ANDREW BREITBART AT CPAC 2012

CONSERVATIVES NEED TO GET THEIR ACT TOGETHER!

'NUFF SAID....

DR

STILL FEELING DOWN...

So, I've been feeling down after Tuesday...who hasn't?

Sort of like the wind has been taken out of my sails kind of thing...

Michelle Obama's Mirror, MOTUS, had this to share:




not sure if it will help...but that's all I've got for this Friday...

Hopefully, after R&R over the weekend, we all will come back rested and ready to move...geeze, can't say 'forward' now, can we?

Let's get ready to move ahead to the next election...2014...and get those embedded Rhino's out of DC...and get our party back to the basics...which is conservatism, pure and simple...

DR

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S STOLEN ELECTION: TIME TO FIX OUR BROKEN ELECTION PROCESS

To say that I am in shock today is a total understatement.

We should, perhaps, have seen this coming. But we all were heartened by the sight of the huge crowds that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan drew during their campaign stops. The swelling crowds that were hopeful that finally, here were two people that could stop Barack Hussein Obama and put an end to the destruction of our country.

But it was not to be.

Under our very eyes, without even considering hiding, liberals stole this election from the American people. How? You ask. Two words: voter fraud.

James O’Keefe has documented the blatant voter fraud being committed in numerous places in this country. One very CLEAR case of voter fraud when a WHITE man went to the polling place of Eric Holder, who is BLACK, and asked for Holder’s ballot. The poll workers were more than willing to give the Holder’s ballot to this unidentified white man, even encouraging him to take the ballot after the man said he had left his I.D. in his car. The man did not take the ballot so as not to commit a crime, he just wanted to prove how incredibly willing these corrupt people are to commit voter fraud.

The corrupt-in-the-tank-for-ObaMao-media’s reaction?

SILENCE.

O’Keefe made plenty of other documentaries about people within the democrat power structure willing to commit voter fraud. In one case a young man was asking a high-placed individual how he could vote many times for people that ‘do not vote’. The individual was brainstorming with him about how to accomplish it! It is all recorded!

The corrupt-in-the-tank-for-ObaMao-media’s reaction?

SILENCE.

United Nations representatives were called in to this country to monitor our elections. The reason? According to a group called The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights:

            Civil rights groups are requesting that the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) provide targeted election monitoring in states most impacted by voter restriction efforts.

Needless to say, there was resistance – in some states – to this intrusion into our election process with some states claiming that they would throw out the uninvited “monitors”.

According to Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACJL):

            What’s especially troubling here is that liberal political organizations are the center of this intimidation tactic. They have encouraged OSCE to come to our polling places and set-up shop. The groups call the work of this international monitoring organization “valuable” and stated that “we believe it is particularly important that safeguards, including election monitoring, are in place in key areas around the country, and believe your presence would be particularly critical in districts in Colorado, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.”

What’s even more incredible, now countries like Belarus – a dictatorship – are expressing their concern about the integrity of our elections. It is unbelievable – criticizing our electoral system. This from a dictatorship.

The most stunning outcome from this “monitoring” was, as Breitbart reports, the group’s observation about the lack of security surrounding our election process:

            The most often noted difference between American elections among the visitors was that in most U.S. states, voters need no identification. Voters can also vote by mail, sometimes online, and there’s often no way to know if one person has voted several times under different names, unlike in some Arab countries, where voters ink their fingers when casting their ballots. (my emphasis)

I daresay this is not what the liberals intended when calling for these “monitors” to come to this country. The liberals intent was to intimidate conservatives, while blatantly stealing the election from under our noses.

The observation group went on to say:

            The international visitors also noted that there’s no police at U.S. polling stations. In foreign countries, police at polling places are viewed as signs of security; in the United States they are sometimes seen as intimidating. (my emphasis)

Ask Eric Holder about this one. He refused to prosecute New Black Panther members that were intimidating voters in 2008. Encouraged by Holder’s support, New Black Panther members, armed once again with nightsticks and army boots, were in full public view yesterday at certain polling places, including the 2008 location.

It is clear. Our election process is broken.

Liberals have intimidated us by calling us racists. They accuse us of disenfranchising voters, therefore enabling them to put measures in place that allow THEM to commit voter fraud.

No wonder Barack Hussein ObaMao was so confident when he spoke to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev last March:

            “This is my last election…After my election I have more flexibility”

He didn't say "after the election", he said "after my election." Barack Hussein ObaMao knew the election would be stolen, no matter WHO his opposition would be.

In this country, the land of the free, if our elections are observed with shock by dictators, what have we become? Who are we?

It is time to put a stop to these criminals. It is time to get to work, not just with posting on every website we can find with our discontent, it is time to get out and make sure that this NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN.

It is time to pull out the dog whistle every time they try to pull the ‘racist’ card on us or use any other distraction to back us away from fixing our election process, and thereby getting us on the road to fixing our nation.

DR

OBAMA IS ALL JACKET AND NO BOMBERS...

NORMALLY I JUST LINK TO  A GOOD COLUMN, BUT MARK STEYN HIT IT OUT OF THE PARK THIS WEEK:

Mark Steyn: Biggest Big Government can't keep lights on

In different ways, the Obama administration’s response to Hurricane Sandy and Benghazi exemplify the fundamental unseriousness of the superpower at twilight.

