WE WONDER WHAT ELSE IS HIDDEN – AT 10:08 P.M. ET:  Our side has always been angered by the manner in which Barack Obama was elected president...without any serious vetting by the mainstream press.  This is an example of what happens when no one asks questions.  From Daily Mail:

A journalist has revealed a 13-year-old photo of Barack Obama posing with the Nation of Islam's leader that was kept under wraps in order to protect the former president's career. 

Askia Muhammad snapped the photo of Obama smiling alongside Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan during a Congressional Black Caucus meeting in 2005.

Muhammad, who revealed the photo on Thursday, told the Trice Edney News Wire that he 'gave the

picture up at the time and basically swore secrecy' out of concern that it could have 'made a difference' and damaged Obama's political future.

The former president was a U.S. senator from Illinois at the time the photo was taken.  

The picture was also taken before conspiracy theories developed that Obama was not born in the United States and is a Muslim. 

Muhammad told the news site that the photo was kept a secret until after Obama secured the Democratic nomination to run for president and 'all the way up until the inauguration'.

'Then for eight years after he was president, it was kept under cover,' Muhammad said. 'It absolutely would have made a difference.'

Muhammad recalled on Thursday that a 'staff member' for the CBC contacted him 'sort of in a panic' after he took the photo.

'I sort of understood what was going on,' Muhammad told Talking Points Memo, which published the photo Thursday.

COMMENT:  We of course know that having a picture taken with Farrakhan (the picture is in the story link) doesn't prove that Obama was a follower.  But the broad smile on the future president's face, and the fact that he let the photo be taken at all, are troubling.  The Nation of Islam is a virulently anti-American, anti-white and anti-Semitic hate group.  It would be like a political figure allowing himself to be photographed with David Duke.

I doubt this photo will cause much stir.  Standards are pretty low these days.

January 25, 2018