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2/8/10

America’s Bolshevik

Obama denies being an ideologue or a Bolshevik, why?  Is he ashamed of his heritage and convictions, just intent on keeping his motivations covert until the right time to spring his true nature upon us, or is there a technicality that we need to grasp?

Perhaps we should analyze the term Bolshevik.  Historically, the Bolsheviks were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), founded by Vladimir Lenin.  They split from the Menshevik faction in 1903, during the Second Party Congress.  They eventually gained control during the October phase of the Revolution in 1917.  Bolshevik means "majority" or "large" and the nickname resulted from having the majority rule in a crucial vote.  Later on after gaining complete control, Lenin maintained that since there was no opposition, there was no longer the need to call themselves the majority party or Bolsheviks, thus they named themselves the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Eventually, Lenin died and Stalin gained control of the party.  Trotsky was exiled and wrote extensively condemning Stalin’s "incorrect" version of Communism by referring to it as Bolshevism, a derivative of Bolshevik, in apposition to Leninism.  Consequently the term Bolshevik developed negative connotations for the "pure" Communist; perhaps this explains Obama’s displeasure at being called a Bolshevik.  He like many others must feel the sting of those who are critical of Stalin’s regime.

The term, Ideologue, evolved in the highly contested political and philosophical debates of the French Revolution; coined by Destutt de Tracy, initially, it referred to the study of the science of ideas or the study of ideas and the means and logic of those ideas.

Later, Napoleon used the term as a pejorative toward his political opponents, since that time it has been used as a term of derision in political discussion to point out an opposing politician’s inability to grasp ideas that are different than those of his party line, thus reflecting a pettiness and lack of cognitive ability.

Obama's taking exception to being considered an Ideologue becomes a matter of conjecture when examining the platform of America’s Communist Party.  Although Obama denies any association with the Communist Party of the United States, (CPUSA) they are in express agreement with all of his policies.  They could not have had a better representative if they had won the election.

The CPUSA’s stated goals are to achieve a free, prosperous, and peaceful society free of racism, sexism, homophobia, and exploitation, in which all people have the opportunity to develop to their full potential.  These same goals were espoused by Obama during his campaign, the same goals of the Social Democrats and of the Progressive Democrats.  The Communists above all maintain that they advocate a peaceful Socialist Revolution and a peaceful transition to Socialism.  Obviously if they didn’t, the Communist Party would be outlawed; therefore the claim is probably one of expediency and is purely academic.

All things considered, I understand why a true Marxist in the Russian tradition balks at being labeled a Bolshevik.  It is an insult from the days of Trotsky’s bitter writing over his ouster and banishment.  Being upset at being labeled an Ideologue is a matter of history.  In the context of the early days of the French Revolution, Obama should consider it a compliment to be called an ideologue.  If his frame of reference is from the Napoleonic perspective, he is indeed an Ideologue, after all Karl Marx frequently implied that it was essential to be an Ideologue.  Obviously Obama is confused over these issues as he seems to be over many issues.  It would probably be a much easier if he would just be honest with the American People and admit that he is a Communist Ideologue, with his reelection chances diminishing daily, he has reached the point where honesty can only improve his ratings.  Of course if he had been honest in the beginning, he would have never been elected.

Posted by Skookum on the Flopping Aces blog.
    
There can be little argument that the agendas of Obama, the Democrat Party, and the CPUSA are strikingly similar -- cursor down on the Flopping Aces link to review a condensed version of the CPUSA platform.
   
Obamunism
2/8/10

A Peer Review

I received the following over the transom from an attorney who was an associate and peer of Michelle Robinson (Obama) at the law firm of Sidley Austin, LLP.
 
Michele's office was on my floor at the firm and I would walk by it everyday.  She was rarely in the office, had very limited work papers in her office, yet apparently was drawing an associate salary while not practicing law, and billing huge hours as is ordinary for an associate.  My fellow associates and I worked to 10 p.m. customarily and many times to  2 to 3 a.m., every weekend, meeting the crushing work loads.  But Michele never had to do that, which understandably caused a lot of resentment amongst fellow associates.  I have no first hand knowledge since it would be a private and confidential arrangement, but the associate scuttlebutt drawn from partner "leaks" was that she was drawing a firm salary while working full time for City Hall doing political fund raising and "special projects" work for the Daley Machine.  The word was that this arrangement benefited the firm because many times their real estate clients had city zoning and other legal issues that required city approvals or resolution, so the firm needed to be viewed as on the city hall team and accede to their wishes.  So from the very start of her career my opinion is that Michelle was the beneficiary of the nefarious city hall back scratching schemes.  As demonstrated by The Obama File, she seems to have benefitted from these "arrangements" her entire professional career.  I have my doubts that she did much at the University of Chicago to justify such an enormous salary and have never heard tell of any significant projects she was handling, let alone any accomplishments or major successes in the healthcare field. 

      

Michele at one point did leave officially to work for the Daley Administration, but was already well engaged in political activities during the day and regularly absent from the firm for a lengthy period of time before she left.  I can't recall the precise timelines but I would estimate that she was listed as an associate at the firm but not carrying a regular work load for well over one year, maybe even two years before she "left" for the City Hall payroll. 

On a personal note, Michele was simply the most arrogant young person I have ever met in my life.  She simply would not engage with her fellow associates and apparently viewed herself as superior to them.  I personally observed that she would only engage with partners, most notably senior partners.  Never a friendly smile or good morning for staff or fellow associates as she walked past them day after day after day.  I remember one particular instance where a group of associates and I were chatting at a firm cocktail party and I noted how no one seemed to know Michele but were constantly gossiping about her.  The gang just commented about how arrogant and unfriendly she was and never around.  I commented that maybe she was just uncomfortable as a Southside girl being around all of these elitist, snobby white folks at a silk stocking firm.  So I walked over to her when she was getting hors d'oeuvres and introduced myself as a friendly overture.  She gave me a dirty look, literally threw her head back and turned her back on me and walked back over the a group of senior partners gathered around Eden Martin!  As if you say how dare you approach me you filthy little underling.  I went back to my group of associates friends feeling embarrassed and they just chuckled and said "told ya'."  So, Michele was not the sweet or kind person the media would like us to believe.  She was an elitist and only was interested in those who could advance her personal interest, not ordinary folks.  To this day, that episode was the rudest I have ever been treated by anyone, and there are lot of rude lawyers out there.
 
I never met Barack, but only heard about him second hand.  My fellow associates who were summer interns with him (in '89 I think) described him as very tall, handsome, thin, and amiable but pretty aloof.  They commented of his love of basketball and that he was always up for a game and that basketball and politics is all that grabbed his interest at the time.  They stated that he did not seem to be interested in practicing law at a big firm and doing the hard and dull work that that entailed, was just drawing his big pay check, that he did not turn work assignments in on a timely matter, was gone frequently, and generally wanted to be a community organizer in preparation for a political career, not as a practicing attorney.  As a result, the firm -- according to what I was told by people that should know -- did not extend him an offer.   So as shocking as it seems, our Obama apparently did not make the cut as a summer intern.  I suspect that is buried like all written documentation and will never see the light of day, but I do wonder if Obama could produce an offer letter from Sidley?  According to what I was told, and this is just second hand, he was not offered a job and was instead sent a regrets letter.  This of course is not to say that he could not have succeeded if he wanted to.   He is bright and quick, and I would hate to try a lawsuit against him, but certainly not the brilliant legal scholar and committed, talented practicing attorney that he has been portrayed as by the media.  He was, and is very much a clever Southside Chicago pol, no more and no less.
 
According to Wikipedia, Obama was a summer associate with Hopkins & Sutter in 1990, and graduated in 1991 from Harvard.  So that would suggest he was a first year summer intern at Sidley in 89', was not offered to return for a second summer, took a summer intern job at Hopkins & Sutter, and probably did not get an offer there either -- unless he can account for his time away from legal practice.  Hopkins paid a top tier salary, so I doubt that he would turn that down if he was offered it. 
 
Both were kind of odd cases at Sidley, frankly.  Regardless of their ethnicity, gender, or other background, all other young lawyers to a person that I met were very committed to making a career at the firm, worked very hard at their projects, worked on honing their craft and were trying to build a reputation within the firm for doing quality legal work and build a career.  However, both Michele and Barack came into the firm and were treated very differently and behaved differently, more like political hires who were just using the firm as a political vehicle, getting a blue-chip firm stamp on their resume, and being funded in the meantime.  Same basic "arrangement" as Bernadine Dohrn had.  She did not do legal work to my knowledge and paying her a salary was simply a deposit in the favor bank to borrow a phrase from Bonfire of the Vanities.  Mary A. Dempsey, current head of the Chicago Public Library and husband of super lawyer and Dem pol Phil Corboy, was another political hire.  She did not really practice law but simply practiced Chicago politics and drew a salary at the same time.  This is what they call the "Chicago Way."  Future leaders are not chosen on merit or strength of character but are simply groomed and coopted as appartchniks of the political machine.  
 
My strong sense is that both Michele and Barack Obama are mere empty creations of the Chicago political machine who advanced through the ranks in order to support vested political and economic interests.  Who these vested interests were or what back room deals were made, no one will ever know.  Barack's background as a "constitutional scholar" is widely acknowledged a being a sham by the true constitutional lawyers and scholars in Chicago.  How can you be a constitutional scholar when you have not written a single legal brief on the subject, given a single meaningful scholarly lecture before experts, published a peer-reviewed scholarly articles or treatise?  There is simply no "there, there" which is why BHO is so lost when he goes off of teleprompter and seems to be so lost for answers and fresh ideas or even rudimentary knowledge -- he is simply the spokesman for these hidden interests and power brokers who espouse a radical far left ideology and delivers the same old tired leftist adages and buzz words.  My measurement of him is that is literally the living, breathing and tragically elected "Chauncey Gardiner of the Left."  (Remember the scene where the power brokers at the end of the film "Being There" were talking about raising Chance the gardener to the office of the President).
  
Michelle Obama has been on court ordered inactive status with the Illinois State Attorneys bar from 1993, after only 4 years of practicing law.  Many are curious to know what did she did, or didn't do, to acquire this status. 

      

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The
Wife
2/8/10

Attorneys Only -- Information Request

Three classes of U. S. citizenship are currently identified on The Obama File's Natural Born page.  These three classes are referenced in the US Constitution, applicable case law, and US Code:

1.  "Natural born" citizen
2.  "Native born" citizen
3.  "Naturalized" citizen

All three are "citizens" of the United States of America.  However, if one looks at the logical cases, there appears to be a fourth class:

1.  Parentage important AND birthplace important -- a "natural born" citizen is any person born of US citizen parents (that's two) in the US mainland (includes Alaska and Hawaii) -- think Ronal Reagan.

2.  Parentage not important AND birthplace important -- a "native born" citizen is any person born in the US mainland (includes Alaska and Hawaii) -- one or both of the parents may be foreign nationals -- think Barack Obama.

3.  Parentage not important AND birthplace not important -- a "naturalized" citizen is a citizen as the result of a process -- think Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Given that, what is the proper name and classification for the following case:

4.  Parentage important AND birthplace not important -- a "foreign born" citizen is any person born of US citizen parents (that's two) on foreign soil -- think John McCain.

My question is, what is the proper term for the 4th case, the citizen I'm identifying as "foreign born" -- the McCain example -- and what law applies?

Please, only serious responses to:  beckwith at theobamafile dot com -- in proper form, of course -- the email address is spelled out to avoid web crawlers.
    
Note:  John McCain was not born in the mainland US or on a US military/naval base.  John Sidney McCain III was born at the Colon Hospital, located at Avenida Melendez and 2nd Street, Manzanillo Island, City of Colon, Republic of Panama.  The time of birth on the birth certificate issued by Panama Railroad Company (which owned the Colon Hospital) was 5:25 PM and the day and date of birth was Saturday, August 29, 1936.

Please -- I love you all, but this is not an invitation to a discussion, or a rehash of what has been on this site for more than a year.  I am only interested in a direct answer to a direct question, and the documentation to support it. 

There are well meaning folks that are sending me stuff that has nothing to do with my inquiry.  I know they are well intended, but I am just deleting the emails that contain anything but a direct answer to the direct question I am asking. 

So, please, save your time -- and mine.

I will post what I find out at a later date -- stay tuned!
    
Natural
Born
2/8/10
Downfall


Obama and the Senate (03:49) -- language
   
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2/7/10

Don't Mess With Obama

The New York Times is reporting that a journalist who wrote an article on Monday has left the wire service.  A Reuters spokeswoman declined to say whether the journalist, Terri Cullen, left voluntarily, or why.  "I can't really go into any detail," said the spokeswoman, Courtney Dolan.

Ms. Cullen stepped down less than a month after being hired for the newly created position of wealth management editor.  She had worked for more than a decade for The Wall Street Journal Online.

Her article said that Obama’s budget amounted to a backdoor tax increase for middle-income and even lower-income people, based largely on the scheduled expiration of income tax cuts passed in 2001, but the gang at the White House insisted that Obama had actually proposed keeping those cuts in place for all but high-income families.

After a complaint from the White House, Reuters caved, and withdrew the article, stating that it was inaccurate.

Inaccurate?  Really?

The Hill blog is running an article, "President Obama’s budget seeks an end to tax break for the middle class," that begins:  Grappling to contain record deficits, Barack Obama is seeking to end a middle-class tax break he once said would be permanent.

The $3.8 trillion budget request rolled out by the White House on Monday would renew the Making Work Pay tax credit for fiscal 2011, but then would have it sunset.  That’s a switch from last year, when Obama’s budget called for making the tax credit permanent.


Where to begin?  Lets' start here:

"Obama had actually proposed keeping those cuts in place for all but high-income families" -- hey, gang, a proposal is only that -- a proposal.  Try taking one to the bank and cashing it.

But, far more important is the fact that, once again, Obama and his henchmen didn't hesitate to pressure Reuters, and now Obama can add one more to his legions of unemployed.

Free speech is a wonderful thing -- but not in ObamaWorld.

    
Intimidation
2/7/10

The Constitutional Law Professor

During the presidential campaign, Obama consistently and falsely claimed that he was a constitutional law professor.   The Sun-Times reported that, "several direct-mail pieces issued for Obama's primary [Senate] campaign said he was a law professor at the University of Chicago.  He was not.  He was a senior lecturer at the school.  In academia, there is a vast difference between the two titles.

As a "constitutional law instructor," Obama has been quoted as saying that the Constitution of the United States is a flawed document.

Jim O'Neill noticed that in his State of the Union address, our constitutional scholar stated that "We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all created equal…."

There’s a problem here, however.  It turns out that "the notion that we are all created equal" is not "enshrined in our Constitution" -- it’s from the Declaration of Independence.

This mistaken attribution is an understandable faux pas for your average person, but Obama’s supposed to be a Harvard-trained constitutional lawyer.  It doesn’t say much for Harvard Law School, or Obama’s grasp of the Constitution, when he confuses the U.S. Constitution with the Declaration of Independence.

These guys are so picky.  It was obviously an error on the part of TOTUS.
    
Gaffes
2/7/10

Tres Bizarre!


"Buried in an Obama t-shirt"  (01:34)
    
In case you didn't clearly hear Obama, he said, "She insisted she is going to be buried in an Obama T-shirt."  Yup!  He really did.

Obama told the friendly crowd that the dead woman had no health insurance.  What Obama didn't tell you is that the woman, Melanie Shouse, a health care activist, did in fact have insurance -- she had a catastrophic policy with a $5,000 deductible.

Four years ago, she chose not to pay for a routine exam and a mammogram, despite feeling a lump in her breast at age 37.  Shouse began feeling ill.  She said couldn't afford a doctor because she and her partner had just used their savings to open a business.

"When I first noticed a small lump on my breast, denial seemed the only option," Ms. Shouse told the the official newspaper of the Communist Party USA, "The People's World."

At Powerline blog, A reader adds:  "This has really become a farce.  Can you imagine even a rock star saying something along those lines -- 'and she was buried in one of our concert tees' -- I would only expect to see that in some scene from This Is Spinal Tap."

And one final note:  Ms. Shouse actually requested that her body be cremated wearing her Obama T-shirt.

Tom McGuire has the full story here . . .

Obama has some interesting friends and supporters.  Every time you turn around, up pops more Communists.
    
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2/7/10

Democrats Abandoning Obama

Kasie Hunt is reporting that New York politicians were able to kick the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial out of Manhattan, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that not a single member of Congress wants the trial held in their home town either.

A growing coalition of lawmakers are saying "not in my back yard" to the terrorism trial, as even the most loyal Democrats are moving to block funding for any civilian trials.  The pushback may represent yet another congressional rebellion against a high profile Obama White House terrorism decision, proving that even a persuasive Obama can’t overcome the power of local politics.