In political terms, Hurricane Sandy and the Benghazi consulate debacle exemplify at home and abroad the fundamental unseriousness of the United States in the Obama era. In the days after Sandy hit, Barack Obama was generally agreed to have performed well. He had himself photographed in the White House Situation Room, nodding thoughtfully to bureaucrats ("John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism; Tony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President; David Agnew, Director for Intergovernmental Affairs") and Tweeted it to his 3.2 million followers. He appeared in New Jersey wearing a bomber jacket rather than a suit to demonstrate that when the going gets tough the tough get out a monogrammed Air Force One bomber jacket. He announced that he'd instructed his officials to answer all calls within 15 minutes because in America "we leave nobody behind." By doing all this, the president "shows" he "cares" – which is true in the sense that in Benghazi he was willing to leave the entire consulate staff behind, and nobody had their calls answered within seven hours, because presumably he didn't care. So John Brennan, the Counterterrorism guy, and Tony Blinken, the National Security honcho, briefed the president on the stiff breeze, but on Sept. 11, 2012, when a little counterterrorism was called for, nobody bothered calling the Counterterrorism Security Group, the senior U.S. counterterrorism bureaucracy.
Meanwhile, FEMA rumbles on, the "emergency management agency" that manages emergencies, very expensively, rather than preventing them. Late on the night Sandy made landfall, I heard on the local news that my state's governor had asked the president to declare a federal emergency in every New Hampshire county so that federal funds could be "unlocked." A quarter-million people in the Granite State were out of power. It was reported that, beyond our borders, 8 million people in a dozen states were out of power.

But that's not an "emergency." No hurricane hit my county. Indeed, no hurricane hit New Hampshire. No hurricane hit "17 states," the number of states supposedly "affected" by Sandy at its peak. A hurricane hit a few coastal counties of New Jersey, New York and a couple of other states, and that's it. Everyone else had slightly windier-than-usual wind – and yet they were out of power for days. In a county entirely untouched by Sandy, my office manager had no electricity for a week. Not because of an "emergency" but because of a decrepit and vulnerable above-the-ground electrical distribution system that ought to be a national embarrassment to any developed society. A few weeks ago, I chanced to be in St. Pierre and Miquelon, a French colony of 6,000 people on a couple of treeless rocks in the North Atlantic. Every electric line is underground. Indeed, the drolldemoiselle who leads tours of the islands makes a point of amusingly drawing American visitors' attention to this local feature.

If you're saying, "Whoa, that sounds expensive," well, our government is more expensive than any government in history – and we have nothing to show for it. Imagine if Obama's 2009 stimulus had been spent burying every electric pole on the Eastern Seaboard. Instead, just that one Obama bill spent a little shy of a trillion dollars, and no one can point to a single thing it built. "A big storm requires Big Government," pronounced The New York Times. But Washington is so big-hearted with Big Government it spends $188 million an hour that it doesn't have – 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and Ramadan. And yet, mysteriously, multitrillion-dollar Big Government Obama-style can't do anything except sluice food stamps to the dependent class, lavish benefits and early retirement packages to the bureaucrats that service them, and so-called government "investment" to approved Obama cronies.

So you can have Big Government bigger (or, anyway, more expensive) than any government's ever been, and the lights still go out in 17 states – because your president spent 6 trillion bucks, and all the country got was a lousy Air Force One bomber jacket for him to wear while posing for a Twitpic answering the phone with his concerned expression.

Even in those few parts of the Northeast that can legitimately claim to have been clobbered by Sandy, Big Government made it worse. Last week, Nanny Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, rivaled his own personal best for worst mayoral performance since that snowstorm a couple of years back. This is a man who spends his days micromanaging the amount of soda New Yorkers are allowed to have in their beverage containers rather than, say, the amount of ocean New Yorkers are allowed to have in their subway system – just as, in the previous crisis, the municipal titan who can regulate the salt out of your cheeseburger proved utterly incapable of regulating any salt on to Sixth Avenue. Imagine if this preening buffoon had expended as much executive energy on flood protection for the electrical grid and transit system as he does on approved quantities of carbonated beverages. But that's leadership 21^st-century style: When the going gets tough, the tough ban trans fats.

Back in Benghazi, the president who looks so cool in a bomber jacket declined to answer his beleaguered diplomats' calls for help – even though he had aircraft and Special Forces in the region. Too bad. He's all jacket and no bombers. This, too, is an example of America's uniquely profligate impotence. When something goes screwy at a ramshackle consulate halfway round the globe, very few governments have the technological capacity to watch it unfold in real time. Even fewer have deployable military assets only a couple of hours away. What is the point of unmanned drones, of military bases around the planet, of elite Special Forces trained to the peak of perfection if the president and the vast bloated federal bureaucracy cannot rouse themselves to action? What is the point of outspending Russia, Britain, France, China, Germany and every middle-rank military power combined if, when it matters, America cannot urge into the air one plane with a couple of dozen commandoes? In Iraq, al-Qaida is running training camps in the western desert. In Afghanistan, the Taliban are all but certain to return most of the country to its pre-9/11 glories. But in Washington the head of the world's biggest "counterterrorism" bureaucracy briefs the president on flood damage and downed trees.

