Just A Coincidence?

Barney Frank ^ | 2004 | Obama/Frank

[Brown Deer]

• July 2004: Obama makes keynote speech at the Democratic convention and is hailed as the future of the party.
  
  
• October 2004: Congressman Barney Frank [D-MA] speaks as a witness to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his belief that the people of the United States should be able to elect a president of their choosing, even if that candidate is not a natural-born citizen. In these comments, Frank all but names Obama and describes our current situation to the letter. Obama’s opposition in the senate race is mysteriously swift boated at the last minute, (ironically by having his divorce records unsealed by “someone” in the Chicago Machine) the Republicans are forced to scramble for a candidate, finally settling for Keyes.
  
  
• November 2004: Obama wins in a landslide essentially by clearing the playing field. At his first press conference Obama is asked about a Presidential run in 08 without having served a day in the Senate. Obama blows off the suggestion by claiming he lacks experience. You have to see it to believe it. Many of Barack Obama's critics have said that he lacks experience and is not ready to be president, but this video shows Obama himself questioning whether or not he is ready.

That’s quite a series of events, wouldn’t you say?

[Brown Deer]

In the above audio from Barney Frank, he suggests that our American Constitution is inadequate and old-fashioned.

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

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Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35

January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals

EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Thursday, January 10, 1963

 

Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.

At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:

[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]

CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS

1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.

2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.

3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.

5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.

6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.

7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.

8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.

9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.

10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.

11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)

12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.

13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.

14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."

23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."

24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."

28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.

32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.

34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.

36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].

39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.

42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.

43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.

44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.

45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.

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Does this appear to be consistent with the agenda of Barack Hussein Obama?

[Brown Deer]

ping

[antceecee]

Nothing here is coincidental.

[Rabin]

“Nothing here is coincidental.”

Amazing, hardball players, play hard ball.

Sadddest of all is butboy Barny, sold his ? for a fist fulla dollara. An anathema to himself, the county, and the Marine Corp.

[Bullish]

Democrats have a country to wreck and plunder.... Anything goes.

If people don’t get serious about opposing them, well then....

[eyedigress]

He is very calculating and has been working on this for years. It is something that can be learned quickly. Unfortunately he lied to all the people to take off. We shall see if it passes more than a 20% grade. He decieved most of his voters. They need to admit it.

[Misterioso]

Dumb thread.

[TXnMA]

Dumb comment.

[harpu]

4later

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

yep,’cause he’s the bamster is in office now,isn’t he

[Kevmo]

If someone had written all this as a political intrigue novel in 2004 it would have been dismissed with a simple handwave and people saying, “impossible”.

[beefree]

(ironically by having his divorce records unsealed by “someone” in the Chicago Machine)

Obama divorce? Is this true? First I have heard of this.

[beefree]

Communist Goals Ping

[LucyT]

29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.

Does this appear to be consistent with the agenda of Barack Hussein Obama?

[Thank you, Brown Deer.]

[Quix]

INDEED.

THE TRAITOROUS DESTROYERS HAVE BEEN AT IT A LONG TIME.

[TXnMA]

Obama's opponent's divorce...

[TXnMA]

Bahney Fwank leaning left -- whodathunkit!?! '-}

[Cyropaedia]

You want to know how dispicable Barney Frank is...? Read this :

Immigrating Terror

Barney thought we weren't importing enough radicals and jihadists into the country.

Gotta do everything we can to make them feel right at home.

Barney is a lying sack of sh*t with a massive chip on his shoulder, and genuinely resents the Nation in which he lives.

[Cyropaedia]

From the article :

After 9/11, the Patriot Act became law and Congressman Frank’s ideological exclusion amendment was effectively suspended. Visa laws were significantly tightened up and the enforcement of immigration laws increased.

Frank does not like what he sees.

“When 3,000 Americans were murdered by illegal immigrant terrorists on September 11,” says Frank, “that was the end of rational immigration policy in the United States.”

Or rather, it was the beginning.

Can you believe that...??

Like I said, the man really does hate America ...

