Some excerpts:(my emphases):
Jeremiah Wright, Father Michael Pfleger, William Ayers, and Antoin Rezko are not just people who happened to be at the same place at the same time as Barack Obama. They are people with whom he chose to ally himself for years, and with some of whom some serious money changed hands.
Some gave political support, and some gave financial support, to Obama’s election campaigns, and Obama in turn contributed either his own money or the taxpayers’ money to some of them. That is a familiar political alliance — but an alliance is not just an “association” from being at the same place at the same time.
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Obama could have allied himself with all sorts of other
people. But, time and again, he allied himself with people who openly
expressed their hatred of America. No amount of flags on his campaign
platforms this election year can change that.
. . . there is a documented, factual account of what Barack
Obama has actually been doing over the years, as distinguished from
what he has been saying during this election campaign, in a new
best-selling book.
That book is titled The Case Against Barack Obama
by David Freddoso. He starts off in the introduction by repudiating
those critics of Obama who “have been content merely to slander him —
to claim falsely that he refuses to salute the U.S. flag or was sworn
into office on a Koran, or that he was born in a foreign country.”
This is a serious book with 35 pages of documentation in the back to
support the things said in the main text. In other words, if you don’t
believe what the author says, he lets you know where you can go check
it out.
Barack Obama’s being the first serious black candidate
for president of the United States is what most people consider
remarkable but how he got there is at least equally surprising.
The story of Obama’s political career is not a pretty story. He won his
first political victory by being the only candidate on the ballot —
after hiring someone skilled at disqualifying the signers of opposing
candidates’ petitions, on whatever technicality he could come up with.
Despite his words today about “change” and “cleaning up the mess in
Washington,” Obama was not on the side of reformers who were trying to
change the status quo of corrupt, machine politics in Chicago and clean
up the mess there. Obama came out in favor of the Daley machine and
against reform candidates.
Senator Obama is running on an
image that is directly the opposite of what he has been doing for two
decades. His escapes from his past have been as remarkable as the great
escapes of Houdini.
Why much of the public and the media have
been so mesmerized by the words and the image of Obama, and so little
interested in learning about the factual reality, was perhaps best
explained by an official of the Democratic party: “People don’t come to
Obama for what he’s done, they come because of what they hope he can
be.”
David Freddoso’s book should be read by those people who
want to know what the facts are. But neither this book nor anything
else is likely to change the minds of Obama’s true believers, who have
made up their minds and don’t want to be confused by the facts.