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Obama Index Page, especially
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Barack Obama talks a lot and usually doesn't say anything. Most of his supporters
have given little or no thought to the real meaning of his words, if any. Very few
have asked themselves how Obama will pay for all the wonderful things he promises.
On this page:
Accusations of plagiarism.
Vague references to religion without a religious track record.
Obama's voting record was sketchy at best.
Obama makes impossible promises and his supporters expect too much.
On other pages:
Prevarication, double-talk, deceptiveness,
chicanery, secrecy, and hidden records.
Lies.
Obama the smoker.
Accusations of plagiarism:
Most of the details "known" about Barack Obama's past came from his alleged autobiographies. If
the books were works of fiction written by somebody else, then we know next-to-nothing about Barack
Obama — or Barry Soetoro, or whatever his real name is — except that he is the
perpetrator of a fraud.
Who wrote 'Dreams From My Father'?
A number of diverse independent agents have been working on the authorship of Barack Obama's 1995 memoir, "Dreams
From My Father." This includes five different stylometric analysts, here and in England. The unmistakable
conclusion: Skilled editor and writer Bill Ayers was the primary author of important sections of Obama's book
and editor of the work as a whole. This stylometric analysis merely confirms the evidence drawn from the many
other lines of forensic analysis that follow, which, taken together, overwhelm the dispassionate observer.
There is no contrary evidence other than Obama's name on the book.
Birther Card: Coulter's Turn.
[Scroll down] Jack Cashill, in his book, Deconstructing Obama, presented a compelling case for Bill
Ayers as the ghostwriter of Dreams [from My Father], but apparently since the mainstream branded
Cashill a birther, Coulter and most of the conservative media played along by ignoring Cashill's thesis as
another symptom of the evolving birther psychosis.
The Heartland Never
'Overrated' Obama. In my 2011 book, Deconstructing Obama, I make the all but inarguable case
that Bill Ayers was the primary craftsman behind Dreams. Even the most skeptical of those who have looked
at the evidence agree that, at the very least, Obama had help. (The skeptics hate to admit I was right
about Ayers. It just "sounds" too conspiratorial.) The editors of the Weekly Standard, the
American Spectator, National Review, the Washington Times, and Human Events have
all declined to review my book. By ignoring the evidence, however, these editors put themselves in the
awkward position of knowing less about Obama than much of the audience they presume to enlighten.
What will Obama lie about next?
President Obama has said many times that he wrote Dreams from My Father, his ostensible
autobiography. Not collaborated on it, not co-authored it, not dictated it, but wrote it. That is
indisputable and a matter of historical record. He has publicly stated on any number of occasions that
he was the sole author of the book and even used this 'fact' to constantly bolster his image as a literate
person with a superior intellect. There is no question that this image played a major part in getting
him elected as President. The trouble is he was lying through his teeth whenever he made the claim
because he didn't write it. An old friend and colleague of his named Bill Ayers just disclosed that
he wrote the book, not Obama.
Three Cheers for Jack
Cashill. A man who has displayed not the slightest musical talent simply cannot sit down one
day and produce an operatic masterpiece. And as Jack Cashill proves in Deconstructing Obama, it
is just as preposterous to believe that President Obama actually wrote his lyrical, extravagantly praised
autobiography, Dreams from My Father. On page after page, chapter after chapter, Cashill shows why
it simply isn't possible for Obama to have produced such a high-quality autobiography. For instance,
Obama wrote nearly nothing before Dreams from My Father, despite being president of the Harvard Law
Review, and what little he wrote in the years after Harvard is clunky and sophomoric. And yet
Dreams from My Father contains some of the most elegant, evocative sentences ever penned by a
politician.
Deconstructing
Obama Hits Book Stores Today. Two and a half years after I started my exploration of Barack
Obama's life and letters, my book length treatment of the same goes on sale today, Deconstructing
Obama ... In the book I ask two basic questions: did Obama write the books accredited to him, and
is the story they tell true. The answer to both, not surprisingly, is NO.
Who Wrote Dreams
From My Father? Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My
Father, he had written very close to nothing. Then, five years later, this untested 33 year-old
produced what Time Magazine has called — with a straight face — "the best-written
memoir ever produced by an American politician." The public is asked to believe Obama wrote Dreams
From My Father on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant. I do not
buy this canard for a minute, not at all.
Did Obama
Write "Dreams from My Father" … Or Did Ayers? There has been speculation about this which
I've ignored, no doubt because there are enough policy reasons to oppose Barack Obama and I don't want to
feed into what sounds, at first blush, like Vince Fosteresque paranoia. But I've finally read Jack
Cashill's lengthy analysis in The American Thinker. It is thorough, thoughtful, and
alarming — particularly his deconstruction of the text in Obama's memoir and comparison to the
themes, sophistication and signature phraseology of Bill Ayers' memoir.
Evidence
Mounts: Ayers Co-Wrote Obama's Dreams. The evidence falls into five
general categories, here summarized. [#1] The discovery of new matching nautical metaphors
from both Ayers and Obama that almost assuredly came from the same source: Ayers, a former
merchant seaman. [#2] The discovery of a Bill Ayers' essay on memoir writing, whose postmodern
themes and phrases are echoed throughout Dreams. ... Obama needed all the help he could get.
Prior to 1990, he had written very close to nothing.
Ohio State
Prof: Obama Denies Writing Dreams From My Father. Bruce Heiden, professor of Greek and
Latin at The Ohio State University, makes the fascinating claim in his website "The Postliberal" that Barack
Obama agrees with my assertion that he did not actually write his own memoir, Dreams From My Father.
Heiden finds his evidence in the 1995 Introduction to the book.
Experts affirm: Ayers wrote
Obama's memoir. Independent scientific analysis by a number of leading experts supports the
literary detective work of WND columnist Jack Cashill that has led him to conclude unrepentant domestic
terrorist William Ayers was the primary author of important sections of Barack Obama's highly acclaimed
memoir and editor of the book as a whole.
Ayers dances around 'Dreams'
controversy. A nationally recognized political scribe and former Jimmy Carter staffer, [Walter]
Shapiro might have done just a little homework before asking such a patronizing question. Shapiro would
have known the limits of my accusation: namely that Ayers was involved in only one Obama book, the 1995
memoir "Dreams From My Father." As I have argued, Obama provided the skeletal narrative for the book
and likely maintained executive control. Ayers only wrote the good parts. He appears to have
edited the rest, sometimes heavily, sometimes hardly at all. In the weeks since the election, correspondents
from Hawaii to Ohio to Israel to Australia have sent me new information. The cumulative evidence is
self-evident, accessible and overwhelming. I have no doubt at all that my thesis is correct.
The Odd Story of Romance in
Dreams from my Father: The hypothesis is simple enough, namely that Barack Obama needed substantial
help to write his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father, and that this help came from the man who has made
"unrepentant" a household word, Bill Ayers. For simplicity's sake, I refer to the author of Dreams as
"Obama." He provided the skeletal narrative and likely maintained executive control. Ayers fleshed that
narrative out, imposing, where useful, his vocabulary, his rhythms, his style, his observations, his postmodern
perspective, his weary 1960s weltanschauung, and, in some cases, stories from his and other people's lives.
For no obvious reason, Ayers' voice is particularly pronounced in the recounting of Obama's brief New York sojourn.
