One thing cannot be disputed about Parcels though, is his record. Bill Parcels has a reputation and a record of taking loosing franchises and turning them into contenders and in some cases champions. As a matter of fact one of Bill Parcel’s most well known quotes is about records and their importance in judging a teams performance.
"In professional sports, you are what you are. Whatever you finish, that's what you are. If you're 1-15, you're a 1-15 team. If you're 2-14, you're 2-14, no better, no worse. You can look in the brochure and see that the team is 5-9, but it only lost 6 games by a total of nine points? You follow me? The reason the team is 5-9 is because it wasn't any good in close games. With all these sports p.r. guys, the implication is that the team just ran into some bad luck, really you should have finished 9-5. That isn't the way it is in my mind. If you're 2-14, you're 2-14."
That is pretty much true in life also, you are what you are, you are what your record shows you to be. I very much believe in redemption, a person can change and become somebody else, establishing a new record, however this does not remove the old record. Using sports again this would be like what the Tampa Bay Rays did this year. Last year they had the worst record in baseball, this year they had one of the best and won their division and are headed to the World Series. They changed their record, not in the press or through a slick PR campaign, but on the field of play, where it counts, where it matters.
That is life. People are judged and evaluated by their records, or should be. There is this narrative out there about Barack Obama, but there is also a record. A voting record both in the Senate and the Illinois Legislature, a record of his past positions on certain boards he has served on and what he did, a record of what he did as a community organizer and a civil rights lawyer, a record of his college classes at Harvard, Columbia and Oxidental. There is also the record of his associations and political alliances both in and out of government.
None of these have ever been out of bounds as far as a presidential candidate before. In fact, in 1999 while running for president George Bush’s college transcripts were leaked to the press. He took quite a bit of abuse about being a C student at Yale. Of course after the election it was revealed that Gore was not any better at Harvard and in 2004 we learned that Kerry actually had a lower grade point average at Yale than Bush did. If Barack Obama were applying for a national security clearance, his entire background including associations and financial dealings would be scrutinized and evaluated by the FBI and other organizations. But because he is running for president, we are his security clearance; our votes say that he is a good security risk.
Usually by this time we would know more than we want to know about a presidential candidate, remember George Bush’s DUI revelation? What do we know about Barack Obama? We know his narrative and we know his critics narrative. Since critics tend to be too critical and exaggerate the negative, it is easy to discount them, that is why we expect objective journalism, to set the record straight. Objective journalism provides facts in context, commentators can take those facts then spin them any way they want, but journalist just tells us the facts and lets us make our own judgment.
Let’s just take a few of Barack Obama’s acquaintances, associations and alliances. I will not delve into them though anyone who may wish to know more I would be glad to provide more information or you can do some investigation on your own, Lord knows the media is not giving us a clear picture. You can google any of the names below and find out who are future president considers appropriate to associate with.
First we have a friend whom in his book Dreams of My Father Obama refers to as just Frank. Obama calls him his friend; his mentor and Frank is like a father figure to him. Frank we know is Frank Marshal Davis. Mr. Davis is a member of the Communist Party of the United States and at one time was on the FBI subversive list. By his own admission Frank had a profound influence on a young Barack Obama.
Rashid Khalidi currently a member of the Columbia University formerly a professor at Chicago University. Dr. Khalidi was a director of the official PLO press agency WAFA in Beirut from 1976 to 1982. At that time the US State Department considered the PLO a terrorist organization. He has extreme, even radical views opposed to Israel, obviously and constantly rants against the United States. He held fund raisers for Obama’s campaigns which Obama attended. In addition Barack Obama when he was director of the Woods Fund distributed significant money to Khalidi’s organization Arab American Action Network. Feel free to investigate.
