By Andrew L. Jaffee

Barack Obama has found another inflammatory ally, Rep. John Lewis, Democrat from Georgia, to add to his long list of his extremely dubious supporters and connections. In a very ugly smear, Lewis today “likened the politics of Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin to segregationist Gov. George Wallace” and claimed that McCain and Palin were “sowing the seeds of hatred and division.” John McCain is no racist and has never fanned the flames of bigotry. In actuality, it is the Obama campaign which consorts with racists and seeks to create ugly racial divisions all in pursuit of the American presidency.

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In an irony of ironies, McCain actually praised Lewis two months ago “while appearing at a forum on faith, McCain was asked to name three ‘wise people’ he would listen to. He cited Lewis…” In its usual fashion, the Obama campaign brushed Lewis’ disturbing slur aside, stating that, “While dismissing the comparison to Wallace, Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton said Lewis was on target in other ways.”

McCain has acted honorably during the campaign, even challenging his own supporters’ criticisms of Obama:

… McCain drew boos at a town-hall meeting Friday in Minnesota when he defended Obama after a supporter said he feared what would happen if Obama were elected president. He also cut short a woman who said Obama was an Arab, and he called his rival “a decent, family man.” …

Indeed, it is Obama who has connections to the worst kinds of racists, and who has refused to completely distance himself from their ugly beliefs.

Rep. Alcee Hastings, has tried to stir up race hatred while campaigning for Obama. He:

… told an audience of Jewish Democrats Wednesday that they should be wary of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin because “anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.”

“If Sarah Palin isn’t enough of a reason for you to get over whatever your problem is with Barack Obama, then you damn well had better pay attention,” Rep. Alcee Hastings of Florida said at a panel about the shared agenda of Jewish and African-American Democrats Wednesday. Hastings, who is African-American, was explaining what he intended to tell his Jewish constituents about the presidential race. “Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks. So, you just think this through,” Hastings added as the room erupted in laughter and applause. …

Then there is Bill Ayers, a former member of “the radical Weather Underground Organization that claimed responsibility for a dozen bombings between 1970 and 1974.” Obama’s connection to Ayers?

… In a recent interview on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” Obama upgraded Ayers’ status from “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” to “somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know.”

Actually, Obama knew him quite well, having worked together on a school “reform” project called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. …

What is Ayers’ vision for America?

… “Ayers and his education school comrades are explicit about the need to indoctrinate public school children in the belief that America is a racist, militarist country and that the capitalist system is inherently unfair and oppressive.” …

Next up: Illinois state senator and pastor James Meeks. This “spiritual adviser” of Obama said:

… “We don’t have slave masters, we got mayors,” exclaimed James Meeks, an Illinois state senator and pastor of one of the largest churches in the state, in an August, 2006 sermon broadcast on a Chicago community television channel.

The speech was broadcast last week by Fox News Channel’s “Hannity and Colmes.”

Continued Meeks in the sermon: “But they are still the same white people who are presiding over systems where black people are not able to be educated. You got some preachers that are house n-ggers. You got some elected officials that are house n-ggers. Rather than them try and break this up, they’re gonna fight you to protect that white man.” …

Then we have the man Obama calls his “uncle,” Rev. Jeremiah Wright:

… Mr Wright said the 9/11 attacks were like “chickens coming home to roost”. …

In a sermon on the Sunday after the attacks of 11 September 2001, Mr Wright suggested that the US had brought the terror attacks on itself through its own foreign policy.

And in a 2003 sermon, he said blacks should condemn the US because of continuing racial injustice, saying: “God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human.” …

It took Obama about 7 years to “condemn” Wright’s statements, and even then, he wasn’t very forceful:

… “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,” he said. …

Finally, we have one of America’s worst racists, Louis Farrakhan. Apparently, Obama’s church of 20 years really appreciates Farrakhan’s “work:”

… In December 2007, the Trinity United Church of Christ (TUCC) bestowed its highest social achievement award upon Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam. This was facilitated through the church’s publication Trumpet Magazine and presented at their end of the year awards gala. The award dubbed the Lifetime Achievement “Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr. Trumpet” Award is named after the head pastor that married Barack and Michele Obama nee Robinson.

According to the Church’s publication, “the decision was made to honor socially conscious giants who commit their life’s work to saving the lives of Africans on the continent and in the Diaspora.” …

Don’t forget that, “… Louis Farrakhan … labeled Judaism a ‘gutter religion’ and cast Israel as a criminal nation.”

There is such a thing as moral clarity, but apparently not for Obama. He received his education and started his career in a milieu of moral relativism, while John McCain served his country in Vietnam; was a prisoner of war has spent years in the Senate, where he distinguished himself as an independent, taking on both parties on issues like campaign finance reform. McCain has no trouble counting other honorable independents like Joe Lieberman as his close friends.

My choice for president in November will be clear: I’ll be voting for moral clarity, experience, and honor by choosing John McCain.

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• New ACORN Scandal: Nepotistic Embezzlement
• FBI investigating ACORN voter fraud; Obama indisputably linked to ACORN
• Obama courts the “politically radioactive” jihadi vote via CAIR and MAS
• Obama, ACORN, the secretary of state, and voter registration irregularities in Ohio
• Obama’s 1996 Economic Presentation Before the Democratic Socialists of America

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