Will You Perform Your Political Due Diligence in 2010 or Again Blindly Vote for a Socialized America?
What we are witnessing today, in just the first year alone, is one of the most corrupt, if not the most unconstitutional, administrations in post WWII history.
9.13.2009
By Chris P. Janelli, CEO, Distressed Patriots for America
Friends,
I was recently the guest at a small intimate cocktail party hosted by one of my political-business partners. At the party I reconnected with a “gentleman” that I had met 25 years ago. The gentleman was there with his lovely wife. When I discussed Distressed Patriots and started dishing out some of my politics, I was dumbfounded to learn that not only had they voted for Obama (I had assumed they were both conservative Republicans), but they had no inkling of the “qualified to be president by birth” issue that concerns millions, is the subject of innumerable lawsuits, has military officers questioning their duty to serve under a questionable Commander in Chief, and is plastered on billboards across America.
It was another reinforcing lesson for me in not judging a book by its cover; or in this instance a voter by an assumed demographic profile. At least when I attend the Congregational Church in my home town, I know the majority of the septuagenarian and octogenarian parishioners are “progressive” liberals who honestly believe they were making the world a better place by having voted for Obama. (I live in a wealthy and privileged area of New England that is both elitist and progressive.) I seriously doubt the majority of my fellow parishioners who voted for the Messiah of Change had any inkling of who he was, or what he was capable of doing once in power. I warned my wayward Obama child to this only to be told I was racists, I didn’t know what I was talking about and that Obama was one of the most brilliant men to ever run for the presidency; from the mouths of babes. But back to the cocktail party.
It’s Americans like this couple, close social friends, and sadly yes, even some of my children who made Obama president without knowing anything about him. Their excuse is often, “I voted for Obama because it was a vote against Bush” or “I voted for Obama because I was against the Republican Party that failed me.” Or some other flimsy reason un-backed with real knowledge about the man. I cringe to think how many coach potatoe viewers of Oprah and The View voted for Obama simply because there was so much feminine opining of how handsome he was (really?) and brilliant and qualified. That the man was the first black presidential candidate was a great step forward for America; but the wrong man. An ACORN trained community organizer who became a one term US Senator who voted “present” on almost every vote and spent most of his time authoring a self promoting autobiography and other personal PR was, well, good enough for them to believe he was qualified to be president.
Well, I hope these people have learned, or will eventually learn, a valuable lesson in that you get what you vote for, but in the case of Obama America is getting a whole lot more than most expected. Unless of course you were a member of ACORN, or one of many leftwing radical labor unions and other “progressive” organizations like MoveOn.org funded by socialist billionaires like George Soros. These people knew exactly who they were voting for and what they would receive in return. What we are witnessing today, in just the first year alone, is one of the most corrupt, if not the most unconstitutional, administrations in post WWII history. Obama the ACORN president makes Richard Nixon look like a white collared choir boy.
Over the next three plus years of this ACORN presidency, I hope the hard lessons of Change You Can’t Believe, many of which are still to come, will reawaken America voters to the fact they must to their due diligence before they spend their most precious constitutional script on a candidate for any political office. Per the Oxford dictionary, due diligence means “Law reasonable steps taken by a person in order to satisfy a legal requirement, esp[ecially] in buying or selling something.”
The Obamaman sold America a bill of goods and the swing American voters, many of whom voted Democrat for the first time in their lives, failed in their due diligence and bought the slick Obama oratory hook line and sinker. So, for all of you who provided the swing votes to bring the socialist threat back to America (yes, history does repeat itself as America has gone through this before), the following article by David Horowitz, founder of The David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an excellent recap of what you should have figured out for yourself BEFORE voting for Obama. Come on folks, this isn’t a high school popularity contest for prom king; this is the presidency of the United States of America.
Hopefully, before you vote in the critical and pivotal 2010 elections that will start the return to Change We Can REALLY Believe In, you will pay more attention to what all of the candidates REALLY stand for and represent. Do your due diligence.
Friends, the choice is really simple: You either want a less intrusive and more fiscally conservative government that respects the sovereignty of the people, or you want to be socialized and have government control almost every aspect of your life. American either has a bright future, or YOU can vote to have future generations live in a socialist America. Socialism failed in Europe, so what makes any right-minded American think it would work here?
Remember: BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER. The progressive liberal Democrat at the local or state level is a bird of the same feather, and equally destructive in their desire to control your life and future, as the one in the White House.
Start your due diligence with this article:
The Manchurian Candidate By: David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com
Those who were surprised by the White House appointment of Van Jones – a self-styled “communist,” and a proponent of the idea that the Katrina catastrophe was caused by “white supremacy,” haven’t been paying attention to developments on the left since the fall of Communism, or to president Obama’s extensive roots in its political culture. Van Jones is the carefully groomed protégé of a network of radical organizations -- including Moveon.org -- and of Democratic sponsors like billionaire George Soros and John Podesta, former Clinton chief of staff and co-chair of the Obama transition team.
At the time of his appointment as the President’s “Green Jobs” czar – and despite a very recent 10-year history of “revolutionary” activity – Jones was a member of two key organizations at the very heart of what might be called the executive branch of the Democratic Party. The first is the Center for American Progress which was funded by Soros and is headed by Podesta. The second is the Apollo Alliance, on whose board Jones sits with Podesta, Carol Browner and Al Gore. This is a coalition of radicals, leftwing union leaders and corporate recruits, which had a major role in designing Obama’s green economy plans, including the “cash for clunkers” program. The New York director of the Alliance, who will be writing its applications for tens of millions of dollars in “stimulus” funds, is Jeff Jones (no relation) who was a co-leader of the terrorist Weather Underground along with Obama’s close friend and political ally William Ayers.
