There is no doubt that John McCain has a much better sense of humor than Obama. I think that his appearance on SNL last night will do more for his campaign than Obama's millions-of-dollars-from-donors 30 minute infomercial!
See video clip at Breitbart TV
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Showing posts with label John McCain. Show all posts
Sunday, November 02, 2008
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Great Posters & Voter Guides!
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. I just can't resist posting these today! [NOTE: RIGHT click on image and open in another window to enlarge!]
I JUST LOVE THIS ONE OF GOV. PALIN!
Voter Guide:
I think that the Voter Guide shares PLENTY of GOOD REASONS TO VOTE McCAIN/PALIN '08! However, here are more voter guides with more detailed reasons to vote McCAIN/PALIN '08!
HT: Free Republic
I JUST LOVE THIS ONE OF GOV. PALIN!
Voter Guide:
I think that the Voter Guide shares PLENTY of GOOD REASONS TO VOTE McCAIN/PALIN '08! However, here are more voter guides with more detailed reasons to vote McCAIN/PALIN '08!
HT: Free Republic
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Freedom Is Worth It
Dear Mr. Obama -
A video of an Iraq veteran is YouTube's most watched election video, generating 11 million views.
Update: Apparently, my YouTube account has been cancelled and I am banned from the site! This video is no longer available.
Dear Mr. Obama Video
A video of an Iraq veteran is YouTube's most watched election video, generating 11 million views.
Update: Apparently, my YouTube account has been cancelled and I am banned from the site! This video is no longer available.
Dear Mr. Obama Video
Friday, October 17, 2008
McCain Stole the Show At Smith Dinner
John McCain's style of speaking at debates may not always stir the audience as well as Obama's style does. But John's sense of humor really stole the show last evening! His material, excellent timing and deadpan delivery really raised the roof at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial dinner! He was hilarious!!! Even Hillary Clinton thought so. Just watch her reactions in the videos below.
McCain Video
McCain Video
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Iraq War Strategy Vindicated
During the last three weeks of Election 2008, John McCain ought to bring these facts up on the campaign trail!
October 16, 2008
McCain's War Story
By Adam G. Mersereau
A broad consensus is forming -- encompassing the likes of Bill O'Reilly and Whoopi Goldberg -- that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake regardless of the outcome. Senator McCain has defended the Surge, but not the Iraq War. He is missing a chance to reveal the naïveté of his opponent.
Everyone knows that the Bush Administration made some avoidable mistakes early in the Iraq war. However, after the bold troop surge and the change of strategy designed by General Petraeus, victory is in sight. But no one is celebrating. .
Senator Barack Obama fuels the growing consensus by referring to the Iraq war as a "dumb war." In the first presidential debate, when Obama confronted Senator John McCain on his early support for the Iraq war, McCain changed the subject. In their second debate, Obama attacked the wisdom of the war even harder, and McCain conspicuously avoided the issue. No doubt McCain feels Obama's "dumb war" narrative tightening around his neck like a noose.
But McCain should not hide from the true story of the war in Iraq. Far from being a "dumb war," underneath our mistakes in Iraq lay several strokes of strategic genius. The American people-especially those who have made great personal sacrifices-deserve to hear again the compelling reasons why we invaded Iraq, and how a victory in Iraq could vindicate their sacrifices.
Choosing the Battlefield
It is a basic principle of warfare that a commander must never allow his enemy to select the terrain on which he fights. The attacks of 11 September 2001 were designed for the primary purpose of drawing the United States into Afghanistan, which is Al Qaeda's preferred kill-zone. Al Qaeda helped defeat the Soviet Union there. When the Soviet Union subsequently collapsed, Al Qaeda leaders were convinced they had discovered a formula for destroying infidel super-powers: draw them into the God-forsaken moonscape of Afghanistan to fight a protracted war. Al Qaeda knew it would require a spectacular provocation to lure the U.S. military into Afghanistan. Hence 9/11.
Rather than fall for Al Qaeda's "rope-a-dope" ploy, the Bush administration's war planners examined the global situation. Just as America did not charge headlong into Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor, we would not launch a massive invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11. Sure, we could have staged a massive invasion of Afghanistan, but to what end? A large-scale war there would cost many lives and untold resources but would render almost no strategic advantage against the global network of terrorists and their state sponsors.
Instead, President Bush would send a small force to Afghanistan to disperse the Taliban and work with NATO to disrupt Al Qaeda and police the border with Pakistan. To engage the enemy head-on, he would select a battlefield better suited to our strategy.
Iraq - the Obvious Choice
The biggest threat to America was -- and still is -- another 9/11 style attack incorporating nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Even before 9/11, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a beehive of terrorists and WMD activity. Saddam funded Palestinian terrorism. He gave safe haven to notorious terrorists. He hosted bases for six different terrorist groups. His own "Fedayeen Saddam" was operating training camps in Iraq for terrorists from all over the Middle East.
Just prior to 9/11, a Washington think-tank concluded that the most lethal threat to the United States would come from a biological or chemical attack. Biological and chemical weapons were Saddam's forte. One of the few living humans to have actually deployed chemical weapons on a large scale, Saddam was known to possess large stockpiles of them (inspectors inventoried them after the first Gulf War) but refused to provide evidence of their disposal. He had vigorous anthrax and smallpox programs, and he maintained dual-use facilities that could be converted within mere weeks to biological and chemical weapons factories. And yes, he maintained a skeleton nuclear weapons program, ready to be reconstituted as soon as he could beat U.N. sanctions and inspections with help from Russia and France.
All of this made a good case for regime change before 9/11, which is why regime change was the stated goal of the Clinton Administration and Congress before George W. Bush was elected. Every known method to contain Iraq had been tried and had failed: weapons inspections, economic sanctions, U.N. resolutions, and targeted strikes. Editors of the Washington Post and New York Times warned that containment was not working. Military action against Iraq was publicly espoused to varying degrees by Democrats Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and others.
Although these Democrats were among the first to call for retreat when the war became difficult, their pre-9/11 assessment of the Iraqi threat was correct. After 9/11, leaders of both major parties were all the more devoted to "connecting the dots" between terrorist groups and WMD. For anyone paying attention, Iraq was covered with dots.
In addition, the Bush team knew an invasion of Iraq would bring the terrorists to a battlefield on which an American victory could change the entire course of the global war on terror. If a stable representative government could be established there, the entire dynamics of the region could be altered for the better. We would have a new ally that shares a passable boarder with Iran. Perhaps a new Iraq would even give rise to the one antidote for the spreading disease of militant Islam: a Muslim nation willing to fight against Muslim extremists. Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq had the infrastructure, resources, and political history to make such a vision possible.
When Barack Obama quips that Al Qaeda was not in Iraq prior to our invasion, he shows his naïveté. The influx of Al Qaeda into Iraq did not discredit the Bush plan, it vindicated it. Further vindication came when in 2005 Ayman al-Zawahiri deemed Iraq the "place for the greatest battle of Islam in this era." We had refused to take the bait in Afghanistan. Instead, we selected a battleground that could yield results beyond mere retribution. We had a lot to learn about our chosen battlefield and would make fateful errors, but ultimately our military would learn to fight well in Iraq.
The Surge
The small-force strategy that routed the Taliban did not work in Iraq. It actually prolonged the Iraq war and gave credibility to Bush's critics. When things got bad, Obama and others clamored for the U.S. to withdraw. Biden argued for a partition of Iraq that would have yielded disaster. But when President Bush teamed with Senator McCain to support a troop "surge" coupled with the new Petraeus strategy, they delivered a devastating blow to our enemies in Iraq and elsewhere. At a moment of fierce political opposition and great military risk, Bush and McCain committed our nation to victory. We showed the terrorists that despite the calls for surrender coming from the left, some Americans had not lost their nerve.
To discredit the success of the surge, Barack Obama cites the Anbar Awakening as the real turning point in the war. But again he fails to understand a fundamental truth of warfare. The surge and the Awakening were symbiotic. The surge allowed us to consolidate the gains resulting from the Awakening, and vice versa. This is the kind of "luck" that often follows in warfare when commanders make bold, well-reasoned decisions.
To prove his mettle after calling for retreat, Obama now argues for a troop surge of his own, this time in Afghanistan. Apparently, it was dumb to invade Iraq but it's smart to expand the war in Afghanistan. What is his strategy? What is his definition of victory? What if our allies balk? He should answer these questions before Election Day.
Senator Obama presents himself as a new kind of diplomat, saying he would open presidential talks with enemies like Iran. Ironically, if Iran's leaders agree to speak with a future American president, it will only be because President Bush has placed them under tremendous pressure. Obama fails to understand that before the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, we could not engage Iran from a position of strength. There was no way the U.S. could transport a land army to Iran. The only threat we could muster was air strikes which, when used alone, are often counterproductive. The mullahs knew they were nearly untouchable. As a result of decisions now mocked by Obama, however, the next American President will have real bargaining power. Added to the NATO force on Iran's eastern border, America may soon have on Iran's western border an ally and a long-term military presence.
A dumb war? Rest assured, the leaders of Iran and other Muslim nations see the strategic wisdom of the Iraq war. McCain should tell the story as it ought to the be told.
A former officer in the United States Marine Corps, Adam G. Mersereau studied the basics of warfare at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia in the early 1990's. He left the Marine Corps in 1995 at the rank of Captain. He is now an attorney in Atlanta, Georgia.
HT: American Thinker: McCain's War Story
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P.S. Back in 2004, I saved an article entitled, "The Military Brilliance of the Iraq War." Thought some might like to read, compare and contrast what Craig R. Smith wrote back then with what former United States Marine Corps officer Adam G. Mersereau wrote in his article today.
October 16, 2008
McCain's War Story
By Adam G. Mersereau
A broad consensus is forming -- encompassing the likes of Bill O'Reilly and Whoopi Goldberg -- that the invasion of Iraq was a mistake regardless of the outcome. Senator McCain has defended the Surge, but not the Iraq War. He is missing a chance to reveal the naïveté of his opponent.
Everyone knows that the Bush Administration made some avoidable mistakes early in the Iraq war. However, after the bold troop surge and the change of strategy designed by General Petraeus, victory is in sight. But no one is celebrating. .
Senator Barack Obama fuels the growing consensus by referring to the Iraq war as a "dumb war." In the first presidential debate, when Obama confronted Senator John McCain on his early support for the Iraq war, McCain changed the subject. In their second debate, Obama attacked the wisdom of the war even harder, and McCain conspicuously avoided the issue. No doubt McCain feels Obama's "dumb war" narrative tightening around his neck like a noose.
But McCain should not hide from the true story of the war in Iraq. Far from being a "dumb war," underneath our mistakes in Iraq lay several strokes of strategic genius. The American people-especially those who have made great personal sacrifices-deserve to hear again the compelling reasons why we invaded Iraq, and how a victory in Iraq could vindicate their sacrifices.
Choosing the Battlefield
It is a basic principle of warfare that a commander must never allow his enemy to select the terrain on which he fights. The attacks of 11 September 2001 were designed for the primary purpose of drawing the United States into Afghanistan, which is Al Qaeda's preferred kill-zone. Al Qaeda helped defeat the Soviet Union there. When the Soviet Union subsequently collapsed, Al Qaeda leaders were convinced they had discovered a formula for destroying infidel super-powers: draw them into the God-forsaken moonscape of Afghanistan to fight a protracted war. Al Qaeda knew it would require a spectacular provocation to lure the U.S. military into Afghanistan. Hence 9/11.
Rather than fall for Al Qaeda's "rope-a-dope" ploy, the Bush administration's war planners examined the global situation. Just as America did not charge headlong into Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor, we would not launch a massive invasion of Afghanistan after 9/11. Sure, we could have staged a massive invasion of Afghanistan, but to what end? A large-scale war there would cost many lives and untold resources but would render almost no strategic advantage against the global network of terrorists and their state sponsors.
