National Horror 101
By Eastan McNeal on September 30, 2008 at 11:30 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Education, Education Debt
ALERT! Obama uses Bait and Switch to get college kids into his candy house before he eats them. No. That is not an exaggeration. This is me. Father Eastan. I offer a call to action at the end of this piece. I hope, after reading about this deception, you will consider getting on your horse and riding down main street yelling the BrownShirts are coming – the BrownShirts are coming! Read on. This got me angry.
On Obama’s website there is a line for students:
Recipients of the credit will be required to conduct 100 hours of community service.
Students will think OK. I go to college. When I get out I put in a few hours at ACORN. Cool. But if you download the actual plan you will see the rest of the FULL sentence.
Recipients of the credit will be required to conduct 100 hours of community service a year, either during the school year or over the summer months.
The intention of leaving the last part of the offer off of the web site is to lure the kids in so they will pitch their parents. This type of bait and switch for impressionable young votes is an unconscionable, unforgivable act of deceit and an attack against the wondrous, pure innocence of our nations youth.
In the middle of this bail out crisis I want to temporarily change the subject. As a father who put one kid through college, have one enrolled now, and the third coming close behind, I have been investigating the Obama plans for higher education. It may actually have some loose links to the current economic crisis. You can decide. This, my observation, will be broken down into two parts. Funding – not just funding of the schools, but how I fund the cost of my kids’ education – and Community Service. Let’s start with a statement from Obama’s web site.
Obama on Higher Education
Create the American Opportunity Tax Credit: Obama and Biden will make college affordable for all Americans by creating a new American Opportunity Tax Credit. This universal and fully refundable credit will ensure that the first $4,000 of a college education is completely free for most Americans, and will cover two-thirds the cost of tuition at the average public college or university and make community college tuition completely free for most students. Recipients of the credit will be required to conduct 100 hours of community service a year, either during the school year or over the summer months.
Making good marks in school is important to the quality of opportunities students discover available to them after graduation, so taking time away from studies to work on a voter registration project, or whatever noble service may be offered, is not going to be the option most students select. So an unpaid summer job, that will cost them time, gas and meals, will be the most likely method they choose to repay this annual loan – which is what it really is. It is a time loan.
The real world result will be that the rich kids get to go out during the summer, intern with companies and have yet another advantage as they merge, via the acceleration ramp, onto the employment superhighway, while all those who’s parents needed a tax credit to make up for the existing pure grants that may have to be eliminated to pay for the new credits will be traveling the slim pickings back roads hoping to get a low level job working under their former classmates who got an Obama-made jump start.
Is Obama being honest with the kids? No! On his website the last twelve words
“a year, either during the school year or over the summer months”
are left off. The last sentence of the above paragraph ends thusly:
“Recipients of the credit will be required to conduct 100 hours of community service.”
Go back up and click on the link to his site. I set it up so it will open a new window or tab. You won’t leave here. I also took a snap shot of the site so that, when it is changed, I still have a copy of it. There is no dot dot. On the Obama web site this paragraph ends with a period. Only if the young aspiring students download the detailed plan, using the well tucked away link at the bottom of the page, and read the pdf document carefully will they see the whole truth. They will think that their entire payment will be that they give 100 hours of services, such as cleaning other peoples’ neighborhoods, after they graduate from college. That, of course is the intention of leaving the last part of the offer off of the web site. This type of bait and switch for impressionable young votes is an unconscionable, unforgivable act of deceit and an attack against the wondrous, pure innocence of our nations youth.
Here is the full document on that subject. Well, it is not full. There remains missing in that document what will happen to grants currently made available to students of middle income families as greater emphasis is given to low income applicants:
I am unapologetic for making that distinction above. I am middle income and see very little up side in any plan that has Obama playing with my money.
Obama on Community Service
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” – Barack Obama, Colorado Springs, July 2, 2008.
It may come to no surprise that a Civilian National Security Force (CNSF) like the one Obama suggests can be and have been proposed or implemented in places like Cuba, the Soviet Union, China, Venezuela, North Korea and East Germany. But we live in what is now considered a country that values individual freedom and freedom of choices.
To make this concept even more disturbing, Obama has also called for greater integration between his CNSF and public schools, so that young Americans are better prepared to be active citizens. He said he would make federal assistance conditional on school districts establishing service programs and setting the goal of 50 hours of service a year for middle and high school students.
“Just as we teach math and writing, arts and athletics, we need to teach young Americans to take citizenship seriously,” he said.
This sounds like coerced patriotism for the lower and middle class. Get out there and volunteer for something, kid, or we’ll have to shut down the library and charge you double for your books. Private schools, like the one Obama’s daughters attend will be inherently exempt, of course. His girls will never be forced to take target practice lessons and patrol the borders of Hyde Park, protecting the locals from moderate low information interlopers who may try to climb the gates for a better look onto how the other half lives. You know – like the One who, three years ago entered into a joint real estate business relationship with a convicted Syrian Felon and today is running for the right to conscript your kids into his brown shirt urban army.
In the months and years ahead, with the engineered deconstruction of the economy, a “domestic security force” possibly the size of the U.S. military will be required “to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals,” as Rockefeller functionary Brzezinski might describe it. Kurt Nimmo, Infowars, July 16, 2008
Nimmo’s caption might not be that far fetched. Obama’s top advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, is a close Rockefeller protégé and a Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member. Obama’s wife, Michelle, is a member of the Chicago branch of the CFR. Disgraced former Obama advisor, James A. Johnson, former Fannie Mae CEO and consummate Washington insider, is a member of the American Friends of Bilderberg and the Council on Foreign Relations. Big donors to the Obama campaign basically constitute a who’s who of corporate and Wall Street banking interests, and some believe they would welcome profits even if it meant subduing those of us who may resist an accelerated move toward corporate globalization and a one-world economy.
I am not sure I see such grand planned cooperation between so many powers with the intent of keeping us in our place solely for their wealth appropriation. But I am troubled by Obama’s talk about forced copulation between two fundamental, yet distinct cornerstones of our modern society, education and community service. It is – well – un-American.
I have an All American plan. And, since I do not live in Missouri, I might be able to pull it off. Free Speech. I tried this on my son and he is ready to march, for his freedom, straight to the polling place and vote for anyone except Obama. Good boy. Smart boy. My plan? And, by the way, you can do this too. It sure beats sobbing over our keyboards.
Two-fold. First I am going to finance the printing of some simple flyers explaining the Obama Tax Credit to Servitude Shell Game and get them to college republicans in my state to distribute around campus. For that I will likely be accused of attempted voter suppression because I will be told that the only thing that could possibly be the result of such action would be the freezing of the youth vote. Nobody would ever believe the students will actually vote for someone other than Obama. I’m willing to take that heat.
