March 12, 2008

Kossacks show how to take out Obama
by Bill Levinson

Obama Viral Email Project by Travis Stark describes exactly what we need to do to derail Barack Obama’s political career. While Stark describes how to support Obama with viral emails, the same technique can and should be used to make sure this phony smile on an empty suit never gets anywhere near the White House, except as a visitor on a guided tour.

The Concept

We, as a community, will compose a counter to the anti-Obama viral emails. It will contain the truth, and when we are done, we will each email it to everyone possible in our address book. We will spread it to other boards, our own personal blogs, social networking sites, and in general make this email ubiquitous throughout the net. It will also contain a plea to the sender to pass on the email, hopefully making this positive Obama virus dwarf the poorly done negative attempts that are out there.

We agree. Let’s circulate viral Emails that contain the absolute truth about Obama. We add that we will include links and/or Google searches that empower the recipient to verify for himself or herself that that the content is in fact truthful. An argument is always more persuasive when the reader can see for himself that it is true.

Mr. Stark continues,

The email needs to be positive and it won’t do to draw attention to lies that the reader may never have heard before (thus accomplishing the goals of the anti-Obama email for them). So for example, instead of saying “Barack Obama is NOT a Muslim!”, in which case the reader may say “Huh! Was there a question about him being a Muslim?”, the better approach is probably, “Barack Obama is a devout Christian, who has been a member of the same Christian church for about 20 years.”

Right. Instead of making long convoluted arguments as to whether Obama is a closet Islamic supremacist, let’s just go with the known facts. Barack Obama is a member of a racist church whose pastor said “white America” got a “wake up call” on 9/11, among other things. Furthermore, said church is now in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service because of Obama’s misuse of its tax exempt resources to promote his candidacy.

The reference continues, and we agree,

5. Please provide links to backup your points. It is not only important that these be verifiable truths, but that the end reader have a quick way to check them out.

7. Keep it to an eighth grade level. Remember how wide and diverse the audience is.

With the above in mind, we hereby place the following viral Email in the public domain, and we encourage our readers to circulate it as widely as possible. All URLs are provided independently in case the recipient’s E-mail is text-only.

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Barack Obama Fact Sheet: Things to Know Before You Vote

A. Obama’s Racial Identity Politics (from Dreams from My Father)
B. Obama and Racists, Anti-Semites, and Catholic-haters
C. Obama and Infanticide (Live Birth Abortion)
D. Obama and Genocide
E. Obama and Alleged Misuse of Church Resources for his Campaign
F. Obama and Disrespect for the National Anthem (NOT the Pledge of Allegiance)

A. Obama’s Racial Identity Politics (from Dreams from My Father)

The following quotes are from Obama’s Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (paperback, Three Rivers Press, ISBN 978-1-4000-8277-3, $14.95 U.S.). They suggest that, contrary to popular depictions as a multiracial unifier, Obama’s ideology was formed by Black identity politics. This ties in directly with his membership in a church with a “non-negotiable commitment to Africa” and liberation theology. Suggestion: if you are FOR Obama, buy this book. Obama will get a royalty for the sale even if, after you verify the following for yourself, you decide to vote for someone else.

…I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites… (page xv)

I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though… (page 93) [http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetterms/ByAlpha.asp?strTerm=B, "Blow" = "Cocaine; to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana; to inject heroin"]

That was the problem with people like Joyce [a college classmate of Italian, African-American, Native American, and French ethnicity]. They talked about the richness of their multicultural heritage and it sounced real good, until you noticed that they avoided black people. …The truth was that I understood [Joyce], her and all the other black kids who felt the way she did. In their mannerisms, their speech, their mixed-up hearts, I kept recognizing pieces of myself. And that’s exactly what scared me. Their confusion made me question my own racial credentials all over again. …To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. (pages 99-100)

“[Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness] teaches me things,” I said. “About white people, I mean. See, the book’s not really about Africa. Or black people. It’s about the man who wrote it. The European. The American. A particular way of looking at the world. If you can keep your distance, it’s all there, in what’s said and what’s left unsaid. So I read the book to help me just understand just what it is that makes white people so afraid. Their demons. The way ideas get twisted around. It helps me understand how people learn to hate.” (page 103)

Pages 195-204: [Obama describes his relationship with Rafiq al-Shabazz, a self-proclaimed Black Nationalist]

The above material is relevant to claims that Barack Obama, as a person of multiracial ancestry, would be a “racial unifier.” Obama’s own statements suggest that, at least during his college years, he resisted integration into mainstream American society while criticizing other students for doing so. This becomes especially significant when placed side by side with his membership in a church with a “non-negotiable commitment to Africa,” whose parent organization, the United Church of Christ, has ties to the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center: an entity whose Web site calls the establishment of Israel a “catastrophe.”

