By Jeffrey Page

Valerie Jarrett also just happened to work for the city of Chicago, and just happened to hire Michelle LaVaughan Robinson (later Mrs. Obama), who just happened to have worked at the Sidley Austin law firm, where former fugitive from the FBI Bernardine Dohrn also just happened to work, and where Barack Obama just happened to get a summer job.

An old friend sent me that tirade – there are 13 more paragraphs, but not enough time to discuss them all here – with the explanation that he receives a lot of similar stuff and that I might get a kick out of looking it over and maybe discussing it at Zest of Orange.

The material displayed in italics was just one of 14 similar paragraphs that, I think, serve to show that some people have entirely too much time on their hands, and ought to consider studying the oboe or 18th Century religious poetry.

The title for this stuff is “Coincidence? No not really,” and I suppose its purpose is to plant in the American consciousness the idea that President Obama is not who he claims to be.

They have coincidences? I have questions.

So here are some annotations to the Jarrett paragraph. By the way, Jarrett is one of President Obama’s closet advisers.

–Questions: Aside from Jarrett, how many other people worked for the city of Chicago? How long did she work there? What did she do? Was she a deputy mayor? A trigonometry teacher? Maybe a meter maid?

–Questions: Surely Michelle Robinson had a life before she married Obama. For what purpose did Jarrett hire her? Wasn’t Jarrett entitled to legal representation? Was Jarrett charged with trying to overthrow the government? Or had she decided to draw up her will and looked for counsel to assist her? She is allowed to have a will, right?

–Questions: Did Bernardine Dohrn bust into the offices of Sidley Austin with a loaded .38 and demand a job? Or did she go through the usual dreary process of applying through H.R.?

 –Questions: Didn’t Dohrn have the right to work at any place in the world that would hire her?

 –Questions: Was Barack Obama allowed to apply for, and keep, a summer job at Sidley Austin? Didn’t he come in on time, fill out honest time cards, and abide by workplace rules? Or is the Coincidence gang saying that Obama robbed the petty cash box?

The signature on these 14 paragraphs is “Don and Mary Moore.” Does anyone know who they are? I don’t.

The last line of the Coincidence paragraphs is attributed to Aristotle, but does not say from which of his writing it is taken. Not good scholarship.

“Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society,” Aristotle is alleged to have said. I think the use of a supposed grim quote like that from Aristotle is meant to make readers think, “Oh boy, this guy Moore is a smarty.”

Frankly, I end my questioning of the Jarrett paragraph with a quote closer to home. In a lecture series entitled “New England Reformers” in 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson declared:

“Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest, when they are sick, or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience have been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.”