How Well Do You Really Know Obama?

2008-10-24T02:12:00-05:00

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?

Four-year-old Suspeneded for Hugging Teacher

2006-12-15T05:34:00-05:00

This is the kind of insanity that's growing more and more frequent in the public education system:
http://www.kxxv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5785699

U.S. Troops Respond to John Kerry

2006-11-01T14:24:00-05:00

Obscenely-liberal democrat, president wannabe John Kerry besmirched our troops, Monday,
when in a campaign speech, he uttered:

"You know, education, if you make the most of it,
if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort
to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq. ..."

Hence, he implied that the military personnel on the ground in Iraq (or anywhere) are stupid, lazy, and drafted. (they are all volunteers)

In addition to being brave, honorable, patriotic, and highly disciplined, the troops are not without a sense of humor...

See story on WND: 'We R Stuck Hear N Irak'

North Korean Darkness

2006-10-13T05:28:00-05:00

Satellite photo, the difference between freedom and oppression:
Communist North Korea lies in darkness, in stark contrast to illuminated South Korea.

Source: North Korea might now have The Bomb, but it doesn't have much electricity

I Want Global Warming for Christmas

2006-10-12T07:01:00-05:00

Less than three weeks of fall have transpired, and it's snowing.It isn't so much the snow
but the subfreezinng temperatures accomodating it that I'm vehemently opposed to.
The weekend weather prognostication is looking unpalatable indeed, dashing my hopes
of embarking on a bicycling expedition. Bugger.

Vocabulary Words
transpired - happened
vehemently - fiercly
prognostication - prediction
unpalatable - Not pleasant or acceptable to the taste or mind

Word Stuff

2006-10-09T00:29:00-05:00

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Hail, Traveller

2006-10-08T23:44:00-05:00

Welcome to the brand-spanking-new blog section of my hitherto, inchoate corner of cyberspace.Presently, my plan is to utilize this space to display the product of my photographic and poetic
avocations. Occasionally, I may post commentary and link to news stories or websites I find of
interest. I have employed Myspace, to a functional but less than copasetic end, but after
forgoing the maintenance of a real website for several years, I've adjudicated that my interest
in profiting from said products will be better served by employment in a more professional
medium. Blog entries may frequently contain "big" words because I enjoy using them. For the
convenience and linguistic edification of less verbally obsessed souls, definitions of such words
and links to corresponding dictionary.com entries will be provided at the foot of each post.
If, by chance, you catch me misusing a word or even making spelling or syntactical errors,
please do correct me.

Vocabulary Words
hitherto - thus far
inchoate - only partly in existence; imperfectly formed
avocations - hobbies
copasetic - fully satisfactory
forgoing - doing without or ceasing to hold or adhere to
adjudicated - decided
linguistic - consisting of or related to language
edification - Intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement; enlightenment
verbally - of or pertaining to words
syntactic - grammatical

Vainglorious Verbosity