This is the text of an email I received. Its a good message: I repeat it here. I don't know who the author was.
I visualize General George Patton addressing everyone today. It would go something like this......
ATTENTION!
To ALL those whining, panty-waisted, pathetic Citizens, it's time for a little refresher course on exactly why we Americans occasionally have to fight wars to keep this nation great.
See if you can tear yourself away from your "reality" TV and Starbucks for a minute, pull your head out of your ass -- and LISTEN UP!!
Abu Ghraib is not "torture" or an "atrocity."
Got that ?
JIHADISTS Beheading Journalists IS an atrocity!
The World Trade Center being hit by airplanes full of American citizens is an atrocity?
WHICH PART DON'T YOU GET?
Islam Extemists are peaceful people? My Ass!
Millions of these warped misled sons-of-bitches are plotting, as we speak, to destroy our country and our way of life any way they can. Some of them are here among us now.
They don't want to convert you and don't want to rule you. They believe you are a vile infestation of Allah's paradise. They don't give a shit how "progressive" you are, how peace-loving you are, or how much you sympathize with their cause.
They want your ass dead, and they think it is God's will for them to do it.
Some think if we give them a hug or listen to them, then they'll like us, and if you agree - Then you are a pathetic dumb ass!
If they manage to get their hands on a nuke,chemical agents, or even some anthrax -- you will wish to God we had hunted them down and killed THEM while we had the chance.
How many more Americans must be beheaded?
You've fallen asleep AGAIN - get your head out of your ass!
You may never get another chance!
NOW GET OFF YOUR SORRY ASS and pass this on to any and every person you give a damn about - if you ever gave a damn about anything!
DISMISSED!
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Why Fear Communism--An article by V. Jackson
They used to say, “He is not a Communist!” Now they say, “What’s so wrong with Communism?”
I got this email from my 28 year old friend “Al” yesterday:
We aren’t living in the 1950’s anymore. Why is there a fear of the communist bogeyman? Isn’t creating and perpetuating this fear just another form of propaganda?
Obviously, this boy has been brainwashed. I was so frustrated a cartoon cyclone came out of my head and ears. Then I wrote him back:
We aren’t living in the 1950′s anymore…so, suddenly communism works?! Which country is it working in?! (I wanted to say ‘you idiot!’) North Korea, Russia, Cuba? Are people flocking there to live? Risking their lives on rafts to get there?
The liberal Miami Herald today had an article about tourists visiting Cuba. They hated to admit that the place is a falling apart poverty stricken mess. They didn’t use the “c” word of course to explain why it suddenly went bad when Castro took over. All they would offer was, “…There’s no way tourism alone can prop up a system so enfeebled by the weight of government bureaucracy, market controls and limits on personal freedoms.”
“…a system enfeebled by the weight of government bureaucracy, market controls and limits on personal freedoms…” sounds like the Obama administration.
28 year old – do you want America to look like Cuba? Than stop defending communism!
The “utopia” of communism killed 94 million, according to The Black Book of Communism.
The breakdown of the number of deaths is as follows:
•65 million in the People’s Republic of China
•20 million in the Soviet Union
•2 million in Cambodia
•2 million in North Korea
•1.7 million in Africa
•1.5 million in Afghanistan
•1 million in the Communist states of Eastern Europe
•1 million in Vietnam
•150,000 in Latin America
•10,000 deaths resulting from actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power
S. Courtois claims that Communist regimes are responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or movement, including Nazism. The statistics of victims includes executions, famine, deaths resulting from deportations, physical confinement, or through forced labor.
Utopia is a nice ideal but it doesn’t work on this earth. The factor preventing it – “sin.” But that word is from the 50′s, right?!
Marxism is the theory. Communism is the implementation. The implementation requires force because it goes against logic and human nature for a man not to reap what he sows. If you work 8 hrs and Joe works 2 hrs and you both get the same salary, house and car – you won’t work 8 hrs anymore. That is just the way it is.
Andrew Breitbart was brainwashed by Tulane, but he survived and eventually realized the difference between fact and fiction. He died last week, trying to explain it to you.
The Progressives like Hilary, Obama, Ayres, Jarret, and the professors at our atheistic universities hate God and are rebelling against Him.
Why do I fear Communism? Because the first thing they do is kill the dissenters, the Christians. You cannot worship state and God. I choose God. So, I’ll be killed.
They’ve already started intimidation tactics by publicly scorning all things Christians in the media 24/7. Check out this article about Christians who signed petitions and are now being investigated.
And check out this article by Chuck Norris about Obama’s Assassination Program!
The European Union Times reported, “Foreign Ministry reports circulating in the Kremlin today are warning that an already explosive situation in the United States is about to get a whole lot worse as a new law put forth by President Obama is said capable of seeing up to 500,000 American citizens jailed for the crime of opposing their government.”
In this video, Trevor Loudon, author of “Barack Obama and the Enemies Within,” traces Obama’s communist background from Hawaii to Columbia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d559bMbd6V0
In this video Trevor Loudon explains “Obama didn’t create a movement, a movement (communism) created Obama.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N4oekXaF5Qg
Finally, Trevor Loudon makes it simple. Why should young people hate communism?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1Gy5Z5cnIZ4
I got this email from my 28 year old friend “Al” yesterday:
We aren’t living in the 1950’s anymore. Why is there a fear of the communist bogeyman? Isn’t creating and perpetuating this fear just another form of propaganda?
Obviously, this boy has been brainwashed. I was so frustrated a cartoon cyclone came out of my head and ears. Then I wrote him back:
We aren’t living in the 1950′s anymore…so, suddenly communism works?! Which country is it working in?! (I wanted to say ‘you idiot!’) North Korea, Russia, Cuba? Are people flocking there to live? Risking their lives on rafts to get there?
The liberal Miami Herald today had an article about tourists visiting Cuba. They hated to admit that the place is a falling apart poverty stricken mess. They didn’t use the “c” word of course to explain why it suddenly went bad when Castro took over. All they would offer was, “…There’s no way tourism alone can prop up a system so enfeebled by the weight of government bureaucracy, market controls and limits on personal freedoms.”
“…a system enfeebled by the weight of government bureaucracy, market controls and limits on personal freedoms…” sounds like the Obama administration.
28 year old – do you want America to look like Cuba? Than stop defending communism!
The “utopia” of communism killed 94 million, according to The Black Book of Communism.
The breakdown of the number of deaths is as follows:
•65 million in the People’s Republic of China
•20 million in the Soviet Union
•2 million in Cambodia
•2 million in North Korea
•1.7 million in Africa
•1.5 million in Afghanistan
•1 million in the Communist states of Eastern Europe
•1 million in Vietnam
•150,000 in Latin America
•10,000 deaths resulting from actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power
S. Courtois claims that Communist regimes are responsible for a greater number of deaths than any other political ideal or movement, including Nazism. The statistics of victims includes executions, famine, deaths resulting from deportations, physical confinement, or through forced labor.
Utopia is a nice ideal but it doesn’t work on this earth. The factor preventing it – “sin.” But that word is from the 50′s, right?!
Marxism is the theory. Communism is the implementation. The implementation requires force because it goes against logic and human nature for a man not to reap what he sows. If you work 8 hrs and Joe works 2 hrs and you both get the same salary, house and car – you won’t work 8 hrs anymore. That is just the way it is.
Andrew Breitbart was brainwashed by Tulane, but he survived and eventually realized the difference between fact and fiction. He died last week, trying to explain it to you.
The Progressives like Hilary, Obama, Ayres, Jarret, and the professors at our atheistic universities hate God and are rebelling against Him.
Why do I fear Communism? Because the first thing they do is kill the dissenters, the Christians. You cannot worship state and God. I choose God. So, I’ll be killed.
They’ve already started intimidation tactics by publicly scorning all things Christians in the media 24/7. Check out this article about Christians who signed petitions and are now being investigated.
And check out this article by Chuck Norris about Obama’s Assassination Program!
The European Union Times reported, “Foreign Ministry reports circulating in the Kremlin today are warning that an already explosive situation in the United States is about to get a whole lot worse as a new law put forth by President Obama is said capable of seeing up to 500,000 American citizens jailed for the crime of opposing their government.”
In this video, Trevor Loudon, author of “Barack Obama and the Enemies Within,” traces Obama’s communist background from Hawaii to Columbia.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=d559bMbd6V0
In this video Trevor Loudon explains “Obama didn’t create a movement, a movement (communism) created Obama.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N4oekXaF5Qg
Finally, Trevor Loudon makes it simple. Why should young people hate communism?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1Gy5Z5cnIZ4
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Back Home Again in Indiana History:
PRETTY INTERESTING STUFF YOU PROBABLY NEVER KNEW EXISTED!
