The Democrat Party platform’s hidden Soros Slush Fund
My syndicated column today delves into the Democrat Party platform and exposes how untold amounts of taxpayer funding would be steered to militant, George Soros-backed left-wing groups. Welcome to Barack Obama’s “Social Investment Fund Network.”
Follow the money.
That goes for both presidential candidates who carry the Soros taint. Ugh.
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The Democrat Party platform’s hidden Soros Slush Fund
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
The Democrat Party platform is like a bag of pork rinds. You never know what high-fat liberal government morsel you’re gonna get.
Buried in the 94-page document is a noble-sounding proposal to create a “Social Investment Fund Network.” The program would provide federal money to “social entrepreneurs and leading nonprofit organizations [that] are assisting schools, lifting families out of poverty, filling health care gaps, and inspiring others to lead change in their own communities.” The Democrat Party promises to “support these results-oriented innovators” by creating an office to “coordinate government and nonprofit efforts” and then showering “a series of grants” on the chosen groups “to replicate these programs nationwide.”
In practice, this Barack Obama brainchild would serve as a permanent, taxpayer-backed pipeline to Democrat partisan outfits masquerading as public-interest do-gooders. This George Soros Slush Fund would be political payback in spades. Obama owes much of his Chicago political success to financial support from radical, left-wing billionaire and leading “social entrepreneur” Soros. In June 2004, Soros threw a big fund-raiser at his New York home for Obama’s Illinois Senate campaign. Soros and family personally chipped in $60,000. In April 2007, Obama was back in New York for a deep-pocketed Manhattan fund-raising soiree, with Soros lurking in his shadow (yes, that’s him behind Obama grasping onto the stairs).
No doubt with Soros’s approbation (if not advice from the hands-on “progressive” activist or his advisors), Obama fleshed out his Social Investment Fund Network plan last December. In concert with his mandatory volunteerism pitch and $6 billion anti-poverty plan, Obama called for the creation of a “Social Entrepreneurship Agency” to dispense the funds in unspecified amounts. The agency would be a government-supported nonprofit corporation “similar to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,” which runs public television. (And we’ve all seen how fair and balanced that lib-dominated, Bill Moyers-boosting private-public enterprise turned out.)
Obama cites the Harlem Children’s Zone, which provides after-school activities and mentors to children in New York, as an example of a program that should be funded. (HCZ’s former senior leader, Shawn Dove, is now an official at Soros’s Open Society Institute.) The problem with such initiatives, as Mitchell Moss pointed out in the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal several years ago, is that these private-public partnerships formed under the guise of economic renewal often become nothing more than fronts that coordinate “an enormous safety net for social services.” Private donations give the illusion of self-help and philanthropic independence, but in reality, the “clients” are never weaned from the teat of the welfare state. They simply learn how to milk it more efficiently.
Even more troubling is how the Democrat Party/Obama plan would siphon away untold millions or billions of public tax dollars into the Soros empire without taxpayer recourse. Obama promises “accountability” measures to ensure the money is spent wisely. But who would assess effectiveness of the spending? Why, experts in the social entrepreneurship community, of course. Fox, meet henhouse.
Soros has donated some $5 billion of his fortune to left-wing non-profit groups through the Open Society Institute — which is committed to Soros’s militant ideology of toppling the “fascist” tyranny of the United States, which he says must undergo “de-Nazification” in favor of “justice.” The mob at Obama-endorsing MoveOn, purveyors of the “General Betray Us” smear against Commanding General, MNF-I, David Petraeus, is the most notorious Soros-backed political arm. But scores of other activist non-profits have received Soros funding under the guise of doing non-partisan “community” or “social justice” work — and it is exactly such leftist activist groups that would be first in line for the Democrat Party/Obama’s “social investment” seed money.
Point in case: ACORN. As I’ve reported before, Obama’s old friends at the Chicago-based non-profit now take in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers. They have raked in tens of millions in federal anti-poverty grants while their operatives preside over massive voter fraud, corporate shakedowns, and mortgage scams across the country. Soros has donated at least $150,000 to the group, according to Investor’s Business Daily, and “heads a secretive rich-man’s club called ‘Democracy Alliance’ that has doled out $20 million to activist groups like ACORN.”
