[Rhodes22-list] Special Political Message for Brad

[Michael D. Weisner]

Brad,

Do you mean to tell me that all those flight attendants have lied to the 
American public; you can't walk away from a jet crash?  Why do I even fasten 
my belt (why do we use a 5-pt)?  Judging by the Amtrak disasters, many do 
not get up from a train wreck.

Interesting article - vintage AmerThink.  Thanks.

Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
Nissequogue River, NY

From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:13 
AM
JB,

Ah, politics does indeed make strange bedfellows.  When the Clinton
Presidential run "ginned-up" circa 1991, the small circle of pilots in
Little Rock who were first hand witnesses to  'who was doing what with
whom'  would meet  once a week after work at the Americana hotel and swap
stories.  We just "knew" that the press would have a field day with the
Clintons and that dream would bite the dust early. We quickly learned that
we should just stick to flying, no one was interested in what we had seen
with our own eyes.

Now here we are almost two decades later I'm lamenting Hillary's fate
because she's the "trustworthy" one. God Save The Queen!

Attached is an article that sums up my feelings well.

Brad

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Forget Train Wreck: Obama Is a Jet Crash

July 31, 2008 - by Kyle-Anne Shiver

There's a "good" train-wreck theory circulating pretty far, and among a
pretty wide swath of conservative-minded voters, concerning this
presidential election. My husband has been an ardent proponent of this
theory, as have been a sizable number of my own readers, who've written to
explain it to me, some going into minute detail of how this theory will play
out in 2008.

The condensed version, if I'm getting it right, goes something like this:

The 2008 election is a "wake-up" for the American people. We Americans are a
very busy lot, say the train-wreck seers, who are very happy minding our own
business, making a living for our families, and otherwise enjoying the
benefits of living in the greatest country in the world. We Americans don't
get fully on alert unless we are involved in a sizable, far-reaching,
societal catastrophe that affects nearly all of us very negatively.

An Obama victory, these theorists contend, would inevitably result in one
heck of a big-blast *train wreck*. A wrecked economy. Jihadi wrecks all over
the place. Judeo-Christian values tied to the tracks throughout the country.
Taxpayers ready to tear up the very tracks and start all over.

*And presto.*

At the end of Obama's four years, which these theorists explain will
certainly produce a "Jimmy Carter four years on steroids," we Americans will
rise to the occasion and reclaim our liberties, our government, our
pocketbooks, and our values. The second Ronald Reagan reformist will emerge
in the form of Bobby Jindal or Sarah Palin or one of the other rising
conservative all-stars. All will be well and a second wave of conservative
reforms will inevitably return America to the course set by our founders.

Having been a tough-love mom and a stalwart advocate of logical-consequence
parenting, I can certainly see the feasibility of this theory. If we are
stupid enough to elect a man who, as Mark Steyn has so eloquently noted, has
a resume that "would fit on the back of his driver's license," then we
deserve to suffer the consequences.

And if Barack Obama were just an old-school, misguided, but still
patriotic*liberal
*, I would be sorely tempted to sit out this election, withhold my "[1]
safety-first<http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/call_me_a_proud_scared_conserv.html>"
McCain vote, and let the chips fall where they may.

I'm a *social* conservative, an *economic* conservative, and a
*small-government
*conservative all rolled into one. I'm an at-all-times and
in-every-circumstance conservative — in the brand of the original American
patriots of 1776.

But Barack Obama, as I have painstakingly discovered, is no mere liberal. He
proudly claims the [2] *progressive* <http://cpc.lee.house.gov/> label, and
makes no bones about his intentions to *progress* the internationalist
socialist cause in America. In every policy sphere, from the [3] 
redistribution
of wealth <http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/5991/> to
the federal government as [4]
nanny-caretaker<http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-11-20-obama-education_N.htm>,
from an appeasement-first-and-always [5] foreign
policy<http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2018223/posts>to his
plan for a [6] national
civilian 
security<http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/obamas_civilian_national_secur.html>force
on par with our U.S. military, Barack Obama clearly plans to change
America into a country we would not even recognize as the *land of the free
and the home of the brave.*

So, in my mind, Obama would not produce a train wreck, much less a "good"
train wreck.

