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Obama watch by fierobear
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Obama: Consistently Anti-American
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Well, you have to hand it to Obama, he is consistent in his extreme anti-Americanism. America is firing missiles into Libya just as the Telegraph reported that “statements of support for Libya’s revolution by al-Qaeda and leading Islamists have led to fears that military action by the West might be playing into the hands of its ideological enemies.”
Throughout Obama’s presidency and all of the Islamic revolutions sweeping the Middle East and Africa, he has sided with the Islamic supremacists at every turn. Taking his marching orders from the vile America-hater and Jew-hater, the devout Muslim Sheik Qaradawi, Obama is now paving the way for an Islamic state in Libya. Not that Libya has been good under Gaddafi — hardly. But there are degrees of evil. The situation can always be worse, and little matches the anti-human brutality of Islamic regimes in the twenty-first century.

It’s ironic that Obama has turned against Gaddafi, since Gaddafi has regarded him warmly, saying in April 2010: “Barakeh Obama is friend…He is of Muslim descent, his policy should be supported.” As meticulously documented in my book, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America, the ties between Gaddafi and Obama are close and extensive. Back in July 2008, Gaddafi endorsed Obama, going so far as to say: “All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency.”

And Obama’s spirtual svengali and former Nation of Islam adherent Jeremiah Wright went to Libya with Jew-hater Louis Farrakhan to see Gaddafi, as he recalled during the 2008 campaign: “When [Obama’s] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli to visit [Gaddafi] with Farrakhan, a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell.”

It didn’t, but it should have.


And Obama continues to side with America-haters and Jew-haters. Obama backed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He specifically invited Brotherhood representatives to attend his speech to the Islamic world in Cairo in June 2009, and during the uprising against Mubarak signaled that he would have no problem with their having a place in Egypt’s new government.

He has backed the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza, Judea and Samaria.

He backed the brutal mullahcracy in Iran during the Iranian people’s bloody march for freedom.

He has backed Hezb’Allah in Lebanon.

He has backed Islamic law at the UN, having the U.S. co-sponsor with Egypt in summer 2009 a resolution on the restriction of free speech regarding Islam.

And now he is essentially backing Al-Qaeda in Libya. Al-Qaeda has already established an Islamic emirate in eastern Libya, and is playing a leading role in the revolt against Gaddafi. The Libyan Islamist Fighting Group is also involved. They’re a group that is, according to the Telegraph, “focused only on promoting sharia law in Libya, rejecting a worldwide ‘jihad.’”

“Focused only on promoting sharia law.” So they are focused on spreading honor killing, the killing of apostates, clitorectomies, the notion of women as property, amputations for stealing, stoning for “adultery,” hangings for gays, Jewish genocide, ethnic cleansing, and more.

Why Libya? Why not Iran? Iran has been systematically killing and torturing its people since their bloody march for freedom began in June 2009.

Why did Iran, one of the most dangerous threats to world security, escape criticism, sanction and retaliation for its unmatched putdown of the millions who took to the streets for freedom against brutal Islamic theocracy?

Meanwhile, shortly before America fired missiles into Libya, Hamas fired mortars into Israel, injuring two civilians. Here is more of the poisonous fruit of Obama’s stunning foreign policy failure, unprecedented abandonment of American allies, and absolute sanction of Islamic Jew-hatred.

How one yearns for the Bush days when the world was stable. The Obama presidency is a trainwreck, and we are living in a constant state of chaos and agitation. Going from bad to worse, we are living on the edge of impending catastrophe.

But this week there was one bright spot in the news, and an indication of things to come. Barack H. Obama Elementary School in Asbury Park, N.J. is closing. A school named for an unremarkable community organizer who had accomplished nothing, achieved nothing, and was elected in a marketing coup, had to fail. The Obama election was the triumph of style over substance, collectivism over statism, the moron over the informed.

And now Obama’s fierce Islamophilia threatens free men the world over.



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Well---that post (just above) is a load of mostly "BS" ...
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Originally posted by avengador1:

"It’s ironic that Obama has turned against Gaddafi, since Gaddafi has regarded him warmly, saying in April 2010: “Barakeh Obama is friend…He is of Muslim descent, his policy should be supported.” As meticulously documented in my book, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America, the ties between Gaddafi and Obama are close and extensive. Back in July 2008, Gaddafi endorsed Obama, going so far as to say: “All the people in the Arab and Islamic world and in Africa applauded this man. They welcomed him and prayed for him and for his success, and they may have even been involved in legitimate contribution campaigns to enable him to win the American presidency.”"


LOL one more Obama supporter who's been screwed.
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I'm not exactly singing the praises of Obama, but you can't make Obama look bad just because Qaddafi liked him.
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you can't make Obama look bad just because Qaddafi liked him


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Understanding Obama: His One-World View and Foreign Policy
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Did Obama really dither indecisively over the Middle East crises, or were his delays all part of the plan?
The frantic, frenetic, high-pitched squeal from all sides of the political aisle could have deafened most any ears. When the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to institute a “no-fly zone” against Libya and its leader Moammar Gaddafi, there were shrieks of disgust. Where is President Obama? How could he allow this? And, conversely, what has taken him so long?

In 24-plus hours when the bombs began to fall on Libya (some 100 or more Tomahawks in the first bombardment), the shrieks continued. Isn’t this the anti-war president? How did he win a Nobel Prize? This is unconstitutional!

It is one of those rare moments: even though both sides come to the table from vastly different points of view, they have the same end game — what is President Obama doing? Even Louis Farrakhan, who I submit to you is an awful person, asked the question: “Who the hell do you think you are?”

It is blazingly obvious that for all the pundits’ talk about understanding Obama, none of them understand Obama. The Right does not understand the depths of his nature, and the Left does not understand his willingness to play them like pawns (see useful idiots.) Most importantly, neither side has grasped the proper context of Obama, and the fact that Libya has played out exactly as he wanted it to.

I was one of the many people disgusted by Obama’s lack of oratory in 2009 when Iranians were being killed in the streets of Tehran. They wanted to vote. They wanted the opportunity to choose their leaders. They wanted to be able to choose their destiny. Yet, they needed help. Not all help comes in the shape of bullets and rockets, or cruise missiles and combat troops. Sometimes, help comes from those who will stand with you and back your cause, and no greater ally can be had around the world than the United States. With a speech from the bully-pulpit that is the presidency, the world can move a great deal. With the strength and gravitas of the presidency, those who are oppressed recognize that they have an ally in the world. The hard work may still be theirs, but the realization of friends does much to encourage and empower them, in spite of the work ahead.

Obama was nearly silent during those days, and none of his speeches had any connect-ability. There was no tone that could be distinguished as purely American, no words of encouragement that could rally a people, or a nation.

Much of this silence was seen again during Egypt. The president, on his own (or because of yet another gaffe by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden) gave a tacit endorsement of President Hosni Mubarak. One week later Obama was calling for Mubarak’s ouster. On his own accord, Obama legitimized the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt should they fill the void left by Mubarak. Then, silence again. Mubarak, after much back and forth, announced he was stepping down, and the military was taking over. It’s an Obama victory — or so the MSM says. But history already shows the president’s flip-flop not as smart politics, but luck. In two cases where people desire freedom, the American president said nothing.

From the time the Libyan civil war started, to when UN Security Council decided to act, 31 days passed. While there are certainly well-organized elements in Libya (and Egypt) that would be horrible leadership choices for these nations (Muslim Brotherhood, socialists, etc.), their opportunism does not mean an exclusion of other alternatives or realities. There are those who wish to be free, who wish to choose their own lives. While socialists and others may have a heavy hand in the protests, that does not mean they speak for all the protesters yearning to be free.

Thirty-one days, and President Obama gave no speech of note. There would be no reference to “a shining city on a hill.” No chance of hearing, “I have a dream!” Nothing that would embolden and empower. Nothing that would show a freedom fighter that he has friends in the world. Nothing to show the fighter that the fight is worth the reward and that nothing that is worthy is easy. All that was heard from Obama was flowery rhetoric that Gaddafi must go. And then, silence.

It was Glenn Beck who showed the video clip, over and over and over and over again. It was from then-Senator Obama, Democrat nominee for president of the United States. It was five days before the election. Candidate Obama was at the podium, with his then-typical bravado and swagger. He stated clearly, firmly, and with no hesitation, “We are five days from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

As always, Obama offered no definition of what “fundamentally transforming” meant. It was a hollow phrase that left it up to the listener to decide. It could be made monumental, spectacular, and worthy. It could be made hateful, disgusting, and evil. We had experienced these words before from Obama — his entire campaign was predicated on words that said nothing, and left we, the people, to fill in the gaps. “Hope” and “change” are subjective, and the meaning changes from listener to listener, and voter to voter.

