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Breitbart.com is charging that there was a massive cover-up of the whole flap, pointing to a video of Charles Ogletree, an Obama mentor and Harvard Law professor, saying, "We hid this throughout the 2008 campaign." But this is bogus -- and not just because the video clearly shows it's a throwaway laugh line. This incident is well known. It was covered at the time, and it's been covered since. David Remnick wrote about it in his major Obama biography, The Bridge. In fact, Frontline used some of this very same footage in a 2008 documentary about Obama. It's valid to ask whether Obama was vetted as fully as he should have been, but this incident is evidence for the proposition that he was.

But for the sake of discussion, let's imagine there was a cover-up. First, one has to believe that Obama's act of introducing and praising Bell for wanting a more diverse faculty is evidence of radical leanings. Apparently, the Breitbart crew believes that the hug alone is incriminating -- hence Ogletree's alleged suppression of the embrace. But is anyone really that surprised that a young black leader at in the Harvard Law School community would be sympathetic to a call for more black faculty members? Indeed, there's evidence that Obama was not seen as a zealot on the issue by his peers. During this famously polarized time at the law school, Obama won an election to be president of the Harvard Law Review in part because he was able to earn the trust of the liberal and conservative wings of the publication.

To be sure, Bell's legal ideas are controversial, if not necessarily radical. He used fictional parables in his work, and he was a pioneer of critical race theory, a branch of law similar to literary theory that critiques what it sees as embedded racism in legal structures. But Obama doesn't address those matters in his videotaped introduction, and as a law professor at the University of Chicago, he focused on constitutional issues, not critical legal theory. A better test of Obama's own legal views would be to look at his teaching career.

ratherfish wrote:You can't be as sold out to Obama as you appear to be....oh wait, I forgot you stand to make a killing off Obamacare.

Nevermind.

Jakeiscrazy wrote:Not buying the "hiding" stuff but either way the associations with the guy is what matters.

ratherfish wrote:" I'm only a beggar-man whom nobody owns."

OWNED!

Multiple SSAN#'s are a sure fire sign of fraud.

mamabearCali wrote:I am about 90% certain he is hiding some very damaging things. Everything is so nebulous about him, so white washed. He was a college prof...where are his students? Surely one of them said "Hey I know that guy!" and then writes a book or at least a magazine interview. Why does he spring forth like Athena fully formed in Chicago 15 or so years ago. He was a "community organizer"...what did he accomplish as such? What wonderful services did he help bring to those he worked with? Where are his college roomates? Who knew him when he was a teenager?

The way he acts makes me wonder if he got into this because he was told it was a good gig. He seems to have no joy in being an American and does not seem to understand common Americans. He whines all the time when he is forced to do his job. He does not seem to understand basic constitutional law such as the Bill of Rights and separation of power.

So I ask again. Who is this guy? Love him or hate him, everyone knew everything about GW--you knew what you were getting. Last election the MSM (with the possible exception of Fox) was so in love with him that we learned precious little about him. What we did find out was disconcerting at minimum. The people should know who they are electing. It is important.

Kreutz wrote:
These are actually really good questions, ones I never was given cause to think before. Strange.

dorminWS wrote:Seems to me ya'll have overlooked one of the biggest questions about Obama's history:

How did this poor community organizer become independently wealthy?

tursiops wrote:

dorminWS wrote:Seems to me ya'll have overlooked one of the biggest questions about Obama's history:

How did this poor community organizer become independently wealthy?

Most of his income/wealth appears to be from book royalties.