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Henry Mark Holzer
Barack Obama Is No Patriot
October 15, 2008
"Patriot—A
person who loves, and loyally or zealously supports, his own country.”
Throughout his
presidential election campaign Barack Obama has, one way or another,
repeatedly professed that he is a patriot.
Nothing could be
further from the truth. Obama’s claim is a blatant, provable lie.
It is a fraud on the American people—and an insult to the countless
true patriots who, for over two hundred years, have loved and
loyally and zealously supported the United States of America.
Indeed, the facts
proving Obama’s lack of patriotism are overwhelming.
Relationship with,
and Support for, Domestic Terrorists
By now, most Americans
have heard of Bill Ayers, the rabidly anti-American domestic terrorist
bomber of the Capitol and Pentagon and conspirator in murder. Despite
the attempted softening whitewashes by the mainstream media, there is no
longer any doubt whom Ayers is, what he believes, and what he has done
in an effort to destroy America.
Nor is there any doubt
that Ayers introduced Obama to Chicago politics, mentored the budding
politician, supported him financially and otherwise, and put him
nominally in charge of doling out millions to Left and far-Left
organizations.
Andrew C. McCarthy
has reported that Ayers and Obama funded a "Maoist associate of Ayers
who...used to host a ‘social justice’ blog on Obama’s campaign
website. With Obama heading the board of directors that approved
expenditures and Ayers, the mastermind running its operational arm,
hundreds of thousands of...[Annenberg] dollars poured into the ‘Small
Schools Workshop’ — a project begun by Ayers and run by [the Maoist] to
spur the revolution from the ground up.”
McCarthy added that "[p]recisely because they shared the same views,
Obama and Ayers also worked comfortably together on the board of the
Woods Fund. There, they doled out thousands of dollars to Jeremiah
Wright’s Trinity Church to promote its Marxist ‘black liberation
theology.’ Moreover, they underwrote the Arab American Action Network (AAAN)
founded by Rashid Khalidi, a
top apologist for Yasser Arafat. As
National Review’s David
Pryce-Jones
notes, Khalidi once directed WAFA, the terrorist PLO’s news
agency. Then, like Ayers, he repackaged himself as an academic who rails
at American policy. The AAAN, which supports driver’s licenses and
public welfare benefits for illegal aliens,
holds that the establishment of Israel was an illegitimate
‘catastrophe’.”
The Ayers-Obama largesse that found its way to Khalidi was not limited
to money. According to McCarthy, "[t]hey also gave glowing testimonials
at a farewell dinner when Khalidi left the University of Chicago for
Columbia’s greener pastures.”
One of the ways Obama
repaid Ayers’s patronage concerned the terrorist’s published diatribe
against the United States. McCarthy has written of "Obama’s breathless
endorsement of Ayers’s 1997 Leftist polemic on the criminal-justice
system, A Kind and Just Parent?
As Stanley Kurtz has
recounted, Ayers’s book is a radical indictment of American society:
We, not the criminals, are responsible for the violent crime that
plagues our cities; even the most vicious juvenile offenders should not
be tried as adults; prisons should eventually be replaced by home
detention; American justice is comparable to South Africa under
Apartheid. Obama’s reaction? He described the book as "a searing and
timely account” — a take even the
Times concedes was a ‘rave review’.”
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should have declined any
association with, and support from, rabidly anti-American unrepentant
domestic terrorist bomber Bill Ayers, should have written not a "rave
review” of his Marxist tract but rather a denunciation of it, and
instead should have expressly and unequivocally denounced Ayers for the
dangerous terrorist he is. Barack Obama has done none of these things!
See, for example:
The National Review
The Backyard Conservative
Pajamas Media
Relationship with
Racists and Anti-Semites
Jeremiah A. Wright
Chicago black church
Pastor Jeremiah A. Wright is a rabid, racist, anti-white, anti-Semitic,
black-separatist—and was Obama’s pastor for some two decades. Wright’s
sermons and writing demonized Jews and defamed the United States of
America. Yet, for perhaps one-thousand Sundays-after-Sundays over the
course of some two decades Obama sat attentively, passively and silently
and listened to Wright spew racial and religious hatred.
