Neil Abercrombie had pledged to put the issue to bed for good... but has instead popped-open hornet's nest. So who is this odd duck, anyway?
Buffalo, NY native Abercrombie arrived in Hawaii just a month after it became our 50th state, in September 1959. Studying at the University of Hawaii, he earned a master's in sociology and a doctorate in American Studies. Abercrombie also attended classes with, and befriended, current United States President Barack Obama's parents, Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr.
Dr Neil Abercrombie is married to political scientist and feminist activist/scholar Nancie Carraway, a radical Leftist who's work is best typified by her book "Segregated Sisterhood: Racism and the Politics of American Feminism".
Hawaii's seventh governor is an avid weightlifter who pledged to "lift his wieght plus 200" every year on his birthday. At 72, he did just that last year by bench-pressing 272 lbs- not bad for a old hippy.
Following his truncated debut in DC, Abercrombie returned to the Rainbow State to serve on the Honolulu city council for two years, then went back to Washington as US Congressman in 1970, winning ten straight terms. Last year, he ran for Governor of Hawaii and cruised to victory over Republican James Aiona.
Abercrombie is a member of the House Progressive Caucus since 1998, and he votes like it, serving the extreme agendas of the ACLU, anti-war Left, and Planned Parenthood to a fault... and as it turns-out, the Socialist International as well (below).
And boastful blowhard Abercrombie has claimed to have "been there" when Barack Obama was "born in Hawaii" on August 4, 1961. But to those who know better, Abercrombie is "remembering" something that never actually happened...
Abercrombie has been talking excitedly about the relationship for years, playing John the Baptist to Obama’s Jesus.
“Little Barry, that’s what we called him,” Abercrombie told the Chicago Tribune while “recalling his days with Obama Sr. and his future wife, Ann Dunham, at the University of Hawaii.” If Obama were born on August 4, 1961, however, there could not have been many such days.
As is thoroughly documented, Ann and little Barry were in Seattle two weeks later, where she enrolled at the University of Washington. By the time she returned to Hawaii in late summer or fall 1962, Barack Sr. had left for Harvard for good...
According to divorce papers filed in 1964, Barack Sr. and Ann married in Wailuku, Maui on February 2, 1961. But one has to wonder whether it was a marriage in anything but name, or whether there was a marriage at all. Obama himself writes in Dreams, “In fact, how and when the marriage occurred remains a bit murky, a bill of particulars that I’ve never quite had the courage to explore.”
No one attended the wedding — not Abercrombie, not Ann’s parents.
In fact, no one in Barack Sr.’s clique seemed to know there was a relationship, let alone a wedding. Neil’s brother Hal never saw Ann and Barack Sr. together. Another clique member, Pake Zane, who had distinct memories of Barack Sr., could not recall Ann at all.
When Neil Abercrombie and Zane visited their friend in Nairobi in 1968, Barack Sr. shocked them by never once inquiring about his putative wife and 6-year-old son.
The 17-year-old Ann had met the 24 year-old Barack Sr. in Russian class at the University of Hawaii. Why they were studying Russian in 1960 (people like Lee Harvey Oswald studied Russian) is a question for another day...
The 17-year-old Ann had met the 24 year-old Barack Sr. in Russian class at the University of Hawaii. Why they were studying Russian in 1960 (people like Lee Harvey Oswald studied Russian) is a question for another day...
So what is it that's driving this guy to keep stepping-in-it while attempting to rescue Barack Obama from truth-seeking birthers? Turns-out it's more than just family friendship and political loyalty- Neil Abercrombie's background involves the same sort of troubling communist associations that seem to keep popping-up from Obamas past, i.e. Alice Palmer and David Simon Cantor... with a trail that inevitably leads through front groups right back to the Soviet Union.
The covert socialist and "Democratic DSAer" Abercrombie was sponsored in his successful 1990 run for US Congress by the Council for a Livable World -a group promoting US arms concessions and non-intervention against Soviet aggression- founded in 1962 by long-time socialist activist and alleged Soviet agent, Manhattan Project nuclear scientist Leo Szilard, a Hungarian Jew and world socialist in the mold of George Soros. The DSA only supported two candidates in the whole country that year... and Abercrombie was one of them.
Neil Abercrombie and wife Nancie Carraway were also proven to be members of the Marxist Democratic Socialists of America, the largest such organization in the country and a front group for the Socialist International. He has of course denied the association, but evidence abounds, his wife even listed as having served on the group's "feminist commission".
Other prominent members of the DSA include Francis Fox Piven, Ed Asner, Noam Chomsky, Obama friend/advisor Cornell West, Soviet spy Kurt Stand, and insatiably embittered bra-burner Gloria Steinem.
And the DSA's strategy to take over the American Democratic Party from within sounds one-hell-of-a-lot like what Obama's doing...
And the DSA's strategy to take over the American Democratic Party from within sounds one-hell-of-a-lot like what Obama's doing...
According to an article written in the Boston DSA magazine Yankee Radical, January, 2001, by Mike Pattberg;
- ...the Communist Party experienced the height of its numbers, power and influence when it abandoned its previous ultra-left course to become the Stalinist wing of the New Deal in the mid-1930s...
- In any case, by the early 1960s some within the Socialist Party (including future DSA leaders), adopting a variant of the CP’s strategy 25 years earlier, had broken with prevailing labor party orthodoxy. (Or the belief that the SP should continue to run its own candidates without support from labor or anyone else, another version of the same idea.)
- They instead advanced the concept of “Realignment” in the Democratic Party; forging a coalition of labor, blacks and middle-class liberals and radicals to take over the Party by purging (democratically, of course) Southern racists, big-city bosses and other retrograde elements.
-Van Jones