Election Countdown

Notable Quotes:

Thomas Sowell:

"...Obama knows what con men have long known, that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe. He does that very well."

John McCain on Barack Obama:

"He's more liberal than [the] senator who calls himself a socialist."

Schwarzenegger:

"John McCain has served his country longer in a POW camp than his opponent has in the United States Senate..."

Gregory Helvering:

"Obama wants to spread the wealth not because the wealthy do not currently bear their fair share of supporting the government.  He wants to spread the wealth because he views the wealth itself as unfair."

Anat Hakim:

"Should Obama be elected to the presidency...Americans who disagree with President Obama should expect to be silenced."

Today's Reading:

Ego and Mouth

Predictions from 2006

Judgment Calls: Why the Courts Matter in this Election

Do the Rich Owe Us? Warning: this has the potential to upset you.

Point of No Return "The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it."

Don't miss this!

Plundering the Plumber's Records

The very best articles about Barack Obama are written by Thomas Sowell.  Entertaining and informative: read and share.

Obama's Dangerous Friends

Who was at a party sponsored by the Arab American Action Network?

(A) Barack Obama (your future president)

(B) Bill Ayers (terrorist)

(C) Bernadine Dohrn (terrorist) 

(D) Rashid Khalidi (former mouthpiece for master-terrorist Yasser Arafat) 

Trick question.  Anwer: (E), All of the above.

Want to know more?  You'll have to go to the L.A. Times for the answer.

The cast of unseemly characters is growing fast.  I suppose this is just the tip of the iceberg. While most voters may be paying attention, they're not digging deep enough to find these things.  And why should they?  They understandably believe what they see on TV and in their newspapers.  How could they possibly know how unethical the media have become in glossing over the unseemly details?  You have to be a rabid news junkie to see what's going on.

When Obama becomes president, this won't stop, unless Obama makes a mistake that is literally earth shaking. Then media bias will be the least of our problems.  I've never feared for our country (and our world) like I do now.

*Please study the issues daily, and share your knowledge with anyone who will listen.

The Los Angeles Times’s Video

LA Times (original story) 

Obama's Tight-Knit Network of Dangerous Friends

Obama/Khalidi Relationship Rundown

Focusing on the Obama-Khalidi ties.  A Good Summary

If Obama Can't Win It He'll Steal It

YouTube's Top Election Video

Obama: Reverend Wright "represents the best of what the Black Church has to offer."

MUST SEE:

Dear Mr. Obama

Must Read:

The Los Angeles Times’s Strange Notion of Journalistic Ethics

*Final Note: Obama is ahead in the polls.  Sitting out the election is a vote for Obama.  You don't even have to get out of your chair to help Obama win!

The Obama Equation

Solve this problem:

Democratic President + Democratic Senate + Democratic House of Representatives + Democratic Media =  ?

Important Reading:

On your Marx...

A Duty Not To Vote?

Negative Liberties and Obama Newspeak

A President Who Won't Uphold the Constitution?

Don't miss this video!

Voting for Dummies

*Final Note: Obama is ahead in the polls.  Sitting out the election is a vote for Obama.  You don't even have to get out of your chair to help Obama win!

Obama's Cluster of Unsavory Friends and Associates

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(and send to a friend while you're at it)

One unsavory friend?  So What!  Two unsavory friends? Whatever.  A cluster of unsavory, influential friends? That's important.  But you're gonna vote for Obama anyway?  Is the future of this country important to you?

Quotable Quotes from Obama & Friends

William Ayers

"I don't regret setting bombs...I feel we didn't do enough."

Jeremiah Wright

"The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied."

"The US is the No. 1 killer in the world."

"God damn America." 

Barack Obama on his dealing with Tony Rezko

"There's no doubt that this was a mistake on my part. 'Boneheaded' would be accurate..." 

Bernardine Dohrn

"I remain committed to the struggle ahead. I regret not at all our efforts to side with the forces of liberation." 

ACORN

Maude Hurd, ACORN’s National President: “...Senator Obama is the candidate who best understands and can affect change on the issues ACORN cares about..."

FYI, a compilation of information regarding some of Obama's shady friends from sources including CNN, ABC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many others:

No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives

Obama Needs To Explain His Ties To William Ayers

Obama visited '60s radicals

Obama and Dohrn and Ayers

Obama worked with terrorist

Ayers-Dohrn-Obama Tie Shouldn’t Be Dismissed

Obama and the radical terrorist

Obama Affinity to Marxists Dates Back to College Days

Rev. Wright more than sound bite, Obama's ex-pastor

Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11

Obama's Pastor's Sermon

Beyond Obama’s Wright

Obama's minister: U.S. 'No. 1 killer in the world'

Obama's Racist Church

Obama Says He Regrets Land Deal With Fundraiser

Eight things you need to know about Obama and Rezko

Barack Obama ally Tony Rezko convicted of fraud, attempted bribery and money laundering 

ACORN, Obama, and the Mortgage Mess

The ACORN Obama Knows.  Spreading socialism on the taxpayer’s dime.

