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Obama getting $$$ from Hamas?
Director Blue.Blogspot.com
Atlas has crunched the numbers and discovered a swath of illegal campaign donations to Barack Obama. Consider the strange case of Monir Edwan of Rafah, GA (that's Gaza, by the way, not Georgia).
According to CampaignMoney, Monir has donated a total of $24,313 directly to Obama's campaign.
Yes, it's two. two. two federal election violations in one! Of course, it's completely illegal for a candidate for federal office to accept contributions from foreign nationals; and, as an added bonus, it's illegal for candidates to accept more than $2,300 from an individual in a single election cycle. As Debbie Schussel points out, since Gaza is controlled by the murderous group of terrorists known as Hamas, it's possible several other laws were violated by the Obama campaign. Read article.
Corsi's Obama title soars to No. 1, Pelosi's tanks
Amazon rankings go opposite directions on opening day of sales
WND.com
Two big political books released today are headed in opposite directions on the Amazon best-sellers list – the first gauge of the popularity of new titles.
While WND staff writer Jerome Corsi's "The Obama Nation" steadily climbed the charts to the top position, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's "Know Your Power: A Message to America's Daughters" actually moved downward most of the day.
At late-evening, "The Obama Nation," available for immediate shipment only through WND's online store with each copy personally signed by the author, stood at No. 1 on the Amazon non-fiction list, while Pelosi's book later sank to 1,610. CLICK HERE.
Obama getting $$$ from Hamas?
Director Blue.Blogspot.com
Atlas has crunched the numbers and discovered a swath of illegal campaign donations to Barack Obama. Consider the strange case of Monir Edwan of Rafah, GA (that's Gaza, by the way, not Georgia).
According to CampaignMoney, Monir has donated a total of $24,313 directly to Obama's campaign.
Yes, it's two. two. two federal election violations in one! Of course, it's completely illegal for a candidate for federal office to accept contributions from foreign nationals; and, as an added bonus, it's illegal for candidates to accept more than $2,300 from an individual in a single election cycle. As Debbie Schussel points out, since Gaza is controlled by the murderous group of terrorists known as Hamas, it's possible several other laws were violated by the Obama campaign. Read article.
Why McCain will pick Sarah Palin as running mate
Douglas Burns, Carrolls Paper.com
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a 44-year-old with five children, a captivating TV-mom look and a brief and but weighty background as a reformer governor, could vault from relative national obscurity to star in a game-turning role as John McCain's running mate.
In fact, of all the candidates under consideration to ride shotgun with the Arizona senator, Palin brings the most to McCain. The Republican Alaska governor is a likely selection.
Millions of Americans fell in love with Barack Obama's biography. They'll go for Palin's too-and perhaps relate more to it. She hunts and fishes, and in Iowa, where girls basketball is an iconic force, the fact that this governor led her high school team as point guard to an Alaska state title as "Sarah Barracuda" will resonate. She appears to pull off the Clair Huxtable balancing act: being strong and feminine at the same time.
Palin completely changes the complexion of the election and helps establish a narrative of two mavericks, one too old and one too young, waging an underdog quest against Battlestar Barack. Read article.
Barack Obama’s Stealth Socialism
IBD Editorials.com
Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called "economic justice." He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code — socialist code.
During his NAACP speech earlier this month, Sen. Obama repeated the term at least four times. "I've been working my entire adult life to help build an America where economic justice is being served," he said at the group's 99th annual convention in Cincinnati.
Democrat Barack Obama arrives in Washington on Monday. On the campaign trail, Obama has styled himself a centrist. But a look at those who've served as his advisers and mentors over the years shows a far more left-leaning tilt to his background — and to his politics.
And as president, "we'll ensure that economic justice is served," he asserted. "That's what this election is about." Obama never spelled out the meaning of the term, but he didn't have to. His audience knew what he meant, judging from its thumping approval.
It's the rest of the public that remains in the dark. Obama's positioning himself with alarming stealth to put that rhetoric into action on a scale not seen since the birth of the welfare state. Read article.
