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2/18/10
Obama Directs NASA To Focus On Muslim Outreach
Corruption Chronicles blog is reporting that a few weeks after
killing the U.S.A.’s world-famous moon-mission program, Barack Obama has
ordered the space agency that operates it to focus on reaching out to
Muslim countries.
Indeed the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration’s (NASA) mission will
shift from space exploration to Muslim diplomacy, as per the
commander-in-chief’s orders. When Obama announced earlier this
month that he would slash NASA’s $100 billion plan to return astronauts
to the moon, he didn’t mention where some of the resources would be
directed.
Obama only
said
the moon program (Constellation) is behind schedule, over budget and
overall less important than other space investments. NASA’s
attempts to pursue its moon goals were inadequate and took funding away
from other important programs, including robotic space exploration,
science and earth observations, Obama claimed.
NASA’s new secret
Muslim outreach mission was conveniently omitted though the head of
the agency finally revealed it this week. NASA Administrator
Charlie Bolden disclosed that Obama wants him to "find ways to reach out
to dominantly Muslim countries" as part of the administration’s efforts
to make the space agency a tool of international diplomacy.
Bolden referred to the new mission as an effort to reach out to
"non-traditional partners," especially countries that don’t have an
established space program. Of special focus is Indonesia because it’s
the world’s largest Muslim nation, Bolden explained. No word yet on how
much money the U.S. government will invest in the Muslim outreach.
In the meantime, a congressional
firestorm has brewed over Obama’s plans to nix the moon-mission
program, according to news reports. Dozens of federal lawmakers
have sent letters to NASA’s chief insisting that the Constellation moon
program remain intact. Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat,
blasted Obama for cutting the moon program since it will likely cause
the U.S. to fall behind countries like China and Russia in space
exploration.
Update: Astronauts flying in space are used to VIP phone calls
that don't always go as scripted, but yesterday morning's conversation
was probably one of the most awkward.
Barack Obama used his chat
with the crews of the space shuttle Endeavour and the International
Space Station to declare that he sees space exploration as "so
important."
"My commitment to NASA is unwavering," Obama said.
He emphasized "how proud we are of you ... and how committed we are to
continuing human space exploration in the future."
None of the 11
astronauts was rash enough to bring up the outrage felt by many of their
colleagues at Obama's hypocrisy.
Islam
2/18/10
John Brennan And The Politics Of Capitulation
Michelle Malkin
says it’s bad enough that John Brennan, Obama’s national security
deputy, thinks Gitmo jihadi recidivism is "not that bad." But in
his talk last week with Islamic law students at New York University,
Brennan made even more reckless comments about our counterterrorism
programs while pandering to one of the worst Muslim grievance-mongers
and sharia peddlers in
America.
During the question-and-answer session, Brennan welcomed
a question from
Omar Shahin. He identified himself as the head of the "North
American Imams Federation." What he didn’t mention was his role as
the chief ringleader of the infamous
flying
imams. You remember them: They were the six Muslim clerics
whose suspicious behavior -- provocatively shouting "Allahu Akbar!"
before boarding the plane, fanning out in the cabin before take-off,
refusing to sit in their assigned seats, requesting seat-belt extenders,
which they placed on the floor -- led to their removal by a U.S. Airways
crew in 2006.
In coordination with the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Shahin and his radical delegation attempted
to shake down the airline with a discrimination lawsuit and bully the
citizen "John Does" who flagged the imams’ security-undermining
behavior. CAIR mouthpiece Ibrahim Hooper blasted "anti-Muslim hysteria" by those who saw
something and said something about the imams’ in-flight shenanigans.
Shahin ranted in a teleconference strategy session in 2007 that, indeed,
he and his cohorts were spoiling for the incident and planning to
engineer "many, many cases" to sabotage airline security efforts.
As head of the Islamic Center of Tucson in Arizona --
described as the first cell of al-Qaida in the United States and
home to past jihadi dry-run plotters -- Shahin preached that his
followers must put Islamic sharia law above Western laws. He told
the Arizona Republic that he doubted Muslims were behind the 9/11
terrorist attacks, concluding: "All of these, they make it up."
Brennan didn’t appear to know who Shahin was. Somebody around him
should have briefed him. Shahin’s involvement in Hamas-linked
charities and radical Wahhabi "youth groups" has earned the
Jordanian-born naturalized citizen increased FBI scrutiny over the
years.
Instead, Brennan treated him as just another innocent
Muslim with "reasonable" concerns about the government.
Shahin
began with faux, flag-waving emotion,
"We came to this country to enjoy freedom."
"We feel that since September 11, we aren’t enjoying these
values anymore. … Also, we feel that there’s a big lack of trust
between Muslims’ community and our government. … My question: Is
there anything being done by our government to rebuild this trust?"
Instead of countering the narrative, exposing
Shahin’s true intentions and vigorously defending America’s homeland
security apparatus, Brennan dutifully genuflected to the gods of
political correctness. Obama, he told the militant 9/11 inside-job
theorist and jihad white-washer, is "determined to put America on a
strong course."
No, not a "strong course" that includes national
security profiling of Islamic radicals pretending they care about our
country’s best interests. By "strong course," Brennan assured
Shahin, he meant a course toward assuaging the civil rights groups who
have objected to every security program at airports, borders, train
stations and visa offices for the past nine years.
Brennan told
Shahin that the post-9/11 response of the Bush administration was a
"reaction some people might say was over the top in some areas" (insert
indignant grievance-monger nodding and mmm-hmming here), and that "in an
overabundance of caution, (we) implemented a number of security measures
and activities that upon reflection now we look back, after the heat of
the battle has died down a bit, we say they were excessive, OK."
It gets worse: Brennan then went on to decry the "ignorant feelings" of
Americans outraged at the jihadi attacks on American soil. And
then he told Shahin and the audience of Muslim students that he "was
very concerned after the attack in Fort Hood as well as the
December 25
attack that all of sudden there were people who went back into this
fearful position that lashed out not thinking through what was
reasonable and appropriate."
The Fort Hood jihadist slaughtered
14 innocent soldiers and an unborn baby after an Army career of openly
threatening the lives of our soldiers, and Brennan is wringing his hands
about the rest of us "lashing out" over government incompetence.
He believes our true sin is not in the systemic under-reaction from the
military, homeland security, intel and White House officials in charge,
but in the "overreacting" of the American public.
With clueless
capitulationists like Brennan in charge of our safety, who needs
enemies?
Czars
2/18/10
Above His Pay Grade
Dave Macy
says
that in little more than a year of "presiding" over the United States,
Barack Hussein Obama has proven that most issues he must deal with are
above his pay grade. Whether it is terrorism, the economy,
unemployment, Wall Street, the banks, military decisions, reactions to
the Supreme Court decisions, or letting the buck stop at the desk he
occupies in the Oval Office, Obama has shown that leadership is an
attribute sorely missing from his resume.
Of course there are
other items we cannot ascertain from BHO’s past either. Starting
with his birth certificate, school records, association with Marxist
backers, and moving on to his love affair with the teleprompter -- Obama
is really a simple man clothed in rhetoric that resonates in dulcet
tones but really says nothing.
The Hope and Change of 2008 is
long gone. Maybe it was never there. The MSM’s complete
destruction of George W. Bush and their deification of the guy squatting
in the White House are beginning to subside. Slowly, like awaking
from a drug induced coma, the media is starting to enjoy peeling back
the layers of incompetence. And what they are starting to see is
what many Americans already knew. We have placed a man in charge
of our military, our economy, and our traditions, who is now hard at
work tearing down everything America has stood for.
There are
still some defenders of the Teleprompter in Chief -- Keith Olberman who
sucked as a sports commentator and is even more irritating as a
political hack for the Democrats. Bill Maher, whose cable show
exposes a little man with a big ego and a hatred for God and anything
Republican. But let’s not fret too much -- if ratings of CNN and
other liberal media outlets mean anything -- America has tuned out the
cheerleading. Real Americans were never fooled by the con of
Global Warming. Red blooded Americans have been shaken back to the
roots of what made this country great -- shaken by a man who has shown
time and time again that just about everything is "above his pay grade".
Biography
2/18/10
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2/18/10
USS Obama Is Sinking
J.C. Arenas
says the Obama Administration continues to proclaim the strength of
the nation's economy, and foreign governments are responding with a
collective "yeah, right".
ABC News reports:
Foreign owners of US government debt reduced
their holdings by the largest monthly amount ever in December, with
China offloading so many Treasury securities that it is no longer
the largest foreign holder.
According to new data released
Tuesday morning by the Treasury Department, foreign holdings of
Treasury securities plunged by $53 billion in December, a record
drop. China led the sell-off, reducing its holdings by $34 billion.
The administration has continued to increase the
government's expenditures even while it takes in less revenue -- one
consequence of the Great Recession. To shore up the hole between
the revenue and expenditures, the government has to borrow money, and
foreign nations serve as its lenders through purchases of U.S.
Treasuries. The administration has defended the nation's ability
to service these debts, but it's becoming ever more difficult to believe
its claims. The fact that foreign governments are reducing their
holdings of U.S. debt is a sign that they are paying more attention to
the administration's actions than its words.
Barack Obama's
inability to do anything to stem the tide of the nation's unemployment
problem has forestalled any potential recovery from the recession, and
the government will continue to collect less revenue.
Additionally, his $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal year 2011 has provided
the latest indication that the administration has no plans to curtail
spending on any meaningful level.
Thus, it should come as no
surprise that Obama is losing the confidence of other nations who
justifiably don't believe that the nation's financial house of cards
will be in order anytime soon. China is leading the way.
Premier Wen Jiabao first voiced his concerns over the U.S.'s debt last
March, and the Chinese have been dumping their Treasury securities for
the last five months.
If foreign nations continue to decrease
the amount of money they loan to the government, it will find itself
between a rock and a hard place. It will either be forced to pay a
higher interest rate to borrow money from other nations or it will have
to print the money it needs. If printing money becomes the only
course of action, inflation will ensue, and foreign governments will
find the investments they have made into the U.S. devalued.
It's
difficult to see how Obama continues to tout what a great job he's doing
while he watches his Democratic colleagues in the legislative branch and
foreign governments invested heavily in the U.S. economy, both jump from
his sinking ship.
Economy
2/18/10
Planning To Fail
Pedro Primavera
says the economy seems to have settled in somewhat from the disaster
of 2008. Every indication is the economy is poised for a rebound
-- provided the right trigger is in place.
In the past, the
trigger that has always got the economy back on track has been tax cuts,
by Ronald Reagan, George Bush and John Kennedy -- presidents from both
sides of the aisle. And just when the economy is primed for that
trigger, Obama is going in the exact opposite direction: it is as if he
is sabotaging the efforts of the American people.
It would be
one thing if he were just plain incompetent, like Jimmy Carter, but the
evidence says otherwise. In the same week he lectures the American
people and -- presumably -- the American Congress, he signs into effect
a $1.9 trillion increase in the national debt. This is at the same
time when the budget deficit is already at crisis proportions according
to World Bank standards. In effect, he is using the credit card --
even our kids' credit card -- just to pay the minimum balances on the
other credit cards.
If Obama is not incompetent, then surely
somebody is trying to ruin the economy while Obama is unaware, as former
Virginia Governor Wilder laments. However, somebody needs to
explain Plausible Deniability to Obama. It means having underlings
doing things while you were unaware. Sometimes it is true,
sometimes a lie. But no, Obama does the lying by himself.
And then there is his signature on all the bills.
Maybe there is
something wrong with the economic models professed by most Democrats.
This much is true. Keynesianism somehow lives on as faulty
economic theory. For instance, Keynes asserted government is
flexible and business is not. Evidence in the last 50 years shows
government is a living and breathing entity that seemingly must either
grow larger or die. It should be no wonder that the best years of
the post-WWII era were the Reagan years, as he openly declared war on
big government. Keynes also said full employment was gained
through fiscal policy served up by -- you guessed it -- big government.
The only problem with Obama as a Keynesian is he never professed
to be one. His mentors at an early age were Marxists, he claimed
to hang around Marxists in college, and he has surrounded himself with
czars who at best are laughable kooks of the highest order (otherwise
known as academics) who have espoused many Marxist ideals.
Obama
did not lie when he said just before the election that his election
could bring fundamental change within government and society. The
only problem is that nothing he is trying is new. It is all old
and demonstrably failed attempts at power struggle. It lives only
in the hallowed but hair-brained halls of academia and among the
socially bitter.
If anything, Obama needs to be called to task
over his economic policies. Why is he not supporting a tax cut
that could instantly call out the American consumer and spur business
into action? Why is he not supporting business that could provide
millions of jobs? However, the American media seems to fawn over
the enlightened dictator as they did with Fidel Castro and others.
Instead of calling Obama to task over failed policies, they act as his
propaganda machine. They want to use their influence to support
some misguided higher ideal of humanity seemingly derived from JD
Salinger's A Catcher in the Rye.
It is becoming fairly obvious
now to the casual observer: Obama is destroying the infrastructure of
this nation purposefully. The hard part is making it to 2012
before the damage is done.
Michelle Obama Stocked White House Library With Books On
Socialism
Gateway Pundit
says Rob Port visited the White House today and took this picture in the
library -- "The American Socialist Movement," "The Socialist Party of
America," and ""The Social Basis Of American Communism" -- it figures. Michelle Obama stocked the White House Library with
books on socialism and communism.
The Wife
2/17/10
Playing Freedom Cheap
Thomas Sowell
says
if eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, incessant distractions are
the way that politicians take away our freedoms, in order to enhance
their own power and longevity in office. Dire alarms and heady
crusades are among the many distractions of our attention from the ever
increasing ways that government finds to take away more of our money and
more of our freedom.
Magicians have long known that distracting
an audience is the key to creating the illusion of magic. It is
also the key to political magic.
Alarms ranging from
"overpopulation" to "global warming" and crusades ranging from
"affordable housing" to "universal health care" have been among the
distractions of political magicians. But few distractions have had
such a long and impressive political track record as getting people to
resent and, if necessary, hate other people.
The most politically
effective totalitarian systems have gotten people to give up their own
freedom in order to vent their resentment or hatred at other people --
under Communism, the capitalists; under Nazis, the Jews.
Under
extremist Islamic regimes today, hatred is directed at the infidels in
general and the "great Satan," the United States, in particular.
There some people have been induced to give up not only their freedom
but even their lives, in order to strike a blow against those they have
been taught to hate.
We have not yet reached these levels of
hostility, but those who are taking away our freedoms, bit by bit, on
the installment plan, have been incessantly supplying us with people to
resent.
One of the most audacious attempts to take away our
freedom to live our lives as we see fit has been the so-called "health
care reform" bills that were being rushed through Congress before either
the public or the members of Congress themselves had a chance to
discover all that was in it.
