It’s been eleven days now since Jimmy Hoffa dropped his infamous “take these son of bitches out” comment at an Obama Labor Day rally. Why hasn’t the press been hounding the White House for an apology or at least a comment about Hoffa’s remarks? When Rep. Joe Wilson yelled, “You lie!” during President Obama’s health care pep rally, which was true by the way, it was all we heard about for days on end. The press has basically ignored this event.
Does anyone think the President Bush could have gotten away without having to comment about something like Hoffa’s slur? Faith in President Obama’s leadership is unraveling, but one has to wonder how much worse it would be if the press wasn’t in love with him.
President Bush received a never ending stream of negative press. What was going “wrong” in Afghanistan and Iraq was always headline news. It’s as if the wars ended the day Obama was sworn in. This has been the bloodiest year in Afghanistan since the war began, yet it’s not even news. The economy is in tatters and the President still blames Bush after spending over a trillion dollars. After receiving non-stop adulation from the mainstream media for four years how does Obama spin his way out of this? The American people have tuned it out. These are very strange days.
Election season is fast approaching. Knowing what happened in 2008 is the key to recognizing what will happen in 2012. Many progressive still haven’t realized how Obama got elected. There wasn’t a groundswell of first-time voters. There wasn’t a huge turnout, and the same amount of young voters participated in the process. Barack Obama defeated the unpopular incumbent party represented by John McCain. There wasn’t a change in the electorate.
Americans were fed up with out-of-control spending, massive debt, and big government. Barack Obama’s campaign was a nebulous cloud of hope and change. It was a campaign about nothing. Thanks to the media’s adoration of Obama he was allowed to campaign on nothing. No GOP nominee for president will ever receive the press coverage that Obama received. I’m not sure any candidate from any party will ever be the beneficiary of the same hands-off coverage Obama received. If you’re still not convinced, just read this from November 2008:
The 12-question, multiple-choice survey found questions regarding statements linked to Republican presidential candidate John McCain and his vice-presidential running-mate Sarah Palin were far more likely to be answered correctly by Obama voters than questions about statements associated with Obama and Vice-President-Elect Joe Biden.
Most Obama voters are still unaware of what happened, but many of them know they’ve been had. The reality of the Obama administration is that he isn’t a forward thinker. Obama’s solution for every problem is the same solution Democrats/Republicans have been using since the New Deal.
After 9/11 the nation faced an issue where our vast government bureaucracies in the CIA and the FBI were not in communication with each other. What was the solution by President Bush? He helped create the Department of Homeland Security. Now we have three vast government bureaucracies that will not communicate with each other. Bush was no conservative. His idea of a solution was a New Deal type of solution; that government can do just about everything. This philosophy is the exact opposite of America’s founding philosophy.
After the financial crisis the nation faced an economy with a crisis of confidence. What was President Obama’s solution? An $800 billion dollar stimulus bill filled with pork that hasn’t accomplished anything. This wasn’t change. It wasn’t a new idea. This is buyer’s remorse. President Obama is so brainwashed into the status quo that he’s out of ideas. Reduce the size of government? Reduce regulations? Tort reform? There are the ideas of the extremists. It’s the great irony of the modern Progressive that bitterly clings to thoroughly archaic programs and ideas.
When the GOP nominee is finally declared the President Obama and the Democratic party will call the person extreme. They’ve been doing it for over 50 years. It’s not just the Democratic party. An editor of a major newspaper has told Douglas Mackinnon off the record that “we plan to declare war on Rick Perry and do all in our power to crush him.” Why wouldn’t anyone believe that statement? Here’s a President Carter campaign ad from 1980.
The Tea Party movement isn’t the racist result of having an African-American in the White House. It’s the result of decades of government spending, regulation, massive debt, and taxation. It’s the result of Americans getting fed up with two parties that promise to change, but stay the same. Democrats tried to tell the nation that Ronald Reagan was too risky to be president. How much really changed because of the extreme President Reagan? Maybe it’s time we quit worrying about extreme change. At this point the nation is in desperate need of real change that empowers the individual, not government.
