A Black Columnist on Obama 
 
 This is long but worth the reead.  J 
 
 Ken Blackwell - Columnist for the New York Sun 本科
 
 It's an amazing time to be alive in America . We're in a year of 
 firsts in this presidential election: the first viable woman 
 candidate; the first viable African-American candidate; and, a 
 candidate who is the first front-running freedom fighter over 70. The 
 next president of America will be a first. 
 
We won't truly be in an election of firsts, however, until we judge 
 every candidate by where they stand. We won't arrive where we should 
 be until we no longer talk about skin color or gender. Now that Barack 
 Obama steps to the front of the Democratic field, we need to stop 
 talking about his race, and start talking about his policies and his 
 politics. 
 
The reality is this: Though the Democrats will not have a nominee 
 until August, unless Hillary Clinton drops out, Mr. Obama is now the 
 frontrunner, and its time America takes a closer and deeper look at 
 him. Some pundits are calling him the next John F. Kennedy. He's not. 
 He's the next George McGovern. And it's time people learned the facts. 
 
Because the truth is that Mr. Obama is the single most liberal senator 
 in the entire U.S. Senate. He is more liberal than Ted Kennedy, Bernie 
 Sanders, or Mrs. Clinton.    Never in my life have I seen a 
 presidential frontrunner whose rhetoric is so far removed from his 
 record. Walter Mond ale promised to raise our taxes, and he lost. 
 George McGovern promised military weakness, and he lost. Michael 
 Dukakis promised a liberal domestic agenda, and he lost. 
 
Yet Mr. Obama is promising all those things, and he's not behind in 
 the polls. Why? Because the press has dealt with him as if he were in 
 a beauty pageant..  Mr. Obama talks about getting past party, getting 
 past red and blue, to lead the United States of America . But let's 
 look at the more defined strokes of who he is underneath this 
 superficial "beauty." 
 
Start with national security, since the president's most important 
 duties are as commander-in-chief. Over the summer, Mr. Obama talked 
 about invading Pakistan, a nation armed with nuclear weapons; meeting 
 without preconditions with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who vows to destroy 
 Israel and create another Holocaust; and Kim Jong II, who is murdering 
 and starving his people, but emphasized that the nuclear option was 
 off the table against terrorists - something no president has ever 
 taken off the table since we created nuclear weapons in the 1940s. 
 Even Democrats who have worked in national security condemned all of 
 those remarks. Mr. Obama is a foreign-policy novice who would put our 
 national security at risk. 
 
Next, consider economic policy. For all its faults, our health care 
 system is the strongest i n the world. And free trade agreements, 
 created by Bill Clinton as well as President Bush, have made more 
 goods more afforda ble so that even people of modest means can live a 
 life that no one imagined a generation ago. Yet Mr. Obama promises to 
 raise taxes on "the rich." How to fix Social Security? Raise taxes. 
 How to fix Medicare? Raise taxes. Prescription drugs? Raise taxes. 
 Free college? Raise taxes. Socialize medicine? Raise taxes. His 
 solution to everything is to have government take it over. Big Brother 
 on steroids, funded by your paycheck. 
 
Finally, look at the social issues. Mr. Obama had the audacity to open 
 a stadium rally by saying, "All praise and glory to God!" but says 
 that Chris tian leaders speaking for life and marriage have "hijacked" 
 - hijacked - Chris tianity. He is pro-partial birth abortion, and 
 promises to appoint Supreme Court justices who will rule any 
 restriction on it unconstitutional. He espous es the abortion views of 
 Margaret Sanger, one of the early advocates of racial cleansing. His 
 spiritual leaders endorse homosexual marriage, and he is moving in 
 that direction. In Illinois , he refused to vote against a statewide 
 ban - ban - on all handguns in the state. These are radical left, 
 Hollywood , and San Francis co values, not Middle America values. 
 
The real Mr. Obama is an easy target for the general election. Mrs. 
 Clinton is a far tougher opponent. But Mr. Obama could win if people 
 don't start looking behind his veneer and flowery speeches. His vision 
 of "bringing America together" means saying that those who disagree 
 with his agenda for America are hijackers or warmongers. Uniting the 
 country means adopting his liberal agenda and abandoning any 
 conflicting beliefs. 
 
But right now everyone is talking about how eloquent of a speaker he 
 is and - yes - they're talking about his race. Those should never be 
 the factors on which we base our choice for president. Mr. Obama's 
 radical agenda sets him far outside the American mainstream, to the 
 left of Mrs. Clinton. 
 
            
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