Exclusive: Axelrod’s Mastery - Goebbels 2.0

Claude "Inky" Benson

Perhaps the most difficult aspect for people under 60 or 70 years old to comprehend about the rise of Nazi power in Germany is how the intelligent German people did not see it coming and allowed it to occur. It is difficult to comprehend the effects of sublimely effective propaganda when caught under its influence.
With that in mind, let’s be clear from the start—Barack Obama is not Adolph Hitler, has no “final solution” plan, evidences no intention whatsoever to run armies through neighboring countries in a totalitarian effort to establish the superior Aryan race throughout the world and so on. Any reference to the Nazi experience must be done only in the most delicate manner.

That being said, if Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s master propagandist, were alive today, the Barack Obama Show is precisely what he would produce for the current America.

Perhaps the Goebbels in this case is David Axelrod, Obama’s campaign manipulator. If so, Axelrod and his Chicago political machine, seemingly far more devious than Karl Rove has ever been, has done more to con the American people than any other director of political phenomenon in American history. Assuming, as done here, that he is the puppeteer, Axelrod is wagging not just the dog but the entire kennel.

Goebbels had his work cut out for him. He had to sculpt a hero figure out of a pathetic, humorless, genocidal, unsightly failed soldier and convict with limited intelligence and even more limited emotional range... Obama, on the other hand, offered Axelrod and crew quite a different and more workable set of raw material—good looks, style, demeanor, emotional control and range, acting talent, educational resume, and, as he confesses, the self-developed ability to not scare whites, and, to be sure, nothing that resembles Adolph Hitler. Nonetheless, the national idol Axelrod has sold America far exceeds the credentials Obama actually brings to the table.

Goebbels today would not work to establish the traditional styles and emblems of power display—forcing the masses to outwardly show signs of submission through a unique salute, lineup, or goose-stepping walk. True, one could comedically stretch to compare the Sieg Heil with the fist bump, the “Heil Hitler” chant with “O-BAM-A” and “Yes We Can” mania but these are secondary tools. Axelrod is looking for something far more demonic—the hypnotic internal submission to tautological concepts which can never be contested or challenged. “CHANGE” and “HOPE” are universally potent when they subliminally refer to whatever each of us does not like and wants changed. Many Nazis followed Hitler out of fear of the consequences of not following. Many Obamites are in because they have fallen under the spell.

Goebbels made famous the utility of the Big Lie. If a lie was big enough and told often enough, people would more easily accept it and themselves make it stick. Axelrod has made Obama’s entire history a Big Lie. Much of Obama’s biography, record, goals and intentions has been staged and structured to fit our wishes rather than our scrutiny. Axelrod has kept much of his history from his birth certificate, his true background, the funding possibly from the likes of an advisor to Saudi Prince Awaleed bin Tal for his Columbia and Harvard education, what he wrote at Harvard and elsewhere to his deep relationships with radical revolutionary Saul Alinsky, ACORN, Raila Odinga’s campaign, and others hidden from true independent clarification. As Buck Revell, former Associate Deputy Director of the FBI in charge of all FBI operations before his retirement in 1994, has stated, the Obama Axelrod has created could not survive a background check for employment with the FBI.

Once the Big Lie is asserted, it is wisest to leave it alone and allow it to speak for itself. How often have we heard that Obama is The One to work with everyone while his history shows no significant case of “crossing the aisle” or “working together to find common ground” whatsoever? How many has he convinced that he is a tax cutter when his record evidences the grandest of tax impulses? What real experience, executive or otherwise, does he have relevant to the Presidency? And compared to Sarah Palin?

We need not focus here on all the ways in which Axelrod has sold a fictional character “Obama” to the American public. Who writes their memoirs before entering the Illinois Senate except one with long term designs on the presidency? Like Hitler, whose Mein Kampf was written early to establish a written record for what could be shorthanded later, Obama has his name on what he wants us to know and think so that his subsequent references to that material seem based on already established fact. By putting his “story” out there first - as opposed to most candidates whose public tale is woven over time through a long string of media investigation, discovery, and explanation - Axelrod has been able to direct the focus and pre-empt the challenges from the media and others. His books framed for the public what he wanted it to know about Obama’s family, religion and religious training, education, and so on.

This internal submission is sealed in large part with the glue of “white guilt.” White guilt has been, perhaps, the nation’s most dominant drive. It has brought about 50 years of
Great Society spending in the neighborhood of $7 trillion (almost all of our cumulative national debt prior to the Iraq War and the current credit crisis expenditures) in an effort to make defacto reparations for abuses to minorities and the poor. Regardless of this expenditure, white guilt creates the impression that “NOW IS THE TIME” for whites to start to make up for prior abuse.

Perhaps Axelrod’s most powerful use of white guilt has been to plant the notion that any resistance to Obama is a sign of racism. A white who fails to support Obama does so because of racism, not because he believes Obama is a far left radical, a fraud, a novice with no experience, a liar, one who will bring about the largest tax and spending increases in the nation’s history precisely at the wrong time, one who will eliminate all restrictions on abortion, or one of many other objections held by many. Rather, a surprise Obama loss will be deemed the result of the Bradley Effect where whites beef up polls out of fear of showing how racist they are—reverse racism calling the kettle black!

Goebbels was masterful at staging grandiose events. Axelrod has followed suit. Every Obama rally is elevated to “event” status while the Berlin and Denver spectacles have set records for American political theatre that would make Albert Speer smile. Axelrod has Obama’s teleprompters pitched high to make the character appear Messianic. Crowds are brought in (not unlike the techniques in Iran) to supply frenzy. The Berlin Sermon was inserted in between two previously booked rock concerts so the cameras could take advantage of an already assembled large and listening crowd, sprinkled with free beer, in order to convince Americans they must be missing out on something. Indeed, Axelrod has even figured out that charging money for tickets creates an even greater sense of “you don’t want to miss this” to add to the “phenomenon” narrative and Hollywood buzz that feeds so much of Axelrod’s target audience.

