Kristallnacht, literally, “Night of Crystal,” is often referred to as the “Night of Broken Glass.” The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938, throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by German troops.
Instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials and members of the SA (Sturmabteilungen: literally Assault Detachments, but commonly known as Storm Troopers) and Hitler Youth, Kristallnacht owes its name to the shards of shattered glass that lined German streets in the wake of the pogrom—broken glass from the windows of synagogues, homes, and Jewish-owned businesses plundered and destroyed during the violence.
First they came for Romney donors.
Then they came for the Tea Party.
Then they came for Obama critics.
Then they came for those critical of Obamacare.
Then they came for the Friends of Abe.
Then they came for the big names in Conservatives.
Conservative Kristallnacht.
In 2009 Barack Obama “joked” about auditing his enemies.
Barack Obama owes his presidency in no small part to the power of rhetoric. It’s too bad he doesn’t appreciate the damage that loose talk can do to America’s tax system, even as exploding federal deficits make revenues more important than ever.
At his Arizona State University commencement speech last Wednesday, Mr. Obama noted that ASU had refused to grant him an honorary degree, citing his lack of experience, and the controversy this had caused. He then demonstrated ASU’s point by remarking, “I really thought this was much ado about nothing, but I do think we all learned an important lesson. I learned never again to pick another team over the Sun Devils in my NCAA brackets. . . . President [Michael] Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS.”
It wasn’t funny.
Just a joke about the power of the presidency. Made by Jay Leno it might have been funny. But as told by Mr. Obama, the actual president of the United States, it’s hard to see the humor. Surely he’s aware that other presidents, most notably Richard Nixon, have abused the power of the Internal Revenue Service to harass their political opponents. But that abuse generated a powerful backlash and with good reason. Should the IRS come to be seen as just a bunch of enforcers for whoever is in political power, the result would be an enormous loss of legitimacy for the tax system.
It was a red flag. It was a warning. It was a harbinger. He told us he was going to do it. And now it’s here.
Ostensibly no longer a candidate for office, Obama has unleashed full fury of the IRS onto conservatives. It is now a tool of Organizing for Obama America and DNC. No one is safe. And now it’s in the open and out of control and they’re not even disguising it any longer.
Obama brought the power of the IRS to bear in the 2012 campaign:
Try this thought experiment: You decide to donate money to Mitt Romney. You want change in the Oval Office, so you engage in your democratic right to send a check.
Several days later, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man on the planet, singles you out by name. His campaign brands you a Romney donor, shames you for “betting against America,” and accuses you of having a “less-than-reputable” record. The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money.
Are you worried?
Obama singled them out by name and slandered them with innuendo:
Save Mr. Obama, who acknowledges no rules. This past week, one of his campaign websites posted an item entitled “Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney’s donors.” In the post, the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private citizens who had donated to his opponent. Describing the givers as all having “less-than-reputable records,” the post went on to make the extraordinary accusations that “quite a few” have also been “on the wrong side of the law” and profiting at “the expense of so many Americans.”
These are people like Paul Schorr and Sam and Jeffrey Fox, investors who the site outed for the crime of having “outsourced” jobs. T. Martin Fiorentino is scored for his work for a firm that forecloses on homes. Louis Bacon (a hedge-fund manager), Kent Burton (a “lobbyist”) and Thomas O’Malley (an energy CEO) stand accused of profiting from oil. Frank VanderSloot, the CEO of a home-products firm, is slimed as a “bitter foe of the gay rights movement.”
These are wealthy individuals, to be sure, but private citizens nonetheless. Not one holds elected office. Not one is a criminal. Not one has the barest fraction of the position or the power of the U.S. leader who is publicly assaulting them.
Then rapacious assault began:
Two months later, the IRS informed VanderSloot he and his wife were going to be audited, Strassel reported. Two weeks after that, VanderSloot was notified by the Labor Department that it was going to “audit workers he employs on his Idaho-based cattle ranch under the federal visa program for temporary agriculture workers,” reported Strassel.
“The H-2A program allows tens of thousands of temporary workers in the U.S.; Mr. VanderSloot employs precisely three,” Strassel wrote. “All are from Mexico and have worked on the VanderSloot ranch—which employs about 20 people—for five years. Two are brothers. Mr. VanderSloot has never been audited for this, though two years ago his workers’ ranch homes were inspected. (The ranch was fined $8,400, mainly for too many ‘flies’ and for ‘grease build-up’ on the stove. God forbid a cattle ranch home has flies.)”
“This letter requests an array of documents to ascertain whether Mr. VanderSloot’s ‘foreign workers are provided the full scope of protections’ under the visa program: information on the hours they’ve worked each day and their rate of pay, an explanation of their deductions, copies of contracts,” she continued.
The IRS leaked the donor list for the National Organization for Marriage to the Obama campaign which then excoriated Romney:
Solmonese, then still the HRC’s president, said in the release he felt Romney’s “funding of a hate-filled campaign designed to drive a wedge between Americans is beyond despicable.”
“Not only has Romney signed NOM’s radical marriage pledge, now we know he’s one of the donors that NOM has been so desperate to keep secret all these years,” Solmonese added.
