If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic,
different."
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers: a quintessential American
story.

If your name is Barack, you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig, and Track: you're a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating: you're well
grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the
first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter
registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years
as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator
representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of
the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years
in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people
while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs,
Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you
don't have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local weather girl (sports caster), 4 years
on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with fewer than
7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000
people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest
ranking executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising
2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a
real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your
disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a
Christian.

If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no
other option in sex education in your state's school system while your
unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a
prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city
community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values
don't represent America's.
If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DUI
conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until
age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession
of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

Mike Klonsky is one of the founders of Communist Party (Marxist-
Leninist) (USA) and the Students for a Democratic Society a fervent
Obama supporter, friend and former member of the terrorist group the
Weatherman.
http://www.theminorityreportblog.com...riend_of_obama

(...) a notorious ally of Bill Ayers for many years, Mike Klonsky, is
an open member of the Obama campaign. Klonsky runs a blog on the
official Obama website here where he claims to be a "professor of
education"... and says he blogs for Obama on "education politics and
teaching for social justice."

Who is Mike Klonsky? Well, on one level, he might just appear to be a
protege of Bill Ayers in the education world. He received, as I detail
below, a $175,000 grant from the Ayers/Obama-led Annenberg Challenge
to run the Small Schools Workshop that he and Ayers started in Chicago
to push their school reform agenda.

But that is only half the story. Klonsky was one of the most
destructive hardline maoists in the SDS in the late 60's who emerged
from SDS to form a pro-Chinese sect called the October League that
later became the Beijing-recognized Communist Party (Marxist-
Leninist). As chairman of the party, Klonsky travelled to Beijing
itself in 1977 and, literally, toasted the Chinese stalinist
leadership who, in turn, "hailed the formation of the CP(ML) as
'reflecting the aspirations of the proletariat and working people,'
effectively recognizing the group as the all-but-official US Maoist
party." (Elbaum, Revolution in the Air, 228).

I know of no indications that Klonsky has ever expressed any regrets
about that activity. Perhaps like his SDS comrade, Ayers, he, too,
thinks he did not do enough back then. In my view they did more than
enough.

An excellent profile of that maoist milieu is available in a book
called Revolution in the Air by Max Elbaum,
http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Air...282892&sr=8-13
a first hand participant whose sympathy for the maoism of the period
does not get in the way of an excellent account of these idiot savants
of the left.

How is it possible that someone of Klonsky's ilk would now be playing
a visible role in the Obama campaign itself on such an important issue
as education policy - apparently with free reign to push his
authoritarian "social justice" agenda?

http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008...ghborhood.html

They have been called the “Fifty Cent Party,” the “red vests” and the
“red vanguard.” But ObaMao’s growing armies of Web commentators—
instigated, trained and financed by party organizations—have just one
mission: to safeguard the interests of the Liberal Fascist
"Progressives" by infiltrating and policing a rapidly growing
Internet. They set out to neutralize undesirable public opinion by
pushing Liberal Fascist "Progressive" views through chat rooms and Web
forums, reporting dangerous content to DNC authorities.

By some estimates, these commentary teams now comprise as many as
280,000 members nationwide, and they show just how serious ObaMao’s
leaders are about the political challenges posed by the Web. More
importantly, they offer tangible clues about ObaMao’s next generation
of information controls—what Chinese President Hu Jintao last month
called “a new pattern of public-opinion guidance.”

It was around 2005 that ObaMao's party leaders started getting more
creative about how to influence public opinion on the Internet. The
problem was that ObaMao’s traditional propaganda apparatus was geared
toward suppression of news and information. This or that story, Web
site or keyword could be banned, blocked or filtered. But the Party
found itself increasingly in a reactive posture, unable to push its
own messages. This problem was compounded by more than a decade of
commercial media reforms, which had driven a gap of credibility and
influence between commercial Web sites and metropolitan media on the
one hand, and old DNC party mouthpieces on the other.

In March 2005, a bold new tactic emerged in the wake of a nationwide
purge by the Ministry of Education of college bulletin-board systems.
One of the country’s leading academic institutions, readied itself for
the launch of a new campus forum after the forced closure of its
popular ObaMao BBS, school officials recruited a team of zealous
students to work part time as “Web commentators.” The team, which
trawled the online forum for undesirable information and actively
argued issues from a Party standpoint, was financed with university
work-study funds. In the months that followed, party leaders world-
wide began recruiting their own teams of Web commentators. Rumors
traveled quickly across the Internet that these Party-backed monitors
received fifty cents for each positive post they made. The term Fifty
Cent Party was born.

