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• Hate Crime? Love to see it Tri

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    Prof busted in Columbia gal 'punch'

    The New York times today, has a piece about a Columbia professor that punched a woman, a fellow employee, during an argument about race.

    The professor, who is black, had been engaged in a fiery discussion about "white privilege" with Davis, who is white, and another male regular, who is also white, Friday night at 10:30 when fists started flying, patrons said.

    The punch was so loud, the kitchen workers in the back heard it over all the noise," bar back Richie Velez, 28, told The Post. "I was on my way over when he punched Camille and she fell on top of me."

    The other patron involved in the dispute said McIntyre then took a swing at him after he yelled, "You don't hit a woman!"

    "He knocked the glasses right off my face," said the man, who would only give his first name as "Shannon." "The punch came out of nowhere. Mac was talking to us about white privilege and what I was doing about it -- apparently I wasn't doing enough."

    McIntyre had squabbled with Davis several weeks earlier over issues involving race, witnesses said. As soon as the professor threw the punch Friday, server Rob Dalton and another employee tossed him out.

    "It was a real sucker punch," Dalton said. "Camille's a great lady, always nice to everybody, and doesn't deserve anything like this."

    Davis was spotted wearing sunglasses yesterday to conceal the black eye. Reached at her Columbia office, she declined to comment on the alleged attack.

    McIntyre was released without bail at his arraignment last night.

    "It was a very unfortunate event," he said afterwards. "I didn't mean for it to explode the way it did."

    
    
    So, sounds to me as though someone has a chip on their shoulder about white people.

    So, what do you think? Hate Crime? Love to see it tried that way.  
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• Obama’s Newest Racemongering J

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    President Obama has gone out of his way to "diversify" the federal bench with his spate of nominations of various minorities chief of which was his successful seating of the "wise Latina,' Sonia Sotomayor, on the Supreme Court. Obama's nominees* for 10 district court openings include four African-Americans, three Asian-Americans, one Latino and four women. One of those nominees, San Francisco U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward Chen, received a favorable vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington today.
    

    So what sort of judge is Edward Chen? Well, for one, the left-wing American Bar Association rated Chen a "well qualified" nominee and many of his associates at the ACLU speak highly of him. As an ACLU lawyer, Chen was known for opposing English-only policies and for pushing discriminatory affirmative action ideals. He even came to the aid of gang members in one case. Chen was quite the ACLU activist between 1979 and 2001.
    

    His ACLU history would suffice to make many wary of him, of course. But for a segment of America, working for the ACLU is not a disqualifier. So in order to judge Edward Chen one must look at his past. Discovering what Judge Chen thinks of the country upon which he apparently assumes to sit in judgment is a telling exercise. Sadly, it seems he has quite a low opinion of the nation that he will be serving.
    

    One hint at Judge Chen's feelings about our nation can be seen from his appearance at the 2005 graduation ceremony at the Hastings Public Interest Law Foundation. There, Chen wondered aloud if American patriotism was justified. Chen told the crowd of his, "feelings of ambivalence and cynicism when confronted with appeals to patriotism -- sometimes I cannot help but feel that there are too much [sic] injustice and too many inequalities that prevent far too many Americans from enjoying the beauty extolled in that anthem." Apparently, Chen feels that America is too racist to justify anyone feeling patriotism for her.
    

    In fact, racism seems to be one of Chen's major concerns and he sees it everywhere. Immediately after the attacks on 9, 11, 2001 Chen's first thoughts were about racism but not that of the Arabs that sent over three thousand Americans to their deaths. No, as soon as Chen learned of the attacks of 9/11 Chen's first worry was that white Americans were going to use their racism to justify racist attacks on Muslims and anyone else that got in their way.
    

    Only ten days after 9/11 occurred, Chen remarked that he imagined that America would revert to the "irresistible forces of racism, nativism and scapegoating" of the past and begin systematic oppression of American Muslims. Later he likened America's post 9/11 military and security policies to the climate that led up to Japanese interment during WWII. In fact, he seemed to imagine that "a thousand Americans" were being swept up and held in secret prisons right after 9/11.
    

    In a speech given at the Operation Protect and Defend dinner on May 4, 2006, Judge Chen referred to "secret surveillance of Americans without a judicial warrant, secret no fly lists, [and] secret detention of nearly a thousand American residents held without charges." Naturally, he offered no proof of this wholesale but secret detention of Americans.
    

    Chen also saw racism in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, as well. Chen charged that the reason that New Orleans had so much trouble after the storms passed was because the inhabitants of the Crescent City were black. "Institutionalized racism" caused the federal government's supposedly slow response to the crisis there, Chen said. At the Diversity Celebration of the California State Bar Convention in 2005, Chen asked the audience, "Would the response have been different had the majority of victims been white and middle class rather than poor and black? Would the response have been quicker had it been Kennebunkport instead of New Orleans?"
    

    Racism again came to vex Chen's overactive imagination in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shootings perpetrated by an Asian man. Chen's fevered imagination dreamed up images of Asian men being discriminated against all across the country because of the actions of one mentally unstable nut. In comments before the Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education Conference, Chen worried that Asians would be the "subject of a racial backlash, victimized" by hate crime.
    

    It is apparent that Edward Chen does not find much to celebrate about the United States. The whole country is so filled with "injustice" and "inequalities" that only a crusading judge can right the wrongs.
    

    Now, what of his judicial standards? What sort of philosophy does Chen employ on the bench? Is it a strict standard of reading at law, or is he one of those sorts of judicial activists that uses the law to spread his own particular philosophy of social justice? Sadly, it appears to be the later. At least one can be excused to think this from a 2003 article Chen wrote entitled “The Judiciary, Diversity, and Justice For All” published in the California Law Review.
    

    "...diversity enhances the quality of decision-making. . . . judges have to make determinations that draw not so much upon legal acumen, but on an understanding of people and of human experiences. Such experiences inform assumptions that affect legal decisions. At trial and in evidentiary hearings, judges have to assess the credibility of witnesses. A witness’ testimony may seem more credible if it is consistent with the judge’s knowledge or experience, and, conversely, less credible if it remains outside the judge’s experience. . . . Simply put, a judge’s life experiences affect the willingness to credit testimony or understand the human impact of legal rules upon which the judge must decide. These determinations require a judge to draw upon something that is not found in the case reports that line the walls of our chambers. Rather judges draw upon the breadth and depth of their own life experience, upon the knowledge and understanding of people, and of human nature. And inevitably, one’s ethnic and racial background contributes to those life experiences."
    

    Of course, this attitude seems to register well with Obama's views of "judicial empathy." In this view the law is heavily influenced by the judge's "feelings" and those feelings are at least as important as the written law. This also matches well with Sotomayor's ideas that her status as a Latina made her more qualified than an old white man to be a judge. For Obama's judges, experiences and feelings trump the Constitution and the law and these experiences and feelings should be used as a basis to adjudicate the cases that come before them.
    

    In Chen's case we can see that the main influence on his judicial philosophy is an inordinate fear of racism. He sees it under his bed, in his closet, in the faces of everyone he meets. With this penchant in mind, can Chen honestly, dispassionately, and seriously serve effectively as a federal judge? One cannot help but wonder if his preoccupation with envisioning racism in every situation makes Judge Chen ill-suited for the federal bench where a dispassionate mien is required. It is easy to see that his constant resorting to charges of racism will likely color every decision he delivers.
    

    Judge Chen will bring "diversity" to the bench as President Obama wants certainly. But will he also bring divisiveness and a desire to get even with all the racism he sees where ever he looks? His record hints that he just might.
    

    *The 10 nominees mentioned above are as follows:

    
    

    Two African-American circuit nominees, highly regarded sitting district judges Andre Davis and Joseph Greenaway, earned well-qualified American Bar Association ratings, the organization's highest ranking. The third, well-respected Rhode Island Superior Court Associate Justice O. Rogeriee Thompson, was nominated last week and has yet to receive an ABA ranking. The four Asian-American nominees would increase by 36% the number of Asian-American judges. They include Southern District of New York Judge Denny Chin, who would be the first Asian-American judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2d Circuit; California Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Nguyen, who would be the first Vietnamese-American district judge; and Magistrate Judge Edward Chen, who would be the first Asian-American member of the Northern District of California. Both Nguyen and Chen earned well-qualified ABA ratings, while the ABA has not yet ranked Chin.

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• D)emocrats continue the hate c

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    As a followup on Grayson's comments :

    ...don't look for Speaker Pelosi to scold this liberal representative for his awful and dishonest hate speech.
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    Leftist hero Alan Grayson now is comparing the GOP health care plan to the Holocaust and 9-11.

    Gateway Pundit : Pelosi Condones Rep. Grayson's Nazi Smear of Conservatives

    Unpopular far left Speaker Nancy Pelosi told reporters today that there is no need for Rep. Alan Grayson to apologize to GOP members of the house for smearing conservatives and comparing them to nazis.

    Ace : Speaking of Elevating the Debate and Not Inciting Violence: By the Way, Republicans Literally Want You Dead

    Ed Shultz claimed this a week or so ago. A host on MSNBC.
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    Representative "Teacups" Grayson of Florida stated that the Republican healthcare plan consisted of, mainly, "DIE QUICKLY." And he's not apologizing.
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    "Green Jobs Czar" Van Jones, supposedly a respected and respectable voice on the left, so respectable, in fact, he was part of Obama's unofficial cabinet of czars, was recently instructing black folks that "white power companies" are literally pumping their communities with poison in order to kill them.

    Jay Nordlinger : ‘O Ye of Little Memory’

    Howard Dean, on the eve of becoming chairman of the Democratic National Committee, said, “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for. This is a struggle of good and evil. And we’re the good.”
    
    Former senator John Glenn said of Republican campaign rhetoric, “It’s the old Hitler business.” Julian Bond, as chairman of the NAACP, said of the Bush administration, “Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by side.” Rep. Keith Ellison, Democrat of Minnesota, compared 9/11 to the Reichstag fire.
    
    Presidential assassination? On Bill Maher’s show, Sen. John Kerry joked about killing Bush. (“I could have gone to 1600 Pennsylvania and killed the real bird with one stone.”) A New York Democrat, Alan Hevesi, spoke to graduating students at Queens College. He said that his fellow New York Democrat, Chuck Schumer, would “put a bullet between the president’s eyes if he could get away with it.” Happy Graduation!
    
    A CBS talk-show host, Craig Kilborn, showed Bush giving a speech, and he put on the screen the words “SNIPERS WANTED.” This was CBS, mind you, not a video made by a sicko in his basement.
    
    Betty Williams is an Irishwoman who won the Nobel Peace Prize. She said, “I have a very hard time with this word ‘non-violence,’ because I don’t believe that I am non-violent. . . . Right now, I would love to kill George Bush.”
    
    Garrison Keillor, that lovable government-radio scamp, described the Republicans as follows:

    . . . the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous.

    I ask readers to bear something in mind: People who have said rotten or extremist or threatening things about President Obama are ordinary rabble, as far as I know — members of the Great Unwashed. The people Victor Hanson and I are talking about, who expressed hate-Bush or kill-Bush sentiments: They are political, literary, or media leaders. That makes a tiny bit of difference, don’t you think?

    Jay Nordlinger : Further Down Memory Lane

    ...a gem courtesy of Rep. William Clay, Democrat of Missouri. Speaking before the AFL-CIO, he said that the Reagan administration was trying to replace “the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.”...

    Victor Davis Hanson : O Ye of Little Memory

    ...the sudden liberal worry that conservatives in general have gone over the line in legitimate opposition to Obama’s rather radical agenda is not only unfair but amnesiac — given that not long ago any means were deemed tolerable for the noble ends of destroying George Bush — not defeating him — but destroying his character entirely.
    
    We all recall the Nazi/brownshirts outbursts by Gore, Soros, Byrd, etc., the Aflred Knopf novel Checkpoint about killing Bush, or the Toronto Film Festival award-winning docu-drama about killing Bush — but perhaps we forget there was no outrage from the Democratic congress or the New York Times at all that and worse. In addition, we may have forgotten the New York play I’m Gonna Kill the President or the creepy Guardian column by Charles Brooker published on the eve of the 2004 election:

    The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. — where are you now that we need you?

    At about the same time, one Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was tried and convicted, inter alia, for planning to kill George Bush.
    
    I end with the first paragraph of Mr. Chait's 2004 repulsive New Republic article to remind us of the infantilism (and hatred) of the times...
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    ...many continue to believe it was a noble thing to vilify (and worse) Bush and it is a sin to criticize Obama. In other words, ends justify means, and sophisticated, murderous hatred in novels, films, plays, and op-eds is to be judged differently from Tea Party and town-hall middle-class anger.

    Ace : Aging Hippie Douchebag: Let Republicans Die Off to Pay for "Health Care Reform"

    Home-spun humor. Hah hahah ... the wit.

    ...one starts to wonder if the country wouldn't be better off without them and if Republicans should be cut out of the health-care system entirely and simply provided with aspirin and hand sanitizer. Thirty-two percent of the population identifies with the GOP, and if we cut off health care to them, we could probably pay off the deficit in short order.

    Keillor ends his old fart bitch rant with something about let the younger people take charge and shut up that's why.

    Gateway Pundit : Figures. Dems Line Up to See Michael Moore's Communist Propaganda Movie in DC

    Democratic leaders were lining up in DC last night to see the premeire of Michael Moore's latest communist propaganda film. Democrat Alan Grayson was able to attend the event after comparing Republicans to nazis for not supporting nationalized health care.
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    Anti-capitalist millionaire Michael Moore says, "Capitalism did nothing for me."

    Remember the picture above featuring Shea-Porter(D) and fellow (D)emocrats? Well... she lied...
    
    Portsmouth PD: Shea-Porter was removed from Bush town hall by two police officers

    Two officers of the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Police Department removed Carol Shea-Porter and Susan Mayer from a February 2005 town hall event hosted by then-President George W. Bush at the request of the owner of the property, a spokesman for the Police Department tells NowHampshire.com.
    
    The revelation contradicts statements made by Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter as recently as this week that she was not removed from the event.
    
    “[T]here were no disruptions and no rudeness and I wasn’t removed. If it happened, don’t you think there would have been photos or video or news stories from that day? There aren’t because it didn’t happen,” Shea-Porter told the Portsmouth Herald this weekend.
    
    She has referred to participants in so-called taxpayer tea parties as “tea baggers” and refused to apologize when made aware of the sexual connotation of that phrase.
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    She recently criticized Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) for his outburst during a Joint Session of Congress. Republicans “were behaving in a way we never behave,” she told a supportive crowd at a recent Democratic picnic.
    
    “We sat there quietly and politely because that’s what we owe the President of the United States,” she added.
    
    Shea-Porter has made a series of incorrect and sometimes bizarre statements in recent weeks. She has stated, for example, “many of my constituents would love to wait in line for medical care.” And she justifies the House bill to overhaul America’s health care system by saying, “the Constitution did not cover everything.”

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• Obama = Mr. Do Nothing Coward

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    What excuse is there for Barack Hussein Obama to keep this second site for nuclear weapons production secret for 9 months? What excuse is there for Barack Hussein Obama to ignore the populist uprising in Iran and support the Mullahs in the face of this threat? What excuse is there for Barack Hussein Obama to allow Iran a free pass to announce their secret site at their convenience?
    
    And what is he going to do about it? Nancy Pelosi(D) tells us... they intend to do nothing.
    Pelosi On Iran

    "Iran's effort to conceal a major nuclear facility sends a clear signal that the regime has not worked in good faith to eliminate the threat of nuclear weapons in the Middle East and around the world.
    
    "One of the strongest pillars of America's national security is non-proliferation, and I commend President Obama for standing with fellow leaders to condemn this development and call on Iran to cooperate in our pursuit of a world free of weapons of mass destruction.
    
    "An Iran with nuclear weapons is simply unacceptable. It is a threat to the region, to the United States, and to our allies across the globe. Iran must take the necessary steps to demonstrate its willingness to live as a peaceful partner in the international community. And we must use the tools at our disposal — from diplomacy to sanctions — to stop Iran's march toward nuclear capability.

    Thats it... "the tools at our disposal", according to Nancy Pelosi are only "diplomacy to sanctions".

    Victor Davis Hanson : Obama’s Naïve Outreach

    I don’t think the so-called outreach to Russia — a state which has been much of the problem rather than any part of a solution with Iran — will help curb Iran’s nuclear ambition in the slightest. Iran will still try to cause trouble in Iraq and Afghanistan, and will acquire an atomic bomb soon unless it is stopped. And I don’t think Islamists inside the U.S. care a whit that Barack Obama is now president, except when noting their perception of a relaxation in our anti-terror efforts. And I especially don’t think China or Japan cares who is the American president, but will increasingly begin to call in geopolitical chits in exchange for financing our gargantuan and growing debt. In other words, some pretty tough actors are unimpressed by utopian hope and change, and are presently in the process of sizing us up to learn what are the new rules, if any.
    
    And if our outreach — talking to Chávez while snubbing Uribe and the Hondurans, a muffled response to the extradition of the Lockerbie terrorist to Libya, and talking with/sending videos to the Iranian regime — is supposed to pay dividends, I can’t imagine what they might be. Based on the recent unhinged performances at the U.N., I think it is easy to conclude that the anti-Americanism of Ahmadinejad, Chávez, and Qaddafi is some sort of brain disorder.

    The Real World

    Although Obama referred to the nuclear ambitions of both Iran and North Korea during the session, diplomatic maneuvering kept any mention of the two countries out of a resolution that the council unanimously approved. The omission prompted passionate criticism from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who will join Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Friday morning to decry Iran's newly disclosed facility.
    
    "How, before the eyes of the world, could we justify meeting without tackling them?" Sarkozy scolded Thursday, referring to Iran and North Korea. "We live in the real world, not a virtual world. And the real world expects us to take decisions."
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    Includes a second Iranian nuclear facility...

    Rich Lowry : 'Iran Reveals Existence of Second Uranium Enrichment Plant'

    President Obama will call attention to the existence of the underground facility in an early-morning statement to reporters here before the opening of the G-20 economic summit, and will say that Western intelligence agencies have been tracking the facility for years. U.S. officials said Obama decided to disclose the program's existence after learning that Iran had become aware that it was no longer a secret.
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    Should we be surprised?

    Rich Lowry : Obama: Iran's secret nuke facility 'inconsistent with a peaceful program'

    The prospect of stronger sanctions may depend on the Security Council's other two permanent members, Russia and China.

    If "stronger sanctions" depend on "Russia and China" then they won't happen. Why are we repeating the failures of the 17 UN resolutions over 12 years against Saddam Hussein?

    

    “The level of deception by the Iranian government, and the scale of what we believe is the breach of international commitments, will shock and anger the entire international community,” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said, standing on the other side of Mr. Obama. “The international community has no choice today but to draw a line in the sand.”

    Sure... now that Iran has two secret plants surrounded by Russian supplied anti-aircraft batteries, instead of power transmission lines, to enrich uranium when Iran is only allowed to buy uranium from Russia we need to draw a line in the sand... now?
    
    Gordon Brown vs. Iran

    Brown said Friday that the international community has no choice but to draw a line in the sand by demanding that Iran abide by United Nations resolutions and open the facility to inspections.

    Gordon Brown is on his way out... he's less popular in the UK then Bush is in the (D)emocrat party.
    