Instead, President Bush would send a small force to Afghanistan to disperse the Taliban and work with NATO to disrupt Al Qaeda and police the border with Pakistan. To engage the enemy head-on, he would select a battlefield better suited to our strategy.
Iraq - the Obvious Choice
The biggest threat to America was -- and still is -- another 9/11 style attack incorporating nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Even before 9/11, Saddam Hussein's Iraq was a beehive of terrorists and WMD activity. Saddam funded Palestinian terrorism. He gave safe haven to notorious terrorists. He hosted bases for six different terrorist groups. His own "Fedayeen Saddam" was operating training camps in Iraq for terrorists from all over the Middle East.
Just prior to 9/11, a Washington think-tank concluded that the most lethal threat to the United States would come from a biological or chemical attack. Biological and chemical weapons were Saddam's forte. One of the few living humans to have actually deployed chemical weapons on a large scale, Saddam was known to possess large stockpiles of them (inspectors inventoried them after the first Gulf War) but refused to provide evidence of their disposal. He had vigorous anthrax and smallpox programs, and he maintained dual-use facilities that could be converted within mere weeks to biological and chemical weapons factories. And yes, he maintained a skeleton nuclear weapons program, ready to be reconstituted as soon as he could beat U.N. sanctions and inspections with help from Russia and France.
All of this made a good case for regime change before 9/11, which is why regime change was the stated goal of the Clinton Administration and Congress before George W. Bush was elected. Every known method to contain Iraq had been tried and had failed: weapons inspections, economic sanctions, U.N. resolutions, and targeted strikes. Editors of the Washington Post and New York Times warned that containment was not working. Military action against Iraq was publicly espoused to varying degrees by Democrats Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore and others.
Although these Democrats were among the first to call for retreat when the war became difficult, their pre-9/11 assessment of the Iraqi threat was correct. After 9/11, leaders of both major parties were all the more devoted to "connecting the dots" between terrorist groups and WMD. For anyone paying attention, Iraq was covered with dots.
In addition, the Bush team knew an invasion of Iraq would bring the terrorists to a battlefield on which an American victory could change the entire course of the global war on terror. If a stable representative government could be established there, the entire dynamics of the region could be altered for the better. We would have a new ally that shares a passable boarder with Iran. Perhaps a new Iraq would even give rise to the one antidote for the spreading disease of militant Islam: a Muslim nation willing to fight against Muslim extremists. Unlike Afghanistan, Iraq had the infrastructure, resources, and political history to make such a vision possible.
When Barack Obama quips that Al Qaeda was not in Iraq prior to our invasion, he shows his naïveté. The influx of Al Qaeda into Iraq did not discredit the Bush plan, it vindicated it. Further vindication came when in 2005 Ayman al-Zawahiri deemed Iraq the "place for the greatest battle of Islam in this era." We had refused to take the bait in Afghanistan. Instead, we selected a battleground that could yield results beyond mere retribution. We had a lot to learn about our chosen battlefield and would make fateful errors, but ultimately our military would learn to fight well in Iraq.
The Surge
The small-force strategy that routed the Taliban did not work in Iraq. It actually prolonged the Iraq war and gave credibility to Bush's critics. When things got bad, Obama and others clamored for the U.S. to withdraw. Biden argued for a partition of Iraq that would have yielded disaster. But when President Bush teamed with Senator McCain to support a troop "surge" coupled with the new Petraeus strategy, they delivered a devastating blow to our enemies in Iraq and elsewhere. At a moment of fierce political opposition and great military risk, Bush and McCain committed our nation to victory. We showed the terrorists that despite the calls for surrender coming from the left, some Americans had not lost their nerve.
To discredit the success of the surge, Barack Obama cites the Anbar Awakening as the real turning point in the war. But again he fails to understand a fundamental truth of warfare. The surge and the Awakening were symbiotic. The surge allowed us to consolidate the gains resulting from the Awakening, and vice versa. This is the kind of "luck" that often follows in warfare when commanders make bold, well-reasoned decisions.
To prove his mettle after calling for retreat, Obama now argues for a troop surge of his own, this time in Afghanistan. Apparently, it was dumb to invade Iraq but it's smart to expand the war in Afghanistan. What is his strategy? What is his definition of victory? What if our allies balk? He should answer these questions before Election Day.
Senator Obama presents himself as a new kind of diplomat, saying he would open presidential talks with enemies like Iran. Ironically, if Iran's leaders agree to speak with a future American president, it will only be because President Bush has placed them under tremendous pressure. Obama fails to understand that before the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, we could not engage Iran from a position of strength. There was no way the U.S. could transport a land army to Iran. The only threat we could muster was air strikes which, when used alone, are often counterproductive. The mullahs knew they were nearly untouchable. As a result of decisions now mocked by Obama, however, the next American President will have real bargaining power. Added to the NATO force on Iran's eastern border, America may soon have on Iran's western border an ally and a long-term military presence.
A dumb war? Rest assured, the leaders of Iran and other Muslim nations see the strategic wisdom of the Iraq war. McCain should tell the story as it ought to the be told.
A former officer in the United States Marine Corps, Adam G. Mersereau studied the basics of warfare at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia in the early 1990's. He left the Marine Corps in 1995 at the rank of Captain. He is now an attorney in Atlanta, Georgia.
HT: American Thinker: McCain's War Story
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P.S. Back in 2004, I saved an article entitled, "The Military Brilliance of the Iraq War." Thought some might like to read, compare and contrast what Craig R. Smith wrote back then with what former United States Marine Corps officer Adam G. Mersereau wrote in his article today.
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Bribes paid for Jerome Corsi to escape from Kenya
LONDON – Bribes totaling thousands of dollars were paid to facilitate WND senior staff reporter Jerome Corsi's departure from Kenya after immigration authorities there detained him and his publicist, holding them under armed guard and without food, to prevent Corsi from holding a news conference revealing what he had discovered about Barack Obama.
read more digg story
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Update at 6:30 a.m. PT:
Apparently, Obama's plane stinks - real bad - literally!
So does his entire campaign!! It stinks of lies, deceit, associations with radicals, and most of all - it stinks of a Marxist, socialistic, dictatorship type future government that patriotic, clear thinking Americans DON'T WANT ANY PART OF!
We are a Democratic REPUBLIC and want to stay that way!
Notice the smell of Obama elitism revealed in the article:
It was very telling to hear the chants of Obamabots at a recent campaign rally cheering, "o-ba-ma, o-ba-ma, o-ba-ma."
At the McCain/Palin rallies, supporters shout:
U.S.A.!!
U.S.A.!!
U.S.A.!!
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Update:
New McCain ad ties Obama with Ayers! [FINALLY!! OBAMA IS BEING EXPOSED FOR HIS RADICAL TIES TO THIS DOMESTIC TERRORIST!]
Too risky for America! That's the understatement of the year!!
Can't wait for an ad to show Obama's connection to Odinga!
Pro-McCain 527 groups - where are you when we need you!!!
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Update
Go read everything over at Road Sassy. Pay particular attention to the post where the claim is made that Bill Ayers was the ghost writer of Barack Obama's "Dreams of My Father" book!
Obama and his cronies want the public to believe that Ayers was just "one of Obama's neighbors" whom he hardly knew?
What a pathological liar Obama is!!!
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Excerpt from one of the Road Sassy posts:
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Update:
Read these articles about the voter registration fraud being done by ACORN:
STEAL THE VOTE
Missouri officials suspect fraud
'I don't even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy'--Associated Press
ACORN in Ohio: Voter registration can't be totally fraud free
'This is not something you can catch with your internal controls, apparently'
--Cleveland Plain Dealer
Election-fraud task force raids office backing Obama
Nevada ACORN accused of submitting multiple registrations with duplicate, false names--Washington Times
Affidavit: Inmates hired as canvassers by ACORN
Team leader says co-workers were 'lazy crackheads'
--KTNV-TV, Las Vegas
NEWS ANALYSIS
ACORN, Barack Obama and Democratic party
Group's deserved reputation for militance balanced by less-well-known 'inside strategy'--National Review
ht: WND
read more digg story
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Update at 6:30 a.m. PT:
Apparently, Obama's plane stinks - real bad - literally!
So does his entire campaign!! It stinks of lies, deceit, associations with radicals, and most of all - it stinks of a Marxist, socialistic, dictatorship type future government that patriotic, clear thinking Americans DON'T WANT ANY PART OF!
We are a Democratic REPUBLIC and want to stay that way!
Notice the smell of Obama elitism revealed in the article:
The McCain folks are more helpful and generally friendly. The schedules are printed on actual books you can hold in your hand, read, and then plan accordingly. The press aides are more knowledgeable and useful to us in the news media. The events are designed with a better eye, and for the simple needs of the press corps. When he is available, John McCain is friendly and loquacious. Obama holds news conferences, but seldom banters with the reporters who've been following him for thousands of miles around the country. Go figure.
The McCain campaign plane is better than Obama's, which is cramped, uncomfortable and smells terrible most of the time. Somehow the McCain folks manage to keep their charter clean, even where the press is seated.
The other day in Albuquerque, N.M., the reporters were given almost no time to file their reports after McCain spoke. It was an important, aggressive speech, lambasting Obama's past associations. When we asked for more time to write up his remarks and prepare our reports, the campaign readily agreed to it. They understood.
Similar requests are often denied or ignored by the Obama campaign aides, apparently terrified that the candidate may have to wait 20 minutes to allow reporters to chronicle what he's just said. It's made all the more maddening when we are rushed to our buses only to sit and wait for 30 minutes or more because nobody seems to know when Obama is actually on the move.
Maybe none of this means much. Maybe a front-running campaign like Obama's that is focused solely on victory doesn't have the time to do the mundane things like print up schedules or attend to the needs of reporters.
But in politics, everything that goes around comes around.
It was very telling to hear the chants of Obamabots at a recent campaign rally cheering, "o-ba-ma, o-ba-ma, o-ba-ma."
At the McCain/Palin rallies, supporters shout:
U.S.A.!!
U.S.A.!!
U.S.A.!!
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Update:
New McCain ad ties Obama with Ayers! [FINALLY!! OBAMA IS BEING EXPOSED FOR HIS RADICAL TIES TO THIS DOMESTIC TERRORIST!]
Barack Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Friends. They’ve worked together for years. But Obama tries to hide it. Why?
Obama launched his political career in Ayers’ living room. Ayers and Obama ran a radical “education” foundation, together. They wrote the foundation’s by-laws, together. Obama was the foundation’s first chairman. Reports say they, “distributed more than $100 million to ideological allies with no discernible improvement in education.”
When their relationship became an issue, Obama just responded, “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood.” That’s it?
We know Bill Ayers ran the “violent left wing activist group” called Weather Underground. We know Ayers’ wife was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list. We know they bombed the Capitol. The Pentagon. A judge’s home. We know Ayers said, “I don’t regret setting bombs. …. I feel we didn’t do enough.”
But Obama’s friendship with terrorist Ayers isn’t the issue. The issue is Barack Obama’s judgment and candor. When Obama just says, “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” Americans say, “Where’s the truth, Barack?”
Barack Obama. Too risky for America.
Too risky for America! That's the understatement of the year!!
Can't wait for an ad to show Obama's connection to Odinga!
Pro-McCain 527 groups - where are you when we need you!!!
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Update
Go read everything over at Road Sassy. Pay particular attention to the post where the claim is made that Bill Ayers was the ghost writer of Barack Obama's "Dreams of My Father" book!
Obama and his cronies want the public to believe that Ayers was just "one of Obama's neighbors" whom he hardly knew?
What a pathological liar Obama is!!!
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Excerpt from one of the Road Sassy posts:
I just read an article in Front Page Magazine by Donna Ron, ‘Remembering a Sixties Terrorist‘. It tells of how Bill Ayers treated a young female student and if you can’t get to sleep while angry I suggest you put it by till the morning. And this is another of Obama’s friends. Till he throws him under the bus before the debate tomorrow night.