Tomato juice was first served at a French Lick, Indiana , hotel in 1925.
The first tomato juice factory was also in French Lick, IN.
World famous basketball star Larry Bird lives in French Lick, IN.
The world's largest orchid species collection is found at Ball State University in Muncie , Indiana .
The first regulated speed limit (20 - 25 mph!) was initiated on Indiana roads in 1921.
The steepest railroad grade in the world is in Madison , Indiana .
An average of 400 funnel clouds are sighted each year in Indiana .
The city of Gary , Indiana , was built on fill brought from the bottom of Lake Michigan through suction pipes. (that explains a lot)
There are only two Adams fireplaces in the United States . One is in the White House and the other in the Diner Home in Indiana.
Josie Orr, wife of former Indiana Governor Ro bert Orr, flew bombers and cargo planes during World War II.
The Indianapolis Methodist Hospital is the largest Hospital in the Midwest .
One of the first complete bathrooms in Indianapolis was in the home of Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley.
The career of Dorothy Lamour (famous for the Bing Crosby-Bob Hope Ro ad Movies) was launched in Indianapolis .
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart was once a Professor at Purdue University .
Crown Hill Cemetery ( Indianapolis ) is the largest cemetery in the U.S.
The library in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, houses one of the largest genealogy libraries in America .
Wabash, Indiana, was the first electrified city in the U.S.
Pendleton, Indiana, was the site of the first hanging of a white man for killing Indians.
The Courthouse roof in Greensburg , Indiana , has a tree growing from it.
The world's first transistor radio was made in Indianapolis .
Clark Gable and wife Carole Lombard (born in Fort Wayne , IN ) honeymooned at Lake BarBee near Warsaw, Indiana .
The American Beauty Rose was developed at Richmond, Indiana .
Elkhart, Indiana, is the band instrument capitol of the World.
Frank Sinatra first sang with the Tommy Dorsey band at the Lyric Theater in Indianapolis .
Purdue Alumnus, Earl Butz, served as the Secretary of Agriculture. (there are lots of jokes about that)
U.S. 231 is the longest highway in Indiana (231miles).
Johnny Appleseed is buried at Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The singing McGuire Sisters spent their childhood summers at the Church of God Campground in Anderson, Indiana .
The main station of the Underground Railroad was in Fountain County, Indiana .
There are 154 acres of sculpture gardens and trails at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
La Porte County is the only county in America having 2 functioning courthouses. (I think we can add Vanderburgh and Elkhart Counties in with that also)
Nancy Hanks Lincoln is buried in Posey County, Indiana.
Crawfordsville , Indiana (Montgomery County) is the only site in the world where crinoids are found. (What is a crinoid, you ask? A form of deep-water marine life that looks something like a starfish.)
Pendleton, Indiana, was the site of the 'Fall Creek Massacre'. A museum housing 3500 artifacts of pioneer heritage now exists on that site.
St. Meinrad Archabbey is located in Spencer County and is one of only 2 archabbeys in the U.S. and seven in the world. (Abbey Press is an operation of the archabbey.)
A buzz bomb (German - WWII), believed to be the only one on public display in the nation, can be found on the Putnam County Courthouse lawn in Greencastle.
Roberta Turpin Willett was born in Indiana .
James Dean was born and is buried in Indiana .
The world's tallest woman lived in Indiana .
Red Skelton was born in Vincennes, Indiana .? (and was a proud Hoosier 'til the day he died!)
Mae West and Claude Akins were from Bedford, Indiana.
The inventor of the television, Philo T. Farnsworth, lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana .
Forrest Tucker was from Plainfield , Indiana .
You can't ship wine to Indiana . (So how does it get there?)
Bob Greise is from Evansville, Indiana and was quarterback at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN.
Toni Tenille (of The Captain and Tenille) is from Indiana ..
Oprah Winfrey built her residence in N/W Indiana.
Florence Henderson is from Indiana .
The much sought-after Hoosier Cabinets are an Indiana product.
90% of the world's popcorn is grown in Indiana. (Orville Redinbacher was what percent?)
The Jackson Five are from Gary, Indiana .
The birthplace of the automobile, the pneumatic rubber tire, the aluminum casting process, stainless steel and the first push-button car radio was in Kokomo, Indiana .
Frank Borman, NASA astronaut, born in Gary, Indiana
Pretty neat, huh? And you thought there was only corn in Indiana?
Don't forget, breaded tenderloin sandwiches are RARE (or nonexistent) everyplace else!
And does anyone but Hoosiers know how to play Euchre?
Tomato juice was first served at a French Lick, Indiana , hotel in 1925.
The first tomato juice factory was also in French Lick, IN.
World famous basketball star Larry Bird lives in French Lick, IN.
The world's largest orchid species collection is found at Ball State University in Muncie , Indiana .
The first regulated speed limit (20 - 25 mph!) was initiated on Indiana roads in 1921.
The steepest railroad grade in the world is in Madison , Indiana .
An average of 400 funnel clouds are sighted each year in Indiana .
The city of Gary , Indiana , was built on fill brought from the bottom of Lake Michigan through suction pipes. (that explains a lot)
There are only two Adams fireplaces in the United States . One is in the White House and the other in the Diner Home in Indiana.
Josie Orr, wife of former Indiana Governor Ro bert Orr, flew bombers and cargo planes during World War II.
The Indianapolis Methodist Hospital is the largest Hospital in the Midwest .
One of the first complete bathrooms in Indianapolis was in the home of Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley.
The career of Dorothy Lamour (famous for the Bing Crosby-Bob Hope Ro ad Movies) was launched in Indianapolis .
Aviatrix Amelia Earhart was once a Professor at Purdue University .
Crown Hill Cemetery ( Indianapolis ) is the largest cemetery in the U.S.
The library in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, houses one of the largest genealogy libraries in America .
Wabash, Indiana, was the first electrified city in the U.S.
Pendleton, Indiana, was the site of the first hanging of a white man for killing Indians.
The Courthouse roof in Greensburg , Indiana , has a tree growing from it.
The world's first transistor radio was made in Indianapolis .
Clark Gable and wife Carole Lombard (born in Fort Wayne , IN ) honeymooned at Lake BarBee near Warsaw, Indiana .
The American Beauty Rose was developed at Richmond, Indiana .
Elkhart, Indiana, is the band instrument capitol of the World.
Frank Sinatra first sang with the Tommy Dorsey band at the Lyric Theater in Indianapolis .
Purdue Alumnus, Earl Butz, served as the Secretary of Agriculture. (there are lots of jokes about that)
U.S. 231 is the longest highway in Indiana (231miles).
Johnny Appleseed is buried at Fort Wayne, Indiana.
The singing McGuire Sisters spent their childhood summers at the Church of God Campground in Anderson, Indiana .
The main station of the Underground Railroad was in Fountain County, Indiana .
There are 154 acres of sculpture gardens and trails at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
La Porte County is the only county in America having 2 functioning courthouses. (I think we can add Vanderburgh and Elkhart Counties in with that also)
Nancy Hanks Lincoln is buried in Posey County, Indiana.
Crawfordsville , Indiana (Montgomery County) is the only site in the world where crinoids are found. (What is a crinoid, you ask? A form of deep-water marine life that looks something like a starfish.)
Pendleton, Indiana, was the site of the 'Fall Creek Massacre'. A museum housing 3500 artifacts of pioneer heritage now exists on that site.
St. Meinrad Archabbey is located in Spencer County and is one of only 2 archabbeys in the U.S. and seven in the world. (Abbey Press is an operation of the archabbey.)
A buzz bomb (German - WWII), believed to be the only one on public display in the nation, can be found on the Putnam County Courthouse lawn in Greencastle.
Roberta Turpin Willett was born in Indiana .
James Dean was born and is buried in Indiana .
The world's tallest woman lived in Indiana .
Red Skelton was born in Vincennes, Indiana .? (and was a proud Hoosier 'til the day he died!)
Mae West and Claude Akins were from Bedford, Indiana.
The inventor of the television, Philo T. Farnsworth, lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana .
Forrest Tucker was from Plainfield , Indiana .
You can't ship wine to Indiana . (So how does it get there?)
Bob Greise is from Evansville, Indiana and was quarterback at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN.
Toni Tenille (of The Captain and Tenille) is from Indiana ..
Oprah Winfrey built her residence in N/W Indiana.
Florence Henderson is from Indiana .
The much sought-after Hoosier Cabinets are an Indiana product.
