The first “volley” in the war against whitey……….

July 12, 2009 by theoriginalgatekeeper

NAACP supports Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor: Warns Senate foes to focus on qualifications

The NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights group, kicked off its centennial celebration Saturday by throwing its weight behindSupreme CourtnomineeSonia Sotomayor.

The group vowed a “full-court press” to ensure thatBronxnative Sotomayor is named the nation’s first Hispanic member of the high court. Senate confirmation hearings begin tomorrow.

“We fully support her,” saidNAACP President Benjamin Jealous, calling for senators to stick to her record and stay clear of personal attacks. “An attack against one of us is an attack against all of us.”

Jealous singled outSen. Jeff SessionsofAlabama, theGOP’s top player on the panel, who is expected to lead any challenges against her, and warned him to watch out.

“Sessions should cool his heels and focus on her qualifications,” he said, adding that thousands of members will be lobbying Sessions and other senators behind the scenes to confirm Sotomayor.

Jealous made the remarks at a press conference opening the group’s 100th anniversary convention in midtown, running through Thursday at the Hilton New York.

Highlights include a speech byPresident Obamaon Thursday, as well an appearances byMayor Bloombergtonight andAttorney General Eric HolderandGov. Patersontomorrow.

Top leaders of the group were also wined and dined atGracie Mansionlast night at a swanky reception hosted by Bloomberg.

Organizers said another highlight of the six-day convention will come tomorrow when they plan to unveil a sweeping initiative on criminal justice and law enforcement.

Part of the initiative includes a new online push called the “Rapid Responder System,” which aims to combat police misconduct by encouraging witnesses to send in photos and videos of attacks, organizers said.

ActorJeffrey Wright, who claims he was Tasered by Louisiana cops during an arrest last summer, and police shooting victimSean Bell’s father, William, are also slated to be on hand to unveil the program.

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Sounds to me that the NAACP (the national association against caucasian people) has declared war on anybody who dare say anything about the Supreme Court nominee. Just more proof that Obama’s election wasn’t about who was a better choice but……………”gettin’ whitey back!”

Kids recant abuse claims after dad jailed 20 years

Sun Jul 12, 3:04 am ET

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Former Vancouver police officer Clyde Ray Spencer spent nearly 20 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually molesting his son and daughter. Now, the children say it never happened.

Matthew Spencer and Kathryn Tetz, who live in Sacramento, Calif., each took the stand Friday in Clark County Superior Court to clear their father’s name, The Columbian newspaper reported.

Matthew, now 33, was 9 years old at the time. He told a judge he made the allegation after months of insistent questioning by now-retired Clark County sheriff’s detective Sharon Krause just so she would leave him alone.

Tetz, 30, said she doesn’t remember what she told Krause back in 1985, but she remembers Krause buying her ice cream. She said that when she finally read the police reports she was “absolutely sure” the abuse never happened.

“I would have remembered something that graphic, that violent,” Tetz said.

Spencer’s sentence was commuted by then-Gov. Gary Locke in 2004 after questions arose about his conviction. Among other problems, prosecutors withheld medical exams that showed no evidence of abuse, even though Krause claimed the abuse was repeated and violent.

Despite the commutation, Spencer remains a convicted sex offender. He is hoping to have the convictions overturned.

Krause declined an interview request from The Columbian in 2005 and could not be reached Friday, the newspaper reported.

Both children said that while growing up in California they were told by their mother, who divorced Spencer before he was charged, that they were blocking out the memory of the abuse.

They said they realized as adults the abuse never happened, and they came forward because it was the right thing to do.

Prosecutors aren’t yet conceding that Spencer was wrongly convicted. Senior deputy prosecutor Kim Farr grilled the children about why they are so certain they weren’t abused, and chief criminal deputy prosecutorDennis Hunter said that if the convictions are tossed, his office might appeal to the state Supreme Court.

Matthew Spencer said his father had ruined the relationship with his mother and he had faults, “but none of them were molesting children.”

Friday’s hearing paved the way for the state Court of Appeals to allow Spencer to withdraw the no-contest pleas he entered in 1985 and have his convictions vacated. Both children had previously filed statements with the appeals court, but the judges required the hearing to ensure their new testimony held up under cross-examination.