Goebbels' speeches, themselves, were works of art. They utilized some of the powerful persuasion tactics that had been developed at the time including, for instance, the “yes set.” Here the speaker, employing audience participation, shouts out a series of questions to which any audience would respond positively. Want abundance? Yes! Good jobs? Yes! Pride in your nation? Yes! Once the audience has joined in a rhythm of positive affirmation, it is easy to slip in the critical item the speaker wishes to be accepted: Eliminate the Jews? Yes!

Axelrod utilizes a full array of modernized mass hypnosis techniques in the speeches he gives Obama. To be clear, “hypnosis” here is not to be confused with getting a subject to quack like a duck against his will. Rather, it refers to techniques that facilitate the ability of the speaker to plant suggestions directly into the listener’s subconscious or unconscious mind (depending on the vocabulary used), bypassing conscious barriers. The more skilled, the more the direction is disguised and the greater likelihood the suggestions will be accepted and followed. Many of the techniques that are utilized in Obama oratory have been modeled from the prolific work of Dr. Milton Erickson (1901-1980) and articulated by a large number of his students.

A proper description and explanation of Ericksonian techniques must be left to the abundant literature on the subject. Suffice it to say that Axelrod and crew have Obama utilizing the full panoply of sleight of mouth techniques, including storytelling inductions, pacing and leading, embedded commands, verbal and physical anchoring, multiple meanings, linking statements and so on. The result is to help the listener into a state of trance to increase suggestibility while slipping suggestions by conscious screens. It is a premise of Ericksonian theory that we are all constantly moving into and out of different degrees of trance throughout our waking experience. His art and skill was to enhance such a state in simple conversational settings such that he could facilitate the “CHANGE” that his patients sought against their own resistances. It is not surprising that “CHANGE” should become the buzzword of the Axelrod production which utilizes such methods skillfully.

Many will have an objection to the notion that Obama followers are somehow led against their knowledge into supporting the Senator. Yet, the Obama “phenomenon” and the behavior of his subjects are often described precisely as a “spell”. Innocuous sounding phrases and concepts, when placed in the hands of a skilled communicator, become powerful tools.

The power of these techniques is to induce belief not by convincing the listener through winning argument but by instructing the listener’s unconscious to accept the belief and to feel as if he decided rationally for himself. Ideas such as “McCain is Bush” can be easily refuted with facts. When stated repeatedly in a wide variety of trance-induced situations, however, it becomes an equivalence that a suggestible listener takes as his own, in complete denial of facts as they are, and with the attached feelings of disgust for Bush transferred over to McCain. Concepts such as “FAIRNESS” and “CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN”, when craftily positioned, mean what the listener supplies unconsciously to the words. The “stickiness” of these internally cemented beliefs is as difficult to break as that from the powerful cult leaders of the past. In modern lingo, it is as potent as THE MATRIX itself.

These beliefs are implanted firmly by the feeling that Obama truly understands the listener—a high state of rapport. Rapport is established in a variety of ways, particularly by being able to cite for the listener the exact experience he is having at the time. Most of Obama’s speeches, as well as his conversational dialogue, commence with various references precisely to what the audience is feeling, seeing, hearing. Similarly, Obama’s frequent references to “time” aids in rapport building—“NOW IS THE TIME.” Obama’s ease and competence in delivering these moves tends to disguise that power that underlies them. His overwhelming display of confidence, itself, helps cement the process.

Once the “spell” takes hold, it is difficult for reason to break the listener free. Rather the listeners become, as members of the Obama campaign have reputedly described for their own purposes, “sticky voters;” incapable of changing their minds regardless of whatever is presented to them.

And Obama did not hide his confidence in his persuasion talents in Newsweek (9/11/06). “I feel confident that if you put me in a room with anybody—black, white, Hispanic, Republican, Democrat—give me half an hour and I will walk out with the votes of most of the folks…” says it all.

Axelrod has attempted to have Obama mirror various popular figures, most particularly, JFK—picking up on a move Bill Clinton started. The Obama character uses not just words but postures, vocal intonations, expressions, and hand movements to communicate beneath the listener’s radar. Connecting a gesture to one set of words and ideas—anchoring—enables Obama to subsequently bring back the gesture with another set of thoughts that he wants to sell. Perhaps Hollywood could learn a thing or two from the Axelrod acting method.

Language, itself, is the tool of the successful propagandist. Axelrod’s overt use of campaign lingos- “CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN” is but one example. Yet, there is an even deeper level where new language uses are injected into the political forum to start having the media and populace practice what will allow them to easily accept in the future. We now hear of references to “ECONOMIC RIGHTS,” for example, as a precursor of the socialist takings that will likely follow an Obama victory. “GAME-CHANGER” was another subtle introduction Axelrod unleashed to encourage listeners to agree that Obama was able to change the momentum. Just as Obama would say “WHEN I AM President” while all other candidates were saying “If I am elected President,” he is careful to constantly paint and “future tense” the picture for the listener exactly the way he wants it to turn out.

Obama is a master of the power of incongruence—saying one thing while demonstrating the opposite. He pleads for an end to “divisiveness” while turning George Bush and anyone who can be deemed to follow him into Satan himself. His demeanor says ‘I am a peaceful man interested in bringing everyone together to find a successful middle ground” while all of his actions demonstrate he will not cooperate with anything other than the most extreme liberals. His management style is to appear to take into account a wide variety of opinions while his history demonstrates radical inflexibility to anything not radical. This incongruence allows his followers to latch onto that side that is easiest for them to accept while ignoring the other.

Axelrod’s policy explanations employ one of Goebbels’ most powerful tools—responsibility displacement. Blame for Germany’s pre-Nazi economic woes were transferred to “the Jews.” While Jesse Jackson and Reverend Wright and others close to Obama would likely agree it is still “the Jews,” Axelrod has made George Bush, the Republican Congress, greedy corporations and CEOs the target of complete responsibility. The Democratic Congress of today is immune in Axelrod talking points; as are the Clinton policies related to expanded home ownership, avoiding confrontation with Al Qaeda, a recession handed to Bush and so forth. For Axelrod, who sells Obama as one capable of realizing the multi-determined nature of things and sophisticated enough to assess highly nuanced viewpoints, only the most simplistic and emotionally primitive means of describing a black and white world are utilized.

