Al Qaeda has endorsed John McCain.
The terrorist organization has determined that John McCain would be the best U.S. president to lead our country further into economic decline. Opinions were posted on several Al Qaeda web sites.
Remember when the right-wing lied about Al Qaeda endorsing John Kerry four years ago? They were outraged at Kerry. So, how do they feel about McCain securing this endorsement? (And this time, it is in writing.)
A vote for McCain = a vote for Terrorism.
There is terror in America. Terror that leads a 90 year old woman to so fear for the loss of her home of 40 years, that she would be driven to suicide.* Terror of such magnitude that it can be used to extort $700 billion from an otherwise proud country. Terror of millions of American workers that fear for losing their jobs after decades of hard work for companies that would ship their jobs overseas. Terror of mothers that work two jobs but still cannot pay for health care that their sick children need.
This is the terrorism of America- where the cops are taken off the beat so that profiteers eager to sell mortgage contracts are free to prey on the old folks filling their heads with promises that their troubles are over if they just sign on the dotted line. This is the terrorism of America, where republican plans of health care further deregulate the health care industry leading to costs double what the rest of the world pays, while delivering worse medical statistics compared to most western nations.
This is the terrorism of America that allows a baron class elite 1% of the population control 20% of national income, where even among the top 10% of the nation's wealthy, the income was almost flat for the 90th to 99th percentile, and nearly all the gains went to the top 1%. Even within this elite, the top one hundredth of that one percent received one fourth of the gains. In 2005, the average tax return for these 15,000 tax payers reported 25 million of income, while the take for the entire group was $384 billion.** Cindy McCain and her husband are members of this baronial class of America.
So this is the real terrorism of America that would attempt to scare and distract Americans into electing a member of this baronial class as president, to further cut their taxes and shield their activities from those who would regulate their rapacious feeding on the less privileged.
So if Sarah Palin is interested in unmasking political operatives with links to American terrorists, she need look no further than a McCain staff meeting.
Notes:
*Addie Polk of Akron, Ohio attempted suicide after repeated attempts by authorities to evict her from her home of 40 years. No regulator would have approved the $57,000 of debt that Countrywide eagerly saddled her with. We benefit from the society our elders built for us, and we owe them better. Addie Polk needed financial counseling, not the lies of easy money from high pressure salesmen eager to convert her home into the financial toxic waste that we must now clean up or suffer global economic disaster.
**These figures from "The Trillion Dollar Meltdown", by Charles R. Morris
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/27/08) " The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today said that a participant in an anti-Muslim film that is being distributed to 28 million homes in presidential election swing states CALLED the production a “vile piece of propaganda” in a statement sent to www.obsessionwithhate.com/
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/27/08) " The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today said that a participant in an anti-Muslim film that is being distributed to 28 million homes in presidential election swing states has issued a statement calling the production a “vile piece of propaganda.” Read More »
Republican operatives are using an anti-Muslim film and push polling to raise fears of terrorism and smear Barack Obama
Richard Silverstein, Guardian, 9/22/08
We are now entering the closing weeks of what promises to be yet another close and contentious presidential election contest. As each side seeks to maximise its advantages and minimise its weaknesses, the Republican party has chosen the lowest of low roads, engaging in two sleazy political marketing campaigns over the past week.
First, DVDs of an anti-Muslim documentary film are being distributed to 28 million voters in swing states like Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Colorado and Wisconsin. Second, Republican telemarketers have begun push polling aimed at scaring Jewish voters in swing states from voting for Barack Obama…
The mass distribution of Obsession is an obvious Republican scare-tactic, right out of the Rovian playbook. Party operatives believe that scaring Americans into believing there's a jihadist under every bed will play to Republican strengths and Democratic weaknesses on national security. They swiftboated John Kerry in 2004. Now they're jihadising Barack Obama.
Ali Gharib, Inter Press Service, 9/19/08
WASHINGTON, Sep 19 (IPS) - Millions of voters in U.S. states crucial to this fall's presidential election received DVD copies of a controversial documentary film as advertising inserts in their morning newspapers over the past week, with more expected to be sent out over the upcoming weekend.
The 2006 film, "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West", which has been accused by critics of encouraging Islamophobia, was reportedly delivered, or slated for delivery this weekend, into tens of millions of households in states such as Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Missouri and other "swing states" that don't vote consistently for either party and usually decide elections.
Republicans and their candidate, Sen. John McCain, have made the battling the threat posed by radical Islamists a central platform of their campaign, while presenting their Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, as being weak on the issue. Obama has also fought off persistent "smear" campaigns, particularly among Jewish voters, that he is a closet Muslim. Read More »
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[Ahmed Rehab is strategic communications director for the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties group. He may be contacted at arehab@cair.com]
You have to wonder about a film that could muster no better an endorsement to adorn its poster than that of CNN’s resident right-wing extremist Glenn Beck. "Obsession is without exaggeration one of the most important films of our time," says Beck. (Who would accuse Glenn Beck of exaggerating?)
The film Beck is lauding, “Obsession: Islam’s Radical War against the West,” is a 2005 work of anti-Muslim propaganda that has recently been widely distributed via an unprecedented campaign. Read More »
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=27925
The mass mailing of a controversial DVD "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West" has sparked anger among many in South Florida.
The hour-long video began turning up in mailboxes last week as a direct mailing, and also as an advertising insert in dozens of newspapers, including The Miami Herald and the South-Florida Sun-Sentinel.
The DVD is promoted by Clarion Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to "educating the public about national security threats." Read More »
Like other newspapers across the country, this Sunday's News-Leader contained a glossy insert and DVD of the film "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West."
Ordinarily, such a blatant piece of anti-Muslim propaganda wouldn't merit much attention, but this "advertisement" was sent to about 28 million newspaper subscribers in key electoral swing states. It was paid for by The Clarion Fund, an opaque nonprofit organization that doesn't list its directors or staff or sources of funding on its Web site. Read More »