By Jiri and Leni Friedman Valenta

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 500, June 17, 2017

“…if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will not be equal to the strain.”
– Sun Tzu

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: “America will not lead from behind. America First does not mean America alone. It is a commitment to protecting and advancing our vital interests…” So wrote President Donald Trump’s NSA, General H.R. McMaster, with Gary Cohn, head of the National Economic Council, in the Wall Street Journal. What follows is a discussion of US leaders’ failed strategies in several wars, Trump’s team of generals, and the emerging Trump doctrine, which is here termed “strategic savvy”.

1964 Vietnam War; “Lies that Led to Vietnam”

Bullet-headed Lt. General H.R. McMaster, the US National Security Adviser, is not just a brave warrior. Like his mentor, General David Petraeus, he is a prominent military intellectual. Both men wrote their PhD dissertations on the lessons of Vietnam. In The American Military and the Lessons of Vietnam, Petraeus concluded, “…significant emphasis should be given to counterinsurgency forces, equipment and doctrine.” McMasters’s thesis, Dereliction of Duty, addressed the roles of LBJ and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. His subtitle was “Lies that Led to Vietnam.”

On August 4, 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was pushed through Congress authorizing military action against North Vietnam as “vital” to US national interests. It sought to punish Hanoi for an allegedly unprovoked attack by three torpedo boats on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin. In fact, it had not been unprovoked; the US had made repeated prior attacks on the North Vietnamese coast.

The major reason for the American war against North Vietnam, asserts McMaster, was the then-upcoming 1964 presidential election. To Johnson, the prime enemy that summer was not the North Vietnamese but his GOP opponent, Barry Goldwater, who had accused the president of being soft on communism. In response, LBJ and McNamara misrepresented the facts and the pretext for sending US ground forces to Vietnam, and deliberately concealed the costs of war. McNamara’s thinking was shaped by his “whiz kids,” DOD civilian nerds, who lacked combat experience and arrogantly believed quantitative statistical analysis could compensate for their deficits in geopolitics, history, and military strategy.

Boasting that he had won his election “bigger than anybody had won ever,” LBJ endorsed McNamara’s strategy of gradual pressure on Hanoi, seeking to wear it down by “attrition.” To McMaster, this was “not a strategy but a lack of it … reinforcing arrogance, weakness, lying in the pursuit of self-interest and above all dereliction of duty to the American people.”

2001 War of Necessity in Afghanistan

In this century, the one war the US won – at least in its initial stage – was Afghanistan. There, following the 9/11 attack on the US homeland, President George Bush defended America’s vital national interests. Nor was this a regular DoD operation by the US army. US forces consisted of CIA operators, Special Forces, and an anti-Taliban Afghan resistance, the Northern Alliance. The 1st Marine Expeditionary Brigade was also involved, commanded by the current Defense Secretary, then Major General James Mattis, USMC. In addition, the US was given logistical help by Russian President Vladimir Putin, then Bush’s strategic partner. Within three months, the US had defeated its foe, liberated Kabul, and changed the regime.

2003 War of Choice in Iraq  

But afterwards, as Paula Broadwell observed, the initial brilliant success in Afghanistan “was squandered when the US marched headlong into Iraq in early 2003.” Instead of finishing the war of necessity in Afghanistan, Washington entered into a war of choice with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein – who had had nothing to do with 9/11.

Why? In the words of historian Jean Edward Smith, the president tried to sell the war on the basis of “the flimsy notion that he was removing a potential threat to the United States” because Saddam might have WMD. That threat proved to be nonexistent. In addition, as a born-again Christian, Bush believed he was divinely guided to bring democracy to the Iraqi people.

On August 4, 2002, the 38th anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Senator Chuck Hagel, a distinguished Vietnam veteran, told Congress, “We didn’t ask any questions before we got into Vietnam … this is why it’s important to do so now.” Two senior members of Bush’s team did so: Secretary of the Treasury Paul O’Neill, who questioned the costs of war in Iraq; and Secretary of State General (ret.) Colin Powell, who prophesied ethnic divisions and insurgency. Both were subsequently marginalized by the Bush administration.

Like McNamara, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his two principal assistants, Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, lacked the combat experience necessary to make sound military decisions. In the end, the one who did have it – Powell – was proven right. He and Bob Richer, then head of the CIA’s Middle East Division, also blamed Bush’s NSA, Condoleezza Rice, for the subsequent attempt at instant democratic nation-building. As Richer explained, “Rice’s vision that Iraq had to look like us overnight was catastrophic.” The president, he observed, “was a realist, but he listened to her and was swayed.”

US forces were sufficient to topple Saddam following a major invasion. But instead of liberating the Iraqis, the Americans became hated occupiers. This gave rise to a Sunni insurgency, during which the US fired the Iraqi military without setting up a stipend program for the soldiers and their families (thus compelling them to subsist on nothing for five long weeks). The US then fired all Baath Party members down to Level 4 without any agreed reconciliation process. This gave tens of thousands of influential Iraqis – often Western-educated – an incentive to oppose the new Iraq rather than support it.

In the ensuing struggle over leadership, a virtual civil war erupted between Sunnis and Shiites, with Kurds in the mix as well – not to mention al-Qaeda, which was rising in the Sunni community in Iraq. The unfinished war in Afghanistan and the unending, Vietnam-like quagmire in Iraq produced two growing insurgencies.

The Surge of Petraeus and his “Shipmate” Mattis

Before he became, in early February 2007, Commander of Multi-National Forces in Iraq, General David Petraeus worked with Mattis to lead a prominent team of US Army and Marine experts on an Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Referred to as “King David’s Bible,” this manual became an outstanding social science study of insurgencies and counter-insurgencies, as well as a guide to how to win the hearts and minds of Iraqis (and Afghans).

Those principles and techniques were applied by the forces under Petraeus in Iraq for over 19 months in 2007-08. The Surge, as the effort was known (due to the deployment of well over 25,000 additional American forces), ushered in a new strategy that was a 180-degree shift from the previous one, which had been assessed as failing in December 2006 by then-commander and ambassador Ryan Crocker.

The result was an 85% reduction in the level of violence and significant progress in a host of areas. President Bush deserves enormous credit for supporting the deployment of additional forces and for backing Petraeus and Crocker.

In late 2011, after some three years of further progress and additional reductions in violence, President Barack Obama decided to withdraw the remaining US combat forces and the last four-star US commander, leaving only a modest training mission.  He reportedly was concerned that there would not be an Iraqi parliament-approved Status of Forces Agreement. Iraqi PM Maliki subsequently pursued ruinous sectarian measures – orchestrating legal charges against the Sunni Arab Vice President and his security detail, and later targeting the Sunni Arab Finance Minister and a prominent Sunni Arab parliamentarian. He returned to Iraqi military and police units abusive Iraqi leaders whom General Petraeus had insisted be removed before US support would be provided, then had those forces put down peaceful Sunni demonstrations very violently. He stopped honoring agreements to provide various forms of assistance to tens of thousands of former Sunni insurgents who had reconciled with the government during the Surge.

Tragically, these actions undid much of what coalition and Iraqi forces had sacrificed to achieve, and the Sunni insurgency in Iraq began to rise again. Islamic State arose out of the ashes of the defeated al-Qaeda in Iraq.

2011: Obama‘s Leading from Behind in Libya

In 2011, to make matters even worse, Obama and his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, began to militate for yet another war, this time in Libya at the height of the “Arab Spring.” They did not heed Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s strenuous objections that it did not encompass “our vital national interests,” especially amidst two ongoing wars in the Middle East. Nor did Obama consider the war’s costs. Once again, the naysayer was ignored. Nine days later, Gates resigned.

Like LBJ and McNamara in Vietnam and Bush and Rice in Iraq, Obama and Clinton engaged in deceit about the real purpose of the war. Clinton argued that a NATO intervention was urgently needed to avert a massacre of Libyan civilians by Muammar Qaddafi’s troops. But her subsequently hacked e-mails substantiated that the real objective was regime change in the service of democratic nation-building.

After the rebels murdered Qaddafi, Libya, like Iraq earlier, became a paradise for tribal fighters and jihadists, and there ensued a significant flow of migrants to Europe. None of this chastened Clinton. She began to support secretly arming the Syrian rebels in a proxy war with both its dictator Assad and his patron, Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Obama’s Strategic Patience  

On June 11, 2011, Obama announced that he would withdraw 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of December 2011 and the rest of the 30,000-member surge force by July 2012 (i.e., before the Democratic Party convention). Once again there arose a troublesome naysayer.

General David Petraeus objected to the premature withdrawal. Aware as he was of the actual situation on the ground, he was adamant that the projected timing of the draw-down would jeopardize the progress made in the previous year of the surge in Afghanistan. Obama was forced to compromise, but did not forget Petraeus.

