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Give it back Barack!

Should Barack Obama give back the $105,849 that “particular companies” gave him? And did Obama accept this money from Wall Street so that he could help Main Street? Because I think we could sure use some of that money.

“We need to help people cope with rising gas and food prices, spark job creation by repairing our schools and our roads, help states avoid painful budget cuts and tax increases, and help homeowners stay in their homes,” said the Illinois senator. “And we must also ensure that the solution we design doesn’t reward particular companies, or irresponsible borrowers or lenders, or CEOs, some of whom helped cause this mess.”

Obama’s remarks came the day after the Bush administration laid out a radical bailout plan with a breathtaking price tag — a takeover of a half-trillion dollars or more for worthless mortgages and other bad debt held by tottering institutions.  ~ap.google.com

Obama is third on the list of the top recipients of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac money. Only Chris Dodd and John Kerry got more money and Chris Dodd is chairman of the Senate banking committee!

How Obama sees America

I believe that the Obama’s have a fundamentally liberal-left view of America. A view of America as a corrupt and oppressive empire that must be eradicated and remade into a controlled pasture of socialist sheep.

This is an empire which is on the one hand the most powerful empire that ever existed; on the other hand an empire that is crumbling — an empire that has no future because the rest of the world is alienated and simply because this empire is top-heavy with military commitments, with bases around the world, with the exhaustion of its own resources at home.

[This is] leading to more and more discontent and home, so I think the American empire will go the way of other empires and I think it is on its way now. ~Howard Zinn, Alternet.org

This is the worldview of Obama. This is the ‘hope’ that his campaign embodies. The hope that the American people will finally demand socialism.

If there is any hope, the hope lies in the American people. [It] lies in American people becoming resentful enough and indignant enough over what has happened to their country, over the loss of dignity in the world, over the starving of human resources in the United States, the starving of education and health, the takeover of the political mechanism by corporate power and the result this has on the everyday lives of the American people.

[There is also] the higher and higher food prices, the more and more insecurity, the sending of the young people to war.

I think all of this may very well build up into a movement of rebellion.

We have seen movements of rebellion in the past: The labour movement, the civil rights movement, the movement against the war in Vietnam.

I think we may well see, if the United States keeps heading in the same direction, a new popular movement. That is the only hope for the United States. ~Howard Zinn, Alternet.org

The hope of the Obama campaign is the hope that Americans will become resentful.

Michelle Obama explains her view of America.

Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. “We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. “Folks are just jammed up, and it’s gotten worse over my lifetime. And, doggone it, I’m young. Forty-four!” ~newsbusters.org

When a seven year old girl asks Barak why he’s running he channels Howard Zinn:

“America is…, uh, is no longer, uh… what it could be, what it once was. And I say to myself, I don’t want that future for my children.” ~gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

How it will happen here


This is how the left would destroy America. The left seeks to use the government to take over more aspects of our economy in the name of fairness, equality and class warfare. This creates fully predictable side-effects however as supply and demand are not legislated forces as they believe. Once the government creates these shortages, shocks, and short-circuits of the market they in turn claim that this state of affairs requires them to take more control and so on.

CARACAS, Venezuela — Faced with shortages of foods, building materials and other staples, President Hugo Chávez is intensifying state control of the Venezuelan economy through a new wave of takeovers of private companies and the creation of government-controlled ventures with allies like Cuba and Iran.

The moves come just months after voters rejected a referendum to give the president sweeping constitutional power over the economy and public institutions, leading to new accusations that Mr. Chávez is more interested in consolidating power than in fixing Venezuela’s problems. ~nytimes.com

It’s a slippery slope we have so far avoided but that doesn’t mean that it can’t happen here. In fact Chavez is betting that it will happen here which is why he wants Obama to win.

Direct democracy

Left-wing lunacy is in fact the definition of ‘direct democracy’.

Near the start of the march, two women and a young man secured themselves with chains to a car that obstructed traffic.

“I would like a world of direct democracy,” said one man, who gave his name only as Alex, as he was led away by officers.

A larger group of about 200 protesters dressed in black roamed through the streets of downtown St. Paul, shouting and chanting and throwing street signs and concrete planters into the roads. Many of them wore black bandanas across their faces and some wore black balaclavas.

At one point, a police officer grabbed one of the youths. Others wrested him away, then appeared to knock the officer to the ground. On one knee, the officer released an arc of pepper spray that gushed into the air in a thick cloud.

The crowd backed off. A young man scattered bundles of nails secured with duct tape in the street. Over the next 40 minutes or so, the crowd weaved through streets, sometimes pursued or approached by police, but often eluding groups of police officers or sheriffs deputies.

Some members of the group smashed windows while others objected.

“Is this really protesting?” a young woman shouted, apparently in anger. ~http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Direct democracy = disruption and destruction. This is what Obama wants to bring us. Social upheaval is in fact ‘change’. Revolutions are in fact ‘change’. This does not mean the changes would be good are beneficial. All evidence points to the contrary. The left’s idea of change will not benefit society at all and is certainly meant to begin dismantling American capitalism.

