As Romney stumps by evoking Clinton and Obama … well, remember he stumped in 2008 evoking Reagan.

“Presidential candidates occasionally seem to recant their onetime political opposition to a recent president of the opposite party,” said the presidential historian Michael Beschloss. “One reason is that with some historical distance, they may sometimes come to genuinely appreciate leadership qualities they didn’t notice before.” But, he added, “more often it’s politics.”

Mr. Beschloss recalled that Gerald R. Ford and the elder George Bush opposed Harry S. Truman in 1948 but after entering the White House themselves cited him, genuinely, as a role model. Richard M. Nixon derided George McGovern for not living up to the legacy of Mr. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Even Mr. Reagan cited John F. Kennedy in arguing for tax cuts, overlooking his own past criticism of the Democrat’s economic policies as “old Karl Marx.”

Things get drearier in the ideological fights away from the politico battles.  An editorial was written by a conservative and bandied about by Libertarian blogs and news outlets recently stating that Roosevelt would hate today’s Social Security.

A couple weeks later, Mr. Obama was at it again. “Ronald Reagan could not get through a Republican primary in this election cycle,” he said. “Could not get through it. Here’s a guy who raised taxes. That in and of itself would have rendered him unelectable in a Republican primary.” Standing with him that evening was none other than Mr. Clinton, no longer a poor shadow of Mr. Reagan in Mr. Obama’s rendering but now a president who accumulated a “remarkable record” as he turned around a party that “was a little bit lost.”

Mr. Clinton has become a frequent touchstone for Mr. Romney lately as well. Instead of the president impeached for lying under oath to cover up an affair with an intern, Mr. Clinton in this telling is the apostle of fiscal responsibility as opposed to that “old-school liberal” now in the White House.

I shudder when we get to Bush as President evoked by Democrats, but it will come.
It’s sort of improbably to remember why Liberals and Democrats found Eisenhower infuriating but they did… and probably justly I may as well ad… though, to a degree it tended to land on the culture at large.  (Interestingly enough, if you read old Progressive magazines from when Eisenhower departed, the editorial on Eisenhower is vaguely positive in the way that Romney’s trying to be positive on Clinton … as they eye nervously the specter of Goldwater.  “Mr Republican” Taft gets oddly “Even the Tory” notices from IF Stone, but probably justly as he came to be noted as having progressive fringes on his Tory core, shading off from old-line Bricker.)

Not that every president from another party becomes suddenly acceptable. Mr. Romney has implicitly compared Mr. Obama to Jimmy Carter, while Mr. Obama routinely links Mr. Romney to the policies of George W. Bush. When Mr. Bush endorsed Mr. Romney before ducking into an elevator this week, Mr. Romney made little note of it, but the Obama camp eagerly spread the news.

To guardians of the former presidents’ legacies, the latest campaign-trail tributes ring hollow. John D. Podesta, a former Clinton chief of staff who now leads the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund, said it was “ironic that Romney is so exuberant in embracing Clintonomics” since Mr. Clinton raised taxes on the wealthy, invested in education and technology, and balanced the budget. “Maybe Romney was too busy firing people in the ’90s to have noticed,” Mr. Podesta said.

There’s an interesting little book.  Politically Incorrect Guide to the President.  Like all the other politically incorrect guides things.  Touts Roosevelt as running to the right of Hoover.  He did.  Kind of.  At the same time as he also ran to the left of Hoover.  Also one of the first items of business Roosevelt did was wrap up some Hoover policy with a bill approved by Republicans and Conservative Democrats over mainline Liberal Democrat objections.
Obama and Romney are doing the same thing.  Kind of.  Though we all know where Romney is attached and where Obama is attached.

Sigh.

“Almost a generation ago, Bill Clinton announced that the era of big government was over, even a former George McGovern campaign worker, like President Clinton, was signaling to his own party that Democrats should no longer try to govern by proposing a new program for every problem,” Romney said. “President Obama tucked away the Clinton doctrine in his large drawer of discarded ideas, along with transparency and bipartisanship.”

Romney has invoked Clinton in previous speeches, but this time he went a bit further, suggesting that there is something more under the surface between Clinton and Obama.
 “It’s enough to make you wonder if maybe it was a personal beef with the Clintons,” Romney said.  “Probably, it runs much deeper than that.”

All indications are that Hillary Clinton could care less about the Election of Kerry, and after the nomination of Obama threw at 50 – 50 that he could win… Believe what you must.

The red streak continues to haunt Obama’s Primary challenge, and Obama is poised for some Embarrassment in Arkansas.

You see, a Tennessee lawyer, John Wolfe Jr., is challenging the President in the May 22 primary and he’s currently only seven points behind POTUS in the most recent polls. And that’s without any advertising on John’s part whatsoever. Of course, the polling showing John’s lead was taken the day after Obama’s ABC interview in which he came out in support of gay marriage.

