Cramer Responds to New White House Meme

Posted: March 5, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Equity Markets, Global Financial Crisis, president teleprompter jesus, Team Obama, U.S. Economy | Tags: , , , | 7 Comments

cramerWe’ve been talking about Cramer, Suze, and Santelli recently and listening.  They’ve stepped into the arena in defense of the US Everyman and the investments we make in our homes, our pensions, and our children.  These folks have made money but are not the high rollers that gambled away our savings, drug the weakest among us into bad mortgages, and bankrolled the campaigns of Obama, Biden, Dodd, Grahm, Leach and a bunch of other pols who did not and do not have our interests at heart.   When Cramer started talking about Obama-proofing your investment portfolio and finally begged POTUS to stop ignoring the messages screaming out of Wall Street Markets, he became just another target for the Blogkrieg Botz.  Two days ago, I outlined what I saw was a concerted on-line effort to assassinate his character and professional standing.  The MSM has also been repeating what was sure the latest Axelrove meme.  Cramer doesn’t know what he’s talking about.  Cramer makes money off you at your expense.  He’s one of those bad guys.  Meanwhile, the infusions of taxpayer dollars to the real culprits behind the meltdown as well as the complete lack of any regulatory reform sallies forth unabated.  Barney (subprime mortgages r us) Frank is now calling for a super regulator and is planning on holding ‘hearings’.  Just what we need. More hearings while the pensions and home values of every one of us continue their decline.

Today, Cramer hit back and I say more power to him.

The lines are drawn pretty clearly: If you can help people make money to be able to retire, enjoy life, pay for college, pay down debt, etc., you are a “good guy,” so to speak. If you take the other side of the trade, you are, well, let’s say, a less favored fellow. And if you gun for the gigantic investor class that is out there that includes 90 million people in one form or another, whether it be 401(k)s or individual stocks or pension plans, then you are on my enemies list.

I am a member of that ‘gigantic investor class’.  But it also includes people like Penny Pritzker who was head of Obama’s Finance Committee during his election and is now one of his advisers.  If you’d like to read about her and her part in the Financial Crisis, just Google away.  It’s every where.  Just read about this FAILED BANK that was really one of the first that greed brought down.  At the time it was one of the most expensive bank closings on record costing in the realm of about $500 million. Of course, that sounds like chicken feed now. But she’s just typical of the mega rich that gamed the system.  She’s also the  typical mega investor that funded Obama and owns him lock stock and barrel. That’s probably why the Blogzkrieg Bots are on the warpath of the likes of the Cramers of the world.  They’re messing with the Obamessiah’s imagine and that could cost the megainvestors in Obama their tax payer bailouts.

First, they eviscerate your character and your professional ability.

I am a fight-not-flight guy, so I was on my hackles when I heard White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ answer to a question about my pointed criticism of the president on multiple venues, including the Today Show.

“I’m not entirely sure what he’s pointing to to make some of the statements,” Gibbs said about my point that President Obama’s budget may be one of the great wealth destroyers of all time. “And you can go back and look at any number of statements he’s made in the past about the economy and wonder where some of the backup for those are, too.”

They do it in the Media, they do it from their podiums, they hire folks on Craig lists to visit blogs to convince every one there is a swell of outrage for the Obamessiah.

Then they send out the message that Cramer isn’t acting in your interest.  Obama is the one fighting the nasty ‘bankers’.  His program is going to help every one of you little guys.

Gibbs went on to say, “If you turn on a certain program, it’s geared to a very small audience. No offense to my good friends or friend at CNBC, but the president has to look out for the broader economy and the broader population.”

How much I wish it were true right now that stocks played less of a role in peoples’ lives. But stocks, along with housing, are our principal forms of wealth in this country. Only the people who have lifetime tenure, insured solid pensions and rent homes but own no stocks personally are unaffected. Sure that’s a lot of people, but believe me, they aspire to have homes and portfolios. If we only want to help those who have no wealth to destroy, we are not helping the majority of Americans; we are not helping the broader population.

Then third,  it’s the nastiness that he inherited from Bush that’s causing all these problems and Cramer’s just a closet Republican, a Racist, a R@tf*cker!

You can argue, of course, that Obama inherited one of the worst hands in the world. I had been a relentless critic of the Bush administration’s “stewardship” of the economy, calling repeatedly for changes to avert the disaster that I saw coming, although perhaps Gibbs hasn’t seen my CNBC meltdown. Seemed pretty prescient to me.

I, like everyone else, have made less authoritative and wrong statements in the past, but that rant still stands as something that I am sure everyone in the Bush administrations’ Treasury and Fed listened to. My calls to sell 20% of your stocks in September at Dow 11,000 and then all of your stock if you need the money for the next five years at Dow 10,000 in October, might have eluded Gibbs, too.

