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He is already dictating in areas way beyond his job description that is found in Article II, US Constitution.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articleii.html

Rules for Radicals is his mantra. What a disappointment this guy is. I fell sorry for the 93% blacks who voted for their man. It will be 100 years before we have another black president, that's for sure.

It'll be four years before we get another black president.

AFTER MONTHS OF CONFUSION & SEARCHING -HERE YOU HAVE IT 912ERS -

NOW WE KNOW THE OBAMA PLAN http://www.jeremiahproject.com/trashingamerica/pr...

In Washington D.C. there is powerful and popular lobby called the Congressional Progressive Caucus which, at one time, openly espoused the principles of socialism and publicly signed onto the agenda of the Democratic Socialists of America.

According to their statement of purpose, "The Progressive Caucus is organized around the principles of social and economic justice. We support further cuts in outdated and unnecessary military spending, a more progressive tax system.

In more recent years, the Congressional Progressive Caucus has gone underground in respect to their connection to the DSA. Their roster is no longer published on the DSA website and they no longer publicly acknowledge their loyalty to the socialist organization. In the DSA document, "Electoral Politics As Tactic — Elections Statement 2000," it states: "DSA recognizes that some insurgent politicians representing labor, environmentalists, gays and lesbians, and communities of color may choose to run under Democratic auspices... and the 59 Democratic members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, one-half of whom are Black and Latino and all of whom possess strong labor backing and operative social democratic politics."

During the Democratic YouTube debate, when asked if Hillary was a liberal, she preferred to refer to herself as a "progressive".Make no mistake about it - Hillary Clinton is every bit a Socialist that her husband is. One has to only scan through a few of Clinton's policies in economic, spending, and tax strategy to see that sovereignty and personal freedoms are the items actually targeted for reduction.

We are told that we can have Socialist reform and still be a Democratic nation. Deceptive and misguided politicians in both the Republican and Democratic parties, and the International Bankers, tell us that Democratic-Socialism is in the middle of the road between Communism and Fascism, and that we need a Democratic-Socialist state in the 21st. Century with its global economies.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Socialist reform is a means to consolidate and control wealth. Why do you suppose that bankers and the super-rich promote it? Because the idea that socialism is a share-the-wealth program is strictly a confidence game to get the people to surrender their freedom to an all-powerful collective. As a result, through the legislative process, like sheep going to slaughter, Americans are willingly and slowly sacrificing their liberty in exchange for the false promises of an increasingly Socialist State. Collectivism is a term used to describe any moral, political, or social outlook, that stresses human interdependence and the importance of a collective, rather than the importance of separate individuals. Collectivists focus on community and society, and seek to give priority to group goals over individual goals. "Collectivism has found varying degrees of expression in the 20th century in such movements as socialism, communism, and fascism. The least collectivist of these is social democracy, which seeks to reduce the inequities of unrestrained capitalism by government regulation, redistribution of income, and varying degrees of planning and public ownership. In socialist systems collectivist economics are carried to their furthest extreme, with a minimum of private ownership and a maximum of planned economy." Simply put, socialism is defined as "a theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor." [Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)] It is an economic system based on state ownership of capital. It is the antithesis of what America is ... it is contrary to our capitalistic society. What socialism amounts to is government ownership and/or control over the basic means of production and distribution of services and goods.

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This means the government controls everything, including you. Socialists advocate controlled elections, controlled media, controlled education, the elimination of free speech, disarmament of the population, fiat money, a cartelized health-care system, military imperialism, and global government. Following the attack on 9/11, Socialists in our government gleefully began invading the privacy and exerting massive control on the movement and freedom of ALL Americans. Sadly, many American believed the lies. In Socialism everything is regulated by the government and everything you do is monitored by the government. While we may not have yet reached the point where the state tells you what color you can paint your house, how many children you may have, etc., instead the government tells you where you can build your homes, your businesses, and even how much food storage you are entitled too. In recent years, we've also witnessed the dismantling of the 5th Amendment as the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the govenment may seize a home, small business, or other private property of one citizen and transfer it to another private citizen - if the transfer would boost the community's economic development or increase its tax base. One of the biggest enemies to collectivists everywhere is the free flow of information. Totalitarians have always sought to control the media and use it to disseminate it's propaganda. The mainstream media in America is already owned and controlled by collectivists, but what's new for them is the flow of information over the Internet. Their real concern is not pornography or terrorism as they claim, but the free flow of information that exposes their agendas. America's gravitation toward socialism has been long-term as we have witnessed over the past 100 years an increasingly dramatic swing from capitalism to socialism in many areas of our economy.