90% of the world's popcorn is grown in Indiana. (Orville Redinbacher was what percent?)
The Jackson Five are from Gary, Indiana .
The birthplace of the automobile, the pneumatic rubber tire, the aluminum casting process, stainless steel and the first push-button car radio was in Kokomo, Indiana .
Frank Borman, NASA astronaut, born in Gary, Indiana
Pretty neat, huh? And you thought there was only corn in Indiana?
Don't forget, breaded tenderloin sandwiches are RARE (or nonexistent) everyplace else!
And does anyone but Hoosiers know how to play Euchre?
ANDREW BREITBART'S WAR ON THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA
Most people don't even know who Andrew Breitbart was, and they don't understand why his passing was of any consequence. They don't understand the way he took the knowledge of a large group of Conservative Bloggers and made it into a cause with his web sites, with his marketing of those web sites, with his zealous and fearless method of speaking out and making our concerns heard.
Many, including myself recognized the reason no one vetted Obama was because the mainstream media failed to do it! They were too busy saying nasty things about Sarah Palin (which they continued to do even after the election was over). We always counted on the investigative reporters to very actively let us know everything there was to know about a candidate. They always did. Remember how they demanded that George W. Bush release everything, and how they tried to find proof that he wasn't REALLY a pilot with the Air National Guard?
We should have noticed then how far Left and I don't mean Democrat but I mean Far Left, i.e., Progressive Liberal Socialist Communist the Mainstream Media was leaning. Those of us who went to college as Conservatives (and there's a difference between Conservatives and GOP Republicans too but we won't get into it right now...it's not nearly as big a gap as the one between old time Democrats and the Prog/Libs of today.) ...those of us who went to college as far back as the early
60's had our share of Socialist/Communist leaning instructors, teachers, professors. We noticed them because if we didn't share their Idealistic views of how things should be in our reports, or sit quietly by not debating their comments, not remembering their far out teaching for our exams, we wouldn't get a good grade. Thirty-five years later when my son was in college he was running into more and more of these creatures. I made sure to teach him patriotism from the very start and I advised him to educate himself and come to his own conclusions about the Constitution and Freedom and what America was all about.
I've been saying for nearly four years, we are responsible for ourselves. We must educate our selves, and then we must educate others. The New Media is comprised of those who recognize what Andrew Breitbart recognized. We are the New Media. We are those who use Twitter and Facebook and emails to educate those who are still in the dark because they are still using the mainstream media, believing "they" wouldn't let that happen, i.e., "they" wouldn't let a Communist make it into the Oval Office. Well "they" did. "They" were either too afraid to be called a racist for questioning the credentials or "they" knew very well what was going on and were complicite with it. There are still many among us who think America will go along operating just as it always has with no changes. But at the same time they lament that there are no jobs, manufacturing has left the country, oil prices are sky-rocketing because "we are out of oil" (baloney! We have more oil available on this continent than any other place! We just aren't being allowed to drill for it!)
Wake up people. You can no longer rely upon the mainstream media to educate you, we can't depend upon them to give us the truth to give us the information the old mainstream media always supplied. That's what Andrew Breitbart was all about, educating the public, doing the job the mainstream media was supposed to be doing.
Want to understand more about the discussion of Critical Race Theory? This is why Obama was following Derrick Bell, supporting him & speaking at the same functions in favor of Bell's Critical Race Theory. It's purpose is being obfuscated by the mainstream media. Educate yourself, and understand what's going on. Then make your own decisions. Don't let your facts be "someone told me it was THIS way". We are each ultimately responsible for where we find ourselves. We can blame no one but ourselves for being complacent about the preservation of our Constitution. We can't just rest on the idea "they" won't let anything bad happen to us. Take responsibility for your life & the consequences of your action or inaction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4Ld8tJdfVMc
Many, including myself recognized the reason no one vetted Obama was because the mainstream media failed to do it! They were too busy saying nasty things about Sarah Palin (which they continued to do even after the election was over). We always counted on the investigative reporters to very actively let us know everything there was to know about a candidate. They always did. Remember how they demanded that George W. Bush release everything, and how they tried to find proof that he wasn't REALLY a pilot with the Air National Guard?
We should have noticed then how far Left and I don't mean Democrat but I mean Far Left, i.e., Progressive Liberal Socialist Communist the Mainstream Media was leaning. Those of us who went to college as Conservatives (and there's a difference between Conservatives and GOP Republicans too but we won't get into it right now...it's not nearly as big a gap as the one between old time Democrats and the Prog/Libs of today.) ...those of us who went to college as far back as the early
60's had our share of Socialist/Communist leaning instructors, teachers, professors. We noticed them because if we didn't share their Idealistic views of how things should be in our reports, or sit quietly by not debating their comments, not remembering their far out teaching for our exams, we wouldn't get a good grade. Thirty-five years later when my son was in college he was running into more and more of these creatures. I made sure to teach him patriotism from the very start and I advised him to educate himself and come to his own conclusions about the Constitution and Freedom and what America was all about.
I've been saying for nearly four years, we are responsible for ourselves. We must educate our selves, and then we must educate others. The New Media is comprised of those who recognize what Andrew Breitbart recognized. We are the New Media. We are those who use Twitter and Facebook and emails to educate those who are still in the dark because they are still using the mainstream media, believing "they" wouldn't let that happen, i.e., "they" wouldn't let a Communist make it into the Oval Office. Well "they" did. "They" were either too afraid to be called a racist for questioning the credentials or "they" knew very well what was going on and were complicite with it. There are still many among us who think America will go along operating just as it always has with no changes. But at the same time they lament that there are no jobs, manufacturing has left the country, oil prices are sky-rocketing because "we are out of oil" (baloney! We have more oil available on this continent than any other place! We just aren't being allowed to drill for it!)
Wake up people. You can no longer rely upon the mainstream media to educate you, we can't depend upon them to give us the truth to give us the information the old mainstream media always supplied. That's what Andrew Breitbart was all about, educating the public, doing the job the mainstream media was supposed to be doing.
Want to understand more about the discussion of Critical Race Theory? This is why Obama was following Derrick Bell, supporting him & speaking at the same functions in favor of Bell's Critical Race Theory. It's purpose is being obfuscated by the mainstream media. Educate yourself, and understand what's going on. Then make your own decisions. Don't let your facts be "someone told me it was THIS way". We are each ultimately responsible for where we find ourselves. We can blame no one but ourselves for being complacent about the preservation of our Constitution. We can't just rest on the idea "they" won't let anything bad happen to us. Take responsibility for your life & the consequences of your action or inaction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4Ld8tJdfVMc
Friday, March 2, 2012
STANDING IN THE WAY OF THE OBAMA VICTORY
A friend sent this to me. I'd read it before. It's long but well worth knowing. Study. Learn. Educate yourself to the Truth. This is not a racist rant. This is not hate. This is a true story. Those who refuse to believe say "they" wouldn't let that happen to us.
The mainstream media did not vet Obama. They always vetted everyone in the past, why wouldn't they protect us from this man who is an obvious Communist? We counted on them doing it in 2008. We are now "they" and it is up to us to inform the rest of America what is really happening.
STANDING IN THE WAY OF THE OBAMA VICTORY- STORIES LIKE THIS – February 24, 2011
Meeting Young Obama
By John Drew
My first meeting with young Barack Obama raised strong feelings and left me with a positive first impression. At the time, I felt I’d persuaded a young man anticipating a Marxist-Leninist revolution to appreciate the more practical alternative of conventional politics as a channel for his socialist views.
I met Obama in December of 1980, a couple of days after Christmas, in Portola Valley — a small town near Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. I was a 23 year old second-year graduate student in Cornell’s Government Department, and had flown to California to visit a 21 year old girlfriend, Caroline Boss. Boss was a senior at Occidental College, where she had taken a class in the fall of 1980 with political theorist Roger Boesche. She met and befriended Obama in that class.
I had been an angry Marxist revolutionary during my undergraduate career at Occidental College. During my hyperactive sophomore year, in the fall of 1976, I founded the Marxist-Socialist group on campus and named it the Political Awareness Fellowship. As I recall, I developed this innocuous sounding name because there were so few students on campus as radical as I, and I was fearful of turning off moderate students who might be willing to learn more about Marxist theory.
On my watch, our group grew to a dozen student activists and managed to attract crowds of 80 or more to our events. The most successful of these was a campaign to raise awareness of the plight of homosexuals who were beaten by Los Angeles City police officers along the Hollywood strip. I promoted this event with a large banner in the Occidental College quad reading: Anita Byrant: Hitler in Drag? During my junior year, I left Occidental College with the mission to study Marxist economics at England’s University of Sussex in the fall of 1977.