In this regard, Axelrod has successfully distracted his audience like a master magician. Once the audience has bought this sleight whereby all blame lies with the other, Obama is able to sneak by all that should trigger fear and anger—his troubling associations, his plans to bring about a panoply of new taxes, curbs on free speech and the second amendment, the socialized programs which will turn our credit difficulties into a full blown economic crisis. He also often starts an argument down one road but then uses completely inappropriate evidence to prove it. His style and confidence so command his listeners' attention that they usually miss the false evidence or logic. He will use a phrase such as “AS I’VE SAID BEFORE…” when he has said quite the opposite before. One of the oldest tricks he employs—buying loyalty by naming your grievance and promising to eliminate it—is still suckering the multitudes. Even John McCain had to ask the audience in their last debate to listen closely to Obama’s words rather than to fall prey to his eloquence.

Temperament has become a major emblem for American liberals as they have convinced themselves that the country’s problems are the result of the cowboy bluster of Bush. Axelrod, early on, scared the McCain campaign that McCain’s supposed wild temper would be tested. (McCain, to the dismay of many of his supporters who have longed to see him get tough, seemed to do all he could to hide any display of anger thereafter). Axelrod figured out early that Obama’s best shot required him to perfect the ability to remain cool and calm at all expense. This would subliminally persuade his audience that he is best able to convince the world that America really is “good."

Goebbels used Leni Riefenstahl to piece together Nazi propaganda films. Axelrod has, and to an unprecedented extent, wrapped the liberal mainstream media around his finger; using it to convey the appropriate Grand Emperor-New Messiah imagery Obama has commanded. The entire television and print media world, with the possible exception of some Fox News shows, has become unabashedly aligned with (and virtually a member of) Axelrod’s campaign. On all levels of communication, from question structuring and choice of topics down to gestures and intonations, media personalities generally have difficult times disguising their individual preferences for Obama and most appear to be overwhelmingly concerned about how their careers would be otherwise jeopardized if they did not fall in line.

The media also has helped implant politically charged opinions as truths. Notions such as that the Iraq War was a mistake, sold on the basis of lies, and has been a disaster, Bush refuses to utilize diplomacy, Iran is simply misunderstood and wants “peace” as we do, and so on become premises for other statements (a common Ericksonian device when used intentionally) rather than offered up for serious debate. Similarly, the counter themes are intentionally missing from significant coverage such as how much safer Iraq has become since the “Surge,” how many true diplomatic efforts the Bush Administration has undertaken, etc. Axelrod has been able to convince otherwise intelligent media voices to ingest and regurgitate fabrications and distortions without any urge to validate, challenge, or refute. That only comes from the intense inner submission Axelrod has been able to generate on a mass scale. Only a few talk radio voices have been spared to present an alternative point of view. Axelrod through Obama will most likely promote the Pelosi plan to bring back the Fairness Doctrine to silence talk radio once they have secured the presidency.

And the media is not the only realm that has taken to appeasing the rising power. As various formerly opposing political figures switch positions and line up behind Obama, a common joke is made about how that figure is seeking a certain position in the new administration or attempting to insure he or she will be invited to the White House. The joke, for many who tell it, however, evidences a deep knowing that something powerful is surfacing. Many attempt to preserve favor with the Axelrod-Obama pack by pre-emptively co-operating and demonstrating allegiance out of a deeper fear of what might happen if they don’t. Unfortunately, one of the greatest lessons of the Goebbels era was that appeasement brings about the very consequence it seeks to avoid.

Goebbels used every maneuver legally available to obtain the votes he needed to originally secure power. Axelrod had Obama spend his primary campaign immersed in general “fluff” verbiage that captured the imagination of the young and those fascinated with the idea of a black president. He secured the nomination, however, by the tricks of the trade. Just as Obama had shafted all of his competition when he ran for the Illinois State Senate by having his former mentor’s (Alice Palmer) petition names challenged and disqualified, he shrewdly campaigned in the caucuses for the backup votes that became available when other candidates failed to obtain the minimum votes to stay in. With so many failing candidates such as Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Dennis Kucinich, etc. there were plenty of second round votes to gobble up; and gobble he did. Enough so that he was able to withstand the Hillary Clinton late surge that surfaced much of Obama’s clay feet.

Goebbels had his “Hitler Youth” and “Brown Shirts,” assistance in large part by civilian youth groups educated and maneuvered to spread the ideology, humiliate those who resisted, and increasingly engage in difficult to control violent youthful activities. Axelrod has assembled his own army of youths in record numbers to assist the campaign, register new voters, swarm citizens and spread the gospel. Rallies are the new form of get-together. Axelrod knows all too well cognitive dissonance theory and “progressive involvement”- that if one can get a subject to take a minimal action in his favor and under his direction, it becomes significantly easier to lock up that subject’s vote. And his political machine has created a wide variety of new activities to get the supporters committed—particularly the young.

And Axelrod added a true coup de gras—charging for attendance at the key Obama events. Besides defraying the costs of the event, the charge for tickets creates the sense of a “must have” ticket, playing particularly on the emotions of the coveted young audience target group. If others are paying, it must be worth it.

While Obama now downplays his connections with ACORN, he battled the primary season by making the unaware public believe that “community organizing” is the same as providing charitable services to the most needy. As the public is just now starting to understand that “community organizing” is a radical political activity developed by Saul Alinsky who served as a guide for Obama, Obama is backing away from associations with ACORN despite having, according to the Wall Street Journal, headed a registration effort for ACORN’s Project Vote in 1992, worked as a top trainer for Acorn’s conferences, and worked as ACORN’s lawyer in a case upholding the critical Motor Voter Act. The Axelrod campaign organization has also directed over $800,000 to ACORN’s umbrella organization Citizen’s Consulting Inc. Not unlike the Hitler Youth, ACORN nationally strong-arms the electorate in blatant violation of the intent, if not the actual letter of, our election laws.

