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Hillary versus Obama: The Book

Some reputable journalist or historian needs to write the real story of the Hillary-Obama war that took place over the past year. I went to a web site listing the one hundred greatest books ever written and came up with the following suggested titles:

Hillary Shrugged

Hillary’s Complaint

I, Obama

Obama and the Art of Media Manipulation

The Obamabots Guide to the Galaxy

A Portrait of the Young Man as a Politician on the Make

The Prime of Master Barack Obama

Hillary’s End

Fahrenheit 1/3/08

A High Wind in Iowa

2008: An American Tragedy

After looking up the one hundred greatest movies, I could only come up with two titles that seem to work:

Raging Bullshit

The Silence of the Superdelegates

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Comment by MaryPat | 2008-07-13 03:36:26

…Pride and Prejudice. You don’t even have to monkey with the title to make it relevant.

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-07-13 07:51:56

HOW ABOUT

Presidencies for Dummies

or

The O just keeps rolling

or

Digging for W.o.r.m.

 

Comment by terri | 2008-07-13 08:27:58

LOL!

I don’t think the title How to Manipulate the Media would work, because I don’t think Obama really figured out how to do that. I think the Powers That Be did that.

 

Comment by Scully | 2008-07-13 11:04:02

Oh, I LIKE that one!

 

Comment by Leibniz08 | 2008-07-13 11:20:24

In some ways the book has already been written
and advertised on No Quarter-

OBAMA:THE POSTMODERN COUP

by Webster G. Tarpley

author also of the -UNAUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE H.W. BUSH- and -9/11 SYNTHETIC TERROR:MADE IN THE USA-

OBAMA: THE POSTMODERN COUP is vital reading which represents a critique of Obama from the left, as well as a dissection of the forces around Obama and whom control this puppet and have launched this coup.

Comment by MaryPat | 2008-07-13 12:10:41

Due for August release:

“The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate,” by David Freddoso

And, with any luck, it will be prominently displayed on the front table of every B&N and Borders in the country.

 
 

Comment by NoBama | 2008-07-13 17:10:27

youz Americans are an embarassmendt to Obama because you doesnt speak french–youz people go to Europ and speak your english only and get upsets cause nobodies understand what youz saying.
The greatObama want to hide when youz people show up anywheres–Amreikans no class at all.

Vote Obama–he will teach youz french.
Merci beaucup.

 
 

Comment by typical.white.person | 2008-07-13 03:36:53

Obama and the Art of Media Manipulation Manipulating People

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-07-13 06:03:11

Robin Hoodwink
I. Bamboozle Bots

Comment by Independent voter | 2008-07-13 08:02:42

roseeriter,

Robin Hoodwink is brilliant!

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-07-13 08:59:12

 
 
 
 

Comment by HARP | 2008-07-13 04:05:15

Black Man Down

Obra The Geek

 

Comment by rjj | 2008-07-13 04:11:20

A la recherche du contretemps perdu (proust)

Obamacon (Petronius)

Ninny (nana zola)

Obamasaga

No More Charades (ford madox ford)

Spring Snowjob (mishima)

The Query Orchard (so many unanswered questions)

Blov[iator]’s Labours Lost?

The Ready and the Black? La Bouge et le Noir

The Profane Comedy

The Soundbites and the Furies

???

Comment by rjj | 2008-07-13 04:44:12

one more for obama, the movie

High Plaints Grifter

 
 

Comment by rjj | 2008-07-13 04:19:30

for the DNC History

A Hundred (÷ 4) Years of Ineptitude

 

Comment by rjj | 2008-07-13 04:39:48

Thanks for this.

Going to turn off computer re-read Dreiser and Upton Sinclair for the next month..

 

Comment by HARP | 2008-07-13 04:45:52

Mr. Fibs Goes To Washington

Gone With The Truth

Wrong Stuff

Good Morning Iraq

Comment by jwrjr | 2008-07-13 12:53:50

Lord of the Caucuses: The Return of the Dictator

Comment by elise | 2008-07-13 13:35:42

Profile in Cowardice: From the Present to the Absent

 
 
 

Comment by gerard nedich | 2008-07-13 04:48:28

 

Comment by Obama is a bum | 2008-07-13 04:53:35

Invasion of the Caucus Snatchers.

