Friday, November 14, 2008

Monday, November 3, 2008

Latest: Obama, Farrakhan Close, Ex-Nation of Islam Aide Says

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman


A former top deputy to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan tells Newsmax that Barack Obama’s ties to the black nationalist movement in Chicago run deep, and that for many years the two men have had “an open line between them” to discuss policy and strategy, either directly or through intermediaries.

“Remember that for years, if you were a politician in Chicago, you had to have some type of relationship with Louis Farrakhan. You had to. If you didn’t, you would be ostracized out of black Chicago,” said Dr. Vibert White Jr., who spent most of his adult life as a member and ultimately top officer of the Nation of Islam.

White broke with the group in 1995 and is now a professor of African-American history at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

White said Obama was “part of the Chicago scene” where Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. and radicals would go to each other’s events and support each other’s causes.

“Even though Chicago is the third-largest city in the country, within the black community, the political and militant nationalist community is very small. So it wouldn’t be uncommon for [Obama and Farrakhan] to show up at events together, or at least be there and communicate with each other,” White told Newsmax.

The Anti-Defamation League has denounced Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam as a “hate group.”

Farrakhan has called Jews “bloodsuckers,” “satanic” and accused them of running the slave trade. He has labeled gays as “degenerates.” In a 2006 speech, the ADL again condemned Farrakhan when he said: “These false Jews promote the filth of Hollywood that is seeding the American people and the people of the world and bringing you down in moral strength. … It's the wicked Jews the false Jews that are promoting lesbianism, homosexuality. It's wicked Jews, false Jews that make it a crime for you to preach the word of God, then they call you homophobic!"

Obama was careful to “denounce” Farrakhan’s comments – but not the man -- during the Democratic primary season earlier this year, but only after Hillary Clinton called him out for benefiting from Farrakhan’s support.

Farrakhan endorsed Obama in a videotaped speech to his followers at Mosque Miryam in Chicago in February. “You are the instruments that God is gonna use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth,” Farrakhan said.

He told the crowd that Obama was the new “messiah.” See Video: Farrakhan Endorses Obama, Calls Him Messiah.

Once the news media and the Clinton campaign got hold of those comments from Farrakhan, demands mounted from all sides that Obama “renounce” Farrakhan.

But as he has done repeatedly throughout this campaign, Obama was careful to parse his words.

“You know, I have been very clear in my denunciation of Minister Farrakhan's anti-Semitic comments,” he said during one appearance on “Meet the Press.” “I think that they are unacceptable and reprehensible.”

Obama hastened to point out that Farrakhan had been praising him as “an African-American who seems to be bringing the country together. I obviously can't censor him, but it is not support that I sought. And we’re not doing anything, I assure you, formally or informally with Minister Farrakhan.”

But Obama, once again, was less than candid.

In 1995, according to a profile of Obama that appeared in the Chicago Reader newspaper, Obama “took time off from attending campaign coffees to attend October’s Million Man March in Washington, D.C.”

At the time, Obama was running for the Illinois Senate from Chicago’s South Side, a seat he won after getting surrogates to challenge the signatures on nominating petitions for his chief rival, the incumbent Alice Palmer.

The march, which fell far short of attracting the million men it advertised, was organized by Farrakhan and by Obama’s then-pastor, the anti-white black nationalist Wright.

Obama spoke at length with the Chicago Reader upon his return from the Million Man March. “What I saw was a powerful demonstration of an impulse and need for African-American men to come together to recognize each other and affirm our rightful place in the society," he said.

“These are mean, cruel times, exemplified by a ‘lock ’em up, take no prisoners’ mentality that dominates the Republican-led Congress,” Obama said.

“Historically, African-Americans have turned inward and towards black nationalism whenever they have a sense, as we do now, that the mainstream has rebuffed us, and that white Americans couldn't care less about the profound problems African-Americans are facing."

“Black nationalism” is a current of thought and political action in the African-American community that has been championed by the likes of Farrakhan, Wright, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers and Khalid al-Mansour. Obama discussed his attraction to black nationalism at length in his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father.”

Obama further parsed his words in a Feb. 25, 2008, presentation to a Jewish community meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, where he insisted that Wright “does not have a close relationship with Louis Farrakhan.”