In fact, Obama often seems to be channeling the very thoughts and experiences of Ayers, who lived in the city at the
same time. More curiously still, Obama appears to borrow the only romance in his otherwise sexless memoir
directly from Ayers' memory.
The Improvised Odyssey of Barack
Obama. The thesis is simple enough: Bill Ayers served as Barack Obama's muse in the creation of Obama's
1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father. Ayers breathed creative life into this ungifted amateur, who had written
nothing of note before, and reconceived him as a literary prodigy. "I was astonished by his ability to write, to think,
to reflect, to learn and turn a good phrase," said Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison of the Dreams' author.
"I was very impressed. This was not a normal political biography." Agreed, it was not normal at all.
Who Wrote Dreams
and Why It Matters. My involvement in this occasionally harrowing literary adventure began in
July 2008, entirely innocently. A friend sent me some short excerpts from Dreams and asked if
they were as radical as they sounded. I bought the book, located the excerpts, and reported back that,
in context, the excerpts were not particularly troubling. But I did notice something else. The
book was much too well written. I had seen enough of Obama's interviews to know that he did not speak
with anywhere near the verbal sophistication on display in Dreams. About six weeks later, for
entirely unrelated reasons, I picked up a copy of Bill Ayers 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days. Ayers, I
discovered, writes very well and very much like "Obama."
Breakthrough on the
Authorship of Obama's 'Dreams'. There is no reliable computer science for determining
authorship. In assessing the value of the existing science, think polygraph, not DNA. Polygraph-level
scholarship may suffice for harmless speculation about the authorship of Midsummer's Night Dream, but
not for Dreams From My Father. Too much is at stake for the latter. The experts in the field have
told me to stick with old-fashioned literary detective work, and I have done just that.
Who Wrote Audacity of
Hope? If portions of Audacity [of Hope] sound like outtakes from stump speeches, it is
because they are outtakes from stump speeches. This can be proved. What cannot be proved, but
what seems likely, is that Obama included just "enough of the narrative voice" from Dreams [From
My Father] to maintain continuity between the two books. The question remains — who
provided that narrative voice?
Andersen Book Blows
Ayers' Cover on 'Dreams'. In his new book, "Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage,"
Best-selling celebrity journalist, Christopher Andersen, has blown a huge hole in the Obama genius myth without
intending to do so.
Is
Obama a literary fraud? [Bill] Ayers was the former anti-Vietnam war activist whose relationship with
Obama came up during the presidential election campaign in 2008. John McCain tried to make capital out of Obama
befriending a known radical who had co-founded of the Weather Underground group. The controversy eventually
dropped out of the headlines after Obama dismissed Ayers as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood". But if
[Jack] Cashill's theory is right, Ayers was far more than that: indeed, he should perhaps be taking the credit
for the fabulous reviews and prizes Dreams has received since publication. Forget Dreams From My
Father — a more accurate title might be Thoughts From My Neighbour.
Literary Lion Obama Will
Roar No More. The major media will not likely tackle the emerging evidence of Obama's stunning
literary fraud, but the days of Obama's boasting about his writing skills are just as likely over.
Unmasking Obama. Obama is a literary
pretender. Case closed. The evidence is overwhelming that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Dreams from my Father,
the book which established Obama's pose as a brilliant writer (and therefore a fine mind, in the estimation of many).
The stylistic resemblance between the Dreams and Ayers' work is stunning. Now we know, thanks to Chris
Andersen's new book,that Obama hit a brick wall trying to fulfill his contract to produce a book, and shipped off his
notes and tapes to Ayers. That is the classic description of a ghost writer's assignment.
How The VRWC Really
Works: If true, [Christopher Andersen's] claim deserves attention for any number of reasons.
First, it reveals Obama to have been a shameless liar in his disavowal of Ayers during the campaign.
Second, it suggests a dangerously intimate relationship with a man whose hatred of the United States borders
on the pathological. And third, it makes a total sham out of the literary world's anointment of Obama
as "the best writer to occupy the White House since Lincoln," the understanding on which the Obama genius
myth is based.
Bill
Ayers claims he wrote Obama's "Dreams From My Father". In a chance meeting with conservative blogger
Anne Leary, Bill Ayers makes a stunning claim that he wrote — not just edited — President Barack
Obama's autobiography, Dreams from my Father." Wow. He makes this claim to a stranger who approaches him
in Reagan National Airport. Can you believe anything this man says? Or, should I say, either man?
Ayers admits writing
Dreams. Last Friday [10/2/2009] we posted an article on these pages asserting Bill Ayers'
authorship of President Barack Obama's 'Dreams From My Father,' based on claims made by Obama biographer
Christopher Andersen. It is possible that we have now gotten direct confirmation of this from
Bill Ayers himself.
Beware of
Misdirection on Dreams Authorship. I've concluded, after initially thinking it was an
issue, the Obama/Ayers' authorship matter is a distraction. ... Ayers, a communist and terrorist, appears to
be toying with conservatives. He knows even if he wrote the book, it won't matter to his cause, but it
will serve as a distraction of time and resources from the conservative cause. I'd venture to say he's
HOPING conservatives will pursue the issue.
The Editor says...
As it stands now, it appears that at least one of them (Obama or Ayers) is a liar. How can that
hurt conservatives?
Ayers'
Claim He Wrote Obama's 'Dreams from My Father' Is A Blockbuster Story. Anne Leary is a
conservative blogger ... She claims to have recently met Bill Ayers at the Reagan National Airport.
She approached him and out of the blue, he claimed to have written Barack Obama's bestseller Dreams from
My Father. Was he joking? Serious?
A Closer Look At Obama's
Odyssey. [Scroll down] Yet only in America could an America-hating terrorist conspire with
an unskilled writer of uncertain origins on an untruthful memoir and succeed in getting the man elected president.
This plot is so absolutely rich, so thoroughly cinematic, that the literary gatekeepers refuse to believe
it is true.
Dreams authorship
questions mounting. Ridicule is the current strategy to obscure the strong evidence that the president
lied about writing his own autobiographical book. But the questions will not go away as long as serious people
like Jack Cashill, Spengler and Tom Lipscomb have the courage to speak truth to power. Barack Obama supplies
daily confirmation that he cannot live up to the image manufactured for him.
What If Ayers' 'Joke'
About Writing Dreams Is On the Press? [Scroll down] For now the clever "I was joking" story is
working fine ... except for the timing. Unless someone can show me another "I was joking" incident prior to
the Hannity incident, I think the evidence leads to Andersen outing Ayers by mistake, and the chain-yanking being
a ploy. ... "Authoritative" denials are always worth a little shoe leather, particularly when the denied story,
if true, could cause major problems to the denier.
Obama
'Most Powerful Writer Since Julius Caesar,' Says NEA Chief. Rocco Landesman, chairman of the
National Endowment for the Arts, declared in a speech to art philanthropists in Brooklyn last week that
President Obama is the world's most powerful writer since the days of Caesar.
Obama's
bootlicking NEA chairman. I suspect that Obama would prefer [Rocco] Landesmann keep his
mouth shut when it comes to claims that Obama actually wrote his own books. Given the accumulating
weight of evidence that Obama's first book was actually ghost-written by his neighbor Bill Ayers, the less
attention devoted to the subject, the better.
What Bill Ayers Saw
in Barack Obama. In 1994, while Barack Obama's memoir Dreams From My Father was being
polished off, Bill Ayers co-authored an essay whose title befits a former merchant seaman: "Navigating
a restless sea: The continuing struggle to achieve a decent education for African American youngsters
in Chicago." In "Navigating," Ayers and his nominal co-author, former New Communist Movement leader Michael
Klonsky, offer a detailed analysis of the Chicago school system and a discussion of potential reforms.
