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Posted at 9:13am on Jun. 13, 2008 Carter's Second Coming?

Voters need to remember their history so they don't repeat it.

By Richard H Collins

Barack Obama may be the political equivalent of a rock star with his huge crowds and his celebrity endorsements, but his economic policies are simply the warmed over liberalism of the sixties and seventies.

Stale liberalism doesn’t have a history of success in America and doesn’t match his image of Hope and Change. This same old big government tax and spend liberalism is a far cry from a “New Politics.” So Obama has been forced into some creative marketing to sell his leftist ideology as post-partisan solutions to the country’s problems.

If you can cut through the hype and the rhetoric, his worldview is clear. Look at the way he talks about money. Tax cuts are “giveaways” and “wasteful spending.” Forget for a moment whether specific tax cuts enhance revenue or stimulate the economy. Instead, remember that tax cuts are fundamentally different from government spending because the money isn’t the governments to begin with.

This captures the liberal view perfectly; the government knows how to spend your money better than you do. Wanting to keep your own money is selfish and wasteful. Obama even made the ludicrous claim that it is only with his nomination that America can began to heal the sick and find jobs for the jobless. It is only increased government spending that can solve problems and only Obama who can lead the way.

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Posted at 7:35am on Jun. 10, 2008 Obama Is Running For Jimmy Carter's Second Term

Where's That Killer Rabbit

By California Yankee

In an interview with NBC's Brian Williams, McCain said Obama seems to be running for a second Carter term:

Williams: Is it going to be tough to run with an incumbent party for the White House, given this economic backdrop?

McCain: I-- I think it's-- it's tough. But I think the American didn't, people didn't get to know me yesterday. They know me. They know that I have fought for restraining spending, which Senator Obama has been a big part of, with earmarking (UNINTEL) projects. They know that I have been a strong fiscal conservative, and they know I understand the challenges that they face.

They need a little break from-- from their gasoline taxes, and they -- and they know that -- we've got to get spending under control. And we've got to become independent of foreign oil. Sen. Obama says that I'm running for a Bush's third terms. It seems to me he's running for Jimmy Carter's second. (LAUGHTER)

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Posted at 10:55am on May 27, 2008 Jimmy Carter Open Thread

Oh-and a Redstate reader contest

By haystack

[A big ol' Stetson to Gateway Pundit for the inspiration...and to my personal "honey-do" activities this weekend for the correlation]

Thanks for the memories Jimmah...the hits just keep on comin'...now, let's see who can photoshop this pic for extra credit.

I'll throw down for a Redstate coffee mug as a door prize for best caption or best "doctored" photo.

Open thread commenceth...

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Posted at 10:01am on Apr. 23, 2008 Jimmy Carter: Ideal SecState For The "New" Democrat [Updated and bumped]

By haystack

[image courtesy Salon (note: check the accompanying b-slap from last year of the former President by Bill Maher of all people in the accompanying article-it's a whopper!)]

Update:

Breibart is channeling ol' haystack this morning, informing us that the "Carter-Hamas meeting achieved nothing."

Funny, I think I suggested as much 24 hours prior...seems the Palestinians who WANT to find a peaceful solution and live agree with my analysis:

Last week's meeting between former US president Jimmy Carter and the exiled leader of Hamas militants did not produce any results, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki said here Wednesday.

"President Carter came to the region thinking he could achieve something. Unfortunately president Carter left without anything concrete," he told a conference in the Spanish capital.

"The only thing he achieved was permission on the part of Khaled Meshaal of Hamas to deliver a letter from a detained Israeli soldier to his family. Nothing else," he said.

"Hamas offered nothing to president Carter. They reiterated the same positions. There was no change on the part of Hamas," Malki added.

Yeah, Jimmy-we know-they were duly elected and therefore they must be respected. We know we're not supposed to convolute that with whether blowing themselves and their neighbors up to actually GET those votes ever really had anything to do with it.

My original post in full, below the fold...

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Posted at 2:37pm on Apr. 17, 2008 Why? Some questions about Obama's terrorist and communist fan club

It's like the Joker and Lady Vic campaigning for Lex Luthor for President. At some point it raises red flags.

By Erick

We have well documented Barack Obama's Marxist underpinnings. His wife, his preacher, his mother, his father, his childhood mentor, and his neighbor Bill Ayers all have underlying beliefs in marxism. They share a disdain for capitalism, capital, and job providers. They are all swept up in the call for social change. And Obama has been right there with them.

We get glimpses every once in a while -- Obama rails against corporate special interests and denies taking money from them, while using them to raise his money and while actually getting money from them. Obama expresses his distain for religion as a crutch for humanity, echoing Marx's view that religion is an opiate for the masses. Obama decries the unfairness of the rich while expressing his connection to the proletariat, despite not being one of them.

There is a growing sense though, both among some Clinton supporters and those of us on the right, that we're at a tipping point and it is a point that requires the press to dig a bit deeper.

Obama's ties to terrorist Bill Ayers and his terrorist wife are often played down by the Obama campaign, but they are only disputed by Obama's chief strategist. In fact, Obama's present successful political career was started in Bill Ayers's living room.

“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor.”

Then, of course, we have his dealings with Tony Rezko and Saddam loyalist Nadhmi Auchi, with whom Obama tries to play down his relationship. Nonetheless, Obama appears to have yet again lied to cover up his toasting of Nadhmi.

Equally disturbing is Obama's willingness to take money from Code Pink activists, that particularly repugnant group that harasses our military, assaults our elected officials, and accuses our heros of being war criminals. Obama has no problem with their money or their support. In fact, his rhetoric frequently appeals to this group and its supporters because it is so anti-American military, or rather anti-imperalist.

Maybe all these things combined send signals to those who live in that world. The signals are seemingly so strong that Obama has a terrorist fan club of sorts. We should review the members.

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Posted in 2008 | Barack Obama | Code Pink | Daniel Ortega | FARC | Fidel Castro | Hamas | Jimmy Carter — Comments (10)/ Email this page » / Read More »