5/15/08

In 1978, a  man, respected and honored by major Democrats including Willie Brown, Jerry Brown, Mervyn Dymally, Rosalyn Carter, Walter Mondale, Harvey Milk, George Moscone and others, led a group of his followers into a mass suicide in Guyana.  Jim Jones was about change and he forever changed the lives of those who followed him.

Willie Brown, one of the strongest backers of Barack Obama, served as the master of ceremonies at a large testimonial dinner for Jones in September, 1976.  The attendees honoring Jones were a who's who list of the top people from the Democratic Party.  Famous attendees, still living, at the testimonial dinner for Jones are now giving testimonials for Barack Obama.

Jim Jones packed the audience at the 1976 grand opening of the San Fransico Democratic Party Headquarters and received an even louder applause than Mrs. Jimmy Carter.  Jones had been instrumental in the election of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone in 1975 and was an inspiration to Democrats across America. 

Barack Obama's path to the Democratic nomination is one of dirty election tricks, betrayal of mentors and friends,  elimination of opponents through underhanded methods, and receipt of funds from disreputable sources opposed to the interests of the people.

In 1996, Barack Obama betrayed his friend and mentor Alice Palmer.  Alice Palmer is a great African-American leader who had worked hard for human and civil rights in Illinois.  Alice Palmer was running for re-election to the Illinois State Senate, along with three other Democrats and Barack Obama.  But Barack Obama was in the hands of political dirty trickster David Axelrod, a Rovian type of political hitman, and Antoin (Tony) Rezko, a shady slumlord, political fixer and indicted influence pedler.  Obama knew he could not beat Alice Palmer in a fair race.  Operatives for Barack Obama filed into the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners and challenged the hundreds of signatures on the filing petitions of Palmer and the other candidates.   Were any "i"s not dotted?  Were any "t"s not crossed?  Though the candidates had double the number of required signatures, Obama's operatives got enough signatures disqualified to have all his opponents, including Obama's mentor, thrown out of the race.  Obama was not going to let honor, democracy or an African-American friend and mentor stand in the way of what he wanted.    How much drugged punch does one have to drink to believe Obama supports fair elections?

With six figure financial support from the Crown Family that owns war profiteer General Dynamics, and with the support and money of nuclear power giant Excelon, Obama has never wanted for anything.  In the Illinois State Senate, instead of stepping into Alice Palmer's shoes, Obama made an art out of not taking any stand, voting "present" 130 times.  Of course, he was there for Excelon, rewriting a nuclear waste bill to make it easer for Excelon to dump its waste on unsuspecting residents.  How much punch is required to believe Obama is for change or for the people?

When he was unable to eliminate his opponents in a U.S. House race in 2000, Obama lost.  It was a lesson, from which he learned.

In 2004, the expected Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate was Blair Hull.  Suddenly Hull's confidential divorce file was opened and confidential details that were leaked to the press were embarrassing enough that Hull stepped down.  It worked once in the primary, so why not again?  U.S. Senate candidate Jack Ryan appeared headed for a certain victory in the general election until the details of his confidential divorce file were leaked to the press, causing him to step down right before the election and guaranteeing that Obama again would have no opposition. 

Axelrod, Rezko, General Dynamics, and Excelon had their Senator, a man of influence to do their bidding. So did Nadmi Auchi, a billionaire who made much of his money working with the Regime of Saddam Hussein.  Among other things, he was an arms supplier to Saddam Hussein.  In 2004, Obama attended a party, thrown by Rezko in honor of Auchi, where Obama gave Auchi a warm welcome and toasted him.

In 2005, Obama bought a house and property with the assistance of  Rezko.  Rezko got  $10.5 million from Nadmi Auchi and received $3.5 million of this when it was time for him to purchase the land that  became part of Obama's home.  This land was transferred to Obama at a reduced figure, bringing to mind the words "money laundering" and "bribe."

Here's where the real drugged punch is kicking in.  Obama's supporters claim he is anti-war.  By a conservative estimate, in his first three years in the U.S.Senate, Obama voted  in favor of war in excess of 24 times.  On at least three occasions he specifically voted against ending the war and bringing the troops home (Roll Calls 174 and 183 in 2006 and Roll Call 248 in 2007).   To make matters worse, Obama rewarded proponents of the current Iraq War by actively working and voting to confirm their nominations to posts like Secretary of State.

Obama's supporters need to get really drunk on punch to believe he is anti-Bush.  Obama voted to seat Bush's Ohio electors in 2005 (Roll Call 1) after it was clear that Kerry had likely won Ohio.  He has spoken of Ronald Reagan as his hero and of putting George H.W. Bush in charge of foreign policy.  In saying the latter, he praised George H.W. Bush's handling of the First Gulf War, which was brought about as part of a fraud by Bush upon the Gulf War nations and the American people.  Due to the release of conversations preceding the invasion, it is now known that Bush encouraged the invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein.

Obama's supporters probably didn't notice that Obama voted five times to renew the PATRIOT Act and that he supported the Real ID Act, the most racist piece of legislation in U.S. History, which gave Micheal Chertoff (the Sacker of New Orleans) the unlimited power to waive all laws with no judicial review and no relief.

Obama has voted to cut health care funds to the poor, to cut education funds, to punish countries opposed to the death penalty, to waive labor and safety standards, and to build the "New Berlin Wall" between the United States and Mexico.  What part of liberal or progressive is that?

His supporters aren't drunk enough to call him an environmentalist.  He has worked hard to assist coal and nuclear power companies get the legislation they wanted through Congress.  He has worked to make it easier for nuclear companies to dump waste at the locations of their choosing.  He even approved a bill to drill in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge at the cost of the polar bear.  He voted to fund the Yucca Nuclear Repository that scientists and engineers are calling a major nuclear disaster in the making.  In fact, Yucca is a threat to life in more than half of the states and especially in California.

If Obama's supporters came to a football field to play ball, they'd be sent home to sober up.

Unfortunately for the Democrats, like with Jim Jones, the Obama punch may be fatal.  The Republicans are fully aware of Obama's financial ties that link him to Saddam Hussein.  Those who believe that Saddam was bad but the war was wrong will think twice about voting for Obama in November.  More and more political observers are predicting a news blitz on the Obama-Hussein connection in October.  Like the followers of Jim Jones, the Democratic Party leaders appear ready to drink the punch and hari kari the chances of the Democratic Party in November.

If this were a football game, the nomination of Obama would be called a forfeit.  This would be a great time for an independent to jump in and go for a winning touchdown.

My generation was born long after Jonestown.  Now, we get to see first hand what we've only read about in history books.

The world will long remember Jonestown/Denver, the last stand of the Democratic Party. 

Funeral services for the Democratic Party will begin on November 5th, 2008.  May it rest in peace.

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