Please Senator McCain, Ask Senator Obama to Come Clean for the Good of
America:  Enough of Drip, Drip, Drip

Introduction:  

For the good of America, Senator Obama should come clean about his
questionable associations and activities.  If Senator Obama were to be
elected with these clouds over his head, they would plague his presidency,
and America would suffer.  For the good of America, please come clean,
Senator Obama.  The American people are a forgiving people when they are told
the truth, unless, of course, the truth is unforgivable.  Please Senator
Obama, enough of drip, drip, drip.  

Proposed McCain Speech:  

Now, here are some points I hope Senator McCain makes, and I present them in
the form of a proposed speech.  

"Friends, the last time Senator Obama and I had a debate, there were issues
that my campaign was looking into about Senator Obama, but we hadn't formed
undeniable conclusions by debate time.  So, it would have been premature to
bring them out at that time before the American people.  

I have made mistakes in the past, and I have come clean with the American
people and have admitted them.  

Lately, Senator Obama or his friends have been running ads on TV in which the
viewers are reminded of the Keating Five scandal.  I was one of the Keating
Five, and I was embarrassed by the damage it did to my reputation at that
time.  Charles Keating and three of the Keating Five went to jail.  However,
two of the Keating Five were exonerated, and one of those two was me.
Remember, friends, the exonerations occurred after long and thorough
investigations.  

Now I turn to Senator Obama and urge him to come clean with the American
people.  

After records from an Illinois university were made public just recently, we
have studied Senator Obama's relationships with William Ayers, an American
radical and terrorist, who was involved with numerous domestic bombings that
took place in the U. S. in the 1970's.  Senator Obama was only 8 years old at
the time, so obviously, Senator Obama had nothing do to with domestic
terrorism.  

Yet, William Ayers has gone on with his life, and the paths of his life and
Senator Obama's life have crossed numerous times.  

When Barack Obama ran for political office, he was a highly educated man.  He
was a graduate of Columbia University with a major in political science.  He
was also a graduate of Harvard Law School and President of the Harvard Law
Review.  
For his campaign, Barack Obama went to the house of William Ayers and his
wife, also a terrorist along with William Ayers, to attend a fundraiser for
Obama's political campaign.  

And, Senator Obama's association with William Ayers did not end there.  In
the 1990's, both William Ayers and Barack Obama were both on boards of
foundations.  

As far as we can determine, Barack Obama was responsible for giving grants,
and he gave grants, totalling lots of money, to William Ayers for his
educational projects.  And what were the educational projects of William
Ayers designed to do?  To radicalize students in schools, that's what.  

Yet, when Senator Obama was first asked about William Ayers in his
presidential campaign, he said he was just someone who lives in the
neighborhood.  

Later, only after more information came to light about further associations
between Senator Obama and William Ayers, then Senator Obama stated that
Obama's children and Ayer's children went to the same school.  

Still later, Senator Obama stated that he doesn't see William Ayers on a
regular basis.  

Even Senator Obama's campaign director David Axelrod said that  Senator Obama
and William Ayers were friends.  

Incidentally, there are three major sources for information about Senator
Obama from Senator Obama himself:  his Website and his two books.  And
William Ayers is not mentioned in any of these three sources.  

The Obama disclosures are like a leaky faucet -- drip, drip, drip.  

It is not with pleasure that I make these statements about Senator Obama, but
I think the American people deserve a full and complete explanation, not a
drip, drip, drip explanation.  Senator Obama, please turn the faucet on.  

And, what about Rev. Wright?  Why did Senator Obama remain in his
congregation for almost 20 years, exposing himself, his wife, and his two
young daughters to the anger, to the hate, and to the disdain for America.
How did we learn about these aspects of Rev. Wright?  Through the DVDs of his
sermons that were sold at his church.  We did not learn about these aspects
of Rev. Wright from Senator Obama's Website or his two books, even though in
Senator Obama's second book, "The Audacity of Hope", Senator Obama states
that the very title of the book was inspired by one of Rev. Wright's
sermons.  

