The Obama File

I've been considering compiling a Barack Obama database containing all of the grand yet empty statements that he's offered in the past couple of months and some of the better commentary on this slippery politician, but to tell the truth, the task has seemed too daunting, and it grows even more mountainous every day. But this is no reason to not inform the electorate of Senator Obama's quotes, relationships, philosophies and policies that make him unfit to be our next President.

What follows will be some original content, but much of it will be gleaned from other sources. This ought to serve as a poor-man's one-stop-shopping experience for all things not pertaining to Obama-worship. As more craziness is unearthed, we'll post it here.

April 26, 2008

When will this Obama madness end? Is it his skin color that allows him to have so many passes? Is it his Marxist political philosophy that has the media covering for him and ignoring his significant pox marks? No Republican candidate, of any pigmentation, could get away with the blemishes and the associations that Obama has made over the course of his lifetime. Any one of the points that follow would exclude a Republican candidate.

As I mentally run down the list of skeletons in Mr. Obama's closet, it's striking to consider that he's even still eligible for state politics, let alone for president of the United States. Twenty years at Trinity United Church of Christ with Reverend Wright and, this cannot be denied, racist, anti-American sermons delivered with some degree of regularity.

Then there's this William Ayers fellow, this domestic terrorist turned unrepentant college professor. Mr. Obama may have us believe that Ayers' actions are a thing of the past, but recent research has shown that as recently as last year Ayers met with Weather Underground "alumni" and spewed more of his anti-American, Marxist nonsense. I encourage you to read Mark Alexander's column at the PatriotPost for a more indepth analysis than I can provide for you here.

Then there is his wife, Michelle, a potential First Lady of the United States, who has spent the better part of her life apparently ashamed of the United States. What else can "for the first time in my life I'm proud to be an American" mean?

Then there's his shoddy voting record. When he actually votes, and doesn't simply call out, "Present!" he votes not as the "uniting Moderate" that he claims he is, but rather as the far left Liberal that his past and his associations indicate that he is. (I'll give two examples for your consideration. Opposing the Same Sex Marriage resolution is not Moderate. Voting against a bill that would have extended the Bush Tax Cuts is a Liberal, not a Moderate, vote.) One hundred times he abstained from voting. He's a U.S. Senator elected to represent his constituents, and one hundred times he "didn't have an opinion." Bills for which Obama abstained included Immigration issues, S-CHIP issues, Student Loan issues, and the "Expressing Support for General Petraeus and All Members of the Armed Forces" Bill.

I've already passed along information regarding the Marxist Frank Marshall Davis, member of the Communist Party USA, from whom Barack Obama received much philosophical input in his early years. Or I could mention his elitist tendencies that were revealed in his asinine statement behind closed doors to snooty, San Francisco Liberals. But I won't go into those details now, nor will I analyze at this time how all of these positions will hurt him in the general election, if he makes it.

I'm not sure what is more pathetic, that Obama wasn't able to bury Hillary early, or that she's been unable to bury him late. Both of them are in trouble, though, with middle America, and this does not bode well going into the general election. There is one reason why it might be a good idea to elect Obama: it would give Jimmy Carter a chance to be blotted out as the worst president in American history.

Barack Obama, try as he may, cannot sufficiently separate himself from this "preacher," Jeremiah Wright. Barack sat in his pew for 20 years. Wright performed Obama's wedding. Wright baptized Obama's daughters. Obama gave more than $20,000 to Wright's church in 2006. Folks, by attending this church on a week in, week out basis, and by giving large sums of money to the church's treasury, Barack and Michelle Obama were endorsing this "Reverend's" message.

As for Obama's claim that Rev. Wright is "like an old uncle" that sometimes says things he doesn't agree with, Barack Obama must think we're stupid. We don't get to chose the crazy uncle in our family... they're part of your family. We do get to choose the preacher whose church we attend Sunday after Sunday, year after year. And if that crazy preacher is spewing hatred of America and hatred of white people, Barack Obama had the freedom to find a place of worship that didn't spew hate. But he didn't make a change, he stayed right where he was, and listened to the anti-American hate-speech for years.

