REMEMBERING JFK AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.  Any one of a certain age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they learned the news of the President's death.  It was one of those events like December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001 that in their aftermath we come to understand that we have left one era and entered another.

 

One of the most significant changes that the assassination engendered was the death of the Democratic Party as a national moderate party with regard to National Defense, Tax Cuts, the size and function of government, "American Exceptionalism", historic American values and a consensus on domestic policy with the exception of race.  After 11/22/63 the progressive segment of the liberal wing of the party became dominant in an aggressive fashion to the point that today we have  neo Marxists and proto Fascists in leadership positions both nationally and locally. 

 

John F. Kennedy was by almost every current definition a conservative who could not be elected as a Democrat today.  He was a "cold warrior" who believed in a strong defense (witness "Ich bin ein Berliner" and the Cuban Missile Crisis) .  He did not believe in a "nanny" state ("Ask not what your country can does for you...ask what you can do for your country").  He began the process of divorcing the Democrats from the southern segregationists which had a political hammerlock on the life of the national party.  Historic revision by progressives later redefined these racists as conservatives thereby continuing the process of distorting who Kennedy and his party really were.  He kick started the American space program into a race to the moon while stating "We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...".

 

Kennedy's "New Frontier" was a pragmatic vision of an America ascendant where the problems of the nation were to be solved and not merely managed.  JFK included tax cuts as a critical part of his policy to make the US as productive and economically strong as possible and history proved him right and his Democratic critics wrong.

 

After his death, he was repackaged as a modern liberal in part by his family and friends and in part by because Lyn don Banes Johnson needed a martyred "liberal" icon to pass his "Great Society" legislation and move the progressive agenda pass the "New Frontier" to a place in history where it would be seen as a extension of the "New Deal",  LBJ was no JFK but a latter day FDR "wannabe" who needed a different predecessor in order to further his own place in history.

 

But he misjudged reality as so many politicians are wont to do and embroiled the nation in its first politically correct war in Viet Nan which as such, was destined to end badly.  This war combined with the Civil Rights movement and the birth of the counter culture propelled the Democratic Party into its current progressive social justice trajectory.

 

The Democratic Party which is the world's oldest political party, has been for generations, a "Pottering Village".  The so called "party of the common man" now sees the common man as a subject and not a constituent.  The party has in addition been on the wrong side of history more often than not.  For example Democrats have been in the past and the present, the party of slavery, secession, segregation, socialism and sedition.

 

Corruption, incompetence and fraud have also come to mark the party both nationally and locally.

 

Corruption follows Democrats like coke dealers follow Rob Ford and "paparazzi" follow Alec Baldwin.  The situation is so bad in NYS that the Democratic Governor has appointed a "More land Commission" to in effect, investigate the legislature which is largely comprised of members of his own party.  And of course...there is always Rod Large,  John Edwards, Marion Barry, etc. etc..

 

After corruption comes incompetence bred by a slavish devotion to an ideology derived out of magical thinking on just about everything.  ObamaCare is and will be forever the lowest point in the history of the American Presidency when it comes to incompetence and fraud. 

 

ObamaCare also illustrates the arrogance of modern Democrats and the steps they will take to protect their party even at the expense of the American people.  It  was not just the President who promised Americans they could keep their insurance and their Doctors but the Democratic legislators who clearly didn't know what they voted for or never read the bill they passed and who then lied to the American public for three years until they and the President and the lies they both perpetrated were exposed.   

 

The modern Democratic  Party also is notable for its disdain for any  religion except Islam.  Much of this purportedly comes out of their fanaticism for Abortion on demand and their support for same sex marriage.  In essence they despise the America that John F. Kennedy loved and died in the service of. 

 

Today's Democrats have as their idol not Barrack Baa but the fictional Frank Underwood of "House of Cards".  Underwood is  the Democratic House whip with a "Lady Macbeth" like wife who will do anything to get what he wants.  He is totally amoral and thus an avatar to many modern Democrats.  In the first episode he turns to the camera with a feral grin and introduces his wife to the viewers by saying "I love her like a shark loves blood".  Get the picture?

  The Democratic Party of today is not your fathers Democratic Party, nor is it the party of JFK.  That party died on November 22, 1963.
 

