Yes, say two activists interviewed last night by Gateway Pundit

Here are key points that GP learned in his interview with Kianoosh Sanjari and Benafsheh Zand-Bonazzi:

** Ayatollah Khomenei’s grand-daughter was arrested during a recent demonstration.

** The people of Iran will not forgive Barack Obama for siding with the evil regime.

** The protesters are communicating anyway they can. The regime has been trying to shut down communications. At the rally each day the protesters carry signs that announce the next rally. This is how they are communicating.

It was an honor to finally speak with Kianoosh Sanjari tonight.
I have been following his story since the time he was arrested and sent to Evin Prison in 2006.
What a great young man. What a hero.

It was fairly clear that Obama would go with his socialist agenda domestically, yet most observers didn’t predict the assault on private businesses. Most thought that Obama would back off on Iraq and increase our military presence in Afghanistan. The Gitmo closings and legal alterations for terrorist that make life easier for terrorists has exceeded what he said he would do.

Now Obama has his first real foreign policy test. And we have learned two things about Obama in his philosophies on the Middle East. One, he likes to lecture and use a perverted set of historical facts and moral ecquivelances. Second, he is no friend of Israel. And he has been diabolical in his methods. First he provided soothing assurances to American Jews and in a trip to Israel. Yet, while his rhetoric still emphasizes the “special relationship between the US and Israel,” his actions have been the opposite. First by endorsing the Saudi peace plan. Second. by warning Israel not to attack Iran. Third, his failure to recognize the history of Israel and instead advancing a false timeline that favors the argument of those who desire “driving it into the sea.”

So in the young presidency of Obama, folks are beginning to draw the conclusion that there is a clear distinction between what he says and what he does. Is it going similarly here? Does his lack of support for for the Iranian protestors mean he favors the Mullahs and their lust for nuclear weapons? Why? Is it because he needs Ahmadenijah for his grand bargain? And does this grand bargain somehow involve Israel? Besides his words, which have been shown to be empty, nothing in Obama’s past or associations indicates he is remotely supportive of the Jewsih state. Why would he start now?

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I’ve started just calling liberal, Democrats. In sense of fair play, the opposite could be applied. But I don’t think that the Lib-Dem combo is as comfortable with it. The line become less blurred when considering Sarah Palin though as the L-D side despise her while the other side…well….isn’t always together. Columnist Jack Kelly pens a helpful column today on the woman who in many way really didn’t chose to be where she is today:

Demleftdom apply Alinsky principles ( Rule 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it) to their opponents – especially one’s they fear. Rule 12 is easily applied to the Palin, Gingrich, Limbaugh, Bush, Cheney. Perhaps its why their allies in the media have been trying to name the main spokesperson among repubicans. The problem for them is that its ALL of them……and scores of bloggers, too.

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The problem stems from the AG finding an Obama supporter – former NBA star now Mayor Kevin Johnson guilty of misappropriating funds for his own political gain. The trouble for Obama is that he can’t do that. From Byron York:

Inspectors General are part of every federal department. They are given the responsibility of independently investigating allegations of waste, fraud, and corruption in the government, without fear of interference by political appointees or the White House. Last year Congress passed the Inspectors General Reform Act, which added new protections for IGs, including a measure requiring the president to give Congress 30 days prior notice before dismissing an IG. The president must also give Congress an explanation of why the action is needed. Then-Sen. Barack Obama was one of the co-sponsors of the Act.

York obviously has access to Sen. Charles Grassley’s staff and published the letter he sent to the WH:

Grassley said he was “deeply troubled” by the Walpin matter and closed by asking the president “to review the Inspector General Reform Act you cosponsored and to follow the letter of the law should you have cause to remove any Inspector General.”

It should has come as no surprise that Obama and the Democrats wants AmeriCorps and its large work force under their thumb. They want political allies like Johnson to be able to use this government program thats intended to do things like assist in reading programs to do leg work for them and have the taxpayer pay for it.

York’s updates provide more to the story:

UPDATE 1: I’ve been trying to discover the real reason for Obama’s move, and it’s still not clear. I’m told that it could be a combination of the normal tensions that surround any inspector general’s office, or the president’s desire to get his own people in IG positions, or a dispute over a particular investigation. “Bottom line,” one source wrote, “getting rid of a tough, Republican-appointed IG who has been aggressively going after waste and fraud gives Obama a chance to replace that IG with a more compliant team player.”

