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Oval Office Watch – Tuesday, November 18
by OVAL OFFICE WATCH November 18, 2008
The Enemy Within
Hilmar von Campe, WND.com
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in the presence of officials of the "peace quartet," told BBC Nov. 9, according to Guysen International News, that he is convinced President-elect Obama is "determined to push talks between Israelis and Palestinians, and bring Islam and the West closer together." This is unreal if not ridiculous. The Arabs are not interested in getting closer to the West, to Israel or to peace; they want more power.
What Blair thinks is peace for them is just a steppingstone to their real purpose – the liquidation of the state of Israel. Western leaders, including President Bush, are denying in their policies and with their words the Judeo-Christian roots of Western Civilization and therewith are also denying their own personal and political reality. This is the reason why they are unaware of the real motives of our enemies.
The enemies within have the same motivation as the enemies outside: power. They are being helped by millions of people who have no bigger purpose than themselves. Hitler fooled millions of Germans who adored him but had no clue what he had in mind.
Once in power, he immediately began to secure his position. He eliminated all opposition and produced jobs for 6 million people. The Olympic Games 1936 were a big boost for him. They silenced the military resistance against Hitler that would not have found any backing by the German people. Read article.
Shame on You!
Nick Nichols, Townhall.com
J.R.R. Tolkein cautioned in The Hobbit that, “It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations if you happen to live near one.” For those who value private property, free speech, unfettered competition, limited government and the principle of taxation with representation, Election Day 2008 was not only an historic event from the perspective of race relations in America, but also a shocking affirmation that a new generation of power-hungry socialists have surfaced from within that Trojan Horse called the The Democratic Party.
These neo-socialists have already begun the process of turning this country into a nation of hand-out seekers, Wall Street whiners and corporate derrière smoochers seeking bail from the very people who contributed to their economic imprisonment.
In the coming months, I am certain the NeoSocs will be joined by others from both sides of the aisle who, for the sake of political expediency, will turn their backs on the principles of free-market capitalism. Read article.
Waltzing on the Titanic
Larrey Anderson, American Thinker.com
America's young people helped elect Barack Obama. Way to go kids! This article is for you. Let's take a look at your future.
We won't need a time machine. We will just need to visit Europe and talk to the youth of France, Italy, and Greece. Don't worry. They won't mind. They have plenty of time to talk. They don't have jobs.
Young people in Western Europe tend to sit around, smoke Marlboro cigarettes, drink espresso (and Coca Cola), and (at least until this election) bitch about America.
They have been taught, since their first day in school, that capitalism is evil -- that the government can, and should, provide health care, employment, and eventually, guaranteed retirement benefits for everyone.
Listen up young Americans: What is coming to the United States is what has been happening in Europe for decades. The ships of state have smashed into an iceberg called socialism and they are sinking. Read article.
An insider's story: Why Barack Obama was not Swift Boated
Dan Morain, LA Times.com
Here’s one about the Swift Boat that didn’t happen, related by Republican adman Larry McCarthy at a California Chamber of Commerce post-election gathering this week at Torrey Pines in La Jolla.
As the Democratic National Convention was beginning, a newly formed group, American Issues Project, launched an ad that sought to tie Barack Obama to his Chicago acquaintance, Weather Underground founder Bill Ayres.
Texas billionaire Harold Simmons, who helped pay for the devastating Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry in 2004, paid almost $3 million to air the spot in battleground states.
American Issues Project was intended to serve the function in 2008 that Swift Boat and a few other groups filled four years ago -- that is, to derail the Democratic nominee.
McCarthy, one of the Republicans’ most skillful ad producers, put the spot together, and was prepared to do many more.
As it turned out, however, American Issues Project raised about $7 million, a tenth of what was raised by independent groups in 2004 against Kerry and for President Bush. Read article.
5 Myths About an Election of Mythic Proportions
Chris Cillizza, Washington Post.com
The 2008 presidential election ended two weeks ago, but the mythmaking machine has already begun to churn. President-elect Barack Obama transformed the face of the electorate! The Republican Party will be a miserable minority in Congress for the next century! Cats and dogs are now living together! Below we explode the five biggest myths that have already sprung up around the election that was.