Liberals are in full smear mode against presidential hopeful Rick Perry. In the last 24 hours The Daily Beast gets special recognition for running articles titled “A Christian Plot for Domination?” and “Perry: King of the Know-Nothings.” Progressives are known for their faux intellectualism and their condescension, but this is taking it to the next level.
Michelle Goldberg’s Christianphobic article is written under the premise that Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann believe that Christians have a God-given right to rule all earthly institutions. It’s perhaps the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. Where was Goldberg’s outrage about Obama’s 20-year personal relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? What does she think about “black liberation theology?” We’ll never know, because she’s a hack. One might want to casually dismiss something as idiotic as this, but Goldberg is a senior contributing writer for Newsweek/The Daily Beast.
Michael Tomasky is dismayed by Rick Perry’s opinions about global warming. Tomasky is apparently unaware that Perry’s views are mirrored by most Americans. Liberals seem to be caught by surprise that the theory of man-made global warming is going up in smoke. Oh, but there’s more…
Nearly every day has brought forth a new gem. On Thursday, he told a New Hampshire school-age child that he’s “not sure anybody actually knows completely and absolutely” how old the Earth is. He preceded these with a remark about Barack Obama not being respected by the military. And, of course, there was the infamous statement that Ben Bernanke would be committing “treason” by priming the economy. Not bad—nail the black guy and the Jew in your very first week on the trail!
Oh no! Perry doesn’t know the exact ago of the Earth! It’s believed that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old. I bet if we asked a room of intelligent people the majority wouldn’t know the answer and I’m not sure that anyone knows the exact age. Perry’s statement about Bernanke is so “infamous” that Tomasky can’t even get the context correct. He goes further by bring race into the equation. It makes you wonder who the real racists are in this country.
Both articles share Bush Nostalgia Syndrome in common. For those who are not familiar with BNS it works like this: all former GOP presidents are more sane/smart than the next GOP presidents. After eight years of Bush-Hitler, now liberals like Goldberg say “with Tim Pawlenty out of the presidential race, it is now fairly clear that the GOP candidate will either be Mitt Romney or someone who makes George W. Bush look like Tom Paine.” The template is always the same. Liberals thought Bush was a simpleton. They thought Reagan was an old idiot who couldn’t remember anything. The pattern of liberal condescension towards the right is endless.
It’s obvious that liberals have completely lost touch with mainstream Americans. The Vice President calls his opponents terrorists and the President of the United States attended a church for two decades that preached that the United States’ “chickens came home to roost” on 9/11. The real extremists aren’t hard to find. They’re in the White House.
I haven’t made up my mind about Rick Perry. The Daily Plunge has written a lot about the Texas governor over the past six weeks, but that’s because he’s the most compelling political development in the GOP race at the moment. Also, there’s a very good chance that he could become the next president. Another interesting thing about Perry is that Team Bush is firmly opposed to his nomination. Since Reagan left office no other family has dominated a political party like the Bush family. The Bush family has had a stranglehold on the GOP establishment.
In 1980, it was George H. W. Bush who coined the term “voodoo economics.” When Reagan picked Bush as his VP it was like picking the ultimate company man. Bush had been the head of the CIA and the head of the GOP. Every GOP nominee for president since 1980 has had a testy relationship with the Bush family. Bob Dole had a long history of disagreements with George H. W. Bush. John McCain’s problems with George W. Bush are well documented. Let’s not forget about Texan Ross Perot. Perot’s 1992 campaign was the greatest anti-Bush crusade ever, aside from MoveOn.org and the legions of leftists who lost their marbles during the W presidency.
How has the Bush family managed to get away with this for so long? I can’t say, but the rise of Perry could threaten the Bush “kinder gentler, compassionate conservative” garbage that conservatives have had to endure since 1988. George W. Bush escaped the wrath of conservatives because of his Texas accent and 9/11. The party rallied around the President after that terrible day and he piled on big government while conservatives turned a blind eye.
Matt Latimer has a great article in The Daily Beast about the rift between Team Bush and Team Perry. Team Bush is already well underway trying to derail the Perry campaign.
