Morris Beschloss, a longtime resident of Southern California’s Coachella Valley, is a conservative economic and political expert who at 82 writes a regular column for the Desert Sun newspaper, blogs on the paper’s website, and hosts his own television show, The World Report, on the Time Warner network.

In 1939, at the age of 9, Beschloss, a German Jew, escaped Nazi Germany with his mother and older brother. His grandmother refused to leave, and several years later she became one of the six million Jews murdered at the hands of Hitler and the Nazi regime.

Morrie, as friends call him, spoke to me about his only son, Michael Beschloss. He is the Harvard educated, NBC News Presidential Historian. As the Presidential Historian, the younger Beschloss holds himself out as an unbiased, apolitical analyst of all things Presidential. Long ago, a political wedge was driven between the two, with Michael Beschloss strongly objecting to his father’s conservative politics.

The older Beschloss talked about his son’s accomplishments, which he admires. When it comes to his son’s work with NBC, however, Beschloss didn’t mince words:

“Once you’re in bed with the devil, you begin to spout the devil’s bullshit,” he explained, when referring to what he calls NBC’s overtly liberal bias. He cited Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin as another example of media driven political taint. “She is nothing but a lackey for the left,” said Beschloss.

Beschloss, who calls the cable division of his son’s employer, MSNBC, “nothing more than the propaganda wing of the Obama White House,” spoke with disdain about the network and many of its on-air personalities. Al Sharpton, who incited the 1991 Crown Heights riots, “is a known anti-Semite,” said Beschloss. He also decried the fact that the network employed, as an anchor, the daughter of alleged “arch-anti-Semite Zbigniew Brzezinski” (Mika Brzezinski).

Afsaneh and Michael Beschloss

We then began to talk about the self-designated, progressive “media watchdog group” Media Matters for America. Michael Beschloss (the son) is married to Iranian born Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss. She has well-documented, strong ties to Democrats and George Soros-backed groups, including Media Matters. Mrs. Beschloss is currently President and CEO of Rock Creek Group, a hedge fund based in Washington, D.C. One of Rock Creek Group’s senior advisors is Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, a former Lt. Governor of Maryland, who is also leading American Bridge–a Democrat fundraising project co-founded with Media Matters for America’s David Brock.

George Soros announced in 2010 that he was donating $1 million to MMFA specifically to go after Fox News Channel, whose hosts, he claimed, were “inciting violence.”

“George Soros is the most dangerous man in America,” said Morrie. Beschloss believes that major conservative media such as Fox News and BigGovernment.com are targets of MMFA and Soros not only because they present opposing points of view, but because they have “huge audiences” that far outnumber those of liberal media outlets.

Beschloss adds that despite Soros’ Jewish heritage, Soros “sides with the enemies of Israel on a regular basis.” In 2010, Soros gave $750,000 to J Street–an organization that poses as pro-Israel but in reality is a radical left-wing group actively campaigning against Israel’s right to defend itself.

Beschloss went on to say that in his view, the only media that matters is News Corp., the parent company of Fox News Channel; and the Wall Street Journal, which he says are the “only objective major media left in America.”

Notwithstanding his son’s affiliation with NBC and his daughter-in-law’s ties to MMFA, Beschloss says MMFA’s simple mission is “to destroy any organization with views that contradict theirs.”

But while Bauer and his fellow Democrats have been throwing temper tantrums and obstructing legislative business, other opponents of right-to-work legislation have been busy producing and distributing studies that purport to show how the reform would hurt Indiana’s economy. The several studies and reports reach a variety of conclusions. Some say that right-to-work would undermine private sector pension plans and others say that the reform will not have any meaningful impact on drawing job creators – especially those in the manufacturing sector – to the state. South Carolina’s success in attracting a new Boeing plant seems to go unmentioned.

Leading the way among those providing intellectual firepower and talking points for pro-union right to-work opponents is the Economic Policy Institute. EPI, a D.C. based think-tank that specializes in state-based research, has released a steady stream of information and research allegedly debunking the benefits of the reform and calling on Indiana policymakers to bend to union demands by killing the legislation.

