Obama’s Careerism…
Completely true, and there is a name for this: charlatanie – there is so much, sensational Al. Dumas stuff in Obama’s career, but we haven’t gotten so far a comprehensive debunking of this operetta stuff (The Prince Beggar, The Beggar Prince, The False Czar, you name them).
Here I’d like though to add a few details to Moran’s analysis, details which show how calculated and calibrated all Obama’s efforts have for long been, everything done to position himself in the best angle for the enthralled media. Since I cannot spend my time reading his books (Oprah’s picks guarantee crappy stuff, anyway) the following are some scoops from LA Times/NY Times which describe Obama’s fraudulence:
A) his use of drugs during the college years = Oh, my god, this young man has faced so many difficulties, this is so inspiring! (Rebuttal: not much drugs use, the research shows, his school mates describe him as motivated and precise; Obama’s exaggerated description in his memoir was made exactly to elicit sympathy, compassion & admiration; NY Times)
B) his lavishly mentioning his indebtedness to the Kennedy clan, i.e., Ted Kennedy footing the bill for bringing/schooling Obama senior from Kenya to USA = oh, my god, this is so beautiful, so inspiring, so much generosity and how beautifully it worked with this excellent young man! (Rebuttal: not really, the research has shown that, while the Kennedy estate was contacted at the time for financing the education of some Kenyan students in US, they passed – only at a later time, when Obama junior was already born and Obama senior was already back in Kenya, the Kennedy-s made some contributions to the fund in question, money which anyway never touched Obama junior’s existence; LA Times).
C) his years in an “exclusivist” prep school in Hawaii = “exclusivist prep school”, poor Barrack among all those white rich kids who rejected him! (Rebuttal: not really. Hawaii is not Trondheim where you can expected that one half of the class to be pure white Johanssen and the other one pure white Arnulfsen – Hawaii is the most interracially mixed state in the Union and I’m pretty sure that Barrack wasn’t a sad, lonely figure among two tons of white kids – I’d say that a white kid is the rara avis in a Hawaian school.
I am certain that Obama’s memoirs and official bio are full of elements carefully arranged to elicit sympathy and admiration, and so far it really worked – we’re going Gothic & Fussli, expect evil twins, a testament written by Jefferson, some prophets, visions, murderers with poisoned daggers lurking behind curtains, monks with secret messages, imolations, hollowed books, mad philosophers, talking penguins, etc.
Leaving the funny part aside, this is a dangerous situation – we go through difficult times and the country’s helm is within the reach of an ambitious, lucky and incompetent adventurer.