ERLANDSSON

THIS EDITORIAL WAS BROADCAST ON THE 11/23/2013 EDITION OF THE VERNUCCIO/ALLISON REPORT

 

GETTYSBURG, NOVEMBER 19, 1863

 

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The idea for the National Cemetery was the brainchild of Theodore Dimon, Deputy State Agent for the Governor of New York, Horatio Seymour.  Dimon and his superior had been sent to the battlefield in the summer of 1863 to retrieve the New York dead which accounted for over 25% of all the Union casualties of the great battle in south central Pennsylvania.  Fearing the expense  of such an endeavor while concerned over the rapidly deteriorating condition of the corpses, Dimon took the idea to David Wills the State Agent to Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Gregg Curtin who immediately saw the political and economic advantage of  a National Cemetery where people would come and mourn and spend money for years to come

 

Wills began the task of buying the land and securing the approval of the other 18 state Governors whose troops  fought and died there for the Union.  The battlefield had been a health and sanitary disaster after the guns had gone silent.  Corpses from both sides had been hurriedly buried in shallow trenches and pits and the humid summer heat had caused the bodies to swell and bloat until parts of the remains broke through the surface where it was recorded that in several incidences, the hogs took to rooting at the bodies.

 

The smell had been overpowering and the mostly Dutch inhabitants of Adams County took to sealing their windows and doors to escape the stench even if it meant suffocating in the oppressive heat. 

 

The retreating Rebels had sacked the town and surrounding farms in both Adams and  neighboring York County, leaving the populace  near destitute.  Both armies had left over 21,000 wounded men to be cared for under the most primitive of conditions and a portion of the citizenry began to charge for water and bread and other necessities of life earning them the opprobrium for their insensitive greed, of the New York Times and then the entire nation.  Over 14% of the wounded were to die there in the swelter of the summer.

 

But all that began to fade as David Wills proceeded apace to make the National Cemetery a reality.  The land was purchased for $2,475.87 on Cemetery Hill between the Taneytown Road and the Baltimore Pike.

 

In October Wills advertised for workers to exhume and rebury the dead in the new cemetery. This would go on through the dedication and on into December.  He named Ward Hill Lamon, a friend of the President and the Marshal of the District of Columbia to be the Marshal for the dedication and he invited  Edward Everett, former Secretary of State, President of Harvard,  Massachusetts Governor and the man thought the greatest orator in the land, to give the keynote address. 

 

The first date selected was in late October but Everett feared he could not be ready for so august an occasion by that time so the dedication was moved back to November the 19th.

 

The President of the United States was invited as almost an afterthought to do the actual dedication with the clear understanding that Everett was the headliner and main attraction.  Still he wanted to say something fitting but in his words "short...short...short, since the battle in his mind had now merged .with two other great events...the fall of Vicksburg and the 87th anniversary of the founding of the nation.  The struggle had therefore been transformed into something more than significant...  It had become prophetic.

 

It had always not been so with the sad eyed, tall, craggy President who had aged twenty years in just three.  He had been initially distraught when Meade had failed to pursue Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia and end the war with a decisive victory at Union Mills...but with time he had come to accept that the war would only end when the spirit of the southern brothers turned enemies would be broken beyond repair.

 

On November 18th, he bordered a special train with a retinue that included three cabinet secretaries, his two personal secretaries, the Marine Corps Band and two Ambassadors among others. and proceeded to the small Pennsylvania town where he stayed with David Mills for the night.  The next day he he awoke to a gorgeous Indian summer day, put on his new black silk top hat  and mounted a Chestnut Bay horse to ride to the ceremonies.  It took an hour to get through the crowds but eventually the program began with music and convocations and finally a 13,000 oration from Everett which no one remembers today.  The President grateful for its conclusion, bounded up from his chair to congratulate the main speaker and forgetting that Ward Hill Lamon was supposed to introduce him launched into his remarks in his thin voice tinged with a western accent and in so doing gave the nation and posterity, 272 words that will echo down through the ages.  He spoke thus

 

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this  continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the  proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or  any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are  met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a  portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave  their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper  that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate --
 we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
 struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add
 or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say
 here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living,
 rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who
 fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be
 here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these
 honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they
 gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve
 that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under
 God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the
 people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address will be celebrated at Gettysburg on Tuesday.  The  President of the United States  has declined to attend and has given the public no reason for his decision.

ERLANDSSON AND LINCOLN

SAUL ALINSKY AND AMERICA'S "MEIN KAMPF" MOMENT PART FOUR: SOROS, HILLARY AND OBAMA...THE UNHOLY THREE!