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Got Rope ???...

[beefree]

Thanks, I missed that, I need glasses and coffee!

[EBH]

In July of 2004, I sat and watched the DNC convention. It was the first time I had ever heard of Barack 0bama. I listened to his whole speech at the time. I had one thought that very night when he finished speaking.

The Keynote Speech Before The Democratic National Convention That Made Him A Star
http://www.2004dnc.com/barackobamaspeech/index.html

There is much insight into this characters words: Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake: One of her characters asks, “As a species we're doomed by hope, then?” By hope? Well, yes. Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise; and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows, most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality.

The truth is there were many who did wave their hands and dismiss the dangers of this man. Even many wise folks here dismissed him, until it was too late. We often say that they “drank the koolaid.” I have often contemplated what is that drink? We know it is empty calories, a sweetened poison that murders many. And yet the masses drink it, willingly. I submit it is the “greed” of hope, not the audacity of hope. Atwood's character goes on to conclude, “Hope, like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism.” While I don't agree with the conclusion of what the fuel of capitalism is, I do agree with the manner in which Hope has been facilitated as a form of greed.

Liberals, socialists, marxists know how to make and take the precious gift of Hope and use it to answer people's greeds. Hope coupled with greed, as an answer to the poor and middle class, is the kool-aid put these people in office. So if we understand what is in the kool-aid we can begin to find the antidote.

[RoadTest]

“the people of the United States should be able to elect a president of their choosing, even if that candidate is not a natural-born citizen.”

Quite an admission!

[Lundy_s Lane II]

A very long time indeed. I remember my father complaining about it 40 years ago when it became very apparent to him.

We all laughed at him. Well it is no joke now.

[RegulatorCountry]

We should be able to elect a President-for-life, if “we” so choose! It’s just so unfair, what they’ve done to Zelaya. < /sarc>

[jwparkerjr]

You might have missed it, but it certainly wasn't the lack of eyesight that caused you to miss it! What a horrible sentence.

“Attention... Will a copy editor please pick up the nearest white page phone...”

I'm not convinced there are any copy editors left in the world of the MSM, especially the online part of it.

[maggief]

“(ironically by having his divorce records unsealed by “someone” in the Chicago Machine)”

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http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/04/soros_obama_and_the_millionair.html

April 30, 2007
Soros, Obama, and the Millionaires Exception
By Ed Lasky
It is well-known that George Soros, the hedge-fund manager, major Democratic Party donor and anti-Israel crusader, has been a generous contributor to Barack Obama. But relatively few people realize that a loophole in McCain-Feingold allowed Soros his family members to be particularly generous in support of Obama’s Senatorial campaign.

Because Obama was running against Blair Hull in the primary and then Jack Ryan in the general (both multi-millionaires), Obama could, and did, receive especially large donations from individuals, to so-called “millionaires exception.” Normally individuals are limited to giving $2300 to candidates in federal elections, but when candidates are running against millionaires, these limits are lifted and candidates are allowed to receive up to $12,000 from a single individual. Soros and his family gave Barack Obama $60,000. This does not include money that Soros was able to funnel to so-called 527 groups (Moveon.org, for example) that have also been politically active; nor does it include money that Soros was able to raise from tapping a network of friends, business associates, and employees.

After taking advantage of the special freedom to raise large amounts of money from influential individuals, and as the campaigns entered their closing rounds, news was leaked to media outlets that both Hull and Ryan had personal scandals associated with them. The release of this news devastated both of their campaigns, leading to an easy run to victory for Obama in the primary and then in the general election. The New York Times Magazine revealed earlier in the year that David Axelrod, Obama’s chief political and media adviser, may well have been behind the leak of the story that doomed the Hull candidacy as the primary reached its home stretch.