(Note: If you don’t agree with the radical views of the left you’re despicable.)
A Romney donor even found an Obama operative digging into his divorce records. Such skullduggery is a common practice for Obama.
An Obama capo apparently accessed the tax records of the Koch brothers who were then slandered:
A administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity in the background briefing, pointed to Koch Industries as an example of “multibillion-dollar businesses that are structured as partnerships in ways that allow them to avoid paying sizable corporate taxes.”
The Tea Party was targeted repeatedly by Obama’s IRSS:
Lois G. Lerner, the woman at the center of the Internal Revenue Service scandal over special scrutiny of conservative groups, specifically targeted tea party applications and directed that they be held up in 2011 in order to come up with an agency policy, according to several of Ms. Lerner’s emails released by a House committee Thursday.
In one 2011 email, Ms. Lerner specifically calls the tea party applications for tax-exempt status problematic, which seems to counter Democrats’ arguments that tea party groups weren’t targeted.
To make certain nothing would come of it Obama appointed one of his donors to investigate.
Dr. Ben Carson was critical of Obama in a prayer breakfast. BANG, audit.
The latest revelation came Thursday from Dr. Carson, the renowned neurosurgeon who told The Washington Times that he was targeted for an audit just months after he gave a speech in front of President Obama that challenged America’s leadership. The agency requested to review his real estate holdings and then conducted a full audit.
In the end, the IRS found no wrongdoing, Dr. Carson said, but it raised his suspicions about being singled out for his speech.
“I guess it could be a coincidence, but I never had been audited before and never really had any encounters with the IRS,” Dr. Carson said in an interview. “But it certainly would make one suspicious because we know now the IRS has been used for political purposes and therefore actions like this come under suspicion.”
A Stage 4 cancer patient was publically critical of Obamacare found himself the subject of an IRS audit– and so was the insurance broker who aided Elliott:
Now suddenly Bill Elliot is being audited for 2009 with an interview only scheduled in April 2014. Assuming he lives that long. That might be a coincidence, but Tucker is being audited back to 2003.
That’s a rather strange coincidence.
Now the IRS is targeting conservatives in Hollywood:
LOS ANGELES — In a famously left-leaning Hollywood, where Democratic fund-raisers fill the social calendar, Friends of Abe stands out as a conservative group that bucks the prevailing political winds.
A collection of perhaps 1,500 right-leaning players in the entertainment industry, Friends of Abe keeps a low profile and fiercely protects its membership list, to avoid what it presumes would result in a sort of 21st-century blacklist, albeit on the other side of the partisan spectrum.
Now the Internal Revenue Service is reviewing the group’s activities in connection with its application for tax-exempt status. Last week, federal tax authorities presented the group with a 10-point request for detailed information about its meetings with politicians like Paul D. Ryan, Thaddeus McCotter and Herman Cain, among other matters, according to people briefed on the inquiry.
The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the organization’s confidentiality strictures, and to avoid complicating discussions with the I.R.S.
Their crime? Being conservative:
Friends of Abe — the name refers to Abraham Lincoln — has strongly discouraged the naming of its members. That policy even prohibits the use of cameras at group events, to avoid the unwilling identification of all but a few associates — the actors Gary Sinise, Jon Voight and Kelsey Grammer, or the writer-producer Lionel Chetwynd, for instance — who have spoken openly about their conservative political views.
Obama is now hunting the big game- Dinesh D’Souza. His crime? Making 2016– a movie about Obama.
Dinesh D’Souza, director of the 2012 documentary “2016: Obama’s America,” was arrested and indicted for campaign finance fraud on Thursday, Reuters reports.
The conservative filmmaker and best-selling author allegedly contributed $20,000 in 2012 in the name of others to Republican Wendy Long’s U.S. Senate campaign. Long ran for Hillary Clinton’s vacated Senate seat, but lost to Kirsten Gillibrand.
Federal law in 2012 limited election campaign contributions to $5,000 per person per candidate. Breaking this law is punishable to two years in prison.
“As we have long said, this Office and the FBI take a zero tolerance approach to corruption of the electoral process,” Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for Manhattan, said in a statement.
Attorney Benjamin Brafman told The Hollywood Reporter that his client “did not act with any corrupt or criminal intent whatsoever … at worst this was an act of misguided friendship by D’Souza.”
Follow this case intently- when a democrat does this it’s a misdemeanor.
The Kristallnacht pogrom is in full frenzy. Barack Obama has ordered the IRS to write new rules specifically designed to muzzle the Tea Party while exempting unions and the OFA.
And an IRS rule that purports to—as Mr. Werfel explained—”improve our work in the tax-exempt area” completely ignores the biggest of political players in the tax-exempt area: unions. The guidance is directed only at 501(c)(4) social-welfare groups—the tax category that has of late been flooded by conservative groups. Mr. Obama’s union foot soldiers—which file under 501(c)(5)—can continue playing in politics.
