Mark Kirk’s thugs attack Andy Martin at Joe’s Bar

Illinois political reformer Andy Martin promised Sunday night that Republican conservatives would defeat Mark Kirk on Tuesday night. “The people coming out of Mark Kirk’s event looked like they wanted to die,” Martin said. “I am leading the anti-Kirk movement because so-called pro-family conservatives are too afraid to stand up and be counted. But they will stab Kirk in the back on Tuesday. As for Sunday night,” Martin says, “Kirk’s bully boys tried to intimidate me at Joe’s Bar. They failed.”

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin was not intimidated by Mark Kirk’s thugs on Sunday night

Andy Martin drops a “Bunker Buster” on Mark Kirk at a Senator Scott Brown event and Kirk stooges react with rage

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Kirk supporters attack Andy Martin

Chicago Police are called as Kirk’s “boys” attempt to intimidate Martin

Andy stands his ground and tells the truth about Kirk: Kirk is unfit for public office

(CHICAGO)(October 31, 2010) Supporters of military masquerader Mark Kirk attacked Andy Martin Sunday evening and attempted to intimidate Martin from exposing Kirk as a military and political fraud. Martin was outside a Kirk campaign event. Martin’s bullhorn kept broadcasting.

Martin’s loudspeaker reminded Republicans that earlier this year Kirk claimed (and Chicago media supinely reported) that he had come under fire in Afghanistan. Kirk’s claim was a “fairy tale.”

“I saw a lot of big Republican machers traipse into Kirks event at Joe’s Bar,” Martin says. “But Kirk had his ‘Praetorian Guard’ outside to harass me. Kirk’s ‘guard’ was originally disclosed by Lake County’s Colonel Ray True. The Republican big-wigs looked desultory going in, and looked like they wanted to shower on the way out. They looked unclean. They are disgusted with Kirk. They are probably disgusted with themselves as well for being afraid to stand up and tell the truth about Kirk. Kirk is a disgrace to the U. S. Navy and a disgrace to Illinois Republicans.

“Loyal Republicans are faced with an inner crisis: they know Kirk is bad for Illinois but they are not used to dumping a bad candidate and especially an imposter such as Kirk. Well, for me, the truth trumps party loyalty. I don’t agree with every Republican on the ballot, but I am voting for everyone except Kirk. The U. S. Senate is special; Kirk is not.

“Unless and until Republican leaders recognize that the Republican Party in Illinois is its own worst enemy we will continue to lose elections. In a year when Republicans nationally are winning, see Wisconsin next door as an example, we have Kirk the disgraced candidate who is barely hanging on.

“I predicted Sunday night loyal Republican conservatives are going to reject Kirk on Tuesday. We are going to defeat Kirk.

“The bullhorn will be back Monday night at Wheaton Bowl to encourage DuPage County conservatives to ‘Just Say No, to Mark Kirk,’” Martin says. “Every veteran should vote against Kirk.”

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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ANDY MARTIN: Mark Kirk has been sexually compromised by the Israeli Mossad

BUNKER BUSTER NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO – SUNDAY Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Sunday evening, while appearing at a campaign event for Mark Kirk, to disclose that Kirk has been targeted and compromised by “sex spies” of the Israeli Mossad. Martin says Kirk is a threat to the CIA and the entire U. S. intelligence system. Martin was the first person to correctly identify Kirk as a closeted member of Washington, DC’s gay community, a fact that has since been repeatedly confirmed in gay media.


Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin reveals that Mark Kirk has been sexually compromised by the Israeli Mossad

Andy charges that Kirk’s closeted personal life poses a danger to the CIA and America’s intelligence system

Andy Martin drops his latest “Bunker Buster” on Mark Kirk

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUNDAY EVENING NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says there is strong circumstantial evidence that Mark Kirk has been targeted and compromised by “sex spies” of the Israeli Mossad

Andy Martin claims that Mark Kirk’s closeted sexual identity is central to the national security risk he creates in the U. S. Senate

Martin says that Kirk’s cruising of gay bars in Washington, DC is a national security threat

Martin says that allowing Kirk access to intelligence data will endanger the CIA and our foreign intelligence apparatus

Martin believes Kirk poses a serious “Jim McGreevy/Golan Cipel”-style threat to the CIA

(CHICAGO)(October 31, 2010) Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin will hold a 6:00 News conference tonight at the Joe’s Bar to disclose that Mark Kirk has been targeted and compromised by “sex spies” of the Israeli Mossad. Martin says that Kirk is effectively being blackmailed by the Mossad. Martin’s notorious “Stinksters” that operate throughout the Middle East continue to seek additional corroboration.

Andy Martin, a conservative Republican, is leading efforts to defeat Mark Kirk for the U. S. Senate. Martin says Kirk is a disgrace to Illinois, and a disgrace to the Republican Party. Other than Kirk, Martin is (with some reservations) voting a straight Republican ticket. Martin’s own intelligence operation, the “Stinksters,” has become well-known over the years for being able to pry loose embarrassing information from both U. S. and other Middle East sources.

Andy has over forty years of familiarity with Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts. His analysis of the terrorist threat in Iran during the 1979-80 hostage crisis, and again in Iraq in 2003, were leading-edge predictions of what Americans faced in the future.

“I don’t know if CIA Director Leon Panetta realizes it, but American intelligence faces a far greater threat than the Valeria Plame scandal,” Andy Martin will state. “Plame was an innocent victim of dirty politics. Mark Kirk has been targeted and compromised by the Israeli Mossad because of Kirk’s closeted sexual identity.

“I realize that people don’t like to talk about ‘sex’ in politics,” Martin says. “But ignoring someone’s sexual orientation can be as critical as ignoring their party affiliation when that candidate/public official is closeted. The gay lobby has effectively silenced American media from discussing the security risk of closeted gays. But the threat is real and in Kirk’s case the threat has ripened into reality. I feel honor-bound and compelled to share our information with Illinois voters and the American intelligence community.

“Gay media have repeatedly identified Kirk as someone who ‘cruises’ gay bars in Washington and Chicago. See, e.g.:

http://lezgetreal.com/2010/08/mark-kirks-ex-wife-
denies-that-kirk-is-gay-gives-other-reasons-for-divorce/

http://hillbuzz.org/2009/12/18/what-chicago-democrats-
are-planning-to-do-to-out-republicans-mark-kirk-and-aaron-schock/

“Kirk likes to style himself as an ‘intelligence officer’ in the Navy, although he was not very intelligent about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (which he claimed existed) and his other lies about his imaginary military service. Kirk says he ‘commanded’ the War Room in the Pentagon. He was not a commander, but he was there (compromising even the War Room with political tweets in violation of federal law).

“Kirk poses perhaps as great a potential threat to U. S. intelligence and the CIA since turncoat Jonathan Pollard. As a senator Kirk would have expanded access to U. S. intelligence. That is precisely the type of individual who is targeted by the Mossad.

“As unpleasant as the topic may be, every national intelligence agency of any consequence has on staff homosexuals who are used to lure potential blackmail targets into compromising situations. That was how former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevy found himself seduced by Mossad operative Golan Cipel.

“No one can blackmail Barney Frank, by comparison, because Barney is open about his private life. You attack Frank because of his political views, not his private behavior. He is open and above board. But Kirk is not open and above board. That is why when he betrayed by gay community by voting against the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ Kirk was ‘outed’ by gay media:

http://blog.blogactive.com/2010/06/
truth-or-consequences.html

“Any voter who casts a vote for Mark Kirk is voting to endanger the national security of the United States. The Republican Party and the moneymen in Washington should be ashamed of the dirty dollars being used to buy a senate seat for Kirk when his election would endanger the national security of the United States.

“At a time when America is literally under attack, this weekend, by terrorists, preserving our intelligence secrets and methods must be paramount. People such as Kirk who can be blackmailed are a security threat. Kirk represents a danger to every American, not just Illinoisans.

“Last December I disclosed ‘rumors’ about Kirk’s hidden private life. Everything I said then ultimately checked out as factually correct. The media attacked me instead of Kirk. In January I posted documents showing that Kirk’s military record was a lie, www.MarkKirk.us. No one paid attention. Instead the Associated Press, Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times delivered fairy tales on Kirk’s ‘combat’ experiences in Afghanistan. All lies. Republican primary voters were victimized by Kirk’s lies and the scumbag tactics of corrupt ‘Combine’ leader Pat Brady.

“Now Illinoisans face the ultimate challenge: will they send someone to the U. S. Senate who has been compromised by Israeli intelligence because of his closeted sex life? Will Illinois voters endanger America?

“Please don’t say you were not warned. I was right before. I am right again,” Martin will state. “For shame, Illinois.”

Martin will be demonstrating outside Joe’s Bar in Chicago, where Kirk is staging an event Sunday evening.

October 31st news conference details:

WHO:

Internet Powerhouse and foreign policy expert Andy Martin

WHERE:

Joe’s Bar, 940 W. Weed Street, Chicago (sidewalk news conference)

WHEN: Sunday, October 31st 6:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Andy Martin reveals that Mark Kirk has been sexually compromised by the Israeli Mossad

MEDIA CONTACT:(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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ANDY MARTIN: Mark Kirk faces demonstration at Wheaton Bowl

Illinois corruption-fighter Andy Martin will hold an anti-Kirk protest at Wheaton Bowl on Monday, November 1st. Kirk is promoting a rally starting at 5:00 P.M. “We’ll be there to remind DuPage Republicans Mark Kirk disgraced the Navy uniform and lied habitually about his military service,” Martin says. “Why anyone would vote for this military imposter and anti-Republican crusader is beyond me. Kirk is now running ads saying he votes against Republicans. I would hope DuPage voters will reject Kirk. I am predicting, officially, we are going to defeat Kirk on Tuesday. It will be a squeaker but we win, Kirk loses.”

