Barack Obama

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Remember Tucker Carlson of the fabled bow-tie who kept his legs together everytime Hillary was mentioned?  Now he has come out with "proof" that the msm conspired to deprive Hillary of the nomination by suppressing stories of Reverend Wright.

Well he was one of the boyz who turned his back on our cries for help to expose Wright/Obama connection.  By our, I mean the many blogs that kept up a barrage of information to media folk like Tucker and were ignored.  Always seemed strange to me that the media boyz and girlz could read Koz and Huff Puff but could never seem to find Riverdaughter or Alegra or Partizane.

Now Tucker professes to be on the side of the angels in an appearance on FOX this morning as he said Obama stole the Primary from Hillary.  Here's a bit from his rag that he referenced.

The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?”

 

After Barack Obama was elected US Senator from Illinois, one of his first political acts on the world stage was to get on a plane to Kenya and campaign for his cousin Raila Odinga in that country’s 2007 presidential election. (The photo on the left shows the POTUS with Odinga.)

Obama mounted political platforms with Odinga throughout Kenya and spoke on his cousin’s behalf. For his part, Raila Odinga promised to implement strict Islamic Sharia law within a new Constitution, if he received the Muslim vote in the predominantly Christian country. Despite Obama’s efforts, Raila Odinga did not win that election.

As a result of that loss, Odinga’s supporters followed Alinsky methods, and violent unrest broke out in the country. They shocked the civilized world when they locked Christians in a church, torched it, and allowed their victims (mostly women and children) to burn to death. The marauders killed hundreds and many Kenyans left their homes to escape the violence. Kenyan women and children as young as two were raped by gangs of thugs that hoped their savage acts would disgrace their victims' families.

HT Cassy Fiano 

I found this at http://www.cassyfiano.com/2010/07/racism-test

 Do You Like Him Any Better Now?

There was evidence that the New Black Panther Party intimidated voters on Election Day in November, 2008. Many Americans can still remember the video of the two NBPP members, dressed in military style para uniforms outside a polling place near downtown Philadelphia.

Former civil rights lawyer Bartle Bull, who is publisher of the Village Voice, calls the NBBP intimidation in Philly "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen." Mr. Bull happened to be there that day, along with others who witnessed the two Black Panthers intimidate voters. One of them, they say, brandished a nightstick at the entrance and pointed it at voters. They say both men made racial threats. Bull says he heard one yell: "You are about to be ruled by the black man, Cracker!" 

Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (shown left, closest to story) is on trial in Chicago. Blagojevich has pleaded not guilty to scheming to sell or trade the appointment to Obama's old US Senate seat. He has also pleaded not guilty to plotting to launch a racketeering scheme. If convicted, he could face up to $6 million in fines and a sentence of 415 years in prison.

John Harris (Far-left photo)  was Blagojevich’s former chief of staff. Harris testified last week in the former governor’s corruption trial. What he said does not reflect well on the President of the United States.

Harris testified that three days after the Nov. 4, 2008 Presidential Election, Blagojevich told him that he felt confident Obama knew he wanted to swap perks. Harris said he believed Barack Obama knew of Blagojevich’s plot to win himself a presidential Cabinet post, in exchange for appointing Valerie Jarrett to the U.S. Senate. According to an article in the Chicago Sun Times, Harris had much to share during his testimony:

Progressives have failed to create jobs, despite a trillion dollar stimulus package they promised would fix the unemployment rate. Americans hoped the Health Care Bill would prove them better stewards of the public’s trust. We knew most Progressives hadn’t read the health care bill they were hell-bent on passing, but citizens still trusted that the Obama Administration would be aware of how much the bill would cost before it became law. Unfortunately, this week we learned that wasn’t the case, if we are to believe the words of Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius:

The Progressives have passed health care legislation that has no budgetary limits in a time of economic hardship, and they are doing their best to silence average Americans who gather to raise their voices about the cost of inflated government. Yet, in an op-ed on the Financial Times website, Roger Altman, former Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Clinton, wrote:

America’s fiscal picture is even worse than it looks. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office just projected that over 10 years; cumulative deficits will reach $9.7 trillion and federal debt 90 percent of gross domestic product – nearly equal to Italy’s.

 

Global capital markets are unlikely to accept that credit erosion, if they revolt, as in 1979, ugly changes in fiscal and monetary policy will be imposed on Washington. More than Afghanistan or unemployment, this is President Barack Obama’s greatest vulnerability.