I don't know whether Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan can fix things, but I do know that Barack Obama and Joe Biden won't even try – and that therefore a vote for Obama is a vote for the certainty of national collapse. Look at Lower Manhattan in the dark, and try to imagine what America might look like after the rest of the planet decides it no longer needs the dollar as global reserve currency. For four years, we have had a president who can spend everything but build nothing. Nothing but debt, dependency, and decay. As I said at the beginning, in different ways the response to Hurricane Sandy and Benghazi exemplify the fundamental unseriousness of the superpower at twilight. Whether or not to get serious is the choice facing the electorate Tuesday.

But let him keep the bomber jacket.

©MARK STEYN

NYT RELEGATED BENGHAZI NEWS TO PAGE FOUR...

FROM THE MUDVILLE GAZETTE:

For New York Times readers, the big news on September 12th this year was the Chicago teacher's strike (click image for larger version...) 

Near the middle of the front page - just above the fold - they were treated to an exposé of Mitt Romney's college years (he didn't protest Vietnam!!!!). Those who actually unfolded a copy might have noticed something in the lower left corner of the front page about "Anti-American anger" erupting somewhere or other. A thumbnail image was captioned

Protesters, at right, angry over a video denouncing Islam attacked the United States Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing a State Department officer.

Any reader wanting details could turn to page 4.

By the time they were reading it, President Obama was jetting off to Vegas for a campaign fundraiser. Of course, the Benghazi incident couldn't really stay on page four. In fact, by the 13th, intrepid reporters at CBS had spent hours investigating the story, and were already 'raising questions' - like the one in their big headline that day ...

IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE REPORTERS ACTUALLY REPORTED EVENTS AS THEY HAPPENED INSTEAD OF FASHIONING EVERY WORD TO SUPPORT THEIR POLITICAL AGENDA...AT SOME POINT IN HISTORY WE DID HAVE AN OBJECTIVE MEDIA...SADLY THAT IS NOT THE CASE TODAY...

THIS, HOWEVER, GOES BEYOND THE PALE....FOUR AMERICAN LIVES WERE LOST IN AN OUTRIGHT ATTACK ON OUR EMBASSY...AN ATTACK THAT WAS PLANNED AND CARRIED OUT ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001.

MOST OF US, WHEN HEARING ABOUT IT, CONNECTED THE DOTS...YET THE SO-CALLED 'MEDIA' WENT INTO OVERTIME TO SPIN...LIE...COVER UP...ANYTHING TO PROTECT 'THE ONE'...THEIR MESSIAH.

INSTEAD OF ATTEMPTING TO DO RIGHT BY THE LIVES THAT WERE LOST...THEY CARRIED THE LIE ABOUT THE UNSEEN VIDEO.

INSTEAD OF TRYING TO GET TO THE TRUTH...THEY DID DAMAGE CONTROL.

DR

JOE BIDEN FINALLY TELLS THE TRUTH

JOE BIDEN: THERE’S NEVER BEEN A DAY IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS I’VE BEEN PROUD TO BE HIS VICE PRESIDENT…NOT ONE SINGLE DAY!....

DR

BREAKING NEWS: OBAMA ACCEPTS CAMPAIGN DONATIONS FROM OSAMA BIN LADEN

AS UNBELIEVABLE AS THAT SOUNDS, IT IS TRUE. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S CAMPAIGN - WHICH HAS NO SAFETY PRECAUTIONS INSTALLED TO PREVENT FOREIGN CONTRIBUTIONS, WHICH ARE AGAINST THE LAW - HAS ACCEPTED AT LEAST TWO DONATIONS FROM 'OSAMA BIN LADEN'.

WND STAFF, CONCERNED ABOUT RECENT ALLEGATIONS OF CONTRIBUTION FRAUD BEING COMMITTED BY THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN, SENT TWO DIFFERENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN WEBSITE UNDER THE NAME OF OSAMA BIN LADEN. BOTH CONTRIBUTIONS WERE ACCEPTED AND THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN HAD THE AUDACITY TO SEND EMAILS TO OSAMA BIN LADEN ASKING FOR MORE!!

FROM WND:

Pakistani Internet Protocol, or IP address, a disposable credit card and a fake address, “Osama bin Laden” has successfully donated twice to Barack Obama’s presidential re-election campaign.

The “Bin Laden” donations, actually made by WND staff, included a listed occupation of “deceased terror chief” and a stated employer of “al-Qaida.”

“Bin Laden” is currently set up on the official campaign website to contribute more to Obama’s campaign. The name is also registered as a volunteer.

Since the “foreign” contribution was sent, “Bin Laden’s” email address has received several solicitations from Obama’s campaign asking for more donations.

The apparently foreign-based contributions were conducted as a test after a flurry of media reports described the ability of foreigners to donate to the Obama campaign but not to Mitt Romney’s site, which has placed safeguards against such efforts.

The acceptance of foreign contributions is strictly illegal under U.S. campaign finance law.

One $15 donation was made at BarackObama.com using a confirmed Pakistani IP address. In other words, as far as the campaign website was concerned, the donation was openly identified electronically as coming from Pakistan.

Upon clicking the “donate” button, WND staff selected the $15 amount and were taken to a page on the campaign website asking for a first and last name, city, state, zip code, email address and phone number.

The information submitted was: “Osama bin Laden, 911 Jihad Way, Abbottabad, CA 91101.”

