That crack about “first impressions” is telling. McCain will seek to define Obama as a man of pretty words but a frightening far left agenda. He will be helped in this by his surrogates constantly alluding to the radicals that dot Obama’s past. Jeremiah Wright, Father Pfleger, William Ayers and others will become very familiar to Americans before election day. Whether these problematic associations will drag Obama down to defeat will depend on how well the candidate can close the obvious gap between what his radical friends say about America and his own soothing “post partisan” rhetoric.
What I fail to comprehend, is why it should be left to “surrogates constantly alluding to the radicals that DOT Obama’s past”. And why Sen. McCain has to “seek to define” Obama as having a “frightening far left agenda”.
Here is the narrative as I see it, having pieced together the slim pickings that the campaign has allowed to seep out from under its vice-like grip on Sen. Obama’s lifelong attraction to strident and venomous voices of hate for this country, for whites in general and for Jews in specific.
Sen. Obama was brought up in a family that was anything but traditional middle America. His mother held an antipathy toward virtually all traditional middle American values, she was unattached emotionally to organized religion, she was by all signs and signals…somewhere between a coffee house beatnik and a hippie, not falling neatly into either category.
She married a Kenyan whose ancestors were Arabic, he was a non-practicing Muslim. He had a strong attraction to Socialism, with a leaning toward Communism. He was an ardent opponent of capitalism and free market enterprise. He left Sen. Obama’s life early on, and from the title of books and excerpts therefrom, left a void that Sen. Obama sought to close for decades thereafter.
His mother remarried and for a period, Sen. Obama lived in Jakarta, where he enrolled as a Muslim and was taught the Koran.
At some point, he was sent back to live with his maternal grandparents in Hawaii and came across “Frank” Marshall Davis. A Communist Party USA member and a very strident voice against America, especially middle America, the American Dream. “Frank” told Sen. Obama before he was headed off to college to not get sucked into believing the American Dream, and to always remember “his people”.
Sen. Obama set off to college and began a mission to seek out and engage his most radical professors. With virtually all of his in loco parenti voices ringing leftist anti-America whisperings in his ear, those radical left voices must have felt most like home.
Sen. Obama wished to become a “community organizer” and met up with Saul Alinsky in Chicago. A strident voice yet again to mentor him and show him the ropes. But Alinsky’s style of organizing was missing an element of “spark” and Sen. Obama went in search of that spark. He found it in Jeremiah Wright…who, himself…was channeling Louis Farrakhan through the veil of James Cone’s Black Liberation Theology…and masked by a “Christian” front. That church is not about traditional Christian teachings or values. It hides the venom, bile and racism behind it. It is a Marxist inspired and black separationist rage against middle America, white America in general and Jews in specific.
There is not a dust mite’s worth of difference between what “Frank” Marshall Davis was whispering in the college bound ear of Sen. Obama and what Louis Farrakhan and his disciple Jeremiah Wright were screaming from the top of their lungs.
Before going to law school, Sen. Obama took an armful of Jeremiah Wright’s tapes with him to emulate, to study, to bathe himself in that worldview.
When he was in law school, and shortly thereafter…Sen. Obama did a summer internship at Sidley & Austin. This is where he met Michelle. Michelle is a hard core proponent of anti-middle class assimilation by blacks. She sees white Middle America as hostile, angry, mean, slothful, …and always has.
Also working for Sidley & Austin at the time…was Bernardine Dorhn. The wife of William Ayers.
When Sen. Obama returns to Chicago for good…he eventually becomes connected to Ayers and Dorhn through the Woods Foundation where they both sat on the board. But also, and less reported…through the Annenberg group which is spearheaded by Ayers…and for which Sen. Obama was hand picked.
The Ayers/Dorhn connection is not one of a “distant” and “infrequent” nothingness.
And there would not be a dust mite’s bit of difference between the anti-America, tear down the system, destroy capitalism by any means necessary hatred and bile for this country coming out of Ayers and Dorhn…than comes out of “Frank” Marshall Davis, Louis Farrakhan, Jeremiah Wright, Otis Moss, Rev. Meeks, or Father Pfleger. The chief blogger for Sen. Obama is Sam Graham-Felsen, an admirer of Chomsky. He has had two high ranking staffers from the Nation of Islam. This isn’t something that “surrogates” need to “allude to”. The objective media ought to be working through this in the open. Of course, objective media in this day and age is an oxymoron.
The added element to this continuing, lifelong, attraction to hatred of Middle America…is the one that contains an anti-Israel twist. The connections to the late Edward Said, Rashid Khalidi, Ali Abunimah, Tony Rezco…have been intentionally ignored by the “in the bag” media. The tingle they feel down their collective legs, is that streak of yellow leaking from their very weak spines.
The antipathy that Sen. Obama has shown for Israel is also very evident in the selection of his advisory staff on the Middle East. The Jimmy Carter redux is palpable. Brzezinski, Malley, McPeak, Power, Lake and the like have a pretty consistent narrative when it comes to Israel.
All anyone has to do is walk in the footprints that Sen. Obama has made his entire life and one doesn’t have to “allude” to anything. And it certainly shouldn’t be some “hidden agenda” with surrogate operatives talking about this.
I have ZERO interest in Socialism, but I am willing to listen to someone who wants to advocate it in the open. I think the argument against black assimilation is destructive and ill conceived. But, I am willing to listen to someone who wants to discuss it openly, without the racist tinged bile and blame game against all people with white skin.
The “first impressions” argument is right on the money. But, Rick…your response that “surrogates” have to “allude” to what should be examined out in the sunshine…is disappointing. I like your work. I think you are very good and I have defended you as such in the previous post…but this paragraph needs to be reworked.
