"Extremism in the defense of Liberty is NO VICE... moderation in the pursuit of justice is NO VIRTUE."
Thursday, October 09, 2008
LIEBERMAN MAY LEAVE PARTY
In a wide-ranging NewsMaxinterview, former Democratic VP nominee Joe Lieberman talked about the need to elect John McCain in November, including:
It’s important for the political process to question Obama’s ties to former Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers: “I think these are very fair questions and it’s now up to Senator Obama to answer them.”
Barack Obama is clearly ‘not ready’ yet to be commander in chief, and the country’s adversaries, including Iran “will not fear him” if he were to become president.
McCain needs to persuade voters that “based on his record, that he really is the one who will change Washington, and Washington truly needs to be changed.”
McCain should tout his economic plan that will emphasize tax cuts and job creationexactly what a troubled economy needs. He said it would be foolhardy to raise taxes in a recession, as Obama has promised.
The Republicans must emphasize that his plan for energy independence will create “hundreds of thousands, I think millions of new jobs.”
Asked if he may leave his party and join with Senate Republicans, Lieberman said he had no immediate plans to make that move, but said he would consider it at a later date.
“The Democratic Party of today is not the Democratic Party that I joined in the '60s under my hero President Kennedy, and it’s not the Democratic Party of my dear friend Bill Clinton,” Lieberman said.
Of course, Lieberman, left out quite a few other dangling issues for the Obama Democrats, including his rather untidy Odinga connection, which has actually been public for some time now, but is only just coming to the top of the boil with Fox News opinionmaker Sean Hannity now on the snarl with some additional damaging news thanks to investigative author Jerome Corsi's recent adventures in Kenya.
DID YOU READ our previous post? If not, please oblige. Then face some facts about our Democratic nominee.
Does not this Obama-Odinga relationship, just like so many of his past relationships, barrel directly to the question of Obama's oft-stated position of his supposed superior judgement? Of course it does. And no, his judgment is not only not superior in any sense of the word, and is not even ordinary, but is demonstrably suspect.
Raila Odinga, running on the sloganAgent of Changelost the race for President of Kenya in December 2007 and shortly thereafter waged a campaign of widespread ethnic warfare in protest of this loss. Following the post-electoral crisis that resulted in the deaths of 1,500 people and the displacement of 600,000 more, Odinga took office as Prime Minister, at the head of a national unity government, in April 2008.
To be clear about this, on August 2007, Odinga signed an agreement with Islamic extremists to institute Islamic Law should he be elected President of Kenya, and he vowed to end cooperation with the United States in the war against terror. We have one question. Why did the junior senator from Illinois actively campaign for him on the American tax dollar? When Obama went to Kenya in August of 2006, he was hosted by Raila and spoke in praise of him at rallies in Nairobi…
Obama’s bias for his fellow Luo (tribe) was so blatant that a Kenya government spokesman denounced Obama during his visit as Raila’s “stooge.”
Obama’s older brother still lives in Kenya. Abongo “Roy” Obama is a Luo activist and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must “liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture.” (sounds a bit like Reverend Jeremiah Wright, doesn’t he?
To further undermine democratic elections, our own democratically elected president, Bush, as well as the extremely undemocratically appointed EU beaurocrats urged power sharing between Odinga and the duly elected Mwai Kibaki:
Asked in a Reuters interview whether Kibaki and Odinga should share power, President Bush remarked: “I believe that they have an opportunity to come together in some kind of arrangement that will help heal the wounds of a closely divided election.”
The European Union urged them to form a coalition government, a plan that was then put into play.
Imagine having foreign nations demand that John Kerry or Al Gore share power with Bushor Obama share with McCain for that matter*#151;if a hotly contested election is the result.
Combine more than two decades of hate inspiring rhetoric of Reverend Wright & Louis Farakhan, the re-education camps and explosive ambitions and experiences of William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn (& their Weather Underground cohorts), the varied and expanding financial links to Middle Eastern/anti-American/pro-sharia interestswith the current democratic nominee. Add a global media industry fully engaged in pro-Obama advocacy under the guise of anti-racism memes.
A recipe for political pandemonium.
In breaking news, Jerome Corsi, who wrote the book called The Obama Nation went to Kenya recently to dig into more about Obama. He has being jailed by Kenyan immigration officials, who announced today they are releasing but deporting Corsi.The DEmocratic camp has said it has no comment on these developments.
THE CHILLING VIDEO BELOW tells the shocking story of Democratic Party Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s involvement in 2006, while a sitting United States Senator, in the Kenyan presidential campaign of Raila Odinga, who lost, but took power by force, and is now involved in the genocide that is currently eviscerating the African nation.
Obama has acknowledged having had Kenyan citizenship. There is also concern that these campaign activities on foreign soil by an unauthorized American citizen is a violation of the Logan Act. We argue that it is high time to take a critical look at these activities on behalf of Odinga, a Muslim sympathizer who is pushing for the installation of the barbaric Islamic sharia law in this once peaceful and pro-Western nation.
Here's a bit of light reporting by the Washington Post. Read it all. But in savoring the PR of the man who seems to feel peculiarly qualified to lead America in these treacherous times solely because he has smelled the stench of poverty in his own family, and by virtue of mixed race, can solve America's racial puzzle, I suggest we look closer at the man and not so much at the tailored suit he's wearing.
