Posted on 02/23/2015 10:45:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Enforcers from the Left are scrambling to delegitimize Rudy Giuliani’s statement that he doesn’t believe Barack Obama loves America. They know Giuliani only said what many millions of Americans think, and want to stop the discussion from catching fire.
To paraphrase a past president, the answer depends on what the meaning of America is. That’s a discussion Obama’s protective media has suppressed since he appeared on the national stage, along with cordoning off discussion of his background, world view, and what it might mean for the nation.
Let’s bypass the mayor’s verbiage and ask instead: What does Barack Obama believe about the United States and the rest of the world? How would he change America? Our only clues are his biography and associations, his pronouncements, his actions, and their results.
Without assigning parents’ beliefs to their children, it would be unserious to ignore them in considering children’s development. The leftist sympathies of Obama’s mother and his father’s communist scholarship are of record. So too, are the Islamic, anti-western views of his grandfather, and the communist views of his maternal grandparents and an important mentor in his youth, Frank Marshall Davis.
Who of these would have taught young Barry to understand and love the Declaration, the Constitution, the flag, or the Republic for which it stands? What evidence suggests he adopted those values?
We don’t choose family, but we do choose associates. Obama’s early political mentors Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn demonstrated their affection for the American way by bombing and killing Americans. His preacher of 20 years famously thundered “No, not God bless America! God damn America!” Obama’s wife Michelle pronounced America “just downright mean” and “guided by fear” and famously declared the first time in her adult life she felt proud of her country was the occasion of her husband’s nomination.
Obama’s own statements offer little evidence of affection for American norms and traditions. He wrote his brief stint in a modest private sector job felt like being “a spy behind enemy lines.” He said on a radio show the famously liberal Warren Supreme Court was not that radical, because for all its liberal rulings on criminal justice, it never altered the basic structure of the Constitution and moved from negative rights—limits on government abuse of freedoms—to positive rights—forcing government to create and expand benefits.
Candidate Obama was caught on tape describing middle Americans as frustrated dupes, bitterly clinging to guns, religion, and hostility to immigrants and foreigners. Challenged on his economic plan, Obama told Joe the Plumber his idea of prosperity was taxing more and “spreading the wealth around,” so we’re all better off. His faith is in redistribution over effort and production.
Astoundingly, he told ABC’s Charles Gibson he would want to raise capital gains taxes even if it reduced government revenue, because it was a matter of fairness. Seldom has a major figure expressed a view more contrary to American traditions and values than arguing to confiscate wealth from the rich, even if it makes the government poorer, because, it’s only fair.
Obama rejected American exceptionalism by noting most every Brit, Greek, and American probably thinks their respective nation is pretty cool. In a smooth smirk, he thus dismissed anything exceptional about America’s founding, prosperity, influence, or role in the world.
On the cusp of election, he famously vowed to fundamentally transform America. His protectors in the media have, ever since, made it taboo to discuss just what he meant.
And then there is how he governs.
Obama’s pervasive deception of voters--his consistent promise of the exact opposite of his intentions--reflect not so much a loving relationship as political domestic violence.
Candidate Obama said one of America’s biggest problems was all the power George Bush took into the executive branch, refusing to go through Congress; that’s what he would reverse as president. The real Obama, however, is the most expansively unilateral president in America’s history.
Candidate Obama declared Bush’s deficit spending was “unpatriotic” and promised to “comb through the federal budget line by line” to eliminate wasteful, inefficient programs. Safely sworn to office, Obama immediately reneged and colluded with Harry Reid to stop passing budgets altogether, instead rolling them over with annual continuing resolutions. This not only froze in place all federal spending, it audaciously locked into the budget the 20% increase of the supposed emergency TARP bill passed in Bush’s final year to counter the 2008 credit crash. Obama saw Bush’s “unpatriotism” raised him 20% and put it on autopilot.
To add injury to injury Obama’s failed “Stimulus” transferred nearly a trillion dollars of state debt to the federal government. Credit card to China, indeed.