Related to this, is this article in Contentions, ‘Hypocrisy Doesn’t Begin To Describe It‘ by Jennifer Rubin.
There is no end to it — everyone gets the version of Obama that perfectly fits his own world view. It is not hypocrisy. It’s fraud. Whatever he told or shared with Ayers, Dohrn, Wright, or Pfleger counts for no more that what he told or shared with other now inconvenient groups and individuals. He’s sold the same piece of political real estate to multiple buyers for multiple, conflicting uses.
But one thing has been consistent. He has never, ever attacked political corruption, whether in Chicago or Washington. To the contrary, at the Woods Fund, the Annenberg Challenge and the U.S. Senate he’s laddled out earmarks and goodies to a long list of friends and associates — Wright, Pfleger, Will County ( home of FBI target Larry Walsh), Allison S. Davis, ACORN, etc. The one consistency has been his fidelity to political supporters. Everyone else and every political position were disposable.
Read it all.
McCain and Sarah are on to something finally attacking Obama on these connections and I bet it’s Sarah who is behind it, Sarahcuda indeed.
The Obama excuses of crying racism, not the —— I knew, I never heard Wright’s sermons [in twenty years of sitting in his pews!], I didn’t know about Ayer’s connection to the Weather Underground are going to start wearing pretty thin, but only if he’s forced to keep repeating them. Go Sarah!!
I still say Obama’s going to lose.
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Update:
Read these articles about the voter registration fraud being done by ACORN:
STEAL THE VOTE
Missouri officials suspect fraud
'I don't even know the entire scope of it because registrations are coming in so heavy'--Associated Press
ACORN in Ohio: Voter registration can't be totally fraud free
'This is not something you can catch with your internal controls, apparently'
--Cleveland Plain Dealer
Election-fraud task force raids office backing Obama
Nevada ACORN accused of submitting multiple registrations with duplicate, false names--Washington Times
Affidavit: Inmates hired as canvassers by ACORN
Team leader says co-workers were 'lazy crackheads'
--KTNV-TV, Las Vegas
NEWS ANALYSIS
ACORN, Barack Obama and Democratic party
Group's deserved reputation for militance balanced by less-well-known 'inside strategy'--National Review
ht: WND
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Ultimate DIRTY Laundry List Of Obama Radicals
There will be lots of posts about the debate last night. Here's my favorite, so far: Michele Malkin asks - Who was the Obama plant at last night's debate?
Great answer quipped by Michelle over there! heh heh
Also, check out Michele's liveblogging link at her site.
Back to this post.
McCain clearly won because he has the right ideas at the right time for our country. Any amount of charisma demonstrated by Obama cannot possibly be a substitute for McCain's "Country First" mindset and good policies to lift us out the the financial crisis - which was caused mostly by the Democrats in Congress.
How much does McCain have over Obama?
Here's a partial list. Please add your own in the comment section:
1. experience
2. strategic military knowledge
3. economic ideas (btw, McCain's idea to rescue mortgages includes utilizing 300 billion of the 700 billion already agreed upon by Congress)
4. proper understanding of foreign affairs
5. his ability to reach across the aisle (which Obama has never done - remember - he hates conservatives - those gun-toting, Bible believing Christians who stick to their guns, Bibles, and religion)
6. tax cutting helps create more jobs
7. increasing the per child credit from 3,500 to 5,000 will help people fund their own health care
8. tax cutting guarantees that people get to keep more of their own money (it's NOT THE GOVERNMENT'S TO BEGIN WITH!!)
9. will not sit down with radical dictators (which Obama naively stated he would)
[Plan to add to this list as the day progresses.]
In reference to number 9, I want to introduce you to a link where practically every radical who happens to endorse Obama is listed. I think this is shocking - that a United States Presidential candidate would have such strange (and dangerous) bedfellows.
Obama's Endorsements from Radicals
Another problem with the Obama campaign. Apparently, it has been uncovered that there is HUGE voter fraud (via ACORN - NO SURPRISE!) which has now spread to 10 states!! In a report that I just heard on Fox News, these criminal ACORN people are apparently dumb enough to use the same name on multiple fraudulent voter registrations across state lines!!
There are dumb voter fraud cheaters; but then there are some who are even dumber!
Excerpt:
In addition to radical endorsements and voter fraud, Investor's Business Daily exposes the fact that Obama's ideas of "change" are not what America wants or needs. IBD has an exclusive list of Obama articles called The Audacity of Socialism
But don't let all of this Obama campaign illegal activity and associations with radicals and dangerous people get you down. I do have some GOOD news that can give us all a glimmer of hope in this election.
I agree with the blogger at California Conservative. We should be questioning the reliability and accuracy of the polling that is being presented by the MSM news sources. Therefore, don't let the so-called "Obama is leading in the battleground states" hype get you discouraged. Instead, realize this truth:
Trouble for Team Barry?
California Conservative writes:
When we put together the desperate measures of the voter fraud ACORN people and realize that former Clinton supporters - 5 million and counting, in fact - are supporting John McCain for president, we can see why the Obamabots are so busy scurrying around trying to make up (literally) voters for Barry-boy.
HT's:
Michelle Malkin
Fox News
Obama's Endorsements
IBD Editorials
California Conservative
GateWay Pundit
Great answer quipped by Michelle over there! heh heh
Also, check out Michele's liveblogging link at her site.
Back to this post.
McCain clearly won because he has the right ideas at the right time for our country. Any amount of charisma demonstrated by Obama cannot possibly be a substitute for McCain's "Country First" mindset and good policies to lift us out the the financial crisis - which was caused mostly by the Democrats in Congress.
How much does McCain have over Obama?
Here's a partial list. Please add your own in the comment section:
1. experience
2. strategic military knowledge
3. economic ideas (btw, McCain's idea to rescue mortgages includes utilizing 300 billion of the 700 billion already agreed upon by Congress)
4. proper understanding of foreign affairs
5. his ability to reach across the aisle (which Obama has never done - remember - he hates conservatives - those gun-toting, Bible believing Christians who stick to their guns, Bibles, and religion)
6. tax cutting helps create more jobs
7. increasing the per child credit from 3,500 to 5,000 will help people fund their own health care
8. tax cutting guarantees that people get to keep more of their own money (it's NOT THE GOVERNMENT'S TO BEGIN WITH!!)
9. will not sit down with radical dictators (which Obama naively stated he would)
[Plan to add to this list as the day progresses.]
In reference to number 9, I want to introduce you to a link where practically every radical who happens to endorse Obama is listed. I think this is shocking - that a United States Presidential candidate would have such strange (and dangerous) bedfellows.
Obama's Endorsements from Radicals
Another problem with the Obama campaign. Apparently, it has been uncovered that there is HUGE voter fraud (via ACORN - NO SURPRISE!) which has now spread to 10 states!! In a report that I just heard on Fox News, these criminal ACORN people are apparently dumb enough to use the same name on multiple fraudulent voter registrations across state lines!!
There are dumb voter fraud cheaters; but then there are some who are even dumber!
Excerpt:
"Some of them used nonexistent names, some of them used false addresses and some of them were duplicates of previously filed applications," Walsh said, describing the complaints, which largely came from the registrar in Clark County, Nev.
Secretary of State Ross Miller said the fraudulent registrations included forms for the starting lineup of the Dallas Cowboys football team.
"Tony Romo is not registered to vote in the state of Nevada, and anybody trying to pose as Terrell Owens won't be able to cast a ballot on Nov. 4," Miller said.
In addition to radical endorsements and voter fraud, Investor's Business Daily exposes the fact that Obama's ideas of "change" are not what America wants or needs. IBD has an exclusive list of Obama articles called The Audacity of Socialism
But don't let all of this Obama campaign illegal activity and associations with radicals and dangerous people get you down. I do have some GOOD news that can give us all a glimmer of hope in this election.
I agree with the blogger at California Conservative. We should be questioning the reliability and accuracy of the polling that is being presented by the MSM news sources. Therefore, don't let the so-called "Obama is leading in the battleground states" hype get you discouraged. Instead, realize this truth:
Trouble for Team Barry?
California Conservative writes:
This information makes me question the validity of the recent polling:
A major supporter of Hillary Clinton and member of the Democratic National Committee’s Platform Committee, on Monday said the Democratic Party has nominated “the worst candidate” while Republicans have nominated the best.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild helped open the Democrats for McCain headquarters on Main Avenue in West Scranton. About 30 supporters turned out to welcome de Rothschild and speak out for the Republican ticket.
“What it came down to was that I decided I love my country more than my party,” de Rothschild said, explaining her support of Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin. “I’m really worried. I do not want (Obama) in the White House.”
De Rothschild, 54, said she sees Northeast Pennsylvania – specifically Luzerne and Lackawanna counties – as the key to winning Pennsylvania’s 21 electoral votes. And, she said, whoever wins Pennsylvania will likely become the next president.
“Barack Obama has never had the mandate of Democrats,” she said. “And Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi ignored the 18 million people that voted for Hillary Clinton. They can’t be surprised at the 5 million to 7 million Clinton supporters who are now supporting McCain.”
One organization – PUMA, which stands for Party Unity My A** – has more than 5 million members across the country, she said. Jamie Brazil, a longtime friend of the Clintons and the Rodham family, is serving as national director of Citizens for McCain. Brazil accompanied de Rothschild on her Scranton visit.
Brazil and his wife, Dee, will be godparents to Simon Rodham, son of Tony and Megan Rodham at his baptism Oct. 12 in Scranton. Tony Rodham is Hillary Clinton’s brother. The Clintons will attend the post-baptism brunch at the Brazil home in Scranton.
Last election approximately 120 million votes were cast. When you factor in the steadfastness of Hillary’s supporters, it’s fairly certain that these PUMA’s are very likely voters. This must worry Team Barry.
When we put together the desperate measures of the voter fraud ACORN people and realize that former Clinton supporters - 5 million and counting, in fact - are supporting John McCain for president, we can see why the Obamabots are so busy scurrying around trying to make up (literally) voters for Barry-boy.
HT's:
Michelle Malkin
Fox News
Obama's Endorsements
IBD Editorials
California Conservative
GateWay Pundit
Saturday, September 27, 2008
How To Spin a Debate!
I plan to discuss the presidential debate in more detail later (hint: McCain knocked it out of the park!). However, since I really enjoyed reading (and laughing!) about the very first blog post reaction to the debate that I chose to click on this morning (over at Newsbusters), I thought that I would encourage everyone here to go over and read it!
Reading New Republic Teas Leaves Determine Debate Winner
The last paragraph made me laugh out loud! I could not believe that any serious journalist would ever write such a stupid title!! Someone needs to point that writer in the direction of the Fox News Channel's text message poll. As of last night, the "who won the debate" question results were:
McCain - 82%
Obama - 16%
Undecided - 1%
Last I heard, over 56 thousand people participated in that text message poll!
Over at CNN, they utilized their typical spin mantra to make one believe that Obama had a slight lead over McCain in the "who won" telephone poll they had conducted. Even one of the persons in their "after the debate" panel admitted that they had polled mostly Democrats and would have to see the national results that will be broadcast the next day. Ha!
The MSM spin is so laughable when it comes to their Obamabot mindset. It is like their brains have all been deprogrammed, then attached and assimilated by pseudo-humanoid drones like the Borg!
HT: Newsbusters.org
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Additional links (will be updated throughout day):
Was a Tie Enough for Follow-the-Leader Obama Tonight?
Kissinger Unhappy About Obama (Hint: Obama lied!)
Debate #1 Wrap-up
What's the name on my bracelet?
[Note: A bit unrelated (at least, directly) to the debate, but when I saw Obama fling the rose onto the 9/11 memorial site, I cringed. Ran across this post and video of it. A Tale of Two Roses]
Excerpt:
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Update: See Christopher Ruddy's:
Why McCain Won the Debate
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Reading New Republic Teas Leaves Determine Debate Winner
The last paragraph made me laugh out loud! I could not believe that any serious journalist would ever write such a stupid title!! Someone needs to point that writer in the direction of the Fox News Channel's text message poll. As of last night, the "who won the debate" question results were:
McCain - 82%
Obama - 16%
Undecided - 1%
Last I heard, over 56 thousand people participated in that text message poll!
