Thought it couldn't happen in America? It is! Today on Fox News Megyn Kelly exposed how the department of Justice was told to stop pursuing the case against the Black Panthers regarding voter intimidation during the Obama campaign.
The entire episode had been caught on video as well as having multiple witnesses to corroborate the story. The case was pursued at first but then it turns out the DOJ instructed the lawyers to drop the case. The whistle blower who came forward about this was apparently willing to come forward that they were told to drop the case, but was either afraid or unwilling to specify where those orders came from.
He made it clear that the orders came from high up, but then they would have to in order to stop such a case as this. The person assigned to the case said it was a "slam dunk", making it clear that this was one of those few cases there was no question about and they were sure they could win. The question then begs itself why were they told not to pursue it?
Is it possible the person or people who told them to stop did so because they were afraid more would come out about their actions. Was it because they were afraid it might point back to the administration instructing them to do so in the first place?
It is likely we will never know now that the case as been dropped. What this does show is that those in authority in our nation are not really interested in justice at all; if anything they are doing what they can to get in the way of what is right, ethical, moral and just.
This miscarriage of justice will only be the first in a long line of them if it is allowed to go unchallenged. The media becomes less and less willing to watchdog what the government is doing and the government becomes more and more bold each time they get away with something like this.
They all know that if the media doesn't cover something it's as good as if it didn't exist or at least sends the signal that it's not very important.
This ought to scare every American. Why is no one being held responsible at the Department of Justice.
A conviction was already in place and all they needed was for sentencing to happen and then the DOJ instructed them to drop all the charges and dismiss the case.
It is odd how someone at the DOJ can say "the facts and the law do not support this case." Even though the law and even the judge supported this.
It has been made clear to the Civil Rights division of the DOJ that they were not to prosecute cases where it is black on white doing almost anything. The civil rights division has received a mandate that no more cases against black defendants will be brought.
All the whistle blower (J. Christian Adams) would say is that he wouldn't say who specifically even though he knows who that person is. He does state that Steve Rosenbaum didn't even read the case or read the briefs. This is becoming a pattern for this administration, congress, the president and anyone else in the administration. They regularly make rulings and vote on bills all of which they have never read and that doesn't even bother them.
The Obama administration immediately came out with what sounds like more propaganda stating that this guy made willful misstatements, though again they give no specifics. They just start calling someone a liar and the media will no doubt pick up on it.
It is clear from the videos that there was intimidation going on. It is also indisputable that the case was dropped. There has also been NO reason given by the DOJ as to why the case was dropped or why they instructed the civil rights division to drop the case.
It would seem almost everyone in our national leadership cares nothing for the truth or for the constitution and law.
When you have those who are in leadership acting in lawless ways you will end up with lawlessness of the worst kind enacted on the people who live in that nation. There are many examples of such things happening in other nations and it will quickly follow.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
No Cause For Celebration
I find it incredibly odd that so much of the news is touting the support of the 2nd Amendment as something great.
How did we ever reach the point in our nation where only 5 out of 9 of the highest judges in the land support the constitution? Is this supposed be cause for celebration or outrage.
The fact that we had 4 out of those 9 judges (almost 1/2) who seem to think the 2nd Amendment needs to judged away and made irrelevant should appall every American citizen.
What is next questioning whether or not free speech actually applies to all Americans? Or maybe freedom of religion?
If people don't wake up soon they are going to find that they have none of the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution.
For some reason everyone is already saying as they did with the last nominee for a supreme court judge, that unless she really messes up she's going to get in. Where are those who defend the constitution?
I shouldn't have to be that we need to prove she doesn't qualify or it's automatically her's it ought to be that she needs to prove why she does qualify for the position. Let's consider. She has no record and what little record she has seems to show that she feels judges ought to legislate from the bench and should have the freedom to cast aside any law they simply don't like?
Since when did judges get this power? Their job is not to make laws it is to interpret the laws that are made. This is another woman that seems to loath the constitution and even the United States.
Why are we even considering allowing her to be one of the 9 highest judges in the land for the rest of her life?!
The nation is burning and still even the republicans do everything they can to help it while trying to pretend they're not progressives. They may not be more progressive than the democrats but far too many of them fall in the progressive camp and are more than willing to push progressive agendas whenever they can without exposing themselves as the progressive extremists the democrats are.
People need to contact their leaders and tell them enough is enough. This cannot continue.
How did we ever reach the point in our nation where only 5 out of 9 of the highest judges in the land support the constitution? Is this supposed be cause for celebration or outrage.
The fact that we had 4 out of those 9 judges (almost 1/2) who seem to think the 2nd Amendment needs to judged away and made irrelevant should appall every American citizen.
What is next questioning whether or not free speech actually applies to all Americans? Or maybe freedom of religion?
If people don't wake up soon they are going to find that they have none of the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution.
For some reason everyone is already saying as they did with the last nominee for a supreme court judge, that unless she really messes up she's going to get in. Where are those who defend the constitution?
I shouldn't have to be that we need to prove she doesn't qualify or it's automatically her's it ought to be that she needs to prove why she does qualify for the position. Let's consider. She has no record and what little record she has seems to show that she feels judges ought to legislate from the bench and should have the freedom to cast aside any law they simply don't like?
Since when did judges get this power? Their job is not to make laws it is to interpret the laws that are made. This is another woman that seems to loath the constitution and even the United States.
Why are we even considering allowing her to be one of the 9 highest judges in the land for the rest of her life?!
The nation is burning and still even the republicans do everything they can to help it while trying to pretend they're not progressives. They may not be more progressive than the democrats but far too many of them fall in the progressive camp and are more than willing to push progressive agendas whenever they can without exposing themselves as the progressive extremists the democrats are.
People need to contact their leaders and tell them enough is enough. This cannot continue.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Don't Know How it Will Work But We Believe It's Needed?
Senator Dodd,
"No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we've done something that has been needed for a long time. It took a crisis to bring us to the point where we could actually get this job done."
Consider the insanity of this statement. Would any leader of any major organization or business stay in his position for long if he came to the board with such a statement.
Think about it. He believe this is something that has been needed but he doesn't know what that something is or how it will work. We have insane people in office. They have no idea what they're doing. They don't read the bills before they pass them. They don't know what's in them or how they will work. Then I would ask, "WHO WROTE THEM?!"
Why do they feel they don't need to know what's in a bill to declare it's just what we need?!
Why do the American people put up with this kind of drivel? This is not the mark of a leader or someone that should be called a statesman. Dodd and those that voted for this bill are neither.
He declared they needed a crisis to make this happen. They know that's because cooler heads would prevail and demand that the bill be read and understood before it was passed. They know that no one would accept this bill if they had to deliberate it.
