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Prior columns of mine have attempted to lay the groundwork for restoring constitutional government and principles to our United States of America. Obviously we must elect ONLY candidates who agree with our goal, and we must initiate primaries and targeted campaigns against those who do not. With two chambers in Congress and three branches of government, the task may appear to be insurmountable. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, however if constitutionalists (not merely the GOP as the present circumstances illustrate) control the House. Boehner and company are NOT committed to reducing government let alone shrinking it to meet constitutional muster.
The House of Representatives was designed to be the most powerful element of the federal government because it controls the power of the purse. The House could refuse to fund much of the unconstitutional activity of the federal government, or they could pass funding reductions over a short 2-5 year term for “zeroing out” the violating programs. Clearly for this strategy to be successful, the House must have a veto-proof majority of strict constitutionalists. The President if he were opposed to the budget cuts would be hamstrung, and the Senate would be forced into stalemate with the House. When nothing gets done, nothing gets funded….unless the House caves.
What about the judiciary you may ask? They have overturned and undermined many legislative initiatives over the years as well as declaring and creating “new rights” from the bench. Is there any way for them (aside from more discerning appointments) to be restrained from their sometimes bizarre interpretations of the Constitution? Yes, there is. Here is the relevant portion of the Constitution of the United States of America:
Article III - The Judicial Branch
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office. Source: www.usconstitution.net
Congress has the responsibility to establish and ordain courts other than the constitutionally-mandated Supreme Court of the United States. With the power to establish comes the authority to restructure or abolish. This is not some wild-eyed theory. It has been done before through the urging of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison who were major proponents of The Judiciary Act of 1802.
The Judiciary Act of 1802: "An Act to amend the Judicial System of the United States" 2 Stat. 156. April 29, 1802.
Soon after its repeal of the Judiciary Act of 1801, the Republican majority in Congress in the spring of 1802 recognized the need to enact its own organization of the federal courts. The resulting statute was a response to the practical needs of a growing judiciary and the continuing partisan conflict over the role of the federal courts. The Judiciary Act of 1802 perpetuated the Federalists’ plan of six regional circuits. Although Supreme Court justices again were required to serve on the circuit courts, the circuits were smaller and travel accordingly less demanding than in the 1790s. Kentucky, Tennessee, and Maine remained outside the circuit system, thus relieving the justices of travel to these distant areas. When the district judge and circuit justice were of divided opinion on a case before a circuit court, the new act gave either party the right to refer the case to the Supreme Court, whereas since 1793 split decisions had required the attendance of a second justice to issue a ruling at the next session of the circuit court.
In the Judiciary Act of 1802, Congress eliminated the Supreme Court’s summer session and provided for one annual session to begin on the first Monday in February. This provision intensified the partisan dispute that began when Congress, in an act of March 8, 1802, revoked the judiciary act of the previous year and restored the structure of the judiciary as it had stood previously, thereby abolishing the sixteen judgeships assigned to the reorganized circuit courts. Jeffersonian Republicans asserted that Congress’s right to establish inferior courts implicitly allowed it to abolish such courts. The incumbent circuit judges and their Federalist supporters insisted that judges appointed for service during good behavior could not be removed by statute. When the act of April 1802 canceled the Supreme Court term scheduled for June of that year, Federalists accused the Republicans of seeking to delay a ruling on the constitutionality of the repeal act until months after the new judicial system was in operation.
Chief Justice John Marshall, who entered office in February 1801, doubted the constitutionality of the repeal act as well as the new act’s requirement that the justices resume their circuit duties. Following an exchange of letters in which a majority of the justices concluded that they were obligated to serve on the circuit courts, Marshall deferred to the act. In March 1803, the Supreme Court in the case of Stuart v. Laird ruled that Congress had authority to transfer a case from a court established by the act of 1801 to one established by the act of 1802, and by implication affirmed the constitutionality of the Judiciary Act of 1802.
Source: Federal Judicial Center www.fjc.gov
Sixteen federal judgeships were abolished via this legislation, and it was ultimately upheld by the Supreme Court. So, after our newly elected Congress refuses to fund unconstitutional federal programs and begins to wean the states and citizens from their dependencies through diminishing block grants, then they should ABOLISH the entire federal court system (having a new plan in hand) and begin anew with constitutionally-committed appointees.
See? Wasn’t that easy? The point of these columns is that the tools to clean up the mess are already present in the Constitution. We merely need citizens and political officeholders who are committed to doing it. This is why ABSOLUTE FIDELITY to the Constitution is so critical a criterion for choosing and supporting candidates. Our leaders, our public servants must be willing to use the entire toolbox to “fix” our Republic.
WE CURRENTLY HAVE EIGHT WELL QUALIFIED PEOPLE COMPETING FOR THE NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT, BUT HOW MANY OF THEM ARE SITTING ON THEIR HANDS WITHOUT DOING ANYTHING TO TRY TO GET IMMEDIATE LEGISLATIVE ACTION BEFORE THE YEAR 2014. CAN WE AFFORD TO WAIT FOR OVER A YEAR UNDER THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATIVE CRONY CORUPTION TO CONTINUE WITHOUT AT LEAST MAKING AN EFFORT TO CORRECT THE SITUATION. EVEN IF THE EFFORTS FAIL UNTIL SOMETIME IN 2013, A LOT OF HELL CAN BE RAISED BEFORE THEN TO SET A POSITIVE STASGE FOR THE CHANGES NEEDED IF THE EIGHT CANDIDATES USE THEIR TALENTS AND CONNECTIONS TO TRY TO MAKE GOOD THINGS HAPPEN NOW. EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE CANDIDATES SHOULD TAKE A PLEDGE THAT THEY WILL NOT WAIT UNTIL 2013 TO TRY TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN, NO MATTER WHO GETS THE NOMINATION. IT IS UP TO ALL OF US TO PUT CONGRESSIONAL FEET TO THE FIRE STARTING NOW AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS, WE SHOULD NEVER LET UP. WE CAN NOT AFFORD TO BE QUIET ANY LONGER, WE MUST LET OUR COMMON SENSE IDEAS PREVAIL NOW.
CONGRESSWOMAN BACHMAN SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY ONE WHO IS CONTINUALLY USING HER POSITION AS A MEMBER OF CONGRESS WHO IS CONTINUING TO WORK TO MOVE HER IDEAS AND PROPOSALS THROUGH THE MAZE OF POLITICAL B S EVEN WHLE SHE IS ACTIVLY IMBEDDED IN A RIGOROUS AND DEMANDING CAMPAIGN.
I HEARD CONGRESSMAN PAUL RYAN ON FOX AND FRIENDS THIS MORNING GIVE AN OUTLINE OF THE SUPER COMMITTEES EFORTS TO COME UP WITH SOME SOLUTIONS. HE RECAPED SOME OF THE TAX REFORM ITEMS BEING CONSIDERED AND I WAS PLEASANTLY SURPRISED TO HEAR THAT MOST OF THE BASICS BEING CONSIDERED FOR REFORMEING THE TAX CODE WERE IDENTICAL TO THE BASICS IN CONGRESSWOMAN BACHMAN'S PLAN FOR AMERICA THAT WAS POSTED ON HER FACEBOOK PAGE BACK IN LATE AUGUST AND EARLY OCTOBER. EVIDENTLY THE MEMBERS OF THE SUPER COMMITTEE FOUND THAT HER PLAN MERITED CONSIDERATION. THIS REVELATION HAS ADDED SOME SIGNIFICANT POINTS ON THE SCORE SHEET THAT I AM KEEPING ON EACH CANDIDATES DISPLAY OF LEADERSHIP, DEDEICATION TO COMMON SENSE PRINCIPLES AND WHO IS PUTTING AMERICA AHEAD OF PERSONAL AMBITION. I AM NOT KEEPING SCORE OF WHAT I AM PERSONALLY IN AGREEMENT WITH, BUT ONLY IN DEDICATION TO OUR COUNTRY AND LEADERSHIP QUALITIES.
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Posted on The Media Research Center-By Kyle Drennen-On November 15, 2011:
“On Monday’s Rock Center on NBC, correspondent Kate Snow savaged Alabama’s new immigration law, touting left-wing historian Wayne Flynt comparing it to the racism of the 1960s: “This is just mean-spirited. This is – this is finding the most vulnerable people within a society....it’s like the blacks in 1963 who could not vote in Alabama.” [Audio available here]
Snow followed by citing the plight of one illegal immigrant family operating a bakery in the state: “The Sanchezs agree. They feel like Alabama blacks of the Jim Crow era.”
Snow then turned to Republican Governor Robert Bentley and leveled a harsh accusation: “The woman who owns this bakery, she said the men who did this are racists. She was talking about you, sir.”
As Snow made the “Jim Crow era” comparison, footage appeared on screen of blacks being sprayed with fire hoses and threatened with attack dogs during civil rights marches in the ‘60s.
Anchor Brian Williams introduced Snow’s hit piece by declaring: “Tensions have reached a boiling point in the state of Alabama, which recently enacted the nation’s toughest immigration crackdown, one that has sparked a big and ugly fight.”
Talking about the Sanchez family – not using their real name – Snow explained: “They say they’re responsible, church-going, tax-paying members of their community. And Maria Sanchez says she believes the charge of criminality isn’t the real motivation for the crackdown.” Snow wondered: “Why do you think this law passed?”
Maria Sanchez ranted: “Because of racism, it’s as simple as that....You have to look at the smiles on those people’s faces when the Governor signed that law. Just look at that sinister smile. That’s why I say it.”
As the show went to a commercial break, Williams teased: “And when we continue, Alabama’s governor answers that charge of racism, and the fierce criticism from farmers who thought he was on their side.”
Following the commercial, before returning to Snow’s report, Williams informed viewers:
“The Obama administration is suing Alabama, along with Arizona and South Carolina, claiming the states have overstepped their authority to regulate immigration, traditionally considered a federal matter. But Alabama has a tougher fight, much closer to home...”
After demanding Governor Bentley respond to accusations of him being racist, Snow followed up: “Can you understand, sir, how this looks to people outside of Alabama? People think about Alabama and they think about the past, unfortunately.”
Bentley replied: “In the ‘50s and ‘60s, the federal government was trying to get Alabama to obey the Constitution. They were right and we were wrong in the South....Today what we’re trying to do is we’re trying to get the federal government to obey the law.”
As proof of the supposedly racist nature of the new immigration law, Snow provided this anecdote:
“The day after the immigration law took effect, the Sanchezs’ daughter tried to carry on as she normally would, boarding the bus for school. From the bus, she sent us a text message saying that the driver had snapped “You’re Mexicans, you’re going to have to leave.” Maria and Jose Sanchez were trying to get over the shock, as we walked through their neighborhood, already abandoned by many residents.”
After Snow concluded her report, Williams remarked to her in studio: “We said at the top of the evening, this was getting ugly and it is.” He later added that the story was a “powerful piece of work.”