From his foreign policy dalliances, “fundamentally transforming” is starting to be understood. Its basis is in every word the president has ever said. His speaking to a local Chicago radio station in 2001 (as state senator from Illinois) about the Constitution, stating that the problem with the Constitution is that it is a grouping of negative charters — what the government can’t do to us — as opposed to a charter of what government must do for us. His words to Joe the Plumber about spreading the wealth around. In foreign policy, it is the Great Apology speech in Cairo, as he made no bones about his belief that America is no better, and no worse, than any other nation.

With Obama’s multiculturalist view at the heart of his foreign policy (why else would he push the top agenda for NASA to be outreach to the Muslim community to thank them for their contributions to science and math?), it becomes clear that his take on Iran, Egypt, and Libya is not silence. Rather, it is part of a larger belief system that Obama carries with him; that for him far supersedes the oath of office, and well outweighs the realities of the world in front of him.

Obama’s world view is based on no one nation being better than any other. If this is the case, as his own words and actions (the historical perspective, as I call it) show, then how could the United States speak up for those in harm’s way? How can the U.S. bring forth a coalition of free and thinking nations to help those in Libya? To “fundamentally transform” the nation is not just how it works on the inside, but how it presents itself to the outside. The fundamental transformation is the abdicating of America as the moral center of the world. Obama, also being a statist, believes in big government. How can America, just one of close to two hundred nations, bring about war on another nation, or, more to the point, what justification could America have for imposing its world view on another nation?

Obama wasn’t being silent, he was the starting pistol in the race for one-world governance. The broad strokes of “Gaddafi must go!” were not empty words. Obama does not believe in individual action after oratory. He is not a capitalist in any sense of the word. He does not believe in the individual, or in the individual’s labor producing an individual’s reward that he or she does with as they wish. He does not believe that America’s job is to lead, or that the presidency is there to advocate for the best possible position for the United States, which inevitably brings about the best possible position for the free and thinking world.

Only a one-world government can make a decision to make a military move. Only a one-world government can have the communal foresight to advocate for what is best, and who it is best for. An air strike on Libya may not be best for the people of Libya, but the world has spoken, and who can deny that? The UN has proven itself time and again as corrupt and unwarranted in today’s society. Its values lean towards despots and dictators and thugs, not those who believe in freedom and liberty. How else can it explain Libya being on the UN Human Rights Council (from which it was recently dismissed as if the latest killings by Gaddafi were the final straw, not Pan Am Flight 103 or the general condition of the Libyan people over the past 40 years)? How else can it explain the constant and continual UN assault on Israel, though its citizens are murdered in their sleep by Palestinian terrorists? How else can it explain the rampant corruption in the Oil for Food scandal in Iraq? How else can it explain President Obama providing the UN a report on the human rights abuses in the U.S.?

That report was the “tell.” Obama does not believe in American exceptionalism. America is no better, and no worse, than any other nation. So, in his estimation, why shouldn’t America be subject to the same “ruler on the knuckles” punishment as every other nation that abuses its people … like Libya?

These are the values that Obama holds dear, and they guide his decisions on every front. While pundits and politicos were cackling about his trip to Brazil and South America, Obama kept along with seeing the sights, dancing in Rio, and staying away from press conferences.

For what reason would the president not go on his scheduled vacation trip? The job of the president of the United States, as he sees it, is to be a willing, bowing cog in the world machine. To be morally unambiguous would be a slight to the ruling world order, the one that only multiculturalism brings.

Obama does not see the presidency, and himself in it, as the leader of the free world. Based upon the historical perspective, it is an impediment to a better world where all are equal. The president believes that America is the impediment to a safer, better world, just as he believes that “settlements” are the impediment to a safer, better Israel.

Everything the president says and does supports the vision. In his recent jaunt to Brazil, he entered into deals that will permit Brazilian drilling in deep sea waters off the coast of the United States. Brazil can drill off our coasts, but the United States can’t drill off its own coasts. It well fits into Obama’s view of the one-world government. Nothing is ours. Everything belongs to “we,” and who are we not to share what is not even ours?

Many have made mention of the two quotes of March 19. The first, made by the President George Bush about the Iraq war in 2003. The second, made by Obama at the start of operations against Libya. Many state that these quotes are near identical; that both quotes show us working with others for freedom and liberty. This is not accurate. These two quotes are miles apart in meaning, and intent.

Bush’s quote starts, “American and coalition forces.” Obama’s quote starts, “Today we are part of a broad coalition.” There is a vast valley between these two statements. In Bush, we have the admission of American forces, American might, American strength, American know-how, and American exceptionalism. In Obama, we have the omission of American forces, might, strength, know-how and exceptionalism. In Bush, we have clarity that this mission (in Iraq) is to “free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” In Obama, we have ambiguity — that “we are acting in the interests of the United States and the world.”

Who are the “we,” and what are the “interests”? Like “hope,” “change,” and “fundamentally transforming,” the president once again is engaging in wordplay. If you define “we” and define “interests,” based on the historical perspective, you will understand Obama.


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Obama's War on the Middle Class
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Whenever he is in campaign mode, President Obama goes to great lengths to remind voters that he is "struggling to defend the middle class." As he did in January 2010, Obama speaks of the middle class as "under assault" (by whom he does not specify). In his Labor Day radio address of 2010, he spoke of his "commitment to the middle class." As evidence of this commitment, Obama established a "Middle Class Task Force" early in his presidency chaired by Vice-President Biden. With Biden in charge, why worry?


It should be obvious that Obama and the left wing of the Democratic Party are not struggling to defend the middle class. Most of the time they are struggling to disenfranchise it by ignoring the basic rights of human liberty and of property that are guaranteed under our Constitution.


The 18% real rate of unemployment during Obama's first two years in office has not done much for the middle class. At the same time, there has been an enormous transfer of wealth from the middle class to the underclass. ObamaCare, financial services reform, mortgage reform, education reform, tax reform: in all of these areas, the administration's efforts have been to create and expand services for the poor at the expense of the middle class.


Whether it is the free health care promised to tens of millions of new Medicaid recipients or mortgage principle reductions ("cramdowns") promoted at every turn by his Justice Department, Obama acts like a political general in the class war -- the war of the government services-dependent poor and unionized public sector against the middle class. Among the first acts of his administration were the expansion "making work pay" and child credit benefits: welfare of the sort that had been trimmed by the GOP Congresses of the 1990s.


Whether it is benefits for the underclass or more power for public sector unions, Obama is intent on cementing power based on the loyal support of the underclass and unionized labor. But to complete the task, he must deceive the middle classes for a bit longer by appearing to move to the center. The independent middle class voter, the very class of citizen that is most endangered by his presidency, is key to his reelection. In order to win reelection, he convince them he is safe.


But nothing Obama has done has benefited the middle class. That much should be clear just from what is happening with consumers' pocketbooks.


The recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report on consumer prices is a telling indication of the effects of Obama's policies on the middle class. During the past 12 months, gas prices are up nearly 20%. While global markets largely determine oil prices, Obama's assault on drilling and his weak-dollar policy have not helped things. Had the President pursued a pro-drilling policy and defended the dollar, gas prices would have been substantially lower. Even at this late date, if the administration were to signal support for expanded drilling, world energy markets would respond by lowering the price of oil, thus lowering the price the middle class pays at the pump.


Gas prices hit the middle class disproportionately hard. Bill Gates spends an infinitesimal portion of his earnings on energy bills, and the urban underclass pay little. But the middle class, most of whom commute some distance to work, are shelling out a great deal more each month. The same for food prices, which are up substantially above the "core rate" of inflation. The underclass benefit from increased food stamp subsidies; Gates has probably never shopped. It is the middle class that bears all the burdens under Obama.


The passage of ObamaCare was supposed to lower the cost of health care for practically all Americans. This, in fact, was one of the main rationales for its adoption. Again and again, Obama promised that his health care reform bill would lower the cost of health care -- by $100 billion (he likes big round numbers, for some reason), by $200 billion, by $500 billion over the next ten years.


But since ObamaCare was passed, health care costs for the middle class are way up. Over the past 12 months the cost of private medical insurance, where it can be purchased at all, is up by as much as 59%. Hospital costs are up 6%, nearly three times the rate of core inflation. The cost of the most widely prescribed drugs has increased well above the rate of inflation, driven up by the prospect of future government regulation. None of this has helped the middle class. It is, in fact, part and parcel of a calculated transfer of wealth from the middle class to the underclass.


