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By Erik Rush

If my checking account goes into overdraft to a dramatic degree, obviously my bank would hear nothing of coming to the rescue with funds not only to ameliorate the overdraft, but to get me on my feet again. The same would apply if half of the depositors in the branch I use did likewise.

The American people are being handed a bill of goods, that we will be living in a “Road Warrior” scenario within a short march of weeks if the government (read “American taxpayers”) does not come to the table with some form of economic aid to the ever-growing list of failed investment banks and related institutions in the U.S.

“Wall Street greed” is the catch phrase being used by the establishment press, half of Congress and the Bush administration to explain the implosion of the subprime mortgage industry and subsequent mass bank failures in the U.S. This is “the lie that is being told so often it is becoming the truth,” and readily accepted in the climate of class envy fostered by the far Left. What is particularly shameful is that so many in government are in so deep in this (in terms of culpability) that they are happy to deflect the blame.

Forget that Fannie and Freddie became the adopted brainchildren of congressional Democrats and the Clinton White House. Forget their quasi-Marxist social engineering that extended credit to millions of people who couldn’t afford it. Forget former White House Budget Director Franklin Raines raking in over $90 million running Fannie as it failed, Jamie Gorelick taking $30 million, Senator (and Democrat presidential nominee Barack) Obama staffer Jim Johnson taking millions from Fannie Mae, as well as several others who collectively pocketed tens of millions as well. Given the failures of these entities, there isn’t even the argument of stellar performance to justify these payouts.

Yet, Americans aren’t calling for their heads.

And forget that all of these people are Democrats. Let’s focus on the fear factor (should this not get addressed, and quickly) and in blaming Wall Street, and perhaps no one will notice the commonalities between the villains in this comic tragedy.

Perhaps it’s just jadedness, but the first thing that occurred to this columnist when talk of a “bailout package” came to the fore was all of the crooks that were going to line up and attempt to capitalize on the stupidity, shortsightedness and greed of our office holders and all of the taxpayer dollars that were going to be stolen in the process. Yes, those who caused the problem in the first place now presume our trust in finding a remedy for the situation, and the only ones asking questions or balking are those who have no credibility with the aforementioned lawmakers and the media. Thus, the American people remain ever ignorant and complacent.

Then there are the relationships between some of the principals responsible for this mess and a certain Democrat presidential nominee, and how these relationships are – big surprise here – going unreported by the establishment press.

As many a reader (but so few Americans at large) are aware by now, Obama was second among recipients of campaign dollars from Freddie and Fannie, despite the fact that he has only been in the Senate for four years. Does this smell of something? Of course, but we as a nation are too propagandized to notice or too apathetic to care. The big guys will steal; little mopes like us just get to suck it up. In the meantime, we still have to elect one of them.

For one thing, how are donations to political candidates by a government sponsored enterprise (GSE) legitimized in the first place? Though Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were publicly-traded, the brazen partiality toward left-leaning politicians and the monstrous transfers of capital to individuals from a GSE might have been questioned in an environment in which accountability existed.

Alas, no such luck.

Thirty years ago, Sen. Obama would be withdrawing from the presidential race right about now, so great would be the public shame of his connection to this debacle. But not a peep have we heard from Obama, save for his citing the greed of Wall Street. In fact, he seems hard-pressed to be forthcoming with anything substantial to say on the issue at all. Why? Once again, the establishment press, which is manipulating this election process, is shielding Obama from accountability. His silence merely speaks to his liability.

ACORN: Tip of the Iceberg

As if Sen. Obama’s incestuous relationship with Freddie Mac-Fannie Mae wasn’t bad enough, he is closely aligned with one of the most audacious crooks who have lined up to capitalize on the aforementioned stupidity, shortsightedness and greed of our office holders.

ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) “is the nation’s largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people with over 400,000 member families organized into more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities across the country” (from their website). They’re also a radical, far Left entitlement-oriented group that throws around phrases like “social and economic justice” like kids playing ball at recess and for which the financial bailout initially marked $100 million in funding. Why? Is ACORN a stressed bank that is foundering? No – congressional Democrats have simply dropped all pretense vis-à-vis cavalier and irresponsible dispensation of tax dollars.

Of course, ACORN has endorsed Sen. Obama, whose connection to this radical group goes back even farther than his community organizer days.

ACORN is but one of an unknown number of carrion-eaters circling above the carcass of our banking industry, waiting to pick its bones clean. It is simply a prominent one for which this information became available.

