The Problem With Obama

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I am a reg­u­lar reader and occa­sional com­menter at FreeRe­pu­bic. Well, I should put this in past tense as I have now been labeled “troll” and had my priv­i­leges revoked. Why? Very sim­ply because I pre­sented incon­ve­nient truths via a Haaretz arti­cle that FreeRepublic’s staff found con­trary to their knee-​jerk pro-​Israeli viewpoints.

This is all too com­mon with Web sites that pre­fer to be echo cham­bers of approved views. Some obvi­ous sites that, as a result, are just pro­pa­ganda out­lets are:

• Free Repub­lic
• Talk­ing Points Memo
• Red State
• Daily Kos
• NoQuar­terUSA

While it is the right of any Web site to use dis­cre­tion and cen­sor com­men­tary they post, they should clearly state if they are open forums or that they only want con­cur­ring views. Label­ing unwanted com­men­ta­tors as “trolls” is disin­ge­nious at best. These sites should show a lit­tle more hon­esty and maturity.

And what about The Inde­pen­dent View? At the moment I mod­er­ate all posts. I do wel­come thought­ful and provoca­tive com­ments regard­less of the view­point. I will not pub­lish, though, any com­ment that uses offen­sive lan­guage, rude or per­sonal attacks, or are off-​topic. In the near future, once the cur­rent redesign and upgrade of the Web site is com­plete, I antic­i­pate open­ing the Web site up for more direct posts and com­ments from non-​anonymous writers.

Israel’s mur­der­ous reign of ter­ror on Pales­tini­ans is a war crime that under­mines Israel’s legit­i­macy. In my opin­ion, the state of Israel as it cur­rently exists and acts is a pariah state that should be iso­lated and dis­man­tled — begin­ning with the end of all Israeli occu­pa­tion of lands out­side its 1948 bor­ders and end to any and all actions to con­trol land, air, and sea access to Pales­tin­ian lands. Fur­ther, Israel must end its apartheid rule against its non-​Jewish res­i­dents and honor the right of return of all fam­i­lies who fled or were dri­ven from their homes when the Jew­ish state was cre­ated. Finally, Israeli lead­ers who have the blood of war crimes on their hands should be arrested and pros­e­cuted for their actions. Until these steps are taken, it is my rec­om­men­da­tion that no nation, com­pany, or indi­vid­ual should have any deal­ings with the state of Israel or its cit­i­zens, lest they be guilty of facil­i­tat­ing and sup­port­ing Israel’s war crimes.

As for the United States, Israel aggres­sion, oppres­sion, and war crimes do not reflect our val­ues, nor serve our inter­ests. Enough is enough — No more money, no more weapons, and no more sup­port. Period.

And a thought about Pales­tin­ian resis­tance. Any resis­tance is legit­i­mate and is no less than I’d claim if I were in their aggrieved posi­tion. Finally, whether Pales­tini­ans ulti­mately choose to rec­og­nize Israel or not is a ques­tion best left for the future as Israel does not deserve recog­ni­tion today.

Update: I guess I won’t be writ­ing any more diary entries or com­ments at Red​State​.com. It turns out that Red​State​.com is as opposed to dis­cus­sion and dif­fer­ing view­points as are the Obama Cult (Talk​ing​PointsMemo​.com) and the PC crowd (NoQuarterUSA.net) — in their case, Red​State​.com edi­tors responded with quick calls of anti-​semitism instead of racism but it is equally uno­rig­i­nal, untrue, and deroga­tory. In response to an pro-​Israel pro­pa­ganda post I shared that I did not agree with the writer’s knee jerk sup­port and shared my above opin­ion. The result was that I was almost imme­di­ately banned. Not only that, but RedState’s edi­tors trashed my com­ment. Ban­ning is one thing as it is their Web site, but to edit and trash the com­ment while still leav­ing my name on it is not only dis­re­spect­ful but shows incred­i­ble immaturity.

Several weeks ago Barack Obama smoothly explained to “Joe the Plumber” that he wanted to spread Joe’s wealth around (See Barack Obama Meets “Joe the Plumber”). He advo­cated tak­ing the wealth of suc­cess­ful Amer­i­cans and giv­ing it to oth­ers as the gov­ern­ment saw fit. Barack Obama intro­duced a hereto­for unseen side of his ideology — Marxism.

From each accord­ing to his abil­ity, to each accord­ing to his need – Karl Marx, 1875.

When asked on Good Morn­ing Amer­ica (Octo­ber 24, around 2 min­utes), Barack Obama said he did not regret his ‘spread the wealth’ com­ment. Why should he? His social­ist and Marx­ist past and ide­ol­ogy is com­ing into sharp focus and out-​of-​the-​closet so-​to-​speak (See, for exam­ple, my arti­cle, Obama is Hid­ing a Rad­i­cal Past). Past com­plaints about Obama not hav­ing any dis­cern­able ide­ol­ogy can now be firmly laid to rest.

In a 2001 pub­lic radio inter­view (see below the fold), Obama clearly faulted the Supreme Court for not rein­ter­pret­ing the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion to force redis­tri­b­u­tion of wealth and faulted the civil rights move­ment for not doing more “polit­i­cal and com­mu­nity orga­niz­ing and activ­i­ties on the ground.…to put together the actual coali­tions of power through which you bring about redis­trib­u­tive change.”

Obama aligned him­self with a social­ist party in 1996 and has long­stand­ing ties to Marx­ists (e.g., Bill Ayers, Mike Klon­sky) who have a record of attack­ing the United States.

In about one week the Amer­i­can pub­lic will have a choice of vot­ing for Barack Obama, a man with per­sonal and pro­fes­sional ties to peo­ple espous­ing Marx­ist and social­ist ide­olo­gies, or John McCain, an Amer­i­can patriot who has fought Marxism.

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