Once the spigot is turned on, there’s no turning back.
Where are fiscal conservatives on this far-Left boondoggle? Well, if you’re wondering why the McCain campaign doesn’t raise hell over this proposed left-wing non-profit/government pipeline, it’s because McCain himself is a Soros beneficiary. His “Reform Institute, ” a tax-exempt, supposedly independent 501(c)(3) group focused on campaign finance reform, was funded with Soros-funded Open Society Institute and Tides Foundation.
Birds of a Big Government feather flock together– and look out for each other. Watch your wallet.
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It will be our responsibility, the voters, to insure that Mr. Soros’ plan does not bare fruit. As voters we have to let our collective voices be heard and send Soros’ and his cronies packing.
A program like this would be a complete disaster. Just imagine how many more dollars ACORN would get, to register even more fraudulent registrations. Democrats are always looking for ways to get taxpayer dollars for their liberal friends. this is not even surprising.
Just another reason for more government.
Can we bury the word social already, I am tired of that word.
No need to watch my wallet, If Obama wins I won’t have any money to put in it.
Coin purse it will be, Thank God I have my my Grandfather’s from the Great Depression.
Birds of feather indeed. How do we the People take back our out of control government? Term limits would be a good start.
By the way, great column Michelle, another home run.
“As you have done it to the least of these, you have also done it unto me.”
What a hypocrite! Does Grove Park ring a bell? And the list is like the Eveready Bunny, it just goes on and on and …..
Here is another good reason that a battalion of bulldozers, running full speed with blades down at Washington, DC always perks me up. One good shove and we have Atlantis II!
I’ll be voting for Vice President this time. My choices for the top spot suck.
Thanks for another great column, Michelle.
So, now we’re going to have bigger government, higher taxes, and unchecked millions of tax dollars flowing into radical-left interest groups under an Obama presidency. The power that these groups will weild is scary. They’ll have the money and the people in power to get whatever legislation they want passed. With liberal judges to back them up, an Obama presidecy will leave America unrecognizable in 4 years.
Thank you, Michelle! I’d forgotten about The Reform Institute.
I’ve always wondered if there was a 2nd reason Sen. PreElectionGagOrder was hot for CFR, but left the vast non-sensical loopholes his bill that he had.
It makes sense if it turns out he only likes certain types of CFR! So hands-off Acorn, Soros, Tides, Open Society Institute, et al!
Excellent piece! Thank you again!
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(On a related, preparatory note)
Well I’m surprised…
The 2 or 3 posters McCain employees who always come here to pee in the potted plants haven’t started up their mutual back-patting society yet.
By that, of course, I mean gratutitously run Michelle down on her own site. And interfering in the progress of any discussion on finding a way to keep their employer more Republican than Democrat by throwing pies at any posters who introduce facts into the discussion.
If incase you were unaware, any airing of McCain’s faults is MDS. Just ask’em they’ll tell you!
And tell you… and tell you!
They probably don’t get up this early…
BTW:
Those who post, watch out! Watch what you say! They’re taking your name! After McCain is elected you’d better beware, “be afraid of the RNC!”
Although they actually wrote Michelle should be afraid of the RNC, because they’ll remind the RNC & everyone of her MDS, they never say why one should fear the RNC…
Oh, just a minute… there’s a knock at my door…
Excellent column, Michelle! Thank you.
I am reminded of how the left institutionalizes its activist organizations everytime PBS starts begging for money from the public. They already recieve public money, but then want contributions from the fold or the unwary. It is the latter we need to reach.
Yes- SIFN. Phonetically let’s sound that out shall we?…hmmm…that would be SIPHON. Coincidence?….I think not.
I love nefarious acronyms like SPECTRE. Let’s applaud their subtle truth in advertising!