Does this mean anything?  Well, note that this map came out of the 2008 election — the election he won.  It was a harbinger of doom for where his problems in 2010 would emerge.

I am glad that someone FINALLY did a poll before the election in one of these states (and I am expecting someone to follow up the district wide survey with a statewide one now).  The West Virginia result did not surprise me, and it’s about time we’re not surprised by the probablye Arkansas result.  Not surprisingly, a whole slew of conservative news outlets and quasi-news outlets are jumping all over this result …

… for one of Arkansas’s election congressional districts.

The rural one.

Interestingly enough, in this range of issues, John Wolfe might deserve a vote.  If you could confine him as a protest — a stamp to the economic left, and foreign policy the same.  But unfortunately I wouldn’t be able to vote for him — it would just be seen as a statement against Gay Marriage and (frankly too) … skin color.

The district does not include the big cities, so it looks like the question “Can Obama actually lose Arkansas” (see WND and Weekly Standard) is… no.   Wolfe is heading toward a double digit result.  Will get his 15 minutes of fame he should have received after his last double digit “Got myself a delegate” result within that red streak.  But it is notable that within this region in 2010, Bill Clinton was the one stumping about.  He pulled the Democratic incumbent for his home-state to victory over the Nationally liberal backed challenger who won all the Conservative rural areas (yes, it’s a confusing thing to wrap your mind around.)   It could be time he throws his lot in Arkansas to GOTV for Obama to ebb an embarrassing result.

Some interesting primary results.  I guess the big item nationwide is the next Senator from Nebraska is probably the Sarah Palin endorsed and Cubs Owner financed candidate, Deb Fischer, who defeated the quasi-Establishment candidate Jon Bruning, and will now go on to swamp the Democratic retread who’s lived in New York for the past decade — Bob Kerrey.
The semi-official word is that if you shift through the stances of the two Nebraska Republican candidates, you won’t find a lot of daylight.  Things have a way of proving otherwise.  A Sarah Palin endorsed candidate is a Sarah Palin endorsed candidate.  It’s not a good thing; it’s not a result that proffers well for the sanity of the future of American politics.

It may or may not be worth a look at who the hell the other candidates here are.  Digging past some typical truck driver candidates and the like not really knowing what to make of Steven Lustgarten’s campaign website, I will say Sherman Yates may be the most interesting personality of the bunch — and his statements here are worth a read.

Oregon results…
This feels like an upset somehow.  Ron Green has defeated Delia Lopez for the Republican nomination in Oregon’s 3rd Congressional district, and by a 2 to 1 margin, to take on Earl Blumenauer.   The Oregonian endorsed Ron Green; the Willamette Week endorsed Delia Lopez — so I guess we see that the Oregonian holds more sway amongst the electorate than the Willamette Week after all.
Earl Blumenauer has yet to congratulate Ron Green and welcome him to a spirited race on his Twitter account.  Which is a clear demonstration of what a jerk he is.
I have to wonder, though: Where does this leave Delia Lopez’s future in politics?  Will we still have Delia Lopez to kick around some, when we bother noticing her presence at all?

I need to parse the Portland mayor race results.  Let’s go down this list:

Hard to know why some of these candidates did so well and others so poorly.

From Scott Rose’s campaign website:  As of Wednesday morning, we sat 4th out of 23 Portland Mayoral Candidates and had roughly 1200 votes.  With no real media support, that is 1200 people just saying that they believe in my message and what I stand for, and for that, again, I say thank you.

Well, Cameron Whitten got some press.  Sent the Green Party into chaos, or something.  Came in fifth.  Apparently.
Blue Oregon’s collective wisdome proven wrong:  As for fourth place, 26% each call it for Cameron Whitten and Tre Arrow, while 13% call it for Scott Fernandez.

Anything else I should note?  Probably not.

Well, here’s a Presidential Debate you may have missed…

KALW’s Rose Aguilar moderated a presidential debate held Saturday at the Victoria Theatre between Green Party presidential candidates Dr. Jill Stein and actress/comedienne Roseanne Barr. The world described by Stein and Barr bears little resemblance to that described by incumbent President Barack Obama and Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney.

Yeah, okay, and…

The Greens’ top two candidates have very different speaking styles. Barr claims to have bigger balls than anybody, presumably including Stein, but, as moderator Aguilar said, she searched the Web for disagreements between the two and found none. Greens have a reputation for non-productive internal conflict, but Saturday’s sanity and sisterhood fest and its wildly enthusiastic audience suggest 2012 may signal a newly unified party.

Wait.  Roseanne Barr is considered one of the “Top two candidates” for the Green Party?  Wait.  What?  Huh?  Wh–?

That would leave any sane left / liberal protest vote over to Rocky Anderson… I guess?

