Showing posts with label election manipulation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label election manipulation. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Manipulation by Obana's Behavioral Psychologists

“From TIME: Obama is using a team of behaviorists to manipulate Americans.

“Behaviorism was invented for the training of animals. Now it's used to raise children and manipulate spouses. And our fearless leader is deliberately using it to consolidate his power, advance his agenda, and create new social norms. This should give you a serious case of the creeps:”

This is the opening of an excellent post on Pundit and Pundette about the ongoing psychological manipulation. I recommend reading the whole post.

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Obama Still Not Vetted But If He Ever Wants An Important Job . . . .



This video is a couple of months old. I can remember the first time I saw it: I have not been able to take a word that comes out of Barnicles' mouth serious since. John Harwood from the NYT acts like some basic principles of Journalism 101 that Scarborough mentions are new and unusual.
I don't enjoy being continually negative but the times are out of whack and these guys are pushing it further. I feel a responsibility to keep this information out there lest I slacken and start harboring a shadow of a belief that the 2008 election was normal.
I'm not saying McCain should necessarily have won. But the media shirked its responsibility until Hell wouldn't have it anymore. And Obama raised millions of dollars, possibly hundreds of millions illegally. And glitches in the system and the rank prejudice of the media have kept this from being investigated or becoming public knowledge.

HatTip/Daily Puma

Monday, January 5, 2009

Employee 'Free' Choice Act

The Employee Free Choice Act gets an Orwell Award since it actually takes free choice away from employees by abolishing the secret ballot in elections to unionize companies.
DKos claims it is essential to win better pay and benefits for workers. Nowhere in the dKos post does it actually explain that all the act does is remove the right to a secret ballot from workers. Is the kos crazy who wrote the post afraid that even the kossacks might want to preserve the secret ballot for workers?
I suspect that what is going on here is just an effort to take money against their will from American workers to give to Democrat candidates and the DNC. An increase in the number of companies and workers unionized will increase the pool of union dues available to be plundered by Democrats. And workers are seldom given any say in how the dues monies are spent. In its involuntary nature it is much like a tax on union workers and unionized companies.

Friday, October 26, 2007

Superdelegates

Why doesn't anyone ever talk about superdelegates? It seems that the Democratic party got tired of people like George McGovern and Jimmy Carter being chosen as their presidential candidates. So, now about one third of the delegates are given delegate spots because they are reliable party regulars (use your own imagination as to what that might mean). These delegates, the superdelegates, are not chosen in caucuses or primaries. They are put in place by the party establishment. The fact that the superdelegates are one third of the total delegates means that the party establishment has a virtual veto over most candidates. It can also be deduced that a candidate with 18% of the popular support could become the final candidate. If we compare the Democratic party to a party that chooses its delegates based on primary and caucus votes, a rank and file Democrat's primary vote is worth one third less. If anyone has a friend who is a Democrat, pointing this out to them might be doing them a favor since it is not information that is commonly known.