Delegates and passersby hurried out of the way as they saw the group approaching. Projectiles bounced off the windows of the U.S. Bank Center, but a young man used a hammer with a yellow handle to smash a window of the First National Bank.

Others in the crowd pried up red paving stones and used them as weapons, and some protesters smashed windows at Macy’s and a police car window.

The crowd soon dispersed, but apparently with the intent of coming back later in the day. It was not immediately clear whether there were injuries or arrests. ~http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

What the FARC?

It’s no surprise that leftists support leftists but when we know about specifics we should hear about it in our press. Why doesn’t the press report on leftist terrorist connections? Maybe because the press is too far left to want to delve to deeply into these matters. Hm.

From Powerline:

If this report is correct, Nancy Pelosi was carrying on her own foreign policy in opposition to that of the United States, trying to work with the socialist Hugo Chavez and the Communist FARC terrorists to undermine America’s ally, Colombia. In normal times, this would be unthinkable. Given the crazed state of today’s Democratic party, I’m not so sure.

Further, the statement that Pelosi designated the outrageously left-wing Jim McGovern to head up her mission to the terrorists is also interesting. It may tie in with this document, which, as reported by the Associated Press, apparently records an attempt by Democrats to encourage FARC to hold on until Barack Obama becomes President:… ~powerlineblog.com

We know that Chavez is a favorite among the lefties here in the US. With myriads of actors and politicians making pilgrimage to see the glorious leader and his 21st century socialism at work. We know too that leftist NGO’s actively and routinely give aid and comfort to these leftist revolutionary/terrorist gangs.

As we learn more about the Colombian military’s daring hostage rescue last week, one detail stands out: In tricking FARC rebels into putting the hostages aboard a helicopter, undercover special forces simply told the comandantes that the aircraft was being loaned to them by a fictitious nongovernmental organization sympathetic to their cause called the International Humanitarian Mission.

It may have taken years for army intelligence to infiltrate the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and it may have been tough to convincingly impersonate rebels. But what seems to have been a walk in the park was getting the FARC to believe that an NGO was providing resources to help it in the dirty work of ferrying captives to a new location.  ~online.wsj.com

Obama wins!


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Hilterian propaganda

Just when I thought that Democrats couldn’t be any more venally idiotic Harry Reid goes and opens his mouth.

Harry Reid: Energy companies use “the old Hitler lie”

He accused the coal industry of using “the old Hitler lie — when you say things long enough people start believing them.”

The comparison of the coal industry to Nazis came before his keynote speech, which began and ended with references to “the Jewish sages of yesteryear.”

A statement worthy of Goebbels himself. Corrupt Democrat Senator Reid makes us all sick with the perpetuation of his culture of corruption.

Democrats seem bent on destroying America. Knocking all our energy supplies out from under us will effectively cripple our economy. This is fine with the left because capitalism is the enemy. Our economy is based on oppression and exploitation according to them and stopping that is worth destroying the country because something better (ie ‘change’) will replace it.

This isn’t some fringe character, some crazy uncle that one has in the attic. This is one of the Democratic Party’s leadership explaining why he and his party will never allow for extensive increases in domestic supply for coal and oil, the two leading sources of energy in the US, along with natural gas. “Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It’s global warming. It’s ruining our country, it’s ruining our world. We’ve got to stop using fossil fuel.” ~hotair.com

We can go back to Harry Reid’s inadvertent admission that repeating (the global warming) lies will eventually make people believe it. The corrupt Senator sure knows his Nazi propaganda tactics doesn’t he?

Nationalizing Industries

The libs are feeling their oats. After all, they control two-thirds of the Federal Government and reasonably expect their messiah to seize control of the third in the next election, why not begin explaining what you will do with all that power? Like nationalizing the oil industry and the internet for starters.

Should the Internet be owned and maintained by the government, just like the highways? Vint Cerf, the “father of the Internet” and Google’s Internet evangelist, made this radical suggestion while he was sitting next to me on a panel yesterday about national tech policy at the Personal Democracy Forum.

…I tried to press Mr. Cerf on how exactly such a scheme would work without making Internet service even less competitive than it is today. He offered that the government could put the actual running of the service out to competitive bidding. It’s still a bad idea.  ~techcrunch.com

There’s no better way to destroy something than to nationalize it. Still the libs see this as a great idea most of the time and they’re getting more vocal.

Among other things, the Democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply.  ~foxnews.com

HotAir has video of Maxine Waters and another rube Dem explaining their penchent for pure marxist thievery. Wow. Jaw dropper. Democrats believe this?

Hugh Hewitt quotes James Madison

“In a word, as a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.  Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. . . . Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term particularly expresses. This being the end of government, that alone is a just government, which impartially secures to every man, whatever is his own.”