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January 23, 2008
Dirty Political Tricks
by Tina Grazier
Jacks recent post on the study of supposed false statements made by the Bush administration before the Iraq war introduced a level of politics we need to examine. The group, “Center for Public Integrity,” is partially funded by the leftist George Soros. His tactics deserve our full attention. It is a brand of politics that goes beyond stretching the rules a bit to try and fund a campaign. It goes way beyond taking a plane ride offered by lobbyists for oil companies or green organizations. This is a level of dirty politics that has the very real potential to slowly turn our free country into the prison of marxistland.
You might not believe what I have to say. Please don’t take my word for it. Rather tuck it away in your information vault and then continue to pay attention…all that’s needed to prevent Soros vision from being realized is a public armed with information and determined to live free. People use whatever means they have available to ensure the “right person,” is installed in the Big White House on Pennsylvania Avenue. Some give a few bucks or volunteer. Others go to incredibly expensive, dirty, rotten, underhanded lengths and that makes the world of politics a crummy place to hang out. Unfortunately, if we don’t wade into the muck we are likely to find ourselves in deep layers of the stuff and soon those layers will grow deep enough to completely smother the will of the people.
The economy following the Bush tax cuts has been smokin’…humming along at a great clip…but we haven’t heard much about it. The incredible good news was not worth printing or talking about. Republicans would get the credit, you see, and we can’t have that. But sometime about mid summer 2007 the election began and so did the economic bad news. We experienced silence on the subject and then suddenly, the most horrendous gloom and doom you can imagine. Today some outlets are talking 1929…another Great Depression. Is that reasonable or is it designed to signal the need for a political savior?
Economic cycles are not unusual. Errors made in financial institutions happen, and this time they played a big part in the “housing bubble” as well as the “burst.” Whether or not there were intentional dirty ticks involved is an issue I can't address but, in any case, it isn’t these facts I wish to consider. Instead, I hope to demonstrate the way facts are used to manipulate the mood of the voters. I believe voters can handle the truth...I just hate to see them manipulated and used.
I will go on record today as saying, that if Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama are elected, the economic bad news will melt away and the sun will come out, almost as if by magic. Why do I take this chance when there are indeed very real economic problems to be solved? Because, as I said, I’m not talking about real economic problems but rather the way they are used to “crown” or club certain people (and parties) in America. Example:
Remember the never-ending homeless stories throughout the eighties? It was relentless! Homeless pictures in the news every day gave the impression that there were "two Americas". (sound familiar?) There was a handful of rich people who lived in the houses on the TV show "Homes of the Rich and Famous." The rest of us were down and out, begging in the streets, washing car windows for a few bucks...starving and dirty...and Ronald Reagan was president! During this time, a time the media dubbed the “decade of greed” it was the lead story nearly every day. The media didn’t like President Rreagan and wanted to establish a particular picture; they wanted to impress upon the people the notion that under Reagan, “the rich got richer and the poor got poorer”. (sound familiar?)
Gloom and doom is always present in the news when republicans are in the White House. The Homeless ploy worked well in the eighties; it worked so well that during the election of Bill Clinton v. Bob Dole the mantra of choice, issued by Al Gore, was “it’s the economy stupid.” After the election results were in I watched to see what would happen to the homeless stories and I didn't have to wait long. Bill Clinton won and before the ink dried on his innaugural speech the homeless stories came off the front page, they exited stage right on the nightly news... they disappeared completely from media vocabulary and speech. A savior had been elected; a democrat…and all was well with the economy. No one seemed to notice.
Well guys, the homeless have not gone away, they are with us still, but they rarely make the news. The issue was used in the eighties to try to destroy both the presidency of Ronald Reagan and Reaganomics, the notion that lower taxes increase revenues and grow the economy. The argument has not yet been won by democrats and now, during another election cycle, a similar tactic can be used to create panic and cement the public's impression that republicans are bad for the economy. “It’s the economy stupid” is being taken to a whole new level. Consider the following:
Capitalism Lives! - by Investor’s Business Daily
A lot of reputable people think we're headed for a recession. That may or may not be true. But headed for an epic meltdown that will make our way of life obsolete? *** On Wednesday, billionaire socialist George Soros penned a piece for London's Financial Times suggesting the era of capitalist dominance is coming to a screeching halt: "The current crisis is the culmination of a superboom that has lasted for more than 60 years," he declares. *** Could he be right? Well, here's Soros testifying to Congress in 1998, during the greatest economic boom in history: "The global capitalist system . . . is coming apart at the seams." *** Sorry, George. It wasn't then, and it isn't now. Yet Soros has made billions making financial bets against the West, mainly America, then bad-mouthing its economy for all to hear.
Please keep in mind George Soros has invested a lot of money, in a lot of ways, to elect Hillary Clinton. He is not America’s friend…and he will do absolutely anything to get Hillary elected. She represents the future savior; a woman of the Marxist cause in America.
Pay attention voters and please choose wisely in November.
Posted by Post Scripts at January 23, 2008 10:18 PM