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Truths that Obama and the Democrats Have Taught Us

August 30, 2010 | obama

 Kyle-Anne Shiver in Pajama’s Media asks us to think about the stunning truths Obama’s presidency and Democrat rule have taught us so far. I surely do hope this rekindles the national conversation on the amazing prowess of The One.

Revelation #5: We now know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that our formerly august mainstream media is replete with socialists.

Revelation #4: We now know that “limousine liberals” is objectively apt — they only love the poor with other people’s money.

Revelation #3: We now know that the only economic policy liberals consider is tax and spend, spend, spend, then tax some more. Nothing else even enters the discussion.

Revelation #2: The Lightworker has revealed for all the world to see — again — that appeasement still does not work. And that awarding peace prizes preemptively, based on someone’s decision to, again, try appeasement, reveals just what fools the Nobel elitists are.

Revelation #1: Liberal Democrats don’t stop to ask the following questions before pressing forward:

1. Is it constitutional?

2. Will it work?

Yes, they really are this aloof. Democrats care nothing for the rights of individual citizens, and simply do not grasp how such rights can be respected only by a limited government.

They couldn’t care less whether a program will actually work, or if it’s simply an experiment. Heck, they don’t even read the bills they pass

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Stay Islamophobic, My Friend

August 29, 2010 | america, islam

We live in a Democracy, one with a Bill of Rights that protects the freedom of religion for everyone. As such, those who follow the religion of Islam have as much right to worship as everyone else.

With that being said, I must object to the current Liberal handwashing about ‘Islamophobia’ in this country. We see it in the Liberal Blogs, in the newspapers, and on television, as if the hatred of Islam is a bigger problem than Islam itself.

Hatred of individuals because of their practice of religion is wrong, but one must face a reality; Islam, as a political movement, IS the problem, for us, and for the world, not the American system of government, and not the American people. Islam is a violent political philosophy, couched as a religion. Islam has been attempting to conquer the West for close to 1500 years, since its founding. Islam is in conflict with its neighbors, wherever it is. In Islam, all non-Muslims are called unbelievers or infidels. The treatment of the infidels in Islam is divided into two categories. The polytheists, pagans, idolaters and heathens have the choice of converting to Islam or suffer death. The Jews and Christians, whom the Koran calls people of the book, can retain their religion but on the sufferance of accepting humiliation and subjugation to Islam and payment of Jizyah (poll-tax) to the Islamic ruler. The Koran has over a hundred injunctions to kill infidels and/or Jews. On almost every page, the Koran instructs observant Muslims to despise nonbelievers. On almost every page, it prepares the ground for religious conflict. Anyone who can read passages like those quoted and still not see a link between Muslim faith and Muslim violence should probably consult a neurologist.

We MUST face the fact that Islam is our enemy. Islamists are trying to kill us. YES, not every Muslim is a killer. Not every German was a Nazi, in WWII, but those those non-killer Muslims, support a system which IS intolerant, mysogenistic, anti-Semitic an hate-promoting. It is NOT a peaceful movement. It is our enemy. Muslims have a right to practice their religion, but we are not at fault for suspecting the motives of Islam when it enters into the political sphere.

Before World War II, European and American intellectuals promoted the idea, for a decade, that Hitler wanted peace. They continued to appease Hitler, hoping that he would stop. What they learned is that appeasement of a bully does not work. It simply makes you look weak. We MUST begin standing up to Islam, and telling them we will not be bullied by their current weakness. They will not be weak, forever and, like Germany, if we wait for them to get strong, suppressing them will be all the harder.

Roger Simon, in Pajamas Media, lays it all out:

Along with “progressive” (a word that should be restricted to poker), “Islamophobia” is one of the more maddening propaganda constructs of our time. Orwell could not have done better.

Of course we all know what a phobia is — an irrational fear. It comes from the Greek phobos, meaning “fear” or “morbid fear.” Common ones are acrophobia (heights) and agoraphobia (crowds).

With very minor exceptions, I have seen little irrational fear of Islam in our society. What I have seen is a lot of serious and justifiable dislike of the religion for its ideology — notably its heinous treatment of women and homosexuals and its opposition to the separation of church and state, all codified by its all-encompassing Sharia law that seeks to legislate all facets of existence while instituting a global caliphate.