By the time I returned to Occidental in the fall of 1978 for my senior year, the Political Awareness Fellowship had morphed into something much bigger, an organization with strong leadership, its own office space and a new name. The group’s president was Gary Chapman, an older student who had served as a Green Beret in Viet Nam. Chapman was a colorful figure who shared stories from his military career including how he was required to take apart and reassemble his rifle in the dark. Under Chapman’s leadership, the group had changed its name to the Democratic Socialist Alliance (DSA). As I recall, he told me “the old name wasn’t letting people know what we stood for.” I agreed. The DSA met weekly and brought in speakers about once a month. Events were advertised by big signs in the campus quad. During my time at Occidental, the group searched for ways to embarrass the administration, help students to see the evil of the U.S. capitalist system, and mobilize people in preparation for the coming revolution.
In the spring of 1979, Chapman and I joined forces with other students on campus to found an anti-apartheid coalition, called The Student Committee Against Apartheid, which included the leadership of the DSA as well as several other groups. Although the coalition included liberals as well as radicals, I think it is fair to say the most significant intellectual and organizational leadership came from students in the DSA. One of the ironies of our effort is that the white students took the lead in organizing these protests while African-American students seemed strangely passive and uninvolved in fighting the South African regime.
My romance with Boss began in the spring of 1979. Boss had joined the DSA and participated in the anti-apartheid events I helped organize that year. Like me, she was a committed Marxist, preparing for the approaching revolution. That year, I completed my senior honors thesis on Marxist economics. Boss and I danced together after I accepted my Occidental degree in June of 1979 wearing the red armband that signified my solidarity with my Marxist brethren around the world and my commitment to the anti-apartheid movement.
My relationship with Boss continued through the summer of 1979 and the academic year 1979-1980. She spent the summer of 1980 with me at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. When Boss returned to Occidental in the fall of 1980 for her senior year, she enrolled in Professor Roger Boesche’s European Political Thought class. It was there that she met Barack Obama who was starting his sophomore year.
When I first saw Obama, I remember I was standing on the porch of Boss’s parents’ impressive home as a sleek, expensive luxury car pulled up the driveway. Two young men emerged from the vehicle. They were well-dressed and looked like they were born to wealth and privilege. I was a little surprised to learn they were Boss’s friends from Occidental College until she articulated the underlying0 political connection. “They’re on our side,” she said.
The taller of the two was Obama, then only 19, who towered over his five-foot-five companion, Mohammed Hasan Chandoo – a wealthy, 21 year old Pakistani student. Chandoo had a full dark black, neatly trimmed moustache, and was dressed in expensive clothes. Nevertheless, Obama was the more handsome of the two. At six foot two, Obama carried himself with the dignity and poise of a model. The diminutive Chandoo, in contrast, came across as more of a practical, businessman type. Obama displayed a visible deference to Chandoo when they were standing together at the vehicle.
Chandoo was vaguely familiar to me as a participant in the earlier anti-apartheid rallies on the Occidental College campus. In David Remnick’s book, The Bridge, Chandoo’s bona fides as a committed Marxist were well-known to those close to him. Chandoo’s girlfriend at the time, Margot Mifflin, told Remnick that “[I]n college, Hasan was a socialist, a Marxist, which is funny since he is from a wealthy family.” (See, Remnick, David, The Bridge, Alfred A, Knopf, 2010, page 104.) Young Obama, on the other hand, was completely new to me.
“This is Barack Obama,” Boss said.
Since I was not much taller than Chandoo, I remember I looked up at Obama as we shook hands. I was completely mystified by the pronunciation of his name. He did not put up a fight over it, however.
“You can call me Barry,” Obama said.
During the introduction, Boss and Chandoo were eager to let me know that Obama was a graduate of the prestigious Punahou Academy, an elite prep school in Honolulu. I vividly remember that Chandoo was intensely proud of Obama’s ties to Punahou. This prestige, however, was wasted on me. I had never heard of the school and did not have a clue about what it meant to be one of its graduates. Obama seemed embarrassed by the fuss. Boss, I remember, wanted to make sure I understood that young Obama was not merely an attractive socialite dabbling in Marxist theory. “You’ve worked with us,” she observed. “You’ve been at our DSA meetings. You’ve been active in the anti-apartheid movement.”
After a while, all six of us — the four students and Boss’ adoptive parents — drove in two cars to a local restaurant. The owner knew Boss’s father. The food was delicious, the setting spectacularly “California casual,” with tall redwood trees all around. At the restaurant, we six continued our talk. Chandoo was quiet, less forceful, and deferential to Obama. Obama was polite to Boss’s parents, calm, and distinguished in his manner. Mr. Boss disapproved of his daughter’s radical perspective and could barely disguise his contempt for me.
Despite the recent election of Ronald Reagan, the focus of our discussion was on El Salvador and Latin America. I remember I was especially angry about what was happening in El Salvador, particularly the recent rape and murder of four American nuns and a laywoman. We also discussed the recent assassination of John Lennon in New York City. After lunch, the entourage returned to the Boss’s home in Portola Valley. Mr. Boss, a gruff Swiss-born businessman, was an aficionado of luxury cars who took pride in his successes in the greeting card and display case businesses.
“That’s an impressive car. Which one of you is the owner?” he asked.
“It’s mine,” said Chandoo, graciously adding: “Would you like to see it?”
While Chandoo and Mr. Boss gave Chandoo’s luxury car a once over, the rest of us engaged in small talk until Chandoo returned. Chandoo beamed smugly, having impressed Boss’s father with his expensive car. Inside the house, Mrs. Boss prepared snacks for everyone. All four of the students lit up after-dinner cigarettes in the dining room of the Boss’s home. Caroline Boss sat at the head of the table to my left. Obama sat directly across from me. Chandoo sat on the other side of the table on Obama’s left. Naturally, our conversation gravitated towards the coming revolution. I expected that my undergraduate friends would be interested in hearing my latest take on contemporary Marxist thought. I was in for quite a bit of a shock.
My graduate studies that fall had tempered my earlier Marxism with a more realistic perspective. I thought a revolution was not in the cards anymore. There was no inevitability, in my mind, to the old idea that the proletariat would rise up and overthrow the ruling classes. Now, the idea that we could entirely eliminate the profit motive from an advanced industrialized economy seemed like a childhood fantasy. The future, I now thought, would belong to nations with mixed economic systems — like those in Europe — where there was government planning of the economy combined with a greater effort to produce a more equitable distribution of wealth. It made more sense to me to focus on elections rather than on preparing for a coming revolution.
Boss and Obama, however, had a starkly different view. They believed that the economic stresses of the Carter years meant revolution was still imminent. The election of Reagan was simply a minor set-back in terms of the coming revolution. As I recall, Obama repeatedly used the phrase “When the revolution comes….” In my mind, I remember thinking that Obama was blindly sticking to the simple Marxist theory that had characterized my own views while I was an undergraduate at Occidental College. “There’s going to be a revolution,” Obama said, “we need to be organized and grow the movement.” In Obama’s view, our role must be to educate others so that we might usher in more quickly this inevitable revolution.
I know this may be implausible to some readers, but I distinctly remember Obama surprising me by bringing up Frantz Fanon and colonialism. He impressed me with his knowledge of these two topics, topics which were not among my strong points — or of overwhelming concern to me. Boss and Obama seemed to think their ideological purity was a persuasive argument in predicting that a coming revolution would end capitalism. While I felt I was doing them a favor by providing them with the latest research, I saw I was in danger of being cast as a reactionary who did not grasp the nuances of international Marxist theory.
Chandoo let Boss and Obama take the crux of the argument to me. Chandoo, in fact, seemed chagrined by the level of disagreement in the group. I cannot remember him making any significant comments during this discussion.
Drawing on the history of Western Europe, I responded it was unrealistic to think the working class would ever overthrow the capitalist system. As I recall, Obama reacted negatively to my critique, saying: “That’s crazy!”
Since Boss and Obama had injected theory into our debate, I reacted by going historical. As best I can recreate the argument, I responded by critiquing their perspective with the fresh insight I had gained from my recent reading of Barrington Moore’s book, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (1966). Moore had argued that a Russian or Chinese style revolution — leading to communism — was only possible in an agrarian society with a weak or non-existent middle-class or bourgeoisie.
