Obamination

By Erik Rush
How many Americans would vote for a presidential candidate who was the member of a church that professed the following credo?

1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the White Community
3. Commitment to the White Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the White Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.

The question is rhetorical, of course. The answer is that such a candidate wouldn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting elected dog catcher (apologies to America’s animal rescue and public safety personnel) let alone President, because that candidate would be instantly branded a racist, among the most vile and frightening of white supremacists.

And those holding the branding irons would be 100% right.

Yet, in the “About” section of the U.S. Senate website for Barack Obama, Democratic senator from Illinois and contender for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, it states that Obama and his family “live on Chicago's South Side where they attend Trinity United Church of Christ.”

So…?

Well, to say that the Trinity United Church of Christ (http://www.tucc.org/)
is afrocentric in the extreme would be a gross understatement. It’s not simply afrocentric, it’s African-centric. In fact, one could argue that this organization worships things African to a far greater degree than they do Christ, and gives the impression of being a separatist “church” in the same vein as do certain supremacist “white brethren” churches – or even Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.

Shocking? An overstatement? An overreaction?

One can see for oneself on the Trinity United Church website, which is replete with confirmation of what I present here. What follows is an excerpt from their Mission Statement:

“We are a congregation which is Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian... Our roots in the Black religious experience and tradition are deep, lasting and permanent. We are an African people, and remain "true to our native land," the mother continent, the cradle of civilization. God has superintended our pilgrimage through the days of slavery, the days of segregation, and the long night of racism. It is God who gives us the strength and courage to continuously address injustice as a people, and as a congregation. We constantly affirm our trust in God through cultural expression of a Black worship service and ministries which address the Black Community.

“Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:

1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the Black Community
3. Commitment to the Black Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black
Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and
Supporting Black Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value
System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System.”

Sound familiar? Of course it is, since it’s identical to the 12-point list at the beginning of this column – the one from the theoretical white supremacist candidate’s church; the only difference is the substitution of the word “Black” for “White.”

Trinity United Church of Christ’s congregation also claims to hold to a “10-point Vision” which is similarly afrocentric, or if you will, separatist. Again, like the Nation of Islam, a white separatist church or the Branch Davidians, Trinity United more resembles a cult than a church. Only this one has as one of its most prominent members a serious contender for the White House.

And George W. Bush’s born-again Christian status scares people?

These revelations, of course shed all the light we need on Obama’s inscrutability; since before he announced his candidacy, both the Right and Left have commented on the lack of information vis-à-vis just who Barack Obama is and what he’s about.

From The Chicago Tribune, February 06, 2007, Column: Against Middleclassness? by Rich Lowry. “Vallmer Jordan, a church member who helped draft the precepts, said they were designed to empower the black community and counter a value system imposed by whites. ‘The big question mark was racism,’ he said. ‘Black disempowerment was an integral part of that historical value system. It became increasingly apparent to me that we black people had not developed our own value system . . . to help us overcome all we knew we had to battle.’”

“A value system imposed by whites…” Is Jordan speaking of the value system that kept families together and promoted morality, industry and integrity, or the one imposed by liberal dependency pimps since the Civil Rights Movement?

True enough that many blacks did abandon values; again, this was due to the corruption of the black clergy by white socialists and their black foremen. Trinity United seems to have thrown out the baby with the bathwater. Gravitation toward an Africanized “year-round Kwanzaa”-based pseudo-Christianity seems less of a solution than returning to the moral and social conservatism Blacks held prior to the aforementioned socialists gaining their stranglehold in the black community.

So is Obama seeking to be our first black president, or our first stealth black nationalist president? You see, were he a run-of-the-mill insincere Christian of convenience like Bill Clinton, Obama might belong to a run-of-the-mill, lukewarm, large nondescript church. But he doesn’t. He belongs to a church which is (as I indicated before) blatantly afrocentric and even suggests the supremacy of Africa’s descendants in America.

Granted that the Left will have no qualms about this highly questionable affiliation, but what about all of the American swing voters to whom Obama has built broad appeal by presenting himself as sort of a generic, open-minded moderate Democrat (as Bill Clinton also did, by the way)? Are they going to go for a candidate whose heart is actually closer to that of a refined Black Panther?

