Obama background finally coming out

There is no secret, or sudden, rush of anti-Obama smears gushing forth, as he'd like you to believe.

For whatever reason, the mainstream press is finally giving some scant space to what has been known from the getgo--the strange background of Barack Obama. It is no freshly discovered truth about Obama's close relationships to Weatherman Bill Ayres and his wife Bernadine Dohrn. That's been public and documented for years.

It is no secret either, about Obama's relationship with shadowy Syrian financier Tony Rezko--who put up the dough so Obama could buy a mansion he couldn't otherwise afford, and has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into his poliitical campaigns. The only new information is that Rezko was indicted and convicted of fraud in the last few months. That the press has chosen to virtually ignore it is all that makes it seem like a fresh revelation now.

The blackout on Obama's world tour with the radical left after he quite Occidental College in California, his writings and activities at Columbia and Harvard Universities, and his role with the socialist New Party in Illinois--the facts are just waiting to be brought out.

Obama's juvenile drug use--which has has written of in his two books--has been roundly ignored in the mainstream media, but should spark at least legitimate questions.

Obama's extensive ties to Muslims and terrorists are also a legitimate area of questions. His Muslim half brother in Africa, his Muslim half sister in Hawaii. His attendance in Muslim schools until the sixth grade. His relationships with Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farakhan and Moamar Khadafy, the brutal Muslim dictator of Libya. All these are legitimate areas of concern and questions that the mass media has given Obama a pass on.

What if John McCain had a 20-year friendship with Klansman David Duke, or was tight with right wing religious figures like Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson or James Dobson? Just the opposite is actually true--but how wild would the mass media go if anything like this could be said about McCain?

Let's face it: Barack Obama is one of the least vetted, least tested and most fawned over by the mass media, presidential candidates in history.

That someone--anyone--is now questioning this, is more than they can take.