Posted on 06/26/2010 11:51:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama's ties to far left progressives have been a secret. As he expressed his views in favor not only a larger federal rule in the lives of Americans long before he took office.
For example, in this 2001 Chicago public radio station WBEZ interview where he was quoted by the Wall Street Journal and Investor's Business Daily. True democracies were "People's Democracies" and "People's Republics" where the economy was controlled by the government in the name of the people and for their benefit - and redistributive justice ("social justice") assured that each received what they rightly deserved.
It is at this time the president made ties with some of the most dangerous people behind the driving force of the 1969 domestic terrorists group, Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground. While these two men lived in Chicago they served on two boards together: The Chicago Annenberg Challenge and The Woods Foundation. From the first five years with The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Obama served as Chairman of the Board and handled it's fiscal matters. Ayers was The Chicago Annenberg Challenge's founder and he served as the Chairman of the Foundation's other body that set education policy.
The weather underground and their leaders were responsible for three deaths during their reign of terror through multiple bombings. All in the name of progress, more to the truth, force the government into a direction they felt the country should be going. The ring leader of this underground, William Ayers, coined the name "The Weather Underground" on the pretense that the winds of change were coming. Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn lived under assumed identities for many years since their attacks on federal buildings in the hopes of avoiding prosecution for their actions. It wasn't until 1980 did they turn themselves in. Both spared federal prosecution and were fined $1,500 and received three years probation for their parts in murders. To date Ayers is considered a respected teacher at the University of Illinois in Chicago.
President Obama has on occasion denied, as has his staff, of him having close ties to the man. However, the true nature of their friendship has been brought into question by many other news and political figures, such as George Stephanopoulus, working moderator as during a debate between Clinton and Obama in April 2008. Republican presidential candidate John McCain and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin also drew attention to this relationship during their run for the general election campaign, either as a note of fact or as a ploy to discredit the President.
Washington Post writer Howard Kurtz had this to say about the connection between the two Chicagoans it was "all but ignored by the news media, other than Fox". In an interview in 2009 with Chicago Sun-Times report Ayers was quoted saying "The election of Obama was an astonishing moment. We were in Grant Park dancing in the streets."
Ayers and Dohrn declined to give Obama a grade on his first 100-plus days in office in their interview, only saying it will depend on whether activists in streets push him to do great things.
"Fifty-seven percent of white voters did not vote for Obama," Dohrn said, Referring to hers and Ayers new book, Race Course, Against White Supremacy that was the impetus for writing this book.
"We've got a big job to do to change those numbers."
In addition, William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn are co-sponsors of the radical leftists group Free Gaza which organized the Flotilla that lead to the violence in the Gaza. Along with Jodie Evans, founder of the radical activist organization Code Pink. Evans' relationship with the president goes as far back as 2007. Evans co-hosted Obama's breakout Hollywood fund-raiser at the start of his campaign in February of the same year. Helping him raise between $50,000 and $100,000 as well as contributing the maximum $2,300 herself. Jodie Evans has been given perks that include regular briefings by top campaign staffers on policy and private meetings with Obama and his vice presidential candidate, Joe Biden.
However, according to WND's Jerusalem Bureau as reported by Aaron Klein of the WorldNetDaily. The Obama administration's position prior to the conflict was to pressure Israel into allowing activist flotillas in the Gaza according to an official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office speaking to WND. The intent of the blockade was to prevent supplies used by Hamas to build a military infrastructure. In the intervening time, Israel has accused dozens of activists on the flotilla it raided with connections to Islamic terrorist organizations including Al-Qaida linked groups. One of the flotilla passengers is the former Melkite Greek archbishop of Jerusalem, Father Hilarion Capucci, who had been arrested before for using his church car to smuggle explosives, firearms, and katyusha rockets into Israel for the PLO. Capucci was freed after the Vatican spoke up in his defense. Another passenger, Sheik Raed Salah, head of the northern branch of the Islamic movement, was just freed from Israel prison after convicted of raising funds for Hamas.
President Obama's association with known domestic terrorists suspected of ties to world anti-American terrorists raises the suspicion of his intent for relations with Israel.
“President Obama’s ties to far left progressives....”
“Far left progressives...” - is that what they’re calling communists these days?
“Far left progressives...” - is that what they’re calling communists these days?
“Progressive” has a softer sound to it...that’s all.