And yet, just months earlier, Wright’s Trumpet magazine gave Farrakhan its Lifetime Achievement Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award, saying that Farrakhan “truly epitomized greatness.”

That award was the fruit of a long and deep relationship between the two men, White told Newsmax. In 1984, Wright accompanied Farrakhan on his much-criticized trip to meet Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, at a time when Gadhafi was considered an enemy of the United States.

Wright also accompanied Farrakhan and Jackson to Syria in 1986, where they successfully negotiated with Syrian strongman for the release of downed American pilot Robert O. Goodman.

Obama’s Speaking Style

In addition to the ideological affinity Obama expressed for the black nationalist movement, White believes that Obama owes much of his success as a public orator to speaking techniques that Farrakhan developed over the years, and exploited for years to great success.

“If you listen to the rhetoric and you take away Obama’s political jargon, you hear a religious tenor to it that is very much Nation of Islam-like. I don’t know if anyone has ever touched on it, but Obama’s speaking style is very Malcolm-like, very Farrakhan-like,” White said.

Any American who has listened to early radio or television interviews of Obama can hear how dramatically Obama’s speaking style has changed since he became a United States senator.

In clips dating from 2001 and even early 2004, Obama speaks haltingly and in long, rambling sentences packed with legalese and dense pseudo-academic rhetoric. But not today.

“As a former minister of the Nation of Islam, I know how they speak,” White told Newsmax. “I don’t know who was training Obama. But that style is not a ministerial style like in the Christian church. It’s a Nation of Islam style.”

White began in the late 1970s as a foot soldier in the Fruit of Islam, the military branch of Farrakhan’s Black Muslim group, then rose to become a minister of the Nation of Islam and a top deputy to Farrakhan himself.

Known initially as Brother Vibert L.X., and later as Minister V.L. Muhammad, he parted ways with Farrakhan not long after the Million Man March, after nearly 25 years within the organization.

White’s 2002 book “Inside the Nation of Islam” prompted death threats by Farrakhan loyalists, so he left Illinois and moved to Florida to teach at the University of Central Florida.

He told Newsmax that Obama’s remarkable speaking style, even his manner of standing at a podium to appear larger than life, is directly copied from Farrakhan.

“If the Nation of Islam can’t do anything else, it can train people how to speak. And nobody can outspeak a Muslim minister,” he said.

Earlier this year, a pro-Clinton blog run by former CIA officer Larry Johnson unearthed a 2004 photograph showing Michelle Obama and Farrakahn’s wife, Mother Khadijah Farrakhan, at an event hosted by Jackson’s Citizenship Education Foundation.

Newsmax queried Obama’s U.S. Senate office, his Chicago office and his campaign press office about his ties to Farrakhan, but did not receive a reply.

Ever since he appeared before the annual policy conference of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee in June, Obama has attempted to convince the Jewish community that he is pro-Israel.

But his longstanding ties to Farrakhan, Wright and Palestinian activist Rashid Khalidi, among others, have disturbed many Jewish community leaders.

Sen. John McCain publicly chastised The Los Angeles Times on Thursday for not releasing a videotape the newspaper said it possessed of a 2003 dinner for Khalidi, where Obama reportedly accused Israel of carrying out a “genocide” against the Palestinians.

© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

I have been spending a lot of time doing research for an article on the history of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights. I had hopes of completing it by now but it's been more intense than I anticipated. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights is at peril with Obama. The colonist who first came to this country built a system of self-government creating the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is based on liberty, intellectual pursuits, and human rights. It was created to protect the American people against the abuse of power and tyranny. It's been in existence for over two centuries and is one of the most sacred documents in the world. It upholds democratic self-rule for the American People. The increased abuse of governmental power sparked the creation of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. That is what Obama threatens! Obama threatens our religiously founded country. He believes in change! Change of the U.S. Constitution is NOT what America needs. Obama changes our constitution he changes our whole nation! This is what he calls "change" His "change" is DANGEROUS!!

Well! It's called "freedom of Speech" One of our U.S. Constitutional rights which states "freedom of the press" The U.S. Bill of Rights states, "Freedom of Speech" for the individual. I do and will campaign against Barack Obama. I have those U. S. Constitutional Rights and my rights according to the Bill of Rights and I will exercise those as well as fight for them!