Over at CNN, they utilized their typical spin mantra to make one believe that Obama had a slight lead over McCain in the "who won" telephone poll they had conducted. Even one of the persons in their "after the debate" panel admitted that they had polled mostly Democrats and would have to see the national results that will be broadcast the next day. Ha!
The MSM spin is so laughable when it comes to their Obamabot mindset. It is like their brains have all been deprogrammed, then attached and assimilated by pseudo-humanoid drones like the Borg!
HT: Newsbusters.org
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Additional links (will be updated throughout day):
Was a Tie Enough for Follow-the-Leader Obama Tonight?
Kissinger Unhappy About Obama (Hint: Obama lied!)
Debate #1 Wrap-up
What's the name on my bracelet?
[Note: A bit unrelated (at least, directly) to the debate, but when I saw Obama fling the rose onto the 9/11 memorial site, I cringed. Ran across this post and video of it. A Tale of Two Roses]
Excerpt:
It’s a small gesture, but gestures matter at the hallowed grave site of so many murdered innocent Americans.
Barack Obama flings a memorial rose at Ground Zero like he’s a kid tossing pennies into a fountain at the shopping mall — or a spectator tossing flowers at a bullfight.
He doesn’t know what he’s doing.
(Clueless NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg copies him.)
By contrast, John McCain and his wife kneel and gently, somberly, place their roses down at the foot of the 9/11 tribute.
Tons of you e-mailed me about this. Here’s the vid for the rest of you who didn’t see it. It’s a telling cultural and generational distinction between these two men vying to be commander-in-chief of our nation.
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Update: See Christopher Ruddy's:
Why McCain Won the Debate
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Trust, But Verify
When I heard that Presidential Candidate, Senator John McCain, recommended a bipartisan oversight committee for the 700 billion bailout measure, I was certainly relieved! It is an excellent idea. Just as he said in his town hall meeting speech in Scranton, Pa. this morning, "No one person should have access to such a huge amount of taxpayer money!" I wholeheartedly agree!
Admittedly, I do not know much about Treasury Secretary Paulson; except that he is a former CEO of Goldman. I need to do a search on him. However, just as McCain had mentioned several times since this investment meltdown came to fruition, it is best to "trust, but verify" any person who would be in a position like Paulson inevitably will - with access to so much tax-payer money in the face of this bailout measure.
After doing a quick search, I found this article quite interesting. In truth, I hate to link to it because the author obviously hates Bush, Republicans, and conservatives.
Although the author refers to people like me and Michele Malkin as "right-wing" it appears that he is glad that there is some conservative concern and chatter in opposition to Paulson getting access to so much money. Since one man would be making all of the decisions (at this point)as to what he will do with the money over the next two years, it makes perfect sense to be highly concerned.
All the more reason that John McCain's idea of a bipartisan oversight committee is crucial before the measure gets passed and signed by President Bush.
I still have a sneaking suspicion that George Soros has his grubby, evil and menacing hands somewhere in this mess. Can't prove anything, but my previous post about him (in case you missed it) reveals why I think he has something to do with our current financial crisis.
Not many people wrote comments to that post. Maybe I'm the only one who sees connecting dots between this crisis, the "Obama Unmasked" book, and O'Reilly's warnings about Soros in "Culture Warrior?"
Hmmm.....
Decided to do a search on "Paulson and Soros connection."
Found a few articles that may give us some insight:
Soros Bets On U.S. Economic Collapse - This was written back in January, 2008! However, the "Paulson" mentioned in the article is "John Paulson."
Then, I found this article:
Paulson Hedge Fund Up 410% Subprime bet pays off for $20 billion hedge fund firm. That is an article from September, 2007. Notice this in the comment section:
Wow! Could there be a connection? Does anyone know if these two "Paulson" men are related?
Obviously, this writer doesn't like Paulson's fantasy - which kicks Main Street in the teeth!
Next, I found a link at Boom2Bust.com in which we find two May, 2008 articles where Soros "warns of financial crisis, wealth destruction" and "predicts more economic pain." How nice. Soros laughs at the end of the comment at "Boom" blog!
There are many, many more links I could post. But alas, my blogging time for now has expired.
I will end with a link to a post called, George Soros: The Enemy Within
Yep!
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Update @ 11:36 a.m. PT:
Apparently, Ben Stein finds the bailout quite alarming!
Stop the Wall Street Looting
*Sigh* - What is an average American like me supposed to think about all of this! It's making my mind spin and head hurt!!
HT's:
Accuracy in Media
Market Watch
Investment News
Boom2Bust.com
Blogger News Network
Update link HT:
Money News.com
Admittedly, I do not know much about Treasury Secretary Paulson; except that he is a former CEO of Goldman. I need to do a search on him. However, just as McCain had mentioned several times since this investment meltdown came to fruition, it is best to "trust, but verify" any person who would be in a position like Paulson inevitably will - with access to so much tax-payer money in the face of this bailout measure.
After doing a quick search, I found this article quite interesting. In truth, I hate to link to it because the author obviously hates Bush, Republicans, and conservatives.
Although the author refers to people like me and Michele Malkin as "right-wing" it appears that he is glad that there is some conservative concern and chatter in opposition to Paulson getting access to so much money. Since one man would be making all of the decisions (at this point)as to what he will do with the money over the next two years, it makes perfect sense to be highly concerned.
All the more reason that John McCain's idea of a bipartisan oversight committee is crucial before the measure gets passed and signed by President Bush.
I still have a sneaking suspicion that George Soros has his grubby, evil and menacing hands somewhere in this mess. Can't prove anything, but my previous post about him (in case you missed it) reveals why I think he has something to do with our current financial crisis.
Not many people wrote comments to that post. Maybe I'm the only one who sees connecting dots between this crisis, the "Obama Unmasked" book, and O'Reilly's warnings about Soros in "Culture Warrior?"
Hmmm.....
Decided to do a search on "Paulson and Soros connection."
Found a few articles that may give us some insight:
Soros Bets On U.S. Economic Collapse - This was written back in January, 2008! However, the "Paulson" mentioned in the article is "John Paulson."
Then, I found this article:
Paulson Hedge Fund Up 410% Subprime bet pays off for $20 billion hedge fund firm. That is an article from September, 2007. Notice this in the comment section:
Austintatious 380 days ago
Unless Paulson & Co has some connection with Hank Paulson (former Goldman CEO, current Sec of Treasury)...
Wow! Could there be a connection? Does anyone know if these two "Paulson" men are related?
Obviously, this writer doesn't like Paulson's fantasy - which kicks Main Street in the teeth!
Next, I found a link at Boom2Bust.com in which we find two May, 2008 articles where Soros "warns of financial crisis, wealth destruction" and "predicts more economic pain." How nice. Soros laughs at the end of the comment at "Boom" blog!
There are many, many more links I could post. But alas, my blogging time for now has expired.
I will end with a link to a post called, George Soros: The Enemy Within
Yep!
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Update @ 11:36 a.m. PT:
Apparently, Ben Stein finds the bailout quite alarming!
Stop the Wall Street Looting
*Sigh* - What is an average American like me supposed to think about all of this! It's making my mind spin and head hurt!!
HT's:
Accuracy in Media
Market Watch
Investment News
Boom2Bust.com
Blogger News Network
Update link HT:
Money News.com
Friday, September 12, 2008
Immaturity and Nastiness of Obama Campaign
Just more evidence of the immaturity and downright nastiness of Obama and his followers.
I saw the attack ad against Senator McCain where they mock his inability to use a computer. Trouble is, they didn't do the necessary research to find out why!
When I saw the ad, I thought it was probably from some fringe, left-wing lunatic group. I didn't think that the official Obama campaign would do something so cruel. Turns out, the fringe, left-wing lunatic group WAS THE OBAMA campaign! And, Obama "approved the message" at the end of the commercial.
Article about ad attacking John McCain for not knowing how to send an e-mail.
Excerpt:
I saw the attack ad against Senator McCain where they mock his inability to use a computer. Trouble is, they didn't do the necessary research to find out why!
When I saw the ad, I thought it was probably from some fringe, left-wing lunatic group. I didn't think that the official Obama campaign would do something so cruel. Turns out, the fringe, left-wing lunatic group WAS THE OBAMA campaign! And, Obama "approved the message" at the end of the commercial.
Article about ad attacking John McCain for not knowing how to send an e-mail.
Excerpt:
Their crack research team apparently never heard of Google or Lexis-Nexis, but Jonah Goldberg does. He discovers why McCain doesn’t use a keyboard — his torturers made sure he couldn’t. The Boston Globe reported it eight years ago:HT: Hot AirMcCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain’s encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He’s an avid fan - Ted Williams is his hero - but he can’t raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.
After Vietnam, McCain had Ann Lawrence, a physical therapist, help him regain flexibility in his leg, which had been frozen in an extended position by a shattered knee. It was the only way he could hope to resume his career as a Navy flier, but Lawrence said the treatment, taken twice a week for six months, was excruciatingly painful.
"He endured it, he wouldn't settle for less,'' said Lawrence, who rejoiced with McCain when he passed the Navy physical. ''I have never seen such toughness and resolve."
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Obama's Bubble Bursting!
Whew! Got scared and literally sick for a moment! Clicked on a post in my "News You Won't Get From MSM" blog roll labeled The world's verdict will be harsh if the US rejects the man it yearns for - An America that disdains Obama for his global support risks turning current anti-Bush feeling into something far worse.
I thought, how in the world did I link directly to this bullcrap??
Ahh...then I realized that it was just one of the latest articles to appear at Cross Action News - which is a Conservative Christian news website.
Well, if you thought THAT article was bad enough, just go on over and watch a very brief video clip of a democrat who has the gall to compare Obama to Jesus and Palin to Pontius Pilate on House Floor!!
The Dems are losing it!!! BIG TIME!!! They know Obama's fake appeal is waning among the sane Americans who are witnessing the once labeled "Obamessiah" as the whining, inexperienced and frustrated child that he is now revealing himself to be!!! This guy can't even take the rigors of a failing campaign! How on earth could he face the evils of this world with intelligence, conviction and steadfast decision making?
BTW, how absolutely socialistic is it that Freedland (an oxymoronic name considering his politics) has disabled comments after his article?
Freedland also needs to check his disparaging allegations before publishing them:
Palin did not ban books in Wasilla as mayor
Yes, Palin Did Stop That Bridge
But, there is even more! Well - just look at this list of articles over at Cross Action:
Gallup Daily: McCain 48%, Obama 43%
‘Spare Me the Phony Outrage,’ Obama Says
Texas Begins Evacuating as Hurricane Ike Intensifies in Gulf
Is "Obamicane Barack" about to intensify his real outrage over the polls that show him losing ground? I doubt that his anger over Sarah Palin's popularity with real, genuine Americans as the Republican ticket V.P. pick is anything but "phony" for him! I heard he's having lunch with Bill? Bet he really regrets rejecting Hillary for V.P. now!
Actually all of Obama's nonsense pales in the face of his awful political positions. Like this one:
Obama: Terror groups have ‘legitimate claims’
I would have to agree with this writer:
The Obama Campaign’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Conclusion of writer Mark Hemingway:
Yep! Please do keep it up!!
HT's:
Cross Action News
The Corner on National Review Online
I thought, how in the world did I link directly to this bullcrap??
Ahh...then I realized that it was just one of the latest articles to appear at Cross Action News - which is a Conservative Christian news website.
Well, if you thought THAT article was bad enough, just go on over and watch a very brief video clip of a democrat who has the gall to compare Obama to Jesus and Palin to Pontius Pilate on House Floor!!