Rahm Emmanuel, Obama’s chief of staff and one of the president’s loyalists, suspected that Petraeus was contemplating his own presidential run in 2016. It did not help that Petraeus emphatically told Emmanuel he wasn’t. Two days after the 2012 presidential election, Petraeus resigned his post as CIA director because of an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell. (The mishandling of classified information did not surface until months later.) When historian Smith queried “whether the Obama administration had taken advantage of his affair to cut his head off,” Petraeus smiled, but did not reply.

Towards Strategic Savvy

If there is any solace for Washington’s numerous follies in the Middle East, it is Donald Trump’s selection of an outstanding national security team: Mattis, McMaster, and General John Kelly (Homeland Security). With Trump’s election, America saw the dawn of a new doctrine to replace “strategic patience,” leading from behind, and the absence of strategy. We call the new approach “strategic savvy,” meaning the judicious use of military force, diplomacy, and economic instruments. Petraeus describes it as a “comprehensive and sustainable commitment” in defense of American vital national interests. The president and his security team seek to overturn policies that have produced only failed states, Islamist-fed chaos, growing terrorist attacks in Europe, and catastrophic debt.

We have witnessed the first actions defining this emerging doctrine. On April 7, 2017, US navy destroyers carried out a missile strike on a Syrian airfield in retribution for Assad’s use of chemical weapons against his subjects. A tactical move, it bore profound strategic significance, since it used judicious force to accomplish what Obama had failed to do in 2013 despite his own declared red line. So did the dropping of the “Mother of All Bombs” (MOAB, or Massive Ordnance Air Blast), the largest conventional bomb in the US arsenal, on ISIS fighters in Afghanistan on April 14.

Facing what Mattis has called a “clear and present danger” from North Korea, Trump’s team did not put the problem off in the manner of the past three US administrations. He is meeting it head on with an unprecedented deployment of three carrier groups with massive naval and air power. This is intended to send a clear message on the need to stop a maniacal leader from accomplishing a nuclear weaponization and delivery system that could eventually reach American shores. President Trump has communicated this need to Chinese President Xi very clearly as well. The era of Obama’s “strategic patience” is finally over.

Future presidents should consider replicating Trump’s placement of national security responsibilities in the hands of individuals with combat experience. America’s future leaders should be men and women with such experience combined with intellectual prowess.

In the meantime, the saga continues. Americans are transfixed by Russo-gate, much as they were by Watergate. President Trump’s political opponents seek to undo the results of the 2016 election by painting him as Putin’s Manchurian candidate.

Trump should now do what Obama did not: pardon Petraeus, whom Gates called “one of the nation’s great battle captains.” As Senator Rand Paul observed, Petraeus showed his personal journals, which did contain classified material, to only one person, an Army reserve intelligence officer with a top secret clearance. Her book was thoroughly checked for classified information and any sensitive political items by the then head of West Point’s Social Sciences Department, Colonel Mike Meese. The negligent Hillary Clinton, still unpunished, revealed classified material to the multitudes through her unsecured server.

Petraeus sympathizes with the beleaguered Trump’s predicament, but only to a certain extent. Like the authors, he realizes that Trump, a novice at presidential politics, has made big mistakes and then repeated them, making things worse.

In his final address as a general, Petraeus quoted Teddy Roosevelt’s 1910 Men in the Arena speech. The words are now surely applicable to both of them:

It is not the critic who counts … the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood … who errs and comes up short again and again … but who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotions, who spends himself for a triumph of high achievement and … if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

The authors are indebted to General David Petraeus for his comments and suggestions.

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Dr. Jiri Valenta and his wife, Leni, are the principals of The Institute of Post Communist Studies and Terrorism (jvlv.net). They are authors of a forthcoming book on Russia and US interventions in the 21st century. A prominent author and speaker, Jiri served for decade as a professor and coordinator of Soviet and East European Studies at the US Naval Post-Graduate School and former consultant to senior members of Reagan administration.

BESA Center Perspectives Papers are published through the generosity of the Greg Rosshandler Family

The Real legacy of Barack Hussein Obama, Part II

By Jim Mullen

• In true Marxist form, Obama pitted one group of Americans against another to create friction and produce strife
• Weakened the Military to the lowest, softest point since before WWII; Purged the Pentagon and intelligence agencies of all conservatives, replacing them with leftist ideologues and sycophants 
• Muslim Apologist, enabler and sympathizer who refused to recognize, verbalize, or condemn the butchery many Muslims execute in the name of Allah; Romanticized Islam at every turn; freed five of the world’s most dangerous Islamic terrorists in exchange for Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl; Released nearly all of the world’s most dangerous Islamic terrorists from Guantanamo 
• After the soft-soaping of Islamic terrorists, he released government reports identifying groups of Americans who oppose Obama as “potential terrorists.” Among those were veterans returning from war, and anyone revering individual liberty or constitutional authority   
• Unparalleled corruption at every level in his administration: Gun running; IRS targeting any organization advocating freedom; EPA; and the Justice Department; Eric Holder and Loretta E. Lynch led Obama’s war on America. Both are corrupt, arrogant, and viciously efficient at orchestrating Obama’s vindictive crusades  
• Obama leaves a government exponentially larger and more repressive; He collected a frightening amount of personal data on Americans, and worked tirelessly toward stifling dissent
• Deepened the fraud of global warming, a swindle of redistribution of Americans’ wealth; Tried to make the insane argument that global warming is more dangerous than terrorism; floated the idea of criminal prosecution of deniers
• Enacted regulations and taxes that killed millions of jobs by driving companies and businesses into bankruptcy or out of the country
• Repeatedly summoned Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Black Lives Matter, and other blatantly racist groups and individuals to the White House, while demonizing Tea Party constitutionalists  
• Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” acolyte; He believed it, taught it, lived it, and successfully ruled by it; He had no tactical skills and ruled using his Marxist ideology; He was a master confidence man and superb actor
• National debt soared to $20 trillion, nearly doubled under his rule
• Gave nearly one trillion dollars stimulus money meant for infrastructure, to unions as a payoff for their support
• Labor participation rate 62%, lowest since 1978; nearly 100 million out of the labor force; only president not to have a single year with 3 percent GDP growth; Americans below the poverty line, up 3.5 percent; real median household income, down 2.3 percent; food Stamps up over 40% - 11 million more; home ownership, down 5.6 percent - lowest since 1965; Worst economic recovery since 1940s; 43 million living in poverty; cost of regulations $873 billion;  
• Energy policy: Nothing more than a terror campaign against American use of fossil fuels, and a failed campaign for green energy that cost billions of taxpayer dollars that achieved nothing
• Globalist: Wants America to cede our sovereignty, national identity, and liberty to become united as one with a world government
• Created a new class of professional victims with no moral core; When elected, he beckoned all the nation’s crazies. They crawled from the leftwing loony bins like cockroaches from woodwork, thinking the election gave them a mandate for pursuing every conceivable loopy and anti-American cause. Now they are afraid Trump will succeed in ‘Making America Great Again,” driving them back into the woodwork
• His policies allowed scores of Islamic terrorist attacks on our homeland which the Commander-in-Chief refused to acknowledge or properly label
• The thousands of presidential decrees (executive orders) he decreed will explode like time bombs over the years, causing more Marxist damage and suffering
• During Obama’s Presidency Democrats Lost More Than 1,030 Seats In State Legislatures, Governor’s Mansions and Congress - worst since 1922
• 25 million people pushed out of the middle class
• Obama killed the American dream for tens of millions of people and left inner cities with crime-filled, violent, drug gangs, and hopelessly dependent upon government; 140 cops killed in 2016 because of his policies
•  Introduced his social experiments into the military, weakening our fighting forces and placing our personnel in harm’s way
• Obama never controlled world events with decisive, aggressive policies. Events controlled him because of his feckless, naïve schemes and idealistic advisors
• Tried to pass off his arrogant, condescending attitude as dignity
• Meddled in Israeli election by using taxpayer’s money and the State Dept in an effort to defeat his hated rival Benjamin Netanyahu for Israeli prime minister
• Allow hackers from Russia, China, Iraq, and Iran to access American businesses and government to continue unabated for eight years. Not even the theft of personal data from millions of Americans fazed him until Bill’s wife blew an election that would have continued his policies. Then, and only then, did he display outrage

Americans find themselves surrounded by thugs, gangsters, and terrorists. Institutions of higher learning are filled with crybaby, uneducated, indoctrinated young people who are being taught by the worst elements of sixties’ radicals.

History repeatedly beats us over the head with hard lessons that we should learn easily. The world should indelibly emblazon the memory  and legacy of Barack Obama by being grateful for those surviving his slash and burn foreign policy, and by grieving for the dead and enslaved in which his policies culminated.

