Monday, October 13, 2008
ENTER THE RACE CARD [again]
It was bound to happen, and so it has: Democrats and their allies are playing the race card.
Big time. On the preceding page, columnist Michelle Malkin surveys the race-baiting being conducted by Democratic Party supporters.
As for the party itself, no less a luminary than Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday lit into a radio host who had the temerity to note that former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines has been an adviser to Barack Obama's campaign.
"The only connection that people could bring up about Raines and Barack Obama," said Reid, "is that they both are African-American. Other than that there is nothing."Actually, The Washington Post has reported that the Obama campaign sought advice from Raines "on mortgage and housing policy matters." That may not be the end of the world, but it's sure not "nothing."
Then there's Democratic luminary Barney Frank, who this week charged that GOP criticism of subprime mortgage loans being made to those who couldn't afford them - a practice he most emphatically encouraged - is racially motivated.
"They get to take things out on poor people," Frank told a Boston symposium. "Let's be honest: The fact that some of the poor people are black doesn't hurt them either, from their standpoint."Democratic accusations of racism to counter legitimate criticism by Republicans is getting pretty tiresome. After all, it was Frank himself who, just two months ago, declared:
"We basically have to tell people who want to make mortgage loans something terribly radical: Do not lend money to people who can't pay it back."Does that make Frank a racist?
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Gallup Finds Race is Meaningless in This Election... Unless You're Non-White
As Gallup polling organization says, race is a natural question to ponder with this election since Obama is the first black man to gain the nomination of a major party. But, instead of finding race to be a major factor among whites, the polling from Gallup has found that considerations about race is basically a wash making the issue practically meaningless as a factor in possible vote outcomes with white voters. So much for the Left's claims that whites won't vote for Obama because he's black.
Gallup found that only six and seven percent of white voters polled even found race a factor at all, with six percent saying they'd be less likely to vote for Obama based on race and seven percent actually saying they are more likely to vote for Obama because of his race. That pretty much cancels each other out, I'd say.
But of note are the non-whites that say they will vote for Obama because of his race. About double the amount of non-whites (15%) said they are more likely to vote for Obama because he's black as well as less likely to vote for McCain based on his race (13%).
So, it looks like the race card is firmly in the hands of minorities instead of whites. One wonders why all the charges of racism from the Old Media and the political left are levied against whites when it seems that minorities are far more racist than whites? At least if these polling numbers are to be believed, this would be the case.
But, even at that rate, let's face it. Race is so far at the bottom of the list that it doesn't factor in much for voting totals nationwide.
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Media's Double Standard on Race-based Voting
We are, each year, treated to national media reports on race relations in this country and they invariably discuss white America coming to terms with other races in this country. Very, very rarely does the media ever report on other races coming to terms with white America.
But when you read about Congressman Steve Cohen's race in Tennessee's Ninth Congressional District, you really are confronted by both racism and anti-Semitism in a way we rarely think about in this country. And the media is silent. Barack Obama is silent.
What is happening to Steve Cohen is real racism and there are no prominent national media stories about it. Let me be clear here: Steve Cohen and I disagree on probably 99% of all issues. The point, though, is that the national media is all too willing to run stories of racism involving Republicans and then run as fast as they can in the other direction when the racism involves not just Democrats, but reverse racism.
Steve Cohen just might lose his re-election not because he is white. And a number of black members of Congress are happy about that. Either the media and Barack Obama really care about this issue, or they use it just as a political weapon against Republicans.
The silence is deafening.
[highly referenced piece demonstrating the glaring historical double standard here - Recommended > ]
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New Obama/Media Attack Strategy: 'Angry Mob' Meme
After 8 years of watching while Democrats personally savage President Bush and conservatives with epiteths like "dictator" and "fascist," while seeing the rage on people's faces contorting in anger and hate, the press has discovered that this is not a good thing.
