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"I do not believe so," Piccard replied.
Wondering if one of the lights had imploded from the great pressure, Piccard flipped a switch. Nothing happened. Despite that clue, he was still uneasy. Finally, the sea floor came into view. It was a wilderness of light-colored ooze. More important, the bottom of the world turned out to shelter life, and not just swarms of tiny invertebrates. A foot-long flatfish that resembled a sole lay in the muck. Amazingly, given the dark habitat, it had eyes. Slowly, extremely slowly, the fish rose and swam out of the spotlight back into perpetual night. A red shrimp flitted by. Examining the ooze through his tiny window, Piccard noticed a number of undulations on the bottom suggestive of animal tracks. Unfortunately, during the dive he was unable to photograph animals, allowing skeptics to dismiss them later as deep hallucinations. After 20 minutes of observations, the allotted time was up. The two began a long ascent. Upon breaking the surface, they climbed out quickly, eager for fresh air. Two Navy jets screamed overhead out of nowhere, dipping their wings in salute, startling the explorers. 3
The fighting Navy, in spite of the advances and insights, was ambivalent about exploring the deep. Such work was seen as appropriate for limited experimentation and analysis but was no candidate for real money. Instead, the Navy during this period devoted itself to amassing jets, warships, and submarines, to procuring more powerful nuclear bombs for the arms race with Moscow. Deep achievements with no clear military aim were seen as a potential distraction from the real work at hand. So it was that the Trieste 's thicker sphere was retired in 1961. After the fact, Navy analysts decided that it was incapable of safely withstanding the pressures at the bottom of the trench. No replacement was built.
The growing corps of Navy deep explorers was furious. The pilots and scientists of the bathyscaph lobbied for more Trieste dives and for a totally new vehicle that was smaller and more maneuverable and that had bigger windows.... The head of the Deep Submergence Program at the bathyscaph's San Diego base, Andreas B. Rechnitzer, a witness to the deep avalanche off Capri, began talks with a potential builder of a new submersible, but he was quickly shot down. "The Navy said it was not in our mission to go deep," he recalled. His ire was directed particularly at Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the father of America's nuclear Navy. "Rickover said anything deeper than 2,500 feet was a waste of money. I was fed up." Rechnitzer quit the Navy and went into private industry, sure that one way or another a new age was about to dawn. 4
The fight within the Navy slowly intensified as officials split for and against the new field. One expert in Washington who was convinced that the military had a deep calling was Charles B. "Swede" Momsen, Jr., Chief of Undersea Warfare at the Office of Naval Research. Momsen argued that a deep submersible, if nothing else, could help the Navy install its global arrays of underwater microphones, noting that new ones were about to be strung around Bermuda in water more than a mile deep. Most important, he took action....
An important ally in Momsen's fight was Allyn C. Vine, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, who had long argued, contrary to most oceanographers, that people, not probes, were the best way to fathom the deep. Woods Hole would be in charge of the new Navy sub, which in Al Vine's honor was to be named Alvin . Woods Hole was chosen as its home because no other marine lab in the country wanted it. There was just one problem with all this planning—how to get the sub built… 5 In 1963, the Minneapolis company General Mills, maker of such breakfast cereals as Cheerios and Wheaties, began to assemble the one-of-a-kind submersible in the same room where it built the machines used to grind out breakfast flakes…
The American Navy's love-hate relationship with deep exploration lasted half a decade, from the day it bought the bathyscaph. Then a crisis changed everything....
The USS Thresher (SSN-593), was the nation's most advanced submarine, the best war machine that American money could buy and that Yankee ingenuity could build. Nonetheless, on 10 April 1963, while conducting test dives off Nova Scotia, the sub inexplicably sank, her 129 men lost to icy waters more than a mile and a half deep. It was peacetime's worst submarine disaster....
Beyond the human tragedy, the incident was a political blow to the United States. The loss of America's most advanced sub was seen as a major setback in the Cold War against communism, in the global effort to project strength and promote alliances opposed to the socialist threat.
Named after a tough species of shark, the Thresher had been the ultimate attack submarine, the first of a new breed that would target Moscow's growing fleet of ships and submarines, including those based in Cuba. The Navy wanted 24 attack subs just like the Thresher . Her special skill, which in time became the general goal of all American subs, was stealth, not speed. Powered by a single nuclear reactor, she had an array of ingenious silencing methodologies that dramatically cut the usual din of turbines, pumps, and gears that made other submarines sound like locomotives. She was a sound laboratory. As important, her thick hull meant she could dive deeper than any previous American submarine, greatly increasing her ability to hide and fight back.
The exact operating depths of submarines are always secret, but in hindsight we know the historical trend. Subs in World War II routinely went down to about 400 feet. After the war they went perhaps to 800 feet. The Thresher was said to be rated for 1,300 feet, a very deep figure for the day. An important job of attack subs such as the Thresher was to protect America's growing fleet of submarines that carried Polaris missiles. These had fundamentally altered the geopolitical calculi, allowing the basing of long-range missiles to be moved from land to sea, making them nearly invisible to the enemy yet close to his shores, expanding the number of targets. Polaris warheads were fast becoming the cornerstone of Western efforts to frighten the communists and deter aggression. The Thresher 's powers of quietude and deep submersion were slated to be adopted not only by the nation's attack submarines but by the missile-carrying ones as well. In short, the Thresher was meant to inaugurate a new level of deadliness for the nation's arsenal. 6
Like a rock thrown into a tranquil pond, the sinking of the nation's premier submarine sent out ever-widening shock waves. The Navy was alarmed as years of planning were thrown into disarray and the rationale for its submarine buildup was eroded. Morale went into free-fall. Resignations from the fleet rose and the recruiting of new submariners became difficult if not impossible, as fears swirled of accidental death in the deep. Exploiting the propaganda opening, the Soviets charged that the sunken reactor was sure to poison the north Atlantic. Some allies grew distant. Worst of all, no one was sure why the Thresher had gone down. Her last messages to an escort ship had been garbled, something about attempting to come up from test depths. The last thing heard over the hydrophones of the escort ship was the thud of collapsing compartments. An investigation found no evidence of sabotage or enemy action, and came up with possible causes of the accident. But ultimately, whatever sank the Thresher was a mystery… 7
The Navy did the logical thing. It sent for the decade-old Trieste , the only manned vessel it owned that could plumb such depths. The bathyscaph, now equipped with a robot arm, was far from ideal for the hunt. At best, her three small propellers could nudge the behemoth across the bottom at a molasses-like crawl, and its tiny windows were a major frustration to observers.
