CBS Evening News Spikes Newly Found Obama 'Redistributive' Audio

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YouTube postings over the weekend divulged a 2001 radio interview in which Barack Obama regretted that “the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society,” but though John McCain on Monday cited this new evidence of Obama's long-standing advocacy of redistributing wealth, the CBS Evening News offered nothing more than a McCain soundbite surrounded by reporter Chip Reid discrediting the criticism as he relayed the Obama campaign's charge McCain had made a “false, desperate attack” and Reid bemoaned: “If the events of today are any guide, this is a campaign that is taking an increasingly negative tone in the last week.”

In contrast, the NBC Nightly News at least ran a short audio clip of Obama from 2001: “The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth.” ABC's World News, in a piece by Ron Claiborne, aired a much longer audio soundbite from Obama:

One of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.

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In his Monday night CBS Evening News story, Reid began with McCain attacking Obama on economic policy before maintaining “the focus on the economy soon became blurred as Republicans launched a series of new attacks on Obama.” Reid cited an unnamed “independent Republican group” (National Republican Trust) which “announced plans to start airing attack ads featuring [Jeremiah] Wright” and “McCain himself jumped into the fray. He regularly accuses Obama of wanting to spread the wealth, but today he added a new line of attack.” Viewers then heard from McCain: “In a radio interview that was revealed today, he said that quote, 'one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement' is that it didn't bring about a redistribution of wealth in our society.”

Instead of playing an illustrative clip, as did ABC and NBC, Reid went immediately to the Obama campaign's retort:

The Obama campaign said McCain was taking a seven-year-old interview out of context and accused McCain of deciding to close out his campaign with the same false desperate attacks that have failed for months.

The MRC's Eyeblast site has a four-minute audio clip of the interview on WBEZ-FM, a public station in Chicago, from September 6, 2001.

Reid's story, on the Monday, October 27 CBS Evening News:

CHIP REID: In Cleveland today, John McCain sat down with his economic team before delivering a statement on what he called the fundamental differences between his economic plan and Barack Obama's.

JOHN MCCAIN: We both disagree with President Bush on economic policy. The difference is that he thinks taxes have been too low and I think, and I think that spending has been too high.

REID: But the focus on the economy soon became blurred as Republicans launched a series of new attacks on Obama.

AUDIO: This is Orson Swindle. John McCain and I were POWS together.

REID: Using the voice of one of McCain's closest friends, the Republican National Committee is paying for this new robo-call.

AUDIO OF SWINDLE: Obama and Democrats' politics endanger American lives. They are not qualified to lead our military and our country.

REID: And while McCain has ruled out attacking Obama with the words of his former pastor Jeremiah Wright, many Republicans disagree with that decision and today an independent Republican group announced plans to start airing attack ads featuring Wright later this week.

McCAIN: It's amazing that even at this late hour we are still learning more about Senator Obama.

REID: Campaigning in Dayton, Ohio, McCain himself jumped into the fray. He regularly accuses Obama of wanting to spread the wealth, but today he added a new line of attack.

JOHN McCAIN: In a radio interview that was revealed today, he said that quote, "one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement" is that it didn't bring about a redistribution of wealth in our society.

REID: The Obama campaign said McCain was taking a seven-year-old interview out of context and accused McCain of deciding to close out his campaign with the same false desperate attacks that have failed for months.

Now, McCain came here to Pottsville, Pennsylvania, after that trip to Ohio. He's giving his standard stump speech right now but, if the events of today are any guide, this is a campaign that is taking an increasingly negative tone in the last week. Katie?

The story on McCain's day aired on ABC's World News:

RON CLAIBORNE: This is Ron Claiborne in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. John McCain was fighting today on two fronts, attacking Barack Obama as a tax-raiser while distancing himself from President Bush.

JOHN McCAIN: This is the fundamental difference between Senator Obama and me. The fundamental difference. We both disagree with President Bush on economic policy. The difference is that he thinks taxes have been too low, and I think, and I think that spending has been too high.

CLAIBORNE: In Dayton, Ohio, McCain blasted Obama for, he said, having once advocated the redistribution of wealth.

McCAIN: In a radio interview that was revealed today, he said that quote. “one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement” is that it didn't bring about a redistribution of wealth in our society.

