The mere suggestion that Barack Obama's history is replete with a string of murky associations with dangerous extremists is enough to send the Left, the pragmatists, and the 'moderates' spinning in an endless cycle of dizzying indignation. Yet even his present close associations are highly problematic.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon).
Andy Stern, who heads the workers' union known as SEIU, is the most frequent visitor to the White House. Obama has admitted on numerous occasions that he collaborates with Stern and the SEIU on a regular basis.
He even stated during the 2008 campaign that he has 'worked his entire life with SEIU.'
All Americans should become informed about Andy Stern and SEIU. But not from their official website or from the mainstream media, where you will get the propaganda.
Several vital facts should be noted.
First, SEIU thugs attacked citizens who attended Town Hall meetings with their elected representatives last summer, seriously injuring several who required hospitalization. The thugs never threatened anyone beforehand. They simply showed up at the meetings to intimidate town hall attendees and then unleash their violence on the unsuspecting citizens by surprise.
SEIU and ACORN thugs also blocked the entrance to at least one Town Hall meeting, refusing to grant entrance to the constituents within the representative's district.
The citizens who attended these Town Hall meetings were unarmed, many of whom were retired and elderly. Yet they exercised one of their most sacred rights in this free society--to confront elected representatives and hold them accountable, this time on the highly unpopular ObamaCare bill.
Second, interestingly, Andy Stern and SEIU helped to write the ObamaCare bill that our illustrious Congress critters admitted they never read. They didn't have to. They had been bought off by the special interests who wrote the bill, and that includes SEIU and the Apollo Alliance, which coordinates efforts between big government, big labor, big business, and big environment.
Apollo also helped craft the near-$1 trillion-dollar stimulus package for Obama.
Add into the mix Communist Van Jones, the Hugo Chavez admirer, and the 'Center for American Progress' which is run by a Leftwing extremist, and you have a healthcare bill that was conceived, nurtured, born, and bred in the bowels of American Leftwing extremism.
Thus, the hired guns of these organizations, the street-wise goons and thus of SEIU and ACORN, were charged with disrupting, intimidating, and even physically attacking citizens who care enough for the country to protest this frantic march toward Marxism.
Each of the organizations and individuals mentioned above have close ties with Barack Obama. Van Jones was hired as one of Obama's 'czars' until Patriots screamed to high heaven about a Marxist in the White House, resulting in Jones' departure, where he then wound up working for the Leftwing extremist Center for American Progress.
ACORN's connections with Barack Obama are well-known, going all the way back to his early days in Chicago as a community organizer, when Obama did legal work for the organization. They, too, were involved in the intimidation and violent threats/behavior against citizens at the Town Hall meetings.
And as for Andy Stern and SEIU, watch and listen closely to what came out of Obama's own mouth in this video.
Presently there is a massive, concerted effort on the part of the Leftwing, the mainstream media, the White House, and Democrats in Congress to portray Tea Party activists as dangerous, violent, right-wing extremists. This, it would seem, is a perfect cover for the violence that is nurtured, encouraged, and perpetrated by the Leftwing organizations most closely associated with Barack Obama.
The death threats against Nancy Pelosi and Bart Stupak are actually but a drop in the bucket compared to the threats made against Patriots, Tea Party activists, and anyone else who dares to raise a voice of protest against this President.
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Comments
"...The citizens who attended these Town Hall meetings were unarmed, many of whom were retired and elderly. Yet they exercised one of their most sacred rights in this free society--to CONFRONT elected representatives..."
don't start none, won't be none...you can't CONFRONT, then complain when you are CONFRONTED...you go to to town halls to learn and decide who to vote for and who NOT to vote for...you don't go to CONFRONT anyone and deny everyone else a chance to listen and decide...town halls are NOT for shoutdowns, which is what you are defending...don't CONFRONT and you won't be CONFRONTED...I want a civil society and tea partiers have turned it into an uncivil society...don't start none, won't be none.