Everyone is so distracted with the oil spill they feel perfectly free to start passing bills they come up with in 20 hours that are 2000 pages long... LITERALLY. How did they even have time to write all that in 20 hours and who is writing it? They don't know!!
Nancy Pelosi, Dodd, Lynn Woolsey, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer to name just a few are people we need to get out of office as soon as we possibly can.
This cannot continue. Contact your congressmen and let them know you don't want a bill passed unless they've read, understand and can explain it to you. If they can't then they have no business passing it.
"No one will know until this is actually in place how it works. But we believe we've done something that has been needed for a long time. It took a crisis to bring us to the point where we could actually get this job done."
Consider the insanity of this statement. Would any leader of any major organization or business stay in his position for long if he came to the board with such a statement.
Think about it. He believe this is something that has been needed but he doesn't know what that something is or how it will work. We have insane people in office. They have no idea what they're doing. They don't read the bills before they pass them. They don't know what's in them or how they will work. Then I would ask, "WHO WROTE THEM?!"
Why do they feel they don't need to know what's in a bill to declare it's just what we need?!
Why do the American people put up with this kind of drivel? This is not the mark of a leader or someone that should be called a statesman. Dodd and those that voted for this bill are neither.
He declared they needed a crisis to make this happen. They know that's because cooler heads would prevail and demand that the bill be read and understood before it was passed. They know that no one would accept this bill if they had to deliberate it.
Everyone is so distracted with the oil spill they feel perfectly free to start passing bills they come up with in 20 hours that are 2000 pages long... LITERALLY. How did they even have time to write all that in 20 hours and who is writing it? They don't know!!
Nancy Pelosi, Dodd, Lynn Woolsey, Diane Feinstein, Barbara Boxer to name just a few are people we need to get out of office as soon as we possibly can.
This cannot continue. Contact your congressmen and let them know you don't want a bill passed unless they've read, understand and can explain it to you. If they can't then they have no business passing it.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Does the End Justifies the Means?
Following is a statement from Bill O’Reilly,
"I don’t really care how the president did it I’m happy there is 20 billion in play."
I have sent him a letter regarding this statement and have to admit how disappointed I am to hear someone who says they oppose the progressive point of view so willing to set aside the law because he believes the end justifies the means. What a shame?
One by one many of those in the media is being silenced. Clearly even the media has become intimidated by what Obama and the government is doing. I can’t help but wonder if they aren’t starting to keep their heads down in the hope that when, not if, things shift that they may be spared. I used to think O’Reilly was a bit of a crusader but now I can’t help but wonder. Anyone willing to set aside the law simply because he believes the right thing was done either without the law or around the law is a person who does not stand behind the law and the constitution.
Our nation is rapidly heading to the point where the constitution will become a meaningless artifact. Something looked at as useful for its time but no more.
I can’t help but wonder if O’Reilly would be fine with other such moves as long as the end was one that he agreed with. After all what need have we of law, or the constitution, or the congress for that matter. Why not just invest the White house with enough power that he can intimidate any person or business into doing what is “right” when he needs to.
This mindset ought to scare every American. Our nation will not be what it was if we invest so much power in any one man. For the question always begs itself, what about when that man uses that same power to force something that we don’t agree with. By looking away from these offenses at the start we will be powerless to stop them in the end.
People keep justifying this behavior from our leaders by pointing to other times that other leaders, sometimes from the other side of the isle did the same thing. This does not justify those actions or their methods. Even though the end may prove to be a good end if the method is a violation of our principles or our constitution then it ought to be condemned by all.
"I don’t really care how the president did it I’m happy there is 20 billion in play."
I have sent him a letter regarding this statement and have to admit how disappointed I am to hear someone who says they oppose the progressive point of view so willing to set aside the law because he believes the end justifies the means. What a shame?
One by one many of those in the media is being silenced. Clearly even the media has become intimidated by what Obama and the government is doing. I can’t help but wonder if they aren’t starting to keep their heads down in the hope that when, not if, things shift that they may be spared. I used to think O’Reilly was a bit of a crusader but now I can’t help but wonder. Anyone willing to set aside the law simply because he believes the right thing was done either without the law or around the law is a person who does not stand behind the law and the constitution.
Our nation is rapidly heading to the point where the constitution will become a meaningless artifact. Something looked at as useful for its time but no more.
I can’t help but wonder if O’Reilly would be fine with other such moves as long as the end was one that he agreed with. After all what need have we of law, or the constitution, or the congress for that matter. Why not just invest the White house with enough power that he can intimidate any person or business into doing what is “right” when he needs to.
This mindset ought to scare every American. Our nation will not be what it was if we invest so much power in any one man. For the question always begs itself, what about when that man uses that same power to force something that we don’t agree with. By looking away from these offenses at the start we will be powerless to stop them in the end.
People keep justifying this behavior from our leaders by pointing to other times that other leaders, sometimes from the other side of the isle did the same thing. This does not justify those actions or their methods. Even though the end may prove to be a good end if the method is a violation of our principles or our constitution then it ought to be condemned by all.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Honor and Honesty in Government
Of all the words we could use to describe our representatives these two are probably at the bottom of the list. Why is it that we so readily accept that we have men representing us who have no honor or honesty? It is a common thing to hear people excuse their lack of virtue as being expected because. they are politicians.
We should expect a higher standard from our leaders not a lower one. Leaders who can't tell the truth and can't do everything in their power to do what they say should not be voted into office and if it is once found that they do not meet high standards of ethics they should be removed from their high positions as quickly as we can.
The excuses our leaders use for their lack of standards is what I would call the kindergarten excuse. It is very common to hear them say, and almost in these very words, "Well they did it." They usually put a name too it or at least the opposing party.
Which of us would ever accept such an excuse from any of our children? How often have we said back to our children... "Well if tommy jumped off a bridge does that mean you're going to?" or something similar?
This is probably the most unacceptable reason for any person to give as a reason for doing something that indefensible. They know they can't defend it on its own grounds so they rely on trying to make even you feel guilty because YOU let someone else do and didn't punish them so now you should look the other way and let them get away with it too.
Oddly it is very rare to ever hear anyone in the media address this and make them give an actual explanation. Every time our leaders do something like this we need to make sure we call them on it and make them stop.
If our leaders can't give a good reason for what they're doing on moral and ethical grounds then they shouldn't be doing it at all.
Glaring examples of how unqualified our leaders are to hold their offices and defend the constitution, which is one of their sworn duties, is their lack of knowledge of the constitution as well as their loathing of it.
Our leaders don't just have an apathy toward the constitution they are actively against it! They behave as though they think no one should have any more than they absolutely need so that others can have, but at the same time none of them live their own lives that way. Most of them have become increasingly wealthy in and through their positions in congress.