The Dems are losing it!!! BIG TIME!!! They know Obama's fake appeal is waning among the sane Americans who are witnessing the once labeled "Obamessiah" as the whining, inexperienced and frustrated child that he is now revealing himself to be!!! This guy can't even take the rigors of a failing campaign! How on earth could he face the evils of this world with intelligence, conviction and steadfast decision making?
BTW, how absolutely socialistic is it that Freedland (an oxymoronic name considering his politics) has disabled comments after his article?
Freedland also needs to check his disparaging allegations before publishing them:
Palin did not ban books in Wasilla as mayor
Yes, Palin Did Stop That Bridge
But, there is even more! Well - just look at this list of articles over at Cross Action:
Gallup Daily: McCain 48%, Obama 43%
‘Spare Me the Phony Outrage,’ Obama Says
Texas Begins Evacuating as Hurricane Ike Intensifies in Gulf
Is "Obamicane Barack" about to intensify his real outrage over the polls that show him losing ground? I doubt that his anger over Sarah Palin's popularity with real, genuine Americans as the Republican ticket V.P. pick is anything but "phony" for him! I heard he's having lunch with Bill? Bet he really regrets rejecting Hillary for V.P. now!
Actually all of Obama's nonsense pales in the face of his awful political positions. Like this one:
Obama: Terror groups have ‘legitimate claims’
I would have to agree with this writer:
The Obama Campaign’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Conclusion of writer Mark Hemingway:
Now that's a finely tuned campaign! Keep up the good work guys!
Yep! Please do keep it up!!
HT's:
Cross Action News
The Corner on National Review Online
Thursday, September 04, 2008
His Country's Man
I found John McCain's speech very patriotic, genuine, and filled with America's greatness. This is quite a contrast from the constant negativity being spewed during the DNC convention last week. Obama's speech "among the Greek pillars" was a show - not very genuine IMO.
McCain shared many great points. I think that the best statement was when he stated that after his captivity for five years in a cell in Vietnam, he was no longer "his own man - he was his country's man."
What a contrast between Cindy McCain's life and love of country vs. Michele Obama's statements in the past like when she said, "for the first time in my adult life - I am proud of my country."
Michele must have been coached to change her image at the DNC convention. She certainly wasn't "herself" there. She tried to re-make herself and hide her previously nasty tones. The coaches helped her to put on a new wardrobe and a new hairdo - all with the goal of putting forth a kinder, gentler image. For me? It didn't work. I already knew the real Michele Obama - all too well.
While watching the video of Cindy McCain and all that she has done to help others, I couldn't help but think about one of Michele Obama's most disturbing lines during the campaign. It was when she was "encouraging" a crowd of supporters to get out and work. She also told them, 'Barack will NEVER let you go back to the way you used to live' - or something like that. How arrogant a statement is that?? Does she think that she and her husband will get into office and create some kind of Marxist-type utopia complete with their minions of "worker bees" at their beck and call?
What a HUGE contrast there is between the two would-be First Ladies.
Back to McCain's speech.
Our choice couldn't be more stark, or more clear. Either the country will elect an inexperienced candidate - who is known for his corrupt associates and was was "selected" by the DNC, the MSM, the Soros millionaire types, the Hollywood crowd, and the Obamabot followers - or, they will be wise enough to see through that charade and elect a true patriot, America lover and defender who will work for YOU, protect and defend our nation, and put country first - rather than get into office for the purpose of his own glory.
I continue to pray for the election of John McCain.
More tomorrow. Goodnight!
Transcript link: 'I'm running for president to keep the country I love safe'
Excerpt:
HT: Politico
McCain shared many great points. I think that the best statement was when he stated that after his captivity for five years in a cell in Vietnam, he was no longer "his own man - he was his country's man."
What a contrast between Cindy McCain's life and love of country vs. Michele Obama's statements in the past like when she said, "for the first time in my adult life - I am proud of my country."
Michele must have been coached to change her image at the DNC convention. She certainly wasn't "herself" there. She tried to re-make herself and hide her previously nasty tones. The coaches helped her to put on a new wardrobe and a new hairdo - all with the goal of putting forth a kinder, gentler image. For me? It didn't work. I already knew the real Michele Obama - all too well.
While watching the video of Cindy McCain and all that she has done to help others, I couldn't help but think about one of Michele Obama's most disturbing lines during the campaign. It was when she was "encouraging" a crowd of supporters to get out and work. She also told them, 'Barack will NEVER let you go back to the way you used to live' - or something like that. How arrogant a statement is that?? Does she think that she and her husband will get into office and create some kind of Marxist-type utopia complete with their minions of "worker bees" at their beck and call?
What a HUGE contrast there is between the two would-be First Ladies.
Back to McCain's speech.
Our choice couldn't be more stark, or more clear. Either the country will elect an inexperienced candidate - who is known for his corrupt associates and was was "selected" by the DNC, the MSM, the Soros millionaire types, the Hollywood crowd, and the Obamabot followers - or, they will be wise enough to see through that charade and elect a true patriot, America lover and defender who will work for YOU, protect and defend our nation, and put country first - rather than get into office for the purpose of his own glory.
I continue to pray for the election of John McCain.
More tomorrow. Goodnight!
Transcript link: 'I'm running for president to keep the country I love safe'
Excerpt:
I was in solitary confinement when my captors offered to release me. I knew why. If I went home, they would use it as propaganda to demoralize my fellow prisoners. Our Code said we could only go home in the order of our capture, and there were men who had been shot down before me. I thought about it, though. I wasn't in great shape, and I missed everything about America. But I turned it down.
A lot of prisoners had it worse than I did. I'd been mistreated before, but not as badly as others. I always liked to strut a little after I'd been roughed up to show the other guys I was tough enough to take it. But after I turned down their offer, they worked me over harder than they ever had before. For a long time. And they broke me.
When they brought me back to my cell, I was hurt and ashamed, and I didn't know how I could face my fellow prisoners. The good man in the cell next door, my friend, Bob Craner, saved me. Through taps on a wall he told me I had fought as hard as I could. No man can always stand alone. And then he told me to get back up and fight again for our country and for the men I had the honor to serve with. Because every day they fought for me.
I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's. I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency; for its faith in the wisdom, justice and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again. I wasn't my own man anymore. I was my country's.
I'm not running for president because I think I'm blessed with such personal greatness that history has anointed me to save our country in its hour of need. My country saved me. My country saved me, and I cannot forget it. And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.
HT: Politico
Palin's Speech Rocked the RNC!
Vice Presidential Nominee, Governor Sarah Palin (R) of Alaska gave a speech last night that absolutely rocked the Republican National Convention! I was so excited about it that when I awoke at 3:00 a.m. I didn't want to go back to bed! So I watched the re-run!
Earlier, while viewing the live broadcast I took a moment to take our puggle dog out in the back yard. I had previously missed the part where Palin mentioned "the removal of the styrofoam Greek Columns" at the DNC last week. Hilarious!
If you missed it, or just want to view it again, my friend Stacy over at Active Christian Media has the video up at her blog.
Prior to Palin's speech, Ann Coulter wrote a great column over at Human Events entitled The Best Man Turned Out to be a Woman.
Ha!
I'm sure that the Obama Camp and Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC don't agree.
My son was busy switching around to the other cable stations after the speech and saw Mitchell discussing Palin's speech in an interview with Rudy Guiliani. He told me that he totally understands why I don't watch that cable station. The people over there had NOTHING good to say about Palin! Good thing Rudy was there to hit back against their smears and defend the Governor.
What are your thoughts about her speech?
Please share any articles or blog posts that you have found in the comment section. I will be updating this post throughout the day.
Palin had so many great lines in her speech. I am still trying to decide which one was my favorite!
Way to go Sarah!!
HT: Active Christian Media
Human Events.com
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Update @ 10:57 a.m. PT
Great blogpost:
Palin and Worldviews at CultureWatch
Earlier, while viewing the live broadcast I took a moment to take our puggle dog out in the back yard. I had previously missed the part where Palin mentioned "the removal of the styrofoam Greek Columns" at the DNC last week. Hilarious!
If you missed it, or just want to view it again, my friend Stacy over at Active Christian Media has the video up at her blog.
Prior to Palin's speech, Ann Coulter wrote a great column over at Human Events entitled The Best Man Turned Out to be a Woman.
Ha!
I'm sure that the Obama Camp and Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC don't agree.
My son was busy switching around to the other cable stations after the speech and saw Mitchell discussing Palin's speech in an interview with Rudy Guiliani. He told me that he totally understands why I don't watch that cable station. The people over there had NOTHING good to say about Palin! Good thing Rudy was there to hit back against their smears and defend the Governor.
What are your thoughts about her speech?
Please share any articles or blog posts that you have found in the comment section. I will be updating this post throughout the day.
Palin had so many great lines in her speech. I am still trying to decide which one was my favorite!
Way to go Sarah!!
HT: Active Christian Media
Human Events.com
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Update @ 10:57 a.m. PT
Great blogpost:
Palin and Worldviews at CultureWatch
Friday, August 29, 2008
McCain Chooses Palin!
John McCain chooses Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska for his V.P. running mate! I must admit, I do not know a whole lot about her yet, but what I have learned since Fox News Channel broke the news is that she is conservative, a Protestant Christian, pro-life, pro-traditional family, has worked on energy policy, has executive experience in running the state of Alaska for two years, and has visited our troops in Iraq.
She has five children, two boys and three girls. Her eldest son is a teenager. Her youngest son (born just months ago) was diagnosed with Downs Syndrome before birth. Although many women may have chosen to abort such a child, Gov. Palin chose to give him life!
The more I learn about this person, the more I like her!!
I found a blog that has several links to articles about Sarah Palin.
I am now going to watch the official announcement on television. Will be back later with more information and links!
HT: Draft Sarah Palin for V.P.
Found this interesting!
Here are the search results for "Sarah Palin" prior to John McCain's announcement and first appearance with his newly selected running mate.
I was curious to see how much the total in the search would change after the announcement.
It grew from 450,000 to 480,000 - in just about 1/2 hour after the announcement!
She has five children, two boys and three girls. Her eldest son is a teenager. Her youngest son (born just months ago) was diagnosed with Downs Syndrome before birth. Although many women may have chosen to abort such a child, Gov. Palin chose to give him life!
Choose life! Your mother did!
The more I learn about this person, the more I like her!!
I found a blog that has several links to articles about Sarah Palin.
I am now going to watch the official announcement on television. Will be back later with more information and links!
HT: Draft Sarah Palin for V.P.
Found this interesting!
Here are the search results for "Sarah Palin" prior to John McCain's announcement and first appearance with his newly selected running mate.
I was curious to see how much the total in the search would change after the announcement.
It grew from 450,000 to 480,000 - in just about 1/2 hour after the announcement!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Cumbersome Sack of Discontent
Over the last three days, I have had the complete displeasure of watching and listening to most of the keynote speakers at the Democratic Convention. Last night, I watched the repeat broadcast of Joe Biden's speech.
I was struggling to find a catchy line that would describe what was heard in most of the speeches. Then, while reading a chapter from Max Lucado's book Traveling Light, I found the phrase I was looking for:
Democrats: Those people who trudge through each day with a "cumbersome sack of discontent."
I am serious!! All that I heard coming out of the mouths of most of the speakers were complaints!!
Except for moments of grandeur and praise of themselves, their own families, and other Democrats, did you hear any mention of gratitude for living in the greatest nation on God's green earth??
The other thing that really bothered me was seeing Hillary and Bill join the clueless, Kool-Aid drinkers and through their individual speeches, ultimately ended up bowing at the altar of Obamination. Are we to really believe that what they said was sincere?
Perhaps Hillary was sincere in her rejection of John McCain, but the recent campaign commercial where she states something like this - "John McCain is prepared to be president and has served this country honorably for years - Barack Obama gave a speech in 2002." [paraphrased here] has to make one wonder...when was she telling the truth? Was it when she made that original statement about Senator McCain or the other night when she disparaged him and praised Obama?
