176 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized BiographyKenneth Vogel. This raised another duplicity problem for Obama, since his campaign has worked to
assure uneasy gun owners that he believes the Constitution protects their rights and that he doesn’t
want to take away their guns. As Jarlyn at TalkLeft indicated, “At Wednesday’s debate, Barack
Obama wouldn’t say what his position is on the DC law banning handguns.” In her view, Obama
“dodged, saying he wasn’t familiar with the facts of the case.” She had the audacity to wonder
didn’t Obama answer the question at the debate instead of weaving and bobbing? Was it because he
didn’t want to alienate PA voters, many of whom favor strong gun ownership rights? And, did he
fail to tell the truth? According to the said Jeralyn, in November, “his campaign told the Chicago
Tribune he supported the ban. (Chicago Tribune November 20, 2007.)’ (Larry Johnson, “Obama on
Board That Funded Handgun Bans,” Noquarterusa.net, April 20, 2008)
The Joyce Foundation website announces: “Our program areas are Education, Employment,
Environment, Gun Violence, Money and Politics, and Culture. We focus our grant making on
initiatives that promise to have an impact on the Great Lakes region, specifically the states of
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. A limited number of environment
grants are made to organizations in Canada. Education grant making in K-12 focuses on Chicago,
Cleveland, and Milwaukee; early childhood grant making focuses on Illinois and Wisconsin.
Culture grants are primarily focused on the Chicago metropolitan area, except for the Joyce
Awards, which extend to other Midwest cities. We do not generally support capital proposals,
endowment campaigns, religious activities, commercial ventures, direct service programs, or
scholarships.” This adds up to social engineering and mind control. Between the role of the Ford
Foundation as the flagship US counterinsurgency foundation, plus the influence of the terrorist
Bill Ayers as a theoretician of education, it is easy to see how Obama was able to become a
beneficiary of the Joyce Foundation after having served on the Gamaliel Foundation and the
Woods Fund, two other Ford satellites.
According to a focus group set up by the Pennsylvania television station WPVI held the night of
the debate, “Senator Clinton is the debate winner, at least according to our focus group. 23% believe
Senator Obama won while 50% believed Senator Clinton won.” (WPVI Post-Debate Analysis,
April 16, 2008) According to Chuck Todd of NBC News, Obama “did not have a good night....His
answer on Ayers and the flag question were simply weak; He seemed unprepared for them; Kinda
surprising because he normally has a decent rant against “old politics” and yet “old politics”
questions seemed to stump him.” (NBC First Read, April 16, 2008) The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder
opined that there was “no way Obama could have fared worse. Chris Cillizza noted that Obama
“struggled quite a bit more when asked to answer for Wright, his former pastor.” (Washington Post,
The Fix, April 16, 2008) Katharine Seeyle of the New York Times was impressed by how much
better Hillary Clinton fared: “She’s becoming expansive, seemingly in her element as she goes into
details; Mr. Obama does not look as thrilled to be still standing there.” (New York Times, The
Caucus, April 16, 2008) A Philadelphia commentator chimed in: “Obama is again less certain, and
rambles a bit when asked about the Washington D.C. gun ban. Gibson asks him to deny that he has
ever advocated a complete ban on hand guns in 1996. Obama says no. But whatever the truth, no
other answer is possible.” (Philadelphia Inquirer Blog, April 16, 2008) This was actually a case of
bare-faced, outright lying by Obama, since he denied the authenticity of a policy questionnaire
which bore his own handwriting. Unnoticed by most was yet another pro-GOP testimonial by
Obama, who this time pontificated that the foreign policy of George H.W. Bush was “wise” – this
of the criminal adventurer who bombed Iraq back into the stone age in order to re-impose the
regime of his own former business partner, the slave-holding Emir of Kuwait, and by doing so
started the long agony of the US military presence in the Gulf.