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Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden

  • ACORN’s pimp tax advisors fired

    You’ve probably already seen the videos on BigGovernment.com of the Baltimore ACORN workers who gave tax advice to two folks who they they thought were a pimp and a prostitute and future slave traders.

    Well, ACORN announced that they fired those two workers today according to Fox News.

    The community organizing group ACORN has fired two employees at its Baltimore office who were seen on hidden-camera video giving advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman pretending to be a prostitute, as some legal experts raise questions over whether the employees broke the law.

    So I guess the problem is solved. Those were the only two workers out of the thousands of ACORN-affiliated workers who were giving tax advice like “don’t file, then”, promoting the importation of under-aged sex slaves and suggesting the pimp claim some of them as dependents.

    Wonder when the story will show up in the New York Times or Washington Post.

    ADDED: Oh, look…AP finally noticed.

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  • Carl Dix and IVAW’s Communist connections

    Carl Dix was a soldier in the US Army until he refused to go to Vietnam. After a stint in jail, he came out and joined the Black Workers Congress (remember Darnell Stephens Summers? Links here and here.) From the Black Workers Congress, Dix went to the Revolutionary Communist Party which was co-founded by his friend Bob Avakian. Here’s Avakian a few days ago;

    Now Dix is the national spokesman for the RCP. Apparently, he’s not full of the hope and change of this administration. In a Democracy Now interview in July, along side Cornel West, Dix said;
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  • Obama’s racism sunk Van Jones

    Matthew Rothschild at The Progressive has convinced himself that Obama is a racist and that’s why it was so easy to bail on Van Jones;

    Van Jones was probably the single most prominent progressive in the Obama Administration. A founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and a leading green jobs advocate, Van Jones represented us in the White House.

    And now he’s gone.

    Gone because Glenn Beck and the far right hatemongers kept up an incessant drumbeat of slurs, calling him a “communist” and an “anarchist”—the branding iron of traditional McCarthyism.

    We’ve seen, when dealing with the International Socialist Organization-affiliated IVAW members, how quickly they drag out the “McCarthyism” bloody shirt when they are called socialists and communists. Regardless of the fact the fact that they are indeed admitted socialists and communists.

    Beck also brought up an innocuous slur Van Jones used against Republicans, one much less salty and offensive than the term Dick Cheney has used against Sen. Patrick Leahy.

    Yeah, OK, but Van Jones said all Republicans are assholes with a broad brush – not knowing all of us. Dick Cheney told Leahy to “go fuck himself” – knowing Leahy and speaking to him personally. See the difference? Of course not.

    And Beck flailed against Van Jones because he signed a 9/11Truth petition, along with Ralph Nader and Howard Zinn and many others. Now I have my own problems with the truthers, but signing a petition seeking a redress of grievances gets you fired in today’s America?

    Well, Matthew, when you work in the White House and you sign a petition most often associated with nutty cranks, people begin to wonder whether or not you’re a nutty crank.

    Perhaps not coincidentally, Van Jones is African American. And just as Bill Clinton found it convenient to dump Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders and Lani Guinier, now Obama has found it convenient to dump Van Jones, at the behest of a clear racist in Glenn Beck.

    So now Obama is a racist? I’m sure that will surprise his wife and children.

    Funny how Rothchild compares a crank like Jones to another crank like my fellow masturbation advocate Joycelyn Elders. I guess he forgot that Elders explained shifting money from heart disease and cancer research to AIDs research thusly; “Everybody has to die from something”.

    Sometimes Black people get fired for who they are, and not for what they are. It’s a brave new world.

  • Chavez wants to help Obama

    Just a few months ago, Hugo Chavez called Barrack Obama a “black ignoramus”. Today Venezuelan newpaper El Universal reports that Chavez is now eager to help Obama;

    Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez said on Monday he would like to help his US counterpart Barack Obama, for thinking that “his intentions are good.”

    Chávez’s remarks were made on arriving in the Des Bains Hotel at Venice, where he dropped on Monday to attend the premiere of “South of the Border.” The documentary film featuring him by US director Oliver Stone was to be exhibited as part of the Venice Film Festival.

    “I think that Obama is well-intentioned and would like to help him,” said Chávez, and added that the new US President “is good to talk to,” unlike his predecessor, George W. Bush, Efe reported.

    Chavez also commented that he doesn’t think Obama is The Devil like Bush. You have to ask yourself what about Obama would appeal to admitted socialist Hugo Chavez. Chavez is also shipping gasoline to Iran, and, in his expert opinion, there’s no proof of a nuclear weapon program in Iran.

    Chavez was in Venice for the opening of the documentary “South of the Border”, the Oliver Stone tongue bath of Chavez.

  • Presidents to students

    The Associated Press has the text of the speech President Obama plans to give to the nation’s student today if you’re at all interested. Oddly enough, this is the first year since 1979 that we don’t have a child or grandchild in school.

    Byron York at the Washington Examiner reminds us how the national media and the Democrats treated George HW Bush when he spoke to the nation’s students;

    Unlike the Obama speech, in 1991 most of the controversy came after, not before, the president’s school appearance. The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president’s political benefit. “The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom into a television studio and its students into props,” the Post reported.

