Thursday, August 21, 2008
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Obama's Communist Backing Exposed
Investor's Business Daily comments and reports on Barack Obama's Communist backing--at home and abroad. IBD:Among Obama's biggest admirers, for example, is one Pepe Lozano. Unknown at the national level, Lozano is more of a small-time agitator, just as Obama was in his community organizing days in Chicago. Maybe that explains part of the attraction.
But it's more likely that Lozano, a leader in the Chicago Young Communist League and an editorial board member of the People's Weekly World, newspaper of the Communist Party USA, finds that Obama is the communist party's best hope because of the junior senator's far-left positions.
"This is a history-making process," Lozano told a Chicago gathering of about 250 in June, "and we will be missing it if we don't do all we can to elect Barack Obama president."
The next month, the People's Weekly World editorialized in favor of Obama, calling his a "transformative candidacy that would advance progressive politics for the long term."
The communist support is nothing new, however. Joel Wendland, managing editor of Political Affairs: Marxist Thought Online, another CPUSA magazine, suggested in February that Obama could be "the people's president."
Also in February, Political Affairs editor Terri Albano talked about how the "kind of upsurge" surrounding Obama "comes around just once in a lifetime. I hope for all progressives — each of us — (to) get involved. Don't stand on the sidelines. Be active. Don't let history pass you by."
While communists are endorsing Obama, the Communist Party USA isn't. But that's not because it doesn't like Obama. The CPUSA simply does not endorse candidates. Yet it issued what could be called a non-endorsement endorsement of Obama in March, saying "his campaign has the clearest message of unity and progressive change."
"This election can begin to turn the tide: It can help bring universal health care, save the environment and start the restoration of our democratic rights," the group said. "This election can strengthen democracy for all."
If Obama is smarting because he didn't get an official Communist Party USA endorsement, maybe he will be mollified by the approval of an old communist to the south. Fidel Castro in the spring wrote in the state newspaper Granma that Obama is "the most progressive candidate for the U.S. presidency."
That's an endorsement that anyone who doesn't have a socialist agenda should be ashamed of, especially given Castro's murder and intimidation of his foes and his repeated, egregious human rights violations of average Cuban citizens.
But from what we can tell, Obama has not rejected Castro's support. What we can tell, though, is that when Obama says he stands for change, he could be talking about erasing facts that he considers to be politically damaging.
Last month he scrubbed clean from his Web site evidence that he opposed the successful Iraq surge, and last winter he deleted the endorsement of the extremist Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who had become a political liability.
But despite his campaign's penchant for cyberhygiene, the community blog on his own Web site still has an entry that's rather incriminating: "This group is for self-proclaimed Marxists/Communists/Socialists for the election of Barack Obama to the presidency. . . . We support Barack Obama because he knows what is best for the people!" The fact that it can still be found on Obama's official site would indicate that the campaign has no problem with it — and that it might even appreciate the endorsement.
The current campaign is not Obama's first association with groups that promote socialism or its more stringent ideological cousin, communism.
In 1995, he sought the endorsement of the New Party for his 1996 state Senate candidacy. The party — a collection of anti-capitalist ex-communists and socialists that disbanded in 1998 after six years of trying to push the Democratic Party even further left — gladly gave Obama its support.
Obama also was endorsed in that election by the Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist group in the U.S. While the name might sound benign, the DSA has a poisonous agenda. Its goal is to establish "an openly socialist presence in American communities and politics" and is committed to "restructuring society."
Members "are socialists because we reject an international economic order sustained by private profit, alienated labor, race and gender discrimination, environmental destruction, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo."
Just as it should be no surprise that a Che Guevara poster was found hanging in an Obama campaign office, it would not be a shock to see an Obama poster on a wall in the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism's headquarters.
Mark Solomon, the group's national co-chair, wrote in a virtual endorsement in February that Obama "is an attractive, articulate and talented politician" whose "campaign has sparked a powerful surge."
But that would be expected, since this group, which branched off from the Communist Party USA in 1991, organized the October 2002 rally in which Obama criticized the U.S. invasion of Iraq — while still serving as a state senator in Illinois. The ties between Obama and the committees go back years.
Across the Atlantic, the Party of European Socialists also has given its blessing.
President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen says that "Obama is the choice for change and renewal. He gives hope to millions of Americans and Europeans for a fairer world. . . . Progressive Europeans are united in hope that Barack Obama will be the new president following the U.S. elections."
Obama supporters might excuse the candidate's support from communists, Marxists and socialists, saying he is the only alternative since these groups would never support the Republican nominee. (Which is entirely correct and indicative of the Democratic Party's continuing decline into the pit of democratic socialism.)
But the truth is, these groups usually reserve their endorsements and support for fringe candidates, not someone from a major party. That's not the case this time around. They seem to have their man.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
If Obama Loses ...
Dateline USA....
if Barack Hussein Obama loses the Presidential election this November it will not be because the country was not ready for an African-American President. On the contrary; the US is more than "ready." Racism and bigotry still exist; but today's America is a vastly different place--for the better in this regard--than the America of 10 or 20 years ago.