For written quotes, visit: this column from Newsmax, or this column from The New York Times. Or visit the source: Trinity United Church of Christ.

Obama's communist mentor

While Senator Barack Obama has been touting himself as the candidate for change, one thing he has conveniently not been advertising is his close relationship while growing up with Frank Marshall Davis, a known communist writer and member of the Communist Party USA. In his book, Dreams from My Father, Obama tells of "a poet named Frank" who cautioned the young future senator before he left for college against forgetting his "people" and against "believing what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and all that [stuff]." This is the same Frank who, according to Professor Gerald Horne, a contributing editor of Political Affairs, the Communist Party journal, "befriended" the Obama family after moving to Hawaii from Kansas.

Obama followed the ideologies of his mentor, openly attending socialist conferences and brushing elbows with the Democratic Socialists of America. While he vehemently denies being a "hard-core academic Marxist," his socialist-inspired philosophies often belie that claim.

In January, the communist newspaper People's Weekly World published a letter from a supporter celebrating Obama's Iowa caucuses victory as "more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle." The letter goes on to say, "Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary 'mole,' not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through."

There is an inherent contradiction in seeking to become the next leader of the free world while clinging to Marxist philosophy. Common sense dictates that one who would bear the standard of liberty should embrace its philosophies. Unfortunately, common sense has become rather uncommon in today's political arena. Had it not, perhaps more scrutiny would be directed toward a certain senator from Illinois who grasps Marxist ideologies with one hand and seeks to lead the United States of America with the other.

Sure, we can't write off everybody who has had a negative past association, however, this guy was around during Obamas formative years and these life circumstances clearly led to who Obama is today. Judge for yourself.

Barack Obama voted against a bill to prohibit lawsuits against gun manufacturers. (Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act; Bill S 397 ; vote number 2005-219 on Jul 29, 2005)

Needless litigation against parties that are not responsible for crimes committed is not what America needs.

Sam Stein
The Huffington Post
Obama, Clinton Divide On Sponsoring Iraq Withdrawal Bill
February 27, 2008 02:04 PM

Over the past year, Sen. Barack Obama has been a vocal supporter of the Feingold-Reid Iraq legislation that sets a strict timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. But when a version of that bill was introduced this past week without a final date for troop removal, the Illinois senator chose not to attach his name to the list of co-sponsors.

Yesterday, Sen. Russ Feingold succeeded for the first time in getting the Senate to begin debating his measure to begin withdrawing troops in 120 days (with exceptions for certain specified missions). Neither of the Democratic presidential candidates was in D.C. to vote in favor of cloture, which allowed the bill to ultimately come to the floor. But only one -- Sen. Hillary Clinton -- co-sponsored the legislation.

A change in Feingold's bill -- the removal of an end date for troop redeployment in an effort to win wider support -- persuaded Obama to not co-sponsor the measure...

While Journalist Stein writes this piece as praise for Obama, I blieve it confirms idiocy on all of their parts. And he honestly thinks that Muslim terrorists won't fill the vacuum left behind after his precious troop withdrawal.

From The Patriot Post, February 22, 2008:

The ecstasy of Barack
Much has been made of the religious tenor of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

Reports of women weeping and swooning - even of an audience applauding when The One cleared his proboscis (blew his nose for you mortals) - have become frequent events in the heavenly realm of Obi-Wan Obama.

His rhetoric, meanwhile, drips with hints of resurrection, redemption and second comings. "We are the ones we've been waiting for," he said on Super Tuesday night. And his people were glad.

Actually, they were hysterical, the word that best describes what surrounds this young savior and that may be more apt than we imagine. The word is derived from the Greek hystera, or womb. The ancient Greeks considered hysteria a psychoneurosis peculiar to women caused by disturbances of the uterus.

Well, you don't see any men fainting in Obi's presence.