Since I was a Marxist myself at the time, and had studied variations in Marxist theory, I can state that everything I heard Obama argue that evening was consistent with Marxist philosophy, including the ideas that class struggle was leading to an inevitable revolution and that an elite group of revolutionaries was needed to lead the effort. If he had not been a true Marxist-Leninist, I would have noticed and remembered. I can still, with some degree of ideological precision, identify which students at Occidental College were radicals and which ones were not. I can do the same thing for the Occidental College professors at that time.
By the time the debate came to an end, Obama — although not Boss — was making peace, agreeing with the facts I had laid out, and demonstrating an apparent agreement with my more realistic perspective. I have a vivid memory of Obama surrendering to my argument including signaling to the somewhat bewildered Chandoo — through his voice and body language — that the argument had concluded and had been decided in my favor. Around 9 p.m., Chandoo and Obama left for another appointment, either in Palo Alto or San Francisco. In retrospect, Obama had proved to me that he was indeed, as Boss had promised, “on our side.”
Long before I realized Obama had grown into a spectacular political career, I have treasured this particular memory as an early example of my own intellectual growth and an early sign of my modest promise as a teacher. At the time, I had the impression that I might have been one of the first to directly challenge Obama’s Marxist-Leninist mind-set and to introduce him to a more practical view that saw politics, rather than revolution, as the preferred route to socialism. Had I really persuaded him, or was he just making nice to smooth things over with a new friend? I’d like to think it was the former.
Whatever progress I made with Obama that evening, the price of our debate was a greater ideological wedge between me and Boss and a further decline in our rocky relationship. Our relationship would officially end in February and then flicker out completely by June 1981 — much to the satisfaction of Boss’s father.
I remember that Obama was friendly to me on at least three other occasions over the next several months. For example, Boss and I visited the apartment he shared with Chandoo. I spoke with him again on campus in the student union. I saw him on campus in The Cooler — the school’s coffee and sandwich shop. I also spoke with him at large party in June 1981. I certainly considered him a friend, a confidant and a political ally in the larger struggle against poverty and oppressive social systems.
Whatever impact our encounter might have had on him, I know something about what Barack Obama believed in 1980. At that time, the future president was a doctrinaire Marxist revolutionary, although perhaps — for the first time — considering conventional politics as a more practical road to socialism. Knowing this, I think I have a responsibility to place on the public record my account of this incident from our president’s past.
John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a blogger at David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog . Dr. Drew earned his Ph.D. from Cornell and has taught political science and economics at Williams College. Today, Dr. Drew makes his living as an author, trainer, and consultant in the field of non-profit grant writing, fund raising and program evaluation.
The mainstream media did not vet Obama. They always vetted everyone in the past, why wouldn't they protect us from this man who is an obvious Communist? We counted on them doing it in 2008. We are now "they" and it is up to us to inform the rest of America what is really happening.
STANDING IN THE WAY OF THE OBAMA VICTORY- STORIES LIKE THIS – February 24, 2011
Meeting Young Obama
By John Drew
My first meeting with young Barack Obama raised strong feelings and left me with a positive first impression. At the time, I felt I’d persuaded a young man anticipating a Marxist-Leninist revolution to appreciate the more practical alternative of conventional politics as a channel for his socialist views.
I met Obama in December of 1980, a couple of days after Christmas, in Portola Valley — a small town near Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. I was a 23 year old second-year graduate student in Cornell’s Government Department, and had flown to California to visit a 21 year old girlfriend, Caroline Boss. Boss was a senior at Occidental College, where she had taken a class in the fall of 1980 with political theorist Roger Boesche. She met and befriended Obama in that class.
I had been an angry Marxist revolutionary during my undergraduate career at Occidental College. During my hyperactive sophomore year, in the fall of 1976, I founded the Marxist-Socialist group on campus and named it the Political Awareness Fellowship. As I recall, I developed this innocuous sounding name because there were so few students on campus as radical as I, and I was fearful of turning off moderate students who might be willing to learn more about Marxist theory.
On my watch, our group grew to a dozen student activists and managed to attract crowds of 80 or more to our events. The most successful of these was a campaign to raise awareness of the plight of homosexuals who were beaten by Los Angeles City police officers along the Hollywood strip. I promoted this event with a large banner in the Occidental College quad reading: Anita Byrant: Hitler in Drag? During my junior year, I left Occidental College with the mission to study Marxist economics at England’s University of Sussex in the fall of 1977.
By the time I returned to Occidental in the fall of 1978 for my senior year, the Political Awareness Fellowship had morphed into something much bigger, an organization with strong leadership, its own office space and a new name. The group’s president was Gary Chapman, an older student who had served as a Green Beret in Viet Nam. Chapman was a colorful figure who shared stories from his military career including how he was required to take apart and reassemble his rifle in the dark. Under Chapman’s leadership, the group had changed its name to the Democratic Socialist Alliance (DSA). As I recall, he told me “the old name wasn’t letting people know what we stood for.” I agreed. The DSA met weekly and brought in speakers about once a month. Events were advertised by big signs in the campus quad. During my time at Occidental, the group searched for ways to embarrass the administration, help students to see the evil of the U.S. capitalist system, and mobilize people in preparation for the coming revolution.
In the spring of 1979, Chapman and I joined forces with other students on campus to found an anti-apartheid coalition, called The Student Committee Against Apartheid, which included the leadership of the DSA as well as several other groups. Although the coalition included liberals as well as radicals, I think it is fair to say the most significant intellectual and organizational leadership came from students in the DSA. One of the ironies of our effort is that the white students took the lead in organizing these protests while African-American students seemed strangely passive and uninvolved in fighting the South African regime.
My romance with Boss began in the spring of 1979. Boss had joined the DSA and participated in the anti-apartheid events I helped organize that year. Like me, she was a committed Marxist, preparing for the approaching revolution. That year, I completed my senior honors thesis on Marxist economics. Boss and I danced together after I accepted my Occidental degree in June of 1979 wearing the red armband that signified my solidarity with my Marxist brethren around the world and my commitment to the anti-apartheid movement.
My relationship with Boss continued through the summer of 1979 and the academic year 1979-1980. She spent the summer of 1980 with me at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. When Boss returned to Occidental in the fall of 1980 for her senior year, she enrolled in Professor Roger Boesche’s European Political Thought class. It was there that she met Barack Obama who was starting his sophomore year.
When I first saw Obama, I remember I was standing on the porch of Boss’s parents’ impressive home as a sleek, expensive luxury car pulled up the driveway. Two young men emerged from the vehicle. They were well-dressed and looked like they were born to wealth and privilege. I was a little surprised to learn they were Boss’s friends from Occidental College until she articulated the underlying0 political connection. “They’re on our side,” she said.
The taller of the two was Obama, then only 19, who towered over his five-foot-five companion, Mohammed Hasan Chandoo – a wealthy, 21 year old Pakistani student. Chandoo had a full dark black, neatly trimmed moustache, and was dressed in expensive clothes. Nevertheless, Obama was the more handsome of the two. At six foot two, Obama carried himself with the dignity and poise of a model. The diminutive Chandoo, in contrast, came across as more of a practical, businessman type. Obama displayed a visible deference to Chandoo when they were standing together at the vehicle.
Chandoo was vaguely familiar to me as a participant in the earlier anti-apartheid rallies on the Occidental College campus. In David Remnick’s book, The Bridge, Chandoo’s bona fides as a committed Marxist were well-known to those close to him. Chandoo’s girlfriend at the time, Margot Mifflin, told Remnick that “[I]n college, Hasan was a socialist, a Marxist, which is funny since he is from a wealthy family.” (See, Remnick, David, The Bridge, Alfred A, Knopf, 2010, page 104.) Young Obama, on the other hand, was completely new to me.
“This is Barack Obama,” Boss said.
Since I was not much taller than Chandoo, I remember I looked up at Obama as we shook hands. I was completely mystified by the pronunciation of his name. He did not put up a fight over it, however.
“You can call me Barry,” Obama said.
During the introduction, Boss and Chandoo were eager to let me know that Obama was a graduate of the prestigious Punahou Academy, an elite prep school in Honolulu. I vividly remember that Chandoo was intensely proud of Obama’s ties to Punahou. This prestige, however, was wasted on me. I had never heard of the school and did not have a clue about what it meant to be one of its graduates. Obama seemed embarrassed by the fuss. Boss, I remember, wanted to make sure I understood that young Obama was not merely an attractive socialite dabbling in Marxist theory. “You’ve worked with us,” she observed. “You’ve been at our DSA meetings. You’ve been active in the anti-apartheid movement.”