The biggest problem with the current White House is its tendency to obfuscate; its partiality to half-truths and blatant whoppers. It’s time for Americans to deal with the reality we face. Go ahead, google: “Obama, lies."  I did, and 13, 700, 000 results magically appeared.

Early in 2008, Snopes.com posted a list succinctly named “50 Obama Lies”. Now, there’s even a website named Obama Lies. The first part of this year had people spinning about Obamacare and Healthcare lies. In January many people were offended that Obama’s promise to broadcast health care debate on C-Span didn’t materialize. Others resented that political kickbacks were part of the legislative process when Obama had promised he would do everything aboveboard and by the book. (They didn’t like that the book appears to be Machiavelli’s The Prince.)  Opposingviews.com discussed "The Hidden Lies in Obama’s Health Care Plan", along with many other posters across the blogosphere.

Did you see the graphic design for Obama's Nuclear Summit?. From what I've read, they had it plastered everywhere in DC . Jon Stewart doesn’t think it looks like a crescent moon and has made fun of people, who have gone on record saying it does. As much as I like Stewart, he is wrong on this one.

Gateway Pundit at his site shows how Muslim states have used similar graphics for their own specific purposes:

During a NBC’s Today show segment yesterday on Supreme Court Justice John Paul Steven’s retirement, Senator Orrin Hatch(R-Utah) said he's heard Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's name mentioned as a possible replacement. Hatch appeared on the show with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy when he made his remark. The Utah Republican simply said: "I heard Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's name today and that would be an interesting person in the mix."

Matt Lauer asked, “In your opinion, would she be qualified?” Hatch responded, “I have a high respect for her and think a great deal of her, but I’m not going to pre-judge that.” Hatch didn’t say he’d support a Clinton nomination, but he did say "I like Hillary Rodham Clinton." He also added that he believes she’s done a good job for Democrats.

Hillary Clinton, a Supreme Court Justice? For a short time yesterday, blogs embraced the idea. Then, Vanity Fair’s Juli Weiner had an article posted before noon about the Internet reaction. She wrote:

... [T]he Web punditry has already begun issuing pronouncements on Supreme Court Justice Clinton. Even before today’s Today rumor mongering, Slate’s Emily Bazelon wrote that “Clinton has all the makings of a full-throated, strong-minded liberal stalwart on the bench.”  The Daily Beast’s Mark McKinnon agrees: “Stripping away the drama, the politics and psychobabble, she’d be a great choice for Obama and the Democrats. She’s as smart and as qualified as any prospect her party could nominate.”  Seventy-one percent of NPR.com readers also say they would welcome a Clinton nomination.

 

On the other hand, Mediaite’s Glynnis MacNicol suggests embracing the politics and psychobabble, and is positively giddy about the potential procedural spectacle: “I’m not sure a Supreme Court confirmation hearing can ever be considered must-see TV, but a Clinton nomination might make it so.” True! It is just too bad for C-SPAN that Stevens is not retiring in time for May sweeps.

 

Paul Volcker (L), White House adviser and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve under both Carter and Reagan, spoke at a New York Historical Society event this week. During his remarks, Volcker said the US must consider a “European-style Value-Added Tax” to address the fiscal debt crisis facing the federal government, even though it was an unpopular idea. He said it succinctly: “If at the end of the day we need to raise taxes, we should raise taxes.”

Paul Volcker’s New York comment introduces the next phase of the Progressive’s indoctrination of our citizens. He is a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, which he also chairs. Volcker knows the future the Obama administration has planned for us. We are following Europe’s path.

A VAT would tax purchases at 10-15% and generate the money needed to pay for the POTUS’ agenda. It would be imposed like a Federal Sales Tax and be paid along the chain of production by both wholesalers and retailers. It is a cumulative tax, because everyone in the chain of production, sale, and purchase of a product pays a tax. The added cost is passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices. A VAT would hit middle and lower earners harder than the rich, because they will pay a higher portion of their income to buy things than the rich will pay.

One by one, the Democrats are trying to clean up the mess caused by their push to pass what is increasingly becoming an unpopular health care bill. On Friday, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) admitted that the Progressives probably oversold their health care legislation that was just signed into law. In other words, the bill isn’t going to do exactly what they said it would and if it does, it may not be when they led voters to believe.

