Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is allowing donors to use largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity, campaign officials confirmed.
Faced with a huge influx of donations over the Internet, the campaign has also chosen not to use basic security measures to prevent potentially illegal or anonymous contributions from flowing into its accounts, aides acknowledged. Instead, the campaign is scrutinizing its books for improper donations after the money has been deposited.
The inescapable conclusion is that Barack Obama is a highly deceptive, often dishonest individual. Again, many would say this is standard operating procedure for politicians in our culture (and most others too). But Obama presents himself as something different, a new kind of post-modern politician above the conventional dirty dealings of backroom politics.
Like Roger, the crux of my problem with Obama is not his left wing past, but that he tries to hide it. It’s the dishonesty that is troubling. The willful, even enthusiastic, participation of the MSM in promoting the lies and deception disturbs me.
The MSM keep referring to William Ayers as a 1960’s radical, as if his politics have moderated. Here’s some fairly recent video of Ayers being interviewed by Luis Bonilla-Molina, President of the Centro Internacional Miranda, where he shares his views on the role he believes critical education can serve in the promotion of Bolivarian Revolution.
[Three minutes and fifty-eight seconds into the interview.]
Ayers:One way of looking at is the Weather Underground was a great teaching moment; and to the extend that we didn’t fully realize what we attempted we were bad teachers.
It is obvious Ayers, the Chicago education reformer, has radical views about the role of education in politics, and vice versa. I don’t know exactly when this video was filmed, but I’m pretty certain it was after the years Obama and Ayers worked together at the Annenberg Challenge.
As Stanley Kurtz points out, “Ayers’ radicalism isn’t something in the past. It’s something to which Obama gave moral and financial support as an adult. So when Shane says that Obama has never expressed sympathy for Ayers’ radicalism, he’s flat wrong. Obama’s funded it.”