Second, I am going to take a few bucks and buy some radio spots, where allowed, at the student run radio station at the university he attends. The language of the spot will be something like this.
If the wrong president is elected he will expect you to perform community service each summer to pay back the tax credits your parents took for sending you to school. While affluent students spend their summers interning in their major, the rest of you will be in soup kitchens, cleaning roadsides or registering voters – for no pay. Visit eCivic.org to learn more. Your urgent attention is needed to spread the word. Do it now.
If anyone has any ideas for composing the radio script or the flyer please add your ideas in a comment here or compose it and email it to EastanMcNeal@yahoo.com I will work on layout for the flyer and provide original music for the radio ad, and we can share master copies to send out en masse.
The website will, of course, be focused around the Obama plan and why they should not even think about letting him drive them into involuntary service – The Obama Draft.
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Eastan:
Thanks for the article—I think!
Scary stuff!
Very Scary.
The more I see of this election cycle, the more i see this comin true.
Obama has called our Constitution and way of life an “Experiment”. As if it were a temporary system that could be ended without notice.
I do not know about you, but I can’t conform. My natural state of being is to resist any pressure to adopt the latest fad much less sing praises to a dictator.
I love this country and it’s freedoms. I know the history that brought those freedome to us, and preserved them for over 200 years.
And, I also know the history and nature of men and civilization that makes these freedoms so fragile.
Woe unto us. We need to be vigilent always. The threats to our freedom do not always come from the outside. The most serious threats are always from within.
If it was only the executive branch and Obambi we had to worry about it wouldn’t scare me. But Obambi would controll the executive branch and Pelositysaurus and Reid have controll of the legislative branch. The lower judicial branch I am certain they have covered (Ninth Circuit Court for one). That means they can pretty much do as they wish. Remember the Supreme Court cannot do anything unless a case is brought in lower courts and wends it’s way through the system and is then filed with the SCOTUS. By then it would be too late to stop them!!!!
FASCIST IS AS FASCIST DOES
Sorry to be so OT so early in this blog, but this AM I saw on the news in Ohio they are allowing 6 days (starting today) to register and vote (absentee) on the same day. This is targeted at college students. College students in Columbus were sleeping in tents so they could register and vote early so they could be part of being the first to vote for Obama in Ohio. Republicans are asking their voters to vote early for MCCain to counter balance the effect of this early voting for him.
To be honest though I don’t think it’s going to change the fact that OH will still go to McCain. Regardless how many college kids vote early for Obama they’re not the largest demographic in the state or the country..thank God!
Ken Blackwell on Fox today talking about the potential of voter fraud from this said that none of these votes will count until they have been verified. They are on to ACORN. He’s the guy in Ohio who was accused of delivering the 2004 Ohio vote for Bush. I don’t know if he did or not. But I think Republicans have been pretty diligent in removing bogus names. Remember in FL all those people who weren’t allowed to vote because they were listed as felons? I think they are already in trouble in 4 or 5 states for voter fraud so I believe and hope that diligence will be high.
As Michelle Obama said: “Barack will make you work! (agitating against banks to give loans to people who can’t afford them and registering votes for the Obama Party – the Democratic Party is dead),
You should add a section about Michelle’s group “Public Allies” – I do believe that this is where they want to funnel all of these Obama youth.
I do think the outrage of Americans against the bailout will make Obama see that he can’t possibly implement his big spending programs.
Of course, Republicans had no objections whatsoever to letting George W. Bush set up the Faith BAsed Initiative and hand out billions of tax dollars to televangelists and fundie churches.
You’re right. Just like the bailout, this is just designed to give free workers to bolster ACORN.
ACORN
http://www.justsaynodeal.com/acorn.html
Fallow the dots………
Can everyone say, “Sieg Heil”? Or how about this one: “Arbeit Macht Frei!”
…and the will all be whistling the Horst-Wessel lied!
Obama is the most corrupt and deceitful politician I have ever seen. That is saying a lot since I believe most (not all) politicians are corrupt. I personally believe we need term limits to congress. Because we the people keep re-electing these do nothing congresssmen and woman who don’t give a damn about us. But as for Obama I will always stand by my statement above.
Nancy Peloony is furious that her political move failed. She wanted this ‘yes’ vote from the republicans, not from the democrats, so that later they could say the democrats voted against it.
Apparently we DO need free health care in this country so that Nancy Peloony can get some medication to help her brain function. She looked like a totally wild woman on the brink of collapse.
I got an e-mail this morning from the Obama camp begging for donations and stating that they are trying to organize their ground forces for the early voting in OH. Sounded downright desperate. I hope that’s true.
I’m to the point where I think everyone in D. C is corrupt except Hillary and McCain, and then most of the people around them are corrupt.
They are desperate for the “early” votes to be cast before October surprises could should people away from the Obamessiah.
fox news just reported that early voting in ohio is light, at best.
These children don’t even realize that their chance for growth will be removed from them in a socialist society. Fools. Only the very young and inwise would fall for this nonsense. Or the very lazy.
Uppity. I want to meet you. EastonMcNeal@yahoo.com
You write some really hot stuff, and your observation here is right on.
Stand in line Easton! We all want to meet uppity. She’s too good to be true,
Socialist society? What you describe is actually a totalitarian society. Hitler’s Germany was Facist, the USSR was totalitarian. Nothing to do with socialism at all. Scandinavia is socialist to varying degrees and they are the top 5 best democracies in the world.
I just want America to be America. I don’t think we need to change. I’m happy the way we are!
Can we refrain from capitalizing fascist as the capital version refers to Italian fascism which had very little in common with Nazi Germany.
At least that’s how my dictionary reads.
Wow. Great article. Very sobering! Individual freedoms will be going, going, gone with the Chicago Thug in the lead.
It could change America from a country people are trying to get into to one where people are trying to get out.
I read No Quarter every morning before I leave for my appointments for the day and out of all of the times I have done so this article has affected me the most.
I am done with the Democratic party. Done. That one quote gives the impression that were incompetent. That quote gives the impression that we are all part of the “failed administration of the last 8 years and should be replaced”.
Is he attempting to state that we have failed to keep out country safe? That we have failed in on our mission? What “national security objectives that have been set where we dropped the ball? This is like a slap in the face. So what happens to us when he gains office now that the Democratic party has basicly stated we are no longer needed? We have law enforcement agencies already so what exactly is this “civilian force” that needs to be stronger than our current military and just as strongly funded? No one is going to fight on behalf of us if the Dems win if they are already plotting how to replace us.
I honestly do not know what the future will holds. It used to be worrying about medical treatment and my current medical board I am going through but the more these people talk it seems I may have more to think about.