His health care takeover was rammed down the throats of resistant Americans by lies and legislative abuse. Millions discovered we couldn’t keep our doctors and plans. We aren’t paying thousands less, but thousands more, with higher deductibles. The majority is less, not more secure in their health coverage. And now, we’re accountable to an army of federal bureaucrats for our plans’ compliance with tens of thousands of pages of law that Obama enforces or waives at his whim. This Kafkaesque double cross is not an act of good will.
While talking about empowering families and workers, Obama has aggressively expanded dependency on government in all forms, for food, shelter, education, and healthcare. The richest, fattest nation in history has never had more dependants than under Obama.
Two historic repudiations by American voters, the midterms of 2010 and 2014 did not temper his course; they fueled his aggression. After losing the House in 2010, Obama moved further left and spurred the IRS and other agencies to persecute citizens who dared organize and speak against him. After losing the Senate in 2014, Obama stared into the cameras and announced full speed ahead. He’s now pursuing an accelerating string of unconstitutional executive action.
Obama’s attitude toward voter opposition amounts to: “Eff you, bitter clingers.”
Then, there is Obama’s stewardship of American world standing, characterized by alienating friends, emboldening enemies, and diminishing American influence.
Early in his presidency, he appeased a tyrant, humiliated an ally, and reduced American security by reneging on America’s commitment to build missile defense installations in Poland. Putin was pleased to take America’s grovel in stride, a harbinger of his appetite for Ukraine.
There are Obama’s calculated insults to England, its Queen, and Prime Minister, and his penchant for bowing to despots. When Honduran president Zelaya attempted to break his nation’s constitution and remain in office as a banana dictator, Obama sided with Zelaya, against Honduras’s Congress and Supreme Court. When the brave Hondurans defied America’s president, he punished them with sanctions and isolation.
His destructiveness was only getting started. Obama’s infamous apology tour in the Middle East, which he lauded as the Arab Spring, was really the kickoff for the Islamist uprising. There is a unifying sinister thread in the recent chaos there. Every move or expression Obama makes is calculated to help the most extreme elements and to undermine the leaders and populations who would oppose and contain them.
Obama seized on Egyptian discontent to support Mubarak’s ouster, favoring the Muslim Brotherhood to replace him. Those Islamists thugs proved too incompetent and brutal for Egypt to abide. Obama resented and opposed the uprising of millions of Egyptians, and the popular military coup that restored order and confidence. He punished Egypt with reprisals and now refuses to support its aggressive strikes against the Islamic State, the enemy he professes to oppose, but whose name he cannot speak.
Egypt’s president speaks courageously of the need for a reformation in Islamic thought, and Obama ignores him. Obama denies Islam has anything to do with the “violent extremism” metastasizing around the globe.
When protests rose against the far more brutal Mullahs in Iran, Obama ignored their pleas and stood mute, lending implicit endorsement to the Mullahs, the leading sponsors of terror on the globe.
For no apparent reason, he decided to back Libya’s rebels and bomb Qaddafi—who had been cooperating with America since the Bush administration—thrusting that nation into chaos that would kill an ambassador in Benghazi, overtake the embassy in Tripoli, and effectively cede the nation to Iran’s control.
He bluffed and blustered against Assad’s brutality and chemical massacres in Syria, but in the end, wouldn’t lift a finger against Iran’s puppet. Worse, his premeditated fecklessness gave Putin the stage to pretend to solve a crisis Obama had no interest in addressing. Putin’s brokered resolution lasted only until world attention waned. The slaughter in Syria continues, as Iran wants it.
Against Iran, Obama lifts no finger and barely a voice. Indeed, he sees Iran as a desirable strategic ally. He pretends to oppose a nuclear Iran, but everything he does suggest the opposite. He ended US sanctions. He refuses to give Congress oversight or a vote in any deal with Iran. He promises to veto any measure to restore sanctions or even to allow Congress a voice in approving a nuclear deal.
It’s possible Obama’s record reflects stupidity and incompetence. But, the Harvard Law Review president is probably neither stupid nor incompetent. More likely, he intends exactly what his policies have wrought:
America’s allies don’t trust us. America’s enemies don’t fear us. Ordinary Americans are poorer and more dependent on government than ever before. America’s rich and elite sycophants are better off, better connected, and defend this regime against the rabble who dare suggest the transformer doesn’t love America.