They exempt themselves from the laws they expect us to abide by. Consider that our leaders would not include in the health care law that they want the rest of us to live by that they would be required to have it themselves.
Though they continually betray what hypocrites they are still they get voted back in office.
Now we have the republicans playing good cop to the democrats bad cop. they'll trade rolls in a few years again. The republicans would have us believe they're doing something wonderful because they're amending the health care that they said was a bad thing, but they're not about to get rid of it. They wanted it as much as the democrats but needed to stay out of it knowing what a fury it would raise in the nation. This way they can look like the good guys who can't quite get it reversed because they don't have enough power when in reality they don't have any desire to get rid of it.
The republicans have been just as quick to spend our money and just as slow to cut our spending. To this day not one of them is talking about any actual cuts. Again the deceptiveness of politicians is in play. When they say cut They mean cut the rate of growth of spending. When we say cut we mean spend less than before.
Because we use the same terms we always assume they mean the same thing by it that normal people mean, but they do not.
All of these things show these men have no honor and little in the way of honesty. And honest man with honor doesn't need to constantly dodge direct questions. If he is acting with honor there is not reason for him not to give a direct answer to a direct question.
Ask yourself when the last time was that you heard any politician answer a direct question directly. This is the first sign that these men have no honor and it should be one of the most important signs.
When any leaders deflects with the time tested, "well they did it." answer you need to be aware they are ashamed of what they're doing and don't have an honorable, ethical reason for doing it. Such a leader needs to be removed for his lack of honor.
We would do much better to have honorable honest men in office than to have more of the same crooked politicians we currently have.
Instead of considering if your representative is bringing someone else's money back to your district or even just giving you back some of the money they took from you in taxes ask yourself if that person is honorable and honest in their dealings. Do they answer questions straightforwardly or do they dodge, shift blame or excuse what they are doing?
If you can't say with pride that you're representative is honest and honorable ten understand they are no different then the hucksters in parks who take your money with three card monte all the time making you think you have a chance of winning so you'll stay in the game.
It is time to drive these people out of office.
Don't look at what they say they will do, look at what they have done. Look at what they've said before they started running for office. This is the best way to know what kind of people they are. A leopard cannot change his spots.
A scorpion once wanted to get across a river so he asked the turtle for a ride. The turtle responded if I give you a ride you will most likely sting me on the way and I will die. The scorpion promised not to sting the turtle if he gave him a ride. Half way across the river the scorpion stung the turtle. As they started to go down the turtle asked, "why did you sting me, now we will both die." To this the scorpion replied, because I am a scorpion and it is in my nature."
The nature of a man doesn't change just because he's running for office or because he's now making promises to get that office. If he didn't keep promises before he will likely not keep them now. If he wasn't honorable before he will likely not be now.
Look at their nature and their past not at their promises for the future.
We should expect a higher standard from our leaders not a lower one. Leaders who can't tell the truth and can't do everything in their power to do what they say should not be voted into office and if it is once found that they do not meet high standards of ethics they should be removed from their high positions as quickly as we can.
The excuses our leaders use for their lack of standards is what I would call the kindergarten excuse. It is very common to hear them say, and almost in these very words, "Well they did it." They usually put a name too it or at least the opposing party.
Which of us would ever accept such an excuse from any of our children? How often have we said back to our children... "Well if tommy jumped off a bridge does that mean you're going to?" or something similar?
This is probably the most unacceptable reason for any person to give as a reason for doing something that indefensible. They know they can't defend it on its own grounds so they rely on trying to make even you feel guilty because YOU let someone else do and didn't punish them so now you should look the other way and let them get away with it too.
Oddly it is very rare to ever hear anyone in the media address this and make them give an actual explanation. Every time our leaders do something like this we need to make sure we call them on it and make them stop.
If our leaders can't give a good reason for what they're doing on moral and ethical grounds then they shouldn't be doing it at all.
Glaring examples of how unqualified our leaders are to hold their offices and defend the constitution, which is one of their sworn duties, is their lack of knowledge of the constitution as well as their loathing of it.
Our leaders don't just have an apathy toward the constitution they are actively against it! They behave as though they think no one should have any more than they absolutely need so that others can have, but at the same time none of them live their own lives that way. Most of them have become increasingly wealthy in and through their positions in congress.
They exempt themselves from the laws they expect us to abide by. Consider that our leaders would not include in the health care law that they want the rest of us to live by that they would be required to have it themselves.
Though they continually betray what hypocrites they are still they get voted back in office.
Now we have the republicans playing good cop to the democrats bad cop. they'll trade rolls in a few years again. The republicans would have us believe they're doing something wonderful because they're amending the health care that they said was a bad thing, but they're not about to get rid of it. They wanted it as much as the democrats but needed to stay out of it knowing what a fury it would raise in the nation. This way they can look like the good guys who can't quite get it reversed because they don't have enough power when in reality they don't have any desire to get rid of it.
The republicans have been just as quick to spend our money and just as slow to cut our spending. To this day not one of them is talking about any actual cuts. Again the deceptiveness of politicians is in play. When they say cut They mean cut the rate of growth of spending. When we say cut we mean spend less than before.
Because we use the same terms we always assume they mean the same thing by it that normal people mean, but they do not.
All of these things show these men have no honor and little in the way of honesty. And honest man with honor doesn't need to constantly dodge direct questions. If he is acting with honor there is not reason for him not to give a direct answer to a direct question.
Ask yourself when the last time was that you heard any politician answer a direct question directly. This is the first sign that these men have no honor and it should be one of the most important signs.
When any leaders deflects with the time tested, "well they did it." answer you need to be aware they are ashamed of what they're doing and don't have an honorable, ethical reason for doing it. Such a leader needs to be removed for his lack of honor.
We would do much better to have honorable honest men in office than to have more of the same crooked politicians we currently have.
Instead of considering if your representative is bringing someone else's money back to your district or even just giving you back some of the money they took from you in taxes ask yourself if that person is honorable and honest in their dealings. Do they answer questions straightforwardly or do they dodge, shift blame or excuse what they are doing?
If you can't say with pride that you're representative is honest and honorable ten understand they are no different then the hucksters in parks who take your money with three card monte all the time making you think you have a chance of winning so you'll stay in the game.
It is time to drive these people out of office.
Don't look at what they say they will do, look at what they have done. Look at what they've said before they started running for office. This is the best way to know what kind of people they are. A leopard cannot change his spots.
A scorpion once wanted to get across a river so he asked the turtle for a ride. The turtle responded if I give you a ride you will most likely sting me on the way and I will die. The scorpion promised not to sting the turtle if he gave him a ride. Half way across the river the scorpion stung the turtle. As they started to go down the turtle asked, "why did you sting me, now we will both die." To this the scorpion replied, because I am a scorpion and it is in my nature."