Another associate on the Woods Fund was of course the notorious William Ayers of Weather Underground fame. The connection of Ayers and Obama is far more extensive as is their time together on the Annenberg Challenge. Interesting for “just a guy in the neighborhood” the offices of the Annenberg Challenge and Mr. Ayers organization, Small Schools Workshop, were not only in the same building but on the same floor of that building for over five years. Of course since the Annenberg Challenge, which Obama chaired gave over a million dollars to Mr. Ayers Small School Workshop over the years it is not surprising they would be so close in proximity, though they just “served on a board together”. In addition Obama wrote a newspaper blurb praising Bill Ayers book in 1997 for the Chicago Times. Of course we all know that Mr. Ayers and his wife, the cream of socially acceptable life in the elite radical academia community of America, hosted the “coming out” of Barack Obama’s political career. There has been much subterfuge perpetrated to cover up most of this, by the Obama campaign, but it is all documented, as is much, much more.
There is Obama’s association with Tony Rezko, a major fundraiser for Obama and an ally in Chicogo housing projects. Which any reasonable non true believer, would easily see is a relationship between a slum lord and his political crony.’
There is Raila Odinga, who? Odinga is a Kenya political figure of the same tribe that Senator Obama’s father and I guess Barack Jr. still belongs to. In 2006 Senator Obama went to Kenya and campaigned for this man Odinga, despite the fact that Odinga had a pact with Islam elements which only comprise 10% of the Kenyan population-80% is either Protestant or Catholic. The pact among other things was to help establish Islamic Law in Kenya. Odinga by the way is Anglican! Odinga also has strong ties to Communist, his father having been supported by the Soviet Union against the then pro west Kenyan democracy. In fact Raila went to college in East Germany and his oldest son’s name is Fidel. Despite the very angry protests of the Kenya government, Senator Obama not only stayed with Odinga, a cousin, but campaigned with him at political rallies. Needless to say Odinga with his radical views and background, unlike in the United States, could not win the presidency of Kenya. But he could and did inflame his supporter into mass rioting, burning churches and killing women and children along with the opposition. This by the way was all happening while Hillary was winning in New Hampshire upsetting the medias favorite son Barack Obama. A personal note here, I do not believe Obama is Muslim, I don’t think he is religious at all.
There is Reverend Wright and the United Trinity Church which practices Black Liberation Theology, with its roots and practices in Marxist ideology. Barack Obama as chair of the Wood Fund and the Annenberg Challenge, funneled money to his church, which he attended for almost twenty years. Of course he denounces the Reverend Wright now though few Americans have any idea that the Reverend Wright was just preaching an ideology that is well in line with the people that Barack Obama has associated himself with his entire life.
There are Obama’s associations with various community groups, which he not only supported but also attended both as a supporter, trainer, lawyer or was actively supported by. Of course there is ACORN which once caught he had to change his web site to reflect his true associations with. He was either a member of The New Party or just strongly endorsed by them, either way he attended and spoke at their meetings and had no problem being photographed with other candidates who were affiliated with them. The New Party is or was a part of the American Socialist Party.
I have just touched the highlights of the past record of our next president. There is far, far, far more and I have not even touched on his voting record, the fact that he is rated the most Liberal Senator in the US Senate does not do him justice. The nice sweet narrative that the once Democratic Party has portrayed for him, with willing and deceitful compliance by the so-called mainstream media, is disgraceful. All of this is easily verifiable, all of this should have been investigated and either explained or at least put before the American people, but instead we know that a Toledo Plummer has a $1200 tax lien.
Charles Kroneheimer put it best when he noted that all these associations, again these are just a few, in the very best light show a political cynicism on Obama’s part. He either used these associations and relationships to advance his political career, that is the best we can hope for, or he actually believes in these extreme radical views that he has been involved in. I pray that it is the first, but I believe it is the latter.
I highly recommend you read a series of articles by Tomas Sowell called The Real Obama. Sowell is a renowned African American scholar and senior fellow in economics at Stanford. The articles have little to do with Obama’s associations, but a lot to do with our next president.
To quote old Bill Parcels “You are what your record says you are”
And to quote Arlo Guthrie “Goodbye America, I loved you, I’m your native son.”
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