Melanie Phillips, writing in the Spectator:
As reported here, Camp Obama is resorting to ever more outrageous attempts to silence the questions that are mounting about the past associations of the saviour of the planet. Given the sheer volume of information that is now available and the deeply disturbing questions this all poses, the astounding reluctance of the mainstream US media to ask those questions is a scandal which has itself become a major political issue.
[…] information has been around for the past year suggesting that Barack Obama is an integral part of a web of radical activists, whose roots go back to a clandestine Communist Party network in Hawaii centering upon his erstwhile mentor the late black poet Frank Marshall Davis, an agent of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).
Unlike Communists elsewhere, the CPUSA fused the twin ideologies of class and race oppression. In a speech last year to mark the reception of the CPUSA archives at the Tamiment Library at New York University Gerald Horne, a member of the editorial board of the CPUSA journal Political Affairs, described how the CPUSA placed its emphasis on working class solidarity in tandem with staunch opposition to ‘white supremacy’.
In a dossier posted on the America’s Survival blog [pdf link available on Spectator site] Herbert Romerstein, a former US government security investigator, records how Moscow micromanaged the CPUSA. In 1935, Moscow instructed it to establish a CP apparatus in Hawaii to develop a mass revolutionary movement there and promote the withdrawal from its territory of US forces – at that time essential for the defence of the US. This Hawaii CP network was perceived by government bodies to be a major threat to US national security.
A key figure was Harry Bridges, a CP agent and head of the International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union. In 1948, Frank Marshall Davis came to Hawaii at the suggestion of Bridges and another secret CPUSA member, Paul Robeson. […] In an analysis [of Davis’s work], [Dr Kathryn] Takara [a professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Hawaii] notes that he brought ‘an acute sense of race relations and class struggle throughout America and the world’ and that he openly discussed subjects such as American imperialism, colonialism and exploitation.
[…]
What this seemed to mean in practice in Hawaii was an attempt to suborn the cause of black people’s rights to the cause of Communism. Romerstein recounts how Davis tried to convert the National Association for the Advancement of Color People, which tried to fight off what it perceived as infiltration by Communists who it believed betrayed the cause of black people’s rights, into a Stalinist front.
[…] Kathryn Takara has said that Obama was introduced to Davis by his grandfather Stanley Dunham, who considered Davis a ‘strong black male figure’ and thought he exerted a ‘positive’ and significant influence over Obama during his high school years. In her view, Davis was just such a black role model for the young Obama and gave him ‘a sense of believing that change can happen’ through ‘living in a diverse world’.
The problem was that Davis believed ‘change’ could best be achieved through Stalinism.
Until very recently, Obama refused to confirm this close relationship with Frank Marshall Davis.
[…] It appears that Davis continued to be a mentor to Obama into young manhood. In Dreams from my Father, Obama relates how, just before he went to college at 18, he was warned by ‘Frank’ not to forget his ‘people’ and not to ‘start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit’. […]
Despite this close early relationship with a role model and mentor who happened to be a Communist agitator and radical black activist, such matters might nevertheless have raised few eyebrows if Obama’s politics had matured with age. But he appears to have continued along this same radical trajectory – as his 20-year membership of the black power-promoting Trinity United Church of Christ would suggest. A dossier by Cliff Kincaid [also available in .pdf on the Spectator site] documents how in 1995 Senator Alice Palmer presented Barack Obama as her chosen successor and protege to a group of extreme left-wingers: William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and Dr Quentin Young. These were to play a significant role in Obama’s life and career. Yet Palmer was an official of a CPUSA front group; Young was accused of being a CPUSA member and having a financial connection with the violence that broke out at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968; and most notoriously of all, Ayers and Dohrn became members of the terrorist Weather Underground — and yet have continued to have links with Obama, as outlined by Stanley Kurtz.
[…]
While Obama’s meteoric rise is hailed by blinkered liberals as heralding a brave new world of openness and transparency, not to mention peace and love, radicals see it rather differently. After Obama’s victory in the Iowa caucus CPUSA supporter Frank Chapman wrote to the People’s Weekly:
Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary ‘mole,’ not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through.’
Not surprisingly, therefore, this underground ‘mole’ has been backed to the hilt by American Communists. In 2004, the Chicago Communist Party backed his successful campaign for the Senate, as the People’s Weekly reported:
Activists from Illinois were immersed in the campaign to elect Barak Obama to the U.S. Senate. Obama won a landslide victory in the March 16 Democratic primary. If Obama wins in November, he would be only the third African American senator since Reconstruction. ‘This was a historic victory. It was a victory for political independence and grassroots, coalition, and issue oriented politics over the machine and money,’ said John Bachtell, Illinois CP district organizer.’