* In 1913, the Federal Reserve was created in a coup d’état that resulted in rewriting the Constitution of the United States and left the American people with a progressively declining dollar. Today, thanks to the actions of this central bank, the American dollar is worth about 4 cents.

* America took large steps toward Socialism in 1929 following the Stock Market Crash, when America suddenly needed a "New Deal" in the form of social welfare.

* In 1968, Congress removes the silver backing of the dollar, and in 1971, President Nixon repudiates redemption of Federal Reserve Notes in gold, thus turning the FRNs into a fiat currency internationally for the first time.

* Consider for example the massive transfer of wealth from tobacco growers and cigarette manufacturers into state and federal coffers.

* In the pockets of the drug manufacturing cartel, representatives from both sides of the isle forced through a stealth vote, passing a Prescription Drug bill called, "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act" that essentially guaranteed huge profits for Big Pharma at the expense of the American people.

A key point of this bill prohibits the Federal government from negotiating discounts with drug companies. This Medicare drug plan fiasco enriches pharmaceutical companies, fleeces taxpayers, and forces millions of older Americans to accept inferior drug coverage. Many representatives who voted in favor of this drug scam were later offered million dollar jobs from the pharmaceutical industry.

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This means the government controls everything, including you. Socialists advocate controlled elections, controlled media, controlled education, the elimination of free speech, disarmament of the population, fiat money, a cartelized health-care system, military imperialism, and global government. Following the attack on 9/11, Socialists in our government gleefully began invading the privacy and exerting massive control on the movement and freedom of ALL Americans. Sadly, many American believed the lies. In Socialism everything is regulated by the government and everything you do is monitored by the government. While we may not have yet reached the point where the state tells you what color you can paint your house, how many children you may have, etc., instead the government tells you where you can build your homes, your businesses, and even how much food storage you are entitled too. In recent years, we've also witnessed the dismantling of the 5th Amendment as the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the govenment may seize a home, small business, or other private property of one citizen and transfer it to another private citizen - if the transfer would boost the community's economic development or increase its tax base. One of the biggest enemies to collectivists everywhere is the free flow of information. Totalitarians have always sought to control the media and use it to disseminate it's propaganda. The mainstream media in America is already owned and controlled by collectivists, but what's new for them is the flow of information over the Internet. Their real concern is not pornography or terrorism as they claim, but the free flow of information that exposes their agendas. America's gravitation toward socialism has been long-term as we have witnessed over the past 100 years an increasingly dramatic swing from capitalism to socialism in many areas of our economy.

* In 1913, the Federal Reserve was created in a coup d’état that resulted in rewriting the Constitution of the United States and left the American people with a progressively declining dollar. Today, thanks to the actions of this central bank, the American dollar is worth about 4 cents.

* America took large steps toward Socialism in 1929 following the Stock Market Crash, when America suddenly needed a "New Deal" in the form of social welfare.

* In 1968, Congress removes the silver backing of the dollar, and in 1971, President Nixon repudiates redemption of Federal Reserve Notes in gold, thus turning the FRNs into a fiat currency internationally for the first time.

* Consider for example the massive transfer of wealth from tobacco growers and cigarette manufacturers into state and federal coffers.

* In the pockets of the drug manufacturing cartel, representatives from both sides of the isle forced through a stealth vote, passing a Prescription Drug bill called, "Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act" that essentially guaranteed huge profits for Big Pharma at the expense of the American people.

A key point of this bill prohibits the Federal government from negotiating discounts with drug companies. This Medicare drug plan fiasco enriches pharmaceutical companies, fleeces taxpayers, and forces millions of older Americans to accept inferior drug coverage. Many representatives who voted in favor of this drug scam were later offered million dollar jobs from the pharmaceutical industry.

NOW YOU KNOW WHO THE ENEMY IS - HOW CAN WE STOP IT???

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* In 2008, the Bush administration, along with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and U.S. Treasury Secretary Paulson launched their attack on the free market system in America with their socialist takeover of the financial systems. The so-called Paulson Plan transfers $700 billion or more of taxpayer money into the hands of international bankers. Further, the U.S. Federal government forced the nations largest banks to sell an equity stake in their businesses to the government. Make no mistake about it… this economic crisis was planned by the same International bankers that have planned previous economic crisis that brought about a central bank and unconstitutional taxes in the U.S.