CLAIBORNE: The Obama campaign called it a “false, desperate” attack. Here’s what Obama told a Chicago radio station in 2001.

AUDIO OF BARACK OBAMA ON WBEZ RADIO IN 2001: One of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.

CLAIBORNE: This is McCain's fifth trip this month to Pennsylvania, a state hat has gone Democratic since 1988, but narrowly in the last two presidential elections. And many registered Democrats and independents are social conservatives.

PROFESSOR MICHAEL BERKMAN, PENN STATE: There's no early voting, so it’s not like any votes are already locked in for Barack Obama. And Barack Obama did not run well here against Hillary Clinton. And so I think that probably gives the McCain camp some hope.

CLAIBORNE: And McCain will make his final argument later this week, the theme, his aides say, will be leadership and experience. The question, Charlie, is will enough voters be listening and persuaded to turn this race around?

From the NBC Nightly News story on McCain:

KELLY O’DONNELL: ...Today, McCain continued his effort to separate himself from the two men who could deny him the White House -- Barack Obama and George Bush.

JOHN McCAIN: We both disagree with President Bush on economic policy. The difference is he thinks taxes have been too low, and I think that spending has been too high.

O’DONNELL: In must-win Ohio, McCain seized on something his campaign claims is another revealing Obama moment. This time, an old interview from 2001.

McCAIN: In a radio interview that was revealed today, he said that, quote, “one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement” is that it didn't bring about a redistribution of wealth in our society.

O’DONNELL: Obama was a state senator then.

AUDIO OF OBAMA ON WBEZ, SEPTEMBER 6, 2001: The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth.

O’DONNELL: Obama's campaign called it a fake news controversy...

—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center


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Good grief!!!

Is there anything the MSM won't sweep under the rug when it comes to the One?

Good article on this from National Review...

http://article.natio...

CBS brings about a "change" to tyranny?

With a communist like Obama, change will come, then if you do not like his changes, with his secret civilian military force that he wants to have he will assure no more changes.

Is CBS racist?

Obama's tax plans will punish those who worked hard to "get ahead". Since blacks and other minorities have often had to work much harder than others to "get ahead" due to more obstacles, Obama's tax plan for harder working blacks and other minorities will in effect punish them even more in relative terms, since they worked even harder to get ahead, but will receive just as much "tax" punishment as those that worked hard too, just not as hard.

If CBS supports Obama and his tax the hard workers plan, does this mean they support hurting blacks who worked even harder than whites? Is this CBS style racism? class warfare? support of tyranny? support of Marxism? support of plantation style oppresion of  minorities that get ahead?

Good grief!

If you think this story and others that broke today are interesting, dig through the very long paper in the link below, and see how afraid we all really should be. I am. It is the new 1939. We're in a massive crisis and half the country is snookered. Can the rest of us, the Undecideds, wake up from the mind control in time? See:

http://www.pennypres...

Sad Chip went to the other

Sad Chip went to the other side....he had so much potential.

I saw him slipping away not long after the msm embeds left being popular on television after we got to Baghdad ect...we all know the rest from there.

Selling yourself to the Devil isn't that hard for some...I've watched it in my lifetime with the msm.

They won't win in the long run of it all.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Obama and CBS dishonor Dr King

Not only did CBS and Obama "go the other way," they both dishonor Dr Martin Luther King, who wanted equally for the poor minorities to "get ahead" in life like everyone else. In otherwords, Dr King believed hard work should be rewarded. Dr King was not looking for the re-distribution of wealth. Dr King was not looking for government handouts.  Dr King was anything but a Marxist or a communist.

Indeed, Dr King believed that the black man and other minorities could not raise their head with pride unless they worked for their money and not just received handouts all the time. Of course he had to work to get the kind of equality needed that was necessary to provide equal opportunity for work and advancement, and eventually that became a realitiy in 1965 and beyond.

And I would say Dr King would be very proud today of the accomplishments of blacks and other minorities who now have significant numbers as doctors, lawyers, scientists, small, medium and large business owneres, CEOs, engineers, contractors, builders, civil engineers, etc, etc.

Is there more work to be done? Sure, but minorities can raise their heads with great pride, not because they took handouts, but because they "got ahead" through hard work in getting an education and hard work on the job.

