White House Communications Director Anita Dunn says that she praises the political philosophies of Mao Tse Tung. Today, she tries to dismiss it as being just a joke but, if you’ve watched the video, you know very well that she admires both Mao and Mother Teresa. She is obviously in a position of high influence and for her reward in making that remark; Obama is firing his Chief Counsel and replacing him with Dunn’s husband.
Manufacturing Czar Ron Bloom is the latest in a long line of White House officials who are defending Dunn and espousing their beliefs in Mao as well. Mao, of course, is the benevolent former Chinese dictator who killed 70 million people during peacetime. Bloom also mocked capitalism, "We know that the free market is nonsense." This is of course the sentiment you want from the guy who is trying to create jobs in the manufacturing sector.
Valerie Jarrett, a longtime friend of Michelle Obama and the owner of several slums in Chicago, convinced Mr. & Mrs. Obama to make that ill-fated trip to Copenhagen in an attempt to seize the Summer Olympics so that Jarrett could have her properties redeveloped at government expense. Jarrett was in charge of the Obama-Biden transition team and, prior to that, she has a very, very lengthy and left track record with The Habitat Company and the Joyce Foundation.
Van Jones, Czar for the Environment until his abrupt resignation, was an avowed self-admitted Communist who made many speeches advocating that the rich should be stripped of their bank accounts and that capitalism should be buried.
These are not the only Czars with smelly positions and backgrounds. The Czars have been appointed to powerful Executive Branch positions without the customary reviews and Congressional approvals. The list, as of August, is lengthy:
- Richard Holbrooke – Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Jeffrey Crowley- Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy
- Ed Montgomery - Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers
- Alan Bersin - Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs
- David J. Hayes - Deputy Interior Secretary over California water issues
- Vivek Kundra - Federal Chief Information Officer
- Cass Sunstein - Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
- John Holdren - Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology
- Aneesh Chopra - Chief Technology Officer
- Carol Browner - Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change
Obama’s current and past associations with ACORN, Bill Ayers, Bernadette Dorn, Sol Alinsky, Tony Rezko and others were, and continue to be, an indication that Obama’s intentions as President may be less than American-pure. The unanswered questions surrounding Obama’s birth, education, sources of campaign contributions and campaign expenses smell worse than Chicago-style politics. The recent discovery and resulting flap over his obvious attempts at propaganda and political indoctrination in the nation’s school system are indicative of what could be an overt attempt to bring American-style democracy to its knees.
His lack of success in coming to grips with pressing American issues such as unemployment, the economy, the growing national debt, and the war in Afghanistan suggest that he is not fit to be a leader of anything, let alone the free world. As the Chicago Sun Times recently opined, Obama’s excuses are wearing thin. “He's annoying people on both sides of the aisle -- the left (as ripped by SNL) is upset he's not doing enough and the right is angry that he's doing too much. A new CNN poll shows that for the first time people mostly disagree with Obama on the issues.” People are realizing that even if Bush was to blame, Obama is the President and has been in the office long enough that he should be making significant headway on all issues.
Obama and his team must be monitored very closely. Don’t pay any attention to what he says, because he lies more than the White House carpet. Pay attention to what he and his “teammates” do.