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How Well Do
You Really Know Obama?
Seemingly, the major media (ABC, NBC, CBS, newspapers
like the New York Times, et al.) can no longer
be trusted to maintain even the pretense of objectivity, with
respect to whom they support for president.
I submit the following underreported facts about Barack Obama
and his associations, with some observations.
Obama's father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (1936–1982),
was a senior
economist for the socialist, Kenyan government. Despite abandoning
his wife and young Barack at age two,
he is referred to affectionately as an inspiration, in Obama's
first memoir, Dreams from My Father.
Examples of his socialist views are found in an essay he wrote,
published in the East Africa Journal in
1965.
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987), whom Obama called
just "Frank," is represented in said book as a
close friend and adviser. Obama's campaign attempted to downplay
the relationship, when Davis's
notoriety a member of Communist Party front groups and Communist
Party USA was exposed.
In DFMF, Obama mentions "socialist conferences
I sometimes attended at Cooper Union" during his
college years. More specifically, "In search of some inspiration,
I went to hear Kwame Toure, formerly
Stokely Carmichael of SNCC and Black Power fame, speak at Columbia."
A bio on interchange.org
states of the socialist: "He [Toure/Carmichael] was especially
unforgiving of American capitalism, which
he saw as the greatest oppressor on Earth." After having
witnessed at the venue a heated argument
between two Marxist activists degenerate to vulgarity, Obama
goes on to say: "It was like a bad
dream. [...] Every path to change was well-trodden, every strategy
exhausted. And with each defeat,
even those with the best intentions could end up further and
further removed from the struggles of those
they purported to serve." Here we have Obama implying his
woe at the ineffectuality of a radical socialist's
movement!
In 1988 Obama wrote an article that later became
a chapter of the book, After Alinsky: Community
Organizing in Illinois. Obama's article appears to be inspired
by Saul Alinsky's own book, Rules for
Radicals, in which we find the statement: "Lest we forget
at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment
to the very first radical: [...] the first radical known to
man who rebelled against the establishment and
did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom --
Lucifer." [AKA Satan]
Alinsky, who befriended Al Capone's second-man,
Frank Nitti, is considered the father of modern
community organizing.
Central to Alinksy's methods is the concept of
"agitating." Alinsky described an effective organizer
as "an
abrasive agent to rub raw the resentments of the people of the
community; to fan latent hostilities of many
of the people to the point of overt expressions." As for
what tactics are acceptable, Alinsky said:
The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed
with the ethics of the means used by the
Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to
their real political position. In fact, they
are passive — but real — allies of the Haves…The
most unethical of all means is the non-use of any
means... The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys
and wherefores of life as it is lived,
the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world
as it should be.
Michelle Obama, citing her husband, used the phrases
"the world as it is" and "the world as it should
be"
in her speech at the DNC. Obviously, Barack has been strongly
influenced by Alinsky's teachings.
Reportedly, the Developing Communities Project who gave Obama
his first job, other organizations he was
a part of, and training he undertook, were founded on Alinksy's
ideas. Obama taught the same methods to
others in workshops.
Obama attended the Trinity United Church of Christ
for twenty years. Contrary to his claims that Rev.
Jeremiah Wright seldom made wild diatribes on the endemic racism
of white America, with assertions
such as "The government lied about inventing the HIV virus
as a means of genocide against people of
color. The government lied," and pronounced damnation on
the country only rarely, on Sundays which
he just happened to be absent, Wright founded his teachings
on "Black Liberation Theology," an ideology
propounded by James Cone, of whom Wright admitted being a student.
In Cone's words, "Black theology
refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the
goals of the black community. If God is not for
us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had
better kill him."
William Ayers was 60s radical turned domestic
terrorist. He was responsible for bombings at the NYC
Police Headquarters, the Pentagon and Capitol Building. He escaped
charges though admitting his own guilt.
In 2001, he told the New York Times "I don't regret setting
bombs" and "I feel we didn't do enough."Ayers,
who has called himself a Marxist and anarchist, now teaches
his extreme leftist agenda at the University of
Illinois in Chicago and writes curriculum for Universities across
the nation. Though Obama denies it, public
record indicates he was friendly enough with Ayers to be seen
at his home launching his political career.
In 1996, Obama was a member of the New Party,
a group created by Democratic Socialists of America.
An article from the Progressive Populist said "New Party
member Barack Obama was uncontested for
a State Senate seat from Chicago."
Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate uncontested
because he got his opponents for the Democratic
nomination, including the incumbent, Alice Palmer, removed from
the ballot on technicalities.
Evidence suggests that Obama played a significant
role in Ralia Odinga's failed campaign for president of
Kenya, after which Odinga helped incite violence--machete massacres
and church burnings-- against his
political opponents.
FEC reports show that ACORN front group Citiens
Services Inc. got $832,598 from Obama's campaign
for "get-out-the-vote work." The Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now is under
investigations in over a dozen states, including battleground
states, for massive voter registration fraud.
The National Journal ranked Senator Obama's voting
record as the most liberal record in the Senate in
2007, to the left even of the Democrat party's self-avowed socialist,
Bernie Sanders, senator of Vermont.
In a candid moment, Obama defined his proposed
tax policy as a plan to "spread the wealth around."
He
claims he will offer a "tax break," to 95% of Americans
(a larger percentage than even pay income tax),
by further increasing taxes on the affluent, who, incidentally,
already contribute the lion's share of tax
revenue via income tax, not to mention the Death Tax. This increasing
redistribution of wealth among
classes, is socialism.
All these things are likely the tip of the iceberg
that is Obama's exemplification of poor judgment. If the
"mainstream" press were doing its job in uncovering
his questionable deeds and associations, it is
doubtful he would even have made it through the Democratic primaries.
Probably most important for a voter to consider
is the ideology he seeks to implement. Judging by the
things he says today, his published words from years ago, and
his many associations with radical, socialist
figures, the "Change you can believe in" and the "Change
we need," is socialism. I urge people to do their
own research. Read the Communist Manifesto; compare it to some
of Obama's rhetoric, and the policies
our government has already put into effect. If Obama is elected,
he and his supporters may govern effectively
unopposed, able to implement whatever policy they desire, with
a majority in Congress which some have
predicted could increase with a filibuster proof Democrat majority
in the Senate. While we can vote out
Congressional representatives, there is no such luxury with
Supreme Court justices, and Obama may have
the chance to appoint one or two to the aging Court of nine,
hence tipping the balance of power to liberals.
Do we want to go the way of China or the USSR?
Are we ready to abandon capitalism, the system under
which we've become the most prosperous, free nation in the history
of the world? Do we believe in limited
government, low taxes, a free market, individual rights and
personal responsibility, or do we wish for a
behemoth nanny state to suckle us from cradle to grave; who
decides when we're making "too much"
money and so confiscates it in deference to the tenets of collectivism?
The transition may already be
underway, a recent example being the 800 billion dollar, Wall
Street bailout bill, but to paraphrase one
political commentator, with respect to this "change,"
will America choose to apply the brakes, or put the
pedal to the metal?
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