I’m afraid to go to sleep and be subverted by one of Obama’s pod people.

 

Comment by Archimedes, give me a place to stand... | 2008-07-13 05:00:15

Yeti….The Obamanable Snow Man

You just got snowed!

 

Comment by noproblama | 2008-07-13 05:14:48

After the Bernie Mac post, on a Woody Allen theme:

Take the Misogyny and Run
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sexism (But Were Afraid To Ask)

 

Comment by noproblama | 2008-07-13 05:35:02

Best picture winners:

How Green Was My Candidate

A Man For All Political Leanings

The French (Language) Connection

The First Emperor

 

Comment by Perry Logan | 2008-07-13 05:37:40

Road to the Whitey House.

 

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-07-13 05:51:31

POTUS-Available to the Highest Bidder
Bye Bye American Pie
Puppet Politics-Made in America

 

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-07-13 05:52:55

Selection for Idiots- a how to book

 

Comment by C.S. | 2008-07-13 05:58:43

How about:

The Rise and Fall of American Democracy (nod to the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire)

Subtitle: How two political parties destroyed in less than a decade what the Continental Congress created 232 years ago.

The Grapes of Wrath - The Obama Years

Of Mice and Men (no need to change the title, we know the mice and we know the “men”)

Is Hillary Vanquished? (from the book “Is Paris Burning”, the question Hitler asked his commanders over and over in August 1944.)

This is easy, just writes itself.

 

Comment by kat in your hat | 2008-07-13 06:33:11

“The Picture of Barack Obama”

“Obama arm Twist”

“A smoke-filled Room with a View”

“Little Men”

“The House of Filth”

“Great Explanations”

“Barackenstein”

“The Count of Moronic Shitzo”

“Don Coyote Ugly”

“The Last of the Obamacans”

“Treasureless Island”

“Puma Fang”

“Weathering Slights”

“Obambi Dick”

Ahhh, and Coming Soon…

“How Hillary Won the Presidency and Took Back the Democratic Party”

:)

Comment by Fenelon spoke | 2008-07-13 07:03:56

My favorite is “Weathering Slights” ;^)

 
 

Comment by kat in your hat | 2008-07-13 06:43:08

“The Electorate Kool Aid Acid Test”

 

Comment by kat in your hat | 2008-07-13 06:44:19

“The Call of the Vile”

 

Comment by kat in your hat | 2008-07-13 06:48:40

“The Merchant of Menace”

Comment by Fenelon spoke | 2008-07-13 06:53:46

I liked the Shakespeare too.

Everybody is so creative.

Comment by elise | 2008-07-13 15:06:14

Mid Summer Nightmare

 
 
 

Comment by kat in your hat | 2008-07-13 06:50:37

“As I Lay Spying”

 

Comment by Kirk Tofte | 2008-07-13 06:52:15

I left “Something Mulatto this Way Comes” off my original list. It sounded too much like Don Imus’ “nappy headed ‘hos” remark.

 

Comment by kat in your hat | 2008-07-13 07:00:11

“Catch-44″

“Dude Be Not Proud”

“The Kenyan Patient”

“Sense and Insensitivity”

“The Unbearable Whiteness of Being”

“The Bungle” or “The Jungle Fever” by Larry Sinclair

OK ok, I’m done..ha…

 

Comment by gracie | 2008-07-13 07:01:08

How’s about “Prostitutes and Pander Bears” ?

I’m sorry Mrs. Clinton. I gave generously to your primary run. But now you are strolling with Obama. And it makes me think of your hustling husband and how much I do not want him back in the White House, despite the years of prosperity we had while you and he were there. Barack Obama, however, is the ultimate bad act and in no way worthy of the Presidency or capable of the job.
We are left with John McCain. It’s the match-up, peeps, and he looks good by comparison.
Think PUMA and keep thinking.

Comment by lute | 2008-07-13 07:09:57

we’re thinking if your comments were reversed and in an Obama blog, you would be out in a flash.

 
 

Comment by Kirk Tofte | 2008-07-13 07:10:19

cat in your hat,
Please explain “Catch 44″ to me. I am really missing something in that title. However, one has to LOVE “Dude Be Not Proud.” Finally, wouldn’t “Nonsense and Insensitivity” be a little better title?