It's not just energy and health care. Other prices that are influenced by government policy have gone up disproportionately to those in the less regulated market. Educational expenses are up 4%, twice the rate of core inflation. Again, it is the middle class that has been hit. College tuition, private school tuition, and child care -- these costs impact the middle class, not the Warren Buffets of the world, and not the underclass who receive full "need based" scholarships, magnet school preferences, and subsidized child care.


It does not help that, as announced Monday, sales of previously owned homes fell in February to their worst level in nine years. Middle-class homeowners who are now under water on their loans will have to wait a bit longer to break even. Boomers eyeing a place in the sun are going to have a hard time selling their current home before moving.


As Obama understands all too well, one of the hallmarks of all socialist countries is the absence of an independent middle class. From the Bolshevik experiment in Russia to socialist Venezuela today, it is necessary for communist leaders to eliminate that class of citizens who are not dependent on government for their welfare.


Political theorists from Aristotle to Locke understood that a truly independent and prosperous middle class was essential to the collective well-being of any society. The middle class has always, in every society, been characterized by qualities of social restraint and economic realism -- a shrewd and skeptical conservatism that serves to restrain the grandiose plans of utopian revolutionaries and embittered reactionaries alike.


Throughout its history American society in particular has been the beneficiary of an aspiring middle class whose efforts have created the world's greatest democracy. It is an ominous sign that the political left, with the loyal support of more than a third of our population, is intent on its destruction.

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Obama Spurns Suggestion That He Return Nobel Because of Libya
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Some foreign leaders have called on President Barack Obama to return the Nobel Peace Prize he received in 2009 in light of the U.S.-led attack on Libya. But that’s not going to happen, the president says, according to Politico.


President Barack Obama receives the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2009. (Getty Images Photo)
Among those who contend that the noble thing to do would be to return the Nobel is Bolivian President Evo Morales, who demands: "How is it possible that a Nobel Peace Prize winner leads a gang to attack and invade? This is not a defense of human rights or self-determination."

Also weighing in is Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the head of Russia’s Democratic party, who says, “This is another crude invasion into the domestic affairs of an independent state,” according to the Russian Press Service.

Obama responded to such suggestions in a CNN interview: “When I received that award, I specifically said there was an irony because I was already dealing with two wars. So I am accustomed to this contradiction of being both a commander in chief but also someone who aspires to peace.”

The United States is involved in attacking Libya to help the Libyans, Obama said. “I think the American people don’t see any contradiction in somebody who cares about peace also wanting to make sure that people aren’t butchered because of a dictator who wants to cling to power,” he said.

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Who is Barack Obama? – A Terrifying Analysis
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On March 15, 2011, the Heritage Foundation sponsored a telecast featuring Dinesh D’Souza, President of King’s College New York and author of the best selling book, Roots of Obama’s Rage. After introducing himself, D’Souza got right into an in-depth analysis of current US President Barack Obama. Obama is the product of an unusual family history, far different from most Americans or people anywhere, for that matter. To say Obama is the product of his parentage and previous environment is a gross understatement.

D’Souza first described his own difficulty understanding Obama. Who did Obama represent, what were his ambitions, his goals, his mind set, etc.? D’Souza concluded that Obama was a different leader from previous Democrats – especially different from so-called liberals like Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton.

There are a host of theories trying to explain Obama. By the Right he has many different designations – a Progressive, a conventional Liberal, a Socialist, a Muslim, not born an American, an alien. But, all of these javelins bounce off Obama with no effect or just glancing blows. He continues to act in apparently mysterious ways – not easily explained. If he were truly a Socialist he would have tried to command the means of production. But, Obama did not nationalize banks but rather infused capital to them. Another inconsistency: Recently banks wanted to pay back their government loan and get off the hook with the Obama administration. But, Obama did not want to take their money. Rather he insisted that the bank undergo some sort of stress test before allowing them off the hook? Why?

There are claims that he is an environmentalist and simply acting out that role – banning vital oil drilling in America, limiting the production of coal, introducing and pouring billions into hair brain solutions like wind mills and sun energy which are far more expensive and will not supply anywhere near the energy required besides, requiring years to develop properly.

Others say he has been motivated by Al Gore’s global warming theory. Gore asks for the use of less energy and a smaller carbon footprint to solve this debatable problem. However, Gore wants everyone in the world to cut back, not just the US. Obama does not care who conforms or not. Faster growing economies like China and India, far more responsible for future theoretical global warming, are ignored. Obama’s thinking is thus, not that of a true environmentalist.

In addition, Obama is blocking oil drilling all over America and its coastline while, at the same time, encouraging oil drilling in Mexico. To add salt to our wounds, The US Export Import bank has given a two billion dollar loan guarantee to Brazil to do their own off shore drilling. But, the oil is not to go to us but to the Chinese!

Then, there is his inconsistent and apparently illogical approach to all our problems in the Middle East – one minute he is siding with the dictators of Egypt, Libya, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the next minute, making obligatory gestures of compassion to their long suffering populations. (Not to mention his dissing and enthusiastic participation in the dismantling of our only reliable ally in the Middle East, Israel jsk)

Other inane gestures: He somehow made the Muslims party to our space program praising them for their great contributions to its development – huh? He returned a bust of Winston Churchill given to us by the Brits that had been gratefully placed by us in the White House because of Churchill’s crucial contribution to the defeat of Adolph Hitler in WWII.

D’Souza ended up concluding it was difficult accounting for all of Obama’s apparent weirdness until D’Souza came to his own epiphany that Obama is not weird, foolish, inexperienced naive or any of the above. He knows exactly what he is doing and we had better stop misinterpreting and underestimating the man.

D’Sousa presented his conclusion combining these disparate facts in one impossible to refute hypothesis which negates all the previous theories we might have had. Obama is not Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton or just another American Black shake down artist. Obama has not really been raised American. His early years were in Kenya and then Indonesia. He was first thrust into American culture by his mother when he was already 10-12 years old.

Then, D’Sousa read Obama’s book, Dreams from my Father. D’Sousa discovered that indeed, Obama has nothing to do with Black America. He never sat at a segregated lunch counter nor was he descended from slaves. His Dad was an educated immigrant from Kenya and his Mom was white from Kansas. His is not an American dream. He has no understanding or sympathy for American exceptionalism. In fact, he resents the concept.

So, what is Obama’s dream? He tells us very explicitly that his dream is his father’s dream. Obama Sr. was raised in Kenya. In his 20‘s, he married a Black woman in Kezia, had two children by her, and while she was pregnant with the second, he left his family and went to Hawaii as a student. He there met Obama’s Mom – Stanley Ann, married her and before Obama Jr. was age two also left her. He then went to Harvard where he took up with a third woman, took her back to Africa and had two children by her. At the same time he reunited with his first wife, from Kezia, and had two more children with her. In total he had four wives, usually two at the same time, and 8 children and with no sense of obligation and nor did he supply care for any of them.

Obama Sr. was a chronic alcoholic who had multiple driving accidents. He kills a man in one, in another hurts himself so badly his two legs have to be cut off and replaced with iron rods. Nevertheless, his courtship style remains intact. He takes up with another woman who bears his eighth child, George Obama.

In summary – he was quite an unusual role model for President Obama! Later, Obama Jr’s sister took him to task and demanded how could he admire this despicable man who had abandoned all his wives and children, never gave them a dime or even paid them a visit. Obama Jr., in fact, barely knew him since his Dad had visited him only once, when he was about 10 years old. Consequently, Sr. had no direct influence upon Jr.

That influence was wielded by Obama Sr.’s first convert – Jr’s mother, Stanley Ann Obama. Obama’s mother was an only child. She grew up in Kansas and somehow became a bohemian rebel against her parents and her country. Despite her marriage and rapid abandonment by Obama’s father, she refused to learn from her experience. She finds and marries another third world, anti-American guy, Lolo Satora, He was Indonesian and grew up under the colonial Dutch. Satora wooed Stanley Ann Obama with stories of Indonesian colonialism, married her and took her and her son, Jr. to live in Indonesia.

By a quirk of fate and bad luck for the American people, the Indonesian husband becomes more pro Western, pro American, and anti Communist. He signs up with an oil company and fights against Indonesian rebels in his own countryside. Ann then attacks him as a traitor to the greater cause and quickly sends Jr. back to Kansas to be raised by her parents and escape the pro-American thinking of the Indonesian husband. She remains in Indonesia the rest of her life.

