Barack Obama: Neither Oblivious Nor Deceptive
By Frank Salvato
December 12, 2008
Death by a thousand cuts. That is exactly what is happening to President-Elect Barack Obama's credibility as he and his campaign continue to abuse the "plausible deniability" political tactic. As the list of radicals, political opportunists and ethically challenged elected officials that Mr. Obama portends not to know continues to grow, the voters who believed they voted for "hope" and "change" are starting to realize that the promise of an Obama presidency, well, it isn't so much...
Admittedly, I did not vote for Barack Obama to be President of the United States. I didn't support him not because of the color of his skin (in fact I would have voted for Michael Steele or even Ward Connerly should they have decided to run and made it to the ballot). I didn't support Mr. Obama because of tangible reasons that included three significant facts:
He hasn't the experience needed to steward our nation through times that include a declaration of war against the United States by committed jihadists and a contingent of one-worlder billionaires making a concerted effort to compromise the economic strengths of the United States.
He possesses a voting record that lands so far to the left of center it would make the now deceased leader of the Communist Party USA and four-time US presidential candidate, Gus Hall, green with envy.
But most significant to my inability to vote for -- or support the candidacy of -- Barack Obama was that he is a product of the Chicago Democrat Machine; a political organization that in many respects is so corrupt that you can picture the boys in the smoky back rooms lighting their cigars with subpoenas and laughing.
It is significant that Barack Obama is a product of the Chicago Democrat Machine because in "The Machine" everybody knows everybody else, whether they have direct dealings with one another or not. There is a hierarchy in Chicago and Illinois Democrat politics that one must acknowledge, defend, feed and then engage if one is to become a serious political player in Chicago or Illinois. Barack Obama acknowledged, defended, fed and engaged "The Machine" and it did well by him.
Understanding Chicago politics, to the extent one can, not being a "player," I was willing to give Mr. Obama a pass on many of his questionable associations. I understood that what he was trying to achieve by embracing those associations was to achieve his Chicago Democrat Machine bona fides. An aspiring Democrat politician emanating from Illinois or Chicago must have his credentials in place or he will find that "The Machine" doesn't work on Election Day (I think it's a union thing).
Where the Reverend Jeremiah Wright was concerned it was obvious, at least to me, that Mr. Obama was attempting to acquire the credentials needed to achieve support from the large Black communities of the South and West sides of Chicago. Honestly, when there are White candidates running for Cook County Board or Commissioner positions, it isn't uncommon to see their pasty white faces at churches not unlike Trinity United where they unabashedly and, most often, disingenuously kowtow for votes. It doesn't mean they are anti-white, it means they were "putting their time in" with the Black folk in order to say, "I feel your pain! Viva hope and change!" In this same way I wasn't surprised about Obama's celebrity with Louis Farrakhan's crowd.
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