Because No One Asked

Just yesterday my husband and I were discussing the fact that Obama no doubt benefited from affirmative action - why else would he be withholding his Columbia transcripts?   My husband said, “did he come from a rich family” and I said no.  Then hubby said, “well, how did he pay for Harvard?”  Exactly.  How did he pay for Harvard. 

This is not a new question…but it is a question that has yet to be answered by the Obama camp.  But hey, that is just a starting point – there are so many questions.  It is becoming clear that Obama is well connected with an assortment of rich and wealthy muslims. How is it that all of this “interesting” information about Obama’s past is being disregarded by the mainstream media?  I just don’t get it.  There are just so many things about Obama’s past that are unclear…and suspect.  It’s so confusing…luckily, Melanie Phillips has taken the time to lay it all out for us:

A few months ago, a claim was made by former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton that Obama had been funded through Harvard law school by Khalid Al-Mansour, a ‘mentor’ to the founders of the Black Panther party and advisor to ‘one of the world’s richest men,’ Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal. [...]

According to this story by Kenneth Timmerman, Camp Obama denied this claim — and referred to a story on Politico.com in which reporter Ben Smith wrote that ‘a spokesman for Sutton’s family, Kevin Wardally’ said that Sutton had been mistaken when he made those comments. But when contacted, Sutton’s family not only denied that Sutton had misspoken but also said they had never even heard of Kevin Wardally – who appears to work for a Harlem political consulting firm.

So the claim that Obama was funded through Harvard by a radical Black Muslim activist with ties to the Saudis remains on the table.

Some of the most troubling questions, however, arise from Obama’s relationship with the unreprentant former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers. Obama has been at pains to play down this relationship, dismissing Ayers as just ‘a guy who lives in my neighborhood,’ and ‘not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis.’ But thanks to the exemplary and important  journalism of Stanley Kurtz, it is becoming ever clearer that such claims are deeply disingenuous and conceal a significant and long-lasting working relationship with a man who has never renounced his terrorist past. This relationship centred upon a fund called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), which although founded by former ambassador Walter Annenberg to improve Chicago’s schools, funnelled some $100 million into the hands of radical activists. The CAC was the brainchild of Ayers – and for four years in the 1990s, Obama was chairman of the board.

Then there is Mike Klonsky, a deleted blogger on Obama’s official website…

Small wonder Camp Obama is sensitive to the association. Klonsky, a professor of education and leader of the New Communist movement, was national secretary of the radical group Students for a Democratic Society. In 1969, he was one of five SDS members arrested at the organization’s Chicago national headquarters for assaulting a police officer, interfering with a firefighter, and inciting mob action. [...]

Barack Obama appears to sit on a nexus between Marxist revolutionary activists, unrepentant former terrorists, Black Power racists, Chicago mobsters – oh, and a Saudi who is trying to buy up America.

RTWT

 One has to ask, cui bono?  Obviously Obama will benefit from these associations, if they somehow result in the financing of his climb to political power.  But how would, say, Khalid al-Mansour, or prince Alwaleed bin Talal, benefit?  There’s the rub.  That’s the question everyone should be asking.