Tea Party Does Nothing About Breitbart Libel… What Does that Tell You about It? FIGHT BACK!

If these represent only 15 percent of the electorate… why are they getting so much coverage?

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Read these:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100824/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_usda_racism_resignation

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-dreier/why-does-anyone-take-andr_b_657964.html

Firstly, keep these portions in mind as you read my comments:

Sherrod was forced to resign after conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted an edited version of a March speech in which said she was initially reluctant to help a white farmer save his farm more than two decades ago, long before she worked for USDA. Vilsack and others, including the NAACP, condemned the remarks before grasping the full context of her speech, which was meant as a lesson in racial healing.

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Clearly, the Obama administration over-reacted, fearful, as a high-level official put it, of having the Sherrod story show up on Glenn Beck’s Fox News show. Why they are so intimidated by Beck and his ilk is a mystery. Their followers, and those who identify with the Tea Party, represent no more than 15 percent of all voters. Moreover, very few of Beck’s (or Limbaugh’s) devotees would even consider voting for a Democrat. After all, they think Obama is a Marxist, a Muslim, and a foreigner. This is not a constituency that Obama and the Democrats are going to win over by appearing to be bipartisan or middle-of-the-road.

And if Obama and his inner circle are worried that Breitbart’s and Beck’s poison will spread from their base among right-wing zealots and start influencing “independent” and “swing” voters… and thus help sway close elections toward Republican candidates… then the best way to prevent that from happening is to fight back, and challenge their lies and distortions, not run away and hide, or capitulate, as they did by firing Van Jones, abandoning ACORN, and firing Shirley Sherrod.

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Let’s keep this one simple. Andrew Bretibart posted a deliberately misleading video on a federal official leading to that official losing her job. That means that he lied, with malice aforethought. There’s something I note… the Washington Times hasn’t fired him for such a slanderous action. Frankly, the Department of Agriculture should file suit against Mr Breitbart for having slandered one of their employees. Don’t take it lying down.

Secondly, if this constituency is only some 15 percent of the electorate, why is the press focusing on them and not the “silenced majority?” Why is the press obsessively covering the controversy over the “mosque” that isn’t a mosque? The people with placards are nutters… let them demonstrate, that’s free speech, of course, but you don’t have to give their lunacy any airtime.

Hmm… I seem to recall from my American History classes in college that there was an election that was supposedly in the bag for the GOP. In fact, a newspaper printed the headline, “Dewey Wins”. There was one problem with that… the election was won by Harry Truman. We can deny the Tea Party victory in November… but only if we go toe-to-toe with them, fight them as hard as they attack us, and show ourselves more gritty and feisty than they are. Let’s not forget, every candidate endorsed by Sarah Palin in the primaries went down to defeat.

The mood this year is anti-incumbent, NOT pro-Republican. There are ten more weeks until the election. I believe that the Tea Party has shot its bolt. Don’t forget… the only poll that counts is the election. I think that there are going to be surprises for everyone in it.

Barbara-Marie Drezhlo

Tuesday 24 August 2010

Albany NY

Don’t Let the Haters Win! Let the Cordoba Centre Go Up at the Proposed Location! Let’s Rebuild St Nick’s Too!

This requires no commentary, does it? VOTE in November…

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Do not associate my name with anything you do. You are extremists, and you’ve hurt the Republican Party much more than the Democrats have.

When you say “radical right” today, I think of these moneymaking ventures by fellows like Pat Robertson and others who are trying to take the Republican Party and make a religious organisation out of it. If that ever happens, kiss politics goodbye.

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] Party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know; I’ve tried to deal with them.

Barry Goldwater

Read this:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100824/ap_on_re_us/us_nyc_mosque

Did you read, “Republicans have vowed to make Obama’s support of the project a campaign issue in this fall’s midterm elections?” I can’t believe that… the GOP is bluntly making racism one of its planks… it doesn’t speak well of our country and its people. The Republicans truly think that they can get away with this. I shall be blunt. This issue has truly made me question the Republican Party. It’s not the Republican Party of Dwight D Eisenhower (who warned us of the dangers of the Military-Industrial Complex). It’s not the Republican Party of Richard M Nixon (who supported the Equal Rights Amendment and established the EPA). It’s not the Republican Party of Barry Goldwater (read the above quotes). It’s not the Republican Party of William F Buckley (who was for the legalisation of marijuana). I agree with the late Senator Goldwater, in 1989, he said that the Republican Party had been taken over by a “bunch of kooks”.

Note well that I have quoted no “leftist” source or critique… by the standards of the Republican Party, the members of the Tea Party are neo-Nazi fanatics. I have quoted the words of President Eisenhower in the past; I quoted Senator Goldwater above. Let’s look at Richard M Nixon, a man much maligned by the American Left. He was a consummate Republican. What did he do? He founded the EPA, OSHA, and NOAA. He got the ball rolling on SALT, détente, and normalisation of relations with the PRC. He supported the Equal Rights Amendment and affirmative action. He increased funding for food stamps and wanted to replace welfare with a guaranteed annual income for all Americans. He doubled the funding for both the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. I seem to notice that the Tea Party stands foursquare against ALL of Mr Nixon’s record. Most Americans don’t know it, but Richard Nixon is well regarded abroad, they look at his achievements, not the bad press he received.

