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Obama’s Enemies List

Hardball is the only way he plays.

After the Democratic convention, Obama campaign lawyer Robert Bauer warned TV stations against airing a TV ad that was embarrassing to Barack Obama. The commercial focused on the longtime relationship between Obama and Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Bauer sent letters to the Justice Department imploring the agency to pursue criminal action against those behind the ads. It was not lost on anyone at that time that Bauer was considered a candidate to be the next U.S. Attorney-General.

A team of Obama campaign operatives, joined by major news outlets, descended on Wasilla, Alaska immediately after Governor Sarah Palin was introduced as Senator John McCain’s running mate. This was immediately followed by patently false reports claiming Palin imposed book bans, joined a fringe political party, charged rape victims for emergency room treatment and cut funding for special needs children.

In late August, the Obama campaign emailed an “Obama Action Wire” to thousands of supporters and liberal activists exhorting them to harass the offices of Chicago’s WGN radio by flooding the station with angry phone calls and emails. Activists screamed insults to call-in screeners. The radio station’s offense was that a long-time, respected radio host had the temerity to interview Ethics and Public Policy Center watchdog Stanley Kurtz. Kurtz had uncovered university records that documented a much closer relationship between Obama and Ayers than the presidential candidate had previously disclosed.

A few weeks later, state prosecutors and top sheriffs in Missouri who were prominent Obama supporters responded to a chilling Obama campaign request. They styled themselves as a “truth squad” and threatened to prosecute anyone including media outlets that printed or broadcasted material they deemed to be inaccurate about the Illinois Senator.

Obama contributors in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights section (headed by $2,000 Obama donor and former ACLU attorney Mark Kappelhof) urged preemptive prosecution of individuals the Obama campaign believed might disrupt the November election. A cited example of anticipated disruption was to send mailings of a non-violent nature addressing voting issues unfavorable to Obama.

In October, a question from a middle-class voter resulted in an answer from Obama indicating the Democratic nominee was in favor of “spread[ing] the wealth around.” This voter became the symbol of middle-class America and Obama’s response the touchstone of his neo-Marxist policies. Immediately thereafter, Democratic Ohio state officials scoured government data bases and confidential records in an effort to find embarrassing information on “Joe the Plumber” (e.g., he is divorced) that quickly found its way into the press.

In the final days of the campaign, three newspapers that had endorsed McCain were booted from the Obama campaign bus. The New York Post, Dallas Morning News, and Washington Times were unceremoniously shown the door only days after their papers’ endorsements appeared. Obama campaign officials claimed the move was to make room for more important media outlets: Jet and Ebony entertainment magazines. Both publications were publishing fawning coverage of Obama.

Those heartened by the hope that a President Obama would be more tolerant of critics and criticism than a candidate Obama had their expectations dashed. In only his third full day as the 44th president Obama personally went on the offensive against a media personality. On January 23rd, Obama warned Congressional Republicans against listening to Rush Limbaugh. The man who offered to sit down with Holocaust denier and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without any preconditions whatsoever views an American radio talk show host as a dangerous threat.

In precedent-setting action, Obama moved his director of political affairs, a highly partisan post, from the Old Executive Office Building into the West Wing. Political operative Patrick Gaspard was given White House access not experienced by his predecessors. Obama official Shauna Daly, a non-lawyer and career opposition researcher described as a “partisan dirt-digger,” was assigned to the White House counsel office. The move signals not only a new low in partisan activities, but suggests the office assignment may be intended to hide Daly’s political activities under the guise of the counsel’s attorney-client privileges.

What America witnessed before the election and mere hours after Obama was sworn into office is just a sampling of what Americans can likely expect throughout an Obama presidency. One cannot help but reach the conclusion an Obama Enemies List is already being compiled and free speech restrictions are being considered. Fortunately for Obama he has no shortage of Congressional foot soldiers to help in his cause to muzzle critics and silence news outlets that refuse to adhere to Democratic talking points that are faxed directly into the network newscast teleprompters.

On Election Day, Senator Chuck Schumer likened conservative talk radio to pornography and argued it should be regulated. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed speech restrictions more than once during the election season. Senators Harry Reid, Dick Durbin and John Kerry have also advocated various limits to political speech. Senator Debbie Stabenow assured a liberal radio talk show host that regulating conservative speech is imminent. House Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman is reportedly working on speech restrictions with acting FCC Chairman Michael Copps.

Imagine the gross violations against political speech that may very well occur when there are no checks and balances from a sycophantic Congress and there is complicity from the national news gatekeepers. The public may be very surprised at the lengths the Obama Administration may pursue to silence critics. Moreover, the self-anointed Praetorian Guard of the First Amendment will conveniently develop a case of amnesia regarding on which side of the debate they fall when it comes to press freedoms. Do not expect to see the New York Times editorialize against Obama and the Congress when it comes to protecting free speech rights aside from its own and that of like-minded, liberally-biased press outlets.

The Clinton White House had its own enemies list and engaged in dirty practices that clearly broke the law. Clinton enemies audited by the IRS included Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick, Gennifer Flowers, White House Travel Officer Director Billy Dale and the independent watchdog group, Judicial Watch, just to name a few.

Early in Clinton’s first term, staffers improperly squirreled away more than 400 FBI files on prominent Republicans. This give the Clintons access to confidential information on key Republicans they viewed as political threats.

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About the Author

Mark Hyman hosts “Behind the Headlines,” a commentary program for Sinclair Broadcast Group. You can follow him on Twitter at @markhyman.

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drudge ette obama| 2.18.09 @ 7:08AM

When you put this together, it paints a scary picture. Great article.

Also, this Shauna Daly move makes you wonder what preplanning meeting determined that this was the most effective strategy.

Rocco| 2.18.09 @ 7:08AM

And meanwhile, what passes for the political right in this country rolls on to its collective back and pisses itself in fright. Come on, people, politics is streetfighting. Either grow a pair or get out!!! It's time to give these idiots a taste of their own medicine and then some. Why are people so scared and willing to submit to this bullshit?

Bill Rawlings| 2.18.09 @ 7:13AM

Obama's enemy list is nothing compared to his usefull Idiots list , as long as he has that nothing else really matters , he will be able to do as he pleases

Bill O'Stalin| 2.18.09 @ 7:24AM

As an avowed Communist I find this all rather amusing. Money is no longer the issue in your society. Now it's all about power and amassing power that can't be stopped by simple considerations like your Constitution. It's been pissed away for years by both parties in your country and now you are reaping the whirlwind.

Obama has proven himself a worthy student of power politics and has stepped into a vacuum of leadership in the USA. Obama staffed his administration with crooks and liars because there is no reason for honest people anymore.

When you tell the public the truth you empower them. When you lie to the public you empower the politically elite.

Under the new rules that have descended you now teach a man to fish so that he can feed others until he figures out he's a sucker. Then you tell him he must fish or his health care will be affected. The redistribution of fish becomes the standard.

phaedris| 11.5.09 @ 3:30PM

Bill, for someone claiming to be an "avowed communist", you have done a better job of clarifying the situation than most.If more people would shed their ideological prejudices, they would see a much clearer picture of what is really going on...

Steve| 2.18.09 @ 7:28AM

Amen, Rocco. The conservative tradition is to bring a knife to a gun fight. Screw that. It's time to bring the RPG's and tanks to a gun fight. Sadly, when wicked men control the law the law must be broken to evict the wicked men. Lord help the US.

