Obama is Hiding a Radical Past!

“Obama is hiding a radical past”

Gee, ya think?

Too bad we can’t count on our news media … you know, the same people who constant;y trumpet “the public’s right to know” and who tell us that they’re so essential to the functioning of a democracy …. to report these facts to us or to seriously vet all of the candidates for president.

Great stuff! Thanks for the hard work!

Now - tie in Saul Aulinsky

Obama got some ’splaining to do …

Lou Dobbs about to report further on BO’s radical ties.

Where’s the Michelle Obama “whitey” vid? I’m still waiting for that blockbuster?

Unbelievable - however, the MSM never covers it. This will go no where unfortunately.

I am in absolute shock why anyone would vote for Obama.

I honestly wonder why it took until late in the GE for this information to be “out there” in the sense that anybody brings it up. After all, people made lots of comments about Hillary being a former “goldwater girl.”

Awesome work!

We are watching the end of America!!! People please wake up!!! We need every friend, family member, and business associate aware of Barack’s background. If they decide to vote for a insincere, inadequate, and inexperienced radical for President, then we will have to live with it…

Incredible…good job!

Mind boggling how much there is to incriminate The Fraud, yet he STILL gets a pass.

What is wrong with people?

OT?

“In the most obscene chapter in recent American history is the conduct of the Kosovo conflict when the president of the United States refused to prepare for ground operations, refused to have air power used effectively because he wanted them flying — he had them flying at 15,000 feet where they killed innocent civilians because they were dropping bombs from such — in high altitude.”

-Barack Obama

Thank you Matthew Weaver!

This is unbelievable Matthew. Thank you so much for ferreting out this information for us. I hope Hannity or O’Reilly gets hold of this information.

Sean Hannity is the only hope of this story getting covered. Everyone needs to send this to him. He is hot on Barky’s a&&, on both his tv and radio program.

Good work, but the MSM won’t run with this story. I’m afraid that America is really going to elect the fraud into the most powerful job in the world. It’s like watching a train crash in slow motion. It’s happening before my eyes and there’s nothing I can do to stop it, and I still don’t understand how it’s happened. Terrifying.

Thanks, Matthew! This is important research you’ve done. So, BO started out as a socialist and it seems he’s still a socialist. He sure hasn’t adopted any practices resembling what we used to expect from Democrats. Sure helps explain all the weird things we’ve seen going on around Obama’s periphery.

Will any of this serve to alter Obama’s public perception and alter the course of this election? It’s up to us.

PUMA

I believe it is the end of America. I am beginning to buy into thoughts of a wide spread conspiracy to take this country down with Obama. Ayers couldn’t do it with bombs, but he will do it with obama.

OT
But important.

Read about the latest shooting in Chicago & most importantly…read the bloggers’ comments on that thread about what has been happening in Chicago this past year.

Good job Sen Obama…Is this what will happen to the rest of our country if you become president?

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/10/woman-shot-on-cta-bus.html

Cousin: Accidental touch led to girl’s slaying on bus
Read Chicago bloggers’ comments regarding what a hell hole Chicago has become.

Nearly 125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer (2008)

http://cbs4denver.com/national/chicago.summer.shootings.2.810882.html

Watch and learn why Chicagoans are against Obama…

http://vodpod.com/watch/857180-why-chicagoans-are-against-obama

Please email this to the McCain campaign. Thank you for this important information. Obama the scumbag.

more high stakes shit on Obama and no one reported it. I believe today’s journalists and media outlets have been bought and paid for just like alot of others-likely by George Soros.

thanks for posting and keeping us informed

There was a New Party office here a couple of years ago. They’re tied up with ACORN too.

Hope you saved copies of some of these before the scrubbing has begun … because i think it is, from the links I’ve followed.

This is great research. Can someone explain to me where the paid journalists are in covering Obama? Maybe everyone got scared after Dan Rather was fired for outing Bush’s real military record.

Red State wrote about this months ago. I know because I did a search for “New Party” back during the primary to find out what it was and I came across their piece. I had never been to their site before and since then it has changed a bit. I tried to find the piece a month or so back and the search wouldn’t work for me.

Some useful links:

Glenn Beck, Obama National Anthem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l46t_nrySg4

100 Economists Say Obama Plan Wrong for Economy - SARASOTA COUNTY (FL), Part of the Red County Network
http://www.redcounty.com/sarasota/2008/10/100-economists-say-obama-plan/

Blame Clinton for Fannie Mae breakdown
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=77187

Michelle Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, and Sidley & Austin
The Corner on National Review Online
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDIxMDJiNzU5M2Q1MTY3ZGI1YTdmOWY5MzkwN2QxYzg=

About That Middle-Class Tax Cut . . .
Remember the last time a charismatic Democrat made such a promise?
Main Street - WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122333585431009523.html

Where is the contract Larry alluded to, that BO signed to get their endorsement? I don’t see it in the referenced document.

This won’t matter to the far left as they would do anything to have a socialist country. However, most Americans are against it. Well done, Matthew.

YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is really something.

There’s one way that the MSM will run with this story; if we send it to Gov. Palin and she makes it a talking point during her campaign stops.

SURPRISE!!!!

Look, I’m not saying that this is the best blog in the world, and perhaps in the history of the world. I’m just saying.

sorry to paste this whole thing but afraid it will be scrubbed

About Joyce Foundation funding of school reform—mentions the lady who ‘chose’ Obama for board with Ayers

http://web.archive.org/web/20011126174837/www.capitalresearch.org/fw/fw-0796.html