Bullying is perhaps the word of choice for what Axelrod has assembled, whether or not ordered by central command. Like all central cult figures, Axelrod has kept Obama at a distance from the ruthless tactics employed by those charged with growing the cult itself. When Obama’s connections with questionable figures such as Bill Ayers, Tony Rezko, Reverend Wright, Father Phleger, and so forth are exposed, Obama responds these are not the same people he knew. And the press, even when it wakes up out of its own trance enough to raise a question, rushes to accept the second response no matter how absurd. The power of his trance is that followers, like all invested cult members, become more fearful of waking up from their programming than they are of being increasingly led more deeply. The more activities taken, the more they defend their beliefs.

When voices speak out against Obama, they are swarmed and attacked. Stanley Kurtz researched Obama’s history with Bill Ayers and has had his home picketed as a result. “Joe the Plumber” raised a question about Obama’s “share the wealth” philosophy and was immediately confronted with a blitzkrieg from the media storm troopers. (If only Obama were capable of showing as much strength and willingness to fight America’s real enemies…). Anyone else who dares speak out against Obama is immediately badgered by a multitude of stand-ins screaming “racism” or “Islamophobia” or “warmonger.” Computer hacking of Sarah Palin and the Ohio Motor Vehicles Bureau are just a few of the cyber activities that have been publicized to date. It does not matter whether the Obama campaign has anything to do with the various incidents; what matters is the depth of cult-like behavior on the part of entranced.

Axelrod’s squadrons are not limited by our borders but seem to extend worldwide. Recently Jerome Corsi was temporarily jailed in Kenya while attempting to research Obama’s support of Raila Odinga. Obama has actively inserted himself, allegedly by appearing for and raising money for, into Odinga’s efforts to extend an Islamist agenda into Kenya. Corsi met the equivalent SS guards while investigating Obama’s connection.

And Obama has apparently called for the creation of a civilian national security force which is to be staffed as large as the existing military. These plans have beneficent sounding aims to fit the expanded requirements of security today, including aiding the homeless, education assistance, public health outreach and so forth. It can not be deemed, as described, some kind of secret military force. Nonetheless, assembling the many is the food of all community organizers; once amassed, these forces become useful for a wide variety of purposes. And police state accusations have already started to emerge. Missouri legal officials have threatened citizens with libel prosecutions for making false statements about Obama—creating the impression of “truth squads.” In Texas, one woman claims a campaign worker had the Secret Service visit her on complaint that she had uttered derogatory remarks about the candidate. Left wing bloggers have formed their own police Brown Shirt universe.

A major point of propaganda employed by Goebells was to accuse an enemy of exactly what he was contemplating or engaged in doing. Hitler burned down the Reichstag to facilitate his own power grab and blamed it on the “Jews” and communists. Axelrod’s propaganda is no different. His attacks on “divisiveness” are indications of the extreme level of hostility hidden in his class warfare policies beneath the cool exterior. Having whined throughout the primary campaign about the horrors of negative campaigning, Axelrod unleashed one of the most deviously negative onslaughts upon McCain; lying, distorting, misdirecting and outright humiliating his opponent while having Obama retain his “above the fray” “I’m just the same simple fair great man I’ve always been” demeanor. “A HOUSE DIVIDED CAN NOT STAND” sounds as if Obama is pleading for us all to come together. It has other meanings, however, for the mesmerized devotees: “Since we are divided we must tear it down!” and “I will do all I need to bring those opposing me in line!”

Also paradoxically, Axelrod’s attacks on the greed inherent in a capitalistic society in his case evidence his deep greedy desire to take away from those who earn and deliver to those who adore Obama - as well as his own singular goal to grab power for himself. Blaming the financial crisis on Old Standby Bush without any recognition of the necessary and sufficient cause of democratic regulation to force questionable loans demonstrates Obama’s own inability to accept responsibility. Obama’s soft use of “just trying to give folks a little more ‘FAIRNESS’” displays his unfair desire to secure reparations for what he deems has been a slew of injustices. Some call him a “socialist,” others a “Marxist;” what is clear is that Axelrod has employed the tools of all of them before him.

Nor is Axelrod’s word worth much. Just as Hitler unilaterally broke his deal with Chamberlain for “Peace in our Time,” so did Axelrod and Obama refuse to honor Obama’s agreement with McCain to accept public campaign financing. Perhaps McCain should have learned from Obama’s prior reneging on his commitment to work with McCain on ethics reform legislation. Watching Obama constantly change his description of his relationships with Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, and Reverend Wright should have been evidence enough of Axelrod’s strained relationship with the truth itself. Yet, an Obama devotee is likely to believe that only George Bush is capable of lies.

The underlying ideology Goebbels sought to sell was one of world domination; stirring German national pride. Likewise, Axelrod has had Obama hint at his own global vision to arouse a similar global pride in many of his young and “intellectual” and “elite” followers. To paraphrase David Brooks, Obama, unlike McCain, seems to lack any real tethering to anything specifically American. A one-world unified vision lies in the background of much of Obama’s magnanimous oratory. Too smart to divulge any coherent description (as much of the country could not consciously accept such an approach), Obama occasionally touches upon his dream to address global poverty and disease. The current financial crisis is causing various central bankers to press for a more unified international financial system. Louis Farrakhan, leader of The Nation of Islam, called Obama “the instrument to bring about universal CHANGE.”

Obama has called himself a “CITIZEN OF THE WORLD,” a phrase which carries many powerful political suggestions to those who can hear—America is wrong, misguided, in decline and borders on evil, all of us (countries and individuals) worldwide are equal, sharing the wealth is to be a global activity, approval from other nations is the primary measure of value and so forth. It is an anti-nationalist ethos that forfeits up front all that makes America exceptional and subtly, if not explicitly, attempts to weaken American culture. It is not just lines such as “WE’RE GOING TO CHANGE THE COUNTRY AND CHANGE THE WORLD" that expose the extent of his grandiose aspirations.

