Heard Chertoff, Homeland Security Chief, say that what they were concerned about with Obama’s security was some right-wing nut. I think he should re-examine his thinking as to who is the most dangerous. I don’t think it was a right-wing nut that set the church to which Sarah Palin attends on fire. If you wish to look for violent actions, you should look at Code Pink and the gays and lesbians in California, who will not accept the results from Proposition 8. I don’t believe they feel the majority should rule – typical reaction of liberals who believe in majority rules as long as they are in the majority.
If you want to see hatred in the raw, you have to look no further than the liberal media. It is also the liberal wing of Americans that are trying to do away with Christmas and to keep the churches in line as to their beliefs or non-beliefs. I don’t think they have to fear Conservatives as to Obama’s safety. After all, if something happened to him, it would leave Biden as President. That is a nightmare no Conservative wants to face. After that would be Nancy Pelosi – God forbid! As it stands now, with the three of them and ole Harry, it’s like the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Let’s hope poor Alice survives.
No outcry from the Republican National Committee and from members of the Republican Party about how the vote canvassing in Minnesota is trying to turn the election around and give it to Al Franken is absolutely disgusting. If the votes I have seen in the news media and how they have been construed by this canvassing board is correct, then they are the most crooked people on the face of the Earth. The Democrats and Democratic Party have stolen more elections than Stalin. I would pose this analogy: There are two stores side by side. One is failing, the other very successful. Someone goes in and says to the successful store owner “We are giving your store to the failing store’s owner because that’s the way we think it should be.” What is the point of voting if your vote is taken away from you at someone else’s discretion? To me, stealing a vote is worse than stealing money, and I call this canvassing board a bunch of crooks.
When the election was finished and Coleman won by over 700 votes, you wouldn’t think it would be easy for the election to be stolen from him, but seems they are managing to do this quite easily. So YOU Republicans in Congress sit there and don’t make waves. Let the people decide should not be an empty phrase, but a continuing promise. This Minnesota voting canvassing board is apparently another form of piracy. With the Republican party’s reaction to this voter fraud, I can see no way they will even fight against card check or the renewal of the Fairness in Broadcasting Act. In other words, they are a bunch of WIMPS!
Now that Obama is coming to office and Bush returns to Texas, what will happen to all that hate generated by the Democrats and news media for Bush? The teenagers and young people of today have known nothing but this hatred for their President for most of their lives. The people who did this to them have a lot to answer for. Will the coverage of Obama, with love and admiration, confuse these same teenagers and young persons? I have been a Conservative all my life, and yet, now that Obama is our President, I will give him respect and wish him the greatest amount of success because I love my country and I am ashamed of those who spouted hatred towards Bush for all eight of his years as President. And yes I do doubt their patriotism.
Now that Christmas has passed, I must say that those who have been trying to destroy Christmas have made giant in-roads into their campaign. Political correctness has helped them in this task and has led to a crisis of morality in this country, especially with the younger generations. Lowes, the major competitor to Home Depot fired someone for wearing a Christian pin. Now I am a one-person boycott against Lowes and will make sure my purchases go to Home Depot. There were many instances of efforts made to undermine or destroy Christmas as a religious experience and make it only a celebration of winter. God love us.
The public schools stopped this horror!
I was very fortunate this Christmas to have all my Children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren bring Christmas to me at my house. It was a very happy occasion. One thing happened that brought home to me and everyone there the impact of political correctness. I asked my oldest great granddaughter, who was seven, if she would sing one of the Christmas carols she was taught in school. Her reaction was without even thinking, “Granddaddy, we go to public school!”
Heard the speechifying of Hillary and Bill supporting Obama. Somehow this makes me wonder which one of them has been promised a nomination by Obama to become a Supreme Court Justice. The question becomes: Can a lawyer who has been deprived of his right to practice law for a period of five years because of perjury be appointed to become a Supreme Court Justice? That, of course, leaves Hillary, who would love to be in the limelight for the rest of her life. Have the Clintons crossed the Rubicon? From Whitewater to billing papers being lost, to Vince Foster to Monica Lewinsky, and on through the impeachment process and to 9/11, they have survived, sometimes using surrogates such as Pockets Berger and others.