Why McCain does hammer away at the Soros-Moveon-Obama connection is a mystery to me. Spotlighting the ACORN-Obama connection alone, with their history of fraudulent election practices, in a campaign ad would tip most toss-up states into the McCain camp overnight. It’s time some of these associations received greater scrutiny from the public and the media. And, even if the media would feel such an ad would be below the belt (when don’t they feel any discussion of a Dems history is below the belt?), the McCain camp could always defer to the media’s favorite party line, “It was an opportunity to start an open dialogue about these matters.” Because once that box gets opened, all of his associations with Soros, Ayers, etc. would come into the light.
Great column, Michelle. You are so right about the welfare teat. Once there, they never get weaned off and it makes you wonder why the Lib Dems cannot see this is sucking the country dry. Do they not realize that it is their taxes going up also?
Is Soro’s handicapped?
Interesting how Soros appears to be the only person in the picture, not standing. I guess we know who he thinks is the Pharoah in this court.
Programs like this are what create a permanent voting bloc for them. That helps them keep their power and that’s all they care about.
Soros. He and his funding are repeatedly found at the source of so much evil in the world today. His radical anti-indivdual elitist collectivist one-world views are the antithesis of freedom and individual liberty. He would turn the world into his ant colony.
As unChristian as it is to say this, I wish Soros would simply die, immediately.
Lemme’ see if I can encapsulate today’s blog post…
George Soros-money, blah, blah, blah, Barack Obama-money, blah, blah, blah.
Oh…And by the way,
McCain is a Poopy-head.
And, watch your head when they fly over!
Great post Michelle
“Social Entrepreneurship Agency” An entrepreneur is someone who takes risk and an agency is group that controls entrepreneurs. This sounds like a way of destroying the last home of true innovation and job creation. Public financed mind control groups already warp the minds of millions.
Here is a better idea BO
Leave me alone, get out of my way, let me succed or fail or die in the streets trying agency
It’s my plan to stop Washington DC from providing any funds for almost anything (no matter how “noble”). The founding fathers did not desire a powerful central government controlling everything under the guise of grants, entitlements, mandates and regulations. In fact, that is exactly why the wrote the constitution the way they did. The states have the “power” except in a few areas. With the arrival of FDR, he overturned all that and we got centralized everything “for the good of the country”. My opinion – that was the major beginning of the end.
#1…Voters don’t an iota of ’say’ in what Georgie Soros does. At his level of power and wealth, everything and everyone is bought and paid for outside the electoral system.
We’re Screwed ‘08.
Of course I’m screwed every election in NJ, so I’m used to it!
I think it is frightening how little attention the general population pays to this type of deal making. Before I wised up and started to educate myself (about a year ago), I had never heard of ACORN or Soros. Now I feel it is my duty to join the chorus of folks trying to enlighten their neighbors to our slow but steady slide into socialism. Thanks for the education MM.
Soros and his billions aren’t about helping the American people and his adopted country. He’s more about refashioning the country into a socialist paradise so that the USA becomes more and more weak until all we can do in the end is bend over and say, “thank you, sir, can I have another?”
Soros doesn’t care about ordinary Americans. It’s more about throwing money at a social problem that’s a lot more complex than he and the Dems realize. Didn’t Johnson’s Great Society program prove that all the billions that were thrown at poverty didn’t get the expected results? Instead, it got more people dependent on the state and even more sunk into poverty than before the program’s genesis.
No, this “Social Investment Fund Network” is just one more excuse to funnel taxpayer money to layabouts and their enablers. People, like my benighted, liberal sister who’s a social worker, would benefit from such investment. Too bad liberals haven’t learned the harsh realities of what happens when you use taxpayer-funded programs to “improve society.” Just look at Great Britain, France, and Canada. You get more dependence, more cheaters, and more sweetheart giveways like we saw with Hurricane Katrina.
People think that subsidies for Big Oil and the large expenditure in Iraq are so disastrous, just wait until Obummer’s and Soros’ social largesse puts the US in more debt and worse shape than it is now.
George Soros is funding his sock puppet, obama, and their class-less marxist vision of the U.S.???
That’s inconceivable!!
#15: To answer your question about LIBS and taxes… Taxes do not bother LIBS, they never met a tax they didn’t like… They do not want power of the people, as they will often tell you… What they want is POWER OVER THE PEOPLE… They get this by their “SOCIAL” programs, that keep the minorities DOWN and “BEHOLDIN’”…
Isn’t Soros the man who nearly collapse the english pound with his investment.