ANDY MARTIN
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Chicago, IL 60611-4723
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www.MarkKirk.us

November 1, 2010

Hon. Mark Field
Chief
Wheaton Police Department
900 W. Liberty Dr.
Wheaton, IL 60187
via fax (630) 260-2154

with copy to:

Sheriff John Zaruba
501 N. County Farm Road
Wheaton, IL 60187
Via fax (630) 407-2380

WPD ASSISTANCE AT PICKETING OF POLITICAL EVENT

Dear Chief Field:

I want to give you a “head’s up” on a political demonstration I will be staging on Monday afternoon-evening (later today). I assume there is a public sidewalk outside Wheaton Bowl but there may be close quarters. Given recent desperate acts of violence by isolated Republicans, and Colonel Ray True’s Internet recording which claims Mark Kirk’s is surrounded by a praetorian guard, there is always a potential for violence on Kirk’s part at Wheaton Bowl.

I am sending Sheriff Zaruba a copy of this letter because I am not clear on whether Wheaton Bowl is located in unincorporated or incorporated real estate. (If WB is in incorporated Wheaton, the Sheriff’s office will not be involved unless, of course, there is a disturbance.)

Because I will also be holding a “Bunker Buster” sidewalk news conference outside WB and making blockbuster disclosures about Mr. Kirk’s sexual escapades, Mr. Kirk’s thugs may be in a mood to retaliate.

I will be completely peaceful. I am completely committed to nonviolent resistance.

As always, your officers can be assured of my full cooperation. We plan to have a power megaphone (bullhorn) to use and we will do so consistent with any instructions from your officers.

Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN

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CHICAGO NEWS: ANDY MARTIN: Mark Kirk “raped” his former wife Kimberly Vertolli

Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin explains why and how Senate candidate Mark Kirk emotionally raped his former spouse Kimberly Vertolli. Martin says reports of Kirk’s latest efforts to “appeal to women voters” are disgusting.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says Mark Kirk “raped” his former wife, Kimberly Vertolli

Andy says that any woman who votes for Mark Kirk is endorsing emotional rape

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ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF SATURDAY EVENING NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says the evidence is overwhelming that Mark Kirk emotionally raped Kimberly Vertolli

Andy Martin says that Mark Kirk’s closeted sexual identity is central to his abuse of his former wife Kimberly Vertolli

Martin says that Kirk has never explained why he cruises gay bars in Washington, DC

Martin says that voters must judge a candidate’s personality as well as his or her stands on the issues

Andy Martin’s “Blockbustier” news conference tonight on Mark Kirk’s secret life and former spouse

“Holy, holy, where’s Vertolli?”

(CHICAGO)(October 30, 2010) Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin will hold a 7:30 News conference tonight at the Lincoln Restaurant to accuse Mark Kirk of “raping” his former wife Kimberly Vertolli. Martin will then make a presentation to the College of Complexes on the 2010 U. S. Senate Race, http://www.collegeofcomplexes.org/October.html;
http://www.collegeofcomplexes.org/

Andy Martin, a conservative Republican, is leading efforts to defeat Mark Kirk for the U. S. Senate. Martin says Kirk is a disgrace to Illinois, and a disgrace to the Republican Party. Other than Kirk, Martin is (with some reservations) voting a straight Republican ticket.

“Emotional rape can be just as invasive and just as devastating to the victim as physical rape,” Martin says. “The evidence is overwhelming that Mark Kirk emotionally raped Kimberly Vertolli and discarded her when she no longer served his political needs.

“Now Kirk is asking women to vote for him. What kind of a woman would vote for an emotional rapist?

“Last December when I exposed the rumors, all of which turned out to be true, about Mark Kirk's secret sexual identity, many people were offended. The Puritan Ethnic still pervades our public life. We play ‘pretend’ games with the private lives of our public officials. But let us take a liberal icon as a first example. Who would have voted for John Kennedy for president if they had known of his secret life as a rake? Very few people. The Kennedy brothers’ cavorting with Marilyn Monroe and other escapades would have horrified Americans.

“More recently, the ‘story book’ romance of John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards was shattered by the disclosure of his illicit relationship with another woman. The Clintons? Go figure.

“When ‘Mark met Kimberly’ he was an aspiring politician in 2000. The rumors about his sexuality were already circulating. Kirk needed to put an end to speculation that he was a homosexual. Ms. Vertolli was a high-energy individual who was probably also highly susceptible to being misled. Kirk was able to use Vertolli as a foil for his 2000 campaign.

“We don’t know if Ms. Vertolli was in fact a willing complicitor, i.e. if she was trying to conceal her own lesbianism, or whether she was Kirk’s victim, but she played along with the ruse for years. They lived separate lives and Vertolli does not appear to have questioned why her husband was cruising Washington’s gay bars. Lesbian web sites always refer to Kirk’s ‘cruising’ as a mark of his sexuality:

http://lezgetreal.com/2010/10/rep-mark-kirk-does-
not-know-any-lesbian-or-gay-service-members-
after-21-years-in-service/

“The reality is that while ‘straight’ people may not know who is gay, gay people almost always can decipher who is gay and who isn’t. Why do gays claim Kirk? Why did gay activist Mike Rogers ‘out’ Kirk after Kirk voted against repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?’

http://blog.blogactive.com/2010/06/
truth-or-consequences.html

“There is no doubt that attitudes toward homosexual behavior are changing. But certain truths persist. People such as Kirk who ‘closet’ themselves are exposed to blackmail. Public officials are legitimately called on to vote on gay issues such as gay marriage, gays in the military, etc. Gays have been especially critical of Kirk because he has voted against their agenda and, in their minds, betrayed their efforts to allow Kirk to remain as a closeted public official.

“All of which leads us back to Ms. Vertolli. After Kirk and Vertolli were divorced, we ordered and analyzed the divorce file. The settlement was peculiar. Kirk gave Vertolli much more money than a professional woman who was always employed would have received, given that there we no children in the marriage.

“Although I did run ads raising the issues about the rumors (now facts) about Kirk’s sexuality, I paid no ongoing attention to Vertolli. She had resumed a private life.

“That is, until Ms. Vertolli suddenly came crashing into public view on August 4th of this year claiming she was an abused wife whose marriage had been destroyed by another woman:

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Felsenthal-Files/August-2010/Kimberly-Vertolli-on-Mark-Kirk-and-Dodie-McCracken/

“A year and a half after being divorced, Vertolli was manifesting the posttraumatic behavior of emotional rape. She was a woman with a sham marriage to a gay man, no children, no life and no way forward. She blamed ‘another woman’ as the cause of her angst, but there is no evidence that Dodi McCracken was having sex with Kirk. Vertolli's ‘denial’ that Kirk was gay was more of a confirmation that he was.

“Today’s New York Times [October 30th] says Kirk is appealing to women in the closing days of the campaign. But have women really considered what kind of a person would emotionally rape a woman, use her as a beard for his own selfish purposes, and then emotionally abandon her when she was no longer of any political utility?

“If a straight man had acted in that kind of abusive manner, women’s’ journals would be all over the story. But because Kirk is a homosexual, media are afraid to discuss Kirk’s manipulative personality and the way he seduced and abandoned Kimberly Vertolli for his own mendacious political purposes.

“Kirk reacted quickly to Vertolli’s latest outbursts by offering her a position as an ‘adviser.’ Has anyone seen Vertolli around lately? Advising Kirk? Kirk’s offer was another maneuver to quiet Vertolli until after the election. But she fell for it. Victims always do (“this time will be different”):

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/08/ex-kirk_wife_to_advise_campaig.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/17/mark-kirks-
exwife-joins-c_n_685002.html

“How long is Kirk going to be allowed to get away with his abusive conduct? He was for cap and trade before he was against it. Kirk was a close confidant of President George Bush before he called Bush a liar last week and said Bush lied to the American people.

“It is Kirk himself who is the pathological liar. (We'll deal with his military lies tomorrow, as well as disclosing Kirk's blackmail conundrum.)

“Sadly, one of the biggest victims of Kirk’s pathologically abusive personality was his former wife, Kimberly Vertolli,” Martin will conclude. “How will voter react? They can’t say they ‘didn’t know’ who and what Kirk is.

“For shame, Illinois.”

October 30th news conference details:

WHO:

Internet Powerhouse expert Andy Martin

WHERE:

[Prior to] College of Complexes presentation, Lincoln Restaurant, 4008 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago

WHEN: Saturday, October 30th 7:30 P.M.

WHAT:

Andy Martin says that women voters should reject Mark Kirk because of the way he emotionally “raped” his wife Kimberly Vertoli

MEDIA CONTACT:(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

Chicago Friday evening news conference: Terrorism is a threat to every American, not just synagogues

Chicago Foreign policy expert Andy Martin says the threats directed at Jewish houses of worship are targeted at every American, and at civilization itself. Barack Obama is a failed leader in the foreign policy area. It is time for a change in policy and a change in approach at the White House. Martin suggests that Obama invite former President George Bush to a bipartisan meeting on the War Against Terror.

Foreign policy expert Andy Martin says that today’s terrorist provocations confirm that Barack Obama’s foreign policy is a failure

Andy has studied Middle East terrorism since the late 1960’s

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Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF FRIDAY EVENING NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says today’s terrorist incidents are an indictment of Barack Obama

Martin says the Obama administration’s pretense that terrorism does not exist is self-defeating

Martin says that all Americans must stand with the intended victims of today’s terrorist incidents

(CHICAGO)(October 29, 2010) Illinois foreign policy expert Andy Martin will hold a Friday evening news conference in Chicago to comment on the latest terrorist incidents directed at Chicago-area synagogues. Martin says that despite Barack Obama’s efforts to pretend that “terrorism does not exist,” America faces a genuine national security challenge.