(snip)

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE6DA1230F932A35757C0A9619C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=5

Axelrod is known for operating in this gray area, part idealist, part hired muscle. It is difficult to discuss Axelrod in certain circles in Chicago without the matter of the Blair Hull divorce papers coming up. As the 2004 Senate primary neared, it was clear that it was a contest between two people: the millionaire liberal, Hull, who was leading in the polls, and Obama, who had built an impressive grass-roots campaign. About a month before the vote, The Chicago Tribune revealed, near the bottom of a long profile of Hull, that during a divorce proceeding, Hull’s second wife filed for an order of protection. In the following few days, the matter erupted into a full-fledged scandal that ended up destroying the Hull campaign and handing Obama an easy primary victory. The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had ‘’worked aggressively behind the scenes’’ to push the story. But there are those in Chicago who believe that Axelrod had an even more significant role — that he leaked the initial story. They note that before signing on with Obama, Axelrod interviewed with Hull. They also point out that Obama’s TV ad campaign started at almost the same time. Axelrod swears up and down that ‘’we had nothing to do with it’’ and that the campaign’s television ad schedule was long planned. ‘’An aura grows up around you, and people assume everything emanates from you,’’ he told me.

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

Michelle Malkin
By Michelle Malkin • October 26, 2008 11:44 PM

The blogosphere is buzzing about this video posted on YouTube Sunday night. It’s Barack Obama musing about how best to redistribute wealth in America in a Chicago Public Radio interview in 2001. Not whether, but how: Through the courts or through legislation? A caller asks The One to explain how he would do “reparative economic work.” Obama gives the legislative route two thumbs up as his preferred method of “breaking free of the constraints” placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution and then burbles about cobbling together the “actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change.”

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Googled obama constitution flawed

googled: Obama constitution fundamentally flawed

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newsmax
"...Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama described the U.S. Constitution as having “deep flaws” during a September 2001 Chicago public radio program, adding that the country’s Founding Fathers had “an enormous blind spot” when they wrote it. ..

“And in that sense,” Obama continued, “I think we can say that the Constitution reflected an enormous blind spot in this culture that carries on until this day, and that the Framers had that same blind spot. I don’t think the two views are contradictory, to say that it was a remarkable political document that paved the way for where we are now, and to say that it also reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.” Obama did not elaborate on the “fundamental flaw” that persists. Conservative talk host Rush Limbaugh pounced on Obama’s remarks during his Monday radio program. “Good Lord, ladies and gentlemen! I don’t see how he can take the oath of office, which is this: ‘I do solemly swear, or affirm, that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and I will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Said Limbaugh, “He has rejected the Constitution.”

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worldnet daily
"The Warren court, he said, failed to "break free from the essential constraints" in the U.S. Constitution and launch a major redistribution of wealth."

"...To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf. ...

You tube, radio interview from 2001

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From my post @ DHS methodology used in "Rightwing Extremism" memo revealed

[Florida Bill]

Thanks for copying and pasting my post WORD for WORD without even acknowledging it....

[penelopesire]

It’s time to have another committee on ‘Unamerican Activities’ again. Obama and the democrats are overflowing with radicals,marxists and communists. Enough is enough!

[Vendome]

Barney “was” a Marine?

[Vendome]

Your link goes to an undeveloped site.

Thanks for the post.

[Vendome]

Obama had the Divorce records unsealed of his opponents. It proved embarasing enough to cause his opponents to drop out of the race, leaving Barry in the position of running a race in which there were no serious adversaries or contenders.

You will find that he remained above the fray, if you google, but the organizations that petitioned the courts for breaking a sealed file most deginitely worked on behalf of Barry O., as he had worked with or for those very organizations and had strong ties to key people who could drive a an action that would be favorable to Barry O..

Their chosen one.

[Liz]

Rahm and Axelrod hatched the Obama thing---and were as shocked as anyone that the empty suit actually won.

They duped the voters by having Marxist Ohaha say, "I want to be another Ronald Reagan." Liberal aethist Dems ran in Repub districts as fake "fervent believers."

Rahm/Axelrod use Obama as a steppingstone to more power and money. They already have total access to the Federal treasury, the banks, the auto companies and, health care (which will make Rahm and his brother billionaires).

Obama is a clueless puppet, a cheap prop, and the big loser here, left with a legacy of failure while Rahm/Axelrod, and the rest, move on to the next puppet.

