Posted by
Patriot One on Saturday, October 25, 2008 8:49:17 PM
This post is going to cover 4 topics: Character-Judgment-Common Sense-Executive Experience
Character: Obama: what can I say. He has in the main blocked every attempt to find out what has shaped his character. The only thing we can look at is what he has done and who he associates himself with over time to form an opinion. To be fair any conclusion formed will not be the most accurate because due to Obama's policies keep us from digging past the surface. But left with nothing else lets take a look. The five main area's we can look at are his status as a natural born citizen (one of the basic qualifications to even be eligible for the presidency), his education, his friends and supporters, his career accomplishments, and his stated social views.
When concerns were raised about Obama's status as a qualified candidate to be president, the quickest simplest thing to have done was provide his original or certified hard copy of his long form birth certificate. His response-did not provide this and as the issue escalated to a court fight to provide this information did everything in his power to have the issue dismissed versus just providing the document.
2.) He attended with the exception of his first 2 years of college, private or exclusive schools. For someone that talks of his struggle as a member of an underserved class of people he sure seems to have been able somehow to attend the most exclusive expensive halls of learning available in this country- from his exclusive school in Hawaii to the Halls of Harvard. How did he do this? Who knows He refuses to allow his college transcripts and financial aid documents to be seen.
3.) As far as his associations/friends/supporters: The only personal ones on display from Reverend Wright to Bill Ayers/Rezco/Acorn+ a whole list with ties to extreme terrorist organizations to long to put here, when they became a liability Obama's response has been to attempt to distance himself by condeming their actions (when forced) but never the person with the exception of Reverend Wright (only after being personally chastised), when called out on these associations the response by Obama or his surrogates is to divert the attention by rolling out the flag of "guilt by association". Read this article for a great response authored by charles Krauthammer: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/obamas_character_still_questio.html
4.) As far as his accomplishments: his greatest claim to fame is his role as a community organizor, other than promoting a bunch of programs that have not delivered as promised that financially benefited himself and some of his associates that he has thrown under the bus. The fact that he served in the Il senate with a ton of present votes and the 4 months out of 3+ years in the senate actually showing up for work when he took a break from the campaign for his next job-what experience of relevance has he provided for review? Let alone any kind of executive experience.
5.) I will only address 2 of his public social views: Abortion and social promotion, Obama is not shy at all about his stance on the ending of a babies life in or out of the womb immediately after birth and his promotion of his "spread the wealth" and womb to tomb government stance.
Any clear thinking individual taking a dispassionate look at these 5 things as they relate to character, judgement, and experience would have to conclude that this candidate is seriously flawed as someone that will in an honest open and conservative manner. If this is the type of Country you are in favor of then your choice should be clear.