by Pam Meister

After months upon months of being fed a steady diet of hope and change, Americans have had some difficult truths to swallow about the candidate who swore to alter the way things are done in Washington.

First, we learned that Obama had served for three years on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago nonprofit, with William Ayers, a former member of the domestic terror group Weather Underground. What has gotten less press than the connection with Ayers is the fact that the Woods Fund gave a $40,000 grant to the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), a group chaired by Mona Khalidi — wife of Rashid Khalidi, who has made statements supportive of Palestinian terror. And the AAAN considers the fact that Israel exists a “catastrophe” and supports initiatives for illegal aliens to obtain driver’s licenses and education benefits.

Then we heard that Obama had a close relationship for years with Tony Rezko, a Chicago businessman and fundraiser who is currently on trial for fraud. Writing for Salon.com, Edward McClellan put it best:

Obama’s dealings with his hinky friend have never led him afoul of the law, but they show that, despite his high-minded politics, he was no purer — or no savvier — than Illinois’ biggest hacks in his weakness for a generous contributor. He wouldn’t even say no when Rezko cooked up a deal to help the newly elected senator buy a gracious Georgian-revival home.

So much for the idea of “no more politics as usual.”

If that wasn’t enough, Obama was busy telling the voters one thing — that we should consider pulling out of NAFTA because it’s responsible for job losses in America — while one of his key economic advisors was busy telling the Canadian government that they shouldn’t take this political rhetoric too seriously.

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