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"Andy Stern, A Member of Obama’s Fiscal Responsibility Commission, Says ‘Worshipping the Market’ Has Failed America" PHOTO CAPTION: "Andy Stern, former head of Services Employees International Union (SEIU) and a President Barack Obama appointee to the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, said on Monday that the free market has failed the country and American workers. He made his remarks at a conference of the Campaign for America's Future in Washington, D.C., on Monday. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)" SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) – Andy Stern, the former head of the Service Employees International Union who now sits on President Obama's National Commission on...

General David Petraeus wakes badly wounded soldier from comaA couple of years ago, MoveOn.org published a defamatory insult that called General David Petraeus "General Betray Us" and said he was at war with the truth. We remind our readers that Barack Obama solicited and accepted the endorsement of Eli Pariser's anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic hate group. Watch this YouTube video to see the man whom Eli Pariser insulted. Lieutenant Brian Brennan was maimed by a terrorist's explosive device, and he suffered a head injury so severe that doctors assumed that he would never recover. General Petraeus came to see the wounded...

[Permission granted to copy, paste, and circulate in its entirety] Endorsed by Obama: "He's one of the greedy Jew bastards killing our [black] people. Don't give the Jew a dime."Ready-to-go viral E-mail and blog entry: please copy, paste, and circulate as widely as possible. Unlike the smears and urban legends that are being directed against both Presidential tickets, the reader can verify the following material independently. Keep [going] right on past Freddy's, he's one of the greedy Jew bastards killing our [black] people. Don't give the Jew a dime. The above anti-Semitic tirade came from Morris Powell, the head of...

Obama manages to take more positions than a couple performing the entire Kama Sutra Last year, Barack Obama joined MoveOn.org’s Eli Pariser in spitting on General Petraeus’ uniform and service ribbons. Obama’s solicitation and acceptance of MoveOn.org’s endorsement lent Obama’s name to MoveOn.org’s credibility, thus reinforcing the following insult. Now, however, Obama wants to appeal to our Armed Forces and Americans who respect our Armed Forces by handing General Petraeus a tissue with which to wipe Obama’s spittle from his uniform. Per “Obama Moves on MoveOn.org,” (http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/obama-moves-on.html) Almost lost in the Wes Clark haze of Monday’s patriotism speech in Independence,...

Furthermore, Obama does not deserve the vote of any Catholic, Jew, or self-respecting African-American. The reason has nothing to do with the color of his skin, and everything to do with the content (or lack thereof) of his character. ...It is easy to imagine white people, and especially Jewish white people, reacting to this picture the way most African-Americans would react to a candidate posing arm in arm with someone in a sheet and hood in front of a burning cross. ...Hillary Clinton added, and quite correctly, that she “found how Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans,...

MoveOn.org ad scares away some Democrats By Mike Soraghan September 26, 2007 Many Democrats are steering clear of MoveOn.org since the organization mocked Gen. David Petraeus in a newspaper advertisement earlier this month. But not Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.). DeLauro will host a dinner next week (October 2) in which MoveOn executive director Eli Pariser will be one of three receiving an award. Pariser is to be honored at the U.S. Action 2007 Progressive Leadership Awards. The regular price for the dinner is $100. But, according to a MoveOn invitation, MoveOn members can purchase special $60 tickets. ---------- FYI, the...

"Now that the Times has revealed this mistake for the first time, and while we believe that the $142,083 figure is above the market rate paid by most organizations, out of an abundance of caution we have decided to pay that rate for this ad. We will therefore wire the $77,083 difference to the Times tomorrow (Monday, September 24, 2007). We call on Mayor Giuliani, who received exactly the same ad deal for the same price, to pay the corrected fee also."

To express the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all members of the United States Armed Forces. NAYs ---25 Akaka (D-HI) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Byrd (D-WV) Clinton (D-NY) Dodd (D-CT) Durbin (D-IL) Feingold (D-WI) Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Levin (D-MI) Menendez (D-NJ) Murray (D-WA) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sanders (I-VT) Schumer (D-NY) Stabenow (D-MI) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR Not Voting -...

t is a well known principle from anthropology that someone who can name a person or thing controls that person or thing. To do so, however, requires considerable skill and experience. The name that MoveOn.org applied to General David Petraeus, "General Betray Us," could have come from any grade school's sandbox, and it will no more stick to this distinguished soldier than water will adhere to Teflon. "Eli Parasite," our name for MoveOn.org executive director Eli Pariser, also is pretty obvious, but we will make it stick by using facts and his track record as the adhesive.Not only did MoveOn.org...

