Media Abet Communist Cover-Up
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | September 15, 2008
The cover-up is now so blatant that an article that is generally sympathetic to Davis has been edited by the Obama campaign in order to delete references to Davis’s CPUSA activities.
In a
surprising admission, Barack Obama’s 40-page so-called “rebuttal” to Jerome
Corsi’s book, The Obama Nation, acknowledges for the first time that the senator
once had a personal relationship with identified Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
member Frank Marshall Davis, a key high-level operative in a Soviet-sponsored
network in Hawaii.
But the 40-page
report, advertised and sold to the media as a refutation of Corsi’s “lies,”
doesn’t identify Davis as a hard-core communist
and it dishonestly edits an article about Davis
to eliminate references to his admitted involvement in CPUSA activities and
make the black revolutionary writer and “poet” look like a civil rights
activist.
In fact, Davis
was a secret CPUSA member who continued his involvement in the CPUSA or its
front activities into the 1970s, when he met Obama. At this time, Davis was still involved with a CPUSA front organization,
the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, dedicated to keeping
foreign communists such as his friend and associate labor leader Harry Bridges
from being deported from the U.S.
Corsi’s book devotes part of chapter three, “Black Rage, Drugs, and a
Communist Mentor,” to Davis.
He credits our work in the text and footnotes.
Excusing Russian Aggression
This official Obama
campaign cover-up, which attempts to further mislead voters about Obama’s
mysterious and controversial background, occurs as serious questions are being
raised about Obama’s initial soft line toward the Russian invasion of Georgia. In his
first statement on the crisis, Obama failed to directly condemn the Russian
invasion. Obama “did not directly blame Russia” for the crisis, the New
York Times acknowledged.
Did Obama’s
position reflect inexperience in foreign affairs, the influence of advisers, or
an ideological tendency to take Russia’s
side in global affairs against the U.S. and its allies?
According to the
editor of Davis’s books, John Edgar Tidwell, Davis was not only a
secret CPUSA member but tried to recruit a prominent poet to the CPUSA. It’s
not known if he tried to recruit Obama into what was then an underground
communist movement in Hawaii because the major
media refuse to directly question Obama about his relationship with Davis, and Davis
died in 1987.
Curiously, Tidwell,
who has access to Davis’s FBI file and his
personal papers, has refused to talk about Davis,
even to a sympathetic reporter from the Associated Press, saying Davis has been victimized
by McCarthyite “smear tactics.” The AP story refused to identify Davis as a CPUSA member
and described him only as a “left-leaning” poet and journalist.
For his part, Davis appeared before the
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1956, taking the Fifth Amendment when
asked about his CPUSA activities. His lawyer was Harriet Bouslog, another CPUSA
member.
The same Senate
subcommittee issued a report in 1956 declaring, “Founded in September 1919, the
Communist Party of the United
States of America is an organization unique
in American history. It is not a true political party and differs fundamentally
from all political parties in this country. It is in fact a Russian-inspired,
Moscow-dominated, anti-American, quasi-military conspiracy against our
Government, our ideals, and our freedoms.”
In 1982 testimony,
FBI assistant director for intelligence Edward J. O’Malley testified that the
CPUSA has been “one of the most loyal and pro-Soviet Communist Parties in the
world and has unfalteringly accepted Soviet direction and funding over the
years.”
The recent book, Comrade
J, based on interviews with a Russian spymaster at the United Nations,
documents that Soviet intelligence operations against the U.S. continued even as the Soviet Union
collapsed and Russia
emerged in its place.
Selective Editing
The Obama report admits
that the mysterious “Frank,” who was referred to several times in Obama’s 1995
book, Dreams From My Father, was in fact Frank Marshall Davis—something
AIM confirmed back in February. But in trying to rebut Corsi’s charge that
Davis was a significant negative influence over Obama, the Obama report on page
10 quotes “an article on Davis” that describes him as being involved in the
“labor movement” with other “African-American intellectuals” and committed to
racial integration and harmony. No title or name of the author of the article
is given. The article is simply identified as being from the Western Journal of
Black Studies.
We found a copy
through Questia, an online library of books and journals. The article, “Frank
Marshall Davis: A Forgotten Voice in the Chicago Black Renaissance,” was
written by Dr. Kathryn Takara, an Obama supporter who has been critical of
Accuracy in Media’s attempt to document Davis’s involvement in the CPUSA and
his mentorship of Obama. Takara is a radical poet herself, having written poems
in honor of Communist Party member Angela Davis and convicted cop-killer Mumia
Abu-Jamal. She was recently quoted in an Associated Press article that
portrayed Davis
as a positive influence on Obama and ignored his CPUSA membership.
The pro-Davis quotes
in the Takara article in the Western Journal of Black Studies, which are cited
in the Obama report, are actually preceded by Davis’s own incriminating words, in which he
says:
“From now on I knew
I would be described as a Communist but frankly I had reached the stage where I
didn’t give a damn. Too many people I respected as Freedom Fighters were listed
as Red for me to fear name calling.”
These quotes are
carefully omitted from the Obama report. Instead, the report only uses quotes
that make it appear as though Davis
was not an extremist of any sort.
The Obama report
also ignores the Davis
quotes in the article in which he talks about the “honor” of being targeted by
the House Committee on Un-American Activities and upsetting “the white power
structure.”
The Takara article
acknowledges that Davis
was investigated “due to his associates and involvement in what were considered
in the forties to be radical communist groups.”
Davis In Hawaii
On the recommendation
of two secret CPUSA members, Paul Robeson and labor leader Harry Bridges, Davis
moved to Hawaii in 1948, where he would later become a member of what an
official inquiry described as a secret communist underground organization.
Corsi’s book, which is
supposedly “Unfit for Publication,” according to the Obama campaign, cites the
congressional hearings and documents which identify Davis as a CPUSA member. It also quotes
instances from Obama’s own book, Dreams From My Father, in which Obama
talks about “Frank” giving him advice about various matters. For example, he
tells Obama that blacks have a reason to hate whites. Davis
also tells Obama that he should not believe the (expletive deleted) about the
American way of life and that he was, in the final analysis, just “a nigger” in
America.
Takara’s article,
written in 2002, acknowledges Davis’s
deep involvement in communist activities.
In one such instance,
the article says:
“However, by the time
he [Davis] returned to Chicago and the Renaissance, he inevitably associated
with people connected with the [Communist] Party since they were most likely to
be involved in civil rights, labor, art, and the fight for equality…it seems
that Davis did join the party for a short time, although on other occasions he
denied it.”
The Truth Be Told
So here we have it: in
an article cited by the Obama report as authoritative about Davis, he is acknowledged to have been a
CPUSA member. But the Obama report doesn’t mention this key piece of
information obviously because it confirms what Corsi reports in his book and
what AIM has been reporting since February.
In another part of
the article deliberately omitted by the Obama campaign, Takara notes that “Davis met Richard Wright
through his 1936 participation in the National Negro Congress, which was
alleged to be a Communist Front Organization.” Of course, the National Negro
Congress was an identified CPUSA front.
Takara says that Davis
had some contact with Wright over the years but that “Davis did not see Wright
again after openly criticizing Wright’s attack of [sic] the Communist Party
following the latter’s defection, although both men held on to the hope of
equality.”
Indeed, Davis was so extreme that
he attacked Wright for “treason” for breaking with and exposing the CPUSA.
Again, none of this is included in the Obama report supposedly rebutting
Corsi’s book.
CPUSA Fronts
In yet another part of
the article the Obama report ignores, Takara writes that “Davis joined the League of American Writers,
a national united front organization for the Communist Party mobilized by the
alarming rise of power of Hitler and Mussolini.”
In fact, Davis signed a statement
by the League of American Writers in June 1941 opposing war against Nazi
Germany at a time of the Hitler-Stalin pact. This was a reflection of the CPUSA
line. Davis
went from anti-war to pro-war after the Nazis attacked Stalin.
So here we have it:
another official acknowledgement by an Obama (and Davis) supporter that Davis was involved in a
CPUSA front. But the Obama report doesn’t admit anything of the kind. In fact, Davis’s entire record of
involvement in the CPUSA and its fronts is completely covered up.
Which raises the
question that we have asked on numerous occasions: why are Obama and his
followers in the media ignoring his documented relationship with a CPUSA
member? And why did Obama only refer to Davis
as “Frank” in his book?
In an August 5
editorial, drawing heavily on material published by Accuracy in Media about the
Obama-Davis relationship, Investor’s Business Daily took issue not only with
the concealment of “Frank” in the Obama book but the recent dishonest
Associated Press story about Davis and Obama. “If the relationship with Davis was as blasé as the
Associated Press makes it sound, why is Obama mum about it? And why did he try
to hide Davis’
identity in his first memoir, published in 1995?”
