Wall Street Execs "Betrayed" by Obama

Welcome to the club, boys- right-along with all the other people the Dear Leader used to get into power. And don't be surprised if you're treated like yesterday's garbage now that you're no longer needed by this pompous, self-serving swindler... that's just standard operating procedure in this WH.

As reported in the NY Post, Wall St execs believed what Obama told them when he said he'd be a moderate in office... which was obviously a blatant lie, now that his reckless spending and political brinkmanship have already brought the country to the edge of the abyss. Rather than enjoying the benefits of an economic recovery under sensible WH guidance, dismayed execs are now wondering just how radical this guy is... how much damage he can do, and how far he's willing to go with his rabble-rousing class-warfare rhetoric and agenda.

But they shouldn't feel too bad... according to neoneocon, bewildered financial advisers in Obama's own administration such as Giethner and Summers -even Volcker- have complained in private that they are rarely consulted by the hubristic, deluded Obama on any policy- basically the same treatment that Hillary and Gen. McChrystal have been getting from him. So where is Obama getting his advice in an area which he knows so little about? neoneocon tells us -here-... and it's not reassuring.

That's how it works with a disloyal narcissist like Barack Obama; those who can no longer bring him incremental power and control are of no interest to him whatsoever. Just ask former close Obama friends, allies, and/or sponsors Wright, Rezko, and Blagojevich- or anyone else who became a burden to Barack... and therefore are now treated like lepers whom he's never even met.

Barack takes care of Barack... first and foremost. The radical, Alinskyite/Marxist agenda is second... and the Democratic Party third.

All the rest of you who supported Obama as a post-partisan, post-racial, and/or a moderate have been lied-to, tricked, and used.

Realize that, and pray for the country that you handed to this megalomaniac... a gargantuan mistake for which we'll all pay dearly.

►h/t Memeorandum

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Is the GOP in Need of a "Leader"?

Riehl World View has a piece up on Instapundit Glenn Reynolds' interview on PJTV with Mark Levin, which touched-on the question of whether or not the GOP and conservatives need a "leader." [10:35].

Note [7:45] Renolds admitting that even he thought that Levin and others on talk-radio were over-the-top in their 2008 rants re. Obama's plans for apppeasement and a massive socialist agenda... when in reality it's all turned out far, far worse than even their direst predictions... with Obama like a "central-casting villain".

And where do you hear this call for a conservative "leader" coming from, anyway?

Primarily the Left and MSM, of course... most conservatives feel that our ideas unite us just fine at this point- as evidenced on 9/12. And we all know new leadership will evolve into 2012... as Levin says, "the grass-roots in leading the way".

But the Alinskyites of Team Obama/DNC/MSM desperately need for us to have a "leader"... so they have a target. One of Alinsky's primary tenents is to personalize the battle, to single-out a class "enemy" and attack him- just like the Bolsheviks that they are. The Left needs this SO badly in-fact that they attempted to crown a GOP "leader" -Rush Limbaugh- pounding this talking point hard, have constructed rhetorical strawmen, and/or attacked Palin when no such "leader" was provided...

Rules for Radicals' # 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

One could make the argument that there's really no need for a GOP leader/front-runner until 2011... with the people deciding, not the party... as re. Barack Obama, it was the GOP's base out-there in fly-over country that got it right... and DC-based party leadership that got it oh-so wrong. 2010 will make or break a few careers on both sides of the isle, so let that play-out first. IMO the Democrats will be facing a bloodbath- so we'll just see who emerges once the dust settles.

Sorry Dems- only 14 mos until it's time to face the music... and good luck with that. Now would be a good time to start hedging... you know what you need to do on Obamacare if you plan to stay in the same line of work.

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►Riehl World View

►Instapundit

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Hey Val- You're Next

Senior White House Advisor Valerie Jarrett is undoubtedly a woman of power and influence.

Barack Obama has in-fact said that he makes no decision without her, as noted by Michelle Malkin. But like recently departed "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones, Jarrett is also a far-left subversive radical who's completely obsessed with racial issues... and was never properly vetted by the MSM, let alone anybody in the White House. And this woman was Van Jones' recruiter, biggest supporter, and cheerleader. She was also a cog in the corrupt and ruthless Chicago Machine, basically racketeering with the likes of (now disowned) Obama allies Blago and Tony Rezko... and of course the Dear Leader himself back-in-the-days.

