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Barack Obama told a tax-burdened plumber over the weekend that his economic philosophy is to "spread the wealth around" -- a comment that may only draw fire from riled-up John McCain supporters who have taken to calling Obama a "socialist" at the Republican's rallies. Obama made the remark, caught on camera, after fielding some tough questions from the plumber Sunday in Ohio, where the Democratic candidate canvassed neighborhoods and encouraged residents to vote early. "Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed "more and more for fulfilling...

Because the New York Times and LA Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, NPR and the entire American news industry is infested with left-wing radicals pushing an agenda today, the rest of the nation is just now learning what conservative Americans have known for years. The “mainstream media” is run by left-wing news rooms, film makers, book and magazine publishers and college campus crackpots, and none of them are telling the American people the truth about their “messiah” Barack Hussein Obama. Because the “mainstream news media” – augmented by left-wing Hollywood film makers and New York magazine publishers have...

Need help in locating a great conservative article on what we could expect from a Nationalized Banking System under Obama and a majority Commicrat Congress. This article included the facts that a Nationalized Banking system would be able to regulate our lives by loaning money only if you were using it to live "Green". No home loans for homes over 1,500 sq ft . . . uses too much energy to heat and cool. No homes out in the country . . . use too much fuel to drive back and forth to work, much better living in a cramped...

The Crash: "Why has the market dropped so much?" everyone asks. What is it about the specter of our first socialist president and the end of capitalism as we know it that they don't understand? The freeze-up of the financial system — and government's seeming inability to thaw it out — are a main concern, no doubt. But more people are also starting to look across the valley, as they say, at what's in store once this crisis passes. And right now it looks like the U.S., which built the mightiest, most prosperous economy the world has ever known, is...

Obama’s “SIGN OF PROGRESS”: Obama followers demonstrate the Sign-of-Progress Salute: “Hitler’s hands as he speaks of the unity of the National Socialist and socialist ideas.” [Read about the Obama Sign of Progress here, and the photo of Hitler here.]

Netherlands blogger Michael van der Galien reports that a group of young Dutch Socialists will be flying here to campaign for Barack Obama: … I received an e-mail I found quite interesting. The Jonge Socialisten asked me whether I would like to travel to America with them shortly before the U.S. elections in order to do ‘research.’ Now, before readers will think this would be a great opportunity for me to visit the country I write about so frequently, the trip had a specific partisan purpose despite it being described as ‘research’: They would travel to the United States to...

The Democratic Socialists of America Present The First Chicago Town Meeting on Economic Insecurity EMPLOYMENT AND SURVIVAL IN URBAN AMERICA a discussion of policy, problems, and possibilities with WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON, Director, Center for the Study of Urban Inequality at the University of Chicago MICHAEL DAWSON, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago BARACK OBAMA, Candidate, State Senate, 13th Legislative District TONI PRECKWINKLE, 4th Ward Alderman JOSEPH SCHWARTZ, Professor of Political Science, Temple University SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25TH 7:00pm Ida Noyes Hall, Cloyster Club 1313 E. 59th Street, Chicago Sponsored by: *University of Chicago Democrats *Chicago Democratic Socialists of America *University...

Obama Will Tear America Apart by Rich Carroll Find a comfortable chair and read what’s on the minds of half of the American voters. I’ll say it because I don’t work for the politically correct and weak left-wing media that was once a national safeguard until it eroded into a liberal tool. I represent those of us who place our hand over our heart during the National Anthem; those of us who never felt it was necessary to burn an American flag; those of us who were never “offended” seeing the Ten Commandments hanging from inside a building; those of...

There is new information on the accusations against ACORN, a group that tries to get low income people to vote. Now, more ACORN offices around the U.S. are under investigation after police raided their Las Vegas office. ACORN representatives will tell you this is all politically motivated, because they register people who would tend to vote for democrats. Election officials say they are also registering lots of people, who do not even exist. Since investigators cleaned out their offices during a Tuesday morning raid, ACORN has been working to clean up its image and saying they were identifying registration fraud...

