President Barack Obama “wants the country to fail,” legendary singer Andy Williams declared in flipping Rush Limbaugh's hope that Obama “fails” in his quest to enact left-wing policies, a remark which enraged liberals and the media for weeks. In an interview published in the October 3-9 edition of Radio Times magazine, the TV and radio program guide for the BBC which carries re-runs of Williams' 1960s NBC variety show, the 81-year-old Williams didn't hide his feelings about Obama: “Don't like him at all.”
London's Telegraph, in a September 28 article highlighted by the DrudgeReport, quoted from the interview which is not online. Williams starkly denounced Obama's world view:
I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very left-wing. One is registered as a communist. Obama is following Marxist theory. He's taken over the banks and the car industry. He wants the country to fail.
The “registered communist” is presumably a reference to Van Jones.
Politically, Williams is best-known as a friend of Robert and Ethel Kennedy who was at the Ambassador hotel when Kennedy was assassinated and sang Battle Hymn of the Republic at Kennedy's funeral.
Williams may pop up elsewhere in the media as he promotes an October 5 performance in London, a new season of the “Andy Williams All-Star Variety Show” at his “Moon River Theater” in Branson, Missouri (followed by his annual Christmas show) and the mid-October release of his new book, Moon River and Me: A Memoir.
Let's hope interviewers prompt him to elaborate on his evaluation of Obama.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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Maybe Williams proves it's
September 29, 2009 - 00:46 ET by bigtimerMaybe Williams proves it's never too late to see the light.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
He was a Republican when he was friends with
September 29, 2009 - 05:41 ET by WorriedBobby Kennedy. He saw the light years ago.
Of the four brothers
September 29, 2009 - 08:03 ET by legacyrepublicanOf the four brothers, Bobby was the most conservative. I can see why Andy Williams would like him.A
He had a thing for chasing down corruption in unions and going after it when he was attorney general.
And, oddly enough, Jack and Bobby supported McCarthy's hearings on communism.
In the end, had he not been gunned down, he might have proved to be closer to the center than his late brother to have changed the Democratic party from being far left to center left over the last thirty years.
Agree
September 29, 2009 - 08:36 ET by Red JeepActually if Jack and Bobby had lived and Martin Luther King, I think our country today would be in far better shape than it is now, especially black families.
Go listen to some of JFK's
September 29, 2009 - 10:52 ET by Lord ElicaniGo listen to some of JFK's speeches. In today's climate, they'd be conservative.
"We can go from boom to bust
From dreams to a bowl of dust
We can fall from rockets' red glare
Down to 'Brother, can you spare...'"
- Rush, "Between the Wheels"
REVEALING SOCIALISM
September 29, 2009 - 07:05 ET by reelman46GREAT POST ON SOCIALISM!
http://www.nytimes.c...
This is a post on the NYT website below this spun article:
About 16 paragraphs into this article Erlanger finally gets to the meat of the matter - although in an indirect way. He writes:
“…the question of the moment: how to preserve the welfare state amid slower growth and rising deficits.”
Welfare states do not merely exist “amid” slower growth and rising deficits.
Welfare states are the inexorable cause of slow growth and
rising deficits. By rewarding mediocrity and punishing exceptionalism,
welfare states always create more mediocrity. Regardless of all the
good intentions of statists, what most people need in order to thrive
is the self-responsibilities and motivations involved with being left
alone (at least a little bit!).
Many Europeans have learned this truth and are pulling
themselves back up out of the abyss one stroke at a time - while many
Americans are transfixed by the Siren call of socialist Utopianism and
are set to take the plunge.
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CRAWFISH NOTE: This is an accurate post on the spun
article that strains to equalize blame between the right and left for
the collapse of european socialism.
It pains the writer greatly but he still manages to avoid admitting socialism kills…in a slow painful way…
and he does not admit (conservatism) a smaller more efficient federal
gov-meant, lowest possible taxes and basic morality is best…
soooo THE MODERN LIBERAL REMAINS AN ARROGANT BLIND SECULAR SOCIALIST
never looking at the fatally flawed socialist principles but
blame-shifting year after year.
http://conservablogs...
Doug Schexnayder, Ph.D. (theconservativecrawfish)
Any Williams? A racist? I
September 29, 2009 - 01:06 ET by Dan The Man 2Any Williams? A racist? I mean only racists oppose Obama and his policies.
I hope he elaborates more,
September 29, 2009 - 01:31 ET by kevcadI hope he elaborates more, too.
