The Real Obama

Critics of Senator Barack Obama make a strategic mistake when they
talk about his "past associations." That just gives his many defenders
in the media an opportunity to counter-attack against "guilt by
association."

We all have associations, whether at the office, in our neighborhood
or in various recreational activities. Most of us neither know nor
care what our associates believe or say about politics.

Associations are very different from alliances. Allies are not just
people who happen to be where you are or who happen to be doing the
same things you do. You choose allies deliberately for a reason. The
kind of allies you choose says something about you.

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.

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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNypbpjbfB4

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.

http://www.tsowell.com

http://townhall.com/columnists/Thoma...the_real_obama
__________________________________________________ ____________
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/

At Last The Real Barack "H" Obama Is Being Revealed !