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hobbitt
10-06-2008, 04:08 PM
This has been bothering me for a while....
In every case of sudden fame (athletes, politicians, actors, musicians) there are always a gazillion people who crawl out of the woodwork to claim "I knew him when."
Usually with details - "I helped him pass advanced calculus, without me he would not have graduated." Or " the cheap SOB borrowed fifty bucks from me and never paid it back." Or "I was the one who talked him into (politics, acting, baseball, switching to the drums)."
Or funny stories, or glowing accounts of how talented or generous the Famed One was back then.
And a bunch of females ( I will not say "women") who claim to have spent a romantic evening with, or who claim to have borne an illegitimate child by the Famous One.
The few people who have come forward to talk about Obama are his four current supporters (all them are Pakistani ).
No women have come out to declare their undying love for the Famed One.
Not at Occidental nor at Columbia nor at Harvard Law.
Fox News say that they interviewed 400 people who were at Columbia, graduated in 1983 from the Political Science department. (In 1983, Columbia granted 7300 degrees from 20 different schools, but no mention of how many were undergraduate, nor any stats on grads by department; the Poli Sci department is one of 29 departments in the Division of Arts & Sciences).
And none of those 400 remembered Obama.
His favorite professor, Michael Baron (who was also in charge of Columbia's Chinese Exchange Student program) says that Obama was brilliant in his year-long senior honors seminar. Others who were there do not remember Obama.
I remember all the people in my senior seminar (from many more years past than 1983!). Granted, there were only 8 others, but how many people were in that class with Obama?
And no one remembered this brilliant fellow student?
No females ever dated him? No males?
No one worked with him? No one shared a library carrel with him?
No funny pizza stories? No memorable toga parties?
No pictures?
Why does this guy have no friends? No enemies?
Except, of course, those who his campaign insists were just "guys in the neighborhood."
mjno7777
10-06-2008, 04:11 PM
His whole persona is a scam, maybe the prof was paid to say he was brilliant. Maybe OBAMA never attended any of those schools. I don't know anymore.
We have only heard from this one half-sister of his. His Grandmom is off limits, he hides her.
Charlie Brown
10-06-2008, 04:12 PM
I know it reminds me of the God Father and you have The Family and thats it...No life outside the cause....Thats why I refere to him and his supporters as the Maffia..
hillwillwin08
10-06-2008, 04:13 PM
Very true.
Even Nixon had Bebe Rebozo :D
SantaCruzen
10-06-2008, 04:14 PM
The Guy lived in his room looking at his own image in a mirror.
What's wrong with that?
Horizon
10-06-2008, 04:17 PM
It's because he's only just hopped out of his pod..Hasn't been here long enough to make any friends.
Avalon
10-06-2008, 04:17 PM
I am afraid your point is so very valid, his only 'friends' seem to be people he is trying to currently distance himself from because they are all shady characters some of whom have criminal and terrorist pasts. It is almost as though he was raised for this purpose from childhood, to be so largely hidden while grooming his gift of speech, that he could take over positions of increasing power while so very little is known about him personally. This is just unthinkable!:(
Violet
10-06-2008, 04:17 PM
I think he hung with a different crowd...probably Muslim students from places like Pakistan and Indonesia. Obviously, he was not Mr. Popularity. IThere must be things to hide. t is very odd and amazing that these important years are missing. Anybody would have no trouble putting together a list of students, professors and community leaders who knew ME.
foxyladi
10-06-2008, 04:21 PM
I know it reminds me of the God Father and you have The Family and thats it...No life outside the cause....Thats why I refere to him and his supporters as the Maffia..
thats it!!!!!:eek::eek::eek:
wasGOPnowInd
10-06-2008, 04:24 PM
There was a great article on this theme titled "Perfect Stranger" (I think Charles Krauthammer). The question there was, if Obama was such a great Community Organizer, how come no one has come out telling everyone what a great job he did for them?
B positive
10-06-2008, 04:26 PM
Excellent point, Hobbit. Was I the only one who noticed the HUGE gap in his biographical video at the convention coronation? It skipped about 2 decades of his life!
The only student who has even admitted to knowing him in college is Siddiqi, the drugged-out roommate who refuses to say anything about Obama except that they didn't do drugs together.
Why is no one is coming forth to say they've been "organized" by Obama ?