For this, we were taught to resent
doctors, insurance companies and even people with "Cadillac health
insurance plans," who were to be singled out for special taxes.
Meanwhile, our freedom to make our own medical decisions -- on which
life and death can depend -- was to be quietly taken from us and
transferred to our betters in Washington.
Only the recent
Massachusetts election results have put that on hold.
Another
dangerous power toward which we are moving, bit by bit, on the
installment plan, is the power of politicians to tell people what their
incomes can and cannot be. Here the resentment is being directed
against "the rich."
The distracting phrases here include
"obscene" wealth and "unconscionable" profits. But, if we stop and
think about it -- which politicians don’t expect us to -- what is
obscene about wealth? Wouldn’t we consider it great if every human
being on earth had a billion dollars and lived in a place that could
rival the Taj Mahal?
Poverty is obscene. It is poverty that
needs to be reduced -- and increasing a country’s productivity has done
that far more widely than redistributing income by targeting "the rich."
You can see the agenda behind the rhetoric when profits are called
"unconscionable" but taxes never are, even when taxes take more than
half of what someone has earned, or add much more to the prices we have
to pay than profits do.
The assumption that what A pays B is any
business of C is an assumption that means a dangerous power being
transferred to politicians to tell us all what incomes we can and cannot
receive. It will not apply to everyone all at once. Like the
income tax, which at first applied only to the truly rich, and then
slowly but steadily moved down the income scale to hit the rest of us,
the power to say what incomes people can be allowed to make will
inevitably move down the income scale to make us all dependents and
supplicants of politicians.
The phrase "public servants" is
increasingly misleading. They are well on their way to becoming
public masters -- like aptly named White House "czars." The more
they can get us all to resent those they designate, the more they can
distract us from their increasing control of our own lives -- but only
if we sell our freedom cheap. We can sell our birthright and not
even get the mess of pottage.
ObamaCare
2/17/10
Obama’s Bundlers
Chris Palko is reporting that Obama’s bundlers occupy dozens of key
positions.
Barack Obama has long decried the corrupting influence
of money in politics. As a candidate, he ran against lobbyists and the
pay-for-play culture of Washington. From the Oval Office, he has continued to
hammer the theme, most recently in his impassioned attacks on the
Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v Federal Election Commission.
Given this, it’s a little surprising to learn that Obama has not
only embraced the sordid money-driven culture of DC, but actually
outdone his predecessors. An analysis by the American Foreign Service
Association, for example, found that Obama has stuffed the diplomatic
corps with more political appointees (i.e., cronies) than any president
in the past 40 years. Only a year into the administration, close of half
of Obama’s biggest donors already have federal jobs.
Click
here for a list of Obama big-money campaign bundlers and the
taxpayer-funded positions -- featuring 25 ambassadorships -- they’ve
received.
Associates
2/17/10
CNN Poll: 52% Say No To Obama Part Deux
Michael O'Brien
reports that 52 percent of Americans said Barack Obama doesn't
deserve reelection in 2012, according to a new CNN poll.
44
percent of all Americans said they would vote to reelect Obama in two
and a half years, less than the slight majority who said they would
prefer to elect someone else.
Obama faces a 44-52 deficit among
both all Americans and registered voters, according to a CNN/Opinion
Research poll released Tuesday. Four percent had no opinion.
The reelection numbers are slightly more sour than Obama's approval
ratings, which are basically tied. 49 percent of people told CNN
that they approve of the way Obama is handling his job, while 50 percent
disapprove.
Still, the 2012 election is still a long way's away,
with this fall's midterm elections looming large. Republicans are
hoping to make inroads into Congress, while Democrats are hoping to hold
onto gains won in the 2006 and 2008 cycles.
Respondents to CNN
were split at 46 percent as to whether they preferred a generic
Republican or Democratic candidate in this fall's elections.
The
CNN poll, conducted Feb. 12-15, has a three percent margin of error.
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2/17/10
An "Identity Theft" Issue
AZCentral.com
reports
that former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, who on Monday officially entered
Arizona's Republican race against Sen. John McCain, defended his recent
call for Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate, suggesting his
questions stem not from conspiracy theories that Obama was really born
in Kenya but from concerns about identity theft.
During a Monday
evening interview on CNN (watch it here), Hayworth pointed to the case
of fugitive Vietnam War protester Howard Mechanic, who in 2000 sought a
seat on the Scottsdale City Council using the alias "Gary Tredway."
After he was exposed, Mechanic eventually received a pardon from
President Bill Clinton.
"All I'm saying is, for every race across
the country, especially with identity theft in the news, it would be
great that people can confirm who they say they are," Hayworth said.
"Identity theft? I mean, come on," an incredulous CNN host
Campbell Brown said, laughing. "Is that honestly what this is
about?"
Brown pressed Hayworth as to whether he was "comfortable
with the fact that (Obama is) an American citizen." The
Constitution requires that the president be a natural-born citizen,
which is widely viewed as meaning he must be born in the United States.
Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Hawaii. During the presidential
race, Obama's campaign produced the Hawaii-issued short-form birth
certificate, but fringe Obama critics, dubbed "birthers," continue to
demand to see his long-form birth certificate.
"Barack Obama is
the president of the United States. He is our 44th president,"
Hayworth told Brown. "I have no qualms about who he is, or who he
says he is."
But in a Jan. 26 interview on MSNBC's "Hardball with
Chris Matthews," Hayworth said Obama "should come forward with the
information, that’s all."
"Well, gosh, we all had to bring our
birth certificates to show we were who we said we were, and we were the
age we said we were, to play football and youth sports," Hayworth said.
"Shouldn't we know exactly that anyone who wants to run for public
office is a natural-born citizen of the United States and is who they
say they are?"
I have a few
words about this -- next item . . .
Birth
Certificate
2/17/10
AZCentral.com Unspun
Let's take a look at how Dan Nowicki, The Arizona Republic's
award-winning national political reporter spins the above item.
He begins with, "Brown pressed Hayworth as to
whether he was 'comfortable with the fact that (Obama is) an American
citizen.'"
Nowicki frames his interpretation of the facts
as being a citizenship issue, when he knows it's an eligibility issue,
which he demonstrates when he continues:
"The Constitution requires that the president be a natural-born
citizen..."
That's the Obot two-step -- conflating
eligibility and citizenship -- muddying the water, right up front -- and here comes the spin:
"...which is widely viewed as meaning he must
be born in the United States..."
A view not held by the
Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, and senators
McKaskill, Coburn, Clinton, Webb, and, oh yes -- Barack Obama.
Their formal view is that John McCain, a child born of American
parents, was a "natural born" citizen. Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff, himself a former Federal judge, agreed.
"...Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Hawaii."
So, here's how it worked in 2008 -- when Obots addressed Obama's
eligibility, they talk about Hawaii -- "...Obama was born Aug. 4,
1961, in Hawaii"-- they don't want to talk about the
implications of the fact that his
father was a foreigner.
When addressing McCain, it's parentage -- said Sen. Leahy,
"Because he was born to American citizens...McCain is a natural born
citizen" -- even though McCain was
born in a foreign
country -- there's problems there too.
Fact is, both Obama and McCain were ineligible and
everybody knew it. That's why there was no outcry then, and why
there's no outcry now. Think about it, Congress, the judiciary,
and all those campaign types, the lobbyists, and the rest of them --
they're almost all lawyers -- they know that Barack Obama is currently
usurping the office -- they were intimidated by the spectre of "riots in
the cities" and the need to go along.
Nowicki couldn't just close
his propaganda piece without throwing a shot at the "birthers"
-- small "b"
"During the presidential race,
Obama's campaign produced the Hawaii-issued short-form birth
certificate, but fringe Obama critics, dubbed "birthers," continue to
demand to see his long-form birth certificate."
It's not
just about a bogus birth certificate that
has been exposed by four competent
examiners as a counterfeit -- there's a whole bunch of stuff Obama
is hiding from the American
People -- and you're wrong about that
fringe thing too.
The
facts of the interview are the facts. Nowicki's interpretation of
them are classic propaganda.
Many citizens of this country fail to meet the "natural born citizen"
classification and yet have no divided loyalties.
At no fault of their own, they are disqualified from pursuing the
position of President of the United States of America.
Loyalty lies within men's hearts and minds and not their birth
circumstances. One's birth circumstances could have the
possibility of, but not a guarantee of, promoting divided loyalties and
that is the reason for the "natural born citizen" clause/language within
our constitution.
There are many that will argue the logic, because to them it will seem
unfair. Maybe it is unfair, but that is what the constitutional
amendment process is for. Personally, I don't think it's unfair,
because the "natural born citizen" language was wisely and intentionally
installed in the U. S. Constitution as a national security measure or
safeguard. It was put there to protect our country from a Commander in
Chief with divided loyalties. This is the exact situation that we find
ourselves in now as Barack Obama has, on more than one occasion,
proclaimed that he is a "citizen of the world." That is how he sees
himself.
Read
"natural born" citizen, the four cases: Reagan, Obama, McCain, and
Schwarzenegger here . . .
Eligibility
2/16/10
GOP Says, "No Thanks," To Obama
Susan Ferrechio
says House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, issued a statement
late Saturday in response to Obama's Friday invite to a bipartisan
Health Care Summit at the White House.
Boehner and other
Republican leaders are complaining that the event is simply political
gamesmanship and that Obama is planning to have a health care deal
finalized before anyone even sits down at the meeting, which is
scheduled to take place on Feb. 25.
Here's Boehner's statement:
A productive bipartisan discussion should
begin with a clean sheet of paper. We now know that instead of
starting the 'bipartisan' health care 'summit' on Feb. 25 with a
clean sheet of paper, the president and his party intend to arrive
with a new bill written behind closed doors exclusively by Democrats
-- a backroom deal that will transform one-sixth of our nation's
economy and affect every family and small business in America.
They will then engage a largely handpicked audience in a televised
'dialogue' according to a script they have largely pre-determined.
They will do this as a precursor to embarking on a legislative
course that Democratic congressional aides acknowledge has also been
pre-determined -- a partisan course that relies on parliamentary
tricks to circumvent the will of the American people and engineer a
pre-determined outcome. It doesn't sound much like
bipartisanship to me.
ObamaCare
2/16/10
Obama's Complacent Terror Czar
Associated Content is reporting that Obama's Terror Czar John
Brennan says that 20% of the released terrorists going back to the
battlefield to kill Americans and others "isn't that bad." In
another "What the hell did you just say?!"-moment that's becoming,
sadly, increasingly common with Obama's rogue terror czar, John Brennan
was speaking at -- of all places! -- the Islamic Center of New York
University just this past Saturday. Since it was the Islamic
Center and all, what better venue for John Brennan to spout another
completely shocking and widely condemnable opinion that just confirms
all the prior criticism that's rightfully been swirling around him for
months! You know, just the same old, same old criticism that he's
not up to the job, is inept, or simply is too liberal to be effective at
his post as terror czar.
Brennan's stunning attitude of
complacency toward the very real statistic that one-fifth of all
released terrorists will immediately return to kill Americans referred
to a now-notorious figure that made an appearance in a letter to Nancy
Pelosi earlier this month. This 20%-figure was first found in a
Pentagon study on recidivism rates of the terrorists who were held at
Guantanamo Bay.
The context in which Brennan used that 20%-figure
during his speech at the ironically appropriate Islamic Center at New
York University was his comparison of terrorists and recidivism to mere,
common criminals in the American penal system and recidivism there.
In fact, as you will witness yourself in the following video, Brennan's
exact words on the subject were:
"People sometimes use that
figure, 20%, say, 'Oh, my goodness, one out of five detainees returned
to some type of extremist activity.' You know, the American penal
system, the recidivism is up to something about 50% or so, as far as
return to crime. 20% isn't that bad."
John Hinderaker
notes
that the "Miss me yet?" billboard of President Bush that garnered
national publicity was paid for by a group of small business owners who
consider the Obama administration's policies to be hostile to them.
No surprise there -- pretty much every small business owner I know feels
that way. Still, it was a bit of a shock to see these numbers in
USA Today, based on a survey of 884 small businesspeople:
How has the Obama administration affected
small-business success?
It has had a positive effect: 11% It has
hurt me: 77% No effect: 13%
If anything like 77% of small businessmen think the Obama
administration has hurt them, it's no wonder Democratic Senators and
Congressmen are fleeing for the exits.
The AP says Barack Obama's mother-in-law lived her entire life in
Chicago, so it was only natural that her move to the White House came
with some resistance. Try it for three months, her son-in-law says
the family suggested.
A year later, it seems Marian Robinson is
here to stay.
She spends a lot of time looking after
granddaughters Malia, 11, and Sasha, 8, but has been carving out a new
life for herself, too. In the words of Obama, she's become "quite
the lady about town."
The widowed Mrs. Robinson has made friends
and has had friends over to the White House. She goes shopping on
her own, enjoys visits to the Kennedy Center and takes Malia and Sasha
to and from school just about every day -- all while enjoying a level of
anonymity that has Obama and her own daughter, first lady Michelle
Obama, feeling both pleased and a bit envious at the same time.
"She's quite the lady about town," Obama said. "But the nice thing
is that she just walks out the gate and goes."
Mrs. Robinson took
her first trip abroad last year, flying aboard Air Force One with the
family to Russia, Italy and Ghana. With the family, she got to
meet the pope, tour Rome's ancient Coliseum and inspect a former slave
holding compound on the coast of Ghana. She also joins the family
for weekends at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland
The AP
doesn't mention whether Mrs. Robinson is still practicingSanteria
in the White House or not.
Family
2/15/10
Yesterday, The French -- Today, It's The Germans
A carnival float representing a fallen Barack Obama, with the words "Obama as
messiah" on his
shirt, is pictured during the traditional Rose Monday carnival
parade in the western German city of Duesseldorf, February 15, 2010.
The Rose Monday parades in Cologne, Mainz and Duesseldorf are the
highlight of the German street carnival season.
Looks like it translates to,
"Obama, the Loser," to me. Either way, it looks like the rose
is off the bloom in Germany.
The translation of Erloser from Ferman is
savior. The picture presumably refers to a
recent movie,
"Jesus Christus Erlöser" (2008). It appears as though Obama
was compared to the latest Klaus Kinski character.
Iconology
2/15/10
The Official Unraveling Of Obama
Thomas Del Beccaro makes the
observation that it's no secret by now that Obama did not have a
signature achievement his first year in office. Of all his major
initiatives, health care, cap and trade, civilian trials for terrorists
and the "stimulus" bill -- only the so-called stimulus bill was enacted.