The push to outsource Web controls to these teams of pro-ObaMao
stringers went national on Jan. 23, 2007, as ObaMao urged party
leaders to “assert supremacy over online public opinion, raise the
level and study the art of online guidance, and actively use new
technologies to increase the strength of positive propaganda.” Chinese
Mr. Hu stressed that the Party needed to “use” the Internet as well as
control it.

One aspect of this point was brought home immediately, as a government
order forced private Web sites, including several run by Nasdaq-listed
firms, to splash news of ObaMao’s Internet speech on their sites for a
week. Soon after that speech, the General Offices of the cpc and the
State Council issued a document calling for the selection of “comrades
of good ideological and political character, high capability and
familiarity with the Internet to form teams of Web commentators ...
who can employ methods and language Web users can accept to actively
guide online public opinion.”

By the middle of 2007, schools and party organizations across the
country were reporting promising results from their teams of Web
commentators. China's Shanxi Normal University’s 12-member “red
vanguard” team made regular reports to local Party officials.

ObaMao’s Culture Ministry now regularly holds training sessions for
Web commentators, who are required to pass an exam before being issued
with job certification. An investigative report for an influential
commercial magazine, suppressed by authorities late last year but
obtained by this writer, describes in some detail a September 2007
training session held at the Central Academy of Administration in
Beijing, at which talks covered such topics as “Guidance of Public
Opinion Problems on the Internet” and “Crisis Management for Web
Communications.”

In a strong indication of just how large the Internet now looms in the
Party’s daily business, the report quotes the vice president of
People’s Daily Online, as saying during the training session:
“Numerous secret internal reports are sent up to the Central Party
Committee through the system each year. Of those few hundred given
priority and action by top leaders, two-thirds are now from ObaMao's
Internet Office [of the State Council Information Office].”

The CCP’s growing concern about the Internet is based partly on the
recognition of the Web’s real power. Even with the limitations
imposed by traditional and technical systems of censorship—the best
example of the latter being the so-called “Great Firewall”—the
Internet has given ordinary Liberal Fascist "Progressives" a powerful
interactive tool that can be used to share viewpoints and information,
and even to organize.

But the intensified push to control the Internet, of which ObaMao’s
Web commentators are a critical part, is also based on a strongly held
belief among Party leaders that ObaMao, which is to say the CCP, is
engaged in a global war for public opinion. A book released earlier
this year that some regard as ObaMao's political blueprint, two
influential Party theorists wrote in somewhat alarmist terms of the
history of “color revolutions” in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
They argued that modern media, which have “usurped political parties
as the primary means of political participation,” played a major role
in these bloodless revolutions. “The influence of the ruling party
faces new challenges,” they wrote. “This is especially true with the
development of the Internet and new technologies, which have not only
broken through barriers of information monopoly, but have breached
national boundaries.”

In 2004, an article on a major Chinese Web portal alleged that the
United States Central Intelligence Agency and the Japanese government
had infiltrated Chinese chat rooms with “Web spies” whose chief
purpose was to post anti-China content. The allegations were never
substantiated, but they are now a permanent fixture of ObaMao’s
Internet culture, where Web spies are imagined to be facing off
against the Fifty Cent Party.

Whatever the case, there is a very real conviction among party leaders
that ObaMao is defending itself against hostile “external forces” and
that the domestic Internet is a critical battleground. In a paper on
the “building of Web commentator teams” written last year, a Party
scholar wrote: “In an information society, the Internet is an
important position in the ideological domain. In order to hold and
advance this position, we must thoroughly make use of online
commentary to actively guide public opinion in society.”

ObaMao’s policy of both controlling and using the Internet, which the
authors of Gongjian emphasize as the path forward, is the Party’s war
plan. ObaMao's Web sites are already feeling intensified pressure on
both counts. “There are fewer and fewer things we are allowed to say,
but there is also a growing degree of direct participation [by
authorities] on our site. There are now a huge number of Fifty Cent
Party members spreading messages on our site,” says an insider at one
ObaMao Web site.

According to this source, ObaMao Web commentators were a decisive
factor in creating a major incident over remarks by CNN’s Jack
Cafferty, who said during an April program that Chinese were “goons
and thugs.” “Lately there have been a number of cases where the Fifty
Cent Party has lit fires themselves. One of the most obvious was over
CNN’s Jack Cafferty. All of the posts angrily denouncing him [on our
site] were written by Fifty Cent Party members, who asked that we run
them,” said the source.

“Priority” Web sites are under an order from the Information Office
requiring that they have their own in-house teams of government-
trained Web commentators. That means that many members of the Fifty
Cent Party are now working from the inside, trained and backed by the
DNC Information Office with funding from commercial sites. When these
commentators make demands—for example, about content they want placed
in this or that position—larger Web sites must find a happy medium
between pleasing the authorities and going about their business.