Election '08: Bill Ayers isn't out bombing anymore, but he has never stopped being a radical. His ties to hostile Marxist regimes remain, raising more questions about Barack Obama's refusal to fully repudiate him.Distancing himself, as Obama did, from the "detestable acts" of the founder of the Weather Underground terror organization, is one thing. Ayers' terror attacks — in armed robbery, police murder, attempted killings of U.S. troops, and bombings of U.S. democratic institutions to advance a Marxist revolution — were quite easy to disavow. But Ayers' supporters say his violence was all a long time ago. Obama emphasized that...

I’ve seen debates, read articles, and watched Internet clips of stump speeches. From what I can tell of the character of the contest, from positions on issues, the process has not yet emerged from the Democratic Party primaries. Perhaps more accurately still, it seems we no longer have two distinct American political parties. The donkeys and elephants have been “put to sleep.” The limited democracy of the de facto two-party system has given way to a single predefined political agenda. The only political choice on offer is a more complete transformation to international socialism. The established drivers, including extremism in...

(MILWAUKEE) - John McCain and Sarah Palin were about halfway through a town hall meeting here when a man in the audience rose to be heard. “I'm mad! I'm really mad!” he shouted. “And what's gonna surprise you, it's not the economy. It's the Socialists taking over our country.” The crowd of several thousand erupted in thunderous cheers, as if many of their most underlying concerns had finally been verbalized. The man’s righteous anger set the tone for Palin, who fully embraced her role as the Republican ticket’s attack dog. Palin seemed to question Barack Obama’s character repeatedly and slammed...

As the financial crisis continues, the Bush administration, led by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, is moving ahead to enact the unconstitutional and socialistic measures contained in the recently passed and misleadingly nicknamed "bailout bill" — misleading not because it's not a bailout, but because it's much more than that. This bill — officially the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 — is, along with the Treasury Department's "Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure," about nationalizing the entire United States financial system, a truly radical act that will hasten the United States of America along the road to total socialism....

Evidence of Far Left Ties to the Democratic Socialists of America and New Party. Those of us in the Chicago vicinity know what this guy is all about, we have seen him elected from out of nowhere, twice now, and know first hand how elections around here don't mean anything because it is not the election that counts, it is who you know and who you are associated with. That is the reality of Chicago politics, always has been since the first Daley, and will continue at least as long as the last Daley remains in place. The only way...

About two or three weeks ago, Democrats and Obama supporters were trying to make hay with Sarah Palin and the Alaska Independence Party. Nothing much ever came of it, as she's been a Republican since she could vote. Todd Palin was a member, but the AIP appears to be one of those hopeless causes, that don't ever do anything. But on the matter of embarrassing ties to extremist parties, it looks like Barack may have some serious explaining to do... As it turns out he just might be a socialist. No, not a socialist in the sense that Republicans call...

Obama encouraged Socialists to join his voter education and voter registration task forces Due credit to Yid with Lid for breaking the news that will end Barack Obama's run for the White House. Wednesday, October 8, 2008 Senator Obama Signed a CONTRACT WITH THE CHICAGO SOCIALIST PARTY Everything on the Post Below is Hyperlinked to a site within the Chicago Democratic party archives, there is no conjecture, no guessing, The fact is that as recently as 1996 Senator Obama was an active member of the Chicago Democratic Socialist Party.We have verified Barack Obama's involvement with the Chicago New Party per...

Chicago New Party Update by Bruce Bentley About 50 activists attended the Chicago New Party membership meeting in July. The purpose of the meeting was to update members on local activities and to hear appeals for NP support from four potential political candidates. The NP is being very active in organization building and politics. There are 300 members in Chicago. In order to build an organizational and financial base the NP is sponsoring house parties. Locally it has been successful both fiscally and in building a grassroots base. Nationwide it has resulted in 1000 people committed to monthly contributions. The...

