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Most non-Americans -except perhaps the Cubans both in Cuba and in
Miami—are somewhat anti- American.
They like to have Mr. Obama in the White House,
an American politician who fed his spirit for decades at the feet of
an American pastor, Jeremiah Wright, whose angry preaching includes
“God damn America” to foil “God bless America.”
Mr. Obama must share Mrs. Michelle Obama’s
feelings about America. She said, of the euphoric moment when her
husband won the nomination of the Democratic Party, that it was the
only time in her life she ever became proud of being an American.
For all the Obama campaign’s denials of Mr.
William Ayers’ influence on Mr. Obama, the truth cannot be swept
under the rug that he does share Mr. Ayers’ ideas of how America
must become, which they pushed in Illinois schools and developmental
forums for children’s welfare and education. They are both
pro-abortion.
Thomas Sowell, the Black scholar, economist and
conservative columnist, has written in his syndicated columns about
“The Real Obama” (I got the following paragraphs from the Jewish
World Review).
Real alliance
not just association
“Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger,
William Ayers and Antoin Rezko are not just people who happened to
be at the same place at the same time as Barack Obama. They are
people with whom he chose to ally himself for years, and with some
of whom some serious money changed hands,” Sowell writes.
“Some gave political support, and some gave
financial support, to Obama’s election campaigns, and Obama in
turn contributed either his own money or the taxpayers’ money to
some of them. That is a familiar political alliance—but an
alliance is not just an “association” from being at the same
place at the same time.
“Obama could have allied himself with all
sorts of other people. But, time and again, he allied himself with
people who openly expressed their hatred of America. No amount of
flags on his campaign platforms this election year can change that.
“Unfortunately, all that most people know
about Barack Obama is his own rhetoric and that of his critics.
Moreover, some of his more irresponsible critics have made wild
accusations— that he is not an American citizen or that he is a
Muslim, for example.
“All that such false charges do is discredit
Obama’s critics in general. Fortunately, there is a documented,
factual account of what Barack Obama has actually been doing over
the years, as distinguished from what he has been saying during this
election campaign, in a new best-selling book.
“That book is titled The Case Against Barack
Obama by David Freddoso. He starts off in the introduction by
repudiating those critics of Obama who ‘have been content merely
to slander him— to claim falsely that he refuses to salute the
U.S. flag or was sworn into office on a Koran, or that he was born
in a foreign country.’
“This is a serious book with 35 pages of
documentation in the back to support the things said in the main
text. In other words, if you don’t believe what the author says,
he lets you know where you can go check it out.
“Barack Obama’s being the first serious
black candidate for President of the United States is what most
people consider remarkable but how he got there is at least equally
surprising.
“The story of Obama’s political career is
not a pretty story. He won his first political victory by being the
only candidate on the ballot—after hiring someone skilled at
disqualifying the signers of opposing candidates’ petitions, on
whatever technicality he could come up with.
“Despite his words today about ‘change’
and ‘cleaning up the mess in Washington,’ Obama was not on the
side of reformers who were trying to change the status quo of
corrupt, machine politics in Chicago and clean up the mess there.
Obama came out in favor of the Daley machine and against reform
candidates.
“Senator Obama is running on an image that is
directly the opposite of what he has been doing for two decades. His
escapes from his past have been as remarkable as the great escapes
of Houdini.
“Why much of the public and the media have
been so mesmerized by the words and the image of Obama, and so
little interested in learning about the factual reality, was perhaps
best explained by an official of the Democratic Party: ‘People
don’t come to Obama for what he’s done, they come because of
what they hope he can be.’ David Freddoso’s book should be read
by those people who want to know what the facts are. But neither
this book nor anything else is likely to change the minds of
Obama’s true believers, who have made up their minds and don’t
want to be confused by the facts.
“Mr. Obama, it also cannot be denied, is all
for teaching sex education to kindergarten kids.”
Opposed US military, economic hegemony
Like Ayers and other American leftwingers, Mr.
Obama has opposed the use of American military, economic and
political hegemony.
Non-Americans view him as someone who will not
devote himself to projecting America as a powerful country with the
correct ideology for mankind.
And that is why they like him so much.
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