Saturday, August 29, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
New Party Radical Agenda
Once you read it, and please note there is a photo, you may see an agenda that is playing itself out today in the U.S.
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=107731
Friday, August 14, 2009
545 People
545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank. I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason - they have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist. If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red .. If the Army &Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ. If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way. There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses, provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees. We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it.......... Is up to you. This might be funny if it weren't so darned true. Be sure to read all the way to the end:
Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table at which he's fed.
Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes are the rule.
Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for peanuts anyway!
Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.
Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.
Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he tries to think.
Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries tax his tears.
Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways to tax his ass.
Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.
When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till he's good and sore.
Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he's laid.
Put these words upon his tomb,
Taxes drove me to my doom...
When he's gone, do not relax,
Its time to apply The inheritance tax.
Accounts Receivable
TaxBuilding Permit Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Excise Taxes
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax (currently 44.75 cents per gallon)
Gross Receipts Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Personal Property Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service Charge Tax
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax
Sales Tax
Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service FeeTax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Taxes
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY? Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, and our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. What in the hell happened? Can you spell 'politicians? And I still have to 'press 1' for English!?
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Unhinged!
Remember her assertion that tales of Slick Willy's escapades was all a vast right-wing conspiracy? Well, to refresh your memory:
Then we had Hillary on the campaign trail behaving in ways that seemed, well, a bit unstable:
Now, you got to admit this one was a bit creepy:
And here she seems to disagree with Nancy Pelosi on the issue of whether citizen dissent is patriotic or not:
What was even better was seeing her on TV this week in a Q&A session with students in the Congo. This numero uno diplomat representing the United States in her official capacity had this to say:
But maybe Hillary Clinton will be best remembered on the Internet, and definitely not network news, or polite society for that matter, for this (in)famous moment:
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Clunker Carnahan
Here's more from St. Louis:
Russ's latest claim to fame was calling out the union thugs for his townhall meeting on August 6th. There, Kenneth Gladney, a mild-mannered Conservative handing out Gadsden flag buttons was beaten by 4 union purple shirts. In an August 7th interview with Laura Ingraham on the O'Reilly Factor, Ken stated that he was called a racial epithet by one of the union heavies, pushed to the ground, and kicked in the head and other parts of his body. This was witnessed by a number of persons, including a personal friend who is a lawyer now representing Ken. Mr. Gladney was taken to a hospital where he was treated and held and six persons, including one local reporter, were arrested.
Carnahan also denied entry to over 1,000 protestors who attended this meeting forcing them to assemble outside the meeting location. Carnahan allocated at least half of the room to his union "security" force and they were ushered in to the meeting place by a separate entrance. Now, who had organized and "bussed in" a mob for this event?
Fellow Missourians in St. Louis - keep at it till all the vermin are gone. Ya gotta love this guy, he makes our job so much easier.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
AstroTurf Mobster
Lord Almighty, is this what the American voters wanted when they voted for Hope and Change? An outright assault on the citizenry? The same citizenry that goes to work every day (well not so much anymore), starts the small businesses that employ other Americans, and provides the revenue to fuel the economy? The people who bought houses that they could afford and paid their mortgages. The people who attend church on Sunday and contribute to charities. People who believe that compassion is to be nurtured but personal responsibility is to be revered.
I attended Tea Parties this year, on April 15th and July 4th, and I saw the wonder of a real grass roots movement of everyday Americans: elderly folks, families with kids, college kids, middle age couples, all who carried flags and home made signs of protest for a government out of control and spending money that does not exist, taking over private corporations and destroying free markets, ignoring the will of the People. A government that now wants to determine who gets medical care and who does not, and which will mandate counseling the elderly about how to die prematurely just to save Uncle Sam a few bucks. Never mind what they and their family want.
The most recent outrage instituted by the Obama administration is the call to snitch on fellow Americans. From the White House website:
There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there,
spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors
often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual
conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House,
we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web
about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.
Bloggers are promoting a mass effort called Operation Go Flag Yourself encouraging readers and other bloggers to turn themselves in to the White House. What fun, let's all do it!