EPI has been successful in influencing the debate in Indiana. Their work has been mentioned in news reports.

But make no mistake – there is an agenda behind the research produced by EPI. That agenda is George Soros and another far-left Chicago-based group, The Joyce Foundation.

According to IRS filings (summarized by a third-party here), the Economic Policy Institute received over $6.4 million in funding from the Open Society Institute between 2005 and 2009, the latest year for which documents are available. The Open Society Institute is the organization liberal billionaire George Soros founded to manage his investment in hyper-liberal infrastructure. The amount they gave to EPI makes EPI the 11th largest recipient of Soros money over that time period.

Apparently, when George Soros wants to buy-off some research to promote his liberal ideas at the state level, he turns to the Economic Policy Institute.

Also supporting EPI is The Joyce Foundation, a liberal group in Chicago that works to promote progressive policy in the Midwest. The foundation has funneled $368,000 into EPI over the past few years.

Rarely do unions act in a purely grassroots fashion. On the contrary, unions are (unfortunately for their members) a critical part of a liberal infrastructure that seeks to insure the dominance of liberal ideas and big government. Indiana’s present battle over right-to-work legislation is not isolated to a discussion between Democrats and Republicans about what is best for the future of the state. Heavily funded special interest groups from far beyond Indiana are at work in this fight to make sure that an important part of their political machine does not fall apart ahead of the 2012 presidential election.

This report by Brian Sikma, originally appeared on Hoosier Access.

A look at the organizers of the most recent pre-planned Day of Action spotlights a large, radical group, a latter-day Red Army of seasoned activists who have been discreetly guiding Occupy since the movement’s onset and whose history is colored with previous mayhem while their plans for the immediate future raise serious questions. Just yesterday, the Occupy movement posted online plans for “alternative forms of protest,” including flash mobs that can be deployed nationwide.

Just over a week ago, Occupy Wall Street held a three-day “Direct Action Preparation and Training” course in downtown Manhattan to gear up for the latest round of riots, including last Thursday’s three-course meal of in-your-face tactics aiming to block subways and bridges as well as shut down the stock market.

Revealingly, official resources provided on the Occupy site as part of the planning for last week’s chaos shows several manuals from the Ruckus Society, whose mission is to provide “environmental, human rights, and social justice organizers with the tools, training, and support needed to achieve their goals”; this includes training radical activists in direct action techniques.

The same Ruckus Society that helped to spark the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, which devolved into violent unrest, was listed as a “friend and partner” for last week’s Day of Action.

The Ruckus training manuals provided at the Occupy site leave little to the imagination. Titles include: “Blockading for Beginners,” “Anonymous Riot Guide,” “Define White Supremacy,” “Uncle Sam the Pusher Man” and, of course, the (still!) Communist Party-connected National Lawyers Guild’s “Legal Observer Manual.”

Is the ”50 Crucial Points for Nonviolent Struggle” manual offered tongue in cheek? A closer look at Ruckus reveals an even larger brigade of extremists who are now deeply tied to Occupy:

Ruckus is funded by the Tides Center, a massive money hole foundation that channels fiscal sponsorship to a who’s who of conspicuously far-left groups.

Another beneficiary of Tides is Adbusters magazine, which is reported to have come up with the Occupy idea after so-called Arab Spring protests toppled governments in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. The Adbusters website currently serves as a central hub for Occupy’s nationwide planning.

The Tides-funded MoveOn.org has coordinated with Occupy and has used the movement’s activism to springboard its own initiative to take on capitalism with a Make Wall Street Pay campaign.

A major Tides donor is the billionaire financier George Soros.

President Obama himself once helped to fund the Tides Center. From 1999 to 2002, Obama sat alongside the aggressively unrepentant Pentagon-bomber Bill Ayers as a paid director on the board of the Woods Fund, a Chicago nonprofit that channeled money to a number of  ”progressive” groups, including the Tides Center.   Last month, Ayers gave a teach-in to Occupy Chicago entitled, “Non-violent direct action,” in which he implied the movement should take a revolutionary turn while laughing at the idea of Occupy protesters’ behaving lawfully.