Spencer, 61, hugged his son and daughter afterward while a dozen supporters cheered.

“For so many years, nothing went right,” he said. “When things keep going right, I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop.”

The hardest thing about his ordeal was missing his children, he said.

“They were my life, and they were taken away from me,” he said. “I could serve in prison. …”

His voice trailed off, and his son came up for one more hug.

Articles, such as this, need to be a “wake up call” for EVERY MAN who has or works with children. There are TOO MANY over zealous and vindictive people who will stoop to any level to get what the want. Even if it means an innocent man remains behind bars for 20 years. The Detective, in this case, should spend the next 20 years of her life in a prison cell. Also, ALL cases she has worked on, has to be re-investigated.

Did Al Gore call us “Nazi’s”?

July 8, 2009 by theoriginalgatekeeper

The Times of London reports…..

Al Gore invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill yesterday when he urged political leaders to follow the example of Britain’s wartime leader in the battle against climate change.

The former US Vice-President accused governments around the world of exploiting ignorance about the dangers of global warming to avoid taking difficult decisions.

Speaking in Oxford at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment, sponsored by The Times, Mr Gore said: “Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.”

Mr Gore admitted that it was difficult to persuade the public that the threat from climate change was as urgent as that from Hitler.

“The level of awareness and concern among populations has not crossed the threshold where political leaders feel that they must change,” he said. “The only way politicians will act is if awareness raises to a level to make them feel that it’s a necessity.”

Mr Gore, who brought the issues around climate change to a mass audience with the 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, said that the great hope for the future lay in the high level of environmental awareness among young people.

He said sceptics who refused to believe that dramatic cuts in carbon emissions could be delivered should consider the example of the young scientists in the Nasa team who put a man on the Moon on 1969.

“The average age of scientists in the space centre control room was 26, which means they were 18 when they heard President Kennedy say he wanted to put a man on the Moon in ten years. Neil Armstrong did it eight years and two months later.”

He said future generations would put one of two questions to today’s adults. “It will either be ‘What were you thinking, didn’t you see the North Pole melting before your eyes, didn’t you hear what the scientists were saying?’. Or they will ask ‘How is it you were able to find the moral courage to solve the crisis which so many said couldn’t be solved?’”

Sir David King, the Government’s former Chief Scientist and now director of the Smith School, also berated politicians. “I do think it’s relatively easy for a prime minister to make a speech on climate change, which sounds committed, and very much more difficult for that prime minister to persuade the Treasury to put the finance behind that commitment to make it a reality.

“There is a long distance in government between saying what you think needs to be said and then making budgets available.”

Sir David expressed disappointment that no senior British politician had agreed to address a conference attended by top climate scientists, business leaders and the presidents of the Maldives and Rwanda. “I tried to pull in a lot of IOUs. But where was Lord Mandelson, where was Ed Miliband? Where was David Cameron? Where was William Hague?”

Al Gore still doesn’t, nor we he ever get, the fact that man can only do just so much damage to this planet. This planet will survive BILLIONS of years after we are gone. The fact that solar output may have something to do any heating that might have occurred doesn’t seem to factor into his thinking at all. The fact more distant planets in our solar system have also increased in average temperature also is disregarded.

The most OUTRAGEOUS of his statements was to equate those who disagree with him as Nazi’s. Hey AL? It isn’t THIS side of the argument who is the one lining his pockets on this. IT IS YOU!!! This is your scam.

Biden: ‘We Misread How Bad the Economy Was’

AP reports……

The Obama administration “misread” the depth of the economic troubles it inherited and still expects more new jobs in the long term as the spending pace from the $787 billion stimulus plan quickens, Vice President Joe Biden said.

Republican congressional leaders expressed disappointment about the impact of stimulus spending. “I’m very skeptical that the spending binge that we’re on is going to produce much good and, even if it does, anytime soon,” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said in a statement Sunday.

“I think the economy is just as likely to begin to recover on its own, wholly aside from this, before much of this has an impact.”

Biden, in an interview that aired on ABC’s “This Week,” said the 9.5 percent unemployment rate is “much too high.” The administration had predicted unemployment would stay below 8 percent with its stimulus plan.

“The figures we worked off of in January were the consensus figures and most of the blue chip indexes out there,” Biden said. “We misread how bad the economy was, but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery package.”