THE EDUCATION MONEY FLOW:
JOYCE’S TIDAL SHIFTS

Rethinking Schools’ anti-school choice tracts have been published with financial support from the New World Foundation of New York City and the Joyce Foundation of Chicago. In describing their motivation, James Miller, president of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, says that “Rethinking Schools is the new socialism. It has just been repackaged. They are very, very left of center, and to a large degree they are just apologists for the status quo in education.” With assets of some $21 million, the New World Foundation has never shrunk from the notoriety which its support for far-left causes has provoked. When the New World Foundation was chaired by Hillary Clinton (before she became First Lady) it funded such groups as the pro-Sandinista Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) Education Fund, the conspiracy-minded Christic Insitute, SANE/FREEZE, and the National Lawyers Guild. So its support for Rethinking Schools is not surprising. Rethinking Schools’ other patron is, however, far richer and, appropriately has been far more circumspect. Chicago’s Joyce Foundation was founded in 1948 by Beatrice Joyce Kean, whose family-owned timber business yielded profits which were invested and managed with the guidance of the family’s law firm, Lord, Bissell and Brook. When she died in 1972, ninety percent of her fortune went to the Joyce Foundation. Today, the Joyce Foundation is among the top fifty private grantmaking foundations in the United States, with assets listed at $587,899,563 as of December 31, 1995. Last year the foundation awarded some $21 million in grants in eight program areas. Joyce’s education division awarded the largest sum _ $7,157,740 _ to forty-three grantees. It may be presumed that Rethinking Schools grant application was reviewed by one or more of the division’s program officers. Warren Chapman was formerly an official of the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Department of Corrections. He holds a doctorate in education. Ellen Alberding, an MBA who doubles as an investment officer for the foundation, was a scheduler on Senator Adlai Stevenson III’s Democratic gubernatorial campaign and worked in development for the Express-Ways Children’s Museum. Her husband was counsel to Mayor Richard Daley. Peter Mich, who also holds a doctorate in education, previously worked for the Boys and Girls Clubs where he specialized in computer technology. Last year, the Joyce Foundation gave $100,000 to Marquette University’s Institute for the Transformation of Learning to support a book project to be developed jointly by Rethinking Schools editor Robert Lowe and choice supporter Howard Fuller. Fuller told Foundation Watch that the Joyce grant was specifically “not for support of school choice.” Fuller, who has also received support from Milwaukee’s pro-school choice Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation for other projects supportive of vouchers, says Joyce wanted him to conduct a project in cooperation with Lowe “looking at the social relationship of teachers to kids.” Fuller said he worked with Rethinking Schools because they do “professional development for teachers, work for more teachers in the school system, and look at developing a rigorous curriculum. I’m not going to say I’m not going to work with you on these things because you oppose school choice.” Meanwhile, Joyce’s education division awarded Rethinking Schools more than three times as much money to fight Fuller on the school choice issue. In 1995, the decade-old organization _ whose principal activity is publication and distribution of a quarterly tabloid newspaper and associated propaganda pamphlets _ received a grant of $348,380 “to publish and disseminate two booklets on school vouchers, school choice, and the issue of school equity; and to publish a series of articles about school-to-work, educational standards, assessment, and school accountability (3 years).” The Joyce Foundation-subsidized articles were published in the organization’s Rethinking Schools tabloid. Like the anti-voucher booklet, they were full of venom. The Spring, 1996 issue, looking more like a 1960’s-era copy of The Daily Worker or The Militant than an educational publication, featured articles with sloganeering headlines — “Stop the ‘English-Only’ Nonsense” and “‘Stand for Children’ June 1 in Washington” — alongside advertisements for pamphlets with titles like “Rethinking Columbus,” which promised to “critique traditional versions of the conquest and its legacy.” Particularly noteworthy is Rethinking Schools “Special Report” by editor Barbara Miner entitled “Splits On The Right.” A credit line reads: “This package on the right wing was made possible through a grant from the Joyce Foundation.” Accompanied by unflattering pictures of Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed, Lamar Alexander, William Bennett, and Phyllis Schlafly, among others, the report described the political forces that it sees arrayed against Rethinking Schools in the fight over school choice. Miner reports that Robertson has been charged with advocating “an authoritarian theocracy” and adds parenthetically, “The paramilitary right is generally considered a distinct phenomenon, although it maintains strong links to some groups within the religious right.” She suggests that other conservatives _ significantly nameless, because to name anyone at all would reveal how baseless her charges are _ demonstrate a “willingness to espouse blatantly white supremacist and anti-Semitic views.” Repeatedly, Miner makes assertions of the “bigotry, white supremacy, homophobia, and theocratic authoritarianism of the religious right.” Miner’s feature asserts that the Christian right wants “education based on rote obedience and memorization, and prefers to provide children ready-made answers instead of encouraging them to think for themselves.” The issue carries a number of sidebars. One, headlined “Bradley helps bankroll movement,” attacks parental rights groups. It blames “Republican guru” William Kristol and Bradley Foundation president Michael Joyce for “building a movement for parents’ rights as a way to counter the women’s and gay movements and to rally people against the ‘nanny state.’” Also included is a three-page spread in tiny type listing “Economic Conservatives and Religous/Far Right Organizations” (including Capital Research Center, publisher of Foundation Watch), “Progressive Groups Monitoring the Right Wing,” and “Conservative Publications,” a list which includes The New Republic. Other indicators of the publication’s skewed view of reality include a “Multicultural Resources” listing which features such items as “Mother Jones, One Woman’s Fight for Labor,” “Sexual Harrassment Institute,” “Teasing and Bullying Workshops,” “Viva La Causa!” and “Overcoming Homophobia in the Elementary Classroom.” A crude cartoon called “Something For Nothing” shows a member of Congress calling for repeal of the Emancipation Proclamation and asking, “Without slavery, how can we compete with China?” Howard Fuller is charitable when asked about the Joyce Foundation’s support for Rethinking Schools. He says, “Sometimes both sides get out there. I like [Joyce Foundation president] Debby Leff. I have great respect for [education program officer] Warren Chapman and what he’s trying to do to make change for kids.” The opinion of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute’s Miller is more candid: “Rethinking Schools is way out there on the fringes,” Miller told Foundation Watch, “and I’m sure that the Joyce Foundation people are aware of that.” But when asked about the publications she funded with Joyce Foundation money, Foundation president Deborah Leff pleads ignorance. “I don’t know everything that group did,” she told Foundation Watch when asked about the special section smearing conservatives. “We did not fund Rethinking Schools to publish photos of Ralph Reed and Phyllis Schlafly. We funded them on the choice issue.” Yet managing editor Barbara Miner told Foundation Watch that Joyce was probably aware of her group’s activities, and suggested calling the Joyce Foundation to inquire. Her organization distributes 40,000 free copies of Rethinking Schools quarterly in the Milwaukee area and that “pretty much our only function is one of publishing.” She added that “Joyce has never dictated to us what to say. But as with any grant proposal, we mentioned that there were several articles about several big issues in the education reform movement which were currently of concern.” When asked, if Joyce did not know or approve of it, why Rethinking Schools gave the Joyce Foundation printed credit for its support of the feature articles bad-mouthing conservatives and the Bradley Foundation, Leff responded, “I apologize for not being familiar with the publication. Grantees are going to put forward different perspectives, and just because a grantee takes on a position, there is no one position that’s right. That’s wrong. God help us if we have such a narrow debate so that there’s only one way to go. We identify smart people, differing people.” Some find Leff’s explanations difficult to swallow. “That’s a crock,” says Miller. “Did she know that Rethinking Schools were the major people who drove out [former Milwaukee superintendent of schools] Howard Fuller? They are connected to a bunch of people who call themselves the New Party and Progressive Milwaukee, and all basically have the same address. There was a major election in Milwaukee right before Fuller resigned. The teachers union was heavily involved and the reformers lost. Rethinking Schools was very much involved in that kind of stuff. They are totally opposed to school choice.” Miller’s own think-tank, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, received Joyce funding for work on the school choice issue before Leff became president in 1992. But Miller subsequently spoke with Joyce staff members who told him, off the record, that “no one like us would get funded with them again, not while Debbie Leff was there.” Leff, says Miller, is rather unlike her predecessor, Craig Kennedy. “Kennedy was different, in that he was interested in new ideas. It didn’t matter who you were, it was what you were interested in doing,” he explained. “I think she’s interested in new ideas if they’re politically correct. But if you’re not politically correct, you’re not going to get funded. Everybody who seems to get money from them in Milwaukee is way left-of-center, and the dividing issue in getting money in Milwaukee is: Are your opposed to private school choice?” Dr. Chester Finn, director of the Educational Excellence Network and a former Department of Education assistant secretary for educational research, agrees with Miller. “I have had no direct knowledge of the Joyce Foundation since she took over,” he told Foundation Watch. “I knew it quite well under Kennedy. It was one of the most interesting and open-minded foundations. It gave me some support to study school reform in Chicago. It was characterized by inquisitiveness, receptivity to standards and heterodox thought. I would never have thought of it as a fellow-traveller of the education establishment when Craig was running it. I even talked to the board sometimes.” Finn says the atmosphere changed when Kennedy left the foundation to work for Chicago businessman Richard J. Dennis. “Craig left and this woman from the world of television arrived. I never met her. A lot of people I know just rolled their eyes. It was no longer an interesting, unconventional, or open-minded place under her leadership. A kind of window closed, a shade came down. There was no further communication. All gone.” Leff retorts sharply to complaints from past recipients like Miller and Finn, “If you haven’t applied for funds, you can’t get them.” Paula Wolff, a Joyce board member since 1989 and currently president of Governors State University in University Park, Illinois, adds that shifts in foundation priorities are normal over time, and that no one should expect the same grantees to be funded when new administrations take over foundations. “There certainly have been some new initiatives, rewriting of the guidelines, but foundations are changing all the time,” she told Foundation Watch.

Here are a few of the loony things the DSA believes in. Go to their website — they clearly revere Marx (though they have amended his ideas).

http://www.dsausa.org/pdf/TheoryPractice.pdf

—a fundamental restructuring of our socio-economic order. While the freedoms that exist under democratic capitalism are gains of popular struggle to be cherished, democratic socialists argue that
the values of liberal democracy can only be fulfilled when the economy as well as the government is democratically controlled.

–The democratic socialist vision does not rest upon one sole tradition; it draws upon Marxism, religious and ethical socialism, feminism, and other theories that critique human domination.

–Socialists therefore argue that private corporate property is not only wrong, but also nonsensical. Wealth is a social creation and should be controlled by society as a whole. Of course, socialists must take seriously objections that there would be a need for expertise (say, for surgeons and engineers) and job specialization under socialism. The division of labor might
well be eroded by the rotation of menial tasks, frequent sabbaticals, job retraining, shortening the workweek, and increasing the creativity of “leisure” activity. But however we organize the division of labor—the structure of careers and life
opportunities—it should be decided democratically and not by the accident of chance or of opportunities conferred or denied by one’s class position.

–Democratic control of consumption should be as central to the socialist vision as democratic control over production,

–Large, concentrated industries such as energy and steel would be publicly owned and managed by worker and consumer representatives. Many consumer-goods industries would be run as cooperatives. Workers would design the division of labor within their workplaces and thus overcome the authoritarianism of
the traditional capitalist firm.

