B.O. is the Manchurian Candidate

[SHTSPRAYER]

The Manchurian Candidate
By: David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, September 11, 2009



Those who were surprised by the White House appointment of Van Jones – a self-styled “communist,” and a proponent of the idea that the Katrina catastrophe was caused by “white supremacy,” haven’t been paying attention to developments on the left since the fall of Communism, or to president Obama’s extensive roots in its political culture. Van Jones is the carefully groomed protégé of a network of radical organizations -- including Moveon.org -- and of Democratic sponsors like billionaire George Soros and John Podesta, former Clinton chief of staff and co-chair of the Obama transition team.
At the time of his appointment as the President’s “Green Jobs” czar – and despite a very recent 10-year history of “revolutionary” activity – Jones was a member of two key organizations at the very heart of what might be called the executive branch of the Democratic Party. The first is the Center for American Progress which was funded by Soros and is headed by Podesta. The second is the Apollo Alliance, on whose board Jones sits with Podesta, Carol Browner and Al Gore. This is a coalition of radicals, leftwing union leaders and corporate recruits, which had a major role in designing Obama’s green economy plans, including the “cash for clunkers” program. The New York director of the Alliance, who will be writing its applications for tens of millions of dollars in “stimulus” funds, is Jeff Jones (no relation) who was a co-leader of the terrorist Weather Underground along with Obama’s close friend and political ally William Ayers.


According to his own account, Van Jones became a “communist” during a prison term he served after being arrested during the 1992 Los Angeles race riots. For the next ten years Jones was an activist in the Maoist organization STORM – “Stand Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement.” When STORM disintegrated Jones joined the Apollo Alliance and the Center for American Progress Democrats. As he explained to the East Bay Express in a 2005 article, he still considered himself a “revolutionary, but just a more effective one.” “Before,” he told the Express, “we would fight anybody, any time. No concession was good enough;… Now, I put the issues and constituencies first. I’ll work with anybody, I’ll fight anybody if it will push our issues forward.... I’m willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.”



Pursuing the deep satisfaction of radical ends is the clear sub-text of Jones’ 2007 book, The Green Collar Economy which comes with a Forward by Robert Kennedy Jr. and enthusiastic blurbs from Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore. According to Jones, the Katrina tragedies were caused by global warming, white supremacy, free market economics and the “war for oil” in Iraq. This “perfect storm” of social evils deprived poor blacks of the protection of adequate levees and private vehicles which would have allowed them to escape. The fact that a fleet of public buses was available but the black mayor and the black power structure in New Orleans failed to deploy them go unmentioned in Jones’ indictment of white racism. Instead, “The Katrina story illustrates clearly the two crises we face in the United States: radical socioeconomic inequality and rampant environmental destruction.” To deal with these crises “we will need both political and economic transformation – immediately.”

How did John Podesta and Al Gore and Barack Obama come to be political allies of a far left radical like Van Jones, a 9/11 conspiracy “truther” and a supporter of the Hamas view that the entire state of Israel is “occupied territory?” To answer this question requires an understanding of developments within the political left that have taken place over the last two decades, and in particular the forging of a “popular front” between anti-American radicals and “mainstream liberals” in the Democratic Party.


The collapse of Communism in the early Nineties did not lead to an agonizing reappraisal of its radical agendas among many who had supported it in the West. Instead, its survivors set about creating a new socialist international which would unite “social justice” movements, radical environmental groups, leftwing trade unions, and traditional communist parties – all dedicated to the revival of utopian dreams.


The new political force made its first impression at the end of the decade when it staged global demonstrations against the World Trade Organization and the World Bank. The demonstrations erupted into large-scale violence in Seattle in 2001 when 50,000 Marxists, anarchists and environmental radicals, joined by the giant leftwing unions AFSCME and SEIU, descended on the city, smashed windows and automobiles, and set fire to buildings to protest “globalization” – the world capitalist system.


In the direct aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, the anti-globalization forces morphed into what became known as the “anti-war” movement. An already scheduled anti-globalization protest on September 29 was re-redirected (and re-named) to target America’s retaliation against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The new “peace” movement grew to massive proportions in the lead up to the war in Iraq but it never held a single protest against Saddam’s violation of 17 UN arms control resolutions, or his expulsion of the UN arms inspectors. It did, however, mobilize 35 million people in world-wide protests against America’s “imperialist war for oil.” The orchestrators of the demonstrations were the same leaders and the same organizations, the same unions and the same “social justice” groups that had been responsible for the Seattle riots against the World Trade Organization and the international capitalist system.