It is in this vein that I approached this presidential campaign cycle. Given my experiences with the Green Party, I saw that vehicle as, well quite broken, unworkable and ineffective. However, as time went by and it appeared that no-one else appeared willing to step up, I was almost desperate enough to join up with the Green Party and whomever they choose. Or perhaps one of the Socialist candidates. But I seen no-one who could effectively organize to break past the primary barrier of the two party system.

Then Rocky Anderson announced and I was overjoyed. I looked closer at him, as a candidate and the more I looked, the more I became convinced that this could work. Sure,  Rocky is not perfect but he seemed solid and trustworthy.

Who.  You know…. Might be the Americans Elect candidate too… if he can somehow amass the 5 times the vote tally of Roemer’s total required of him to overtake Roemer, and the whole thing doesn’t come crashing down from lack of interest.

The comment I despise here:
Barack Obama is not my president. Rocky Anderson is.
Yeah.  Jed Bartlet is my President, and all that.  I am still waiting for someone to shout out “Roseanne Bar is My President”.
… Though, truth be told.  All evidence suggests that Jill Stein is the Green Party nominee, and you can kind of just consider Ms. Barr along the lines of, or, the floating Presidential Republican front-runner debris that everyone knew would eventually lose to Romney.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Press Conference, May 18, 1937

THE PRESIDENT: There isn’t very much news; but before we talk about news, I am going to ask you for a very few minutes to resolve ourselves into a Committee of the Whole. Off the record, wholly off the record, I wanted to tell you a story that I think you ought to know because it does affect the Press of the country. I think you will all agree on that, when you hear what I am going to read. As you know, I have always encouraged, and am entirely in favor of, absolute freedom for all news writers. That should be and will continue to be the general rule in Washington. That applies to all news services, for that matter.
There have come out, though, in the past couple of weeks two things from one news service which, in a sense, do affect the Press of the country as a whole.
The McClure Syndicate, as you probably know—I don’t know if you have all seen it—sends out to about 270 papers every week these [indicating] white sheets for publication which constitute the column in these papers. Of course it is absolutely legitimate that they should collect this news at the White House, or from Congress or from anybody else. With these white sheets for publication, there goes out at the same time, a pink sheet as information for the editor, marked not for publication but sent to the editor in confidence. Of course you and I know that that is not a news service in the strict sense of the word, but it goes out with the news service and you pay for the whole service at the same time.

Now, there are two things in here that I think you people ought to know about. As I say, this is off the record, and just in the family. This pink slip [indicating] dated May 14-15, has the following:
“Unchecked. A New York specialist high in the medical field is authority for the following, which is given in the strictest confidence to editors:
“‘Towards the end of last month Mr. Roosevelt was found in a coma at his desk. Medical examination disclosed the neck rash which is typical of certain disturbing symptoms. Immediate treatment of the most skilled kind was indicated, with complete privacy and detachment from official duties. Hence the trip to southern waters, with no newspaper men on board and a naval convoy which cannot be penetrated.
“‘The unusual activities of Vice President Garner are believed to be in connection with the current situation and its possible developments.’
“Checking has been impossible.”
That is number one.

Number 2. This is from the McClure Newspaper Syndicate of May 12-13:
“At a recent private dinner in New York an official of the American Cyanamid expressed in extreme form the bitterness towards the administration which is typical of the personal reactions of many right-wing leaders in business and finance.
“The gentleman in question asserted in so many, words that ‘the paranoiac in the White House’ is destroying the nation, that a couple of well-placed bullets would be the best thing for the country, and that he for one would buy a bottle of champagne as quick as he could get it to celebrate such news.” That is all I wanted to tell you because, after all, all I think I have to do is to repeat that I have been in favor, as you all know, of any legitimate news reporting or news service, no matter what its origin may be and no matter whether for friendly papers or hostile papers—it makes no difference.

Q. Is that off the record?

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, absolutely.

Q. Is that signed?

THE PRESIDENT: It is sent out by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.

Q. Unsigned?

THE PRESIDENT: Richard Waldo is editor.

Q. How about that clipping?

THE PRESIDENT: That was clipped out of another paper. It was used by a radical paper in order to point out the terrible things that are being said by the conservatives, but it has been used in the press.

Q. But the original pink sheet—you read from the original sheet?

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, there it is [indicating]. That is the one. I do not have a copy of the other one; but I suppose we have it somewhere. That is the pink slip that goes out.

Q. I did not mean to interrupt you. Have you more to say?

THE PRESIDENT: No; I think we understand each other very well. We have been friends for a good many years and I am very keen that the newspapers of the country—not only our particular family group—should retain the admirable relationships and high regard we have always had.

Q. There is no doubt about the second one—it is the pink slip.

THE PRESIDENT: And it is alleged to be in this paper.