Born in Iran to expat American parents, Valerie Jarrett's father was a doctor long associated with far-left causes and racial-identity politics... and who served on a union board with Obama mentor and racist-communist Frank Marshall Davis. Jarrett's mother still serves on a board with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers' father and wife- she herself unrepetant WU terrorista Bernardine Dohrn.

Involved deeply with Jarrett was scumbag-supreme Tony Rezko, a now-convicted felon and Obama’s (and Blago's...) friend/fundraiser/political Godfather... you know, the guy that helped Barack and Michelle get that nice South Side mansion they couldn't quite swing on their own (with helpful real-estate agent Patti Blagojevich, no less)

Judicial Watch, a public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, linked Jarrett to a series of shameful real-estate scandals, including projects operated by Rezko and Allison Davis (former boss of Obama). Housing projects developed and/or operated by Davis and Rezko have been manifestly substandard and beset with code violations.

Basically, Obama helped get them public funding for projects purported to be "for the poor"- while these charlatans spent as little as possible building and maintaining them- and Jarrett "managed" and looked the other way for $300K/yr in salary... plus $850K of "deferred income" -according to her own report.

As CEO of The Habitat Company, she was notably responsible for the controversial housing project located in Obama’s district Grove Parc Plaza, which according to the Boston Globe was considered “uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale ... a score so bad the buildings now face demolition.

Jarrett was given a pass by the MSM over the past year, with only the most superficial vetting. Completely ignored and therefore unknown to most are the shady business dealings and radical allies like Marylin Katz: Jarrett's biggest promoter, '68 Days-of-Rage veteran... and Weather Underground founding member. But Jarrett's radical associations and lucrative-yet-ethically-challenged "management" career have now drawn the unwelcome attention of the resurgent Right... fresh-off their exposure/victory over embittered commie nutter Van Jones.

A far less opaque picture of Jarrett's web of dubious associations is offered-up by Muckety.com -here-

The American Spectator states that in speeches before far-left groups over the past five months, Jarrett touted Jones's hiring, in part, because the groups ... were familiar with Jones's brand of anti-Americanism and economic radicalism.

As Jarrett had said to the Netroots Nation conference just a little over a month ago, re. Van Jones:

“We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him…for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that, and we have all that energy in the White House.” -video here-

It was also Jarrett's brainstorm to establish a Chief Diversity Officer at the FCC, a position created, then filled with Alinskyite radical Mark Lloyd- with a stealth mandate for muzzling talk radio, where obviously some of Obama's most fervent -and effective- critics dwell.

Is Valerie Jarrett next of Obama's revolutionary command to go?  Riehl World View is starting to see the possibility -here-

FrontPageMag did a truly comprehensive expose/summary on Jarrett -here-

And as Jill Stanek wrote:

Scott Baker of Breitbart TV's The B-Cast was on during Glenn's final segment, connecting the dots between POTUS advisor Valerie Jarrett and Obama's past, including his grandparents, his mother, and Franklin Davis Marshall who played an influential role in his life.

This is stuff you can't make up.

... She is Obama's brain. She's also Michelle's brain too.

Perhaps the only thing keeping heat off Jarrett for now is the dramatic and ongoing implosion of longtime Obama ally ACORN, which Moonbattery brings us up to date on -here-

The Confederate Yankee is tracking what Glenn Beck is training his artillery upon next. It also looks to him like ACORN first, then....? -here-

Obama would likely put up a real fight over this one... seems like he'd be lost without her. But if Jarrett's not next to go, she sure ought to be -like Jones, her and the Trotskyite agenda need to be shown the door ASAP... seriously, there's just not many people in this country looking for what she's peddling.

With that tumor removed, there's still a chance Obama can be forcibly-moderated. While not altogether likely, Obama would perhaps then see it as in his interest to take a more centrist path in the name of political survival -ala Clinton '96- limiting the amount of incremental damage he can do to the country prior to November 2010's "correction".