It was always about the “show” for Obama. He was invariably on stage - as exemplified throughout his most-welcomed farewell address. He was duplicitous, immature, and petulant, but thoroughly adept at sending a thrill up the collective legs of the Mainstream Media, and his adoring posse. In his speech, he reenacted some earlier episodes of producing a tear on cue. As the camera closed in, he daintily dabbed the corner of his eye for a classic Obama, ham-it-up dramatic effect. He complained incessantly about people attacking him, and accepted no blame for his eight years of monumental failures at leading a free nation.  Infesting our nation with Marxism and bringing America down to size to satiate his Father’s hatred of the U. S. and the Western World, were his goals. He still fails to understand why so many Americans would not just shut up and do as he commanded.

For the future of this nation, if history records even a scintilla of justice or fairness, Obama’s real legacy will hang as heavily around his neck as the yoke of tyranny he placed around the necks of the American people and the rest of the world.

Obama never met the truth; if he did, he did not stay around long enough to make friends. In the end, his epitaph should encapsulate his entire mortal life; “Here lies the truth; it must be in him because it never came out.”

As a U. S. President, Obama made a good community organizer. For freedom-loving Americans, one word correctly describes Barack Obama’s legacy; TREASONOUS!

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The Force Awakens opened this Friday to packed theaters across America. I haven’t seen it for a number of reasons, among which is an unwillingness to tent out for days just to buy tickets. The film will nonetheless make oodles of money, I’m sure, as Star Wars has replaced the Bible as Western civilization’s primary cultural commonality, both relevant and accessible to people across the societal spectrum.

This seventh chapter of the epic space opera may be the first to steer clear of political themes. According to film critic Matt Singer, “The Force Awakens is — arguably to its detriment — completely uninterested in politics.” This newfound political disinterest may have something to do with the fact that Star Wars is no longer the property of its creator, George Lucas, who infused the prequels and, to a lesser extent, the original trilogy, with political overtones.

Star Wars has never been what it appears to be—good clean fun with spaceships and laser beams. Don’t feel bad; that’s what I thought it was too when I was a little kid playing with action figures.

Space ships and laser beams are the packaging not the story. To get to the real story it’s necessary to turn the clock back to April 1973, a time of great disillusionment, when the last American combat troops were withdrawing from Vietnam and the Watergate hearings were only a month away. With these generation-shaping events as a backdrop, twenty-eight year old George Lucas began typing the story of a courageous farm boy from the galaxy’s rural backwaters who took on a rotting empire replete with militarism and darkness—and won.

He told his audience that it all took place “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” but its actual setting was both contemporary and terrestrial. Star Wars was an allegory for the world as seen through the eyes of a baby boomer who had come of age on a college campus in the 1960s, who had felt the draft board breathing down his neck, and who had imbibed the spirit of San Francisco, where he was living at the time. The militaristic empire he imagined was his own country and the rebels were communist Vietnamese, though they could have been any number of “anti-imperialist” forces around the globe—the ANC in South Africa, the Tupamaros in Uruguay, etc. The Death Star was a warning against the destructive power of nuclear weapons, though it could be seen as analogous to the Pentagon. Darth Vader? Probably Dick Nixon or just a stand-in for the soulless admirals and generals in command of the war machine.

Lucas had other influences, of course, because inspiration is never that simple. Star Wars was also one part Flash Gordon serial and one part gun-slinging western with a whole heap of Kurosawa’s samurai cinema thrown in. The story also paralleled the Third Reich, starring Darth Vader as Hitler and stormtroopers as, well…stormtroopers.

But it was always about America, the only country George Lucas had ever known. If the film evoked images of Nazi Germany, the logical conclusion was that that’s what America had become or was on the verge of becoming. Star Wars could be read as a cautionary tale of what might happen if we didn’t change course.

Consider some of the notes Lucas scribbled in late 1973: “Aquilae is a small independent country like North Vietnam, threatened by a neighbour or provincial rebellion, instigated by gangsters aided by empire. Fight to get rightful planet back. Half of the system has been lost to gangsters…The empire is like America ten years from now, after gangsters assassinated the emperor and were elevated to power in a rigged election…We are at a turning point: fascism or revolution.”

That’s not exactly the Star Wars we all know and love, largely because Lucas’s concept still had a lot of growing to do, but the framework was there. From its earliest drafts, the script told the story of a scrappy underdog, patterned after North Vietnam, doing battle with a corrupt American empire. The underdog had only his convictions to give him heart, while the empire, which seemed invincible, was actually rotten to the core.

The politics got even more heavy in the prequels, culminating in the hyperpolitical Revenge of the Sith, which the Washington Post jokingly dubbed The Empire Strikes Bush. Actually, the Galactic Empire is Bush, but I understand it’s a fun witticism. Sith’s subliminal messages were not lost on The New York Times’s film reviewer A.O. Scott, who wrote: “’Revenge of the Sith’ is about how a republic dismantles its own democratic principles, about how politics becomes militarized, about how a Manichaean ideology undermines the rational exercise of power. Mr. Lucas is clearly jabbing his light saber in the direction of some real-world political leaders. At one point, Darth Vader…echoing the words of George W. Bush, hisses at Obi-Wan, ‘If you’re not with me, you’re my enemy.’”

That wasn’t really Darth Vader; or not yet. It was Anakin Skywalker, but clearly he was mimicking Bush’s post-9/11 admonition to foreign leaders, “Either you’re with us, or you are with the terrorists.”

So you can imagine my disappointment when I learned that the newest film would abstain from political commentary. That’s really unfortunate because we need it now more than ever. We’re a nation adrift, led by a corrupt, unprincipled political class that seems to have pulled the wool over the eyes of half the population.

Consider for a moment the scene in Revenge of the Sith in which Emperor Palpatine convinces the Senate to cede unprecedented power to him, thus establishing the Galactic Empire “in order to secure the security” of the Republic. Queen Amidala famously remarks “So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.” Lucas was surely knocking Bush though it’s even more relevant today. The scene seemed a clever reference to the PATRIOT Act which, in case you haven’t noticed, is still the law of the land because Barack Obama approved its extension. But the Senate scene was about a lot more than just the PATRIOT Act; it was about our willingness, in times of trouble, to cede the power vested in the people and their elected representatives to a single charismatic leader. In light of Obama’s imperial presidency, the scene has assumed new meaning.

Richard Nixon and George W. Bush weren’t great presidents but neither were they Emperor Palpatine. I can’t say the same about President Obama who really does bear a striking resemblance to that wrinkled geezer in a hoody. So why can’t we make a movie about his policies, about his administration?

The Obama Administration has given us so much material to work with, the script would practically write itself. Imagine an evil Sith Lord who sweeps away any restraints on his authority with the words, “If the Senate won’t act, I will” or “We can’t wait for (fill in the blank).” The same Sith Lord could go to war in a sandy place resembling Tatooine without the approval of the Senate. Here’s a better one—the aforementioned villain pits one alien race against another (Jawas vs. Ewoks?) with his constantly divisive rhetoric, then uses the crisis to snatch up all the blasters and lightsabers in the galaxy. Stormtroopers go planet to planet, kicking down doors and confiscating anything that resembles a weapon. One of the Sith Lord’s closest advisors then turns to his boss and mutters something like “Never let a crisis go to waste.” Another idea: A council of supposed sages, call them judges if you will, abandon their fidelity to the law they swore to uphold and begin making decisions based on their own personal agendas. Here’s a good one—the Jedi are prohibited from practicing their ancient religion for fear that some people might get their feelings hurt.

Why, oh why, did Star Wars stop being political at the very moment that the most Palpatine-esque president ever to defile the Oval Office came to power? Maybe it’s because George Lucas isn’t at the helm anymore, though it’s doubtful that his directing and/or production would have made a difference. I suspect that The Force Awakens would still avoid criticizing the president because Lucas has, or once had, a man-crush on him. Said Lucas in 2008: “We have a hero in the making back in the United States today because we have a new candidate for president of the United States, Barack Obama.” Whether Lucas still feels that way is unknown. Perhaps he’s been appalled with what he’s seen in the ensuing seven years but I doubt it.

It’s almost as if political commentary just isn’t cool in show biz anymore. Would a major movie studio even make a film that was so obviously critical of this president and his policies? I have my doubts. Dissent isn’t patriotic anymore, less so in Hollywood, so I guess we’ll have to settle for spaceships and laser beams. What a pity.