Andy has over forty years of familiarity with Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts. His analysis of the terrorist threat in Iran during the 1979-80 hostage crisis, and again in Iraq in 2003, were leading-edge predictions of what Americans faced in the future.

“We must stand with the Jewish community at this time,”Martin says. “Our friends and neighbors must know that we are united as a nation against our unseen enemies. An attack on any American is an attack on every American.

“The Constitution vests the presidency with primary responsibility for protecting this nation. Sadly, Barack Obama has failed his duty. He entered the White House claiming terrorism was a Bush-era fantasy and that his groveling to Islamic nations would improve our international standing. Mr. Obama was egregiously wrong. The people who protect us today are Bush holdovers; they are the people at the operational level who implement the security policies which were created years ago. Barack Obama is not pursuing terrorists vigorously enough, because he and Janet Napolitano do not believe they exist.

“Nevertheless, having criticized Obama and observed the inescapable, that Bush created our national security apparatus, I call on every American make an effort to work on a nonpartisan basis.

“The reality is that we are likely to live in the shadows of terrorism for decades, not years, not presidencies, not congresses. Decades. The ‘terrorist world’ is falling further and further behind civilization. The savages who mutilate women and oppress their own peoples are not likely to go away any time soon. Indeed, during the Obama era the enemies of civilization are becoming more, not less, popular because of Obama's ham-handed leadership. There is no ‘clash of civilizations’ as one scholar wrote. But there is a coming apart of civilization, as civilized nations advance into a bright future and backward nations continue to be held hostage to their internal terrorist mechanisms.

“We are not attacking terrorist nations, though we must remain vigilant to protect ourselves against the threat some of their citizens pose. Terrorist nations are attacking America, Israel and the entire civilized world.

“I send this message to Mr. Obama: wake up! We cannot be afraid to make peace, but we must be prepared to make war, and to guard every American and our borders with the utmost in technology and security. Maybe it’s time to invite George Bush to the White House for a bipartisan effort.

“After I survived the Vietnam era, I hoped peace would come. I was wrong. When I initially went to Iran and Afghanistan in 1979, I thought ‘maybe it will end after this.’ I was wrong. Living in Iraq in 2003 I hoped, again, that peace might come. It hasn’t. I am convinced we face a semi-permanent terrorist threat and we must be prepared to accept terrorism as a fact of life for ourselves and our children.

“Sadly, the White House is not a place for on-the-job training. Barack Obama and his minions were unrealistic two years ago. Maybe now reality will set in. Maybe. Obama apparently does not like to attend Church. I do suggest he attend a synagogue service this weekend to affirm that our Jewish neighbors can count on a united America to stand up for their right to live in peace and security here at home, even as we press the Israeli government to adopt a practical approach to peace with their own Palestinian neighbors.

“Politically, a terrorist threat the weekend before the election does not help Obama. Chris Cilizza of the Washington post is wrong. But this latest attempt to intimidate Jewish houses of worship should be seen as a threat to every American. I take it as a threat to my own church. We must react accordingly.”

Andy Martin is the author of the [2000] Andy Martin Peace Plan for the Middle East. The ideas he espoused a decade ago have increasingly become the core proposals for peace on all sides. Andy Martin has been associated with the study and analysis of terrorism and revolutionary war since the 1960’s when he became involved with Professor Bernard Fall. Martin is the executive director of the Revolutionary War Research Center which studies terrorism and asymmetrical warfare.

October 29th news conference details:

WHO:

Internet Powerhouse and foreign policy expert Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN: Friday, October 29th 8:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Andy Martin says that Obama’s foreign policy initiatives have failed to discourage terrorists

MEDIA CONTACT:(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” http://www.contrariancommentary.com/. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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ANDY MARTIN: Sunday “Bunker Buster” may provoke Mark Kirk confrontation

Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin told a Chicago news conference Friday that he has advised Chicago Police to be on the alert for possible campaign violence by supporters of closeted congressman Mark Kirk. Kirk will be holding an event Sunday; Martin will be outside protesting. Martin also plan to holds a “Bunker Buster” news conference and make new disclosures about Kirk’s “private” life at Joe’s Bar. “Mark Kirk is a disgrace to the navy uniform, and a disgrace to the Republican Party,” Martin says. “All are welcome to show their disgust with Republican efforts to promote Kirk as a macho military man. Kirk is a complete fraud. [Details on Bunker Buster news conference to follow.]

ANDY MARTIN
“The name you can trust”
Illinois Reform Party for U. S. Senator/2010
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Chicago, IL 60611-4723
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www.DefeatMarkKirk.blogspot.com
www.MarkKirk.us

October 29, 2010

Hon. Jody Weis
Superintendent
Chicago Police Department
3510 S. Michigan Avenue, 5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60653
via fax (312) 745-6963

CPD ASSISTANCE AT PICKETING OF POLITICAL EVENT

Dear Superintendent Weis:

I want to give you a “head’s up” on a political demonstration I will be staging on Sunday evening. I assume there is a public sidewalk outside Joe’s Bar but there may be close quarters. Given recent desperate acts of violence by isolated Republicans, and Colonel Ray True’s Internet recording which claims Mark Kirk’s is surrounded by a praetorian guard, there is always a potential for violence on Kirk’s part at Joe’s Bar.

Because I will also be holding a “Bunker Buster” sidewalk news conference outside Joe’s and making blockbuster disclosures about Mr. Kirk’s sexual orientation, Mr. Kirk’s thugs may be in a mood to retaliate.

I will be completely peaceful. I am completely committed to nonviolent resistance.

As always, your officers can be assured of my full cooperation. We plan to have a power megaphone (bullhorn) to use and we will do so consistent with any instructions from your officers.

Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN

AM:sp

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ANDY MARTIN: Mark Kirk is again misusing Navy uniform in a TV ad

Illinois Corruption fighter Andy Martin says Mark Kirk’s latest TV ad once again has Mark Kirk falsely claiming he was in combat wearing a flack jacket. Kirk was previously admonished by the Department of Defense for using military uniforms as costumes in his political campaigns. Kirk traveled to war zones as a congressman on a congressional junket; Kirk then tried to “double dip” by also claiming his congressional junkets as “reserve training” periods.


Corruption fighter Andy Martin says that that Mark Kirk is again misusing a military uniform in his latest TV ad

Andy exposes Kirk’s latest lies and use of military garb as a costume in his political campaign

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Andy Martin says Mark Kirk is becoming increasingly bold about resuming his lies about military service

Martin says Kirk is misusing a military uniform in Kirk’s latest campaign ad, after being warned not to use Navy gear as political props

Martin will ask Secretary of Defense Gates to block Kirk from misrepresenting his Navy service

(CHICAGO)(October 29, 2010) Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin will hold a Friday news conference in Chicago to announce he is again asking the Pentagon to prevent Mark Kirk from misusing military uniforms. In his latest TV ad Kirk falsely portrays himself as a combat veteran; Kirk’s ad has him in a flack jacket, as Kirk seeks to mislead voters by making inflated claims about his Navy service.

“Kirk was told to stop using Navy uniforms as costumes for his campaign,” Martin says, “And he is ignoring that order. In his latest ad Kirk appears in a flack jacket, when Kirk was not on active duty in any war zone. Kirk went to war zones as a congressman on a junket, not as a combat warrior. Mark Kirk has mental problems with his endless pathological lying abut being someone who (Kirk falsely claims) told Chuck Sweeny of the Rockford Register-Star that he ‘fought in two wars.’

“Kirk seems to think he can ‘take ownership’ of his lies and by confessing to a crime simply erase his unlawful activity. That is simply not the case. You can’t work at a bank for 20 years, for example, and embezzle money, and then claim you worked at the bank for 20 years and have ‘banking expertise.’ Kirk’s persistent abuses and fraudulent military claims have nullified his service. Why are veterans’ organizations and the American Legion allowing this scam artist to continue misusing military insignia?

“Navy officers are proud men and women. They should be disgusted with Kirk’s misuse of the uniform.

Martin is asking the Secretary of Defense to block Kirk’s latest lies.

Martin originally exposed Kirk as a military imposter in January of this year, see www.MarkKirk.us

October 29th news conference details:

WHO:

Internet Powerhouse and Illinois anti-corruption crusader Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN: Friday, October 29th 2:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says that Mark Kirk’s latest TV commercial violates restrictions placed on Kirk by the Pentagon

MEDIA CONTACT:(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

-----------------------------ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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Andy Martin: Allen West is a true American patriot (Florida)

Andy Martin takes a look at Florida congressional candidate Allen West and sees a real American hero being demonized by disgraceful Democrat Ron Klein’s lies, distortions and misrepresentations. Based on decades of experience with the military, Martin puts West’s career in perspective and focuses attention on what Andy believes is the most moving political commercial of 2010 (go to Sergeant Delgado’s story on West’s media page).

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says Florida congressional candidate Allen West is a true American hero

Martin contrasts West’s exemplary military career to Illinois’ military imposter Mark Kirk

ContrarianCommentary.com
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Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANDY MARTIN SAYS FLORIDA CONGRESSMAN RON KLEIN IS TRYING TO SLIME HIS OPPONENT ALLEN WEST

MARTIN SAYS KLEIN’S ADVERTISING IS OVERTLY RACIST

(PALM BEACH)(October 25, 2010) In Illinois, Republicans do not have a U. S. Senate candidate. Mark Kirk is a Democrat running on the Republican ticket. More important than political philosophy is Kirk’s imaginary military career and his flawed character. Kirk has awarded himself nonexistent medals, fought in imaginary battles and claims to have been in war zones where he never served a “tour of duty” but was instead merely a congressional junketeer.

