Particularly on the Left, I find it endlessly fascinating to see people who are diehard Obama-supporting socialists make statements and do things that completely contradict the socialist ethos.

This might become the accepted definiton of schizophrenia in the future.

I have my times of, not outright despair, but the feeling of constantly trudging uphill with a heavy burden. I try to keep faith in the American people but sometimes it’s pretty hard to do. Post like these keep me going.

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did I mention I am a huge Red Sox fan, and I live down south. I know you had to love last night’s game. And least you think I’m a Johnny Come Lately:

I remember Louis Tiant:); Bucky Dent:(, and Billy Buckner:! cause he only let the winning run score; don’t get me started on Calvin Scheralde(sp)!

n/t

Nicely reasoned and nicely written.

On top of all you said, I think that we have an insurance policy in that, should the trends continue to shift incrementally against Senator Obama, he is going to crack catastrophically under the pressure.

“Guys, I mean come on. I just answered like eight questions.”

The Obama supporter who thinks it’s ridiculous that New York City has a law prohibiting smoking in bars. The BDS-sufferer who thinks more regulation is the answer to our problems, who nonetheless believes that prostitution should be legal because “what happens between consenting adults is none of the government’s business”. The eco-warrior leftist who wants to regulate banks, car companies, and force unionization, but nonetheless wants to make marijuana legal.

These aren’t contradictory. In each case it is a want for libertarianism when it concerns the individual and liberalism in matters of society and corporations. These are the new democrats that are gaining traction in states like Montana and Colorado. Call them libertarian liberals.

Bork speaks of this and its concurrent opposite, radical individualism as being the two radicals that could be the slouchings that put us in Gomorrah. The first is applied to areas of life where merit produces inequality. The second in areas of personal gratification like sex and drugs.

Totally agree with your message here and appreciate the acknowledgment.

more later

NOTE: I AM A Registered Democrat, But After Reading The Following Amazon.com Editorial Review, As A Means of Educating Myself Before I Cast My Vote For Our Next President of Our Great Country, Sparked My Concerns and/or Reservation About Sen. Obama and, Thus, Kicked Off My Intense Research To Find Out Who Sen. Obama Really Is, Where He Came From and What He Stands For. The Results of My Research Were Eye Opening and Have Confirmed That My Concerns and/or Reservations About Him Do, In Fact, Have MERIT.

My Results Contained Below, Are NOT Inclusive Because, They Are Too Numerous To List Here, and Are Further Supported By Points (#1-4.B.), Which Outline My Results In More Detail and Follow This Amazon Editorial Review:

EDITORIAL REVIEW (Amazon.com):

The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate (Hardcover) by David Freddoso (Author)

Editorial Review Contained On The Following Web Site:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/product-description/1596985666/ref=dpproddesc0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books

The Following Is The Editorial Review:

REVIEW?: Here’s Looking at You, Kid.

If find yourself believing that “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for”, or that “this is the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow” or even, tout court, that “yes we can”, the chances are that you are suffering from a severe case of Obamamania.

Tens of millions of Americans and an even larger number of Europeans have fallen victim to the syndrome, which involves a belief that a young black senator from Chicago can cure the world’s ills, in part because of his race, in part because of his obvious intelligence and rhetorical skill; but in no part because of any record of achievement in the past. Fortunately, an inexpensive remedy is at hand.

It comes in the form of a new book by David Freddoso, The Case Against Barack Obama. Unlike the authors of some of the cruder attacks on Mr. Obama, Mr. Freddoso works for a well-respected organization, the online version of the National Review.

Although it is a conservative publication and the author makes no secret of where his political sympathies lie, this is a well-researched, extensively footnoted work. It aims not so much to attack Mr. Obama as to puncture the belief that he is in some way an extraordinary, mould-breaking politician.

The Obama that emerges from its pages is not, Mr. Freddoso says, “a bad person. It’s just that he’s like all the rest of them. Not a reformer. Not a Messiah. Just like all the rest of them in Washington.” And the author makes a fairly compelling case that this is so.

The best part of the book concentrates on Mr. Obama’s record in Chicago, his home town and the place from which he was elected to the Illinois state Senate in 1996, before moving to the United States Senate in 2004.

The book lays out in detail how this period began in a way that should shock some of Mr. Obama’s supporters: he won the Democratic nomination for his Illinois seat by getting a team of lawyers to throw all the other candidates off the ballot on various technicalities. One of those he threw off was a veteran black politician, a woman who helped him get started in politics in the first place.

If Mr. Obama really were the miracle-working, aisle-jumping, consensus-seeking new breed of politician his spin-doctors make him out to be, you would expect to see the evidence in these eight years. But there isn’t very much. Instead, as Mr. Freddoso rather depressingly finds, Mr. Obama spent the whole period without any visible sign of rocking the Democratic boat.