Obama’s father, Obama Sr.. was basically an anti-Colonialist – the dominant idea in the third world of the 20th Century. The simple core of this idea was that the world is divided into two – the colonizers or oppressors and the colonized or victims. The colonizers used to be Europe, Britain, France and now it is America in this line of thought. Furthermore, the rich got rich only by looting the colonized and even when they left, powerful economic forces remained in a position of exploitation. Banks, insurance and pharmaceutical companies, oil companies and anyone else that happens to make money are simply now the economic wing of colonialism still into exploitation. And, who to Barack Obama, Jr. is the lead elephant and current exploiter? Why we are, of course.

How is Obama to deal with us, the problem? First, bring us under the rod of the Federal government. Obama’s father in 1965 wrote an article in an East African journal saying how this should be done. Bring down all the rich guys by the power of the state, confiscate their land, property, raise taxes as high as you want – 100% if necessary, and obtain their wealth through fiat and legislative piracy. The rationale is that the wealth is not rightfully theirs, in the first place, but had been ripped off from the poor .

That is Dinesh D’Souza’s basic hypothesis. So, Obama far from being a multi-culture guy, far from being the first African American president, is actually the first anti-American, anti-colonialism president and driven by that mind-set!

Obama, like the naive would like to believe, is no buffoon, not inexperienced, not unworldly, not apolitical and not a mediocrity. He is a very clever but misdirected guy and out to do us all in. He is the most effective Democratic President since Lyndon Johnson. He has gotten more programs passed in the shortest time, by Democrat or Republican, since Reagan.

If he is to be voted out of office in 2012, Republicans will have to take the full measure of the man. They need a strong guy, perhaps a father figure, a person that appeals to the American public. It will be a very difficult election made more so by mindless, irresponsible media genuflections and the Obama useful idiots that may never see the awful danger that this man represents.


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I don't know if this has been posted before, but if so, it bears repeating. It was written by By Lou Pritchett, former executive at Procter & Gamble, a very successful businessman. From an email, and it has been "snoped", link at the bottom.

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A LETTER FROM A PROCTER AND GAMBLE EXECUTIVE TO THE PRESIDENT*

THE LAST SENTENCE IS THE MOST CHILLING

Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America 's true living legends- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world's highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management.. Lou changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as "partnering." Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.

AN OPEN LETTER TO
PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike
any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.


You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive
Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no
visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth
growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus
don't understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned
yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to
publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail..

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America '
crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style
country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system
with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly
capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose
that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of
living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics
against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from
challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider
opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both
omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything
you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the
Limbaugh's, Hannity's, O'Reillys and Becks who offer opposing,
conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will
probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett
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This letter was sent to the NY Times but they never acknowledged it.
Big surprise. Since it hit the internet, however, it has had over
500,000 hits. Keep it going. All that is necessary for evil to succeed
is that good men do nothing. It's happening right now.*
http://www.snopes.com/polit...apbox/youscareme.asp
http://www.truthorfiction.c...obama-youscareme.htm
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Dr. Sam Vaknin is an Israeli psychologist. Interesting view on our new president.




Dr. Vaknin has written extensively about narcissism.




Dr. Vaknin States "I must confess I was impressed by Sen.Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident - a wholesome presidential package. I was put off soon, not just because of his shallowness but also because there was an air of haughtiness in his demeanor that was unsettling. His posture and his body language were louder than his empty words. Obama's speeches are unlike any political speech we have heard in American history. Never has a politician in this land had such a quasi "religious" impact on so many people. The fact that Obama is a total incognito with zero accomplishment, makes this inexplicable infatuation alarming. Obama is not an ordinary man. He is not a genius. In fact he is quite ignorant on most important subjects."




Barack Obama is a narcissist.




Dr. Sam Vaknin, the author of the Malignant Self Love believes "Barack Obama appears to be a narcissist." Vaknin is a world authority on narcissism. He understands narcissism and describes the inner mind of a narcissist like no other person. When he talks about narcissism everyone listens. Vaknin says that Obama's language, posture and demeanor, and the testimonies of his closest, dearest and nearest suggest that the Senator is either a narcissist or he may have narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Narcissists project a grandiose but false image of themselves. Jim Jones, the charismatic leader of People's Temple, the man who led over 900 of his followers to cheerfully commit mass suicide and even murder their own children was also a narcissist. David Koresh, Charles Manson, Joseph Koni, Shoko Asahara, Stalin, Saddam, Mao,Kim Jong Ill and Adolph Hitler are a few examples of narcissists of our time. All these men had a tremendous influence over their fanciers. They created a personality cult around themselves and with their blazing speeches elevated their admirers, filled their hearts with enthusiasm and instilled in their minds a new zest for life. They gave them hope! They promised them the moon, but alas, invariably they brought them to their doom. When you are a victim of a cult of personality, you don't know it until it is too late. One determining factor in the development of NPD is childhood abuse.




"Obama's early life was decidedly chaotic and replete with traumatic and mentally bruising dislocations," says Vaknin. "Mixed-race marriages were even less common then. His parents went through a divorce when he was an infant (two years old). Obama saw his father only once again, before he died in a car accident. Then his mother re-married and Obama had to relocate to Indonesia , a foreign land with a radically foreign culture, to be raised by a step-father. At the age of ten, he was whisked off to live with his maternal (white)grandparents. He saw his mother only intermittently in the following few years and then she vanished from his life in 1979. She died of cancer in 1995".




One must never underestimate the manipulative genius of pathological narcissists. They project such an imposing personality that it overwhelms those around them. Charmed by the charisma of the narcissist, people become like clay in his hands. They cheerfully do his bidding and delight to be at his service. The narcissist shapes the world around himself and reduces others in his own inverted image. He creates a cult of personality. His admirers become his co-dependents. Narcissists have no interest in things that do not help them to reach their personal objective. They are focused on one thing alone and that is power. All other issues are meaningless to them and they do not want to waste their precious time on trivialities. Anything that does not help them is beneath them and do not deserve their attention.




If an issue raised in the Senate does not help Obama in one way or another, he has no interest in it. The "present" vote is a safe vote. No one can criticize him if things go wrong. Those issues are unworthy by their very nature because they are not about him. Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review led to a contract and advance to write a book about race relations.




The University of Chicago Law School provided him a lot longer than expected and at the end it evolved into, guess what? His own autobiography! Instead of writing a scholarly paper focusing on race relations, for which he had been paid, Obama could not resist writing about his most sublime self. He entitled the book Dreams from My Father.




Not surprisingly, Adolph Hitler also wrote his own autobiography when he was still nobody. So did Stalin. For a narcissist no subject is as important as his own self. Why would he waste his precious time and genius writing about insignificant things when he can write about such an august being as himself? Narcissists are often callous and even ruthless. As the norm, they lack conscience. This is evident from Obama's lack of interest in his own brother who lives on only one dollar per month.




A man who lives in luxury, who takes a private jet to vacation in Hawaii, and who has raised nearly half a billion dollars for his campaign (something unprecedented in history) has no interest in the plight of his own brother. Why? Because, his brother cannot be used for his ascent to power.




A narcissist cares for no one but himself. This election is like no other in the history of America . The issues are insignificant compared to what is at stake. What can be more dangerous than having a man bereft of conscience, a serial liar, and one who cannot distinguish his fantasies from reality as the leader of the free world? I hate to sound alarmist, but one is a fool if one is not alarmed. Many politicians are narcissists. They pose no threat to others...They are simply self serving and selfish.




Obama evidences symptoms of pathological narcissism, which is different from the run-of-the-mill narcissism of a Richard Nixon or a Bill Clinton for example. To him reality and fantasy are intertwined. This is a mental health issue, not just a character flaw. Pathological narcissists are dangerous because they look normal and even intelligent. It is this disguise that makes them treacherous.




Today the Democrats have placed all their hopes in Obama. But this man could put an end to their party. The great majority of blacks have also decided to vote for Obama. Only a fool does not know that their support for him is racially driven. This is racism, pure and simple. The downside of this is that if Obama turns out to be the disaster I predict, he will cause widespread resentment among the whites.




The blacks are unlikely to give up their support of their man. Cultic mentality is pernicious and unrelenting. They will dig their heads deeper in the sand and blame Obama's detractors of racism. This will cause a backlash among the whites.




The white supremacists will take advantage of the discontent and they will receive widespread support. I predict that in less than four years, racial tensions will increase to levels never seen since the turbulent 1960's.




Obama will set the clock back decades... America is the bastion of freedom. The peace of the world depends on the strength of America , and its weakness translates into the triumph of terrorism and victory of rogue nations.




It is no wonder that Ahmadinejad, Hugo Chavez, the Castrists, the Hezbollah, the Hamas, the lawyers of the Guantanamo terrorists and virtually all sworn enemies of America are so thrilled by the prospect of their man in the White House. America is on the verge of destruction. There is no insanity greater than electing a pathological narcissist as president.


