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Video: Rev. Wright Praises Marxism and Socialism
We keep being told by Obama backers that it’s purely coincidental that the president has surrounded himself with Marxists all of his adult life. Does anybody really believe that? Here’s new video from November of this year of Obama’s pastor of 20 years Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Wright praises Marxism and socialism and calls America “land of the greed and home of the slave”.
(hat tip Gateway Pundit)
Video: Obama Science Czar John Holdren Slams American ‘Exceptionalism’, Touts Redistribution Of Wealth
More crazy talk from an Obama czar:
(hat tip Breitbart TV)
Almost Half Of French Approve Of Kidnapping Bosses To Get More Benefits
This sounds like a joke, but it’s not. A new tactic by unions has emerged in France, Britain, and throughout Europe called “bossnapping.”
Laid off workers literally kidnap their boss and hold him hostage until they get the compensation packages they want.
This is what happens when you build an entitlement society like the one Obama is trying to create right here in America.
Even more troubling about this so-called “bossnapping” is that nearly 50% of the French actually support it.
-Chris Jones
Election 2008: The Ant & The Grasshopper
A fellow blogger emailed me this today:
The Ant & The Grasshopper
Two different versions — Two different morals
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself
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MODERN VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’
Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the group singing, ‘We shall overcome.’ Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper’s sake.
Nancy Pelosi & John Kerry exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, President Obama approves the EEOC draft from the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act, retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government.
Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill Clinton appointed, from a list of single-parent welfare recipients when he was in office.
The ant loses the case.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around him because he doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow .
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2008
Barney Frank: “I think there are a lot of rich people out there who we can tax”
It takes real chutzpah for the a*shole who caused the mortgage meltdown to recommend more spending and higher taxes. Frank should have been booted out of Congress long ago.
(hat tip Hot Air)
The Best Cases Against Barack Obama
Many columns have been written over the last year or so about why Barack Obama’s proposals will be bad for America.
Here are the two best:
For Conservatives, Obama’s Changes Would Be Permanent and Devastating
The Democratic Party’s Hidden Soros Slush Fund
Michelle Malkin has an excellent column today in which she identifies the democratic party’s hidden Soros slush fund. If Barack Obama is elected, his administration along with a far left Congress will steer millions in tax payer dollars into a so called “Social Investment Fund Network.”
Every victory that Democrats have had over the last eight years is directly attributable to George Soros and his numerous left-wing organizations. Obama’s “Social Investment Fund Network” should really be called the “Thank You George Fund” because that’s exactly what it what it would be.
Former Chavez Defense Minister Writes Op-Ed in NY Times
One of Hugo Chavez’s closest aids recently quit his post as Defense Minister and has become an outspoken critic of Chavez and his policies. He has written an interesting Op-Ed in the NY Times, called “Why I Parted Ways With Chavez.”
ON Dec. 17, 1982, three of my fellow officers in the Venezuelan Army and I swore our allegiance to the Bolivarian Revolutionary Army 2000. We considered ourselves to be at the birth of a movement that would turn a critical eye on Venezuela’s troubled social and political system — and formulate proposals to improve it. One of the officers with me was Hugo Chávez, the current president of Venezuela, whom I have known since I entered the military academy 35 years ago.
Hugo Chávez and I worked together for many years. I supported him through thick and thin, serving as his defense minister. But now, having recently retired, I find myself with the moral and ethical obligation as a citizen to express my opposition to the changes to the Constitution that President Chávez and the National Assembly have presented for approval by the voters tomorrow.
The proposal, which would abolish presidential term limits and expand presidential powers, is nothing less than an attempt to establish a socialist state in Venezuela. As our Catholic bishops have already made clear, a socialist state is contrary to the beliefs of Simón Bolívar, the South American liberation hero, and it is also contrary to human nature and the Christian view of society, because it grants the state absolute control over the people it governs.
Click HERE if you want to read the rest.
Chavez Loses Vote 51-49
President Hugo Chavez said Monday he may have been too ambitious in asking voters to let him stand indefinitely for re-election and endorse a huge leap to a socialist state.
Chavez told reporters at the presidential palace that the outcome of Sunday’s balloting had taught him that “Venezuelan democracy is maturing.” His respect for the verdict, he asserted, proves he is a true democratic leader.
“I understand and accept that the proposal I made was quite profound and intense,” he said after voters narrowly rejected the sweeping constitutional reforms by 51 percent to 49 percent.
The defeated reform package would have created new types of communal property, let Chavez handpick local leaders under a redrawn political map and suspended civil liberties during extended states of emergency. Without the overhaul, Chavez will be barred from running again in 2012.
“This reform was about democracy or totalitarian socialism, and democracy won,” said opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez said.
Chavez Vote To Close To Call
From VOA News:
Hours after polls closed in Venezuela’s constitutional referendum Sunday, both the government and its opponents say the vote is too close to call.
No official results have been released on the fate of the constitutional changes sought by President Hugo Chavez.
Late Sunday, Vice President Jorge Rodriguez said election workers were still counting ballots five hours after voting was to have ended.
No Mas Chavez?
President Hugo Chavez would take on expanded powers and have a shot at being president for life under constitutional changes being considered by Venezuelans Sunday in a vote that raised tensions in South America’s top oil exporter.
Chavez maintains that in order to turn Venezuela into a socialist state he needs indefinite rule. One can only hope that Venezuelans will take a look at Cuba before they decide that’s the really the direction they want to go.
The reforms would also grant Chavez control over the Central Bank, allow his government to detain citizens without charge during a state of emergency, and empower him to redraw the country’s political map and handpick provincial and municipal leaders.
However, I have a feeling that Chavez is going to rule Venezuela for as long as he wants to regardless of the outcome of today’s vote. Whether or not the outcome of the vote will be fair or honest is debatable, but one thing seems to be clear.
No matter how many times socialism proves to be a disaster, countries in Latin America always get suckered into another socialist revolution by another charismatic dictator.
Chavez has warned opponents he will not tolerate attempts to stir up violence, and threatened to cut off oil exports to the U.S. if Washington interferes. His country is a major supplier to the United States, which in turn is the No. 1 buyer of Venezuelan oil.
Considering that the only thing keeping Chavez in power is the money from oil exports, it’s laughable to think he would refuse to sell to his biggest buyer.
Pollster Luis Vicente Leon said tracking polls by his firm Datanalisis in the past week show the vote is too close to predict. Which side wins will depend largely on turnout among Chavez’s supporters and opponents.
About 100 electoral observers from 39 countries in Latin America, Europe and the United States were are on hand, plus hundreds of Venezuelan observers.
-Chris Jones
Warren Buffet Backs Estate Tax, Warns of Wealth Gap
Billionaire Warren Buffett on Wednesday warned of widening U.S. income disparity and endorsed the estate tax as a check on wealth accumulation, while two senior lawmakers said they want the tax repealed.
A check on wealth accumulation? You mean there is now a limit as to how much wealth Americans are allowed to accumulate? I don’t know what kind of socialist crap that is, but it goes against everything this country was founded on. The estate tax is a terrible idea and should be eliminated forever.
Why should the government keep taking money from you even after your dead? What Warren Buffet is endorsing is nothing more than the Socialist doctrine of “redistribution of wealth.”
-Chris Jones
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