Barack's Epistle to the Egyptians

James Lewis, American Thinker.com

 

Ahhh, he does love those grand gestures. Obama culminated his campaign with two of them, the famous styrofoam Greek temple charade in Denver, and his Citizens of the World! speech in Berlin. Not many Americans were told by our media about the Prussian Victory Monument that graced the background of 200,000 cheering (and some puzzled) Germans, among them thousands of nude gay sunbathers celebrating a Prussian Victory of their very own.  

 

Now, after misusing a trillion bucks in TARP money to bully formerly free banks and car makers, after telling us he is about to abolish 5,000 schools and start them again from scratch, and after threatening to do the same to insurance companies; after proclaiming that he is on a mission to remake the American Republic from top to bottom, and while he is in the very act of (secretly) taking over one-seventh of the economy devoted to medicine, to make sure that all health care will be rationed fairly -- Obama is Ready for his Grandest Gesture, his Peace Outreach to A Billion Muslims. 

 

Such a thing has never been done before in human history -- except by Mohammed's letters to the Emperors of Persia and Byzantium in the 7th century, and more recently, by Ahmadinejad's letter to the Infidels. (That's us, folks!). Read article.

Donald Lambro, Townhall.com

 

Last month's nationwide "Tea Party" demonstrations -- protesting massive government spending increases and rising taxes -- were minimalized by the national news media.

 

Liberal big-government groups dismissed them as the work of right-wing advocacy organizations in Washington and claimed that the events were so dispersed, most of them in small cities and towns, no one could be sure how many had actually turned out to attend them.

 

More than 600,000 people in nearly 600 localities -- from Bakersfield, Calif., to Atlanta, Ga. -- turned out to vent their anger over the Democrats' massive-spending levels. And a rally-by-rally account of the people who attended the events suggests that turnout could have been much higher.

 

The seemingly spontaneous April 15 protests have since grown into a more muscular movement of patriotic Americans concerned that the huge and escalating cost of government under President Obama and his party threatens to plunge the country into paralyzing levels of debt and taxes that will rob them of their economic freedoms. Read article.

 

Quin Hillyer, Spectator.org

 

If somebody were deliberately trying to undermine the very fabric of these United States, he would first vow not just to change its policies but to completely "change America," and then would do just about everything Barack Obama already has begun to do as president.

 

To undermine this nation, he would attack the essential sanctity of contracts -- exactly as Obama has done. Never mind the "contracts" clause of the Constitution -- who needs to get hung up on the Constitution's actual language when "empathy" is more important?

 

To undermine this nation, he would selectively release only those portions of intelligence memos that make his nation look bad, but not those that provide context and reasonable motivations for the subject of the memos. And he would selectively edit memos from his own intelligence director to eliminate his statements in support of the effectiveness of the policies discussed in those other memos -- and his statements supporting the motives of those who adopted those policies in protection of their fellow citizens. And he would leave open the possibility of prosecuting earlier administration's lawyers merely for giving legal advice he disagrees with. Read article.

 

Don Feder, GrassTopsUSA.org

 

There is a very committed and very clever collectivist Caligula in the Oval Office, who's dedicated to the destruction of the old America, so a brave, new empathy-driven, income-redistributionist republic can arise from the ashes.

 

Besides giving Washington a stranglehold on business, starting with the banks and auto industry, he intends to destroy the hard-earned assets of the middle class through taxes and inflation, the better to make us dependent on the state. With national health care, he seeks to give bureaucrats life-and-death power over the American people, all in the name of compassion.

 

He intends to so entrench the power of his party as to make future elections meaningless by conferring citizenship on hordes of illegal aliens, financing a partisan army out of the treasury, allowing labor leaders to bludgeon workers into their ranks via the so-called card-check system (increasing labor money, from forced dues, flowing into Democratic coffers) and cutting off the legs of his opponents (that would be us).

 

We saw the first stage in the Department of Homeland Security's smear equating pro-lifers, gun owners and tax-protestors with terrorists.

 

Stage II will include destroying talk-radio, via local content boards (Son of the Fairness Doctrine), which will be used to deny license-renewal to stations with conservative programming. Read article.

 

J.J. Jackson, Alain's Newsletter.com

 

You would be surprised to see how quickly the rest of the concubines wise up and start to follow orders once this is done.

 

“If the instructions are not clear, if the orders are not obeyed, it is the fault of the general. But if the instructions are clear and the soldiers still do not obey, it is the fault of their officers.” – Sun Tzu

 

Whether or not Sun Tzu was the greatest military mind of all time in and of himself is debatable. But he did do something very important. He took up all the lessons from those that came before him concerning how to win a war and brought them under one tent, codified them and followed them.

 

One of the best, and I believe most fundamental, lessons of Sun Tzu is the story of the King's concubines. Read article.

 

IBD Editorials.com

 

Besides sending more troops to Afghanistan, President Obama plans to send billions more in aid to Pakistan, despite evidence that our money is used to kill troops in Afghanistan.

 

The plan to reward Islamabad with another $15 billion comes as stunning new U.S. intelligence — gathered from electronic surveillance and trusted informants — reveals Pakistan's spy service has been supporting the Taliban.

 

And they've been doing it with our intelligence, our weapons and our money. In effect, we are funding the Taliban.