The nature of a man doesn't change just because he's running for office or because he's now making promises to get that office. If he didn't keep promises before he will likely not keep them now. If he wasn't honorable before he will likely not be now.
Look at their nature and their past not at their promises for the future.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Anger or Compassion
I wonder sometimes if our president even knows what compassion is. It seems to me that in every situation Obama has addressed they have been addressed with anger. Sometimes it parades as compassion, but it always has the bit of anger toward someone and usually in the process is prompting us to be angry with those people or organizations as well.
When the economy began to fall apart it wasn't so much about how do we help people as it was how to we make the people responsible pay for it. How do we go after the people that are responsible and let's make sure everyone knows who's responsible.
Our president has yet to really take responsibility or show compassion. He ever looks for what new restrictions he can place on some other group of people.
Seeking only to place blame and not to accept responsibility is not presidential.
Obama mentioned no less than three times today that he was going to make sure that BP paid for the damage but didn't say anything about what he was going to do to get the problem fixed. He talked about the resolve, but the resolve he mentioned was to get BP.
We have a president who is in front of the cameras on a nearly daily basis but refuses to answer any questions from the press. The press doesn't really push him for answers and the president continues to get away with things no other president has gotten away with. If anything the media does everything they can to help cover for him.
I still can't figure out why we have a president who seems to lack in any basic genuine compassion. He certainly reserves a lot of anger for anyone that's rich, is in large business, or believes in capitalism, but genuine compassion he seems to have none at all. Even when dealing with racial issues it is not compassion for the "black man" but anger toward the "white man" and yes it's that generalized which makes it nothing less than racism, the same kind he accuses everyone else about.
When the economy began to fall apart it wasn't so much about how do we help people as it was how to we make the people responsible pay for it. How do we go after the people that are responsible and let's make sure everyone knows who's responsible.
Our president has yet to really take responsibility or show compassion. He ever looks for what new restrictions he can place on some other group of people.
Seeking only to place blame and not to accept responsibility is not presidential.
Obama mentioned no less than three times today that he was going to make sure that BP paid for the damage but didn't say anything about what he was going to do to get the problem fixed. He talked about the resolve, but the resolve he mentioned was to get BP.
We have a president who is in front of the cameras on a nearly daily basis but refuses to answer any questions from the press. The press doesn't really push him for answers and the president continues to get away with things no other president has gotten away with. If anything the media does everything they can to help cover for him.
I still can't figure out why we have a president who seems to lack in any basic genuine compassion. He certainly reserves a lot of anger for anyone that's rich, is in large business, or believes in capitalism, but genuine compassion he seems to have none at all. Even when dealing with racial issues it is not compassion for the "black man" but anger toward the "white man" and yes it's that generalized which makes it nothing less than racism, the same kind he accuses everyone else about.
Sunday, June 13, 2010
What No One Will Say!
Everyone is willing to say our federal government is out of control but what no one will say is to strip them of all the spending they're doing that is not constitutional.
I know this will cause outrage but please hear me out. And please read my post carefully. Too many people no longer recognize a difference between the federal government and the state government. To them its all just government.
The reason for this is that we have taken to calling our form of government a democracy when it is in reality a democratic republic. It is such a shame this difference is no longer taught clearly in school. I suppose the reason for this is because the teachers don't believe it and have an agenda of their own.
I do make a difference between the federal and state government as does the constitution.
The federal government was never given the power or authority to make sure that we were taken care of in our old age. Yes it would be nice, but it isn't their job.
The constitution never gave them the authority or right to provide us with health care.
The constitution never gave the federal government the right or responsibility of providing education for our children.
All of these things are nice but understand none of these things are free. If something is free for you it is only because someone else is not only pay their share but yours as well so you are just a free loader. If you don't like the term don't be that person.
What no one say is that we need to get rid of these programs. Most people freak out when you say something like this, but this is only because they never think about it.
First our wonder leaders (can you hear the sarcasm?) would have you believe that social security is broken or that we're not paying enough. The reality is that it's being robbed. Our leaders view all that money as something they can use now because they plan to pay it back later. How are they going to pay it back later? By raising your taxes! That was money that was supposed to be set aside for you in a fund that would gain interest and remain untouched so when you retire you would have something to live on.
They seem to think that if you were doing it you would spend all your money and then have nothing for old age because after all, YOU are too irresponsible to be concerned about your retirement, but aren't they doing the same thing?! Certainly they are less concerned about your retirement than you are.
So when they tell you its broken understand they are simply robbing from it!
Second consider if we stopped social security short today it doesn't mean you wouldn't have money coming to you. You DID pay into it and you should get back what you paid in just like THEY PROMISED. The problem is the money isn't there because they've spent.
Ask yourself what would happen if a bank did this? We have a contract with the government and they're breaking it!
Take a look at your check sometime and see how much money you're paying in every month. Imagine what you could do with that money if it were in your hands. Speaking for myself I could have almost bought and paid for a second home by now! That would be rent income for the rest of my life... much better at today's prices than anything I'd get on social security.
When you look at all the taxes you're paying think about it for just a moment what you could do it you had all that money. Speaking for myself I make about 55k per year. I get to keep about 30 of that. Do you not think you could easily pay for a private school for your kids if you had all that money in your own pocket.
Again the government is telling us that They care more about YOUR kids than YOU do! Are they kidding?!
You could actually pay your wife to stay home and teach your kids. With that kind of money you could buy some great teaching materials and if you'd had that all along you might even have already owned your home out right by the time your kids came along in which case you wouldn't have a mortgage to pay for so you would have another $12,000+ in your pocket for discretionary spending.
Are you starting to get the idea?! This is why they don't teach good math or government in school. They don't want you to think about these things.
Don't buy the lie that you will some how be destitute if they stop providing these things for you. They are taking YOUR money to provide YOU will something YOU gave them. They think of you as stupid because they are of course very ELITE people who know far better than you what to do with YOUR money.
Why is it your responsibility to make sure someone else's children get an education. To be forced to give someone else money is not charity. It has another name, they call it robbery!
The worst thing is they rob you and PRETEND to be Robin Hood... taking from those evil rich people and giving to the poor. The problem is that they take from you but then they feel that money is theirs' to spend as they will.
If they stop the public schools then along with that they should stop the tax for it. If they stop the social security they can stop the tax for that!
We have been trained to think that if they stopped public education our children wouldn't get educations because we wouldn't afford it, but that's only because we think they would keep taking the same tax and as things stand right now with the government they would probably want to do just that. But if they stop these programs then they can and should stop the tax for them as well.
You will not be poor in your old age. Your kids won't go without an education. You will be better off with your money in your own pocket than in the pocket of someone else.
