Why you say, can I compare the Messiah to Pontius Pilate instead of a community organizer?
Let's examine - what do they have in common?
* politicians that were faced with a tough decision
* politicians who PUNTED, rather than take a stand
Pontius Pilate - was asked by the Jews to condemn Jesus to death. He wouldn't do it - instead he handed him over and passed the buck. "Pilate had to deal with two conflicting feelings, first there was the fear of offending the Jews, and second was the gut feeling that Jesus was innocent."
Barack Obama - voted "present" 129 times out of 4000 votes in the IL legislature on issues rather than take a stand. How hard is "Yes" or "No"?
That is leadership we cannot afford.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Why does it take a BRIT to call it straight?
Gerard Baker in the Times of London actually calls a spade a spade.
The article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4735295.ece
The best quote:
The article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4735295.ece
The best quote:
"The essential problem coming to light is a profound disconnect between the Barack Obama of the candidate's speeches, and the Barack Obama who has actually been in politics for the past decade or so.
Speechmaker Obama has built his campaign on the promise of reform, the need to change the culture of American political life, to take on the special interests that undermine government's effectiveness and erode trust in the system itself,
Politician Obama rose through a Chicago machine that is notoriously the most corrupt in the country. As David Freddoso writes in a brilliantly cogent and measured book, The Case Against Barack Obama, the angel of deliverance from the old politics functioned like an old-time Democratic pol in Illinois. He refused repeatedly to side with those lonely voices that sought to challenge the old corrupt ways of the ruling party."
Thursday, September 11, 2008
OBAMA'S "NOT EXACTLY'S"
This is a little food for thought received in an email (disclaimer implied). Some facts are more obvious than others. I encourage you to Google and check for yourself as I did.
OBAMA'S "NOT EXACTLY'S"
1.) "Selma Got Me Born" - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961. The March On Selma, Alabama had no effect on your 1961 birth, as Selma was in 1965. (Google 'Selma, Obama" for his full March 4, 2007 speech and articles about its various untruths.)
2.) "Father Was A Goat Herder" - NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) "Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter" - NOT EXACTLY, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.
4.) "My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom" - NOT EXACTLY, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya . It is the first widespread violence in decades. The current government is pro-American but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish Muslim Sharia law. Your half-brother, Abongo Obama, is Odinga's follower. You interrupted your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to
Odinga on the phone. Obama's cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and tried to get Sharia Muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost the elections, his followers burned Christians' homes and then burned men, women and children alive in a Christian church where they took shelter. Obama SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process here started. Google Obama and Odinga and see what you get. No one wants to know the truth.
5.) "My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian" - NOT EXACTLY, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5 am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.
6.) "My Name is African Swahili" - NOT EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama. Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. If elected, he would be the first Arab-American President, not the first black President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Blackfrom his father's side. While Barack Hussein Obama's father was from Kenya , his father's family was mainly Arabs. Barack Hussein Obama's father was only 12.5% African Black and 87.5% Arab (his father's birth certificate even states he's Arab, not African Black).
http://www.arcadeathome.com/newsboy.phtml?Barack_Hussein_Obama_-_Arab-Americ
an
7.) "I Never Practiced Islam" - NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
(4-3-08 Article "Obama was 'quite religious in Islam'" http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60559 )
8.) "My School In Indonesia was Christian" - NOT EXACTLY, you were registered as a Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York Times a year ago: Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset." This is just one example of
what Pamela is talking about when she says "Obama's narrative is being altered, enhanced and manipulated to whitewash troubling facts."
9.) "I Was Fluent In Indonesian" - NOT EXACTLY, not one teacher says you could speak the language.
10.) "Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience" - NOT EXACTLY, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran?
11.) "I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs" - NOT EXACTLY, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.
12.) "I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion" - NOT EXACTLY, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine.
13.) "An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office" - NOT EXACTLY, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't exist and never did.
14.) "A Life Magazine Article Changed My outlook on Life" - NOT EXACTLY, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't exist and never did.
15.) "I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08" - NOT EXACTLY, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) "Voting 'Present' is common in the Illinois Senate" - NOT EXACTLY, they are common for YOU, but not many others have. You had 130 "NO VOTES".
17.) "Oops, I Misvoted" - NOT EXACTLY, only when caught by church groups and Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18.) 'I Was A Professor Of Law' - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
19.) 'I Was A Constitutional Lawyer' - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
20.) 'Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill' - NOT EXACTLY, you didn't write it, introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) 'The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass' - NOT EXACTLY, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
22.) 'I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill' - NOT EXACTLY, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) 'I Have Released My State Records' - NOT EXACTLY, as of March, 2008, Illinois state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) "I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess" - NOT EXACTLY, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25.) "My Economics Bill Will Help America" - NOT EXACTLY, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) "I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois" - NOT EXACTLY, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) "I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year" - NOT EXACTLY, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) "No One on my campaign contacted Canada about NAFTA" - NOT EXACTLY, the Canadian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.