You have to ask yourself, "What's Going Through The Minds Of The Sociopath Brain?" and "How Did This Person Get Elected To Keep Us Safe?". The answer is clear if you look beyond what you think you know and have been fed and into what the sociopath doesn't want you to know. Sociopath's are not all dumb and can get well educated. Not all sociopaths murder but produce murderers. Sociopath's that don't murder have no emotion for those who are murdered and relish the deeds of those who do. A government that is controlled by persons without emotions for others is always a government of communists. You just have to look around the world and compare countries in Asia, South America, Africa, Central America and Mexico to find sociopath governments where people with normal emotions let themselves be dominated by the mental illness of others that have very little to no emotions.

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Fresh on the heels of the brutal beheading of a non-Muslim woman by a devout Muslim co-worker in Oklahoma comes this outrage from the jihad-in-chief. For those you who might have missed that is going on in the beheader’s terror mosque, read this and watch that — Robert Spencer has the 411 on the jihad recruitment center, ISGOC. The mosque taught/supported the caliphate, hatred of the United States and Israel. Members were that taught that according to Islam, three choices are to be given to non-Muslims: convert, pay the jizyah tax and live under Islamic rule, or jihad.

Mosque members said that if Osama bin Laden showed up at the door and needed help, he would help him because he is a Muslim brother. Once a former member went target shooting AK-47’s with two other Muslim converts — the targets were labeled George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon. They were taught that Islam would dominate the world and for unbelievers there are three choices: conversion, subjugation under Islamic hegemony, or death. The ex-member got this straight from the “moderate” imam Soheib Webb, now of the Islamic Society of Boston, the Tsarnaev brothers’ mosque.

Obama is sending a special envoy to the mosque to thank them.

White House official flies to Oklahoma City to read special thank-you note from Obama to beheader’s mosque,” (thanks to Robert Spencer) October 5, 2014

This is how it goes in America today: a Muslim screaming what were reported as “Islamic phrases” beheads one woman and is in the process of beheading another before he is stopped. The beheader’s Facebook page shows his allegiance to the Islamic State, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, etc. A former member of his mosque comes forward with information about how the mosque teaches jihad and Islamic supremacism. And then what happens? An investigation of the mosque? The imam questioned as to whether he knew the beheader, and the beheader’s phone and email records checked for contact with mosque leaders? An examination of the teachings of the mosque to see if the beheader was incited to violence by what he heard there? No. A White House official flies to Oklahoma City to read a thank-you letter from Obama to the mosque, so as to “reassure” Muslims in Oklahoma. Who is reassuring American non-Muslims that this case is being adequately investigated and properly classified as an act of jihad terrorism? No one, of course.

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More than just the birthday of our nation, the 4th of July commemorates something we as a country have all but forgotten. The 4th of July represents a celebration for it was, is, and always will be the only true philosophical revolution in all history. Distinctly American, ours was a revolution that changed the very concept of government.

On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed by our founding fathers as they denounced our separation and “absolved from all Allegiance to the British crown”. In doing so, the United States of America was created and with it a new concept emerged as a government under the people declared their freedom and independence.

This concept of government was uniquely American as it served as,”only a convenience created and managed by the people,with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people” stated Ronald Reagan.

The government we see today is no longer of mere convenience as Americans, more evident than ever before, relinquish their consent in acceptance of absolute despotism.

The long train of abuses and usurpations by the government have increased under the Obama adminstration to a point in which there “evinces a Design” to reduce us under “absolute despotism”.

The establishment of absolute tyranny appears to be surging into inevitability as the President sets a defiant tone in asserting that he will act “with or without congress“. In his 2014 State of the Union address, Barack Obama promised a “year of action” as he stated his intent to unilaterally act “wherever and whenever” he can without legislation.

Thus the President confirms his transformation into taking actions that are akin to a king.

John Locke wrote of this transformation under his Second Treatise of Government stating, “Whereas usurpation is the exercise of power to which someone else has a right, tyranny is the exercise of power to which nobody can have a right”.

Furthermore, “It is what happens when a governor, however entitled he is to govern, is guided not by the law but by his own wants, and his commands and actions are directed not to preserving his subjects’ properties but to satisfying his own ambition, revenge, covetousness, or any other irregular passion”.

Currently our President has shown nothing but sheer contempt for those who remain against his ideology. He is guided not by laws but by his own wants and commands directed at satisfying his own ambition to fundamentally transform the United States of America.

With Locke’s notion of tyranny in mind, one must only look towards the Declaration of Independence, specifically with an eye towards the founders description of the king, in comparing the similarities of Obama’s increasingly imperial presidency.

The Declaration states that the king, “has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his invasions on the Rights of people…He has erected a Multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people…He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good”.

The President has dissolved the “Representative Houses” in acting “with or without congress”, most notably in his multiple unilateral actions of delaying and implementing Obamacare. He has used the Government, particularly the IRS, to harass Tea Party groups, which continues to this day. He has refused acceptance of our laws, most recently in refusing to protect our borders as illegal immigrants swarm into the country without fear of deportation.

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Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick refused to endorse Hillary Clinton this morning on CNN, and called the notion that she's inevitable "off putting to the average voter."

In my quest to find someone at home in the White House, I decided to hit all venues where they might be hiding out.  Specifically looking for John Boehner, Harry Reid and members of Congress, but so far no luck finding anyone. This is a tough job, because they’re never where they say they are, sort of like the snow job Obama & Clinton gave us the night of the Benghazi massacre.

Maybe they all took a long leave of absence and accompanied Barack Obama to Man’s Country. 

Maybe they’re preparing for another dog & pony show

 VIP’s at Obama’s Party learning the "Kenyan Bongo"

Found Obama & Boehner Bonding on the Golf Course

As Usual Making Deals Behind Closed Doors

Boehner A Very Busy "Boy"

Here’s why I’m desperately trying to find Boehner, Reid & Congress – testimony from top officials proves beyond a doubt that the Commander in Chief and Hillary Clinton knew that terrorists had attacked our Compound and murdered Ambassador Chris Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, and former navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.

Sent Boehner, Reid & Congress a letter a week ago and sent it to the attention of Hannity, Greta and O’Reilly at FOX News.  Then I wrote a personal email to 15 different Republican sites in 15 different States.  I tweeted the information & used Facebook and many Conservative sites posted the blog.   No one responded, not one member of Congress, neither did Boehner or Reid. 

So this would infer several different things, (1) they’re not interested, (2) They’re too busy playing politics, or they’re AWOL. The reason I find it inconceivable is this – Obama & Hillary knew it was a terrorist attack in Beghazi.  They were briefed immediately by our top Generals and our CIA. 

The answer to the third question, “Why didn’t they send help for our men in Benghazi” is more difficult to pinpoint, maybe a kidnapping of our Ambassador in exchange for the “Blind Sheik,” or maybe Chris Stevens knew too much about heavy arms and gun trafficking to the Muslim terrorists or, and the most obvious reason for their actions and decisions on 9/11/12 was political motivation. 

The letter can be read or reviewed at

http://grumpyelder.com/2014/02/can-anyone-locate-boehner-reid-congress-its-a-matter-of-murder/   the letter asked Congress to do their job.

The letter answers three questions about the Commander in Chief and Hillary Clinton during the night our four American men were murdered in Benghazi:  (1) Did they know, (2) When did they know and (3) why didn’t they send help for our men in Benghazi.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR SENATORS RECEIVE THE LETTER – THEY WORK FOR US AND ASK THEM AT LEAST TO ADDRESS THE FAMILIES OF OUR 4 AMERICANS AND ALL AMERICANS ON NATIONAL TV. We need Trey Gowdy.  It’s time to put those responsible behind bars – there’s absolutely no negotiating on this, Benghazi will not be forgotten!

As Always,

Little Tboca

Game on Obama & Clinton

You are responsible for Benghazi Murders

Who knew the attack on the Benghazi compound was a terrorist attack?

Obama, Clinton, General Petraeus, General Ham, Leon Panetta, General Dempsey, Gregory Hicks, Jarrett, Rice, Charlene Lamb, Jay Carney, President Mohamed Magariaf, CIA, Al Qaeda

                                          They Knew 

                                        They Knew

They Knew

           2 Men Muffled & Gagged

After Obama & Hillary briefed about terrorist attack, per testimony by top Generals, Panetta, Hicks and others neither one bothered to help our 4 brave American men.  Clinton under oath said, Obama contacted her about the terrorist attacks. Gregory Hicks also testified that he told Hillary Clinton.

                                                                   Las Vegas 9/12/12

Obama went to Las Vegas for campaign mentioning in speech that Al Qaeda was on the run.  Hillary’s job was to organize all the “Obama Gophers” including Rice, Carney, White House aides and the Liberal News media giving them their script that the Benghazi attack was due to a Youtube “video.”  Neither one had time to fight for our brave American men – that’s perverted politics folks!

