributions. (Note that Obama had, in 2007, worked to stall the confirmation of a Republican FEC Commissioner.) [517]

On November 19, Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, tells the Wall Street Journal, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”  Emanuel’s argument is that a crisis allows the government to usurp power and pass legislation in a manner in which the citizenry would ordinarily not accept. [523]

By November 20, there is speculation that Obama will select Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano as his Secretary of Homeland Security. Napolitano had been on the legal team advising Anita Hill, who testified against Clarence Thomas in his Supreme Court nomination hearings; Napolitano had been accused of coaching a witness into changing her testimony. Some suggest Napolitano has no experience to be in charge of Homeland Security, and has been “soft on crime” and “easy on illegal immigrants,” having vetoed a bill that would cut tuition aid to illegals, vetoed a bill that would have required local police to enforce immigration laws, opposed a border fence, and supported a temporary guest worker program. While Napolitano has been Governor of Arizona, trafficking of drugs, weapons, humans, and money have increased, along with crime and gang warfare. Napolitano, as Governor of Arizona, was careful not to offend Jews or Muslims (on November 29, 2007), by referring to the state capitol’s Christmas tree as the “holiday tree.” As Arizona Attorney General, Napolitano issued a memo describing “acceptable seasonal decorations,” which included snowflakes, icicles, garlands, and poinsettia plants, but prohibited “trees under which gifts could be placed, or Santa himself.” Napolitano approved a bill requiring Arizona officials to not comply with the “Real I.D.” program, which had been passed by Congress in 2005 in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and which requires states to verify the residency of all drivers license applicants. (Hani Hanjour, one of the terrorists who flew a hijacked plane into the Pentagon on 9/11 had an Arizona drivers license.) [353,356,519,534,546,565,589]

There is also speculation that Obama will select Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzker as his Secretary of Commerce. Although billionaire Pritzker, Obama’s campaign’s national finance chairwoman, ran the candidate’s record-breaking fundraising efforts, she was also the former head of the Superior Bank S&L, which failed in 2001 because of improper accounting and irresponsible subprime mortgage lending in the 1990; Pritzker’s bank’s failure resulted in $360 million in penalties, and caused over 1,400 depositors to lose their life savings. [353,356,519,534]

Obama decides against Pritzker as his Secretary of Commerce, choosing instead New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson for the position. Richardson had, in the past, offered Monica Lewinsky a job at the United Nations in order to “buy her silence” when her relationship with Bill Clinton became known. Richardson had also met with criticism for what some saw as a failure to safeguard nuclear secrets as Energy Secretary. (West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd said he would never again support Richardson for any office.) [534,586]

Obama’s transition team includes (probably unprecedented) detailed questions about gun ownership of questionnaires for potential nominations, prompting criticism from the National Rifle Association. Questions include, “Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun? If so, provide complete ownership and registration information. Has the registration ever lapsed? Please also describe how and by whom it is used and whether it has been the cause of any personal injuries or property damage.” [626]

ABC News reports that the Ludlum Elementary School in Long Island, New York, is renamed the “Barack Obama Elementary School;” most of the school’s students are black or Hispanic. The school’s original name was in honor of Dr. Charles Ludlum, who had been president of the Hempstead Board of Education for 40 years. [528]

CBS refuses to air an advertisement produced by “Americans for Job Security” which is critical of the ill-named “Employee Free Choice Act,” legislation supported by Obama which would allow labor unions to organize employees without the protection of secret ballots. Other networks approved the ad (called “Secret”) for airing; a CBS representative argued that viewer would be “confused” by the ad’s content. [532]

Obama chooses New York’s Federal Reserve Bank President, Timothy Geithner, as his Secretary of the Treasury, and Clinton’s former Secretary of the Treasury, Lawrence Summers, as head of the National Economic Council. Geithner worked at the Treasury Department during the Clinton years, was also with the International Monetary Fund, and was involved in the decision to allow Lehman Brothers to fail in September of 2008. (CNBC’s Jim Cramer had previously criticized Geithner, saying that if he “…gets a top spot in the (sic) Barack Obama’s cabinet, we are done, finished, kaput. It is that simple.”) Obama names Peter Orszag to direct the Office of Management and Budget. Note that Geithner, Summers, and Orszag are all disciples of Robert Rubin, former Clinton Treasury Secretary and Obama advisor who made more than $100 million giving bad investment advice to Citigroup which led to the firm eventually getting tens of billions of dollars in federal bail-out money. (Note that Citigroup still plans on spending $400 million to get its name on a new baseball stadium for the New York Mets.) [520,533,540,541,542,554,555]

