I came across a brilliant essay online a couple days ago that has successfully compiled some of the most important and often discussed arguments against Barack Obama. I’ve thought a couple times about compiling an essay of my own, but thanks to a bad case of the flu that just wouldn’t go away, I was never able to write one myself. Although this essay does leave out a few of my favorites, it does cover many, many important and essential elements that – in my opinion – every voter should know about. So for that reason, I would urge all of you to check out:

CLOSING THE DEAL

I’ve read absolutely everything on that page, watched all the videos, and absolutely everything on that website corresponds with my own personal research. They’ve done a brilliant job of linking to all their references, providing absolute evidence, and backing up each of their claims. Please, take the time to read and consider what they have to say. Trust me, it’s worth it.
If you would like to see my own “Must See” posts and issues, I’ve added a Must See category to this blog and sorted various entries accordingly. Click here to check it out.

I’ve just found a wonderful complete scan of the first issue of Osawatomie, the Weather Underground’s newsletter. In it they lay out their plan to “revolutionize” our country, “working from the inside”, encouraging “organizers” who will work in “communities” and use “audacity” to bring about “socialism” in America. It’s a really interesting look at what the Weather Underground stood for, the messages behind the bombings. Check it out, it’s really enlightening, fascinating, and kind of depressing.
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How many times will he need to say “redistribute wealth” and “Marxist” before we actually realize the truth behind the myth he has created around himself?

This is absurd. Peter Wallsten, a reporter from the LA Times, apparently is in possession of a video from an event Barack Obama attended in 2003. At this event, Barack Obama delivered a toast. This video could be quite important and, in my opinion, voters deserve to see it. Why?
Because this 2003 event was hosted in honor of Rashid Khalidi, a critic of Israel, advocate for Palestinian rights, and quite frankly, a hate-speech-spewing Jew-basher. Coincidentally, he is also a best friend of Bill Ayers.
There’s been a lot of speculation and talk, claiming that Barack Obama is very familiar with Rashid Khalidi, that they went to events together all the time, that they were close friends, and that they often shared long family dinners where they discussed Palestinian rights. Of course, Barack Obama denies this, because Rashid Khalidi doesn’t exactly have the nicest track record.

Well, apparently this video would show just exactly how whitewashed this relationship is. According to Wallsten, this video features a toast delivered by Barack Obama, where he discusses his many talks with the Khalidis. Obama said, these talks had been “consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases… It’s for that reason that I’m hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that conversation — a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and Rashid’s dinner table,” but around “this entire world.”
Additional portions of the dinner are also on the video tape, showing Obama participating in the many discussions at the event about Jews, Israel, and the problem they present to Islam. According to Wallsten, “During the dinner a young Palestinian American recited a poem accusing the Israeli government of terrorism in its treatment of Palestinians and sharply criticizing U.S. support of Israel. If Palestinians cannot secure their own land, she said, ‘then you will never see a day of peace.’ One speaker likened ‘Zionist settlers on the West Bank’ to Osama bin Laden, saying both had been ‘blinded by ideology.’”

This has been a side of Barack Obama that many people have speculated about, and many former colleagues from Chicago have expounded upon. Hell, even Rashid Khalidi himself has talked very openly about the relationship he and Barack Obama shared.
Yet the media’s still choosing to ignore this issue, instead decided to believe Obama 100%, despite the vast array of evidence stacked up against him.

THIS is the media bias everyone’s been talking about, right there. Do you honestly think that if any reporter had such damning evidence about John McCain or Sarah Palin, do you honestly think they’d refuse to release it? If it was John McCain attending a dinner in honor of someone who supported and promoted hate crimes, where the entire event devolved into a relentless bashing of a minority, and then McCain proceeded to deliver a toast in honor of such a man, that it wouldn’t be all over the news every minute of every day until the election? Seriously, we heard all about the completely made up claims about Sarah Palin supposedly attempting to ban books, yet stuff like this is ignored? The claim against Sarah Palin was completely false, yet here we have absolute evidence that shows Barack Obama openly bashing Jews and supporting hate speech, and that’s what ends up getting buried?

