David

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June 10, 2008

Barack Obama: The Most Radical, Unqualified Presidential Candidate Ever

It appears that Sen. Hillary Clinton has finally been driven from the Democratic scene, for this election cycle at least. I say appears, because these are the Clintons we're talking about. To paraphrase Richard Dreyfuss in the movie What About Bob?, “They're not gone! They're never gone!” 

It's virtually impossible for me to think that we've actually seen the last of those whose lust for and sense of entitlement to power has no limit. To use another movie reference, I have to believe Hillary will at some point rise out of the bottom of the bathtub like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction, no matter how sure we are she's drowned and dead. It may well prove as fruitless – Close's character went from being drowned to shot – but it'll happen. She didn't put up with all those bimbo eruptions to get only a lousy eight years as co-president.

That said, the Democrats accomplished something I thought even less possible than Hillary's complete and final dismissal from the political scene: Finding someone even worse than her as their candidate, and by no small margin.

Sen. Barack Obama is simply the most extreme left candidate in presidential history. He is also one of the least experienced and least qualified candidates in history. But he sailed through for two main reasons: His name isn't Clinton and he's black. Nothing else mattered, save perhaps for Oprah.

Yes, he's a good orator – if you ignore the nonsensical, ludicrous, Marxist substance that only the most committed MoveOn.org member could understand or believe. And that's on the few occasions when he's offered any substance at all. Most of the time he simply says nothing better than anyone else, throwing around his four favorite words – future, change, believe, hope – for mindless audiences drooling and panting over them like Pavlov's dogs at the sound of the dinner bell. As speeches go, they have about as much value as Twinkies do nutrition.

Here's a gem from last Tuesday night at the Xcel Energy Center:

“I am absolutely certain that, generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

Just what the hell are you running for – president or messiah? And how full of yourself can even you be to think that the world consisted of nothing but unspeakable suffering until you came along and waved the magic wand of government to instantly fix it all, even the weather? Have you not an ounce of humility?

Sick people haven't been getting care? That'll only happen when socialized health care is forced upon us and government rations it away. Jobs to the jobless? By utterly annihilating the oil, coal and nuclear power industries and the entire U.S. economy that depends upon them? And the rise of the oceans – it's been far colder than normal the last six months running and if anything, global cooling should be our concern if sunspot activity is any guide. He might freeze us all to death in his stupid attempt to save us all from warming that isn't happening and wouldn't be a danger if it were.

Obama is a delusional, arrogant fool, presuming to lead a country that exists only in his mind and those of his cult-like followers. The problems he describes don't exist and ones far worse will be created in his insane attempts to fix what isn't broken. If this lunatic gets elected opposite a Democratic super-majority in Congress, America as we know it is finished. We will suffer the dire consequences, and it will make the stagflation, gasoline lines and malaise that was the Carter Administration look like the good 'ol times by comparison.

But this goes beyond garden variety far-left nuttiness. Obama is also dishonest and disloyal, and has repeatedly been so. Here's the list so far:

• Publicly threw his white grandmother who raised him under the bus, calling her racist

• First defended Rev. Jeremiah Wright's bigoted rants, saying he couldn't disown him any more than his grandmother (whom he just got done disowning), then when the heat grew too great, promptly turned around and denounced him, while claiming not to have heard anything else incendiary from his pastor of 20 years (that's 1,040 weekly Sunday sermons) who performed his marriage ceremony and baptized his kids.

• Resigned from his church after public outrage when Fr. Michael Pfleger's hateful rants came to light

There's also throwing Louis Farrakhan under the bus after Hillary cornered him in a debate (which may yet come back to haunt him if this rumored video of his wife Michelle ranting at an event Farrakhan also attended turns out to be true), and the whole flag pin business, but Obama's pattern of behavior is very clear: Absurd denials followed by betrayals to save his own neck – presuming that even those are legitimate and not purely for show.

Suffice it to say, that is not the behavior of a man who should be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office. And were the liberal drive-by media not completely in the tank for him, the real Obama would be known and he would have already faded back into obscurity, presuming he could ever have left it in the first place.

Barack Obama cannot be allowed to become president in January. If he does, Iran's Ahmadinejad won't have to nuke America into oblivion – we'll have already committed suicide.

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