• Del.icio.us Links

    links for 2010-04-18

    • Nearly a year later, Mr. Obama has yet to set foot in an American mosque. And he still has not met with Muslim and Arab-American leaders. But less publicly, his administration has reached out to this politically isolated constituency in a sustained and widening effort that has left even skeptics surprised.

      Muslim and Arab-American advocates have participated in policy discussions and received briefings from top White House aides and other officials on health care legislation, foreign policy, the economy, immigration and national security. They have met privately with a senior White House adviser, Valerie Jarrett, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to discuss civil liberties concerns and counterterrorism strategy.

    • Writing on January 15, 2010, Glenn Greenwald at Salon noted Barack Obama’s new head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Cass Sunstein, had championed creating fake websites and using outside 501(c)(3) interest groups to act as alleged independent champions of government policy and to “cognitively infiltrate” opposition websites, etc.

      In other words, Cass Sunstein has favored the government using outside parties as government propaganda agents to paint their opposition as fringe and undermine their credibility. Kind of like what has been happening with the tea party movement – lots of SEIU members pretending to be tea party activists causing violence in front of TV cameras.
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      Very Plausible

  • Barack Obama,  Bill Clinton,  Day By Day,  Tea Party

    Day By Day April 18, 2010 – Divorce

    The Saul Alinsky organizing tactics are being used by the MSM and the LEFT to attack the Tea Party protests.

    Why?

    Because President Obama, the community organizer, and the congressional Democrats are poised to lose massively at the polls in November because of their FAILED policies.

    And, because they don’t have George W. Bush to kick around any more.

    The most laughable moment
    is the Democrats sending out Bill Clinton to compare the Tea Party folks with domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City terrorist bombings.

    Former President Bill Clinton warned Friday that the anger some members of the Tea Party movement express about higher taxes and the size of government could feed the same right-wing extremism that led to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, which killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.

    “Before the bombing occurred, there was a sort of fever in America,” Clinton said at a symposium commemorating the 15th anniversary of the bombing. “Meanwhile, the fabric of American life had been unraveling. More and more people who had a hard time figuring out where they fit in, it is true that we see some of that today.”