Real food for thought

Ken Blackwell - Columnist for the New York Sun

It's an amazing time to be alive in America. We're in a year of firsts in
this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first
viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first
front-running freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will
be a first. ;

We won't truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge every
candidate by where they stand. We won't arrive where we should be until we
no longer talk about skin color or gender. Now that Barack Obama steps
to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop talking about his
race, and start talking about his policies and his politics.
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The reality is this: Th! ough the Democrats will not have a nominee until
August unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the
frontrunner, and its time America takes a closer and deeper look at him.
Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He's not. He's the
next George McGovern. And it's time people learned the facts.

Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator in
the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie
Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton. Never in my life have I seen a presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his record. Walter
Moale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. George McGovern promised
military weakness, and he lost. Michael Dukakis promised a liberal
domestic agenda, and he lost.

Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he's not behind in the
polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty
pageant. Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red and
blue, to lead the United States of America. But let's look at the! more&nb sp;
defined strokes of who he is underneath his superficial "beauty."

Start with national security, since the president's most important duties
are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about
invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without
preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and
create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong II, who is murdering and starving
his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table
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since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democrats who have
worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a
foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.

Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our health care system
is the strongest in the world. And free trade agreements, created by Bill
Clinton as well as President Bush, have made more goods more affordable so
that even people of modest means can live a life that no one imagined a
generation ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to raise taxes on "the rich." How
to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes.
Prescript! ion drug s? Raise taxes. Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize
medicine? Raise taxes. His solution to everything is to have government
take it over. Big Brother on steroids, funded by your paycheck.

Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a
stadium rally by saying, "All praise and glory to God!" but says that
Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have "hijacked" -
Christianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to
appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it
unco nstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger,
of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse
homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he
refused to vote against a statewide ban on all handguns in the
state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San Francisco values, not
Middle America values.

The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs.
Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win if peopl! e don't
start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches. His vision of
"bringing America together" means saying that those who disagree with his
agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the country means
adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting beliefs.

But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he is
and - yes - they're talking about his race. Those should never be the
factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama's radical
agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs.
Clinton.

It's time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts,
let's first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our
president in a nuclear age during a global civilization war.
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Subject: Kind of scary, wouldn't you think? Remember--God is good, and is
in time, on time, every time. According to The Book of Revelations the
anti-Christ is: The anti-Christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM
descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a
MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to
him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in
power, will destroy everything. Is it OBAMA?? I STRONGLY URGE each one
of you to repost this as many times as you can! Each opportunity that you
have to send it to a friend or media outlet...do it! If you think I am
crazy..I'm sorry but I refuse to take a chance on the "unknown" candidate.

We must push everyone we know, young and old to get out and vote for this most important election.