    Rich Lowry : Knew for More Than a Year

    Per NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, officials say it was U.S. intelligence that learned of the secret plant more than a year ago — before President Obama's election; Israel also knew about it, too. They most likely would not have gone public if Iran had not discovered that the U.S. was onto them and had it not notified the U.N.'s international inspection agency on Monday. By the way, Mitchell adds, the site is 30 kilometers outside of Qum, Iran’s holy city. That means that any military strike would be very difficult politically, because it would around huge reaction throughout the Muslim world. Also today, watch for Russian and Chinese reaction. Yes, they were notified of our intelligence this week, but their reaction is unknown.

    Yes... Qum will shield the Mullah's efforts... just as Barack Hussein Obama did and will continue to do so.
    
    Daniel Pipes reacts to The Corner

    "The only interesting thing is what the U.S. and others are prepared to do about it."

    That would be... nothing.

    John J. Miller : Surprise!

    Remember the central rationale of Obama's decision to cancel the missile-defense sites in the Czech Republic and Poland? It relied on new estimates of Iran's ability to build ballistic missiles. With today's news, it makes you wonder how reliable these estimates really are — and whether missile defense, given Iran's capacity to surprise, deserves a second look.

    And the CIA knows Holder will prosecute them if they don't tow the party line.
    
    Peter Brookes : Seven Things to Note on Iran

    An additional enrichment facility allows Iran to make more enriched uranium faster.
    ...
    If this facility is up and running, this means that previous estimates on when Iran could achieve a nuclear weapons breakout are now inaccurate.
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    A nuclear Iran is closer than we thought it was yesterday.

    Actually no... it is closer then Barack Hussein Obama would admit yesterday.

    This is another violation of Iran’s obligation under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which requires all members to declare all nuclear facilities and allow inspection. (Of course, Iran violated the NPT for some 20 years by not disclosing its nuclear program until it was exposed in 2003.)
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    It’s also very troubling that a supposed-civilian facility is located on a military base.
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    The Iran problem is getting worse — not better.

    Medvedev on Iran

    Iran as a state has a right to its own peaceful nuclear program. This is our clear position. That is what I said to Barack Obama yesterday.
    
    I do not believe sanctions are the best way to achieve results. Sanctions were used on a number of occasions against Iran but we have doubts about the results. Nevertheless when all instruments have been used and failed, one can use international legal sanctions. That is common…I think we should continue to promote positive incentives for Iran and at the same time push it to make all its programs transparent and open. Should we fail in that case, we'll consider other options.

    Sure... Putin's puppet wants to work up to meaningless sanctions.
    
    Amir Taheri : An Enriching Experience

    Tehran is confident that the "5+1" group (the five permanent U.N. Security Council members plus Germany) has accepted the Islamic Republic's nuclear program as a fait accompli. The issue is not even on the formal agenda of the talks. Iran has announced that from now on it will discuss its nuclear program only with the IAEA, and not with the 5+1 or with any other combination of powers.
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    The announcement about a second enrichment facility comes just days after another interesting revelation that went unnoticed in the Western media. That revelation came in a 5,000-word press release by Ali-Akbar Salehi, the new director of the Islamic Republic's Nuclear Project. (He was appointed last month after Ahmadinejad sacked the veteran director, Ghulam-Reza Aqazadeh, for supporting Mir-Hussein Mussavi in last June's presidential election.) Salehi stated that the Islamic Republic has acquired "a new generation of advanced and highly efficient centrifuges." He did not say where these centrifuges are located, how many are there, and when were they installed. Nor did he say why Iran is using its old and inefficient centrifuges in Natanz instead of the "new and advanced" ones he has mentioned. The only logical explanation is that they are being used in a secret and parallel program — and that means Iran may already have enriched enough uranium to make a few bombs.

    Iran Denies Plant Was Covert

    "If it was a covert plant, we would not have informed the (International Atomic Energy) Agency,"

    Informed the IAEA years after it's discovery by all the intelligence agencies in the US, UK, France and Israel...

    

    It was a pivotal moment in the presidential campaign, when Hillary Rodham Clinton branded Barack Obama as "naive" for suggesting he would meet with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea in his first year as president without any preconditions
    
    "I thought that was irresponsible and frankly naive," Clinton said after their July 2007 debate in South Carolina, adding that Obama gave an answer "I think he is regretting today."
    
    During his inaugural address, Obama maintained his outreach to Tehran, where President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has denied both the Holocaust and Israel's right to exist. In one of the most discussed passages of his speech, Obama said,
    
    To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history, but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
    
    Today, Obama spoke for a growing cadre of powerful nations — France, Britain, Germany and for the first time perhaps even Russia — in condemning Iran. Amid intelligence that Iran has kept a second nuclear facility, capable of producing 3,000 centrifuges, hidden from weapons inspectors for years, Obama warned that unless Iran acts immediately, punishment will be swift. "Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow," he said.

    Cliff May

    There is legislation in the House and Senate that has strong bipartisan support; it would impose “crippling sanctions” on the Islamist regime. Pass those bills. Impose those sanctions. At the very least, it sends the message that the Obama administration is serious when it says it would be “intolerable” to permit the acquisition of nuclear weapons by the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, a regime that for 30 years has preached and promised “Death to America!” while also expressing genocidal intent toward Israel.

    Michael Ledeen

    Obama, Sarkozy, and Brown are shocked. Except that they aren't. They've known about it for years. They only told us about it when the Iranians, having discovered that we knew what they were up to in Qom, told the IAEA. So what's all the faux garment rending and chest pounding about?
    
    Once the Iranians confessed, the West had a choice: Either we knew or we didn't. If we didn't, our intelligence agencies were even more incompetent than we thought. If we did, somebody might ask why we were pretending there was hope that the Iranian regime might eventually cooperate.
    
    In other words, they knew things were much worse than they were saying, and in order to avoid embarrassing questions, Western leaders feigned outrage and promised — yet again — to be tough.
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    There are still other facilities, including one at Parchin, about which some things are known, and yet another near the Afghan border, about which I am told we know much less. I doubt we know the full details of the Iranians' secret nuclear-weapons program. Quite obviously, Obama, Brown, and Sarkozy think it's a weapons program, not the civilian one the Iranians claim.
    
    Obama gave them until September — now — to come to terms with the West's demands. They didn't. But he's so eager to talk to them that when they promised to talk (all the while insisting that they would NEVER stop their nuclear program), he extended the deadline to December. You can be sure that the deadline is movable. Iran has been given even more time to assemble atomic bombs.
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    ...if Israel dares to send planes against these facilities, Brzezinski's going to shoot them down.
    
    Meanwhile, the president's diplomatic ire is not aimed at Iran, a tyrannical enemy. He's focused on Israel and Honduras. Two democratic allies.

    Victor Davis Hanson

    This is Iran’s answer to the Obama video peace offensive. This summer we kept quiet while thousands went into the streets of Tehran to protest brutality and a rigged election — just so that Obama’s much-heralded peace offensive, planned for October, could showcase his transnational diplomatic charisma. I think all that brilliance has just been preempted by the theocracy, which quite understandably concluded that Obama not only would not support democratic dissidents in the new “reset button” era, but was increasingly desperate, as the new anti-Bush, to obtain some sort of agreement with Iran by any means necessary.
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    The IAEA under previous head Mohamed ElBaradei became a disgraced, politicized organization whose first mission is to resonate with anti-American Western elites (note the Nobel Prize given ElBaradei and his failed agency in 2005), and whose second is to appease Muslim countries, on the theory that years ago democratic Israel got a bomb, so what’s the big deal if an autocratic Muslim country does the same? This is no exaggeration; it comes out of the mouth of ElBaradei himself and is often echoed by his supporters in the West.
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    We have no reliable intelligence agencies — none at all. For partisan purposes, they have leaked false information about both Iran and Iraq for years. During the political wars of the Bush era, they claimed that Iran was “years away” from obtaining the bomb — and anyone who doubted that dubious assessment was either unhinged or of questionable character. Do we remember the much-welcomed 2007 conclusion from the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran: “We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program”?
    
    That bombshell was cited for months as “proof” of neoconservative paranoia and warmongering over Iraq. In fact, over the last decade, we have seen a long series of politicized leaks from the CIA and politicized memoirs from former operatives designed to undermine the case against Iran. The result is that after endless assurances that there was no Iranian effort to get a bomb, it turns out that there has been one all the time, and it is now on the eve of coming to fruition. We should have an investigation to determine what, if anything, the authors of the 2007 assessment knew about the recently disclosed “second” facility.
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    Russia and China — the former recently appeased by the missile deal, the latter recently rebuffed with the tire tariff — are flush with cash and enjoy the notion that Iran bothers us more than it does them; they have not yet been hope-and-changed into helping Obama with his grand vision on the grounds that he is not Bush. Some look at our president and see a messiah; these two see a rookie in charge of a now-bankrupt country with $2-trillion-a-year deficits that is unsure what to do in two wars and in dire need of both imported oil and trillions in cash.
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    Britain’s past appeasement of the sailor-kidnapping Iranians, and its recent oil-prompted release to Libya of the Lockerbie murderer, will not create much worry in Tehran about British sanctions.
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    ...there is nothing the international community can or will do about Iran’s road to a small arsenal of nukes.
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    We are no longer really an ally of Israel. Most of this administration’s efforts in the Mideast have consisted of pressuring Israel in unilateral fashion. We are reaching out to Syria, the West Bank, and the Muslim world in general, while warning democratic Israel not to do a litany of things. The only mystery now is how far the estrangement extends. In that regard, Zbigniew Brzezinski’s recent suggestion that we might shoot down Israeli planes on the way to Iran as they passed over Iraq is not as lunatic as it would have seemed last year

    Video : Ahmadinejad Responds, Says There's 'No Secrecy'
    
    CNN : Obama Shares Iran Intel With Russia, China

    President Obama recently shared sensitive intelligence with Russia and China about Iran's newly unveiled nuclear facility to get the two countries' leaders on board with new sanctions against Tehran, senior U.S. officials revealed Friday.
    
    And the strategy to build a coalition with Russia and China "has already begun to bear fruit," one senior U.S. official said

    CNN may as well be taking it's marching orders from Iran too...
    
    'Big Media Schmoozes With Wacky World Leaders

    First the Washington Post and Newsweek got up close and personal with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who appeared “relaxed and confident” and “bantered” with journalists hours before his virulent attack on Israel, capitalism, and the US before the General Assembly. He assured reporters that Iran had no interest whatsoever in acquiring nuclear weapons, called it a “hilarious” misunderstanding, and, to show his sincerity, offered to let the country’s nuclear experts meet with counterparts from the West.

    Clinton: 'We're Going To Take It One Day At A Time'

    "Well, Arshad, we’re going to take it one day at a time. This is an unfolding narrative. As more and more information is shared with the world, as the comments made by Ahmadinejad during his recent appearance, and both before and since illustrate attitudes and approaches that are really at variance with almost universal principles and understanding of historical reality. So we are going to wait and see what Iran says when the meeting is held on October 1st."

    So... nothing. They are going to talk.
    
    Jamie M. Fly : Opposition, Not Engagement

    This is the third time that Iran has been caught trying to hide covert nuclear activity.
    ...
    Asking the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to investigate the site will likely serve to only drag out this episode. Iran will stonewall the investigation, much as it has done the IAEA's investigation into its pre-2003 covert military program.

    Jake Tapper : Tapper: The Facility At Qom

    ..."heavily protected and heavily disguised."
    
    Its construction in itself is in violation of Iran's agreement with the IAEA, officials say.

    Robert Costa : Bond: 'We Need A Little Less Talk, A Lot More Action'

    “Iran has now been caught red-handed three times for hiding their nuclear activity,” says Sen. Kit Bond (R., Mo.). “Well, three strikes and you’re out.”
    
    “Iran claims that their new site is purely peaceful, but why are they hiding it?” asks Bond.
    ...
    “It’s about time that the anti-Semites in the United Nations realize that Israel was not crying wolf,” says Bond. “They are sitting next to a country that is a wolf.”

    James S. Robbins

    It is not surprising that Iran had a hidden nuclear enrichment facility at Qom; all the known aspects of their nuclear program were developed in secret and shielded from view as long as possible. The intelligence community knew about this for years, and even open sources widely referred to Qom as a nuclear site. President Obama stated that "the size and configuration of this facility is inconsistent with a peaceful program." But if this is the case and if the intelligence community has known about it for years, why is the official U.S. government line that the Islamic Regime in Tehran has no intention of building a nuclear weapon?
    ...
    If Iran is going to all this trouble to secretly build the capabilities to construct nuclear weapons, isn't it reasonable to conclude that they are motivated by the intention to do so?
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    ...if they do not have the intent, why are they working so diligently to build the capability?
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    We can no longer afford to accept politicized intelligence on a matter this vital to U.S. national security.

    Jonah Goldberg : Engagement Has Failed! Time to Engage More!

    ...it got me thinking back to the 2007 NIE that stopped the Bush administration in its tracks from taking any serious action. Every Iranian apologist, every left/liberal in the U.S. and many Republican senators (Hagel, Lugar and others) convinced the Bush team that a strong show of force against the mullahs was not wise. I want the American citizenry to know that those who doubted the NIE were proved right.
    ...
    So let me get this straight, our crack intelligence community knew about this second Iranian nuke plant a year ago (so it couldn't have been that big of secret to begin with) which means our Wonderful and Gracious Dear Leader knew about this second facility and STILL felt the need to reach out to the Iranians as if they were rational actors who could be trusted along with canceling the missile defense site site in Europe?

    Gateway Pundit : Medvedev Admits He Influenced Obama on Scrapping Missile Defense

    On Sunday, in a morning show interview Barack Obama dismissed accusations that the Russians had influenced his decision to scrap the Eastern European missile defense system.
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    Today Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev told students at Pittsburgh University that he did have input on the president's decision.

    Gateway Pundit : Rudy Giuliani Slams UN & Obama Administration on "Dangerous Moral Equivalence"

    Giuliani congratulated the anti-Ahmadinejad protesters today for speaking out against the horrific killer regime. He challenged the Obama Administration to break through their moral equivalence.

    Gateway Pundit : Thousands Turn Out to Protest Iranian Regime at United Nations

    Thousands of Jewish, Iranian, American and international protesters turned out to protest the killer Iranian regime today at the United Nations.

    Ignored by the MainStreamMedia...
    
    Gateway Pundit : Wham!... Pence Blasts Obama For Naive & Dangerous Foreign Policy

    "President Obama must abandon his foreign policy that extends a hand of cooperation to our enemies, while turning a cold shoulder to our friends and a blind eye to their suffering. Continuing to hold out the false hope that this lie will be the last further endangers the safety of the American people and our allies. It is time to impose meaningful sanctions on the Iranian government, and send a strong signal that these dangerous acts of deception will not stand."

    Obama's Communist tool Manuel Zelaya is an anti-Semite, just like Chavez :
    Gateway Pundit : Chavez-Castro-Obama Backed Leftist Zelaya Claims Jews Are Torturing Him With Radiation

    The ousted leftist leader of Honduras is backed by Latin American Marxists Raul Castro, Evo Morales, Daniel Ortega and Hugo Chavez and American President Barack Obama.

    CAROLINE GLICK : An enfeebled Obama

    The horror Obama has instilled in America's friends and the contempt he has evoked from its enemies have not caused him to change course. The fact that his policies throughout the world have already failed to bring a change in the so-called international community's treatment of the US has not led him to reconsider those policies. As many Western Europeans have begun to openly acknowledge, the man they once likened to the messiah is nothing but a politician - and a weak, bungling one at that. Even Britain's Economist is laughing at him.
    ...
    If Zbigniew Brzezinski had his way, the US would go to war against Israel to defend Iran's nuclear installations.
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    Brzezinski served as a senior foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign, and his views are not terribly out of place among Obama's senior advisers in the White House. In an interview in 2002, Samantha Powers, who serves as a senior member of Obama's national security council, effectively called for the US to invade Israel in support of the Palestinians.
    ...
    Obama has sought to force Israel to the wall. He has loudly and repeatedly ordered the Netanyahu government to prevent all private and public construction for Jews in Israel's capital city and its heartland in order to facilitate the eventual mass expulsion of Jews from both areas, which he believes ought to become part of a Jew-free Palestinian state.
    ...
    Obama made no equivalent demands of the Palestinians. He did not precondition talks on freezing illegal Arab construction in Jerusalem, or on dismantling the Aksa Martyrs Brigades terrorist group, or even simply on setting aside the Palestinian demand that Israel release convicted terrorists from its prisons. To the contrary, he has energetically supported the establishment of a Palestinian unity government between Fatah and Hamas - which the US State Department has since 1995 designated as a foreign terrorist organization to which US citizens, including the US president, are required by law to give no quarter.
    ...
    Obama announced that he is sending a senior US official to meet with the Iranians on October 1. And with that announcement, any residual doubt that Obama is willing to live in a world in which Iran is armed with nuclear weaponry dissipated completely.
    
    In the meantime, in his address to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday and in his remarks at his meeting with Netanyahu and Abbas on Tuesday, Obama made clear that, in the words of former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton, he has "put Israel on the chopping block." He referred to Israeli communities located beyond the 1949 armistice lines as "illegitimate."
    
    Moreover, Obama explained that Israel can no longer expect US support for its security if it doesn't bow to his demand that it surrender all of the land it has controlled since 1967.
    
    Apparently it is immaterial to the US leader that if Israel fulfilled his demand, the Jewish state would render itself defenseless against enemy attack and so embolden its neighbors to invade. That is, it matters not to Obama that were Israel to fulfill his demand, the prospect of an Arab war against Israel would rise steeply. The fact that Obama made these deeply antagonistic statements about Israel at the UN in itself exposes his hostility toward the country. The UN's institutional hostility toward Israel is surpassed only by that of the Arab League and the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
    
    So given Obama's positions toward Israel on the one hand and Iran and its allies on the other, it seems clear enough that the logical endpoint of Obama's policies would look something like Brzezinski's recommended course of action. Moreover, Obama's foreign policy as a whole makes it fairly easy to imagine him ordering the US military to open hostilities against a US ally to defend a US adversary - even as that adversary goes out of its way to humiliate Obama personally and the US in general.
    
    Since Obama took office, he has been abandoning one US ally after another while seeking to curry favor with one US adversary after another. At every turn, America's allies - from Israel to Honduras, to Columbia, South Korea and Japan, to Poland and the Czech Republic - have reacted with disbelief and horror to his treachery. And at every turn, America's adversaries - from Iran to Venezuela to North Korea and Russia - have responded with derision and contempt to his seemingly obsessive attempts to appease them.

    Barack Hussein Obama has surrounded himself with anti-Semites, terrorists and terror apologists.

    SNOBama's "fathers":

    "Mentor" Frank Davis
    "Reverend" Al Sharpton
    "Reverend" James Meeks
    "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright
    "Reverend" Otis Moss III
    "Minister" Louis Farrakhan
    "Pastor" Michael Pfleger
    "Reverend" Jim Wallis
    "Reverend" James Bevel
    "Reverend" Eric Lee
    "Pastor" Mack King
    "Bishop" Desmond Tutu

    SNOBama's "money men":

    George Soros
    Syrian Tony Rezko
    Saddam Hussein's gun-running bagman Nadhmi Auchi

    SNOBama's anti-Semitic "advisors":

    William C. Ayers
    Bernadine Dohrn
    Samantha Power
    Greg Craig
    Robert Malley
    Susan Rice
    Anthony Lake
    General Tony McPeak
    Chas Freeman
    Edward Said
    Rashid Khalidi
    Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour
    Ali Abunimah
    James Yee
    Imam Hassan Qazwini
    Raila Odinga
    Zbigniew Brzezinski
    Brent Scowcroft
    Jodie Evans
    The Black Panthers
    Lawrence Lessig
    Sam Graham-Felsen
    Joseph Cirincione
    Cornell West
    

    Judging by the people he surrounds himself with, Barack Hussein Obama intends to "Wipe Israel Off the Map".
    