This plan for a civilian military goes against EVERYTHING I believe in. They need to go and stroll through the halls of Walter Reed and tell them that they see that they haven’t achieved there “national security objectives”. Go to Landstuhl and visit those there and tell them we haven’t achieved our goal. I am disgusted and pissed off. People have sacrificed so many things and not once, not once can Obama open his mouth and say one good goddamn thing we have done. I am tired of reading this type of shit. We volunteer for this. The same way people make the choice to become police officers, firefighters etc etc. I am tired of people looking the other way and letting this shit fly.
Soldier
You are so right on.
My brother-in-law is an Air Force vet like me. He is republican. My wife is old democrat. My kids are mostly independent in their voting, as am I.
I do not see my choice to reject Obama as anything other than me exercising my right to be a citizen who has an opinion and feelings.
One feeling I have is don’t mess with my kids. One opinion I have is I am not ashamed of my opinion.
Thanks for piping in. I always like your stuff.
What “national security objectives that have been set where we dropped the ball?
That must sting like a slap in the face to all that serve.
What a DumbAss he is, Sargent…
If I could, I would apologize for him, but my principles keep me from doing so, I hope you accept my sentiment though.
This is why all those NRA members fight to keep their 2nd amendment rights. The average person in the street wants his guns to protect himself from the government militias. This is exactly what they are talking about.
As my wing-nut friends say, “get your guns while you can.” Anyone laughing?
Soldier: I think this would be an army loyal only to The One rather than America. You see how hypnotized his followers are…and the little kids singing to his glory…he already has Obama camp for training his workers. This is the next step.
I noted that also. The old line about “they volunteered” is nonsense for the most part– our military did not volunteer to have the lives or their honor sacrificed to serve some self-aggrandizing ego trip by either Bush or Obama. Our military has a mission and that is to protect us from harm. To imply that a bunch of college kids shouting slogans with voter registration papers can protect us from terrorists with bombs– well, it is beyond ridiculous and you are exactly right it is insulting to you, the soldier, and to me, the soldiers dad.
What is a civilian military? Is it going to be millions of “Obama Truth Squad” civilians? Will they be armed?? Is it like an Obama gestapo? Real brownshirts maybe. There will be “informers” maybe, many oppressed countries have informers…even normal grocery store clerks and taxi drivers, etc work undercover. Or will there be Obama sentinels standing guard in our cities? On our blocks? Throw all this in with Obama’s FISA vote. Then watch the internet turn pristine with only Obama love if he wins. Watch traffic cameras multiply…big brother style. Google tracks everything we do and they support Obama…just think–total dossiers could be put together just based on our internet activity.
UGH…then how about banning guns, so there is no way that American citizens can revolt.
I want a reporter to have an in depth interview with Obama ONLY ON the topic of “change” and “changing America.” Can’t someone get the details, and not just rhetoric?
My nephew in Florida told me about Obama’s college credit crap.. I asked him so what do you have to do for this credit crap. He said ” NOTHING”. I will email this story to his dad. A McCain supporter. His dad is not happy his son is an Obama supporter. This should go over big at the family dinner table.
My son Jed is a senior in HS, and wouldnt vote for Obama even if he could vote. In his group at school,he is only one of a handfull of kids who doesnt support Obama. He has been called racist quite a few times. His answer is ” And your point is”.
My two college student sons won’t vote for Obama for anything. And we live in a latte’ liberal Seattle suburb.
I hope we vote our turncoat Democrat governor out, too. I believe she was voted in because most women thought she was a strong, smart, qualified female. But when she had the chance to support a strong, smart, qualified female for President she instead used poor judgment and endorsed the inexperienced newbie male instead.
I was really mad about that too. The only excuse I can think of for Gregoire is that WA (officially anyway – I know the caucuses were bs) went for Obama, and she was going with the person who won the state. that’s different from Byrd in VA, etc, where the population went for Hillary and the “leadership” disrgarded it.
Gregoire came out for O before the caucuses I think. I am really disappointed in her for that, so much so, that I doubt that I’ll be voting for her this time. I don’t like Rossi at all, so I will either vote 3rd party or leave the governorship vote blank.
WELCOME to the USSA. Where you can take pride and delight in working for the glorious Party, commrades. The f-n dems are finally trying to get it done, to seat the first socialist dictater in the White House. Well I don’t know about the south rising again, but something is looming on the horizon and it’s not the Indians like in Custers last stand. They were the True Americans fighting for THEIR LAND. Think I will change from Irish to Indian.
Okay, I know I’m being dense here. Why is this so bad? If your a student the only time you’ll be able to work community service is during the school year or the summer. Please understand, there are many reasons I dislike Obama. This just doesn’t seem as big a deal to me as say – caucus fraud.
Kids of rich parents go to interships during the summer.
Kids of middle class families, got to the Obama camps.
The Rich kids have an advantage.
I donate thousands each year to funds that send kids to higher education. I do not ask for anything in return.
The Obama plan goes against all I believe in.
I won’t say much more until you explain your question better.
Hillarys’ plan – as a contrast was that if you became a fireman, policeman or teacher that our college expenses would be paid (or there would be some tax credit, exemption at the very least)
The biggest problem I see in this is one that no one has touched on yet. Honest, honorable kids would find themselves doing 100 hours of community service a year for their college education, struggling to meet that requirement while maintaining part time jobs and a full class schedule. But you can bet just as I know happened when welfare benefits in Ohio started requiring volunteer work. The ones who know the right people will just have it signed off without ever doing a damn thing. Then there will also always be the unscrupulous people who would take advantage of the “volunteers” and coerce them into putting in extra time or shifting the time for the volunteer work so they could have volunteers doing work that would normally be performed by salaried employees. Obama’s plan in the end would end up being a form of limited indentured servitude for the honest kids, and a joke among the worst and least deserving.
My daughter is in college (2nd one coming up next year, 3rd one 2 years after that). Luckily my older daughter goes to a public university and the cost isn’t too bad, but my younger 2 have their eyes on private universities, and there is no way after grants and financial aid that my husband and I can afford this. My daughters each started working at 15 years old, to help out saving for college, and to help pay for the cars and insurance. They work during the school year (limited hours), and they work pretty much full time during the summer. If they had to do community service during their college career, it would have a deep financial impact.
My daughter works at least 25 hours a week during the school year, more in summer, while still maintaining a 3.7. THIS IS HER #1 JOB. If this were implemented, we would have to opt out.
everyone– save yourself some tuition money and send your kids to a community college, then let them transfer the credits. Irregardless of various prejudices I guarantee you that in most cases they will get an equal if not better education. (Which English class [or History or whatever] is better for the student: the one with 200 students taught by a graduate assistant or an ill-tempered tenured professor who had rather be consulting or the one taught by a qualified instructor with 10-30 students in the class?)
