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