Vetting and Obama

This young administration has been plagued with vetting problems. (Webster defines vet the verb or vetting as,"to inspect or examine with careful thoroughness.") The latest in a long line, the appointment of the racist and fruitcake Mr. Van Jones certainly failed that criteria. But where resides the most glaring vetting failure of all? In the lap of those who voted for Obama. NOW WAIT. My cousin usually has to edit out these parts but this time, stay with us friends of the left, don’t change pages, hang on for just a sec. You’re up to the challenge. None of us is perfect. You can handle it. No offense intended but you screwed up royally and got us all in a hell of a mess.

Obama’s behavior has been entirely consistent with his past. He is no charlatan in that respect. The problem is that most who voted for him failed to do their homework, or, willfully blind in the voters both, did not care. It is crystal clear now that these types simply made someone of whom they knew very little, into someone else - a fictitious character the press ushered to market with the help of a sour economy and political correctness - a someone they wanted him to be.

It is the duty of every citizen of age to vote responsibly; it is an affront to the Constitution, the XV and XIX Amendments and an insult to the Founders if they do not. But how could any American pull the switch for Obama knowing his surrogate father figure was Frank Marshall Davis, an avowed Communist? How could any American pull the switch for Obama knowing that Obama served as a committed trainer for Community activist and Marxist Saul Alinsky? How could most vote for Obama when they knew he sat for nearly two decades at the feet of the racist "Rev" Wright, an angry anti-American? How could any American vote for Obama knowing his close relationship with 1) convicted domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, or 2) with PLO apologist Rashid Khalidi?

How could anyone not a mobster vote for Obama when they knew he was in league with the Chicago community shake-down machine? And before, he and his wife as one observer put it, were nothing if not quintessential Ivy League "Oppression Studies majors" with (carefully concealed) "attitudes." Is that what they voted for?

How could anyone vote for Obama knowing Obama's voting record in the Senate, and as part of that, knowing he stonewalled intended reform of the twins (Fannie/Freddie) which would have prevented our financial crisis? How could anyone but a socialist vote for Obama when Obama has demonstrated he is a socialist through and through, or as Vic Hansen observes, "When one collates that revelation with Obama's own off-handed ‘spread the wealth’ comment, his 'fair share' sermons, and his 2001 public radio interview thoughts on ‘the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society,’ we begin to see a pattern in which one’s income and wealth do not properly belong to the earner, but are seen as illegitimate and thus legitimately can be redistributed to others."

Did they know? A slim few who voted for Obama did know, did know what they were doing but socialists and anarchists thank goodness are still a rare commodity in these United States. The rest, maybe 85%? They failed to vet, our guess.

Robert Craven