Positions Regarding Obama and Why You Should Care?

Position: Barack is a socialist and is against capitalism
Reasoning:

• He was a member of the New Party
• His father was a Communist
• The people he has the most in common pretty much hate America. (Ayers, Wright, Khadlidi, Khalid)
• He probably received foreign aid while going to college
• He supports far more progressive tax policy and income redistribution
• He supports further nationalization of industry within our country
• He believes a mortgage is a right in this country not something you have to work hard to earn
• He believes in an United Nations solution even within the borders of the United States
• He blames the ills of African Americans in this country squarely on capitalism

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.
- Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU.


Position: The Media is in the tank for Barack Obama
Reasoning:

• The media portrays negative reporting on McCain at least 2:1 to Obama
• The media ignores serious issues about Obama that Americans want to know about
• Organizations like the New York Times and MSNBC have abandoned their principles and have ultimately become corrupt just to manipulate the truth to directly aid in getting Obama elected – What country are we in anyway? Is this America or Poland?
• The double standard and sexism displayed toward Palin is downright disturbing

If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed;
If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
-Mark Twain


Position: Obama is going to raise taxes on 100% of Americans
Reasoning:

• The expiration of the Bush tax cuts raise taxes on 100%

Income Under Bush Under Obama Obama Increase
$14,000.00 $0.00 $1,200.00 $1,200.00
$50,000.00 $5,000.00 $11,460.00 $6,460.00
$100,000.00 $18,620.00 $22,395.00 $3,775.00
$250,000.00 $63,945.00 $72,434.70 $8,489.70
$1,000,000.00 $325,206.50 $428,825.00 $103,618.50

• An increase in the corporate tax is directly passed onto consumers
• In comparison to McCain’s plan our GDP will grow at about half the rate as it will under McCain’s plan and therefore is an additional tax on ALL Americans to the tune of over $200 billion a year.

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity
is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself
up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill


Position: ACORN is a corrupt and illegal organization
Reasoning:

• They receive millions of taxpayer dollars because of their non-partisan status, they are clearly partisan and therefore breaking the law
• They have a 10 year track record of voter fraud convictions in multiple states
• Investigations are currently underway in over 15 states where voter fraud registration has been found in staggering amounts. On average over 33% of all ACORN registrations have been found to be fraudulent
• Ohio is reporting over 40% voter fraud with absentee ballots submitted and guess by who?
• The founder of ACORN was one of the founders of SDS
• ACORN was started to further the concept of creating re-education centers in this country to indoctrinate our nation’s youth to radicalism and anti-capitalism. Gee isn’t this what the brown shirts were all about?
• Obama with Ayers helped ACORN and provided funding with clear knowledge of the ACORN agenda
• The brother of the founder of ACORN embezzled over 1 million dollars (including taxpayer monies) and ACORN neglected to report the crime

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw


Position: Obama belief of a bigger tax code and government is the answer is a fallacy
Reasoning:

• Existing compliance and enforcement of our progressive income tax system hurts our economy
• Over 3 million man hours a year is wasted on tax compliance, that is basically the entire life of over 9,000 people a year
• Our GDP is reduced over $200 billion a year just in compliance issues
• The cost of compliance is passed along to all consumers in the form of raised prices
• Does anyone want to try to calculate the cost of lost opportunity each year with over 3 million man hours wasted?
• The IRS is used as a political weapon and American citizens become targets of our government
• The US government has shown time and time again it is the biggest waster of tax dollars
• The crony system of quid pro quote and paybacks is corrupting our existence at the core
• Does anyone want to calculate the cost of doing business inside our government because of the crony approach to buying votes and support?

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)


The impact of an Obama/Pelosi tag team on our country will be a huge increase in spending and taxation and quite frankly our economy cannot handle it. It will wreak a level of economic loss we haven't seen in 100 years and will take decades to recover. It just isn't a formula that is going to work at this time.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764)


As far as voter fraud in any flavor we need to stomp it out and NOT allow any of it. I think our voter registration system is very important and our country needs to get serious about a uniform voting registration system for national voting. It is pure insanity to me that someone can vote in the majority of states within this country without having to prove who they are! Voting is as much a responsibility as it is a privilege and freedom. I constantly hear about it is too difficult for some to get an ID in this country - seriously those same people would have no problem getting an ID to buy liquor or get into club...Why do we continually have to keep lowering the bar in this country.