He was a staunch backer of Richard Daley, who as mayor failed to stem the corruption that has made Chicago one of America’s most notorious cities. Nor did he lift a finger against John Stroger and his son Todd….Cook County, where Chicago is located, has been extensively criticized for corrupt practices by a federally appointed judge….

Take a break from the hugs, hopium with a good read.

If what you want from Sen. Barack Obama’s historic Democratic convention speech on Thursday night is to give yourself up to profound emotion and to join others in common passion and release, then guzzle some hopium and enjoy.

Or you can enrich the experience by reading The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate by David Freddoso. Freddoso’s book, on the best-seller lists, is the anti hopium. It is the pin of reason to the Obama balloon. ?

From the Inside Flap: ?You Don’t Know Barack Obama Until You Read This Book.

Has any major candidate for president of the United States ever received less critical examination than Barack Obama?

• Who is this man, who was only elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004?
• How did someone with his meager record of accomplishment become the Democratic nominee for president?
• How did someone with the most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate and long-standing relationships with a former terrorist, a racist minister, and the corrupt operators of Chicago Machine politics end up as a supposed beacon of a newer, cleaner, bipartisan politics?

Investigative reporter David Freddoso has the answers. Doing the legwork that the mainstream media has neglected, applying a critical eye while the media swoons before the Obama-messiah, and posing the hard questions that Obama needs to answer, Freddoso reveals a politician as calculating as any other, a far-left Democrat who goes beyond “abortion rights” to supporting de facto infanticide, whose “new politics” amount to Chicago-style hardball overlain with lofty rhetoric, and who, from his positions of power, has helped his patrons.

In The Case Against Barack Obama, You’ll Learn:

• How Barack Obama opposed a bill banning infanticide-by-neglect–a stance too extreme even for Nancy Pelosi. (Freddoso has an exclusive interview with the nurse central to the case.)
• How Obama’s friendship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright was no accident, but a carefully thought-out personal and political decision ?
• Why Obama thought his association with the Reverend Wright and the terrorist Bill Ayers wouldn’t matter–an exposé of the insular radical chic of Chicago’s Hyde Park politics ?
• What Obama really did for convicted developer Tony Rezko?
• Debunking the myth of Obama’s “new” politics: the forgotten tale of how Obama won his first election by throwing all of his competitors off the ballot ?
• A story Obama would like to stay buried in Chicago: how he used his clout as a U.S. senator to save the corrupt Cook County Political Machine when reformers of both parties tried to challenge the entrenched political bosses ?
• How Obama has repeatedly steered taxpayer money to campaign donors

Sober, fair, and thoroughly researched–and all the more powerful and provocative because of it–The Case Against Barack Obama removes the halo from a man less qualified, and more radical, than the mainstream media has let you know.

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: ?He’s the media’s darling, the fresh face of the Democratic ticket. But what does Barack Obama really stand for–and will his extreme liberal agenda and complete inexperience in global affairs endanger the country? That’s what David Freddoso, investigative reporter and National Review Online columnist, examines in The Case Against Barack Obama. In this shocking exposé, Freddoso explores the reality behind the rhetoric, the plans behind the promises, and the faults behind the façade, revealing:

• Why Obama’s inexperience and extreme left-wing voting record is more dangerous than any threat we face today ?
• Why the Rev. Wright debacle reveals Obama’s poor judgment of character and deceitful nature ?
• Why it won’t be politics of change with President Obama–it will be liberal politics as usual

Freddoso exposes the real Barack Obama: a typical big-government politician, the #1 most liberal U.S. senator, and–if he were commander in chief–a serious threat to our national security. ?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
David Freddoso has covered politics for six years and is a hard-hitting political reporter for National Review Online. Before working at NRO, Freddoso worked closely with legendary political journalist Bob Novak on the Evans and Novak Political Report, and worked as a reporter for the national news weekly, Human Events. He has a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.

The Following Points (#1-4.B.) Are Intended To Further Support The Results of My Research In More Detail:

POINT #1: Ties to ACCORN.

What Makes Obama Run?

Lawyer, teacher, philanthropist, and author Barack Obama doesn’t need another career. But he’s entering politics to get back to his true passion–community organization.

Chicago Reader
By Hank De Zutter? December 8, 1995

Article Contained On The Following Web Site:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/obama/951208/

Quotes from his interview Hank De Zutter from Chicago Reader:

“I want to do this as much as I can from the grass-roots level, raising as much money for the campaign as possible at coffees, connecting directly with voters,” said Obama. “But to organize this district I must get known. And this costs money. I admit that in this transitional period, before I’m known in the district, I’m going to have to rely on some contributions from wealthy people–people who like my ideas but who won’t attach strings. This is not ideal, but it is a problem encountered by everyone in their first campaign.