So please don't whine when you get someone willing to make what seems like the hard choice and stop these programs. Instead support them and start getting your own money back in your own pocket.
We need people in government who are willing to REALLY cut things and return to us what is ours.
Any time a politician takes money from social security for another program that certainly doesn't pay interest they should be brought up on charges of grand larceny.
It is time to get rid of the tyrants and get people in leadership who really represent us.
I know this will cause outrage but please hear me out. And please read my post carefully. Too many people no longer recognize a difference between the federal government and the state government. To them its all just government.
The reason for this is that we have taken to calling our form of government a democracy when it is in reality a democratic republic. It is such a shame this difference is no longer taught clearly in school. I suppose the reason for this is because the teachers don't believe it and have an agenda of their own.
I do make a difference between the federal and state government as does the constitution.
The federal government was never given the power or authority to make sure that we were taken care of in our old age. Yes it would be nice, but it isn't their job.
The constitution never gave them the authority or right to provide us with health care.
The constitution never gave the federal government the right or responsibility of providing education for our children.
All of these things are nice but understand none of these things are free. If something is free for you it is only because someone else is not only pay their share but yours as well so you are just a free loader. If you don't like the term don't be that person.
What no one say is that we need to get rid of these programs. Most people freak out when you say something like this, but this is only because they never think about it.
First our wonder leaders (can you hear the sarcasm?) would have you believe that social security is broken or that we're not paying enough. The reality is that it's being robbed. Our leaders view all that money as something they can use now because they plan to pay it back later. How are they going to pay it back later? By raising your taxes! That was money that was supposed to be set aside for you in a fund that would gain interest and remain untouched so when you retire you would have something to live on.
They seem to think that if you were doing it you would spend all your money and then have nothing for old age because after all, YOU are too irresponsible to be concerned about your retirement, but aren't they doing the same thing?! Certainly they are less concerned about your retirement than you are.
So when they tell you its broken understand they are simply robbing from it!
Second consider if we stopped social security short today it doesn't mean you wouldn't have money coming to you. You DID pay into it and you should get back what you paid in just like THEY PROMISED. The problem is the money isn't there because they've spent.
Ask yourself what would happen if a bank did this? We have a contract with the government and they're breaking it!
Take a look at your check sometime and see how much money you're paying in every month. Imagine what you could do with that money if it were in your hands. Speaking for myself I could have almost bought and paid for a second home by now! That would be rent income for the rest of my life... much better at today's prices than anything I'd get on social security.
When you look at all the taxes you're paying think about it for just a moment what you could do it you had all that money. Speaking for myself I make about 55k per year. I get to keep about 30 of that. Do you not think you could easily pay for a private school for your kids if you had all that money in your own pocket.
Again the government is telling us that They care more about YOUR kids than YOU do! Are they kidding?!
You could actually pay your wife to stay home and teach your kids. With that kind of money you could buy some great teaching materials and if you'd had that all along you might even have already owned your home out right by the time your kids came along in which case you wouldn't have a mortgage to pay for so you would have another $12,000+ in your pocket for discretionary spending.
Are you starting to get the idea?! This is why they don't teach good math or government in school. They don't want you to think about these things.
Don't buy the lie that you will some how be destitute if they stop providing these things for you. They are taking YOUR money to provide YOU will something YOU gave them. They think of you as stupid because they are of course very ELITE people who know far better than you what to do with YOUR money.
Why is it your responsibility to make sure someone else's children get an education. To be forced to give someone else money is not charity. It has another name, they call it robbery!
The worst thing is they rob you and PRETEND to be Robin Hood... taking from those evil rich people and giving to the poor. The problem is that they take from you but then they feel that money is theirs' to spend as they will.
If they stop the public schools then along with that they should stop the tax for it. If they stop the social security they can stop the tax for that!
We have been trained to think that if they stopped public education our children wouldn't get educations because we wouldn't afford it, but that's only because we think they would keep taking the same tax and as things stand right now with the government they would probably want to do just that. But if they stop these programs then they can and should stop the tax for them as well.
You will not be poor in your old age. Your kids won't go without an education. You will be better off with your money in your own pocket than in the pocket of someone else.
So please don't whine when you get someone willing to make what seems like the hard choice and stop these programs. Instead support them and start getting your own money back in your own pocket.
We need people in government who are willing to REALLY cut things and return to us what is ours.
Any time a politician takes money from social security for another program that certainly doesn't pay interest they should be brought up on charges of grand larceny.
It is time to get rid of the tyrants and get people in leadership who really represent us.
Government & Insurance Claims
Since when did it become the federal government's role to make sure companies pay for disasters?
When you read my posts please be careful to understand that there is a clear line constitutionally speaking between the federal government and the state government. This is a line that has been crossed so many times that we can hardly recognize it any more, but again I will state that the federal government does not have the responsibility constitutionally speaking to oversee corporations to make sure they make reparations for anything.
Do companies like BP have a moral responsibility? Most certainly they do. Do they have a legal responsibility and if so what is that responsibility? That is for courts to decide not the federal government. Once again people are confusing who does what in the government. If we allow the federal government and especially the executive branch to start doing the judicial branch's work we will soon see our constitution become a meaningless document.
This separation of powers was put in place for a reason and we are tearing it apart because everyone feels that nothing should ever go wrong and if it does someone else should pay. Those same people are more than willing to give power to the federal government to make sure that happens even though the federal government was never supposed to have that power. As the federalist papers tell us the power of the federal government should be few and well defined; yet here we are giving them ever more power.
Each disaster or crisis brings yet another opportunity for the federal government to grab more power they were never designed to have.
The founders didn't intend for the federal government to control the education of our children. They never intended for the federal government to make sure we all had retirement income in our old age. They didn't intend for the federal government to make sure people don't hate each other. They didn't give them the power to regulate religion, in fact they specifically prohibited them from doing so. In this latter instance it should be noted the prohibition in the 1st Amendment was not just in public life, it has no restriction. They are not to regulate religion in public or private life.
Because people don't read or learn the constitution any more most are not aware the constitution does not saying anything about the "RIGHT to privacy" it addresses private property. It does not say anything about the separation of church and state. It does not say anything about freedom of express. In the case of expression it is quite specific speaking of freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc.
Because the government has taken control of the schools and now feel sit is worse to have someone's "self esteem" damaged because they failed a test than it is that the person can't read, right or do math, we now have a generation that can hardly read and as such are not exposed to views that might otherwise make them realize the limitation that are supposed to be put on the federal government.
As such the federal government now thinks it's their job to go after BP to make sure they pay people hurt by the oil spill before they fulfill their obligations to their share holders.