Treasury is also going to great lengths to keep secret the process behind its rule. Cleta Mitchell, an attorney who represents targeted tea party groups, in early December filed a Freedom of Information Act request with Treasury and the IRS, demanding documents or correspondence with the White House or outside groups in the formulation of this rule. By law, the government has 30 days to respond. Treasury sent a letter to Ms. Mitchell this week saying it wouldn’t have her documents until April—after the rule’s comment period closes. It added that if she didn’t like it, she can “file suit.” The IRS has yet to respond.
Mr. Camp has now authored stand-alone legislation to rein in the IRS, though the chance of Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) allowing a Senate vote is approximately equal to that of the press corps paying attention to this IRS rule.
So that puts a spotlight on newly sworn-in IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who vowed during his confirmation hearing to restore public trust in the agency, and now must decide whether to aid in a new and blatantly political abuse of IRS powers. The White House is using the agency to win an election this fall. They gave the proof this week.
Sen. Schmuck Schumer (D-NY) has called for persecution of a segment of the population because they are guilty of a crime- the crime of dissent.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) proposed using the Internal Revenue Service to curtail Tea Party group funding during a speech on how to “exploit” and “weaken” the movement at the Center for American Progress on Thursday.
Arguing that Tea Party groups have a financial advantage after the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, Schumer said the Obama administration should bypass Congress and institute new campaign finance rules through the IRS.
“It is clear that we will not pass anything legislatively as long as the House of Representatives is in Republican control, but there are many things that can be done administratively by the IRS and other government agencies—we must redouble those efforts immediately,” Schumer said.
“One of the great advantages the Tea Party has is the huge holes in our campaign finance laws created [by] the ill advised decision [Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission],” Schumer said. “Obviously the Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel millions of dollars into campaigns with ads that distort the truth and attack government.”
You’d think a Jew would know better than to incite government action against a portion of its citizens, wouldn’t you?
NY Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson has called the Obama regime “The most secretive in history.”
Well, I would slightly like to interpret the question as “How secretive is this White House?” which I think is the most important question. I would say it is the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering, and that includes — I spent 22 years of my career in Washington and covered presidents from President Reagan on up through now, and I was Washington bureau chief of the Times during George W. Bush’s first term.
Leaks that were a great thing when Romney donor info was leaked but not when information is leaked about this dictatorship:
I dealt directly with the Bush White House when they had concerns that stories we were about to run put the national security under threat. But, you know, they were not pursuing criminal leak investigations. The Obama administration has had seven criminal leak investigations. That is more than twice the number of any previous administration in our history. It’s on a scale never seen before. This is the most secretive White House that, at least as a journalist, I have ever dealt with.
The Obama regime even spies on selected reporters.
Pair all of this this with the fact that no one in the Obama regime has been held accountable for anything- not indicted, not fired, nothing. Not for Benghazi, not for Fast and Furious, not for the IRS abuse (despite the IRS chief counsel suffering amnesia 80 times), not for the NSA scandal- nothing.
Obama called for this pogrom- it is undeniable. He published an IRS hit list. This is the guy who took hundreds of millions in untraceable dollars in both 2008 and 2012.
Dissent is not patriotic any more. It’s a crime against the state. The stench of Nazi Germany is detectable on the breath of Barack Obama and Schumer every time they speak.
It’s got to stop. It is super-important that the GOP take the Senate and contain the fascist beast that Barack Obama has become. It would be highly gratifying for the GOP to retake the White House and visit upon these far left radical democrats the grief they have heaped upon conservatives.
And the economy still sucks.
UPDATE
Obama: “I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone. And I’ve got the IRS”
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
@Richard Wheeler:
RW, who would be your guess as to the author of MLK Jr’s autobiography? I know that Bill Ayers has written all of Obama’s books. Do you know when MLK’s autobio was written or published? As best I can find out, it was written in 2001 (or published that year) and was written by Claybourne Carson. Now I don’t know what you were taught at that Ivory League school you went to, but I was taught that an autobio is actually written by the person himself, during his actual lifetime.
If that is true, would you refer me to the one written by MLK Jr, during his lifetime. I’d like to compare what was said in it compared to the fraudulent one published in 2001.
You’ve quoted from the book a few times now, so you should have it on the tips of your fingers.
Bill Burris
absolutly ,you put your finger right on the humongous problem,
and they are now on the slope down because they dare to push over the limit,
where he had no right to touch it,
and the people have lost the credibility they gave him so blindly,
they are now awake and angry,
no way out, for him to recover,
@Redteam: Dr.J’s #45 sums it up . Any evidence Carson’s book fraudulent or what he wrote not factual?
Any evidence Ayers wrote Obama’s books?
@Bill Burris:
You can’t prove Obama ordered any of those alleged acts for those reasons.
Aside from Bush I (a one-term POTUS who issued one less) Obama has issued less Executive Orders than any President since Grover Cleveland. But don’t let silly facts get in the way of your hysterical narrative
Again, prove it.
Ah, the race card. “black on white violence all across the nation”. Was I in a coma? If you’re still working through your issues with having a black POTUS, that doesn’t mean reality conforms to your fantasy world.
I don’t start with a supposition and then go out of my way to find parallels. You’ve clearly made a religion of it. I have a feeling that any VP of Obama would have been a van de Lubbe in your pop-up book version of reality.
