Obama Timeline. Barack Obama's father, Barak Obama Sr., was a socialist from Kenya, and because of his father's wealth and influence, was awarded an American sponsored scholarship in economics to the Univ of Hawaii.
Barack Obama, Sr.'s Hawaiian education was sponsored partly by the Laubach Literacy Institute (LLI), which has links to the Nation of Islam, and which considers a socialist world without national borders one of its goals. A financial supporter of the LLI was Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, who co-authored books with its founder, Charles Laubach. Kirk was also a friend of civil rights activist and black nationalist Malcolm X (Malcolm Little). It is possible that Malcolm X met Obama, Sr. during a 1959 visit to the Secretary General of the Kenya Federation of Labour, prominent Kenyan politician Tom Mboya, because Mboya and Obama were close friends. Check out the Malcolm X theory. August 4, 1961 - Barack Obama Jr. is born at the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii so they say. What Newt said about food stamps. Newt Gingrich's comments about African-Americans and food stamps, made at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire yesterday, have made the expected media rounds — from Slate to The Daily Beast to The Associated Press to MSNBC — but the interpretation has changed somewhat along the way.
A reporter on the trail notes that Gingrich frequently says in his stump speeches that he would urge people to demand paychecks instead of food stamps — a talking point that it is not usually met with great alarm by the media. He also frequently says that he would go to the NAACP convention if it invited him. On Thursday morning, the two points came together when he said he would go to the NAACP convention and explain "why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps. " Then, on MSNBC's "Ed Show" last night, Ed Schultz said Gingrich, like Santorum, "is also quick to connect programs like food stamps to the African-American community.
" ‘Every Single One’: PJ Media’s Investigation of Justice Department Hiring Practices. RealClearPolitics - Opinion, News, Analysis, Videos and Polls. ‘It’s Your Fault’: U.S. Gets the Israel Treatment Over Iran. Israel is often in this position.
Its enemies threaten it in unacceptable ways or commit acts of violence just under some unspoken-but-very-real threshold of tolerance (not Israel’s threshold, mind you, but that of the U.S., the UN or the EU). Corresponding Israeli action to protect its people is called “aggression” and Israel is blamed for any resulting damage. In 2002, Israel’s choice was to suffer suicide bombers or to enter Palestinian cities on the West Bank. In 2005, it was to accept terrorist infiltration or to build the security fence.
In 2008 and 2009, it was to permit Hamas to rain rockets and missiles on the south, or to enter Gaza to restore its deterrence. Opinion, News, Analysis, Videos and Polls. Fox News - Breaking News Updates. The Obama Effect in Latin America. In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama failed to discuss U.S. policy toward Latin America, apart from a passing reference to the Colombia and Panama free-trade deals, and also these seven words: “Our ties to the Americas are deeper.”
Other than that, there was nothing. Nothing about the ferocious drug violence next door in Mexico and Central America. Nothing about the erosion of democracy in Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and Argentina. Nothing about Iran’s strategic alliance with Venezuela, or its growing regional footprint. Nothing about Alan Gross, the USAID contractor who has been sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban prison on bogus espionage charges. Obama has consistently treated Latin America as an afterthought, so this was not exactly a huge surprise. Politics, Political News - Election 2012. TheHill.com. Exposing Liberal Media Bias.