The Politico (August 5, 2009) quotes Democrat strategist and former Clintonista, Lanny Davis as saying:
Let’s have the media name names, publish photographs, and do interviews of those
responsible for approving, even organizing these techni[q]ues. And let’s find an
investigative journalist - are there many left - to prove these so-called
grassroots shouters are, or are not, being paid.
So now we have an outright governmental assault on the grass roots movement of individuals who found each other and formed alliances thanks to the Internet and alternate media. But more important, we found each other because we are like-minded and we love our country and our freedoms and we want them back.
This assault on tea party and health plan protestors, stating that we are paid pawns of the Republicans or the insurance industry, is absurd. I would love to be paid for my efforts protesting this tyranny because self-employment is no longer providing a living. So if you folks in the government know who is paying tea party protestors please let me know cuz I need a paying job. And I never bought clothes from Brooks Brothers, right now Wal-Mart is all I can afford - that is until your labor union friends and their allies in Congress destroy it too. Then all those folks who would not otherwise be able to get a real job and folks who shop Wal-Mart because it is an affordable option for goods and services will have nowhere to go. But that is what you want isn't it Mr. Obama? Total dependence of "the masses" on government, the basis for a "benign dictatorship" of the (so-called) intelligentsia.
Rush Limbaugh sent a message on his August 5th show to the head honcho, formerly known as the community organizer:
A Community Organizer Can't Bitch When Communities Organize
A government that has forgotten that it is of the people, by the people, for the people will perish from this earth.
This is an example of the typical astroturf mobster
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Radical or Stalking Horse?
We know he is a guy who despite being a nobody in the political world had the audacity to publish two autobiographies about himself: Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, 1995, and Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, 2006. Now I say publish rather than write as the true authorship of these books is in issue. Jack Cashill, a prominent author and Emmy award winner, lives and works in the Kansas City area and writes extensively on his research and findings into who really wrote these Obama books.
Did Obama publish biographies about himself because he was chosen to be the future Democrat presidential candidate and was being groomed by certain individuals or an unnamed organization to be the so-called first black President of the United States? There are stories that recount the Kennedy's involvement in the choice of Obama as the next JFK and overseer of a 21st century Camelot.
We know from Dr. Jerome Corsi who wrote Obama Nation that there are extensive inaccuracies and vague recitations of fact in Obama's books, especially Dreams. We know that Obama's biological father was a foreign university student from Kenya and his mother a teen-age university student from Hawaii. We do not know if they were married or if Obama's father divorced his African wife before he maybe married Stanley Ann Dunham.
We know little about Obama's half siblings which are numerous and we really only know that from Corsi's book and extensive digging on our own. We know Obama lived in Indonesia as a young boy and was registered in school as an Indonesian citizen and a Muslim. His name then was Barry Soetero. But we do not know the status of his citizenship, that is, is he a "natural born American" as required by the Constitution to hold the office of the Presidency. The records which would settle this controversy have not been produced by Mr. Obama. In fact, Obama has withheld all of his personal records: birth, elementary school, passport status, naturalization or repatriation to the U.S. when he returned from Indonesia to live with his maternal grandparents, law school papers and grades, health records, and so on. We know that Obama's Kenyan grandmother testified that she attended his birth in Kenya, and we are told, and have heard the audio recording of the Kenyan embassy official who confirmed that Kenyans are proud of Obama and his birthplace in Kenya. Surely these are more than enough facts in dispute to warrant an evidentiary hearing in any one or more of the numerous lawsuits filed on this very issue. But one by one they are dismissed for common cowardly judicial reasons like lack of standing, failure to state a claim, or no reason. The simple fact of the substantial controversy and potential Constitutional crisis would long ago have felled any conservative or Republican seeking to run for the highest office.
What is even more breathtaking is that Obama is simply a man with no reasonably ascertainable experience compatible with the office. Was Obama a great military hero? A corporate executive or entrepreneur? Was he an inventor? Was Obama a governor of a state or mayor of a major metropolitan area? Was Obama a long time U.S. Senator with sweeping reform of wasteful government to his credit? He is a lawyer - did he win some landmark case or argue successfully before the Supreme Court? This writer, with my Master's in management and 30+ years direct experience in business and management, has substantially greater credentials than this man whose claim to fame consisted of being a "community organizer." Come on, the joke is on whom?