On the personal side of
the Wright-Obama relationship, Wright performed the Obamas’ marriage
ceremony, baptized their two children, and was the candidate’s
self-described "spiritual advisor.”
In arguing that Obama
is not a patriot it is not invoking "guilt by association” to note that
Wright has repeatedly lionized Nation of Islam’s anti-Semite Louis
Farrakhan (see below) because Obama knew of the Wright-Farrakhan
relationship, and yet continued, even grew, his relationship with the
pastor.
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should renounce and denounce
pastor/spiritual advisor Jeremiah A. Wright. Barack Obama has not!
See, for example:
The Jewish Journal
The National Review: The Corner
NewsMax
Louis Farrakhan
The leader of the
Nation of Islam is among the worst anti-Semites in America. Merely to
utter his name is to be reminded of his tirades of anti-Jewish filth.
After Farrakhan’s junket to Libya accompanied by Wright, the "minister”
continued to be an apologist for its terrorist regime.
Nothing more need be
said about Farrakhan. His name is synonymous with hatred for Jews
generally and for the State of Israel in particular.
Farrakhan has
endorsed Barack Obama’s bid to be President of the United States.
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should renounce and denounce
Louis Farrakhan for the anti-Semite he is, and should expressly and
unequivocally reject Farrakhan’s endorsement of his candidacy. Barack
Obama has done neither!
See, for example:
YouTube
StopObama.org
Michael Pfleger
The Rev. Michael
Pfleger, a Chicago Roman Catholic priest, has been labeled "the white
Jeremiah A. Wright.” He defends Farrakhan, he supports jihad, he
denigrates Jews, he disdains whites, he abhors the existence of Israel.
In short, Pfleger is yet another anti-American anti-Semite.
And Pfleger is a
long-time supporter, and current endorser, of Obama’s candidacy for the
presidency.
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should renounce and denounce
Michael Pfleger for the anti-Semite he is, and should expressly and
unequivocally reject Pfleger’s endorsement of his candidacy. Barack
Obama has done neither!
See for example:
The
Washington Post
Relationships with,
and Influence by, Communists and Radicals
Just as Obama’s
adulthood has been infested with relationships with domestic terrorists
(e.g., Ayers) and Jew- and America-hating racists and anti-Semites
(e.g., Wright, Farrakhan, Pfleger), for virtually his entire life he has
been mentored and surrounded by Communists and radicals. Indeed, there
have been so many such relationships, that an entire book could be
devoted to this one subject. For the moment, however, the following five
sketches will have to suffice.
Frank Marshall Davis
Frank Marshall Davis
was a black writer who befriended Obama in Hawaii, and became one of the
young man’s mentors.
Davis was a Communist, a member of the Communist Party of the
United States of America, and was identified as such in the 1951 Report
of the Commission on Subversive Activities of the Hawaii Legislature.
In addition,
Congressional committees investigating Communist penetration of United
States institutions named Davis as being a member of various
Communist-front organizations.
Saul Alinsky
Alinsky, a Left-wing
radical of the first order, was a powerful force in the shaping of the
person Obama was to become, and the former’s influence profoundly
influences the candidate today even from the grave.
According to a
somewhat sanitized biography of Alinsky in the Internet resource
Wikipedia,
"Alinsky
formed the
Industrial Areas Foundation
in 1940. * * * Since its formation, hundreds of professional community
and labor organizers and thousands of community and labor leaders have
attended its workshops.
Fred Ross,
who worked for Alinsky, was the principal mentor for
Cesar Chavez
. . . * * * Alinsky's teachings influenced
Barack Obama
in his early career as a community organizer on the far
South Side
of Chicago. Working for [the] Developing Communities Project, Obama
learned and taught Alinsky's methods for community organizing. * * *
Alinsky is often credited with laying the foundation for the
grassroots
political organizing that dominated the 1960s. Later in his life he
encouraged
stockholders
in
public corporations
to lend their votes to ‘proxies’, who would vote at annual stockholders
meetings in favor of
social justice.
