3 Pinocchios pour Obama et sa ‘Kennedy Connection’
What happened in Selma, Alabama and Birmingham also stirred the conscience of the nation. It worried folks in the White House who said, “You know, we’re battling Communism. How are we going to win hearts and minds all across the world? If right here in our own country, John, we’re not observing the ideals set fort in our Constitution, we might be accused of being hypocrites.” So the Kennedys decided we’re going to do an air lift. We’re going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is.
This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don’t tell me I’m not coming home to Selma, Alabama.Barack Obama, 40th anniversary of Selma civil rights march, March 4, 2007.
Obama’s ‘Camelot connection’ by Michael Dobbs
The chronology outlined by Obama in his Selma speech is extremely confused. The airlifts of African students to the United States were organized not by the Kennedy family, but by a charismatic Kenyan politician named Tom Mboya. In an attempt to answer Gelembiuk’s question, I looked into the matter with the help of researchers at the John F. Kennedy library in Boston and the Hoover Institute at the University of Stanford, where Mboya’s papers are located. I also talked to people who remembered the original airlift, and their descendants.
Obama Overstates Kennedys’ Role in Helping His Father By Michael Dobbs
Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Ala., a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama traced his “very existence” to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. famously said of Franklin Roosevelt that he had a “second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament.” Obama has shown that he is a man of limited experience, questionable convictions, deeply troubling associations (Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko) and an alarming lack of self-definition. Nonetheless, he’s got both a first-class intellect and a first-class temperament. That will likely be enough to make him president.
Charles Krauthammer, le 2 octobre 2008
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