The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests are everything (and worse) that the Tea Party gatherings were ACCUSED of being.
While a unified and coherent message is yet to be found among these lazy Leftists, there are a variety of complaints made by the “Flea Party” against their country, their fellow citizens, and their lives, in general.
And, worst of all, our President, Barack Obama, among others, supports the filthy display of these anti-Capitalist Leftists — from plain ‘ol lazy ones to radical ones — and their 1960’s-like communal camp-outs.
It’s the kind of display that hard-working, proud Americans do not engage in. They don’t have “weeks” to sit in filth with their topless brethren and bitch about something….anything….especially things they know nothing about.
And let’s not even talk about who is financing and organizing this astroturfed conglomeration of idiots. I’ll list SOME of them because the astroturf financiers and “organizers” are another story unto themselves:
Here is your Democrat-supported (from the President on down) “protest” in action— and just imagine if the Tea Party protesters had ACTUALLY engaged in only 1% of this behavior (which they never did):
– Disgusting behavior exhibited by the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters are on full display in New York as trash and debris pile-up on public streets. The disgusting conditions coupled with the group’s anti-authority attitude resulted in one unidentified protester defecating on an NYPD patrol car.
“So, ultimately, the bourgeoisie won’t go without violent means. Revolution! Yes, revolution that is led by the working class. Long live revolution! Long live socialism!”
There is so much more going on daily with these Leftists…..but that last bullet point should unnerve the majority America-loving citizens of this country.
Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com summed up the hypocritical media and politicians on the issue of the Flea Party vs. the Tea Party:
Had even one Tea Party rally resulted in 140 arrests, defecation on police cars, speakers calling for a violent French Revolution-style change in society, or members of the military getting attacked with spit and epithets, would the national media have offered such a balanced report — or would the media have used any of these incidents to warn America about the latent hate and violence in the movement?
Bottom line, Obama/DNC thugs at Organizing for America were bussed in to protest the event….all on school buses, no less.
The problems (for the thugs) began when Breitbart arrived and confronted the group almost one-by-one asking what EXACTLY was meant by the signs they were holding.
Silence, muddled words, and orders from the union “command” to move away came next.
These protesters had no idea what they were protesting exactly, nor what their signs meant. That is what happens when the Unions produce the signs, pay the attendess, bus them to an event, and shove a sign in their hand.
As you will see in our video report from the scene, when Andrew Breitbart arrived at the Sears Centre, he was met with an angry mob of protesters who were calling for an ‘end to hate’ while also hurling expletives and homophobic slurs toward the targets of their enmity.
In the following dramatic video, Breitbart brings the protest to a complete halt by cleverly asking sign holders to do the impossible: explain the placards they were carrying. In the end, the frustrated organizers abruptly end their protest and leave.
Warning: Some content possibly NSFW:
BigGovernment asks:
So, who organized and bussed in these protesters?
This is where the clever of Breitbart and a little research clearly outlines where this group came from and just who, besides Obama, is behind these faux “grassroots’ efforts.
Here is what we know.
As the woman at the end of the video above confirms, President Obama’s Organizing for America (A Project of the National Democratic Committee) helped coordinate the protest with at least an email blast to its local members.
So we have connection to President Obama and his group, Organizing for America.
……we discover that the organizers are extremely reluctant to talk about their protest, but at the very end we at least learn the name of the lead organizer, C.J. Hawking…..
Kim Bobo, the Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice (IWJ), was to be our featured speaker. Due to a family emergency, she had to cancel all her appearances that week, including the Dinner. But she nominated, and we accepted, the Reverend C.J. Hawking as her replacement. C.J. Hawking is the Director of the local affiliate of IWJ, Arise Chicago.
Leader of group is CJ Hawking, Socialist.
More:
What is Interfaith Worker Justice? It’s where God meets Marx. Think Allahinsky. IWF’s founder is Kim Bobo, who is famous for writing the book on training community organizers at the Midwest Academy (the training school mecca for their famous clients, including ACORN, SEIU, and the DNC)
Marx, Alinsky, ACORN, SEIU and DNC. Birds of a feather.
Who funds Interfaith Workers Justice (IWJ)? According to their annual reports from the past 4 years, SEIU has funded to the tune of $400,000 to $800,000. So has the Ford Foundation. Not mentioned in these reports is the generous support IWJ has received from the Tides Foundation over the years.