Indeed, five Trieste dives in June found nothing of significance a mile and a half down. Floodlights swept the dark bottom to reveal only endless muck and occasional sea stars, sea anemones, and worm holes. In late August, the Trieste returned to the site for another round of searching. The Navy's degree of desperation was highlighted by the fact that preparations for the new series of dives included dropping 1,441 numbered plastic signs at regular intervals across the seabed to try to help the bathyscaph keep track of her position.
On the third dive, nearly five months after the disaster, the Trieste found the remnants of the Thresher on the ocean floor. It was a mess. The intense pressure of the deep sea had shattered the 278-foot-long submarine in a violent implosion that left her shredded over the sea floor. Enormous hunks of twisted metal were interspersed with jumbles of smaller debris, including battery plates, lead ballast, and tattered cables. Already living amid the torn hulks of the sub's superstructure were sea urchins and sinuous fish several feet long. The Trieste roamed the wreckage. On one of the many dives to the site, Lieutenant Commander Donald L. Keach of the Navy took control of the bathyscaph's robot arm. It resembled a human arm—with a hand, wrist, elbow, and shoulder joint, each controlled by a separate electric motor. After much trial and error, including repeated freezing of the arm in arthritic immobility, Keach succeeded in grabbing a four-foot section of twisted pipe and returning with it to the surface. The disaster site, he later told reporters, "is like an automobile junkyard." 8
Within days of the Thresher 's loss, even before the embarrassment of the long hunt, the Navy began a round of soul-searching about its virtual inability to do serious work in deep waters and its general ignorance about the oceanic depths. Somehow, the orders went, this folly had to be corrected so such disasters would be less devastating in the future. The Thresher was the Pearl Harbor of the deep and, as with the destruction of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, the Navy vowed to do everything in its power to avoid a similar crisis in the future.
Two weeks after the sinking, the Navy Secretary, Fred H. Korth, appointed a panel of 58 people to review all the Navy's deep-sea capabilities and suggest improvements. Known as the Deep Submergence Systems Review Group, it was led by Rear Admiral Edward C. Stephan, the Navy's Oceanographer and a veteran submariner. Among its members was Al Vine of Woods Hole.
The Stephan panel was slow and meticulous. Its deliberations took almost a year, but its top-secret report, issued in March 1964, was a virtual encyclopedia of what the Navy had and lacked by way of deep equipment and philosophies. The panel called for a spectrum of improvements, including a major effort to improve the Navy's ability to recover personnel from sunken subs, to investigate the ocean floor, to recover small objects, and to salvage submarines. Its advice was read and heeded, despite the tumult caused by the assassination of President Kennedy a few months earlier. The new Navy Secretary, Paul H. Nitze, hailed the Stephan report in a speech and predicted that the Thresher tragedy would become a turning point "in our quest for knowledge and mastery of the undersea world." 9
In June 1964, the tiny submersible Alvin , about which the Navy had originally been so ambivalent, was christened at Woods Hole on Cape Cod before an audience packed with attentive Navy personnel in their best dress uniforms. The tiny white sub, about the size of a bread truck, looked more like a toy than a key military vehicle. It nonetheless was festooned with red, white, and blue bunting. an outcast no longer. "Everybody was there," recalled John Cooper, a Woods Hole scientist. "It was as if they were commissioning the battleship Missouri ." Reflecting the new importance acceded to matters of deep exploration, the main speech was given by James H. Wakelin, Jr., Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research and Development. Also present was Swede Momsen, the naval expert who almost single-handedly brought the Alvin to life. Before climbing the rostrum, Momsen turned to Wakelin and asked, with a grin, whether the audience should be told that the Assistant Secretary had once tried to kill the project. 10
That same month, Wakelin took to the pages of National Geographic to reassure the American public that the Navy was learning from the tragedy and was committed to mastering the deep. " Thresher left behind her the realization that we are ignorant, a condition once described by Benjamin Disraeli as a great step to knowledge," Wakelin wrote. "We are trying to build on this realization to become more knowledgeable." 11
What followed during the next decade was a rush of deep-sea planning, research, and construction, initially driven by nothing more substantial than the Navy's new attitude. The nation making conspicuous plans to send men to the Moon in response to President Kennedy's 1961 call was now, in 1963 and 1964, under the new administration of President [Lyndon B.] Johnson, gearing up to go as boldly as possible in the opposite direction as well, probing the hidden recesses of inner space, often with eerie, crablike machines easily mistaken for monsters. The total cost of the endeavor eventually ran to untold billions of dollars. Moreover, the Navy's investments were amplified as private industry poured money into the perfection of undersea gear in anticipation of big federal contracts related to the conquest of inner space.
No longer was the cutting edge of deep exploration under the control of royalty and philanthropists and quirky committees. The richest and most powerful nation on Earth had decided to make the field its own. Its attitude was very different from forerunners' in that it had little or no interest in the traditional goals of deep research, in exploring for its own sake, in laying undersea cables, in searching for orthocones and trilobites, in admiring angler fish and other yonders. Its aims, by contrast, were military. It was fighting a war it intended to win. In short, the new patron was not only wealthy; it was driven.
1 The Office of Naval Research in 1958 bought the Trieste and all its accessories from the Piccards, with Jacques agreeing to stay on as a consultant. Wanting to dive deeper and press the art's limits, the Navy immediately ordered the fabrication of a new sphere that was even stronger and stouter, its walls five inches thick, up from three-and-a-half inches. And the craft's windows got smaller, narrowing from four inches at the inner wall to just over two inches.
2 The Challenger Deep, named after the famous ship, is deepest of all known deeps. Located in the Marianas Trench near the Mariana chain of islands, it stretches down beneath the waves for a distance of nearly seven miles.
3 Jacques Piccard and Robert S. Dietz, Seven Miles Down: The Story of the Bathyscaph Trieste (New York: Putnam, 1961), pp. 160-180.
4 Don Walsh, "Looking Backwards at the Future," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, January 1985, pp. 103-104. Walsh, "Thirty Thousand Feet and Thirty Years Later: Some Thoughts on the Deepest Presence Concept," Marine Technology Society Journal, June 1990, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 7-8. For Rechnitzer quote, see Victoria A. Kaharl, Water Baby: The Story of Alvin (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 15. It should be noted that the fighting Navy was interested in oceanography in general, and dramatically stepped up its funding of the field in the years immediately after World War II. See H. W. Menard, The Ocean of Truth: A Personal History of Global Tectonics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986), pp. 37-43.