Obama, a communist by his own words, shows negativity towards Dr King's model that capitalism should be an equal opportunity capitalism> Obama just wants to re-distribute the wealth, as in handouts. Handouts destroys human pride, rewards for hard work embellishes human pride. By this argument, Obama is a moron.

Of course Dr King was a very proud man. And his pride carried over to his expectations of the minorities he represented. He did not demand they beg the government for handouts, manipulate the welfare system as is often done today, or look for a communist "messiah" solutions like Obama promotes. He wanted each black man and woman to be able to raise their heads with pride in themselves knowing full well, once given equal opportunities, they too could be successful and they too could earn a living in a respectable manner, and if they worked really hard and got way ahead and even got rich, Dr King would be all the more happy for them, but not Barack Obama.

But Obama wants to "smash the rich", which includes quite a large number of Dr King's "children" who through scraping together money for education, and working their asses off, eventually "got ahead" or even got rich or even very rich, because of their pride in themselves and inspiration Dr King brought to each of them.

So today, I believe minorities are greatly deceived by Obama. He does not have their interests in mind, only his own, that is, to be president at all costs, even to "squash" Dr King's children who just happen to get ahead in this world like others, because you see, Obama is a communist, by his own words.

And Obama does not want you to work and get ahead. Obama wants you back on the "plantation" getting handouts from his "hand" under the guise of taxing the rich, instead of letting you get rich by getting ahead. And you know why he wants you getting his handouts? so you will continue to support him. But your pride as a man or woman, he cares nothing about. And Dr King's pride in your accomplishments, by Obama's own words and actions, shows he rejects those accomplishments and thereby rejects Dr King. You are to be punished for getting ahead, even if you are black.

CBS has zero interest in saving the country

CBS has zero interest in saving the country from a communist, who, along with his communist Democrat pals in Congress, will have this country in total economic shambles, and still CBS will find someone else to blame.

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Now for some straight talk. There is a large percentage of black people, who "hate" Obama. Why? Because they, like many other disadvantaged people when they first start out, had to scrape together every penny they earned and invest it in an education. Then after getting an education, had to "fight" their way to somewhere up the economic ladder. Some became doctors and lawyers. Some became CEOs. Some became engineers and scientists. Others became small, medium and large business owners.

Now Barack Obama wants to penalize many blacks and other minorities with huge tax increases as a punishment for their hard work.  And no wonder that many blacks "hate" Obama, because they realize this country's history put blacks and other minorities at a major disadvantage and now that they "overcame" that disadvantage by hard work to "get ahead", Obama wants to punish them.

Obama is no better than former slave owners in that respect. Obama also does not honor Martin Luther King's dream of "we shall overcome" because once poor black and other minorities "overcome" by "getting ahead" he wants to put them back on the plantation, so to speak, by punishing their hard work too. It is not just "whitey"who gets ahead by hard work.

CBS should hang their head in disgrace.

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I and a partner of mine both came from poverty stricken backgrounds and through hard work, scraped money together for education and through an uphill battle we both have a professional practice. For this hard works we are to be punished by this communist, Barack Obama, and by CBS, indirectly, for their support of Obama!!!

CBS should hang their head in utter embarassment.

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CBS should hang its head in shame. Why? Consider the McCain versus Obama economic plan:

  1. McCain will let those who worked hard to get ahead spend more and invest more as they see fit, and then they will naturally buy services and products from the companies that keep the "middle class" employed, OR
  2. Obama will take the hard earned money away from the hardest workers and just give it to the "middle class" which will then result in a "give away" program, rather than a "earn it if you want it" policy that McCain supports

Obama is just "buying" votes with the money others worked hard to earn. This is "criminal".


CBS should hang their heads in disgrace.

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So this is how the Obama plan really works, punish those for working hard to get ahead, and simply let those that did not work so hard have more money. Also, the aggregate wealth grows when all know hard work is rewarded, not punished. Punishment is the communist way. Punishment is tyranny.

CBS should hang its head in shame.

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If two farmers owned equal land, and one worked very hard, and fed his family and even had a little extra money for vacations or some small luxury, should he be forced to give the extra money to the other farmer who did not care to work as hard? Besides, the farmer who worked harder increased the aggregate food supply to help a lot more non-farmers have food to eat. Should not the harder working farmer also be rewarded for "growing the wealth" more than the other farmer, so that more could share in that wealth?