After a while, all six of us — the four students and Boss’ adoptive parents — drove in two cars to a local restaurant. The owner knew Boss’s father. The food was delicious, the setting spectacularly “California casual,” with tall redwood trees all around. At the restaurant, we six continued our talk. Chandoo was quiet, less forceful, and deferential to Obama. Obama was polite to Boss’s parents, calm, and distinguished in his manner. Mr. Boss disapproved of his daughter’s radical perspective and could barely disguise his contempt for me.
Despite the recent election of Ronald Reagan, the focus of our discussion was on El Salvador and Latin America. I remember I was especially angry about what was happening in El Salvador, particularly the recent rape and murder of four American nuns and a laywoman. We also discussed the recent assassination of John Lennon in New York City. After lunch, the entourage returned to the Boss’s home in Portola Valley. Mr. Boss, a gruff Swiss-born businessman, was an aficionado of luxury cars who took pride in his successes in the greeting card and display case businesses.
“That’s an impressive car. Which one of you is the owner?” he asked.
“It’s mine,” said Chandoo, graciously adding: “Would you like to see it?”
While Chandoo and Mr. Boss gave Chandoo’s luxury car a once over, the rest of us engaged in small talk until Chandoo returned. Chandoo beamed smugly, having impressed Boss’s father with his expensive car. Inside the house, Mrs. Boss prepared snacks for everyone. All four of the students lit up after-dinner cigarettes in the dining room of the Boss’s home. Caroline Boss sat at the head of the table to my left. Obama sat directly across from me. Chandoo sat on the other side of the table on Obama’s left. Naturally, our conversation gravitated towards the coming revolution. I expected that my undergraduate friends would be interested in hearing my latest take on contemporary Marxist thought. I was in for quite a bit of a shock.
My graduate studies that fall had tempered my earlier Marxism with a more realistic perspective. I thought a revolution was not in the cards anymore. There was no inevitability, in my mind, to the old idea that the proletariat would rise up and overthrow the ruling classes. Now, the idea that we could entirely eliminate the profit motive from an advanced industrialized economy seemed like a childhood fantasy. The future, I now thought, would belong to nations with mixed economic systems — like those in Europe — where there was government planning of the economy combined with a greater effort to produce a more equitable distribution of wealth. It made more sense to me to focus on elections rather than on preparing for a coming revolution.
Boss and Obama, however, had a starkly different view. They believed that the economic stresses of the Carter years meant revolution was still imminent. The election of Reagan was simply a minor set-back in terms of the coming revolution. As I recall, Obama repeatedly used the phrase “When the revolution comes….” In my mind, I remember thinking that Obama was blindly sticking to the simple Marxist theory that had characterized my own views while I was an undergraduate at Occidental College. “There’s going to be a revolution,” Obama said, “we need to be organized and grow the movement.” In Obama’s view, our role must be to educate others so that we might usher in more quickly this inevitable revolution.
I know this may be implausible to some readers, but I distinctly remember Obama surprising me by bringing up Frantz Fanon and colonialism. He impressed me with his knowledge of these two topics, topics which were not among my strong points — or of overwhelming concern to me. Boss and Obama seemed to think their ideological purity was a persuasive argument in predicting that a coming revolution would end capitalism. While I felt I was doing them a favor by providing them with the latest research, I saw I was in danger of being cast as a reactionary who did not grasp the nuances of international Marxist theory.
Chandoo let Boss and Obama take the crux of the argument to me. Chandoo, in fact, seemed chagrined by the level of disagreement in the group. I cannot remember him making any significant comments during this discussion.
Drawing on the history of Western Europe, I responded it was unrealistic to think the working class would ever overthrow the capitalist system. As I recall, Obama reacted negatively to my critique, saying: “That’s crazy!”
Since Boss and Obama had injected theory into our debate, I reacted by going historical. As best I can recreate the argument, I responded by critiquing their perspective with the fresh insight I had gained from my recent reading of Barrington Moore’s book, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (1966). Moore had argued that a Russian or Chinese style revolution — leading to communism — was only possible in an agrarian society with a weak or non-existent middle-class or bourgeoisie.
Since I was a Marxist myself at the time, and had studied variations in Marxist theory, I can state that everything I heard Obama argue that evening was consistent with Marxist philosophy, including the ideas that class struggle was leading to an inevitable revolution and that an elite group of revolutionaries was needed to lead the effort. If he had not been a true Marxist-Leninist, I would have noticed and remembered. I can still, with some degree of ideological precision, identify which students at Occidental College were radicals and which ones were not. I can do the same thing for the Occidental College professors at that time.
By the time the debate came to an end, Obama — although not Boss — was making peace, agreeing with the facts I had laid out, and demonstrating an apparent agreement with my more realistic perspective. I have a vivid memory of Obama surrendering to my argument including signaling to the somewhat bewildered Chandoo — through his voice and body language — that the argument had concluded and had been decided in my favor. Around 9 p.m., Chandoo and Obama left for another appointment, either in Palo Alto or San Francisco. In retrospect, Obama had proved to me that he was indeed, as Boss had promised, “on our side.”
Long before I realized Obama had grown into a spectacular political career, I have treasured this particular memory as an early example of my own intellectual growth and an early sign of my modest promise as a teacher. At the time, I had the impression that I might have been one of the first to directly challenge Obama’s Marxist-Leninist mind-set and to introduce him to a more practical view that saw politics, rather than revolution, as the preferred route to socialism. Had I really persuaded him, or was he just making nice to smooth things over with a new friend? I’d like to think it was the former.
Whatever progress I made with Obama that evening, the price of our debate was a greater ideological wedge between me and Boss and a further decline in our rocky relationship. Our relationship would officially end in February and then flicker out completely by June 1981 — much to the satisfaction of Boss’s father.
I remember that Obama was friendly to me on at least three other occasions over the next several months. For example, Boss and I visited the apartment he shared with Chandoo. I spoke with him again on campus in the student union. I saw him on campus in The Cooler — the school’s coffee and sandwich shop. I also spoke with him at large party in June 1981. I certainly considered him a friend, a confidant and a political ally in the larger struggle against poverty and oppressive social systems.
Whatever impact our encounter might have had on him, I know something about what Barack Obama believed in 1980. At that time, the future president was a doctrinaire Marxist revolutionary, although perhaps — for the first time — considering conventional politics as a more practical road to socialism. Knowing this, I think I have a responsibility to place on the public record my account of this incident from our president’s past.
John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a blogger at David Horowitz’s NewsReal Blog . Dr. Drew earned his Ph.D. from Cornell and has taught political science and economics at Williams College. Today, Dr. Drew makes his living as an author, trainer, and consultant in the field of non-profit grant writing, fund raising and program evaluation.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
"THEY" WOULDN'T LET THAT HAPPEN!!
Every time I post something about the Obama's and their goals being to turn America into a Communist country, the first thing the unbelievers say is "They wouldn't let that happen!" Who the heck are "they"? Well "they" used to be the mainstream media who would vet our political candidates for office, and "they" used to be the people we sent to Washington, D. C. And "they" used to be the people we could count on "not to let 'that' happen". But something entered the equation to change all of that. Political Correctness.
All of a sudden Political Correctness prevented the mainstream media from telling Americans what was going on. At the same time the mainstream media was being populated with more and more Progressive Liberals. Now percentage-wise there are more Conservatives in America than there are Progressive Liberals. However, Progressive Liberals are controlling the Mainstream Television Media. Suddenly it becomes Politically Incorrect to question a Presidential Candidate who happens to be black! They will not question where he came from. They don't demand that he disclose his records even though George Bush had to disclose EVERYTHING, including his military records from many years prior to his running for office.
But it is Politically Incorrect to even Ask for information about a black person who was relatively unknown prior to the year 1999! Why? Because if you question his credentials you will be accused of being Racist! It's not Politically Correct to ask.
So What's happened in the meantime? We have a Communist in the White House. Why isn't anyone telling us this? Because it is "politically incorrect" to do so! Significant Damage has already been done to the fabric of American freedoms. Some of Our elected Congressional Representatives have been intimidated into quitting. Actions have been taken to remove those people from office who would step in to rescue America. Viable Candidates who could rescue America are being attacked unmercifully by the corrupted mainstream media.
I'm inserting here an article written by Mychal Massie A Black Conservative who's not afraid to be politically incorrect.
"Obama is preening and thumping his chest. His sycophants are applauding him and literally chanting his name. His wife is doing the late night television circuit, wallowing on the floor for Ellen Degeneres, pulling ropes, and so on – you know – behaving more like a puerile high school gymnast than like the First Lady of the United States is expected to. She has been seen doing everything but wrestling animals in the White House Rose Garden, and who knows, that may be next. But, that is all window dressing, designed to keep people from thinking about her husband as a murderer. That’s right, he’s a murderer and he is as much responsible for the murder of innocent children, specifically black children, as the KKK.
