Far to the Left of the American Mainstream
By David Aikman

Senator Barack Obama has brought excitement and eloquence to the Democratic Party presidential contest. He is intelligent, says gracious things about his political opponents, and does not seem mean-spirited. He has also galvanized into politics legions of hitherto apolitical young people.

Obama is, nevertheless, possibly the most left-wing major presidential candidate this country has ever seen. For two decades, he attended a church in Chicago pastored by a man who preached rabidly anti-white and anti-American sermons. He has been friends with an American left-wing former terrorist who, as recently as September 2001, showed no regrets whatever for his violent actions of the 1970's. He was friends in Chicago with a Palestinian professor outspokenly hostile to Israel and at a dinner in 1998 sat next to one of the Palestinian community's most poisonously leftist critics of America, Dr. Edward Said.

Obama is a pleasant fellow. But he is far, far left.

This is what makes him more of a threat. 'If too many people do not look behind the curtain' and are taken in by his personality and demeanor, we could elect someone whose policies could be very detrimental to the U.S. as we know it.

For those on the left who want to revolutionize and dramatically reshape the US of A, this is their dream candidate.