And as the Columbia News Service reported, the Young Communist League has mobilised to campaign for Obama: doubtless the Democratic Party is less than anxious to divulge to the nation this particular affiliation of these young activists who are helping it get out the Democratic vote.
In his most recent post on the subject, Cliff Kincaid reports that Obama has now acknowledged a personal relationship with Frank Marshall Davis. But in a riposte to allegations about his radical associations, his camp has nevertheless misleadingly edited an article to conceal the fact that Davis was a member of CPUSA. This is less than surprising since, as Kincaid also notes, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee issued a report in 1956 declaring:‘Founded in September 1919, the Communist Party of the United States of America is an organization unique in American history. It is not a true political party and differs fundamentally from all political parties in this country. It is in fact a Russian-inspired, Moscow-dominated, anti-American, quasi-military conspiracy against our Government, our ideals, and our freedoms.’ In 1982 testimony, FBI assistant director for intelligence Edward J. O’Malley testified that the CPUSA has been ‘one of the most loyal and pro-Soviet Communist Parties in the world and has unfalteringly accepted Soviet direction and funding over the years.’ The recent book, Comrade J, based on interviews with a Russian spymaster at the United Nations, documents that Soviet intelligence operations against the U.S. continued even as the Soviet Union collapsed and Russia emerged in its place.
Camp Obama might also have a few problems with this recent account in the UK’s Daily Telegraph, which reported that Davis was also a pornographer and sexual deviant who was into sado-masochism and even the seduction of a 13 year old girl:
On other occasions, Mr Davis would cruise in Hawaii parks looking for couples or female tourists to have sex with. He derived sexual gratification from bondage, simulated rape and being flogged and urinated on. He boasted that ‘the number of white babes interested in at least one meeting with a Negro male has been far more than I can handle’ and wished ‘America were as civilised as, say, Scandinavia’. He concluded: ‘I regret none of my experiences or unusual appetites; for me they are normal.’
Ah yes, redefining deviancy as normality, the agenda indeed of Gramsci/Alinsky: patron saints of community organisers, apostles of deeply underground mole-like revolutionary Marxism, architects of the wildly successful undermining of western morality and society in America and Britain — and now poised to embed itself in the White House, epicentre of the oppressive global capitalist regime, itself.
Join up the dots.
Lots to chew on here, folks.
To sign as an elite these days, the fashion is to wave one’s hand at the “scary communist canard” — to pretend that we’re all much too sophisticated to be taken in by revolutionaries in suits and ties. And of course it is quite possible that the peculiar blend of communism and race-consciousness that marked both the Hawaiian CPUSA and Rev Wright’s Trinity Church Black Liberation Theology — one out of which Obama sprung as a political animal, the other toward which he gravitated as a man looking for a new mentor [Davis died in 1987] — was nothing more to Senator Obama than a radical chic background to what have essentially become his mainstream liberal principles.
But the fact is, there is much we don’t know about Senator Obama — much he has not had to answer for — and yet the press is busy looking into Sarah Palin’s tanning habits.
We are months away from a Presidential election that could give the Democrats full run of the government. And yet we still haven’t seen from the mainstream press any kind of detailed investigation into Obama’s personal and political past — other than recycled bits from a pair of autobiographies the Senator has used to mainstream himself as a viable progressive candidate.
I don’t know how much there is to all of this — how much Obama’s various mentors (about whom he either continues to hide his associations [Davis, Ayers], or else tries to take the sting out of those associations [Ayers as “mainstream,” Wright as a “crazy uncle”] influenced his political thinking and his ideological worldview — but I don’t think it untoward or wildly conspiratorial, as critics will likely assert, to ask these questions.
After all, former Soviet agents are now acknowledging that the whole of John Kerry’s Winter Soldier testimony was essentially written by propagandists and insinuated into the consciousness of easily-led wannabe radicals and revolutionaries.
So really, how necessarily farfetched might any of this be? And why, with less than two months to go before the elections, have we not seen Barack Obama properly and rigorously vetted by the US mainstream press? Laziness? Selection bias?
Should we not demand some accounting before we’re asked to vote? Or are we just content to sleep comfortably through what may or may not be our own velvety revolution…?