Comment by kat in your hat | 2008-07-13 08:07:31

Oh, I was thinking Hillary could be the “sense” part.

Catch-44 from Catch-22, 44th president…

 
 

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-07-13 07:19:01

Axelrods Fables
Obambi
Sleazy Rider
The Scarlet (text) Letter
The Obammyknockers

 

Comment by maribelle | 2008-07-13 07:29:15

The Pant Suit Versus The Empty Suit

 

Comment by Hillary the President | 2008-07-13 07:34:12

the title of a book:

A child dreamed of becoming Hitler

Rise and Fall of Wanna be a Prince

Axelrod’s Wish

Blue Sky: Looking through the Barbed Wire

 

Comment by Blu | 2008-07-13 07:35:22

Lord of the Drones
Obama’s Web
Valley of the Bots
How to Hoodwink Delegates and Bamboozle Voters
Highjacker’s Guide to the Whitehouse

 

Comment by Blu | 2008-07-13 07:38:22

and

The Gospel According to Wright

Comment by Dawnelle | 2008-07-13 07:58:05

HA!! (or so he thinks)

 
 

Comment by Kirk Tofte | 2008-07-13 07:40:01

It looks like we’ll have to form a new organization called “Can’t Move On.”

 

Comment by tish | 2008-07-13 07:46:58

John McCain’s Weekly Radio Address:

“Good morning. I’m John McCain, and this week I’ve been on the road in Colorado, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. I’ve been holding town hall meetings to talk over the subject on most everyone’s minds these days — our slowing economy.

More than 400,000 Americans have lost their jobs since December, and the rate of new job creation has fallen sharply. Americans are worried about the security of their current job, and they’re worried that they, their kids and their neighbors may not find good jobs and new opportunities in the future.

It’s a big problem when gasoline, food, and other necessities of life carry the price tag of luxury goods, and that’s what it feels like to millions of Americans. I have a plan to grow this economy, and it starts with getting a handle on the cost of gasoline and regaining America’s energy security.

I believe we should immediately suspend the federal gas tax for the remainder of the summer driving season. We also have billions of dollars of oil in the United States, and vast reserves of natural gas as well. So we must commit to producing more of both, to send a message to the market and trigger lower prices for oil and gas.
We will develop more clean energy, and especially zero-emission nuclear energy.

We will build at least 45 nuclear plants that will create over 700,000 good jobs to construct and operate them. At the same time, we will develop clean coal technology — which alone will create tens of thousands of jobs in some of America’s most hard-pressed areas.

Under my energy plan — the Lexington Project — we will also accelerate the development of wind and solar power and other renewable technologies. And we will help automakers design and sell cars that don’t depend on gasoline.

Production of hybrid, flex-fuel, and electric cars will bring America closer to energy independence. And it will bring jobs to auto plants, parts manufacturers, and the communities that support them.

My opponent has an answer to the Lexington Project, and it’s “no”: No to more drilling, no to more nuclear power, no to more use of coal. For a guy whose “official seal” carried the motto, “Yes, we can,” Senator Obama’s agenda sure has a whole lot of “No, we can’t.”

We need to think as well about small businesses and the jobs they create. Small businesses are the job engine of America, and I will make it easier for them to grow and hire more workers.

My opponent would make it harder by imposing a healthcare mandate that will add a crushing $12,000 to the cost of employing anyone with a family. My plan attacks the real problems of health care — cost, availability and portability.

In an economic downturn, the worst of
all ideas is to raise taxes. And Senator Obama will do just that. If you are one of the 23 million small business owners who files as an individual rate payer, watch out — because as your business grows, my opponent proposes to raise your taxes.

If you have an investment for your child’s education or own a mutual fund or a stock in a retirement plan, watch out — because Senator Obama intends to nearly double the taxes on capital gains.

He will raise estate taxes to 45 percent. I propose to cut them to 15 percent.

For those of you with children, I will double the child deduction from $3,500 to $7,000 for every dependent, in every family in America. To promote job creation, we must also get government’s fiscal house in order.

Government has grown by 60 percent in the last eight years, because this Congress and this Administration have failed to meet their responsibilities.

When I’m president, I will order a stem to stern review of government, and I will veto every single bill with wasteful spending.