A little-known fact about carrion birds: Many will attack and kill prey animals if they can get away with it. Likewise, nonprofit and for-profit thieves will dine on the beefed-up bailout package if it is not transformed in a revolutionary manner or judiciously scrutinized and supervised.

Why, I ask myself, do I have the feeling that in the days of the Founding Fathers of this nation, such phenomena as described above would have resulted in four-fifths of Congress being dragged out into the street and shot?

Perhaps because that is precisely what would have occurred. I can fantasize, can’t I?

By Erik Rush

Two weeks ago, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation published a piece by Toronto writer Heather Mallick that sprayed far Left elitism like blood from a cleanly-severed carotid artery. In it, she described supporters of Republican vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin as “white trash” and ascribed more insulting terminology to the Alaska governor and her family.

Which presumably makes this black columnist “white trash.” Curious…

There are certain points that occasionally need to be repeated, and one is the far Left’s practice of projection. Something taught in Psych 101 classes, it’s the psychological trait of ascribing characteristics to one’s adversary that actually apply to oneself. Whether intentionally or subconsciously, progressives (read far Left socialists) are consummate masters of this.

Inasmuch as those on the far Left are internationalists, it is no surprise that a Canadian journalist might be alarmed at recent developments in the current presidential election cycle in America. The choice of Sarah Palin has gained Republican nominee Sen. John McCain massive ground, while the camp of Democrat nominee Sen. Barack Obama has reacted like someone reflexively blowing soda pop through their nose after a shock.

The campaign of tawdry insults directed at Palin is in the spirit of the schoolyard invective that has been flying as regards the vice-Presidential nominee, such as making fun of her religion, appearance, upbringing, hobbies and her children’s names. The latter is in itself is an extraordinarily bad idea. Not that I’d know much about it, being white trash and all, but Democrats are likely to lose a substantial portion of the black vote if they keep that up. Tabascus-Jamal and Uniqua aren’t going to take kindly to a party that disrespects people simply because they have unusual names.

“[Palin] has a toned-down version of the porn actress look favored by this decade’s woman, the overtreated hair, puffy lips and permanently alarmed expression.”

Heather Mallick, Sept. 5, 2008

Here, what is either funny or sad – take your pick – is that these wild, histrionic swings are patently inaccurate. When Gov. Palin came on the scene, she looked more like a librarian than a porn actress. Save for the hair bun, which Palin has mercifully shed, Mallick’s hair is strikingly similar to the governor’s. The columnist’s criticism of Palin’s lips – with which we assume she was born – is beyond despicable. Other, even more insulting remarks concerning the Palins’ disposition apropos their unmarried pregnant daughter were simply additional validation of my assertions here.

“I’m not the one preaching homespun values but I’d destroy that ratboy before I’d let him get within scenting range of my daughter again…”

Heather Mallick, on Bristol Palin beau Levi Johnston

Yes, I suppose murdering Johnston – like real white trash might do – would be an eminently more constructive solution. Later, Mallick actually suggested outright that they shoot him.

In short, the rash emotional nature of progressive-socialists itself is very evidently betraying them. These tasteless slurs, though sometimes humorous in what they reveal, are the mark of the far Left as haters rather than torchbearers of all that is loving and tolerant (as they would have American voters believe). As regards the upcoming election, one can only hope that this is being driven home to enough of the electorate.

In their quest to demoralize America abroad, the far Left perennially accuses our government of meddling in the affairs of other nations. Political correctness dictates that we are not to judge other cultures or social practices, even including such extreme measures as stoning or clitoridectomies. Once again, however, we have a far Left non-American presuming to interject their socialist (and in this case, anti-social) mores into American culture.

Then, last week, porcine comedian Janeane Garofalo railed on the Real Time with Bill Maher television program that liberals were fundamentally more decent people than conservatives, specifically, Republicans, who ought to be jailed. What I and others find horrifying is that so many Americans would sooner pattern their values after this aging tomboy with bad tattoos than someone like Sarah Palin.

Are these infantile ramblings what now pass for rational, intellectually-sound, emotionally mature behavior in the Western world? Perhaps so, if we’re dealing with a faction (progressives) that sympathizes with Islamofascists, who want to put Jews and Christians “to the sword.”

