Uncle Obama Wants You! …To Be Drafted into National Service

Listen to this entire speech. Obama says he wants to FORCE all Americans to perform “government approved” community service every week. It is really scary. This is nothing short of fascism. Government controlling your life-Pure and simple.

Obama’s South Side of Chicago: Very UN-Changed

Got this video of the South Side of Chicago, which Obama ‘organized’ for a number of years, from Chicagoans Against Obama, who got it from Rezko Watch. They are both worthwhile sites, so check ‘em out.

Barack Obama and the ‘Coalition of the Shilling’

Damsel in Distress? Pols, Press and the Peeps All Come Together To Shill for Their Candidate

Is it just me or does the media seem to treat the junior Senator from Chicago, Barack Obama, as a sort-of damsel in distress character, running to his aid when he is criticized, and counter-attacking the perpetrator. When appropriate, I am glad and grateful to see that there are people in this world who are willing to stand-up against injustice, but this is getting ridiculous. [And now, is wife is getting the same treatment.]

No matter the topic, when someone criticizes the Senator, fairly or unfairly, people come out of the woodwork to defend the man.  The newest Obama apologist, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg, is the latest in long line of panderers to remind the public about the lies and false emails, claiming Obama is a Muslim. Now, I have never received one of these emails and I certainly wouldn’t believe such garbage, but I have certainly been told repeatedly about their existence. Over and Over.

Example: When this blog (and others) criticized Obama’s affiliations with radicals and domestic terrorists, throngs of people, from all walks of life lept to his defense, on radio, television, and any other medium that would have them.

It is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in politics. It’s Barack’s “Coalition of the Shilling”, where any time an accusation is cast there are members of the press, image-conscious politicians and so-called political ‘analysts’ that all come together to fight the lies and misinformation about the son of a goat herder. The most obvious irony of course is the fact that the usual purveyors of the rumors and misinformation (Hello KO) are the same people attempting to “protect” the junior Senator from their own tactics.

NRO: Chicago Papers Overlooked Obama’s Biggest Problems

NYT: The Two Obamas

CNN: Barack on Public Financing

RRVF: Obama understands us

Kudos to the Texas G.O.P. for Standing Up Against Bigotry

When the Texas G.O.P. discovered that a private vendor at its convention in Houston was selling a stupid and ignorant button they acted swiftly and responsibly. The button in question read, “If Obama is president…Will we still call it the White House?”

The G.O.P. has banned the vendor, Jonathan Alcox, from any future Texas G.O.P. functions and have apologized and donated the profits from Alcox to the Midwestern flood victims.

Alcox, by the way, is no Republican operative. He owns both Republican and Democratic online stores, including republicanmarket.com and democratmall.com, and sells at events for both parties.

Again, I applaud the G.O.P. for standing up against this type of bigotry and apologizing to everyone involved.

To read more about the story, check out the Dallas Morning News, which broke the story last week.

Or check out: Design Your Own Slogan For the Texas G.O.P.

What do Luke Skywalker, Barack Obama, Winnie the Pooh, and a Soccer Hooligan have in common?

THE ANSWER: FOREIGN POLICY

U.K. Telegraph: Winnie the Pooh, Luke Skywalker and British football hooligans could shape the foreign policy of Barack Obama if he becomes US President, according to a key adviser.

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What’s Wrong With This Detroit News Headline??? Take A Wild Guess

A Baby That Would Have Been Killed If Barack Obama Had His Way

According to Barack Obama, Gianna Jessen shouldn’t exist.

Miss Jessen is an exquisite example of what antiabortion advocates call a “survivor.” Well into her third trimester of pregnancy, Gianna’s biological mother was injected with a saline solution intended to induce a chemical abortion at a Los Angeles County abortion center. Eighteen hours later, and precious minutes before the abortionist’s arrival, Gianna emerged. Premature and with severe injuries that resulted in cerebral palsy. But alive.

Had the abortionist been present at her birth, Gianna would have been killed, perhaps by suffocation. As it was, a startled nurse called an ambulance, and Gianna was rushed to a nearby hospital, where, weighing just two pounds, she was placed in an incubator, then, months later, in foster care.

Gianna survived then, and thrives now, because, as she told me recently with a laugh, “I guess I don’t die easy.” Which is what the abortionist might have thought as he signed his victim’s birth certificate. Gianna’s medical records state that she was “born during saline abortion.”

As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama twice opposed legislation to define as “persons” babies who survive late-term abortions. Babies like Gianna. Mr. Obama said in a speech on the Illinois Senate floor that he could not accept that babies wholly emerged from their mother’s wombs are “persons,” and thus deserving of equal protection under the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

A federal version on the same legislation passed the Senate unanimously and with the support of all but 15 members of the House. Gianna was present when President Bush signed the Born Alive Infants Protection Act in 2002.

