Abomination or Obama's nation? Maybe both, but not if voters do their homework as I do. If voters know what I know, Barack Obama would be lucky to get 25 percent of the vote in November.

This is just part of what I have to say on this candidate. Go to blogs.hdnews.net/Knoll/ for much more I will have to say on this subject.

As you read, keep in mind that nothing individually that I mention should keep one from being president.

It's the totality of Obama's experiences and actions that should cause major concern.

In 1961, Obama was born in Hawaii to a white woman and dark-skinned Muslim father from Kenya. Slavery was not part of Barack Obama Sr. or Jr.'s background, yet he is the black community's messiah.

Barack Sr. deserted the family early on. It turns out he was a polygamist, alcoholic and egomaniac. He killed himself driving drunk.

Obama has major issues coming to grips about his father as illustrated in his book "Dreams of My Father," especially abandonment -- which his mother managed to do also after a second marriage.

Ann Dunham, the mother, managed to marry another dark-skinned Muslim. They moved from Hawaii to Indonesia where Obama was introduced to Islam. He went to a mosque to pray with his stepfather. His stepfather ended up being an abusive alcoholic like Barack Sr., therefore, back to Hawaii goes Junior to be raised by white grandparents.

Grandparents managed to enroll Obama in an upscale high school. He befriended another student of mixed race who eventually ended up in jail for drugs.

During high school, Obama's mentor was an old man by the name of Frank Davis who was an avowed Marxist. Obama admits to late nights with this man smoking and drinking and discussing politics.

When Obama went on to Occidental College, he associated with leftist black political activists, Chicanos, Marxist professors and punk rockers, all of whom smoked and did drugs and alcohol.

There is no question about chemical dependency in his college years (including Harvard law school) because Obama himself says so. When did he stop? Has he stopped?

A real eye opener for me is Obama's link to a radical left wing "community organizer" by the name of Saul Alinsky. Alinsky's model for "community organizing," was Obama's model as a CO before becoming a state of Illinois senator. Alinsky was a socialist who wanted to take from the haves to give to the have-nots. Hide your true intentions, says Alinsky, and the ends justify the means. Anything goes. Cut your hair, as a community organizer, and wear a suit. Look familiar? Alinsky appealed to Obama as a socialist revolutionary.

Obama has a history of befriending far-left radicals and, in many cases, Muslims. I suspect Obama would be a Muslim rather than Christian if it meant more votes. He did not become a Christian until age 30.

There's his friend Rezko, a convicted felon soon to be sent to federal prison, who helped him buy a mansion and contributed thousands to Obama's campaign while Obama helped this slumlord buy property at taxpayers expense. Rezko is a Middle Eastern Syrian and, like Obama, part of the corrupt Chicago political machinery.

There's his friend, William Ayers, who was a terrorist who bombed the Capitol and Pentagon. Ayers opened his home for Obama's "coming out" party and helped obtain campaign funds.

There's much more and, if you don't know by now about his friend and spiritual adviser at the Trinity Church, Pastor Wright, who exudes hatred toward whites and America, please do not go to the polls to vote for anybody.

When you strip away the veneer, Obama is clearly a left-wing radical socialist, and I will have lots more to say on my blog about his far-left radical views and ties to Muslims. Makes sense why he is rated as the most far-left liberal voting senator. He should have no appeal whatsoever to mainstream moderate Democrats.

Les Knoll

Victoria and Gilbert, Ariz.