While the website only has options for U.S. states and zip codes, there is no mechanism in place on Obama’s website to verify the individual is actually located in that state or zip code, or even in the U.S.

The Obama campaign refuses to release the identification of donors who give less than $200

In the case of this donation, the 91101 zip code is real but corresponds to Pasadena, Calif., and not Abbottabad, the Pakistani city in which bin Laden was found holed up in a compound.

For a requested phone number, WND inputted the White House information line of (202) 456-2121.

The email address used to set up the donation account was osama4obama2012@gmail.com.

After clicking “next,” the website asked for an employer, occupation and a password to set up future donations. WND staff entered the occupation as “deceased terror chief” and the employer as “al-Qaida.”

The transaction was made last Friday with the use of a disposable credit card. The website did not require the card’s security code.

The campaign website immediately accepted the contribution even though it was made from a Pakistani IP address and despite the nonexistent street name and city information.

An automated email was immediately sent from Rufus Gifford, national finance director of Obama for America, thanking “Osama” for the contribution. The email contained a note that said, “There may be a minor delay in the processing of your contribution as it will be subject to review.” However, “Osama bin Laden’s” foreign donation evidently passed the Obama campaign’s “review.”

As of today, the $15 was debited from the disposable card.

To test if the first donation was an oversight, a second donation of $5 was made the following day using the “Bin Laden” account and the same Pakistani IP address.

WND has received confirmation from the credit card company that the purchase went through and the $5 was deducted from the disposable card.

From the time of the first donation until today, the Obama campaign sent nine more emails to the bin Laden Gmail account soliciting more donations.

One email sent Saturday reads, “Thanks so much for your donation of $5.00. Please take 10% off your next purchase of $10 or more at our online store.”

Another, signed by Michelle Obama, was titled “Barack is getting outraised.”

“You’re one of the campaign’s most committed supporters,” Michelle Obama writes in the automated email to “bin Laden.”

“Please make a donation of $19 or whatever you can today.”

The donations from a Pakistani IP address are sure to raise further questions about the measures in place to block such donations....

...As the Daily Caller reported, a statement accompanied the GAI’s report from former U.S. Attorney Ken Sukhia noting that 68 percent of traffic to BarackObama.com comes from foreign users, all of whom are redirected to a fundraising page operated by the president’s re-election campaign.

Read the entire report at WND

SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE ABOUT THIS CRIMINAL ACTIVITY. WILLFULLY BREAKING U.S. LAW IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD REQUIRE THE INDIVIDUAL(S) INVOLVED TO HEAD DIRECTLY TO JAIL.

DR

EXODUS: INNER CITY BLACKS FLEEING OBAMA, DEMOCRATS

From Breitbart:

After his meteoric ascent to the top of the American political arena in the country’s history, we are now in the midst of witnessing one of the most stunning collapses of any man ever to hold the office of President of the United States. 

After years of liberal democrats taking advantage of black Americans, there appears to be an awakening to the fact that these very people that promise anything and everything for a vote are the very ones that have been suppressing them.

This report was a real eye opener for me. It's about time. It is time that people recognize who the real racists are and begin to take action so that their issues and needs will be addressed, just like any other American.

DR

Obama's Controversial Ad Featuring Lena Dunham Analyzed by Greg Gutfeld

Greg Gutfeld...awesome analysis

DR

PEOPLE WANT TO BELIEVE IN AMERICA...AMERICANS WANT TO BE HOPEFUL

AN AMAZING, STANDING-ROOM ONLY CROWD LAST NIGHT AT RED ROCKS AMPHITHEATER IN COLORADO.

Roughly 10,000 people packed into the concert venue west of Denver, with thousands more turned away at the door. Traffic leading into Red Rocks gridlocked in the hours before the event. The lines to go through security and enter the venue wound through the parking lots.

DR

HE KNEW...

Officials at the White House and State Department were advised two hours after attackers assaulted the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11 that an Islamic militant group had claimed credit for the attack, official emails show.

For all the lies, coverups, blaming, finger pointing, along with the assistance of a "media" that is neck deep in this lying to the American people too...the fact of the matter is, Barack Hussein Obama KNEW the attack in Libya was the act of terrorists...that our Ambassador and three other Americans died at the hands of these terrorists...yet they insisted they were clueless...went on national television claiming "innocence"...Susan Rice, US Ambassador to the UN, lied to the UN and the American people...Barack Hussein Obama went to the UN and blamed some obscure youtube video that twelve people had seen at that point in time...then came back to the American people and blamed Mitt Romney for "politicizing" the murders...all the while, he knew the truth...yet he was able to look the American people in the eye and say "I did not know"...

If the election wasn't so close, it would be time to impeach this criminal...we impeached Bill Clinton for lying and no one died...we have four Americans dead...FOUR AMERICAN LIVES LOST BECAUSE THIS SO-CALLED PRESIDENT WOULD NOT PROTECT THEM FOR FEAR THAT WE WOULD FIND OUT THAT, INDEED, AL QUEDA IS NOT WEAKENED AS BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA HAS PROCLAIMED...AL QUEDA IS FULLY FUNCTIONAL AND MORE THAN CAPABLE OF KILLING AMERICANS.

DR

Clint Eastwood: 'Obama's Second Term Would be a Rerun of the First'

“Obama’s second term would be a rerun of the first, and our country just couldn’t survive that,” Clint Eastwood says. “We need someone who could turn it around fast, and that man is Mitt Romney. There’s not much time left, and the future of our country is at stake.”