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)


Why aren't Americans demanding more from their politicians in the area of accountability. Joe you even said Barack's strategy of "not" voting, etc was a brilliant political strategy - just so the American voter cannot figure out the truth about Obama. Do you feel the same way about the manipulation put forward by someone pulling a long con?

Why is it we leave in an age where Americans are not voting on what people actually stand for? Everything is parsed and manipulated to cater to emotional hot buttons within voters - for one goal - win the election. Americans deserve better than that. Americans deserve to be heard and they deserve the opportunity to vote for candidate that actually agree and support their views not some manipulated perception because the candidate feels the end justifies the means.

Obama claims he will unify and bring together America. He has never worked across the aisle on anything substantial to demonstrate that he is even capable of that. The only unification he brings to the table is one of wild spending and taxation and the further bloating of a horribly inefficient and wasteful government.

McCain is the only candidate within our existing government that can claim he works to bring people together. He is as much of a Democrat as he is a Republican. America needs openness and passion for a stronger America right now not a candidate that is looking to further punish America because he has an agenda of solving the ills of America through legislation. You can't help a person until they are ready to help themselves.

Unfortunately the Democratic party continually ignores and hides its over 100 year track record of segregation and manipulation of Blacks in America. It is insanity to me that a party like that can stand up and say they are for something when their entire existence has been based on something else. The fact that Byrd is still in the party is the biggest slap in the face of such causes in America.


A government big enough to give you everything you want,
is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

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The videos that say it all

All you have to do is watch these videos and make up your own mind.

Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers, and Barack Obama -- Connecting the Dots

Paul over @ powerline has a great post about Wright,Ayers and Obama. You can comment on it over at powerline just click the link above.

At one level, the connection between Jeremiah Wright (Barack Obama's spiritual mentor) and William Ayers (Obama's political ally) is apparent. After all, Ayers set out to bring "America's chickens home to roost" decades before Wright applied that phrase to 9/11.

But now Stanley Kurtz has demonstrated a more concrete connection, and one that implicates Obama directly, not just through "association." Kurtz's review of documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) -- the education foundation Obama and Ayers jointly led for a time during the 1990s -- has established that "Barack Obama knowingly and persistently funded an educational project that shared the extremist and anti-American philosophy of Jeremiah Wright."

There are two elements here: (1) the funding by the CAC of projects that shared Wright's anti-American philosophy and (2) Obama's knowledge that this was the nature of the projects his outfit was funding.

As to the first element, Kurtz found, among other things, that CAC funded teacher training programs based on the curriculum of the South Shore African Village Collaborative (SSAVC). Kurtz explains that the mission of SSAVC is to provide "a social and cultural 'inoculation' process that facilitates healthy, African-centered development among African American youth and protects them against the ravages of a racist, sexist, capitalist, and oppressive society." In this view, American values "have confused African American people and oriented them toward American definitions of achievement and success and away from traditional African values." This process has "proven to be dysfuntional and genocidal to the African American community." The answer, in part, is an adolescent rites of passage movement, designed "to provide African American youth with the cultural information and values they would need to counter the potentially detrimental effects of a Eurocentrically oriented society."

The connection between this philosophy and that of Rev. Wright is apparent. As Kurtz puts it:

We hear echoes of [the educational philosophy underpinning the SVVAC] in Wright's distinction between "right brained" Africans and "left brained" Europeans, in Wright's fears of U.S. government-sponsored genocide against American blacks, and in Wright's embittered attacks on America's indelibly white-supremacist history.

It is not surprising, therefore that prominent members of the "Afrocentric," rites of passage movement spoke at Wright's church during the late 1980s and 1990s. Obama missed church on these occasions, no doubt.

But Obama was right in the middle of the process through which tens of thousands of dollars were funneled by CAC into SVACC teacher training programs. In 1995, the year Obama assumed control of CAC, he publicly rejected "the unrealistic politics of integrationist assimilation," thereby embracing the Afrocentirc educational philosophy of the SVACC, Wright, and Ayers. And according to Kurtz, it is clear from the documents that Obama reviewed and commented on proposals to fund the training programs of SVACC, including the African rites of passage based programs. As one would hope, Obama encountered resistance from his own board to attempting to improve the education of African-Americans by orienting them away from "American definitions of achievement and success." But he managed to keep the money flowing.

We've noted in the past that CAC's own evaluators found that Annenberg-aided schools showed no improvement in achievement scores. The miracle is that scores did not decline.

