Richard at Hyscience asks:

Isn’t it about time the McCain camp follows through with where this ad began, and floods the airways and Internet with the truth about Barack Obama?

If this video is any indication of what the McCain camp is shooting with, I’d have to say that we will see not much in the of way of decimating artillery from the McCain camp. So I end up returning to my original fear regarding McCain – that he never intended to win this thing. The blood from this financial slaughter is all over the Democrats, including on Obama’s hands. And so far, McCain has wasted every opportunity to expose the lies tripping off of Obama’s lips. He has wasted a prime opportunity to knock Obama out of the race- this housing debacle an incontrovertible indictment of the socialist progressive policies that have brought us to this end.

An irrefutable dissection of the Democratic creation of this social engineering housing monster can be had in reading Doug Ross’s The Fannie Mae testimony that will make you scream in anger . It begins….

In 1997 President Clinton’s HUD secretary, a man named Andrew Cuomo, claimed Fannie Mae had exhibited “racial discrimination” and proposed that 50 percent of the GSEs’ (Fannie and Freddie) loan portfolio be made up of loans to low- and moderate-income borrowers by 2001.

Wayne Barrett at the Village Voice:

[Clinton appointee] Andrew Cuomo… made a series of decisions between 1997 and 2001 that gave birth to the country’s current crisis. He took actions that… helped plunge Fannie and Freddie into the subprime markets without putting in place the means to monitor their increasingly risky investments. He turned the Federal Housing Administration…into a sweetheart lender with sky-high loan ceilings and no money down, and he legalized what a federal judge has branded “kickbacks” to brokers that have fueled the sale of overpriced and unsupportable loans. Three to four million families are now facing foreclosure, and Cuomo is one of the reasons why.

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This week even ex-President Clinton admitted that the Democrats were guilty of destroying Fannie and Freddie… and responsible for the current crisis that threatens to bring the entire U.S. economy to the brink of recession: I think that the responsibility that the Democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by the Republicans and the Congress or by me when I was President to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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And David Yeagley paints the picture  of the “race” engine propelling this election in all it’s Marxist, class warfare glory. Using the cudgel of “race” and “poverty”, banks were forced to give credit where no credit was deserved. There is no “right” to home ownership, but in the world of progressives, rights have been redefined to serve their agenda of bringing America to her knees.
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Weak White Communists

The Obamas represent racial manipulation, not unity, not harmony, and not equality. Just manipulation for power. This is the result of, not white guilt, but weak white Communists who cannot themselves achieve power or control. They are beaten by the better whites. They are driven to appeal to the darks, the non-whites. This is their only hope. It is about numbers. They must unite all non-whites of the world on a platform of racial unity.

It does not appear that this juvenile, base racial approach is going to change. (There is absolutely no change in, about, from, or through, the Obamas–unless it’s change for the worse.) The media is the right arm of the race campaign. Race well suits the cause of breaking down America into a Third World warehouse. The Clintons ignited that cause two decades ago. The current race rage only further enflames the purpose. In the name of equality, a fringe foreigner Negro, and an American Negro, simply must have the presidency. It isn’t about leadership (unless we mean leading American down). It isn’t about the nation. It is about the personal vindication of Barack and Michelle Obama, and all they represent.

The presidency as justifiaction. The White House as vindication. That’s what this has become. It has nothing to do with our dear and beloved country, America. It has only to do with Barack and Michelle Obama, and their personal problems. This is the trend Bill Clinton set back in 1993. This is the Democrat philosophy. The poor man deserves the highest honors–by virtue of his poverty alone. In the case of the Obamas, the black race deserves the throne, by virtue of their blackness, alone. The success of the Obamas will demonstrate above all, not the desirability of the black race, but the opposite.

This is the formula for the downfall of the nation. It is approaching full swing.

It is as if America has become possessed by the spirit of the flat earth society. As Stop the ACLU so painfully articulates below, it matters little what revelations are  bought forward about Obama, the media will ignore them all while endlessly repeating the steady stream of lies coming from the Obama camp.

According to the latest (9/28) Rasmussen Poll, Barack Hussein Obama now enjoys a 57% approval rating among American voters. What does this mean? It means that those Friday night debates didn’t change a thing. It means that no matter how poorly Barack Obama acquitted himself that night it makes no difference. That revealing “America is the greatest nation in the world, BUT…” statement doesn’t matter. That embarrassing soldier’s bracelet gaff doesn’t matter. His recently exposed contemptuous betrayal of our courageous military in Iraq by his behind-the-scenes attempts to manipulate our troop withdrawals for his own selfish political agenda doesn’t matter. Rezko doesn’t matter. His undeniable twenty year relationship with Reverend “Goddamn America” Wright doesn’t matter. His angry militant anti-white America wife’s outrageous admission that for the first time in her lifetime she is “finally proud to be an American” doesn’t matter. His suspicious ties to Islamists and Muslims don’t matter.

