Publius,

There is so much out there about Senator Obama that it is downright intimidating to even begin.  Below is a list of reasons why Barack Obama must not be president.  They are summarized with the major points included.  They are "introductory" in nature and I invite you to take just one that intersts you and hit the search engines.  It is amazing what you will find.  They range from the hilarious to the downright scandalous in nature.  Any ONE of these would derail a more scrutinized candidate.  They are all true. 

1. Staged Fainting Spells:  Early in his campaign, women in his audiences were fainting.  A ritual evolved where the fainting would occur and Barack Obama would stop his speech and provide a drink of water.  People started taking notice and he was called on this by the conservative media and by Fox News.  There was speculation that the faintings were staged.  The faintings mysteriously stopped.  You be the judge.

2.  Meddled in Kenyan Tribal Politics:  As a U.S. Senator Barack Obama took a trip to his Kenyan Ancestral Homeland funded by you, the taxpayer.  There was an election occurring at the time.  He backed a very left wing communist candidate.  This candidate's name was Raila Odinga.  He is from the same tribe in Kenya as Barack Obama senior, the senator's father.  Odinga traveled with Barack and was strategically present in many of Barack's phot ops.  This same Raila Odinga made a deal with the Muslim population in Kenya that the schools would teach the Muslim faith in order to gain the Muslim support.  Odinga is a Marxist.  Odinga lost and accused his adversary of voter fraud questioning the validity of the election.  His supporters went on a rampage, killing children, and raping women.  Obama intervened and suggested a "power sharing" agreement between his candidate and the actual winner of the election.  Obama made no moral judgment on Odinga and his supporters.  He meddled in Kenyan politics and indirectly caused the deaths of innocents.  You don't have to believe me, read Dr. Corsi’s book The Obama Nation.  Look it up yourself. 

3. Friends with Terrorists: Barack Obama is a friend of William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.  These two model citizens are former founding members of an organization called the Weather Underground.  They were an anti Vietnam War terrorist organization that bombed the Pentagon, the Capital, New York City Police Headquarters, and were responsible for a Brinks Car Robbery where people were killed.  As late as 2001 Mr. Ayers was unrepentant about his behavior and said "we should have done more."  Barack Obama sat on the Boards of Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and the Woods Foundation with William Ayers.  Barrack’s political career was launched in the Ayers home at a fundraiser where he was introduced to the Chicago Political Establishment.  Obama says "he's just a guy who lives in the neighborhood."  This is a lie.  Don't believe me, read Stanley Kurtz or Michael Barone in the Wall Street Journal and the National Review.

4. Friends with Corrupt Slum Lord:  One of Barack Obama's patrons and his top fundraiser from Chicago is one Tony Rezko.  Mr. Rezko is a slumlord of the worst kind.  His company performed shoddy work on Chicago public housing projects.  Barack Obama funneled money to Rezko even after it was learned that residents (in Obama's State Senate District) were living in deplorable conditions with no heat in the winter.  Barack and Michelle wanted to buy their dream house in the upscale Hyde Park section of Chicago but couldn't afford it.  The property came with an extra lot.  In order to afford the property Mr. Rezko's wife bought the extra lot at full asking price.  Barack and Michelle bought the house at $300,000 below asking price.  Obama threw Tony Rezko under the bus and said that the deal on his house was a "boneheaded move."  How many of those will we see in an Obama Presidency?

5.  Chicago Annenberg Challenge:  Barack Obama was the Chairman of the Board of the "Chicago Annenberg Challenge."  It was a philanthropic effort to improve public education in Chicago.  This is Barack Obama's only claim to “executive" experience.  Barack Obama oversaw the spending of $110,000,000 in this effort.   Although its intent was to improve Public Education, it was executed as a way to distribute money to progressive liberal education organizations.  The program and all of the money that was used to fund it was a miserable failure and yielded NO improvement in Student Outcomes.  Don't believe me, read the final report.  It’s on the Web.  

6.  Anti-Military:  Barack Obama's irresponsible policies toward the military will leave us unprotected.  Don't believe me, believe Barack himself by following this youtube link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7DiBI7_mI&feature=related

7. Black Liberation Theology/Reverend Jeremiah Wright:   Barack Obama was a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ.  This Church, in which Obama was married, and his Children were baptized is a disciple church in the teachings of a fellow named James Cone.  Cone says things like: "If there is any contemporary meaning of the Antichrist (or "the principalities and powers"), the white church seems to be a manifestation of it." [Black Theology and Black Power, p. 73].  Jeremiah Wright videos circulated where he said that AIDS was created to commit genocide against Black People.  He said that the 9/11 attack was "America's chickens coming home to roost."  He said that America is not the USA but the US KKK of A.  He said that it should not be God Bless America, but God Damn America.  These videos were discovered as they were simply being sold in the church lobby as a greatest hits collection. Barack Obama stated that he was not aware of Reverend Wrights Anti-American leanings.  He expects us to believe that, as obviously intelligent as he is, that he was unaware of the purpose and mission of the Church he attended for twenty years.  When Reverend Wright became a political liability he left the church and disavowed his relationship with him.   His second book  title "The Audacity of Hope" is a line that he borrowed from one of Reverend Wright's sermons.

8. Attempted to delay Troop Withdrawal:  Barack Obama is for withdrawing troops from Iraq, but only if he gets credit for it.  During his trip to Iraq he urged the Iraqi Prime Minister to wait until after the election to make any agreements for Troop Withdrawal.  He stated that it would not be a good idea to make any agreements with a "weakened Bush Administration."  Read Amin Taheri's columns in the New York Post.  This is a violation of law and a felony.

9. Admitted Habitual Drug User:  In his autobiography, "Dreams of My Father."  Barack Obama admitted to habitual Cocaine Use.  "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though," he says.

10. Tax Plan = Welfare:  Barack Obama wants to raise taxes on the Rich, this is clear and he says this openly.  What is not being said is that those at the bottom, who pay no taxes will benefit even more.  His plan calls for the Earned Income Tax Credits, and the per Child Tax Credits to not simply take the taxes owed down to zero, but to become refundable.  In other words, people will be issued a check for their negative balance.  This is welfare in disguise and will take us back to the failed welfare policies of Lyndon Johnson's great society.   

11. Sex Education for Kindergarten:  McCain was accused of lying about senator Obama in a political advertisement saying that Obama supported Sex Education for children in Kindergarten.  This was not a lie.  The bill that Obama supported said the following: "Each  class  or  course  in  comprehensive  sex education offered in any of  grades  K  6  through  12  shall  include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread HIV AIDS. Nothing in this Section prohibits instruction in sanitation, hygiene or traditional courses in biology."  This was cut and pasted directly from the Bill.   Look it up yourself. 

HM