A brief history of how Obama won--and how Dems will win in 2020
(The post below is adapted from an excellent article by Ruth King at American Thinker.)
In one of the most meteoric and unlikely rises in history, Barack Obama went from the Illinois state senate to the Oval Office in four years. If you're a college student you were probably around 11 years old when Obama ran for president in 2008, so unless you follow politics very closely you have no idea about his background, and how much of it the media succeeded in hiding from voters.
Obama seems to have gotten an eight-year scholarship to Occidental College, then transferred to Columbia. His first job after graduation was as a "community organizer," and he was quickly accepted to Harvard Law School, where he was named editor of its law review. But his actual academic records remain secret. Not a single essay has been released from all those years in college, or any grades; and an examination of the Harvard Law Review while he was nominal editor doesn't show a single article by him.
In 1996 he was elected to the Illinois state senate. In March of 2000 he ran for U.S. congress, against popular Illinois representative Bobby Rush in the Democratic primary. He lost, but got the attention of David Axelrod, a cunning political strategist.
In 2004 a new opportunity arose when one of Illinois' U.S. senators retired. Obama entered the Democrat primary. His only real challenger in the primary was Blair Hull, a businessman and philanthropist.
Hull had recently gotten divorced, and the records were sealed by court order. But in Chicago the law is malleable for Democrats, and a reporter from the Chicago Tribune--David Axelrod's former employer--mysteriously acquired the "sealed" records, which claimed Hull's wife had sought a protective order against him.
Hull's campaign tanked, and Obama won the Dem primary.
That summer the Democrat national committee picked, not a U.S. senator or other national figure, but unknown state senator Obama to give the keynote speech at their national convention--which would be nationally televised, in prime-time. The audience was huge.
The speech was platitudes-as-usual, but the prime-time messenger was an young black with a mellow voice--from a Democratic state with a large number of electoral votes.
The audience and media swooned.
Later that single speech would be widely credited with launching his presidential campaign.
Boosted by the huge audience for his prime-time keynote speech, Obama now returned to Chicago to run for the U.S. senate seat. His Republican opponent was Jack Ryan, who had a sterling résumé: Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School, and after earning millions on Wall Street, he retired to teach high school in the low-income inner city.
Ryan had had a contentious divorce, but he and his ex jointly agreed to release the sealed divorce records. However, the couple asked the judge to keep their custody records sealed, saying their release would harm their young son.
But amazingly--much as in his earlier race against Hull--Democrat operatives managed to get the sealed custody records unsealed. They contained allegations of sex clubs and infidelity and were immediately published by the Chicago Tribune. [If you click the link, click on "Campaign demise."]
Ryan withdrew from the race, and Obama won easily.
By mid-2006 Hillary Clinton was running to be the nation's first female president. Her victory seemed inevitable, but former senator Harry Reid (R-Nev., 1987-2017) persuaded Barack Obama to run against her, and Obama formally announced his candidacy in February of 2007.
The media was astonishingly uninterested in the fact that the Democrat candidate had been mentored by radical communist Frank Marshall Davis, and by the fact that for 20 years he'd been a member of a church led by a viciously racist minister, Jeremiah Wright. (In one taped sermon Wright thundered "God bless America? No, God damn America.")
Even after researchers discovered that the biographical summary published by Obama's book publisher--for ten years--said he was born in Kenya, the media took no interest in asking why Obama signed off on that bio. And the publisher's agents refused to comment.
When charges surfaced that Obama hadn't been born in Hawaii--something that could easily have been put to rest by releasing an official copy of his birth certificate--his campaign refused to do so. (When he ran for re-election four years later, the refusal to release an official birth certificate had become so controversial that his campaign team finally released what they claimed was his actual birth certificate. But if they'd had it all along, why not release it four years earlier? Experts in Photoshop found it actually contained 14 "layers," which would not have been present in an authentic document. That is, it was a none-too-clever forgery.)
But again, the media ignored all problems, and just 16 months after announcing his candidacy, on June 7, 2008, Obama became the Democratic presidential nominee. Six weeks later he won the presidency.
How did a man of such meager achievements go from a state senate seat to the presidency in just four years? One obvious reason is that 52% of voters wanted to elect a black president regardless of his background. But a second reason is that he was carefully groomed with a carefully scripted biographical narrative that was in the works long before his announcement in 2007.
Why such a huge effort to hide all the skeletons in Obama's past? One can only assume it was to conceal facts that would have damaged his chance of winning the presidency. And you can bet the Dems are working overtime--with the help of the mainstream media--to similarly sanitize the record of their next nominee.