The paper said that
Obama had written that “With the exception of my family and a handful of public
figures, the names of most characters have been changed for the sake of
privacy.” Investor’s Business Daily added, “But there was no need to protect Davis’ privacy. He had
long been dead. More likely, the cryptic references to his communist mentor
were—and still are—designed to protect Obama’s background from the scrutiny it
deserves.”
The Cover-Up Continues
The shocking thing is
that this cover-up is continuing, in the form of the official Obama “Unfit for
Publication” report attacking Corsi. The cover-up is now so blatant that an
article that is generally sympathetic to Davis
has been edited by the Obama campaign in order to delete references to Davis’s CPUSA activities.
There must be a
deeper and darker secret, in terms of the relationship with Davis and those who knew him, that the Obama
campaign is trying to keep hidden. Otherwise, it would immediately begin to
disclose everything.
Gerald Horne, the
writer for the CPUSA journal, Political Affairs, who first disclosed Davis’s
relationship with Obama and his family, has told the Marxist publication that
he is now writing “a history of the radical, Communist and working-class
movement in Hawaii.”
He explains, “It is not well known, I’m afraid, that before statehood in 1959
probably the most vigorous, communist and radical trade union movement under
the U.S. flag was in Hawaii.”
Frank Marshall Davis
was a remnant of that powerful movement.
“At some point in
the future,” Horne said, in talking about Davis’s influence over Obama, “a
teacher will add to her syllabus Barack’s memoir and instruct her students to
read it alongside Frank Marshall Davis’ equally affecting memoir, ‘Living
the Blues’…”
While Obama’s
communist and foreign connections are of serious and ongoing concern in Corsi’s
book, his treatment of Obama’s admitted drug use has emerged as a special raw
nerve for the Obama campaign and his media acolytes. They realize that many
Americans, whose families have been decimated and destroyed by illegal drugs,
may recoil at the thought of having an admitted user of marijuana and cocaine
occupy the oval office.
The Attack Begins
Acting on information
provided by a left-wing group known as Media Matters, which functions as an
unofficial arm of the Democratic Party, the New York Times attacked Corsi for
charging that Obama has “yet to answer” whether he ever dealt drugs and when he
stopped, if indeed he ever did. The Times protested that Obama has answered
that charge, at least the part about quitting marijuana and cocaine, by saying
that he hasn’t used drugs since he was 20 years old.
The Times story
defending Obama against Corsi’s book was followed by a Washington Post story attacking the author.
The liberal media were forced to take note of the book because it became number one on the New York Times
bestsellers list.
So why did Corsi raise
the subject of drug abuse when it supposedly has been put to rest? It’s
because, as an experienced investigative reporter, he knows that a few
perfunctory denials, which could be expected from someone running for office,
do not constitute any form of proof or convincing answer that he in fact ever
did quit drugs. As Corsi has suggested in defending his book’s account of
Obama’s admitted drug use, self-reporting by drug users about when they quit is
notoriously unreliable. Every drug addict claims to have quit at one time or
another. That’s what drug testing is all about.
Joyce Nalepka,
president of Drug-Free Kids: America’s
Challenge, points out that recovering cocaine addicts say that the high from
cocaine is so intense that you never stop wanting it. She points to the case of
former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry, who was caught
twice using cocaine. Barry was caught in one case as a result of a police sting
and another because of court-ordered drug testing.
Don’t you believe
Obama when he says he quit drugs? “No,” replied Nalepka. “And I didn’t believe
Mayor Barry either.”
The Soros Connection
However, she does
believe that, if Obama is elected, his backers in the drug legalization
movement funded by billionaire George Soros will press for legalization of
marijuana, cocaine and other dangerous drugs. Soros is a big backer of Obama
and has contributed financially to his campaign.
During the Reagan
Administration, Nalepka served as the president of the anti-drug group that
Nancy Reagan served as honorary chair. She warns that Obama has “voted for at
least two pro-legalization [of marijuana] bills” and that drug legalization
advocates are spreading the word that Obama will not support federal
enforcement of federal marijuana arrests. She said a questionnaire, which
includes the question, “Do you support keeping drug possession, dealing and
trafficking a crime?,” has not been answered by the Obama campaign. John
McCain, on the other hand, vows to “uphold the law,” she says.
Even if Obama took and
passed a drug test, Nalepka says she would never vote for him, explaining, “It
appalls me at the thought that people would be naïve enough to vote for someone
who admits drug use.” She says this view stems from 30 years of “watching
parents wail and cry and talk about the hell their families went through”
because of marijuana, cocaine and other drugs.
But the views of
Nalepka and others in the campaign against illegal drugs have been ignored by
media anxious to accept Obama’s word that he has quit dangerous mind-altering
drugs.
“We worked long and hard to close those drug
paraphernalia shops in the 1980s and long and hard again to get student drug
testing in the schools so we could get drugs out of the schools,” she said.
“And we’re going to allow someone to come in to the White House of the United States of America
who was a drug user?”
Roger Morgan has
similar concerns. A San Diego
businessman whose two stepchildren became addicted to drugs at ages 12 and 14,
Morgan has spent 30 years dealing with the horrors of substance abuse. He was
the Founding Chairman of the Coronado SAFE Foundation; a past Director of the
San Diego Prevention Coalition; Co-Founder of Californians for Drug Free
Schools; and a member of the National Student Drug Testing Coalition.
George Soros and his
Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) “have infiltrated our government(s) at all levels,”
he warns, “and they effectively own the Democratic Party. We need a President
who has the courage and wisdom to mandate random drug/alcohol testing in all
schools for all kids in grades 6 through 12. That could happen with McCain. It
will never happen with a Soros-backed Democrat at the helm.”
Another line of
attack—that Corsi is doing the bidding of the Republican Party and the John
McCain campaign—makes no sense because Corsi writes very critically of McCain
and is a member of the Constitution Party, which is fielding its own
presidential candidate, Chuck Baldwin, this fall. Plus, Corsi’s editor at
WorldNetDaily, where he writes regularly, is Joseph Farah, whose book, None
of the Above, argues against Obama and McCain.
The pro-Obama media
emphasize that the Corsi book is published by Simon & Schuster’s Threshold
Editions, whose main editor is former GOP strategist Mary Matalin. The 40-page
Obama report dishonestly claims the Corsi book is “brought to you by the
Bush/Cheney Attack Machine.” But it is clearly the case that Corsi and Farah
are independent conservatives who have no allegiance to the GOP.
Corsi has written a
book on Obama for the obvious reason that there is little evidence that the
major media are interested in uncovering or publicizing the hidden facts about
him.
DEAR FELLOW MEDIA WATCHDOG September-B 2008
IMPORTANT
NEW DEVELOPMENTS HAVE OCCURRED SINCE I WROTE this AIM Report. I want to use this
edition of my “notes” to bring you completely up to date. The London Daily
Telegraph has reported allegations that Frank Marshall Davis was not only a
communist but a sex pervert and pornographer, and that he smoked dope with
Obama’s grandfather, Stanley Dunham, who had introduced Davis to Obama when the child was only nine
years of age—in 1970. We know that Dunham and Davis were drinking buddies and
that Obama admits doing drugs in his youth. We also know that Obama talks in
his book Dreams From My Father about sharing alcohol with Davis. Did he share drugs
with him too?
DAVIS’S
ALLEGED SEXUAL PERVERSION ADDS A DRAMATIC AND ALARMING ELEMENT TO the
controversy. Toby Harnden of the Telegraph reports that Davis’s
sexual proclivities were documented in a 1968 pornographic novel, written just
two years before Davis
became Obama’s mentor, which was titled, Sex Rebel: Black (Memoirs of a
Gourmet Gash). Davis
wrote the book, which is now generally unavailable, under a pseudonym, Bob
Greene. Harnden flatly asserts that “The book, which closely tracks Mr. Davis’s
life in Chicago and Hawaii and the fact that his first wife was
black and his second white, describes in lurid detail a series of shockingly
sordid sexual encounters, often involving group sex. One chapter concerns the
seduction by Mr. Davis and his first wife of a 13-year-old girl called Anne.
Mr. Davis wrote that it was the girl who had suggested he had sex with her.”
Harnden added, “He then described how he and his wife would have sex with the
girl” many times over the course of several weeks. “On other occasions,” he
added, “Mr. Davis would cruise in Hawaii
parks looking for couples or female tourists to have sex with. He derived
sexual gratification from bondage, simulated rape and being flogged and
urinated on.”
