Barack Obama: The wildest conspiracy theories launched at the US president…
Barack Obama: The wildest conspiracy theories launched at the US president
America is well known as the land of conspiracy theorists, but President Barack Obama has endured more than his share of bizarre claims since he shot to public prominence, ideas that have spread rapidly via the intertet.
By Alex Spillius in Washington
Published: 1:03AM BST 30 Sep 2009
The accusation by Andy Williams , the singer, that the newly-elected president of the free world was at heart a communist is one of the milder charges. Here are five more:
1. Radical Muslim
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Throughout the campaign and during his presidency, Barack Hussein Obama has been accused of being a Muslim. These rumours were based on his name, as well as the misinformation that he attended an Islamic school, from the ages six to 10 in Jakarta. Obama’s Kenyan father was a non-practising Muslim while his American mother and grandparents do not appear to have been religious people. The president started attending church in Chicago 20 years ago.
2. The Odinga connection
Author Jerome Corsi claimed that Obama had familial, financial and political ties with Kenyan opposition politician Raila Odinga.
During the US campaign, Corsi was in Kenya, scheduled to give a press conference at which he promised to expose secret ties between Obama and Odinga and a mysterious plot that would be launched if Obama became president. He was, however, expelled because of visa problems. It turned out that Odinga, facing declining popularity, had made an unsupported claim that he was related to Obama.
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virus that is a crossover between human and animal disease, lets say an entirely new and highly contagious influenza mutation, and intentionally releases it into the public. A pandemic ensues, and the period between when a person contracts the virus and death is something like 10 days. With tens of thousands dead in a few weeks and the rate of death increasing hourly around the globe, a universal cry for a cure goes out. Seemingly miraculously, the government then steps forward with a vaccine. The only catch, they explain, is that given the nature of the animal-human strain, the “cure” rewrites ones genetics, so that they are no longer entirely human. Nitas point was that those who receive this antidote would become part “beast” and thus the title, “Mark of the Beast.”
One little four-word prayer to see you through the darkest of days: “Deliver us from Obama”.
“I have immense respect for President Carter, but I fundamentally disagree with the notion that opponents of President Obama’s immense spending proposals are motivated by race. As a black man from the South, I take exception to the notion that my opposition – or the opposition of millions of Americans to the president’s healthcare proposal – is rooted in racial politics. It is a sad day when genuine disagreement is smeared by such an incendiary characterization.
The big story at the close of the week is Obama’s abandonment of the missile defense shield. To understand the implications of this, imagine if Walter Mondale had won in 1984 and had decided to abandon SDI aka Star Wars. The result would have been a decisive American retreat in Europe, one that would have seriously strengthened the Soviet position and might have prevented the collapse of the USSR.![[linked image]](http://madashelland.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/madashell7.jpg?w=600)
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