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He says he didn't know for 20 years what his spiritual mentor's crazy world views were (and wasn't curious enough to ask).
He didn't know that he was fund-raising in an unrepentant terrorist's living room (when everybody else in Chicago did).
He didn't know Resko was a crook (Obama now admits he entered into a real estate transaction with Resko when there was already a "cloud over his head").
He didn't know Acorn was and is a totally partisan operation trying to win the election for him (he was their lawyer and worked with them as a community organizer).
He didn't know the Surge in Iraq would work (he said on Fox News that he was surprised it did).
So...
If Obama, after twenty years of knowing one of the most influential people in his life cannot figure out what his pastor is thinking,
then how is he going to be perceptive enough to know what Ahmadinejad is thinking when he meets "unconditionally" with him.
Or Chavez, or Putin, or Raul Castro or the North Koreans, or Assad?
How is he gonna know what kind of people his advisers really are?
Is he really that stupid? Or will he just say anything to trick people?
Well, he is a lawyer...By any chance, could he be using linguistic deception like every lawyer does to sway a jury?
Or is he really just Mr. Magoo?
Which one is it?
By the way...
What if McCain was the one to break his promise to take public financing and then out spent Obama 4 to 1, spending more money on negative attack ads than any candidate in history?
What if McCain had the same relationship with an abortion clinic bomber in the same way that Obama has a relationship with a guy that exploded bombs at NYC police and the Pentagon?
What if Cindy McCain only gave money to charity and whined about the U.S. being a downright mean country while Michelle Obama sat on the board of that charity, and went around the world helping to remove land mines, providing free surgery, and adopted a baby from Bangladesh?
What if the Democrats were prosecuting a war, and in the middle of an important operation that was only halfway implemented, McCain started making public speeches yelling that the operation was doomed to failure, giving aid and comfort to the enemy while demoralizing our own troops...and then it turned out that he was completely wrong?
What if McCain was a member of a Church that preached White Liberation instead of Black Liberation and his "Spiritual Mentor" said all kinds of wacky things like The U.S. Government created the AIDS virus and his pastor gave David Duke a lifetime achievement award instead of Farrakhan, and then his Pastor and David Duke went to hang out with some dictator like Rev. Wright and Farrakhan did with Col. Kaddafi of Libya?
What if McCain did business with Rezko, took all that money from Fanny Mae, and had a 20 year relationship with an organization that was being investigated by the FBI for nationwide voter fraud?
What if Obama wasn't black, he was a white guy and was just running on his ideas and qualifications?
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