Nevertheless, soi-disant liberals and progressives or whatever they want to call themselves accuse those who dislike Islam for those reasons of irrational fear. That’s like having an irrational fear of totalitarianism. Ironically, it could also be construed, according to those same progressives, as an irrational fear of their own professed liberal values.

Crazy, no? La vie a l’envers. Life upside down.

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Sarah Palin’s Speech at the “Restoring Honor” Demonstration, Today

August 28, 2010 | america

Sarah introduced three combat heroes, telling their stories. You can read those in the link but I have to tell you…what came next gave me the chills. That woman can SPEAK!

My fellow Americans, each one of these men here today faced terrible sufferings, overwhelming set-backs, and impossible odds.

And they endured! And their stories are America’s story.

We will always come through. We will never give up, and we shall endure because we live by that moral strength that we call grace. Because though we’ve often skirted a precipice, a providential hand has always guided us to a better future.

And I know that many of us today, we are worried about what we face. Sometimes our challenges, they just seem insurmountable.

But, here, together, at the crossroads of our history, may this day be the change point!

Look around you. You’re not alone. You are Americans!

You have the same steel spine and the moral courage of Washington and Lincoln and Martin Luther King. It is in you. It will sustain you as it sustained them.

So with pride in the red, white, and blue; with gratitude to our men and women in uniform; let’s stand together! Let’s stand with honor! Let’s restore America!

God bless you! And God bless America!

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The Democratic Party Must Heed the Will of the People

August 15, 2010 | Uncategorized, democrat, election

Newt Gingrich describes, in better terms than I, the arrogance of a Democratic Part on the path to destruction

During the winter (of 1800) lame-duck, John Adams and the Federalists passed the Judiciary Act of 1801. The Judiciary Act more than doubled the number of federal judges, which President Adams promptly filled with his Federalist allies. These appointments were an explicit and ultimately futile attempt to hamstring the newly elected President, Thomas Jefferson, and Congress because the Jeffersonians simply reversed the Act with the Judiciary Act of 1802.

For their arrogance, the Federalists never again regained control of Congress and disappeared completely in the 1820s, all because they tried to overrule the views expressed at the ballot box.

Democrats know they are facing tough elections this year and can’t vote for more enormously unpopular, budget-busting bills if they want to get reelected. But they are also bracing for major losses in the House and Senate this November, and they will never be able to advance their agenda under realigned House and Senate majorities.

Faced with this reality, Democratic leaders are raising the specter of passing their unfinished job killing agenda during a lame duck session of Congress. At a recent conference with left-wing bloggers, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) assured the audience about the Left’s unfinished priorities, saying, “We’re going to have to have a lame duck session, so we’re not giving up.”

Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) recently stated, “A lot of things can happen in a lame-duck session, too.”

This Congress should heed the lesson that the Federalists learned the hard way: in America, it is the people, not the politicians who govern.

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Obama, the Ground Zero Mosque and Useful Idiots

August 14, 2010 | america, islam, islamofascism

Lenin coined the phrase ‘Useful Idiots, to describe Soviet sympathizers in Western countries and the attitude of the Soviet government towards them. The implication was that though the person in question naïvely thought themselves an ally of the Soviets or other Communists, they were actually held in contempt by them, and were being cynically used.

The American left can best be described as useful idiots. They have tied their success to a President who obviously could care less whether or not he or they succeed. As a result, to quote William Kristol:

Its political support has collapsed. Public opinion polls point to a historic repudiation of the president and the Democratic party this fall

Its claim to intellectual integrity has collapsed. Paul Krugman—Ivy League professor, New York Times columnist, and Nobel laureate (the holy trinity of the liberal establishment)—has humiliated himself with a startlingly dishonest attack on Paul Ryan’s budget proposal. Krugman, called out by Ryan, rebuked by honest analysts, and unwilling to concede his errors, has retreated into uncharacteristic abashed silence.

Its Leninist discipline has collapsed. Last week, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs complained about the craziness of the “professional left” in the punditocracy.