B. Obama and Racists, Anti-Semites, and Catholic-haters

Obama either does not understand or does not care that his association with, and even promotion or endorsement of, racists, anti-Semites, and Catholic-haters enables and empowers their bigotry.

(1) Obama and the New Black Panther Party. http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gGrXCt hosted at Obama’s official campaign Web site (as of March 12 2008, and it has been there for quite a while) proclaims that the New Black Panther Party supports Barack Obama. Noting that this page has acquired 396 points (presumably from activities with Obama ‘08 or ratings from other participants), it is difficult to believe that Obama’s staff is not aware of this page. The Anti-Defamation League (http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/Black_Panther.asp?xpicked=3&item=Black_Panther) describes the New Black Panther Party as follows:

Founder: Aaron Michaels
Leader: Malik Zulu Shabazz
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
Founded: 1990
Ideology: A mix of black nationalism, Pan-Africanism and racist and anti-Semitic bigotry
Influences: Original Black Panthers, Black Panther Militia, Nation of Islam

[Khallid Abdul] Muhammad’s rise through the group’s hierarchy was abruptly halted in November 1993, after he delivered a notoriously anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, homophobic and racist speech at New Jersey’s Kean College. In his remarks, Muhammad referred to Jews as “bloodsuckers,” called for genocide against whites, vulgarly ridiculed Pope John Paul II and demeaned homosexuals. The speech attracted significant media attention, and Muhammad was condemned by a wide range of religious and political leaders - including the U.S. Congress, which issued a condemnation in 1994 that decried the speech as “outrageous hatemongering of the most vicious and vile kind.” Farrakhan responded to the controversy by removing Muhammad from the group’s leadership, although the NOI leader noted that he faulted only the form, not “the truth,” of Muhammad’s remarks.

(2) Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Ronald Reagan (R-CA) and Lou Barletta (D-PA) were all offered endorsements by hate organizations (Independence Party, Ku Klux Klan). None of them even had to be asked to reject these endorsements without hesitation, qualification, or equivocation. Barack Obama, in contrast, refused to use the word “reject” in connection with support from Louis Farrakhan, the racist and anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam, until Tim Russert and Hillary Clinton cornered him during the February 26, 2008 Democratic debate. Only when they asked him three times to “reject” Farrakhan’s support did Obama, with obvious reluctance, do so. Farrakhan is on record as calling the Pope the Antichrist while saying that white people are “potential humans” who “haven’t evolved yet.”

(3) Al Sharpton and the National Action Network. This is a verbatim quote from Obama’s appearance at the National Action Network in April 2007, where he posed arm in arm with Sharpton (http://www.nationalactionnetwork.net/html/press_releases.html): “Reverend Sharpton is a voice for the voiceless, and a voice for the dispossessed. What National Action Network has done is so important to change America, and it must be changed from the bottom up.” Sharpton’s long record of inciting hatred of white people and especially Jews includes the Tawana Brawley scandal (1988), Crown Heights riots (1991), and Freddy’s Fashion Mart incident (1995) in which one of Sharpton’s deranged followers burned a Jewish-owned store with the loss of seven innocent lives. This is what the National Action Network, while under Sharpton’s leadership and supervision, did at Freddy’s.

