Lots of questions are now being raised about Barack Obama, many of which are very important for Americans to understand about someone who wants to be President and the leader of the free world.
Connections to the Iraqi "oil for food" scandal
Barack Obama obtained some choice Chicago real estate (for a great price) through Tony Rezko, who is currently on trial for fraud and corruption. Rezko got a big chunk of money from London-based Iraqi billionaire Nadhmi Auchi. Auchi's General Mediterranean Holdings company was the largest private shareholder in Banque Nationale de Paris which later merged with Paribas to become BNP Paribas. At Saddam's insistence, billions of dollars of Oil for Food transactions passed through BNP from its 1995 inception until 2001. Also, Fintrade Services, a Panamanian company, lent money to (an) Obama fundraiser in May 2005. Fintrade's directors include Ibtisam Auchi, the name of Mr. Auchi's wife.
Obama's Patriot Act
Along with Democratic co-sponsors Sherrod Brown and Dick Durbin, Mr. Obama introduced a bill in the Senate in August 2007 which would designate certain companies as "patriot employers" and favor them over other, presumably not so patriotic, businesses.
The legislation takes four pages to define "patriotic" companies as those that: "pay at least 60 percent of each employee's health care premiums"; have a position of "neutrality in employee [union] organizing drives"; "maintain or increase the number of full-time workers in the United States relative to the number of full-time workers outside of the United States"; pay a salary to each employee "not less than an amount equal to the federal poverty level"; and provide a pension plan.
In other words, a patriotic employer is one which fulfills the fondest Big Labor agenda, regardless of the competitive implications. The proposal ignores the marketplace reality that businesses hire a work force they can afford to pay and still make money. Coercing companies into raising wages and benefits above market rates may only lead to fewer workers getting hired in the first place.
Obama's Islam supporters
Obama recently denounced Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's support, but that appears to be a surface level denunciation since he still employs several Farrakhan acolytes in high campaign positions. He has kept these people despite objections from other staffers. Obama has reportedly blamed the Middle East conflict on Jews, and has appeared at fundraisers with notable anti-Semitic people.
Obama will stand with Muslims
In his book, 'Audacity of Hope', Obama said "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." He is legally an Arab-American rather than an African-American.
Obama pledges to destroy American nuclear capabilities
He has repeatedly pledged to reduce American nuclear arms, leading the world in nuclear disarmament. Of course, this is pure folly - our enemies will happily let us lead in our own disarmament, then nuke us into oblivion. Obama goes even further, pledging to neuter many key defense capabilities.
Obama's pro-Palestinian connections
Democratic presidential frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama served as a paid director on the board of a nonprofit organization that granted funding to a controversial Arab group that mourns the establishment of Israel as a "catastrophe." The co-founder of the Arab group, Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi, is a harsh critic of Israel who reportedly worked on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization when it was labeled a terror group by the State Department. There are numerous connections between Khalidi and Obama.
Obama's questionable advisers
Barack Obama's most senior military adviser retired General Merrill McPeak, blames President George Bush for Iran's anti-Americanism. This is a shocking statement by any standards and provides people with even greater reasons to have qualms about Barack Obama's qualifications to be President. This ignores such facts as the American Embassy hostage crisis during the Carter years (in which Ahmadinejad was involved), years of state sponsorship of terrorism by Iran-that preceded the election of George Bush, Iran's role in the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983 that killed 241 American servicemen during the Reagan years, the hostage taking and killing of Americans in Lebanon by Hezbollah-a terror group sponsored and supported by Iran, and more.
Barack Obama also employs Samantha Powers as his foreign policy adviser. She recently stated in an interview that President Obama would engage with President Ahmadinejad, North Korea, and Syria. Then she is asked, "...is there anyone he wouldn't talk to"? She responded that there was no one among "elected heads of state. He won't talk to Hamas, but he would talk to Abbas". The interviewer points out that inconsistency inherent in her answer by informing the Harvard foreign policy expert that Hamas was a democratically-elected government and that Abbas' Fatah party lost the last popular vote. Professor Power backtracked and then said that Barack Obama would talk to "heads of state" and swiftly veered off into a discussion about how America has supported dictatorships in the past. She laments: "So much of it is about: 'Is he going to be good for the Jews?'" In reality, millions and millions of Americans believe in supporting our allies and opposing our enemies. The key issue is never "what is good for Israel?"; it is "what is good for America?". Would a foreign policy that stiff-arms allies and appeases foes bolster America's image in the world? What would it tell other allies or potential allies?
For these and many other reasons, Barack Obama is not looking good as a future President. He is a far-left liberal that has gotten to his current position by shady means and by hiding his positions from Americans. His past is full of shady connections and he is currently surrounding himself with people who have demonstrated poor judgment (in some cases pure incompetence) and major signs of huge future problems.
We need to more fully understand him, his associates, and his intentions so that we as voters can make an educated decision about him. Clinton is a known quantity, but Obama is still largely hidden. Fortunately for us, more and more information is coming out, and those revelations are not good for him.
There's my two cents.
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