–

There’s a lot more . . .

List of people or groups that support the “Idiot”.

http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaSupporters.htm

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/ Another interesting article.
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/

Saul Alinsky methods, and the link with the communist party USA would be helpful to clarify the significance of this issue.

Here is an overview of the DSA approaches:

http://www.dsausa.org/pdf/TheoryPractice.pdf

I personally think the DSA is just one piece of Obama, but his true objectives are more radical than the DSA.

That is a pretty damning quote that appears attributed to Obama.

“… community organizations and organizers are hampered by their own dogmas about the style and substance of organizing. Most practice … a ‘consumer advocacy’ approach, with a focus on wrestling services and resources from outside powers that be. Few are thinking of harnessing the internal productive capacities, both in terms of money and people, that already exist in communities.” (Illinois issues, September, 1988)

That’s what Obama does, he harnesses the taxes to build up organizations like ACORN and expand his power. Always getting a bigger piece of the pie, but not worrying that rather than empowering the disenfranchised, it’s making a franchise of disenfranchisement (?). Like all the billions spent on low income housing, yet we still have people who need low income housing but now we have to bail out Freddie, too. Hundreds of billions spent on HUD, with no reduction of the need, but lots of people making money off of urban redevelopment. It’s a terrible solution, worse than doing nothing.

Matthew, thank you for the great information. Now it has to reach those who aren’t in the choir. Obama should be disqualified and replaced with Hillary Clinton.

omg, the dems go on and on about the economy but I don’t want BO in the White House no matter what’s going on. ugh. We wouldn’t recognize this country after a few years of BO policy.

Can someone here explain to me why socialism is so damning? Communism is one thing, but socialism is what a lot of European countries have. So I would need more explanation here as to why these particular organizations were so radical and what their specific agenda was before it made an impact on me.

Maybe Osama Bin Laden can run for President of the United States, I can’t believe that Obama has made it this far, thanks a lot mainstream media, if Obama wins the Presidency it would take a week for us to be attacked by suicide bombers coming here at will because we all know that Obama HATES America, hates jews, and hates white people, truly disgusting. I saw a tape of Obama mocking Sarah’s voice, what a piece of crap he is, believe me I can say worse and already have in the privacy of my own home. I don’t want to see this monster within 2000 feet of the White House, NO HOW, NOT EVER!!!!!!! And yeah, when is that whitey tape coming out, Larry never mentioned it again, either he made it up or it’s about to come out, anymore info on this

Here is a thought, a simple thought:
How can a Political Science Major of which Obama claims to be especially from Columbia U, the home of the Radicl 60’s not know about Bill Ayers et al?

Show your records Mr Transparency or shut up on being the agent of change!

(From 2001 Google)
http://www.google.com/search2001.html

Post World War II Essays

The Weathermen

“When Bernardine Dohrn was being interviewed by SDS members during her campaign for inter-organizational secretary, she was asked if she considered herself a Socialist. Dohrn responded: “I consider myself a revolutionary Communist”. Her comment not only won the election for her, but also defined the basic Communist identity of the soon to be formed Weather Underground (Collier and Horowitz 74).”

http://web.archive.org/web/20011125141925/www.mhrcc.org/hfcsd/essays98.html

Hi everyone, I am reading some comments here, and I can’t believe how discouraged people are.

I don’t care what the polls say, I still think McCain has a good chance. I for one, am going to fight for a McCain victory.

Holy Toledo, Batman, the wheels are coming off this sucker!

Matthew-
Excellent article, excellent research. this info needs to get out to the public.

Socialists mainly share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth into a small section of society who control capital, and creates an unequal society. All socialists advocate the creation of an egalitarian society, in which wealth and power are distributed more evenly, although there is considerable disagreement among socialists over how,it being the transitional stage between capitalism and communism.[3][ and to what extent this could be achieved

Link This Article on Every Blog you visit people!!!!

This Is HUGE and is just one more piece to the puzzle that shows how deep the connection is to ayers.

Watch Sarah kicking butt in NC….

http://www.wral.com

Unfortunately, if McCain doesn’t release all the “dirt” he has on Obama in his arsenal THIS WEEK, then it will be too late. If he waits much longer, people will be ticked off that he waited until the “eleventh hour’ to release it and it will backfire on McCain. As I stated on another blog, I ran political campaigns for 12 years and I have seen it happen over and over again. McCain MUST release all his info this week or he will have reached the point of no return.

Check out Rev. James David Manning tonight.
http://www.atlah.org/broadcast/manningreport.html

He’s no longer referring to him as Barack Husein Obama. For now on, it’s “Tarzan”. You’ll get a kick out of his reasoning.

The evidence is there but like everything else in Obama’s liaisons with unsavory characters, the evidence is not clear cut. He can claim that he participated just to gain their support but that he did not actually supported their views or objectives.

What’s funny today is that from the newsletter that describes Obama’s participation in the town meeting, his propositions may have some value for his debate tonight against McCain. It says that he has experience debating issues related to how people are affected by economic crisis.

Unfortunately, polls are not b.s. I wish they were. Yes, some are not as accurate as others, but the tried and true ones have stood the test of time. You must also consider that there are, at last count, over 4 million new registered voters who are not accounted for in this polling. I can guarantee that most of them will be voting Obama as it is his campaign drive that has done most of it (illegally or otherwise). I don’t mean to be a wet blanket but McCain has got to bring out the “dirt” NOW. We need him to expose Obama. If he waits much longer, he will lose!

WA,

Hillary asked what socialism meant, I realized I wasn’t exactly sure myself so I looked this up and copied it here. I am for McCain/Palin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This literally turns my stomach. He’s got to be exposed. Please everyone sent to everyone you know. Flood GOP, Hannity, O’Reilly, Beck, Drudge and anyone else you can think of. If he’s elected………. heartbreaking

Suggest this on Drudge Report, all MSM editors read it

Great great article. Very well documented. Lots of hard work and care.

THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO FOR US Matthew.

I don’t think this association is as important as the one BO started when he was at Columbia with Ayers. BO work on Ayers foundations to disburse $MM over a number of years to ACORN for political education of Chicago teachers shows greater malfeasance. These educational plans show how he might mis-spend educational funds to achieve political goals on a national level, how he might change No Child Left Behind to achieve political hegemony. The inkling is the 100hr/yr service for people getting college loans.

These associations are merely decorations on the cake if the public can be made to believe and understand their importance.

Why is this information just coming out now???

Distributing???…I found it on wikipedia

Aghhhhh. I swear I should get combat pay for having to deal with bots on my damn blog!

This may be why the DNC just sent out a rapid response warning McCain may try to change the subject from the economy tonight to Obama’s associations. Trying to play it off as a trick. PLEASE MSM for once, do your job!!

One story above indicates that BHO was a community organizer in Harlem. Was that when he attended Columbia?

McCain better go out there and kick some major ASS tonight, I’m not talking about screaming, we don’t need that, but say “I am gonna get all of these SOB’s who profited off of this tragedy(meaning the downfall of Wall Street)” start naming names, start bringing up how Maxine Waters, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and of course the big fish Franklin Raines all said fannie and freddie were FINE, bring it all out, he has nothing to lose, bring up everything, say that he will get them all and bring them in front of congress and have hearings into all of this nonsense, that American is pissed off, that he is pissed off and he will win the election

uh oh

When Obama participated in a 1996 UofC YDS Townhall Meeting on Economic Insecurity, much of what he had to say was well within the mainstream of European social democracy.

Any chance of finding anything else on this. We knew, KNEW, he was hiding his past. And I’m sure this isn’t all of it. Keep digging!

And NO, I don’t believe the polls.

You have to remember Alice Palmer, the woman from Chicago’s 13th district who recommended Obama to replace her seat. She was present at the living room coming out party at Ayers/Dohrn. She has communist ties, also.

Who is Alice Palmer?

Palmer is much more than the “influential liberal” described by Politico.

Ten years before the aforementioned meeting, Alice Palmer was an official of a notorious Communist front group (so identified by the FBI), the U.S. Peace Council, an affiliate of the World Peace Council, an international Soviet front. It goes without saying that during that era of the eighties, both of these mouthpieces for Moscow were working feverishly to undermine President Reagan’s arms buildup which played a major role in the downfall of the Soviet Union. That was the time of the worldwide Soviet-inspired nuclear “freeze” movement in 1983, when Palmer was also mentioned as a participant on the World Peace Council’s Prague assembly.

