Barack Obama
Al Qaeda is "racist." That's the word from America's "post-racial president." The fact that Al Qaeda targeted innocents who happened to have dark skin, Obama says, makes Al Qaeda guilty of "racism." This is the face of unambiguous evidence that Al Qaeda
- masterminded the events of September 11
- deliberately used chemical weapons, including chlorine gas, in suicide bombing
- used children and female non-combatants as suicide bombers
- waged deliberate attacks using suicide bombers upon protected places, such as mosques, religious sites, hospitals, schools, and other clearly civilian targets.
Is Al Qaeda to be considered less objectionable on days when Jews and white Christians are at the top of the genocide list? Ought we cut bin Ladin some slack, provided his future death orders against all non-Muslims on Earth are free of racial preferences?
Oh, and Israel's still evil simply for trying to survive, yes?
When they came to Washington, Barack and Michelle Obama pleaded with the press to give their daughters a zone of privacy. An extremely reasonable request, with which the press has admirably complied. What's the media supposed to do when the President injects his children into the limelight specifically for political advantage?
Obama said that every morning when he's shaving, his daughter comes in and asks, "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?"
Every morning. Which suggests the President's response to his daughter has yet to include anything like: "The media only thinks I'm God, sweetheart. I can't actually plug the hole myself. But thanks for your confidence."
Another president exploited his daughter for political ends. In 1980, at the close of his last debate with Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter played the Amy card:
“I had a discussion with my daughter, Amy, the other day, before I came here, to ask her what the most important issue was. She said she thought nuclear weaponry, and the control of nuclear arms."
In rehearsals, Carter's aides had urged him not to do it. They were sure it would sound as phony to most voters as it did to them. "But under the heat of the lights, and in front of 100 million Americans, Carter decided to do it anyway." Six days later, the Carter campaign's internal polling showed undecided voters breaking decisively for Reagan, who was elected by a landslide on November 4, 1980.
No historians claim Carter lost the White House because he exploited his daughter politically. There were other, larger forces — a horrible economy, the Iran hostage crisis — that worked against Carter in that campaign. Still, no historian thinks Carter helped his cause by trying to convince skeptical voters that his 13-year-old daughter's big issue was "nuclear weaponry."
Americans say Obama's response to the Louisiana oil crisis has been inadequate. Whether the President's daughter-ploy will help him politically is anyone's guess. Calling Americans stupid might not be his best card at the moment: "Those who think we were slow in our response or lacked urgency don't know the facts." (Unless, of course, that's actually the best card he's got at this point.)
Obama's Latest Target: Any Information Channel He Can't Control
Keith Thompson Sunday, 09 May 2010 14:55
President Obama has taken to the hustings with dire warnings about the latest imminent threat to the very integrity of the Republic: individuals who would dissipate the energies of the Revolution through the frivolous use of electronic gadgets:"With iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations — none of which I know how to work — information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation."
Where to start with such wide spectrum ignorance? How about with the simple fact that iPods and similar devices are used each day by individuals specifically to gain more access to more kinds of news media than at any time in human history. You don't have to be a cyber-geek to know that activists on both the right and the left are making ingenious uses of these instruments to advance their respective causes. Podcasting, anyone?
Our Schoolmarm in Chief needs us to understand he doesn't approve of our using information as a (mere!) "distraction." Quick translation: "Comrades, put away those toys and devote all your spare time to advancing the noble and pure work of my quest to bring free enterprise to its knees and build a People's Republic in its ashes." He wants his young idealist disciples to understand that 2008 was but the first in a series of victories that must be won if Obama's statist crusade is to achieve anything resembling permanence.
In a crucial respect, he's right. Obama knows that significant electoral victories by conservative candidates in this fall's elections would likely rip to shreds his far-left to-do list for the rest of his presidential term. In short, he's hip to the stakes.
Sensing the tenuousness of his electoral success, Obama clearly fears that when young idealists pursue their own chosen electronic pastimes, rather than emulating his single-minded pursuit of power, they can easily fall prey to dangerous counter-revolutionary thinking. Enemy of the Workers stuff like: "I wonder how I might advance today through my own efforts rather than blaming all the usual bogeyman suspects?" Oh, the horror.
It's hard not to guffaw at Obama's assertion that he hasn't a clue about how to "work" any of these devices. Gives us a break, Captain Fantastic. By all accounts you lived and breathed by your Blackberry during the campaign. You've bragged that all the hits of Michael Jackson are part of your MP3 life. Man, you actually handed Queen of Elizabeth her very own iPod — of all possible gifts — upon meeting her for the first time. Now you expect us to believe you'd be stopped in your tracks by a touch-screen laptop called iPad? Try to be serious.
In fairness, Obama's argument is not entirely without consistency. He just couln't resist ending his oration without declaring, with signature smugness and the cadence of mantra, that anybody who disagrees with his immaculate agenda must be enemies of what's best for the country:
"What Jefferson recognized... that in the long run, their improbable experiment -- called America -- wouldn't work if its citizens were uninformed, if its citizens were apathetic, if its citizens checked out, and left democracy to those who didn't have the best interests of all the people at heart."
Signs are looking good for an electoral tsunami in November, thanks to millions of Americans who precisely refused to "check out" while Obama ran roughshod over the Constitution.
Let's get real. What Barack Obama hates about the iPod phenomenon — even more than he despises Fox News, and that gives you a sense of the magnitude — is that there is simply nothing he can do to stop millions of Americans from downloading the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, Beck, and Savage. Even worse for Obama, there's no way he can keep listeners from taking these radio voices anywhere free thinking (and earphones) are allowed, 24/7.
Meanwhile, Dear Leader: In your downtime between nationalizing health care and plotting to demolish American competitiveness through the con game called Cap and Trade, hopefully you'll find a spare 20 minutes to figure out the complexities of iTunes. When you do, consider putting the classic single "Lame Duck" on your first playlist. The Jimmy Carter version still rocks, dude.
"Now, what we're doing, I want to be clear, we're not trying to push financial reform because we begrudge success that's fairly earned. I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."
The Obamas reported $5.5 million in income last year. That's in addition to rent-free house, guest house (Camp David), unlimited transportation, free food.
There must be at least one working mirror in the White House. Go find it, Mr. Obama, and take a long look.
Solidarity With "The People": Bowing To Dictators, Emperors & Kings While The Exiled Monk Is Sent Out Through The Service Exit Past The Garbage
Keith Thompson Tuesday, 13 April 2010 09:58
Three weeks after Congress passed its new national health care plan, support for repeal of the measure has risen four points to 58%. That includes 50% of U.S. voters who strongly favor repeal.
Obama has gotten a bump in the polls from signing the health care bills. Just not in the direction he hoped. Newsmax:
"Significantly, the trend line continues to be downward for Obama. The one-point difference from his previous low of 46 percent isn't very significant, statistically speaking, but it shows no bump from the passage of Obamacare."