Just Another Isolated Incident...

UPDATE: Obama's oldest daughter advertising, promoting, sporting the official symbol (twice) for the communist founded Anti-American Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Italy during her father's meetings with Russia on US Nuclear disarmament it turns out is actually just "another isolated incident".

Whew... glad we cleared that up... move along, nothing to see here.

Miss Obama's peacenik T-shirt(s) sends message to G8 leaders...


In other unrelated news....The Guardian UK-
"A CND spokesman expressed delight at seeing their logo on a member of the first family."Perhaps Malia has been the driving force behind the administration's push towards a new disarmament deal? We'll get an 'I'd-rather-grow-up-than-blow-up' T-shirt in the post to her straight away."





UPDATE 2: It looks like not everyone got the memo that Malia's "peace sign" shirt has absolutely nothing to do with the CND.

UK Mirror: -

"Barack Obama's daughter Malia was upfront about her support for CND yesterday."

Obama T-shirt Dominates G-8 Talks

"World leaders at the G8 summit are preparing for crucial talks on climate change, but media attention has concentrated on the T-shirt worn by president Obama's daughter this morning.

His eldest daughter, Malia, was spotted emerging from an ice cream parlour sporting a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) T-shirt with the infamous symbol for nuclear disarmament printed on it.

Coming just days after her father successfully confirmed a reduction in America and Russia's nuclear arsenal, the T-shirt is being treated as a political statement by the Obama camp, especially given the media-savvy character of the new administration."

Daily Star- "Obama's Getting Shirty"
"Earlier this week Obama’s 11-year-old daughter Malia was wearing two T-shirts with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s famous logo."

OK! Magazine-

"HER father is busy discussing world issues. But it seems 11-year-old Malia Obama has a message of her own.

The baby-faced daughter of US President Barrack and Michelle Obama was spotted walking through the streets of Rome in a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) t-shirt."

Message from Malia
The Australian News.com

"BARACK Obama's daughter Malia, like her mother, Michelle, isn't afraid to make a fashion statement. The 11-year-old has used her Roman holiday at this week's G8 summit to send a not-so-subtle political message to world leaders. Just 48 hours after her dad met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow, where the pair signed an agreement to reduce their nuclear weapons, Malia twice donned clothing with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's logo. On a visit to the Colosseum with her mother and seven-year-old sister, Sasha, Malia wore a T-shirt bearing the CND logo, and then swapped it for a top featuring the same logo on a trip to a gelato bar. The CND was "delirious" to see its logo on a member of the US first family.

"We'll get an 'I'd-rather-grow-up-than-blow-up' T-shirt in the post to her straight away," said a CND spokesman."

Oops... What Happened?

Obama Runs The Old End-Around Play To "Hush Rush"

Yesterday, the Senate approved an amendment that would outlaw the "Fairness Doctrine".
.....and then approved an amendment that would allow the FCC to impose it piece by piece, and require radio ownership "diversity".

We told you so.
-red s tater

Obama & Biden... Bad Choices, Bad Decisions, Wrong Crowd

Number two Biden has a history over Irish debate

Americas President Elect

Belfast Telegraph- Sunday November 9:

The man who will be Barack Obama’s Vice-President once described Britain’s position in Northern Ireland as “absolutely outrageous”.

Joe Biden (65) hit the headlines in the 1980s for his stand against the deportation of IRA suspects from the US to Britain.

In 1985 he told the Senate during a debate on a possible extradition treaty: “If we ratify this treaty, we will be admitting that the justice system in Northern Ireland is fair — a notion I absolutely abhor.”

While he condemned IRA murderers, he spoke about the threat to the civil liberties of the IRA killers if they were ever returned to Northern Ireland.

The Delaware Senator, who will be number two at the White House in January, has Northern Irish ancestry.

His grandfather, Ambrose Finnegan, emigrated to the US from Londonderry around 1910. He was one of the hundreds of textile workers who came to work at the DuPont factories.

Just days after his election, US president-elect Barack Obama landed in hot water over his previous involvement in Northern Ireland issues.

A photograph emerged of him with IRA fugitive Rita O’Hare, who is wanted for attempted murder, and Sinn Fein boss Gerry Adams.

The DUP said it will give the man chosen as America’s first black president “the benefit of the doubt” over the photo.

