Posted by
Charles Lewis on Monday, June 02, 2008 10:16:59 PM
A "who said it" game on
the conservative alternatives to the Marxism of "ObamaCain"...and why the only
one I can support is Alan Keyes
by Charles
Lewis
Moderator
SaveAmericaSummit
Multiple
Choice: Who said it?:
On the California Supreme Court ruling that overturned the
expressed will of the electorate and mandated same sex marriages:
"The decision today by the Supreme Court of California
properly reflects this fundamental principle of federalism on which our nation
was founded."
(a) Barack Obama, (b) Hillary
Clinton, (c) Bob Barr, (d) Nancy Pelosi, (e) Rosie O'Donnell [answer:
c]
"Vietnam is our friend!"
(a) Barack Obama, (b) Hillary
Clinton, (c) Jeremiah Wright, (d) Ron Paul, (e) Angela Davis [answer: d (in
last GOP presidential debate)]
On relations with Russian dictator and former KGB
Chief Vladimir Putin, who has threatened our allies in Europe if they cooperate
with our purely defensive SDI program (for which the only conceivable motivation
for opposing is that Putin wishes no impediments to his ability to wipe us out
with his huge arsenal of nuclear ICBM's):
"We should not be antagonizing Russia by
attempting to expand NATO. There is no reason why Russia could not become a
friend and ally of the United States. Free and fair trade with Russia and a
noninterventionist foreign policy in Europe would do much to endear American
interests to Russia."
(a) Barack Obama, (b) Hillary Clinton, (c) Chuck
Baldwin, (d) Al Franken, (e) Oprah Winfrey [answer: c]
On China's threat to devour our freedom loving
ally, Taiwan:
"That's a border war, and they should deal
with it"
(a) Barack Obama, (b)
Hillary Clinton, (c) Raul Castro, (d) Fidel Castro, (e) Ron Paul [answer:
e]
"The Soviets had the
technology. They were 90 miles off our shore, and they had nuclear weapons
there. But we were able to talk to them. We took our missiles out of Turkey.
They took the missiles out of Cuba. We should be talking to people like this.
It's the lack of diplomacy that is the greatest threat, not the weapons
themselves."
(a) Barack Obama, (b)
Ron Paul, (c) George McGovern, (d) Jimmy Carter, (e) Bill Clinton (answer:
b)
"In the first place, our
troops are no longer fighting a war, they are an occupation force, which
occupies a sovereign country ... The Iraqi people resent our occupation as much
as we would resent another nation stronger than ours invading and occupying
America ... I'm sure many of us would also become
'insurgents.'"
(a) Barack
Obama, (b) Dennis Kucinich, (c) Rosie O'Donnell, (d) Jim McDermott, (e) Chuck
Baldwin [answer: e]
"On my first day as
commander-in-chief, I will direct the Joint Chiefs of Staff and our commanders
on the ground to devise and execute a plan to immediately withdraw our
troops..."
(a) Barack
Obama, (b) Hillary Clinton, (c) Angela Davis, (d) Ron Paul, (e) John Edwards
[answer: d]
On the US presence
in Iraq: "I'm in line with ... a complete withdrawal as soon as
possible."
(a) Barack Obama, (b) Hillary Clinton, (c) Bob Barr, (d) Osama Bin Laden, (e)
John Kerry [answer: c]
"The United States
invaded Iraq under false pretenses..."
(a) Barack
Obama, (b) Ron Paul, (c) John Kerry, (d) Ibrahim Hooper, (e) Osama Bin Laden
[answer: b]
"Failing to understand
why 9/11 happened and looking for a bureaucratic screw-up to explain the whole
thing-- while using the event to start an unprovoked war unrelated to 9/11--
have dramatically compounded the problems all Americans and the world face
... The real reasons are either denied or ignored: oil,
neo-conservative empire building, and our support for Israel over the
Palestinians."
(a) Barack
Obama, (b) Ward Churchill, (c) Rosie O'Donnell, (d) Ron Paul,, (e) Louis
Farrakhan [answer: d]
On border agent
political prisoners Compean and Ramos:
"I would have prosecuted
them."
(a) Barack
Obama, (b) John McCain, (c) Lindsay Graham, (d) Antonio Villaraigosa, (e) Bob
Barr [answer: e]
Appeasement is a
life-and-death issue, and Baldwin, Barr, and Paul all flunk the
test. And let's not call these guys "isolationists." I'm an isolationist - I want no foreign nation or organization to have the slightest influence over American affairs; I'm a lifelong America firster, I've never rooted for anyone other than an American ina sports event, and I don't want us involved in external affairs where our urgent interests are not at stake. But these aren't isolationists - they're appeasers, just as surely as is Obama.
Look, folks, if there really were a move to establish an American empire, most of the world would be lined up to be a part of it, just as they're lined up at the border trying to sneak in. All my life till these ideological hybrids came along, "Yankee imperialism" was a term used only by the commies and islamofascists - used only when we dared lift a finger to try to slow down their imperialism.
What I find most unsettling is that these candidates - much of the rest of whose platforms do indeed offer sound constitutionalist alternatives to the Marxism of the Republican and Democrat standard bearers - regularly spout this traditional red rhetoric without it seeming to bother them one whit. I find it so unsettling it sends chills up ad down my spine - so unsettling I cannot convince myself they're really on our side.
Alan Keyes is the one
true conservative presidential candidate who doesn't demonize America at a time
when her sons and daughters are in harm's way. I'm supporting his national
independent candidacy.