Mudville Gazette’s Mrs. Greyhawk has a post with a video of Sen. Barack Obama speaking to Caucus for Priorities apparently sometime during the Iowa caucuses campaign.
It’s hard to believe what he said.
Greyhawk provides first, the text of Obama’s statement in full as heard on the video: - - -
As president, I will end misguided defense policies and stand with Caucus for Priorities in fighting special interests in Washington.
First, I'll stop spending $9 billion a month in Iraq. I'm the only major candidate who opposed this war from the beginning -- and as president, I will end it.
Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending. I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems, and I will institute an independent defense priorities board to ensure that the Quadrennial Defense Review is not used to justify unnecessary spending.
Third, I will set a goal of a world without nuclear weapons.
To seek that goal, I will not develop new nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material, and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenals.
You know where I stand.
Now here’s the video:
Folks, do you know of any major news organization which has reported in any detail on what you’ve just read?
Has Sen. Obama been questioned on any of the public affairs programs or at news conferences about, for example, his pledge that he’ll “not weaponize space?”
I thought liberals were now in favor of that. Our NATO allies are. They recently voted to support the deployment of anti-missile systems in Europe.
What did Obama mean when he said that as President “I will slow our development of future combat systems?” Who does that help?
Folks, here’s a link to Caucus for Priorities’ Web site. It includes a link in the lower left-hand corner to an animation using the voice and persona of Jerry Cohan of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. He lays out the group’s agenda.
Also, look at the rest of Ms. Greyhawk’s post. She links to some material that’s even more disturbing than what I’ve provided here.
I’ve always found the Greyhawks to be very reliable bloggers. In fact, top of the line.
We owe them thanks for posting the material, and I owe Mike Williams a hat tip for calling it to my attention.
3 comments:
John,
It's interesting to see this back to back with the Zell Miller, a Decocrat, speach in 2004.
See http://video.google.com/videosearch?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=DKUS,DKUS:2006-31,DKUS:en&q=Zell+Miller+Republican+convention&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1#
IMO the racial aspect doesn't really bother me. Think about freedom of association.
The collectivists come in all colors but they all want to do the same things:
Take away your civil rights
Re-define the family
Re-distribute wealth
Control money, power, resources, thoughts, education
Re-structure society
Re-define morals, right, wrong, crime
Sacrifice the individual for the 'greater good'
There are powerful collectivists coming from the left and also on our right.
All of "them" (the collectivists) do not want us to act as individuals - they want us to be fearful of acting outside their defined group. Collectivists want people to identify their egos with the group. Collectivists require their subjects to share attitudes, beliefs and goals and to feel threatened when the group is threatened, or when the leaders say the group is threatened.
John -
I finally got to hear the whole tape. This is frightening. He basically wants to disarm the US military. That would seem to be consistent with his antagonism to the second amendment. It's a feel good policy to be disarmed. Didn't someone ever tell him that freedom is not free?
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