And again... how does someone with 2 yrs of mediocre grades at a community college get into Harvard Law? Ayers had his radical Islamist friends get Obama in.
Tea toaD
10-06-2008, 04:27 PM
You're right:eek: Scary isn't it:confused: I did read this morning though that MO isn't short on comments from her job. They said all she did was complain:eek:
Pepper
10-06-2008, 04:29 PM
It's because he's only just hopped out of his pod..Hasn't been here long enough to make any friends.
HAHAHAHA!!!
On a side note....I am watching McCain's live speech from Albequerque, and he said (refering to BHO)..."I didn't just show up out of nowhere".
See Mary, McCain is validating that BHO did just hop of his pod :D
Charlie Brown
10-06-2008, 04:29 PM
Dead Mother and father...Grandma missing in action...WTF...Only one sister campaigns for him and she thinks she's a stand up comdian...I watched her and it was as if she was making shyt up....saying he was the star of the family and she was in his shadow...and look now how will she ever compete...but as usual nothing he's done to merit being POTUS....Ive always wondered about his college years and if he even has a degree...have we proof of that either????? Maybe Berg should add that to his list....:confused:
Horizon
10-06-2008, 04:30 PM
HAHAHAHA!!!
On a side note....I am watching McCain's live speech from Albequerque, and he said (refering to BHO)..."I didn't just show up out of nowhere".
See Mary, McCain is validating that BHO did just hop of his pod :D
I just saw that too!!! He cracks me up! He is getting as amusing as Huckabee can be at times.I think Mike is coaching him!!:D
freethinker
10-06-2008, 04:31 PM
This has been bothering me for a while....
In every case of sudden fame (athletes, politicians, actors, musicians) there are always a gazillion people who crawl out of the woodwork to claim "I knew him when."
Usually with details - "I helped him pass advanced calculus, without me he would not have graduated." Or " the cheap SOB borrowed fifty bucks from me and never paid it back." Or "I was the one who talked him into (politics, acting, baseball, switching to the drums)."
Or funny stories, or glowing accounts of how talented or generous the Famed One was back then.
And a bunch of females ( I will not say "women") who claim to have spent a romantic evening with, or who claim to have borne an illegitimate child by the Famous One.
The few people who have come forward to talk about Obama are his current supporters (most of them are Pakistani ).
No women have come out to declare their undying love for the Famed One.
Not at Occidental nor at Columbia nor at Harvard Law.
Fox News say that they interviewed 400 people who were at Columbia, graduated in 1983 from the Political Science department. (In 1983, Columbia granted 7300 degrees from 20 different schools, but no mention of how many were undergraduate, nor any stats on grads by department; the Poli Sci department is one of 29 departments in the Division of Arts & Sciences).
And none of those 400 remembered Obama.
His favorite professor, Michael Baron (who was also in charge of Columbia's Chinese Exchange Student program) says that Obama was brilliant in his year-long senior honors seminar. Others who were there do not remember Obama.
I remember all the people in my senior seminar (from many more years past than 1983!). Granted, there were only 8 others, but how many people were in that class with Obama?
And no one remembered this brilliant fellow student?
No females ever dated him? No males?
No one worked with him? No one shared a library carrel with him?
No funny pizza stories? No memorable toga parties?
No pictures?
Why does this guy have no friends? No enemies?
Except, of course, those who his campaign insists were just "guys in the neighborhood."
This has always bothered me. Unlike Hillary and Bill and Biden and John and Sarah, all of whom have lifelong friends, not so for BO.
He never learned to "attach". Probably due to his unusual mother and abandoning father and moving so much and mixed heritage, etc. Actually, his mother abandoned him, also. So, he learned not to invest in others. I think Michelle is the only "real" thing in his life.
He is one of those people for whom others are props.
hillwillwin08
10-06-2008, 04:31 PM
."I didn't just show up out of nowhere".
What a great line!
Donald
10-06-2008, 04:32 PM
This is interesting..I for one do not like to think the worse about people. I have never been one to think that Obama was a secret Muslim, or that he hated America. My first negative feelings started when his campaign set out to label the Clinton's as racist, and his lack of true experiance. However, the more I look, the more questions I have..and no real answers. The one thought that continues to run wildly in my mind is extreme..but its there. Obama appears out of nowhere, we have question from his birth to just a few years back. Maybe I watch to many movies, but the word "sleeper cell" keeps popping up...Its doubts like this that should be easy to resolve, but with Obama the concerns continue to grow. 4 weeks out no one should have these type's of questions about someone who could be our President. That in itself says a lot about the Obama mystery.
