Obama: The Wrong Direction

 

Obama: The Wrong Direction...

 

WRONG  for  America ! ! !

 

WRONG  for  YOU ! ! !

 

AAR

AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR NATION'S LEADERSHIP

I received the following letter in a couple of different e-mails. After further checking, I see it's posted on several Web sites.

The letter was originally sent to Glenn Beck and read on his show June 17, 2009. Once you read this, you will want to forward it to all of your friends...

AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR NATION'S LEADERSHIP

by Janet Contreras:

I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?

Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:

One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist. This isn't to be confused with legal immigration.

Two, the TARP bill. I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.

Three: Czars. I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.

Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.

Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!

Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don't you start there.

Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.

Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why ‑‑ what do you have against shareholders making a profit?

Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.

Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band‑Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.

Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try ‑‑ please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.

Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.

Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let's just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I'm busy. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.

I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.

From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington. Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons.

We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when hewill rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.

Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.

AAR

Big Tent Republicans

Republicans do need a "big tent" -- big enough to include all who wish to enter!

We do not, however, need to enlarge our tent by extending it further to the left, compromising our own principles, traditional values, and agenda, and becoming "Liberal-lites" in the hopes of enticing a few Liberals to enter. That strategy did not work with John McCain even as it alienated and turned off much of our base, yet we are now being told to give it another try... by those same self proclaimed "moderate" Republicans, the liberal media, and "helpful" analysts and political experts on the Left!

Republicans and Conservatives must do more to show Moderates and Independents that it's ultimately in their interest and that of America to vote for Republicans rather than the apologizing, anti-American, pro-UN, tax and spend, welfare fixated, Socio-Communist Liberals, and the Democrats who support and enable them!

With only a 5% shift in votes, Obama would not be president, and the Democrats would be the minority party!

AAR

The Obama Side-Step

When you can't make a decision, just give 'em a big grin, and...

Do "The Obama Side-Step"!

Give 'em a slick sounding sales pitch and dance around the issues,
side step the questions, and divert their attention with smoke and
mirrors, promise them anything that sounds good, and... hope the
fools never catch on, or stop buying the snake oil you're peddling!

And if, by chance, you do make a decision and it turns out wrong...

Blame someone else for your own failures and incompetence !


Wake up Americans...

Don't be played for fools ! ! !

The Palin Effect

Not to be out maneuvered by Sarah Palin, and after reading the TEA leaves (and after seeing trends in recent polls)...

RedState reports:

October 26th, 2009

NY-23: Pawlenty Endorses Hoffman

Tim Pawlenty is endorsing Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman in the Nov. 3 special election for New York's 23rd District...

"We cannot send more politicians to Washington who wear the Republican jersey on the campaign trail, but then vote like Democrats in Congress on issues like card check and taxes," Pawlenty said in a statement to RedState. "After reviewing the candidates' positions [and seeing all those TEA leaves], I'm endorsing Doug Hoffman in New York's special election...

Hoffman has previously been endorsed by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin ... a poll today showing Hoffman in the lead.

"What makes this stand out even more than the Palin endorsement is that Pawlenty has not been seen as diverging with the Republican establishment," wrote RedState's Erick Erickson. "He's not seen as the maverick that Palin is. But Pawlenty has a huge amount of stature inside the Republican establishment, more so than Palin. That he is now willing to come out in favor of Hoffman is going to resonate among the Republican establishment in ways Palin's endorsement will not."

And they said Palin's political career and influence was over when she resigned as governor!

AAR

North Korea or Iran could nuke the U.S.

Not only does North Korea now have a missile and nuclear warhead that puts Guam and Japan within range of a nuclear strike, but possibly the U.S. mainland and Europe as well!

At least one of North Korea's nuclear capable missiles can be launched from a mobile launcher which can be carried on board a ship or barge in international waters and strike every city within the U.S.   The same is or will soon be true of Iran, which is known to be receiving military assistance from North Korea.