He cited the economic conditions inherited from the Bush administration. “It’s now our responsibility. So the second question becomes … is it the right package given the circumstances we’re in? And we believe it is the right package given the circumstances we’re in.”

While Biden argued that more jobs will be created in the coming months, House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio said the GOP had wanted the bill to focus on small businesses and helping people keep more of what they earned.

“This was supposed to be about jobs, jobs and jobs. And the fact is it turned into nothing more than spending, spending and more spending on a lot of big government bureaucracy,” Boehner said.

Even House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said no one is satisfied with the results of the stimulus so far. “But we believe the stimulus was absolutely essential,” he said.

Biden noted that the plan was set up to spend the money over 18 months. Major programs will take effect in September, including $7.5 billion for broadband Internet service, plus new money for high-speed rail and the nation’s electrical grid, he said.

Biden said it’s premature to say whether the country will need a second stimulus package.

Other issues Biden discussed during his ABC interview:

–Asked whether the United States would put the lives of U.S. troops on the line should violence flare up again in Iraq, he said “no.” The U.S. still plans to withdraw all troops by 2011, Biden said. “We believe the Iraqis will be fully capable of maintaining their own security.”

–Biden said if the Iranian government seeks to engage in a dialogue with the United States, the U.S. will engage. “The offer’s on the table.”

–Biden said Israel has the right to pursue a different course of action on Iran than the U.S. does. “Look, Israel can determine for itself — it’s a sovereign nation — what’s in their interest and what they decide to do relative to Iran and anyone else.”

–On North Korea’s Saturday launch of missiles, he said such actions appear to be efforts to seek attention. “The question is, is there anything that we should do about it?” Arguing that the U.S. policy has been correct so far, he said, “We have succeeded in uniting the most important and critical countries to North Korea on a common path of further isolating North Korea.”

–The Obama administration is “well on the way” to resolving a dispute between CIA Director Leon Panetta and National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair, Biden said. The conflict centers on Blair’s effort to choose his own representatives at U.S. embassies instead of relying only on CIA station chiefs. “He declined to give details.

Of course, you could have said it more honestly………….”we lied and you fell for it”! Next will be when the economy starts turning around by years end, like the economists predicted it would BEFORE the stimulus package, and this moron and his huckster boss begin to pat each other on the back when the had NOTHING to do with it.

Who is telling the truth?

Below, I copy/pasted 2 articles that were posted on MSN Money one on top of the other.Think you may find it interesting……..

Weekly jobless claims fall

While the unemployment numbers were bad, new claims for jobless benefits declined, suggesting some stabilization is ahead.

The previous week’s claims were revised to a gain of 18,000 to 630,000, more than the initially reported increase of 15,000.

The number of continuing claims fell by 53,000 to 6.7 million for the week ending June 20, only the third weekly decline in continuing claims so far this year.

Dow off 223 as unemployment jumps

The dismal report on job losses startles traders. The S&P is now a loser on the year, and oil falls below $67.

Investors won’t be celebrating much over the July 4 weekend.

Not after the shock of a dreadful report on unemployment and payrolls and the drubbing they took from the stock market on Thursday.

The unemployment report was much worse than expected and pushed stocks sharply lower as investors apparently concluded that any economic recovery will be slow to start and slower to gain any momentum.

The Dow Jones industrials ($INDU) closed down 223 points, or 2.6%, to 8,281. The Nasdaq Composite Index ($COMPX) was off 49 points, or 2.7%, to 1,797, and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index ($INX) dropped 27 points, or 2.9%, to 896.

The selling came in light trading, however, and it’s not clear if the trend will continue next week.

With the close, the Dow and the S&P 500 both finished lower for a third straight week — their first three-week losing streak since March. In addition, the S&P 500 fell back into the red for 2009.

The Nasdaq suffered its second weekly loss in the last three weeks.

The markets will be closed Friday for the Independence Day holiday.

Getting a final close took some time because a computer failure at the New York Stock Exchange forced trading to be done with paper and pencil. The exchange allowed trading to continue until 4:15 p.m. ET.

As a result, the final computation of the Dow’s finish was delayed. Dow Jones & Co. computes the index using only the closing prices from the floor of the NYSE for the Dow components listed on the exchange.