Florida voters in congressional district 22, however, have the opportunity to vote for a genuine military hero.

Allen West served 22 years in the U. S. Army. West has perhaps the most moving campaign ad of the year. One of the men who served under West in Iraq has produced an intense testimonial to the way West saved his life:

http://www.allenwestforcongress.com/media

(go to SGT Delgado’s story)

West’s career provides us with an insight into the “fog of war” which appears in every conflict and which was and still is especially prevalent in Iraq and Afghanistan. West was accused of interrogating a prisoner with excessive pressure. Having been in Iraq in 2003, and being aware of the conditions out on the frontiers of the war, I cannot condemn West. He felt his men were in danger. He took action to save their lives. Who among us would want to leave Sergeant Delgado’s children fatherless because we were afraid to extract information essential to mission security?

Incumbent Ron Klein can’t attack West’s proud service (unlike Kirk, West did not award himself imaginary medals and claim to have served in nonexistent battles) so Klein has resorted to racist distortions and manipulations.

Most of us today do not know any real soldiers; we don’t associate with military personnel and our lives are distinct from the war zones overseas where our brave men and women are fighting and dying. Real soldiers are sometimes raucous, often boisterous, and always full of camaraderie for their own. Real soldiers are truly a band of brothers.

The loyalty of West’s men says it all: they knew their commander would put it all on the line to protect them from their insidious unseen enemy. He did.

Klein’s commercials portray West as an angry African-American, wearing a do-rag and spouting revolutionary accusations. West is also portrayed as a crazed biker who is more Hell’s Angels than hell-on-wheels as a military officer. All of Klein’s commercials are lies. The ads are despicable distortions and a disgrace to the Democratic Party.

Ron Klein is nothing more than a career politicians who has been at the public trough all of his life. Klein is a typical South Florida political parasite. (I have met Klein and have followed his career.)

Let me be clear: West would be a formidable presence in congress. He would be intimidating in the face of Democratic prevarication and manipulation. West would also stand up in support of conservative principles. He’s just a stand-up guy. Republicans need more Allen Wests. Lots of them. Just as he stood up for his men, and saved Sergeant Delgado’s life through an act of generosity, West would fight for Florida and for the 22nd congressional district.

I have never met West and don’t like a couple of his supporters (personal conflicts from the past) but I unhesitatingly support Allen West for Congress. He is a credit to the Republican Party, and he will be a credit to the next congress. Florida’s 22nd congressional district is fortunate to have him as a candidate.

NEXT: Mark Kirk, the greatest fraud in U. S. Navy history (can you point to bigger one than Kirk? Suggestions invited) (Illinois candidate)

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with decades of investigative and analytical experience. He has over forty years of familiarity with Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts.

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
contrariancommentary.typepad.com[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]

MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

Honolulu, November, 2010: Obamacon 2012

Third National Conference on Barack Obama's Missing Birth Certificate, College Records and Religion, November 9-16, 2010 Honolulu

Sponsors:
http://www.thepostemail.com/
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Honolulu 2010 blog for Obamacon 2012:
http://www.nationalconferenceonobama.blogspot.com/

EMAIL: contact@StopObamaCoalition.com

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM

PLEASE ENCLOSE A COPY OF A PHOTO ID WITH THIS REGISTRATION FORM.

We will notify you of the conference location by e-mail.

You can also follow developments on our blog.

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Please note: there will not be any “at the door” registration

Although the conference is in Honolulu, registrations will be processed in advance in New York.

PLEASE MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO: COMMITTEE OF ONE MILLION

PLEASE MAIL CHECK, COPY OF PHOTO ID AND SIGNED REGISTRATION FORM TO:

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Obamacon 2012

Third National Conference on Barack Obama's Missing Birth Certificate, College Records and Religion, November 9-16, 2010 Honolulu

Sponsors:
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Honolulu 2010 blog for Obamacon 2012:
www.NationalConferenceonObama.blogspot.com

EMAIL: contact@StopObamaCoalition.com


October 25, 2010

Dear Friends:

The 2012 presidential campaign begins in Honolulu on November 9, 2010. Barack Obama fooled a lot of voters in 2007-2008. He won’t fool the American People again in 2012.

Our November 9-16, 2010 Honolulu meeting is titled: Obamacon 2012

The “Third National Conference on Barack Obama’s Missing Birth Certificate, College Records and Religion” will be a landmark in American political history. Never before have ordinary Americans prepared in advance to legally remove an occupant of the White House due to serious questions about his eligibility to serve as president.

Because I have always limited myself to searching for the truth and finding the facts about Barack Obama, I enjoy worldwide credibility as the first investigative scholar on Barack Obama’s early years. I believe it is inappropriate to attack Obama with anything less than the facts and truth. My book on Barack Obama, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” continues to sell through the publisher [OrangeStatePress.com] because it is an attempt to get at the truth behind Barack Obama.

As a result of the efforts which I began in 2004 to shed light on Barack Obama’s family history, nearly 100 millions have eventually come to have doubts about Obama’s credibility.

We are the most spontaneous political movement in American history.

All of you want to discuss and review developments in 2010 concerning Obama’s birth, high school/college/law school records and religion. That’s why we organized the Third National Conference for November 9-16 in Honolulu, the supposed “birthplace” of Obama, although Hawai’i officials continue to refuse to release his original 1961 birth certificate.

Why does Obama persist in refusing to release his original typewritten 1961 Hawai’i birth certificate? Why does he refuse to release any of his Punahou School (Honolulu private school) records, his Occidental College records, his Columbia University records or his Harvard Law School records? Obama’s says “trust me.” Nearly 100 million Americans do not.

1. Location

The conference will be held in Honolulu November 9-16, 2010. We plan a number of sessions over that period, as well as ample opportunity for you to conduct your own investigative activity and familiarize yourself with the Obama myth.

Obama saboteurs stole the tapes of our first National Conference in Washington, DC. We will ensure they do not steal the tape of Obamacon 2012. For some reason, Obama and his associates are terrified of the investigative work we do on his personal history. What is he hiding? What doesn’t he want us to find out?

2. Hawai’i freedom of information materials

We are still fighting in court to release Obama’s birth records and Hawai’i state records on the political cover-up orchestrated by Hawai’i Democrats.

3. Conference Registration fee and ID requirement

As always, we need some advance indication of how large the attending group could be to make space-planning decisions. Therefore, we have added a nominal $50 advance registration fee which covers all sessions. Please fill out the attendance form and mail it back with the $50 to arrive in New York before November 8th. Please include a copy of a photo ID so we can confirm your identity when you arrive at the conference. (In order to enhance security there will not be any “at the door” registration.) Once we know how many to plan for, we can work out how formal or informal to be.

We are currently scouting meeting options in Honolulu. We will notify you by e-mail as to the locations. You can also follow developments on our blog. We will be using our original blog, http://nationalconferenceonobama.blogspot.com/, for the third time.

4. Conference agenda

In the near future you will be receiving the first draft of our proposed agenda. You are invited to begin submitting suggestions, comments and proposals for any future revisions.

5. All are welcome—but please bring evidence, not illusions

Anyone is welcome to register and attend our conference. But please, if you want to express a theory, bring some rational, tangible evidence to support your claims about Mr. Obama. Those of you who know me know I am committed to working only with accurate information and, as we lawyers say, “reasonable inferences drawn from the available facts or available documentation.”

Pie-in-the-sky will not fly. Hucksters who use bogus documents to obtain anti-Obama publicity only undermine legitimate inquiries into Obama’s opaque past. We need to search for the truth and look for the facts.

6. Security

We will have adequate arrangements for security in case Obama’s desperate sycophants try to disrupt us again.

7. Media

Media are welcome to register. We will be providing twitter.com updates during the conference (twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA).

8. Visitors to Honolulu

We selected November 9-16, 2010 for the conference because the dates fall just before air fares dramatically increase for the holiday season. There are many accommodations options in Honolulu. Please avoid lavish or extravagant spending while attending because we are there on business. Otherwise, we encourage a tourist/vacation boycott of Hawai’i (go to www.BoycottHawaii.com).

We will be issuing updates of this letter, so please feel free to make suggestions.

And please remember we operate on a shoestring, so contribute any shoestrings you can afford to help make Obamacon 2012 a success. We are going to be issuing separate fundraising letters. Please donate online at:
www.CommitteeofOneMilliontoDefeatBarackObama.com

There are two dimensions to the tragedy Obama has inflicted on the American people. After rigorous study I have come to believe there is a compelling case that he is ineligible to serve as president. That’s the first tragedy: Americans were lulled into voting for a man who was not eligible to serve as president because they were betrayed by the mainstream media and Democratic Party.

But even if it is ultimately held that Obama is eligible, he is unfit to serve as president. His socialist agenda is undermining our national security and destroying our economy. I was the first person to “out” Obama as a socialist on national television in 2008; go to the tape:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT41uM1-dPs&NR=1&feature=fvwp

You will receive a separate email with the Obamacon 2012 conference registration form.

God Bless the United States, and God protect us from Barack Obama until the day he is removed from the White House.