At least when Republicans do it: [quotes from individuals from a GOP rally][snip]
The above, from Jonathan Martin of Politico, is noteworthy in this respect; examples of how unhinged the crowd at these events are center on one, lone individual shouting out something idiotic? "Terrorist, screamed ONE man." Or "He's a liar yelled A woman."
There doesn't appear to be chanting and screaming for Obama's head. There aren't calls to round up Democrats and throw them in a concentration camp. There are no racial insults being thrown.
This entire issue is a mirage...
Update: Thomas Lifson on the infiltration of GOP rallies.
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NYT Finds 'Hostile,' 'Angry,' 'All-White Crowds' Cheering on McCain-Palin
New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller reported Thursday from the McCain trail in Ohio and found "conservative and almost all-white crowds" greeting the Republican, in "McCain Excites Crowds With Criticism of Obama."
Bumiller, perhaps the Times reporter most hostile to John McCain, led off by painting the candidate as out of touch with what voters really care about...
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Sabotaging GOP rallies
People are being organized to sabotage McCain/Palin rallies. Check out the sign behind Jon Voight's head.
She apparently had help, too. I doubt that one person could hold onto both signs. This was an operation, not a lone prankster.
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Voight to CNN: 'It's Become a Partisan Press'
On Saturday's Ballot Bowl 2008, CNN anchor Ed Henry interviewed Jon Voight. Henry must have been surprised when Voight very quickly made an important point, one that it's impossible to deny: Much of the mainstream media has become unabashedly partisan. Henry asked Voight how he thought Sarah Palin did in the recent vice presidential candidate debate:
JON VOIGHT: She was wonderful in the debate. My deepest concern, you know. Let me just say -- can I say something honestly about the debate? The thing that concerned me about the debate, all these people, 70 to 80 million people watching this debate, and I found so many things that I found Joe Biden said that were - that I recognized as out-right lies. So I'm saying, isn't anybody on this? And of course, we're talking to CNN and I know where you guys stand. And I'm saying, guys, we've got to not have a partisan press. We've got to have real journalism here. And it's a sad event for me to witness this.It's not often that we hear from the mainstream media of Barack Obama's connections with Saul Alinsky and ACORN or of Joe Biden's huge disconnect with the truth. Voight's call for "real journalism" to Henry was met with a talking point straight from the Obama campaign...
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VOTER FRAUD EXPECTED TO BE RAMPANT
Our nation may be on the brink of repeating the 2000 Florida election debacle, but this time in several states, with allegations of voter fraud, intimidation and flawed voting machines added to the generalized chaos that sent Bush v. Gore to the Supreme Court for overtime.
"If you think of election problems as akin to forest fires, the woods are no drier than they were in 2000, but many more people have matches," says Doug Chapin, editor of the nonpartisan Electionline.org.
The real battle that could decide this election may be fought by the squadrons of lawyers both sides have hired to prepare Florida-style challenges to the results in any close state. Once again, America's sloppy, fraud-prone voting system could turn Election Day into an Election Month of court challenges.
[and one political party consistently obstructing and-&-all attempts to fix it, from electronic systems {consistently less error prone than physical} to simply showing I.D. to vote... to say nothing of funding groups such as ACORN...]
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1 Voter, 72 Registrations
CLEVELAND - A man at the center of a voter-registration scandal told The Post yesterday he was given cash and cigarettes by aggressive ACORN activists in exchange for registering an astonishing 72 times, in apparent violation of Ohio laws.
"Sometimes, they come up and bribe me with a cigarette, or they'll give me a dollar to sign up," said Freddie Johnson, 19...
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Lou Dobbs, Alone in MSM, Reports on Ohio Early Voting Abuse
Lou Dobbs, along with Glenn Beck, are probably the only two CNN hosts who are not completely in the tank for Barack Obama. So it is interesting to see this report by Dobbs about early voting in Ohio which allows people to register to vote and cast an absentee ballot at the same time. This opens up a great opportunity for election fraud as this report demonstrates.