Horizon
10-06-2008, 04:32 PM
This has always bothered me. Unlike Hillary and Bill and Biden and John and Sarah, all of whom have lifelong friends, not so for BO.
He never learned to "attach". Probably due to his unusual mother and abandoning father and moving so much and mixed heritage, etc. Actually, his mother abandoned him, also. So, he learned not to invest in others. I think Michelle is the only "real" thing in his life.
He is one of those people for whom others are props.
Freethinker,I think you hit the nail on the head there.
Pepper
10-06-2008, 04:34 PM
I just saw that too!!! He cracks me up! He is getting as amusing as Huckabee can be at times.I think Mike is coaching him!!:D
Yes, I agree. He is really engaging and funny. I love it!
BuckyKatt
10-06-2008, 04:35 PM
Excellent point.
Mind if I email that out linking to this post?
hillwillwin08
10-06-2008, 04:35 PM
Yes, I agree. He is really engaging and funny. I love it!
Hope he scores at the debate. It's a town hall, so he should do well.
Suzan
10-06-2008, 05:05 PM
The Guy lived in his room looking at his own image in a mirror.
What's wrong with that?
LOLOL! I so believe this. I do.
Suzan
10-06-2008, 05:10 PM
This is interesting..I for one do not like to think the worse about people. I have never been one to think that Obama was a secret Muslim, or that he hated America. My first negative feelings started when his campaign set out to label the Clinton's as racist, and his lack of true experiance. However, the more I look, the more questions I have..and no real answers. The one thought that continues to run wildly in my mind is extreme..but its there. Obama appears out of nowhere, we have question from his birth to just a few years back. Maybe I watch to many movies, but the word "sleeper cell" keeps popping up...Its doubts like this that should be easy to resolve, but with Obama the concerns continue to grow. 4 weeks out no one should have these type's of questions about someone who could be our President. That in itself says a lot about the Obama mystery.
I could have written this, Donald--and my stomach was in knots by the time I finished reading it. Sleeper cell! Gawd. I just don't want to go there, but how do you not?
I feel exactly as you do and have for awhile.
portia9
10-06-2008, 05:11 PM
The same thing occurred to me during the primaries when so many old friends of Hillary's were interviewed, some of whom had known her for 35 years or more. FOX did manage to track down Obama's Columbia roommate who lives in Seattle now, but the man refused to talk to them. I don't think he would really be considered a friend anyway, however. It is really weird. You would think they would be able to find one single solitary childhood friend, or college buddy. They won't even let grandma speak about little Barry.
Ray_of_Hope
10-06-2008, 05:17 PM
Excellent point, Hobbit. Was I the only one who noticed the HUGE gap in his biographical video at the convention coronation? It skipped about 2 decades of his life!
I found that puzzling as well. Why was Michelle the only person to share any extensive information about Obama? Where was the rent-for-a-day uncle? His friends? People who've worked with him? That video just left you with more questions than answers.
I am also wondering if Obama's grandmother knows something about her grandson and that is why she is being hidden from view?
hipelayne
10-06-2008, 05:46 PM
Holy crap Hobbitt! You just lit a light bulb for me - there has been this thing niggling in the back of my mind about BHO - not just his associations with all the wrong people, but I wasn't sure what it was! Now I do, thanks to this post. It is so true - this man really doesn't have a past.
marcelmarcel
10-06-2008, 07:00 PM
Maybe he is an alien from outer space?
diane
10-06-2008, 07:11 PM
Why does this guy have no friends?
He has friends alright. Extremely rich world-changing powerful friends. They're not the insignificant friends who talk about "when they knew him when" looking for their Andy Warhol 15mins, but seriously powerful economic and political "friends" that are never seen but their prescence is felt. He as friends...dangerous friends.
Ok...Now you got me thinking and remembering something.
Ed and I were watching FOX, a couple months back, where one of the Obama tell-all book authors was being interviewed. We were listening to the usual chatter and all of a sudden, like it was common knowledge, he blurts out that BHO lived with his girlfriend, a white girl, his senior year (I believe) at Columbia. Ed and I just stopped and looked at each other, like, 'did he just bring something like that up and not elaborate on it?