    

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    I have explained my point of view on Obama & his advisors, including my rebuttal to your  assertions that they are all  “Marxists, socialists & communists” on several occasions. (Most recently as a comment to your post FOR NEMO)  I have also recommended that on this issue we agree to disagree and let readers decide for themselves which of us is more accurate in our assessment of the issue.   

    And in the 24 hours since I made that recommendation, you have posted the following comments & posts.  Over 5,000 words in all:  (And this doesn’t include all of the other comments & posts from the last month on the subject of our becoming socialist/communist/Marxist/Fascist) 

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    ·         Were ANY of these men PAID ADVISORS IN THE WHITE HOUSE? Where did Van Jones recant his communist beliefs? Why is John Holdren still advocating Geoengineering? When did any of these men recant their stated beliefs? Im not saying these guys cant believe what they believe,Im just saying its very telling that these are the men our President seeks advice from.How is your search going for radical conservatives in the White House with Obama? I thought he looked to BOTH sides for information? I see your attempt to diffuse Obamas associations has you REALLY REACHING.Keep up your research Im sure you will find somthing that shows some republican somewhere had radicals in paid positions in the White House-If you do ,I will gladly join you in a resounding condemnation! Nemo,OUR GOVERNMENT gave aid to Saddam when it served our purpose.This is not an ideology this is using the idiot when it served U.S interest.As to Rumsfeld selling  nuclear reactors to N.korea.If you provide a link with all pertinate information(including how he voted as a board member) I will make a post condemning Rumsfeld!I have already been very critical of his refusal to change strategies in Iraq when the insurgency started gaining momentum.However I dont recall him ever being a self avowed communist,advocate for extreme forms of population control or acusing blacks of poisoning whites.Nemo YOU ARE playing tit for tat!The most disturbing thing is you are so busy defending these guys I have to wonder if you ever ONCE considered how this affirms long held suspicions that Obama is sympathetic to marxism,socialism and communism.This is not a one guy,one time deal. 1.Rev Jerimiah Wright 2William Ayers 3.Van Jones 4.Cass Sunstein 5.John Holdren 6.Frank Marshal Davis 7.Zeke EmanuelI know you wont admit it but this tells us WHO Obama is!HE told us to judge him by WHO HE surrounds himself with.These men are his friends,neighbors,advisors and spiritual leaders!When are you going to FACE FACTS? Over the course of a couple of weeks and several post on Obamas associations nemo has tried several different ways to diffuse the very troubling cast of characters that have been involved in Obamas life.His latest attempt is to try to say that some extreme right wingers have surrounded our republican Presidents.Despite the fact that he was unable to show that ANY of these men were PAID ADVISORS he still tries to hold his ground.He offered Donald Rumsfeld up as a paid right wing extremist but that doesnt wash either.Im NO FAN of republicans of late and think Rumsfeld is an idiot and a$$hole for his contribution to the Iraq war taking so long and the way he confidently ignored many calls for a change in strategy.I offered nemo and olive branch,I told him if he can prove Rumsfeld voted to sell a nuclear reactor to N.Korea( one of his accusations) that I would post a resounding condemnation of Rumsfeld(which wont be hard because as you can see I have little respect for him).None the less I will stay true to my word and abide by my promise.i will note that Rumsfeld as misguided as he may be,he is not an avowed communist or radical.An idiot maybe. I have never seen nemo so much at a loss for pragmatic arguments.All though we raely agree,I found our debates challenging and extremely fun.He had earned my respect.I though I could aways count on him to see the validity of my arguments even if he didnt agree....not so much anymore.He has called me conspiracy theorist even though I backed up my assertions with people I was calling out OWN WORDS.He lumped me in a category with wackos that I dont agree with. I was bewildered by this side of nemo that I hadnt seen before.I was dissappointed and while reflecting on this issue I came to the conclusion that the nemo I used to know couldnt possibly be at fault.There must be somthing I have done to cause him to see me in this light.My facts where correct(I had checked and rechecked),i wasnt misrepresenting any information.I was careful to ONLY  use their own words to make my points..........What could I have done? Then it hit me! An epiphany! I had come to suspect that nemo Knew Obamas associations made it clear he was at least a socialist and as disappointed as I was,i was sure that nemo was Ok with socialism.(Wait the epiphany is still comming)Thats ok thats his choice.Maybe,if hes just honest about that fact we can debate the merits of socialism vs capitalism......at least things would makw sense again.BUT THEN I REALISED NEMO REALLY THINKS IM A BLIND PARTISAN RIGHT WING EXTREMIST!!!!!!!!(Thats the epiphany part) So let me be clear: 1I HAVE NOT EVER NOR WOULD I EVER SUPPORT ANY PRESIDENT THAT WISHED TO HAVE JOEL OLSTEIN BE A PAID  ADVISOR(or any other religious person beyond somone to pray with)ON ANY ISSUE FOR FEAR THAT HE MAY BE SEEKING TO IMPLEMENT A THEOCRACY!!!!!!Im not aware that any President in the past has done this....im just sayin. 2.I HAVE NOT EVER NOR WOULD I EVER SUPPORTA MEMBER OF THE KKK OR ANY WHITE SUPREMICIST GROUP TO BE A PAID ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT!never happened but still........just sayin. 3.I HAVE NOT EVER NOR WOULD I EVER SUPPORT ANYONE FROM PHILLIP MORRIS IN HAVING POSITION THAT WOULD GIVE THEM CONTROL OF ANY FACET OF OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM!!!!!!!!! 4.I HAVE NOT EVER NOR WOULD I EVER SUPPORT DAVID DUKE AS AN ADVISOR TO THE DEPT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPEMENT. 5.I HAVE NOT EVER NOR WOULD I EVER SUPPORT TERRY NICHOLS AS NATIONAL SECURITY CZAR! 6.I HAVE NOT EVER NOR WOULD I EVER SUPPORT JOSEPH HAZELWOOD AS GREEN JOBS CZAR!(this may take some research and I have no proof hes conservative but its pretty funny) 7.I HAVE NOT EVER NOR WOULD I EVER SUPPORT FRED PHELPS AS SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE PRESIDENT ON HOMSEXUAL,LESBIAN AND TRANSGENDERED AFFIRS! 8.I HAVE NOT EVER NOR WOULD I EVER SUPPORT MICHAEL SAVAGE AS FCC COMMUNICATIONS CZAR!(I like Mike sometimes but hes pretty radical!) 9.I HAVE NOT EVER NOR WOULD I EVER SUPPORT RANDY WEAVER AS THE PRESIDENTS SPECIAL LIASON TO THE BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS. 10.I HAVE NOT EVER NOR WOULD I EVER SUPPORT JULIUS EVOLA(or any of his minions since hes dead)AS GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE CZAR I hope this helps you understand me a little better.I dont want radicals in the White house ,right wing or left wing!It just so happens that RIGHT NOW,at this point in history we have radical leftist in the White House.Know this....you can count on me in the future to help you point out radical right wingers in the White House! I mean that! I hope we can start over now! Its amazing after all of history you still dont see that communism IS the progression of socialism.Forgive me if I choose to call them one in the same. Where are individual rights at? In the constitution! A person in America CHOOSES WHAT WORK HE?SHE WILL DO AND WHO THEY WILL WORK FOR! Its called freedom of choice which has a nasty habit of disapearing under a socialist society that devolves into a communist society. Ive read your analogy of republics that failed twice now-you seem to ignoe the point I made that Rome lasted 1500 years BEFORE it succumbed to LIBERAL policies that facilitated its demise! How long did it take Germany go from a republic to a SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP? less than TEN YEARS! How long after we pulled out of Vietnam did S.Nietnam suffer MILLIONS OF MURDERS when the communist regime took over?Weeks?Months? Brittain ,as much of Europe is retooling its socialist agenda.Is it too late for them to reverse themselves?Maybe but Brittain has lasted 6-700 years as a monarchy then a constitutional monarchy.They havent fallen yet. Russia,as Ive already pointed out was a monarchy then quickly devolved into a state capitalist/communist oligarchy.Which was defeated by a capitalistconstitutional republic.....rember the early 90s-the USSR failed!Oh ....I know,because of it capitalist tenants not the communist policies that stifled freedom and hence innovation which in turn produced a stagnate economy.How many people starved to death in Russia?2 Million? More?Yeah thats the way to go. Forgive me if I dont need to read your book on Human nature,Why not indulge me with the Cliff notes.Just what is the missing ingredient that EVERYONE Has always missed in froming a successful communal society?How do they motivate people to GIVE thier labor away continually without feeling some(say that have more children than they do)are getting more than their fair share?Will you have to impose draconian population control measures?Sterilization?Forced abortions? How will you keep the power hungry in your community from orchestrating a coup'de te(sp?) to gain power from the existing oligarchy(You do realize you will ALWAYS end up with an oligarchy...right)and ,history shows, PROBABLY implement a dictatorship?Will you have to have concentration camps to silence these individuals?How will you provide for the needs of the many political prisoners you will undoubtably have?Not EVERYONE will embrace YOUR particular vision of the perfect community........will it be better to exterminate these people if they dont respond to reeducation camps? What will you do if you dont have access to a resource or product you cant produce?Will you then become STATE CAPITALIST?and purchase your wares from a capitalist society......if any still exist?How will you care for the elderly that no longer are able to contribute?How will you satisfy the young that the old deserve their labor?You know there are always a few bad apples! I think a society that allows people to choose their own destiny,seek their OWN level of success and find their OWN definition of happiness is a much better way to go.The oligarchy doesnt have to solve all these problems for them because THEY SOLVED THEM ON THEIR OWN!I will say in a rich vibrant capitalist society we will ALWAYS take care of our less fortunate and elderly if needed but more often than not,when folks are left to find their own success they do.....and dont need any help at all. BTW:Its not all about terminology.Words DO means things but changing the WORD doesnt change the reality that communal society without laws and guarantees of INDIVIDUAL rights is destined to fail.Your not the first guy to think marx was a genius and you wont be the last to be left standing amid a catastrophic failure wondering............What went wrong?.....what did I miss????? OEL, you need to ask black liberation radicals  how they have basterdized marxism into the antiwhite ,racist  revolutionary ideology they have ascribed to.All I know is that they tout the  message of lenin,mao and marx as the basis of their vision of social justice. Im aware of what socialism is and I choose to leave our conctitutional republic in tact.I prefer the  protection of INDIVIDUAL rights over the interest in the communal rights(freedom be damned) mentallity. OEL.you and I have been here so many times its rediculous!LOL The long and short of ANOTHER debate on this subject would be that I SHOW how marxism is great in principle but has never and will never lead to the utopian society you dream of.You will in turn point to the 2 month long success of the Paris Commune and make your case that TRUE Marxism has never been tried.Ok,We've been here before.The rsord shows Marxism has ALWAYS failed when tried.The record shows that capitalism has led to the most powerful nation on earth that has the best standard of living (even US citizens that live in 'poverty")for all its citizens.The rising tide did in fact lift ALL BOATS! My point in calling nemo out to debate the merits of socialism over capitalism was in effort to get him to admit that he is on the FAR LEFT end of the spectrum as you are. OEL,you and I have had knock down drag out debates over the years but I ALWAYS respected the way you come right out and say that your are a "dirt worshipping,tree hugging COMMUNIST"!You dont HIDE behind a facade of "centrist liberalism" as nemo does! I just want him to be honest about what he believes! BTW,good to see you back.Do you remember my concession to you that after all our debates that I confidently said"America will never embrace a socialist/communist"and I was wrong with the election of Obama..........well,I bet Obama has you more excited than ever that your dreams will come true!LOL  Nemo wrote"Frank Marshal Davis, an admitted communist was someone that Obama was introduced to by his grandfather.   I find it rather sad that you seem to think that meeting someone & talking with them leads to agreeing with them.  " Uh......Nemo wrote about a "Frank" he met in Hawaii in his book.this "frank" was a poet and leftist radical..........and his "mentor"!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Again this isnt a one time,one guy situation!This is a CONTINUATION of a long list of CLOSE associations with marxist radicals that Obama(HIMSELF) calls a mentor or huge influence!!!!!!!!!!!!Are you really that blind?How many does it take before you will admit Obama is a radical leftist based on his close associations,stated views,mentors,advisors and policies?????20?30? How long do we wait?Until we have devastating socialist policies implemented in our government that destroy the fabric of our Constitution?....................NO!..............The time is NOW! You know as well as I do,if Bush had only 2 advisors that had a kkk history or a right wing militia association YOU and everyone on the left would be pushing for impeachment!Hypocrites!  Another thing:We have more than once offered arguments on a point by point basis when therer are as many as 20 separate arguments being made.You know the post Im talking about,you know the ones like"liberal lies" or "conservative lies".Sp you mean to tell me you cant offer a pragmatic argument on less than 10 of Obamas radical associates beyond the "acedemics" or "old beliefs"argumenst? Both of those arguments ARE WEAK and several people have offered valid reasons to support that claim! Ill give you another chance:Show me where these men are on record disavowing their earlier closely held IDEOLOGIES? Show me where these statements are out of context and explain the context and true meaning of these words? Show me how writing a book based on your ideology translates into an excercise in critical thinking for a class of college students? I made this post in effort to appeal to your pragmatic side.I actually thought if you saw that the issue was that of a legitimate concern about far left radicals in the White House,made with ficticious right wing radicals in a supposed republican White House you would see the REALITY that this is a concern..........unless you,yourself are a far left radical and share the views of these men.Is that you nemo? Are you ok with reverse racism?Communism?Socialism?population control? or are you just so beholden to Obama that you will sacrifice your integrity,values and common sense to defend him? How is a discussion of Obama CZARS(policy makers) a distraction from policies? Show me the quotes from these men where they recanted their earlier views?When did this happen? The difference in Beck and Olberman is this.Beck TELLS us he is a conservative.Beck used facts to pressure Van Jones and ACORN.Beck helped get Jones to resign and 4 ACORN workers fired BECAUSE DESPITE HIS IDEOLOGY HIS FACTS WERE SOLID!He didnt just engage in mindless rants full of subjective partisan jabs. Investigations dropped?Are you talking about the two black panthers? Who was Conyers talking about when he said he dropped his investigation into ACORN"because the powers that be wanted him to"? Ill stop here so Im not acused of "scatter tactics".You can choose to take these on one at a time if you like......ill be patient! Lj,honestly the right has moved left over the past few decades.The only issues I would consider myself radical on is gun control.Dog and I agree on most things but I know Im to the right of him and probably jstol on the second ammendment.I think we have a right to bear arms to protect ourselves from an oppressive government and I dont see how you can do that without assault rifles etc.If they make it-I think I should be able to buy it! I know thats extreme by most peoples standards-Im just being honest. On the other end,conservatives have grown to realize that we need a social safety net and AS LONG AS WE CAN AFFORD IT and the system is not rife with abuse,we have no issue funding them.When we see corrupt orgs like ACORN get tax dollars and we see in black and white the crap they pull.I get angry!(nemo tells me ACORN is just a boogeyman for the right)I wounder if he still says that after this week?BTW:Im just as opposed to corporate welfare.If these groups and companies are so great and provide such a needed service.....let the people vote with their dollar and let them sink or swim without government asst! The main difference these days( I refer you back to the great welfare debate 09) is liberals seem unwilling to keep what programs work and scrap the ones that dont.They would rather make new programs to fill gaps made by old programs instead of taking a hard look at reform or,in some ,cases,admitting the government just cant fix some problems....in fact it makes them worse.The government was getting too big under Bush.....NOW ITS IN A WHOLE NEW BALL PARK!Its not hyperbole to say we border on socialism! We grew the government through the 70s and Reagan slowed it down...since then we have been growing and growing.I honestly believe the The "conservatives" in 2009 are more in line with JFK and the democrats of the 60s.The far right has had NO POLITICAL POWER FOR 40 yrs.Reagan was called hard right but he wasnt much different than JFK.Teddy was the liberal and he represents the leadership of the democrat party today-THEY MOVED HARD TO THE LEFT OVER THE YEARS.Obama,Pelosi,Reid and HOYER....are they blue dogs like JFK or are they 60 radical antiwar castro loving leftist liberals? Be honest?The democrat party IE:the political leadership of our country are hard line liberals that are far from representing what most Americans believe.Im a little farther right than most,the country is and has always been center right.......Obama isnt left center.....Hell,he was MORE CENTRIST in the campaign than he has been on domestic policy since he was elected.Im glad he has stuck with Bushs foreign policy....but how long will his hard left advisors,Pelosi and Reid let him do that?Hes is an antiwar leftist but Im sure when he was briefed he couldnt help but see it a little different.....KUDOS to him for that. Forgive me if Im a bit agressive in this post....but Ive had it! Nemo says "This constant non-stop discussion of Obama "czars" is a distraction from the real issues before our nation.    When you don't have any positive ideas to move the country forward, you resort to a "kill the messenger" mentality.  And that is what Glenn Beck (and others)have been doing. "  This was the first line in his response to my for Nemo post. "dont have any positive ideas to move the country forward".This a slight variation on nemos usual "party of No" argument. It sounds nice from a sound bite standpoint,the only problem is its a bald faced lie!nemo you are a LIAR!!!!!!!!Ive been acused of this time and again by nemo.I usually take the acusation in stride and RESTATE my ideas that I feel will help the country.Those of you that know me,know that I ALWAYS present in depth(at times to wordy)arguments and policies to counter what the left is offering. I have posted several post on Obamas czars but also offered a point by point policy analysis on Obamas healthcare speech with SEVERAL OTHER OPTIONS IN CONJUNCTION WITH SOME OF OBAMAS POLICIES TO ARRIVE AT A BI-PARTISAN,SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE SOLUTION! So while I was offering information of who it is our President has surrounded himself with(on Obamas own advice based on his statements in the 3rd Presidential debate about his questionable associations),I was also busy debating and posting on the various policy issues of the day.This is a disingenuous tactic by nemo that he has resorted to often of late and I will not stand for it anymore! Check my posts and comments I have been ANYTHING BUT focused soley on Obamas associations and I have offered sveral viable options on healthcare and other issues!Nemo those facts show that you are nothing more than a cowardly liar when you say I dont offer any positive ideas to move the country forward.That is right out of Howard Deans playbook when he coined the term "party of No".Im not a republican!Ive stated that time and again and have been VERY CRITICAL of the political class in our country from both sides of the aisle!!!!!!!!!Check the record!Words mean things!That doesnt change the fact that when you make these false acusations you are inline with the far left that has used this LIE as a tactic to marginalise people that dont bow at the alter of Obama! This post is focused on ONE ISSUE!Your misrepresentation of the FACTS!So dont acuse me of "scatter tacics" I dedicate this post to Rep Joe Wilson! Its amazing after all of history you still dont see that communism IS the progression of socialism.Forgive me if I choose to call them one in the same. Where are individual rights at? In the constitution! A person in America CHOOSES WHAT WORK HE?SHE WILL DO AND WHO THEY WILL WORK FOR! Its called freedom of choice which has a nasty habit of disapearing under a socialist society that devolves into a communist society. Ive read your analogy of republics that failed twice now-you seem to ignoe the point I made that Rome lasted 1500 years BEFORE it succumbed to LIBERAL policies that facilitated its demise! How long did it take Germany go from a republic to a SOCIALIST DICTATORSHIP? less than TEN YEARS! How long after we pulled out of Vietnam did S.Nietnam suffer MILLIONS OF MURDERS when the communist regime took over?Weeks?Months? Brittain ,as much of Europe is retooling its socialist agenda.Is it too late for them to reverse themselves?Maybe but Brittain has lasted 6-700 years as a monarchy then a constitutional monarchy.They havent fallen yet. Russia,as Ive already pointed out was a monarchy then quickly devolved into a state capitalist/communist oligarchy.Which was defeated by a capitalistconstitutional republic.....rember the early 90s-the USSR failed!Oh ....I know,because of its capitalist tenants not the communist policies that stifled freedom and hence innovation which in turn produced a stagnate economy.How many people starved to death in Russia?2 Million? More?Yeah thats the way to go. Forgive me if I dont need to read your book on Human nature,Why not indulge me with the Cliff notes.Just what is the missing ingredient that EVERYONE Has always missed in froming a successful communal society?How do they motivate people to GIVE thier labor away continually without feeling some(say that have more children than they do)are getting more than their fair share?Will you have to impose draconian population control measures?Sterilization?Forced abortions? How will you keep the power hungry in your community from orchestrating a coup'de te(sp?) to gain power from the existing oligarchy(You do realize you will ALWAYS end up with an oligarchy...right)and ,history shows, PROBABLY implement a dictatorship?Will you have to have concentration camps to silence these individuals?How will you provide for the needs of the many political prisoners you will undoubtably have?Not EVERYONE will embrace YOUR particular vision of the perfect community........will it be better to exterminate these people if they dont respond to reeducation camps? What will you do if you dont have access to a resource or product you cant produce?Will you then become STATE CAPITALIST?and purchase your wares from a capitalist society......if any still exist?How will you care for the elderly that no longer are able to contribute?How will you satisfy the young that the old deserve their labor?You know there are always a few bad apples! I think a society that allows people to choose their own destiny,seek their OWN level of success and find their OWN definition of happiness is a much better way to go.The oligarchy doesnt have to solve all these problems for them because THEY SOLVED THEM ON THEIR OWN!I will say in a rich vibrant capitalist society we will ALWAYS take care of our less fortunate and elderly if needed but more often than not,when folks are left to find their own success they do.....and dont need any help at all. BTW:Its not all about terminology.Words DO means things but changing the WORD doesnt change the reality that communal society without laws and guarantees of INDIVIDUAL rights is destined to fail.Your not the first guy to think marx was a genius and you wont be the last to be left standing amid a catastrophic failure wondering............What went wrong?.....what did I miss????? I had decided after my last post yesterday that I wasnt going to have the never ending debate on communism vs capitalism anymore. I will add a few resonses to the post of OEL and LJ then Im done. Power?Yes you will always have people that seek power no matter what political system you live in.I support a CONSTITUTIONAL republic because it has a REPRESENTATIVE government that is BOUND by the Constitution.You have mechanisms to protect individual rights and a legislature that can make laws to protect individuals from the power hungry.Is the U.S perfect?NO.Is it the best representation of a system that takes care of all its citizens?YES.Has it lifted ALL its citizens above the actuall poverty that exist elsewhere in the world?YES. Where have we failed? the people have failed themselves.The country was SO GOOD at providing opportunity ofr all that we became complacent and stopped paying attention to the government which in turn pandered to special interest,vocal minorities and corporations which have caused all the problems we have.Yes.....yet again HUMAN NATURE failed.Now you have to ask yourself......by comparrision how bad is this failure? did we murder millions of political prisoners that oppose the government?NO!Do we have millions starving to death in the streets?NO!Do we have a dictator that CANNOT be removed without force/war?NO! America is not perfect but its record is one that deserves respect.We live a better life than most on the planet.We,all of us,have access to wealth if we are willing to seek it.We take care of our fellow man and the less fortunate. OEL:Fiscal economics and collectivism are actually at odds with each other.How do you FINANCE the needs of the collective while maintaining conservative/limited government control and expenditures?You cant-Its impossible. Lj,so your not a liberal?huh? I dont know about the rest of you on here but I for one am totally disgusted by the way these two are willing to sit in the freedom and opportunity this country has provided and express a yearning for a communist society!It only shows that despite a knowledge of history they fail to understand what took place and why.Communism is a failure! Everyone,with exception of minority of radicals,knows the dangers such a society represents. this should give all of us pause.How many people are thinking like this because they have some misguided agenda for social justice?How many fail to see the cornucopia right in front of them but look to Castro,Chavez or marx as examples of true compassionate leaders? I cant believe Im even having this debate.For LJ this may be an excercise in "critical thinking" but for OEL its an ideology.he believes Marx was right.He believes the failings of communism throughout the world is merely due to minor miscaculations in the implementation of policies. Im done with this subject.Im glad I live in a Constitutional Republic.I beleive in the Constitution.Im enboldened when I see my fellow countrymen stand up to take our country back from the political elite,as we've seen lately.I proud to watch the PEACEFULL transfer of power we watch every four years in contrast to the bloody revolutions we see in countries that have adopted OELs ideology.This post served one purpose.it forced the radical leftits to show all of you what he believes.It has shown that there are people like him among us.It has shown that people like LJ and Nemo are open to the concept of communism despite its record of brutal murders,actual starvation and oppression.Most of all it has shown how vigilent we have to be because radical leftist ;iberalism is alive and well in our country and we have to stop it. Damn Damn