Let's step back. I watched Obama's breathtaking speech at the '04 National Democratic Convention, and like any of the millions of patriotic Americans who watched with me, I was enthralled by the combination of words, the force of delivery, the charm and charisma of this man from Illinois. But one cannot help but wonder, how far this packaged idealism will fly in a world of hidden bombs and brutal treachery, particularly since this article doesn't answer any of the tough questions it only hints at asking. Is it possible that Obama can stride into the White House and become the new Lincoln? It's possible, but so far I haven't seen or heard much since that speech at the Convention to warrant such sketch of wishful thinking.
This article answers none of the questions that have been floating about, including the one about the racist attitudes of the Chicago-based church of which he is a prominent member. The Chicago Sun-Times reports on this matter here. Are Obama's ties to Islam equally entrenched in shadows and undergirded by secrets? It is easy to doubt that these things can be true. But surely, it is better to know that they are false.
The article..
In his speeches and often on the Internet, the part of Sen. Barack Obama's biography that gets the most attention is not his race but his connections to the Muslim world. Since declaring his candidacy for president in February, Obama, a member of a congregation of the United Church of Christ in Chicago, has had to address assertions that he is a Muslim or that he had received training in Islam in Indonesia, where he lived from ages 6 to 10. While his father was an atheist and his mother did not practice religion, Obama's stepfather did occasionally attend services at a mosque there.
Despite his denials, rumors and e-mails circulating on the Internet continue to allege that Obama (D-Ill.) is a Muslim, a "Muslim plant" in a conspiracy against America, and that, if elected president, he would take the oath of office using a Koran, rather than a Bible, as did Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the only Muslim in Congress, when he was sworn in earlier this year.
In campaign appearances, Obama regularly mentions his time living and attending school in Indonesia, and the fact that his paternal grandfather, a Kenyan farmer, was a Muslim. Obama invokes these facts as part of his case that he is prepared to handle foreign policy, despite having been in the Senate for only three years, and that he would literally bring a new face to parts of the world where the United States is not popular.
The son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Kenya, Obama was born and spent much of his childhood in Hawaii, and he talks more about his multicultural background than he does about the possibility of being the first African American president, in marked contrast to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who mentions in most of her stump speeches the prospect of her becoming the first woman to serve as president.
"A lot of my knowledge about foreign affairs is not what I just studied in school. It's actually having the knowledge of how ordinary people in these other countries live," he said earlier this month in Clarion, Iowa.
"The day I'm inaugurated, I think this country looks at itself differently, but the world also looks at America differently," he told another Iowa crowd. "Because I've got a grandmother who lives in a little village in Africa without running water or electricity; because I grew up for part of my formative years in Southeast Asia in the largest Muslim country on Earth."
Report: Four score and seven (or a few million years) agoan idea
of freedom took root in this American soil. Knowing life is crisis, punctuated by brief periods of solace,
we also know that after all is said and done, we shall never cheat infinity, nor extinguish the mark of a
single thought. Like this mathematical pun, strong and fiercely sought, we engage this nation, its myths,
its memories, its magnanimous messengers, and its monstrosities as we seek a more perfect union. But
as always in America, we must rebuke an enemy with both fists on the wheel driving for success and justice
for all. An enemy that is always changing is an enemy that never changes. We must engage that enemy on
the ancient battleground where art and politics beat each other up and few are they who seem the wiser.
We must reject roving wild-eyed policy now weakening our nation, to live again as one nation under truth,
both as strategy, and as reality on the ground, certain of the age in which we struggle and from which we
must engage the enemies that threaten our existence as a nation of liberty. A vigorous new morality must
replace the old farces found frothing along the same profane beachheads as those which defiled the hopes
of our ancestors. In renouncing our petty grievances must all stand together as one to rebuke our mortal
and spiritual enemies who care not for our struggles, and even less for our feelings. We are at war, people.
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice...moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." Barry Goldwater
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Johann Wolfgang Goethe
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it
to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on
for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children
and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." Ronald Reagan
"I have been made victorious through terror." Muhammad, founder of Islam
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort,
to protect themselves against tyranny in government. Thomas Jefferson
"Think about it folks. Capitalism is the most effective and purest form of Communism ever practiced." Gabriel Thy
"Political languageand with variations this is true of all political parties,
from Conservatives to Anarchistsis designed to make lies sound truthful
and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." George Orwell
"Exaggerated self-criticism would be a harmless luxury of civilization if there
were no enemy at the gate condemning democracy's very existence. But it
becomes dangerous when it portrays its mortal enemy as always being in the right.
Extravagant criticism is a good propaganda device in internal politics. But if it is
repeated often enough, it is finally believed. And where will the citizens of
democratic societies find reasons to resist the enemy outside if they are persuaded
from childhood that their civilization is merely an accumulation of failures and a monstrous imposture?" Jean Francois Revel
“Never ascribe to malice that which may be ascribed to stupidity.” Napoleon Bonaparte
"A communist is someone who reads Marx & Lenin. An anti-communist is someone who understands them." Ronald Reagan
"The world is far more complex than the concentrated cool of some flippant rock star." Dunaway Ka