Having a security clearance

When I worked at Ford Aerospace and Communications Corp. (FACC) in Palo Alto, CA I routinely worked with people who had secret clearances. It takes an employer a long time and much effort to obtain a secret clearance to vet an employee. (I never needed a secret clearance because I worked on mostly commercial hardware, not the spook satellites that required a high level clearance).
Interesting how the Dinosaur media (NBC, CBS, ABC) sent teams of reporters to dig through Alaskan dumpsters to find dirt on Gov. Sarah Palin, but they were completely uninterested in finding and interviewing William Ayers --the American terrorist who at one time bombed the U.S. Pentagon as "protest" against the United States. The day following Sept. 11, 2001, Ayers "wished" he had "done more" in his heyday, --he stated so publicly. He is unrepentant.

Sen. Obama's political career (a fundraiser) was launched in the living room of William Ayers.

American terrorist Wm. Ayers, a strange Rev. Jeremiah Wright declaring race-hatred from his pulpit on Sunday morning --there is no American presidential candidate before Barack Obama with associations to these kinds of characters; none.

Associations provide insight into a man's character. Had any other candidate launched his political career in the home of, say, an abortion clinic terrorist, he couldn't run for city dogcatcher much less for president of the free world.

Obama is a man of first-rate intellect. But his character is shady and immature.

If Obama ever tried to get a security clearance at my company, his associations would raise red flags and would ultimately ground him. It's that simple, and there would be no appeal.

I don't even think Barack Obama could get an FBI clearance to work for the U.S. Secret Service --the civil service that protects the President of the United States.