You have no idea whom I’m associated with or what I think. Just because I think you’re delusional and paranoid has no bearing on my politics, only your inability to argue your point rationally, with factual evidence. Do you really think most respectable conservatives would agree with you over me? I’m sure Charles Krauthammer is barring his windows as we write, awaiting Biden and his scary torch.
@Richard Wheeler: I can’t believe you wrote this question.
It absolutely is fraudulent. Claybourne Carson can only write an autobiography of Claybourne Carson. Or has ‘autobiography’ been redefined? It wasn’t even written until 33 years after King died, so he couldn’t even have proof read it.
Definition: a history of a person’s life written or told by that person.
I’ll submit that he could never write or tell that story to anyone 33 years after he died.
LOL
@Richard Wheeler:This is Dr J’s no 45, it doesn’t refer to my questions at all, are you trying to duck my question?
You’ve quoted MLK Jr’s autobio several times. Tell us where we can find an actual autobio of MLK Jr.
@DrJohn:
Do I really need to start quoting MLK to prove another fantasy of yours is nothing but hot air?
Does this sound conservative Republican?
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2014/01/20/3177871/martin-luther-king-radicalism/
http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/economic-and-social-bill-rights#
@Redteam: Look up Clayborne Carson and his history with King, his life’s pursuits and his current position.
As to Ayers —C’mon
You really love to waste people’s time RT. Did you bother to read Dr. J’s #45.
Enjoy your evening—-I’m out.
@Tom: IRS: before the story broke, IRS officials were meeting with White House council and staff. Meetings with the council coincided with actions taken against Tea Parties and the Obama campaign was dispensing IRS-supplied details of opposition campaign contributors to support groups. Of course, if the Holder DOJ would actually honestly investigate the problem rather than assist in the cover up, we could know the full details.
I guess you missed it, but Obama actually told a Latino interviewer that they should punish the Republicans, their enemies, for opposing immigration amnesty. Further, Obama spoke out in support of the OWS thugs even as they were trashing parks, burning buildings and engaging in their crime spree. The proof is public record. This isn’t MSNBC where you can just ignore what has happened. It’s all evidence of a degenerate administration.
Obama actually used EO to enact a law (the Dream Act) that had twice been shot down in Congress. That, alone, is unprecedented. Further, he changes his own signature disaster to reduce the disastrous impact on his own political fortunes. He has made recess appointments while there was no Congressional recess (and got spanked) plus using executive privilege to shield Holder from further exposure on Fast and Furious (ep is supposed to keep the President from having to reveal his own secrets, yet Obama stated he had nothing to do with F & F; what’s up with that, Tom?). Nixon looks like a Boy Scout in comparison.
Lubbe was a useful idiot. The only difference is that Biden is a bit less utile.
By any measure, this administration is THE most intrusive, violative, dishonest and incompetent in history. However, for the administration that pledged to be the most ethical, transparent and honest in history, it is almost comical. Anyone that supports this regime should be so proud of their own integrity.
@Richard Wheeler: Stop weaseling Richard. If doesn’t matter if Claybourne Carson is the King of Siam, he can’t write an Autobio of MLK Jr 33 years after he died. I will concede he could write a Bio, but then that is not a story about himself. Now quit equivocating and tell us, have you or have you not, read an ‘actual’ Autobio, that MLK Jr wrote, of MLK Jr. or have you just been blowing smoke with all your quotes of his Autobio?
did I read it, I quoted it in #56 it makes no reference at all to what I asked you.
So, you’re ducking the question. You don’t want to have to actually admit that you’ve been ‘quoting’ an autobio of MLK Jr, that doesn’t even exist. Well, the question will still be here when you come back.
@Redteam: It’s called an auto-biography because it’s written in first person containing “Kings most intimate words and thoughts.” This man knew King well. Coretta and many other King associates endorsed the book.
You don’t believe what’s written–fine.
Waiting on proof Ayers wrote Obama’s books. I’ll look for that when I get back.
Richard Wheeler, I’m still not sure that you exactly understand what an autobiography is and why it is labeled as such. It means that it is the actual words of the person that the story is about. It can not be a story told by someone else, because then it is just someone’s version of the person’s life, not the actual story of the person himself. It ‘especially’ can not be written ‘after’ the person dies because then it can’t be verified by the person that is the subject. So Claybourne Carson can say whatever the hell he wants to attribute to MLK Jr and who would be there to dispute it? Me.
I guess I’m surprised that you didn’t know this, what with an Ivory League education and all.
@Richard Wheeler:
Total BS. I could write a story in first person containing ‘what I claim was Kings most intimate and thoughts’ but it would be total BS, just as Claybourne Carson’s is.
You are the one that is “Quoting MLK Jr’s autobio” . That is a total fabrication. The correct statement would be that you are quoting what someone claims that MLK Jr said.
I just gotta laugh that you don’t recognize the difference.
whentostopdiggin.com
@Richard Wheeler:
Well, it doesn’t contain my endorsement, or yours either, does it? Then it can’t be legitimate. You can blow all the smoke you want, but you can’t make it into an autobiography by MLK Jr. He’s dead.