That affects 27 of the 30 Dow stocks. Microsoft (MSFT), Intel(INTC) and Cisco Systems (CSCO) are listed on Nasdaq. (Microsoft is publisher of MSN Money.)

Now, please tell me how you can have unemployment both rise and fall simultaneously? Makes it look like the economy is improving and collapsing. Do you think that somebody is purposely “siding” their opinion? From what I have seen around both the internet and other venues, either you “tow” the Obama line or be called every epitath there is. From what I see in the “real world”, this economy is still in the crapper and there isn’t too much optimism being displayed. You be the judge…….

North Korea getting “ballsy”!

By JAE-SOON CHANG, Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea vowed Thursday to enlarge its atomic arsenal and warned of a “fire shower of nuclear retaliation” in the event of any U.S. attack, as the regime marked the 1950 outbreak of the Korean War amid heightened tensions.

The anniversary came as the U.S. Navy trailed a North Korean ship suspected of carrying weapons in violation of a U.N. resolution punishing Pyongyang’s May 25 nuclear test, and as anticipation mounted that the North might test-fire short- or mid-range missiles in the coming days.

State-run newspapers in Pyongyang ran lengthy editorials accusing the U.S. of invading the country in 1950 and of looking for an opportunity to attack again. The editorials said that justified North Korea’s development of atomic bombs to defend itself.

The North “will never give up its nuclear deterrent … and will further strengthen it” as long as Washington remains hostile, Pyongyang’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said.

In a separate commentary, the Rodong blasted a recent U.S. pledge to defend South Korea with its nuclear weapons, saying that amounted to “asking for the calamitous situation of having a fire shower of nuclear retaliation all over South Korea.”

The Minju Joson, another state-run newspaper, said the U.S. should withdraw its troops from South Korea and drop its “hostile” policy toward the North, saying those were “key to resolving the Korean peninsula issue.”

Historical evidence shows it was North Korea that started the Korean War by invading the South, but Pyongyang claims the U.S. was to blame. The totalitarian government apparently hopes to infuse North Koreans with fear of a fresh American attack to better control the hunger-stricken population.

The U.S. fought alongside the South, leading U.N. forces, during the war. The conflict ended in 1953 with a truce, not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula divided and in a state of war. The U.S. has 28,500 troops in South Korea to protect against hostilities.

The U.S. has repeatedly said it has no intention of attacking the North.

The new U.N. resolution seeks to clamp down on North Korea’s trading of banned arms and weapons-related material by requiring U.N. member states to request inspections of ships carrying suspected cargo.

North Korea has said it would consider interception of its ships a declaration of war.

The U.S. has been seeking to get key nations to enforce the sanctions aggressively. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called the foreign ministers of Russia and China on Wednesday to discuss efforts to enforce the U.N. punishments, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.

The Kang Nam is the first North Korean ship to be tracked under the resolution. It left the North Korean port of Nampo a week ago and is believed bound for Myanmar, South Korean and U.S. officials said.

Myanmar state television on Wednesday evening said another North Korean vessel was expected to pick up a load of rice and that the government had no information about the Kang Nam.

A senior U.S. defense official said Wednesday that the ship had already cleared the Taiwan Strait.

He said he didn’t know how much range the Kang Nam has — whether or when it may need to stop at a port to refuel — but that the ship has in the past stopped in Hong Kong.

Another U.S. defense official said he tended to doubt reports that the Kang Nam was carrying nuclear-related equipment, saying the information officials had received seemed to indicate the cargo was conventional munitions.

The U.S. officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing intelligence.

The U.S. and its allies have not decided whether to contact and request an inspection of the ship, Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Wednesday. He said he did not believe a decision would come soon.

Reports about possible missile launches from the North highlighted the tension on the Korean peninsula.

The North has designated a no-sail zone off its east coast from June 25 to July 10 for military drills.

A senior South Korean government official said the ban is believed connected to North Korean plans to fire short- or mid-range missiles. He spoke on condition of anonymity, citing department policy.

South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported that the North may fire a Scud missile with a range of up to 310 miles (500 kilometers) or a short-range ground-to-ship missile with a range of 100 miles (160 kilometers) during the no-sail period.

U.S. defense and counterproliferation officials in Washington said they also expected the North to launch short- to medium-range missiles. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence.