"We’re going to do everything we can to make sure they don’t point at western Pennsylvania as a possible venue," said Rep. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.).  "We are all united, going to voice our opinion, both at the state level and at the congressional level."

These politics are playing out in several regions around the country, from western Pennsylvania to northern Virginia and other potential locations for a 9/11 trial.  The National Republican Congressional Committee plans to use the issue to target Democratic representatives Bill Foster and Debbie Halvorson in Illinois, Scott Murphy and Michael McMahon in New York, and Kathy Dahlkemper in Pennsylvania.

Virginia Sen. Jim Webb is leading Democrats' charge against the trials in the Senate.  Webb favors military commissions, and he says Virginia lawmakers will be opposed to having a civilian trial in Alexandria.

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell is not opposing the trials "out of hand," his spokesman said, but "he would want an explanation as to why it’s any safer in western Pennsylvania than it is in New York City."

Obama is also going to face louder calls to move the trials out of the U.S. entirely.  Democratic senators had an "intense discussion" about the administration’s Guantanamo Bay policies during a policy lunch Tuesday, one senator said.

Eighteen senators -- including two Democrats -- have signed on to legislation backed by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to strip funding for civilian trials for the accused 9/11 conspirators.  Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) will introduce a companion bill in the House.

"I believe these individuals are war criminals and that their alleged evils against our country warrant their trials in military courts," said Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), who is facing a tough reelection battle this year.  "Trying these conspirators in civilian court is giving them a public stage to advocate their cause."

Obama knows he has a problem, but still seems committed to finding a location for a federal trial.

"We've tried a lot of terrorists in our courts; we have them in our federal prisons; they've never escaped.  And these folks are no different.  It's been one of those things that's been subject to a lot of, in some cases, pretty rank politics," Obama said in an interview Monday on YouTube.

But the longer the local fights drag out, the more problematic the issue will be for Democrats in November.
    
Terrorism
2/6/10

Good News!

NewsMax.com is reporting that after insisting for a year that failure was not an option, Barack Obama is now acknowledging his healthcare overhaul may die in Congress.

His tone at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser Thursday night verged at times on defeatist.  Even while saying he still wanted to get the job done, Obama bowed to new political realities.  Democrats no longer command a filibuster-proof Senate majority, and voters and lawmakers are far more concerned with jobs and the economy than with enacting sweeping and expensive changes to the health system.

"I think it's very important for us to have a methodical, open process over the next several weeks, and then let's go ahead and make a decision," Obama said Thursday night.

"And it may be that ... if Congress decides we're not going to do it, even after all the facts are laid out, all the options are clear, then the American people can make a judgment as to whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not," Obama said.  "And that's how democracy works.  There will be elections coming up and they'll be able to make a determination and register their concerns one way or the other during election time."

Continue reading here . . .

This guy is amazing.  He's been pushing ObamaCare 24/7/365, and now that it's going into the dumpah -- as it should -- Obama is putting the loss at Congress' feet by saying, "the American people can make a judgment as to whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not."

I got a clue for Obama, the American people can also make a judgment as to whether he has done the right thing for them or not.

    
ObamaCare
2/6/10

Senator Kit Bond Questions Obama's Motivation

February 4, 2010

The Honorable Barack H. Obama
President of the United States
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

During my tenure on the Senate Intelligence Committee, I have worked with the Executive Branch to stem the disclosure of sensitive information.  In 2006, for example, I introduced legislation that would aid the Executive Branch in prosecuting individuals engaged in leaks of classified information.  In the realm of national security, sometimes it is necessary to withhold critical information from the public that may be used by our enemies to harm the American people.

Accordingly, I am deeply disturbed with the official handling of vital national security information regarding the recent cooperation by the Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab.  On Monday afternoon, the leadership of the Senate Intelligence Committee received notification from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concerning Abdulmutallab’s recent willingness to provide critical information.  FBI officials stressed the importance of not disclosing the fact of his cooperation in order to protect on-going and follow-on operations to neutralize additional threats to the American public; FBI Director Bob Mueller personally stressed to me that keeping the fact of his cooperation quiet was vital to preventing future attacks against the United States.  Handling this information in such a sensitive manner struck me as entirely appropriate.

Twenty-four hours later, however, White House staff assembled members of the media to announce Abdulmutallab’s cooperation and to laud the events that led to his decision to cooperate with law enforcement personnel.  This information immediately hit the air waves globally and, no doubt, reached the ears of our enemies abroad.

At the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Annual World Wide Threats Hearing Tuesday, the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI Director, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency all stated they believe terrorists will attempt another attack on America within the next few months.  I cannot understand, Mr. President, why the sudden cooperation by Abdulmutallab would be broadcast publicly to the media in detail when your intelligence chiefs are unanimously warning that another attack on our country is imminent.  The release of this sensitive information has no doubt been helpful to his terrorist cohorts around the world.

It is deeply disturbing to me that the Intelligence Committee would be advised of sensitive information, and told of the vital imperative to keep such information secret for the sake of national security, only to see this information -- less than twenty-four hours later -- broadcast to the world from the White House.  This distortion of the congressional notification process suggests that other considerations are taking precedence over keeping timely and sensitive information away from our enemies.

Some have tried to use Abdulmutallab’s sudden cooperation as a justification for prosecuting this foreign terrorist in an Article III court, but I believe this development supports an opposing view.  Because we treated him in this fashion, we followed Miranda and advised him of his right to remain silent, losing five crucial weeks for obtaining imminent threat information.  Miranda is issued when statements from the accused are needed to obtain a conviction, but in this case we did not need his own statements as the chemical evidence he was wearing and over 200 witnesses would ably suffice; hence, the decision to Mirandize made no sense on a practical or strategic level.  Additionally, Abdulmutallab’s family was key in gaining his cooperation, and in most cases the suicide bomber does not have a moderate Islamic family willing to work with the United States; in fact, the opposite is most often the case (as with the suicide bomber that killed seven CIA officers in Khost, whose wife applauded her husband’s actions).

I urge you, Mr. President, to consider the consequences of publicly disseminating sensitive information vital to the defense of the American people.  I do not believe the American people want this information jeopardized to further political arguments.  The American people rightfully expect the government’s first priority to be their security.  It is also critical that our courageous law enforcement and intelligence professionals know that they can trust that sensitive information vital to their efforts to protect the American people will not be disclosed.

Sincerely,

Christopher S. Bond
United States Senator
    
Terrorism
2/6/10

Obama Says Anything -- And Does So, Again and Again

Hugh Hewitt says said the caller from Atlanta said, "I have seen more of President Obama than I have of my wife, and I'm a newlywed."

Funny.  And true.  And sad.  Stung by his defeat in Massachusetts after a personal appearance on behalf of Martha Coakley and a long speech telling Massachusetts voters why they had to send her to Washington, Obama seems intent on punishing the entire nation with speech after speech after speech.

We are to be cajoled into submission.

It isn’t working.  "He talks and talks," Mark Steyn said on my show Thursday.  "And the more his rhetoric is detached from reality, the more he’s actually devaluing his only currency which is words."

Obama’s meeting with Senate Democrats on Wednesday is the perfect example of the political cul-de-sac he finds himself in.  He is trying to use words to change the political weather, but the more he speaks, the more ridiculous his arguments appear.

He told the senators that "they needed to get out there, get out of Washington, out of the echo chamber."  This is laughable when this past August is recalled.  Democrats went home to their states and districts and found town halls jammed with ObamaCare opponents.  Then Obama urged them to disregard the voters.  They did so, and their political peril is palpable.  Now he is telling them to hold more town halls.

That’s not amazing as Obama’s rewrite of budget history, which somehow ignores that the budget deficit was $161 billion in 2007 and now stands at $1.6 trillion, a staggering number that is spooking markets.  "We’ve also got to get back to fiscal responsibility," he told the senators, and the listeners outside the room howled.  Not only is Obama not persuading the public of his ideas or his leadership skills, he is shrinking before their very eyes.  It is a poor impersonation of Jon Lovitz, with Obama thinking, "that’s the ticket!" with every paragraph he utters.

Obama does seem to realize that blaming President Bush, which was never very presidential to begin with, has become almost a sign of adolescence.  He is thus pivoting from blaming his predecessor to blaming the Congressional GOP.  Obama told the senators that they had had to face more filibusters in a single year than all of the filibusters of the 1950s and 1960s combined, and blamed the Republicans for obstructionism.  Of course this is nonsense.  Not a single successful partisan filibuster was mounted in 2009, which is not surprising because after Arlen Specter’s switch, the GOP totaled 40 votes.  A handful of Obama nominees languished because significant numbers of Democrats joined Republicans in opposing them, but the idea that obstructionism prevailed throughout 2009 is risible, and Obama who claims 60 votes is just not enough is risible as well.

The entire meeting was comedy though it was intended as drama, and Obama left thinking he’d had another great day, just as he thinks he won his debate with Republicans the Friday before.

While Obama pats himself on the back, however, the unemployment numbers climbed, the budget deficit shocked, the markets tanked and Iran threatened.  Obama is in a bubble of words and surrounded by "advisors" who are clearly overmatched by the world.  Even Republicans have to hope a shuffle is ahead for the senior staff, and that some experienced leadership is brought to 1600.  The country is in a difficult place, and unlike a debate tournament, losing a few rounds has enormous consequences.

We have to hope that Obama recognizes that his speech offensive has become offensive, and that what really needs to be done is some work.  Beginning with a red pen and his absurd budget.  When he asks his party to do anything remotely difficult --and that does not include demanding ruinous taxes on the small businesses they so obviously disdain and in some cases despise-- people may begin to listen again.

Or perhaps not.  Obama may already be in reruns in most voters minds, which makes for a long three years ahead.
    
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2/6/10

Two Faced

Ron Russell says we've all heard the expression, "a mirror image."  Most think the image and the reflection are the same when in reality -- they are opposites.
    
    
What we saw and heard from Obama on the campaign trail was one thing (the mirror image), and what we are getting now is the true Obama.  A far left politician with an almost alien agenda.  He simply wants to change American into his personal vision of what he thinks America should be.  His ideals come from years of influence by people who believe that capitalism is an evil and corrupt system.  He is using the economic downturn, which is a normal part of a free market system, to advance his agenda.  An agenda not of the European socialist kind, but one far more radical and foreign to the traditional American system.  This is a power grab that puts the efforts of Hugo Chavez to shame.  Its beginning to take shape and some see the looming danger it presents while others stand in awe waiting for the next words of the great orator.
    
Obamunism
2/6/10

Zeituni's Can Kicked Down The Road

Sweetness & Light comments on a Boston Globe report of an immigration hearing that could lead to the deportation of Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, ended today without a decision being issued.  Onyango has been living in Boston and has been under a deportation order since 2004 when her request for asylum was denied by a US Immigration Court judge.  Actually, Ms. Onyango was first ordered to be deported in 2003, according to another Boston Globe article.

She appealed that order in a closed-door hearing at the John F. Kennedy Building in downtown Boston, testifying for about three hours yesterday.
    
    
Onyango, who leaned on a cane as she moved around the building, did not speak with reporters.  Neither her attorney, Margaret Wong, nor Wong’s spokeswoman, Amy Cohn, would discuss her testimony.  Wong said Obama has not submitted any letter on behalf of his aunt.

At the White House today, spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama is staying out of the matter.  Obama learned about his aunt’s legal plight in 2008 during his campaign, Gibbs said. "We said then and we would continue to say that everybody in this country should and must follow the law," he said, according to a transcript supplied by the White House.  "We have not been involved at all in that hearing, and we’ll let the law play out as it should."

The aunt’s legal team said they were calling two medical doctors as witnesses.  They identified the doctors as Dr. David Stone and Dr. Robert Weiss.  Stone, they said, is Onyango’s personal physician.  They declined to identify Weiss’s medical specialty or hospital affiliation.  "The doctors are here in relation to her medical condition, but that’s not every aspect of the case," Cohn said…

Why is this hearing being held behind closed doors?  That is not the convention.  Is national security involved?  And why has Ms. Onyango’s case taken so long to decide?  She has been ordered to be deported twice; first in 2003, and then in 2004.  And, lest we forget, her deportation hearing was postponed from April of last year until yesterday.  And now the decision has been postponed again.

Meanwhile, in the past seven years nothing whatsoever has occurred to change the circumstances of the case.  Certainly the political situation in Kenya is no worse now, since one of her relatives, Raila Odinga, is the current Kenyan Prime Minister.  No, all that has changed is that Ms. Onyango has added to her list of illegal acts.  Which include an illegal $260 contribution to her nephew's presidential campaign.

She has also continued to bilk the US taxpayers out of money for public housing as well as expensive operations and, of course, for her immigration lawyers.

As the article suggests, Ms. Onyango’s attorneys are now claiming that her medical condition prevents her from returning to her native Kenya.  In fact, her lawyers now claim that Ms. Onyango cannot walk.  Indeed, her taxpayer supplied attorney, Ms. Margaret Wong claims, "she has to go in a wheelchair but because of her pride she tries to give the impression that she can walk."

We have to say, it’s a mighty convincing "impression."  Besides, nobody is saying she has to walk back to Kenya.

The American taxpayer has been paying for this parasite's existence for ten years, including that nice outfit she's wearing in the photo. 

We'll all be dead from old age before they deport this serial lawbreaker.  In the meantime she will continue to receive free housing, free money, free medical, and free legal -- is America a great country, or what?

It would be interesting to know if she is registered to vote.

     
Family
2/5/10

Billy's Back

Unrepentant domestic terrorist, and self-described communist, William "Bill" Ayers, is seeking to create a peace movement, "I think that what we need is a peace movement, and I'm trying to build one."

Ayers want to create a "peace" movement to "save" Obama's posterior, saying, "With any luck, the peace movement, the justice movement can save his (Obama's) presidency. ... So to me the injunction is to get busy and build a movement," Ayers stated in an April 2009 interview with The Commentary Factory.com.

When asked how he plans to build his "peace movement," Ayers replied: "Well, I mean, how do you build a movement?  How do you build a civil rights movement or peace movement?  Look at history.  All kinds of ways, but what we need is to stop spending billions of dollars on war and we need to invest in being a nation among nations and giving up on the insanity of thinking we can conquer the world."

But he'll have to interrupt his recent activities.  Lately, Ayers has been involved with pro-Palestinian activism, and last month, Ayers and his wife, Weather Underground co-founder Bernardine Dohrn, were involved in provoking chaos on the streets of Egypt in an attempt to enter the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to join in solidarity with the territory's population and leadership.

The protests were led by Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, a far-left activist organization formed in 2002 to protest America's war in Iraq.  The group previously met with Hamas and with leaders of the Taliban.  During the Iraq war, Evans delivered $600,000, in cash and supplies, to the Fallujah insurgents -- our enemy.  Evans, who has been described as "the face of the Democrats' future," was a fundraiser and financial bundler for Obama's presidential campaign.
    
One of Obama's greatest campaign lies was describing Bill Ayers as, just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood."

Ayers, not to be outdone,
lied that he knew Obama only slightly: "I think my relationship with Obama was probably like that of thousands of others in Chicago and, like millions and millions of others, I wished I knew him better."

Well, it is true that they were neighbors.  The rest is BS.

In fact, in 1985, Bill Ayers' Woods Fund
put up the money for Obama to move from New York to Chicago.  In 1985 the foundation gave a $25,000 grant to the Developing Communities Project (aka the "DCP"), which hired Obama, at 24, as an organizer on Chicago's economically depressed South Side."  Later, Obama joined the board of the Woods Fund in 1993 and remained until 2002.

In 1989, Obama was a summer intern at Michelle Obama's law firm
, Sidley & Austin.  Michelle was Barack's summer adviser.  One of Michelle's co-workers was Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers' terrorist wife.

In 1993, Barack Obama was named the the founding Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.  Bill Ayers organized the team to put together a grant proposal to secure nearly $50 million from the Annenberg Challenge.  The money was to be used by Ayers and company to bolster the radical Local School Councils reform project that Ayers and Obama had championed back in 1988 through the ABCs.  Ayers
personally selected Obama to serve as chairman, and Obama served on the board for eight years until the Challenge ended in 2003.  During this time, Obama and Ayers shared an office.

In 1995, a small group of people came to the communist, Bill Ayers' house, to learn that the communist, Alice Palmer, was stepping down from the state senate and running for Congress.  Said the communist, Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, "[Palmer] identified [Obama] as her successor."

And, of course, Obama and Ayers both hung out in the faculty lounge at the University of Chicago.