Richard Wheeler
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Bill Burris
super, the naked truth,is good to hear, because we suspect it was it,
BYE
@Bill Burris:
You continue to make accusations you can’t support, but tellingly ignore – again – the fact you’re wrong about executive order. I imagine keeping a sharp eye on this totalitarianism angle must make it pretty easy to ignore the problems in this country that actually exist.
@Bill Burris:
Hey Bill, they are not that good. You give them way too much credit.
I heard a famous person the other day, in response to the question: What do you think of President Obama?
His answer, ‘well, he’s certainly removed all doubt as to the question, was Jimmy Carter the worst president of all time”.
@Tom:
The real problem is keeping a sharp eye on liberals that quote from a book by Claybourne Carson and attribute it to MLK Jr. in an autobiography. That’s a ‘real’ problem.
Ayers probably wrote Obama’s Dreams based on talks and notes from Obama who was behind schedule and had already spent the advance money…..
ONE:
Bill Ayers wrote an essay on memoir writing, that essay’s postmodern themes and phrases are echoed throughout Dreams.
Bill Ayers’ 2001 memoir Fugitive Days and Obama’s Dreams follow oddly similar rules.
Both blur facts, change identities and make no claims at history. Some characters are composites.
Ayers calls lies “our constructed reality.” In Dreams Obama says, “But another part of me knew that what I was telling them was a lie, something I’d constructed from the scraps of information I’d picked up from my mother.”
TWO:
There are matching nautical metaphors from both Ayers and Obama in Dreams that almost assuredly came from the same source: Ayers, a former merchant seaman.
In Ayers’ 1993 book, To Teach, Ayers tells the story of an adventurous teacher who would take her students out to the streets of New York to learn interesting life lessons about the culture and history of the city. As Ayers tells it, the students were fascinated by the Hudson River nearby and asked to see it. When they got to the river’s edge, one student said, ” Look, the river is flowing up.” A second student said, “No, it has to flow south-down.”
Not knowing which was right, the teacher and the students did their research. What they discovered, writes Ayers, was “that the Hudson River is a tidal river, that it flows both north and south, and they had visited the exact spot where the tide stops its northward push.”
Now from Dreams Obama “took the long way home, along the East River promenade.” He sat down on a bench to consider his options. While sitting, he noticed a black woman and her young son who
approached Obama: “Excuse me, mister,” he shouted. “You know why sometimes the river runs that way and then sometimes it goes this way?”
“The woman smiled and shook her head, and I said it probably had to do with the tides.”
Ayers again: “Memory sails out upon a murky sea,” Ayers writes.
“The unlucky ones drift into the murky tide of hustles and odd jobs,” Obama in Dreams.
And who that was never a sailor (like Ayers was) uses ”ballast” as a metaphore?
Obama: “A steady attack on the white race . . . served as the ballast that could prevent the ideas of personal and communal responsibility from tipping into an ocean of despair.”
Democrats and any person or business who donates enough to the obama’s campaign are safe.
I have the U. S. Constitution, and I can vote. They override your pen, phone, and the IRS.
@Redteam: Ayers jokingly says he wrote the books–asks someone else to prove it.
That’s your proof?/– you’re kidding. I hope.
Re King What’ e the question. Do you think he was a Repub? He wasn’t.
BTW The book is titled The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King Jr–over one million copies sold. If you don’t like the title take your beef up with Carson.
@Richard Wheeler:
au·to·bi·og·ra·phy
[aw-tuh-bahy-og-ruh-fee, -bee-, aw-toh-] noun, plural au·to·bi·og·ra·phies.
a history of a person’s life written or told by that person.
au·to·bi·og·ra·phy noun \ˌȯ-tə-bī-ˈä-grə-fē, -bē-\
: a biography written by the person it is about
• AUTOBIOGRAPHY (noun)
The noun AUTOBIOGRAPHY has 1 sense: 1. a biography of yourself
Face it Richard, Redteam is correct, and your continuing to argue (that Claybourne Carson’s book is an autobiography of MLK) only makes you look foolish. The only possible way that Claybourne Carson could write an autobiography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is if he is MLK. Surely you don’t believe that.
…or do you?
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Clayborne Carson (Editor)
AMAZON:
David Walton
Jack E. White
Seems the reviewers were honest about it.
But worshipers of Martin Luther King Jr. will not be deterred from calling a culled collection an ”autobiography.”
I had the honor of marching with Rev. King when I was in college.
I’ll never forget it.
But that doesn’t turn this book into a real autobiography.
@Richard Wheeler: The whole problem is your claiming you’re quoting from an autobio of MLK Jr, when you’re not. An autobio is written by the subject. It’s just the basic dishonesty. I’m disappointed that you don’t even seem to know the difference.
Clearly Ayers said he wrote it. When asked, he tried to make a joke of it because he screwed up. Maybe that serves for washing liberal linen, but somebody needs to get the shit off before you sleep on it again.
RW, seems as if I’m not the only one that thinks it is not an autobio. Go ahead and play Marine and man up.