Here is a full transcript of the November 14 segment:
10:21PM ET WILLIAMS: If you scratch the surface, most Americans admit to mixed feelings about illegal immigration. People who take a hard line against undocumented workers in this country are often unable to say exactly where our produce would come from without them. On the other hand, folks who are sympathetic to the plight of undocumented workers often ignore the strain they put on public services. These tensions have reached a boiling point in the state of Alabama, which recently enacted the nation’s toughest immigration crackdown, one that has sparked a big and ugly fight. Kate Snow tonight reports on the state where if you’re undocumented, help is not wanted.
KATE SNOW: It’s a bitter harvest this fall on Chandler Mountain in Alabama’s northern hill country. Farmer Ellen Jenkins couldn’t find enough help to pick her tomatoes and now they’re rotting on the vine. The Mexican workers who used to be here are gone. Ever since her husband passed away two years ago, she had counted on those workers. She says they helped her save her farm.
ELLEN JENKINS: They practically become your family when they start working with you. You can ask them to do anything in the world and they’ll come to you. A lot of times you don’t have to ask them. They see you doing something, they’ll come and help you.
SNOW: And they did. Until that day in late September when Alabama’s new immigration law, the toughest in the nation, went into effect. The law covers a lot of ground. Among other things, it prohibits employers from hiring undocumented workers, has police demand proof of legal residency when they pull someone over, and orders schools to gather citizenship information from new students. That last part was temporarily blocked by a court. It all proved too much for Jenkins’ Mexican workers.
JENKINS: They just said, ‘Well, we’re going to have to leave.’ And I said what have you got to leave for? ‘Well, we don’t want no problems.’ The women were literally crying because they didn’t know what was going to happen to their families.
SNOW: It’s the same for undocumented families across Alabama. Like Jose Sanchez’s family. He and his wife, Maria, say they risked everything to get here to open their own bakery. They asked us not to use their real names and hide Maria’s face. They say eight years ago they were desperate to leave the violence of Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez and that they tried and failed to get U.S. visas, so they decided to cross through the desert with their two children. Do you remember this journey? You were six years old.
MS. SANCHEZ [DAUGHTER]: Yeah, I remember.
SNOW: How hard was that?
MS. SANCHEZ: It was really hard because it was walking through the desert, not knowing if you’re going to survive, if you’re going to get sent back, if you’re going to die like many people did, because while you were walking through the desert, you would see dead bodies. You would see poisonous animals.
SNOW: Do you think about it anymore?
MS. SANCHEZ: There’s times where I have nightmares.
SNOW: Why would you take so much risk to come to this country?
MR. SANCHEZ [FATHER]: To have a better situation for my family, be able to live more freely, not go hungry, and to give them the opportunity to go to school. That’s why we risked our lives, so they could live better lives than we did as children.
SNOW: In Alabama, the Sanchezs both worked full time and at night they baked bread and delivered it door to door.
MR. SANCHEZ: Sometimes we’d knock on 150, 200 doors.
SNOW: 200 Doors?
MR. SANCHEZ: Bringing bread. And that’s how we became a very popular family.
SNOW: So popular that two years ago, they were able to open the bakery. The Sanchezs acknowledge that they broke the law when they entered the country, but now they say they’d do anything, pay any penalty, to become legal residents. But there’s no way to do so, and things just got tougher.
SNOW: When you first heard about this new Alabama law, what did you think?
MR. SANCHEZ: That the sky was crashing down on us. Not just for me, but for everybody here, because these are people who came to work, really work. There might be some people who came with other intentions, but we’re just here to work and offer our kids a better life.
SNOW: That better life may be ending. Because of the new law, they won’t be able to renew their business license and will have to give up their bakery. That’s all fine with Clarissa Winchester, whose father immigrated legally from Mexico, but whose opposition to illegal immigration is deeply personal.
CLARISSA WINCHESTER: Illegal immigration had cost our family member her life. That was at the point that I became angry enough to act on it.
SNOW: Winchester has been lobbying Alabama politicians for a crackdown since 2005, when her sister-in-law was killed by a drunk driver who was an undocumented immigrant. You started advocating?
WINCHESTER: Yes, Ma’am.
SNOW: What’s the link between this one man who did this horrible thing to your sister-in-law and this entire pool of people that are here illegally?
WINCHESTER: Definitely for me the connection is the word “illegal.” Many times people try to tell me, ‘Well, you don’t know so and so. This is my friend or this is my employer.’ But it’s really hard for me to hear anything else that they have to say when the first sentence out of your mouth was let me tell you about this great person that’s a criminal.
SNOW: Not surprisingly, that’s a description the Sanchezs reject. They say they’re responsible, church-going, tax-paying members of their community. And Maria Sanchez says she believes the charge of criminality isn’t the real motivation for the crackdown. Why do you think this law passed?
MRS. SANCHEZ [MOTHER]: Because of racism, it’s as simple as that.
SNOW: So you think people here just don’t like having Latinos around.
MRS. SANCHEZ: No.
SNOW: How do you know?
MRS. SANCHEZ: You have to look at the smiles on those people’s faces when the Governor signed that law. Just look at that sinister smile. That’s why I say it.
WILLIAMS: We’re going to take a break in our story right here. And when we continue, Alabama’s governor answers that charge of racism, and the fierce criticism from farmers who thought he was on their side. That’s when Rock Center continues. [COMMERCIAL BREAK]
WILLIAMS: Welcome back to Rock Center. Alabama is now the epicenter of this national argument over illegal immigration thanks to the state’s new law that is the toughest in the nation. The Obama administration is suing Alabama, along with Arizona and South Carolina, claiming the states have overstepped their authority to regulate immigration, traditionally considered a federal matter. But Alabama has a tougher fight, much closer to home, and now Kate Snow continues her reporting.
SNOW: Since Alabama’s strict new immigration law took effect, some farm workers have pitched in for one last harvest. Others are already gone, leaving behind rotting crops and desperate farmers. Farmers who were giving an earful to the legislators who voted for the law.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN [ALABAMA FARMER]: No farm workers, which is costing the farmer. Dead crops, spoiling crops is costing the farmer.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN [FARMER]: We need anyone that will listen that we are starving right now.
SNOW: The new law has pitted natural allies against each other. In the southeast corner of Alabama, we talked with four farmers, Amy and Lee Fitch, Jerry Danford and Todd Shelly, who have all seen the exodus of their workers. How many of you voted Republican in the last presidential election?
LEE FITCH: I did.
SNOW: Show of hands.
AMY FITCH: I would consider myself a Republican and normally vote that way.
SNOW: How many of you have ever voted for a Democratic president? Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton?
JERRY DANFORD: Huh-uh
SNOW: And Republican Governor Robert Bentley, who signed the immigration law, did you vote for him?
DANFORD: Yeah, I voted for him.
SNOW: How do you feel about that vote now, Jerry?
DANFORD: Bad. Real bad. It was an honest mistake. But, you know, I feel bad over it.
SNOW: One of the strongest veins of opposition to this law are Republicans. People who voted for you. Farmers.
ROBERT BENTLEY: That’s right.
SNOW: This is Governor Bentley’s first national TV interview on the immigration law. Diehard Republicans say this is the worst law that they’ve seen in a long time. It’s going to destroy their business.
BENTLEY: If they are using illegal workers right now, will it hurt them? Possibly. Especially this first year or maybe the second year. But eventually it will not hurt them because we will get back to doing things the right way.
SNOW: As the Governor sees it, the flight of undocumented immigrant workers will put a dent in the state’s nearly 10% unemployment rate. When they leave, the theory goes, legal residents will take their place. But all the farmers can see is a future without anyone to pick their crops.
TODD SHELLY: I probably can’t find anybody else, so that would be it.
SNOW: What do you mean that would be it?
SHELLY: No more watermelons. Not on my farm. Or Lee’s farm.
SNOW: But here’s the counter-argument, if you paid more, if your hourly wage was higher, you could get Americans to do this work, Jerry.
DANFORD: I doubt it. Regardless of what you offered them within reason, they wouldn’t put in the long hours. If they will find me a pool of labor, I will hire them. I’ll do that.
SNOW: You just don’t think that exists?
DANFORD: That don’t exist.
SNOW: That’s exactly what Ellen Jenkins discovered when she brought Americans to work at her farm after the Mexicans left. They just couldn’t take the long hours of hard, physical labor. Most stayed a day or two. Only one lasted a few weeks before he quit. I’d like to play you a clip of a tomato farmer, if it’s okay, that we met yesterday. We asked her directly what would she say to the Governor.
JENKINS: I’d just ask him why couldn’t he at least come and see what it was all about before he, you know, jumped the gun. Before you sign a bill and destroy people’s life. Why them? You know? You see anybody else that can come up here and work 14 hours a day and do this kind of work, I want to see them. SNOW: What would you say to her?
BENTLEY: I mean I feel – I really do feel sorry for farmers, but here again, she understands that she is hiring people who are not legal.
SNOW: She’s afraid her business is going to go under.
BENTLEY: And I understand that. I understand. And I feel sorry for her and her business, I really do. And we are working, trying to fit workers with jobs. And we’re going to continue to do that. We eventually will be able to find workers that will do this job.
SNOW: It’s not just agriculture. A new forecast out of the University of Alabama estimates the law will cost the state economy at least $40 million. Workers are fleeing construction companies rebuilding from last spring’s tornados. And Latinos, both undocumented and legal residents, are abandoning Hispanic neighborhoods and businesses. The undocumented immigrant population in Alabama was never huge, only 2.5%. Yet as their numbers grew over the past decade, so did anti-immigrant sentiment. This law is popular, more than 60% support the law.
WAYNE FLYNT: Oh, absolutely. Oh, absolutely. There’s no question.
SNOW: Historian Wayne Flint of Auburn University is the author of nine books about Alabama’s history.
FLYNT: Anti-immigration is probably as popular a political issue as you can find in Alabama. I would remind you, however, that being against the federal government’s integration policies in 1963 was equally popular.
SNOW: Are you equating those two things?
FLYNT: I am equating those two. This is just mean-spirited. This is – this is finding the most vulnerable people within a society, people who can’t vote, most of them are women and children. They have no political power. And so in a sense it’s like the blacks in 1963 who could not vote in Alabama.
SNOW: The Sanchezs agree. They feel like Alabama blacks of the Jim Crow era. And as in 1963, Alabama and the federal government are at odds over a racially charged issue. The woman who owns this bakery, she said the men who did this are racists. She was talking about you, sir.
BENTLEY: Well, that’s – I am certainly not racist. I am not racist. In fact, that’s insulting to anyone to think that I would be racist. I love everyone.
SNOW: The Governor says Alabama had to pass its law because the federal government wasn’t enforcing its own laws on immigration. Can you understand, sir, how this looks to people outside of Alabama?
BENTLEY: I can.
SNOW: People think about Alabama and they think about the past, unfortunately.
BENTLEY: Well, but they shouldn’t link it. In the ‘50s and ‘60s, the federal government was trying to get Alabama to obey the Constitution. They were right and we were wrong in the South. They were trying to get us to obey the law. Today what we’re trying to do is we’re trying to get the federal government to obey the law. So it’s just the opposite.