In 1986, Palmer wrote an article for the People’s Weekly World, a house organ for the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). In that dispatch, Palmer favorably recounted her experiences attending the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

(Note: Because Palmer later tried to reclaim her place in the State Senate, Obama moved to have her taken off the ballot. Thus this year, according to America’s Survival, she is supporting Senator Hillary Clinton for President.)

Don’t forget Glenn Beck and Laura Ingraham . Both have talked alot about Obama’s associates and radical friends and background.

This story is covered in “The Case Against Barack Obama” by David Freddoso on pages 129-130.

Matthew - this is outstanding work. thank you so much. someone above suggested Drudge, I concur. Voters are going to care about this in a huge way.

From Wiki on Christian Socialism:

Christian socialism generally refers to those on the Christian left whose politics are both Christian and socialist and who see these two philosophies as being interrelated. This category can include Liberation theology

Liberation Theology is what is taught by the Rev Wright. More pieces of the puzzle come together.

Saw this in the New Ground articles that are linked above in Matthew’s post:

The sentence this is clipped from is about the origins of the NP:

‘…ACORN and SEIU Local 880 were the harbingers of the NP…’.

I don’t know where local 880 is, but I do know that over the summer, Dakinikat had posted a photo of an ACORN building that also housed an SEIU local, in Louisiana, I think — the one that was providing phoney receipts for sound systems, etc., for BO’s campaign.

What about Neal Boortz and Glenn Beck? It should be sent to CNN commenters too saying if you want to start redeeming yourselves to gain back all the viewers you’ve lost due your media bias, here you go - Merry Christmas.

thanks mathew- if only the msm would do their job. one could only hope. i work for the attorney general here in texas and spoke to a judge today who said he thinks there is no stopping obama winning and he is voting for mccain too. if people only knew about obama’s past they would think twice about voting for him. but, so many people are unaware.

OT but important-
great tragedy in Southern California.

http://www.dailynews.com/ci_10651501?source=rss_viewed

6 bodies found in Porter Ranch home
By Tony Castro and Susan Abram, Staff Writers
Article Last Updated: 10/06/2008 06:52:38 PM PDT

PORTER RANCH - The grisly news Monday of an out-of-work San Fernando Valley financial analyst killing his wife, three sons and mother-in-law before committing suicide was a chilling casualty of the country’s economic crisis.

Karthik Rajaram, 45, who had worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers and Sony Pictures, was identified as the gunman who killed his 39-year-old wife Subasri, their three sons - Krishna, a 19-year-old honors economics student at UCLA, and two boys, Ganesha, 12, and a 7-year-old - and 69-year-old mother-in-law, Indra Ramasesham, and then himself some time after 6 p.m. Saturday.

“I knew he was having problems getting another job, but wow,” said former business acquaintance Mark Crockett of Holladay, Utah. “It’s sad to hear this.”

Los Angeles police Deputy Chief Michel Moore attributed the killings to Rajaram’s inability to deal with financial ruin.

“This an absolute terrible tragedy,” Moore said. “The source of it appears to be a financial state, a crisis if you will, that this man became embroiled in that unfolded over the last few weeks.”

Rajaram admitted to the killings in one of three letters he left in the house, police said.”

End of excerpt.

I hope the major players who are fu**ing around with our economy for personal or political gains meet the victims of their financial antics in the afterlife (for those who believe in one) or in the next life here on earth (for those who believe in reincarnation).

Sorry, I didn’t read the all the comments yet, but am wondering if anyone else noticed that the post, in item 9 indicates that Obama worked:

“for five years as a community organizer in Harlem and Chicago.”

Did Obama really work as a community organizer in Harlem?

OT item …. If the Mcain campaign wants to bring up the rev.+right issue without mentioning the reverend directly the perfect way to do it is to show the cover s of the trumper with Farrakhan, Hamas articles ET AL with the text What has Barack Obama been reading? this!! He was a charer subscriber to this with his Donations of over 20 thousand dollars a year! He had to know exctly what was being said! Bad judgment? Bad opinion of America!!!

Open thread for debate?

Will there be an open thread for the debate?

MCCain better shut obama down. Debate thread going up?

Where’s the debate thread? I can’t watch. Too nervous.

DEBATE IS ON…ENJOY YA’LL

Where is the debate thread?

Tom Brokaw just said that he picked the questions to ask from the internet etc.

Surprise! he isn’t answering the specific question. I am shocked.

McCain just needs to ask Barry if he had any mentors growing up and at Columbia or Harvard that were normal and not identified with any radical group, past or present. Of course Barry wouldn’t be able to name one including his mother, father and grandparents who all seem to be of the socialist persuasion. So there you go, a crazy Communist and his crazy Communist wife are a stone’s throw from the W.H. and those of us who had grandparents who emigrated from Communist countries are holding our breath.

Obama has not answered the question by alan schafer.

go Johnny!

This is a great article and great research. Unfortunately it will not stick. Nothing sticks to Obama.

The majority of this country is deaf, dumb, and blind to anything negative about Obama. It’s just like when Bush got reelected - I kept saying to myself “what are they thinking?” Sure they woke up, but it was too late.

As I said in an earlier post, the only thing that will bring Obama down is if he is indicted before the election.
(Of course, I hope I am wrong and the people in this country wake up to the truth before it is too late.)

Debate thread open

Mcain is engaging the crowd…. Obama blah

What up - Barky won the coin toss - it was his turn to answer that question and Brokow gave it to McCain.

Great play for Sarah Palin.

Maybe Katie Couric can ask Barack Obama what he reads. I understand one of the things he has been reading for 20 years is————————

Batchelor: Questions about Ayers, Dohrn, Obama
October 5, 2008
John Batchelor wrote today on his blog:

http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/batchelor-questions-about-ayers-dohrn-obama/

Unfortunately, if McCain doesn’t release all the “dirt” he has on Obama in his arsenal THIS WEEK, then it will be too late. If he waits much longer, people will be ticked off that he waited until the “eleventh hour’ to release it and it will backfire on McCain.

The reason why the Republicans win so many Presidential elections is because they know how to campaign. Plus they understand that the right timing is everything. McCain is doing the right thing. Nothing’s going to backfire on him.

Is there any way to archive these webpages right now? Act quickly, or they may soon be taken down.

I hate McCain. I hate his inadequate campaign. I hate his aides. It’s like they’re working in a vacuum with absolutely no idea of what’s going on outside, no idea of what people are talking about, what people want to hear. His debate performance was pathetic. He didn’t fight. He didn’t attack. He missed almost every available opportunity to convince Americans that Barak Obama is the worst possible prospect for America. No mention of his despicable extreme left wing anti-American past. Barely a mention of the Dems guilt in the sub prime crisis. No mention of ACORN. No mention of Ayers.

McCain and his team are just standing by as Americans get ready to do the dumbest thing they’ve ever done and vote a communist into the White House.

All Obama had to do tonight was sit back and put himself on autopilot, knowing fine well that this was McCain’s last chance. What the hell happened with McCain? Can anyone tell me?

I saw his speech yesterday. It had me on fire. I was punching the air. He took Obama in his teeth and savaged him. Why the hell can’t he do this in Obama’s presence? It’s as if the fool has his mind set upon being the gentleman, the non-partisan bringer-together-of-a-new-era-of-cooperation. Screw that! I don’t want him to cooperate and work with anti-American socialists! This is SERIOUS goddamn it!

*sigh*

What a pathetic man. WHAT a pathetic man. Sarah Palin would have hammered Obama tonight. McCain missed his last chance - and I’m sad to say, let down the country he keeps telling us he’s devoted himself to.

Please make a copy of the links. Web archives have been known to disappear if it sheds a light on Obama’s past.

I think you should change the tittle of the article [or add this to the end of it]: THE MEDIA IS HIDING OBAMBA’S RADICAL PAST.

NoBAMA!

Wait a minute…a national socialist party…are you calling Obama a Nazi?

I suppose it was all going to lead to this.

Matthew, could you tell those of us who read this earlier where you made the ‘edits and updates” ?

I notice that you often announce an “update” without indicating where you updated in the text.

Thank u.

BREAKING NEWS>>>>>

ACORN Las Vegas Offices Raided today for Voter fraud!

Go here to read story!

“http://reddragon62.blogspot.com/”

Mccain just refuses to fight.

29 days left and he acts like he’s 30 points ahead.

The speech he gave in New Mexico also had me excited but it didn’t last. This was a repeat of the first debate.