Scary stuff! I am glad my children are already working for a living but I wonder if Obama will find a way to get to them too at their place of work. He has my 25 year old son and his girlfriend. He won’t listen to my voice of reason. He was visibly upset that his parents are supporting McCain/Palin. Too bad for him. Our daughter who is a lesbian understands that Obama is no fan to her community so she is voting McCain/Palin. And so many around us are doing the same because they realize Obama is a scary dude…..and they know what he is about….stomping on our rights!
Starship Troopers….ala Robert Heinlein….”Service means Citizenship”
Damn Brain Bugs.
Paying taxes means patriotic! In the words of my man-McCain, “Pah-leeze”!
We’ve already got a bit of “Service means Citizenship” program going:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/immigrationnaturalizatio/a/milcitizens.htm
I don’t see anything wrong with educational tax credits in return for community service. It’s not like it’s mandatory; it’s an alternative. Kids not fortunate enough to have wealthy families would still would still have the option of working part-time during the school year or finding summer jobs on their own, if they don’t like the community service option. Chances are that the tax credit program would make more such jobs available.
It’s easy to mischaracterize a Civilian National Security Force. I remember when we had a high-profile Civil Defense. It seemed useful and entirely American at the time. It wasn’t political. It was patriotic.
There’s already an effort underway to get us back to that sort of civil involvement. My take on Obama is that he’d like to take it further.
http://www.citizencorps.gov/
Obama is way ahead, folks.
You promised us an October Surprise.
I did a little research. Willie Horton ads came out in mid-September.
Swift Boat started in August.
October Surprises never happen in October, but before the election.
I beginning to give up hope. There is no October Surprise is there? You’re all as deluded as the Obamabots who drank the Koolaid.
It’s hopeless isn’t it?
Maybe they’re waiting till Friday in case Sarah Palin doesn’t do as well as they hope in the debate they’ll have something to change the news.
NeedProof’s Day Planner:
( two weeks after he stopped taking his lithium )
Behold, He is Risen.
( cue the trumpets )
Behold, He casts his filthy sheets upon the basement floor. For does his Mommy not pick up after him?
And he attends unceasing labours. This channel hath HDTV. That channel hath not.
And he poppeth his zits.
And his pudgy hands fall perforce upon his trembling instrument
Of typing. (His keyboard, knave.) And it was good.
Ye though he typeth in his blog, be there no-one who has listened, has he truly bloviated?
There among the stinking heaps of unwashed skivvies he doth rage against McCain and Clinton.
Dare the world not quake before his mighty spewing?
Doth only his Mommy know for sure?
Damn you are funny!
Yep sure McCain and the GOP are going to roll over like good little doggies, get up, [DELETED] then let him waltz into the Whitehouse without a fight. We can all go home now. Also sprach Trollathustra!
Michelle Malkin
A debate “moderator” in the tank for Obama
By Michelle Malkin • September 30, 2008 10:13 PM
My first syndicated column of the week, filed this afternoon, shines light on PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, who will moderate Thursday’s only vice presidential debate. Try as she might to deflect questions about her impartiality, her biases — and her conflict of interest — are clear. But don’t you dare breathe a word about any of this. You know what will happen if you do…
RACIST!
Sidenote: TVNewser reports that Ifill has broken her ankle, but she’s still going to do the debate. But will she disclose her conflict of interest? Inquiring minds want to know.
Ask the Commission on Presidential Debates if she will acknowledge her conflict of interest: 202-872-1020.
And here’s the e-mail address of Janet H. Brown, Executive Director of the Debates Commission: jb@debates.org
Hopefully, their email system works better than the House.
Tons of readers recommend that Sarah Palin open her debate remarks by congratulating Ifill on her book and asking her to tell everyone the title.
Gwen Ifill’s book: The Breakthrough: Politics in the Age of Obama
No, certainly no conflict of interest there.
Email this:
I just emailed it.
Sodom and Gomorrah
With the news stating that Ifill was written this book about ‘the Obama era’ I certainly can understand what Lot felt about Sodom. I ask myself similar questions. Is there one journalist in our country that is not corrupted? Is there one person that can resist the temptation of acting unethically? Dosen’t Ms. Ifill know among the many words that she knows the words ‘recuse,’ ‘conflict of interest,’ ‘decency,’ ‘appropriateness,’ ‘unfair.’
I myself have no words to describe the felling of helplessness I feel in seeing that those that favor Obama have very little interest in fairness, decency and honor. This person is a dishonorable human being. She has disrespected the members of our country that think of honor as something desirable and necessary. She has disrespected the United States of America the same way as Rev. Jeremiah Wright has disrespected our country. These people are beyond contempt.
I have to demand that this person ‘recuse’ itself and a moderator known for ‘objectivity’ and ‘impartiality’ does the honor of moderating that event.
Done. Pass this on to all the blogs.
The moderators are agreed to by both the McCain and Obama campaigns. As are the rules that govern the debates. There is no conspiracy here.
thank you for the indepth research, eastan. Civilian National Security Force. IF obama is pres, maybe in a years time, those who dont like him will be taken to the obama re-education camps. A little brain-washing and reprogramming, I suspect. buy your guns before election day, folks. you may need them.
Benny
My kids are already programmed. They believe in themselves. Trust me. I try to get them to listen to me.
I do not think they will listen to the Barky telling them to embrace socialism.
At least I hope that to be true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5P_TFqUegU
No further comment needed….
I do not think I have ever cursed on here, without Susan stopping me. But, WTF!?
Where did you find that video? Was that Axelrod at the black board?
Goodbye Pledge of Allegiance,
Hello Pledge of Obama.
I am sending this to FOX; they played snippets of the BO children’s video yesterday. I would like to see these both juxtaposed, for maximum effect. (This is what I proposed yesterday, so that the parents of these children might see things in their proper perspective.)
Obama will resign before the second debate and Hillary will step in and become President ‘08. If Hillary wants to be president, then she will be president. Hillary believes “the end justify the means”, so I expected her to do everything possible to get into office. The reason I think Hillary will be great a president is because she has a lot of “dirt” on these politicians. She will be able to get her way… Lucky for us, she really do care about people and will do what is best for our country…even if, it requires some blackmail and a little bit of corruption.
Dream on man..i wish
I don’t agree with going too far with the ends justify the means. But that is not my main point. What pal3 is saying makes no sense. If she had such dirt and was willing to use it she would have already done so during the primary fight. pal3’s conspiracy theory makes no sense logically.
Timing is everything…
That was my point. It is bad timing to wait until October. Much riskier plan therefor your theory is not logical in my opinion.