Just as Goebbels used the tools of democracy to destroy democracy, some of Obama’s followers’ activities at least border on abuse of our freedoms, even if legal. Voter registration fraud seemingly has been engaged in droves. Obama has received undisclosed amounts of campaign financing from foreign sources, capitalizing upon the lack of disclosure requirements for small lot contributions. He supports abolishing secret ballots in union elections, re-arming his union leader buddies with the tools they need. Just as Goebbels ordered massive book burning, our free speech is at risk. Obama has challenged cable company airings of certain unfavorable material and has unleashed assault squads to hammer radio and television stations whenever unfavorable opinions are voiced. Axelrod has cancelled interviews with an Orlando television station when it was dissatisfied with questions asked. Obama will certainly join the Pelosi-Reid post-election attempt to bring back the Fairness Doctrine in a transparent effort to silence opposing opinions for good. Recent claims have been made that Obama campaign contributions have been charged to credit cards of holders who do not even support Obama. Some claim that when they complain to the Axelrod machinery, they are actually encouraged to keep the charge. Operating with the efficiency of Rommel’s desert forces, the Axelrod’s battalions monitor the media and the blogosphere better than any fantasy Bush-Cheney NSA and are able to immediately supply a sharp response.

Goebbels knew that taking away freedoms must be done in slow stages. Just as a frog will remain in slowly heated water until it is boiled to death, many entranced in Goebbels’ Germany remained immersed in the illusion that a serious transition could not possibly take place. Axelrod has also carefully managed his task in stages so that the incremental abuse and fabrication is easily digested.

Just as a Big Lie sells, so does a Massive Fraud escape the possibility of prompt efficient challenge and remedy. Reports have been made of clearly fraudulent voter registrations but little has been done to cure the abuses. Axelrod has declined to have Obama repudiate the activities of ACORN. (Instead, what emerges is the limited admission by some fraudulent registrants to create the impression that the problem is of manageable size). Voter registration games progress to acceptable voter misconduct, to shutting down access to relevant background information, to what will become a radically liberal agenda that can potentially reconstruct our entire society and legal system. No substantial objections are mounted as the public expects existing regulations to protect it. More significantly, even if violations such as substantial voter fraud are proven, there are no real remedies available under the law that could bring back a stolen election. This election will not be a matter of hanging chads that can be resubmitted for scoring. False votes can not be reversed. Too many states refuse to require any form of voter identification. Election law today is a pure partisan issue and Democrats will never allow states to create legislation that will deprive them of the advantages they have secured for themselves.

The most sinister Big Lie in Obama’s case concerns the fact that Axelrod’s true agenda is a revolution; not the orderly evolutionary CHANGE we are used to seeing occur within the constructs and constraints of our democratic institutions. Vladimir Lenin, as paraphrased by Yashiko Sagamori, opined that a revolution is typically preceded by the conditions in which those on top are unable to maintain and those on the bottom are unwilling to maintain the current order of our society. These are the conditions of today’s America as those “on top” are increasingly unable to enforce the most basic laws that hold our system together - covering border protection, financial integrity, drugs, terror to name a few - while those on the bottom are increasingly unwilling to cooperate. Obama and Axelrod appear well armed and dangerously advanced to take advantage of an acquiescent populace.

The Obama Revolution is animated by simple class warfare. The language of “ECONOMIC JUSTICE” and “ECONOMIC RIGHTS” indicate precisely what he has in mind. It is not the destruction, per se, of a race as Goebbels sold. Rather, it is the destruction of an entire class. Obama’s associations with Ayers, Wright, and others are accepted by those under his spell as mere acquaintances that should not be relevant in any assessment of the man. A common hypnosis phenomenon is to make the subject blind to objects right in front of him. Another is to make a subject see and feel something not there—as with an amputee experiencing himself regaining a missing limb. The complete hypnotic fabrication of Obama is turning over to him the keys to the entire Western system “right before our eyes!”

As Goebbels demonstrated, once power has been taken, the means are no longer relevant. Once in full power, Goebells and his associates insured that full power was secured for the future. Again, Obama is not Hitler nor like him in any significant fashion whatsoever; but armed with a Democrat Congress, an Obama presidency will certainly act quickly to secure itself for years to come—through redistricting efforts, directing spending to Hispanic and other growing populations to build loyalty, and further working with election laws to their partisan favor to mention only the obvious. Just as the Clinton Administration’s first legislation was the Motor Voter Act which is responsible for some of the alleged voter fraud acts today, there is no question that an Obama Administration will tighten its legal grip on the electorate immediately. Also, as the government increasingly intervenes into private business to address the current credit crisis, it is unlikely that an Obama administration will retract or retreat from such involvement even if the markets are subsequently restored to order.

Those who bet that their “pre-emptive appeasement” secures a safe refuge have historically been disappointed. Many on the Right comfort themselves with the fantasy that if Obama wins, he will only last for one term. Such wishful thinking is similar to that which pervaded Germany in the thirties and elsewhere at other times. Once power is secured, any hidden real agenda will become easy to implement. “CHANGE” will certainly take place, whether or not it is the change which the voters truly desired. “YES WE CAN will easily mutate into “NO YOU WON’T.” The operative motto: Do what you can to get there; NOW IS THE TIME and no one can stop you. Once there, you become the “GAME-CHANGER.”

This is the genius behind the masters - Goebbels of then and Axelrod of NOW!