Hardly a success, as more Americans than not know what Paul Krugman and
E.J. Dionne do not -- that it was a bad idea. Worse for the
Democrats -- none of those efforts have produced a greater consensus or
momentum for them or Obama. To the contrary, the Democrats lost
key races in 2009, a Democrat House Member defected to the Republicans,
the nation is more divided than ever and the Democrat Party is in
disarray -- as is the Obama presidency.
Not to be out-done by
2009, in 2010, the Obama presidency has endured:
(1) the loss of the Kennedy seat (which
is how the Democrats view that race) even though Obama stumped for
the Democrats’ candidate;
(2) Obama’s deficit
commission was shot down;
(3) The unions are warning
the Democrats that they are "going to have a hard time getting
members out to vote";
(4) Democrats are slowly signing
onto a bill to defeat Obama’s civilian trial for terrorists,
(5) Obama’s TSA nomination died before a vote;
(6)
Obama’s NLRB nomination died after a vote;
(7) Nancy
Pelosi is openly criticizing Obama’s plans for a job bill;
(8) Some Democrats are openly worrying about the political
effect of the expiration of the Bush tax cuts;
(9) the
Left, in general, is openly criticizing Obama on a host of issues
from the wars to his comments on Wall Street bonuses.
In other words, far from standing with Obama,
Democrats have no fear of Obama anymore and all of that is playing
almost daily in the nation’s newspapers, TV and the internet.
Obama’s troubles are coming far too fast for even the mainstream media
to ignore. Highlighting all of those problems is the fact that
Obama’s poll numbers have reached new lows.
As bad as that
anti-momentum is (and I use the word "anti-momentum" because Republicans
still need to positively turn this to their favor with a "Republican
Plan for America’s Renewal"), Obama’s troubles are going to get worse --
much worse.
Obama is now open to tax increases on the middle
class ("agnostic" is the word he used). Anyone with a memory of
longer than 15 years can tell you how successful Bill Clinton was in his
first midterm elections after breaking his promise of a middle class tax
cut or at least 54 lost House seats and the Speakership well remember.
Amidst so much Democrat blood in the water, it is no wonder
Congressional Democrats are distancing themselves from Obama. If
Obama pushes that middle class tax hike, rather than backing away from
Obama, they will turn and run and the Obama presidency will have
officially unraveled.
Not Archived
2/15/10
Obama's P.R. Helps Terrorists
Dick Morris and Eileen McGann say that when Obama's leading
counter-terrorism staff member, John Brennan, says that "politically
motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the goals of
al-Qaida," he has it exactly backward.
It is Obama's efforts to
crow about how effective he is in fighting terrorism that are helping
al-Qaida. What kind of policy is it to announce to the world that
Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab, the Nigerian terrorist who attempted to blow
up a plane as it approached Detroit this past Christmas, is talking to
investigators and giving them much valuable information?
Obama's
people put the story out to counter accusations that their decision to
try Mutallab in a civilian court and to permit him access to an attorney
jeopardized efforts to interrogate him. Stung by the charge that
they were blowing a chance to learn about subsequent al-Qaida plans,
they told the media that Mutallab was being very cooperative, especially
after a visit from his family.
While releasing this information
may help Obama politically and certainly pushes back those of us who
criticized him for handling the Mutallab case civilly, it provides
al-Qaida with a timely warning that we are on to their plans and that
Mutallab has explained to us what they have up their sleeves. In
counter-terrorism, knowing your enemy's plans is key to thwarting them.
And, if al-Qaida knows that we are prepared, they will, obviously,
change their plans.
The Jakarta Globe is
reporting that a statue depicting Barack Obama as a boy was Sunday
removed from a park in Indonesia’s capital, officials said.
The
two-meter bronze was removed from Menteng Park and taken to nearby
Menteng One primary school, which Obama attended in the late 1960s,
vice-principal Akhmad Solikhin told AFP.
"Workers hired by the
school, local government and alumni spent an hour removing the statue
with electric equipment," he added.
"We’ll need another two to
three days to place the statue at the compound near the school gate so
the public can see it when they pass by," Solikhin added.
The
decision to move the statue comes after more than 57,000 people joined a
page on social networking website, "Facebook," calling for the statue to
be removed and replaced by a memorial to an Indonesian identity.
"There were people who opposed it. For us, we’d like the statue to be in
the school to inspire the children to have big dreams like Obama,"
Solikhin said.
The statue of "Little Barry" -- as Obama was known
to his Indonesian school friends -- was designed by Indonesian artists
and depicts the boy Obama dressed in shorts and a T-shirt with a
butterfly perched on his hand.
Obama, who was born in Hawaii,
lived for four years as a child in Jakarta from 1967 after his divorced
mother married an Indonesian.
The White House announced in early
February that Obama and his family will visit Indonesia in March.
The trip has been eagerly awaited in the world’s most populous
Muslim-majority country since Obama’s inauguration, which has been
welcomed in Indonesia as the start of a new era in US diplomacy.
Iconography
2/14/10
Full Of Hot Air
King of the Blue
Planet
A float called "Yes we can be
ecologist," depicting Barack Obama, parades during the 126th edition
of the Nice Carnival, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, in Nice, southern
France. The carnival celebrates the theme "King of the Blue
Planet."
Iconology
2/14/10
Obama Wants Terror Trial In America
Daniel Roberts
saysJohn Brennan, Obama's
top counterterrorism aide, said Obama is committed to holding the 9/11
terror trial in the U.S., though he's not sure where.
Obama
remains committed to trying accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed in an American court -- although he remains unsure where, a top
administration official said Saturday.
"As far as support from
the community and funding requirement, the most important thing to keep
in mind is we need to bring him to justice in an American court," said
John Brennan, Obama's top counterterrorism aide.
"Whether it
happens in New York, Pennsylvania or Virginia, where will funding come
from?"
New York officials estimated the cost of holding a trial
in Manhattan at $250 million. Mayor Bloomberg is among those opposed to
a trial in lower Manhattan, just a few blocks from Ground Zero.
Brennan, appearing before a mostly Muslim audience at an NYU Islamic
Center-sponsored event, avoided commenting on the controversy during his
45-minute speech, but addressed the issue after an audience member posed
the question.
"Clearly, this is an issue people in the city feel
strongly about," Brennan acknowledged.
"We are trying to push
this forward as best we can, but we also need non-obstruction from
certain forces in our government," he said later. "There are stiff winds
delaying us from bringing this man to justice."
Terrorism
2/14/10
The Power Of The Pen
The New York Times is
reporting that much of Obama's legislative agenda stalled in
Congress, so Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using
his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other
domestic policy priorities.
Obama has not given up hope of
progress on Capitol Hill, aides said, and has scheduled a session with
Republican leaders on health care later this month. But in the
aftermath of a special election in Massachusetts that cost Democrats
unilateral control of the Senate, the White House is getting ready to
act on its own in the face of partisan gridlock heading into the midterm
campaign.
"We are reviewing a list of presidential
executive orders and
directives to get the job done across a front of issues," said Rahm
Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.
Any president has vast
authority to influence policy even without legislation, through
executive orders, agency rule-making and administrative fiat.
Executive
Orders
2/14/10
Young Obama's Marxist
Socialist Perspective
Dr. Drew says, "He was already an ardent Marxist socialist." (01:00)
NewZeal blog has a 45-minute
interview with former student Marxist John C. Drew, on his
meeting at Occidental College with fellow Marxist Barack Obama that
Loudon says is very credible.
Obamunism
2/14/10
"Little Barry" Heads Back To School
Hasyim Widhiarto,
reporting from Jakarta, says the Central Jakarta administration will
move the controversial "Little Barry"
statue from its current location at Taman Menteng in Central Jakarta to
state elementary school SDN 01 Menteng next week, an official says.
"We are currently discussing with officials from the school and its
alumni association," city spokesman Cucu Ahmad Kurnia told reporters
Friday. "We hope the move will happen next week."
Barack
Obama attended the elementary school for almost two years when he spent
part of his childhood in Jakarta.
Erected by the Jakarta-based
Friends of Obama Foundation in December last year, the statue, which
resembles Obama as a boy, recently sparked wide public criticism for
insulting the nation's pride.
Just a few days after the Central
Jakarta municipality unveiled the statue at Menteng Park, experts and a
group of Facebook users demanded it be dismantled.
On Wednesday,
the Central Jakarta District Court held a hearing to try a class action
lawsuit by five plaintiffs representing 50,000 members of the "Take down
the Barack Obama statue from Menteng Park" group on Facebook.
The five plaintiffs -- Heru Nugroho, Protus Tanuhandaru, Daniel Rudi
Haryanto, Andes Soesman and FX Agung Bimo Sutedjo -- filed the suit
against Jakarta governor, Central Jakarta mayor and the Jakarta Parks
and Cemeteries Agency, saying the statue didn't deserve a place at the
park and should be immediately removed.
Although appreciating
the administration's plan to remove the statue, Heru said the group
would go ahead with its lawsuit.
"We will only withdraw the
lawsuit if the city administration publicly apologizes for its one-sided
decision to permit the statue," he told The Jakarta Post.
Hawaiian-born Obama moved to Indonesia at the age of six to live with
his mother, Ann Dunham, and Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetoro.
Obama attended third grade at the school in 1968. He returned to
Hawaii at the age of 10 to live with his maternal grandparents.
Education
2/14/10
A Hidden Memory
ObamaCrimes.com reports
that at the time Barry Soetoro was in Indonesia, all Indonesian students
were required to carry government identity cards or Karty Tanda
Pendudaks, as well as family card identification called a Kartu Keluarga.
The Kartu Keluarga is a family card which bears the legal names and
citizenship status of all family members.
Soetoro/Obama was
registered in a public school as an Indonesian citizen by the name of
Barry Soetoro and his father was listed as Lolo Soetoro, M.A.
Indonesia did not allow foreign students to attend their public schools
in the late 1960’s or 1970’s, and any time a child was registered for a
public school, the child’s name and citizenship status were verified
through the Indonesian Government. See Constitution of Republic of
Indonesia (Undang-Undang Dasar Republik Indonesia 1945), Chapter 13, Law
No. 62 of 1958 (all citizens of Indonesia have a right to education).
The Indonesian school record, indicates that Soetoro/Obama’s name is
"Barry Soetoro;" his nationality is "Indonesia" and his father "Lolo
Soetoro, M.A. There was no way for Soetoro/Obama to have attended
school in Jakarta, Indonesia legally unless he was an Indonesian
citizen, as Indonesia was under tight rule and was a Police State.
See Constitution of Republic of Indonesia (Undang-Undang Dasar Republik
Indonesia 1945), Law No. 62 of 1958. These facts indicate that
Obama/Soetoro was/is an Indonesian citizen, and therefore he is not
eligible to be President of the United States.
Under Indonesian
law, when a male acknowledges a child as his son, it deems the son, in
this case Soetoro/Obama, an Indonesian State citizen. See
Constitution of Republic of Indonesia, Law No. 62 of 1958 concerning
Immigration Affairs and Indonesian Civil Code (Kitab Undang-undang Hukum
Perdata) (KUHPer) (Burgerlijk Wetboek voor Indonesie).
Furthermore, under the Indonesian adoption law, once an Indonesian
citizen adopts a child, the adoption severs the child’s relationship to
the birth parents, and the adopted child is given the same status as a
natural child and the child takes the name of his step-father, in this
case, Soetoro. See Indonesian Constitution, Article 2.
The
Indonesian citizenship law was designed to prevent apatride (stateless)
or bipatride (dual) citizenship. Indonesian regulations recognized
neither apatride nor bipatride (stateless or dual) citizenship.
Since Indonesia did not allow dual citizenship; neither did the United
States (since the United States only permitted dual citizenship when
'both' countries agree); and since Obama/Soetoro was a "natural" citizen
of Indonesia, the United States would not step in or interfere with the
laws of Indonesia. Hague Convention of 1930.
As a result of
Soetoro/Obama’s Indonesian "natural" citizenship status, Soetoro/Obama
could never regain U.S. "natural born" status, if he in fact he ever
held such, which we doubt. Soetoro/Obama could have only become
"naturalized" if the proper paperwork were filed with the U.S. State
Department, after going through U.S. Immigration upon his return to the
United States; in which case, Soetoro/Obama would have received a
Certification of Citizenship indicating "naturalized."
We are
informed, believe and thereon allege Obama/Soetoro was never naturalized
in the United States after his return. Soetoro/Obama was ten (10)
years old when he returned to Hawaii to live with his grandparents.
Soetoro/Obama’s mother did not return with him. Therefore, it
appears that she did not apply for citizenship for Soetoro/Obama in the
United States. If citizenship for Soetoro/Obama had been applied
for in 1971, Soetoro/Obama would have a Certification of Citizenship.
If Soetoro/Obama returned in 1971 to Hawaii without going through U.S.
Immigration, today he would be an "illegal alien" -- and obviously not
able to serve as president, but also his term as a United States Senator
from Illinois for nearly four (4) years was illegal. We further
believe Soetoro might have reentered the United States at age ten (10)
by showing a copy of his Hawaiian Certification of Live Birth, which he
received when his birth was registered in Hawaii.
In addition, we
have been unable to locate any legal documents wherein Soetoro’s name
was legally changed from Barry Soetoro to Barack Hussein Obama.
Soetoro/Obama’s silence on these issues is deafening and his refusal to
release such records to prove that none of this occurred results in his
status as Acting Commander in Chief at best, and a willful action on his
part to deceive the American People and the Armed Forces of the United
States so that he may wield power that is in non-compliance with the
United States Constitution.
Eligibility
2/13/10
Along Highway 41
A controversial billboard that went up on Thursday along Highway 41 is
catching people's attention. It calls for Obama to be removed from
office.
The spot, near the Oshkosh Correctional Institute, is
also becoming a popular spot for motorists to pull over and snap a
picture.
"The sign kind of struck me as being very forceful. I
was driving up to Green Bay this morning and saw it. It just
surprised me that a sign like that would be out there, that blatant,"
said Gary Fox, of Waukesha.
Fox said he agrees with the "Impeach
Obama" billboard. The tagline is: "America's small businesses are
failing, help us spread the message."
"I just think what Obama is
doing and the whole administration and the Democratic Congress is just
bad for business when you look at the deficits and everything they're
doing," said Fox.
So, who paid for it?
It was Tom
Wroblewski, an attorney in Menasha.
Not Archived
2/13/10
Democrat's Decadent Party
Click the image and run your cursor over the heads of the people and
statues browser much be
javascript enabled.
Blutarsky?
2/13/10
Obama’s Own Begin to Turn on Him
Peter Wehner
says that when a presidency and an agenda are collapsing at the rate
that Obama’s are, it isn’t long before his party begins to distance
itself from him. We’ve seen plenty of signs of this lately. Politico.com
has a story today titled "Family feud: Nancy Pelosi at odds with
President Obama." According to the story:
House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi’s increasingly public disagreements with Barack Obama are a
reflection of something deeper: the seething resentment some Democrats
feel over what they see as cavalier treatment from a wounded White
House.