@Richard Wheeler:
Wow, RW, even the liberal New York Times recognizes that it’s not an autobio. quit digging when you’re in over your head. didn’t you learn that in liberal playbook school?
@Tom:
The ACA law says “shall” with regard to the effective dates.
You might to look up what “shall” means in a court of law. Unilaterally obliterating that is a violation of the law. The President cannot rewrite law and he has done so.
@Tom: Well, Tom, I look at it this way; if Obama was clean in the IRS scandal, for just one, he would have held some people accountable, since he himself said it was unacceptable. Like Christie did, he would have fired someone, like Lerner, for instance (instead of awarding her with a pension) or promoting Sara Hall, who was incharge of the division that enacted the harassment. Of course, the down side of that move would be people flipping on you and squealing (the jury is still out on Christie in that regard), who when Obama fires NO ONE for IRS harassments, Benghazi, Fast and Furious or the illegal surveillance of journalists, in addition to routinely and predictably always assigning a dependable campaign supporter to “get to the bottom” of these scandals only tells me he does not want too many stones turned over.
Again, using an executive order to enact a law that has already failed in Congress (you know, the people that are supposed to represent US) might not be technically unConstitutional, but it certainly violates, severely, the separation of powers. Add to that the fact that this was done purely for his own personal electoral benefit and you have a scumbag.
“You continue to make accusations you can’t support, but tellingly ignore – again – the fact you’re wrong about executive order. I imagine keeping a sharp eye on this totalitarianism angle must make it pretty easy to ignore the problems in this country that actually exist.” You cannot support the thought process by which you continue to support this regime. Yes, there are problems that need to be addressed, which begs the question of why have they NOT been addressed, but perhaps instead of worrying if someone is reporting his failures Obama should be trying to avoid or reverse his failures. He was warned extensively about the upcoming problems with Obamacare, but he ignored them and, apparently, the efforts required to effectively put the law in place. Yes, there are problems (economy, unemployment, deteriorating foreign policy, eroding public faith in the federal government) and one wonders why they don’t get addressed.
Some liberals have actually opened their eyes and seen how Obama is divergent from the lofty, idealistic image and promises he made his facade. I realize how embarrassing and, perhaps, personally depressing it would be to admit that one based their support on a grand lie, but, well, that’s what happens when support is based on an advertising campaign, which is what Obama’s personal promotion has been. I feel for ya, Tom.
Shared everywhere…
“A democracy is always
temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent
form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until
the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous
gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority
always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from
the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally
collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a
dictatorship.”
This is the fulfillment of that prediction! I have heard from several sources that Obama will attempt to cancel elections in 2016 on some pretext that the country has an emergency situation and he is needed to correct the problems. We will see!!!
@Bill Burris:
It’s not unreasonable that you don’t approve of Obama’s handling of these incidents. He’s ultimately responsible for the actions of those who work for him. Let’s also remember there is neither proof of criminal wrongdoing nor proof of Obama’s direct involvement. There is an insurmountable chasm of logic between believing Obama should fire someone at the IRS and believing Obama is going to seize power and rule as a despot. Every President has scandals. Nothing that’s happened under Obama is a pimple on the a*s of Iran Contra. But Reagan is a saint, so that’s discounted. In the same way, your personal animus toward Obama makes you see his presidency in a certain light, leads you to see patterns and motives that objectively can’t be proven. Let’s be honest, despite all the teeth-gnashing, individuals like yourself on the Right desperately want this to be true about Obama. Obama being an evil villain likewise casts you as a lone hero, lifts you up into a role you want to assume. I don’t think the opinion of a person with that much emotionally invested can be considered impartial. That’s why I keep pushing you back toward evidence. The truth of the matter is the only winner here is the gun industry, as the Right, in their paranoia, prepares for an apocalyptic showdown that will never come.
Your opinion on Obamacare doesn’t seem relevant to this conservation. Personally, as bungled as it’s been, there will be a legacy of extending healthcare to 30 million people. And the Right will happily somehow find reason to compare that to Hitler and gaschambers, I’m sure. Because that’s what they do.
Obama’s presidency will be like every Presidency, a mixed bag, some good some bad. With time and perspective, the exact mix will determine how he’s viewed in the long-term. It’s childish to see all Presidents, or persons, as all good or all bad, just like it’s childish to think disliking a President personally turns him into a mustache-twirling villain. Obama, as a President and person, is flawed, like every President and person. I’m happy to admit it and still more happy to say I thought he was the better candidate each time he ran. I will have no reason for embarrassment because I’ve made no simplistic embarrassing claims. You on the other hand, with your hysterical ramblings… will you come back here in three years the day after the inauguration, and offer your mea culpa? Will you take your share of responsibility for pouring your share of gasoline onto a fire of ignorance, hatred and paranoia?
@Bill Burris:
One last thought, Bill. You seem to be trying to turn this into a referendum on Obama, (and Biden) whether he personally would want or try to seize power. But that’s actually quite irrelevant to your argument, because this is a structural issue, not one of personality. The major flaw in your thinking is comparing the United States to the Weimer Republic. Do you think a rising political party with an armed paramilitary wing openly murdering people in the street wouldn’t be a cause for alarm in the United States of 2014? The IRS scandal seems a little limp in comparison, no?