►Memeorandum

►FrontPageMag.com

►Riehl World View

►Moonbattery

►Confederate Yankee

►Michelle Malkin

►Jill Stanek

►Muckety.com

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Why REAL Revolutionaries Should Pretend to Be Something Else- by Barack Obama

Back in 2005 in an open letter to the far-left propaganda rag Daily Kos, Barack Obama spoke to his fellow would-be revolutionaries on how presenting a disingenuous moderate front to the public was the best way to further the progressive cause:

I thought this might be a good opportunity to offer some thoughts about ... how to bring about meaningful change in this country.

There is one way, over the long haul, to guarantee the appointment of judges that are sensitive to issues of social justice, and that is to win the right to appoint them by recapturing the presidency and the Senate. And I don’t believe we get there by vilifying good allies, with a lifetime record of battling for progressive causes, over one vote or position.

We won’t be able to transform the country with such a polarized electorate.

... it is necessary for Democrats to get some backbone, give as good as they get, brook no compromise, drive out Democrats who are interested in “appeasing” the right wing, and enforce a more clearly progressive agenda.

The country, finally knowing what we stand for and seeing a sharp contrast, will rally to our side and thereby usher in a new progressive era.

All this should sound familiar to anyone who's ever juxtaposed Obama's "moderate" spiel against the stealthily-radical, stubbornly partisan, and even bullying legislative actions of his presidency. He suggested back then -in 2005- that his fellow ultra-liberals fight quietly, and talk speciously -as to not scare-off middle America- while pretending to be bipartisan, reasonable, and open to compromise. This strategy was subsequently employed in his tightly-scripted presidential campaign. Obama was showing his fellow disgruntled anti-establishment types at Kos the shining path: Bide your time for when the White House and Senate are in the hands of "progressives"... and then, and only then -as noted today at Stop the ACLU- just ram the whole revolution right-down America's throat.

Well, what else to expect from such a self-proclaimed Trojan-horse, then? One who even let it slip-out on the stump last year that he's a "blank canvas" that people can project their (naive) wishes upon? Saul Alinsky taught his Bolshevik Grasshopper well... how to game the system and mask one's true intentions, while scheming to realize truly radical change. According to Alinsky, the effective radical should "sound like you're from the middle-class, and act like you're for the middle-class... then you destroy the middle-class."

As such -and in violation of many pledges of bipartisanship- the New York Times reports that Obama and the Democrats are indeed planning to go-it-alone if necessary on ObamaCare and inflict this radical, big-government power-grab upon an disapproving majority. This would seem to be a reckless political suicide from where I'm standing... and with the Blue Dogs far from happy yet, no slam-dunk, either.

It's a good thing that most Americans love this country and it's freedoms... and they don't like a fake. The recent contentious debate over ObamaCare has brought harsh reality to vast numbers of those who were mistaken or deluded into thinking Barack was some good-faith regular guy who could be trusted and loved baseball, apple pie, etc. In reality, there's really not much in this society that he plans to spare from the wrecking-ball... and this realization has moderates abandoning his initiatives in droves.

A new NBC poll now shows a plurality of Americans believe that ObamaCare would worsen the quality of HC in this country... and a weak 40% support the President's handling of the issue. Looks like he's lost that legendary mojo on the stump, too- the President's recent streak of town-hall and other campaigning for HC reform has had no positive effect whatsoever... rather, it's rallied the opposition.

For anyone still out-there (take that how you like) that actually still believes Obama's hollow promises to be "bipartisan", "post-partisan", "moderate", or even "open to listening to opposing views" (LOL)... it's time to take a hard look at the gaping chasm between the rhetoric and the reality of today's Obama Administration. NOW would be an excellent time to come out of the wishful-thinking ether and realize that not only have you been lied to... but you yourself have committed an act of negligence by not having the gumption to do any due diligence on this treacherous radical before you ran-out and voted for him.