Then there are the comments by Democratic Senator Jay
Rockefeller of West Virginia, who said, "He [Obama] says 'I'm for clean
coal,' and then he says it in his speeches, but he doesn’t say it in
here. And he doesn’t say it in the minds of my own people.
And he’s beginning to not be believable to me."
Much of what
Obama has said hasn’t been believable to many of us for quite some time
now. But when influential figures in Obama’s own party begin to
make statements such as these -- especially when you’ve only been in
office 13 months -- it’s clear that things are beginning to become a bit
unglued. Party discipline is tossed aside; the intra-party sniping
makes the situation even worse. And the vicious cycle Democrats
are caught in merely accelerates.
It has dawned on many Democrats
that in hitching their fortunes to Obama and
Obamunism, they have put
themselves at enormous political risk. They are all complicit in
this; Obama himself outsourced much of his agenda to Pelosi and Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid. The entire Democratic establishment is
the architect of what is shaping up as an epic political failure.
But Obama is head of the Democratic party, and so the responsibility
lies with him more than with anyone else. He is primus inter
pares. And he is now, with every passing week, the target of their
unhappiness. More is sure to follow.
This isn’t going to
end well for them.
Not Archived
2/13/10
Obama Borrows $2,000,000,000,000
Jake Tapper is
reporting that behind closed doors and with no cameras present,
Obama signed into law Friday afternoon the bill raising the public debt
limit from $12.394 trillion to $14.294 trillion.
The current
national debt is $12.3 trillion. Check out the
National Debt Clock, which
tells you your share of that -- roughly $40,000 per citizen, $113,000
per taxpayer.
The bill also establishes a statutory Pay-As-You-Go
procedure requiring that new non-emergency legislation affecting tax
revenue or mandatory spending not increase the Federal deficit -- in
other words, any new spending or tax cuts must be paid for with new
taxes or spending cuts.
Economy
2/13/10
"In Contact With President’s Office"
Did Barack Obama personally consult with Homeland Security Secretary
Janet Napolitano on Christmas Day, when suspected al Qaeda terrorist
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
allegedly tried to detonate a suicide bomb aboard Northwest Flight 253?
Asked that question by CNSNews.com, Napolitano initially declined to
answer and then, when asked again, said "we were in contact with the
president’s office" that day.
The White House told news
organizations on Christmas Day that Obama had ordered heightened air
travel security immediately after he was first briefed on the attempted
attack at about 9:00 a.m. Hawaii time (2:00 p.m. Eastern) on Christmas
Day and that he was repeatedly briefed on the incident during that day
In Jan. 20 testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee,
however, Napolitano testified that she had not been consulted in advance
about the specific decision to read Abdulmutallab his Miranda rights --
which took place on Christmas night about 10 hours after the suspected
terrorist was arrested. Director of National Intelligence Dennis
Blair, FBI Director Robert Mueller and National Counterterrorism Center
Director Michael Leiter all told congressional committees that they were
also not consulted in advance about the Christmas-Day decision to
mirandize Abdulmutallab.
On Jan. 27, Napolitano failed to attend
a hearing on the Christmas Day attack held by the House Homeland
Security, the committee that has principal oversight over her
department. Senior Democrats on the committee publicly scolded her
during that hearing for her failure to attend.
On Feb. 4,
Napolitano met privately with the Democratic -- but not Republican --
members of the committee. After that meeting, she also met
privately with Rep. Pete King (R.-N.Y.), the committee’s ranking
Republican.
When she emerged from her Feb. 4 meeting with
committee Democrats, CNSNews.com asked Napolitano: "Madame Secretary,
did the president personally consult with you at all in real time during
the day of the Christmas Day attack about the Abdulmutallab situation?"
Napolitano said: "I’m not going to talk about my conversations with
the president."
Later, after her meeting with Rep. Pete King
(R-N.Y.), CNSNews.com asked Napolitano: "Before I was asking you about
if you spoke to the president at all on Christmas Day about the
Abdulmutallab situation -- not the nature of the conversation. I
just want to know if you spoke to him."
Napolitano said: "Yes, we
were in contact with the president’s office."
Terrorism
2/12/10
Obama Will Choose KSM Trial Location
Ryan J. Reilly is
reporting that Obama will help select the location of the
trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) and insert himself into the process
that has faced major political setbacks -- notice, the italicized word, "help."
At 3:29
in this video, Perky
Katie Couric asks Obama if he has ruled out conducting the KSM trial in
the Big Apple. Obama responds, "I have not ruled it out."
-- notice, "I have not..." -- not "Holder hasn't ruled it out."
And, Fox News just broadcast a news alert (2/12/10 at 9:02 AM (EST))
that said Obama was personally going to Congress and get the money for
the trial -- what's that they say
about he who has the gold?
Anyone who has been following this
page knows I strongly believe Obama has made all the decisions of the
handling of KSM and his trial from the beginning -- he's calling the
shots on the Black Panther
case too.
This is just more evidence.
Terrorism
2/12/10
Obama Officials Wrong on Padilla
Thomas Joscelyn says al Qaeda terrorist Jose Padilla started talking
only after he was designated an enemy combatant.
During an
interview on MSNBC Thursday morning, White House Press Secretary Robert
Gibbs defended the Obama administration’s handling of the
Crotch Bomber, bomber Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab.
Gibbels
argued that the administration was right to treat Abdulmutallab as a
criminal defendant, instead of as an enemy combatant. "Just
because you make somebody an enemy combatant [it] doesn’t make them
talk," Gibbs argued. He then pointed to an example from the Bush
years to supposedly support his point.
"Jose
Padilla was made an enemy combatant so that we could get him to
talk," Gibbels said. "And guess what happened when we made him an
enemy combatant, he didn't talk. He did talk when he was
transferred back into a civilian court."
Obama’s top
counterterrorism adviser, John
Brennan, made the same point on Tuesday in an op-ed for USA Today.
Brennan argued: "Terrorists such as Jose Padilla and Saleh al-Mari did
not cooperate when transferred to military custody, which can harden
one's determination to resist cooperation."
Brennan and Gibbels
are wrong. In fact, Jose Padilla only started cooperating once he
was transferred into the military’s custody and interrogated.
Byron York
says there's some buzz going around the net over the question of
what Obama has done with the $1.4 million he won as part of the Nobel
Peace Prize. Well before Obama accepted the award, the White House
announced he would give the money to charity. Yet it's been two
months since he went to Oslo, and there's no word of him giving it away.
Some commentators have speculated that Obama is hanging on to it
himself. But the White House says Obama hasn't yet received the
money, so it follows that he hasn't yet given it away. "I know
they continue to talk about it," spokesman Robert Gibbs said at a
January 19 briefing. "I think he has not received any money yet.
But as soon as they -- as he makes those donations, we will let you guys
know."
The situation seems a little odd. If you win the
Nobel Prize, don't they just give you the money? Why doesn't Obama
have it yet? It turns out there's a reason.
"He hasn't
received it because they haven't asked to have it transferred," says
Geir Lundestad, director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. "It is
up to the laureate to decide. My understanding is that they are
looking into certain legal questions, and once those legal questions are
settled, it will be done…once they ask for it, the money will be
transferred immediately."
Prize winners can have the money
without delay, but Lundestad says it is not unheard of for a laureate to
leave the cash with the Nobel Foundation for some period of time after
winning. "The most difficult cases are with laureates who are in
prison," he says. And there is no time limit for Obama to receive
the money. So for the moment, the money remains deposited with the
Nobel Foundation in Stockholm. "The money is in the bank,"
Lundestad says. "We are leaving this entirely to the White House."
To some in the White House, and to many of the president's
supporters, the Nobel was almost an embarrassment, the symbol of the
too-much-praise that has been heaped on Obama in the last couple of
years. In an effort to de-emphasize the whole thing, Obama made
short work of his trip to Oslo to receive the award. And now, it
appears he's in no hurry to deal with the money he won, either.
It seems that our constitutional
law "professor" believes Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution is
flawed. He must, because it says:
"No Title of
Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person
holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the
Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office,
or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign
State."
I don't remember Congress giving the OK for Obama
to accept Nobel money, but we know Obama is flexible about the
Constitution, and, after all, he won, so he gets to make the rules..
If Congress should give the thumbs-up, though, I have a few
suggestions for Obama.
First, do something for
half-brother George.
The poor son-of-a-gun has been living in a hovel on a dollar a month.
Some bloggers sent him a thousand dollars and he spent it all on drugs
and got
arrested.
Now he's back to his $1-a-month hovel, there's rumors that he's
in therapy now, and the bills are piling up -- and he's hiding from his
dealer.
Next,
aunt Zeituni needs some new
clothes for her court appearances -- there's photographers and press --
and the lawyers are asking for money -- and it would really be nice if
auntie Zee could move out of the projects and into
Charles River Park.
Then there's the Barack Obama School.
He could
honor the pledges of assistance that he made to a school named in
his honor in his father's village of Kogelo, when he visited there amid
great fanfare in August 2006.
At that historic homecoming, Obama
was greeted as a hero with thousands lining the dirt streets of Kogelo.
He visited the Senator Obama Kogelo Secondary School built on land
donated by his paternal grandfather.
He told the assembled press,
local politicians (who included current Kenyan Prime Minister Raila
Odinga), and students: "Hopefully I can provide some assistance in the
future to this school and all that it can be." He then turned to
the school's principal, Yuanita Obiero, and assured her and her
teachers: "I know you are working very hard and struggling to
bring up this school, but I have said I will assist the school and I
will do so."
No one has heard from Obama and he hasn't sent them
a dime.
Back to the Nobel money, though -- what Obama will do is simply leave the money in the bank,
drawing interest, until he leaves the Oval Office, and everybody forgets
about it. At that time, he'll press a button.
I suppose I shouldn't bring this up, but
that's a interesting phrase, buried in the report at the link,
honor the pledges. The
phrase?
"At that historic homecoming in August 2006..." --
homecoming? -- coming home? Kogelo, Kenya?
Biography
2/12/10
Obama "Just Not Responding" To Ft. Hood Questions
CNSNews.com is reporting that Sen. Kit Bond (R.-Mo.), the vice
chairman of the Senate intelligence committee, told bloggers on a
conference call on Wednesday, Feb. 3, that the Obama administration
still had not provided his committee with all the information it had
requested on the November terrorist
attack at Fort Hood in Texas.
"They still haven’t come
through with all the information that we need," Bond said.
And,
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R.-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the House
intelligence committee, issued two statements in January complaining
that the administration had not been forthcoming on information about
the Fort Hood attack. Hoekstra also pointed to parallels between
the Fort Hood attack and the
attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 on Christmas Day.
When asked if he believed the administration was withholding information
about the incident from members of the intelligence committee, Bond
replied, "Yes."
Bond added, "You know, as I said, I tried for a
month and a half just to find what had previously been announced
publicly, when I asked Director Blair what the recidivism rate was, and
he had to wait until John Brennan
released it -- when they released it to blame Bush for it. That
was right before the hearing was the first time we got it. So,
yes, there have been problems in the past, but I think the problems are
greater. The holding classified -- some classified reports that
the intelligence committee still has not received."
Bond said
the administration ought to provide the intelligence committee with a
classified report on what it has learned about Maj. Hasan. "There
are more questions we asked about the background information on Maj.
Hasan. What they did, why they didn’t do it," said Sen. Bond.
"They ought to give us a classified report on that. That would be
step one."
Asked, "And thus far, they have not responded to those
questions?"
"No," said Sen. Bond. "They just aren’t
responding. "
Obama's 2011 Budget Allocates $4 Billion For ACORN
The Washington Times is
adding ACORN to the list of outrageous earmarks in Obama's fiscal
2011 budget. ACORN, the
embezzlement-prone, voter-registration-fraud-plagued, leftist community
organizing group, is slated to receive nearly $4 billion from a
taxpayer-funded slush fund.
The money will come from the
Community Development Block Grant, one of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development's longest-running programs. The HUD Web site
cryptically defines the grant's purpose as providing "communities with
resources to address a wide range of unique community development
needs," not a reassuring description given the group's recent past
history of aiding the community through gratuitous misappropriation of
funds.
Has Congress already forgotten the Sept. 2009 ban it
passed on funding for ACORN and ACORN affiliates? Or the video
that led to the ban, footage showing ACORN employees urging individuals
they thought were a prostitute and her pimp to set up a brothel and
advising the pair on evading taxpaying? It would have had a hard
time doing so, considering that ACORN is currently suing the federal
government for the attempted ban.
Though the largely Democratic
House Appropriations Committee voted against the block last December, it
is a Bill Clinton-appointee, U.S. District Court Judge Nina Gershon, who
has truly aided the corrupt ACORN cause. Also in December, Gershon
issued a federal injunction against the Congressional funding ban,
crying that it ran afoul of the Constitution because under the ban,
ACORN was "singled out by Congress for punishment that directly and
immediately affects their ability to continue to obtain federal funding,
in the absence of any judicial, or even administrative, process
adjudicating guilt."
In essence, Gershon has said ACORN can't be
punished now because the Obama administration failed to punish it
earlier -- through a long-overdue, much-needed criminal investigation
into the group. But this is absurd, because ACORN's not receiving
such funding does not constitute its being deprived of a right.
The funding is a gift, and Congress has the right to cancel contracts
whenever it feels like it.
Just ask Blackwater, a company we are
wondering whether Gershon would so heroically rush to defend were it to
make the same move ACORN is now making
Neil Stevens
says Julius Genachowski is
Barack Obama’s head of the Federal Communications Commission. He
thinks you’re an idiot. After famously
calling for broadly expanded FCC powers to mandate "transparency"
and "neutrality" on the Internet, and having that plan rejected by a
growing, bipartisan coalition, he now
denies he wants to regulate the Internet.
Meanwhile he also claims the FCC is
trying to "win the case" against Comcast, who has sued to get a federal
court to overturn the FCC’s claimed authority to regulate Internet
activity. But we’re supposed to believe he doesn’t want to regulate the
Internet. Right. The Wall Street Journal
says that the FCC "took a beating" during an appeals court hearing on
the case. A decision against the FCC could be crippling of Genachowski’s
plans, but unfortunately on that front there’s nothing we activists can
do but watch, and wait.
Though we can also join in the second comment period
that the FCC has opened up on Net Neutrality. Your guess is as
good as mine as to where on the FCC’s
website we can do that, though. They’re not exactly
transparent.
Czars
2/11/10
1961 Hawaii Births
According to the
U. S. Public Health Service, births in the United States in 1961
were classified for vital statistics into white, Negro, American Indian,
Chinese, Japanese, Aleut, Eskimo, Hawaiian and Part-Hawaiian (combined),
and "other nonwhite."