OBAMA IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR BEING PUT INTO CLOSE CONTACT
WITH THIS ALLEGED child molester, alcohol abuser, and pothead. Obama’s growing-up
years were sad and tragic, especially with his black father taking off and his
mother spending much of her time elsewhere. His grandparents tried their best
to raise him. But his grandfather should never have turned Obama over to Davis. Since Obama wants
to be the president of the United
States of America, with authority over
domestic and foreign policies that will affect our daily lives, we have a right
to know the nature of the Obama-Davis relationship and how it affected his
personal life and political philosophy.
THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT DAVIS WROTE THE BOOK UNDER THE PSEUDONYM OF
“BOB Greene.” John Edgar Tidwell, the editor of other books by Davis, has confirmed this is the case. But
Tidwell has questioned how much of Sex Rebel is based on Davis’s own life
experiences and describes it as “semi-autobiographical.” Harnden acknowledged
to AIM that Davis
“left himself some wiggle room, not least I suppose because of the possibility
of prosecution” for statutory rape of a 13-year-old. But in the introduction to
Livin’ the Blues, a book by Davis that Tidwell edited, Tidwell reveals
that Davis left behind after his death an uncompleted manuscript, “The
Incredible Waikiki Jungle,” which describes how Davis “specialized in sex”
during the period 1969-1976. No details are provided by Tidwell. He also says
that Davis
wrote another unpublished manuscript called “Mixed Sex Salad.” Whether the book
Sex Rebel is entirely based on Davis or
not, the controversy certainly demonstrates that Davis had a perverted sexual interest and
should not have been trusted as a mentor for any young person.
ON AUGUST 18, FOX NEWS
AIRED A SPECIAL PROGRAM, “PRESIDENTIAL CHARACTER & Conduct 2008: Barack
Obama,” which not only ignored Frank Marshall Davis but the association of Obama
with communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. The program,
narrated by Bill Hemmer, a former anchor for CNN, mostly relied on friends,
associates and a friendly biographer of Obama for information about the
candidate. While the program did include information about Obama’s relationship
with convicted felon Tony Rezko, it concluded that Obama did nothing illegal
and ignored Rezko’s involvement with a controversial Iraqi-born British
billionaire, Nadhmi Auchi, who has been pressuring the media to stop running
negative stories about him. Andrew Walden of the Hawaii Free Press wrote a
major article for our website on how Auchi is trying to intimidate the media
from investigating his dealings, which include a tie to Rezko and possibly
Obama. If you would like a printed copy of this report, please send us the
enclosed postcard. Also, please send one of the other postcards to Bill Hemmer
of Fox News, protesting his flawed special program on Obama. And if you still
haven’t ordered Jerome Corsi’s book, The Obama Nation, do so through
AIM.
MEANWHILE, BOTH NEWSWEEK AND TIME MAGAZINES HAVE NOW
MENTIONED FRANK Marshall Davis. Jon Meacham writes in Newsweek that Obama’s
mentor was “a strong voice for racial
justice” and a political activist whose “writings on civil-rights and labor
issues” had “prompted a McCarthyite denunciation by the House Un-American
Activities Committee.” Meacham is suggesting that Davis was the target of false allegations
that he was a communist. He agrees, however, that Davis was one of Obama’s mentors. In the
first place, as Meacham surely knows, Joseph McCarthy was a senator, not a
congressman. The House committee had nothing to do with McCarthy. Plus, Davis was in fact a
communist. Can you believe that Meacham is editor of Newsweek? He ought to
resign in disgrace.
IN TIME MAGAZINE, DAVID VON DREHLE IS A BIT MORE HONEST.
“LIKE HIS FRIEND PAUL Robeson and others, Davis
perceived the Soviet Union as a ‘staunch foe
of racism’ (as he later put it in his memoirs), and at one point he joined the
Communist Party,” he writes. Nevertheless, Drehle faults AIM for trying to
paint a “radical” picture of Obama because of his association with Davis. He insists that
“by the time they [Obama and Davis] met, Davis
had been out of politics for decades, and ‘mentor’ may exaggerate his role in
the young man’s life. Still, it’s clear that Obama did seek advice from the old
man and that what he got was undiluted.” One of the key facts that Von Drehle
ignores is that Robeson, like Davis,
had been a secret member of the Communist Party USA. Also, by the time they
met, 1970, Davis
was still active in a CPUSA front called the American Committee for Foreign
Born. So he wasn’t “out of politics for decades.” There’s no evidence that
Davis, who died in 1987, ever stopped being a communist.
THE WASHINGTON POST ON
AUGUST 24 RAN A 10,000-WORD STUNNINGLY DISHONEST story about Obama growing up
in Hawaii that completely ignored Davis’s critical role.
The author, David Maraniss, told us that he had concluded that even Obama had
“hyped out of all proportion” Davis’s
influence over him! Ignoring all of the evidence, Maraniss, a Pulitzer
Prize-winner, insisted that Davis
“did not play a role in really shaping Obama.”
ACCURACY IN MEDIA IS
UNDER STRONG ATTACK FOR DOING THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING that the media should
be doing. But you can see that we are making huge progress in getting out the
facts. Some parts of the major media are finally being forced to admit that
what we have uncovered is true.
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Sigh…..and you once worked for a known drug dealer ....lied to congress….weapons…to Iran etc etc etc etc. See how it works Sigh?????
My dear little KKKliff: please stop expecting the media to pursue your hallucinations about Obama. Talking about your hallucinations is the role of your psychiatrist, not the media.
Months have gone by, and still MSM shows its extreme bias and being in the tank for Obama, and that American voters, in their opinion should not be told about Obama’s communist connections, and his connections with know drug users, abusers and pushers, as well as a noted sexual pervert.
The Obama campaign goes to extraordinary efforts to lie and cover-up these connections, and sadly, they are being successful in their efforts. It is 50 odd days to the election and the majority of Americans are ignorant of Obama’s great ties with this man.
Those extraordinary efforts include Obama stooges that deliberately go onto forums such as this to do whatever is possible to keep the rot in Obama from the public. I just wonder with this obviously well organized and controlled effort on Obama’s behalf, what has not been reported yet, and the ultimate goal here seems to be to keep the additional facts about Obama from ever seeing the light of day.
What has NOT been uncovered yet? Obama was a pusher himself? he has sex pervert issues himself after being around Davis and his drug using and abusing, dealing grandfather? What did happen when they were getting high? I doubt we will ever know as the MSM does everything they can to cover up these fundamental years in the life of a young and impressionable Obama. We may find out, but it will be after the fact?
The media’s hype and promotion of Obama has always been the reason I fear him.
Who is truly backing Obama and why?
No matter if this is trully a problem or not, there is one question that remains unanswered. What does Obama himself have to say about this? Why has NO ONE asked him directly about any of these questions? It is now admitted by the Obama campaign that “Frank” was indeed Frank Marshall Davis, so why not just end the questions by dealing with it?
If there is nothing there, why avoid, dodge and distort the truth about who Davis really was? Even the same article the Obama campaign cites to refute the book admits that he had strong ties to the CPUSA and was a member at least for a while.
Answer the questions directly and if there is nothing there, it will all go away. Or is that what Obama fears most? Facing the questions?
Any white canidate would have been out of the race before he even got started with Obamas baggage.
He associates with domestic terrorists, communists,and left wing kooks and we hear not a word from the press. Just think what a wrecking crew the press would be if he were a republican.
His community organising was a fraud and they compare him to Jesus. Of course if a republican were to refer to Jesus, they would be burned at the stake with the church and state playbook.
Then we have to read idiotic comments from left wing commies who present no facts to refute the articles.
The press would be tearing up the streets trying to find somebody who purchased drugs from Obama if he were a republican. Then they would come up with some junkie that they payed hundreds of dollars to tell some cock and bull story.
Either that or they would just go with the standard unmamed source. The damage would be done and their job complete. Half the country would believe it because they are to stupid to get the facts. That’s why it’s so hard for republicans to win. The press give the democrats a 20% advantage that is nearly impossible to overcome.
The cold war is over? I don’t think so.
Keep up the good work, Cliff! I happen to believe that you have only scratched the surface. . . My brother, a free-lance writer, has been investigating Obama with my help. We have found lots of information through the Internet, and the connections he has to leftist-leaning, Communist,people and organizations is enormous. And, it is also amazing how much of it disappears from the Internet after it is uncovered. I’d agree that Obama has a big cover-up team he is paying really well to keep us from finding these things out! Keep fighting the good fight!
