The Obamas are Just the Ghosts of Clintons Past

American Thinker ^ | July 01, 2008 | James Lewis

[neverdem]

It's amazing how much the Obamas are like the Clintons -- who are now attacked by the same people who used to kiss the ground they stepped on. Carl Bernstein talks about Hillary's "dark side."  Bill, says an MSNBC blogger, is a serial liar.  Well, thanks for performing your journalistic duty to the American people.  It only took sixteen years for our media to tell us what was clear to the rest of the world before the Clintons ever got elected in 1992.

This is typical of the dismal human judgment of liberals -- it takes them more than a dozen years just to figure out they've been suckered -- or at least, to tell the rest of us what they know. It's one of their repeated intellectual failures, this inability to judge human beings with open eyes, fairly and accurately. They only have two human categories: Good and Evil. To persuade them you are Good all you need is slick talk. Political con artists learn to do that very nicely. They are attracted to the liberal mind like bees to honey.

Well, today the same folks are stepping in the same doo-doo again. Michelle Obama is just another Hillary Clinton; she's the hard-nosed ideologue in the marriage, the scrapper who only feels happy with a long enemies' list. Michelle is bitter the way Hillary is bitter. She literally sees the world in black and white, just like Hillary sees the world as feminist good and evil. Both of them believe their political opponents are Evil -- whether their enemies are defined as white folks in general, men in general, or only Republicans. When Hillary knowingly married Bill the Sex Addict, she just confirmed her prejudices about men in general. When Michelle married Obama the Messiah, she just confirmed her prejudices about whites and blacks in America. That is why these people never learn; they are mentally stuck.

As for Barack Obama, he's just a younger, skinnier, and darker Bill Clinton, slaying the willing suckers by the millions.  That's the meaning of "change.'' Obama travels with his political rock band from gig to gig, and all the liberal bots fall on their knees.   It's pathetic to see what Americans have become. Our media think that a mere change in the racial makeup of Democrat frontrunner means a change in reality. That is utter folly. It's just another skin color fronting for the same Left.

On questions of policy there is no daylight between the Clintons and the Obamas. They all want to see a United States of Socialist America, a USSA. They will do anything to make that real, as long as they get to appoint the apparatchiks, the ruling class. Don't believe it? Well, check out the race and gender spoils system that now controls the US educational system, including our universities. Michelle Obama grew up with Jesse a Chicago beacon of black asseriveness, and Jackson was one of the original founders of the racial spoils system.   Both Michelle and Barack are the products of that race-and-gender spoils system; they have made a career from it, and in Michelle's case, they have helped to run it. 

That is the model for Obama socialism. It's much more powerful than traditional socialism, because classical Marxism only politicized the working poor; yet the poor can rise in America and become middle class. When the poor stop being poor, they begin to stop voting Democrat. But it's much harder to change your race and gender, which is why demagogues like Rev. Wright make sure that you feel stuck in racial despair.  That's why Pentagon bomber Bill Ayers believes in pounding racial grievances in America even more than economic ones. 

Both the Clintons and the Obamas have lifelong associations with two scary groups: The hard core Left and a corrupt Democrat Party machine.

Obama's first father figure and mentor was Frank Marshall Davis, a black radical from the old days of segregation --- embittered, disappointed, and full of anger toward the country.    Davis grew up during Jim Crow, and became a member of the Communist Party during the Stalin period, 1945-1950. Bitterness in a black man at that time is easy to understand; but signing up for Josef Stalin's "Left fascism" is over the top.   Yet that was Obama's first mentor. What do you think Davis taught his young disciple?

Hillary's radical moment came right after she left home, when she flipped from being a Goldwater Girl to a radical Wellesley feminist at the very height of screaming gender rage in the 1970s. It shaped and defined her adult life.

Both the Clintons and the Obamas have their closest friends on the extreme fringe of the radical Left -- the same people who used to be kept out of the Democratic Party because they were too close to Stalin and the Moscow-controlled Communist Party. Anti-Communist Democrats like John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson and the AFL-CIO would never have tolerated the likes of Jeremiah Wright or Saul Alinsky. The voters would have punished them, and rightly so. You don't collude with the enemies of your country. At least, not before the current Left came to power.

And then there is the corrupt machine connection. Obama was pushed into the national limelight by the Chicago Democrat Machine, in alliance with radical Left groups like ACORN. The Machine includes sweethearts like Tony Rezko and Governor Blagojevich -- who was repeatedly mentioned in the recent Rezko trial.     As for the Clintons, they were cheek-by-jowl with the Arkansas Democrat Machine. We know that Obama got the Illinois Legislature to vote money for Michelle's employer, which then gave her a $ 200,000.00 salary jump in one year. Hillary had to make her 100 grand from phony cattle futures in Arkansas. But Michelle had a much sweeter setup. After all, who in Chicago was going to say that she isn't worth that kind of money? But the result was the same.

Democrats used to stay away from Jimmy Hoffa, Sr., who was radioactive; but Obama just agreed to lift Federal judicial oversight over the Teamsters Union, designed to keep it free from corruption. So much for Mr. Clean.