The category "white" includes, in addition
to persons reported as "white," those reported as Mexican or Puerto
Rican. With one exception, a reported mixture of Negro with any
other race is included in the Negro group; other mixed parentage is
classified according to the race of the nonwhite parent and mixtures of
nonwhite races to the race of the father. The exception refers to
a mixture of Hawaiian and any other race, which is classified as
Part-Hawaiian.
In most tables a less detailed classification of
"white" and "nonwhite" is used.
Now we know the government is a
stickler for codes so that big brother can keep track of all our
statistics. Well, according the the US CDC website there have been
some revisions as of late to the types of codes for 'race' on vital
records certificates.
Prior to 2009, the latest revision to the
actual long form took place in 2004. In 1961, a black person was
listed as either 'black' or 'negro'. In 2004, the one showing on
the CDC site shows he could have been listed as either 'black' or
'African American' as ethnicity then came into play. Now in 2009 (revised
1/09), codes
for those of the Negro race are listed and one can now be listed as just
'African' as is shown on Obama's COLB.
US vital statistic birth records for 1961 in Hawaii (By place Of
residence. Data refer only to births occurring within the United States.
Based on a 50-percent sample. "Metropolitan counties" include all
counties that are standard metropolitan statistical areas (metropolitan
State economic areas for New England). "Nonmetropolitan counties"
include all other counties):
On
page 205* are the statistics for Live Births,
non-White Hawaiian births based on the sample:
• 12,198 --
non-white births
• 12,110 --
attended in a hospital by physician • 50
-- attended out of a hospital by physician or midwife
• 38 -- unattended
So, that's around 76 unattended births in the year Obama was born. Was Barack Obama one of those
76? Information regarding these birth
came from the word or statement of a relative. It might account
for the Obama/Nordyke birth certificate numbers
anomaly.
* Note:
Enter -- 205 -- into the Adobe Reader page number text box and hit
enter.
Daniel Greenfield opines, that since taking office, Obama’s key
objective on terrorism has been to transform the public perception of it
from an international military conflict, to a limited domestic criminal
problem. Renaming terrorism to the bureaucratically euphonious
term, "Man Caused Disasters" was straight out of the first rule in the
textbook of organizational coverups, to phrase your sentences so that
the identity of the perpetrators of the crisis remain as vague as
possible. Focusing on everything but terrorism, while shutting
down Gitmo and dispatching top Al Qaeda terrorists like Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed to civilian trials, was meant to restore the illusion of
normalcy, while doing away with the terrorism focus of the Bush
Administration.
There was a reason that once in office, Obama
showed a very limited interest in pushing for the prosecutions of Bush
Administration officials, as the left wing expected him to. Unlike
them, Obama understood that the best way to shift the conversation was
by avoiding the topic, not by confronting it head on… because while the
American people may have turned on the Republicans, they were more
likely to support a tough on terror approach, than not. Main
Street America was a long way from ACLU headquarters, and so Obama
decided that the best way to win the debate on terrorism… was not to
have it all.
Seeing how fast Cheney’s numbers shot up by simply
calling him out on terrorism, could have only stiffened Obama’s resolve
to avoid the issue. But the issue refused to avoid him, whether it
was demands that he come to a decision on Afghanistan, a renewed wave of
terrorist attacks on American soil or a growing backlash from New York
over holding the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trials in the city -- Islamic
"man caused disasters" just refused to go away.
By moving Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed into the civilian legal system, Obama and Holder were
undertaking to engineer a massive shift in how America dealt with
terrorism. It was a shift that everyone from lawyers to liberal
pundits to the nutroots had been pushing all along. It was the
message on the earliest posters tacked up by left wing activists on the
streets of Lower Manhattan, even as the ruins of the towers were still
smoldering. The shift would transform terrorism from a conflict
fought in defense of America, to an internal criminal matter for the
legal system to deal with. The difference between the two lies in
far more than just a matter of which judges get to sit on the bench and
where the trial takes place, it cuts right to the issue of what is
really happening here.
Treating Islamic terrorism as a criminal
problem transforms it from an international threat, into something
purely local, akin to an armed robbery or a murder or two. And as
liberal doctrine would have it, crime is not really preventable except
through social welfare policies. That is precisely the tack that
European governments have taken on terrorism, working with Muslim
communities to improve their economic and social status. That
would have been the next stage for the Obama Administration, if a
roadblock hadn’t risen up on the road to the New York trial.
Michael Barone says with absolute power, Team Obama is growing
stupid.
How could such smart people do so many stupid things?
That question, or variations on it, is being asked in Washington and
around the country about the Obama administration.
The same
people who directed the campaign that defeated Hillary Clinton and
routed John McCain, a campaign that raised far more money and attracted
far more volunteers than any before it, have within a year come up with
a legislative program that is crashing in ruins and that, to judge from
recent polls, has left the Democratic Party weaker than I have seen it
in almost 50 years of closely following politics.
The 2008
campaign was an impressive achievement. So, in a negative way, is
the 2009 legislative program that has left the Democrats in such woeful
shape in 2010.
Some in Washington say that the problem is that
Barack Obama has chosen to rely on his campaign staff rather than the
wise old heads in Washington. But Obama and his team have had the
benefit of advice from those wise old heads and from the smartest
political strategist the Democratic party has produced in the past
half-century, Bill Clinton.
A truly wise Washington analyst,
National Journal's Jonathan Rauch, says the problem is one-party
government. Presidents lead better, he argues, when they are
constrained by the need to get bipartisan support.
Barack Obama says he is "agnostic" about raising taxes on households
making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the
budget deficit.
Obama, in a Feb. 9 Oval Office interview, said
that a presidential commission on the budget needs to consider all
options for reducing the deficit, including tax increases and cuts in
spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
"The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the
table," Obama said in the interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which
will appear on newsstands Friday. "So what I want to do is to be
completely agnostic, in terms of solutions."
Obama repeatedly
vowed during the 2008 presidential election campaign that he would not
raise taxes on individuals making less than $200,000 and households
earning less than $250,000 a year. When senior White House
economic adviser Lawrence H. Summers and Treasury Secretary Timothy F.
Geithner suggested in August that the administration might be open to
going back on that pledge, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs
quickly reiterated Obama’s promise.
V. Harlow says the
eligibility issue has constantly been mischaracterized as a
"citizenship" issue, or a "birth certificate" issue, and major media
outlets keep playing on this same theme over and over, ridiculing those
who want the truth.
I suspect they are partially driven by fear.
Fear they won't get interviews, fear they won't get invitations, fear
they won't get to cover important issues if this issue is included in
what they cover. Even Fox News continues to ridicule and
mischaracterize this very important Constitutional issue.
Can we
attack this administration on other valid issues? Yes, of course.
I don't advocate doing anything less. It's not right to push the
very valid and important Constitutional issue of the eligibility of the
current resident of White House to hold the job, aside as though it is
of no matter. There have been people scoffing for over a year now,
yet lawsuits continue. The issue is law. The highest office
in the land, the one responsible for upholding our laws and protecting
our freedoms is the issue.
Most reasonable people don't question
the "citizenship" of Obama. The Constitution has special
requirements for holders of the office of President of the Unite States.
Those requirements are "natural born citizen." That is a higher
standard than "citizen." It is a higher standard than "native
citizen."
Some people signed off on Obama's qualification rather
cavalierly either knowingly or carelessly. They need to be held to
account.
It's easy to ridicule and destroy the reputations and
careers of people fighting this battle, but it's wrong. Orly Taitz,
no matter how one questions her professionalism, does not deserve the
treatment she has received from anonymous callers, from malicious
supporters of Obama, or from major media outlets. She comes
willing and determined to defend our Constitution, while so many charged
with that responsibility have forsaken it completely.
Donofrio,
Pidgeon, Berg, Kreep, and others fighting the battle do not deserve the
ridicule. The American People overwhelmingly want to know the
truth.
An honest hearing is required.
That's all I've been seeking for
almost two years.
Eligibility
2/11/10
A Great Achievement
Andrew Malcolm
says the same Barack Obama and Joe Biden who opposed the Iraq war,
its tactics, and predicted failure, are now prepared to accept credit
for its success.
Biden, in an
interview with Larry King, said he is certain that Iraq will turn
out to be one of the Obama-Biden administration's greatest achievements
-- No, really! He did.
Here's how Biden put it:
"I
am very optimistic about -- about Iraq. I mean, this could be one
of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to
see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer.
You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving
toward a representative government."
"I spent -- I've been there
17 times now. I go about every two months -- three months. I
know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society.
It's impressed me. I've been impressed how they have been deciding
to use the political process rather than guns to settle their
differences."
Biden did not elaborate on what the
administration's other "great achievements" were.
Military
2/10/10
One More Mystery -- Third Grade
On February 9th, 2010, I received the following email
from "Northeast Elizabeth":
On your site's "Education" page, you post a
photograph identified as "Barry, 3rd Grade, 1969" which is identical to
this one appearing in the Honolulu Star Bulletin in December, 2009 (in an article revealing that Obama spent at least part of third grade in Hawaii and not solely Jakarta as widely reported). Did you add it to your site after that date, or was it there before? I ask because in the article, Obama's former classmate Scott Inoue indicates that he didn't receive the photo back from Obama until November 2009, and I had assumed that Star's publication of the picture the next month would have been the first appearance of it. However, the page on your site on which it appears indicates copyright, Beckwith, 2008" at the bottom so I wasn't sure if it was from back then (and if so, how you would have it if it were a private picture of Inoue's, unless Inoue got it elsewhere and was playing a trick).
Scott and Barry 3rd grade 1969
Unfortunately, I have no memory of when I added that photo. However,
I checked the properties on that image and it was created on Sunday,
October 18, 2009 -- so it was clearly before. So, I had it before it was
returned to Inoue in November, 2009.
However, it's clear I acquired the photo
without the back story, prompting me to archive the photo as an
Indonesian-Besuki-period
artifact.
Somehow, I missed the Star Bulletin report.
This was the first I'd heard of Obama being in
the 3rd grade -- and in Hawaii? He was supposed to be in Indonesia
-- the report contradicts Obama's own autobiography, as well as multiple
biographies, that say he attended grades 1 through 5 in Jakarta,
Indonesia. From the report:
A former Manoa resident sent President Barack
Obama an old photo of the two of them taken while they were third-grade
classmates at Noelani Elementary School, requesting an autograph more
than six months ago. He recently received the autographed picture back,
as well as a personally signed thank-you note.
Widely published biographies say Obama lived in Indonesia from 1967
through 1971, and none mention his third-grade year at Noelani, Inoue
acknowledges. But he said Obama attended at least part of his
third-grade year at Noelani in 1969, perhaps during a visit back to
Hawaii, and moved away.
When Obama decided to run for president,
Inoue had his mother dig up the photo and sent an enlarged copy to
Obama's senatorial office in Illinois with a request for his autograph. There was no response. He tried again after the inauguration, and
several months later an envelope from the White House arrived.
He
was surprised by the warm note -- typewritten, but personally signed by
Obama -- that accompanied the photo. Dated Nov. 6, 2009, the note said:
"Dear Scott:
"This is just a quick note to thank you for your
kind letter. It is good to hear from you. ... I am pleased to enclose
your signed photograph. Thank you again for your thoughtful note, and I
wish you all the best.
"Sincerely, Barack Obama"
That note reads like general-purpose package for White House
correspondents that comes out of Obama's 14-million member database -- a
boilerplate note and a photo of Obama.
There's a second
report on Record.net that contains an
image of the letter, and this cryptic comment -- "His family
moved to Indonesia sometime during the school year" -- his biography,
and all those autobiographies disagree -- the Soetoros moved two years
previously -- Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama's
half-sister
places Obama and family in
Jakarta, Indonesia, from 1967 through 1971.
And,
this is not a personal note -- look at it -- it's your basic
graphics-printer produced (Obots are skilled at that) "thank you" note -- there is no personal
comment or allusion to the 3rd grade photo, so I don't read that
response from "Sincerely, Barack Obama" as an
acknowledgement, by Obama, that he attended 3rd grade at Noelani in 1969
-- it's like all the other questions -- ignored!
I also assume
his 3rd grade records have been lost like his
kindergarten records.
Now I'll have to update
my list of lost and missing Obama records,
and send an email to Hawaii
Department of Education to see if they have records of this.
This is bizarre -- I did a Google "Books"
search of "Dreams...," and there is no mention of Noelani.
I'm tellin' you -- nobody knows anything about this guy -- every day
it's a new mystery. I've said it before, the more I learn about
this guy, the less I know about him.
The
Gullibles don't question Obama's eligibility. These trusting,
naive, innocent folks believe it is crazy, and/or improper to
question Obama. The easiest way to identify a Gullible is
their complete lack of curiosity and cynicism in the face of the
gazillion contradictions that are facts and circumstances of the life of
Barack Obama.
Me? A birther? Hell no! I'll believe anything
he says!
Most Gullibles are Obots, as you'd
expect, but there are plenty of guys, like O'Reilly and Beck, who
are Gullibles also. Many judges, politicians and journalists
are committed Gullibles -- especially the journalists. The
Gullibles favorite sport is attacking
Birthers. The reason
Gullibles attack Birthers is because of the Birthers' skepticism.
Birthers don't buy Obama's brand of bullsh!t.
What we have here is one bunch that chuck-a-lugged the Obama brew --
and one that says, "hey! wait-a-minute! what's in that
stuff?"
The Gullibles ignore the fact that Obama's book,
"Dreams...," his life's narrative,
is a myth. In
the introduction, Obama
acknowledges his use of pseudonyms, composite characters,
approximated dialogue and events out of chronological order.
Outright lies and omissions are not noted for obvious reasons.
The Gullibles ignore
the fact that Michelle Obama
said
that Senior and Anna were never married. She described Anna as "very
young and very single when she had him (Obama)."
The Gullibles ignore the fact that their are
dozens of reports of his Kenyan birth from responsible
journalists and politicians.
The Gullibles ignore the fact that four qualified examiners have
investigated the Certification of Live Birth provided by the Obama
Campaign to partisan web sites, and declared
the copies that have been referenced by the world to be bogus
electronic documents.
The Gullibles ignore the fact
that Hawaii's Department of Health (DOH) has
issued obfuscations and
contradictions, and has been creatively using their rulebook to
prevent the disclosure of Obama's birth records -- except the ones
they chose. When that doesn't work, they
change the rules.
When that doesn't work, they build a firewall between the DOH and
the public.
The Gullibles ignore the conflicting accounts of
Obama's birthplace, even though Obama, himself has been
quoted as saying he
was born in two different hospitals.