(h/t Dan)
Baracky feels wrong. I think it’s in part cause he doesn’t have any guy friends. At least none that he’ll admit to anymore. That’s deeply weird.
But then I think of that picture of him on his bike or the YouTube from his bowling adventure and I think maybe I get it.
Not one of my favorite persuasion techniques. Hey, what say you join up the dots, Melanie, and I’ll judge whether the joinings are substantiated.
Join-up-the-dots is for 9-11 truthers.
What’s funny is I can’t picture thor ever being friends with a doof like Baracky, or even feeling sorry for a guy like that. Not in real life anyway.
I don’t think it’s trutherism cause Baracky for real lied about his palsy walsyness with the terrorists in Chicago. He’s not a very genuine person, and the media is supposed to have joined a substantial number of dots by now. It’s the media’s dereliction that lends weight to speculation. That is completely different than 9/11 trutherism.
that the whole of John Kerry’s Winter Soldier testimony was essentially written by propagandists and insinuated into the consciousness of easily-led wannabe radicals and revolutionaries.
They media is right there with them, they see this a feature, not a bug.
“Unlike Communists elsewhere, the CPUSA fused the twin ideologies of class and race oppression.”
? WTF? This is quite common these days along with third worldism and gender.
Let’s remember that Babs and the rest of the Hollywood set as they paid $30k a piece to hear Obama say the same old nothing that they also love to snuggle with whatever anti-American thug – Castro, Chavez – that will give them the time of day. They resonate with someone that can give them that one last thing fame hasn’t
Absolute power divorced of responsibility
How fun it would be to be the darling of King Barry’s court and never have to rely on keeping the good graces of the hoi poloi
I feel better tonight. Did you miss me?
I talked to a mortgage broker tonight, and what he said was startling.
But, bottom line, he said O! scares the shit out of him. We disagreed on many things, but not on the scariness of O!
I think it’s great that the Dems (and Repubs, to be honest) basically forced the brokers (through “PC”) to give loans to people who couldn’t borrow a dollar from their neighbor, and now are blaming the large financial companies for the bullshit that our politicians spread and promulgated throughout the loan business. I am on the right, but it is beginning to appear that ALL these “elected” shitheads are working towards the new fascism.
My son is fucked, I think. How cool is it to regulate the loan businees into bankruptcy, and then blame the institutions for the rules that the politicians have forced upon them?
I hope McCain stops taking bites out of the Constitution, but he is much preferable to the scariest presidential candidate I have ever seen.
Enough.
I was very good tonight, thank you very much!
Um, I’s thought the grandfolk were typical white honkey racists. They sound pretty progressive to me. Whitey Gramps sought out a father figure for the grandson he was raising?
And a ‘strong black male figure’ to influence him?
This don’t add up.
paid $30k a piece —
Pamela Anderson was seen wearing a torn t-short that said “SUCK IT, OBAMA DOES.”
How about a game of solitaire to pass the time?
OT, For some reason I was invited to submit an op-ed to the Los Angeles Times in defense of Sarah Palin. I wrote an 800-word essay and submitted it to my contact tonight. There is no guarantee it will run in the paper, but if it does the proggo readership will go batshit crazy, because I didn’t pull any punches.
Gotta love McArdle taking financial scholar Andrew Sullivan whining she lays more blame on Bill Clinton than BUSH!!! to the fucking woodshed (you don’t even know what you are talking about Obama sucking knob Sully)
http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/hindsight_regulation.php
Aldo
Right ON!
Maybe if I stopped writing, people would seek me out to write. Something to consider, at least.
Let me know if it appears, Aldo. I’ll be happy to link and critique.
Maybe if I stopped writing, people would seek me out to write. Something to consider, at least.
I know it’s not much, but I seek you out Jeff.
This has been running in my head,bear with me.
Community Activist
Communist
Yeah,yeah i know,they probably share a root word.or something.
Im sure someone pointed it out already.
Tony
South Haven,MI
Young Communist League? Just community organizers!
But, you see Jeff, we all know why Barack Obama doesn’t need a tanning bed, not that there’s anything wrong with that. Consider this: by finger painting 666 in zinc oxide in a variety of discreet places on her body she could very well carrying the mark of the devil by darkening her skin though use of said tanning bed. Ever see Rosemary’s Baby? Then you know the secrecy involved in these types of situations. It would behoove you to allow the facts to come out as they may, but don’t think for a second many concerned citizens are not keen to the ulterior motives behind Sister Palin’s artificial Alaskan tanning methods. There’s these networks, ya see, and they’re as deceptive as they are secretive. Does anyone even know if she’s an Ozzy fan?