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Shocking New Revelation This is new information everyone should know. You will find verification links at the end of this shocking article. This has been flying under the radar. Read the MSNBC article and check the truthorfiction.Com site. The TruthOrFiction version is shown below. This event is factual. I have an increased respect for President Bush. He has taken the heat of being called a liar and a war monger for 5 years while he kept his silence to protect the people of the world. This is truly a display of selfless honor. On July 5, 2008, the Associated Press (AP) released a story titled: Secret U.S. Mission hauls uranium from Iraq . The opening paragraph is as follows: The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. Operation that included a two week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans. See anything wrong with this picture? We have been hearing from the far-left for more than five years how, Bush lied. Somehow, that slogan loses its credibility now that 550 metric tons of Saddam's yellowcake, used for nuclear weapon enrichment, has been discovered and shipped to Canada for its new use as nuclear energy. It appears that American troops found the 550 metric tons of uranium in 2003 after invading Iraq . They had to sit on this information and the uranium itself, for fear of terrorists attempting to steal it. It was guarded and kept safe by our military in a 23,000-acre site with large sand beams surrounding the site. This is vindication for the Bush administration, having been attacked mercilessly by the liberal media and the far-left pundits on the blogosphere. Now that it is proven that President Bush did not lie about Saddam's nuclear ambitions, one would think the mainstream media would report the story. Once the AP released the story, the mainstream media should have picked it up and broadcast it worldwide. This never happened, due in large part I believe, to the fact that the mainstream media would have to admit they were wrong about Bush's war motives all along. Thankfully, the AP got it right when it said, The removal of 550 metric tons of yellowcake the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. Closing the book on Saddam's nuclear legacy. Did Saddam have a nuclear legacy after all? I thought Bush lied. As it turns out, the people who lied were Joe Wilson and his wife. Valerie Plame engaged in a clear case of nepotism and convinced the CIA to send her husband on a fact finding mission in February 2002, seeking to determine if Saddam Hussein attempted to buy yellowcake from Niger . The CIA and British intelligence believed Saddam contacted Niger for that purpose but needed proof. During his trip to Niger , Wilson actually interviewed the former prime minister of Niger , Ibrahim Assane Mayaki. Mayaki told Wilson that in June of 1999, an Iraqi delegation expressed interest in 'expanding commercial relations' for the purposes of purchasing yellowcake. Wilson chose to overlook Mayaki's remarks and reported to the CIA that there was no evidence of Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake from Niger . However, with British intelligence insisting the claim was true, President Bush used that same claim in his State of the Union address in January of 2003. Outraged by Bush's insistence that the claim was true, Wilson wrote an op-Ed in the New York Times in the summer of 2003 slamming Bush. Wilson did this in spite of the fact that Mayaki said Saddam did try to buy the yellowcake from Niger . The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence disagreed with Wilson and supported Mayaki's claim. This meant nothing to Wilson who was opposed to the Iraq war and thus had ulterior motives in covering up the prime minister's statements. It was a simple tactic really. If the far-left and their friends in the media could prove Bush lied about Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake from Niger , it would undermine President Bush's credibility and give them more cause for asking what other lies he may have told. Yet, the real lie came from Wilson, who interpreted his own meaning from the prime minister's statements and concluded all by himself that the claim of Saddam attempting to purchase yellowcake was 'unequivocally wrong.' Curiously, the CIA sat on this information and did not inform the CIA Director, who sided with Bush on the yellowcake claim. This was made public in a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report in July 2004. Valerie Plame also engaged in her own lie campaign by spreading the notion that the Bush administration outed her as a CIA agent. Never mind that it was Richard Armitage -- no friend of the Bush administration -- who leaked Plame's identity to the press. Never mind that Plame had not been in the field as a CIA agent in some six years. The truth is, due to their opposition to the war, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, the mainstream media and their left-wing friends on the blogosphere engaged in a propaganda campaign to undermine the Bush administration. Now that Saddam's uranium has been made public and is no longer a threat to the world, do you think these aforementioned parties will apologize and admit they were wrong? Don't count on it. The rest of the American people should hear the truth about Saddam's uranium. It is up to you and me to inform them every chance we get. As far as the anti-war crowd is concerned, the next time they say that, 'Bush lied,' we should tell them to, 'Have the yellowcake and eat it too.' This story was verified, if you want to check it for yourself, click on the links below. http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/u/uraniumyellowcake.htm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334

Bumper sticker seen in Texas:

'I'll keep my freedom, my guns, and my money, you can keep 'THE CHANGE'.

Vote for McCain/Palin

A Plea from William P. ( Bill ) Lear, Jr.

Subject: Straight talk for Republicans and Democrats.

Most Americans are aware of Bill Lear, because of his Lear Jet business; however, he has accomplished much more, as you can see at this link: William P. Lear -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia . His opinions are worth a read:

A Humble Plea to McCain and Obama Supporters:



Dear friends,

I am truly astonished by the ignorance Obama supporters have displayed
in their quest to get someone - ANYONE - into the White House. Now, wait
a minute. I can well understand your dislike or even hatred of our
clown, GWB, but he is not the root cause of all of our problems. Our Congress
is. And a change there would be welcomed by all. You ain't gonna get
it done with Obama. You gotta fire the whole damnable crooked Congress.
(Read my book, "BERNIE'S WAR!").

Perhaps I'm looking at all of this from a different perspective than you
because my life experiences have been so different from yours. I'm
80-years old and have traveled the world where I've seen a great deal.
I spent five years on active duty as a fighter pilot in the USAF and
another seven years flying with the Air National Guard in California and Texas
as well as a few years flying in the USAF Reserve. I spent three years on
active duty in Germany flying Czech border patrol with "cold guns" in
aircraft inferior to the MIG during the Korean "Police Action" when it
was thought that Korea was a diversion for a Soviet invasion of Western
Europe .

I lived abroad for a total of 28 years. Three years in Germany, twenty
years in Switzerland and five years in Great Britain where I was based
doing "spook" work for the U.S. behind the Iron Curtain before it fell.
During that era of the Cold War I ventured to Moscow, Prague, Warsaw,
Bucharest, Peshawar, Pakistan and Bulgaria posing as a Swiss
French-speaking arms dealer purchasing weapons we surreptitiously
supplied to the Afghani Mujahedeen in their successful fight against the Soviets all of which came back to haunt us.

I've been there and done that and have had close associations with top
government people in Germany , the Netherlands and Great Britain . I've
had more foreign affair experience than Obama could ever dream of and, yet,
wouldn't have the temerity to deign myself "Presidential" material;
although I feel eminently more qualified to judge who would NOT be best
for our country. My long-time world experience should count for
something in my plea to you to abandon this miscreant flake. You will only be
doing yourself and our country an enormous disservice if you persist in your
support of this flash-in-the-pan opportunist. On this, you MUST trust
me.

I've associated closely with European royalty and African politicians.
I've traveled to the Far East to observe their cultures. My point is
that Obama, although formally well educated and a brilliant orator, is a
neophyte when it comes to understanding the world and is uniquely
unqualified for the job as President of these great United States . His
knowledge of economics is nil and his tax proposals absurd and
life-threatening to the U.S. not only in economic terms but in
preserving our national security as well.