MR. EARLY: It was only received this afternoon and we have not had time to check against it.

Q. That is not newspaper reporting.

THE PRESIDENT: That is just it, it is not newspaper reporting.

Q. Have you taken the matter up with the syndicate?

THE PRESIDENT: No, certainly not.

Q. Isn’t that second one actionable under law?

THE PRESIDENT: You know, that does not make any difference at all. The President of the United States does not sue for libel and the Department of Justice does not proceed for libel.

Q. Is it due to the syndicate itself? It might be a fraud.

MR. EARLY: It was checked with Mr. Waldo; and Mr. Waldo promised to retract the pink slip with reference to the coma and the President’s compulsion to make the trip south, if the White House would issue an official denial. Of course the White House would not do it.

Q. How much of this is off the record?

THE PRESIDENT: It is all off the record; all strictly in the family and nothing else, because I thought you people were entitled to know some of the things that go on that none of us approve of. Neither you, nor I, nor the public, nor I believe the great majority of editors would approve of it.
So, that is all right; the Committee will now recess.

NEWS ALERT!!!  On May 10, the Oregon Secretary of State determined that the Americans Elect petition for party status has enough valid signatures. Thanks to Dan Meek for this news.

And so proves successful that clipboard waving pitch shouting “Sign here for a Better way to Elect a President!”

Where are we now in the process?

Nearly two years ago, former junk-bond financier Peter Ackerman founded Americans Elect in hopes of fielding an independent presidential candidate in 2012. […]
Yet by last week, not a single candidate had qualified for Americans Elect’s first online caucus, forcing the group to push it back to May 15. This week, after a midnight deadline passed on Tuesday morning and there were still no qualified candidates, the caucus was moved again, to May 22. […]

The race as it exists right now.

As it stands, former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer is the front-runner among the declared candidates on the Americans Elect’s website. About 4,900 people have cast preliminary “support clicks” for him, far short of the 1,000 clicks from 10 different states he needs to qualify for the caucus. Former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson comes in second with about 3,000 supporters, but because Americans Elect’s rules deem him less qualified, he needs 50,000 clicks to qualify. (As spelled out here [PDF], former members of Congress, cabinet members, mayors of large cities, CEOs, union officials, and high-ranking military officers require less support to run in AE’s primary.)

Online voters also have the option of nominating their own candidates. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) leads that category with more than 9,000 supporters, but he has expressed no interest in a third-party bid. The next runners-up are former Republican candidate Jon Huntsman, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), President Barack Obama, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Wait.  What the — ?  A vote for Rocky Anderson is worth less than a vote for Buddy Roemer?  What kind of Democratic process is this?

It gets weirder.

Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer came the closest of any declared candidate, but was as of today just shy of halfway to the 10,000 clicks of support from on-line delegates necessary, according to Americans Elect’s rules, to be included on its caucus ballot. Those 10,000 or more clicks, according to the rules, would also have to include 1,000 from each of 10 states. Roemer is only halfway to that mark in one state — California.

Though, I guess I’m glad they have a convoluted thresh-hold.  The Arbitrary process is the only means of keeping an arbitrary candidate off the ballot.  But it gets weirder still…

AE’s identity verification process is truly scary. I jumped through flaming hoops of fire to prove that I’m really me. Along the way, AE asked me if I REALLY had a birthmark THERE, if that score I got on my 9th grade Biology exam really was a 98 and if I could verify that my freshman year girlfriend was named Betty Jo Bialowski. Whew. How’d they know all that stuff? And…why?
 ara rubyan is correct; I, too, jumped this ship when the verification process appeared more like a pfishing expedition than anything else.  moreso as the frequency of reminders to verify increased.

Gotta verify you somehow, I guess.

I guess Americas Elect 2012 will prove a no go in the end.  Pull it away like Unity 08.  No Labels 2010.  And set sail for whatever they concoct in 2014, and into … I don’t know… Middlemuddle 2016.

THE RACE OF THE CENTURY:  KP GEORGE VERSUS KESHA ROGERS; Texas 22

NOT A LEMONADE STAND
I believe the top pic is illegal. Campaigning on government property —OOOh.  Hardball Politics, eh?

The Kesha Rogers campaign has been ROCKED TO THE BONES by the reposting of a campaign video onto the GOOGLE NEWS AGGREGATED media outlet “Burnt Orange” under the headline Kesha Rogers Calls for Execution of President in Campaign Video.  The point of contention comes in the dual use of the reference to Obama needing a dose of “pentothal of sodium” — which the Kesha Rogers campaign maintains is used in truth serum, and her detractors point out is “usually the first of three drugs administered during most lethal injections in the United States”.
The blog post has made its way to various outlets, most notably some sketchy spam blogs related to the popular music sensation Ke$ha, and the point of controversy has been picked up into a message emailed to local Democrats by  Fort Bend Democratic chair Stephen Brown,  Also found here.  And some additional comments here:  Getting further with the Democratic Grass-roots:
Gothmog:  I live in Fort Bend County and was at the County Executive Committee meeting when they drew for Ballots. Kesha is a nut case and scares me. I am a precinct chair and was happy to vote to support KP George against Kesha.
TBF:  I was a precinct chair in 2008 when I volunteered for the campaign. I usually just vote straight dem but now I have to pay attention so I don’t inadvertently vote for someone like this.

