While in 1992, the economy was important, and in 2008 it is again, the true underpinning of our presidential elections should be"Its about Character, Stupid".
Lets face it. Any US President can gather around him world-class advisers on any subject. He can reach out to any source for expert advice. There is no shortage of people grovelling at a President's door to be an aide, cabinet member or other advisor.
But, what a President can't gather around him, and can't buy, is Character and Integrity. A President provides vision and direction. The government executes. He isn't in there working on the tax code or health care... others are doing that on his behalf, within the vision he sets forth for the task.
Recent statements by both Obama and (Hillary) Clinton call both of their integrity's and characters into question. Hillary with her several lies about her "experience" as the spouse of a president. The Sniper-fire lie, etc. Obama has struggled to keep people from seeing his character flaws too. The association with an unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist and a 20-year association with a racist reverend, call into question his sense of right and wrong, his integrity and ultimately his character.
A friend sent me the following article that discusses Obama's short association with the truth better than I ever could... and again highlights his problems with character and integrity.
Say What, Barrack?
By Paul R. Hollrah
Tuning in to C-Span recently, I found myself listening to a speech by Senator Barrack Hussein Obama, Jr. He was standing in the pulpit of a black church in Selma, Alabama, and as I studied the body language of the dozen or so black ministers standing behind the senator, I couldn't help but be reminded of the little head-bobbing dolls that people used to place in the rear windows of their 1957 Chevrolets. If their reactions are any indication, the new "Schlickmeister" of the Democrat Party is actually a pretty ccomplished public speaker.
However, as he spoke, I found my b.s. alarm going off, repeatedly. But I couldn't quite figure out why until I actually read excerpts of his speech several days later. Here's part of what he said:
"...something happened back here in Selma, Alabama. Something happened in Birmingham that sent out what Bobby Kennedy called, "ripples of hope all around the world." Something happened when a bunch of women decided they were going to walk instead of ride the bus after a long day of doing somebody else's laundry, looking after somebody else's children.
"When (black) men who had PhD's decided 'that's enough' and 'we're going to stand up for our dignity,' that sent a shout across oceans so that my grandfather began to imagine something different for his son. His son, who grew up herding goats in a small village in Africa could suddenly set his sights a little higher and believe that maybe a black man in this world had a chance.
"So the Kennedy's decided we're going to do an airlift. We're going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is.
"This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great- grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that, (in) the world as it has been, it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child.
There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. Was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma , Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama."
Okay, so what's wrong with that? It all sounds good. But is it?
Obama told his audience that, because some folks had the courage to "march across a bridge" in Selma, Alabama, his mother, a white woman from Kansas, and his father, a black Muslim from Africa took heart. It gave them the courage to get married and have a child.
The problem with that characterization is that Barrack Obama, Jr., was born on August 4, 1961, while the first of three marches across that bridge in Selma didn't occur until March 7, 1965, at least five years after Obama's parents met.
Obama went on to tell his audience that the Kennedys, Jack and Bobby, decided to do an airlift. They would bring some young Africans over so that they could be educated and learn all about America. His grandfather heard that call and sent his son, Barrack Obama, Sr., to America.
The problem with that scenario is that, having been born in August 1961, the future senator was not conceived until sometime in November 1960. So if this African grandfather heard words that ''sent a shout across oceans,'' inspiring him to send his goat-herder son to America, it was not a Democrat Jack Kennedy he heard, nor his brother Bobby, it was a Republican President, Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Obama's speech is reminiscent of Al Gore's claim of having invented the Internet, Hillary Clinton's claim of having been named after the first man to climb Mt. Everest, even though she was born five years a and seven months before Sir Edmund climbed the mountain, and John Kerry's imaginary trip to Cambodia.
As one of my black friends, Eddie Huff, has said, "We need to ask some very serious questions of the senator from Illinois. It's not enough to be black, it's not enough to be articulate, and it's not enough to be eloquent and a media darling. The only question will be how deaf an ear, or how blind an eye, will people turn in order to turn a frog into a prince."
That obviously smart and learned people such as Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton would make such egregiously inaccurate statements talks to more than their inaccurate memory or knowledge. It talks to their belief that the average American is so historically illiterate that they will believe whatever they are told, and never validate it. Remember, Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Propagandist, liked to say that if you tell a big lie often enough, most people will believe it. Barrack and Hillary have learned this lesson well!
Nobody can steal or otherwise take your integrity away from you. Only you can give it away. What does it say about those who seek to lead us if they do so by giving away their integrity?
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