A Black Columnist on Obama

Ken Blackwell - Columnist for the New York Sun
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> 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.
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> 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: 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.
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> 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
> 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."
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> 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 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.
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> 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..
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> 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"
> - 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 Francis co values, not Middle America values.
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> 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 disagree
> with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the
> country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any conflicting
> beliefs.
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> 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.
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> 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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> Subject: Kind of scary, wouldn't you think Remember--"God is good, and
> is in time, on time,every time."
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> According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ is:
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> 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 this anti-christ,.......... OBAMA??
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