“Obama in office will have to respond to the pressure of progressive constituencies while McCain in office will not.”
http://www.dsausa.org/dsapac/Election%20closer%20than%20polls%20indicate.htm
” … 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
I am persuaded that beneath the shallow veneer of Barack Obama is a man without conviction. My pastor has often remarked that if we, as people, fail to stand for something, we’ll fall for anything and I submit that the Senator’s inability to carve out and uphold a definitive position on any topic speaks to the truth of that statement. Swept along willy-nilly by ever-changing political winds, the Senator is a textbook example of the malleable, indecisive person we become without core beliefs and principles.
“The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International. DSA’s members are building progressive movements for social change while establishing an openly socialist presence in American communities and politics.
We are socialists because we reject an international economic order sustained by private profit, alienated labor, race and gender discrimination, environmental destruction, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo.
We are socialists because we share a vision of a humane international social order based both on democratic planning and market mechanisms to achieve equitable distribution of resources, meaningful work, a healthy environment, sustainable growth, gender and racial equality, and non-oppressive relationships.”
America used to be blessed with leaders that upheld and honored its mainstream values. Such is not the case today. Today’s Democrat powerbrokers are focused not on the strengthening of those values, but on their destruction.
A pictorial memorial to America’s fallen soldiers, those men and women who voluntarily made the ultimate sacrifice for their country, has been set up literally in the halls of Congress. Nancy Pelosi, drawing on some ambiguous, non-applicable ‘rule’ regarding hallway display, is insisting the memorial be removed. I’m reminded here of remarks she made in a recent interview wherein she stated how important her position as Speaker is. However important the Speaker may believe she is, I submit that what’s really important here is the truth. The buildings housing this nation’s seat of government belong to the people, not to any elected official. Congress is not her house to do with as she pleases. Congress is mine, and yours, and I want those fallen in service to their country honored along with their families, not labeled a hallway hazard and discarded to some storage closet. The Far Left, subscribed to by Pelosi, Reid and others (including Obama), continues to forcibly inject its anti-military agenda into every possible nook and cranny of our government, including the very hallways of its Congressional buildings.
During Convention actvities, FOX News’ “America’s Election Headquarters” reported that Dr. Ingrid Mattson, President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), was to be a featured speaker at the Democrats’ Interfaith Breakfast. Commentator E. D. Hill questioned the wisdom of such a selection given ISNA’s ties to Radical Islam and its designation by our government as an ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ in the Holy Land Foundation Federal Terrorism Trial in Dallas. One of her guests, a Democratic strategist, stated that such an assertion was merely a ‘fear’ tactic attributable to the McCain campaign. Ms. Hill rightly identified that remark as FALSE based upon fact. The Investigative Project on Terrorism, and its Executive Director Steven Emerson, have conducted extensive research on this organization and two recent reports on their findings are linked below:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/730
http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/732
Sunday’s breakfast is not the first time the DNC has aligned itself with known terrorist sympathizers and/or supporters. Imam Husham Al-Hussainy, with reported links to pro-Hezebollah protests in Detroit, was the event speaker at the DNC’s Winter Meeting last year. Democrats, through ignorance, defiance or design, are providing carte blanche opportunity for ‘friends’ and front organizations of the Muslim Brotherhood to accomplish its self-stated goal of the destruction of America’s “miserable house” from within. Apparently the Far Left Machine controlling the party will not be satisfied until its has forced proven enemies of this nation onto our people. Every inroad provided to those with documented terrorist ties is one more step toward that end – and this, while our slain servicemen and women are maligned by the Speaker of the House.
When the Liberty Bell was rung on the first Independence Day, a proclamation taken directly from the Bible was sent to all thirteen colonies: “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” (Leviticus 25:10) The founding patriots who drafted and signed our Declaration of Independence that day acknowledged God as the Creator of Mankind as well as their seeking of Him as they pledged their “support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence.” They were real men, in a real place in real time who fully understood and acknowledged a power greater than themselves and actively sought His wisdom and guidance as they laid the foundation for a new nation, a foundation which has sustained us for 232 years.
Our choice tomorrow will make all the difference in where America goes from here. My hope is that we as a people unashamedly and unapologetically return this country to its rightful position as a Christian nation. We have a real opportunity to once again become a true beacon to the entire world, but we can’t do it without God.