For his part, Senator Obama proposes to create sprawling new federal programs that will increase government spending even more. As for earmark spending, I have never asked for a single earmark in my entire career.

In his Senate career, Senator Obama has requested some $930 million for earmark projects. That comes to more than a million dollars in pork for every working day since he became a United States Senator.

In America, the most important measure of the economy is the opportunity — the chance for every man and woman to find a better life, and to make one better still for their children. That is all a part of the promise of our country. And if I am elected president, I will see that promise kept. We’re passing through a very tough time, my fellow Americans. But we’ve been through worse, and beaten longer odds. And very soon, we’re going to get this economy running again at full strength.

Thanks for listening.”

 

Comment by tish | 2008-07-13 07:47:55

$376 Billion in Chinese Agency Bond Holdings Subject to Taxpayer Bailout Proposals AccChinese Government is Top Foreign Holder of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Bonds
ording to FreedomWorks Analysts
Last update: 11:08 a.m. EDT July 11, 2008

WASHINGTON, Jul 11, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — As politicians call for taxpayer bailouts and a government takeover of troubled mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, FreedomWorks would like to point out that a bailout is a transfer of possibly hundreds of billions of U.S. tax dollars to sophisticated investors and governments overseas.
The top five foreign holders of Freddie and Fannie long-term debt are China, Japan, the Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, and Belgium. In total foreign investors hold over $1.3 trillion in these agency bonds, according to the U.S. Treasury’s most recent “Report on Foreign Portfolio Holdings of U.S. Securities.”
FreedomWorks President Matt Kibbe commented, “The prospectus for every GSE bond clearly states that it is not backed by the United States government. That’s why investors holding agency bonds already receive a significant risk premium over Treasuries.”
“A bailout at this stage would be the worst possible outcome for American taxpayers and mortgage holders, who have been paying a risk premium to these foreign investors. It would change the rules of the game retroactively and would directly subsidize the risks taken by sophisticated foreign investors.”
“A bailout of GSE bondholders would be perhaps the greatest taxpayer rip-off in American history. It is bad economics and you can be sure it is terrible politics.”
Prev: More Iranian Fauxtography Discovered

 

Comment by Kirk Tofte | 2008-07-13 07:49:54

Would “Ho! Ho! Ho!” be a good battle cry for can’tmoveon.org?

 

Comment by tish | 2008-07-13 07:56:41

Communist Party Backs Obama
AIM Column | By Cliff Kincaid | July 3, 2008
Obama showed his gratitude by going to socialist conferences and selecting Marxist professors as his friends in college.
Barack Obama’s patriotic tour has run into a snag. More evidence of communist backing for the candidate has surfaced. The latest to emerge publicly in Obama’s camp is Joelle Fishman, the chairman of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) Political Action Commission. In a column titled, “Big political shifts are underway,” Fishman says that Obama could lead “a landslide defeat of the Republican ultra-right” this November and that he is “ready to listen” to the “left and progressive voters” backing him. Fishman makes it clear that the CPUSA is part of this coalition.

Meanwhile, admitted CPUSA member Alan Maki, writing on the official Barack Obama website, in the “community blogs” section under an “Obama 08” banner, has mentioned the unmentionable. That is the role of CPUSA member Frank Marshall Davis in mentoring Obama during his formative high school years in Hawaii.

Although fine print at the bottom of the page says that “Content on blogs in My.BarackObama represents the opinions of community members and in no way should be interpreted as endorsed or approved by the campaign,” the information provided by Maki is deadly confirmation that a hard-core CPUSA member played a key role in helping raise Obama. It is a story that most media, including some “conservative” news outlets, have shied away from.

Davis, who died in 1987, was a Stalinist who stayed with the CPUSA when others were abandoning it, and he refused, as late as 1956, to deny his membership in the party. He was selected by Obama’s white grandfather to be the future candidate’s role model and father-figure.

Obama showed his gratitude by going to socialist conferences and selecting Marxist professors as his friends in college. Later, of course, he would arrive in Chicago and launch his political career in the arms of communist terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who, according to declassified intelligence information (PDF), were members of a group with connections to the CPUSA, foreign communist regimes, and even the Soviet KGB. The information shows that their close terrorist associate, Kathy Boudin, attended Moscow University and was subsidized by the Soviet government. Her father was a CPUSA member and a registered Cuban agent, documents show.