“The street leader of the boycott, Morris Powell, was the head of Sharpton’s “Buy Black” Committee. Repeatedly referring to the Jewish proprietors of Freddy’s as “crackers,” Powell and his fellow protesters menacingly told passersby, “Keep [going] right on past Freddy’s, he’s one of the greedy Jew bastards killing our [black] people. Don’t give the Jew a dime.”” (”The Nine Lives of Al Sharpton” By John Perazzo http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=CB9E239A-DF92-4214-BE61-C935E5553C4A)

“…in 1995 eight people died in a murderous rampage inspired by Mr. Sharpton. … Picketers from Mr. Sharpton’s National Action Network, sometimes joined by “the Rev.” himself, marched daily outside the store, screaming about “bloodsucking Jews” and “Jew bastards” and threatening to burn the building down. After weeks of increasingly violent rhetoric, one of the protesters, Roland Smith, took Mr. Sharpton’s words about ousting the “white interloper” to heart.” (”Democrats Embrace ‘Impresario of Hatred’” by Fred Siegel, http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110004192?)

(4) MoveOn.org and its now disgraced Action Forum. Barack Obama has solicited and received the support of MoveOn.org, which published not only a vicious insult to General David Petraeus but also a derogatory photomanipulation of Pope Benedict waving a gavel in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. This “Catholics are taking over America” picture was entirely consistent with the anti-Catholic, as well as anti-Semitic and anti-Evangelical, hate speech that MoveOn.org welcomed on its now disgraced Action Forum. Contrary to MoveOn’s assertions that the Action Forum was an “open forum” for whose content MoveOn was not responsible, MoveOn’s moderators were exercising complete editorial control by deleting material they found disagreeable. The hate speech against Jews, Catholics, Evangelicals, and others was allowed to stand, along with conspiracy theories that blamed the U.S. Government, Jews, and others for 9/11.

Here are a few examples of Action Forum content that garnered overwhelming approval from the other participants:

* “Removing all Israeli obsessed Jews from congress would stop a lot of killing.”
* “[Condoleeza] Rice and [Colin] Powell ARE ‘house slaves.’”
* “Call for the arrest and immediate incarceration of the Catholic Pedophiles of America.”
* “The victim class will expand until you too can be jailed for ridiculously minor offenses while the Catholics are raping your children.”
* “Not to get nasty but jews have a long history of subverting governments for their own enrichment and glory to the detriment of whole societies.”
* “Israel is guilty of war crimes in their cowardely attack on Lebanon and the whining, arrogant Jew [Tom Lantos] wants Lebanon to demonstrate responsibility!”

If there is any remaining doubt as to whether MoveOn’s moderators knew about the hate speech that pervaded the Action Forum, the Action Forum FAQ page (http://www.actionforum.com/general/faq.html#1, still online as of March 1 2008) should eliminate it.

“How can I make sure someone at MoveOn reads my post? All comments are read at least twice. While there is no single criteria, comments that suggest a possible MoveOn action and are not duplicative are likely to be immediately passed on, or included in a summary to the whole MoveOn team. Ratings, while important, are not definitive and some comments with few or low ratings are included in the summaries. Important issues are sometimes followed up with a survey to a sampling of the membership.”

(5) Jeremiah Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ. Barack Obama is a member of a church with a “non-negotiable commitment to Africa” whose pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said “white America” got a “wake up call” on 9/11. Wright also accompanied Louis Farrakhan on a visit to Moammar Khadafy, and the church recently honored Farrakhan with a Trumpet Award. Now let’s take a look at Jeremiah Wright’s own “War in Iraq IQ Test” (http://www.cfba.info/iq/index.html as of March 12 2008)

41. Q: How many UN resolutions did Israel violate by 1992?
A: Over 65

42. Q: How many UN resolutions on Israel did America veto between 1972 and 1990?
A: 30+

43. Q: How much does the U.S. fund Israel a year?
A:$5 billion

44. Q: How many countries are known to have nuclear weapons?
A: 8

45. Q: How many nuclear warheads has Iraq got?
A: 0

46. Q: How many nuclear warheads has US got?
A: Over 10,000

47. Q: Which is the only country to use nuclear weapons?
A: The US

48. Q: How many nuclear warheads does Israel have?
A: Over 400

49. Q: Has Israel ever allowed UN weapon inspections?
A: No

50. Q: What percentage of the Palestinian territories are controlled by Israeli settlements?
A: 42%

51. Q: Is Israel illegally occupying Palestinian land?
A: Yes

52. Q: Which country do you think poses the greatest threat to global peace: Iraq or the U.S.?
A: ????

The Trinity United Church of Christ is also “A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA” (http://www.tucc.org/about.htm), and its parent, the United Church of Christ, has ties to the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center. Per the Anti-Defamation League at http://www.adl.org/PresRele/ChJew_31/4848_31.htm,

New York, NY, January 10, 2006 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is troubled by the United Church of Christ’s continuing partnership with the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, a radicalized Palestinian Christian group whose leaders have openly questioned Israel’s right to exist.