5 Kaharl, Water Baby, pp. 15-48.
6 Norman Polmar, Death of the Thresher (New York: Chilton, 1964), pp. 1-5. Robert W. Love, Jr., History of the U.S. Navy, Volume Two, 1942-1991 (Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1992), pp. 416, 480-481. The New York Times Index (New York: The New York Times, 1963), pp. 707-708. Tom Clancy, Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship (New York: Berkley, 1993), pp. 17-19. For silencing and submarine depths, see Patrick Tyler, Running Critical (New York: Harper & Row, 1986), pp. 57-58. On the link between the Thresher and missile subs, interview, John P. Craven, formerly chief scientist for the Navy's Polaris program, 2 July 1993.
7 Polmar, Death, pp. 35-36, 55, 89.
8 Ibid., pp. 60-61, 91, 141. James H. Wakelin, Jr., "Thresher: Lesson and Challenge," National Geographic, June 1964, pp. 759-763. For the mistaken photo, see "Back to the Hunt," Newsweek, 10 June 1963, pp. 31-32. Donald L. Keach, "Down to Thresher by Bathyscaph," National Geographic, June 1964, pp. 764-777.
9 Polmar, Death, p. 125. For a general description of the Stephan panel, also see Polmar and Thomas B. Allen, Rickover: Controversy and Genius (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), p. 435, and for details of its work, see Edwin A. Link, "Tomorrow on the Deep Frontier," National Geographic, June 1964, pp. 778-801. Paul H. Nitze, "Harnessing the Ocean Depths," Vital Speeches, I October 1964, pp. 749-751.
10 Kaharl, Water Baby, pp. 45-48.
11 Wakelin, "Thresher: Lesson and Challenge," p. 763.
Mr. Broad writes about science for The New York Times and has twice won Pulitzer Prizes with his colleagues there.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The "spit-and-polish submariner" to whom Mr. Broad refers here—Don Walsh—is the author of a new upcoming column, "Oceans," to be published bimonthly in Proceedings .


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The Burj was constructed in about six years, with an estimated cost of $1.5 billion. It employs a unique tubular design, and, proportionally, the building requires only half the steel in the Empire State Building. Still, the spire of Burj Khalifa alone consists of more than 4,400 tons (4,000 metric tonnes) of structural steel.
The Burj Khalifa was intended to be entirely residential when designed, but it eventually became a mixed-use building, with the world's highest residential floor. The building, it should be noted, has only the second-highest observation deck in the world; China's Canton Tower takes the cake in that category.
Several factors must be taken into consideration when naming the world's tallest building. Some say that only the habitable part of a building should count, no cheating by putting tall spires on top. Others say that the submerged portions of structures rising from water should be included in their height measurements.
Some of the other tallest buildings include the CN Tower in Toronto at 1,815 feet (553 meters), the tallest structure in the Western Hemisphere, and the Petronius Platform, which stands 2,000 feet (610 meters) off the sea floor. The Ursa Tension leg platform, an oil-drilling structure in the Gulf of Mexico, rises 4,285 feet (1,306 meters) from the sea floor, so some say that it's actually the largest structure in the world. Most architects agree that the tallest building must be on land, however.
And, in case you're anxious for a dip, the Burj contains the world's second-highest swimming pool on floor 76; the highest in the world is located on the 118th floor of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at International Commerce Centre in Hong Kong.
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Fascinating article by Joanne Ostrow in today's Denver Post about the portable people meter, a pager-like radio-ratings device that picks up signals from stations that sound in the vicinity of a person wearing or carrying it. The results are supposed to provide more precise audience estimates than the sort of diaries that have been used in the past, but there's debate about that, particularly from representatives of stations such as KOA and The Fox, whose numbers have plummeted on certain prominent shows in the brief time since PPMs started to be phased in. No complaints, though, from The Mountain and KOSI. Their listenership suddenly looks much larger than before.
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This is going to be one fit baby! Kelly Rowland and husband Tim Witherspoon are currently expecting their first Destiny's Child, which was only revealed early in June, about a month after they were married. On June 19, pregnant Kelly, 33, shared a calm meditation-style photo, but it clearly showed her in a gym setting.
On Friday, June 27, Kelly went back to the gym, and showed that she's seriously workin' that bump. She shared the two photos above and below on Instagram, both without captions.
It's important to stay healthy during pregnancy, and it looks like Kelly is keeping herself and the baby active, which is great. Plus, Kelly busting a move is good motivation for anyone — pregnant or not — to get off their tush and hit the gym. She's shaming us right now!
Of course, some of us are clumsier than others and tend to fall off things, which you really don't want to happen when you're pregnant, but Kelly seems like she knows what she's doing and she has trainers there to keep her on point.
What a year this has been so far for Kelly, though. She and her manager, Tim, got engaged in late 2013 and were married on May 9, 2014 in Costa Rica. It was "a quick, simple ceremony" with only about 30 people there, but two of those people were said to be Beyoncé and Solange Knowles. And now Kelly is going to be a mommy, and her baby will probably have play dates with Blue Ivy, etc.
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I just had to post this, because the last paragraph of the article detailing how Mark became estranged to his brother is pretty comical. You would think there is more to the story, but what they offer is minimal. Classic!
JUPITER, Fla. -- St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has no plans to read a new book that suggests Mark McGwire knew steroids would boost his power at the plate.
The book, to be released Monday, is by McGwire's estranged brother, Jay McGwire. He says Big Mac knew he became a better hitter because steroids enhanced his size and strength.
Last month, McGwire admitted taking steroids and human growth hormone during the 1990s, but said he only did so to recover from injuries -- not to improve his performance. He hasn't commented on the book as he works with hitters at the Cardinals' spring training facility in his new job as batting coach.
La Russa told reporters Thursday that the allegations sound familiar. He said someone he knew read an advance copy and it doesn't sound as though the book includes "first-page-to-last-page damning stuff about Mark."
The manager said he doesn't plan to read it.
"What's the point?" La Russa said. "It's stuff that's already been gone over a bunch of times. I don't know what it's going to change."
Estranged from his brother for eight years because of a family dispute, Jay McGwire has gone public in Mark and Me: Mark McGwire and the Truth Behind Baseball's Worst-Kept Secret, which is scheduled for publication Monday by TriumphBooks.