I don't want a "citizen of the world" to be President, I want a citizen of the good old USA to be President.
Screw the rest of the world as they have well and truly screwed us. The time
has come for us to awaken and start looking after ourselves. Now THAT
would be CHANGE if that's what you're looking for.

While McCain has abstained from playing "the race-card", Obama is
playing it to the hilt even though he's technically not an African-American.
To qualify for this distinction you must be at least one-sixth black.
Obama is only one-eighth. His father would be, as he was one-sixth. No,
Obama is more Muslim than black yet he trades on his blackness.

The larger question I have about him is that we really don't know much
about him other than what HE tells us, what we read on blogs and from
some serious non-partisan investigators whose factual reports are,
unfortunately, generally ignored and which receive precious little
media exposure.

I, as a registered Independent, a military veteran and a patriot,
beseech you to put aside party considerations and vote for the lesser of the
two evils. Yes, I am NOT a McCain supporter, but he is, at least, not a
flake, doesn't carry Muslim baggage and is a PROVEN hero and patriot
WITH experience. It's not a party issue. It's all about electing the best
we can trust with what we've got to work with. Mr. Obama is NOT that guy.

Please, please rethink your voting position.
Thanks for reading my innermost thoughts. I care about all of you, but
I care more about our country. Please help me to do both.

William P. ( Bill ) Lear, Jr.

lear@cfl.rr.com

(386) 763-5051

Lehman Brothers: Obama’s Rezko-Auchi conflict of interest

via RBO News & Views

Lehman Brothers: Obama’s Rezko-Auchi conflict of interest

[Nadhmi Auchi is an Iraqi whose Baathist ties go back to 1959. A formerly high-ranking official in Iraq’s Oil Ministry, Auchi left Iraq at the end of the 1970s. His wealth then grew exponentially as a procurer of arms for Saddam Hussein’s government during the Iran–Iraq war. He is now one of the richest men in Britain. Saddam Hussein in 1995 selected BNP, which later merged with Paribas, as the sole conduit bank handling Oil-for-Food transactions. This Clinton-era arrangement was changed in 2001 by the incoming Bush administration.

Auchi was also a key financial backer for Chicago political fixer and dual US-Syrian citizen Tony Rezko. This writer explained the complex web of relationships in an August 24 article titled, “Iraqi Billionaire Threatens Reporters Investigating Rezko Affair”:]

Obama - Rezko - Auchi - Saddam Hussein?

mini flashback

a flashforward

Barack Obama's Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Connection

[A group called the Center for Responsive Politics keeps track of which politicians get Fannie and Freddie political contributions. The top three U.S. senators getting big Fannie and Freddie political bucks were Democrats and No. 2 is Sen. Barack Obama.

Now remember, he's only been in the Senate four years, but he still managed to grab the No. 2 spot ahead of John Kerry — decades in the Senate — and Chris Dodd, who is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee.]

Billion-Dollar Scandal Not Ready for Prime Time

[ Analysts are predicting that Fannie Mae will have to compensate for $11 billion in accounting errors. To put this in perspective, Enron overstated its earnings by $567 million: 5 percent of Fannie Mae’s fiasco. Since February 2004, Fannie Mae’s stock has plummeted from a high of about $80 a share to roughly $55 per share. That’s a decline of 31 percent, or a loss of more than $20 billion in value to stockholders. Despite these incredible losses and errors, as well as three separate investigations, the broadcast media have ignored Fannie’s decline.



While the figures behind Enron were calculator-busting, the problems at Fannie Mae were greater: roughly $11 billion in earnings restatements. That’s about 19 times more than Enron’s accounting “errors.” Although broadcast news offered wall-to-wall coverage of the endless commas and zeros behind the Enron collapse, Fannie Mae’s staggering problems and the resignation of six top executives, including the CEO and chief financial officer, received almost no TV news attention.



Connections to the halls of power can make any story front-page news. Fannie Mae and Enron had no shortage of those. They employed two of the most generous campaign contributors in the nation. The media tried to link the leadership at Enron to the Bush administration and to several key figures in Congress. On the other hand, the broadcast media had nothing to say about the unambiguous connections between Fannie Mae board members and the Clinton administration.



In contrast, neither NBC nor any other broadcast outlet would have needed to search hard for political ties in the Fannie Mae debacle. Former Chief Executive Officer Franklin Raines and former Vice Chairman Jamie Gorelick were both instrumental figures in the Clinton administration. The print media were candid about Fannie’s political connections. In a Dec. 23, 2004, article, Albert Crenshaw of The Washington Post revealed that Franklin Raines “was a director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration, and his name was mentioned as a possible Treasury Secretary had Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) been elected president.”

Jamie Gorelick was Deputy Attorney General under Clinton. Fannie Mae board member Jack Quinn was the attorney for pardoned tax evader Marc Rich. Fannie also has one of the largest lobbying budgets in Washington. A Feb. 24, 2005, article in The Washington Post reported that Fannie “paid its lobbying corps about $5 million in the first six months of last year.”]



Fanny, Freddie, and Obama

[“You look at Obama’s economic advisers, the guys he has counted on from day one and who have raised him a ton — and I mean a ton — of money: Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, both of them are waist to neck deep in the mortgage debacle.”

Both Raines and Johnson have served as CEO of Fannie Mae, with Raines taking over from Johnson. Both are key political and economic advisers to Obama.]

Franklin Raines’ Criminal Enterprise and Barack Obama, His Accomplice **UPDATE** Top Recipients By $/Yr in Congress

once again the connections
are endless, the MSM silent..

Obama Refuses to Answer Birth Certificate Lawsuit

Friday, October 24, 2008 4:16 PM

By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size


A Pennsylvania lawsuit alleging that Barack Obama is not a “natural-born citizen” of the United States took an unusual twist this week, after a federally mandated deadline requiring Obama’s lawyers to produce a “vault” copy of his birth certificate expired with no response from Obama or his lawyers.