When I asked Gianna to reflect on Mr. Obama’s candidacy, she paused, then said, “I really hope the American people will have their eyes wide open and choose to be discerning. . . . He is extreme, extreme, extreme.”

“Extreme” may not be the impression the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have bought Mr. Obama’s autobiography have been left with. In “The Audacity of Hope,” Mr. Obama’s presidential manifesto, he calls abortion “undeniably difficult,” “a very difficult issue,” “never a good thing” and “a wrenching moral issue.”

He laments his party’s “litmus test” for “orthodoxy” on abortion and other issues, and even admits, “I do not presume to know the answer to that question.” That question being the moral status of the fetus, who he nonetheless concedes has “moral weight.”

Those statements are seriously made but, alas, cannot be taken at all seriously. Mr. Obama has compiled a 100% lifetime “pro-choice” voting record, including votes against any and all restrictions on late-term abortions and parental involvement in teenagers’ abortions.

To Mr. Obama, abortion, or “reproductive justice,” is “one of the most fundamental rights we possess.” And he promises, “the first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act,” which would overturn hundreds of federal and state laws limiting abortion, including the federal ban on partial-birth abortion and bans on public funding of abortion.

Then there’s Mr. Obama’s aforementioned opposition to laws that protect babies born-alive during botched abortions. If partial-birth abortion is, as Democratic icon Daniel Patrick Moynihan labeled it, “too close to infanticide,” then what is killing fully-birthed babies?

On the campaign trail, Mr. Obama seldom speaks about abortion and its related issues. But his few moments of candor are illuminative. When speaking extemporaneously, Mr. Obama will admit things like “I don’t want [my daughters] punished with a baby.” Or he’ll say that voting for legislation allowing Terri Schiavo’s family to take its case from state courts to federal courts in an effort to stop her euthanasia was his “biggest mistake” in the Senate. Biggest mistake?

Worst of all are Mr. Obama’s accusations against antiabortion advocates. He recently compared his relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers, a member of a group responsible for bombing government buildings, to his friendship with stalwart pro-life physician and senator Tom Coburn.

In his campaign book, Mr. Obama accuses “most anti-abortion activists” of secretly desiring more partial-birth abortions “because the image the procedure evokes in the mind of the public has helped them win converts to their position.”

All this explains why the National Abortion Rights Action League voted unanimously to endorse Mr. Obama over Hillary Clinton, as did abortion activist Frances Kissling, who called Mrs. Clinton “not radical enough on abortion.”

It’s surprising that 18- to 30-year-olds, the most pro-life demographic in a generation, are the same voting bloc from which Barack Obama, the most antilife presidential candidate ever, draws his most ardent supporters.

What’s not surprising is that Gianna Jessen, who turned 31 last month, plans not to support Obama.

In “The Audacity of Hope,” Mr. Obama denounces abortion absolutism on both ends of the ideological spectrum. That is audacious indeed considering Obama’s record, which epitomizes the very radicalism and extremism he denounces.

Mr. Allott is senior writer at American Values, a Washington-area public policy organization.

And Barack Said, Let There Be Light: And There Was Light…

Quote Barack Obama in his quasi-acceptance speech on Tuesday:

“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”

Dude: Sounds reasonable....
(H/T LittleGreenFootballs)

To Barry from John: Let’s Chat…

Full Letter Delivered Today To Senator Barack Obama:

June 4, 2008

The Honorable Barack Obama
Obama for America
P.O. Box 8102
Chicago, Illinois 60680

Dear Senator Obama:

In 1963, Senator Barry Goldwater and President John F. Kennedy agreed to make presidential campaign history by flying together from town to town and debating each other face-to-face on the same stage. In Goldwater’s words, those debates “would have done the country a lot of good.” Unfortunately, with President Kennedy’s untimely death, Americans lost the rare opportunity of witnessing candidates for the highest office in the land discuss civilly and extensively the great issues at stake in the election. What a welcome change it would be were presidential candidates in our time to treat each other and the people they seek to lead with respect and courtesy as they discussed the great issues of the day, without the empty sound bites and media-filtered exchanges that dominate our elections. It is in the spirit of President Kennedy’s and Senator Goldwater’s agreement, in the spirit of the politics of change, and to do our country good, that I invite you to join me in participating in town hall meetings across the country to discuss the most important issues facing Americans. I also suggest we fly together to the first town hall meeting as a symbolically important act embracing the politics of civility.

