Kurt Nicklas
2008-10-16 00:17:44 UTC
October 13, 2008
America’s first far-left radical President?
Daily Mail, 13 October 2008
http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=618
With all eyes glued to the collapse of global capitalism as we know
it, attention has been somewhat distracted from the race to lead what
still remains the most powerful nation on earth — the United States.
We ignore it at our peril.
From the shockingly partisan presentation by the pro-Obama media on
both sides of the Atlantic, you’d think this was a contest between
twin pillars of rectitude and inspirational high seriousness on the
Democratic side, and a joke Republican ticket consisting of an erratic
old man and a brainless, wacko, gun-toting beauty queen, who in a fit
of madness John McCain picked as his vice-presidential candidate.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, the beauty queen in question,
Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, has struck an enormous chord with
Middle America. As a result, Barack Obama’s media supporters are
making a huge effort to destroy her.
Now the Left thinks it has shot its moose. It has been crowing that an
inquiry by Alaska’s legislature has found Palin abused her office by
firing Alaska’s Commissioner of Public Safety for refusing to fire in
turn Palin’s former brother-in-law, Trooper Michael Wooten.
This really is a case of half-baked Alaska. First, the inquiry’s
conclusions were ambiguous. It found that Palin had violated public
trust through using official action for personal interest; but it also
said the firing was a proper and lawful exercise of her authority, and
that personal interest had only been a contributory factor in the
Commissioner’s firing.
And just what was that personal interest? Palin wanted a state Trooper
fired because he had assaulted his 11-year-old stepson with a stun
gun, been caught drinking alcohol in his patrol car, and the Palins
say was threatening to kill a member of their family.
Certainly, there was a conflict of interest because Wooten was the
Governor’s sister’s ex-husband. But shouldn’t the real question be why
such a man was not fired?
What is really astounding, however, is the hue and cry over this non-
event in Alaska while a raft of disturbing evidence about Senator
Obama’s connections is being either glossed over or not reported at
all.
This may come as a shock to most people, but Obama is at the centre of
a network of radical associations which he has tried to conceal.
Take for example his relationship with William Ayers, founder of the
terrorist Weather Underground which bombed federal buildings in the
1960s and who has consistently maintained his radical views ever
since.
Obama’s own political career was actually launched in Ayers’s Chicago
house at a fundraising-event in 1995 which fired the starting gun for
his run at the Illinois Senate.
Not only that, Obama and Ayers both sat on the boards of two
organisations, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and the Woods Fund.
These organisations put into practice Ayers’s revolutionary ideology
by channelling money supposed to fund regular educational projects
into extreme radical groups instead.
Obama now says he didn’t know of Ayers’s terrorist past and never
endorsed his views, simply working with him on an educational project.
But it defies belief he didn’t know about Ayers, who was notorious in
Chicago. In 2001, indeed, Ayers told a magazine: ‘I don’t regret
setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.’
The crucial point was that this educational project was itself a
vehicle for subversion; in the view of Ayers, its driving force,
education was ‘the motor-force of revolution’. Moreover, Obama wrote a
rave review about Ayers’ book on criminal justice, which compared
America to South Africa under apartheid.
Through the Woods Fund, Obama also funnelled millions of dollars to
the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
Described by an academic sympathiser as ‘a uniquely militant
organisation’, ACORN played a significant role in the sub-prime
scandal - which detonated America’s financial crisis — by physically
intimidating banks into lowering credit standards for poor and
minority customers.
The Obama campaign has paid an ACORN subsidiary $800,000 to register
new voters. But now, numerous states are launching investigations into
massive voter fraud being carried out by ACORN activists who are being
caught falsifying voter registration cards, registering fictitious
individuals and hounding voters to register multiple times.
But Obama’s connections with ACORN go even deeper. Even though his
campaign has denied this, for several years running he trained its
activists and in 1992 even ran one of its voter registration projects.
Such radical links fit with other highly dubious associations Obama
has made. We all know that, under pressure, he distanced himself from
his longstanding mentor Pastor Wright, who infamously coined the
phrase ‘God damn America!’
But Obama never distanced himself from the anti-white teachings of his
church, which was heavily influenced by the philosophy of the black
racist James Cone who claimed that ‘whiteness is the symbol of the
antichrist’.