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A Brief Look at Candidate Obama's 2008 Campaign Promises
http://politics.blogs.foxne...08-campaign-promises
 
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With the news that President Obama is officially running for re-election in 2012, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at where some of candidate Barack Obama's 2008 campaign trail promises stand today.

The president has said he keeps a check list of promises he made during the campaign in his pocket. Last fall Mr. Obama told "Rolling Stone" he figured his administration had "probably accomplished 70 percent of the things that we said we were going to do."

The watchdog organization Politifact.com* has been keeping track and puts candidate Obama's list of promises at a staggering 506, of those they say the president has kept 122, or 24 percent. Coincidentally, of the 25 selected as the most significant promises, politifact.com says Obama has followed through on six, for a 'promise-kept percentage' of 24 percent.

Here is a selection we thought worthy of inspection:

1) Guantanamo Bay

As a candidate, Barack Obama repeatedly stated his intentions to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, calling the facility a recruitment tool for al Qaeda. With Monday's announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged plotters in the September 11 attacks would be tried in military courts, it has become even more obvious that Gitmo will not be shutting down anytime soon.

However, some Obama supporters say they don't see Guantanamo Bay shaping up as a huge problem for the president in 2012.

"President Obama is still trying to shut down Gitmo as soon as possible, it's just turning out that it's not possible," said Democratic strategist Joe Trippi. "But I don't see that promise really hurting him in 2012, his base probably won't abandon him over that."

2) Letting Bush-Era Tax Cuts Expire

As a candidate, Barack Obama said he opposed tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and if elected to the highest office in the land, he would let the Bush-era tax cuts expire. However as president, Obama found that he had to compromise in order to avoid raising taxes for most Americans. In the end, the only way for the president to keep the Bush-era tax rates for couples making less than $250,000 was to also extend current tax rates for what he called "the wealthiest two percent of Americans."

Once again, Democrats don't see this as a deal breaker.

"He fought against extending the Bush tax cuts the whole way, he just lost. But once again I don't think his base will desert him for Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich over this," said Trippi.

3) Foreclosure Prevention Fund

During the campaign, candidate Obama said he would create a $10 billion fund designed to come to the aid of homeowners at risk of foreclosure. "Too many families are unable to refinance because no one will lend to them, and they are unable to sell their homes because the housing market has fallen," said Obama in 2008.

The president actually tried to go above and beyond the initial promise by creating a fund that totaled $75 billion. This money came, in part, from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The problem is the program, for a myriad of reasons, has failed to deliver. As of January 2011, the program had helped only about 500,000 homeowners.

4) Immigration Reform

As a candidate out on the campaign trail, Mr. Obama promised to provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. However, during his first two years in the White House, the president spent just about all of his hard earned political capital on passing health care reform and the economic stimulus. So by the time Obama went back to the well for immigration, he was politically broke.

The DREAM act, a bill aimed to provide a path to citizenship for immigrants brought to the U.S. as children, passed in the House but died in the Senate during the lame duck session. With that chance missed, it could be a long time before Democrats and immigration reform backers have the numbers in Congress to make another run at it.

Obama called the failure to pass immigration reform "maybe my biggest disappointment" of the lame duck session but maintains he is still committed to the goal.

5) Restricting Former Lobbyists from Serving in Obama Administration

As a candidate, Barack Obama deplored the prevalence of lobbyists in and around the White House. "No political appointee will be able to lobby the executive branch after leaving government service during the remainder of the administration," said Obama in 2008.

However, according to politifact.com, the administration has granted waivers to several former lobbyists, allowing them to serve. The administration also allows "recusals," in which a former lobbyists can recuse themselves from discussions surrounding interests they used to lobby.

6) Iraq War

As a candidate out on the trail, Mr. Obama made the Iraq war one of his main issues and hammered his Republican rival Sen. John McCain over and over on the subject. Obama said he would work with military commanders on the ground in Iraq and in consultation with the Iraqi government to end the war safely and responsibly within 16 months.

Here is one that is widely considered to be a promise kept for President Obama. Although about 48,000 U.S. troops remain in Iraq as a transitional force, the bulk of the combat forces were headed home by the end of summer 2010.

7) Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

In the final weeks of a lame duck session, Congress overturned a 17-year-old policy known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" which banned gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military. The repeal calls for a transition period so that the Department of Defense can train all forces by this summer and implement the repeal in the fall.

By signing the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" into law on December 22, 2010, President Obama kept another campaign promise.

8) Sign a ‘Universal' Health care Bill

Last but certainly not least is the promise Mr. Obama made to sign a universal health care bill. Although the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has many detractors, this has to be considered a major promise kept by President Obama.

On March 23, 2010 after months of political battles on Capitol Hill, President Obama signed Democrat-passed health care reform into law, triggering a firestorm that is still working its way through the courts. Many legal scholars and pundits expect the matter will ultimately be resolved in the Supreme Court

Trippi adds that no president can keep all of his campaign promises, yet on the biggest issues, such as Iraq and health care reform, Obama did make good on pledges he made on the trail.

"More importantly the 2012 presidential election will be won on issues of the day, not promises from 2008," Trippi said. "The buck stops on President Obama's desk now, you can't blame President Bush anymore. So if the economy is good and we feel safe as a nation in November of 2012, he's looking good, however if unemployment is at nine percent, the president could be in trouble."

The president meanwhile seems eager to talk about his accomplishments rather than specific promises. During a conference call with thousands of grassroots supporters Monday night Obama ticked off some of his signature accomplishments such as health care legislation, Wall Street reform and the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." The president told listeners that in only two years his administration had produced "the most successful legislative initiative" of any president over the last 50 years. "I think it's important to remind people what we have accomplished."

*PolitiFact calls itself "a project of the St. Petersburg Times to help you find the truth in American politics. Reporters and editors from the Times fact-check statements by members of Congress, the White House, lobbyists and interest groups and rate them on our Truth-O-Meter."


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Wake Up, Critics: Here’s Obama’s Grand Plan
Hint: the White House is a stepping stone.
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I have always been an admirer of David Axelrod — since I found out who he was. His creation of the Obama myth is one of the most impressive marketing and propaganda feats in history, carefully crafted from a simple set of rules and masterfully applied to challenging, shifting circumstances.

Axelrod knew just what he was doing. He created an African American candidate without the ghetto rap. He created an ultimate urban intellectual alternative to George W. Bush — a veritable anti-Bush. He created a pseudo-legend based upon a semi-fictional autobiography.

He created a quasi-evangelical being with the gift to heal the earth.

To create this myth, the Axelrod team had to suppress the dark pages of Obama’s life. Obama’s ideological convictions were simply too far off center, too much the result of a radical leftist ideology.

Obama was a lifelong student of Marxist and neo-Marxist thinkers, his life dedicated to a theoretic approach based on the “historical” conflict of opposing classes. Long before he received the Axelrod touch, Obama was planning the long march through the institutions as a student. He has been as much a brilliant strategist and tactician as Axelrod. He has known when to lay low, and when to attack; when to aggrandize, and when to diminish.

When Obama started to realize that a path to the White House could be opened, he knew he had a problem. As a student he created a trail of radical papers which could be catastrophic to his career. But he was lucky, and able, to hide them in time.

We don’t know what he wrote in his papers at Columbia and Harvard, but we do know they had to vanish. How unsettling did they have to be for that to be necessary? An infamous video of Obama speaking at the farewell party of a Palestinian activist sits in a safe belonging to the the Los Angeles Times, hidden from view by friendly media. Do you suppose it contains images that could harm the myth?

We have no knowledge of what interesting essays, knowledgeable articles, or surprising op-ed pieces he wrote. He has the aura of a sharp intellectual, but there is no proof of it, apart from his doctored autobiographies. He didn’t write op-eds out of a lack of ideas. He had ideas. But when he became a state senator, he realized there was more to gain. Radical ideas and radical speeches could be obstacles.

America is in a deep crisis, both internally and externally. But its most serious crisis is rooted in the continuous process of legitimating the American experiment as defined by its founding fathers. This is a uniquely American process. It seems as if every American president has to define America’s existence from the bottom up. In Obama’s case, he is trying to redefine America’s existence.

It’s his goal to transform the nation into a European welfare state, which he can only execute when he can work around America’s original ideas as formulated by the founding fathers. The almost boundless liberty of free citizens, he believes, should be limited by a strong federal state which demands a sizeable part of the fruits of the labor of its citizens. Obama is enforcing laws and introducing institutions derived from European socialist concepts of “social justice” — which should be, according to progressive thinking, society’s lodestar.