    WHY AM I WORTH ALL OF THIS???

    I spent all day yesterday with my grandchildren….maybe you should take some family time too! 

    Let’s agree to disagree on this subject….preferably with a touch of civility!

    PS:  And with your “excellent(?)” recall of history….Do you remember Joe McCarthy?

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    Just the facts Barack Hussein Obama...
    

    "It was disgusting and it was reprehensible and it was predictable. ... The office of the president of the United States was demeaned last night. President Barack Obama gave a grossly inappropriate and ... embarrassing speech, a campaign speech disguised as a big speech to a joint session of Congress. It was grossly inappropriate in content. There were lies, falsehoods, distortions, it was embarrassing in tone. He called his critics liars when his own positions have been proven to be untrue. ... It was dishonest. It demeaned the office of the presidency. ... It was an awful speech. He was petulant; he was childish; he was a community organizer and agitator; he lied; he was divisive; he attacked me; he attacked Sarah Palin; he attacked conservative Republicans in Congress who dare to challenge government-run health care. He continued to attack tens of millions of Americans who spent the summer attending town hall meetings. It was crude. It was disgusting. The most crude and disgusting performance by any president I have seen." -- radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh
    
    "Democrats have wanted President Obama to drop some of his cool and fight for their health-care agenda, and last night they weren't disappointed. The President gave away very little on the substance of what Congressional leaders are proposing, even as he offered a rhetorical bow or two to the idea of compromise. The main message of his speech to Congress is that he is doubling down on his health-care bets and counting on the sheer inertia of Democratic and health industry self-interest in Washington to drive a bill into law. The speech was especially notable for its use of one of Mr. Obama's favorite rhetorical devices: Noting in the first instance that his opponents have a good point, and entirely legitimate concerns, only to reject their ideas in toto when it comes to policy. Thus he endorsed the public's concern about the competence of government to manage one-sixth of the economy, only to finish with a soaring oration about the moral necessity of letting government do so." -- The Wall Street Journal

    Ethel C. Fenig : Palin responds to Obama

    Former Alaskan governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin (R) responded graciously, but factually, to President Barack Obama's (D) health care speech with his post partisan gratuitous swipe at her.
    
    As she puts it "so much for civility."
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    ...since today is the eighth anniversary of the September 11 attacks and Obama delivered his speech just two days before this somber anniversary she rightly takes him to task for his cheap Democratic applause statement on the cost of fighting "the man made disaster" which most of us call the war on terror.

    Gateway Pundit : Krauthammer Slams Obama: "What He Was Selling Was Snake Oil" (Video)

    Charles Krauthammer slammed "Snake Oil Salesman" Obama last night after his unrealistic and questionable speech on nationalizing health care.

    Krauthammer's Take

    He sounded smooth and polished and strong and convincing — and what he was selling was snake oil. …
    
    When he talked about what would be in his bill and how he would not end up with a dime of deficit, he said it will cost almost $1 trillion dollars and the majority of it, more than half, will come from — what? From removing waste, fraud, and abuse from Medicare.
    
    Now, that's an insult to the intelligence of the American people. That phrase was a joke when it was used by Richard Nixon in 1971!
    
    And if there is all this waste and abuse in the system waiting to be squeezed out, why hasn't he started already? Where is it? Why do you have to have a bill?
    
    If you tell us Medicare is destroying our budget and our economy, he ought to be on this from Day One, and we're eight months in. Why doesn't he start today and give us a report in six months how the attack on waste and abuse is going? That was a fraud.
    
    I mean, a lot of this stuff he sold — again, smoothly and extremely effectively — was amazing.
    
    What he offered last night was the greatest free lunch in American history: no new taxes, no deficits, and he gave away everything. He is going to insure all these uninsured, have the lifetime guaranteed insurance [for those who have it], nobody is going to have to change it [one’s current insurance].
    
    Of course people will lose health insurance [as a result of this plan]. All of this elided over brilliantly.

    Obama's speech in plain English

    Mike Cannon writing at Cato's blog has a superior - and funny - translation into English of the Obamese the president was speaking during his speech on Wednesday night.

    Michael F. Cannon : Obama’s Health Care Speech in Plain English

    I may have savaged your ideas in the past, called them irresponsible…risky…dangerous…whatever. But that wasn’t about principle; I just wanted to become president. Now that I’m president, I need a win. So you’ll help me, won’t you?

    Ethel C. Fenig : Down the memory hole: Democrat poor manners during presidential speeches

    ... there is a well entrenched Democrat precedent for Wilson's behavior, as Instapundit reminds us. This was especially noticeable during President George W. Bush's (R) presidency so perhaps Wilson felt he was just following established Congressional protocol. The Dems booed Bush several times during his 2005 State of the Union address and Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) called Bush a liar for which he later apologized. This of course does not excuse the adult version of the childish, "he hit me, but he hit me first" excuses. But once again, it does make the Democrat self righteous huff and puff response to Wilson very hollow.

    Michelle Malkin : Obamacare for illegal aliens: A brief history

    Here’s my July 22 column on Obamacare for illegal aliens, which spotlights how the S-CHIP expansion’s loosened verification standards open the barn door.
    
    Here’s my August 17 blog post on how hospitals are buckling under the weight of illegal alien care costs — and why it’s time to ration health care for illegal aliens.
    
    Here’s my August 26 blog post on the Congressional Research Service report that exposed immigration loopholes in the Democrat health care takeover plan.
    
    On September 9, GOP Rep. Joe Wilson called out President Obama on his false assertions that illegal aliens will be denied care under the Democrats’ proposals.
    
    And today? Today, the Democrats squabbled over how to craft language to prevent illegal aliens from taking advantage of a public option program.
    
    Surprise: They couldn’t figure out how to create the illusion of enforcement while appeasing the open-borders lobby.
    
    So, they punted...
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    Do you trust a government that can’t/won’t stop illegal aliens from getting home loans to write a health care bill that prevents them from getting government-subsidized insurance coverage?

    Ace : Joe Wilson Gets Results

    If the President had really wanted to exclude illegal aliens from Obamacare, it would have been no problem to include a provision providing for citizenship verification. Because of Joe Wilson's startling lack of decorum, the Senate Finance Committee is now considering one...
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    The real reason "many Democrats" oppose a verification requirement is that it might keep illegal residents from getting insurance. Their excuse is a variation on the idea that we shouldn't ask for voter identification because it discourages voters.
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    The real reason Democrats are aflutter about this is that it would treat illegal aliens as if they were unlawfully present in the United States...like, um, they are.

    Sweetenss & Light exposes : Obama Bill For Illegals Healthcare

    You would never know if from the protestations in his speech last night and in other venues, but way back in May of 2006 US Senator Barack Obama co-sponsored a bill to federally fund healthcare for illegal aliens.
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    Nevertheless, Mr. Obama now assures us that he is adamantly opposed to illegal aliens getting federal funded healthcare.
    
    And he considers concerns about that crazy.
    
    And he would certainly never lie about it.

    Victor Davis Hanson : Illegals and Health Insurance — Not So Simple . . .

    Why haven't illegal aliens, many of them employed, young, and healthy, simply bought private catastrophic plans — and are they presently really uninsured?
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    $50 billion in remittances go to Latin America and Mexico...
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    ...the choice not to buy hospitalization insurance in many cases is one of discretionary spending...
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    I am not sure it is such a moral thing for an elderly person to worry about Medicare cutbacks so that funds could be diverted to extend health-care coverage to younger illegal aliens, so that they in turn can continue to send billions home.

    Gateway Pundit : US DOCTORS RALLY IN WASHINGTON-- Protest Obamacare (Video)

    Hundreds of US doctors and their supporters marched on Washington yesterday to protest against the Democratic plan to nationalize health care.
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    “We are not the enemy,” said Dr. Joyce Lovitt, a pediatrician from Georgia.
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    Doctors rallied in protest of the president's plan for health care takeover Thursday night, less than 24 hours after he laid out his plan.

    Looking At The Left : Doctors Against Obamacare – Rally in D.C.

    On September 10, 2009, doctors, nurses and other medical professionals came to Washington, D.C. from across the country to show their opposition to Obamacare. This rally exploded the government-created myth that there is unanimity amongst health care professionals for Democrat plans to take over health care. The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons came to D.C. to present a petition from doctors to lawmakers. The AAPS has been a voice for private physicians since 1943. Their motto is omnia pro aegroto, “all for the patient”. The doctors met with the representatives from their respective states and argued for a platform that avoids unnecessary bureaucratic intervention in health care.

    Van Helsing : Doctors Protest ObamaCare in DC

    The District of Criminals won't be under massive siege by patriots until tomorrow, but the statists destroying our country are already being made to feel surrounded.

    Via Van Helsing

    Sweetness & Light : CPUSA: Obama Reset H-Care Debate

    Of course this was written by the head of the Communist Party in the United States, but it could have been written by almost any Democrat or member of our news media.
    
    What is especially galling is the claim that “justice, morality, and truth” are on the side of robbing Peter to pay for Paul’s healthcare.
    
    Especially, when it’s often the case that Paul can afford to pay for his own health insurance, but just can’t be bothered to.
    
    Where is the justice? Where is the morality? And where is the truth of the other side’s arguments?
    
    If the Democrats would try to address the issue truthfully, maybe their constituents wouldn’t have to shout at them at townhalls.

    Kathryn Jean Lopez on the man who voted 4 times for infanticide quoting scripture : Obama’s Unholy Attack: On bearing false witness.

    “I know there’s been a lot of misinformation in this debate. And there’s some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness.”

    Barack Obama has put himself at war with the Catholic Church.
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    Obama’s accusation was made in direct reference to the debate about abortion and the health-care bill. “You’ve heard this is all going to mean government funding of abortion,” the president said. “Not true.”
    
    He added that the “fabrications” were “put out there in order to discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral obligation.”
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    On August 11, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives about the health-care legislation under consideration. He highlighted legislative language that would open the door to taxpayer-funded abortions. He pointed out that when amendments were introduced this summer that would have protected against this — would have protected life — they were shot down. That’s a bad precedent. If that’s how life fares when the C-SPAN cameras are on, what happens when it comes time for the behind-closed-doors compromises?
    
    Not only is Rigali the ordinary of Philadelphia, he engages in the health-care debate in his position as chairman of the Pro-Life Activities Committee of the U.S. Bishops Conference, speaking on behalf of all the bishops of the Catholic Church in the United States. And he is far from the only bishop who has spoken out against some of the doing-harm details that have turned up in some versions of the health-care legislation. Denver’s Archbishop Charles J. Chaput put it bluntly: “Killing or funding the killing of unborn children has nothing to do with promoting human health, and including these things in any ‘health care’ proposal, no matter how shrewdly hidden, would simply be a form of lying.”
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    There are over 600 Catholic hospitals in the United States. The bishops in whose dioceses these hospitals reside represent the largest health-care provider in America, one that has been vital to the American story. And they are, by the way, on board with the idea of reforming health care, ensuring that everyone who needs care gets care (it being their business and all). But as another bishop, William Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., put it in an earlier communication with Congress, “Genuine health-care reform that protects the life and dignity of all is a moral imperative and a vital national obligation.”

    To all those Catholics out there that voted for Barack Hussein Obama... a majority of Catholics in fact... SUCKERS!
    
    'Hopefully, they will come to see that the assertion he made [Wednesday] is accurate.'

    David Axelrod on those liar Catholic bishops.

    Ed Morrissey : Tort reform? Try tort expansion

    First, there are already plenty of studies showing that malpractice abuse comprises anywhere between 2% and 10% of all medical costs today. For a $2 trillion a year industry, even the low end would mean $40 billion a year in cost savings, and $400 billion over the ten-year period that Obama uses as his scale. That’s five times what Obama got the pharmaceuticals to concede in order to bring ObamaCare’s costs down, in comparison. The question here should be why the pharmaceuticals had to knuckle under to the White House while the trial lawyers get off scot-free.
    
    As Kimberly Strassel notes in the Wall Street Journal today, the answer is — because Congress wants to make it even easier for lawyers to exploit malpractice claims, and in new and dangerous ways...

    Kimberly Strassel : Special-interests and the health-care status quo.

    During the markup of a bill in the Senate Health Committee, Republicans offered 11 tort amendments that varied in degree from mere pilot projects to measures to ensure more rural obstetricians. On a party line vote, Democrats killed every one. Rhode Island senator and lawyer Sheldon Whitehouse went so far as to speechify on the virtues of his tort friends. He did not, of course, mention the nearly $900,000 they have given him since 2005, including campaign contributions from national tort powerhouses like Baron & Budd and Motley Rice.
    
    Even Senate Finance Chair Max Baucus, of bipartisan bent, has bowed to legal powers. The past two years, Mr. Baucus has teamed up with Wyoming Republican Mike Enzi to offer legislation for modest health-care tort reform in states. That Enzi-Baucus proposal had been part of the bipartisan health-care talks. When Mr. Baucus released his draft health legislation this weekend, he’d stripped out his own legal reforms. The Montanan is already in the doghouse with party liberals, and decided not to further irk leadership’s Dick Durbin ($3.6 million in lawyer contributions), the Senate’s patron saint of the trial bar.
    
    Over in the House the discussion isn’t about tort reform, but about tort opportunities. During the House Ways & Means markup of a health bill, Texas Democrat Lloyd Doggett ($1.5 million from lawyers) introduced language to allow freelance lawyers to sue any outfit (say, McDonald’s) that might contribute to Medicare costs. Only after Blue Dogs freaked out did the idea get dropped, though the trial bar has standing orders that Democrats make another run at it in any House-Senate conference.
    
    It says everything that Mr. Obama wouldn’t plump for reform as part of legislation. The president knows the Senate would never have passed it in any event. Yet even proposing it was too much for the White House’s legal lobby. Mr. Obama is instead directing his secretary of health and human services to move forward on test projects. That would be Kathleen Sebelius, who spent eight years as the head of the Kansas Trial Lawyers Association.
    ...
    How likely will a positive report come from tort-reform pilot projects run by the former executive director of a state TLA? About as likely as getting Democrats to vote to impose them even if they do succeed. It’s not just because the trial lawyers provides tons of cash to Democrats, although that’s certainly true. Trial lawyers afflict the very entities that the liberal wing of the Democratic Party likes to demonize — the rich, corporations, the rich, doctors (remember Tonsil Vultures and Foot Rustlers?), the rich, etc. It’s an ideological as well as financial marriage.
    
