Regarding national security, Obama naively promises talks, without preconditions, with leaders of countries that are state sponsors of terror and believes he can negotiate lasting peace with Islamic extremists seeking Israel’s annihilation. He has vowed to slow the development of future weapon systems and supports cutting funding for development of critical missile defense systems.

He has opposed offshore drilling for oil, and plans to raise taxes significantly, including burdensome levies on income, payroll and capital gains. As an author of the Global Poverty Act, he proposes to fund a $845 billion dollar giveaway to other nations.

Obama has voted against a bill that would make English the official language for conducting business with the federal government, while supporting giving driver licenses to illegal immigrants.

Perhaps more alarmingly, seeking to re-write the Constitution by use of judicial fiat, he has promised to appoint federal judges and justices in the liberal elitist mold of Justice Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, thus further eroding the future of responsible self-government in America.

In light of the above – and much, much more – it will not be the next president’s race that influences the destiny of our republic; it will be his ideas.

Now is not the time to gamble with radicalism, regardless its skin tone.