The backdrop for Obama’s speech leads one to almost blurt out “Hail Caesar!” Who is the Brutus to work with him, to banish Cicero and Crassus and order a hit on them? Would the Republicans represent to Obama a force to be reckoned with as Cicero, Crassus, and other statesmen who would stand in his way? I am afraid that Obama’s election will lead to the decline and fall of the greatest democracy ever. I do not want to have our country be destroyed from within and become a socialist country with freedoms taken from our citizens and the government taking complete control of our lives. That is not what so many brave citizens fought and died for.
Now onto another subject… Remember how Hitler would not allow dissent, and that gave him the power to immerse Germany in an attempt to rule the world and eradicate the Jewish people from the face of the earth. Obama also tries to silence the voices of his detractors when they bring up his history and choices for friends – which is another way to judge his character. See attached:
Barack Obama, Aspiring Commissar By the Editors
While the Obama coronation proceeds apace in Denver, it is in Chicago that Americans are getting a disturbing demonstration of his thuggish methods of stifling criticism.
Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Harvard-educated social anthropologist and frequent contributor to National Review, among other publications. He is widely respected for his meticulous research and measured commentary. For months, he has been doing the job the mainstream media refuses to do: examining the background and public record of Barack Obama, the first-term senator Democrats are about to make their nominee for president despite the shallowness of his experience and achievement.
Kurtz has written extensively, and with characteristic attention to factual detail, about Obama’s early career as a “community organizer,” his cultivation of benefactors in the most radical cauldrons of Chicago politics, his long-time pastor’s immersion in Black Liberation Theology, his ties to anti-American zealots, and the years in the Illinois state legislature this self-styled agent of change spent practicing the by-the-numbers left-wing politics of redistribution and race-consciousness, remaining soft on crime and extreme on abortion.
This has led Kurtz, naturally, to scrutinize the relationship between Obama and one of his early political sponsors, William Ayers. Ayers, as we have previously , is a confessed terrorist who, having escaped prosecution due to surveillance violations that came to light during his decade on the lam after a bombing spree, landed an influential professorship in education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). As he has made clear several times before and after helping to launch Obama’s political career, Ayers remains defiantly proud of bombing the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol, and other targets. He expresses regret only that he didn’t do more. Far from abandoning his radical politics, he has simply changed methods: the classroom, rather than the detonator, is now his instrument for campaigning against an America he portrays as racist and imperialist.
Obama supporters risibly complain that shining a light on the Obama/Ayers relationship is a “smear” and smacks of “guilt by association.” A presidential candidate’s choice to associate himself with an unrepentant terrorist would be highly relevant in any event — does anyone think the Obamedia would keep mum if John McCain had a long-standing relationship with David Duke or an abortion-clinic bomber?
But we are talking about more than a mere “association.”
Bluntly, Obama has lied about his relationship with Ayers, whom he now dismisses as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” Ayers and Obama have made joint appearances together; they have argued together for “reforms” of the criminal justice system to make it more criminal-friendly; Obama gushed with praise for Ayers’ 1997 polemical book on the Chicago courts; and they sat together for three years on the board of the Woods Fund, a left-wing enterprise that distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to their ideological allies. Most significant, they worked closely together on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC).
The CAC was a major education reform project, proposed by Ayers, which was underwritten by a $49.2 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation, complemented by another $100 million in private and public funding. The project ran for about five years, beginning in 1995. As the liberal researcher Steve Diamond has , Ayers ran its operational arm, the “Chicago School Reform Collaborative.” Obama, then a 33-year-old, third-year associate at a small law firm, having no executive experience, was brought in to chair the board of directors, which oversaw all “fiscal matters.”
By the time the CAC’s operations were wound down in 2001 it had doled out more than $100 million in grants but had failed to achieve any improvement in the Chicago schools. What little is known about the grants Obama oversaw is troubling. As Diamond relates, one of the first CAC awards in 1995 was $175,000 for the “Small Schools Workshop,” which had been founded by Ayers and was then headed by Mike Klonsky. It was only the beginning of the CAC’s generous funding of Klonsky — a committed Maoist who had been an Ayers comrade in the radical Students for a Democratic Society (the forerunner of Ayers’ Weatherman terrorist organization), and who hosted a “social justice” blog on the Obama campaign website until his writings were hastily purged in June after Diamond called attention to them.