CBS should hang its head in shame.

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Even my very liberal Economics teacher (2 classes) made if very clear that before you can "distribute the wealth" (capitalist or socialist) you must grow it and keep it growing or at least keep it at parity. But communist policies discourage productivity, efficiency, and especially discourage people from working hard, and as a result the wealth does not grow and almost always shrinks so badly that all the tax plans in the world cannot help prevent poverty for all.

CBS should hang its head in shame.

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Will your retirement accounts go up in "smoke"when Obama's tax plans are implemented? YES, and it will be your fault for letting this communist become president.

CBS should hang its head in shame.

 

 

An unbiased media outlet

wouldn't even have brought McCain into the story.  It has nothing to do with McCain.  How can these media prostitutes live with themselves when they pull something so obviously one-sided?  Do you think they feel any shame?  Any reluctance?  Don't they consider how history is going to view them as in-the-tank jokes?    

What free press?

 

 The Politically Correct Marxist Left, who have infested every aspect of our current society, have firmly entrenched themselves in the education system from top to bottom and no longer educate, rather they indoctrinate. Likewise, they control most of the information in the country, TV, Print and entertainment and they use it not to inform but to propagandize. If, after the election, they bring back the so called Fairness Doctrine to muzzle talk radio and impose taxes and regulation on the internet they will have silenced any and all dissent. Welcome to Obama's brave new world.

It is this audio tape that

It is this audio tape that connected the last dot for me...Obama Is A Racist 

 

 

Making Fun of AGW http://giovanniworld.wordpress.com/  

Not to mention Brian saying

Not to mention Brian saying that Obama's lead in the polls is "cementing" and McCain is desperate to get some water.
Just shy of saying that "it's written in stone"?

Ya know, I'm gettin real tired

of iterating and reiterating FACTS about "that one" being called "negative campaigning" by the media. I would expect it from "that one's" campaign, but not the med...oh yeah, they are one and the same.  

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

Sure hope a conservative

Sure hope a conservative ‘community organizer’ is preparing an after-election boycott (win or lose) of MSM print and television media AND their advertisers.  (I’m good for emails, a few telephone calls and a solemn promise to forego reading/viewing MSM sources for a good long time.  And the names of their advertisers will be dead at my house.)  Many of our ‘news’ sources have become so treacherous, I’m not even certain that CBS belongs at the top of the boycott list.

National Geographic

From the November issue of National Geographic: Of the Tarahumara Indians of Mexico, "They regard work as necessary for survival but lacking intrinsic moral merit of its own... They have a word for sharing that doesn't translate directly into Spanish or English: 'korima,' a Tarahumara woman may say opening her palm for what a chabochi (outsider) would call charity. There will be no thank you for the proffered coin, though, as korima implies the obligation to distribute wealth for the benefit of everyone."

Isn't that amazing!  They plan these articles months and months in advance. Some of these Indians still live in half caves, no electricity, in abject poverty. OH!Bama!

 "Isn't that amazing! 

 "Isn't that amazing!  They plan these articles months and months in
advance. Some of these Indians still live in half caves, no
electricity, in abject poverty. OH!Bama!"

Well, but see, according the One, the economy is grown from the bottom up. That's why Mexico and the countries of Africa are the richest, most powerful on the planet. 

Obama's Economic plan: more taxes, more spending, more regulation. Prosperity here we come.

The Bible, Obama and CBS

I have been blessed to know and experience things which minds like Newton have looked into and by what I have read some very off book operations deal in.

In stating the above, I will relate that the Bible is mathematical document of physics. Most will not ever consider the things Jesus was revealing were basic mathematical formulas.
What you sow is that what you will reap, is cause and effect or opposite and equal reaction.

In noting that, the human being is a most impressive multi stage platform. There is nothing like it anywhere. On the physical level it is a chemical electric signature frequency. On the soul side it is a perpetual emotional electric frequency. If a human soul is fused with God, it will be become eternal.
It is a very interesting tuning fork, mime to frequency and resonant being acting in consort capable of touching other dimensional frequencies while affecting the entire electric universe which one exists by power of will.