As always, Walrus, you are full of shyte. Pure and aromatic with a rank stench wafting to high heaven. Citizens most certainly CAN confront. They shouted because the imbeciles in Congress would not listen. They are still not listening. Confronting is NOT the same thing as violence, you idiot. The SEIU and ACORN thugs PHYSICALLY ATTACKED the citizens. The 2 are not one and the same, but then, most SANE people know that.
Town Hall meetings are a forum for senators and other politicians to answer questions proposed by their constituents. They are always a mixed group of people. If the meeting is well planned, there is a process by which the questions are asked and then answered. The problems arise when the politician blatantly lies about how he intends to vote on something. In my experiences, there is no forum to politely disagree with the speaker. This causes frustration for all those people who support or disagree with the people.
Walrus, have you ever attended a town hall meeting or a tea party?
His confidence level has become so inflated, that he doesn't care if his associations are so "transparent" now. He feels he is above reproach!
The truth is just a google search away. Stern is not the most frequent visitor to the White House and a lot that is in the healthcare bill was "conceived, nurtured, born and bred in the bowels of" the Heritage Foundation.
Anthony G. Martin says:
"As always, Walrus, you are full of shyte. Pure and aromatic with a rank stench wafting to high heaven. Citizens most certainly CAN confront. They shouted because the imbeciles in Congress would not listen. They are still not listening. Confronting is NOT the same thing as violence, you idiot. The SEIU and ACORN thugs PHYSICALLY ATTACKED the citizens. The 2 are not one and the same, but then, most SANE people know that."
as I said "DON'T START NONE, WON'T BE NONE"
If you give, don't complain when you get.
Marilyn- where did you get you information about the Heritage Foundation. I would be interested in the links.
And, we do NOT have to even read Walrus' comments. We can just elect to ignore his communist arse. And if he "wants some", I'll be happy to give it to him. It would not be wise for SEIU or ACORN or anyone else to attempt to stop me from entering a Tea Party event, Town Hall meeting or anywhere else I want to go. If they want to "get in my face and push back", I'll get in their gut and pull the trigger. Those 230gr JHPs make a big mess.
Nex ut Tyrannus and their supporters.
Spook says:
"And, we do NOT have to even read Walrus' comments. We can just elect to ignore his communist arse. And if he "wants some", I'll be happy to give it to him. It would not be wise for SEIU or ACORN or anyone else to attempt to stop me from entering a Tea Party event, Town Hall meeting or anywhere else I want to go. If they want to "get in my face and push back", I'll get in their gut and pull the trigger. Those 230gr JHPs make a big mess."
lol, people like you were going to be the point of my next post.
THIS, people, is the face of the Tea Party...it won't be long before one of these crazies in your ranks (maybe this one) shoots up a place (maybe a town hall meeting, maybe a school or courthouse), but IT WILL BE THE END OF THE TEA PARTY...the general American Populace will at that point turn on the Tea party....I hope you shoot up a place soon, so we can put this Tea Party business behind us.
Teacherspets says:
"Walrus, have you ever attended a town hall meeting or a tea party?"
I've never attended a Klan Rally or a Tupperware Party, but I know I wouldn't like to.
Walrus just doesn't want to accept reality the he/she will be lumped in with all of the other traitors er um Libs, and will have to abide by the law of the land. Survival of the fittest baby.
It is no surprise that the "walrus" was an "egg man."
Yeah, it's the liberals who are the real threat here. Right.
"The lawmakers reported 42 threats in the first three months of this year, compared with 15 in the last three months of 2009, said Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance W. Gainer, who had information about threats involving both chambers...Nearly all of the recent threats appear to come from opponents of the health-care overhaul..."
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/08/AR2010040805476.html
Marilyn, the Heritage Foundation is a conservative Christian think-tank that opposed the ObamaCare bill. In addition, the fact that Andy Stern is the most frequent White House visitor is an interesting fact, but not the main point. The main point is that he and Obama collaborate on all policy issues. Obama has stated on the record that he supports the agenda of Stern and the SEIU, and his goal is to implement that agenda while in office.