In what I believe was his only stint running anything (other than the Harvard Law Review), Barack Obama wasted more than $100 million that could have been used to improve the education of disadvantaged students. And he did so in order to advance an extremist, anti-American agenda. The people of Chicago can only wish that Bill Ayers had just been somebody who lived in Obama's neighborhood and that Jeremiah Wright was just an eccentric uncle.

A picture worth a 1000 words

Glenn Beck talks with McCain about ACORN

EXCERPT - Click on link above for full article.

GLENN: We have Senator John McCain on with us now. Welcome, Senator, welcome to the program. How are you, sir?

SENATOR McCAIN: I'm just fine, Glenn. How are you?

GLENN: I'm very good. I noticed today, breaking news, that in Florida ACORN has registered Mickey Mouse. I'm wondering if you are going to go for the mouse vote.

SENATOR McCAIN: Well, frankly some people, having worked in congress for some period of time, I prefer Goofy. But the fact is this ACORN thing is something that's been done before in the 2004 elections and 2006 elections and other elections, and it needs a full and complete investigation, and Senator Obama's ties to ACORN need to be known to everybody as well.

GLENN: In the House and the Senate, the President signed it, a bill over the summer actually gives now 4% of our mortgages. If you sign a new mortgage, 4% goes to fund ACORN. How did this happen?

SENATOR McCAIN: The way these things happen, I don't know if you recall but when this first rescue plan or bailout bill, whichever one you call it, was first developed before I came back from Washington, ACORN was going to get something like 20% of the additional funds that would eventually be raised thanks to Chris Dodd and the Democrats who had protected Fannie and Freddie and have been advocates of this forcing banks to extend home loan mortgage money to people that couldn't afford to pay it back. That's one of the major, the major factors in this housing crisis which then, of course, led to this meltdown. People, the pressures, enormous pressure from congress, the Community Reinvestment Act which basically set corridors for lending money to people that couldn't afford to pay it back and mortgages which were sooner or later going to go under. Meanwhile their executives, as you know, took 10, 20, 30, $50 million in compensation. It's one of the great scandals in American history.

Obama Sued Citibank under CRA to Force it to Make Bad Loans

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Thank­s to the­ IUSB Visio­n Webl­o­g f­or provi­di­ng addi­t­i­onal det­ai­ls of­ t­hi­s st­ory­.

We­ pulle­d the­ dock­e­t­ down­­, but­ h­ere’s a­ brief­ f­or y­our summa­ry­:

(CLICK LINK ABOVE TO READ THE WHOLE STORY AND SEE DOCKET)

Barack Obama's ACORN Tree

HOW ACORN & ITS DEM ALLIES BUILT THE MORTGAGE DISASTER

Hopefully the sheeple in this country will wake up and understand how we entered into this current financial disaster. If we don't understand how this happened and what we need to change to prevent it - it will just come back and bite us.

At the center of all the CRA driven bad loans is ACORN. This extreme activist organization supported strongly by the far left and specifically Obama has been a major factor in the destruction of our housing market. Their story goes back to 1995 with their extreme protests which put a lot of them in jail however the liberal left ran to their rescue:

The following is an excerpt from the article:

With the hearing interrupted and the demonstrators refusing to leave, Roukema called the Capital Police, who arrested Hurd and four others for "disorderly conduct in a Capital building" - a charge carrying a penalty of a $500 fine, six months in prison or both. As the police arrived, two of the protesters menacingly approached Roukema's desk, still demanding the hearing microphone.

Requests to the Capital Police to release the activists from Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-Mass,) failed. Then Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) showed up at the jail and refused to leave until the protesters were released; the Capital Police relented.

Meanwhile, instead of repudiating ACORN's intimidation tactics, Rep. Kennedy berated Roukema for arresting one of his constituents and accused the Republicans of preparing for "an all-out attack on CRA." He also promised to introduce legislation to expand the CRA's coverage to mortgage bankers and large credit unions.

THIS little slice of political life from 1995 had a variety of ripple effects. Above all, ACORN's intimidation tactics, and its alliance with Democrats in Congress, triumphed. Despite their 1994 takeover of Congress, Republicans' attempts to pare back the CRA were stymied.

Instead, Democrats like Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Reps. Kennedy and Waters allied with the Clinton administration to broaden the acceptability of risky subprime loans throughout the financial system, thus precipitating our current crisis.

ACORN had come to Congress not only to protect the CRA from GOP reforms but also to expand the reach of quota-based lending to Fannie, Freddie and beyond. By steamrolling the GOP that March, it had crushed the last potential barrier to "change."

It is a good read and we need to understand how this happened so we an ensure it won't happen again.