Isn’t Soros the billionaire with most of his money in off shore tax free accounts.
Isn’t Soros the man who benefitted the most for McCain’s finance reform bill.
If these facts are wrong folks, let me know.
Ah Soviet central planning its best.
So,
The dangling question is:
Why don’t we arrest George Soros, put him on trial, and throw him in jail?
With the follow-up question #1:
Why don’t we arrest Barack Obama, put him on trial, and throw him in jail?
And, follow-up question #2:
Why don’t we arrest John McCain, put him on trial, and throw him in jail?
The short answers are obvious…You have no proof of anything being done illegally.
So, at the end of the day, all you’re left with are, insinuations, speculation, and innuendo…Three degrees of separation notwithstanding.
It doesn’t take an “Einstein” to figure out, it takes a considerable amount of money to run an election campaign…And, we all know, that the person who comes up with the most amount of money has an advantage.
But, what can be done about it?
I have yet to see one, let me repeat ONE blogger ever offer a solution to that problem.
And, from my point of view, McCain is the ONLY candidate who has ever TRIED to make campaign financing reforms, honestly, and in good faith…Unintended consequences notwithstanding.
After all, he didn’t have the luxury of 20/20 hindsight.
very true. he always seems to be the man behind the curtain..pulling the strings….very scary.
But he did have the foresight to exempt campaign contributions from Native Amercian groups who just happen to reside in his home state. Honesty and good faith had nothing to do with it.
1. Overturn the Campaign Finance Reform.
2. Ship all liberals to France.
Problem solved.
You might not like that solution. But it is a solution none the less.
Soros is at the base of evil. No amount of calls to Congress, no amount of crying out to take our country back is going to end the evil. He is dead set on toppling this country and his funds appear endless. I do not hold out a lot of hope for us at this point. Yep, all we can do is vote. And keep exposing him.
You want solutions Franksalterego?
Scrap of the campaign finance reform
Scrap the IRS and replace it with a national sales tax.
Have candidates sign a pledge not to bastardize the constitution and return the powers that rightly belong to the states.
How’s that for a small start?
You can almost see the obama puppets strings…
excellent article michelle. i continue to wonder how these people flock to this country because their own “workers paradise” doesn’t offer them any opportunity, succeed here, then trash the society and system as corrupt and unfair. huge numbers of our liberal elites fled their birth nations, settled here, were educated and had opportunities to succeed, and now can’t stand the place. hollywood is full of them, as is new york, so why don’t they ever leave and go to a system that more closely follows their ideology. could it be they want to live here, but be part of the politburo of a “american workers paradise.” when socialism/communism has never succeeded in any place on earth, it makes one wonder why these rich snobs think they can make it work. my definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting to get a different result. mr soros, and his pals seem to be tilting at windmills in their minds. when the politburo succeeds in having more than 50% of americans on the government dole in one form or another, and less than 50% of americans paying for that dole in taxes, the politburo is assured of reelection. the problem becomes keeping that minority paying for the majority, as the wealthy create jobs ONLY if there is a return on investment. america is at the tipping point now, with half the population paying no income tax, and the taxpayers being told to anti up more for mr soros’ dream. is it any wonder employers are fleeing the u.s. if their business requires employees. with all the government regs and requirements for taxes on employees, employers can’t recieve a return on investment above that of sticking their money in the stock market or some other passive investment. this past week in st. louis, we witnessed a caravan of uaw workers heading to detroit to beg chrysler to keep open an assembly plant, and the teamster hold a rally to convince anheuser busch’s new owners not to change anything despite the fact that the new owners paid 70 billion dollars to buy the company. how do you get an roi large enough to pay off that purchase if nothing changes in your largest expenditure (wages and benefits) and if ab was so precious to the teamster union, why didn’t they pony up te 70 billion from their pension fund to save it. i’ll bet their pension fund cashes the new owners check for stock held by the teamster pension fund.