 

Pakistan's secret war has pushed violence in Afghanistan to its highest level since U.S.-led forces invaded in 2001. U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan rose 35% in 2008.

 

Why would Pakistan's military intelligence destabilize the Afghan government? To limit archenemy India's influence next door. It's now confirmed that the Taliban bombed the Indian Embassy in Kabul with help from Pakistani intelligence, the ISI. Read article.

 

Gerard Jackson, Brookes News.com

 

The great mistake that many genuinely patriotic Democrats are making is to ignore the historical fact that real peace and security can only come through strength. In a truly peaceful world the need for military might would not exist. But we live, as we have done since time immemorial, in a dangerous and uncertain world. One in which powers rise and fall and the weak must eventually submit to the strong. It is when this fact of life is forgotten that a nation allows it's defenses to be run down, which is what Obama is now in the process of doing.

 

In one sense, American power is unique because it springs from a country that was born into liberty. This uniqueness offers no protection against aggression. That can only come from fear. Make no mistake: might is fear and it is fear that keeps democracy safe. It is fear that keeps potential enemies at bay, not treaties or sweet-talking Chicago hacks. Any treaty between a democracy and a tyranny is only as good as the ability and willingness of that democracy to stand by its principles. Obama is eroding this ability and thus putting America in and the rest of the democracies in grave peril.

 

Democracies are dangerously pacific. This means that once a democracy runs down its armed forces it invariably becomes politically impossible to raise the funds to restore them to the appropriate level. One need look no further for evidence of this fact. There will always be siren voices telling us that there is no foreseeable danger, which makes as much sense as saying that one should never try to secure property until after it is stolen. Read article.

 

Daniel Greenfield, Canada Free Press.com

 

The key question is not whether America will recover from the current managed economic decline, but whether America will be allowed to recover.

 

And the key factors that will determine are whether we will have a free market economy, or a socialist economy dominated by vastly expanded and empowered unions, cap and trade, and a great deal of new taxes and regulations.

 

Obama’s new jobs program has gotten off to a good start, as he’s busy running Chrysler into the ground. After slashing Chrysler’s ad budget by 50 percent, the company will also be closing nearly 1/4th of its dealerships, killing 38,000 jobs.

 

But don’t worry, while 38,000 small business jobs may have been lost… but Obama’s UAW supporters will keep their jobs. And that of course was the whole point. Read article.

 

Jennifer Rubin, Pajamas Media.com

 

We’ve heard the cliché: there is a difference between campaigning and governing. But in the last few weeks the contrast between the two could not have been more stark. And the gap between President Obama’s effectiveness at the former and shakiness at the latter is coming into focus.

 

Guantanamo is the most vivid example. As a candidate, Obama pushed the notion that George W. Bush was a constitutional Neanderthal and destroyer of American values. Now he’s discovered that it is really hard to figure out what to do with these really bad people. And he’s even discovered the virtue of the Bush-created military tribunals.

 

Republicans have kept up the drumbeat, forcing Democrats to include limits on funding and demands to “show them the plans” before funding a Guantanamo shutdown. And it may be that there is no plan, no viable one to allow Guantanamo to be closed. Read article.

 

Henry Mark Holzer.Blogspot.com

 

“Of the many objectives that could be achieved by a well-designed [federal] campaign finance system, the current system achieves none. It enhances the advantages of incumbents; favors the choice of wealthy candidates; creates at least the appearance of corruption or undue influence; allocates campaign funds inefficiently; encourages expensive campaigns run by outside consultants."

 

This quotation is from the new book Better Parties, Better Government, by Peter J. Wallison, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Joel M. Gora, professor of law at Brooklyn Law School.

 

As the quotation above forcibly demonstrates, Wallison and Gora prove beyond all doubt that the laws, regulations, and rulings which purport to govern federal election campaign financing, indeed the entire system, is a shambles and disgrace—a veritable monument to cynicism, self-dealing, and contempt for democracy.

 

Their comprehensive suggestions would rectify much of the wrong that has been done to the body politic thanks to Republicans such as John McCain and liberals such as Russ Feingold—men of no stature who put political self-preservation ahead of the needs and mandates of democracy.

 

The authors’ suggestions need to be studied seriously and acted upon promptly if we are to restore even a semblance of what the Founders established as a truly representative government served by citizen legislators. Read article.

 

Austin Hill, Townhall.com

 

First let me say - - it most certainly is an “obsession.”

 

Doesn't it seem that to you that many of our fellow Americans are “obsessed” with the “persistent idea” that our 43rd President, Barack Obama, is something more than human? It may be sustained, or it may be short-lived - - or something in between.

 

But for now, millions of Americans believe that there is no problem, neither personal nor global, that this President can’t “fix,” and his motivations in all things are the very definition of purity. 

 

It would seem that Madison the philosopher (who went on to become our Fourth President of the United States) was quite certain that those who govern will never be “angels” (he would probably also concur that a President will never amount to a messiah). Madison also seems to indicate that those who govern will naturally begin to think a bit too highly of themselves, and will have difficulty with ‘self-restraint.” The good news, even in this brief passage of Madison’s writings, is that “the people” - - those of us who are “the governed” - - can still function as the force that prohibits government from spiraling out of control.

 

The good news, even in this brief passage of Madison’s writings, is that “the people” - - those of us who are “the governed” - - can still function as the force that prohibits government from spiraling out of control. Read article.

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