Barack and Michelle were close with Rashid and Mona Khalidi, convicted terrorism supporters. Khalidi has been accused of having ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, because of his work for Wafa and being an advisor during the 1991 Madrid Conference for the Palestinian delegation.
As well, his current litany of associations include people of dubious history.
Penny Pritzker. Obama's current Finance Chairwoman. Gutted her Chicagoland bank and approved risky loans while on the board controlling Superior Bank that cost depositors hundreds of millions of dollars by pushing the bank to accept the sup prime loans that have led to the current economic crisis. She refused to follow the recommendations of regulators that told her the practice's where reckless. The bank failed in 2001 and the Pritzker family was fined $460 million for the wrongdoings.
Dr. Ingrid Mattson is the president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an organization created by the radical, Saudi-financed Muslim Students Association, organization identified by the Department of Justice as a Muslim Brotherhood front organization and an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism financing conspiracy. A speaker at nominee Obama's convention.
Jodi Evans. Code Pink founder and bundler for Barack Obama's campaign. Has met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his trip to the U.N. in 2008. “It’s rare for a head of state to take time during an official U.N. visit to meet with the peace community, especially in a situation where the host government—represented by the Bush administration—is so hostile,” Evans declared. “The fact that the meeting took place and was so positive is, in itself, a major step forward.” The meeting included fellow Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin where they offered Ahmadinejad a plan to build a “peace park” in Tehran and invest funds in Iranian businesses “that produce green and sustainable products, such as bicycles.”
Franklin Delano Raines. Fannie Mae officer, pocketed $14 million in bonuses based on fraudulent accounting practices 'cooking the books'.
James Johnson. Fannie Mae officer. Initially head of the Obama vice presidential nominee search. Stepped down after discovery of a sweet heart loan from Countrywide.
And who does Junior Senator Barack Obama praise and worship?
In Virginia at a campaign stop he quipped “everybody's watching what's going on in Beijing right now and the Olympics. Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are all vastly superior to us now, which means if you're a corporation deciding where to do business, you're starting to think, Beijing looks like a pretty good option.” This of a country that still has 40 million of it's people living in caves. Whose per capita GDP is a small percentage of America's. Praise for the Communist way of government.
And then there is his wife, and what she believes and thinks. (Included only because the NYT deemed Cindy McCain fair game to report on)
While at Princeton, she lamented the existence of only one major university-recognized group on campus was "designed specifically for the intellectual and social interests of blacks and other third world students." At a speech in Milwaukee while stumping for her husband she declared "What we have learned over the past year is that hope is making a comeback. And let me tell you something – 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 I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment."
As detailed in New Yorker from her standard 45 minute stump speech 'Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. “We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. “Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I’m young. Forty-four!”'
After 20 years in the pews of Reverend Wright, who can blame her for being mislead about America.
And his cousin in Kenya.
Raile Odinga. Visiting Kenya in 2006, Obama campaigned for his Socialist cousin for the Presidency of Kenya. Odinga lost. As a result, Odinga used his Muslim tribe, a 12% minority in Kenya and an alliance with Al Qaeda to destroy 600 churches, burn people alive, and slaughter 1500 Kikuyu. Odinga has pledged to establish Shari'ah Muslim Law in Kenya. In January 2008, Barack Obama brokered a deal to give Odinga the Prime Minister position in Kenya.
And as for his collegues and previous employers in his vast experience.
Gerald Kellman (disciple of Saul Alinsky, author of the book 'Rules for Radicals'). Gerald Kellman was his first boss at the Calumet Community Religious Conference in Chicago.
ACORN. During Barack Obama's 'community organization' days after leaving Harvard, he worked for affiliates and subsidiaries of ACORN. After becoming a state senator, he continued to train ACORN personnel in the Alinsky method of 'community organizing' based on the book 'Rules for Radicals'. ACORN members have been convicted of voter registration fraud and the founder has been under investigation for embezzlement of millions from the organization. ACORN agitates to prevent school reform, as well as hassling banks to provide sup prime loans to low and no income people. Obama's Presidential campaign recently paid over $800,000 for voter drives to an ACORN subsidiary 'Citizen Services, Inc.'. ACORN has endorsed Barack Obama for President. For more on ACORN
www.rottenacorn.com.
And finally, some light reading of Barack Obama's
In the first edition of Saul Alinsky's seminal book, "Rules for Radicals," where Alinsky wrote:
"Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: From all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer."
My thoughts
Judge a person by the quality of friends they have, and the type of enemies they fight.