You have to give credit to Obama. Doing a good job fending off those trying to "Weiner" him!

[cascadiance]

Check out this FreeRepublic.com page. You can tell that the future Breitbarts of the world out there are trying to find out anything they can to go after him with. I saw this frustration echoed on another message board with this link.

Either Obama's been pretty clean in his life, or he's found good ways of covering it. Probably his "timed release" of his birth certificate is just a very small part of his own "image management" that I'm sure they're pretty careful about now.

Freeper frustration shows here!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2740347/posts

[murielm99]

1. I won't go there. n/t

[Tiggeroshii]

2. Thing is, Obama's basically admitted all his shortcomings already

...funny the OP at freerepublic hasn't seemed to have ever been introduced to the 400 page memoirs that detail his early childhood, college life and early career that was published in more than a million copies, sold nationwide and received a ton of press. People notice what they would like to notice I suppose?

[FrenchieCat]

4. Not to mention the Grammy he won for it reading the entire book on tape! LOL!

[Pirate Smile]

5. Every so often I will freak people out by telling them that I have heard President Obama say

Motherfucker. :D



Yeah, I listened to the audio book of Dreams from my Father. :)

[BlueCaliDem]

3. I'm not interested in what they think since they don't.

They just lie, spin, regurgitate, and make up shit to suit their hateful selves. They really are a bunch of pathetic whiny rightwingers who hate this country and everyone in it that isn't them.

[BernieSandersIsGod]

6. I didn't read all of the questions on that link, but the ones I read aren't even mysteries. I love

the nobody knew him shit. That's still hilarious to me. Can you become Pres of Harvard Law Review w/o people knowing you? 1 person that knew him is now the Governor of Massachusetts.

[pnwmom]

7. It took me about 5 seconds to find this -- part of what

they say doesn't exist -- statements by people who knew him when.

http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/513898.html?nav=5074

As student teachers, it never occurred to Aimee Yatsushiro or Katherine Nakamoto that a cute 5-year-old from their first teaching experience would become president one day, actually the first African-American president.

"You tell students all the time you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up," Nakamoto said. "And now here's Barack Obama. He's president. Who would have thought?"

Yatsushiro, a retired teacher from Kahului, served as a student teacher from September to December 1966 at Noelani Elementary School on Oahu. Her supervising teacher was Kazuko Sakai, the primary educator for about 25 students in a kindergarten class that included a boy named Barack "Barry" Obama.

"He was a cute, likable, heavy build-child," Yatsushiro recalled. "I could visualize Barry smiling, dressed in his long-sleeved, white shirt tucked into his brown Bermuda shorts, and wearing laced shoes."

[CakeGrrl]

8. I won't go to FR, but I can easily guess.

They have been coming out of the woodwork digging for dirt since he announced his candidacy. If they could've stopped him from getting the nomination, they would've used whatever they could find.

The Obamas said during the campaign that they had a lot of discussion about whether he should run. And unlike other politicians, I suspect he has learned the lessons from watching what's happened to others.

[Drunken Irishman]

9. I know more about Obama's life from childhood to adult than I did Bush...

All I remember hearing about Bush's life prior to his election in 2000 was that he partied hard at Yale, was a cheerleader, went AWOL from the military, ran a failed campaign for congress and eventually was elected governor of Texas.

That's about it. Oh and he got a DUI.

I don't know what he did as a kid. I don't know where he spent the 70s. Frankly, I really don't care.

But I do know more about Obama's childhood than Bush's. Go figure.

[karynnj]

10. You forgot the failed oil companies where he was bailed out by

his dad's "friends" and that he blew up frogs! The frog story is strange in that it was brought up by a childhood friend reminiscing about those years - almost to add color - with no sense that it was wrong. (In a way like the Romney boys thinking it could help their dad to tell the "hilarious" dog on the roof story - which is less disturbing than the Bush story)

Now, that was balanced by stories by his friends in college and high school, but consider what just what we know would have sounded like had he been a Democrat. Had it been Kerry who killed frogs, rather than saving hamsters, he would have been labeled potentially a psychopath. The obvious real problems in Bush's National Guard service would not have needed a phony group to distort a perfectly clean official record as was the case with Kerry.

I do think that the Republicans now have a harder job. People have seen the Obamas and all but the fringe realize that they are a decent family - even if they disagree with the political positions and will vote against them for that. The more people "know" a person, the harder it is to distort who they are. 2008 was when Obama was most vulnerable - and you saw how the wonderful Michelle was completely distorted then. (We also saw how quickly that was fixed when they were in office.) Now, I have heard and seen the extreme right and the garbage they spew, but it seems (from approval polls) that that really only is believed by their base - the people we will never ever get.)