Curiously, so too does Obama in Dreams.
New Obama Bio Strengthens
Case for Dreams Fraud. The defense of Obama by [Gary] Wills and [David] Remnick should not surprise.
As I discovered five years ago in the research for my book, Hoodwinked, America's intellectual elite has been
crafting and enabling intellectual fraud for nearly a century.
Barack Obama's Missing
Girlfriends. [Scroll down] This would not be particularly noteworthy save that Obama's 1995
memoir Dreams From My Father is in large part a racial coming-of-age story. In Obama's all-consuming
search for identity, and in [David] Remnick's effort to document that search, Obama's romantic life should surely have
featured. Whether he dated white women or black women — and what he might have learned from
either — matters.
Supplemental information:
How Obama Himself
Made More Than 'Enough Money': Although Dreams did not do particularly well in 1995, the
sales shot through the roof after Obama's keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic convention. As Osnos
relates, Obama unceremoniously dumped his devoted longtime agent after Dreams took off and then signed
a seven-figure deal with Crown, using only a by-the-hour attorney. Obama pulled off the deal after his
election but before being sworn in as Senator in order to avoid the disclosure and reporting requirements
applicable to members of Congress.
Early Obama Poem Shows
Davis's Hand. Trained to believe that nothing adds up and the deck is stacked against him, Obama
has seemed from the beginning entirely comfortable with a counterfeit literary career.
Obama Stung by
SOTU Plagiarism Rap. Kudos to presidential historian Alvin Felzenberg for his tug on
Obama's cape. A Ph.D. from Princeton and the former spokesman for the 9/11 commission, Felzenberg
is the first intellectual insider to suggest publicly that President Barack Obama is not the writer
the literati have anointed him to be. In his review of the State of the Union speech posted
on the U.S. News website, Felzenberg goes so far as to accuse the president and his speechwriters of
plagiarizing it.
A Review of "Deconstructing
Obama" by Jack Cashill. Convincing, detailed, compulsively readable investigation of (among many
things) the close relationship between Barack Obama and unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. Not, as Obama
finessed, "...just a guy in my neighborhood," Ayers probably wrote "Dreams From My Father." A giant step
toward solving the mystery of how a basically mediocre slickster from who-knows-where became President
of the USA. More perplexing is how a willfully blind public would allow this to happen.
Jamie Glazov interviews Jack Cashill.
I first picked up the book ["Dreams from My Father"] in July 2008. Early on in the first read, the quality
of the writing caught my attention. Although the book lacks discipline, long stretches of Dreams are
very well written. In my twenty-five year career in advertising and publishing, I have reviewed the portfolios
of at least a thousand professional writers. Not a half-dozen among them wrote as well as the author of
the book's best passages. When I looked into Obama's other efforts in print, I saw that nothing he wrote
was nearly this good. What surprised me was that no one was even suspicious of Obama's ability.
Obama Copies Bush
Speech. Obama closed Friday's [3/18/2011] remarks by saying, "I've taken this decision with
the confidence that action is necessary, and that we will not be acting alone. Our goal is focused.
Our cause is just. And our coalition is strong." Nearly a decade earlier, when President George W.
Bush announced that U.S. forces were launching military strikes in Afghanistan, Bush said: "To all the men
and women in our military ... I say this: Your mission is defined. Your objectives are clear.
Your goal is just." Bush used similar wording in other remarks at the time.
Obama Deconstructed: An Interview with
Jack Cashill. [Scroll down] Jimmy Hoffa's body will be unearthed before his SAT scores
are. Iran doesn't guard its nuclear secrets as tightly as he guards his birth certificate. What's
this all about? What kind of crazy thing is this? Why do we even have to ask? Why didn't the
media ask these questions two, three years ago when they could have — and should have? Why
didn't our media — the conservative media — raise these questions? ... If I'm right, not
only is Obama not a genius, but he's a liar of some consequence.
Simon & Schuster's Revenge.
In 1993, thirty-three-year-old Barack Obama stiffed Poseidon Press, then an imprint of Simon &
Schuster — producing absolutely nothing for the publisher that in November 1990 had given the new
graduate of Harvard Law School a $125,000 advance to write a book about race relations in America. Eighteen
years later, Simon & Schuster has achieved a modicum of revenge (intended or not) by contracting with
literary and intellectual sleuth Jack Cashill to impose on Obama a little of the transparency he so disingenuously
promised during the campaign of 2008.
Bill
Ayers Admits For Second Time He Wrote Obama's 'Dreams From My Father'. For the second time in
less than eighteen months, domestic terrorist Bill Ayers admitted he wrote Barack Obama's book "Dreams From
My Father." This time, it was recorded on videotape as he was speaking last Thursday [3/24/2011] at
Montclair State University.
Ayers affirms
he wrote Dreams from my Father. Last Thursday evening [3/24/2011] at Montclair State University,
with a video camera rolling, Bill Ayers volunteered that yes indeed he had written the acclaimed Barack Obama
memoir, Dreams from My Father.
The Mathematics of
Dreams from My Father Authorship. [Jack Cashill's] book Deconstructing Obama
makes a strong case that Ayers had the motive, opportunity, and demonstrated writing ability to write
Dreams [from My Father], and that Obama's writing ability is not up to the task of writing
either book.
Time for the
Conservative Media to Step Up. There is just so far Hannity can take this on his own.
He does not have a literary editor on staff. The National Review does. So do the
Weekly Standard and the Washington Times. For reasons not fully clear to me, they have
chosen to turn their back on this whole topic for the last two-plus years. If, however, these
journals continue to ignore the fact that a leading candidate has publicly accused the sitting president of
massive literary fraud, they deserve to be taken no more seriously than the Daily Kos.
If Mortensen is
Fair Game, Why Not Obama? After months of investigation into mountain climber turned philanthropist
turned best-selling author, Greg Mortenson, the 60 Minutes producers have come to a shocking
conclusion: "Upon close examination, some of the most touching and harrowing tales in Mortenson's
books appear to have been either greatly exaggerated or made up out of whole cloth." Curiously,
Obama-friendly biographer David Remnick says much the same about Barack Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams from My
Father, a book he describes as a "mixture of verifiable fact, recollection, recreation, invention, and
artful shaping."
Obama
worth between $2.8m and $11.8m, and most of it comes from his books. Barack Obama and Michelle
Obama have assets totalling between $2.8 million and $11.8 million, according to federal disclosure
forms released today [5/17/2011]. The President's assets were mainly in U.S. Treasury obligations, shown
to be between $1 million and $5 million in U.S. Treasury bills and between $1 million and
$5 million in Treasury notes. But it also showed that he earns millions in royalties from his
books Dreams From My Father and Audacity Of Hope.
The Chosen One.
[Scroll down] The lack of first-hand material for a proper intellectual portrait of Barack Obama forces
any who approach the subject to note, first, what information we do not have: not even a senior thesis
(or any other paper) from his college days, nor even a single signed article in the law review which he formally
edited. He simply never produced stuff that qualified for that academic level. All we have is a
signed screed in the Columbia student paper Sundial imputing America's refusal to embrace nuclear disarmament
to structural social flaws, and a six-page fragment in the Harvard Law Review attributed to him by researchers
but unsigned and unacknowledged by him, which asserts an absolute right to abortion. Neither bespeaks
a serious mind. We have no academic records. His "autobiographies" are of uncertain parentage.