When Obama was unable to deliver a manuscript of "Dreams..." to Random House, he turned to Bill Ayers to help him finish what was to become a work of fiction, supposedly on the advice of wife, Michelle.  Thanks to the help he received from the skilled Ayers, Obama was able to submit a manuscript to his editors.

Obama lied to cover up the 20-year plus relationship, and his long-time friend and associate Bill Ayers lied right along with him -- remember, both these guys strongly believe that the end does justify the means.

And, there are those that believe Obama first met Ayers in 1981-1982, while Obama was at Columbia College and Ayers was 371 yards down the street at Bank Street College, where he was working towards an M.A. in Early Childhood Education.
         

Bill
Ayers
2/5/10

Another Doubting Thomas

Chelsea Schilling is reporting that the list of lawmakers and talkers questioning the eligibility of Barack Obama is growing.

Tennessee state Senate speaker and gubernatorial candidate Ron Ramsey has joined the growing ranks of officials and prominent commentators who say they are unsure of whether Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen.

Ramsey was asked Feb. 2 about the issue by Maclin Davis, a former state lawmaker and attorney for the state GOP.

"I don't know whether President Obama is a citizen of the United States or not," Ramsey responded.  "I don't know what the whole deal is there."

"But I'm going to tell you something," he said.  "When you walk out on the street down here, people don't really care about this issue.  "When we get off on sidelines like that, that's when people say 'aw,' they close their ears and don't listen," Ramsey said.  "I'm not saying you're not right, Mac, I'm not saying you're not right -- but that's not how you win elections."

According to the report, Ramsey acknowledged that he might be causing some apprehension among his political staff for even addressing the eligibility issue.  "I've got a table full of advisers sitting over there, and they'll probably start cringing right about now when I start talking about some of this stuff," he said.
    
Two things:

1.  The issue isn't about whether Obama is a citizen, or not.  The issue is whether Barack Obama meets the "natural born" requirement of Article 2, Section I, Clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States of America -- here is some background info.

2.  Ramsey is just plain wrong when he says, "people don't really care about this issue."  Check out the numbers on
this page.
    
Eligibility
2/5/10

You Talk Too Much


The Post-American Bandstand with Pat Boone (02:34)

He's the Obamamessiah, who's always got something to say and somewhere new to say it.  On Pat Boone's Post-American Bandstand, they're celebrating him with a song, featuring Zoe and the Zoettes.

Yup, that's really Pat Boone.
    
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2/5/10

Obama Throws Congressional Democrats Under The Bus

Jake Tapper reports that Obama gave a another speech last night.  This one was in front of the Organizing for America Obots, Democratic National Committee (DNC) members, and was webcast to any of the millions in his email database who wanted to hear Obama read another prepared script from the teleprompter.  It was clearly an attempt to rally his most loyal supporters after his continuing string of personal defeats.
    

"I know some of you might feel discouraged, Obama admitted, "because changing the ways of Washington is hard.  It’s harder than a lot of you thought it might be.  Sometimes it made you feel like it’s not possible.  You might want to give up.  Don’t give up."

    
He added that while he wants "to take our time," the key though, is to "not let the moment slip away" on health care.

Newsmax.com is reporting that the Obama agenda has been crippled, and that Senate Democrats are fractured, as Scott Brown is sworn in. 

Republican Scott Brown's swearing-in to the U.S. Senate means that Obama and the Democrats, who still enjoy big majorities in both the House and Senate, can do virtually nothing between now and the November elections without the GOP's say-so. 

So what happens if the bill in Congress does not pass?  It’s an election year, Obama said to remember:
    

"If Congress decides we’re not going to do it, even after all the facts are laid out, all the options are clear, then the American people can make a judgment as to whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not.   And that’s how democracy works, with the elections coming up.  And they will be able to make a determination, and register their concerns one way or the other during election time."

    
Obama sees the handwriting on the wall -- ObamaCare dies an inglorious death -- and he puts the blame on the Democrats in Congress -- it wasn't Obama's over-reaching -- he's never at fault.

Obama is a piece of work.  If it's successful, it's Obama's idea -- regardless of who thought of it.  If it fails, someone else is to blame.  It's  always been that way with Obama.

Look for Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to push back.  They're not going to fall on their swords for Obama -- especially Nancy -- she's not going to give up her perks.

    
ObamaCare
2/5/10
What's a Corpse, Man?


The dangers of being so heavily dependent on a teleprompter (00:54)
    
And not knowing what the hell you're talking about -- Obama twice mispronounces Navy "corpsman" (kôr′mən) -- and this is the guy who's telling the generals and admirals how to run the war.

John Hinderaker adds, what is significant about this is that "corpsman" is a military term.  Obama knows little or nothing about the military; it is as though he said "col-o-nel" instead of "kernel."  There are corpsmen stationed in the White House, but, after more than a year, Obama apparently doesn't know who they are, what they do, or how to pronounce their job.

God help Dan Quayle if he had done something as stupid as saying "corpse-man."  He never did.  Will Obama be laughed out of the Oval Office?  The jury is out.
    
    
    
Afterthought:  This video makes it obvious, that the first time Obama sees these speeches are when they show up on the teleprompter, otherwise someone on his staff surely would have corrected his pronunciation before the event.

    
Gaffes
2/5/10
If you're not using the Google "site search" to find stuff, you're not using The Obama File
    
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2/5/10

Obama’s Final Act Has Begun

The Post & Email says that final theatrical act of the greatest shyster and swindler in the history of the world has begun, and there seems to be no exit strategy which will save his goose.

I speak of the Eligibility Crisis and Obama’s phony claims to legitimately hold the office of the U.S. Presidency.

The opening words of the final act were uttered by Obama himself, at this year’s National Prayer Breakfast, this morning (video, next item):
    

"You can question my policies without questioning my faith -- or for that fact, my citizenship!"

    
To explain why Obama said this, and why he has begun to run scared, one needs to consider the present political climate.

Following the Democrats’ stunning and historic loss of the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts -- who would believe that one year ago? -- Obama’s party put in motion a political strategy which is pure Hillary-esq.  While appearing to defend Obama by politicizing his birth story, the decision to engage head-on on that issue is undeniably the most byzantine and Machiavellian way to get rid of him!

According to Politico, it was the initiative of Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Robert Menendez.  Among the ten litmus-test questions for a politically acceptable Republican opponent in the upcoming 2010 elections, Menendez’s committee chose one wing-dinger:

Continue reading here . . .

From the article -- Where did O’Reilly find them (the birth announcements)?  The Post & Email is the only site on the web where both have been published.  Did he perhaps just read The Post & Email, or did he do actual research?

Actually, both birth announcements are here, on The Obama File, and have been here since their discovery. .

Re: O'Reilly -- what Big Bill thinks is irrelevant.  There is not a court in the country that would accept two clippings from 50-year-old newspaper classified sections as evidence of anything.  Just think about it.  The birth announcements mean nothing.  Try getting a driver's license with old newspaper clippings as documentation. 

    
Eligibility
2/4/10
Obama Cracks


"You can question my policies without questioning my faith, or, for that matter, my citizenship."  (01:03)
    
Obama today at the National Prayer Breakfast raised the issue of his own eligibility for office -- saying that people shouldn't be questioning his "citizenship."

The questions, however, over Obama's "citizenship," actually go to the core of the American republic.  Multiple lawsuits have challenged that he is not qualified for the Oval Office under the Constitution's requirement that U.S. presidents be a "natural born citizen."

The plaintiffs -- who run into the hundreds so far and who still have a number of cases pending at the appellate level -- have alleged that failing to meet that constitutional requirement means he actually is a usurper, with no actual authority to be president.

On a forum page at The Hill newspaper, one commenter wrote that Obama has only himself to blame for the questions.
    

"Personally I am no birther… but I am curious as to why Obama continues to beat on this issue... is it a political ploy by his handlers to continue to use this as a divisive issue?  To try and embarrass a certain segment of the population?  And if not, why doesn't he just provide the certificate and end all the speculation for the conspirators once and for all?  Obama has certainly been a little less than forthcoming on his grades, his Harvard review publications and many other accomplishments…"

    
The reference apparently was the first time the issue has been addressed by Obama, even though he did not provided any answers.  His press secretary, Robert Gibbs, repeatedly has ridiculed questions related to the subject, and the White House itself has declined to respond to any of a multitude of questions submitted over months on the issue.

Despite his protestations, I have to question the anointed one, since we have absolutely nothing in common.  I'm an American -- I don't know what the hell Obama is.
       
Eligibility
2/4/10

Obama’s Auntie Still Freeloading

Michael Graham says Here’s another Obama sweetheart deal you won’t see on C-SPAN.

This morning, the fate of Boston’s most infamous illegal immigrant, Zeituni Polly Onyango (also known as "Aunt Zeituni") will be determined in a closed-door hearing.

Why in secret?  Because Auntie’s saga reveals every embarrassing truth that amnesty advocates and open-borders liberals like Mayor Tom Menino and Gov. Deval Patrick try to hide.

The most important being that illegal immigrants don’t get that way without first doing something, well, illegal.

Barack Obama’s Aunt Zeituni admits she illegally overstayed her visa.  Instead of obeying the law, she went to a judge in 2003 with a bogus request for asylum.  She was turned down.  She ignored the deportation order and instead filed an appeal.  She was told again: It’s illegal for you to stay -- she’s still here.

Aunt Zeituni donated $260 to her nephew’s campaign for president -- which is also against the law because she’s not a U.S. citizen.  How against the law is it?  Remember when Obama launched his unprecedented attack against the Supreme Court during his State of the Union?  His complaint was that foreigners might donate money to influence U.S. elections.

All these crimes extend from the first crime -- violating our immigration laws.  It is simply impossible to stay in this country illegally without committing other crimes, like tax fraud and identity theft.

But it’s not the illegal stuff that Aunt Zeituni’s doing that’s so outrageous.  It’s what she’s apparently able to do legally and openly.

She is shamelessly -- and happily -- living in taxpayer-subsidized housing intended for citizens and legal immigrants.  Is there some poor American veteran living in a shelter because she’s got this apartment?  Aunt Zeituni doesn’t care -- why should she?  Menino and the Boston Housing Authority don’t.

And now she’s back in court, using taxpayer resources with another bogus bid for asylum.  She says she can’t go back to Kenya because of "political turmoil."  Sorry lady, but if that’s the basis for an appeal, nobody would have been allowed back in the White House since Scott Brown’s election.

Aunt Zeituni’s case puts the lie to the old canard that all criminal immigrants are here to work.  She gets a stipend from a city program, along with her housing.  In fact, as the Center for Immigration Studies points out, illegal immigrant households are far more likely to be on the dole than the average American.  She also highlights the obvious truth of the Heritage Foundation study that our 12 million illegal immigrants are a $2.2 trillion net drain on the taxpayers over the course of their lifetimes.

All of which ignores the most obvious and angering question: Why are Boston taxpayers stuck taking care of the law-breaking aunt of the President of the United States?

She’s got a millionaire in the family right now, one who also happens to live in public housing, by the way.  He’s got room, too.  Worst case scenario, Joe Biden can bunk with Bo.

Instead we get another secret deal that’s almost certain to keep the taxpayers on the hook.  Obama, here’s a problem you can solve with a phone call.  Get your aunt a plane ticket to Kenya, or D.C., or hey -- how about Nebraska?

Call it the Ben Nelson version of immigration reform.  We pay for their Medicaid, Omaha pays for your aunt.

Obama could always put Aunt Zeituni up in his Chicago mansion -- it's currently unoccupied.
    
Family
2/4/10

Holder Says He Made Crotch Bomber Decision

9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America comment on Attorney General Eric Holder saying he made the decision to charge the Crotch Bomber terror suspect in the civilian system with no objection from all the other relevant departments of the government.  In a letter to Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, the attorney general says that the FBI told its partners in the intelligence community on Christmas Day and again the next day that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab would be charged criminally.

Mr. Holder apparently misunderstands his oath of office:
    

"I (name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter.  So help me God."

    
Nowhere within those words or our Constitution are the enemies of the United States afforded the rights of American citizens.  It is reckless to unilaterally provide a fair fight to those waging war against our troops abroad and civilians here at home.

Holder should resign and Obama should replace him with someone with no interest in defending the enemy’s "rights."

In an interview with 60 Minutes last spring, Obama discussed the handling of captured terrorists and challenged those who claimed the "American system of justice was not up to the task of dealing with these terrorists."  Obama said: "I fundamentally disagree with that.  Now -- do these folks deserve Miranda rights?  Do they deserve to be treated like a shoplifter -- down the block?  Of course not."

I don't believe Holder made that decision.  Holder, the Attorney General, and Gates, the Secretary of Defense are peers -- equals.  Both report to Barack Obama.  Gates can't order Holder to do anything.  Holder can't order Gates to do anything.

This decision was made by Obama.

    
Terrorism
2/4/10

Did Reuters Yank Article Because It Was Too Truthful?

Big Journalism says sometimes, the truth hurts.  In the case of an article published yesterday at 4:04 p.m. Eastern, it appears that Reuters editors were afraid writer Terri Cullen’s adventure into truthful journalism might hurt their news agency’s relationship with Barack Obama -- so they yanked it.

Published under the headline "Backdoor taxes hit middle class," the article opened by describing the Obama Administration’s plan to cut more than $1 trillion from the deficit over the next decade as relying "heavily on so-called backdoor tax increases that will result in a bigger tax bill for middle-class families."  Four hours and three minutes after it hit the wire, the story was "withdrawn," apparently at the Administration’s urging, with a promise that "a replacement story will run later in the week."

Why did Reuters pull the story?  One site cited a Reuters rep as saying the piece was withdrawn "due to significant errors of fact" and "should not have gone out."  I think it was the language used in the article that prompted Reuters to pull it.  In particular, it was the series of phrases shown below that, combined with the one mentioned above, must have made the hair stand up on the back of Rahm Emanuel’s neck:
    

"…effectively a tax hike by stealth."

"middle-class families will face a slew of these backdoor increases."

    
Perhaps the largest contributing factor to the article being yanked is a list of tax break provisions popular among middle-class families that Obama might allow to expire:
    

*  Taxpayers who itemize will lose the option to deduct state sales-tax payments instead of state and local income taxes.

*  The $250 teacher tax credit for classroom supplies.

*  The tax deduction for up to $4,000 of college tuition and expenses.

*  Individuals who don’t itemize will no longer be able to increase their standard deduction by up to $1,000 for property taxes paid.

*  The first $2,400 of unemployment benefits are taxable, in 2009 that amount was tax-free.

    
The last line of the story was, perhaps, the proverbial "nail in the coffin" for the Reuter’s piece:
    

* Trickle-down-taxation.

      
Propaganda
2/4/10

The "Ellie Light" Scandal

Brent Bozell says the declining (or is it dying?) newspaper industry has suffered another blow to its image as punctilious skeptic.  So much for the motto, "If your mother says she loves you, check it out."  It turns out a pile of American newspapers can’t manage to check out the most basic information about people who are flat-out using their pages to push political agendas.

A person with the name of "Ellie Light" has been successfully published with the same letter in at least 68 newspapers defending President Obama -- defrauding the editors by using local addresses.  Reports have "her" published in two papers overseas.

Who is "Ellie Light"?  We know this much: "She" is a fraud.

Is this an official White House or Organizing for America campaign?  Is it simply a dirty trick?  Is this brass-knuckles (and dishonest) politics from the DNC?  Or an unauthorized Obama groupie?  Some investigating conservative bloggers have found several candidates for the mysterious "Light" writer that could be connected to Obama.

But the ObamaMedia won’t.  This story hurts Obama, so they’ll spike it.  Count on that.

Continue reading here . . .
     
Gawker has confirmed that the mysterious pro-Obama letter-writer is, in fact, a nurse named Barbara Brooks from Kern County, Calif.  Except now Brooks says it's really her husband, Winston Steward (picture).
    
Propaganda
2/4/10

Obama Makes A Mockery Of His Own Lobbyist Ban

Timothy P. Carney says more than 40 former lobbyists work in senior positions in the Obama administration, including three Cabinet secretaries and the CIA director.  Yet in his State of the Union address, Obama claimed, "We've excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs."

Did Obama speak falsely?

Well, it depends on what the definition of "excluded lobbyists" is.

I asked the White House if he chose his words poorly, but the media affairs office defended Obama's statement: "As the President said," a spokeswoman wrote in an e-mail, "we have turned away lobbyists for many, many positions."

So, the country may have heard, "we haven't hired lobbyists to policymaking jobs," but the White House tells us Obama meant, "we only hired some of the lobbyists who applied for policymaking jobs."  In other words, they've excluded some lobbyists.