“Once elected, once I’m known, I won’t need that kind of money, just as Harold Washington, once he was elected and known, did not need to raise and spend money to get the black vote.”

In 1992 Obama took time off to direct Project Vote, the most successful grass-roots voter-registration campaign in recent city history. Credited with helping elect Carol Moseley-Braun to the U.S. Senate, the registration drive, aimed primarily at African-Americans, added an estimated 125,000 voters to the voter rolls–even more than were registered during Harold Washington’s mayoral campaigns. “It’s a power thing,” said the brochures and radio commercials.

Obama’s work on the south side has won him the friendship and respect of many activists. One of them, Johnnie Owens, left the citywide advocacy group Friends of the Parks to join Obama at the Developing Communities Project. He later replaced Obama as its executive director.

Woods was the first foundation to underwrite Obama’s work with DCP. Now that he’s on the Woods board, Rudd says, “He is among the most hard-nosed board members in wanting to see results. He wants to see our grants make change happen–not just pay salaries.”

Another strong supporter of Obama’s work–as an organizer, as a lawyer, and now as a candidate–is Madeline Talbott, lead organizer of the feisty ACORN community organization, a group that’s a thorn in the side of most elected officials. “I can’t repeat what most ACORN members think and say about politicians. But Barack has proven himself among our members. He is committed to organizing, to building a democracy. Above all else, he is a good listener, and we accept and respect him as a kindred spirit, a fellow organizer.”

Obama continues his organizing work largely through classes for future leaders identified by ACORN and the Centers for New Horizons on the south side. Conducting a session in a New Horizons classroom, Obama, tall and thin, looks very much like an Ivy League graduate student. Dressed casually prep, his tie loosened and his top shirt button unfastened, he leads eight black women from the Grand Boulevard community through a discussion of “what folks should know” about who in Chicago has power and why they have it. It’s one of his favorite topics, and the class bubbles with suggestions about how “they” got to be high and mighty.

POINT #2: Obama’s Connection to Ayers and ACCORN.

Barack Obama, William Ayers, and ACORN
Posted on October 19, 2008

Video Contained On The Following Web Site:

http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/10/19/barack-obama-william-ayers-and-acorn/

POINT #3: How Obama Uses Alinsky’s Rules to Out Maneuver His Opponents.

How Obama Applies Alinsky’s Rules
By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, September 22, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Election ’08: Barack Obama’s mocking of John McCain, while urging his followers to “get in their face,” are tactics right out of his radical hero Saul Alinsky’s playbook: ridicule and agitation.

Article Contained On The Following Web Site:

http://ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=306977141583041

The Following Are Quotes From The Article:

At a recent Las Vegas rally, Obama poked fun at Sen. McCain for what he described as bragging about “how as chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, he had oversight of every part of the economy.”

“Well, all I can say to Sen. McCain is, ‘Nice job. Nice job,’ ” Obama said in a sarcastic tone. “Where is he getting these lines? It’s like a ‘Saturday Night Live’ routine.”

Then he belittled the 72-year-old McCain for vowing to take on the old boys network. “In the McCain campaign, that’s called a staff meeting,” he sneered.

The late Alinsky, a trench-warfare socialist who despised American capitalism, advised community organizers like Obama to “laugh at the enemy” to provoke “irrational anger.”
“Ridicule,” he said, “is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”

At another rally in Nevada, Obama called on the crowd of about 1,500 to join him in sharpening their elbows against McCain and his supporters. “I want you argue with them and get in their face,” he said, in a naked attempt to “fan hostilities” in the tightening race, something Alinsky also advised from his bag of agitation tricks.

Obama doesn’t look or talk like an angry radical. He speaks in measured tones and is rarely seen out of business attire. That, too, is borrowed from Alinsky’s playbook. “Don’t scare” the middle class, he guides urban revolutionaries in his 1970s manual, “Rules for Radicals” (which he dedicated to mankind’s “first radical, Lucifer”).

Instead, look like them, talk like them, act like them.
And work for radical change from the inside — “like a spy behind enemy lines,” as Obama said in his first memoir. He wrote it before entering politics, while still working with hard-left Alinsky groups and training street agitators known as “community organizers.”
As he wrote, he became a community organizer in 1983 because of “The need for change. Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds.”

That’s when he set out to “organize black folks” for social revolution, first in Harlem, then the South Side of Chicago. Now he wants to do it on a “large scale.” Though most average voters wouldn’t know it, he’s applying Alinsky’s radical rules to achieve his goal.

