Published: October 07, 2008 12:04 pm         

Obama is the wrong choice

If I were a terrorist, I would want American citizens to elect someone who would help me destroy the country. Someone who shares my views on foreign policy. Someone who:

• Once declared that “Venezuela, Cuba and Iran do not pose a serious threat.”

• States that he can negotiate and reason with Holocaust-denying dictators.

• Is cheered and praised by thousands of anti-American Europeans.

• Believes terrorists should be given constitutional rights.

• Says that terrorism is a growing threat to the United States, but still wants to decrease military size and funding.

• Promotes U.S. dependency on terrorist funding countries by not allowing the U.S. to use its own resources.

If I were a terrorist, I would want Americans to elect a president who would make it easier for me to fight them. Someone who:

• Votes to de-fund U.S. troops while they’re in the middle of fighting a war.

• Destroys troop morale by publicly saying the war is going poorly and shouldn’t even have been waged.

• Still doesn’t acknowledge that the troop surge has worked.

• While in Germany, decides to work out instead of visit the troops because the media would not be allowed to come along.

• Boasts about being able to end the violence in Iraq, but hasn’t even been able to quell the violence in his home city.

If I were a terrorist, I would also like Americans to elect someone who surrounds himself with the same kinds of people that I surrounded myself with. Someone who:

• Had an adviser who openly admitted to “having regular contacts with terrorist organizations.”

• Has been endorsed by Hamas.

• Confesses to having a “friendly relationship” with a terrorist who bombed the Pentagon.

• Gave speeches, served on a board and launched his political career from this same terrorist’s house.

• Was a member of an anti-American church for over 20 years.

• Had a “spiritual adviser” that damns America from the pulpit of his church.

• Only denounces this “spiritual adviser” when it is politically expedient for him to do so.

If I were a terrorist, I would want the next president to lack experience and help spread anti-American sentiment around the world. I would want someone who:

• Doesn’t hesitate to say that America is “no longer what it once was.”

• Began running for president just 143 days after becoming a U.S. senator.

• Professes to be a unifier to the country, but could not even unify his own party..

If I were a terrorist I would endorse Barack Hussein Obama, but it seems my peers have already beaten me to it.

— James Darius

Ligonier