Obama and the Democrats want Americans to believe it will be years before North Korea or Iran can strike or blackmail the U.S., Europe, Israel, and our allies with a nuclear missile, but that is not the case, especially if missiles are launched from barges or ships.

Even worse than the destruction of a major U.S. city, would be a nuclear missile detonated over the U.S. to create an Electromagnetic Pulse which would essentially disable our entire nation!

And what is Obama's strategy?   First, Obama's administration blocked testing of a key missile defense radar during North Korea's last missile launch. Then Obama reduced needed funding for the missile defense system.   Mostly, Obama just talks, and talks, and talks!

Biden warned Americans our enemies would test Obama, and further warned that "...it's not going to be apparent that we're right."

Will the American people wake up before Obama's continued talk and weak responses lead to a nuclear attack?

Contact your Senators and Representatives and ask them to vote against Obama's plans to cut and weaken America's missile defense system.

AAR

Obama sends American troops to war without the equipment they need to fight!

The Associated Press is reporting that the Obama administration is sending thousands of U.S. troops to Afghanistan without the equipment they need to fight the Taliban; although, the Obama administration is "concerned" about the problem.

Where are the reports from the media -- newspapers, television networks, and the Internet -- about Obama sending American troops to fight a war without the necessary equipment? Where are the calls from Congress for an investigation into why Obama is sending American troops into a war zone without the equipment they need? Where is the outrage from the Democrats and their Left-Wing Liberals over more troops being sent to fight the war?

Come on you Democrats, Liberals, and anti-war Left-Wingers, can't we get just a little outrage here? Just a tiny bit? A smidgen? You don't have to hit Obama with the full load of your outrage and hate like you did to President Bush!


There are some reporting that Obama is managing to lose the war in Afghanistan -- no surprise there! After all, Obama did manage to anger North Korea into restarting its nuclear weapons program, and somehow, managed to get the inspectors thrown out of the country -- no surprise there! And now, with Obama at the helm, the Taliban are taking large areas in Pakistan, with the real possibility the Taliban and Osama bin Laden could get their hands on one or more nuclear missiles; even though, Obama doesn't "think" that is "too likely" to happen "at this time" -- no surprise there!

All of this should be no surprise to anyone with a little common sense (largely lacking on the Left). Obama's weak stand, constant America-bashing, continual apologizing, and poor judgment will likely lead to even more fighting and deaths -- in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and around the world.

Our enemies and the bad guys around the world know that under Obama's weak "leadership" America will do little to stop them other than talk. Even Vice President Biden warned Americans the world would "test" Obama, and it wouldn't be apparent that Obama's decisions were correct. At least we do get some truth when Joe's allowed to say what he thinks!

And what does Obama do as threats of a possible rogue missile launch increase by the day? Why, the Obama administration denied the military's request to conduct a live test of a critical radar of the missile defense system for fear of "provoking" North Korea. Can't Obama understand it's North Korea doing the provoking? Apparently not!

Adding to his incompetence, Obama next cuts funding from the very missile defense system we need to protect us and our allies from a rogue nuclear missile strike. Then, believing all Americans are incapable of seeing through his smoke, mirrors, and snake oil sales pitches, Obama tries to mislead and snow the American people into believing those are big savings compared to the trillions of dollars he and his out-of-control Democrat Congress are spending like those proverbial drunken sailors!

We ask for answers, but all we get from Obama are more misleading and wishy-washy non-answers like: we don't anticipate... we don't foresee... we don't believe that's likely (at this time) ...we aren't planning (at this time) ...we don't think (at this time) ...we don't know (at this time).

Why should it be any surprise that the Obama administration don't know what they are doing in Afghanistan when they "claim" they didn't even know the White House sent Obama's Air Force One back-up jet on a mission to buzz New York City and scare the daylights out of its citizens!

And have we forgotten Obama's campaign promise to capture or kill Osama bin Laden? Obama has had over 100 days now to do just that, but all we here if more talk, talk, talk!

But then, the one thing Obama is good at is talking!