Great, Cliff, but there’s more, much more: so-called liberation theology. Note well that while Obama has denounced his preacher and teacher of that same liberation theology, he has not recnated liberation theology. He has symbolically killed the messanger, but left the message in tact. After the liberation by peaceful means of Russian’s vassel states they went for capitalism in a big way. What the liberation theologists learn from this was that perhaps, just perhpas, socialism was not the answeer to all of man’s problems; so, not willing to give up their thesis entirely, they decided to give up their guns, bandannas, fire bombs and acts of civil disorder and achieve the sought for income redistribution in suits and ties and by running for political office. Hit on that Cliff, hit hard and often. It’s still all income redistribution.
Oh,my! Those dangerous Commies! When will this nightmarish Communist threat ever end? Obama will doubtless collectivize agriculture and call everyone “comrade”! Definitely a grave peril for our nation!
Cliff’s investigative research is some of the best! I’m also concerned about the liberation theology - Marxist - and Obama’s church’s Black Liberation Theology, teaching Black Supremacy. Type that into your search engine and be shocked! Obama was head of Harvard Law Review a few years after rules were changed to promote minorities in that position. Had he been white? And, his “community service” as director of Public Allies of Chicago netted him and his wife hefty salaries. So much for “volunteer” work. It included rounding up voters for future elections. The ACORN group he worked with uses Saul Alinsky’s book “Rules for Radicals,” that credits Lucifer as “the first radical…who earned himself a kingdom.” It’s a book on how to overthrow a government or any other organization. “The disruption of the present organization is the first step toward COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION..All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new.” Page 116 - Alisnky was Obama’s Marxist mentor. And we think we know Obama? Hardly!
From a old Cold Warrior: Read John Barron’s book “KGB:The Secret Work of Soviet Secret Agents” (Reader’s Digest Press, 1974) to get an understanding of their use of disinformation and the international communist goal of world domination. (I used this book as one of my sources for a college paper). Also, remember that former president, now prime minister, of the Russian Federation, Putin, was (and probabily still is) a high ranking member of the Soviet KGB.
Personally, I believe that the current US market and economic crisis is fertile ground for the Russians to offer to bail us out if Mr. Obama is elected. They have enormous financial and oil resources that they can use to entice our leaders with. It wouldn’t take much for us to be fatally drown into their final goal of taking complete control of the US. They have obviously already been quite successful in their infiltration of and influence over our educational system and our MSM. This was always one of the Soviet communist’s goals, especially our higher educational institutions, where they could most influence the thinking of our youth who would have no “history” to help them detect the ruse.
For all of this talk about impending doom of an Obama administration. What can be said about the current environment?
Whatever sort of doom scenario you postulate, it doesn’t matter. We’re already in that situation via a leader who passed your “muster” for president. GW Bush was clean as a whistle and yet here we sit, dumbfounded as to why our country is in such tatters.
Democrats simply aren’t as bad as most conservatives say. They actually have a better track record on running this country than the GOP.
Admit it, Clinton wasn’t that bad. Even rush secretly admits that he’d trade 4 years of Bush for 4 years of Clinton. Clinton ran the country well and gave Rush fodder for the culture war. Win-Win.
Last Point. There is absolutely nothing as bad as leading 150,000 men and women to war on a lie.
Nope, nothing tops that. You can’t talk your way out of it and it is of a magnitude of 1000x worse than any race baiting from rev. Wright or bombs set by Ayers.
Need I mention Mrs. Plame?
Patrick, I disagree about the Russians. While they have a lot of money, and they control a huge chunk of Europe’s energy supply, they are run by thugs. Those thugs are out for themselves, not for “Mother Russia” like the Communists were. They’re closer to the Mafia model than the Communist model.
They will always try to screw with the US due to their jealousy, but I doubt they will ever be able to take over control of the US. They’re more likely to get control over their former vassal states and perhaps continental Europe.
By contrast, the Chinese have adopted much of the best parts of Capitalism as taught to them by Milton Friedman and have significantly more national power in terms of both realized and potential wealth. It is far more likely the Chinese will get significant control of the US than Russia.
”... GW Bush was clean as a whistle and yet here we sit, dumbfounded as to why our country is in such tatters. ...”
LOL! So now the Wall Street mess and the chickens of greedy paper-pushers on the Street coming home to roost is BushHitler’s fault. Is there nothing in this universe that isn’t his fault according to the irrational Left?
Matt, ask yourself how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac got into so much trouble when it was the Democrats who were “protecting” them? Barney (Fat Faggot) Frank was their “Defender in Chief” for the last 20 some years.
Your other dumbass talking points have been refuted so countless times it’s not even worth repeating the refutations. You are obviously too lazy to read or simply too brainwashed to care whether your “facts” are true or not.
People with your attitude of irrational followership are the problem.
Matt,
It isn’t the democrats I fear - it’s Obama.
There is something very wrong there. He is being put forward by the media, from day one. He was anointed the night he made his speech, some years ago.
He has gotten only token negatives, they have pushed him forward, protecting him all the way.
I’m thinking McCain was the other nominee to insure his election. For months on the campaign trial McCain wasn’t even in the running, suddenly he’s the front runner - why. Because Obama could beat him. There wasn’t anyone else out there that thrilled me, except Ron Paul, whom they silenced almost immediately. I’m just thinking a Duncan Hunter, maybe the Gov. of Mass. I’m thinking even Thompson, would have made a better showing against Obama.
This country’s manufacturing has been destroyed, by both parties. Now the financial industry is on the block. Does anyone not think the housing debacle that caused this, was not planned??
That should have been apparent to all of us. ‘When something is too good to be true, it probably isn’t’. That was the housing travesty.
So now is this country going up for bids? We already have allowed foreign companies to come in and operate our toll roads. What else have they sold. Our water rights?
We know that whatever company gets to drill for oil will be a global company - I don’t think we have any American-only oil companies.
Regardless of which of these men gets elected, illegals will get amnesty and have the vote. Through their vote, they can control large cities, areas, even maybe some states.
We have argued with each other, rah-rahed behind some mythical political party and refused to look elsewhere for candidates, so this is the results.
So what’s left??
”... This country’s manufacturing has been destroyed, by both parties. ”
No, it’s been made too expensive by labor unions. Labor unions have become owners of the Democratic party.
Why is it that Toyota, Hyundai, Nissan, and Honda are all doing booming car assembly and sales business in the US?
Because they don’t have the bloated overhead expenses of keeping idle workers on the payroll through union “job banks.” Because they don’t have the gold-plated retirement and health care insurance premiums that the not-so Big Three have built up over the last 50 years.
Unions served a very good purpose and can still serve a very good purpose if they get back to their reason for existence—a focus on their members rather than a focus on building their political and economic power.
Patrick,
I’m an old “Red fighter.” But right now I’m more cocerned about Putin’s Sudatenland gambit into Georgia than any direct threat to the US. A threat, yes, but not a direct threat. Although, one can hardly discount the strategic value of the pipeline which runs through Georgia. I am concerned that Obama tried to negate the importance of Russia’s incursion into Georgia. At first refering to it in moral equivalency terms,i.e., each party having grievances, blah, blah, blah.
One wonders if Obama’s world view, as in, “We are the word,” excludes recent world history. And you are right regarding the all too common lack history education for most of today’s voters.
I don’t have any children in school now to check this out, but I’m told that all of WWII and the Cold War ends up being, at most, a paragraph or two. On the entrance to the National Archives building on will find these words chiseled, “What is past is prologue.
My God help us.
Anon,
We cannot blame all this on the unions. They are a favorite whipping boy, but that isn’t the whole story.
Part of it was labor -yes.
Part is the fact there is no need to comply with environmental regulations, no workplace safety, no property taxes (or certainly not what they paid here), etc.
Also, I don’t know how much taxpayers subsidized some of those new factories, but that is part of it also. I do remember hearing Ronald Reagan talk about how the government was helping to build some in China.
So rather than upgrading their old factories, get the government and maybe Chinese government to build them for you.
Yes, we do get things that have a lower price tag - but they are not cheaper. I’m convinced the biggest savings was in quality.
Those cheap clothes at Wal Mart do not have lower price tags just because some poor little kid sewed them. They are cheaper because the material is cheap, the cut is much smaller, and the workmanship is shoddy.
Good quality merchandise once made in the US and sold at department stores, is now made in China, sold at Wal Mart and the quality is atrocious. The material is very bad, the cut is smaller, the workmanship is poor - now that’s where the little kids come in, I guess.
In fact, if it wasn’t being sold by Wal Mart, who can sell cheaper than most others can buy, it would be much more expensive.
A lot of the savings in labor is offset with transportation. Check how many trucks are on the highway today. My son lives too near a railroad track. I see the number of container trains.