I said it here just a few days ago and I will say it again.  There is a very active proproganda wing of this POTUS.

rise_Hillary, on March 5th, 2009 at 3:00 am

You are right about the paid bots only these are a whole new crew. Criag’s List today had a job posting for Bloggers Needed. They are offering $5.00 per finished conversation…whatever that means. It’s listed under the computer jobs. I do believe this is recruitment to become an Obot. Thanks to the stimulus porkulus, jobs are being created in this sector. {{snark}}
So as they hire more kids on taxpayer dime, you will see more manufactured Obots. They only get paid per conversation so remember to ignore them and they will quit their new bot jobs when they don’t get paid for a ‘completed’ conversation. Spread the word.

I can’t tell you how many folks have come to my site today to say they’ve noticed the uptick in that propaganda effort.  Here’s the type of criticism they don’t want to hear from Cramer who supported Hillary Clinton in the primary.

But Obama has undeniably made things worse by creating an atmosphere of fear and panic rather than an atmosphere of calm and hope. He’s done it by pushing a huge amount of change at a very perilous moment, by seeking to demonize the entire banking system and by raising taxes for those making more than $250,000 at the exact time when we need them to spend and build new businesses, and by revoking deductions for funds to charity that help eliminate the excess supply of homes.

We had a banking crisis coming into this regime, but now every area is in crisis. Each day is worse than the previous one for this miserable economy and while Obama’s champions cite the stimulus plan, it’s really just a hodgepodge of old Democratic pork and will not create nearly as many manufacturing or service jobs as we hoped. China’s stimulus plan is the model; ours is the parody.

And here’s the money line from the mad money man:

If that makes me an enemy of the White House, then call me a general of an army that Obama may not even know exists — tens of millions of people who live in fear of having no money saved when they need it and who get poorer by the day.

Hey Cramer, Obama knows the army is out there.  Be prepared to be called a deadender for Hillary.  Have you got the call-outs for being racist yet?  How about a ‘bitter knitter’?  You’re not a woman, but if they can find something akin to calling you a dried up old va-jay jay get ready for that too.  Because there are a lot of folks out there, and the purpose of propaganda and the Blogzkrieg Bots is to silence you.   They will try to intimidate you into silence.  Don’t let them.

Princess Obama Derangement Syndrome

Posted: June 13, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: No Obama | Tags: , , | Comments Off on Princess Obama Derangement Syndrome

 

 I LOVE THE BRITS!

 

From the Spectator (UK)

FRIDAY, 13TH JUNE 2008

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/771896/princess-obama-derangement-syndrome.thtml

 

My oh my, what a firestorm I appear to have started with my remarks two days ago on Obama’s background! It was wholly expected, of course, but nevertheless the posters’ comments are sorevealing. They graphically illustrate the way in which Obamania has quite obviously destroyed the capacity for reason.

First, it is quite clear that any questioning at all of Obama’s background is entirely off-limits. Next, the posters fail totally to grasp that the real point isn’t what faith he professed or was brought up in as a child – it is the fact that he has not told the truth about his early background. Then, some even compare such questioning with the ‘truthers’ who allege that 9/11 was perpetrated by a conspiracy between America and Israel. They thus demonstrate that they cannot tell the difference between rationality and lunacy, evidence and fantasy, failing to grasp that the sole reason for the questions about Obama is the many discrepancies in the accounts of his early life — including his own accounts — plus his many questionable associations.

Ignoring all this substantive evidence and the legitimate questions to which it gives rise (can you imagine how they would be slavering about all this were Obama a Republican candidate??) they instead hurl insults at both me and my sources such as Daniel Pipes – a fine and authoritative scholar (and who has also exposed those who claim he has peddled falsehoods as themselves peddling falsehoods) whose own observations about Obama’s background are clearly and reliably sourced and are couched in Pipes’s characteristically cautious manner — and then annouce that they have won the argument hands-down!

Oh dear. America really does have a problem here. Looks like what I wrote months ago, that the Obama phenomenon might mean the Americans too are succumbing to Princess Diana Derangement Syndrome, was a serious understatement.

To address a few specific points which have come up and which are not merely hysterical abuse. First, it’s been pointed out that Robert Spencer has said Islam does not mandate the death sentence for children who become apostates, a point subsequently acknowledged by Daniel Pipes. I don’t see, however, that this alters anything. The death sentence is mandated for adults who renounce Islam. The fact that all that is known about Obama’s Muslim roots relates – as I wrote — to his early childhood is irrelevant. For as Spencer also notes, the real question is therefore when Obama converted to Christianity. By his own account, he did so when he was received by Pastor Wright into the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago some twenty years ago (although at other times he has also said he was ‘always a Christian’). In which case Pipes’s argument remains absolutely salient.