SNOW: The day after the immigration law took effect, the Sanchezs’ daughter tried to carry on as she normally would, boarding the bus for school. From the bus, she sent us a text message saying that the driver had snapped “You’re Mexicans, you’re going to have to leave.” Maria and Jose Sanchez were trying to get over the shock, as we walked through their neighborhood, already abandoned by many residents.
MRS. SANCHEZ: I don’t know where to go, what’s going to follow this.
SNOW: What are you going to do, do you know?
MRS. SANCHEZ: We don’t know. We just know we’re going to go, but we have no idea where. One day, I’ll be back with my papers, I promise it. If I came in through the back door before, I’ll come in through the front door next time. SNOW: But for the Sanchez family and others who came to this country illegally, that may be an unrealistic dream. And many won’t even try to return.
JENKINS: Some of them said if Alabama didn’t want them, then they’re taking their whole family. They made it perfectly clear, we won’t be back. And I believe them.
WILLIAMS: Kate Snow, we said at the top of the evening, this was getting ugly and it is. And let’s all agree that farming is some of the hardest, most back-breaking, honest work in this country. And let’s just cut to the economics of it. Aside from the human toll, am I correct in guessing that when more crops end up on the ground rotting and perhaps prices are affected and availability, that then more attention will be focused on this?
SNOW: Perhaps. And in the short term that’s certainly true. The people in northern Alabama who love those Chandler Mountain tomatoes, they can’t get those at the farmer’s market right now. They’re getting Tennessee tomatoes instead. However, the farmers did say to us that they will adjust, they’ll have to. They’ll probably have to plant more row crops coming in the spring because a lot of this law starts to really take effect come January 1st. The employment provisions, which by the way say that not only can you not hire someone who doesn’t have the proper documentation, but you have to check every one of your existing employees. If you have more than one employee, you have to check your staff. If you want to hire your mother, you’ve got to check her paperwork and make sure, through E-verify system, verification system, that she’s legit.
WILLIAMS: And more on the web of all those interviews you conducted.
SNOW: Including the Governor, who spoke with us at length, his first television interview on the subject. So there’s a lot more of that on our website.
WILLIAMS: Powerful piece of work. Kate Snow, thanks for coming back.”
-- Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center. Click here to follow Kyle Drennen on Twitter.
Source:
http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20111115011640.aspx
Question: I wonder how many Hispanics and/or Mexican-Americans know that Jim Crow was in fact a Democrat, along with the racist history of the Democratic Party?
The following article and/or blog post reveals the deplorable and/or disgusting racist history of the Democratic Party, to include revealing that on or about February 18, 1946 federal judge Paul McCormick, who was appointed by Republican President Calvin Coolidge, ended segregation of Mexican-American children in California public schools:
Astonishing History of Democrat Racism: ‘Democrats have always been the Party of Slavery and Racism!’—Posted on Sports Refuge-By Bearsownpackers-On April 4, 2009:
http://www.sportsrefuge.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=44330
Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and videos relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
Video: Democrats: States Should Not Require Voters to Present Photo ID!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Nicholas Ballasy-On November 7, 2011:
Voting without photo ID pushed for all 50 states: ‘Just walk into a polling location, register, cast ballot immediately!’-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On November 4, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=364093
Is Obama’s DHS Helping Illegal Aliens Commit Voter Fraud?-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Kevin “Coach” Collins-On October 24, 2011:
http://floydreports.com/is-obamas-dhs-helping-illegal-aliens-commit-voter-fraud/
MSNBC’s Sharpton: People Favoring Voter IDs Want to ‘Revoke the Voting Rights Act’!-Posted on News Busters-By Noel Sheppard-On October 16, 2011:
Black Activists Criticize Jesse Jackson on Voting Rights!-Posted on The Center For Public Policy Research-On June 22, 2011:
http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-Jackson_062211.html
Time to Launch Operation Chaos!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Michael Oberndorf-On June 16, 2011:
http://floydreports.com/time-to-launch-operation-chaos-2-0-12/
64,000 Cases of Possible Voter Fraud Being Investigated in New Mexico!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On June 15, 2011:
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/64000-cases-possible-voter-fraud-being-i
Despite Congressional Leader’s Claim, Requiring an ID to Vote is Nothing Like Forced Segregation!-Posted on The Center for Public Policy Research-On June 7, 2011:
http://www.nationalcenter.org/P21PR-VoterID_060711.html
Maricopa County GOP Website Alleges Massive Voter Fraud in Arizona and Colorado!-Posted on Gateway Pundit-By Jim Hoft-On October 24, 2010:
AZ Group Accused of Massive Voter Fraud Is Offshoot of SEIU-Posted on Big Government-By Jim Hoft-On October 22, 2010:
Note: The following eye opening article and/or blog post reveals a George Soros funded unincorporated association by the name of “Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG)”, which was established in 1999 and consists of more than 50 private and public foundations that give a portion of their $27 billion in combined assets to leftist organizations that undermine the war on terror in several interrelated ways, to include one which strives to eradicate America's national borders and institute a system of mass, unregulated migration into and out of the United States -- thereby rendering all distinctions between legal and illegal immigrants anachronistic, and making it much easier for aspiring terrorists to enter our country-You Decide:
Funding the War Against the War on Terror!-Posted on FrontPageMagazine.com-By: John Perazzo –On October 6, 2006:
http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2309
Note: The following web sites and article and/or blog reveal George Soros’ Secretary State Project (SOSP) and an education fund run by progressive labor leaders tasked with naturalizing new citizens and register new voters by using the 2010 Census as a redistributive mechanism, along with how he is using his money to help tip the elections to Democrats (Progressives) in all 50 states-You Decide:
George Soros’s Secretary Of State Project (SOSP)!-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7487
Mi Familia Vota Education Fund (MFVEF)!-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7538
George Soros’ Money Could Tip Elections in All 50 States!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Michael Oberndorf-OnJuly 1, 2011:
http://floydreports.com/george-soros-money-could-tip-elections-in-all-50-states/
Note: The following website and article and/or blog post reveals that George Soros funds Leftist foundations, litigators and organizations that dominate Election Laws and crusaders that enable massive voter fraud while the DOJ turns a blind eye-You Decide:
George Soros Funds Leftist Foundations, Litigators and Organizations That Dominate Field of Election Laws!-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1431
The Left Owns the Election Law Industry!-Posted on FrontPage Magazine-By J. Christian Adams-On August 12, 2011:
Note: The following article and/or blog post reveals how the Main Stream Media is assisting President Obama and minions to bring down capitalist America, as the propaganda machine of the neo-fascist Left, along with my blog post that reveals that George Soros owns the Main Stream Media, to include Hollywood-You Decide:
The Judas Media!-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:
Who owns our supposedly fair and balanced airwaves and news outlets?
Note: My following numerous blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
'Game Change': New Book Reveals 2008 Campaigns' Messy Moments-To Include Racism!
How the “Illegal Immigration” issue affects our everyday lives!
Is “Illegal Immigration” Illegal?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/is-“illegal-immigration”-illegal/
Backsliding On National Security: The Immigration Connection!
U.S. Southwest Border Smuggling and Violence!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/08/u-s-southwest-border-smuggling-and-violence/
What was the true intent of Operation Closed Campus?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/what-was-the-true-intent-of-operation-closed-campus/
Threat of the Mexican drug cartel, illegal border-crossers and “sanctuary cities”!
ICE Agents Vote ‘No Confidence’ in Leaders!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/ice-agents-vote-‘no-confidence’-in-leaders/
ICE chief says feds might not ‘process’ illegals arrested in Arizona!
Middle Eastern illegals find easy entrance into U.S. from Mexico!
Obama’s Arizona Immigration Law Hypocritical Lie!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/obama’s-arizona-immigration-law-hypocritical-lie/
Arizona-Style Rebellions Over Immigration Spread!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/arizona-style-rebellions-over-immigration-spread/
Massive Voter Fraud-Again!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/massive-voter-fraud-again/
Court overturns Arizona’s proof of citizenship requirement for voter registration!
New World Order By Executive Order!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/new-world-order-by-executive-order/
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
Note: If you have a problem viewing any of the listed blog posts please copy web site and paste it on your browser. Be aware that some of the articles and/or blog posts or videos listed within the contents of the above blog post(s) may have been removed by this administration because they may have considered them to be too controversial. Sure seems like any subject matter that may shed some negative light on this administration is being censored-What happened to free speech?-You Decide.
“Food For Thought”
God Bless the U.S.A.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related
Semper Fi!
Jake
McCAIN IS RICH AND OLD, WE NEED NEW BLOOD IN THE SENITE. HE FORGETS THAT WE ARE BROKE AND HE WANTS TO STAY IN IRAQ UNTIL DOOMS DAY. HE HAS PLAYED BOTH SIDES OF THE ISLE FOR TOO LONG, HE KNEW THAT HE WAS THE FALL GUY IN THE LAST ELECTION.
Have they?
Posted on WND.com-By Jerome R. Corsi-On November 15, 2011:
“American University political science professor Robert A. Pastor, whom WND termed in 2006 as “the father of the North American Union,” has written a new book in which he blames WND for the failure to realize his dream.
On page 11 of his Oxford University published new book, entitled “The North American Idea: A Vision of a Continental Europe,” Pastor openly attacks WND by suggesting the news site’s concerns with the plans Pastor advanced for North American integration amounted to nothing more than baseless “conspiracy theory”:
In “The Late Great USA: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada,” Jerome Corsi makes a conspiratorial case that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, the Council on Foreign Relations and me were secretly conspiring to create a North American Union in the same way that Jean Monnet and others established the European Union – step-by-step. “Our national sovereignty is in danger,” he warned.
Two paragraphs later, Pastor sharpened his attack by a disparaging reference to two unrelated books, “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry,” published in 2004, and “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality,” published in 2008:
Corsi, who wrote a book impugning John Kerry’s service in Vietnam and another attacking Barack Obama, developed arguments that the John Birch Society and Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum used to try to show that the SPP [Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America] was a first step toward a North American Union (NAU). Together, they persuaded conservative legislators to introduce bills in 23 states that condemned the NAU and also a nonexistent NAFTA superhighway.
With these comments, Pastor’s resentment that his notion of a “North American Community” faced serious political opposition is obvious, as is his determination to insist that anyone who disagreed with him must be some type of right-wing fringe conspiracy theorist whose concerns were reducible to an atavistic prejudice that prevented appreciation of the benefits Pastor saw to advancing political globalism in North America.
Similarly, Pastor castigates commentators Lou Dobbs and Pat Buchanan, writing the following in the opening paragraph of the preface to the book: “Every time this dynamic duo [Dobbs and Buchanan] let loose on TV or radio, my email box filled with the most scurrilous attacks.”
Pastor has difficulty accepting that the American people rejected his plan in full appreciation of the fact that Pastor did intend to move NAFTA in the direction of an EU-like political compact, complete with a North American parliament and a North American central bank, complete with the “amero,” a North American currency.