No, a Barack Obama presidency, coupled with a filibuster-proof Senate
majority and a large House domination, is more akin to a Boeing 747 *crash 
*for
America.

While folks do survive train wrecks and walk away to pick up the pieces and
rebuild, surviving an Obama-style *change* jet crash, in my opinion, may not
leave enough surviving elements of our Constitution, our economy, or our
defense to allow for any sort of American renewal.

*Progressive plan to rewrite Constitution through courts*

In their book [7] *The Shadow
Party*<http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FShadow-Party-Hillary-Radicals-Democratic%2Fdp%2F1595551034&tag=pajamasmedia-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325>,
authors David Horowitz and Richard Poe painstakingly reveal much of what
progressive revolutionaries and their prominent backers, including and
especially George Soros, have been up to behind the scenes of the Democratic
Party. Using campaign finance reform, which was heavily funded and advocated
by George Soros, powerful 527 groups such as Moveon.org have orchestrated a
veritable coup within the Democratic Party, and now exercise a heretofore
unthinkable amount of control, operating as a shadow party, essentially
pulling the strings on what the American public sees.

In April 2005, Yale Law School was home to an important conference, called
"The Constitution in 2020." Shortly after the conference, John Hinderaker
wrote up the conference implications for the [8] *Weekly
Standard*<http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/504hndlw.asp>,
noting:

The essence of the progressive constitutional project is to recognize
"positive" rights, not just "negative" rights, so that citizens are not only
guaranteed freedom from specified forms of government interference, but also
are guaranteed the receipt of specified economic benefits. The bottom line
is that Congress would no longer have the discretion to decline to enact
liberal policies. The triumph of the left would be constitutionally
mandated.

We have seen the liberal/secular/progressive activism from the Supreme Court
already imperiously revoke centuries of jurisprudence in cases like Roe,
Lawrence, and a host of others, which have had profound, unprecedented
effects on American culture, all without the approval of the electorate.

Progressives recognize that they face a center-right electorate, with no
desire to exchange unique American liberties for the international socialist
model, and know that their only feasible course is through the courts and
aggressive judicial activism.

As the *Weekly Standard* summarized:

The left makes no secret of its intentions where the Constitution is
concerned. It wants to change it, in ways that have nothing to do with what
the document actually says. It wants the Constitution to enshrine its own
policy preferences — thus freeing it from the tiresome necessity of winning
elections.

The next president may have the opportunity to appoint up to three members
of an aging Supreme Court. With Obama in the White House, a filibuster-proof
Democrat majority in the Senate, and George Soros pulling his power levers
offstage, we can certainly expect justices in the model of a Ginsburg or
Souter, who have amply demonstrated their utter disregard for our own
Constitution, while at the same time being enamored of international law.

Progressives could well do to America through a super-majority on the
Supreme Court what they could never do through elections, and produce a
catastrophe for our children on the scale of a mid-air plane explosion, not
the kind of train wreck from which a recognizable America could walk away.

*The forward march of Islamo-fascism*

Whenever I try to imagine what life in America might be like under the
jackboot of Islamo-fascism and the worldwide Muslim caliphate, it's as hard
for me to picture as it was for 1930s Germans to believe that in less than
one decade, their freedoms could completely disappear. Tyranny in America is
as hard for me to conceive of as it was for Cubans just prior to Castro's
era of *change* or for free Chinese hailing the *changes* Mao would bring.
Right now in Venezuela, a free people are learning the hard way about *
change*, Chavez style.

Think it can't happen here?

Perhaps it was easy to miss last month, during Congressional hearings on oil
company profits, when a proud member of the Congressional
*Progressive*Caucus, Maxine Waters, made the public threat to "[9]
socialize
our oil companies <http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2008/may>."
Consolidating government control of the economy is the fastest way, in my
opinion, to make America vulnerable to foreign enemies.

Couple this driving desire on the part of "good" progressives everywhere
with a completely naïve view of human nature, such as that of Barack Obama,
who honestly believes that Islamic terrorism and war are *merely* the
natural result of poverty, oppression, and inequalities among nations. The
result is not only appeasement and a continuing drain on America's economic
resources, but a capitulation to evil that, unfortunately, Barack Obama and
his backers do not even recognize.