The state, a benign organism in this vision, can only cover the basic needs of its population if it regulates the free market and free enterprise. The obligation to lead a decent, healthy, prosperous life isn’t just the duty or the free choice of its citizenry but the obligation of the state. Only the state can lead the population toward the right economic and moral choices (as formulated by its leaders). In societies centered around the concept of social justice, the cultural and ideological elites tend to be authoritarian. They have an advanced consciousness of the rights and wrongs in the world, and they will show the way.

In the meantime, of course, they will lead luxurious lives while preaching their program of modesty for the masses. (The hypocrisy of progressives such as Gore and Soros and Michael Moore, and progressive dynasties like the Kennedys, is breathtaking).
Economic factors create and change cultures. They transform the way individuals consider their contribution to society, they modify the relation between citizen and state, and they change the way individuals are able to control their own future. But there are limits. The European welfare state, as we know, had to retreat from its program of full control — not only because it is so expensive to maintain (an army can hardly be financed) but because the European welfare state’s defining “narrative” is itself pacifist, introverted, culturally relativist. It is the cultural and ethical side of the welfare state.

And without a doubt, it is the long-term vision of president Obama. His economic transformation will enforce a cultural and ideological transformation. Everything he is doing is driven by this vision. It is postmodern revolutionary socialist methodology at work.

His career is proof that Barack Obama can plan far ahead. He has a superior intellect. He is controlled and disciplined. At the same time, he can behave quite bizarrely, at least according to his critics. What drove him to give a speech in Cairo at the very beginning of his presidency? Why did he greet the Saudi king and Chinese leaders as a servant? Why did he appease anti-American forces while neglecting American allies? Why did he create a literary autobiography while at the same time hiding key facts of his biography? Why is he burdening the U.S. with a debt that will take generations to repay? Why is he fighting Arizona’s policing laws while declining to enforce the borders?

I often read articles claiming Obama isn’t up to his task. He doesn’t understand economics. He isn’t as smart as he claims to be. He’s only talk. He’s lazy.

His critics are wrong.

I started to understand the fascinating phenomenon of Barack Obama when it suddenly dawned upon me that his present office may not be his final ambition.

The individuals in Chicago, with whom he has long fashioned his political identity, as well as the individuals he keeps close to him as advisors in the White House, are mainly leftist ideologues who have embraced the long march through the institutions. Through Obama and his half-fictional character, they have been unbelievably successful, reaching the pinnacle of American political power.

Obama and his team try to transform America and reorganize society around the concept of social justice. A transformed America will, naturally, lead to a completely different balance of power in the world. Internal change will create external change. The vacuum left behind by a weakened U.S. — a world without a superpower, a globe of equal nations — should be filled by a new transnational body. This is the core dream of every progressive ideologue.

World governments or governances have been part of the Marxist curriculum for decades, driven by anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist ideologies. At the moment, the driving forces are earthism, enviromentalism, and fear of manmade global warming. (From the ideologue’s perspective, planetary incineration is the ultimate consequence of imperialist capitalism.) The future of the globe and the human race is at stake — and in order to suppress global warming, the world needs special taxes and special tools to regulate industries and modify human behavior. Who will control these new controlling mechanisms?

The first report of the Club of Rome, published in 1972, introduced to the world the perceived apocalyptic consequences of human activities and human reproduction, and the need to create regulating and controlling political mechanisms. Since then, progressive movements have been trying to implement these mechanisms, like cap and trade or a global tax.

Does Obama, in word and deed, start to make sense when one starts to understand that he sees his role from a vantage point far above the presidency? Beyond the White House, there is a world for him to gain. What he achieved in Washington he could repeat on a global scale.

But he has to walk a fine line: he can neither ruin America nor restore America’s full power and prosperity. He seems to dream of an American sort of European Union — safe, pleasant, but also powerless, lacking the passionate soul of a true nation, slowly fading out with graying populations in unbearably costly welfare states, depending ever more on non-Western immigrants steadily changing our cultural fabric.

In order to save the world from devastating global warming and climate change — and, indeed, all fatal consequences of capitalism — the restless progressives in the world are uniting. Obama is well prepared to position himself as their prophet — or messiah.

Internationalism, global governance, America the evil — these are ideas Obama has absorbed for year after year. As a smart, suave man, he knew exactly what he was doing when he started to climb the ladder. Capitalizing — if I may use the word — on his luck, Obama had the intuition to pick capable operators for his campaigning and policymaking teams.

His conservative critics dramatically underestimate him. Obama knows precisely what kind of America he envisions. He wants to mold a certain type of America in order to mold a certain type of global governance. For that, he needs another term to reach his goal.

In 2016, he will move on to higher office.

Regular politicians don’t have the emotional and intellectual tools to pursue such a strategy. But Obama? Whose explosive rise, ability to manipulate his own biography, and ties to obedient media are staggering? This is a man who wrote not one but two autobiographies and remains an enigma. When you have this capacity, you are really mythical.

After G. W. “what you see is what you get” Bush, America is lead by a president whose deepest convictions remain unfathomable — until, that is, you start to get the idea of a person who considers his stay at the White House as a phase on a longer path.

I may, of course be wrong. I can’t rule that out. After all, if I were, we’d all be better off.


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Obama vs. Arizona: Who’s Telling the Truth?
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The past few years, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has practically been begging Obama to help her fight the illegal alien war she is battling in Arizona. He has not only turned his back on her, he and his DOJ crew also sued her state.

During the Gulf oil spill, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal claims Obama was more concerned about Jindal’s stance on food stamps than the crisis they were facing. According to his book “Leadership and Crisis”, Jindal recounts “being chastised by Obama just moments after the president landed for his first visit to Louisiana during the Gulf oil spill crisis.”

“He was upset,” writes Jindal. “There was not a word about the oil spill. He was concerned about looking bad.”

For the past few weeks, Texas Governor Rick Perry has been asking Obama for government aid to help with wildfires that are raging across his state. Again, nothing.

And yet, Obama recently made a trip to El Paso, Texas—the first time he has been to the U.S.-Mexican border since becoming president. He wasn’t there to help with Texas fires or to encourage and enforce border protection– but rather to give a pep rally about what a great job he was doing.

He also spent some time ridiculing the GOP and all the people who are trying to fight the Mexican border problems.

“We have gone above and beyond what was requested by the very Republicans who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement,” Obama said. ”But even though we’ve answered these concerns, I gotta say I suspect there are still going to be some who are trying to move the goal posts on us one more time.”

“Maybe they’ll need a moat,” he said, which made his fans laugh. “Maybe they’ll want alligators in the moat.”

Ah, Obama, you floor me…

“They wanted more agents on the border. Well, we now have more boots on the ground on the southwest border than at any time in our history,” he said. “The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents – more than twice as many as there were in 2004, a build up that began under President Bush and that we have continued. They wanted a fence. Well, that fence is now basically complete.”

Well now, not so fast there, Mr. President. According to at the Department of Homeland Security, only 5% of the double-layer fencing is complete which amounts to 36.3 miles.

“The Government Accountability Office (GAO), Congress’s investigative arm, reported in early 2009 that only 32 miles of double-layer fencing had been built. That means under President Obama, only 4.3 miles of double layer fencing has been built. This is woefully inadequate.”

And as far as all those “boots on the ground,” unless he’s talking about illegal alien boots, he is flat-out wrong.

In an interview with Eric Bolling on Fox News, Sheriff Paul Babeu of Panil County Arizona was asked if Obama’s statement about having a secure border was accurate.

“Absolutely not,” Babeu said. “He’s been listening too much to Janet Napolitano who’s been saying the border is more secure than ever before and they’re divorced from reality.”

“The president should’ve come to my county, the number one…county in America for drug and human smuggling. We had 219,000 illegals last year alone that were apprehended. The border patrol says almost double that number got away. So how is that a secure border?”

Instead of getting the help they asked for, Babeu said they got “teams of lawyers sent to fight our state further undermining the rules of law.”

“And then they put up these insulting signs in my county that said, ‘Danger, warning, travel not recommended—drug and human smuggling, armed gunmen’—basically warning our American citizens that certain parts of our own country are not safe for travel.”

Sheriff Babeu also contends that the threat at the borders isn’t just about Mexican drug cartel but also international terrorism.

“If the overwhelming majority of simple illegals who make it through our unsecured border without detection, think about people with military training or those that are sleeper cells part of terrorist organizations that the 9/11 Commission has warned us at great length that that’s the plan of the enemy of America—to slip in to the United States and lay in wait for command from afar. What better place than to come through our unsecured borders in Mexico?”