Now that’s the old thor!
I have to wonder if, having achieved power, wouldn’t O! just toss the old crowd aside. They might see him as the One who can start the unravelling of the bourgeoise USA, but from the top – but I wonder if he isn’t just fixed on himself and his achievement of power (no real experiences worth mentioning in a book for all to read, but TWO autobiographies, might lend that point some weight). They would find themselves cast aside as having served their purpose….
Or at least one could hope. Or one could just miss the whole gamble by not electing him in the first place.
Unless MPJ, Barack, like Mongo, is just pawn in game of life.
the sheriff is near
Candygram for Barack O!
So is this the real “Manchurian candidate”, after all? We’re not supposed to mention the elephant in the room people … it’s … something bad and … so are we. Fnord.
Oh, Baracky straight!
Major!
How they hanging?
I have to wonder if, having achieved power, wouldn’t O! just toss the old crowd aside. They might see him as the One who can start the unravelling of the bourgeoise USA, but from the top – but I wonder if he isn’t just fixed on himself and his achievement of power…
I suspect the same thing, but folks that rudderless don’t have a real good track record in the leadership department once they gain power.
BarackO love candy!
I have to wonder if, having achieved power, wouldn’t O! just toss the old crowd aside.
No. Strikes me that he`would dance with one(s) that brung him.
“We are the ones we have beeen waiting for.”
Barry, Harry, and Nan. We will have deserved this, collectively.
It strikes me that at some point in the future, the urge to throw tea in a harbor is gonna resurface.
Should I start moving everythign I have into gold buried somewhere?
Should I start moving everythign I have into gold buried somewhere?
I say ammo.
“Cold Wars II, The Evil Empire Strikes Back”
Coming to a voting booth near you soon.
No. Strikes me that he`would dance with one(s) that brung him.
“We are the ones we have beeen waiting for.â€Â
Barry, Harry, and Nan.
That is the thing, though. Harry and Nan aren’t the ones that brung him. And the don’t seem to be dancing to the same beat.
https://proteinwisdom.com/pub/?p=1629
Harry just ain’t funky enough.
Denounced.
Not much. But Christ, the tone.
None of this same stuff sounds conspiratorial — or even odd — if you regard Marxoid revolutionary rhetoric as a highly ironized type of the very rube-bamboozlin’ it most protests it isn’t, and claims to open the only line of sight through. (That there’s a hint.)
But even if you don’t really think that’s what it is, and you buy into this mole-metaphor shit as somehow sincere, it’s tactically wise to talk about it like it’s ridiculous bullshit. (See “Gramsci/Alinsky” — or Gramsci and Alinsky, even.) Because reacting to it as if it’s face-value transparent makes you say things like
And you lose.
That’s what these extravagances of rhetoric are for — for you.
Don’t play along.
Since all revolutions require money to finance. Go after the corruption that allows the financing of the organizations and you stop it without any talk about “those” words.
Thanks Jeff. It’s just getting tossed onto a huge pile of Palin-related submissions, so the odds of it getting picked are low.
Nice to see the Dr. Quentin Young shoutout. That old shitbag has been harping for socializing health care since before I was born.
Since all revolutions require money to finance.
The traditional method of raising it is to join the secret police as an “informer”. Two birds, one stone.
Hey Jeff – if you get tired of slapping Barry’s Clowns around, here’s some pretty funny post-modern “Womanizing” (or possibly “Feministing”) right here…
But…But…But…The MSM is really objective…right? I mean, they just give us all the facts and we decide how all the dots connect, right? They wouldn’t have any activist agenda or be trying to sway people’s thinking… would they?
And…And…And…O! is running the most transparent campaign-EVAH; he isn’t trying to hide any elements of his past, is he? He wrote two books about himself; clearly he’s established the narrative arc of his life sufficiently…hasn’t he? He’s not at all unknown, in any way; not like that Sarah come lately, hick, Christianist, so-and-so. We need to investigate every element of her life; does anyone know who the manufacturer of her tanning bed is or what kind of rifle ammo she uses-these are vital electoral issues people…
After all, we only want to discuss issues…
The combination of Black Liberation Theology, nascent communism under the guise of “community organizing” and a “strong male mentor,” vote fraud (cf. Acorn)under the radar because of the media’s reticence in reporting matters that take the luster off their precious candidate, Axelrod’s astroturfing to mimic “grassroots” outrage, Obama’s desire to raise the capital gains tax (among others) during a weak economy, Obama’s nonsensical mandatory “voluntary” national service program with funding equivalent to the armed forces ($500+ Billion! In this economy!), the dissemination of demonstrably false memes (cf. Palin)that become common knowledge in leftist circles. Good God, what did I miss?
