The history of Barack Obama
I have already written at least a couple of articles that detail Barack Obama’s willingness to forego the First Amendment and use litigation threats to shut down his political opponents. The latest accusations of voter registration fraud by ACORN is no exception. From Real Clear Politics:
Obama campaign counsel Bob Bauer has sent a letter (.pdf) to the Department of Justice requesting that Special Prosecutor Dannehy — who is currently investigating the firings of U.S. Attorneys — expand her investigation to look into whether any administration officials have worked in a joint effort with the McCain campaign and the RNC in legitimizing the allegations of vote fraud.
In the letter, Bauer explained further what the Obama campaign was referring to.
“These [vote fraud] allegations do not mean illegal voting,” Bauer said. “Nobody really expects thousands of Mickey Mouses or Tony Romos to show up at the poll to vote this fall. But at the end of the day, the reason that you’re getting the daily calls, the reason — quite apart from political desperation — that they’re resorting to this issue and not to others, is to utilize the mantra that they’ve hit upon and the organization whose name they plan to make famous as a proxy for attacking the electoral process itself.”
Bauer is right on one account. Mickey Mouse or Tony Romo will probably not show up to voe in Ohio. However, what about the fact that ACORN workers that are registering new voters are also giving out absentee ballots on the spot? If that isn’t a recipe for voter fraud, then I don’t know what is.
Explain to me this. Why does the Obama campaign insist on using threats such as this when they are challenged on things like this? Faced with the NRA’s efforts in Missouri to highlight Obama’s voting record on 2nd Amendment issues, they bring out the lawyers and threaten litigation because they claim the allegations are false. They can’t prove the NRA is spreading false information because the votes are a matter of public record, so they try to use strong arm tactics to shut down the NRA’s advertising campaign.
Since Barack Obama announced his campaign for President, he has been quick to say that his campaign was one for change, for a new kind of politics. If you start examining how his other elections were won, you will find his politics are not so new, but rather are just more of the same. The same tactics of using litigation were used in his first campaign for public office, with devestating effect. Consider this article from Houston Press, published way back on February 28, 2008.
Obama hired fellow Harvard Law alum and election law expert Thomas Johnson to challenge the nominating petitions of four other candidates, including the popular incumbent, Alice Palmer, a liberal activist who had held the seat for several years, according to an April 2007 Chicago Tribune report.
Obama found enough flaws in the petition sheets — to appear on the ballot, candidates needed 757 signatures from registered voters living within the district — to knock off all the other Democratic contenders. He won the seat unopposed.
“A close examination of Obama’s first campaign clouds the image he has cultivated throughout his political career,” wrote Tribune political reporters David Jackson and Ray Long. “The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it.”
Think about it this way. Barack Obama is very much of an unknown quality. The general public knows very little about him and that is unlikely to change, for a number of reasons. First of all is Obama’s strong relunctence to allow very much of his personal information out to the public. After all, he will not even provide a certified copy of his birth certificate. You may ask, why shouldn’t we take him at his word? Well, he is running for the highest office in our nation, one which requires him to be a natural born citizen of the United States. It appears the question of his citizenship could be settled in quick fashion, but evidently, Obama doesn’t agree. Why he doesn’t provide the information requested is beyond me.
The second and maybe the most important reason is how the media seems to be very queasy about questioning anything to do with their chosen candidate. Consider this from Tony Blankley, in an op-ed piece in The Washington Times.
The essence of this election season couldn’t be simpler. The American public is so appalled at the condition of the country that it unfairly, but not implausibly, places blame on the now-despised President Bush – that, with fate casting John McCain in the role of Mr. Bush’s surrogate, a majority of America is actually considering voting for Sen. Barack Obama. And, when an electorate is intent on doing something, the last thing it wants to hear about are the facts.
Moreover, the public’s lack of interest in the facts is facilitated by the major American media’s refusal to report them.
I agree whole heartedly with Mr. Blankley. The people in our country are a little over two weeks away from casting one of the most important votes in our history and for the most part, we still know very little about the man who may very well be the first African American President of the United States. We owe it to ourselves to learn a lot more than we know now and as much as we can before we cast our votes on November 4, 2008. We need to know who Barack Obama really is and what kind of change he intends to bring to our country.
That’s my take!
Larry
Well, we’re certainly not going to get the information we need from the MSM; they are in the tank for the liberal Democrat known to man. I’m telling you, there’s something fishy about all his ties to radical people, but you wouldn’t know anything about it by watching most news stations. BTW, Sean Hannity has put together quite a remarkable piece on the senator and some of his questionable associations. I believe Greta Van Susteren had a similar show on recently. Lots of facts, but the majority of Americans couldn’t care less about the facts.
I have been seeing a little bit of Fox News at work and they are really hitting Obama for his comments about spreading the wealth and other things. They are the only ones to be doing this, the rest of the media is giving him a free pass to do and say whatever he wants.
I tend to agree, a lot of the American people are upset about the war and the economy that they don’t care about the facts about the man, they just see him as different than Bush and they group McCain with Bush.