I have never seen a candidate squander so many opportunities to kill his opponent. Obama is a joke, any other candidate would have taken him apart by now. All Obama did tonight was talk a bunch of socialist nonsense. He didn’t even answer some of the questions. Mccain could have attacked him and taken him apart on the economy. I have never seen a candidate have so much trouble facing off against a wack job liberal. Obama is the kind of candidate Republicans dream of facing. They are so easy to defeat but Mccain just can’t seem to do it.

I can’t take this crap anymore.

Smart bump Susan, bury those debate threads as quickly as possible.

Yogi, you think thats cute dont you?? It wasnt!!!!

I don’t want to burst anyone’s bubble but this information is not new. Investors Business Daily ran something on Obama and the New Party back in June. If this information could hurt Obama, it already would have. This kind of information, while disturbing those of us who take the time to seek it out, won’t have any effect on the voting public until they see it reported on abc, nbc, cbs and cnn. Sad but true.

Go digg this link here:

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Obama_s_October_Radical_Socialist_Association_Surprise

Is there nothing in Obama’s past … his radical associates, his suspected activities with Ayers during his years at Columbia in NYC, his support from foreign parties with anti-US agendas, illicit business dealings … nothing that would disqualify him from obtaining national security clearance? It’s hard to believe this. This guy is as unscrupulous as they come … I really expected a new, damaging Obama revelation from the GOP by now. What a nightmare.

I still think McCain would get a lot of traction reminding people of Obama’s hypocrisy in Iowa, Ohio & PA. Not to mention his throwing the people who elected him under the bus the second he got the nomination.

The story sounds right to me.

DSA wasn’t some new Dean Saves America group?

Howard Dean, Dean Screamers of America.

Yearrrrrgh!!!!!!

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is a social democratic organization in the United States and the U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International, a federation of social democratic, democratic socialist and labor parties and organizations.

DSA was formed in 1982 by a merger of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and the New American Movement (NAM). DSOC was the largest group to emerge from the splintering of the Socialist Party of America in 1973; two other Socialist Party factions went on to form Social Democrats USA and the Socialist Party USA. NAM was a coalition of writers and intellectuals with roots in both the New Left movements of the 1960s and the more traditional parties of the Old Left.

At its founding, DSA consisted of almost 5,000 ex-DSOC members and 1,000 ex-NAM members. By 1983 DSA reached 7,000 members, which it would not surpass until the early 1990s. Michael Harrington and socialist-feminist author Barbara Ehrenreich were elected as the organization’s co-chairs.

DSA is organized at the local level, and works with labor unions, community organizations, and campus activists on issues of common interest. Nationwide campaigns are coordinated by the organization’s national office in New York City. As of 2006 the DSA website lists 24 chartered locals.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of 65 Democratic legislators in the U.S. Congress anchored by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a DSA member, worked with DSA against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (Sanders is the first self-described democratic socialist to be elected to the U.S. Senate. Sanders left the House in order to run in the 2006 election). DSA’s website included commentary supportive of the legislative caucus throughout much of the late 1990s.

DSA publishes Democratic Left, a quarterly journal of news and analysis. In 2008, DSA members active in the U.S. labor movement founded Talking Union, a blog that focuses on labor politics, working class struggles and strategies.

Notable DSA members have included United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, SDS veteran Steve Max, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers President William W. Winpisinger, literary critic Irving Howe, feminist activist and journalist Gloria Steinem, actor Ed Asner, former Congressman Ron Dellums, author Barbara Ehrenreich, 1997 New York City mayoral candidate Ruth Messinger, United Auto Workers co-founder Victor Reuther, leading African-American Studies professor Cornel West, linguist Noam Chomsky (a “very passive” member), political scientist Stephen Rosskamm Shalom, political columnist Harold Meyerson, executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard School of Law Elaine Bernard, labor historian Nelson Lichtenstein, and political scientist Stephen Eric Bronner.

In August 2005, DSA announced that its membership had increased by some 13% since July 2003 as the result of a recent direct mail campaign. Membership in DSA is defined primarily by payment of annual dues.

Young Democratic Socialists (YDS) is the official youth section of Democratic Socialists of America.

Wikipedia

Bernie Sanders, of course, is one of the creators of the current financial crisis.

http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2008/02/obama-file-14-socialist-led-mega-union.html

http://pumaparty.com/miblancat47/2008/06/16/wake-up-america-obamas-red-agenda/

At this point I think Senator Obama could have been on the KGB payroll through the 1980’s, swiped national security secrets and it wouldn’t matter. I don’t think many Obama supporters are going to find it shocking that he has ties to liberal organizations that many would label radical. His association with William Ayers hasn’t dissuaded many voters, so I don’t think ties with the Chicago New Party or Chicago DSA is going to either. Obama supporters and the undecided who are leaning towards him are going to consider it just another smear campaign.

I don’t find it surprising at all that he used either group to get elected. I would also suspect considering his family history that he was a card carrying member of the DSA, at least in college if not after graduation.

LMAO!

I found one rogues gallery, a committee comprising, among others, Fannie Mae CEO Franklin D. Raines, Louisiana Representative William J. $90,000 in frozen assets Jefferson, and Senator Barack I am not the Socialist that I knew Obama.

Strangely enough, this committee was formed to celebrate Harvard’s Black Alumni. Nice record, guys.

http://web.archive.org/web/20011218011828/www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/celebration/committee.shtml

Forgive if this has been posted, but I find this newsworthy.

NAIROBI, Kenya – The government of Kenya is holding WND senior staff reporter Jerome Corsi incommunicado at the airport until he departs the country after police shut down a scheduled news conference in which he planned to announce the findings of his investigation into Barack Obama’s connections in the country.

Corsi, the author of the No. 1 best-selling book “The Obama Nation,” was picked up by authorities at his hotel at 9:45 a.m. and detained at Nyayo House, the provincial headquarters for Nairobi.

“Just as we were about to start the 10 a.m. press conference at the Grand Regency Hotel in Nairobi, Kenyan immigration approached us and detained us,” Corsi told WND by telephone this morning. “Tim Bueler, my publicist, and I are now in the immigration offices, with our passports taken. The immigration officer told the press, ‘There is no problem, and Dr. Corsi is a friend of Kenya.’”

Corsi and Bueler are booked on a British Airways flight to London tonight, an airline agent confirmed to WND. But Joseph Farah, WND editor and CEO, said he was in touch with Corsi until about 9:30 a.m. Eastern today and has not been able to reach him for several hours.

“We also hear unconfirmed reports from the government claiming it has ‘deported’ Corsi,” Farah said. “Since Corsi was scheduled to leave the country today, this would seem to be a strange action from a government that was well aware of Corsi’s presence, his travels and his activities in the country for the last week.”

Peter Mbae, a Kenyan publicist who arranged the news conference, told WND he spoke with an immigration officer who confirmed that Ministry of Immigration authorities are holding Corsi and Bueler at the airport until their flight tonight.

Their movements are restricted, and they have no access to telephones, Mbae said, citing the officer.

Corsi had extensive meetings with top Kenyan officials upon his arrival. His visit and his activities during his stay have been well-known to authorities at the highest levels.

BHO est dangereux:

Dans la bible il est dit :

Car il s’élèvera de faux Christs et de faux prophètes, et ils montreront de grands signes et des prodiges, de manière à séduire , si possible même les élus.
Voici je vous l’ai dit à l’avance : Mathieu 24:24-25
…..et ce n’est pas étonnant, car Satan lui même se transforme en ange de lumière: 2corinthiens 11:14 !

“Can someone here explain to me why socialism is so damning?”

Another soaring testimony to the value of a college education.

Obama Supports ISLAMIC DAY

http://web.archive.org/web/20010222074715/www.legis.state.il.us/legisnet/legisnet90/summary/900SR0110.html

Where’s the Michelle Obama “whitey” vid?

It’s right there on the shelf, next to the video of Obama giving an antiwar speech.

Geez, you guys are whining more than the Gallo Brothers.

Jeez, do you guys really think this line of attack is going to work? The Democratic Socialists of America are the American equivalent of the Swedish Social Democrats. You may disagree with the kinds of policies for which they advocate–stuff like expanded paternity leave and greater government intervention in the economy–but we are not talking here about a Stalinist revolutionary vanguard. Conservatives keep trying to pain Obama has a crazed radical, but he’s just not coming off that way; rather than sullying his image, conservatives are making themselves look like cold war nutcases who are willfully ignoring the real issues that this country is facing. And my God, the Republican leadership just voted in a massive economic intervention. Talk about the pot calling the kettle, er, black. We are all democratic socialists now.