Jay McGwire says in the book that he persuaded his brother to start using steroids regularly in 1994 and set him up with a supplier. He says Mark regularly used an array of drugs through 1996 that included Deca-Durabolin, human growth hormone, Dianabol, Winstrol and Primobolan. McGwire later used androstenedione, a steroid precursor that wasn't banned by baseball until 2004, when it became a controlled substance.
Jay McGwire, a former bodybuilder who turns 40 on May 5, said he was introduced to steroids by friends in 1989, beginning with pills of Anavar. He says his brother only gave in to using steroids after an injury-filled 1993 season.
La Russa, who managed Mark in Oakland before the pair reunited in St. Louis, recalled seeing Jay McGwire in the Athletics clubhouse, but said he didn't think Jay was taking steroids.
Mark McGwire hit 70 homers for the Cardinals in 1998, shattering Roger Maris' record of 61 set in 1961.
The brothers haven't spoken since 2002. They fell out after Jay McGwire's stepson, Eric, tickled Mark and caused Mark to spill coffee on himself. Mark then swatted Eric on the backside. Jay's wife, Francine, then refused to attend Mark's wedding.
Stay Classy Mark! Stay Classy!
Sounds like the little kid deserved a spanking. Good work Mark for teaching the brat some discipline.
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begins the new year riding high on Capitol Hill as one of the Republicans' hottest players. Since she joined Congress in 2005, McMorris Rodgers has become the highest-ranking woman in the House of Representatives leadership, fourth overall. She's taking a lead role in helping to shape the message as the GOP tries again to overhaul the health-care plan that Congress passed in 2010.
Earlier this month, The Washington Post included McMorris Rodgers on a list of nine women to watch in politics this year, putting her in the same group as former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
It all builds on a résumé that gained national attention in 2012, when McMorris Rodgers found herself mentioned as a potential vice-presidential running mate for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
On Tuesday, she will become the 12th woman to give the opposition speech and only the second chosen from the House Republican ranks, joining the late Rep. Jennifer Dunn, also of Washington state, who got the nod in 1999. Two Washington state Democrats took the assignment, too: Sen. Henry "Scoop" Jackson in 1970 and then-Gov. Gary Locke in 2003.
Historically, the parties often have used the occasion to showcase rising politicians. Last year, Republicans featured Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, and in 2011, they chose Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan.
This year, in addition to the official party response, there will be others offering up rejoinders to the Obama speech.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., plans to spend part of Tuesday in a television studio off Capitol Hill recording his own unsanctioned rebuttal. His staff plans to blast the video to news outlets around the world, and to the hundreds of thousands of people the senator reaches online through Twitter, Facebook and Snapchat.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, will have top billing for the newest — and to some Republicans the most unwelcome — post-State of the Union event, the official Tea Party response.
With McMorris Rodgers after Rubio, the GOP clearly is trying to appeal to Hispanics and women, two groups of voters the party had trouble reaching in recent elections, said Matt Barreto, an associate professor of political science at the University of Washington.
"Mostly this is a reflection of the Republican Party attempting to diversify their image," he said Monday. "That's the main reason they picked her, not because she's from Washington state. The Republican Party is never going to be able to be competitive in Washington state, but it's a national platform and it gives them an opportunity."
Overall, 102 people have been chosen for the job since 1966, according to data collected by the Senate Historical Office. In the 1970s and 1980s, it was common for groups to do it: In 1972, for example, 11 Democratic senators and House members hosted a 53-minute program to respond to President Nixon's speech, even fielding phone calls from the public.
McMorris Rodgers is getting lots of star treatment from GOP leaders, who are touting her rural and family ties.
She grew up on a farm and worked at her family's orchard in Kettle Falls, Stevens County. In November, she set the congressional record for motherhood, becoming the first member of Congress to give birth three times while in office. Her 6-year-old son has Down syndrome, which led her to co-found the Congressional Down Syndrome Caucus.
"Cathy McMorris Rodgers is proof that with humility, hard work and dedication, you can overcome any obstacle — a story to which many Americans can relate," House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio said last week in announcing her selection, praising her "fierce belief in life and liberty."
Back in Spokane, McMorris Rodgers took her share of heat in October when the federal government shut down. And critics say her conservative approaches and close ties to Boehner have done little to help her district.
"McMorris Rodgers is portrayed as the caring mother of Congress, yet the policies she espouses … hurt children and middle-class families. … Cathy does not represent us in Spokane, and she won't tomorrow," said Jim CastroLang, a pastor and chairman of the Spokane County Democrats.
Farm workers and supporters of an immigration overhaul planned to apply more pressure Tuesday to McMorris Rodgers. They said they planned to stage a rally in front of her office in Walla Walla
encouraging her to use her speech to push for changes in immigration laws.
Staffers said McMorris Rodgers had been too busy to grant interviews, but the congresswoman did send an email and biographical video to her backers, saying she's "humbled and honored" by the assignment.
"It's been an amazing journey from Kettle Falls to Congress, and I'm excited to share my perspective — as a farm girl, legislator and a mom — with all of you," McMorris Rodgers said.
On Monday, aides said they were preparing for a late night Tuesday. They want to make sure their boss is well-rested, staying hydrated and getting familiar with the teleprompter she will use at an undisclosed location inside the Capitol.
They were trying to keep her on a normal schedule, working in rehearsals as time allowed.
"It's exciting for her," said Nate Hodson, the communications director for the House Republican Conference.


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Skip to comments.The Vetting: Obama's Favorite Congressman Hangs With Commies
Posted on 03/12/2012 9:32:06 AM PDT by mojitojoe
The Vetting: Obama's Favorite Congressman Hangs With Commies... VIDEO
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
haha . . . open your hearts, open your minds!
"If anyone still seriously doubts Barry Obama is a Marxist"
Obama just wants to spread the wealth around: he said it to Joe the Plumber during the 2008 campaign. The people sadly didn't care.
The Breitbart Chinese water torture continues...drip...drip...drip. I hope they're saving some really good stuff for closer to October.
We are all Breitbart now.
Now THIS is a lot better than the other video. Of course, I'm sure Obama would just say that his politics have "evolved" since then.
Anyone doubt now why the founders wanted a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN only to be qualifed to run for President. After looking at what the socialist democrat cats drug in you should not have to wonder at all.
On March 10, 1995, during a radio debate hosted by WMAQ-AM, Tillman and Smith called for Davis to reject the endorsement of former alderman candidate Wallace "Gator" Bradley, spokesman for convicted Gangster Disciples leader Larry Hoover.