I could go on all
day identifying discrepancies in Obama's story. There are hundreds and hundreds of pages in The
Obama File that link to thousands and thousands of pages on the Web,
that lay lie to Obama's narrative, demonstrate how little is KNOWN about
this guy, and how dynamic his life story is. It evolves
constantly.
Obama, or his people, lay down a scenario. An
investigator investigates. The investigator finds the scenario is
full of holes, or is an out and out fabrication -- and the story evolves -- so-and-so misspoke -- somebody
misremembered -- most often though, Obama just ignores it -- after all -- he won! --
this cycle is repeating constantly -- remember Rev. Wright, Obama's
racist mentor" -- Obama sat at his feet for 20 years and didn't hear a
thing -- the Gullibles went, uh-huh!
There isn't a week that goes
by that another element in the Obama narrative doesn't change. And
there isn't another week that goes by that
something doesn't disappear from the Web.
Gullibles expend enormous energy attacking Birthers for
expecting Obama to simply be straight with the American People -- who do
have a right to know -- and a need to know. Will the real Barack
Obama please stand up and present his credentials?
Like I say on
my main page, "Barack Obama is
referenced by name, rather than title, in these pages whenever possible
-- except when used as part of a direct quote. The day Obama produces
his bona fides for inspection by the American People, and demonstrates
his eligibility to occupy the Office of the
President of the United States of America, these pages will be amended
to reflect his proper title."
This is like "The Emperors
New Clothes" -- except in real life -- Obama's narrative is his suit of clothes,
and the Gullibles just love Obama's ever-changing threads, and they get
upset when someone points out Obama is bare-assed naked.
Gullibles have to attack Birthers -- they know in their hearts he's
nekked -- but he's their guy.
Chelsea Schilling is
reporting that just as the tea-party convention crowd gathered to
discuss strategy for the movement, one woman stepped forward to the
microphone -- holding up two Hawaiian long-form birth certificates and a
copy of Obama's purported short-form certification of live birth -- and,
raising the short form, she told the crowd, "This piece of junk is what
you get when you don't have one of these!" -- waving the real birth
certificates.
The crowd went wild, clapping and cheering, and
when the forum was over, tea partiers scrambled around a table to see
and photograph her original documents.
The woman, Miki Booth,
originally from Hawaii, is running for the U.S. House of Representatives
in Oklahoma's second district as an independent constitutional
conservative. She had presented original long-form birth
certificates belonging to her son and husband, dated 1981 and 1949.
Her husband, Fred, and son, Alan, were born at the Kapi'olani
Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii -- the same
hospital declared as Obama's birthplace in this
letter.
"If he is going to claim he was born in Kapi'olani
like my husband and my son, then I want him to show proof," Booth said,
explaining that a certification of live birth only shows that a live
baby was born -- and not necessarily in Hawaii.
"What he's given
us perpetuates the mystery of what he's covering up and gives us more
reason to not trust him," she said.
How can Ms. Booth be so cynical as
to not trust our guy? Could it be that Obama himself has previously claimed to have been
born at Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, a claim
backed up by his
sister Maya.
Either way, neither hospital has a -- "This is the
birthplace of the 44th President of the United States" -- plaque
in their lobby.
Eligibility
2/9/10
The New American
Dream
Not Archived
2/9/10
Obama Faces Armageddon In Latest Polls
Nile Gardiner says, forget "Snowmageddon." Washington may be
deluged under nearly three feet of snow, but Barack Obama is
experiencing a sinking feeling of another kind. The latest US
polls, highlighted
here by Daniel Foster at The Corner at NRO, are stunningly bad for
the president. Frankly, the Titanic’s prospects looked better than
Obama’s do today, even after it hit the iceberg.
As Foster points
out, three major new polls show Obama in serious trouble in the wake of
the stunning Massachusetts Senate special election win by Scott Brown.
According to the latest Marist survey of registered voters, 47 percent
disapprove of Obama’s job performance, while just 44 percent approve.
Most worryingly for the White House, support for Obama among
independents has fallen dramatically, with 57 percent now disapproving,
and just 29 percent giving him their backing.
The Marist poll
also reveals that a mere 7 percent of voters believe Obama has exceeded
their expectations. 47 percent believe Obama "has fallen below
their expectations", and just 42 percent say he has "met their
expectations". Significantly, "38 percent think the direction in
which Obama is moving the country is for the worse, and 37 percent
believe he is changing the nation for the better."
The latest
Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll makes even worse reading for
Obama. According to Rasmussen, just 26 percent of American voters
strongly approve of Obama’s job performance, with 41 percent strongly
disapproving, for a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15.
Over at Gallup, the outlook on several leading issues facing Obama looks
exceedingly grim. While he still maintains a significant lead on
Education, and a narrow majority on foreign affairs (with the exception
of the Iranian issue), he is facing staggering public opposition on
three critically important domestic policy issues. The percentage
of Americans who disapprove of his job performance on healthcare, the
economy, and the federal budget, stands at 60 percent, 61 percent, and
64 percent respectively -- an almost two to one majority on health and
the economy and an exact two to one margin on the budget deficit.
All three polls demonstrate growing disillusionment across the
United States with Barack Obama’s performance. As the Real Clear
Politics Average of US polls shows, 58.2 percent of Americans now
believe the country is moving in the "wrong track". Such figures
would not be unusual if they referred to a president well into his
second term in office. But they are a measure of a president
embarking on the second year of his first term of office, and Barack
Obama is now arguably the most unpopular president in modern US history
at such an early stage of his presidency.
Above all, these latest
polls are a reflection of America’s overwhelming rejection of big
government, and Obama’s emphatic embrace of highly interventionist
economic and healthcare policies. As several recent Gallup surveys
have shown, the United States is an increasingly conservative country.
It is a nation that is actively rebelling against the most left-wing
White House in US history. Barack Obama has unwittingly sparked a
new conservative revolution, one that has already swept through
Massachusetts, Virginia and New Jersey, and has the potential to take
America by storm.
Not Archived
2/9/10
Obama’s Attorney General -- For Now
Jennifer Rubin says Eric Holder is botching the war on terror.
Attorney General Eric Holder has been the Obama administration’s
point man in revising the nation’s approach to terrorism. Holder
said last summer that it was his decision to reinvestigate CIA
operatives who had employed enhanced interrogation techniques during the
Bush administration, although these individuals had been cleared by the
Justice Department’s career prosecutors. It was Holder’s call,
Obama said, to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) in a New York courtroom
rather than before a military tribunal. And Holder, in a letter
this past week, took responsibility for the decision to mirandize the
Crotch Bomber, Umar Farouk
Abdulmutallab, and classify him as an ordinary criminal defendant rather
than an enemy combatant.
There is doubt whether Holder was
acting independently in all these critical decisions, and whether the
White House would not, at the very least, have weighed in. Either
way, Holder has become the Obama’s Achilles' heel, a lightning rod for
critics and a headache for supporters.
Defending his KSM
decision, Holder appeared ill-prepared in Senate testimony last
November. A fumbling attorney general was stumped by Senator
Lindsey Graham’s questions probing what other enemy combatant seized on
foreign soil had been tried in federal court. The answer, after a
painful pause, was supplied by Graham: There has never been one.
Nor did Holder rule out Mirandizing Osama bin Laden if he were captured.
It is not merely poor preparation that has plagued the nation’s top
law enforcement figure. As New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg,
and a bipartisan parade of senators came forward objecting to KSM’s
trial in Manhattan, it became evident Holder had failed to consult with
city officials before announcing the decision. New York Police
Department Commissioner Ray Kelly revealed, "There was no
consultation...with the police department. That decision was made.
We were informed. Mayor Bloomberg then blasted away: "It
would be great if the federal government could find a site that didn’t
cost a billion dollars... It’s going to cost an awful lot of money
and disturb an awful lot of people... Yeah, and I mean -- the suggestion
of a military base is probably a reasonably good one." Some 18
senators then joined in proposing legislation to block a civilian trial.
Holder, in short, utterly failed to build support for what he
bragged would be the "trial of the century." Even liberal pundits
were left sputtering that Holder had botched what was to be the showcase
for the criminal justice approach to fighting terrorism.
Holder
is now on the hot seat for his decision to mirandize Abdulmutallab,
indict him in federal court, and permit him to remain silent for weeks.
I have
repeatedly opined that the decision was made by Obama, since Holder and
Defense Secretary Gates are peers, and neither one can give the other
directives. The following item has a segment that, to my mind,
clearly indicates Obama is making these decisions.
Eric Holder
2/9/10
Obama's Spook Lies
Last Sunday, Obama's spook, John Brennan, who got his job because he
scrubbed Obama's passport files, was interviewed by Fox News' Chris
Wallace about the circumstances surrounding the events of Christmas and
the Crotch Bomber (transcript).
Yesterday, Pete Hoekstra said Brennan lied about the facts in his
interview with Wallace.
Rep. Hoekstra (R-MI) disputes Brennan's claims about Christmas
briefing (05:01)
At 3:29 in the video, during
a previous interview (03:29) with Perky, Katie Couric asks Obama if he
has ruled out conducting the KSM trial in the Big Apple. Obama
responds, "I have not ruled it out."
He didn't say the
attorney general has not ruled it out. I contend that
confirms my opinion from the previous item.
Crotch Bomber
2/9/10
Another New Agency
Jerry McConnell
asks,
what is the matter with that man in our White House? Will he ever
stop trying to spend every nickel and dime that Americans have,
including our savings that we worked hard for to ease our retirement
years? He acts like a poor kid that suddenly comes into some money
and it is burning a hole in his pocket to get spent. It is an
infatuation and an obsession that the money has got to be disposed of
regardless of how infantile or worthless the object of the spending is.
Spend, spend, spend!
The problem is that he doesn’t spend just
nickels and dimes, no; this guy is more like the proverbial fool and his
money but in the billions and trillions neighborhood, and it’s OUR
money. No, no, none of that penny ante stuff like hundreds of
thousands or even millions; it has to be in the billions or trillions or
it doesn’t please his little spendthrift heart.
And now he is at
it once again. He has found another new scheme to fondle and
nurture into a budget busting, economy depressing, deficit and national
debt obesity to strangle our children and our children’s children for
decades to come. It’s his own personal Global Warming Agency;
right here in RiverCity (Potomac?). Move over Al Gore you will be
outguessed on the rise or fall of temperatures by none other than the
Messiah of the new millennium, Barry Soetoro, AKA, Barack Hussein Obama.
Just what we really DID NOT need; our very own collection of
liars, cheats and mis-directed pseudo-scientists conjuring up specters
of horror of rising seas and shrinking icebergs, not to mention wild and
crazy computers that send out false messages and then make the data
disappear. Who among you out there agree that we need yet one more
government bureau to tell us more lies and fairy tales while gobbling up
billions and trillions more of our tax dollars? Stand up for the
new Global Warming comedy show if you will. What, no takers?
Right on.
Over the past few weeks we have seen the black side of
some of the world’s most depraved and deranged seekers of government
largesse that keeps them in the comfort of their high living styles.
These cheats are educated people of the field of science where they can
maneuver figures to make it look like they are really on to something
that will help all the world’s people to react properly to any wayward
conduct that Mother Nature throws at them. They are jokingly
called scientists; but that’s just amongst themselves. To others,
they are called jesters and milkers.
Now of course, I am not
talking about all of them; in fact, in reality there are only a minor
few considering there are many thousands of fine people working at and
classified as scientists. These are the ones that appear in print
and videos debunking the tall tales of the jesters and milkers who make
grant applications by the gazillions. Oh, oh, I’d better get rid
of that word or Obama will be using it as the next step up the chain of
debt beyond trillions. I can hear him now saying he needs a few
more gazillions to bail out this or that pet project of his; (maybe his
new Global Warming Agency?) Perhaps they should call it the new and
expanded Global WARNING Agency.
After millennia and more
millennia of climate changes, from the days when our cold and barren
earth was created by God and turned into a venue for warm and loving
people, to the days of warmth needed to create a growing place for food
for those people, climate changes have taken place. They are
cyclical in nature, and nature is the key word here, as that is what
causes these climate changes. Infinitely long before man had any
input whatsoever in the process, if in fact he EVER has!
All of
the Global Warming Agencies put together are no match for Mother Nature
and her brilliant methods of making our climate react for different
reasons, some too exacting for the simple minds of pseudo scientists to
fathom. But in spite of this, here is what Obama’s Commerce
Secretary Gary Locke said at a recent news conference, "Whether we like
it or not, climate change represents a real threat." It was reported
that he didn’t even crack a smile when he said it. But I’d bet
that Mother Nature cringed just a bit.
Then, not to be outdone by
this brilliant observation, Locke’s boss, Janet Lubchenco, (no, not the
Russian scientist), but head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration added, "Climate change is real, it’s happening now."
Can you believe the profundity of that statement? Where does "O"
get these scintillating characters? I would have never guessed
that climate change was happening now!
But those bits of wisdom
do not enter into the wild and lavish money disappearing acts performed
by the famed money wizard, Barack Obama, the one person who can make a
trillion, or even a gazillion, disappear like a puff of smoke on a windy
day.
Somebody, please stop him. Obama is making America
look foolish to intelligent peoples of the world.
Environment
2/8/10
America’s Bolshevik
Obama denies being an ideologue or a Bolshevik, why? Is he
ashamed of his heritage and convictions, just intent on keeping his
motivations covert until the right time to spring his true nature upon
us, or is there a technicality that we need to grasp?
Perhaps we
should analyze the term Bolshevik. Historically, the Bolsheviks
were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
(RSDLP), founded by Vladimir Lenin. They split from the Menshevik
faction in 1903, during the Second Party Congress. They eventually
gained control during the October phase of the Revolution in 1917.
Bolshevik means "majority" or "large" and the nickname resulted from
having the majority rule in a crucial vote. Later on after gaining
complete control, Lenin maintained that since there was no opposition,
there was no longer the need to call themselves the majority party or
Bolsheviks, thus they named themselves the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union.
Eventually, Lenin died and Stalin gained control of the
party. Trotsky was exiled and wrote extensively condemning
Stalin’s "incorrect" version of Communism by referring to it as
Bolshevism, a derivative of Bolshevik, in apposition to Leninism.
Consequently the term Bolshevik developed negative connotations for the
"pure" Communist; perhaps this explains Obama’s displeasure at being
called a Bolshevik. He like many others must feel the sting of
those who are critical of Stalin’s regime.
The term, Ideologue,
evolved in the highly contested political and philosophical debates of
the French Revolution; coined by Destutt de Tracy, initially, it
referred to the study of the science of ideas or the study of ideas and
the means and logic of those ideas.
Later, Napoleon used the
term as a pejorative toward his political opponents, since that time it
has been used as a term of derision in political discussion to point out
an opposing politician’s inability to grasp ideas that are different
than those of his party line, thus reflecting a pettiness and lack of
cognitive ability.