And this was in the context of reducing the "deficit of trust."

So Obama has, indeed, taken a Clintonian turn, but not toward the center.  Instead, he has adopted our 42nd president's use of clearly misleading statements that can be parsed so as to be factually correct, at least in a general sort of way.

Continue reading here . . .
    
Lies
2/4/10

Rush Limbaugh On Obama's State Of The Nation Speech

Well, yeah.  I gave up after 50 minutes.  I heard it all before.  There was nothing new in it.  The only difference was the tone.  I went back and listened to some of his soaring rhetorical speeches during the campaign.  This was defensive, petulant, immature, childish, sarcastic.  He's clearly angry that he's been rejected -- that his wonderfully brilliant ideas (health care and cap and trade) have been rejected.  I saw a guy, a young, inexperienced guy just mad.  I think, Gretchen -- I really do.  I think this is the first time in his life that there's not a professor around to turn his C into an A or to write the law review article for him that he can't write.  He's totally exposed.  There's nobody to make it better.  I think he's been covered for all of his life.  The fact that his agenda has totally failed this year is the best thing that could have happened to this country.  I thank God every day that this is going down the tubes, that that Massachusetts election happened.  Not that God had anything to do with it.  That's just the person I thank.
    
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2/3/10

Attorney General Will Not Corroborate Obama Birth

The Post & Email is reporting that while political momentum is building within the Democratic Party from coast to coast to make the issue of Obama’s claims to be born in Hawaii a litmus test for its political opponents in the 2010 general elections for Congress, a key component in such a strategy has been undermined by the Hawaii Attorney General’s Office.

In correspondence with The Post & Email, Jill T. Nagamine, Deputy Attorney General for the State of Hawaii, has made it clear that her office will not corroborate or back in any way the July 27, 2009 Statement of Dr. Chiyome Fukino, Director of the Hawaii Department of Health, which declared Obama Hawaiian-born and a "natural-born American citizen."

The stunning admission was made in an email sent to the Editor of this paper yesterday evening.

The implications of this denial are catastrophic for the Democratic strategy.

The Hawaii Attorney General’s office has the duty to prosecute the laws of the State.  Mark J. Bennett, the current Attorney General, was appointed to the office by Governor Lingle on Jan. 3, 2003.  He is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Honolulu, and a graduate of Cornell’s Law School.  Bennett is the first Republican to hold the office in 40 years.

According to published reports, Dr. Fukino has admitted that her July 27th statement received the verbal approval of the Hawaii Attorney General, who "o.k.’d it."

In an attempt to corroborate the contents of Dr. Fukino’s statement and understand better the value of that testimony, I put the following two questions to Nagamine, as a member of the press.
    

I am seeking some information in response to 2 questions I have. Please understand that your response(s) or non-response will be quoted by our paper.

Q. 1: Does the Director of the Hawaii Department of Health have any statutory duty or authority to define the citizenship status of anyone whose vital record(s) are kept by that department?

Q.2: According to the legal references employed by your office, what is the defition of a "natural-born citizen" of the United States of America?

    
I put my question to the Deputy Attorney General to avoid putting the Attorney General in a situation of a conflict of interest, if he in fact, did, as Dr. Fukino claims, advise her regarding her July statement.

Nagamine, in response, asserted that any answer to such questions given by her office would represent a conflict of interest for her office.  And that is an explicit admission that Dr. Fukino had no statutory authority nor duty to make such a statement, and that the Attorney General’s office will not stand behind Fukino’s claim that Obama is a "natural-born American citizen."  It is such, because if Fukino’s declaration had legal weight of any kind, surely a response to my questions would have corroborated that without such a conflict-of-interest scenario.  You only have a conflict if the Fukino claim would not be supported by a Nagamine response.

Continue reading here . . .
    
Birth
Certificate
2/3/10

Obama To Visit Indonesia

The Washington Post is reporting that Obama will make his first international trip of the year in March, visiting Indonesia and Australia.  The trip will be somewhat of a homecoming for Obama, who lived and was educated for several years in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, as a child.  White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says Obama will formally launch a comprehensive partnership with Indonesia during the trip.

This reminds me of an An American Expat in Southeast Asia blog entry about the last time a bunch of Americans went to Jakarta:
    

U.S. Congressman Eni Faleomavaega (D -- American Samoa) was in Jakarta, Indonesia, where had a private meeting in Jakarta with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Barnabas Suebu the governor for the Indonesian province of Papau.  In the meeting, Faleomavaega asked to travel to Obama's childhood school.

According to our Indonesian sources, "officials" who accompanied Faleomavaega were interested in acquiring any and all documentation or photographs of a young Barry Soetoro for America's "national archives" and they were offering cash, lots of it.  In a show of faith, Barack Obama's childhood school would be one of the very first beneficiaries of this outpouring receiving thousands of dollars to upgrade the school and for the purchase of computer equipment, thanks in part to the benevolence of this visiting junket.

The challenge of course was securing Indonesian government records potentially
damaging to Barack Obama's candidacy for the U. S. presidency as well as other records pertaining to a young Barry Soetoro and his family wouldn't be so easy to acquire and secure, and for this, the visitors would need the assistance and cooperation of the Indonesian government.

    
Read the whole thing at "An American Expat in Southeast Asia"
    
Islam
2/3/10

The Fall Of Barack Obama

In a January 20, 2010 editorial, the Editor in Chief of U.S. News & World Report, Mortimer Zuckerman, had this to say: "Obama’s ability to connect with voters is what launched him.  But what has surprised me is how he has failed to connect with the voters since he’s been in office.  He’s had so much overexposure.  You have to be selective.  He was doing five Sunday shows.  How many press conferences?  And now people stop listening to him…  He’s lost his audience.  He has not rallied public opinion.  He has plunged in the polls more than any other public figure since we’ve been using polls.  He’s done everything wrong.  Well, not everything, but the major things…  I don’t consider it a triumph.  I consider it a disaster."  And that’s what his friends are saying about him.

As the boy president occupied the White House on January 20, 2009 it was predictable that his presidency would last a year, at most, because the things he promised and the things he stood for were so uniquely un-American.  Looking back over his year in office, any reasonably precocious fourth grader could make a cogent argument in opposition to nearly everything he’s done.  In fact, his policies have been so extreme and so far outside the mainstream that he was destined to achieve the most spectacular fall from grace of any American president in history.  It was easy to see him serving out the final three years of his term as a virtual exile in the White House…afraid to venture out among any but the most rabid partisans.

Seeing his most ambitious initiative, healthcare reform, die in the flames of the Massachusetts Massacre, Obama made a hastily-planned "sortie" to Ohio for yet another Bush-bashing, self-aggrandizing stump speech on job creation.  It was vintage Obama… full of left wing hyperbole and planted questions from the Kool-Ade drinkers in the hand-picked audience… but there were just two things wrong with it:  1) Almost everything he said was either wrong or an outright lie, and,  2)  He is so overexposed that no one in the television audience really wanted to see him.

Obama Kool-Ade drinkers in the media, and elsewhere, like to describe Obama as a "very bright man, a true intellectual (compared to George W. Bush and Sarah Palin, of course)."  If that is the case, why has he demonstrated such a great inability to learn from his failures?  The strident words and the in-your-face attitude of his Ohio speech were proof that he has totally misread the meaning of the Scott Brown victory in Massachusetts.  Whatever hopes and dreams he had for his time in the White House, whatever grandiose plans he had for transforming the United States from a constitutional republic with a free market economy into a socialist dictatorship with a centrally planned economy, were all lost on Tuesday, January 19, 2010…one day short of a full year in office.  Yet, he appears to have learned nothing from the experience.

Continue reading Paul Hollrah here . . .
    
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2/3/10

A Strategic Redefining Of Homeland Security's Mission

Obama delivered the nation's first Quadrennial Homeland Security Review to Congress, defining homeland security for the first time as including hazards beyond terrorism, in a strategic document intended to drive long-term budget decisions.

Congress mandated the high-level strategic review in 2007, two years after Hurricane Katrina exposed failings in the government's response and four years after the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.  The initiative was modeled after the Quadrennial Defense Review, another congressionally mandated effort that directed the Defense Department to reset its strategies and budgets against evolving threats every four years.

Analysts said that production of the 88-page document marked a successful milestone for DHS, even though it is not as thorough as the Pentagon's version and will not be as influential.

"It is an incredible achievement," said James Jay Carafano, homeland security expert at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, noting that it came months after a Democratic administration's takeover of the department, that the Obama administration had never before run a quadrennial review for homeland security and that DHS lacked the Defense Department's resources.

"This study has given them a road map for how they are going to think through tough problems," including developing department human resources, analytical capabilities and research priorities, Carafano said.

Stewart Baker, former DHS assistant secretary of policy from 2005 to 2009, said that while the attempt to link DHS budget, strategy and threat information might be "lightweight compared to the Quadrennial Defense Review, it's heavyweight compared" to how, a couple years ago, officials in George W. Bush's administration had to make decisions based on "budget politics of the moment."

A copy of the review, obtained by The Washington Post, shows that the government's approach to homeland security continues to evolve away from a singular focus on terrorism.

The issue is still vexing because many experts still struggle to explain, "What is homeland security?"  "How is the homeland best made secure?" and "What does it mean to be prepared?," the review notes.

Continue reading here . . .

Kinda makes you feel safe, huh? -- "What is homeland security?" -- and, "defining homeland security for the first time as including hazards beyond terrorism, in a strategic document intended to drive long-term budget decisions." -- this document isn't about security -- it's about "driving long-term budget decisions" -- including hazards beyond terrorism -- that's bureaucratese for more reparations and redistribution.

These people aren't working on security issues. They're spending all their time figuring out how to loot America.

    
Terrorism
2/3/10

Obama Again Criticizes Trips To Las Vegas

ABC News reports Obama is catching heat from Nevada lawmakers and business leaders regarding his comments Tuesday criticizing trips to Las Vegas.

During Obama's phony town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire, he discussed the need to curb spending during tough economic times. "When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don't go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college."

Obama's comments come nearly a year after he criticized companies that received federal money for taking corporate junkets to Las Vegas. "You can't go take that trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on taxpayers' dime," he said at the time. Local business leaders say Nevada tourism suffered last year in part because companies canceled trips to Las Vegas in the wake of his comments.

His statement Tuesday drew sharp criticism from Nevada lawmakers. "The President needs to lay off Las Vegas and stop making it the poster child for where people shouldn't be spending their money," said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat. "Las Vegas is suffering through one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, and we cannot afford for the President to bring us down any further," added Republican Senator John Ensign. "Nevada has one of the most distressed economies in the country, and the President has done little to focus on job creation over the past year. Discouraging people from coming to our state to make a political point adds insult to injury," said Republican Congressman Dean Heller.

"Tourism is the number one economic stimulus for Southern Nevada and for many cities and states across the country. While we appreciate Las Vegas is top of mind for the President, we would ask that he offer words of encouragement instead of criticism," Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority President and CEO Rossi Ralenkotter said.

Obama is scheduled to visit Las Vegas this month, where he will undoubtedly be warmly met by mayor, who referred to Obama as a "slow learner."
  
What's really grotesque is Obama was using the boat and Vegas thingy as examples of the types of spending that should be cut when things are tight -- then he goes on to compare this to the way his administration is cutting spending.

He's insane!  He's in charge of a government that is the biggest spenders in the history of the planet -- and it's only going to get worse.

    
Gaffes
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Economy
2/3/10

Obama’s Deficit Dishonesty

Flopping Aces points out that Democrats try to claim it was Bush’s deficit, yet they want to use recovered TARP funds for another Obama slush fund.

If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a hundred times.  Despite the fact that Obama signed the most massive spending bills EVER, he tries to blame the deficit on George Bush.
     
    
Dick Morris takes the lie apart piece by piece here . . .

And, here's a video of Sen. Gregg turning the Obama "inherited deficit" lie on it’s head when he said, "What this administration inherited is not as important as what our children will inherit."  These really are the Obama deficits and no slick speeches by Obama can change that!

Is anyone asking where that money -- a 700% increase in spending in his first year -- is going?  Look at that chart.  Does anybody know what that money is going to be spent on -- other than solidifying the power of these Obamunists -- what changed in 2009 other than the government being seized by a motley collection of Marxists and socialists.

In the next ten years, he's spending 44 times more than the previous ten years.  Obama should be able to cure cancer and buy world peace with that kind of money.  What's Obama planning to do with that money?  What just changed?

    
Economy
2/2/10
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2/2/10

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"Already, we have made historic strides … to cut wasteful spending." -- Barack Obama
    
Economy
2/2/10

We Have Made Historic Strides

In his budget message to Congress, Barack Obama said, "Already, we have made historic strides … to cut wasteful spending."  He made the comment while presenting a budget proposal that for the second year in a row would fix federal spending at a percentage of Gross Domestic Product that is higher than at any time in the past 65 years.

In both fiscal 2010 and fiscal 2011, Obama’s budgets would have the federal government spend more than a quarter of the all the wealth produced by the nation in that year.

No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt has consumed such a large a share of the nation’s wealth through federal spending -- and FDR did it in the midst of World War II.

According to the historical tables that the White House released with Obama’s budget yesterday, the federal government will spend 25.4 percent of GDP in fiscal 2010, the federal budget year that will end on September 30.  Under the new budget that Obama is proposing for fiscal year 2011, the federal government will spend 25.1 percent of GDP in fiscal 2011, which begins on October 1.

Both of these budgets fall wholly within Obama’s term of office and would be approved by a Democratic Party that controls both houses of Congress.

By comparison, in fiscal 2002 and fiscal 2003, the first two years in which President George W. Bush presented budgets to Congress, federal spending ended up being 19.1 percent and 19.7 percent of GDP, respectively.

In the first two Obama budgets, spending has averaged 25.25 percent of GDP.  In the first two Bush budgets, spending averaged 19.4 percent of GDP.  That means that Obama, so far, is spending 30 percent more of GDP per year than Bush.

In 2008, Bush’s final full year in office, federal spending was 20.7 percent of GDP.  According to the budget projections released by the White House on Monday, federal spending will be 23.2 percent of GDP in 2012, the lowest rate for any of the four years of Obama’s term.  As the White House now calculates it, Obama will easily be the biggest spending president since World War II.

By comparison, FDR spent only 10.7 percent and 9.2 percent of GDP in 1934 and 1935, his second and third years of office, during the Great Depression.  This year, Obama will spend almost three times as much of the national wealth as FDR did in 1935

We have made historic strides … to cut wasteful spending -- is he kidding?  Is he a con man? -- deluded? -- incompetent? -- purposeful? -- one has to wonder if Obama believes his own BS?
    
Economy
2/2/10

Obama Parts Company With Reality

John Hinderaker says the Obama administration unveiled its budget for FY 2011.  The budget ostensibly covers the next ten years, but its projections for future years are meaningless.  The only year for which it has any significance is 2011, in which it anticipates $3.8 trillion in spending and an astonishing $1.6 trillion deficit.  In 2006, the last year in which the Republicans controlled Congress, the deficit was $248 billion -- one-seventh what Obama proposes for next year.

In his budget announcement today, Obama said: "[O]ur government is deeply in debt after what can only be described as a decade of profligacy."  So he proposes to put the country far more deeply in debt through profligacy of a sort that was undreamed of just a few years ago.

Obama said: "[W]e can't simply move beyond this crisis; we have to address the irresponsibility that led to it, and that includes the failure to rein in spending...."  But his budget doesn't rein in spending, it increases it over last year's precedent-shattering total by around $100 billion.

Obama said: "[I]t would be a terrible mistake to borrow against our children's future to pay our way today...."  His budget, in just the next year, will borrow $1.6 trillion against our children's future to pay our way today.

Either Obama has completely lost touch with reality, or he thinks we have.

UPDATE: One more thing.  The Wall Street Journal estimates that Obama's proposed repeal of many of the Bush tax cuts will cost Americans who earn more than $200,000 per year $1 trillion over the next decade, assuming that Obama's tax increases are not reversed.  Obama won in 2008 with what Michael Barone called a "top and bottom coalition."  He carried lower-income voters and those with incomes over $250,000, while middle-income voters went for McCain.  Now, Obama can kiss the top part of that coalition goodbye.
    
Economy
2/2/10

In America, Barack Obama Is Talking

Mark Steyn says he's talking.  Talking, talking, talking.  He talked for 90 minutes on the State of the Union.  No matter how many geckos you shoveled down your briefs, you still lost feeling in your legs.  And still he talked.  If you had an erogenous zone before, by the end, it was undetectable even to Frenchmen.  But on he talked.  As respected poverty advocate and former Sen. John Edwards commented, "After the first hour, even my malevolent genie was back in the bottle."

