BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE (03:25)

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10 Reasons Not to Vote for Barack Hussein Obama

1. Barack Obama's foreign policy is dangerous, naïve, and betrays a profound
misreading of history. For at least the past five years, Democrats and
liberals have said our standing in the international community has suffered
from a "cowboy" or "go-it-alone" foreign policy. While politicians with
favorable views of our president have been elected in Germany, Italy,
France, and elsewhere, Barack Obama is giving cause to make our allies even
more nervous. This past Sunday's Washington Post reported, "European
officials are increasingly concerned that Sen. Barack Obama's campaign
pledge to begin direct talks with Iran on its nuclear program without
preconditions could potentially rupture U.S. relations with key European
allies early in a potential Obama administration."

Barack Obama's stance toward Iran is as troubling as it is dangerous. By
stating and maintaining that he would negotiate with Iran, "without
preconditions," and within his first year of office, he will give
credibility to, and reward for his intransigence, the head of state of the
world's chief sponsor of terrorism. Such a meeting will also undermine and
send the exact wrong signal to Iranian dissidents. And, he will lower the
prestige of the office of the president: In his own words he stated, "If we
think that meeting with the president is a privilege that has to be earned,
I think that reinforces the sense that we stand above the rest of the world
at this point in time." Not only has his stance toward Iran caused concern
among our allies in Europe, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton called it,
"Irresponsible and frankly naïve."

Barack Obama's position on negotiating with U.S. enemies betrays a profound
misreading of history. In justifying his position that he would meet with
Iran without precondition and in his first year of office, Barack Obama has
said, "That is what Kennedy did with Khrushchev; that's what Nixon did with
Mao; what Reagan did with Gorbachev."

In reverse order, Ronald Reagan met with no Soviet leader during the
entirety of his first term in office, not (ever) with Brezhnev, not (ever)
with Andropov, not (ever) with Chernenko. He met only with Gorbachev, and
after he was assured Gorbachev was a different kind of Soviet leader - and
after Perestroika, not before.

If Barack Obama wants to affiliate with Richard Nixon, that's certainly his
call. But one question: Was Taiwan's expulsion from the U.N. worth "Nixon to
China"? That was the price of that meeting.

As for the Kennedy-Khrushchev summit of 1961, Kennedy himself said "He beat
the hell out of me." As two experts recently wrote in the New York Times:
"Paul Nitze, the assistant secretary of defense, said the meeting was 'just
a disaster.' Khrushchev's aide, after the first day, said the American
president seemed 'very inexperienced, even immature.' Khrushchev agreed,
noting that the youthful Kennedy was 'too intelligent and too weak.' The
Soviet leader left Vienna elated - and with a very low opinion of the leader
of the free world."

So successful was the summit that the Berlin Wall was erected later that
year and the Cuban Missile Crisis, with Soviets deploying nuclear missiles
in Cuba, commenced the following year.

2. Barack Obama's Iraq policy will hand al-Qaeda a victory and undercut our
entire position in the Middle East, while at the same time put a huge source
of oil in the hands of terrorists. Barack Obama brags on his website that
"In January 2007, he introduced legislation in the Senate to remove all of
our combat troops from Iraq by March 2008." His website further states that
"Obama will immediately begin to remove our troops from Iraq. He will remove
one to two combat brigades each month, and have all of our combat brigades
out of Iraq within 16 months." This, at the very time our greatest successes
in Iraq have taken place. And yet, as Gen. David Petraeus has stated (along
with other military experts from Michael O'Hanlon at the Brookings
Institution to members of the U.S. military), our progress in Iraq is
"fragile and reversible."

Obama's post-invasion analysis of Iraq is anything but credible or
consistent, leading one to even greater doubt about his strategy as
commander-in-chief. When President Bush announced the surge strategy in
January 2007, Barack Obama opposed it, saying it "would not prove to be one
that changes the dynamics significantly," and that "the President's strategy
will not work." Of course, the surge is one of the greatest achievements in
Iraq since the initial months of the invasion, and is has reversed much of
the loss suffered since the invasion.

Beyond these miscalculations and poor judgment on Iraq strategy, Obama has
been anything but consistent on Iraq. For example, the same year (2007) he
stated it would be a good idea to bring home the U.S. troops from Iraq
within March of 2008, three months later he stated, we should bring them
home "immediately.. Not in six months or one year - now."

3. Barack Obama has sent mixed, confusing, and inconsistent messages on his
policy toward Israel. Earlier this month, Barack Obama told an audience at
the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, "Jerusalem will remain the
capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided." The next day, Obama
backtracked, stating: "Obviously, it's [Jerusalem] going to be up to the
parties to negotiate a range of these issues.And Jerusalem will be part of
the negotiations." Later, Obama's Middle East adviser tried to explain the
flipping of positions on Jerusalem by stating Obama did not understand what
he was saying to AIPAC: "[h]e used a word to represent what he did not want
to see again, and then realized afterwards that that word is a code word in
the Middle East."

