Known By the Company You Keep

Barak means "blessed" in Arabic

All through his life, Mr. Obama has been surrounded by those who hate America, and speak as though the United States has been a force for evil in the world. From his radical mother, his Muslim Kenyan father, his Indonesian Muslim stepfather, to his wife and minister today. Mr. Obama may have had no say in his birth, parentage, or childhood, but throughout his adult life he has continued to surround himself with those who call the United States and its values as "enemy". In his election efforts of this year, he asks us to believe those are merely the views of his family, friends, mentors, teachers, and spiritual advisors, but not his own. A man with a longer record might ask us to judge him by his record rather than his associates, but with a scant two years in the US Senate, achieved through a largely uncontested election, that is not an option here. In today’s age of carefully parsed, staged, professional, political speeches, one cannot judge a politician by his words alone. He is best judged by his deeds and his associates. While Mr. Obama's list of deeds is too short to provide significant guidance as to his true nature, what we know of his chosen associations is significant indeed.

By David Roth

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Posted March 23, 2008 03:45 AM
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