A second watershed came in the run-up to the 2004 elections when billionaire George Soros decided to integrate the radicals – including their political organization ACORN -- into the structure of Democratic Party politics. Together with a group of like-minded billionaires, Soros created a “Shadow Party” (as Richard Poe and I documented in a book by that name) whose purpose was to shape the outcome of the 2004 presidential race. “America under Bush,” Soros told The Washington Post, “is a danger to the world,…” To achieve his goal, Soros created a galaxy of 527 political organizations headed by leftwing union leaders like SEIU chief Andrew Stern and Clinton operatives like Harold Ickes. As its policy brain he created the Center for American Progress.

Soros failed to achieve his goal in 2004 but he went on working to create new elements of the network, such as the Apollo Alliance. Four years later the Shadow Party was able to elect a candidate who had spent his entire political career in the bowels of this movement. Obama’s electoral success was made possible by the wide latitude he was given by the press and the public, partly because he was the first African-American with a chance to be president and partly because his campaign was deliberately crafted to convey the impression that he was a tax-cutting centrist who intended to bring Americans together to find common solutions to their problems. When confronted with his long-term associations and working partnerships with anti-American racists like Jeremiah Wright and anti-American radicals like William Ayers, he denied the obvious and successfully side-stepped its implications.

Just eight months into his presidency, however, a new Barack Obama has begun to emerge. With unseemly haste Obama has nearly bankrupted the federal government, amassing more debt in eight months than all his predecessors combined. He has appeased America’s enemies abroad and attacked America’s intelligence services at home. He has rushed forward with programs that require sweeping changes in the American economy and is now steamrolling a massive new health-care program that will give the government unprecedented control of its citizens.



Among the hallmarks of this new radical regime the appointment of Van Jones stood out for its blatant departure from political normalcy. In his White House role, the radical Jones would have represented the president in shaping a multi-billion stimulus package, which could easily function as a patronage program of particular interest to his political allies in the “Apollo Alliance,” ACORN and the leftwing unions. In the classic manual for activists on how to achieve their radical goals, Obama’s political mentor Saul Alinsky wrote: “From the moment an organizer enters a community, he lives, dreams, eats, breathes, sleeps only one thing, and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army.” As the president’s green jobs commissar, Van Jones had entered the trillion-dollar community of the federal government and would soon have been building his radical army. The rest of us should be wondering who his sponsors were within the White House (senior presidential advisor and long-time “progressive” Valerie Jarrett was certainly one). Then we should ask ourselves what they are planning next.


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David Horowitz is the founder of The David Horowitz Freedom Center and author of the new book, One Party Classroom.

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[ChiTown]

Originally Posted by Donger

I've always been skeptical, to be honest. I think the best we can hope for realistically is something like the "democracy" that is practiced in Egypt.

which is sketchy, at best

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by patteeu

That's a list of issue disagreements. I'm talking about an actual change of opinion about the man. Do you still think Obama is who you thought he was when you voted for him?

I think he is too much of a compromiser and too hung up on bi-partisanship. He needs to kick more azz and get his agenda through. I think you are really asking if this was the "change" I was voting for, if so, No. I'm still waiting.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

You'll have to be more specific. Nearly everything I've read from George Will since the beginning of the campaign in Iraq, has been pro.

That's why his most recent column set me askew.

I don't know what you were reading, but Will was critical of the Bush administration and it's mission in Iraq going back to at least 2006. His take was more skeptical than the outright opposition of some (like Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul), but he was far from pro-Iraq, at least during the bloodiest part of that conflict and through the surge which he described as a Bush "hope for a miracle".

[WilliamInnerCircle]

Originally Posted by patteeu

I don't know what you were reading, but Will was critical of the Bush administration and it's mission in Iraq going back to at least 2006. His take was more skeptical than the outright opposition of some (like Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul), but he was far from pro-Iraq, at least during the bloodiest part of that conflict and through the surge which he described as a Bush "hope for a miracle".