    Obama’s not involved in writing the legislation anyway. He’s made himself irrelevant enough that he can toss in a couple of lines about the subject without having it change the situation one iota. But even if was involved in it, Obama has been pretty clear about his opposition to tort reform — as he was just three months ago when he spoke to the AMA...
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    So what was his solution to high malpractice abuse costs? In effect, he said that doctors need more schooling...

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    Barack Hussein Obama sat in Jeremiah Wright's church for 23 years, condemned people for "clinging to God", condemning Christians for not being the "right kind", and yet Barack Hussein Obama hasn't bothered to go back to church since Jeremiah Wright was outed as a racist-Marxist hater. Pitching Healthcare he trotted out some politically correct and hand selected phony religious con artists and actually said:

    "I know that there's been a lot of misinformation in this debate and there are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness," Obama said

    Considering the number of lies spouted by Barack Hussein Obama, as well as his smears against his opponents I am literally shocked. I shouldn't be... but I am.
    
    Dan Spencer : Obama bemoans those who bear ‘false witness’ against Obamacare as he bears ‘false witness’ himself

    He said the first thing he wanted to correct was the idea that the proposed overhaul would force some people into different health care plans. “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan,” he said, repeating one of his stock lines.

    Unfortunately, that Obama “stock line” is not true.

    Erick Erickson : God and Gog: It’s Like Christ and Anti-Christ Join Forces on Super Best Friends

    “We are God’s partners in matters of life and death,” Obama went on to say.

    Partners “in life and death.” Really? So this is a tacit admission that Barack Obama’s government is going to play a role in matters of death?
    
    The hubris is overwhelming. And as Goldfarb also points out, if Obama and God are partners in matters of life and death, are the 54% of Americans who oppose Obamacare, soon to be named Godcare, pagan sinners worthy of the wrath of God?

    Van Helsing : Obama Declares Himself God's Partner in Matters of Life and Death

    Not everyone sniggered or gagged when Newsweek's Evan Thomas proclaimed that our conspicuously underqualified Community Activist in Chief "is sort of God."
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    You have to wonder just what it would take to shake Jewish support for the Chicago Machine's megalomaniacal, Hamas-endorsed answer to Adolf Schicklgruber.

    Because nothing quite says "Gods work" like abortion :
    Ace : Obama: Claim that ObamaCare Would Fund Abortions a "Fabrication" and (Wait... for... It...) a "Distraction" Video Update: It Wasn't a Distraction When He Made Promises to Planned Parenthood in 2007

    President Barack Obama claimed it is a "fabrication" and "distraction" to say abortion funding is included in the health care reform plans pending in Congress.
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    Obama "knows very well that pro-abortion House and Senate Committees rejected every single amendment to keep abortion funding out of the health care overhaul."
    
    "Instead, the House Energy and Commerce Committee adopted the Capps Amendment, which allows abortion coverage in the public health plan, and subsidizes health plans that cover abortion," he added.
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    Let Me Be Clear, As I Have Always Said, Abortion Funding is Not in My Health Care Plan, and, As I Have Also Always Said, Abortion Funding is "At the Center and Heart of" My Health Care Plan...
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    In a question specifically about abortion funding, at Planned Parenthood, he says "reproductive care" which will provide "all essential services" is "at the center and heart" of his plan.

    Gateway Pundit : Pro-Infanticide President Tells Rabbis: "We Are God's Partners in Matters of Life & Death"

    This comes from the same guy who voted 4 times to kill live babies.
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    Already this year, Barack Obama has signed several pieces of abortion legislation including funding foreign abortions. He also signed legislation to use taxpayer money to kill embryos in research. And, democrats are pushing legislation that will force healthcare providers to perform abortions even if it violates their moral or religious convictions.

    

    Meanwhile Barack Hussein Obama sends out the attack dogs to bully and intimidate :
    Carl Cameron : Health Insurers Fear Probe By House Dems Is Reprisal for Opposing Part of Obama's Plan

    Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Bart Stupak, D-Mich., sent a letter warning health insurers that the House Energy and Commerce Committee is "examining executive compensation and other business practices of the health industry."

    Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif is a thug.
    
    Here are some Barack Hussein Obama quotes...

    "You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." -- Barack Obama
    
    "I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe." -- Barack Obama
    
    "I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth." -- Barack Hussein Obama
    
    "This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." -- Barack Hussein Obama
    
    "The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn't. But she is a typical white person..." -- Barack Obama

    SNOBama's "fathers":

    "Mentor" Frank Davis
    "Reverend" Al Sharpton
    "Reverend" James Meeks
    "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright
    "Reverend" Otis Moss III
    "Minister" Louis Farrakhan
    "Pastor" Michael Pfleger
    "Reverend" Jim Wallis
    "Reverend" James Bevel
    "Reverend" Eric Lee
    "Pastor" Mack King
    "Bishop" Desmond Tutu

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• Democrats Hate Free Speech

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    So we say Pffft, Pffft, Pffft, right in Der Fuhrer's face!
    
    Kyle-Anne Shiver : Dems Begin Alinsky-in-August Offensive

    Pass another trillion-dollar tax burden upon the backs of unsuspecting American taxpayers.
    ...
    Buy a bunch of votes for 2010 from ACORN registrants and illegal aliens.
    ...
    Hard to trust an insurance salesman who hasn't even read the policy, now isn't it?
    ...
    The Hill intercepted a top-secret, Dem communiqué that spelled out the battle plan for the Alinsky-in-August MediCoup offensive, echoing Imperious Nancy's salvo at the insurance companies, the now-to-be targeted "villain."
    ...
    "This is going to be carpet bombing," she said. "Carpet bombing, slash and burn, shock and awe - anything you want to say to describe what the insurance companies will do to hold on to their special advantage, which exploits the patients and holds the American consumer at the mercy of the insurance company."
    ...
    ...how on earth, did Democrats decide upon whom to paint the Alinsky bull's-eye? Oh puh-lease. Public polling, of course.

    The standard tactic of the "BigLie" is to smear your victims with exactly that which you intend.
    
    Michelle Malkin : Obama summons his army: “This is the moment our movement was built for.”

    Astroturf powers, unite!

    Michelle Malkin : Lanny Davis wants you photographed and investigated

    The consigliere to the Clinton thugocracy decries the taxpayer counterinsurgency — and calls on left-wing hitmen to photograph and investigate Obamacare protesters to prove that they are being “paid” by the “Republican right” to express their opinions and demand accountability from their congressional representatives (never mind that so many of these protests have been aimed at Republicans who have betrayed their principles).

    Michelle Malkin : his is what mob rule looks like (Videos)

    I’ve noted the irony of the unhinged Left moaning about the “insane rage” of the Right many, many, many, many, many times.
    
    Allahpundit reports tonight that the DNC is now decrying “mob rule.” Lefty bloggers are comparing grass-roots conservatives to Holocaust deniers and waving around the moral equivalence card to smear peaceful Tea Party activists as dangers to democracy and civility (check that link and you’ll get a chuckle out of Media Matters pointing to my archive exposing anti-war fraudsters, Code Pink thieves and home stalkers, and rock-throwing moonbats as some sort of proof that supporting the law-abiding Tea Party movement is hypocritical).
    
    Please.
    
    This is what mob rule looks like...
    ...
    Left-wing mob shuts down speech at Columbia University...
    ...
    Left-wing mob shuts down speech at UNC-Chapel Hill...
    ...
    Left-wing mob blocks military shipments in Olympia, WA...
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    Left-wing mob illegally trespasses and breaks into a home in Baltimore in the name of “social justice”...
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    Left-wing mob chases Christian evangelists out of San Francisco’s Castro district...
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    Left-wing mob stomps on elderly Prop. 8 supporter’s cross...
    ...
    There is a world of difference between these acts of left-wing vigilantism and the civic participation of vocal taxpayers peacefully, but forcefully, challenging their representatives in public forums.

    Michelle Malkin : Tea Party-bashers gone wild

    The activist Left can’t stand competition. Last week in Long Island, NY, opponents of the Democrats’ government health care takeover legislation outnumbered Obama supporters ten to one. The Tea Party activists toted American flags and signs that read “WE CAN’T AFFORD FREE HEALTH CARE” – prompting one foe to stalk into the peaceful crowd, gesticulate wildly, and shout unintelligible threats at the top of his lungs.
    
    The same Democrat Masters of Astroturf who encouraged their followers to use “in your face” tactics during the campaign season now balk at vocal opposition from their fiscally conservative neighbors and co-workers. Obama’s architects of Kabuki town halls have packed public forums with partisan plants. Now, they accuse opponents gathering at impromptu rallies against the massive health care takeover legislation (which no one has read) of orchestrating “manufactured anger.”
    
    Unaccustomed to pushback, the wealthy, astro-turfed ground troops for Obamacare – underwritten by unions, liberal philanthropists, the AARP, ACORN, and your tax dollars — have resorted to projection.
    ...
    The DNC definition of incitement: Asking out loud, “How can you manage health care when you can’t manage Cash For Clunkers?”
    ...
    White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, apparently oblivious to the dozens of well-dressed and well-heeled former lobbyists and influence peddlers employed by his own boss, derided health care town hall protesters as the “Brooks Brothers brigade.” Brooks Brothers was also the president’s clothes designer of choice on Inauguration Day.
    ...
    The White House health czar’s office is mustering up Internet snitches to report “inaccurate” blog posts and “casual conversations” from health care opponents.
    ...
    Talking Points Memo blogger Josh Marshall bemoaned a fiscal conservative activist’s memo offering advice on how to “pack the hall..spread out” and challenge a politician early “to rattle him, get him off his prepared script and agenda.” Horrors! “This amounts to a sort of civic vigilanteism,” Marshall fretted.
    
    No, showing up at a congressional town hall and booing a talking points-programmed political hack isn’t “civic vigilantism.” Throwing rocks, pouring cement on train tracks, blocking military shipments, smashing windows, hurling paint, slashing tires, vandalizing businesses, and throwing shoes are vigilante acts.
    
    That is what the anti-war, anti-free trade, anti-Bush mobsters did over the last eight years – and there wasn’t a peep about those brute tactics from Obama’s blogging pals.
    
    They sat quietly while Code Pink disrupted hearings on the Hill and harassed Marine recruiters.
    
    They looked the other way when ACORN illegally broke into homes and stormed foreclosure auctions.
    
    They gave their tacit approval to self-declared “bank terrorists” like Boston housing entitlement organizer Bruce Marks, who show up at the schools of bank executives’ children and bullies them because of their parents’ employment in the name of social justice.
    
    Now, the taxpayers footing the bill for Obama’s redistribution of health and wealth are silent no more – and the unhinged Left is beside itself.

    Ed Morrissey : Boxer: Protesters too well dressed to be sincere

    Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) appeared on Hardball last night in support of the Left’s attempt to discredit the people showing up to townhalls in protest of ObamaCare. Boxer says she can tell that they’re fakes, because they’re too well dressed. How does she know that this is a problem?
    ...
    In my recollection, the people in the town halls are dressed in T-shirts, jeans, shorts, halter tops, and the like.

    Allahpundit : ABC at health-care townhall: Gee, the anger here seems authentic

    Of course it does, silly. Isn’t the whole point of astroturfing to “manufacture outrage”? That’s why we need to inform on these people at that White House e-mail address or start investigating them the way Clinton zombie Lanny Davis wants us to do. Only by violating their privacy will we intimidate them expose their nefarious charade.
    
    Incidentally, what happened here to the left-wing playbook of making sure right-wingers can’t talk to reporters?

    Allahpundit : Cult leader to followers: Get out there and get in people’s faces on health care

    Savor the nuance of a guy with his own online army worrying about astroturfing and political “mobs.”
    ...
    Verum Serum offers a few highlights from the townhall playbook developed by lefty outfit Health Care for America Now. Sample: “It is important that you take away right-wingers opportunities to talk to reporters by making sure that your staff or leaders are in constant contact with the media who attend.”

    Ace : Sen. Cornyn Rips Obama for Fishy Fascism

    "I am not aware of any precedent for a president asking American citizens to report their fellow citizens to the White House for pure political speech that is deemed 'fishy' or otherwise inimical to the White House?s political interests," John Cornyn of Texas wrote US President Barack Obama.
    
    "As Congress debates health care reform and other critical policy matters, citizen engagement must not be chilled by fear of government monitoring the exercise of free speech rights," he wrote.
    
    "I can only imagine the level of justifiable outrage had your predecessor asked Americans to forward emails critical of his policies to the White House," Cornyn wrote, referring to former president George W. Bush.
    
    "I suspect that you would have been leading the charge in condemning such a program -- and I would have been at your side denouncing such heavy-handed government action," he wrote.

    Gateway Pundit : It Has Begun... Obama Initiates Formation of His Marxist Snitch Network

    It's Not Like We Weren't Warned...
    
    Last year Barack Obama proposed his plan to build a massive "civilian national security force" here in America. It would be just as well funded as the US military...

    Gusano at Babalu : Barry O.'s CDR's

    This concept is eerily similar to the Castroite CDR block snitch network that I grew up with only better funded and more ideologically pure.

    Ace : Obama: Comrades! You Will Report All Counter-Revolutionary Activities To The Authorities At Once

    Remember in the wake of 9/11 when the Bush administration urged people who may have seen something suspicious to report it? Well, the left went nuts.
    
    This, from the official White House blog, however is apparently cool.
    ...
    Given this President's unseemly propencity for going after individual citizens (Limbaugh* and Crowley come to mind) not to mention the media's willingness to vet the hell out anyone who actual dares to question Obama (hello Joe the Plumber) this is more than a little creepy. It's also excellent fodder for the "imagine if Republicans had done this" file.
    ...
    I'll be sending in that Linda Douglas video from below since she's lying about what Obama actually said.

    Michelle Malkin : The smell of desperation: White House unleashes on Internet critics

    Take a whiff of the White House bashing of Internet opponents: This is the smell of desperation.
    
    Their lead attack dog? Former ABC News correspondent Linda Douglass.
    ...
    ...the office of the interest-conflicted White House health czar, Nancy DeParle, whose industry ties have received little scrutiny as the administration convenes secret meetings with health care execs.

    Gateway Pundit : PROOF OF LOBBYIST INFILTRATION at Health Care Town Hall Events!

    Photos and video from the McCaskill town hall in St. Louis show lobbyist funded astroturfers at the event...
    
    Far Left astroturfers...

    Gateway Pundit : DESPITE HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE-- Dem Reps Booed at Obamacare Rally

    Hopefully, members of the Obama Snitch Squad were able to report on this mob to Dear Leader.

    Philip Klein : Durbin Accuses Citizens Opposed to Obamacare of Being Planted By Insurers

    ...liberals are attempting to delegitimize citizens exercising their rights by portraying them as part of some ominous conspiracy run by evil corporations.
    ...
    This is absolutely absurd on several levels. For one thing, I’ve been closely tracking liberal groups involved in the health care fight for some time, and all I’ve been hearing is how much money unions and other activist groups would be pouring into fighting for liberal health care legislation. Last July, the group Health Care for Americans Now announced the start of a $40 million campaign expressly for this purpose, and the groups were loaded with backers from big labor and groups such as MoveOn, Planned Parenthood, and ACORN. As I've reported elsewhere, the group received a $10 million grant from Atlantic Philanthropies, whose CEO, Gara LaMarche, was previously director of U.S. programs for the Open Society Institute, the philanthropic foundation founded and chaired by George Soros.
    ...
    I attended a news conference in which HCAN and other liberal groups announced they would spend $82 million in an effort to support President Obama's health care push and press for legislation that includes a new government-run plan modeled after Medicare. Howard Dean, former chair of the DNC, is involved in this supposedly grassroots effort.

    

    Gateway Pundit : Protester to Majority Leader Hoyer: Why Do You Want to Cram Health Care Down Our Throats in 3-4 Weeks When He Took Six Months to Pick a Dog? (Video)

    "Why does Obama want to cram health care down our throats in 3-4 weeks when it took him 6 months to pick a dog for his kids?"
    
    Someone really needs to turn this protester over to the Obama snitch squad.

    Michelle Malkin : Who’s funding the Obamacare Astroturf campaign?

    The astroturf has been on public display at events like Pres. Obama’s healthcare town hall meeting in Northern Virginia, where all of the live questions came from members of SEIU, HCAN, and OFA. Heading into the August recess, the White House and the Congressional Democratic Leadership are working in close coordination with outside groups, including but not limited to, HCAN, Families USA, AFSCME, SEIU, and AARP.
    
    If there is anyone putting their own interests ahead of those they claim to represent, it is the AARP. If there is anyone who should not be whining about vocal anti-Obamacare protests, it is the muscle for money crowd at SEIU and ACORN. If there is anyone who knows about shouting down their critics, it is OFA. If there is anyone without standing to complain about activists getting in people’s faces, it is Pres. Obama.
    
    The Community Organizer in Chief, advised by master astroturfer David Axelrod, has amassed a campaign that dwarfs the efforts of the Right. But they are currently outnumbered and out-messaged on a shoe-string budget, primarily because of the merits of the issue. And that, more than anything, is what has the Left demonizing dissent from ObamaCare.
    ...
    Will the ABC “All Barack Channel” News health care infomercial tell viewers about the cabal at 1825 K Street (a far Left office complex/headquarters that is the Washington DC analogue of the 1024 Elysian Fields ACORN headquarters in New Orleans, which I first reported on in August 2008)?
    ...
    If you believe the White House, there are 30 million Americans who support a government health care takeover. But if you look at the funding behind the Obamacare Astroturf campaign, it’s the same few Leftist billionaires, union bosses, and partisan community organizers pushing the socialized medicine agenda.
    ...
    HCAN has a $40 million budget, with $10 million pitched in by Atlantic Philanthropies – a Bermuda-based organization fronted by Soros acolyte Gara LaMarche. Also in the money mix: Notorious Democrat donors Herb and Marion Sandler, the left-wing moguls who made billions selling shady subprime mortgages and helped Soros fund his vast network of left-wing activist satellites. By their side is billionaire Peter Lewis of Progressive Insurance, whose “Progressive Future” youth group has dispatched clueless volunteers armed with clipboards and literature bashing Rush Limbaugh and Fox News to scare up support for Obamcare.
    
    And two more left-wing heavyweights joining the HCAN parade: the corruption-riddled SEIU (which has battled numerous embezzlement scandals among its chapters across the country while crusading for consumer and patients’ rights) and Obama’s old chums at fraud-riddled ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
    
    ACORN and HCAN are linked by left-wing philanthropist Drummond Pike, who heads the non-profit Tides Foundation/Tides Center. As the tax disclaimer for HCAN discloses, “HCAN is related to Health Care for America Education Fund, a project of The Tides Center, a section 501(c)(3) public charity.” For decades, the Tides Center and its parent organization, the Tides Foundation, have seeded some of the country’s most radical activist groups of the Left, including the communist-friendly United for Peace and Justice, the jihadist-friendly National Lawyers Guild; and the grievance-mongering Council for American-Islamic Relations.
    
    Pike is the same philanthropist who assisted ACORN founder Wade Rathke after his brother, Dale, was caught embezzling nearly $1 million from the community organizing group. Rathke sits on the Tides Foundation board of directors. In a conspiracy to cover up Dale Rathke’s massive theft of funds, Pike volunteered to buy a promissory note worth $800,000 to cover the debt. These are the populist do-gooders supposedly looking out for you and your health.
    