If you allow the federal government to have this much power and control because it seems to be working in your favor right now just consider what it will mean when some other politically correct person decides you've done wrong or maybe they just want your property because it might be better for the community and poof! its taken by the federal government in the name of eminent domain.
If you don't speak up soon and start voting these communist/socialist/progressives out of office you will find yourself in a totalitarian government before you know. These people are on both sides of the isle.
Do not fool yourself into thinking this is only the democrats. The republicans have either sat by and said nothing or actively helped pass laws that meet the progressive agenda.
We seem to get so tied up in giving things labels and many are more busy being offended with the label than they are with what the people are doing. Whatever the label they have you need to ask yourself if they genuinely support the constitution and will uphold it as they SWORE to do.
Barbara Boxer, Lynn Woolsey, Diane Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, McCain and many others have not been supporting strict constitutionalism at all. In many cases they have been actively working against it.
All of these people are great at saying what you want to hear but you need to look at their actions. do they feel the federal government should be doing all the things its doing? If so then we probably need to get rid of them.
Everyone is now talking about cuts because it is fashionable but few are being specific and as soon as they mention one that may affect your it then becomes an issue of being fighting words.
Let's face it everyone wants a free ride, but the reality is if you're getting a "free ride" it is only because someone else is not only paying their share, but yours as well. So it's NOT FREE and neither are you! You are now under the thumb of the government as you will give them any power as long as they keep your free ride coming.
We need to be willing and even eager at this point to do the hard thing and rein in the federal government. If it's not in the constitution then tell them to cut it out of the federal spending. You can always vote for it on a state level if you think it's important to have.
For some reason the government seems to feel it is responsible now to make sure that companies pay claims and may even determine what those claims are. Is this the job of the federal government? Is this to be found anywhere in the constitution? Why do we have people clamoring for the feds to do something so they get their fair share of the piece of the pie for money for a disaster now effecting their lives. Where does this come from? Yet almost no one even questions the fact that the federal government is involved in all this and in many cases they even seem excited because they may yet get some freebie and in many cases those who are even less moral are considering ways to commit fraud on the government and big companies to get even more?
When you read my posts please be careful to understand that there is a clear line constitutionally speaking between the federal government and the state government. This is a line that has been crossed so many times that we can hardly recognize it any more, but again I will state that the federal government does not have the responsibility constitutionally speaking to oversee corporations to make sure they make reparations for anything.
Do companies like BP have a moral responsibility? Most certainly they do. Do they have a legal responsibility and if so what is that responsibility? That is for courts to decide not the federal government. Once again people are confusing who does what in the government. If we allow the federal government and especially the executive branch to start doing the judicial branch's work we will soon see our constitution become a meaningless document.
This separation of powers was put in place for a reason and we are tearing it apart because everyone feels that nothing should ever go wrong and if it does someone else should pay. Those same people are more than willing to give power to the federal government to make sure that happens even though the federal government was never supposed to have that power. As the federalist papers tell us the power of the federal government should be few and well defined; yet here we are giving them ever more power.
Each disaster or crisis brings yet another opportunity for the federal government to grab more power they were never designed to have.
The founders didn't intend for the federal government to control the education of our children. They never intended for the federal government to make sure we all had retirement income in our old age. They didn't intend for the federal government to make sure people don't hate each other. They didn't give them the power to regulate religion, in fact they specifically prohibited them from doing so. In this latter instance it should be noted the prohibition in the 1st Amendment was not just in public life, it has no restriction. They are not to regulate religion in public or private life.
Because people don't read or learn the constitution any more most are not aware the constitution does not saying anything about the "RIGHT to privacy" it addresses private property. It does not say anything about the separation of church and state. It does not say anything about freedom of express. In the case of expression it is quite specific speaking of freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc.
Because the government has taken control of the schools and now feel sit is worse to have someone's "self esteem" damaged because they failed a test than it is that the person can't read, right or do math, we now have a generation that can hardly read and as such are not exposed to views that might otherwise make them realize the limitation that are supposed to be put on the federal government.
As such the federal government now thinks it's their job to go after BP to make sure they pay people hurt by the oil spill before they fulfill their obligations to their share holders.
If you allow the federal government to have this much power and control because it seems to be working in your favor right now just consider what it will mean when some other politically correct person decides you've done wrong or maybe they just want your property because it might be better for the community and poof! its taken by the federal government in the name of eminent domain.
If you don't speak up soon and start voting these communist/socialist/progressives out of office you will find yourself in a totalitarian government before you know. These people are on both sides of the isle.
Do not fool yourself into thinking this is only the democrats. The republicans have either sat by and said nothing or actively helped pass laws that meet the progressive agenda.
We seem to get so tied up in giving things labels and many are more busy being offended with the label than they are with what the people are doing. Whatever the label they have you need to ask yourself if they genuinely support the constitution and will uphold it as they SWORE to do.
Barbara Boxer, Lynn Woolsey, Diane Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, McCain and many others have not been supporting strict constitutionalism at all. In many cases they have been actively working against it.
All of these people are great at saying what you want to hear but you need to look at their actions. do they feel the federal government should be doing all the things its doing? If so then we probably need to get rid of them.
Everyone is now talking about cuts because it is fashionable but few are being specific and as soon as they mention one that may affect your it then becomes an issue of being fighting words.
Let's face it everyone wants a free ride, but the reality is if you're getting a "free ride" it is only because someone else is not only paying their share, but yours as well. So it's NOT FREE and neither are you! You are now under the thumb of the government as you will give them any power as long as they keep your free ride coming.
We need to be willing and even eager at this point to do the hard thing and rein in the federal government. If it's not in the constitution then tell them to cut it out of the federal spending. You can always vote for it on a state level if you think it's important to have.
For some reason the government seems to feel it is responsible now to make sure that companies pay claims and may even determine what those claims are. Is this the job of the federal government? Is this to be found anywhere in the constitution? Why do we have people clamoring for the feds to do something so they get their fair share of the piece of the pie for money for a disaster now effecting their lives. Where does this come from? Yet almost no one even questions the fact that the federal government is involved in all this and in many cases they even seem excited because they may yet get some freebie and in many cases those who are even less moral are considering ways to commit fraud on the government and big companies to get even more?
Friday, June 11, 2010
EPA and No Legislative Process
Our leaders are too willing to allow agencies that were not voted on to represent us to pass regulations they have no constitutional right to pass.
I suppose they think that by doing this they can avoid the blame for passing cap and trade that they desperately want but are now afraid to pass. The problem with this is both constitutional.
I suppose our non-representing representatives have realized with each bill that they are voting against what the American people really want and they just don't care. Now that they are all about to lose their jobs they are showing a little more concern. They are too well aware that to do any more to provoke the American people will end the careers of every last one of them. They may even fear that some are kicked out of office before the end of their terms.