Bonus Friend: Rashid Khalidi 

*But Obama is really, REALLY cool, so none of this actually matters. On November 4, tens of millions of Americans, illegitimate voters and dead people will vote for Obama...how can they all be wrong?

Eight Years of Obama

Are you ready for eight years of Obama?  Yes?

You're voting for Obama?  Cool!  

A vote for Obama is a vote for:

1.  The war against "negative" liberties

2.  A Heavier Tax Burden (for everyone)

3.  Marxism & Socialism

4.  Obama's Unsavory Friends 

5.  Unchecked Beltway Power

6.  Disdain

7.  A Charismatic Demagogue

8.  143 Days of pre-campaign Senate Experience

9.  A Bonehead (paraphrased from Obama himself)

If you plan to vote, please read the following and discuss with your friends if any of them are rational:

The Obama Temptation

Obama 2001: Scrap the Constitution, spread the wealth

Economic Effects of Increasing the Tax Rates

Marxism & Socialism

Obama Affinity to Marxists Dates Back to College Days 

Voters Prefer Divided Government

Why the Left Hates (and Fears) Joe the Plumber

Obama's 143 Days

Obama Says He Regrets Land Deal

*Final Note: Obama is ahead in the polls.  Sitting out the election is a vote for Obama.  You don't even have to get out of your chair to help Obama win!

Scary Stuff

If these links don't frighten you, nothing will:

Shocking, Shady & Mysterious

Obama Camp Lashes Out
Obama Cuts Off...
Obama's 'Redistribution' Constitution

Welcome to Obamaland!

Negative Liberties & America's Oppresive Individualism: Updated

Obama complaining about our Constitution:

"...the Constitution is a document of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf." Barack Obama, September 6, 2001, Chicago Public Radio

We really should be worried about what Obama has planned for our "Negative Liberties." I sincerely hope this statement captures the attention it deserves. It is very convenient for Obama that the term "negative liberties" is an accurate one. But his choice of words, taken in the entire context, is very telling.

For most people, including those listening to that broadcast, the word NEGATIVE is synonymous with BAD. Obama knows this. If Obama knows anything, he knows how to choose words carefully. Furthermore, Obama is a constitutional scholar; if he wanted to make the Constitution and its "negative liberties" sound like the best thing since chicken noodle soup he would have chosen different words.

For some important insights, take a look (online) at the book "Negative Liberties" by Cyrus R. K. Patell. (This book, perhaps coincidentally, was released three months before Obama made his comments.) Here's a synopsis:

Patell unmasks the ways in which contemporary U.S. culture has not fully shed the oppressive patterns of reasoning handed down by the slaveholding culture from which American individualism emerged.

[emphasis mine]

Do you think Patell admires the negative liberties of the U.S. Constitution? Do Patell and Obama have similar viewpoints? Wouldn't it be nice if someone had the courage to ask Obama about this and insist on a straight answer? Wouldn't it be nice if more voters actually cared?

More stuff on this topic:

What is negative liberty?

Negative Liberties and Obama Newspeak (fresh: 10.29.08)

A President Who Won't Uphold the Constitution? (fresh: 10.29.08)

Obama 2001: Scrap the Constitution, spread the wealth

Alternative: Positive Liberty (Marx)

"Negative Liberties" by Cyrus R. K. Patell

"Negative Liberties" Review: Patell unmasks the ways in which contemporary U.S. culture has not fully shed the oppressive patterns of reasoning handed down by the slaveholding culture from which American individualism emerged.

Update (8.29.09)

Unfortunately, Obama did not prove us wrong.

The Constitution: A Document Of NEGATIVE LIBERTIES

Your Good Friend Obama on the Constitution:

"...the Constitution is a document of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf."

And in the same breath...

Your Good Friend Obama on Redistribution:

"I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement ...was a tendency to lose track of the political and organizing activities on the ground that are able to bring about the coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change, and in some ways we still suffer from that."

To go from negative liberties to redistributive change...that would be really cool, wouldn't it?

Negative Liberty...it feels good to put those two words together doesn't it Obama?

Positive Liberty

Marx, Roussseau, Hegel, Herder

Negative Liberty

Locke, Hobbes, and Adam Smith

Expect to learn a lot more about the evils and inadequacies of Negative Liberty during Obama's 8+ years as president.