Another Tack: Verbal junk food
Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post.com
He punctuated his carefully enunciated phrases with frequent throat-clearings, hemmed a lot and hawed even more, yet among all the hems and haws, Barack Obama told the truth, even if maybe not only and certainly not all of it. Nevertheless, it's a sure bet to take him at his word when he declared that "if someone was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that."
We can all be darn tootin' convinced of Obama's sincerity. He doubtlessly would make sure that his little girls were safe. Would he be equally as resolute to look after the daughters of Israel? Aye, to quote Hamlet, there's the rub. A very big rub at that.
It was a flawless ploy for Obama to inject his offspring into his message. This imparted the highest degree of folksy empathy: "Like you, I'm a dad. I too would feel impelled to take action." And these syrupy supportive sentiments crossed the ocean with satellite immediacy and appealed directly to the hearts of registered Jewish voters, which they were foremost intended to sway.
Let's face it; Obama didn't spare us a day of his hectic schedule to demonstrate genuine identification with the suffering of the hard-luck residents of a small, outlying, battered Israeli town. Had their sad lot really touched him, he would have come earlier during the seven years of Sderot's ongoing nightmare. But he only came when the American presidential campaign switched into high gear and the votes of various less-than-knee-jerk-liberal Jewish sorts (yes, they exist) were judged significant enough to make a pitch for. Read article.
Obama Cannot Keep Running On Narcissism
George F. Will, IBD Editorials.com
As the presidential candidates enter the three-month sprint to November, Barack Obama must be wondering: If that did not do it, what will?
The antecedent of the pronoun "that" is his Berlin speech. The antecedent of the pronoun "it" is assuage anxieties about his understanding of the need to supplement soft power (diplomacy) with hard power (military force).
He spoke in Berlin at the bullet-scarred base — it was in the crossfire 63 years ago as Russian troops neared Hitler's bunker about a mile away — of an 1873 monument to German militarism. To be precise, the monument celebrates the Franco-Prussian War and lesser triumphs of the militarism that would help ruin the next century.
Anyway, at that monument Obama exhorted Germans — does the candidate of "change" appreciate how much beneficent change made this exhortation necessary? — to be more willing to wage war, in Afghanistan. He was right to do so.
But polls taken since his trip abroad do not indicate that Obama succeeded in altering the oddest aspect of this presidential campaign: Measured against his party's surging strength in every region and at every level, he is dramatically under performing.
Surely this fact is related to anxieties about his thin resume regarding national security matters, the thinnest of any major party nominee since Wendell Wilkie's in 1940. But the fact also might be related to fatigue from too much of Obama's eloquence, which is beginning to sound formulaic and perfunctory. Read article.
A Few More Reasons To Oppose Obama
Burt Prelutsky, Townhall.com
Because there is so much about Barack Obama that I find personally offensive -- things ranging from his friends and religious mentors to his obvious arrogance and his wife -- I have rarely brought up his politics. Partly that’s because his support of leftist policies aren’t all that much different from Hillary Clinton’s or any other liberal in the U.S. Senate, and partly because I tend to think that when electing a president, who must not only serve as head of the executive branch of the federal government but as a living symbol of the country, character and values trumps his position on a handful of current issues.
But that’s not to suggest that issues don’t count. That is particularly true when it comes to such matters as national security, the economy and how best to conduct the war on Islamic terrorism.
In the case of Sen. Obama, there is nothing to suggest that his platform in any way offsets his character deficiencies. Read article.
Obama's John Lennon-like fantasy
Dennis Prager, WND.com
To better understand Sen. Barack Obama, his speech before 200,000 Germans in Berlin is one good place to start. As we shall see, however, it does not leave one secure as to the senator's understanding of history, of America's role in the world and what to do about evil, among other important issues.
Obama: "At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning – his dream – required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West."
Promised by the West? Or promised by America?
The sad truth is that, with some heroic exceptions, Germans on the right supported Hitler, and during the Cold War, Germans on the left fought the Unites States more than they fought the Soviet Union. Read article.