Funny,
I don’t see “Native American” or “Arizona” mentioned anywhere in the legislation,
isn’t it.
I think the picture is very telling. There lightened the center frame. Just look at Soros’s slacks. Also why do we not hear more about Soros huge investment in foriegn oil while opposing domestic production. The Dems are corrupt top to bottom, even when caught they deny and the MSM covers for them.
How does this eliminate contributions from Big Money?
How does it keep from giving one candidate an advantage over another?
Hint: Try thinking, before typing.
Once again, thanks for an excellent post reminding us just exactly we are up against.
Think of it this way…
Would elimination of McCain-Feingold eliminate George Soros’ money seeping into the campaign?
I think I understand now why DemLibs tend to be such perverts: Whenever they fawningly gaze at the Federal Government, all they see is one big breast.
They perpetually suck, and the rest of us are expected to just keep on producing endless supplies of milk/money.
And whenever we put our blouse back on, they go into crybaby mode.
Franksaltererego
It’s a start sport. Try thinking yourself before you insult. Where are your solutions?
Its all part of his Marxist plan.
I wanted to throw this in Michelle
Its a story about how the “TIDES” foundation bailed out ACORN for the $1 dollar embezzelment it was involved in. And a key TIDES backer is none other than Tereza Heintz Kerry.
Think of the things that are important to George Soros, then look at how John McCain has acted…
AGW taxes?
Check.
Opposition to drilling in ANWR and American Energy Independence?
Check.
Opposition to Human Life Amendment?
Check.
Influencing U.S. Elections?
Check. (McCain-Feingold)
Amnesty (and therefore minimum wage and voting rights) for millions of “oppressed working class”?
Check. (McCain-Kennedy)
Just Say No! to “George Soros for President”
If I had the solution, I’d be writing my own blog…Or, running for president, (without campaign financing.)
All I’ve seen so far, is a bunch of caterwauling about candidates accepting campaign donations.
I doubt, there IS a solution that satisfies everyone.
If John McCain is so brave, why has he consistently turned down interview requests from Michelle Malkin?
Prob’ly, for the same reason we don’t negotiate with terrorists.
John McCain doesn’t have to prove his manhood. He’s been there and done that.
Zorro #5, Agree TERM LIMITS is a great place to start. Unfortunately, Congress will never legislate term limits upon themselves.
The longer a person is in politics, the more powerful (beholden to special interest money) they become.
So, We the People, must begin to impose our own term limits. No more than 2 terms. That does not mean, 2 terms in the House followed by 2 terms in the Senate. It means no more than 2 terms in any Congressional Office. Then, go back home and find a real job.
How do we accomplish that. Just refuse to send anyone back. If they run for a 3rd Term do NOT support them. Put the word out.
Gold is an amazing substance. It’s possible to make it so thin that you can see through it. But even thinner than that is the reasoning in this MM column: “Obama wants to use some federal money to fund charities. Soros contributes to similar charities. Soros supports Obama. I don’t like these charities. Therefore Obama is giving federal money to Soros.”
Soros’ Money Hits Pay-Dirt…
McCain Moving Up In Polls, Takes 5 Point Lead In Zogby National Survey
New polling data just released by Zogby International this morning shows Sen. John McCain jumping to a 5 point lead over Sen. Barack Obama nationally. The poll of 1,089 likely voters taken August 14-16 shows McCain leading Obama 46%-41%; a similar poll last month showed Obama leading McCain 47%-40%.
franksalterego said: “Hint: Try thinking, before typing.”
You know, that one sentence is all you would have had to write for us to know immediately that you are a liberal. It is rude, condescending, nasty, et al. And calling Michelle Malkin a terrorist, I think, should get you kicked off this blog.
We know who Soros is and what his agenda is. And he has every right to pursue it. AND he has every right to pursue it without the same kind of mentality that led to folks being convinced to support Campaign Finance. So money is evil is it? All and any money makes folks evil. So if Obama took money from Soros and McCain took money from Soros, then McCain=Obama and we need to shiver in fear…..
Sloppy journalism Michele. Sorry but you make connections based on suspicion not on facts. The idea that McCain and Obama are in anyway identical enough to be equally afraid of both is absurd.
