Dennis Prager Visits the Patriot Booth at the Minnesota State Fair

I went to the Minnesota State Fair today.   Not for the long walks, or the ferris wheel, or chocolate covered hot dogs…..but to see Dennis Prager return to the Fair after a two-year hiatus.

Welcome back, Dennis!  

I had trouble finding the Patriot location, for it has been moved to a location where the audience area is even smaller that in years past.  Nevertheless, the area was packed with fans.

If State Republican officials  had any brains….and I believe most of them have occasional impulses which suggest occasional activity, (but I can’t be sure)  they would secure funding for the Patriot to have a location where 40-50 people could sit for three hours as Dennis does his Dennis thing. 

In addition this punditless organization  should invite Dennis to present his basic Prager University curriculum to state conservative candidates to broaden and deepen their understandings of the battle America presently is suffering with the Obama Marxism invasion into American politics.  Then there might become stronger, more confident candidates motivated by  Prager’s better America  messages which would elect more conservatives to  build for America’s better future.

As it was today, about that number of people lingered around for a half-hour or more being replaced by about the same number throughout  Dennis’ three-hour  radio program.  Most stood.

The best of the many important Dennis messages of the day was Dennis’ review of the  mass media, meaning LEFTWING reporting, in otherwords America’s city papers, news agencies, and television “news” programs, coverage of the Glenn Beck event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC over the weekend.

“Race” was the theme common to nearly all of these sources.   And the race was a bad one…WHITE.  The reportings emphasized uniformly as if written by a single person, that the 200,000 or so crowd was overwhelmingly, or predominantly white.

To the Lefties  any group where conservatives congregate is a racist crowd doing racist things…….and are to be thought of as criminals and troublemakers worthy of nothing but disgust and dismissal…….and to some, of arrest.

And Dennis is so right in reminding the public, Americans learn this hate and bigotry in college.   The American university, including the system here in our state,  teaches a lesson to be memorized and forever remembered,  that society is to be judged by its gender, class, and racial mix.  If it isn’t at least 1-1-1 equal female, equal pay, and equally black, it is an uncivilized society and must be reformed.    Ideally their Marxist paradise should be a society dominated by females, union workers, and blacks because that is the heart of the Democrat gang of victimhoods.

Dennis mentioned that there are a number of crowds which are overwhelmingly white, that these lefty mainstream reporters seem to miss in their race count judgments.

Al Franken’s  political booth not far from the Patriot booth had whites only  attending (only three of them……and they were definitely white).  Would the press note that as a staple in their racism agenda?

Never.  Al  isn’t a conservative!  (Thank God!)

What about the Minnesota Orchestra presenting  Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto?  Its audiences are overwhelmingly white…..does the Strib ever refer  to the all white crowd in attendance as a slur to the event and those attending?  Would the New York Times?

I contend that racism is a fundamental tenet of the present Democrat Party dogma.   It makes these Marxists and Liberals  feel good…..and thus they  do their harm to America.

Dennis Prager is a great teacher.   Perhaps the greatest teacher  clarifying America’s values wars, and the history and nature of these conflicts. 

America’s best thinkers and writers today are conservative.  It is a good time to be an American when Dennis Prager is on your side.

More Obama Handouts To Muslims

Scott W. Johnson at Powerline offerst this article about Muslims after special Obama funding:

Over at Big Peace, Christine Brim reports that the Muslim Brotherhood-associated Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations will bring 25-30 Muslim leaders of 20 national Muslim groups to attend a special workshop presented by the White House and assorted government agencies tomorrow. The workshop is to provide the groups “funding, government assistance and resources.”

Working from an Islamic Society of North America email newsletter, Ms. Brim notes that the workshop will apparently afford special access for the organizations in attendance. The organizers pledge to provide “direct access” and “cut through red tape.” Readers with long memories may recall that the ISNA is perhaps best known as one of the unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation prosecution. More good news: an iftar dinner will be held after the workshop.

Ms. Brim speculates on the likely participants in the event and offers some ideas on what is to be done. It would be nice in the meantime if we could learn what is happening here.

UPDATE: Via Lucianne, I see that Josh Gerstein has an excellent report on the appeal pursued by the North American Islamic Trust over the designation of unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation prosecution. I wrote about the designation of CAIR as an undicted co-conspirator three years ago in “Coming clean about CAIR.”

“A Mensch Like Christie Could Never Have Emerged” Without “Super-slick Obama”

Kevin Hassett at Bloomberg writes about the shocking event that a real MAN has arrived on the American political stage, the Governor of the state of New Jersey:

“With all the crazy talk of President Barack Obama being the antichrist, it’s sort of amusing that the anti-Obama is a guy named Christie.

