At the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked, “What have you wrought?” He answered, ” … a Republic, if you can keep it.”
“By stepping up our involvement and connection to struggles and movements already existing in the African American community, we will expand our relations with key activists and organizations – for example the National Rainbow PUSH, CBTU, some of the key churches like Trinity UCC, the Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church, key community organizations like the South Austin Community Coalition, Kenwood Oaklawn Community Organization and others. We have had working relations at various levels with many of these organizations over the years.”-COMMUNIST PARTY USA http://www.cpusa.org/article/view/858/
“On issue after issue, Preckwinkle presented Obama as someone who thrived in the world of Chicago politics. She suggested that Obama join Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ for political reasons. ‘It’s a church that would provide you with lots of social connections and prominent parishioners…It’s a good place for a politician to be a member’. Obama seems to have been meticulous constructing a political identity for himself. He visited churches on the South Side, considered the politics of each one …” http://www.newyorker.com THE POLITICAL SCENE:MAKING IT: How Chicago Politics shaped Obama, by Ryan Lizza 7/21/08
“Perhaps it is the Marxism imbedded in Obama’s attending Trinity Church that should raise red flags. ‘Economic parity’ and ‘distribution’ language implies things like government-coerced wealth redistribution … Black Liberation theologians James Cone and Cornel West have worked diligently to embed Marxist thought into the black church since the 1970’s.” http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/9520/?ck=1
‘When I started organizing, I understood the idea of social change in a very abstract way’, Obama told me last year. ‘It was to some extent informed by my years in Indonesia, seeing extreme poverty and disparities of wealth and understanding sort of in a dim way that life wasn’t fair and government had something to do with it.” http://www.thenewyorker.com THE POLITICAL SCENE:MAKING IT: How Chicago Politics shaped Obama, by Ryan Lizza 7/21/08
” … there is no hope of real change without a president that progressives and social movements can pressure to sign legislation that provides universal, affordable health care; reestablishes unions’ ability to organize, reexamines our trade agreements and withdraws our forces from Iraq as quickly as possible.”
Frank Llewellyn
National Director
Democratic Socialists of America http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/socialist-unrealism-comedy-gold
“progressives have to continue to work hard to elect the Obama/Biden ticket along with as many progressive Democrats as possible. We say this not because we think Obama is particularly progressive. We don’t. But Obama in office will have to respond to the pressure of progressive constituencies while McCain in office will not.
Frank Llewellyn, National Director http://www.dsausa.org/dsapac/Election%20closer%20than%20polls%20indicate.htm
”Money replaced bodies as the currency of Chicago politics. This new system became known as “pinstripe patronage” because the key to winning was not rewarding voters with jobs but rewarding donors with government contracts. E. J. Dionne, Jr. of the Washington Post wrote about a young Barack Obama, who artfully explained how the new pinstripe patronage worked: a politician rewards the law firms, developers, and brokerage houses with contracts, and in return they pay for the new ad campaigns necessary for reelection. ‘They do well, and you get a $5 million to $10 million war chest,’ Obama told Dionne … At the time, Obama was growing closer to Tony Rezko, who eventually turned pinstripe patronage into an extremely lucrative way of life. Rezko’s rise in Illinois was intertwined with Obama’s … Rezko was one of the people Obama consulted when he considered running to replace (Alice) Palmer, and Rezko eventually raised about ten percent of Obama’s funds for that first campaign.” http://www.thenewyorker.com THE POLITICAL SCENE:MAKING IT: How Chicago Politics shaped Obama, by Ryan Lizza 7/21/08
“Obama’s relationship with …Tony Rezko is problematic. Rezko is a Syrian Arab who helped Obama purchase his home. In addition, Rezko was in partnership with Nation of Islam founder Elijah Muhammad’s son, Jabir.“ -Traditional Values Coalition http://www.traditionalvalues.org
The Weathermen were initially part of the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) within the radical left group Students for a Democratic Society, splitting from the RYM’s Maoists by claiming there was no time to build a vanguard party and that revolutionary war against the United States government and the capitalist system should begin immediately. Their founding document called for the establishment of a “white fighting force” to be allied with the Black Liberation Movement and other ‘anti-colonial’ movements to achieve “the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization) http://discoverthenetworks.org/printindividualProfile.asp?indid=2190 http://gx2loudnclear.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/election-2008-ayers-dohrn/
The party philosophy was one that espoused the political views of Malcolm X and principles of Marxism-Leninism that called for an end to the exploitation of black masses by capitalists, and a redistribution of wealth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party
Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community … Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love.
- James Cone, A Black Theology of Liberation
In an October 2007 article in The Washington Times, Mahdi Bray, MAS Executive Director, claimed MAS credit for helping Jim Webb defeat George Allen in 2006 — and for helping Tim Keane defeat Jerry Kilgore in 2005. Bray is quoted as follows: “The Democrats’ win hinged on the Muslim vote.” HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW : The Muslim American Society was founded in this country as the U. S. Chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood Organization. To provide further insight into this organization, its adherents and activities, I’ve included a link below to an excellent article by Jeffrey Imm currently available on IPT’s website:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/733
From an Internal Memorandum titled: On The General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America, written in 1991 by a senior Brotherhood leader:
“The Ikhwan [Muslim brothers] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and God’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
From the San Ramon Valley Herald, 1998:
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” Omar M. Ahmad, Chairman of the Board, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/732