1. The Republican Party suffered a death blow.
There's no question that losing six Senate seats and 24 House seats (not to mention the White House) wasn't a step forward for the Grand Old Party. But there are two good reasons to believe that Republicans will be back on their feet sooner than many people expect.
First, much of the Republicans' permanent political class has concluded that electing Sen. John McCain as president would have amounted to applying a Band-Aid to a gaping wound. Given the state of the party -- bereft of a signature new idea and without many fresh faces -- plenty of Republican operatives have come to subscribe to what I'd call the Ra's al Ghul theory of rebuilding:
Ghul, a villain in the movie "Batman Begins," advocates destroying the city of Gotham to rebuild it from the ground up. "It is beyond saving and must be allowed to die," he says -- a sentiment echoed by many Republicans these days, who argue that hitting rock bottom was the only way to allow new faces and ideas to emerge. Read article.
Obama's First Test
William Lind, Military.com
President Obama's first test in the national security arena is likely to come not from al Qaeda or Iran or the Taliban but from within his own Democratic Party. Powerful constituencies in that party, the Feminists and the gays, will demand that he open the ground combat arms to women and allow acknowledged homosexuals to serve in the U.S. armed forces. If he agrees to either of these demands, or both, he will begin his Presidency by doing immense damage to the fighting ability of the America military.
Both demands are ideological in nature. They reflect the cultural Marxism of the Frankfurt School, commonly known as "Political Correctness." Cultural Marxism sees Feminist women and gays as the equivalent of economic Marxism's proletariat, i.e., "good," and white males as an equivalent of the bourgeoisie, i.e., "bad." The former are therefore to be "privileged" over the latter, in what Roger Kimball calls "experiments against reality."
We must pretend that there are no meaningful differences between men and women, even on a battlefield, and that gays and normal men and women can mix without serious friction, even in very close quarters. Anyone who refuses to play "let's pretend" is to find himself in trouble. Read article.
Where the Mines Are
Michael Gerson, RCP.com
New presidents make mistakes.
For Bill Clinton, the errors were almost immediate. By day three of his presidency, Clinton was embroiled in a losing fight to allow open homosexuality in the military. On day six, Clinton appointed his wife to formulate an ill-fated health care reform plan. Clinton's first two nominees to be attorney general were withdrawn under clouds of controversy. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders -- that vigorous champion of the solitary pleasures -- made constant and unwelcome news. Two years after taking office, Clinton suffered a serious rebuke in midterm elections -- and became a better, more moderate president in the aftermath.
So far, President-elect Barack Obama seems to be preparing for office with characteristic care and seriousness. But Obama will also need to be aware of certain issues -- certain tripwires -- that could trigger explosive controversy, turning suspicion into anger and undermining his broader legislative objectives. Read article.
America Doesn't Need 'Rebranding'
Froma Harrop, Rasmussen Reports.com
There has been much talk of Obama "rebranding" America as a liberal land of race-blind equality. It is remarkable how many Americans, young people especially, yearn for an "openness seal of approval" from people in countries whose records on racial integration is worse than ours.
The left tries to please, and the right tries to hit back. Either way, it's an overreaction. America is a land of ideas, not ethnicity. That's its strength.
Obama's job is to offer a sage foreign policy -- not heartwarming proof that Americans will elect a biracial leader with a Muslim middle name.
Europeans do like to critique the United States, and Obama's election has them responding with awe. That's fine, but their acclaim is based on an outdated notion of American race relations. Read article.
Red Dawn Over America: Defeat & Despair
Lance Fairchok, NMJ.us
Our new President is a man who was bred into socialism’s fantasies; who was mentored as a boy by communists and their sympathizers; and who was drawn to Marxists and radicals his whole life. He is not a centrist, nor is he even truly American as most of us define it. He does not esteem our foundational values, but looks at them as oppressive and defective.