Its democratic credibility has collapsed. In recent weeks, the left has the arbitrary rulings and sophistic arguments of federal judges who have overturned an immigration statute that mirrors federal law passed by the state legislature in Arizona, and a constitutional amendment, defining marriage as it has been defined for all of American history, enacted by the citizens of California. The left has also heaped praise on New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, as he, having bought his way to a narrow reelection, showered disdain and contempt on the majority of his fellow New Yorkers who object to a mosque next to Ground Zero.

The President has outdone himself, however, with his support of the building of a Mosque adjacent to the site of Ground Zero. While no one is objecting to the building of the Mosque, itself, the nation has shown its outrage at the building of a shrine to Islam on the site where Islamic terrorists killed 3000 American citizens. There are plenty of other places to build a Mosque. It does not have to be built on THIS spot, and the fact that it is becomes highly suspicious. Islam has a history of planting Mosques on the site of their conquered enemies; look at the Dome of the Rock, built on the site of the holiest site in Judaism, the Temple in Jerusalem. To those, such as I, who do not trust the good intentions of anyone purporting to be a leader of Islam, this is an obvious domination tactic that other Moslems throughout the world will understand.

Further, the man in charge of the building of the Mosque, is not a man with clean credentials with regards to ‘building bridges.’ As, Madeline Brooks writes:

In an earlier piece for Pajamas Media, I wrote about how the imam behind the Ground Zero mosque never said “no” to Malaysian jihadists who advocated suicide bombing in Israel and America.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf seems to have an irresistible attraction to extremists and terrorists, in spite of frequent declarations that he is a peacemaker and a “bridge builder.” He has stated that the Islamic community center and grand mosque he wants to build would be “about promoting integration, tolerance of difference, and community cohesion through arts and culture.”

So what was he doing at a 2007 conference in Indonesia of an international terrorist group seeking a global caliphate?

So, why IS the President supporting this project? He could, very easily, have made a pablum statement and kept out of it…but he went out of his way to make this point, today, and we have to ask why.

I wish I could answer the question. It revolves around two theories of who this President is; is he a devoted Socialist/Muslim who is purposefully going out of his way to destroy this country? Or, is he simply a useful idiot, blindly pursuing an ideological belief system that has never worked in the real world?

While it would be easier to believe in conspiracy theories that place Barack Hussein Obama as the tool of a global cabal, headed by George Soros and Socialists Internationalists, as many have suggested, I see no evidence of this, and until someone comes up with more than speculation, I cannot accept it. My belief is that Obama is simply an arrogant, stupid, intellectual who grew up and spent his life with arrogant, stupid intellectuals. He is out of touch…out of touch with America, its histories, traditions, and the reasons why we are what we are. He cannot change. He is what he is.

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Muslems ‘get’ the Symbolism behind the 9/11 Mosque

August 6, 2010 | islam

From Human Events Magazine:

At some point after 9/11, cropped photographs of the New York City landscape near the World Trade Center began circulating on the Internet in Muslim circles. Cropped into the photographs were the minarets and domes of numerous mosques dotting the area surrounding the 9/11 site. 

Many Muslim believers understood the symbolism—the assault against a key bastion of the non-believer’s world had started; the push to place that bastion under Islam’s world caliphate umbrella by establishing a foothold on territory that 9/11 had made hallowed was now in progress.

If we choose not to blame Islam for the violent acts of Islamists—instead accusing extremists of having hijacked this religion of peace—we should at least listen to the insights Islam’s moderates share with us about their religion. 

Modern day Turkey is among the most moderate of Muslim states. As such, it was welcomed into the NATO alliance as sharing some of the values of its Western members. But comments by Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his beliefs about Islam and the symbolism its mosques represent, should give us pause for concern. “The mosques,” Erdogan has said, “are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the believers our army.” Nothing in “moderate” Muslim Erdogan’s description of Islam suggests it is a religion of peace. 

And Pat Buchanen, who I seldom quote, gets it, too

Mayor Bloomberg’s statement also reflects a naivete about why bin Laden and al-Qaida sent those terrorists to wound our country and kill as many of us as they could in the most dramatic way they could.

Al-Qaida did not attack us because we have a free press and freedom of assembly. They sent terrorists to smash and burn the symbols of U.S. power — the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the Capitol — because they hate our policies and, above all, our presence in the Dar al-Islam, the House of Islam. They wish to purify their region of the infidel, establish a caliphate and live under sharia.

