Is Obama a risky guy? Two books can help decide
by Bob Hoig, Publisher
Midlands Business Journal
The pundits and, we suspect, the public are picking up on those increasingly irritating pre-emptive strikes Barack Obama keeps making to the effect someone is saying or implying he doesn’t look like everybody on the currency or that he is black.
Are his opponents playing the race card? Is he playing he race card?
Interesting, but not nearly as compelling as the phrase he usually uses for his lead-in, namely, that opponents are painting him as a “risky guy.”
Two well researched and heavily sourced new books go far in separating Obama fact from fiction and filling in the details of his background, his associations and his goals as told in his words or shown on videos.
They are “Obama Nation” by Dr. Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D., and “The Case Against Barack Obama” by David Freddoso. With their pointers to sources, Web sites and YouTube movies, the book will be indispensable for voters who want to make an informed decision on a candidate for the highest office about whom so many still know little.
Obama has no record of achievement on any legislation he has passed after three years in the U.S. Senate. He has a lot of ideas, some contradictory, some just evolving; many proposals, but none that he has ever translated into laws.
Beyond that, there seems to be plenty of nothing covered by slogans about hope, change, “We’re what we’ve been waiting for” and so on.
“Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are” – so goes the proverb.
Obama’s friends have included Tony Rezko, a Middle East native and money man for the same Chicago machine that nurtured Obama; the Reverends Wright, Pfleger and Farrakhan, a threesome who, as described in “Obama Nation,” seem to share a common hatred for America; and William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, husband and wife terror bombers of the old Weather Underground faction.
Obama’s own career lineage springs from the radical leftist Saul Alinsky, famed as the father of community organizing who claimed the wily schemer Machiavelli as his spiritual mentor.
Obama and the 57 states
Barack Obama is making slips that lead to nervousness in some quarters about his knowledge of America.
Yes, this writer knows Dan Quayle misspelled “potato” and that John McCain mixed up a Sunni-Shiite question on a Middle East tour.
But consider Obama.
He referred publicly to the “57” United States. That’s really odd. Why 57, and what American student at any level, to say nothing of a Harvard University law graduate, would ever blunder onto that particular number?
Then, campaigning last Memorial Day, Obama paused in mid-speech, apparently thinking to shine up the military a bit, to note that he observed in the audience several of the service men and women being honored by the holiday.
Memorial Day, the last Monday in May. Veterans Day, Nov. 11. Does he understand the difference?
Another time, Obama referred to future meetings with foreign leaders he expects to be dealing with “over the next eight to 10 years.”
Can a presumptive presidential nominee, who also happens to have been editor of the Harvard Law Review, really not know that American presidents are limited to two four-year terms?
Most famously, he plugged his plan to meet with foreign despots without pre-conditions by citing the alleged success of President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 meeting in Vienna with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Kennedy himself accurately diagnosed that summit as a disaster. Khrushchev had immediately tagged Kennedy as a lightweight and within months the Berlin Wall was going up.
Soon afterward, Khrushchev dispatched Soviet missiles by sea toward Cuba. They were turned back, but only after an international crisis that had people around the world worried that nuclear war would break out.
I’m not suggesting Obama is a “Manchurian Candidate” or anything of the sort, but what gives?
In any town hall style debate, McCain might put Obama down for the count simply by saying, “Senator Obama, I would like you to answer 10 simple questions I have here for you on the subject of American history.”
August 2008