Praise for the CPUSA Figure

Announcing the “Frank Marshall Davis roundtable for change” on the Obama website, Maki, a Democratic Party activist and casino worker organizer, explained, “Reading Barack Obama’s book I learned about his mentor, Frank Marshall Davis.” He went on, “Of course, as we all know, Frank Marshall Davis was a Communist and he had a very good understanding of the underlying source of problems which all too often goes unstated and unchallenged and remains hidden because of the high fear-factor level in this country; I am referring to capitalism―a thoroughly rotten system. Frank Marshall Davis also understood through his thorough studies of the situation that socialism provided the only workable alternative to capitalism.”

Saying that he has been “active in the Minnesota DFL and the Democratic Party most of my life,” Maki still wants to know about the specifics of the “change” Obama is promising.

Maki goes on to say, “There really isn’t much for us to learn about ‘change’ from Obama, but there is quite a bit to be gleaned from the writings of Frank Marshall Davis and I thank Barack Obama for bringing him to my attention… now I can say that Frank Marshall Davis is in many ways my mentor, too.”

In a telephone conversation, Maki admitted being a CPUSA member and claimed the FBI had thousands of pages on him. A friendly fellow, he maintains more than a dozen blogs. One of them is simply titled, “Communist manifesto.”

For her part, CPUSA official Fishman seems to have more insight into Obama’s notion of change. “In sharp contrast” to John McCain, Fishman writes, “Obama speaks of strengthening government to provide health care and jobs, address global warming and end the war in Iraq.”

Drudge Plays Role of Censor

While Obama’s far-left support seems to be worthy of news and comment, Matt Drudge of Drudge Report fame has just rejected two paid ads submitted by my group America’s Survival, Inc. about the influence that CPUSA member Davis exerted over a young Obama. The ads featured a photo of Davis and a communist hammer and sickle. They asked, “Who is this man?,” and urged viewers to click to “Meet the mysterious Red Mentor” so they could be directed to two reports on the subject. The ads were “too controversial,” Drudge’s representative told me.

A recent article in Politico suggested Drudge was moving into the Obama camp. Matt Drudge, the article said, has been “trumpeting Obama’s victories and shrugging at his scandals.” The rejection of my ads is proof of that.

While Drudge protects Obama to the extent of rejecting paid advertising which draws attention to his Frank Marshall Davis connection, the “progressives” are openly talking about it. A “progressive” blogger named Rita responded to Alan Maki and says she checked out a copy of Davis’s book, Livin’ the Blues, from the library, and has been “reading it every day and sharing this with my kids…Frank Marshall Davis was a journalist and social activist of tremendous courage. I want to point out that Frank Marshall Davis was not only a voice for civil and human rights; his voice was a solid voice for the rights of all working people.”

She reproduces Maki’s email on Davis, which notes that copies were sent to such left-wing luminaries as Rep. Keith Ellison, Carl Pope of the Sierra Club, and Robert Borosage of the Institute for America’s Future and the Campaign for America’s Future. Borosage, who writes for the Huffington Post, is also the founder and chairman of the Progressive Majority Political Action Committee, which “recruits, staffs, and funds progressive candidates for political office.”

If Davis was indeed a “voice for civil and human rights,” why didn’t Barack Obama proudly identify Frank Marshall Davis by his full name in Dreams From My Father? Instead, Obama refers repeatedly to somebody named “Frank” giving him advice on various matters. Obama does note, however, that “Frank” was a contemporary of black poets Richard Wright and Langston Hughes. This is a hint of his real identity. The reference is significant because Wright and Hughes broke with the CPUSA while Davis did not. Indeed, Davis, in Livin’ the Blues (page 243), refers to Wright’s “act of treason” for exposing the CPUSA. Davis favored cooperation between what he called “Reds and blacks.” This demonstrates how much of a committed communist Davis really was. And this may be why Obama didn’t want readers to know his true identity.

A writer for a communist publication, Gerald Horne, first identified the mysterious “Frank” as Frank Marshall Davis. The identity was confirmed by Dr. Kathryn Takara of the University of Hawaii. Now, Alan Maki confirms it as well, saying that “progressives” should be proud of his legacy.