Steve| 2.18.09 @ 7:31AM

Wow!!! Very cogent analysis, Mr. *O'Stalin*. Time to turn the table over and reach for weapons.

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saleboter| 2.18.09 @ 7:54AM

I guess this was the CHANGE we were all HOPing for.

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Robbins Mitchell| 2.18.09 @ 8:05AM

How do I go about getting myself put on Obozo's enemies list?...I want to make damn sure that anybody who cares knows that I diss the boy every day publicly and hope to see him suffer the 'death of 1000 cuts' politically

Deborah | 2.18.09 @ 8:18AM

Luckily we still have the Internet. If Obama tries to shut down talk radio, there will be blood in the streets, I fear. I know I will be marching on Washington.

I had read a lot of this online before the election and tried to clue in as many people as possible about Chicago politics coming to Washington. Alas, it wasn't helped by the talking heads on TV who were either clueless about the iceberg below Obama's surface or were too afraid to tell the politically incorrect truth -- he's a Marxist who takes his opponents out. His attacks on Joe the Plumber should have given even those barely paying attention a clue. But no, we prefer to think that can't happen in the U.S.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson...about says it all.

WRTolkas| 2.18.09 @ 8:22AM

Dear Rocco & Steve,

I'm with you. Stay watchful and vigilant. The destruction of the 2nd Amendment and the theft of water from the Great Lakes to Obama's friends in the West will be the sign. Already the Kansas and New Hampshire governments have drawn articles that darn near look like secession if “Extra-Constitutional” measures are drafted by this government.

There are ripples in the pond.

Stay awake and keep your powder dry.

Anthony| 2.18.09 @ 8:50AM

I've been having these thoughts lately about a movie made in the '60s, you all know it, "Seven Days in May". Well , the premise doesn't quite fit today's situation but the basic concept is sound. If indeed America has been taken over by leftist radicals, and the Constitution is being shredded slowly, then the only institution that can save America is the good old U.S. military. Then, we can restore both civilian control and the Constitution, with our leftist friends safely in Canada and Schumer, Reid, Durbin, Pelosi, et al safely at GITMO, waterboarding not optional. Now this is real change we can believe in.

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Owyheewine| 2.18.09 @ 9:12AM

Our president has demonstrated that he is a bold faced liar. Let me volunteer to be added to his enemies list.

Gill O'Teen| 2.18.09 @ 9:14AM

Missouri’s republican senator, “Kit” Bond recently announced he would not seek another term in 2010. One of those being considered for that seat is St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch, one of the leaders of the Barack Obama Truth Squad. Missouri already suffers with the sycophantic representation given by Claire McCaskill, one of the first to climb aboard Barry’s bandwagon. Hopefully, Missouri republicans will wake up before it’s too late. I won’t hold my breath.

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harold stamey| 2.18.09 @ 10:05AM

should i take my son out of ROTC ??

S.L. Toddard| 2.18.09 @ 10:15AM

Not if he can be taught how to shoot a sniper rifle for free.

W Hwffwenan| 2.18.09 @ 10:17AM

Re-read "Atlas Shrugged"

Marc Jeric| 2.18.09 @ 10:25AM

There has been little or no attention paid to the $9 billion in the porkulus bill intended for Abu Hussein's brownshirts, i.e. ACORN thugs. The items are tagged as community organizing and community stabilization items. Those brownshirts will perform our census under the direction of the White House marxists. Also, they will register voters (dead, non-existent, with phony addresses, etc.) while paid by this "stimulus" bill. We need more details!

S.L. Toddard| 2.18.09 @ 10:34AM

Buy and read "Unintended Consequences" while you still can.

james| 2.18.09 @ 11:08AM

OStalin is no communist. He's full of it, and is playing this role for reasons only he knows.
As for the rest of us, there is one woman out there who will bring automatic weapons to a gun fight, and that is Gov. Palin. Start right now to support her, and for God's sake stay away from people like John McCain and Peggy Noonan. Please, I'm begging you.

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Russ| 2.18.09 @ 11:23AM

Jez, you people are truly not in touch with reality. "Turn the table over and reach for Weapons??!!" Good lord. George W outed a CIA agent for exposing his lies. Where was your outrage then? Please remove your tin foil hats a move out of your parent's basements.

IndyJohn| 10.22.09 @ 8:53AM

FOOL! You are wrong on so many counts. Richard Armitage outed Valerie Plame, who was not a CIA agent, but an analyst. Armitage was Colin Powell's right-hand man at State. Was Armitage prosecuted? No. Because there was no crime! I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the truth in the future. You may avoid making a public ass of yourself - but I doubt it.

JP| 2.18.09 @ 11:37AM

Yes, of course, Russ you are correct. Bush outed the first under cover CIA agent who was listed by name, adress and occupation in the 2000 version of Whos Who. She was the first undercover NOC agent who drove her station wagon to work every day (CIA headquarters). It took the FBI exactly 3 interviews with her neighbors to find out the most in her neighborhood knew she worked for the CIA (apprently she blabbed it about constantly at dinner parties. Probably everyone in Northern Virginia knew who "owned" Brewster Jennings). But hey, the bureaucrats at Langley said she was undercover, so she must have been. Another stellar operation by the world's foremost intelligence agency!!

/putting my tinfoil hat back on my head.

MX336| 2.18.09 @ 11:46AM

Just wait and see what our Messiah President does when the terrorist bombs start going off. The only thing he will know to do is lock up all critics and search every house for firearms.

rr| 2.18.09 @ 11:48AM

Deborah, the internet is also on the hit list. The intolerant totalitarians want to control both radio and the internet.
Obama and his minions are third world corruptocrats. Every day new democrat corruption is uncovered and the only ones exposing it are talk radio and the internet.

Mack| 2.18.09 @ 11:48AM

Next messiah obama's Brown Shirts, unless this has already begun, will be burning books, instructing children to spy on their family and neighbors, and hauling off United States Citizens in the middle of the night.

Mack| 2.18.09 @ 11:51AM

This seems much more economical and relaxed for messiah obama and HIS Brown Shirts to "burn today’s form of books" rather than when Hitler and his Brown Shirts had to physically collect all the books and actually build a fire.

bobmontgomery| 2.18.09 @ 11:54AM

Who does Obama talk to on his blackberry?

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cg| 2.18.09 @ 1:15PM

Great article and analysis. It's too bad Hyman doesn't get the audience he used to have when he was on TV.
This is a time for more speech and voices to be heard.
This administration is pretty frightening so far.

stmichrick| 2.18.09 @ 2:03PM

"Much has been made by the political left of Richard Nixon's infamous enemies list. The reality is while there was a Nixon's enemies list most of the names were those who did not receive presidential Christmas cards or White House reception invitations."

- Lost in the mists of history now that we have a smiling, more sophisticated Che Guevara in the Oval Office

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Sons Of Sam | 2.18.09 @ 2:59PM

No matter we do, liberals and other traitors are going to call us names, and do much worse than they claim for us. Time to stop worrying about "what people will think" and start defending our rights.

Do it to them, they're sure as hell doing it to us.

http://www.geocities.com/samadamssos/
S.O.S.

