Our Two Realities:

President Obama: Two Steps Forward, 900 Billion Back

Now that I have somewhat recovered from the depression caused by Obama becoming President;

I fully and proudly acknowledge the historical significance here. No doubt about it. But, Obama was the wrong man. The package oftentimes hides not so sweet contents, that is the case here. Do we as a nation choose our president simply based on making history. Would we (will we) elect a woman simply because she is a woman?

That is what happened with regards to Obama. My instincts tell me that one day, alot of people will realize this mistake.

Following is a Glen Beck interview with the Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson. Due to my life circumstances, I am able to see both sides. Black people in the inner city have been taken. For the most part, they don't realize just how badly.

Fox News

GLENN BECK, HOST: BECK: 500 million people will lose their jobs every month. Yes, comrade, Pelosi. Yes, we can. Now, some pigs will say $7.6 billion for rural advancement for the communities; $1.7 billion for the National Park System; $87 million for a polar ice-breaking ship, $50 million for the National Endowments for the Arts. That's really -- that's not going to save the country.

But of course they would say that. What do they know about the struggle of the noble worker? We, comrades, must keep up the fight. We must show them the way. Stay strong, comrades. Victory is finally near.

Stop. You know, yesterday I did a segment like this, and The Drudge Report, you know, "Oh, look. They call it communism." You know what? Look, you want to be a social socialist? Be a socialist. That's fine. You want to be a communist? Be a communist.

Why are we hiding this? Why is it that we're not having the conversation now about universal healthcare? Let's have that conversation, not the conversation of, "Quick, our country will never recover if we don't pass all of this bull crap which we're still printing out, unless we act now."

Is socialism taking over our country? It has in our inner cities for a long time.

In Los Angeles is Reverend Jesse Lee Peterson. He's the president and founder of Bond Action, a cultural organization.

Reverend -- Philadelphia. I lived in Philadelphia --

REVEREND JESSE LEE PETERSON, FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, BOND ACTION: I loved that comrade update, by the way.

BECK: Thank you very much. A lot of people love it, and then again, some don't.

PETERSON: Yes.

BECK: I lived in Philadelphia for a while, and it's a great city, a really, truly great city. But it is a city that has enslaved itself with socialism and corruption like I haven't seen.

PETERSON: That's right.

BECK: Why is it -- why is it, Sir, that some of our Washington, D.C., Detroit, Philadelphia -- our biggest cities -- are enslaving themselves?

PETERSON: Well, most of the inner cities are run by black liberal Democrats. The mayor, for the most part, is black. The police chiefs are black. City council men and women are black. And yet the cities are out of control because one of the business -

BECK: OK. Wait. Hold it. You're not implying that it is a black thing, are you?

PETERSON: Well, it is a liberal and Democrat thing. But for the most part, the inner cities are now controlled by the black liberal, Democratic politicians.

BECK: OK.

PETERSON: And one of the big mistakes that black Americans made was to elect politicians, especially liberal politicians, thinking it was going to enhance their lives. They thought if they had black Democrats in control of the city, somehow or another, the black life would get better.

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Most black Americans -- not all, but most black Americans have a socialist mentality. That's why they elected Barack Obama as their president, because he is the first black liberal socialist Democrat. And they think that somehow or another, their lives are going to get better by electing him.

BECK: You know, Reverend, I tell you, you know, I pointed out all of the Marxist tendencies of President Obama when he was just running.

PETERSON: Yes.

BECK: And nobody really seemed to care. People dismissed it. Now, people are going to come out of the woodwork saying, "Oh, look at what you were saying about - "

Look, if that's what you are, then make the point. We are being lulled into this and it's all being denied. I mean -

PETERSON: Yes.

BECK: As a conservative, you don't have problems coming out and saying, "I think we should have smaller government." Why is it that -

PETERSON: That's right.

BECK: Why is it that so many progressives or socialists have a problem saying, "I'm a socialist? I believe in gigantic government?"

PETERSON: They know it doesn't work and that's why they won't admit it. I have to tell you, Glenn, the electing of Barack Obama was about black racism and white guilt. White Americans want to make up for past history, slavery and they have been blamed for what is happening today.

And they think by electing a black socialist liberal, somehow or another, black Americans are going to overcome their racism. But the only thing that is going to change their racism is black folks have to forgive. They have to drop their anger.

My concern - we have 10 reasons to fear Barack Obama's socialist agenda. Barack Obama-nation -- and if the people are going to have a Web site, they can read some of them.

