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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><font size="3"><b>Jim
& Marie Watt</b></font></p>
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</span><b><u>2008.09.06 - Obama</u></b></p>
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<b>My friend "N" sent this to me a couple of days ago. In the
light of such challenges, Senator Lieberman brought to the Republican
Convention this week on the behalf of John McCain a word that seems
to follow up on this.</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Like
Lieberman, Marie and I are American first, and Republican second. We
tend to vote for the Person, not the Party, and have voted Democrat a
number of times in the past when we felt their candidate could serve
our country more effectively than the one representing our own party.
We remember the words of George Washington - that the greatest danger
in the future for our nation - would be the polarization of the
parties. We see </span><u>too much</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of this today.</span></b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">After
all - human beings are human beings! What we do in politics in
divisiveness, we also do in the church. 2000 years ago the apostle
Paul had to strongly exhort the members of the City Church of
Corinth. They were becoming class, partisan and personality
committed. Different groups claimed to be of Paul, Apollos, Peter and
Christ. Paul's retort was - "Is Christ </span><u>divided</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">?
Wasn't it Christ, not Paul, who was given and died for us?"</span></b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Just
as Americans should not allow that overall unity to be disrupted by
partisanship - so Paul exhorted Christians </span><u>not</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
to be divided by movements, denomination or personalities. </span><u>All</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
gifted leaders are given by God for </span><u>all</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of us. Luther is ours! and Calvin, Knox, Madame Guyon, Fenelon,
Molinos, John of the Cross, Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, Finney and
Moody! </span><u>All</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> are
ours, as well as the movements and denominations for whom they stand.
Let us preserve the undergirding unity of both our nation and our
church. One Calvinist on one occasion asked George Whitefield when in
America - "Do you think John Wesley (an Arminian) will make
heaven?" The Calvinist Whitefield replied, "My dear sir, when we
get to heaven, John Wesley will be so close to the throne of God,
that we will be scarcely able to see him!"</span></b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><u><b>That's</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>
the spirit we need to have both in politics and in the church. </b></span><b><u>That's</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
the spirit John McCain has consistently modeled throughout his life.</span></b></p>
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<b>And when a Democrat comes to the Republican National Convention
and pleads with his fellow-Democrats and Independents to vote for
John McCain for the good of our country - then we ought to take note!</b></p>
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<b>Both he and John McCain gave a good word for Senator Obama. They
said that he is a good speaker and no doubt sincere, and that perhaps
in a few years he would gain the experience to be a true presidential
contender.</b></p>
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<b>Consider then the articles released by "Investors Business
Daily."</b></p>
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(The following information about Obama has come across my desk - it
is worth reading - N.)</p>
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<b>Here's a run down on the socialist agenda of the Democrat party's
nominee for President from "Investors Business Daily."</b></p>
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During his NAACP speech earlier this month, Sen. Obama repeated the
term at least four times: "I've been working my entire adult life
to help build an America where economic justice is being served,"
he said at the group's 99<sup>th</sup> annual convention in
Cincinnati.</p>
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And as president, "We'll ensure that economic justice is served,"
he asserted. "That's what this election is about." Obama never
spelled out the meaning of the term, but he didn't have to. His
audience knew what he meant, judging from its thumping approval.</p>
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It's the rest of the public that remains in the dark, which is why
we're launching this special educational series.</p>
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"Economic justice" simply means punishing the successful and
redistributing their wealth by government fiat. It's a euphemism for
socialism.</p>
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In the past, such rhetoric was just that - rhetoric. But Obama's
positioning himself with alarming stealth to put that rhetoric into
action on a scale not seen since the birth of the welfare state.</p>
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</p>
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In his latest memoir he shares that he'd like to "recast" the
welfare net that FDR and LBJ cast while rolling back what he
derisively calls the "winner-take-all" market economy that Ronald
Reagan reignited (with record gains in living standards for all).</p>
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Obama also talks about "restoring fairness to the economy," code
for soaking mom-and-pop business filing individual tax returns.</p>
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It's clear from a close reading of his two books that he's a firm
believer in class envy. He assumes the economy is a fixed pie,
whereby the successful only get rich at the expense of the poor.</p>
