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March 26, 2008
The Audacity Of Hiding One's Past
The reliably brilliant Thomas Sowell writes on Barack Obama's past:
Barack Obama's own account of his life shows that he consciously sought out people on the far left fringe. In college, "I chose my friends carefully," he said in his first book, "Dreams From My Father."These friends included "Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk rock performance poets" -- in Obama's own words -- as well as the "more politically active black students." He later visited a former member of the terrorist Weatherman underground, who endorsed him when he ran for state senator.
Obama didn't just happen to encounter Jeremiah Wright, who just happened to say some way out things. Jeremiah Wright is in the same mold as the kinds of people Barack Obama began seeking out in college -- members of the left, anti-American counter-culture. [...]
Nor has Obama changed in recent years. His voting record in the U.S. Senate is the furthest left of any Senator. There is a remarkable consistency in what Barack Obama has done over the years, despite inconsistencies in what he says.
As Sowell goes on to note, it is highly ironical that Obama is now projecting an image of a post-racial healer and uniter, and worrisome that Obama's polished skill has obscured his past so completely. Just the ticket for those who vote from their gut, and heart.
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