    Why do they want Obamacare? An internal ACORN memo I obtained from August 2008 makes the motives clear. “Over our 38 years, health care organizing has never been a major focus either nationally or locally for ACORN,” wrote ACORN Philadelphia region director Craig Robbins. “But increasingly, ACORN offices around the country are doing work on health care.” The goal: “Building ACORN Power.”
    ...
    The “grass-roots” movement is not about representing Main Street. It’s about peddling influence and power on 1825 K Street.

    Gateway Pundit : DNC Releases "Mob" Ad Attacking American Taxpayers Who Oppose Record Spending & Debt (Video) ...Update: Obama Urges Supporters "Get In Their Face!"

    Yeah. This is going to make you want to stay home and shut up...
    ...
    Evidently, when constituents boo their Congressional representatives for not reading the record spending bills they are voting on, they are acting mob-like.
    
    And, once again, the democrats are trying blame George Bush and the GOP for their record deficits.

    Ethel C. Fenig : Who's the rude one?

    So the government is willing to pass a complex law that intimately affects all its citizens while consuming a large chunk of the national economy--and no one voting on it has read through it! The bill's main proponent, President Obama, seemed to have devoted more time selecting a dog for his children, knowing more about its background and health than he does about the health care (insurance) reform legislation he's pushing.
    
    The people in the audience who jeered the lawmakers weren't rude--the lawmakers who are trying to shove this down the citizen taxpayers are the rude ones--they are beyond rude, they are cruel. Hopefully citizens will boo, boo and jeer more.

    John McCormack : Gibbs Won't Say if Obama Will Read the Health-Care Bill

    You can watch the exchange here at the 33-minute mark.

    Ed Morrissey : Yet another Democrat: Who has time to read these bills?

    After Rep. John Conyers attempted to laugh at those who insisted he do the job to which he was elected, Rep. Paul Hodes (D-NH) tried a more sympathetic approach with the Nashua Telegraph. How can people expect their elected representatives in the House and Senate to read the bills before voting on them? Do constituents have any appreciation for their workload?
    ...
    ...does Hodes really want to issue a cri de coeur over the hard life of a Representative — on the first day of his six-week vacation? How many people get paid $174,000 per year for working four-day weeks for about two-thirds of a year? I’m certain his constituents will feel his pain, especially those having to work overtime to make ends meet or those who can’t get a job at all in this economy.

    Yuval Levin : Those Pesky Details

    HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius takes to the op-ed page of the Washington Post this morning to make the case for the Democrats’ health-care reform. The case she makes helps highlight why that effort is in such trouble. This bit is certainly the most fun:

    President Obama and I are working closely with Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate and health-care experts to make sure we get the details of health reform right. But we can't let the details distract us from the huge benefits that reform will bring.

    Can’t let those “details,” like what the plan will actually consist of and what it will cost, distract us from the huge benefits. The striking thing about her case as a whole is actually the utter lack of details. It’s clear the phrase “health reform” has tested well, as she asserts that this vague concept will perform all manner of impressive feats. “Through health reform, we can give every American access to quality, affordable health insurance so that if they do get sick, they have the best chance possible of getting better without bankrupting their families,” she writes. “Reform will close the gaps in our current system.” “Health reform means unleashing America's entrepreneurs to chase their big ideas.”
    
    But what is “health reform”? What specifically does the administration support or oppose? How in particular will any of this happen? Those are just distracting details, apparently.

    I love Big Brother.

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• LET THEM EAT...McDONALDS!

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    We all experience life-changing moments at odd times.   Those chance encounters that you remember for the rest of your days because what you learned was such a shock to your insulated lifestyle.

    One of those moments for me came several years ago when my company was asked to feed Thanksgiving dinner to a group of 100 local, homeless, school children.  I agreed to the request and showed up at the appropriate time with several roast turkeys, mashed potatoes, gravy and other "holiday fare".  

    The kids were late!   It was during my busy season so I wasn't real happy about that.  I was a little ashamed of my personal reaction when I discoved that the reason they were late was that they were having to hunt down the children.  "What do you mean?", I asked.  And was told that the kids "couch surf" between different homes each day, so it takes a little extra time to find them.   But eventually they arrived and proceeded to eat. 

    At the end of the meal, a six year old boy came back to the buffet and asked if he could take home some dinner to his mother.  He said, "I don't want my Mom to go hungry tonight".   And my universe was upended.   The realization finally hit home that I lived in the richest country in the world....and there were still 1st graders who felt obligated to try to feed their family.   They weren't worried about things I think of kids worrying about.  Things like missing TV or tomorrow's recess or their next soccer game.  They were worried about feeding Mom at the ripe old age of 6!  THAT'S SO WRONG!!!

    I've done that same event every year since.  It's one that I never hand off to an employee because I never want to be so comfortable that I  forget that boy's situation.  (And I will remember the look in his eyes until the day I die.)

    Hunger is a major problem both for this country and for Missouri:

    "one in five Missouri children lives with hunger. That ties us with Louisiana for the nation's seventh-highest rate, according to a report released last month by the hunger-relief charity Feeding America.
    
    Or that the recession has pushed the number of poor Missouri kids who qualify for free or reduced-price school lunches by 8.3 percent this year, well above the national average."
    

    I tell you this story to introduce you to this woman:

    

    Dressed in her cute pink outfit, surrounded by her husband and children is Missouri State Legislator Cynthia Davis from St. Charles County. She is the co-owner of BACK TO BASICS CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE in O'Fallon Missouri.  "Rep. Davis has been appointed to serve as the Majority Floor Whip. She was also elected by her peers to be the Secretary for the Women Legislators of Missouri and was also elected to be the Vice-President of First Capitol Federation of Republican Women. She is also serving as the Republican Committeewoman for the Dardenne Township."  She also chairs the Missouri House Special Standing Committee on Children and Families.  

    She recently released a statement in her newsletter on a summer program sponsored by the Agricultural Department to feed school aged children during the summer.   This program last year fed 3.7 million meals at a total cost of under 9.5 million dollars.  (By using local churches and food pantries, that keeps the costs to under $3/meal.  Pretty efficient use of our tax dollars if you ask me.)

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    The chair of the Committee on Children & Families wrote:

    "While I have not seen this as a problem in my district, it is entirely possible that the (summer feeding) program is designed to address problems that exist in other parts of Missouri," Ms. Davis says in her newsletter.
    
    "The right way to solve this is with more education. If parents ... don't know how to serve nutritious meals, let's help them learn to do that."
    
    Why have meals at home with your loved ones if you can go to the government soup kitchen and get one for free? This could have the effect of breaking apart more families.

    Anyone under 18 can be eligible? Can’t they get a job during the summer by the time they are 16? Hunger can be a positive motivator. What is wrong with the idea of getting a job so you can get better meals?

    Tip: If you work for McDonald’s, they will feed you for free during your break.

    Families may economize by choosing to not waste hard earned dollars on potato chips, ice cream, or Twinkies. Perhaps some families will buy more beans and chicken and less sweets.

    They are using a "crisis" to create an expansion of a government program. Parents naturally love their children and enjoy caring for their children just as much as ever during an economic downturn...Laid off parents could adapt by preparing more home cooked meals rather than going out to eat.

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    Rather obviously, Rep. Davis is a little out of touch with the real world that many of her fellow Missourians face.

    Here's a reality check for you:

    

    This is what a food line looks like.   There are lots of them in Missouri.   This one's from Southwest Missouri!  Does this look like a made-up "crisis" just to increase government?

    
    This is what one of the children who was fed last summer from the program you scoff at looks like!  (He looks a little short to run a fryer safely!)

    Rep. Davis is a disgrace to her office and to our state!  She should be ashamed of herself and her district should be ashamed of themselves if they re-elect her.

    If this story upsets you as much as it did me, you can do three things to help.

    1)  Make a donation of food or money to a local food pantry.   Make sure the donation is made in honor of Rep. Davis!

    2)  You can e-mail Rep. Davis yourself at cynthia.davis@house.mo.gov

    3)  Contact your local state legislator to ask them to lobby Republicans to remove Rep. Davis from her chairmanship of the Committe on Children and Families.   Missouri deserves better representation than this!

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• Teen Accused of Setting Anothe

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    (Poplar Bluff, MO)-- A 15-year-old Poplar Bluff boy has been hospitalized after he was doused with gasoline and set on fire, according to police.

    A 16-year-old boy is accused of squirting gasoline on Walter Currie Jr. and lighting the fire. The boy is being charged as a juvenile with first-degree assault and is being held in the Butler Ripley County Juvenile Authority and Detention Center.

    Poplar Bluff police said the victim was standing with some friends Saturday when two boys with whom Walter was feuding came up to him. One of the two boys squirted Walter with a squeeze bottle filled with gasoline, then ignited it with a lighter.

    Walter is in good condition at a St. Louis-area hospital with burns to his chest, stomach and arms.

    Poplar Bluff Deputy Police Chief Jeff Rolland said the incident happened about 9 p.m. Saturday near Main  and Davis streets.

    Rolland said there was a confrontation between the two youths that continued from an earlier incident.

    "This confrontation led the suspect juvenile to douse the victim juvenile with a bottle of gasoline and then light the gasoline, which caused the victim to be burned to his abdomen, chest and his neck area," Rolland said.

    Rolland said that the motive is being investigated but that it stems from confrontations between the two youths and their friends June 10 and earlier in the year at school.

    Walter Currie Sr., 56, the victim's father, says he believes that the attack on his son was racially motivated and that he is worried the attacker will never be brought to justice. His son is black; the attacker is white.

    Rolland doesn't believe the incident involved race.

    "At this time, we don't have anything that indicates that it was racially motivated," he said. 'It just appears that these two young men did not like one another. Now, what that reason is is a good question, and we would like to get the answer to that."

    Rolland said police are investigating why the suspect, who was arrested at the scene, had the bottle of gasoline. Rolland said the attack is the first of its kind.

    "It's makes you want to scratch your head," he said.

     

    Walter is a freshman at Poplar Bluff High School. His father said he was standing outside a Poplar Bluff store with his cousin, also 15, when he was attacked.

    "The only thing I know is what Junior told me. (He said) he heard that somebody was going to jump him," Currie said. "He saw the guy, who was talking. So, he went over and asked the guy, and the next thing he knew the guy poured the gas on him and lit him up."

    Currie, 56, said his nephew tried to help put the fire out and then tried to get to the suspect. The boy was rushed inside the store for protection, he said.

    Currie said he was shocked. when he learned of the incident. He said the assault was premeditated.

    "I can't understand why he would walk around carrying gas in a (squirt) bottle," he said.

    Currie said he did not know the teen who attacked his son, but he believed that one of his two sons had attended school with him. The father said his family is upset over the attack.

    "We don't get no justice down here in this town," he said.

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• Obama's Pastor Speaks Again!

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    Obama sat in Wright's pew 24 years
    

    The racist hater "Rev" Wright published Hamas in his "Church" news letter which featured the Marxist Racism of black liberation theology as advocated by James Cone. Oh... did I mention he is a raging anti-Semite?
    
    Allahpundit : Rev. Wright on Obama: “Them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me”

    Well, you know how them Jews are.
    ...
    Exit question: 20 years spent in the pews of Trinity and who knows how many private conversations had with Wright, and yet not once did Obama ever encounter this sort of rhetoric from the good reverend, huh? Who, mind you, can’t even suppress it when speaking to reporters on the record. Remarkable.

    Gateway Pundit : Obama's Mentor Wright: "Them Jews Aren't Going To Let Him Talk To Me"

    Here's a collection of this goof's sermons from his his years preaching to Obama...

    Carol Brown : Fanning the flames of anti-Semitism

    Obama's rhetoric on Islam, Israel, Iran, and the Palestinians is not only sowing the seeds for major international disasters, he is fanning the flames of anti-Semitism right here at home. The President is sending a message loud and clear that Jews are the real enemy. Since his brief tenure in office, there have been a disturbing number of hate crimes planned and/or executed against Jews here in the United States.
    ...
    Last month, four ex-convicts were arrested when they were alleged to be plotting to blow up synagogues in the name of Islam. Also in May, a student at Wesleyan University was shot and killed by a man apparently bent on killing Jews.
    ...
    It is not just the future of Israel that is at stake, it is every single Jewish person in the United States who is being put at risk because of the policies and perspectives of our current administration.

    Michelle Malkin : Shooting at National Holocaust Museum

    The blame game has already begun. Here’s Kos implicating the Tea Party movement.
    
    Ditto Donald Douglas: “The spin on the left is that the suspect, James Von Brunn, is an agent of the GOP’s “Christian-fascist” base. The truth is, via Melissa Clouthier, this guy’s a deranged Holocaust denier. He represents no one on the conservative right - not me, nor any of those with whom I associate.”
    
    Melissa Clouthier: “Remember, Markos, it’s our President who is wanting to meet with another Holocaust denier, President Ahmadinejad.”
    
    Francis Beckwith notes that Von Brunn was an all-inclusive nutball hater who bashed both Jews and Christians.

    The Daily Kos has frequently been caught with anti-Semitic postings. Not comments. Postings.
    
    Allahpundit : Guy who attended Jeremiah “Them Jews” Wright’s church for 20 years: We must be vigilant about anti-semitism

    “Remaining vigilant” evidently doesn’t include periodically checking your church bulletin for Hamas screeds or challenging the right of Holocaust-deniers who pine publicly for Israel to be wiped off the map to possess nuclear power.

    Barack Hussein Obama has surrounded himself with anti-Semites, terrorists and terror apologists.

    SNOBama's "fathers":

    "Mentor" Frank Davis
    "Reverend" Al Sharpton
    "Reverend" James Meeks
    "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright
    "Reverend" Otis Moss III
    "Minister" Louis Farrakhan
    "Pastor" Michael Pfleger
    "Reverend" Jim Wallis
    "Reverend" James Bevel
    "Reverend" Eric Lee
    "Pastor" Mack King
    "Bishop" Desmond Tutu

    SNOBama's "money men":

    George Soros
    Syrian Tony Rezko
    Saddam Hussein's gun-running bagman Nadhmi Auchi

    SNOBama's anti-Semitic "advisors":

    William C. Ayers
    Bernadine Dohrn
    Samantha Power
    Greg Craig
    Robert Malley
    Susan Rice
    Anthony Lake
    General Tony McPeak
    Chas Freeman
    Edward Said
    Rashid Khalidi
    Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour
    Ali Abunimah
    James Yee
    Imam Hassan Qazwini
    Raila Odinga
    Zbigniew Brzezinski
    Brent Scowcroft
    Jodie Evans
    The Black Panthers
    Lawrence Lessig
    Sam Graham-Felsen
    Joseph Cirincione
    Cornell West
    

    Judging by the people he surrounds himself with, Barack Hussein Obama intends to "Wipe Israel Off the Map".
    
    Not to mention some of Barack Hussein Obama's more interesting supporters:

    Hamas
    Iran
    Hatem El-Hady
    FARC
    Hugo Chavez
    Fidel Castro
    Daniel Ortega
    Weathermen
    Maria "Che Flag" Isabel
    Mayor "Let 'em Drown" Nagin
    Jimmy "Hamas" Carter
    Jim McDermott(D)
    

    Discover The Network Links on

    BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
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    BARACK'S WORLD

    This section of DiscoverTheNetworks examines Barack Obama's connections to a number of key individuals and organizations. In some cases, these affiliates are notable for the leftist views and objectives they share with Obama. In other cases, they are notable for their collaboration with Obama in controversial or unethical activities. In all cases, they offer a window into Barack Obama's values and priorities. Taken as a whole, they verify Thomas Sowell's observation that Obama has "spent decades aiding and abetting people who hate America."

    Individuals:

    Ali Abunimah
    Saul Alinsky
    David Axelrod
    Nadhmi Auchi
    Bill Ayers
    Robert Blackwell, Jr.
    Gregg Craig
    Carl Davidson
    Frank Marshall Davis
    Bernardine Dohrn
    Louis Farrakhan
    Rashid Khalidi
    Rev. Joseph Lowery
    Robert Malley
    James Meeks
    Rev. Otis Moss
    Michelle Obama
    Raila Odinga
    Alice Palmer
    Eli Pariser
    Rev. Michael Pfleger
    Tony Rezko
    Edward Said
    Rev. Al Sharpton
    George Soros
    Dorothy Tillman
    Jim Wallis
    Joyce Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
    Rev. Jeremiah Wright

    Groups:

    ACORN
    Arab American Action Network
    Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C.
    Democratic Socialists of America
    Gamaliel Foundation
    International Crisis Group
    MoveOn
    National Council of La Raza
    New Party
    Planned Parenthood Federation of America
    Project Vote
    Socialist Scholars Conference
    Sojourners

    Foundations:

    Woods Fund of Chicago
    Joyce Foundation

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    Pelosi lied and risked Americans' lives
    

    If 10,000 Americans had died in Los Angeles she wouldn't have gotten away with it, but as the MainStreamMedia continue to provide CYA for the (D)emocrats, she will.
    
    Ace : Leak: Official CIA Minutes of Briefings Say Pelosi Briefed on Waterboarding's Use On Zubaydah; Democrats Stunned, Angry to Discover Push for "Truth Commissions" Inadvertantly Results in Release of Truth

    Oh dear. The truth is actually coming out?
    
    Well who asked for that?

    Ed Morrissey : Video: It wasn’t just Pelosi

    Nancy Pelosi isn’t alone in her lies and hypocrisy...
    ...
    The leaked CIA minutes of Congressional briefings on enhanced-interrogation techniques — more than 40 of them — show that leaders of both parties and members of the committees on intelligence got specifically and explicitly briefed on Abu Zubaydah’s waterboarding and other procedures used on high-value al-Qaeda detainees...
    ...
    The leak clearly shows that some in the CIA have resolved not to take the heat for waterboarding all by themselves, and shows what a miscalculation Obama made by releasing the legal memos. Until that time, the CIA appeared content to let people talk about Bush-era tactics in academic terms, especially since the agency had dropped the procedures in question several years earlier. After the release of the OLC memos prompted talk of prosecutions, that all changed, and now Obama knows how Bush felt when the CIA decided to leak damaging information to the press.
    
    We can expect this topic to die a quiet death in the next few days. Obama already hit reverse after his selective release when it became apparent that he’d opened Pandora’s Box and exposed Democratic leadership to the issue.

    Legal Insurrection : Pelosi Surrounds Herself With Herself

    Being a powerful Speaker requires someone who has credibility and can think two steps ahead. On both counts, Pelosi's hold on power is weak.
    ...
    Maybe the dog ate her homework, so she was excused from class that day.
    ...
    Pelosi, over the objections of Obama and Harry Reid, has been pushing for a "truth commission" to find out who knew what and when about waterboarding. Huh? Pelosi already knows the answer. She was in the room. So she is demanding an investigation which likely will prove her to be less than wholly truthful with the truth. Brilliant.

    Andy McCarthy : The Torture Follies — Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Worse ...

    I have an article (posted on the homepage this afternoon) which recounts how the Obama administration is urging the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to adopt the same interpretation of federal torture law that it is investigating former Bush administration lawyers for developing. (And why shouldn't AG Eric Holder rely on the memo written by Jay Bybee and John Yoo in 2002? After all, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals already adopted it as the law of the United States in a ruling last year — as I also recount in the article).

    Andrew C. McCarthy on 'The Justice Department’s Torture Hypocrisy' : Investigate Bush lawyers’ torture analysis one day, cite it favorably the next.

