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ACORN at your door? Commander Obama's new secret mission

Posted by thekeenobserver on Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:30:33 PM

December 1944 --the Ardenne Forest in Belgium.

Adolf Hitler, in his most clandestine operation of the entire Second World War, had dispatched a small group of German commandos, led by Major Otto Skorzeny, on a secret mission deep behind Allied territory. All were wearing American uniforms.

Their move was being co-ordinated with the beginning of the German attack that was to be later called the "the Battle of the Bulge."
 
In the preceding 2 months, Major Skorzeny had scoured the German armed forces for those who spoke English.

Skorzeny had collected 1000 men, but less than 50 of them could speak American English perfectly with a working knowledge of slang. Most of them had either spent time in the United States, or were sailors from the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) who had worked as international seaman before the war.

Since Skorzeny had far fewer men than planned, it was decided to switch the force from a search & destroy mission to deception. So instead of being issued American weapons and fighting vehicles, the commandos were dressed in American MP (Military Police) uniforms.

They would succeed beyond Hitler's wildest imagination:

On December 15, three dozen Germans-- driving captured jeeps--infiltrated across American lines and wreaked havoc! The idea of German commandos disguised as MPs effectively paralyzed the ENTIRE American forces along the battlefront.

The phony MP's spread rumors, changed signposts, and created widespread panic.

Now, not only would U.S. troops have to deal with Germans attacking them from the front, but also had to worry that any man next to them might be an enemy in disguise.

Once this became known, word traveled fast among the Americans- trust NO ONE.

GI's began questioning everyone's home origin, right up to Gen. Omar Bradley, who's jeep was held up for a time by a squad of soldiers for answering..."the Chicago Cubs play in the American League".

But despite their daring and intrigue, the overall effect of the disguised Germans was minimal, and eventually, all the infiltrators were captured and executed by firing squad on 23 December, 1944.

Now 65 years later, America is faced with a group of political infiltrators, who wear street clothes and are mostly indistinguishable from your average American. They are disguised as census takers-- and they'll becoming to a neighborhood near you.

It's just the latest mission of ACORN, the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now.

These ACORN census "commandos" represent an elite. They were not recruited out of halfway houses, prisons, and homeless shelters like their predecessors, but rather are ex college students who have been unable to qualify for private sector employment.

Over the last 20 years, ACORN has managed to effectively paralyze the political opposition  through false voter registrations, and have now swung the political wars far in favor of the left.
 
And like the German commandos at "the Bulge"-- ACORN has succeeded far beyond Commander Barack Obama's wildest expectations.

Back in the late 80's, Ms. Madeleine Talbot-- who at the time was a leader at Chicago ACORN--  hired Obama as their head lawyer. Since then, Obama has used ACORN to get himself elected as an Illinois state senator,  and then to the US senate, and finally--  to the Whitehouse as President.

ACORN supposedly is a national volunteer organization that has occasionally received federal funding.

But in reality, ACORN is like a cult-- the most brilliant criminal entity in US history-- actually getting taxpayer funding to commit voter fraud. And Obama is at the evil heart of this gang of sociopaths.

ACORN's ultimate goal is the enactment of a national, election-day voter registration, which would mark the death knell for fair elections in America . It would enable ACORN to accomplish 3 months of dirty work in in just one day-- a literal bonanza of phony voter registrations to subvert all future elections.

But how has ACORN managed to stay out of legal trouble? If they are out to subvert the American political process, why haven't they been stopped?

Of course the real answer, as always, lies in following the money:

This year-- with the backing of liberal majorities in the House and Senate-- Barney Frank made sure ACORN became "eligible" for funds from the $800 billion Stimulus Bill. Honest Barney managed to sneak a provision for a $4 billion 'slush fund' that the corrupt activist organization can use for...well, whatever.

And now, ACORN has been recruited by Mr. Obama for a far more sophisticated mission than just "simple" voter fraud-- domestic spying on individual Americans-- creating  a national data base that could be used for anything from voter intimidation to IRS audits.

And what could be a better way for accomplishing this than by presenting these agents as "harmless" census takers .

Obama-- if anything --is nothing short of brilliant.

So true to form,  3000 dutiful census workers are now distributed out in the field in Virginia  and four other states, busy at building "address lists" that will comprise the mailings for the 2010 Census forms.

To defer suspicion, Obama has unformed them quite properly: They wear official identification badges and blazers, and carry a SPECIAL large Blackberry.

Nevertheless, local residents have been calling local law enforcement agencies, having been un-nerved by their probing questions that would brand them more like spies, than someone taking the census.

Residents are being asked "how many toilets you have in your home". They are being  questioned about political party affiliations; work information; economic information, and even about firearms ownership-- or the real  eye-opener..."'do you keep your savings in your home, or in a bank?"

So is this a census survey, or just a down-home, everyday Soviet-style KGB inquisiiton?  Could this be an attempt to isolate conservatives and tag them as 'dissenters', or eventual political prisoners?

What better way to trap the unsuspecting to reveal not just the names of people residing there, but additional personal information that may someday be used against them.

Citizens have reported seeing strangers standing near the street, doing something with a "camera thing" in their hand, followed by a persistent knocking at their doors.