Why not talk about the issues instead?

Obama = giant step towards communism - seriously. The dots are out there and are being connected.

http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?p=431293&posted=1#post431293

YEAH! Go socialism! I am so excited you conservatives found out Obama is a socialist! I wish I could vote twice for him now. And, does anyone else think McCain used a robot double last night? I think only his legs move…

Fiercely protected from adverse publcity by an adoring media, Barack Obama could strangle puppies and drop-kick kittens in broad daylight with perfect impunity, so I doubt his close, pupil-mentor relationship with a domestic terrorist, his former membership in an overtly marxist/socialist/radical organization, his highly incriminating connections to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, his relationships with unsvory Chicago machine fixers, or any number of other, equally disconcerting and outright alarming facts will ever be dilligently investigated and reported by major media outlets. The good news? What the mainstream press chooses to report and not report is becoming less important by the day. Truth will out.

Bon Bons!

WTF?? Is there ANYTHING left of the once infamous right-wing machine??

…the American people have no idea about Barry.

He’s not just hiding his radical past. He knows America would never accept a “Red Diaper Baby” near an office of high power…

And this is the man Americans want as President?!?!?!?

Admins: Request to please bump this back up - Incredible!! Needless to say you guys have screenshots of this info!

Thanks for this. God knows the MSM hasn’t done their job vetting this fool. What do we really know about him anyway???

Having monitored this web site since June, there is no doubt in my mind that Hillary’s supporters who are voting for McCain are going to be the difference in this race. Don’t pay any attention to the polls. The only one that counts is the one that says 28% of Hillary’s supporters are voting for McCain. Keep the Faith.

You loose your time He Obama Won already!!! Suckers!! LOL

New Party And ACORN and Obama. Now it all fits together!

New Party And ACORN

New Party Organizes

By Bob Roman

On Saturday, January 14, the New Party in Chicago took another step in its effort to establish itself as a political force by holding a major outreach meeting directed at Chicago’s Left. About 100 people, with sizable delegations from DSA and CoC among others, heard Bruce Colburn and Elaine Bernard preach the gospel of the New Party. The audience was also introduced to the New Party’s first candidate in Chicago, Michael Chandler, who is running for Alderman in Chicago’s west side 24th ward. The meeting was held at the meeting hall of SEIU Local 880, a local that is tackling the extremely difficult task of organizing home health care workers in Illinois. SEIU Local 880 and ACORN share office space.

For me, Bruce Colburn was the more interesting speaker. Bruce Colburn is an officer of the Milwaukee Central Labor Council and the Chair of the local New Party affiliate in Milwaukee. He had a great deal to say about holding candidates accountable, maintaining a mobilized constituency, and the role of the labor movement in the process. Some of his comments were intriguing. He mentioned, for example, that labor in Milwaukee had begun canvassing its members to organize community groups.

The New Party movement has helped elect a number of candidates in Wisconsin, and it has united with a number of other left groups in Wisconsin to form the New Progressive Party of Wisconsin. The New Progressive Party has secured ballot status in the state.

All who had seen Elaine Bernard at last year’s Midwest Radical Scholars and Activists Conference were psyched up to see her again. And she gave a good performance. Elaine Bernard gave a cogent exposition on the nature of politics and the way the New Party uses this in its strategy.

The near term future of the New Party in Chicago is represented by Michael Chandler, candidate of the 24th Ward. Legal and illegal dumping, crime, housing and the Privatization Accountability Ordinance are the major issues in Mr. Chandler’s campaign. There are ten other candidates in the contest for Alderman of the 24th Ward. The incumbent is Jesse Miller, Jr. If Michael Chandler wins, the New Party will have established a foothold in mainstream Chicago politics.

The Saturday meeting was clearly intended to be a major step in organizing the New Party in Chicago. The next step is a meeting scheduled for February 1 at which the New Party will choose local officers. It’s clear that the New Party is hoping that enthusiasm generated at the Saturday meeting will help expand the New Party’s base.

In Chicago, the New Party’s biggest asset and biggest liability is ACORN.

Like most organizations, ACORN is a mixed bag. On one hand, in Chicago, ACORN is a group that attempts to organize some of the most depressed communities in the city. Chicago organizers for ACORN and organizers for SEIU Local 880 have been given modest monthly recruitment quotas for new New Party members. On the other hand, like most groups that depend on canvassing for fundraising, it’s easy enough to find burned out and disgruntled former employees. And ACORN has not had the reputation for being interested in coalition politics- until recently and, happily, not just within the New Party. In Chicago, ACORN has been working with the National Training and Information Center on housing issues, and Equip for Equality in challenging Illinois’ inaction on “Motor Voter” registration. ACORN has also become a major participant in Chicago Jobs with Justice.

But the nature of Chicago ACORN is secondary to the inevitable dynamics of the situation. As the single 800 pound gorilla in the Chicago New Party, it doesn’t leave a lot of room for newcomers to participate except on ACORN’s terms. This will make it difficult for the New Party to have a life apart from ACORN. The element that seems to be present in Milwaukee but absent in Chicago is organized labor.

Nationally, the New Party claims between 3,000 and 4,000 members and credit for electing several dozen candidates in various localities around the country. While the Saturday meeting had much to say about candidate accountability, it’s hard to assess exactly what these victories mean. The New Party is not dogmatic about establishing its own ballot line and is perfectly willing to support worthy Democratic, independents and (presumably) Republicans. In essence, the New Party functions as a Political Action Committee on steroids. As such, it represents the first truly canny, grass-roots attempt at dealing with the non-party, candidate centered electoral system in our country, but it makes “success” rather more difficult to measure.

I apologize if this is old news on this site, but I just learned most of it this week, finding it by nosing around on the internet, certainly not any of it from the MSM.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.203/pub_detail.asp This is a link to an article by Cliff Kincaid linking his mysterious, nefarious connections to William Ayres, Bernardine Dohrn, Frank Marshall Davis, et. al.

Following are some words from Peter Olnos, a former Washington Post reporter and editor, (and one-time associate of I. F. Stone, the uncle of Kathy Boudin, a member of the Weather Underground, who served 22 years in prison for her role in the Brinks Armed Robbery in 1981 which took the lives of 2 police officers and a security guard. She was recently released in 2003. Her son, Chesa was raised by William Ayres and Bernardine Dohrn. He later attended Yale University and received a Rhodes Scholorship and then spent time in Venezuela, telling everyone how great things are there. But I digress.)

Here is Peter Olnos in his own words, speaking about the book he helped Scott McClellan to write and publish bashing his former boss, President George Bush:

“First we had to ascertain what kind of book he wanted to write,” said Osnos, a former Washington Post reporter and editor. “We are journalists, independent-minded publishers. We weren’t interested in a book that was just a defense of the Bush administration. It had to pass our test of independence, integrity and candor.”…
Osnos called the book “a really sophisticated, thoughtful, reasoned and, in many ways, pained portrait of a president” and said, “The Bush he came to serve went off the rails.”

Peter Osnos

Nov. 21, 2007

Peter Osnos, the founder and editor-in-chief of Public Affairs Books, which is publishing McClellan’s book in April, tells NBC from his Connecticut home that McCLellan, “Did not intend to suggest Bush lied to him.”

Osnos says when McClellan went before the White House press corps in 2003 to publicly exonerate Libby and Rove, the problem was that his statement was not true. Osnos said the president told McClellan what “he thought to be the case.” But, he says, McClellan believes, “the president didn’t know it was not true.”

In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, released Monday on the publisher’s web site, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby were “not involved” in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame. “There was one problem. It was not true,” McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Monday. “I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president’s chief of staff and the president himself.”

******

Peter Osnos, the liberal founder of PublicAffairs books who “worked very closely” with Scott McClellan on his anti-Bush screed which has enraptured the news media, denied, the Washington Post reported Friday, that McClellan had “undergone heavy-handed editing,” but in maintaining that he had not steered McClellan to write anything he didn’t believe, Osnos exposed a political agenda as he conceded he had no interest in a pro-George W. Bush book. Equating criticism of the Bush administration with “integrity and candor,” Osnos, the former Washington Post reporter and editor who in March denounced Rush Limbaugh as “bombastic, aggressive, and mean,” told the Post:

We are journalists, independent-minded publishers. We weren’t interested in a book that was just a defense of the Bush administration. It had to pass our test of independence, integrity and candor.

