Good News, Everyone!
March 8, 2009 at 3:01 pm | Posted in Obama | Leave a commentTags: Obama
It turns out our President didn’t purposely snub our oldest ally. It’s just that he’s overwhelmed and in over his head!
“Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been “overwhelmed” by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest.”
That’s about 30 days in. Wait ’til he destroys our health care system and gets the Dow below 5,000.
Democrats Take First Swipe At Freedom Of Speech
February 5, 2009 at 8:03 pm | Posted in Fairness Doctrine | Leave a commentTags: Democrats, Fairness Doctrine, Obama
Winning 60 seats in Senate wasn’t good enough. Winning the Presidency wasn’t good enough. Now, it’ s time to shut the mouths of opposition.
This is the beginning. There will be no dissent.
For all of the angst and clamorabout what Bush had taken from us – what did he take? Rights from terrorists? Complete e-mail privacy?
Wait, Everyone: BARACK OBAMA Wants To Talk To You.
February 3, 2009 at 8:15 pm | Posted in Diplomacy, Obama | Leave a commentTags: Iran, Obama
Iran doesn’t care. Jerks. Don’t they know this the One has a message for them?
Dangerous Game
February 3, 2009 at 7:45 pm | Posted in Obama, Terrorism | Leave a commentTags: Guantanamo, Obama, Terrorism
Wall Street Journall Op/Ed page hits two really great points in two articles. Playing politics about prisoners while a war is still being waged is a dangerous game.
One piece argues that if waterboarding is the unconscionable act you said it was just months ago, outlaw it:
“When it is argued, for example, that Navy Seals have undergone waterboarding as part of their training, the response is, well, waterboarding someone as part of his military training is different from waterboarding someone in custody. Yes: Of course it is. In the real world, circumstances and context are crucial to our moral judgments.” Read more…
And then this piece that wonders if anyone’s going to look at the vapid arrogance and unsupportable illogic of Obama’s prettyspeech:
“Mr. Obama argued that it was just by such steps that we strengthened our security. In his own words: “It is precisely our ideals that give us the strength and the moral high ground to be able to effectively deal with the unthinking violence that we see emanating from terrorist organizations around the world.”
What can this mean? What moral high ground, exactly, would have enabled us to deter the designs of the religious fanatics in search of martyrdom and the slaughter of as many Americans as possible on September 11?” Read more….
Sedition?
February 3, 2009 at 6:52 pm | Posted in Obama, Terrorism | Leave a commentTags: Obama, Terrorism
I might be talking down to you, but I recognize that some of you – for example, our President – have no idea what the Logan Act is.
Cutnpasted from law.jrank.org:
The Logan Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 953 [1948]) is a single federal statute making it a crime for a citizen to confer with foreign governments against the interests of the United States. Specifically, it prohibits citizens from negotiating with other nations on behalf of the United States without authorization.
Congress established the Logan Act in 1799, less than one year after passage of the ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS, which authorized the arrest and deportation of ALIENS and prohibited written communication defamatory to the U.S. government. The 1799 act was named after Dr. George Logan. A prominent Republican and Quaker from Pennsylvania, Logan did not draft or introduce the legislation that bears his name, but was involved in the political climate that precipitated it.
***So. If you’re Barack Obama, and you’re not the President – in fact, you’re so not the President that you go out of your way to announce that you are not the President – why are you negotiating with al Quaida and directly disobeying the Logan Act? Arrogance? Stupidity? Amateur Hour? All 3?
Obama likes to nominate people with tax problems
February 3, 2009 at 12:51 pm | Posted in Obama | Leave a commentTags: employment taxes, Obama, tax problems
Is Ashton Breaking His Pledge?
February 2, 2009 at 8:14 pm | Posted in Hollywood, Obama | Leave a commentTags: Hollywood, Obama
Has Obama’s power – clearly responsible for winning the Superbowl - already started to weaken?
Before You Endorse The NEW New Deal…
February 2, 2009 at 9:49 am | Posted in Obama | Leave a commentTags: economy, Obama, stimulus
…take a look at the old New Deal. What happened is not what you thought happened.
“When FDR took office, he was enormously successful in averting a total collapse of the banking system and the economy. But his New Deal measures only succeeded in lowering the unemployment rate from 23 percent in 1933, when he took office, to 13 percent in the summer of 1937. It never went lower. And his policies of over-regulation generated such business uncertainty that they triggered a second-term recession. Unemployment in 1938 rose to 17 percent and, in 1940, on the verge of the war-driven recovery, stood at 15 percent.” Read more in Dick Morris’ column…
Day 3
January 23, 2009 at 8:49 pm | Posted in abortion, Obama | Leave a commentTags: abortion, Obama
On Day 3, President Obama swung into action, millions of people on his mind. Finally. It was a slow start in some eyes. But now…now, this was the change that everyone expected.
Time to ensure the death of millions. All across the world.
A Tale Of Two Characters
January 23, 2009 at 10:57 am | Posted in Obama | Leave a commentTags: condoleeza rice, dr. martin luther king, Obama
One was raised in segregated Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement.
A childhood friend, 11-year-old Denise McNair, was one of the four young girls killed in the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963. About her upbringing, she says, “My parents had me absolutely convinced that, well, you may not be able to have a hamburger at Woolworth’s but you can be President of the United States.”
She mastered the piano at three, and was told that she could have had a career as a concert pianist. She skipped first and seventh grades, entered college at 15, holds three degrees including a doctorate in political science, and earned her Master’s in just one year’s study. She’s fluent in four languages.
She was a professor of Political Science at Stanford from 1981-99, and from 1993-99 she was also Stanford’s provost, responsible for overseeing the school’s budget and academic programs.
She joined the Stanford University faculty as a professor of political science in 1981 and served as Stanford University’s provost from 1993 to 1999. She was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1991 to 1993 and returned to the Hoover Institution after serving as provost until 2001. As a professor, she won two of the highest teaching honors: the 1984 Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 1993 School of Humanities and Sciences Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.
She has authored and coauthored several books, including Germany Unified and Europe Transformed: A Study in Statecraft (1995), with Philip Zelikow, The Gorbachev Era (1986), with Alexander Dallin, and Uncertain Allegiance: The Soviet Union and the Czechoslovak Army (1984).
The other was born in Hawaii to a Kenyan and a Kansan.
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