Like any gifted orator, Obama knows how to vary the talk with a little light and shade.  Sometimes he hectors, sometimes he whines, sometimes he demands.  "We do not quit," he said.  Boy, you can say that again!

So he did: "We don't quit.  I don't quit," he said.  But throughout the chamber, Democrats were quitting.  "I quit," says Rep. Marion Berry of Arkansas, declining to run in November.  "I quit," says Sen. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, doing likewise.  "I quit," says Beau Biden of Delaware, son of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., choosing not to run for his father's seat.

But not Barack Obama.  On he went.  As National Review Editor Rich Lowry put it after the Massachusetts vote, the public thinks Obama doesn't get it, and Obama thinks the public doesn't get it.  As he has the microphone, he's gonna keep talking at you until you do get it.  The ever tinnier, more perfunctory sophomoric uplift at the start and finish can't conceal the hope-killing, jobs-slaying, soul-sapping message in between, which has been consistent for two years.  As Obama sees it, whatever the problem, the solution is more Washington.

Simply as a matter of internal logic, this is somewhat perplexing.  After all, when he isn't blaming George W. Bush, Obama blames "Washington" -- a Washington mired in "partisanship" and "pettiness" and "the same tired battles" and "Washington gimmicks" that do nothing but ensure that our "problems have grown worse."  Washington, Obama tells us, is "unable or unwilling to solve any of our problems."

So let's have more Washington!  That raises the question:  Does even Obama listen to his speeches?

The public does -- at least to this extent:  They understand that when he's attacking the tired old Washington games, he's just playing the game, but when he's proposing the tired old Washington solutions, he means it.  That's the only Barack Obama on offer.  And everything he proposes means more debt, which at the level this guy is spending means higher taxes.

Functioning societies depend on agreed rules.  If you want to open a business, you do it in Singapore or Ireland because the rules are known to all parties.  You don't go to Sudan or Zimbabwe, where the rules are whatever the state's whims happen to be that morning.

That's why Obama is such a job-killer.  Why would a small business take on a new employee?  Obama is proposing a soak-the-banks tax that could impact access to credit.  The House has passed a cap-and-trade bill that could impose potentially unlimited regulatory costs.  The Senate is in favor of health care reform that would allow the IRS to seize your assets if you and your employees' health arrangements do not meet the approval of the federal government.  Some of these things will pass into law; some of them won't.  But all of them send a consistent, cumulative message:  There are no rules.

In such an environment, would you hire anyone?  Obama can bury it in half a ton of leaden telepromptered sludge, but the message is clear: more Washington, more regulation, more spending and no rules.

Obama and the Democrats have decided, in the current cliche, to "double down."  What's the endgame here?  Obama gave it away in his student loan "reform" proposals:  If you choose to go into "public service," any college loan debts will be forgiven because public service is more noble than the selfish, money-grubbing private sector.  C'mon, everybody knows that.  So we need to encourage more people to go into public service?

Why?  In the past 60 years, the size of America's government work force has increased five times faster than the population.  Yet Obama says it's still not enough:  We have to divert more of our human capital into the government machine.  He's explicitly telling you:  If you start a business, invent something, provide a service, you're a schmuck.  In the America he's building, you'll be working 24/7 till you drop dead to fund an ever-swelling bureaucracy.  Obama's proposals are bold only insofar as few men would offer such a transparent guarantee of disaster:  It's the audacity of hopelessness.

The end-game is simple to progressives.  When those working for the government, and for the unions, and those on the dole outnumber the rest of us, they control the country.  Doesn't matter what the Constitution says.
    
Economy
2/2/10

Obama Buys Prison

Lynn Sweet is reporting that Obama budget includes $237 million to buy an Illinois prison for Guantanamo detainees.

Obama's proposed a $3.8-trillion fiscal 2011 federal budget that includes $237 million for the purchase and upgrading of a prison in Illinois to house detainees now at the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba.

Obama sends his spending blueprint to Congress, with the money to buy the nearly vacant Thomson Correctional Center in northwest Illinois, 150 miles west of Chicago, in the Department of Justice funding request.  The State of Illinois and the federal government are currently negotiating over the purchase price of Thomson.

Continue reading here . . .

And we have a perfect facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that functions perfectly well.  This is nothing more than a $237 million kiss to Obama's cronies in Illinois.
    
Terrorism
2/2/10

The White House Has Become A Shrine To Obama

Newsbusters.com is reporting that Ed Schultz, on his radio show, talked about meeting with Obama advisor David Axelrod at the White House last week, along with fellow liberal radio host Bill Press and several other left-wing media types Schultz did not identify.
    

Schultz:  First of all you walk into the White House, in the West Wing, and there are picture all over, I mean everywhere! Of President Obama!  I mean, of his life in the first year as president of the United States.  Now I don't know if that's the way it is with every president, but it was almost a shrine.  I mean, well, here's a picture of Obama the president with his kids over here.  There he is getting on Air Force One.  Here he is with some military people.  Here he is on the line working the line at one of his campaign stops.  I mean, just, it was just one picture after another! (laughs)

      
       
Schultz is a far-left opinion-meister on MSNBC.  He considers himself a "progressive liberal."  His talk show is generally considered to be a very liberal-leaning program.  He is pro-union and centers a large portion of his radio show on the "plight of working class Americans."

This display of Obama's narcissism in the White House must really be something when an Obot like Schultz is surprised.

    
Update:  Just received this Hillbuz report from Stacy -- Today, ...took a much-needed break from the Internet and went down to the Museum of Science & Industry here in Chicago to see the White House model they have on display through February:  it’s a to-scale miniature, with cutaways into most of the rooms.  Apparently, the Zeif Family, who made and maintains this model, travels to the White House in each administration, measures any changes that were made, and recreates the interior of the White House to exacting detail.  They’ve been doing this since the Kennedy Administration.

What disturbs us is that, if the model is really exact in all details, the actual White House is chock full of crazy currently.
    
    
In the Zeif model, the East and West wings of the White House are plastered with propaganda. Inside all the offices, there are GIANT photos of the current First Family, the likes of which we’d expect to see in Pyongyang or the old presidential palaces in Baghdad, before the Husseins were ousted.  They aren’t even particularly good pictures -- like things cut out of People magazine or some other propaganda piece run on the Obamas.

It’s just strange that the Zeifs took the time to recreate everything else in such painstaking detail, but then plaster the interior of the East and West wings (but not the original White House itself), with giant images of Dr. Utopia and his "fashion icon" wife.  Unless the REAL East and West wings really are covered in this garbage.

The miniature computer screens in the offices are all functional, and play tiny propaganda reels praising the Obamas.   The White House cinema, located in the Collonade between the White House and the East Wing, also plays a DVD promoting the glory of all things Obama.

It’s really very strange -- and, there's more here . . .
    
Sounds like Schultz's description of the place might be understated.
    
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Family
2/2/10

Obama’s Aunt Zeituni

The Boston Herald is reporting that the illegal alien aunt of Barack Obama could learn this week whether she can put down roots in Boston -- or start packing her bags for a one-way trip back to Kenya.

And, save for U.S. Immigration Court Judge Leonard I. Shapiro, she’ll know before anyone else.  Zeituni Polly Onyango has persuaded Shapiro to bar the public from her removal proceeding Thursday morning at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building, though it’s unclear why.

"I assume (Shapiro) thought it would be a three-ring circus.  She’s the aunt of the president of the United States -- the most famous man in the world," said Mike Rogers, spokesman for the Ohio law firm defending Onyango, 57, against the Department of Homeland Security.
    
    
Officials claimed no knowledge of Obama meddling on behalf of his late father’s African half-sister, and said Onyango isn’t trying "to capitalize" on family favoritism.

"Everyone knows she’s related to him," Rogers said.  "It’s a no-win situation for him.  He can’t get involved in this.  The law has got to run its course."

Onyango, a computer programmer, has been in the country illegally since 2004, when Shapiro ordered her to leave. Recent attempts to reach her at the South Boston housing development where she’s been living since a December 2008 stay of her deportation have been unsuccessful.
    
Family
2/1/10
The Queen Of Belgium?



Nope!  That's Tampa mayor Pam Iorio.
       
Gaffes
2/1/10

Professor Obama?

Obama's State of the Union Address notched 4th lowest on the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Score Since FDR.

The text of Obama's address has a readability score for an average 8th grader -- two grades lower than George W. Bush's addresses and the historical average for modern presidents

Barack Obama's ability as a public speaker since his 2008 presidential campaign has been alternately viewed, often depending on whether or not one is an Obama supporter, along various dyads: being inspirational versus being aloof, intellectualizing versus lecturing etc.

Along those lines, in her first month as a commentator for FOX News, Sarah Palin criticized Obama's first State of the Union Address on Wednesday night as "lecturing" the American public.

Unlike the criticisms hurled at his predecessor, however, few have ever charged that Obama, a former senior lecturer in Constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School, has written or spoken too simplistically or catered his words to the lowest common denominator.

However, a Smart Politics analysis of nearly 70 oral State of the Union Addresses since the mid-1930s finds the text of Obama's speech on Wednesday evening to have one of the lowest scores on the Flesch-Kincaid readability test ever recorded by a U.S. President.

Continue reading the University of Minnesota's Smart Politics blog report here . . .

During the presidential campaign, Obama consistently and falsely claimed that he was a law professor.  The Sun-Times reported that, "several direct-mail pieces issued for Obama's primary [Senate] campaign said he was a law professor at the University of Chicago.   He is not.  He is a senior lecturer (now on leave) at the school.  In academia, there is a vast difference between the two titles.  Details matter."  In academia, there's a significant difference: professors have tenure while lecturers do not.

The University of Chicago Law School has now posted
a statement declaring his claims semantically sound: "The Law School has received many media requests about Barack Obama, especially about his status as "Senior Lecturer."

From 1992 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama served as a instructor in the Law School.  He was a Lecturer from 1992 to 1996.  He was a Senior Lecturer from 1996 to 2004, during which time he taught three courses per year.  Senior Lecturers are considered to be members of the Law School faculty and are regarded as professors, although not full-time or tenure-track.  The title of Senior Lecturer is distinct from the title of Lecturer, which signifies adjunct status.  Like Obama, each of the Law School's Senior Lecturers have high-demand careers in politics or public service, which prevent full-time teaching.  Several times during his 12 years as a professor in the Law School, Obama was invited to join the faculty in a full-time tenure-track position, but he declined."

    
I have previously questioned this guys intellectual capacity -- he's clever -- and smart -- but he's no deep thinker -- he's more concerned with the "Final Four" and the college football playoffs than he is with Iran and their nasty nukes.
    
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2/1/10

Obama Won't Connect Terror Dots

The Washington Times says the state of the Caliphate is better than it should be.

When a man is apprehended with a cache of weapons, body armor, a map of a military installation and jihadist personal effects, the natural response of most Americans is to assume the situation is terrorist-related.  The Obama administration says otherwise.

Lloyd R. Woodson was arrested Jan. 25 in rural New Jersey. He had been observed behaving strangely, wearing military-style fatigues and a bulletproof vest.  He had a weapon modified to fire .50-caliber rounds from beneath his jacket.  He had a hotel room full of weapons and ammunition.  Despite all these warning signs, the immediate response from the government was that this was "not a terrorism thing."

Bureaucratic lack of concern raises a critical question: If this is not the behavior of a terrorist, what is?

It's not clear what Obama thinks terrorism is, if it thinks it exists at all.  The administration doggedly maintains that political, especially jihadist, violence by individuals with no international linkage is not terrorism.  This definition might come as a surprise to the Unabomber, who for years was the most sought-after terrorist in America.

Obama's knee-jerk response that the Christmas Day bombing plot was not terror-related was probably one of the factors that led Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to be Mirandized quickly and treated as a criminal suspect.  It shouldn't matter that this was a domestic incident; he is a jihadist warrior, and the aircraft was his battlefield.

The same was the case with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, charged with killing 14 persons and wounding 31 in the Fort Hood massacre.  America was assured that Maj. Hasan had no foreign terrorist links, and he was not charged with committing an act of terrorism.  The Obama administration's report on the shooting, released three weeks ago, avoids mentioning radical Islam as a motivating factor in his rampage.  However, both Maj. Hasan and Mr. Abdulmutallab had relationships with Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is a leading member of al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula, and Abdulmutallab was trained by al Qaeda overseas.

Woodson also may have links to Islamic radicals.  A report by the Northeast Intelligence Network reveals that, according to a member of New Jersey law enforcement, Woodson's personal effects "not only associate him with 'radical Islam,' but also with a 'militant Islamic group.'"  But as the two cases mentioned above indicate, even this would not qualify him as a terrorist under the Obama administration's narrow definition.

In his State of the Union address, Obama bragged that in 2009, "hundreds of al Qaeda's fighters and affiliates, including many senior leaders, have been captured or killed -- far more than in 2008."  He claims this is a metric of progress.  However, if Taliban leader Mullah Omar gave a State of the Caliphate address, he could make the same claim.  More Coalition forces are being killed in Afghanistan, and Taliban attacks are increasing in size, scope and frequency.

Analysts suggest that Osama bin Laden's audiotape released last week signals the potential for future attacks.  An unusually high number of people on no-fly lists are trying to board aircraft.  Increasing casualties and activity on both sides are not metrics of progress; they are signs that the war is heating up.

According to the Pew Research Center, terrorism ranks slightly below jobs and the economy as a top public priority.  Americans know there is a problem.  Official statements claiming that incidents are not terror-related will not change the fact that they are.  Connect the dots, Mr. Obama.  The war on terrorism is still on, and it's getting hotter.
    
Terrorism
2/1/10

Easy On The Enemy -- Obama's Attempt To Impress Liberals

Just whom are we trying to impress?

That's a question that occurred to me when, on his second full day in the presidency, Barack Obama announced we would close the Guantanamo detainee facility within one year.

It's a question that has kept occurring to me over the last year and nine days, even though Obama and his administration have proved unable to keep that promise.

Whom are we trying to impress by ruling out enhanced interrogation techniques on unlawful combatants, techniques that produced valuable intelligence that saved American lives?  Whom are we trying to impress by limiting questioning to the Army Field Manual?

That's a good guide for handling prisoners of war and other lawful combatants covered by international law.  But whom are we trying to impress by extending those protections to those who are not covered by the Geneva Conventions or other treaties we have signed?

Whom are we trying to impress by trying Khalid Sheik Mohammed in civilian courts after he already pled guilty to a military tribunal?  And trying him in New York City, where the trial will cost something like $1 billion and tie up Lower Manhattan for years?

Would these people we are trying to impress be that much less impressed if the administration belatedly follows the advice of Mayor Bloomberg and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and stages that trial on a military base or elsewhere outside of New York City?

And whom are we trying to impress by treating the failed Christmas bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab not as a military combatant but as a common civilian criminal, even though he launched an attack on America from outside the country?  Whom are we trying to impress by administering Miranda warnings and telling him that he has a right to a lawyer and the right to remain silent?

If the answer to these questions is that we are trying to impress Islamist terrorists, we've clearly failed.

Continue reading Michael Barone here . . .
     
Terrorism
2/1/10

Obama Surrendering Internet To Foreign Powers

Without the ingenuity of America’s brightest minds and the investment of U.S. Taxpayer dollars, there would be no Internet, as we now know it today.

Now, the Obama administration has quietly moved to cede control of the web from the United States to foreign powers.

Some background:  The Internet came into being thanks to the genius work of American's, Dr.Robert E. Kahn and Dr. Vinton G. Cerf.  These men while employed by the Department of Defense, in the DARPA office (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), in the early 1970’s, went to work conceiving, designing and implementing the idea of "open-architecture networking."  This breakthrough in connectivity and networking was the birth of the Internet.

These two gentlemen had the vision and the brainpower to create a worldwide computer Internet communications network that forever changed the world and how we communicate in it.

They discovered that by providing a person with a unique identifier, (TCP/IP), which was able to be recognized and interact through a network of servers, all users then could communicate amongst themselves and with others.  The servers would recognize the identifier and connect networks-to-networks, (utilizing a series of giant servers), that would pass on information from computer to computer in a seamless real-time exchange of information.  This new process of communication became know as the "information super highway," the Internet.

Now for the bad news -- in an effort to show the World how inclusive, sharing, cooperative and international America can be, the Obama administration has set off on a plan to surrender control and key management of the Internet by the U.S. Department of Commerce and their agents.

Continue reading Bradley A. Blakeman here . . .
    
Economy
2/1/10

$100,000 Offered For Proof Of Eligibility

Political Vel Craft is reporting a businessman is asking for Obama to document his eligibility.