I think the term coup is more appropriate than revolution.
My bad. Add a George Soros and the picture is complete.
Unfortunately for O! when you are as relatively unknown, and have no apparent paper trail, sooner or later folks are gonna resort to judging you based on the folks you’ve associated with…
The regular hick folks in fly-over country may not have Harvard degrees, but they are familiar with some well known “folk wisdom” cliches:
You can’t lay down with dogs, and not get fleas…
and
Birds of a feather, flock together…
It remains to be seen whether O!s fifth column in the MSM can keep these inconvenient truths about his past associates out of the public eye; the same goes for the squelching of the stories about his Orwellian brown shirt mobs who will shout down of e-mail flood any outlet that doesn’t accept his camps prescribed narrative.
But as longs as lines appear in Newspaper stories like this:
Well it’s bound to come up sooner rather than later…
In a long interview with the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat, Zebari says: “Obama asked me why, in view of the closeness of a change of administration, we were hurrying the signing of this special agreement, and why we did not wait until the coming of the new administation next year and agree on some issues and matters.”
[break]
Zebari continues: “I told Obama that, as an Iraqi, I believe that even if there is a Democratic administration in the White House it had better continue the present policy instead of wasting a lot of time thinking what to do.”
Amir Taheri, NYPost, “Obama Objects: But the evidence says I’m right.” 9/17/2008
How can Barack Obama not understand as a given proposition that the ongoing, near permanent, interests of the US as a nation trump his personal short-term political interests or desires? Must not such an understanding be a sine qua non for high national political office?
(Well, unless the personal political interests of Barack Obama just happen to be exactly congruent with the World Historical Interests of the United States as a Nation, which, to go all germ-manical about it, could be, so I’m an idiot for asking?)
Not why did Obama choose these friends, why did they choose him.
Wow. He’s putting Iraq’s interests first? Imagine that.
You have to wonder how Iraqis would vote, given the opportunity, for or against a ticket that has pushed two distinct Iraq policies, one that says abandon it and another that says carve it up.
Change that works
foragainst you.I gathered Steve Diamond’s frantic efforts to insist on copyrights he doesn’t have, is mainly stemming from the terrible consequences of publishing anything that dings the hopey halo.
Sdferr – Baracky’s short term political success is in the best interests of our country, dont’cha know?
This story (Obama’s Iraq negotiations contra US ambassador on scene) raises in my own mind the same sort of questions regarding “ordinary political prudence” I have wondered at before, namely the Dem leaders taking, intentionally putting themselves in the position of having to root against the success of US troops in the field, against the success of the surge, against the success of US allies… all this beginning in the summer of 2003, when they chose, chose(!) to oppose the very war in Iraq they had voted to authorize mere months before. I still don’t get it.
“Join the dots” is unfortunate phrasing. People never need to be told to do that, for one thing. And it couldn’t be a triter diminishment of the dots that are there to connect.
” I still don’t get it.”
It’s so simple though. They bought into the idea, really took it to heart, that success in war meant defeat for Democrats, and failure as the best evidence of the need to get Republicans booted away.
And without that, there’s no gay marriage.
It doesn’t really matter, actually. I just can’t come up with any reason to vote for the guy.
He’s a community organizer. He’s been in charge of a political campaign. Those are bugs, not features.
Despite Wall Street, I still have a positive balance in my 401K. Contrast that with Social Security and Fanny and Freddie. Government in action. What about No Habla Rangel and his taxes? Why do I want failures to have more power over my life? They can’t run theirs. Yet the prescription is always “give me more and things will be better.” Things were better when they had less power and less of my money. I think logic dictates we’re headed the wrong way.
So the choice is between bad and worse. Sounds like every election since Reagan to me.
If you view Republicans as
a: superstituous troglodtytes against tolerance and science and/or
b: In the way of socialism, here and in Israel and/or
c: Greedy, Jewey, cynics who use values of trogs to get richer
You might feel panic at these ungenerous types capturing the loyalty and gratitude of those mediocre middling sort you need for yourself, to bring in all that change
And with that, there’s no gay marriage ?!?!?!?!?!
