Too bad I could not find basketball shoes to replace the boots with :)
Posted on 10/10/2008 8:35:47 AM PDT by jazusamo
Here are a few suggestions for figuring out what is behind the mask that now disguises and distorts the real Barack Obama, who is in fact an ultraliberal, radical and extremist with a long line of dangerous associates and equally dangerous ideas and plans:
* Notice how the Obama spokesmen almost flip out when questioned about his friendship and long and close relationship with the unrepentant terrorist, William Ayers, who bragged about bombing the Pentagon, the Capitol and other public buildings, causing property damage and death. Their explosive reaction betrays the fact that the accusations are right on target, and that if the public understands Mr. Obama's propensity to associate with and help terrorists, racists, bigots and anti-Americans, it will kill his candidacy. This kind of fury from the Obama people is sparked by truthful accusations about dangerous and damning associations. To borrow and slightly amend a great sentence from H.L. Mencken, the situation is thus: False accusations are relatively easy to bear; what stings is truth!
* When confronted with his radical associates, you can almost predict the usual responses that have come forth in other cases, such as that of Rev. Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright. He wasn't aware of his anti-American raves and rants - even though he was a close associate and member of the church for 20 years. His denials were so ridiculous, they formed the basis of a superb comedy piece from Jackie Mason. Mr. Obama also claimed you can't judge someone by a few "snippets." No, Mr. Obama, some pictures and some snippets are worth a thousand words, and those snippets weren't taken out of context. This proves he not only associates with anti-American racists and bigots on a routine basis but also lies through his teeth when caught. As someone has suggested, if he didn't know what Rev. Wright was up to, he's the dumbest graduate of Harvard and Columbia in history. And you can say the same for the long list of his close and dangerous associates including Mr. Ayers, Father Pfleger, the felon Tony Rezko, and the others. If he knew what these people stood for, he's disqualified to be president because of the associations; if he didn't know, he's disqualified for stupidity.
* Do you really want to risk the future of the free world on someone who has not been vetted by the mainstream media, who routinely lies about his questionable associates and other matters, and who stonewalls when asked questions about such crucial facts relating to his character, his values, and his fitness to serve. He has a record of stonewalling on the long list of associates that should doom his candidacy. Remember his close association with convicted felon Tony Rezko. The Chicago papers were after him for many months and he refused to explain the relationship. He finally talked to a couple of Chicago newspapers, but the transaction is still smelly and raises questions about his judgment. The land transaction with Mr. Rezko suggests there was a payoff to Mr. Obama (a.k.a. bribe) for money Mr. Obama obtained for Mr. Rezko through appropriations. When finally confronted about Rev. Wright, he danced and double-talked from one position to the other. At first, he explained he was just like a strange uncle. He could no more denounce him than his own grandmother. (He finally suggested his grandmother was a bigot.) He wasn't there when he said such things. Even when he heard those "things," he still didn't denounce Rev. Wright, until Rev. Wright said Mr. Obama was behaving just like another politician. He yields to political expediency and will do anything to win.
* You should also note that there are many "blank spaces" in his resume and biography. For example, he doesn't talk about many of the questionable associations and activities in his life and has conveniently left them out of his two autobiographical books. If they weren't so damning, why has this great author so conveniently omitted so many questionable associations and activities from his book. And there are blanks in his timeline. For example, there is almost nothing known about his three years as an undergraduate at Columbia and his three years at Harvard Law School. When there are blanks and many blanks in a resume and biography, beware. It is obvious that the blanks are there because Mr. Obama knows the truth would put him in a bad light.