Jason Hommel, a man who runs a silver business and offers stock investment advice, has announced he’s offering a reward of $100,000 for proof meeting that Barack Obama is a "natural born" citizen of the United States and, therefore, eligible to be president.

Hommel announced the offer on his website.

"I, Jason Hommel, promise that I will give $100,000 to the first person who can prove to my satisfaction that Barack Obama, acting as president of the United States, is a 'natural born' citizen of the USA, which is a qualification to hold the office as indicated in the U.S. Constitution," he wrote.

"Please prove that Obama is a 'natural born' US citizen, and put to rest the claims in lawsuits that include contentions Obama was born in Kenya, wasn’t a 'natural born' citizen because of his father’s Kenyan citizenship, was a dual citizen and that his mother wasn’t old enough to transmit citizenship at birth. In addition, his citizenship is clouded by his move as a child to Indonesia and apparent adoption by an Indonesian citizen who married his mother."

Continue reading here . . .
    
Eligibility
2/1/10

16 Different Social Security Numbers

Private investigator Neil Sankey, using Intelius, Lexis Nexis, Choice Point and other public records, found around 25 Social Security numbers connected with Barack Obama’s name.

However, it may not be as many as 25, since Sankey also searched using closely related names such as: "Barak Obama," "Batock Obama," "Barok Obama," and "Barrack Obama."  There may very well be some Kenyans living in America with the same last name and a similar first name.  In any case, I will exclude these records for the purpose of this research and focus only on names spelled exactly like his name.

Moreover, we can verify many of the Social Security numbers as valid since they’re connected to addresses at which we know Obama resided.  Needless to say, there are also a slew of address and social security numbers connected to addresses in states that Obama has no known connection to.

In Obama’s home state, Illinois, Sankey tracked down 16 different addresses for a Barack Obama or a Barack H. Obama, of which all are addresses he was known to have lived at.  Two Social Security numbers appear for these addresses, one beginning with 042, and one starting 364.

In California, where Obama attended Occidental College, there are six addresses listed for him, all within easy driving distance of the college.  However, there are three Social Security numbers connected to these addresses, 537 and two others, each beginning with 999, which are not valid SSNs.

There are no addresses listed in New York where he attended Columbia University, but there is one listed for him in nearby Jackson, NJ, with a Social Security number beginning with 485.

In Massachusetts -- where Obama attended Harvard Law School -- we find three addresses, all using the 042 Social Security number.  After Obama was elected to the United States Senate in 2005, he moved into an apartment at 300 Massachusetts Ave NW; the Social Security number attached to that address is the 042 one.  Yet, three years later, Obama used a different Social Security number for an address listed as: 713 Hart Senate Office Building.  This was the address of his United States Senate office.  This Social Security number began with 282 and was verified by the government in 2008.

This mystery grows even stranger as other addresses and Social Security numbers for Barack Obama appear in a dozen other states not known to be connected to him.  Again, I am excluding those records names not spelled exactly like his name.

Tennessee, one address with a Social Security number beginning with 427

Colorado, one address, with a Social Security number beginning with 456.

Utah, two addresses, with two Social Security numbers beginning with 901 and 799.

Missouri has one address and one Social Security number beginning with 999.

Florida has two addresses listed for his him, three if you count one listed as "Barry Obama."  One is connected to a Social Security number beginning with 762.

In Georgia there are three addresses listed for him, all with different Social Security numbers: 579, 420, and 423.

In Texas there are four different addresses listed for him, one is connected to Social Security number 675.

There are two addresses listed for Barack Obama in Oregon and one address listed for him in the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

All told, there are 49 addresses and 16 different Social Security numbers listed for a person whose name is spelled "Barack Obama."  In some cases, the middle initial "H" is listed.  If you were to expand the search to include closely related names such as: "Barac," "Barak," and "Barrack" Obama, you would find more than a dozen additional addresses and Social Security numbers.

Finally, the one Social Security number Obama most frequently used, the one beginning with 042, is a number issued in Connecticut sometime during 1976-1977, yet there is no record of Obama ever living or working in Connecticut.  Indeed, during this time period Obama would have been 15-16 years old and living in Hawaii at the time.

Extracted from an article by Steve Baldwin.  Read the whole thing here . . .

Susan Daniels, a second investigator filed an affidavit, with true and correct copies here, in the Barnett v. Obama case.  Susan Daniels is a private investigator, licensed by the State of Ohio.

In her affidavit, Daniels states that she has located Barack Obama's Social Security Number.  She states it was issued between 1977 and 1979 in the State of Connecticut.  She states that it is the only Social Security Number Barack Obama ever used.

The number assigned to Barack Obama "appears to be associated with someone born in the year 1890."


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Eligibility
1/31/10
This Guy Is Clueless
    

This is why they don't let Obama speak without TOTUS  (03:21)
        
Gaffes
1/31/10
"Overwhelming Scientific Evidence"


Obama laughed at when he brings up Junk Science  (00:32)
    
Wednesday night the Usurper In Chief made the statement that in spite of overwhelming proof, some people still refuse to acknowledge global warming.  The link below lists 31,486 of them.  See for yourself! --- Mack

A petition was signed by 31,486 American Scientists that stated ... "there is no scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate." 

For information on the peer-reviewed research and a list of signers by state, click here . . . 
    
Environment
1/31/10

Obama Big Hit As TV Broadcaster

Barack Obama, deluder in chief of the free world, gave notice that if things don't work out in politics then he just might end up behind the microphone doing basketball commentary.

The Los Angeles Times reported that Obama spent several minutes today during the second half of the Georgetown-Duke basketball game at the Verizon Center in Washington with broadcast team Verne Lundquist and Clark Kellogg.  He provided insightful analysis as well as getting off a few jabs and zingers, such as:

"After retirement, I'm coming after your job, Clark.  I'm just letting you know.  So you either have three more years or seven more years."

"I went to the Republican House caucus just yesterday to prove that I could go to my right once in a while."

Why wait -- I vote right away -- why wait three more years -- basketball announcing seems like something Obama would be good at -- two or three hours every day in front of the camera and the microphone -- adoring fans -- telling tall tales -- yeah! -- he'd like that.
    
Biography
1/31/10

Obama Organizing In High School

Atlas Shrugs has an exclusive report about a student in the eleventh grade in an Ohio High School.  Her government class passed out this propaganda recruiting paper so students could sign up as interns for Obama's Organizing for America (OFA is the former mybarackobama.com site.)

Obama is using our public school system to recruit for his Alinsky-inspired "people's organization."  Organizing for America is (and I quote) recruiting in our high schools to "build on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering students across the country to help us bring about our agenda" ............of national socialism.

The Ohio High School is Perry Local in Massillon, Ohio.

This is incredible.  And evil.  Suffer the little children -- enlisted like SS youth.  This is no accident.  Obama is poisoning our public school system.  He acts as if it's his own private breeding farm.  Once again academic learning and achievement is hopelessly abandoned, and supplanted by radical leftist activism from the leftwing Alinsky indoctrinators in the perverse public school system.

Children must be advised to expose this ugly propaganda.  Children must tell their parents how they are being used and manipulated.  Parents, warn your kids.  Better yet, home school.

Check out this story and the "recommended reading" list here . . .

Obama is using the power of the office and gazillions of tax-dollars to build his political base -- he's still organizing -- why? -- what's next?
    
People's
Organization
1/31/10
Seen Along The Highway
    


         
Not
Archived
1/31/10

Obama’s Lexicon Of Rhetorical Devices

Ben Shapiro says Obama’s friends call him the smartest man ever to occupy the White House (a dubious claim in light of the fact that John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson all had better intellectual credentials or were far superior writers, or both).

According to his supporters, his command of the English language is supposedly unparalleled (when using a teleprompter, presumably).

There’s only one problem: Obama is addicted to using language that he has carefully tailored or perverted to obfuscate the truth.  In other words, he uses double talk on a routine basis.

In order to understand what Obama truly tells us when he speaks to us, it is necessary to grab our Little Orphan Annie Decoder Ring and decipher precisely what he means when he uses his pet phrases.  This, then, is a list of his favorite linguistic flourishes -- and just what he means when he uses them:

"Hope and change":  Socialism at home, surrender abroad.  Obama uses this talismanic formula when he wants to activate his base, which responds to it like a jukebox when you drop in a nickel.

"False choice":  A very real choice Obama wants to pretend doesn’t exist.  He uses this when he puts on his "pragmatic administrator" mask.  Instead of facing up to the reality that we sometimes have to choose between scientific advances and morality, or between civil liberties and national security, or between environmental regulations and economic development, Obama pretends he can solve these conflicts through some sort of Hegelian synthesis only he is wise enough to comprehend.

"Deficit reduction":  Deficit increases.  Obama suggests that he will cut the rate at which the deficit is growing -- something he has never actually achieved -- and acts as though this is actual deficit reduction.  It’s the equivalent of a person spending $2,000 on his credit card, then informing his credit card company that though he won’t pay off his debt, he’ll only spend $1,500 next month.

"Let me be clear":  Let me lie to you.

"Make no mistake":  See "let me be clear."

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Lies
1/30/10
Less Than One Hour


A litany of Obama's failures in dealing with the Crotch Bomber  (05:14)
    
Terrorism
1/30/10

Obama Lies About Being A Bolshevik

Rush Limbaugh:  Obama says he's not a Bolshevik but, folks, the Communist Party USA loves Obama.  Here are just some sample headlines.  "CPUSA and Obama Platforms are Identical."  August 8th, 2008:  "Forget for the moment about Bill Ayers and Obama's other Communist friends and mentors of the distant past," and they go on to cite how his agenda and theirs, Obama's and the CPUSA, are identical.

Look, we had some fun with this in the first hour but Osama has come out and started spouting every talking point on global warming from Al Gore and Nobel Peace Prize-winning United Nations to Barack Obama:  Beating up on America, America is destroying the planet, America didn't sign Kyoto; Osama's signaling his desire to destroy USA, its economy, Western civilization, capitalism.  It's just what the Communist Party USA wants, just what Obama is doing.  Here's another:  CPUSA: Obama Will change USA Forever," and they're happy about it!  August 7th, 2008: "Communist Party CPUSA Endorses Obama."

"Communist Party USA Hails Obama Victory."  "'From the understandably elated editors of the Communist Party USA's people's weekly, formerly the Daily Worker, July 1st, 2009: 'Communist Party USA Celebrates Obama's First Six Months.'"  "Communist Party USA to Take the Streets for Obama," August 10th, 2009.  This is to oppose the tea parties and the town hall meetings that were going on.  "Communist Party USA Honors SEIU and the AFSCME Union Leaders."  "CPUSA Speech Lays Out Obama Agenda."  I mean, it's right there for people to see; and these are not, you know, play communists.  They're not all that powerful here.  Well, they are actually with Obama in office.  But he says that he's not a Bolshevik.  "I'm not.  I'm not an ideologue," but he most definitely is.
    
Obamunism
1/30/10

Obama Lies About White House Roll

Kristinn Taylor says that Obama claims his team had nothing to do with the Cornhusker Kickback, but Rahm Emanuel says, they did.

Hours before his embattled boss gave his first State of the Union address, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel contradicted Barack Obama’s claim made just two days before that he had nothing to do with the much maligned deal to get the vote of Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) for the Senate’s healthcare bill just before Christmas.

Speaking to ABC News’ World News Tonight anchor Diane Sawyer in an exclusive interview on Monday, Obama denied being involved in what has come to be known as the "Cornhusker Kickback"
    

SAWYER: A lot of people think you must say at the end of the day, this is not who I was in 2008, these deals with Nebraska, with Florida…

OBAMA: Let’s hold on a second, Diane.  I mean, I think that this gets into a big mush.  So let’s just clarify.  I didn’t make a bunch of deals.  There is a legislative process that is taking place in Congress and I am happy to own up to the fact that I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked.  So that’s point number one.

    
In an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on Wednesday, Emanuel flatly stated that he and the Obama administration were heavily involved in the Cornhusker Kickback as well as the other deals that provoked outrage from the public and helped Republican Scott Brown win the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by the late Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.
    

Couric:  As you know, people were pretty disgusted by deals that were made up on Capitol Hill like the one given to Ben Nelson to win his support.  If the White House was so involved, was this done with your blessing?  But…

Emanuel:  Look, we were involved in the legislation all the way through.

Couric:  Were you involved in that?

Emanuel:  Yeah. I’m not gonna go through all of it…

Couric:  But in the Ben Nelson deal?

Emanuel:  We were helpful in getting the bill off the Senate floor.  And in retrospect the things -- as I said to you just earlier, things you woulda done different.

    
To repeat what Obama told Diane Sawyer about the Cornhusker Kickback:
    

So let’s just clarify.  I didn’t make a bunch of deals.  There is a legislative process that is taking place in Congress and I am happy to own up to the fact that I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked.

    
The mainstream media has thus far ignored Obama being exposed as a liar by his own chief of staff.  A few conservative outlets have noted a Washington Post article from December 20, 2009 that reported the involvement of Emanuel and other White House staff in the Senate negotiations.  With Emanuel himself confirming the Obama administration’s involvement with the Cornhusker Kickback, Obama has some explaining to do.  Well, he would if he were a Republican president.

Many believe that holding the Congressional negotiations on ObamaCare in the White House, with members of the Executive branch involved, violated the constitutional concept of separation of powers.
    
Lies
1/30/10

And Lies About ObamaCare

Tom Bevan says there's been a remarkable amount of coverage of Barack Obama's appearance at the House Republican retreat on Friday, but he hasn't seen anyone focus on his rather stunning admission about the Democrats' health care legislation (Video):
    

The last thing I will say, though -- let me say this about health care and the health care debate, because I think it also bears on a whole lot of other issues.  If you look at the package that we've presented -- and there's some stray cats and dogs that got in there that we were eliminating, we were in the process of eliminating.  For example, we said from the start that it was going to be important for us to be consistent in saying to people if you can have your -- if you want to keep the health insurance you got, you can keep it, that you're not going to have anybody getting in between you and your doctor in your decision making.  And I think that some of the provisions that got snuck in might have violated that pledge. [emphasis added]

    
If we take this statement at face value, Obama is admitting the the health care bills passed by either the House or Senate (or both) contained provisions which were "snuck in" - presumably by Democratic members and perhaps on behalf of certain lobbyists -- that would have in fact prevented people from keeping their current insurance and/or choosing the doctor they want.
    
Lies
1/30/10

And, In Hawaii, The DOH Lies

 

This information has been copied whole from butterdezillion blog -- there are a ton of links associated with this stuff at butterdezillion blog -- "DOH" is the acronym for Hawaii's Department of Health.

People are asking how so many terrorist red flags could be overlooked by so many.  The same way these "birther" red flags were not only overlooked but ridiculed:

      

1.1.  DOH Director Fukino illegally hid until Nov 2009 the DOH Administrative Rules showing that election officials could have received a copy of Obama’s original birth certificate without his permission.  The DOH has said they can’t release any records without Obama’s permission.  But HRS 338-18(a) allows state laws and DOH rules to govern the disclosure of vital records, and the current rules -- Chapter 8b, 2.5(A)(1)(f) -- would allow any election officer transacting the placement of Obama’s name on the ballot to receive a certified copy.

1.2.  The DOH has falsely said that HRS 338-18 prohibits disclosure of government processing records. There are 2 kinds of records -- records of the vital events themselves, and records of the government’s handling of those records.

    
Certificates are the record of the vital events.  HRS 338-18(a) says that information about the actual birth, death, marriage, and divorce events may only be released according to the provisions set by law or Department of Health rules, thus referring everyone to the DOH Administrative Rules to see how information on actual certificates may be disclosed and to whom.  Far from barring "any disclosure" as claimed by the DOH, current Administrative Rules allow a non-certified abbreviated copy of a birth (Chapter 8b, 2.5B), marriage (Ch 8b, 2.8C), or death (Ch8b, 2.6C) certificate to be released to anyone who asks for it.  However, a public statement of where someone was born -- such as Fukino’s July 27, 2009 statement about Obama -- is not allowed by the rules (Ch 8b, 2.1A).

All other records are public, except that neither direct viewing nor certified copies are allowed unless the requestor has a direct and tangible interest.  Non-certified copies, abstracts, and disclosure of information from the documents are not prohibited -- which, according to Hawaii’s "Sunshine Law" (UIPA) means they must be disclosed upon request, except for certain exemptions, such as for information having privacy interest that outweighs the public interest in disclosure: date of birth, gender, and address .

Since a damaging disclosure of records processing was made in September (see #3), The DOH has been denying access to these records by claiming that ANY DISCLOSURE is forbidden.

