Polishing my opinion of Barack Obama...

This will be ongoing with discoveries and my reactions as the campaign rolls along. I've a few already. I suspect there will be many, many more. Let's look at the candidate together for a change.


A Che Guevera poster hangs in his campaign offices.

He refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance early in his campaign for president.

He says he was not raised in a Muslim madrassa; there are indications that he was. Would this make the president of the US more Jihadist target?

This could or could not be a problem, depending upon your point of view. After all, as president he's a target anyway and might well be safer! That may be moot.

Those are three issues which need verification and debate. Frankly, until they hit the major news outlets, I'm not going to think about them yet. They do bother me a lot though if they are true.

America has been very good to you, Michelle
How disappointing to hear Michelle Obama, Barack's accomplished wife, confess this is the first time in her adult life she is really proud of her country.

Really, Michelle? That same country that sent you to an Ivy League school? The same one who just freed 78 million people in Iraq, 28 million in Afghanistan, millions more in the twentieth century? Really, Michelle?

You mean the country that admits the horrors of what it has done to some of your ancestors and has actually ameliorated itself to the point of finding ways for you, the great granddaughter of wronged people, to become a first lady of that country that you're just now proud of? Wow.

Just wow.

Thanks for the read.