Many things figure into this, labor is just one of them.
keco,
You’re so right about the double-standard in regards to investigating Dems and Repubs.
Can you imagine if the media had applied the same thoroughness of investigative reporting in regards to the Clintons during the ‘90’s?
Bubba, with his ultra-thin political skin, would probably pop a blood vessel in his well-known fits of rage, and both he and Hillary would probably be wearing orange jumpsuits these days, if all their dirt was exposed.
I haven’t seen the kind of level of intense scrutiny being done on Palin since the time Newt Gingrich became House Speaker.
matt,
I agree on your criticism of Bush, however disagree regarding Clinton.
Remember, when Clinton was elected in ‘92, he had both Houses of Congress, and yet the public revolted against him because of his highest-on-record tax increases and ‘gays in the military’ by electing a Republican majority House and Senate. While the Republican majority eventually screwed up by signing on with Clinton on such disasters as NAFTA, they kept him in check as far as any serious economic damage he could do. In fact, his balance budget proposals were rejected about a half dozen times by Congress because of excessive spending proposals within them before Clinton was able to sign onto the Balanced Budget Act of ‘97, thus receiving the credit.
There was some sense of fiscal responsibility with Republicans back then, but those days ended with the Bush Administration.
hyperman2, your hysterical reaction to Cliff Kincaid is so typical of partisan liberal demagogues. You only prove that Cliff has a valid point by trying to paint him as a hallucinating Klan bigot. Not once in any column can you show that Cliff’s objection of Sen. Obama as president is based on racial considerations.
Many of us conservatives would gladly have liked to see former Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, former Sec. of State Colin Powell, former Reps. JC Watts or Alan Keyes, or even Sec. of State Condoleezza Rice (a little too closely tied to the neoconservatives for my tastes) running for president, perhaps even more than Sen. McCain. But like a good Democrat, you have a need to resort to whining about race or ethnicity rather than the fact that Sen. Obama is a liberal socialist Democrat on the left and has many past associations with socialists/communists that raise questions about to his beliefs.
Cliff has provided facts and references while you resort to base innuendoes and a hysterical ad hominem attack. Just who is the person with mental issues?
anonymous,
Adding to your point, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the creation of the Carter administration so as to provide low interest loans to the poor. The Clinton administration made the penalties for not providing such loans much more severe so banks went along with poor risks.
By the way, the airline mess also started by the Carter administration when it eliminated the CAB.
Many great points here. Let me tie some loose ends together that may surprise some people.
A key problem with Obama’s hidden background is that while it may be hidden from public, it is KNOWN, and as such, Obama and the DNC are susceptible to both national and international blackmail from numerous enemies of the U.S.
This was one of the same problems that the Clinton Crime Syndicate had to deal with in various ways. A Republican president couldn’t have survived even one of the Clinton scandals, much less a dozen of the major criminal/treason scandals that they treated the nation to in typical denial/stonewall fashion with full media coverup support. Anyone who doubts that needs merely to consider the impact of the cooked up “lied to us about Iraq” mantra that has been such a pivotal hammer to tank GWB’s public approval rating.
Speaking of Clinton, few people realize that the oversight committee rule changes (whether official or closed-door agreement to be blind) made with Clinton/Gore approval are the very source of the criminally irresponsible bank loans and the criminal (Enron) investment frauds that have been used to steal billions (trillions?) from citizens and from the US government. The danger of removing barriers to such schemes was obvious, which clearly implies that there were threats/pressures/payoffs of some criminal nature.
All of that brings up a far more ominous “more of the same” risk with Obama/Biden than could ever be had with McCain/Palin. Soros is probably a key player, but he sure won’t be the only one manipulating the puppets in an Obama white-house.
Regarding tax rates under Clinton, it is interesting to note that Obama tells us that “everyone, everyone who makes $250,000 or less will get a tax cut” similar to the tax rate under President Clinton. How do people not realize that our taxes were actually HIGHER under Clinton than they are under the Bush administration? He is refusing to re-instate the Bush tax cuts when they expire, which means that our tax rates will go up, not down.
Analyst,
Some good points, and absolutely true that Pres. Clinton got away with a lot of things, before and during his Presidency.
Ken Starr waded through the muck and mire of the Pres. and Mrs. Clinton’s past, spent $50M, took years, had the power of subpeona, grand jury, investigators, prosecutors, etc.
Other than prosecuting some other people, the only transgression he could find was lying under oath about Ms. Lewinsky.
I’m thinking most any other adult, and some kitty cats, could have found more. I think that was a whitewash.
I’m thinking rather he was chosen and groomed to do what he did.
That is what concerns me about O’Bama, I think he was groomed to be exactly where he is and he has some ‘service’ to perform.
President Bush and his family are not just simply Texas oil men. His family goes way back in world commerce, and politics, his father was head of the CIA, etc.
This Pesident Bush was just another in the line of heads of the country whose job it is to further the cause of the destruction of this country as a sovereign nation, and bring us closer to a world government.
I don’t think it will be blackmail, just doing what their employers, that’s not us, want them to do.
Obama does seem more frightening, but McCain is not much better - if any.
The media, in my opinion, however, has been most kind to President Bush. If the media had been doing it’s job, the questions about the war would have been asked BEFORE the war. They were very instrumental in the bombast, the flag waving, the chest beating that went on to whip the people into the desire for war.
This President isn’t running again, his ratings mean nothing. We are in the war and there is nothing to do but try to finish it and rebuild Iraq.
The press can now give some semblence of asking the questions. They don’t matter now. There will be no reprecussions to the architects of the war. We people of this country have short memories, we won’t remember and will be just as easily led next time - if we survive as a country.
The country is in a terrible economic and financial mess. This has many causes. But the major one is the deregulation approach to lending pushed by McCain, Bush and other Republican law makers and government officials since 2001.
But what are people on this blog worrying about? Paranoid nonsense that Obama is a Communist.
Meanwhile, the Bush administration has nationalized huge financial institutions and may very well do the same for others. The amount of money involved and potential liabilities is staggering, running into the trillions of dollars. Government takeover and control of basic savings, lending, borrowing, investing institutions is the major economic foundation of Communism. So, either Bush and his advisers are Communists or there is no need to worry about Obama’s economic policies. What could he and Congress do that is more extreme than is happening under this adminsitration?
Meanwhile, McCain has suddenly reversed decades of his economic policies and is calling for more regulation. He has already admitted that he knows little or nothing about economics. Other than a commission, he has offered no solutions to the present and growing crisis. His running mate, Palin, is even more out of her depth in this matter. Given the huge subsidies Alaska receives from Washington, she is governor of a Socialist economy with little or no idea how a capitalist system functions.
Draw your own conclusions. But for the love of heaven, think about what REAL dangers are facing our country, not paranoid, dishonest and irrelevant AIM propaganda.
Whatever Obama does with taxes, we’ll just have to wait and see.
As to Pres. Bush tax ‘cut’, some of us didn’t get a cut. Along with the ‘cut’ to us, the monies promised states to pay for the things the federal government demands states do, was cut.
The mandate for those programs was not cut, however.
This left states with a problem. How do you balance the budget, make up for the shortfall, and if you have a large illegal immigrant population, pay for this added expense. These are politicians. The last thing a state legislator wants to been caught doing, is raising taxes. They are little closer to the electorate and more vulnerable.
Our schools are funded greatly by property taxes. These are collected on a local basis, but the state has a hand in it also. So the state decides all property must be ‘re-evaluated’. This means your taxes will go up. Some homes were evaluated above actually market value. Since only the evaluation was raised, they could say they didn’t raise ‘taxes’.
The fee for professional licenses and fees were raised, auto registration was increased, the cost for fines and permits were raised, more profession were deemed to need a license. How many more hidden ‘fees’ there were - who knows.
Our legislators stood there in front of the microphones with a straight face and said they didn’t raise taxes.
No matter how you look at it, what you call it, President Bush cut back what they took from your pocket and because of cut backs to the state, the state took more money from your pocket.
Maybe it made people feel better that they can say they got a tax cut and the increased ‘fees’ weren’t really taxes. Fact is, for many it was not more money in our pocket, but less.
We have to wake up and stop being flim-flammed. We need to pay attention to the man/men behind the curtain that are operating the smoke machine.
Yes we do need to look at the real dangers and we need to realize both parties have been complicit in this - truly they have.
Obama may, indeed, be a communist. His ultimate goal probably isn’t to make this a communist country - rather to just put a little more grease on the skid to world government.