It seems that Senator Obama's Old party was called the New Party. The party was a Marxist Political coalition. This was not a guilt by association thing. Senator Obama sought out their nomination. He was successful in obtaining that endorsement, and he used a number of New Party volunteers as campaign workers. Read more on the Marxist endorsement that Barack Obama sought out: Co-founded in 1992 by Daniel Cantor (a former staffer for Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign) and Joel Rogers (a sociology and law professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), the New Party was a Marxist political coalition whose...

Obama is Hiding a Radical Past Did you know that Barack Obama was a member of the leading socialist party? In a small omission, Barack Obama apparently forgot to include in his resume, he entered politics as a socialist. This just keeps getting better and better. Barack Obama was active participant in the 1990s of the Chicago New Party and, importantly, the Chicago DSA, a group of socialists affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America. Barack Obama attended and participated in meetings the Chicago New Party and the Chicago DSA, the local affiliate of the Democratic Socialists of America. Barack...

PROGRESSIVES FOR OBAMA (PFO)   URL :http://progressivesforobama.blogspot.com/ Alternate website:http://progressivesforobama.net/ Established in March 2008, Progressives For Obama (PFO) was co-founded by Tom Hayden (a Students for a Democratic Society organizer who collaborated with North Vietnamese Communists during the Vietnam War and organized riots at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago); Danny Glover (an actor and leftist ideologue who has ardently supported the regimes of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Cuba's Fidel Castro); Barbara Ehrenreich (Honorary Chairwoman of the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA); and Bill Fletcher, Jr. (a former Maoist and current DSA leader who serves as executive editor of Black Commentator, and who...

If conservative Republicans are right and the $700 billion financial-sector rescue plan signals America's slide into socialism, you'd think Seth Dellinger would be celebrating. "They can reorganize capitalism in different ways, and they will," says Mr. Dellinger, a college graduate turned working-class meat cutter. "But it is above all with a view toward continuing a system in which a small minority of super-rich families controls everything." To Mr. Dellinger, 32, capitalism's crisis may be socialism's opportunity. He's making the case to anyone who will listen that the U.S. should adopt a Cuban-style government before the Bush administration and Congress empty...

Bernard Henry LEVY, a wealthy leftist who claimed to support the socialist candidates in the former french presidential elections,who has strong ties with the sector of medias and of edition ,in a recent article in the french weekly "Le Point" of the 18 September 2008 clearly accuses of racism the "little whitey" who will not vote OBSSAMA. For LEVY's eyes O. is the one who will unite communities in USA... B.H.LEVY is considered by many french from all parties or opinions as a show-business multiculturalist fake intellectual...Another good supporter for Dr.O./Mr.Hyde

The 263-171 roll call Friday by which the House approved a $700 billion government bailout bill for the battered financial industry. A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the bill. Voting yes were 172 Democrats and 91 Republicans. Voting no were 63 Democrats and 108 Republicans. X denotes those not voting. There is 1 vacancy in the 435-member House. ALABAMA Democrats — Cramer, Y; Davis, Y. Republicans — Aderholt, N; Bachus, Y; Bonner, Y; Everett, Y; Rogers, Y. ALASKA Republicans — Young, N. ARIZONA Democrats — Giffords, Y; Grijalva, N; Mitchell, Y; Pastor, Y. Republicans — Flake, N; Franks,...

White House contenders Barack Obama and John McCain sought to persuade skeptical Americans on Tuesday to back a $700 billion Wall Street bailout package and planned to be in Washington on Wednesday to vote on the measure. A day after the U.S. House of Representatives sent global markets reeling by rejecting the financial rescue plan, Senate leaders said on Tuesday they scheduled a Wednesday evening vote on a new version of the measure, including a big increase in the amount of bank deposits protected by the government's insurance program. The campaigns of Democrat Obama and Republican McCain said the candidates...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Opposing the White House's Wall Street bailout and letting stocks take a beating was a worthwhile price to pay to keep a "socialist bill" from meddling in the free market, conservative talk radio said on Tuesday. Many of the influential hosts strongly oppose the rescue plan proposed last week by President George W. Bush, once a talk-radio favorite, as inappropriate government intervention in the free market likely to make the situation worse, not better. Congress will live to regret it if the $700 billion bill were passed hastily, they said, urging lawmakers to spend more time on...