What all of this means is, there has been unleashed a massive amount of dark energy with no pun intended in Mr. Obama's race. One can view the literal drunken, crazed frenzy of numbers of people in the media and the public reacting to the "charge" they are being moved by.
I witnessed a most interesting site today in a white woman in which Obama took her child. Her unction was most moist in body excretions. This mother honestly was reacting as if god had picked up her child and her entire future was safe in his hands.

I desire people to note the above, because no normal human in mind and thought process would view that another human touching their child would be any other event than a human touching their child.

There is a drunken warp in all of this on energy frequency. It explains the oddity in a force has been released which is literally making a select group of millions of human souls as stoned and possessed as if they were addicted to LSD and believed completely they could taste a song.
This explains a great deal of the Obama maniacs as they are indeed in a mania. Their receptors are being charged with a euphoria and it is deliberate.

I have stated before that a normal human reacts in normal ways.

For example, how many reading this have called themselves the messiah?
There is a natural barrier in normal humans whichs keeps them from such things and they would immediately wince at someone calling them the messiah and in time just like that little gal in Pittsburgh who had to tell at least part of the truth that the person she met did not attack her, each of you reading this would be screaming about now, "I'm not the messiah!"

That normal trait was preyed upon by Adolf Hitler in he said the normal person can not tell big lies. They recoil from it. Hitler was an expert so he told huge lies and people just got glazed looks on their faces caught up in it.

I do not mean in any way to state Mr. Obama is Hitler, but I do fully intend to note that the same energy source which fed the odd frenzy mass hysteria of Hitler is evident in the people swarming to Barack Obama.
Perhaps in this understanding of high sounding liberals who condemned German masses for being led away by Hitler can now as they are charge drugged understand that the German population was victim to what was unleashed.

I know there are a host of very bad influences around Barack Obama. The forces which Frank Davis unleashed in pedophilia, adultery along with Bill Ayers in rape and murder, are very adept signatures, as strong as the signature Stanley Ann Dunham unleashed in Kenya.
Mr. Obama was not conceived in love, but in a complex rejection of the American aura for a young girl escaping to the sultry frequencies she was nurturing to come into being.

If one desires to toss in the signatures of Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan to the covenants of Obama's mansion infusing the demons of Saddam Hussein from the Middle East which Mr. Obama is still credit nurturing in a massive fund fraud flowing to him. All of it combines to conjure the old Babylonian mysteries. This is why the European order invested so much in electing Mr. Obama. He is a receptor asset to the off frequency. They do not want Mr. Obama, but he is a conduit they can influence due to the power structure of the forces unseen.

As my revelations have shown in past mathematical work, there are 3 frequency signatures. God which is Life in regenerative. The neutral of this dimension which is a reflective of God, but works both regenerative and consumptive and the anti force which is completely consumptive.
This dark energy envelopes all in this dimension. It will appear as a constructive force that feels right to numbers of people, but will once it gets a receptor like a leech it will never let go and then the human host will convert to the consumptive.

This is unique as I have never had a first hand view of this much energy being released and absorbed by numbers of people under it's influence. This energy is not being given though. It is being loaned at a high rate like a tidal wave and when in Newton terms it washes back as the dark force will demand it returns, there is going to be a power gulf created where millions of people are going to feel like they were hit with phaser stun and wake up wondering what has just happened.

I see Mr. Obama as a precursor door to a much larger problem in that one notices the Europeans are so enthralled by him that this is opening the old doors from whence Napoleon has came.
It is all too ridicule in Letterman cocktail crowds so sophisticated now, but that cauldron of southern Europe is home to a massive ley area known to history as the oracles. This power structure is being opened and an even grander European version of Obama will be carried by the frequency into the vaccum manifesting there.

Bill Clinton had a signature from this effect and perhaps he was the key to the door which has initiated in Barack Obama. Whether they can put the gen back into the bottle and transfer the power line to Hillary remains to be seen.
The disaster though is in the making as one notes time and again the absolute high emotional curve in liberals lying, their malevolence and the pure hatred. They are the Nazi working numbers of Jews to death in camps and going home at night smiling at their children patting them on their heads telling them how Obama is making history.

A lie is a lie and a theft is a theft. One can not construct a future on such negative forces without a 9 11 manifesting as it did in reaction to the Clinton years.

All of this in the entire media is going to come back on them. It will be much worse as the neutral forces react equally. This anti force amplifies and demands interest as it keeps consuming until there is nothing left.

