When I was growing up my mother was always concerned about who my friends were. She didn’t want me hanging out with kids who did bad things or that other parents thought were bad kids. Her explanation to me was that if my friends did bad things then people would think I was bad too. You know, as the old saying says, Birds of a feather flock together. At the time I didn’t understand her reasoning completely, but as I got older I got it.

I also learned something else too, with age. The best friends you have are those you agree with on most, if not all, issues. As adults we seek out people of like mind to talk to so that we have people to share our thoughts and feelings with without fear of recrimination when we open our hearts to someone. The same goes for those we choose to listen to or expose our children to.

Stop now and think about the people who you respect, admire, and love in your life. You know, the people you are close to and who have influence in your life. Do those people generally agree with your beliefs on many issues or do they disagree with you on some of the big major things which you consider important?

Now, of those people whom you welcome around your children, in the position of teaching and influencing them, do they agree with you on most issues? Are they the people who will teach them the same things which you would teach them yourselves? Or are they likely to confuse them by teaching them the exact opposite of what you believe?
If the news stories of the past few months are an example, then you likely feel that even school teachers should not be teaching your children anything which goes against what you are trying to teach them (I’m referring here to the parents who have been fighting to keep books promoting the gay lifestyle out of the hands of their kids). If that is the case, you are completely normal Americans who are trying to have a good, peaceful life and raise your children to be the same.

Now, here’s a big question for you, and I want you to seriously consider this before you go any further in this article. Would you take your children to a church were racial prejudice is taught, or where condemnation against all that you love and hold dear reigns from the pulpit?

If your answer to that question was no then you must look past the pretty speeches and excuses made by Barack Obama about his minister, friend, and spiritual advisor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. If he didn’t believe in all of that would he take his small children to hear all of that racial bias and anti-American hatred being spewed for them to take in? I don’t think so and if you are honest you don’t either.

Now, here’s a bit more information that I feel like adding on Rev. Wright. I read somewhere that he used to be a Muslim. I don’t know for certain that is true, but without doubt he has some form of allegiance with Louis Farrakhan who he has not only invited to speak at the church but has honored him, saying he ‘epitomized greatness’. That in itself worries me and it should you, when Obama considers this to be welcome not only in his church but as a means to teach his children about life.

In case you don’t know about Louis Farrakhan, let me tell you. He is the leader of the NOI (Nation of Islam). He notoriously speaks the same type of hatred that the extremists espouse. You know, calling the Jews names, calling America evil and the typical hatred of whites as well (in his words, ‘blue-eyed devils’). He visits our enemy nations where he finds friends, such as the Sudan, Iran, Iraq, and Libya where he visited with Moammar Gadhafi. And in his own words, “They call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.”

Well, if you call them terrorists, then Obama should scare you as his friends don’t agree and he might not either. Keep in mind that a part of the belief of the Muslim religion is that you don’t need to be honest in dealing with infidels, and are expected to lie, cheat or steal to obtain victory over them.

In closing I want to add some of Obama’s own words from his book, “From Dreams of My Father, “I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.” And then from his book, “Audacity of Hope”, he wrote, “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
I think the last line says more than anything anyone else could say. Unless you are Muslim that sentence should make you run screaming from the idea of him as our President.

As I learned, you are known by the company you keep, and in the case of Obama this is not just a saying. Beware of the company he keeps.

Melissa Pehle-Hill
Make-A-Statement.org