Barack Obama: Dreamer or traitor?

Even as the truth about Obama becomes clearer, the dream trance becomes deeper.  A prescient look from "The Times" of three years remove.---rng

from thetimesonline.typepad.com
July 21, 2008

Posted by Daniel Finkelstein on July 21, 2008 at 12:01 PM

     Both The Independent's John Rentoul and my colleague Oliver Kamm are rolling out the red carpet for Barack Obama, as the Democrat begins the trip that will bring him to London.

     Why? Because both want him to succeed so that he can then fail. Here's the nub of Rentoul's Sunday column:

     There was a moment last month – it was when Susan Sarandon, the actress, said she might emigrate to Italy or Canada if McCain won – when it seemed essential to the sanity of America that Obama should lose.

     But, no, it is more important that the daydream should be broken. The idea that there is some kind of clean, different, painless, perfect alternative to politics as usual is a distraction from taking difficult, compromised decisions in an imperfect world. If Obama lost, too many people around the world could continue to believe that if only America got out of whatever it is in, everything would be better.

     And Oliver says that this is exactly what he has been thinking.

     I haven't.

     If Obama wins and fails to satisy his unrealistic supporters, Obama may be broken. The daydream will not be broken.

     Just as the failure of Ramsay MacDonald's government in 1931 was blamed on everything - treachery by Ramsey Mac, a banker's ramp, the King - except the intrinsic ridiculousness of Democratic Socialism; so disillusion with Obama will lead everything to be blamed - Obama's treachery or incompetence, his advisers, the military-industrial complex - except the naivety of the daydream.

     The daydream is very powerful, even if there was no such thing as cognitive dissonance.

     What were those words Shrummy wrote for Ted Kennedy?

     For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

     Shrummy was right. It won't.

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Obama Completes His Trifecta

"No matter how paranoid you think you are, you're not nearly paranoid enough."

from "The X-Files."---rng

from American Thinker

February 24, 2011

By Richard N. Weltz

With a bold political announcement, President Barack Obama has completed the trifecta  -- de facto coups which bring into his White House the powers and functions of the other two branches, as outlined in our Constitution.

That document assigns the legislative function to Congress, but the Executive Branch blithely and routinely co-opts that power by run-arounds and choosing to enforce or not enforce duly passed laws of the Legislature. Notable  examples in the scant couple of years The One has been in office include: refusal to enforce voting laws against intimidation at the polls in Chicago, efforts to use the regulatory functions of the FPA to circumvent the specific legislation of Congress to ban cap-and-trade, refusal to enforce immigration laws, and attempts by the FCC to regulate matters banned from its jurisdiction by law.

We need not even mention the undemocratic parliamentary tactics and outright bribery used by Obama and his allies to ram through the unpopular and clearly unconstitutional ObamaCare bill -- without it even having been read by most Congress members.

On the judiciary side, we witness the executive ignoring a Federal Court ruling on ObamaCare's unconstitutionality, the refusal -- to the point where an order of compliance had to be issued from the bench -- to refrain from imposing an illegal moratorium on oil drilling; and, now the clearest and most blatant power grab of all. Obama has arrogated to himself, in the matter of DOMA, the power to declare that law unconstitutional and order his Justice Department not to contes tlawsuits challenging it.


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Obama’s FY 2012 Budget Is A Tool Of Class War

from vdare.com
February 17, 2011


By Paul Craig Roberts

Obama’s new budget is a continuation of Wall Street’s class war against the poor and middle class.  Wall Street wasn’t through with us when the banksters sold their fraudulent derivatives into our pension funds, wrecked Americans’ job prospects and retirement plans, secured a $700 billion bailout at taxpayers’ expense while foreclosing on the homes of millions of Americans, and loaded up the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet with several trillion dollars of junk financial paper in exchange for newly created money to shore up the banks’ balance sheets.  The effect of the Federal Reserve’s"quantitative easing" on inflation, interest rates, and the dollar’s foreign exchange value are yet to hit.  When they do, Americans will get a lesson in poverty.

Now the ruling oligarchies have struck again, this time through the federal budget. The U.S. government has a huge military/security budget.  It is as large as the budgets of the rest of the world combined. The Pentagon, CIA, and Homeland Security budgets account for the $1.1 trillion federal deficit that the Obama administration forecasts for fiscal year 2012. This massive deficit spending serves only one purpose--the enrichment of the private companies that serve the military/security complex. These companies, along with those on Wall Street, are who elect the U.S. government.

The U.S. has no enemies except those that the U.S. creates by bombing and invading other countries and by overthrowing foreign leaders and installing American puppets in their place.

China does not conduct naval exercises off the California coast, but the U.S. conducts war games in the China Sea off China’s coast. Russia does not mass troops on Europe’s borders, but the U.S. places missiles on Russia’s borders. The U.S. is determined to create as many enemies as possible in order to continue its bleeding of the American population to feed the ravenous military/security complex.

The U.S. government actually spends $56 billion a year, that is, $56,000 million,  in order that American air travelers can be porno-scanned and sexually groped so that firms represented by former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff can make large profits selling the scanning equipment.

With a perpetual budget deficit driven by the military/security complex’s desire for profits, the real cause of America’s enormous budget deficit is off-limits for discussion.