Perhaps you just went-along with the crowd last November, felt racially-guilt tripped, or maybe it was the "soaring rhetoric" got to you... but it's hard to understand or excuse those who ignored the myriad Obama red-flags regarding Rezko, Daley, and Blago... bad-faith political maneuvering... and ultra-radical mentors from Frank Marshall Davis-to-Saul Alinsky-to-Bill Ayers.... well, there were ample warning signs for those who cared to look. The least you could do now would be to help the rest of us put the brakes on the Obama-Pelosi-Reid triumvirate's legislative and spending blitz... as they're completely out-of-control.

Someday a lot of people are going to lie to their grandchildren about who they voted for back in '08... as we'll all wince at the very mention of the name Obama. But it won't take that long for Americans to realize that putting this calculating, habitually-dishonest, and vengeful subversive in the WH with a powerful congressional majority might be the biggest mistake that this country's ever made... and the awakening has already begun.

► h/t Memeorandum

► h/t Sweetness and Light

► h/t Gateway Pundit

► h/t Hot Air

► h/t Stop the ACLU

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Green Jobs Czar Van Jones: Another Subversive Nutter from Team Obama

Van Jones is Barack Obama's Green Jobs Czar.

And if you haven't heard, he's also a self-described black nationalist and communist. Mr Jones was actually arrested during the 1991 LA riots, where anti-American malcontents he met in the can had a life-changing effect on the impressionable, angry lad. Of course, all this should have disqualified him for any position in an American presidential administration... and surely would have, back before the ludicrous Obama era.

Radical with vengeful racial agenda? Check!

Incompetent and inexperienced? Check!

Obedient Obama toady? Check!

Suffice to say, Mr Jones will fit-right-in with the rest of Obama's wack pack. But when this appointment is taken in-addition to a Science Czar that has stated that trees should have the ability to sue us in a court-of-law (you read it right) -as well as numerous other out-there WH appointees- this begs the question:

Does Barack Obama know any normal people?

Green Jobs Czar Van Jones' official title is certainly a Kafka-esque mouthful:

Special Advisor on Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for the White House Council on Environmental Quality

How has this man of such grandiose bureaucratic title actually performed over his first few months on the job? While it's often difficult to extrapolate exactly what Obama is actually trying to accomplish with myriad new programs, agencies, and political appointments- it seems safe to assume that the job description involves creating jobs (outside of his own office) of some sort. But in reality, and despite $60B of Porkulus funds dedicated to the task of creating a "green" economy... America's new Green Jobs Czar Van Jones has created exactly... er... none. (h/t Moonbattery)

Maybe we shouldn't be surprised by this comprehensive lack of results, as Mr Jones seems to have no idea whatsoever what a "green job" even is, nor does the Obama Administration... even though he has been tasked with creating them, and paid well to do so.

And as reported in The Examiner:

Jones told Newsweek that the real problem is that no one in authority can agree about just what a “green job” actually is:

"Well, we still don’t have a unified definition, and that’s not unusual in a democracy. It takes a while for all the states and the federal government to come to some agreement. But the Department of Labor is working on it very diligently. Fundamentally, it’s getting there, but we haven’t crossed the finish line yet."

The 41-year-old Yale Law School graduate and civil rights lawyer is also the founder of California's Ella Baker Center for Human Rights- "a non-profit agency for justice, opportunities and peace." Sounds idyllic, but Jones' past isn't so pastoral-

The Ella Baker Center was connected to STORM (Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement), a "multi-racial activist collective with Marxist influences" with which Jones was involved.

In 1992, Van Jones founded another STORM project, Bay Area PoliceWatch, a "hotline and lawyer-referral service for victims and survivors of police abuse." This is fitting, perhaps, since Jones was himself arrested and detained briefly during a protest after the Rodney King verdict that same year. Jones told the East Bay Express in 2005:

"I was a rowdy (black seperatist) nationalist on April 28th [1992], and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist...

"I met all these young radical people of color – I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary."

Like a character out of The Big Chill, Van Jones seems to have evolved from radical activist to Establishment insider. Perhaps only a left-wing administration incapable of recognizing irony would put a self-described communist in charge of creating jobs.

Luckily for Jones and Obama's many other "Czars" with dubious credentials and troubling backgrounds, his new job was not dependent upon making it through Congressional hearings.

Hat-tip to The Capitalist @ The Freedom Post