******

Peter Osnos, who wrote Wednesday that he “worked very closely” with Scott McClellan on McClellan’s new book published by PublicAffairs which Osnos founded, is a liberal whose publishing house is affiliated with the far-left The Nation magazine and the publisher of The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_108950.html

I hope you find this information as interesting as I do.

I heard that John McCain and Sarah Palin are members of a radical extremist organization known as the Republican Party. This is one of the most corrupt, dangerous, and destructive cults in the world.

A lot of people here really need to understand that people don’t care about any of these things. they won’t believe some fanatical bloggers who’ll say anything. No. Obama is no secret communist. He might lean socialist, but that’s a very different thing. In any case, he’d be a social democrat (which I don’t think he’ll hide the fact that he is). It seems many here don’t understand the difference between socialism and communism. It seems uncle McCarthy’s politics of fear got to some of you and never let you go. What do you think he’s going to do when he wins? Line up people and shoot them? Take all your property and money? Come on! You’re just mindless fanatics just like those we see so much on the left. Is Obama the best possible candidate for president? No he’s not. Is he a better candidate than John McCain? By a mile. McCain is not a bad person, he’s just your typical career politician, (with even more dubious tie$) and frankly, those aren’t very popular right now. Every once in a while there is a need for something new: a person, an idea, or just a plain generational change. Now is one of those times. Things are bad. They got this way while Republicans were in charge for 8 years. Democrats would’ve won this election even if Mickey Mouse had been their candidate. That’s not to say americans are ignorant, they are, but it says they’ve lost their trust in the ruling party. It like a dressing room: They tried red, and didn’t like it. Now, they’re trying blue.

The typical Obama voter is a myopic, selfish, and pop-culture driven individual that usually doesn’t think beyond the next five minutes.

fanatics are all in obama’s corner

I heard that John McCain and Sarah Palin are members of a radical extremist organization known as the Republican Party. This is one of the most corrupt, dangerous, and destructive cults in the world.

RADICAL CONSERVATIVES THAT WANT GOVERNMENT TO FORCE EVERYONE TO BE THE WAY THEY WANT, HEAR ONLY WHAT THEY THINK IS RIGHT and BELIEVE WHAT THEY PREACH EVEN WHEN ITS COUNTER SCIENCE. THATS THE REAL DANGER. GOVERNMENT GET OUT OF MY PRIVATE CHOICES OVER MY OWN BODY!

OBAMA/BIDEN= DREAM TEAM

IM IN LOVVVVVEEEEEEE WITH OBAMA AND SO ARE MOST AMERICANS. WE CANT HELP IT. HE IS BRILLIANCE, COMPASSION, KOOOL AND WISDOM DEFINED. AND A TRUE AMERICAN HERO~

hot women for obama campaign??? i really hope that was just a right wing fanatic in disguise.

How did that happen? I am not that internet savvy but chicagodsa.org was registered in 1999. The endorsement was in 1996. It smells fishy.

You right wingers are so hate-filled and so desperate. Now that the country isn’t voting republican, the country has become “stupid” and Obama is an “embarrassment.” So, I guess the country was “smart” when it voted for Dubya ? You guys are something else. Talk about sour grapes and sore losers. Play the “hussein” card and “un-aemrican” and other bs cards all you want - - most of the country disagrees with your sorry views. Most republicans I know are not as sad and pathetic and desperate as the nonsense I read here. Grow up.

OH and I forgot - - blame the MSM for everything when all else fails. The problem with you folks is that you take everything reported on Fox and Drudge and by Rush as Gospel, worthy of press anywhere. Newsflash - - they are not the standard by which “news” is to be judged. The press has a responsibility to not become the National Enquirer. I see conservative opinions by noted conservative columnists peppered all over the “liberal” publications you all bash. Clinton was skewered by your now hated MSM during Monica-gate. Reagan was beloved in the MSM. The MSM made Dukakis look like an idiot. The MSM played up the Al Gore is stiff and arrogant angle. The MSM played up when Bush ran in 2000 about how “likeable” he was. And your candidate until this year called the MSM his “base.” Your candidate McCain is losing because of the economic conditions in our country and an unpopular war! NOT BECAUSE OF THE MSM! You guys are such morons. It’s not that the MSM “wants Obama” as you so desperately like to to believe - - if things were just fine in the country, McCain would trounce Obama or any other dem candidate. Get over it. You had 8 years - - give the guy a chance. Can’t be any worse than Bush. And let’s get something else straight about this socialism nonsense - - first, he’s not, but even if he was, there’s a thing called congress that would never got that route, under dems or repubs. Please think people!

Matthew Weaver:

Thank you for your piece about Obama’s “radical past”. I do appreciate even hostile coverage when it allows people to actually review the source materials. As a polemic, I think you’ve done fairly well. One measure is how widely the article spreads, and this is doing relatively well compared to similar efforts.

The key to a good polemic, however, is to stick as closely to the facts as possible; any misdirection should be left to the reader. As models of good practice, I would recommend Cliff Kincaid and Josh Muravchik. They’re not perfect but no one is.

However, I think you fell down in one crucial point. Nowhere in the article proper do you actually SAY that the New Party is a creation of the Democratic Socialists of America. This is a good thing. It allows your readers to jump to that conclusion themselves, and you’ll note that many of the repostings on the web do just that. Your error is have written the rest of the article as if that were indeed a fact. Chicago DSA was generally supportive of the New Party in Chicago, but the New Party was very much a different organization. Even the estimate, quoted in a recent article by Muravchik, that there was a 15% overlap in membership should be taken with salt. The folks organizing the New Party (ACORN, mostly, in Chicago) did not regard the ideological left as a prime (or even secondary) constituency.

The assumption that DSA = NP makes much of the article nonsensical.

Although I should add that for many of your readers, any distinction between the New Party, DSA, the Communist Party, the Americans for Democratic Action, the AFL-CIO, etc., would be mostly academic. We’re all unpatriotic, amoral animals, yes? In that context, you could say pretty much whatever you please, whatever makes a good story, and it would make perfect sense. It would not be factual nor would it be the truth.

1a) The only Chicago DSA meeting that Obama every attended was the Town Hall Meeting on Economic Insecurity. And that was not exclusively a DSA meeting, having been organized by the UofC YDS and the UofC College Democrats. If Obama ever attended any other Chicago DSA meeting, it would be news to me, and I’d love to learn of it. (The memorial for Saul Mendelson, for example, was not organized or endorsed by DSA, though you can be sure that many DSA members were there.)

2a) Obama did not seek the endorsement of Chicago DSA. This paragraph only factual and truthful if you were to substitute New Party for Chicago DSA.

3a) The same as 2a above, although if you have any evidence that Obama actually used Chicago DSA’s endorsement, I’d love to see it. In fact, as he used the old political tactic of having all his opponents removed from the ballot, I’m not sure that he had much of a campaign.

5a) This is actually both factually wrong and untruthful; Obama extended the invitation to the New Party at a New Party meeting.

1b) Once again, the article was reporting on a meeting of the New Party, not a Chicago DSA meeting.

5b) Once again, the article was reporting on a meeting of the New Party, not a Chicago DSA meeting.

Making Chicago DSA the fulcrum of your argument makes the story easy. For conservatives, we are such a convenient hate-object. You need not go any further than the word “socialists” and all critical facility is gone. The actual story is rather more complicated, difficult to write, even if it should still be worrisome for most conservatives.

Thankfully, none of this substantially changes your conclusion as in that final paragraph you broaden your focus from Chicago DSA to Chicago’s left in general. From an ideologically conservative point of view, these are questions worth asking even if I don’t agree that it’s of much interest to the majority of voters. It was a good thing that you included links to the original documentation as I think much of what we published in “New Ground” will provide some insights to Obama, even if I’m not sure that many of the folks commenting on your article have actually understood what they’ve read. (It’s not stupidity, mostly, but rather a matter of expectations getting in the way of perception.)

Hoping for your complete and utter defeat,
Bob Roman
Editor, “New Ground”

You people have totally lost it. The rightwing of American politics is a spectacular disaster. You have had TOTAL control of the government for the last 8 years. And the result is financial apocalypse, moral vacancy, anti-intellectual stupidity and military quagmire.

You are a complete embarrassment to this country. The entire world cannot stand you. And contrary to the propaganda that you so eagerly regurgitate, the blame for that rests with you - your attitudes and your actions.