The U.S. Secretary of War-Mongering, Robert Gates, declared: "We shrink from our global security responsibilities at our peril." The military brass warns of cutting any of the billions of aid to Israel and Egypt, two functionaries for its Middle East "policy."

But what are "our" global security responsibilities?  Where did they come from?  Why would America be at peril if America stopped bombing and invading other countries and interfering in their internal affairs?  The perils America faces are all self-created.

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Obama--avoid the "appearance" of sucess in Iraq

The quote below is from the body of the article, and highlights the usefulness of rereading old articles. (I found this on citizienwells.wordpress.com)  Obama has been wildly successful at not giving the "impression" of victory.  Since it involves the death of U.S. soldiers, is Obama guilty of murder as well as treason?---rng


"Obama has given Iraqis the impression that he doesn't want Iraq to appear anything like a success, let alone a victory, for America. The reason? He fears that the perception of US victory there might revive the Bush Doctrine of "pre-emptive" war - that is, removing a threat before it strikes at America."

Obama guilty of treason?, Stall Iraq withdrawal, Logan Act, Another illegal act, Kenya 2006, Obama demand, 

NY Post, September 15, 2008, 

OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS’ IRAQ WITHDRAWAL

Posted on September 15, 2008 by citizenwells| 3 Comments

Obama was criticized by the Kenyan Government for his 2006 visit
to Kenya when he campaigned for his cousin Raila Odinga and
insulted the government. Now we learn that when Obama met with
Iraqi leaders “He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,“, stated Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari. The NY Post has a breaking news article on Obama’s meeting. Here are some exerpts from the article dated Monday, September 15, 2008:

“OBAMA TRIED TO STALL GIS’ IRAQ WITHDRAWAL“

“WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.

According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.

“He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,” Zebari said in an interview”

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Did Big Sis’s Anti-Gun Policies Kill an ATF Agent?

from floydreports.com
By Doug Book, CoachIsRight.com
Feb. 14, 2011

On December 14th, Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was killed in an Arizona border shootout, presumably with Mexican illegals. Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano eulogized him a week later, saying “he put service before self, which is the mark of heroism.”  After the Arizona shootings, the Left gleefully blamed conservatives from Palin to Rush and pushed new gun legislation of all kinds. But although Big Sis herself flew to the scene of Terry’s death, took over the investigation, promised justice and quick action and later presented his eulogy, the legacy media and liberal politicos throughout the nation have fallen silent. No one has been blamed, no new gun legislation has been demanded.

In fact, the ATF-proposed Long Gun Registry for the border states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas; supported by liberals everywhere; and to have gone into effect on January 5th has been suddenly discarded. The funding necessary to implement the program has beenrefused the ATF by the White House Budget Office.  So what happened? Why has this crisis been permitted to go to waste?

In 2005, the ATF created Project Gunrunner “to stem the flow of firearms into Mexico and to drug gangs.”  But there is one small problem. In spite of the contentions of Michael Bloomberg’s “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” and other gun control groups which claim that 90% of Mexican “crime guns” originate in the United States, there is no massive flow of firearms into Mexico from the U.S. So, “to justify the existence of the ATF’s Project Gunrunner…and thus the agency itself…the ATF stands accused of letting buyers purchase rifles in the US, knowing that the guns were headed for Mexican drug cartels. Worse, they may have literally walked the guns into Mexico themselves.”

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WikiLeaks cables: US agrees to tell Russia Britain's nuclear secrets

    When I first read this article, I thought it was a joke. It's been over a week and I still can't believe it. I will say this about our president: he getting better at the art of betrayal. He's now expanded beyond our borders and is betraying our allies as well. -----lee


The US secretly agreed to give the Russians sensitive information on Britain’s nuclear deterrent to persuade them to sign a key treaty, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.


By Matthew Moore, Gordon Rayner and Christopher Hope
9:25PM GMT
04 Feb 2011
 
     Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.

     Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.

     The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website.
     Details of the behind-the-scenes talks are contained in more than 1,400 US embassy cables published to date by the Telegraph, including almost 800 sent from the London Embassy, which are published online today. The documents also show that:

• America spied on Foreign Office ministers by gathering gossip on their private lives and professional relationships.

• Intelligence-sharing arrangements with the US became strained after the controversy over Binyam Mohamed, the former Guantánamo Bay detainee who sued the Government over his alleged torture.


• David Miliband disowned the Duchess of York by saying she could not “be controlled” after she made an undercover TV documentary.

• Tens of millions of pounds of overseas aid was stolen and spent on plasma televisions and luxury goods by corrupt regimes.

     A series of classified messages sent to Washington by US negotiators show how information on Britain’s nuclear capability was crucial to securing Russia’s support for the “New START” deal.
Although the treaty was not supposed to have any impact on Britain, the leaked cables show that Russia used the talks to demand more information about the UK’s Trident missiles, which are manufactured and maintained in the US.
     Washington lobbied London in 2009 for permission to supply Moscow with detailed data about the performance of UK missiles. The UK refused, but the US agreed to hand over the serial numbers of Trident missiles it transfers to Britain.
  

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Treason: Obama Shuts Down Power Plants Coast to Coast

Are you being victimized by the rolling blackouts and brownouts and mysterious power shortages?  Are you cold this winter?  Don't worry.  This video by Alex Jones is guaranteed to have you hot under the collar in minutes.---rng

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