Praising Foreign Reds, Too

In addition to glorifying Davis as a source of sound ideas, the “progressive” Minnesota blog that favorably cites Maki also features a picture of “Raul Reyes…heroic leader of the Columbian resistance.” This is the dead leader of the communist narco-terrorists known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Documents found in Reyes’ computer after his death disclosed that “gringos” representing Barack Obama wanted to meet with the FARC and that they were opposed to U.S. military aid for the Colombian government. Obama had been publicly critical of the Colombia government’s human rights record.

By contrast, the Bush Administration has helped the Colombia government in its war with the FARC. Fortunately, and no thanks to Obama, the FARC has suffered a series of setbacks, the most recent being the spectacular liberation of 15 people, including 3 Americans, held by the group. Just a decade ago, there was speculation that the FARC might be getting so strong as to actually be able to defeat the military forces of the government of Colombia.

The FARC is now in ruins, but their “gringo” friends with communist and “progressive” support might be able to take power in the U.S. The communists and their “progressive” allies appreciate the stakes. It’s too bad that Drudge does not.

 

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-07-13 08:22:01

The Idiot (oops you actually have to change the title). Mea Culpa

 

Comment by tish | 2008-07-13 08:24:43

Scientist to Congress: U.S. risks ‘catastrophe’ in nuke EMP attack
Expert says growing threat posed by Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, terrorists

Posted: July 10, 2008
6:22 pm Eastern

© 2008 WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON – A top #HYPERLINK “http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69280″ \l “”scientist today warned the House Armed Services Committee America remains vulnerable to a “catastrophe” from a nuclear electromagnetic pulse attack that could be launched with plausible deniability by hostile rogue nations or terrorists.
William R. Graham, chairman of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack and the former national #HYPERLINK “http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69280″ \l “”science adviser to President Reagan, testified before the committee while presenting a sobering new report on “one of a small number of threats that can hold our society at risk of catastrophic consequences.”
It is the first report from the commission since 2004 and identifies vulnerabilities in the nation’s critical #HYPERLINK “http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69280″ \l “”infrastructures, “which are essential to both our civilian and military capabilities.”
Not taking the steps necessary to reduce the threat in the next three to five years “can both invite and reward attack,” Graham told the committee.
The scariest and most threatening kind of EMP attack is initiated by the detonation of a nuclear weapon at high altitude in the range of 25 to 250 miles above the Earth’s surface. The immediate effects of EMP are disruption of, and damage to, electronic #HYPERLINK “http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69280″ \l “”systems and electrical infrastructure. Such a detonation over the middle of the continental U.S. “has the capability to produce significant damage to critical infrastructures that support the fabric of U.S. society and the ability of the United States and Western nations to project influence and military power,” said Graham.
(Story continues below)

“Several potential adversaries have the capability to attack the United States with a high-altitude nuclear weapon-generated electromagnetic pulse, and others appear to be pursuing efforts to obtain that capability,” said Graham. “A determined adversary can achieve an EMP attack capability without having a high level of sophistication. For example, an adversary would not have to have long-range ballistic missiles to conduct an EMP attack against the United States. Such an attack could be launched from a freighter off the U.S. coast using a short- or medium-range missile to loft a nuclear warhead to high altitude. Terrorists sponsored by a rogue state could attempt to execute such an attack without revealing the identity of the perpetrators. Iran, the world’s leading sponsor of international terrorism, has practiced launching a mobile ballistic missile from a vessel in the Caspian Sea. Iran has also tested high-altitude explosions of the Shahab-III, a test mode consistent with EMP attack, and described the tests as successful. Iranian military writings explicitly discuss a nuclear EMP attack that would gravely harm the United States. While the commission does not know the intention of Iran in conducting these activities, we are disturbed by the capability that emerges when we connect the dots.”