    The Obama Justice Department is engaged in the worst type of hypocrisy. Its Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is nearing completion of a 220-page report which will recommend that Attorney General Eric Holder refer former Bush administration lawyers to their state bar disciplinary committees over purported ethical lapses in the legal analysis those lawyers drafted to justify harsh interrogation techniques that critics — including President Obama himself — have labeled “torture.” The draft report, which is not public, was nevertheless reported on last night by the Washington Post and New York Times — apparently based on leaks from the Justice Department (in an ethics case, no less). Such bar referrals could result in profound professional and financial damage, potentially including disbarment — all due to actions the lawyers took in defense of the United States after the 9/11 attacks.
    
    Yet, even as the OPR report is being finalized, even after Obama declared himself open to the possibility of criminal prosecution against the Bush officials, and even after Holder promised to conduct an investigation that would “follow the evidence wherever it takes us, follow the law wherever that takes us” (emphasis added), the Obama Justice Department is relying on the very same legal analysis in order to urge a federal appeals court to reject torture claims. In fact, as the Obama Justice Department argued to that appeals court a little over a week ago, the torture law analysis in question has already been adopted by another federal appeals court.
    ...
    This Third Circuit legal theory is the exact same legal theory the Obama administration has urged the federal court to adopt in Demjanjuk, where it is fending off torture allegations. It is, simultaneously, the exact same legal theory developed by Bybee and Yoo — the legal theory that forms the basis for the Obama administration’s signaled determination to condemn morally, and potentially to prosecute criminally, its political adversaries.
    
    Given that the Bush DOJ memos in question evince an assiduous effort not to cross the line into torture — i.e., they demonstrate the very opposite of the evil motive to inflict torture that the Obama DOJ has just told a top federal court is necessary to establish a violation — it is simply shameful for the Justice Department to be pursuing this partisan witch-hunt.

    Andy McCarthy (Video)

    ...talks about the White House interrogation show he refused to be a prop at here, with Will Cain, host of the new NRO web TV series, Off the Page.

    Andy McCarthy : Ethics Case Against Bush Lawyers Hasn't Got a Prayer

    Meanwhile, I wonder if AG Eric "Rule of Law" Holder is going to investigate his Justice Department's unethical leaking of the details of an ethics investigation — y'know, consistent with his fearless commitment to "follow the evidence wherever it takes us, follow the law wherever it takes us." 'Til then, I guess we'll just have to continue following stories about how a Justice Department, while leaking non-public investigative information and timing its reports based on which party is in power, is investigating Bush administration lawyers for purportedly flouting ethical standards and allowing political considerations to affect their legal judgments.

    Kathryn Jean Lopez : Andy McCarthy Said "No" to the Justice Department Today

    After being invited by the administration to be a prop in the interrogation debate, the National Review Institute's former federal prosecutor provides a clear, instructional dissent...

    Michelle Malkin : What Nan knew

    She knew. From Day One.

    WaPo : CIA Says Pelosi Was Briefed on Use of 'Enhanced Interrogations'

    In a 10-page memo outlining an almost seven-year history of classified briefings, intelligence officials said that Pelosi and then-Rep. Porter Goss (R-Fla.) were the first two members of Congress ever briefed on the interrogation tactics. Then the ranking member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, respectively, Pelosi and Goss were briefed Sept. 4, 2002, one week before the first anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

    Sweetness & Light : More Dems Briefed On Waterboarding

    You will find some of the biggest blowhards in the Democrat party on the list, including John Murtha, John Rockefeller, Jerrold Nadler and even Keith Ellison.
    
    Will they and of course Ms. Pelosi also be tried for their crimes against humanity?

    Sweetness & Light : Pelosi Told Of W-Boarding Again In ‘03

    Ms. Pelosi is a pathological liar.

    Gateway Pundit : Breaking: PELOSI FOLDS... Admits She Lied (And Lies Again?)

    Unreal. She's still lying.
    
    Now she's saying that she knew EIT's were going to be used but not that they had been used.
    
    Pelosi was told the EIT's had already been used during her 2002 briefing.
    ...
    Isn't it about time for some frogmarching?

    Gateway Pundit : Top Pelosi Aide Also Knew of Waterboarding Back in 2003

    The current CIA director, Leon E. Panetta, just discredited his own officers to save Pelosi's a$$.

    Sweetness & Light : Pelosi Lied About Waterboard Briefing

    What a shock, huh? Except that we have been posting about this for years.

    Allahpundit : 2002 DNI report: Shameless liar Pelosi was briefed on Zubaydah’s waterboarding

    Follow the link and note ABC’s update about how many other Democrats knew what was up.

    Josh Gerstein : 40 Hill briefings on interrogations disclosed

    An intelligence report sent recently to Capitol Hill shows that members of Congress were briefed 40 times since 2002 on aspects of the so-called "enhanced interrogation" program. Many have decried the techniques used in the program as torture.
    
    The list seems to undercut the claim by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), then-minority leader and ranking member on the House intelligence committee, that she was never told at a 2002 briefing that waterboarding and other aggressive techniques had been used or would be used...

    "seems to undercut"? Or simply exposes her as a sociopathic liar?
    
    Krauthammer’s Take

    ... the mainstream media portraying this as Republicans desperately seizing on an issue as a way to embarrass the Obama administration. Well, that's what an opposition does. And it isn't as if terrorists running around in America is not a serious issue.
    
    But I think what is really interesting about it, and the reason it is going to get traction, is because it symbolizes the degree to which Democrats were hypocritical and irresponsible in attacking the Bush administration and all the measures it took in keeping us safe in the war on terror.
    
    For example, the wiretapping, which it attacked as a trashing of the constitution, is now being continued. We have the rendition policy, an attack on human rights, is also being continued. The military commissions, which Obama himself had said had been a failure, all of a sudden the Obama administration is resurrecting it.
    
    And Guantanamo is the biggest symbol of them all.
    
    Obama's idea is we are safer if the world likes us, and that's why you have to close at Guantanamo and do all these other nice things. Now we're going to see whether the closing of Guantanamo is going to reduce the recruiting of terrorists, is going to make our allies help us in Afghanistan and elsewhere, and will make us more safe.

    ictor Davis Hanson : Have You No Sense of Decency, Ms. Pelosi, at Long Last? Have You No Sense of Decency?

    Her status as a legislative overseer involves more responsibility than was true of the legal advisors who offered opinions that could or could not have been accepted by the administration and those select few in Congress charged with monitoring CIA protocols.
    ...
    Pelosi has repeatedly misled the country about her exact role in such oversight and the degree to which she was briefed...
    ...
    What we are seeing is yet another chicken, albeit a large one, coming home to roost — especially when we were lectured throughout 2007-8 that what has now become the current Obama anti-terror protocols (e.g., rendition, wiretaps, email intercepts, Predator drone executions, staying the course in Iraq, etc) were once all proof of Bush's trampling of the Constitution that had only empowered our enemies.
    
    At some point, someone in the Obama media is going to have to come to their senses and admit, "Okay, enough is enough, this is getting shameless beyond belief."

    IBD : Nancy 'Scooter' Pelosi

    Scooter Libby went to prison for the "outing" of a desk-jockey CIA agent. He forgot conversations. Pelosi forgets briefings. And the outing of our entire intelligence apparatus by Democrats is OK.
    
    Remember the thrilling days of yesteryear and the alleged outing of the already known CIA officer Valerie Plame? We were told then that the Vanity Fair cover girl's 15 minutes of fame jeopardized our national security even if everybody already knew who she was.
    
    "Scooter" Libby went to prison because his memory of events and who said what to whom regarding Plame differed from the recollections of others, particularly news reporters. Alleged contradictory statements were portrayed as a deliberate and malicious obstruction of justice. So what about Pelosi?
    ...
    Here we have the release of memos describing in detail how we have interrogated terrorists in the past, an action that gives aid and comfort to the enemy, revealing means, methods and sources, while jeopardizing real security officials. How does that not jeopardize America's national security?

    Remember the traitors Joe Wilson(D) and Valerie Plame(D)?

    

    When Libby's sentence was justifiably commuted by President Bush, Pelosi was outraged.
    
    "The President's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence does not serve justice, condones criminal conduct and is a betrayal of trust of the American people," she said.
    ...
    So here we have the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, offering up contradictory statements to the press and exhibiting a faulty memory that disagrees with the recollections of others regarding briefings concerning waterboarding.

    Jack Kelly : The CIA's Fight With Obama

    The presidency of George W. Bush began to unravel when some in high positions at the Central Intelligence Agency began waging a covert campaign against him.
    
    It began in the summer of 2003 when officials at the CIA asked the Justice department to open a criminal investigation into who had disclosed to columnist Robert Novak that Valerie Plame, wife of controversial former diplomat Joseph Wilson, worked at the CIA.
    
    The officials knew at the time the Intelligence Identities Protection Act did not apply to Ms. Plame, who'd been out of the field for more than five years.
    
    Another blow was struck with the publication in 2004 of the book "Imperial Hubris" by Michael Scheuer, who'd headed the bin Laden desk during the Clinton administration. It was harshly critical of the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror in general, and the invasion of Iraq in particular.
    
    Never before had a serving officer been allowed to publish such a book.
    ...
    Why would some at the CIA want to sabotage President Bush? One motive might have been to deflect blame for intelligence failures. The CIA confidently had predicted Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. But none were found. The tactical intelligence the CIA provided to the U.S. military forces invading Iraq proved nearly worthless. And the CIA was caught flat-footed by the insurgency that developed several months after Saddam's fall.
    
    There may have been a simpler motive. The novelist Charles McCarry was a deep cover CIA operative for ten years. "I never met a stupid person in the agency," he said in a 2004 interview. "Or an assassin. Or a Republican."

    Jennifer Rubin : What a Tangled Web

    It is enough for the public now to know that Pelosi and others were briefed and that no meaningful objections and steps to halt the CIA (e.g. cutting off funding) were ever raised.
    ...
    ...it might slow the witch hunt down a bit. But more importantly it reminds the voters that until it became politically expedient there was bipartisan consensus for enhanced interrogation techniques. The existence of those briefings (and the notes which will document them) suggest that everyone — the lawyers, Congress, and the CIA — were operating in good faith, as best they could, to prevent the unimaginable, namely another attack on America. That, it seems, goes to the heart of the “defense” of Bush officials who may be dragooned before a Truth Commission.

    Andy McCarthy : Without Objection

    Ha ha ha! CIA / CYA! What a riot! But when the uncontrollable guffaws die down, here's what I'd like to know from Senator Bond.
    
    Some of us argued that Eric Holder was not suitable for Attorney General. Among the lengthy list of problems we cited, again and again, was that he had promised a "reckoning" for Bush administration officials who had been involved in interrogations and other post-9/11 national security policies that have kept this country safe from additional attacks.
    
    Don't be ridiculous, scoffed our Republican sages. For you see, unlike the rest of us, they'd gotten to spend quality time with Eric — an experienced, mature law-enforcement pro who would never, ever let political considerations enter into his decision making — and he had made a solid commitment that he absolutely would not sic the Justice Department on former Bush administration officials. Why, Sen. Bond assured the Washington Times, there was no reason not to support Holder's confirmation — regardless of the objections raised by us knuckle-dragging, right-wing loons — because Holder had solemnly promised Bond in a private meeting that there would be no prosecutions of Bush officials.
    
    I don't think I was the only one who observed that Holder had made no such commitment...

    Matthew Vadum : Soros Show Trials

    The so-called Commission on Accountability which mysteriously appeared on the political scene a few days ago to push for show trials related to War on Terror interrogation policies is a PR hoax created by liberal philanthropist George Soros and political operatives sympathetic to the Obama administration.
    
    The push is part of a vindictive campaign to pay back the architects of the War on Terror for making a good faith effort to defend America
    
    To some the arrival of the Commission on Accountability, with its 19 member groups including Amnesty International USA and Human Rights Watch, suggested a significant groundswell of support in the nonprofit activist community for the proposed creation of an independent, non-partisan commission to examine the treatment of captured suspected terrorists. These groups all want Bush administration officials investigated for doing their jobs.
    ...
    ...this spanking new David Axelrod-style astroturf group was manufactured by Soros himself and Obama loyalists.
    ...
    ...at least eight of the 19 left-leaning institutional members of the Commission on Accountability are funded by the secretive Soros.
    ...
    The Center for Constitutional Rights, an anti-American public interest law firm whose website praises the Viet Cong, is headed by Che Guevara apologist Michael Ratner. The Center has filed numerous lawsuits aimed at hobbling the War on Terror and is a frequent defender of Lynne Stewart, a lawyer convicted of aiding Islamist terrorists.
    
    To groups like the Center for Constitutional Rights, the show trial is an essential bit of political theater. The storyline is usually easy to follow. A bad guy is identified as an enemy of the public and charged with a crime against the people. All the evidence shows this and often without much ado a conviction is secured. Unlike a real trial with strict procedures, rules of evidence, and real defense counsel, a show trial is highly efficient much like authoritarianism is supposed to be.
    
    The Center's Ratner already had a trial run. A make-believe kangaroo court composed of far-left extremists already convicted the Bush administration. It was called the "International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration."
    
    Ratner's witch trial could serve as a rough blueprint for a real commission.

    
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• The United Socialist States of

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    First things first:  Although I share numerous resources with you, as a means of supporting my concerns, it does not necessarily mean that I support and/or agree with the contents of all of them, word-by-word, but find them thought provoking because, they provide me with other views besides my own and, thereby, help me make my case.
     
     

    The United Socialist States of America and the "Last" Postmodern Man

     
     
    There are two articles that firmly encapsulate in my mind the direction our nation is moving in and I found myself deeply troubled.  I am troubled at a level that is visceral and almost makes me ill because I fear that the problems of the moment, as bad as they undeniably are, will usher in not a better world, but a worse one. 
    
    The first article is from Newsweek.  The headline proclaims it all- "We Are All Socialists Now."  Rather than explain the full piece let me leave a quote from the piece that sums it well:
    
    "A decade ago U.S. government spending was 34.3 percent of GDP, compared with 48.2 percent in the euro zone—a roughly 14-point gap, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In 2010 U.S. spending is expected to be 39.9 percent of GDP, compared with 47.1 percent in the euro zone—a gap of less than 8 points. As entitlement spending rises over the next decade, we will become even more French...
    
    Now comes the reckoning. The answer may indeed be more government. In the short run, since neither consumers nor business is likely to do it, the government will have to stimulate the economy. And in the long run, an aging population and global warming and higher energy costs will demand more government taxing and spending. The catch is that more government intrusion in the economy will almost surely limit growth (as it has in Europe, where a big welfare state has caused chronic high unemployment). Growth has always been America's birthright and saving grace."
    
    The second article comes from an author that I have always been deeply fond of, the Classical military historian, Victor Davis Hanson.  As I read his concluding paragraphs and thought about them in conjunction with the Newsweek story my fears of the past came back to me.  Hanson makes explicit how the post-modern, secularized man that refuses to reproduce and looks only for the pleasures of this world has led to statism.  Below is the relevant section.
    
    "I had a conversation (an argument) recently with a European, about contemporary culture. I tried to explain the mutually reinforcing elements of socialism, atheism, utopianism, pacifism, and statism (he was giving America a second chance to morph into Euros under Obama). But if one believes in no transcendence, that there is nothing other than the present, then for too many satisfying the appetites becomes the prime directive. Childlessness, living at home in one's 30s, dependence on the state, all that derives from a system that ensures equality of result, and substitutes Logos and Ratio for any notion of a deity that sees sin and sacrifice, and reminds us that our souls are immortal and affected by their brief residences in our flesh. In other words, that Euros expect free health care, free care for their elderly parents, free schools, free defense from the USA, harbor little hopes for rising above the station of anyone else, find housing and jobs scarce, and don't feel they can or want to leave behind something for their children larger than what they inherited-- are all interrelated phenomena. European postmodern man offers mostly platitudes that he thinks please those who might be dangerous to him, and finds psychological recompense and solace by gratuitously trashing those who aren't. Note how such constitution peoples favor Hamas over Israel--and usually almost anyone over the US. Were Hamas a successful democracy that took no European aid and offered it in turn no threats, and Israel a failed fascistic terrorist movement that depended on Europe for aid and comfort, while engaging in terrorism and voicing postmodern platitudes about oppression, then we would expect Israel to be a strong European ally. (I think many Europeans are more sympathetic to the Palestinian Authority or Syria or Iran than the incipient democracy in Iraq)."
    
    So how is "post-modern" man different from Nietzsche's terrible vision of the "Last Man."  Compare for yourself as Nietzsche's prophet, Zarathustra speaks:
    
    "I say unto you: one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. I say unto you: you still have chaos in yourselves.

    Alas, the time is coming when man will no longer give birth to a star. Alas, the time of the most despicable man is coming, he that is no longer able to despise himself. Behold, I show you the last man.

    'What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?' thus asks the last man, and blinks.

    The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race is as ineradicable as the flea; the last man lives longest.

    'We have invented happiness, 'say the last men, and they blink. They have left the regions where it was hard to live, for one needs warmth. One still loves one's neighbor and rubs against him, for one needs warmth...

    One still works, for work is a form of entertainment. But one is careful lest the entertainment be too harrowing. One no longer becomes poor or rich: both require too much exertion. Who still wants to rule? Who obey? Both require too much exertion.

    No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

    'Formerly, all the world was mad,' say the most refined, and they blink...

    One has one's little pleasure for the day and one's little pleasure for the night: but one has a regard for health.

    'We have invented happiness', say the last men, and they blink."

    I see little difference.
    
    Nietzsche said that God is Dead, by which he meant that WE have killed him in our desire to be "enlightened" during our push to become masters of our own fate in this world without transcendance.  Nietzsche saw that without God, nihilism, a lack of faith in anything, was inevitable.  He tried to replace God with a Godlike man- the notorious Ubermensch or Overman.
    
    He may have been wrong in his solutions, but he clearly diagnosed the malady of modern man.  Today more than ever we stand on the precipice of America joining Europe and becoming "post-modern" which is really nothing more than becoming "Last Men."
    
    The greatness of spirit that was such a constant through most of human history is intentionally being homogeneized with the vague, but discernable desire to enforce equality of outcome.  "Greatness" is scoffed at, ridiculed, and referred to as "selfish", "narrow-minded", and contrary to the communitarian ideals that supposedly will save this planet from our own evil born of ignorance.
    
    There will not be a levelling up, there will only be a levelling down.  From where will come the next Plato, Aristotle, Alexander, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, or Dante?  Where will even be the next Washington, Lincoln, or Churchill?
    
    Socialism breeds sloth.  I know that there is a need for government to restrain the excesses that are inherent in flawed man.  However, we are taking steps that go far beyond the necessary restraints and limited assistance that is needed to assure people don't "fall through the cracks."  We are choosing to make the world that our children (if we choose to have them) are born into a world of bland mediocrity that denigrates what has been so noble about humanity.
    
    Yes, its true, the price for greatness and nobility is some instability, some danger, but the desire to eradicate that can only lead to a sterility that saps man of what has made him human. 
    
    The religious societies are vastly more human than the experiment we are attempting to consolidate.  Ironically, there is disorder in those societies, but they are human.  Perhaps, that is not as bad a thing as so often we think it is.  Perhaps, we'll look more deeply before setting sail for a destination that is preordained to destroy our very souls and leave us empty husks that will over time be easy pickings for those that still understand how to be humans.
    
    The Romans largely failed to do that and they became history.  America is not yet doomed for a repeat performance, but our Attila and Alaric is out there waiting for an opportune moment to strike at our cracked foundations.  We should defend those foundations and not become the "Last" Post-Modern Man.