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In one of the most meteoric and unlikely rises in history, Barack Obama went from the Illinois state senate to the Oval Office in four years. If you're a college student you were probably around 11 years old when Obama ran for president in 2008, so unless you follow politics very closely you have no idea about his background, and how much of it the media succeeded in hiding from voters.
Obama seems to have gotten an eight-year scholarship to Occidental College, then transferred to Columbia. His first job after graduation was as a "community organizer," and he was quickly accepted to Harvard Law School, where he was named editor of its law review. But his actual academic records remain secret. Not a single essay has been released from all those years in college, or any grades; and an examination of the Harvard Law Review while he was nominal editor doesn't show a single article by him.
In 1996 he was elected to the Illinois state senate. In March of 2000 he ran for U.S. congress, against popular Illinois representative Bobby Rush in the Democratic primary. He lost, but got the attention of David Axelrod, a cunning political strategist.
In 2004 a new opportunity arose when one of Illinois' U.S. senators retired. Obama entered the Democrat primary. His only real challenger in the primary was Blair Hull, a businessman and philanthropist.
Hull had recently gotten divorced, and the records were sealed by court order. But in Chicago the law is malleable for Democrats, and a reporter from the Chicago Tribune--David Axelrod's former employer--mysteriously acquired the "sealed" records, which claimed Hull's wife had sought a protective order against him.
Hull's campaign tanked, and Obama won the Dem primary.
That summer the Democrat national committee picked, not a U.S. senator or other national figure, but unknown state senator Obama to give the keynote speech at their national convention--which would be nationally televised, in prime-time. The audience was huge.
The speech was platitudes-as-usual, but the prime-time messenger was an young black with a mellow voice--from a Democratic state with a large number of electoral votes.
The audience and media swooned.
Later that single speech would be widely credited with launching his presidential campaign.
Boosted by the huge audience for his prime-time keynote speech, Obama now returned to Chicago to run for the U.S. senate seat. His Republican opponent was Jack Ryan, who had a sterling résumé: Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Business School, and after earning millions on Wall Street, he retired to teach high school in the low-income inner city.
Ryan had had a contentious divorce, but he and his ex jointly agreed to release the sealed divorce records. However, the couple asked the judge to keep their custody records sealed, saying their release would harm their young son.
But amazingly--much as in his earlier race against Hull--Democrat operatives managed to get the sealed custody records unsealed. They contained allegations of sex clubs and infidelity and were immediately published by the Chicago Tribune. [If you click the link, click on "Campaign demise."]
Ryan withdrew from the race, and Obama won easily.
By mid-2006 Hillary Clinton was running to be the nation's first female president. Her victory seemed inevitable, but former senator Harry Reid (R-Nev., 1987-2017) persuaded Barack Obama to run against her, and Obama formally announced his candidacy in February of 2007.
The media was astonishingly uninterested in the fact that the Democrat candidate had been mentored by radical communist Frank Marshall Davis, and by the fact that for 20 years he'd been a member of a church led by a viciously racist minister, Jeremiah Wright. (In one taped sermon Wright thundered "God bless America? No, God damn America.")
Even after researchers discovered that the biographical summary published by Obama's book publisher--for ten years--said he was born in Kenya, the media took no interest in asking why Obama signed off on that bio. And the publisher's agents refused to comment.
When charges surfaced that Obama hadn't been born in Hawaii--something that could easily have been put to rest by releasing an official copy of his birth certificate--his campaign refused to do so. (When he ran for re-election four years later, the refusal to release an official birth certificate had become so controversial that his campaign team finally released what they claimed was his actual birth certificate. But if they'd had it all along, why not release it four years earlier? Experts in Photoshop found it actually contained 14 "layers," which would not have been present in an authentic document. That is, it was a none-too-clever forgery.)
But again, the media ignored all problems, and just 16 months after announcing his candidacy, on June 7, 2008, Obama became the Democratic presidential nominee. Six weeks later he won the presidency.
How did a man of such meager achievements go from a state senate seat to the presidency in just four years? One obvious reason is that 52% of voters wanted to elect a black president regardless of his background. But a second reason is that he was carefully groomed with a carefully scripted biographical narrative that was in the works long before his announcement in 2007.
Why such a huge effort to hide all the skeletons in Obama's past? One can only assume it was to conceal facts that would have damaged his chance of winning the presidency. And you can bet the Dems are working overtime--with the help of the mainstream media--to similarly sanitize the record of their next nominee.
Click here for the original.
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