I just loved this little snippet:
“…he was warned by ‘Frank’ not to forget his ‘people’ and not to ‘start believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that shit’.”
Oh, yes, we ham-fisted mongoloids in flyover country just eat that up with a spoon.
“…It’s so simple though…”
For myself, I can see it (it?) as both simple and not-so-simple, though of course in different respects and time-scales.
I — sort of — understand the simple argument that the choice was seen as a viable path to obtain more power.
My problem is that I see what I call ordinary political prudence as an ability to game out in the abstract what will become of one’s strategies if certain assumptions are altered or removed, which can (and does) help the politician avoid otherwise unforeseen fatal turns of events, the dread painting oneself into the impossible corner effect.
And this choice, it seems to me, was an easy one from that view. What if, the pol asks itself, what if this surge thing I’m going to oppose is successful, what then? Oops, I’m screwed, that’s what then.
I did not do exactly what it looks like I did, despite having done exactly what it looks like I did.
“…success in war meant defeat for Democrats, and failure as the best evidence of the need to get Republicans booted…”
This may very well be true to their understanding but is it true to the state of the world?
Let’s call their reading a “zero sum game”. Don’t we know though, that there can be non-zero sum games, where both sides win, so to speak (or if not win-win, at least come out the same relative to one another)? Why, most especially in matters of war and peace, why not seek a strategy of win-win, thus eliminating any potential downside should the initial assumptions prove faulty?
To sign as an elite these days, the fashion is to wave one’s hand at the “scary communist canardâ€Â
I tell you what’s fascinating — the fact that now they wave their hands instead of mocking your fear of “Commies and Pinkos under your bed,” like they did in the 70’s and 80’s. To me, that signals they think they’ve neutered the charge enough for them to at least stick a toe out of the closet, like Maxine Waters did when she proposed socializing the oil companies. B.O. is smart enough to keep his trap shut on this (and Michelle, after they gagged her) but I’ll wager some of their loonies will come out all the way.
Ujamaa!
“intentionally putting themselves in the position of having to root against the success of US troops in the field”
I’ve always thought that the Dems/Liberals exhibit some sort of political schizophrenia rooted in narcissism. When the Democrats are in control, Clinton being the most recent example, America becomes a fundamentally good and prosperous place (1994 Congress take over and contract with America not withstanding). Policies are crafted with good intent and subsequently judged by the same measure:
– Serbia: I’ll go out on a limb and call it a post-modern conflict, where the intent of NATO’s intervention was subverted by their ethos of disengagement. The Dutch stood by while the Serbs committed the massacre at Srebrenica. Nothing to see here, move along. Good intentions, yay Clinton.
-1998, Iraq: The stated policy of the US government is regime change in Iraq. Clinton orders four days of bombings, status quo remains.
– Clinton v. Al Qadea: After the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and previously the Khobar Towers bombing, Clinton proceeds to bomb a soap factory in the Sudan and a couple huts in Afghanistan. George Tenet states in 1997 that “We are at war with Bin Laden.” Clinton refuses to authorize strikes at Tarnak Farms, then home to OBL, because of the possibility of civilian casualties. Good intentions, of course.
The democrats like to be seen wielding the traditional tools of American power so long as it maintains the image of restrained civility (appeasement) they like to cultivate. Men like George W. wield the tools of American power with the intent of satisfying American interests, a cardinal sin of liberalism. When the Iraq war became an actual war with the future of the Middle East on the line, liberals responded with incessant calls of how dystopian, oppressive, imperialist and economically vulnerable America had become. The actual outcome of the Iraq war is irrelevant, as Bush’s intent was to create something aligned with American interests rather than displaying American power aligned with the mythical interests of the Global Community.
Eh, someone should probably write a book about
No empty suits are genuine Marxists.
Obama is an empty suit.
Therefore, Obama is not a genuine Marxist.
As Slartibartfast said, don’t connect dots.
He got in with the commies because they are cool and bitter, just like him, and because they seek out the cool and bitter as prey. He has no ideology other than being suave and waxing eloquent with cool lefty verbiage. There is a hole in his heart where a father should have been. He fills it with self-aggrandizement instead of excellence, but the anger and hurt left by a father who didn’t care one iota about him will never leave. He wants to be Clinton, except debonair instead of sleazy. He doesn’t know what it means to have a political philosophy, in the same sense that a psychopath doesn’t know what it means to take other people’s interests to heart. The good part of him that lies within every man is a father to the little girls. It has proven powerless to stop the ruling part from subjecting the girls to the insane-asylum church. The marriage is probably hell.