* The whole Obama picture is made murkier by his willingness to use Storm Trooper tactics to suppress information. He even encouraged prosecutors in Missouri to threaten criminal action against any critic who "lied" about his record. He organized a protest to flood and shout down some superb writers and critics of Mr. Obama that were to appear on Chicago radio station WGN to report on their findings. Those two critics are David Freddoso, author of The Case Against Obama, a piece of must reading before the election, and Stanley Kurtz, who investigated how Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama teamed up for years to finance organizations dedicated to radicalizing students. If you know what kind of education Mr. Ayers favors, remember he is the educator who went to Venezuela to pay homage to the dictator and anti-American Hugo Chavez and his educational methods (also known as totalitarian indoctrination worthy of the Hitler Youth Corps).
* Beware of politicians who don't seem to be able to respond to criticism or do so untruthfully. Consider some of the things Mr. Obama has said about Mr. Ayers. He's just a guy in the neighborhood. No, Mr. Ayers had a long and close association with Mr. Obama and one to no good end. They worked together on a project that sent tens of millions of dollars into leftist organizations to finance the radicalization of students (a la Mr. Ayers and a la Mr. Chavez). They sat on boards together and gave speeches from the same platform. Mr. Obama launched his political career in Mr. Ayers's home. But Mr. Obama tried to lie out of it as if the two were just distant ships passing in the night. Mr. Obama said he was just a guy in the neighborhood. That has to be characterized as the greatest lie since "the check is in the mail." He said their kids went to school together. That suggested another passing association and is an attempt to fabricate. He also claimed he didn't know of Mr. Ayers' radical background. This is the equivalent of I didn't know the anti-American views of Rev. Wright after 20 years of close collaboration. Here's a guy who is supposed to be a well-informed politician and he never seems to know anything about his associates and collaborators.
* Finally, beware of a candidate who is so self-centered and arrogant that he assumes he's the next president. Notice his comments during the debate and during speeches. It's not "if" I am elected president," but it is "When I'm president." He already has announced plans for a basketball court instead of a bowling alley in the White House, and I suspect he's already writing his inaugural speech. I might add he's the candidate that devised his own version of the presidential seal for placement on the podium before him. He is so hungry for power that he can't wait for the election. He is a man of boundless ambition, but without core principles.
Here's an example of how Mr. Obama reveals his pathetic inability to do anything but give speeches and the like. During the debate, Sen. John McCain indicated how he had fought for legislation to subject Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to tough regulation. If enacted, what Mr. McCain backed could have prevented the current financial crisis. The needed reforms were opposed by the Democrats, and in his usual stance, Mr. Obama was on the sidelines. He didn't even have a pretty speech.
Then Mr. Obama was asked what he had done and would do. He said, "We've got a subprime lending crisis that had to be dealt with." Then he said that years ago he sounded a warning: "I wrote to Secretary Paulson, I wrote to Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and told them this is something we have to deal with, and nobody did anything about it."
Why didn't Mr. Obama do something about it by introducing legislation and getting regulatory reforms on the books? Instead, he passed the buck and wrote two letters. Anyone could write letters. He was elected to the Senate to identify problems and enact legislation to solve those problems. But Mr. Obama must have been too busy giving his pretty speeches so he did nothing. He wrote two letters, and waited for Secretary Henry Paulson and Chairman Ben Bernanke to act. He assumed no responsibility and took no initiative.
I haven't heard anyone comment on it, but Mr. Obama revealed in this brief answer why in his career he has never accomplished anything of note. He gives speeches and writes letter. Then he leaves the problem for someone else to solve. This is reminiscent of his behavior during the Congressional battle over bailout legislation. He said, "If you need me call; I've got a telephone." This is also reminiscent of his voting record in the Illinois legislature, where he voted present 130 times. That's a vote that is neither yes or no, but is "I'm sitting on the fence, and don't want to take a stand. Yes, I'm a political wimp." As Rudy Giuliani so well pointed out, in the White House there is no such thing as a present vote.
One more example. Mr. Obama ran for the U.S. Senate on the platform of a tax cut for the middle class. But when he got to the Senate he never bothered to introduce a bill to get a middle class tax cut into law. He thinks giving a speech is enough to bring about the "change" and "hope" and "new politics" he advocates. That's why it is clear he is all hat and not cattle. He is an empty suit. He is an eloquent windbag.