And after the controversy over Wright, Obama has become close to
another preacher, Jim Wallis, who spews out the same anti-American
message — once calling the U.S. ‘the great power, the great seducer,
the great captor and destroyer of human life’.
That’s not all. ACORN is heavily involved with a Marxist group called
the Chicago New Party, whose strategy is to force the Democratic Party
to the far Left by infiltrating it and ‘ burrowing from within’. In
1996, the New Party exulted that one of its members who had just been
successful in the political primary season was — Barack Obama.
Whenever any of this surfaces, the Left tries to suppress it by
screaming ‘guilt by association’. Not so. This is guilt by
participation.
The left cries ’smear’ and ‘racism’. On the contrary — if Obama wasn’t
a black Democrat, with this history his candidacy would have been
toast before it got started.
Just consider if the boot had been on the other foot and McCain’s
political career had been launched by an abortion clinic bomber, his
mentor for 20 years had been a Ku Klux Klansman, and he had paid
nearly a million dollars to far-right militias who strong-armed voters
into fraudulent registrations.
Of course, there is no suggestion that Obama supports terrorism or
intimidation. But the question is whether through expediency or
ideological sympathy or a combination of the two, he has allowed
himself to be associated with thinking that threatens the basic values
of America and Western society.
This may sound too incredible for words. But what’s really incredible
is that, with dozens of reporters feverishly combing Alaska for any
evidence to tarnish Sarah Palin, the mainstream media has largely
refused to investigate any of this.
What’s really incredible is that a man with such a background in anti-
Western thinking can now stand on the verge of becoming the leader of
the free world.
Please don’t get me wrong. I am not a particular fan of John McCain. I
think he is indeed erratic, and has run a lousy campaign. And the
exhausted Republicans deserve to lose. But the prospect of Obama in
the White House as America’s first far-Left radical president is
deeply worrying.
It would be a crowning triumph for the anti-Western ideology which has
wrought such havoc on both sides of the Atlantic.
The reason Sarah Palin has struck such a chord is that Middle America
sees her as the first candidate in its lifetime who stands against
that destructive nihilism. That’s why she is the key target for
Western radicals who are now poised to gain the biggest prize of all.
America’s first far-left radical President?
Daily Mail, 13 October 2008
http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=618
With all eyes glued to the collapse of global capitalism as we know
it, attention has been somewhat distracted from the race to lead what
still remains the most powerful nation on earth — the United States.
We ignore it at our peril.
From the shockingly partisan presentation by the pro-Obama media on
both sides of the Atlantic, you’d think this was a contest between
twin pillars of rectitude and inspirational high seriousness on the
Democratic side, and a joke Republican ticket consisting of an erratic
old man and a brainless, wacko, gun-toting beauty queen, who in a fit
of madness John McCain picked as his vice-presidential candidate.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, the beauty queen in question,
Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, has struck an enormous chord with
Middle America. As a result, Barack Obama’s media supporters are
making a huge effort to destroy her.
Now the Left thinks it has shot its moose. It has been crowing that an
inquiry by Alaska’s legislature has found Palin abused her office by
firing Alaska’s Commissioner of Public Safety for refusing to fire in
turn Palin’s former brother-in-law, Trooper Michael Wooten.
This really is a case of half-baked Alaska. First, the inquiry’s
conclusions were ambiguous. It found that Palin had violated public
trust through using official action for personal interest; but it also
said the firing was a proper and lawful exercise of her authority, and
that personal interest had only been a contributory factor in the
Commissioner’s firing.
And just what was that personal interest? Palin wanted a state Trooper
fired because he had assaulted his 11-year-old stepson with a stun
gun, been caught drinking alcohol in his patrol car, and the Palins
say was threatening to kill a member of their family.
Certainly, there was a conflict of interest because Wooten was the
Governor’s sister’s ex-husband. But shouldn’t the real question be why
such a man was not fired?
What is really astounding, however, is the hue and cry over this non-
event in Alaska while a raft of disturbing evidence about Senator
Obama’s connections is being either glossed over or not reported at
all.
This may come as a shock to most people, but Obama is at the centre of
a network of radical associations which he has tried to conceal.
Take for example his relationship with William Ayers, founder of the
terrorist Weather Underground which bombed federal buildings in the
1960s and who has consistently maintained his radical views ever
since.