Ad Exaggerates Obama's Credentials
Kenneth R. Timmerman, NewsMax.com
Sen. Barack Obama claims in a new campaign ad to have “reached out” to Republicans in Congress to launch a major new program to “lock down loose nuclear weapons,” when in fact the legislation he helped pass authorized the Bush administration to maintain and expand an initiative pioneered by John Bolton to help foreign countries stop shipments of weapons of mass destruction components from reaching rogue states such as Iran.
In the campaign ad, titled “America’s Leadership,” the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee says, “The single most important national security threat we face is the threat of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists. What I did was reach out to Senator Dick Lugar, Republican, to help lock down loose nuclear weapons.”
An on-screen caption provides the details. “On the Foreign Relations Committee, Obama Passed a Law . . . To Keep Nuclear Weapons Out Of Terrorists’ Hands.”
However, the bill mentioned in the ad — Public Law 109-472, signed into law by President Bush on Jan. 11, 2007 — was introduced by Lugar in late September 2006 without co-sponsors and not as a result of Lugar’s discussions with Obama and was voted out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee without a hearing. Read article.
Senator Lieberman is a Marked Man in Democratic Circles These Days
Seth Gitell, NY Sun.com
He represents one of the few subjects both the Democratic senate leadership and the so-called progressive NetRoots can agree upon: his support of John McCain must be punished, they say. Senate Majority Leader Reid has threatened to strip the Connecticut senator of his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee should he address the Republican National Convention, like a former Democratic senator from Georgia, Zell Miller, did in 2004.
One prominent Democrat, however, can save Mr. Lieberman — Barack Obama. Since emerging onto the national scene four years ago, Senator Obama has emphasized his ability to unite Americans across the political spectrum.
If Mr. Obama wants to demonstrate his willingness to change the way Washington does business and to overcome "the politics of division and distraction" — both of which he has vowed repeatedly — he should offer Mr. Lieberman a political pardon and ask Mr. Reid to allow Mr. Lieberman to keep his chairmanship, if Mr. Obama is elected president. Read article.
Obama Repeating the Mistakes of the 1930’s
Dick McDonald, Dick McDonald.Blogspot.com
A lot of problems with the FREEDOM of unregulated commerce were visited on the world in the 1930’s. It would have been quickly sorted out by the very nature of its capitalist economies if the world had not been seduced at that very moment in history by an economic myth called “socialism”. Nowhere was that more evident than in America. Although commerce was not nationalized like it was in the USSR, the “socialism” initiated in the 1930’s by the Democrat Party still plagues America today in the form of oppressive taxes on the poor and middle-class.
Taxes are so oppressive today that when coupled with inflation they deny most Americans the dream of financial independence. The Democrats made the “socialist’s” mistake that America could tax its way to equality. Barack Obama is the embodiment of that fallacy today. He believes in taxing the poor and middle-class unmercifully while fooling everyone with the deception that he is only going to tax the rich.
Obama knows, just like all Democrats, that taxing the rich has never made the poor better off financially. The crumbs thrown out by Democrats like food stamps and welfare merely insure the vote of the less fortunate, a growing class of dependents and elites indoctrinated in the many Democrat Party fallacies like “fairness” and “global warming” upon which the Democrat Party rests.
In the 1930’s the Democrat Party made America needlessly suffer for over a decade by a series of economic mistakes that only a war eventually solved. Those mistakes were simple. Read article.
The Obama Doctrine: Bringing Us Into Submission
Scott Ott, Townhall.Blog.com
Every time you hear Sen. Barack Obama say that Afghanistan is the central front in the war against terror, you should cringe, and then stock up on imperishable food, gold coin, jerry cans of diesel, and ammo.lots of ammo.
The Democrat presidential nominee has yet to comprehend the nature of the enemy. Frankly, most Republicans are also afraid to call it what it is.
We're not at war against terror. Terrorism is merely a set of tactics used by those who lack the muscle to wage conventional war. Terrorism consists primarily of spectacular acts of cowardice designed to scare women, children and other non-combatants in order to intimidate governments into submission. We're not at war against terror.