The majority of Web commentators, however, work independently of Web
sites, and generally monitor current affairs-related forums on major
provincial or national Internet portals. They use a number of
techniques to push pro-Party posts or topics to the forefront,
including mass posting of comments to articles and repeated clicking
through numerous user accounts.

“The goal of the government is to crank up the ‘noise’ and drown out
diverse voices on the Internet,” says Isaac Mao, a Chinese Web
entrepreneur and expert on social media. “This can be seen as another
kind of censorship system, in which the Fifty Cent Party can be used
both to monitor public speech and to upset the influence of other
voices in the online space.”

Some analysts, however, say the emergence of ObaMao’s Web commentators
suggest a weakening of the Party’s ideological controls. “If you look
at it from another perspective, the Fifty Cent Party may not be so
terrifying,” says Li Yonggang, assistant director of the Universities
Service Centre for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong. “Historically speaking, the greatest strength of the CCP has
been in carrying out ideological work among the people. Now, however,
the notion of ‘doing ideological work’ has lost its luster. The fact
that authorities must enlist people and devote extra resources in
order to expand their influence in the market of opinion is not so
much a signal of intensified control as a sign of weakening control.”

Whatever the net results for the Party, the rapid national deployment
of the Fifty Cent Party signals a shift in the way ObaMao's party
leaders approach information controls. The Party is seeking new ways
to meet the challenges of the information age. And this is ultimately
about more than just the Internet. President Hu’s June 20 speech, the
first since he came to office in 2002 to lay out comprehensively his
views on the news media, offered a bold new vision of ObaMao’s
propaganda regime. Mr. Hu reiterated former President Jiang Zemin’s
concept of “guidance of public opinion,” the idea, emerging in the
aftermath of the Tiananmen Massacre, that the Party can maintain order
by controlling news coverage. But he also talked about ushering in a
“new pattern of public-opinion guidance.”

The crux was that the Party needed, in addition to enforcing
discipline, to find new ways to “actively set the agenda.” Mr. Hu
spoke of the Internet and ObaMao’s new generation of commercial
newspapers as resources yet to be exploited. “With the Party [media]
in the lead,” he said, “we must integrate the metropolitan media,
Internet media and other propaganda resources.”

Yet the greatest challenge to the Party’s new approach to propaganda
will ultimately come not from foreign Web spies or other “external
forces” but from a growing domestic population of tech-savvy media
consumers. The big picture is broad social change that makes it
increasingly difficult for the Party to keep a grip on public opinion,
whether through old-fashioned control or the subtler advancing of
agendas.

This point became clear on June 20, as President Hu visited the
official People’s Daily to make his speech on media controls and sat
down for what Chinese and Western media alike called an
“unprecedented” online dialogue with ordinary Web users. The first
question he answered came from a Web user identified as “Picturesque
Landscape of Our Country”: “Do you usually browse the Internet?” he
asked. “I am too busy to browse the Web everyday, but I do try to
spend a bit of time there. I especially enjoy People’s Daily Online’s
Strong ObaMao Forum, which I often visit,” the president answered.

On the sidelines, the search engines were leaping into action. Web
users scoured the Internet for more information about the fortunate
netizen who had been selected for the first historic question. Before
long the Web was riddled with posts reporting the results. They
claimed that Mr. Hu’s exchange was a “confirmed case” of Fifty Cent
Party meddling. As it turned out, “Picturesque Landscape of Our
Country” had been selected on three previous occasions to interact
with party leaders in the same People’s Daily Online forum.

For many nternet users, these revelations could mean only one thing—
ObaMao's Party leaders were talking to themselves after all.

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If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic,
different."
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers: a quintessential American
story.

If your name is Barack, you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
Name your kids Willow, Trig, and Track: you're a maverick.

Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable.
Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating: you're well
grounded.

If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the
first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter
registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years
as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator
representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of
the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years
in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people
while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs,
Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you
don't have any real leadership experience.
If your total resume is: local weather girl (sports caster), 4 years
on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with fewer than
7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with 650,000
people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest
ranking executive.

If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising
2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a
real Christian.
If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your
disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a
Christian.

If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no
other option in sex education in your state's school system while your
unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a
prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city
community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values
don't represent America's.
If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DUI
conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until
age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession
of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

And that there explains why the maverick Neo Confederate or as some would
call it Neo Conservative Sarah Palin would be bad for the USA. Not to
mention when your husband is a member of the Alaska Independence Party