[Vision2020] Thomas Sowell is a racist

[No Weatherman]

Obama, Con
Obama and the Left.
By Thomas Sowell

Although Senator Barack Obama has been allied with a succession of
far-Left individuals over the years, that is only half the story.
There are, after all, some honest and decent people on the Left. But
these have not been the ones that Obama has been allied with — allied,
not merely "associated" with.

ACORN is not just an organization on the left. In addition to the
voter frauds that ACORN has been involved in over the years, it is an
organization with a history of thuggery, including going to bankers'
homes to harass them and their families, in order to force banks to
lend to people with low credit ratings.

Nor was Barack Obama's relationship with ACORN just a matter of once
being their attorney long ago. More recently, he has directed hundreds
of thousands of dollars their way. Money talks — and what it says is
more important than a politician's rhetoric in an election year.

Jeremiah Wright and Michael Pfleger are not just people with left-wing
opinions. They are reckless demagogues preaching hatred of the lowest
sort — and both are recipients of money from Obama.

Bill Ayers is not just "an education professor" who has some left-wing
views. He is a confessed and unrepentant terrorist, who more recently
has put his message of resentment into the schools — an effort using
money from a foundation that Obama headed.

Nor has the help all been one way. During the last debate between John
McCain and Barack Obama, Senator McCain mentioned that Sen. Obama's
political campaign began in Bill Ayers's home. Obama immediately
denied it and McCain had no real follow-up.

It was not this year's political campaign that Obama began in Bill
Ayers's home but an earlier campaign for the Illinois state
legislature. Barack Obama can match Bill Clinton in slickness at
parsing words to evade accusations.

That is one way to get to the White House. But slickness with words is
not going to help a president deal with either domestic economic
crises or the looming dangers of a nuclear Iran.

People who think that talking points on this or that problem
constitute "the real issues" that we should be talking about, instead
of Obama's track record, ignore a very fundamental fact about
representative government.

Representative government exists, in the first place, because we the
voters cannot possibly have all the information necessary to make
rational decisions on all the things that the government does. We
cannot rule through polls or referendums. We must trust someone to
represent us, especially as President of the United States.

Once we recognize this basic fact of representative government, then
the question of how trustworthy a candidate is becomes a more urgent
question than any of the so-called "real issues."

A candidate who spends two decades promoting polarization and then
runs as a healer and uniter, rather than a divider, forfeits all trust
by that fact alone.

If Ronald Reagan had attempted to run for president of the United
States as a liberal, the media would have been all over him. His
support for Barry Goldwater would have been in the headlines and in
editorial denunciations across the country.

No way would he have been able to get away with using soothing words
to suggest that he and Barry Goldwater were like ships that passed in
the night.

If Barack Obama had run as what he has always been, rather than as
what he has never been, then we could simply cast our votes based on
whether or not we agree with what he has always stood for.

Some people take solace from the fact that Senator Obama has verbally
shifted position on some issues, like drilling for oil or gun control,
since this is supposed to show that he is "pragmatic" rather than
ideological.

But political zig-zags show no such moderation as some seem to assume.
Lenin zig-zagged and so did Hitler. Zig-zags may show no more than
that someone is playing the public for fools.

Some people who see the fraud in what Obama is saying are amazed that
others do not. But Obama knows what con men have long known, that
their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to
continue to believe what they want to believe. He does that very well.
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