We're not even at war against al-Qaeda -- that's just a particular brand name of a product that's distributed worldwide under dozens of labels but contains the same active ingredient. We're at war with people who cling to an ideology that is nothing less than Satanic. Even if you think that Satan is no more than an abstract concept created to represent evil in the human heart, you must know that this wickedness has taken millions captive. It has done so mainly through a particular channel -- Islam -- a word which, appropriately, means 'submission.' Read article.
Our First Transnational President?
Rich Lowry, NRO.com
If elected, Barack Obama might make history in more ways than one. He will be the country’s first black president, but also — perhaps as consequentially — could be its first transnational president.
Obama’s personal history defies categorization, which makes it so alluring. Born in Hawaii to a black Kenyan father and white Kansan mother and raised for a time in Indonesia, Obama embodies the crosscurrents of globalization and the remarkable dynamism of an American society open to people of talent from any background.
Obama tells his story to emphasize its quintessential American-ness, a tale of how an outsider — like so many before him — came to live the American dream. This is all to the good. But at times it’s a post-nationalism that comes to the fore.
His overseas tour — punctuated by his Berlin speech before 200,000 — showed him to be a potentially powerful American emissary to the world. It also suggested that Obama styles himself the world’s emissary to us — a discomfiting role for a would-be American president. Read article.
The Presidency Is Not An Entry-Level Position
Frank Turek, Townhall.com
Barack Obama’s recent op-ed in the New York Times declares, “It’s time to end this war.” (You remember that Senator McCain tried to respond, but the Times apparently wanted to give McCain his opinion rather than allow him to express his own. Every day I read the New York Times and the Bible just to see what both sides are doing.)
Is Obama right? Is it time to end this war? Maybe it is time to begin drawing down our forces and handing-off more responsibility for security to Iraqi forces. This idea is gaining favor in Bagdad and Washington.
The problem for Obama is that withdrawal, not victory, has always been his goal. Obama wanted to “end this war” when it would have meant an American defeat. The only reason a slow withdrawal is possible now is because President Bush made the unpopular but wise decision to increase our efforts while Obama and the Democrat party tried to get us to cut and run.
This raises a larger question about Obama’s fitness for the presidency. Obama has four positions related to the war which, in my view, disqualify him for the presidency. Read article.
Obama received thousands in illegal contributions (from Hamas?)
Director Blue.Blogspot.com
Atlas has crunched the numbers and discovered a swath of illegal campaign donations to Barack Obama. Consider the strange case of Monir Edwan of Rafah, GA (that's Gaza, by the way, not Georgia).
According to CampaignMoney, Monir has donated a total of $24,313 directly to Obama's campaign.
Yes, it's two. two. two federal election violations in one! Of course, it's completely illegal for a candidate for federal office to accept contributions from foreign nationals; and, as an added bonus, it's illegal for candidates to accept more than $2,300 from an individual in a single election cycle. As Debbie Schussel points out, since Gaza is controlled by the murderous group of terrorists known as Hamas, it's possible several other laws were violated by the Obama campaign. Read article.
Why McCain will pick Sarah Palin as running mate
Douglas Burns, Carrolls Paper.com
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a 44-year-old with five children, a captivating TV-mom look and a brief and but weighty background as a reformer governor, could vault from relative national obscurity to star in a game-turning role as John McCain's running mate.
In fact, of all the candidates under consideration to ride shotgun with the Arizona senator, Palin brings the most to McCain. The Republican Alaska governor is a likely selection.
Millions of Americans fell in love with Barack Obama's biography. They'll go for Palin's too-and perhaps relate more to it. She hunts and fishes, and in Iowa, where girls basketball is an iconic force, the fact that this governor led her high school team as point guard to an Alaska state title as "Sarah Barracuda" will resonate. She appears to pull off the Clair Huxtable balancing act: being strong and feminine at the same time.
Palin completely changes the complexion of the election and helps establish a narrative of two mavericks, one too old and one too young, waging an underdog quest against Battlestar Barack. Read article.
Barack Obama’s Stealth Socialism
IBD Editorials.com
Before friendly audiences, Barack Obama speaks passionately about something called "economic justice." He uses the term obliquely, though, speaking in code — socialist code.