Told Families their loved ones murdered due to “Video”

That night, while the attacks were still unfolding, and before Woods and Doherty were killed, Secretary of State Clinton released a statement–entitled “Statement on the Attack in Benghazi”– linking the attacks to an anti-Muslim video that had been posted on YouTube. – See more at:http://cnsnews.com/news/article/wh-obama-called-hillary-night-benghazi-attack-more-six-hours-after-it-started#sthash.EdvWl5b2.dpuf

So sometime within a six hour period after the Benghazi Terrorist attack, Clinton was doing what she does best “Lie.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR3XTOjZPfg  

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                                                             Our four brave American men.

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Bottom-line – Obama & Clinton both knew about the terrorist attack in Benghazi.  Neither one did the job that they were hired to do… Obama was running for his second term, Clinton was cleaning her plate off for a stab at the Presidency in 2016.  So in there perverted thought process and in order to keep blood off their hands and to relinquish any responsibilities as Commander in Chief and Sec. of State they blamed the murders in Benghazi on a “Video.”

Congress do your job apprehend and bring to justice those responsible for the Benghazi Massacre.  It’s been 1 ½ years and the families of our 4 brave Patriots and all Americans deserve to know that justice has been served. 

“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
― Edward R. Murrow

As Always,

Little Tboca

Did They Know?  When Did They Know?

Three questions that haunt Christopher Stevens, Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty and Sean Smith’s families and all Americans; (1) Did they know?, (2) When did they know?, and (3)Why didn’t they send help? 

So let’s back track to September 11, 2012 – we have 3 Generals, Sec. of Defense & a Joint Chief of Staff who just filled in the missing pieces about the Benghazi murders.  “Top Secret” testimony on the Benghazi terrorist attack was just recently declassified. 

According to declassified testimony obtained by Fox News, Ham -- who was working out of his Pentagon office on the afternoon of Sept. 11 -- said he learned about the assault on the consulate compound within 15 minutes of its commencement, at 9:42 p.m. Libya time, through a call he received from the AFRICOM Command Center. By James Rosen  Published January 14, 2014,  FoxNews.com

Gen. Carter Ham, who at the time was head of AFRICOM, the Defense Department combatant command with jurisdiction over Libya, told the House in classified testimony last year that it was him who broke the news about the unfolding situation in Benghazi to then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The tense briefing -- in which it was already known that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens had been targeted and had gone missing -- occurred just before the two senior officials departed the Pentagon for their session with the commander in chief.  By James Rosen, Published January 14, 2014, FoxNews.com

Sec. Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey briefed the Commander in Chief about the terrorist attack in Benghazi as it was happening?  After the President was briefed General Ham met again with Leon Panetta and General Martin Dempsey. 

Panetta was asked if he believed at the time this was a terrorist attack.  Leon Panetta responded saying, “There was no question in my mind that this was a terrorist attack.” http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/14/benghazi-transcripts-top-defense-officials-briefed-obama-on-attack-not-video-or/

CIA Director, General David Petraeus testified that the CIA believes the Benghazi attacks were conducted by terrorists, not a spontaneous demonstration. General Petraeus was in disagreement with Obama, Clinton & Rice’s talking points and wouldn’t play their political game. 

 http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83966.html#ixzz2t52nyWBz

So what we have here is a “Commander in Chief” who knew our American men in Benghazi were under terrorists attack and apparently he sneaked out of the White House to prepare for his campaign speech in Las Vegas.  Clinton hid in her dog house messaging the news media about a video during this time. 

Let’s check out Hillary Clinton (Sec of State,) the person while under oath said, “What difference does it make.”  The Senate Intelligence Committee after months of investigation and testimonies basically said the “buck stops here” pointing at the State Department and Clinton’s negligence and failure to do the job we Americans hired her for – the SIC stated in no uncertain terms that the Benghazi terrorist attack could have and should have been prevented.

Charlene Lamb (ex Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for international programs) testified that she followed the Benghazi Attack in real time. 

Charlene Lamb, the deputy assistant secretary of state for international programs, had this exchange with Rep. James Lankford (R-OK), describing how she followed via telephone the developments in the Benghazi attack as they were happening:

LANKFORD: Mrs. Lamb, can you clarify for me, where -- where were you working September 11? Were you in the Washington area -- were -- in the main facility there?

LAMB: Yes sir. I was in the D.S. Command center on the evening of the event.

LANKFORD: You -- you -- you note that in your testimony that you were in the Diplomatic Security Command Center and then you make this statement, "I could follow what was happening almost in real time." 

Here is one portion of Cheryl Lamb’s testimony that simply gives a way the fact that she thought help was on the way to Benghazi. 

Lamb:  Here is what she said, Sir, what was happening is they were making multiple phone calls and it was very important that they communicate with the annex in Tripoli because this is where additional resources were coming from. So they would hang up on us and then call back. It appears Military assistance was on its way???? 

Charlene was quickly snatched out of the “limelight” by Clinton and Cheryl Mills (Clinton”s Chief of Staff) muffled & gagged.  Charlene holds a very important key to Clinton’s whereabouts the night of the Benghazi attack. Cheryl Mills according to Gregory Hicks testimony is the one who ordered Gregory Hicks not to meet alone with Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) when he visited Libya following the attack.

We’ll never know who was communicating with whom during the 6 hours since the attack on our embassy, but we know someone nabbed “Rice” to do their dirty work.  Here’s the sequence of events.

Remember Obama and Gregory Hicks notified Hillary Clinton of the Benghazi attack which according to Politico started about 4:00 Eastern Standard Time or 10:00 PM Benghazi time –Clinton was obviously quite involved with covering her “ass” and Obama’s at this time.  So Obama, Clinton & without a doubt Jarrett were busy spinning the web of deception because of the upcoming Presidential election.  

Around 10 PM EST, Hillary issued a statement that one State official had been killed in an attack on the Benghazi Consulate along with a reference about about a video - MSNBC posted this information around 10:30EST including the mention of the video.  Hillary continued messaging, so sometime in a 6 hour interim (4:oo PM to 10:00PM) Obama, Clinton and probably Jarrett created the worst scandal in all of America's history. 

Obama went to Las Vegas to campaign, Rice appears on five Sunday shows saying the murders in Benghazi was due to a group of protesters over a video. 

Sept. 16: Libya President Mohamed Magariaf says on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that the attack on the U.S. consulate was planned months in advance.  Magariaf also said, Magariaf also said the idea that the attack was a “spontaneous protest that just spun out of control is completely unfounded and preposterous.” Rice pounced on President Magariaf’s statement calling him everything but a liar 

Obama & Clinton created a 70,000 dollar ad on Pakistani Television denouncing the Anti-Muslim Video.  For weeks after the Benghazi massacre, Obama, Clinton, Rice, Carney & the Liberal news media beat this lie to death.

3 Generals, Sec. of Defense & a Joint Chief of Staff all verified that Obama knew that the attack on our embassy was a terrorist attack.  Hillary was notified about the terrorist attack by the Commander in Chief and Gregory Hicks. 

Petraeus, Ham, Charlene Lamb, Gregory Hicks and President Magariaf were all kicked under the bus.  

Obama and Hillary can run but they can’t hide for much longer –DEMS & the Liberal news media can continue spinning their stories, but the one fact that remains on the table is this…  Obama and Hillary knew the attack on Benghazi was a terrorist attack and they deliberately allowed 4 of our American men to die horrible deaths in the hands of terrorists. 

As Always,

Little Tboca

The Benghazi murders have more twists and turns than a roller coaster – the one thing and most important thing about the massacres of our four brave Americans is this:  the two key people in our Government, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were in charge.  There’s no negotiating on that fact – it was their duty and responsibility to do whatever it takes to protect Americans whether it’s on our turf or a foreign turf.

So regardless of the various conspiracy theories and extensive testimony from others, the bottom line is this, neither Obama or Clinton did one thing to protect our Americans in Benghazi.  In fact both did what they’re notorious for – both lied, both created a cover-up using a video as an excuse and both shirked their duties to protect our Nation and Americans. 

We are on overload from the many conspiracy theories from the right and the left’s feeble attempt to run from the Benghazi  scandal – this is nothing but partisan posturing, which pretty much leads to a dead end.

So my question to our Government is pretty simple and easily understood – why are the two people responsible for the murders of our men still out and about running free as “jay birds?”  Why aren’t they behind bars until their day in Court has been established? 

What gives them immunity and why weren’t  they  charged with the murders of Christopher Stevens, information officer Sean Smith, former navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty?

Going back in time, we know that not just once but repeatedly Mursi vowed to free the blind sheik (Omar Abdel-Rahman) spiritual leader who thanks to his attorney continued messaging the terrorist organization while he is detained in our prisons.  Mursi was so confident about his ability to free the blind sheik that he actually used it in his political speeches or platform. 