To them, we are the new Crusaders, the new Romans, and by wounding and enraging us, they sucked us into a war on their terrain.

And those firemen, police and rescue workers did not run into those burning buildings to defend constitutional rights, but, acting out of bravery and love, to save their fellow men.

And as our God, the one true God, said, “Greater love than this hath no man, than that he lay down his life for his friend.”

Tell them to put their mosque somewhere else, Mike.

Why is it so hard for the leaders of New York city to get it?

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The Elements of the Desperation of the Democratic Party

July 30, 2010 | election

David Lambro writes an excellent summary of how the Democrats have painted themselves into a corner in this upcoming election.

In a campaign strategy that comes directly from the White House high command, Democrats are ditching President Obama’s 2008 campaign promise of political reconciliation and attempting to smear the GOP by tying it to the tea party movement.

The decision, announced Wednesday by Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, has failure and desperation written all over it.

They can’t run on the Republicans blocking their agenda. It was passed by Democrats on party-line votes, and voters are strongly opposed to most of it

They can’t run on Obama’s popularity, because he is unpopular in a number of midterm election battleground states.

They can’t run on the success of his economic policies, because his $800 billion spending stimulus has been a conspicuous failure at worst and mediocre at best

With 15 million Americans unemployed and millions more forced to work part-time, the Democrats cannot talk about the economy with any credibility

So with nothing else to run on, Democratic party leaders are going on the attack, trying to tie Republicans to the tea party activists whom they say are “out of the political mainstream” and made up of radical elements. But if Democrats think that opposing staggering deficits, tax increases in a recession and health-care mandates that will drive up costs is radical, then which party is really out of the mainstream now?

I would feel sorry for any other group of human beings, but these creeps deserve to suffer. They have dug their own graves, by their assumption that they know what is best for us, and we are really too stupid to understand what is going on. Maybe it will dawn on them that, perhaps, we DO understand, and we don’t like it.

Remember Arizona in November!!!

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The Sherrod Controversy and Obama’s Racial Politics

July 24, 2010 | election

Days after the NAACP clashed with Tea Party members over allegations of racism, a video has surfaced showing an Agriculture Department official, Shirley Sherrod, regaling an NAACP audience with a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer facing bankruptcy — video that now has forced the official to resign. Subsequently, it has come out that the clip represented only a small part of the speech Sherrod gave, and that Sherrod was using this as an example of how she has changed, and how she came to help this white farmer…and the administration reversed itself, asking Sherrod to resume her position.

What is going on here? As a friend said, even if Sharrod had harbored or does harbor a dislike for white people, if that dislike didn’t or doesn’t affect her work then who cares?  The farmer she helped thinks that he got a fair deal so what is the problem?

I couldn’t agree more…but there is more to this story than simply Sherrod’s remarks. There is a complex interaction going on here, partially having to do with the NAACP attack on the TEA party, and the Republican attempts to demonstrate the inherent racism of the Obama administration.

Dick Morris suggests that Obama has two conflicting goals: He wants to expand his base among whites and heighten enthusiasm of blacks. Good goals, both. But if he uses racial issues to accomplish either objective — as he appears to do in the Sherrod controversy — he alienates one group in order to win the other. Not a good strategy.

If you want my canny insider-oriented political opinion on this, the Republicans fomented this controversy, counting on the inexperience and amateurism of the Obama administration to make a hasty decision that would make them look bad, and the administration fell for it like a high school Senior running for class President, instead of a professional team of highly paid political hucksters. A single phone call to Sherrod asking for clarification would have shown this for what it is, but the White House panicked, as the Republicans thought it would, and then tried to recover, making it even worse.

Look for more of this as November approaches. The Republicans are playing this political gamesmanship to a T, and the Democrats are looking like the petty amateurs they are. It is all geared to increasing the Republican margins in December, and the Democrats don’t have a hand to play in this game

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Paul Ryan’s “Roadmap for America’s Future”

July 16, 2010 | america, economy

“Are we going to reclaim the American idea — an entrepreneurial economy where you make the most of your life, you tap your potential, we reinvigorate the principles of liberty, freedom, free enterprise — and defend the morality of that — or are we going to abandon that and switch over toward a European-style, cradle-to-grave welfare state where we drain people of their incentive and will to make the most of their lives and make them more dependent on the government?”