"Why do you keep badgering me with this question? You got a problem with something? You're not going to catch me going around saying I hate Gator Bradley .I'm not in the business of disavowing individuals. The good Lord said he hated sin, but not sinners. I'm not hating Gator Bradley. I disagree with those who commit crime and those who'd use drugs, but you won't catch me going around saying that I hate Gator Bradley."
Davis never rejected Bradleys endorsement during the campaign and after winning the primary claimed that Bradleys endorsement played no role in the outcome, though Bradley asserted the contrary.
During the campaign, Tillman highlighted comments Davis made in an August 1970 issue of Ebony: (T)he white female often gives the black man certain kinds of recognition that the black woman oftentimes does not give him." The Davis campaign countered that Davis was speaking as a psychologist in his role as a training director at a health center.
Congressman Davis is walking out of the offices of the Communist Party USA, and is receiving an award for a "Lifetime of Inspiring Leadership", from People's World, the news arm for the Communist Party USA, Barack Obama is praising Davis, who he knew very well at the time, stating, "You just heard from one of the best congressman in the country, and the reason he's one of the best congressman in the country is that he shares our values."
hands over eyes...too blind to see....when they do hear the truth, they shake their heads back and forth and yell...'La, La, La, La....' loudly to prevent the offending noise from reaching them....then they turn on PMSNBC or whatever Government News Agency they get their information from and sit back happily being misinformed...
I see it every day....
Obama just received a critical endorsement, The Communist Party USA. The Communist Party USA leader, Sam Webb, explains why he will continue to support Obama and Democrats in 2012. The Communist Party USA has consistently supported and infiltrated the Democratic Party.
Obama just received a critical endorsement, The Communist Party USA. The Communist Party USA leader, Sam Webb, explains why he will continue to support Obama and Democrats in 2012. The Communist Party USA has consistently supported and infiltrated the Democratic Party.
Communist Party connections
Danny Davis was also on good terms with the Communist Party USA. In Chicago, the Communist Party has for many years held an annual a fund raising banquet for its paper, the Peoples Weekly World (formerly the Peoples Daily World).
According to the Peoples Daily World of July 28 1990, Chicago alderman Danny K Davis attended the 1990 banquet on July 15th.
Davis applauded those at the banquet, who, he said, are always in the midst of struggle. PDW readers, he said, are steadfast in the fight for justice.
The affair netted $2,500 for the PDW fund.
According to the Peoples Weekly World October 3 1998, Congressman Danny K. Davis interrupted his campaign work for United States Senate candidate Carol Moseley Braun to present an award at the 1998 Chicago Peoples Weekly World banquet.
This event raised $10,000 towards keeping the Communist Party paper afloat.
Democratic Socialists of America
Danny Davis is one of the few Democratic Party Congressmen open about his membership of Democratic Socialists of America.
In 1990 Chicago DSA endorsed Danny Davis for the Chicago mayoralty.
According to a December 29 1998 email from DSA membership officer Solveig Wilder;
Ron Dellums (who recently retired from Congress) is a Vice Chair of DSA, and Danny Davis, John Conyers, and Major Owens are all DSA Members.
When Danny Davis ran for Congress in 1998, Democratic Socialists of America did not officially endorse any candidates but he was recommended as worthy of a vote by Chicago DSA-citing his membership of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and his support for Progressive Challenge.
Danny Davis, U.S. House of Representatives, 7th District
Danny Davis is a member of the Progressive Caucus, an old friend of DSA and a member of the New Party. If thats not enough, you can
Davis was still a DSA member at least as late as his 2006 Congressional race according to DSAs Democratic Left Summer 2006.
DSA has also endorsed DSAer and Congressmember Danny Davis in his bid for re-election in Chicago.
The Breibart team carries on the political death of Barack Hussein Obama by inflicting a thousand cuts and the Chinese torture of a "drip, drip" campaign. Same from Limbaugh, Hannity, O'Reilly, Levin, Laura, Sarah, Michelle Bachmann, Michelle Maikin, etc.. And.....it's working.....Obama's poll numbers are droppng like a rock thrown in the ocean. Results to come!!!
- Obama defeated in landslide election, November, 2012
- Republicans take over both House & Senate with massive majorities
- Democrat Party just about wiped out in 2012 elections
- Obama declared worst President in American History
Keep it up Boys and Girls!!! Soon the Pubbies will have a candidate, and...the spineless, gutless Republicans will have to attack Obama and his hate America Obamabots every minute, every hour, every day whether they like it or not.
The people sadly didnt care.
And, they didn't think it would be THEIR wealth!
Barack Obama and the Committees of Correspondence.
The process of forming Committees of Correspondence (CoC) began in late 1991 when approximately one third of the Communist Party USA membership split from the party to form a new organization.
The former communists joined with former Maoists, Trotsyites, socialists and anarchists to launch CoC at Berkeley, California in 1992 and to convene the official founding conference in Chicago in 1994.
In 2000, Committees of Correspondence (CoC or CofC) became Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS).
Obama and the Committees of Correspondence
The Committees of Correspondence (CoC) worked with Obama in Chicago through the New Party, the Alice Palmer campaign and the anti Iraq War movement.
In 2008 Committees of Correspondence actively campaigned for Obama and several supporters were endorsers of the Progressives for Obama website.
CCDS leader Manning Marable, writing in the December 2008 issue of British Trotskyite journal Socialist Review, explained Obama's relationship to the Chicago left.
What makes Obama different is that he has also been a community organiser. He has read left literature, including my works, and he understands what socialism is. A lot of the people working with him are, indeed, socialists with backgrounds in the Communist Party or as independent Marxists. There are a lot of people like that in Chicago who have worked with him for years...
Manning Marable was almost certainly referring to the numerous former Chicago Communist Party USA members working with Obama who had become members or supporters of Committees of Correspondence.
Timuel Black
Timuel Black is an historian, activist and nonogenarian icon of the Chicago left. Black is a veteran of the Socialist Party USA and Democratic Socialists of America. For several years he has served on the Committees of Correspondence advisory board.
Timuel Black's relationship to Barack Obama stretches back until at least the early 1990s;
So its no surprise that in 1991, when a community organizer named Barack Obama returned to Chicago with a Harvard law degree, he sought advice from Black. Seventeen years later, on November 4, 2008, Black and his wife, Zenobia, watched the election coverage in their home with friends. When we learned that he had made it, that there was no turning back, the house just went wild
Committees of Correspondence played a leading role in the orgainization, alongside activists from ACORN, SEIU, Democratic Socialists of America and the Institute for Policy Studies.
