Recommended Sunday reading
For those of you inclined to stay home today and do some reading, here are two articles that provide much food for thought in these very troubling times:
(1) PUMAs on the warpath against Obamaphile voter fraud. They are motivated not just by anger that Hillary lost the primaries, but by righteous rage at the dirty tactics Obama’s people used against them in the caucuses.
(2) ACORN way back in 2003 by Sol Stern, the guy who’s been on Ayers’s case for many years. From little ACORNs do mighty Leftist oak trees grow—ACORN hopes.
You may notice in the Stern piece that he didn’t challenge the idea that the bundling of the bad mortgages into “mortgage-backed securities” would make them less risky. Well, as we’ve all learned to our sorrow, these securities spread the risk all right—but amplifying it rather than diluting it.
ACORN has grown to be a sort of monster of influence; one could see it most nakedly in the attempt of Congress to tack a big gift for the group onto the bailout bill. Here’s Stern in 2003:
…there should also be a community organizers’ version of the Hippocratic oath: “First, do no harm.” ACORN founder George Wiley violated that oath when he used the poor as cannon fodder in a misbegotten scheme to throw the capitalist political economy into crisis. Decades later, ACORN leaders are again violating it when they promote an urban economic agenda that would snuff out economic opportunity, when they seek to derail welfare reform, and when they side with a monopolistic education system and its unionized employees against the right of poor families to send their children to schools that actually work. With friends like these, the urban poor don’t need enemies.
Now Obama the community organizer and former lawyer for ACORN is probably about to win the Presidency. With friends like this, none of us need enemies.
[NOTE: If you’re unfamiliar with the Cloward-Piven strategy, please Google it.]
I just DID Google the Cloward-Piven strategy. Oy. What I’m feeling these days is a kind of dreamy panic, like the slow-motion feeling you get when you’re in a car careening out of control>
Both articles are rather eye opening — and I’ve been keeping up with this stuff. Which brings me to something just a bit off topic but important.
Upon first hearing of the concept of BLOGS I was more than skeptical. Just another vehicle for self-worshippers and basement dwellers to get noticed – maybe. Never been so good to be so wrong. Were it not for bloggers none of this stuff would be coming out. Obama and his band of miscreants (suits and rabble) would have all these misdemeanors and felonies neatly hidden, buried, or whitewashed by the MSM. I am convinced now that blogs are akin to the pamphleteering of the colonials. The MSM can continue to play stupid but I suspect subscribers, ad purchasers, and investors will refuse to be amused for much longer.
Good work on your blog, Neo. I urge every reader of this blog and others like it to support them in whatever way they can. This is the future of information and being informed — many opinions, many facts and sources, many voices.
We’re voting for more than just one of two men in this election. That much is certain. What’s the current election phrase? Game changer? We’re looking at a nation changer. Possibly.
The fact that George Soros has adopted the Cloward-Piven Strategy and is putting it to good use is frightening. He and his fellow billionaire and millionaire friends, working with these other less wealthy Leftists, are cooking a brew that can only result in the chaos they desire.
We’re advising our kids to get together a disaster kit and enough money to get out of the city should the unthinkable happen, and Obama loses in a tight race. The riots and the meltdown will make anything we’ve seen in the past look tame. You think Bush derangement syndrome has been bad.
We hope we’re wrong.
Regarding Cloward-Piven, this article is excellent – a must read. Pass it along as you go from blog to blog.
Thanks, Neo. I enjoy your writing even though I rarely reply.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html
For all those who are feeling down about McCain’s chances, you need to spend time (as I did yesterday) going through a few PUMA blogsites like the one linked. Wow, they’re motivated and not waving the white flag yet- anything but. We should all be inspired by them and work even harder. There’s a lot at stake- that should be evident by the strange bedfellows this has produced.
ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities”, started with “…If you thought the New Left was dead in America, think again.”
Dead??? Has this writer been buried under a rock for the last 20 years? The ‘New Left’ is far from dead, mistaking ”intellectualization” for ”intelligence” is very much alive and well.
Maybe it was irony?
Also “for those of you inclined to stay home today and do some reading,” watch this DVD which ditrbuted by hatred gruop, apprentlly 27 millions US citzein got them in mail boxes
“27 million other Americans, last week I received an unsolicited copy of the DVD “Obsession” in my mailbox. The original movie from which it is taken was made in 2006 and has the sub-title “Radical Islam’s War Against the West”.
I have been waiting for something that would put an end to the horrific partisan divide.
To hear that the centrist Democrats and the Republicans are working together is SO heartening. I cannot express my feeling of deep relief.