The Subprime home mortgage collapse...a Primer. It's ALL about the CRA of 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977 - This required banks to offer credit throughout their entire market area for “underserved” populations and small businesses. The CRA gave incentives to help low income borrowers become “home owners”. Liberals call this group “low income borrowers”. Conservatives call them a RISK!The CRA was passed by the Carter administration. In 1995 the Clinton administration authorized subprime loans under the CRA. Democrats added these provisions for the securitization of subprime loans and then ENFORCED the lending to high risk individuals. By 2000,...

In the past few weeks, I have listened to Barrack Obama's speeches. I have also talked to many people who believe Obama's plans or changes for this country is what we need. This is wrong. For 32 years I lived in East Germany. I didn't have a choice. For four years, I suffered as a political prisoner in a Russian East German Prison Camp. They tried to re-educate me by forcing me to read Marx, Engels, and Lenin and the communist manifestoes. When I hear Obama speaking, I hear Marx, Engels, and Lenin. Please, the people should listen to what...

Former Reagan diplomat Alan Keyes commented Sept. 23 on the federal government's bailout of mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The former Assistant Secretary of State, currently running for president as an independent, said the bailout plan as proposed by the Bush administration would effectively transform our nation into "a socialist society." The following is the text of Keyes' statement: What I have to say about the bailout is that, with a concrete proposal on the table, it becomes much more obvious what is actually going on right now, and I think that we have to confront it. And...

When he said "this sucker could go down," Bush wasn't talking about the bailout plan. He was talking about the American financial system. Even the mainstream media were stunned by the details emerging Thursday night of what went on behind closed doors in the White House Cabinet Room at a meeting that brought together leading members of Congress from both parties; the two presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain; and George Bush and assorted administration officials. Beforehand, Congressional leaders said they were basically united on the bailout plan. It seemed like Bush and the two presidential candidates would give...

All this recent talk about “change” got me thinking.... Maybe the time has come to establish a Congressional Rich White Guy Caucus for the purpose of defending America’s real minority group, taxpayers, currently under constant attack. Rich white guys - that top 5% of American producers that Obama’s leftists want to put out of business, just because they hate freedom, liberty and capitalism, - just because with your help, they can. Democrats learned nothing else from Thomas Jefferson, but they certainly learned this… “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away...

The lamestream media told you:Francoise Hollande, the head of France’s Socialist Party, has endorsed Barack Obama for U.S. president, and promised “to work for the senator’s victory,” in the words of the Associated Press in an unbylined article. ... cont.

Coloradans will face a jam-packed ballot this fall, but even the seemingly simple choice of a presidential candidates will include 14 third-party options, according to The Denver Post. Because it is relatively easy to get on Colorado’s ballot, Objectivist and Boston Tea Party candidates will join Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, as well as perennial third-party candidate Ralph Nader, in the mix of choices for the next leader of the free world. As the Post reports: For a $500 filing fee and a valid list of nine electors, candidates in Colorado can apply to be on the presidential ballot...

A Conservative History of the American Leftby Daniel J. Flynn To catch the current Obamania, we need to see its original old script. For as Daniel J. Flynn documents so brilliantly in "A Conservative History of the American Left," Obamaesqe "Change" and "Hope" rhetoric resurfaces with every generation. Flynn's account puts the modern Obama movement in historical perspective. In fact, Chapter 21, "Meet the New Left, Same as the Old Left" introduces Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, sixties bomb-throwing fanatics from whose living room Obama recently launched his political career. Says Flynn of these sixties "intellectuals" who now see Obama...