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Following this discredited Marxist model, he believes government must
step in and redistribute pieces of the pie. That requires massive
transfers of wealth through government taxing and spending, a return
to the entitlement days of old.</p>
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</p>
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Of course, Obama is too smart to try to smuggle such hoary
collectivist garbage through the front door. He's disguising the
wealth transfers as "investments" - "to make America more
competitive," he says, or "that give us a fighting chance,"
whatever that means.</p>
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Among his proposed "investments":</p>
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* "Universal," guaranteed" health care.</p>
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* "Free" college tuition.</p>
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* "Universal national service" (a la Havana).</p>
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* "Universal 401 (k)s" (in which the government would match
contributions made by "low- and moderate-income families").</p>
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* "Free" job training (even for criminals).</p>
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* "Wage insurance" (to supplement dislocated union workers' old
income levels).</p>
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* "Free": child care and "universal" preschool.</p>
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* More subsidized public housing.</p>
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* A fatter earned income tax credit for "working poor."</p>
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* And even a Global Poverty Act that amounts to a Marshall Plan for
the Third World, first and foremost Africa.</p>
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His new New Deal also guarantees a "living wage," with a $10
minimum wage indexed to inflation; and "fair trade" and "fair
labor practices," with breaks for "patriot employers" who
kowtow to unions, and sticks for "nonpatriot" companies that
don't.</p>
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That's just for starters - first-term stuff.</p>
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</p>
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Obama doesn't stop with socialized health care. He wants to socialize
your entire human resources department - from payrolls to pensions.
His social-microengineering even extends to mandating all employers
provide seven paid sick days per year to salary and hourly workers
alike.</p>
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You can see why Obama was ranked, hands-down, the most liberal member
of the Senate by the National Journal. Some, including colleague and
presidential challenger John McCain, think he's the most liberal
member in Congress.
</p>
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</p>
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But could he really be "more left," as McCain recently remarked,
than self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (for whom Obama has
openly campaigned, even making a special trip to Vermont to rally
voters)?</p>
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</p>
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Obama's voting record, going back to his days in the Illinois
statehouse, says yes. His career path - and those who guided it -
leads to the same unsettling conclusion.</p>
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</p>
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The seeds of his far-left ideology were planted in his formative
years as a teenager in Hawaii - and they were far more radical than
any biography or profile in the media has portrayed.</p>
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<br>
</p>
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A careful reading of Obama's first memoir, "Dreams From My Father,"
reveals that his childhood mentor up to age 18 - a man he cryptically
refers to as "Frank" - was none other that the late communist
Frank Marshall Davis, who fled Chicago after the FBI and Congress
opened investigations into his "subversive," "un-American
activities."</p>
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</p>
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As Obama was preparing to head off to college, he sat at Davis' feet
in his Waikiki bungalow for nightly bull sessions. Davis plied his
impressionable guest with liberal doses of whiskey and advice,
including: Never trust the white establishment.</p>
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</p>
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"They'll train you so good," he said, "you'll start believing
what they tell you about equal opportunity and the American way and
all that sh**.</p>
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</p>
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After college, where he palled around with Marxist professors and
took in socialist conferences "for inspiration," Obama followed
in Davis' footsteps, becoming a "community organizer" in Chicago.</p>
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His boss there was Gerald Kellman, whose identity Obama also tries to
hide in his book. Turns out Kellman's a disciple of the late Saul
"The Red" Alinsky, a hard-boiled Chicago socialist who wrote the
"Rules for Radicals" and agitated for social revolution in
America.</p>
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</p>
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The Chicago-based Woods Fund provided Kellman with his original
$25,000 to hire Obama. In turn, Obama would later serve on the Woods
board with terrorist Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground. Ayers was
one of Obama's early political supporters.</p>
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</p>
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After three years agitating with marginal success for more welfare
programs in South Side Chicago, Obama decided he would need to study
law to "bring about real change" - on a large scale.