North Korea had warned previously it would fire a long-range missile as a response to U.N. Security Council condemnation of an April rocket launch seen as a cover for its ballistic missile technology.

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Associated Press writers Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul and Pauline Jelinek, Pamela Hess and Lolita Baldor in Washington contributed to this report.

I get the impression that North Korea is getting brave because they sense a very big weakness in the White House. It seems to me, they see President Obama as being too afraid to do anything confrontational in a military sense. They may think, this is there “golden opportunity” to be the “bully” of the Pacific Rim. A “player”, a force to be reckoned with. I think we can get the North Koreans to back down if we quietly, at first, let it be known if North Korea does this, we will allow the complete rearmament of Japan. To this day, Asia is still afraid of a fully armed Japan. I believe this is our “ace in the hole”. Will Obama play it? Stay tuned.

What Is Obama Thinking?

S.E. Cupp ,Conservative Commentaror

- FOXNews.com

-In the past two months, the House Speaker has criticized the integrity of the CIA, a popular television host called a governor a “slutty flight attendant,” and a California Senator publicly humiliated a U.S. Army general.

And what has our president had to say about any of it? Zilch. Nada. Crickets.

While it’s true the president’s job is not to mediate childish playground disputes, he is supposed to show some calculated leadership on all kinds of issues, small and large, especially when they become so publicly divisive. Americans are desperate to know what he thinks, and his lack of leadership on these issues has been conspicuous and chilling.

When Nancy Pelosi accused the CIA of lying to her and Congress about the use of certain interrogation methods, President Obama allowed the accusations to go totally unanswered, even after she repeated and strengthened them. By maintaining his silence on the matter, Republicans were forced to take leadership themselves, pressing the Speaker on her charges, and defending the CIA.

This wasn’t just a little pigtail-pulling tiff by the see-saw — this concerned the credibility of the CIA, the legitimacy of the agency’s intelligence, and our national security itself. And the only response it elicited from Obama was a bizarre and anachronistic interjection into a briefing on auto emissions, when he suddenly offered that Pelosi has “just been cracking the whip and, you know, making Congress so productive over these last several days. We are grateful for her.”

The only right action here for any president was to defend the CIA, his CIA director and the country’s intelligence-gathering operatives. Where did he stand on it? We don’t know.

Then, a month later, when David Letterman called Alaska Governor Sarah Palin a “slutty flight attendant” and hurled despicable insults at her daughter, the silence, again, was deafening. Even though the incident may not carry global policy implications, as a father of two daughters and the leader of a country that has more women than men, didn’t he feel compelled to defend an accomplished governor and mother of five? Apparently not.

Had the president issued a brief statement criticizing Letterman’s deplorable jokes, he would have set the tone for an industry that already worships him, while appeasing women on both sides of the aisle who are deeply offended by the way Palin — and Hillary Clinton, for that matter — have been treated. Is he a uniter or isn’t he?

And most recently, when Senator Barbara Boxer demanded that a decorated U.S. Army general call her “senator” instead of “ma’am” — setting off a wave of outrage in the Armed Services — the president and his administration were again silent. There was no defense issued for a U.S. senator or for the military personnel he commands. Content to let Boxer and her supporters duke it out with the military, President Obama didn’t wade into this one either.

Arguments that the president is too busy to waste time on petty, partisan squabbles like these just doesn’t fly. First, they aren’t petty. They are important commentaries on the social and cultural divisions of the country, and the very stuff Americans care about. They want to know what the president thinks about them.

Second, he apparently has plenty of time. If there’s time to make a Leno appearance, and time to fill out (and post on the White House official Web site) his NCAA brackets, and time to comment on Rush Limbaugh and FOX News, then isn’t there time to throw an opinion or two out on these issues?

His silence on these matters would be more compelling if President Obama were loudly and decisively dealing with the really important stuff, like Iran and North Korea. But he’s been relatively silent there as well. When Britain comes down heavier on Iran than the United States does, you know something’s out of whack. And as for North Korea, that was handed over to the U.N., where it was summarily scolded.

The presidentS.E. Cupp ,Conservative Commentaror

In the past two months, the House Speaker has criticized the integrity of the CIA, a popular television host called a governor a “slutty flight attendant,” and a California Senator publicly humiliated a U.S. Army general.