While his grassroots style took hold in American activism, his call to
stockholders to share their power with disenfranchised working poor only
began to take hold in U.S. progressive (social
liberalism)
circles in the 1990s, when shareholder actions were organized against
American corporations.”
In his
best known book, Rules for Radicals Alinsky wrote that: "...the
community organizer...[e.g., Barack Obama] must first rub raw the
resentments of the people; fan the latent hostilities to the point of
overt expression.”
The Chicago New
Party
The New Party was a
political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America. Its
primary purpose was to promulgate and promote socialist principles by
propagandizing and electing party-supported candidates in local
elections.
Obama was a member.
Mazen Asbahi
Mazen Asbahi is a
Chicago lawyer. Last July the Obama campaign appointed him volunteer
national coordinator for "Muslim affairs”; his job was outreach to
Muslims and Muslim organizations. He was also supposed to coordinate
"Arab-American” matters.
All it took for Mr.
Asbahi to resign from the Obama campaign was an inquiry from The Wall
Street Journal about his background. Most likely, Asbahi resigned
and never answered any questions about his background because of his
connection with a dubious Islamic "investment fund” and various other
questionable Islamic groups and Muslim fundamentalists.
Jodie Evans/”Code
Pink”
Among the most
reprehensible individuals and organizations that inhabit the far Left
today most notable is Jodie Evans and her "Code Pink” organization.
It would be gross
understatement to say that they hate America, wish for its defeat in the
world, lionize our terrorist enemies, and support them with money,
propaganda and raucous and violent demonstrations.
Jodie Evans is a money
"bundler” for Obama and has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to
his quest for the presidency.
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should not have been mentored by
a member of the Communist Party of the United States.
Barack Obama Was!
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should not have been profoundly
influenced in the major/social principles of his life by a
rabble-rousing domestic guerilla warfare socialist.
Barack Obama was!
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should not have been a member of
a fringe socialist party.
Barack Obama was!
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should not have appointed to a
responsible position in his campaign a man who refused to answer
embarrassing questions about his connection to a dubious Islamic
"investment fund” and various other questionable Islamic groups and
Muslim fundamentalists.
Barack Obama did!
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States surely should not have sustained
a relationship with, and accepted campaign contributions from, perhaps
the most vile anti-American organization in the United States.
Barack Obama did!
See for example:
Accuracy in Media
The American Thinker
FreeRepublic.com
Michelle Malkin
DiscoverTheNetworks.org
FrontpageMagazine.com
Repudiating
Endorsements
Obama and/or his
candidacy for President of the United States has been endorsed by some
of the worst people and organizations on this planet, among them Cuba’s
Castro, Libya’s Qaddafi, FARC, and even a North Korean newspaper.
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should renounce and denounce
these and all other despotic regimes, and should expressly and
unequivocally reject these endorsements of his candidacy. Barack Obama
has done neither!
See for example:
Michelle Malkin
FreeKorea.us
Haaretz
Voter Fraud &
Stealing Elections
It is now indisputable
that Obama has had a longstanding professional, political and financial
relationship with the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now
(ACORN).
Among its other
activities, funded in large measure by United States taxpayer dollars,
ACORN is heavily involved in voter registration.
Obama’s presidential
campaign has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to an ACORN affiliate
for its get-out-the-vote services.
ACORN has endorsed
Obama’s presidential bid. When he accepted the endorsement, Obama
proudly stated that "I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues that
you care about my entire career.”
On October 10, 2008, a
retired justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, accompanied by a
county district attorney and the state’s Republican chairman, that she
is "not confident we can get a fair election” in the state this
November.
According to the group,
most of some 57,435 voter registrations submitted by ACORN have been
rejected by the Philadelphia County Election Board because of fake
social security numbers, incorrect dates of birth, clearly fraudulent
signatures, addresses that do not exist, and duplicate registrations. In
one case, a man was registered to vote more than 15 times since the
primary election. Unfortunately, the Philadelphia county experience is a
mere microcosm of what is occurring throughout the state and around the
country.