Stormont junior minister Jeffrey Donaldson warned that Mr Obama would have to consider such photo opportunities carefully now he is in such a position of authority.

“I do hope that the president-elect will recognize that he must not be partisan in his approach to Northern Ireland,” he said.

“I think being photographed with someone like Rita O'Hare demonstrates a lapse of judgment at that time, but hope in his new role these type of mistakes will not be made in the future.”

She remains officially at large after fleeing charges of the attempted murder of a soldier in Belfast in 1971. She was shot and seriously wounded in the incident.

While on bail she fled to the Republic where she served a short jail term for an unrelated crime.

Obama; Running Short on "Friends"

10 Reasons to NOT be Barack Obama's friend.

1- Obama will throw you under the bus if (when) anyone finds out you were friends.

2- To qualify you must be either a former terrorist, know one, or want to be one.

3- It means you are probably a communist or a socialist who is about to be "outed".

4- It means you are probably involved with shady real estate deals, kickbacks and slush funds.

5- It means you will soon have too many secrets about Obama to keep secret.

6- It means you probably hate America and think you have the right to take money from those that have made more and then give it to those of your choosing.

7- It means you must be either willing to lie about Obama yourself or you must be willing to believe and repeat Obama and Biden's lies.

8- It means you probably attend (by coincidence) the same America hating church and totally disagree with the pastor but like your friend, you never mention it.

9- It possibly means that you work for ACORN and are getting paid to be his friend (and get him elected).

10- If you are Barack Hussein Obama's friend... good luck and watch your back and watch out for buses.

Media Betray us: LA Times Refusing to release Video of Obama and terrorist Rashid Khalidi

FOX News - "The Los Angeles Times is refusing to release a videotape that it says shows Barack Obama praising a Chicago professor who was an alleged mouthpiece for the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was a designated terrorist group in the 1970s and '80s.

According an LA Times article written by Peter Wallsten in April, Obama was a "friend and frequent dinner companion" of Rashid Khalidi, who from 1976 to1982 was reportedly a director of the official Palestinian press agency, WAFA, which was operating in exile from Beirut with the PLO."

Click here to read the original LA Times story: 'Palestinians See a Friend in Barack Obama.'

Obama's Playbook: Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals"

Thanks to Flopping Aces

Since Flopping Aces had self-described Marxist, and former New Party member/activist, Carl Davidson, pay us a visit on my prior post, Socialist Obama in Trouble? thread…. I thought I should distribute some ammo - in the form of information - to the community.

Obama’s community organizing roots, his political philosophy and socialist visions for the US (or outright Marxist, if he would be as honest as Carl Davidson was in describing his beliefs), all follow the Saul Alinsky “Rules for Radicals” playbook for implementation.

Since these Chicago thuggery tactics have been used via the DNC on opposition candidates for decades, in order to brainwash the middle income voter into their circles, I’m going to repeat them here.

Memorize these Alinsky rules… and when you’re done, memorize them again. Listen very carefully to each and every tactic the Obama campaign… and the candidate himself… uses daily. You will see them incorporated into their every press conference, speech and visual ad.

Knowledge is power. When you know what “the enemy” (using Alinsky’s own description of the opposition) is doing, you are less likely to fall prey.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have

Tactics are those conscious deliberate acts by which human beings live with each other and deal with the world around them. In the world of give and take, tactics is the art of how to take and how to give. Here our concern is with the tactic of taking; how the Have-Nots can take power away from the Haves.

For an elementary illustration of tactics, take parts of your face as the point of reference; your eyes, your ears, and your nose. First the eyes; if you have organized a vast, mass-based people’s organization, you can parade it visibly before the enemy and openly show your power. Second the ears; if your organization is small in numbers, then…conceal the members in the dark but raise a din and clamor that will make the listener believe that your organization numbers many more than it does. Third, the nose; if your organization is too tiny even for noise, stink up the place.

Always remember the first rule of power tactics:

Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

Second:

Never go outside the experience of your people.
When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Third:

Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy.
Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

The fourth rule is:

Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

The fourth rule carries within it the fifth rule:

Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.
It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.

