Posted by
Randy on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:47:17 PM
Barack Obama (the man who would-be President), if he were to apply to join the Secret Service or the FBI or to even have Top Secret security clearance (without being elected to an office requiring it) would likely fail the background check. Here are some major red flags that would be very difficult to surmount:
1. His association with terrorist William Ayers, who bombed various federal government buildings, and whose group bombed the Capitol.
2. His business dealings with convicted felon Tony Rezko. Rezko was a major fundraiser for Obama and got him a sweetheart deal on Obama's $1M+ home ($300,000 below asking price) and then bought and sold him the adjoining lot under market value. Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska was just convicted of corruption for using his political office to receive undervalued improvements to his home from a constituent.
3. Obama's admitted heavy drug use, including cocaine, would be another major red flag in his character background check.
4. His relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Obama described Wright as an important mentor in his life (a spiritual adviser), said he could no more disown him than a member of his own family. Obama even honored Wright by titling his autobiography, The Audacity of Hope from a title of one of Wright's sermons. In Obama's speech in Philadelphia this past spring defending this relationship, Obama said that Wright married he and Michelle, baptized their children and led him to faith. The Obamas attended Wright's church for twenty years and contributed thousands of dollars to it during that time. Until this past spring, Wright was one of the Obama campaign's spiritual advisers. Clearly a very important person in Obama's life.
As a reminder in case any have forgotten since this past spring.
a. Wright called on God to d--- America.
b. Said the Federal government introduced AIDS and drugs into black communities in order to bring about their demise.
c. Said immediately following 9-11 that America's chickens had come home to roost--it was our just due in light of the United States dropping the bomb on Hiroshima and other injustices throughout our history including our ongoing oppression of black people.
d. Wright honored Louis Farrakhan, leader in the Nation of Islam, last December at Trinity Unity Church calling him the "epitome of greatness." Farrakhan has openly preached hatred of Jewish and white people and America generally.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/14/AR2008011402083.html
http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/obama_wright_farrakhan/2008/01/14/64332.html
Weeks after saying he could not disown Wright, Obama in fact did so--that is when his poll numbers began to flag and Hillary started picking up primary victories. So much for loyalty. Wright said nothing more radical in those weeks than he had come to the public's attention prior to Obama disowning him.
If Obama could somehow manage to surmount all the other red flags, this relationship with Wright would be a deal breaker for anyone conducting his background check for joining the Secret Service or FBI or any other position of high trust and great responsibility within our nation's government. Certainly anyone with such a strong connection to a rascist like Wright (or a white supremacist putting the shoe on the other foot) would not be qualified to serve in a position where one must respect all Americans regardless of their color.
One can even look to comments made by Obama's own wife, Michelle, and find that anti-American strain in them. During this past year, she said that America is "downright mean" and also proclaimed for the first time in her adult life she was "proud of her country" when Obama started winning primaries this past winter. She's the one who first took Barack to Wright's church and since college days, over twenty years ago, is on record stating that black people will always be outsiders in the United States.
You can tell a lot about the friends one chooses to keep. Ayers, Wright, his own wife have one thing in common: strongly held and openly stated anti-American sentiments. Someone who would surround himself with people who hold these views hardly seems like someone who should be given the trust of representing all Americans' interests. Someone who could not likely pass the security background check to join the Secret Service or the FBI should not be given the keys to the White House.
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Randy DeSoto is the author of the book We Hold These Truths, which addresses how leaders have appealed to beliefs found in the Declaration of Independence throughout our nation's history.