Isn't it logical to ask, "When was she genuinely sharing her true opinions and feelings?"
It is mindboggling how Democrats consistently talk out of two sides of their faces - and end up saying completely opposite things. What's even worse is that the MSM lets them get away with it!! Thank God for the Internet where we can discern truth from lies!
Did you happen to see the new NOBama fad? Flip flop sandals with mini heads of Obama attached at the top! Each one represents each of his known flip-flopping stances on issues! Ha!! More accurately, it appears that he tries to be "both ways Obama." Now, that's a real hoot!!
It wasn't my intention to continue describing all of the discontent that reeks from the Democrat Party. It's just that it served as a perfect example of what Max Lucado describes as "the prison of want" in chapter four of his book Traveling Light.
This particular chapter is so good that I wish I could type it all out! But I will share just a few portions that will hopefully give you the main message.
Max describes the "world's most oppressive prison" as "the prison of want." He gives examples. People who may not want much, but just that "one thing" that will make them happy.
Excerpt:
Personally, I think that many liberals and most Democrats are in the prison of want. What's worse is the fact that their leaders want them there in order to get what they want...elected!
When the Democrats took over Congress in 2006, did you see them pass any legislation to make their "prisoners of want" happy? No. Of course not! Why? Because they wanted the "sack of discontent" to linger all the way up to this forthcoming election day on November 4th, 2008! Doesn't it seem that way to you, too?
Lucado tells us how to recognize when we are in this type of prison:
If the truth be told, I think that almost everyone goes through a time in this particular prison. However, some people remain their for most of their lives! That's truly sad!
Well, as Max writes, "that's the bad news. The good news is, you have a visitor."
Wow! That's SO POWERFUL!
Let me take a brief time out to share some thoughts about a movie documentary that I saw yesterday. The movie is called Young At Heart.
At that link, you can read a brief review (that doesn't give a lot of the plot away) and also view several video clips (may contain spoilers) of the documentary.
At the end, I teared up big time!!
It was so awesome to see these people perform and receive standing ovations. They got such responses from both a huge concert audience, as well as from prisoners (who were holed up in a real prison camp) they had performed for earlier in the movie.
Several of members of the choral group were believers. One sang in his church chorus and another mentioned that the Lord will take him when it is his time.
I have to say that seeing some grown men at the prison camp tear up - and then hug the choral group members after their performance - was so very moving!
We know that many Christian groups bring children and various singing groups to nursing homes to visit the elderly and cheer them up. But to see the elderly from nursing homes come and sing for a group of hardened criminals was just amazing!
These chorus members still had their problems - health and otherwise. They had their aches and pains. They had difficulty learning and memorizing some of the lyrics. They had their emergency trips to the hospital. They had physical disabilities and all the rest that comes with the aging process. Yet, when they were performing - in those moments - all of those problems went away...for a time. They expressed how much they loved singing and performing for grateful audiences.
The final concert at the end had me sobbing - both with sadness and joy!
You see, the life of the Christian believer is like that. Sometimes filled with sadness - but also overflowing with joy!
When we receive Christ as Lord and Savior, that born-again experience releases "the fruit of the Spirit" within us.
Notice that one fruit is called "long suffering." The Bible tells us the truth - and the truth is just as Jesus described to us in John:
And, why can we be of good cheer despite all of the turmoil going on around us?
Jesus is all about overcoming. At the moment of salvation, he overcomes the effect of sin on our souls. With Him in our hearts, he allows us to overcome our fears, trials, tribulations and yes - even the "prisons" that tempt to snag us in this life.
Which brings us back to Max Lucado's book.
Excerpt:
The author goes on to tell the familiar story of one of the wealthiest men in history, John D. Rockefeller. When he died, his accountant was asked, "How much did John D. leave?" The accountant answered, "All of it."
"Naked a man comes from his mother's womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in his hand." (Eccles. 5:15 NIV).
Back to the election for a moment. During all of the back and forth about Barack Obama's elitism (and, now he's 4 million dollars richer through book sales) and John McCain's wife owning seven homes; on campaign camp tried to outdo the other in the "rich man" game.
However, I liked what I heard from John McCain. Compared to most of the rest of the world, every single one of us in America is rich! He probably wasn't only talking about financial circumstances. America is rich in many other things too.
Rich in faith, hope, love, forgiveness, grace, mercy, and salvation through Christ.
Rich in freedom.
Rich in generosity.
Rich in protection.
Rich in good people.
Rich in a military unsurpassed by any other.
Rich in giving to those less fortunate.
Rich in providing education.
Rich in opportunity for those who work for it.
The list could go on and on.
What would you add to it?
I see John McCain's candidacy as being filled with optimism - about today and tomorrow. I see Obama's campaign as filled with pessimism and discontent about today - with a pseudo kind of "hope" for tomorrow. These are just my opinions, of course.
Back to Lucado's book:
Back to the election.
Tonight, there will be a grand performance held at a stadium which holds 70,000 people for Obama's speech. I just can't even imagine what the cost of such an extravaganza will be. In the midst of all this hype, I have two questions.
1. Why doesn't Obama donate money (even just some of the 4 million from book sales could do a LOT!) to the needy he often talks about in his speeches?
2. Why is he wasting millions of campaign donor money on an event that is designed just to specifically glorify himself?
HT: Young at Heart
Max Lucado's Traveling Light
I was struggling to find a catchy line that would describe what was heard in most of the speeches. Then, while reading a chapter from Max Lucado's book Traveling Light, I found the phrase I was looking for:
Democrats: Those people who trudge through each day with a "cumbersome sack of discontent."
I am serious!! All that I heard coming out of the mouths of most of the speakers were complaints!!
Except for moments of grandeur and praise of themselves, their own families, and other Democrats, did you hear any mention of gratitude for living in the greatest nation on God's green earth??
The other thing that really bothered me was seeing Hillary and Bill join the clueless, Kool-Aid drinkers and through their individual speeches, ultimately ended up bowing at the altar of Obamination. Are we to really believe that what they said was sincere?
Perhaps Hillary was sincere in her rejection of John McCain, but the recent campaign commercial where she states something like this - "John McCain is prepared to be president and has served this country honorably for years - Barack Obama gave a speech in 2002." [paraphrased here] has to make one wonder...when was she telling the truth? Was it when she made that original statement about Senator McCain or the other night when she disparaged him and praised Obama?
Isn't it logical to ask, "When was she genuinely sharing her true opinions and feelings?"
It is mindboggling how Democrats consistently talk out of two sides of their faces - and end up saying completely opposite things. What's even worse is that the MSM lets them get away with it!! Thank God for the Internet where we can discern truth from lies!
Did you happen to see the new NOBama fad? Flip flop sandals with mini heads of Obama attached at the top! Each one represents each of his known flip-flopping stances on issues! Ha!! More accurately, it appears that he tries to be "both ways Obama." Now, that's a real hoot!!
It wasn't my intention to continue describing all of the discontent that reeks from the Democrat Party. It's just that it served as a perfect example of what Max Lucado describes as "the prison of want" in chapter four of his book Traveling Light.
This particular chapter is so good that I wish I could type it all out! But I will share just a few portions that will hopefully give you the main message.
Max describes the "world's most oppressive prison" as "the prison of want." He gives examples. People who may not want much, but just that "one thing" that will make them happy.
Excerpt:
They want just one thing. One new job. One new car. One new house. One new spouse. They don't want much . They want just one.
And when they have "one," they will be happy. And they are right - they will be happy. When they have "one," they will leave the prison. But then it happens. The new car smell passes. The new job gets old. The neighbors buy a larger TV set. The new spouse has bad habits. The sizzle fizzles, and before you know it, another ex-con breaks parole and returns to jail.
Personally, I think that many liberals and most Democrats are in the prison of want. What's worse is the fact that their leaders want them there in order to get what they want...elected!
When the Democrats took over Congress in 2006, did you see them pass any legislation to make their "prisoners of want" happy? No. Of course not! Why? Because they wanted the "sack of discontent" to linger all the way up to this forthcoming election day on November 4th, 2008! Doesn't it seem that way to you, too?
Lucado tells us how to recognize when we are in this type of prison:
Are you in prison? You are if you feel better when you have more and worse when you have less. You are if joy is one delivery away, one transfer away, one award away, or one makeover away. If your happiness comes from something you deposit, drive, drink, or digest, then face it - you are in prison, the prison of want.
If the truth be told, I think that almost everyone goes through a time in this particular prison. However, some people remain their for most of their lives! That's truly sad!
Well, as Max writes, "that's the bad news. The good news is, you have a visitor."
And your visitor has a message that can get you paroled. Make your way to the receiving room. Take your seat in the chair, and look across the table at the psalmist David. He motions for you to lean forward. "I have a secret to tell you," he whispers, "the secret of satisfaction. 'The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want'" (Ps. 23:1 NKJV).
David has found the pasture where discontent goes to die. It's as if he is saying, "What I have in God is greater than what I don't have in life."
You think you and I could learn to say the same?
Wow! That's SO POWERFUL!
Let me take a brief time out to share some thoughts about a movie documentary that I saw yesterday. The movie is called Young At Heart.
At that link, you can read a brief review (that doesn't give a lot of the plot away) and also view several video clips (may contain spoilers) of the documentary.
At the end, I teared up big time!!
It was so awesome to see these people perform and receive standing ovations. They got such responses from both a huge concert audience, as well as from prisoners (who were holed up in a real prison camp) they had performed for earlier in the movie.
Several of members of the choral group were believers. One sang in his church chorus and another mentioned that the Lord will take him when it is his time.
I have to say that seeing some grown men at the prison camp tear up - and then hug the choral group members after their performance - was so very moving!
We know that many Christian groups bring children and various singing groups to nursing homes to visit the elderly and cheer them up. But to see the elderly from nursing homes come and sing for a group of hardened criminals was just amazing!
These chorus members still had their problems - health and otherwise. They had their aches and pains. They had difficulty learning and memorizing some of the lyrics. They had their emergency trips to the hospital. They had physical disabilities and all the rest that comes with the aging process. Yet, when they were performing - in those moments - all of those problems went away...for a time. They expressed how much they loved singing and performing for grateful audiences.
The final concert at the end had me sobbing - both with sadness and joy!
You see, the life of the Christian believer is like that. Sometimes filled with sadness - but also overflowing with joy!
When we receive Christ as Lord and Savior, that born-again experience releases "the fruit of the Spirit" within us.
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Gal 5:23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Eph 5:8 ¶ For ye were sometimes darkness, but now [are ye] light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Eph 5:9 (For the fruit of the Spirit [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
Eph 5:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
Notice that one fruit is called "long suffering." The Bible tells us the truth - and the truth is just as Jesus described to us in John:
Jhn 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
And, why can we be of good cheer despite all of the turmoil going on around us?
1Jo 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Jesus is all about overcoming. At the moment of salvation, he overcomes the effect of sin on our souls. With Him in our hearts, he allows us to overcome our fears, trials, tribulations and yes - even the "prisons" that tempt to snag us in this life.
Rev 2:10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast [some] of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
Rev 2:11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
Which brings us back to Max Lucado's book.
Excerpt:
Think for just a moment about the things you own. Think about the house you have, the car you drive, the money you've saved. Think about the jewelry you've inherited and the stocks you've traded and the clothes you've purchased. Envision all your stuff, and let me remind you of two biblical truths.
Your stuff isn't yours. Ask any coroner. Ask any embalmer. Ask any funeral-home director. No one takes anything with him.
The author goes on to tell the familiar story of one of the wealthiest men in history, John D. Rockefeller. When he died, his accountant was asked, "How much did John D. leave?" The accountant answered, "All of it."
"Naked a man comes from his mother's womb, and as he comes, so he departs. He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in his hand." (Eccles. 5:15 NIV).