When asked what Arizona needs to secure their borders, Babeu said, “What we need is 6,000 armed soldiers to be deployed to the border for 2 years to immediately stop the flow of not just illegal immigration but the drug smuggling.”

He said the drug cartels have killed 35,000 people and have nearly toppled the Mexican government. And despite the fact that Obama bragged about the fence being “basically finished”, Babeu said, “The president’s simply wrong—he’s the one who stopped the fence from getting built! We’ve hardly built any fence! He doesn’t even have the facts straight.”

Babeu said they need to finish the job they started. “To stop them from coming across, we build this double-barrier fence across about 700 miles of the 2000 miles of border.”

In addition to 6000 armed soldiers and 700 miles of secure fencing, Babeu also suggested Arizona be allowed to enforce the laws already in place.

“We have to prosecute anybody who comes across and breaks our laws instead of the president apologizing for America like everything is our fault…Stop apologizing for America and start defending and protecting America!”

Babeu believes the entire El Paso jaunt was simply a campaign stop. “This is unacceptable,” he said. “The president is making this purely a political launch for his reelection.”

So who’s telling the truth? Their stories are completely opposite. So do we believe the president, who made his very first visit to a U.S./Mexican border town since being elected (and only then to lead a pep rally)– or the NSA elected ‘Sheriff of the Year’ Paul Babeu, who is on the front lines of our U.S. border fighting the Mexican drug cartels and illegal aliens every single day for many years?

And if one of them is lying, shouldn’t one of them be fired?



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Obama's budget proposal goes down in flames...97-0

Unanimous rejection

The budget proposal released by the White House back in February didn’t win a single vote in the Senate on Wednesday— the final tally was 0-97. Senate Republicans pushed for the vote as a counterpoint to the defeat of Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan.

POLITICO’s David Rogers reports: “The vote on the president’s plan turned into a rout, with neither Republicans nor Democrats voting in favor of taking it up. At one level, the 97-0 vote showed how out-of-date the February requests can seem after so much has changed in the spending debate already this year. But for Democrats, it also proved a convenient way to mask their substantial internal differences over how to proceed” on addressing the government’s fiscal problems.
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Hes so bad, I pretty much gave up even listening to reports of what hes saying or doing. He does nothing for America or Americans, so he is of no consequence to me anymore. I respect him about as much as I did Bin Ladin. He might be called president, but in that case its used very loosely. If he owns a blue turban, Id probably even consider him to be the 3rd anti christ.
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An email I received.

OBAMA'S COLLEGE ROOMMATE SPEAKS OUT
By Wayne Allyn Root , June 6th, 2010

Barack Hussein Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent.
To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing.
He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure,
economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and
our country from within.

Barack Hussein Obama was my college classmate
( Columbia University , class of '83).
He is a devout Muslim do not be fooled.
Look at his Czars...anti-business..anti- american.
As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Barack Hussein Obama is
following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University .
They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system
with government spending and entitlement demands.

Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming.
Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn
the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority
that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted
on to always vote for bigger government.

Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.

Universal health care . The health care bill had very little to do with health
care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and
health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions).
Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans
will add trillions to the national debt.
What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government .
Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill
in the middle of a depression?

Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with
health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming.
It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control
of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors.
Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns
NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants.
They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to
Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power.
The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars,
bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."

Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state?
Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government
entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression?
Certainly not American taxpayers.
But this has been Barack Hussien Obama's plan all along.
His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.

Legalize 12 million illegal Mexican immigrants.
Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America .
But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted
on to support big government.
Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children,
food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and
eventually Social Security .

Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go?
It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country.
It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could
keep paying union dues.
It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out
(after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions).
A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues).

All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their
bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America .
The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful.
The ends justify the means.

Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job
creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers,
redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did
nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama).
Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Barack Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition. With the acts outlined above, Barack Hussien Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the
system.

Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by
my Columbia University college classmate Barack Hussien Obama
using the Cloward and Piven Plan .

True per snopes!
http://www.snopes.com/polit...oapbox/overwhelm.asp
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Originally posted by avengador1:

An email I received.

OBAMA'S COLLEGE ROOMMATE SPEAKS OUT
By Wayne Allyn Root , June 6th, 2010
*snip*

True per snopes!
http://www.snopes.com/polit...oapbox/overwhelm.asp


Maybe YOU should have actually read the Snopes. It will also tell you this if you went past the first 2 paragraphs:

Origins:
"Wayne Allen Root, a political commentatior who was the Libertarian Party's 2008 vice presidential candidate, is a regular guest on FOX news (STRIKE 1) and the author of several books, including The Conscience of a Libertarian (etc) He writes a biweekly political opinion column for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, and his entry for 6 June 2010 was the article excerpted above, entitled "Obama's Agenda: Overwhelm the system" in which he opined that President Obama is "purposely overwhelming the US economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos."

Some versions of this piece are entitled "Obama's College Roomate Speaks Out" but the heading reflects a misreading of the word "classmate". AS WAYNE ALLEN ROOT NEVER WAS (OR CLAIMED TO BE) BARACK OBAMA'S ROOMATE. (STRIKE 2) Wayne Allen Root merely attended Columbia University at the same time Barack Obama did (and later claimed neither he nor anyone he knew was familliar with Barack Obama at Columbia.)" STRIKE 3.


Soo A1, you post a lie, have the truth availbable to you, and you LINK the truth to support the lie,hoping nobody ACTUALLY looks at your source? And you see nothing wrong with that? As a historian, I see this kind of half-assed "research" is just as reputable as saying "well, my uncle told me."

I suggest you go back and ACTUALLY read the snopes page you linked, and beyond the "truth" that W.A.R. wrote the article.. just because that is snopes-confirmed-truth does not make anything in the body of what he wrote the truth at all. Anyone else see how convenient it is to say Snopes is the truth on something when all it confirms is the man wrote the article, not any truth to what is IN the article? Pretty underhanded, I guess I expected no less . Intentional or not.

We have been over this before, if you are going to cut and paste every piece of political junk mail that comes to you, could you AT LEAST investigate the links you post to see if there is actual truth in the statement. The dude was not Obama's roomate at all, is a biased FOX employee, and even admitted that he never even knew Obama but merely attended the same school.

So you would keep on perpetuating a lie as it came to you because it criticizes the president, regardless of what the truth of the matter is?

I suppose this is where you tell me I shouldn't read it if I dont want to.. and this is where I tell you you should not post it if it only takes 4 seconds to find out the article and premise for it is a complete distorted lie. Ever consider working for FOX like Wayne Allen Root does?

Should we start a "Avengador1 Watch" thread where we start linking every bunk email cut and paste that you dont even know is the truth? I wonder how many pages that would take up just in a backlog?

You should be embarrassed.

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lol - yup....
it has been a long long time since anything resembling "the truth" has come from the Tea Birthers

has become a non-stop BS parade - but - many are marching along

boy they love their puppet shows
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I was thing the other day what point in history fits this president.
Trojan Horse mostly came to mind.
The things that have come from this horse's a$$ are nothing short of WTF.
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I was thing the other day what point in history fits this president.
Trojan Horse mostly came to mind.
The things that have come from this horse's a$$ are nothing short of WTF.




Trojan Horse - come from horses butt
lol - nice

so...how did that turn out?
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Trojan Horse - come from horses butt
lol - nice

so...how did that turn out?


We won't know the END result till either he quits crapping on the country, or we terminate his reign.
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We won't know the END result till either he quits crapping on the country, or we terminate his reign.


well, we have been shown how by the last 2 prez's how much this country CAN be crapped on.....

maybe better boots is what we needs? we certainly have no taste in leadership.....
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well, we have been shown how by the last 2 prez's how much this country CAN be crapped on.....

maybe better boots is what we needs? we certainly have no taste in leadership.....


Well Bush never promised to be different!
He was wearing his cowboy boots, so not allot of deception.
But when the beautiful horse from the foreign land showed up at our gate, we just had to have it.
When will we ever learn?
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Well Bush never promised to be different!
He was wearing his cowboy boots, so not allot of deception.
But when the beautiful horse from the foreign land showed up at our gate, we just had to have it.
When will we ever learn?




When will we ever learn?!? have you seen the choices? both in the past & proposed?

but - reality - maybe libertarian can make it. had a helluva swelling in the ranks recently.
certainly would knock us out of the (R)/(D) rut which has ruined the nation.
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but - reality - maybe libertarian can make it. had a helluva swelling in the ranks recently.
certainly would knock us out of the (R)/(D) rut which has ruined the nation.




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Wow. The news just keeps getting better and better...