Economist Milton Friedman recently observed that "in 1950, total government spending, federal, state, and local, amounted to less than 30 percent of national income; in 1992, to nearly 45. In addition, government-mandated expenditures by individuals and businesses have multiplied manifold ... The U.S. is today more than half socialist, compared to perhaps a third in 1950." [Rush Limbaugh, See, I Told You So, pg. 267.]

The rate of the transformation has been increased in recent years by the United Nations, whose entire purpose is to implement a Socialist New World Order. We have crossed Bill Clinton's "Bridge into the 21st Century" built on the crumbled moorings of the past. It is the same bridge built by the "New Deal" of FDR and the "Great Society" of LBJ. These bridges led us in the past to the abyss of unprecedented big government. Our American toll was a loss of freedom and dignity, and our destination decades of encroaching bureaucracy and generations addicted to the hand of government.

There are the social and political voices talking about the unfair distribution of wealth and resources - that a global system of sharing and redistribution could remedy the social problems of cross-national envy, and that if this were addressed, a major component of international strife and war would be removed forever.

Traditionally, Democrats have stood for big government, far-reaching federally controlled and federally funded programs and taxation at levels to match, and Barack Obama promises the same. He called for Americans to "spread the wealth around" in his socialist vision for America.

Originally created to defend and protect, our government is now being asked to provide. In short, many Americans today think the government must be the answer to all societal problems. And as the problems grow, so must the government.

In the simplest of terms, Socialists at every level of government are calling for the federal government takeover of the management of American business, health care, education and the American family. They envision much more than mere renewal or reform; they want to create an entirely new society controlled by a massive Socialist government.

KNOW YOU KNOW 912ERS WHO YOUR ENEMY IS - HOW CAN WE STOP IT???

We can't get rid of Obama in 2010 but we can rid the country of the liberal, "progressive" Congressmen that are supporting what he is doing with their votes. What we need is a "target" campaign. I know Barney Frank has to run. Who else? Do you know?

The U.S.A. has a Usurper Socialist Dictator.

Check these out and tell me It's the way to go,,,,,

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124528373595925623.html#mod=rss_opinion_main

http://spectator.org/blog/2009/06/18/liberals-push-panic-button-on

Also Sandra,,did you go to numbers usa and click on the congress banner and follow it to electable candidates.It shows all upcoming elections throughout the country.

Democracy:

A government of the masses.

Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.

Results in mobocracy.

Attitude toward property is comunistic-negating property rights.

Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate. whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.

Results in demagogism license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

Democracy is the "direct" rule of the people and has been repeatedly tried without success.

A certain Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler, nearly two centuries ago, had this to say about Democracy: " A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of public treasury. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a Dictatorship."

A democracy is majority rule and is destructive of liberty because there is no law to prevent the majority from trampling on individual rights. Whatever the majority says goes! A lynch mob is an example of pure democracy in action. There is only one dissenting vote, and that is cast by the person at the end of the rope.

Republic:

Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.

Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure.

Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.

A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.

Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.

Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.

A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of:

an executive and

a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create

a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their governmental acts and to recognize

certain inherent individual rights.

Take away any one or more of those four elements and you are drifting into autocracy. Add one or more to those four elements and you are drifting into democracy.

Our Constitutional fathers, familiar with the strength and weakness of both autocracy and democracy, with fixed principles definitely in mind, defined a representative republican form of government. They "made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had founded a republic."

A republic is a government of law under a Constitution. The Constitution holds the government in check and prevents the majority (acting through their government) from violating the rights of the individual. Under this system of government a lynch mob is illegal. The suspected criminal cannot be denied his right to a fair trial even if a majority of the citizenry demands otherwise.

Difference between Democracy and Republic, in brief:

Democracy:

a: government by the people; especially : rule of the majority.

b: a government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.

Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences

Republic

a: a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government.

b: a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law.

Democracy and Republic are often taken as one of the same thing, but there is a fundamental difference. Whilst in both cases the government is elected by the people, in Democracy the majority rules according to their whims, whilst in the Republic the Government rule according to law. This law is framed in the Constitution to limit the power of Government and ensuring some rights and protection to Minorities and individuals.

The difference between Republic and Righteous Republic is that in the Republic the Government rules according to the law set up by men, in the Righteous Republic the law is the Law of God. Only in the Righteous Republic it can truly be said "One nation under God" for it is governed under commandments of the only One True God and there is no pluralism of religions.

Autocracy declares the divine right of kings; its authority can not be questioned; its powers are arbitrarily or unjustly administered.

Mobocracy: 1. Political control by a mob. 2. The mass of common people as the source of political control.

We have a dictator? Did DICK Cheney find his way back to the "secret location"?

