TERRORISM ALIVE AND WELL...EVEN IN THE UNITED STATES

PRESIDENT OBAMA, WITH HIS FALSE RHETORIC THAT 'TERRORISM IS DEAD', LULLED MOST OF THE AMERICAN CITIZENS INTO THEIR FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY THAT ALL IS WELL AND THEY CAN JUST GO ON WITH THEIR LIVES AS IF NOTHING EVER HAPPENED IN THIS COUNTRY...IN THE WORLD...WITH THE PEOPLE THAT HATE AMERICANS AND WANT TO KILL US.

Peter Foster, US Editor of The (U.K.) Telegraph expressed my sentiments perfectly:

In his State of the Union address to the American people earlier this year, Barack Obama declared that he was "confident" of achieving "our objective of defeating the core of al-Qaeda".

Although he acknowledged the need to pursue the "remnants" of the terrorist group and its affiliates, the overall message was clear – al-Qaeda was badly degraded, the tides of war were receding and the US was winning this fight that was no longer even officially a war.

The Boston bombings would appear to present a fundamental challenge to that assessment and once again bring the nagging uncertainty of terrorism back on to the American main street.

They (the Boston Marathon bombings) bring home the complexity of the global Islamist threat and the fact that it cannot be confined to wars in distant lands, or fought at arm's length using drones, as the Obama administration has quietly yet insistently led America to believe.

Mr Obama and his intelligence community know the threat from al-Qaeda affiliates, but have chosen to downplay it to the US public.

My question is WHY is Obama refusing to give credence to the threat these terrorists pose?

Consider this timeline presented by Investors Business Daily:

Jan. 14, 2013: President Obama meets in the Oval Office with Saudi minister of interior.

Jan. 16: Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano signs "arrangement" with Saudi minister bestowing "trusted traveler" status on Saudi student visitors, shortcutting normal security screening procedures.

April 15: Saudi college student Abdulrahman Ali Alharbi is seen near the Boston marathon finish line with two other Saudis. He's tackled after fleeing the scene of one of the bombings. Authorities question him.

April 15: FBI agents search Alharbi's apartment, leave with bags of evidence. He's described as a "person of interest" in attacks.

April 16: Secretary of State John Kerry secretly meets with the Saudi foreign minister, locking out reporters who initially were told the meeting would be open.

April 16: Saudi ambassador phones several papers and insists neither Alharbi nor any Saudi nationals are involved in the bombings. Saudi officials visit the well-connected Alharbi at a Boston hospital.

April 17: Officials clear Alharbi, who's reportedly related to al-Qaida Gitmo detainees, as a person of interest.

April 17: FBI ID from photos and videos two Mideast-looking men with bags scouting scene of bombings and circulate them among law enforcement. AP, CNN and even Boston Globe report one arrest has been made. CNN describes suspect as "dark-skinned male." Media swarm Boston courthouse for arraignment.

April 17: Obama has sudden unscheduled meeting with the Saudi foreign minister at White House.

April 17: Justice Dept. scolds CNN for arrest report. FBI cancels press conference. Courthouse bomb scare.

April 17: Terror expert Steve Emerson reports ICE has been ordered to "deport" Alharbi for "national security" reasons, out of reach of FBI questioning.

April 18: Napolitano denies Alharbi will be deported.

Today the U.K. Mirror reports that the FBI is seeking a “12-strong terrorist sleeper cell linked to (Boston Marathon bombers) brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev” saying “police believe the pair were specially trained to carry out the devastating attack”

A terrorist cell?? Here, in the United States? But didn't Obama say he had all that under control???

Oh, in case you haven’t connected the dots yet, you will notice that all of the publications I have noted are not mainstream, and two of them are from England. The government-controlled-media-complex is complacently going along with Obama and his deception of the American citizens.

So what about these nay-sayers that terrorism is not an active threat to us?

The New York Times has your answer. No surprise there.

