I’m reminded of the story of a CPA who black-balled his number one business client (a restauranteur) to a membership in the country club because he refused to donate to National Public Radio while funding the high school cheer-leading camp.
                Vassar Bushmills recently wrote that the modern American Left is more fascist in aspect than communist, in that they have developed a taste for the finer things Lenin always eschewed. It is true, you know, for it does seem American “socialism” is based more on denying wealth and the finer things to the masses, than in actually stripping it from public memory. Germany, 1938, not Russia, 1930, comes closer to defining what we are seeing from modern libralism today.   
                But Bushmills went further and put a face on it. He stated that American elitism (vs the elites) is one part German, in the notion that a perfect society can be engineered and managed from the top, one part French, in that the top should adorn itself in the accoutrements of nobility, and be above and outside the laws set for commoners, and finally, one part Mexican bandit, quoting the infamous bandito, Calvera, when he said, “If God had not intended them sheared, he would not have made them sheep.”
                More than Boss Tweed, more than P T Barnum, more even than the Clintons, we feel that Al Gore personifies this New American Bandit, for in his various manifestations of the global warming hoax, he has shone that, unlike Calvera’s peons, the sheep in America run very high up in the educational, professional and financial food chain.

Bernard Chumm

                Oprah Winfrey was once a member of the Rev Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ. But she left some while back, ostensibly because of Wright’s fiery racist rhetoric.  
                Oprah was also one of the first celebrities to come out for Barack Obama, and was/is certainly his most powerful African-American voice in America.

               Like it or not, Obama has painted Oprah into a corner. Question is: How does she get out? Or can she?
               Moses Sands often said that all things come in twos, sometimes threes. When one finds oneself confronted with a mistake in judgment or fact, he/she has one of three options; 1) Out of humility, stand on the public box and announce to the world “I was wrong” (the rarest of people, few can or have done this), 2) Out of narcissism, expand the lie, build on it, even be willing to risk death for it. (Such self-delusional narcissism is equally rare, but Kim Philby and John Kerry come to mind.) And finally the most common option, 3) drift off into ever-lasting silence and hope no one notices. 
               The Soviets found out many years ago, when they recruited English public school boys into their espionage ring, that while a few would follow their immature decisions to the bitter end, i.e., Philby, most, once they’d grown up and seen the errors of their decisions as young men, would fall off into silence, thus muting a large number of the best and brightest of a generation. A win-win for the Communist. Recruit a few, silence the rest. 
               Thus it was again in the 1960s in America. The brightest (though clearly not the best) of a generation silenced by their singular inability to go to their closets and strip themselves of that over-powering vanity to never be wrong…in public.

               Our guess is that Oprah will choose Door #3.

Vassar Bushmills

              (That line is a humorous quote by two fellows named Sellars & Yeatman in the 1930s about British royalty. Not so funny here, we will get to our “Republican but Repulsive” comments later on in the campaign.)

              When he was only seen as a naïve senator spouting empty platitudes of hope to America’s next generation of narcissists (was it that long ago?) we had already determined that even as much as we dislike Lady Disdain, she would be a better decision-maker than Obama if the White House actually came her way. In foreign affairs, like her husband, she would be more apt to do the right thing, then, spend the rest of her administration lying to her base that she didn’t really do it.  
              But fears about Obama are no longer that he is an innocent naïf. Far from it. It was believed that he was at least honest and that this alone represented the hope for “change” in Washington. But his dissembling of not only facts, but deeply held ideas about matters dear to Americans, has cast a shadow over that hope.     
              None of us can know Obama’s heart, or the truthfulness and seriousness of his protests of innocence about relationships with Rev Jeremiah Wright or Syrian-born indicted businessman, Tony Rezko. His explanations have made it more difficult, not more easy, to square their words and actions with his words of unity and hope.
             But as to his fitness to be president, the truth that lies in his heart no longer matters. It is the connections and connections alone that matter in a world where the United States Constitution and the American experience are under attack. The choice is easy.             
             The lynch pin is not the racial hatred spewed forth by the likes of Rev Wright and Louis Farrakan, with a view to racial separatism (Liberation theology). Nor is it a relationship between Rezko and people in the mid-east (Syria) who are actively trying to kill American soldiers in Iraq. These may only be coincidental. Obama may be telling it to us straight. 
              But NO PERSON who is an American first can afford to vote for anyone who has spent part of his formative youth (what, two, three, how many?) in a Wahhabi madrassa. Period. 
             The Wahhabis are one of the most pernicious religious sects in the history of Islam, reminiscent of the Kali-worshipping Thugees from India in the 19^th Century. They are Al Qaeda’s Sinn Fein, but with pockets that run much deeper than all of Boston.

              The Wright/Farrakan & Rezko/Syria connection is real, no matter what the substance, and can only be analyzed in light of those very real events in Indonesia many years ago.
            America simply cannot take the chance.