Such quick switches of policy may stem from mere inexperience or they may
stem from a general tone-deafness on the meaning of words and policy when it
comes to the Middle East. After all, earlier this year, a leading Hamas
official endorsed Barack Obama stating, "I do believe [Obama] is like John
Kennedy, a great man with a great principle. And he has a vision to change
America to make it in a position to lead the world community, but not with
humiliation and arrogance." Rather than immediately renouncing such an
endorsement, Obama's chief political strategist, David Axelrod, embraced the
endorsement, saying "We all agree that John Kennedy was a great president,
and it's flattering when anybody says that Barack Obama would follow in his
footsteps." Given Barack Obama's long-standing ties to Palestinian activists
in the U.S., one has good cause to wonder.

4. While his Mideast policy may have been the quickest turnaround or
flip-flop on a major issue, it is not the only one. In the primary campaign,
Barack Obama consistently campaigned against NAFTA, but has now changed his
tune, as he has with other issues. During the primary, Obama sent out a
campaign flier that said "Only Barack Obama consistently opposed NAFTA," and
called it a "bad trade deal." He also said NAFTA was "devastating," "a big
mistake," and in what the Washington Post labeled as a unilateral threat to
withdraw from NAFTA, Obama said "I think we should use the hammer of a
potential opt-out as leverage."

No longer. Recently, Barack Obama backtracked on NAFTA and said, "I'm not a
big believer in doing things unilaterally." "I'm a big believer in opening
up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make this work for all people." He
explained his primary campaign opposition this way: "Sometimes during
campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified."

This is of a piece with his further change of position on public campaign
financing. As a primary candidate, he touted his support for the public
financing of presidential campaigns, but then witnessing his own fundraising
prowess, as a general election candidate he has gone the unique route of
forswearing the system. As David Brooks put it in the New York Times:

Barack Obama has worked on political reform more than any other issue. He
aspires to be to political reform what Bono is to fighting disease in
Africa. He's spent much of his career talking about how much he believes in
public financing. In January 2007, he told Larry King that the
public-financing system works. In February 2007, he challenged Republicans
to limit their spending and vowed to do so along with them if he were the
nominee. In February 2008, he said he would aggressively pursue spending
limits. He answered a Midwest Democracy Network questionnaire by reminding
everyone that he has been a longtime advocate of the public-financing
system. But Thursday, at the first breath of political inconvenience, Fast
Eddie Obama threw public financing under the truck.

5. Barack Obama's judgment about personal and professional affiliations is
more than troubling. On March 18, after several clips of sermons by his
longtime friend and pastor Jeremiah Wright surfaced (showing Wright
condemning the United States with vitriolic comparisons and denunciations),
Obama defended his friend stating: "I can no more disown him than I can
disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white
grandmother." After Rev. Wright delivered two more talks along the same
lines as the clips that led to the March 18 speech, Sen. Obama finally
denounced Wright the following month, stating: "His comments were not only
divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to
those who prey on hate, and I believe that they do not portray accurately
the perspective of the black church." "They certainly don't portray
accurately my values and beliefs," he said.

It strained credulity to believe Obama was unaware of Wright's previous
rants - especially after a 20-year membership in Wright's church, especially
when in February of last year Obama asked Wright not to attend his campaign
announcement because he "could get kind of rough in sermons," and especially
when his church's magazine honored on its front cover such a man as Louis
Farrakhan. Nonetheless, once he ceased being a political asset and turned
into a political liability, Obama dumped him.

Jeremiah Wright is, of course, not the only person close to Barack Obama who
holds vitriolic anti-American views. Bill Ayers was a founding member of the
Weather Underground. According to his own memoir, Ayers participated in the
bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, of the Capitol
building in 1971, the Pentagon in 1972. As recently as 2001, Ayers said "I
don't regret setting bombs..I feel we didn't do enough.'' When asked if he
would engage in such terrorism again, Ayers responded: "I don't want to
discount the possibility." When confronted with his friendship with Bill
Ayers, Barack Obama dismissed the negative connections saying he is also
friendly with abortion opponent U.S. Senator Tom Coburn. While Obama has
never, himself, discussed his relationship with Ayers, what we do know is
that Ayers hosted a fundraiser for Obama in his home and, according to the
Los Angeles Times:

Obama and Ayers moved in some of the same political and social circles in
the leafy liberal enclave of Hyde Park, where they lived several blocks
apart. In the mid-1990s, when Obama was running for the Illinois Senate,
Ayers introduced Obama during a political event at his home, according to
Obama's aides..