"Michelle Obama is not only complicit in her husband’s efforts to “fundamentally change America,” but she is complicit in his commitment to slaughter unborn children – and at that to specifically target and slaughter the black unborn.
"When I see Obama and his wife I see not only communists, intent on dismantling our country, but I see murderers. How ironic that Michelle Obama, who is shown swilling food and drink, and who treats being First Lady like her personal American Express Black Credit Card (arguably the most prestigious of credit cards) – is supposedly pushing anti-obesity for children, as her husband fights to maintain rigid laws that oppose saving children aborted alive and that allow partial birth abortions.
"I digress, to say that I personally believe there is an Erebusic sensus plenior to her childhood anti-obesity act. I believe and nothing dissuades me of same, that her act is precursor to allowing government to take our children because it doesn’t approve of how we are raising them. There are recent instances of so-called child welfare agencies have taken children from loving, caring homes because they didn’t approve of the weight of the child. The Obama’s are communists and controlling us by controlling our children is what their kind does.
"When you see Michelle Obama on television shows talking about fruit and vegetables, remember that the green room where she waits before coming out, is filled with cakes, rolls, pastries, spreads, cheeses, creams, and finger foods – that she is swilling before she comes out with a carrot in her hand.
"Never in the history of America could anyone, save those like the Obamas, have imagined a president and his wife would go to such extremes to “fundamentally transform America” into a communist state. And let there be no doubt, that is exactly what they purpose to do.
"Following I have included syndicated column I wrote in 2004, detailing Obama’s bloodlust for abortion. The next time you see Obama making jokes and applauding himself for keeping his promise to “fundamentally transform America” remember that he is a murderer, just as if he had ripped the children from their mother’s womb himself.
"And the next time you see Michelle rolling around on the floor and filling her mouth with the foods she has the audacity to tell us not to eat – view her as a murderer just like her husband. Being complicit and supportive of murder, makes you as guilty of murder as if you had committed the murder yourself. Remember that nearly 50,000,000 children are dead because of abortion and nearly 30 percent of the black population in America have been murdered.
"I say if the murder of children and specifically black children were a contest between the KKK and the Obama’s – the KKK would suffer an embarrassing and humiliating defeat.
"DARTH DEMOCRAT
He is eloquent, well spoken, with a membrane-thin veiled socialist agenda cloaked in flowery speech. But unlike Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn. – who had to be reminded by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., that while congressional blacks were no longer relegated to ticket taker in a cloakroom, they had better not forget their place – Barack Obama, D-Ill., is just the kind of black man elite liberals can use.
"But also unlike Ford, Barack Obama is much more appealing to blacks nationwide and thus much more formidable when you combine that with his ability to raise large contributions, his Muslim roots and education, his ability to rivet national audiences with his snake-charmer oratory skills and an appealing mien that connects well with liberal voters. Accordingly, Lord Obama could very easily morph into “Darth Democrat.”
"It should be no surprise that he is from Illinois. Illinois has a long history (from Capone to Daley) of empowering the unsavory. This unsavory comes with a smooth veneer that reverberates a thirst for power.
"He has presidential ambitions stitched into the very fabric of his being, and as a student of history he understands the danger of remaining a senator if he is to be successful with his ambitions.
"Granted there are worse things than a black uber-liberal socialist Muslim, supposedly now Christian Democrat in the White House (unless your name happens to be Clinton). The question is: Who would want them visited upon this generation?
"America is more ready than ever before to elect a black president, but this is not the one we want to break that unprecedented historical ground.
"In a speech at his party’s national convention, he spoke of “work” that could be successfully completed through socialistic intervention and programming. He also bares the stripes of most uber liberals, i.e., the willingness to make it up as he goes along.
"Speaking in a U.S. Senate debate (Oct. 26, 2004), Obama emphatically claimed responsibility for Illinois’ successful welfare reform. The truth – as written by Steve Stanek a year earlier – finds no relationship with his on the record accounts. With minimal investigation one finds he not only played no role in the Illinois reforms, but he was not even in office at the time. (Illinois leads the nation in welfare reform; Illinois Leader, Sept. 10 2003).
"He is gifted at twisting his verbiage in such a way as to deform the truth. In his speech at the Democratic National Convention, he spoke of “… measuring up to the legacy of our forbearers.” While that may sound good, there is a discernable difference between “forbearers” and the Founding Fathers of our country.
"Obama’s forbearers are Kenyan, and it is alleged his grandfather was a slave owner. His reference to “forbearers” had nothing to do with those who sacrificed their lives life to establish a free society based on equality.
"His statements were code omitting same, referencing instead an Afro-centrism and Pan Africanism. It was a deliberate attack against the foundation of our country and what we represent.
Another trademark of uber-liberal socialists like Lord Obama is complete disregard for human life – especially the lives of the elderly, physically challenged and the unborn. Or in Obama’s case, even the “Live-born abortion victims.” He claimed his reason for not supporting SB1093, the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act,” was the measure didn’t include the “life and health of the mother” provision.
"A question that begs an answer is where, exactly, does the threat to the mother lie in said infant protection? Interestingly enough, Obama refused to support two bans which did include exceptions for safety of the mother. So his refusal to support anti-partial-birth abortion bills HB382 and SB230 comes as no surprise.
"He also refused to support SB1095, which creates a cause of action for harm or neglect that comes to a child “born-alive” after a labor-induced abortion. Add to that his “no” vote on SB1661, also part of the “Abortion Alive Protection Act,” which created the “Induced Birth Infant Liability Act.”
"His positions on crime, sex education for grades K-5, homosexual marriage and taxes are out of the mainstream of the so-called liberal mainstream.
"Obama embraces the darkest interests of the uber-liberal socialist. It can be argued there are worse things than a Clinton ticket in 2008 – and any ticket with Barack Obama on it is one of them. (2004)"
It's Obvious no one in the Mainstream Media listened to this Conservative Black Man in 2004, and they don't want to listen now. They along with others who like to take on the mantle of "intellectual" by following them, refuse to believe the Progressive Liberals are actually Communists!
It's time to wake up and smell the coffee people...in case you haven't noticed, at the way the price of coffee and everything else has DOUBLED in the past three years, we may not be able to smell it much longer. OUR FREEDOMS ARE AT RISK!!
All of a sudden Political Correctness prevented the mainstream media from telling Americans what was going on. At the same time the mainstream media was being populated with more and more Progressive Liberals. Now percentage-wise there are more Conservatives in America than there are Progressive Liberals. However, Progressive Liberals are controlling the Mainstream Television Media. Suddenly it becomes Politically Incorrect to question a Presidential Candidate who happens to be black! They will not question where he came from. They don't demand that he disclose his records even though George Bush had to disclose EVERYTHING, including his military records from many years prior to his running for office.
But it is Politically Incorrect to even Ask for information about a black person who was relatively unknown prior to the year 1999! Why? Because if you question his credentials you will be accused of being Racist! It's not Politically Correct to ask.
So What's happened in the meantime? We have a Communist in the White House. Why isn't anyone telling us this? Because it is "politically incorrect" to do so! Significant Damage has already been done to the fabric of American freedoms. Some of Our elected Congressional Representatives have been intimidated into quitting. Actions have been taken to remove those people from office who would step in to rescue America. Viable Candidates who could rescue America are being attacked unmercifully by the corrupted mainstream media.
I'm inserting here an article written by Mychal Massie A Black Conservative who's not afraid to be politically incorrect.
"Obama is preening and thumping his chest. His sycophants are applauding him and literally chanting his name. His wife is doing the late night television circuit, wallowing on the floor for Ellen Degeneres, pulling ropes, and so on – you know – behaving more like a puerile high school gymnast than like the First Lady of the United States is expected to. She has been seen doing everything but wrestling animals in the White House Rose Garden, and who knows, that may be next. But, that is all window dressing, designed to keep people from thinking about her husband as a murderer. That’s right, he’s a murderer and he is as much responsible for the murder of innocent children, specifically black children, as the KKK.
"Michelle Obama is not only complicit in her husband’s efforts to “fundamentally change America,” but she is complicit in his commitment to slaughter unborn children – and at that to specifically target and slaughter the black unborn.
"When I see Obama and his wife I see not only communists, intent on dismantling our country, but I see murderers. How ironic that Michelle Obama, who is shown swilling food and drink, and who treats being First Lady like her personal American Express Black Credit Card (arguably the most prestigious of credit cards) – is supposedly pushing anti-obesity for children, as her husband fights to maintain rigid laws that oppose saving children aborted alive and that allow partial birth abortions.