Early
Obama Letter Confirms Inability to Write. Not surprisingly, it confirms everything I know about
Barack Obama, the writer and thinker. ... "Since the merits of the Law Review's selection policy
has been the subject of commentary for the last three issues," wrote Obama, "I'd like to take the time
to clarify exactly how our selection process works." If Obama were as smart as a fifth-grader, he would
know, of course, that "merits ... have." Were there such a thing as a literary Darwin Award, Obama could
have won it on this on one sentence alone.
Vague references to religion without a religious track record
Religiosity Without Religion.
[Democrats] maintain the same old secularism, but shoehorn it into religious packaging. Now they have an ideal
candidate in Barack Obama. Unlike John Kerry … Obama has perfected this con job. It is often on
display in his oh-so-thoughtful, post-partisan musings about the "connection between religion and politics."
What Does Obama
Believe? We now know that there are at least two forms of religion that Barack Obama does not
believe in: the religion preached by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who baptized his children, and the
religion clung to by the bitter people of Pennsylvania, whose votes he hopes will help make him president of
the United States. This raises a fundamental question: What does Barack Obama believe?
Barack Obama: Sheep or Goat?
The Senator from Illinois says he is a Christian, but we're not told exactly what kind. For this reason,
I set out to research who and what Barack Obama is, but only as far as his faith is concerned. It was
not my intention to explore his economic, social or foreign policies, except where they explicitly intersect
with his personal religious philosophy.
Obama: Religious Hypocrite.
Senator Barack Obama is one of the leading candidates who parades as a compassionate Christian. He is
just the opposite. … The truth is that United Church of Christ member Obama is true to his theologically
liberal Protestant denomination but he is abhorrent in the sight of God.
Silence in the face of
evil. We know that for over twenty years, Obama listened attentively to his pastor's diatribes
against the United States and Israel and said nothing. Confronted with outright lies that the United
States created the AIDS virus to destroy Africa and imports harmful drugs to destroy African Americans, Obama
was silent. When the church website and newsletter carried the message of Hamas, labeled as a terrorist
group by both the U.S. and the E.U., Obama maintained his silence.
The Gospel According to Obama: As
the saying goes, faith without works is dead. Obama's sanctimonious chatter about religion only underscores
how little he understands about how those concepts are viewed by the most faith-conscious Americans, for whom
actions will speak louder than words alone.
Obama's Religious
Ruse: His 'Conversion'. In December 2007 he claimed his mother was a Christian; three months
later she was not, and now he's certain of an afterlife, having "subscribed to" that notion of which he
remained skeptical for two decades since the altar call. In this same response, to divert attention
from his pastor's racist ideology Obama cited that Trinity belongs to a "99% white denomination" and "they're
praising Jesus." As of this date he was still defending Jeremiah Wright, still masking Wright's core
beliefs, still concealing that Trinity's Black Power teaches another Jesus and another gospel
alien to what Christians have believed for 2000 years.
A President Obama's
Neoliberal Theocracy. Black liberation theology forms the core identity of Chicago's Trinity
United Church of Christ (UCC) — Obama's home church for two decades. Today, that congregation
espouses a Black Value System. It reflects the movement's class dialectic that remains unabashedly
race-based.
Holy
O Turns 'Faith' Healer. Repeatedly invoking the Bible, President Obama yesterday told religious
leaders that health-care critics are "bearing false witness" against his plan. The fire-and-brimstone
president declared holy war in a telephone call with thousands of religious leaders around the country as
he sought to breathe life into his plan for a system overhaul.
Does Obama use God's name in vain?
[President Obama] often invokes God at what seem the unlikeliest moments — in support of policies condemned
by the Bible and most major religions. Obama gets away with it only because he benefits from a curious double
standard. Whereas Bush was excoriated by the left whenever he cited God, Obama's religious imagery receives
silence from both sides of the aisle.
Obama abuses faith office to
promote his radical agenda. We have now begun to see Obama's strategy become clearer: bring a
group of radicals into power by placing them in key positions throughout government. This often takes place
under the radar screen. For every Van Jones, how many Otis Moss's and Jim Wallis's are there? We
probably will never know. But every once in awhile we see Obama's goals reach fruition. We are
seeing one now with the Office of Faith Based Initiatives taking a sudden turn to the left and injecting
itself into politics.
More about the Trinity United Church of Christ.
Obama's voting record was sketchy at best
Obama's Great Lie: A quick look at
Obama's record demonstrates his lack of willingness to engage in change and reform, dating from the beginning
of his political career and continuing in his current service as U.S. senator. Obama has a history of
sidestepping controversial issues and votes — indeed, he voted "present" nearly 130 times while
in the Illinois state senate, rather than take a stand and vote "yay" or "nay."
The Issue is Obama.
The fundamental issue in this campaign is Obama — his values, his beliefs, his character. Having
done practically zero as an Illinois state senator, and absolutely zero during three years in the U.S. Senate,
Obama has no substantive legislative record. So we're left with judging him (a) by what he
says ... and (b) by the company he keeps (and has kept).
The odd choices in
Barack Obama's career: We follow Obama down to Springfield, where as a state legislator, he
voted "present" over 120 times. What this means, as far as I've been able to discover, is that he
voted "present" nearly as much as he voted "yes" or "no". Now, statehouses work very simply: a
member approaches his colleagues and asks them them to vote for his bill. Some comply, some do not.
Some ask, "Is it a good bill?" and some don't. Either way, they customarily, except in unusual
circumstances, vote "yes' or "no". All except for Barack Obama. And how did get away with it?
The Thin Man.
Here is Obama's résumé: an Ivy League law degree, a few years of community organizing, seven years
in the Illinois senate, three and a half years as a U.S. senator. Kind of modest. What has he accomplished
in any of those jobs? Not much, not much at all.
Obama Moves On.
"We can no longer afford these sorts of divisions," Obama piously intoned. Really? Then where was he
in September, when the Senate voted 72-25 to "strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity
of Gen. Petraeus and all members of the United States Armed Forces"? Absent, that's where.
He was far too fearful of stepping on the toes of MoveOn to take a stand.
The incredible Barack
Obama. Americans are beginning to notice Obama's elevated opinion of himself. There's nothing
new about narcissism in politics. Every senator looks in the mirror and sees a president. Nonetheless,
has there ever been a presidential nominee with a wider gap between his estimation of himself and the sum total of
his lifetime achievements? Obama is a three-year senator without a single important legislative achievement
to his name, a former Illinois state senator who voted "present" nearly 130 times.
Obama is Toast. He has the con
man's charm, a master manipulator of all with whom he came in contact. His message is vague. His
actual positions are few except to say he has voted consistently as a Liberal, offering little evidence of
bipartisanship. He talks of change and hope, but what politician does not?
A Living Lie:
[Scroll down] There is, of course, not a speck of evidence that Obama has ever transcended party differences
in the United States Senate. Voting records analyzed by the National Journal show him to be the farthest
left of anyone in the Senate. Nor has he sponsored any significant bipartisan legislation —
nor any other significant legislation, for that matter. Senator Obama is all talk — glib
talk, exciting talk, confident talk, but still just talk.