In the mid 1990s Carl Davidson was leading activist in the Chicago New Party, where he worked closely with New Party member and candidate Barack Obama[6].
I'm from Chicago, too, and known Obama from the time he came to the New Party to get our endorsement for his first race ever. I've been in his home, and as an IL legislator, he's helped or community technology movement a number of times. He said all the right things to the ACORN and New Party folks, and we endorsed him, but I noticed too, that he seemed to measure every answer to questions put to him several tmes before coming out with it.
Danny K. Davis
New Party News Spring 1996 page 2, Danny Davis center, Barack Obama rightIllinois Congressman Danny K. Davis is a member of Democratic Socialists of America and also has connections to Committees of Correspondence.
According to Chicago DSAs New Ground of September 1994[9];
"Over 500 delegates and observers (including 140 from Chicago) attended the founding convention of the Committees of Correspondence (CoC) held here in Chicago in July.
New Ground reported that speakers included Charles Nqukula, General Secretary of the South African Communist Party, Dulce Maria Pereira, a senatorial candidate of the Workers Party of Brazil, Angela Davis of CoC, Andre Brie of the Party of Democratic Socialism of Germany (a revamp of the old East German Communist Party). Guests during the Convention included Cook County Commissioner Danny Davis, Chicago Aldermen Helen Shiller and Rick Munoz, a representative of the Green Left Weekly of Australia and a representative of the Cuban Interest Section."
In 1994 Danny Davis, Chicago, was listed on a "Membership, Subscription and Mailing List" for the Chicago Committees of Correspondence[10].
Davis has been a long time friend and supporter of Barack Obama-one his most loyal political allies.
In the mid 1990s, Danny K. Davis joined the Chicago New Party (along with Barack Obama ) during his successful Congressional 1996 campaign on the Democratic Party ticket.
New Party News Spring 1996 page 1, celebrated the Davis Congressional victory and went on to say;
"New Party members won three other primaries this Spring in Chicago: Barack Obama (State Senate), Michael Chandler (Democratic Party Committee) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary)..."these victories prove that small 'd' democracy can work' said Obama".
Latest Breitbart Ping!
Even for a RAT, I have to ask if Davis has all his faculties? He looked and acted like he was out of it.
If the GOP every wants to take back the country (which I doubt they do), they'd be airing that at every commercial break from now until November. The guy with the Obama jacket is the cherry on top.
How much more evidence needs to come forth for people to get it, that he is a devout Marxist. He all but admitted it in his book. WTF!!!
Sen. Joe McCarthey was right. We didnt listen, we didn't act.
Joe died at 48 years old in 1957, that was just 2 years after Edward R. Murrow assassinated his Joe's career and person. That put an end to shining a spotlight on the infiltration of the communists.
He was best friends with Joe and John Kennedy. Both were very anti-communist. Five years after Joe died of liver failure, JFK was assassinated. I think that was the event that marked the end of the Democratic party as a legitimate constitutionally based party.
Shortly thereafter LBJ took their first step toward socialism and communism with his "Great Society" or "Great Socialism Plan".
Democrats are Communism.
Have been since the sixties.
And like Krushev said, they have buried us.
But with the destruction of the USSR in 1991, the CPUSA has been forced to change it's appearance from one of a secretive society bent on the internal destruction of the United States to one that is more Politically Correct and bent on the internal destruction of the United States.
Today, the modern CPUSA claims to peacefully fight for equality for all workers while wanting to replace Capitalism with Socialism.
The claim of being peaceful seems to fly in the face of the facts that the CPUSA's youth group, The Young Communist League (YCL) , lists the ruling class as their enemy and have a local branch that supports violent revolution, only if it can be successful and if it leads to a Democratic, just society.
Knowing all of this about the CPUSA, who would want to associate with them?
A Democratic Congressman of course...
According to a posting on the CPUSA news, People' World, Congressman Danny K Davis, Representative of the 7th district in Illinois, is the keynote speaker at a CPUSA event this Sunday called:
"Tea party" Congress can't stop the fight for equality!"
Here is a screen shot of the event listing (click to enlarge):
Email Address: email@example.com
John Bachtell is Communist Party USA Illinois organizer and a member of its National Board. He is active in labor, peace and justice struggles. He grew up in Ohio and currently lives in Chicago with his family.
Video: Communist Party U.S.A. in Solidarity with Occupy Chicago
The Occupy Chicago crowd of several thousand giving a warm welcome and overwhelming applause to John Bachtell from the Communist Party U.S.A.
I agree! I think this is far more damning but getting much less attention. I suspect the reason it is getting less attention is because it IS more damning. The MSM wants this one to just go away. The other one they built up then said it was much ado about nothing.
Gnashes teeth in helpless frustration....
Nothing to see to see here...it's just another guy in the hood!!!
We are all Breitbart now.
We have to be, the MSM only wants to cover up and hide. It's up to us. If we don't do it, it won't get done.
It's a shame the suck ups at the New York Times - the golden boys of the Democrat-Media Complex - didn't find these clips themselves. If President Bush had met with equally extreme men on the 'right' the little sh*ts would have found it - and covered it.
All that time reporters from the New York Times and Washington Post spent in Alaska must have frozen the 18 brain cells they share.
(Sorry about HBO Bill Maher words - but we need to speak their language to help them understand us...)
Alice Palmer served in the Illinois Senate from 1991 – 96. In 1982, she and her husband, Buzz Palmer had established the Black Press Institute which would go on to influence decison makers such as the Congressional Black Caucus.
Palmer had close close ties to the former Soviet Union and the Marxist-Leninist regime in Grenada, which was overthrown by U.S. troops in 1983.
In 1995 she introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, at a gathering in the Hyde Park home of former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. D.S.A. member and long time Obama friend Quentin Young was present at the meeting. He stated that both Obama and Palmer were present. He also described Obama and Ayers as "friends".
Following the announcement that she was standing down from the Senate, Palmer announced her run for congress, and employed the young Obama as her chief of staff for the campaign. However she was badly beaten in the primaries and sought to stick with her Senate Seat. However Obama refused to step down and went on to win the seat, souring the relationship between the two. Also in 1995, Palmer and Willie Delgado joined the Chicago New Party which then endorsed the two in their campaigns. Recall that Joe Iosbaker and his wife Stephanie Weiner were members of Delgado's campaign team.
Danny Davis is an openly socialist Democratic member of Congress, representing the 7th district of Illinois.
