Obama, The Ingenue

Is it wise to trust an ingénue with little experience with the power of the White House?

The Democrat gained by standing back during the rescue-bill drama. But now
voters (with a strong push from the McCain campaign) will be giving him a closer
look - and some won't like what they see.

They will examine his tax proposals and spending plans, and question his
economic credentials. Facing one of the gravest crises in our nation's history,
they'll wonder: Is it wise to trust an ingénue with little experience with the
power of the White House?

All the cash Obama wanted to spend on health care, education and
infrastructure just walked out the door en route to Wall Street. He must either
abandon his program, hike taxes on almost everyone or run a huge
deficit.

His ties to unrepentent terrorist William Ayers will also draw new
attention. The record clearly shows that Obama was lying when he called
Ayers just a guy "who lives in my neighborhood."

Ayers got a $50 million grant for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Obama was put in charge of giving out the money and funded left-wing
groups like ACORN for a program that's now billed as "school reform"
but amounted to political indoctrination.

As Stanley Kurtz wrote in The Wall Street Journal, Obama and Ayers "worked
as a team to advance the CAC agenda," namely "Ayers' educational
philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical
political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of
activism."