Monthly Archives: September 2012

2012 Election, Economy, Politics, War On Terror

Obama’s Cost Of War, No Problem

President Obama finally confirmed what I said four yeas ago about all his complaining about the cost of two wars in his acceptance speech Thursday night. The sleight-of-hand with borrowed money.

President Obama’s acceptance speech 9/6/2012 . . .

I will use the money we’re no longer spending on war to pay down our debt and put more people back to work rebuilding roads and bridges and schools and runways.

Because after two wars that have cost us thousands
of lives and over a trillion dollars, it’s time to do some
nation- building right here at home.

Here’s where he is wrong. The money spent on the war is borrowed. So he wants to borrow more money, another trillion dollars, to pay down the debt (which is now over 16 trillion dollars) and to build roads and bridges. (Like he told us he was going to do with the last ‘stimulus’ spending bill, and didn’t. Remember the ‘shovel ready’ joke?) In the Progressive/Liberal mind, spending your way to prosperity and borrowing your way out of debt makes sense.  My calculator tells me the debt will grow by another trillion dollars. It’s time to stop opening new credit cards to pay off old ones, while committing generational theft.

Lunch Counter 9/9/2008, speaking to the cost of war issue . . .

True, the cost of the war is great. Unfortunately, the cost of losing it is greater. Early on in their [Obama and Democrats] chorus of the immense cost of the war, I suspected that they were basically looking at the ‘cost’ of the war as opportunities lost for all sorts of entitlement and other socialistic programs that build (read ‘buy’) voter constituencies.

What is the answer to the enormous cost of the war? When it ends, the cost also ends. Who knows, we might need it again some day.

This from a guy who said it will bankrupt our country, that we can’t afford these wars. How does his arithmetic tell him that we can afford it now providing we spend it? That’s a rhetorical question. It’s Liberal math.

2012 Election, Economy, Politics

Obama Has Quit On You

Vice President Joe Biden pumped up the crowd at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night, testifying to his observations of President Obama. Up close and personal.

The theme seems to be another redefining of the Democrat Party. It’s ‘values.’ They have values. And Republicans don’t? The challenge today is the economy and jobs. Not ‘values.’ Since they can not talk about the shape we’re in and how they’re going to fix it, they talk about ‘values.’

With that understood, let’s look at the ‘values’ of this president. According to Joe Biden tonight . . .

You never quit on America. And you deserve a President who will never quit on you. And one more thing that our opponents are dead wrong about: America is NOT in decline.

In September 2011, President Obama had a very different feeling about America and Americans. President Obama blamed the stagnant economy on the Arab Spring, Japan’s tsunami, and rich people. Then he finally came down, to YOU. Not himself or his policies. You! Where was Joe last September?

This is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft, and we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades. We need to get back on track.

2012 Election, Politics, Race Relations, Venezuela

The ‘New’ Democratic Party

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A bizarre moment at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte last night. It reminded me a bit of the Star Wars bar scene. The party unwittingly showed itself for what it truly is.

Last night, the country saw over half of the party’s delegates vote against ‘God’ being mentioned and ‘Jerusalem is the Capitol of Israel’ being mentioned, in the Party Platform.

If those watching from their homes could have been heard, I’d guess (but I could be wrong) that there would have been way more than 2/3rds in favor of putting those two items back into the Party Platform. Never mind that the vote was predetermined in the teleprompter and all of what that says about the significance of delegates and their votes at these (both of them) conventions.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was speechless when the vote he heard didn’t match the teleprompter. How could he say that what just happened, did not happen, and get away with it? Then his Liberal conscience took over. Screw that, back to the teleprompter and say what the President wants me to say.

Proof that Obama and his political party aren’t too keen on the most basic democratic principles. What we saw last night could easily have come out of Caracas, Venezuela. This is today’s Democratic Party.

Would like to have been a fly on the wall when the President weighed the choice between the country’s reaction upon finding out what was NOT in the platform, and the reaction of the delegates upon finding out what Obama wanted put in the platform. Another thing to ponder is whether Huma Abedin was any way involved into those items being stricken from the Party Platform? Wouldn’t surprise me. For Obama, that would be ‘Muslim outreach.’