Trinity United clearly embraces things African above things American. The content of their website makes this undeniably clear. Aside from this tack being divisive, separatist and calls into question its adherents’ identification as Americans, if they’re looking for values, they – and Obama – would be better served by looking to modern political conservatives and traditional Christianity than retrograde African precepts and the Democrat Party.

Obama’s affiliation with this church, if I must call it that, should be as alarming to the American voter as a Republican candidate for president belonging to the Aryan Brethren Church of Christ. Any argument against this assertion is politically-correct delusion, reverse discrimination and a hypocrisy – a very dangerous one.

Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts

© 2008 WorldNetDaily
WASHINGTON – Just when liberals thought it was safe to start identifying themselves as such, an acclaimed, veteran psychiatrist is making the case that the ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.
"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Dr. Lyle Rossiter, author of the new book, "The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness." "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."
While political activists on the other side of the spectrum have made similar observations, Rossiter boasts professional credentials and a life virtually free of activism and links to "the vast right-wing conspiracy."
For more than 35 years he has diagnosed and treated more than 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.
Rossiter says the kind of liberalism being displayed by the two major candidates for the Democratic Party presidential nomination can only be understood as a psychological disorder.
"A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do," he says. "A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do."
Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:
creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.
"The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind," he says. "When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious."

The McCain / Lieberman Ticket

Last month the AP reported that Lieberman denied an interest in becoming VP on the McCain ticket. Conventional wisdom tells us that John McCain must pick a conservative or someone who can deliver the South. As this election has proven, conventional wisdom no longer applies. McCain will likely pick Lieberman as his VP or at the very least a moderate Republican.
Let’s analyze the situation. Super Tuesday, over 14 million voters on the Democratic side voted compared to the Republican side which had only some 8 million voters, of which only 75% were Republicans. It is obvious that many conservatives stayed home. McCain prevailed because moderates, independents, & democrats voted for him.Why would one believe that suddenly in the general election, conservatives will rally around McCain and enter the voting booths? In his speech to CPAC, McCain acknowledged without apology that he is moderate. McCain will continue to do what has worked for him in the past. He will continue to target moderates, independents, & democrats and a conservative VP candidate would thwart such a strategy. Yet Lieberman will advance his standing with this group of voters. McCain won on Super Tuesday by winning in the Blue States and a conservative VP will fail to deliver those blue states in the general election. Yet, Lieberman can deliver those states, especially if Hilary Clinton is the Democratic Nominee given that 50% of the Nation claims to despise her. And the South will go McCain’s way without a conservative VP due to his support of The War on Terror.
I fail to believe that the Republican base will rally around McCain just to defeat the Democrats. It didn’t happen in the 06 elections, why should one believe it will happen this year. In 2006, The Republican Party failed to show its base (Conservatives & Evangelicals) that they will adhere to conservative principals which lost them the vote for Congress. Today, the Party continues on its moderate path. McCain has proven over the last few years where his political ideology lies. He is the end of the Republican Party as we know it. Just as the Democratic Party has for decades used the Black vote by consistently making undelivered promises, the Republican Party has used evangelical Christians and conservatives by doing the same. The difference is that evangelicals and conservatives grew tired of undelivered promises and expressed their exasperation with the Party in 2006. Without the base of the party, the Republican Party cannot survive. By giving us McCain, the Republican Party once again is failing to deliver to its base with or without a conservative VP. Although a percentage of evangelicals are becoming more moderate, it’s not enough to carry McCain through and the base of the Party will stay home on November 4, 2008.

Party of Reagan has become an embarrassment

.... are you as angry as I am?

With the Michigan Primary Elections approaching, I'm becoming more and more angry with the entire political process and the two major parties. As a resident of Michigan, and a Republican, only 1/2 of my vote is going to count in the primary election. Michigan moved its Primaries to January 15, therefore breaking a Republican National Committee (RNC) rule, which states that no State may hold its primaries before Feb. 5th without facing penalties. Michigan has pretty much always been irrelevant in the primaries. For once, Michiganders wanted to be relevant therefore changed its primary to January 15 and by doing so, the RNC penalized Michigan Republicans by stripping us of 1/2 of our delegates.