If this is a joke, most of America is not laughing. So let's look at what else we know about Obama.
Obama attended and graduated from some pretty pricey schools. Who paid for this? We really do not know that answer. He did not talk about working his way through school or even mention any noteworthy scholarships, like say Clinton and his Rhodes Scholarship. And Obama and his wife, Michelle, are so proud to point out that Obama could have had high paying jobs but instead he chose to move to Chicago's urban core and work for what- subsistence wages? And, in a few short years he is living large in a million dollar plus estate.
We know that Obama was affiliated with the infamous corruption machine, ACORN, known for voter registration fraud, embezzlement, mortgage collapse, and a corporate structure so tangled it would take a team of investigators years to unravel it. This is the same ACORN that is the beneficiary of billions of taxpayer dollars to grow ever larger and complex, and we are told, will be coming to our front doors as census takers to pry into our most private information and record that precious information with as much veracity as they did voter registration forms.
We know that Barack Obama's mentors were radicals such as Malcolm X, Saul Alinsky, Frank Marshall Davis, William Ayers, and some of his associates are notables such as Raila Odinga, Tony Rezko, and Jeremiah Wright.
Obama's presidential campaign amassed a war chest that surpassed all others before him. He was funded heavily by billionaire hedge-fund manager, George Soros, personally, along with his family members, associates and 527 organizations, not the least of which was Soros' MoveOn.org. Soros, a secular Jew, is known as an anti-Israel, pro-Hamas, Amerika-hater. Amazingly, in September 2008, a critical time in the presidential campaign, then President, George Bush, with Goldman-Sachs alum and former Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, announced a financial crisis of biblical proportions (to this day not adequately explained) necessitating TARP1. Coupled with Bush's very low poll ratings, this crisis virtually guaranteed Obama's victory. There is a story which has been buried from that time that alleges there was a cash drawdown on the US money markets so severe that if it was not stopped by executive and congressional intervention the economy and banking system would have crashed right then and there. And, George Soros is a currency trader, the man responsible for England's Black Wednesday (September 16, 1992) resulting in the devaluation of the English pound and the term "the man who broke the Bank of England." Soros also was convicted in 2002 by a French court of insider trading. Hmmm...
Obama is "managed" by two prominent Chicago politicos: David Axelrod, whose mother was a liberal writer allied with American communists; and former ballet dancer, Rahm Emmanuel, known for his foul mouth, jingoistic appoach to human relations, and legendary for his dead fish prank.
The sad truth is that millions of Americans voted for Barack Obama because they hated George Bush and because they saw Obama as a personable guy who was a D.C. outsider, and they thought it would be an historical moment when they elected the first black American President. They fell for the lie and never did their homework. It was a perfect storm chanting Hope and Change and Yes We Can elevating their candidate to messianic proportions. Even their bumper stickers and campaign signs displayed an aura or halo around his head.
But more, Obama is not a descendant of the slave history in the U.S. nor a child of the black civil rights movement. He is a bi-racial guy, born to an unstable teen-age mother who dragged him to a very foreign land and culture, and was abandoned by his biological father. He chose to identify with his African heritage and reject his white DNA with a perpetual contempt.
Obama is a kid that did not fit in anywhere so he chose his path as an angry black man allied with a radical ideology of "black liberation theology" that bears a closer connection to Farrakahn's Nation of Islam than the Christianity implied in the name, Trinity United Church of Christ. He is more comfortable embracing the U.N.'s Agenda 21 and globalism while abdicating the United States Constitution for foreign treaties and international law. In a 2001 interview with a Chicago public radio station Obama said the following:
"But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can't do to you. Says what the federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf."
Oh my, this once "professor" of Constitutional law does not seem to get the genius of the Founding Fathers and the freedoms they recognized as inalienable. Obama's words and his actions since moving into the White House are clear evidence of a deep-seated drive for tyrannical rule.
