Barack Hussein Obama
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. (b. Honolulu, August 4, 1961) is the 2008 Democratic presidential primary nominee, and the first African-American to be the nominee for the Democratic Party.[1] Obama is a freshman Democratic Senator from Illinois, first elected to statewide office in 2004.
Before entering the Senate, Obama was a constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago.[2]
Obama falsely claimed that he "had an uncle who was one of the — who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps. And the story in our family was that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn't leave the house for six months."[3] In fact, the Soviet army liberated Auschwitz. Embarrassed, the Obama campaign later admitted that Obama was wrong, and claimed he should have said that Obama's great-uncle helped liberate a subcamp of Buchenwald.[4]
Obama states that he consistently opposed the Iraq War since 2002, a claim and position that former President Bill Clinton criticized as "the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."[5]
Positions and Qualifications
Obama is pro-abortion. Obama said "the first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act".[6] He supports comprehensive sex education, including information about contraception. He quipped that he would not want his daughters "punished with a baby" or an STD for not using appropriate protection.
Obama has no military or executive experience and little foreign policy experience.[7] Yet he is the favorite of the leftist attack site "MoveOn.org" for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2008 election,[8] campaigning to the left of Hillary Clinton.[9]
He has no clear personal achievement that cannot be explained as the likely result of affirmative action.[Citation Needed] Some examples border on the absurd: Obama has no background in [
- ↑ Democratic Party website
- ↑ http://www.law.uchicago.edu/media/index.html
- ↑ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,359061,00.html
- ↑ http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/05/27/obamas_uncle_and_the_liberatio.html#more Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton later claimed that Obama's great-uncle "served in the 89th Infantry Division that Liberated Ohrdruf, a Subcamp of Buchenwald, the First Camp Liberated by Americans, on April 4, 1945." Given that Obama misrepresented what happened, one can also wonder about his story that his relative went into the attic and did not leave his house for six months afterwards.
- ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1131516320080111
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ "Fresh doubts over Barack Obama's foreign policy credentials were expressed on both sides of the Atlantic last night, after it emerged that he had made only one brief official visit to London – and none elsewhere in Western Europe or Latin America. ... Mr. Obama had failed to convene a single policy meeting of the Senate European subcommittee, of which he is chairman."[2]
- ↑ MoveOn.org reportedly favored Obama by 70-30% over Clinton. [3]
- ↑ For example, Obama promised not to use nuclear weapons against terrorists, a promise Hillary Clinton refused to make. [4]