When we last left our intrepid President, he was using his special coded phrases during the Notre Dame commencement speech to tell us clearly that he intended to ‘re-make’ America into something other than what it was or is. It didn’t take more than a single, distant voice to throw him off his teleprompter read, and he didn’t regain his tempo until that person was silenced. But, he did manage to get back on track and delivered his usual stirring, if Orwellian, spiel. And, in what can only be described as Olympic-level semantics and mental gymnastics, he proposed that the right wing nut cases (his inference, not this writer’s) and the compassionate, intelligent left (once again, his inference, not this writer’s) find a middle ground, as if there can be a middle ground between right and wrong, or good and evil acts. The abortion issue is just another instance where Obama obfuscates his radical position with conciliatory language that holds no meaning or commitment on his part or that of the Democratic Party.

But, it was the teleprompter thing, again. Ask anyone who speaks from a well-grounded understanding of their moral or political conviction, or who speaks with a clarity of vision that only a moral imperative can drive, and you’ll find that they can easily overcome a balky teleprompter, a noisy crowd or a mass of hecklers to deliver their message. This actor, this poseur Obama, can’t seem to do it. He’s rattled by the simplest of glitches, he’s peeved when someone asks a question that’s not on the list and he’s angered when someone doesn’t kiss his butt. This is a dangerous person. He believes his own press releases and his great ‘mission’. This is a charismatic orator and personality who can perform on the level of a Hitler or a Mao, both of whom were incredibly charismatic speakers and with mere words drove their nations over the brink and into madness. The only difference here is that someone else is writing those speeches, which would or could imply that someone else is calling the shots and doing the thinking.

So, it’s back to trying to figure out who is or are the brains behind Barack Obama. This week’s candidate is Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of General Electric, which happens to own NBC, CNBC, MSNBC and scores of local TV and radio stations. Now, GE hasn’t done particularly well under Jeffrey Immelt, especially the ill-conceived “Eco-Imagination” drive to push GE’s various ‘green’ businesses. Despite 8 years of constant flogging by Al Gore and Robert Kennedy, Jr., Americans just haven’t been all that interested in environmental issues. GE is over-invested and over-leveraged in the alternative energy sector, especially wind power, because the other nations who’ve tried wind power already know it’s useless and are dialing back. Jeffrey’s in trouble. So, why not throw your support behind a candidate who will gladly carry your water for you when he’s president? And by the way, Jeffrey can have his TV network scorch the competition just to make sure that Obama gets elected.

How about that national health care? Here’s another potential GE bonanza. After all, GE is one of the largest makers of medical equipment in the world. A huge government spending spree would do wonders for that profit/loss statement and Jeffrey’s personal bonus package. And then of course, there’s GE Capital. No, they’re not a bank, but they did receive $240 billion (more than anyone else) in TARP money to save GE Capital’s balance sheet and Jeffrey’s summer home in the Hampton’s. But don’t worry, they’re going to pay it back with PPIP money - the Private Public Investment Program that promised to screw American taxpayers in a way they’ve never been screwed before. Unlike TARP, GE can borrow all the money it wants and never pay it back. Why? Because Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner set it up that way. More on that in this week’s home page article.

In any case, Jeffrey Immelt could be a plausible choice as Barack’s brain. The lag in response time, the carefully crafted words all sound like typical corporate newspeak. Or is it typical political newspeak? In fact, is there any difference? Immelt, like Obama, is a politician. He controls vast amounts of money that doesn’t belong to him. He will do whatever he needs to do to advance his personal agenda, and he doesn’t care who gets hurt. Is our man Jeffrey Barack’s brain? Our next installment on the hunt for Barack’s brain takes an unexpected turn…