Barack Obama has many appealing qualities, not least his own reluctance to be swaddled in purple. Nothing quite says, "I'm only human" like whipping out a hankie and blowing one's nose in front of 17,000 admirers. The audience's applause was reportedly awkward, as if the crowd was both approving of anything their savior did, but a little disappointed at this rather ungodly behavior.

So what is the source of this infatuation with Obama? How to explain the hysteria? The religious fervor? The devotion? The weeping and fainting and utter euphoria surrounding a candidate who had the audacity to run for leader of the free world on a platform of mere hope?

If anthropologists made predictions the way meteorologists do, they might have anticipated Obama's astronomical rise to supernova status in 2008 of the Common Era. Consider the cultural coordinates, and Obama's intersection with history becomes almost inevitable. To play weatherman for a moment, he is a perfect storm of the culture of narcissism, the cult of celebrity, and a secular society in which fathers (both the holy and the secular) have been increasingly marginalized from the lives of a generation of young Americans.

All of these trends have been gaining momentum the past few decades. Social critic Christopher Lasch named the culture of narcissism a generation ago and cited addiction to celebrity as one of the disease's symptoms - all tied to the decline of the family.

That culture has merely become more exaggerated as spiritual alienation and fatherlessness have collided with technology (YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, etc.) that enables the self-absorption of the narcissistic personality.

Grown-ups with decades under their double chins may have a variety of reasons for supporting Obama, but the youth who pack convention halls and stadiums as if for a rock concert constitute a tipping point of another order.

One of Obama's TV ads, set to rock 'n' roll, has a Woodstock feel to it. Text alternating with crowd scenes reads: "We Can Change The World" and "We Can Save The Planet."

Those are some kind of campaign promises. The kind no mortal could possibly keep, but never mind. Obi-Wan Obama is about hope - and hope, he'll tell you, knows no limits.

It is thus no surprise that the young are enamored of Obama. He's a rock star. A telegenic, ultra-bright redeemer fluent in the planetary language of a cosmic generation. The force is with him.

But underpinning that popularity is something that transcends mere policy or politics. It is hunger, and that hunger is clearly spiritual. Human beings seem to have a yearning for the transcendent - hence thousands of years of religion - but we have lately shied away from traditional approaches and old gods.

Thus, in post-Judeo-Christian America, the sports club is the new church. Global warming is the new religion. Vegetarianism is the new sacrament. Hooking up, the new prayer. Talk therapy, the new witnessing. Tattooing and piercing, the new sacred symbols and rituals. And apparently, Barack Obama is the new messiah.

Here's how a 20-year-old woman in Seattle described that Obama feeling: "When he was talking about hope, it actually almost made me cry. Like it really made sense, like, for the first, like, whoa..."

This New Age glossolalia may be more sonorous than the guttural emanations from the revival tent, but the emotion is the same. It's all religion by any other name.

Whatever the Church of Obama promises, we should not mistake this movement for a renaissance of reason. It is more like, well, like whoa.

What dogs hear
Mark Alexander
From Patriot Post Vol. 08 No. 09; Published 29 February 2008

Can you hear it?
Who'd have thunk it? Since Super Tuesday, Barack Obama has not only won ten straight nominating contests against Hillary Clinton; he has absolutely crushed her in all of them. His average margin of victory in eight of those states was 32 percent, and his narrowest margin was 17 percent in Wisconsin.

It took Democrats 16 years to figure out the Clintons are a fraud, but Obama has been on the national scene for only 16 months.

Listening to the Demo "debate" in Texas last week, I marveled at how so much could be said without saying anything. I read the transcript twice, looking for substance, but to no avail. I read the transcript from this week's final debate in Ohio, and still nothing.

Just what is it that Democrats are hearing that has them swooning over Obama?

Pondering this, I recalled an old "Far Side" cartoon by Gary Larson about what dogs hear. The first panel shows a man lecturing his dog: "I've told you before, Ginger, stay out of the trash! Do you hear me, Ginger?" The second panel notes, "What dogs hear: 'Blah blah blah, Ginger. Blah blah blah blah, Ginger?'"

