American journalist, author and radio host, Aaron Klein, along with historian and researcher, Brenda J. Elliott, blow the lid off the dome of silence surrounding the Obama administration as they boldly unmask the nation’s 44th president in their latest chilling monograph, “The Manchurian President: Barack Obama’s Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists.” Providing close to 900 footnotes and countless pages of documentation, they reveal surreptitious ties to radical leftists of all stripes. If the title of this book sounds at all familiar, it is because it is a takeoff on the 1959 political thriller novel by Robert Condon called “The Manchurian Candidate” in which the son of a prominent US political family has been brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for the Communist party.
While Klein does not infer that President Obama is part of a Communist sleeper cell, he does present an exhaustive investigation into President Obama’s background and his ties to pivotal figures in the Communist movement, both inside the White House and out, who also happen to be major players in crafting legislation. This weighty tome weaves a complex spider’s web narrative that is replete with a plethora of names and organizations of radical leftists, hitherto unknown by the public, who helped shape Obama’s ideology and career.
Starting with Obama’s childhood affiliation as a Sunday school attendee at the First Unitarian in Honolulu, a radical activist church that not only served as sanctuary for draft dodgers in the 1960s and 70s, but had strong links to the even more radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). It was the SDS that gave birth to the underground terrorist offshoot called the Weatherman. This is the organization that Obama’s Chicago liaison, Bill Ayers, achieved fame as a Pentagon bomber-conspirator and a notorious leftist student agitator. Ayers summed up the Weatherman ideology, which he referred to as “an American Red Army,” by saying, “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents.”
Klein informs us that Obama worked directly with Ayers in Chicago back in 1988, after Ayers resurfaced from his underground status amid multiple criminal charges related to his extremist activities. The charges were eventually dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct. Obama and Ayers were introduced by Gerald “Jerry” Kellman, a Marxist acolyte of radical community organizer, Saul Alinsky, and thus, a professional association was forged. Obama served with a Ayers-run community advocacy coalition called the “Alliance for Better Chicago Schools,” or ABC. When Obama launched his political career in 1995, the venue for his first fundraiser was the Chicago apartment of Bill Ayers and the two served alongside each other from 1995 to 2000 on a $100 million education foundation called the “Chicago Annenberg Challenge” or CAC.
Says Klein, “To underscore Ayers’ radical mentality in 1995, while he worked closely with Obama, the unrepentant terrorist gave an interview in that year for author Ron Chepesiuk’s book, Sixties Radicals, in which Ayers stated, ‘I’m a radical, leftist, small ‘c’ communist.’”
Following the guidelines of Alinsky-like tactics of working within the system to overthrow the capitalist structure of American government, Klein speaks of Obama’s direct links to the CAC’s role in “disbursing money through various far-left community organizers, such as ACORN.” Such socialist led organizations and unions like Project VOTE!, the SEIU (Service Employees International Union), the AFL-CIO (the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations), AFSCME (American Federation of State and County Municipal Employees) and the Apollo Alliance are also directly linked to ACORN and Obama cronies with “questionable” ties. Quoting from a 2001 book by Jarol B. Manheim, “The Death of a Thousand Cuts: Corporate Campaigns and the Attack on the Corporation,” Klein says that ”by 1986, ACORN had forged institutional ties with AFL-CIO Central Labor Councils in at least 30 cities” and that ACORN’s “People’s Platform” included such radical reformist objectives as “free medical care, a public defender system, the elimination of the state income tax for low income people and higher welfare benefits.”
Obama’s associations with the Nation of Islam, Black Liberation Theology and black political extremists are also revealed in nuanced detail, as Klein sheds light on the fact that Obama attended the million man march organized by Nation of Islam leader and rabid Jew-hater, Louis Farrakhan. For over 20 years Obama attended the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago where Farrakhan gave guest lectures at the behest of anti-American extremist preacher, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Klein also uncovers the fact that the Nation of Islam was on Obama’s payroll in the early days of his political career and that his senior advisor, David Axelrod, also maintained ties to radical Islam through his association as a board member of St. Sabena’s Church in Chicago which served as a haven for black nationalists of the Nation of Islam variety.
The backgrounds of other key Obama advisors and “Czars” such as Valerie Jarrett, Van Jones, Andy Stern, Cass Sunstein and John Holdren are also carefully scrutinized by Klein, as well as their political leanings and the influence they wield in this current administration. Ghastly epiphanies proliferate, as Klein documents the fact that Communist Party member, Frank Marshall Davis, who would become a mentor to the young Barack Obama in Hawaii, worked closely with Vernon Jarrett, Valerie Jarrett’s father-in-law, in at least three communist dominated organizations in Chicago in the late 1940s. Former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, who resigned his post in September of 2009, was forced out of his job by allegations of an association with a Marxist group during the 1990s. Having been arrested several times during the 90s for political activism, Jones was quoted in a November 2005 interview with the East Bay Express as saying that while in jail, “I met all these young radical people of color — I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’”
“The Manchurian President” also exposes how Obama’s health-care policy, masked by moderate populist rhetoric, was pushed along and partially crafted by extremists. Some of them reveal in their own words that their principal aim was to achieve corporate socialist goals and a vast increase in government powers.
Klein was recently quoted on FOX news as saying, “It is clear that Barack Obama has ties to an anti-American fringe nexus that was instrumental in building his political career from the beginning all the way through now.” He added that, “I believe this work is crucial to Americans from across the political spectrum, including mainstream Democrats, who should be alarmed that their party has been hijacked by an extreme-left bent on permanently changing the party to fits its radical agenda.”
This meticulously documented piece of outstanding investigative research is a must read for all the good citizens of this great country who are concerned with the future of our cherished freedoms and values.
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People of integrity do not believe in guilt-by-association. Others are less evolved.
