As President Obama becomes more known we seem to know less about him to the point where some even wonder if he knows who he is.

Oh, he knows he’s the President and I know he’s the President, for  he tells me so.

He likes the word transparent, but more often than not he is opaque – ‘to be perfectly clear,’ a phrase he often uses because that’s what he wants to be.

There was a time when Barack was known as Barry as was his Black Muslim father who was also named Barack.

In his book “Dreams From My Father” Obama describes his quest for identity.  According to Newsweek Magazine in an article on March 22, 2008 he returned home from college at Christmas in 1980 and told his white Jewish mother and grandparents that he wanted to be called Barack Hussein Obama, not Barry.  In fact they affectionately called him “Bar.”

When he first came to America from Kenya on a scholarship he chose the nickname to better fit in, but then made a conscious decision to take on his formal African name, but has never explained why in his book or elsewhere in his quest for identity in those early years.

There are those in America who still don’t believe he’s a citizen of the United States, instead of just putting this to rest by providing a copy of his birth certificate, the White House released a copy of his passport, with the issue date and expiration date blurred out raising more questions.

Does the black side of Obama come out more often than the white?

Is it any wonder that there is an identity crisis here especially when you add other infulentials’ to the Obama thought process such as Wright, Ayers and Alinsky?  In turn the nation becomes confused as the child once did; uncertainty creeps into the population, perceptions are formed, whether right or wrong, and take hold.

In a poll last week by the Pew Research Center it was revealed that 18% of Americans believe Obama, who professes to be a Christen, is a Muslim.  This has risen from 12% when he ran for president and 11% after inauguration.

It doesn’t help when the first family didn’t pick a church, nor when the nation virtually never sees them going to church.

Nor did it help when Obama himself comes out in support for the mosque in Manhattan near ground zero citing the Constitutional rights of the church to be built when he spends most of his efforts devaluing and not upholding the constitution.  Nor does it help when Rush Limbaugh calls him “Imam Obama” and describes him as “America’s first Muslim president.”  Or when evangelist Franklin Graham tells CNN’s John King:”I think the president’s problem is that he was born a Muslim.  His father was a Muslim.  The seed of Islam is passed through the father, like the seed of Judaism is passed through the mother.”  Graham went on to say to King, “The teaching of Islam is to hate the Jew, to hate the Christian, to kill them.  There goal is world domination.”

Even Obama media supporters like Maureen Dowd doesn’t help by repeating these quotes in a column, but putting them down by saying it is a ‘prejudice stoked’ by these men.

But Dowd in a typical liberal fashion goes on with the classic Obama excuses, “He came as a redeemer and then – tied up in W.’s Gordian knots, dragged down by an economy leeched by wars and Wall Street charlatans – didn’t redeem.  And nothing bums out a nation that blows with the wind like a self-appointed messiah who disappoints.”

However, by omission Dowd fails to mention Obama’s extraordinary spending, the gargantuan debt, the stimulus that didn’t work, the bailouts, the take overs, health reform the people didn’t want, the financial overhaul, a stock market filled with uncertainty and an unemployment rate nationwide around 16.5%.

Dowd rightfully points out by quoting Daniel Patrick Moynihan, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”

If all of these facts are wrong why isn’t Obama doing something to correct them by being ‘perfectly clear’ and making these issues ‘transparent’ rather than opaque; or are these issues being fueled by the president’s own liberal, socialistic, policies, programs and spending?