Christina  Romer is named the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors; Romer is a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, and will likely advocate expanding the money supply (which can improve an economy in the short term, at the cost of high inflation in the long run). Melody Barnes is named director of the Domestic Policy Council; Barnes is executive vice president for policy at the Center for American Progress (a leftist organization headed by John Podesta which has worked to remove conservative commentators from the radio). Attorney Barnes has also served as Edward Kennedy’s chief counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and is an advocate of abortion and affirmative action programs. Barnes has served on the board of Planned Parenthood and Emily’s List (an organization devoted to getting pro-abortion Democrat women elected). Barnes, like Obama, is an advocate of a “loose interpretation” of the Constitution, and told Fox News that he views the document as “…a living and breathing document and that the law and the justices who interpret it have to understand that.” [520,533,540,541,542,596,598]

Note that the Center for American Progress has received several million dollars from left-wing activist and hedge-fund billionaire George Soros, who contributed $60,000 to Obama’s 2004 U.S. Senate campaign. [547]

Obama’s advisors discuss an “economic stimulus package” of from $175 billion to $700 billion. [533,540]

Mark Halperin, a writer for Time magazine, tells a group of media analysts at a Politico/USC conference on the 2008 election that the mainstream media engaged in “extreme bias, extreme pro-Obama coverage.” He remarks that it was “…the most disgusting failure of people in our business since the Iraq war.” [535]

In a November 22 radio address, Obama promises he will save or create 2.5 million jobs by 2011. That pledge is exceedingly modest; despite the media’s gloom and doom reporting about the economy, the employment rate is at least 93 per cent and the American economy is likely to create 2.5 million or more jobs - even if Obama does nothing. [594,595]

Obama chooses the private Sidwell School for his daughters, Malia and Sasha. Tuition at Sidwell approaches $30,000 per child per year; the Washington, D.C. public schools are reputed to be the worst in the nation, despite their very high expenses of about $13,400 per student. A trial voucher system, opposed by Obama, had received high marks from parents in Washington, D.C. [274,537]

The New York Times reports on November 23 that when Robert Rubin “…was Treasury secretary during the Clinton administration, Mr. Rubin helped loosen Depression-era banking regulations that made the creation of Citigroup possible by allowing banks to expand far beyond their traditional role as lenders and permitting them to profit from a variety of financial activities. During the same period he helped beat back tighter oversight of exotic financial products, a development he had previously said he was helpless to prevent.” Despite Rubin’s involvement in causing the general economic crisis – and especially at Citigroup – Obama nevertheless relies on Rubin him as an advisor and selects several of his followers (Geithner, Summers, and Orszag) to head his financial team. [557]

Obama campaign guru David Axelrod appears on Fox News Chicago and states that Obama “has talked with the Governor (Blagojevich, about his open Senate seat) and there are a whole range of names many of which have surfaced, and I think he has a fondness for a lot of them.”  (After Blagojevich is arrested, Axelrod contradicts this November 23 statement.) [678]

On November 24, one brief report about one of the many lawsuits questioning Obama’s eligibility to serve as President appears in the “mass media.” [538]

On November 24, Judge Bert Ayabe dismisses a lawsuit filed by Andy Martin that demands Obama prove he is a natural born citizen, arguing there was "insufficient evidence to indicate that the public interest supports" the release of the candidate’s birth certificate." It is unclear why Ayabe would not recognize that there is “public interest” in confirming whether Obama is eligible to serve as President, considering the tens of thousands of signature on petitions demanding proof of eligibility. Further, Ayabe, following the logic of the earlier Berg lawsuit, rules that Martin does not have “standing” under state law, because he does "not have a direct and tangible interest in the vital statistic records being sought, namely the birth certificate of President (-elect) Obama.” [539]