Back to the election for a moment. During all of the back and forth about Barack Obama's elitism (and, now he's 4 million dollars richer through book sales) and John McCain's wife owning seven homes; on campaign camp tried to outdo the other in the "rich man" game.
However, I liked what I heard from John McCain. Compared to most of the rest of the world, every single one of us in America is rich! He probably wasn't only talking about financial circumstances. America is rich in many other things too.
Rich in faith, hope, love, forgiveness, grace, mercy, and salvation through Christ.
Rich in freedom.
Rich in generosity.
Rich in protection.
Rich in good people.
Rich in a military unsurpassed by any other.
Rich in giving to those less fortunate.
Rich in providing education.
Rich in opportunity for those who work for it.
The list could go on and on.
What would you add to it?
I see John McCain's candidacy as being filled with optimism - about today and tomorrow. I see Obama's campaign as filled with pessimism and discontent about today - with a pseudo kind of "hope" for tomorrow. These are just my opinions, of course.
Back to Lucado's book:
All that stuff - it's not yours. And you know what else about all that stuff? It's not you. Who you are has nothing to do with the clothes you wear or the car you drive. Jesus said, "Life is not defined by what you have, even when you have a lot" (Luke 12:15 MSG). Heaven does not know you as the fellow with the nice suit or the woman with the big house or the kid with the new bike. Heaven knows your heart. "The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7 NIV).
When God thinks of you, he may see your compassion, your devotion, your tenderness or quick mind, but he doesn't think of your things.
And when you think of you, you shouldn't either. Define yourself by your stuff, and you'll feel good when you have a lot and bad when you don't. Contentment comes when we can honestly say with Paul: "I have learned to be satisfied with the things I have....I know how to live when I am poor, and I know how to live when I have plenty" (Phil. 4:11-12).
Back to the election.
Tonight, there will be a grand performance held at a stadium which holds 70,000 people for Obama's speech. I just can't even imagine what the cost of such an extravaganza will be. In the midst of all this hype, I have two questions.
1. Why doesn't Obama donate money (even just some of the 4 million from book sales could do a LOT!) to the needy he often talks about in his speeches?
2. Why is he wasting millions of campaign donor money on an event that is designed just to specifically glorify himself?
HT: Young at Heart
Max Lucado's Traveling Light
Monday, August 18, 2008
When Does a Baby Get Human Rights?
The title of my post today is what I thought was one of the most important questions asked at the Saddleback Civil Forum.
This morning, it was my initial intent to search around for some of the best articles that critique the answers given by Barack Obama and John McCain after Saturday's T.V. broadcast. I found this one and encourage everyone to read it.
However, I feel led to discuss what is heavy on my heart and has been in my thoughts over the past two days regarding the issue of the pro-life vs. pro-death (a.k.a. abortion) worldviews - which obviously separate these candidates.
I must ask a question. For those of you who have seen it, what did you think of Obama's answer to "at what point does a baby get human rights in your view" question?
Portion of transcript:
Obama went on and on trying to justify THAT PARTICULAR ANSWER.
What are Talk Wisdom readers thoughts on his answer? What do you think he genuinely meant by that phrase? Do you think that came from his own thoughts or was it a line given to him by his campaign to use? I have my own thoughts about it, but will post it later.
I will mention one thing, however. How ironic is it that Obama shared his views at the forum that he sees child abuse (by parents) as an evil in the world; yet when asked about "when does a baby get human rights" he justifies killing children in the womb? Isn't that a logical inconsistency - especially when he professes to be a Christian? There were MANY inconsistencies in Obama's answers. Were you able to pick them out?
For anyone who wishes to view the forum videos, or, read the entire transcript, see links below.
Click on this link to view several videos of the event.
Click on this link to read the entire transcript.
Please share your thoughts about what you read (or viewed) about this event.
I thought that John McCain's Vietnam prisoner/guard story that was shared at the forum was very riveting. It gave me a better glimpse into his worldview and Christian faith.
Excerpt of John McCain's experience from the transcript:
Personally, I thought that Rick Warren's non-reaction to this awesome story was quite insulting. Also, notice that he cut off John's answer!! Did he do that with Obama? I'm not sure. I haven't seen the entire video yet. But the segments that I did watch of Obama looked as though he was allowed to ramble on and on. So why was John McCain cut off??
Of course, I was glad about the next topic and John's excellent answer - and he received a HUGE round of applause from the audience, too!
John McCain's answer was absolute, truthful, and given without hesitation or excuses (unlike Obama's ):
HT: Kingdom People
Online Newsroom
Doug Patton article
*******
Update at 11:05 a.m. PT -
I just located the "official Civil Forum" website and noticed what was written there:
Also, notice that there is NOTHING included in the "PEACE" plan with regards to the Great Commission command given by Jesus Christ before His ascension to the Father to "go into all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit."
Notice that Jesus emphasizes "what I [He] has commanded you [us]!!"
Here is what purpose-driven Saddleback seems to think is more important:
This is all well and good. I am NOT CLAIMING THAT SUCH PROMOTION IS NOT GOOD. However, to NOT HAVE ANY MENTION of evangelism through the Gospel and PROMOTE REPENTANCE THROUGH THE Cross of Jesus Christ is certainly alarming!!!
It is reminiescent of the New Age goal to create a kind of utopia here on earth.
Jesus told us that we would always have the poor with us.
Of course it is a good thing to help the poor. However, what good is helping them physically if we are not sharing the Cross of Christ so that they will be saved and enter into eternity with God forever??
Jesus told us that in this world, we would have trouble.
Obviously, Jesus' emphasis is on the fact that he is King of kings, Lord of lords, and Savior of the entire world. He, and he alone has "overcome the world." Doesn't that indicate that evangelism through the Great Commission commandment is more important than any other endeavor that the Church does?
Good works come second, as a result of being saved!
What did Jesus emphasize as most important in this life?
This morning, it was my initial intent to search around for some of the best articles that critique the answers given by Barack Obama and John McCain after Saturday's T.V. broadcast. I found this one and encourage everyone to read it.
However, I feel led to discuss what is heavy on my heart and has been in my thoughts over the past two days regarding the issue of the pro-life vs. pro-death (a.k.a. abortion) worldviews - which obviously separate these candidates.
I must ask a question. For those of you who have seen it, what did you think of Obama's answer to "at what point does a baby get human rights in your view" question?
Portion of transcript:
"Is above my [his] pay grade"???4 NOW, LET'S DEAL WITH ABORTION. 40 MILLION
5 ABORTIONS SINCE ROE V. WADE. YOU KNOW, AS A PASTOR I
6 HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS ALL OF THE TIME. ALL OF THE
7 PAIN AND ALL OF THE CONFLICTS. I KNOW THIS IS A VERY
8 COMPLEX ISSUE. 40 MILLION ABORTIONS. AT WHAT POINT
9 DOES A BABY GET HUMAN RIGHTS IN YOUR VIEW?Obama's answer:
10 A. WELL, I THINK THAT WHETHER YOU ARE LOOKING AT
11 IT FROM A THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OR A SCIENTIFIC
12 PERSPECTIVE, ANSWERING THAT QUESTION WITH SPECIFICITY,
13 YOU KNOW, IS ABOVE MY PAY GRADE
Obama went on and on trying to justify THAT PARTICULAR ANSWER.
What are Talk Wisdom readers thoughts on his answer? What do you think he genuinely meant by that phrase? Do you think that came from his own thoughts or was it a line given to him by his campaign to use? I have my own thoughts about it, but will post it later.
I will mention one thing, however. How ironic is it that Obama shared his views at the forum that he sees child abuse (by parents) as an evil in the world; yet when asked about "when does a baby get human rights" he justifies killing children in the womb? Isn't that a logical inconsistency - especially when he professes to be a Christian? There were MANY inconsistencies in Obama's answers. Were you able to pick them out?
For anyone who wishes to view the forum videos, or, read the entire transcript, see links below.
Click on this link to view several videos of the event.
Click on this link to read the entire transcript.
Please share your thoughts about what you read (or viewed) about this event.
I thought that John McCain's Vietnam prisoner/guard story that was shared at the forum was very riveting. It gave me a better glimpse into his worldview and Christian faith.
Excerpt of John McCain's experience from the transcript:
20 A VIETNAMESE KEPT US IN PRISON IN CONDITIONS OF
21 SOLITAIRY CONFINEMENT FOR TWO OR THREE TO A CELL. THEY
22 DID THAT BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY COULD BREAK DOWN OUR
23 RESISTANCE. ONE OF THE TECHNIQUES THAT THEY USED TO GET
24 INFORMATION WAS TO TAKE ROPES AND TIE THEM AROUND YOUR
25 BICEPS, PULL YOUR BICEPS BEHIND YOU, LOOP THE ROPE AROUND
1 YOUR HEAD, PULL YOUR HEAD DOWN BETWEEN YOUR KNEES AND
2 LEAVE YOU IN THAT POSITION. YOU CAN MANAGE, IT'S VERY
3 UNCOMFORTABLE. ONE NIGHT I WAS BEING PUNISHED IN THAT
4 FASHION. ALL OF A SUDDEN THE DOOR OF THE CELL OPENED, THE
5 GUARD CAME IN, A GUY WHO WAS JUST WHAT WE CALL A GUN
6 GUARD. HE JUST WALKED AROUND THE CAMP WITH A GUN ON HIS
7 SHOULDER. HE WENT LIKE THIS AND THEN HE LOOSENED THE
8 ROPES. HE CAME BACK ABOUT FOUR HOURS LATER, HE TIGHTENED
9 THEM UP AGAIN AND LEFT. THE FOLLOWING CHRISTMAS, BECAUSE
10 IT WAS CHRISTMAS DAY, WE WERE ALLOWED TO STAND OUTSIDE OF
11 OUR CELL FOR A FEW MINUTES, AND THOSE DAYS WE WERE NOT
12 ALLOWED TO SEE OR COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER ALTHOUGH WE
13 CERTAINLY DID. AND I WAS STANDING OUTSIDE FOR MY FEW
14 MINUTES, OUTSIDE MY CELL. HE CAME WALKING UP. HE STOOD
15 THERE FOR A MINUTE AND WITH HIS HANDLE ON THE DIRT IN THE
16 COURTYARD HE DREW A CROSS AND HE STOOD THERE AND A MINUTE
17 LATER, HE RUBBED IT OUT AND WALKED AWAY. FOR A MINUTE
18 THERE, THERE WAS JUST TWO CHRISTIANS WORSHIPPING TOGETHER.
19 I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT MOMENT SO EVERY DAY ---
Personally, I thought that Rick Warren's non-reaction to this awesome story was quite insulting. Also, notice that he cut off John's answer!! Did he do that with Obama? I'm not sure. I haven't seen the entire video yet. But the segments that I did watch of Obama looked as though he was allowed to ramble on and on. So why was John McCain cut off??
Of course, I was glad about the next topic and John's excellent answer - and he received a HUGE round of applause from the audience, too!
20 Q ALL RIGHT. LET'S GO INTO THE TOUGH ONES. THAT
21 WAS JUST A GIMMIE. LET'S DEAL WITH ABORTION.
I, AS A 22 PASTOR, HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS ALL THE TIME, EVERY
23 DIFFERENT ANGLE, EVERY DIFFERENT PAIN, ALL THE DECISIONS
24 AND ALL OF THAT. 40 MILLION ABORTIONS SINCE ROE V WADE.
25 SOME PEOPLE WHO -- PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THAT LIFE BEGINS AT
1 CONCEPTION WOULD SAY THAT'S A HOLOCAUST FOR MANY PEOPLE.
2 AT WHAT POINT IS A BABY ENTITLED TO HUMAN RIGHTS?
John McCain's answer was absolute, truthful, and given without hesitation or excuses (unlike Obama's ):
3 A AT THE MOMENT OF CONCEPTION. I HAVE A 25-YEAR
4 PRO LIFE RECORD IN THE CONGRESS, IN THE SENATE. AND AS
5 PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, I WILL BE A PRO LIFE
6 PRESIDENT AND THIS PRESIDENCY WILL HAVE PRO LIFE POLICIES.
7 THAT'S MY COMMITMENT, THAT'S MY COMMITMENT TO YOU.
HT: Kingdom People
Online Newsroom
Doug Patton article
*******
Update at 11:05 a.m. PT -
I just located the "official Civil Forum" website and noticed what was written there:
The Saddleback Civil Forum series was established to promote civil discourse and the common good of all. The first forum, held during Passover week this year, featured five Jewish World War II Holocaust survivors sharing their stories. In September, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will be featured.