This is “smear” journalism. I’m quite disappointed.
If you have some kind of factual information that connects McCain to Soros in the same way that Obama is connected to Soros and to accomplish the same goals as Obama I’d like to see that information. To imply that this is the case with nothing more than money=bad formula is without merit. Again, it saddens me that you’ve stooped to such a formula.
Soros’ Money Hits Pay-Dirt cont’d.
…McCain now has a 9-point edge, 49 percent to 40 percent, over Obama on the critical question of who would be the best manager of the economy — an issue nearly half of voters said was their top concern in the November 4 presidential election.
That margin reversed Obama’s 4-point edge last month on the economy over McCain, an Arizona senator and former Vietnam prisoner of war who has admitted a lack of economic expertise and shows far greater interest in foreign and military policy…
–Reuters
I’ve given serious consideration to kicking MYSELF off this blog.
The way we defeat this is elect the GOP back into control in the house and do what the democrats do to Republicans, Start investigations.
If the GOP wins in November we should push a GOP congress to open congressional hearings on ACORN, SOROS and all the little dirty money secrets of the Democrats.
The problem is we get spinless GOPers who are afraid to point fingers at some organizations because the democrats scream “RACISM” when ever they get a finger pointed at them. We need a congress that will ignore the race baiting game and will stick to the facts.
However the GOP needs to change how it runs elections first because it is being greatly overwhelmed right now. I have not seen ONE attempt by the GOP to win this november other than “DRILL NOW”. That is not enough.
I wont hold my breath but hope the GOP gets its act together.
Franksalterego
There will always be the Soros’s of the world who want power, money and social changes who need validation of their perverse religious or socials ideals. I could elaborate with minute detail, but Michelle would kick me off this blog for taking up to much space. The ultimate solution for corruption like this is to make the opportunities small for manipulation. Or simple said
MAKE GOVERNMENT SMALLER
Your on point cheapseat. I’ll just add that most of these liberal elites are also Jewish expatriates. Before anyone calls me an anti-semite you better read up on the Russian Revolution, who started and has always funded left wing groups like CPUSA, ADL, and NAACP.
Like Abramoff ?
I think SOROS does what any rich person does (including Rupert Murdoch owner of Fox News) they grease the pockets of both sides to get in favor with the candidates in case either wins the election.
In Obama’s case there is more of a quid pro quo than in McCain’s case.
Term limits bad idea. It forces the good ones out equally with keeping bad ones from being in office too long. It also says that we don’t need to be responsible for our votes. Term limits will take care of any bad apples.
We need to re-educate folks on conservativism and why it works and is the only real option for efficient and effective government and improving the quality of life. We need to work locally starting at city/state elections and work for conservatives and we need to create momentum from that base that flows to the federal elections. We have work to do. It would be nice if we could sit back and “fix it” with something like term limits. Term limits fixes nothing and we end up still at the place of having work to do.
Conservatives need to get busy. It would be nice if there was some other way. There isn’t.
We need to stop eating our own and take a big picture view of what is at stake and get over ourselves. How do we expect to move forward if we are busy arguing about if a person is conservative “enough” when we are talking about comparing our candidate to the likes of Obama? I mean really? How is it we think an argument of that nature is helpful or appropriate when we are talking about giving the White House to Obama as a result? This is what we’ve come to as conservatives? No wonder we’ve lost ground.
We’re inconsistent, we eat our own, and we want any and all elected officials to pass the conservative “enough” test. And we wonder why we’re losing ground?
Just look at this article by Michele Malkin as an example. She’s painting McCain as IF essentially he is no different than Obama!?
And she’s one of us? You know what they say about with friends like that who needs enemies? One has to wonder.
jsmiddleton4,
I see your point on Term Limits, but by not limiting the time a person can serve, we end up with career politicians. I do not believe being a public servant, was meant to be a life-time profession.
I do agree, we need to cultivate more conservative public servants at the state level. It is the only way to ‘promote’ candidates to the federal level.