By Erik Rush

“This pioneering Alaskan may just be the one to lead her party out of the wilderness.” – Investor’s Business Daily on Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, September 4, 2008

And indeed she might be. Around 40 million folks tuned in to the festivities at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul on Wednesday, September 3, according to Nielsen Media Research. That’s about a 28 million more than those who watched the Democrats’ hyper-boganza (“bogus extravaganza”) on any given night of the previous week.

As most readers are aware by now – the show at the Republican convention (as well as that of the Democrats, come to think of it) was stolen by Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin. “How will she handle it?” wondered supporters and detractors alike. “She has to say this…She has to say that…She has to cover this base…She has to present herself as…”

Well, she said this and that, covered all the bases and then some, and presented herself as favorably as was possible, better than any imagined – although a few might have expected such. This columnist was reminded of the women he knew as a child – strong, independent ones who were nonetheless quite “in tune” with their femininity, as social psychobabblers are wont to say.

In addition to addressing nearly all of the key questions Americans had, rendering the unknowns known, and enlightening all too precisely who the Alaska governor is in unequivocal fashion, she succeeded in making Democrat presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama look like Steve Urkel – a comparison I’ve made before.

It was a good day to be a conservative. Not only did Palin accomplish all of the above, she delivered a message of indomitable spirit and solidarity. Palin offered hope to conservatives that traditional values and the “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” attitude were still alive in America amongst at least some seeking high office.

It’s a strange dichotomy; a segment of America believes that the Democrat presidential nominee is something special though he’s done nothing but speak. Sarah Palin has become an instant hero, though – in the greater scheme of things – she’s done little more than speak.

Or should I say “instant heroine?” Somehow, I think not. Though perhaps the term might be more appropriate semantically in that Palin proved women had been doing and having it all long before liberals came along, “hero” has a better ring to it. Why not take the opportunity as well to rub their faces in the more androgynous term they likely prefer?

Having Palin be the one to Urkelize Obama – though he seems to miss few opportunities to do so himself – was a stroke of genius. Although it is not atypical for candidates accepting the nomination to focus on other things and leave the opponent-bashing to surrogates, Palin was able to cut loose – but with class – because she is a woman. The ever-present perception of women as downtrodden in the minds of liberals, though Palin certainly doesn’t fit the bill, precludes the accusations that would certainly fly had an evil old white guy in a suit mopped up the floor with Obama.

Once again, we were also treated to yet more corroboration that it is the far Left who are America’s haters, as opposed to their so-accused adversaries. Governor Palin shone in her speech and has carried herself with grace despite having been slimed more by the establishment media in one week than has any woman in the public eye with the possible exception of the late “Queen of Mean” Leona Helmsley. It has long since become evident that American voters detest these calumnious machinations and react accordingly (by withdrawing support for progressive candidates), yet, like bratty urchins, those on the far Left simply cannot help themselves.

The puke-gutted Bolsheviks in the establishment press have apparently lost all shame and sense of vulnerability. While they have shielded Barack Obama from scrutiny regarding the most serious of charges, they have no qualms whatever toward dredging up the most paltry issues with respect to Governor Palin, her past and her level of experience.

Look for the far Left to continue to slander Palin and turn over the soil in attempts to find something sufficiently unpalatable about her to force McCain’s choice of another running mate – which would certainly cost him the election. Don’t discount the possibility, however, that another bone or two might yet fly out of Obama’s closet. One might actually be the bone that breaks his campaign’s back.

Leading the Republican party out of the wilderness is a tall order, but one that has to be done if the party is to retain its base intact, regain credibility and regain preeminence over the far Left-controlled Democrat Party. For if socialists have hijacked the latter, internationalists and invertebrates have hijacked the former. Neither of these represent nor reflect the values of the American majority; it is only our ennui that has facilitated their ascendency. Calculated action and awareness of our civic responsibility are what will reverse this trend, and we have stellar example in the personage of Sarah Palin. She got involved – now see where she is and how many she has inspired already. There’s our road map.

By Erik Rush

Whether one attributes the success of Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama to savvy maneuvering on the part of the Democratic National Committee and the Obama campaign, Republican ineptitude, a biased press or the influence of shadow governments, in the end the November election’s outcome is going to come down to Americans’ capacity – or lack of capacity – for critical thinking.

Despite the last several years of Americans’ synaptic pathways being deluged by how much the Bush administration and Republicans employ vacuum-related techniques, in the aggregate they have more than enough evidence that conservative principles have proven themselves more fruitful than so-called progressive ones.