The death of the ‘North American dream’
With his new book, Pastor is attempting to revive the idea of North American integration by repackaging ideas he presented in his many previous books and articles on the subject.
With “The North American Idea,” Pastor appears to be calculating that his idea of North American economic and political regional integration can be more easily sold if he downplays the idea of “Toward a North American Community,” the title of his 2001 book, in favor of “The North American Idea,” the title of his current book.
As recently as 2008, WND reported Pastor had declared that his North American dream was “dead.”
He correctly predicted in the July/August 2008 issue of the Council on Foreign Relations magazine Foreign Affairs that the president following George W. Bush would discard the SPP – the agreement to increase cooperation on security and economic issues made by President Bush with the heads of state of Mexico and Canada following a tripartite summit held in Waco, Texas, on March 23, 2005.
WND reported that at its height, the SPP had some 20 different working groups composed of policymakers and bureaucrats from the United States, Mexico and Canada working together in joint committees spanning a wide range of issues, ranging from commerce, to aviation policy, to border security and immigration – all implemented without the approval of a treaty by the U.S. Senate and without congressional approval or oversight of working-group participation by dozens of U.S. federal government employees.
The NAU stealth agenda
Before killing the SPP website completely, Obama did follow Pastor’s advice, first by migrating SPP.gov to contain unrelated Commerce Department content, then by killing the website altogether – even though a SPP website yet remains operative in Canada.
Today, under the Obama administration, SPP-like meetings are being held, but under the less controversial “rebranded” and “refocused” structure designated as the “North American Leaders Summit.”
The most recent meeting, scheduled to follow the APEC summit in Hawaii for Saturday, Nov. 20, 2011, had to be postponed when Mexican President Calderon decided to remain home following the helicopter crash that killed Mexican Interior Minister Francisco Blake Mora.
While the 20 working groups appear to have been disbanded when the SPP was formally abandoned, the Obama administration nevertheless continues to advance the NAU agenda below the radar of national public opinion.
On Feb. 4, 2011, for instance, the Obama administration signed without congressional approval a joint declaration with Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada, entitled “Beyond the Border: A Shared Vision for Perimeter Security and Economic Competitiveness.”
Then, WND reported the decision to declare a continental perimeter for the United States and Canada, designed to effectively combine the two nations in mutual national security and economic efforts – a move dubbed “Beyond the Border.”
This agreement affirmed the Obama administration’s decision to implement the key objectives of the SPP so as to avoid the public scrutiny that dogged President George W. Bush after he openly proclaimed with the SPP his plans for North American integration.
Without doubt, the “Beyond the Border” declaration followed the blueprint Pastor as co-chair published in a 2005 Council on Foreign Relations report, “Building a North American Community.”
That report called on page xvii of the foreword for the “establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security perimeter, the boundaries of which would be defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter.”
Notably, the “Beyond the Border” declaration created a new Beyond the Border Working Group, designated by the acronym BBWG.
According to the joint declaration, the BBWG, composed of “representatives from the appropriate departments and offices of our respective federal governments,” was tasked with developing a “Plan of Action” to realize the goals of the declaration and to report annually to the “Leaders,” specified as the president of the United States and the prime minister of Canada.
Pastor’s grand ‘North American Idea’
In a clear effort to avoid the type of publicity that killed the SPP, Pastor’s new book suggests the agenda to advance North American economic and political integration beyond NAFTA can best be achieved by promoting what he now describes in his latest iteration as the “North American Idea.”
How exactly the North American Idea differs from the North American Community is hard to distinguish, unless we are to assume the North American Idea is the articulation of the grand scheme that to Pastor and other globalists justifies moving from NAFTA to a new stage of regional integration, evidently still designated as the North American Community.
“Without a vision of a future North America, minor incremental reforms are not worth the energy, and bolder proposals will not be taken seriously,” Pastor writes on page 167, as an introduction to his blueprint of 20 proposals “that could be the building blocks of a North American Community,” in policy areas dealing with 1) the North American economy; 2) national and public security; 3) transnational issues, like immigration and climate change; and 4) institutions.
Regarding institutions, Pastor returns to his familiar recommendation that a North American Advisory Council consisting of non-governmental policy experts be constituted to advise the heads of state of the three nations and that the existing U.S.-Canadian Inter-Parliamentary Group and the U.S.-Mexican Inter-Parliamentary Group should be combined into a North American Parliamentary group to prepare a North American legislative agenda.
“If the leaders explain to the people how our individual countries will grow as we integrate a North American Community, then many things become possible,” Pastor concludes on page 201.
“If the three countries can view themselves as part of a region in which each has a challenge that requires cooperation to succeed, then North America becomes larger than the sum of the parts.”
Interestingly, this time around, when the survival of the euro as a regional currency is in question, Pastor avoided advocating explicitly the creation of the amero as a North American currency, a proposal he openly urged in the pages of his 2001 book on the North American Community.
Old wine, new bottle
What is remarkable about this book if nothing else is that Pastor persists with his dream of North American integration.
Still, this time around, he remains as careful as ever not to claim he truly aspires to create a North American Union, along the EU model.
Even today Pastor evidently believes the distinction is meaningful.
He seems yet convinced some readers will buy the notion that he means to stop short at creating a North American Community, without advancing to a North American Union, because he says so – despite clear evidence the EU was itself created by stealth methodology, as documented by Christopher Booker and Robert North in their 2003 bookentitled “The Great Deception: The Secret History of the European Union.”
Evidently unable or unwilling to accept defeat even today, Pastor refuses to consider seriously that the citizens of the three nations rejected the SPP not because President George W. Bush and the leaders of Mexico and Canada fumbled the process, but because an informed citizenry in each of the three nations preferred retaining strong national sovereignty, rather than embracing Pastor’s idea of creeping globalism realized through regional integration.
Pastor’s new book proves the dreams of the globalists do not die easily, at least not as long as university presses are willing to bet Pastor’s warmed-over polemic might yet sell a few books to those elitists among us still longing for continental identity.
In the final analysis, Pastor continues to look at the map of the United States, Mexico and Canada and see not three nations, but an arising North American something-or-other – call it “Community,” or call it “Union” – what exactly is the difference?
Perhaps most importantly, Pastor’s book serves to remind opponents that we must remain ever more vigilant to prevent presidents such as Obama from using stealth methodology to implement piecemeal what George W. Bush at least had the courage to proclaim openly that he was trying to accomplish.”
Source:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=368249
Note: What follows is an article and/or blog post that contains a WikiLeaks Cable that reveals the “North American Initiative” as being part of the New World Order agenda, along with an article and/or blog post that relates to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
WikiLeaks: 'North American Initiative' no 'theory': 'Most believe the incremental approach most appropriate at this time'-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On May 21, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=301325
'North American Parliament' under way: ‘Some hope exercise of U.S., Canadian, Mexican reps becomes reality!’-Posted on WND.com-By Jerome R. Corsi-On May 28, 2008:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65582
Note: The following website reveals that George Soros’ Open Society Institute (OSI) funds organizations that favor global government, which would bring American foreign policy under the control of the United Nations-You Decide:
Organizations that favor global government, which would bring American foreign policy under the control of the United Nations or other international bodies:
- According to George Soros, “We need some global system of political decision-making. In short, we need a global society to support our global economy.” Consistent with this perspective, the Open Society Institute in 2008 gave $150,000 to the United Nations Foundation, which “works to broaden support for the UN through advocacy and public outreach.” Moreover, OSI is considered a “major” funder of the Coalition for anInternational Criminal Court, which aims to subordinate American criminal-justice procedures in certain cases to an international prosecutor who could initiate capricious or politically motivated prosecutions of U.S. officials and military officers.
Source:
Guide to The George Soros Network-Posted on DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=589
Note: What follows is a “Soros Files” website that was recently launched by Cliff Kincaid, President of America’s Survival, Inc. that does a meticulous job of revealing other deplorable actions by the anti-American hedge fund billionaire that I believe, if not stopped now, will ultimately destroy this great country of ours as we know it:
Note: The following videos and article and/or blog post reveal the New World Order, along with the role of the U.S. in the New World Order-You Decide:
Video: The Power Behind the New World Order (Full Movie)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y1hhEAmBCI&feature=player_embedded
Video: Fall of the Republic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU&feature=related
Video: The Obama Deception!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw&feature=relmfu
Video: Illuminati Obama and The New World Order!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KynBihT3-U&feature=related
Video: Illuminati New World Order Martial Law!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z14vUmkDJs&feature=related
Video: The President who told the Truth about illuminati!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20KDBELD20I&feature=related
Video: New World Order End Game!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gqQSiN12-g
Video The NWO Agenda Exposed!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvCnPMBbNiw&NR=1
The U.S. Role in a New Global Order: Obama’s Speech Before the British Parliament-Posted on Brookings Institution-By Bruce Jones, Director, Managing Global Order, The Brookings Institution-On May 27, 2011:
http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2011/0527_global_order_jones.aspx
Note: This is a powerful message from a former C.I.A. Agent to all Americans-You Decide:
Video: YOU ARE THE RESISTANCE!-Posted on YouTube.com-By in5d-On May 6, 2010:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI0cd_aIxVg&feature=related
Note: My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
New World Order By Executive Order!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/new-world-order-by-executive-order/
The Midterm Elections and the Communist Manifesto!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/08/the-midterm-elections-and-the-communist-manifesto/
Powerful men who meet secretly to plan on how to run our country!
Progressives and Communists Are Out of the Closet Together!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/progressives-and-communists-are-out-of-the-closet-together/
Who is sponsoring the NAACP’s ‘One Nation Working Together’ rally?
Is President Obama inciting riots across the US?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/is-president-obama-inciting-riots-across-the-us/
Obamanites Get Violent in Support of the Agenda!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/obamanites-get-violent-in-support-of-the-agenda/
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
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“Food For Thought”
God Bless the U.S.A.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related
Semper Fi!
Jake
My name is Molly, I am new here. Last night as I was watching Glenn Beck he talked about the Declaration of Independence. I don't know if anyone else has had this idea, but I felt the Holy Spirit move and heard God tell me that if the government takes the Declaration of Independence out of our school systems and out of the government system, then we should nominate a few good men or women to write something like the Declaration of Independence. We could send it to Congress and see if it would pass. This might just be the first step in turning the country around. Please give me your take on this.
Molly
ALSO STAY OUT OF THE IRAN PROBLEM, YOUR TOO LATE, WE SHOULD HAVE ACTED 2 OR 3 YEARS AGO.
THE DEMOCRATS WANT US TO GO BROKE SO THEY CAN TURN US GOOD PEOPLE SOCIALISTS, AND WE CAN NOT DO A THING.
GOOGLE MAPS HAS REVEALED GIANT GRID PATTERNS
IN THE GOBI DESERT, AT THE CHINESE MILITARY MISSILE TEST RANGES ! THEY ARE THE GRIDS OF AMERICAN CITES ? ARE THE CHINESE SIGHTING IN ON
AMERICAN CITY GRIDS, AT THESE MISSILE TEST RANGES ? WHERE IS MR. OBAMA, PLAYING FOOTSIES ~
WITH THE CHINESE !! WASHINGTON, D.C. ????