The gangsta was a commie when we hired him, so no one should be too surprised that he hangs with his commie friends. He was also a Muslim, and he hangs with those friends. He also hung out at the gay bathhouse in Chicago, and hangs with his bathing buddy, Rahm. What he doesn’t seem to do is hang with people who can run the country, but he has a lot of friends who can run it down. Best thing we can do for America’s future is fire him, and never let anything like this happen again.
bflr
His ties to far left “progressives” (read: anti-American activists) a secret? A secret from whom? Certainly not me. And it would not be a secret to anyone else with an above room-temperature IQ that bothered to spend any time at all reading about this man’s background.
I’ll tell you something else: as dire as the warning signs were before the election, as radical as he has been in office, he is far, far worse than any of us imagine - still.
It would not surprise me in the least that a movement arises from not only conservatives, but from moderate centrists, too, to impeach him.
This man is out of control and must be removed from office.
I’ll take two years of Joe Biden, thank you. He may be a goof ball and a walking gaffe machine but I do not question for one second that Joe loves his country.
I cannot say that about Barry Soetoro.
and hangs with his bathing buddy, Rahm.
the ballerina
The REGRESSIVE LIST
Wednesday June 02, 2010
Co-Chairs
Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)
Vice Chairs
Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
Hon. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)
Senate Members
Hon. Roland Burris (IL)
Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)
Hon. Tom Udall (NM)
House Members
Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hon. Earl Blumenauer (OR-03)
Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
Hon. Judy Chu (CA-32)
Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01)
Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
Hon. Alcee Hastings (FL-23)
Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
Hon. Jim Moran (VA-08)
Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
Hon. Frank Pallone (NJ-06)
Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
Hon. Jared Polis (CO-02)
Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-39)
Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
Steve Wynn smacks down Obama administration for its ruinous policies and approaches.
Not a single one of those on that list are “honorable”.
AUGUST 18, 1974 : (PRIEST HILARION CAPUCCI IS ARRESTED BY ISRAELI SECURITY FORCES AFTER HE RETURNED TO JERUSALEM FROM LEBANON- HIS CAR WAS FOUND STUFFED WITH TNT & GUNS DESTINED FOR THE PLO) To call Capucci’s past “checkered” would be an under-statement. He first came to public attention when he was arrested on August 18, 1974, by Israeli security forces in after returning to Jerusalem from a trip to Lebanon. His car was found stuffed with TNT and guns headed for the Palestinian Liberation Organization. At the time, Israeli interrogators said Capucci had blamed “blackmail” by Al Fatah guerillas, claiming that they had threatened him with physical force and “disclosure of actions that might threaten his position in the church.”... Capucci was sentenced to 12 years in prison and began organizing an international campaign to secure his release. At one point he declared a hunger strike. Pope Paul VI intervened with a personal letter to then-President of Israel Ephraim Katziv. Capucci was released in 1977, with, Israeli sources insist, an understanding that he would stay out of politics. -— “And tonight’s guest is … Vatican plays host to an uneasy world,” Vatican Correspondent, John Allen, http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/word0221.htm as retrieved on Jun 28, 2004
DECEMBER 2000 : (PRIEST HILARION CAPUCCI VISITS HEZBOLLAH LEADER SHEIKH NABIL QAOUQ IN LEBANON) In December 2000, [Hilarion] Capucci made a visit to Lebanon to visit Sheikh Nabil Qaouq, a Hezbollah leader. In front of reporters, when he reached the Lebanese-Israeli border, Capucci picked up a stone and hurled it in the direction of the Israeli territory. “I wish I had been with the heroes of the intifada to take part in their battle for the independence of Palestine,” Capucci said. -— “And tonight’s guest is … Vatican plays host to an uneasy world,” Vatican Correspondent, John Allen, http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/word0221.htm as retrieved on Jun 28, 2004
MARCH 2002 : (ITALY : ARCHBISHOP? HILARION CAPUCCI JOINS ANTISEMITIC ‘PEACE’ MARCH IN ROME) In March 2002, Capucci participated in a march in Rome which had been billed as an apolitical appeal for peace in the Middle East, but which some believe turned into a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli exercise, with slogans and banners that even members of Italy’s secular left described as “anti-Semitic.” A group of young Palestinians dressed as suicide bombers led the procession. -— “And tonight’s guest is … Vatican plays host to an uneasy world,” Vatican Correspondent, John Allen, http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/word0221.htm as retrieved on Jun 28, 2004
OCTOBER 2002 : (IRAQ : ARCHBISHOP HILARION CAPUCCI & FATHER BENJAMIN {A RECIPIENT OF IRAQI LEADER SADDAM HUSSEIN’S OIL VOUCHERS} HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE DURING THEIR TRIP TO BAGHDAD TO OPPOSE THE WAR) In October 2002, Capucci and Benjamin held a press conference during a trip to Baghdad to oppose a U.S.-led war. “If Bush attacks Iraq, the resentment and hatred of the Arab-Islamic world will be accentuated against him personally and against the interests of the American people,” Capucci warned.
