II: Columbia University and Recruitment by Zbigniew Brzezinski 67Obama’s maître à penser Jeremiah Wright has mocked and derided European classical music in
general and Georg Friedrich Handel in particular. The common ground between Obama and Wright,
which some have suspected even as others indignantly denied it, turns out to be quite substantial.
Turning away from Europe, Obama was confronted with the pervasive polygamy of his own
father, his own tribe, and his own Kenyan ancestors. Obama’s 40-year-old cousin Said Hussein
Obama later recalled, “My cousin found it difficult when he came here to learn his six half-brothers
and sisters were born to four different mothers.” In reality, the number of Obama Senior’s offspring
may be even greater, as we have already seen. “The person who made me proudest of all,” Obama
added in his memoir, “was Roy. Actually, now we call him Abongo, his Luo name, for two years
ago he decided to reassert his African heritage. He converted to Islam, and has sworn off pork and
tobacco and alcohol.” (Dreams 441) This Abongo “Roy” Obama is a Luo activist and a militant
Muslim who now contends that the black man must “liberate himself from the poisoning influences
of European culture.” In other words, Roy has also embraced Fanon. Roy has called on his younger
half-brother to embrace his African heritage. (Dreams 441) Roy’s role, if any, in the violent tribal
conflict which has been convulsing Kenya in 2007-2008 is not known.
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: ANOTHER WALL OF SECRECY, 1988-1991
Obama then entered Harvard Law School in 1988. In February 1990, he was elected the first
African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review, and received a first wave of positive publicity
in the New York Times. Obama graduated from Harvard Law magna cum laude in 1991. Obama’s
professors were aware that he was slippery: “He then and now is very hard to pin down,” said
Kenneth Mack, then a classmate and now a professor at the law school. Becoming the first black
president of the law review was a highly political process, and not only an academic or technical
one. Winning the position was a matter of political finesse, and clearly of some successful
manipulation. “He was able to work with conservatives as well as liberals,” says Obama’s friend
Michael Froman, who is currently an executive at Citigroup.
Obama’s greatest fan appears to have been Professor Laurence Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb
Professor at Harvard University. Tribe taught Obama and employed him as a research assistant. He
remembers him as a “brilliant, personable, and obviously unique” person. Tribe said that Obama’s
theoretical perspective on applying modern physics to law was “very impressive.” Obama never
talks about this theory, but it reeks of the unbridled relativism that can make of the Constitution
whatever one wants. Tribe is of course a darling of the liberal media who later argued Al Gore’s
Florida case before the Supreme Court in December 2000. Tribe says that Obama was one of his
two best students ever, and adds: “He had a very powerful ability to synthesize diverse sources of
information.” (Wallace Wood, Rolling Stone)
Obama is alleged to have contributed to Tribe’s bizarre 1989 article in the Harvard Law Review
entitled “The Curvature of Constitutional Space: What Lawyers Can Learn From Modern Physics.”
This is a 39-page treatise which argues that constitutional jurisprudence should be revised in a way
which recalls the process by which Einstein’s theory of relativity replaced Newtonian mechanics.
On the surface, Tribe and Obama were arguing against the absurd and suffocating “original intent”
method of the right-wing reactionary Federalist Society. But their arguments would also open the
door to boundless arbitrary caprice and abuse by removing any notion of natural law from the
method of construing the Constitution. Obama is thus capable of rejecting the manacles of original
intent for a Cole Porter doctrine of “anything goes” in legal positivism, which would open the door