The rub, as it were, lies in the fact that conservative principles have not been a benchmark of the Bush administration nor have they guided the Republican Party for some time. It is fortunate for the American people that Bill Clinton was more of a narcissist than an idealist, responding to the will of the people in such areas as taxes and entitlement programs in order to secure a viable legacy. Had this not been the case, Democrats would now have even more woes to heap at the feet of George W. Bush.

The election of a Democrat president – Obama in particular – would mark a perilous quantum leap toward socialism and an ever-weakening presence on the global stage, particularly if Democrats retain control of Congress and gain more seats in the House and Senate.

“Obama praised Thursday’s Supreme Court decision to allow detainees at Guantanamo Bay to challenge their imprisonment in federal courts. Enforcing habeas corpus rights, he said, is ‘the essence of who we are.’”

-Associated Press, June 14, 2008

The limp-wristed ruling with roots in a perverted interpretation of law was lauded by the Democrat candidate; the insanity of granting citizen’s rights to unconventional, lawless combatants in a global conflict be damned. Denial of the fact that the War on Terror is an unprecedented effort in response to an enemy of unprecedented ruthlessness and barbarity which must be met decisively and unconventionally is patent madness. Unfortunate that so many have accepted the notion that the entire phenomenon was a Bush concoction, and that millions may suffer terribly as a result.

“[Obama’s proposals]include a $1,000 tax cut for most working families; a new Social Security tax on incomes above $250,000; a ‘windfall profits’ tax on oil companies*; a $4,000 annual college tuition credit for those who commit to national or community service programs; and an end to income taxes for elderly people making less than $50,000 a year.”

-Associated Press, June 14, 2008

The transparency of these proposals would be humorous were they not so manifestly flawed – and historically proven to be imprudent. Still the masses cheer and gape over the façade, not considering the following for a nanosecond:

-A $1,000 tax cut for most working families is a joke.

-Americans with incomes of $251,000 are not wealthy, particularly if one has a family and lives in a large city.

-New taxes on oil companies will simply be passed on to the consumer as they always are, and Obama knows it.

-From whence is this unfunded mandate of a $4,000 annual college tuition credit to come?

-Here, Obama likely has gained the votes of elderly Americans who make less than $50,000 a year and pay taxes – all five of them.

But forget common sense, logic, the historical record, and the truth. As this columnist has asserted, Obama’s success (to date; he isn’t President yet) has been but a part of the global-socialist agenda. Turn the American Dream into enough of a nightmare and Americans will give up on it because survival – let alone prosperity – under the capitalist system will appear unattainable.

The former world heavyweight champion boxer George Foreman comes to mind, and the success he has enjoyed not only monetarily, but as a successful community servant. He grew up “po,’” claiming his family was too broke to afford the “or” (at the end of the word “poor”) in conditions that are more readily associated with impoverished people in the Third World these days. Yet, to hear the unshakable faith in the man, which he has also instilled in his children, that anyone can achieve anything in America to which they set their minds stands in sharp contrast to the message of those who stand out as “representatives” of “black America.”

Despite the ongoing production of multimillionaires in the U.S., even among those who ought to reside in penitentiaries, the Left continues to propagandize our citizenry as regards the downside of everything whilst busily working to manifest that nightmare of universal hopelessness.

“Barack Obama celebrated Father’s Day by calling on black fathers, who he said are “missing from too many lives and too many homes,” to become active in raising their children.”

-Associated Press, June 15, 2008

If that’s his belief, then perhaps Obama ought to reconsider his core political philosophy, embrace conservative values and refrain from validating and keeping company with those who promote victimology, class envy and race hatred. It speaks volumes to the media’s bias toward this candidate that even when he catapults boulders from his glass mansion, there isn’t a peep from the establishment press.

Since most members of the press have proven themselves to be card-carrying Obamaphiles, save for independent pollsters – who can be incorrect – there is really no manner by which one can discern how popular the Democrat candidate is in actuality.

The press portrays Barack Obama with the confidence that his occupancy of the White House is an inevitability. Will conservative Republicans and independent conservatives, perceiving the gravity of this election in the long term, vote for John McCain, a man whom they don’t consider conservative enough?

Only November will tell whether or not Dewey has defeated Truman again.

*Obama’s “windfall profits tax” does not conform to the definition thereof; it would simply be a new tax; in this context, an appeal to Americans’ resentment of “big oil.”