Alinksy stressed that his rules be translated into real-life tactics responsive to the situation at hand — which right now happens to be something he never could have dreamed of: a disciple who would find himself in a viable battle for the most powerful job in the world.

Obama has already translated several of Alinsky’s rules into battle tactics, including:

• Rule: “Rub raw the resentments of the people; search out controversy and issues.” In the mortgage meltdown, for instance, Obama vows to prosecute “predatory lenders” for “abusing” minority borrowers. He’s also stoking class resentment by painting Wall Street and other executives as villains.

• Rule: “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” In an ad to woo Hispanic voters, Obama demonized Rush Limbaugh by falsely claiming he made racist statements against immigrants.

• Rule: “A mass impression can be lasting and intimidating.” This explains why Obama moved his acceptance speech to a football stadium and bussed in 85,000 supporters. Alinsky’s son was so impressed, he praised Obama for learning his father’s “lesson well.”

• Rule: “Multiple issues mean constant action and life” for the cause. This is why Obama never harps on one issue, as Hillary did with health care. His platform is packed with grievances from “economic justice” to “reproductive justice” to “environmental justice.”

Obama is following almost to the letter the blueprint for socialist revolution drafted by the father of community organizing.

While Alinsky may help him behind the scenes, however, he becomes a liability when brought out of the shadows. Sarah Palin proved this in St. Paul when she ridiculed his community organizing. Within hours, Obama surrogates whined about how just bringing up the phrase was racist code for “black.”

No, it’s code for communist. And McCain should make that point instead of legitimizing such radicalism, as he did recently when he said, “I respect community organizers; and Sen. Obama’s record there is outstanding” — which contradicted his running mate.

There’s nothing to respect about such anti-American radicals, even if they have traded their tie-dye for business ties.

POINT #4: Results of Obama’s Application of Alinsky’s Rules.

A. Illinois County Elections Chief Calls for Voter Registration Probe (AP-10/19/08)

Lake County Clerk Willard Helander calls for probe of nearly 1,000 voter registrations that he says match up to nonexistent addresses or questionable signatures.

Article Contained On The Following Web Site:

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/19/illinois-county-calls-voter-registration-probe/

The Following Are Quotes From The Article:

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Lake County Clerk Willard Helander has asked for an investigation of nearly 1,000 voter registrations, citing concerns with mail-in forms.

Helander says some of the forms have nonexistent addresses or questionable signatures. In some cases, applications had been filled in with the names of pets or dead people.

Helander has called on federal authorities, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office, as well as Lake County state’s attorney’s office and the Lake County sheriff’s office to look into the problem.

Lake County has recorded an all-time high of voter registrations.

Officials say about 28,000 people have registered since the primaries, setting a record of 395,003 voters on the rolls.

B. Inside Politics: The New West.

Washington Times
By: Greg Pierce (Contact)?Thursday, October 16, 2008

Article Contained On The Following Web Site:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/16/inside-politics-the-new-west/?page=2

The Following Are Quotes From The Article:

AN EMBARRASSMENT

“As Obama lengthens his lead, the Republicans are praying that the election becomes close enough for the Democrats to steal,” Dick Morris writes in the Hill newspaper.
“But, meanwhile, ACORN, the radical community group, is becoming an embarrassment for Obama. It is not as if its shenanigans are likely to tip the result, with the Democrats so far ahead, but as they are raided by the FBI in state after state (11 so far) they are becoming identified as the electoral equivalent of Greenpeace – extremists who will stop at nothing to get their way,” Mr. Morris said.

“What makes ACORN particularly embarrassing for Obama is that he used to be one of them. He served as general counsel for ACORN in Illinois, channeled millions to the organization from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (whose funds he distributed), and has lately spent $800,000 of his campaign money to subsidize the group’s activities. For this emolument, ACORN has registered voters 15 times over, canvassed the graveyards for votes and prepared to commit electoral fraud on a massive scale.”

While such Obama albatrosses as William Ayres and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright can lie low until November, ACORN cannot.

“But, as Election Day approaches and early balloting proceeds in many states, ACORN’s tactics will get more and more media attention. As election officials discover ACORN frauds, the association will become more injurious to Obama, particularly when it is his own campaign that is funding many of the fraudulent activities. At the very least, the negative publicity ACORN will attract will paint Obama as a radical with questionable judgment. At the most, it might cause voters to wonder if he is not involved in electoral fraud.”

“FOOD FOR THOUGHT”

NOTE: IF, After Reading The Above Results, You Are Still Not Convinced That Your Candidate Has His Own Hidden Agenda, I Thank You For, At Least, Taking The Time To Read Them.