Cheryl

Our U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights

I have been spending a lot of time doing research for an article on the history of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
I had hopes of completing it by now but it's been more intense than I anticipated. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights is at peril with Obama. The colonist who first came to this country built a system of self-government creating the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It is based on liberty, intellectual pursuits, and human rights. It was created to protect the American people against the abuse of power and tyranny. It's been in existence for over two centuries and is one of the most sacred documents in the world. It upholds democratic self-rule for the American People. The increased abuse of governmental power sparked the creation of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. That is what Obama threatens! Obama threatens our religiously founded country. He believes in change! Change of the U.S. Constitution is NOT what America needs. Obama changes our constitution he changes our whole nation! This is what he calls "change" His "change" is DANGEROUS!!

The Argument Against Idiots: Scare Tactics

Glen Beck's
The Argument Against Idiots: Scare Tactics


The issue:

'Scare Tactics'

What the liberal whiners say:

'You must be very frustrated that none of your scare tactics in this campaign have worked?'

'You mean like nationalizing the banks? You don't have THAT to worry about do you, George Bush has already done it!'

'And you don't have to worry about Barack suspending habeas corpus, George Bush already did that, too!'

'Not to mention wiretapping! Bush is wiretapping Americans and trampling all over the Constitution, taking away our freedoms!'

'Barack Obama will bring back our rights and freedoms as Americans!'

Your winning, logical, reasoned arguments

1. Well, we haven't USED scare tactics, all we've done, is to desperately try to point out the actual concerns we have about Barack Obama. For instance, that Obama wants the government involved in everything we do...that's just not the way America works.

2. And we were absolutely opposed to it. We've been consistently anti-socialism. That doesn't mean I'm OK with Barack Obama making the situation far WORSE.

3. OK, President Bush suspended habeas corpus for ENEMY COMBATANTS! As Abraham LINCOLN did during the Civil War, and as we did again for a short time in WWII with what they called, "unlawful combatant saboteurs". It was suspended only for the terrorists at Gitmo Bay in Cuba. Bush did NOT suspend habeas for U.S. citizens. And by the way, the Supreme Court overturned it this summer anyway, so you don't even have that to whine about anymore.

4. Name one conversation you've had, while the government listened in...name ONE freedom you've been denied under George W. Bush. ONE.

5. Really? Well let's see. Obama has already promised a weird, 250,000 person "civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as our military...isn't that a TAD creepy...even Third Reich-ish? He has started "truth squads" to find and prosecute people responsible for negative ads he doesn't like...his campaign has black-listed media outlets who asked questions he didn't like...he sent the secret service to investigate a Lufkin, Texas woman who answered an Obama phone survey in a way he didn't appreciate...he has already PROMISED to crush the 1st Amendment rights of talk radio stations and their hosts...and he even said in a 2001 interview that it was tragic that the Earl Warren Supreme Court didn't "break free from the essential constraints set by the Founding Fathers and the Constitution." And all of this...even BEFORE he's been elected. Isn't any of that just a little frightening to you?

The Argument Against Idiots: So What if Barack's a Marxist?

Glenn Beck's
The Argument Against Idiots: So What if Barack's a Marxist?


The issue:

So What if Barack's A Marxist?

What the liberal whiners say:

'That interview was from 2001, that's 8 years ago! He was only 39 or 40 years old at the time!'

'OK, so Barack Obama is a Marxist, so what? At least he's not George Bush! What was so great about the last 8 years of Capitalism?'

'Relax Mr Fatty Fat Fatso, Richey Rich man! You can AFFORD a little redistribution of your wealth!'

Your winning, logical, reasoned arguments

1. And everything he has said during the campaing, including TWO WEEKS ago to Joe The Plumber, shows that he feels the same way today! Obama has marinated in Marxism his whole life, from his leftist mother, to his Communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, to his Marxist professors and his Marxist theology, PASTOR. Obama is a believer in the ideology of Karl Marx!

2. Well, here we go, that's what I was afraid of! The problem is Marxism doesn't WORK! It's been tried over and over again, and has never been succesful. If you're hoping for more fairness under a Marxist/Communist Regime, let's take a look at the suffering and misery in the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia and Cuba over the years...just to name a few! Not to mention the number of their OWN people each of these regimes KILLED! Somewhere between 60 & 100 MILLION!