I would much rather this event was happening in a place like Venezuela where it has with Chavez in which he was initiated in a regional power force and as one notes the implosion of his structure how quickly the consumptive takes over. With a unique amplified force though like the United States, this Obama unction is going to cause a massive wave of energy to create a void.

These minions of millions got away with robbing Peter to pay Paul for numbers of years now. Mr. Obama has opened the flood gates their actions will manifest in this nation and their lives if the transaction is completed in Mr. Obama's election. That is then the covenant circuit complete.

The nation will pay and the majority who initiated this will pay individually.

This is fascinating as I wonder how much the European operators know. I suspect they in rites understand completely as that is why they had Obama in Berlin. I suspect they are using Mr. Obama to create the ritual which will usher in the new European leader.

Perhaps this is why the Rockefellers are so silent in this as they want no part of the return wave which will wash over Chicago and most of America as their eyes are on the European order in what they all desire to manifest.

May God bless the good and protect them as too many people are spiritually and soulfully intoxicated accepting forces they have no skill nor understanding in how to deal with.
What a remarkable time to be alive which are too interesting, as even Joe Biden is warning like a prophet the world of what is coming if Mr. Obama is initiated into the seat of power.

What this means is I wouldn't want to be CBS or any of the media in what they have sown as they will find it amplified and turned back upon them.

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The Bible, Obama, and CBS

Very insightful, challenging, and worthy of thoughtful assessment, LC. This link is now even more relevant, http://www.pennypres..., as it explains the process of numbing so many minds.

Yes, may God bless and protect the good, for we need it in this battle between good and evil.  

How is a new President, who

How is a new President, who doesn't believe in the Constitution, supposed to swear to uphold it when he takes the oath of office? 

Obama's Economic plan: more taxes, more spending, more regulation. Prosperity here we come.

Obama's Tax Plan Typo

Watching Bill Burton on Cavuto got me interested in researching Obama's plans for the capital gains tax.  It makes sense to me that the recent stock sell-off is due to investors taking their profits at the 15% tax rate to avoid the 20% Obama has in mind.

While going over Obama's tax plan, I noticed the following anomaly.  See if you can spot it (emphasis added):

Capital Gains: Families with incomes below $250,000 will continue to pay the capital gains rates that they pay today. For those in the top two income tax brackets – likewise adjusted to affect only families over $250,000 – Obama will create a new top capital gains rate of 20 percent. Obama’s 20% rate is equal is the lowest rate that existed in the 1990s and the rate that President Bush proposed in 2001. It is almost a third lower than the rate that President Reagan signed into law in 1986.

Which is it?  Is it equal or is it the lowest?

You can see for yourself on page five of Obama's tax plan.

I realize it is a minor typo, but shouldn't we expect professionalism from a candidate for the Presidency of the United States of America - especially for something as important as his tax plan?  It almost seems like they don't expect anyone to actually read this stuff.

By the way, isn't Obama also saying here that his plan for the capital gains tax is like President Bush's?  Isn't 'being like President Bush' what he often criticizes Senator McCain for?

Orwell

We now see why liberal school boards stopped allowing Orwells' "Animal Farm" to be taught in schools, although it used to be required reading. It was a perfect reflection of Communism with the sheep bleating: 4 legs good, 2 legs bad; and all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. The pigs of course are the socialists and, in the most perfect analogy of all time. the bleating sheep are the news media.

Today Show covers story in record time

The Today Show covered the story this morning, but if you blinked, you probably missed it.  Good thing I have TIVO so I could rewind it and watch it again in slow motion.  They added that the McCain campaign called this evidence that Obama is a Socialist, and then let the story drop.  Apparently, the Today show did not have the time to cover the story for more than 10 seconds.  Of course, they then went into far more important stories such as interviewing Stacy Peterson's husband for his wife's disappearance which occured over a year ago.  At least five minutes were spent on the interview which did not reveal anything new - a complete waste of time.

How about a segment tomorrow which examines whether Obama's proposals and past statements indicate that he is a socialist?  It might mean cutting five minutes on the segment that was to be dedicated to cool new ways to decorate you refrigerator (or something equally worthless), but given that an election is a week away, maybe they can make an exception this time and cover something of substance instead. 