Just wanted to share this with the “Obama can fix the economy” believers:
“Most economist will agree that one of the primary reasons we find ourselves in this economic crisis is primarily due to the practices of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (i.e. the mortgage crisis) and NOT deregulation. These mortgage lenders, and their “open border” style lending policies, which were ventilated by members of BOTH parties (but primarily begun by the Clinton administration and then continued by Bush), have basically caused the collapse of the housing market to such an extent that it has been naturally followed by the consequences that tend to follow said nebulous practices. Of course, “greed” in Wall Street is also part of the equation, a factor that clearly advocates for TRUE deregulation (i.e. NO BAIL OUTS nor corporate welfare), but then again, “greed” is the primary purpose of engaging in the speculative markets.
The question is, why and how did our politicians allow these corporate ‘monsters’ to “relax” their lending practices and lead us into this mess? The answer may be quite complex, but one of the main reasons lies within the social agenda of the Neo Liberals. Their obsession with making things “fair” and “equal” to the “average home owner” caused these unscrupulous lenders to see an opening that they could exploit, and thus they began to hand out countless loans to people who frankly couldn’t (and shouldn’t) afford them, thus creating a bubble that has recently blown in America’s face. As we all know, these same lenders would in turn sell these loans to China, Japan, and other banking vultures around the world.
So who are the top and true BFFs (”Best Friends Forever”) of the mortgage industry?
As we can assume, Fannie and Freddie had countless lobbyist in Washington, spreading money around like hot cakes to any politician who was willing to do their biding and continue these practices. The Center for Responsive Politics, a non partisan watchdog organization, has discovered that of all the lawmakers in Washington who have received money from both of these institutions, within the span of 19 years, the top three beneficiaries have been Democrats. Who, you may ask, and in what order?
1 = Chris Dodd: $165,400
2 = Barack Obama: $126,349
3 = John Kerry: $111,000
The above numbers reflect the contributions made to all lawmakers, from 1989 to 2008. This means that Barack Obama has basically surpassed every other lawmaker in Washington (the list is quite large) that has ever received (lobbyist) money from these institutions, even though he has only been there for a short 4 years (most of the time running for President). Obama even surpassed John Kerry, who has been in the Senate for more than 20 years (and many others who have been there for more than 40!)!
But Obama’s corrupt complicity to the economic crisis that we face today does NOT stop with the lobbyists and ‘cooperative’ executives who continously donate to his campaign. Obama also hired Jim Johnson as an economic adviser and as his chief Vice Presidential vetter. In the mid-1990s, Mr. Johnson headed up a power trifecta: mortgage giant Fannie Mae, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Brookings Institution, one of the city’s most prominent think tanks. Mr. Johnsons’ relationship with the embattled CEO of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial, to his more recent oversight roles on various corporate compensation committees that approved hefty executive pay packages, have all linked this individual directly to our most recent sub prime mortgage debacles. Johnson also received at least $7 million worth of home loans from Countrywide through an informal program for friends of company CEO Angelo Mozilo, that offered rates below the market average
Obama’s current financial adviser, and sub prime mortgage “super star” Penny Pritzker, whose bank actually targeted minority customers for their schemes, also gives us a good preview of what his Presidential cabinet might look like. Clearly, Jim Johnson fits right into this crew of sleazy corporate/banking special interests, who have been clearly at fault for our current economic woes, and who have sufferend abosolutely NO CONSEQUENCE for their dirty dealings (they even got a “promotion” to work with “The One”).
We must then ask ourselves: Do we really want to elect a man who, even though has NO concrete legislative accomplishments during his short time in the Senate, has nonetheless been able to reach the NUMBER 2 spot in accepting money from the main culprits of the financial crisis in which we find ourselves in? Do we want to elect a man who claims to have the necessary “judgment” to “understand” our economy, but nevertheless surrounds himself with the worst examples of the “greed” and corruption that has tainted it? Of course NOT.
Let’s then look at the other side of the coin, and see if there was ANYONE in the Senate who actually ‘blew the whistle’ on what was coming our way and tried to do something about it:
McCain saw the handwriting on the walls, three years ago!!!
John McCain was one of three Republicans in the U.S. Senate to sponsor the bill. Rising to propose the legislation, Senator McCain’s words now sound prophetic:
Senator McCain Speaks in Support of
The FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE REGULATORY REFORM ACT OF 2005
The United States Senate
May 25, 2006
“Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were “illusions deliberately and systematically created” by the company’s senior management, which resulted in a $10.6 billion accounting scandal.
The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight’s report goes on to say that Fannie Mae employees deliberately and intentionally manipulated financial reports to hit earnings targets in order to trigger bonuses for senior executives. In the case of Franklin Raines, Fannie Mae’s former chief executive officer, OFHEO’s report shows that over half of Mr. Raines’ compensation for the 6 years through 2003 was directly tied to meeting earnings targets. The report of financial misconduct at Fannie Mae echoes the deeply troubling $5 billion profit restatement at Freddie Mac.
The OFHEO report also states that Fannie Mae used its political power to lobby Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator’s examination of the company’s accounting problems. This report comes some weeks after Freddie Mac paid a record $3.8 million fine in a settlement with the Federal Election Commission and restated lobbying disclosure reports from 2004 to 2005. These are entities that have demonstrated over and over again that they are deeply in need of reform.
For years I have been concerned about the regulatory structure that governs Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac–known as Government-sponsored entities or GSEs–and the sheer magnitude of these companies and the role they play in the housing market. OFHEO’s report this week does nothing to ease these concerns. In fact, the report does quite the contrary. OFHEO’s report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay.
I join as a cosponsor of the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, S. 190, to underscore my support for quick passage of GSE regulatory reform legislation. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.”
McCain took action in 2005 that might have helped us avoid the severity of this current financial crisis. Democrats also took action in 2005…and stopped McCain’s reforms.”
It’s interesting to note that John McCain was the original “whistleblower” on what could happen with the mortgage companies and the economy when regulations were relaxed. . .
How can we trust Obama, who says he can fix the economy, but once again (as he did in Chicago before), he is only lining his pockets with lobbyists’ money?
ladytexan,
Your suspicions of the very questionable motives of Ken Starr are right on target. Here’s what columnist Joseph Farah wrote in 2006 -
[“Remember those Big Media distortions during the Clinton years that portrayed former Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr as the accomplished, right-wing hatchet-man out to “get” the president at all costs?
Remember how we heard Starr described as this conservative Republican mastermind who would stop at nothing to impeach Clinton?
Remember how it was reported that Starr was this vicious Torquemada, a determined ideologue who would crawl beneath any rock to find the goods on Clinton?
I admit I have been on a lonely, one-man mission to tell the truth about Kenneth Starr. Few want to hear the truth. Democrats have no desire to shatter the myth they helped create. And Republicans are in no hurry to expose the facade of one of their own.
Starr is back in the news, again. This time, he is accused of sending fake letters from jurors asking California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for clemency for a convicted rapist-murderer headed for death row. Starr has withdrawn the letters, all but admitting they were fraudulent.
Starr, now the dean of the Pepperdine University Law School, says he is taking the allegations of forged documents “with utmost seriousness.” He has tried to blame one of his investigators for the mistake.
I would have assumed an offense like that was punishable by disbarment or at least a contempt-of-court charge. But don’t expect Starr to be punished.
He never is. He never pays a price for his actions. As an establishment Republican “fixer,” he is all but immune.
Once again, here’s my take on Kenneth Starr.
My first experience with Starr came as an investigative reporter stunned at the level of corruption in the Clinton administration. The case against Clinton on scores of serious charges was overwhelming. I couldn’t figure out why Starr was ignoring the most serious and focusing on the least serious.
I couldn’t understand why he fired prosecutors who were building a real case against the White House, while he botched even the measly Monica Lewinsky business.
Then I began to figure it out.
Starr was not an independent investigator at all. He was the designated “fixer.” He was the cleaner. He was the handler. He was the guy who protected the powerful from themselves.
As I’ve said before, Starr was either the most incompetent prosecutor in the history of the country or complicit in the cover-up of those crimes. I lean toward the latter judgment.
I’ll keep telling and retelling this classic Kenneth Starr story until people start to wake up and understand who he is and what he is.
In 1981, it was young Justice Department lawyer Kenneth Starr who authored “a hurriedly prepared, error-filled memo,” according to Robert Novak and Rowland Evans, that convinced President Reagan to go through with the nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor to the court – despite tremendous opposition from those who believed she was unfit and unworthy of Reagan’s support.
The memo gave O’Connor a clean bill of health on abortion by “using legal gymnastics to explain her Arizona legislative record,” wrote Evans and Novak. He wrote that she had “no recollection” of how she voted on a 1970 bill to legalize abortion when, in fact, she was a co-sponsor of the measure that was defeated 6-3 in committee.
