Consider the four million manufacturing jobs lost over the last decade. That number is daunting — and the human pain behind it very real. But in most years the United States generates more jobs than it loses.

Suppose the critics are right and all those workers were displaced by cheap imports and factories moving overseas. Those lost manufacturing jobs — an average of 400,000 a year — amount to less than 3 percent of the 15 million jobs lost each year across the economy. Meanwhile, about 17 million jobs were created annually, which is why the unemployment rate at the end of 2007 was not much different than it was at the end of 1997.

Barack Obama is the most radical Leftist to ever make it this far in a presidential primary. In Part 2 of this series, "Disciple of Hate," I summarized the influence of his religious mentor for the last two decades, black supremacist Jeremiah Wright.

This week's essay will provide insight into Obama's political mentors, all protagonists of Marxist-inspired anti-American movements. If a man can be judged by the company he keeps, Obama should be judged harshly. He may be a "closet smoker," but as more of his mentors are smoked out of his closet, it becomes increasingly clear that Obama is just another traitorous Leftist posing as an all-American Boy.

For starters, consider Obama's friends and neighbors, William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

Ayers and Dohrn were leaders of the Weather Underground, a violent group of radical Leftovers from the Revolutionary Youth Movement, a wing of Students for a Democratic Society. Ayers and Dohrn split from the Maoist RYM, insisting that a revolution against the United States and capitalists everywhere should commence immediately.

In 1969, Ayers and Dohrn were founding signatories of the Weathermen's declaration of unification with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" vanguards, to ensure "the destruction of U.S. imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world Communism."

In 1970 the Weather Underground issued a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States and commenced a campaign of terror including bombings, jailbreaks, and the instigation of riots. Between 1969 and 1975, they bombed the U.S. Capitol twice, the Pentagon, the Department of State and several federal courthouses. They also attacked state and local government buildings and "capitalist targets" such as banks. The terrorist organization began to disband after the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam and the fall of Saigon, though one of their last acts of violence was a Brinks robbery in 1981, in which two police officers and a security guard were murdered during that robbery. I report, U decide.

There are only four differences between a born child and an unborn child. The unborn is smaller. Is size the thing that makes a person human? If that’s true—Shaquille O’Neal is more human than me and you—He’s bigger! Second, is level of development—an unborn is not as developed as a newborn, but a newborn is not as developed as a three year old. A three year old is not as developed as a twelve year old, a twelve year old as an eighteen year old. We’re all in different stages of development. Is that what makes us human? Really, not. Next is environment. As you go inside the womb to outside the womb, you change location. Is that what makes you human? When you go from your house to your place of work, are you less human? Or fly from Chicago to New York? Where you’re at is not what makes you human either. And last is dependency. An unborn child is dependent upon the nourishment of the mother. Just like a diabetic is dependent upon insulin. Just like a person on kidney dialysis dependent on outside nourishment. Is a diabetic less human than you and me? Dependency is not what makes us human either. Now other than those four reasons, I would like to ask Ms. Murschel, what other reasons would she give that would make a person not a human being inside the womb?

To the editor,

The first quarter of 2008 Al Franken's campaign committee raised more than 2.2 million dollars. Of 95,000 contributors to Franken only 16,000 are from Minnesota and the rest from elsewhere. Most of the elsewhere would likely be from the Hollywood hot shots who barely have enough common sense to come in from the rain. Examples are Michael Moore, Sean Penn (close and personal friend of Hugo Chavez), Jane Fonda (Hanoi Jane), George Clooney, Rosie O'Donnel (all mouth and no brain) and most of Hollywood. They have an inordinate amount of influence over the Democratic voters. In 1992 Hollywood voted 83%, as did North MinnEapolis, for Bill Clinton and they also have a venue to spread their message to millions of gullible voters besides donating millions of dollars to the Democratic party. That's too much power for a small group of people to have. I report,U decide.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is doing her country and her party a service by exposing the poor foundation on which this romance with Senator Barack Obama is based.

Those Democrats who seek to harness the country to a man with nice looks, a good education, a strong liberal political philosophy and a silver tongue without testing him to see if he has the guts to be a strong and effective president are playing dangerously with all of our safety.

Who is this man when the going gets tough? What we now see from Mr. Obama is not pretty. I report, U decide.