To understand the political force sweeping our country, one need only search the words “Chris Christie” on YouTube. The New Jersey governor’s town hall appearances have received hundreds of thousands of hits and glowing comments because the man, like Ronald Reagan before him, has an uncanny ear for what troubles Americans.

The truth is, a mensch like Christie could never have emerged in American politics if super-slick Obama had not enraged so many Americans first. If Jimmy Carter created Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama created Chris Christie.

Americans put their faith in a cocky Obama who wowed “The View” crowd in a bathing suit. But he gave us a government that didn’t know its own boundaries, defied common sense and fueled anxieties in post-financial crash America. Now the people of New Jersey have put their faith in a man who looks like the rest of us in a bathing suit.

Democrats might like to believe that the backlash embodied in the Tea Party movement is nothing more than a carnival of fools, headed for nowhere. But Christie is in touch with the national sense of unease that animates the Tea Party movement, and at town hall-type gatherings he has shown a grittiness that as drama surpasses the best reality TV shows.

Small Town

On June 15th, Christie appeared at a town hall meeting in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. The crowd assembled was hardly a stereotypical BMW-driving Republican audience, looking like a group that could represent any small town in America

One senses that these Americans rarely gather all in one place, and that when they do, the gravity of the moment is palpable to them. And then Christie says, “our way of life is being challenged by an economy where we have too much debt, too big a government, too much spending and taxes being too high. We all know it in our hearts…we all understand that the day of reckoning is here.” And while he speaks, the people gather — even Wilda Diaz, the Democratic mayor, seem to nod in agreement.

As Christie concludes that the people in that room have a chance, that “we are going to be the people who fixed New Jersey’s problems,” the audience members have the same look on their faces that the troops have in the old war movies, just as Sarge tells them that they probably will not succeed, but they are going to charge up the hill and attack the machine gun nest anyway.

Angry Teachers

And attack he does. One of Christie’s most popular YouTube moments is a confrontation with an angry teacher, who upbraids him for not paying her enough. When Christie replies that if she doesn’t like the pay package “then you don’t have to do it,” the crowd cheers like the Giants just scored a touchdown.

Whether the New Jersey governor becomes a genuine national political phenomenon will depend on his fixing at least some of what ails the state. The task is a big one. After defeating Democratic incumbent, Jon Corzine, Christie inherited a budget deficit of $2.2 billion, which was projected to expand to $10.7 billion next year — 28 percent of the budget.

But Christie seems to be on the right path. Following the Reagan playbook, Christie has shunned higher taxes, which are already stratospheric in New Jersey, and has attacked the state’s expenditures. In the first six months of his tenure, he has eliminated roughly $13 billion in planned spending by enacting a wide range of freezes and cuts. These included reducing aid to schools and municipalities by $820 million and $466 million respectively, and forgoing a $3 billion contribution to state pensions.

Funding Cuts

Christie’s cuts to school funding have earned him the enmity of the state teachers’ union, with 200,000 members. The governor asked teachers to agree to a one-year salary freeze and to kick in 1.5 percent of their pay to help fund their health care insurance — most of the state’s teachers don’t contribute to their plans.

Teachers in many school districts refused. As he had threatened during discussions with the unions, Christie called on constituents to vote down local school board budgets that didn’t conform to his requests. Christie won the public fight. A surprising 58 percent of proposed budgets were defeated, making it the largest number of rejections on state record.

Just as Reagan did in 1981, when he faced off with the air traffic controllers union, Christie called the bluff and seems to have won.

Reagan became on overwhelming political force because of his ability to appeal to audiences beyond his natural constituency, as Christie did at that Perth Amboy gathering. Christie clearly has the same knack, and will become an irresistible political force if New Jersey can recover.

It is an open question whether it will, but if it does, then the Republican Party may have found a real star.

(Kevin Hassett, director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)

Comment:  The opinions expressed are not Kevin Hassett’s alone.  They are mine as well, but were well written by Mr. Hassett, except I root for the Giants to lose.  

I am not sure the playbook Mr. Christie is following is anyone’s  but his own.   This is an attorney who has a conservative core….at least thus far.   He seems to know intrinsically right from wrong.

