OBAMA---MUST READ -----GREAT ARTICLE

[b]http://www.townhall.com/columnists/KenBlackwell/2008/02/14/the_real_obama

Obama is frightening... and this article was written by a black
reporter..........

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 frontrunning freedom fighter over 70.
The next president of America will be a first. & lt; BR
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.

The reality is this: Though 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 rem oved from his record. Walter Mondale
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 defined strokes of who he is underneath this 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
nuclea r option was off the table against terrorists - something no
president has ever taken off the table 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. Prescription drugs?
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 i ssues. 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" - hijacked - Christianity. He is pro-partial birth
abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will
rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the
abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one 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 - 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
people don't start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches.
His vision of "bringing America together" means saying that those
who disag ree 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 civilizational
war.
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"The conversion of the entire population to Islam and the extinction of every form of dissent is the ideal of the Muslim State - This is Islamic Peace"

A moderate Moslem is one who sends others blow themselves up.