WE HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO THE DEBATES AND LEARNING ABOUT THE PAST ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF EACH OF THE CANDIDATES BUT WHAT ABOUT THE 2011 ACOMPLISHMENTS? HAVE THEY IMPLEMENTED ANY OF THE ASPECTS OF THEIR PLANS WITH ACTION. THEY ALL HAVE HAD SOME GOVERNMENT EXPERIENCE BUT HAVE THEY USED THE CONNECTIONS FROM THAT EXPERIENCE TO TRY TO GET SOME THING DONE ABOUT OUR CURRENT PROBLEMS?
I AM PRESENTING THIS THIS CHALLENGE IN AN EFFORT TO BECOME BETTER INFORMED ABOUT THE LEADERSDHIP POTENTIAL OF THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND AS AN UNBIASED OBSERVER TRYING TO DECIDE WHICH WOULD BE THE BEST PRESIDENT IN LEADERSHIP AND ACCOMPLISHMENT POTENTIAL.
HERMAN CAIN HAS WORKED FOR THE FED AND IF HE WAS EFFECTIVE, HE PROBABLY MADE SOME POWERFUL CONNECTIONS WITHIN GOVERNMENT CIRCLES, HAS HE USED THOSE CONNECTIONS TO TRY GET SOME LEGISLATIVE ACTION ON ANY PART5S OF HIS OVERALL PLAN FOR AMERICA? IF SO HERMAN TELL US ABOUT THEM.
GOVERNOR PERRY HAS DONE A WONDERFUL JOB IN ATTRACTING LARGE BUSINESS TO LOCATE IN A RIGHT TO WORK STATE WITHOUT A STATE INCOME OR CORPORATE INCOME TAX AND IS CONTENDING WITH BORDER PROBLEMS ON A DAILY BASSIS, BUT HAS HE INSTITUTED ANY NEW TEXAS POLICY WHICH WOULD REMOVE THE INCENTIVES FOR PEOPLE TO ENTER OUR COUNTRY ILEGALLY?
HE HAS ADMITTED TO INSTITUTING ONE STATE POLICY WHICH IS ACTUALLY AN INCENTIVE FOR ILLEGAL ENTRY, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE EXTRA COSTS INVOLVED FOR EDUCATION AND STATE OFFERED WELFARE PROGRAMS. WHERE ARE THE POLICY REQUIRING PROOF OF LEGAL ENTRY TO QUALIFY FOR ENTRY INTO ANY OF THOSE PROGRAMS. TELL US ABOUT THE THINGS YOU ARE DOING NOW GOVERNOR.
GOVERNOR HUNTSMAN HAS DONE A MARVELOUS JOB FOR UTAH ALSO BUT MANY OF THE NATIONAL PROBLEMS PLAGUING THE COUNTRY HAVE NEGATIVE EFFECTS ON HIS STATE, HAS HE INITIATED ANY STATE INITIATIVES TO LIMIT THOSE NEGATIVE EFFECTS. SHOW US THAT YOU ARE A MAN OF ACTION GOVERNOR.
GONGRESSMAN RON PAUL, YOU TOLD US THAT YOU WANT TO ABOLISH THE FED, DO YOU HAVE ANY PENDING LEGISLATION TO EITHER LIMIT THE POWER OF THE FED OR TO ABLOLISH IT?. AS A CONGRESSMAN, HAVE YOU SIGNED TO CONGRESSWOMAN BACHMANS LEGISLATION TO REPEAL OBOMACARE AND DOD FRANK? DO YOU HAVE ANY PENDING LEGISLATION WHICH WOULD AFFECT THE THINGS YOU TELL US ABOUT ON THE DEBATES? LET US, THE PEOPLE SEE HOW YOU ARE LEADING.
RICK SANTORUM YOU HAVE SERVED PENSYLVANIA WELL OVER THE YEARS AND YOU KNOW HOW THE CONGRESS WORKS, HAVE YOU TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THAT KNOWLEDGE AND INFLUENCE TO WORK AT GETTING THE 15+ JOBS BILL THAT THE HOUSE HAS PASSED INTO COMMITTEE AND ON THE SENATE SCHEDULE FOR A VOTE?
MR ROMNEY, YOU HAVE BUILT A ENVIOUS RECORD AS GOVERNOR. STATESMAN, BUSINESS MAN, SAVIOUR OF THE OLYMPICS,ETC. YOU ARE ONE OF TWO CANDIDATES WHO COULD HAVE THE MOST INFLUENCE WITHIN GOVERNMENT CIRCLES AND YOU HAVE PRODUCED A VERY COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLEX PLAN FOR AMERICA BUT WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH IT? HAVE YOU USED YOUR INFLUENCE TO PREMOTE ANY OF THE ASPECTS OF YOUR PLAN IN THE CURRENT CONGRESS? TELL US WHAT YOU ARE DOING BEFORE ELECTION TO HELP GET OUR COUNTRY BACK ON TRACK.
NEWT GINGRICH, YOU ARE PROBABLY THE MOST ACOMPLISHED AND KNOWLEDGABLE MAN ON THE STAGE, YOU HAVE EARNED A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF RESPECT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE SO WHY ARE YOU JUST SITTING AROUND TALKING ABOUT YOUR SUCESSES, I AM DISAPOINTED IN YOUR LACK OF ACTION CURRENTLY. YOU, MORE THAN ANY OF THE OTHER CANDIDATES COULD HAVE HEATED THINGS UP FOR THE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO GET SOMETHING DONE. WHERE IS THE WARRIOR THAT WE ALL HAVE ADMIRED FOR YEARS?
CONGRESSWOMAN BACHMAN, IT APPEARS THAT YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE OF THIS GROUP WHO HAS THE COURAGE TO STEP AND WORK AT GETTING SOME OF YOUR BELIEFS ACTED ON WITH YOUR APPEAL OF OBOMACARE AND DODD/FRANK. WORKING TO GET THOSE PROPOSALS ADVANCED IS A MONUMENTAL TASK AND IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN HOW EFFECTIVE YOU CAN BE.
AND YOU ARE TO BE COMMENDED FOR THE VALIANT EFFORT YOU ARE PUTTING FORTH.
JUST MABY ISERAL CAN DO SOMETHING TO STOP IRAN, WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF AFGHANISTAN NOW NO ONE EVEN RUSSIA HAS BEAT THE AFGHANISTAN, WHEN WILL OUR COUNTRY LEARN/?
From film director Frank Miller ref the OWS movement..... Took the words right out of my mouth. Well put....
"Everybody’s been too damn polite about this nonsense:
The “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America.
“Occupy” is nothing short of a clumsy, poorly-expressed attempt at anarchy, to the extent that the “movement” – HAH! Some “movement”, except if the word “bowel” is attached - is anything more than an ugly fashion statement by a bunch of iPhone, iPad wielding spoiled brats who should stop getting in the way of working people and find jobs for themselves.
This is no popular uprising. This is garbage. And goodness knows they’re spewing their garbage – both politically and physically – every which way they can find.
Wake up, pond scum. America is at war against a ruthless enemy.
Maybe, between bouts of self-pity and all the other tasty tidbits of narcissism you’ve been served up in your sheltered, comfy little worlds, you’ve heard terms like al-Qaeda and Islamicism.
And this enemy of mine — not of yours, apparently - must be getting a dark chuckle, if not an outright horselaugh - out of your vain, childish, self-destructive spectacle.
In the name of decency, go home to your parents, you losers. Go back to your mommas’ basements and play with your Lords Of Warcraft.
Or better yet, enlist for the real thing. Maybe our military could whip some of you into shape.
They might not let you babies keep your iPhones, though. Try to soldier on."
Schmucks.
FM
In part (1) the evolution of Liberalism, Socialism and Communism were sort of lumped together showing, but it shows how our youth many years ago were being brainwashed by many different factions. The innocence of our youth made them the perfect victims for those on the left.
Liberalism, Socialism and Communism have created the “Lost Generation.” It was very subtle at first and rather hard to pinpoint just how they infiltrated our Government, our schools, our Colleges, our Supreme Court and our homes. Let’s dissect the brain washed Liberal News Media in an effort to see why they’ve turned into a demonizing faction in our USA – the lost sheep and the lost generation.
All three of these ideologies mentioned are closely connected by certain beliefs; therefore they share a common link or connection with each other. First, they consider all Americans too ignorant and stupid to live independently and be their own counsel.
Second, notice how Obama’s ”better than thou” demeanor is just like Saul Alinskys, George Soros, Bill Ayers & wife Bernadine Dohrn, Cass Sunstein, Eric Holder (AG), Lisa Jackson(EPA), Richard Trumpka (AFL-CIO). They actually believe they’re a superior race and have been endowed the authority to control us. Our White House has been infiltrated with these Liberalists!
Third, they hate groups of people like the Tea Parties, who are fighting to restore our Nation. They want to remove the 2nd Amendment and disarm the citizens of the USA. If they in fact disarm our Nation, we will be totally dependent upon the Government.
Fourth, they fear “God,” and keep trying to remove “God” from our schools, our courtrooms, our Federal buildings, our coins and our Constitution. They’ve been trying to wipe “God” off the map for many moons. God’s not afraid of the Church card they keep jerking out of their pocket. Nope, “God” is alive and well and isn’t about to leave his kids alone in their fight to “take back their Country.”
The Liberal News Media has been spawn by those who wish to take over our Country; they’ve evolved into a bunch of brainless puppets unable to exist on their own. They’re the masters of X-rated regurgitated chewed up and re-edited fiction in an attempt to keep Americans distracted, while they continue gnawing away at our rights and freedoms
Their hatred has no limits as they continue their rampage against the Tea Parties, calling them terrorists, racists, Wahhabis, tea baggers, suicide bombers and the list just rambles on- remember they fear groups of people who meet together to restore our Nation.
They’re pros at using the Church card, the race card and the terrorist card when the going gets tough, but they’re starting to lose traction. They’re losing steam – God’s alive and well, the race card looks like Obama’s last year’s fake birth certificate; the one that was layered and photo shopped. The terrorist card is sort of their wild card specifically used for any person or groups of people who disagree with their ideology.
The worst error the Liberals could have made was to compare the Wall Street Protestors to our Nation’s Tea Parties – this strategy backfired on them! The OWS Protestors are just another generation of lost sheep, who have no respect for themselves or others. They are raping, destroying property, creating unsanitary conditions, and doing drugs and don’t have a clue why they are protesting. They are dangerous because of the puppeteers orchestrating their movement!
The tea parties are our “freedom fighters, they don’t kill, destroy other’s property, throw stones, cans and make threats. They will continue their peaceful march to “Take Back Our Country,” from those who will and have harmed our Nation, our children and our grandchildren.