A check on Google News shows absolutely no MSM coverage, other than this story by Dobbs, on the topic of potential vote fraud in Ohio due to the relaxed rules instituted by the highly partisan Democrat Ohio Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, who changed the voting rules by directive (emphasis mine):
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Lou Dobbs: 'My Colleagues in the Media Are Absolutely Biased'
An astonishing thing happened on CNN Sunday evening: Lou Dobbs told his guests,
"My colleagues in the national media are absolutely biased, in the tank supporting the Obama candidacy while claiming the mantle of objectivity,"
and they agreed.
[audio clip available here]
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Is ACORN Stealing The Election?
A radical group Barack Obama used to work for is committing voter-registration fraud in several states, ahead of the election. What does Obama know about this scam? It's a legitimate question to raise now that the FBI has raided the offices of the nonprofit Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now in Nevada and North Carolina, two states where Obama and John McCain are running neck-and-neck. ACORN has registered bogus voters in both states.
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What is ACORN?
House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio is calling for ACORN to be defunded. "The latest allegations of voter registration fraud by ACORN are further evidence that this group cannot be trusted with another dollar of the taxpayers' money," he said.
ACORN helped make the term "affordable housing" a Washington staple. So as the roots of the financial crisis are laid bare, take a hard look at ACORN. If the political left is an abstract concept for social justice and socialist sentiments, then ACORN is its avatar. [snip]
ACORN's work has been primarily focused on affordable housing for low-income families first through community activism to force improvements to public housing. The group initially wanted to also increase welfare, which it succeeded in doing in cities across the country during the 1970s and 1980s, but the effort ultimately created concentrated pockets of poverty that led to overwhelming crime that knew no borders; the residents themselves became easy prey for the criminal drug culture.
In 1984, ACORN expanded widely, establishing chapters in a dozen cities and winning over poor and working-class members who took up the mantle for living wages and single-payer health care. ACORN also protested against insurance redlining issues. In 1991, ACORN began lobbying for banks to offer low-interest loans to people of limited financial means with little to no collateral. ACORN then worked to defeat the weakening of the Community Reinvestment Act in 1991...
[and from that little acorn sprang our global financial crisis]
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'Truth Squad' Getting Old Media Silence
What if I told you that sheriffs and prosecutors in, say, Indiana, had formed "truth squads" and "subtly" threatened prosecutions of critics of John McCain?
Does anyone think that the New York Times, Washington Post and Old Media in general wouldn't be putting the news on the front page, even with the bailout-apalooza going on in Washington?
Well, there is a "truth squad." It's in Missouri. It includes prosecutors and sheriffs. Oh, and they have formed their truth squad to threaten and intimidate the critics of ..... Barack Obama.
Here is a transcript of a report from station KMOW in St. Louis (first 1:45 of vid; HT Gateway Pundit) that may leave you wondering whatever happened to the country we once knew: [snip]
Old Media has now had plenty of time to catch up to this story and, as unfortunately expected, is clearly ignoring it. Specifics:
- A New York Times search on "Obama Missouri" (not in quotes) has nothing.
- The Washington Post, with the same search -- Nothing.
- The Associated Press? Of course not (search is on "Missouri Obama Truth Squad).
[well then what is the old media spending its time on?]
CBS ‘Early Show’: ‘Explosive’ Report On Palin Troopergate
"We'll go live to Alaska for the latest details on the potentially explosive report."[of course]
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The Media's Vendetta Against Palin
Conservatives know by now that the dominant liberal media is not just out to criticize Gov. Sarah Palin. They are on a drive to destroy her. But conservatives are missing the reason why.
It's not really about defeating John McCain. Running mates do not decide a presidential election. The real reason is the future. Never again will the Left media (New York Times; Washington Post; the networks; Hollywood) allow a young politician to ascend to the leadership of a national conservative movement -- at least not without all-out character assassination... [snip]
What liberals are after today are not the economic liberalism of the 1930s or civil rights of the 1960s. They want a complete overhall of American social values. They want to redefine marriage, the military, the work place, religion -- in other words, the nation's values.