Steven Law, the president of American Crossroads, said he had heard before the convention that Mr. Eastwood might be interested in starring in an ad. But he said he did not actually pursue the acclaimed director and actor until after his performance in Tampa.

“I think what struck us in Tampa was not so much what the media talked about,” Mr. Law said. “But in his remarks, he delivered some really powerful lines about democracy, things like: ‘You own this country. The politicians work for you.’ ”

Mr. Eastwood, in an e-mailed statement, explained his motives. “I did the ad because I’m concerned for our country,” he said. “I really believe Mitt Romney is the kind of leader we need right now. He’s an experienced businessman, and he knows how to work with people to fix problems. It’s time to give someone else a chance to fix our country.”

The ad starts running Wednesday in seven states: Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio and Virginia.

DR

From  Weekly Standard and New York Times

BUH-ROCK THE BROKEN RECORD...

THIS VIDEO IS GREAT...STILL SHOCKS ME TO SEE AND HEAR BUH-ROCK SAY THE SAME THINGS...THE EXACT SAME THINGS!...FOUR YEARS LATER

AND THE ANSWER IS NO...THINGS ARE DEFINITELY NOT BETTER FOUR YEARS LATER.

DR

VIA: REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE

CHRIS CHRISTIE'S EPIC TAKEDOWN OF PREEZY OBAMA

OMG...LOVE GOVERNOR CHRISTIE!

DR

Giuliani Accuses Soledad O’Brien Of Defending Obama: ‘Am I Debating The President’s Campaign?’

“Man, the defensive — Am I debating with the President’s campaign? [...] I mean, the defense of the President is overwhelming,” said Giuliani.

“This sounds like a cover-up. I mean, if this weren’t a Democratic president I think all you people would be going crazy,” he added

I personally can't stand Soledad O'Brien, but kudos to Giuliani for calling these hacks out.

DR

BIDEN'S CREEPY LAUGH

EXACTLY what I thought the night of the debate!

DR

H/T Weasel Zippers

INTERRUPTING JOE - BIDEN INTERRUPTION MONTAGE

While pointing out the rude, condescending behavior of our current vice president, this also shows that Paul Ryan was in a 2 vs 1 debate.

My hat is off to Ryan. His performance was stellar.

DR

H/T Weasel Zippers

MARTHA RADDATZ: OBAMA AND BIDEN CRONY; IMPOSTER; PRO-BIDEN PARTICIPANT

If you are wondering why Martha Raddatz interrupted Paul Ryan so many times during last night's debate, the simple answer is: she is buddies with both Obama and Biden.

This is not something to be taken lightly. For the casual observer, her tactics might have given them a slanted and preconceived outcome based on her partiality to Joe Biden.

From the Weekly Standard:

White House records reveal that the moderator of last night's vice presidential debate, Martha Raddatz, visited Vice President Joe Biden at his official residence on March 26, 2012. Raddatz is an employee of ABC News.

As the records show, that day Raddatz visited the VPR (or, the vice president's residence) for a "Women's History Month Reception." That record was released on June 29, 2012.

According to Biden's schedule released the day before the event, "the Vice President and Dr. Jill Biden will host a reception in honor of Women’s History Month at the Naval Observatory."

There appears to be no pool report from the event, which presumably was widely attended, that might have recorded the details from the events. 

On at least one other occasion, Raddatz visited the White House. According to records, that visit was on December 18, 2009. The reason for that visit is not know, though her meeting appears to have taken place in the Old Executive Office Building, and not the West Wing.

Before last night's debate, Raddatz came under scrutiny after the Daily Caller revealed she had attended President Barack Obama's wedding in 1991 with her now ex-husband, Obama administration official Julius Genachowski.

DR

LAUGH TONIGHT BIDEN...NOVEMBER 6, 2012 YOU WILL BE IN TEARS

Despite the constant interruptions from the "moderator"...the continuing (insane) laughter from Biden...Paul Ryan did an incredible job tonight.

We saw TRUE LEADERSHIP tonight...and it certainly wasn't coming from the clown-car side of the table.

DR

FILE UNDER CATEGORY: UN-EFFIN-BELIEVABLE

FORGET ABOUT THE FACT THAT AMERICANS THAT WERE MURDERED ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 IN BENGHAZI...FORGET ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS REGIME DID NOT PROVIDE ADEQUATE SECURITY - EVEN WHEN OUR AMBASSADOR PLEADED WITH THEM...FORGET ABOUT THE FACT THAT IT TOOK A MONTH FOR THE INVESTIGATING AGENCY - THE FBI, NOT THE CIA - TO GET INTO THE COUNTRY WHILE LOOTERS TOOK AWAY ALL EVIDENCE...EVEN FORGET ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS SO-CALLED PRESIDENT AND HIS MINIONS LIED TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND TO THE WORLD THAT THE TERRORIST ATTACK ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2012 WAS A REACTION TO SOME YOU-TUBE MOVE THAT 4 PEOPLE HAD SEEN...

Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter said Thursday that the “entire reason” the terrorist attack at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that killed four Americans has “become the political topic it is” is because Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan talk about the attack.