With best wishes,



ANDY MARTIN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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ANDY MARTIN: Barack Obama is a bankrupt leader for a bankrupt nation

Andy Martin, who has been both Barack Obama’s Boswell and tormenter for the past six years, rips into he “World’s Greatest Entertainer” (Obama) as a man who cannot lead and is leading America to economic and worldwide disaster. Martin says Obama’s campaigning is hurting, not helping Democrats in the 2010 election. Martin’s Honolulu convention on Obama, Obamacon 2012, begins in just 15 days!

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says “Barack Obama is a bankrupt leader for a bankrupt nation”

Martin says we may be in a “recession” but Obama is “depressing” Americans

ContrarianCommentary.com
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Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANDY MARTIN SAYS THAT IF AMERICANS DO NOT REMOVE THE DEMOCRATS ON NOVEMBER 2D, AMERICA WILL BE BANKRUPT BY 2012

MARTIN WAS BARACK OBAMA’S FIRST CRITIC; ANDY COMPARES HIMSELF TO THE “TORTOISE” CHASING OBAMA-THE-HARE

OBAMA TRIED TO “MOVE THE MOUNTAIN TO MOHAMMED;” HE FAILED

(NEW YORK)(October 24, 2010) To take a line from Dr. Martin Luther King, “Barack Obama has been to the mountaintop.” In 2008. But that was then and this is now. Barack Obama never fooled me. But he fooled tens of millions of Americans. In two years, reality has set in.

Barack Obama is bankrupting our economy and endangering our national security. He may not be a “Manchurian Candidate” in the sense that he is an actual agent of our enemies. But he might as well be. The effect is the same. Obama is the enemy of the American people.

Saturday night (October 23rd) Saturday Night Live made fun of Obama’s missing birth certificate. Funny, but the missing birth certificate is not such a joke any more. What is Obama hiding? Even Saturday Night Live wants to know. [Remember, we will open Obamacon 2012 on November 9th in Honolulu, just a few days away.]

Watching Obama on the campaign trail this month made me reflect on my first column about Obama’s bogus life story. When I wrote about Obama in August, 2004 I felt very lonely. I was alone. It was not long before the mainstream media were smearing me; creepy-looking characters like Jim Rutenberg of the New York Times were scrounging around trying to find people to attack me.

Obama had a “smear squad” during everything they could to denigrate me. They are still at it in 2010.

Fox News used my research. And then stuck a fork in me.

But when you have survived wars and revolutions, as I have, you don’t scare easily. I kept telling the truth about Obama. “Just wait,” I said to myself. “Just wait.”

How sweet it is.

Obama has become a sad sight. He is like a boxer who has lost his punch, a quarterback who can’t throw. I once called him the “World’s Greatest Entertainer,” and he was. But he’s not so entertaining any more.

Obama is taking a sledgehammer to our health care system. He is subsidizing profligate spending by bankrupt state governments. He kowtows so low to the Chinese that they have to get down on the floor to see his forehead touching the floor. How about a new Broadway show: “Obama: The Man of La Manchus.”

As for the Muslims? Well, Imam Obama is am embarrassment to the Muslims as well as us. The “first Muslim president” turned out to be a loser. He may have groveled to Muslims, but they have growled back. “Is Iran afraid of Obama?” That could be a musical comedy on Broadway. Or a tragedy.

If Barack Obama stays in the White House, America will be bankrupt by the time he vacates the premises. His trillions of dollars of welfare spending, his deficits, his “reforms” and his “bankrupt” foreign policy are destroying a nation that was carefully built up over the past two centuries. Is this what Americans voted for in 2008? Obviously not.

Now Obama is out on the campaign trail:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2010/10/22/
AR2010102206931.html?hpid=topnews

I am amazed. Obama does more harm than good to Democrats. If Barry called me (Obama will always be "Barry” to me; I’ve been to Honolulu) I’d say “Bar, hide your face and keep your mouth shut. That’s the best way to help Democrats. Every time you pop up, you energize the American people to come out and vote against you.” Obama isn’t listening.

Obama is even dredging up his old 2008 lines. “Yes we can!” My response: “No you didn’t.” You borrowed more, spent more and taxed more in the first two years of your presidency than any predecessor in history. What do you have to show for it?

Obama may be tired, but obviously I’m not. We are still fighting for the facts and searching for the truth about Obama’s past. When I started out in 2004, I was the only American who doubted Barry’s opaque origins. Now nearly 100 million Americans have doubts about The Great Obama. My movement keeps growing; Obama’s keeps shrinking. Revenge is a dish best eaten cold.

Or if you prefer G-rated entertainment, this is a classic story of the tortoise and the hare. Obama may have tried to smear me in the short run, but in the long run I am taking him apart like a piece of fried chicken. I had a deeper, clearer picture of who Obama was, and who he was not, before anyone else. That is why Obama has attacked me so relentlessly. I tell the truth.

And I tell the truth about both parties: I may have been the first name on Barack Obama’s Enemies List; but I was also the first name on George Bush’s Enemies List. How’s that for bipartisanship?

Voters are not starry-eyed abut the Republican Party. Nosiree. Republicans have been equal partners in destroying our economy, so that a tiny sliver of Americans could get rich while almost all of us went into debt. Washington has made all of us victims of the robo-signers. Voters are casting votes against Obama, not for the Republican record from 2001-2007.

Republicans will be on probation. If they start up with the crazy legislation, and fail to take control of the budget, the Republican dynasty will last about as long as Obama’s. People that are losing their jobs and losing their homes want results, not promises. They want a fresh start, not a bunch of stale slogans.

Every time I think of the way Republicans have helped Democrats export our jobs to other countries around the world my blood boils. In a few days I will be launching an initiative to rebuild and revitalize American manufacturing. Yes we can!

No more Chinese borrowing.

Last week I outlined the serious challenges Obama faces in 2011. Well, let me be clear: they are our challenges. Our leaders may have made the mess, but we are the ones who are responsible for the cleanup. Obama may have run up the tab, but we get to pay the bill. Young Americans from the heartland are dying because of Obama’s mistakes. Tin pot dictators like Hamid Karzai are looting billions of American dollars for their own secret bank accounts. The Chinese junta is preparing to put the boot in Mr. Obama. As they said in “All About Eve,” “fasten your seat belts.”

My friend Uri Avnery in Tel Aviv suggested in his column this weekend that there is a whiff of fascism in Israel. Uri, if we don’t get our house in order there will be more than a whiff of fascism in America.

Fifty-five years ago I became a leader, quite by accident. I have been involved in leadership all of my life. I started with sports leadership and went on to military leadership, clandestine leadership, business leadership and political leadership. Obama was never a leader. In 2008 I said Obama was not a leader; he was an entertainer. And he was entertaining. But does anybody today doubt my 2008 analysis? (By the way, my leadership started a young boy on the path to becoming an All-State pitcher.)

In ten days the curtain is coming down on “Obama! The Musical” Barack Obama is going to have to face the music for the first time in his life. The lights will be going dark for Barack Obama on Broadway. Comedy, musical, drama, whatever, the show’s over.

Can you hear me Barry?

REMINDER: November 9, 2010 Andy Martin will open Obamacon 2012 in Honolulu, a searching investigation into Barack Obama’s hidden past and uncertain future. Martin is by far Obama’s greatest critic and the wellspring for countless books and analyses of the World’s Greatest Entertainer. Go to: http://www.NationalConferenceonObama.blogspot.com/ for full details. Join us. Yes, you can!

Can’t attend? Please make an online contribution or send us a check to help cover the costs of the convention.

The 2012 election begins in Honolulu on November 9, 2010 with Obamacon 2012. As usual, Ali’i Nui Andy will orchestrate a blockbuster anti-Obama performance. Aloha. Check out Andy’s movie on “Obama: The Hawai’i Years:”

http://www.boycotthawaii.com/hawaii_movie.htm

NEXT: Allen West, a true American patriot (Florida candidate)

NEXT NEXT: Mark Kirk, the greatest fraud in U. S. Navy history (can you point to bigger one than Kirk? Suggestions invited) (Illinois candidate)

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with decades of investigative and analytical experience. He has over forty years of familiarity with Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts.

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
contrariancommentary.typepad.com[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]

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ANDY MARTIN: The 2010 election is 1966 all over again

Political analyst Andy Martin explains why 2010 is not the 1994 election year. Rather, Martin suggests that 2010 is going to prove more analogous to 1966. And 2011? Fasten your seat belts: 1979 is coming back for another go-around. Like Jimmy Carter in 1979, Barack Obama is about to be tested. And tested hard. By America’s enemies. And especially by our “frenemies.”

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says “Wait till next year; Obama’s problems are just beginning”

Martin says the old Viet-Nam era refrain “The whole world is watching” may come back to bite Obama

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ANDY MARTIN SAYS PREDICTS THAT A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS WILL BE THE LEAST OF BARACK OBAMA’S WORRIES IN 2011

MARTIN LOOKS AHEAD TO WHAT AMERICANS CAN EXPECT IN 2011; THE PICTURE IS NOT PRETTY

ANDY MARTIN, AMERICAN’S MOST INFLUENTIAL OPINION WRITER AND BARACK OBAMA’S FORMIDABLE INTERNET OPPONENT FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS, SAYS OBAMA HAS A LOT OF CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST (NOW WHERE DID WE HEAR THAT BEFORE?)

ANDY PREDICTS WE ARE HEADING FOR 1966, AND THEN STRAIGHT ON TO 1979

(Note: during the days leading up to the election look for us to be everywhere. But don’t be confused. First, we are still committed to defeating Mark Kirk in Illinois; we have been working on an “undercover” story on Kirk for release next week. Second, we are following the overall national political situation. Finally, we will be doing what we do best: predicting the future by making informed assessments and assumptions about where our politics and foreign policy are headed in 2011.)