Even before this presidential election, ACORN has been accused of
criminal conduct throughout the United States in registering voters and
various election intimidation and fraud.
Currently, ACORN is
being investigated for voter fraud in no fewer than eleven battleground
states, and has actually been accused of wrongdoing in others. Some
election officials throughout the country have estimated that at least
fifty-percent of ACORN’s voter registrations are fictitious.
Just this week, ACORN’s
Nevada offices were searched by government officials (the starting
lineup of the Dallas Cowboys somehow registered to vote in Las Vegas).
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should refrain from employing
criminals who tamper with the most precious right of a free people,
voting, and should reject the endorsement of a left-wing criminal
organization. Obama has done neither!
See, for example:
GOP.com
The Spectator
Investor's Business Daily
DiscoverTheNetworks.org
Hiding the Ball
Today, every public
official has, or ought to have, a lengthy paper trail—documents relating
to his background, employment, and other activities as an adult.
Serious questions have
been raised about Obama’s birth as it relates to the constitutional
qualification for President of the United States. An absolutely
unimpeachable birth certificate has not been produced by the Obama
campaign.
Obama surrogates have
made an issue of John McCain’s health, yet none of Obama’s medical
records have been produced by the Obama campaign. Only a short, one
paragraph summary conclusion has surfaced, from a man claiming to be
Obama’s physician.
The Obama campaign has
played down, even denigrated, John McCain’s military service, yet
Obama’s Selective Service System registration, a legal requirement, has
not been produced.
Serious doubts have
been raised about the source and legality of considerable financial
contributions to the Obama campaign, but it has refused to even address,
let alone resolve, them.
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should be open and honest about
his constitutional qualifications and physical fitness for that office,
about his compliance with the legal requirement that he be available for
military service, and about the source and legality of campaign
contributions he has received. Barack Obama has not been!
See for example:
YouTube
Sean Hannity
Newsweek
Intimidating
Opponents & The Media
In the 2004
presidential election, Democratic candidate John Kerry’s alleged Vietnam
War heroics were forcefully impeached by a coalition of Swift Boat and
other veterans. One weapon used against Kerry was a documentary film
that devastatingly proved that Kerry was, to use the title of a book
Erika Holzer and I wrote, a "Fake Warrior.”
Obviously stung by the
veterans’ case against him, Kerry unleashed the full force of Democratic
Party lawyers against movie theaters and TV stations which were about to
show the film. They threatened every imaginable sanction—including
lawsuits and complaints to the Federal Communications Commission—if the
theaters and TV stations had the temerity to exercise their First
Amendment right of free speech by showing the documentary. Sadly, some
caved in to the Democrats’ reprehensible intimidation.
Currently, the Obama
forces have taken a sleazy page from Kerry’s anti-First Amendment
playbook. They have tried to prevent a conservative author from being
interviewed on a Chicago radio show about Obama’s long-standing close
ties to terrorist Bill Ayers.
Instead of accepting
the host’s offer of equal time, the Obama campaign tried to shut down
the show by sending an "Obama Action Wire” email to its supporters. It
said in part that: "[i]n
the next few hours, we have a crucial opportunity to fight one of the
most cynical and offensive smears ever launched against Barack. Tonight,
WGN radio is giving right-wing hatchet man Stanley Kurtz a forum to air
his baseless, fear-mongering terrorist smears. He's currently scheduled
to spend a solid two-hour block from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. pushing lies,
distortions, and manipulations about Barack and University of Illinois
professor William Ayers. Tell WGN that by providing Kurtz with airtime,
they are legitimizing baseless attacks from a smear-merchant and
lowering the standards of political discourse.” (The Obama campaign
falsely denied that it had been offered equal time.)
As a
neutral witness to the show, present in the studio when it went on the
air, wrote: "In a matter of hours, a major national campaign had called on
its legions to bully a radio show out of airing an interview with a
legitimate scholar asking legitimate political questions. Coupled with
the Obama campaign’s
recent attempts to sic the DOJ [Department of Justice] on the
creators of a
truthful political advertisement —which also happened to feature
Obama's relationship with an unrepentant terrorist— last night's call to
action represents an emerging pattern. Any criticism of Obama's unknown
past is to be immediately denounced as a "smear," and the messenger is
to be shut down at all costs.”