Judicial
Watch: Obama 'intended to leave no paper trail'. The president of a prominent watchdog group
said Wednesday [3/26/2008] that he believes Democratic presidential frontrunner Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)
"intended to leave no paper trail" during his time in the Illinois Senate.
Barack Obama Is Just Another Liberal.
As Sen. Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) gathers increasing attention as a potential rival to Sen. Hillary Clinton
(D.-N.Y.) for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, remarkably little attention has been paid to his
record, which reveals him to be at least as liberal as Hillary.
The other Barack Obama:
If you haven't yet fallen prey to Obama-mania, you might just be asking, What has this guy done to deserve all
this? The answer is very little — but that's also the point. Mr. Obama's two years
in the Senate have been relatively quiet, given all the national attention he garners.
Barack
Obama: American Idol. That Sen. Barack Hussein Obama Jr. chose the day of "American Idol's"
season premiere to launch his presidential exploratory committee is nicely symbolic. Part of the
attraction and seductiveness of Sen. Obama — perhaps the main attraction — is that he is
mostly a blank slate on which others can write what they choose.
Getting to Know Him: We know John McCain: as
formed and familiar as a well-worn boot. But we don't know Barack Obama very well, and getting to know him has been
and remains the basic national task of 2008.
Let scrutiny begin. The emergence
of Barack Hussein Obama in American politics is a historic event, and it demands an intense scrutiny of his private and
public record before Americans elect their republic's 44th president. Behind Obama's appealing personality looms his
associations with individuals and organizations that speak more about him as a person, since his record as the junior
senator from Illinois is thin.
Barack Obama can be
whatever he wants to be. Those who deride Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) lack of experience and
criticize the broad generalities and banalities that festoon his best-selling book miss the key point: His
inexperience is an asset because he enters national politics as a blank canvas on which he can paint whatever
he chooses.
Obama
was AWOL in IL Senate while Chicago murder rate skyrocketed. Not only does Chicago lead
the nation in the number of absolute murders it zooms upward out of all proportion in murders per
capita. ... Most of the murders and murderers in Chicago and most of the gang members in the city
live in the neighborhoods where Obama was community organizer and/or represented in Illinois'
legislature — where he consistently voted present before moving on to the US Senate. Most
of the gangs and gang members are either black or Hispanic, and they're killing each other, plus
any innocent victims in their paths.
Obama
making less than a quarter of Senate votes. Sen. Barack Obama has missed the
most votes of any Democratic presidential hopeful in the Senate over the last two months,
including a vote on an Iran resolution he has blasted Sen. Hillary Clinton for supporting.
Would You Hire Barack
Obama? [Scroll down] So if you'd hired Barack Obama at the end of 2004, let's say to be a United States
senator, you would have been on notice: You were getting a wonderfully gifted individual, but one with a history of
failing to focus for long on the task at hand. And that's exactly how it worked out for Obama's constituents in
Illinois. Shortly after becoming a senator, Obama began writing his second book, and shortly after that he began
running for president. His accomplishments in the Senate have been virtually nonexistent.
Obama makes impossible promises and his supporters expect too much
Energy
Obamanomics: No green jobs and plenty of red ink. "We'll invest $15 billion a year over the
next decade in renewable energy, creating five million new green jobs that pay well, can't be outsourced and
help end our dependence on foreign oil," candidate Barack Obama promised in the fall of 2008. But why
stop there? Why not claim that you can heal the planet — whatever that means —
and control the ocean levels too? Oh yeah, he did.
Hope and Change, the Communist Way.
Ardent Democrats and some Republicans believe the rhetoric that a socialist/communist state will bring
Shangri La because it will be delivered by a community organizer who has a sonorous voice and reads
speeches well. Is it futile to remind them that many countries who have tried the communist model
have failed miserably? Millions have lost their lives in re-education camps due to famine, persecution,
or refusal to comply with the daily communist indoctrination.
Obama:
The Exquisite Blessing of Impossible Expectations. History, if it's written in the future by
sober men and women, will be especially unkind to Barack Obama. Phoniness and posturing have ways of
not traveling well. With the passing years, mountebanks are revealed for who they are.
Obama set up a lot of people for deep disillusionment.
Faster than a speeding
ballot — it's Super Obama. When you claim that your mere nomination is enough to
commence healing the planet and rolling back the seas, what is left to claim once you've actually won the
election? Forget him being the first serious black candidate; Obama is clearly the first Magic-American
to run for the White House.
Barack
Obama lays plans to deaden expectation after election victory. Barack Obama's senior advisers
have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week's election, amid concerns
that many of his euphoric supporters are harbouring unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve.
Peggy the
Moocher. Who is Peggy the Moocher? She's Peggy Joseph, a voter in Sarasota, Fla., who
exulted earlier this week at a Barack Obama rally that this was "the most memorable time of my life."
Why? As she told a Florida reporter on a YouTube video that has been viewed by hundreds of thousands:
"Because I never thought this day would ever happen. I won't have to worry about putting gas in my
car. I won't have to worry about paying my mortgage. You know. If I help [Obama], he's
gonna help me."
Video: Obama Is Going To Pay
For My Gas And Mortgage! (Already viewed over a million times.)
Yes, Barack Obama really is a Manchurian
candidate. As Election Day rapidly approaches, many Americans are wondering why so many of their
countrymen reject a genuine war hero with decades of experience, one whose pro-life, limited-government values
pretty much reflect those of Middle America. Instead, these same countrymen are enthralled with a man
who not only has no experience or qualifications for the job, but who is, in fact, the most radically left-wing
major-party presidential candidate of our lifetime, having been mentored and supported for decades by terrorists
(Ayers), communists (Davis), America-hating racists (Wright) and criminals (Rezko). Doesn't make much
sense, does it?
BO Stinks. Obama's candidacy is a
joke. He is an unknown entity who has been propelled by the left-loving media (and Oprah) into the
presidential race. He has no relevant experience. He has no real plans. He is running on a
platform of change based on some misguided belief that the general public is clamoring for it.
The Obama
Temptation: There is a cult-like atmosphere around Barack Obama, which his campaign has carefully
and successfully fabricated, which concerns me. The messiah complex. Fainting audience members at
rallies. Special Obama flags and an Obama presidential seal. A graphic with the portrayal of the
globe and Obama's name on it, which adorns everything from Obama's plane to his street literature. Young
school children singing songs praising Obama. Teenagers wearing camouflage outfits and marching in military
order chanting Obama's name and the professions he is going to open to them. ... I dare say, this is ominous
stuff.
Obama proves
all too human. Mr. Obama once ran successfully as a novel outside critic of Washington.
He posed as a politically correct critic of discrimination of all sorts. As an idealist tired
of the old Washington doublespeak, Mr. Obama mesmerized thousands with sermons against incumbent
dinosaurs. ... But the loftier the moral expectations Mr. Obama created, the more the disappointment
grew when they couldn't possibly be met.
Still
Time for Voters to Wake Up. It would be bad enough if the Stalinesque stench engulfing the
messiah's campaign were limited merely to its efforts to elect him. But what we fear is that these
campaign tactics are of a piece with his policy agenda and his vision for America. ... Sadly, most Obama
supporters have no clue what Obama is ultimately about or how his innocuous-sounding ideas could
permanently destroy our freedoms.
Obama
is dangerously unfit to be president. "We are the ones we have been waiting for!" Waving
one's hands aloft and screaming "Yes we can!" is Obama's calculatedly emotional response to complex issues
that require careful, thoughtful analysis. The record of history is a mournful litany of the horrors
wrought by cynical demagogues whose sole message was themselves.