2008 Election, 2010 Election, 2012 Election, Media, Politics

President Obama’s Words, Just Words

President Obama demonstrates, with the help of this stunning one-minute video, starring President Obama, exactly what an “empty suit” looks and sounds like.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J5VMX2JahrU

Compare what he says today to what he has said in the past, going as far back as when he was a candidate running against Hillary Clinton, and you’ll realize that this guy has nothing new in store for America than what we’ve already seen.

He chastises his opponents for their empty words, just words. He should know what “empty words, just words” are. Beginning with this campaign speech in 2008 when he “borrowed” someone else’s words, and the laundry list of empty words provided in this LINK on this blog.

Same speeches. Same promises. Are you better off?

What are the chances the mainstream media will notice the same playlist on the TOTUS? (Teleprompter Of The United States)

Links: An Obama Refrain Bears Echoes of a Governor’s Speeches  |  Links to Obama’s “Words, Just Words”  |  GOP Video Demonstrates Emptiness of Obama’s Words

2012 Election, Politics, Race Relations

Do Democrats Take Blacks For Granted?

Obama is no friend of the poor, and no friend to Blacks. He is simply trying to become America’s newest founding father by rejecting and dismissing the Constitution and over 200 years of American history.

With President Obama now trapped in an election season where no arguments on the basis of his record are forthcoming, the racial agitation has reached a fevered pitch. That “post-racial” administration Obama promised us, was just more snake-oil.

The beauty of conservative policies – be they low taxation, educational choice or equal justice before the law – is that their benefits apply equally to all, with no regard for race, skin color or creed. That pitch may not be as rhetorically appealing to black voters as promises to tailor policies directly toward them, but it does have one key advantage over the liberal approach: It actually works.

Link: The Democratic Betrayal of African-American Voters

Egypt, Politics, Race Relations, Religion, War On Terror

Jihad Advancing In West Africa

Terrorist leader Oumar Ould Hamaha is running his “Movement for Unity and Jihad” in West Africa. “Unity” in the minds of these Islamist radical, bigoted, if not racist Muslims, means getting rid of non-believers.

I told my elements that we need to get rid of these people because they are refusing to respect us.

The extremists have since made “huge gains,” taking the entire northern half of Mali, including Timbuktu, and causing some 440,000 people to flee, according to the useless United Nations.

Respect them, convert to their version of Islam, or die. That’s what this whole ‘movement’ is about. And their soul brothers in this ‘movement’ is a world-wide group called the Muslim Brotherhood. The group that the Obama administration said was a harmless, “largely secular” group when they helped them take over Egypt.

The term “racist” has really been abused in today’s political vernacular. If you’re a racist, you believe that races other than yours are inferior by genetics. If you’re a bigot, you just don’t like them because of who they are, or the color of their skin. Not that one is genetically superior to others.

At the risk of bastardizing the word ‘racist,’ there is a similarity to be drawn between this whole Islamic Jihad movement and racism. These Islamists, Muslims, actually believe that anyone of any color that does not accept their religion, and embrace their religion instead of their own, just need to be gotten rid of. If there was such a thing as a “religious racist,” that’s exactly what they would be.

They simply do not accept the existence of what they call ‘non-believers.’ For these terrorists, non-believers are a to-do list. There’s no ‘live and let live’ in their perverted religion. It’s you comply. You submit. Or you die.

Link: Islamist Rebels Seize Control Of Douentza

Politics

Feds Drop Case Against AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Friday’s document dump this week includes the Justice Department closing their four-year abuse-of-power investigation against Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, without filing charges against him.

In a 5 p.m. Friday news release, Assistant U.S. Attorney Ann Birmingham Scheel, acting on behalf of the U.S. Department of Justice said “After careful review, we do not believe the allegations presented to us are prosecutable as crimes.”

After four years, why give up now? Spare the embarrassment of Romney’s AG dropping charges? Too busy ducking “Fast and Furious” accusations?

If we’re ever to see a Justice Department that is ‘blind‘ and actually operates within the Constitution, Eric Holder and his boss must go.

Links: Feds shut down criminal probe of Ariz. Sheriff Arpaio  |  Why Civilian Trials For Terrorists?  |  D.O. Black J.  |  Attorney General Holder’s Glaring Incompetence