Governor Jennifer M. Granholm has signed into law Senate Bill 624 that establishes January 15, 2008 as the date for a statewide presidential primary for the 2008 presidential election cycle. The bill passed with bipartisan majorities in both the state house and state senate and is supported by leaders from both the Democratic and Republican state parties.

Under the new law, any political party that received less than 20 percent of the total vote cast for president at the last presidential election is not eligible to participate in the presidential primary. Based on 2004 results, the Republican and Democratic parties will be the only participating political parties in the 2008 presidential primary. There's nothing like "legally" eliminating the competition and keeping a 2 party stronghold on power.

The rules of the Republican National Party as adopted by the 2004 Republican National Convention states, "Be it resolved that the Republican Party is the party of the open door. Ours is the party of Liberty, the party of Equality, of opportunity for all and favoritism for none. It is the intent and purpose of these rules to encourage and allow the broadest possible participation of all voters in Republican Party activities at all levels and to assure the Republican Party is open and accessible to all Americans."

What a bunch of Hog Wash. I guess these rules only apply if you don't step out of line. How does this statement apply to us Michigan Republican voters now that our primary election date has moved up? Where is the broadest possible participation of voters when we are being stripped of 1/2 of our delegates? Now our vote is no longer equal to other States, it is only counted as 1/2. So their statement is meaningless without actual adherence to it. Iowa's voters are definitively being treated with favoritism having the first say about which candidate will be the nominee every time.

And as if this is not enough, to top it off, Democrats will taint our 1/2 vote. The Democratic Party has a similar rule that no State may hold its Primaries or Caucuses before February 5 with the exception of Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. So the DNC penalized Michigan's move of the primary date by stripping them of ALL of their delegates and discouraged the Democratic Candidates to campaign in Michigan. Michigan, in its seventh year of a slumping economy with the nation's highest unemployment rate and lowest rate of economic growth under governor Granholm’s rule, lost millions of dollars that the Democratic campaigns would have brought to the state. Quite frankly, I don't expect anything better from the Socialistic, oops I mean Democratic Party, but I do expect better from the Republican Party. Now that the Democratic voters are totally disenfranchised from their own candidates, many will be crossing over to vote for Republican nominees, therefore tainting the Republican voters' real choice of the Republican nominee.
Several liberal groups are already at work to “mess” with the Republican primary process by voting for Republicans. MoveOn is encouraging its members to vote for Ron Paul. The former Michigan State Rep. LaMar Lemmons III, (D-Detroit, who supports Obama) formed a new group called Democrats for Huckabee.

If the Republican Party doesn't wake up and start acting the like the party of Ronald Reagan maybe it is time for myself and other fellow conservative Republicans to look elsewhere. Remember the Federalist or Whig Party? They became irrelevant and disappeared.

TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY: Straighten up or get out!

As a life-long conservative, I have voted republican since I became an American citizen. However, I am becoming quite angry, disappointed and disillusioned at where the Republican Party is heading. The “conservative” Republican Party is supposed to stand for: God, Country, Low Taxes, Small Government, Family Values, and Adherence to the Constitution. I don’t blame James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, for not endorsing any of the Republican Party frontrunners and thinking about supporting a third party. The Republican Party’s track record has not been good lately and it appears that they are consistently moving away from the party’s values.

These days we hear much from the Republican’s phrase “Rule of Law”. This freaks me out. I’m sick and tired of every politician, regardless of democrats or republicans, consistently wanting to impose new laws. Whatever happened to small government? Small government means fewer laws. I want a politician that is going to stand up and say, “I will not go to Washington to make new laws; I will go to Washington to abolish laws.” Just as we need to cut taxes, we need to cut laws. The amount of laws that govern our everyday life is enormous. We need to drastically cut them down and make them simpler so one doesn’t have to hire a full-time attorney just to live modern day life without fear of breaking some law. Our Republican candidates have forgotten why we sent them to Washington; to serve us and adhere to our values rather than compromise our values to get re-elected. Does the term public servant mean anything to them? They are there to serve us, not there to make life-long careers for themselves. Certain things cannot be compromised, our values is one of them. One cannot serve two masters, God and mammon. I’d hate to be in their shoes on that Great Judgment Day. They have lost fear of God and fear of the voters.