During his NAACP speech earlier this month, Sen. Obama repeated the term at least four times. "I've been working my entire adult life to help build an America where economic justice is being served," he said at the group's 99th annual convention in Cincinnati.
Democrat Barack Obama arrives in Washington on Monday. On the campaign trail, Obama has styled himself a centrist. But a look at those who've served as his advisers and mentors over the years shows a far more left-leaning tilt to his background — and to his politics.
And as president, "we'll ensure that economic justice is served," he asserted. "That's what this election is about." Obama never spelled out the meaning of the term, but he didn't have to. His audience knew what he meant, judging from its thumping approval.
It's the rest of the public that remains in the dark. Obama's positioning himself with alarming stealth to put that rhetoric into action on a scale not seen since the birth of the welfare state. Read article.
Another Tack: Verbal junk food
Sarah Honig, Jerusalem Post.com
He punctuated his carefully enunciated phrases with frequent throat-clearings, hemmed a lot and hawed even more, yet among all the hems and haws, Barack Obama told the truth, even if maybe not only and certainly not all of it. Nevertheless, it's a sure bet to take him at his word when he declared that "if someone was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that."
We can all be darn tootin' convinced of Obama's sincerity. He doubtlessly would make sure that his little girls were safe. Would he be equally as resolute to look after the daughters of Israel? Aye, to quote Hamlet, there's the rub. A very big rub at that.
It was a flawless ploy for Obama to inject his offspring into his message. This imparted the highest degree of folksy empathy: "Like you, I'm a dad. I too would feel impelled to take action." And these syrupy supportive sentiments crossed the ocean with satellite immediacy and appealed directly to the hearts of registered Jewish voters, which they were foremost intended to sway.
Let's face it; Obama didn't spare us a day of his hectic schedule to demonstrate genuine identification with the suffering of the hard-luck residents of a small, outlying, battered Israeli town. Had their sad lot really touched him, he would have come earlier during the seven years of Sderot's ongoing nightmare. But he only came when the American presidential campaign switched into high gear and the votes of various less-than-knee-jerk-liberal Jewish sorts (yes, they exist) were judged significant enough to make a pitch for. Read article.
Ex-G.I. candidate finds election battle all too real (LtCol AllenWest)
Ny Daily News.com
Retired Army Lt. Col. Allen West thought he'd left behind the specters of Iraq when he decided to run for Congress in Florida. But a recent interview request lead him to suspect he was a target for kidnapping.
West's combat instincts flared a few days ago when his campaign office got a call from a young woman who identified herself as a booker for the Al Jazeera network's English-language channel.
"She told my staff that she wanted to talk about the perceived uptick in violence in Afghanistan," West tells us. "I found that strange, since I haven't been in Afghanistan in eight months.
"But my b.s. flag really went up when they said they wanted my address, to pick me up at night. They said they would send a car but wouldn't tell me where it was going. I'm not going to trust Al Jazeera with my life!" Read article.
A Few More Reasons To Oppose Obama
Burt Prelutsky, Townhall.com
Because there is so much about Barack Obama that I find personally offensive -- things ranging from his friends and religious mentors to his obvious arrogance and his wife -- I have rarely brought up his politics. Partly that’s because his support of leftist policies aren’t all that much different from Hillary Clinton’s or any other liberal in the U.S. Senate, and partly because I tend to think that when electing a president, who must not only serve as head of the executive branch of the federal government but as a living symbol of the country, character and values trumps his position on a handful of current issues.
But that’s not to suggest that issues don’t count. That is particularly true when it comes to such matters as national security, the economy and how best to conduct the war on Islamic terrorism.
In the case of Sen. Obama, there is nothing to suggest that his platform in any way offsets his character deficiencies. Read article.
Obama's John Lennon-like fantasy
Dennis Prager, WND.com
To better understand Sen. Barack Obama, his speech before 200,000 Germans in Berlin is one good place to start. As we shall see, however, it does not leave one secure as to the senator's understanding of history, of America's role in the world and what to do about evil, among other important issues.
Obama: "At the height of the Cold War, my father decided, like so many others in the forgotten corners of the world, that his yearning – his dream – required the freedom and opportunity promised by the West."