On another note...if he is part of a 'mafia', it's not a very savvy one. Everyone knows that there are 'manufactured' friends, relatives, pasts, jobs, etc. It's just part of it and I should know...I watched Soprano's!:p:)
buffaloboy
10-06-2008, 09:39 PM
Never mind when he was in college - where are the people he supposedly "helped" during his community organizing days?
Didn't he help anybody get off drugs or alcohol? Wouldn't that person want to come out and praise Obama now? Didn't he help somebody (anybody) get their first decent job? Wouldn't that grateful person come out and praise Obama now? Didn't he help somebody (anybody) get some school or park or playground built? And wouldn't somebody want to come out now and thank him for that?
His whole persona is a scam, maybe the prof was paid to say he was brilliant. Maybe OBAMA never attended any of those schools. I don't know anymore.
We have only heard from this one half-sister of his. His Grandmom is off limits, he hides her.
"FREE GRANNY!"
"FEED BROTHER!"
mjno7777
10-06-2008, 09:52 PM
Someone mentioned he lived with a girl in college??? Noone has interviewed her. Or, even know anything about her. Don't tell me she was a terrorist? But, he didn't know.
Les33
10-06-2008, 10:07 PM
Never mind when he was in college - where are the people he supposedly "helped" during his community organizing days?
Didn't he help anybody get off drugs or alcohol? Wouldn't that person want to come out and praise Obama now? Didn't he help somebody (anybody) get their first decent job? Wouldn't that grateful person come out and praise Obama now? Didn't he help somebody (anybody) get some school or park or playground built? And wouldn't somebody want to come out now and thank him for that?
Remember Hillary's website with the all the videos of people talking about her and how she'd helped them? Obama's campaign has never put forth a single "witness" to his having personally helped another human being.
ggreen
10-06-2008, 10:13 PM
I thought I remember reading somewhere that prior to the primaries, squads of people went out and spoke with many of his former aquaintances and gained their word (one way or another) that they would not speak with the press. Again, I can't remember the details, but I recall thinking "Wow, is that what has to be done when one runs for public office." At the time I didn't realize why such actions might have been necessary.
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buffaloboy
10-06-2008, 10:50 PM
The Perfect Stranger
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, August 29, 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082802852.html
Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas. Not institutions. But himself.
Nothing wrong or even terribly odd about that, except that he is laying claim to the job of crafting the coming history of the United States. A leap of such audacity is odd. The air of unease at the Democratic convention this week was not just a result of the Clinton psychodrama. The deeper anxiety was that the party was nominating a man of many gifts but precious few accomplishments -- bearing even fewer witnesses.
When John Kerry was introduced at his convention four years ago, an honor guard of a dozen mates from his Vietnam days surrounded him on the podium attesting to his character and readiness to lead. Such personal testimonials are the norm. The roster of fellow soldiers or fellow senators who could from personal experience vouch for John McCain is rather long. At a less partisan date in the calendar, that roster might even include Democrats Russ Feingold and Edward Kennedy, with whom John McCain has worked to fashion important legislation
Eerily missing at the Democratic convention this year were people of stature who were seriously involved at some point in Obama's life standing up to say: I know Barack Obama. I've been with Barack Obama. We've toiled/endured together. You can trust him. I do.
Hillary Clinton could have said something like that. She and Obama had, after all, engaged in a historic, utterly compelling contest for the nomination. During her convention speech, you kept waiting for her to offer just one line of testimony: I have come to know this man, to admire this man, to see his character, his courage, his wisdom, his judgment. Whatever. Anything.
Instead, nothing. She of course endorsed him. But the endorsement was entirely programmatic: We're all Democrats. He's a Democrat. He believes what you believe. So we must elect him -- I am currently unavailable -- to get Democratic things done. God bless America.
Clinton's withholding the "I've come to know this man" was vindictive and supremely self-serving -- but jarring, too, because you realize that if she didn't do it, no one else would. Not because of any inherent deficiency in Obama's character. But simply as a reflection of a young life with a biography remarkably thin by the standard of presidential candidates.
Who was there to speak about the real Barack Obama? His wife. She could tell you about Barack the father, the husband, the family man in a winning and perfectly sincere way. But that takes you only so far. It doesn't take you to the public man, the national leader.
