Op-Ed: Will The Real Barack Obama Please Stand Up?

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The above embedded video is of Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza working for Obama's election, which wouldn't be happening or displayed to the media without Hamas' blessing.

Haven't heard any disavowing of that by the Obama campaign yet.

That should be good for a disturbing start.

Other recent incidents regarding Barack Obama should have us all asking a lot of questions about just who is it we'd be putting in the White House.

Remember also that Obama, if elected, would be putting perhaps hundreds of his political friends and associates into high offices right along with him: Cabinet posts, Supreme Court justices, federal judges, the highest law enforcement officers in the land, including the Attorney General, and many, many more.

Before we hand over that kind of power, shouldn't we know EXACTLY who it is we'd be electing to that office?

You all know about the endorsement of Obama by the leader of Hamas in Gaza, which Obama has utterly rejected. Or did he?

This, from Obama in the New York Daily News interview 'Barack Obama understands Hamas View' on that very endorsement:

It's conceivable that there are those in the Arab world who say to themselves, 'This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so he's not going to be engaging in the same sort of cowboy diplomacy as George Bush,'" Obama said in an interview with The Atlantic.

"That's a perfectly legitimate perception as long as they're not confused about my unyielding support for Israel's security," Obama said.

Let's forget the fact that his middle name Hussein, which is off limits in domestic politics, Obama considers a plus with Hamas, a declared terrorist organization.

I guess it doesn't matter, as long as that pledge and loyalty to Israel is ironclad.

Then again, Maybe not.

This, from an interview in Atlantic magazine:

JG: Do you think that Israel is a drag on America’s reputation overseas?

BO: No, no, no. But what I think is that this constant wound, that this constant sore, does infect all of our foreign policy.

Okay, so now ironclad ally Israel is a constant wound and sore, an infection.

Sound familiar?

This is all like a broken record with this guy.

He attends a radical 'Black Liberation Theology' church for 20 years, disavows everything Wright said when it all becomes public, then goes on an Equivocation Tour telling everyone 'not to judge a man by 30-second sound bites over 40 years.'

Which is it? Does he disavow what Wright said, or that we 'typical white people' shouldn't judge Wright by what he said?

Imus, Michael Richards and Trent Lott were sunk by a lot fewer and less vitriolic words, all of which Obama himself condemned. Is he going to ask that they not be judged by five-second sound bites too?

Does he disavow Hamas utterly, or does he 'understand why they like him'?

Is Israel a staunch ally? Or is it an open sore and an infection?

The list just goes on and on with Obama.

First he'll meet without precondition with our worst enemies like Iran, who seek our total destruction. Then he won't. Maybe.

He had an advisor holding talks with Hamas. Was that yet another 'advisor' fired because of what he did, or because he got caught doing it and became a public embarrassment?

Those talks were a violation of federal anti-terrorism laws. What did Obama know, and when did he know it?
He claims to be friend of Israel, yet his campaign is festooned with anti-Semites who see the destruction of Israel as the only legitimate political solution.

The racist Rev. Wright. First he disavows what Wright said, then he equivocates what he disavowed.

Former Weather Underground terrorists William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

Former Hamas fundraiser Hatem el-Hady, shut down by the feds in 2006 and now Obama campaigner and fundraiser (since disappeared from the Obama campaign site and Michelle's 'friend list,' no explanation given, current whereabouts unknown).

He claims to be a man of the people, yet shows a great deal of contempt for the little guys in Pennsylvania in the BitterGate scandal, and it probably cost him the election there.

The more I hear about Obama, the more troubled I become.

More important, which Obama would be making government policy? Appointing high government officials?

Is there a place in government for William Ayers? Bernardine Dohrn? Department of Education, maybe? Unrepentant domestic terrorists shaping the minds of our youth? And maybe throw in a few dozen of Obama's offical campaign Marxists and Che Guevara flag-flyers to help out with that?

Hatem el-Hady as Middle East 'troubleshooter'?

Perhaps even Jeremiah Wright as 'spiritual advisor' to the President?

Once in, he can do whatever he wants. The rest of us 'typical white people' can cling to our guns and our religions, or go to hell as far as that's concerned. It would just be our chickens coming home to roost.

I tell ya, I am no big fan of either Hillary or McCain, but when it comes down to it I'll go with the devils I know over the devil I don't. And I have no clue who Barack Obama is, because he's telling different audiences different stories every time he gets in political hot water.

Why does Obama get a total pass on associating with the worst of the worst in American society? Or that some of those worst just might become the highest of government officials? Or that he talks so often out of both sides of his mouth I can't tell his up from down?

Does HE even know?

Is anyone else as bothered by all this as I am?

I sure as hell hope so.

A lot's riding on it.

Pretty much everything.