By James Lewis
It's amazing how much the Obamas are like the Clintons -- who are now
attacked by the same people who used to kiss the ground they stepped
on. Carl Bernstein talks about Hillary's "dark side." Bill, says an
MSNBC blogger, is a serial liar. Well, thanks for performing your
journalistic duty to the American people. It only took sixteen years
for our media to tell us what was clear to the rest of the world
before the Clintons ever got elected in 1992.
This is typical of the dismal human judgment of liberals -- it takes
them more than a dozen years just to figure out they've been suckered
-- or at least, to tell the rest of us what they know. It's one of
their repeated intellectual failures, this inability to judge human
beings with open eyes, fairly and accurately. They only have two human
categories: Good and Evil. To persuade them you are Good all you need
is slick talk. Political con artists learn to do that very nicely.
They are attracted to the liberal mind like bees to honey.
Well, today the same folks are stepping in the same doo-doo again.
Michelle Obama is just another Hillary Clinton; she's the hard-nosed
ideologue in the marriage, the scrapper who only feels happy with a
long enemies' list. Michelle is bitter the way Hillary is bitter. She
literally sees the world in black and white, just like Hillary sees
the world as feminist good and evil. Both of them believe their
political opponents are Evil -- whether their enemies are defined as
white folks in general, men in general, or only Republicans. When
Hillary knowingly married Bill the *** Addict, she just confirmed her
prejudices about men in general. When Michelle married Obama the
Messiah, she just confirmed her prejudices about whites and blacks in
America. That is why these people never learn; they are mentally
stuck.
As for Barack Obama, he's just a younger, skinnier, and darker Bill
Clinton, slaying the willing suckers by the millions. That's the
meaning of "change.'' Obama travels with his political rock band from
gig to gig, and all the liberal bots fall on their knees. It's
pathetic to see what Americans have become. Our media think that a
mere change in the racial makeup of Democrat frontrunner means a
change in reality. That is utter folly. It's just another skin color
fronting for the same Left.
On questions of policy there is no daylight between the Clintons and
the Obamas. They all want to see a United States of Socialist America,
a USSA. They will do anything to make that real, as long as they get
to appoint the apparatchiks, the ruling class. Don't believe it? Well,
check out the race and gender spoils system that now controls the US
educational system, including our universities. Michelle Obama grew up
with Jesse a Chicago beacon of black asseriveness, and Jackson was one
of the original founders of the racial spoils system. Both Michelle
and Barack are the products of that race-and-gender spoils system;
they have made a career from it, and in Michelle's case, they have
helped to run it.
That is the model for Obama socialism. It's much more powerful than
traditional socialism, because classical Marxism only politicized the
working poor; yet the poor can rise in America and become middle
class. When the poor stop being poor, they begin to stop voting
Democrat. But it's much harder to change your race and gender, which
is why demagogues like Rev. Wright make sure that you feel stuck in
racial despair. That's why Pentagon bomber Bill Ayers believes in
pounding racial grievances in America even more than economic ones.
Both the Clintons and the Obamas have lifelong associations with two
scary groups: The hard core Left and a corrupt Democrat Party
machine.
Obama's first father figure and mentor was Frank Marshall Davis, a
black radical from the old days of segregation --- embittered,
disappointed, and full of anger toward the country. Davis grew up
during Jim Crow, and became a member of the Communist Party during the
Stalin period, 1945-1950. Bitterness in a black man at that time is
easy to understand; but signing up for Josef Stalin's "Left fascism"
is over the top. Yet that was Obama's first mentor. What do you
think Davis taught his young disciple?
Hillary's radical moment came right after she left home, when she
flipped from being a Goldwater Girl to a radical Wellesley feminist at
the very height of screaming gender rage in the 1970s. It shaped and
defined her adult life.
Both the Clintons and the Obamas have their closest friends on the
extreme fringe of the radical Left -- the same people who used to be
kept out of the Democratic Party because they were too close to Stalin
and the Moscow-controlled Communist Party. Anti-Communist Democrats
like John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson
and the AFL-CIO would never have tolerated the likes of Jeremiah
Wright or Saul Alinsky. The voters would have punished them, and
rightly so. You don't collude with the enemies of your country. At
least, not before the current Left came to power.
And then there is the corrupt machine connection. Obama was pushed
into the national limelight by the Chicago Democrat Machine, in
alliance with radical Left groups like ACORN. The Machine includes
sweethearts like Tony Rezko and Governor Blagojevich -- who was
repeatedly mentioned in the recent Rezko trial. As for the
Clintons, they were cheek-by-jowl with the Arkansas Democrat Machine.
We know that Obama got the Illinois Legislature to vote money for
Michelle's employer, which then gave her a $ 200,000.00 salary jump in
one year. Hillary had to make her 100 grand from phony cattle futures
in Arkansas. But Michelle had a much sweeter setup. After all, who in
Chicago was going to say that she isn't worth that kind of money? But
the result was the same.
Democrats used to stay away from Jimmy Hoffa, Sr., who was
radioactive; but Obama just agreed to lift Federal judicial oversight
over the Teamsters Union, designed to keep it free from corruption. So
much for Mr. Clean.
Still, the sight of the hard Left carousing with the corrupt and mob-
tied Party Machine is not exactly an example of Good Government at
Work. When the Clintons got into the White House they ran a Welcome
Wagon for a long series of crooks from places like Macao and
Indonesia, along with agents for the Chinese, who just happened to
swipe all kinds of defense secrets at the very same time. Pure
coincidence, of course, and not the sort of thing our vaunted media
would ever expose for fear of what they might find. They would rather
talk about Monica's blue dress. The Monica scandal was a distraction
from very serious national security leaks in the Clinton White House,
which have never been acknowledged.
So, who would the Obamas bring into the White House? It's a
frightening prospect. If he weren't headed for prison, Tony Rezko
might be on the list.
Obama's foreign policy team contains doctrinaire Leftist fantasy-
mongers. To gain credibility they have just been joined by Team
Clinton, the very people who failed to protect the United States after
the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; we owe the 9/11 assault to their
blind folly. http://www.newsweek.com/id/139894
They have been able
to evade responsibility by using a solid phalanx of media spinners,
and by stacking the 9/11 Commission with the likes of Jamie Gorelick
and Bob Kerry.
In sum, the Left may have dumped the Clintons, but they continue to
perpetuate Clintonismo. That is the key to the coming election:
nothing has changed. Obama even lies about "change." For the Left,
change always means going back to the past, and in this case, the past
means the Clinton Administration. But this time, with a solid Democrat
Congress and a solid phalanx covering for them in the media, they are
determined to win it all.
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