Posted by
InchDeep on Saturday, May 24, 2008 3:26:10 AM
As
Senator Barak Hussein Obama forges ahead to the Democrat nomination for
the Presidency, it is about time that the mainstream media do what it
is paid to do – investigate and report. The media has coddled him with
84% positive stories, according to FOX News. So, little has been
revealed about this Pied Piper of Illinois except that the most liberal
senator in Congress wants to surrender in Iraq and penalize America’s
most successful citizens.
What
has leaked out about the president wannabe, who does a fine political
two-step around difficult questions, is that his calling for “change”
appears to be no different than the change promised by his liberal and
socialist predecessors. Obama is also offering something for everyone;
among his largess are free education and universal healthcare. And he
will pay for the giveaways with the same scheme others in his party
have – taxes.
Senator
Obama reassures his constituents that he will only take from the rich
and give to the poor, a canard reminiscent of communist founding father
Karl Marx who exhorted, “from each according to his abilities, to each
according to his need.” And Obama’s scheme will play out as it has
always played out in history when the government penalizes the most
productive workers and businesses: When incentives are eliminated, the
desire to invest, invent, create and produce disappears. Just look at
Western Europe! Remember the Soviet empire?
In
addition to his political agenda, Obama’s personal life needs to be
scrutinized, especially his relationship with the former terrorist
Weather Underground leader, William Ayers, and indicted real estate
businessman Antoin “Tony” Rezko.
Also,
one must ask why Obama, desiring to be the next Commander-in-Chief,
refuses to wear an American flag pin in his jacket lapel. What is it
about the flag that represents a country conceived in liberty, that so
many Americans died to preserve, that troubles Obama?
With
all eyes watching candidate Obama, the senator, says he has other ways
of demonstrating his patriotism. There’s his two-step.
Very
troubling too is the church he attends in his hometown of Chicago, the
Trinity United Church of Christ. Known for an Afro-centric separatist
agenda, its pastor Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. recently gave a lifetime
achievement award to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Rev.
Wright said Farrakhan “truly epitomized greatness” and was a man of
“integrity and honesty.” Hearing such platitudes from his friend was
probably not much of a surprise for Farrakhan. After all, they traveled
together to Libya in 1984 to visit with an enemy of America, Libyan
potentate Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
Rev.
Wright, who espouses the “Black Value System” and preaches black
separatism, speaks of “white arrogance” and “the United States of White
America.” The reverend has equated Zionism with racism. Concerning
Jews, he said that when they discover his personal relationship with
Obama, Jewish support for Presidential candidate Obama “will dry up
quicker than a snowball in hell.”
Rev.
Wright is the pastor who Senator Obama admires and respects. This is
the pastor who married Barak and Michelle Robinson. This is the pastor
who baptized their two children. This is the pastor the Obamas listen
to at Sunday services. Rev. Jeremiah Wright is the pastor the Obamas
have yet to denounce.
A
glimpse into Michelle Obama also suggests visceral conflict with her
country. The aspiring first lady recently admitted, “For the first time
in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just
because Barak has done well, but because I think people are hungry for
change.”
It
wasn’t a slip of the tongue either because Mrs. Obama made the comment
on at least two occasions. Perhaps her lack of pride in her country
goes back to her Princeton days when she wrote in her senior thesis
about “a white oppressor” in America, who incidentally gave her and her
husband the opportunities to attend Ivy League universities.
In
Mrs. Obama’s 25 years of a charmed adulthood, the following are
highlights of an America she is not proud of: American power in
destroying the Soviet Union and the collapse of the Berlin Wall that
resulted in freedom for millions of Russians and Eastern Europeans;
American innovation in health care that is the envy of the world;
American ingenuity in shooting a ship into space and bringing it back
jet-like to earth onto a runway; American initiative to lead the world
in technology, business and entertainment; unequalled American charity
to the Third World.
When
it comes to the successes of her “brothers and sisters,” is she not
even proud of a tolerant America that gave racial hustler Al Sharpton
the opportunity to become a power broker and media celebrity?
Or
Colin Powell the freedom to rise from modest means to become the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Or Clarence Thomas the liberty
to elevate himself from poverty to become a justice on the United
States Supreme Court? Or Condoleezza Rice the chance to become
America’s first black Secretary of State and Oprah Winfrey one of the
richest women in America?
Doesn’t
Mrs. Obama have some pride in a Congress that enacted civil rights
laws, or admiration for a country in which blacks have been elected
senators, governors and mayors, and appointed police and fire
commissioners, prosecutors, judges, federal, state and local officials?
Is
she not grateful for taxpayer funded entitlements and affirmative
action, which incidentally was abundantly applied during the years
Michelle was studying at Princeton and Harvard Law?
It
is understandable that Mrs. Obama is proud of her husband who is in the
midst of a meteoric rise to political stardom. And, she is not alone.
Nicaraguan
President Daniel Ortega, who a couple of decades ago led a Soviet
backed revolution against the U.S. supported Contras, is also impressed
with Senator Obama.
“They
are laying the foundations for a revolutionary change,” said the
Sandinista Ortega about Obama’s supporters. Louis Farrakhan is proud
too. Farrakhan endorsed Obama insisting that he will help Barak get
elected. “If avoiding me would help him to become president, I’d be
glad to stay in the background,” Farrakhan told ABC News.
With
Jesse Jackson aboard the Obama train as well, Al Sharpton won’t be far
behind. And Rev. Wright will do his share too. He told The New York
Times according to Newsmax.com: “If Barak gets past the primary, he
might have to publicly distance himself from me. I said it to Barak
personally, and he said ‘yeah, that might have to happen.’
In
view of Obama’s type of supporters, how do you think enemies of America
like Iran’s Ahmadinejad, Venezuela’s Chavez and Al Qaeda feel about a
President Obama? You think they’re not hoping for the “change” in
America as well?
It
matters little to Democrats that Senator Obama’s experience is so
limited for America’s most important job. They couldn’t care the least
bit about the warning from political consultant, author and writer Dick
Morris who said that Senator Obama doesn’t even know where the men’s
room is in the Senate.
Regardless
of his inexperience, the candidate’s excited constituents have bought
into an enlightened change – the Obamas will be the first “black”
family in the White House and that will go a long way to make up for
slavery and Jim Crow.
Warning:
Before Democrats decide whether to actually place this empty suit in
the Oval Office during these very dangerous times, the bolts of his
suit of armor must be removed and what is beneath the suit revealed.
For if the Obamas are not exposed, America could pay a heck of a price just to allay the irrational guilts of Obama’s followers.