Source: Traditional Values
Senator Obama Admits He’s Heard Pastor’s Controversial Statements!
March 20, 2008 – Presidential candidate Barack Obama gave a speech on March 18th that was designed to clarify his association with his former Pastor Jeremiah Wright and to discuss the theme of race in America.

Sen. Obama declared his “unyielding faith in the decency and generosity of the American people.”

He also said of his pastor’s anti-white, anti-American remarks: “They expressed a profoundly distorted view of this country – a view that sees white racism as endemic, and that elevates what is wrong with America above all that we know is right with America; a view that sees the conflicts in the Middle East as rooted primarily in the actions of stalwart allies like Israel, instead of emanating from the perverse and hateful ideologies of radical Islam.”

However, later in his speech, he says of Wright: “I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother…. These people are a part of me. And they are part of America, this country that I love.”

Sen. Obama also noted: “Did I know [Wright] to be a fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes. Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely – just as I am sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed.”

Yet, until last week, Sen. Obama was denying he was in the pew when Wright made controversial statements against whites, America or Israel. A NewsMax report, however, revealed that last July, he was, in deed, in the pew when Wright blasted white America for the woes of the world and referred to the United States as the United States of White America.

“If Senator Obama could sit in the pew and listen to these diatribes against America, why didn’t he confront his pastor over these statements last year – or any time during the 20 years that he attended this radical church?” asks TVC Chairman Rev. Lou Sheldon.

African-American Scholars Speak Out About Barack Obama

Hoover Institution scholar and author Thomas Sowell analyzed Obama’s speech from March 18. He writes: “There was no way that he didn’t know about Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American and racist diatribes from the pulpit. Someone once said that a con man’s job is not to convince skeptics but enable people to continue to believe what they already want to believe.”

He continues: “Shelby Steele depicts Barack Obama as a man without real convictions, ‘an iconic figure who neglected to become himself.’ Senator Obama has been at his best as an icon, able with his command of words to meet other people’s psychic needs, including a need to dispel white guilt by supporting his candidacy. But President of the United States, in a time of national danger, under a looming threat of nuclear terrorism? No.”

Shelby Steele, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, has also critiqued Senator Obama. He notes of Obama: “His actual policy positions are little more than Democratic Party boilerplate and hardly a tick different than Hillary’s positions. He espouses no galvanizing political idea. He is unable to say what he means by ‘change’ or ‘hope’ or ‘the future.’ And he has failed to say how he would actually be a ‘unifier.’ … Barack Obama stacks up as something of a mediocrity.”

Steele expressed concern over how Obama could stay in a church for 20 years that his own white mother and grandmother would feel uncomfortable attending. And, he wonders how Obama could possibly have exposed his own two daughters to Pastor Wright’s hateful rants for their entire lives.

Steele continues: “Mr. Obama has said of himself, ‘I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views…’ And so, human visibility is Mr. Obama’s Achilles heel. If we see the real man, his contradictions and bents of character, he will be ruined as an icon, as a ‘blank screen.’”

Steele is author of A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama And Why He Can’t Win.

African-American, liberal Pastor Eugene Rivers of Azusa Christian Community Church was on Chris Matthews “Hardball” on MSNBC on March 14 to discuss Barack Obama’s pastor.

Pastor Rivers said, in part: “Jeremiah Wright is a good man who means well, who has made a series of politically irresponsible, over-the-top statements that have to be simply on its face rejected. … If Senator Obama is as smart as he thinks he is, he’s going to do everything he can to put a distance – reject the statements and distance himself from the sorts of statements if he plans to be president of the United States.”

Rivers also observed of Wright: “… the statements that were made on the heels of 9/11 were simply irresponsible, indefensible statements that were just inappropriate in every conceivable context.”

Rev. Rivers was also on “Morning Joe” on MSNBC on March 19. During the interview, Rev. Rivers stated: “There are 65,000 black churches that serve roughly 23 million black people. I challenge anyone if you go to the overwhelming majority of black churches in the United States, you will not hear that kind of rhetoric.”

African-American leader Jesse Lee Peterson, founder of the Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, said: “Barack Obama has received a lot of support from the white community because many white Americans want to put racism behind them …. But after his refusal to denounce and walk away from the racist Jeremiah Wright, I believe this is definitely going to impact his chances of being nominated within the Democratic Party.”

It’s funny how we don’t hear about any of this on national news!

Source: Traditional Values

Who Are Barack And Michelle Obama?
February 21, 2008 – Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is expected to become the Democrat candidate for President of the United States. After an unbroken string of wins in primary battle against Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Obama appears to be unbeatable among Democrats.As the race between Obama and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) becomes more certain, it is essential that voters understand exactly what Barack and his wife Michelle believe in – and what they plan for America if elected as President and First Lady.

As more information becomes available about this first-term Senator with no discernible accomplishments in the Senate, the more concerned voters are becoming.

A Communist Mentor?
One of the latest revelations about Senator Obama was published this week by Cliff Kincaid, an investigative journalist with Accuracy in Media, a conservative media watchdog group.

Kincaid’s article, “Obama’s Communist Mentor” describes the close relationship that Barack Obama developed with Frank Marshall Davis while Obama lived in Hawaii from 1971-1979.

Davis was a member of the Communist Party, USA and gave Obama advice on career choices. He was a contemporary of Richard Wright and Langston Hughes when he lived in Chicago. In Obama’s book, Dreams From My Father, he writes about “Frank and his old Black Power dashiki self.”