The care he takes to obscure and hide his associations, to present himself as an everyday American is a façade, a ruse, and a tool to gain the power that he will now use to deconstruct us. Our culture has already been corrupted. Our universities are infested with radicals and progressive socialists. Our press is drawn from their ranks and Hollywood is in lockstep with both. Now our institutions are about to be remade.
Obama knows he does not represent the will and the desires of most Americans, but with monumental arrogance, he believes he knows best, and the many deceits he has spun will be justified by the results of his enlightened leadership. He is part of a greater plan though he may not know it, one begun many decades ago by a Soviet Union trying to undermine the West. It is a relentless effort to win power by working inside the system and by corrupting it with willing dupes, agents and provocateurs. The Soviet Union is gone, but its propaganda and misinformation campaign lives on. Indeed, it has taken on a life of its own and to its disciples the clear evidence of the socialist systems failures matters not. They are as blind to reason as a religious cult, thought and intellect having fled, the facility for critical analysis drowned in the drone of radical chants and communitarian mantras.
Communism, socialism’s most virulent strain, has been so spectacular a failure, it is hard to fathom how anyone could now embrace it. Yet at Obama’s victory celebrations, here and there, we saw the symbols of Ché Guevara and even a Soviet flag, its hammer and sickle an ominous reminder. It is interesting to remember where Soviet agents were placed during the early days of the Cold War. Read article.
Tell Us Everything If you want to work for the Obama administration, prepare to waive your right to privacy.
James Taranto, Online WSJ.com
The New York Times reports that Obama's transition office is requiring prospective cabinet members and other high-ranking officials to respond to a seven-page, 63-item questionnaire that "may be the most extensive--some say invasive--application ever."
Some of the questions are expanded versions of ordinary job-application queries. Anyone seeking a job, for instance, can be expected to supply a résumé. The Obama questionnaire demands "copies of all resumes and biographical statements issued by you or any other entity at your discretion or with your consent in the past ten years" (page 1, question 1).
Other questions are much more intrusive. Read article.
World leaders learn that Obama cannot be trusted
Judith A. Klinghoffer, Political Mavens.com
By divulging the content of his private conversation with Bush, Barack Obama has just demonstrated to world leaders that he cannot be trusted with confidential information. So much for Obama personal diplomacy as an asset, if not a cure all, for America’s pressing international problems. I cannot imagine any savvy politician ignoring the lesson or not advised by his advisers to remember it well.
Drudge reports:
Just hours after President Bush and President-elect Obama met in the Oval Office of the White House, details of their confidential conversation began leaking out to the press, igniting anger from the president, sources claim.”Senator Obama would be wise to keep close counsel,” a top Bush source warned.
“BUSH AND OBAMA AT ODDS OVER AID FOR AUTO INDUSTRY,” splashed the NEW YORK TIMES in an exclusive Monday evening, quoting “people familiar with the discussion.”
Bush advisers view the leaks as an effort to undermine the president’s remaining days in office.
“Senator Obama may not be familiar with a long-standing tradition of presidents holding their private conversations, private,” a senior adviser explained to the DRUDGE REPORT.
Bush adviser was being kind. Read article.
They shilled for Obama
Larry Elder, JWR.com
One of the nation's premier newspapers fesses up about allegations of pro-Obama bias. The Washington Post's ombudsperson, Deborah Howell, tracked its presidential campaign stories, front-page coverage and use of photos covering the period from Obama's nomination on June 4 to Election Day. The result?
Howell writes: "The op-ed page ran far more laudatory opinion pieces on Obama, 32, than on Sen. John McCain, 13. There were far more negative pieces about McCain, 58, than there were about Obama, 32, and Obama got the editorial board's endorsement. �
"Stories and photos about Obama in the news pages outnumbered those devoted to McCain. Reporters, photographers and editors found the candidacy of Obama, the first African American major-party nominee, more newsworthy and historic. Journalists love the new; McCain, 25 years older than Obama, was already well known and had more scars from his longer career in politics. "The number of Obama stories since Nov. 11 was 946, compared with McCain's 786. Read article.
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May 20, 2012 10:00 PM
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