It's Obama's Character, Stupid

The American Thinker ^ | May 2, 2008 | Kyle-Anne Shiver

[devere]

I picked up a copy of Time magazine yesterday, in which a columnist declared that issues of "character" were a "distraction" in the Presidential race. Obama actually said the same thing in his North Carolina press conference, that the Reverend Wright affair has been a "distraction."

Isn't this what liberals usually say when their own characters come under public scrutiny?

What a heap of pure poppycock!

Character is the primary issue in every Presidential election.

Period.

And we, the voters, have an inalienable right to know the specifics, as much as can be discerned, of a candidate's character.

But don't take my word for that. Take John Adams' words on the matter:

The people "have a right, an indisputable, inalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge -- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."

Obama has blown his claim to integrity.

We, the people, now have indisputable evidence that Barack Obama lacks the integrity of character to be President.

To some, that might seem a bit extreme. However, writing as the mother of grown children, I have seen some pretty sorry excuses for incorrigible behavior, but I haven't witnessed many as morally repugnant as those offered by Barack Obama concerning his decades-long, close association with Jeremiah Wright.

The words, "morally repugnant," are strong and I use them carefully.

With Obama's Philadelphia-speech, hedging and squirming around specifics, and now with his final, "unequivocal," outright disowning of Jeremiah Wright this week, I have more evidence than I need to conclude that Barack Obama is either one of two things:

Behind Door #1: He is a reprehensible liar, who privately still believes, and has always believed, in the philosophy espoused by his long-time pastor, spiritual mentor and "uncle" figure, Jeremiah Wright,

[Liz]

And then there’s his political agenda. Here’s Obama’s giveaway of tax dollars:

The US Senate may vote any day on a stealth bill of what could amount to an $845 BILLION United Nations style global tax on American citizens. It’s called the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), and it is being sponsored by none other than Senator Barack Obama.

According to some conservative sources, this disastrous legislation could eventually force US taxpayers to fork over as much as 0.7% of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product — or $845,000,000,000.00 — on welfare to Third-World countries.

Obama’s dangerous bill (S. 2433), could come up in the Senate any day. Called the Global Poverty Act, it would commit US taxpayers to spend 0.7% of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign handouts.

Time is of the essence. Sen Joe Biden, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, just issued a report on the Global Poverty Act. It was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar on Thursday the 24th.

That means we have to act. This massive surrender of our hard-earned tax dollars to the Third World may be close to a vote.

[Miss Didi]

Wow...the Friends just interviewed Repub NYC Councilman John Murtagh whose family was targeted by Bill Ayres when he was a kid. Obama says Ayres means nothing because he was only eight—well, this guy was only nine when Ayres tried to blow up his house. He goes on to discuss Obama’s relationship with Ayres, Rezko and Wright and how character does matter. Brian tries to save Obama by bringing up the associations of the Clintons, but Steve will have none of it and says—well, Bill Ayres tried to kill him.

[AFPhys]

Either:

1) He sat in on 20 years of Wright’s sermons, while the pew warmers were WILDLY CLAPPING as “[God Da** America]” is spouted from the pulpit, AND BOLDLY LIED ABOUT NOT HEARING ANYTHING QUESTIONABLE.

OR

2) Obama could not discern in all the encounters he had with the church-attendees over 20 years of going to Trinity United that he was surrounded by black racists, even when mild rhetoric emanated from the pulpit.

#1 is now much more possible in my peon, unwashed masses eyes, since I noticed the ALL OUT AGREEMENT from the pews for the racism/bigotry from Wright in those video clips.

Obama may not be an America hating black racist, but he surrounds himself with that ilk.
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Somewhere, it seems you should have mentioned marrying his America-hating wife and sitting his kids in those pews.

This article is an excellent and devastating summary of SnObama’s lack of character.

[Joan Kerrey]

The people “have a right, an indisputable, inalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge — I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers.”
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Enough said.