A New York Times feature story on the suspected Boston terrorists showed Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a sympathetic light, with the headline “Far From War-Torn Homeland, Trying To Fit In” and a black-and-white picture of one of the men.

Trying to ‘FIT IN’???

Trying to “fit in” by setting off bombs at a race finish line, killing and maiming innocents??

Trying to “fit in” by walking down the street firing guns at police, throwing bombs at them, including another pressure cooker bomb??

For all of you that were lulled into complacence by the current so-called president’s denial of the terrorism threat, it is time for you to open your eyes and pay attention to what is going on around you.

Of course our daily lives aren’t going to be interrupted and impacted like events such as these. But the potential is there. Always.

It is time to stop allowing the liars and deceivers to continue their rhetoric. It is definitely time to stand up and say ‘Enough!’ The current administration and all the other politicians are perfectly fine with ignoring the situations that are broiling all over the world. All of them have blood on their hands.

The attack on the American Embassy in Benghazi was essentially ignored and pushed under the carpet, and those in Washington DC that don’t agree with what is being done are equally guilty for allowing it to happen. Four Americans were murdered!

There is a pattern to what is happening today. Terrorism has not gone away. They are regrouping and probably rejoicing in the fact that today’s Americans have short attention spans and would rather watch the latest reality show than react to and demand a response to the events that this administration refuses to address.

Ronald Reagan had it right when he gave his Radio Address to the Nation on Terrorism on May 31,1986:

Effective antiterrorist action has also been thwarted by the claim that—as the quip goes—"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." That's a catchy phrase, but also misleading. Freedom fighters do not need to terrorize a population into submission. Freedom fighters target the military forces and the organized instruments of repression keeping dictatorial regimes in power. Freedom fighters struggle to liberate their citizens from oppression and to establish a form of government that reflects the will of the people. Now, this is not to say that those who are fighting for freedom are perfect or that we should ignore problems arising from passion and conflict. Nevertheless, one has to be blind, ignorant, or simply unwilling to see the truth if he or she is unable to distinguish between those I just described and terrorists. Terrorists intentionally kill or maim unarmed civilians, often women and children, often third parties who are not in any way part of a dictatorial regime. Terrorists are always the enemies of democracy…

His words still speak to today’s conflict of ideologies here. We cannot apply our ideology to people that are born and raised to hate and kill us. The trainers of these terrorists have embedded within their hearts and minds the hatred that drives them to take these actions. But ignoring it, or sympathizing with it will only make them more confident when they attack again.

War is not something we wish for. None of us do. But when war is being waged against us, wishing for happier days or more peaceful times is not going to make it go away. That approach will only strengthen their resolve that we are weak. And weak we will be, easy targets.

DR

A TIME FOR CHOOSING

ONE OF MY FAVORITE RONALD REAGAN SPEECHES

DR

DID YOU KNOW YOUR KIDS AREN'T YOURS?

I KNOW...IT WAS NEWS TO ME TOO...

BUT LISTEN TO MSNBC'S MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY:



"[W]e have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to their communities," 

I KNOW, RIGHT?

UNBELIEVABLE!!

DR

DO YOU GET IT? OR ARE YOU STUPID OR SOMETHING?

FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT CAN'T OR DON'T LIKE TO READ, LET'S BREAK DOWN THE GUN CONTROL DISCUSS TO SOMETHING SIMPLE:

DR

H/T Michelle Obama's Mirror

AMERICA: STAND AND FIGHT!

GREAT AD FROM NRA

DR

WOMEN AND SELECTIVE SERVICE...NEW REQUIREMENTS ARE IN ORDER

SO THE RECENT DECISION TO INCLUDE WOMEN IN COMBAT HAS OPENED UP PANDORA'S BOX AS FAR AS SELECTIVE SERVICE IS CONCERNED.