Obama and Ayers met a dozen times as members of the board of the Woods Fund
of Chicago, a local grant-making foundation, according to the group's
president. They appeared together to discuss juvenile justice on a 1997
panel sponsored by the University of Chicago, records show. They appeared
again in 2002 at an academic panel co-sponsored by the Chicago Public
Library.

6. Obama is simply out of step with how terrorists should be handled; he
would turn back the clock on how we fight terrorism, using the failed
strategy of the 1990s as opposed to the post-9/11 strategy that has kept us
safe. The most recent example is his support for the Supreme Court decision
granting habeas-corpus rights to terrorists, including - theoretically -
Osama bin Laden. When the 5-4 Supreme Court decision was delivered, Obama
said, "I think the Supreme Court was right." His campaign advisers held a
conference call where they claimed the Supreme Court decision was "no big
deal" according to ABC News, even if applied to Osama bin Laden, because a
judge would find that the U.S. has "ample grounds to hold him."

In a recent interview, Obama stated: "What we know is that, in previous
terrorist attacks - for example, the first attack against the World Trade
Center, we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They
are currently in U.S. prisons, incapacitated. And the fact that the
administration has not tried to do that has created a situation where not
only have we never actually put many of these folks on trial, but we have
destroyed our credibility when it comes to rule of law all around the world,
and given a huge boost to terrorist recruitment in countries that say,
'Look, this is how the United States treats Muslims.'"

Ask the legal officials during the 1990s just how cowed terrorists were by
our continued indictments against them. Or, witness the bombings at the
African embassies, the attack on the USS Cole, or the attacks on Sept. 11,
2001. Now, ask yourself why we have not been attacked since 9/11, and, even
more specifically, why there have been no successful attacks against
American civilian interests abroad since 2004.

7. Barack Obama's economic policies would hurt the economy. As Kimberly
Strassel recently put it in the Wall Street Journal: "Mr. Obama is hawking a
tax policy that would take the nation back to the effective marginal tax
rates of the Carter days. He wants to further tax income, payroll, capital
gains, dividends and death. His philosophy is pure redistribution."

When Barack Obama speaks of taxing only the wealthy, keep in mind this could
have a devastating effect on new small businesses. As Irwin Stelzer has
written: "Taxes change behavior. By raising rates on upper income payers,
Obama is reducing their incentive to work and take risks. The income tax
increase is not all that he has in mind for them. He plans to increase their
payroll taxes, the taxes they pay on dividends received and capital gains
earned, and on any transfers they might have in mind to their kith and kin
when they shuffle off this mortal coil. If the aggregate of these additional
taxes substantially diminishes incentives to set up a small business of the
sort that has created most of the new jobs in recent decades, the $1,000 tax
rebate will be more than offset by the consequences of reduced growth and
new business formation."

8. Barack Obama opposes drilling on and offshore to reduce gas and oil
prices. While Barack Obama has opposed off-shore drilling and a gas-tax
holiday (as supported by John McCain or Hillary Clinton), his solution to
our energy crisis does include additional tax burdens on oil company
profits, taxes we can only imagine will be passed on to the consumer, thus
causing an even more expensive trip to the gas station. As the New York
Times recently detailed, ethanol subsidies are a major plank in Barack Obama's
view of energy independence and national security; the "Obama Camp is
Closely Linked with Ethanol," and "Mr. Obama.favors [ethanol] subsidies,
some of which end up in the hands of the same oil companies he says should
be subjected to a windfall profits tax."

9. Barack Obama is to the left of Hillary Clinton and NARAL on the issue of
life. As a state senator in Illinois, Barack Obama voted against the Induced
Infant Liability Act, a law that would have protected babies if they
survived an attempted abortion and were delivered alive. When a similar bill
was proposed in the United States Senate, it passed unanimously and even the
National Abortion Rights Action League issued a statement saying they did
not oppose the law.

10. Barack Obama is actually to the left of every member of the U.S. Senate.
According to the National Journal, "Sen. Barack Obama.was the most liberal
senator in 2007." As the magazine reported: "The ratings system - devised in
1981 under the direction of William Schneider, a political analyst and
commentator, and a contributing editor to National Journal - also assigns
'composite' scores, an average of the members' issue-based scores. In 2007,
Obama's composite liberal score of 95.5 was the highest in the Senate.
Rounding out the top five most liberal senators last year were Sens. Sheldon
Whitehouse (D., R.I.), with a composite liberal score of 94.3; Joseph Biden
(D., Del.), with a 94.2; Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), with a 93.7; and Robert
Menendez (D., N.J.), with a 92.8."

Whom will a man this far left appoint to the Supreme Court?