268 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized BiographyOBAMA’S NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES FOR LEFT FANATICS
It was of course Moveon.org who attacked General Petraeus with the famous “General Betray
Us” ads of September 2007 – hardly an act of great courage, since this was already the safe majority
view. When the Republicans tried to ram through a resolution condemning these ads, Obama did
not defend his friends, but characteristically ran like a rabbit. By June-July 2008, Obama would be
sniping at his own ultra-left storm troopers. The dynamic here is similar to Hitler’s Night of the
Long Knives in June-July 1934, when the brown shirts of the SA and their ideas of a second
revolution were liquidated. Obama needed the ultra leftist lemmings of moveon.org as shock troops
against the Clinton machine. Once he thought he had the nomination in his grasp, it was time to
dump the ultra lefts, whose hysterical fanaticism could easily become a liability. Soros understands
these tactics perfectly, since his goal is mainly to put his puppet Obama in the White House so
Obama can implement the policies that Soros wants.
MoveOn.org executive director Eli Pariser said the country needs a president to “change
business as usual in Washington.” Soros’ 34-year-old son Jonathan Soros, an attorney and financier,
recently promoted to deputy manager of Soros Fund Management LLC, is heavily involved with
MoveOn.org’s activities. Obama’s much touted opposition to the war helped him pick up the
backing of MoveOn.org, which claims to have 3.2 million members. Pariser claimed that Obama
had won the referendum by a vote of 70 percent to 30 percent for Clinton, but there were some who
saw vote fraud at work. ‘The group claimed that it had 1.7 million members in the 22 states
scheduled to vote in the primaries, that it would immediately begin a campaign to get them behind
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Worldly asceticism has no place in Obama’s method of operations. Obama is not shy about
accepting rides on corporate jets, especially when he is in a hurry to get to one of his own well-
heeled fund raising events.
Senator Barack Obama flew at least nine times on corporate jets last year, traveling to fund-
raisers in New York and San Francisco, home to Chicago and to Rosa Parks’ funeral in Detroit.
Each time, he reimbursed the plane’s owners at first-class rates, as Senate rules require. But Mr.
Obama, freshman Democrat from Illinois, felt queasy about this perk of Senate life, so he said
he gave it up. “This is an example where appearances matter,” he said. “Very few of my
constituents have a chance to travel on a corporate jet.” (“Obama accepts rides on corporate
jets, some to attend his own fundraisers,” New York Times, March 7 2006)
Has he kept his pledge? In any case, he now has his own corporate jet.OBAMA’S MONEY CARTEL
But flights in corporate jets are only the beginning. Obama’s money cartel is so immense that
we can only indicate some of its major components. A good starting point is Exelon, the former
Commonwealth Edison, and the company dominated for decades by Thomas Ayers, the father of
Obama’s close friend, the former Weatherman terrorist bomber, Bill Ayers.
Exelon’s executives and employees were big backers of Obama’s 2004 Senate bid and gave his
presidential campaign nearly $160,000 in the first quarter of this year, second only to UBS-
Americas, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a watchdog group. (Chicago
Tribune, June 12, 2007)