Religious kooks and economic freebooters have hijacked the Republican Party. The kooks wish to install a theocracy… the freebooters wish to install an oligarchy where the working class has no rights at all. Look at the present situation. This Islamic community centre has been on the books for some years now. That is, it’s nothing new. Why is there a brouhaha rising now? It’s because there are people in the Republican Party who are fanning bigotry and religious hatred in the hopes of garnering votes in November.

This is not worthy of America. It’s not the “land of the free”… it’s the “land of the free, if you agree with me”. I also notice something else about David Paterson and Sheldon Silver… both decry the “mosque”, but neither say anything about St Nick’s. Nope… not a word. It’s as if they don’t exist. They’re telling Orthodox people, “Screw you… there’s not enough of you… go to hell, go directly to hell, and don’t bother me”. We don’t count… we didn’t throw a loud enough tantrum, I guess.

Let both the Islamic community centre and St Nick’s rise in Lower Manhattan. The haters be damned…

Let’s end this with another quote from Senator Goldwater:

On religious issues, there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this Supreme Being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God’s name on one’s behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money, or votes, or both. I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in “A”, “B”, “C”, and “D”. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of “conservatism”.

Let’s heed Senator Goldwater… not the Tea Party.

Barbara-Marie Drezhlo

Tuesday 24 August 2010

Albany NY

US Diplomat Tina Kaidanow Accuses Serbia of Disregarding UN Decisions

Here’s the emblem of the UÇK… Ambassador Kaidanow is a shill for these murderous thugs… do make a note of that.

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Editor’s Foreword:

Due to the search activity for “Tina Kaidanow”, I searched VOR and RIA-Novosti for anything on her, and this is all that came up. It’s the best that I can do, kiddies… what’s not there, isn’t there. Sorry…

BMD

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Because the UN Security Council is directly responsible for the situation in Kosovo, any move to deploy and empower a European mission there would be illegal until it gained Security Council approval. The USA and its leading European allies conducted a massive propaganda campaign to establish the legitimacy of the Kosovar UDI. In doing so, they didn’t hesitate to resort to the use of dubious arguments. Take, for example, what Tina Kaidanow, the American Ambassador in Priština (Kosovo’s administrative centre), told the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. She said, “Belgrade’s opposition to the independence of Kosovo, as well as its support for ethnic separatism pose a threat to stability”. In fact, she went so far as to accuse Serbia of consistently defying UN decisions on Kosovo. Let me remind you, though, that UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which is still in force, stated that Kosovo was, and remains, Serbian territory.

According to Nadezhda Arbatova, a Russian expert in European affairs, “In particular, the Kosovar UDI was an illegitimate act committed in defiance of the basic norms of international law, it was a blow against Serbian territorial integrity, and it’s likely to have serious consequences for the Balkans as whole. Since it lacks an international legal framework, any move for Kosovar sovereignty would inevitably exacerbate tension both inside Kosovo and in neighbouring countries. Because it would encourage separatism, it would exert a negative influence on Albanian minorities in other countries. This would plunge the Balkans into a new period of instability”.

As the USA was the sponsor and “brains” of the Kosovar UDI, it bears the full burden of responsibility for both the UDI and the violations of the UN decisions on Kosovo. Therefore, the accusations that Ambassador Kaidanow hurled at Serbia are more likely to apply to her own country.

20 June 2008

Yevgeni Kryshkin

Voice of Russia World Service

http://rus.ruvr.ru/2008/06/20/830554.html

Editor’s Afterword:

Here’s all that I could find on this figure… she’s a typical and uninteresting Foggy Bottom neocon… no wonder there’s not much on her. In short, she’s the usual apologist for indiscriminate bombing, “régime change”, and meddling in other countries’ internal affairs that one finds amongst the striped-pants set. Unfortunately, her ilk is common in the District, sadly enough. That’s the object of your search, people…

BMD

A Lot of Folk are Searching for “Tina Kaidanow”…

There has been quite a bit of search activity for “Tina Kaidanow” on this site, so, as per usual, I looked to see what the Russian press had to say about her. There isn’t much, mostly from unreliable Americanist propaganda sources as RFE/Radio Liberty. Indeed, she’s such a minor figure that she has no Wikipedia article (which is mostly useful for objective facts such as dates and offices held… otherwise Wikipedia is dangerous… any jerk can log on and change it).

For those who are looking, here’s her US State Department bio:

http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/or/128334.htm

Apparently, she’s a rather nasty hegemonist who protected the UCK thugs in Kosovo. She’s replacing a neocon puke, Bryza, so one can assume that she holds the same noisome and violent views.

That’s all there is… there’s not much on this figure… Sorry.

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