(NEW YORK)(October 22, 2010) Barack Obama’s former spiritual director, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, became notorious for predicting that “America’s chickens were coming home to roost.” Well, the chickens may be heading for the Obama White House in 2011. And that’s not chicken feed.

At a time when ordinary media are completely focused on Election Day, we would like to introduce a long-term analysis of where the 2010 election will be leading us in 2011.

Cable TV bobbleheads probably feel that Washington will be returning to “business as usual” on November 3rd.

The Capitol will have to absorb many new conservative legislators. Gridlock will be in season. And Bumbling Barry Obama will, well, bumble through. e may think that iHe may think that if he’s lucky he can “triangulate” against Republican opposition and get reelected as president in 2012. It ain’t happening.

As my readers know, I am both a political analyst and political activist. So I look at matters from both sides of the lens. And while I accidentally became best known as the writer who first exposed Barack Obama as a poseur, my original specialty was and continues to be military, intelligence and foreign policy analysis.

I worked in Washington in 1966, on Capitol Hill, and in close proximity to the White House. I saw the 89th Congress dissolve into the chaos of the late 1960’s.

Most writers have tried to say that 2010 is “another 1994.” Not really. Although power changed hands in 1994 the direction of the country changed only minimally. President Bill Clinton managed to rope-a-dope the Republicans into reelection, and the tension between the White House and Capitol Hill created a hydraulic balance. 2010 is not going to be 1994.

Rather, 2010 is gong to be 1966, all over again. Only bigger and more dangerous. In January, 1966, no one in Washington had any inkling that the Democratic Party and the Great Society were about to be dismembered. The 89th Congress continued to legislate.

Amazingly, The American public felt the tremors of Viet-Nam before the Washingtonians did. Perhaps that is because casualties began to mount rapidly, and the draft began to suck more and more Americans into the growing Indochina war.

My senator, Senator Paul Douglas, knew as early as August 1966 that things were not going well for him. Because I was the low man in the office (below now-billionaire businessman Ron Gidwitz) I got to drive the senator around Washington. The senator and I spent a lot of time alone talking politics, talking the future, talking about the ups and downs of life. Douglas had seen World War I, survived the Depression, and been grievously wounded and crippled in World War II. He was one of the first “Cold warriors.” Douglas sensed the coming tsunami before the media did.

The 1966 election changed the fundamental direction of the United States for a generation. The Republican Party, which had been declared “dead” only two years earlier in 1964 (sound familiar?), roared back and erased the Democratic gains of 1964 in 1966. 1966 led to 1968, and 1968 led to the upheavals that are only now being felt with full force in American government.

Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama was not a Viet-Nam era candidate, despite Obama’s Zelig-like claims to have been everywhere and involved in everything. But today, this nation is still run predominantly by Viet-Nam era individuals.

And so, my first prediction: this election is a “1966” turning point, a far stronger change in direction than 1994. (So far as I am aware, only George Will has recognized the 1966 parallel.)

1966 led to 1968, and 1968 led to? Watergate. What did Watergate lead to? Foreign policy disasters that are still bedeviling Americans. Watergate led to President Jimmy Carter. And Jimmy Carter led to? Chaos. While some may unwittingly connect Carter’s haplessness to Obama’s, they have not yet seen the real connection between the two men and the gathering storm abroad.

Ironically, Jimmy Carter was a lot like George Bush. Both men are decent and honorable. But both men were naïve in the ways of the world, and both men led American into foreign policy disasters. In the case of Carter, the nation was saved by the emergence of President Ronald Reagan. Who will save us in 2012? No one has appeared on the horizon that manifests the manifest destiny of Reagan.

So why is 2011 going to be a replay of 1979? The 1978 election saw Republican gains. Jimmy Carter was exposed as a weak leader. Then 1979 exploded. The supposedly-invincible “Pahlavi Dynasty” was toppled in Iran, after Carter abandoned the Shah. We began what has morphed into four decades of Islamic fundamentalism. Seeing Carter helpless and befuddled, the Russians then moved into Afghanistan and started the First Afghan War. I first went to Iran in 1979, and to Afghanistan in 1980. I saw the gathering storm up close.

Carter’s inability to deal with international chaos elected Reagan. That is why if Obama thinks that he can pull a 1996 Clinton-style reelection he is mistaken. Now you know why I believe 2010 is 1966, and why 2011 is inexorably going to become a replay of 1979.

The evidence that America is endangered is out there in the open. But no one is paying attention. At least most Americans are not paying attention. Attention must be paid. Activists are focused on reelecting Democrats and electing Republicans. But Republican legislators will be as helpless to deal with international chaos as the Usurper-in-Chief.

The desperation of 2011 may create conditions for another radical change: Democrats will likely panic and dump Obama. Barry O may think he has a fair chance at being reelected. I think he should do what he does best: leave office and resume being the greatest entertainer in the world. His term as a “leader” is coming to an early end. I won’t predict Hillary Clinton will be the 2012 presidential candidate; but her reemergence would not surprise me. Democrats will not make the same mistake in 2012 they made in 1980.

So why am I so pessimistic? What do I see out there? What will you be seeing next year?

1. Iraq. Obama took credit for the “peace” in Iraq. But there is no peace. The United States pulled out, but left behind 50,000 American hostages to Iraq’s very possible collapse into chaos. With the American leadership gone, Sunnis are once again gravitating away from Baghdad into the resistance.

Prime Minister Al-Maliki’s recent trip to the holy city of Qum (a city that I became familiar with during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis) is a sign that he is pandering to the most anti-American elements in the region. Al-Maliki may not have yet emerged as an anti-American leader. But the possibility that he could become hostile to the 50,000 Americans left in Iraq is not impossible or even unlikely.

Almost eight months after the March election in Iraq, there is still no government. It looks increasingly as though the regime that will emerge will not be a friendly one.

What will Obama do when American forces In Iraq come under attack? If he stays to fight, a new war begins. If he cuts and runs, he tumbles into the dustbin of history even sooner than anyone expects. Iraq is a time bomb waiting to explode.

2. Iran. Iran is a genuine threat. But I disagree with our Iranian policies. In reality, the Iranian regime’s best friends are Republican Party politicians like Mark Kirk who are constantly beating the drums for “sanctions” against Iran. Sanctions are a dream-come-true for the Persian regime.

Mr. Ahmadinejad is becoming increasingly bold, and increasingly welcome throughout the Middle East. Ahmadinejad’s recent reception in Lebanon was a wake-up call to the snoozing White House.

So what about Iran? On the one hand, Iran is not going to launch a war. Because of the anti-Iranian vitriol in our politics we ignore the fact that although the United States reacted to the hostage crisis by invading Iran, using our then-proxy in Baghdad Saddam Hussein, Iran is seeking regional hegemony, not territorial expansion. If Iran starts a war, which I doubt, it will be a failure for their regime, not a success.

3. Israel. Israel presents two possible risks. First, the failed “peace process” may embolden the Israelis to crack down on Palestinians. On the other hand, Palestinians and the world community are clearly inching closer to the Andy Martin Peace Plan which I put forward in 2000: Recognition first, negotiation second. Netanyahu may think that he can make a power grab while Obama is politically weak. Ironically, I think this may be the one area where Obama can strike back. And will.

More dangerously, Israeli generals may think that they can launch an attack on Iran while Obama is distracted. Israel cannot win a war against Iran. But a lot of Israelis think they can. Israeli overconfidence could trigger a suicide mission. Unfortunately, if Israel commits national suicide, we get dragged in.

4. Afghanistan-Pakistan. Afghanistan is a mess. The Karzai regime is a joke. Here at home, patience is wearing thin with the endless, even though endless war on a reduced level may be preferable to endless chaos and unending risk to our global interests. Pakistan is a failed state with nuclear weapons. The area is a disaster zone. Need I say more?

5. China? China would seem to be our greatest foreign policy worry. But in light of the crazies in the Middle East, the threats posed by China will pale by comparison. At least the Chinese are rational, if only barely so.

Still China is preparing to confront Obama in 2011. He is not up to that challenge. I expect we will see the same ruinous Chinese export policies, trying to drive the American people into peonage. But Americans are waking up. They are sick of kowtowing to Chinese imperialists. But while public opinion may support a confrontation with China, Obama is not the man to do the job. It will have to wait for the next president. In the meantime, the Chinese will be seeking to undermine us at every opportunity. China is a disaster waiting to happen. A military threat is inevitable.

You know things are going to be bad in 2011 when I list the Chinese as one of our lesser problems; China is a mega-problem for the United States. The time for playing “pretend” with China is over.

The foregoing problems are just “for starters.” We have a scary list without adding anything new or currently invisible.

Will the Republicans be any better at dealing with the chaos of 2011 than the Democrats? Strangely no. Foreign policy is uniquely one area where only a president can lead, and must lead decisively. Obama is not the man for the job.

My mom and dad were products of World War II. As I was growing up, while other parents exposed their kids to baseball I was exposed to the Holocaust, to World War II, to Korea, and to the Middle East.

During my adult life, whether I was in Viet-Nam or Hong Kong, Baghdad or Tehran, Cairo or Riyadh, I worked to develop an independent network of international sources. Anyone who followed my reporting from “My Year in Baghdad” knows I can point an antenna in the right direction. Based on a lifetime of foreign experience, 2011 scares me.

Baseball fans like to say, “Wait until next year.” And we began these observations with the old Vietnam refrain, “The Whole World is Watching.” I do not think Barack Obama and his “crew” of Chicago cronies are up to the job. Barack Obama, not our enemies, is the greatest threat to our national security. Who will emerge as the strong leader to replace him in 2012? Right now, I don’t have a clue.

