Andy Martin and “The Secret Muslim”

This is the story of a man. A Man who started a whisper campaign, about 2 weeks after The 2004 Democratic National Convention, that Barack Obama was a “Secret Muslim”, a man who purposely concealed his religion. It was later picked up on and used by the right wing website “the free republic”, where it spread like wildfire and has now taken on a life of it’s own. Old news all of it, but the new bit about this is the man who started it all, Andy Martin, was on television last week spewing on Fox news.

He made a few accusations. Martin has said that no one wants to talk about Obama’s college years. The man said that Barack Obama’s early community organizing had virtually no impact except to lay the foundations for his future radical associations. He makes the claim that, In Barack Obama’s case, was a training ground for radical overthrow of the government. He said, and I quote:

“You really have to stretch to believe the story that he was living in New York City, he was earning 50 or 60 thousand dollars a year, and he left this to come to Chicago, to a city where he knew no one, to suddenly start, quote, organizing, unquote.”

And then follows this up with “Probably met William Ayers” in New York.

OK, Time for a few facts.

First off, I can point to a long and elaborate article on politico that talks at length about Barack Obama’s college associations, about the people that surrounded him at that time of his life, and I have to tell you, just from a human interest angle, His college story seems to me a compelling one. And it tells about a number of people he knew back then, and tells what they are doing now. Shoots a great many holes in that contention that Mister Martin makes. Andy was right on one point tho. He said there were people who didn’t want to talk about there association with Mister Obama, but for a valid reason, I think. They are Pakistani and Muslim, and don’t want to add to the “Muslim” tag that has been undeservedly placed on him, by Andy Martin. Read the Politico story here.

His Community organizing had no effect? Hmm… it got the city of Chicago up off of it’s ass about testing for asbestos in all city apartments, which it didn’t do prior to his community organizing there. That sounds like a fairly prodigious effect to me. Andy Martin cannot claim any such achievement, nor can I. Can you? Ask yourself that question. As for radical associations, I wrote about the Ayers/Obama connection yesterday. And I have written about Reverend Wright before, in several places. Neither one really worth mentioning. Both were wrong in what they did and/or said regarding America, I.E, God Damn America, and Domestic terrorism and the like, and the junior senator from Illinois has said as much. What else can the man realistically do?

As for the Training ground statement, and the statement about probably meeting Bill Ayers In New York, it’s pure speculation from a man who was said to have a:

“moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.”

And that statement comes from Illinois bar association, which blocked his admission to the bar.

As for the Final point left to write about, about questioning Barack leaving New York for Chicago….

I live in New York. I have lived here all my life. Those of you who don’t may not know it but living here is EXPENSIVE. Even back then it was hard to live in Manhattan and make ends meet. $50,000 or $60,000 then equates to maybe $100,000 or so a year now. Think about this. Small apartments in Manhattan nowadays are insanely expensive, and small condominiums cost in the Millions. There are well established lawyers at the firm I work at now who make considerable more than that who do not live in Manhattan because it is so expensive. $50 thousand isn’t enough to live there now, and then it would have been difficult living back then, and Chicago would have definitely seemed cheaper and easier to deal with.

I make all those points to make this one. If you want to measure how serious you should take talk of Barack Obama as a Muslim, take a measure of the man who first made the accusation, and the truth of the other things he has spoken. Once put in the light of truth, you can see that there is no truth to anything this man has said about Sen. Obama. And if he was wrong and merely speculating on the flimsiest of evidence on all the other points, should we not also then conjecture that he is just as wrong about the “Secret Muslim” thing?

Andy Martin is full of crap. The Secret Muslim thing is Bogus. If you buy either Martin’s take on things, or the “Secret Muslim” accustion, you are out of your tiny little mind.

That’s my two cents on this issue, America. Tell me what you think. Is Mister Martin right, and Is it me who is off base? Do you really think Obama is a “Secret Muslim”? A Radical? Bad for America? Drop me a line and let me know!

Debate reaction tomorrow!

Uncle Mikey

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A few words about Jerome Corsi, author of “Unfit for Command” and the new “Obama Nation”. The Man is an Idiot. A blithering yammering buffoon. A dolt of the Highest order. I would say something nice about him, but …. wait ….. no i wouldn’t. There are few types of people I have no room for in this world, and conspiracy theorists are near the top of that list. Bullshit artists are not far behind.

Let’s talk about what the man has written before. His most famous work “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry” was an amazingly brazen lie from one cover to the other, Those who served with John Kerry refuted every negative claim made against him in the book, and contains interviews about John Kerry with people who never even served with the man!

His Book “Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians” claims that American Democrats have been bought by the Iranians and that the dems are working with the mullahs to get Iran the Bomb, and that a prominent Iranian American who did fund raising for John Kerry in 2004 was in fact an agent of the Iranian Government. Untrue. Completely Unfounded.

He has also claimed that John McCain has the backing of a group tied to Al-Qaeda , that there is an unlimited supply of oil being constantly created under the earths crust, and that George Bush was trying to turn the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one big nation.

Um…. How high do you have to be to believe this bullshit?

A note. I have NOT read this book. I was not even going to cover this, but I decided to take a look at the rebuttal “Unfit for Publication”, put out in response to this book. I saw that the Junior Senator from Illinois had nailed Mister Corsi for no less then 50 Inaccuracies, then started to read the rebuttal a bit more In depth. I may read Mister Corsi’s book, at some point. But I tell you I have a low tolerance for Bullshit, and I do not want to spend $25 dollars or whatever the price of this book is and give it to this man and encourage useless stupidity. If he had anything credible to say, I would look into it. I haven’t see one credible thing from this man though, anywhere. And I have been looking.

Onto covering Obama’s response to Corsi. Always leading with corsi’s own statements from the book “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality”

Let’s See…In no particular order: Corsi said that Barack Obama’s parents may never have been married, and on the same page said they were.

He says that in Barack Obama’s first book “Dreams of my Father” that he never wrote about his father’s problems with Alchohol, despite the fact that he did.

Corsi says Obama never wrote about taking his wife to be Michelle to Kenya in that same book, but He in fact did.

Corsi claims that the book wasn’t dedicated to his family, when it in fact was.

Corsi claims hasn’t answered questions as to whether he had dealt drugs in college, or continued to do drugs into his law school days, and then seemingly implies that Barack may have in fact kept doing drugs by asking whether he had continued using drugs even after he had become a State and even U.S. Senator.

He stopped when he was 20, and has stated so on numerous occasions.

Corsi claimed that Barack Obama took sides in Kenyan Politics in 2006 by siding with opposition leader Raila Odinga.

He did nothing of the sort.

I am hoping you see a pattern here.

To read a more complete list of Gaffes, Goofs and Mistakes from America’s Dumbest Author, click here.

I have to say, I am not in the least intrigued by this man or what he has to say. Sounds like a conservative wish list for what they would like to say about Senator Obama, but falls far short of what Mister Obama says is reality. And knowing Mister Corsi’s prior work, I believe Senator Obama here.

Watch a Video about the man, from Countdown with Keith Olbermann.

Am I the only one who loses his mind when he runs into stupidity like this? Do you believe there is a place for clear lies like these? Do you think anyone actually Buys this claptrap? Do you think I am off base with my assertions here? Drop me a Line and Let me Know!

Uncle Mikey