The horror that is the Democratic Party, the twin of the Republicans, is once again apparent with Barack Obama's denunciation of the Supreme Cout's ruling against the death penalty, this time in child rape cases. Only the Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party oppose the death penalty.

A thorough analysis of this latest fascist move on the part of the millionaire, warmongering, pro-death penalty Democrat Senator Obama may be found at the World Socialist Website, 6/26/08, "Obama attacks US Supreme Court decision barring death penalty for child rape" by Patrick Martin at:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jun2008/obam-j26.

So now we must ask of public figures such as author Reese Ehrlich, who insisted on promoting his despicable support of Barack Obama on 6/24/08 on Flashpoints, KPFA, 94.1 FM, despite the wealth of information as to how profoundly evil Barack Obama is, ARE YOU STILL SUPPORTING THIS DESPICABLE USE OF THE DEATH PENALTY AS A POLITICAL FOOTBALL? We have heard Barack Obama denounce black fathers on Father's Day who are just as good fathers as any other father when they have the jobs and money to help raise the children, but are often prevented from having decent employment by racism. BARACK OBAMA IS A DESPICABLE FATHER BECAUSE HE SUPPORTS THE DEATH PENALTY. There can be no exceptions to abolishing the death penalty and prison-punishment systems. A good father promotes rehabilitation and does not pander to fascism.

The only two parties that oppose the death penalty, war, prison-punishment systems, and any society that makes possible the exploitation of labor so that some, like Barack Obama, can become millionaires are socialist parties (Peace & Freedom Party in California) and the Green Party. For more information on P&F, see
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/

For more information on Barack Obama, see:
1. “The Obama Craze: Count Me Out” of 2/27/08 by Matt Gonzalez
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=5413

2.. Twelve Issues that Matter for 2008:
http://www.votenader.org/issues/

3. ""US Political Establishment Lines Up Behind Barack Obama" by Patrick Martin, 2/4/08, World Socialist Website,
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/feb2008/obam-f04.shtml
"Among those backing the Obama campaign are such pillars of the US political establishment as Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter and an arch-Cold Warrior; retired Air Force General Merrill McPeak and a host of other retired military brass; billionaire Warren Buffett, the second-richest man in America; and an array of Wall Street and corporate executives, none of whom could be suspected of any sympathy for radical social change."

4. Barack Obama's Crown Dynasty Connection, 2/24/07 at http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/76429/index.php
The Crown Dynasty, which is among the financial supporters of Barack Obama, is described as follows (to be short, a war profiteer):
"In its 1980 edition, Everybody’s Business: An Almanac (by Milton Moskowitz, Michael Katz and Robert Levering) made the following reference to the Crown family of Chicago ’s history of making money from General Dynamics’ weapons manufacturing activity:"

“General Dynamics, more than any other aerospace company, is dependent on the Pentagon; government defense contracts account for two-thirds of their sales…The power behind the scenes is Henry Crown, a Chicago financier and one of the richest, but least known, men in the country. A group headed by Crown, who was 83 in 1980, owns about 20% of the company. His associates, who sit on the General Dynamics board with him, are his son, Lester Crown, and Chicago industrialist Nathan Cummings, founder of Consolidated Foods…”

"After Henry Crown's death, General Dynamics sold its F-16 fighter jet production unit and the Crown family reduced its ownership stake in General Dynamics from 20% to 8%. But, according to the General Dynamics web site at http://www.generaldynamics.com/, in 2005 "General Dynamics Combat Systems” was “becoming the world's preferred supplier of land and amphibious combat systems development, production and support;" and "its product line” included “a full spectrum of armored vehicles, light wheeled reconnaissance vehicles, suspensions, engine transmissions, guns and ammunition handling systems, turret drive systems, and reactive armor and ordnance."

"The General Dynamics web site also indicated in 2005 that members of the Crown family like Henry Crown & Company President James Crown and Henry Crown & Company Chairman Lester Crown still sat on the General Dynamics corporate board in 2005—between retired Pentagon officials (like former U.S. Under-Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology Paul Kaminski, former U.S. Naval Chief of Naval Operations Jay Johnson, former U.S. Army Chief of Staff John Keane, Retired U.S. General George Joulwan and former U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Lester Lyles) and a former Royal Navy Vice-Admiral for the UK Ministry of Defense named Robert Walmsley."

"A 2003 press release of the General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems business unit in St. Petersburg, Florida also noted that it had formed "a strategic alliance with Aeronautics Defense Systems, Ltd.," an Israeli firm based in Yavne. Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd. is the firm that developed the Unmanned Multi-Application System (UMASa) aerial surveillance tool which the Israeli military uses to "provide a real-time 'bird's eye view' of the surveillance area to combatant commanders and airborne command posts." According to then-Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the agreement between General Dynamics and Aeronautics Defense Systems to bring together "both companies' state-of-the art technologies in defense and homeland security" was "additional proof of the technological and commercial benefits that alliances between industries from the U.S. and Israel can produce."

"From its investments in Pentagon war contractors like General Dynamics and U.S. real estate, the Crown family has accumulated a family fortune of $3.6 billion, according to a 2004 Forbes magazine estimate. The Jerusalem Post also noted in its February 27, 2005 issue that “the Crown family of Chicago ” is also “well-known for its support of sectarian Jewish causes.” In addition, long-time General Dynamics board member Lester Crown was also a member of the Advisory board of Medis Technologies, a joint venture business partner of Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd. in recent years. "

5. "Barack Obama and the Euphoria of Madness by Larry Pinkney, a former Black Panther Party member and Editorial Board member of BlackCommentator.com, at
http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/81347/index.php
"Never mind that Barack Obama has indicated both verbally and in writing that he favors “unilateral” US military actions against other nations, which is both dangerously absurd and in direct contravention and flagrant violation of international law. Notwithstanding the constant double-speak of Barack Obama, his admiration for Ronald Reagan (who despised US working men and women and who unilaterally militarily invaded the tiny Black nation of Grenada), and his warm relationship with William Daley of the infamous and racist Daley political machine in Chicago, should, at bare minimum, give people of good will (of all colors) serious pause for thought."

6. "The Obama Illusion" by Paul Street, February 2007, Z Magazine at: http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Feb2007/streetpr0207.html (This has lots of references to comments by The Black Commentator)