Don’t you see? None of it matters. He is as impervious to stain as OJ Simpson was impervious to justice.

There are no present or future revelations, no matter how powerful, no matter how damning, that will derail this speeding train. 57% of America approves. 57% of America has spoken, and they have said that nothing, absolutely nothing that we have uncovered, or may uncover in the future, makes a damn bit of difference to them. 57% of America will not be dissuaded from their choice. 57% of America approves.

Why the Debates Don’t Matter : Stop The ACLU

Melanie Phillips writes along similar lines.

Barack Obama appears to sit on a nexus between Marxist revolutionary activists, unrepentant former terrorists, Black Power racists, Chicago mobsters – oh, and a Saudi who is trying to buy up America. If you were to turn up at US immigration control with a background of such associates, it’s a fair bet they wouldn’t let you off the air-bridge. Yet this man may well become President of the US! If any other candidate had had merely a fleeting relationship with William Ayers, his candidacy would have been terminated before it was even articulated — let alone what we now know about Obama’s key role in Ayers’s CAC and its funding of radical groups; let alone the fact that Obama had been mentored during his formative years by a Communist Party plant; let alone his work for organisations modelled on the seditious philosophy of Saul Alinsky; let alone his two-decade membership of a Black Power church; let alone his relationship with fraudster Tony Rezko.

And yet despite all of this, virtually no-one in the mainstream media is asking any questions. Has there ever been a more staggering, surreal and scary race to the White House?
(Source)

And Bush continues to put nails in the conservative  coffin, his performance during this nightmare has been abysmal, cowardly, a final betrayal to the party he has all but destroyed. Back in August I wrote…

It is almost as if Bush is punting this country for Obama’s team to take it all the way over the edge.
PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), Bush’s bloated legislation that will bleed Americans in excess of 50 billion dollars, is a small part of his legacy, and his treachery.

Do be cognizant that this debt to which we have now been made party to, is in addition to the other billion dollar promises winging about out there, such as the 50 billion dollar PEPFAR referred to above. And you need also to keep in mind the future plundering to be exacted upon your shrinking worth by Obama’s Global Poverty Tax.
One blogger says that the national debt is now…

$11,315,000,000,000… with the population of the United States of America at 301,139,947, we are looking at each person owing $37, 573.90.

I went on to conclude…

Bush indeed has punted America to the other team. And he doesn’t much give a damn about how the game will end. Obama will run with Bush’s paltry 50 billion and, faux “messiah” that he is, he will multiply our debt and our taxes like Jesus multiplied the fish and bread. We will be awash in poverty. Our children’s burdens and deprivations shall runneth over.

And there will still be AIDS, and there will still be poverty. Only there will be no more a bright and shining city on a hill to serve as beacon for, not Obama hope, but the real hope that America once ineluctably embodied.

I have to say to real Americans – we are on our own.

Very disappointing. I was waiting for one hell of a fight at the convention. But, alas, she bails, she folds, she gives up. She compromises, vacillates, and quits. She may even be willing to accept being nominated second best VP?

And everyone thought she’d be tougher than Obama against our enemies? Yeah, right. With her immense war chest, her years of preparation, Hillary played the wrong cards. Her strategy failed. She can’t even hold her ground against an Ameri-phobic, victim-pimping, appeasing, defeatist, Soros puppet.
Oh wait, that sounds like Hillary. Hell, it’s too confusing when all of the candidates range from Marxist to socialist-lite.

This cartoon from Texas Fred’s just about sums it up.

I never signed up for a course in the “-isms“; Marxism, Socialism and Communism – but researching the ideological underpinnings of the two progressive contenders for the presidency is teaching me more than I ever wanted to know.

I will frankly say that I will not vote for any black presidential candidate who chooses to designate himself as an African-American (as opposed to an American). In my mind that hyphen has come to symbolize race card politics, signaling an agenda of divisive grievances, not national unity.

And quite frankly, I could never bring myself to vote for a woman. Do with that what you will, but there was only one Margaret Thatcher and Hillary is her anti-thesis. But Hillary feeds at the same socialist trough as Obama, devouring the same multicultural, kumbaya swill.

With either candidate, it’s always about race, or class warfare, or gender issues, but never about celebrating America and it certainly is never about promoting – dare I say it – American exceptionalism.

The trinity of American exceptionalism could be described as (1) dynamism (support for equality of individual opportunity, entrepreneurship, and economic progress); (2) religiosity (emphasis on character development, mores, and voluntary cultural associations) that works to contain the excessive individual egoism that dynamism sometimes fosters; and (3) patriotism (love of country, self-government, and support for constitutional limits).(link)

I always find it amusing that the admonitions to respect the traditions of all cultures that are preached from the pulpits of multiculturalism have failed to make an impression on the very “cultures” that seek protection behind the PC mantle. But then, multiculturalism is a weapon aimed directly at the idea of “American exceptionalism”, as well as at whites, Euros, Anglos and other various “oppressor groups”. You may denigrate those cultures at will.