AAR

Obama's Spanish Inquisition!

REAL and PATRIOTIC Americans... Stand up and "explain" to Obama and his Left-Wing Liberal Democrats that this is America -- not some providence or puppet of the U.N. or one of it's anti-American minions!

REAL and PATRIOTIC Americans... Stand up and "explain" to Obama what any red blooded Americans believes: America will not tolerate, participate in, support, or provide any "evidence" or information to the U.N. or any other nation to conduct show trials of President Bush, the American military, our intelligence agencies, or anyone else in the administration who successfully protected the United States and American citizens from more terrorist attacks!

Obama still believes he was elected president or emperor of the world, rather than the United States. After releasing our nation's secrets to our enemies, Obama's Democrat Attorney General now says the Obama Administration may cooperate with these show trials and even provide them with evidence to use against our own government officials...

HotAir.com reported...

In speaking to reporters Wednesday, Holder also said it is possible the United States could cooperate with a foreign court's investigation of Bush administration officials.

Holder spoke before the announcement that a Spanish magistrate had opened an investigation of Bush officials on harsh interrogation methods. Holder didn't rule out cooperating in such a probe.

"Obviously, we would look at any request that would come from a court in any country and see how and whether we should comply with it," Holder said.

"This is an administration that is determined to conduct itself by the rule of law and to the extent that we receive lawful requests from an appropriately created court, we would obviously respond to it," he said.

Power Line commented...

Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzon has launched an inquisition into America's treatment of terrorist detainees. Now Attorney General Eric Holder says the Obama administration may choose to cooperate with such kangaroo investigations.

If the Attorney General of the United States once accepts the absurdity that a Spanish court and Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzón, sitting in Spain and operating under Spanish law, actually have jurisdiction over American officials making official policy decisions inside the United States about how American military and intelligence agents can interrogate detainees at an American Marine Corps base inside Cuba... then how can Holder later limit such jurisdiction to "evidentiary requests?"

If we ever once accept that a European court -- and not even a recognized "international" one! -- has jurisdiction over actions committed by American officials ... then we have crossed a line from which we can never retreat: The United States will cease to be a sovereign power.

Sometimes you get the feeling that's what some Democrats want.

If Spain, the U.N., or any other nation wants to try our government officials for protecting America and our citizens, then they should send their military to arrest and drag them to the inquisitions...

America's Marines and military will meet them at our shore... or sooner!

If Obama supports and condones these foreign inquisitions, then...

IMPEACH Obama!

AAR

Obama says: Let the Mexican flu pour in!

Many people have said long before now that we should close the border with Mexico to halt the flow of new Mexican flu cases coming into the United States while we battle to control and stop the cases that are already here.

When asked about closing the border to reduce the number of cases coming into the United States, Obama said that "would be akin to closing the barn door after the horses are out, because we already have cases here in the United States."

No, Obama! That would be more like closing the flood gates to stop more water from pouring in and flooding our homes and cities. We aren't worried about the horses escaping the barn, we are worried about stopping the flow of new flu cases crossing our borders while we try to contain, treat, and reduce or stop the spread of new cases to more American citizens and our schools!

Schools and public events in Mexico have already been closed to reduce the spread of the flu. ABC news reported that the Mexican government has now taken even more drastic action, ordering all nonessential businesses to close.

Schools across America are already shutting down to reduce and minimize contact with those who have the flu, in an effort to contain and eventually stop the spread of this killer flu to even more Americans.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon, who has been criticized for his low profile during the crisis, addressed the nation Wednesday night and told Mexicans to stay home. "There is no safer place to protect yourself against catching swine flu than in your house," he said.

If you're trying to protect the lives of your family by avoiding contact with those who have the flu, would you then open the door of your home and welcome inside those already infected with the virus to increase the chances one of them could infect you and your family? No! No responsible and sane person would do that!

So why does Obama want to keep the doors open to our home -- the Untied States -- and allow more infected people to spread the disease while our doctors, hospitals, and medical facilities we are working to treat, contain, and stop the spread of this deadly flu virus?