Whatever Obama means by pronouncing the words “I love America,” he does not mean what most Americans understand those words to mean. He has no interest in a society advanced by freedom, enterprise, churches and private associations. He opposes the Constitution’s restraints on national and executive power. He opposes its protections of people’s property, speech, and active dissent. He deploys executive branch agencies like the IRS, EPA, and Justice Department to choke opposing speech by any means. He wants citizens, businesses, and religions to salute his vision and comply.
The modern Left has hijacked the Democratic Party and the national media; they agree with Obama. That is why they bitterly denounce the question whether such a person can be said to love America. They love their own power and the different America they imagine, not our national heritage, traditions, and the things that made America exceptional. Rudy knows it. We know it.
“...I didn’t start thinking the communists were behind this crap going on in our country until just recently... and even now there are doubts... but it’s starting to look possible.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278969/posts?page=1021#1021
You might find the entries on this page of interest.
The libs aren’t squeaking because Dear Leader doesn’t like America. They’re squeaking because they don’t.
Or maybe National Security Advisor.... To President Cruz.
Still want to know what passport he was using in the 80's.
And whether he ever filed for repatriation as a U. S. Citizen on his and his mom's return from Jakarta after her divorce from Lolo Soetoro.
And what citizenship he claimed on his Occidental and Columbia admission applications.
And whether he is indeed a taqqiya-practicing Moslem.
And whether he is a Communist practicing taqqiya toward the Moslems and phony American citizenship toward the United States.
And whether he has an airliner.... Or a submarine.... Waiting for him on his departure from office, to whisk him away to Moscow.
Let's start there.
How about the Leader of Military Cadets across the nation?
“I didn’t start thinking the communists were behind this crap going on in our country until just recently... and even now there are doubts... but it’s starting to look possible.”
Wow, you certainly are hard to convince!
More stuff from the link:
Percy Sutton of New York — told an interviewer on a Manhattan TV news show that he had been introduced to Obama “by a friend who was raising money for him. The friend’s name is Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, from Texas. He is the principal adviser to one of the world’s richest men. He told me about Obama.” (2)
This peculiar revelation engendered a small hubbub in 2008, but was quickly dismissed by the Obama campaign as the ditherings of a senile old man. I don’t believe President Obama himself ever denied the story personally, and no one has explained how Sutton came up with this elaborate story about Khalid al-Mansour if it had no basis in fact, and in any case al-Mansour no longer denies it. (3)
Back in 2008, while actually supporting Hillary Clinton in the New York primary, Percy Sutton was interviewed on TV and said that he thought Barack Obama was nonetheless quite impressive. He also revealed that he had first heard about Obama 20 years previously in a letter where al-Mansour wrote, “there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends up there because you used to go up there to speak. Would you please write a letter in support of him?”
Sutton concluded in the interview, “I wrote a letter of support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly.”
Until now, there really has been no context within which to understand the Sutton story or to buttress it as a reliable account other than the reputation of Sutton himself as one of the top leaders of the black community in Manhattan — himself a noted attorney, businessman and politician. But the new discovery of the 1979 column that established Khalid al-Mansour’s interest in creating a fund to give “financial help to disadvantaged students” does provide a clue that he might indeed — along with his patron, Arab Prince Alwaleed bin Talal — have taken an interest in the “genius” Barack Obama.
It also might be considered more than coincidence that the author of that 1979 newspaper column was from Chicago, where Barack Obama settled in 1986 a few years after his stint at Columbia University. It is certainly surprising that the author of that column was none other than Vernon Jarrett, the future (and later former) father-in-law of Valerie Jarrett, who ultimately became the consigliere of the Obama White House.