Who is to testify to that? Hillary's husband on night three did aver that Obama is "ready to lead." However, he offered not a shred of evidence, let alone personal experience with Obama. And although he pulled it off charmingly, everyone knew that, having been suggesting precisely the opposite for months, he meant not a word of it.
Obama's vice presidential selection, Joe Biden, naturally advertised his patron's virtues, such as the fact that he had "reached across party lines to . . . keep nuclear weapons out of the hands of terrorists." But securing loose nukes is as bipartisan as motherhood and as uncontroversial as apple pie. The measure was so minimal that it passed by voice vote and received near zero media coverage.
Thought experiment. Assume John McCain had retired from politics. Would he have testified to Obama's political courage in reaching across the aisle to work with him on ethics reform, a collaboration Obama boasted about in the Saddleback debate? "In fact," reports the Annenberg Political Fact Check, "the two worked together for barely a week, after which McCain accused Obama of 'partisan posturing' " -- and launched a volcanic missive charging him with double-cross.
So where are the colleagues? The buddies? The political or spiritual soul mates? His most important spiritual adviser and mentor was Jeremiah Wright. But he's out. Then there's William Ayers, with whom he served on a board. He's out. Where are the others?
The oddity of this convention is that its central figure is the ultimate self-made man, a dazzling mysterious Gatsby. The palpable apprehension is that the anointed is a stranger -- a deeply engaging, elegant, brilliant stranger with whom the Democrats had a torrid affair. Having slowly woken up, they see the ring and wonder who exactly they married last night.
Horizon
10-06-2008, 10:58 PM
The oddity of this convention is that its central figure is the ultimate self-made man, a dazzling mysterious Gatsby. The palpable apprehension is that the anointed is a stranger -- a deeply engaging, elegant, brilliant stranger with whom the Democrats had a torrid affair. Having slowly woken up, they see the ring and wonder who exactly they married last night.
This explains my last marriage.;)
Seriously,it was not lost on many that Hillary did not ONCE mention what a good,upstanding man Obama is.Not once.And not once from Bill.Or anyone else for that matter.
SadStateOfAffairs
10-06-2008, 11:23 PM
Carefully groomed by mysterious handlers. Who are they?
Frances
10-06-2008, 11:47 PM
Stanley Kurtz
8/11/2008..volume 013, Issue 45
Barack Obama's Lost Years
The Weekly Standard
This 11 page article might already be posted here at site, but it is good to review
it now.
"the period Obama seems least eager to talk about"..........
I just can't understand why his female friends have not come out, but then again
look how John Edwards covered his friend up! I just don't see him going it alone during those college years!
LucyTN
10-07-2008, 12:15 AM
Never mind when he was in college - where are the people he supposedly "helped" during his community organizing days?
Didn't he help anybody get off drugs or alcohol? Wouldn't that person want to come out and praise Obama now? Didn't he help somebody (anybody) get their first decent job? Wouldn't that grateful person come out and praise Obama now? Didn't he help somebody (anybody) get some school or park or playground built? And wouldn't somebody want to come out now and thank him for that?Well I did read somewhere a while back about an elderly lady who lived in one of the apartments he supposedly got rehabed. She said she had no heat and had to stay wrapped in blankets to keep from freezing. Do you think she'd like to speak out as to the help she got? Probably wouldn't even want to thank him either. Some folks just show no appreciation.:rolleyes:
Seriously though, I've wondered about his lack of acquaintances forever. I don't believe any politician has ever been able to remain such a man of mystery. He is just a blank slate.
Nikis-Knight
10-07-2008, 12:56 AM
Never mind when he was in college - where are the people he supposedly "helped" during his community organizing days?
Didn't he help anybody get off drugs or alcohol? Wouldn't that person want to come out and praise Obama now? Didn't he help somebody (anybody) get their first decent job? Wouldn't that grateful person come out and praise Obama now? Didn't he help somebody (anybody) get some school or park or playground built? And wouldn't somebody want to come out now and thank him for that?
No, see, you're thinking of a pastor, or maybe a social worker or a cop. Obama was a community organizer.
What's that? You want to know what a community organizer does and who they interact with?
I guess that makes you a racist, huh?
