This is an article I posted a few months ago, and it's even more relevant today, so I decided to re-post it. There are just too many, really unsavory people in Barack Obama's life, and his stock answer of "I didn't know" is not the type of thing I want from our chief executive, do you? If he is not aware enough to know his friends are criminals and racists- which I don't believe for a second incidentally- is this the guy that should be running the country? Consider that because of his associations Barack Obama could not pass the background check you or I would need for a security clearance. This really does not instill confidence in my mind.
Presidential candidate Barak Obama's pastor and spiritual advisor and mentor for the past 20 years, Rev. Jeremiah Wright has been in the news quite a bit lately due to his anti- American, racist messages delivered in his sermons at the Trinity United Church in Chicago and widely viewed on news programs after they came to light in the mainstream media. Now when these things came out, Obama was quick to disassociate himself from Wright's comments saying that he had no idea that Wright held such views and that had he heard such things while in church he would have left. Now let's keep in mind that Obama not only attended TUC as a regular parishioner but tithed to the church as well as having the privilege to call the senior pastor of the church his "spiritual advisor and mentor", this is how Obama characterised his relationship with Wright in his own words, this is not something the GOP made up. Ok, now let's break this down a bit. Obama says that in twenty years of not only a close pastoral relationship with Wright but that of a mentoring relationship as well, he never, in all that time, knew or even suspected that the good reverend held any of the beliefs we now know he does about America or more specifically, white America. Now I had a mentor myself when I was in my mid twenties, a man named Darren McDonough to whom I am forever grateful and whose lesson's still shape who I am today. Our relationship as mentor and mentored lasted about 2-3 years all told, but I can assure you that I knew exactly where he stood on almost every issue. Now Obama is trying tell us that in nearly twenty years of a mentorship relationship with Wright, he never knew, never heard or suspected that Wright felt the way he does. His denial of this knowledge is beyond just being disingenuous, I submit it is an outright falsehood. Anyone with even a little common sense must come to the same conclusion. The very essence of a mentoring relationship is that you are closer to that person than anyone in your life, even your parents, I know this was true for me. For Obama to claim now that he didn't know about these revelations because it would be damaging to his presidential bid is not only showing that he will lie to further his political ambition but, more importantly to me, cheapens the relationship he had with Wright being his mentor. Good or bad, right or wrong, having a mentor is a sacred thing and not one to be dismissed cavalierly as Obama has done. The lack of integrity Obama shows in throwing his mentor under the bus is what I want from a person in charge of the US. You cannot choose you family but you can choose your pastor and your mentor. Obama chose an America hating, racist pastor as his mentor, what exactly does that tell anyone who looks it simply for what it is?
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