 

Before the love affair with Barack Obama, there was the romance with Hillary Clinton.  George Soros was firmly in Hillary's camp for 2008 until he wasn't.  Hillary after all had had to weave and bob for the longest time in order to disguise how truly radical she was.

 

Deception at massive scales was becoming the norm in American politics as the hard left progressives infiltrated academia and the culture as well as the Democratic party.

 

Progressives, it must be remembered, usually begin as people who fervently desire to save the world and  who end as people who fervently need to control the world and Hillary was no exception as the debacle of "HillaryCare" demonstrated.  

 

 Moreover throughout her 8 year term as First Lady, The Clinton White House had one or more scandals percolating often with her at the center : witness White Watergate, The  Rose Law Firm billing records, Travelgate, Vince Foster, Lewinsky, bimbo eruptions, Impeachment, etc which all seemed to roll off Bill like water off a duck while it clung to the humorless Hillary like the faint traces of a bad perfume bought off a travelling salesman.  

 

After a  presidency during which she was famously billed as the "Co-President", she finally struck out on her own as the Jr. Senator from New York where her particular brand of celebrity was perfect for an electorate  battered by joblessness, high taxes and utopian political fantasies that always ended in a nightmare.

 

The stop over in New York turned out to be an out of town tryout for the big prize...the Presidency.  Former Clinton aides like John Podesta of the Center for American Progress,  were already in place to assist in a coronation/restoration return of the Clintons to power and George Soros was more than willing to fund it and provide it with political and policy muscle.

 

And then Barack Obama walked onto the center stage of American politics and Soros fell in love.  Obama was everything Hillary was not.  He was young, attractive, hip, a prize winning author, articulate, wicked smart and as devious as Soros was rich...and he was half black and married to a glamorous woman with no signs of serial infidelity to muck up his image. 

 

 

More importantly to Soros, Obama was a committed, up front , hard left progressive who was not ashamed of his Alinsky ideology which had marked him throughout his entire adult life.  Nor did he have a handler who was a former President to prevent Soros from using him to bring his radical agenda for America to fruition. 

 

Soros quickly realized that Obama possessed a celebrity "joie de vivre" that the often whiney and shrill Hillary  lacked.  His was the easy grace of a multi racial JFK who when he couldn't convince you with glib intellectual reasoning would  would seduce you with glib but enticing banalities.  After all by the time the Obama campaign entered its second year, school children were singing creepy North Korean like hymns  to the exotic man from Hawaii and Indonesia and Illinois. 

 

MoveOn.org, another Soros entity committed over a million volunteers to his 2008 election while the entire Soros network moved into high gear to deliver money and resources for a Presidential  candidate who just four short years before was just another State Senator from the scandal plagued state of Illinois.

 

Obama triumphant in 2008 was the moment that Soros had always dreamed off.  He had elected both a radical President and a Congress two years before, without principles who were more than willing to make the leap from liberal to progressive, all in the name of power. 

 

And thus we got ObamaCare, Fast and Furious, the IRS scandals, the NSA scandals, the various DoJ scandals,  Benghazi , the wholesale deterioration of American military, economic and political might in the world, the wholesale political purging of 13 senior military Generals and Flag Officers, and the impoverishment of the American middle class.  Our allies became irrelevant as our enemies became attractive.  The radical environmentalists, now in charge of the EPA are relentless in making sure that the country becomes jobless and poor in the name of a pseudo religion called climate change.

 

ObamaCare was the coup de grace of the fundamental change Obama and Soros  lusted after.  This was the fundamental change that would finally destroy American exceptionalism along with the promise and the dream of the founders.  In its place would be a new American Reich dedicated to the proposition that government in the hands of the elites will make everyone equal by making everyone poor, dependent, compliant and relegated to fixed place in society...and thus we come to the realization that George Soros and George Orwell have been all this time, talking about the same thing.

 

 

ERLANDSSON

SAUL ALINSKY AND AMERICA'S "MEIN KAMPF" MOMENT PART THREE:  RENDER UNTO SOROS!!!

 

 

George Soros was born Gyorgy Schwartz in 1930 in Hungary to a well to do family that was pointedly non-religious and which some critics describe as anti-semitic.  During the Nazi occupation which began in 1944 he was asked as a teenager by the Jewish Council to deliver deportation slips to Hungarian Jews headed to the death camps.  It is still unclear exactly what he did but dark rumors persist that he and his family collaborated with the Germans.

 

After the war, Soros left Hungary and went to London to study at the London School of Economics where he came under the influence of the philosopher  Karl Popper.  After completing his studies he began a career in finance and in 1956 emigrated to NYC where he began to amass a fortune that now makes him the 22th wealthiest person in the world.