But in realty, these census commandos are busy mapping out all of the locations of all of the possible dwellings on everyone's property, such as garages, barns, and sheds, and then noting exact locations of front doors with the internal GPS function of their Blackberrys.

Obviously Obama has given them rather precise instructions: If it looks like it can be lived in, they are to map it! That includes ANY structure with signs of life.

So if they see a hobo sleeping under an underpass, they will map that location, and tally it up so Obama can have every last bit of ammunition to redraw the voting district lines, and disenfranchise all people he thinks are not democrats.

Clever? It's an tactic Obama has used before-- political gerrymandering.

Obama, as a State Senator, used the 2000 census to as a means of redistricting, to disenfranchise all the non-Black voters he could in Illinois, and it helped to get him re-elected for his 2nd term.

So for 2010, Obama is is taking the unprecedented step of requiring the Census Director to report directly to Rahm Emanuel in White House, conveniently circumventing the job that has always been the responsibility of the Secretary of Commerce.

So armed with all this new data, if the White House thinks there's not enough of certain groups shown in an area, they'll just add more 'ghost individuals," which will add more Congressional representative positions, creating an ever- larger democratic supermajority in the House.

And since Obama needed field reps who were experts at creating these ghost individuals--ergo--he selected ACORN.

Not only will the census (and the invisible people that ACORN will add into it) be used to gerrymander voting district lines, Obama can use it to earmark more federal funds for areas that show more people, and create more Democrat strongholds to further stack the deck against the republicans.

And If an area has a huge number of illegal aliens, they can be granted a new representative position in Congress (reps are granted on basis of population numbers, not number of citizens).

And if anyone dare challenge the Commander in Chief, he can contend that no one should be "undercounted" (the dis-enfranchisement argument).

So all urban population totals will now be adjusted UPWARD in all the cities, guaranteeing these newly-created districts will always be represented in Washington by democrats.

And just for future reference, Obama could unleash his secret weapon--the IRS audit--to threaten anyone who foolishly has revealed any personal financial information.

It was early in his political career that Barack Obama learned that politics is a batttlefield, and one must be willing to stop at nothing to win.

So just as Hitler used his trusted Major Skorzenzy to lead his precision-trained  commandos, so has Obama employed the Machiavellian Rahm Emanuel to train his legion of ACORN cultists, and send them out on his own secret mission.

And if you happen to glance out the window, and see a stranger staring at your house, holding something that looks like a camera, could they be a criminal, or just a representative of the U.S. Census Bureau?

But just as the G.I's were quick to learn at the Battle of the Bulge...trust no one.



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Obama-nomics...will it stimulate America's progression to insolvency?

Posted by thekeenobserver on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 7:54:52 PM
 

When Barack Obama traveled across town in a bus to the United Center in Chicago for the 1996 Democratic Convention, he was denied entry for lack of valid credentials. Shortly thereafter, his credit card was rejected when he attempted to rent a car. 10 years later, he became a millionaire upon the publishing of his second book. He is the quintessential American story of  rags to riches...someone who pulled himself up from the bootstraps... yes, only in America .

Now flashback another decade to the good ole days of the mid 80's. Barack Obama was newly-graduated from Columbia University in NY City, but heroically, he denied himself an opportunity to cavort amongst the Yuppie enclave of Wall Street. Instead, he chose to drive all the way to south Chicago in a toil-worn Honda, to accept a $13,000 year salary as a a community organizer.

Clearly there was some fuzzy math at play here. But maybe even back then, Comrade Obama was lay-awaying the story for the political hay it could make for him later. Now that he's at the pinnacle of the presidency, that layaway deposit is about to pay off bigtime.

Yes, we Americans all love a story; and what could be more inspiring than someone in the mid 80's, who could've written his ticket on Wall Street, but instead drove nearly 1000 miles to accept a challenge in the south Chicago ghettos of poverty street.

Oh hail mighty Barack-O, patron saint of liberalism- missionary of service to thy community! We worship at thine altar of most sacred idealism. Obama has managed to convince his skeptics, and has played this "coulda got rich on wall street" story for all its political worth.

In his first book, "Dreams of My Father", he is quoted as having found the true meaning of life..."here was something more than making money and getting a fancy degree. The measure of my life would be public service". His political clock was set... service to his community would be the primary motivator throughout his charmed civic life.

But after accomplishing some meaningful victories, the work of Obama did not transform the South Side, or restore any lost industries. In the book Obama says , "I worked with steelworkers who'd lost their jobs when the local steel mill closed down".

But the problem is, Obama NEVER does say what happened to these unemployed steelworkers . An  educated guess would be that they were encouraged to take the Obamian approach to all of life's problems....place them at the feet of mother government, where the workers were probably offered some public grant to retrain in some service capacity... become a home health-care aide, or attend nursing school: All the usual insipid stuff a government agency would suggest to middle-aged, blue-collar ex-steelworkers that the they would never consider on their own.

But flabbergasting, irrelevant government solutions are Comrade Obama's socialistic stock in trade. And ever the mystery remains as to why Obama never encouraged the steelworkers to go for it... reach for the American dream! Try to become rich!  What he did do was to show them how to qualify for government training programs, government welfare benefits, food stamps, section 8 housing, etc.