In the late 1970s he worked alongside Communist Party member Harold Rogers and former communist Milt Cohen on a "Citizen's Committee", supporting Timuel Black in his unsuccessful campaign for State Rep in the 22nd district of Illinois. Further, Davis was on good terms with the Party, presenting an award at the 1998 Peoples Weekly World (Communist Party USA newspaper) banquet, and sponsoring a bill drafted by supporters or members of the Communist Party.
Davis was an early supporter of Alice Palmer in her bid for Congress. He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Davis joined the Chicago New Party (along with Barack Obama) during his successful Congressional 1996 campaign on the Democratic Party ticket.
Carl Davidson is a Pennsylvania-based acivist and member of the National Committee of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
He was an early leader of Students for a Democratic Society.
In the mid 1990s Carl Davidson was leading activist in the Chicago New Party, where he worked closely with fellow New Party member and candidate Barack Obama.
In late 1993, along with Danny Davis and Barack Obama, Davidson was always a signatory to letters sent by Progressive Chicago, sister-organization of the New Party.
In September 2002, Davidson was one of several Chicago area residents, including Marilyn Katz, who first came together as Chicagoans Against War in Iraq. Former colleague, and now Illinois State Senator Barack Obama spoke at the organization's first antiwar rally. "Good, that put him on our side, and some of us organized a fundraiser for him for his Senate race," recalled Davidson late.
Marilyn Katz is a Chicago-based Public Relations consultant. In the 1960s she was an organizer of youth gangs and communities. Along with Davidson, Katz was a member of Students for a Democratic Society.
While serving as National Political Secretary for Democratic Socialists of America forerunner, the New American Movement, in the 1970s, Katz was also a prominent pro-abortion activist.
She has worked closely with Barack Obama since meeting him through his position at the lawyers firm, Miner, Barnhill & Galland in the 1990s. "It was through the law firm that Mr. Obama met Marilyn Katz, who gave him entry into another activist network: the foot soldiers of the white student and black power movements that helped define Chicago in the 1960s."
In 2007 Katz spoke alongside Committees of Correspondence leader Manning Marable at a Movement for a Democratic Society conference in Chicago. M.D.S. is affiliated with the newly-revived Students for a Democratic Society – of which Katz was herself a former member.
In October 2008, Katz was one of over 4,000 people to sign a statement supporting former Weather Underground Organization terrorist, Bill Ayers. In 2009, in another display of her support for her former colleague, Katz put her name to the Progressives for Obama website.
Bill Ayers is a former leader of the terrorist Weather Underground and a close associate of President Barack Obama.
As you read above, in 1995 Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer chose the home of Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn to introduce her chosen successor, Barack Obama.
Obama was also to write an endorsement for Bill Ayers' book, "A Kind and Just Parent: Children of Juvenile Court". In turn, Ayers hired Obama to head the Annenberg Challenge, a $50 million fund. Later, Ayers worked with Obama on the board of the Woods Fund, together doling out millions to leftist causes.
In 1997, Michelle Obama, (then Associate Dean of Student Services and Director of the University Community Service Center), invited Ayers to speak on juvenile justice. Ayers was joined by Barack Obama who also spoke during the event. As recently as 2002, the two spoke together again at a public gathering in Chicago entitled "Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?"
In 2007 both Bill Ayers and Carl Davidson were present at the Movement for a Democratic Society conference at which Marilyn spoke.
Finally, Bernardine Dohrn is the wife of Bill Ayers, and herself a former terrorist as the acknowledged leader of the Weather Underground Organization.
Chicago gang leader Mike Soto claimed that Dohrn was a violent maniac, stating that she had said to him, "let's pick up arms, let's blow up this country apart until we take over".
Dohrn also spoke at the same event as husband Ayers, and Obama at the 2002 "Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?" conference in Chicago. In 2006, Dohrn, along with Ayers, Noam Chomsky, Mike Klonsky and Howard Zinn were elected as board members of the newly launched Movement for a Democratic Society. The following year she was a featured speaker at the Michigan State University S.D.S. reunion.
Also in 2007, Dohrn spoke at the Left Forum, successor to the Socialist Scholars Conference. Also that year, Dohrn and husband Ayers travelled to Cuba to a conference on "Useful Art", or "art that includes aspects of social activism". As of 2009 she was a member of the Editorial Board of the Socialist, Chicago-based journal, In These Times.
Nobody should be surprised that the Chicago terror support suspects should come from Barack Obama's "orbit".
The Chicago far left is more incestuous than (fill in the name your least favorite backward rural U.S. state). If the F.B.I. digs deep enough, this story will lead them very, very close to the President of the United States of America.
The question is – will they have the courage to do it?
Their oath of service demands that they do.
Birds of a feather flock together . . . known by the company he keeps . . .
(from Aces board)
More background on Dr. John Lumpkin, the holdout jurors former boss:
Lumpkin came from a well known Chicago Communist Party family. When John Lumpkin unsuccessfully stood for Alderman in Chicagos 7th Ward in 1979, the Committee to Elect Dr. John R. Lumpkin was led by several Communist Party members, as well as activists Timuel Black and Quentin Young.
Black and Young both went on to join Democratic Socialists of America. Both also became personal friends, mentors and political supporters of Barack Obama. Quentin Young was Obamas personal physician at one stage and attended the famous meeting where Obamas political career was launched in the home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
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Management team
Michelle R. Obama
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2005-2006 Board of Trustees
Valerie B. Jarrett
John R. Lumpkin, M.D.
The Network
Jarrett is most notably friends with Barack and Michelle Obama. They have been friends since Jarrett hired Michelle to work in the Chicago mayors office in 1991.
She is one of the most connected people in Chicago, and now national, Democratic politics. She is still close to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, whom she worked with for years, and she counts Chicago entrepreneur Penny Pritzker, Obamas 2008 national finance chair, among her closest friends. She is closely tied into Obamas Chicago network. Her father mentored Eric Whitaker and Anita Blanchard at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Both are good friends with the Obamas, and Blanchard is married to Martin Nesbitt, another close Obama friend, who served as the 2008 campaign treasurer. She served on the board of the University of Chicago Lab School with Michelle Obama, Martin Nesbitt and John W. Rogers, a friend and the former husband of Social Secretary Desiree Rogers.
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Chicago Tribune - Wednesday, May 31, 1995
Author: R.C. Longworth, Tribune Staff Writer.
They gather every weekday morning, as they have for years, old steelworkers who lost their jobs and their mill on one horrible day 15 years ago and have nowhere else to go now. For two or three hours, they slouch into chairs in a back office in a South Side union hall. They tell jokes, gossip about old friends and enemies, and talk about their pensions and whether they'll ever get all the money that's coming to them.