(Yeah, sarcasm)
mjoynaples
10-07-2008, 01:07 AM
well he is narcissistic and they do not usually have lots of friends only acquaintances if that... and notice how he is always "chumming and chatty" with the boys and girls of the media... like today "hope your enjoying this nice weather (as he took a break from studying up on his policies that keep changing for town hall meeting tomorrow night with john to discuss the economy...noting that the gov't-aka paulson needs to stay on top of this so the people can get a break on gas* he didn't notice the prices came down today along with everything else... and then he says "well i have a few remarks about the economy before we have some barbeque... " he is an odd duck... and I recall the origninal interview with him and mo on Oprah after his first book... you could tell MO doesn't like him sometimes alot!! .... it was strange he tries to be mr egocentric at home I imagine too... that might hard on both of them... PLAN B NOBAMA ...
McCain has friends...and two of them are HILLARY AND BILL!!!!
SoCal4Hillary
10-07-2008, 01:52 AM
This is VERY thought provoking. Thanks to all who've posted in this thread!
What I don't understand is...how can ANYONE support this blank slate/empty suit? :confused:
Marie
10-07-2008, 02:03 AM
Here's a former friend. From what I hear, they were very close.! (not so much any more). lol.
http://whateversowhat.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/larrysinclair.jpg
HRC4Me
10-07-2008, 02:41 AM
Here's a former friend. From what I hear, they were very close.! (not so much any more). lol.
http://whateversowhat.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/larrysinclair.jpg
LOL..
I noticed this at his 'The One' speech with those tacky greek columns..
He had to tell his life story himself. No one came out to vouch for him, but a bunch of shallow Hollywood celebs.
Jen the Michigander
10-07-2008, 03:39 AM
My mom has been concerned about this absence of friends for several months now. She watched Greta's shows where she traveled to Alaska and spoke with many people who knew the Palins-- hockey parents, city employees, old school chums. Mom pointed out that after just a few short weeks, she already knows more about Sarah Palin than she knows about Barack Obama, who has been in the spotlight for nearly two years. Mom keeps asking me, "Doesn't this guy have any friends? Or any family besides his wife and kids?"
lynfreedom
10-07-2008, 04:16 AM
Maybe one of you great writers need to write an article titled Where is his friends?
Why only family at convention, why lost years, etc
Of course give Andy Marting time and he will fill in some more spots.
I was on a phone conference with him tonight
He said that Obama is very practiced. Practiced as has been concealing feelings and himself all his life so he is good at hiding things from all of of us.
B positive
10-08-2008, 03:13 PM
This has been bothering me for a while....
In every case of sudden fame (athletes, politicians, actors, musicians) there are always a gazillion people who crawl out of the woodwork to claim "I knew him when."
Usually with details - "I helped him pass advanced calculus, without me he would not have graduated." Or " the cheap SOB borrowed fifty bucks from me and never paid it back." Or "I was the one who talked him into (politics, acting, baseball, switching to the drums)."
... ...
The few people who have come forward to talk about Obama are his four current supporters (all them are Pakistani ).
... ...
Not at Occidental nor at Columbia nor at Harvard Law.
Fox News say that they interviewed 400 people who were at Columbia, graduated in 1983 from the Political Science department. ... And none of those 400 remembered Obama.
His favorite professor, Michael Baron (who was also in charge of Columbia's Chinese Exchange Student program) says that Obama was brilliant in his year-long senior honors seminar. Others who were there do not remember Obama.
... ...
And no one remembered this brilliant fellow student?
No females ever dated him? No males?
No one worked with him? No one shared a library carrel with him?
No funny pizza stories? No memorable toga parties?
No pictures?
Why does this guy have no friends? No enemies?
Except, of course, those who his campaign insists were just "guys in the neighborhood."
BUMP!!!:eek:
The Perfect Stranger
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, August 29, 2008; Page A15 -The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082802852.html
... Eerily missing at the Democratic convention this year were people of stature who were seriously involved at some point in Obama's life standing up to say: I know Barack Obama. I've been with Barack Obama. We've toiled/endured together. You can trust him. I do. ...
teachgrd3
10-08-2008, 06:22 PM
At the Republican convention, speaker after speaker took the stage and also did television interviews to vouch for John McCain, praise his work, talk about his life, and most of all, speak to his character.
The Democratic convention was a pep rally for the Democratic party and four days of complaining about George Bush. No one came forward to speak to Barack Obama's character.
Barack Obama is a mysterious loner, that we don't know nearly enough about.