Speaking out of both sides of his mouth, Obama also said: "Our public health officials have recommended that schools with confirmed or suspected cases of this flu strongly consider temporarily closing."

Which is it Obama? Close our schools to reduce the spread of the virus, or keep the flood gates and allow more infected cases to pour across our borders? ! ! !

Perhaps Obama is right -- this time. Perhaps Obama has waited too long, and it's now too late to reduce the spread of the Mexican flu to more Americans by closing our borders. The Obama administration should have taken that and other more aggressive actions sooner -- before the flu had spread.

Rather out playing golf, Obama should have been more personally involved and proactive in managing this crisis during its earlier stages!

We all know, talk is cheap, and... Obama is certainly a good talker!

AAR

Columbine... Why?

I received the following by e-mail on April 27, 2009. I'm posting it basically as I received it...

AAR


It's not often that I receive an email that I want to send to "everyone" on my email list - I often send jokes to some, or pretty pictures, or sentimental messages, but this one "hits home" to me. I think this guy has it right!! Read on ....

Jacky


On Thursday, Darrell Scott, the father of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine High School shootings in Littleton, Colorado, was invited to address the House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee. What he said to our national leaders during this special session of Congress was painfully truthful.

They were not prepared for what he was to say, nor was it received well. It needs to be heard by every parent, every teacher, every politician, every sociologist, every psychologist, and every so-called expert! These courageous words spoken by Darrell Scott are powerful, penetrating, and deeply personal. There is no doubt that God sent this man as a voice crying in the wilderness.

The following is a portion of the transcript:


"Since the dawn of creation there has been both good & evil in the hearts of men and women.. We all contain the seeds of kindness or the seeds of violence. The death of my wonderful daughter, Rachel Joy Scott, and the deaths of that heroic teacher, and the other eleven children who died must not be in vain. Their blood cries out for answers.

"The first recorded act of violence was when Cain slew his brother Abel out in the field. The villain was not the club he used.. Neither was it the NCA, the National Club Association. The true killer was Cain, and the reason for the murder could only be found in Cain's heart.

"In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy, I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am not a member of the NRA. I am not a hunter. I do not even own a gun.. I am not here to represent or defend the NRA - because I don't believe that they are responsible for my daughter's death. Therefore I do not believe that they need to be defended. If I believed they had anything to do with Rachel's murder I would be their strongest opponent.

"I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy -- it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves.

"I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best.

      Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
      Your words are empty air.
      You've stripped away our heritage,
      You've outlawed simple prayer.
      Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
      And precious children die.
      You seek for answers everywhere,
      And ask the question "Why?"
      You regulate restrictive laws,
      Through legislative creed.
      And yet you fail to understand,
      That God is what we need!

"Men and women are three-part beings. We all consist of body, mind, and spirit. When we refuse to acknowledge a third part of our make-up, we create a void that allows evil, prejudice, and hatred to rush in and wreak havoc. Spiritual presences were present within our educational systems for most of our nation's history. Many of our major colleges began as theological seminaries. This is a historical fact. What has happened to us as a nation? We have refused to honor God, and in so doing, we open the doors to hatred and violence. And when something as terrible as Columbine's tragedy occurs -- politicians immediately look for a scapegoat such as the NRA. They immediately seek to pass more restrictive laws that contribute to erode away our personal and private liberties. We do not need more restrictive laws. Eric and Dylan would not have been stopped by metal detectors. No amount of gun laws can stop someone who spends months planning this type of massacre. The real villain lies within our own hearts.

"As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes, he did not hesitate to pray in school. I defy any law or politician to deny him that right! I challenge every young person in America , and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School, prayer was brought back to our schools. Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with Him. To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA -- I give to you a sincere challenge..... Dare to examine your own heart before casting the first stone!

"My daughter's death will not be in vain! The young people of this country will not allow that to happen!"


Do what the media did not - - let the nation hear this man's speech.
Please send this out to everyone you can.