SEIU, Ford Foundation, Tides Foundation….
Who loves and supports the IWJ? The Obama Administration’s Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis. In the video below, Secretary Solis praises the IWJ directly while helping hawk the book of its founder and radical trainer, Kim Bobo.
Instead, the Community Organizer In Chief and the radical left is focusing its energy on stalking and harassing top conservatives and tea party patriots.
Just as Scott Brown’s surge against Coakley is admittedly stunning and an invigorating turnaround, an election win by Coakley today would be equally stunning.
Since a Republican has not held a Senate seat in Massachusetts since 1972 and Massachusetts is an overwhelming Democratic stronghold, it was not expected even just a few weeks ago that Scott Brown could make this race competitive, much less win it.
However, many facts and anecdotal evidence now suggest that it is a race HIGHLY favoring a Scott Brown win today in the Massachusetts Senate race.
Of course the turnaround is largely due to Americans (regardless of party) becoming extremely disenchanted and angered with the Obama administration and Democratic-led Congress shoving a complete Socialist remake of America down our throats. America has awakened and the turnaround of this Coakley/Brown race is the result of that anger.
So, just as in a status quo year, we would see a Democrat win as inevitable—today it seems that a Brown win is inevitable….The facts and anecdotal evidence all point strongly in that direction:
A Democratic operative familiar the DSCC’s massive get-out-the-vote operation says that outreach workers in and around Boston have been stunned by the number of Democrats and Obama supporters who are waving them off, saying they’ll vote for Scott Brown.
“I have heard that in the last two days the bottom has fallen out of her poll numbers,” says one well-connected Democratic strategist. In her own polling, Coakley is said to be around five points behind Republican Scott Brown. “If she’s not six or eight ahead going into the election, all the intensity is on the other side in terms of turnout,” the Democrat says. “So right now, she is destined to lose.”
So mark my words….anything other than a Brown win today distinctly smells of ACORN/SEIU/DEMOCRAT/OBAMA voter fraud tactics.
And, come to think of it, a Brown win today will cause even more mental meltdowns for our Obama-rubber-stamped media freaks…you know the likes of Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, and Keith Olbermann…some meds may be in order here.
Time to dismantle Obama’s mythical “truth” Part 2!
Obama’s Truth:MANY OF THE DISRUPTIONS AT PUBLIC EVENTS HAVE BEEN ORGANIZED AND FUNDED BY SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS WHO ARE TRYING DESPERATELY TO PRESERVE THE STATUS QUO.
THE REAL TRUTH: Obama tells two very big fibs here. One is that he tries to portray the hundreds of thousands of healthcare protesters as “organized” right-leaning groups, even saying they are backed by the insurance companies. Two – he tried to portray the strawman argument that all of the protests are because people want to “preserve” the current system. Neither of those lies are true.
In the midst of those two lies, Obama (and Congressional Dems) are trying to implicate insurance companies and other “special interest” groups as fanning the flames. He is right about one thing. The vast majority of the protesters have a “special interest” and that is to halt the efforts of our government to takeover the healthcare system. This doesn’t mean protesters want “status quo”, but they want healthcare reform focused on the issues, not a stealth government takeover of healthcare.
While it is true that several right-leaning groups have established Facebook pages and other groups to inform citizens of Town Hall and Tea Party events…. the nature of the protests, including these groups, is a true grassroots effort. The response is overwhelming.
In addition, protest participants are not being paid to show up at events. They are doing because they want to emphasize their anger at the course this healthcare “reform” is taking.
I think you could say that Obama’s accusations are a bit of projection in action.
There exists blogger after blogger after bloggerwho have documented the attendance of well-funded, well-“signed” union thugs and career leftist protesters attending these events…some even becoming violent toward anti-government-healthcare protesters.
There is also some proof that these people are being bussed in and even paid to attend.
So for Obama to be claiming that fed-up Americans who have never protested before in their lives are funded by insurance companies and special interests is absurd….especially since there is proof that he and his minions are knee-deep in special interest funding of efforts to crash the protests of Americans against government healthcare.
And isn’t it interesting that Obama has shown absolutely no proof of mass staging and funding by “right wing” groups at these protests, while many have documented those very tactics from the left?