To know that it is for all the right reasons, to defend what is good and pure about our country is even more heartening.
If that good comes out of all this bad, it will be worth it.
You’re right douglas, it is inspiring! Thanks neo, I needed that.
Rose, I think the partisan divide fundamentally arises from the leftward movement of the Democratic Party.
Back when, the Democratic Party was militantly pro-American. FDR, Harry Truman, JFK (in particular), LBJ, Scoop Jackson, all were strongly pro-American (read some of JFK’s speeches – he was too right-wing and patriotic to run as a Republican today – seriously). The two parties differed in details (e.g., minimum wage, union legislation, tax policy) but not in philosophy, where both were 100% behind democracy, capitalism, America, and American exceptionalism. As a consequence, there was no partisan divide, certainly by partisan standards.
But now the Democratic Party has been taken over by hard left idealogues who do not at heart support capitalism, America, American exceptionalism, or probably democracy either. Instead they support environmentalism, wealth redistribution, government control of the economy, and American subservience to an as yet non-existent world government.
That is a fundamental philosophical difference that I suspect is the source of the “partisan divide.”
Sorry that should read “certainly by contemporary standards.
I shouldn’t do this while watching football!
🙂 You do it well. Thanks.
I suspect that Clinton’s strategy is NOT to try and deny Obama the election, but instead to make sure that his administration has four hamstrung years of fighting off investigation after investigation and indictment after indictment in a slow death by a thousand cuts approach. That way, she can come back in 2012 and say I told ya so.
The trouble with that approach though is that, if elected, Obama will probably do what Clinton did after he was elected. Have every federal prosecutor tender his resignation (they are ‘at will’ employees after all) and then replace them with his own people, as Clinton did.
Who’s going to complain? The mainstream media? You won’t hear a peep. If Obama gets elected, be prepared for four years of Potemkin Village happiness. No homeless, no poor, no unemployed. No problems! Just hope and change! hope and change, hope and change, hope and change, hope and change, hope and change,hope and…..
I wish I had time to go pull all the jumping up and down in fury comments about the sanctity of the vote, about election fraud that we saw in the last election from the very same people who are now pulling this massive voter fraud off on the American people.
It even led to new voting machines in our county (maybe even statewide, I forget), complete with a little band of people who are dedicated to “protecting” our elections. They go and hand count, they force tests of the machines…
It’s odd, I hear discomfort from them, but no outright condemnation. I expect this scenario is playing out all over the country. It’s more than just REGISTERING the voters.
Looking it up – While the County Clerk/Recorder officially responsible for local elections is elected every four years, the federal mandates chiefly in question are contained in the federal Help America Vote Act, passed in the wake of massive election irregularities in the 2000 presidential election.
“It mandates the deadline of buying new machines a year before it sets the standards for what the machines are supposed to do,” Harris said. “Only the government is capable of such a boondoggle.” …
There’s lots more, lots of wrangling over the machines… Something about Diebold machines, etc, etc… and again – how does this fit into the whole ACORN picture, if at all?
What does the Federal Help America Vote Act have to say about massive voter fraud?
Good Lord! Thanks for the reference to the Cloward-Piven strategy. I have refernced it and you on my own site. God Bless ya!
The big picture more and more looks like cold civil war – with a new Iron Curtain dividing the nation by half, where Pink and Gray tribes progressively lose ability and desire to communicate with each other.
The PUMA movement is also very distrubed over the sexist treatment of Sarah Palin, having seen it thrown at Hillary Clinton too.
Take the time to listen to this explanation of the financial crisis..Those who caused & profited from it are big supporters of Obama…..www.financialsense.com/fsn/main.html……go to 2nd hour guest experts interview of Bud Burrell.
I have been ”leaning slightly” towards Obama, as I’ve stated many times on this and other blogs and chats. Ultimately, I’m undecided until the ballot is in my hand… this is a difficult journey. Reminds me of the scene in “Platoon” when the commander says, “I repeat, drop all remaining munitions on my quad! It’s been a lovely fucking war gentlemen.”
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2008/10/13/hitchens-endorses-obama/
He says “Pos”:
“Snakebite leader, Bravo Six, for the record, it’s my call. Dump everything you got left ON MY POS.”
(Pos= position).
Sorry, thats from imdb.com. I’m not sure they quoted the line correctly, but the word is “pos.”
From little ACORNs do mighty Leftist oak trees grow–ACORN hopes.
Oh, you should have seen Cass’s title. Very very funny.
From Little Trees, Mighty ACORNS grow
That almost killed me right there, Neo.
It’s so much more funnier if you have read Cassandra and know her verbal voice too.