The Kesha Rogers campaign has posted on its campaign website and onto burnt orange, a response that reads, in part:   Any talk of assassinating the President is to be condemned and prosecuted, in my view, because it is morally reprehensible and would unleash a form of social chaos in this country from which it is doubtful we would ever recover.  
If you are not crazy but are simply malevolent, you betray yourself as a flack for the Democratic Party or the Obama campaign, engaged in the most despicable kind of dirty tricks against my campaign.  Kindly cease and desist.

A commenter at burnt orange,LSadun FIRED BACK: It’s hilarious to see you calling KT “crazy or malevolent”. Those are exactly the words I’d use to describe your video. Not the sodium pentathol line (which can be read either as referring to truth serum or to an execution drug), but the nastiness and absurdity of the entire video.      A couple of months ago I walked past some LaRouchites who were pushing literature at a (DC) subway station behind a poster of Obama with a Hitler mustache. What I said then applies equally well now You’ve got a First Amendment right to peddle your filth, but it’s still filth.
Hm. There is a parallel with the Australian CEC Glenn Isherwood Noose-waving incident that comes in play here.  Just what is a waving of a noose suppose to mean here?
The actual history of the Larouche Movement, and by extension the Kesha Rogers campaign, concerning the topic of the Assassination of Barack Obama would make for a fascinating study.  Suffice it to say, the Larouchies believe that the British Empire has it in the back-pocket as a possible tactic should their puppet (Obama) become expendable, and if a lone nutcase were to be the culprit, perhaps responding to a pronouncement along the lines of “Obama should back down or he might be hung“, that would just be proof of the British Emprie’s psychological manipulations.

Larouche and Obama, it should be noted, go way back:
From the latest Discussion with the Larouche Slate
http://larouchepac.com/node/22628
At about 21:00, after a few minutes of talking again, in particularly ego-maniacal fashion, about his past successes in forecasting and the SDI victory and his continual persecution by his enemies, you can hear Larouche utter the following: “The Obama administration has been running operations against me for years, especially since 1989.”  (Hey!  Somebody is paying attention!  Check this link out here.  Ala Laroucheplanet, I see.)

The message from Fort Bend Democratic chair Stephen Brown  (making the rounds, seen here at the “Brazoria County Democrats Page“) is deserving of a longer look.  The “restoration of an obscure 1933 banking standard” is, I believe, a worthwhile cause, though it’s hard to see it as at the complete expense of anything else.  I do not believe that their “main goal is to elect Members of Congress” (I don’t think they give a rats’ ass about the idea), but it may not be worth quibbling over.  But I do find this interesting:
A Rogers’ victory on May 29 is not only a distraction for those of us working hard to re-elect PresidentObama, but it also hurts our local, qualified candidates who need a surge in straight-ticket voting during the general election.   Everyone, from judicial candidates to state representatives, should be concerned about sharing the Democratic slate with Rogers.
Without saying it bluntly, it is an admission of a simple fact that Democrats in the district know, and it’s not worth pretending otherwise: a Republican Incumbent is going to win the race.  What we’re left with from there is an uncomfortably uninspiring pitch, but a true one, that hampering this ledger in the long slate of Democratic candidacies would harm candidacies above this position on the state level and below it on the local level.

So we have this note from the Fort Bend Star:  Please remember the name and vote for anyone but.  It is KP George.

And message from DU:  Seriously. All of the laDouche people are sick.  We have made it very clear to our delegates to stay away from them. Don’t engage. Don’t listen to them sing. They are like mermaids luring you into a life of a cult. These people are extremely strange and just f*&^ing sick bastards.   keep your distance. Treat them like a dog humping your leg and just let them finish.