Sixth rule:

A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
If your people are not having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
Man can sustain militant interest in any issue for only a limited time, after which it becomes a ritualistic commitment. Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions,
and utilize all events of the period for your purpose. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations
that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that
every positive has its negative. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
You cannot risk being trapped by the enemy in his suddenly agreeing with your demand and saying “You’re right - we don’t know what to do about this issue. Now you tell us.” Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

In conflict tactics there are certain rules that the organizer should always regard as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and “frozen.” By this I mean that in a complex, interrelated, urban society, it becomes increasingly difficult to single out who is to blame for any particular evil. There is a constant, and somewhat legitimate, passing of the buck. The target is always trying to shift responsibility to get out of being the target.

One of the criteria in picking your target is the target’s vulnerability -
where do you have the power to start?
Furthermore, the target can always say, “Why do you center on me when there are others to blame as well?” When you “freeze the target,” you disregard these arguments and, for the moment, all others to blame.

Then, as you zero in and freeze your target and carry out your attack, all of the “others” come out of the woodwork very soon. They become visible by their support of the target.

The other important point in the choosing of a target is that it must be a personification, not something general and abstract such as a community’s segregated practices or a major corporation or City Hall. It is not possible to develop the necessary hostility against, say, City Hall, which after all is a concrete, physical, inanimate structure, or against a corporation, which has no soul or identity, or a public school administration, which again is an inanimate system.

The ACORN Family Tree

Thanks to Spark it up...

The ACORN tree puts it all together in one tidy package from George Soros to Bill Ayers to Chris Dodd to Barney Frank to Fanny and Freddie to Acorn Housing Corp. to Countrywide Loans and more... much more... but guess who is the glue that makes it all stick together?
Barack H. Obama.
Too bad the news media doesn't have the "technology" or "ability" to put something like this together...hmmmm

"The Coming Liberal Thugocracy"

Monday, October 13, 2008

BARONE: "The Coming Liberal Thugocracy"

Michael Barone

"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors," Barack Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nev. "I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face." Actually, Obama supporters are doing a lot more than getting into people's faces. They seem determined to shut people up.

That's what Obama supporters, alerted by campaign e-mails, did when conservative Stanley Kurtz appeared on Milt Rosenberg's WGN radio program in Chicago. Mr. Kurtz had been researching Mr. Obama's relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers in Chicago Annenberg Challenge papers in the Richard J. Daley Library in Chicago - papers that were closed off to him for some days, apparently at the behest of Obama supporters.

Obama fans jammed WGN's phone lines and sent in hundreds of protest e-mails. The message was clear to anyone who would follow Mr. Rosenberg's example. We will make trouble for you if you let anyone make the case against The One.

Other Obama supporters have threatened critics with criminal prosecution. In September, St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned citizens that they would bring criminal libel prosecutions against anyone who made statements against Mr. Obama that were "false." I had been under the impression that the Alien and Sedition Acts had gone out of existence in 1801-'02. Not so, apparently, in metropolitan St. Louis. Similarly, the Obama campaign called for a criminal investigation of the American Issues Project when it ran ads highlighting Mr. Obama's ties to Mr. Ayers.

These attempts to shut down political speech have become routine for liberals. Congressional Democrats sought to reimpose the "fairness doctrine" on broadcasters, which until it was repealed in the 1980s required equal time for different points of view. The motive was plain: to shut down the one conservative-leaning communications medium, talk radio. Liberal talk-show hosts have mostly failed to draw audiences, and many liberals can't abide having citizens hear contrary views.

To their credit, some liberal old-timers - like House Appropriations Chairman David Obey - voted against the "fairness doctrine," in line with their longstanding support of free speech. But you can expect the "fairness doctrine" to get another vote if Barack Obama wins and Democrats increase their congressional majorities.

Corporate liberals have done their share in shutting down anti-liberal speech, too. "Saturday Night Live" ran a spoof of the financial crisis that skewered Democrats like House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank and liberal contributors Herbert and Marion Sandler, who sold toxic-waste-filled Golden West to Wachovia Bank for $24 billion. Kind of surprising, but not for long. The tape of the broadcast disappeared from NBC's Web site and was replaced with another that omitted the references to Mr. Frank and the Sandlers. Evidently NBC and its parent, General Electric, don't want people to hear speech that attacks liberals.

Then there's the Democrats' "card check" legislation that would abolish secret ballot elections in determining whether employees are represented by unions. The unions' strategy is obvious: Send a few thugs over to employees' homes - we know where you live - and get them to sign cards that will trigger a union victory without giving employers a chance to be heard.