I’m also told that a number of inspectors general around the government have been expressing concerns to Congress recently about threats to their independence.

UPDATE 2: More information now, from the Associated Press. The White House is going ahead with firing Walpin. The firing apparently stems from Walpin’s investigation of a non-profit group, St. HOPE Academy, run by Kevin Johnson, the former NBA star who is now mayor of Sacramento, California (and a big Obama supporter). “[Walpin] found that Johnson, a former all-star point guard for the Phoenix Suns, had used AmeriCorps grants to pay volunteers to engage in school-board political activities, run personal errands for Johnson and even wash his car,” the AP reports. In April, the U.S. attorney declined to file any criminal charges in the matter and criticized Walpin’s investigation. But at the same time Johnson and St. HOPE agreed to repay about half of the $850,000 it had received from AmeriCorps.

Bottom line: The AmeriCorps IG accuses prominent Obama supporter of misusing AmeriCorps grant money. Prominent Obama supporter has to pay back more than $400,000 of that grant money. Obama fires AmeriCorps IG.

We were told during the Bush presidency about the unprecedented power grab that threatenedour freedoms. Obama’s unprecedented use of Czars (now 19 with the new pay czar) subplants the Constitutional role of Cogrress. Coupled with his zeal to intimidate IG’s, Obama continues to make it clear he wants to wrest power from the American people.

UPDATE: This from Jennifer Rubin on czars:

it is not just that we’ve had an enormous expansion of power by the federal government, it is that it has been done with virtually no Congressional consent, funding, or oversight. Liberals were very concerned about an imperial executive in the era of George W. Bush but nary a peep now is raised when Congress becomes a mute bystander. Conservatives don’t like the expansion of federal power, the erosion of the rule of law, the attack on the free market and irresponsible spending — but they should be alert also to the grave constitutional distortion underway. Congress may not be to conservatives’ ideological liking but at least there the minority’s voice is heard in the Senate, debate and compromise can take place, and there is the opportunity for public opinion to register. Government by executive fiat contains none of those protections.

At some point the legislative branch may want to wake from its slumber and assert its rightful role. And the lawmakers might want to do that before they get blamed in 2010 for the executive branch’s failings. “It wasn’t us!” is going to sound like a lame excuse

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Ivy League educated president fancies himself a “student of history”, but he gets schooled by a real professor of history in Victor Davis Hanson.

After the defeat of German Nazism, Italian fascism and Japanese militarism, Americans — by force — insisted that these nations adopt democratic governments, for their own sakes and the world’s. Indeed, it is hard to think of too many democratic governments that did not emerge from violence — including our own.

Surely Obama took History, but a grasp of facts is not really the issue here. The devil is in his interpretation. Where did he get such a twisted take on the history of the Middle East and Europe?

Obama obviously used a speech writer, who used numerous sources to craft his address clearly intended to curry favor with his persumed audience – the Arab street. And they got their favorite version of events. So where did Obama get this particular take?

There are two possible places. One is from documented Israel hater Samantha Power who is on Obama’s National Security Council. She was an advisor early in his campaign before being bounced for insulting Hillary Clinton. She likely has maintained a professional realtionship with Obama’s speechwriters.

The other is Jeremiah Wright. While Wright probably doesnt have the acumen that does a Power on history, one only need imagine what listening to his rants for 20 years might have done to Obama’s judgement. Spending a developmental life of indulgement and adulation in a world of leftism deprived the young man of opportunity to really experience debate.

Or then again maybe he did. His debate partners were straw men.

H/T: Gateway Pundit

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Some hopeful commentary about GOP gubenatorial candidate, Bob McConnell. Michael Barone weighs in on the numbers.

Overall, the turnout suggests to me that the balance of enthusiasm in the Virginia governor race is not working nearly so strongly for Democrats, and may not be working for them much at all, as it was in the fall of 2008. Creigh Deeds, Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran were not able to bring nearly as many Virginians in a commonwealth of 7.8 million people to the polls as Henry Howell and Andrew Miller were in a commonwealth of 5.1 million people 32 years ago. In this decade Americans have been voting with their feet as much as anything else, and in these numbers I don’t see anything like the footfall we saw for Barack Obama six and 15 months ago.

The numbers that experts like Barone point to demonstrate why its critical for Republicans not to let Democrats and their mouthpiece MSM define them. The GOP ran a centrist and were beaten. Continued calls within the party to become centrist don’t make sense.