Starr misrepresented that O’Connor was something of a friend and associate of Arizona pro-life leader Dr. Carolyn Gerster. In fact, Gerster told Evans and Novak: “I had an adversary position with Sandra O’Connor” and called her “one of the most powerful pro-abortionists in the [Arizona] Senate.”
So-called “conservatives” have continued to give Starr a pass on this monstrous disservice to Ronald Reagan and America. They blamed everyone except Starr for the failed impeachment of Bill Clinton. I wonder what excuses they will come up with now to defend Starr against the latest charges he used fraud to try to stop the execution of a rapist-murderer in California.
The Starr historical legacy can best be summarized like this: He deceived President Reagan about O’Connor, let Clinton off the hook for monstrous crimes and used chicanery to prevent the execution of justice in California.
Just what is it about the career of Kenneth Starr that some still find so heroic and laudable? Just what is it that Starr has done right?”]
Enough said?
KrysCford’s false figures.
Take a look at the Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) website regarding the figures for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae contributions to politicians.(It’s very easy to find on the internet.) Then scroll down through the comments about that particular article. You will quickly see that the methodology for the figures cited for Dodd, Obama and Kerry is deeply flawed, misleading, even dishonest. Notice too how the contributions from those sources to McCain are left unmentioned.
In addition, most economists do NOT agree that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac activities are the major cause of present economic and financial problems. (How would KrysCford know, in any case? Who has taken a such survey of economists?) To the contrary, it is deregulation, heavily pushed by McCain and others sharing his economic philosophy, that is the root cause of present turmoil and future suffering. Why else would McCain suddenly be reversing his previous, strongly-held, positions on the matter?
Dont take my word on this. See for yourself on the CPR website under “Update: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Invest in Lawmakers.” THEN, read the revealing comments that follow. CPR may claim to be “nonpartisan.” But that hardly equates to objective and honest.
I don’t think one has to be an economist or an expert in mortgage lending to realize that following a politically correct way of doing business by granting out loans to people who can’t afford to pay them back, is a path to certain financial ruin.
If a candy store allows those with little money to just take things off the shelves in return for an I.O.U., that candy store’s days of staying in business will be very limited, to say the least.
Also, capitalism, the free market system and free trade are the proven best forms of financial policy a government can follow. However, extending the level of freedom and deregulation in regards to those policies to the point of anarchy as explained by KrysCford, may not be Communism, (in fact, it’s the reverse), but will result in the same impending economic consequences and misery for society, with no ‘golden parachutes’ at out disposal, such as those have who got us into this mess.
Piacaj!
I’m glad to know someone else was thinking along those lines. I’ve posted that many times before and you are the first one to suggest it might have some credence.
I used to watch all kinds of news, read internet stories, and sometimes get an inkling. Sometimes I’m way off base.
Actually, my reasoning usually starts with what we are seeing isn’t what we are getting. I’m totally cynical about all politicians, so I seldom ever even entertain the possibility what they are doing is honest, honorable, or for the good of the country.
That doesn’t always help me arrive at the truth, but it clears away any emotional attachment to persons or parties that might cause me to lean one way or another.
I’m thinking both parties shared in this financial debacle and both profit from it.
Yes, there seem to be no golden parachutes for the rest of us.
KrysCford makes good points, including that the FreddieMac problems started with Clinton and continued with Bush. However, one of the critical reasons for that Bush continuation, as well as many of the “Bush Admin” maladys is that Bush and the vast 99%+ of Republicans have failed to understand what was being accomplished in the Clintons admin. Beginning in their first month with the firing of every attorney in the AG’s office, with the National Park Service changes, with Hillary’s Travelgate and dozens of completely unknown changes, they were following a plan to establish a liberally-controlled crime syndicate within the framework of the bureacracy - which to that point had still been largely run by principled US citizens who held both major parties to the same rules.
One of Bush’s greatest obstacles has been his inability to understand the expanse or severity of this undercover criminal control of the federal bureaucracy that was established and hidden during the Clinton era, and well crafted to support and hide international crime and treason… which directly contributed to the inability of the key intelligency agencies to collaborate. Ashcroft’s failures proved that until the web is recognized and the corruption rooted out, it will be difficult for anyone to re-establish a Justice Department out of the current Injustice Department.
Star was always a RINO, and I read a report many years ago of how he was privately introduced to and befriended by Clinton. I think he was identified in Arkansas as a possible coverup artist that could be tapped when the criminal s*it hit the media fan.
At it’s roots, the common theme with leading Democrats, socialists, communists, left-wingers, facists, muslim terrorists, etc, is that they all want a corrupt government that they and their friends can control for fun, illegal profit, social experimentation, power, and the crushing of anyone who stands against them. This is why they all uniformly hate and ridicule Christians, Jews, the Constitution, and the principled law-abiding people who humorously align themselves with such ideas that there are absolute laws from a Lawgiver and an entire national history and uniform body of Founding Fathers who firmly believed in those principles and enshrined them in our nations institutions and laws. This is also why, despite massive scientific evidence that macro evolution has never and could never occur, they believe evolution is a “scientific fact” - not only flying in the face of the strong majority of the public, of science teachers and doctors, but also dictating what the public WILL believe and censoring both facts and free speech to the contrary.
Because of their hatred of good principles and common sense, they are at war with the heart of America and most Americans, although they rarely discuss it in the open public air. They live and breathe and practice deception, just as one of Planned Parenthood’s spokesmen told teenagers in mentoring training back in the mid’90’s: “you don’t tell parents the truth - you tell them what they want to hear”. This is one of the heartfelt hardcore beliefs of the forked-tongue Left in all its variations: the art of using convincing deception to accomplish what they want and to thwart what is best for America and its’ government of, by, and for the people.
The Democrat party positions on such extremes as euthanasia and partial-birth abortion cannot be excused or minimized: they are the required mental excrement that is produced by the belief that murder of the innocent is an acceptable solution to awkward social problems. As abortion supporters in the ‘70s said in a moment of rare candidness, “we had to deal with the realization early on that the Nazis really did nothing wrong.” Exactly.
Palin and McCain appear to bring two vital things to this contest for the future and survival of our country: a passionate heartfelt determination, and a belief and acknowledgement that they have god-given and constitution-certified trusts of responsibility to uphold in a world where there ARE divinely appointed absolutes of right and wrong to which everyone is held accountable - no matter how shrilly the Left may scream about those facts. Does that equip them to succeed? Not necessarily. Does a realization that truth and good and evil exist guarantee that they will make no errors? No. But those are prerequisites that completely disqualify Obama. Without a passionate heart to stand firm regardless of the threats and pressures, no candidate can accomplish lasting good for this nation.
Obama - change we can believe in… if we’re gullible enough.
To Analyst:
Finally a clearer response to the premise of my post. Thank you!
Oops. The Planned Parenthood training quote was from the mid 80’s, not ‘90’s.
You’re traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of Christian fiction and radical right wing propagandist lies, but of utter ideological theological despair. A psychotic journey into a surreal land of lunacy whose boundaries in Christian Republican myth, magic, superstition, fiction and fantasy knows no limitations. That’s an AIM church signpost up ahead: your next stop: the Twilight Zone!
You unlock this door with the key of Christian and radical right wing indoctrination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of Christian Republican myth and magic, a dimension of fascism, a dimension of authoritarian personality disorder. You’re moving into a land of both religion and recidivism, of god, greed and guns. You’ve just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.
It is a bizzaro alternative dimension beyond that of reality and sanity. It is an opposite dimension to reality where fiction turns into fact, fact becomes fiction, lies are twisted into truth, truth turns into lies and it all becomes quite evil. You’re moving into a land of black and white absolutes where superstition trumps science and the pit of man’s age-old fears limits the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imaginary Sky Gods and leaders falsely claiming to speak for their fictional sky gods.
This is an area known as AIM ‘The Twilight Zone’.
I believe it about Planned Parenthood.
President Clinton is not off the hook for anything. They were very destructive.
I do sense, however, a little ‘Pres. Bush didn’t understand’, ‘the Rep messed up voting in NAFTA’. I’m thinking that is being a little to easy on them.
Ronald Reagan was the one to first tout NAFTA. As much as I enjoyed seeing him as President, he was too much of a free trader. I don’t remember how much it was promoted during Pres. Bush, Sr, term, but must have been pretty much. Remember Ross Perot’s ‘giant sucking sound’. NAFTA was not just a Democrat idea.
They are all to blame all of them.
You can’t accuse one for being evil for doing something and the other portrayed as someone duped or just ignorant (true sense) when they go along and aid and abet.
I can see sometimes why people find so much fault with religion, I do. The fault is religion, though, not God.