It becomes more and more obvious that we have very revolutionary non-representing representatives who have chosen even more revolutionary people to serve under them. They seem almost bend on bring the country to its knees yet they are afraid to move too quickly for fear of it all falling apart.
I can only hope the American people wake up in time and start demanding that things change now. Our leaders are very good at distractions. Already many have forgotten about Obamacare. At the very least there is hardly a word about it in any new media outlet. I'm sure they consider this as going according to plan. They believed that once it was passed it would be forgotten about or at the very least left in place as was social security.
I fear they may be right about this. This one victory alone if not stopped before we become dependent on it will be the demise of the nation. We need to hear more about this and not allow these things to slip into the dusk in the light of such important things as the oil spill. There is no question this is also a major issue.
The president is using this in spite of the advice from his own experts who advised that he should continue to take oil out of the other platforms as it might be more dangerous to stop. The president not only decided to ignore this advice but also falsified the documents of them recommending against doing this.
For some reason our leaders do not seem to understand that their positions become irrelevant if they allow others such as the EPA to start passing regulations without the rule of law or the constitutional mandate for the congress to hold that power. If they allow the EPA to get away with this it will not belong before they have no power at all except as puppets.
Maybe they are willing to live with this eventuality but we as Americans should stand for this in the slightest degree. These people are pillaging our nation right in front of us. I only hope we don't rouse too late to do anything about it.
The EPA and similar organization such as the FCC were not given constitutional authority to create regulations or laws, yet our congress is more than willing to allow them to do just that.
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Republican Deception
The republicans would have us believe they are so different from the democrats. After all they stood together and didn't vote for the Health Care plan.
Did they not vote for it, or did they vote against it because they read it and understood what it would really mean? I don't believe this was the reason. They didn't read the bill any more than the democrats did.
Did they not vote for it, or did they vote against it because They knew the people didn't want it? This is possible and we will probably never know.
If they were so convinced that it was a bad thing for the nation why is it that not one of the republican candidates is now mentioning it in any of their races? Do they really intend to do anything about it? I do not believe they do. I believe at best they will treat it like Social Security. They will make changes to it, but they won't get rid of it. They know that once it really kicks in no one will want another entitlement to go away.
Call me cynical but I believe the republicans knew it would pass without them and were only planning to be the ones to pick up the pieces and smooth things over once it passed.
There is no indication that the goals of the republicans are any different from the goals of the democrats. The only difference is their methods and timing. The republicans are not really that opposed to health care. They would have voted for it, but saw how angry the people were and knew it would pass without them so just decided to stay out of the fray. It is much the same as what some democrats did. Those democrats whose offices were viewed as in possible danger were allowed to vote against the bill unless their vote was needed.
The republicans always leave the major changes to our rights as citizens up to the democrats, but if they really opposed them they would see them overturned once they got in power. Instead they move on to other things.
Has there been a single word from the republicans regarding repealing ObamaCare since the midterm elections started? I haven't been able to find a single one from the republicans.
By their silence they are simply hoping the issue goes away. They are happy to be able to claim there was nothing they could do about it and they are hoping the American people forget that once they take power there is something they could do about it, but they won't!
Neither political party seems to really represent the people any more. consider that 95% of the bills being passed are passed with less than 5% of our representatives having actually read them. They don't even seem to know who's written them.
Though this ought to cause a great deal of concern it doesn't. I believe the reason for this is the complicity of the media to hide the fact that they don't even know what's actually in the bills.
Do we really need more than 100,000 pages of bills a year introduced into congress? Do we need a tax system so complex that even those who "wrote it" don't understand it and won't fill out their own taxes? That is of course when they file their taxes at all. It seems many of them feel that as government representatives they are immune from having to pay taxes.
There is some outrage regarding this, but not nearly enough.
We ought to be holding any that run for office to a written and signed agreement as to what they will do with the agreement they will not run for office again unless they can show that they've done everything they can to fulfill the promises they've made to the people.
Yes, it has come to be accepted that politicians lie. This does not make it right.
We hear all too often in the media from both sides as though it were a real justification that the other side did the same thing they did as though this somehow makes it OK. It is not OK and we need to send that message to our representatives!
Did they not vote for it, or did they vote against it because they read it and understood what it would really mean? I don't believe this was the reason. They didn't read the bill any more than the democrats did.
Did they not vote for it, or did they vote against it because They knew the people didn't want it? This is possible and we will probably never know.
If they were so convinced that it was a bad thing for the nation why is it that not one of the republican candidates is now mentioning it in any of their races? Do they really intend to do anything about it? I do not believe they do. I believe at best they will treat it like Social Security. They will make changes to it, but they won't get rid of it. They know that once it really kicks in no one will want another entitlement to go away.
Call me cynical but I believe the republicans knew it would pass without them and were only planning to be the ones to pick up the pieces and smooth things over once it passed.
There is no indication that the goals of the republicans are any different from the goals of the democrats. The only difference is their methods and timing. The republicans are not really that opposed to health care. They would have voted for it, but saw how angry the people were and knew it would pass without them so just decided to stay out of the fray. It is much the same as what some democrats did. Those democrats whose offices were viewed as in possible danger were allowed to vote against the bill unless their vote was needed.
The republicans always leave the major changes to our rights as citizens up to the democrats, but if they really opposed them they would see them overturned once they got in power. Instead they move on to other things.
Has there been a single word from the republicans regarding repealing ObamaCare since the midterm elections started? I haven't been able to find a single one from the republicans.
By their silence they are simply hoping the issue goes away. They are happy to be able to claim there was nothing they could do about it and they are hoping the American people forget that once they take power there is something they could do about it, but they won't!
Neither political party seems to really represent the people any more. consider that 95% of the bills being passed are passed with less than 5% of our representatives having actually read them. They don't even seem to know who's written them.
Though this ought to cause a great deal of concern it doesn't. I believe the reason for this is the complicity of the media to hide the fact that they don't even know what's actually in the bills.
Do we really need more than 100,000 pages of bills a year introduced into congress? Do we need a tax system so complex that even those who "wrote it" don't understand it and won't fill out their own taxes? That is of course when they file their taxes at all. It seems many of them feel that as government representatives they are immune from having to pay taxes.
There is some outrage regarding this, but not nearly enough.
We ought to be holding any that run for office to a written and signed agreement as to what they will do with the agreement they will not run for office again unless they can show that they've done everything they can to fulfill the promises they've made to the people.
Yes, it has come to be accepted that politicians lie. This does not make it right.
We hear all too often in the media from both sides as though it were a real justification that the other side did the same thing they did as though this somehow makes it OK. It is not OK and we need to send that message to our representatives!