Professor Gerald Horne, a contributing editor to the Communist Party journal Political Affairs, described Davis as having influenced Obama’s sense of identity and career moves. According to Horne, Obama retraced the steps of Davis by eventually moving to Chicago.

A Black Power Mentor?
In Chicago, Obama became a community organizer and began attending Trinity Church of Christ, under the leadership of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Jr.

Rev. Wright operates what the church web site describes as an Afro-centric church. Wright is a Black Power advocate who received inspiration from Dr. James Cone, who pioneered the concept of Black Power when he published Black Power and Black Theology in 1969. Cone is a contributing editor to Sojourners Journal, a far-left publication run by Rev. Jim Wallis.

Rev. Wright has a record of making anti-Israel comments in his sermons and in December 2007, he awarded his friend, Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, his lifetime achievement award.

Wright and Farrakhan traveled to Libya in 1984 to visit with terrorist dictator Muammar el-Qaddafi.

Senator Obama admits having been mentored by Dr. Wright, but has recently distanced himself from Wright when the pastor’s connections to the Nation of Islam were revealed in the conservative press.

Sen. Obama has rejected Wright’s anti-Jewish statements, but he employs members of the Nation of Islam (NOI) on his staff. According to columnist Debbie Schlussel, Obama employed NOI member Cynthia Miller, who served as treasurer of his Senate campaign; he also employs NOI member Jennifer Mason who serves as Obama’s Director of Constituent Services in the U.S. Senate. Mason oversees his internship program.

Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan is rabidly anti-Jewish and anti-White. He has referred to Judaism as a “gutter religion” and said that Whites are only “potential” humans.

One can only wonder why Obama would have followers of Farrakhan on his staff.

A Socialist Mentor?
The Washington Post has reported that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were heavily influenced in their political thinking and organizing by radical activist Saul Alinsky.

Alinsky was a Chicago political organizer who developed leftist strategies for bringing about social change through protests, and the seizing of political power. According to Alinsky, an organizer must “fan the latent hostilities” in people and “he must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them.”

In his 1971 book, Rules for Radicals, Alinsky taught his 1960s leftist followers to avoid scaring the Middle Class by cutting their hair, putting on suits and infiltrating the system from within!

Alinsky once boasted: “I feel confident that I could persuade a millionaire on Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday.”

At 21, Obama was hired by Alinsky devotees to do political organizing in Chicago.
After spending three years at Harvard Law School, Obama returned to Chicago and taught constitutional law, handled civil rights cases and did community organizing – based on Alinsky’s philosophy.

Michelle Obama
Sen. Obama’s wife, Michelle, attended Princeton University and apparently developed a sense of racial resentment that continues to this day. Her senior thesis at Princeton was titled “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.” Access to her thesis is being blocked by Princeton until after the election.

One portion of her thesis, however, has been revealed by journalist Jacob Laksin. She warned against “further integration and/or assimilation into a White cultural and social structure that will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full participant.”

Her recent statements indicate that this feeling may not have subsided yet. On February 18, she stated at a political rally: “For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country. Not just because Barack is doing well, but I think people are hungry for change.”

Her statement resulted in a firestorm of controversy, which was largely ignored by the mainstream liberal press. Days later, she clarified her statement to say that she was proud of how Americans are engaging in the political process.

However, her more recent statements are frightening in their implications for America’s future. In a Hitler-like speech given at UCLA on February 19, Michelle Obama made these statements:

Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.

You have to stay at the seat at the table of democracy with a man like Barack Obama not just on Tuesday but in a year from now, in four years from now, in eights years from now, you will have to be engaged.

We have lost the understanding that in a democracy, we have a mutual obligation to one another — that we cannot measure the greatness of our society by the strongest and richest of us, but we have to measure our greatness by the least of these. That we have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done. That is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this who understands that. That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.”

Did Michelle Obama misspeak at UCLA or do these comments reveal her true feelings and beliefs about how her husband will rule our nation?

Will a President Obama force Americans to “work” – for what purpose? How will he demand that we reject cynicism? How will he force us to be involved and informed? What will he do to require Americans to “stay at the seat at the table of democracy”?

And, how will Barack Obama fix our souls? Is that the role of the President of the United States?

These are frightening authoritarian statements from the wife of a man who wants to become President of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces.

The Voting Record
Senator Barack Obama is the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate. His voting record and his ratings from conservative and liberal groups show conclusively that the “change” he is advocating for America is hard leftist socialism.

Both OnTheIssues and Project Vote Smart have detailed voting records of Sen. Obama.

In addition to his consistent far left voting record in the Senate since 2004, Obama has been rated by numerous conservative and liberal groups.

Ratings from liberal groups show: NARAL Pro-Choice America: 100% in 2006; Planned Parenthood: 100% in 2006; Americans United for Separation of Church and State: 100% in 2006; Iranian American Political Action Committee, 100% in 2006; Human Rights Campaign, 89% in 2005-2006.

Ratings from conservative groups: Traditional Values Coalition, 0% in 2008; National Right To Life Committee, 0% in 2005-2006; American Conservative Union, 8% in 2006; Eagle Forum, 0% in 2006; Family Research Council, 0% in 2006.

High Stakes In November
Clearly, the stakes are high in November. The person elected to become our next President of the United States will wield immense power either for good or for evil. The President also serves as Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces during a time of war against Islamic fascism. The President also appoints federal judges, including members of the Supreme Court.

The question American voters must answer is who will best serve in this post for the next four years? Who will best serve our military and who will best pick federal judges?

Who will determine the future course of our nation – potentially for decades to come?