Obama and Hillary are steeped in the rhetoric of white supremacy, sexism and oppression, as are the academic elites who have poisoned American education.

Kors states that at an academic conference sponsored by the University of Nebraska, the attendees articulated the view that “White students desperately need formal ‘training’ in racial and cultural awareness. The moral goal of such training should override white notions of privacy and individualism.” One of the leading “diversity experts” providing scores of “training programs” in universities, corporations, and government bureaucracies is Hugh Vasquez of the Todos Institute of Oakland, California. Vasquez’s study guide for a Ford Foundation-funded diversity film, Skin Deep, explains the meaning of “white privilege” and “internalized oppression” for the trainees.

from…Why There is a Culture War

Might I suggest that the generations of blacks who have been indoctrinated to believe that they are oppressed get some training as well. If they want to claim that racism is institutionalized by whites, than I would have to say that entitlement and victim hood is institutionalized among all so-called minorities who jump on the grievance train.

From Shelby Steele’s ‘A Dream Deferred”

I believe this acceptance of victimization is a totalism caused by the downfall of post-sixties liberalism. This is where liberalism lost it’s balance and ultimately its integrity. Many observers who lived through the sixties realize that it was the old American problem of race that did liberalism in. To accept victimization not as one of many variables but as a totalism was to see it as structural – so built into the patterns of society that that it could be manifested apart from human will. And if the evil was structural. only structural remedies would work against it. You couldn’t fight racial victimization on a case-by-case basis; you had to put into place structures that would prefer the victim in compensation for the victimization we could presume he or she endured. Thus liberalism becomes preemptive rather than defensive. It no longer protected individuals and fought for equal opportunity but it pursued group rights and equal results. It remedied the victimization before it was manifest. This transformation came from the embrace of victimization as a totalistic explanation of black difficulty. But it changed the basic terms of American liberalism from freedom, rights, and responsibilities to planning, engineering and entitlements.

I absolutely do not buy that minorities in this country suffer under systematic oppression. Instances of prejudice and incivility, yeah, I am sure that there are incidents galore. It’s called human nature and the only fools who think that they will be able to extirpate prejudice completely from the human psyche are , well – fools like Obama and Hillary – magical thinking elitists who presume to know just the right alchemy necessary to recreate the human soul.

One such social engineer is a far left radical Saul Alinsky, often mentioned in both Obama’s and Hillary’s accounts of influential political mentors.

Diane Alden on Saul Alinsky…

Alinsky asserted that he was more concerned with the acquisition of power than anything else: “My aim here is to suggest how to organize for power: how to get it and how to use it.” This is not to be done with assistance to the poor, nor even by organizing the poor to demand assistance: “[E]ven if all the low-income parts of our population were organized … it would not be powerful enough to get significant, basic, needed changes.”

Alinsky advises his followers that the poor have no power and that the real target is the middle class: “Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America’s white middle class. That is where the power is. … Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority.”

But that didn’t stop Alinsky and his followers from using the middle class for their own purposes. They counted on the guilt and shame of the white middle class to get what they wanted. In order to take over institutions and get power, the middle class had to be convinced that they were somehow lucky winners in “life’s lottery.”

Alinsky’s radicals found a perfect vehicle for their destruction of the American system and more particularly for taking and maintaining power. That instrument was the Democratic Party.

from….Saul Alinsky and DNC Corruption

More on Alinsky and the political lens through which Obama and Hillary view America in coming posts.

Related Reading:

Hillary Clinton’s Wellesley Thesis

Center for Community Change

Mr. Obama, You’re No Jack Kennedy

I was still a comatose, pliant default liberal when Clinton was in office. I paid little notice to his antics nor politics in general. I was the perfect lemming (an irony, given that is the state of mind ascribed to loyal Americans; us Limbaugh-indoctrinated, redneck rubes, but, I digress),completely indifferent to what was going on in this nation. Thus, I missed reading about the many other ways that the Clintons managed to stain the White House.

Hillary is distasteful no matter what patina she tries to veneer to her chameleon skin, yet, for all her many facades, she never succeeds in achieving dignity or exuding elegance or class. So it isn’t surprising that she and Billy apparently had no objection to Hollywood trash befouling Abe Lincoln’s bed. In real life, when people trash your home and violate your trust, you don’t invite them back. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Do you really want to open the White House door to these people again?

Over the course of Bill Clinton’s administration, the Lincoln Bedroom was rented to 831 different people. That total does not include the Clintons’ relatives or their guests (of which there were 35); nor does it include daughter Chelsea’s guests (72). [...] Two of the Lincoln Bedroom’s renters — Linda Thomason and actress Markie Post — are pictured here trashing the bed by treating it like a trampoline. The bed itself is considered a national treasure. Expect more of the same should Hillary take the presidency.

from…Doug Ross @ Journal