Yeah, if she had dirt she should have used it in the primaries. Hmmm, me thinks it’s Just wishful thinking
I really do not like the fact we have to rely on the GOP here. Lesser of two evils and McCain being the devil that we know I guess. Damn I miss Hillary.
Mee too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2IECzSCuWQ
Timing is everything…
I totally agree, timing is everything in social engineering. But for Hillary to come in now would be like Indiana Jones timing. Not really a strategy unless she had advance knowledge of something that could stop Obomanus in his tracks, how to deploy that event at just the right moment, and why she would be the one to fill in. We might assume she has a good knowledge of economics and could foresee the meltdown, this would make her an attractive candidate, but how could she know that it would all go down the way it is? Too many ifs.
Another place to complain about the biased “moderator” for the VP Debate:
Janet H. Brown
Executive Director of the Debates Commission
Her email address:
jb@debates.org
Good article Eastan.
The civilian national security force Obama proposed in July 08 has gotten no play from the mainstream media and i doubt it will. Hopefully web information like this article will filter through.
Off topic – Obama trying to run with the FDIC cap increase issue – he is lying and fraudulent!
Take a read and spread it around, could be a story. Senate is trying to steal the idea too ….
http://centristnetblog.com/daily-news/fdic-moves-obama-claims-credit/
for a laugh……….I’ve got a hyper religious friend. she swears that obama is the antichrist. always used to laugh at that. now that I see all the crazy changes obama wants to bring, I’m getting a little suspicious. wanna check for the 666. lol rofl
benny he is the Antichrist, per se. I believe the bible prophecy is a warning not about some deity with horns, a goatee and a pitch fork, but a warning about future evildoers like Hitler, Stalin and Obama. In other words a generic warning in the myth-based language of the day since they had little science. As I have said before here Obama is the embodiment of pure evil. Evil in the sense of the worst humanity has to offer. I see no reason to drag in the unseen and unprovable spiritual to understand who Obama is.
Benny: Down in the Bible Belt where I live, this meme on Obama = Antichrist is repeated endlessly with a straight face.
Not sure which is worse: Obama = God or Obama = Antichrist.
Both slants give me the creeps!
I got this email yesterday, cracked me up!
John McCain, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama all die and go to heaven.
God looks down from his throne and asks McCain, “Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?”
McCain takes a breath and then replies, “Well, I think so because I was a great leader and tried to follow the words in your great book.”
God looks down and then says, “You can sit to my left side.”
So, McCain takes his seat and then God asks the same question to Hillary, “Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?”
Hillary thinks for a second and then replies, “I think so because I have been fighting for the rights of so many people for so long.”
God again looks down and this time says, “You can sit to my right side.”
Finally God turns to Barack Obama and asks, “Do you think you deserve to be in heaven?”
Obama smiled and replied, “I think you’re in my seat.” -
Ouch!
ROTFLMAO!!!
I think they call this indentured servitude.
That is exactly what it is.
I remember hearing about this community service idea awhile back. The thing that struck me at the time was the idea of requiring high school students to do ‘community work’. First of all, when my child (now grown) was in school, I felt that the public school spent too much time teaching values and not enough teaching academics. I felt it was my job as a parent to teach values and their job to teach subject matter. It all felt backwards.
I happen to believe in volunteer work. But some people, some students, have to work to earn money. Besides, where and how you give of yourself should be up to the individual.
I thought – Oh, Obama thought that volunteer work is such a good thing that he wants to make it MANDATORY!
(Like he spent his youth doing volunteer work – not.)
It really bothered me because, as a teen, I did a LOT of volunteer work. It would have demeaned what I did if I had been forced to do it.
WARNING: MAY INDUCE MORE NAUSEA:
From The Obama Website:
Welcome to Kids for Obama:
Check out the Kids for Obama
Starter Kit!
Below you will find a list of activities children 12 and under can do to get involved. To start, print out our Logo Coloring Sheet, color it in and display at your house or in your school.
10 Ways Kids for Obama can get involved:
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reate a Kids for Obama Group on My.Barackobama.com. For example, Chicago Kids for Obama or DC Kids for Obama and throw a party!
Write a letter or editorial to your local news paper, expressing “Why Barack Obama should become the next US President”.
Find a Pen Pal – it could be in your school, city, state, or another state.
Write and discuss different ways you can get involved.
Draw a picture of Senator Barack Obama or “an expression of Democracy”. For example, the Senator sitting in the White House or working on Capitol. Hill. You can send your drawing to the Obama for America Campaign Headquarters in Chicago and it will be posted for the Senator to see.
Implement T-Shirt Thursday.
Get friends to wear an official Obama for America T-Shirt to school.
Take an adult (voting age) to the polls on Election Day and encourage them to vote for you, by voting for Senator Obama.
Post an official Obama for America Campaign sticker/logo on your school bag.
Wear an Obama for America Campaign button and/or clothing.
Host a Senator Barack Obama House Party or sleep-over.
Contribute to the Kids for Obama Blog
That is so creepy!
You know the originaly vomit inducing YouTube had been pulled, or at least made private. You can only view it by invitation.
But, all is not lost. People don’t waste time on the internet in an election year.
There is one video that has the original video with different music. There is another that has the Mr. Obama Rogers meets Sesame Street music but has a different video.
You can listen to both to imagine what the original was like:
Original Video-new music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLek3CMsTpg&feature=related
Original Audio-new video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVd-IPJIxA4&NR=1
Draw a picture of Obama working in the Senate….
Bwaa Haaaa ha ha ha.
Kids have to draw that picture, there is certainly no photographic evidence to support his ever working a day in his life, with the exception of his working to make it possible for his dear friends to commit crimes!
Sounds like Children of the Corn. They will do anything for their master.
no open thread so i’m posting here. Gwen Ilfil, the moderator for the VP debate is writing a book about Obama that she expects to publish on inaugaration day. If you think she is biased or there is an appearance of bias, Contact the Debate Commision and demand she recuse herself! (202) 872-1020
ELECTION 2008
VP debate moderator Ifill releasing pro-Obama book
Focuses on blacks who are ‘forging a bold new path to political power’
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Posted: September 30, 2008
8:35 pm Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
Gwen Ifill
The moderator of Thursday’s vice-presidential debate is writing a book to come out about the time the next president takes the oath of office that aims to “shed new light” on Democratic candidate Barack Obama and other “emerging young African American politicians” who are “forging a bold new path to political power.”
Gwen Ifill of the Public Broadcasting Service program “Washington Week” is promoting “The Breakthrough,” in which she argues the “black political structure” of the civil rights movement is giving way to men and women who have benefited from the struggles over racial equality.
Ifill declined to return a WND telephone message asking for a comment about her book project and whether its success would be expected should Obama lose. But she has faced criticism previously for not treating candidates of both major parties the same.