The Republicans were in control of the house and senate for quite some time. What have they accomplished for our conservative values? They can’t even unite against the liberal threats. They promote presidential candidate front-runners, which Christians cannot support. It shouldn’t be about choosing the lesser of two evils, where one must vote for a republican frontrunner just so a democrat doesn’t win. We should promote and vote for a candidate that reflects most of our conservative values. Much blame is put on President Bush for signing every spending bill. What about the republicans in Congress passing these bills and even allowing them to come before our President? Where is their accountability? President Bush has become an easy target for the Democrats and a scapegoat for the Republicans. So that brings us to another conservative value: Personal Accountability. Where is it? Congress sure can’t find it. When the Republicans were in power, they acted like hungry pigs just getting to the trough and stuffing themselves until they burst.

The Republican Party and conservatives have become very tolerant of the Republican candidate’s lack of conservative values just so a democrat will not win. Obviously, this strategy is not working. It is time now to stand up for our values and choose candidates that will protect them.

The Republican Party is not fighting hard enough to keep God in our public life. They are allowing God to be stripped away from our political and public life and are allowing other religions to be promoted and favored over Christianity and Judaism. The latest example is when Congress passed the bill honoring Ramadan.

I’m not even going to talk about the Republican Party supporting hate crime legislation (protecting certain groups of people is not equal rights), gun-control laws, sanctioning the murder of innocent babies, tax heights, lying and deceiving, and immigration. Republicans are pathetically week when it comes to our defending our nation from our enemies. Instead of crushing them, they try to appease them. I say it’s enough! It got so bad that I cannot even proudly proclaim myself as a republican. I am leaning more toward labeling myself as a constitutionalist. I even purposely failed to renew my membership to my County’s Republican Party.

I believe we, as conservatives need to separate ourselves from the Republican Party and ask for change. If the Party continues down this path of destruction and refuses to change, we need to divorce ourselves from the party and find a new partner who is in alignment with our conservative values. We should not continue to settle for Republican candidates who fail to uphold and support our conservative values (which by the way, is getting worse each new election cycle). We should strive for better candidates. The time for tolerance of anti-conservative values needs to come to an end. If not, we are only heading for disaster. However, I’m not willing to give up on the Republican Party just yet. But just as God chastises those He loves, I think it necessary to point out the Party’s road toward destruction. Maybe a communist president, like Hillary, Obama, Edwards, or Gore is what this country needs to make Americans angry enough to clean house as they did when the King was in power. If our forefathers had tolerated the tea-tax, where would we be today? They would have never tolerated what we have become accustomed to tolerating. Make no mistake; we are no longer free people. We’ve become a bunch a cowards, enjoying the wealth of our country and not willing to pay the price for God, Country, Low Taxes, Small Government, Family Values, and Adherence to the Constitution. Have we forgotten “Give me liberty or give me death!”?

THE IMMIGRATION CONSPIRACY

There is a lot of rhetoric going around from both parties when it comes to illegal immigration. Yet, neither of the parties talk about legal immigration. Both, illegal immigration and legal immigration are a mess. The reality is that neither party wants to clean up either one of these messes.
Regarding illegal immigration, neither party wants to solve this issue because they both like the status quo and use it for political pondering. Each side will make sure to put a poison pill into any immigration bill so it won’t get passed. The Republican Party campaigns on border enforcement and no amnesty (For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. —Matthew 6:14-15). Yet, when they had the opportunity to close the border (during the 6 years they were in control of the legislative and executive branch) they didn’t even attempt to do so. Yet they refuse to take any personal accountability for the number of illegal’s in this country today. Don’t blame Bush, the republicans in the House and Senate haven’t even passed bills that would secure our southern border to present to the President. They only started screaming about it when election time came and in the processed vilified President Bush for properly trying to solve at least part of the illegal immigration problem. Our country needs workers, therefore, the Republican Party does not close the border, nor does it go strongly after the employers that hire illegal immigrants. They only strongly TALK about going after such employers. This is turning the problem on its head. It is like killing the patient to get ride of the cancer. If you close the border then you needn’t worry about illegal immigrants coming here and getting jobs illegally. It is also pathetic to pass blame to the Mexican government for not closing their border. Why should they close their border and prevent their citizens from leaving. That is not democracy! So do we want Mexico to become a dictatorship? It is solely our responsibility to close the border. But the republicans have blamed everyone else for the illegal immigration problem. By not closing the boarder, the Republican Party was complicit in allowing the illegal immigrants to come here. Yet they refuse to take responsibility and would rather harshly punish the illegal immigrants.