DR

Thomas Peterffy - Freedom To Succeed

Thomas Peterffy grew up in socialist Hungary. Despite the fact that he could not speak English when he immigrated to the United States in 1956, Thomas fulfilled the American dream. With hard work and dedication, he started a business that today employs thousands of people. In the 1970s, Thomas bought a seat on the American Stock Exchange. He played a key role in developing the electronic trading of securities and is the founder of Interactive Brokers, an online discount brokerage firm with offices all over the world.

DR

BARACK OBAMA: "I ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN REDISTRIBUTION"

"At an October 19, 1998 conference at Loyola University, Barack Obama spoke against "propaganda" that said government doesn't work and the need to "pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution because I actually believe in redistribution."

DR

WE NEED TO REVIVE THE AMERICAN SPIRIT!

AND WHO BETTER TO INSPIRE US THAN RONALD REAGAN? I LOVE THIS VIDEO... DR

BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ANSWERS SOME 'SERIOUS QUESTIONS'...

http://www.GOP.com -- President Obama just wrapped up another hard-hitting interview where he discussed America's top concerns, like whether our president prefers green or red chiles, his take on "Call Me Maybe," and what superpower he wished he had. It's been over eight weeks since President Obama took a question from the White House Press Corps. (my emphasis)...

DR

ROMNEY PICKS PAUL RYAN...LET THE DEBATES BEGIN!

Paul Ryan's first speech as VP running mate to Mitt Romney: (any emphasis in the text is mine)

Mitt Romney is a leader with the skills, the background and the character that our country needs at a crucial time in its history. Following four years of failed leadership, the hopes of our country, which have inspired the world, are growing dim; and they need someone to revive them. Governor Romney is the man for this moment; and he and I share one commitment: we will restore the dreams and greatness of this country. … 

For the last 14 years, I have proudly represented Wisconsin in Congress.  There, I have focused on solving the problems that confront our country, and turning ideas into action; and action into solutions.   I am committed, in mind and heart, to putting that experience to work in a Romney Administration. This is a crucial moment in the life of our nation; and it is absolutely vital that we select the right man to lead America back to prosperity and greatness. That man is standing next to me. His name is Mitt Romney. And he will be the next president of the United States … 

Let me say a word about the man Mitt Romney will replace. No one disputes President Obama inherited a difficult situation.  And, in his first 2 years, with his party in complete control of Washington, he passed nearly every item on his agenda.  But that didn’t make things better.  In fact, we find ourselves in a nation facing debt, doubt and despair. This is the worst economic recovery in 70 years. Unemployment has been above 8 percent for more than three years, the longest run since the Great Depression. Families are hurting. We have the largest deficits and the biggest federal government since WW II.  Nearly 1 out of 6 Americans are in poverty–the worst rate in a generation.  Moms and dads are struggling to make ends meet. Household incomes have dropped by more than $4,000 over the past four years. Whatever the explanations, whatever the excuses, this is a record of failure. … 

I represent a part of America that includes inner cities, rural areas, suburbs and factory towns.  Over the years I have seen and heard from a lot from families, from those running small businesses, and from people who are in need.  But what I have heard lately troubles me the most.  There is something different in their voice and in their words. What I hear from them are diminished dreams, lowered expectations, uncertain futures. I hear some people say that this is just “the new normal.” High unemployment, declining incomes and crushing debt is not a new normal.  It’s the result of misguided policies.  And next January, our economy will begin a comeback with the Romney Plan for a Stronger Middle Class that will lead to more jobs and more take home pay for working Americans. … 

I believe my record of getting things done in Congress will be a very helpful complement to Governor Romney’s executive and private sector success outside Washington. I have worked closely with Republicans as well as Democrats to advance an agenda of economic growth, fiscal discipline, and job creation. I’m proud to stand with a man who understands what it takes to foster job creation in our economy, someone who knows from experience, that if you have a small business—you did build that.  At Bain Capital, he launched new businesses and he turned around failing ones – companies like Staples, Bright Horizons and Sports Authority, just to name a few. Mitt Romney created jobs and showed he knows how a free economy works. At the Olympics, he took a failing enterprise and made it the pride of our entire nation. As governor of Massachusetts, he worked with Democrats and Republicans to balance budgets with no tax increases, lower unemployment, increase income and improve people’s lives. In all of these things, Mitt Romney has shown himself to be a man of achievement, excellence and integrity. … We Americans look at one another’s success with pride, not resentment, because we know, as more Americans work hard, take risks, and succeed, more people will prosper, our communities will benefit, and individual lives will be improved and uplifted. …  

The commitment Mitt Romney and I make to you is this: We won’t duck the tough issues…we will lead! We won’t blame others…we will take responsibility! We won’t replace our founding principles…we will reapply them! We will honor you, our fellow citizens, by giving you the right and opportunity to make the choice: What kind of country do we want to have? What kind of people do we want to be? We can turn this thing around.  Real solutions can be delivered.  But, it will take leadership.  And the courage to tell you the truth. Mitt Romney is this kind of leader.  I’m excited for what lies ahead and I’m thrilled to be a part of America’s Comeback Team. And together, we will unite America and get this done.  Thank you.
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Let the debates begin!

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WE DESERVE BETTER!

From the Romney campaign.

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Obama - the REAL Wimp Factor...

We all know who the REAL wimp is...