 

1.3.  Though ridiculing "birthers" publicly, the DOH has PRIVATELY confirmed Obama’s online COLB’s as forgeries -- a fact the DOH has known since the beginning.  Because processing information is subject to disclosure, the DOH was forced in Sept 2009 to reveal that Obama’s birth certificate has been amended (OIP interpretation) and that Obama or his representative has paid a fee to have his certificate amended.  Amendments must be noted on the certificate (Ch 8b, 3.1), so the DOH has known this entire time that both the Factcheck and Fight the Smears COLB’s are forgeries, since they have no amendment noted.

1.4.  Every government agency in Hawaii contacted thus far has explicitly denied that they have a responsibility to report known forgery and/or have refused to report suspected forgery to law enforcement.  This includes the Department Of Health, Office of Information Practices (OIP), lieutenant governor’s office, and every member of Hawaii’s House and Senate.  Janice Okubo of the DOH seems to have stated that law forbids her to disclose ANYTHING about a birth certificate -- even that it’s a critical, very public forgery.  The Ombudsman’s Office has said they don’t investigate crimes and only report evidence they uncover themselves.  See no evil…

1.5.  The amendment made to Obama’s birth certificate renders it insufficient evidence for legal purposes.  Minor administrative errors (such as typos) don’t remove the prima facie evidentiary value of a birth certificate, but such no-fault errors don’t result in a fee (Ch 8b 3.5C, 3.11, 3.1, & HRS 338-17) and Obama was charged a fee.  Legal name changes also don’t affect the evidentiary value, but the lieutenant governor’s office has confirmed that there has been no legal name change for anyone named Obama, Dunham, Soetoro, or Sutoro.

1.6.  Kapiolani Hospital received a letter signed by Obama on White House stationery and with raised seal claiming Obama was born there, even though that could only be true if Obama’s amendment contradicted the doctor’s testimony.  If he had been born in a Hawaii hospital the hospital itself would have been responsible for the content on the birth certificate and the DOH responsible for any clerical typos.  The only way Obama would be charged for an amendment is:

     a)  if he or his representative claimed to have filled out the certificate themselves and erred, or

     b)  if Obama claimed the doctor’s testimony was wrong.

1.7.  The DOH has broken Hawaii law to make rule changes (see July 11 addendum at bottom) that would protect Obama.  In mid-June of 2009 the DOH stated that they will no longer issue long-form birth certificates (an action reported in real time by The Obama File).  This is in direct violation of the current rules, without following HRS 91-3 mandates for an open process for rule changes -- the first of several such violations within the past year.

1.8.  Fukino stated on July 27, 2009 that Obama’s records verify his birth in Hawaii, but Hawaii law forbids her to conclude that, since all the DOH has is legal hearsay.  According to PHR Chapter 8b and HRS 338-17, only a judicial or administrative person or group can evaluate the accuracy of the claims when an amended document is presented as evidence.  Obama has had many, many opportunities to present his birth certificate as evidence in lawsuits.  He has refused -- even going so far as rescinding military orders rather than risk a judge seeing his birth certificate.  There is no process by which Obama would present his records to Fukino as evidence.

1.9.  Having made the illegal statement, Fukino refused to obey UIPA which required her to release the documents on which her statement was based.

1.10.  The DOH has deleted documents required to be stored for at least 2 years.  The DOH says it no longer has the UIPA request or invoices showing Obama’s birth certificate was amended.  The DOH’s own "Rules of Practice & Procedure" (11-1-30) say that documents must be stored as long as the case can be contested -- August, 2011 in this case.

1.11.  Fukino averted discipline against herself by promoting the OIP director, who was replaced by the attorney who has designed the DOH’s deceptive responses.  Six days after Leo Donofrio’s blog said he would ask OIP Director Tsukiyama for disciplinary action against Fukino and Okubo for their deception, Tsukiyama resigned from the OIP to take a promotion to a company on whose board of directors Fukino sits.  He granted Cathy Takase’s request to have control of all DOH matters and asked her to replace him.

      

Now OIP is leaving HRS 338-18 rulings up to the DOH.  All DOH responses contain deceptions #1 & 2, including disobeying their own rules for non-certified abbreviated copies of birth, marriage, and death certificates.  They deny that documents exist which are required by law, such as descriptions of their forms, procedures, and instructions which are mandated in HRS 91, etc..

Red flags.  This information has been given to every lawmaker in Hawaii, the OIP, DOH, Ombudsman’s office, HI lieutenant governor’ and governor’s offices, Nebraska’s US attorney (who says they won’t take reports from citizens), and Hawaii’s director of the Department of Public Safety, as well as to multiple news organizations.  The FBI thrice said they don’t investigate document fraud.  All refused to act.  Red flags.

 

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Birth
Certificate
1/30/10

Hearing Set For New Black Panther Case

Michael P. Tremoglie is reporting that the United States Commission on Civil Rights (CRC) announced that it will hold a public hearing on February 12, 2010, regarding the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case.  Its purpose is to collect information within the jurisdiction of the Commission related particularly to the Department of Justice's actions in the New Black Panther Party (NBPP) and enforcement of Section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act.

The CRC wants to know the reason the Department of Justice (DOJ) dismissed voter intimidation charges in May against members of the New Black Panther Party after they had already won a default judgment in the civil suit filed in January.

One of the witnesses will be Chris Hill, a Republican poll watcher.  He told The Bulletin that one of the Republican poll watchers felt intimidated.  "He was inside the building and he refused to stand outside with the two New Black Panthers," he said.

There will be other witnesses who can testify to the facts of the case.  Also a video of the incident will be shown.

One person’s testimony which has been sought is that of J. Christian Adams the career Civil Rights Division prosecutor who compiled the voter intimidation case against the NBPP will testify.  It is not known if Mr. Adams will testify.  Allegations have been made that there were political motivations in dismissing the case.  It is felt Mr. Adams could verify or disprove this.

The DOJ has taken the unusual step of instructing its people not comply with subpoenas issued by the Commission.  A memo by DOJ to CRC General Counsel David Blackwood said it objects to the questions asked.

The DOJ has repeatedly refused to provide information requested about this case not only by the CRC, but by Congressman Frank Wolf ( R-Va.), as well as, Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Tx.).  Mr. Wolf sent a letter January 26 to Glenn Fine the DOJ Inspector General.

He said, "I have been disappointed by your reluctance to investigate the unfounded dismissal of an important voter intimidation case, U.S. v. New Black Panther Party.  As you may recall, this case was inexplicably dismissed last year -- over the ardent objections of the career attorneys overseeing the case as well as the division’s own appeal office.  Despite repeated requests for information by members of Congress, the press, and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the DOJ continues to stonewall all efforts to obtain information regarding the case’s abrupt dismissal.  This obstruction should be of great concern to you and merit an immediate investigation."

Mr. Wolf will appear at the hearing, which will be held at 624 9th St., N.W. Room 540, Washington, DC 20425.  It is open to the public and the media.
    
Black
Panthers
1/29/10

Obama Yields

Last night, Obama ordered the Attorney General to consider other places to try the 9/11 terror suspects after a wave of opposition to holding the trial in lower Manhattan.

The dramatic turnabout came hours after Mayor Bloomberg said he would "prefer that they did it elsewhere" and then spoke to Attorney General Eric Holder.

"It would be an inconvenience at the least, and probably that's too mild a word for people that live in the neighborhood and businesses in the neighborhood," Bloomberg told reporters.  "There are places that would be less expensive for the taxpayers and less disruptive for New York City."

State and city leaders have increasingly railed against a plan to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in Manhattan federal court since Holder proposed it last month.

The order to consider new venues does not change the White House's position that Mohammed should be tried in civilian court.

"President Obama is still committed to trying Mohammed and four other terrorist detainees in federal court," spokesman Bill Burton said Thursday.

Continue reading here . . .

Half a loaf is better than none -- add this to the growing list of Obama defeats.
    
Terrorism
1/29/10
Keep America Safe


The State of His Rhetoric  (01:00)
    
Terrorism
1/29/10

Has Obama Become Bored?

Byron York asks, isn't this is about the time Barack Obama becomes bored with his job?

He's in his second year as president, and he's discovered that even with all the powers of office, he can't do everything he wants to do, like remake America.  Doing stuff is hard.  In the past, prosaic work has held little appeal for Obama, and it's prompted him to think about moving on.

Begin with his first serious job, as a community organizer in Chicago.  Obama got a little done, but quickly became frustrated with small achievements.  "He didn't see organizing making any significant changes in things," Jerry Kellman, the organizer who hired him, told me in 2008.

What Obama wanted was political power, and that is what sent him to Harvard Law School.  "He was constantly thinking about his path to significance and power," another organizer, Mike Kruglik, told me.  "He said, 'I need to go there [Harvard] to find out more about power.  How do powerful people think?  What kind of networks do they have?  How do they connect to each other?'"

Out of law school, Obama did some civil rights work in Chicago before running successfully for the Illinois Senate in 1996.  Almost immediately, Obama began "chafing ... at the limitations of legislating in Springfield," in the words of a Washington Post profile.  Easily bored, and with a growing sense of dissatisfaction, he set his eyes on the House of Representatives, unsuccessfully challenging Rep. Bobby Rush in 2000.  In 2002 he began his campaign for the U.S. Senate.

He won in 2004, but the Senate proved unsatisfying, too.  By mid-2006, Majority Leader Harry Reid "sensed his frustration and impatience, had heard rumblings that Obama was already angling to head back home and take a shot at the Illinois governorship," write Mark Halperin and John Heilemann in the new book Game Change.  Reid knew "Obama simply wasn't cut out to be a Senate lifer."

According to the book, the majority leader invited Obama to his office for a talk.  "You're not going to go anyplace here," Reid told Obama.  "I know that you don't like it, doing what you're doing."  Reid suggested Obama run for president.  Obama had been a senator for all of 18 months at the time.  Soon after, he was off and running.

What drove Obama was not just ambition, although he is certainly ambitious.  As he became frustrated in each job, Obama concluded that the problem was not having the power to do the things he wanted to do.  So he sought a more powerful position.

Today he is sitting in the most powerful chair in the world.  Yet he has spent a year struggling, and failing, to enact far-reaching makeovers of the American economy.  So now, even in the Oval Office, there are signs that the old dissatisfaction is creeping back in.

At a Jan. 17 Martin Luther King Day event at Washington's Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, Obama brought up the fact that many people see him as almost preternaturally calm.  "I have a confession to make," Obama said.  "There are times I'm not so calm ... when progress seems too slow ... when it feels like all these efforts are for naught, and change is so painfully slow in coming, and I have to confront my own doubts."

Obama said it to be inspirational, but the fact is, in the past, that's when he looked for a new job.

A few days later, ABC's Diane Sawyer asked whether Obama would sometimes "sit and confront your own doubts."

"Yes," Obama said.

"Ever in the middle of all that's coming did you think maybe one term is enough?"  Sawyer asked.

Obama answered haltingly.  "You know, I -- I would say that when I -- the one thing I'm clear about is that I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president."

Many observers have remarked that, even when dealing with the most momentous issues facing the country, Obama has seemed oddly removed from the hands-on work of making policy.  Maybe they're noticing the same thing Harry Reid did.  Obama's dissatisfaction is shining through; perhaps he's not really cut out for -- or up to -- the job.

In the State of the Union address, Obama declared, "I don't quit."  And of course, there's no danger he would just up and quit the Oval Office.  But throughout his life, his reaction to frustration has been to look for a bigger job.  What does he do now?
    
Psychology
1/29/10

Obama Likely To Rebrand Climate Bill

CQ Politics says that despite the obituaries being written for Senate passage of a cap-and-trade bill this year, Obama is expected to reiterate his call for comprehensive clean energy and climate change legislation and to rebrand it as part of his job-creation agenda.

White House officials and senators leading efforts to write a bipartisan climate bill signaled Wednesday that they will keep pushing hard for legislation that would curb emissions of greenhouse gases and boost development of alternative energy.

At a clean energy forum Wednesday, White House energy and climate adviser Carole Browner previewed the energy and environment slice of Obama’s State of the Union address.  Stressing the need for legislation to eliminate dependence on foreign oil, put a price signal on carbon emissions and mandate an increase in electricity from renewable sources, Browner stuck to the "jobs" script and never used the phrase "cap and trade."

"This is about creating a new generation of clean energy jobs that will position us in a global market, and we need the legislation to do that," she said.

Experts expect Obama to avoid the cap-and-trade label -- which many lawmakers see as a confusing turn-off to voters -- instead, framing the plan with the rhetoric of jobs creation.

Meanwhile, White House officials said the boost in spending on alternative energy research, which Obama began last year in the stimulus and has consistently listed as a top priority, will emerge relatively unscathed from Obama’s proposed spending freeze.

"We’re still working on making investments in clean energy," Rob Nabors, deputy director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, told reporters in a conference call.  "Not everything in the budget is of equal importance to the country -- or to the president’s agenda.  Those things that are the most important to the president, the things like education, things like energy research -- they’re at the top of the list.  There are other things that aren’t at the top of the list, and we felt that those areas could be most effectively reduced."
    
Environment
1/29/10

A Crude Forgery

In, "How a Crude Forgery Was Passed Off as Authentic to get an Unknown Elected President of the USA," John Charlton revisits the fact that most know that there are doubts about Obama’s Birth Certificate or eligibility to be President of the United States, but says few are aware of how his supporters passed off an obvious forgery of a Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth and used cleverly crafted quotes of apparent authorities to establish its authenticity for the purpose of committing election fraud upon the entire nation.

The notion that it is a forgery continues to be squashed by the Main Stream Media.  Consider the transcript from Chris Matthews’s "Hardball" program from last night during his interview of J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), who is challenging John McCain for the U.S. Senate seat in Arizona (note that Matthews is attempting to belittle McCain’s opponent):
    

Matthews:  "Are you as far right as the birthers?"  Are you one of those who believes that the president should have to prove that he’s a citizen of the United States and not an illegal immigrant?  Are you that far right?"

Hayworth:  "Well, gosh, we all had to bring our birth certificates to show we were who we said we were and we were the age we said we were to play football in youth sports," Hayworth responded matter-of-factly.  "Shouldn’t we know exactly that anyone who wants to run for public office is a natural born citizen of the United States and is who they say they are?"

Matthews:  [referring back to some of Hayworth’s past statements]  "I’m reading your letter that says the president should go back and get his birth certificate from the governor of Hawaii -- "I’m just asking, do you stand by this letter?"

Hayworth:  "Yeah, sure."

Matthews:  "Should the governor of Hawaii produce evidence that the president is one of us, an American?  Do you think that’s a worthy pastime for the governor of Hawaii right now?"

Hayworth:  "No, I -- look: I’m just saying the president should come forward with the information, that’s all.  Why should we depend on the governor of Hawaii?"

    
That Matthews should ridicule such a common-sense request is absurd on its face; but his approach is Alinksyesque.

However, what the Main Stream Media doesn’t want you to remember, or recognize, is that the highly flaunted electronic image of the COLB which the Obama campaign puts forth to defend his claims to be eligible for office was recognized as a forgery from the beginning.

Take the time and read this little-known chronology of the beginnings of this forgery and deceit . . .
   
Birth
Certificate
1/29/10

The Shoe Box

Day One:  In a small apartment house just south of the Ventura Freeway and north of Yosemite Drive near the campus of Occidental College on a street named Destiny Lane, the owner is cleaning out the attic of his small apartment house in preparation for its sale.  He is planning to hold a large yard sell the next day.  In a corner of the attic he finds a small shoe box filled will various old papers letters and photos.  He glances at them only briefly before setting the box aside with the other items slated for the yard sell.

Day Two:  Early that day Mr. I. Foundit, a name that will echo throughout history strolls across the lawn at the house on Destiny Lane and looks at the many items filling the lawn.  Mysteriously he is drawn toward the small shoe box marked one dollar.  He picks it up and looks carefully at its contents.  His face turns white and his hands began to tremble as he shuffles through the items in the box.  Composing himself he quickly walks over to the man in charge, pays the one dollar and returns to his car.

Returning home, Foundit, a staunch conservative enters his house locking the door behind him, quickly drawing the blinds and sits himself at the kitchen table as he spreads the contents of the small shoe box on the table.  He realizes he has a treasure trove.  This simple man suddenly is holding the fate of the nation, and most certainly the fate of Obama in his hands.  For in the tiny shoe box he finds not only youthful pictures of Barack Obama, but documents relating to his admission to Occidental College.  Documents in which Barry, now Barack claimed to be a non-citizen, a foreign born student seeking to enroll under that colleges special program for foreigners.  He also finds a copy of a Kenyan birth certificate.