That teleprompter not only tells him what to say, it has little highlights that instruct him when to pause, when to look out wistfully over the audience, and when to smile. The performances are worthy of an Oscar. The media routinely accused Ronald Reagan of being merely an actor, playing to the tune of darker forces. Decades later, Reagan’s personal handwritten notes served as indisputable proof that the man knew what he was talking about. The same cannot be said for this new President. His ghostwritten books, his ghostwritten speeches are delivered with stunning virtuosity. He probably believes what he says — when it’s convenient for him to do so. And, he is smart enough to know that he’s lying most of the time, even though he’s not as smart as George W. Bush. So then, who is Barack’s brain? Who directs the writing of those magnificent speeches and carefully crafted, evasive statements that hide the true agenda? Axelrod is a scribe — a very good scribe, but nonetheless a scribe. He’s getting the ‘vision’ from someone and it’s not Obama. When Obama says he doesn’t have an opinion, or wasn’t aware of something, it’s because he hasn’t been told what to say yet. There’s always a 6-8 hour time lag between the event and Obama’s carefully crafted response to the event, regardless of the severity or significance of that event. Yes, of course, Obama has a say in what’s being written for him, but there appears to be an approval process. Notice how he stammers and babbles when there is no teleprompter, or when someone asks him a question for which he’s not prepared.

Okay, then. Who is Barack’s brain? This blog is happy to hear from anyone with a plausible suspect. As mentioned on this website’s home page, George Soros is under suspicion. Ted Kennedy or any member of the Kennedy clan just isn’t up to the task and neither is anyone in Hollywood. The brain could be an individual, a small group of individuals or an organization. The time delay before Obama responds to anything would indicate that more than one person is involved, although Obama himself is probably prone to dithering and indecisiveness. Think about someone beyond the borders of this country. Someone with an outlook very different from ours. After all, Obama is not of America. He’s not from America, either. His mother despised America, especially middle America. His father and stepfather were not Americans,  they were not sympathetic to America and did not aspire to become Americans. And, ironically enough, Americans were stupid enough to elect this man as President. Not by a huge margin — only 52.7%. But, it’s enough to destroy us all, even the fools that voted for him. The hunt continues. Let’s hope there’s really a functioning brain behind all this…

Who is Barack Obama’s Svengali? Is it possible that Barack Obama has the faculties, the intelligence, the megalomaniacal drive necessary to destroy this country on his own? It’s obvious the mainstream media is providing cover and Congress is doing their part to spend as foolishly as possible, but what our President is doing to this great country is so evil and malevolent, it borders on insanity . Does Barack Obama hate this country so deeply and with so much passion that he’s dedicated his life to its destruction? The motives just don’t seem to be there. Here’s a guy who never had to really work very hard, who received an incredible education free of charge, who’s lived comfortably, even luxuriously, through the generosity of our government, the special preferences granted him, various social programs and the largess of wealthy liberals. Maybe Barack Obama is just a Trilby, someone that’s easily instructed and handled, yet possessed of charismatic presentation. That may very well be. Obama is a very ambitious man, one who firmly believes in his own magnificence and sense of destiny. His head is filled with an ideology that has been proven worthless time and time again. Yet, he moves forward with a deliberate tempo and increasingly more dangerous and damaging policies. He doesn’t appear to understand what the consequences might be. Therefore, one can only assume he doesn’t know or is too self-absorbed to care. Who could be the Svengali to Obama’s Trilby?

Bill Ayers probably had a hand in writing some of Barack Obama’s books, which mysteriously became bestsellers during a time when books of that type didn’t sell particularly well. But Bill Ayers, the unrepentant domestic terrorist and college professor (somehow that’s a combination that works on campus), doesn’t seem to have the imagination and intellect to dream up this wholesale destruction of America. But then, you never know. His stupid bombing attacks on the Pentagon and NYC police headquarters were committed when he was quite young. Over 40 years, a man has time to dream up new ways to destroy his country. No, Bill Ayers just doesn’t have it. He’s just an over the hill radical who can only survive by talking at impressionable college students who haven’t been out in real world and don’t know any better.

There’s always George Soros, international man of mystery and money manipulation. Here’s someone with real hatred towards America, someone who is forced to hide inside our borders because he’s destroyed the economies of so many countries there’s probably a contract out for his murder. Soros is the fellow who funds dozens of left wing hatemongers and smear websites like moveon.org, the Daily Kos, and literally hundreds of bloggers, activists and street people. Soros and his pals made $2 billion dollars back in ‘92 shorting the Bank of England, creating roughly $30 billion in economic damage that was then foisted onto the backs of British taxpayers. He did the same in Russia, then moved on to Southeast Asia where he shorted the currencies of Myanmar, Indonesia and Singapore, and where he’s still wanted on currency manipulation charges. Soros has the same MO wherever he goes - donate to ‘progressive’ causes, establish ‘democratic’ front organizations, then push the governments into overspending. He then swoops in, shorts the currency and creates an economic collapse. Soros and buddies walk away with billions. Who’s to say that he isn’t doing the same thing here, with Barack Obama gladly devaluing the currency with huge stimulus bills, enormous deficits and uncontrolled spending? Soros could be waiting in the wings, ready to pounce.