He gives speeches, but he avoids specifics. In two debates, he was asked in view of the spending problems created by the bailout, what programs would he cut. In the first debate, he named none, and actually went into a list of programs he marks for higher spending. In the second debate, he again named no program, but made some sort of comment about going over the budget line by line. He is a politician of glittering generalities but when it comes to specifics the lights go out.
At a time of unprecedented crises on both the foreign and domestic front, we can't take a chance on Mr. Obama. He has demonstrated bad judgment but no accomplishments. He is mired in associations with terrorists, bigots, racists and anti-Americans. He seems to have no principles and he soon abandons any he might have when expedient to do so. An examination of his record indicates he could only bring disaster to the nation and the free world.
Herb Denenberg is a former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commissioner, and professor at the Wharton School. He is a longtime Philadelphia journalist and consumer advocate. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of the Sciences. His column appears daily in The Bulletin. You can reach him at advocate@ thebulletin.us.
great points
“He thinks giving a speech is enough to bring about the “change” and “hope” and “new politics” he advocates. That’s why it is clear he is all hat and not cattle. He is an empty suit. He is an eloquent windbag. “
“Yes he is, Yes he is”
I'm not convinced he even did that much. I haven't seen the letters yet.
Good one, gotta pass this along.
Good job on that and scary. :) This turkey has got to be sent packing!
"VOTE AGAINST THE LAWYERS" (oBAMBI and Biden)
Nor am I convinced. If true he has to have copies and he hasn’t produced them but for all the other lies he’s told and got away with I doubt he’ll be questioned on it.
bttt
Excellent article....pinging others.
If he had letters, we would be seeing them 24/7 on the news!
Don’t forget the contract Obama signed with the socialist New Party and the praise he got from the Democratic Socialits of America for his speech at their economic forum.
BTTT
What are they hiding? Is he a Manchurian Candidate?
Bump for a later read, thanks!
Rush just played excerpts of Dreams of My Father, read by Obama, and said it doesn’t sound like the way Obama speaks at all.
Rush says it sounds EXACTLY the way Ayers writes.
Gave me chills. Ayers as Obama’s ghost writer. Wow.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html
Ayers and Obama have a good deal in common. In the way of background, both grew up in comfortable white households and have struggled to find an identity as righteous black men ever since. Just as Obama resisted “the pure and heady breeze of privilege” to which he was exposed as a child, Ayers too resisted “white skin privilege” or at least tried to.
“I also thought I was black,” says Ayers only half-jokingly. As proof of his righteousness, Ayers named his first son “Malik” after the newly Islamic Malcolm X and the second son “Zayd” after Zayd Shakur, a Black Panther killed in a shootout that claimed the life of a New Jersey State Trooper.
Tellingly, Ayers, like Obama, began his career as a self-described “community organizer,” Ayers in inner-city Cleveland, Obama in inner-city Chicago. In short, Ayers was fully capable of crawling inside Obama’s head and relating in superior prose what the Dreams’ author calls a “rage at the white world [that] needed no object.”
Indeed, in Dreams, it is on the subject of black rage that Obama writes most eloquently. Phrases like “full of inarticulate resentments,” “unruly maleness,” “unadorned insistence on respect” and “withdrawal into a smaller and smaller coil of rage” lace the book.
In Fugitive Days, “rage” rules and in high style as well. Ayers tells of how his “rage got started” and how it evolved into an “uncontrollable rage — fierce frenzy of fire and lava.” Indeed, the Weathermen’s inaugural act of mass violence was the “Days of Rage” in 1969 Chicago.
As in Chicago, that rage led Ayers to a sentiment with which Obama was altogether familiar, “audacity!” Ayers writes, “I felt the warrior rising up inside of me — audacity and courage, righteousness, of course, and more audacity.” This is one of several references.
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