The CAC records, said to comprise 70 linear feet of files, have long been maintained at the library of the UIC, the public university where Ayers teaches. This summer, Kurtz made an appointment to review them and, after being assured access, was blocked from seeing them by library administrators, who stammered about needing permission from the “donor” — whom they declined to identify. Kurtz energetically raised public awareness to the stonewalling, and the library finally relented this week. That is, as Barack Obama prepares to accept the Democrats’ nomination tonight, the records of his only significant executive experience just became available for review on Tuesday.
Kurtz began his review, and on Wednesday was invited on Milt Rosenberg’s radio program to discuss it. Rosenberg is a Chicago institution. His program, “Extension 720,” has aired for more than 30 years — a civil forum where knowledgeable guests from across the political spectrum discuss important issues in revealing two-hour interviews. What happened Wednesday night was stunning, as even the normally unflappable Rosenberg observed.
The Obama campaign — which has emissaries appearing everywhere — declined Rosenberg’s invitation to have a representative appear on the program and respond to Kurtz’s factual assertions. The campaign did, however, issue an “” that encouraged supporters to contact the program (telephone information was provided) and use scripted “talking points” to disrupt Kurtz’s appearance, which it deemed “unacceptable.” As the Politico’s Ben Smith , the campaign also urged supporters to demand that Rosenberg scrap the appearance of Kurtz, whom the campaign as a “smear-merchant” and a “slimy character assassin.” The rant was reminiscent of the work of the left-wing media “watch-dog” Media Matters for America.
Other than denigrating Kurtz for being conservative, Obama’s operatives have provided no response to the substance of his claims. In their only pretense of engaging him, they accuse him of telling “a flat out lie” that Ayers recruited Obama for the CAC. Though it is a reasonable inference that Ayers recruited Obama, the careful Kurtz has stopped short of making it — observing only that Obama offers no explanation of how he was recruited if not through Ayers, his friend and the CAC’s driving force.
The station, WGN, has made a stream of the broadcast available online, , and it has to be heard to be believed. Obama’s robotic legions dutifully jammed the station’s phone lines and inundated the program with emails, attacking Kurtz personally. Pressed by Rosenberg to specify what inaccuracies Kurtz was guilty of, caller after caller demurred, mulishly railing that “we just want it to stop,” and that criticism of Obama was “just not what we want to hear as Americans.” Remarkably, as Obama sympathizers raced through their script, they echoed the campaign’s insistence that it was Rosenberg who was “lowering the standards of political discourse” by having Kurtz on, rather than the campaign by shouting him down.
Kurtz has obviously hit a nerve. It is the same nerve hit by the American Issues Project, whose television ad calling for examination of the Obama/Ayers relationship has prompted the Obama campaign to demand that the Justice Department begin a criminal investigation. Obama fancies himself as “post-partisan.” He is that only in the sense that he apparently brooks no criticism. This episode could be an alarming preview of what life will be like for the media should the party of the Fairness Doctrine gain unified control of the federal government next year.
For record’s sake, let’s list Obama’s friends:
William Ayers, a member of the Weather Underground – a terrorist group; Bernadine Dohrn, another member of the terrorist group Weather Underground. William Ayers is teaching in a university. Is it any wonder what has happened to most of the “Yewt” graduating from colleges and universities today? Then we have Father Flaeger, a dissident, leftist, and hater of Hillary Clinton and close friend of Louis Farrakhan. Of course we have Obama’s pastor of twenty years, Jeremiah Wright, who preached hatred from the pulpit and even gave impetus to encourage Obama to write one of his books and use a quote from Pastor Wright as its title. Let’s not forget Tony Rezko, his close friend and financial backer who got a great deal for him on his house and an extra slice of lawn. Tony got repaid by Obama in deals like Dodd and Cornin did from Countrywide. Tony got millions in graft, Jeremiah Wright’s church also received massive funds. I believe the hospital that Michelle Obama is paid so graciouslyalso got payola.