In other Kesha Rogers campaign news:
KESHA ROGERS  PIGGY-BACKS ON KEITH JUDD‘s WEST VIRGINIA DEMOCRACTIC PRIMARY PERFORMANCE
Study the 2008 map of where Obama did better than Kerry in blue and McCain did  better than Bush in red, found here.  The red streak is where Obama will get some embarrassing Primary results.
From a campaign statement:  But this is our party, not theirs.  We represent the Democratic Party of Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon LaRouche, which they have abandoned, preferring instead the pro-Wall Street, anti-Constitutional policies of George W. Bush!  But Obama has not yet abolished elections — though he might want to, after having four in ten Democrats vote against him in the West Virginia primary — and has not yet taken away your right to vote.
Nay.  Editing job quickly:  We represent the Democratic Party of Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon LaRouche and Keith Judd.  There you go.
Simply put, this battle represents one between the Keith Judd / Lyndon Larouche / Alvin Greene Democrats and the Adlai Stevenson / Lloyd Bentsen / Barack Obama Democrats.  No, that last set is not my favorite set of Democrats, but it beats the first set!
(Toss Huh Kyung Young into the mix while you’re at it?)

STORY NUMBER TWO:  WHERE ARE YOU, SUMMER SHIELDS, 8th District CALIFORNIA?

Well this is mighty interesting.  Summer Shields has disappeared from the “Slate of Six” candidates.  And the Larouche Candidate roundtables now holds the 5 candidates, instead of 6.  What this means, we can only speculate:
Maybe future EIR issues, when reminiscing about the wonderful words of LaRouche on the occasion of (insert circa 2009-2011 Weekly Report stuff), will Photoshop Sky Shields out of old screencaps.
“And then both Cerretani and Hoefle laughed at LaRouche’s marvelous joke about chimpanzees. In this Weekly Report the three had discussed a great many things vital to humanity as we know it…” as the western portion of the table looks suspiciously empty.
Summer Shields, who won praise from radio host Michael Savage in his 2010 effort unseat Nancy Pelosi, only to win not a single vote due to not getting on the ballot — is joined in disappearing with Sky Shields, who once sat by an awkward joke about monkeys and was then seemingly given the reward of John Hoefel’s seat position.

 STORY NUMBER THREE:   DIANE SARE, NEW JERSEY 5… DEBATE TIME   As always, I’d be surprised if she won, but the Democrats in this district should proceed with weariness… consult Texas 22.
NEW DEBATE IN NEW JERSEY Following the abrupt withdrawal of Teaneck Deputy Mayor Adam Gussen from the Bergen Grassroots CD 5 Democratic debate with Jason Castle and La Rouche candidate Diane Sare two weeks ago, a new debate will be hosted by the Teaneck Municipal Democratic Committee on May 20 from 3 to 5 PM at the Rhoda Center in Teaneck. Marine veteran Jason Castle said, “I am happy that the voters of the district will have the opportunity to see all of the candidates present and contrast their platforms.”

Location: the Rodda Center, Room # MP1, 250 Colonial Ct, Teaneck, NJ.  Time: 3 PM to 5 PM
The Candidates attending will be Jason Castle, Adam Gussen, Diane Sare.
Sigh. To  Laura I. Zucker Teaneck Democratic Municipal Chair (or whoever) … feel free to host a debate between Castle and Gussen, sans Sare.  But if Sare has to be in the debate, be sure to delve along the lines of, like, these silly things regarding Themonuclear War.

In the other campaign slate news:for Massachusetts 4, Rachel Brown’s campaign website now features a sterling picture of John F Kennedy — pointing to a NAWAPA video.  She is running against a Kennedy.  Rachel Brown will also be marching in a parade on Sunday, May 20, 2012 – 1:00pm to 3:00pm.  Bill Roberts shows himself delivering the paperwork for Michigan 11.  And Dave Christie is all about NAWAPA:
Congressional Candidates Dave Christie (WA-9) and Bill Roberts (MI-11) sat down with NAWAPA XXI principal author Michael Kirsch to discuss the importance of Dave and Bill’s upcoming tour of crucial regions of the NAWAPA XXI project.
Thought of the day:  Canada pretty much vetoed the proposition, taking it as a wholesale grabbing of their natural resources.  In order to get this thing moving forward, the Canadian Larouche Team is going to have to pull their weight, and probably won’t be of any use to rail against Obama.  
Other campaign highlights:  Be not deceived. Obama’s full frontal attack on the Supreme Court is nothing less than the final phase of his “Hitler dictatorship.” Obama has now effectively adopted the “fuhrerprinzip” of the Nazi legal theorist, Carl Schmitt.