During a vice-presidential candidate debate she moderated in 2004 – when Democrat John Edwards attacked Republican Dick Cheney’s former employer, Halliburton – the vice president said, “I can respond, Gwen, but it’s going to take more than 30 seconds.”
“Well, that’s all you’ve got,” she told Cheney.
Ifill told the Associated Press Democrats were delighted with her answer, because they “thought I was being snippy to Cheney.” She explained that wasn’t her intent.
But she also was cited in complaints PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler said he received after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivered her nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., earlier this month.
Some viewers complained of a “dismissive” look by Ifill during her report on Palin’s speech. According to Getler, some also said she wore a look of “disgust” while reporting on the Republican candidate.
At that time she said, “I assume there will always be critics and just shut out the noise. It is surprisingly easy.”
Ifill, who also works with her network’s “NewsHour,” is making preparations to moderate this week’s debate between the two candidates for vice president, Palin and Democratic Sen. Joe Biden.. She told BlackAmericaWeb.com she thinks debates “are the best opportunity most voters have to see the candidates speaking to issues.”
She said she is concerned only about getting straight answers from candidates.
“You do your best to get candidates to answer your question. But I also trust the viewers to understand when questions are not answered and reach their own conclusions,” Ifill told BlackAmericaWeb.
“Four years ago, when neither John Edwards nor Dick Cheney proved capable of answering a question about the domestic epidemic of AIDS among African-American women, viewers flooded me with reaction,” she said.
She said she will make her own decisions about what questions to ask, adding “the big questions matter.”
In the Amazon.com promotion for her book, Ifill is described as “drawing on interviews with power brokers,” such as Obama and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
In an online video promoting her book, she is enthusiastic about “taking the story of Barack Obama and extending it.”
It focuses on four people, “one of them Barack Obama of course,” she said.
“They are changing our politics and changing our nation,” she said.
On Amazon.com, Ifill is praised for her “incisive, detailed profiles of such prominent leaders as Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, and U.S. Congressman Artur Davis of Alabama.”
“Ifill shows why this is a pivotal moment in American history,” the review says.
She told AP her view of Obama: “I still don’t know if he’ll be a good president.”
She also describes how she met him at the 2004 Democratic convention and since then has interviewed the Illinois senator and his family.
She also boasted that by the time of the debate, “I’ll be a complete expert on both” Palin and Biden.
The debate will be held at Washington University in St. Louis, which has posted information about the evening’s events online.
Ifill’s profile there describes her as a longtime correspondent and moderator for national news programs and includes her service as moderator of the 2004 debate between Edwards and Cheney.
However, there’s no mention of her upcoming book. Nor does the website for the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is organizing the meetings of the candidates, mention her book.
Ask the Commission on Presidential Debates if she will acknowledge her conflict of interest: Telephone 202-872-1020.
E-mail address for Janet H. Brown, Executive Director of the Debates Commission: jb@debates.org
got it from the blog:
http://mcnorman.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/ms-ifill-is-full-of-obama/
All you have to do is listen to her tone while she describes Palin at the RNC. She is so in the tank.
During the Republican National Convention, the PBS ombudsman fielded numerous complaints about Ifill’s coverage of Sarah Palin’s speech. Wrote Brian Meyers of Granby, Ct.:
“I was appalled by Gwen Ifill’s commentary directly following Gov. Sarah Palin’s speech. Her attitude was dismissive and the look on her face was one of disgust. Clearly, she was agitated by what most critics view as a well-delivered speech. It is quite obvious that Ms. Ifill supports Obama as she struggled to say anything redemptive about Gov. Palin’s performance. I am disappointed in Ms. Ifill’s complete disregard for journalistic objectivity.”
Here’s the U-Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLKVzEb2ncI&feature=email
Oh my gosh. I’m going to take my grandchildren camping again this weekend. Pretty soon I’m going to move to the wilderness just to get away from this madness, to try and keep what little bit of sanity I have left. I honestly do not understand what has gone on this past year, it’s one thing after the other. I can analyze/make excuses till I’m blue in the face. It’s unreal. I feel like I’m watching some bad B rated movie. I keep wondering where’s the tomatoes? It hasn’t always been like this the Clinton years were good. We’ve got to do something about Pelosi, Reid, and Dean this whole thing is nothing but chaos. Are these people really out to totally destroy this country? Who is Obama?
Mao made his people work in the fields and Stalin made his people work in the factories. Personal strengths, interests, and desires were irrelevant. I am sickened to learn of Obama’s plans to rob us of our liberty-and saddened to see the masses rush to him, so willing to submit to this tyranny.
Servility is the ugliest of human faces.
After achieving hegemony, Mao wouldn’t visit a province until they built him a palace. So he ended up with a private palace in every province. Complete corruption seems to be the natural end of every political system.
Mock me all you want. We’re way behind and you throw around old rumors that have been around since February with no effect. You act like a few posts on ACORN or Ayers will change a single voter over to McCain. Meanwhile, we’re behin 6 to 8 with no game changer in site. Intrade has Obama up 2 to 1 over McCain.
Look back at the stats. No presidential candidate, NONE, have come back from odds like this. Kerry was down in October. Gore was down. Dole was WAY down. Bush was down. Dukakis was down.
If you’re down now, you’re out. If you’re down this far, this would have to be the biggest come back in recent history.
And what do you have going for you exactly?
Uh….Bradley effect? Just kidding, lets wait and see how the debate goes before we start to worry.
An air-headed opposition.
State by state numbers are more important and lets face it Obama always did better in the polls than he did in the ACTUAL VOTES.
And lets not forget Rezko is getting ready to squeal like a pig!
Maybe pay to play corrupt land deal????
Wrong, Soldier posted this link the other day. This is NOV 1st 2004. Between Kerry and Bush. Look at those blue states, now go look at Obama’s. This map is twice as blue as Obama’s. On Nov 1 Kerry had 67 more electoral votes than Bush. 298 to 231. Who is it who is president again?
http://tinyurl.com/4z35qh
Above you said there is no such thing as an October surprise you’ve been looking. One google search on October Surprise you get this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise
Those ads “Begin” in mid september, they always save the best for “Last” Mid Oct.
Obama supporters think there is no tape. Obama is already trying to silence ads. The mere fact that they released the Wright tapes in the primaries lets you know they considered that lightweight stuff. They were toying with Obama, this is nothing buddy. Look what it did to Obama he lost 8 of the last 13 states after it’s release.
What could they possibly be holding onto if they considered the Wright tapes to be a lightweight goodie of what is to come? There is always an October Surprise that they save till the last minute because they want it to be fresh on a voters mind.