William R. Graham

Graham reminded the committee even smaller nuclear weapons can create massive EMP effects over wide geographic areas. He also pointed out that United Nations investigators recently found that “the design for an advanced nuclear weapon, miniaturized to fit on ballistic missiles currently in the inventory of Iran, North Korea and other potentially hostile states, was in the possession of Swiss criminals affiliated with the A.Q. Khan nuclear smuggling #HYPERLINK “http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69280″ \l “”network.”
Theoretically, an EMP attack is devastating because of the unprecedented cascading failures of major infrastructures that could result. Because of America’s heavy reliance on electricity and electronics, the impact would be far worse than on a country less advanced technologically. Graham and the commission see the potential for failure in the financial system, the system of distribution for food and water, medical care and trade and production.
“The recovery of any one of the key national infrastructures is dependent upon the recovery of others,” he said. “The longer the outage, the more problematic and uncertain the recovery will be. It is possible for the functional outages to become mutually reinforcing until at some point the degradation of infrastructure could have irreversible effects on the country’s ability to support its population.”
Graham took the EMP debate out of the realm of science fiction by reminding the committee that as recently as May 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Russian leaders threatened a U.S. congressional delegation with the specter of such an attack that would paralyze the U.S.
He also quoted James J. Shinn, assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific #HYPERLINK “http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69280″ \l “”Security, who two weeks ago told the same House committee that China’s arms buildup includes exotic experiments with electromagnetic weapons that can devastate electronics with bursts of energy similar to those produced by a nuclear blast.
“The consequence of EMP is that you destroy the #HYPERLINK “http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69280″ \l “”communications network,” Shinn said. “And we are, as you know, and as the Chinese know, heavily dependent on sophisticated communications, satellite communications, in the conduct of our forces. And so, whether it’s from an EMP or it’s some kind of a coordinated [anti-satellite] effort, we could be in a very bad place if the Chinese enhanced their capability in this area.”
Graham says terrorists who get their hands on one or a few unsophisticated nuclear weapons might well calculate they could get the most bang for their buck from attempting an EMP attack.
Recovery from a widespread EMP attack could take months or years, Graham warned. The fact that key components of the U.S. electrical grid are not even manufactured in America and must be ordered a year in advance from foreign suppliers suggests just how complicated and time-consuming recovery might be. The high state of automation within America’s utilities further complicates recovery. There just might not be sufficient trained manpower available to get the job done in a timely way.
“The commission’s view is that the federal government does not today have sufficient human and physical assets for reliably assessing and managing EMP threats,” said Graham. “The commission reviewed current national capabilities to understand and to manage the effects of EMP and concluded that the U.S. is rapidly losing the technical competence and facilities that it needs in the government, the national #HYPERLINK “http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=69280″ \l “”laboratories and the industrial community.”
Graham said it’s not too late for Congress to take the bull by the horns and take the steps necessary to prepare for the threat – and thereby reduce it.
“A serious national commitment to address the threat of an EMP attack can lead to a national posture that would significantly reduce the payoff for such an attack and allow the United States to recover from EMP, and from other threats, man-made and natural, to the critical infrastructures,” said Graham.
Graham’s predecessor as chairman of the commission had equally tough words on the impact of the EMP threat.
“Their effects on systems and infrastructures dependent on electricity and electronics could be sufficiently ruinous as to qualify as catastrophic to the nation,” Lowell Wood, acting chairman of the commission, told members of Congress in 2005.
The commission’s previous report went so far as to suggest, in its opening sentence, that an EMP attack “might result in the defeat of our military forces.”

Comment by Zee | 2008-07-13 09:21:45

Can someone BAN this WorldNutDaily SPAMMER????

Attention Admin!!

 

Comment by Zee | 2008-07-13 09:25:10

Too many good ones to single out….!!!

 
 

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-07-13 08:26:35

Big Two-Faced Liar

 

Comment by i mouse | 2008-07-13 08:26:38

Obama is simply put CRAZY! He wants to have national symbols of other countries to back him up and it is not Kena!
See my blog: “On July 14 My Paris Speech will get Me Thy Oval Office”

 

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-07-13 08:36:48

Tao Te Kaching

 

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-07-13 08:38:20

Mr. Smut Goes to Washington

 

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-07-13 08:44:01

In His Time

For Whom the Bots Toil

 

Comment by AA4HILL | 2008-07-13 08:56:59

The PUMAs comments, which were allowed to be posted regarding the Denver PUMA group’s ad, were on point; civil; and, filled with Thomas Paine-esque common sense. The Obamatrons were quite a different story and to those folks we have a few things to say. First, regardless of what your Obamatron Talking Points Memos tell you, PUMAs come from all walks of life and political ideologies. If you don’t know this today, that’s ok. We plan to make sure you have no questions after November 4th
http://countusout.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/hillary-pumas-holdin-it-down/

Comment by pasmalltowngirl | 2008-07-13 09:50:03

Thanks for posting this link. It has made my day. Especially the comments, 3 & 4, from a 63 yr old black female Hillary supporter named Barb.
I recommend this read to everyone.