Last week’s stepped-up tactics were not meant to serve as the movement’s grand finale. Indeed, Occupy shows no signs of relenting any time soon. A forum on the Occupy Wall Street website is called for protesters to “occupy” the malls on Black Friday while plans are afoot to shut down all West Coast ports.

Citing the success of the recent so-called Day of Action protests, Take to the Square, one of Occupy’s main online planning forums, has devised an “Alternative Day of Action” to coincide with international Human Rights Day on Dec. 10. The Occupy forum calls for “alternative forms of protest” and “new forms of action with a creative spirit” including “public forums, workshops and flash mobs.”

A flash mob refers to a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place to perform a collective act and then disperse. While flash mobs have been organized in the past for entertainment purposes, such as for satire or live television shows, recently the concept has also been used for criminal intent.

Flash mobs of mostly teenagers have reportedly attacked random targets in Philadelphia, Maryland, Cleveland, Chicago and Washington, D.C.  Philadelphia’s recently reelected mayor, Michael Nutter, imposed strict curfews in response to the incidents.

While the exact nature of any future Occupy flash mob was not immediately clear, already one Occupy site – Occupy Oakland – did host a dancing flash mob this past weekend in conjunction with Dancing Without Borders, an Oakland nonprofit, and the radical antiwar outfit, Code Pink.

The deployment of Occupy flash mobs could provide the anti-Wall Street movement with a tactical advantage. Occupy mobs appearing at sites without warning could damper the planning of countermeasures by cities, citizens and law enforcement.

It’s helpful here to draw a distinction between optimistic, generous, youth-energized movements demanding an end to corruption while wrongly working outside the framework of the law – with Occupy - and another, less-visible crew: the intellectual grandchildren of the Soviet ideologues of the mid-Twentieth Century. It’s hard to believe that, two decades after the Soviet Union blew up and expired, there still exist bands of self-described deep thinkers who want one more chance to prove that Marx, Engels, Feuerbach, Lenin, Papa Stalin and that charmer Mao were on the right track to solving the biggest human dilemma: how can we all get along with each other in a cosmopolitan society?

History proves, to borrow one of their  phrases, that heirs to Eurasian Marxism are not fussy about means to ends. Stalin killed 20 million of his own citizens; Mao actually killed at least 70 million Chinese people, both Han and “Little Nationalities.” These are unthinkable numbers, mainstays of that last century we managed to escape in hope that this one would turn out better. Normal citizens are astounded to see gray-haired vestiges of that tradition hand in hand these days with teenagers and college students, kids who clearly have no idea what a mess the Marxists made of practical life – and how bitterly corrupt the Party leaders inevitably became.

It’s an eye-opener, therefore, to learn that Obama and Ayers also channeled Woods Fund money to a major Saul Alinsky-based training outfit, the Midwest Academy, whose founder, Heather Booth, has recently been advising unions on how to utilize the economic crisis.

An arm of Midwest, Citizens Action of Wisconsin, was one of the main orchetsraters of last February’s protests against Gov. Scott Walker. Those protests seemed to be the domestic litmus test for Ocuppy. If Occupy can simmer along for a few months, and all signs indicate that it can, the most ambitious escalation seems set to coincide with major NATO and G-8 summits in Chicago next May, when world leaders convene to focus on global economic issues.  A gilt-edged list of radical groups, including those behind the 1999 WTO riots, have already petitioned the city for permits to demonstrate. It’s the perfect storm for Occupy chaos, for nudging closer to the ultimate goal of “fundamentally transforming” – read: overthrowing – the American system.

Aaron Klein is senior reporter and WorldNetDaily and host of Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on WABC Radio. His most recent book is entitled, Red Army: The Radical Network That Must Be Defeated to Save America.

It’s just one more revelation featured in the blockbuster new book that continues to rock Washington, Throw Them All Out, authored by Breitbart News editor Peter Schweizer.