Nice diversionary move, Tom. That is a specific issue during a specific, limited time-frame. Open up your eyes to the broad picture for a change. Most of the threats and actual acts of violence in this country, ever since the 1960s, have come from the Leftwing.
Anthony G. Martin says:
"Nice diversionary move, Tom. That is a specific issue during a specific, limited time-frame. Open up your eyes to the broad picture for a change. Most of the threats and actual acts of violence in this country, ever since the 1960s, have come from the Leftwing."
Spook says:
"...If they want to "get in my face and push back", I'll get in their gut and pull the trigger. Those 230gr JHPs make a big mess."
by god Anthony, you're right!!!
Anthony, get this straight, 60s radicals can't harm you any more than 1860s radicals..we are talking about HERE AND NOW...quit telling us about historic radicals and deal with the person or persons that want to do harm NOW! NOW!! NOW!!!
Teh SEIU is bankrupting California.
hey Tom......the libs made a choice to govern against the will of the majority!! Elections have consequences.
Hey Walrus, you POS communist puke. I was just following your lead. Who was it brought up the "DON'T START NONE, WON'T BE NONE" tirade? Excuse me, who again started that tone of conversation.
I just wanted to ensure you and yours tuly understand what awaits you IF YOU START SOME.
I'm not shooting up anyone or anywhere unless necessary in defense if myself or others.
Note, someone had to "get in their [my] face" and "Start some" before I finished the scenario.
No freedom-loving American I know would turn on someone that was acting in defense.
We're not to "start some" but if you or yours does, we'll finish it.
hey Tom......the libs made a choice to govern against the will of the majority!! Elections have consequences.
Walrus, ok, I would be happy to. Read the article again. I will add some more names to these: Andy Stern, Van Jones, Mark Lloyd, Valerie Jarrett, the Chicago-thug political machine, etc, etc.
Walrus, you are talking about tea parties and town halls as though you really know something about them. You are just fabricating information.
Anthony G. Martin says:
"Walrus, ok, I would be happy to. Read the article again. I will add some more names to these: Andy Stern, Van Jones, Mark Lloyd, Valerie Jarrett, the Chicago-thug political machine, etc, etc."
and these are the people YOU expect will blow up a building or shoot up a town hall or school or court house, because that's what we were talking about...known names are NOT the crazies we expect to do these things...it's the Timothy Mcveighs (like spook) that will be making the news this year (yes, this year) and once that happens, the Tea Party name will be dragged through the mud...you and I both know it...the people sitting on the fence about Tea Partys will suddenly feel the Tea Party is the problem instead of the solution...save this and come back to read it once all this transpires.
(to spook: you think you're the only one with a four five? where do you think all those burglarized arms go? to conservatives?)
Teacher--of course he's fabricating. Like a desperate little scared child, he is frantically using whatever means he can to discredit ordinary citizens, linking them to Timothy McVeigh, of all people! ROFL!! What a joke.
Anthony G. Martin says:
"Teacher--of course he's fabricating. Like a desperate little scared child, he is frantically using whatever means he can to discredit ordinary citizens, linking them to Timothy McVeigh, of all people! ROFL!! What a joke."
yeah! ha ha ha...there are no Timothy McVeighs in the Tea Party...no crazies willing to take the shoutdowns and anger to the next level...ha ha ha...no anti-government radicals in the Tea Party...ha ha ha, how could anyone think that?????
TEA Party Movement patriots should find common ground on issues such as 1)No to Iran war 2) No to amnesty 3) No to NAU
@Walrus
How about some facts. You are real good at the shout (text) downs regarding most points made on this board. That's all. I am not much of a contibutor but I understand the concept of "point/counter-point).
Typical Lib...unable to compete in the arena of ideas.
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