IN 1981, IN ROSTKER v GOLDBERG, THE SUPREME COURT RULED THAT WOMEN WERE NOT REQUIRED TO SIGN UP FOR SELECTIVE SERVICE. IN THEIR DECISION THEY WROTE:

And since women are excluded from combat service by statute or military policy, men and women are simply not similarly situated for purposes of a draft or registration for a draft, and Congress' decision to authorize the registration of only men therefore does not violate the Due Process Clause. 

SO NOW WHAT?

SOME PEOPLE ARE SAYING 'IT'S UP TO CONGRESS' WHETHER OR NOT WOMEN WILL BE REQUIRED TO SIGN UP...I SAY THEY'RE WRONG...

THE SUPREME COURT WAS CLEAR IN THEIR DECISION THAT BECAUSE WOMEN WERE EXCLUDED FROM COMBAT SERVICE, THE SELECTIVE SERVICE REQUIREMENT DID NOT APPLY TO THEM...THEN...TODAY, ALL BETS ARE OFF...

GET READY, SUSIE...UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU!

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR PEOPLE!

DR

READ IT AND WEEP:
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Syllabus

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

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453 U.S. 57

Rostker v. Goldberg

APPEAL FROM TIE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA

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No. 80-251 Argued: March 24, 1981 -- Decided June 25, 1981 --- Decided:

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The Military Selective Service Act (Act) authorizes the President to require the registration for possible military service of males, but not females, the purpose of registration being to facilitate any eventual conscription under the Act. Registration for the draft was discontinued by Presidential Proclamation in 1975 (the Act was amended in 1973 to preclude conscription), but as the result of a crisis in Southwestern Asia, President Carter decided in 1980 that it was necessary to reactivate the registration process, and sought Congress' allocation of funds for that purpose. He also recommended that Congress amend the Act to permit the registration and conscription of women as well as men. Although agreeing that it was necessary to reactivate the registration process, Congress allocated only those funds necessary to register males, and declined to amend the Act to permit the registration of women. Thereafter, the President ordered the registration of specified groups of young men. In a lawsuit brought by several men challenging the Act's constitutionality, a three-judge District Court ultimately held that the Act's gender-based discrimination violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment, and enjoined registration under the Act.

Held: The Act's registration provisions do not violate the Fifth Amendment. Congress acted well within its constitutional authority to raise and regulate armies and navies when it authorized the registration of men and not women. Pp. 64-83.

(a) The customary deference accorded Congress' judgments is particularly appropriate when, as here, Congress specifically considered the question of the Act's constitutionality, and perhaps in no area has the Court accorded Congress greater deference than in the area of national defense and military affairs. While Congress is not free to disregard the Constitution when it acts in the area of military affairs, this Court must be particularly careful not to substitute its judgment of what is desirable for that of Congress, or its own evaluation of evidence for a reasonable evaluation by the Legislative Branch. Congress carefully considered whether to register only males for potential conscription or whether to register both sexes, and its broad constitutional authority [p58]cannot be ignored in considering the constitutionality of its studied choice of one alternative in preference to the other. Pp. 64-72.

(b) The question of registering women was extensively considered by Congress in hearings held in response to the President's request for authorization to register women, and its decision to exempt women was not the accidental byproduct of a traditional way of thinking about women. Since Congress thoroughly reconsidered the question of exempting women from the Act in 1980, the Act's constitutionality need not be considered solely on the basis of the views expressed by Congress in 1948, when the Act was first enacted in its modern form. Congress' determination that any future draft would be characterized by a need for combat troops was sufficiently supported by testimony adduced at the hearings so that the courts are not free to make their own judgment on the question. And since women are excluded from combat service by statute or military policy, men and women are simply not similarly situated for purposes of a draft or registration for a draft, and Congress' decision to authorize the registration of only men therefore does not violate the Due Process Clause. The testimony of executive and military officials before Congress showed that the argument for registering women was based on considerations of equity, but Congress was entitled, in the exercise of its constitutional powers, to focus on the question of military need, rather than "equity." The District Court, undertaking an independent evaluation of the evidence, exceeded its authority in ignoring Congress' conclusions that whatever the need for women for noncombat roles during mobilization, it could be met by volunteers, and that staffing noncombat positions with women during a mobilization would be positively detrimental to the important goal of military flexibility. Pp. 72-83.