And what has our president had to say about any of it? Zilch. Nada. Crickets.

While it’s true the president’s job is not to mediate childish playground disputes, he is supposed to show some calculated leadership on all kinds of issues, small and large, especially when they become so publicly divisive. Americans are desperate to know what he thinks, and his lack of leadership on these issues has been conspicuous and chilling.

When Nancy Pelosi accused the CIA of lying to her and Congress about the use of certain interrogation methods, President Obama allowed the accusations to go totally unanswered, even after she repeated and strengthened them. By maintaining his silence on the matter, Republicans were forced to take leadership themselves, pressing the Speaker on her charges, and defending the CIA.

This wasn’t just a little pigtail-pulling tiff by the see-saw — this concerned the credibility of the CIA, the legitimacy of the agency’s intelligence, and our national security itself. And the only response it elicited from Obama was a bizarre and anachronistic interjection into a briefing on auto emissions, when he suddenly offered that Pelosi has “just been cracking the whip and, you know, making Congress so productive over these last several days. We are grateful for her.”

The only right action here for any president was to defend the CIA, his CIA director and the country’s intelligence-gathering operatives. Where did he stand on it? We don’t know.

Then, a month later, when David Letterman called Alaska Governor Sarah Palin a “slutty flight attendant” and hurled despicable insults at her daughter, the silence, again, was deafening. Even though the incident may not carry global policy implications, as a father of two daughters and the leader of a country that has more women than men, didn’t he feel compelled to defend an accomplished governor and mother of five? Apparently not.

Had the president issued a brief statement criticizing Letterman’s deplorable jokes, he would have set the tone for an industry that already worships him, while appeasing women on both sides of the aisle who are deeply offended by the way Palin — and Hillary Clinton, for that matter — have been treated. Is he a uniter or isn’t he?

And most recently, when Senator Barbara Boxer demanded that a decorated U.S. Army general call her “senator” instead of “ma’am” — setting off a wave of outrage in the Armed Services — the president and his administration were again silent. There was no defense issued for a U.S. senator or for the military personnel he commands. Content to let Boxer and her supporters duke it out with the military, President Obama didn’t wade into this one either.

Arguments that the president is too busy to waste time on petty, partisan squabbles like these just doesn’t fly. First, they aren’t petty. They are important commentaries on the social and cultural divisions of the country, and the very stuff Americans care about. They want to know what the president thinks about them.

Second, he apparently has plenty of time. If there’s time to make a Leno appearance, and time to fill out (and post on the White House official Web site) his NCAA brackets, and time to comment on Rush Limbaugh and FOX News, then isn’t there time to throw an opinion or two out on these issues?

His silence on these matters would be more compelling if President Obama were loudly and decisively dealing with the really important stuff, like Iran and North Korea. But he’s been relatively silent there as well. When Britain comes down heavier on Iran than the United States does, you know something’s out of whack. And as for North Korea, that was handed over to the U.N., where it was summarily scolded.

The president will spend this week selling health care on ABC. But the more he remains silent on issues large and small, domestic and international, cultural and political, the less presidential he looks. Just because he lives in the White House, flies on Air Force One, makes commercials for his various policy initiatives, and appoints czars to oversee the big problems, doesn’t mean he’s leading the country. Real leaders have opinions. What are his?

Just another day in the life of ”Barack the Benevolent”. Our “testicularly challenged” President spends most of his days hiding under his desk. It almost seems he waits for his staffers to tell him what he believes and when to start believing it! Why do you think North Korean dictator Kim Jeong (mentally) Il is doing what he is doing? Because he knows our “testosterone lacking” leader is all fluff and no substance. At this rate, by the time January 2013 rolls around, China will be in control of Taiwan and will own the Spratly Islands of the Philippines. North Korea will be a nuclear power and Japan will be DEMANDING we allow them to build a full fledged military.

Barack H. Obama———”The Jimmy Carter of the 21 st Century”!

MICHAEL GOODWIN: Obama’s Slip Is Showing

By Michael Goodwin
New York Daily News Columnist/FOX News Contributor

One ofPresident Obama’s favorite words is “unsustainable.” It also happens to be the perfect description of his standing with the American people.

