THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION BEGINS
By Cliff
Kincaid
December 28, 2013
NewsWithViews.com
As
2013 comes to a close, two important developments have the potential to
turn the tide against Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of the United
States.
First is the public rejection of the so-called “Affordable Care Act” due
to its cancellation of health care plans for millions of Americans.
Second is the public backlash against the suspension of a character in
the “Duck Dynasty” television show, over his critical comments about gay
rights.
These two seemingly unrelated developments were dramatic indications
that the American people are beginning to understand that their country
is being transformed in ways that run directly contrary to their best
interests and values.
In the House, 39 Democrats voted for Republican Rep. Fred Upton’s “Keep
Your Health Plan Act.” The measure would allow Americans to keep their
current health-care plans, even if they don’t meet the standards or
requirements established by the so-called Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The uproar over the suspension of the “Duck Dynasty” star, Phil
Robertson, was reminiscent of Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day, when
hundreds of thousands of people turned out to protest the homosexual
rights movement’s targeting of the chain. The company’s president, Dan
Cathy, had outraged the gay lobby by stating his support for traditional
marriage.
It is clear that millions of Americans are looking for bold leadership
to really “take their country back” from Obama and his “progressive”
backers, who are pushing socialized medicine, homosexual rights, and
other radical measures, such as amnesty for illegal aliens.
What is lacking at this point is an adequate public understanding of
what the Obama administration is doing to the country in the area of
foreign policy.
Consider what passes for an intellectual discussion on a recent edition
of CNN’s “Crossfire” show. Liberal columnist Ruth Marcus described as
“brilliant” Obama’s decision to send homosexual athletes to the Winter
Olympics being held in Sochi, Russia in February, to protest anti-gay
propaganda laws in Russia. Co-host S.E. Cupp agreed the decision was
brilliant. “Me, too,” she said. She also made it clear that “I support
same sex marriage. I’m a gay rights advocate from the right. And clearly
the President is delivering a strong message to Russia in this.”
The “liberal” co-host, Van Jones, said, “And I’m super excited about it
as well, and I think it is interesting that you can now have a President
of the United States slap down [Russian President Vladimir] Putin on the
issue of gay rights. That wouldn’t have been possible 10 years ago and
now it is. It seems to me Republicans are nowhere to be seen on this
fight.”
Conservative commentator William Kristol was a guest on the show and
countered, “…wow, that was really bold. He is really showing Putin who
is boss. I’m sure Putin is sitting there thinking, boy, I’ve just been
humiliated by the President. And he sends a couple of gay athletes over
[to] the Olympics. That’s going to cause me big problems. Meanwhile,
we’re capitulating to him on everything important.” He added that
Obama’s “reset” with Russia “has been a total failure.”
Unfortunately, time ran out before Kristol could explain how
dramatically the reset has boomeranged.
We are seeing Obama’s capitulation to the Russians unfold in the
Ukraine, where the government, under pressure from Russia, has cut a
deal with Putin involving natural gas purchases and financial credits.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy (CT), chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs, recently spoke to a crowd of
hundreds of thousands of protesters in Kiev, some of whom had toppled a
statue of Lenin in Bessarabska Square and used hammers to attack it.
Murphy said, “Ukrainians are protesting in the streets today because
they know they’re being sold out by their government for short-term
monetary gain from Russia, and they rightly fear the long-term economic
cost to Ukraine’s economy.”
The New York Post commented that “…there are moments when the world
needs to hear from the president of the United States. This is one of
them. And what was his signal? As Ukrainian police cracked down [on
protesters], Obama was shaking hands with Cuban President Raul Castro.”
That handshake, of course, took place during the memorial service in
honor of South Africa’s Nelson Mandela, exposed after his death as a
member of the central committee of the South African Communist Party.
Very few people, even on the right side of the political spectrum,
wanted to hear the truth about Mandela’s involvement in the
international communist movement, or about the current South African
government’s strategic relationship with Russia, giving the Putin regime
special access to strategic minerals.
Even Republican conservative Senator Ted Cruz (TX) praised Mandela after
his death and attended his memorial service (although he says he walked
out on Raul Castro’s speech).
Interestingly, Cruz has said that his father, who came from Cuba and is
now an outspoken anti-communist, was allied with Castro’s forces who
successfully overthrew the Cuban government because “they didn’t know
Castro was a Communist.”
Cruz apparently didn’t know or suspect Mandela was a communist (although
the evidence existed even before his death). He should have had a long
talk with his father before he made the trip to South Africa to honor
Mandela. Hopefully, his father would have set him straight.
Only through a real understanding of communism, which President Ronald
Reagan acquired through personal experience in Hollywood by fighting
communist-dominated unions, can the Republicans truly understand and
counteract the Obama phenomenon and his “fundamental transformation” of
the nation that is now underway.
In the area of foreign policy, like the case of the ACA, it appears that
even some Democrats are coming around. Whether this is because they are
hearing from constituents or recognizing a policy disaster in the
making, is not important. What is critical is that top Democrats are
abandoning their leader.
In fact, Democratic Senator Robert Menendez (NJ) just introduced the
Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act, in order to expand sanctions on Iran. The
Washington Post noted that the bill “highlighted deep divisions among
Senate Democrats on whether to heap new pressures on Tehran’s
government…” Menendez is chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
Both Democrats and Republicans are apprehensive about Obama joining with
Putin’s Russia, the major international sponsor of the Iranian regime,
and other nations, to make a deal with Iran to avoid further sanctions.
Some may even be aware of the evidence that Iranian “Supreme Leader”
Khamenei is a Russian agent trained by the KGB whose ultimate goal is to
get United Nations help in disarming Israel.
As AIM has reported, Obama accepted a form of disinformation—the claim
that Khamenei had issued a fatwa against nuclear weapons—in order to lay
the groundwork for this proposed deal with that regime. An examination
of the facts showed that the alleged fatwa simply doesn’t exist.
Former CIA officer Clare Lopez commented, “The Iranians have used
classic clandestine tradecraft that their services learned directly from
the KGB,” and refers to Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba University, attended by
Khamenei, as “KGB Tech.” She added, “Such tradecraft includes denial and
deception to lead us all astray on their WMD programs.”
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This is why, as William Kristol suggests, Putin is probably snickering at the news that Obama has sent some gays to Moscow as a form of foreign policy protest. Laughter should quickly turn to sober reflection on the direction of U.S. foreign policy under Obama if our nation and our allies are going to survive. Let’s hope that “Crossfire” and other media start to get serious about these issues before they lose even more of their audience by focusing on the trivial and the absurd.
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Cliff Kincaid, a veteran journalist and media critic, Cliff concentrated in journalism and communications at the University of Toledo, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Cliff has written or co-authored nine books on media and cultural affairs and foreign policy issues. One of Cliff's books, "Global Bondage: The UN Plan to Rule the World" is still awailable.
Cliff has appeared on Hannity & Colmes, The O’Reilly Factor, Crossfire and has been published in the Washington Post, Washington Times, Chronicles, Human Events and Insight.
Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s
Survival, Inc.
E-Mail: cliff.kincaid@aim.org