Excuse me? "People of integrity do not believe in guilt by association?" What kind of juvenile, schizophrenic b.s. is that? You come off like your are trying to sound like some sort of moral authority but you really fall flat. How about birds of a feather flock together? Or does that make me some sort of racist, constitution worshiping, out of date, politically incorrect, old fart? Please, next time, at least say something half way intelligent with a little meat on it. Not this hit and run holier than thou crapola.
if it looks like a duck, smells like a duck and walks like a duck… it must be a duck.
Besides, all this stuff showing the ties Obama has with these radical groups is out there. For whatever reason, white guilt, tired of Bush and Clinton, etc. voted for this
president… who is destroying the country for all of us; black, white, rich or poor. He
will enslave us to government and they will control you.
Trust me, I have relatives living in Russia and you don't know what it's like.
Sorry, watchful, but perhaps some education is in order, because "guilt by association" is illogical:
"An association fallacy is an inductive informal fallacy of the type hasty generalization or red herring which asserts that qualities of one thing are inherently qualities of another, merely by an irrelevant association. The two types are sometimes referred to as guilt by association and honor by association. Association fallacies are a special case of red herring, and can be based on an appeal to emotion." More info at http://www.fallacyfiles.org/guiltbya.html
This is "association by association" not 'guilt by association'. There are no crimes alleged – just describing the people, organizations, and philosophy that have formed and guide our president.
The is reasonable and fair. We the people have a right to know how our president thinks and why our president acts as he does.
Your logic and categories are flawed.
Sorry, ajnn, but actual "crimes" are irrelevant to "guilt by association," which asserts that QUALITIES (not crimes) of one person are attributed to associates of that person. Attributing negative qualities of Obama's associates to Obama himself constitutes "guilt by association."
Please read the above definition, or Google "guilt by association." Your response is flawed.
what an idiot. If your in the car with a criminal, your an accomplice. You just rambled on with a bunch of mindless crap. IDIOT
"Watchful" needs to be more watchful, because claiming "juvenile, schizophrenic b.s." suggests ignorance of cognitive functions:
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Like other cognitive biases, guilt by association is designed to help people function in the world by allowing them to make quick judgments. Sometimes, this can be a good thing, as cognitive biases can allow people to interpret information quickly and sometimes surprisingly accurately. In other instances, cognitive biases get in the way of actually evaluating information, and they can lead people into logical traps.
People often use guilt by association in rhetoric, in appeals to the emotions of readers and listeners. For example, a politician might say “my opponent has been seen in the company of a radical activist, therefore my opponent is also a radical activist.” Plays on emotion often feature symbols with which everyone is familiar, such as Hitler as a symbol of evil in an argument like “Hitler supported euthanasia, so euthanasia must be evil.”
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- http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-guilt-by-associat…
Kaleokualoha, if I recall from another site, is actually the son of Franklin Davis. Clearly he is supportive of Obama for understandable personal reasons.
Any mention of Franklin Davis being a devoted Marxist or having an impact on Obama, and Kaleokualoha responds.
Thought exercise:
My grandparents were racists. My parents were racists. My high school mentor was a racist. In college, I made friends with racist professors. After college, a disciple of one of the most widely-known racists took me under his wing and trained me. After that, I joined a racist group. After that, I joined another racist group. I chose a racist for my doctor. I attended a racist "church" for twenty years. I eulogized a racist. I launched my career in a racist's living room. I got the experience on my resume with the help of a racist. I go around spouting racist catch phrases. I just helped a bunch of racists get sweet jobs. My most powerful current ally is a racist. My current spiritual mentor is a racist.
Would referring to me as a racist be "guilt by association" if this were my history? Of course not. You would have to be an utter fool to believe me if I claimed that I was not a racist under these circumstances.
And when you replace each instance of "racist" in that paragraph with "Marxist," this is Obama's history.
Are you using one of the creative definitions of "racism," or the standard definition involving racial superiority?
Your response is to question whether the racism in my hypothetical is actually racism? Yes, it is. What an odd attempt at a rebuttal.
Let's also help you to understand that racism does not necessarily involve racial superiority. It can, but it doesn't have to.
racist – based on racial intolerance; "racist remarks"
racist – a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others
racist – discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
racism – the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior to members of other races
racism – discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of another race
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Note that in both cases, only one of the official definitions involves an aspect of superiority.
Progress! We need to define terms before debate. Some boneheads have come up with their own self-serving definitions of "racism."
Are you saying that all of the "racists" identified in the your above post, in the case of Obama, advocated discriminatory or abusive behavior to members of another race? If so, then we can examine them more closely.
I believe you will find the opposite: that these Obama associates advocated racial inclusion and equality rather than racial discrimination. For example: Frank Marshall Davis elimination of all color barriers.
Please read it again. It was a thought exercise using a hypothetical situation, followed by a statement that "when you replace each instance of 'racist' in that paragraph with 'Marxist,' this is Obama's history."
Go evolve yourself!
So association with skin heads, neo nazis, ….. that wouldnt matter to you, right?
Your brain dont think good. Try another tack, cause that one doesnt fly with anyone, on this or any other planet.
well no… not if said skin head just happened to attend the same day care center as you, or was just your distant cousin. These are relationships that you have no control over. That's why these arguments make no sense.
I'm sorry but your brain dont think good either. Your telling me that all these radicals were just mere acquaintances?
So tell me Sonne, if they were not just acquaintances would you be upset? Or are these characters ok with you?
I believe that "acquaintance" and "friend" are the only possible non-familial personal relationships. Virtually everyone who attended college had radical acquaintances. Unless the degree of affinity meets the definition of "friend" ("a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard"), the association is a mere acquaintance. Acquaintance is irrelevant.
USG security clearance background investigations do not even question the politics of a subject's "friends," much less the politics of a subject's "acquaintances." Only the subject's political position, and the subject's membership in organizations advocating the VIOLENT overthrow of the USG, may be disqualifying in this regard.
