Posted By: Roger Fulton, YUMA  on Friday, June 06, 2008

Mr. Obama is now the frontrunner against McCain, and its time America takes a closer and deeper look at Obama. Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy, and Obama is not.



He is the next George McGovern. And it's time people learned the facts.

Because the truth? Obama is the single most liberal senator in the  U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton. Never has a presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record.



Mondale promised a taxe hike and lost. McGovern promised military weakness, a1nd lost. Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he lost got creamed.



Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he's NOT behind in the polls. WHY? Because the press has painted him as if in a beauty pageant.  Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red and blue, to lead the United States of America.



Look at the defined strokes of who he is underneath this 'beauty.'

National security:- since the president's most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a 'nuke' nation armed with hot weapons. Then, meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and create another Holocaust; then North Korea's Kim Jong II, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists - something no president has ever done. Ever.



Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice, a greenhorn, who would put our national security at risk.



Economic policy: for all its faults, our health care system is the strongest in the world. And free trade agreements, created by Bill Clinton as well as Bush, we have made more goods more affordable so that even people of modest means can live a life that no one imagined a generation ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on 'the rich.' (do you know how many people make over $50,000 a year in our country? Not many)



How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes. His solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck. HOW MUCH DID YOU PAY FOR GAS LAST WEEK?



Finally, look at the social issues. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, 'All praise and glory to God!' but says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have 'hijacked' - hijacked - Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban - ban - on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San Francisco values, not Middle America valu es.



The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs. Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win if people don't start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches. His vision of 'bringing America together' means saying that those who disagree with his agenda for America are warmongers. Uniting the country means adopting his liberal agenda -or else!!



But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he is and - yes - they're talking about his race. Those should never be the factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama's radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton.



It's time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let's first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilizational war.

  

Admittedly, I hijacked alot of these comments from a black columnist on the "Sun" a newspaper back east. He was so eloquent, he expressed my views, with some of my own editing and additions, I sent it back to you.



Roger Fulton

Yuma

Posted By: Trixie  on Tuesday, June 24, 2008

What color is the Kool-Aid you are drinking?



Phoenix