278 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biographyparents, Barack Obama Sr. and Ann Dunham, because they had been inspired by the fervor
following the “Bloody Sunday” voting rights demonstration that was commemorated March 4.
“There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama,”
he said, “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” The problem was that, as we have seen, Obama was born in
1961, and the Selma march occurred four years later, in 1965. The New York Times reported that
when the senator was asked about the discrepancy later that day, he clarified: “I meant the whole
civil rights movement.
OBAMA AS THE CONSUMMATE DIVIDER
The Joshua speech is an important document because it illustrates yet another dimension of
Obama’s efficacy as a divider and a splitter of the American population so as to leave them open to
further attacks by the financier oligarchy. Obama says he wants to bring the American population
together, but in practice the net effect of his well-financed presence, backed up by the formidable
Trilateral-Bilderberg network, has been to divide the American people six ways to Sunday. Obama
divides white against black, black against Hispanic, black against Asian, men against women, and
elitists and affluent suburbanites against blue-collar workers. With his spurious and self-serving
generational analysis, he can also play old against young in a generational conflict which can
further weaken the capacity of the American people to resist what the Trilateral financiers have in
store. Obama thus emerges as a fiendishly clever deployment to shatter the American people along
lines of race, national origin, religion, gender, class, and generation — quite an achievement for his
controllers. Bush the younger, by comparison, is a paragon of national unity. This is why the
Trilateraloids were willing to pay top dollar to finance such a mediocrity and attempt to make the
entire national debate revolve around his vapid and vacuous personality. One of the included
benefits was the likelihood that the Democratic Party would shatter along its fairly obvious fault
lines in the aftermath of a catastrophic Obama regime.
THE RACE CARD YET AGAIN
In the course of the Texas primary, it became obvious that Obama was pursuing what some
called a “two-track strategy” in his rallies. The candidate of authenticity had two distinct stump
speeches, one for black audiences and one for white audiences.
As he campaigns in the Lone Star State, Barack Obama has mostly stuck to his standard stump
speech about the economy, health care and Iraq. But when he spoke before a mostly black audience
in the coastal, working-class town of Beaumont, he talked about Popeye’s fried chicken and
individual responsibility. “I have a nine- and a six-year-old daughter, so I know how hard it is to
get kids to eat properly,” Obama told the audience of about 2000 as he broached the subject of
health care at a town hall-style meeting Thursday. “But I also know that if we are, if folks are just
letting kids drink eight sodas a day which some parents do. Or you know, even a bag of potato
chips for lunch or Popeye’s for breakfast –ya’ll have Popeye’s down in Beaumont? All right. I
know some of you all, you get that cold Popeye’s out for breakfast! I know! That’s why you all
laughing. I caught you out. You can’t do that! Children have to have proper nutrition.” The
audience, many of whom waited in line five hours or more for a chance to see Obama, cheered,
laughed and gave thunderous applause to the remarks, which he peppered with phrases straight from