Once upon a time, liberals prided themselves, with considerable reason, as the staunchest defenders of free speech. Union organizers in the 1930s and 1940s made the case that they should have access to employees to speak freely to them, and union leaders like George Meany and Walter Reuther were ardent defenders of the First Amendment.

Today's liberals seem to be taking their marching orders from other quarters. Specifically, from the college and university campuses where administrators, armed with speech codes, have for years been disciplining and subjecting to sensitivity training any students who dare to utter thoughts that liberals find offensive. The campuses that once prided themselves as zones of free expression are now the least free part of our society.

Obama supporters who found the campuses congenial and Mr. Obama himself, who has chosen to live all his adult life in university communities, seem to find it entirely natural to suppress speech they don't like and seem utterly oblivious to claims this violates the letter and spirit of the First Amendment. In this campaign, we have seen the coming of the Obama thugocracy, suppressing free speech, and we may see its flourishing in the four or eight years ahead.

• Michael Barone is a nationally syndicated columnist.

Remember What Your Mother Told You?

hatip to Fried Green Onions...

Bill Ayers:The Man Behind Barack Obama's Success

From The Confederate Yankee

Just a month out from the 2008 Presidential elections, someone at CNN finally took a long, sober look at the carefully choreographed rise of Barack Obama through the staggeringly corrupt world of Chicago politics and thought, " My God, what have we done?"

The resulting panicked report is brutally factual.

Ace has more on the Obama-Ayers relationship. Roger Simon has more on Charles Manson-groupie Bernadine Dohrn's celebrity. I've got more on Obama-Ayers-Dohrn. Hell, I've got an even more damning article I haven't even posted yet that ties it all together.

The take-away?

If Bill Ayer's hands were any further up Barack Obama's backside, we'd have to change the Senator's name to Lambchop.

Obama's Promise To ACORN In 2007

Thanks To Okie Campaigns
and Elmumfo

In December of 2007, Senator Barack Obama told ACORN activists:

"...but let me even say, before I get inaugurated, during the transition, we're gonna be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda. We're gonna be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America."

Here's the video (h/t: Ace)



ACORN is the radical left-wing group you may have heard of by now. All of the voter fraud stories you've probably heard about - that's ACORN and it's "Project Vote" subsidiary.

ACORN is also culpable in the financial mess the country finds itself in. The ACORN community activists were successful pressuring Congress to force banks to collect racial data on mortgage applicants. Then, using that data, ACORN cried discrimination, forcing banks to grant more and more risky loans. If you have not read the article I linked to before, "Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis," it explains this all very well. "

Abuse Of Power? I've Got Your Abuse Of Power Right Here

While the left and the Democrat controlled media focus on a phony partisan charge of abuse of power by Governor Sarah Palin, the Obama campaign demonstrates the real thing to us.

In the post below from the Chicago Sun Times,
...acknowledging they (federal prosecutors) are engaged in talks with the former top political fund-raiser for Sen. Barack Obama... and others "that could affect . . . sentencing."

"If a judge agrees to delay Rezko's sentencing, it could be good news for Democratic presidential nominee Obama because the former Obama friend and fund-raiser (Rezko) was set to be sentenced just days before the Nov. 4 election."

Now... if manipulation of our courts by a Senator and Governor to gain power isn't an abuse of power... then what is?
Letting your spouse have an opinion in the white house or governors office suddenly pails.

Past Associations Do Matter Mr. Obama

Feds Talking To Rezko, Seek to Delay Sentencing

BY NATASHA KORECKI Federal Courts Reporter nkorecki@suntimes.com

"Federal prosecutors asked a judge Monday to indefinitely postpone Tony Rezko's scheduled Oct. 28 sentencing on corruption charges, acknowledging they are engaged in talks with the former top political fund-raiser for Sen. Barack Obama, Gov. Blagojevich and others "that could affect . . . sentencing."

There is speculation that Rezko might spill his guts to prosecutors causing big problems for the Obama-rama on November 4th. It now appears that there may be problems for Obama no matter when they have the sentencing.

Fellow blogger FGO wonders... "If Obama plea bargains to avoid jail, will Joe Biden "draft" Hillary Clinton as his VP?"