I propose these town hall meetings be as free from the regimented trappings, rules and spectacle of formal debates as possible, and that we pledge to the American people we will not allow the idea to die on the negotiation table as our campaigns work out the details. I suggest we agree to participate in at least ten town halls once a week with the first on June 11 or 12 in New York City at Federal Hall until the week before the Democratic Convention begins at locations to be determined by our campaigns. Federal Hall is particularly fitting as it was the place where George Washington took the oath of office as our first President and the birthplace of American government hosting the first Congress, Supreme Court and Executive Branch offices. These town halls should be attended by an audience of between two to four hundred selected by an independent polling agency, could be sixty to ninety minutes in length, have very limited moderation by an independ ent local moderator, take blind questions from the audience selected by the moderator and allow for equally proportional time for answers by each of us. All of these are suggestions that can be finalized by our campaigns. What is important is that we commit to participate in these history making meetings to join in the higher level of discourse that Americans clearly would prefer.

To show our good faith, we should both commit to the first town hall I have suggested. In the mean time, we can work out dates for future town hall meetings.

I look forward to your favorable reply and to the opportunity to work with you to give Americans a better opportunity to understand our differences, our agreements and the leadership we offer them.

Sincerely,

John McCain

More Reasons to Vote for John McCain in 2008:

Europeans Love Obama

The Obama Gaffe Machine

The Iran Reality: (Editor’s Note - Thank God Paul Krugman was off today, because this David Brooks Op-Ed is Greatness)

The Prophetic Powerful Pulpiteer

John McCain: Big Ideas for Serious Problems

Seven Reasons Why Barack Obama is a Weaker Candidate

David Axelrod, the Chief Strategist for Lobbyist Foe Barack Obama, is himself a lobbyist…

John McCain: “We’re Americans and we will never surrender”

Petraeus on Iraq: A Story Liberals Will Ignore

I can’t wait to hear General Obama’s take on this rebuke of his naive Middle East policies.

Petraeus: Troops in Iraq help blunt Iran threat

Excerpt:

“WASHINGTON - Army Gen. David Petraeus, who is to assume control of U.S. forces in the Middle East, says that a continued U.S. presence in Iraq is more likely to blunt, rather than inflame, Iran’s growing influence in the region.
In a 46-page question-and-answer document submitted in advance of his confirmation hearing on Thursday, Petraeus says the U.S. must work on developing more leverage — primarily diplomatic or economic — to pressure Tehran to abandon its nuclear program. But, he notes, the U.S. must retain military strike options as a “last resort.”

Dreams From My Father: Audio By Barack

Here’s a link of radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt and columnist of the world Mark Steyn, playing clips from the audio version of Dreams from my Father, and discussing the more interesting aspects of Obama’s first book. Barack reads it himself in the audio version, so it’s pretty interesting. 

The bets part is when they discuss the first ever Rev. Wright sermon that Barack heard, called “White Man’s Greed” (You can read more about this sermon at Slate, here)

Bill Ayers: The Purpose Driven Life

 For those of you who want to get to know Barack Obama’s Pal, William Ayers a little better the Chicago Tribune (h/t Absurd Report) provided a resume:

7 October 1969 – Bombing of Haymarket Police Statue in Chicago, apparently as a “kickoff” for the “Days of Rage” riots in the city October 8–11, 1969. The Weathermen later claim credit for the bombing in their book, “Prairie Fire.”      

                                               

8 October-11, 1969 – The “Days of Rage” riots occur in Chicago in which 287 Weatherman members from throughout the country were arrested and a large amount of property damage was done.

6 December 1969 – Bombing of several Chicago Police cars parked in a precinct parking lot at 3600 North Halsted Street, Chicago. The WUO stated in their book “Prairie Fire” that they had did the explosion.

27 December-31, 1969 – Weathermen hold a “War Council” meeting in Flint, MI, where they finalize their plans to submerge into an underground status from which they plan to commit strategic acts of sabotage against the government. Thereafter they are called the “Weather Underground Organization” (WUO).

13 February 1970 – Bombing of several police vehicles of the Berkeley, California, Police Department .

16 February 1970 – Bombing of Golden Gate Park branch of the San Francisco Police Department, killing one officer and injuring a number of other policemen.

6 March 1970 – Bombing in the 13th Police District of the Detroit, Michigan. 34 sticks of dynamite are discovered. During February and early March, 1970, members of the WUO, led by Bill Ayers, are reported to be in Detroit, during that period, for the purpose of bombing a police facility.