Watch the video.  This is the quintessential question facing this country. Do we have what it takes to grab the future and run with it? Are we still the Americans who took a continent and built the most powerful economy in the world? Or are we going to follow the path of today’s Progressives, believing we cann’t accomplish anything, and needing government intervention just to live?

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Why he is failing.

July 13, 2010 | america, american ideals, constitution, economy, obama

Note: I  wrote this in reply to a question posed in the Delphi “Bully Pulpit” forum, a political discussion board which can be found in the Internet Resources list in the right column of this page, and which I frequent.

The Question was;

“Why is Obama failing so Badly?”

My reply;

He is arrogant in the extreme.

He is narcissistic in the extreme.

He is an ideologue in the extreme.

He is a racist.

He treats the Office of the Presidency as if he has been given a turn at kingship.

He treats it as if it is a position from which to ‘fundamentally change’ America to suit HIS ideology, rather than as a stewardship of America’s Constitution, and the ideology that founded Her and has made Her great.

His youth was spent being indoctrinated to the “virtues” of Socialist/Communist forms of government, and to despise, distrust, and possibly even hate the ‘white’ race.

He has spent his adult years, both in his professional and personal life,  sequestered with people which agree with and reinforce the beliefs he acquired as a youth.

He has been groomed, and groomed himself, to engage in politics as a means of furthering his ideology.

His narcissism, whether a native aspect of his character, or instilled in him by the grooming and preparation for political life by those around him, has become a palpable, if not an overriding aspect of his ‘id’.

To a large degree his success[being elected President] AND failures are the result of timing.

He achieved success largely because he was tapped to run for the Presidency at a point in time when America was ready to elect a Black as President….both because racism for most Americans is no longer an appreciable issue…and because a fair number of Americans are suffering from guilt rooted in ‘The Sins of Our Fathers’, and are eager, if not desperate, to assuage that guilt.

His failure is partly, if not largely, the result of having been tapped to run at a point in time when much, if not a large majority, of Democrats that hold National Office are almost or just as far to the left as he is, happened to hold a ‘super Majority’ in Congress, and so are willing to suffer the slings and arrows of the American people in order to get their agenda through while they have a President who they know will not VETO their assault on American principles of Capitalism and the Free Market.

Another reason for much of his failure is that in his arrogance and narcissism, and due to his exposure to and association only with others of his ilk throughout his life, he actually and honestly assumed that a majority of Americans share his political ideology, and would welcome his agenda with open arms, and that his “gift”(his own word), would give him the power to win over the few who did not agree with him.

He came into office expecting his every desire to be handed to him on a silver platter.
Instead he has met unprecedented resistance from America at every turn.
This frustrates him, confuses him, and angers him.
This is displayed almost every time he opens his mouth without a teleprompter in his face…which is also when his racism shows on occasion.

He does not like America…We the People do.

He does not like Capitalism and Free Enterprise…We the People do

He considers the U.S. Constitution a “Charter of negative liberties”…We the People Do Not.

He believes in massive redistribution of wealth….We the People Do Not.

These are just a few of the reasons he is failing so badly .

I would trade much to have all of America see this man-child speak and respond to real and un-vetted questions, unassisted by a teleprompter, for one hour….hell….make it 30 minutes.

I know that much of what I have just said is going to be scoffed at by libs and that I will be challenged on it. I would advise them to read his books, and to search out as many interviews with him as they can find on you tube before doing so…because the evidence supporting virtually everything I have said is both voluminous and readily available.

But I will probably choose to ignore their barbs and denials for the most part.

Of course, most libs in here have already been directed to much of that evidence and are choosing to ignore it, or to rationalize it into something benign, and so presenting it again will have little or no impact, as by this time most have proven themselves so steeped in Kool-Aid that they no doubt piss in Technicolor.

Nevertheless, what I have stated is what I have concluded and what I think…and each and every day B.O. does nothing to dissuade my perception….but he does and says much to reinforce and validate it.

RTYB

( Wade Patrick, July 13, 2010 )

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