Obama is pro-abortion right up to late term and partial birth and including the withholding of medical assistance to babies who survive abortion. His positions are the most radical of any American politician. And now, Obama is trying to force through Congress a government controlled health care plan that would effectively eradicate the last vestiges of our inalienable rights. Obama and the Democrat's health care plan is one that moderates health care for the aging and vulnerable, and opts for mandated "end of life" counseling - a euphemism for euthanasia. Obama's patron, Soros, founded the Open Society Institute which underwrote the Project on Death in America; and, in a 1994 speech, Soros talked about offering to assist his mother, a member of the Hemlock Society, with committing suicide. In that speech, he also talked about his endorsement for the Oregon Death With Dignity Act.
We know that Obama's maternal grandmother died right before the election but the media never covered the real story and all the questions it raised. We know that Obama's grandmother had a broken hip and was in the hospital, nothing unusual here for a post-menopausal elderly woman. But then all of a sudden granny was dying and Obama had to go to Hawaii to see her for one last time. Oddly, no one ever talked about how Granny Dunham became terminal so quickly and if she was really dying why didn't Michelle and the kids go to Hawaii to say good-bye to her as well? But, what we do know is, that trip is when the birth records were removed from any public access. There are some interesting unanswered facts here, like the leap from broken hip to being terminally ill, and why she died right after her euthanasia-loving grandson came to visit. He who wants the elderly to take-their-pain-pills-and-die-rather-than-cost-the state-for-medical-care and oh-by-the-way-I-need-to-hide-my-birth-records came to Hawaii to visit granny.
There are layers upon layers with this guy: radical affiliates; unending encroachment on the separation of powers with czar after czar; government takeovers of the auto, banking and financial markets; elitist parties in the people's house while millions of Americans lose their jobs, their businesses, their homes to an economy ostensibly "stimulated" over and over so much that Russia's Pravda and the Chinese Communists exhort America to return to capitalist prosperity.
So what is Obama's end-game and who is behind him? Look at the Saudis, George Soros, the American Socialists and Communists, the globalists, the black nationalists, the billionaires club, all anti-American and anti-capitalist cabals, the promoters of "sustainable development", the U.N.'s Agenda 21; and look at the lovers of genocide that seek population control. Look at Obama as a radical elitist that wants a two class America: one with him and his cronies who live lavishly and one made up of the serfs that provide for them. Maybe John Edwards was right there is "Two Americas."
So the question is: Is Barack Obama a radical ideologue who was in the right place at the right time and who is carrying out his own agenda? Or is Barack Obama a stalking horse for forces that hate America so much they have waited patiently, plotting and manipulating the economy, members of Congress, Wall Street, the Fed, coiled like a snake in the reeds ready to strike?
Perhaps the more important question now is can we stop them before we lose it all, even our lives?
NYT: Kennedy Chooses Obama, Spurning Plea by Clintons http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/28/us/politics/28kennedy.html?_r=1
AT: Soros, Obama, and the Millionaires Exception
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/04/soros_obama_and_the_millionair.html
NYT: After 2000 Loss, Obama Built Donor Network From Roots Up
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/us/politics/03obama.html?_r=1&ex=1177905600&en=0f765f7f1422987a&ei=5070
Blog: Organizing for America
America's Economic Collapse George Soros'/Obama's/Democrats' October Surprise?
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/miat2/gGxhnW
Accuracy in Media:
Obama’s International Socialist Connections
http://www.aim.org/AIM-COLUMN/OBAMAS-INTERNATIONAL-SOCIALIST-CONNECTIONS
Free Republic:
Big Media Won't Touch Agenda 21
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1335656/posts
Sunday, August 2, 2009
The Most Trusted Man in America
Walter Cronkite was called the most trusted man in America. How did he acquire that appellation?
Cronkite covered World War II including battles in North Africa and Europe, bombing raids over Germany, the Battle of the Bulge, even the Nuremberg trials. He was a UP reporter in Moscow for two years. In the early days of 1950s television, Cronkite, recruited by Edward R. Murrow, joined CBS News and was one of the first reporters to be termed an "anchor" which referred to his role covering the 1952 Republican and Democrat conventions. His accomplishments are discussed extensively in many reference sources.