Isn’t it interesting that a man whose sole qualification for President was “community organizing” can now twist the truth about hundreds and thousand of real Americans, ignore their anger and efforts, and not understand that MOST of the current protesters have NEVER protested a day in their lives until now? I should know — I am one of them. And I wasn’t formally “organized” nor paid by anyone to do it.
This is clearly a case of accusing your “enemy” of the very same tactic for which you are engaging….Projection at its best.
Have we ever had such a thin-skinned President? Or is it just that dissent toward Obama’s views (and Pelosi’s and Reid’s and Frank’s and….) simply won’t be tolerated?
It is a bit of both, in my view, but mostly the latter.
The White House and Democrats are trying to paint true grassroots activists are “mobs” — even while Obama orders his “troops” to tattle on those who disagree and while Democrats offer up an alphabet soup of paid groups to do their dirty work.
So, the Dems are using FUNDED groups to push their meme, while attacking true grassroots efforts byAmericans opposed to Obamacare. Got that? Read on. From The Hill:
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) accused Republicans of fueling “mob rule” by way of encouraging conservative protesters of Democratic lawmakers and the Obama administration across the country.
DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse brought out the heavy artillery in a lengthy statement issued late Tuesday blasting the GOP and enablers in interest groups for spurring the protests.
“The Republicans and their allied groups — desperate after losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol Hill — are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country,” Woodhouse said in a statement.
They even have a new ad out now attacking the vast majority of Americans who oppose the anti-American, Constitution-shredding policies of Obama, Pelosi and Reid….watch it and you WILL BE ANGRY! The projection of every Democratic tactic and thought onto Constitution-loving Americans is astounding!
Small Number? Have they been following the tea parties? And vast majorities of these Americans have NEVER protested in their lives.
Funded? As I said, most of the true grassroots movement against Obamacare consists of those who’ve never protested before and they certainly aren’t getting paid. Wanna talk about getting paid? — how about ACORN’s funding, a criminal enterprise, to the tune of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to carry out Dear Leader’s eternal campaign against America?
Rabid Right Wing extremists? So now protesting and asking questions of our elected leaders is rabid? 84% of citizens are happy with their healthcare but it’s rabid to fight an overhaul of the system including government takeover of a large chunk of the economy?
Thoughtful discussions? Not one Republican proposal for toning down this Obamacare monstrosity has been “thoughtfully” considered in Congress. Not to mention that we are talking about a matter of a few weeks that Democrats have tried to ram this takeover through….where is the time for “thoughtful discussion”? The “thoughtful discussion” in this snarky comment sounds all pretty for their adoring masses but the insinuation is underhanded– and its being touted by the same irrational people who brought you “Bush Lied, People Died”. Not to mention that “thoughtful discussion” to the Democrats is “agree with us or shut up!” Or, for Obama, “I Won” !
Besides wasn’t it Obama who had this to say about “mob rule”? (H/T: Gateway Pundit)
“I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face!“
Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!
Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.
Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services
Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.
Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (read: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)
Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!
Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.
Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.
From Heritage.org…Obama, the “mob-rule” Community-Organizer-in-Chief, is lying and the Democrats wouldn’t know “thoughtful debate if it slapped them in the face!:
The President has explicitly said that the public option will not eliminate private insurance. He told the American Medical Association on June 15th: “What are not legitimate concerns are those being put forward claiming a public option is somehow a Trojan horse for a single-payer system…So, when you hear the naysayers claim that I’m trying to bring about government-run health care, know this – they are not telling the truth.” So the President SAYS the public option will not lead to single payer health care … but a number of prominent people are saying the exact opposite:
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) at a Health Care for America Now rally: “And next to me was a guy from the insurance company who argued against the public health insurance option, saying it wouldn’t let private insurance compete. That a public option will put the private insurance industry out of business and lead to single-payer. My single-payer friends, he was right. The man was right.”
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) told Single Payer Action: “I think that if we get a good public option it could lead to single-payer and that is the best way to reach single-payer. Saying you’ll do nothing till you get single-payer is a sure way never to get it. … I think the best way we’re going to get single-payer, the only way, is to have a public option and demonstrate the strength of its power.”
Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein at the Democratic National Convention last year: “They have a sneaky strategy, the point of which is to put in place something that over time the natural incentives within its own market will move it to single-payer.”
Noble Prize winning New York Times columnist Paul Krugman: “[T]he only reason not to do [single-payer] is that politically it’s hard to do in one step…You’d have to convince people completely give up the insurance they have, whereas something that lets people keep the insurance they have but then offers the option of a public plan, that may evolve into single-payer.”