@Bill Burris@#43 – You are so right! And it proves Liberals have very short term memories as in evidence here….their denials prove it… – not one mention of the FACTS you have provided….
@Tom: While you seem to believe the shortage of smoking guns definitively proves innocence, I continue to point out that those looking into the mattes are prevented from finding whether or not a smoking gun exists. So, when someone is actively (sometimes by inaction) preventing the pursuit of facts, they overtly open themselves to accusations of guilt and obstruction. Just as with Benghazi, for all the various and assorted excuses this administration trotted out, if innocent of dereliction and/or stupidity, they would be making every effort to display to the world that they are thoroughly investigating the matter, not trotting out someone with no possible knowledge of the situation to pass along the first in a series of lies. This administration does nothing to promote the image of credibility and it is utterly amazing that anyone would award it to them.
After no WMD’s were found in Iraq, we had multiple investigations; did Bush obstruct those? Did Bush obstruct any of the 9/11 hearings? Did Bush send anyone to the archives to stuff papers into his underwear? No, Bush allowed and even promoted the hearings. This, despite ongoing left wing accusation to the unsupported contrary, leads me to believe that Bush was not involved in any of the accused schemes to go to war “for oil” or “to avenge daddy”.
Obama’s presidency will go down as a warning; a warning against electing personality over capability, ideology over achievement and hollow, false promises over any evidence that he might actually carry out his promises. A warning to, in the future, heed the warning signs; the signs that say this individual has a record of promoting far left ideological goals and of using any means necessary to achieve them, in addition to a warning that when broad gaps in an individual’s resume’ are missing, it would be wise to fill in those gaps before making this person the CEO of the most powerful nation in the world. Even small companies know this.
What anyone would discover in America is that a citizenry armed with millions and millions of firearms is going to be tough sledding to overwhelm with some paramilitary force. some lessons are learned, I suppose. But, if you would open your eyes and see the concerted effort to, on the one hand, disarm the American public and, on the other, control the source of ammunition to that public, you could, if you thought you might be on the receiving end of such an effort (as opposed to cheering it on) develope a bit of healthy suspicion. However, even being on the correct side of such an effort does not guarantee continued favor; your contribution will have to be ongoing. In actuality, you will have far more freedoms under the system that existed before Obama began to abrogate it; all you have to endure is the simple irritant of others having freedoms you don’t approve of.
@Bill Burris@#43
The left and progressives continually rail on everyone and anyone who dares to bring up the totalitarian regime of the Nazi’s…and compare this to the totalitarian Obama administration….the same thing, and of course there will be in abundance, the liberal deniers – this same thing happened in Germany at the time the “man?’ known as Hitler was taking a hold of Germany…
I cannot remember the name of the concentration camp but there was a town just outside of the camp about 1 or 2 miles away. Those citizens who lived in the town would constantly smell a foul odor in the air but, never questioned it, especially to any ‘authorities’…
At the end of the war (WWII) the AMERICAN SOLDIERS came to LIBERATE the people throughout Europe. The German ‘citizens’ of that town which was just outside of this concentration camp were rounded up by the liberators and forced to walk the mile or 2 to this concentration camp…most were dressed up as though they were going to a Sunday Brunch…they walked and talked a jovial bunch, smiling, happy…
…when they finally reached their destination – the concentration camp they were ‘forced’ to take a ‘tour’
..it was at this camp where the Nazi regime worked to death, starved to death, left to die of disease and or gassed then “cremated” thousand upon thousands of ‘prisoners’…the citizens of the town were forced to look at the many dead bodies piled ten high…the death pits… where dead people were thrown like so much garbage, their bodies were skin and bones, sunken faces… the skulls and bones of hundreds of thousands of people… a true horror. The bodies were thrown in the pits because ‘there was just too many of them’ …they could not cremate them all so they just started throwing them into pits…
The smiles and jovial mood was quickly changed after the ‘tour’.
Many of these ‘citizens’ on tour “claimed” they had no idea what was going on at this camp…u-huh..
And the response to this “claim” is – My God this was literally happening ‘Right Under Their Noses’ ‘ and they STILL refused to acknowledge anything was ‘wrong’ ??…were in denial about the consistent foul ‘smell in the air’??
My point is these same people, SUPPORTED a Government – “a Man” without question…
…Much like the Liberals do with Obama and his Administration..they – see no evil – hear no evil – speak no evil…frightening…this is what happens to allow history to repeat itself…
I am not implying there will be ‘death camps’ in this country, but…
…there is something very sinister going on in a mind when a leader… a ‘president’ speaks on a public venue…about “Punishing your Enemies”…. this is indeed very frightening when a ‘leader’ speaks this way to the citizens he is suppose to be leading…this is a very frightening ‘though process’…
Seriously… What kind of “leader” …what “kind” of President speaks this way????
Ditto and RT I personally don’t care if you call it a screenplay—was it factual? Reviewers seem to think so.