Realizing, then, that most Democrats are from the Far Left Side, I took the combined transcripts of those debates, all 29,607 words, and I transcribed what Demos hear when Obama speaks.

Hold on to your seats!

On the Bush administration: Blah blah, the Bush administration has done so much damage ... not real good at listening ... poor planning of the current commander-in-chief ... politics that is dominated by the powerful ... give in to George Bush ... blah blah blah blah.

On change: Blah blah, unified to bring about change ... working coalition for change ... bring this country together ... America be as good as its promise ... agenda for moving change forward ... comprehensive reform ... we've got to fix that ... how change comes about ... bring people together ... mobilize and inspire ... change is going to happen ... I intend to change when I am president ... debate that I'm happy to have ... blah blah blah blah.

On society: Blah blah, racial divisions and religious divisions ... they've been shut out ... a sense of common purpose again and higher purpose ... more competitive and more safe ... on behalf of families having a tough time ... delivering for the American people ... debate that I'm happy to have ... blah blah blah blah.

On Operation Iraqi Freedom: Blah blah, end to this war in Iraq ... a tactical victory imposed upon a huge strategic blunder ... most vocal opponents of the war ... bogged down in a war ... a big strategic blunder ... terrible judgment ... debate that I'm happy to have ... blah blah blah blah.

On healthcare: Blah blah, I believe in universal healthcare ... provide healthcare ... universal healthcare ... mother desperate to get healthcare for her child ... anybody who wants healthcare ... affordable for everybody ... debate that I'm happy to have ... blah blah blah blah.

On the economy: Blah blah, economy is in shambles ... heartbreaking story after heartbreaking story ... entire cities that have been devastated ... families suffering ... working harder for less ... without a job, without healthcare, without a pension ... homes about to be foreclosed upon ... dipping into retirement accounts ... restore a sense of fairness ... everybody to prosper ... put people back to work ... good jobs and good wages ... creating a green economy ... creating green jobs ... generate billions of dollars for solar and wind energy ... prosper as we move forward ... debate that I'm happy to have ... blah blah blah blah.

On taxes: Blah blah, end the Bush tax cuts to the wealthy ... stop giving tax breaks ... change our tax code ... provided tax breaks to people who really needed them as opposed to just the wealthy ... blah blah blah blah.

On the Obama campaign: Blah blah, 90 percent of our donations from small donors ... not yet the nominee ... when I am the nominee ... I am the nominee ... blah blah blah blah.

On the Obama administration: Blah blah, as President of the United States ... prepared to be Commander in Chief ... leadership that I'll show in the future ... a top priority ... my judgment has been sound ... as Commander in Chief ... do things differently ... create transparency in our government ... reduce the special interests ... have great plans ... a government that is more responsive ... the leadership that I want to show when I'm president ... as President of the United States ... a system that works for everybody ... go after the special interests ... the judgment to lead ... government that is listening ... keep the American people safe ... that will end when I am president ... sounds good ... I am happy to have a discussion ... blah blah blah blah.

So, did you hear it? Did you feel it? Ginger? Ginger?

Going into next Tuesday's primaries in Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont, Obama leads with 1,365 delegates to Clinton's 1,268. One of them must obtain 2,025 delegates to win the primary, and Obama must score decisive wins in Texas and Ohio, and must continue his primary winning streak in order to avoid a brokered convention. But that is not likely to happen.

Indeed, reports of Clinton's defeat have been greatly exaggerated. As noted in this column before, NEVER underestimate the Clintons.

Even if Clinton cannot muster sufficient delegates at the convention, an Obama/Clinton ticket will unite Democrats behind their core mantra: "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country can do for you."

While conventional wisdom dictates that an Obama/Clinton combo could potentially saddle the ticket with the weight of their collective negatives, Democrats have become chronically undiscerning and the old rules don't apply.

(For more on Obama's meaningless rhetorical tripe, read "Obama Speaks!" by my colleague, Larry Elder.)

RG

2008