The USG, and every person of integrity, rejects such primitive "guilt-by-association" implications. Associating with members of a disqualifying group does NOT disqualify any candidate for a security clearance, nor would association with Ayers, Rev. Wright, or Frank Marshall Davis. Security clearance criteria evaluate the subject's participation in subversive organizations, not guilt by associating with members. Further, activity younger than 16 is specifically excluded from consideration (see http://www.tpub.com/content/aviation/14243/css/14… .
The SF86, Questionnaire for National Security Positions, can be examined or downloaded at http://www.opm.gov/Forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf .
What are you some kind of lawyer? I dont give a shit about your fine tuned definitions, we all know what his beliefs are, just look at his actions. His actions line up with all of his "acquaintances".
Either those "radical" were actually friends, or they were acquaintences. You can base conclusions on evidence, or you can jump to conclusions despite the evidence. As they say on CSI: "Follow the evidence!"
Jumping to conclusions seems to be quite common in the fantasyland of the right-wing blogosphere. When asked to substantiate their conclusions, we may encounter bluster, red herrings, and ad hominem attacks more often than rational, focused answers. Military Intelligence students are quickly disabused of such behavior, and learn the value of supporting every conclusion they proffer. Researchers at the Rand Corporation and other highly regarded research institutions often come from such rigorous backgrounds, where conclusions are based on empirical evidence, rather than wishful thinking.
His political and economic "actions" line up with George W. Bush more than any leftists! His "actions" have been derided as "Bush lite" by the American Left. His conservative national security "actions" have been condemned by the authentic liberal ACLU and liberal pundit Glenn Greenwald. His conservative economic policies have been condemned by Nobel economist and authentic liberal Paul Krugman.
So much for Chicken Little complaints about Obama's actions!
"By their deeds shall you know them."
"Birds of a feather, flock together."
This is "association by association" not 'guilt by association'. There are no crimes alleged – just describing the people, organizations, and philosophy that have formed and guide our president.
The is reasonable and fair. We the people have a right to know how our president thinks and why our president acts as he does.
So then you'd never criticize Trent Lott for giving speeches before the Council of Conservative Citizens (formerly known as the "White Citizens Council")? Good to know.
Speakers should be judged for WHAT they say, not the composition of their audience.
It's not guilt by association. It's a history of his beliefs and activities.
Also, "evolved" people do not characterize disagreement as evolutionary backwardness.
Sorry for being unclear. Nobody characterized "disagreement" as "evolutionary backwardness" in this discussion. However, "guilt by association" IS a police state tactic symptomatic of less evolved societies.
Right. The problem is that your friend, or half-brother, or whatever, Barack Barry Soetoro Obama, is openly friendly towards overt police states, gushes over the worst nations in the world (Islamic states), and goes out of his way to punish nations that are truly democratic – or at least much more so than the ones he likes. Your father was a Communist and indoctrinated Barry. That does not make you one, but it makes you unable to defend His Oneness.
"His oneness"? Are you referring to Obama? I am easily able to defend Obama from deliberate misrepresentation, because the deception is so transparent.
Example: allegations that the FBI admitted destroying Obama's grandfather's FBI file. If you review primary source evidence (FBI letters), it's obvious that the FBI made no such admission, nor did the FBI confirm that it even HAD such a file! Those lies were easily debunked.
Further, there is no evidence that my father indoctrinated Obama. Your claim misrepresents such speculation as fact, and is therefore deceptive, not unlike false accusations against the Duke lacrosse team. It is a breach of integrity.
I encourage you to engage in honest debate. If you have any such evidence, please advise.
Kaleokualoha, mahalo for the clarifications.
1) 'his oneness' is a joke. Sorry, bad joke based on his efforts to project himself as a Messiah;
2) I know nothing about the FBI and Mr. Dunham's files;
3) there is evidence, not proof, that your father did this all by himself. I agree with you that he was only one of many. I suspect that Bill Ayers, Alinsky and Rev. Wright were bigger influences;
4) Duke lacrosse team? I think you are reaching.
There is abundant evidence of Barack's real views, Kaleo.
Let me ask it this way. I am an Israeli citizen. Does Barack recognize my right to have a Jewish state? As a Jew, I recognize the right of Hawaiians to celebrate their ancestry, and continue their culture. Must I destroy mine to please the Marxists of the world?
Once again, please provide evidence that Davis ever indoctrinated Obama. University of Kansas Professor Edgar Tidwell, whom AIM's Cliff Kincaid cites as "an expert on the life and writings of Davis," dismisses misrepresentation of Davis's influence in one simple paragraph:
"Although my research indicates that Davis joined the CPUSA as a "closet member" during World War II, there is no evidence that he was a Stalinist, or even a Party member before WWII. Further, to those attempting to make the specious stand for the concrete, there is no evidence that he instructed Barack Obama in communist ideology. Frank Marshall Davis did NOT believe in overthrowing the USA. He was committed to what the nation professed to be. For him, communism was primarily an intellectual vehicle to achieve a political end-a possible tool for gaining the constitutional freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for ALL Americans"
Please, please do not insult our collective intelligence so blatantly. It is crystal clear that your father, the communist, was a mentor to Obama, and it is not a coincidence that he happens to be one of the myriad Marxists of whom Obama was either a student or ally throughout his life. We're not stupid; you're not getting anywhere with this.
The issue is not whether or not he was "a mentor." The issue is whether or not he indoctrinated Obama in communism, or ANY topics not covered in "Dreams From My Father."
To speculate that he did, with any empirical evidence, is jumping to conclusions. To misrepresent such speculation as fact is intellectually dishonest.
Once again, since you seem to be avoiding the question: What evidence do you have that Davis ever indoctrinated Obama in communism. Further, what evidence do you have that Obama was even aware of Davis's link to the CPUSA. As they say on CSI: "Follow the evidence."