While in the White House, Bush 2 and his aides regularly scoffed at Perry for reasons that were never fully clear, making fun of his syntax and intellectual prowess without any sense of irony. In 2010 the Bush family, along with Rove and Karen Hughes, undertook an unprecedented effort to kick him out of the governor’s chair, handing a crowbar to Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, whom they judged more “electable.” Perry walloped her in the GOP primary, then went on to win a historic third term in the general election by a double-digit margin. So much for electability.
But Rove is nothing if not persistent. Now he and his operatives seem to have something close to a war room against Perry, scrutinizing his every statement in an attempt to cut his young candidacy short. After Rove called Perry “unpresidential,” former Bush press secretary Tony “Ralph Malph” Fratto joined in—calling Perry, you guessed it, “unpresidential.” This was followed in quick succession by similar sentiments from a former Rove aide, Pete “Potsie” Wehner. Meanwhile, two “unnamed” Bush aides (wonder who they could be?) issued the following warning to The New York Times: “If you’re really trying to be the nominee and want to go the distance, you just don’t want the former president of the United States and his people working against you.” (Then again, that’s what the Bushes told Kay Bailey Hutchison.)
Latimer gives Rove too much credit. This has been the Bush modus operandi for decades. Karl Rove is to George W. Bush as Lee Atwater was to George H. W. Bush. Atwater and Rove were both great political minds at the disposal of their boss. The story here is of Texas. Texas is a big state and I’m sure there are plenty of natives who remember the state before it became synonymous with Team Bush. John Connolly, John Nance Garner or Sam Houston anyone?
In hindsight, the problem with George W. Bush wasn’t that he was from Texas. The problem with Bush was that he was the son of the established Big Government GOP and Ivy League to boot. There’s no other family in America that represents the GOP aristocracy better than the Bush family. That doesn’t mean they’re evil, but controlling the GOP is not something that the family wants to give up. The next GOP president who isn’t named Bush will loosen their stranglehold on the party. If the next GOP president is from Texas they might lose their hold on the Lone Star state and Texans of all stripes will breathe a huge sigh of relief.
Humberto Leal Garcia, Jr. was executed in Texas on July 7th for the rape, torture, and murder of a 16-year-old girl back in 1994. There’s no controversy about whether or not he committed the crime; he even admitted to it before being executed. President Obama asked Governor Perry for a stay of execution to appease the International Court of Justice. Leal, as a Mexican national (a.k.a., illegal alien) was entitled to assistance from the Mexican consul. He didn’t receive it at the time of his arrest because the officers didn’t know he was an illegal alien.
Well, isn’t this a Catch 22? Liberals don’t want police officers to ask for papers because it’s racist, but at the same time liberals want the United States to abide by international law. How then are the police supposed to offer foreign counsel? What liberal signed this stupid treaty, you ask? It was none other that that crazy neo-con President Bush. He signed the treaty with the International Court of Justice, but it’s never been ratified by Congress so it’s non-binding.
The Supreme Court refused a stay of execution by a 5-4 vote. There is some fear that the execution damages the United States’ image abroad, especially with Mexico, though Leal had been in the United States since he was two years old. Mexico is going to find it difficult to find anyone who feels sorry for Lear given the heinous nature of his crime. Before Leal was executed he apologized to the victim’s family and then shouted twice: “Viva Mexico!”
Let the Distancing Begin: One of the complaints about Texas Governor Rick Perry is that he’s too close to Bush. Conveniently enough the New York Times and CBS is running a story that discusses a rift between the two camps. Well, isn’t that special? Hmm… maybe there’s something to all that Bilderberg stuff.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Empirical Facts: The brilliant Thomas Sowell has a great article up at Townhall entitled “Politics Versus Reality.” Sowell discusses the ever increasing problem or uninformed political discourse. How do you debate an opponent that wishes to remain willfully ignorant?
The same preference for talking points, and the same lack of interest in digging into the facts about realities, prevails today in discussions of whether to have a government-controlled medical system.