Obama’s own political career was actually launched in Ayers’s Chicago
house at a fundraising-event in 1995 which fired the starting gun for
his run at the Illinois Senate.
Not only that, Obama and Ayers both sat on the boards of two
organisations, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and the Woods Fund.
These organisations put into practice Ayers’s revolutionary ideology
by channelling money supposed to fund regular educational projects
into extreme radical groups instead.
Obama now says he didn’t know of Ayers’s terrorist past and never
endorsed his views, simply working with him on an educational project.
But it defies belief he didn’t know about Ayers, who was notorious in
Chicago. In 2001, indeed, Ayers told a magazine: ‘I don’t regret
setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.’
The crucial point was that this educational project was itself a
vehicle for subversion; in the view of Ayers, its driving force,
education was ‘the motor-force of revolution’. Moreover, Obama wrote a
rave review about Ayers’ book on criminal justice, which compared
America to South Africa under apartheid.
Through the Woods Fund, Obama also funnelled millions of dollars to
the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).
Described by an academic sympathiser as ‘a uniquely militant
organisation’, ACORN played a significant role in the sub-prime
scandal - which detonated America’s financial crisis — by physically
intimidating banks into lowering credit standards for poor and
minority customers.
The Obama campaign has paid an ACORN subsidiary $800,000 to register
new voters. But now, numerous states are launching investigations into
massive voter fraud being carried out by ACORN activists who are being
caught falsifying voter registration cards, registering fictitious
individuals and hounding voters to register multiple times.
But Obama’s connections with ACORN go even deeper. Even though his
campaign has denied this, for several years running he trained its
activists and in 1992 even ran one of its voter registration projects.
Such radical links fit with other highly dubious associations Obama
has made. We all know that, under pressure, he distanced himself from
his longstanding mentor Pastor Wright, who infamously coined the
phrase ‘God damn America!’
But Obama never distanced himself from the anti-white teachings of his
church, which was heavily influenced by the philosophy of the black
racist James Cone who claimed that ‘whiteness is the symbol of the
antichrist’.
And after the controversy over Wright, Obama has become close to
another preacher, Jim Wallis, who spews out the same anti-American
message — once calling the U.S. ‘the great power, the great seducer,
the great captor and destroyer of human life’.
That’s not all. ACORN is heavily involved with a Marxist group called
the Chicago New Party, whose strategy is to force the Democratic Party
to the far Left by infiltrating it and ‘ burrowing from within’. In
1996, the New Party exulted that one of its members who had just been
successful in the political primary season was — Barack Obama.
Whenever any of this surfaces, the Left tries to suppress it by
screaming ‘guilt by association’. Not so. This is guilt by
participation.
The left cries ’smear’ and ‘racism’. On the contrary — if Obama wasn’t
a black Democrat, with this history his candidacy would have been
toast before it got started.
Just consider if the boot had been on the other foot and McCain’s
political career had been launched by an abortion clinic bomber, his
mentor for 20 years had been a Ku Klux Klansman, and he had paid
nearly a million dollars to far-right militias who strong-armed voters
into fraudulent registrations.
Of course, there is no suggestion that Obama supports terrorism or
intimidation. But the question is whether through expediency or
ideological sympathy or a combination of the two, he has allowed
himself to be associated with thinking that threatens the basic values
of America and Western society.
This may sound too incredible for words. But what’s really incredible
is that, with dozens of reporters feverishly combing Alaska for any
evidence to tarnish Sarah Palin, the mainstream media has largely
refused to investigate any of this.
What’s really incredible is that a man with such a background in anti-
Western thinking can now stand on the verge of becoming the leader of
the free world.
Please don’t get me wrong. I am not a particular fan of John McCain. I
think he is indeed erratic, and has run a lousy campaign. And the
exhausted Republicans deserve to lose. But the prospect of Obama in
the White House as America’s first far-Left radical president is
deeply worrying.
It would be a crowning triumph for the anti-Western ideology which has
wrought such havoc on both sides of the Atlantic.
The reason Sarah Palin has struck such a chord is that Middle America
sees her as the first candidate in its lifetime who stands against
that destructive nihilism. That’s why she is the key target for
Western radicals who are now poised to gain the biggest prize of all.