Barack Obama has a plan that would effectively [10]
disarm<http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=297645696465868>America
in the hopes that all others would follow suit. Gutting military
programs in favor of global poverty initiatives is the left's newest
delusion, and one that promises to make us more vulnerable than ever to a
nuclear 9/11, which has been the stated intention of al-Qaeda and Iran.

*Safe or sorry?*

I'm not a big believer in attempting to foretell the future. There is no
reliable way for any of us to *know*, beyond doubt, the precise scope of *
changes* an Obama presidency could produce. Nor is there any way for us to *
know* whether the Islamo-fascist forces will make sufficient progress under
a unilaterally disarmed America to bring us to our knees in relatively short
order.

This much we do *know*, however.

The changes that progressives plan to make are *huge*, and unless Americans
choose to mount a violent revolution to overthrow our own government and its
court, then we would be *stuck* with the socialist vision, with no recourse
to our legislative and executive branches.

The Islamo-fascists aren't [11]
going<http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/war_what_war.html>anywhere.
The money we give them, ostensibly to feed people, will instead be
used to make more weapons with which to murder our families. Barack Obama is
firmly convinced that his silver tongue can appease them.

As for me and my vote, we will elect to stay the course with America,
proudly go with McCain, a known patriot, and be *safe rather than sorry.*


On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 9:41 AM, JbTek <j.bulfer at jbtek.com> wrote:

> Brad wrote:
>
> Someone, anyone, point out the successes from his two decades as a
> "community organizer". Anything will do.  Just one thing, not a dozen, not
> even two.  Just one.  Anyone?
>
>
>
> He has accomplished something that alot of people have been trying to do
> for
> many years.
> He put the Clintons in the back seat, that's not an easy thing to do.
> My guess is you have not seen the last of these two.
> Hillary said it best......I'll just be here waiting if you need me.....
> remember, anything can happen.
> Ask Vince Foster....wait,......you can't, he's dead.
>
> Jb
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
> To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Special Political Message for Brad
>
>
> > Ed,
> >
> > The printed version was funnier! Just the opposite of watching a speech
> from
> > the "Chosen One" -  read a speech from the "BigO" versus listening to 
> > one
> of
> > his speeches. Better yet, watch him without a TelePrompter and talk off
> the
> > cuff. Unless you watch an unscripted speech the MSM didn't cover because
> it
> > doesn't fit their meme, you don't really know the "The Savior".
> >
> > Would I hire this guy to handle a small claims issue for my company?  He
> has
> > no experience as an attorney.  Was he a great Illinois Senator?  Maybe,
> all
> > someone has to do is point out to me his successful bills and the things
> > they accomplished. Ditto US Senate. If he has experience running a
> backhoe,
> > or any knowledge of construction in the lower 48, we might have some use
> for
> > HIM.
> >
> > Someone, anyone, point out the successes from his two decades as a
> > "community organizer". Anything will do.  Just one thing, not a dozen,
> not
> > even two.  Just one.  Anyone?
> >
> > He does have good form on a three-point jump shot.  Maybe he should 
> > share
> > his secrets with the boys with missing limbs he refused to visit in the
> > hospital in Germany.
> >
> > If I feel the need to find a "Savior", I know people in that business.
> I'll
> > pass on this one!
> >
> > Brad
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Brad:
> > >
> > > They recorded this on Utube just for you:
> > >
> > > http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=xoL3jYs5U08
> > >
> > > Ben C., you are welcome to review this also...
> > >
> > > Ed K
> > > Greenville, SC, USA
> > > Addendum: ' Looking beyond contemporary media reporting is a story of
> the
> > > demise of a once great nation whose citizens grew spoiled and 
> > > apathetic
> as
> > > they forgot the reasons for their success and allowed a sense of
> > > entitlement
> > > and self-loathing to set in.'
> > > --
> > > View this message in context:
> > >
>
> http://www.nabble.com/Special-Political-Message-for-Brad-tp18743217p18743217.html
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