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If you would like to see some of my foreign policy views and match them up with subsequent developments, take a look at:

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/
insidestory/2009/09/200992713548502678.html

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” http://www.contrariancommentary.com/. He comments on regional, national and world events with decades of investigative and analytical experience. He has over forty years of familiarity with Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts.

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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ANDY MARTIN: Alexi Giannoulias is running a poor campaign for the U. S. Senate

Illinois political expert Andy Martin explains why Alexi Giannoulias is running a weak campaign for the U. S. Senate. Martin says Giannoulias has failed to capitalize on Mark Kirk’s character flaws and is probably allowing Kirk to ambush G in October. “To paraphrase Casey Stengel who said ‘Can anyone here play this game?’ can anyone in Giannoulias’ campaign run an aggressive campaign against Mark Kirk?” Andy asks. Andy has been producing TV and radio ads for over forty years.

Illinois political expert Andy Martin questions the flaccid performance of Alexi Giannoulias’ advertising

Martin says Giannoulias must talk directly to the people/audience if he expects to win

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(CHICAGO)(October 6, 2010) I’m in New York to see a Broadway play, review senate races in New York and New England and provide some national perspective on the upcoming election.

Of course I’m watching a lot of television. Today we often see political ads in small computer “windows” on web sites. Seeing an advertisement as it actually pops up on a TV screen is obviously a different experience.

Republican Linda McMahon is running a very effective series of ads for the U. S. Senate in Connecticut. The Connecticut race is particularly interesting because it features an issue in common with Illinois—a lying candidate who exaggerated his military career and sought to steal the valor of brave heroes for his own political aggrandizement. Mark Kirk, meet Richard Blumenthal.

Watching Giannoulias’ ads on Chicago TV and comparing them to Kirk’s efforts leaves me with the distinct impression Kirk’s ads are much better than G’s.

Here I must make the “full disclosure” that I am actively opposing Kirk’s election to the senate. I am no friend of Mark Kirk, have no intention of voting for him although I will be voting a straight Republican ticket (with the exception of Kirk), and believe Kirk is unfit for any public office because of his military misrepresentations.

I am also conscious of the fact that Illinois voters don’t like either candidate. Kirk has schmutzed-up Giannoulias with attacks on G’s former family bank. Giannoulias has run some mildly effective ads against Kirk.

Visiting my mother in Florida I have also watched ads for Marco Rubio, the Republican running for the U. S. Senate. Marco Rubio makes very effective use of his immigrant roots and connects his family history to the American Dream. Giannoulias’ spots are nowhere near the quality and effectiveness of Rubio’s ads.

In my opinion, Giannoulias’ ads are the weakest of the four. Here are my reasons.

First, it is a truism that when voters don’t trust a candidate, he or she must speak directly to the voters. Look’em in the eye. Voters don't really want Kirk or Giannoulias. But Kirk's most recent disclaimer says he will “spend less, tax less…” He delivers it well. Frankly, it’s an effective disclaimer. Giannoulias’ disclaimer is a wide shot of Giannoulias and Obama. Very weak.

Giannoulias has a great story to tell. He’s not telling it. His ads look as though they are being mass produced on an assembly line.

I have been producing TV and radio ads, and especially negative ads, for over forty years. So I know of what I speak.

First, let’s look at the “Mob banker” issue. What has Giannoulias done to counter this smear? Nothing. How’s this for an ad:

I’m Alexi Giannoulias and I approved this ad
because Illinois voters deserve the truth
about Mark Kirk’s lies.

My family immigrated to America and lived
the American Dream. We worked hard, saved,
and in time mom and dad founded (purchased?) a small bank.
My family grew the bank by making loans in the
local community. Together they prospered.
Then Mark Kirk’s greedy Wall Street campaign
contributors threw our economy into a
tailspin. Like any bank, some loans went sour. Kirk’s New
York moneymen could care less about Illinois;
Mark Kirk’s moneymen simply broke the bank when it could have worked its way out of the recession.

Mark Kirk’s money men: bad for Illinois, bad for your local neighborhood bank.

This ad has two benefits. First it rebuts Kirks attacks on Giannoulias’ bank and places the bank’s failure in perspective. Wall Street engineered a financial collapse to seize money that had been saved up on Main Street. Wall Street is as fat and sassy as ever (I see it in New York; Broadway is sold out, the expensive restaurants are packed). Main Street, Illinois is suffering. Badly.

Second, the ad allows Giannoulias to address the voters face-to-face. (You can see I like face-to-face ads.) Bottom line: If Giannoulias does not start making ads that speak directly to voters, he’s a sure loser.

Gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott was smeared by the Republican establishment in Florida. Scott’s former company had been caught in a $1 billion plus Medicare scandal. Scott faced the voters in his ads—and won the primary. Giannoulias has to face reality, and adopt an aggressive strategy to counter Kirk. Scott knocked off a well-established party favorite. Kirk, on the other hand, is disliked by Illinois voters.

Let’s try a second ad.

I’m Alexi Giannoulias and I approved this ad
because Illinois voters deserve the truth
about Mark Kirk.

Over the past ten years Mark Kirk lied
repeatedly about his military service. Kirk
claimed to have fought in wars where he
never served, and won medals that don’t exist.
Kirk dishonored his military uniform. What
kind of a man would do that?

As your Illinois State Treasurer you trust
me with your state revenues every day. I have a
record of honesty and integrity you count on,
every day. Mark Kirk’s lies, or my proven record
of performance? The choice is yours. I ask you
to choose me based on the fact I have already
proven you can trust me.

Once again, Giannoulias puts a spin on Kirk and drives a nail through Kirk’s lies. Because Giannoulias delivers the ad himself, the presentation gains force and credibility. Then, when G segues into his own performances (“trusted me with your state revenues”) voters are ready to choose G’s proven performance. After all, G is a state official who handles the cash. What better kind of trust can you show? Do you find this anywhere in Giannoulias’ ads? Nope.

Giannoulias is blowing the opportunity to prepare the voters for Kirk’s likely smear campaign in October.

The two short ads that I knocked out in maybe a minute each present Giannoulias in a positive light. They show you how Giannoulias could improve his performance by answering Kirk’s lies, and why G is falling so far short of Kirk in the advertising competition.

Take a look at Linda McMahon’s new ad:
http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2010/10/
new-mcmahon-tv-ad-hits-blument.html
The “If I get to it” department:
I predicted Christine O’Donnell would win the Delaware U. S. Senate seat. Hmmm. She is an exceptionally attractive woman with a great story to tell. Her first ad, “I’m not a witch,” is a big disappointment. What idiot is producing her commercials? If I get the time, and I’m not too busy on Broadway (but please don’t call me “Broadway Andy,”) I’ll provide some remarks. O’Donnell’s ad is a disaster. She needs Andy to produce local “Delaware friendly” advertising for her campaign. O’Donnell has the money; she’s blowing her great opportunity.
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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a "boisterous Internet activist," is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, "Obama: The Man Behind The Mask" and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the "Internet Powerhouse," www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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ANDY MARTIN: Barack Obama is a Muslim, Part Two

Obama author and movie producer Andy Martin analyzes why Barack Obama is a Muslim, and why Obama’s inner conflicts have created the chaos we face in America today. Andy, who wrote perhaps the most influential piece of opinion journalism in the last decade, his column on “Barack Obama is a Muslim” in 2004, explains why Obama has been unable to erase the public perception that he is not an American. Martin’s Third National Conference on Barack Obama’s Missing Birth Certificate, College Records and Muslim Religion begins November 9th in Honolulu.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin analyzes the complex belief structure that makes Barack Obama a Muslim

In Part Two of “Why Obama is a Muslim,” Andy explains that Obama is a Muslim even though Obama denies the fact

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MARTIN SAYS THE PRESIDENT SHOULD BE A SPIRITUAL LEADER, BUT OBAMA IS NOT

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(NEW YORK)(October 1, 2010) Before I explain why Barack Obama is a Muslim let me get the “Muslim issue” out of the way. There is nothing wrong or evil about Islam. There are over a billion peaceful adherents of Islam throughout the world. There are aspects of Islam’s sacred texts that are deeply anti-democratic and its extremist supporters use Islamic pronouncements as a pretext to conceal their own political goals. But if you applied a similar standard to Christianity, and took every word Jesus says in the Bible literally, Christians would look a little fruity too.

But Islam, like Christianity, has its place. In the mosque, not the halls of government. It is precisely when religious leaders try to influence and control politics and enforce their religious dogma as government policy that religion becomes controversial and contemptible. That is the challenge most Muslims face today: to take back their religion from the hustlers and terrorists who have violated the peaceful tenets of their religion. In hindsight, even liberals now reluctantly admit that President George Bush was right on religion. Islam is not our enemy.

And so, no, this column is not an anti-Islam rant and I have no plans to burn any Muslim texts although I believe that constitutionally we should be as free to burn Islamic books as we are to incinerate the Bible or other holy writs.

Six years ago I wrote what in retrospect has become possibly become the most influential piece of opinion journalism in recent history. I collected my ideas and research and explained at a New York news conference why Barack Obama was a Muslim. In the following six years I have been brutally assaulted by the mainstream media. My writing touched a nerve during the 2008 campaign. The New York Times responded by trying to demonize me by putting me on page one and making me one of their “most important stories of the day,” all with a bunch of lies and distortions.

My writing also started a wildfire that has yet to be extinguished by either Barack Obama’s spin doctors and his own lies.

So what is all this “Muslim business” about? It is time to go back to first principles and reacquaint readers with what I have written in the past, what I have researched and what I believe about Obama’s religious beliefs.

