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Sunday, November 02, 2008
Obama and the Left's Long March to Power
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following essay originally appeared here on May 19.
UPDATE: Click here for a chilling comparative analysis of the revolutionary language and logos--see the image reproduced below--used by the Obama campaign and the Weather Underground.
Dateline USA....
True to form, the liberal mainstream media are missing--or deliberately ignoring--a big story.
If Barack Obama is nominated by the Democratic Party and elected President of the United States this year, he will make history in a way that most pundits and voters have yet to appreciate or understand. Obama's political ascendancy marks the triumph of the American antidemocratic Left, the movement of Stalinism and extremism; his victory in the general election will punctuate the Left's long march to power, which began 40 years ago.
Nineteen sixty-eight, you may recall, was the year of the barricades, at home and abroad. From New York to Paris, from Chicago to Berlin, young people took to the streets--and took over college campuses--in opposition to the Vietnam War and the established political, social and economic order. American cities and schools were rocked by demands for Black Power, Black Nationalism, and Black Liberation. Violence was rationalized, even extolled. Intellectuals intoxicated with insurrectionist fantasies and visions condoned and hailed rioting and armed robbery as acts of revolutionary "purification" by an oppressed population.
The revolution failed. But that did not stop the antidemocratic Left--including the children of the Old Left who had helped to create and lead the New Left--from continuing their struggle. Though many, if not most, radicals moved on--to the suburbs, Wall Street, law school, wherever--committed cadres hunkered down and went to work burrowing inside important institutions, such as the academy and the Democratic Party. The unrepentant, former Weather Underground terrorist, Bill Ayers, is a prime example. Once a bomb-throwing fugitive, he is now a tenured radical, a well paid "distinguished professor" whose past (and also present, perhaps) friendships and associations include the Democratic Presidential frontrunner. Is Obama a Marxist mole? Probably not. Is he a secret Black Nationalist? Highly unlikely. But he has certainly been advised and influenced by Marxist moles and Black Nationalists, extremists who have again embraced a totalitarian foe--radical Islam.
All of which is incredibly scary.
-Andre Pachter
Copyright 2008
# posted by Confidential Reporter @ 11:08 AM 
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Leftist Author Predicts Civil War if Obama Loses
Foreign Confidential....
The New York Observer reports that left-wing feminist author Erica (Fear of Flying) Jong told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that "blood will run in the streets" if Barack Obama loses the US Presidential election. An excerpt from her interview:
If Obama loses it will spark the second American Civil War. Blood will run in the streets, believe me. And it's not a coincidence that President Bush recalled soldiers from Iraq for Dick Cheney to lead against American citizens in the streets....
Bush has transformed America into a police state, from torture to the imprisonment of reporters, to the Patriot Act.
# posted by Confidential Reporter @ 2:19 AM
Hawaii Officials Say Obama Born in Hawaii
Dateline USA....
Following the candidate's visit to his gravely ill grandmother in Hawaii, there is an 11th-hour break in the Obama birth certificate story....
AP reports:
[Hawaii] State officials say there's no doubt Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.
Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said Friday she and the registrar of vital statistics, Alvin Onaka, have personally verified that the health department holds Obama's original birth certificate.
Fukino says that no state official, including Republican Gov. Linda Lingle, ever instructed that Obama's certificate be handled differently.
She says state law bars release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest.
Does this settle the matter?
No way, says blogger Michael Patrick Leahy. His rapid-fire analysis:
Note the careful language from the State Department of Health officials in this press release:
"[we] have personally seen and verified that the Hawai'i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures."
They did not say we have the long form copy of his birth certificate signed by his attending physician at Kapiolani Hospital on August 4, 1961.
It's an original birth certificate "in accordance with state policies and procedures."
One of those state policies and procedures was the acceptance of "after the fact" birth certificates under the 1911 Hawaii Birth Certificate program. This program was for residents of Hawaii over the age of one who did not register their birth with the state originally. The state accepted some "alternate form of documentation." This "alternate form of documentation", once accepted under this program that was in existence until 1972, becomes "an original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures."
How convenient that this press conference is held on the eve of the Presidential election just a couple weeks after Barack Obama went to visit his sick grandmother.
Here's the way Barack Obama can be straight forward and honest with the American people:
Authorize the release of this document that Dr. Chiyome and Dr. Onaka both say they've seen and verified.
