Those "Pesky" Obama Conections!

Rainbow/Push Coalition 33rd Annual Conference, Chicago, 2004

Last month Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan, a long time supporter of Barack Obama, spoke to a crowd of 20,000 of followers of his black nationalist movement at the United Center in Chicago Farrakhan said that "The white right is trying to set Barack up to be assassinated."

The crowd cheered Farrakhan on with shouts of "Allahu Akbar," Arabic for "God is great."

Farrakhan continued his praise of Obama Sunday, and said the nation's first black president had been manipulated into disavowing Farrakhan. He would not say if he and Obama had ever met. "They all want to know did I ever meet with him and what did I say or what he say," Farrakhan said in the speech. "I ain't going there."

Well someone should "go there."

It should be noted that back in 2004 when Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition held its 33rd annual conference in Chicago a key highlight was the annual Business Luncheon which honored Valerie Jarrett, chair of the Chicago Stock Exchange. Valerie Jarret is now Obama’s senior advisor in the White House.  You remember Valerie Jarret don't you. She was responsible for Obama's appointment of Van Jones as the administration's "green jobs cazar", that is until it became public that Van Jones is a communist and a "9/11 Truther!"

A picture of he luncheon, published in JET Magazine at the time shows Michelle Obama, wife of (then) U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama of Illinois and executive director of community affairs, University of Chicago Hospital and Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, wife of Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan.

So the First Lady and Obama’s senior White House advisor had lunch with Louis Farrakhan’s wife back in 2004, no big deal right?  It's just another of those meaningless pesky Obama connections that contually surface.

Well there is another connection out there. In early March of this year, Reverend Farrakhan received a “LivingLegend” award at a $100 dollar a head charity event sponsored by none other than President Obama’s former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright.

In deference to Obama, he threw both of these screwballs under the bus during his presidential campaign, Farrakhan for being anti-semetic and Wright for being completely out of his mind.

Nevertheless, it does give one cause for concern how Obama’s old Chicago affiliations have a habit of continually rearing their heads. Not that you would know about if by reading the New York Times.

Gee, I wonder how the mainstream media would have reacted if they found a picture of First Lady Laura Bush attendng a luncheon with David Duke's wife?

Peter J. Mahon