As for the ‘Islamic experts’ who poured cold water on a similar argument byEdward Luttwak in the New York Times — who are hailed as Voices of Absolute Truth by my more excitable commenters despite the fact that they know zilch about them — these prove nothing other than the existence of commentators who sanitise Islam.

Those who still insist that Obama was never brought up as a Muslim ignore the numerous reports of his Islamic education as a young child — including his own statements, as in this deeply respectful article in the New York Times by Nicholas Kristof:

He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them. Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’

Next, the assertion that Obama and Raila Odinga are not cousins – by a poster who says he is a Kenyan and therefore knows about such things. Well, one might think that Raila Odinga himself might have a rather better claim to know. This is what the Telegraph reported:

Kenya’s defeated presidential challenger Raila Odinga has claimed to be a cousin of Barack Obama and said that they had discussed his country’s post-election violence. Mr Odinga, 63, said that the US senator’s father, from western Kenya’s Luo tribe, was his maternal uncle… Mr Obama has not commented on the Kenyan opposition leader’s claim to be a relative.

As I have already said — but let me repeat very slowly for those suffering from Princess Obama Derangement Syndrome – the concerns about Obama’s Muslim antecedents arise from the fact that a) he has tried to conceal them and b) that he has a puzzling number of indirect connections with radical Islamists or their supporters.

1) He has gone out of his way to support in Kenya Raila Odinga, head of the Luo tribe, who promised to introduce sharia law if elected. Obama interrupted his New Hampshire campaign to speak by phone with Odinga. As the Investor’s Business Daily has reported, his half-brother Abongo ‘Roy’ Obama is a Luo activist in Kenya and a militant Muslim who argues that the black man must ‘liberate himself from the poisoning influences of European culture’ and urges Barack to embrace his African Muslim heritage.

Barack Obama has said he disagrees with his brother. But as the IBD has also reported:

In 1991, when Obama joined the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, he pledged allegiance to something called the Black Value System, which is a code of non-Biblical ethics written by blacks, for blacks. It encourages blacks to group together and separate from the larger American society by pooling their money, patronizing black-only businesses and backing black leaders. Such racial separatism is strangely at odds with the media’s portrayal of Obama as a uniter who reaches across races. The code also warns blacks to avoid the white ‘entrapment of black middle-classness,’ suggesting that settling for that kind of ‘competitive’ success will rob blacks of their African identity and keep them ‘captive’ to white culture.

2) His mentor, the black power-supporting Christian pastor Jeremiah Wright, is a close associate of Louis Farrakhan, the demagogue leader of the black power, Jew-hating militant organisation Nation of Islam. A number of Obama’s own staffers have been members of the Nation of Islam.

3) Tony Rezko, who was recently convicted of fraud, money laundering and bribery conspiracy, has been a major supporter of Obama and contributor to his cause – the full extent of which Obama tried to conceal. The Chicago Sun-Times reported:

During his 12 years in politics, Sen. Barack Obama has received nearly three times more campaign cash from indicted businessman Tony Rezko and his associates than he has publicly acknowledged, the Chicago Sun-Times has found. Obama has collected at least $168,308 from Rezko and his circle. Obama also has taken in an unknown amount of money from people who attended fund-raising events hosted by Rezko since the mid-1990s.

He also did a land deal with Rezko in 2005, buying land from him to enlarge his own adjoining house at what has been reported to be a discount — a transaction Obama has subsequently called ‘bone-headed’. In a further twist, as the Timesreported earlier this year, a British-Iraqi billionaire, Nadhmi Auchi, who is said to have had connections with Saddam Hussein and who was convicted for corruption in France, lent millions of dollars to Rezko just weeks before that ‘bone-headed’ land deal.

But what has received far less attention is Rezko’s connections with the Nation of Islam. Reszko, born in Syria, was a business associate of Jabir Herbert Muhammad, the son of the founder of the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, serving as a vice president and general manager of JHM’s firm Crucial Inc. And finally, Rezko was bailed from jail by Ali Baghdadi, the ‘Middle East adviser’ to the Nation of Islam.

Who know what all this adds up to? But isn’t it rather important that someone finds out before November?

To repeat once again for sufferers from PODS: the issue is NOT Obama’s religion, now or in the past. It is the many questions which need to be answered about a) why he has sought to conceal his early background; b) why he has so many indirect associations with radical Islamism; and c) whether these two questions are in some way related.

Anyone who doesn’t think all this cries out for proper investigation is either a fool or a knave.