Michael
Barone has reported that "[o]ther Obama supporters
have threatened critics with criminal prosecution. In September, St.
Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Circuit
Attorney Jennifer Joyce warned citizens that they would bring criminal
libel prosecutions against anyone who made statements against Obama that
were ‘false.’ I had been under the impression that the Alien and
Sedition Acts had gone out of existence in 1801-02. Not so, apparently,
in metropolitan St. Louis. Similarly, the Obama campaign called for a
criminal investigation of the American Issues Project when it ran ads
highlighting Obama's ties to Ayers.”
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should not attempt by
intimidation, especially by public officials sympathetic to his
candidacy, to silence his critics when they exercise their First
Amendment rights. Barack Obama has!
See for example:
The National Review
RasmussenReports.com
Undermining the
Military
Military Spending
Article II of the
United States Constitution makes the President of the United States
Commander in Chief of the armed forces. Principally, that delegation of
power charges POTUS with the solemn duty, as does his presidential oath,
to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United
States”—which means, among other things, to "preserve, protect and
defend” the Nation.
It should be
unnecessary to remind anyone that today the United States is under
attack, literally and figuratively throughout the world. There are hot
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There are lukewarm wars with Iran and in
Northern Pakistan. There are covert wars in dozens of countries. There
is an incipient mini-cold war with Russia.
It should be
unnecessary also to remind anyone that nuclear weapons already exist in
Russia, China, North Korea and Pakistan, and that while practical
considerations could (and probably would) militate against their use,
moral considerations would play no part in those four countries’
calculations.
Then there’s Iran,
about which nothing need be said—except that it is a regime in which
some of whose leaders avowedly wish for martyrdom, too easily obtainable
by the triggering of a nuclear holocaust.
If ever the United
States needed to be "preserve[d], protect[ed] and defend[ed] by a
President of the United States, it is now.
To do so, Obama has
plans for the defense of the United States generally, and for its armed
forces in particular. He "will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. [H]e
will not weaponize space. [He] will slow our development of future
combat systems. * * * [H]e will set a goal for a world without nuclear
weapons. To seek that goal, [he] will not develop nuclear weapons; [he]
will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and [he]
will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and
to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal."
In other words, Obama
will marginalize one of our most effective weapons of self defense and
remove our ultimate deterrent to aggression by others.
Withdrawal from Iraq
Time and again during
the campaign Obama has supported, and even tried to legislate, a
fixed-date withdrawal of American combat troops from Iraq.
Each time he has done
so he has been pilloried, even by some Democrats, because of his plan’s
naiveté, let alone its danger to American troops and to our country’s
national interest. Losing, or at least being seen to have lost, the Iraq
War has not concerned Obama. Indeed, the would-be Commander in Chief has
repeatedly expressed pride in his cut-and-run scheme.
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should not announce to our many
enemies throughout the world that he intends to weaken substantially our
military power, let alone that he plans to cut-and-run from a war that
we have very nearly won Barack Obama has!
See for example:
Investor's Business Daily
The National Review
The Washington Post
Meddling in
America’s Foreign Policy
Surely no one who is
even marginally awake needs to be told that America’s conduct of foreign
affairs today is exceedingly complicated and dangerous, and that our
situation in Iraq is, for want of a better image, a minefield.
Yet, while Obama has
been only a mere candidate for the presidency but not yet
president (though he has acted like one with his ludicrous presidential
seal and Grand Tour of Europe), he met privately with Iraqi leaders to
persuade them to delay a troop draw-down agreement until after the
election. For good measure, he tried to convince General David Petraeus
and other US commanders to establish a "realistic withdrawal date.”
Obama’s penchant for
interfering in sensitive foreign policy matters has not been confined to
Iraq.