Promised by the West? Or promised by America?
The sad truth is that, with some heroic exceptions, Germans on the right supported Hitler, and during the Cold War, Germans on the left fought the Unites States more than they fought the Soviet Union. Read article.
Ad Exaggerates Obama's Credentials
Kenneth R. Timmerman, NewsMax.com
Sen. Barack Obama claims in a new campaign ad to have “reached out” to Republicans in Congress to launch a major new program to “lock down loose nuclear weapons,” when in fact the legislation he helped pass authorized the Bush administration to maintain and expand an initiative pioneered by John Bolton to help foreign countries stop shipments of weapons of mass destruction components from reaching rogue states such as Iran.
In the campaign ad, titled “America’s Leadership,” the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee says, “The single most important national security threat we face is the threat of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists. What I did was reach out to Senator Dick Lugar, Republican, to help lock down loose nuclear weapons.”
An on-screen caption provides the details. “On the Foreign Relations Committee, Obama Passed a Law . . . To Keep Nuclear Weapons Out Of Terrorists’ Hands.”
However, the bill mentioned in the ad — Public Law 109-472, signed into law by President Bush on Jan. 11, 2007 — was introduced by Lugar in late September 2006 without co-sponsors and not as a result of Lugar’s discussions with Obama and was voted out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee without a hearing. Read article.
Senator Lieberman is a Marked Man in Democratic Circles These Days
Seth Gitell, NY Sun.com
He represents one of the few subjects both the Democratic senate leadership and the so-called progressive NetRoots can agree upon: his support of John McCain must be punished, they say. Senate Majority Leader Reid has threatened to strip the Connecticut senator of his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee should he address the Republican National Convention, like a former Democratic senator from Georgia, Zell Miller, did in 2004.
One prominent Democrat, however, can save Mr. Lieberman — Barack Obama. Since emerging onto the national scene four years ago, Senator Obama has emphasized his ability to unite Americans across the political spectrum.
If Mr. Obama wants to demonstrate his willingness to change the way Washington does business and to overcome "the politics of division and distraction" — both of which he has vowed repeatedly — he should offer Mr. Lieberman a political pardon and ask Mr. Reid to allow Mr. Lieberman to keep his chairmanship, if Mr. Obama is elected president. Read article.
Obama Repeating the Mistakes of the 1930’s
Dick McDonald, Dick McDonald.Blogspot.com
A lot of problems with the FREEDOM of unregulated commerce were visited on the world in the 1930’s. It would have been quickly sorted out by the very nature of its capitalist economies if the world had not been seduced at that very moment in history by an economic myth called “socialism”. Nowhere was that more evident than in America. Although commerce was not nationalized like it was in the USSR, the “socialism” initiated in the 1930’s by the Democrat Party still plagues America today in the form of oppressive taxes on the poor and middle-class.
Taxes are so oppressive today that when coupled with inflation they deny most Americans the dream of financial independence. The Democrats made the “socialist’s” mistake that America could tax its way to equality. Barack Obama is the embodiment of that fallacy today. He believes in taxing the poor and middle-class unmercifully while fooling everyone with the deception that he is only going to tax the rich.
Obama knows, just like all Democrats, that taxing the rich has never made the poor better off financially. The crumbs thrown out by Democrats like food stamps and welfare merely insure the vote of the less fortunate, a growing class of dependents and elites indoctrinated in the many Democrat Party fallacies like “fairness” and “global warming” upon which the Democrat Party rests.
In the 1930’s the Democrat Party made America needlessly suffer for over a decade by a series of economic mistakes that only a war eventually solved. Those mistakes were simple. Read article.
The Obama Doctrine: Bringing Us Into Submission
Scott Ott, Townhall.Blog.com
Every time you hear Sen. Barack Obama say that Afghanistan is the central front in the war against terror, you should cringe, and then stock up on imperishable food, gold coin, jerry cans of diesel, and ammo.lots of ammo.
The Democrat presidential nominee has yet to comprehend the nature of the enemy. Frankly, most Republicans are also afraid to call it what it is.