DICK Cheney and all the other "Republicans" did exactly that to the country. REPUBLICANS are totally UNAMERICAN and should ALL BE SENT TO GITMO!

HEY DIDN'T HEAR BUSH & CHENEY ARE NOT IN THE WHITE HOUSE ANY MORE - GET OVER IT!! YOU HAVE NO ONE TO BASH BUT BO AND HIS POLICIES WHICH ARE NOT WORKING & ARE BANKRUPTING AMERICA. GOOD JOB BO FOR YOUR lst 5 MONTHS!!! YOUR AN USURPER ON TOP OF IT. JUST THINK WHAT THE HISTORY BOOKS ARE GOING TO SAY ABOUT BO THE 1ST SOCIALIST PRESIDENT IN THE U.S. AND LETS HOPE THE LAST.

Nice try at revisionist history, just like the Nazis used to do (not that I am comparing Republicans to Nazis, everyone with brain knows they are). The fact is the bailouts started under George Bush in September 2008, BEFORE MR. OBAMA WAS PRESIDENT!!!! God, read a newspaper or a book sometime, OK?

sandra.havens AND ALL AMERICANS:

Currently, Democrats have large majorities in both the U.S. House of Representatives, 255 Democrats to 178 Republicans with two vacancies, and the U.S. Senate, 56-41 with two Independents and one seat undecided. All 435 U.S. House of Representatives members of Congress will be up for re-election in November 2010. At risk are the newest Democrats in former Republican seats, including Schauer and Peters of Michigan; Himes of Connecticut; McMahon, Maffei and Massa in New York; Kilpatrick in Arizona; Minnick in Idaho; Titus in Nevada; Everett and Rogers in Alabama; Kosmos and Grayson in Florida; and Kratovil in Maryland. In 2010, 35 seats in the U.S. Senate will be up for grabs, due to expiring terms or retirements. The party breakdown in the Senate is 19 Republicans and 16 Democrats seeking re-election or retiring, and at least two senators replacing Vice President Joe Biden of Delaware and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of New York.

An easy way to break up the DSA Democrat Majority in Congress is to RE ELECT NO ONE - AND IMPOSE OUR OWN TERM LIMITS - 2 TERMS AND YOUR OUT!! TO REDUCE CORRUPTION IN CONGRESS. With the Republican & Independents, be careful to ensure they do NOT promote nor support SOCIALIST policies & agenda i.e. Senator Snow & Collins voted with DSA Democrats to pass the Stimulus Bill. LOOK AT THERE VOTING RECORDS. IF ANY OF THEM VOTED FOR THE OUTRAGEOUS BAIL OUT BILL, DEBACLE STIMULUS BILL, BOONDOGGLE OMNIBUS BILL, BUDGET BILL, SUPPORT THE CAP & TRADE AND SOCIALIST NATIONAL HEALTH CARE, DO NOT VOTE NOR RE ELECT THEM TO CONGRESS. THEY WERE NOT REPRESENTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND WENT AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'S OUT CRIES "NO" BAIL OUT, "NO" EAR MARKS & PORK, "NO" 850+ BILLION STIMULUS BILL, "NO" 405+ BILLION OMNIBUS BILL, "NO" CAP & TRADE, "NO" SOCIALIST NATIONAL HEALTH CARE, "NO" IRRESPONSIBLE, UNACCOUNTABLE, WASTEFUL,RECKLESS SPENDING IN CONGRESS!

Only 21% of the American voting public identify themselves as Republicans....way down from 47% when George Bush was in office and had control of both the Senate and the Congress...

Your logic is lacking john the polls are changing every day and who can really count on the polls being correct anyway? Oh and all Republicans are not Nazis, right? That's really bad sterotyping. As for the Bail Out, yea Bush is responsible for the lst half of the Bail Out. The 2nd half was on BO's watch, he could have listened the the American people screaming "NO BAIL OUTS" but he didn't and BO also voted for the Bail Out, remember? BO is also responsible for the debacle 850+ billion Stimulus Bill, the 450+ billion boondoggle Omnibus Bill, he wanted another 80 million to close GITMO, now he wants 1.7 trillion for Socialist National Health Care. In 4 months of BO the U.S.A. is in debt to China by over a trillion dollars and our national debt is over 12 trillion dollars. BO IS BANKRUPTING AMERICAN AND HE HAS ONLY BEEN IN OFFICE 5 MONTHS - WHAT DO YOU THINK THE DEBT WILL BE AFTER 4 1/2 YEARS?? I don't see how anyone could support BO with this kind of irresponsible, unaccountable, wasteful, reckless spending?