BTW: Although it is not germane to the question of evidence, I personally know such claims are rubbish because Davis did not even indoctrinate his own son, now retired as an Air Force Intelligence Officer granted TS/SCI access.
These unsubstianted accusations are the same kind of crap flunk against Dr. Hatfill in the anthrax letters case, and against the Duke lacrosse team. They are trumped-up claims used to persecute their victims.
"The issue is not whether or not he was 'a mentor.' The issue is whether or not he indoctrinated Obama in communism, or ANY topics not covered in 'Dreams From My Father.'
To speculate that he did, with any empirical evidence, is jumping to conclusions. To misrepresent such speculation as fact is intellectually dishonest."
It would be very hard to believe that your father did not convey his beliefs to Obama, and that it's just a coincidence that Obama, who has spent his entire adult life seeking out and allying with the Marxist community, was mentored by your father, who just so happens to be a communist. Occam's razor, anyone?
Thanks for your response, Sandy, but I believe that "Occam's razor" is for the intellectually lazy who look for the simplest explanations. Your conclusion is a perfect example of the "post hoc" fallacy.
Just because something happened AFTER an earlier event does not mean that it happened BECAUSE of the earlier event. People are suckered all the time with such fallacious reasoning, and become perfect targets for disinformation campaigns. As they say on CSI: "Follow the evidence."
Further, you seem to assume that my father's "belief's" were collectivist, and that he communicated such "beliefs" to Obama. I challenge you to provide ANY evidence that he advocated collectivism of communism. Much of his work is posted online, which should enhance your research. Good luck!
Your father was a communist. He was a mentor to Obama. Obama spent decades of his adult life seeking out and allying with Marxists. I do not find the idea that it's just a coincidence that Obama, who has spent his entire adult life seeking out and allying with the Marxist community, was mentored by your father, who just so happens to be a communist, credible. Is it possible? Yes. Anything is possible. Is it likely? I think not.
Why do you post that Frank Marshall Davis was Obama’s “mentor”? Because conservative firebrand Cliff Kincaid said so? "Dreams From My Father" belies that urban myth. It's a pity Americans are so easily hoodwinked by this right-wing disinformation, just like we were duped regarding the Iraqi threat. But even today, some Americans would rather believe fully discredited lies than admit they were duped. They don't have the courage to admit their mistakes. For everyone else: "Follow the evidence."
Although Obama's book indicates "Frank" was a family friend who offered him advice on racial issues, Obama wrote that Davis "fell short" and his views were "incurable." Obama did not even visit Davis for a three year period (high school) before going to college. Obama's book proves that Obama did not consider Davis to be a "wise and trusted counselor," which is the standard definition of "mentor." By what creative definition can Davis be considered his "mentor"?
By exaggerating evidence that Davis advised Obama, yet ignoring evidence from the same source that Obama did NOT Frank to be a wise and trusted advisor, those who spread the urban myth Davis was Obama's "mentor" are as dishonest as ex-D.A. Mike Nifong. The "Nifong Syndrome" is the stacking of evidence by ignoring evidence that does not fit one's agenda. By portraying Davis as Obama's mentor, despite conclusive evidence to the contrary, fraudulent "opposition research" by Cliff Kincaid and others permeates the blogosphere. Their travesty of journalistic ethics, like their "AIM Reports," demonstrates that they are unreliable sources of information on the Davis-Obama relationship. As the epitome of contemporary propaganda, Cliff Kincaid may be a worthy successor to Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels.
"Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee."
– Immanuel Kant
Jumping to conclusions seems to be quite common in the fantasyland of the right-wing blogosphere. When asked to substantiate their conclusions, we may encounter bluster, red herrings, and ad hominem attacks more often than rational, focused answers.
Military Intelligence students are quickly disabused of such behavior, and learn the value of supporting every conclusion they proffer. Researchers at the Rand Corporation and other highly regarded research institutions often come from such rigorous backgrounds, where conclusions are based on empirical evidence, rather than wishful thinking.
"The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth." – William O. Douglas
I see that this last one really sent you into a tailspin.
Sorry, but I'm not buying that your communist father's relationship with Obama and Obama's choice to spend decades of his adult life seeking out and allying with the Marxist community boils down to a coincidence. It is much more likely that your father was indeed one of the people in Obama's life who conveyed this belief system to him.
Cochavi1 claimed Davis indoctrinated Obama in communism. It seems that both Sandy and Cochavi1 are "stacking the evidence" against Davis for political reasons, just like ex-D.A. Mike Nifong stacked the evidence against the Duke lacrosse team for political reasons. "Stacking the evidence," in case you are unaware, involves using only evidence that supports your case and ignoring exculpatory evidence.
In this case, the strongest exculpatory evidence comes from Professor Tidwell, who also provided the ONLY empirical evidence that Davis joined the CPUSA (a personal letter from Davis to a colleague). In this case Tidwell says there is NO EVIDENCE that Davis indoctrinated Obama, yet dishonest commenters ignore Professor Tidwell's expert opinion. They claim Davis indoctrinated Obama not because of evidence. They claim it because they WANT Davis to have indoctrinated Obama. This is the epitome of intelectual dishonesty!
Although your question seems to outside the scope of our discussion, I'm sure Obama recognizes Israel's right to exist. I believe he disagrees with Israeli expansion into the West Bank, which is an entirely different issue from Israeli right to exist or Marxism.
In the same vein, those who object to Israeli expansion may be dishonestly called "anti-Semitic," just as those who object to rap music may be dishonestly called "racist.." Playing the identity card is often the last resort of those who cannot debate the issues on their own merit.
I have another word that fits you to a tee: Sophmoric. Your word games are puerile and don't contribute anything to the discussion.