He won’t return the commies’ phone calls after he gets into the White House because they will no longer be of any use to him. He may return Chicago Machine calls if he thinks Chicago Machine has non-negligible power relative to the president.
“Why, most especially in matters of war and peace, why not seek a strategy of win-win, thus eliminating any potential downside should the initial assumptions prove faulty?”
Why not, indeed. This seems to have been the initial reaction to dealing with Iraq. But it was seen to not be working to pretend to be on the same side.
If Obama wins, this is the soundtrack for his administration.
The central premise of Animal Farm is over time the revolutionaries become just like the people they overthrew. This is born out by history. The French Revolutionaries became the Empire. The Chinese Communists have become mandarins. The Soviet bolsheviks became grand dukes. The puritans acted as high-handed as the cavaliers.
a question that has been rattling around in mind (and has been articulated – sort of) is how revolutionary are these old revolutionaries and their modern disciples? I think some are complete frauds – Michal Moore being an example. I don’t see him as much of a deep-thinker, rather as a gadfly who has found a nice little deal and is making as much as he can off of it. Others, I think, appear to be half-revolutionary, Noam Chomsky and Bill Ayers. They speak the lingo still, they seem to work at promoting it, but they have no problem raking in the cash and keeping it in their (and their friends and families’ hands). Mr. Ayers does not appear to have turned down any of his father’s cash, and he doesn’t seem to have parted with that pile wrung from the brow of the working man, and with the annenberg Challenge he seems to have steered a lot of money to friends and associates just as smoothly as an old Tammany Man would have. Prof. Chomsky’s trust funds, set up to avoid those estate taxes, are also known.
Where exactly does Sen. Obama stand with all of this? Is he a true believer? Is he a cynical scam artist? Or is he somewhere in between? With the Rezko house deal, with the earmark to the hospital and his wife’s subsequent raise, I think he is somewhere in between, and I think that was part of his education, how he sees the world.
In one of his autobiographies he noted how easy it was for him to charm people, to tell them what they wanted to hear. While Frank may have been a teacher (and I’ll assume a true believer), Sen. Obama had another teacher in Jeremiah Wright, who also talked a good game, but lived his life differently.
anyway – my thoughts and musings.
Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wa) shows how to do it without pretending. Best of all in his demonstration is that he started out opposed to the Iraq resolution, but turned when he saw the potential success of the Coin strategy Petraeus was pursuing.
It remains to be seen whether O!s fifth column in the MSM can keep these inconvenient truths about his past associates out of the public eye; the same goes for the squelching of the stories about his Orwellian brown shirt mobs who will shout down of e-mail flood any outlet that doesn’t accept his camps prescribed narrative.
There’s probably much more of that going on, in more subtle forms, than has been publicized. There was a reporter at the NYT a few months back who wrote an analysis of a poll with racial breakdowns that wasn’t sufficiently upbeat in their opinion, so instead of calling the guy to object, which is the norm, the campaign sent out a press release trashing him the next day. Then there was Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker, who got bumped from the campaign plane on the European extravaganza, supposedly because of the “fist bump” cover art, which he had nothing to do with. Lizza did write a lengthy article about Obama’s Chicago politics in that issue, though, and my guess is that it was a bit too objective in the eyes of the O.
Except for the press on the right, who get routinely trashed, no one in the MSM wants to be thrown out of the popular guy’s inner circle, where the coolest, most refined, articulate, transnational intellectuals hang out.
Men may even try to take a long and principled view. But it can be hard not to take a chance to weaken or disparage the competition even when it sinks all boats. At least there is the satisfaction of not helping that other boat float.
I’m pretty sure Obama would like his long and difficult path in life to mean something….important.
To have been working up to something. I think at one time he might have believed his own press – he might be “the one.”
oh, I think I get the risk/reward calculus and the little goebbel’s jigs that get danced with success. But then there are the ruined interests of the Nation staring back at that jig and remembering. None of that is far from human capability, no, nearer than farther I’d say. And blood.