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

Is that you’re blog? Saw your comments to starwise thanking her for giving you credit. (welcome to FR)

[RoadTest]

“We should be able to elect a President-for-life”

O.K.! Can it be Sarah Palin?

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

“Is that you’re blog” meant to say “your”.

[penelopesire]

The only thing I might disagree with is that Obama is a ‘clueless puppet’. I believe he is a dedicated marxist to the core. He is also just as ruthless,money grubbing and power hungry as Axelrod and Rahm. The sad part is that he will ultimately prove to be the worst President in US history and by extention, bring disgrace and shame to his race as the ‘first black american president’.

Of course, it does not matter(and never did) to most of us what his race is, but the democrats and media have made such a big issue of his race, that it is bound to bring unwarranted shame to an entire race of people in the end. The fact that they don’t care about that sad reality speaks volumes of the modern ‘progressive’(communist).

[beefree]

I am not perfect in spelling or grammar, but I do expect it in professional publications. I think it is a result of the ‘dumbing-down’ in public schools. Very often, I find errors in newspapers, menus and even in the writings of a person I know who is a graduate with an English degree. It is one of my pet peeves.

[Just mythoughts]

It is stranger than some scifi movie that through my life time liberals have always itched, whined, moaned, and savagely accused Republicans of being people of greed. I remember how they necklaced Ken Lay of Enron fame around the neck of President Bush.

The democrat voters I know allllll believe that Republicans are the party of wealth and corporate greed. The deception has been planted so deep and wide in spite of the abundance of FACTS to the contrary. And some on the Republican side will still claim that the ‘wall street’ players are capitalists.... joke is on them long term.

[jwparkerjr]

In the case of professional publishings and postings I think it's the cutting back of so much of the staff positions. Used to be an article had to make it through several edits, starting with the copy editor and ending with the proof readers. Now I suspect, especially online, they skip the middle men and go straight from entry-level reporter's word processor to page layout without passing through anyone’s brain in between.

[SaraJohnson]

This is no joke - Barney is criminally insane. No one sane could demand a continuation of the fake mortgage loans to the poor unless they really wanted to destroy the country. No one sane would permit Geithner and Bernake so much power knowing what they have done to bring down the economy with scams. No one sane would advocate for pedophiles to have free reign in our classrooms with children. And now the serial killer is advocating for more jihadists in the streets.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”They duped the voters by having Marxist Ohaha say, “I want to be another Ronald Reagan.”

Even to this day he uses language to fool people. He calls the ‘public plan’ competition when his purpose is single payer Canadian type health case. All the single payer progressives say “public plan competition” when they want a government monopoly. They use the term ‘tax cuts’ to send out welfare checks.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”They duped the voters by having Marxist Ohaha say, “I want to be another Ronald Reagan.”

Even to this day he uses language to fool people. He calls the ‘public plan’ competition when his purpose is single payer Canadian type health case. All the single payer progressives say “public plan competition” when they want a government monopoly. They use the term ‘tax cuts’ to send out welfare checks.

[Liz]

Like a frozen pizza, everything Ohaha says comes with an expiration date.

[Faith]

* Many of Barack Obama's critics have said that he lacks experience and is not ready to be president, but this video shows Obama himself questioning whether or not he is ready.

I distinctly remember a televised interview with B. O. and M. O. in which she was asked if he should run for President. She said, "Absolutely not." When asked why not, she said, "Because he hasn't done anything yet."

[Brown Deer]

Obama divorce? Is this true? First I have heard of this.

First that I have heard of too, but there was a Ryan divorce.

[Brown Deer]

I’ve never been to or seen your blog.

[beefree]

I once contacted the owner of a local mom and pop weekly and volunteered to proof for them in order to gain experience. She seemed offended and said they were not interested. From then on, I threw it in the trash without reading it due to the numerous errors. It has since gone out of business.

[beefree]

Was Ryan the opponent mentioned in the article? I had to read it again after FReepers let me know it was not Obama.