Although Rick Warren’s primary calling is to proclaim the Gospel Truth of salvation in Jesus Christ, he created the Civil Forums to further three additional life goals: helping people accept responsibility, helping the Church regain credibility, and encouraging our society to return to civility.
Also, notice that there is NOTHING included in the "PEACE" plan with regards to the Great Commission command given by Jesus Christ before His ascension to the Father to "go into all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit."
Mat 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
Mat 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, [even] unto the end of the world. Amen.
Notice that Jesus emphasizes "what I [He] has commanded you [us]!!"
Here is what purpose-driven Saddleback seems to think is more important:
Recognizing their far-reaching influence, the Warrens are working together, along with churches, businesses and NGOs, to mobilize 1 billion Christians to fight the five global giants of the world through The P.E.A.C.E. Plan –Promote reconciliation, Equip servant leaders, Assist the poor, Care for the sick and Educate the next generation.
This is all well and good. I am NOT CLAIMING THAT SUCH PROMOTION IS NOT GOOD. However, to NOT HAVE ANY MENTION of evangelism through the Gospel and PROMOTE REPENTANCE THROUGH THE Cross of Jesus Christ is certainly alarming!!!
It is reminiescent of the New Age goal to create a kind of utopia here on earth.
Jesus told us that we would always have the poor with us.
Mar 14:7 For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.
Of course it is a good thing to help the poor. However, what good is helping them physically if we are not sharing the Cross of Christ so that they will be saved and enter into eternity with God forever??
Jesus told us that in this world, we would have trouble.
Jhn 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Obviously, Jesus' emphasis is on the fact that he is King of kings, Lord of lords, and Savior of the entire world. He, and he alone has "overcome the world." Doesn't that indicate that evangelism through the Great Commission commandment is more important than any other endeavor that the Church does?
Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Good works come second, as a result of being saved!
What did Jesus emphasize as most important in this life?
Mat 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Mar 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Friday, July 25, 2008
Obama's Euro Group-Think Tour
There are so many great articles and blog posts about Obama's Magical Non-Mystery European Tour that it is difficult to pick just a few to share. So far, I have found three, in particular, that caught my eye and certainly held my attention.
When writer J.D. Longstreet asks, "Will Obama's European Tour Backfire on him?" - I feel led to personally respond to that title question. My answer is I CERTAINLY HOPE SO!
Longstreet:
I may live in California, but my Christian heart is closer to the morals and values of that so-called 'fly-over' country, and I'm not ashamed to say it!
Next, we have a link from that article to Alan Carumba's blog post that's titled, Warning Signs: Obama the Intellectual. Be sure to read the entire post!
Mr. Carumba begins with this sobering thought:
Excerpt:
A commenter named "Justin" summed it up this way:
Of course, Big Dog's Weblog had the best blog title - The Fuhrer Speaks in Germany.
One commenter named Fritzkatz over at Digg contributed a hilarious quip:
Despite the fun and laughs that we all have been enjoying about the craziness surrounding Obama's candidacy, I still must admit the fact that I am one of the "head shakers" (as described in Longstreet's article) who cannot believe that this man is running for president!
Longstreet:
Yep...
HT's:
J.D. Longstreet
Facts Not Fantasy blog spot
One Big Dog
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Update: 7/25/08 @ 8:31 a.m. PT
Just more proof that the Obamessiah Kool-Aid drinkers of Hussein's campaign have no class, no sensitivity towards a holy site, no shame and will do any corrupt thing that they can think of to push this moron towards the presidency.
Obama Campaigned at Western Wall
This is despicable - beyond belief - people!
Have you seen the latest "both ways Barack" commercial? It's highly entertaining, as well as very accurate in it's message. Obama is even worse than a flip flopper!
One of the latest examples has to be his "both ways" comments regarding the division/non-division of Jerusalem.
See Joel Rosenberg's blog post: Obama Backs Away From Pledge FOR AN "UNDIVIDED" JERUSALEM: Calls his own AIPAC speech a "mistake"
FORGET THE "AUDACITY OF HOPE" BOOK HE WROTE...THE SCOPE OF OBAMA'S RELENTLESS, ARROGANT AND EGOTISTICAL AUDACITY IS ON DISPLAY FOR ALL TO SEE. HIS "BOTH WAYS" MENTAL DISORDER IS ENOUGH TO MAKE ANYONE CRINGE!!
NOBAMA president...the AUDACITY OF NOPE Campaign continues at Talk Wisdom!
*******
Update: @ 10:22 a.m. PT
A much more presidential stance and response (to Obama's first time, magical-mystery, group-think tour) from Senator John McCain.
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Update: @ 10:55 a.m. PT
This article link deserves to be placed on the front page as well. HT and thanks to blogger sh007r for sharing the link in the comment section!
Gerard Baker's hilarious satire article on Obama-mania. Really makes the MSM (and Obamabots) look hopelessly foolish in their messiah-like mindless adulation of this man. It's a must read! Great comments too.
When writer J.D. Longstreet asks, "Will Obama's European Tour Backfire on him?" - I feel led to personally respond to that title question. My answer is I CERTAINLY HOPE SO!
Longstreet:
Those of us who live out here in the real America, in the so-called 'fly-over' country hold very little love for, or admiration of, the European nations. Many of us come from families that fled the European shores to get to America. Unlike the many on the political left we do not look to Europe for leadership in anything, especially not politics.
I may live in California, but my Christian heart is closer to the morals and values of that so-called 'fly-over' country, and I'm not ashamed to say it!
Next, we have a link from that article to Alan Carumba's blog post that's titled, Warning Signs: Obama the Intellectual. Be sure to read the entire post!
Mr. Carumba begins with this sobering thought:
Anyone who has ever studied history knows that intellectuals have been the cause of more misery in the modern world than any other group.
Excerpt:
So now the nation is being asked to elect a classic intellectual, Barack Hussein Obama, to lead us and, typically, he has no idea about the lives of ordinary Americans holding jobs, raising families, and trying to survive the idiocy of several previous administrations that have left the nation hostage to foreign oil and locked in battle with the worst elements of resurgent Islam.
I personally take some comfort that John McCain finished far down in the bottom half of his class at Annapolis. Smart enough to graduate, smart enough to fly fighter jets, smart enough to rise in the Navy’s command structure and tough enough to survive five years of torture by his North Vietnamese captors. Despite his differences with his own political party and inclined toward the element that greases any government action, compromise, McCain offers the capabilities and character that suggests an understanding of human nature.
Compare this with Barack Obama whose interpretation of the 9/11 attack on America was due to “a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers.” If Obama took the time to learn why Osama led the attack, he would have discovered that in 1998 he was a leader in the World Islamic Front for Combat Against the Jews and Crusaders. Since the Koran repeatedly commands attacking unbelievers and killing apostates to Islam, Obama has demonstrated extraordinary ignorance and foolishness.
Indeed, Obama attributed the attack and its lack of empathy to feelings that grow “out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.” Bin Laden is a university graduate with a degree in engineering. He comes from one of the wealthiest families in Saudi Arabia. His close associate, Ayman El Zawahiri is a doctor of medicine. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who planned the attack is a graduate of the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University with a degree in engineering. Mohammed Atta who flew one of the airliners into the World Trade Center was a graduate of Cairo University, an architect. They were neither poverty-stricken, nor ignorant.
They are or were intellectuals who took great pleasure in destroying the lives of 3,000 Americans and bringing down two great skyscrapers in New York and destroying a big chunk of the Pentagon.
In a similar fashion, Obama expressed the view that Americans in “small towns in Pennsylvania and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest” are guided by feelings of bitterness. “They cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
In short, Obama hasn’t a clue about ordinary Americans who go to church, may enjoy hunting or the concept of self-defense, and are angry with a government that has done nothing to stem the flow of illegal immigrants who will deny jobs to Americans and drive down their wages in the process. Americans are not anti-trade. They buy stuff from China and everywhere else in the world if the price is right.
Obama’s stint as a community organizer managed mostly to make a number of Chicago developers wealthy without improving the lives of those he was supposedly trying to help. He got himself elected to the Illinois legislature where he was reluctant to vote much of the time and then to the U.S. Senate where he has served less than half of his first term in office, having devoted himself solely to getting elected the next President of the United States. His attendance record in the Senate is worse than a joke. It is an offense to those who elected him.
He is, in a word, clueless.
This is a common characteristic of intellectuals who are convinced they know how everyone else should live their lives and convinced that only an all-powerful central government can and should determine the content of those lives.
A commenter named "Justin" summed it up this way:
Modern day liberalism is definitely a very scary "group think" that frowns upon conservative "street smarts."
Of course, Big Dog's Weblog had the best blog title - The Fuhrer Speaks in Germany.
One commenter named Fritzkatz over at Digg contributed a hilarious quip:
"Ich bin ein Appeaser!"
Despite the fun and laughs that we all have been enjoying about the craziness surrounding Obama's candidacy, I still must admit the fact that I am one of the "head shakers" (as described in Longstreet's article) who cannot believe that this man is running for president!
Longstreet:
Look, you may not like it but the fact is, most Americans who consume the daily tripe, hailed as news, and spoon fed to us by the mainstream media in this country, shake their heads in astonishment and wonder just how stupid the media must think we are. We KNOW what the domestic press is doing as they cover the Obama European photo-op as the morning dew covers a lovely green pasture. The point is, only those who wish to be impressed by the current demonstrations of European support for Obama will be. The remainder of us will grin, shake our heads, and get on about our business. We won't be the least bit impressed.
Yep...
HT's:
J.D. Longstreet
Facts Not Fantasy blog spot
One Big Dog
*******
Update: 7/25/08 @ 8:31 a.m. PT
Just more proof that the Obamessiah Kool-Aid drinkers of Hussein's campaign have no class, no sensitivity towards a holy site, no shame and will do any corrupt thing that they can think of to push this moron towards the presidency.
Obama Campaigned at Western Wall
This is despicable - beyond belief - people!
Have you seen the latest "both ways Barack" commercial? It's highly entertaining, as well as very accurate in it's message. Obama is even worse than a flip flopper!
One of the latest examples has to be his "both ways" comments regarding the division/non-division of Jerusalem.
See Joel Rosenberg's blog post: Obama Backs Away From Pledge FOR AN "UNDIVIDED" JERUSALEM: Calls his own AIPAC speech a "mistake"
FORGET THE "AUDACITY OF HOPE" BOOK HE WROTE...THE SCOPE OF OBAMA'S RELENTLESS, ARROGANT AND EGOTISTICAL AUDACITY IS ON DISPLAY FOR ALL TO SEE. HIS "BOTH WAYS" MENTAL DISORDER IS ENOUGH TO MAKE ANYONE CRINGE!!
NOBAMA president...the AUDACITY OF NOPE Campaign continues at Talk Wisdom!
*******
Update: @ 10:22 a.m. PT
A much more presidential stance and response (to Obama's first time, magical-mystery, group-think tour) from Senator John McCain.
*******
Update: @ 10:55 a.m. PT
This article link deserves to be placed on the front page as well. HT and thanks to blogger sh007r for sharing the link in the comment section!
Gerard Baker's hilarious satire article on Obama-mania. Really makes the MSM (and Obamabots) look hopelessly foolish in their messiah-like mindless adulation of this man. It's a must read! Great comments too.
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