The Liberal News Media are the robots pre-programed for the destruction of America; they are fed daily by the puppeteers and thrive on lies, propaganda and corruption. They’ve not only lost their way, like the OWS – they are the LOST GENERATION.
May God Bless America
As Always,
Little Tboca
Part (1) Liberal News Media
by little tboca
I’ve written many articles about the Liberal News Media their lies, propaganda and vile responses about our Churches, “God,” our Constitution, our rights and freedoms and their relentless attempt to destroy our great Patriots of 2011. Today, I thank God for giving the Tea Party movement the wisdom and strength to restore our Nation’s once strong foundation.
I understand why generations of youth are so confused, disoriented and incapable of being productive young adults with high self- esteem – I realized that they are the product of the Radicals who infiltrated our Government, our schools and our Country.
Now, it’s apparent the OWS protestors are an offspring of the lost generations. They’re unable to function, to think on their own and don’t have a clue about our Nation, our Constitution, our freedoms, our rights – they’re not only lost, they are dangerous to themselves and our Country. They are the sheep controlled, not in control!
The Liberal News media is the result of the New Left of the 60’s and 70’s, which was the time of the Hippie movement and college protests. They are the end product or the result of the Saul Alinsky, Frank Davis, Bill Ayers and wife Bernadine Dohrn (Weatherman Underground terrorists), and many others starting back way before the 40’s.
Now we’re living in the dangerous radical world of Code Pink: Obama, Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood., Obama, George Soros and 100’s of radical Community organizations who are continuing to brainwash our youth. Many of our children have developed a total dependency on these corrupt mentors and leaders.
It’s sad to realize the baby boomers of which I am one, was too busy playing around in our sandbox until the sand was all gone. We allowed the once strong family unit to disintegrate as we developed a politically correct attitude allowing the “norm” to change over the years.
The hi-tech revolution started and we were promised less working hours and more time with our families and children – that didn’t happen; we had longer hours and less family time.
Latch key kids came on the scene; parents helped the Radicals destroy our beautiful educational system via one lawsuit after another until we the people totally derailed our teachers, school superintendents and basically set our kids free and at the mercy of the Radicals. We allowed dangerous people in our Supreme Court who re-write laws, not interpret them.
As years passed we were locked into a fish bowl chasing material possessions, trying to keep up with the Jones’s and the “norm” continued to change. Television revolved from wholesome family entertainment to crime, violence, sex and sleazy shows like Jerry Springer’s.
The Liberal News Media sneaked in our backdoors and took control of our lives.
We become accustom to “shacking up,” because everyone seemed to be doing it. We used TV, Computer and high tech gadgets to help raise our kids and keep them occupied.
We delegated teachers, child care facilities and College Professors to raise and mentor our kids. We let Susie talk us in to high heels, revealing clothes, excessive make up and jewelry because we thought trinkets, toys and gifts would make up for lost time with our kids. Inadvertently we changed roles with our kids – they ran the show, dictated the rules and we became victims.
We contributed to the lost generations that we’re seeing in the OWS Protestors and we helped create the Liberal News Media who are unable of function or think on their own.
The greatest movement that’s happened in many years is the Tea Party movement and they will “take back our Country,” restore our Constitution, protect our borders, restore our rights and freedoms and most of all they will rebuild the family unit for the family unit is the strength and the heart of our Nation.
They will once again become mentors, disciplinarians and offer guidance to their children, their grandchildren and future generations. They will prevail for a small group of people can change the world – look what the Nazarene did 2000 years ago!
May God Bless America
As Always,
Little Tboca
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THE CAIN ACCUSERS ARE NOW FIVE.FOUR MORE IT GETS TO NINE. SO HE COULD CHANGE HIS SLOGAN TO 9-9-9-9-GET IT 9999.
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Posted on American Thinker-By Matt Patterson-August 18, 2011:
“Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world’s largest economy, direct the world’s most powerful military, execute the world’s most consequential job?
Imagine a future historian examining Obama’s pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a “community organizer”; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote “present”); and finally an unaccomplished single term in United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions. He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as legislator.
And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama’s “spiritual mentor”; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama’s colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?
Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal:
“To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberaldom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass.”
Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass—held to a lower standard—because of the color of his skin. Podhoretz continues:
“And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) “non-threatening,” all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?”
Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon—affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.
Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don’t care if these minority students fail; liberals aren’t around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin—that’s affirmative action in a nutshell, and if that isn’t racism, then nothing is. And that is what America did to Obama.
True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary. What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks?
In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama’s oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people—conservatives included—ought now to be deeply embarrassed. The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that’s when he has his teleprompter in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth—it’s all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100 years.
And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?
In short: our president is a small and small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office.
But hey, at least we got to feel good about ourselves for a little while. And really, isn’t that all that matters these days?
See also: The Era of Confronting Obama at Public Events
Update:
Author’s Note. A lot of readers have written in asking me how I came to the conclusion that Obama was an unremarkable student and that he benefited from affirmative action. Three reasons:
1) As reported by The New York Sun: “A spokesman for the university, Brian Connolly, confirmed that Mr. Obama spent two years at Columbia College and graduated in 1983 with a major in political science. He did not receive honors...” In spite of not receiving honors as an undergrad, Obama was nevertheless admitted to Harvard Law. Why?
2) Obama himself has written he was a poor student as a young man. As the Baltimore Sun reported, in:
“’Obama’s book ‘Dreams from My Father,’....the president recalled a time in his life...when he started to drift away from the path of success. ‘I had learned not to care,’ Obama wrote. ‘... Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it.’ But his mother confronted him about his behavior. ‘Don’t you think you’re being a little casual about your future?” she asked him, according to the book. ‘... One of your friends was just arrested for drug possession. Your grades are slipping. You haven’t even started on your college applications.’”
3) Most damning to me is the president’s unwillingness to make his transcripts public. If Obama had really been a stellar student with impeccable grades as an undergrad, is there any doubt they would have been made public by now and trumpeted on the front page of the New York Times as proof of his brilliance? To me it all adds up to affirmative action.”
Source:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/obama_the_affirmative_action_president.html
Note: The following article and/or blog post relates to this issue-You Decide:
The Era of Confronting Obama at Public Events!
Posted on American Thinker-By J.R. Dunn-On August 18, 2011:
“So here we have “former-Bush official Brad Blakeman” being quoted by the media as attacking Tea Party stalwart Ryan Rhodes over Rhodes’s confrontation with Obama. It seems that every time we see the term “former Bush,” “former Reagan,” and for all I know “former Coolidge” official, it involves some venerable GOP figure calling airstrikes in on his or her own unit. I guess it’s slow down at the shuffleboard court.
It’s possible to read all sorts of things into this, none of them good. About the gentlest would be that Blakeman is missing the point. Ryan is the farthest thing in the world from a political vagabond. As the founder of the Iowa Tea Party, he is a crucial figure in one of the most important political movements of the past half-century. He confronted Obama not because voices told him to or to get his picture in the paper, but to issue a rebuke, a necessary rebuke. Obama had it coming for all sorts of reasons above and beyond the issue at hand. (Joe Biden’s charming reference to the Tea Parties as “terrorists,” an incident that seems to have evaded Blakeman’s attention.) In a just world, he’d be hearing the same thing at every whistle-stop, fundraiser, campaign speech, and vacation cookout from now until Krugman’s aggressive aliens arrive from Tau Ceti. Ryan is to be applauded for doing something few would dare attempt, and bringing it off with considerable panache.
Blakeman is, of course, making the argument that we should “respect the office, and not the man.” A perfectly legitimate stance, in normal times and dealing with normal politicians. But since we are dealing with neither, it has been reduced to something recited by rote. The times being what they are, extraordinary measures are called for. If a man were to force his way into a schoolroom and begin flinging children out the window, we would be appalled—unless that man was aware that the school was ablaze and there was no other way out of the building.
Blakeman overlooks the simple truth that you can respect the office only as much as the incumbent does. If the officeholder violates public trust, which can occur in any number of ways, from leaping on interns to appointing cronies to extralegal positions, the question of respect as such becomes moot. Some behavior cannot and should not be tolerated. If it were Caligula and Cesare Borgia in the Oval Office, I’m quite sure that Blakeman would not call for abject respect for either. Obama, to be just, is comparable to neither of them in iniquity, but the principle holds. You may call it an exaggeration for effect, the literary version of Ryan’s action.
The third point is that America’s liberals drew first blood and now have to take whatever comes. It has been generations since a Democrat or liberal or leftist has behaved in the political arena according to any tradition of decency, honor, or gentility. Barry Goldwater was an honest man and a politician of the highest standards. If you were to look for his equal today, in either house on either side of the aisle, you would come up with no one. And yet, when he ran for president in 1964, the entire liberal establishment cut loose with an unmatched campaign of slander. Goldwater was a Nazi, an extremist, a paranoid schizophrenic, a maniac out to trigger a nuclear war. And it wasn’t fringe publications making these accusations—it was the New York Times and the Big Three broadcast networks. The men involved in that campaign—including the great American Voice of Reason, Bill Moyers—went on to lengthy, lucrative, and influential careers. Not a single one ever apologized; not a single one ever explained himself; not a single one was even confronted over his role.
The liberals have never backed off. To this day, children in America’s schools are taught that the deranged Ronald Reagan tried to start WWIII and was halted only by the actions of the heroic Mikhail Gorbachev. (You doubt this? Ask your kids.) George W. Bush was forced to fight an international war while the loyal opposition derided him as a Nazi, a subnormal, a mass murderer, and we could go for several pages. One novel, an award-winning film, and at least two plays calling for his assassination were written, produced, and released. Anyone suggesting the same as regards Barack Obama would wind up (at the very least) explaining himself in detail and at length to large men in dark suits, and possibly worse. In our day the two political doctrines have been carefully divided and separated according to very simple criteria: with liberal Democrats every last comma of the rules of etiquette must be followed with punctilio. With the GOP, anything goes.
Which brings us to the last two years, in which the final shreds of civilized behavior were trampled in the left’s eagerness to get at the enemy. A mother of a disabled child was attacked nationwide, in all major media outlets, for giving birth to and raising that child. Forget about everything else Sarah Palin has endured—the attacks on her other children, the petty legal hassles, the rumors about her marriage, the fake photos, the betrayals from her own side, and so on. Concentrate on that one element. When I was young, anyone who degraded a woman in such circumstances would have been fired, possibly physically beaten, blacklisted from his industry, and forced out of town, or even out of the country, in order to earn even the lowest type of living. Today they get booked on The View. That’s how far we’ve fallen—disabled kids, and their mothers, are fair game in the millennial United States.
And now we’re hearing much the same about Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann. I’m not sure how this will work out. Perry shoots his own coyotes when called upon, and Bachmann...well, she has that glint in her eye, the one that reads much the same as a sign saying, “DANGER - UNEXPLODED BOMB.” You learn not to antagonize girls of a certain type as early as high school. Can we assume that America’s liberals went to high school?
The point is that it was the liberals who tore up the rule book, flouted tradition, and violated every established tenet of behavior. When you act this way, you open a door, and you have to accept whatever comes through that door. The rules and traditions that might have protected you are no longer around to be appealed to.
