Reasonable Questions for Unreasonable Times - Day 2

Here are my notes from day 2. It's a closer look at the people in direct influence with Obama and his administration but it mainly focuses on the Czars.

Update from the first show: The White House called the show on the first day while it aired to tell them not to call the Czars, Czars. (I'm happy to know they're watching! I'll be curious to see if they try to ignore it and hope it goes away. It would be preferable if they would just answer the darn questions...) The White House also said that Van Jones was merely in charge of "job creation". (Hmmm...what kinds of jobs do communists create?)

During his presidential debates, Obama said to look at the people he associates himself with to get an idea of his belief system. At the time, he mentioned Warren Buffet, Paul Vogel, Joe Biden, Dick Luger, & General Jim Jones. Here we go, let's take his suggestion and take a look at the backgrounds of the people who he really surrounds himself with!

1. John Holdren - Science Czar - believes in forced abortions, has been quoted as saying "neither the declaration of independence nor the constitution declare the right to reproduce", referring to limits on children per household. (Please read the previous blog post to get many more shocking excerpts from his book regarding forced abortion, mandatory sterilization, and other radical forms of population control.)

2. Van Jones - Green Jobs Czar - admitted communist, founding member of STORM (see day 1) Here are a few quotes from Van Jones:In reference to a STORM 9/11 vigil: "The vigil was to be an expression of solidarity with Arab- & muslim-Americans & of mourning for the dead in New York and Washington, DC as well as the victims of US Imperialism around the world. The vigil, held in Oakland's Snow Park, drew hundreds (ooooh...hundreds) of people. There, STORM members articulated a strong, anti-imperialist line that resonated with everyday people there." (Sounds like someone who's very anti-American to me.)

"STORM developed & promoted a set of explicitly revolutionary ideas during a time when these politics were hard to find. While many people in our generation dismissed Marxism as inherently white & sectarian, we looked towards the revolutionary traditions of 3rd world communism & found valuable & inspiring models for revolutionary change."

"We found inspiration & guidance in the insurgent revolutionary strategies developed by 3rd world revolutionaries like Mao Tse-tung & Amilcar Cabral."

In short, there were nearly 20 million deaths from starvation in China under Tse-tung's reign during his "Great Leap Forward"...I am fascinated that anyone would be inspired by his reign and I plan to do some more research on Mao Tse-tung. I know absolutely nothing about the history of China, Taiwan, etc and would love to dig into it. I don't know much about Cabral except that he was a leader of the African Liberation Movement. Here's a quote from one of his seminars: "How is it that we, a people deprived of everything, living in dire straits, manage to wage our struggle and win successes? Our answer is this, because Lenin existed, because he fulfilled his duty as a man, a revolutionary, and a patriot. Lenin was, and continues to be, the greatest champion of the national liberation of the peoples." These two men were inspirational to Van Jones. The Van Jones who is now advising our president.

3. Cass Sunstein - Regulatory Czar - Proposed bans on hunting & eating meat. He would like to implement a Fairness Doctrine for the Internet (fairness doctrine will be explained in the next post). He also believes that dogs should have the right to an attorney. Enough said.

4. Carol Browner - Global Warming Czar - one of fourteen leaders on the Commission for a Sustainable World Society, a part of Socialist International, a group for global governing which says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change. (Are YOU for global governing? Has global warming been proven yet?)

5. Ezekial Emanual (Rahm's brother...Chicago cronyism, eh?) - Healthcare Advisor (AKA Death Czar) - a proponent of the complete lives system which puts values on lives based mostly on age.

6. Jeff Jones - Chairman of the Apollo Alliance in New York. (Remember that the AA has been given credit for helping to draw up the stimulus bill...which gave themselves $100 billion!) Harry Reid said on 2/17/09, in regards to the stimulus bill "This legislation is the 1st step in building a clean energy economy that creates jobs...The AA has been an important factor in helping us develop & execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals & in motivating the public to support them". (I have two questions for Harry...1, why is the 1st step in the stimulus bill to create a clean energy economy? 2, what does "motivating the public to support them" mean? Well, AA is a huge community organizer that combines the power of radicals, unions, and greenies.)

That's not the end for Jeff Jones. He also founded the Weather Underground with Bill Ayers. You may remember the Weather Underground as the terrorist organization that bombed dozens of federal buildings in the 70's. There was a lot of noise about Bill Ayers & Obama serving on a Chicago board (Woods fund of Chicago) together for 5 years and also living within blocks of each other (more Chicago Cronyism). Ayers said in 2001 "I don't regret setting bombs...I feel we didn't do enough". Ayers also donated to Obama's presidential election campaign. (This is another relationship I don't know much about...I need more time to research!)

Glenn Beck asked the White House if the president knew that Jeff Jones & Van Jones helped write the stimulus bill....they have yet to respond.

Jeff Jones was on the run for 10 years when he was finally caught in 1981 for his terrorist acts. Get this, he then became an advisor to environmental groups, labor organizations, and (even currently) the Governor of New York (Patterson) who placed him on a panel called the Energy & Environment Transition Commission!

Jeff is also an advisor for Workforce Development Institute in New York. What is that? It advises state governments & universities on how to get grants for stimulus money that he was instrumental in writing through the Apollo Alliance!!! Talk about a conflict of interest!

7. Rashid Kadidi - an anti-Israel radical and longtime Chicago friend of the Obama's who threw a fundraiser for his campaign. Obama's Woods Fund (the board he and Ayers served on...cronyism is my new favorite word) made grants totaling $75,000 to Kadidi's Arab American Action Network.

Again, who are these people and why is Obama surrounding himself with such radicals? Even Obama wrote in his book that in college he "sought out Marxist professors". He has yet to publicly reject Marxism.

Michigan Congressman, John Congressman is on video saying (in regards to the health care reform bill) "I love these members, they get up and say 'read the bill!' What good is reading the bill if it's 1,000 pages & you don't have 2 days & 2 lawyers to find out what it means?"

This is an obviously ridiculous thing for a congressman to say. We do expect them to read the bill and we do expect them to understand it. But Glenn Beck made a great point. His lack of concern for reading the bills shows that he trusts whomever put the bills together. Who is it that they are trusting? We need to know! We didn't vote for them!!!

Why are Obama's people NOT capitalist? It seems that Obama himself is anti-capitalist. Can someone ask Obama if he believes in Capitalism?

I'll close this blog with a June 2, 2009 quote from Venezuela's Hugo Chavez: "Hey, Obama has just nationalized nothing more & nothing less than General Motors. Comrade, Obama! Fidel, careful or we are going to end up to his right."

When the communist president of Venezuela makes a comment like that and when there are communists advising our president, is it "hateful" to start asking some serious questions?