How rare these days, especially among politicians, especially the president.  Click on to Christie: http://judicialnetwork.com/news/meet-latest-youtube-sensation-governor-chris-christie

Click on for another Christie: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/13/video-chris-christie-destroys-reporter-for-calling-him-confrontational/

How about yet another click on to Christie?

http://www.verumserum.com/?p=16836

Perhaps the best click on to Christie yet:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1I7GGIE_en&q=youtube+chris+christie+not+about+teachers+video&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Why Do Folks Believe Obama Is A Marxist?

Is Obama a Marxist?    Is Obama America’s first anti-American president? 

The following is a list of claims which may explain why so many Americans will answer “YES” to both of these questions:

 

“The Fundamental Transformation of America.

When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist, people said it didn’t matter.

When it was discovered that his grandparents, were strong socialists who sent Obama’s mother to a socialist school where she was introduced to Frank Marshall Davis. He was later introduced to young Barrack Hussein Obama. People said it didn’t matter.

When people found out that Barrack Hussein Obama was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and stepfather were both Muslims, people said it didn’t matter.

When he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction” people said it didn’t matter.

When he admittedly, in his book, said he chose Marxist friends and professors in college– people said it didn’t matter.

When he traveled to Pakistan , after college on an unknown national passport, peopl e said it didn’t matter.

When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist Party in 1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate, people said it didn’t matter.

When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology, people said it didn’t matter.

When an independent Washington organization, that tracks Senate voting records, gave him the distinctive title as the “most liberal senator,” people said it didn’t matter.

When the Palestinians in Gaza set up a fund raising telethon to raise money for his election campaign, people said it didn’t matter.

When his voting record supported gun control, people said it didn’t matter.

When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, people said it didn’t matter.

When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan and Mummar Kadaffi and Hugo Chavez, people said it didn’t matter.

When it was pointed out that he was a total newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, people said it didn’t matter.

When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, people said it didn’t matter.

When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, people said it didn’t matter.

When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin, and did so only after a public outcry, people said it didn’t matter.

When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, people said it didn’t matter.

When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn’t matter.

When he surrounded himself in the White house with advisors who were pro-gun control, pro- abortion, pro-homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition people said it didn’t matter.

When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other issues, people said it didn’t matter.

When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn’t matter.

When his personal background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, people said it didn’t matter.

When the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, people said it didn’t matter.

When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco–a man of questionable character and who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home– people said it didn’t matter.

When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn’t matter.

When he started appointing White House Czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed  Marxist / Communist,people said it didn’t matter.

When he stood before the Nation and told us that his intentions were to “fundamentally transform this Nation” into something else, people said it didn’t matter.

When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats and socialists, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed a Science Czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Cass Sunstein as Regulatory Czar who believes in “Explicit Consent,” harvesting human organs without family consent, and allowing animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual, and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight, education network as Safe School Czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Mark Lloyd, as Diversity Czar, who believes in curtailing free speech; taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth; who supports Hugo Chavez, people said it didn’t matter.

When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama’s Senior White House Advisor and she is an avowed Socialist, people said it didn’t matter.

When Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher– and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Carol Browner as Global Warming Czar, and her being a well known socialist working on Cap and trade as the nations largest tax, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as Green Energy Czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, people said it didn’t matter.

When Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed, because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn’t matter..

When as President of the United States , he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, people said it didn’t matter.

When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, people said it didn’t matter.

 
When his actions concerning the Middle-East seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel , our long time ally, people said it didn’t matter.

When he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States , people said it didn’t matter.

When he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians, people said it didn’t matter.

When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops early-on when the Field Commanders said they were necessary to win, people said it didn’t matter.

When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, people said it didn’t matter.

When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions, and individuals that got him elected, people said it didn’t matter.

When he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc., people said it didn’t matter.

When he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the government, people said it didn’t matter.

When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, people said it didn’t matter.

When he claimed he was a Christian during the election and tapes were later made public that showed Obama speaking to a Muslim group and ‘stating’ that he was raised a Muslim; was educated as a Muslim; and that he is still a Muslim– people said it didn’t matter.

When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United States through Cap and Trade, people said it didn’t matter.”

Prager fan, Jean Schlueter sent me this list of things people said didn’t matter regarding Mr. Obama.   Many more could be added to the list.  Had the author of the list forgotten about Eric  Holder and his Attorney General activities?  Obama’s stand against Honduras’s struggling democracy facing a Hugo Chavez style Marxist takeover a bit over a year ago…………and Obama’s support of building a mosque adjacent to the site of the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans at the hands of MUSLIM extremists, is traitorous to his country as well as to those who were murdered there. 

Obama was sold to the American public as one sells a new fad.   People said it didn’t matter.