Posted on 10/24/2008 8:56:18 PM PDT by jazusamo
Although Senator Barack Obama has been allied with a succession of far left individuals over the years, that is only half the story. There are, after all, some honest and decent people on the left. But these have not been the ones that Obama has been allied with— allied, not merely "associated" with.
ACORN is not just an organization on the left. In addition to the voter frauds that ACORN has been involved in over the years, it is an organization with a history of thuggery, including going to bankers' homes to harass them and their families, in order to force banks to lend to people with low credit ratings.
Nor was Barack Obama's relationship with ACORN just a matter of once being their attorney long ago. More recently, he has directed hundreds of thousands of dollars their way. Money talks— and what it says is more important than a politician's rhetoric in an election year.
Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger are not just people with left-wing opinions. They are reckless demagogues preaching hatred of the lowest sort— and both are recipients of money from Obama.
Bill Ayers is not just "an education professor" who has some left-wing views. He is a confessed and unrepentant terrorist, who more recently has put his message of resentment into the schools— an effort using money from a foundation that Obama headed.
Nor has the help all been one way. During the last debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, Senator McCain mentioned that Senator Obama's political campaign began in Bill Ayers' home. Obama immediately denied it and McCain had no real follow-up.
It was not this year's political campaign that Obama began in Bill Ayers' home but an earlier campaign for the Illinois state legislature. Barack Obama can match Bill Clinton in slickness at parsing words to evade accusations.
That is one way to get to the White House. But slickness with words is not going to help a president deal with either domestic economic crises or the looming dangers of a nuclear Iran.
People who think that talking points on this or that problem constitute "the real issues" that we should be talking about, instead of Obama's track record, ignore a very fundamental fact about representative government.
Representative government exists, in the first place, because we the voters cannot possibly have all the information necessary to make rational decisions on all the things that the government does. We cannot rule through polls or referendums. We must trust someone to represent us, especially as President of the United States.
Once we recognize this basic fact of representative government, then the question of how trustworthy a candidate is becomes a more urgent question than any of the so-called "real issues."
A candidate who spends two decades promoting polarization and then runs as a healer and uniter, rather than a divider, forfeits all trust by that fact alone.
If Ronald Reagan had attempted to run for President of the United States as a liberal, the media would have been all over him. His support for Barry Goldwater would have been in the headlines and in editorial denunciations across the country.
No way would he have been able to get away with using soothing words to suggest that he and Barry Goldwater were like ships that passed in the night.
If Barack Obama had run as what he has always been, rather than as what he has never been, then we could simply cast our votes based on whether or not we agree with what he has always stood for.
Some people take solace from the fact that Senator Obama has verbally shifted position on some issues, like drilling for oil or gun control, since this is supposed to show that he is "pragmatic" rather than ideological.
But political zig-zags show no such moderation as some seem to assume. Lenin zig-zagged and so did Hitler. Zig-zags may show no more than that someone is playing the public for fools.
Some people who see the fraud in what Obama is saying are amazed that others do not. But Obama knows what con men have long known, that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe. He does that very well.
“there are, after all, some honest and decent people on the left.”
stopped reading right there.
haven’t met too many people on the left who are “honest and decent.” they’re invariabley hard-core haters, filled with contempt for those of us who are knuckle-dragging, bible-loving, gun-embracing morons. (donthca know the left is superior in intelligence, reasoning, and compassion, who love to call other people morons and nazis?
the lot of them can go to blazes.)
the time for communist/democrat bi-partisanship is done and the time to votes the da&nable punks out of office is past due.)
IMHO
Gene,
This is how a proper ping list is done. You don’t have to have the graphics, but they make it memorable. jazusamo does a fantastic job!
"People still speak as though the "associations" issue and the economic issue are two different things. They’re not. ACORN wants to spread Joe’s wealth around. So does Bill Ayers. That’s why Obama worked with both ACORN and Ayers. Someone needs to explain all this to Joe."
One more thing, Dr. Sowell nailed another important point. The word "associations" implies a far less significant connection to radicalism than has existed. The operative word should be "alliances." An "alliance" cannot be so easily dismissed as being, "just a guy in my neighborhood." Follow the money and the political power that has accrued and will accrue to Obama through these "alliances," and people can more readily reach infomed conclusions about the link between his radical alliances and his answer to Joe.
Yes, that was an excellent point Dr. Sowell brought out about association vs alliance. Alliances are exactly what Obama had with Ayers, Wright and others of questionable integrity responsible for his political career.
Thank you, LakeLady. Your comment is much appreciated. :)
Dr. Sowell is so right. People that are willing to give up their right to speak freely are the ones that blindly follow talking points. They are told in one way or another no to worry; we will take care of you with not one explanation as to why they need to be taken care of except hate and false reasons.
If Obama is elected; I hope these people understand they will not be able to voice an opinion of their own at all. They will be subjected to same rules as everyone else. They may think they are on the inside; but they aren’t and it’s sad they may never understand the government doesn’t care who they are. Believe me, a person is a lot more special when they have the freedom to decide for themselves; not being forced into a way of life that they have no choice.
I wish that OReilly, Hannity and Rush would feature Dr Sowell during the Final Week of the election cycle so that the Truth will out!
Well said...I’m sure these people don’t realize they will trade their individuality only to become a member of the masses.
Yes, it would be a good thing. It was early this year that Dr. Sowell was on H&C and he was great.
You’re very welcome, however, I shouldn’t accept thanks for just telling the truth! ;^0)
Thank you. The MSM is all but dead now. They chose to compromise themselves and their careers and the truth.
They are learning the one hard truth. That they are expendable.
Totally agree with you. The average American is a backwards baseball hat wearing , TV zombie, more concerned with Dancing With the Stars then with what is going on in the world. We have an entire generation of super leftist brainwashed kids thanks to academia .Most folks don’t have a clue about history and most wouldn’t know facts if they bit them on the ass.It’s been a long time coming and now we have a radical black Marxist moving into the White House.Bad times ahead , kiss America good bye..
A year from now I think many will regret voting for Obama. He will win , no doubt at all.The ignorant masses have just f*cked themselves and they don’t even see it. BIG damage to our way of life is on the way.
This is so easy to constantly say when one knows that the guy will never run for office and especially after the way that the GOP undermined the candidacies of Herman Cain, Michael Steele, Keith A. Butler and Kenneth Blackwell for Senate seats and how little support Lynn Swan received for his bid for governor.
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