During a November 25 press briefing, Deputy White House Press Secretary Tony Fratto ignores a question about the legitimacy of Obama’s birth certificate. Journalist Lester Kinsolving asks, “The CEO of WorldNetDaily has called on the President-elect to release a birth certificate listing the hospital and names of parents. The White House believes that this would fully satisfy the constitutional requirement, don’t you?” Fratto responds, “I don’t think I have anything to say on that, Lester, and I think we’re going to end it right there.” [550]

Gary Kreep, attorney with the United States Justice Foundation, states that his group will continue to file lawsuits challenging every bill signed by Obama even if he takes office, arguing that he is ineligible to serve because he is not a natural born citizen. Kreep was one of the lawyers involved with the Alan Keyes lawsuit, which argues that “Should Senator Obama be discovered, after he takes office, to be ineligible for the Office of President of the United States of America and, thereby, his election declared void, Petitioners, as well as other Americans, will suffer irreparable harm in that (a) usurper will be sitting as the President of the United States, and none of the treaties, laws, or executive orders signed by him will be valid or legal.” [552]

Obama plans to create an “Economic Recovery Advisory Board,” chaired by Austan Goolsbee (who will also be a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisors); members of the board will include former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker. [553]

On November 27, the AtlasShrugs web site reports that Google has rigged its search results to omit links to that site. AtlasShrugs was instrumental in breaking the first phony birth certificate stories about Obama, and the site now prompts “forbidden” or missing search results where there used to be valid responses. Note that Google CEO Eric Schmidt, a friend and supporter of Obama, may be his new “tech advisor,” a new position in the government. [563,567]

On November 29, it is reported that Obama selects Cecilia Muñoz as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs, coordinating White House relations with local and state governments. Muñoz is Senior Vice President of La Raza (“The Race”), a Hispanic group dedicated to open borders, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and increased benefits for Hispanics crossing the border into the United States. Muñoz was born in Detroit; her parents are from Bolivia. In an essay describing her Hispanic activism, she wrote, “My outrage… became a propellant of my life, driving me straight to the civil rights movement, where I’ve worked ever since. I guess outrage got me pretty far. I found jobs in the immigrant rights movement. I moved to Washington to work as an advocate. I found plenty to be angry about along the way and built something of a reputation for being strident.” Muñoz will, like Obama, be a supporter of amnesty for illegal immigrants. Muñoz  has called opponents of amnesty programs “hate groups,” while calling for allowing illegal agriculture workers to become immediately eligible for permanent legal residency.  [690,691]

On December 1, Obama introduces his national security team, Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, Robert Gates (continuing as Secretary of Defense), General James L. Jones as national security advisor, Janet Napolitano as Homeland Security chief, Susan Rice as Ambassador to the United Nations, and Eric Holder as Attorney General. Jones and Clinton are likely to support a plan to establish East Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian Authority. Jones has advocated replacing Israeli forces in the West Bank, Judea and Samaria with NATO-based international troops (which would significantly reduce Israel’s intelligence-gathering capabilities). Note that Rice, as assistant secretary of state, along with Richard Clark, had persuaded Clinton not to accept Sudan’s offer to hand over Osama bin Laden to the U.S. Rice, along with Clark, authored the controversial “Presidential Decision Directive 25” (PDD-25), which some argue was incredibly naive and led to the 1993 Somalia fiasco (the “Blackhawk Down” battle) in which American troops were killed by crowds and dragged through the streets; Clinton’s non-response after that incident allegedly led Osama bin Laden to believe terrorist attacks could weaken the resolve of the American people and allow greater progress by the radical Islamists. Rice also encouraged, or at least supported, Clinton’s decision to do nothing to prevent the Rwanda genocide. Rice has been considered “wildly incompetent” by some Washington insiders, and one critic who had worked with her said, “She doesn’t know what she doesn’t know. And she doesn’t tolerate dissenters. To have her head the U.S. mission to the U.N. is a mind-boggling decision. It is frightening.” Rice is married to an ABC news producer. [356,360,568,569,590,670]

Former Clinton staffer Mansoor Ijaz, efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden were “overruled every single time by the State Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were hell-bent on destroying the Sudan.” Rice also thwarted the acceptance of anti-bin Laden intelligence aid from the Sudanese, and worked to keep Clinton from preventing genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Obama nevertheless names Rice the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. [628]

