I personally find this guy really scary - scarier than Richard Nixon, Adlai
Stevenson, Strom Thurmond, George Wallace or that other 1948 third party
candidate whose name I can't remember right now.
Ron Henry ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Minneapolis MN
auricle.net,ronhenry.net
Click here: Newsmax.com - The Real Barack Obama
Washington Insider with Ronald Kessler | |
The Real Barack Obama
Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:06 AM
By: Ronald Kessler Article Font Size
Michelle Obamas comment that, for the first time in her adult life, she
feels proud of America helps crystallize who Barack Obama is.
To be sure, the wife of a candidate is perfectly free to have views that are
distinct from her husbands. But on a matter that is so fundamental to ones
being as love of country, it is difficult to imagine that Michelle Obama would
publicly twice make such a statement suggesting disdain for America unless she
felt it comported with her husbands views.
Equally important, her statement aligns perfectly with the hate-America views
of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obamas minister, friend, and sounding
board for more than two decades. On the Sunday following 9/11, Wright
characterized the terrorist attacks as a consequence of violent American
policies. Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks were retribution
for Americas racism.
In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01, Wright
wrote in his church magazine Trumpet. White America and the Western world came
to realize that people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or
just disappeared as the Great White West kept on its merry way of ignoring
black concerns.
Wright has been a key supporter of Louis Farrakhan, and in December, honored
the Nation of Islam leader for lifetime achievement, saying he truly
epitomize[s] greatness.
Farrakhan has repeatedly made hate-filled statements targeting Jews, whites,
America, and homosexuals.
Those who think two of the closest people to Obama could publicly make
anti-America statements unless Obama himself felt that way, are fooling
themselves. To date, Obama has proven himself to be nothing more than a great
orator, rendering the statements of those around him even more important in
illuminating his true character and agenda. During his Senate career, he
skipped 17 percent of the votes and sponsored only one bill that became law.
That bill was to promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic
Republic of Congo.
Bereft of official accomplishments, Obama has distinguished himself mainly by
being against measures that protect American security, such as finishing the
mission in Iraq. If we were to leave Iraq quickly, as Obama vows he would do,
it would become a launch pad for al-Qaida attacks on the U.S.
Obama avoided voting on extending the Protect America Act, thus putting
America at risk when immediate interception of terrorist communications is
required. Last August, Obama voted against a measure that would have allowed
the U.S. to continue to monitor overseas conversations of terrorists like Osama
bin Laden without first obtaining a warrant.
If his radical vote had prevailed, bin Laden would have been given the same
rights as Americans.
To this day, Obama has not distanced himself from most of Rev. Wrights
comments. In a statement supposedly issued to address the matter, Obama ignored
the point that his minister and friend had spoken adoringly of Farrakhan and
that Wrights church was behind the award to the Nation of Islam leader.
Instead, as outlined in a Jan. 17 Newsmax article, he disingenuously claimed he
thought the magazine bestowed the award on Farrakhan for his efforts to
rehabilitate ex-prisoners.
Neither Wrights encomiums about Farrakhan nor the Trumpet article mentions
ex-prisoners.
Similarly, after John McCains wife Cindy responded to Michelle Obamas
remarks by telling a Wisconsin rally, I have, and always will be, proud of my
country, Barack Obama told a radio interviewer that his wife did not say what
people think she said. He then proceeded to rewrite her comments, claiming that
she had meant she was encouraged by the large numbers of people who have
gotten involved in the political process. Michelle Obama then made a similar
revision of her remarks.
In her speech in Milwaukee, Michelle Obama said flatly, For the first time
in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country, and not just because
Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change.
And what has been wrong with America up to now? That it gave Michelle the
opportunity to attend Princeton and Harvard Law School? That it gave Barack
Obama the chance to attend Columbia University and Harvard Law School and
become a U.S. senator making more than $1 million a year from book royalties?
Was it that America stopped Nazi Germany from continuing to murder millions
of Jews? That America has provided Africa and other countries with $15 billion
to combat the spread of AIDS/HIV and that another $30 billion is on the way?
That 46 percent of all Americans classified by the Census Bureau as poor own
their own homes, 76 percent of them have air conditioning, and 75 percent of
them have at least one car? Or that America allows us to express our views
freely without fear of being put in jail, as is the case in Russia?
A lawyer, Michelle Obama is perfectly capable of expressing herself
precisely. In fact, she spoke from a written speech.
Those who do not want to believe she meant what she said and that Barack
Obama could not be so close to Rev. Wright if he did not himself believe in
much of what he has said are in denial.
The real Barack Obama is starting to emerge, and for those of us who are
grateful to America for everything it represents, it is not a pretty sight.
Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com.
© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
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