In a conversation with some righty bloggers earlier this week, someone observed that Republicans, if they face Barack Obama this year, will face a greater challenge than when they faced Al Gore or John Kerry. I don’t remember the exact wording, but it was something like, “Those guys weren’t naturally likable. People just like Barack Obama.”
They won’t. Or at least they won’t if they get the full picture of him.
Andy McCarthy takes a long, hard look at the people closest to Obama – his wife Michelle, his mentor and pastor Jeremiah Wright, his friendly relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers, and Obama and Ayers’ work together for three years on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago charitable organization, to steer $75,000 to the Arab American Action Network, co-founded by Rashid Khalidi, an alleged PLO operative.
John Kerry had many flaws – some of us blogged for six months about them — but even he didn’t collect longtime ties, friendships, and relationships with people who regularly expressed contempt for America in public (Michelle Obama, Wright), or Arafat’s right hand man (Khalidi) and efforts to blow up American landmarks (Bill Ayers). Al Gore looks downright palatable compared to the radical anti-Americanism that has simmered around Obama for the past decade.
UPDATE: A reader strenuously objects to the “idea that Michelle Obama is a venomous traitor and Barack Obama is a secret anti-American.” I don’t think it’s fair to call either one a “traitor.” I do think their repeated comments indicate they look around and see America as a pretty rotten place, full of relentless injustice and cruelty (“just downright mean” in her words) and that the only solution is to elect him. I also think that when a guy looks down his nose at wearing a flag pin, and calls it “a substitute for true patriotism”, it’s not unreasonable to conclude that he looks down his nose at those who wear flag pins.