And what about Tony Rezko, who has been convicted of corruption charges, who
was a big campaign contributor to Senator Obama during his political career,
who was a slum lord in Obama's district when he was in the Illinois State
Senate, and whose wife purchased the home lot next to Senator Obama's,
resulting in a $300,000 reduction in the price for Senator Obama's home?  We
did not learn about Tony Rezko in Senator Obama's Website or his two books.  

And what about ACORN?  There are more than a dozen U. S. states that are
investigating ACORN for voter registration fraud.  At one time, Senator Obama
was a lawyer and a trainer for ACORN.  We did not learn about ACORN in his
Website or his two books.  

Also, why won't Senator Obama allow his records at Columbia University and at
Harvard Law School to be released for the American people to see and think
about?  We learned virtually nothing about his time in Columbia University,
where he majored in political science, or details about his time at Harvard
Law School or at the Harvard Law Review in his Website or his two books.  

Although there is a troubling something from Senator Obama's first book,
"Dreams from My Father" on Page 139, where Obama states that after some
short-term jobs, he was unemployed, and
he states:  

"In six months I was broke, unemployed, eating soup from a can.
In search of some inspiration, I went to hear Kwame Toure,
formerly Stokely Carmichael of SNCC and Black Power fame, speak
at Columbia."  

It is common knowledge that I was sixth from the bottom at the U. S. Naval
Academy in my graduation class.  That's not something I'm proud of.  But I
admitted it.  And I'm grateful that it hasn't been an impediment to my
subsequent jobs.  

It is common knowledge that Hillary Clinton, at the age of 17, was in a group
of Young Republicans, and she supported a Republican candidate for president
of the U. S..  She was a Goldwater Girl.  Later changed over to be a
Democrat.  

It is common knowledge that Senator Biden had problems with plagiarism in
college in law school.  

But we know very little about the substance of Senator Obama's past education
and career, and, as I've already stated, Senator Obama's Website and his two
books leave so much unsaid.  But how many of the American people have
actually read his two books.  People on my campaign have, and they still
think of Senator Obama as an unknown person.  

Even when Barack Obama was in the Illinois State legislature, he voted
"present" more than 120 times.  For those times, we have no idea what his
positions were.  Then, as now, he has hidden important facts about his
opinions and beliefs.  

All I ask is for Senator Obama to put country first and come clean with the
American people as so many of us candidates for the Presidency have done.  

The American people are a forgiving people when they are told the truth,
unless, of course, the truth is unforgivable.  

I've gone out on a limb in the past, because I put country first.  
I opposed President Reagan about sending Marines to Lebanon, and, horribly,
the Marines were slaughtered there by terrorist bombings.  

I put country first when I supported the surge in Iraq, even though it was
forecasted by many, including Senator Obama, that the surge would not work.
Many commentators predicted that this position of mine would mark the
beginning of the end of my candidacy.  

Yes, even when I temporarily suspended my campaign to try to help with
solving U. S. financial problems in my taxpayer-paid job as an Arizona
Senator, I put country first.  For me that wasn't a political stunt as some
have suggested.  I was sincere about it.  
Now, I ask Senator Obama to come clean with the American people.  No more
drip, drip, drip about his associations with William Ayers, Rev. Wright, Tony
Rezko, and ACORN.  Let us know about your activities at Columbia University
and Harvard Law School.  

I feel that this is important for America.  

Whether I win this election or whether Senator Obama wins this election, I
hope that the next president does not take office with serious clouds over
his head.  

If after winning an election, a president-elect has clouds over his head,
there is a strong probability that there will be clouds over his presidency.
This would not be good for America.  I hope Senator Obama puts country first
and comes clean with the American people.  

If he does, that would be great for the American people, and perhaps that
would be great for Senator Obama, too.  So be it.  

It would be great for me too, because even if I weren't elected President, I
don't want my president to have clouds over his head.  

If Senator Obama doesn't come clean and tell the truth to the American
people, I can only think that, perhaps, Senator Obama feels that the truth
about him is unforgivable.  Enough of drip, drip, drip."