The Democratic Party (controlled by the ultra-left wing) doesn’t want to solve it for two reasons. One, Immigration laws are hurting the support for the Republican Party. And two, they totally want to change the United States and its demographics. The immigration problem helps to accomplish that cause. They also want to destroy our economy and illegal immigrants help destroy it by failing to pay taxes and using tax dollars through medical, educational, and social services.

Moving onto legal immigration, neither party even talks about it. Let me tell you, it is a nightmare. One actually gets punished for trying to legally reside in the United States. Few Republicans (James Sensenbrenner, just to name one) are notorious for constantly introducing anti-legal immigration laws. The rights of US citizens are being totally violated when they marry a non-US citizen. One would think that as an American citizen, one can marry whoever he or she wants AND has the right to have his/her spouse live with him/her in the US. WRONG! It boils down to the government controlling whom one can and cannot marry. If the non-citizen falls into certain parameters, the government will refuse to allow the non-citizen spouse to live in the U.S., thus forcing either the citizen reside outside his own country, or reside without his spouse. I’m not just speaking of U.S. citizens marrying outside the U.S. I’m also talking about US citizens marrying non-citizens who are here legally such as being here on a work or student visa. It is a God given right for families to be together and no government should have the power to unjustly violate that right; especially for honest mistakes such as filling out an application wrong. Where are our rights given in the Constitution? We cannot violate the rights of United States citizen due to unconstitutional immigration laws. Families being torn apart for years due to a mistake on an immigration form is wrong morally and constitutionally! Whatever happened to the burden of proof of guilt lying on the government rather than the burden of innocence lying on the individual?

But it’s not just our government failing in the immigration issue. As a Christian, I’m also angry at Christian organizations when it comes to this issue. The only exception is the Catholic Church. Christians have obviously forgotten Christ’s teachings. Christ said in Matthew 19-6: “What God has joined together, let no man put asunder.”
Let me ask, where will the allegiance of the families affected by bad immigration laws lay? The allegiance of families affected by immigration will always turn to the Democratic Party. Many true conservatives will abandon the Republican Party when they personally have to deal with immigration issues. Children being separated from their parents will never vote for the Republican who forced them from their parents! Republicans, conservatives, and Christians need to wake up and do the moral thing, the conservative thing, the Christian thing, and not cut its own feet and loose an entire group of voters to the other side. Republicans are loosing more than they are gaining and they are too blind to realize it. By breaking up families, The Republican Party is raising a bunch of democrats. And by raising a bunch of democrats, they are raising a bunch of anti-Americans. One can never go wrong when he breaks things down to basic elements and then does the right thing regardless of what outcome one thinks it may have. Immigrants made this country and the immigrants aren’t the ones who will eventually kill this country. The democrats and today’s republicans will by their actions and Christians will by their lack of action.

THE WALL

There is much discussion about “the wall”, the barrier on our southern Mexican border. This proposed wall is being labeled as "evil" by the looney left. There have been many walls that this non-existent wall is being compared to such as the Berlin Wall, the Iron Curtin, and of course the Israeli Wall (which prevents the killing of Israeli civilians by Palestinian terrorist). Is a wall good or bad? It is NEITHER. It is a wall. It is a tool and it is the purpose for which the wall is used that is good or evil. A wall for the purpose of preventing people from leaving has an evil purpose. A wall for the purpose of preventing undesirable people from coming into the country has a good purpose. It is that simple. A wall built on our southern border, built by the Mexican government for the purpose of preventing Mexicans from leaving their own country is evil. A wall built by the US government for the purpose of preventing illegals, terrorists and drugs coming into our country is good. Hello, an inanimate object cannot be good or evil!