Roger, my apologies for the brief religious response…but Amen, Amen, Amen.
My concerns with Sen. Obama are not centered around some fleeting, accidental, sporadic and distant contacts with protest groups of a distant past. My concerns are centered around a consistent and undeniable pattern of seeking, finding and attaching himself to the most virulent, hostile, and rabid anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-white persons and groups that he can locate.
His involvement with Ayers and Dorhn would bother me less, as a stand-alone proposition. His tutelage by “Frank” the CPUSA member could be brushed away, if it did not seem to blaze a trail ahead of it. His quest for attachment to his most radical professors could have been the mere inquisitiveness of a youthful mind and spirit. His passion for curing the torment of needing to make a connection with his socialist and very absent father beyond the grave would be sad, yet understandable.
His need for street credibility in the black community and his desire for a strong male “mentoring” figure in his life could have explained his attraction to Marxist/Farrakhan disciple Jeremiah Wright. And the spin-off associations with Rev. Meeks, Rev. Moss, Father Pfleger and the Nation of Islam members themselves.
The concern arises not from Sen. Obama dabbling in any of these relationships, fleeting and inquisitive. It arises from his unwillingness and inability to separate from them. Moreover, the signs and signals that they have taken root are subtle and often shrouded behind pretty words and lofty speeches. The flag pin is a discomfort to him, because it signals an attachment to America, Americana, a “type” of patriotism which would disappoint the very long string of hostile, angry, anti-America mentors, father-figures real and imagined and brethren whose approval is mother’s milk to Sen. Obama.
Sen. Obama has practiced duplicity when dealing with his discomfort with “typical white people” since he was a boy…or so he says. They respond to polite and articulate demeanor and flowery words. But he finds it hard to put his hand over his heart for our Pledge of Allegiance. This is simply not “on message” in the coded world of Wright, Farrakhan, Dohrn, Ayers, Meeks, Moss, and “Frank”. It would be the ultimate “sellout”.
The other thing that Wright, Farrakhan, Meeks, Moss etc. have in common, is the strong antagonism toward Israel, Zionism…Jewish people in general.
Sen. Obama has tipped his hand early on his pathway toward Israel with his half-hearted “denouncing” of the words of Rev. Wright and the lionizing of Farrakhan. But even moreso with his team-building of Carter Castoffs Brzezinski, Malley, Lake and the whole Israel is to blame cast members, Power, McPeak etc. He, like Carter…wants to “engage” enemies of Israel and the US by way of loving embrace to them and a cold slap in the face to Israel.
Amen, Amen, Amen…Roger. It is not who we meet along the pathway of our lives that makes us who we are. It’s who we keep with us as we make our way forward and who we choose to leave behind.
