Published:Friday, July 18, 2008 10:55 AM PDT
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Americans need to investigate Obama
Friday, July 18, 2008 10:55 AM PDT

Do you believe the American people need to know all the facts about the people they elect to the presidency?

One fact that needs investigating is the fact that Barack Obama is the least investigated, researched and studied, the least known candidate in our history. When asked about his record when he was an Illinois senator he said — In the senate, every document, every piece of information related to government is kept by the state and has been disclosed and is available right now. Yet the state responded to the inquiries saying they do not maintain these records nor have they received requests from Obama to archive his record.

Not much transparency here.

We do know that Tony Rezko a Syrian living in Chicago has been the political Godfather to Obama and has bank rolled his political career since 1996. We do know that two months after Obama took his Senate seat, he purchased $50,000 in stock of a risky nature, in companies owned by his biggest campaign contributors and we do know that one of these, a biotech concern, benefited from legislation Obama pushed just two weeks after he purchased $5,000 worth of stock.

We do know about his connection to William Ayers and his wife, both radicals, who don’t regret bombing the Pentagon, police stations and 23 other places and wishes they had done more. This man is now teaching in a college and he and Obama were on a board of the Woods Foundation that gave $7,500 to the Arab-American Action Network. Apparently Ayers’ terrorist past does not bother Obama anymore than his pastor Wright’s anti-American rantings that he chose to listen to for 20 years.

Most of the news media is willing to give Obama a pass, but I don’t think anyone should be elected to our highest office without a thorough investigation.

Lois R. Bowen

Coquille


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