Barack Obama's Stealth Socialism

Election '08: Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called "economic justice." He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code — socialist code.

Obama's Global Tax

Obamanomics Flunks The Test

Election '08: Barack Obama the lawyer-organizer could use a crash course in economics. His economic plan's assumptions, based on long-discredited Marxist theories, are wildly wrongheaded.

Young Obama's Red Mentor

Election '08: The mainstream media have finally gotten around to revealing Barack Obama's early mentor. But they've downplayed the mystery man's communist background.

Obama Finds An ACORN

Election '08: The man who includes being a community organizer on his short resume has a long association with a far-left group that would organize our communities into socialist gulags.

Reparations By Another Name

Election '08: Barack Obama says Washington shouldn't just offer apologies for slavery, but also "deeds." Don't worry, he says, he's not talking about direct reparations. Relieved? Don't be.

Obama's Little Red Schoolhouse

Schools: While Obama's children enjoy the best education money can buy, he wants to deny inner-city children the education change we can believe in — school choice. He prefers cradle-to-diploma collectivist education.

Obama's Radical Roots And Rules

Election '08: Most Americans revile socialism, yet Barack Obama's poll numbers remain competitive. One explanation: He's a longtime disciple of a man whose mission was to teach radicals to disguise their ideology.

In a week when we have been dusting off the old Cold War phrase book to characterize Russia's rapid-fire roll across tiny Georgia, make room for one more:  the domino theory.

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On July 31, Exxon Mobil reported an $11.7 billion second-quarter profit, breaking the record for a U.S. company that it previously set.

Naturally, politicians and the public, provoked by a financially ignorant media, reacted as if the company had stolen the money.

Barack Obama called the earnings "outrageous."

Sen. Charles Schumer, Democrat from New York, called oil industries "the most selfish group of companies that I've ever seen — and the most hypocritical" and said it was "Christmas in July" inside the Big Oil boardrooms.

NBC "Today" co-host Meredith Vieira moaned that "oil companies seem to be rolling in dough."

Perhaps the most asinine comment came from Rep. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat.

"These oil companies cannot continue to earn these profits, spend a pittance on renewable fuels to move America beyond oil and then block any efforts to shift billions in tax breaks to companies trying to bring about the next generation of clean energy," he said.

Too often, business leaders choose to duck when the arrows of outrage come flying. But Exxon Mobil CEO and Chairman Rex Tillerson made an unusual and courageous stand Wednesday, appearing on ABC's "World News" with Charles Gibson.

"I saw someone characterize our profits the other day in terms of $1,400 in profit per second," Tillerson told Gibson.

"Well, they also need to understand we paid $4,000 a second in taxes, and we spent $15,000 a second in cost. We spend $1 billion a day just running our business. So this is a business where large numbers are just characteristic of it."

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The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's choice of the word "change" as his campaign's central slogan is not the product of focus-group studies, or the brainstorming sessions of his political consultants.

One of Obama's main inspirations was a man dedicated to revolutionary change that he was convinced "must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, nonchallenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future."

Sen. Obama was trained by Chicago's Industrial Areas Foundation, founded in 1940 by the radical organizer Saul Alinsky. In the 1980s, Obama spent years as director of the Developing Communities Project, which operated using Alinsky's strategies, and was involved with two other Alinsky-oriented entities, Acorn and Project Vote.

Barack Obama's "Change We Can Believe In" is simply socialism — imposed by stratagem because Americans have never believed in Marxist economics. Saul Alinsky understood this, and his ghost is alive and well — and threatening to haunt the White House.

U.S. to Russia: How does a missile defense system in Poland sound?

That’s a brutal vote of no confidence in NATO, although I wonder if its target audience isn’t actually Bush and Rice. The U.S. hasn’t done, and likely won’t do, anything more for Georgia than provide humanitarian aid in the short term despite the military cooperation between the two countries over the past few years. This sounds like Poland’s way of saying that they expect more than that if their turn comes on the chopping block, particularly given the fact that the missile deal also includes a U.S. promise to help modernize their military. Is Bush prepared to unilaterally guarantee Poland’s security? Or rather, are the Democrats? The deal’s already gotten some static in Congress and the interceptors won’t be deployed for a few years yet, so whether Obama and Congress choose to follow through will signal the whole region about Hopenchange America’s willingness to stand up to Russia, needless to say.

Austin Bay has the nuts and bolts of the possible defense systems involved, none of which appear to pose any great obstacle to Russia beyond their having to fire off a few extra missiles to swamp the shield. Doubtless it’ll be used as a pretext, though, for Russia to build up its own “defenses,” which it certainly wouldn’t have done if not for this exceedingly menacing empty gesture.

Ah, I missed this from the AP piece. Indeed, this deal is not about the missiles:

He said the deal also includes a “mutual commitment” between the two nations to come to each other’s assistance “in case of trouble.”

Democratic “change” on abortion: Nothing but spin

Not only do the Democrats reaffirm their support for taxpayer-funded abortions, they also propose more taxpayer-funded programs on top of them.  The only difference between the two positions is more government programs.

Yet, as Warner notes, the Democrats have trotted out progressives like Revs. Joel Hunter and Tony Campolo to spin this into some sort of real change that can allow pro-life voters to support Democrats.  It’s not even a cosmetic change to their previous, unadulterated support for abortion on demand.  The new platform does nothing — nothing — to address the values of life for Catholics and evangelicals.  It doesn’t even provide, as Warner suggests, enough change to offer a face-saving cover for supporting Democrats.

The Democrats remain the party of abortion on demand, and the party of abortion at taxpayer expense.  No amount of spin from apologists like Campolo or Hunter can whitewash the clear, uncompromising language of the Democratic platform.  And no amount of spin or lies can erase the fact that their presidential nominee voted to protect infanticide as a state legislator in Illinois when even his own party opposed it in Congress.

Quote of the day

“Bush himself did not want a war in South Ossetia but his Republican Party did not leave him any choice.”

Russians were told over breakfast yesterday what really happened in Georgia: the conflict in South Ossetia was part of a plot by Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, to stop Barack Obama being elected president of the United States.