Obama is an extreme leftist who has surrounded himself with extreme leftists and is pursuing an extreme leftist agenda.
Evidently "Liberty Lover" suffers from a lack of perspective. Wingnuts on the fringe, however, cannot see the forest for the trees.
Obama's policies have been condemned as "Bush lite" by authentic liberal leaders including the ACLU, Glenn Greenwald, and Paul Krugmen. Those on the fringe cannot distinguish moderate from liberal policies. Time for a wake up call!
Even the New York Times has joined the liberal chorus criticizing Obama for his national security policy, this time pertaining to the Canadian citizen sent to Syria: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/opinion/16wed2….
Lack of perspective? Obama is Bush-lite? You seem to have confused moderate with "not socialist enough." Bush was a progressive and Obama is a socialist. There is no other way to explain nationalizing the auto industry, healthcare, financial services, student loans, etc and trying to censor the internet, prop-up dying newspapers (that support the Obama agenda) and all of the rest of the unconstitutional garbage that he has done or is trying to do.
Citing the ACLU on the subject of extremism is like citing Yasser Arafat on solvoing the "Jesish Problem."
If I were to say that your having rubbed elbows with a child molester in some tangential context somehow reflected badly on you, that would be "guilt by association."
If I were to say that your having proactively sought out and allied yourself with child molester after child molester after child molester after child molester after child molester after child molester after child molester – for decades – reflected badly on you, that would be "reality."
You example shows a lack of parallel construction, and therefore common sense. Child molesters are criminals under our legal system, whereas liberals and Marxists are protected under our legal system.
You don't seem to be grasping the point.
The point is that, while an incidental, tangential rubbing of elbows with a certain type of person does not say anything about you, a history of proactively seeking out and allying with a certain type of person over and over and over and over and over – for decades – does say something about you.
Whether child molesters are Marxists share the same legal status is not the point.
The only thing it says about you is that you have a reason to seek out such persons. A student may seek out Marxists, for example, to learn more about Marxism. This does not mean that they have internalized collectivist values.
Some African-American writers even joined the CPUSA decades ago because only the CPUSA subsidized their writing, just as people join the YMCA or various churches because membership has its privileges.
"The only thing it says about you is that you have a reason to seek out such persons. A student may seek out Marxists, for example, to learn more about Marxism. This does not mean that they have internalized collectivist values."
Sure, and if I spend my entire life seeking out and allying with racists, maybe that just means that I want to learn more about racism… even though I ally with them for decade after decade… right.
Fortunately, people of integrity do not jump to conclusions like that. Fortunately, people of integrity follow the evidence and do not misrepresent speculation as fact.
"The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth." – William O. Douglas
I'll refer to another commenter's thought exercise from earlier in the comments. Let's consider the following hypothetical:
My grandparents were racists. My parents were racists. My high school mentor was a racist. In college, I made friends with racist professors. After college, a disciple of one of the most widely-known racists took me under his wing and trained me. After that, I joined a racist group. After that, I joined another racist group. I chose a racist for my doctor. I attended a racist "church" for twenty years. I eulogized a racist. I launched my career in a racist's living room. I got the experience on my resume with the help of a racist. I go around spouting racist catch phrases. I just helped a bunch of racists get sweet jobs. My most powerful current ally is a racist. My current spiritual mentor is a racist.
Would referring to me as a racist be "jumping to conclusions" if this were my history? Of course not.
Of course it would be "jumping to conclusions." Without EMPIRICAL evidence of the subject's actual racial attitudes, any such conclusion is unsubstantiated. People of integrity do not engage in guilt-by-association. Period!
On the other hand, if the subject actually JOINED an organization dedicated to racial superiority, or actually JOINED an organization that advocates the violent overthrow of the United States, then such explicit actions extend beyond "guilt-by-association." Joining such organizations, along with the subject's ACTUAL statements, constitutes empirical evidence. Everything else is hogwash. As they say on CSI: Follow the evidence!"
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." – Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642)
Wait, wait.
Setting aside for a moment the fact that the paragraph does indeed include the joining of racist groups, you are simply being ridiculous now. Let's leave the joining of racist groups out of the paragraph for a moment to make a point:
My grandparents were racists. My parents were racists. My high school mentor was a racist. In college, I made friends with racist professors. After college, a disciple of one of the most widely-known racists took me under his wing and trained me. I chose a racist for my doctor. I attended a racist "church" for twenty years. I eulogized a racist. I launched my career in a racist's living room. I got the experience on my resume with the help of a racist. I go around spouting racist catch phrases. I just helped a bunch of racists get sweet jobs. My most powerful current ally is a racist. My current spiritual mentor is a racist.
If you would be willing to believe that someone with this life history is not a racist, I have to wonder how you manage to turn on your computer.
Anyway you want to look at it..Obama is a commie. End of story.
Did you know monkeys like to watch TV?
Ignorance sure is bliss, Kaleok.
So using your logic, when an aspiring gang-banger murders randomly as a gang-initiation requirement, you do not hold the entire gang responsible?
Our future really is in trouble if there are many more with your outlook.
It was all there from the begining -and the half of it should have been sufficient to prohibit him from holding any public office (including dog catcher)let alone the office of president..The damage he has done may already be irrevocable and he has two years left to complete the total transformation of the American way of life-something,during his campaign, he had promised to do .His besotted fans swooned and cheered and wet themselves with joy but failed,somehow, to notice what they were voting for.
Correction–he's got 6 years left.
I don't know if he can transform "the American way of life"–whatever that is to all 200 million people–but if it means transforming what conservatives think is the American way of life–DO IT SOON, President Obama!
It's not necessarily just "Conservatives" who are now clearly seeing what they love ruined by this President. Wake UP!!!!! It's more than Republicans and Conservatives who are in great peril because of B.H.O. Your comment is biased and intellectually lazy.
