Barack Obama: Not Just Another Pretty Face

Well, it seems Barack Obama certainly possesses strong Liberal bona fides. This comes in from the Politico:

Obama once visited '60s 'terrorists'

By: Ben Smith
Feb 22, 2008 01:09 AM EST

In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious – and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.

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Like many of the most extreme figures from the 1960s Ayers and Dohrn are ambiguous figures in American life.

They disappeared in 1970, after a bomb – designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally destroyed a Greenwich Village townhouse, and turned themselves into authorities in 1980. They were never prosecuted for their involvement with the 25 bombings the Weather Underground claimed; charges were dropped because of improper FBI surveillance.

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“Ayers was a terrorist. Bernardine Dohrn was a terrorist. Ayers has never offered one word of apology – he glories in it, thinks it’s terrific. And that to me is not what I would call acceptable or mainstream behavior,” said Dan Polsby, a former law professor at Northwestern who is now dean of George Mason University Law School. “If Obama takes a different view on that--well, ok, that’s data about Obama.”

The article adds a little bit more information to the vacuum surrounding the Democrat Party's new Messiah. It appears that as late as 2003 Obama was still giving speeches calling for a "Single Payer Healthcare Plan."

Hmmm. Should we all break out in a rousing rendition of "Oh Canada" now? To recite an old Conservative saying, If you like the U.S. Postal Service, you'll love socialized medicine. More from the article:

Ackerman, the Hyde Park activist, complained of his [Barack's] votes for continued funding for the Iraq war.

“A lot of people were very angry when he voted to fund the war,” he said. “But any candidate running for president is going to strive for broader appeal and move more to the center – I don’t believe that barrack has departed from his basic principles.”

Dr. Young said, however, that he isn’t supporting either of the leading presidential candidates because he is a single-issue voter, and the issue is single-payer healthcare.

He said he was disappointed that Obama is “equivocating” on his support for single-payer, after saying in the past that he supported it. But he said Obama’s style – “cautious, deliberate, defensive” – was also familiar from the Senator’s Hyde Park days.

“In fairness, there’s no double dealing,” he said. “It’s part of his stated strategy – he wants to get maximum unity.”

Ain't it funny how popular a man can get in politics simply based on his appearance and his lofty rhetoric? Here's a man who clearly believes in full blown socialized medicine, but who has camouflaged it by calling for a "voluntary" enrollment plan. Looks to me as though Barack's plan is just the thin end of the huge wedge of socialized medicine in all of its glory and we taxpayers are the ones who are going to get a huge "wedgie" from Barack once he is elected President of the United States.

Watching last night's debate I couldn't help but feel very worried about Obama. His uncanny ability to attract a popular following and the almost hypnotic adulation he is inspiring in his followers is eerily reminiscent of that inspired by the great despots of the Twentieth Century. He frightens me far more than either of the Clintons ever did.

Obama has the potential to sweep to the Presidency with an overwhelming landslide vote and drag a super-majority of Democrats into the Senate and House. With the new voters he is attracting to his campaign and the mesmerizing influence he has on them, he has the potential to become the first Democrat in a long time to occupy the White House with a filibuster proof majority in the Senate.

Obama has even got me questioning my unalterable decision to withhold my support from John McCain.

Picture, a 6-3 Left-leaning Supreme Court, a supermajority of Democrats in the Senate with the additional votes of the four or five Liberal Republicans, a fifty vote majority in the House, and a full blown socialist in the White House; it is a nightmare scenario.

The seeds of totalitarian government are sewn in the fertile soil of emotionalism and glowing meaningless rhetoric. Adolph Hitler mesmerized his audiences with his appeals to the emotional insecurities of his fellow Germans. Benito Mussolini mesmerized his fellow citizens with his rousing rhetoric, stirring up their deep-seated patriotism and love for Italy. Castro, Lennin, Trotsky, Stalin, and Mao all had the gift of soaring emotionally charged rhetoric.

Barack is cut from the same mold. His rhetoric is filled with empty high sounding words like "change we can believe in," "new direction," "shared prosperity" (whoops those are Hillary's words Barack)," "keeping America's promise," all aimed at stirring up the voter's emotions without actually saying anything,

William Shakespeare would describe Barack as feeding American voters, "a tale told by a fool, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

I tell you Obama scares me enough that, should the American voters not awaken from this false Messiah's spell, I too will make a change in this season of change...I will vote for McCain.

Right now I am not so inclined, but come November I will be faced with that decision. Voting for an emotionally unpredictable Republican or an American Joseph Stalin.

Perhaps you think I am exaggerating the dangers here, but given his absolute dedication to the tenets of socialism...including single-payer medical coverage, his affiliation with a black separatist church which preaches racism and hatred, his complete lack of qualifications for the office of President of the United States, and his almost hypnotic command of his audiences, I fear he could be the next Huey P. Long.

Huey P. Long would probably won the presidency had he not been assassinated and had he won, America would have become an ally of Hitler. This is not an exaggeration, it is our history.

Education and clear reasoning are the antidote to the aspirations of a despot, but unfortunately the Liberal elite of our education system have systematically destroyed our education system and have replaced the need for reason with blind faith in the teachings of the Left.

We are rapidly approaching a condition in this country in which such a dictator could very well ascend to the presidency and having done so, could then gradually dismantle our Republic one small step at a time.

I will watch and wait and if absolutely necessary, cast my vote for John McCain.

Long Live Our American Republic!!!

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