Mr. Soros met with Mr. Obama’s top economist on February 25, 2009 and twice more with senior officials in the Old Executive Office Building on March 24^th and 25^th as the stimulus plan was being crafted.  Later, Mr. Soros also participated in discussions on financial reform.

Then, in the first quarter of 2009, Mr. Soros went on a stock buying spree in companies that ultimately benefited from the federal stimulus.

• Soros doubled his holdings in medical manufacturer Hologic, a company that benefited from stimulus spending on medical systems
• Soros tripled his holdings in fiber channel and software maker Emulus, a company that wound up scoring a large amount of federal funds going to infrastructure spending
• Soros bought 210,000 shares in Cisco Systems, which came up big in the stimulus lottery
• Soros also bought Extreme Networks, which, months later, said it was expanding broadband to rural America “as part of President Obama’s broadband strategy”
• Soros bought 1.5 million shares in American Electric Power, a company Mr. Obama gave $1 billion to in June 2009
• Soros bought shares in utility company Ameren, which bagged a $540 million Department of Energy loan
• Soros bought 250,000 shares of Public Service Enterprise Group, 500,000 shares of NRG Energy, and almost a million shares of Entergy—all companies that  came up winners in the Department of Energy taxpayer giveaway that produced the Solyndra debacle
• Soros bought into BioFuel Energy, a company that benefitted when the EPA announced a regulation on ethanol
• Soros bought Powerspan in April 2009.  Just weeks later, the clean-energy company landed $100 million from the Department of Energy
• In the second quarter of 2009, Soros bought education technology giant Blackboard, which became a big recipient of education stimulus money
• Soros also bought Burlington Northern Santa Fe and CSX, both beneficiaries of Mr. Obama’s plans for revitalizing the railroads
• Soros bought Cognizant Technology Solutions, which scored stimulus funds in education and health care technology
• Soros also bought 300,000 shares of Constellation Energy Group and 4.6 million shares of Covanta, both of which landed taxpayers’ money through the stimulus, the former of which bagged $200 million

In Throw Them All Out, Schweizer catalogs several more of Mr. Soros’s trades and says that, while “it is not necessarily the case that Soros had specific insider tips about any government grants,” nevertheless, Soros’s “investment decisions aligned remarkably closely with government grants and transfers.”

Whether Mr. Soros’s involvement in private White House meetings influenced which companies received stimulus money is unclear.   What is certain, writes Schweizer, is that “crony capitalism favors the politically active, and the manipulative.  It does not favor one party over the other.  It does not care about policy.  It just knows how to make money off any policy—your tax dollars, leveraged to the rich.”

“People are ready to move,” said Lerner, an organizer with the radical Service Employees International Union (SEIU). “We have solutions. We just have to build it bigger and larger,” he said during a panel discussion Oct. 3 at the Take Back the American Dream conference in Washington, D.C.

If we are really serious about movement building then we think one part is we have to act heroically, that we have to inspire people by our actions and we have to be willing to take incredible personal and collective risks, that that’s the time and there’s moments where history shifts and we’re going to decide if it shifts. That’s where I think we are and it’s a wonderful place to be because for the last couple of years it’s been shifting the other way.

An SEIU board member, Lerner is one of the architects of a subversive plan that aims to destroy the nation’s financial system through intimidation, mass protests, and the mob violence that accompanies it. As part of it, Lerner targeted JPMorgan Chase for attack earlier this year because the bank would be “a really good company to hate.”

Lerner told a receptive union audience that it is necessary to demonize people like JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon in order to generate hatred and envy that will help to foment revolution. “We’ve got to be clear on the human beings who are bad,” he told the SEIU 775 convention in Seattle on Sept. 22. Wealthy corporate leaders must be made into social outcasts, despised even by their children, he said. “How do we make it so politicians don’t even want their money because their money’s toxic, it’s dirty, it’s evil.”

“It’s one thing if we say JPMorgan Chase crashed the economy. It’s another thing if we say Jamie Dimon makes $20 million a year, who is involved in the opera and all these philanthropies, and thinks he’s a nice guy, and he’s destroying our lives.”