Robert Rosencrans| 2.18.09 @ 3:26PM

Apparently the enemies list is becoming a quick reality. Eric Holder, who loves terrorists, is apparently doing everything but cussing white people out in public as he claims the nation is full of cowards for not discussing race honestly. You can make the case that it's not directed at whites, but seriously. What has this country not done to help minorities including blacks? Wow. Telling people they are cowards is the way to start an honest conversation. Honestly, I hate to state this but he sounds like a hick with that logic. In the meantime, now that he's the Attorney General, call his office and demand that he live up to his mighty concept. Urge him to go after employers, including government entities, who openly support Black History Month, but do little to encourage Asian History Month (Just think of the possibilities there), White History Month, GLBT History Month, etc. Just name your victim and your venom, put place that call.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090218/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/holder_race
Attorney General Eric Holder described the United States Wednesday as a nation of cowards on matters of race, saying most Americans avoid discussing awkward racial issues.

In a speech to Justice Department employees marking Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives.

"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards," said Holder, nation's first black attorney general.

Race issues continue to be a topic of political discussion, Holder said, but "we, as average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race."

He urged people of all races to use Black History Month as a chance for honest discussion of racial matters, including issues of health care, education, and economic disparities.

Race "is an issue we have never been at ease with and, given our nation's history, this is in some ways understandable," Holder said. "If we are to make progress in this area, we must feel comfortable enough with one another and tolerant enough of each other to have frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us."

He told hundreds of Justice Department employees gathered for the event that they have a special responsibility to advance racial understanding.

Even when people mix at the workplace or afterwork social events, Holder argued, many Americans in their free time are still segregated inside what he called "race-protected cocoons."

"Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad," said Holder.

As a presidential candidate last year, Barack Obama gave a landmark speech on race relations during the hotly-contested Democratic primaries as he tried to separate himself from the angry rhetoric of his then-pastor. Holder cited that speech by Obama as part of the motivation for his words Wednesday, saying Americans need to overcome an ingrained inhibition against talking about race.

"If we're going to ever make progress, we're going to have to have the guts, we have to have the determination, to be honest with each other. It also means we have to be able to accept criticism where that is justified," Holder told reporters after the speech.

Holder is headed to Guantanamo Bay early next week to inspect the terrorist detention facility there. Obama has assigned Holder to lead a special task force aimed at closing the site within a year.

Holder's Justice Department will have to decide which suspects to bring to U.S. courts for trial, which to prosecute through the military justice system, and which to send back to their home countries.

LY| 2.18.09 @ 3:49PM

Bill O'Stalin you should be pretty happy with all of this socialism that's coming our way. Obama is a thug and will always be a thug, period.

Bill O'Stalin| 2.18.09 @ 4:15PM

LY: I agree with you. All Communism is based on control, so naturally all political leaders would be thugs by their very nature. And all thugs have enemies, therefore enemy lists. In the meantime I urge you to read the following. Fascinating reading for those who can read between the lines.
http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b2stalin.htm

Lenin boosted Stalin to the position of Commissar of Nationalities, which gave him control over all the minority groups in Russia. These groups made up a significant percentage of Russia’s people. Struggles with the minority groups and resistors of the Communist Revolution caused the Russian Civil war. Joseph assisted the Red, Communist army in many roles including Inspector General.

The war weakened Russia and Lenin. During the civil war all property and factories were nationalized and even freedom of expression was taken away. At the end of the war when Lenin introduced the New Economic Plan, which reinstated a limited amount of free commerce, he was too weak from a bullet wound to handle the opposition to the plan. Lenin set up the position of General Secretary in 1922 and appointed Stalin. It turned out to be Stalin’s rise to complete power, in the newly formed USSR.

Stalin’s position gave him the power to head inner sections of the Communist Party that investigated leaders and ousted those who were found lacking or disloyal to the party. Lenin was nervous when Stalin began to deviate from his ideas, and in his last will and testament he wrote that he didn’t want Stalin to succeed him. Stalin was able to keep Trotsky, the leader of the Red Army and Stalin’s greatest enemy, from disclosing this information and used the competition among party members to rid it of all opposition to himself. (In 1940 Stalin had the exiled Trotsky assassinated in Mexico.) Stalin got his enemies to kill and remove each other, so that by 1928 Stalin was in control.

Joseph Stalin began his ‘reign’ by condemning the kulaks, or land owning peasants that had become wealthy. He claimed that they were not putting the Soviet Union as their first priority and not providing industry workers with enough food. Stalin forced the people to set up collective farms that were owned by the government. 5 million kulaks and farmers were exiled because they were too wealthy, objected, or refused to farm collectively. The collective farms didn’t increase the food supply and in fact there were great food shortages. Next, Stalin set up a Five-Year Plan to industrialize Russia. He demanded that there be a 111% increase in coal production, 200% increase in iron, and 335% increase in electrical production. If workers didn’t meet these standards or were thought to be destroying the Plan, and were exiled. Stalin went against his advisors and broke with normal communist ideas.

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Mike| 2.18.09 @ 5:06PM

Good article. And Hyman doesn't even mention Obama's stump speech where he exhorts the crowd to "argue with your neighbors" and "get in their face." Great. Just what the Nutroots need to hear. Talk about pouring gasoline on a fire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCMDur9CDZ4

Anthony| 2.18.09 @ 5:12PM

Thanks to Mr. Rosencrans: Mr. Holder is a sickening, smug, world class hypocrite. Leave it to an ideologue like Holder to chastise people for not being more honest & open with each other, especially with criticism. How rich is this, coming from this Stalinist leftist, who believes in campus speech codes, that can get a kid kicked out of college because of some interpretation of his/her actions or mannorisms. Read the book "Shadow University" it will make you sick to your stomach. The Chinese re-education camps have nothing on American colleges and universities. Holder and his ilk have put up these barriers between citizens so that free & open dialogue will not take place, because people have to be lawyers before they speak to one another. It's easy for the Holder's, Jackson's & Sharpton's of this world to decry the lack of vitality in our associations, that's because they can get away with doing and saying anything, while the rest of us can find ourselves facing a hate crime prosecution. Holder & his fellow jack booted friends have made a mockery of the famous Rockwell town meeting painting just as Andre Serano did with his famous "Piss Christ". BTW, Holder also doesn't think much of talk radio, suprise, suprise.

max| 2.18.09 @ 5:31PM

wow...! I'm not sure who's the bigger nut. Mark Hyman for writing an article riddled with lies and patten falsehoods that were debunked by nearly every rational mind on the planet, or you yahoos who've have responded like turkeys at a crap shoot.

If Obama has an enemies list I doubt there's room on it for a hack like Hyman, whose objective appears to be striving for relevance when in fact he comes across more like an ant at a picnic.

The country is in serious trouble of epic proportions and paranoid rantings about brown shirts and censoring right-wing talk radio is just self-indulgent bullsh*t.

Enough already. Put the weapons down take off the tin foil and rejoin the human race.

IndyJohn| 10.22.09 @ 9:01AM

Please specify the lies and patent falsehoods related by Mr. Hyman in his article. Please provide documentation to support your case.

Duane Hinde| 2.18.09 @ 5:43PM

Well, I say this when it comes to bho. Give him enough rope, and he will hang himself. Evil doesn't win for very long. He will make a mistake soon, and his party plans will be over. Just be patience and wait, you'll see.

ruth| 2.18.09 @ 5:56PM

Max, put up or shut up. Debunk Mr. Hyman's lies and falsehoods.

