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September 9, 2010

Recommended read: Manchurian President

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I just finished reading Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott's Manchurian President. I have only one thing to say about it - read it. It will leave you slack-jawed.

As pointed out in Front Page Magazine's review, It's not a conspiracy book and it never suggests that Barack Obama is part of a Communist sleeper cell, but it indeed does present an exhaustive investigation into President Obama's background and his ties to pivotal figures in the Communist movement, both inside the White House and out, who also happen to be major players in crafting legislation. It is also well-documented, making it very hard for liberal-progressives to dispute:

American journalist, author and radio host, Aaron Klein, along with historian and researcher, Brenda J. Elliott, blow the lid off the dome of silence surrounding the Obama administration as they boldly unmask the nation's 44th president in their latest chilling monograph, "The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists." Providing close to 900 footnotes and countless pages of documentation, they reveal surreptitious ties to radical leftists of all stripes. If the title of this book sounds at all familiar, it is because it is a takeoff on the 1959 political thriller novel by Robert Condon called "The Manchurian Candidate" in which the son of a prominent US political family has been brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for the Communist party.

[...] Starting with Obama's childhood affiliation as a Sunday school attendee at the First Unitarian in Honolulu, a radical activist church that not only served as sanctuary for draft dodgers in the 1960s and 70s, but had strong links to the even more radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). It was the SDS that gave birth to the underground terrorist offshoot called the Weatherman. This is the organization that Obama's Chicago liaison, Bill Ayers, achieved fame as a Pentagon bomber-conspirator and a notorious leftist student agitator. Ayers summed up the Weatherman ideology, which he referred to as "an American Red Army," by saying, "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents."

Klein informs us that Obama worked directly with Ayers in Chicago back in 1988, after Ayers resurfaced from his underground status amid multiple criminal charges related to his extremist activities. The charges were eventually dropped due to prosecutorial misconduct. Obama and Ayers were introduced by Gerald "Jerry" Kellman, a Marxist acolyte of radical community organizer, Saul Alinsky, and thus, a professional association was forged. Obama served with a Ayers-run community advocacy coalition called the "Alliance for Better Chicago Schools," or ABC. When Obama launched his political career in 1995, the venue for his first fundraiser was the Chicago apartment of Bill Ayers and the two served alongside each other from 1995 to 2000 on a $100 million education foundation called the "Chicago Annenberg Challenge" or CAC.

Says Klein, "To underscore Ayers' radical mentality in 1995, while he worked closely with Obama, the unrepentant terrorist gave an interview in that year for author Ron Chepesiuk's book, Sixties Radicals, in which Ayers stated, "I'm a radical, leftist, small "c" communist."

Following the guidelines of Alinsky-like tactics of working within the system to overthrow the capitalist structure of American government, Klein speaks of Obama's direct links to the CAC''s role in "disbursing money through various far-left community organizers, such as ACORN." Such socialist led organizations and unions like Project VOTE!, the SEIU (Service Employees International Union), the AFL-CIO (the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations), AFSCME (American Federation of State and County Municipal Employees) and the Apollo Alliance are also directly linked to ACORN and Obama cronies with "questionable" ties. Quoting from a 2001 book by Jarol B. Manheim, "The Death of a Thousand Cuts: Corporate Campaigns and the Attack on the Corporation," Klein says that "by 1986, ACORN had forged institutional ties with AFL-CIO Central Labor Councils in at least 30 cities - and that ACORN's "People's Platform" included such radical reformist objectives as "free medical care, a public defender system, the elimination of the state income tax for low income people and higher welfare benefits."

[...] "The Manchurian President" also exposes how Obama's health-care policy, masked by moderate populist rhetoric, was pushed along and partially crafted by extremists. Some of them reveal in their own words that their principal aim was to achieve corporate socialist goals and a vast increase in government powers.