Lerner also calls upon state and local governments to stop doing business with banks that refuse to pay their “fair share” in taxes, slash interest rates, and forgive overextended homeowners’ mortgage principal. He urges students and local governments –which employ many public sector union members— not to pay back “[u]nfair [d]ebt” unless interest rates are lowered. Such a loan strike “would threaten CEO bonuses and bottom lines of the banks.”

Tremendously respected and influential in leftist organizing circles, Lerner has reportedly visited the Obama White House at least four times. SEIU itself burned through a staggering $85 million to promote President Obama’s candidacy. The purple-shirted people beaters’ union even produced a movie called Labor Day to take credit for Obama’s election.

One of the more accomplished union goons in America, Lerner is also one of the leading lights behind the neo-communist Occupy Wall Street campaign. The action has been embraced by a growing chorus of radicals including President Obama, George Soros, Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi, self-described “communist” Van Jones, AFL-CIO thug-in-chief Richard Trumka, and longtime ACORN shill and Occidental College professor Peter Dreier.

Lerner urges activists to do whatever is necessary to collapse what’s left of the American economy in order to manufacture unrest and dissent.

If leftists really believe capitalism is in a “transformative stage,” they “need to confront this in a serious way and develop a real ability to put a boot in the wheel,” he said at a leftist confab earlier this year.

It seems to me that we’re in a moment where we need to figure out in a much more, through direct action, much more concrete way how we really are trying to disrupt and create uncertainty for capital, for how corporations operate. And it may sound like that’s a crazy thing that in a moment of weakness we could deal with it, but the thing about a boom and bust economy, is it’s actually incredibly fragile, because it’s … based on gambling and all of that. And so there are actually extraordinary things that we could do right now that would start to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement.

The “other side” most fears “disruption” and “uncertainty,” he said.

One of Lerner’s favorite pastimes is conflating often-violent labor activism with the civil rights movement of the 1960s. At the Sept. 22 SEIU pow-wow, he said:

When you look at every great movement in history from the abolitionists to the suffragettes to the auto workers who seized the auto factories to the civil rights movement to the immigrant rights movement, everywhere in the world, what do they all have in common? People willing to march en masse and people willing to go to jail in greater and greater numbers and if we really believe that the richest, most powerful people in the world, that their goal is to destroy us, then there’s an urgency that our actions and our words and the crisis all put together [creates].

Lerner led SEIU’s much-ballyhooed “Justice for Janitors” campaign. In 1988, the campaign went after employers in a dozen cities. In Washington, D.C., the campaign used political theater in order to make labor activism seem noble and public-spirited.

Like any good disciple of Saul Alinsky, Lerner dressed up union thuggery in priestly robes. He utilized tactics of civil disobedience and conducted an ecumenical church service, a 24-hour candlelight vigil, “human billboarding,” and provided Easter dinner for the homeless.

Lerner is an expert at cloaking union intimidation tactics in what Alinsky called “moral garments,” first offering the carrot, and then the stick if the victim doesn’t comply.

In an interview with Mergers & Acquisitions in 2007, Lerner said private equity firms should, in a sense, honor SEIU’s picket lines if –wink, wink— they know what’s good for them.

He held up the “Responsible Contractor Program” of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) as a politically correct model to be emulated in the financial world. Equity firms “can adopt a policy to hire only companies that respect the rights of their employees” as judged by Lerner and SEIU.

“It might seem like a small number of people who are being helped, but if all firms do this it can affect hundreds of thousands of workers,” he said. “I believe the poorest workers can do better and we can afford it.”

This is the same warmed-over “corporate social responsibility” mush that Ralph Nader has been peddling for decades, but this time it’s backed by Big Labor’s brass knuckles. It’s also a cousin of the “fair trade” movement that presupposes Third World coffee growers are too stupid to get the most they can get for their product on world markets – so they need liberals to strong-arm traders into paying artificially high prices.

Like all neo-communists Lerner, who used to work for Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers of America (UFW), is a control freak who aspires to bully others.