Charles Martel| 2.18.09 @ 6:29PM

Max hears what Max wants to hear. And though he probably soaks up everything else Bingaman, Stabenow, Harkin, Clinton, et alia say, he didn't want to hear their comments about the need for what Clinton called "balance on the OTHER side" (emphasis added), so he denies they were made.

Fortunately, we needn't rely on Max for our information... yet.

Alan Brooks| 2.18.09 @ 7:29PM

Obama HAS to be reelected, otherwise the riots in the Watts section, Detroit, Newark, will make the riots back then seem like a kiddies' scissor class cutting paper dolls
;)

Anthony| 2.18.09 @ 7:39PM

Ruth; Max is too busy filling out his application to be on his local "community board" so he can insure diversity and fairness on the air waves. Comrade Lenin would be proud. Max, one caveat, you might actually have to put on a clean brown shirt every other day when the board convenes its inquisition. Brushing your teeth and shaving is of course, optional. P.S. Hey Max, I remember when America was indeed in serious trouble of epic proportions,. Yes, I remember the 2 hr. Jimmy Carter gas lines, 21% mortgages to desperate home buyers and 10% unemployment. Then the paranoid right took over, and Ronald Reagan was elected President. Twenty five years of unpresidented wealth creation. History is about to repeat itself, so don't be so quick to build those gulags ,because we just might fill them with you & your ilk. Fair play, don't you know.

max| 2.18.09 @ 7:40PM

HI Ruth (and Charles) – Because Hyman’s blog is riddled with some many falsehoods and lies I’m going to hit the egregious highlights (or rather lowlights):

Joe Wurzelbacher isn’t a symbol of American middle-class values. He’s a moron. He’s not a licensed plumber; he didn’t own a business; he still owes back taxes, and he was too dumb to realize during the campaign that he was being used by the McCain campaign and would benefit more from the Obama proposed tax cuts. But that didn’t stop him from opening his pie hole whenever there was a mic in his face and proving at every single opportunity that he didn’t know squat about anything.

While it’s true that Obama and Bill Ayers both served on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, there were nine other board members on said board that was funded by the Annenberg Foundation. The same foundation founded by the Annenberg family, staunch Republicans and the people that gave the American public the ubiquitous TV Guide. Therefore, based on this tenuous association, everyone on that board “paled around” with a terrorist and the Annenbergs funded it and to a certain extent (based on this screwly logic), so did every American that has purchased a TV Guide.

Now obviously this is bullsh*t , except when Stanley Kurtz interjects it into an election and writes that he has documented evidence of a “much closer relationship.” Where are the documents? Where’s the evidence? Salacious crap that died the day after the election.

On Sept. 9, 2008, John Fund of the Wall Street Journal wrote:
"Democrats have airdropped a mini-army of 30 lawyers, investigators and opposition researchers into Anchorage, the state capital Juneau and Mrs. Palin's hometown of Wasilla to dig into her record and background. "

It was picked up and blogged thereafter that Obama sent operatives to Alaska to “dig up dirt.” It didn’t take 30 lawyers to find out that Sara Palin is an idiot.

The Wasilla City Manager put out the information that Sara Palin asked the town librarian how could she go about having certain books removed from the library.

TODD Palin WAS a card-carrying member for eight years of the fringe group that actively wants Alaska to succeed from the US. There is videotaped footage of Sara Palin talking to the group and wondering out loud why it might be a good idea for Alaska to succeed from the union.

ACORN, which hires part-time, $8-an-hour employees to go door-to-door and register people to vote, had serious problems with phony registrations invented by employees who don't want to work. They did not send people to the polls with bogus id or to vote.

How many cases are currently pending against ACORN for voter fraud: ZERO.

There's a huge difference between voter fraud and voter registration fraud. And while the difference in the two may be lost on some, most reasonable people get it.

The rest you can debunk yourself by doing your research and engaging in a little bit of critical thinking.

I’ve put up, now you shut up.

max| 2.18.09 @ 8:07PM

Anthony – Under the Carter administration desperate home buyers were paying 21% for mortgages, today builders can’t give away homes with a 5% mortgage. 10% unemployment will look like the good ole days. We’re currently at 7.5% unemployment and there’s no end in sight. Last month alone more than 500 thousand Americans received pink slips instead of paychecks. We’ve lost three MILLION jobs in the last 13 months.

Twenty five years of unprecedented wealth creation destroyed in less than eight years, by whom? That paragon of American free enterprise?

You better hope Obama gets it right. I dont give a damn what color shirt he's wearing.

Pingback| 2.18.09 @ 8:30PM

Obama’s Enemies List « NObama Blog links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…imploring the agency to pursue criminal action against those behind the ads. It was not lost on anyone at that time that Bauer was considered a candidate to be the next U.S. Attorney-General. More:  The American Spectator Filed under: NObama | Tagged: Smearing Opponents, Thugocracy « New York newspaper accused of racism over ‘Barack Obama chimpanzee’ cartoon Leave a Reply Click here to…

Jason Peppers| 2.18.09 @ 8:35PM

Barack Houssein Obama is a Benedict Arnold and should be brought up on charges of treason for associating with known terrorist,closing Gitmo,negotiating with Iran's president,and for changing the Constitution whenever his administration deems necessary. It's time the American people took a stand together and stop this tyrant traitor! Obama is a disgrace to Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Houssein Obama and his administration are liars and traitors to this great country and freedom which we have. GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE DEATH!

Anthony| 2.18.09 @ 8:36PM

I see Max has donned his brown shirt and jack boots and is ready to take on vile Americans like Joe the Plumber. So poor Joe, who Obama approached on the street, not looking for fame or notoriety, dared to ask the redistributionist-in chief a question that set the community organizer on his ass. And for this, Joe gets an anal exam from every leftist troll like Max. Gee Max, at least Joe wasn't a D.C. lobbyist with a gratis car and driver who "forgot" to declare this as income. At least Joe isn't in charge of the IRS like the tax dodger Geithner is. How sick are you that you have such venim towards a fellow citizen who has done nothing wrong? What's in this for you, moron? Nothing, Obama will scrape you away like dry dog poop,along with the rest of us. Oh, but Max has room in his heart to defend the twin brother of the unibomber,Bill Ayers. Got the logic of that? Joe the plumber bad, Bill Ayers the terrorist bomber, good. But the smartist man ever to be elected president didn't know a thing about this "guy who happens to live in the neighborhood", just like he couldn't figure out what that Christian of all Christians, Jeremiah Wright was saying. And then, of course, what's a day without the ubiquitous attacks on the Palins. Whew, the Gov. and her hubby sure give you lefties the hives, Why, I bet your itching and scratching away at the very thought of Sarah Palin. You should be, she & the rest of us will be coming after putzes like you. And then there's that benign organization known as ACORN. Getting the entire Dallas Cowboy backfield, Micky, Goofy, and Donald all registered in Ill. is quite a feat of voter participation. What! the brain trust at ACORN didn't check the work of their $8.00 p/h staff? Well, the N.Y.Times doesn't check their staff either, so I'll give you that one. But what about transporting the homeless & illegals to numerous polls in order to vote several times with same day voter registration and no picture I.D. requirement, that the community organizer in chief advocated for in his halcyon days before becoming president? No wonder the Stimulus bill had to reward these American heros with $20B of our tax dollars. Max, you are a pathetic peon looking for proof that your life has meaning. Go work at a homeless shelter or rescue shelter if you need such validation.