Sabeel speaks for itself at http://www.sabeel.org/old/news/newslt19/sabeel.htm (link valid as of March 13 2008)

It was on May 15 , 1948 that the state of Israel was established, and the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) is remembered.

That is, according to Sabeel, the establishment of Israel itself (as opposed to the “occupation” that Jeremiah Wright condemns) was a “catastrophe.” Obama’s close ties to Jeremiah Wright and second-hand ties to Sabeel speak more eloquently than any words about the real depth of his support for America’s ally and fellow democracy in the Middle East.

Addendum (March 13 2008). ABC News (http://www.abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4443788&page=1) quotes Wright from sermons given in 2003 and on September 16 2001 (five days after 9/11):

The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America.’ No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people.

We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.

C. Obama and Infanticide (Live Birth Abortion)

Per “Obama’s Constitutional Crisis” by Jill Stanek (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53694), Barack Obama orchestrated the defeat of Illinois’ Induced Infant Liability Act. This legislation would have banned hospitals from tossing fetuses that survived abortion aside to die without food, water, or medical attention. Note that this in no way impacts a woman’s right to control her body, because it addresses what happens after her unwanted pregnancy has been terminated.

“Obama Is the Most Pro-Abortion Candidate Ever” by Terence P. Jeffrey (http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200801/COM20080109b.html) adds,

[Obama] is so pro-abortion that he refused as an Illinois state senator to support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term abortions because he did not want to concede — as he explained in a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor — that these babies, fully outside their mothers’ wombs, with their hearts beating and lungs heaving, were in fact “persons.”
…the U.S. Senate voted 98-0 in favor of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (although it failed to become law that year). Pro-abortion Democrats supported it because this language was added: “Nothing in this section shall be construed to affirm, deny, expand or contract any legal status or legal right applicable to any member of the species homo sapiens at any point prior to being born alive as defined in this section.”

Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer explained that with this language the “amendment certainly does not attack Roe v. Wade.”

On July 18, 2002, Democratic Sen. Harry Reid called for the bill to be approved by unanimous consent. It was.

That same year, the Illinois version of the bill came up again. Obama voted “no.”

Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), one of the most liberal members of Congress, had this to say about the corresponding Federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act: “There is no such thing as a right to a live-birth abortion. A baby born alive is a baby, a human being under the terms of the law in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.” It may also be noted that NARAL Pro-Choice America did not lobby against this piece of legislation.

D. Obama and Genocide

“It Didn’t Happen:” Democrats go soft on crimes against humanity” by James Taranto in the Wall Street Journal reports (http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010382),

Barack Obama’s latest pronouncement on Iraq should have shocked the conscience. In an interview with the Associated Press last week, the freshman Illinois senator and Democratic presidential candidate opined that even preventing genocide is not a sufficient reason to keep American troops in Iraq.

E. Obama and Alleged Misuse of Church Resources for his Campaign

On June 23 2007, Barack Obama delivered “A Politics of Conscience” to the annual meeting of the United Church of Christ. The speech is, as of March 1 2008, hosted at UCC’s own Web site at http://www.ucc.org/news/significant-speeches/a-politics-of-conscience.html. Although UCC, in accordance with its 501(c)(3) tax exemption, told attendees that no campaign-related activity would take place, “A Politics of Conscience” contains extensive campaign-related content. It is also alleged in a letter sent by the IRS (http://www.ucc.org/news/pdf/lettrirs.pdf as of March 1 2008) that “40 Obama volunteers staffed campaign tables outside the [Hartford Civic] center to promote his campaign.”

”IRS Investigation: A Test Of Church’s Faith?” by UCC minister Davida Foy Crabtree (http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-commentarycrabtree0302.artmar02,0,2026115.story) asserts

Our purpose in inviting Sen. Obama in the spring of 2006 — long before he was a candidate for the presidency — was to ask him to address the connection between his Christian faith and his public service, to speak to us of the challenges for people of faith in the public square today. And he did so with eloquence. As a prominent member of our church, his was a natural invitation, just as the others were. To avoid any hint of endorsement or promotion, our national officers and our denominational attorney established clear understandings with Sen. Obama’s office in Washington. He readily agreed to all of them. We made it clear not only to his campaign staff but also to our own synod delegates and visitors that no advocacy or promotion of his candidacy would be permitted.