The other very peculiar piece of the puzzle is that  months later the Obama administration sent four F-16 fighter jets and 200 Abrams tanks  to Egypt along with the foreign aid package  - John Kerry just upped the aid to Egypt by stating that that they would be receiving another $250 Million in aid from the Obama administration.

The Benghazi murders could well be a pre-planned plot by Obama because a delegation of Egyptian lawmakers did meet with White House and State officials in regards to a possible release of the “blind sheik.”  The delegation included some pretty “bad boys,” Abdul Mawgoud Darderv (Muslim Brotherhood member), Sondos Asem (senior editor with Ikhwaweb, which is the Muslim Brotherhoods official publication,) and two other brotherhood members, Hussein El-Kazzaz and Khaled Al-Qazzaz. 

Supposedly the meeting between our officials and the Muslim Brotherhood was moderated by John Esposito, a pretty well know Muslim Brotherhood apologist.  It would seem that John Esposito would be a critical witness at this time, because we the people need to know why terrorists were in our White House.

Possibly the plot was set at this time and possibly it was to be a trade-off of the blind sheik for Chris Stevens – we’ll never know the answer or truth about this meeting, but the timing is suspicious and also the delegation that traveled so far to meet with our top officials are not our  friends.

There are videos showing Ansar al-Sharia prepping for an attack on our Benghazi embassy – this too is probably true and could be verified if our FBI & CIA were so inclined to do their job instead of doing flip flops in an attempt to remove Obama’s involvement in the Benghazi murders.

According to a Fort Hood press release Obama deployed troops from Fort Hood, Texas on a supposedly “peacekeeping mission” to Egypt.   Why would Obama do this?  http://en.africatime.com/rwanda/articles/400-us-troops-deploy-egypt

Why the conflicting information concerning about the Dod and AFRICOM stating that some knew about the Benghazi Annex and that the man in charge General Carter Ham wasn’t aware of a CIA annex in Benghazi. 

The story goes that on the night of the Benghazi attack, General Ham was put in charge of the C 110, a 40 man Special Ops force which was for the sole purpose to handle rapid response to any and all emergencies.

Ultimately, the C-110 was not deployed to respond in Benghazi. Instead it was ordered to return to its forward operating base in Italy. Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/bombshell-pentagon-didnt-know-benghazi-annex-existed/#v8tWjGM6c36JAZQU.99

In summation a fish rots from the “head down,” and so far our sophisticated investigative committees have yet to start interrogating the head (Obama & Clinton.)  It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that in order to solve a crime, first you go to those responsible for the crime.

Create a timeline on the day of 9/11/12 that tracks every move, every phone call, email and communication for Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton.  In other words, they knew it was a terrorist attack immediately so where were they the night of the terrorist attack in Benghazi, before Obama landed in  Las Vegas for his campaign? 

Next in order of time, what did Obama and Clinton do to protect our brave men in Benghazi?  Their hiding behind other “skirts” is hog wash – they were responsible to do everything in their power to get those four men out of Benghazi along with others safe and sound.  End of conversation –

It’s time to hold Obama & Hillary accountable and placed behind bars for the Benghazi massacre.  Their feeble excuses and monstrous lies don’t hold water and certainly aren’t justifiable reasons for letting them off the hook.  We’re talking about murder, accomplices to murder and political corruption.

As Always,

Little Tboca

It’s time to write a letter to “Congress” and discuss their reckless spending and their reluctance to be good stewards of our money. Obama and Congress have lost our trust – we actually are beginning to realize that they in fact are our enemy. OBAMA & CONGRESS YOUR BAGS ARE PACKED!

“We need to relay the message in plain English don’t spend more than you take in – it’s called a budget.” We’re not interested in each politician’s “sacred cows,” and pork delights – we’re interested in a Government that works for the people, not against the people.

The House of Representative’s job is to insure that neither political party misuses our money for personal ideology or interests. The House has lost touch with reality, they not only allow misappropriation of our money they are the problem – they’ve sold their souls to Obama, DEMS, Unions, Lobbyists, US Chamber of Commerce and personal political gain.

They allowed our 787 billion dollar stimulus money to go to Obama’s big bundlers, public sector unions and very wealthy Democrats and corrupt lenders who were in charge of the “housing bubble.” All together about 75 percent of loans and grants have been given out to companies run by Obama supporters. The stimulus money supposedly was to get our economic wheels rolling again through job creation, but Congress didn’t honor that commitment.

Billionaire Democrat donors who received a lot of money from the Obama administration include: Solyndra owner George Kaiser; Tesla Motors owners Leon Musk,Larry Page and Sergey Brin; NRG Energy owners Warren Buffett, Steven Cohen, and Carl Icahn; Abound Solar Manufacturing’s Pat Stryker; and Siga Technologies’ Ronald Perelman. Among other wealthy Democrat winners were former Vice President Al Gore whose investment in Fisker Automotive was rewarded with a $529 million loan guarantee. This is a brief from FOX news By John Lott Published March 23, 2012 FoxNews.com

Yearly our politicians orchestrate the dog and pony show pretending to be worried about the senseless spending by the Government and promising to get a handle on the situation via some kind of off the wall budget that none of us understand or ever comes to fruition.

The “debt ceiling” fiasco always ends up allowing the Government to continue their spending binge, which in all reality is spending money frivolously that we the people don’t need or benefit from. Neither Republicans or Democrats have learned from the devastating experience European Countries have suffered due to the insane philosophy of spending more than you take as an answer to our problems.  This  always ends up in a lose, lose situation for the hard working class (the taxpayers.)

Please excuse me, I understand that one should not express their personal opinions and thoughts when writing, but as a grandmother of eight awesome angels and four adult children today I’m climbing on my soapbox.

I really don’t care if Congress and the President have to take a hit on salaries – let’s think about the very little amount of time that Obama spends working for us versus his partying, lavish vacations and using our Air force One like it’s his personal taxi cab. Air force One should only be used for emergencies at this time. We’re broke, our Nation has an extremely high National Debt with an ungodly amount of interest that goes with this debt created by Obama and Congress.

Congress should be paid only for time in their offices working for “we the people.” Their days off which are more than days on the job would allow them to get a second job, because they certainly have proved that they’re incapable of running a Government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Let’s quit carrying these sophisticated politicians (that like the “entitlement society”) think we owe them a living, we don’t. Let’s get a budget, which will mean cutting out a mass of redundant Government programs, stopping the senseless funding creating Government dependency.

Time to rescue all people who have been entrapped by our Government – create jobs, jobs and more jobs help people get off the food stamp and entitlement kick. Dump Obamacare and while we’re at it dump Obama, Podesta, George Soros, The US Chamber of Commerce, the old Republicans establishment and Hillary Clinton.

Like Rick Perry said, retrieve our money and start at “zero” for foreign aid – if money is handed out to foreign Countries , it is to be monitored noting who is receiving the money, how much, what it is being used for and damn sure verify that every penny sent to foreign Countries is monitored and accounted for…  Taxpayer’s money is being used to fund the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorists!

Ditch the politician’s sacred cows and pork delights, downsize the Government which means ruthlessly cutting their deranged spending agenda. Do not spend one penny more than is taken in – it’s called a budget and millions of Americans would be most willing to show politicians how to budget since they seem to be in “La La” land.

It’s time to quit talking and demand action from those who pretend that they’re working for Americans and America. Every politician is a public servant who was hired to work for us – I really don’t care about their political elite clubs and dirty schemes behind closed doors. It’s time to “take back our Country, America.”

Thanks for lending an ear,

As Always,

Little Tboca

America meet “Obama’s social justice or better yet social injustice” a robin hood philosophy that circumvents the laws of our land attacking our freedoms and rights.  In the past five years, Obama has sold us a pig in a poke wrapped up in pretty ribbon with all of the Liberal bells and whistles.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that our beautiful America and American citizens are slowly becoming the property of “big Government.”   In five years Obama has changed the social landscape in our great Nation by redistributing our money, changing laws and picking and choosing who receives certain advantages and who are the recipients of certain disadvantages.     

 For 50 some odd years, a very small minority group has fought “God” Christianity, the Cross, memorials and a slew of other important things like our children and our children’s education.

 Everyone knows the group that is described above and each year their war on Christmas grows as they litter our streets, highways and public areas with billboards and signs in their feeble attempt to remove “God” from our Nation.  Every year a Liberal judge plays Robin Hood and gives them another slice of our God given freedoms.

Next comes Obama’s “social political justice” which merely means a selective process that buys votes and support for Barack Obama and the DEMS.  Obama chooses include the LGBT community and illegal aliens over African Americans - African Americans are the recipients of the disadvantages.  Selective is the keyword here – Obama perceives that he already has the African American votes in the bag so he turns on them chastising them when they express their grievances. 