Obama's taking exception to being considered
an Ideologue becomes a matter of conjecture when examining the platform
of America’s Communist Party. Although Obama denies any
association with the Communist Party of the United States, (CPUSA) they
are in express agreement with all of his policies. They could not have
had a better representative if they had won the election.
The
CPUSA’s stated goals are to achieve a free, prosperous, and peaceful
society free of racism, sexism, homophobia, and exploitation, in which
all people have the opportunity to develop to their full potential. These same goals were espoused by Obama during his campaign, the same
goals of the Social Democrats and of the Progressive Democrats. The
Communists above all maintain that they advocate a peaceful Socialist
Revolution and a peaceful transition to Socialism. Obviously if they
didn’t, the Communist Party would be outlawed; therefore the claim is
probably one of expediency and is purely academic.
All things
considered, I understand why a true Marxist in the Russian tradition
balks at being labeled a Bolshevik. It is an insult from the days of
Trotsky’s bitter writing over his ouster and banishment. Being upset at
being labeled an Ideologue is a matter of history. In the context of the
early days of the French Revolution, Obama should consider it
a compliment to be called an ideologue. If his frame of reference is
from the Napoleonic perspective, he is indeed an Ideologue, after all
Karl Marx frequently implied that it was essential to be an Ideologue. Obviously Obama is confused over these issues as he seems to
be over many issues. It would probably be a much easier if he
would just be honest with the American People and admit that he is a
Communist Ideologue, with his reelection chances diminishing daily, he
has reached the point where honesty can only improve his ratings. Of
course if he had been honest in the beginning, he would have never been
elected.
There can be little argument
that the agendas of Obama, the Democrat Party, and the CPUSA are
strikingly similar -- cursor down on the Flopping Aces link to review a condensed
version of the CPUSA platform.
Obamunism
2/8/10
A Peer Review
I received the following
over the transom from an attorney who was an associate and peer of
Michelle Robinson (Obama) at the law firm of Sidley Austin, LLP.
Michele's office was on my floor at the firm and I would walk by
it everyday. She was rarely in the office, had very limited
work papers in her office, yet apparently was drawing an
associate salary while not practicing law, and billing huge
hours as is ordinary for an associate. My fellow associates and
I worked to 10 p.m. customarily and many times to 2 to 3 a.m.,
every weekend, meeting the crushing work loads. But Michele
never had to do that, which understandably caused a lot of
resentment amongst fellow associates. I have no first hand
knowledge since it would be a private and confidential
arrangement, but the associate scuttlebutt drawn from partner
"leaks" was that she was drawing a firm salary while working
full time for City Hall doing political fund raising and
"special projects" work for the Daley Machine. The word
was that this arrangement benefited the firm because many times
their real estate clients had city zoning and other legal issues
that required city approvals or resolution, so the firm needed
to be viewed as on the city hall team and accede to their
wishes. So from the very start of her career my opinion is
that Michelle was the beneficiary of the nefarious city hall
back scratching schemes. As demonstrated by The Obama File, she
seems to have benefitted from these "arrangements"
her entire professional career. I have my doubts that she did
much at the University of Chicago to justify such an
enormous
salary and have never heard tell of any significant
projects she was handling,
let alone any accomplishments or major successes in the
healthcare field.
Michele at one point did leave officially to work for the
Daley Administration, but was already well engaged in
political activities during the day and regularly absent
from the firm for a lengthy period of time before she left.
I can't recall the precise timelines but I would estimate
that she was listed as an associate at the firm but not
carrying a regular work load for well over one year, maybe
even two years before she "left" for the City Hall payroll.
On a personal note, Michele was simply the most
angry, arrogant and caustic
young person I have ever met in my life. She simply would
not engage with her fellow associates and apparently viewed
herself as superior to them. I personally observed that
she would only engage with partners, most notably senior
partners. Never a friendly smile or good morning for staff
or fellow associates as she walked past them day after day after
day. I remember one particular instance where a group of
associates and I were chatting at a firm cocktail party and I
noted how no one seemed to know Michele but were constantly
gossiping about her. The gang just commented about how arrogant
and unfriendly she was and never around. I commented that
maybe she was just uncomfortable as a Southside girl being
around all of these elitist, snobby white folks at a silk
stocking firm. So I walked over to her when she was getting
hors d'oeuvres and introduced myself as a friendly overture.
She gave me a dirty look, literally threw her head back and
turned her back on me and walked back over the a group of senior
partners gathered around
Eden
Martin! As if you say how dare you approach me you filthy
little underling. I went back to my group of associates
friends feeling embarrassed and they just chuckled and said
"told ya'." So, Michele was not the sweet or kind person the
media would like us to believe. She was an elitist and only was
interested in those who could advance her personal interest, not
ordinary folks. To this day, that episode was the rudest I
have ever been treated by anyone, and there are lot of rude
lawyers out there.
I never met Barack, but only heard
about him second hand. My fellow associates who were summer
interns with him (in '89 I think) described him as very tall,
handsome, thin, and amiable but pretty aloof. They
commented of his love of basketball and that he was always up
for a game and that basketball and politics is all that grabbed
his interest at the time. They stated that he did not seem
to be interested in practicing law at a big firm and doing the
hard and dull work that that entailed, was just drawing his big
pay check, that he did not turn work assignments in on a timely
matter, was gone frequently, and generally wanted to be a
community organizer in preparation for a political career, not
as a practicing attorney. As a result, the firm -- according to
what I was told by people that should know -- did not extend him
an offer. So as shocking as it seems, our Obama apparently did
not make the cut as a summer intern. I suspect that is buried
like all written documentation and will never see the light of
day, but I do wonder if Obama could produce an offer letter from
Sidley? According to what I was told, and this is just second
hand, he was not offered a job and was instead sent a regrets
letter. This of course is not to say that he could not have
succeeded if he wanted to. He is bright and quick, and I would
hate to try a lawsuit against him, but certainly not the
brilliant legal scholar and committed, talented practicing
attorney that he has been portrayed as by the media. He was,
and is very much a clever Southside Chicago pol, no more and no
less.
According to
Wikipedia, Obama was a summer associate with Hopkins &
Sutter in 1990, and graduated in 1991 from Harvard. So that
would suggest he was a first year summer intern at Sidley in
89', was not offered to return for a second summer, took a
summer intern job at Hopkins & Sutter, and probably did not get
an offer there either -- unless he can account for his time away
from legal practice. Hopkins paid a top tier salary, so I doubt
that he would turn that down if he was offered it.
Both were kind of odd cases at Sidley, frankly. Regardless of
their ethnicity, gender, or other background, all other young
lawyers to a person that I met were very committed to making a
career at the firm, worked very hard at their projects, worked
on honing their craft and were trying to build a reputation
within the firm for doing quality legal work and build a career.
However, both Michele and Barack came into the firm and were
treated very differently and behaved differently, more like
political hires who were just using the firm as a political
vehicle, getting a blue-chip firm stamp on their resume, and
being funded in the meantime. Same basic "arrangement" as
Bernadine Dohrn had. She did
not do legal work to my knowledge and paying her a salary was
simply a deposit in the favor bank to borrow a phrase from
Bonfire of the Vanities. Mary A. Dempsey, current head of
the Chicago Public Library and husband of super lawyer and Dem
pol Phil Corboy, was another political hire. She did not really
practice law but simply practiced Chicago politics and drew a
salary at the same time. This is what they call the "Chicago
Way." Future leaders are not chosen on merit or strength of
character but are simply groomed and coopted as appartchniks of
the political machine.
My strong sense is that both Michele and Barack Obama are mere
empty creations of the Chicago political machine who advanced
through the ranks in order to support vested political and
economic interests. Who these vested interests were or what
back room deals were made, no one will ever know. Barack's
background as a "constitutional scholar" is widely acknowledged
a being a sham by the true constitutional lawyers and scholars
in Chicago. How can you be a constitutional scholar when
you have not written a single legal brief on the subject, given
a single meaningful scholarly lecture before
experts, published a peer-reviewed scholarly articles or
treatise? There is simply no "there, there" which is why BHO is
so lost when he goes off of teleprompter and seems to be so lost
for answers and fresh ideas or even rudimentary knowledge -- he
is simply the spokesman for these hidden interests and power
brokers who espouse a radical far left ideology and delivers the
same old tired leftist adages and buzz words. My measurement of
him is that is literally the living, breathing and tragically
elected "Chauncey Gardiner of the Left." (Remember the
scene where the power brokers at the end of the film "Being
There" were talking about raising Chance the gardener to the
office of the President).
Michelle Obama has been on
court ordered inactive status with the Illinois State Attorneys bar
from 1993, after only 4 years of practicing law. Many are curious
to know what did she did, or didn't do, to acquire this status.
Three classes of U. S. citizenship are currently identified on The
Obama File's Natural Born page.
These three classes are referenced in the US Constitution, applicable
case law, and US Code:
All
three are "citizens" of the United States of America. However, if
one looks at the logical cases, there appears to be a fourth class:
1. Parentage important AND birthplace important -- a "natural
born" citizen is any person born of US citizen parents (that's two) in
the US mainland (includes Alaska and Hawaii) -- think Ronal Reagan.
2. Parentage not important AND birthplace
important -- a "native born" citizen is any person born in the US
mainland (includes Alaska and Hawaii) -- one or both of the parents may
be foreign nationals -- think Barack Obama.
3. Parentage
not important AND birthplace not
important -- a "naturalized" citizen is a citizen as the result of a
process -- think Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Given that, what is the
proper name and classification for the following case:
4.
Parentage important AND birthplace not important -- a
"foreign born" citizen is any person born of US citizen parents (that's
two) on foreign soil -- think John McCain.
My question is, what
is the proper term for the 4th case, the citizen I'm identifying as
"foreign born" -- the McCain example -- and what law applies?
Please, only serious responses to: beckwith
at theobamafile
dot com -- in proper form, of
course -- the email address is
spelled out to avoid web crawlers.
Note: John McCain was not
born in the mainland US or on a US military/naval base. John
Sidney McCain III was born at the Colon Hospital, located at Avenida
Melendez and 2nd Street, Manzanillo Island, City of Colon, Republic of
Panama. The time of birth on the
birth certificate issued by Panama Railroad Company (which owned the
Colon Hospital) was 5:25 PM and the day and date of birth was Saturday,
August 29, 1936.
Please -- I love you all, but this is not an
invitation to a discussion, or a rehash of what has been on this site
for more than a year. I am only interested in a direct answer to a
direct question, and the documentation to support it.
There are well meaning folks that are sending me stuff that has nothing
to do with my inquiry. I know they are well intended, but I am
just deleting the emails that contain anything but a direct answer to
the direct question I am asking.
So, please, save your
time -- and mine.
I will post
what I find out at a later date -- stay tuned!
Natural Born
2/8/10
Downfall
Obama and the Senate (03:49) --
language
Not Archived
2/7/10
Don't Mess With Obama
The New York Times is
reporting that a journalist who wrote an article on Monday has left
the wire service. A Reuters spokeswoman declined to say whether
the journalist, Terri Cullen, left voluntarily, or why. "I can't
really go into any detail," said the spokeswoman, Courtney Dolan.
Ms. Cullen stepped down less than a month after being hired for the
newly created position of wealth management editor. She had worked
for more than a decade for The Wall Street Journal Online.
Her
article said that Obama’s budget amounted to a backdoor tax increase for
middle-income and even lower-income people, based largely on the
scheduled expiration of income tax cuts passed in 2001, but the gang at
the White House insisted that Obama had actually proposed keeping those
cuts in place for all but high-income families.
After a complaint
from the White House, Reuters caved, and withdrew the article, stating
that it was inaccurate.
Inaccurate? Really?
The
Hill blog is running an article, "President Obama’s budget seeks an end
to tax break for the middle class," that
begins: Grappling to contain record deficits, Barack Obama is
seeking to end a middle-class tax break he once said would be permanent.
The $3.8 trillion budget request rolled out by the White House on
Monday would renew the Making Work Pay tax credit for fiscal 2011, but
then would have it sunset. That’s a switch from last year, when
Obama’s budget called for making the tax credit permanent.
Where to begin? Lets'
start here:
"Obama had actually proposed keeping those cuts in
place for all but high-income families" -- hey, gang, a proposal is only
that -- a proposal. Try taking one to the bank and cashing it.
But, far more important is the fact that, once again, Obama and his
henchmen didn't hesitate to pressure Reuters, and now Obama can add one
more to his legions of unemployed.
Free speech is a wonderful
thing -- but not in ObamaWorld.
Intimidation
2/7/10
The Constitutional Law Professor
During the presidential campaign, Obama consistently and falsely
claimed
that he was a constitutional law professor. The Sun-Times reported
that, "several direct-mail pieces issued for Obama's primary [Senate]
campaign said he was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He
was not. He was a senior lecturer at the school. In academia, there is
a vast difference between the two titles.
As a "constitutional
law instructor," Obama has been quoted as saying that the Constitution
of the United States is a flawed document.
Jim O'Neill
noticed
that in his State of the Union address, our constitutional scholar
stated that "We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the
promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we are all
created equal…."
There’s a problem here, however. It turns
out that "the notion that we are all created equal" is not "enshrined in
our Constitution" -- it’s from the Declaration of Independence.
This
mistaken attribution is an understandable faux pas for your average
person, but Obama’s supposed to be a Harvard-trained constitutional
lawyer. It doesn’t say much for Harvard Law School, or Obama’s
grasp of the Constitution, when he confuses the U.S. Constitution with
the Declaration of Independence.
These guys are so picky. It
was obviously an error on the part of
TOTUS.
Gaffes
2/7/10
Tres Bizarre!
"Buried in an Obama t-shirt" (01:34)
In case you didn't clearly hear Obama, he said,
"She insisted she is going to be buried in an Obama T-shirt."
Yup! He really did.
Obama told the friendly crowd that the dead woman had no health
insurance. What Obama didn't tell you is that the
woman, Melanie Shouse, a health care activist, did in fact have
insurance -- she had a catastrophic policy with a $5,000 deductible.
Four years ago, she chose not to pay for a routine exam and a
mammogram, despite feeling a lump in her breast at age 37. Shouse began feeling ill.
She
said couldn't afford a doctor because she and her partner had just used their
savings
to open a business.
"When I first noticed a small lump on my
breast, denial seemed the only option," Ms. Shouse
told the the official
newspaper of the Communist Party USA, "The People's World."
At Powerline blog, A reader
adds:
"This has really become a farce. Can you imagine even a rock star
saying something along those lines -- 'and she was buried in one of our
concert tees' -- I would only expect to see that in some scene from This
Is Spinal Tap."