This begs the obvious question: Why-0-why Mr. Obama, didn't you encourage any of these so called disadvantaged people to stand up for themselves and create their own jobs? You could've urged them to be entrepreneurs; but does Obama even know what that word means?

After all, if these "disadvantaged' people had been motivated to take ADVANTAGE of our free market system, and start their own service businesses such as cleaning, repairing, landscaping, painting, building, etc. this would've given them the chance to eventually prosper without needing a lot of start-up capital or public handouts.

But Comrade Obama knows a better way... shun our free market system of capitalism. He thinks the government always does it best. Obama likes to apply his bottoms-up theory of economics wherever it's needed. But don't dare call it socialism!

Obama has managed to put lipstick on his government pig of marxism, and has astuteley labeled it with his oxy-moronic theory of economics...bottom up growth. 

 A wellstone of doubt has sprung around his radical theory of how he would stimulate our moribund economy. Fortunately for him, the mainstream media has given him a free pass. But in his brief 3 year Senatorial career, he is often lampooned for voting "present" frequently; and he has soundly been criticized as being barren of sponsoring any original bills or legislation.

But never under-estimate this man... busy-bee Barack is about to spring his community organizer plan on a much grander scale, and produce forth the secret bounty of his cognitive harvest from the last four years.

Dr. Obama has been cooking up a veritable alphabet soup of new federal agencies. And despite our massive debt,  he'll be making them all a reality as our next great liberal president.

His first official act will be to triple the size of the Peace Corps. Next, we have the very stellar, "Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)"

In Obama's new presidency, things would come in threes. He plans to triple the scope of AmeriCorps from 75,000 "slots" to 250,000.  Obama wants a CNCS: The Community National Classroom Corps, where people can serve to help in "high-need and underserved" schools..."A Health Corps", where volunteers are "trained to assist health professionals..." Clean Energy Corps, where volunteers can "promote energy independence through efforts like weatherization, and renewable energy projects...and the "Veterans Corps,  and the Homeland Security Corps .

And let no mind be wasted... the "American Opportunity Tax Credit" will essentially pay $40 per hour, up to $4,000 a year, for 100 hours of public service. This fully refundable credit will ensure that the first $4,000 of a university education will let college be free for virtually anyone who can pick up a bookbag.

There will be a Green Job Corps. This is one of Obama's great ideas for our energy independence! 

The Urban Development (HUD) program was once funded at $50 million.  Obama plans to increase its slots from 8,000 to 50,000 (a federal budget boost to $400 million per annum).

A County Federal Citizen Volunteer Coordinating Center (CFCVCC), where government service bureaucrats will have their offices, will be needed across the country. Now consider the electronic paperwork required to enlist, assign, and monitor volunteers 365 days a week. And it's staggering in the very scope of all the new money that might be spent building and staffing all these new offices.

And to think America was on the verge of nominating Mitt Romney, who had campaigned for fiscal responsibility, investment in new jobs, and tax cuts to stimulate production, produce savings, and provide the investment capital for new plants, equipment, new industry, etc.

Now here comes Obama with his deficit- financed, bottoms-up economy program, which is like painting a crumbling house with a shiny new coat of white paint.

Mysteriously, Obama's fiscal recklessnes is never called into question by the media. Even Herbert Hoover would probably know that to add more debt onto an already growing $12.4 trillion existing pyramid of obligation, would invite catastrophe. The annual debt interest payment right now is at $600 billion! Yet Obama would add another 1.4 trillion in deficit spending to fund his alphabet soup of new federal programs.

Obama maintains that he will solve our debt problems by raising taxes on the rich, closing corporate tax lopholes, and ending the war in Iraq. Absolute fiscal brilliance...stunning monetary astuteness! Let's all shout in acclamation! Obama for the nobel prize in economics! Print the textbooks...promulgate this new Obamian theory of fiscal fantasy-- how to create millions of jobs, using the old liberal government make-work programs of the New Deal, without pushing the nation into insolvency!

But stop and think for a micro-second... couldn't the vast majority of these positions be staffed with volunteers? Yet Obama seems quite willing to subject our economy to trillions of new dollars of deficit spending.  But does any of this giant boondoggle make sense?

This is Dr. Obama at his finest...his clever Jeckyl--Hyde economic masquerade over America. Look beneath the mask. His most trusted advisor is Warren Buffet, and herein lies the mystery...how could Buffet not know that the average American household, with 50k of total income, has a zero savings rate?

Household savings once provided the capital that was used to finance the sounder economic days of the previous decades, where debt was shunned, and cash-based assets  were available to fund expansion.

And Buffet certainly must realize that Obama's taxing of the rich to 43% of income, would  heavily impede  the very asset class that COULD produce the much-needed investment capital for true job creation, and real economic growth.

This is socialistic wealth-transfer in its most sophisticated, twisted form...Obama's master grand plan of "getting away with it" right beneath everyone's eyes...reparations in disguise!

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Barack Obama...a change we all can be deceived in.

Posted by thekeenobserver on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 7:14:45 PM

Oh those clever darlings, those media pundits. They're already insinuating that this election is all over but for the voting.

