1. Tom Daschle was named to be Obama's Health and Human Services secretary. For three years prior to his nomination, he failed to pay more than $128,000 in taxes. This disclosure involved unreported income and the use of a car and driver provided to him. He was forced to withdraw.
2. Bill Richardson was Obama's pick for Commerce secretary. He withdrew his name from consideration because of an investigation of a campaign donor who had obtained state contracts while Richardson was Governor of New Mexico.
3. Timothy Geithner was appointed Treasury secretary even though he admitted he had not paid about $43,000 in taxes.
4. Nancy Killefer was nominated to be the first chief performance officer but withdrew her name from consideration also for tax reasons.
5. Kathleen Sebelius was appointed as head of the Department of Health and Human Services. Her tax problems provided yet one more example of the incompetence that characterized the Obama administration’s transition process. By disclosing that she was forced to pay over $7000 in back taxes after her nomination, Gov. Sebelius joined the ranks of Obama nominees who thought they were above paying taxes, a group that included her predecessor as nominee for HHS, Sen. Tom Daschle.
6. Ron Kirk was appointed US Trade representative. He had to pay $10,000 in back taxes that emerged during the "vetting" process.
7. Eric Holder was appointed Attorney General. There is too much to say about him here. He will be discussed in another Post.
8. Marilyn Katz was the head of security for the hard-core leftist group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) who advocated guerrilla tactics during the Chicago Democratic Convention riots of 1968. She reportedly introduced Obama to the 'activist network' in Chicago. She met William Ayers (discussed later) through SDS and defended him after his association with Obama surfaced in the 2008 Presidential Campaign. She was part of Obama's campaign organization.
9. David Axelrod was one of Obama's chief advisers and was mentored by Donald Rose and David Canter. They co-owned a small newspaper called the Hyde Park Kenwood Voices. The paper's radical tone suited the neighborhood. It tended to follow the Communist Party line-campaigning for example to abolish the House Committee on Un-American Activities. The paper sympathetically covered the Students for a Democratic Society riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Party convention and the SDS convention that gave birth to the Weather Underground. He has been a close friend of Marilyn Katz for 30 years.
10. Valerie Jarrett is a senior advisor for Obama and a close personal friend of Marilyn Katz. She has "earned the complete confidence of the Obamas". She recruited and chose the radical Van Jones as green energy czar. She was also behind the creation of the position of diversity czar (Mark Lloyd) and recruited Cass Sunstein for regulatory czar. She most likely has communistic tendencies. Could possibly be considered a czar!
11. Anita Dunn was the short-lived White House communications director and a 'fan favorite' of Mao citing him among her favorite philosophers. She believes that Fox News is a "wing of the Republican Party".
No review of Obama would be complete without discussing his relationships with the following motley duo:
William Ayers
Saul Alinsky
William Ayers was a fellow member, along with Marilyn Katz, of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). In 1969 he co-founded the Weather Underground, a self-described communist revolutionary group that conducted a campaign of bombing public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s, in response to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. In a profile published by the New York Times on September 11, 2001, Ayers expressed no regret for his past. "I don't regret setting bombs", he told the Times. "I feel we didn't do enough". Quite a great individual! Let's now connect the dots between Obama and Ayers.
Obama actually launched his political career at an event at Ayers’s and Bernadine Dohrn’s (Ayer's wife and former radical cohort) home. Obama has dismissed Ayers as just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood', and “not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis". For his part, Ayers refuses to discuss his relationship with Obama.