29.) "I Am Tough On Terrorism" - NOT EXACTLY, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel .
30.) "I Want All Votes To Count" - NOT EXACTLY, you said let the "delegates" decide.
31.) "I Want Americans To Decide" - NOT EXACTLY, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.
32.) "I passed 900 Bills in the (Illinois) State Senate" - NOT EXACTLY, you passed only 26, most of which you didn't write yourself.
33.) "I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics" - NOT EXACTLY, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
34.) "I Don't Take PAC Money" - NOT EXACTLY, you take loads of it.
35.) "I don't Have Lobbyists" - NOT EXACTLY, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
36.) "My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad" - NOT EXACTLY, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
37.) "I Have Always Been Against Iraq" - NOT EXACTLY, you weren't in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time.
38.) "I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care" - NOT EXACTLY, your plan leaves us all to pay for the 15,000,000 who don't have to buy it.
OBAMA'S "NOT EXACTLY'S"
1.) "Selma Got Me Born" - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961. The March On Selma, Alabama had no effect on your 1961 birth, as Selma was in 1965. (Google 'Selma, Obama" for his full March 4, 2007 speech and articles about its various untruths.)
2.) "Father Was A Goat Herder" - NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) "Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter" - NOT EXACTLY, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.
4.) "My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom" - NOT EXACTLY, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya . It is the first widespread violence in decades. The current government is pro-American but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish Muslim Sharia law. Your half-brother, Abongo Obama, is Odinga's follower. You interrupted your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to
Odinga on the phone. Obama's cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and tried to get Sharia Muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost the elections, his followers burned Christians' homes and then burned men, women and children alive in a Christian church where they took shelter. Obama SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process here started. Google Obama and Odinga and see what you get. No one wants to know the truth.
5.) "My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian" - NOT EXACTLY, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5 am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn't allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.
6.) "My Name is African Swahili" - NOT EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and 'Baraka' (from which Barack came) means 'blessed' in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama. Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. If elected, he would be the first Arab-American President, not the first black President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Blackfrom his father's side. While Barack Hussein Obama's father was from Kenya , his father's family was mainly Arabs. Barack Hussein Obama's father was only 12.5% African Black and 87.5% Arab (his father's birth certificate even states he's Arab, not African Black).
http://www.arcadeathome.com/
an
7.) "I Never Practiced Islam" - NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
(4-3-08 Article "Obama was 'quite religious in Islam'" http://www.wnd.com/index.php?
8.) "My School In Indonesia was Christian" - NOT EXACTLY, you were registered as a Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York Times a year ago: Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it'll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as "one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset." This is just one example of
what Pamela is talking about when she says "Obama's narrative is being altered, enhanced and manipulated to whitewash troubling facts."
9.) "I Was Fluent In Indonesian" - NOT EXACTLY, not one teacher says you could speak the language.
10.) "Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience" - NOT EXACTLY, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn't even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran?
11.) "I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs" - NOT EXACTLY, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.
12.) "I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion" - NOT EXACTLY, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine.
13.) "An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office" - NOT EXACTLY, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't exist and never did.
14.) "A Life Magazine Article Changed My outlook on Life" - NOT EXACTLY, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn't exist and never did.
15.) "I Won't Run On A National Ticket In '08" - NOT EXACTLY, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) "Voting 'Present' is common in the Illinois Senate" - NOT EXACTLY, they are common for YOU, but not many others have. You had 130 "NO VOTES".
17.) "Oops, I Misvoted" - NOT EXACTLY, only when caught by church groups and Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18.) 'I Was A Professor Of Law' - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
19.) 'I Was A Constitutional Lawyer' - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
20.) 'Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill' - NOT EXACTLY, you didn't write it, introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) 'The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass' - NOT EXACTLY, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
22.) 'I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill' - NOT EXACTLY, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) 'I Have Released My State Records' - NOT EXACTLY, as of March, 2008, Illinois state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) "I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess" - NOT EXACTLY, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25.) "My Economics Bill Will Help America" - NOT EXACTLY, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) "I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois" - NOT EXACTLY, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) "I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year" - NOT EXACTLY, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) "No One on my campaign contacted Canada about NAFTA" - NOT EXACTLY, the Canadian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.