 

Soros was convicted in 1988 of insider trading in France, a conviction that has been upheld on appeal and confirmed by the European Court of Human Rights in 2011.  In 1992 during the British currency crisis he held a huge position re the British Pound and sold short thereby earning the sobriquet as "the man who broke the Bank of England" along with incidentally the futures of countless poor British pensioners.  Soros, however made $1.1 billion in the process.

 

In 1997 he again engaged in massive currency speculation during the ASEAN financial crisis and once again sold the Thai Baht and the Malaysian Ringgit short.  This earned him in the opinion of liberal economist and journalist  Paul Krugman as "Someone who moves money around in anticipation of a currency crisis while doing his level best to trigger the crisis itself!"

 

As Soros got filthy rich he began to delve into philanthropy and progressive politics in both Europe and the United States.  Over time he has developed an international network of hundreds of hard left organizations funded by his  flagship...The Open Society Institute... to promote the following issues:

 

1) Anti capitalism and the subjugation of the free market system by Government...

2) Global governance through the United Nations...

3) massive redistribution of wealth from the productive to the non productive by increasing taxes on the wealthy and the middle class...

4) militant feminism...

5) promotion of "cap and trade" while shutting down the production and use of fossil fuels and substituting this energy source with wind, solar etc...

6) promoting massive immigration reform through amnesty, open borders, paths to citizenship, and ending workplace immigration raids...

7) remaking the Constitution into a "living Constitution" which is fluid and "changeable to changing needs and preferences"...

8) establishing "socialized medicine" in the United States...

9) treating terrorism as a "criminal" matter rather than an "act of war"...

10)promoting euthanasia and Physician assisted suicide...

11) promoting the concept of "Responsibility to Protect" which encourages the International  community to intervene at certain times and under certain circumstances in a country's internal affairs...

12) promoting anti Israel and anti Semitic  positions on Israel and Palestine by placing the blame and onus for the 65 year struggle for survival by Israel on the Jewish state and American Jewry...

13) placing the blame re world crises and world problems on the actions and policies of the United States...

14) promoting anti voter ID laws and  same day voter registration and non citizen voting laws

 

In furtherance of these  and other goals, Soros has spent over eight billion dollars since 1979 and has become the principle patron of such hard left progressive organizations as:

 

a) The Center for American Progress or CAP which is a left wing think tank run by former Clinton aide John Podesta.  Many believe the CAP to have more influence on the Obama Administration than any other entity...

 

b) The International Crisis Group which advocates negotiations with Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Taliban while constantly casting Israel as the bad guy and the problem...

 

c) J Street, which advocates a two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian issue including also engaging in a dialogue with Hamas who officially denies Israel's right to exist.  Recognition of Hamas, which is a creature of the Muslim Brotherhood and  funded by Iran would mean a subtle de facto recognition of al Quaeda which  also originates from the Brotherhood... 

 

d) The American Constitution Society which seeks to drive our laws to the far left...both Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton have been either Board or advisory Board members...

 

e) ACORN and Project Vote, the voter mobilization arm of ACORN which was under investigation in thirteen states for voter and voter registration fraud...ACORN had to disband but is still with us as the Association of Community Organizations which recently was signed up to be Navigators for Obamacare...

 

f) MoveOn.Org which provided a million volunteers for the 2008 Obama campaign...

 

g) The Shadow Party which was organized by Soros, Hillary Clinton and Harold Ickes to become a network of radicals driving the Democratic Party and turning America into a socialist state...

 

Soros has also substantially funded hundreds of other hard left entities such as The National council of La Raza, the Gamaliel Foundation, the Midwest Academy, The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Health Care for America Now, Catalist, The American Immigration Council, The Arab-American Institute, The Alliance for Justice,and the Lynne Stewart Defense Fund.

 

He has through his money, caused other more  mainstream appearing entities to move further left  e.g.....  The NAACP, People for the American Way, The Brennan Center For Justice, The Sundance Institute, The ACLU, and Amnesty International...and the list goes on!

 

Soros is now the major political player for the progressive hard left who tries to project a benign personality while aiding and abetting some of the most vile people and causes in modern politics.  To paraphase a theme from the world of 007;

 

 George Soros, he's the man
The man with the midas touch
A spider's touch
Such a cold Soros
Beckons you to enter his web of sin
But don't go in...

 

 

ERLANDSSON