When Obama made his first run for political office, articles in both the Chicago Defender and the Hyde Park Herald, featured among his qualifications, his position as chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation where Ayers was a founder and guiding force. Obama assumed the Annenberg board chairmanship only months before his first run for office, and almost certainly received the job at the behest of Bill Ayers. During Obama’s time as Annenberg board chairman, Ayers’s own education projects received substantial funding. Indeed, during its first year, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge struggled with significant concerns about possible conflicts of interest. With a writ to aid Chicago’s public schools, the Annenberg Challenge played a deeply political role in Chicago’s education wars, and as Annenberg board chairman, Obama clearly aligned himself with Ayers’s radical views on education issues. With Obama heading up the board and Ayers heading up the other key operating body of the Annenberg Challenge, the two would necessarily have had a close working relationship for years (therefore “exchanging ideas on a regular basis”). So when Ayers and Dohrn hosted that kickoff for the first Obama campaign, it was not a random happenstance, but merely further evidence of a close and ongoing political partnership. Of course, all of this clearly contradicts Obama’s dismissal of the significance of his relationship with Ayers.
This much we know from the public record, but a large cache of documents housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), would most likely flesh out the entire story. That document cache contains the internal files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The records in question are extensive, consisting of 132 boxes, containing 947 file folders, a total of about 70 linear feet of material. Not only would these files illuminate the working relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers, they would also provide significant insight into a web of ties linking Obama to various radical organizations, including Obama-approved foundation gifts to political allies. Obama’s leadership style and abilities are also sure to be illuminated by the documents in question.
Now, on to Saul Alinsky.
He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals. His ideas were later adapted by some U.S. college students and other young organizers in the late 1960s and formed part of their strategies for organizing on campus and beyond.
Those that follow ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) closely know that the organization is skilled in the fine art of Saul Alinsky and his strategies for organizing. Alinsky put his rules together in order provide a textbook for this without money or natural power to organize and to affect change without the sort of power and connections that those with power would have.
ACORN uses these fundamentals in order to harass, manipulate and ultimately extort money from powerful people and organizations. Their tactics come from Alinsky rule #13: identify, isolate, freeze and escalate. The blue print works like this. ACORN will identify an individual, usually a powerful head of a powerful organization. They will show up in front of that person's home with several hundred protesters. Since these powerful folks normally live in quiet and wealthy suburbs, such a commotion will soon be the talk of the neighborhood. The message for this person's friends and neighbors will be clear "they are a bad person". By doing so, they will have isolated this person from their friends and neighbors. Soon, not only will the target himself be a pariah but so will his children. That is the process of isolation. At this point, the target thinks that things can't get worse, and it is then that ACORN only raises the stakes. Not only will ACORN, and their protesters, show up everywhere the target frequents: the mall, the movie theater, the library, etc, but they will be there before the target even shows up. As such, before the target even arrives to their shopping, ACORN will show up with a crew of several hundred to protest them. All of this is done in order to beat the target into submission. For weeks and months, ACORN goes on a relentless campaign of harassment in which a powerful CEO can't seem to shake this group. Wherever they go, ACORN is there, and often they are there before the target.
Make no mistake, ACORN continues to look for any opportunity to apply Saul Alinsky rule #13 to put pressure and ultimately extort money from powerful individuals. The next time you read about an agreement between some business and ACORN to provide services to the underprivileged you should wonder if someone had their home picketed and if the rules of identify, isolate, freeze, and escalate were employed.
So, this is the man and how he influenced the notorious ACORN organization. Now let us turn to Obama and how he was influenced by Alinsky. Consider the following:
"Obama is also an Alinskyite.... Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985 he began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project.... Camouflage is key to Alinsky-style organizing. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer." (By Richard Poe, 11-27-07)
"Obama learned his lesson well. I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday". --Letter from L. DAVID ALINSKY, son of Neo-Marxist Saul Alinsky.
Obama helped fund 'Alinsky Academy': "The Woods Fund, a nonprofit on which Obama served as paid director from 1999 to December 2002, provided start up funding and later capital to the Midwest Academy.... Obama sat on the Woods Fund board alongside William Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist organization.... 'Midwest describes itself as 'one of the nation's oldest and best-known schools for community organizations, citizen organizations and individuals committed to progressive social change.'... Midwest teaches Alinsky tactics of community organizing."
NOW WE HAVE THE CONNECTION!
Together with the czars - Isn't this a great group? This is the true Obama.
Together with the czars - Isn't this a great group? This is the true Obama.
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