If it's an August 4, 1961 long form birth certificate signed by an attending physician at a Honolulu hospital, then it's case closed. You've met the burden of proof.
But if it's some alternate document introduced later...depending on the contents of that document, we may still conclude you've not met the burden of proof.
But show us the document State of Hawaii and Barack Obama ! Let it see the light of day.
And by the way, while we're at it, here's a question for Dr. Chiyome and Dr. Onaka:
Can you please explain to me why you are violating state law by showing us the document, but not violating state law by telling us you've seen the document ? Did you receive authorization from Barack Obama to (1) look at the document and (2) tell us you've looked at the document ?
Another question on the original birth certificate Dr. Chiyome and Dr. Onaka verified:
Is it:
(1) A Certificate of Hawaiian Birth created under the 1911 "after the fact program ?
or
( 2) or is it a standard birth certificate created from the original document provided contemporaneously by the birth hospital ?
And yet another question on this carefully parsed statement:
"[we] have personally seen and verified that the Hawai'i State Department of Health has Sen. Obama's original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedures."
What exactly does "original birth certificate on record" mean ?
Does it mean they physically viewed the hard copy of the original birth certificate ? Or does it mean they've reviewed the information technology procedures by which the abstracted data was placed into the State of Hawaii birth certificate data base?
And... why a released statement and not a press conference ?
There is more. Click here.
# posted by Confidential Reporter @ 1:18 AM
On the Obama 'Thugocracy' Threat
Dateline USA....
As President, Barack Obama would be unchecked, writes Lowell Ponte in Newsmax. Taking note of the candidate's authoritarian, secretive side, Ponte explains:
Obama has left no doubt that he will work with the Democratic bosses in Congress to impose a new “Fairness Doctrine” on talk radio. McCain-Feingold set a legal precedent for restricting political speech on the Internet, and a new doctrine might be imposed on the Web, too.
Such legislation would let partisan politically chosen government agents decide whether a radio or TV station will lose its license for failing to give all sides airtime to discuss their views of political topics. Thus, e.g., a Christian church-owned radio station could lose its license for refusing to give airtime to advocates of same-sex marriage.
After radio stations in Ohio and Pennsylvania aired a National Rifle Association ad critical of Obama's shifting positions on gun control, Obama's lawyer warned the stations: “For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should refuse to continue to air this advertisement.”
Obama's campaign urged followers to disrupt a Chicago talk show appearance by a reporter who has investigated his past. This is one more sign of what author Michael Barone calls the coming “Obama thugocracy.”
The Fairness Doctrine purportedly encourages more diversity of ideas on the airwaves, but it silenced free speech in the past. Radio station owners, afraid of losing their broadcast licenses, found it easier and safer to switch from talk radio to playing music.
One gets the feeling that Obama would be delighted to remove his harshest critics from America's airwaves by intimidating and killing talk radio itself. This government requirement of “fairness” would not be used to control liberal-dominated media: major newspapers, magazines, and almost all network television.
Click here to read the whole analysis.
The Mask Slips
Meanwhile, the candidate's mask seems to be slipping.
Reuters reports on Obama showing a rare flash of anger towards the press:
It wasn't quite a Halloween nightmare on Obama street, but journalists on Friday drew a rare flash of anger from the normally unflappable Democratic presidential nominee.
Barack Obama had taken a break from the campaign trail for a few hours of Halloween fun at home with his family four days before the election, but ended up visibly annoyed when news crews dogged their footsteps in their Chicago neighborhood.
"That's enough. You've got a shot. Leave us alone," Obama told reporters as he walked down the block with his 7-year-old daughter Sasha in her costume on the way to a party at a neighbor's home.
Obama, usually cool in public during a campaign that has turned him into the frontrunner for the White House, did not disguise his irritation when his surprise walk caused news photographers and camera crews to scramble for position on the sidewalk.
He grew especially testy when a Polish television cameraman tried to approach them.
"Come on guys, get back on the bus," he pleaded with journalists, many of whom had accompanied him from the airport to Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood.
Jeff Zeleny of The New York Times points out: "It was the second time in a week that Mr. Obama became agitated when he spotted photographers and journalists near him as he walked, a standard practice for presidential candidates and, ultimately, the president."
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