Friday, October 3, 2008

Baracktoid 042

Illustrating Obama's need to obscure the amount of time he was a practicing Muslim in Indonesia: Obama recalls going to the library in Indonesia and seeing a photo of a "Japanese woman craddling a young, naked girl in a shallow tub: that was sad; the girl was sick, her legs twisted, her head fallen back against the mother's breast, the mother's face tight with grief, perhaps she blamed herself..." The photo was first published in a W. Eugene Smith photo essay in Life on June 2, 1972.

The problem for Obama is that June 2, 1972, is after the date Obama wants us to think he left Indonesia.

If Obama did see the photo in Indonesia, as he said he did, then maybe his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, is right and Obama did not leave Indonesia until 1972, or possibly even 1973.

What difference does this make?

To begin with, the puzzle just adds to the growing list of factual discrepencies or outright fabrications that Obama manufactures, very likely on an ongoing basis. Even Indonesian television reporters can't identify with certainty the addresses where Obama lived with his family. If Obama stayed longer than he says, he may have attended the Catholic school for two years and the government-run public school for two years, as he also says on page 154 of the autobiography that he did.

Two years' attendance at the government-run public school would add an additional year of Islamic studies to Obama's time in Indonesia, including mengaji, reciting Koranic verses, a study usually reserved for true believers in Islam.

-p. 67, Obama Nation, author, Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D

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