Like many other definitions that have been rewritten by left-wingnuts over time, the term “general welfare” no longer means what it did when it was written in our Constitution and ratified by the colonies in 1789. As Thomas Jefferson once explained, “To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, “to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.”...

Well, it's no wonder Democrats didn't want former President Bill Clinton to speak on the economy. Some delegates might have had the temerity to wonder: Hey, why did we experience all that prosperity in the '90s? It certainly wasn't due to populism, or isolationism, or more government dependency, or any of the hard-left economic policies being preached nightly by speakers at the Democratic National Convention. No, it was capitalism — more of it, not less of it. Naturally, every political convention features its share of demagoguery. But buried beneath all the idealistic talk in Denver are some ugly details. Those...

Jack Layton attends Obama nomination in Denver DENVER – NDP Leader Jack Layton arrived at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado this morning. Layton will be attending the convention for three days. "Democrats here are talking about the same kind of change we’re talking about in Canada," said Layton. "Whether it’s real action on climate change, forging trade policies that work for working families or standing up for jobs and better health care, there’s a real desire here to put the concerns of the kitchen table ahead of the boardroom table." Layton will also be attending the National Democratic...

Here are some headlines we can expect to see in the year 2020 if our society continues its glorious march to the People's Revolution: Rev. Jeremiah Wright receives Nobel Peace Prize for trendsetting work in race relations San Francisco city ordinance: Public display of heterosexual affection (by US citizens) punishable by $1000 fine Michael Moore sweeps Oscars with his film Bin Laden Mon Amour President Michelle Obama paroles all non-white convicts in America; “We must begin healing process,” she declares Archbishop of Canterbury presides over first Muslim coronation ceremony Secretary of State Pelosi featured on new 9-dollar bill Supreme Court...

CARACAS (AFP) - The recent nationalizations of strategic sectors in Venezuela are frightening away foreign companies and turning the country into South America's worst destination for foreign investment, analysts say. President Hugo Chavez's decision to take over electricity, oil, steelmaking, cement and telephone enterprises over the past year may strengthen the "revolutionary" drive towards building a socialist nation, but it also drives off multinationals which have the funds to boost economic activity.

Why is Obama supported by Democratic Socialists of America? In: Politics and Policy [Edit] [Edit] .Because he supports the ideals of marxism and socialism. Barrack Obama constantly affirms his belief that the government should have the unlimited ability to seize assets from all individuals and business entities and use it as they see fit. He supports socialized medicine, and other government seized control of private institutions. He is possibly the most socialist politician in the land, rivaled only by Hillary Clinton. "Barack Obama Exposed" A Free special report on the real Barack Obama - get your copy today! www.HumanEvents.com Why...

ASUNCION (AFP) - An ex-bishop who ended 61 years of one-party conservative rule in Paraguay, Fernando Lugo, was sworn in Friday as his nation's president, further swelling the ranks of leftwing leaders in South America. Ideologically aligned leaders, including Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Argentina's Cristina Kirchner, Chile's Michelle Bachelet, Bolivia's Evo Morales and Ecuador's Rafael Correa attended the ceremony in Asuncion

Jerome Corsi's expose The Obama Nation jumped to the #1 slot in most book sales charts yeterday during it's first day of release destroying competition in non-fiction and political book sales. Scrupulously sourced with more than 600 footnotes, The Obama Nation is the result of that research. By tracing... ...Meanwhile rumours circulated online of readers visiting local bookstores such as Barnes & Noble only to find that the book was no where to be found. In certain stores, Obama supportive employees are apparently... Meanwhile purchases of Nancy Pelosi's newest release continued to plummet as she maintains her low, low, low...