 

Obama is surging.. McCain is foundering...his campaign has been deemed desperate. The Republicans are depicted as being dismayed and confused. The unspoken media propaganda is clear... "just look at those polls...look at our maps...the states are going blue. Save your gas if you're Republican, you need not even travel to the polls to vote.  President Obama is a foregone conclusion..."

 

 

Well, the results are not all in. And the Obama cauldron of suspicion is simmering. Acorns are sprouting. The mainstream media is sitting on the lid, hoping it doesn’t blow off until after Nov 5. The pundits feign confidence. But they know the clock is ticking. You can only put out so many brush fires before one begins to spread.

 

Time is actually working in McCain's favor. The media cover-up is past the eleventh hour. The disinformation balloon about Obama is about to burst. "We should stick to the issues", is fast-becoming obsolete. The curiosity of the public has been aroused. Barack Obama...are you too good to be true?

 

The issues about Obama whirl around his past and present; and one by one, they all beg the question; Barack Obama-- what are you hiding?

 

How much longer can the media hide your random acts of political ruthlessness? What about your democratic truth squads in Missouri, who suppress your opponent's freedom of speech with the threat of arrest? What about your ACORNS in Ohio, who specialize in intimidation, and make-believe large numbers of “new voter registrations”? Yes comrade Obama, your bolshevism is showing.

 

But you have chosen to remain aloof-- just stay above the fray until you run out the clock.  But what does this say about your principles, Mr. Obama? Where is your conscience? If you win this election, would all accept you as their legitimate president? Why are you attempting to subvert our democracy? Is this your idea for a change we all can be deceived in?

 

Never in the history of politics, not since 1824, has there been a more polarized election. Mr. Obama says he's the great unifier. Oh yes! His standard big applause line declares... "we will unite under my Presidency, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans... all working toward the same goal, making this country and the world, a better place"...etc.

 

But nothing of your life's work gives testimony to these words. And why have you mysteriously chosen to conceal your past? 

 

Mr. Obama, where is the valid proof of your citizenship? Was your photo-copied birth certificate from Hawaii forged over your sister Maya's name? Your Kenyan grandmother claims to have witnessed your birth in Africa. If you don't mind Senator, would you kindly care to explain?

 

You speak nothing of your college activities. No transcripts of your grades exist. You provide no information of anything, and you refuse to even name any collegiate friends. Your thesis cannot be located.

 

And even more mysterious, is that after you graduated from Columbia, why you shunned a lucrative Wall Street offer, and instead drove to Chicago to accept a $13,000-yr job working in the south side slums. What sane college graduate would choose to do this?...or did you have have some other agenda in mind? 

 

Why are your credentials never challenged by the media? Are we to accept only your 'sacred' word? Underneath your oratorical eloquence, you remain the master of disguise, capable of donning a different face for every political occasion. 

 

 

And in the irony of all ironies, because of your radical past associations, you would not even be able to obtain a valid State Department security clearance, but yet you are about to become our next commander-in-chief.

 

So Mr. Obama; We remain ever-curious of why you really want to be our next president. So how about dropping all the abra-cadabbra rhetoric, and giving America some long overdue answers?  

 

 

There's no records whatsoever of your agenda as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004. You say they were thrown out? All SEVEN years? How many times did you vote present? And no record exists of your individual client billings at the law offices where you worked. You claim these were "lost"? Your legal work centered around representation for ACORN, Tony Rezko, and Mayor Richard Daley's office, but nothing can be verified.

 

 

Okay, so the media has chosen to give you a free pass: But what does this say as to your being actually qualified for the presidency? Have you ever commanded men into battle? Have you ever held an executive position, or run a city or state, or made up a budget, or delegated any authority?

 

But America demands the truth Barack Obama, hallowed community organizer, non-pareil orator, and champion of the middle class. Since you seem to have lost so much of your life's history, then are we to conclude you're too disorganized to become president?

 

Of course; we'd LOVE to give you the benefit of the doubt! After all, traipsing about with all those silly documents lurking back in Chicago, might provide the evidence as to what you really accomplished in those good ole days; those days when you pioneered and trained the rent-a mob ACORN...days where you headed 'Project Vote '92', and delivered 50,000 ballots for the election of Carol Mosely Braun-- the disgraced 1- term Illinois Senator.

 

How about those days where you accepted your party's nomination for state senator, and then worked feverishly to get your opponent's signatures declared "invalid", so you could run unopposed. Yes Barack, that was your great triumph; we know you always tried to do your best.

 

But don't forget, Meester Obam-o, you are running for president! This is  about character, this is about the truth. You must be decisive; you will no longer be able to vote present. And if you run on one platform, and then reveal another, you may only succeed at outsmarting yourself. You will be forever vilified for playing America for a sucker...for betraying those legions of your followers, because you turned out to be not a champion of the middle class, but really, to be nothing more than a Trojan horse for the socialism that you so devoutly seek to conceal.

 

But yet even today, you campaign about the country doing your well-rehearsed schtick of a centrist candidate. Congratulations Mr. Obama, you are about to pull off the impossible-- fooling nearly all of the people all of the time, until you take office.

 

And your leftist minions are waiting anxiously in the wings. Upon your election, they will all triumphantly emerge from underneath their rocks, and start their nefarious service in implementing your radical brand of neo-democracy, Obama Style.