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Obama’s Enemies List | National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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JLW| 2.18.09 @ 9:32PM

Good post, Anthony.
The writing is on the wall. The time for armed insurrection is drawing near. And the first ones that should get it are the mainstream media. Those treasonous sons of bitches.

me| 2.18.09 @ 9:56PM

hahahaaha
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
I love how these crackpot articles are suddenly showing up on diggs front page. I also love how the commenters seem to prove that all that is left fo the GOP is a bunch of crooks in high places and Nutjobs at the base

S.L. Toddard| 2.18.09 @ 10:23PM

Max, you're full of crap. Your case against Joe the Plumber doesn't hold water, it means every other Mom and Pop operation in United States would have suffered the same character assassination treatment from the liberal bozo media. Who doesn't owe taxes, except those who do not pay them? Is every plumber, carpenter, electrician regularly licensed? Gimme a break, you moronic hypocrit! Joe's only crime was to get in the Messiah's way and ask a very simple question. Unfortunately, the Messiah didn't have his teleprompter ready, so he had to tell the truth, and it almost turned the tide... Joe will never be forgiven for that. You have an ugly, filthy, stinky mind. You can't even write English decently. You inspire so much contempt that if I met you in person, I would hesitate between kicking you in the groin and barfing in your face, guess I'd do both. Get off our backs, puke face.

Alan Brooks| 2.18.09 @ 10:24PM

and the trolls are still going on about Palin. she is the very least of their difficulties now.

Mortgage refinancing | 2.18.09 @ 10:40PM

Foreclosure is the major cause of our financial crisis. Government should really prioritize this issue.We should really keep ourselves updated.Thanks for sharing your thoughts.Good Day!

Food for thought| 2.18.09 @ 10:41PM

As opposed to typing back and forth to others that share your narrow view of the US and the world at large, I might suggest pushing your comfort levels a bit and talking to people that actually disagree with your opinion. I don't mean yelling your point at someone else, but listen to others like you would like them to listen to you. It's amazing what you can discover when you take "they" out of the picture and get to know others on a personal level. You might just learn something new. Working up others that largely agree with your own worldviews doesnt' really accomplish much. Maybe a good way to promote dialogue is not to monologue.

btw...I'm a fiscal conservative.

ruth| 2.18.09 @ 10:43PM

Anthony, great post, but I have one disagreement: You can bet Max is a Soros paid whore who slithers around conservative sites like ours to spew his venomous lies. And, yes, Alinsky moron that he is, he's wearing a brown shirt.

ruth| 2.18.09 @ 10:49PM

Hey, Food, every day we get plenty of stupid trolls like you lecturing us. Who asked you? Please don't blog here again, you're taking up valuable space. Go over to Huff/Post and tell them what to think and how to behave; they'll be very polite to you. Trust me.

ruth| 2.18.09 @ 11:03PM

Mad Max, I thought your Dear Leader, Nazi Pelosi, said that we lost 50o million jobs last month? Was she just wishful thinking like you?

MikeDown| 1.30.10 @ 3:20AM

How can we loose 500 million jobs like that folks?
Mike the down comforter sets dude.

Osamas Pajamas | 2.18.09 @ 11:06PM

Hey. Look at it this way. OhBummer has his OhBummer Youth gangsters revving-up like Haitian Ton-Ton Macoutes, and the media are under his desk on their knees doing the Monica Lewinsky business, and they want to shut down freedom of speech and disarm private citizens. That's a nice recipe for dictatorship, for tyranny, and it deserves a Second American Revolution by the same means and for the same purpose as the First American Revolution. Did I leave anything out? Oh, yeah. Put me on OhBummer's "Enemies List."

mike| 2.19.09 @ 12:29AM

when it all comes together it paints a very scary picture- the code of all conspirists and crackpots, such as the author of the above column. apparently suggesting supporters support their canidate are dangerous, or that redistibuting the wealth is a socalist agenda. a note to all those concerned about the censoeship of the right- if your voices are so unheard, than tell me how you are able to post your swiftboating nonsense on the web. you can because no one is censoring such individuals or communities. they are responding to critics who hate to have their ideals challenged, who hate to have to actually make sense of their own rants.

Nick| 2.19.09 @ 12:34AM

Mr. Brooks,

Are you a "JAWS" fan by chance?

Frosty| 2.19.09 @ 1:42AM

Mike, marxists like you crave power--it's just a matter of time before you thugs try to crush dissent. We're ready.

pete the mediocre| 2.19.09 @ 3:06AM

Mike, I hate to break it to you, but redistributing the wealth is part of a socialist agenda.

Pointing out wrong headed ideas does not make one a conspiracy theorist.

Deborah | 2.19.09 @ 6:22AM

Just a few Thomas Jefferson quotes his Democrat party should read. I know he's just a dead white guy, but he was one of the smartest. He'd be aghast at what his party has become.

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. "
Thomas Jefferson

"It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. "
Thomas Jefferson

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. "
Thomas Jefferson

"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. "
Thomas Jefferson

Hmmm....does any of that ring a bell to those of you on the left? He was talking about you.

HistoryWriter| 2.19.09 @ 8:57AM

It must be terribly frustrating for you guys to realize that you've been marginalized, and that all your raving is being taken seriously only by the wingnut faithful. Tough, isn't it?

Bob Campbell | 2.19.09 @ 9:36AM

Of course Obama has an enemies list -- this guy and his cronies are all Chicago thugs -- add me to the list -- I consider this President's distain for the rights and security of our citizens to be criminal -- personally, I think he is a one-timer who will fail miserably -- you can only say "Hopey and Changey" so many times -- the Obamaites are going to implode before our very eyes as their patience will wear thin if they don't get their new house and gas tanks all filled in due course!

Aleena| 2.19.09 @ 10:51AM

Bob Campell, I hope you are right about the one term. So far, President Obama has broken so many promises that I have lost count. He tells us what he thinks we want to hear, and then he does something else. Also, he is naive enough to think that no one will notice. We need to find a way to get around an adoring press. If for five seconds, the general public would get accurate information about who he was, who he is, and what he wants for this country, his approval rating would not be over twenty percent.

Pingback| 2.19.09 @ 11:00AM

Obama Poised To Silence Critics « Nice Deb links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…is only one more obfuscation in a long list obfuscations. Mark Hyman of  The American Spectator wrote about Obama’s Chicago brand of hardball politics, recently in an article entitled, Obama’s Enemies List. As many of us feared, the “Chicago way” has found a home in The White House: In only his third full day as the 44th president Obama personally went on the offensive against a media…

Kat| 2.19.09 @ 1:46PM

The natives are getting restless and stupid liberals don't have a clue.

max| 2.19.09 @ 4:46PM

To S.L. -- you are a punk. In a free society where there should be a free exchange of divergent ideas, the fact that you have resorted to threats of violence: "You inspire so much contempt that if I met you in person, I would hesitate between kicking you in the groin and barfing in your face, guess I'd do both" begs the question, what kinda stupid azzhole are you? Probably the stupid kind that hesitates between kicking someone in the groin and barfing in their face and as a result gets his spine snapped.