Discussion was over two issues.
1) Was MLK Jr a Repub,?
2) Did he vote for JFK in 60?
Exit question Do either of you have any proof Ayers wrote any of Obama’s books? “He jokingly said so” doesn’t cut it.
I’ll wait.
@FAITH7:
Wait. Let’s recap.
@DrJohn:
Not withstanding Obama’s rhetoric about “Punish your enemies.” now he is going to give a STOTU speech on income “inequality.” Yet, when I read about Moochelle’s big 50th, it seems that he is not worried about being in the 1% himself. A party for 500 was thrown for Moochelle, and when Jay Carney was asked “who paid for it and how much did it cost?” he referred the reporters to the East Wing.
Are we to assume that the cost of that party was broken down per White House employee so that the Obama’s covered the cost of the preparation for the party, the food preparation, the serving of food and drinks, the clean up of the White House ball room, the parking attendants, cleaning of the bathrooms used by guests, both before and after such a lavish party? If so, I want to see a break down of the monumental cost that is involved in throwing a party for 500 guests at the White House. We already know that it has been reported that Moochelle’s extra stay in Hawaii (with Oprah, who Moochelle detests) cost the tax payers $60-100 MILLION.
Obama likes to think of himself as FDR. Perhaps the Obama’s should learn to act like the Roosevelts did during a rough economy.
@retire05:
Not to worry. I’m on it
@DrJohn:
I am of the opinion that when history tells the story of the Obama administration, it will not be kind. This administration, the Obama administration, is as vindictive as was FDR, but also secretive, petulant, and over indulgent, which FDR and Eleanor were not. One only has to look at the appointment of Penny Pritzker as Secretary of Commerce, the same woman who is working her friends to purchase the Obamas a tony palacious mansion in Hawaii after the Obama finally leave the White House. No mere Georgian mansion in Chicago will be good enough for the poseurs in the White House.
Ironic how the same people that defend the opulence of the Obama’s life style were quick to criticize George and Laura Bush for their time at a central Texas ranch that the Bush’s paid for themselves, including the housing required for their Secret Service detail.
THIS GUY WILL LEAVE AS HE CAME IN,
WITH A HATE IN HIS MIND,
3 dead in the MARYLAND MALL SHOOTING,
it’s now a regular event, people express the hate
they have been indoctrinate with IN THESES LAST 6 YEARS, those revenge and penaltys hate talk are now left a trail of actions
among the group who where target by it,
did you ever witness it before?
@retire05:
Penny Pritzker is the Queen of Subprime mortgages. She should be in prison, as should Andrew Cuomo
@DrJohn: Has any President ever spoken of the citizens in terms this President has used? No doubt Nixon felt that way about the media, but has any ever displayed such animosity towards the common guy just because they don’t see things through his far left lens?
@DrJohn:
Oh, yes. And what is even more hypocritical is how Democrats tout the redistribution of wealth from the rich to the little guy when they actually got rich off the backs of the little guy. Jay Rockefeller is a prime example of that philosophy. I am still waiting on the head lines that tell us all those wealthy Democrats have decided to redistribute their wealth without waiting on the government to do it for them. After all, if that is your credo, shouldn’t you be willing to put your money where your mouth is?
@Tom:
Not true. George W. Bush issued 36 executive orders and Obama has issued 37…..and he’s only on year 6.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardsalsman/2013/01/28/when-it-comes-to-abuse-of-presidential-power-obama-is-a-mere-piker/
@DrJohn#88 – Yes DrJohn…a full recap indeed. Again, what ‘kind of mind’ speaks to the people they are suppose to be leading in this way? Sinister indeed.
I caught some of Mark Levin the other night…he asked the question “Does anyone ever hear Obama speak of the Individual?” No, he doesn’t – he speaks more of “the Government” the be all and end all…Obama who never worked a ‘working persons job’ as much of (those Americas who are lucky enough to have these days)…continues to “lecture at us” as though he has…
Obama is evil.
@Tom:
You seem to forget that Reagan got to the bottom of it, fired some, some went to jail. Handled the way criminal activities should be, not ‘covered up’ ala Obama.. Quite a difference. Executive orders are only to execute laws that congress has passed. That’s what the word execute means. It is not a process to ‘establish’ law. Dimocrats stay so confused.
@Richard Wheeler: 87
You don’t care that you are wrong? Doesn’t truth matter to you? You’ve repeatedly called it an Autobio. It clearly is not. It seems to be more of an ‘I have a Dream” book, which means that Clayborne Carson had a dream that if it could be the way he would dream, this is how it would have happened.
do you know? How do you know. Are ballots secret? Did Carson have access to the voting booth? Is it just his opinion of whether he was a Republican? Is it just Carson’s opinion of who he voted for? You’re making claims, with a source that you now can’t use, of what he was and what he did? Now where is your proof.
He said he did.
Is his attempt to cover up the fact that he screwed up when he admitted it and tried to cover it by saying it was a joke. Out of the mouths of babes (and traitors).
@Redteam: Re Ayres You’ve got quite an imagination. lol
Re Carson’s book. Most think it factual–you think not.