MoveOn polled its membership without including the Lee alternative, offering a choice of only Pelosi's plan or nothing. Amazingly, Eli Pariser of MoveOn has admitted that the reason MoveOn did this was because they knew that their members would favor the Lee amendment. The following is from a report on Salon.com: ...Pariser is simultaneously admitting that he knew his members favored the Lee amendment to quickly end the war by defunding it, and claiming that he did not know whether his members preferred Pelosi's weak anti-war gestures to nothing at all. This makes no sense. Are we supposed to imagine...

The end of MoveOn.org is now within visible sight as well, because it has become obvious that the organization exists to serve the interests, not of its rank and file members, but those of (to use Cindy Sheehan’s words) “elitist wannabe power-brokers” like Eli Pariser and Namrita Chaudhary, along with the agenda of international financier George Soros. On March 26, Michael Moore posted the following Cindy Sheehan article as a “must read” opinion piece at MichaelMoore.com. (We have changed @ in E-mail addresses to “at” to prevent harvesting by spam software.) "A month ago I wrote that MoveOn began efforts...

This week the guest on Talk to Power is Eli Pariser, executive director of MoveOn.org Political Action. He is fielding questions now and will be responding to select comments early next week.

Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.- Arthur Wellesley. Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo by Bill Levinson Editor's note: The difference between 400 GB and 800 GB of “bandwidth” per month at my service provider is about $10/month. GB is GIGA-bytes. A gigabyte is 1 billion bytes. An average blog/message board web page is 150 KB — 150 kilobytes. A kilobyte is 1000 bytes. So they’re saying the Democratic Party, with millions in its war chest, can’t spend $20.00 over the next two months for 5,333,333 (that’s 5.3 MILLION) page hits? Yeah,...

A new book by David Horowitz and Richard Poe has enraged the Left and alarmed many conservatives. It exposes the machinations of a radical clique working at the highest levels of government and finance to undermine American power. That book is The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party. It hit the New York Times bestseller list in its first week in print. Here to tell us about The Shadow Partyis co-author Richard Poe, our esteemed colleague at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, where he serves as director of research. Mr....

The liberal challenge to Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) escalated Friday when the political arm of MoveOn.org, an influential online advocacy group, endorsed the political newcomer opposing his bid for renomination. Gaining the support of MoveOn's political action committee was Ned Lamont, a businessman who wants to unseat Lieberman largely because of the veteran lawmaker's staunch support for the war in Iraq. The group announced its backing after polling MoveOn's members in Connecticut. MoveOn has emerged as a leading voice for left-leaning activists, and the endorsement marks the first time that its PAC has sought to unseat an incumbent Democratic senator....

Ten Liberals to Watch in 2005 Posted Feb 11, 2005 Evan Bayh Democrat senator from Indiana # Born: Dec. 26, 1955, Shirkieville, Ind. # Resides: Indianapolis # Significance: Son of former liberal Sen. Birch Bayh, he is chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council, the "moderate" organization that helped launch Bill Clinton. Served as governor of Indiana. Likely 2008 presidential candidate, who has tried to position himself to the middle (voted for the partial-birth abortion ban), but ultimately delivers for liberals (voted for judicial filibusters). One of 13 senators to vote against confirming Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Also opposed Atty....

Democrats with Moveon.org From the "Take Back America Conference 2004" hosted by the Campaign for America's Future. On the left is Debbie Stabenow, Democratic Senator of Michigan. In the middle is Peter Schurman, Executive Director of Moveon.org. In the foreground is Eli Pariser. Executive Director of MoveOn PAC. In the back right is Joan Blades, co-founder of MoveOn.org. Video of the award presentation Which is which. MoveOn.org receives the award but MoveOn PAC, MoveOn.org and MoveOn Voter Fund are all recipients of the award? Paging the NY Times.