I’d say the best timing for a bombshell will be as late as Halloween. Just a few days before the election gives enough time to get the information out but not enough time to develop a really good counter.
Hey F03, where’s all the goodies on Obama you kept talking about?????
this stuff isn’t going to change any minds…preaching to the choir….
where’s the surprises?
thanks!
Go back to bed. Cue the organist for the death scene.
Ah. And now it is clear. Camille is a Bot in drag.
the rat queen is here-things must be slow over in her neck of the woods.
what, no blogging for sex toys last night?
i am with need proof
if there is nothing, no biggies, just say so
this stuff does not reach the vast masses of the voting public
i don’t even know why we bother.
camille am with need grammar lessons.
Touché
This is both troubling and inappropriately funny at the same time. My boyfriend’s father was made to join Hitler Youth in his native Germany. He told stories about how towards the end of the war and under the veil of heroic service , young teenage boys were recruited to become soldiers. Obama’s proposal of essentially forced, national service for students is reminiscent of Maoist China, Stalinist Russia, and of course Germany under Hitler’s rule.
In all three cases, the Cult of Personality lend itself to supposed, popular engagement in the government and society. But in fact it encourages a mob mentality that suppresses opinions. Children were indoctrinated at a young age to respect Dear Leader first and foremost, ahead of their families. Thus you had youths denouncing their parents in public for not towing the party line or not being patriotic enough.
I heard the much vaunted (by the left) Obama song tonight on a radio talk show, and it made me want to drive off the Golden Gate Bridge. Yuck, that was child abuse, making that kid sing tuneless, grating, propaganda songs for Dear Leader. I wonder if kids will be singing when they find out they would have to forego summer vacations in order to do “community service”.
Yep, and they’ll be digging graves for their parent’s generation’s old fashioned values.
Hugh Hewitt at 5:05 PM
I will air an interview with the governor at the top of the first hour and repeat it in the third hour.
HH: Do you think the mainstream media and the left understands your religious faith, Governor Palin?
SP: I think that there’s a lot of mocking of my personal faith, and my personal faith is very, very simple. I don’t belong to any church.
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog
Ok, at what point do you admit the whitey video does not exist?
Why would you sit on that kind of bombshell this late in the game?
Will you ever just tell us that it does not exist?
I actually heard this tape and saw it on YouTube several months ago. The video just had a still photo of Michele and Louis Farrakan’s wife among other AfAm women.
I do not recall the name of the video and its probably been flagged and taken down by YouTube.
But, it is on my hard drive.
MG – PUMA
What about contacting all University radio stations and submitting your information. Even their newspapers. Kids are more worried about their grades and also fitting in. They would never read the fine print. In fact, many adults overlook the fine print as well. Scarry… but true.
it’s not just the whitey tape…
there are certain people who hint about surprises, and i guess if they are really surprises, sure, we would not know about them.
but the drip drip drip gets to be a little much….
the teasing, the sense of power…i just wish we could get a little more information if it really exists. i have my doubts.
I’ll tell you a secret…shhh…They’re releasing it right before the VP debate.
I was a donor to Hillary. I believed that there was no way Obama could win and we’d see Hillary ‘12.
I really feel duped.
All of this was a ploy for web traffic.
Right, and I was a “donor” for Obama
some people won’t get the thrill of teasing us about all this for another 8 years, so i guess they need to do it now
I donated the $200 I couldn’t afford. Believe what you want.
I will…and it’s not you.
If Hillary and Bill truly love our nation. They will stand up and tell the truth about this racist, anti-semite, anti-American.
I agree; and I wonder whether they realize how strongly many of us share these sentiments.
What’s you problem, Camille? Go back to your bitter blog and leave FO3 and the grown-ups alone.
I stand tall, fold forward at the waist and say.. Thank You.
Unlike some sites, here everyone is welcome. I did find it odd that she would come in here late at night and spew, spittle and spit.
This pseudo journalist person, Gwen Ifill has absolutely Zero morals, and zero sense of civility and citizenship when her intention is to release a book about Obama and political punditry on the day of the presidential elections. Zero, Nada. No decency or conscience.
I recommend her to knock on Michelle’s door and offer herself to pleasure Barack in his house. I see nothing worse by that than everything else she is doing.
Terrific post, Easten. I especially like this part:
OK…let’s get real…in a hypothetical civil war between the latte sipping elite liberals and the rednecks of America, who do you think will win?
Hmmm…radical liberals…who hate war and faint at the sight of blood…
Rednecks…lifelong NRA members…hunters…military people…
I think if that civil war ever happens, I will throw away my latte and join the rednecks. Seriously.
Problem is that the latte faction will have the army, police and all government agencies behind them. They don’t give a hoot about some rednecks with guns in the rural areas of Montana or other sparsly populated areas in the US.
Yeah, but who joins the army? Patriotic conservatives who sure aren’t going to let America fall to communism from within.
From what I have read about our history, it was the red neck militia that helped win our independence.
What makes you think all the “rednecks” would side with fat-cat republicans who have lied to them, sent their jobs overseas, pandered to the rich, and screwed them over six ways from Sunday? The “latte-sipping elite liberal” is just a stereotype conservative blow-hards such as multi-millionaire Rush Limbaugh like to rant about, while pitching positions that actually serve their own wealth and privilage.
You obviously don’t know any rednecks, “Fool on the Hill”.
The “latte-sipping elite liberal” make their money pretending to help the poor. By the time all the liberal’s palms are greased, the poor probably only receive 1/4 of the money meant for them.
Please, don’t even get me started on how they have kept the poor down in order to promote themselves. They give the poor just enough to keep them coming back.
These new democrats care more about what the world thinks of them than they care anything else. rednecks don’t give a shit what the world thinks of them.
By the way, I was a democrat until this year but I was always a conservative democrat. I will gladly give up all I own and live in a tent before I give up my freedom to these new democrats.
If this country is stupid enough to elect this scumbag it deserves what it’s gonna get. FUCK EM!
Larry, speaking of bald faced lies, where is the “whitey” tape?
Now would be a good moment to play that tape. If McCain wants to act gentlemanly, why not ask one of the 527s to play it?
What scares me most is that, thanks to the good old GOP, the next President will have dictatorial powers. Ain’t that a kick in the head?
In her book “The End of America.” Naomi Wolf chronicles the degeneration of America into fascism during the years of Republican hegemony in America (2000-2006). Wolf shows that dictators always take certain steps in destroying democracy in a nation.
For example, would-be dictators raise the specter of a huge national threat (cf. the Republicans’ use of terrorism to destroy our rights). They create a gulag where torture is practiced. They create a lawless paramilitary (cf. Blackwater). They engage in mass surveillance. They corrupt the electoral system. And so on.