I'm going to dig for them but I'm talking about Will's stance all through the build up while the war in Afghanistan was pretty much over, the need for a continuous overwhelming presence was needed. Give me a few minutes.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by WilliamTheIrish

I'm going to dig for them but I'm talking about Will's stance all through the build up while the war in Afghanistan was pretty much over, the need for a continuous overwhelming presence was needed. Give me a few minutes.

I can believe that he was supportive at the beginning. I just don't think his "bring the troops home" Afghan stance today is very surprising because he's been in that mode, more or less, wrt Iraq for a good 3 years now.

[WilliamInnerCircle]

Patteau,

I may have to retract that statement. Then further I dig, the less I seem to locate. Even in 2003 at a lecture he gave in Manhattan, Will declared:

"Iraq is just three people away from democracy — George Washington, James Madison, and John Marshall," he quipped.

I may have been misremembering Will as Buchanan.

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by SHTSPRAYER

I wonder if that girl in your AVATAR would still be alive if...

Oh, never mind.

Very classy!

[T-post Tom]

I've read some really stupid sh!t here in D.C. This ranks right up there.

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by Donger

And it seems you just want to regurgitate conspiracy theories.

Did Haliburton, it's sub-companies, and Blackwater, etc. not get contracts without competition? Did The Bush administration not drag us through lie after lie after lie to sell us the Iraq war? I don't have to be much of a conspiracy theorist. All I have to do is keep my head out of my behind. You guys should give that a try too.

Originally Posted by Donger

So, you don't think the possibility of Iraq being the first successful Arab democracy is beneficial?

Do you have any inclination at all about the cultural and political parameters of the Arab/Middle Eastern societies? Do you think a "Western Style" Democracy is just a few droplets from airplanes away? You are pretty naive if you think so. Even more if you truly believe the likes of Cheney and Rumsfeld had Democracy in the ME in mind when they dressed Dufus in AirForce garb and told him Iraq was a good playground.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Frankie

Did Haliburton, it's sub-companies, and Blackwater, etc. not get contracts without competition? Did The Bush administration not drag us through lie after lie after lie to sell us the Iraq war? I don't have to be much of a conspiracy theorist. All I have to do is keep my head out of my behind. You guys should give that a try too.

And you think that Bush arranged this war for the sole purpose of lining the pockets of these friends? Seriously?

Originally Posted by Frankie

Do you have any inclination at all about the cultural and political parameters of the Arab/Middle Eastern societies? Do you think a "Western Style" Democracy is just a few droplets from airplanes away? You are pretty naive if you think so. Even more if you truly believe the likes of Cheney and Rumsfeld had Democracy in the ME in mind when they dressed Dufus in AirForce garb and told him Iraq was a good playground.

No, I think the most ME nations and people wouldn't know what to do with democracy if it were handed to them on a platter. I wonder why that is.

[KILLER_CLOWN]

Obama: The Postmodern Coup - Making of a Manchurian Candidate (Paperback)





http://www.amazon.com/Obama-Postmode.../dp/0930852885

[SHTSPRAYER]

Originally Posted by Frankie

Haliburton.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by Frankie

Did Haliburton, it's sub-companies, and Blackwater, etc. not get contracts without competition?

Yes, for good reason.

Originally Posted by Frankie

Did The Bush administration not drag us through lie after lie after lie to sell us the Iraq war?

No, they didn't. If you heard something other than what they were saying, that's on you.

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by Donger

And you think that Bush arranged this war for the sole purpose of lining the pockets of these friends? Seriously?

There certainly is a lot more evidence for that than the laughable excuse of spreading of democracy.

Originally Posted by Donger

No, I think the most ME nations and people wouldn't know what to do with democracy if it were handed to them on a platter. I wonder why that is.

I said a "Western Style" Democracy. Democracy and the notion of freedom can be in different flavors suiting a countries history and cultural heritage. Democracy is ideal but cannot be brought aboard tanks and Hummers to a country in a region where we have politically abused historically. The trust is simply not there and will take time and not guns to grow.

[Frankie]

Originally Posted by patteeu

Yes, for good reason.

Could you elaborate on the reasons?

Originally Posted by patteeu

No, they didn't. If you heard something other than what they were saying, that's on you.