Barack Obama Knew, Often Played Charades With, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Barack Obama’s ties to domestic terrorists run far deeper, and are far more disturbing, than he’s been willing to admit. We uncover the shocking truth about how much the Democratic nominee for president hates the government he wants to lead and the country he hopes to change. 

Third in a Four-Part Carbolic Smoke Ball Investigative Report.

WASHINGTON, DC - Long before he ever went fertilizer shopping with Timothy McVeigh, Barack Obama befriended two other subversive, disaffected conspiracists who would soon become America’s first couple of domestic terror and espionage.

Obama met Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in July of 1943 at a dinner party to honor Rashid “Wiz” Khalifa, the controversial Palestinian scholar and hip-hop artist whose breakthrough single, “Start Snitchin’,” was the first big hit for PLO Records. At the party, hosted by NKVD Record Mogul Alexandre Feklisov, Obama and the Rosenbergs formed an uneatable Charades team, trouncing every team that dared to challenge them throughout the night. “We were unstoppable,” Obama wrote in his best-selling book, Sounds Like…Memoir. “We got each other’s clues right away, and answers would pass between us as if we could keep no secrets. I knew then that we would be two words, one syllable each: good friends.”

After that fateful night, Obama and the Rosenbergs made regular appearances at dinner parties and fundraisers and later at The Russian Tea Room in New York City, taking on all challengers and never once losing a game. The trio’s finest moment came in a 1944 exhibition match, when they defeated the reigning National Charades Champions, a team consisting of Roy Cohn, Joe McCarthy, and Judge Irving Kaufman. “I had a feeling they might hold a grudge,” Obama wrote in one of his memoirs.  

Though he’s been more forthcoming about his relationship with the Rosenbergs than he has with any of the other incendiary figures and domestic terrorists in his checkered past, Obama still bristles at the suggestion that his character or his candidacy are compromised by his long-time association and competitive-parlor-game affiliation with two people convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for passing classified atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.

“Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were like a crazy old aunt and uncle who sometimes committed treasons you wish they wouldn’t,” Obama said in  ”A More Perfect Execution,” his recent landmark speech on anti-Semitism. “But I could never disown them. And, since they’re dead, they’re not advisors to my campaign, so I just don’t see what all the fuss is about.”

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