During the 2008 presidential campaign I called Barack Obama the “World’s Greatest Entertainer.” I viewed Obama’s campaign trope as nothing more than skillfully presented entertainment. Americans were frustrated and disappointed with George Bush and the Republicans, as they had every right to be; voters were looking for some diversion from the mess the Bush years had created in Washington. Obama was the perfect entertainer. He diverted and channeled our disappointments into his own political pocket.

Obama’s nightclub act was pure painlessness. He told us “we” were the solution. “Hope,” “change” and reform without any cost, without any sacrifice, without any consequences.

People were offended when I called Obama an “entertainer” but his bag of political tricks was nothing more than entertainment. Lots of actors play doctors on TV; I wouldn’t count on them to perform surgery in a real hospital. People were desperate to believe in “Dr. Hope and Change.” They confused “acting” with “leading.”

By elevating “hope” and “change” over reality, they elected Obama, someone who portrayed a doctor, to actually “practice” medicine to cure what ailed America. The result is the disaster we face today.

Obama’s six years of denials that he is a Muslim have only made people believe even more ardently that Obama is a Muslim. That says something about his lost entertainment skills. (I predicted that change of heart would take place as well.) Almost a hundred million Americans now question who Obama is, and what he believes.

Why is Obama an “entertainer?” Entertainers suspend our belief. As noted, they portray doctors, and warriors, persons with caring and concern, people who can save us and serve us. That's why people pay ten or twelve dollars to be amused at the movies, or more for a nightclub act or Broadway play.

But most entertainers, and especially the great ones, are conflicted people. They are alienated individuals. They entertain because they project outwardly the turmoil in their inner spirits. Thus is it so with Obama. His bizarre life spectacle and his upside down upbringing are what make him a great entertainer. His soul is tormented. By his own admission he grew up frustrated, alienated, confused. Ironically, but inescapably, the very factors that make Obama a great entertainer also make him a lousy leader.

This week Obama was at it again, profusely professing his Christianity. But in the midst of peddling his “Christianity” Obama inadvertently dropped in another one of his favorite memes, that his mother was one of the most “spiritual people” he has encountered. Effortlessly, almost guilelessly, Obama segued--the way entertainers do--from religion to “spirituality.”

But spirituality, like religion, is a coat of many colors. Just what spirituality did Anne Dunham possess? What spirituality did she hand down to her son Barack Obama?

In the not too distant past, I had a girl friend who thought she was spiritual. And, unlike Obama, she even attended church. But in addition to her spirituality she had an unfortunate aspect to her personality, which is why she is a former girl friend. In practice there was little spirituality to her shtick. Sometimes she and a bunch of other women would get together to talk about spirituality and light candles, incense and who knows what else. My point: “spiritual” people are not always dealing with the Holy Spirit or religious denominations as we commonly think of them. People often lie to themselves.

Obama’s mother appears to have fallen into the “spiritual but not religious” category. One of my friendly competitors as an author, Jerry Corsi, has examined some aspects of Obama’s mother’s confused and conflicted spirit in more detail than I believe most of us want to read. It is sufficient to say Anne Dunham’s “spirituality” was something out of the wacky, drug-crazed 60’s and 70’s. It was self-referential spirituality, not genuine religious spirituality.

Moving one step further, we often hear the term “spiritual leader” used to describe a religious leader. The two are not the same. And no one has ever confused the “spirituality” of people like Obama’s mother with being the spiritual leader of a religious denomination.

Then there is the White House. The presidency of the United States is a secular, not spiritual, position. When politicians start talking about spirituality, count your change. They are usually trying to use “spirituality” to disguise their secular policy failures.

But having said the White House is not a spiritual see, I want to reverse myself in record time and say that the American president is a spiritual leader. Our president guards and exemplifies “the American Spirit.” The White House is the repository of our value system as Americans. The “American spirit” is what makes us a great people and a great nation. We put our trust in trust leaders who we believe will exemplify the American Spirit and protect our spiritual values as a nation.

Alas, the World's Greatest Entertainer is no guardian of the Americans Spirit. Obama does not even believe in one of the prime tenets of our secular spirituality: American exceptionalism. He has gone so far as to denigrate American exceptionalism. How long would the Pope last if he stood up in Rome and said Catholics were a bunch of phonies? About as long as the Obama Dynasty has lasted in Washington. Not long. That is why people now reject Obama’s “spirituality” and question his Muslim/Christian/whatever religious roots.

So what is a religion? What distinguishes a Christian from a Muslim or a Jew; a Buddhist from a Hindu? All of these belief systems embody both a structure of religious beliefs and believers who practice their beliefs on a daily or weekly basis. There are exceptions, of course. Jews see some congregants only on High Holy Days; some “Christians” magically manage to appear in church for Christmas and Easter. But we accept them. And they profess openly and outwardly their adherence to our beliefs. Jesus is Lord. Yahweh is coming. The Prophet is the true messenger. And so on.

Obama was raised in the Muslim, not Christian, religion. The Jesuits say, “Give us a boy until the age of 7 and we have him for life.” The Muslims had Obama until the age of 10, when he began to live full-time with his grandparents.

Try as he might, Obama cannot disguise or discard his Muslim roots. But despite the facts Obama went so far as to deny his father was a Muslim, even though Obama the father was buried as a Muslim and his father was also a Muslim. A point that is often forgotten is that Obama’s “Kenyan grandfather” was himself a convert to Islam.

Why is conversion such a critical issue? Because converts are often the most attentive individuals in pursuing their newly adopted religious beliefs. Converts don’t inherit a religion from their parents; they consciously choose one as adults. Choice is what distinguishes converts from people who obtain religion (as we say in the Episcopal Church in the “cradle”) through birth. Obama claims he is a convert to Christianity, but in the next breath he tells us paid no attention to the sermons or doctrine of his spiritual leader, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, for the twenty years after his conversion. He even denies that his "spiritual leader" Reverend Jeremiah Wright was his spiritual leader. Huh?

In Obama’s heart he hears the call of the Muezzin, not the Cantor’s call or church choir’s chorus:

No one consciously set out to make Obama a “Muslim.” He absorbed that belief structure through the osmosis of daily living, as he admitted to Nick Kristof of the New York Times:
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=1

Religious beliefs are deeply embedded in children. My father was Anglican (Episcopalian). My mother was Greek Orthodox. I was raised in the Greek Orthodox faith until I went to college. I would never deny that I am Greek Orthodox any more than I would pretend to practice that faith today. I chose the Anglican-Episcopalian side of the family but I recognize both.

Obama’s constant efforts to focus on a vague “choice” he claims to have made in his 20’s to become a Christian are misleading. Throughout his childhood Obama was psychologically and emotionally saturated with Islam and Islamic culture. For him to deny these roots is to deny his very character, his psyches, his “spiritual” home.

But having convinced you why you can believe that Obama is Muslim, I will now proceed to punch holes in my own argument and explain to you why Obama may be a Muslim who is not a Muslim. Unlike Judaism, where religion is transmitted matriarchally by the mother, under Islam religion is transmitted partriarchally through the father.

But I am not sure at all that Obama is Obama’s son. My research expeditions to Hawai’i (see below for the next one beginning November 9th) have convinced me that Anne Dunham concocted the “Barack Obama is your father” fairy tale to conceal the fact that Frank Marshall Davis, an exponentially more appealing and interesting character but, alas, a married man with a family, was really the biological parent of our president.

Indeed, my theory is that it is precisely because those closest to him lied about his parentage that Obama is such a tortured human being. Young Obama knew “Frank,” but he never knew him as “dad.” And Frank died before the lie could be revealed. The secret had been kept during Frank Marshall Davis’ lifetime. And so, while Obama is undeniably a Muslim in spirit, he may not be one by blood. Nevertheless, the religious beliefs of his childhood trump the reality of his genes. He is a Muslim.

Only Obama and maybe one or two others (maybe no one) know the truth. And Obama hasn’t been willing to take the American people into his confidence. He does not trust the American Spirit of tolerance, acceptance and forgiveness, because he was not raised as an American. And for that we have Anne Dunham to thank or condemn.

[Saturday, October 2nd we will expose another fallacy in Obama’s religious conversion to Christianity. Stay tuned for what will nominally, but not officially, be Part Three.]

In the meantime, Obama’s Muslim roots are what make him what he is today: confused, conflicted and contradictory. He can no more escape who he is than we can escape what he is: a failed leader who has disgraced and devalued the American spirit.

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THE “REAL” HAWAI’I FIVE-O RETURNING TO HONOLULU:

If the “reborn” Hawaii Five-0 doesn’t remind you of the original, there’s a reason. But take heart. The Third National Conference on Barack Obama’s Missing Birth Certificate, College Records and Muslim Religion begins November 9th in Honolulu. Join us there. Registration details will be posted October 2nd. In the past, Hawaiians have looked to Andy Martin’s investigative missions in Hawai’i as the “spiritual” successor to Steve McGarrett and Hawai’i Five-O. As in the original Five-O, there are no explosions, no acrobatics, no over-the-top gunfights, just solid detective work to uncover the truth about Barack Obama’s “roots.” ContrarianCommentary.com plans to post registration details for the new Honolulu conference after his Manhattan news conference Saturday. To receive email updates on the Conference please send a request to: contact@StopObamaCoalition.com

Andy Martin, on Obama’s Muslim Roots, and Sean Hannity:

http://www.mndaily.com/2010/09/30/study-news-fuels-rumors-about-obama-being-muslim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT41uM1-dPs&NR=1&feature=fvwp

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a “boisterous Internet activist,” is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
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