On his Hardball program yesterday, Chris Matthews aired film clips of several frightened Republican legislators stammering incoherently, sometimes even scampering away from news cameras, when asked whether they believe there may be any merit to suspicions that President Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen.
“Why do Republicans stutter when asked whether they think Barack Obama is … an American?†Matthews asked his guest, Howard Fineman of Newsweek. Fineman replied:
“[B]ecause their nightmare is to go home for the August recess where they would like to spend the time attacking Barack Obama’s healthcare plan, and other things, and have to spend all their time at the meetings talking about whether Barack Obama has a legitimate birth certificate or not. The White House claims they think this story is beneath them. They think it’s an outrage …â€
Matthews’ other guest, Ken Vogel of Politico.com, added this:
“I thought the Obama campaign did a very effective job of undercutting it during the [presidential] campaign by producing these documents [giving evidence of Obama’s birthplace]. Hey, if these documents don’t answer the questions of folks on the right or the libertarian fringe who still continue to insist that Obama is not a natural born citizen, nothing will satisfy them.â€
Whether or not there is merit to the suggestion that Obama was born in Kenya rather than in Hawaii, a larger reality ultimately looms much more important: On November 4, 2008, the American people elected, as their President, an individual who:
- holds an undeniably Marxist economic perspective;
- attended numerous Socialist Scholars Conferences which featured rousing addresses by Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, and all manner of identity-politics radicals;
- has a long history of ties to the voter-fraud factory and racial-intimidation cesspool known as ACORN;
- sat for twenty years in the pews of a church pastured by an anti-Semitic racist named Jeremiah Wright;
- launched his political career in the home of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, two Marxists and former terrorists who devoted their youthful energies to fomenting a race war in America, and who continue to loathe the United States to this day;
- has a very friendly and mutually supportive relationship with Al Sharpton, one of the most incendiary racists in recent American history;
- attended the Million Man March of Louis Farrakhan, Jew-hater extraordinaire;
- modeled his political ideals on the tactics of Saul Alinsky, who laid the blueprint for social revolution and the destruction of capitalism;
- supported the irresponsible money-lending practices in the 1990s that ultimately helped cause the current housing and economic crisis;
- chaired William Ayers’ Chicago Annenberg Challenge, whose educational objective was to “teach against oppression†as embodied in “America’s history of evil and racism, thereby forcing social transformationâ€;
- was a member of the New Party, a Marxist political coalition whose objective was to endorse and elect leftist public officials;
- developed a close alliance with the Marxist activist Carl Davisdson, who serves as a national steering committee member of United for Peace and Justice, an organization chaired by the pro-Castro socialist Leslie Cagan;
- shares the ideals of George Soros, the multi-billionaire who funds all manner of far-left causes;
- relied on the foreign-policy expertise of Robert Malley, a supporter of the Islamic terror group Hamas;
- appointed the Marxist, America-hating professor Cornel West to his presidential campaign’s Black Advisory Council;
- voted several times against legislation that would have protected the lives of infants who survive abortion procedures;
- clearly favors ever-escalating taxes and an ever-more-bloated welfare state;
- candidly opposes domestic oil exploration in the U.S.;
- routinely characterizes America as a nation rife with racism, sexism, and discrimination;
- opposes the development of a missile-defense system; and favors amnesty for illegal immigrants, as evidenced by his close relationship with the open-borders group, National Council of La Raza (“The Raceâ€).
Was Barack Obama born in America? It is not a question of small import. But ultimately, it does not matter nearly so much as the fact that the American population elected as President an individual who was not, by any means, secretive about his revolutionary intentions and worldview.