The lawsuit, filed by former Pennsylvania Deputy Attorney General Philip J. Berg — a self-avowed supporter of Hillary Clinton — alleges that Barack Obama was born in Kenya and is thus “ineligible” to run for president of the United States. It demands that Obama’s lawyers produce a copy of his original birth certificate to prove that he is a natural-born U.S. citizen.

Berg's suit and allegations have set off a wave of Internet buzz and rumors, though Obama could easily have put the matter to rest by providing the federal court with the basic documentation proving he is eligible to take the oath of a president. But Obama has apparently decided to deny the court and the public that documentation.

The Constitution provides that any U.S. citizen is eligible to become president if the person is 35 years of age or older and is a natural-born citizen; that is, born in the territorial United States.

By failing to respond to the Request for Admissions and Request for the Production of Documents within 30 days, Obama has “admitted” that he was born in Kenya, Berg stated this week in new court filings.

Berg released a long list of “admissions” he submitted to Obama’s lawyers on Sept. 15, and asked that they produce documents relating to Obama’s place of birth and citizenship.

Instead of responding, lawyers for Obama and the DNC asked the court to dismiss the case. But Judge R. Barclay Surrick of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has issued no ruling in the case that would have given Obama’s lawyers more time.

“There are lots of legal ways to stonewall,” a well-placed Republican attorney told Newsmax, who was not authorized to comment officially on the case. “But failing to respond is not one of them.”

“The first thing they teach you in law school,” he added, “is don’t put a complaint like this in a drawer. That’s how a nuisance case can become a problem.”

The 30-day deadline for defendants to comply with a discovery request is set forth in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures.

“It all comes down to the fact that there's nothing from the other side,” Berg said after he filed a motion on Thursday for summary judgment.

“The admissions are there. By not filing the answers or objections, the defense has admitted everything. [Obama] admits he was born in Kenya. He admits he was adopted in Indonesia. He admits that the documentation posted online is a phony. And he admits that he is constitutionally ineligible to serve as president of the United States.”

In a contentious case, lawyers on both sides will haggle over the production of documents, and will frequently go beyond the deadlines, several lawyers have said.

“The rules are more often complied with in the breech rather than the observance,” a senior trial attorney who has close ties to the Democrat Party, but is not involved in the current case, told us.

“Lawyers frequently do not return telephone calls or meet discovery deadlines because of sheer inadvertence. Therefore, we do not consider a failure to respond as a ‘violation,’” he said.

Allegations surrounding Obama’s place of birth have been swirling for months. Earlier this year, the Obama campaign sought to put down the rumors by making available a computer-generated Certification of Live Birth, issued in 2007 by the State of Hawaii.

Respected conservative blogger Ed Morrissey called the Berg lawsuit a “conspiracy theory” that had been put to rest by the Obama campaign over the summer but ”has arisen like a zombie yet again to suck the credibility out of the conservative blogosphere.”

However, the 2007 document produced by the Obama campaign omits key information that normally appears on birth certificates in the United States, including the name of the hospital where he was born, the size and weight of the baby, and sometimes the name of the doctor who delivered him.

In addition, the critics of the 2007 document note that Obama's father is described as “African,” a term used today. The formal language in official documents at the time — 1961 — would have identified his race as “Negro” or “Colored.”

The Web site snarkybytes.com has produced a vault copy of a Hawaii Certificate of Live Birth from 1963, issued by the Hawaii Department of Health.



In addition to naming the hospital and more details about the baby, the 1963 vault copy also includes the “usual residence of the mother,” and the “usual occupation” of the father. None of this information appears on the 2007 Live Birth certificate produced by the Obama campaign.

This is the information sort of information that Obama's certificate should have on it. Click to enlarge image

Berg has been a perennial political candidate in Pennsylvania, having run in Democrat primaries for attorney general, lieutenant governor, governor, and other offices without success. He served as deputy attorney general of the State of Pennsylvania from 1972-1980.

Nevertheless, in recent weeks, lawsuits have been filed in seven additional states demanding that Barack Obama produce an original vault copy of his birth certificate, to dispel the rumors that he is not a natural-born United States citizen.

The latest suits have been filed in state and federal courts in Hawaii, Washington, California, Florida, Georgia, New York, and Connecticut to compel Obama to release his birth records.

Lawsuits in Washington and Georgia are seeking state superior courts to force the states’ secretary of state, as the chief state elections officer, to require Obama to produce original birth records from Hawaii, or else decertify him as a candidate for the presidency.

Ironically, Obama mentions his birth certificate in passing on Page 26 of his 1995 memoir, “Dreams of My Father.” “I discovered this article, folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination forms, when I was in high school,” he wrote.

Lawyers for Obama and the DNC did not return calls for comment on the current status of the case, or explain why the Obama campaign did not simply put to rest the whole controversy by releasing the birth certificate that Obama apparently cherished as a teenager.

In the past, questions about Sen. John McCain's legal status have arisen. McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone at a U.S. Army hospital. McCain had legal experts vet his constitutional qualifications, and he also disclosed a copy of his birth certificate. [as well as his medical records, and school records]

Obama's Birth Certificate MUST SEE VIDEO

Posted: 11 Oct 2008 07:20 PM CDT

Philip Berg is the man who is suing Barack Obama to hand over his Birth Certificate. The video below gives his Credentials and the Mr. Berg lays out his case in Berg v. Obama, and explains why it is important for the case to be resolved quickly. In his argumentation, Mr. Berg points out that Senator Obama could settle the lawsuit immediately by producing the proper documents to prove Obama is a natural-born citizen as required by our constitution. It is A MUST SEE..MUST PASS AROUND VIDEO!

Click Here to See the Video

Thomas Sowell says:

That book is titled "The Case Against Barack Obama" by David Freddoso. He starts off in the introduction by repudiating those critics of Obama who "have been content merely to slander him-- to claim falsely that he refuses to salute the U.S. flag or was sworn into office on a Koran.

This is a serious book with 35 pages of documentation in the back to support the things said in the main text. In other words, if you don't believe what the author says, he lets you know where you can go check it out.