    With the Post article in hand, Democrats pounced. “The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students,” said Richard Gephardt, then the House Majority Leader. “And the president should be doing more about education than saying, ‘Lights, camera, action.’”

    York, has many more quotes at the link. I respect good research – so read the article.

    Funny how attitudes change with political parties, isn’t it?

  • The Van Jones lesson

    Yes, Van Jones is gone. After more than a week of Glen Beck calling him a communist, Van Jones just couldn’t take it anymore and resigned. It’s a very good thing…I’m glad he’s gone. I’m a bit concerned about who’ll take his place, though. But there’s a lesson in it for all of us. This is from Fox News;

    Jones resigned late Saturday following mounting criticism over his past statements and associations. The tipping point came when it was discovered that he signed a petition in 2004 supporting the “9/11 truther” movement, which believes the Bush administration may have been complicit in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

    I guess every side has a line it won’t cross. On the Left, they’re afraid to look like cranks if they are Truthers. On the right, it’s Birthers. Birthers have”indisputable proof” just like Truthers have – however it’s not so”indisputable” that anyone wants to stake their careers on defending one of them in public.

    Even though the Left is in charge and they can do whatever they want, the Democrats, the party of murdering unborn babies and warehousing the elderly, discovered that trutherism isn’t something they want to legitimize with the remnants of their reputation.

    So I’m guessing there’s a lesson in there for some of us.

  • Obama extends combat tours of some troops

    Fox News announces that some troops have had their combat tours in Afghanistan extended by the Obama Administration;

    Members of the 82nd Airborne Division headquarters serving in Afghanistan have been told their tours will be extended by 52 days from 12 months to nearly 14 months.

    Hundreds of officers and non-commissioned soldiers were told this weekend that they would have to stay longer so that their replacements in the 101st Airborne Division could have 12 months at home — a sign at how stretched the forces remain.

    In case you’re wondering what Democrats said when President Bush did the same thing (Washington Post);

    “The Army has attempted in vain to stabilize a rotational scheme for an unstable and open-ended strategy,” said Carl M. Levin (Mich.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “Once again, the failures of this administration are being underwritten by our troops.”

    Rep. Ike Skelton (Mo.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said the new policy will have “a chilling effect on recruiting, retention and readiness.”

    Obama also criticized Bush for extending combat tours – but I guess that was before he realized that the real world is different from the rhetorical flourishes of a campaign.

  • The never-ending 2012 campaign

    This morning we awaken to a new phase of the Obama 2012 campaign – the election campaign that never ends. Apparently, the face we never tire of seeing has called a special joint session of Congress so he can explain to them what he expects from their healthcare that he refuses to draft – voting present on one of the most important issues to be decided this year. (Washington Times link)

    The White House on Wednesday said Mr. Obama would head to Capitol Hill on Sept. 9 to speak to lawmakers in prime time upon their return from a monthlong vacation that was highlighted by heated town-hall meetings on health care. Top advisers to the president promised that Mr. Obama would give more detailed direction to Congress, after months of only general guidance.

    Though David Axelrod, top adviser to the president, said Mr. Obama still “embraces” a government-run “public option” for health insurance, which combined with the plan’s price tag has fueled much of the public blowback, the president was not expected to insist that it be part of any final plan. The White House has declined for weeks to be pinned down on the controversial government-run component embraced by the Democratic Party’s liberal base, saying only that Mr. Obama’s priority is a reform that increases competition in the health insurance industry and choice for consumers.

    So, Obama is for the single payer option, while simultaneously being against it. That’s what you get when you elect a politician instead of a leader.

    The Washington Post calls it “fleshing out his vision”. You’d have thought he would have done that sometime before now, wouldn’t you? That’s what has Americans so upset – no one really knows what’s in that thousand-page document – not even the folks who are writing it. But this administration speaks in abstract concepts and doesn’t pin itself down to specifics. So, I’m pretty sure all we’ll see is the strutting rooster at the podium, chin high, staring down his nose at America – pretty phrases and no specifics.

    Oh, and TSO, look who is expected to flip on the GOP side to lock in the health care vote in the Senate according to the Wall Street Journal;

    The White House is holding intensive talks with Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican, about Ms. Snowe’s proposal to use the public plan as a fallback option, aides familiar with the conversations said.

    Surprised? Yeah, me neither.

    But that’s not all. After a big kerfuffle yesterday about Obama attempting to campaign to school children, going around their parents, he’s decided that he won’t require a term paper from children in which they pledge their souls to Obama (yet another Washington Times link);

    President Obama’s plan to inspire the nation’s schoolchildren with a video address next week erupted into controversy Wednesday, forcing the White House to pull out its eraser and rewrite a government recommendation that teachers nationwide assign students a paper on how to “help the president.”

    Presidential aides acknowledged the White House helped the U.S. Education Department craft the proposal, which immediately was met by fierce criticism from Republicans and conservative organizations who accused Mr. Obama of trying to politicize the education system.

    Yes, our President who struggles every day to find a new way to get his face on television, is surprised that parents are starting to push back against the incessant blather that comes from the White House.