Friday, June 4, 2010
Propaganda Russian Style
What you saw on the news... pay careful attention to the last handshake. Even with care to angles and editing you can still see at least the last guy didn't shake Obama's hand.
Above is what everyone saw and heard on the news. Not even Fox News covered this. Maybe they just couldn't bear the utter embarrassment to the United States and the office of the president. Never to our knowledge has an American president been treated like this. At the same time it is only fair to say that too our knowledge never has a president simply walked out of a major meeting with a foreign dignitary the way Obama did with the PM of Israel.
Now it's coming back on him.
Please note the contrast from what everyone saw in the news real above and what really happened when not edited and hidden by a complicit media below
Even I feel a bit sorry for the president. He is a man that seems to show no other man respect and now he's getting just what he gives everyone else. Somehow I have a feeling all it is doing is making him more determined to get even with those who have snubbed his royal highness.
Above is what everyone saw and heard on the news. Not even Fox News covered this. Maybe they just couldn't bear the utter embarrassment to the United States and the office of the president. Never to our knowledge has an American president been treated like this. At the same time it is only fair to say that too our knowledge never has a president simply walked out of a major meeting with a foreign dignitary the way Obama did with the PM of Israel.
Now it's coming back on him.
Please note the contrast from what everyone saw in the news real above and what really happened when not edited and hidden by a complicit media below
Even I feel a bit sorry for the president. He is a man that seems to show no other man respect and now he's getting just what he gives everyone else. Somehow I have a feeling all it is doing is making him more determined to get even with those who have snubbed his royal highness.
Never Waste A Good Crisis
This has been the motto of the administration almost since their start. I hate to say it but at the same time I can't help but wonder if it isn't true that Obama is not taking or planning on taking advantage of the Gulf Crisis.
It was unexpected and at this point is becoming unwelcome. I believe Obama waited on doing anything about it at first because he was considering how he might use the crisis. I hate to be so cynical, but I wonder if he wasn't thinking it really doesn't matter if it gets worse as he'll find something to use it for and to just let it go until he thinks of some way to use it.
The problem was that he couldn't find any way to spin it except to stop any more drilling, which will hurt our economy, and for his crap and trade policies. I think he was hoping to find something much bigger to use it for and may yet be hoping to that end.
Now he has the issue with the Israeli issue and the "freedom flotilla". As with most crisis or even things that aren't a crisis but might be turned into one he has stayed quiet to see where things will fall. He doesn't want to accuse or condemn only Israel,, but he seems to feel that as long as he mentions them first almost no one will hear the part about Hamas.
He finally came out with his condemnation of Israel about what had happened. Once again what he has to say is that he strongly disapproves but that he doesn't really have all the facts. Does this sound familiar? Remember a certain black professor and white cop? Obama condemned that as well without all of the facts. He has done the same with the Arizona immigration law. This actually seems to be a pattern for Obama.
So far he has been able to put all his own spin on each of these situations because he controls so much of the media. Clearly all of the media with the possible exception of Fox News are lapdogs of the president and they are almost proud of the fact.
Part of using any crisis is control what people hear and how they hear it. CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and all the other news outlets are afraid, unwilling or complicit with the president and report what he wants them too. Though it is not a 100% effective this kind of propaganda over time does have its affects. It is much like self fulfilling prophecy. The people hear what is being said and from this feel free to act upon it since they think everyone else is doing the same thing.
The crisis in the Gulf now seems to be getting even out of Obama's ability to control the media. It's a big story that they don't want to miss and the fact that he doesn't have much to say about it doesn't help. They can't spin his inaction, they can't spin words he's not uttering and he refuses to say anything since he doesn't seem to know what to say.
Some have said this might be Obama's Waterloo, but I doubt this will be the case. They said the same thing about Obamacare, but through pressure and intimidation he managed to turn that around. He has the ability to turn a lot of things around through power and intimidation and I would not put this past him either.
People need to seriously consider the things being said in the news and realize they are not getting a lot of the news.
For some reason the following video was never shown on a single TV station anywhere, even Fox News though it is certainly newsworthy.
The above video is just another example of how much control the White House exercises over the media and what we all see. I can only hope many get a chance to see this and understand it for what it is.
Even the Russians have no respect for Obama though I'm fairly sure that even this situation had no effect on him.
It was unexpected and at this point is becoming unwelcome. I believe Obama waited on doing anything about it at first because he was considering how he might use the crisis. I hate to be so cynical, but I wonder if he wasn't thinking it really doesn't matter if it gets worse as he'll find something to use it for and to just let it go until he thinks of some way to use it.
The problem was that he couldn't find any way to spin it except to stop any more drilling, which will hurt our economy, and for his crap and trade policies. I think he was hoping to find something much bigger to use it for and may yet be hoping to that end.
Now he has the issue with the Israeli issue and the "freedom flotilla". As with most crisis or even things that aren't a crisis but might be turned into one he has stayed quiet to see where things will fall. He doesn't want to accuse or condemn only Israel,, but he seems to feel that as long as he mentions them first almost no one will hear the part about Hamas.
He finally came out with his condemnation of Israel about what had happened. Once again what he has to say is that he strongly disapproves but that he doesn't really have all the facts. Does this sound familiar? Remember a certain black professor and white cop? Obama condemned that as well without all of the facts. He has done the same with the Arizona immigration law. This actually seems to be a pattern for Obama.
So far he has been able to put all his own spin on each of these situations because he controls so much of the media. Clearly all of the media with the possible exception of Fox News are lapdogs of the president and they are almost proud of the fact.
Part of using any crisis is control what people hear and how they hear it. CBS, ABC, MSNBC, and all the other news outlets are afraid, unwilling or complicit with the president and report what he wants them too. Though it is not a 100% effective this kind of propaganda over time does have its affects. It is much like self fulfilling prophecy. The people hear what is being said and from this feel free to act upon it since they think everyone else is doing the same thing.
The crisis in the Gulf now seems to be getting even out of Obama's ability to control the media. It's a big story that they don't want to miss and the fact that he doesn't have much to say about it doesn't help. They can't spin his inaction, they can't spin words he's not uttering and he refuses to say anything since he doesn't seem to know what to say.
Some have said this might be Obama's Waterloo, but I doubt this will be the case. They said the same thing about Obamacare, but through pressure and intimidation he managed to turn that around. He has the ability to turn a lot of things around through power and intimidation and I would not put this past him either.
People need to seriously consider the things being said in the news and realize they are not getting a lot of the news.
For some reason the following video was never shown on a single TV station anywhere, even Fox News though it is certainly newsworthy.
The above video is just another example of how much control the White House exercises over the media and what we all see. I can only hope many get a chance to see this and understand it for what it is.
Even the Russians have no respect for Obama though I'm fairly sure that even this situation had no effect on him.
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