Ruth – you’re an embarrassment and should clean up your filthy mouth. It’s best to be thought a lady instead of opening your mouth and removing all doubt

S.L. Toddard| 2.19.09 @ 5:22PM

max, I got other plans for you and they include barfing on your groin and kicking you in the face too. This is not a free society and ideas are not freely exchanged. I don't wanna exchange anything with you because my mind is valuable whereas yours is cockroach dung. Only dumb liberals would think of short changing their neighbors this way. Come on and try to snipe my spine, goatf.ucker. I'll drink my Murphy's in your skull. And don't spew your vomit on Lady Ruth, trisomic turd.

Jeremiah| 2.19.09 @ 5:29PM

Right on, SLT! I'm a liberal myself but I ain't got no patience at all with this kind of arrogant faggot who gives liberalism a bad name. Let him drown in his mediocrity.

S.L. Toddard| 2.19.09 @ 5:34PM

Jeremiah, please. Liberalism is so evil, it doesn't need queers and jerks to give it a bad name!
Thank you anyway.

ruth| 2.19.09 @ 6:03PM

Mad Max, I have a filthy mouth because I called you a whore? Tsk, tsk, so touchy. Truth hurts, don't it, liberal slut?

max| 2.19.09 @ 6:33PM

I am rolling on the floor laughing my azz off! SL, Ruth, you are the wack jobs that make blogging fun. Ruth, you don't have a filthy mouth because you called me a whore, you're just a whore with a filthy mouth. Lighten up. S.L., grow up, get a gripe. Here on earth azzwipes like you don't rate a second look.

ruth| 2.19.09 @ 7:35PM

Mad Maxie, don't ya got somethin' else to do? Guess not, probably depending on Soro's checks. Get a job, loser.

S.L. Toddard| 2.19.09 @ 8:23PM

Yeah and don't forget those pink kneepads.

max| 2.20.09 @ 10:17AM

SLT, thanks for the advice! I used them yesterday when I had a chance to visit Bill Clinton, and they performed (the kneepads and Bill) just fine.

ruth| 2.20.09 @ 12:13PM

Mad, how old are you? Living in mommy's basement or on your trustfund? Punk.

Jack Neidlinger| 2.21.09 @ 3:50PM

Lock & Load

typical white person| 2.21.09 @ 8:44PM

What should one expect from a product of the Chicago politician Macbine. It is corrupt and only allows corrupters to be members in good standing. Obama, not the brightest bulb in Chicago, although he is billed as a genius by his press.

I can't wait for the TEA PARTY in CHICAGO! Bring it home to Obama and the MOB

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cmeeks | 3.4.09 @ 3:45PM

OK what did anyone expect we have the first elected African-American Neo-Comm want to be dictator. Our press was a co-conspirator in this we just need to do away with the press they have lost all usefulness. The so called conservative fringe media is the only trustworthy voice still in operation... Sad times

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Organized Effort Against Rush No Surprise | Axis of Right links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…like that one bit, but at the same time, I kind of expect it from Obama’s hack-machine.  Look at who they are!  No one should be surprised. If they’re not careful, though, getting onto Obama’s Enemies List could be a very prestigious badge of honor one day! SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Organized Effort Against Rush No Surprise", url: "http://axisofright.com/2009/03/04/organized-effort-against-rush-no…

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Obama '08? - Page 1187 links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…a few days ago, its something else every day. Now, the White House ememies operation is rearing its ugly head, but should anyone be surprised? This from the American Spectator: http://spectator.org/archives/2009/02/18/obamas-enemies-list "After the Democratic convention, Obama campaign lawyer Robert Bauer warned TV stations against airing a TV ad that was embarrassing to Barack Obama. The commercial focused on…

Pingback| 3.5.09 @ 8:49PM

The Enemy List | The Classic Liberal Blog links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…out to REPORT your call! There's so much more ... from digging into "Joe the Plumber's" records, kicking journalists off his campaign plane because their papers didn't endorse him ... as reported in The American Spectator : ... state prosecutors and top sheriffs in Missouri ... responded to a chilling Obama campaign request. They styled themselves as a "truth squad" and threatened to prosecute anyone including media…

Michael Nadeau| 3.5.09 @ 11:44PM

My fellow patriots, the time for action is now. We must begin networking and organizing in order to be ready for the day that our freedoms are taken. The socialist regime has begun and conservatism is underground.

Pingback| 3.6.09 @ 12:17PM

Downward spiral « In No Uncertain Terms links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…and 2) If the media begins to take its watchdog role over the administration seriously, what effect will it have on the political future of the president and the democrats? They’re already getting pretty defensive. This could present a great opportunity for the Republicans if they can get their act together and mount some sort of organized, publicized opposition, rather than the under-the-radar kind of things…

Pingback| 3.6.09 @ 9:52PM

Obama’s Limbaugh Strategy « Nice Deb links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…against a broadcaster whose opinions are supposed to be covered by every protection the First Amendment can provide. To quote Shakespeare, “Something is rotten.” Something is indeed rotten, as The American Spectator reported last month: In precedent-setting action, Obama moved his director of political affairs, a highly partisan post, from the Old Executive Office Building into the West Wing. Political…

S.L. Toddard| 3.13.09 @ 11:40AM

FYI - The person posting with my name in this thread is NOT me. It's the same troll who does this with other people's usernames. I haven't posted at this site since late January.

Pingback| 3.14.09 @ 3:08PM

Enemy List links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…at the U. S. Justice Department urged “preemptive prosecution” of individuals the Obama campaign thought might wish to disrupt the November election.  For more information Mark Hyman wrote an excellent piece in the American Spectator. We all remember how Obama’s supporters in the media went after Sarah Palin and her daughter as soon as John McCain announced the pick.  And when Joe the Plumber…

Pingback| 3.15.09 @ 10:11AM

HRM Barack Obama and His Imperial Spouse… | The Pink Flamingo links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…personality type leaves him surprisingly uninterested in things that aren’t personally about him….” He will to just about anything to go after his “enemies”: “… A team of Obama campaign operatives, joined by major news outlets, descended on Wasilla, Alaska immediately after Governor Sarah Palin was introduced as Senator John McCain’s running mate. This was immediately…

paul| 4.15.09 @ 1:30PM

The reality is that CLinton then, and Obama now are as paranoid about disagreement as Nixon was.

And do have the equivalent of a enemies list.

Personally no matter what side, any sort of enemies list of otherwise good americans is wrong and illegal...

Though I dont like communism, the 50's scare which created its own list, often included people who were not only not communist related but were also not even close to anyone who was.

often the list became a list of non-supporters of a cause... and equallly bad.

If this goes as far as it could, it will lead to revolution outright.