In 1962 he took over as the anchor of CBS Evening News. I remember Walter Cronkite but I do not remember watching him regularly as he reported the news. We watched the Huntley-Brinkley Report in our house; Good night, David, Good night, Chet. There was something soothing about those two guys that left a young kid feeling good about the news in those days of 1960s turmoil and nightly war reports from Southeast Asia, like a daily soap opera to which we eventually grew numb.
When Chet Huntley retired in 1970, Cronkite assisted by the substantial investment of CBS in its news programming, surpassed NBC and dominated the nightly news until his retirement.
Cronkite announced his retirement on February 14, 1980. This is his farewell statement from March 1981:
“This is my last broadcast as the anchorman of The CBS Evening News; for me, it's a moment for which I long have planned, but which, nevertheless, comes with some sadness. For almost two decades, after all, we've been meeting like this in the evenings, and I'll miss that. But those who have made anything of this departure, I'm afraid have made too much. This is but a transition, a passing of the baton. A great broadcaster and gentleman, Doug Edwards, preceded me in this job, and another, Dan Rather, will follow. And anyway, the person who sits here is but the most conspicuous member of a superb team of journalists; writers, reporters, editors, producers, and none of that will change. Furthermore, I'm not even going away! I'll be back from time to time with special news reports and documentaries, and, beginning in June, every week, with our science program, Universe. Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is: Friday, March 6, 1981. I'll be away on assignment, and Dan Rather will be sitting in here for the next few years. Good night."
There was something about Walter Cronkite that I did not like or trust. I have no idea what it was or that I understood it then. Now, in retrospect, I think it was my true common-sense, budding conservative self capable of ascertaining truth-tellers from snake charmers - those people who harbor a deep, dark evil secret within their being.
So when Walter left the airwaves I did not shed a tear of sentiment. He was gone, I didn't watch him anyway.
But in later years I learned some truly disturbing facts about Walter Cronkite.
By the time he campaigned in western Missouri for his Democrat "barbie-doll" cousin as she ran for national office - she who nearly devastated the Kansas City economy from her term as mayor, I found myself hissing at the TV screen when he appeared promoting her, full of the realization that he was not just a liberal, but a radical globalist that promoted the dominance of the United Nations and the withering away of the United States. A man who spewed the most vile, treasonous rhetoric to whomever would listen. And they did listen and sop it up.
For example, in a 1999 speech he gave before an audience at the UN when he was awarded the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award from the World Federalists Association, he stated that "the first step toward achieving a one-world government is to strengthen the United Nations." This is said to be his personal dream.
"It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace. To do that, of course, we Americans will have to yield up some of our sovereignty. That would be a bitter pill. It would take a lot of courage, a lot of faith in the new order," emphasis added.
Cronkite also reportedly stated the following: "American people are going to begin to realize they are going to have to yield some sovereignty to an international body to enforce world law..."
Cronkite is renowned for his negative impact on the Viet Nam conflict when he announced on his news program in February 1968 following a victory for U.S. and South Vietnamese troops and a defeat for the Communist North Vietnamese:
"For it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate."
Shortly after the famous Cronkite "Report from Viet Nam..." then President, Lyndon Johnson, was heard to say "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America." Within weeks Johnson announced that he would not seek reelection.
In more recent years, Walter Cronkite steadfastly supported Bill Clinton during the impeachment proceedings; in 2006 he presented the Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award to actor and activist George Clooney as the chairman of the Interfaith Alliance (an organization opposed to conservative Christians and which maintained a radio show on leftist Air America); he wrote a column in which he regularly condemned President George W. Bush and the Iraq war; he appeared in the 2004 film "Outfoxed" which bashed Rupert Murdoch and Fox News; and he was a contributing writer to far left blog, The Huffington Post.
This month of July 2009, the local news shows all carried their obligatory, hushed voice, reverential reports of this great American icon and not one mentioned Walter Cronkite's radical anti-America globalist agenda. Was he an icon of Americanism or an icon of radical anti-American sentiment?