New polls confirm Obama's Democratic base crumbles

With all of the spotlights on the high-stakes debt maneuverings by President Obama and Speaker John Boehner the last few days, few people noticed what Vermont's Sen. Bernie Sanders said:

"I think it would be a good idea if President Obama faced some primary opposition."

This is political treason 469 days before a presidential election. Yes, yes, this is just a crusty old New England independent for now, albeit one who caucuses loyally with Harry Reid's Democratic posse.

But while most of the media focuses on Republican Boehner and the tea party pressures on him to raise the debt limit not one Liberty dime, Sanders' mumblings are a useful reminder that hidden in the shadows of this left-handed presidency are militant progressives like Sanders who don't want to cut one Liberty dime of non-Pentagon spending.

Closely read the transcript of Obama's Monday statement on the debt talks stalemate. The full transcript is right here. And the full transcript of Boehner's response is right here.

An Unbalanced Approach to a Balanced Approach

Using political forensics, notice any clues, perhaps telltale code words that reveal to whom he was really addressing his Monday message? Clearly, it wasn't congressional Republicans -- or Democrats, for that matter.

The nation's top talker uttered 4,526 words in those remarks. He said "balanced approach" seven times, three times in a single paragraph.

That's the giveaway. Obviously, David Plouffe and the incumbent's strategists have been polling phrases for use in this ongoing debt duel, which is more about 2012 now than 2011. "Balanced approach" is no sweet talk for old Bernie or tea sippers on the other side.

Obama is running for the center already, aiming for the independents who played such a crucial role in his victorious coalition in 2008. They were the first to start abandoning the good ship Obama back in 2009 when all the ex-state senator could do was talk about healthcare, when jobs and the economy were the peoples' priority.

Democrats lost the New Jersey and Virginia governor's offices largely as a result of that and Ted Kennedy's Senate seat in Massachusetts. And then came last November's midterms when voters chose the approach of that historic pack of House-bound Republicans.

Republicans have their own poll problems in some areas. But even without an identified GOP presidential alternative, we've had a plethora of recent polls showing Obama's fading job approval, especially on the economy.

Now, comes a new ABC News/Washington Post poll with a whole harvest of revelations, among them, strong indications that Obama's liberal base is starting to crumble. Among the nuggets:

Despite those hundreds of billions of blown stimulus dollars and almost as many upturn promises from Joe Biden, 82% of Americans still say their job market is struggling. Ninety percent rate the economy negatively, including half who give it the worst rating of "poor."

Are You Better Off Today Than Jan. 20, 2009?

A slim 15% claim to be "getting ahead financially," half what it was in 2006. Fully 27% say they're falling behind financially. That's up 6 points since February.

A significant majority (54%) says they've been forced to change their lifestyle significantly as a result of the economic times -- and 60% of them are angry, up from 44%.

To be sure, 30 months after he returned to home cooking, George W. Bush still gets majority blame for the economy.

But here's the breaking news for wishful Democrats: George W. Bush isn't running for anything but exercise.

"More than a third of Americans now believe that President Obama’s policies are hurting the economy, and confidence in his ability to create jobs is sharply eroding among his base," the Post reports.

Strong support among liberal Democrats for Obama's jobs record has plummeted 22 points from 53% down below a third. African Americans who believe the president's measures helped the economy have plunged from 77% to barely half.

Obama's overall job approval on the economy has slid below 40% for the first time, with 57% disapproving. And strong disapprovers outnumber approvers by better than two-to-one.
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Obama says he can't change immigration laws on his own



By David Jackson, USA TODAY
Updated 1d 22h ago

President Obama, speaking to the National Council of La Raza
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President Obama told Hispanics today he is with them on overhauling the nation's immigration laws -- but he won't use executive orders to alter the law on things such as deportations.

"Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own," Obama told members of a National Council of La Raza conference who shouted back, "Yes, you can! Yes, you can!"

"That's not how our democracy functions," Obama responded. "That's not how our Constitution is written."

Obama, locked in a fight with Congress over the federal debt ceiling, joked, "Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting, I promise you. Not just on immigration reform."

"But that's not how," the president said. "That's not how our system works."


Obama used the speech to again tout what he calls comprehensive immigration reform, which includes both better border protection and a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants who are already here.

"Now, I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books, but that doesn't mean I don't know very well the real pain and heartbreak that deportations cause," Obama said. "I share your concerns, and I understand them. And I promise you, we are responding to your concerns and working every day to make sure we are enforcing flawed laws in the most humane and best possible way."

Congressional Republicans say the emphasis should be on border enforcement and Obama's pathway to citizenship amounts to amnesty for lawbreakers.

"With the national debt at $14.5 trillion, it's unbelievable that President Obama continues to call for amnesty legislation," said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. "Illegal immigrants have contributed to our debt crisis — they pay little, if any, in income taxes and drain taxpayer dollars."

In his La Raza speech, Obama said, "I need a dance partner here" and told the crowd to put political pressure on the Republicans.

"So, yes, feel free to keep the heat on me and keep the heat on Democrats," Obama said. "But here's the only thing you should know: The Democrats and your president are with you ... Don't get confused about that ... Remember who it is that we need to move in order to actually change the laws."

Some Hispanic leaders do plan to keep pressure on Obama.

Pablo Alvarado, director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said Obama's administration has deported more than 1 million people, calling it "an unprecedented civil rights crisis for our community."

"It is not enough for him to blame Congress or to bemoan the difficulty of his job," Alvarado said. "He can -- and must -- take action to protect members of our community who are under siege."

http://content.usatoday.com...ion-laws-on-my-own/1
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Great, isn't it? Obama wants to be a dictator, and he's speaking to an organization that would like to tear down the United States. This would be like Bush saying he wants to be a dictator, and addressing a KKK meeting. But I guess that's OK with Democrats, as long as Obama is a Democrat.
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Wow. Even Democrats are saying that Obama isn't a leader...

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Wow. Even Democrats are saying that Obama isn't a leader...



They've been saying that since 2006. 2008 was a "stick it to the man" vote, nothing more. Hopefully America has learned that "sticking it to the man" means sticking it to yourself and will use some brains this time around.
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Its about time for an update.This time, a '+' for our president, since we are "watching" him.

Been hearing a lot of complaints about Obama taking too much vacation.

The numbers are in, and would you be surprised he is actually taking about 1/3 of the vacation Bush did at this point in his presidency?
As of the article linked, Obama was currently on his 61st day of vacation in his first 2.5 years. At this SAME point in his presidency, Bush was already at 180 days.

Of course, while he's out at Martha's Vineyard, his critics seethe with anger. How dare he, during a time of such uncertainty in this country? Same could have been asked of Bush, times 3.

Me? Since he has the "nuclear football", I want him to be relaxed. He doesnt need to be "180 days of vacation in 2.5 years" relaxed, but 61 is a fair and comparable amount for a high end working professional in 32 months. (An average of 1.9 days away from the whitehouse per month, compared to 5.6 days per month for Bush in the same 32 month period.)

Something else thats interesting is Bush, in total, took a whopping 967 days between Camp David and his Texas Ranch in his 8 years as president. That's the equal to 10 days of vacation per month during his presidency, OR ... 2 Years, 8 Months off on vacation out of the 8 years he served. Thats a lot of wood chopping. Trust me, many of us were THANKFUL he took that much time off, less trouble he could get us all into.

At the rate he is vacationing, IF Obama serves 8 years as president (which may be hard to do with all this criticism leveraged at him for any reason some can find, really..) Obama will have spent the equivalent of 192 days on vacation...or 6 months in 8 years. 192 days.. thats only 12 more days total than Bush had spent chopping wood at the 2 year, 8 month mark Obama is currently at.

I figure this data belongs here, since this is indeed the "ObamaWatch" thread. I figure those who complain about the President taking time off needed a frame of reference for actually HOW LITTLE time he has taken off compared to some.

Clintons numbers are so small, he makes Obama look like a slouch. 28 days at the same point in his presidency.. but then... he was having more FUN in the Oval Office, wasn't he?

And now comes a republican attack ad showing him play golf and criticizing his time off? Horseshit tactics, as usual. Bush golfed all through his presidency, including during some of the most crucial times in our country after the 9/11 attacks that happened on his watch.

Here's some sources, I dont really care what anyone thinks of them, it does not change the numbers:
http://www.huffingtonpost.c...-at-ca_n_158902.html
http://www.startribune.com/...views/128213813.html

And plenty more sources out there, just google it. By the way, I took the low number on Bush, I saw figures as large as 210 for the same period.
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Been hearing a lot of complaints about Obama taking too much vacation.


Not from me. Everyone needs a vacation.

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