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Via Granny Jan and Jihad Kitty

Gay marriage headed to DNC platform

Democrats are set to include a pro-gay marriage plank in their convention platform for the first time in history, party sources confirm to POLITICO. The language was approved unanimously by a 15-member platform draft committee, and now heads for approval by the full platform committee in August.

The party’s Platform Drafting Committee agreed, unanimously, to approve the language at a meeting this weekend in Minneapolis.

A source in the meeting said the decision was “not controversial.”

Democrats are assuming a LOT...there are a lot of ministers, church members, that are registered democrats that do not agree with this...

It will definitely be interesting to see this evolve...

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via: Politico

Obama Thanks Gay Porn King for Organizing Fundraiser

“I want to thank someone who put so much work into this event, Terry Bean," President Obama said as the crowd began to cheer. "Give Terry a big round of applause.”

Terry Bean is, according to the New York Post, a "gay-porn kingpin."

"ONE of the 'bundlers' who has raised $50,000 to $100,000 for the Barack Obama presidential campaign is Terrence Bean, who once controlled the biggest producer of gay porn in America," thePost reported in 2008, during the president's first run the office. "Bean, the first gay on Sen. Obama's National Finance Committee, is the sole trustee of the Charles M. Holmes Foundation, which owned Falcon Studios, Jock Studios and Mustang Studios, the producers of about $10 million worth of all-male pornography a year."

The Post added:

In 2002, Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongowski returned a $15,000 contribution from Conwest to avoid the "taint" of the porn connection. Bean told Page Six yesterday, "I asked the company to donate, and they did. To avoid the appearance of anything, he [Kulongowski] returned it."

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ON A LIGHTER NOTE...

US OLYMPIC TEAM 'CALL ME MAYBE'

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H/T BREITBART

PUTTING THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE...

WHAT EARTH LOOKS LIKE FROM SATURN

WHEN I SAW THIS IT WAS A 'HORTON HEARS A WHO' MOMENT...

But it actually comes from an article posted by James Altucher titled 'What to do when you lose everything.'

One thing that struck me was the part where he has you summarize 'all the ways to think about a bad situation RIGHT WHEN you are experiencing it.

These are good exercises, especially during times like these where we are experiencing or facing difficult situations, some beyond our control...

One exercise in particular struck me as something that could turn into a very positive daily routine...check it out:

I’m doing to do the daily practice. Things feel bad this second. But they can feel better tomorrow. I’m going to pick one physical goal (do 20 pushups, don’t eat junk food). I’m going to pick one emotional goal (forgive someone in your life), pick one mental goal (write down 10 ideas for new businesses), and one spiritual goal (be grateful you were once a fetus). Then I’m going to write an X on the calendar once I accomplish all those goals. Then I’m going to do it again the next day. I know my life will be completely different in six months if I do this. If the goals seem too big, then make them smaller. But do all four.
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BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA: WE TRIED OUR PLAN AND IT WORKED!

Did it?

Did it work??

Is Barack Hussein Obama saying "his plan" was to put this country into the horrible condition it is today?

Mitt Romney 2012!

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REP. MIKE KELLY OF PENNSYLVANIA: RISE TODAY AND LET AMERICA GET BACK TO WORK!

Representative Mike Kelly, speaking on the House floor today (Friday July 26), managed something very rare in the history of the institution – he got a standing ovation. Applause is usually forbidden in the house, but Kelly‘s blistering attack on regulatory red tape and Washington’s culture of control was apparently so powerful that several of his fellow house members couldn’t resist showing their support, clapping, standing up and shouting “USA! USA! USA!”

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RAHM EMANUEL ATTACKS CHICK-FIL-A

"If he’s in the business of selling chicken in Chicago, he should be in the business of having equal rights for everyone." said Rahm Emanuel, ObaMao buddy and current mayor of Chicago...

I don't remember Chick-fil-A ever saying they would not sell chicken to gays...I mean seriously...have you EVER been asked...while placing an order...'are you straight or gay?'...

So does this mean that straights should boycott businesses owned by gays? What about Muslim owned businesses? They are definitely anti-gay...why aren't the gays going after them?

I'm not promoting any of that...but think about it...there are always two points of view on issues...and, as in this case, if your point of view on gay marriage in no way affects the kind of business you are running...how are they tying the two together?

It clearly is intimidation. Something liberals are pros at...intimidating people until they back down from a position that disagrees with liberals...

Political correctness has grown into a huge, never-satisfied monster always looking for it's next victim...


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OBAMAO SKIPS AIDS CONFERENCE...

OBAMAO SKIPS AIDS CONFERENCE...TO CAMPAIGN...AND MEETS WITH "SURPRISED" VETERANS IN A CAFE...THAT TURNED OUT TO BE PLANTS BY OBAMAO'S TEAM...BIG OBAMAO SUPPORTERS...THEY EVEN JUST HAPPENED TO HAVE THEIR BIO'S IN HAND WHEN OBAMAO 'SURPRISED' THEM...

With the International AIDS Conference being held in the U.S. for the first time in 22 years, President Barack Obama is out of town campaigning and raising money for his re-election.

WHEN ARE THE OBAMABOTS GOING TO WISE UP? OBAMAO CARES ABOUT ONE THING: OBAMAO!

IF YOU'RE NOT WILLING TO HAND OVER YOUR MONEY TO OBAMAO OR LET HIM BASK IN YOUR LIGHT OF 'FAME' BE PREPARED TO BE THROWN UNDER THE BUS...