People of Democrat-integrity do not convict by association, unless there are ties to Bush, Cheney, Haliburton, BigOil, BigHealthCare, Republicans, Christians, American traditions, nuclear families, and of course any norms of decency.
Bravo!!!
"A man is known by the company he keeps."
Bush " If you are not with me you are against me " Oh boy do I wish he
would still be in power.And Mr no brains doesn't fit the job,please leave.
Just like the old saying: "Birds of a feather flock together!" But those were the days when we used common sense. Leftists got rid of that a long time ago, just as they have left truth fall by the wayside, along with responsibility for one's actions. They sold it all for gullibility, false promises and false security.
Game – set – match!!!
Sorry but the party wasn't hijacked. That requires some semblence of resistence. What we see is exactly what the party is. How many voted against the radical takeover of the nation's healthcare sytem? How many would vote for Cap and trade or gun control or open borders or international law as predominant, or whatever leftist power grab of our freedoms, if there weren't an angry electorate at their throats and a call date in November?
Freedom's enemy is within and we may soon see its ugly face and jackboots.
If we don't come to our senses, our children and grandchildren will be speaking Chinese and learning all about Mao.
Now is the time to show me the birth certificate of Mr no brains.
Some moral handcuffs are in order.Great article.
The supplied certificate meets United States State Department requirements for proving birth in the United States. It is unfortunate that a few Americans use their own standards when it fits their agenda.
The President is under no obligation to satisfy idle curiosity, because the supplied certificate is legally sufficient. The "short form" certificate has all the elements the State Department requires for proving citizenship to obtain a U.S. passport: "your full name, the full name of your parent(s), date and place of birth, sex, date the birth record was filed, and the seal or other certification of the official custodian of such records" (see http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/79955….
Thousands of Hawaii residents use the same "short form" certificate to obtain passports. This short form certificate is legally sufficient to prove birth in Hawaii. Parentage is irrelevant for citizenship purposes, because the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution grants citizenship to all people born in the United States (except diplomatic personnel). As it proves Hawaii birth for United States Government purposes, demands for the "long form" are frivolous. The State of Hawaii uses the long form to determine parentage not for citizenship purposes, but to determine eligibility for programs available to Native Hawaiians.
I think that the problem with showing the birth certificate is that his parents were never married. He indicates in his book that he was always afraid to pursue that subject too deeply. He was born in Hawaii and is a citizen. Not the only president to be born out of wedlock.
Was it Della Reese who sang…"At last!…" Well, it's about time that this Red Diaper Baby who has been coddled by Communism from his very inseption, no, let me change that to conception, has been outted to be the Red in the White House put there by the liberal left.
Americans saw this as an opportunity to make life immitate art. Ever since the '70s and '80s we have watched TV programs in which the 'good' black president of the US has had to fight the bad white guys who are bigots and are trying to kill him. Now at last the president is black and what a disaster !! He is a Communist radical black who might as well be a Muslim and wear his prison stripes. Shame on you.
Etta James
I love that song!
You are right Josh. The ONLY reason that half breed is president, is because the uneducated white people, and the racist black people put him there, and said Look what we have done"! We have sent this country on the path of destruction!
Anyone who cared to do their homework on this guy before the election could have seen him for the mole that he was. The press corps in this country, with a few exceptions, deserve to be tried for treason as they were complicit in the deception when they became biased hypnotists for the masses who chanted inane slogans, and pulled the lever for Alinsky, Marx, Soros and Lucifer. As we clean up the oil spill in the Gulf, it behooves us to also clean the slime in Washington — from the Oval Office to Congress. Let us remove the stains that have sullied our flag since November, 2008, and restore our precious Constitutional law. Demand to see the Manchurian President's records — from birth certificate to the Illinois Senate. Impeach the Usurper and Enemy of the State!
I know, I know–you ding dongs don't put any credence in the FBI background checks, the Secret Service or the CIA. But mostly, you ding dongs just don't know any lawyers, investigators, government officials, politicians–or otherwise sane human beings– who can help you discover this manchurian-ness you've created in your delusional minds.
Must have been George Soros and Katie Couric behind it all! LOL
Agreed. This Democrat did that research…and voted for John McCain because of what I learned.
Time to call on Obama to resign.
I was a registered Democrat(bluedog) and I did my homework. No way was I going to vote for this Marxist Socialist and be goaded into a white guilt trip by a radical racist.
I have since changed my party status after voting the straight Dem party ticket for 30 years. Obama is the worst and most dangerous POTUS to come down the pike since Carter–and worse. Obama makes Carter, Nixon and Bush look good.
he is a hate-whitey, hate America, affirmative-action nothing who never ran anything but his mouth.
We'll be really lucky he doesn't get us all killed.
Mike Sith, M.A.
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San Francisco
whoops! it's Mike Smith. Misspelled me own name.
Tell the truth. You are secretly a Sith Lord. Yoda, you cannot fool.
He will be lucky if HE doesn't get killed.
Hey Kaleo–Evolve this!
Sorry, John, but such ad hominem (personal) attacks suggest an inability to respond to the message. Shooting the messenger is understandable in such situations, because the truth may be especially uncomfortable.
"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
– Bible, John 8:32
The book might be filled with worthwhile additional detail but I'm a little confused about the basic premise and the review. How can either claim there is anything stealthy or hidden about Obama's associations when they've been all over the blogs since long before the election.
Frank Davis, Bill Ayers, Anita Dunn, Vann Jones, et al have been widely reported on. None was shy about their views and there have never been any denials about Obama's association with them.
Also, hasn't this ground been pretty well gone over by Michelle Malkin's book already? It doesn't hurt to have additional documentation but this doesn't seem like unmasking anything. That mask fell a long time ago and was never very firmly in place anyway.
