Actor Jon Voight on Obama

**nativetexan** · 07-31-2008, 05:45 AM

Nicely written...and true I am afraid.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/28/voight/

VOIGHT: My concerns for America

Obama sowing socialist seeds in young people

OP-ED
We, as parents, are well aware of the importance of our teachers who teach and program our children. We also know how important it is for our children to play with good-thinking children growing up.
Sen. Barack Obama has grown up with the teaching of very angry, militant white and black people: the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, William Ayers and Rev. Michael Pfleger. We cannot say we are not affected by teachers who are militant and angry. We know too well that we become like them, and Mr. Obama will run this country in their mindset.
The Democratic Party, in its quest for power, has managed a propaganda campaign with subliminal messages, creating a God-like figure in a man who falls short in every way. It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country and help create a socialist America.
The Democrats have targeted young people, knowing how easy it is to bring forth whatever is needed to program their minds. I know this process well. I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement. The radicals of that era were successful in giving the communists power to bring forth the killing fields and slaughter 2.5 million people in Cambodia and South Vietnam. Did they stop the war, or did they bring the war to those innocent people? In the end, they turned their backs on all the horror and suffering they helped create and walked away.
Those same leaders who were in the streets in the '60s are very powerful today in their work to bring down the Iraq war and to attack our president, and they have found their way into our schools. William Ayers is a good example of that.
Thank God, today, we have a strong generation of young soldiers who know exactly who they are and what they must do to protect our freedom and our democracy. And we have the leadership of Gen. David Petraeus, who has brought hope and stability to Iraq and prevented the terrorists from establishing a base in that country. Our soldiers are lifting us to an example of patriotism at a time when we've almost forgotten who we are and what is at stake.
If Mr. Obama had his way, he would have pulled our troops from Iraq years ago and initiated an unprecedented bloodbath, turning over that country to the barbarianism of our enemies. With what he has openly stated about his plans for our military, and his lack of understanding about the true nature of our enemies, there's not a cell in my body that can accept the idea that Mr. Obama can keep us safe from the terrorists around the world, and from Iran, which is making great strides toward getting the atomic bomb. And while a misleading portrait of Mr. Obama is being perpetrated by a media controlled by the Democrats, the Obama camp has sent out people to attack the greatness of Sen. John McCain, whose suffering and courage in a Hanoi prison camp is an American legend.
Gen. Wesley Clark, who himself has shame upon him, having been relieved of his command, has done their bidding and become a lying fool in his need to demean a fellow soldier and a true hero.
This is a perilous time, and more than ever, the world needs a united and strong America. If, God forbid, we live to see Mr. Obama president, we will live through a socialist era that America has not seen before, and our country will be weakened in every way.
Jon Voight is an Academy Award-winning actor who is well-known for his humanitarian work.

**pendog** · 07-31-2008, 10:40 AM

Very well written

**wtnhunt** · 07-31-2008, 11:14 AM

Glanced through the comments below on your link briefly, some interesting perspectives posted there. Have said from the very beginning that the hype around Obama was what was gaining him support, not his leadership credentials and qualifications or should I say lack of. I never thought Oprah and the media could buy a candidate the support that he has gained, admittedly I thought wrong.

Mr Voight is in my opinion pretty accurate in his writing, Obama has admitted to being a member of the church where Wright spoke/preached for over 20 years. Obama himself said of the clips shown of Wright spewing anti white and anti US sentiment that they were wrong, however he said that in the 20 years of his time as a member of the congregation of that church, he never heard those messages. Either he is naive for not seeing it or he is a liar, or it is also possible he could be both naive and deceitful. People really need to open their eyes, hopefully enough will do so before it is too late.

**nativetexan** · 07-31-2008, 05:03 PM

Yeah. It's hard to read over the uneducated comments below this article and not feel your blood pressure rise just a little bit.

**Lead Poison** · 08-01-2008, 05:13 AM

Originally Posted by wtnhunt

Glanced through the comments below on your link briefly, some interesting perspectives posted there. Have said from the very beginning that the hype around Obama was what was gaining him support, not his leadership credentials and qualifications or should I say lack of. I never thought Oprah and the media could buy a candidate the support that he has gained, admittedly I thought wrong.

Mr Voight is in my opinion pretty accurate in his writing, Obama has admitted to being a member of the church where Wright spoke/preached for over 20 years. Obama himself said of the clips shown of Wright spewing anti white and anti US sentiment that they were wrong, however he said that in the 20 years of his time as a member of the congregation of that church, he never heard those messages. Either he is naive for not seeing it or he is a liar, or it is also possible he could be both naive and deceitful. People really need to open their eyes, hopefully enough will do so before it is too late.

EXCELLENT POST...I AGREE WITH YOU 100%!!!!