Why I'm Afraid of a President Barack Obama

Why I'm Afraid of a President Barack Obama
Sandy Rios
Thursday, May 22, 2008

“What are you so afraid of?” a caller to my Chicago radio show asked.
“Green” is a veteran with two sons serving in Iraq. He is adamantly
against the war and adamantly for Barack Obama. Though we don’t agree
on much, Green is the consummate gentlemen and his question is a good
one. So I must respond.

If Barack Obama is elected President of the United States, I fear our
enemies will smell the blood of weakness and rise in retaliation here
and abroad. While Obama makes sweeping promises to end the war in
Iraq, he never projects the consequences. Radical Islam is waging a
holy war against us—and they have no intent on ending their war
against the West. Withdrawal will be perceived as surrender and the
election of a president sympathetic to their cause will embolden them
like nothing else. Iraq will recede into bloody, sectarian retaliatory
violence. Iran will take advantage and wield new power in the region.
Our military families will have the sacrifice of their loved ones
rendered meaningless. And our enemies will come here.

Israel will find itself alone. Europe and the British Isles, already
too overrun with Islamists, will provide little defense. A future
President Obama, who is a dear friend to PLO sympathizer andYasser-
Arafat-apologist Rashid Kalidi, who is championed by members of Hamas
in Gaza and endorsed by one of their leaders, will, I fear, not lift a
finger to defend them. It is, after all, this same future president
who has sat for 20 years (until recently without objection), listening
to Dr. Jeremiah Wright praise Hamas and the famous Israel despiser,
Louis Farrakhan.

I fear Iran will continue to develop nuclear weapons and breathlessly
rush to the annihilation of Israel which will bring war to the Middle
East. Iran will gladly make these weapons available to terrorist
groups who will use them in the same way they currently show their
contempt for life in smaller ways with suicide bombs. President Barack
Obama will be powerless to stop this. He is a man full of words, but
lacking in resolve … except on the following:

• He boasts a 100 percent voting record in opposing pre-born human
life. The enthusiastic endorsement of NARAL’s Pro-Choice America gives
a glimpse at his certainty. Barack Obama has given us little reason to
believe that he has opposed abortion, at any time, for any reason.

• He was appalled that the Supreme Court in Carhart vs. Gonzales
upheld a ban on partial birth abortion (that last trimester method
that pulls a baby from the womb, feet first, inserts scissors in the
head, sucks out the brains and crushes the skull before removing its
murdered body). He was outraged that a woman’s “right to choose” had
been impeded.

• He is against parental consent and notification laws and favors what
can only be called infanticide—continually opposing legislation that
would require medical treatment and food for children born alive with
disabilities after a failed abortion. I fear more brutality on the
unborn and more erosion of the value of human life.

I fear universal healthcare, a system that will run like Cook County
Hospital in Chicago where patients wait for hours, get lousy care and—
if and when they are seen—have little recourse for the way they are
treated. Government healthcare puts you at the mercy of government: no
alternative if medicines or procedures are denied and no recourse if
doctors botch a surgery or when patients are neglected by incompetent
nurses. I fear “equality” in a system like that—we will all get
equally marginal care. Managed care and HMOs will look like heaven
compared to this.

I fear the loss of free speech. I am concerned talk radio and
independent news sources will be regulated to the point that they are
effectively silenced. I fear more cases like that of Crystal Dixon,
Associate Vice President for Human Resources at Toledo University, who
was recently fired for writing a column as a private citizen, making
the case as an African American that homosexuality cannot be equated
to race in a civil rights debate. Barack Obama has been heralded by
award-winning gay journalist, Andrew Sullivan, because he embraces
expanded homosexual rights through ENDA and the punishment of those
who would be “intolerant” to this lifestyle through hate crimes
legislation. I fear those who oppose the homosexual moral and
political agenda will be further punished. I fear his embrace of
homosexual marriage and the consequences to children and society.

I fear the influence of radicals like William Ayers, formerly of the
Weather Underground. I fear that, in addition to his desire to
violently overthrow the United States Government, his endorsement of
“Queering Elementary Education” will become more prevalent in public
schools. I fear children will become further prey to the sexual agenda
by those that will settle for nothing less than indoctrination into
sexual activity as early and as often as possible.

I fear racial vengeance. I don’t believe Barack Obama has sat at the
feet of the hate-filled black racial bigot Jeremiah Wright without
having sympathy for his poisonous diatribes. He may agree that white
America deserves some sort of payback.

I fear an expansion of the graft and corruption that so represents
Cook County and Chicago politics, his training ground. It drains
resources, rewards scoundrels and brings destruction—both economic and
personal—to all.

I fear economic collapse from a politically inexperienced orator who
does not love the free market, but socialism, who seeks justice and
“fairness” that, translated, means taking from some and giving it to
those he perceives deserve it more. I am concerned that the poor will
be poorer and that “equality” will mean all will be poorer—regardless
of effort or merit.

I fear the loss of our national identity thru the flood of more
illegal immigration already championed by Obama, draining resources
and creating further burden on the educational and healthcare
systems.

I fear the distortion of the true meaning of following Christ. I fear
soaring rhetoric that elevates man and promises a “kingdom right here
on earth,” and, rather than acknowledging our depravity, seeks to
accommodate it.

What is it I am afraid of if Barack Obama becomes President of the
United States? All of this and more. Maybe the chickens really will
soon come home to roost. But when they do, we can’t say we haven’t
invited a presidential fox into the henhouse.



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