Since there are various countries, such as Canada and Britain, that have the kind of government-controlled medical systems that some Americans advocate, you might think that there would be great interest in the quality of medical care in these countries.
The data are readily available as to how many weeks or months people have to wait to see a primary care physician in such countries, and how many additional weeks or months they have to wait after they are referred to a surgeon or other specialist. There are data on how often their governments allow patients to receive the latest pharmaceutical drugs, as compared to how often Americans use such advanced medications.
But supporters of government medical care show virtually no interest in such realities. Their big talking point is that the life expectancy in the United States is not as long as in those other countries. End of discussion, as far as they are concerned.
When it comes to health care liberals are brain-dead. Their arguments are tired cliches. It’s almost impossible to break through the misinformation. Heath care as an entitlement is a religion and the libertarian position is the infidel.
Casey Anthony: I haven’t kept up with this story and I can’t even muster up a reason why anyone should care. Apparently a jury of her peers acquitted her. That’s all I need to know. Now FOX News can get back to covering something that’s actually important.
Government Intervention: The shocking conclusion from CNN is that the housing market won’t recover until it hits bottom. Of course it won’t reach bottom as long as the Federal Government keeps intervening in the market.
The Daily Plunge’s disdain for conspiracy theories is well-documented. One of my favorite conspiracy theories involves the Bilderberg Group. The Bilderberg Group meets annually, and it usually consistes of 140 or so influential people from all over the world. The meetings are secret and thus they have to be evil. The newest member of the Bilderbergs is none other than Texas Governor Rick Perry.
Every indication suggests that Bilderberg-approved Texas Governor Rick Perry is set to become the frontrunner in the Republican race to challenge Barack Obama for the presidency, illustrating once again how a shady, secretive and undemocratic global elite holds the reigns of true power while Americans are distracted by the delusional notion that they have a genuine choice in 2012.
Of course! How could I be so blind? Obviously the chronically conspiratorial Alex Jones’ Infowars has to get ahead of the impending Perry candidacy. You don’t have to have a PhD in political science to realize that Perry would be a formidable candidate; however, Paul Joseph Watson believes every eventual president has to go through the Bilderberg application process to get elected. Why Perry? Why now? It’s because of the strong Ron Paul candidacy (no, really!).
In a comparatively weak GOP field, the establishment cannot take any chances in allowing Ron Paul to gain momentum as the only candidate who has a real chance of defeating Barack Obama.
As polls have shown, out of the Republican candidates, only Ron Paul has a realistic hope of success in a hypothetical run off against Obama – the other candidates are equally unpopular as the President.
Watson is referencing a CNN poll from May. The poll is completely irrelevant. Paul’s campaign is going nowhere. Watson also tries to brand Perry as Bush 2.0 even though there’s not a lot to tie the two together besides Texas. Other “sins” that Watson pins on Perry are privatizing highways (a good idea) and supporting NAFTA (another good idea).
There’s something psychological about people who believe that the world is controlled by a secretive group. It’s nothing new. These types of beliefs are as old as time itself. It’s just a simple way for people to deal with a complicated world.
The biggest casualty during the Obama administration has been the anti-war left. Most of the anti-war left was a fog. It’s like people who play Dungeons and Dragons. They dress up on the weekends, have a good time, and go back to their normal lives. Most of the anti-war left was made up of partisan Democrats who weren’t really upset with war, but angry that there was a Republican in the White House. The wars have continued under new ownership and the hypocrites have gone back to their lives. Yes, they’re still “angry” about Iraq, but their arguments are easy to dismiss.
Noam Chomsky is a true believer in the anti-war dogma. He doesn’t greet the death of Osama Bin Laden as a significant accomplishment. Chomsky just uses it as another excuse to bash President Bush.
We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. Uncontroversially, his crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s, and he is not a “suspect” but uncontroversially the “decider” who gave the orders to commit the “supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole” (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal) for which Nazi criminals were hanged: the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees, destruction of much of the country, the bitter sectarian conflict that has now spread to the rest of the region.
