[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: The Real Barrie Hussein

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*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 23 Feb 2008 AD


** The Real Barack Obama

*Feb. 21, 2008

By Ronald Kessler

Michelle Obama's comment that, for the first time in her adult life, she 
feels proud of America helps crystallize who Barack Obama is.

To be sure, the wife of a candidate is perfectly free to have views that 
are distinct from her husband's.

But on a matter that is so fundamental to one's being as love of 
country, it is difficult to imagine that Michelle Obama would publicly 
twice make such a statement suggesting disdain for America unless she 
felt it comported with her husband's views.

Equally important, her statement aligns perfectly with the hate-America 
views of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama's minister, friend, and 
sounding board for more than two decades. On the Sunday following 9/11, 
Wright characterized the terrorist attacks as a consequence of violent 
American policies. Four years later, Wright suggested that the attacks 
were retribution for America's racism.

"In the 21st century, white America got a wake-up call after 9/11/01," 
Wright wrote in his church magazine Trumpet. "White America and the 
Western world came to realize that people of color had not gone away, 
faded into the woodwork or just 'disappeared' as the Great White West 
kept on its merry way of ignoring black concerns."

Wright has been a key supporter of Louis Farrakhan, and in December, 
honored the Nation of Islam leader for lifetime achievement, saying he 
"truly epitomize[s] greatness."

Farrakhan has repeatedly made hate-filled statements targeting Jews, 
whites, America, and homosexuals.
Those who think two of the closest people to Obama could publicly make 
anti-America statements unless Obama himself felt that way, are fooling 
themselves. To date, Obama has proven himself to be nothing more than a 
great orator, rendering the statements of those around him even more 
important in illuminating his true character and agenda. During his 
Senate career, he skipped 17 percent of the votes and sponsored only one 
bill that became law. That bill was to promote "relief, security, and 
democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo."

Bereft of official accomplishments, Obama has distinguished himself 
mainly by being against measures that protect American security, such as 
finishing the mission in Iraq. If we were to leave Iraq quickly, as 
Obama vows he would do, it would become a launch pad for al-Qaida 
attacks on the U.S.

Obama avoided voting on extending the Protect America Act, thus putting 
America at risk when immediate interception of terrorist communications 
is required. Last August, Obama voted against a measure that would have 
allowed the U.S. to continue to monitor overseas conversations of 
terrorists like

Osama bin Laden without first obtaining a warrant.

If his radical vote had prevailed, bin Laden would have been given the 
same rights as Americans.

To this day, Obama has not distanced himself from most of Rev. Wright's 
comments. In a statement supposedly issued to address the matter, Obama 
ignored the point that his minister and friend had spoken adoringly of 
Farrakhan and that Wright's church was behind the award to the Nation of 
Islam leader. Instead, as outlined in a Jan. 17 Newsmax article, he 
disingenuously claimed he thought the magazine bestowed the award on 
Farrakhan for his efforts to rehabilitate ex-prisoners.

Neither Wright's encomiums about Farrakhan nor the Trumpet article 
mentions ex-prisoners.

Similarly, after John McCain's wife Cindy responded to Michelle Obama's 
remarks by telling a Wisconsin rally, "I have, and always will be, proud 
of my country," Barack Obama told a radio interviewer that his wife did 
not say what people think she said. He then proceeded to rewrite her 
comments, claiming that she had meant she was encouraged by the "large 
numbers of people" who have gotten involved in the political process. 
Michelle Obama then made a similar revision of her remarks.

In her speech in Milwaukee, Michelle Obama said flatly, "For the first 
time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country, and not just 
because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for 
change."

And what has been wrong with America up to now? That it gave Michelle 
the opportunity to attend Princeton and Harvard Law School? That it gave 
Barack Obama the chance to attend Columbia University and Harvard Law 
School and become a U.S. senator making more than $1 million a year from 
book royalties?

Was it that America stopped Nazi Germany from continuing to murder 
millions of Jews? That America has provided Africa and other countries 
with $15 billion to combat the spread of AIDS/HIV and that another $30 
billion is on the way? That 46 percent of all Americans classified by 
the Census Bureau as poor own their own homes, 76 percent of them have 
air conditioning, and 75 percent of them have at least one car? Or that 
America allows us to express our views freely without fear of being put 
in jail, as is the case in Russia?

A lawyer, Michelle Obama is perfectly capable of expressing herself 
precisely. In fact, she spoke from a written speech.

Those who do not want to believe she meant what she said --- and that 
Barack Obama could not be so close to Rev. Wright if he did not himself 
believe in much of what he has said --- are in denial.

The real Barack Obama is starting to emerge, and for those of us who are 
grateful to America for everything it represents, it is not a pretty sight.

/Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com. View 
his previous reports and get his dispatches sent to you free via e-mail.
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