Bill Sammon on Fox News today digs out a revealing paragraph from Barack Obama's autobiography:
"...Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34.Obama's affinity for Marxists began when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles. "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully," the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father." "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."
So does this prove that Obama is some kind of radical Marxist or Socialist in disguise? No, folks.
That's not the point here. Rather, this proves instead that Obama is all about appearances. He wanted to look good to the black community, wherever he lived. He didn't want to appear as a "sellout" (read: too close to whites). He was being political. He wanted to rise and be a big fish in whatever pond in which he found himself. In college, that meant associating with hard leftists. Elsewhere, it meant other things (for example, once elected to office in Illinois, he nurtured a view of himself as a centrist).
The question then becomes: is there really any there there? Or does he simply shape himself to fit any context, will he simply be whatever he has to be, in order to...well, gain power?
Is this all about gaining power for Barack Obama? Will he do or be anything to get it?
Is there really a core to this guy? Or is he really a...yes, say it...FAKE?
The evidence begins to add up.