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From DRUDGE, this link

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

So, should we be listening to Democrats who tell us that the Republican Party is being desstroyed or should we pay attention to a real enemy who detests us all with equal vigor?

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Some from David Frum’s column:

It’s easy to lose sight of these wrong and costly choices in the turmoil of the immediate crisis. But it is these decisions of today that are preparing the crisis of tomorrow.

Robbing Peter to pay all those Pauls. Dems are paying off their allies, their ACORNS, while putting a downpayment on their grip on power. That power is not about what’s best for America, its about, well, their power.

How much longer will American continue to be mesmerized by the charlatan?

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From John Hinderacker at Powerline:

Barack Obama’s lawless conduct in connection with the Chrysler bankruptcy is sending shock waves through the business community. It is important to understand what is happening here. Many think that Obama is merely engaging in crony capitalism, favoring his political supporters (most notably the Auto Workers Union) at the expense of others. That’s true, of course, but it is much worse than that: Obama has tried to bully those who have not bought his favor–Chrysler’s non-TARP secured creditors–into giving up their legal rights by threatening to use the powers of the White House to damage their businesses. This sort of lawlessness is common in some of the more corrupt Third World countries, but it is brand new to the United States.

More from Gateway Pundit

Only Fox News has been advancing this by interviewing democrat lawyers who supported Obama that are being strongarmed in Huey Long fashion. Will it get further?

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Pick the target. Freeze it. Personlize it. Polarize it.

One of many memorable Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals that Americans should find as common place since the Clinton years. The legendary communist still influences they way Democrats make political hay. Alinsky Rules are still at work with another true believer in Barack Obama. But no where do we see this frightening tactic at its zenith but in the continuous Democrat party attacks on Sarah Palin.

If one looks closely its easy to see this Democrat technique is easily transportable and is currently being used on other conservatives and GOP pols whom they consider dangerous. What better explanation is there for the demonization that occurred to George Bush? Or the never-ending assault on Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Have you ever seen an appearance on college campuses by David Horowitz or Ann Coulter?

It works to a large extent as even strong conservatives often find themselves referring to any and all of these communicators of principles as “devisive” or “polarizing” or “controversial”. Said often enough the propoganda works and even conservatives are seeing themselves this way.

They target the one’s with ideas whom communicate like Limbaugh, Hannity and Horowitz. Or the one’s they fear as a potential leader like they do Palin. We should never forget the never ending comparisons to Hitler and snide remarks about George Bush’s intelligence.

If the vast political middle can finally realize that this is the way the Democrat Party rolls, it could help stall the abrupt slide to socialism and its one-party rule they want.

UPDATE: A must read from John Hawkins of Right Wing News on this post in Pajamas Media Here’s some:

Even if it isn’t, it may at least convince them that such tactics ought to be off limits on both sides. We can say, “Gee, what if Bush had done this” or “That’s a cheap shot” all day long, but until our political opponents feel the brunt of the same savage incivility that it dishes out on a regular basis, nothing is going

Recall that a revolution that put the GOP in charge of both Houses took place when the electorate learned the truth about the criminal behavior of Bill Clinton and his wife. It might also be that it is the evidence of the same helped bring down Hillary Clinton’s White House bid.

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Two seperate op-eds appeared in the conservative outlet, Canadia Free Press minced no words in their headline: “Tyranny Watch: Obama Begins Process to Remove US Citizens Rights” and “The Birth of American Socialism.” Penned by Sher Zieve and Timothy Birdnow respectively, the two essays signal that the world sees what Americans refuses to come to grips with.

The American media, in their partisan zeal to defeat George Bush and elect a Democrat refused to do their job in telling America about Barack Obama. They were able to make the 2008 presidential election into an American Idol vote, thus giving an uininformed country a man subversive to its own ideals and empowering a Democrat Party who’s primary agenda has always been about placing its own interests first.

The conservative media and its like-minded colleagues in the blogosphere did indeed report on Obama and detailed the concerns that voters should have bee made aware of. While John McCain had to deal with a hit piece by the NY Times over an improper relationship with a lobbyist (the Times is facing a suit on this) and Sarah Palin endured the kind of scrutiny that came in the form of attacks, Obama was fawned over in ways that are an embarrassment to journalist.

The headlines in the Canadian publication shows just how accuarte the concerns the right had for Obama were. The frankness of the headlines also are indications that its even worse than we thought.

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