Christines
10-08-2008, 06:40 PM
Why hasn't ANYONE come out for Obama?? Is he a ghost???
NewHamster
10-08-2008, 07:15 PM
This all creeps me out.
Donald
10-08-2008, 07:18 PM
At the Republican convention, speaker after speaker took the stage and also did television interviews to vouch for John McCain, praise his work, talk about his life, and most of all, speak to his character.
The Democratic convention was a pep rally for the Democratic party and four days of complaining about George Bush. No one came forward to speak to Barack Obama's character.
Barack Obama is a mysterious loner, that we don't know nearly enough about.
That is very true. I watched both..Most of the Dem Conv was about Hillary..and others. Few spoke as if they knew Obama other than his time running for President..
Too many questions and still no answers...
Pepper
10-08-2008, 08:00 PM
Carefully groomed by mysterious handlers. Who are they?
I don't know, but will you give me one? You make it sound quite lovely. No baboons though.
B positive
10-08-2008, 11:24 PM
bump!:eek:
B positive
10-09-2008, 02:41 PM
Daily Bump!!:eek:
Charlie Brown
10-09-2008, 02:56 PM
At the Republican convention, speaker after speaker took the stage and also did television interviews to vouch for John McCain, praise his work, talk about his life, and most of all, speak to his character.
The Democratic convention was a pep rally for the Democratic party and four days of complaining about George Bush. No one came forward to speak to Barack Obama's character.
Barack Obama is a mysterious loner, that we don't know nearly enough about.
It is funny how the RNC convention was way more real and the DNC was just strange and fake...and you notice the Clintons didnt even stick around for Bambis speech...all in the actions my friends...Hillary said to "wait watch and listen"...and This is one of the reasons she said to...
Kbentleyis
10-09-2008, 03:11 PM
I think what is truly frightening, is that there is no paper trail. Even his favorite professor dosen't have one piece of paper that says "Obama" on it? Really scary.
Hillarysmygirl08
10-09-2008, 03:12 PM
Hillary never said anything like Obama is a good upstanding man. She did say stuff about John McCain like he is a good man with bad ideas. She never said anything like that about Obama.
I adopted two older children and a baby 12 years ago. Their mom dumped them. Both of the older kids have very hurt feelings about their Birth Mom leaving them for some man. Yet both of them are fine now and both are able to attach.
I really am starting to think Obama is mentally ill.
encarn
10-09-2008, 03:15 PM
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_R-l1iejogZw/SO0j_QXY10I/AAAAAAAABD0/cupFAK6aLww/s1600/Michael%2BRamirez%2B--%2BObama%2BAssociations.gif
He is the classic empty vessel, the blank screen that people use to project upon the image they find most appealing.
He is a social climber and cares only about the next rung on the ladder.
Destiny
10-09-2008, 04:12 PM
OBAMA HAS BEEN TOO BUSY WORKING ON JEDI MIND TRICKS TO HAVE ANY FRIENDS OR FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS!!!
YouTube - Obama Jedi Mind Trick
NO OBAMA - NEVER
P.U.M.A.
michu
10-09-2008, 04:21 PM
His friends turn up dead. Remember the 3 gay guys?
B positive
10-09-2008, 08:50 PM
OBAMA HAS BEEN TOO BUSY WORKING ON JEDI MIND TRICKS TO HAVE ANY FRIENDS OR FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS!!!
YouTube - Obama Jedi Mind Trick
OMG! That is the funniest video...
it defines the Kool-Aid drinkers perfectly!!!
How long has this video been out there? It's Perfect!!
hills
10-09-2008, 09:04 PM
Obama has friends but the problem for him is that most of them are radicals or criminals and others he just doesn't want them to talk about him in public.
Rezko - 17 years, Bill Ayers - 13 years, Rev. Wright - 20 years and Father Pfleger These are his friends.
RachachaSharon
10-09-2008, 09:17 PM
I noticed the lack of friends and family early on. The celebrities who support him don't know him and they believe the fairy tale he calls his life. But, then, they live and work in a false society just like BO. BO's like a patchwork quilt. The pieces have been fit together to tell a story, but if you pull a thread, the quilt will fall apart because it's not made of whole cloth. BO's carefully erected life story could be toppled if we pull the right thread(s). But only if MSM and others with a voice can get that story out there.
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