29.) "I Am Tough On Terrorism" - NOT EXACTLY, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel .
30.) "I Want All Votes To Count" - NOT EXACTLY, you said let the "delegates" decide.
31.) "I Want Americans To Decide" - NOT EXACTLY, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.
32.) "I passed 900 Bills in the (Illinois) State Senate" - NOT EXACTLY, you passed only 26, most of which you didn't write yourself.
33.) "I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics" - NOT EXACTLY, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
34.) "I Don't Take PAC Money" - NOT EXACTLY, you take loads of it.
35.) "I don't Have Lobbyists" - NOT EXACTLY, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
36.) "My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad" - NOT EXACTLY, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
37.) "I Have Always Been Against Iraq" - NOT EXACTLY, you weren't in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time.
38.) "I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care" - NOT EXACTLY, your plan leaves us all to pay for the 15,000,000 who don't have to buy it.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
STILL Above His Pay Grade - Obama Should ASK JOE!
Barack Obama went on This Week and admitted his "above my pay grade" answer to when life begins was too flip, but he STILL WOULDN'T ANSWER THE QUESTION!
Saddleback Forum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mem_xEcZHVY
This Week: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/07/obama-says-above-my-pay-grade-comment-was-too-flip/
Joe Biden doesn't appear to share this problem - he agrees it begins at conception:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/us/politics/08campaign.html?ref=politics
The next time he gets a hard question Obama should just ASK JOE. It's probably not above HIS pay grade.
Saddleback Forum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mem_xEcZHVY
This Week: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/07/obama-says-above-my-pay-grade-comment-was-too-flip/
Joe Biden doesn't appear to share this problem - he agrees it begins at conception:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/us/politics/08campaign.html?ref=politics
The next time he gets a hard question Obama should just ASK JOE. It's probably not above HIS pay grade.
GIVE ME BACK MY TELEPROMPTER!
It seems everyone was chortling about Sarah Palin not writing her own speech (Barack doesn't write HIS, and both contribute to the final product to make them their own), using a teleprompter and basically just getting lucky. But what you might NOT have known is that her teleprompter was malfunctioning during the speech. And she STILL knocked it out of the park. Here's the link:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/04/palin-overcame-teleprompter-problems-missing-hard-copies/
NOW - look what happens when the same thing happens to The Messiah - OBAMA UNPLUGGED.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJSVPAx8xc
I ask you - is THIS the President you want talking to foreign leaders WITHOUT A SCRIPT?
Without the prompter, he was talking about a kid with asthma using a BREATHALIZER instead of an INHALER! Oh, and for those who say Barack writes his own speeches:
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20080828/OPINION02/808280331/-1/archive2
AMERICA - DO NOT PUT THE PRESIDENCY IN THE HANDS OF A STUDENT DRIVER!
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/04/palin-overcame-teleprompter-problems-missing-hard-copies/
NOW - look what happens when the same thing happens to The Messiah - OBAMA UNPLUGGED.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJSVPAx8xc
I ask you - is THIS the President you want talking to foreign leaders WITHOUT A SCRIPT?
Without the prompter, he was talking about a kid with asthma using a BREATHALIZER instead of an INHALER! Oh, and for those who say Barack writes his own speeches:
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20080828/OPINION02/808280331/-1/archive2
AMERICA - DO NOT PUT THE PRESIDENCY IN THE HANDS OF A STUDENT DRIVER!
Red In A Blue State
It's a drag living in MD sometimes. Your vote can count (if you are conservative) if you live in one of about 5 counties, but aside from that, you might as well hang it up.
A prime example. MD passed over Michael Steele - a tremendously talented, bright, young African-American politician for U.S. Senate - because he is a Republican. This in a favor of one of the "old guard" of MD politics - Ben Cardin. These things make one ashamed of one's state.
So, the only way I feel that those of us who feel strongly about the direction of our country on a national level can contribute is by chiming in on a national level. Through blogs, comments on articles, calling in to talk shows, etc. Pointing out inequities in coverage, issues that are ignored and the ugly underbelly of candidates that is overlooked by the mainstream media.
A prime example. MD passed over Michael Steele - a tremendously talented, bright, young African-American politician for U.S. Senate - because he is a Republican. This in a favor of one of the "old guard" of MD politics - Ben Cardin. These things make one ashamed of one's state.
So, the only way I feel that those of us who feel strongly about the direction of our country on a national level can contribute is by chiming in on a national level. Through blogs, comments on articles, calling in to talk shows, etc. Pointing out inequities in coverage, issues that are ignored and the ugly underbelly of candidates that is overlooked by the mainstream media.
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