I am a Republican activist and I support Chairman Ron Nehring for re-election. I will not fire our Chairman, but will support him in his next two years as a conservative, committed volunteer to our California Republican Party.

I will also never read “Halfway to Concord” again - by posting this anonymous e-mail, they give legitimacy to something that is little more than a personal attack on true conservative.

Is Mark good to have drinks with - yup! Devoted father - yup! Ruthless - yup. Ask the Canciamillas. Want the costs of California government to go up Mr. Republican? See Senator DeSaulnier who rides with the tax and spend crowd.

He is a nice guy to hang around with but hardly the candidate for sainthood you make him out to be. He’s only human like the rest of us.

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/Obama.advisers.expecations.2.869896.html

I would hope the people of the USA are aware that these things, as much as we would love them to be, are not going to be fixed over night. Either way though, I still see the disillusionment looming.

Si vic pacem para bellum Si vic bellum para pacem

This is not serious and neither are your comments.

I suggest you find a site that is more agreeable to wild stories such as above.

And please stop filling the comment form with personal communications to the moderator. Please learn the basics of online etiquette and take it offline.

During the period of roughly February 1992 to mid-1994, I was making
frequent trips to Moscow, Russia, in the process of starting a software
development joint-venture company with some people from the Russian
scientific community. One of the men in charge on the Russian side was named
V. M. He had a wife named T.M.
V. was a level-headed scientist while his wife was rather deeply committed
to the losing Communist cause - a cause she obviously was not abandoning.
One evening, during a trip early in 1992, the American half of our venture
was invited to V. & T.’s Moscow flat as we were about to return to the
States. The party went well and we had the normal dinner discussions. As the
evening wore on, T. developed a decidedly rough anti-American edge - one her
husband tried to quietly rein in.
The bottom line of the tirade she started against the United States went
something like this: “You Americans always like to think that you have the
perfect government and your people are always so perfect. Well then, why
haven’t you had a woman president by now? You had a chance to vote for a
woman vice-president and you didn’t do it.” (She was referring to Geraldine
Ferraro.)
The general response went something along the lines that you don’t vote for
someone just because of their sex. Besides, you don’t vote for
vice-president, but the president and vice-president as a ticket.
“Well, I think you are going to be surprised when you get a black president
very soon.”
The consensus we expressed was that we didn’t think there was anything
innately barring that. The right person at the right time and sure, America
would try to vote for the right person, be he or she black or not.
“What if I told you that you will have a black president very soon and he
will be a Communist?”
The out-of-the-blue remark was met by our stares. She continued, “Well, you
will; and he will be a Communist.”
It was then that the husband unsuccessfully tried to change the subject; but
she was on a roll and would have nothing of it. One of us asked, “It sounds
like you know something we don’t know.”
“Yes, it is true. This is not some idle talk. He is already born and he is
educated and being groomed to be president right now. You will be impressed
to know that he has gone to the best schools of Presidents. He is what you
call “Ivy League”. You don’t believe me, but he is real and I even know his
name. His name is Barack. His mother is white and American and his father is
black from Africa. That’s right, a chocolate baby! And he’s going to be your
President.”
She became smug as she presented her stream of detailed knowledge and
predictions so matter-of-factly - as though all were foregone conclusions.
“It’s all been thought out. His father is not an American black so he won’t
have that social slave stigma. He is intelligent and he is half white and
has been raised from the cradle to be an atheist and a Communist. He’s gone
to the finest schools. He is being guided every step of the way and he will
be irresistible to America.”
We sat there not knowing what to say. She was obviously very happy that the
Communists were doing this and that it would somehow be a thumbing of their
collective noses at America: they would give us a black president and he’d
be a Communist to boot. She made it quite obvious that she thought that this
was going to breathe new life into world Communism. From this and other
conversations with her, she always asserted that Communism was far from
dead.
She was full of little details about him that she was eager to relate. I
thought that maybe she was trying to show off that this truly was a real
person and not just hot air.
She rattled off a complete litany. He was from Hawaii. He went to school in
California. He lived in Chicago. He was soon to be elected to the
legislature. “Have no doubt: he is one of us, a Soviet.”
At one point, she related some sort of San Francisco connection, but I
didn’t understand what the point was and don’t recall much about that. I was
just left with the notion that she considered the city to be some sort of a
center for their activity here.
Since I had dabbled in languages, I knew a smattering of Arabic. I made a
comment: “If I remember correctly, ‘Barack’ comes from the Arabic word for
‘Blessing.’ That seems to be an odd name for an American.” She replied
quickly, “Yes. It is ‘African’”, she insisted, “and he will be a blessing
for world Communism. We will regain our strength and become the number one
power in the world.”
She continued with something to the effect that America was at the same time
the great hope and the great obstacle for Communism. America would have to
be converted to Communism and Barack was going to pave the way.
So, what does this conversation from 1992 prove?
Well, it’s definitely anecdotal. It doesn’t prove that Obama has had Soviet
Communist training nor that he was groomed to be the first black American
president, but it does show one thing that I think is very important. It
shows that Soviet Russian Communists knew of Barack from a very early date.
It also shows that they truly believed among themselves that he was raised
and groomed Communist to pave the way for their future. This report on
Barack came personally to me from one of them long before America knew he
existed.
Although I had never before heard of him, at the time of this conversation
Obama was 30+ years old and was obviously tested enough that he was their
anticipated rising star