It’s time to take your medicine like adults. It’s time for you to retreat back into your reptilian caves and STFU.

Dude, give me a break! Obama a democratic socialist? A DSA member? In my dreams! I should know, I AM a DSA member!

Obama is a centrist who supports neoliberal economics overall. See the article by Joseph Schwartz in the latest issue of DSA’s publication, Democratic Left.

And get your facts straight. DSA is NOT a political party; it is a political activist organization. Check the website, http://www.dsausa.org

So Obama spoke on a panel at the University of Chicago, a public event that the campus DSA chapter organized? So what? That does not make him a DSA member or mean he shares our values and policy preferences. It just means some students wanted to hear what he and other people had to say.

Great work! Thanks for getting the word out.

The association with the Acorn group also is upsetting since they get our tax dollars and openly support Obama.
The Acron group is at the center of bringing the financial markets down with the subprime loans and is involved in voter fraud. Obama has supported this group and promoted and helped pass the bad regulation. Since tax dollars go to Acron, we tax payers are paying for the support of Obama. How unfair is that? Leave it to the Congress to waste our hard earned money and use our money to go against what we believe. Thank you all for trying to get the word out on the real Obama. No one gets any information on Obama from the media.

“Politics makes for strange bedfellows.”

See http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/politicsmake.html for the meaning.

I do not find it problematic that any candidate would seek to appeal to all (non-violent) sectors of a society. I’d certainly hope that Republicans would be able to reach out to people in this Chicago New Party on whatever areas where they have common interest. I’m sure there are a variety of areas where they do have common interests.

Obama’s campaign has raised so much money that they can even afford trolls to go around and discredit factual,documented history Obama was involved in. How wonderful for the marxist Obama and his followers.

Now because they are here, (SEE ABOVE REMARKS) everyone just walk away and don’t think like Obama minions, just forget this story. I think Obama maniacs get a free sucker if they turn people away from the truth.

Like ACORN, they get paid for doing illegal activities, obama’s trolls get paid for lying.

Now when is Obama going to take his lying socialist self to court and prove citizenship in Berg vs Obama? With all the lies coming out it is a given he is lying about being a naturalized citizen.

Comment by Michele Ross

Before you posted did you even go to wayback internet archive links for your association that Obama had scrubbed from the internet? Your association has lied he was a member? They did all those records on him for what?

Lemme guess, you are also a lifelong republican voting democrat for the first time in your life?

You people are hysterical (in many senses of the word). DSA radical? Please. They’re the moderates- you’re the extremists. BTW, the big, scary Socialist International includes Britain’s Labour Party. “OMG! A member of the Socialist International has been in the White House!!!”

Is Barack Obama circumventing the Constitution?
http://www.thehemi.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=3030

Check out the articles. Scary stuff.

popular theme. i agreed with author

I finally got to read this article. Did you? It seems it was supposed to say something negative about Barack, but what I read is that he was a participant in a local organization where he could try to make changes happen, where he could influence some people to understand the need for country/ state/ cities to reform. He voted for welfare reform saying that we need to help people who are struggling to receive childcare and medical benefits while they get school, and/or on-the-job training so they can learn to help themselves. Any one who doesn’t believe that people need help getting their lives straightened must be….republican??? And that the system doesn’t need reform??
How many people have you met that twist federal aid to suit their needs, rather than trying to help themselves? He went to Harvard which doesn’t make him better or worse than anyone, but it does simply highlight the fact that he has a high degree of intelligence. And he is eloquent in his speech, because he is a thoughtful, considerate man who thinks about what he wants to say and understands the best way to get it across. I admire this man who is resourceful, respectful, and intelligent. Radical past, are you kidding me? He was involved in his community, in a program to help his community. That is admirable

It’s not Barack Obama! It’s the people for which he sold his soul. Read this: This is a MUST!

http://www.colony14.net/id41.html

Obama sold his soul. He was a crack user from early years and I would suspect to today. He flunked out of high school, college, etc. His degree and attendence to Harvard were paid by radicals. He no longer has his law degree. I suspect he never passed the bar exame the first time. He now owes the redicals everything at our expense. A puppet on a string. Either he produces or he is GONE….

October 19, 2008: Louis Farrakhan deemed a “new beginning” for the group. (Islam)

http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/253/story/476672.html

And for all you people who beleive in abortion: Islam denounces it 100%.

Freedom for and foremost. That’s what my forefather’s fought for and I will also……….

Thank you to every one of the honourable people posting this powerfully important information. Are the MSM catching on that a Marxist America may not be in their own best interest? I think so, but let’s speed the process.

Surely some less radical persons with access to television time, who understand the implications of Obama’s hidden AGENDA will offer opportunities to McCain’s team to speak on T.V. and present their concerns. The truth is, that they have been raising these serious questions all along. However, the MSM brushed it off as nonsense.

What do you think of Obama’s panels of experts? Doesn’t it have a sort of communist China flavour to it? It tells me that he is getting desperate.

We need to create a surge right at home for McCain to stop this threat!

When I say that we need a SURGE, I mean a media, word of mouth, visible signage surge –any visible, hearable, noticeable, out there surge that is legal and acceptable –and follow it with a voting surge!

THE PERFECT STORM FOR A DEPRESSION …
A far left Media …
A far left President …
A far left Congress …
A far left Senate …
A far left Supreme Court …
This would eliminate all the checks and
balances that our democracy is based upon.
Barack Obama formed his political and economic
ideology, and his radical associations, during the
TWENTY YEARS … yes, that’s TWENTY YEARS … when
he followed Marxist Black Liberation Theology, in
Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American, racist church.
And, now, with our country on the brink of depression,
Obama wants to impose new laws which would change
America into a third world country.
You may be upset with George Bush, but in spite
of Obama’s slogans, John McCain is NOT George Bush …
so don’t over react to Obama’s 600 million dollar
Propaganda campaign designed to highjack America !!!
A vote for Obama is a vote for changing America beyond
recognition … and, it would be a vote for voter fraud,
a corrupt media, socialism, and the end to America as we know it.
Keep America free, strong, safe, and American …
Elect McCain/Palin on November 4th.

Majority of these comments on here is so innacurate it is actually funny. We need to check Obama out, because he wasn’t born in this country ARE YOU KIDDING ME, HOW IGNORANT CAN YOU BE. Now I know what kind of people are supporting McCain. Do you know that Palin (who you are actually voting for) said that her job description and I quote “Would Be To Run The Senate”. You are so scared and annoyed that there is a possibility that a BLACK man will be president that you are voting for someone who does not even know the job description of a Vice President….and at the same time you have the nerve to say that you love this country….you are trying to organize a war against the media….WHY, the media is not telling these idiots what to say they are saying it all by themselves….

Why don’t you just be adults and stop hiding behind the media and just say you don’t want to vote for him because he is BLACK…..all that other stuff is you just blowing smoke……

It’s no surprise that someone like Obama would gravitate toward Chicago - seeing it is the birth place for liberalism and communism in the U.S.

Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928–35. By Randi Storch. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007. xiv, 297 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03206-6.)

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=EryjLMnWdvAC&dq=Red+Chicago+Storch&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=TCfPyRWLjT&sig=YEr-HYmM7G5xnkqnjx_M0ejtnYs&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPP1,M1

http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/95.2/br_99.html

You people have lost your minds.

Oh and BTW, no one is listening. You had complete control of the country and it’s nothing short of a total disaster. Your credibility is zero.

It’s time to go away and STFU.

It’s funny to hear the wingtards hysterically ranting about “radicalism”.

Look around. The Freaks are CLEARLY on the right these days.

Instead of attacking the guy for trying to make a difference, why don’t you try and make some positive changes in your community. Obama is now the president of our country. There is nothing you can do to change that. Deal with it and try to make a differance where you can!
Benjamin

Not suprising, AND he has the glowing approval of the
Communist Party USA…..

Sam Webb, National Chair, CPUSA, writes on the web site:
http://www.cpusa.org/article/articleview...
“Just look at the new lay of the land: a friend of labor and its allies sits in the White House. Larger Democratic majorities control Congress. A feeling of renewal and hope is in the air. Public opinion polls show a high favorability rating for our new President. And the labor and people’s movement that was so instrumental to the election’s outcome, after a short holiday pause, is off and running. “

Know Thine Enemy http://wethepeople.org/wpblog/index.php/2009/02/10/know-thine-enemy/