 

And what's to befall the fate of your main steam media pundits? Their credibility will disappear in an implosion of public indignation. The anti-media invective will be unprecedented. "Why did you ALL deceive us in electing this socialist?" Ratings will fall, heads will roll.

 

Yes, win or lose Mr. Obama, the reality will come to light--the masquerade will soon have ended--you were not "THE ONE" as the sacred pundits had promised; because all along, they only had been harboring a slippery fugitive from the truth.

 

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Obama and wife- tag team of hypocrisy

Posted by thekeenobserver on Tuesday, October 07, 2008 6:19:45 PM

Barack Obama has solemnly campaigned as a reformer for health care for everyone, and ending all prejudice against those with pre-existing conditions.

But few Americans realize the blatant hypocricy that he and his wife have displayed toward indigent individuals who have demonstrated the most need.

Mrs. Obama worked for the University of Chicago Hospital as a "community outreach director". Her job was to steer uninsured poor people away from the hospital's emergency room, and literally dump them on neighboring medical facilities. In street parlance, she basically was the hospital bouncer, so that only affluent, well-insured patients were admitted.

At 5' 11", Michelle Obama is no shrinking violet. She quickly developed her expertise at "patient re-location", and was rewarded by the hospital for her valiant efforts.

In March 2005, Michelle Obama was promoted to "vice president for external affairs", and had her annual salary tripled from $121,910 to $316,962. But by the most remote of coincidences, this was just 2 months after her husband had been sworn in as a U.S Senator (Jan "05)

In his steadfast duty to God and country, one of Barack's first accomplishments in the U.S. Senate was a government grant...out of the 8 million dollar list of new earmarks he requested, $1 million would go for the construction of a new hospital pavilion at the University of Chicago Med Center.

The hospital was greatly relieved...and had definitely been in dire need of a pavilion for its vital operations, and may have been in danger of closing down without it.
There is no end to the dedication of the Obamas to their community and country. Yessir...once you have community service in your blood, there's no turning back.
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The Struggle of Michelle Obama...Champion of the Poor...Co-agent of Change

Posted by thekeenobserver on Thursday, September 18, 2008 5:50:16 PM

Ya gotta give the Obama's credit...community organizing just seems to be in their blood. And from their humble beginnings in south Chicago, they've perfected the art and taken it to a whole new level; all with good intentions of course. And as good community organizers go, they've also taken the golden rule to a whole new level; "Do good unto others, but take care of thyselves first". Yes, Michelle and Barack have taken this lesson to heart. But don't forget, they both started out at the bottom, and had to perform all the honest hard work that it takes to get ahead in America.

 

When Michelle Robinson graduated law school, she first worked with Mayor Richard Daley at Chicago city hall as an assistant planning commissioner. That's also when she married Barack Obama. From here, their professional lives progressed up the civic ladder. They certainly had it tough, working in various pressure-packed local government positions. And their struggle would continue.

 

After a while at city hall, then-state senator Barack recommended to Mayor Daley that Michelle head up the new Chicago Office of Public Allies, another esteemed position, where she provided "leadership group training" for young adults. Previously, Barack had been a former board member of this most vital of community services. After all, one shudders to think of what fate may have befallen the city back then without sufficient leadership group training services.

 

Ah, but true to the fruits of their labor, the earnest work of the young couple began to pay off. Michelle Obama's next job was at the University of Chicago. First, she worked as the "associate" dean of student services. But despite the pressure, she performed admirably, providing a panoply of student services that deeply affected the lives of all that she touched. After leaving that, she nobly accepted the call to duty, and went off to work for the University of Chicago Hospitals, scraping by at an annual salary of $122,000. 

 

Michael Riordan, the university's former CEO, hired Michelle, a proven performer under stress, to a newly-created position where she collaborated with churches and community groups. Her job description called for performing community outreach services for the University's medical center. This indeed required special outreaching skills.

 

Michelle proved to be a real trailblazer. She recruited volunteers, increased staff "diversity", and worked with clinics and physicians to provide primary care to low-income patients who would otherwise use the emergency room. She created a whole new department of community outreach services for the facility. She proudly had determined that she was going to be the best, and she performed the job for all it was worth.

 

She was rewarded with another new position, vice-president of community affairs. Basically this could be interpreted as an emergency room bouncer, where she would "steer" patients who don't have private insurance, primarily poor people, to other health care facilities.

 

Michelle would flourish magnificently in her newly created job, directing indigent people away from the "not-for-profit" hospital, and carry out a strategy of maximizing income for the med center. At 5' 11", Michelle Obama was no shrinking violet. She quickly developed her expertise at "patient re-location", and was rewarded by the hospital for her valiant efforts.

 

In March 2005, Michelle Obama was promoted to vice president for external affairs, and had her annual salary tripled from $121,910 to $316,962. But by the most remote of coincidences, this was just months after her husband had won a U.S. Senate seat in 2004.  But after all, it had been quite the struggle for the towering, dedicated professional, getting by on only $122,000; and now $317,000 was a lot more like it.