It is therefore clear that, not only did the UCC tell Barack Obama and his campaign staff that “no advocacy or promotion of his candidacy would be permitted,” and that Obama and his staff understood and agreed. Here, however, are the relevant excerpts from Obama’s pre-written speech, “A Politics of Conscience” (http://www.ucc.org/news/significant-speeches/a-politics-of-conscience.html as of 3/12/08). We stress “pre-written” because Obama cannot argue that he forgot the rules or got carried away while he delivered an off-the-cuff speech.

A Politics of Conscience
Written by Senator Barack Obama
June 23, 2007

…It’s been several months now since I announced I was running for president. In that time, I’ve had the chance to talk with Americans all across this country. And I’ve found that no matter where I am, or who I’m talking to, there’s a common theme that emerges. It’s that folks are hungry for change – they’re hungry for something new. They’re ready to turn the page on the old politics and the old policies – whether it’s the war in Iraq or the health care crisis we’re in, or a school system that’s leaving too many kids behind despite the slogans.

Our conscience can’t rest so long as 37 million Americans are poor and forgotten by their leaders in Washington and by the media elites. We need to heed the biblical call to care for “the least of these” and lift the poor out of despair. That’s why I’ve been fighting to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and the minimum wage. If you’re working forty hours a week, you shouldn’t be living in poverty. But we also know that government initiatives are not enough. Each of us in our own lives needs to do what we can to help the poor. And until we do, our conscience cannot rest.

Our conscience cannot rest so long as nearly 45 million Americans don’t have health insurance and the millions more who do are going bankrupt trying to pay for it. I have made a solemn pledge that I will sign a universal health care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premiums by up to $2500 a year. That’s not simply a matter of policy or ideology – it’s a moral commitment.

…But we also know our conscience cannot rest so long as the war goes on in Iraq. It’s a war I’m proud I opposed from the start – a war that should never have been authorized and never been waged. I have a plan that would have already begun redeploying our troops with the goal of bringing all our combat brigades home by March 31st of next year. The President vetoed a similar plan, but he doesn’t have the last word, and we’re going to keep at it, until we bring this war to an end. Because the Iraq war is not just a security problem, it’s a moral problem.

The above are just the most prominent examples of campaign-related content, but there is more.

F. Obama and Disrespect for the National Anthem (NOT the Pledge of Allegiance)

An inaccurate story is circulating to the effect that Barack Obama refused to put his hand over his heart for the Pledge of Allegiance, while another inaccurate rumor says he refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. A YouTube video that cites ABC Network shows a Harkin for Senate rally in which Obama is the only one of eight people (including Senator Hillary Clinton and Governor Bill Richardson) who put both hands over his crotch instead of his right hand over his heart for the National Anthem. According to the U.S. Code (http://uscode.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode36/usc_sec_36_00000301—-000-.html)

(a) Designation.— The composition consisting of the words and music known as the Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem.
(b) Conduct During Playing.— During a rendition of the national anthem—
(1) when the flag is displayed—
(A) all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart;
(B) men not in uniform should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold the headdress at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart; and
(C) individuals in uniform should give the military salute at the first note of the anthem and maintain that position until the last note; and
(2) when the flag is not displayed, all present should face toward the music and act in the same manner they would if the flag were displayed.

The above is not an enforcable law, but it does remove all doubt as to the respect that should be displayed for the National Anthem. Noting that most of the audience also was probably displaying the proper decorum, it is difficult for Obama to argue that he “just forgot.”

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http://www.israpundit.com/2008/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/obama_panther.jpg Screenshot of New Black Panther Party page at barackobama.com

http://www.israpundit.com/2008/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/obama_pope.jpg Obama’s connection with MoveOn.org, and MoveOn’s anti-Catholic hate cartoon

http://www.israpundit.com/2008/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/petraeus_ad.jpg Obama’s connection with MoveOn.org and MoveOn’s insult to General Petraeus