Pingback| 5.17.09 @ 10:05PM

Freedom of Speech Under Obama « Konfusing Kancer links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…his very brief career in public office, Barack Obama has displayed an exceptionally thin skin when he has come under a microscope or when he has suffered political and public relations setbacks. (Original here) 0 Responses to “Freedom of Speech Under Obama” Feed for this Entry Trackback Address No Comments Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Name Mail (will not be published) Website Notify me…

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Jack’s Newswatch » Blog Archive » Obama’s Enemies List Grows links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…procedures Georgia authorities put into place – under federal court guidance — to verify voter registrations. The DOJ claimed the procedures violated the rights of minority voters. A de facto Obama enemies list and dirty political machine have been expanding since last year. Obama has established several embarrassing presidential firsts including targeting private individuals by names, assigning a well-known…

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Obama’s Enemies List Grows | America Watches Obama links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…procedures Georgia authorities put into place – under federal court guidance — to verify voter registrations. The DOJ claimed the procedures violated the rights of minority voters. A de facto Obama enemies list and dirty political machine have been expanding since last year. Obama has established several embarrassing presidential firsts including targeting private individuals by names, assigning a well-known…

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Obama's Enemies List Grows - Southern Maryland Community Forums links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Thread Tools Display Modes Today, 09:44 PM   # 1 ( permalink) Bann (Premo) 1-21-2013 End of an Error     Member Since: Mar 2006 Posts: 4,366 Obama's Enemies List Grows Quote: A de facto Obama enemies list and dirty political machine have been expanding since last year. Obama has established several embarrassing presidential firsts including targeting private individuals by names, assigning a well-known…

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Obama – Job Number Fiction – New York Senate – Obama Enemies List – Larry Sinclair – links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…procedures Georgia authorities put into place – under federal court guidance — to verify voter registrations. The DOJ claimed the procedures violated the rights of minority voters. A de facto Obama enemies list and dirty political machine have been expanding since last year. Obama has established several embarrassing presidential firsts including targeting private individuals by names, assigning a well-known…

Pingback| 6.10.09 @ 7:45PM

I’m Proud To Be On This List…How About You? | Iowa Tea Party BLOG links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…procedures Georgia authorities put into place – under federal court guidance — to verify voter registrations. The DOJ claimed the procedures violated the rights of minority voters. A de facto Obama enemies list and dirty political machine have been expanding since last year. Obama has established several embarrassing presidential firsts including targeting private individuals by names, assigning a well-known…

Pingback| 6.10.09 @ 9:15PM

Liberally Conservative » Blog Archive » Obama’s “Special Master for Compensation” links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…experts. Instead, he tried to jawbone companies into shifting pay practices. Maybe tax cheat Geithner has the power to threaten with a stay at Gitmo or Obama and his ilk are building Gulag’s for their enemies. Indeed! Business Govt. Regulation Law & Justice Socialist Watch U.S. Constitution   [ link] Leave a Reply Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website « Obama: US…

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Obama’s Enemies List Grows « Politics in the News links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…procedures Georgia authorities put into place – under federal court guidance — to verify voter registrations. The DOJ claimed the procedures violated the rights of minority voters. A de facto  Obama enemies list  and dirty political machine have been expanding since last year. Obama has established several embarrassing presidential firsts including  targeting private individuals by names, assigning a…

Pingback| 6.14.09 @ 2:22PM

Obama's Enemies List Grows links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…procedures Georgia authorities put into place – under federal court guidance — to verify voter registrations. The DOJ claimed the procedures violated the rights of minority voters. A de facto Obama enemies list and dirty political machine have been expanding since last year. Obama has established several embarrassing presidential firsts including targeting private individuals by names, assigning a well-known…

Pingback| 8.7.09 @ 9:09PM

Here come the brown shirts... - Page 8 - MightyRighty.com - Conservative News and Di links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…because there is no "enemies list". That's what I keep saying, the White House hasn't asked for names, it isn't looking for names, and it's not compiling a list of names, either! You can't be serious! Here: Link 1 Link 2 Link 3 ... Link 100 Don't be naive. And DON'T trust either the gov't or 0bama in this! Just google "obama enemies list" and you will get a nights worth of reading to show you are wrong.…

tony| 8.13.09 @ 2:32PM

Here's what Obama actualy said about the paranoia-induced enemies list:
"Can I just say this is another example of how the media just ends up completely distorting what’s taking place. What we’ve said is that if somebody has – if you get an email from somebody that says for example ObamaCare is creating a death panel, forward us the email and we will answer the question that is being raised in the email. Suddenly, on some of these news outlets, this is being portrayed as Obama collecting an enemies list. Now, come on guys, here I am trying to be responsive to questions that are being raised out there – and I just want to be clear that all we’re trying to do is answer questions."

Crypto| 8.16.09 @ 11:20AM

I have serious concerns regarding the fundamental integrity of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Eventhough our elected leaders have totally discounted law, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and any semblance of honesty and integrity; I must admit I am really proud that the American people have finally come off of the sofa to stand against this obscenity of a health care plan.

The elected leaders have become so used to discounting the masses (as they are absorbed in American Idol or the latest sporting event), they thought they were invulnerable. The fact that so many are furious at these town hall meetings (many former Obama supporters who feel betrayed) is a sign the people may be more willing to keep an eye on their elected leaders.

yeswecan| 8.19.09 @ 4:49PM

I have been reading all comments on this page (except for the chinese guy)and though I woould lean to the right I think there is more behind Obama than people realize.Is that good?No but it is the same thing that has been behind every president since JFK .Presidents are just doing as they are instructed to do by there masters.If they desire to have the same fate as JFK than they can serve the people.This argument should not be about "left" or "right" and is not relevent to the problem we are facing.This should pull "right" and "left" together and take back America.Obama is just PR to sell Americans the "NWO"scam.This is about red blooded Americans standing up to take back what the elite banksters have stolen from them.Its time to stand up and say "WE the People of the United States,in Order to form a more perfect Union,establish Justice,...

yeswecan| 8.19.09 @ 4:55PM

If you can not stand and fight atleast fight against the Obamacide Health Plan.If we stand together "yes we can".

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SITREP America – Beyond the First 100 Days « Lighthouse Patriot Journal links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Reading: ObamaCare will cover illegals House Health Crimes Bill (all 1018 pages) Shock: Inside the Healthcare Bill (Robert Wenzel) CBO on ObamaCare ObamaCare 50% Tax Rate Ten Most Harmful Books Obama’s Enemies List [I] Assessed damage to the GOP because of its insistence in letting McCain (fence jumper and supporter of amnesty for illegal aliens) instead of a true conservative – I am sure that he has been…

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Glenn Beck and the Dixie Chicks « Layers of Reality links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…what his endgame is when the Right seems to be hellbent on getting him killed by playing on fears of him destroying America, conspiring to end capitalism because he’s really a Socialist, ruthlessly going after his enemies by curbing free speech when he shouldn’t even be President because goddammit, he’s from Kenya! And playing on the fears of the most heavily armed, ignorant and violent people in the…

Johannim| 9.7.09 @ 4:23PM

Hey Max, sup comrade, Got new for you bitch, I come from a liberal socialist country, the peoples republic of Canada, Canada has had politically correct truth police since the regime of Pierre Elliot Trudeau the 1960s little marxist that propelled the liberal party of Canada from a centerist party to neo Marxist leninist cabal along with the tiny socialist new democratic party. If a Catholic laymen or his church is against the infanticide of the unborn or you display opposition to homosexuality or immigration YOU CAN/WILL GO TO PRISON under the socialist hate laws that have gagged free speech in the Great White North for 40 years. The plan in Canada to promote a so-called socialist democracy aka front for marxist leninism is similiar to that which is being played out in the USA right now. Marxists & their fellow traveller first dominated Academia, then the press which in Canada today Max has NO balls & is a mouthpiece of the fascist-marxist regime. If your an Orthodox Jew,Traditionalist Catholic or Observent Orthodox you and you church or synagogue can be closed down and your priest or rabbi imprisoned if he/she in any way opposes the socialist/fascists that have run that once great nation for the last 60 years. As for the fucked up Universal Healthcare in Canada JUST ASK A CANADIAN CONRADE MAX.