If Obma loses his White House bid it will be because the US was not ready for a Muslim-born, multicultural mystery man with multiple identities and creeds, and, it seems, multiple birth certificates, passports and citizenships. His troubling school registration certificate in his stepfather's native country, Indonesia--a hothouse of Al-Qaeda associated Islamist terrorism and Muslim separatism--confirms that Obama was born and reared a Muslim, and raises questions about his legal name--is it Barack Obama or Barry Soetoro?--and his citizenship. The certificate identifies him as an Indonesian citizen, which means that The Candidate of Change may hold dual US and Indonesian citizenship. Obama is also believed by many analysts to be a citizen of Kenya, his biological father's native country, and to have traveled to Pakistan as a student on a Kenyan passport.
If Obama loses in November it will be because the US was not ready for a Commander-in-Chief who would appease nuclear-arming, Islamist Iran and appear weak in the eyes of resurgent Russia.
If Obama loses in November it will be because the US was not ready for a President with a paper-thin resume that touts his experience as a (New Left-inspired) "community organizer." Many Americans have met their share of community organizers, and know that they don't like them.
If Obama loses in November it will be because the US was not ready for a President whose former pastor and spiritual adviser of 20 years blamed--and damned--America for 9/11 just five days after the horrific attacks--the worst-ever on US soil; honored and praised anti-American, anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan; and published and promoted anti-Israel Hamas propaganda. 
If Obama loses in November it will be because the US was not ready for a President whose wife posed with Mrs. Farrakhan at a luncheon event, and has said that she was not proud of her country until it embraced her husband's Presidential quest. Not ready for a First Lady whose Princeton undergraduate thesis bemoaned the fact that the Ivy League university's black graduates for the most part do well in US society and do not seem to identify with the black underclass. 
If Oama loses in November it will be because the US was not ready for a President who befriended--and was backed by--unrepentant, former Weather Underground terrorists.
if Obama loses in November it will be because the US was not ready for a President with a Hamas endorsement and a Gaza phone bank--and contributions from the Islamist Palestinian terrorist enclave. 
If Obama loses in November it will be because the US was not ready for a President with a cousin in Kenya, opposition leader and Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who is allied with Islamists seeking to impose Islamic law on parts of the country.
if Obama loses in November it will be because he gave a prominent role at the Democratic convention to a leader of an organization identified by the Department of Justice as a Muslim Brotherhood front organization and an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism financing conspiracy. Dr. Ingrid Mattson is the president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), an organization created by the radical, Saudi-financed Muslim Students Association. She has been chosen to represent the Muslim community at the first-ever interfaith prayer service at a Democratic nominating convention. Click here to read the chilling story.
If Obama loses in November it will be because the US was not ready for a President who opposes domestic drilling and development of proven, job-creating oil and gas and shale oil and coal gasification and liquefaction--in short, real energy that produces power and light and fuel--in contrast with every resource-rich nation on the planet. Not ready for a President who believes that the economic pain caused by high gasoline and home heating oil (and propane) prices is actually good for the country because it will force government mandated use of ethanol, which actually makes the air dirtier, hurts your car engine, and drives up food prices, and biodiesel, which also drives up food prices, and wind, which is inefficient and unreliable and a blight on the landscape, and, of course, solar, which is extremely limited. 
If Obama loses in November it will be because the US was not ready for a President who aims to make it practically impossible for law-abiding, responsible citizens to own, use, and collect guns--and defend themselves against violent criminals--including those with prison records whom Obama would like to see have the right to vote.
if Obama loses in November it will be because the US was not ready for a President who is a product of the cesspool that is Chicago politics.
If Obama loses in November it will be because the Democratic Party shot itself in the foot and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
POST SCRIPT: If Obama loses in November it will also be because the US was not ready for a President who was advised by a radical priest, Father Michael Pfleger, who has also honored and supported Louis Farrakhan.
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, writes:On May 27, 2007, with a mob of 1,000 gun-ban radicals cheering him on--blocking the entrance to Chuck’s Gun Shop and Range in Riverdale, Ill., a suburb of Chicago--Pfleger screamed a clear death threat against the owner.
“John Riggio. R-I-G-G-I-O. We’re going to find you and snuff you out . . . like a rat--we’re going to catch you and pull you out . . . whatever it takes to shut this gun store down . . . We’re gonna snuff out John Riggio . . .
“We’re gonna snuff out legislators who are against our gun laws.”
I have never encountered such hatred. Pfleger’s words were recognized as death threats by Chicago’s Cardinal George who issued a rebuke--saying, “publicly delivering a threat against anyone’s life betrays the civil order and is morally outrageous, especially if this threat came from a priest.”
Why is this radical priest so important with the coming election? Because Fr. Pfleger is a key long-time advisor to Sen. Obama, who in turn procured for Pfleger a $225,000 grant from the state and a $100,000 earmark from the federal government. Pfleger is a financial contributor to Obama’s campaigns.
In a Chicago Sun-Times article touting Obama’s faith--in which he stressed the importance of close advisors in “maintaining your moral compass”--the newspaper declared:
“Friends and advisors such as the Rev. Michael Pfleger . . . who has known Obama for the better part of 20 years, help him keep that moral compass set, he [Obama] says.”
POST POST SCRIPT: If Obama loses in November it will also be because the US was not ready for a President who (a) seems to have abandoned his white grandmother--the woman who raised him--and compared her, incredibly, to his racist, America-hating, former pastor, and (b) apparently made no effort to find his long-lost, impoverished African half-brother. Click here to read this man's sad story, whichAtlas Shrugs comments on here.
-Andre Pachter
Copyright 2008
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