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America is about to pass through a crossroads. With Barack Obama about to take office as President of The United States of America a great deal will be subjected to change in our nation. Most of us aren’t truly cognizant of what those changes are expected to be or encompass.

In an attempt to give people the opportunity to educate themselves on what to expect and/or fear from the upcoming Liberal administration I’ve compiled three resources that I believe can provide a basis for understanding what Obama and his administration plan on doing.

The Plan: Big Ideas for America

Rahm Emanuel is Obama’s White House Chief of Staff and Bruce Reed President of the Democratic Leadership Council. Together they wrote The Plan: Big Ideas for America.

Their plan includes: Universal Citizen Service, Universal College Access, and Universal Children’s Health Care.

By combining Emanuel’s Chicago style political streetfighting realism with Reed’s neo-Socialist Utopian agenda, The Plan is a blueprint for an entirely new America, one based on strong federal control and a nationwide, state-run agenda.

Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama’s Plan to Renew America’s Promise

Yes, another book by Barack Obama. In Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama’s Plan to Renew America’s Promise now President-elect – and soon to be President – Obama provides some more details to the airy promises he made during his campaign.

There’s a great deal of overlap between Obama’s “Change” and Emanuel’s “Plan”. It seems that The Plan is the framework that Obama fleshed out to create his plan for his new America.

Assuming that Obama sticks somewhat close to his stated goals, this book will be a valuable source of information about what American’s should expect over the next few years.

Rules for Radicals

Alinsky’s radical teachings influenced Barack Obama in his early career as a community organizer on the far South Side of Chicago. Rules for Radicals is Alinsky’s manifesto for overthrowing the American governmental and societal structure so as to replace it with a neo-Socialist state.

This book was essentially the blueprint for the Obama presidential campaign.

The tactics for revolution that Alinsky detailed are very applicable to Obama’s view of the desired future of America. American’s should expect these stratagems to be used by Obama’s administration as they move forward with their agenda.

Whether you’re a Conservative, Moderate, or Liberal these three books are important reading. The Plan, Change We Can Believe In, and Rules for Radicals outline the threats posed and/or promises offered by the incoming administration and some of the tactics they will probably use to implement them.

Read, learn, be studiously aware! Whether you loath and fear Obama or see him as the hope for a brighter American future, learn as much of the truth as you can and manage your own expectations.

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On Tuesday, November 4th 2008, Sen. Barack Obama was elected to be the 44th President of the United States of America. He orated a wonderful acceptance speech. Here is an important excerpt that every Conservative should read:

Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. Let us remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House — a party founded on the values of self-reliance, individual liberty, and national unity. Those are values we all share, and while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress. As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, “We are not enemies, but friends ?though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection.” And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn — I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too.

This was a wonderful passage from a well written and well delivered speech. The promised – or at least inferred – bipartisanship of the passage was a much needed balm after a campaign filled with bitterness and acrimony.

That was Tuesday. On Wednesday, November 5th, 2008, President-Elect Barack Obama asked the Democratic Party’s “party attack dog,” Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) Chief of Staff for the Obama White House.

Rahm Emanuel aka “Rahmbo” is just about as partisan as it is possible to find, being the campaign “hitman” for the Democrats.  Emanuel is as a politician trained in dirty in-fighting by the Chicago politic machine under Daley and vetted under the Clintons.  He is hyper-partisan, vicious believes that “wining isn’t every. It’s the only thing.”

Rahmbo is the Democratic operative who once sent a dead fish – mafiesque style – to a pollster who displeased him. Rahmbo is the Democratic operative who gathered with Clinton supporter after the 1992 campaign to plot revenge upon various Politicians And Members Of The Press.

Suddenly Emanuel grabbed his steak knife and, as those who were there remeber [sic] it, shouted out the name of another enemy, lifted the knife, then brought it down with full force into the table. ‘Dead!’ he screamed. The group immediately joined in the cathartic release: ‘Nat Landow! Dead! Cliff Jackson! Dead! Bill Schaefer! Dead!

— Elisabeth Bumiller
The Brothers Emanuel, The New York Times, 6/15/97

President-Elect Obama’s choice of Rahm “rahmbo” Emanuel doesn’t bode well for Republicans and Conservatives. Choosing a hyper-partisan political assassin as his Chief of Staff has the appearance of putting the lie to Obama’s overtures of bipartisanship and outreach to Americans who didn’t support his bid for the Presidency.

I would suggest that every American keep this firmly in mind. When Pres. Obama or his supporters reach a hand across the aisle check it for a knife.

Remember always that We are Bowed, but Unbroken

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