It would appear that I have been duped. I have willingly, although unknowingly, gone to work for the Hillary for President Campaign. I will admit, even though it was unknowingly, I did it with some reluctance and trepidation.
Allow me to explain.
Yesterday, having been pointed toward a story about Barack Obama that suggested that he both smoked crack cocaine in 1999, and engaged in homosexual oral sex with a drug dealer, I was of course skeptical. Digging through several sites on the internet, I finally decided that there was at least enough smoke (pardon the pun) to at least look for the fire.
And so, I wrote Did Obama Smoke Crack Cocaine in 1999 and posted it both here, and over at RedState. Not surprisingly, the RedState post ignited a firestorm, with more than 100 comments, many from first-time, less than an hour posters.
I was suspicious then that the entire story might well be a Hillary Clinton Psych-Ops, a story planted to discredit Obama, without her own fingerprints on the story. Several of the first-time posters appeared to have connections to the website Savage Politics that makes the claim to be unbiased. I was not impressed, and began digging into that site.
I first, found links from that site to several left-wing, anti-Obama, pro-Hillary websites. This could be a coincidence, of course, as any time a site is critical of a particular candidate, website with a similar mindset will pick up on that theme.
Strangely enough though, I have not been able to find, on that site, any articles that are overtly critical of Hillary Clinton. And then, on another site, I found this link back to Jonathan Cifre, JD, the founder of that site, and it all became crystal clear. Under the headline, Are Democrats Ready To Lose White House Again? I find an article that claims that the Republican Party, and of course, the VRWC has been manipulating the MSM and the voters for the past several decades. It is all very 1984ish.
During the past few months we have been inundated with the constant Media coverage of the Democratic primary election. In the last few days in particular, the Mediums have beat us into accepting that Barack Obama is the most inspirational and motivating speaker that we have heard in a generation, comically echoing the claims of most Germans when they heard Hitler speaking at his rallies.
Okay, we have Obama as Hitler. This is not at all an uncommon theme, as yes, even right-wing pundits have noticed the oratory style and adoration that the masses have heaped upon Obama. The similarity is both frightening and uncanny.
Amongst our News Networks, it has only been the very Conservative FoxNews who has kept a mysteriously low keyed participation in this Obamathon that all Americans have been recently subjected to, giving a nebulous preoccupation to all of those who are educated enough to mistrust the Media. All the while, as history shows, collective idiocy has been proven to be contagious (look at the Bolshevic Revolution) and it’s spread has always been directly linked to the opposition’s ability to convince their enemies that they are “weak at the knees” and thus allowing them to quietly manipulate them out of an honest assessment of their chances.
Alrighty then! We are once again found to be but tiny pawns in the collective (poor choice of words?) attempts by the powers that be, to manipulate the American people. The MSM has anointed Obama, but the right-wing fanatics at Fox News has laid off the canonization because...Well, now that you mention it, why wouldn't the right-wing try to push Obama, since they are manipulating the public anyways?
The answer, in the fevered mind of the author is, everyone KNOWS that Fox News is right-wing, so by NOT supporting Obama, the right-wingers at Fox ARE supporting him. That Grogs perfectly to anyone on the far left.
Since before the John Kerry fiasco, Democrats have experienced the fierceness of the Republican/Conservative machine. They have stood idly by as they have been removed from the mainstream of American society by a group of religious dogmatists, who have claimed a choke hold on our Country’s sense of honor and decency.
In an amazing rewrite of history, we are told that it was the Republican Party that secured the nomination for John Kerry in 2004, guaranteeing a Republican win.
As people might remember, it was Howard Dean who was the apparent front runner of the Democratic Party, long before John Kerry started winning primaries. Dean’s charisma at the time was admired and his political positions where highly appealing to the Democratic base (even after his strange screams in Iowa). Nevertheless, the Republicans understood that the best person that they could run against would be a mild mannered man who represented the Northeast “elite”, and who had also opposed the war “from the start”, since they could better expose him as “weak on security”. They knew that even if John Kerry had voted for the war when he was in the Senate, he was still ideologically connected to Vietnam and the era’s anti-war movement.
Howard Dean would have secured the nomination in 2004, if not for the Republican manipulation of the media.
After much work on all their parts, John Kerry was finally nominated, and thus the Conservative “factories” began their effective work of slowly chipping away all appearances of decency and honor that this Democratic candidate might have had. “Out of nowhere” the Swift Boat Veterans made their appearance, and effectively put into question John Kerry’s military record, something that most pundits thought would create a back-lash from their own base, but that eventually destroyed Kerry’s military qualities, which were what most people assumed was his strongest tool against George W. Bush. All of this was achieved thanks to the Republican misinformation campaign and the stupidity of the Democratic voters, who took their cues from the Media and of their own opposition. Let’s now fast forward to the present Democratic contest.