Raila Odinga was
educated in East Germany, and is now considered the major opposition
leader in Kenya. He claims that Barack Obama is his cousin.
In August and September
2006 Obama made a one-man "fact-finding” trip to Africa.
According
to the African Press International, "[w]hile in Kenya, Obama
consistently appeared at the side of fellow Luo [tribe member] Raila
Odinga...who was running for President. (‘Senator
Rebukes Kenya’s Corruption’
Chicago Sun Times 8/29/2006). Because of his African heritage, Obama was
treated as a virtual ‘Head of State’ in Kenya. While campaigning with
Odinga, Obama was openly critical of governmental corruption under
President Mibaki—usually a fair, if undiplomatic, criticism from an
objective observer.”
Note
several things. According to API, Obama, a sitting United States Senator
"consistently appeared at the side” of a Kenyan presidential candidate,
who may be a cousin, while the American politician was "treated as a
virtual ‘Head of State’” by his hosts. Obama was "campaigning” for his
putative cousin and, not willing to let it go at that "was openly
critical” of corruption in his host’s nation. "Undiplomatic”? To say the
least!
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should not try to make back-door
deals with an American ally to undercut the current administration,
should not inveigle our military commanders to make decisions providing
political capital for his candidacy, and surely should not roam the
world undermining a foreign government which, for better or worse, is an
ally of the United States. Barack Obama has done all of that!
See for example:
The New York Post
FreeRepublic.com
African Press
Naiveté
Of the countless
examples of Obama’s naiveté none speaks to its dangerousness more than
his unequivocally stated intention to sit down with the worst despots in
the world, "leader to leader,” with no preconditions whatsoever.
At a July 2007
debate Obama was asked whether he would "be willing to meet separately,
without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in
Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela,
Cuba and North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our
countries?”
His answer was that
he "would.” He added: "and the reason is this, that the notion that
somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them—which has been
the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration—is ridiculous.”
The sad fact is that
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
Bashar al-Assad,
Hugo Chavez, Raul Castro and Kim Jong Il would take the Chicago
community organizer to the cleaners, much as Nikita Khrushchev ate the
young untested President John F. Kennedy’s lunch when they met after the
U-2 incident.
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should not express a willingness
to sit down "leader to leader” with some of the world’s worst despotic
sponsors of terrorism, with or without preconditions. Barack Obama has!
See for example:
YouTube
JohnMcCain.com
Patriotic Symbolism
The American Flag
The American flag is an
icon. Its display, no matter how large or small, is a statement of
patriotism. Immediately following the terrorist attacks of September 11,
2001 American flags seemed to be everywhere, with miniaturized versions
appearing in the form of pins.
During the Iowa
caucuses an enterprising interviewer noticed that Obama wasn’t wearing a
flag pin. Obama told KCRG-TV that he stopped wearing one shortly
after September 11, 2001.
His reason?
Wearing the American
flag was not a patriotic statement, Obama said, but a "substitute” for
"true patriotism” which is speaking out on issues.
Obama neglected to
explain why when he wore the flag pin he could not speak out on issues,
or when he spoke out on issues he could not wear the flag pin.
Obama’s disdain for the
American flag has manifested itself in another, more graphic, manner.
Famously, at a primary stop in New Mexico during the rendition of our
national anthem Senator Hillary Clinton and Governor Bill Richardson can
be seen with their right hands over their hearts. Both of Obama’s hands
are folded over his crotch.
A patriot running
for the presidency of the United States should revere the America flag,
display it proudly, and honor its presence with the appropriate gesture.
Barack Obama does not!
See for example:
FOXNews.com
YouTube
Patriots don’t
associate with and derive sustenance from terrorists, America-haters,
and anti-Semites; they don’t countenance fixed elections; they don’t
keep secrets from voters; they don’t intimidate their enemies; they
don’t denigrate and degrade our military; they don’t gratuitously
interfere with their government’s efforts to protect our country; and
they don’t disdain the symbol of this great Nation, which for over two
centuries men and women have fought and died: the American flag.
Whatever
Barack Obama is, we can be certain that he is no patriot! |