STORY NUMBER FOUR:  JACQUES CHEMINADE PROVES KING-MAKER FOR SOCIALIST PARTY CANDIDATE HOLLANDE
Yes.  We must ask this question  WHAT FAVORS DID CHEMINADE GET FOR THROWING HIS SUPPORT TO HOLLANDE?  Rallies weight to succeed Francois Hollande and these are bad moves undermine the morale of the outgoing president. Looking shameful opportunism after the debate, Jacques Cheminade – 84 969 votes in the first round, or 0.27% of the vote-just called to vote for the Socialist candidate. Nicolas Sarkozy never ceasing to repeat that the election will play out in a handkerchief, it would seem that these precious votes that will make the difference might have escaped him. The problem now is what was negotiated behind the scenes. In the right circles, we talk about thirty districts and a state secretariat to spatial planning and construction of a landing strip for alien spacecraft on the Campus Martius.
The cynicism of Francois Hollande decidedly left speechless. After yielding of the ecologists and promised the release of nuclear energy in less than six months then the Left Front in accepting the principle of collective ownership of means of production before 2014 and the opening of several gulags in Morbihan for employers CAC 40, the following become hostage to Mr. Cheminade and his guru the strange American Lyndon Larouche.
While we do not come to trial ill Nicolas Sarkozy, who would campaign under pressure from Marine Le Pen. Instead of looking at the mote in our brother’s eye, eh …

Making fun of a French car-Bike exchange?
So my little Cécile Duflot, to become minister of your desired lifestyle as you can go and get you brush your hair done by a wind turbine. This is 0.2% of Jacques Cheminade who saved the Corrézien of Rouen, and it is up to him to be blisters of the intergalactic transport minister, but not!

STORY NUMBER FIVE:  POST OFFICE TOUR and media round-up

Dateline Rapid City  Nestled at the bottom of this week’s Pennington County Commission agenda is an interesting item: “Request for support of congressional bills HCR107, HR1489 and the NAWAPA water project – LaRouche PAC.” […]
The movement of perennial presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche is largely before my time (though they had a resurgence a few years back with protests against President Barack Obama’s health care reform proposals), but I know enough that the name jumped out immediately to me. […]
They want the commission to “urge Kristi Noem to endorse the following:” […]
That post-it note on the front page of the top document was put there by the commission assistant; LaRouche representative Ron Wieczorek, who lost the 1998 South Dakota Democratic Congressional primary, was the one who dropped off the initial packet of information. Wieczorek considered speaking at the public comment period at the commission’s last meeting; he or Fairchild will probably present the LaRouche information at Tuesday’s meeting:

Douglas Wiken Says:
April 30th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Restoring the Glass-Stegall act is not a bad idea even if La Roche organization is for it and all the banks to big to fail are against it.
Thad Wasson Says:
April 30th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Someone tell these LaRoche guys that congress hasn’t declared war since Bill Welsh and the Claremont Honkers got their first six man football championship.

(Historically, Canada sort of vetoed the NAWAPA Project, deeming it a wholesale assault on their natural resources.  The Larouche Movement has yet to address how they will get around the Canadian problem).

Dateline Wisconsin

“I know LaRouche,” one man shouted angrily, approaching Channon and Mathias, then walking away. “He’s a nut! He’s a nut!”

He declined to be identified, as did several young men who stopped and asked for information, either expressing support or sheer curiosity. Many others walked by indifferently or declined to be engaged in debate.

 Dateline Wayland Boston
As post office customers came and went, the demonstrators called to them to come to the table and learn more about the LaRouche PAC’s efforts. A few individuals did come to the table either to chat quietly or to vehemently disagree. A couple of people declined to come closer, but replied from a distance that they found the message “offensive.”
Wayland Police Chief Bob Irving said in an email that dispatch had received a few calls about the demonstration, but the demonstrations involved “some people exercising their right to free speech on a public sidewalk.”
“Should it become a hazard for traffic or create any other impediment to public safety,” Irving continued in his email, “we will work with the protesters/organizers to insure [sic] that their, and everyone else’s, rights and public safety are protected.”

Signs of Spring:
What his minions probably don’t realize, however, is that they’re actually doing the President a big fat favor. The way I see it, if they can get one – just one – frothing-at-the-mouth teabagger to write Lyndon in on the ballot in November, then that’s, like, one Google ad that Obama doesn’t have to run. And the thing is, these people are just dying for a legitimate excuse to not vote for Obama besides, well, you know. So if Obama’s Hitler, then that just makes everything perfectly clear and happy in their minds. […]
Carrier 8 (approaching like someone trying to act casual, points): You (inaudible) Obama/Hitler poster.
LaRouche Clone: Oh, yeah…well, I don’t know if you’re aware-
C8: Because that sure (inaudible) freaks.
LRC: What’s that?
C8: Yeah! (exeunt)

Letter to the Editor:  I had the same experience in downtown Los Altos. They yelled at me after I told them that they should be ashamed of themselves and should learn about history.