PUMA
NOBAMA

 
 

Comment by JudyA. | 2008-07-13 09:00:53

A Time To Kill….the democratic party

For Whom the Barack Trolls

Gone Changin with the Wind

If I Forget Thee Jerusalem…is not the capital of Israel…Tel Aviv is

The Moving Middle Finger

Clash of the Democrats

A Fool’s Disciple (no need to change the title)

A Journey to Hell and Back (no need to change the title)

Jesse Jackson and the Chocolate Nut Factory

Mutiny on the DNC

Call Me Madam President Clinton

Don’t Let Your Ego Write A Check Your Soul Can’t Cash Obama

East Meets West

The Eagle Clinton and the Condor Obama

Barack: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kenya

The Adventures of Barack the Pooh

Barck the Dick

Comment by Jill L | 2008-07-13 14:39:08

Major ROFL!!!!! … Literature will never look quite the same for me!!!!

P U M A
HopeForHillary ‘08

 
 

Comment by SayNoToTheBORG | 2008-07-13 09:14:00

Things to Do in Denver When You’re Fed(UP)

 

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-07-13 09:21:30

 

Comment by gigglechick | 2008-07-13 09:21:36

How about

“Are You There God, It’s Me, Obama”

 

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-07-13 09:22:51

Waitin’ for Godawful

 

Comment by soldier4hillary | 2008-07-13 09:24:28

“The Audacity of a Dope”
“How to lose elections 101″
“How to register the dead to vote and not get caught”
“Obama, Magic Tricks, & the DNC Bylaws committee”
“How to get delegates without even trying”
“The Fall of the Democratic Party”

 

Comment by soldier4hillary | 2008-07-13 09:27:18

“Obama is from Mars & Obamabots are from Venus”
“The Obama Chronicles: A Guide to understanding bamboozling”

Comment by jwrjr | 2008-07-13 13:02:55

May I offer a slight revision? “Obama is from Mars and Obamabots are from Kuzbain” (Muppet Show reference)

 
 

Comment by Zee | 2008-07-13 09:27:21

“Portrait of a Con Artist as a Young Thug”

 

Comment by BytheBeardofZeus | 2008-07-13 09:28:45

WAR and RACE

 

Comment by soldier4hillary | 2008-07-13 09:29:28

“Lies, Lies, and More Lies, the story of Obama’s fictional life”

(Plays daily on CNN)

 

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-07-13 09:30:12

The Snowjobs of Southside Chicago

 

Comment by soldier4hillary | 2008-07-13 09:30:22

“Polls, Trolls & Assholes, the story of the 2008 election”

 

Comment by Zee | 2008-07-13 09:37:41

(movies)

The Good, the Bad, and the Thugly

An American Fairytale

 

Comment by Dismayed | 2008-07-13 09:37:52

“Pop goes the Weasel”
(the story of 2008 election)

 

Comment by AA4HILL | 2008-07-13 09:39:47

Target:5,000,000Sponsored by: http://www.HillaryGrassrootsCampaign.comWhether you believe Hillary will go Independent or not, let’s let Hillary know that we WANT her to run for President as an Independent

Hillary Clinton is our candidate and she can win without the Democratic Party. Can the Democratic Party win without her? Help make a statement to the DNC

Petition Hillary to run as an Independent for President. Let’s show Hillary that we support her all the way!

5 Million Signatures by August 15th
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-Hillary-In

 

Comment by Zee | 2008-07-13 09:40:28

For whom the cellphone vibrates

 

Comment by Latte liberal for McCain | 2008-07-13 09:41:05

The Second Hitler
Chocolate Nuts for Sale
Pimp for President
Curious George’s Run for the Presidency

 

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-07-13 09:44:45

Under the Bus

 

Comment by Ferdberfle | 2008-07-13 09:49:08

A Farewell to Smarm

 

Comment by Zee | 2008-07-13 09:49:18

The Hill Also Rises

A Roll Call of Her Own