We also need more diversity, i.e. more than two parties. It seems to me, people are more centrist than far-left or far-right. However, the majority of our public servants are beholden to the Dems or Reps. I suppose it is because that is where they can receive the greatest amount of $$$$$$ to fund their campaigns.
The last thing we need is yet another Special Interest Group class of pseudo-private “charities” dependent on the “goodwill” of the taxpayer; whether said taxpayer likes it or not.
If these groups are doing something worthwhile and more importantly, WORKING, let them try and get the word out for private funding. Just like any other kind of business, if it can’t run effectively it can’t help anyone anyway.
I only read the first couple of lines when I noticed this;
“Social Investment Fund Network.”
SIFN
or SIPHON
from the dictionary,
siphon off
a. to draw (liquid) off through a siphon
b. to redirect (resources or money), esp. dishonestly, into other projects or bank accounts [Greek]
Was this their intention?
On August 20th, 2008 at 11:36 am, franksalterego said:
Don’t like echo chambers?
On August 20th, 2008 at 11:43 am, jsmiddleton4 said:
Very well stated jsmiddleton4.
Mighty Oaks from little ACORNS grow and with all the fertilizer the Dems are spreading these oaks will sprout all over the place.
LGM
Kind of like the razor-thin assertion that McCain’s car had a TV in his car?
Something tells me you weren’t there, LGM.
It would make more sense if Soros and Obama had similar interests in charities, and it would make less sense if it didn’t. Both are elitist secular progressives.
So if you have counter-info, feel to provide. It hasn’t stopped you before.
Ditto, jsmiddleton.
It seems that we have a group of voters who want every issue settled before they pull the lever, so they don’t have to pay attention for the next 4 years.
Pure laziness.
I think, “Happy’s crapper” has a virtual unrequited love-affair goin’.
Must…Not…Dissent
On August 20th, 2008 at 12:37 pm, atheling said:
I honestly think this is at the heart of the problem. They want to just flip the lever and get everything, every last thing that they want and if they can’t get everything that they want without working to keep whomever they have elected accountable they might as well just get nothing that they want and hold a big pity party.
On August 20th, 2008 at 12:41 pm, franksalterego said:
Hey, being called a RINO by someone who is effectively supporting the democrats is the proudest form dissent.
Then again, it’s too nice a day for this… cheers.
On August 20th, 2008 at 11:18 am, lgm said:
And “3AM” is a magical hour: while one lies sleeping with dreams of warm, tropical beaches and lazy afternoons of golfing dancing merrily across the dreamscapes of one’s mind – the concerns of the sober world, with all its ugly realities of aggression and threats of mayhem from enemies old and new – rule the day for the true leaders of nations.
Ah, “3AM”: time stretched so thin as to make the ineptitude and inexperience of the falsest of candidates, Messier Obama, crystal clear.
I agree, Bill. They have forgotten the fact that a democracy is messy. They want a ideal candidate who will instantaneously provide all the answers to the issues without their working for it. That’s a recipe for monarchy.
Democracy demands that every citizen work in the process. We don’t just pull a lever and then go home and watch sports and American Idol for the next four years, leaving it to the king to do all the work. Hell, we have another large group who is working to do the opposite of what we want, and we have to fight them every step of the way.
Our instant gratification society has created this kind of mindset.
I’m not talking about his “manhood”, I’m talking about finding out what he really stands for.
I’m not talking about how he thinks with his little head (yes, he’s “been there and done that”), but rather how he thinks with his big head.
Bad humor aside, people need to wake up and realize that Communism is a real threat. Ronald Reagan understood that. There is a very real Communist Party USA, that has a constitution they would like to put in place of our constitution, and a program for how to get there. When you look at their program, ask yourself whether McCain is part of the problem or part of the solution. It’s really not hard to see.
Yes, McCain told us what we want to hear at Saddleback. He can talk the talk. But his track record and current VP stance tell us that he will not walk the walk.
So what is your answer? Vote for Obama?
Frank,
Everyone against CFR accurately predicted where what we’ve got now.
Michelle, Limbaugh, Hannedy, Levin, et al, called this outcome years before today.
So, knowing that, we wonder if you are simply being disingenous in your question.