Now, Back to the other Reality
(Cause it ain't all about the money)

S.U.B.M.I.S.S.I.O.N. [incl. Rashid Khalidi]
by Frank Gaffney, Jr.
Center for Security Policy
February 2, 2009
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p17860.xml

How appropriate that Barack Obama featured Aretha Franklin in his inaugural festivities since her signature song is "Respect." Literally from the moment she finished belting out "My Country Tis of Thee" on January 20, the new President has been conveying his "respect" the Muslim world. Unfortunately, the way he practices it seems to be spelled S.U.B.M.I.S.S.I.O.N.

Several observers have noted in recent days that Mr. Obama's outreach to the Muslim world is not only defensive and apologetic. It explicitly embraces a narrative that is factually erroneous and deprecating to his own country.

For example, in his inaugural address, the President spoke of seeking "a new way forward [with the Muslim world], based on mutual interest and mutual respect." He amplified this idea during his first post-inaugural interview which was granted to a Saudi-owned network, al-Arabiya: He is determined to "restore" the "same respect and partnership America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago."

The problem with this formulation is that it misrepresents the more distant as well as the recent past, even as it panders to those (abroad and at home) who would blame the United States for the ills of the Muslim world. As Charles Krauthammer put it in his syndicated column last week, over the past 20 years, "America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them….It is both both false and injurious to this country to draw a historical line dividing America under Obama from a benighted past when Islam was supposedly disrespected and demonized."

The President also told al-Arabiya that: "My job is to communicate the fact that the United States has a stake in the well-being of the Muslim world, that the language we use has to be a language of respect. I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries." Lest there be any doubt about the priority he attaches to this messaging, Mr. Obama repeated the point. "My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect."

For good measure, the new President described America as a country of "Muslims, Christians, Jews" and others-- a presumably intentional upgrading of adherents to the faith of his father, Islam, from the second place position he accorded them in his State of the Union address several days before. (The rankings of both orderings obviously reflect something other than demographics; there are far fewer Muslims than Christians in the United States and, according to independent estimates, only half as many-- or less-- than Jews.)

Mr. Obama has also seriously mischaracterized our enemy as "a far-reaching network of violence and hatred," averring "We cannot paint with a broad brush a faith as a consequence of the violence done in that faith’s name." Such statements deliberately ignore the animating and unifying role in jihad of authoritative Islam's violent and hateful theo-political-legal program: Shariah.

What is really worrying is that Mr. Obama’s actions and rhetoric are almost certainly being perceived by his target audience as evidence not of respect but of subservience-- precisely what Islam (literally, "submission" in Arabic) requires of all of us, Muslims and non-Muslims, alike. Consider the following:

* Mr. Obama has made no secret of his desire to cultivate improved relations with the mullahs of Iran, who have repressed their people and threatened ours for thirty years. It appears that he started to do so months before his election, as a senior campaign advisor, former Clinton Secretary of Defense William Perry, met repeatedly with a representative of Iran's genocide-supporting president, Mahmoud Ahamadinejad. In recent days, Obama special envoy for Afghan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, hired as a senior advisor Professor Vali Reza Nasr – an Iranian expatriate with an appalling record of shilling for the Islamic Revolutionary Iranian regime.

* According to GeostrategyDirect.com, a newsletter published by ace national security reporter Bill Gertz, "Diplomatic sources said Barack Obama has engaged several Arab intermediaries to relay messages to and from al Qaeda in the months before his elections as the 44th U.S. president. The sources said al Qaeda has offered what they termed a truce in exchange for a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. 'For the last few months, Obama has been receiving and sending feelers to those close to al Qaeda on whether the group would end its terrorist campaign against the United States,' a diplomatic source said. 'Obama sees this as helpful to his plans to essentially withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq during his first term in office.'"

If surrender in Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran were not enough, upcoming opportunities for Mr. Obama to exhibit American submission to Islam include: ordering U.S. participation in the UN’s "Durban II" conference-- thereby legitimating its Iranian-dictated, rabidly anti-Israel, anti-American, Holocaust-denying and "Islamophobia"-banning agenda; adopting the program for undermining Israel promoted by longtime Friends-of-Barack Rashid Khalidi and Samantha Power (the latter just appointed a senior National Security Council official); and reversing the FBI’s long-overdue decision to end its association with the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a prominent front organization of the Muslim Brotherhood (whose stated mission is "to destroy America from within.")

Whatever Barack Obama’s intentions, the kind of "respect" he is exhibiting towards Shariah-adherent Muslims will surely be seen by them as submission. And that spells only one thing: D.I.S.A.S.T.E.R.