     

     

     

     

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• Terrorism's President

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    Obama Akbar
    

    Sweetness & Light notes Pakistan is being thrown away to Al-Qaeda's Taliban : Taliban Holding Pakistan Town Hostage

    Of course the Taliban is holding a lot more hostage than one town.
    
    At the very least they control all of northwest Pakistan.
    
    And soon they will be holding the world hostage, with their nuclear arms.
    
    But Mr. Obama is facing the problem head on. He is going to rush more billions to Pakistan – for health care and education...
    ...
    ...is there a program built into the teleprompter that gives a lack of health care and education as the cause of every problem?

    Threats Watch: Petraeus Gives Stark Warning of Potentially Imminent Pakistani Collapse

    The next couple of weeks, he says, are critical to Pakistan's very survival.

    Obama seen opposing bi-partisan legislation on Iran sanctions

    The latest bill would also amend the 1996 Iran Sanctions Act, which called for a boycott of companies that invest $20 million or more in Iran's energy sector. The new legislation enables the president to sanction foreign companies involved in the sale of fuel, fuel delivery insurance and maintenance of Iranian refineries.

    Jed Babbin : BREAKING: White House Overrides FBI and DHS on Gitmo Release

    Moving quickly to release Chinese Uighur terrorists into the United States, Obama administration officials have -- for the second time -- overridden objections of federal agencies responsible for national security.
    
    The first time -- as I reported on April 20 -- the White House overrode the inter-agency panel it created from all the national security agencies to review all the cases of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners. That panel found that the seventeen Uighurs -- members of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement captured at an al-Queda training camp in Pakistan -- were too dangerous to release in the United States.
    
    Now -- according to a federal agency source who requested anonymity -- the White House has also overridden opposition to the release from both the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

    Jihad Watch : Obama overrules FBI and DHS on release of Gitmo jihadists into American civilian population

    They told him these guys were dangerous jihadists, and Obama doesn't seem to care. They're coming to your neighborhood whether you or the FBI or DHS like it or not. Relax. What could go wrong?

    Melanie Phillips : Delivering Israel to the Arabs

    As was entirely predictable, Obama has gone to his good friends the Saudis to help him throw Israel under the bus. Having bowed deeply to the Saudi King Abdullah when they were in London last week (an image which tells you everything you need to know – and so has been conspicuous by its absence from the MSM; the Queen, by contrast, merited only a protocol-busting hand on the back) Obama, according to his Middle East envoy George Mitchell, is adopting the Saudi Israel destruction “peace” plan as his solution to the Middle East impasse.
    ...
    Has there ever been a dispute whose proposed solution is the establishment of a state for people clamouring for one of their own plus their right to live in someone else’s country?
    
    How can this possibly be said to be a fair settlement? Contrary to the propaganda, those Arabs have no legal or moral claim on Israel any more than the descendants of any other population displaced through war – even less so in this case because they were displaced through their own illegal aggression in a war which they continue to wage to this day.
    
    In similar vein, giving up east Jerusalem, to which Israel has an overwhelming claim according to both international law and historical attachment and presence, would expose Jerusalem’s Jewish inhabitants to an annihilatory genocidal regime – most probably standing proxy for Iran – literally in the neighboring streets. (It would also mean the desecration not only of Jewish holy places, as happened before 1967when under illegal Jordanian occupation synagogues and cemeteries were destroyed and Jews were forbidden to pray at the Western Wall, but of Christian ones too – remember the destruction by the Taleban of the Buddhas of Banyam.) This would therefore be the most unjust settlement of any dispute in the world.

    Barack Hussein Obama has surrounded himself with anti-Semites, terrorists and terror apologists.

    SNOBama's "fathers":

    "Mentor" Frank Davis
    "Reverend" Al Sharpton
    "Reverend" James Meeks
    "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright
    "Reverend" Otis Moss III
    "Minister" Louis Farrakhan
    "Pastor" Michael Pfleger
    "Reverend" Jim Wallis
    "Reverend" James Bevel
    "Reverend" Eric Lee
    "Pastor" Mack King
    "Bishop" Desmond Tutu

    SNOBama's "money men":

    George Soros
    Syrian Tony Rezko
    Saddam Hussein's gun-running bagman Nadhmi Auchi

    SNOBama's anti-Semitic "advisors":

    William C. Ayers
    Bernadine Dohrn
    Samantha Power
    Greg Craig
    Robert Malley
    Susan Rice
    Anthony Lake
    General Tony McPeak
    Chas Freeman
    Edward Said
    Rashid Khalidi
    Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour
    Ali Abunimah
    James Yee
    Imam Hassan Qazwini
    Raila Odinga
    Zbigniew Brzezinski
    Brent Scowcroft
    Jodie Evans
    The Black Panthers
    Lawrence Lessig
    Sam Graham-Felsen
    Joseph Cirincione
    Cornell West
    

    Judging by the people he surrounds himself with, Barack Hussein Obama intends to "Wipe Israel Off the Map".
    
    Not to mention some of Barack Hussein Obama's more interesting supporters:

    Hamas
    Iran
    Hatem El-Hady
    FARC
    Hugo Chavez
    Fidel Castro
    Daniel Ortega
    Weathermen
    Maria "Che Flag" Isabel
    Mayor "Let 'em Drown" Nagin
    Jimmy "Hamas" Carter
    Jim McDermott(D)
    

    Discover The Network Links on

    BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
    &
    BARACK'S WORLD

    This section of DiscoverTheNetworks examines Barack Obama's connections to a number of key individuals and organizations. In some cases, these affiliates are notable for the leftist views and objectives they share with Obama. In other cases, they are notable for their collaboration with Obama in controversial or unethical activities. In all cases, they offer a window into Barack Obama's values and priorities. Taken as a whole, they verify Thomas Sowell's observation that Obama has "spent decades aiding and abetting people who hate America."

    Individuals:

    Ali Abunimah
    Saul Alinsky
    David Axelrod
    Nadhmi Auchi
    Bill Ayers
    Robert Blackwell, Jr.
    Gregg Craig
    Carl Davidson
    Frank Marshall Davis
    Bernardine Dohrn
    Louis Farrakhan
    Rashid Khalidi
    Rev. Joseph Lowery
    Robert Malley
    James Meeks
    Rev. Otis Moss
    Michelle Obama
    Raila Odinga
    Alice Palmer
    Eli Pariser
    Rev. Michael Pfleger
    Tony Rezko
    Edward Said
    Rev. Al Sharpton
    George Soros
    Dorothy Tillman
    Jim Wallis
    Joyce Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
    Rev. Jeremiah Wright

    Groups:

    ACORN
    Arab American Action Network
    Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C.
    Democratic Socialists of America
    Gamaliel Foundation
    International Crisis Group
    MoveOn
    National Council of La Raza
    New Party
    Planned Parenthood Federation of America
    Project Vote
    Socialist Scholars Conference
    Sojourners

    Foundations:

    Woods Fund of Chicago
    Joyce Foundation

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• Obama Says America Sux

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    Obama says America Sux
    

    The O-pology tour...
    
    Gateway Pundit : Obama Poses With Marxist Hugo Chavez While Murderer Looks On(?)

    "Having lived in Venezuela I recognize the man in the back ground between Obama and Chavez. He is Nicolas Maduro and is a murderer. I have seen, in person, the bullet wounds on people who survived his shots. Sadly, not all survived. It is so irritating when people pretend to know what they are opining on and have no true perspective at all!" -- Spirit of Man

    Ed Morrissey : Obamateurism

    Obama kicked off the Summit of the Americas by failing to understand the importance of the Monroe Doctrine, its highly relevant application in today’s Latin America, and missing one important piece of historical fact about the Bush administration...
    ...
    Some history: President Bush was the first U.S. leader in decades to launch no military action on a Latin country. Not very “heavy handed.” In fact, his immigration plan showed he was a softie.

    Michelle Malkin : Obama’s We Suck ‘09 Tour

    We’re thinking a cartoon of Obama bowing to King Abdullah on the front, and a list of cities in Europe and Latin America Obama has visited on the back.

    Ed Morrissey : The apology tour continues in Latin America

    The following passage from Barack Obama’s speech to Latin American leaders will be one of those Rorshach tests for political perspective. Those who hated the Bush administration enough will applaud it; those who think America is usually wrong will cheer; and the rest of us will shake our heads...
    ...
    Obama’s apologizing for being dictatorial … to Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, and the Castros. As for “dictat[ing] our terms,” we used to call that defending American interests. When negotiating, people try to get the best terms for themselves. We didn’t send gunboats to Venezuela or Bolivia during the Bush administration, and the only people seizing assets over the last eight years have been the Venezuelans under Chavez.

    Ace : Obama At Latin America Summit: Yeah, America Kind Of Sucked In The Past, Didn't It?

    Predictable and nauseating.
    ...
    ...while promising not to dictate anymore (as if that's what really happened*) he promised to talk to, er, dictators.

    Sweetness & Light : Hugo Chavez To Restore Ambassador To US

    Next thing you know we will be working on an aid package for Venezuela.
    
    After all, it’s hard to redistribute wealth to poor nations if you don’t have diplomatic relations.

    Gateway Pundit : Obama Bids Farewell to His New Friend Hugo Chavez: "Adiós, Mi Amigo” (Video)

    President Barack Obama bid farewell to his new Marxist friend today.
    
    Obama stepped aside and spoke with the Venezuelan FARC supporter for several minutes.
    
    He bid farewell to Chavez: "Adios Mi Amigo!"

    Sweetness & Light : Obama Greets Another Communist Dictator

    In case Mr. Obama’s “soul shake” with Hugo Chavez wasn’t enough to get his point across...
    ...
    Can’t you just feel the warmth of comradely affection?

    Ed Morrissey : Should we scold Obama for shaking Chavez’ hand?

    Letting Ortega’s rant pass with just a quip about its length, though, deserves some scorn. If the President doesn’t want to defend his country at these international gatherings from unfair diatribes, what’s the point of attending at all?

    Sweetness & Light : Chávez Book To Educate Ignoramus Obama

    ...do note that Mr. Chavez has relented and will now send an ambassador to the US.

    Allahpundit : Obama on Chavez’s book: “I think it was a nice gesture”

    No, it wasn’t a “nice gesture,” as The One very well knows. It was a cheap stunt designed to put him on the spot so that Chavez can crow when he gets home about having confronted los Yanquis with evidence of their imperialist crimes. Obama can’t call him out, though, lest our precious nascent “dialogue” with Venezuela be jeopardized, so he’s forced to swallow hard and play the stooge. Good work, Barry. Note too the vague, politic rhetoric to describe Chavez’s long history of evil clownishness. If you’re not sure what he means by “interference” that’s a “source of concern,” let me spell it out: He’s talking about funding Marxist terrorists who’ve held Americans hostage for years on end. Mentioning that might spoil the dialogue, too.
    ...
    It’s not a question of jeopardizing national security, it’s a question of conferring legitimacy upon a cretin who, in a just world, would be radioactively illegitimate. If Obama’s going to do that, the least he can do is not play dumb about it.

    Barack Hussein Obama is giving the 'Bro' handshake to a terrorist that supports FARC that were caught with dirty-bomb materials.

    Victor Davis Hanson : One Tour Too Many

    Obama’s weird trip to Latin America — characterized by constant anti-American outbursts from heads of state eager to blame their own failures on Yanquis — probably killed any notion that any sane American would support either further free-trade agreements or "comprehensive immigration reform" with a continent that seems to blame all of its self-inflicted troubles on what the United States supposedly did last century.
    ...
    What is strange about the now well-known Obama three-step visits (apologize, then trash Bush, then nod that America was bad before he came along), is that they seem to incite more anti-American choruses rather than fewer, incur more bad will than good, and end with not a single accomplishment, much less concession.
    ...
    ...these magical mystery tours have the potential, in their scripted regularity, to really turn off the American people — and convince bad players abroad that it is about time to test the waters.

    Greg Gutfeld : MONDAY'S GREGALOGUE: THE CASE FOR PUNCHING CHAVEZ IN THE FACE

    I now see Obama regularly engaging in dialogue with bullies - who for years have been crapping all over America. I hope Obama knows that "dialogue," and friendly handshakes mean nothing to them. Because if there`s one thing I`ve learned: you can`t rehab a bully. Bullies cannot afford to change, because their power exists only through fear, not through competence, confidence or popularity. I mean, things are so bad for Chavez at home, that shaking a fist at America is all he can do to keep the spotlight off his own corruptive incompetence.
    
    But what`s even worse: Chavez is a turd-shaped bully we could destroy in our sleep – which is precisely why he keeps bullying. He knows that being the David to our Goliath guarantees victimhood if we decide to shut him up.

    Gateway Pundit : Al-Qaeda #2 Claims Obama's Election As President a "Victory"

    ...according to a new audio message allegedly from the terror network's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

    Ed Morrissey : What does $900 million buy us in Gaza?

    Barack Obama pledged almost a billion dollars in aid to rebuild Gaza after the Israelis finally responded to Hamas’ rocket attacks during the winter. Has that pledge helped moderate Hamas, the group holding Gaza in its grip? The BBC reports that Hamas, instead of moderating through the indirect engagement offered by Obama, has marshaled its forces to conduct violent purges of dissent...
    ...
    Instead of killing many of them, Hamas opts to cripple their enemies by shooting them in the legs. If they survive the shootings, the victims have difficulty healing properly and can no longer walk without pain. In two months, Hamas had shot 49 men in the legs and broken arms or legs on an additional 73.

    Well at least they didn't waterboard them!
    
    Shawn Mallow : The Obama Follies

    It is safe to say Obama's foreign policy has so far been an unmitigated disaster.

    He scolded the United States for being "arrogant, dismissive", and "derisive" toward Europe.
    
    During his European Celebrity Tour, he was greeted by adoring fans and leaders alike, only to be snubbed by our "Allies" regarding his proposal for more combat troops to Afghanistan and more money to help fight a global depression.
    
    Though Obama has a new "comrade" in Prime Minister Medvedev, the communist will do nothing to assist with the current North Korean nuclear stand off.
    
    The Chinese, as well, refuse to do anything to punish the North Koreans, even going so far as congratulating Kim Jong Ill on his victorious election (I believe he obtained 99.9% of the vote).
    
    Obama bowed to the Saudi King, and our oil prices have rose ever since.
    
    Spoke heatedly about how North Korea "broke the rules" after their much publicized and anticipated missile launch, relying on the UN Security Council to pass a resolution condemning the action. That action did not come until a full two weeks after the missile was launched. They have now resumed the operation of their nuclear facilities which are capable of producing weapons grade nuclear material.
    
    Dropped a key demand that Iran shut down its nuclear facilities prior to engaging in talks concerning its nuclear ambitions. It would also allow Iran to continue enriching uranium during any talks.
    
    Chastised us for our treatment of Native Americans centuries ago. Also scolded us for our past history of slavery.
    
    Pointed out that we have been the only nation to ever use a nuclear weapon, allowing for no context, of course.
    
    Has no coherent plan to deal with " pirates", or as some more appropriately call them, Islamic terrorists.
    
    At the start of the 5th Summit of the Americas, Obama gave a friendly "Yo, that's my dog" handshake to Hugo Chavez, American hating "leader" of Venezuela, and personal friend to Fidel Castro.
    
    He has lifted restrictions on Cuba, long an enemy of the United States, and purveyor of human rights atrocities.

    So, with all of these misguided and dovish overtures aimed to paint the United States as a world thug who, under Obama the Savior, needs to repent for it's eeeeevil ways, how does he see fit to treat our strongest, staunchest democratic ally in the middle east, Israel?
    ...
    Obama team readying for confrontation with Netanyahu

    Gateway Pundit : Change!... Obama Chuckles With Marxist Thugs But Won't Meet With Israeli Prime Minister

    After Nicaraguan Marxist President Daniel Ortega attacked America for 50 minutes in his speech on Saturday, Barack Obama smiled and shook his hand at the Summit of the Americas.
    ...
    But, Barack Obama won't meet with the Israeli Prime Minister at AIPAC this year.

    Barack Hussein Obama has surrounded himself with anti-Semites, terrorists and terror apologists.

    SNOBama's "fathers":

    "Mentor" Frank Davis
    "Reverend" Al Sharpton
    "Reverend" James Meeks
    "Reverend" Jeremiah Wright
    "Reverend" Otis Moss III
    "Minister" Louis Farrakhan
    "Pastor" Michael Pfleger
    "Reverend" Jim Wallis
    "Reverend" James Bevel
    "Reverend" Eric Lee
    "Pastor" Mack King
    "Bishop" Desmond Tutu

    SNOBama's "money men":

    George Soros
    Syrian Tony Rezko
    Saddam Hussein's gun-running bagman Nadhmi Auchi

    SNOBama's anti-Semitic "advisors":

    William C. Ayers
    Bernadine Dohrn
    Samantha Power
    Greg Craig
    Robert Malley
    Susan Rice
    Anthony Lake
    General Tony McPeak
    Chas Freeman
    Edward Said
    Rashid Khalidi
    Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour
    Ali Abunimah
    James Yee
    Imam Hassan Qazwini
    Raila Odinga
    Zbigniew Brzezinski
    Brent Scowcroft
    Jodie Evans
    The Black Panthers
    Lawrence Lessig
    Sam Graham-Felsen
    Joseph Cirincione
    Cornell West
    

    Judging by the people he surrounds himself with, Barack Hussein Obama intends to "Wipe Israel Off the Map".
    
    Not to mention some of Barack Hussein Obama's more interesting supporters:

    Hamas
    Iran
    Hatem El-Hady
    FARC
    Hugo Chavez
    Fidel Castro
    Daniel Ortega
    Weathermen
    Maria "Che Flag" Isabel
    Mayor "Let 'em Drown" Nagin
    Jimmy "Hamas" Carter
    Jim McDermott(D)
    

    Discover The Network Links on

    BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
    &
    BARACK'S WORLD

    This section of DiscoverTheNetworks examines Barack Obama's connections to a number of key individuals and organizations. In some cases, these affiliates are notable for the leftist views and objectives they share with Obama. In other cases, they are notable for their collaboration with Obama in controversial or unethical activities. In all cases, they offer a window into Barack Obama's values and priorities. Taken as a whole, they verify Thomas Sowell's observation that Obama has "spent decades aiding and abetting people who hate America."

    Individuals:

    Ali Abunimah
    Saul Alinsky
    David Axelrod
    Nadhmi Auchi
    Bill Ayers
    Robert Blackwell, Jr.
    Gregg Craig
    Carl Davidson
    Frank Marshall Davis
    Bernardine Dohrn
    Louis Farrakhan
    Rashid Khalidi
    Rev. Joseph Lowery
    Robert Malley
    James Meeks
    Rev. Otis Moss
    Michelle Obama
    Raila Odinga
    Alice Palmer
    Eli Pariser
    Rev. Michael Pfleger
    Tony Rezko
    Edward Said
    Rev. Al Sharpton
    George Soros
    Dorothy Tillman
    Jim Wallis
    Joyce Wheeler
    Tim Wheeler
    Rev. Jeremiah Wright

    Groups:

    ACORN
    Arab American Action Network
    Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C.
    Democratic Socialists of America
    Gamaliel Foundation
    International Crisis Group
    MoveOn
    National Council of La Raza
    New Party
    Planned Parenthood Federation of America
    Project Vote
    Socialist Scholars Conference
    Sojourners

    Foundations:

    Woods Fund of Chicago
    Joyce Foundation

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