by Mark Rhoads
dis·in·gen·u·ous
[dis-in-jen-yoo-uhs] –adjective
lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere: Her excuse was rather disingenuous. (From Dictionary.com based on Random House Dictionary 2006)
Several weeks ago we saw one classic example of Sen. Barack Obama being disingenuous when he figuaratively threw his grandmother on the tracks to stop the runaway Rev. Wright train. A few days ago we saw another good example when Obama labored to somehow say that he should no more be required to disown early support from University of Illinois Prof. (The Mad Bomber) William Ayers who is just a Hyde Park "neighbor," than he should apologize for remarks by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) who he also "knows" and is a friendly with.
Besides, Obama complains that he, Sen. Obama, was only eight years old (Obama was actually between nine and thirteen) when Ayers was planting bombs to protest Viet Nam policy so how could he, Obama, be associated with that? Here's how, because Obama was about 35 years old in 1995 when he chose to have an organizational meeting for his first state senate campaign at the home of The Mad Bomber and Bernadine Dohrn.
Then Obama remained friends with Ayers, and was forty-one years old when Ayers told The New York Times he regretted he did not plant more bombs. That was the same year Obama accepted a $200 campaign donation from Ayers for his state senate re-election campaign. Yet there is recorded not a peep of protest at the time from Obama for remarks by either Rev. Wright or Ayers.
Just imagine how Obama and the media might react to the revelation that some Republican senator at age 35 had a campaign meeting at the home of a former Nazi who just happened to be a neighbor. William Ayers is not a dispicable human being just because he protested Viet Nam policy. Many people did that. Ayers is dispicable because he planted bombs where they could kill innocent people and could care less about the consequences just to make his political point.
There are plenty of examples of Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain also being disingenuous about different topics in their campaigns. Sen. Clinton has fantasies that she was under fire in Bosnia. Sen. McCain still has delusions that his so-called campaign reform bill did nothing to harm free speech. But Obama's delusions go to the core of who he is and what radical friends he has chosen to associate with in the past.
He was close to his spiritual advisor Rev. Wright for 20 years and yet wants people to believe that he was not sitting in the pews every time Wright went off on an anti-American rant. He was not sitting in the pews all those years when Mrs. Obama was never proud to be an American. He saw no reason to protest the remarks of his fellow Woods Foundation Board Member William Ayers when Ayers said in 2001 he regretted he had not planted more bombs.