Obama will be lucky if he is not faced with such a confrontation every week from now until the 2012 election. He will receive much more and much worse in the way of invective and insult before then. And he will have earned it.
Blakeman is not wrong in calling for a higher level of behavior. But he is mistaken in speaking as if such a world actually exists, as if life in the millennial United States consists of men doffing their panamas every time they pass a woman, that each street corner is equipped with an Eagle Scout awaiting random old ladies, and that politicians shaking hands and calling each “old boy” really means something. This is not the case, and to pretend otherwise, in an environment as debased and toxic as the one in which we live, is to accept humiliation and defeat. Perhaps we may see a rebirth of politesse and manners at some point to come. Nothing is impossible, and the social world often shifts between extremes. But I can tell you this: it will never happen if this country’s liberals continue getting their way.”
- J.R. Dunn is consulting editor of American Thinker and the author of Death by Liberalism.
Source:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/the_era_of_confronting_obama_at_public_events.html
Question: Was President Obama ready for the presidency?
The following articles and/or blog posts and videos seem to answer this question-You Decide:
I. A Personality Profile of Barack Obama’s Leadership!
Posted on The National Ledger-By Chuck Norris-On October 22, 2008:
“Obama will not lose his bid for the presidency because of his connections to Ayers, ACORN or socialist politics. In fact, he won’t lose it because of his stand on any issue. The coup de grace for Obama’s presidential election downfall will come only through convincing the American public of his lack of decisive leadership under pressure.
I’m not just talking about facing rogue nations or terrorist thugs. I’m referring to making major choices in conflict. Indecisiveness is his greatest weakness, and it’s one this country cannot afford at this time in its history.
Interestingly, a while back, the Unit for the Study of Personality in Politics, at St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict, did a professional personality profile “for anticipating Obama’s likely leadership style as chief executive, thereby providing a basis for inferring the character and tenor of a prospective Obama presidency.” The study concluded:
“The combination of Ambitious, Accommodating, and Outgoing patterns in Obama’s profile suggests a (SET ITAL)confident conciliator (END ITAL) personality composite. Leaders with this personality prototype, though self-assured and ambitious, are characteristically gracious, considerate, and benevolent. They are energetic, charming, and agreeable, with a special knack for settling differences, favoring mediation and compromise over force or coercion as a strategy for resolving conflict. They are driven primarily by a need for achievement and also have strong affiliation needs, but a low need for power.”
While most might laud Obama’s personality as a needed polar opposite to George W. Bush’s, I pose to you that Obama’s “accommodating-conciliator-favoring-compromise” personality pendulum swing is way too far to the other side. Even Obama’s voting record proves that.
His own Democratic colleagues have a difficult time understanding why, when he was an Illinois state senator, he voted “present” (instead of “yes” or “no”) 129 times, including a number of noncommittal tallies on issues such as gun rights and abortion.
You also have heard that Obama doesn’t have any executive experience, whether it be running a government or a business. I would pose to you the reason is simply that he’s not comfortable making executive decisions. An“executive conciliator” overly depends upon others, at times compromising judgment and needed action in order to appease the masses. Proof of that was seen in how Obama handled his and our “emergency” economic decisions.
A few months ago, Obama did not turn to Warren Buffett for counsel on the housing crisis. As The Washington Post reported July 16, he turned to Franklin Raines, the former Fannie Mae chief executive officer and six-year money manipulator. The Post said Raines took “calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.”
And consider Obama’s handling of the “emergency” bailout crisis. During the first go-round of the bailout, while McCain was certain of his stand, Obama wouldn’t say where he stood because he was afraid it would be a wrong or unpopular stand. Only after most of his political cronies were bribed in favor of the bailout did Obama give it his stamp of approval. If he cannot take decisive action as a senator in the greatest nation on earth, how in the world is he going to make critical and emergency decisions as the president?
Obama’s inability to draw and hold hard lines is the primary reason he repeatedly struggles with—and caves and morphs into—the polls or people in front of him. More than any other politician in history, he has flip-flopped on a host of critical issues: Iraq, Iran, gay rights, NAFTA, abortion, race, religion, gun control, etc. It’s one thing to be political, but it’s quite another to be a chronic people pleaser under pressure. Swaying based on political expediency is not a leadership quality we need in tough times. Sooner or later, that character flaw will bite Obama big-time—and us if we elect him president.
I’m not saying Obama has no continued future in politics. He just needs more experience in life to weed out those character deficiencies. That’s why I’m asking Americans to look afresh at these questions: Is Obama crisis-leadership qualified? Will he truly be ready Jan. 20 to assume the helm of our country?
Actually, those leadership questions have been answered already by three leading Democrats (before they could tastethe perks from their alignment with the Democratic presidential nominee). Obama’s own running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, replied only months ago about whether Obama is ready for the presidency: “Right now I don’t believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training.” Then he later told George Stephanopoulos, “I stand by the statement.” Biden was right.
Before Obama was her party’s choice, Hillary Clinton repeatedly proved him to be an indecisive waffler who couldn’t or wouldn’t be pinned down on any issues. Hillary was right.
Even former President Bill Clinton dodged having to give an affirmative answer to an ABC correspondent when asked whether Obama is ready to be president by saying, “You can argue that no one is ready to be president.” Another smooth answer, Bill. The fact is he totally understands that Obama is not ready.
America is in one of its toughest hours—a market meltdown, the worst fiscal environment since the Great Depression—an economic 9/11, if you will. Do we really believe we can be delivered by an indecisive people pleaser as our country’s CEO?”
Source:
http://www.nationalledger.com/artman/publish/article_272623354.shtml
II. Video: Barack Obama Makes Shocking Confession!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BnLozS-TnM&feature=related
III. Barack Obama, Forever Sizing Up!
Posted on The New York Times-By Jodi Kantor-On October 25, 2008:
These are excerpts from this article and/or blog post:
“But in the Oval Office, Mr. Obama would have a new set of deficits. Just 47 years old and only four years into a national political career, he has never run anything larger than his campaign. He began his run for president while he was still getting lost in Washington, a city he does not yet know well. His promises are as vast as his résumé is short, and some of his pledges are competing ones: progressive rule and centrist red-blue fusion; wholesale transformation and down-to-earth pragmatism.”
“Barack Obama’s lowest moment as a community organizer in the 1980s came when he brought the executive director of the Chicago Housing Authority to Altgeld Gardens, a decrepit housing project, to hear complaints about asbestos. Seven hundred residents grew restless waiting for the tardy director. When he finally appeared, the meeting grew so raucous that the director fled after 15 minutes, to chants of “No more rent!”
“Mr. Obama’s message of change can be hard to pin down, and he has spent his entire career searching for the right way to fulfill his desire for broad social renewal.
First he became a community organizer, thinking change would flow from citizens upward; then he tried the law, which, as he learned from teaching legal history, was a highly imperfect instrument. Since then he has set his sights on changing government institutions, one higher than the next. Even in the Senate, he told a reporter, it was possible to have a career that was “not particularly useful.”
“Critics have used the Rezko incident to question Mr. Obama’s reputation as a reformer, to argue he has few core beliefs. They cite a proposal he made in the Senate for stringent reporting requirements concerning nuclear plant leaks, which he then softened after Republican colleagues and energy executives complained. The bill died in committee. Or the time he joined a bipartisan coalition on immigration reform but backed away when labor groups protested. That legislation collapsed, too…..”
…Most of all, his critics point to his “present” votes in the Illinois Legislature, in which he did not choose sides, avoiding difficult matters like trying juveniles as adults. At least 36 times (out of thousands of votes) Mr. Obama was the only senator to vote “present,” or one of just a few…
… He won the presidency of the Harvard Law Review in part because, weeks before voting, he made a speech in favor of affirmative action that so eloquently summarized the objections to it that the Review’s conservatives decided he felt their concerns deeply…”
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/weekinreview/26kantor.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
IV. Obama’s Prime-Time Appeal To Voters!-Posted on CBSNews.com-On October 29, 2008:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/29/politics/main4557333.shtml
V. Which Promises Will Obama Attempt First?-Posted on CBSNews.com-By Wyatt Andrews-On February 11, 2009:
VI. Are We Home Alone?
Posted on The New York Times-By Thomas L. Friedman-On March 21, 2009:
“I ran into an Indian businessman friend last week and he said something to me that really struck a chord: “This is the first time I’ve ever visited the United States when I feel like you’re acting like an immature democracy.”
You know what he meant: We’re in a once-a-century financial crisis, and yet we’ve actually descended into politics worse than usual. There don’t seem to be any adults at the top — nobody acting larger than the moment, nobody being impelled by anything deeper than the last news cycle.
Instead, Congress is slapping together punitive tax laws overnight like some Banana Republic, our president is getting in trouble cracking jokes on Jay Leno comparing his bowling skills to a Special Olympian, and the opposition party is behaving as if its only priority is to deflate President Obama’s popularity.
I saw Eric Cantor, a Republican House leader, on CNBC the other day, and the entire interview consisted of him trying to exploit the A.I.G. situation for partisan gain without one constructive thought. I just kept staring at him and thinking:“Do you not have kids? Do you not have a pension that you’re worried about? Do you live in some gated community where all the banks will be O.K., even if our biggest banks go under? Do you think your party automatically wins if the country loses? What are you thinking?”
If you want to guarantee that America becomes a mediocre nation, then just keep vilifying every public figure struggling to find a way out of this crisis who stumbles once — like Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner or A.I.G.’s $1-a-year fill-in C.E.O., Ed Liddy — and you’ll ensure that no capable person enlists in government. You will ensure that every bank that has taken public money will try to get rid of it as fast it can, so as not to come under scrutiny, even though that would weaken their balance sheets and make them less able to lend money. And you will ensure that we’ll never get out of this banking crisis, because the solution depends on getting private money funds to team up with the government to buy up toxic assets — and fund managers are growing terrified of any collaboration with government.
President Obama missed a huge teaching opportunity with A.I.G. Those bonuses were an outrage. The public’s anger was justified. But rather than fanning those flames and letting Congress run riot, the president should have said: “I’ll handle this.”
He should have gone on national TV and had the fireside chat with the country that is long overdue. That’s a talk where he lays out exactly how deep the crisis we are in is, exactly how much sacrifice we’re all going to have to make to get out of it, and then calls on those A.I.G. brokers — and everyone else who, in our rush to heal our banking system, may have gotten bonuses they did not deserve — and tells them that their president is asking them to return their bonuses “for the sake of the country.”
Had Mr. Obama given A.I.G.’s American brokers a reputation to live up to, a great national mission to join, I’d bet anything we’d have gotten most of our money back voluntarily.
Inspiring conduct has so much more of an impact than coercing it. And it would have elevated the president to where he belongs — above the angry gaggle in Congress.
“There is nothing more powerful than inspirational leadership that unleashes principled behavior for a great cause,” said Dov Seidman, the C.E.O. of LRN, which helps companies build ethical cultures, and the author of the book “How.”