Johannim| 9.7.09 @ 4:34PM

Addendum---- Does the news "commentator" on the general electric owned msnbc AKA nazi broadcast corporation chris mathews still get a tingle up his leg and an arousal in his crotch at the mention of the name barach hussein obama????????

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More Thug Politics As Obama Administration Investigates Humana’s Free Speech « Nice D links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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Pingback| 10.12.09 @ 8:15PM

White House Ignores War In Afghanistan To Pursue New War On Fox News « Start Thinking links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…vote for Obama.  And that’s enough to declare war.  For all must love The One.  No dissension can be tolerated. We’ve seen this reaction to media by a president before - from the darkest and most evil days of Richard Nixon. Is Fox the media arm of the Republican Party?  Viewers who are flocking to Fox News in droves don’t seem to think so: Fox News Channel was the 2nd highest rated cable channel on…

Pingback| 10.21.09 @ 1:46PM

Does Obama Have an "Enemies List"? links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Me Today, 05:46 PM   # 2 dunerunner Land Rover Driver     Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Florence, Oregon Posts: 1,752 Well, according to the American Spectator, they do!! The American Spectator : Obama's Enemies List __________________ Molon Labe!   dunerunner View Public Profile Find More Posts by dunerunner Donate To Me Thread Tools Show Printable Version Email this Page Display Modes Linear…

Pingback| 10.22.09 @ 10:01AM

Enemies List: Nixon & Obama « Irritable Bastard links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…and they were about vengeance. Now on to the Obama’s Enemies List: From a Fox News Opinion: “Unlike the Nixon enemies list which was secret, the Obama enemies list is hidden in plain sight.” From the American Spectator: “One cannot help but reach the conclusion an Obama Enemies List is already being compiled and free speech restrictions are being considered.” From Rush Limbaugh addressing the President directly…

Pingback| 10.23.09 @ 1:02PM

Enemy of the State links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…General Healthcare Politics Humor Just Plain Stupid Takeover Tally Posts Comments Enemy of the State By Ma Barker Published: October 23, 2009 Posted in: Politics Tags: Comments [0] Digg it! Facebook The Obama enemies list is alive and well.  Just look at what has been going on.  The attacks on Fox News, The U.S.  Chamber of Commerce, Rush Limbaugh, insurance companies the majority of the American public.  Why?…

Enemies List | 10.25.09 @ 8:15PM

In the Communist Manifesto Karl Marx said the means of communication must be controlled so the Maoist Obama White House has not choice. If you are not sufficiently Socialist, you are on the Enemies List.

george | 10.26.09 @ 5:07PM

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Obama Campaign Team Targets Sarah Palin After VP Announcement links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

Obamas Administration Just another WordPress weblog Home About   Obama Campaign Team Targets Sarah Palin After VP Announcement On 10.30.09, In Election 2008, Sarah Palin, By markboabaca From Spectator.org: A team of Obama campaign operatives, joined by major news outlets, descended on Wasilla, Alaska immediately after Governor Sarah Palin was introduced as Senator John McCain’s running mate. This…

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August, 2008: Obama Action Wire to WGN re: Stanley Kurtz links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

of President Obamas Administration Just another WordPress weblog Home About   August, 2008: Obama Action Wire to WGN re: Stanley Kurtz On 10.31.09, In What First Amenment?, By markboabaca From Spectator.org: In late August (2008), the Obama campaign emailed an “Obama Action Wire” to thousands of supporters and liberal activists exhorting them to harass the offices of Chicago’s WGN radio by…

Pingback| 11.1.09 @ 12:06AM

September, 2008: Missouri State Prosecutors and Sheriffs Agree to Stifle Free Speech links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

rdPress weblog Home About   September, 2008: Missouri State Prosecutors and Sheriffs Agree to Stifle Free Speech On 10.31.09, In Barack Obama, Election 2008, What First Amenment?, By markboabaca From Spectator.org: (In September, 2008) “state prosecutors and top sheriffs in Missouri who were prominent Obama supporters responded to a chilling Obama campaign request. They styled themselves as a “truth…

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October, 2008: Joe The Plumber Learns About Spreading the Wealth links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

Just another WordPress weblog Home About   October, 2008: Joe The Plumber Learns About Spreading the Wealth On 11.01.09, In Barack Obama, Election 2008, What First Amenment?, By markboabaca From Spectator.org: In October, a question from a middle-class voter resulted in an answer from Obama indicating the Democratic nominee was in favor of “spread[ing] the wealth around.” This voter became the…

Pingback| 11.1.09 @ 10:52AM

No News For You: New York Post, Dallas Morning News, Washington Times links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

Are you on OBAMASHITLIST? Home   No News For You: New York Post, Dallas Morning News, Washington Times On 11.01.09, In Election 2008, Thin Skin, What First Amenment?, By markboabaca From Spectator.org: In the final days of the campaign, three newspapers that had endorsed McCain were booted from the Obama campaign bus. The  New York Post , Dallas Morning News , and Washington Times were unceremoniously…

Pingback| 11.1.09 @ 11:25PM

January 23, 2009: Rush = Bad; Ahmadinejad = Good? links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

Hit List: Enemies of President Obamas Administration Are you on OBAMASHITLIST? Home   January 23, 2009: Rush = Bad; Ahmadinejad = Good? On 11.01.09, In Ahmadinejad, Rush Limbaugh, By markboabaca From Spectator.org: Those heartened by the hope that a President Obama would be more tolerant of critics and criticism than a candidate Obama had their expectations dashed. In only his third full day as the 44th president…

Pingback| 11.1.09 @ 11:31PM

Election Day 2008: Conservative Talk Radio Needs a Little “Fairness” links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

SHITLIST? Home   Election Day 2008: Conservative Talk Radio Needs a Little “Fairness” On 11.01.09, In Conservative Talk Radio, Fairness Doctrine, What First Amenment?, By markboabaca From Spectator.org: On Election Day, Senator Chuck Schumer likened conservative talk radio to pornography and argued it should be regulated. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi endorsed speech restrictions more than once during the…

sa tejano| 11.2.09 @ 9:02AM

The opposite of Obama's enemies list is the socialist list. All of Obama's supporters are not on the enemies list.

Pingback| 11.18.09 @ 12:35PM

Quote of the Day « Marque’s Letters links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

« Marque’s Letters Home About Marque’s Letters Licensed to judge. Feeds: Posts Comments Quote of the Day November 18, 2009 by Marque The quote explains beautifully why no media bias, enemies list, journalist ban, or ugly slur will change the polls for Democrats: You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. – John Morley (h/t Forbes Thought of the Day )   Posted in…

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The Success of the Big Lie - Page 10 - US Message Board - Political Discussion Forum links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…agency to pursue criminal action against those behind the ads. It was not lost on anyone at that time that Bauer was considered a candidate to be the next U.S. Attorney-General. " The American Spectator : Obama's Enemies List "Another Czar WHO WANTS TO DESTROY YOUR FREEDOMS. Mr. Lloyd’s actual title is FCC Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer. Lloyd plans to implement what I call the…

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