“We literally have a handful of billionaires that are marauding around the globe, buying and selling things, and they need to be held accountable,” Lerner told Australian TV in 2007 (How dare rich people spend their own money!).

Lerner is infected with a visceral contempt for economic freedom that rests upon a pathological hatred of human diversity. This viewpoint treats differing levels of intelligence, aptitude, and job skills among people as social aberrations that need to be remedied. Leftists like Lerner have long believed the mere fact that there is material inequality among people is proof of the supposed unfairness of capitalism.

It all boils down to a simple idea.

People like Lerner have no interest in teaching people how to fish so they might feed themselves for a lifetime, as the old adage goes. They prefer to teach people how to steal fish from their neighbors.

This is the principle that animates America’s parasitic public sector unions.

It is also the essence of so-called social justice.

(This article was originally published by Front Page Magazine.)

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Here’s the equation: Soros’ Open Society Institute gave $3.5 million from 2007-2009 to the Tides Center.  In that same period, Tides gave $26,000 to Adbusters, the group that proclaims to have initiated the Wall Street occupation.

Sure, Soros has been said to be sympathetic to the “cause,” but is he orchestrating the demonstrations?  Probably not.  At least not in a coordinated, marching-order sense.

However, there are some interesting connections.

In the media reform space, which I follow closely, Soros and Tides, among others, have spent over $100 million this past decade funding the efforts of radical groups like Free Press (surprisingly, sitting atop of this pyramid is not George Soros; rather, it’s the Ford Foundation, which has given over $12 million to media reform activists in the last ten years alone).

One name that stands out among the “media reformers” as they’re connected to the OWS movement is Free Press’s Tim Karr.   To be sure, there is a firm connection between Soros and Tides to Karr’s employer.  Since 2003, Free Press has received $1.26 million from Soros’ Open Society Institute; and from 2005-2007, nearly $215,000 from Tides.

Throughout the OWS occupation, Karr has been actively tweeting his support of the protestors.  From those numerous tweets, one can see his vocal criticism of how the press covers the demonstrations, ostensibly goading them to present a more “balanced” (that is, favorable) reporting of the events.  He has also urged that OWS demonstrators “Occupy the Internet,” too, presenting the next logical step as it relates to his main focus of work–Net Neutrality.  Finally, he has posted 80-plus portraits of the New York demonstrations from weeks of photography, generally portraying the assembled activists as modern-day, everyman heroes.

That seems like a lot of off-the-clock activity for Free Press’s “campaign director.”  Someone must be covering that time for his paycheck, right?

Perhaps.

Elsewhere, this video hints at Karr’s more formal engagement with OWS, wherein the moderator of the panel on which he’s speaking highlights, albeit tenuously, his work promoting the occupation (at the 40-second mark of the video).

As to Karr’s connections to Adbusters / Tides, there are many.  If you Google Tim Karr and Adbusters, you see their collaboration going back for several years through various conferences, speaking engagements, and other events.

Added to this, there is this mildly fascinating Tides connection between Karr and Liza Pike, director of New Media Mentors.  In this piece, Pike promotes OWS, giving advice to further the “cause.”  And as part of her article, she uses Karr’s portraits taken at OWS.

Interestingly, Pike’s New Media Mentors project is a Tides collaboration, and she sits on Free Press’s board.

I’m sure if I wanted to I could fund numerous other connections between Soros and the groups he funds to the OWS events.  But as to an overall Soros coordination of the OWS demonstrations or a smoking gun?  That remains to be seen.

So, what does all this mean?

It is evident that some Soros money has helped, if indirectly, several progressive front groups exploit the “buzz” that is OWS.  But I think if these efforts were part of a plan, they’d be organized akin to what we see with Net Neutrality–i.e., virtually all of the activist groups in lockstep, shopping their cookie-cutter bullet points in an aggressively open and notorious manner to effect a clear policy objective (whatever that may be here).

That’s largely absent in this case.