Russian president may have halted operations, but Russia could still 'defend' itself against Georgian armed resistance. While Russian President Dimitry Medvedev might have called a halt to operations he deliberately left open the possibility of combat by allowing his forces to "defend themselves" from Georgian armed resistance. In characteristically blunt style, Russia also used a show of military force to warn Georgia against taking strategic advantage of Moscow's decision to end hostilities. Within an hour of the order to halt action, the Daily Telegraph witnessed Russian helicopter gunships launch missile strikes deep inside undisputed Georgian territory. The attacks, which were...

The war I witnessed for more than five years in Iraq is over. In July, there were five American fatalities in Iraq, the lowest since the war began in March 2003. In Mosul recently, I chatted with shopkeepers on the same corner where last January a Humvee was blown apart in front of me. In the Baghdad district of Ghazilia -- where last January snipers controlled streets awash in human waste -- I saw clean streets and soccer games. In Basra, the local British colonel was dining at a restaurant in the center of the bustling city. For the first...

At the University of Chicago no man looms larger than Milton Friedman, the Nobel laureate who led the “Chicago school” of economics and who died in 2006. When the university announced plans for a $200m economics institute in May, it seemed fitting that the centre should be named after him. But a small war broke out. On June 6th more than 100 faculty members wrote to the university’s president to protest against the institute. Armed with academia’s common weapons, indignation and verbosity, they said they were all “disturbed by the ideological and disciplinary preference implied by the university’s massive support...

A number of experts agree the military conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia is not in Russia’s interests. The Former Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili says the United States could be partly responsible for the violence in South Ossetia. In an interview with the France-Presse news agency she commented on the possible reasons behind the military conflict. "There are many Americans in Georgia training the military forces of the country and monitoring the situation. As I understand, they also supervise the strategic corridor – the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. The main purpose behind the conflict is the further strategic orientation of...

That which is old, is new again… “On January 31, 1971, members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) met in a Detroit hotel to discuss war crimes they claimed to have participated in or witnessed during their combat tours in Vietnam. During the next three days, more than 100 Vietnam veterans and 16 civilians gave anguished, emotional testimony describing hundreds of atrocities against innocent civilians in South Vietnam, including rape, arson, torture, murder, and the shelling or napalming of entire villages. The witnesses stated that these acts were being committed casually and routinely, under orders, as a matter of...

CARACAS, Venezuela - Riot police used tear gas Wednesday to block hundreds of Venezuelans protesting the latest moves by President Hugo Chavez to concentrate his power. The demonstrators said a blacklist of opposition candidates and a series of socialist decrees are destroying what's left of their democracy. Though the protest of about 1,000 people chanting "freedom!" was small compared to past marches, there is a growing public outcry over the sidelining of key government opponents ahead of state and local elections in November.

Jon Voight intended to turn heads with the “very strong points” in his Washington Times op-ed last week (titled: Voight: My Concerns For America ~ Obama sowing socialist seeds in young people). But he probably didn’t expect so many of them to reside in Hollywood. In a sign of the growing interest in politics this election year, bloggers who normally focus on the entertainment industry are expanding their presence in one of the Internet’s other spheres of influence. Voight’s piece slammed Democratic candidate Barack Obama, praised GOP contender John McCain, and even repudiated his own Vietnam War protests as the...

Here’s the new Obambi energy plan: It has been noted that if automobiles could go only downhill, they would get better gas mileage. Therefore, Barack Obama urges everyone in the country to drive only downhill. This plan has been enthusiastically endorsed by Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. BARACK’S NEW & IMPROVED ENERGY PLAN: LET'S GET AMERICA GOING DOWNHILL!!

As the presidential candidates enter the three-month sprint to November, Barack Obama must be wondering: If that did not do it, what will? The antecedent of the pronoun "that" is his Berlin speech. The antecedent of the pronoun "it" is assuage anxieties about his understanding of the need to supplement soft power (diplomacy) with hard power (military force). He spoke in Berlin at the bullet-scarred base — it was in the crossfire 63 years ago as Russian troops neared Hitler's bunker about a mile away — of an 1873 monument to German militarism. To be precise, the monument celebrates the...