Privately, Israeli sources express irritation at this activity, arguing that it violates the spirit of their agreement with the Holy See. Vatican officials say Capucci has no official church assignment and speaks only for himself, though they concede that no canonical process has ever been brought against him. -— “And tonight’s guest is … Vatican plays host to an uneasy world,” Vatican Correspondent, John Allen, http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/word0221.htm as retrieved on Jun 28, 2004
Italian author Oriana Fallaci, whose recent anti-Islamic polemic La Rabbia e L’Orgoglio was a publishing sensation in Italy, has called Capucci “that saintly man with a Mercedes full of bombs who lives in the Vatican.” --- "And tonight’s guest is … Vatican plays host to an uneasy world," Vatican Correspondent, John Allen, http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/word0221.htm as retrieved on Jun 28, 2004
FEBRUARY 14, 2003 : (ASSISSI , ITALY : TARIQ AZIZ VISITS; ALONGSIDE HIM IS ARCHBISHOP HILARION CAPUCCI) Which brings us to one of the more striking sidebars to the Assisi visit, the conspicuous presence alongside [Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Tarik] Aziz of Archbishop Hilarion Capucci, an auxiliary bishop of the Greek Melkite church in communion with Rome. Capucci, who led a tiny Melkite community in Jerusalem in the 1960s and 1970s, carries the personal title of “patriarch.”
To call Capucci’s past “checkered” would be an under-statement. He first came to public attention when he was arrested on August 18, 1974, by Israeli security forces in after returning to Jerusalem from a trip to Lebanon. His car was found stuffed with TNT and guns headed for the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
...In Assisi, Capucci was quasi-ubiquitous alongside Aziz. He spoke freely to the press. “I said to [Tariq] Aziz that he must not give anyone an excuse for attacking Iraq, and hence resolution 1441 must be scrupulously observed. The Iraqis, he assured me, will respect these norms. … I pray that the angels may return to sing in heaven of peace on earth.”
Capucci then added a critical remark about Israel. “Israel is like a spoiled child that has ended up living a double standard,” he said. -------- "And tonight’s guest is … Vatican plays host to an uneasy world," Vatican Correspondent, John Allen, http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/word0221.htm as retrieved on Jun 28, 2004
More on Capucci's oil-voucher accepting pal Fater Benjamin:
2003 summer : (ASSISI, ITALY : ANTI-IMPERIALIST CAMP : "IRAQI PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE" LEADER ABDUL JABBAR KUBAISY, FRANCO CARDINI, AND FATHER JEAN-MARIE BENJAMIN ARE AMONG THE ATTENDEES TAKING PART IN THE CAMP) Mr. Kalemji took part last summer in the "Anti-Imperialist Camp," a weeklong gathering of communists and other leftists including revolutionaries from Iraq, the Philippines, Nepal, the Palestinian territories and Venezuela. The camp was held in the Umbrian hill town of Assisi, home of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226), patron saint of animals and the environment and founder of the Franciscan Order of monks.
Also present were radical intellectuals such as Franco Cardini, a leading expert on medieval history who says that recent videos of Osama bin Laden are fakes distributed by the CIA to foster anti-Islamic sentiment.