 

Then hubby Barack really began to come through. In his steadfast duty to God and country, one of his first accomplishments in the US Senate was a government grant...out of the 8 million dollar list of new earmarks he requested, $1 million would go for the construction of a new hospital pavilion at the University Of Chicago . The request was made in 2006. The hospital had definitely been in dire need of a pavilion, and may have been in danger of closing down without it. Barack had again managed to perform in the clutch for his spouse and her employer. 

 

But as the wife of a newly-sworn-in U.S. Senator, Michelle's life began to come under scrutiny. The Chicago Tribune newspaper began to get nosy: they had some nerve to raise doubts about the amount and timing of Michelle's raise. But how dare they question the veracity of the Obamas, who had given up so much of their young lives for the sake of the community?  Now defenders began to rush to their side.

 

Hospitals spokesman John Easton told the Tribune that "Michelle Obama's salary was in line with those of the 16 other vice presidents at the not-for-profit medical center". Michael Riordan, who hired Michelle, said "her commitment to both family and community was beyond reproach", and "all her work was front and center". He told the newspaper that the promotion and salary increase had nothing to do with Obama's husband becoming a U.S. senator. "She was hired before Barack was Barack," said CEO Riordan.

 

The Obama's were rightfully outraged: After all, what a silly notion it was to think that right after her husband was elected Senator, she had her salary tripled. The very indignity of it all! And the Obamas anger at the Tribune was well justified when no other media outlet picked up the story. And surely, even without such handsome compensation, Michelle would probably have been grateful to work at her hospital bouncer job on a volunteer basis, for the sheer satisfaction of serving the community, especially now that her husband was in the public eye as a United States Senator. Yessir...once you have community service in your blood, there's no turning back.

 

But the rumblings continued. Byron York, from the National Review, described the situation in rather blunt terms; (quote) "Isn’t Michelle Obama’s raise sort of a kickback?" (unquote) . And to further complicate the situation, in late 2006, a story broke about a poor Hispanic man, who had been turned away from the hospital's emergency room, had literally died on the street shortly thereafter (sorry dude-- no insurance). Michelle's reputation took a direct hit. However, knowing it was most certainly no fault of her own, she managed to weather the storm well: She took a leave of absence in early 2007 to go out on the presidential campaign trail for her husband. 


Yes, it was about time she had a break from all the stress...she could now rest on her laurels. Her stellar community outreaching performance for the University of Chicago Hospitals was indeed vital work, right up there with open heart surgery. 

 

Her unselfish accomplishments stood out. While a vice-president at the hospital, she had founded the "Urban Health Initiative", a program which would find neighborhood doctors for low-income people who were flooding the emergency room for basic treatment. A local marketing firm, A S K Public Strategies, was employed by the hospital to sell the new program to the community as a better alternative for poor patients.  



But here we go again: there were more goodies for the Obamas involved in the ASK hiring. By another remarkable coincidence, Obama's current top political strategist, David Axelrod, was co-owner of the firm. Hospital officials defended both the program, and the hiring of Axelrod, because "people without insurance hinder our ability to focus on our more critically ill patients in need of specialized care, such as cancer treatment and organ transplants".  Valerie Jarrett, an Obama friend and adviser, who chairs the medical center's board, backed the Axelrod firm's hiring, hospital officials said.

 

But lo and behold, Michelle Obama's most praiseworthy legacy, her Urban Health Initiative, incredibly began to draw fire from local medical professionals, who were actually accusing the university of unloading patients without insurance on all the neighboring institutions. For shame! After all her noble efforts, these ungrateful greedy local doctors were at it again, trying to besmirch Michelle and her hospital's reputation with having bad intentions. Such calumny!
 
 

Nowadays, through all those tough times, Michelle is out speaking on her husband's presidential campaign trail, fulfilling all her fantasies. And to think, not long ago, she had been complaining about how difficult it was for a young couple like the Obamas to make it on their salaries. What with paying the mortgage on their now-controversial mansion close to the hospital, the lurking repayment of their college loans, and paying for the extra curricular school music lessons for their two children, its been a rough road indeed.

 
 
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"Hey Barack, did'ja know that the Constitution was written to RESTRICT the federal government?"

Posted by thekeenobserver on Saturday, September 13, 2008 12:13:57 PM
 

Ask Barack Obama any question ...he'll usually always circle around to either "change", or..."when I was a community organizer back in south Chicago." Sometimes, he mentions both when replying to a reporter or a supporter at a rally. But if you read between his thoughts, it's as though "those were the days". Obama always seems to light up a notch when he speaks of all he experienced in his three years in south Chicago ( '85 to '88) where he worked with "disadvantaged people" doing community service for them.

 

Now for any one planning to pull the lever for Obama, you should ask yourself, (or better ask Obama himself), just what the heck did he accomplish in his 3 years working on the south side of Chicago? Did he find jobs for those disadvantaged steelworkers whose plant had shut down? Nope. What he did, he showed them how to qualify for government training programs, government welfare benefits; food stamps; section 8 housing, etc.

 

Obama talks glowingly of his duties during those happy days he spent in south Chicago in the mid 80's, but he speaks not of any noteworthy accomplishments. This begs the obvious question: Why Mr. Obama, didn't you encourage any of these so called disadvantaged people, to stand up for themselves and create their own jobs? You could've encouraged them to be entrepreneurs..but does Obama even know what the word means?

