Posted by
Duane Bolick on Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:13:36 AM
If I were a friend, associate, or colleague of Barack Obama, I'd be getting pretty nervous by now. Obama's established a track record of throwing his former comrades under the bus when their illegal, unethical, murderous, or just plain embarrassing behavior becomes known.
He threw his pastor and spiritual advisor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright under the bus when it became known that Rev. Wright was a crazy person. He threw his mentors and associates like
Bill Ayers and
Frank Marshall Davis under the bus when he realized that not everybody was "cool" with murdering American citizens to further Marxism.
Bernie Sanders, a Socialist endorsed by Obama, better watch out - he's probably next. Saul Alinsky is dead, so I guess he doesn't have anything to worry about.
The organizations that worked hand-in-hand with Obama during his nascent political career like Project Vote and ACORN were handily tossed under the Obama bus when the public learned that they used unscrupulous tactics like voter fraud and frivolous litigation to further their goals. But it was a little more difficult this time. Unfortunately for Obama, his ties to these irresponsible, unethical organizations like ACORN and Project Vote ran too deeply to simply deny his involvement, so he resorted to lawyering the facts:
Obama's campaign website claims that he was never a community organizer for ACORN (true - he just
trained ACORN's community organizers). His website claims that ACORN was not part of Project Vote (which has also been implicated in voter fraud) - true, but in
Obama's own words: "Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter
registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it."
Sorry Project Vote and ACORN, under the Obama bus you go.
He even threw his
campaign slogan under the bus. If he hadn't picked a new one already, I was going to suggest, "Hope, Change, I never said that, I never knew that guy, and I never worked for that organization."
The saying goes: "Tell me who your friends are, and I'll tell you who
you are." No wonder Obama has been so busy denying his past. His "
friends" were
far-left radicals with utter disregard, and in some cases
blatant hatred, for American society and the principles on which it was founded, and the willingness to unrepentantly
murder, lie, and
break any rule to
get what they want.
If we were to believe his claims, Obama must be the unluckiest man alive: "Wow, I'm just now finding out that my pastor was a crazy bigot, my friends were terrorists, my mentors were Communists, my realtor was a criminal, my political benefactors were fraudsters, the organizations I worked for perpetrate voter fraud, and all along, I had
no idea!" If Obama
truly rejected the ideology and methods of all the associations he's discarded, he probably would have run as a Republican, for crying out loud!
But unfortunately for the Democratic Party, and even more unfortunately for the American people who haven't seen past his charade, Obama's just hiding who he really is, and what he really believes.