'Change'
Can Lead to Catastrophe. Telling a friend that the love of his life is a phony and dangerous
is not likely to get him to change his mind. But it may cost you a friend. It is much the same
story with true believers in Barack Obama. They have made up their minds and not only don't want to be
confused by the facts, they resent being told the facts.
Is Barack Obama the 'Manchurian
Candidate'? Out of nowhere Barack Obama appears on the scene full-blown and manages
to snatch the democratic nomination from Hilary Clinton, despite his complete lack of experience in
both domestic as well as foreign policy. In fact, Barack Obama's experience is so thin that it
isn't even possible to ascertain exactly what he stands for, given that he voted "present" on over
130 Senate bills. Yet the mainstream media have embraced Obama as the Messiah, the Chosen One,
the One Who Will Bring About Hope and Change.
Obama's
messianic pretensions: Obama has presented himself from the start as a messianic, "transformational"
leader — and thus played deceitfully with ideas that belong to religion and not politics. ... A Caesar
who appropriates otherworldly virtues, is riding upon very dangerous illusions. Follow him into dreamland,
and you'll be lucky to wake up.
Obama the 'Light-Worker'.
The left's unique ability to ignore reality and be guided by utopian impossibilities has reached new levels of absurdity.
Adding to aromatherapy, Feng Shui and the healing power of crystals, we now have Obamaism, the belief that an
inexperienced and dishonest socialist politician can somehow "change" America and the world for the good.
What If Obama Doesn't
Have America's Best Interests at Heart? Our country seems to be ready to put into the seat of
power a man — good-looking, charismatic, silver-tongued, to be sure — who has almost no
experience, has never served in an executive capacity, has barely held a real job, and has no record of
success other than his remarkable campaign. This is a man who in less than two years has arisen as a
political messiah. He has mesmerized an emergent block of college-age voters (whose chief sources of
information, by the way, are comedians).
Obama Is the Weatherman.
The danger is in mistaking Barack Obama's hypnotic talents for vision. People say this is Obama's time
because Obama says this is his time. But when you're the one setting the clock, it's always your time.
In terms of what's actually happening in the world, this is decidedly not Obama's time.
The Stealth Candidate:
[Scroll down] There's also an alarming atmosphere among many Obama supporters. They follow him in a
cultlike trance, having no clue what he stands for or what policy meat he would put on his campaign bones of
change and hope once in office. Disturbingly, Obama's candidacy is inspiring certain youths to perform
paramilitary drills in his honor, public officials to threaten criminal prosecution of those who criticize
him, and attorneys purporting to be working for his campaign systematically to intimidate local election officials.
Incredibly
shrinking Obama. The sparkle has, in fact, dimmed. He travels now in a lower orbit, closer
to Earth — which is to say, he grows more mundane. The great word "hope" sounds less frequently now.
He picks a running mate thick with the dust and rancour of many long years in Washington. ... The narrative
stage is over. It's all tactics from here on in.
Enduring
Authenticity vs. Fleeting Charisma. As the Democratic primary season was winding down, discerning
Democrats began to have serious buyer's remorse about Obama, as shown by Hillary Clinton's dominance in the
late primary contests. But Democrats faced a titanic dilemma because cashiering Obama might have
salvaged this election but caused a permanent exodus of black voters from the party. These unpleasant
realities, I believe, forced Democrats into denial about Obama.
Why
I'm Voting for John McCain: The fact remains that Barack Obama is 47 years old and he
doesn't have a single friend, associate or religious mentor, who isn't the sort of creep that most of us
would cross the street to avoid. Obama, we're told, will bring us all together, but during four years
in the U.S. Senate, he has never voted for a bi-partisan piece of legislation. His memoirs are
jam-packed with illegal drug use, racist rants and sophomoric Marxism. He claims to be post-racial,
whatever that means, but the church he attended for 20 years gave its highest honor to Louis
Farrakhan just last December.
Why I'm Thanking God
for Obama: Many of Barack's followers manifest troubling signs of regarding him as at least a
demigod. Even while refraining from saying outright that they think he's a god, their belief comes
through in the strange messianic iconography of their Obama-glorifying posters, videos and music.
Change That's Unbelievable.
From the cheering hordes at his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston to the
enthralled 200,000 who turned out for his speech at Berlin's Victory Column, Barack Obama's followers have
been numerous, loud, and loyal. Most of all, though, they have been unquestioning.
Obama's Message Slip:
Barack Obama is the guy who says Americans have to choose between medicine for their kids and gas for their
cars. He peddles a message of abject national despair from which only he can deliver us. What use
does he have for consumer confidence? A boost to American morale throws the Obama campaign into an
identity crisis. What good is a messiah without a plague?
Voters Souring
on Obama As Never Before. [Obama's] momentum has vanished, the race has drawn to a dead heat,
and Republicans are, maybe for the first time, showing some real optimism. … Michael Goodwin speculates
that the media's "fawning coverage" of Obama, which the McCain campaign has highlighted with "The One," its
nickname for the Democrat, may have caused voter resentment.
The Big O: No taxpayer could buy into the
notion that this is "...the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the
moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal," or that college is a "privilege for the
wealthy few," not when government in the United States spend north of $900 billion a year each on health care and
education. Maybe there's a clue here. Maybe Obama is the candidate for people born yesterday and the people
that don't pay taxes.
He's
Barack Obama, not the messiah. The convention is practically over, but Barack Obama has yet to
utterly transform U.S. politics or perform any miracles. Wheelchair-bound conventioneers are still in
their wheelchairs, and the only loaves and fishes are those provided by caterers. The economy's still in
the toilet. The war in Iraq is still going on. Beltway insider Joe Biden is the VP pick, and Obama
hasn't even apologized for his vote on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. So where's the change?
He may talk the talk,
but Obama is not the messiah. The world is so impressed by Obama's attributes
that the expectations for his possible presidency have become dangerously inflated. Abraham Lincoln reincarnated
could not live up to what many global citizens anticipate from Obama: to rebuild America's international
reputation, to usher in racial equality in the US, to halt climate change, to end terrorism, to fix Iraq, to
rescue the world economy. With that To Do list, how could Obama fail to disappoint?
The Barack Bubble.
The value of Barack Obama's stock is sky high these days. His most devoted followers assume this upward trend
will continue. Happy days are just around the corner. … In fact, the issue is not if Obama's
bubble will burst, but rather — when. And when it does, there will be a lot of unhappy
American campers.
Obama sowing socialist seeds in young people.
The Democratic Party, in its quest for power, has managed a propaganda campaign with subliminal messages, creating a
God-like figure in a man who falls short in every way. It seems to me that if Mr. Obama wins the presidential
election, then Messrs. Farrakhan, Wright, Ayers and Pfleger will gain power for their need to demoralize this country
and help create a socialist America.
The Editor says...
When Jon Voight wrote the article above, he stirred up quite a controversy in Hollywood, where dissenting
opinions are evidently not permitted. The article below includes a discussion of the effort to blacklist
Mr. Voight for expressing those opinions.
Enemy
of the State. Last Monday on these pages, my article "Blacklist Then and Now" coincidentally
appeared the same day as an op-ed penned by screen legend Jon Voight. Since his Oscar-winning turn in
the 1978 antiwar film "Coming Home," the venerable actor has come to the conclusion that he and many in
the "so-called peace movement" were manipulated by Marxist propaganda.