Dateline Michigan.  Alex Jones Interlude.  Alex Jones: The Nation’s Most Influential Larouchie
A flyer recently placed on parking meters in downtown Grand Rapids pictures President Barack Obama next to a Nazi swastika, threatening that a “Holocaust is coming.”
“Obama is a puppet,” reads the handout that decries the Affordable Care and the National Defense Authorization acts. “Hitler’s Nazi Germany has been revived in the U.S. and the target is Americans.” […]
Jones took the card off of two others, believing it was inappropriate to force an audience to see the printed rant that pairs Obama with an atrocity like the Holocaust.
“I certainly respect the right to an opinion, but this is a sick opinion,” said Jones. “People have a right to say what they want, print what they want and hand it out, but that gives me a chance to say no. It has gone too far when it’s put on public meters and to a captive audience without a choice.
“I know conservatives don’t like (Obama), but with the swastikas, it’s just too much for me.” […]
Readers of the card are referred to a website to sign a petition that espouses tea party ideas and urges people to support Ron Paul. The views there come from a woman who claims to live in Grand Rapids, but listings for a person by the same name were disconnected or answered by people who denied knowledge of the flyer and the petition. […]

More updates on this exciting story:  Doug Koopman, a political science professor at Calvin College, also believes the impact is minimal. The distribution was apparently limited to five parking spaces, and three of the cards were grabbed by a person who took offense to the literature.
And Kurt Nimmo at Alex Jones site retorts.
This becomes more interesting still, in light of a previous article from AIM contributor Cliff Kincaid against Larouche by way of a supposed connection with Alex Jones (one which has later manifested itself as Larouche has become a frequent guest and Jones’s sights have began occasionally referencing the organization as sources):
JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY ISSUES critical attack, seeming to WARN members against associating with this cult
From The John Birch Society:  Though often overlooked in the media and the world of politics, LaRouche also wields some influence, though just how much remains unclear. He controls, for instance, a vast network of entities ranging from publications and cultural initiatives to “intelligence”-gathering operations and even political parties on the other side of the Atlantic.  […]
But while LaRouche’s views on the monetary system sometimes resonate with advocates of sound money — at least initially — his statements hardly outline a plan to move toward a free market-based system. Like honest-money activists, LaRouche supports ending the privately owned Federal Reserve monopoly. He has also expressed support for a gold standard. […]
Aside from economic and monetary matters, many of LaRouche’s supporters are initially attracted to the movement by an array of positions that match their own. LaRouche is generally anti-war, for example. His opposition to radical United Nations “solutions” to address supposed “climate change” — formerly known as “global warming” and still based on largely discredited UN theories about humanity’s role in the process — have won him some supporters, too.
Cultural elements play a big part in his recruitment efforts as well, with LaRouche supporters organizing all manner of conferences and talks supposedly related to classical music or similar fields. According to people who have attended such events, however, they tend to end up being used to push LaRouche’s views and collect more followers.
Cue British Dentist joke at Ron Paul Forums.  (Note again, the youtube clip in support of Diane Sare that compares her favorably to Ron Paul as against her opponent being unfavorably Barack Obama.)

Executive Intelligence Review citation review
Canadian oligarch Maurice Strong is one of Vice President Al Gore, Jr.’s closest collaborators, one of Lyndon LaRouche, Jr.’s most long-standing oligarchical opponents, and a leading proponent of the policies of Malthusian zero growth that have propelled the AIDS pandemic forward.

US Sponsored Protest Movement in Malaysia.
Harley Schlanger on Dr. Deagle.
Douglas Degroot on Iran over Sudan.

Of course Lyndon LaRouche and his cult followers just do not seem to mind to support a fellow cult of personality which is what Omar al-Bashir has going around his government.  And why are these traitors appearing on Iranian state run television without any action?

Larouche is a paper philosopher king and that amounts to nothing.

The Unflattering Conmparison Game

David Lindsay alludes to Larouche in reference to Newt Gingrich.

 SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE
You might think that de Lange, Treadgold and Lyndon LaRouche make for strange bedfellows, but when you have nothing better to turn to, I suppose — as Steven Stills so memorably sang — you have to love the one you’re with. Rather a pity for all their credibility, what little might be left of it.

But he’ll have the last laugh when the LaRouchies petition to put him on the ballot after he’s dead (LaRouche lives! Like Frodo and Rabbi Schneersohn).

 Making fun of Sarah Palin and the “Liberal Establishment” that did her in.  With a Fletcher Hanks graphic on the sidebar.

HISTORICAL NOTES
1984 ballot access rulings Helping out Gary Johnson and the Libertarian Party.

Joel Bellman on the day Orson Welles died
The following week, as it turned out, based on some previous investigative reporting I had done, I was subpoenaed to testify as an expert witness in a civil lawsuit brought against the Lyndon LaRouche political cult. After almost two full days on the stand, getting pounded in cross-examination by the LaRouche attorney – an aggressive former prosecutor – I was exhausted and anxious to get back to my documentary.
As I was about to pull out of the parking lot, I snapped on KNX for a quick news update, only to hear: “Actor-director Orson Welles was found dead today in the Hollywood Hills home where he had recently been staying. Officials said he had suffered an apparent heart attack, and died alone. Welles, 70, was best known…”