As if that is not enough, the Obama administration — an American president, mind you — is asking citizens to inform him of those not towing the Obamacare line!
From the White House website yesterday:
“There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to the end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to [email protected].”
Something’s fishy alright….and it smells like dead fish….there’s a stench of fascism in the air. Obama and Democrats want their way, because, after all, they know what is best for us. They will get their government-controlled healthcare through intimidation if need be.
Bart Willruth at the American Thinker sees some eery similarities:
In 1930’s Germany, the new socialist government of Adolf Hitler (NAZI National Socialist Workers’ Party) began indoctrinating children in the quasi-military organization, the Hitler Youth, to inform on their parents should they overhear discussions subversive to the policies of the Leader. As the noose was tightened, local community organizers were appointed to watch their neighbors and were told to report subversive comments to the bureaucrats above them. Neighbors informed on neighbors, some for reasons of patriotism or loyalty, some from fear. A modern inquisition ensued; a terror to free thought and expression. Increasingly harsh penalties were meted out to those who dared to dissent.
This elitist, Leftist mindset we have in Washington is taking us quickly down a path that is the antithesis of America. DO NOT LET THEM INTIMIDATE YOU AND YOUR EFFORTS TO STOP THIS LIBERAL ONSLAUGHT!
This healthcare bill currently being touted is the epitome of what President Obama and the Democrats (and some Republicans) think about government and you. They believe they are better than you and that you are not smart enough to make decisions in your life. They believe that government should have control of your life in most aspects. They don’t believe they should follow the same rules as we do.
Worse, they lie about their intentions in order to push through freedom-suppressing mandates so that they can gain more control over you.
Further, an informed America is not what they want….when you are informed and fight for yourself they will demonize you …..it is happening now!
We can read the bill and most of us likely understand its contents better than those now calling you extreme!
Don’t stop voicing your outrage….don’t let the elitists stop you.
And, as for you little Obamabot spies who’ve read this far before “reporting” this post to Dear Leader….I’m sure you will find this post “fishy”….a righteous opposition and the truth is always fishy to those who refuse it.
Jim Inhofe, former mayor of Tulsa and current US Senator, gives a clear and concise lesson on how to keep ACORN Nuts (pun intended) away from your home. He speaks from personal experience.
Recalling a run-in 25 years ago with a group accused of voter registration irregularities, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says protesters scattered when he warned them to leave his home in one minute or “I’ll kill all of you.”
The Tulsa Republican made the comment in an interview published Thursday by the Alva Review-Courier.
Inhofe says he was mayor of Tulsa at the time and the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, known as ACORN, was mad at him over a housing issue involving Cuban refugees.
When his wife called frantically to say a group of Cuban protestors were at his house, Inhofe says he confronted them and threatened to kill them if they didn’t get off his property.
Inhofe confirmed the incident Friday in a statement issued through his campaign headquarters in Oklahoma City.
He says the protesters were threatening his wife, his children and his home, and that he thinks Oklahomans can understand his willingness to go to any length to protect his family.
This may be a very common reaction, indeed, when the government gets closer to coming for OUR guns, OUR 401K’s, OUR property, and OUR free speech!…….The Oklahoma Way!
• We believe that Barack Obama is a brilliant orator and a man possessed of more charisma than any politician since JFK.
• But we also believe that his philosophy of “spreading the wealth around” is an ill-disguised form of socialism that undermines everything America holds dear.
• We believe that a “tax cut on 95% of working Americans” when only 63% of Americans pay taxes is nonsensical.
• We believe that the Obama campaign’s obfuscated funding for ACORN (originally described as “event planning”) undermines the integrity of our elections and calls into question the legality of his tactics.
• We believe that most of Obama’s senate experience has been spent running for office; from the time he was sworn in as a U.S. senator to the time he formed a presidential exploratory committee, he logged only 143 days in the senate.
• We believe that Obama’s advisers and contributors — from Tony Rezko to Valerie Jarrett to Allison Davis — cost taxpayers millions in development fees for failed (and often uninhabitable) apartment complexes.
• We believe that Obama’s Illinois state senate experience was insubstantial: it was, by his own description, a “part-time position” and he maintained two offices (one at the state senate and one at his law firm).