Another participant was the Rev. Jean-Marie Benjamin, a French Roman Catholic priest who in February 2003 organized a visit to the Vatican by then Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz. --- "Al Qaeda seeking funds in Italy," By John Phillips, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, June 12, 2004, http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040612-113949-4683r.htm
JUNE 12, 2004 : (REPORT : AL QAEDA HAS BUILT A SUPPORT NETWORK AMONG ITALIANS AND IS COLLECTING FUNDS FROM LEFTWING MILITANT GROUPS TO BUY ARMS TO FIGHT AMERICANS IN IRAQ - GROUPS INVOLVED INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE IRAQI PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE aka IPA, AND THE "ANTI-IMPERIALIST ALLIANCE" aka AIA) ROME— Al Qaeda has built a thriving support network among Italians and is busily collecting funds from left-wing militants to buy arms used to kill Americans and other allied troops in Iraq, news reports and a high-level intelligence official say. Details of the fund raising for Osama bin Laden's foot soldiers were disclosed in the Italian press as the government put final touches on extraordinary security for the recent visit to Rome by President Bush. "Al Qaeda's front no longer consists exclusively of Arabs or Muslims," said a recent front-page article in the Libero newspaper. "Italian extremists are enrolled in al Qaeda." ----- "Al Qaeda seeking funds in Italy," By John Phillips, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, June 12, 2004, http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040612-113949-4683r.htm
older stuff...
APRIL 5, 2000 : (IRAQ : FATHER BENJAMIN VIOLTE ANCTIONS IN SMALL PLANE...) The Rev. Jean-Marie Benjamin, a French priest based in Assisi, Italy, was in Baghdad three years ago to investigate the effects of the embargo and depleted uranium from allied weapons when he got caught under a U.S.-led bombing strike. Last week, Benjamin celebrated the one-year anniversary of the day when he led the first sanctions-busting flight into Iraq. On April 5, 2000, Benjamin, a pilot and a member of the Italian Parliament, passed undetected through the no-fly zone in a small jet to protest the sanctions. Since then, he has continued to travel regularly to Iraq, in bigger planes, bringing humanitarian aid and businessmen along for the ride. -----------Source http://www.casi.org.uk/discuss/2001/msg00388.html [Businessmen...hmmmmm....] 16 posted on 10/28/2005 8:01:33 AM PDT by ravingnutter | To 1
SEPTEMBER 2001 : () Father Benjamin first came to my attention a few days after the attack on the World Trade Centre, when the Vatican’s Online News Agency, Zenit, posted a strange little article claiming that Father Benjamin had been officiating at a high-powered wedding attended by European judges and politicians just a few days before September 11, and that he had told the guests that he’d been tipped off that a major US target would be attacked in the next few days using hijacked planes. ------------ Source http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s787908.htm
If it’s not too late, firing him would be best. Firing on him would precipitate riots and revolution, with all the corrupt units in our federal, state, county, and municipal govts siding with our communist Kenyan Muslim, and — I think — most military ratings and lower ranks siding with tens of millions of us. I like the odds, but not the prospect of so much carnage.
Nothin’ “honorable” about that bunch.
I didn’t put the ‘Hon’ title there. I agree, it is good to know most of them in the open now.
Paraphrasing Glenn Beck: Marx and Company thought communism would “emerge” as the natural endpoint of societal evolution. Progressives know they have to manipulate what they can and destroy what they can’t bend, in order to bring “Utopia” into being. Ours have schemed and cheated for at least a century. They’ll stop when the last of them is dead and buried (or better, burned). I look forward to that happy day.
I know you didn’t put the “Hon.” in there — it is their title — it just shouldn’t apply to these enemies of America.
In the United States House of Representatives, these people are all Democrats and they all belong to the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), that was established in the early 1990’s. The 83 members of the Progressive Caucus also belong to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a confederation of socialists formed in 1983 when a splinter group of the Socialist Party (Michael Harrington’s Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, DSOC) merged with the Students for a Democratic Society’s (SDS) splinter group, the New American Movement (NAM).
The main aim of DSA was to convert the Democratic Party into a social democratic organization. to that end, during the early 1990’s, the DSA hosted the Progressive Caucus’ website, which contained the names of its members. When the word got out, all the information regarding the Progressive Caucus vanished. These congress critters don’t want you to know their true colors (red).
In 2009, of the twenty standing committees of the House, eleven are chaired by members of the CPC.
The DSA has many celebrity members, including feminist Gloria Steinem, actor Ed Asner, black activist Cornel West, and libertarian socialist Noam Chomsky. It is also the chief American member group of the Socialist International, which includes the British Labour Party and the French Parti Socialiste.
Everything you need to know about Progressives and Progressivism can be learned from visiting the Progressive Democrats of America’s Advisory Board page which features the bios of 25 of the leftiest leftists in America:
http://pdamerica.org/about/board.php
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