Sarah Palin Goes on the Offensive

  Barack Obama has allot of ghosts in his past. We are not supposed to talk about them, when the subject is brought up we are accused of engaging in the politics of personal destruction. We are accused of not sticking to the issues. We are accused of character assassination. But his past should be talked about, you can learn allot about a person by the people that he hangs around with.

 Barack Obama is trying to run from his past, or more correctly, he is trying to hide his past. He doesn’t want his past to be a campaign issue, and there is good reason for that. But his past should be an issue, for we can tell much about the man if we know where he came from. His relationships with Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, and Bill Ayers are relationships that most Americans don’t even know about because they have been deemed off limits in the media with the exception of talk radio and the blogs.

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 The McCain campaign has been unwilling to bring up Obama’s past but now it appears as though Sarah Palin is going to go on the offensive and attack Barack Obama for his past (and possible present) connections to some despicable characters.

  Today Sarah Palin accused Barack Obama of “palling around with terrorists”, a direct attack on Obama’s relationship to domestic terrorist, William Ayers. Barack Obama has tried to downplay his relationship with Ayers, but he was co-founder of a foundation with him, and it was recently learned that Obama actually funded Bill Ayers’ radical teachings through this foundation.

 She also attacked his negative view, or embarrassment (to use his own word), of the country which has given him everything that he could have possibly wanted.

“Our opponent … is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough, that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.” She also said, “This is not a man who sees America as you see America and as I see America.”

 But William Ayers isn’t the only questionable character that Obama knows, there is still that sweetheart land deal that Obama got through convicted slumlord Tony Rezko. We aren’t supposed to talk about this little tidbit from Obama’s past either.

 And then there is Obama’s spiritual guide, the Reverend Wright. The hate spewing, venom filled preacher who spreads racism and lies through his church. He claims that the United States government created AIDS to kill black people, wants God to damn America, and said that on 9/11 America’s chickens had come home to roost. He said all this while on the pulpit. The pulpit of a church that Barack Obama not only went to for twenty years but also thought it wise to bring his little girls there to hear this man’s hatred. Reverend Wright served on Obama’s campaign staff until that unfortunate video surfaced, this man isn’t in the distant past.

 We are not supposed to talk about any of these issues because Barack Obama doesn’t want us to. You may believe that none of this is relevant to the campaign, but I do. This man has several questionable ties in his past, at least I think that they are in his past, and it brings us to the issue of Barack Obama’s judgement.

 Barack Obama is running on his judgement and so I feel it is a legitimate issue to look into Obama’s past and see the kind of people he was hanging around, and being mentored by. If a person’s past isn’t a legitimate issue than why did the Obama campaign send a team of thirty people up to Alaska to dig up dirt on Sarah Palin? You can’t have it both ways.

 The McCain campaign is beginning to question Barack Obama’s character and Sarah Palin has gone on the offensive.

 It is about time, but it is probably too late.