509 F.Supp. 586, reversed.

REHNQUIST, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which BURGER, C.J., and STEWART, BLACKMUN, POWELL, and STEVENS, JJ., joined. WHITE, J., post, p. 83, and MARSHALL, J., post, p. 86, filed dissenting opinions, in which BRENNAN, J., joined. [p59]

TWINS SEPARATED AT BIRTH?

SO THE GOVERNMENT-MEDIA-COMPLEX WHORES ARE ALL GA-GA OVER MOOCHELLE'S NEW "LOOK"...

WHAT'S THE BIG DEAL??

I MEAN...ANYONE CAN WEAR A WIG...

DR

A MESSAGE FROM RUSSIA: AMERICANS NEVER GIVE UP YOUR GUNS

THIS IS WORTH REPRINTING HERE IN IT'S ENTIRETY:

Americans never give up your guns

28.12.2012 12:15

By Stanislav Mishin 

These days, there are few things to admire about the socialist, bankrupt and culturally degenerating USA, but at least so far, one thing remains: the right to bear arms and use deadly force to defend one's self and possessions.

This will probably come as a total shock to most of my Western readers, but at one point, Russia was one of the most heavily armed societies on earth. This was, of course, when we were free under the Tsar. Weapons, from swords and spears to pistols, rifles and shotguns were everywhere, common items. People carried them concealed, they carried them holstered. Fighting knives were a prominent part of many traditional attires and those little tubes criss crossing on the costumes of Cossacks and various Caucasian peoples? Well those are bullet holders for rifles.

Various armies, such as the Poles, during the Смута (Times of Troubles), or Napoleon, or the Germans even as the Tsarist state collapsed under the weight of WW1 and Wall Street monies, found that holding Russian lands was much much harder than taking them and taking was no easy walk in the park but a blood bath all its own. In holding, one faced an extremely well armed and aggressive population Hell bent on exterminating or driving out the aggressor.

This well armed population was what allowed the various White factions to rise up, no matter how disorganized politically and militarily they were in 1918 and wage a savage civil war against the Reds. It should be noted that many of these armies were armed peasants, villagers, farmers and merchants, protecting their own. If it had not been for Washington's clandestine support of and for the Reds, history would have gone quite differently.

Moscow fell, for example, not from a lack of weapons to defend it, but from the lying guile of the Reds. Ten thousand Reds took Moscow and were opposed only by some few hundreds of officer cadets and their instructors. Even then the battle was fierce and losses high. However, in the city alone, at that time, lived over 30,000 military officers (both active and retired), all with their own issued weapons and ammunition, plus tens of thousands of other citizens who were armed. The Soviets promised to leave them all alone if they did not intervene. They did not and for that were asked afterwards to come register themselves and their weapons: where they were promptly shot.

Of course being savages, murderers and liars does not mean being stupid and the Reds learned from their Civil War experience. One of the first things they did was to disarm the population. From that point, mass repression, mass arrests, mass deportations, mass murder, mass starvation were all a safe game for the powers that were. The worst they had to fear was a pitchfork in the guts or a knife in the back or the occasional hunting rifle. Not much for soldiers.

To this day, with the Soviet Union now dead 21 years, with a whole generation born and raised to adulthood without the SU, we are still denied our basic and traditional rights to self defense. Why? We are told that everyone would just start shooting each other and crime would be everywhere....but criminals are still armed and still murdering and too often, especially in the far regions, those criminals wear the uniforms of the police. The fact that everyone would start shooting is also laughable when statistics are examined.

While President Putin pushes through reforms, the local authorities, especially in our vast hinterland, do not feel they need to act like they work for the people. They do as they please, a tyrannical class who knows they have absolutely nothing to fear from a relatively unarmed population. This in turn breeds not respect but absolute contempt and often enough, criminal abuse.