Well, Jeff, I think you've hit the cognitive dissonance on the head. There's no "uncovering"–it's all out in the open. Obama's been vetted. He is the president. Apparently no one cared that he spent a couple hours with Ayers once. Apparently, the FBI, CIA and the Secret Service were satisfied with Obama's credentials. And apparently, not one dumbass calling for a birth certificate knows a lawyer, investigator, or government official of any kind.
And somehow, according to posters here, Obama is both accruing, or to use dumbass-speak–"usurping" massive amounts of power AND completely incapable of weidling this massive power.
Cognitive dissonance is a beatiful thing!
Jim: There is no cognitive dissonance with conservatives. We don't hold contradictory feelings and actions. We know his not legit. So…
The MSM did not vet Obama. They vetted Palin but not the O. Or we would have read about the associations described in the book(s).
Do you know the machinations that went on prior to O being selected; are you sure the SS vetted O? Surely if they did, Congress would have the report and our pols would have liked to read it….But it was never read. Funny, eh?
O has spent over $1 million to keep is BC secret. What is there to hide if he is a citizen???
As for you remaining remarks, I can not respond to them. If you cannot see what O has done to this nation then no matter how many facts I use to refute you, it will be in vain.
Actually the MSM did vet Obama, and seems to have rejected conservative guilt-by-association claims because they were nonsense. The MSM apparently learned quite a bit from earlier misrepresentation regarding the Iraqi threat, Dr. Hatfill's involvement in the anthrax letters, and ex-D.A. Mike Nifong's conduct during the Duke Lacrosse case.
The Society of Professional Journalists has adopted a Code of Ethics (http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp) that guides RESPONSIBLE journalists in their reporting, unlike the travesties of journalism published by the National Enquirer, WND, and so-called "Accuracy In Media" ("AIM") and other false opposition research websites.
"Truth is generally the best vindication against slander."
– Abraham Lincoln
No, this info wasn't available in the MSM or any of the Democratic publications. I researched on my own, but it wasn't readily available. That info that was out there was quickly shot down as "smears". Most of Obama's voters just took his word on faith and bought the razzle-dazzle, first black President garbage.
The MSM was completely smitten by Obama and totally bought into the Bush backlash without doing their own research.
Vote out all his accomplices in November and follow up with impeachment of the perpetrator!
I wonder if they mention in the book Obama's association with the Fabian Society?
He is an Islamic communist? Or is he an Islamic fascist? I am not sure what he is. He covers his past and his present in a cloak of invisibility.
He has made himself untouchable.
Obama is usurping more power every day.
There may not even be a November election.
Oooohhh…a new inane prediction! And mixed with illogical, fact-free speculation.
Obama is so powerful, now, that he's completely….incompetent. Or so I'm told, here.
Come back and apologize when there is a November election, 'k?
The only reason this Marxist clandestine Muslim racist community organizer was ever elected is because of the Bush hatred syndrome, white guilt from two generations of progressive education, and the adoring mainstream media with a tingle up their legs. He will be long gone in 2012.
Just wondering what the reason for his re-election will be…drugs in the drinking water, mass hypnosis induced by Lady Gaga's new video…the lack of a grounded political philosophy on the Right?
or maybe he got elected because he can actually spell and speak the English language, not to mention the fact that he knows more about U.S. history and the constitution than McCain and Sarah Palin combined.
I find all these conspiracy theories and alarmist rants hilarious, because as a left sympathizer I find Obama to be GW Bush 2 and in some cases even out-Bushing Bush. He has not closed Guantanamo, he has expanded the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan and covert Special Forces ops abroad, he fully backs Israel in spite of the "measured" rhetoric, his health care plan was basically a giant giveaway to private insurance companies (forcing people to buy into them), has no plans of introducing gun control, etc…
SO WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU PEOPLE GOING ON ABOUT?!
THE MAN IS BASICALLY A CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRAT.
He's no conservative Democrat. His life history reveals him to be a dedicated Marxist. The fact that he doesn't care about your issues (nevermind what he said during the campaign – SUCKER) should not surprise you. Nor should the fact that he can only push things so far when it comes to advancing his Marxist agenda.
This book is impressively documented, and if you check the footnotes (at least the ones I sampled) you'll find they are not taken out of context or erroneous.
Contrast this with, for example, Heilemann and Halperin's book "Game Change."
When you've got extensive footnotes backing up your position, right away you have my attention.
Alas,… some of you are too stupid to even suspect you are stupid!
It is important to get this book into as many hands as possible. Klein brings a depth to the shallowness of Obama and his cronies. The ties to radical Islam are crucial for this country and Israel to understand, especially in light of the Gaza flotilla. Does anyone have a way to get it into the hands of Netanyahu?
Send it to every Congressman, Congresswoman and Senator. It is a quick read. Send it also to your Jewish friends. You never know when you might convert someone.
Just because the Left doesn't publicly echo Bill Ayers edict, "Kill all the rich people," doesn't mean that they don't dream of such "helter skelter" scenarios when they're alone at night, holed up in their radical bunkers. Make no mistake, the current political agenda being lead by the Obama administration is in no way compatible with American principles and ideals. Sometimes I think the only difference between Barack Obama and Charlie Manson is that one is a destructive madman, and the other one is in prison.
what exactly are american "principals and ideals"? invading other countries on a whim? building a country through slave labor? exporting jobs and business abroad because it brings greater profit to private corporations? lifting regulations on oil and coal companies so they have the "freedom" to pollute? pushing back on civil rights?
If you really don't know what american[sic] principals[sic] and ideals are, then this isn't really much of a discussion. More like dithering with another contestant in the latest round of Dancing with the Trolls.
What a great article, I found this to be quite an enjoyable read.
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Don't know if this was printed BEFORE Obama's meeting with Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Egyptian Foreign Minister. Doubt it.
See here http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2…
and American Thinker article of today,
"The American President told me in confidence that he is a Muslim." http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/report_oba…
The implications are profound for our country and Shariah law v Constitution!!!!