It's simple.  You can't

It's simple.  You can't cover issues that may cause people to take a hard look at the messiah.  They may not vote for him.  Has there ever been a candidate for president about which we knew so little? 

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

This year's Halloween scare: Redistribution!

Since redistribution is now hip, I am thinking about putting the following sign on my door for Halloween:

This is an Obama house, so if you come to the door with more than 20 pieces of candy, I will take any excess candy above 20 that you have, so that I can spread the wealth around.  If you have fewer than 20 pieces of candy, I will give you enough candy so that you will leave with 20 pieces.

If I put this sign up, how quickly do think I will run out of candy? 

Obama's "Change" Unmasked

The late Balint Vazsonyi, who lived both until Hitler and Stalin as a youth in Hungary, wrote a book in 1998 called "America's 30 Years War: Who is Winning?"

Vazsonyi argued that there were two main competing philosophies in the world. The first, which he labeled "Anglo-American," was what the founders of this nation adhered to, and, for the most part, this country adhered to for most of its history. The Anglo-American philosophy values the rule of law. The second, which he labeled "Franco-Germanic," was put into practice by, among others, Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler. The Franco-Germanic philosophy promotes an ambiguous concept called "social justice" (and "economic justice"). It is, as Vazsonyi notes, an "alien" philosophy to Americans.

Vazsonyi believed that today's liberals in the U.S. promoted the Franco-Germanic philosophy, and he pointed to the large number of Democrats in the U.S. House who were members of the Progressive Caucus. This caucus explicitly notes that it advances the objectives of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)*. It was recently discovered that Barack Obama ran as a Democratic/New Party fusion candidate for the Illinois state senate in 1996. The New Party is affiliated with the DSA.

I re-read Vazsonyi's book over the weekend and his case appears more valid today than it did a decade ago. I was particularly struck by his comments under the heading "'Change' Unmasked":

"Thus, every ingredient of American identity is in the process of being permanently replaced--some to atone for past 'ills,' some simply for the sake of 'change.' Change has become a 'good' word. Change is good because 'nothing should go on forever.' But would any of us trade a car that always starts, for one that spends three-quarters of its time in the workshop? Would any of us knowingly give up advanced plumbing for a hole in the ground? Change, then, is not good in and of itself. Yet we are abandoning our recipe for a successful society because we have been persuaded that all proposed changes will be for the better--that the changes will enhance, without materially to alter, the ability of this society to succeed.

"And here we find our old friend, 'CBS'--Compartmentalized Brain Syndrome--which impedes the transference of knowledge from one compartment of our brain to another. Although our society is unique in the history of the world, we seem suddenly to have forgotten the ingredients that make up the recipe. Worse still, we haven't forgotten--we simply ignore them.

"What has happened to our common sense that could make us believe we can change all the ingredients, and still retain the original article? How can we honestly believe that, say, ground beef, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce will combine into chocolate ice cream?

"And, if we understand that different ingredients will result in a society altogether different from the one established here some two hundred years ago, why are we willing to countenance the 'change' without so much as an open, honest debate?" (pp. 207-208)

*http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/788749/posts

Redistribution and reparations

In reading and listening to Obama's 2001 comments it seems completely feasible that this is also an argument for slave reparations, albeit under a different name. "Economic justice" is painting with broad strokes to include many of his pet issues. Those who helped Obama; democrats, liberals,the media elite, etc. will be protected under Obama's tax plans. The government has enough information on its citizenry now that it can ascertain, not necessarily who you voted for, but what side you're on. Animal Farm, indeed.

 

“I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal.” --Barack Obama

reparations

IMHO, this is not about reparations. To quote Doc Holiday as played by Val Kilmer, "Make no mistake, it's not revenge he's after. It's a reckon'in." Even if Senator Obama is statisfied with the very large shift to the left this coutry will take with the likes of Obama/Reid/Pelosi in power then the people he appoints while president will carry his fight until they feel that America has paid for every infliction they have felt; real, imagined and even those projected from a time long past that many still have not been able to escape from.

Faking It

The Obama campaign is attaching the word "fake" to this, and the fake reporters are repeating it, to confuse the audience into thinking that maybe the audio is fake.

It is a fake news controversy

Look, if you listen to the whole clip, it's not news. It's a law professor discussing the theories of Constitutional law. Aren't there bigger and better issues for McCain to be attacking?