Seriously, if we don’t wake up, we’re going to end up going to hell in a hand basket. If we don’t wake up and start demanding responsible journalism from our nation’s media, we will have invited our own destruction. When we have such little regard for the truth that we will allow such behavior to continue, we are indeed hopeless.

(The best summary of this issue is from Gateway Pundit. Just so you’re aware, they are a conservative blog. As you know, I try to find as moderate a source as possible, but in this case, the reason I’m linking to them is because the blogger actually had direct contact with Peter Wallsten and detailed the conversation they had about the tape. It’s honestly the best and most direct synopsis of the situation. So please, check it out.)

So I thought that the video of the militant teenagers praising Obama was the scariest thing I’d seen from this election. Nope, I just found one that’s even worse – an interview with Percy Sutton, lawyer to Malcom X, talking about how he first found out about Barack Obama. You have to see it for yourself.

I’m not one of those people who believes that Obama’s Muslim. But honestly, I have no clue what to believe anymore. Why? Because here we are, presented with a man – Percy Sutton – telling us that he was introduced to Barack Obama by Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour.
Who’s Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour? Just like the video said, not only is he an adviser to one of the wealthiest men on Earth, Prince Alwaleed of Saudi Arabia, but he’s also a racist, hateful, fear-mongering proponent of Muslims and blacks rising up to do violent physical harm to whites and infidels (i.e. us). Hmm.
Oh, and let’s not forget, he was also a mentor to Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, founders of the Black Panthers.

I can’t help but ask myself, why was Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour even aware of Barack Obama to begin with? Why would he be raising money for this young man, who hadn’t even accomplished anything yet? Why would he be asking his friends for favors to benefit this young man? Why? Does Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour do this for every young man or woman who applies to Harvard? I doubt it. So what was it about Barack Obama that drew Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour to him? Doesn’t that kind of make you wonder?
And what exactly did Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour say to Percy Sutton about Obama that convinced Mr. Sutton to write a letter of reference to Harvard on Obama’s behalf? Does Mr. Sutton write similar letters for every African American who applies to Harvard? Somehow I don’t think so. What was it about Obama that convinced Mr. Sutton to write that letter?
Don’t these questions deserve answers before we give Barack Obama the most powerful office on the planet?

And furthermore, why isn’t this all over the news right now? If this were about McCain, wouldn’t you be hearing about this from the mainstream media, and not from a random video on YouTube?

Another interesting tidbit that we can learn from this video is that this is in direct contradiction with several statements Obama has made during the campaign. He’s said extensively that he paid his Harvard tuition exclusively throught student loans. If that’s true, why was al-Mansour raising money for him? And just as importantly, where did that money come from?

There’s so much more to this story, and thankfully, at least one news outlet decided to write an article about this video. Click here to read it. They have lots of interesting information about Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour, as well as some enlightening statements from him about how he wouldn’t further clarify his associations with Obama because, quote, “I was determined I was never going to be in that situation. Bloggers are saying this is the new Rev. Wright ‘in drag!’ and he is a nationalist, racist, and worse than Rev. Wright. So any statement that I made would only further this activity which is not in the interest of Barack.”
Why would anything you have to say further that? Because we should be concerned about what you’d have to say? Because the truth behind your connections to Barack Obama would be concerning and detrimental to his campaign? If we weren’t right in being concerned about this, if you had something to say to assuage these concerns, wouldn’t you come out and say it? Hmm, thanks for that – keeping things purposefully vague just to keep Obama’s campaign going. That sounds real honorable and it makes me feel oh so much better!

For the record, I do think this is worse than Reverend Wright, because it only further compounds the concern that Obama has an ever-lengthening list of radical ties that stretch back much farther than any of us even realize. And yet we’re expected to give him the most powerful office in the world?