Idols beware. There had better be
something to this "divinely anointed" business, because if there isn't, Barack Obama is setting himself up for the
biggest political spill in recorded history — all the way down the slopes of Olympus to whatever gunk lies
below. Which is to say, nobody, probably, can be as good as Mr. Obama's adoring followers, whether in Portland
or Berlin, seem to believe he is. Disillusionment is ugly to see in action: The higher the expectations,
the angrier the eventual response to reality.
It's Only About
Winning. The Washington Post reports that Sen. Barack Obama is aggressively trying to reintroduce
himself to voters, echoing the spin of Obama's advisers that not everyone knows him yet. In reality, Obama's
major campaign challenge will not be to reveal, but to conceal his true identity. Obama is not trying to
introduce himself to unreached voters, but is engaged in damage control with many he's already reached —
and insulted and disillusioned.
Questions for Barack
Obama: Senator, you've described global warming as "one of the greatest moral challenges of our
generation," calling for reducing carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050. Yet you also describe yourself
as an "agnostic" on nuclear power, which should be used only "if (your emphasis) we can make it
safe" — as if it were not already producing 20 percent of U.S. electricity. Given that U.S.
energy demands are certain to rise, how do you propose cutting greenhouse gases by 80 percent without
either crippling the economy or building scores of nuclear plants with zero carbon emissions?
Leaving
the Left. Not so long ago, Barack Obama was the darling of the anti-war Left. On a host of
national security issues — Iraq, Iran, government surveillance of terrorists — Obama
preached a friendly gospel and was worshipped in turn as a political "messiah." The liberal grassroots,
sensing a kindred spirit in the Illinois Senator, rewarded him with the Democratic nomination. Nothing
could come between Obama and his base. Now something has. In a word: reality.
Obama, Shaman. The striking thing about the
charismatic leader is the extent to which his followers regard him as a healer of wounds, an alleviator of pain. In
this sense, surely, Senator Barack Obama is charismatic. The carefully knotted ties and the dark, conservatively
tailored suits only accentuate the exoticness of his shamanism; he has entered the American psyche not as a hero but as
a healer.
Why McCain Would Make a Better President: Should
Barack Obama be elected President of the United States this November his chances for a successful term in office are slim to
none. As the candidate who extols the virtue of hope and change and whose audience chants in unison, ?Yes we can!'
Obama has set expectations so high that he is bound to fall short of lofty expectations.
Reaction to Obama's AIPAC speech:
Who Do They Love?
The first standing O, lasting more than a minute, greeted the senator as he took the stage — before he had even
begun to count all the ways he plans to become a "true friend of Israel." They gushed. They cooed. They
were carried away. Someone needs a cold shower. It is difficult to think of any recent major figure on the
American scene who should invite disquiet among supporters of Israel more than Barack Obama.
Is Obama a Political Fraud? I
believe that even if Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian Hamas leader, himself ran for US elections; he would do
the same as Obama did. No one who aspires to the US presidential post could ignore the important Jewish
voters in the elections, particularly in the decisive states, nor reject the funds necessary for the election
campaign and success.
Barack Obama 'saves the world' (between
speeches). First, it was "Change you can believe in," a nice friendly bit of folderol that was no more scary
than "I Like Ike." … But lately the slogan coming out of the Obama campaign is "We can save the world," which shows
that some people can believe anything — and will — without the slightest provocation or evidence.
Obama's America:
Obama's view of America and Americans is almost unremittingly bleak. In his increasingly prickly and
aggressive defense, Obama insists that his comments about ordinary Americans are accurate. He is, he
insists, completely "in touch" with the struggles that define modern American life. At least that's
how he defines things: if you review Obama's speeches, his portrait of Americans is of a people broken
and dispirited, anxious and angry and without hope (and for whom Obama, as you might have guessed, is
the balm).
False Messiah.
Conservative pundits have noted the Biblical, even apocalyptic imagery employed by Barack's supporters
(which include the mainstream media). But their hyperbole is no mere literary device. They are
true believers.
Dems' Falling Idol.
Obama's candidacy depends on a kind of make-believe that can't be sustained. How is he going to bring the country
together around an orthodox left-wing agenda? How is he going to embody bipartisanship when the significant instances
of him practicing it in his legislative career are vanishingly few? How can he heal the nation's divisions when he
can't even bridge the Democratic Party's demographic divide?
Phony-Ops build the
Obama Myth. Barack Obama's appeal to his legions of enthusiasts rests in no small part in their
hearts. And where the heart is concerned, myths, images, and archetypes work their wonders on the
nonrational faculties of the mind. The biggest Phony-Op of the election season so far was that giant
riverfront photo in Portland, Oregon with "the masses" yelling their lungs out, as if for a messianic King.
A Messiah in Our
Midst? For many, he's no retro-redeemer, but a 21st century savior, a Matrix-messiah and Neo
for our modern-day Nineveh. Self-help guru Deepak Chopra dubs Obama "a quantum leap in American consciousness,"
while prominent "leadership coach" Eve Konstantine assures us that, "He's our product out of the all-knowing
quantum field of intelligence." Obama willing, I will never be stuck next to these people on a plane.
Obama Promises
Germany-Plus. When I begin to feel homesick for Germany, I have discovered a cheap and easy way out. I
simply turn on the TV and listen to a Barack Obama stump speech. … [Mr. Obama] has promised not only a $160 billion
program for new green-collar jobs, a higher minimum wage, affordable health care for everybody, a massive investment in
infrastructure and tax-free status for pensioners who make less than $50,000. All these nice things come with no tax
increase for 95% of Americans. Wow! That's Germany-plus!
Obama and the Childish
Left: The Washington press corps has the teenie bopper hots over Barack Obama —
such a romantic name. A real African! Almost. What does he believe? What has he
actually done? Uhmmmm… Well… It's Son of Camelot! And he's got the youth
vote! Children just know these things! This is straight out of Dumb and Dumber. If you
despaired about the media's endless love affair with Bill Clinton, the Master of Slick, because he Cares About
You, you'll get to revisit those feelings now. For we have a new national idol!
Obama
Fatigue: He remains the man to beat, and he remains something of a phenomenon in American
politics — a rock-star politician celebrated by swooning masses. On college campuses Obama is
a demi-god, and on the trail you get the sense that some of his supporters are not so sure about the "demi."
Change You Can't Believe In.
The rise of democratic frontrunner Barack Obama signifies an alarming victory of style over substance. Not
unlike the dot-com hype, his campaign promises more than he can deliver. The one thing his voters can
count on is that they will ultimately be disappointed.
Keep Despair
Alive. [Obama's] legions of moonie-eyed idolaters do have a knack for embarrassing themselves,
and the rest of us. They wait in line for hours to pack agriplexes in the Midwest, acting like
squealing tweens whose parents have dropped them off at a Hannah Montana concert. They clap when he
blows his nose. They shoot celebrity-studded music videos, whose lyrics are direct lifts from Obama
speeches.
We Scream,
We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get? What was this, the Beatles tour of 1964? And when
they weren't screaming, the fair-sex Obama fans who dominated the rally of 16,000 were saying things like:
"Every time I hear him speak, I become more hopeful." Huh?
Emperor Obama's New
Clothes. What I want to know is, how did Hans Christian Andersen know about Barack Obama more
than a century ago? Because Obama is straight out of Andersen's classic fairly tale, The Emperor's
New Clothes. Old Hans Christian, who lived in Denmark from 1805 to 1875, had Obama's number down
pat. All he needed was a good grasp of human nature.