• We believe that Obama’s state senatorial experience was further diluted by his 129 “present” votes, which, as NPR observes , “There’s a saying in Springfield that there’s a reason why the present button is yellow… [but] I don’t think that Barack Obama was necessarily a coward for voting present on those bills…”
• We also believe that Obama’s experience as a community organizer and as a trainer for ACORN are not qualifications for the presidency.
Barney Frank, just yesterday, said that we shouldn’t be concerned with the deficit “fear” right now….he indicated plans to spend, spend, spend our way out of the financial crisis (that he helped create)….and that if we can’t raise taxes now, we will do it later and we will squeeze it out of the wealthy.
I have paraphrased his words, but if you don’t believe listen here:
From HotAir.com, here is the transcript, if you’d like to read it:
I think at this point, there needs to be an immediate increase in spending, and I think this is a time when deficit fear has to take a second, uh, a second seat. I do think this is the time for a very important kind of dose of [unintelligible]. Yes, I think later on, there should be tax increases. Speaking personally, I think there are a lot of rich people out there who we can tax at a point down the road to recover some of this money.
It just galls me to hear him say that NOW the deficit doesn’t matter because we need to spend our way out of the problem primarily caused by Barney and his Democrat friends (including Obama and ACORN).
However, just about every Democrat who has had the chance, including Obama, said we should end the Iraq War (winners or not) because we are spending too much money in Iraq. I think each of these Democrats (and some Republicans, too) need to go read what the founders intended the government’s role to be. The governments role is to provide for a military to defend…..but the government was not formed to take from one person and give to another nor was it formed to privatize banks and slide us into a Socialist nation……Democrats would rather insert Social Engineering (ie Home mortgages for every one who can’t afford one) into the housing and lending markets, cause a huge financial crisis, blame Republicans for their own messes, and then tax and spend us all into oblivion! But, in their eyes, if we need to do what is right and Constitutional in taking the fight to our enemies and protecting our homeland…..we are just spending too much and that is when we should worry about the deficit! GEEZ!
Barney, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, Obama and those like them need to GO!
On top of Barney Frank’s plans, Obama’s plans, as we learned in his answer to Joe The Plumber, is to increase taxes and “spread the wealth”. Not to mention that when Obama lets Bush’s tax cuts expire, EVERYONE will have higher taxes. Obama’s plan will most definitely suppress job creation and demotivate small businesses.
This cartoon sums it up. I have often asked the questions of liberals and others who support Obama:
“Is there anyone around Obama, any of his friends, or any of his “mentors” who are not radical, anti-American, Socialists or who are not involved with corruption? Are there any who actually love America and believe she is the greatest force for good in the World?”
For those who have mentored Obama since childhood, for those in positions close to Obama and/or those most able to influence policy…..the answer to both questions is a clear NO.
This piece is great for those who try to brush off Barack Obama’s associations as nothing and those who say there is no proof that Obama will be a radically left President.
I believe that Obama will govern from a SCARY left position. It is important in these final weeks that this type of information be distributed to all you know, especially those rational people leaning towards Obama….
Obama does have radical left leanings, but perhaps the most troublesome part of an Obama Presidency will be the current financial turmoil. As Mirengoff points out in a paragraph below, Obama will play on the fears and American’s misplaced loss of faith in America and capitalism….and I believe Obama will use that opportunity to establish far left, Socialist/Marxist solutions to these and other problems. I believe he will be destructive and dangerous to our traditions, way of life, and economic system.
I have copied the entire piece below:
Guilty by Participation: Barack Obama’s radical associations and what they mean
Paul Mirengoff, Examiner Contributor 10/12/08
As the race for president heads into the homestretch, the McCain campaign finally seems willing to raise the matter of Barack Obama’s past radical associations. Obama’s links to the far left are easily established.
In fact, he has been closely associated with leaders of two of the vilest, most virulently anti-American forms of modern homegrown radicalism: the “black liberation theology” movement and the domestic terrorism movement of the 1960s.
For two decades, Obama regularly worshipped at Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity Church. Obama has described Wright as his spiritual mentor. Wright’s sermons were filled with anti-American, racist raving. For example, he implored God to “damn America” and he charged the U.S. government with inventing the AIDS virus to kill black people.
