Rumors are always around, but most people I know don’t give rumors weight in and of themselves. There are lots of mysteries in Obama’s past when you start asking questions of what he has written and what he has “pooh-poohed.”
Obama’s campaign would find its legs if he spent some of his money on an honest effort to bring forth the facts and own up to them. He might lose, but he would at least be thought honest which is a character trait that people look for in order to grant any measure of trust.
Myself, I think the thing that has him hemmed in is that he is still attached to Alinsky’s powerful and explicit blueprint for how to achieve political power. Alinksy is bold-faced as to what it takes to herd the middle class into a voting block and the ends always justify the means. He was a student of Machievelli who made this point: “It is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge, and not use it, according to the necessity of the case.” (The Prince and the Discourses, p.56.) (I might add that Hillary also was attracted to Alinsky and wrote her thesis on his methods. She gets into the same problems as Obama. It’s this constraint that keeps both of these people from being on the level.)
Practicing this is causing Obama’s problems and he is afraid to abandon this practice knowing that the American people won’t want his real values and purposes. I assert that Obama, who has spent a lot of years in the practice of Alinksy’s methods, believes that those methods are The Way, not A Way.