Perhaps the cost of overtly siding with the decidedly anti-capitalist OWS protests is an un-American bridge too far.  In other words, for the foundations–which seek to influence policy through the funding of public interest groups, “alternative” media outlets, and academia–they see such open support as leading with one’s chin, interfering with their longer-range, boil-the-frog game plan to “transform” America.

Who knows?

What seems clear to me, though, is that in this world where reputation plays a huge part in whether ideas and their messengers find acceptance, connections matter.  Consequently, where there’s smoke there’s fire.  Yet I’ve read of no stories where Soros or Tides or the numerous other progressive funders have adequately distanced themselves from the OWS “message.”  In fact, the opposite seems more the truth.

Is OWS the Soros (and the others’) “brand”?

If so, America should boycott that “product.”  It is a cardboard sham of an offering not worth the plastic wrapping it comes in.

If not, from a branding standpoint, it might serve their interests to clear up any confusion that the connections have created, and disavow the OWS movement and whatever it stands for.

Something tells me, however, that that ain’t happenin’ any time soon.

According to newly released internal White House emails, however bad things are now, they’re about to get worse.  The messages, which originated within the White House Office of Management and Budget in 2010, admits the train wreck of the Solyndra loan and indicates that “bad days are coming.”

“What’s terrifying,” the note reads, “is that looking at some of the ones that came next, this one [Solyndra] started to look better.”

It’s important to note that these emails were released by Democrats themselves so, in all likelihood, this is the version of the story that presents the best possible picture of the Obama administration’s future.  Depending on which poll you read, the President’s approval rating is either a point or two above or below 40% and his administration is mired in multiple, deepening, scandals.  This leads many conservatives to speculate that Obama will have no other choice but to bow out of a 2012 contest that he knows he can’t win. They’d better hope he doesn’t.  For the sake of the nation, Obama needs to run, and he needs to be defeated in an election.

Some on the right will argue that the chance of him winning a second term is too great and the United States would be better off if he just resigned.  The problem is, he won’t just disappear.  Ex-presidents may no longer enjoy the perks of the office, but they still command considerable attention both at home and abroad.  Barack Obama would present the left with the ultimate rock star of retired politicians, and he’d love to wield that kind of power.

If he simply quits, Obama will return to his community organizing roots. He’ll begin shouting about the nation that was too stupid, too trapped in its own past, to acknowledge the greatness of the future he tried to build.  He’ll blame Washington and evil corporations for standing in the way of his vision.  He’ll imply that we’re a racist land which couldn’t deal with a black president and, most importantly, he’ll declare that he was never beaten.

A new narrative will emerge – one that claims he chose to leave office because America’s “broken system” is incapable of offering the downtrodden a country they deserve. In short, Obama will have martyred his Presidency, sacrificing his dream of a “rebuilt” America, because it’s simply unobtainable within the current constitutional system.

It’s a message that would prove irresistible to multiple segments of the population.  Obviously, much of the left already believes it and the gang of misfits currently “occupying” Wall Street would lap it up.  Add to their number the 45% of U.S. citizens currently receiving some form of government assistance, 12 million illegal immigrants, a global network of Soros-funded activist groups, and Obama would instantly find himself fronting a substantial, destructive, political force.

Contrast that with an Obama that runs for, and loses, the 2012 election.  Sure, many of the same arguments would be made.  Left wing pundits would still do their best to paint the President as a tragic figure whose ideas were too grand for an ungrateful nation.  Nothing is going to stop the faithful from making that claim. However, the argument will be severely diminished in the context of a failed re-election bid.  The President’s vision will have been presented to the people, and it will have been rejected in favor of a new course. The moral superiority that would come from walking away, false though it may be, will have been lost and America’s malcontents will have been denied their martyr.

At this point, it’s impossible to deny that the country will be in a better position without Obama at the helm.  His policies have been nothing but destructive, both in terms of finance and personal freedom. It’s become clear that there will be no turnaround, economic or otherwise, as long as he’s in power.

Obama leaving office is imperative, but how he departs will set the stage for future battles.  Those hoping for retirment would do well to keep that in mind.