McCaskill appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe, when she spilled the beans: "The side on which I'm on, that voted for the bill, is probably over promising, not been clear enough about the fact that this is going to be an incremental approach over time. The benefits aren't going to be felt by most Americans immediately.”  McCaskill's  use of  "over promising” to describe current political events is a euphemistic choice of words for what Americans are witnessing.

Cuba’s Fidel Castro took time off on Sunday to praise the Progressive’s health care bill and his BFF Barack Obama. (Another Communist reaches out to our POTUS with thumbs up camaraderie.) Some Hollywood types like Castro. People like Michael Moore, Danny Glover, and Sean Penn are warm and fuzzy about him. Moore even likes Cuban health care and dealt with it in a documentary.

 If you have ever been to Little Havana in Miami, you know another view. The Cuban-Americans, who live there, never tire of telling the truth about what change and revolution did to Cuba and the Cuban people. It is their history, and they will not let it be buried by Communist-sympathizers.

 “Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?”  -Adolph Hitler, persuading others that The Holocaust would be tolerated-                

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The Congressional Foreign Relations Committee, by a vote of 23-22, approved a resolution condemning the 1915 slaughter of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as “genocide”. The resolution was passed despite a last-minute Obama administration effort to derail it, which has put a chill on America’s relations with Turkey.

As a result of that vote, Turkey has recalled its ambassador from Washington, a move it pulled when a 2007 committee passed a similar resolution. It worked for Turkey in 2007 and the resolution did not pass. So, indications are that the current resolution has an uncertain future in Congress, despite the fact that it is a Democratic Congress and Obama promised as a Presidential candidate that he would support such a resolution.

It has been written that Obama doesn’t like Britain, because his father and grandfather were jailed by the Brits during the 1950’s in Kenya’s Struggle for Independence. Obama shared that his grandfather was jailed for "more than six months" in his Dreams from My Father, but he provided no details about the event. Other accounts relate that his Kenyan grandfather was also tortured. Obama’s Granny Sarah (Mrs. Sarah Onyango) says her husband recounted his torture to her. She even gave details of the ordeal to reporters during Obama’s run for the presidency. Although Obama has wisely never discussed his feelings, there have been indications that Britain is not on his Favs List.

When Obama took over the Oval Office and officially called it his own, he quickly had a bust of Winston Churchill, photo right, removed. The MOFO website says it was because Churchill had a history of saying things like: “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.”  A case can be made that It might have something to do with philosophical differences, but I think it is more likely that Churchill  has less happy memories for Obama than for Americans who celebrate his wartime leadership. It was during Churchill's second term of office that Britain suppressed Kenya's Mau Mau rebellion and allegedly tortured Hussein Onyango Obama, the President's grandfather.

This Yahoo article makes clear why Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) is about to retire; he is tired of the partisanship, gridlock, and pointless politicking going on at the expense of the American people.

With all the hoopla over Mark Halperin's book Game Change in the major media, I went to read Peter Daou's account of what he saw from Hillary Clinton during the 2008 Presidential Campaign (Pacific John has an excellent article up now; go here http://alegrescorner.soapblox.... if you haven't already seen it).  Daou was a senior campaign staffer, and he's the first one to come out and say flat out that this book is wrong.  (Mind, I've seen many other denials since -- Howard Wolfson comes to mind -- from Hillary campaign staffers.  But Mr. Daou's was the first.)

But not all members of the major media have forgotten their recent history, and some of them have been quite articulate in their defense of Hillary Clinton.  The person who comes to mind, though, as having given the best defense of HRC's character to date, though, is former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough --MSNBC's "Morning Joe" himself.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Scarborough is displeased, as he says here in an article picked up by the Huffington Post:

                Did you see the excerpt of John Heilemann & Mark Halperin's Game Change?  

but darn it, some DINOs (and Republicans) don't like him. Why, I wonder? He's funny!

(giggle)

Ah, but I digress. Anywho, you remember that story we covered on October 9th? The one about how Al Franken had won real bi-partisan support for his anti-rape amendment - including that of the newly-crowned Queen of the Senate and All Things Health Care Related, Olympia Snowe?

Well, apparently 68 votes, plus feel-good, liberal, woman-friendly legislation, plus vindication for Jamie Leigh Jones and all her less-famous but equally suffering sisters, don't add up to much compared to a nice, fat defense contract.