Noam Chomsky is a Institute Professor emeritus in the MIT Department of Linguistics and Philosophy. I guess that means he is the ultimate “decider” of what is considered “uncontroversial.” Meanwhile our current President continues to authorize drone attacks in Pakistan and the policy of holding prisoners indefinitely in Guantanamo Bay. Chomsky cannot be bothered by the present when he’s so obsessed with the past.
President Obama will spend the next few weeks (or months) basking in the glow of his accomplishment. Who can blame him? Who can be surprised? This is the President who couldn’t give a normal convention speech and took his campaign to Germany (that sure didn’t work out). Our President is someone who has no trouble talking about himself.
In the grand scheme of things history will look back at President Obama and judge him based on what he did or didn’t do about the nation’s fiscal problems. Obama’s biggest concern isn’t fixing our financial problems. The sole focus of the the Obama administration is getting elected. The power of the incumbency has never been stronger. At what cost? Obama wanted to be Lincoln. Sadly, he’s more like Pierce, Filmore, and Buchanan.
The video below is a nice satire of the Anti-war Left who apparently are on vacation. There are plenty of people on the Right who disagree with our foreign policy in Libya, but nothing rises to the level of derangement that came from the Left during Iraq.
I think this will be my last post about this issue, but here we are four days from the tragedy in Arizona and there’s nothing really left to know about Jared Loughner. His motives have been endlessly dissected and there are zero ties to any right-wing ideology. That doesn’t stop Newsweek from running this:
The Missed Warning Signs
A 2009 study warned that the rise of right-wing extremism could spur violent attacks. But the report was attacked by Republicans, including now-Speaker John Boehner.
Two years before the Tucson massacre, the Department of Homeland Security warned in a report that right-wing extremism was on the rise and could prompt “lone wolves” to launch attacks. But the agency backed away from the report amid intense criticism from Republicans, including future House Speaker John Boehner.
Huh? Does Newsweek exist in some parallel universe where Jared Loughner is Sarah Palin’s husband? Hot Air is all over this 20 paragraph article, but don’t be too upset. The author gets to the part about there being no connection to the right in paragraph 19. Newsweek took the train to Crazytown a long time about, but it’s still unbelievable to see it. Allahpundit has more:
This story was written not by a Newsweek staffer but by a reporter from the “nonpartisan” Center for Public Integrity, which has been criticized for years for taking money from, among others, Soros’s Open Society Institute. I mention that fact reluctantly, only because at this point the Soros angle is a red herring. After all, there’s nothing in this piece that isn’t perfectly in keeping with the disinformation about Loughner being spread by various other media outlets over the past few days.
Political opportunism isn’t anything new and thankfully most Americans are smart enough to see through this attempt by the media to smear the right. 57% of Americans believe that political rhetoric and the shooting are unrelated; however, 42% of Democrats believe the rhetoric is related to the shooting. We hear a lot about Birthers and some of the stupid things people on the right believe, but 42% believe in something with no basis in reality. 42% of Democrats are either too stupid, too lazy, or too brainwashed to get to the truth on this issue. Unfortunately when Newsweek publishes articles like this it makes it so much easier for people to remain uninformed.
The current political climate isn’t extreme. I touched on what would be the liberal blueprint for the Obama administration back in October 2008.
Can anyone see where this is going? If Obama is elected in a month is this going to be the standard defense for Obama? The opposition is just racist?
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It’s amazing to me that the press continues to hang charges of racism and divisiveness on McCain when Obama talks about “typical white people” and refers to rural Americans as bitter, clinging to guns, and religion or antipathy. I’m not sure how Obama expects to bring people together, but it’s obvious the press is doing all they can to tear people apart.
The left is automatically programmed to believe that any opposition to Obama cannot be rational. It can only be explained by ignorance and racism. It’s easy to look down at your opposition if you think they’re stupid. They ridiculed Reagan and Bush for being dumb. Now that the left is obsessed about the President’s race they can project their faux moral superiority over the phantom racists who exist solely on the right. Despite what the left believes they simply can’t wish away what happened during the Bush administration.
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