Falling for Obama's con job

Thomas Sowell examines the disturbing phenomenon of people who consider themselves conservatives saying they will vote for Barack Obama, the most liberal candidate to ever seek the presidency.

Is there something in the water? Is this the twisted plot of a new M. Night Shyamalan film?

From Sowell's column:

Voting is a right, but it is also a duty — a duty not just to show up on Election Day, but a duty to give serious thought to the alternatives on the table and what those alternatives mean for the future of the nation.

What is becoming ever more painfully apparent is that too many people this year — whether conservative, liberal or whatever — are all too willing to judge Barack Obama on the basis of his election-year rhetoric, rather than on the record of what he has advocated and done during the past two decades.

Many are for him for no more serious reasons than his mouth and his complexion. The man has become a Rorschach test for the feelings and hopes, not only of those on the left, but also for some on the right as well.

Here is a man who has consistently aided and abetted people who have openly expressed their contempt for this country, both in words and in such deeds as planting bombs to advance their left-wing agenda.

Read the full column, "Obama's Con Snares Victims On The Right," at Investor's Business Daily.