6 March 1970 – “bomb factory” located in New York’s Greenwich Village accidentally explodes. WUO members Theodore die in t. The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer’s dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey. The bomb was packed with nails TO INFILICT MAXIMUM CASUALTIES UPON DETONATION.

30 March 1970 – Chicago Police discover a WUO “bomb factory” on Chicago’s north side. A subsequent discovery of a WUO “weapons cache” in a south side Chicago apartment several days later ends WUO activity in the city.

10 May 1970 – Bombing of The National Guard Association building in Washington, D.C..
21 May 1970 – The WUO under Bernardine Dohrn’s name releases its “Declaration of a State of War” communique.

6 June 1970 – The WUO sends a letter claiming credit for bombing of the San Francisco Hall of Justice; however, no explosion actually took place. Months later, workmen in this building located an unexploded device which had apparently been dormant for some time.

9 June 1970 – Bombing of The New York City Police Headquarters .

27 July 1970 – Bombing of The Presidio army base in San Francisco. [NYT, 7/27/70]

12 September 1970 – The WUO helps Dr. Timothy Leary, break out and escape from the California Men’s Colony prison.

8 October 1970 – Bombing of Marin County courthouse. [NYT, 8/10/70]

10 October 1970 – Bombing of Queens traffic-court building . [NYT, 10/10/70, p. 12]

14 October 1970 – Bombing of The Harvard Center for International Affairs [NYT, 10/14/70, p. 30]

1 March 1971 – Bombing of The United States Capitol . ” [NYT, 3/2/71]

April, 1971 – abandoned WUO “bomb factory” discovered in San Francisco, California.

29 August, 1971 – Bombing of the Office of California Prisons . [LAT, 8/29/71]

17 September 1971 – Bombing of The New York Department of Corrections in Albany, NY [NYT, 9/18/71]

15 October 1971 – Bombing of William Bundy’s office in the MIT research center. [NYT, 10/16/71]

19 May 1972 – Bombing of The Pentagon . [NYT, 5/19/72]

18 May 1973 – Bombing of the 103rd Police Precinct in New York

28 September 1973 – Bombing of ITT headquarters in New York and Rome, Italy . [NYT, 9/28/73]

6 March 1974 – Bombing of the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare offices in San Francisco

31 May 1974 – Bombing of The Office of the California Attorney General.

17 June 1974 – Bombing of Gulf Oil’s Pittsburgh headquarters.

11 September 1974 – Bombing of Anaconda Corporation (part of the Rockefeller Corporation).

29 January 1975 – Bombing of the State Department in (AP. “State Department Rattled by Blast,” The Daily Times-News, January 29 1975, p.1)

16 June 1975 – Bombing of Banco de Ponce (a Puerto Rican bank) in New York.

September, 1975 – Bombing of the Kennecott Corporation.

October 20, 1981 – Brinks robbery in which several members of the Weather Underground stole over $1 million from a Brinks armored car near Nyack, New York. The robbers murdered 2 police officers and 1 Brinks guard. Several others were wounded.

1981 “Guilty as hel*. Free as a bird. America is a great country,” Ayers said when interviewed by David Horowitz.

September 11, 2001 “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Ayers is quoted in NYT article.

Barack Obama, Jr. (born August 4, 1961) was 20 years old at the time of the Weather Underground Brinks robbery of October 20, 1981

Obama: Punishing the Rich More Important Than Helping the Middle Class

One thing I loved about the debate this week was the utter incompetence that our (possible) future president showed on the issue of taxes. There are 100 million people in this country who would be negatively affected by an increase on capital gains taxes (most of them in the middle class), but Barack Obama didn’t seem to care about them. His goal is to punish rich people and he doesn’t care how it affects the rest of the population.

This showed a fundamental flaw in his character and philosophy. He thinks the only way to help one person is to take something from another person. This is a ridiculous proposition that has been disproved many times.

Since the Dude is definitely no economist, I highly reccommend that you read this Wall Street Journal column. It says it better than the Dude ever could:

Here’s an excerpt:

“As the nearby (above) chart shows, when the tax rate has risen over the past half century, capital gains realizations have fallen and along with them tax revenue. The most recent such episode was in the early 1990s, when Mr. Obama was old enough to be paying attention. That’s one reason Jack Kennedy proposed cutting the capital gains rate. And it’s one reason Bill Clinton went along with a rate cut to 20% from 28% in 1997.

Either the young Illinois Senator is ignorant of this revenue data, or he doesn’t really care because he’s a true income redistributionist who prefers high tax rates as a matter of ideological dogma regardless of the revenue consequences. Neither one is a recommendation for President.”

Think about it…

Leave Barack Alone!!

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