If he does, Soros and his pals will walk way with trillions in personal wealth. That kind of money buys real, world-dominating power. We, the American taxpayers, will be digging out for the next 50 years. That means unimaginable economic destruction - middle class Americans turned into paupers, standing in line for government assistance, unable to care for themselves. Which is precisely where Barack Obama wants us: dependent on government for everything, begging him for a crust of bread. There is a good reason Obama wants to make sure Americans can’t offshore their money or hide it overseas, why he’s attempting to close loopholes in Monaco, the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and the Channel Islands. Average Americans can’t have any security or savings. It would mean they have resources he can’t control. They could be in a position to defy him.

Okay, if it isn’t Soros, who could it be? America has many enemies, both inside and outside our borders. Barack Obama is not an American by the definition that most of us would think a President should be. He was born in Kenya (or Hawaii, under questionable circumstances), grew up in Indonesia and returned to the US as a teenager. His formative years were spent in Islamic schools in a foreign country. He didnt’ serve in the military. He didn’t get a regular job and struggle to pay rent and taxes. His orientation is vastly different not just from the average American, but even that of African Americans. Barack Obama probably doesn’t see himself as an American, but rather a citizen of the world. And that means his Svengali is likely outside the country. Obama is unlike Bill Clinton who, like a cheap hooker, took money from the Chinese for his reelection bid and opened up American markets to Chinese goods imported by WalMart (headquartered in Arkansas, surprise!). No, Obama isn’t conducting a transaction for a quick buck like Clinton had.  The stakes are much bigger and the game is being played for all the marbles. If Obama and whoever runs his teleprompter succeed, America will be destroyed. The list of potential Svengali’s is quite small, actually. Stay tuned for regular installments on the hunt for Barack’s brain.

The fact that Congress has even bothered to bring to a vote the matter of AIG bonuses should signal loudly that the Golden Age of Parasites has arrived. Senator Chris Dodd denies inserting language into the mystery-shrouded economic stimulus package that was so quickly passed by both houses of Congress. The White House denies prior knowledge of the bonuses, even though staffers admit to it. Treasury Secretary Geithner himself crafted some of the foundational language of the bailout arrangement while George W. Bush was still in office. And now, every congressional aide’s best friend, Barney Frank,  is screeching that a 90% tax on those bonuses is justifiable. The parasites can now take away anything from anyone. Screw contract law. Screw constitutional guarantees. Screw the Bill of Rights. They can take what they want when they want it with the full backing of an ocean of parasites that now comprises the voting public. Mobocracy has arrived, cheered on by the media.

It’s revealing that only 44 protesters showed up to take a bus tour of AIG executives’ homes, even though every one of them was paid by A.C.O.R.N. with our tax dollars to do so. A crushing mob of reporters and cameramen from around the world showed up to document the circus. At the same time, hundreds of tea parties were being staged around the country to protest the Democrats’ uncontrolled spending and yet nothing has been reported on this groundswell of conservative activism.

It’s difficult to fully explain the motives of TV network programming executives, editorial directors, news writers and reporters. Some of it can be characterized as pure envy and malice — the mainstream media have assumed a rather pompous and sanctimonius position on social justice and economic opportunity without really delving into the causal relationships driving the disparity in income and social advancement. But then, that’s too difficult. It would require getting an education beyond ‘journalism’ or ‘communications’ which is as useful and intellectually challenging as ballroom dancing or basket weaving. No insult intended to the latter. It might require reporters, editors, columnists, newsreaders, producers and all of the other unionized (that’s right, they’re unionized) media ‘professionals’ to actually work hard and think before they open their yaps. It’s much easier to descend into pure envy and malice - the stock in trade of unions in this country. Hey, it worked for the unions.