 

After all, if these "disadavantaged' people had been motivated to take ADVANTAGE of our free market system, and start their own service businesses such as cleaning, repairing, landscaping, painting, building, etc. this would've given them the chance to eventually prosper, and doing it without needing a lot of start-up capital.

 

Whenever people become a part of the free market system, and offer to society an actual service that's useful and NEEDED, there's always a chance to expand that market and create actual wealth. "Give a hungry person a fish, feed them for a day...teach a person how to fish, feed him for life". This well-worn old saying may be corny, but apparently, Obama seems to have never gone fishing in his life: he certainly has little faith in our free-market system.

 

One has to wonder; has Obama EVER heard the term "laissez faire"? Naw- he probably would think it's some kind of ritzy dessert. And has Obama ever done any hard work in his life? He's certainly not for free markets. Obama thinks government does it best. And this is despite all the evidence to the contrary. Example: Obama found a home and purpose for his life in south Chicago in the mid 80's, where he worked with people like Jessie Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, and other minority leaders. Their stated objective was basically to help disadvantaged people. But what has been the fruits of their labor?

 

Today, south Chicago is one of the most dangerous places on EARTH! Last month a young man living in south Chicago was more likely to be murdered there, than a young U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq. There have been an endless number of measures by the Chicago police to crackdown on crime in south Chicago, but to no avail. It's almost become a given fact of life that drug-dealing, gun violence, and persistent poverty will continue to "prosper" in that area for the immediate future.

 

But perhaps Obama sees himself as the next Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But what kind of new deal would President Obama bring to the nation? He's already given us an alphabet-soup list of new government agencies he would initiate "to get people involved in community service." And Obama has been very straightforward in how he would pay for them. He'd raise taxes on people who annually make over $250,000; end the war in Iraq; and take the ten billion dollars we spend every month there and put it into government social programs.

 

But puh-leeze Barack, before you would do this; aren't these eerily similar to the same kinds of liberal policies that led to the double-digit inflation, double-digit interest rates, and high unemployment of the Carter years? Why would Obama even think of employing these "back to the future" failed policies of the past? FDR's New Deal make-work programs of the '30's did not end the Great depression, but rather prolonged it. The intentions of both Roosevelt and Carter were noble. The results were abysmal.

 

But FDR had enough good sense to recognize threats to America from abroad. Well before the U.S. was pulled into World War II, Roosevelt had begun a huge buildup of the armed forces. But Obama sees the threats in the Middle East through rose-colored glasses. His intentions of cutting the military budget, and taking foreign policy problems to the U.N. are Obama's vision of "change".

 

Today, Obama's anti-business, pro-government, class-warfare rhetoric on the campaign trail has an ominous ring. It's a total anathema to what our Founding Fathers originally intended for the American people when they wrote the Constitution.

 

And Barack Obama , for all his intelligence and motivational speaking ability, needs to go back to his old law office library, in wonderful south Chicago, and read a few books about U.S History. 

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"Of course, doesn't everyone know? Community organizers always make the best presidents"

Posted by thekeenobserver on Thursday, September 04, 2008 6:09:36 PM
 
 

In 1985, When Barack Obama graduated from Columbia in New York City , he was tempted to go to Wall Street and be an investment banker. But appealing to his more nobler instincts, Mr. Obama dutifully accepted a job as a community organizer in Chicago at a starting salary of $13000 per year, plus a car. But we knew he had these humanitarian instincts within him all along. After all, hope (instead of Hussein ) should have been his middle name. 

 

But there’s one little problem... just what what in the world IS a community organizer? Frankly, its a job description heretofore unknown before the likes of Obama hit the scene. Well, since we have communities everywhere, a proper definition would probably depend on what one would be organizing. Would that pertain to social services?...food donation?... the homeless?...hmmm. Since there's an unlimited scope of things to be organized in any given community, this seems to be one job description with a considerable amount of latitude.

 

Problem is, everyone KNOWS Barack Obama was a community organizer, but has anybody had enough curiosity to ask him just WHAT the heck that is?  Ole Baracky seems to have gotten away with one here.

 

Obama has always been a strong union supporter. So first of all, did he become a member of the national community organizer's union?.. the local union? Or do community organizers even have a union? Interesting question. We could definitely use a little clarity on this one. For him to have been a community organizer and not formed a community organizer's union could be a matter of grave concern.

 

Obama says he moved to the south side of Chicago after his college days where, "he worked with steelworkers who'd lost their jobs when the local steel mill closed down". OK good Barack...but what did you do with them after that?...retrain 'em al to be community organizers? Did you find them new jobs? What? Problem is, Obama never does say what happened to these unemployed steelworkers A good guess would be that they were encouraged to retrain in some service work like home health care aides, or seek a grant to attend nursing school: All the usual insipid stuff a government agency would suggest to middle-aged, blue-collar ex-steelworkers that the they would never consider.

 

But ever the restless gun, Obama then decided to take a shot at law school. Maybe he'd organized enough communities by then to qualify for pension benefits. He doesn't say. But whatever the real reason, he was accepted into Harvard law school, and returned to Chicago as a civil rights attorney. Tsk-tsk-tsk, another glorious community organizer career, tragically abbreviated. Oh what might have been...all those unorganized communities in south Chicago, left to fend for themselves. Shame. But life goes on.