Polls consistently find he is personally more popular than his major policies. That situation is unsustainable – something has to give. The first law of politics says the two must eventually get in sync.

Bet that Obama’s popularity will give. In part that’s because, even if he wanted to, he can’t undo the big policies the public doesn’t like, especially his adding to the deficit and his aggressive push to get government more involved in private industry.

Another reason is that Obama doesn’t want to change course and ridicules those who think he should. At a Democratic fund-raiser Thursday, the President reportedly mimicked a robot as he called criticism of his policies “predictable.”

His partisan audience yukked it up, but the last laugh may be on Dems who follow their audacious leader too closely. Dem gains in the last two elections came primarily from conservative-leaning districts and some members already are worried about re-election. If the tide turns against Obama, they could be in trouble.

Yet Obama, likeGeorge Bush, seems to be digging a foxhole and insisting he is right and the public is wrong. We know how that worked out for Bush and theGOP.

While it’s too early to say Obama’s honeymoon is over, the public is waking up to the danger of uncontrolled government power and spending. Three separate polls last week had similar findings, and they weren’t pretty for theWhite House.

Two found decline in Obama’s job approval rating. AWall Street Journal/NBC Newspoll pegged it at 56%, down five points. Most important, independents dropped dramatically, from nearly a two-to-one approval to closely divided.

Nearly 70% of those polled are worried aboutWashington’s intervention in the economy and 58% said Obama and Congress should focus more on the deficit. Most disapproved of Obama’s decision to close the terrorists’ prison atGuantanamo.

Similarly, thePew Research Centerfound Obama’s approval on the economy has declined from 60% in April to 52% now.

A third poll, by theNew York TimesandCBS, found 60% of Americans believe Obama doesn’t have a plan to deal with the deficit. Less than half approve of how he is dealing with health care and automakers.

In the short term, Obama is prevailing with nonstop campaigning. From daily TV speeches to political-style town halls, he is using his best weapons – his charisma and the power of the office. It’s haveTelePrompTer, will travel.

But facts, such as rising unemployment, are stubborn things and Obama’s long-term problem is that he is giving only lip service to public doubts. He says he wants government to have a “light touch,” yet every move is heavy-handed.

He says the deficit keeps him awake at night, yet he spends his daytime hours adding to it, most recently with a health bill that would cost at least $1 trillion over 10 years.

Obama dares call this reform and says it will save money. Wisely, the public doesn’t believe him. And just wait till voters get the bill for his carbon tax.

Even Congress is getting rebellious. The health bill is proving too expensive for some liberals who clamored for it and Obama’s overhaul of financial services was met mostly with skepticism.

The most dramatic rebuke came when the House voted 405-1 to condemnTehran’s crackdown on demonstrators protesting the election. The bold, bipartisan statement stands in contrast to Obama’s wishy-washy comments, when he said he didn’t want to be seen as “meddling.”

He is guilty of far worse – of looking weak while a democracy revolution unfolds in a dangerous Muslim nation.

That’s not where an American President should be, even one certain he always knows best.

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/columnists/goodwin/index.html#ixzz0J45ZeVQh&D

Obama is showing, more and more, he is nothing more then a huckster. A blowhard without any plan or direction. Worse yet, he doesn’t have the backbone to do what is right whether it is popular or not. He is to busy wanting to be “loved” and being known as “Barack, the benevolent”. He is getting us deeper and deeper into debt. Using the classic liberal “just throw money at it” strategy. Now, we have a situation in Iran where it looks like the Iranian people have just about enough of those maniac mullah’s and what does “Barack the benevolent” do??????? Well? We are waiting…….(tick tock tick)

DAN GAINOR: The Left’s Daily Hate-a-Thon

By Dan Gainor
Media Research Center’s Vice President for Business and Culture

You’re a hater.

Face it. You wouldn’t even be reading this right-wing, reactionary claptrap if you weren’t. After all, I’m a hater as well. So are countless conservatives from Sean Hannity to Rush Limbaugh. Ann Coulter? Was that a question? Michelle Malkin. Of course, she’s a conservative star! Bill O’Reilly? The left has secured a special place in secular hell for him because he dared to criticize the practices of partial-birth abortion doctor George Tiller.

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The media label conservatives as haters and ignore how hate-filled the left is. It’s a ridiculous double-standard.