But the primary reason that media outlets are effectively propaganda machines for the Left is that they’ve been intentionally been purposed to do so. Much like the contagion of leftist thinking that has demolished independent thought on college campuses, the Left has worked hard to spread its infection into the field of journalism. It’s an aggressive form of journalism, where the ‘reporter’ or ‘anchor’ insert themselves into the story, insult or attack their subject, then apply ‘context’ and ‘analysis’ that follows the party line. The strategy has worked extraordinarily well. Ask Sarah Palin. Where there are gaps in the all-out assault on American principles and ideals and those who uphold them, George Soros fills in with hundreds of bloggers funded through his many front organizations. 

Democratic politicians, media boobs and their wealthy patrons are playing with fire. They don’t understand that if the mob gets loose, at some point they too, will become targets. Even Karl Marx understood this. Obama and the Democrats think they can control mob impulses and turn them to their political advantage, much like Mussolini or Hitler did early on in their despicable regimes. History has proven them wrong. Either the actions of the mob descend into utter madness, or the politicians attempting to control the mob become dictators. This should not be America’s fate.

Barack Obama has dedicated himself to destroying this country. He’s attacking the very ideals and institutions that have made this country the greatest in the history of mankind. He’s taken upon himself the grim task of gutting the Constitution, the system of checks and balances, and a free-market economy that’s the envy of the world. Why would he do this? Because he’s not familiar with the America most Americans live in. His father was Kenyan - an alcoholic womanizer who visited this country once or twice. His American mother was an ultra-liberal that flitted about the globe, dragging her young son with her as she attempted to ‘find’ herself. He spent his formative years in Indonesia attending a Muslim school. Barack Obama had no grounding in what being an American truly is, what it means, and what’s important to Americans.

Barack Obama is an exemplary orator. Too bad that what he’s spewing is pure Marxist dogma. And yet, the stupid and the gullible sop it up, quivering in joy when they hear him speak, misunderstanding his true intentions and the ‘plans’ he has for America. Even black Americans who voted for Obama had better pay attention now. If they thought their lot in life was somehow diminished during the Bush administration, just wait until Obama is done with them. The Messiah will alter their America, too. And they won’t recognize it when he’s finished.

Well-educated, well-spoken and well-dressed, Obama the demagogue told everyone what they wanted to hear. But, he was very plain and straightforward about his vision for a Marxist utopia - except nobody really listened. Now, he’s making good on his promise to ‘re-make’ America, uproot its traditions and reason for being. No, he’s not going to create some sort of Euro-style socialist state. He’s going for the throat - a full-on Marxist takeover, complete with his promised ‘internal security force’ the size of our military. Why would the Anointed One, the Great Visionary, need an internal security force composed mostly of our poorly educated and gullible students, except to create another Hitler Youth or Red Guard to impose the will of Obama and the Democratic Party on us all? It’s a frightening prospect.

The media & entertainment clowns continue to cheer him on. The conservatives continue to question his motives and methods, but they’re largely outshouted. And so, Obama goes about his business - stampeding the stupid into giving him the imprimatur to take away all of our economic freedoms. And without economic freedom, the ability to keep what you earn guaranteed by our Constitution, the freedom to vote or voice your opinion is nearly useless. No one will hear you complaining when you’re standing in a breadline.

Obama is using the banking crisis to ram through a Marxist agenda - government control of energy, healthcare and capital formation. He’s lying about his true intent, cloaking this outrageous power grab as a means to moderate the economic downturn. Creating a ‘green’ economy with unproven technology and government subsidies is not a free-standing, self-sufficient economy. Bankrupting coal producers, coal-fired energy generation, oil companies and auto companies is not going to create a rebound. Confiscating healthcare and turning it into a political weapon will not cause prosperity to materialize. And certainly, adding a huge new tax burden on economic activity will not create jobs.