</p>
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</p>
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While at Harvard Law School, he still found time to hone his
organizing skills. For example, he spent eight days in Los Angeles
taking a national training course taught by Alinsky's Industrial
Areas Foundation. With his newly minted Law degree, he returned to
Chicago to reapply - as well as teach - Alinsky's "agitation"
tactics.</p>
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<br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">(A video-streamed
bio on Obama's Web site includes a photo of him teaching in a
University of Chicago classroom. If you freeze the frame and look
closely at the blackboard Obama is writing on, you can make out the
words "Power Analysis" and "Relationships Built on Self
Interest" - terms right out of Alinsky's rule book.)</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">Amid all this,
Obama reunited with his late father's communist tribe in Kenya, the
Luo, during trips to Africa.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">As a Nairobi
bureaucrat, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Harvard-educated economist,
grew to challenge the ruling pro-Western government for not being
socialist enough. In an eight-page scholarly paper published in 1965,
he argued for eliminating private farming and nationalizing
businesses "owned by Asians and Europeans."</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">His ideas for
communist-style expropriation didn't stop there. He also proposed
massive taxes on the rich to "redistribute our economic gains to
the benefit of all."</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">"Theoretically,
there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of
income so long as the people get benefits from the government
commensurate with their income which is taxed," Obama Sr. wrote. "I
do not see why the government cannot tax those who have more and
siphon some of these revenues into savings which can be utilized in
investment for future development."</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">Taxes and
"investment" ... the fruit truly does not fall far from the vine.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">(Voters might also
be interested to know that Obama, the supposed straight shooter, does
not once mention his father's communist leanings in an entire book
dedicated to his memory.)</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">In Kenya's recent
civil unrest, Obama privately phoned the leader of the opposition Luo
tribe, Raila Odinga, to voice his support. Odinga is so committed to
communism he named his oldest son after Fidel Castro.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">With his African
identity sewn up, Obama returned to Chicago and fell under the spell
of an Afrocentric pastor. It was a natural attraction. The Rev.
Jeremiah Wright preaches a Marxist version of Christianity called
"black liberation theology" and has supported the communists in
Cuba, Nicaragua and elsewhere.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">Obama joined
Wright's militant church, pledging allegiance to a system of "black
values" that demonizes white "middle classness" and other
mainstream pursuits.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">(Obama in his first
book, published in 1995, calls such values "sensible. There's no
mention of them in his new book.)</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">With the large
church behind him, Obama decided to run for political office, where
he could organize for "change" more effectively. "As an elected
official," he said, "I could bring church and community leaders
together easier than I could as a community organizer or lawyer."</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">He could also
exercise real, top-down power, the kind that grass-roots activists
lack. Alinsky would be proud.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">Throughout his
career, Obama has worked closely with a network of stone-cold
socialists and full-blown communists striving for "economic
justice."</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">He's been traveling
in an orbit of collectivism that runs from Nairobi to Honolulu, and
on through Chicago to Washington.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">Yet a recent AP
poll found that only 6% of Americans would describe Obama as
liberal," let alone socialist.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">Public opinion
polls usually reflect media opinion, and the media by and large have
portrayed Obama as a moderate "outsider" (the No. 1 term survey
respondents associate his with) who will bring a "breath of fresh
air" to Washington.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">The few who have
drilled down on his radical roots have tended to downplay or
pooh-pooh them. Even skeptics have failed to connect the dots for
fear of being called the dreaded "r" word.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">But too much is at
stake in this election to continue mincing words.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">Both a historic
banking crisis and 1970s-style stagflation loom over the economy.
Democrats, who already control Congress, now threaten to
filibuster-proof the Senate in what could be a watershed election for
them - at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">A perfect storm of
statism is forming, and our economic freedoms are at serious risk.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;">Those who care less
about looking politically correct than preserving the free-market
individualism that's made this country great have to start calling
things by their proper name to avert long-term disaster.</p><p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;">
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