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In fact, all conservatives are considered haters unless they agree with President Obama –- on everything. Scary, dangerous haters who “cling to guns or religion,” as the president once put it. Especially guns because we are having an epidemic of political killings in America. — Or so we are told.

It’s not true. The fact that lefties are desperately trying to link Holocaust Museum murder suspect neo-Nazi James von Brunn to the right shows how desperate they are for examples – any examples.

Remember, the GOP didn’t love everything Reagan did, but a loyal conservative taking up arms against the U.S. and the Gipper? Are they nuts?

Don’t answer that.

Yes, partial-birth abortion doctor George Tiller was killed. Conservatives didn’t support that or any murder. So far it appears it was one lone gunman. Just like the one lone gunman who shot President Reagan. Or the two separate left-wing gun-women who tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford.

In a nation of 300 million people, you need more than one or two examples to prove a trend. That’s my cue to show there are better responses. I’m a hater, so this is part of my soon-to-be government-mandated re-education.

Look at the travesties the right is inflicting on decent, God-unfearing liberals:

• First, we have the CIA director attacking a former vice president saying, “he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.” Poor Mr. Gore. It’s horrible that Republicans treat him in such a hateful manner.
• Then there’s beautifully bigoted actress Megan Fox who is set to fight the equally evil Megatron in her new “Transformers” movie. She was asked how to stop Megatron and said she would urge him to take the “Independence Day” approach and wipe out urban areas – “instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the minorities, the urban poor, the gays, and those crazy Bible-hating atheists in America?”
• Finally, there’s the disrespect accorded Hillary Clinton. One vile, rightwing comedian said she had purchased new makeup to update her “‘slutty flight attendant’ look.” That same moron joked about getting her 14-year-old “knocked-up.” Or maybe it was her 18-year-old.

I’m not a hater, but I’m a liar. Not one of those quotes was targeted at liberals. In the first case, CIA Director Leon Panetta told The New Yorker magazine that Dick Cheney was using “dangerous politics.” But Panetta wasn’t being hateful. Liberals are never hateful.

Or take Megan Fox, please. The mega-beauty showed her mega-ugly side when interviewed about her upcoming film. She went after conservatives, urging Megatron to spare the Earth “and instead of the entire planet, can you just take out all of the white trash, hillbilly, anti-gay, super Bible-beating people in middle America?” Hateful? Her?

Lastly, we have David Letterman. First Letterman mocked Sarah Palin’s attempts to upgrade her “‘slutty flight attendant’ look.” Next he bashed her 14-year-old daughter, then amended his attempt at humor to say he was trying to bash a helpless 18-year-old instead.

Even the National Organization for Women sided with Palin and inducted Letterman into its Hall of Shame. In the testosterone-less world of “The View,” most of “the ladies” agreed Letterman was wrong. Barbara Walters summed it up by declaring critics can say whatever they want about a person but “don’t talk about my child.”

In every case, it was lefties holding their everyday hate-a-thon. Of course, it’s not real hate. Real hate happens in countries where hundreds of thousands die because someone wants to wipe them out.

Most American hate pales by comparison –- thank God. While other nations get lost in civil war, pogrom or genocide, American hate ends up a twisted update of the Barney song: “I hate you, you hate me.” Americans misuse the word. We don’t hate broccoli, we just dislike it. And most sports fans don’t hate their opponents – except for the New York Yankees.

Hate in America is a marketing tool and the left is milking it for all it’s worth – to push a liberal agenda. The New York Times’ Paul Krugman and others are laying the groundwork to go after conservative speech –- on talk radio, on TV and maybe even in print. Other liberals, like the supposedly neutral journalist Bill Moyers want Obama to target guns, too. “Enough’s enough,” summed up Moyers.

In each case, the media are blaming conservatives as haters and ignoring how filled with hate the left is. It’s a ridiculous double-standard.

Don’t you hate that?

Dan Gainor is The Boone Pickens Fellow and the Media Research Center’s Vice President for Businessand Culture. His column appears each week on The Fox Forum and he can be seen each Thursday on Foxnews.com’s “Strategy Room.”

The expression “doth protest too much, methinks.” applies. I have contended for awhile, that liberalism is used as a mask to cover deep seated hatred. They project it on to others and, in this case, that means Conservatives.