Don’t bother with old SCOTUS arguments, on constitutionality, or I’ll have to point out Dred Scott and friends.
Read it, and you’ll agree to the obvious from reading the legislation: the exemptions amplify the MSM, 527s, et al all out of balance.
This is the 1st presidental election CFR has been in full force. What we’ve gotten: R-media & D-media candidates. As predicted.
Instead, if you want honest reform, require every $/donor posted within 24hrs on a common website.
Then you’d know a candidate’s associations & who he owes. You’d have a very good idea who he’s beholden to!
Don’t like who supports ‘em, don’t vote for ‘em!
No. Lefty’s prattle & scream: they’d just… die for Free Speech…
What they actually mean is they’d kill*1 you so others hear only their speech.
Lefty’s in power always want to hide facts, information, and opposing viewpoints. The world is what they say it is, Comrades!
Don’t believe me: Speech Codes, PC, CFR, other limits on Political Speech.
Then consider places a little farther along the timelime; societies mature in the Way of Lefty Thought: China & Russia: the repackaged USSR.
In these places, you are denied information that doesn’t fit the Party Line. But – it doesn’t stop there – it grows like cancer. After all, you can’t allow info that will give people ideas — so the censorship expands.
There’s a reason the Amendments, the original ones, are in the order they are in.
This comment is too long already. Maybe I’ll do an indepth piece somewhere, if there’s interest & I find the time.
Sorry its so long, MM.
*1Only your political life, your character, or your reputation — for now.
Note my comment #13. GMTA
TO FRANKSALTEREGO: Dissent is good. Giving your opinion, even though the majority on this blog disagree…also just fine. I for one welcome other opinions besides my own. The problem with some of your comments is that you try to make your point by insulting those with whom you disagree. That immediately puts the other person on the defensive and obscures the issue. If you can avoid your very annoying habit of sounding superior and condescending, you might actually get listened to a bit more often. Try it sometime. By the way, I loved the way you fractured my user name. Cute!
No.
I think the Ron Paul supporters are going to find a way to prevent the “automatic” nomination of McCain, resulting in a brokered convention, from which we will nominate a real Reagan Republican.
I’m just sick. I think both choices are the worst I’ve seen in my life. I’m amazed that we can’t get one person worth voting for. Why does it always have to be the lesser of 2 evils. You can have Libwiser, or Libwiser lite, but sorry! we’re out of Becks.
Follow-up to my last post…
It’s also possible that McCain might be forced into a Bill Clinton-esque admission that his relationship with Vicki Iseman, while not “romantic”, was “inappropriate”.
In light of the John Edwards’ affair, we cannot afford to have an adulterous candidate for President.
If such evidence were to emerge, I think McCain would be forced to step aside.
Sign of the apocalypse for sure: I agree with atheling. Best takes on this topic to date on this site. Good on ya.
Well, maybe it’s time to grow up then. Guess what? In life, sometimes you don’t get what you want. And that maxim holds even more true in politics.
This isn’t about having it your way in Burger King’s drive thru. There are a lot of other variables to contend with than whether you want ketchup or mustard.
Since when have we ever had an election where we were completely satisfied with the candidates? I voted for George Bush twice – because he better reflected my stance on the issues, not because I thought he was perfect!
When I was in college I didn’t bother to vote. You know why? Because, in my self centered and hedonistic world view, no one was good enough. That’s probably why college age voters are the lowest voter turnout demographic group. I grew up since then, realizing that politics, especially democratic politics, is inherently messy, compromising, and exhausting.
Face it. Voting in a democratic process is not going to be like ordering a burger or beer. It’s a lot more complex than that, and requires more work.
And believe me, the consequences of unwise choices are far more grave than drinking Bud Light over Heineken.
Ah, I see all the peanuts are here!
Lou Grant, atheling, & their sockpuppets, peeing in the potted plants, again!
Good thing they pee miracle-gro!
Well, at least they think so…
jsmiddleton4 –
wiseStupidmanBoy by any other name is just as stupid.Franksalterego – LTDHYOTWO
What fun!
atheling telling people to grow up!
So angry! It makes her just want to stamp her foot & grimace!