For those of us fighting for our traditional rights, the US 2nd Amendment is a rare light in an ever darkening room. Governments will use the excuse of trying to protect the people from maniacs and crime, but are in reality, it is the bureaucrats protecting their power and position. In all cases where guns are banned, gun crime continues and often increases. As for maniacs, be it nuts with cars (NYC, Chapel Hill NC), swords (Japan), knives (China) or home made bombs (everywhere), insane people strike. They throw acid (Pakistan, UK), they throw fire bombs (France), they attack. What is worse, is, that the best way to stop a maniac is not psychology or jail or "talking to them", it is a bullet in the head, that is why they are a maniac, because they are incapable of living in reality or stopping themselves.

The excuse that people will start shooting each other is also plain and silly. So it is our politicians saying that our society is full of incapable adolescents who can never be trusted? Then, please explain how we can trust them or the police, who themselves grew up and came from the same culture?

No it is about power and a total power over the people. There is a lot of desire to bad mouth the Tsar, particularly by the Communists, who claim he was a tyrant, and yet under him we were armed and under the progressives disarmed. Do not be fooled by a belief that progressives, leftists hate guns. Oh, no, they do not. What they hate is guns in the hands of those who are not marching in lock step of their ideology. They hate guns in the hands of those who think for themselves and do not obey without question. They hate guns in those whom they have slated for a barrel to the back of the ear. (my emphasis)

So, do not fall for the false promises and do not extinguish the light that is left to allow humanity a measure of self respect.

Stanislav Mishin

The article reprinted with the kind permission from the author and originally appears on his blog, Mat Rodina

Дмитрий Судаков

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DR

H/T: MATT DRUDGE

NOT WITH MY TAX DOLLARS! TIME TO DE-FUND THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL

READ THIS NEWS THIS MORNING AND THE FIRST THING I WONDERED WAS, DOES THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL GET FEDERAL FUNDING?

NATIONAL CATHEDRAL TO HOST 1ST SAME-SEX WEDDINGS

TURNS OUT THEY DO.

SO IF A CHURCH WANTS TO "HOST SAME SEX WEDDINGS"...THEY SHOULD DO SO ON THEIR OWN DIME...

THIS IS A VERY HOTLY CONTESTED ISSUE AND IT IS NOT LEGAL TO DO SO IN MANY STATES...SO WHAT'S THE ISSUE YOU ASK?   IT'S LEGAL IN DC WHERE THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL IS LOCATED.

THINK ABOUT IT..

IF THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL IS GETTING FEDERAL FUNDING...THOSE FUNDS COME FROM OUR TAXES...OUR TAX DOLLARS...FROM MANY OF US WHO ARE OPPOSED TO SAME SEX MARRIAGE...

SO, NATIONAL CATHEDRAL...IF THIS IS SOMETHING YOU REALLY WANT TO DO...DO IT ON YOUR OWN DIME...NOT WITH MINE...

TIME TO STOP THE FUNDING TO THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL...FEDERAL FUNDING IS DESIGNED TO BENEFIT EVERYONE...AND THIS CLEARLY IS NOT AN ISSUE THAT EVERYONE AGREES ON OR BENEFITS FROM

TIME FOR CONGRESS TO STOP DISCRIMINATING AGAINST THE MAJORITY OF AMERICAN CITIZENS WHILE BENDING OVER BACKWARD TRYING TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT WITH MINORITIES!

DR

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.

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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!....

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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.

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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.

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

Greg Gutfeld...awesome analysis

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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VIA: REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE

CHRIS CHRISTIE'S EPIC TAKEDOWN OF PREEZY OBAMA

OMG...LOVE GOVERNOR CHRISTIE!

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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.

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BIDEN'S CREEPY LAUGH

EXACTLY what I thought the night of the debate!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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)...

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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