Watch when the lefty loons get a hold of this, the name of Claudine Longet will invariably surface with the obligatory lefty smears.
(Lord, I hope I didn't give any trolls any ideas)
Start each day with a smile, then get it over with. - W.C. Fields
Spider Sabich was a fine
September 29, 2009 - 02:17 ET by stratmanSpider Sabich was a fine skier, a joy to watch on the slopes.
Claudine = crazy little cute Frenchie maniac. Did I mention she was cuckoo?
yeahbut.....
September 29, 2009 - 08:37 ET by Willis_Leon_JohnsonWhen yer THAT cute, a lot of stuff is overlooked.
(like mental and emotional stability)
http://gjresult.com
Claudine
September 29, 2009 - 09:53 ET by QueenMumAnd don't forget the fact that she was French. You know how much more progressive they are about such things.
It's the Pepe LePew syndrome. Despite the fact the he was a skunk, he firmly believed that his dashing personality could overcome the fact that he stunk to high heaven.
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people's money."
—Margaret Thatcher
QM
September 29, 2009 - 10:12 ET by FeynmanFanExcellent analogy!
"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson
Thank you, FF. Feel free to
September 29, 2009 - 10:18 ET by QueenMumThank you, FF. Feel free to apply wherever appropriate.
"The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people's money."
—Margaret Thatcher
QM...
September 29, 2009 - 10:22 ET by Georgia Girl(Sorry for being off-topic, folks)
Hey, gal...I saw your "tech problems" blog, but I didn't see a spot to leave a comment. Where exactly are you seeing the Time-Warner ad?
What I have found on here is that if you leave your cursor all the way over on the right (totally off the page) when you are not typing a comment, etc., it helps a ton. There are lots of quirky things going on with the ads. It's downright irritating!*_*
My mother's brother's only niece didn't vote for Obama.
See, when your as old as
September 29, 2009 - 01:41 ET by mostlymoderateSee, when your as old as Andy Williams, you realize what an unfortunate turn the United States as made over the last 50 years. America has gone from the de jure capitalistic/free market ideology to a welfare state. We are basically living John F. Kennedy's words in reverse: "Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for YOU!!!"
Fortunately, I don't think you have to be as old as Andy Williams to see that none of Obama's ideas go along with our founding fathers' intentions.
Andy Williams says Obama is a Marxist
September 29, 2009 - 01:54 ET by R D HelmOf course, I now believe Obama is a full-blown communist.
Either way, it works for me. :-)
-Dave
The election of 2010 will be our last chance to save our republic. -Neal Boortz
R D
September 30, 2009 - 02:06 ET by ww thumperR D I agree alot! I think BHO is a communist too . I also agree that we MUST CHANGE Both Houses of Congress in 2010 and start to IMPEACH this communist BHO and his VP out of office. WW When you elect a communist for your President... don't be surprised when Communisem breakes out!...
Cookie Bear...
September 29, 2009 - 01:56 ET by AgentAmericanPerhaps Andy's old friend Cookie Bear has a better strategy to handle Iran's missiles than Zero...
Awake the sleeping giant...and that giant is WE THE PEOPLE!
spot on
September 29, 2009 - 03:03 ET by bknownstYou got that right. Finally someone with the nerve to point out the obvious. Wasn't Jerimiah Wright's famous quote " Not God Bless America, God Damm America!" One of Wright's chickens is roosting in the White House and what's being hatched ain't good for the country
Sing Along with Andy!
September 29, 2009 - 04:30 ET by wolfemanic"mmm, mmm, mmm Barrack Hussein Obama. Equal work for equal pay, destroy the country Obama's way....mmm, mmm, mmm"
Fundamental change...
September 29, 2009 - 04:51 ET by Army Bratrequires fundamental destruction. The present fundamentals must be destroyed in order to make way for the new fundamentals.
That means the death or crippling of Capitalism. It means the death of liberty and the rise of tyranny, for what is more fundamental to America than freedom? I choose to be a Capitalist American Pig. That choice may be taken from us if the playing field is lowered according to the wishes of the Won.
It's truly amazing what politicians are willing to destroy in order to attain power. They sacrifice their own freedoms as well as those of you and I for that power. They enslave their own children as well as yours and mine to the debt and poverty that Marxism brings. Call it Socialism or Communism...Obama is a Marxist pure and simple.
Capitalist American Pig and proud of it.
yes, except for one part...
September 29, 2009 - 06:47 ET by OuttaMyWayAre you sure about their own sacriface? It is a two level ponzi scam... the leaders at the top, everyone else at the bottom.