What I fail to understand is how well this information is known yet people don't seem to care. It is just as perplexing to me as the fact that most rich people are democrats who claim to hate rich people, yet the very poor see the democrats as liberating them from the mean rich people.
It's all so damn maddening.
maybe because people are smarter than you give them credit for and, unlike the authors and commentators on this website, don't swallow the BS and conspiracy theories that any alternative to the Republican party platform and free market capitalism are an extreme form of authoritarian communism that will lead them misery. Because it's the last 30 years of free market republicans and pro-business democrats in power that have led to the loss of jobs, stagnant wages (while at the same time losing benefits), exporting of U.S. jobs and industry to foreign countries, endless and pointless wars that cost millions of tax payer dollars. Shall I go on…
all this while a very small minority continues to amass insane amounts of wealth at the expense of tax dollars and working people who can't even afford to get health care.
People are just to busy trying to make money to pay the king. Unfortunatelly the king is using those confiscated taxes to further erode our freedoms.
People are not paying attention. They think we live in a modern world and all the despots in the world have been conquered. I think they are starting to wake up and see what a despot is like. We have despots all around us and it is time to clean house.
Obama is a phony who has spent millions of campaing dollars to hide and obscure any information about his past. If he "has nothing to hide" why is he hiding everything?
Yet, although the American public do not like the direction this country is heading (as a result of this man (Obama) and his administration, they still like him and he has an image approval rating over 60% !!! I am so sad and disulliosioned on what is happening to my country and I wonder if ever we would be able to recover it back. When you have a foreign "leader" going into our house (congress) and tell us "how wrong we are" and the congress and the president stand up and applause!!! I know this is the end.
42%
As of June and early July, his approval numbers are in the 46-47% range. Have been for awhile now.
Just as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor woke American Isolationists from their stupor, the imminent radical Islamist attack(s) will jolt arrogant liberal elites out of their cushy enclaves and although it will be too late for many of us, those who remain will retaliate with even greater resolve than our fathers and uncles displayed in WWII. Almost 10 years has passed since the Trade Towers Attack and the next round will consist of multiple attacks carried out simultaneously across the country, probably killing more than 100 hundred thousand Americans. But, all the warnings and signs go unheeded, so all that is left is to suffer the blows, pick up the pieces and fight the good fight.
Barak Obama has distanced himself from his religion of convenience-the religion he perceived as essential for his success politically.What he really believes should,by now, be plain to see for those who have the stomache to dare to look…. What have we done?
I love this dialogue, even though the liberals are in left field. It's too bad that both sides have trouble with the English language and can't spell which might give them some credibility.
Check your own grammar before you critisize other' peoples use of the language.
If and when he would be tried for the first degree murder of America his defence lawyers'
only hope is if they claim innocence due to mental disorder.
Since the begining of his campaign he was shoved down the throats of Americans and now you that voted for him are also paying for it. Never in my 60 years of being an American have I ever seen any president bow down to known terrorists countries and basicly kiss the back end of their camals and continuosly apologize for the american people, as I have since the begining of this administration it is a disgrace it is apparent there is something wrong with this picture, and in November 2010 we need to start to take back what is rightfully that of the American People in an Orderly fashion.
So, where is our leadership? Do we wait for the SEIU and the other radical goons to come after us? I say we need to march on Washington DC and every state capitol of this country and DEMAND that our government listen to us. What is the next step? Will we have to be violent if they don't listen and act?…………..
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When World War 2 was over, the Japanese were regarded as the ones that attacked America and I don't think that a person of Japanese origin would have won an Election. Right or wrong where is the justice for the victims of 911 and how easily we forget.
Every one knew that he had ties with the Muslim faith and we was in a war with Muslims that took their faith to a higher level. Can we really condone racial profiling in our Government? All I know is we elected him and can we expect the same form of stupidity in our November Elections because we can not afford it. Our Freedom is at stake here people, Wake Up!
This books content is moneymaking piece trolled from a Palin accusation, which was obviously handed to her as a smear tactic. Authors are often outsourced as ghostwriters by the wealthy to do bidding. It also makes "Obama" look scary and presents fear to his opposition. Regardless, Barack Obama is a centrist, dismisses a liberal agenda completely by perpetuating the wars, legislation to date is passed through campaigning and signatures, it has nothing to do with altering the government, laws are now protecting most people- none of this is new legislation, including healthcare reform which began before Kennedy. Almost every single one of these commentators and "journalists" surrounding the government work in entertainment and promotions, hand picked- come on even Whitehouse officials can't go near the President at times. Of course the former party in power love this sort of book, it aligns them with anything they need if all else fails. Again I admire Klein for being so "radical" for fueling the p.r. machine further.
bottom line: dollar… alot of money is made from people working in our government using its dis-sorted history as entertainment and for promotional gigs. Palin has been a tool and focal point- she is positioned appropriately with off shore drilling experience, war slogans and a need for attention. Is Aaron Klein going on Oprah soon to sell used cars or pose as celebrity performing someone else's material? Its almost uncanny how masses of union workers were laid off then recruited into the military, dontchya think? Or the job losses and mortgage crunch while men and women serve over sea's. "its a numbers game"…. Go to hell.
Many of us Democrats did our own research and saw through the lies, the racist speeches, the hatred towards whites, the arrogance and the condescention, the Bush blame game and looked under the tarnished halo that Obama supporters crowned him with, and did not vote for him. Just because his supporters didn't see the feet of clay doesn't mean the rest of us did not see them in 08.
Oh, and that last sentence—likewise to you.
I think Obama is Muslim secret believer. He try to hide his past even if he can by a Hitler way.
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I think Obama secretly is a communist.
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If and when he would be tried for the first degree murder of America his defence lawyers'
only hope is if they claim innocence due to mental disorder clay
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