IT'S NOTHING NEW...HIS GRANNY IS UNDER THERE...SAY HI FOR ME...

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H/T GATEWAY PUNDIT

RNC AD: "The More Context You Get, The Worse It Sounds"

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FROM THE RNC

Man attacks TFP volunteers, assaults American flag

FROM TFP STUDENT ACTION:

Free speech is less free in Arkansas. In fact, volunteers with Tradition Family and Property (TFP—Louisiana) were recently attacked in Little Rock during a peaceful rally against Obamacare and its HHS mandate. The incident occurred on July 17.

Man Targets American flag

At the McCain Mall in North Little Rock, a middle-aged man came up from behind the group as they calmly prayed the rosary. First he said, “Praise be Mary,” giving the impression he was friendly. Next he shouted, “Get the hell out of here!” and rushed our American flag bearer Elias Bartel, knocking him off his feet with a violent blow. Old Glory fell over, but not completely because the 19-foot flag pole caught a power line on the way down and was quickly recovered and set upright again.

“I was pretty shocked… The first thing he did was target the American flag. He wanted to throw it on the ground,” said Bartel. “What he did was beyond disrespect.”

…“I’m bruised, but not about to give up,” Guerra remarked. “The attacker’s behavior reflects the socialist mindset: if they can’t win the debate, they bully you. If they can’t silence the Church on moral values, they use mandates and intimidation.”

I don't know about you, but the attacker looked like a SEIU thug to me...

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H/T Gateway Pundit

MORE CELEBS THAT WILL NEVER SEE ANOTHER DIME FROM ME

(CNN) – Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman made headlines recently for his sizable $1 million contribution to a pro-Obama super PAC, but he's hardly the only celebrity who cut a check in support of a presidential hopeful.

Members of the entertainment industry have a long history of sending money to their preferred presidential candidates, usually but not exclusively to Democrats. Below is a non-comprehensive list of some of the celebrities past and present who made a donation in May or June to the major political committees involved in the 2012 race for the White House.

OBAMA CAMPAIGN:
Actors & Actresses
Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights): $3250 in June, $5000 to date
Sam Waterston (Law and Order): $2250 in June, $5000to date
Ian Somerhalder (Lost, Vampire Diaries) : $2500
Olivia Wilde (House MD, Cowboys & Aliens) : $2500
Johnny Galecki (Roseanne, Big Bang Theory): $2500
Maria Bello (Prime Suspect): $2500
Ronald Guttman (Mad Men): $2075 in June, $4825 to date
Tyne Daly (Cagney & Lacey): $2000
Susan Saint James (Kate & Allie, McMillan & Wife): $2000
Holland Taylor (Two and a Half Men): $1000 in June, $2000 to date
Taraji P. Henson (Benjamin Button): $1850
Chris Pratt (Parks and Recreation): $1000
Aisha Tyler (The Talk co-host): $1000
Directors
Rob Minkoff (The Lion King): $2500
Musicians
Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz: $2500
Peter Frampton: $2500 to Obama campaign
Toni Tennille of The Captain and Tennille: $1000 in June, $2000 to date
Yvonne Staples of The Staples Singers: $1000 in June, $2000 to date

OBAMA VICTORY FUND:
Bette Midler: $50,000 in June, $60,000 to date
Martin Von Haselberg (actor, Midler's husband): $50,000
Billy Crystal: $40,000
Kirk Douglas: $40,000
Robert Downey, Jr.: $40,000
Eddie Murphy: $40,000
Tom Hanks: $35,800 (in May)
Rita Wilson: $35,800 (in May)
Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights): $27,500
Anne Hathaway (Dark Knight Rises): $25,000
Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween, Trading Places): $2000 in June, $14,000 to date
Wendie Malick (Hot in Cleveland): $2500
Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl): $1500 in June, $2500 to date
Bridget Fonda (Jackie Brown): $600 in June, $2000 to date
Tate Donovan (Damages, The O.C.): $125 in June, $1622 to date
Jason Sudeikis (Saturday Night Live): $500
Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked, GCB): $500
Topher Grace (That 70s Show): $500
Bernadette Peters (The Jerk): $250

PRIORITIES USA (pro-Obama super PAC):
Morgan Freeman (Dark Knight Rises, Million Dollar Baby): $1 million

ROMNEY CAMPAIGN:
John Rich (Country singer, Celebrity Apprentice winner): $2500

ROMNEY VICTORY FUND:
Film producer Jerry Bruckheimer and wife: $25,000
Scott Baio (Arrested Development, Happy Days) and wife: $12,500
Vince McMahon (Pro. wresting exec.) & Linda McMahon (CT Senate hopeful): $9910

RESTORE OUR FUTURE (pro-Romney super PAC):
Vince McMahon (Pro. wresting exec.) & Linda McMahon (CT Senate hopeful): $150,000K

Obviously this is a partial list of Hollywood > Obama donors...but more names added to my "DO NOT SUPPORT" LIST

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H/T Weasel Zippers

Kim Dotcom - Mr President - Protest Against Barack Hussein Obama

Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom has launched an online song attacking US President Barack Obama and urging supporters not to vote for the US leader, who he accuses of trampling on Internet freedom.

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H/T Drudge and Fox News