What a Black Columnist Has to Say about Senator Obama |
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 00:13 | ||||
Should we, Filipinos, be concerned in case Senator Barack Obama is elected the President of the United States? It seems that so many Op-Ed writers and columnists have been dissecting the Barack Obama phenomenon—both pro and con. Here is one article that is written by a Black columnist about the first viable Black-American candidate for the American presidency. Editor’s Note: This column of Gov. Ben Sanchez is just one of the articles about Senator Obama that this website has published. Please see The Obama Dilemma (by Atty. Lope Lindio of Houston, Texas), the columns of Jesse Jose in A Cup O' Kapeng Barako and Mr. Obama Talks of “Loose Change,” Ergo, Endorsing Mrs. Clinton and Mr. McCain Is Right Thing to Do of Bobby Reyes and other articles in Unsolicited Advice .
Beyond Obama’s Beauty By Ken Blackwell - Columnist for the New York Sun “It's an amazing time to be alive in America. We're in a year of firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a candidate who is the first front running freedom fighter over 70. The next president of America will be a first. “ Editor’s Note: To read the original article of Mr. Blackwell, please go to this hyperlink Beyond Obama's Beauty - February 14, 2008 - The New York Sun
Here is the rest of Mr. Blackwell’s article on Senator Obama in case you cannot access the said hyperlink:
The reality is this: Though the Democrats will not have a nominee until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the front runner, and it is time America takes a closer and deeper look at him.
Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those
things, and he's not behind in the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in a beauty pageant. Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting past red
and blue, to lead the United States of America. But let's look at the more defined strokes of who he is
underneath this superficial "beauty." Start with national security, since the president's most important duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong II, who is murdering and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was off the table against terrorists - something no president has ever taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our national security at risk.
Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audacity to open a stadium rally by saying, "All praise and glory to God!" but He says that Christian leaders speaking for life and marriage have "hijacked - Christianity". He is pro-partial birth abortion, and promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any restriction on it unconstitutional. He espouses the abortion views of Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in that direction. In Illinois, he refused to vote against a statewide ban - on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, Hollywood, and San Francisco values, not Middle America values.
But right now everyone is talking about
how eloquent of a speaker he is and - yes - they're talking about his race. Those should never be the
factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama's radical agenda
sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the left of Mrs. Clinton. It's time to talk about the real Barack Obama. In an election of firsts, let's first make sure we elect the person who is qualified to be our president in a nuclear age during a global civilizational war. UNQUOTE. # # #
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