By Erik Rush

There’s an axiom in Recovery (as in from addiction) circles which asserts that addictions are but symptoms of deeper emotional or psychological problems. Leaving aside the debate as to whether this holds water, I submit that the tremendous success of Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama is but a symptom of the broader disease: The establishment media (which includes broadcast news and print sources as well as the entertainment media) has finally subverted enough of the collective mind of America to usher in the era of socialism toward which the far Left has been maneuvering us for the last 40 years.

Like the seizure that alerted Sen. Ted Kennedy’s doctors that he was suffering from a grave condition, it is just a symptom – albeit a very nasty one.

“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals…”

“Agent K,” from the film Men in Black

Being convinced that the Republican Party is to blame for taking us to places we would rather not and shouldn’t have gone, and that the George W. Bush presidency was a mistake that never should have happened, Americans are now shambling, glassy-eyed and drooling toward “Change,” too transfixed by the captivating ultraviolet glow to hear the crackle of those who burst into nothingness in line ahead of them.

They have no idea what they’ve bought into, of course, the magnitude of the lies and the peril which awaits. They do not fathom that they are accepting a fundamental change in the paradigm of our social system from one in which the industrious and principled prosper versus one in which the indolent and capricious prosper.

As regards the political continuum in modern America, over the past 40 years the Democrat Party leadership transmogrified from elitist liberals into socialists. In the last 20, the Republican Party leadership became liberals, and the media has been a prime mover in this transformation. Having themselves been manipulated by those in the press to heed them rather than their constituents and conservative elements within the party leadership (which had brought past success), eunuchs in the GOP, driven by fear for their image and personal self-interest, sold America out to deviant parasites.

The walking mediocrities among the far Left (politically-active ideologues) and duped middle class voters believe the playing field will be “leveled” for them and “the downtrodden” once the faceless “rich” are brought under their leaders’ sway. There is nothing in the historical record that indicates that they will have anything to look forward to but misery, abuse and pain, but logic is immaterial. By design, the power brokers of the far Left appealed to their emotions, not their intellect.

The power brokers and their operatives (such as those in the press, for example) believe that they will be among the unassailable elite. Once again, despite the historical record, they don’t believe they will ever be counted among those who, in a fit of melancholy, climb into the trunk of an automobile and shoot themselves repeatedly in the head, as so many prominent figures in far Left regimes wind up doing.

Just a few of the dangerously dishonest representations in which the press has engaged over the last eight years:

Television news bureaus withheld the more gruesome 9/11 footage – too graphic for their audiences, of course. The same criteria somehow doesn’t apply to video of terrorists killed by American troops in Iraq. This was the beginning of their systematically propagandizing Americans into forgetting 9/11.

Engendering sympathy for retrograde culture (at which they have excelled for some time) and radical Islamist killers are among other wild subjectivities put forth by the press concerning the War on Terror in general.

The Iraq campaign was supposed to be over in half an hour. The scope and the frequency of the falsehoods, minimizations, manipulations and exacerbations conveyed by the press to Americans in this area are too numerous to address.

Slandered, maligned and generally demonized President Bush and the Republican Party – unfortunately, with their help – on a scale never seen previously.

Exhibited barefaced partiality for Sen. Barack Obama during the Democrat Party’s primary process, evidenced by their downplaying glaring and perilous deficiencies in the candidate.

The press knows that Mexican drug lords essentially own the U.S. – Mexico border. American women are being abducted from our southern border towns and spirited away south of the border to face unimaginable fates. Atrocities reminiscent of the Mongol invasion of China are taking place along the border every day. How many Americans (who don’t live in border towns) are aware of these occurrences?

While the far Left escalates its quest to stamp out Christianity in America, the religion is literally exploding in Asia and Africa, where believers hold to their faith despite persecution Christians have not experienced since the time of ancient Rome. One example is the genocide in Darfur, Sudan; the press conveniently neglects to include this component in its coverage of the crisis.

For better or worse, we have this thing called the First Amendment to the Constitution, which prohibits government infringement upon the activities of the press. Little did the founders of our nation know that it would one day face a universally treasonous press that would, hell-bent on societal suicide, focus its energies toward bringing America to ruin.

Were the extent of the media’s manipulation of information to the political gain of the far Left in America known, it might well lead to the storming of news bureaus across the country. A conservative individual with, say, George Soros’s resources could take care of America’s “press problems” fairly handily. This columnist has intellectually considered certain initiatives; unfortunately, addressing them here would be imprudent.

Although it does bear mentioning that the First Amendment only applies to the government abridging the freedom of the press – not the people…