What's Past is Prologue

“Barack was only eight years old when Ayers did his bombing,” they childishly parrot. So what? I was a year old when Castro seized control in Cuba and started killing people who disagreed with him. If, when I was thirty-five years old, I travelled to Cuba, had an audience with Castro, went on a Potemkin-Village tour, and then came back to America singing the dictator’s praises, reasonable people could say that I was an admirer of the communist dictator and probably a fellow traveler. If, at Castro’s invitation, I joined a board on which he sat in order to promote education or anything else, for that matter, one could reasonably conclude that I was comfortable sitting on a board with a murderous, communist dictator. And if I am a moral, freedom-loving human being, why would I want to associate with a murderous, communist dictator? Even if the mass-murderer utterly renounced his past, I would not have anything to do with him. The same would be true with regard to a neo-Nazi figure or board, or one dedicated to Nazi principles.

Obama’s political life has consisted of a series of associations with communists, communist sympathizers, and radical black nationalists. Frank Marshall Davis was a communist. Bill Ayers is an admitted communist who is sworn to the destruction of the American system. Extreme leftist Alice Palmer, Obama’s predecessor in the Illinois senate, travelled to the Soviet Union to attend a Communist Party congress and came back with an admiring report about the Soviet system. Jeremiah Wright is a vicious, venomous, hateful, racist extremist who blames “white people” for all the ills of black people. Davis was Obama’s mentor and confidant. Ayers was Obama’s board-mate and hosted Obama’s political “kick-off” in the home he shares with fellow notorious bomber and terrorist Bernardine Dohrn. Palmer was Obama’s political mentor and benefactor, and endorsed his candidacy for her seat. Obama sought out a church, and deliberately joined Wright’s, allowing Wright to marry him and “baptize” his children. Obama spent at least 18 years listening to Wright’s frenzied, hateful tirades. These are the people with whom Obama associated himself; not with capitalists, free-market proponents, or lovers of the American founding documents and individual liberty. As Mark Levin points out, Obama never talks about individual or property rights, free markets or entrepreneurism.

You don’t associate with people like this because you abhor their deeds or principles. In Obama’s “Philadelphia” speech, he refused to disown Jeremiah Wright, and threw his much ballyhooed “white grandmother” under the bus. Later, when he yielded to overwhelming pressure and quit Wright’s hateful church, Obama made a statement filled with outright lies that only a fool would fail to recognize.

This incontrovertible case is laid out for anyone who cares to look at it. Obama himself has admitted it in his books and in his public statements. Now, what kind of fool would vote for this despicable, dishonest, malevolent figure to be president of the United States?