Big daddy Obama told the African American community to “Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes.  Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying.”  But notice that the LGBT community has managed to get everything their little heart’s desire. 

This group of people are pretty savvy about the political process and they did two things; (1) They voted for Obama with strings attached – meaning Obama would have to pay them off just like he did with his big bundlers, and (2) They vetted him arming themselves with damaging information about Obama’s relationships and activities before he ran for office.

They forced Obama to flip flop on marriage – he retracted his statements that marriage was between a man and women.  But their wish list kept growing and unlike the majority of Americans, they made the Government work for them.

Obama gave them ““Don’t ask, Don’t tell” in the Military, which probably wasn’t the safest decision for our brave Military men and women, but that will be an issue debated later after we have a few more wars under our belt.

It’s a mystery why they haven’t quite figured how what caused the HIV /Aids epidemic, but they don’t have a clue or do they?  Anyway in order to continue their lifestyle they’ve asked for more money, lots more money from Obama in order to reduce the number of HIV infections via increased training and various support services. 

Obama with that favorite pen he keeps talking about gave them more hate crime laws, supported their civil unions and followed by more and more discrimination laws. That my friends is “Political Social  Injustice.”

Then along came the somewhat ugly face of what Obama calls social justice or economic disparity, which included Obamacare, Common Core, IRS, NSA and of course the not so famous  “Dream Act” which benefits about 20 ml. illegals – this was a mere ploy to purchase Hispanic Votes for the 2012 Presidential Election. Obama’s pen at work again, as he says with or without Congress.  

As is the President’s style he’s revised, changed amended and screwed around with the “Dream Act” to suit his fancy, but the bottom line is this – Obama has managed to give a safe haven to the illegals until  he gets his way on immigration. 

Obama’s State of the Union Address laid out his “social justice” plans for Americans in the next 3 years, which includes income inequality, more redistribution, raising minimum wage, climate change, further revisions of Obamacare and immigration changes - he threatens Congress and Americans that he will do this with or without them… 

As mentioned earlier Obama picks and chooses who receives certain advantages and who the recipients are of certain disadvantages (and that would be us – the taxpayers).  Obama’s  robin hood philosophy of social justice has in fact harmed all working Americans, our economy, or job growth, our children’s education and has stalled the “American Dream” diminishing our freedom and rights.    

The next time you hear Barack Obama speak of social justice, income equality or economic disparity grabbed your wallet and run, because he’s about to place one more costly burden on your shoulders. 

 “His Majesty” Obama has big plans for America, but like O’Reilly said to Geraldo Rivera, “I don’t think he has majesty! He’s not a king!” O’Reilly said, adding that he respects the office of the presidency but presidents still need to be held accountable.  O'Reilly, let's get one thing straight "accountable" to Obama is making sure that all hard working Americans contribute to his perverted social justice agenda - so far he's won that battle!

As Always,

Little Tboca

      Black History Month  perfect timing to launch impeachment   -  Photo Credit – Truly African

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke eloquently and forcefully about an America where black people were forced to endure a shameful condition.  Well, black people can look no further than the White House to find a man who has been perpetrating a fraud and a shameful condition against black Americans for five years.

Most every black family  and most likely every young black child who lived anywhere in America had to be celebrating the day that Barack  Obama took the oath of office as the first person of color to occupy the White House as president.  Now a half decade later, those same black families and same black adults and teens have seen their incomes, life savings and job opportunities spiraling downward like an avalanche.

Five years into the Barack Obama’s presidency, the number of African-Americans participating in the labor force has hit rock bottom and now threatens to even go through the basement floor, according to the U.S. Labor Department.  Consider the direness of the situation.  In January, exactly a year after Obama began his second term of office, “the drop in labor force participation was sharpest for African Americans, who saw a decline of 0.3 percentage points to 60.2 percent, the lowest rate since December of 1977,” according to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Those are statistics which would have sent Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton and legions of NAACP marchers heading for Washington to demonstrate against the occupant of the White House.  Instead, these same certified hypocritical black leaders of the Afro-American community have given Obama a “Stay out of Impeachment Hall Pass.”

 This is more than frightening when one considers that each and every black pastor that prays over the body of a young black teen that was caught in the cross-fire of black-on-black crime should now be speaking out about Obama.  Where is the hue and cry this month of black celebration from these men and women of the cloth, who know that these kids and their families need jobs and opportunities and not bullets and funerals?

But, yet the halls of worship are as silent as the ideas that are emanating from the Oval Office for remedying the problems that weigh as anchors around the necks of dispossessed black families in America.

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If You Like Your Job & Pay Check - You Probably Can't Keep Them

Wow, it’s apparent that the Obama “savior” and his DEMS are once again looking out for their fellow Americans.  In fact, they’ve been worrying about Mr. and Mrs. or Ms. American working full time, so they came up with a solution for 2.3 million Americans.  

These geniuses decided that Mr. & Mrs. or Ms. American should get a reprieve and be demoted from full time work to part time status or it might be best if they even lost their jobs.  In fact they’re even spinning their propaganda today calling it a choice just for you – I call it a Saul Alinsky move preparing you for the next dump into the entitlement bucket. 

So in the scheme of things 2.3 productive Americans are now going to being placed under the watchful, caring arms of “Big Daddy” Government.  In order for these Americans to receive the Obamacare albatross, they will either go to part time employment or no employment – this doesn’t sound like a fair shake, but who’s allowed to question big Government.  Obama & the DEMS are much smarter than 2.3 million Americans – their message today is just shut your mouths and enjoy all the free time that’s headed your way.

Not to worry though Mr. and Mrs. America, if you lose your job you can draw unemployment until it runs out and you can get your cut of the food stamps.  Now, if you are demoted to part time employment that is where it might get a notch “sticky.”   Less hours = more free time + less income, but not to worry – you will be a recipient of Obamacare that is if you can afford it even with subsidies some will take a hit. 

But on the bright side – you may be able to spend your day at home with the kids, surfing the Net and TV growing plump on junk food from your new allotment of food stamps.  Just think, Obama and the DEMS selected you as the new kids on the block who now have more choices, more free time and less money and healthcare that has high deductibles and co-pays.  In reality what they have done to 2.3 million Americans is a travesty.

Obama and Democrats have once again attacked our fellow Americans.  They’ve snatched the American Dream from them just like they did when they took our primary care physicians, our insurers and hospitals from over 5 million Americans last fall. 

It takes a “hell” of a lot of nerve for the Democrats to get on National TV and spin the yarn that they’re looking out for us and giving us more choices.  Wrong, they’re destroying us and taking our freedoms and rights away. 

If these 2.3 million Americans were given a real choice does anyone think they would walk away from a full time job that was paying their expenses, putting food on the table and clothes on their children’s backs in exchange for a broken down non- functional healthcare package?

Here we go again America, if you like your job and weekly paycheck “you probably can’t keep it.” 

As Always,

Little Tboca

Good morning America – what’s the definition for those who ignore our Constitution, distribute our wealth, control our healthcare, spy on Americans, put our youth in harm’s way and use violent act to achieve a political goal.  Words that come to mind are dictator, terrorist, traitor and Socialist or Communist.

The political climate in our White House is hot, tepid and pollutants are in the dangerous zone.  There’s no signs of this political drought leaving in the near future, in fact the hot air coming from our White House indicates that our Government  is reeking with corruption, false ideologies, propaganda, double dealing  and  criminal misconduct.

Wake up America – we no longer live in the land of the free.  Our Country has been confiscated by a perverted group of people who have plans already formulated to bring our beautiful America to its knees.   We are not in control – we’re being controlled. 

We have A Commander in Chief who without a doubt is the most corrupt evil leader in our history.   In five years he has taken over businesses large and small controlling them and inhibiting their growth.  This person has stolen billions of taxpayer’s money via lies, propaganda, misrepresentation and abuse of our Federal laws.

There aren’t just a few red flags, there’s land mines intentionally and deliberately placed to destroy our rights, our freedoms and our Country.  His strategy to destroy our Nation is based on one principle – take power from the “Haves” and give it to the “Havenots.”  In order to implement his strategy Obama utilizes what most of us know as “redistribution” always disguised under the pretense of a moral necessity to care for the “havenots.” 

Good morning America – are we there yet?  "President Obama's anti-poverty efforts are basically to give more people more free stuff," Robert Rector, a specialist on welfare and poverty at the conservative Heritage Foundation, told The Washington Times. 

As he hands out the free stuff our National debt increases, our Nation becomes poorer, full time jobs disappear, dependency on the Government increases and we’re basically in “limbo.”
Barack Obama’s ultimate goals are listed below.