And one final note: Ms. Shouse actually
requested that her body be cremated wearing her Obama T-shirt.
Obama has
some interesting friends and
supporters. Every time you turn around, up pops more
Communists.
Not Archived
2/7/10
Democrats Abandoning Obama
Kasie Hunt is
reporting that New York politicians were able to kick the Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed trial out of Manhattan, but it’s becoming increasingly
clear that not a single member of Congress wants the trial held in their
home town either.
A growing coalition of lawmakers are saying
"not in my back yard" to the terrorism trial, as even the most loyal
Democrats are moving to block funding for any civilian trials. The
pushback may represent yet another congressional rebellion against a
high profile Obama White House terrorism decision, proving that even a
persuasive Obama can’t overcome the power of local politics.
"We’re going to do everything we can to make sure they don’t point at
western Pennsylvania as a possible venue," said Rep. Jason Altmire
(D-Pa.). "We are all united, going to voice our opinion, both at
the state level and at the congressional level."
These politics
are playing out in several regions around the country, from western
Pennsylvania to northern Virginia and other potential locations for a
9/11 trial. The National Republican Congressional Committee plans
to use the issue to target Democratic representatives Bill Foster and
Debbie Halvorson in Illinois, Scott Murphy and Michael McMahon in New
York, and Kathy Dahlkemper in Pennsylvania.
Virginia Sen. Jim
Webb is leading Democrats' charge against the trials in the Senate.
Webb favors military commissions, and he says Virginia lawmakers will be
opposed to having a civilian trial in Alexandria.
Pennsylvania
Governor Ed Rendell is not opposing the trials "out of hand," his
spokesman said, but "he would want an explanation as to why it’s any
safer in western Pennsylvania than it is in New York City."
Obama is also going to face louder calls to move the trials out of the
U.S. entirely. Democratic senators had an "intense discussion"
about the administration’s Guantanamo Bay policies during a policy lunch
Tuesday, one senator said.
Eighteen senators -- including two
Democrats -- have signed on to legislation backed by Sen. Lindsey Graham
(R-S.C.) to strip funding for civilian trials for the accused 9/11
conspirators. Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) will introduce a companion
bill in the House.
"I believe these individuals are war
criminals and that their alleged evils against our country warrant their
trials in military courts," said Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), who is
facing a tough reelection battle this year. "Trying these
conspirators in civilian court is giving them a public stage to advocate
their cause."
Obama knows he has a problem, but still seems
committed to finding a location for a federal trial.
"We've
tried a lot of terrorists in our courts; we have them in our federal
prisons; they've never escaped. And these folks are no different.
It's been one of those things that's been subject to a lot of, in some
cases, pretty rank politics," Obama said in an interview Monday on
YouTube.
But the longer the local fights drag out, the more
problematic the issue will be for Democrats in November.
Terrorism
2/6/10
Good News!
NewsMax.com is reporting that after insisting for a year that
failure was not an option, Barack Obama is now acknowledging his
healthcare overhaul may die in Congress.
His tone at a Democratic
National Committee fundraiser Thursday night verged at times on
defeatist. Even while saying he still wanted to get the job done,
Obama bowed to new political realities. Democrats no longer
command a filibuster-proof Senate majority, and voters and lawmakers are
far more concerned with jobs and the economy than with enacting sweeping
and expensive changes to the health system.
"I think it's very
important for us to have a methodical, open process over the next
several weeks, and then let's go ahead and make a decision," Obama said
Thursday night.
"And it may be that ... if Congress decides we're
not going to do it, even after all the facts are laid out, all the
options are clear, then the American people can make a judgment as to
whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not," Obama
said. "And that's how democracy works. There will be
elections coming up and they'll be able to make a determination and
register their concerns one way or the other during election time."
This guy is
amazing. He's been pushing ObamaCare 24/7/365, and now that it's
going into the dumpah -- as it should -- Obama is putting the loss at
Congress' feet by saying, "the American people can make a judgment as to
whether this Congress has done the right thing for them or not."
I got a clue for Obama, the American people can also make a judgment as
to whether he has done the right thing for them or not.
The Honorable Barack H. Obama President
of the United States White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr. President,
During my tenure
on the Senate Intelligence Committee, I have worked with the Executive
Branch to stem the disclosure of sensitive information. In 2006,
for example, I introduced legislation that would aid the Executive
Branch in prosecuting individuals engaged in leaks of classified
information. In the realm of national security, sometimes it is
necessary to withhold critical information from the public that may be
used by our enemies to harm the American people.
Accordingly, I
am deeply disturbed with the official handling of vital national
security information regarding the recent cooperation by the Christmas
Day bomber Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab.
On Monday afternoon, the leadership of the Senate Intelligence Committee
received notification from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
concerning Abdulmutallab’s recent willingness to provide critical
information. FBI officials stressed the importance of not
disclosing the fact of his cooperation in order to protect on-going and
follow-on operations to neutralize additional threats to the American
public; FBI Director Bob Mueller personally stressed to me that keeping
the fact of his cooperation quiet was vital to preventing future attacks
against the United States. Handling this information in such a
sensitive manner struck me as entirely appropriate.
Twenty-four
hours later, however, White House staff assembled members of the media
to announce Abdulmutallab’s cooperation and to laud the events that led
to his decision to cooperate with law enforcement personnel. This
information immediately hit the air waves globally and, no doubt,
reached the ears of our enemies abroad.
At the Senate
Intelligence Committee’s Annual World Wide Threats Hearing Tuesday, the
Director of National Intelligence, the FBI Director, the Director of the
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Director of the Defense
Intelligence Agency all stated they believe terrorists will attempt
another attack on America within the next few months. I cannot
understand, Mr. President, why the sudden cooperation by Abdulmutallab
would be broadcast publicly to the media in detail when your
intelligence chiefs are unanimously warning that another attack on our
country is imminent. The release of this sensitive information has
no doubt been helpful to his terrorist cohorts around the world.
It is deeply disturbing to me that the Intelligence Committee would
be advised of sensitive information, and told of the vital imperative to
keep such information secret for the sake of national security, only to
see this information -- less than twenty-four hours later -- broadcast
to the world from the White House. This distortion of the
congressional notification process suggests that other considerations
are taking precedence over keeping timely and sensitive information away
from our enemies.
Some have tried to use Abdulmutallab’s sudden
cooperation as a justification for prosecuting this foreign terrorist in
an Article III court, but I believe this development supports an
opposing view. Because we treated him in this fashion, we followed
Miranda and advised him of his right to remain silent, losing five
crucial weeks for obtaining imminent threat information. Miranda
is issued when statements from the accused are needed to obtain a
conviction, but in this case we did not need his own statements as the
chemical evidence he was wearing and over 200 witnesses would ably
suffice; hence, the decision to mirandize made no sense on a practical
or strategic level. Additionally, Abdulmutallab’s family was key
in gaining his cooperation, and in most cases the suicide bomber does
not have a moderate Islamic family willing to work with the United
States; in fact, the opposite is most often the case (as with the
suicide bomber that killed seven CIA officers in Khost, whose wife
applauded her husband’s actions).
I urge you, Mr. President, to
consider the consequences of publicly disseminating sensitive
information vital to the defense of the American people. I do not
believe the American people want this information jeopardized to further
political arguments. The American people rightfully expect the
government’s first priority to be their security. It is also
critical that our courageous law enforcement and intelligence
professionals know that they can trust that sensitive information vital
to their efforts to protect the American people will not be disclosed.
Sincerely,
Christopher S. Bond United States Senator
Terrorism
2/6/10
Obama Says Anything -- And Does So, Again and Again
Hugh Hewitt
says said the caller from Atlanta said, "I have seen more of
President Obama than I have of my wife, and I'm a newlywed."
Funny. And true. And sad. Stung by his defeat in
Massachusetts after a personal appearance on behalf of Martha Coakley
and a long speech telling Massachusetts voters why they had to send her
to Washington, Obama seems intent on punishing the entire nation with
speech after speech after speech.
We are to be cajoled into
submission.
It isn’t working. "He talks and talks," Mark
Steyn said on my show Thursday. "And the more his rhetoric is
detached from reality, the more he’s actually devaluing his only
currency which is words."
Obama’s meeting with Senate Democrats
on Wednesday is the perfect example of the political cul-de-sac he finds
himself in. He is trying to use words to change the political
weather, but the more he speaks, the more ridiculous his arguments
appear.
He told the senators that "they needed to get out there,
get out of Washington, out of the echo chamber." This is laughable
when this past August is recalled. Democrats went home to their
states and districts and found town halls jammed with ObamaCare
opponents. Then Obama urged them to disregard the voters.
They did so, and their political peril is palpable. Now he is
telling them to hold more town halls.
That’s not amazing as
Obama’s rewrite of budget history, which somehow ignores that the budget
deficit was $161 billion in 2007 and now stands at $1.6 trillion, a
staggering number that is spooking markets. "We’ve also got to get
back to fiscal responsibility," he told the senators, and the listeners
outside the room howled. Not only is Obama not persuading the
public of his ideas or his leadership skills, he is shrinking before
their very eyes. It is a poor impersonation of Jon Lovitz, with
Obama thinking, "that’s the ticket!" with every paragraph he utters.
Obama does seem to realize that blaming President Bush, which was
never very presidential to begin with, has become almost a sign of
adolescence. He is thus pivoting from blaming his predecessor to
blaming the Congressional GOP. Obama told the senators that they
had had to face more filibusters in a single year than all of the
filibusters of the 1950s and 1960s combined, and blamed the Republicans
for obstructionism. Of course this is nonsense. Not a single
successful partisan filibuster was mounted in 2009, which is not
surprising because after Arlen Specter’s switch, the GOP totaled 40
votes. A handful of Obama nominees languished because significant
numbers of Democrats joined Republicans in opposing them, but the idea
that obstructionism prevailed throughout 2009 is risible, and Obama who
claims 60 votes is just not enough is risible as well.
The
entire meeting was comedy though it was intended as drama, and Obama
left thinking he’d had another great day, just as he thinks he won his
debate with Republicans the Friday before.
While Obama pats
himself on the back, however, the unemployment numbers climbed, the
budget deficit shocked, the markets tanked and Iran threatened.
Obama is in a bubble of words and surrounded by "advisors" who are
clearly overmatched by the world. Even Republicans have to hope a
shuffle is ahead for the senior staff, and that some experienced
leadership is brought to 1600. The country is in a difficult
place, and unlike a debate tournament, losing a few rounds has enormous
consequences.
We have to hope that Obama recognizes that his
speech offensive has become offensive, and that what really needs to be
done is some work. Beginning with a red pen and his absurd budget.
When he asks his party to do anything remotely difficult --and that does
not include demanding ruinous taxes on the small businesses they so
obviously disdain and in some cases despise-- people may begin to listen
again.
Or perhaps not. Obama may already be in reruns in
most voters minds, which makes for a long three years ahead.
Not Archived
2/6/10
Two Faced
Ron Russell
says
we've all heard the expression, "a mirror image." Most think the
image and the reflection are the same when in reality -- they are
opposites.
What we saw and heard from Obama on the campaign
trail was one thing (the mirror image), and what we are getting now is
the true Obama. A far left politician with an almost alien agenda.
He simply wants to change American into his personal vision of what he
thinks America should be. His ideals come from years of influence
by people who believe that capitalism is an evil and corrupt system.
He is using the economic downturn, which is a normal part of a free
market system, to advance his agenda. An agenda not of the
European socialist kind, but one far more radical and foreign to the
traditional American system. This is a power grab that puts the
efforts of Hugo Chavez to shame. Its beginning to take shape and
some see the looming danger it presents while others stand in awe
waiting for the next words of the great orator.
Obamunism
2/6/10
Zeituni's Can Kicked Down The Road
Sweetness & Light
comments on a Boston Globe
report of an immigration hearing that could lead to the deportation
of Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango,
ended today without a decision being issued. Onyango has been
living in Boston and has been under a deportation order since 2004 when
her request for asylum was denied by a US Immigration Court judge.
Actually, Ms. Onyango was first ordered to be deported in 2003,
according to another Boston Globe article.
She appealed that
order in a closed-door hearing at the John F. Kennedy Building in
downtown Boston, testifying for about three hours yesterday.
Onyango, who leaned on a cane as she moved around
the building, did not speak with reporters. Neither her attorney,
Margaret Wong, nor Wong’s spokeswoman, Amy Cohn, would discuss her
testimony. Wong said Obama has not submitted any letter on behalf
of his aunt.
At the White House today, spokesman Robert Gibbs
said Obama is staying out of the matter. Obama learned about his
aunt’s legal plight in 2008 during his campaign, Gibbs said. "We said
then and we would continue to say that everybody in this country should
and must follow the law," he said, according to a transcript supplied by
the White House. "We have not been involved at all in that
hearing, and we’ll let the law play out as it should."
The
aunt’s legal team said they were calling two medical doctors as
witnesses. They identified the doctors as Dr. David Stone and Dr.
Robert Weiss. Stone, they said, is Onyango’s personal physician.
They declined to identify Weiss’s medical specialty or hospital
affiliation. "The doctors are here in relation to her medical
condition, but that’s not every aspect of the case," Cohn said…
Why is this hearing being held behind closed doors? That is not
the convention. Is national security involved? And why has
Ms. Onyango’s case taken so long to decide? She has been ordered
to be deported twice; first in 2003, and then in 2004. And, lest
we forget, her deportation hearing was postponed from April of last year
until yesterday. And now the decision has been postponed again.
Meanwhile, in the past seven years nothing whatsoever has occurred
to change the circumstances of the case. Certainly the political
situation in Kenya is no worse now, since one of her relatives, Raila
Odinga, is the current Kenyan Prime Minister. No, all that has
changed is that Ms. Onyango has added to her list of illegal acts.
Which include an illegal $260 contribution to her nephew's presidential
campaign.
She has also continued to bilk the US taxpayers out of
money for public housing as well as expensive operations and, of course,
for her immigration lawyers.
As the article suggests, Ms.
Onyango’s attorneys are now claiming that her medical condition prevents
her from returning to her native Kenya. In fact, her lawyers now
claim that Ms. Onyango cannot walk. Indeed, her taxpayer supplied
attorney, Ms. Margaret Wong claims, "she has to go in a wheelchair but
because of her pride she tries to give the impression that she can
walk."
We have to say, it’s a mighty convincing "impression."
Besides, nobody is saying she has to walk back to Kenya.
The American taxpayer has been
paying for this parasite's existence for ten years, including that nice
outfit she's wearing in the photo.
We'll all be dead from
old age before they deport this serial lawbreaker. In the meantime
she will continue to receive free housing, free money, free medical, and
free legal -- is America a great country, or what?
It would be
interesting to know if she is registered to vote.