It is also noteworthy that Vernon Jarrett was one of the best friends and a colleague of Frank Marshall Davis, the former Chicago journalist and lifelong communist who moved to Hawaii in the late 1940s and years later befriended Stanley and Madelyn Dunham and their daughter Stanley Ann, the mother of Barack Obama. (4)
And to anyone who has the modicum of a spark of curiosity, it is surely intriguing that Frank Davis took an active role in the rearing of young Barack from the age of 10 until he turned 18 and left Hawaii for his first year of college at Occidental College in Los Angeles. (5)
It is also at least suggestive that Obama began that college education as a member of the highly international student body of Occidental College in 1979, the same year when Vernon Jarrett was touting the college aid program being funded by OPEC and possibly Prince Alwaleed. The fact that President Obama has studiously avoided releasing records of his college years is suggestive also, but has no evidentiary value in the present discussion. (6)
The nature of Vernon Jarrett’s relationship to Khalid al-Mansour is likewise uncertain, but it is very likely they had known each other as leaders of the black civil-rights movement for many years. Under his previous name of Donald Warden, al-Mansour had founded the African American Association in the Bay Area in the early 1960s. He had also helped inspire the Black Panther Party through his association with black-power leaders such as Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. Seale, of course, had a famous association with Chicago later, when he was part of the Chicago Eight charged with conspiracy and inciting to riot at the Democratic National Convention in 1968. (7)
In any case, it doesn’t matter if Vernon Jarrett and Khalid al-Mansour had a personal relationship or not. For some reason, al-Mansour had used Jarrett as the messenger to get out the word about his efforts to funnel Arab oil money to black students and minority colleges at about the same time that Barack Obama began his college career. That doesn’t mean either Jarrett or al-Mansour knew Obama at that time, but eight years later when Obama was a rising star in Chicago, a friend of Bill Ayers and Valerie Jarrett, it is much more likely that he did indeed have the assistance of very important people in his meteoric rise. The words of Percy Sutton about what al-Mansour told him regarding Obama certainly have the ring of truth:
“His introduction was there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends back there... Would you please write a letter in support of him? (That’s before Obama decided to run.) ... and he interjected the advice that Obama had passed the requirements, had taken and passed the requirements necessary to get into Harvard and become president of the Law Review. That’s before he ever ran for anything. And I wrote a letter in support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them that I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly...” (2)
What possible significance could all this have? We may never know, but Vernon Jarrett, back in 1979, thought that OPEC’s intention to fund black and minority education would have huge political ramifications. As Jarrett wrote:
“The question of financial aid from the Arabs could raise a few extremely interesting questions both inside and outside the black community. If such contributions are large and sustained, the money angle may become secondary to the sociology and politics of such an occurrence.” (1)
He was, of course, right.
As Jarrett suggests, any black institutions and presumably individuals who became beholden to Arab money might be expected to continue the trend of American “new black advocacy for a homeland for the Palestinians” and presumably for other Islamic and Arabic interests in the Middle East. For that reason, if for no other, the question of how President Obama’s college education was funded is of considerably more than academic interest.
Footnotes:
1) “Will Arabs Back Ties to Blacks With Cash?” by Vernon Jarrett — http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19791106&id=RcFaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GFkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6597,1456637&hl=en
2) Percy Sutton interview on NY1, March 2008 — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EcC0QAd0Ug&e
3) The National and International Roundtable posted a one-hour interview with Khalid al-Mansour and other African American Association leaders on the Internet just last week. In the introduction of al-Mansour, the black host notes that his guest had been a patron of Barack Obama and had recommended him for admission to Harvard Law School. You will note that al-Mansour does not correct him.
4) “All in the (Political) Family,” by Paul Kengor — http://spectator.org/archives/2012/08/03/all-in-the-political-family
5) “Dreams from my Father,” by Barack Obama — http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-From-My-Father-Inheritance/dp/B000R9EG3Q
6) “Why Obama’s College Records Matter,” By Monte Kuligowski — http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/why_obamas_college_records_matter.html
7) “Who is Khalid al-Mansour?” by Kenneth R. Timmerman — http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/khalid-al-mansour-Obama/2008/09/04/id/325191
Frank Miele is managing editor of the Daily Inter Lake and may be reached at 758-4447. E-mail responses may be sent to edit@dailyinterlake.com
1,025 posted on 12/26/2014, 6:48:47 PM by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM)
No, I meant “let C. J. Pearson lead all our youth in the Military Cadets”.
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