Sound familiar? Of course it does. I suspect the Republicans thought they were going to be in power forever, and were busily turning the country into a fascist dictatorship.
“The End of America” reveals that the Bush II Administration has taken every single one of these steps toward dictatorship.
Every. Single. One. This explains why, after a period of Republican rule, free speech exists only in zones and you have to think twice about what books you check out of the library.
The Obama mess occurs right in the middle of this. If the Obama crew get their guy into the White House, he will have dictatorial powers—once again, thanks to our Republican friends. If I were a Republican, I’d be packing my bags right now.
Here’s some more fear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GCNfc4tsug
Seems as if the USA improves on the failed dictatorships of Europe and Asia. Just what we needed, a better Dictator…
I know the reactions of the college crowd:
Oh go away you evil man. You are trying to confuse me. The One warned me about people like you, about the spinmasters that will spin his words, that will constantly forge even the One’s own website to make him look bad. Lalala lalala Change-we-can-believe-in, Change-we-can-believe-in, I am not listening. Play me that tape of the kids singing for change again, before my head explodes from too much thinking…
The only reason why Obama gets away with boldfaced lies and deceit is because he can not blush! Every other candidate attempting to spread that type of lies would turn scarlet-red as soon as caught out.
I find the creepy cult of Obama getting weirder and weirder. Here are two murals that have been painted in honor of “The Dear Leader” in Pittsburgh and Houston. Haven’t we seen this before in Iraq and North Korea (not to mention Germany)?
Here is a photo & story of a Pittsburgh mural that is supposed to be a permanent mural in the inne-rcity district of Pittsburgh, the Hill District.
https://current.com/items/88848333_15_tall_obama_mural_in_houston_texas_documented_by_pr_mo
Here is a video another “Dear Leader” mural in Houston commissioned by the Obama campaign. Note how even one of the creators calls it propaganda.
http://current.com/items/88848333_15_obama_mural_in_houston_texas
In addition to school credits for Obama Youth, there will be a small monetary reward. Here’s the prototype of the new currency, to be released in Jan ‘09:
http://www.zazzle.com/barack_obama_bronze_penny_circular_magnet-147786797715375856
Others might think I’m crazy but I’m afraid that the draft will return under Obama. Like it or not, there will be another war within the next five years and an Obama administration will be unprepared militarily – therefore, they’ll need to resort to a draft. What do others think?
Finally.
Finally someone is taking the time and expending the energy to make people afraid.
It’s about time.
Thank you.
yes a MUST READ is in BUSINESS INVESTORS DAILY (?)
09-04-08 MICHELL’s boot camp for radicals.. this is a group which OBAMA started in 1992 and michelle became executive director in 1993…brainwashes youth that America is a racist oppressive place in need of “social change”..real mission to radicalize American youth and use them to bring about “social change”thru threats and pressure tension and confrontations…Bill Clintons Americorp funds more than half of PUBLIC ALLIES but yes Obama wants to nationalize it to a tune of $500 billion..remember “we’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as strong powerful well-funded as the military…by the way recently Obama secured millions for DICK DURBIN who wants to recruit”men of color” for public allies radicals and socialist funde by un-knowing Americans
Here is the text of my letter to Ms. Brown:
Dear Ms. Brown,
The choice of Gwen Ifill as a “moderator” in the VP debates this year makes a mockery of the term “moderator”. I understand that it is very difficult to find a truly impartial actor to play this role, especially in the current tendentious atmosphere of the American political situation. Still and all, I would hope you could do better than Ifill, who not only appears to be “in the tank”, as they say, for Barack Obama to an embarrassing degree, but has also leveraged her hopes for the financial success of her new book on the prospect of an Obama victory.
Do you view your management of this debate as an unimportant piffle, or do you take pride in the responsibility afforded you as Executive Director of the Debates Committee? Although I do not know you, I strongly suspect the latter. I believe that, when faced with such a glaring partisan injustice, you will remember first that you are an American, and that the weight of the Republic is squarely on your shoulders. Never again, perhaps, will the decisions you make have such sweeping ramifications. Never in your life, perhaps, has so much faith been placed in your judgment. Will you fail this test? Will you plunge forward and hope no one “important” will notice the rank injustice represented by your choice of moderator? Or will you rise to the occasion, and show that your commitment to fairness and your integrity are commensurate with the position afforded you?
Ms. Brown, I hope that you will repudiate the choice of Gwen Ifill as moderator, and seek to resolve this blatant conflict of interest by appointing another moderator. If not, then the only chance you’ve ever been given to serve and defend the United States of America will have been squandered.
And although ultimately we will forget your name, Ms. Brown, and the role you will have played in subverting and cheapening American democracy, you will never forget the choices you make between now and Thursday night. And you will have to live with the knowledge that you were given a chance to be good and fair and righteous, and you chose to abrogate your responsibilities.
I know regret, Ms. Brown. I don’t wish it on anyone. I hope that you will take heed of the many warnings you must be receiving—although I expect that many of them are angrily and crudely constructed, and this must tempt you to disregard the underlying complaint entirely. I implore you to examine your heart and your soul, and contemplate the importance of your position, and I think you will see that America deserves–and requires–better from you right now.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
And then I sign my name, of course. I took that part out of this post, because my name isn’t important.
I have been reading No Quarter since I took a class at American University from Larry Johnson (who is the man, by the way…). I wanted to share my letter with you folks because our hopes and our fears are aligned in a way that has never before been the case. The NQ posters are a source of pride for me, and you exhibit the best qualities of America–a dedication to principle and integrity when it appears that the world is arrayed against, a willingness to transcend dogma and party when freedom is threatened, and a resolve that leaves dictators and demagogues writhing impotently in a tangle of soiled pantwear.
Never give up, never surrender.
I am not an pro-Obama troll but I would like to offer a different perspective. As a college administrator, I have no issues with Obama’s plan for public service for several reasons. First, a 100 hours is only three of four hours a week for a academic year. Some students already receive federal financial assistance for under the work study program and they must work 15-20 hours for wages. Under Obama’s plan these students may be able to have more time to study with a reduction of work hours. Second, I would rather young people commit to community service to receive their higher education than enlisting into military service. I am deeply disturb by the number of poor 18 year olds who have been killed or wounded in Iraq because the military was their only option to get a college education. Third, Obama is attempting to establish a post-liberal society where citizens assume the responsibilities of the community–not the government. Finally, community service on college campuses is one of the most popular activities students do. They learn a number of leadership skills and their involvement in the community provides them experiences they can not receive in the classroom. Some community service is offered as class credit. Most of my students come from affluent backgrounds and they are volunteering at an increasing levels every year. You may disagree with Obama as a candidate but do not balk at his ideas especially if they are similar to Bill Clinton’s volunteer service for college students.