There's a desk at one end of the office, beside the window, with a telephone on top and drawers stuffed full of names of other men who once worked in the mill. The same man always sits at the desk, a tall old black man, with missing fingers on both hands and a felt fedora that he wears indoors and out. At 78, he's as trim and as straight as the boxer he used to be. He is the group's acknowledged leader and his name is Frank Lumpkin
Becoming a Communist
Like many Depression-era workers, Lumpkin joined the Communist Party before the war, not because I was anti-anything. I felt, let's all be human beings. The big struggle was for equality.
Bea Lumpkin , more openly ideological than her husband, also joined the Communist Party and, like him, remains devoted to those early ideals. Of Frank s politics, she says, it wasn't a vision, more a sober conviction, that people could have a pretty decent life, that things could be a lot better, that people have the potential to bring about change in their lives collectively.
His wife, after a lifetime of activism and protests for a variety of progressive causes, especially women's rights, retired as a teacher at Malcolm X College in 1982, but still works in the schools, mostly in black studies.
A third son, John , a doctor, is head of the Illinois Department of Public Health. His mother, bemused at the idea of one of her children working in a Republican administration, insists that he's trying to defend the health of the peopleand he makes only one-third of what he would anywhere else.
Lumpkin , still a Marxist at heart, remains true to his belief in the power of peaceful revolution, trusting that one of these days, things are going to be all right.
He went one day to the University of Chicago to preach this gospel of progress through social change. A group of right-wing students came to heckle and one stood up to taunt: I like this society. I don't want to change.
Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL
Section: TEMPO
Page: 1
Index Terms: BOXING ; LABOR ; BIOGRAPHY ; OFFICIAL ; BLACK ; INDUSTRY ; INTERVIEW
Record Number: CTR9505310003
Copyright 1995, Chicago Tribune
MR. CHARLTON: Who were the ringleaders, movers-and-shakers of the Communist Network in Chicago?
MR. LOUDON: In post-World-War-II Chicago you had prominent leaders like William Patterson and his wife Louise, later it was Jack Kling, the Childs brothers (both later revealed to be FBI agents) Claude Lightfoot, Ishmael Flory, Milton Cohen, Abe Feinglass, Richard Criley, Frank Wilkinson, Frank and Bea Lumpkin and Ted Pearson-today its John Bachtell, Scott Marshall and his wife Roberta Wood.
MR. CHARLTON: Who were the prominent African Americans in the Chicago network?
MR. LOUDON: In the 40s they included William and Louise Patterson, Ishmael Flory, Claude Lightfoot, Frank Marshall Davis and Oscar Brown. Vernon Jarrett (father-in-law of Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett) and future Chicago mayor Harold Washington were close to the network as was future Obama friend Timuel Black and close Obama associates: former Illinois State Senator Alice Palmer and one term Illinois Senator Carol Moseley Braun.
MR. CHARLTON: Can you tell me something about the Jarrett family?
MR. LOUDON: Vernon Jarrett was a prominent Chicago journalist who used his columns to promote Barack Obama during his 2004 Senate run (Jarrett died soon after).
In the later 40s Jarrett worked in at least three communist influenced or controlled organizations in common with Frank Marshall Davis the two worked together on the publicity committee of a communist controlled Packing House Workers strike support committee in 1948..
After that Vernon Jarrett ran a black oriented radio program in partnership with Communist Party member Oscar Brown-later a famous jazz musician.
The Jarretts were family friends with the Bowman family and Valerie Bowman became Valerie Jarrett through a five year marriage to Vernon Jarretts now deceased son.
Valeries mother Barbara Taylor Bowman runs the Erikson Institute in Chicago. Tom Ayers, father of Weather Underground terrorist leader and Obama associate Bill Ayers served on the Erikson board as did Bill Ayers wife Bernardine Dohrn. Bill Ayers claims to be a friend and Hyde park neighbor of Barbara Bowman, who incidentally is an adviser on early childhood education to the Secretary of Education.
Valerie Jarrett hired Michelle Obama for a Chicago City job in the 90s and became a close friend and advisor to both Michelle and Barack, leading to her current job in the White House.
"Now THIS is a lot better than the other video. Of course, Im sure Obama would just say that his politics have evolved since then."
And the media will declare how courageous he is for being able to change. That was what America hoped for, after all.
Love it. Love it. Love it.
Great work Mr. Breitbart. I only wish you were here to take it to them in person.
May God rest your warrior soul, and may He guide the course for those of us who remain in the fight.
"The people sadly didnt care.
And, they didnt think it would be THEIR wealth!"
Totally agree on both counts. The people don't get upset until the enemedia tells them to be upset. Otherwise, they're buried in their smart phone, or watching the real housewives of Stubenville, or some such thing.
In my opinion, the left has out flanked the right in America. The right took care of their own kids, while the left moved into the void in public education. Now, a majority of people under 40 not only accept socialism, they see it as a superior system. They desire socialism!
Given this is still the remnants of a representative republic, we are out numbered, and the majority rules. I will vote Republican as long as I'm allowed to do so. And I will watch with sadness and bemusement as America snuffs out her own liberty.
Wow. All I could think of is Breitbart, watch your back ...
And then I remembered.
God bless you, Mr. Breitbart, wherever you may be.
Saw a 'guy in the hood' holding up a bumper sticker that said:
Da bro gotta go!!
Guess that's why Obama felt the need to recently start African-Americans for Obama.
Yes, I saw that too. Can't disagree with that.
Breitbart opened the can of worms.....FReepers like Nachum, and many others are compiling the rest of Obama's sordid communist connections.This has legs, and by the time we are done, we will have enough ammo to IMPEACH the cockroach! Thank you, Andy!
It is and has been a highly successful tactic: the existence of Communists is held to be a right-wing fantasy. Before they seize power, they do not exist. After they seize power, it is illegal to be anything else.
Thanks Vintage Freeper for posting this:
From Illinois of course. Thanks mojitojoe.
I remember Patrick Henry and would rather die trying to save America from the scavengers who circle us now. Pray for America and Israel. We are pretty much all that is left of liberty and freedom - or at least what we have left. I won't be around when the "intelligent liberals" find out that the fox in the hen house was really after them too but, alas it will be too late. So, they really weren't that intelligent after all. Anyway, I'll take common sense over intelligence anytime. After all we have a government full of the most intelligent stupid people I have ever seen.
Great research and thank you...the vetting continues!
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