By Jerry McConnell —— Bio and Archives December 13, 2009
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“Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset’.” That first-rate accent mentioned above was undoubtedly learned during his educational years in a Muslim school in Indonesia where he lived with his mother and her Indonesian husband.Obama has said publicly that his association with the Chicago based Reverend Jeremiah Wright for 20 years was as his pastor and religious adviser. I submit to you that that Wright, a known anti-American, was selected to teach Obama the ways of Christianity to cover his true faith of Islam/Muslim in order to fool the American people. Then during the campaign for the primary and the presidency in 2008 he did his parody of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with the people of the United States, acting like a sincerely faithful Christian singing his own praises to entice votes. A recent song, “Killing Me Softly” by singer Roberta Flack sums up Obama’s courtship of the American voter which said (with my adaptation): “I heard he sang a good song, I heard he had a style And so I came to see him and listen for a while And there he was this young man, a stranger to my eyes Fooling me softly with his words, fooling me softly. Fool us no longer Mr. Obama, fool us no longer.
Gerald A. “Jerry” McConnell, 92, of Hampton, died Sunday, February 19, 2017, at the Merrimack Valley Hospice House in Haverhill, Mass., surrounded by his loved ones. He was born May 27, 1924 in Altoona, Pa., the fifth son of the late John E. and Grace (Fletcher) McConnell.
Jerry served ten years with the US Marine Corps and participated in the landing against Japanese Army on Guadalcanal and another ten years with the US Air Force. After moving to Hampton in 1957 he started his community activities serving in many capacities.
He shared 72 years of marriage with his wife Betty P. (Hamilton) McConnell. In addition to his wife, family members include nieces and nephews.
McConnell’s e-book about Guadalcanal, “Our Survival was Open to the Gravest Doubts”