The issue that concerns me is the comfort that Sen. Obama has with some very extremist worldviews.
He has a comfort with Frank Marshall Davis’ worldview, to the extent that he held the man in high esteem. In isolation, that’s not determinative, but in combination with other factors begins to paint a picture.
He has a comfort with Jeremiah Wright’s worldview, to the extent that he held the man in high esteem. This is quite disturbing. The embrace that Sen. Obama wrapped around Jeremiah Wright was not fleeting or casual. I would not embrace David Duke, and would view anyone who did with a jaundiced eye. I find Jeremiah Wright’s worldview as disgraceful and repulsive as David Duke’s.
He appears to have had a comfort with Rashid Khalidi, Ali Abunimah, Edward Said worldview, to the extent that he held these men in high esteem. That is quite disturbing. I am a staunch defender of Israel as an ally and believe she is constantly picked on by a combination of leftists, Islamo-fascists, and Farrakhan/Wright types who slander her repeatedly.
He seems quite comfortable with the Nation of Islam, to the extent that he utilizes members of that group in his highest staff postions. This is not suspect in the South Side of Chicago, but it does give any rational person pause…when the similarities between Wright and Farrakhan are examined more closely.
He seems quite comfortable with the extreme radical worldview of Ayers and Dorhn and their ilk. I’m sorry, but there is a point where traditional liberalism ends and anarchy begins. I consider Ayers and Dorhn treasonous, seditious, and they are no more my countrymen than Osama Bin Laden. Their worldview is one intending to bring down this government and I have absolutely no use for their extremist goals.
Let’s not be coy or disingenuous. Sen. Obama has been extremely cozy and comfortable surrounded by some of the most virulent anti-America and anti-Israel voices that exist.
He has embraced the holders of worldviews which are antithetical to what is normally considered within the bounds of patriotic discourse and within the range of reason and rational thought.
When you combine that with the small things that send up a signal flare (discomfort with a flag lapel pin, accusing middle America of “clinging” to religion, Michelle’s description of America as angry, mean, slothful, the request to abandon corporate America et al)…the picture that is painted is one of someone who is closer to Michael Moore than to John F. Kennedy.
Moore lacks charm and charisma and is basically a slob who is willing to put his lies on screen. Sen. Obama is a gifted orator who hides his embrace of extremism behind the shroud of pedantic smugness. He is “above” all these “distractions”.
Well, I’m sorry…but, if he is not willing to confront his own leanings and embraces…then he simply is someone who wishes to run on personality, not principle. And that is fine in high school, but not for the the most powerful position in the world.