Did you watch his address in Golden from yesterday? Such confident stumbling bombast, ringing telepromptered bullshit from the ceiling rafters to the cheers (shut up!) of the adoring crowd. I caught it on C-Span at 3:30am, waking up in the middle of the night to the swaggering lies of Obama (that’ll teach me to fall asleep with the TV on.)
Has Baracky ever had to kill his own arugula? Has Michelle ever had to kill her own fruit? They don’t know what struggle is.
hey – someone broke into Sarah Palin’s yahoo account…screenshots here:
http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2008/09/17/hackers-break-into-sarah-palins-inbox/
I keep thinking there’s nothing else they can do to her – and I’m wrong just about every day. LOL
The struggle is one of self-worth, really.
That’s why Palin’s “not a journey of self discovery” resonated so well.
#75 – Well, if it’s a 4/chan job, view it with some skepticism. It could be real, punk, or part real and part punk. I’d wait for vetting and statements before accepting any of it wholesale.
“It ain’t what you’re doin’ when you’re doin’ what you’re doin’, it’s what you look like you’re doin’ when you’re doin’ what you’re doin’…”
“The traditional method of raising it is to join the secret police as an “informerâ€Â. Two birds, one stone.”
I’m not talking about them raising 100s but 100s of millions.
Socialism is parasitical, cut off the funds and it drys up the same as terrorism does.
I honestly do not believe the left believes in win-win outcomes. They’re zero-sum believers in just about every aspect of life.
I suppose I could but I find I can’t think that way, Rob. When I say ordinary I mean ordinary.
[…] CAMP OBAMA is resorting to ever more outrageous attempts to silence the questions that are mounting about the […]
Gotch’a updated with the current events.
I honestly do not believe the left believes in win-win outcomes. They’re zero-sum believers in just about every aspect of life.
It is inherent in the system. You can’t create wealth if all your profits are used to subsidize the unprofitable instead of being invested for the future. Socialists eat all their extra seed corn, then blame the farmers for not growing more.
While Republicans just give it all to Halliburton and Lockheed-Martin and then blame the government for “waste” that they themselves initiated.
You’re a fucking idiot, AJB.
you forgot Blackwater.
Whereupon it just stops, right, AJB? After all, Halliburton, LockMart, et. al. never pay wages, never pay dividends to stockholders, and their bosses never buy anything, right?
For me, the sigil and emblem of this election was Obama giving a speech in front of a bunch of unemployed factory workers, assuring them that in future nobody would ever again have the scratch to build a factory for them to work in. Yay! Uh…
Regards,
Ric
At least when we give money to Lockheed we get an F-22 or a C-130. So that’s something in return.
Maybe the govt. ought just pay the lowest worker directly and cut out the middle men.
It strikes me that at some point in the future, the urge to throw tea in a harbor is gonna resurface
I had to look twice to be sure this wasn’t a happyfeet comment, except, happyfeet would have added: “The tea wouldn’t taste good with all that salt water, I think.”
I heartily agree with both sentiments, and happyfeet.
Political crony capitalism is a parasite, but it is simply a form of socialism. One of the many ways a government can gain control over economic resources. “By the pen” or “by the sword” or even by “clean, articulate” and mendacious rhetoric.
Leeches will fasten on to any place that they can suck blood. Pour salt on all of them and then squash them underfoot. Doesn’t matter to me what Party the supposedly hail from.
“they” not “the”
Interestingly, the largest part of the defense budget by FAR is pension payments.
Make of that what you will, if you have the brain cells.
#62
Salt. yeah. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the resulting opening of KGB files sort of cooled them off.
“Hey those guys that the right wing nut jobs have been calling communists, really are communists!”
Haven’t seen that Rosenberg sob story documentary since the collapse. Marty Sobel’s autobiography has been placed with the fiction.
if you have the brain cells
Slarti – AJB hs repeatedly proven it does not have those.
#91
We already do that. It’s called -welfare.
[…] And you don’t just shed decades worth of lessons in political radicalism — be it from communist party poets, the gospel of Black Liberation Theology, Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, or Ayers’ […]
[…] doubt as to the ideology under which Obama forged his political identity — from his early communist poet mentor to the New Left radicalism of Ayers to the socialism and communism of the New Party and the DSA in […]
[…] El Partido Comunista de Chicago pide el voto para Obama para el Senado Nacional, sin que él lo haya solicitado. […]
[…] febrero de 2008, la “Young Communist League” (Liga Comunista Joven) de Chicago comienza a hacer campaña a favor de […]
[…] https://proteinwisdom.com/?p=13272 […]