Mr. Foundit's first impulse is to pick up the phone and call the newspapers and then the TV networks -- then he's suddenly faced with the reality, the truth -- these guys would never believe him!  What to do?  What to do?  He paces back and forth almost becoming a nervous wreck.  He decides to sleep on it -- if that would be possible.

Day Three:  After a sleepless night Foundit springs to his feet -- he has made a decision!  He often visits various conservative blogs so the solution is simple, he will send off copies of his great find to some of the best conservative blogs in the blogosphere.  He carefully makes out his list then begins contacting and emailing the documents around the net.

Day Four:  The Internet explodes.  Blogs coast to coast have picked up the story, first a dozen or so and then hundreds and by days end thousands of blogs are posting the story.  But none mention Foundit -- this was his wish.

Day Five:  The blogosphere is ablaze with these new revelations, but strangely the MSM and even FOX News remain silent afraid to be associated with the "Birthers."  The roar on the Internet continues for day after day and grows even more intense.

Day Ten:  Finally on day 10 -- FOX News airs the story for the first time, after confirming the validity of the documents.  The nation is stunned!  The White House is silent.

Day Eleven:  FOX News interrupts with a breaking story: sources inside the Selective Service System have provided FOX with a letter dated June 2 1980, stating that he, Barack Hussein Obama II, was not a citizen and therefore not required to register with them.  This was in reply to an earlier letter sent to him by the SSS.

Day Twelve:  Finally the MSM are forced to carry the story.  Eyes across the nation are now looking to the White House, where all daily briefings have been cancelled -- the voice of Obama, Robert Gibbs is silent!

Day Thirteen:  Rumors are flying that Obama has resigned and that Joe Biden has already been sworn in as the 45th President of the United States.  Observers near the White House report seeing Marine One leave and head in the direction of Andrews Air Force Base.

Day Fourteen:  Somewhere at his undisclosed location, believed to be on a small Caribbean Island, Foundit, "pops a top" on a cold one, as he looks at the small Shoe Box.

This is of course a work of fiction by Ron Russell , but perhaps exposing truths hidden just below the surface.
    
Shaky
Stuff
1/28/10

Obama Refers To Himself 114 Times

Examiner.com says that any speech from Obama is guaranteed to include numerous references to himself, blaming George Bush, and creating straw men.  Wednesday night's State of the Union was no different.

Here is the numbers breakdown of Obama's first State of the Union:

114 -- The staggering number of times Obama referred to himself. He said "I" 96 times, and used "my" or "me" 18 times.  For example: "When I ran for president, I promised I wouldn't just do what was popular, I would do what was necessary."  Barack Obama's favorite person is still Barack Obama.

86 -- The number of times Obama was interrupted by applause, almost always by his fellow Democrats.

70 -- The number of minutes the speech took.

13 -- Stories of people that may or may not exist, in an attempt to personalize his speech. -- Examples: "The window manufacturer in Philadelphia", "the struggling small business owner who wrote to me", and "the eight year old boy in Louisiana."

10 -- Times Obama blamed his own failures on George W. Bush.  Instead of owning up to his own failures, Obama must constantly try to remind people that the problems were there before he got into office.  Example: "That's what we did for eight years."

4 -- Attacks on Wall Street or bankers, the nouveau-bourgeoisie.  There is always a bogeyman that the Obamunists must blame for the country's woes.  Along with George Bush, the current evil entity is Wall Street.

4 -- Arguments with straw men.  Obama loves to debate with people who do not have a forum.  He is able to get his point across and we are not allowed to hear from the other side.  Examples: "Those that disagree" and "some on the right."

1 -- Moderation from his ultra-liberal agenda.  He actually showed a willingness toward more opening America's vast, untapped oil resources.  "It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development."  Unfortunately, this was the only example of Obama "moving to the center."  Despite the Brown-out in Massachusetts, Obama has not learned the lesson that America rejects his leftist policies.

0 -- New ideas.  It was the same old agenda from Obama.  He wants health care reform, another stimulus, cap and trade.  He remains tone deaf to the U.S. electorate.

0 -- Changes in ObamaCare.  He repeatedly praised the plan and said it must be passed.  The main fault he found in it was that he "didn't explain it more clearly."  Obama said he would listen to new ideas, but the ideas of tort reform and allowing insurance purchases across state lines are not new.  He refused to listen to them before.

0 -- Lessons learned from the failure of Porkulus.  Yesterday, we found out the $787 billion dollar plan actually cost $862 billion.  It failed miserably on its promise to keep unemployment below 8 percent.  Now, Obama wants a new "jobs plan".

0 -- Focus on national security.  There was no discussion of Guantanamo Bay, terrorist detainees being tried on U.S. soil, or the Flight 253 terror attempt.
    
Psychology
1/28/10

Justice Alito Mouths "Not True"

    
POLITICO's Kasie Hunt, who's in the House chamber, reports that Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words "not true" when Barack Obama criticized the Supreme Court's campaign finance decision.

"Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign corporations -- to spend without limit in our elections," Obama said.  "Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities.  They should be decided by the American people, and that’s why I’m urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong."

The shot of the black-robed Supreme Court justices, stone-faced, was priceless.

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) stood up behind the justices and clapped vigorously while Alito shook his head and quietly mouthed his discontent.  Schumer and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md) are trying to find a way to legislate around the Supreme Court decision.

One conservative legal expert took sides with Alito -- at least on the substance of Obama's comments.

"The President’s swipe at the Supreme Court was a breach of decorum, and represents the worst of Washington politics -- scapegoating 'special interest' bogeymen for all that ails Washington in attempt to silence the diverse range of speakers in our democracy," said Bradley A. Smith, chairman of the Center for Competitive Politics.

Alito can also be clearly seen shaking his head in the negative.  His body language is screaming, NO!  Not true!

NRO reports that Bradley A. Smith, the Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law at Capital University Law School, says Obama’s statement is false.

The Court held that 2 U.S.C. Section 441a, which prohibits all corporate political spending, is unconstitutional.  Foreign nationals, specifically defined to include foreign corporations, are prohibiting from making "a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State or local election" under 2 U.S.C. Section 441e, which was not at issue in the case.

Foreign corporations are also prohibited, under 2 U.S.C. 441e, from making any contribution or donation to any committee of any political party, and they prohibited from making any "expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication... ."

This is either blithering ignorance of the law, or demagoguery of the worst kind.

    
Lies
1/28/10

Obama Takes Credit For Success In Iraq

Move America Forward, the nation’s largest grassroots pro-troop organization took offense last night as Barack Obama tried to take credit for the success of the Iraq War when he was a bitter opponent of the successful troop surge implemented by President George W. Bush.  Obama proclaimed "I promised I would end this war, and that is what I am doing as President."

Shawn Callahan, Executive Director of Move America Forward, said "Without the surge America would have left Iraq with the war lost to the insurgents.  If Obama had been in charge of the Iraq war, it would have been lost along with the needless loss of potentially thousands of innocent Iraqis who would have been at the mercy of the terrorists and criminals.  Americans would be further at risk with a more emboldened terrorist network."

"It is reprehensible for the President to take credit for a war his predecessor won.  Then-Senator Obama criticized the Iraq war, called it a dumb war, said our troops would fail and that the surge would make things worse.  History has proved him wrong, and yet he still tries to somehow take credit for our troops’ success without even congratulating them on the good job they have done."

His speech offered only a few minutes to the subject of national security after speaking at length about a multitude of other issues that Obama felt were more important despite the fact that the country is at war.  Obama also failed to address security in several other ways:
    

•The President failed to recognize America’s "war on terror."  His Administration continues to treat terrorism as a police action despite the threat against America by a group of extremists who have declared war on us.

 
•The President makes no mention of Guantanamo Bay, nor does he acknowledge that his own Administration has found terrorists held there who should be detained indefinitely.


•The President talked tough about nuclear disarmament with respect to North Korea and mentioned Iran, but his pandering around the world has brought no success in stopping their nuclear ambitions.


•Obama refused to address complaints that the Christmas bomber is being treated as a criminal defendant with full constitutional rights instead of an enemy combatant who should be in the hands of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies.

      

Military
1/28/10

We Have Bigger Problems Than "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell"
  
What was Barack Obama’s call to scrap the "Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell" rule barring homosexuals from military service doing in the middle of the speech?  Why is Obama addressing this difficult, both politically and legally, issue now?  We have bigger problems than normalizing homosexuality.

Obama, an advocate for the homosexual agenda, announced his desire to allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military during his first State of the Union address Wednesday night, saying, "This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are," Obama said.

The Clinton-era rule, which skirted the outright ban on homosexuals serving in the military, would likely take an act of Congress to change, said Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, and "voters are concerned about national security, and they don’t want America’s military to be used for any purpose other than national defense."
    
Military
1/28/10

"Pretty Much Everyone Hates Obama"

John Carney says that after a year in which his administration’s policies helped produce some of the best years on record for Wall Street firms, Barack Obama has been struggling to recast himself as an adversary of the banks.

He seems to have succeeded in taking on this role with one important group -- the bankers themselves.

"Pretty much everyone hates Obama," a senior trader at a major Wall Street firm told us.

"He's never been popular but this is a whole new level," he said.
    
Economy
1/28/10

Socialized Medicine Is The Goal

Trevor Loudon has argued here, here and here that the Communist Party USA, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism and the Democratic Socialists of America are the driving force behind the Obama push for healthcare "reform".

He argues here that the no matter what bill Obama gets passed (if any), it will only be used by the US far left as a stepping stone to fully socialized healthcare.

Phil E. Benjamin is a Senior Editor and a member of the Editorial Collective of Political Affairs, theoretical journal of the Communist Party USA.

Read what he just wrote on the Political Affairs editor's blog and tell me I'm wrong:
    

It is time to dump the Policy Wonks and Democratic Party wise guys.

Everyone said and now everyone knows that the SIMPLER THE BETTER.  The more complicated, the more to make people worried about the details.  And, that worry becomes grist for the Republican media machines.

So the first step for health reform is to Dump the Congressional Bills......both of them feed into the Republican machine for 2010 elections.  Mass. showed that.

We must propose what we know people want and already like.

1. Maintain and expand the Veterans Medical and Hospitals Systems;

2 Expand the Federally Qualified Community Health Centers;

3. Drop the Medicare age to 55 to 64 ---- Republicans will not mess with that;

4. Elevate Medicaid to 150% of the Federal Poverty Level;

5. Open the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program for non federal employees to join;

6 Eliminate Pre-Existing Conditions Exclusions

By doing these actions; you are dealing with winners and known programs.  Each of these programs is supported by those in them.

By dumping the Health Exchanges you eliminate the number one grist for the Republican mills, i.e., forcing people to buy insurance.  And, to win working people back, voters they are; Dump the taxing of benefits.

These should be done immediately....no waiting time.

Then in a year or two we do another step.

These can and will lead to larger reforms such as a federally administered Single Payer system; and, toward our ultimate goal of a National Health Service in our country.

         
Well?
    
Obamunism
1/28/10

J.D. Hayworth A Birther?

J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), McCain's senate challenger, seemed to call for Obama's birth certificate, when Chris Matthews asked Hayworth whether he's "as far right as the Birthers," the former Republican Congressman called on Obama to produce his birth certificate for public inspection (video).

"Well, gosh, we all had to bring our birth certificates to show we were who we said we were, and we were the age we said we were, to play football in youth sports," said Hayworth, who is currently challenging John McCain (R-AZ) in Arizona's Senate primary.  "Shouldn't we know exactly that anyone who wants to run for public office is a natural born citizen of the United States, and is who they say they are?"

Later in the segment, which aired Tuesday night on MSNBC's Hardball, Hayworth said the responsibility for producing evidence should fall directly on Obama.

"I'm just saying the president should come forward with the information, that's all.  Why must we depend on the governor of Hawaii?"
    
Eligibility
1/27/10
He Thinks He's A Gift From God
  

Ben Stein says there's something going on in this man's head that is quite unusual  (04:42)
    
Psychology
1/27/10

Obama Boasts Biggest Deficits Since World War II

CNSNews.com is reporting that  Obama’s first two years in office will boast the two biggest annual federal budget deficits since World War II, when measured as a share of GDP, says the Congressional Budget Office.

"Last year’s deficit was the largest as a share of GDP since the end of World War II, and the deficit expected for 2010 would be the second largest," said CBO.

"The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that if current laws and policies remained unchanged, the federal budget would show a deficit of $1.35 trillion for fiscal year 2010," said CBO.  "At 9.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), that deficit would be slightly smaller than the shortfall of 9.9 percent of GDP posted in 2009."

"Last year’s deficit was the largest as a share of GDP since the end of World War II, and the deficit expected for 2010 would be the second largest," said CBO.

The estimates were included in the CBO report, "The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2010 to 2020," which was released today.

The federal deficit in 2009 was also the largest ever in sheer dollar amount.  "The budget deficit surged to $1.4 trillion in 2009, the largest shortfall on record in dollar terms and nearly $1 trillion greater than the deficit recorded the previous year," said CBO.

The CBO’s new estimate also indicates that if current federal tax and spending laws are maintained, the U.S. Treasury will need to borrow an additional $6 trillion between 2011 and 2020 to cover expected federal spending.

"Under current law, the federal fiscal outlook beyond this year is daunting," said the CBO report.  "Projected deficits average about $600 billion per year over the 2011–2020 period."

This estimate that the government will borrow an additional $6 trillion from 2011-2020 is based on the assumption that the tax cuts enacted under President Bush in 2001 and 2003 will be allowed to expire, thus raising income tax rates and that Congress will not enact temporary fixes -- as it has in the past -- to stop the Alternative Minimum Tax from hitting the incomes of middle-class Americans.
      
OK, who's surprised?  Everybody knew this guy was a socialist who strongly believed in reparations and redistribution -- then we found out about Cloward-Piven and the strategy of manufactured crisis -- Obama's game plan.
   
Economy
1/27/10 Not
Archived
1/27/10

Obama Earns An "F"' On Stopping WMD Attacks

David A. Patten is reporting that the national weapons of mass destruction (WMD) commission established by Congress has given the Obama administration an "F" for failing to protect America from nuclear, chemical, and biological attacks.

"Nearly a decade after 9/11, one year after our original report, and one month after the Christmas Day bombing attempt, the United States is failing to address several urgent threats, especially bioterrorism," stated former Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., chairman of the bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism.

The report charges the administration "is simply not paying consistent and urgent attention to the means of responding quickly and effectively so that [WMD attacks] no longer constitute a threat of mass destruction."

Surprisingly, the Commission concluded there still exists "no national plan to coordinate federal, state, and local efforts following a bioterror attack, and the United States lacks the technical and operational capabilities required for an adequate response."

An outgrowth of the 9/11 Commission report, the WMD Commission is charged with evaluating U.S. defenses against WMD attacks.  The report issued Tuesday examines 17 areas deemed vital to defending against WMD.

The Commission gave the administration an F for not improving the nation's ability to respond rapidly to a biological attack inflicting mass casualties, and an F for poor implementation of the education and training programs needed to train national-security experts.

It also awarded Congress an F for poor oversight.
   
Terrorism
1/27/10

Wake Up And Smell The War

The New York Daily News believes the evidence is mounting that Obama is following not merely an erroneous anti-terrorism strategy, but one that is increasingly incoherent and incompetent.  Two recent developments highlight his failure:

First, senior administration intelligence and homeland security officials testified to Congress that they were not aware in advance that the Christmas Day terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, would be read Miranda rights, arrested and charged with crimes.  Stunningly, it appears that these decisions were essentially made wholly inside the Justice Department.

Second, the administration has conceded that some 50 terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay could neither be safely released nor tried and would therefore be held indefinitely.  This flatly contradicts repeated Obama promises to close Gitmo.  It also undercuts the rationale for Obama's planned civilian trials for other terrorists and previous decisions -- including some by the Bush administration -- to release far too many who simply reverted to terrorism.

Obama has strained mightily to move away from former President George W. Bush's "global war on terror," changing many of its underlying policies and even sidelining the phrase "war on terror."  That Obama has not fully succeeded in reversing Bush's policies is not for lack of trying, but only because global realities have made it impossible for even someone so determined to succeed in just one year.

However, make no mistake: Obama has not given up.  He remains determined to revolutionize America's conceptual basis for dealing with terrorism.  His approach is a throwback to the pre-9/11 paradigm of treating terrorism as a problem to be handled through conventional law enforcement channels.  That means full constitutional rights, including Fourth and Fifth Amendment protections and evidence restrictions, public jury trials and more.

Continue reading here . . .
   
Terrorism
1/27/10
Holder Runs From Questions


Attorney General Eric Holder dodges questions on KSM trial (02:40)
   
Eric
Holder

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