According to his own account, Van Jones became a “communist” during a prison term he served after being arrested during the 1992 Los Angeles race riots. For the next ten years Jones was an activist in the Maoist organization STORM – “Stand Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement.” When STORM disintegrated Jones joined the Apollo Alliance and the Center for American Progress Democrats. As he explained to the East Bay Express in a 2005 article, he still considered himself a “revolutionary, but just a more effective one.” “Before,” he told the Express, “we would fight anybody, any time. No concession was good enough;… Now, I put the issues and constituencies first. I’ll work with anybody, I’ll fight anybody if it will push our issues forward.... I’m willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.”
Pursuing the deep satisfaction of radical ends is the clear sub-text of Jones’ 2007 book, The Green Collar Economy which comes with a Forward by Robert Kennedy Jr. and enthusiastic blurbs from Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore. According to Jones, the Katrina tragedies were caused by global warming, white supremacy, free market economics and the “war for oil” in Iraq. This “perfect storm” of social evils deprived poor blacks of the protection of adequate levees and private vehicles which would have allowed them to escape. The fact that a fleet of public buses was available but the black mayor and the black power structure in New Orleans failed to deploy them go unmentioned in Jones’ indictment of white racism. Instead, “The Katrina story illustrates clearly the two crises we face in the United States: radical socioeconomic inequality and rampant environmental destruction.” To deal with these crises “we will need both political and economic transformation – immediately.”
How did John Podesta and Al Gore and Barack Obama come to be political allies of a far left radical like Van Jones, a 9/11 conspiracy “truther” and a supporter of the Hamas view that the entire state of Israel is “occupied territory?” To answer this question requires an understanding of developments within the political left that have taken place over the last two decades, and in particular the forging of a “popular front” between anti-American radicals and “mainstream liberals” in the Democratic Party.
The collapse of Communism in the early Nineties did not lead to an agonizing reappraisal of its radical agendas among many who had supported it in the West. Instead, its survivors set about creating a new socialist international which would unite “social justice” movements, radical environmental groups, leftwing trade unions, and traditional communist parties – all dedicated to the revival of utopian dreams.
The new political force made its first impression at the end of the decade when it staged global demonstrations against the World Trade Organization and the World Bank. The demonstrations erupted into large-scale violence in Seattle in 2001 when 50,000 Marxists, anarchists and environmental radicals, joined by the giant leftwing unions AFSCME and SEIU, descended on the city, smashed windows and automobiles, and set fire to buildings to protest “globalization” – the world capitalist system.
In the direct aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the anti-globalization forces morphed into what became known as the “anti-war” movement. An already scheduled anti-globalization protest on September 29 was re-redirected (and re-named) to target America’s retaliation against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The new “peace” movement grew to massive proportions in the lead up to the war in Iraq but it never held a single protest against Saddam’s violation of 17 UN arms control resolutions, or his expulsion of the UN arms inspectors. It did, however, mobilize 35 million people in world-wide protests against America’s “imperialist war for oil.” The orchestrators of the demonstrations were the same leaders and the same organizations, the same unions and the same “social justice” groups that had been responsible for the Seattle riots against the World Trade Organization and the international capitalist system.
A second watershed came in the run-up to the 2004 elections when billionaire George Soros decided to integrate the radicals – including their political organization ACORN -- into the structure of Democratic Party politics. Together with a group of like-minded billionaires, Soros created a “Shadow Party” (as Richard Poe and I documented in a book by that name) whose purpose was to shape the outcome of the 2004 presidential race. “America under Bush,” Soros told The Washington Post, “is a danger to the world,…” To achieve his goal, Soros created a galaxy of 527 political organizations headed by leftwing union leaders like SEIU chief Andrew Stern and Clinton operatives like Harold Ickes. As its policy brain he created the Center for American Progress.
Soros failed to achieve his goal in 2004 but he went on working to create new elements of the network, such as the Apollo Alliance. Four years later the Shadow Party was able to elect a candidate who had spent his entire political career in the bowels of this movement. Obama’s electoral success was made possible by the wide latitude he was given by the press and the public, partly because he was the first African-American with a chance to be president and partly because his campaign was deliberately crafted to convey the impression that he was a tax-cutting centrist who intended to bring Americans together to find common solutions to their problems. When confronted with his long-term associations and working partnerships with anti-American racists like Jeremiah Wright and anti-American radicals like William Ayers, he denied the obvious and successfully side-stepped its implications.
Just eight months into his presidency, however, a new Barack Obama has begun to emerge. With unseemly haste Obama has nearly bankrupted the federal government, amassing more debt in eight months than all his predecessors combined. He has appeased America’s enemies abroad and attacked America’s intelligence services at home. He has rushed forward with programs that require sweeping changes in the American economy and is now steamrolling a massive new health-care program that will give the government unprecedented control of its citizens.
Among the hallmarks of this new radical regime the appointment of Van Jones stood out for its blatant departure from political normalcy. In his White House role, the radical Jones would have represented the president in shaping a multi-billion stimulus package, which could easily function as a patronage program of particular interest to his political allies in the “Apollo Alliance,” ACORN and the leftwing unions. In the classic manual for activists on how to achieve their radical goals, Obama’s political mentor Saul Alinsky wrote: “From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.” As the president’s green jobs commissar, Van Jones had entered the trillion-dollar community of the federal government and would soon have been building his radical army. The rest of us should be wondering who his sponsors were within the White House (senior presidential advisor and long-time “progressive” Valerie Jarrett was certainly one). Then we should ask ourselves what they are planning next.
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