By: The Conservative Soldier.

If elected President of the United States, Sen. Barack Obama will, in reality, become a Chief Executive Officer with one all-encompassing mandate.

He will not have time to consider the will of the American people or the security of the homeland. Obama will be serving the whims of a wealthy, powerful and often corrupt Board of Directors. In these seats of ultimate but invisible power will be mentors William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Rashid Khalidi, Father Michael Pfleger, Antoin Rezko, George Soros, Oprah Winfrey and Rev. Jeremiah Wright, among others.

This might prove to be less an election than a bloodless coup. By rejecting federal campaign funds that he'd pledged to accept before his advisers got involved, Sen. Obama will outspend Sen. John McCain by at least $250 million. The origin of millions of these dollars are undocumented.

This is less about democracy than subversion. Obama has not provided something as basic as proof of citizenship -- his. And the citizenship status of countless, mystery internet donors also remains unknown and un-investigated.

Our smitten media stands by, watching, as the United States and its Constitution takes on the ultimate supreme council of Obama fund raisers, operatives, religious zealots and community organizers. The community, in this case, has a population of about 305 million.

The author David Freddoso in his landmark book, The Case Against Barack Obama, gives Obama far greater benefit of the doubt than some will about the Senator's radical ties, but raises the central, numbing question that must be asked.

"Barack Obama has many ties to radicals -- some violent, some intriguing, and some just odd," he writes in the 2008 book. "... Obama is not a Marxist or a radical. He is certainly not a terrorist-sympathizer. Yet it is clear that radicals have influenced his judgment. ... Should he become president, will he entrust such men and women with executive power?"

When Sen. McCain says he is an American and, as such, chooses to stand up and fight, he is not spewing campaign slogans to inspire crowds.

He is enunciating what the stakes are and what patriotic Americans must do.

When our country is threatened, we fight. I stand with Sen. McCain.

The current political season has intensified my love for a country that is revered by some and reviled by others. I can not be convinced, even amid the drumbeat of “change”, that America no longer is a shining city on a hill.

Our nation certainly is not invulnerable to internal conflict, as we learned so painfully in the mid-19th century. It is not immune to catastrophic economic downturns (1930s), or to severe economic bubbles (1907, 2008). It is not always on guard when enemies visit (1941, 2001).

The strength of this union will be tested again on Tuesday on an election day that is historic by any measure.

Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy for President represents a serious crossroads for the United States. If he is elected, the power Obama will inherit and how he wields it poses a serious, long term threat to the economic and physical security of our nation.

Opposition to Obama has drawn sharp criticism. Predictably, many left wings citizens, and neighbors, assume that concern voiced openly about Obama’s candidacy equates to racism. This illogical leap was, sadly, inevitable.

I am not, to quote comedian Dennis Miller, worried about the color of Obama’s skin. I am worried about the thinness of it. I am not concerned by his blood lines. But I am gravely concerned about Obama’s blood oaths (Ayers, Khalidi, Rezko, Wright, et al).

Some say Obama has turned the race for the White House into American Idol. I fear more his idle, empty social welfare rhetoric, and ideologically cluttered foreign policy vision.

Sen. John McCain prepared to become President of the United States by living, serving and persevering. Sen. Obama prepared by endearing himself to powerful and wealthy mentors, memorizing every page of the Democrat playbook and reciting it to the adoring masses with undeniable eloquence.

Before you vote on Tuesday, and if you are at all undecided, consider the eloquence of commentator Charles Krauthammer, who offers the most concise description of the Obama phenomenon I have read (below). Most of all remember that, while we are strong and resilient as a nation, we are not invulnerable, even to trifling, ambitious, unqualified political candidates.

Krauthammer, August 2008:
“Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas. Not institutions. But himself.

“Nothing wrong or even terribly odd about that, except that he is laying claim to the job of crafting the coming history of the United States. A leap of such audacity is odd. The air of unease at the Democratic convention ... was not just a result of the Clinton psychodrama. The deeper anxiety was that the party was nominating a man of many gifts but precious few accomplishments – bearing even fewer witnesses.”