But then, Obama doesn’t really care if the economy recovers at all. The worse it gets, the more power he’ll accumulate and the further our great country will slide into the clutches of a failed ideology. To the Democrats that won’t matter in the least. They’ll always have the ‘rich’ and the Republicans to blame for anything and everything that goes wrong. And when it gets really tough, fellow Democrats can meet up with their President at the White House for a cocktail on Wednesday nights and dine on $100 per pound steak. Hey, it’s free, isn’t it? Go on, a second helping couldn’t hurt…

Last summer, George W. Bush and Hank Paulson rammed nearly a trillion dollars into the financial system, hoping to stabilize wobbly banks and brokers. Ben Bernancke printed another trillion dollars and injected them into a wobbly economy, hoping to stimulate lending and commerce. Six months later, Barack Obama presides over a so-called stimulus package, committing the government to another trillion dollars in questionable spending, only to follow it up a few days later with a seven hundred billion dollar mortgage package - the third of its kind in less than a year. On the floor of the House is another $700 billion ‘omnibus’ spending bill for the balance of 2009. And now, Obama proudly reveals a stupendous, back-breaking $8 trillion dollar federal budget for 2010 so laden with pork and special-interest handouts that it staggers the imagination.

And, true to form, neither Obama nor the Democrat-controlled Congress is inclined to illuminate the taxpayer on what exactly is in that budget. By the way, there are also ‘off the book’ spending that’s not even included in that budget, such as a planned cash infusion for GM and Chrysler, the recently turned up war in Afghanistan, and a vastly expanded internal security force inside our borders.

That’s $16 trillion dollars in less than a year and one-half, or our entire GDP for one year, consumed by profitless, pointless government spending. Add that sum to our incredible national debt of $44 trillion, and it spells impending cataclysm. This isn’t just reckless, it’s as if Obama and Democrats want to purposely run the country into the ground for some other purpose, perhaps to take total control. One shudders at the thought. But, nothing else seems to make sense. Why would a US president and a duly elected Congress attempt to evade all of the safeguards put in place by our founding fathers, except to create a socialist oligarchy? Democrats, in their short-sighted and stupid bid to make themselves voter-proof, have destroyed the checks and balance system of the Constitution. And, in so doing, they have destroyed the American republic, humankind’s oldest and most successful functioning free-market representative democracy. And, they’re celebrating its destruction with beef, champagne and applause.

Olympia Snow, Susan Collins and Arlen Specter are traitors to America. They joined the other traitors, that being the Democratic members of the Senate, to push through legislation that they know destroyed this great country. They did it for political expediency, for personal gain, for the benefit of friends, relatives and political allies, and they did it to intentionally insult and harm the greater number of Americans who still believe in the Constitution and the American promise. They did it to repudiate free-market capitalism, social mobility and self actualization. They did it to solidify the power of the liberal elite, to reward unions and government bureaucrats, to provide incredible wealth to political insiders.

President Obama promised open government, open transactions and elimination of earmarks. This trillion dollar spending bill (there is no real economic stimulus) was crafted behind closed doors without the participation of the minority party. There was no public review or public comment, and a 90-minute floor debate before the vote was pushed through. Over 1,000 pages was voted on in both the House and Senate without even a single reading by any member of Congress. This isn’t democracy. This is Stalinism. Obama promised 48 hours of review. It never happened. This man lied to all of us. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid lied to all of us. The Democrats threw out 100 years of procedure and safeguards to rush this monstrosity through both houses. The few Republicans who could have stalled this, Snow, Collins and Specter, decided to betray the core principles of the Republican Party and throw in their lot with the Marxists running this country. History will not be kind to them. 

The bill is corrupt, misguided and destructive on so many levels that an entire book can be written about it. And yet, those Americans who will end up paying for this are silent. The producers aren’t protesting. They’re not flooding the offices of Democratic politicians with petitions, angry letters and emails. There’s nothing. Emboldened, the Democrats will advance their agenda until they hit opposition. The parasites are rejoicing. They actually believe they won’t have to pay for energy costs or their mortgages, or even work for a living anymore. Some are even asking our President for a new kitchen. This is what America has descended into - a populace so stupid, so self-absorbed that they have no idea what they’ve given away for a welfare check or a paltry $13 a week in handouts.

The Porkulus bill will be examined by historians in great detail — much more detail than the leftist Democrats who shoved it through Congress back in 2009. That was the year democracy died.