What makes a company or a government “sustainable,” he added, is not when it adds more coercive rules and regulations to control behaviors. “It is when its employees or citizens are propelled by values and principles to do the right things, no matter how difficult the situation,” said Seidman. “Laws tell you what you can do. Values inspire in you what you should do. It’s a leader’s job to inspire in us those values.”
Right now we have an absence of inspirational leadership. From business we hear about institutions too big to fail — no matter how reckless. From bankers we hear about contracts too sacred to break — no matter how inappropriate.
And from our immature elected officials we hear about how it was all “the other guy’s fault.” I’ve never talked to more people in one week who told me, “You know, I listen to the news, and I get really depressed.”
Well, help may finally be on the way: one reason we’ve been sidetracked talking about bonuses is because the big issue — the real issue — the president’s comprehensive plan to remove the toxic assets from our ailing banks, which is the key to our economic recovery, has taken a long time to hammer out.
So all kinds of lesser issues and clowns have ballooned in importance and only confused people in the vacuum.
Hopefully, that plan will be out by Monday, and hopefully the president will pull the country together behind it, and hopefully the lawmakers who have to approve it will remember that this is not a time for politics as usual — and thatour country, alas, is not too big to fail. Hopefully …”
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/opinion/22friedman.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
VII. Obama the Polarizer!
Posted on RealClearPolitics-By Jay Cost-On May 11, 2010:
“In January, 2007 Barack Obama declared his candidacy for the presidency with these words:
“It’s not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me the most. It’s the smallness of our politics. America’s faced big problems before. But today, our leaders in Washington seem incapable of working together in a practical, common sense way. Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can’t tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that’s what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans.”
Today, Gallup reports:
“(Obama’s) first-year ratings were the most polarized for a president in Gallup history, with an average 65-point gap between Republicans and Democrats. Obama’s approval ratings have become slightly more polarized thus far in his second year in office, with an average 69-point gap between Democrats (83%) and Republicans (14%) since late January.”
This is a big deal. The first quote is the principal reason Barack Obama ran for President. At a minimum, it was his first public argument for why he thought the country should elect him, as opposed to the dozen or so other candidates who would enter the race. It remained a critically important idea throughout his candidacy. Remember, the Obama campaign was an “audacious” act of line-jumping within the Democratic Party. His justification was that the country couldn’t afford to keep playing the same old political games. The hook of his candidacy was: America, do you reallywant to do Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton?
Yet here we are, breaking records for polarization. How did that happen? Why has Obama failed to do what he promised?
I think there are two big reasons.
First, Obama’s implicit claim throughout his candidacy was that public divisiveness was somehow a failure of leadership. This was mostly nonsense. This country has been divided over cultural issues since at least 1973 andRoe v. Wade. It has been divided on fiscal issues since Reagan cut taxes in 1981; this ended the hidden tax of bracket creep, but meant that legislators had to make hard choices between more spending and lower taxes. It has been divided on foreign policy issues since the Bush Administration’s response to 9/11.
These are all real things. They are not rhetorical wrinkles that a Jon Favreau speech can iron out. Obama’s choices have mostly been liberal (with the notable exceptions of dealing with Iraq and Afghanistan). His speechwriters have endeavored to present his choices as win-wins, but their words have failed to persuade because the President’s choices are rarely in fact win-wins. They usually favor one worldview or set of interests over others. Favor one side enough times and the losers will start to see what’s going on, “eloquent” speeches aside.
Second, insofar as leadership could bridge the many divides in this country, this President has never been in a good position to exercise it. He owes too much to others. You don’t win a nomination battle like the Clinton-Obama smackdown without making a bunch of promises. Remember that neither Clinton nor Obama secured enough delegates through the primaries and caucuses; Obama needed the superdelegates, chief among them being Speaker Nancy Pelosi (easily the most powerful Democrat in the country prior to the President’s inauguration). There is a long line of constituent groups in the Democratic Party who certainly needed assurances about what an Obama presidency would look like. So long as reelection remains to be secured, these groups at least have to be monitored if not placated. And so, in a time of great divisiveness, the people with the closest connection to the 44th President are consistently on one side of the aisle. The left side.
This feature of the Obama presidency came through most clearly on health care. Obama talked a good game about bipartisan compromise, but at no point did I get the impression that he was willing to ditch a guy like George Miller (a far left liberal in the House) to pick up a moderate Republican like Delaware’s Mike Castle. Indeed, George Miller was one of the key authors of the health care bill in the House! There’s no practical way you can get George Miller and Mike Castle to work together on a comprehensive overhaul of the American health care system. They are just too far apart ideologically. So, the question is: whose vote do you value more? Obama’s answer has been crystal clear in his deeds, if not his words.
Of course, presidents have to tend to their party coalitions. That’s the way its been since the 1790s; John Adams did a lousy job of dealing with the arch-Federalists, and Alexander Hamilton eventually stabbed him in the back. Ever since then, the role of the President as manager of his party has been pretty straightforward. It’s hard to begrudge Obama for trying to manage his party. What’s more, politicians hate to assign losers, so they try to convince us that everybody’s a winner. It’s predictable that Obama would try his hand at this as well. Sure, he promised during the campaign that he’d talk clearly about the hard choices - but anybody who believed that, at least after he ditched public financing of his campaign for nakedly political purposes, was simply looking for a reason to vote for him.
But why won’t he simply own his polarizing presidency? He made the choices he has made, and the consequences have been predictable, so he should own them. But no. As far as he’s concerned, he is the bipartisan bridge builder he promised to be. It’s those damned lying liars on the other side who have distorted his record!
As Matt Welch noted over at Reason, he’s “working the refs.”
“[Obama’s] message...is clear, clever, and wrong. The boom in opinionated, interconnected media is a challenge to our very democracy (it isn’t). News needs to be hermetically sealed from opinion (it doesn’t). The primary purpose of media consumption should be empowerment (if there was a primary purpose for media consumption, I sure as hell wouldn’t trust a president to identify it). And the most dangerous purveyor of untruths is the 24/7 echo chamber...
While hypocritical (given the president’s own slippery relationship with the truth) this critique is strategically clever. For those still inclined to believe it, the message reinforces Obama’s fading image as a truth-telling, above-it-all academic (see the Michigan speech in particular for a bunch of we need to get beyond the tired debate about big-vs.-small-government claptrap). And for the straight-journalism types this is a soothing tongue-bath from the Sensible Centrist in Chief that reinforces their own self-pity/importance and gives them even more motivation to go after the real lying liars: The ones who noisily and hyperbolically oppose the policies of the most powerful man on earth.”
I think this is dead on, and it fits into the point I’m making here. The President could acknowledge that his policies are truly divisive. He could claim that while he respects the objections of the opposition, he believes that in the long run his way of thinking will be vindicated. That would be the grown-up thing to do. That would be real leadership. Instead, he implies that if only we got rid of the right wing talk machine, the public would see that every last one of his policies has been a win-win.
Enough is enough, Mr. President. You’re a polarizing leader in a polarized age. Own it.”
Source:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/horseraceblog/2010/05/obama_the_polarizer.html
Note: What follows is a must see five video series that contain an eye-opening interview conducted by Peter Robinson with Andrew Breitbart, a publisher, columnist, and blogger, who is the founder of Breitbart.com, Breitbart.tv,Big Government, Big Hollywood, Big Journalism, and Big Peace. He is also the author of his latest book titled “Righteous Indignation”.
Also included is a book review of Andrew Breitbart’s new book that reveals the history of Socialism in America, beginning with early worship of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (who actually came before Karl Marx) to the scary Frankfurt School at Columbia University and that Marxism started in universities, government and the media, which he claims is America’s worst enemy, along with “13 Rules for Conservative Activists” and much more:
Left & Right with Andrew Breitbart: ‘Andrew Breitbart describes his liberal origins’ (Chapter 1 of 5)-Posted on National Review Online-On June 13, 2011:
http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/post/?q=MDBjZjcxOWI2ZDQ1MzVhMjc0Y2FhYWFlODNmNDhlYWI=
Left & Right with Andrew Breitbart: ‘Andrew Breitbart illustrates the Democrat-Media Complex.’ (Chapter 2 of 5)-Posted on National Review Online-On June 14, 2011:
http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/post/?q=YWQ5NGY1MzY4NzA4MjJmNTkwNmZmNDk3N2Y4N2I3YjE=
Left & Right with Andrew Breitbart: ‘Andrew Breitbart accepts some blame for the Huffington Post.’ (Chapter 3 of 5)-Posted on National Review Online-On June 15, 2011:
http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/post/?q=MjZmN2U0ZGIzMjc2NGU1MmQwYjQ0YTJlZTdkNDA4YzM=
Left & Right with Andrew Breitbart: ‘Andrew Breitbart reveals his one “Ah ha!” moment.’ (Chapter 4 of 5)-Posted on National Review Online-On June 16, 2011:
http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/post/?q=NjlhZGJiYzVhM2U1OWRmYjM5NjJkMTUyNTE1ZDBlY2Y=
Left & Right with Andrew Breitbart: ‘Andrew Breitbart lists his rules.’ (Chapter 5 of 5)-Posted on National Review Online-On June 17, 2011:
http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge/post/?q=ODE4OGZmNWMzYzk3NWJjZmMyNjU0M2U3OTk2YzYyYzc=
Book Review: Andrew Breitbart’s Righteous Indignation!-Posted on The Patriot Update-By Ann-Marie Murrell-On May 23, 2011:
http://patriotupdate.com/articles/book-review-andrew-breitbart’s-righteous-indignation
Note: The following articles and/or blog posts provide us with some excellent resources that we should arm ourselves with for the battle that is ahead of us, along with some thought provoking pointers of what we need to do to keep the left and their handmaidens in the corrupt and criminally negligent media from choosing our next President, who must be a smart, fierce, brave, courageous and America loving patriot that will lead us in tackling those issues that are extremely critical to our nation at this historic juncture, which are: foreign policy, Iran, Israel, national security and the economy-You Decide:
A survey of the plans to 'halt the bleeding' before it's too late!-Posted on WND.com-On November 9, 2011:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=365865
We Must Not Choose Obama Lite: Courageous Foreign Policy Leadership Must Define GOP Nominee!-Posted on Big Government-By Pamela Geller-On November 8, 2011:
Note: My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:
Extensive Research Into Senator Obama’s Background Completed on November 3, 2008:
The Greatest Fraud Perpetrated in American History!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpetrated-in-american-history/
Obama the Polarizer!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/obama-the-polarizer/
Are we witnessing an absence of inspirational leadership or lack of leadership skills?
President and DOJ have contributed to the racial mess in our country!
Is Being An Empathetic Liberal Minority The New Prerequisite for Being a Supreme Court Justice?
Who owns our supposedly fair and balanced airwaves and news outlets?
Supreme Court to Strike Down Obamacare!
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/supreme-court-to-strike-down-obamacare/
Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?
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“Food For Thought”
God Bless the U.S.A.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related
Semper Fi!
Jake
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