DO AS I SAY...
September 29, 2009 - 09:38 ET by danybhoyOuttaMyWay,
That is what people don't get, the leaders & other well to do live by the motto "Do as I say, Not as I do". Take health care, those pushing for Obamacare believe they will get it for free or know how bad it really will be & think they have an escape hatch out of it. That was Sirius/XM's Andrew Wilkow's take on it, & I believe he is spot on.
"...How blind can you be, don't you see...
...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."
Nightwish
Absolutely correct!
September 29, 2009 - 19:00 ET by pbanks7When the system becomes all-powerful, the corrupt MFers at the top get to make sure they and their friends are protected, and get the benefits. That's why our founders wanted a weak central government.
MSM - shaping all the perceptions you need to believe, then confirming it with a poll.
You're quite right...
September 30, 2009 - 03:47 ET by Army BratThe freedoms they give up now are not felt by them, but by those that follow.
Selling out the future for the rewards of the present. Sentencing the yet unborn to a life less bountiful and less rewarding than that enjoyed by Americans in the past. This is the legacy Obama wishes to leave behind.
Yes...they have theirs and care nothing for the future that will not hold them in it. The cancer they have nurtured will not kill them so they see no reason to cure it. The people however have seen this disease before and Marxism will fall again.
The lesson has been learned and the Sleeping Giant that clings to guns and Bibles is awakening to the threat to it's liberty. I hope not to late.
islam is a lie and Truth is killing it.
So 1/100 celebrities aren't
September 29, 2009 - 04:55 ET by RR GOPSo 1/100 celebrities aren't Liberals after all...encouraging./sarc
He'll be denigrated by the Leftist hate mongers/propagandists as being too old (remember McCain?), out of touch, our brilliant modern youth doesn't know who he is so he's irrelevant, etc.
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.
Rush should have said what Andy said
September 29, 2009 - 05:39 ET by Worriedbecause it's true.
BARACK OBAMA WANTS AMERICA TO FAIL.
Too bad the left wing nuts will come out and say he's just an old, white guy.
Right on Andy
September 29, 2009 - 11:55 ET by Crash"I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the Socialist States of America and to the Dependence for which I am, one nation, under Obama, our supreme leader, Amen."
Indoctrinating school children is what Obama means by "trickle up". As our national test scores fall against other nations. Our schools teach how to put condoms on cucumbers instead of teaching geography, AGW instead of science, Greenology instead of reading, and songs about Obama instead of writing. America is a balloon balancing on the point of a sharp needle.
He's brave to say Barack Obama wants the country to fail.
September 29, 2009 - 06:53 ET by ekslibWilliams is saying what a lot of people are thinking.
Hopefully Andy can come and
September 29, 2009 - 07:37 ET by BruzillaHopefully Andy can come and sing "Most Wonderful Time of the Year" next November when the Republicans take back the House and Senate.
Andy will be labeled racist in...
September 29, 2009 - 07:42 ET by Jarhead685..4..3..2..1..
See
September 29, 2009 - 08:26 ET by BlueCat57You can be a Democrat and make sense. Not just because you agree with me, but because like Zel Miller and others, you actually think and evaluate what is going on.
We need some new words or a reference site that properly defines the political labels that are being used now. Maybe each term should be linked to the definition that is being used so we know whether we are talking Democrat as in progressive, Marxist (Obama) or Democrat as in the Constitution is our guide (Zel Miller/Andy Williams).
good for him
September 29, 2009 - 09:23 ET by soosanI guess my mother was right - he is a fine American.
never doubt your mother
September 29, 2009 - 09:36 ET by SouthJersey1953Soo, Never question your mother; she is always right!
"Maybe if we keep our heads buried in the sand, this will blow over" - The Congressional Republicans
Long time since
September 29, 2009 - 10:58 ET by RD KingI heard anything from Andy Williams, but at 81 I see he still has his faculties. No sense being mealy mouthed about a bad person give em both barrels.
God Bless Andy Williams
September 29, 2009 - 11:56 ET by 1611LilacLadyWish I could go to Branson to see him. Doesn't bother me a bit that he's 81.
I'm 62 and grew up watching his shows. Loved him then, love him now!
Isaiah 5:20a Woe unto them who call evil good, and good evil. . . KJV
I grew up with Andy Williams
September 29, 2009 - 21:50 ET by msh1973I grew up with Andy Williams music in my household, my mother loved him (secretly of course). My mom will get a big kick out of his comments. Go Andy!