• Healthcare

Control healthcare and you control the people

• Poverty

Increase the poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.

• Debt

Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes and this will produce more poverty.

Here’s but a few examples of the power, deception and manipulation that this person some refer to as “Mr. President” has implemented in the past five years.  13 million more Americans have fallen into the Entitlement society since Obama took office.  Over 15% of Americans are now in the poverty level and Obama is trying to strong arm States into increasing their Medicaid for the poor, which is paving the way for the millions of illegal aliens who are on our turf.

Americans are one “notch” away from a single payer healthcare system – Obama has already taken over our healthcare via Affordable Care Act.  It’s not a matter of when – it’s happened.  His Obamacare has had a devastating effect on businesses, private citizens, children, senior citizens and our medical field.

Debt is close to being unsustainable and it’s obvious that Obama still has our credit card in his hip pocket.  The House of Representatives either don’t care or are incapable of controlling our purse.

The CBO, just yesterday shared some crucial information with us – Obama in a blink of an eye has just added 2.3 million more to the “Havenot” society.  The “Havenots” will be Obama’s army because they are owned totally by the Government.  

Good Morning America – your children, your Country and your future are in danger.  It’s time to remove Obama and gang from our White House – this is a matter of life or death for the greatest Nation in the World. 

As Always,

Little Tboca

Redistribution Front and Center

Over the past five years our Nation has been attacked by Barack Obama and Liberals, they have been relentless in their strategy to create an army of the poor.  In 2009 Americans had a renewed hope that Obama would stand by all of his promises to create jobs, downsize the Government, insure transparency, secure the borders and use our stimulus money to start our economic wheels rolling.

None of these commitments were enacted by Obama; instead he concentrated on “redistribution” not with the intent of helping the poor sector, but to increase the entitlement society.  (1) Via EPA Obama put a screeching halt to job growth, (2) He continued his reckless spending policies knowing that our National Deficit would mushroom, and (3) In 2010 passed the Obamacare law planning to place our healthcare under Government control (one payer system.)

• During the last five years, unemployment sky rocketed from according to legitimate reports the unemployment rate in 2009 was 9.2% and in 2013 hovering around 14.4% or higher.  The unemployment rate during the Great Depression was 25% so the actual unemployment rate when you include those no longer looking for work and those working seasonal or part time jobs is most likely 20% plus.
• According to CBS – the National Debt has surpassed an increase of 6 trillion since 2009.
• Breitbart released information from Bloomberg government analyst that the Obamacare cost is over a billion dollars – this doesn’t take into consideration the subsidies and payoffs for insurers nor does it include the extremely high co-payments and deductibles of the consumer.  http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/10/24/report-obamacare-

In 2014 Barack Obama has placed “redistribution” front and center once again.  The strange disturbing thing is this - many of the GOP have joined him in this destructive venture by pushing for amnesty.  In the past few days the GOP continued Obama’s “redistribution” by passing the 956 billion dollar Farm Bill.

This bill has more sticky fingers in it than carters got pills.  This is what Mr. Wobbly (Speaker of the House) said as he jammed the bill thru the House.  "I've got concerns," Boehner said of the farm bill. "But doing nothing means that we get no changes in the farm program, no changes in the nutrition program and as a result, I'm going to vote for the farm bill."  Did it ever occur to John Boehner that he was hired to do a job not crumple every time the going gets tough?

Wrapping up here once again the Conservatives, tea parties and Libertarians have one viable option – take back the Senate and control the House.  In order to do this, we must unite and work together.  As long as all of the small clusters are content to go it alone and go their own way, we very likely will not be able to place good Patriots (men & women) in the Senate or the House. 

2010 was a great start, but the job isn’t finished yet and we’re faced with almost insurmountable odds, because the Old Republican establishment, the US Chamber of Commerce, the Liberals along with George Soros all pretty much on the same page in the mission to control us. 

We need a leader, someone who can unite the tea parties, Conservatives and Libertarians in the most difficult fight in our recent history.  Hopefully we can chuck our petty grievances and power plays in the garbage and work for a common cause, “taking back our Country.”

Remember Reagan’s 1981 speech when he said, “All of us came here because we knew the country couldn’t go on the way it was going. So it falls to all of us to take action. We have to ask ourselves if we do nothing, where does all of this end. Can anyone here say that if we can’t do it, someone down the road can do it, and if no one does it, what happens to the country? All of us know the economy would face an eventual collapse. I know it’s a hell of a challenge, but ask yourselves if not us, who, if not now, when?”

As Always,

Little Tboca

Many times I have written about Obama and Hilary Clinton and their unadulterated worship of Saul Alinsky and his “Rules for Radicals.”  There is one thing that wasn’t mentioned in my articles and that is securing the trust of the people. Obama and Hillary threw “trust” out the window thinking it unimportant.

Obama’s first few years were smooth sailing for the youth, African Americans, Hispanics and Liberals were gushing and literally idolizing and jumping through hoops for him.  His word was gospel to them and the Liberal News Media aided and assisted Obama never wavering just marching steady to his drum.

Hilary Clinton did the same thing during those first few years of Obama’s first term – as Sec. of State she slithered around traveling to and fro partying, wining and dining on our tab. Easy come – easy go!

 Let’s not forget though, Hilary Clinton is a tough broad with brass knuckles whose “rap sheet” starts in the 70’s and read like America’s most wanted. During this time there were murders, suicides, the Watergate scandal and she & Bill earned a devious reputation of body slamming anyone and everyone who confronted them or questioned their actions.

So let’s put the “Bobbsey Twins” (Obama & Hilary) in the same political arena. Both are arrogant and confident that they can slither out of any problem or scandal that arises, because they’re much smarter than Americans. Both of these individuals are adept at power punching their detractors because they have the mainstream media willing and waiting to finish off their prey.  Although no one knows for sure what the deal was between the Obama’s and Clintons; it was obvious to all that they had a deal. 

Hillary was to lay low, work on her run for President in 2016 while Obama paved the way for her to finish destroying our Nation.  Although Bill Clinton wasn’t happy about this arrangement, he reluctantly agreed to be a buffer for Obama and keep Americans in tow. Bill had big plans for Hillary. 

There’s one major glitch in their strategy though and that is the American populace, the hardworking middle class, the college students still waiting for jobs that were promised and the seniors who have had their retirement destroyed by their shenanigans. 

Obama lied to the African Americans and instead of bringing them out of poverty like he had promised – he deliberately took jobs from them, ignored their suffering communities and as time went on the African Americans became more dependent on “Big Daddy” Government joining the entitlement crowd.

But, the ones who have taken the biggest hit during his five years without a doubt is the middle class. He has attacked them from all sides not creating jobs, but destroying jobs. He’s misused their stimulus money redistributing it mainly to his green scams, big bundlers and the Unions.

While they were busy trying to keep food on the table he sneaked into their schools attempting to steal their children from them through what is known as “Common Core.”  Just a brief on “Common Core”  this will help everyone understand the illegal and over – reach of power that Obama has used to infiltrate our schools.  U.S. CODE § 1232A - PROHIBITION AGAINST FEDERAL CONTROL OF EDUCATION. 

Today CBO stated that the Obamacare debacle was causing havoc in our Nation.  CBO predicts this monstrosity is going to cost Americans 2 million plus jobs in 2017.  It’s my contention that there will be millions of jobs lost in 2014 way before the election in November.

Do to the horrendous cost of ACA, businesses can’t stay afloat without laying off employees and/or keeping them on a part-time status. This will intensify our recession, increase the entitlement society, increase the National Debt and add one more financial burden on those who are working.  Yes, all of this is bad news for Americans, but Obama and Hillary aren’t home free by a long shot!

The Bobbsey Twins have one of the biggest scandals in United States history lingering on their plates and it’s not about to be kicked down the road and thrown into the shadows by Obama and Hillary – the Benghazi murders will haunt them daily because Americans will not forget that they both were in charge and neither one lingered in the White House to save our four American men. 

They both lied for weeks about the attack blaming it on a “video.”  This is one time the smooth talking twosome will be held accountable –even the Liberal news can’t bail them out of this devious, evil political scheme.  No one will forget Hillary’s nasty remark, “What difference does it make.”

Bill O’Reilly interviewed Obama Sunday the 3^rd, 2014 and Obama lied again about Benghazi.  He pretended that he told America the day after the attack, that it was a terrorist attack.  Then why did Obama, Hillary and Rice for weeks keep blaming the attack on a video.  Simple answer - because there was a Presidential Election coming up. 

If Alinsky were still alive he’d be the first to tell them, they were doomed because they’ve both lost the trust of the people.  Without the trust of the majority of the people, you can’t fundamentally change a Nation.  They’ve both blown it – it’s only a matter of time now. 

As Always,

Little Tboca