First of all, when I talk about Sen. Obama as a radical, I am not speaking of his character, but his idealogy. When I first became involved in deciding who to vote for this election because I am as frustrated as everyone else with the problems in the nation, I looked long and hard at the Democratic primary. I did not get my wished in the Republican primary and surely as the Democratic primary unfolded, I really began to investigate. It is easy to investigate Sen, McCain..his record is public...same with Sen Clinton. Thus I felt that is was important to know who this guy Sen Obama was, as he has a minimal public record.

I did basically the same thing I would do if I were hiring someone in a top flight position. Who trained him, what does he believe, etc. In the middle of my investigation, the Rev Wright episode took place which pretty much sealed the deal. Cetainly we should discuss that episode because it has impact on who Sen Obama is.

But this morning someone challanged me to talk about WHY I think Sen Obama is radical, and before I go on....to me...this is my personal opinion....change is great but change JUST FOR CHANGE can be so very dangerous.

One of Sen Obama's early heros in politics was Saul Alinsky. Let me introduce you to Saul Alinsky...here is a link to read some general stuff about him..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky

I think one of the most telling lines in that capsule is that Sen Clinton wrote her senior thesis on him but when she went to the WH, the White House asked Wesley College to restrict access to her writings so that she would not be too closely associated with him. He was a model for Cesar Chavez.

Just LAST WEEK, Saul Alinsky's son commented on how the Democratic convention met all the specifics that his father had spelled out...its first line "In Artful Dodger style, Barack Obama, plays down his mentorship with Communist author Saul Alinsky. " tells a lot. Below is a link to that story which you will note is in the Canadian Press...

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4784

I am restricting what I link to so that those who would say I am linking to hard right websites cannot do so. There is much more on his relationships with other RADICAL LEFT WING folks.

This is not a smear campaign because I have no reason to beleive that he is nothing but a nice man, it is his idealogy of RADICAL LEFT WING that I do not want in the White House.