Who is Khalid al-Mansour? And more importantly, why was he promoting Barack Obama in the 1980’s and raising money for him, when Obama was in his twenties?
I caught this story, first, over at Atlas Shrugs, where this odd thing jumped out at me:
Townhall links to a video in which civil rights activist Percy Sutton claimed he was asked by a certain “Dr. Khalid al Mansour”, adviser to ‘one
of the richest men in the world’ to write a letter of reccomendation on
behalf of Barack Obama to help him gain acceptance to Harvard many
years ago. Mansour was raising money for Obama at the time, according to Sutton, which is strange in itself.
And inside the Townhall link, I found this:
In the above video Sutton says: “I was introduced to him
by a friend who was raising money for him and the friends name was Dr.
Khalid al Mansour from Texas. He is the principle adviser to one of the
world’s richest men. He told me about Obama. He wrote
to me about him and his introduction was ‘there is a young man that has
applied to Harvard and I know that you have a few friends left there
because you used to go up there to speak, would you please write a
letter in support of him?’…I wrote a letter in support of him to my
friends at Harvard saying to them I thought there was a genius that was
going to be available and I sure hoped they would treat him kindly.”
The story gets even stranger when you try to figure out who this guy al-Mansour is. Texas Darlin continued
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