Still, the sight of the hard Left carousing with the corrupt and mob-tied Party Machine is not exactly an example of Good Government at Work. When the Clintons got into the White House they ran a Welcome Wagon for a long series of crooks from places like Macao and Indonesia, along with agents for the Chinese, who just happened to swipe all kinds of defense secrets at the very same time. Pure coincidence, of course, and not the sort of thing our vaunted media would ever expose for fear of what they might find. They would rather talk about Monica's blue dress. The Monica scandal was a distraction from very serious national security leaks in the Clinton White House, which have never been acknowledged.

So, who would the Obamas bring into the White House? It's a frightening prospect. If he weren't headed for prison, Tony Rezko might be on the list.

Obama's foreign policy team contains doctrinaire Leftist fantasy-mongers. To gain credibility they have just been joined by Team Clinton, the very people who failed to protect the United States after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; we owe the 9/11 assault to their blind folly. http://www.newsweek.com/id/139894   They have been able to evade responsibility by using a solid phalanx of media spinners, and by stacking the 9/11 Commission with the likes of Jamie Gorelick and Bob Kerry.

In sum, the Left may have dumped the Clintons, but they continue to perpetuate Clintonismo. That is the key to the coming election: nothing has changed. Obama even lies about "change." For the Left, change always means going back to the past, and in this case, the past means the Clinton Administration. But this time, with a solid Democrat Congress and a solid phalanx covering for them in the media, they are determined to win it all.

James Lewis blogs at dangeroustimes.wordpress.com

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>Both the Clintons and the Obamas have lifelong associations with two scary groups: The hard core Left and a corrupt Democrat Party machine.

Good essay --- especially with all the crap being written these days --- this is a breath of fresh air. Thanks for posting it.

[Arthur McGowan]

When conservatives said the Rapist was a liar, they meant that he told lies.

When liberals say the Rapist is a liar, they mean that he isn’t useful to the Revolution any longer.

[Choose Ye This Day]

The running meme on the MSM is that Obama is the ghost of Kennedys past; that somehow, he has been “adopted” into the Kennedy clan and Camelot will be reborn under Barry.

The barf line is that the country was “robbed” of Camelot, by Oswald, Sirhan and Teddy’s drunken stupidity at Chappaquiddick.

[mrsmel]

When I consider the kind of Americans who are “worshipping” Obama, and the kinds of Americans who were our forefathers-—Valley Forge, the independent, tough-minded New England farmers who were self-reliant and considered themselves the equal of anyone, including the President-—or the proud and spirited Southerners, or the tough and hard-working Westerners—etc-—it makes me very disgusted with what many Americans want this nation to be now—a nanny state, politically correct, morally degenerate. Bunch of thin-skinned, perpetually offended babies, proud to shirk work and too “sensitive” to live, getting their little feelings hurt at the drop of a word. We’ve come a long way, baby, and I don’t see any going back, only getting worse.

[HerrBlucher]

Excellent post, very insightful.

The Clintons finally came up against a couple who are as arrogant, unscrupulous, and narcissistic as they are. And yes, now that the Clintons are not useful to the left anymore, they are ceremoniously dumped for new sleazoids to lead them.

It just doesn’t get any more pathetic.

[mrsmel]

And all those (finally) seeing, or at least admitting, the truth about the Clintons--there's no way that they didn't know this years ago--it's just politically expedient to publicly admit it now-just like they'd do to the Obamas if it became politically expedient. It's never about character and principle with this bunch, just "winning", as if the direction of this nation were a football game and their "team" must win at all costs. Excepting the ones who want to see us turn into a weak socialist Orwellian state.

[llandres]

“Good essay -— especially with all the crap being written these days -— this is a breath of fresh air. Thanks for posting it.”

YES, exceptionally good!! The Obamas may be “ghosts” but just don’t call them that “other ‘S’ word” for ghosts. (’my BAD). Michelle sees everything in Black and White - don’t let anyone else, though.

[Names Ash Housewares]

There is no PeROT this time.
So we stand a good chance to stop them.

[neverdem]

Don’t forget Bob Barr. He could come back to haunt us.

[gibsosa]

bump

[neverdem]

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[JDoutrider]

Dynamite!!!

[smedley64]

"...This is typical of the dismal human judgment of liberals -- it takes them more than a dozen years just to figure out they've been suckered -- or at least, to tell the rest of us what they know. It's one of their repeated intellectual failures, this inability to judge human beings with open eyes, fairly and accurately..."

Let's not give the MSM more credit than they deserve. These MSM idiots knew all along what everyone knew, but Billy and Hilly were just their lefty stars of the day, and now, they've found their new marxist star, shining brighter than anyone that came before him, which is far better in their minds than a politician that is merely left of center. In the MSM minds, compared to their new blatantly marxist messiah, Billy and Hilly ARE scum, and may as well be Republicans. It's all relative to them, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking they just suddenly realized what scum the Clintons are, they just found someone even scummier, so naturally, the Clintons are now dirt to them. The MSM would be a predictably laughable lot of loons if they weren't so damned dangerous.

[kalee]

bingo.

[metesky]

I'd like to remind people that Mike Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, even though he was the incumbent VP, and John F'n sKerry all ran on "change", another word that apparently means anything a Democrat wishes it to mean.

[wardaddy]

they are worse than the Clintons....they actually do hate America and whites too.

[Salvation]