Obama contends that he skipped church on the days Wright indulged in these sorts of rants. But there is no doubt that Obama knew what Wright was preaching. According to Wright, when Obama withdrew an invitation to attend the event at which Obama announced his candidacy for the presidency, he explained to the pastor, “you can get kind of rough in the sermons.” Indeed.
In his autobiography Obama writes that he was essentially a non-believer when he first met Wright, and that he was attracted to the reverend’s flock precisely by virtue of the pastor’s political and social ideas. In other words, Wright became Obama’s pastor because of, not despite, Wright’s ideology.
Leftist ideology also provided the glue in Obama’s relationship with the 1960s era radical terrorist William Ayers, who participated in terrorist bombing attacks on the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, and who said in 2001 that he wishes he had done more of this.
Obama has described Ayers as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood who’s a professor of English.” This is a stunningly dishonest claim. In fact, Ayers, a professor of education, worked hand-in-glove with Obama to promote a radical educational agenda.
Ayers believes that teachers should function as community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to America’s “oppressive system.” Teacher education programs should serve as “sites of resistance” to the American system.
During the 1990s, Ayers enlisted Obama for this radical project. Ayers founded the Chicago Annenburg Challenge (CAC), an organization whose mandate was the “reformation” of Chicago’s public schools. He then helped select Obama to be CAC’s first chairman.
In that role, Obama worked with Ayers to determine how to distribute tens of millions of dollars. As Stanley Kurtz has shown, Ayers formulated the policy that governed the distribution of funds while Obama headed the body that distributed the money in accordance with Ayers’ policy.
Much of it went to “community organizers” and other radical activists. Under Obama, CAC funded Ayers’ teacher training programs — the ones designed to promote “resistance” to an oppressive system.
Proposals from groups that focused on math/science achievement were turned down, while CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). ACORN members later became “foot soldiers” in Obama’s political campaigns.
Once Obama could no longer defend his initial claim that Ayers was just “a guy in the neighborhood,” his campaign fell back to claiming that Obama did not know of Ayers’ “history.” This claim is as laughable as Obama’s assertion that he didn’t know what his spiritual mentor was preaching.
Ayers is probably the nation’s most notorious 1960s era radical terrorist. His terrorism constitutes his claim to fame. It was consistently mentioned in Chicago newspaper stories about Ayers, and must have come up in conversations around town whenever Ayers’ name came up.
In any event, Ayers’ radicalism (though not his terrorism) was manifest in his educational philosophy, which Obama promoted. Obama’s collaboration with Ayers – guilt by participation – is further proof of his radicalism. It dovetails nicely with recently discovered evidence that during this period Obama was affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America, a socialist party.
Obama clearly has no intention of implementing the crazed agenda of the Weather Underground or the black liberation theologians. But does his affinity for black liberation theology and Ayers’ non-violent but still extreme 1990s radicalism show him to be a man of the far left, as opposed to a garden variety liberal Democrat?
Perhaps not. Ayers and especially Wright were influential figures in the community where Obama hoped to advance his political career. It’s possible that Obama attached himself to these two figures for purely opportunistic reasons. In this scenario, Obama was deplorably cynical, but not necessarily radical.
Alternatively, Obama may have believed significant amounts of what his leftist associates espoused, only to cast it off over time. In this scenario, Wright and Ayers played Falstaff to Obama’s Prince Hal. But there are at least six reasons to fear that Obama will govern from the far left.
First, it’s all he really knows. Obama grew up in a left-wing household, attended elite left-wing dominated universities, and spent the remainder of his formative years as a community organizer alongside the likes of Wright and Ayers.
Second, it’s how he votes. In 2007, according to the National Journal, Obama’s voting record was the most liberal of any senator.
Third, it’s what he falls back on. Obama is scripted to be “post-partisan.” But when off-script he’s liable to blurt out that those who resist the leftist agenda bitterly “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to those who aren’t like them.” And when his wife said that, as an adult, she has never been proud of America, Obama defended her statement as applied to American politics. This is “god damn America” lite.
Fourth, it’s what his base wants. There really isn’t much distance between Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers and the “General Betray-Us” crowd.
Fifth, it’s what he can pretend the times demand. When economic hardship causes people lose their faith in free markets, all kinds of radical mischief becomes possible.
Sixth, with the Democrats almost certain to have substantial majorities in both houses of Congress, who would constrain a President Obama?
The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests are everything (and worse) that the Tea Party gatherings were ACCUSED of being.
Sharp Right Turn 