"I digress, to say that I personally believe there is an Erebusic sensus plenior to her childhood anti-obesity act. I believe and nothing dissuades me of same, that her act is precursor to allowing government to take our children because it doesn’t approve of how we are raising them. There are recent instances of so-called child welfare agencies have taken children from loving, caring homes because they didn’t approve of the weight of the child. The Obama’s are communists and controlling us by controlling our children is what their kind does.
"When you see Michelle Obama on television shows talking about fruit and vegetables, remember that the green room where she waits before coming out, is filled with cakes, rolls, pastries, spreads, cheeses, creams, and finger foods – that she is swilling before she comes out with a carrot in her hand.
"Never in the history of America could anyone, save those like the Obamas, have imagined a president and his wife would go to such extremes to “fundamentally transform America” into a communist state. And let there be no doubt, that is exactly what they purpose to do.
"Following I have included syndicated column I wrote in 2004, detailing Obama’s bloodlust for abortion. The next time you see Obama making jokes and applauding himself for keeping his promise to “fundamentally transform America” remember that he is a murderer, just as if he had ripped the children from their mother’s womb himself.
"And the next time you see Michelle rolling around on the floor and filling her mouth with the foods she has the audacity to tell us not to eat – view her as a murderer just like her husband. Being complicit and supportive of murder, makes you as guilty of murder as if you had committed the murder yourself. Remember that nearly 50,000,000 children are dead because of abortion and nearly 30 percent of the black population in America have been murdered.
"I say if the murder of children and specifically black children were a contest between the KKK and the Obama’s – the KKK would suffer an embarrassing and humiliating defeat.
"DARTH DEMOCRAT
He is eloquent, well spoken, with a membrane-thin veiled socialist agenda cloaked in flowery speech. But unlike Rep. Harold Ford, D-Tenn. – who had to be reminded by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., that while congressional blacks were no longer relegated to ticket taker in a cloakroom, they had better not forget their place – Barack Obama, D-Ill., is just the kind of black man elite liberals can use.
"But also unlike Ford, Barack Obama is much more appealing to blacks nationwide and thus much more formidable when you combine that with his ability to raise large contributions, his Muslim roots and education, his ability to rivet national audiences with his snake-charmer oratory skills and an appealing mien that connects well with liberal voters. Accordingly, Lord Obama could very easily morph into “Darth Democrat.”
"It should be no surprise that he is from Illinois. Illinois has a long history (from Capone to Daley) of empowering the unsavory. This unsavory comes with a smooth veneer that reverberates a thirst for power.
"He has presidential ambitions stitched into the very fabric of his being, and as a student of history he understands the danger of remaining a senator if he is to be successful with his ambitions.
"Granted there are worse things than a black uber-liberal socialist Muslim, supposedly now Christian Democrat in the White House (unless your name happens to be Clinton). The question is: Who would want them visited upon this generation?
"America is more ready than ever before to elect a black president, but this is not the one we want to break that unprecedented historical ground.
"In a speech at his party’s national convention, he spoke of “work” that could be successfully completed through socialistic intervention and programming. He also bares the stripes of most uber liberals, i.e., the willingness to make it up as he goes along.
"Speaking in a U.S. Senate debate (Oct. 26, 2004), Obama emphatically claimed responsibility for Illinois’ successful welfare reform. The truth – as written by Steve Stanek a year earlier – finds no relationship with his on the record accounts. With minimal investigation one finds he not only played no role in the Illinois reforms, but he was not even in office at the time. (Illinois leads the nation in welfare reform; Illinois Leader, Sept. 10 2003).
"He is gifted at twisting his verbiage in such a way as to deform the truth. In his speech at the Democratic National Convention, he spoke of “… measuring up to the legacy of our forbearers.” While that may sound good, there is a discernable difference between “forbearers” and the Founding Fathers of our country.
"Obama’s forbearers are Kenyan, and it is alleged his grandfather was a slave owner. His reference to “forbearers” had nothing to do with those who sacrificed their lives life to establish a free society based on equality.
"His statements were code omitting same, referencing instead an Afro-centrism and Pan Africanism. It was a deliberate attack against the foundation of our country and what we represent.
Another trademark of uber-liberal socialists like Lord Obama is complete disregard for human life – especially the lives of the elderly, physically challenged and the unborn. Or in Obama’s case, even the “Live-born abortion victims.” He claimed his reason for not supporting SB1093, the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act,” was the measure didn’t include the “life and health of the mother” provision.
"A question that begs an answer is where, exactly, does the threat to the mother lie in said infant protection? Interestingly enough, Obama refused to support two bans which did include exceptions for safety of the mother. So his refusal to support anti-partial-birth abortion bills HB382 and SB230 comes as no surprise.
"He also refused to support SB1095, which creates a cause of action for harm or neglect that comes to a child “born-alive” after a labor-induced abortion. Add to that his “no” vote on SB1661, also part of the “Abortion Alive Protection Act,” which created the “Induced Birth Infant Liability Act.”
"His positions on crime, sex education for grades K-5, homosexual marriage and taxes are out of the mainstream of the so-called liberal mainstream.
"Obama embraces the darkest interests of the uber-liberal socialist. It can be argued there are worse things than a Clinton ticket in 2008 – and any ticket with Barack Obama on it is one of them. (2004)"
It's Obvious no one in the Mainstream Media listened to this Conservative Black Man in 2004, and they don't want to listen now. They along with others who like to take on the mantle of "intellectual" by following them, refuse to believe the Progressive Liberals are actually Communists!
It's time to wake up and smell the coffee people...in case you haven't noticed, at the way the price of coffee and everything else has DOUBLED in the past three years, we may not be able to smell it much longer. OUR FREEDOMS ARE AT RISK!!
Friday, January 20, 2012
NOBODY LISTENED!! HE TOLD US!
Yes, Obama told us in advance what he planned to do. Few were listening.
The following is a narrative taken from a 2008 Sunday morning televised "Meet The Press."
From Sunday's 07 Sept. 2008, 11:48:04 EST, Televised "Meet the Press" THE THEN Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag.
General Bill Ginn, USAF (ret.), asked Obama to explain WHY he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171...
During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention, facing the flag, with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, "Stand and Face It".
NOW GET THIS !!
'Senator'Obama replied:
"As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides....." "There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression...." "The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air, and all that sort of thing."
(ARE YOU READY FOR THIS???)
Obama continued:, "The National Anthem should be 'swapped' for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing.' If that were our anthem, then I might salute it. In my opinion, we should consider reinventing our National Anthem as well as 'redesign' our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love. It's my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we, as a Nation of waring people, conduct ourselves like the nations of Islam, where peace prevails - - - perhaps a state or period of mutual accord could exist between our governments ......."
"When I become President, I will seek a pact of agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts . We as a Nation, have placed upon the nations of Islam, an unfair injustice, which is WHY my wife disrespects the Flag, and she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past."
"Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put my hatred aside. I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path. My wife and I look forward to becoming our Country's First black Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America."
WHAAAAAAAT,is that???
Yes, you read it right.
I, for one, am speechless!!!
Dale Lindsborg , Washington Post
The following is a narrative taken from a 2008 Sunday morning televised "Meet The Press."
From Sunday's 07 Sept. 2008, 11:48:04 EST, Televised "Meet the Press" THE THEN Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag.
General Bill Ginn, USAF (ret.), asked Obama to explain WHY he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played.
The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171...
During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention, facing the flag, with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least, "Stand and Face It".
NOW GET THIS !!
'Senator'Obama replied:
"As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides....." "There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression...." "The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air, and all that sort of thing."
(ARE YOU READY FOR THIS???)
Obama continued:, "The National Anthem should be 'swapped' for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing.' If that were our anthem, then I might salute it. In my opinion, we should consider reinventing our National Anthem as well as 'redesign' our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love. It's my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we, as a Nation of waring people, conduct ourselves like the nations of Islam, where peace prevails - - - perhaps a state or period of mutual accord could exist between our governments ......."
"When I become President, I will seek a pact of agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts . We as a Nation, have placed upon the nations of Islam, an unfair injustice, which is WHY my wife disrespects the Flag, and she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past."
"Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put my hatred aside. I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path. My wife and I look forward to becoming our Country's First black Family. Indeed, CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America."
WHAAAAAAAT,is that???
Yes, you read it right.
I, for one, am speechless!!!
Dale Lindsborg , Washington Post
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