We're not at war against terror. Terrorism is merely a set of tactics used by those who lack the muscle to wage conventional war. Terrorism consists primarily of spectacular acts of cowardice designed to scare women, children and other non-combatants in order to intimidate governments into submission. We're not at war against terror.
We're not even at war against al-Qaeda -- that's just a particular brand name of a product that's distributed worldwide under dozens of labels but contains the same active ingredient. We're at war with people who cling to an ideology that is nothing less than Satanic. Even if you think that Satan is no more than an abstract concept created to represent evil in the human heart, you must know that this wickedness has taken millions captive. It has done so mainly through a particular channel -- Islam -- a word which, appropriately, means 'submission.' Read article.
Our First Transnational President?
Rich Lowry, NRO.com
If elected, Barack Obama might make history in more ways than one. He will be the country’s first black president, but also — perhaps as consequentially — could be its first transnational president.
Obama’s personal history defies categorization, which makes it so alluring. Born in Hawaii to a black Kenyan father and white Kansan mother and raised for a time in Indonesia, Obama embodies the crosscurrents of globalization and the remarkable dynamism of an American society open to people of talent from any background.
Obama tells his story to emphasize its quintessential American-ness, a tale of how an outsider — like so many before him — came to live the American dream. This is all to the good. But at times it’s a post-nationalism that comes to the fore.
His overseas tour — punctuated by his Berlin speech before 200,000 — showed him to be a potentially powerful American emissary to the world. It also suggested that Obama styles himself the world’s emissary to us — a discomfiting role for a would-be American president. Read article.
The Presidency Is Not An Entry-Level Position
Frank Turek, Townhall.com
Barack Obama’s recent op-ed in the New York Times declares, “It’s time to end this war.” (You remember that Senator McCain tried to respond, but the Times apparently wanted to give McCain his opinion rather than allow him to express his own. Every day I read the New York Times and the Bible just to see what both sides are doing.)
Is Obama right? Is it time to end this war? Maybe it is time to begin drawing down our forces and handing-off more responsibility for security to Iraqi forces. This idea is gaining favor in Bagdad and Washington.
The problem for Obama is that withdrawal, not victory, has always been his goal. Obama wanted to “end this war” when it would have meant an American defeat. The only reason a slow withdrawal is possible now is because President Bush made the unpopular but wise decision to increase our efforts while Obama and the Democrat party tried to get us to cut and run.
This raises a larger question about Obama’s fitness for the presidency. Obama has four positions related to the war which, in my view, disqualify him for the presidency. Read article.
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The #twittergulag saga continues: @gopfirecracker suspended, others still trapped
May 21, 2012 11:54 PM
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Cory Booker tweets #IStandWithObama; Hashtag hijackers flood the zone
May 21, 2012 11:39 PM
Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker, the Democrat who defended Bain from the Obama campaign's attacks yesterday morning, has been backpedaling more furiously than a clown on a high wire. Tonight, in an effort to mollify his critics on the Left, he posted four tweets that included the hashtag #IStandWithObama. Conservatives immediately took over the #IStandWithObama hashtag to mock President Obama, and within an hour it became a trending topic.
Cory Booker tries to clear up his position on Bain attacks
May 21, 2012 10:25 PM
Cory Booker continued his quest to run screaming away from the apparently too candid comments he made on Meet the Press on Sunday. Despite attempts earlier today to #FreeCoryBooker from those trying to force him to apologize Booker went on the Rachel Maddow show to do everything he could to walk back what he said. Que the mockery.
Obama's 'When you're president' picture spawns hashtag
May 21, 2012 09:59 PM
"When you're president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot." -Barack Obama
Cue #WhenYouArePresident
Obama takes anti-Romney rant to Twitter
May 21, 2012 09:49 PM
It started off this morning with a video of a woman named Valerie from Indiana posted by Barack Obama’s official Twitter account. 12 hours, 12 tweets and a failed hashtag later, Obama’s reelection team took the day to tweet ongoing misinformation about Mitt Romney’s record in the private sector, specifically Bain Capital’s work with the [...]
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