Yes, why don't we. According to Mr Cifre, Hillary Clinton represents the center, and presents the Democrat Party the best opportunity to recapture the White House. The VRWC, on the other hand, has chosen to ensure the nomination of Barack Obama. This, of course, will ensure that John McCain wins. It is all a Republican Machine trick.
Barack Obama is now his Party’s rock star, all to the peril of Hillary Clinton and the other defunct Democratic candidates. Republicans have appeared in multiple shows and have “analyzed” their chances against Hillary Clinton or against Barack Obama. They have supposedly come to the conclusion that if Hillary wins the nomination, it will energize their base into winning the General Election. But, if they were instead faced with Barack Obama, his “inspirational” skills could achieve the scary possibility that many Republicans would either vote for him or stay home “uninspired”. Taking this lead, Democratic “strategists” have now repeatedly mentioned how Obama’s qualities would be difficult to attack by Republicans since he represents a “change” in American politics and is thus leading us out of the ugly realm of partisanship and into the wonderful world of “hope” and “unity”.
The Republicans, Cifre maintains, will hammer home the fact that Obama is a closet Muslim, thereby tuning into the American Islamophobia that has taken control of this country ever since 9-11. But then, it is Cifre himself, who runs an article on his site, entitled The 'Hussein Dynamic' which delves deeply into Obama's childhood, with links to websites in Indonesia, suggesting that Obama IS, in fact, a closet Muslim. He then, spams his website links onto conservative sites, with the clear intent of spreading this 'right-wing' talking point.
In addition to his own words and the school documents, there are also two highly respected and successful businessmen in Indonesia, who went to the same school with Obama, who have been quoted in local newspapers describing Obama’s faithfulness and dutifulness to Islam.
In another cleverly worded article from that site, Cifre argues that because Obama's father was Muslim, thereby making Obama a Muslim whether he likes it or not, his conversion to Christianity makes him an Apostate. SO, even if he is NOT a Muslim, Cifre argues, he will inflame passions among Muslims, if he becomes our president.
Americans have constantly pointed out the fact that having a “fundamentalist” Christian for a President has been highly negative for our image around the world. But what they don’t realize, out of their ignorance regarding Muslim culture and beliefs, is that an apostate President would be 100 times worse.
It becomes clear, upon reading the words of Jonathon Cifre, that he is a partisan, dedicated to the election of Hillary Clinton in this upcoming election. He clearly is NOT attempting to present a fair and unbiased appraisal of the election, weighing the various candidates on the basis of their merits.
Instead, Cifre, and by extension, his entire website, is dedicated to the destruction of Obama as a candidate, in the hope that Hillary Clinton will be elected. His attacks on the Republican Party demonstrate his agenda.
All of the above strategy has been developed by the Republicans for the last couple of months, with the hope that they will once again entrap Democrats into voting for the nominee that THEY hope would run against them. They have already positioned (a very Liberal) John McCain as their candidate, so that they can have a greater chance of keeping the White House, if they are lucky enough to have him positioned against an inexperienced, racially divisive, and extremely liberal Democrat.
Of course, there is more than Islamophobia at work here with the Republican party Strategy. There is, of course, also the specter of Racism. Naturally, the VRWC would tap into the racism of middle America to defeat Obama.
For good or for bad, most people in Middle America fear the concept of a Black President, who would presumably allow rampant Affirmative Action to take hold, and who would supposedly extend the Welfare State to it’s highest levels. And, to top all of this with some “sweet frosting”, the Republicans have already began the development of a crypto-Muslim strategy, in which Barack Hussein Obama is painted as a Muslim in disguise, who is here to once and for all destroy our Nation from the inside (they have sufficient evidence to at least lay the seeds of probability).
And so, you see, the only Hope for any Change in this Fascist stranglehold the Republican Party holds over the American electorate, is the nomination, and subsequent election of Hillary Clinton as President of the United States.
I see it all now, and realize that I have been duped into supporting this whole strategy. Obama must be defeated now, so that Hillary Clinton can become the savior of our nation.
After doing this research, I do begin to wonder -- how many other sites out there are Hillary plants -- designed to look like one thing, but really pushing a hidden agenda. It must really BE a VRWC.
...how many other sites out there are Hillary plants -- designed to look like one thing, but really pushing a hidden agenda...
I can easily believe said network is as vast as is Mrs. Rodham Clinton's backside. Untangling said web would probably be fun, interesting and steady long-term work for any Drive-By Journalist - were they interested in actual, you know, journalism that is.
Don't beat yourself up, Dave - can happen to anyone.
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