 

At heart, Barack does remain a community organizer. But as president, Obama sees his opening..."I want to organize the world community". Obama has never said this , but his first rule of order would be implemented through the United Nations. He wants to enact the World Poverty Act, where  America  annually MUST send 0.7% of our gross national product to poor countries around the world. He intends to allocate a trillion dollars of new spending on government social programs. Talk about some serious federal bureaucracy; Obama has objectives that only he could fathom.

 

"Helping all Americans serve their country." Obama has repeated this in all his speeches. It's one of  many of his principal objectives as president. It's basically a make-work, newer form of the New Deal from the 1930's, but don't tell Barack that...no-o-o; that doesn't sound noble enough for him. Nobility of purpose is the very essence of Obama's soul.

 

Obama wants to fight back at the "failed eight-year policies of George Bush ". But gosh darn, Barack, couldn't you puh-leeze think of a cheaper way to do it? "Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies". Well, since Obama seems to have this community organizing thing embedded deep into his liberal brainstem, let's add up the damages.

 

As president, Obama will offer voluntary service programs for everyone except pre-schoolers through grade 5. He probably figures that if you keep everybody busy, they won't complain too much if he turns out to be the next Jimmie Carter . But given the vast scope of his proposals, you'd think he could have been a little more ingenious than his idea to triple the size of the Peace Corps. He'll also give it an international flavor. This won't come cheap either.

 

Next we have the very stellar, "Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)". Sounds like a big deal. But it's just a re-hash ofAmeriCorps, VISTA and the Senior Corps. And Barack ain't playing around with this boondoggle.  Obama plans to triple the scope of AmeriCorps from 75,000 "slots" to 250,000.  Factor in a proportionate increase (1 billion) added to AmeriCorps funding already allocated,  and were talking some serious money for a program that's basically your typical liberal job creating agency.

 

These budget busters have little relevance to our gross national product, but place a direct inflationary burden on the economy. Anytime you pump more money into bureaucracies, this puts more dollars into the system, without any goods or services that can be purchased...ergo more inflation. Well, they don't call them bureaucrats for nuthin', eh Barack?

 

But wait; there’s more! Obama wants a CNCS: Classroom Corps where people can volunteer to help in "high-need and underserved schools..." Health Corps, where volunteers are "trained to assist health professionals..." Clean Energy Corps, where volunteers can "promote energy independence through efforts like weatherization, and renewable energy projects..."Veterans Corps,  and the Homeland Security Corps ".  How much will these cost?

 

But lets at least give Obama some credit, he does have a new idea, but with an old twist, the very esteemed Global Energy Corps. This, Obama says, "will be composed of scientists and engineers who will help reduce greenhouse emissions worldwide, and promote low-carbon and affordable energy solutions in developing nations." What a brainstorm! He wants to deprive a poor developing nation from using those dumb fossil fuels. Let 'em keep their mules and buggies; any thing to save the planet is cool with Obama. Trouble is, he's willing to pay for it big time with OUR money! 

 

Whoops, we certainly can't forget the hallmark of all of Obama's stump speeches...the free college tuition handout. This is really going to turn out to be a budget-ballooner. Obama's American Opportunity Tax Credit will essentially pay $40 per hour, up to $4,000 a year, for 100 hours of public service. This fully refundable credit will ensure that the first $4,000 of a college education is completely free for most Americans, and will cover two-thirds the cost of tuition at the average public college or university. "Recipients of this credit will be required to conduct 100 hours of public service a year".

 

But leave it to Obama; he’s not forgotten any one who doesn't want to go to college for free. We also will have the dreaded Green Job Corps. This is one of Obama's great ideas for our energy independence! It will create "service opportunities to improve energy conservation and efficiency of homes and buildings right there in your neighborhood."

 

Ho hum, c'mon Barack, the money probably would be better spent on graffiti removal, or clearing vacant lots of trash. Retrofitting old buildings in the 'hood' for energy efficiency just doesn't sound like such a great idea, when you think of the jack it's gonna cost the taxpayer.

 

And, Obama will expand the Youth Build Program, that offers low-income young people a chance to "learn housing construction skills jobs and complete their high school education."

 

The 2007 budget of this U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) program was $50 million.  Obama plans to increase its slots from 8,000 to 50,000, with a proportionate budget increase to about $300,000,000.

 

Obama estimates that, when fully implemented, his alphabet soup of service agencies will cost $3.5 billion per year. Hardy har...just try to even calculate the number of federal employees required to coordinate all these new government agencies.  Is this FDR gone mad or what?

 

Imagine some new government buildings in your neck of the woods. A County Federal Citizen Volunteer Coordinating Center (CFCVCC), where government service bureaucrats representing all these programs have their offices, will be needed across the country. Now consider the electronic paperwork required to enlist, assign, and monitor volunteers 365 days a week. And it's staggering in the very scope of all the new money that might be spent building all these new offices.

 

Barack Obama is a community organizer and gifted orator, who got a law degree so he could enter politics, and address the social problems he couldn't solve in south Chicago . You can take the man out of south Chicago , but you can't take south Chicago out of the man.

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