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Beer in the mail room

September 14, 2008 - 10:36 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-09-15 07:15:12

A set of questions:
1. Who wrote the account? This reads as though it was done by someone who was a practiced writer with a feel for the language and vocabulary. This author would have no problem writing for the Harvard Law Review- Obama didn’t do so.
2. Does or did Obama have the language skills to write it.
3. White chicken, vagrant, washing in from a hydrant, half naked woman with razor and mirror, Sadik the Pakistani – not Indonesian? To whom do these images speak? Within what ideology of religion would they resonate. Out of what tradition would the writer have had to come in order to use these metaphors?
4. To whom would it appeal?
5. Call me Barack; Call me Ishmael: to what ethnic group and history are you sent? To what god do you then relate? Not to Yahweh. Not the God of the Jews. Not the same God who is the God of the Christians. Not of the hated white man.

The out of place white chicken and the vagrant are outsiders and castoffs; the gospel of Barack makes The Obama establish a unity in identity: that unity is established in what rite? Ablution. The rite of washing. And what religion has raised the importance of the ablution: Islam.

Obama is a Muslim. He is a Trojan horse. Period.