By Deborah Durkee on 5/28/2009 9:23 AM

Obama: Quintessential Liberal Fascist.

 

Wow, Kyle-Anne Shiver at the American Thinker website hits this one out of the park. Using her best research skills and borrowing Jonah Goldberg’s term “liberal fascism” – she looks at Saul Alinsky’s community organizing and sees what his eventual goal was. She also looks at other past liberal fascists and recognizes something we have here, something we never thought we’d have to confront in the United States of America. See if you recognize any of this in what is going on today. This is truly a wake-up call:

 

When Saul Alinsky began building his community-organization movement in 1930s Chicago, observers were watching Alinsky with one eye, while with the other eye observing the building of communist and fascist movements in Europe.  It wasn't hard then to see in Alinsky's programs at home, elements of the...

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By Deborah Durkee on 5/27/2009 7:26 AM

Is Obama another Carter?

 

This writer sees Obama and the world’s reaction to him and thinks, yes, another Carter. So, hold onto your hats, America, the world is becoming a much more dangerous place. This is from Bahukutumbi Raman of forbes.com:

 

During the U.S. Presidential primaries last year, I had expressed my misgivings that Barack Obama might turn out to be another Jimmy Carter, whose confused thinking and soft image paved the way for the success of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Snip –

 

The defiant action of North Korea in testing a long-range missile with military applications last month, and its latest act of defiance in reportedly carrying out an underground nuclear test on May 25, can be attributed--at least partly, if not fully--to its conviction that it will have nothing to fear from the Obama administration for its acts...

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By Deborah Durkee on 5/26/2009 7:46 AM

Arrogance of the Republican elite.

 

This is a great essay from R. S. McCain who blogs at The Other McCain. Republicans have their own elite, which is just as arrogant in their “intelligence” as the Democrats’ brand. It is the arrogance of the academic/intellectual. He is enlightening in his analysis and highlights the great divide between the elites in the New York-D.C. axis and the rank and file Republicans (embarrassing, regular American folks like you and me):

 

… the liberals had their intellectual elite, you see, and so conservatives decided they needed to get them one, too. Given the natural assumption that the finest minds in America had all been scooped up by the elite schools, there soon developed an intellectual superstructure in Washington of think-tank wonks, policy analysts, political advisers and journalists who came from the same elite...

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By Deborah Durkee on 5/25/2009 9:45 AM

Atlas frowned.

 

John Derbyshire posted this on The Corner blog at National Review Online on May 4th. It’s from a friend of his who is in the hedge fund business:

This administration has made it quite clear that they can't be relied upon to honor contracts or legal precedents and if I can't know what the rules are before the game starts then I'm not going to play. Hedge funds aren't like the banks … we haven't failed. We aren't beholden to the taxpayer to make our way. Snip – Also, Geithner and Obama have been saying that they plan on balancing the budget once the crisis is past. The press may believe that twaddle about how he'll do it by "making things more efficient," but we in the hedge fund industry aren't so stupid. We've looked at the numbers and know what he's planning to do. I know dozens of people who are already putting the legal structures...

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By huffer_g on 5/24/2009 12:50 PM

The following letter was written by Anne Wortham Sociology at Illinois State University and continuing Visiting Scholar at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. This was originally on the Start Thinking Right website located here: http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/no-he-cant-by-prof-anne-wortham/ It is worth reading and sending on to Obama voters. Fellow Americans, Please know: I am Black; I grew up in the segregated South. I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president. Most importantly, I am not race conscious. I do not require a Black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living. I do not require a Black president to love the ideal of America. I cannot join you in your celebration. I feel no elation. There is no smile on my face. I am not jumping with joy. There...

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By Deborah Durkee on 5/24/2009 8:32 AM

Americans not loving Dem policies.

 

This is some good news. Americans have watched what’s going on in Washington, D.C. and don’t like it one bit. From John Hinderaker at www.powerlineblog.com:

 

A series of polls reported over the last few days by Scott Rasmussen paint an interesting picture of an electorate that may be on the eve of what the Democrats intend to be the most radical transformation in our history.

 

By a 77 percent to 14 percent margin, voters say the big problem in the United States is politicians' unwillingness to cut spending, not the electorate's unwillingness to pay more taxes.

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By huffer_g on 5/24/2009 3:31 AM

I should not be so pessimistic. With all of the bad news on the economy, foreign policy, Obama in the White house, corrupt politicians infesting the congress, Islamic fascist at the gate, unprotected borders, leftist assaulting the American culture, bailouts and massive government spending about to send the dollar plummeting and inflation blasting into outer space – it is hard not to be. I used to have great hopes for this country, that our country could weather any storm because we are so strong. We have the strongest military, strongest currency, strongest economy, and strongest culture. Right? The left has eaten away at the foundations of our culture and economy to the point these foundations are straining against collapse. The fissures in the foundations have opened the door to greater threats. The war on the Christian culture has made abortion safe, legal and pervasive. Thousands,...

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By Ted on 5/23/2009 8:49 AM

As I sit here and watch ESPN, I try to draw an analogy between a baseball team and the Obama/Democrat policies of today. I think a great example of this is the New York Mets. Here is a team that has spent wildly on player’s salaries , has created great expectations, has a great fan base but has been unable to deliver wins. The greatest difference Met fans and Obama cool aid drinkers, is that the fan base in NY recognize failure when they see it. If a sports team continues to lose when they have been given the tools and support to win, the fans start to show their embarrassment by wearing paper bags over their heads. They recognize that you don’t follow a loser just because you supported them in the past. The difference is that sports fans are usually informed and knowledgeable where citizens find politics too confusing to be informed and educated and vote for those promising them the most free...

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By Deborah Durkee on 5/22/2009 10:46 AM

We are experiencing a revolution.

 

This is a brilliant piece by former Reagan Administration special assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence, Herbert E. Meyer. He was also Vice Chairman of the CIA’s National Intelligence Council. He also holds the highest honor bestowed in the intelligence community, the U.S. National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal. I’ve been saying for a while that the last election was actually a coup…his column basically confirms it:

 

…The precise, technical word for what is happening in the United States today is revolution.

 

Because of our country's history, we tend to think of revolutions as military conflicts, and of the revolutionaries as the good guys; the image of Minutemen fighting valiantly against the British forces at Lexington and Concord lies deep within our DNA.  But sometimes -- quite often, actually -- revolutions aren't military conflicts, and the good guys are the ones trying to keep the revolution from happening.  In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by its elected president; he would spend the next two years consolidating his power with the legislative connivance of his political allies in the Reichstag.  In October 1917, Lenin and his Bolsheviks took control of Russia from Kerensky and his Social Democrats -- who had overthrown the Czar earlier that year -- entirely through parliamentary maneuvering in Russia's fledgling Duma.

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By Deborah Durkee on 5/21/2009 9:03 AM

Chrysler creditors aren’t done yet.

 

This is a welcome development in the outrageous government dictate to Chrysler to go into bankruptcy on the government’s terms instead of through bankruptcy law. This is an important fight; one that must be won if we are to finally have someone beat back the corruption and illegality of the Obama Adminstration. This is from the U.K. Financial Times:

 

Three of Chrysler’s secured creditors are mounting a fresh attempt to thwart the carmaker’s Chapter 11 reorganisation on the grounds that it violates their legal rights and the US government’s authority under the Troubled asset relief programme.

 

The three – all Indiana state pension funds – are among a group of 46 creditors that had appeared to back away this month from efforts to derail the process under which a “new” Chrysler would emerge from bankruptcy...

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