There is an argument that Hilary Clinton cannot legally serve as Secretary of State because the U.S. Constitution forbids members of the Senate from being appointed to positions in government when the salary was increased during the Senator’s term. Because the Senate had voted to increase the salary of the Secretary of State, Clinton cannot legally be appointed to the position; it is unlikely, however, that Obama or Clinton will allow the Constitution to stand in their way. [571]

After the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, MSNBC’s Alex Witt naively remarks that she hoped that with the “…incoming Obama administration there would be something of a lull in terrorism attacks. There had been such a global outpouring of affection, respect, hope, with the new administration coming in, that precisely these kinds of attacks, it was thought - at least hoped - would be dampered down. But in this case it looks like Barack Obama is getting a preview of things to come.” [689]

On December 1 and 3, a group called “We the People Foundation” runs a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune challenging Obama to produce his birth certificate and prove he is eligible to serve as President. The ads prompt at least a few rebuttal columns, including one by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell (in which she ridiculed Obama critics and made incorrect statements about his “birth certificate”), and another by Tribune writers Sara Olken and James Janega (which also contained misstatements and misrepresentations). [570,579,601,602,603]

Cort Wrotnowski (Supreme Court Docket No. 08A469), who filed a lawsuit relating to Obama’s eligibility to serve as President (Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz), is told that his application to Justice Scalia would be delayed for seven days due to “anthrax screening.” [576]

Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) responds to constituent questions about Obama’s status as a natural born citizen with an insulting form letter that says the issue is essentially irrelevant because the candidates are “vetted by voters” during the primary and general elections. [606]

Former Black Panther and Congressman Bobby Rush demands that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich select a black to complete the remaining two years of Obama’s open Senate seat, saying it would be a “national disgrace” if he does otherwise. (Obama’s preference is likely Valerie Jarrett.) [577]

On December 2, Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss is re-elected in a run-off election; he beats his opponent, Jim Martin, by 14 points, despite a concentrated effort by the Democrats to win the seat to attempt to get Obama a filibuster-proof Senate. [578]

On December 3, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is officially announced as Obama’s Secretary of Commerce. Richardson, formerly Bill Clinton’s ambassador to the United Nations, is an opponent of offshore oil drilling. Richardson was on the board of Peregrine Systems when the company was, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission, engaged in massive fraud; the CEO (Richardson’s brother in law) pleaded guilt. [587]

Obama’s communication’s director will be Ellen Moran, the executive director of Emily’s List, an organization devoted to getting pro-abortion women Democrat candidates elected. [596]

Obama’s “ethics advisor,” Alta Charo, has ties to the human embryo experimentation industry and supports federally funded embryonic research. The “ethical” Charo opposes the right of health care professionals to refuse to participate in abortions. [596]

On December 3, Dr. Orly Taitz files a lawsuit in California requesting a stay of the December 15 vote of the Electoral College because of Obama’s ineligibility to serve as President. [622]

The Chicago Triune reports on December 3 that Tony Rezko, tired of being in solitary confinement at Chicago’s Metropolitan Correction Center, asked for a sentencing date from the judge; the judge selects January 6, 2009 for the sentencing. [662]

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga calls for Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to be ousted. Odinga’s criticism of “power sharing” in Zimbabwe is inconsistent with his own position in Kenya where, after losing his bid for the Presidency in 2006 despite support from Obama, he used force and violence to broker the deal that made him Prime Minister. [591]

Obama considers giving the job of U.S. trade representative to Congressman Xavier Becerra (D-CA), an advocate of changing the successful North American Free Trade Agreement. Becerra was involved in  Bill Clinton’s controversial pardon of a cocaine dealer; the dealer’s family had donated $15,000 to the Becerra’s campaign and paid Hugh Rodham (Hillary Clinton’s brother) $200,000 to negotiate the release of Carlos Vignali, who had been caught shipping 800 pounds of cocaine from Los Angeles to Minneapolis; Vignali had served half of his 14 and one-half year sentence when Clinton set him free. [592,593]

On December 5, it is revealed that an employee of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services was threatened with being fired by a Democrat superior if she did not go along with a scheme to “cover up” an improper search of Office of Child Support records in an effort to discredit Joe “the plumber” Wurzelbacher. [599]