3. See, that's ANOTHER of the big lies of Marxism. My wealth will never get to YOU. I GIVE, of my own free will, a large percentage of my income right now...to charity. Probably in the neighborhood of 20%. Do you know what percentage of his income Joe BIDEN gave last year? Less than 2/10ths of ONE PERCENT! Now, what happens with Marxism, and the Communist governments that carry out those principles, is that the government TAKES the money, enriches ITSELF, and the very elite ruling class, and the rest of the people wind up, NOT in the middle class...but POOR! In bread land cheese lines. THAT'S what's wrong with Marxism!!!!!!

The Argument Against Idiots: Separation of Church and State

Glenn Beck's
The Argument Against Idiots: Separation of Church and State

The issue:

'Separation of Church and State'

What the liberal whiners say:

‘Thank GOODNESS for the Reverend Barry Lynn and Americans United for Separation of Church and State calling for the IRS to investigate that Catholic Bishop Arthur Serratelli, for jumping into this Presidential race...there is NO place for that in American politics...he needs to have his 501c status revoked!'

'Just as the Rev. Barry Lynn said: 'it's a HIDDEN AGENDA to sway votes!'

'Why do you hate CIVIL LIBERTIES...which is what the "C" and "L" in ACLU stand for...and why do you hate the U.S. Constitution? Like it or not religious zealots, there is a Constitutional separation of church and state in this country!'

Your winning, logical, reasoned arguments

1. You're talking about the statement Bishop Serratelli made that the democratic candidate promised, as his FIRST act as president, to sign the pro-abortion, Freedom of Choice Act? He didn't even name the candidate, and he didn't endorse anyone...he was talking about a MORAL issue...that's what Bishops DO!

2. Oh, I guess you prefer the much more OPEN agenda of Jeremiah Wright and Michael Phlegar...both of whomunabashadly called for Barack Obama to be elected...from their PULPITS! And by the way, please stop calling Barry Lynn a REVEREND. He's a phony, former ACLU attorney, who only goes after conservative, white Christians. I didn't see him sick the IRS on Jeremiah Wright and Father Phlegar, did you?

3. No there isn't. There IS a Constitutional PROTECTION of religion in this country, that gives that Bishop the right to say what he did. But let me share the "establishment clause" of the 1st Amendment with you, since you've obviously never read it: Oh what the heck, I'll share the whole thing so you won't be able to say that I took it out of context. Here it is:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. No mention of a "separation of church and state". That came in an 1803 letter from Thomas Jefferson to a Baptist minister to assure him that the United States would never declare a state religion.

The Argument Against Idiots: ACORN And Voter Registration Fraud

Glenn Beck's
The Argument Against Idiots: ACORN And Voter Registration Fraud - Part II

The issue:

'ACORN And Voter Registration Fraud: Part II'

What the liberal whiners say:

'I see that you Republicans are up to your old tricks again, trying to suppress the vote among minorities and the poor, by attacking ACORN and others.'

'ACORN is just out there trying to help the people that you Republicans have your foot planted on their THROATS, to get out and exercise their rights as Americans. And by the way, ACORN is a non-partisan organization.'

'You are just afraid of them registering minorities and hard-working middle class voters, because you know the GOP can't win if they do!'

'Please, there's only been a couple examples of any problem with voter forms, and ACORN themselves have alerted the authorities to potential irregularities'

Your winning, logical, reasoned arguments

1. Come on, even YOU can't believe Donald and Daffy Duck, Luke Skywalker and Geore Bailey of Bedford Falls, were all registered by accident?

2. Oh? I guess their endorsement of Barack Obama for President was done in a non-partisan way, then? And the pro-Obama speeches at ACORN's convention a few months ago were also non-partisan, partisan endorsements?

3. No, not if they're registering MILLIONS of dead people, cartoon characters, and people who don't exist...of COURSE the GOP's afraid of that kind of fraud.

4. Really? Two years ago in Seattle, ACORN turned in 1800 voter registration forms that election officials thought were suspect. ACORN not only DID NOT alert the election officials to any problems, they threatened to SUE them if they didn't accept the forms. Only SIX, out of 1800 were real people. During the investigation, the ACORN workers admitted they sat around at home, and the Seattle library, making up names.