The pro-life, pro-gun Palin, age 44, is the first conservative on the scene since Reagan who can threaten that agenda with a political counter-insurgency.
She must be stopped.
[Palin*Jindal*2012 - you read it hear first]
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The company you keep...
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Does Obama Still Think Ayers Has Been ‘Rehabilitated’? No, Says his Campaign
Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told a radio host yesterday that by the time he found out about William Ayers' background as a member of a violent radical 70s group "The Weather Underground," "I assumed that he had been rehabilitated" since Ayers at that point had become an apparently accepted member of the Chicago academic world.
[wait a minute: if, as he said earlier, the he didn't know the man {before saying he was just a neighbor}, how could he have ever 'assumed at the time' he was rehabilitated {before changing that line as well}? Point: the man's lying to our faces and the media lets him get away with it]
Ayers was, when Obama met him, "a college professor, teaching education at the University of Illinois and that's how I met him,"...
[marvelous]
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Time to Level with the American People bout Domestic Terrorist Bill Ayers
What did he know? When did he know it? These are questions being raised about Sen. Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, one of the founding members of the Vietnam-era domestic terror group Weather Underground (a/k/a the Weathermen).
FamilySecurityMatters.org’s Pam Meister had a conversation with John Murtagh, whose family had a terrifying brush with the Weather Underground during the terror group’s heyday in the early 1970s...
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Policy Positions Re: HEALTH CARE
THE JOHN MCCAIN HEALTH PLAN
Most health policy analysts believe that Sen. McCain is proposing the most fundamental health care reform, says John C. Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis.
- Right now the federal government primarily uses the tax system to encourage private health insurance -- handing out more than $200 billion in tax subsidies every year.
- Sen. Obama would leave this system largely intact.
- Sen. McCain would completely replace it with a fairer, more efficient system with a much better chance of both insuring the uninsured and controlling health costs.
- Employers could no longer buy insurance with pretax dollars.
- Such payments would be taxable to the employee, just like wages.
- However, every individual would get a $2,500 credit (and every family would get $5,000) to be applied dollar-for-dollar against taxes owed.
The impact would be enormous, says Goodman:
- For the first time, when purchasing health insurance low- and moderate-income families would get as much tax relief as the wealthy.
- People who purchase their own coverage would get the same tax relief as those who obtain it through an employer.
- Whereas Sen. Obama would continue the current practice of giving the vast bulk of federal help to the rich (through tax subsidies) and the poor (through spending programs), the McCain tax credit would give the most new tax relief to the middle class.
For text:
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba629/
THE BARACK OBAMA HEALTH PLAN
Sen. Barack Obama has released only sketchy details about his health reform plan. The Commonwealth Fund has produced a very detailed plan, however, which it encourages readers to view as very similar to Obama\'s. Thus, one can assume the Commonwealth plan details apply where Obama has been vague, says John C. Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis.
- The Obama plan would impose a "pay-or-play" mandate on all employers -- taxing those who do not provide health insurance for their employees.
- Following Commonwealth, one can assume this would be an additional tax of 7 percent on payrolls -- up to $1.25 per hour per employee -- imposed on employers who fail to pay at least 75 percent of their employees\' premiums for a minimum benefit package.
- Were this provision enacted today, it would immediately affect the 40 percent of small employers who do not offer coverage, the 30 million people in families who have at least one worker but no health insurance, and millions of Medicaid enrollees who have some workforce connection -- to say nothing of all the employers who currently pay less than 75 percent and/or have plans that are insufficiently generous.
A tax on labor (or mandated labor benefits) makes employment more expensive. It encourages employers to hire fewer workers, adopt labor-saving technology, employ part-time workers, and outsource labor to independent contractors and other entities, says Goodman.
Source: John C. Goodman, "The Barack Obama Health Plan," National Center for Policy Analysis, Brief Analysis No. 628, September 5, 2008.
For text:
http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ba/ba628/
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