Abortion is an abomination to nature and to humanity, whether you believe in God or not.
There was a time if you did business with a company, you pretty much were assured they were honest. Now we do not have that assurance even from some of the biggest it seems.
Today you can be cheated by the telephone company, satellite company, hospitals, doctors, credit card, etc.
I’m thinking taxpayers got royally scammed by these mortgage companies and everyone involved in the housing fiasco.
Our very own government and businesses are working hand in glove to fill this country with illegals. The lawbreaking and dishonesty that IS part the illegal situation is just astounding.
We all see it. Whether you have warm and fuzzy feelings for illegals or not, it is breaking the law, lots of them. How can that be tolerated, even applauded by some.
Making sure the border stays open for illegals, is also letting in drugs that is destroying lives, costing us millions, causing pain and suffering to those not even taking drugs.
We need a real rebirth in this country of morality, honesty and honor. It doesn’t matter if you call it Christianity or just ‘doing the right thing’.
As I understand it Fannie Mae was created as a government agency in 1938 during FDR’s New Deal to provide a stable mortgage market for lower income people and became a private corporation in 1968 so that the government could raise money. Freddie Mac was created in 1970 at the beginning of the Nixon administration as a counter balance to Fannie Mae to prevent Fannie Mae’s monopolization of the housing mortgage market. While privately owned till now, as government chartered entities they enjoy certain government assurances for liquidity and stability. It seems there are parallels to the Federal Reserve Bank, another private entity.
Much of the current housing mortgage market instability has been blamed on the current Bush administration, seemingly for partisan political purposes in an election year. Yet the real problem stems from two previous administrations. During the Carter administration laws were passed to ensure low cost loans to high risk people, particularly minorities in order to end the alleged practice of “red lining.” During the Clinton administration these laws were toughened making the financial penalties for banks much higher, resulting in banks approving suspect loans rather than risk litigation and penalties. Many of these loans wound up in the portfolios of both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. While the Bush administration must also bear some responsibility as the administration was warned of problems at least five years ago, it has been largely the Democrats who have resisted reform.
As reported on Wikipedia, “As Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank “sits at the center of power”. Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, was quoted as saying, “He is one of the giants of Congress, a real legislator,” in his new role.
In 2003, Rep. Frank rejected Bush administration and Congressional Republican efforts for the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis. Under the plan a new agency would have been created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry. “These two entities, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” Frank said. He added, “The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”
The rest is history.
Analyst,
With regard to President Clinton, I believe there’s more to President Clinton’s impeachment than meets the eye. Most partisan Democrats like to claim he was impeached for getting a BJ. Not so; he was impeached for lying under oath, a felony. But could he have been impeached on other charges?
Remember that Pres. Clinton took campaign donations from a foreign power, a violation of federal law. He then gave that power sensitive missile and military information that greatly increased the accuracy of that power’s missiles. Subsequently that power used that technology to the detriment of the US. Could Clinton’s actions have been considered treason? Were Star and the Republicans willing to impeach Clinton for such?
Trying to blame the current economic and financial crises on the Carter and Clinton administations is plain nuts. Carter left office in early 1981, nearly 28 years ago. To argue he is to blame for the mess we are in now is like blaming William McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt for the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression of the 1930s!
Clinton left office in January 2001. With a Republican White House for the past seven years and eight months, together with a GOP-controlled Congress from January 2003 to January 2007, who else but they are responsible for failing to supervise Wall Street, control government spending and heed warnings of a coming financial meltdown? Also, if they inherited problems from Clinton, why didn’t they fix them?
Remember the arguments during the 2000 campaign about what to do with the surplus? Bush inherited an economy in fine shape. We finally had budget surpluses. We were actually paying down the national debt. Those were Clinton administration successes. Who wouldn’t prefer the prosperity of 1993-2001 to the situation we are in now and the even worse troubles that are rushing toward us?
What happened after Bush entered office? Huge tax cuts, followed by an unnecessary war in Iraq. That was a war, let me remind you, based on deliberate lies. Remember Wolfowitz assuring us that Iraqi oil would pay for it all? Remember Gen Eric Shinseki being trashed by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld for warning the war could not be won quickly and cheaply? Did Bush raise taxes to pay for the war? Did he increase our ground froces to fight it? Instead, he just let the national debt soar upward and refused to expand the Army and Marine Corps to the size necessary.Did he and the Republican Congress do anything to control spending or limit the expansion of the federal government? Quite the opposite. We got the disfunctional Department of Homeland Security of Tom Ridge, including the wrecking of FEMA under dear old “Brownie.” (Does anyone want to blame the Katrina disaster on Carter and Clinton?)
For the past five years, the Bush crowd followed a policy of guns AND butter - coupled with incompetence on every level of government. (Remember Donald Rumsfeld, who shrugged off hundreds of Ameriacan dead due to failure to supply them with armored vehicles? “Stuff happens” was his wonderful explanation. Remember Alberto Gonzales, our beloved ex-Attorney General?) Borrowing and lending were deregulated to allow insane fiscal and financial irresponsibility. McCain cheered all that economic blundering on. Until just a few days ago, he was STILL insisting deregulation was the way to go. And people on this site are blaming Carter (!!!) and Clinton for this unholy mess? WAKE UP!
Roberto,
Yes, there was more to Pres. Clinton’s impeachment than meets the eye.
The impeachment proceedings was when I really admitted to myself that the Republican Party was just part of the same gang and were just puppets on strings.
Had I been the one to make the decision, the Republicans would have passed on that ridiculous, embarrassing procedure. There is no other way to explain what took place than this was just manipulation of the public. A degrading one at that.
When the Clarence Thomas hearings were taking place, I was as sickened. Back then, though, I still had a bit of partisanship going, and thought it was just those dastardly democrats.
Think abought what those two hearings brought to the public. Nothing about either of those two men’s ability to perform in a job for this country - nothing. Just salacious gossip and the entire country and the world was exposed to it.
We need to clean house up there, really we do. We need people with honor and integrity and self-respect. No much of that has been shown in Washington for a number of years.
i find it ironic (not to mention extremely hypocritical) that the right continues to spin Obama’s alleged association with a communist as such a massive scandal, and further accuse him of harbouring communist policy aims…etc., when the biggest real thing that summons the spectre of communism—and has actually happened—has been the federal bailout of finance companies. $85 billion dollars for AIG? Let the thieving speculators drown, for chrissakes! Meanwhile, AIM and others keep bantering this abject nonsense about Obama’s supposed ‘communist connection.’ This is really pathetic. There are things that actually should be of concern to this country, and they’re being ignored in favour of this mindless banter.
My friend once pointed out an extremely relevant point—that when corporate interest merges with government interest, that’s precisely how fascism takes hold. Now, i’m not using fascism as a characterisation here—i’m talking real, bona-fide socialist totalitarian fascism. In previous conversations here, we’ve touched on the subject of how the march toward Marxist communism begins (as defined in the Communist Manifesto itself) the seizure of the means of production by the government—that’s what socialism is!
Oh, but let’s ignore that, and talk about Obama! That’s productive…
AIM Twilight Zone:
Hey, that was pretty good. The only quibble was the focus on right-wing and/or Republicans. Mystic wierdos are on both ends of the political spectrum.
BTW, fascism is only slightly to the right of the Y axis on the political compass, but it’s up there at the authoritarian end of it. Authoritarians are just that whether their “religion” be socialistic or capitalistic.
”... the principled law-abiding people who humorously align themselves with such ideas that there are absolute laws from a Lawgiver and an entire national history and uniform body of Founding Fathers who firmly believed in those principles and enshrined them in our nations institutions and laws. ...”
Well, I was with you until that phrase.
The founding fathers were children of the “Age of Reason” and it’s successor the “Age of Enlightenment” which were the dawn after the darkness of the Dark and Middle ages where religion ruled. While they knew Reason and Individualism were the keys to Liberty, they still couldn’t quite give up the mysticism of Deism. Thus the words:
“When in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation. ”
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and you, cliff, once WORKED FOR AND WITH a known drug and gun peddler that lied to congress. oh, and those weapons… some of them went to… IRAN. and we are not talking about pea-shooters. we are talking about TOW and HAWK missiles, and this whole stupid botched operation helped to make hostage-taking a growth industry.
that’s some nice company you keep, eh?
and you really should not be talking about drug use.
how many lives were ruined by your FORMER ASSOCIATE’S international drug peddling operation?
your glass house is, in reality, a glass sieve.
and you, as always, fail to include anything that does not bolster your tissue-thin allegations.
why did russia enter georgia?
what event occurred just prior to that?
shiny side out, cliff… shiny side out…