Obama bin lottery. Obama's
South Carolina victory speech was the economic equivalent of a carnival snake-oil pitch. He promised to
"stop giving tax breaks to rich companies and instead put the money in the pockets of struggling homeowners who
can't pay their mortgages", and at the same time stop the export of American jobs overseas, while raising
everyone's wages. The crowd chanted, "Yes we can! Yes we can!" Excuse me: No, you can't.
You can't keep inefficient American factories open without massive tax breaks to corporations, in the form of
tariffs or otherwise.
Barack Obama and the Sorcery of "Change".
The undefined nature of this panaceic change ["Change We Can Believe In"] and the nebulous character of the
putative new order it heralds, require a profound suspension of disbelief. Barack Obama and campaign
strategist David Axelrod gamely assert that because the former is free from ideologic and dogmatic affiliation,
he is a different sort of politician, a post-racial visionary who personifies the change for which we have all
been waiting. That very assertion is steeped in postmodernist ideation and borne of a philosophical
narcissism in which "[t]he world becomes equatable with the contents of the self, and vice versa".
'Economic
disaster'? It's Obama. Obama, adding to the negativity about the economy in order to sell
"change," regularly portrays the U.S. economy as in a state of near-collapse. "Economic disaster is
already here," he declared at a recent campaign stop in Virginia. In fact, the economy is not in a
state of "disaster," and "change" in the wrong direction would only make things worse. With high gas
prices, for instance, the most likely consequence of Obama's calls for restrictions on drilling and higher
taxes on oil companies would be less supply and even higher prices at the pump.
Obama Has Issues And He's Dead Wrong on All of
them! This is the problem with blindly entrusting your future to an individual who has accomplished
nothing of any consequence in his past. It's not hope you're feeling, its euphoric blind faith. As
is always the case with career rabble rousers (aka community organizers), the fact that they have never been
in the game does not hamper their ability to talk a good game.
Too dumb to be true. So many people
are so mesmerized by Barack Obama speeches that are filled with nothing but meaningless platitudes and
slogans. I haven't been able to find anyone yet, not even the most fanatical Obamaniac, who can
tell me what "We are the ones we have been waiting for" actually means.
What is it that Barack Obama knows
that the rest of us don't? Obama came onto the scene comparing himself to the late great Abraham
Lincoln, penned a book that some claim isn't even his and arranged — or had arranged —
Grade 8 textbooks with an entire chapter dedicated to him. As Gateway Pundit so aptly pointed out,
"Lincoln was a humble man. He did not compare himself after six months in office to great men from
history." Swooning supporters, some at the ready to fall into a faint, accord the senator a
peculiar rock star status.
Obama's Job Fetish: Beware any politician who
promises to create new jobs. If, as widely expected, Barack Obama faces a recession [if and] when
he takes office in January, many Americans will expect him to deliver on his promise to "create jobs." They
probably will be disappointed, because Obama seems to view job creation not only as something the government does
with taxpayers' money but as an end in itself.
The
Messianic Style: The messianic style — the cosmic tug to "change history", or
stop the seas from rising or the planet from heating, juxtaposed with the creepy faux-Greek
columns, Michelle's "deign to enter" politics snippet, the fainting at rallies, the Victory
Column mass address, the vero possumus presidential seal, and the 'we are the change we've
been waiting for' mantra — reflects the omnipresent narcissism: the exalted ends of
electing a prophet always justify the often crude and all too mortal means.
Obama stock is
overpriced, and a crash could really hurt. Sell Obamas now. They are overpriced and the
forward market has gone crazy. If he becomes president, the bubble will burst, I guess in the spring of
next year ... [Obama's failure] would more than undo the gains secured by his election and devastate the cause
he is seen as representing. The least his supporters can do is not raise the bar of expectation too high.
The Obama Bubble Could Cost
the Democrats. Today, the Obama election campaign has again exposed the whole Democratic Party as a
sucker front for the radical Left. Bill Ayers is just the tip of a gigantic anti-American iceberg that now
dominates US education, the media and Hollywood, the unions, and militant minorities. Don't think people don't
know it. In the 1940s the [Henry] Wallace campaign looked like a power grab of the totalitarian Left.
Today Obama looks the same.
What
else has Obama got? Obama, an inexperienced first-term senator, has not presented the world with
a blueprint for the future, he has run his extraordinarily successful campaign on nothing more than the promise
of change. As we have seen in Australia over the past 12 months, change is not always for the
better. ... Based on Obama's record, voting for change, solely for change's sake, is an affront to
commonsense and a victory for stupidity.
Hope and Change in the
Real World: I'm not expecting Sen. Obama to deliver on hope and change, let alone on
"transforming the world." You can't deliver on hope and change when you have a vast government
apparatus eating up 35 percent of gross domestic product and your program is to increase it.
Obama is a man, not a
cultural judgment. For almost two years, Mr. Obama has been, in [Shelby] Steele's words, evaluated
culturally. This has resulted in reverential media non-coverage and now post-election judgments and metaphors
that are already beginning to defy satire. Of course, Mr. Obama didn't end the Civil War, isn't the reincarnation
of RFK, and benefits from, but didn't bring about, the long-entrenched social changes that facilitated his political
rise. As he now heads to the White House, it's crucial that he finally be regarded as a politician, not a
messiah, and as a man, not a moral judgment.
Flashback to 1978:
Jim Jones'
followers enthralled by his skills as a speaker. The key to understanding the tragedy that was
Jonestown lies in the oratory skills of the Peoples Temple founder, Jim Jones. With the cadence and
fervor of a Baptist preacher, the charm and folksiness of a country storyteller and the zeal and fury of a
maniacal dictator, Jones exhorted his followers to a fever pitch, audiotapes recovered from Jonestown reveal.
As he spoke, they applauded, shouted, cheered. ... He also indoctrinated many young, idealistic liberal white
people in progressive 1970s California with the themes of socialism, equality and political activism.
Waltzing on the
Titanic. America's young people helped elect Barack Obama. Way to go kids! This
article is for you. Let's take a look at your future. We won't need a time machine. We
will just need to visit Europe and talk to the youth of France, Italy, and Greece. Don't worry. They
won't mind. They have plenty of time to talk. They don't have jobs. Young people in Western
Europe tend to sit around, smoke Marlboro cigarettes, drink espresso (and Coca Cola), and (at least until this
election) [complain] about America. They have been taught, since their first day in school, that
capitalism is evil — that the government can, and should, provide health care, employment, and
eventually, guaranteed retirement benefits for everyone.
Emperor
Obama's Clothes are Visible and Scary. Not surprisingly, many voters who cast their ballots for
Barack Obama for president had no idea what he believed, what his voting record was or what his priorities would
be as president. The YouTube videos showing voters' ignorance during the just-completed election would be
hilarious if they were not so sad. The "Emperor" leading the presidential polls had no clothes, but who
would speak out?
Obama is the star pupil in the School of Climate
Change. Bernard Baruch said, "Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."
Barack Obama promised a great deal. He was rarely specific, but his generalities were interpreted to mean he would
deal with each voter's specific concerns. His promise of change was nothing new, but people believed it was different
than any thing seen before in Washington. He is not President yet, but already he has demonstrated an inability to
satisfy the expectations raised by his eloquence and vagueness.
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