In closing, all I have to ask is, is that the Great Wizard Obama behind the curtain?
Another item of interest in closing is the Democrats allowing Jimmy Carter, the worst President ever, to be at the convention. Should Obama be elected, he will be another Jimmy Carter. At least Carter claimed his brother Billy. Will Obama claim his destitute brother?
May God continue to bless the USA and save us from Barack Hussein Obama and Joe Biden.
Just saw a financial program explaining how higher gas prices won’t affect the economy. This, from a group of stock brokers and players making money on the stock market. Never heard one of them mention the adverse action this takes on travel, such as: planes, trains, cars, and buses. Do you think this will make their prices go up and affect the amount of traffic? Of course there are those who have to travel for their business and employment. I do believe it will harm them, and affect them adversely. Then of course, we have those who have sufficient funds, that it doesn’t bother them. I don’t believe the owners of Bentleys, Rolls. Porches, and so forth, will suffer too much either.
There are small business owners offering services such as: plumbing, carpentry, painting, electrical repair, and so forth. They have to travel distances for their customers to perform their services. You can’t tell me the cost of fuel cannot make the difference between failure and success. For them to succeed, they will have to raise their prices, which will affect their customers’ budgets, and encourage them to put off needed maintenance. John Q. Public will be affected greatly for increased food costs. Farm equipment for planting uses fuel. Equipment for harvesting uses fuel. Freight transport to the processor has fuel costs. Freight transport to warehouses uses fuel. Transport to stores uses fuel. Customers trips to stores uses fuel. All these add to the costs of food. And the Democrats complain about Wal-Mart – THINK!!
The average consumer will be hurt in about the same manner as they are being harmed by the actions of trial lawyers, with the costs of their unethical suits and settlements being past on to the consumer. Case in point… a certain trial lawyer running for President with an estate and homes in the millions, complaining about their neighbor, next door to their newest shangri la being constructed. Oh yeah, this guy talks about the two Americas – the ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’. He has, they don’t. He is just like all the other Democratic Presidential seekers, trying to stir up class envy, and bitterness of the electorate to get votes – playing on people’s discontent if they have any.
All of these Democratic Presidential aspirants are rich. Also, so are the Hollywood celebs helping them in these efforts. They talk of raising the tax on the rich. If they felt so bad for the poor, why don’t they give all their wealth to them? They are among the most hypocritical people on the face of the Earth. Reasonable people do not envy the rich if they earned it honestly – only those who obtained it through illicit or crooked ways. Trial lawyers are in this class with their $400 haircuts.
I watched the debate on MSNBC of the Republicans seeking the Presidency. It was what I thought it would be – a Democratic hatchet job. What else could you expect from NBC and politico.com? The question asked of Giuliani about the difference in Sunni and Shea Muslims was on the same order as when they asked Bush, who were the leaders in two small, relatively unknown Balkan countries during that election. They also asked him about Roe vs. Wade and abortions, knowing this was one of the sticking points for most Republicans. Apparently they think he is the greatest threat to defeat whoever their candidate may be.
Other Democrats are beginning to try to destroy his image for the 9/11 persona he exhibited. Concerning war and military objectives, the Democratic party does not believe in offense, only defense. You tell me any team that ever won with that kind of play. In this 21st century, with all the threats and terrorist activities, having the Democrats in charge scares the hell out of me. I will say one thing to the Republicans – You have a lot of obstacles to overcome, not the least of these are: ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, TIME, Newsweek, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, and the affect George Soros, the billionaire and atheist, and Hollywood celebs trying to influence their fans, thinking how STUPID their fans are. Let’s hope not.
Thank God you have some support with the Conservative radio talk show hosts.
thought it would be – a Democratic hatchet job. What else could you expect from NBC and politico.com? The question asked of Giuliani about the difference in Sunni and Shea Muslims was on the same order as when they asked Bush, who were the leaders in two small, relatively unknown Balkan countries during that election. They also asked him about Roe vs. Wade and abortions, knowing this was one of the sticking points for most Republicans. Apparently they think he is the greatest threat to defeat whoever their candidate may be.