Wisdom of Thomas Jefferson

Americans would do well to listen to the words of Thomas Jefferson!

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

    ~~~Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

    ~~~Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

    ~~~Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

    ~~~Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.

    ~~~Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

    ~~~Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

    ~~~Thomas Jefferson

AAR

Obama administration: flu deaths an opportunity

What do you do if you're Obama and an "inconvenient" flu outbreak draws attention from yourself and threatens to disrupt your own celebration and media spectacular being staged to pat yourself on the back for having "saved the world" during your first 100 days in office?

Why, you turn the suffering, death, fear, and misery of others into yet another "opportunity" to proclaim to the world how great YOU are!

The Washington Post notes: "...Obama's efforts to control the message around his 100th day in office is 'complicated' by the swine flu."

White House Cheat Sheet: Swine Flu Snafu?

"With less than 24 hours before President Obama celebrates his 100th day in office, the wall-to-wall coverage of the swine flu threatens to swamp efforts out of the White House to frame the president's accomplishments."

While the White House has argued for much of the last several weeks that they pay little attention to phony measuring sticks like the 100 days -- White House senior adviser David Axelrod famously referred to Wednesday as a "Hallmark holiday" -- there is clear evidence that the administration is seeking to capitalize on the attention being paid to the day by the media.

Obama is scheduled to attend a town hall meeting in St. Louis, Mo. (a critical swing state in 2008 and likely again in 2012) Wednesday morning and then jet back to Washington that evening for the third prime-time press conference of his presidency.

All of that activity is aimed at one thing: ensuring that the White House's preferred message on what the first 100 days means is the one that most Americans consume on Wednesday.

Capitalize on the fear, misery, suffering, and death of others...

The White House said that both Wednesday's town hall meeting and the prime-time press conference are still on but, of course, that plan could change depending on the severity of the swine flu and the public's reaction to it.

...not to say that the swine flu has destroyed what would have been a banner week for the Obama administration. In every crisis there is opportunity -- to paraphrase White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel -- and that is of course true with the swine flu.

"I don't think it hurts at all," said Democratic consultant Phil Singer of the swine flu. "Instead of being a retrospective on the last 100 days, the President can use the milestone to demonstrate his leadership skills in real time."

Never let it be said that Obama -- The Great Manipulator -- and his Left-Wing staff aren't experts at manipulating the news to fuel their Liberal agenda and feed Obama's Narcissistic personality and needs!

Perhaps instead of celebrating, Obama could talk about how those people with the flu have "complicated" his efforts get his own message out and to pat himself on the back!

Just watching and listening to Obama is enough to make one sick!

AAR

Obama: Traitor or Just Anti-American Liberal?

The Right View Wisconsin asks...

Is Barack Obama a traitor or just incompetent?

After almost 100 days in office, it is clear that President Obama has a very ultra-liberal vision for America.

He is guiding America away from its status as a world leader, to that of being an equal or lesser partner with every other country on the planet. ... The "blame America first" crowd and those who are anti-American love what Obama is turning our country into. Obama is ripping apart the very foundations our country was created upon.

The question was recently posed to me on whether or not I consider Obama a "traitor." In the sense that he has made our enemies - like al-Queda - openly aware of the U.S. Military interrogation techniques, as well as given them information on supposed withdrawal dates from Iraq, and seems intent on punishing many who were doing their jobs to protect our country, one really has to wonder. Obama's actions do look like they are aiding the enemy. ...[or] Is he just an incompetent liberal, striving to achieve the ultimate liberal goal of re-inventing America to be little more than the same as other countries? Does he actually think that is a good thing? Knocking us off our pedestal as a world power, because the left doesn't see that as somehow being a desirable position? ...

In all of Obama's speeches, does he ever talk about what a great country America is? Does he ever speak with pride about all of America's accomplishments ... It would serve Barack Obama well to remember all the good of America, rather than to continue to point out the bad. By focusing on the perceived ills, Obama seems to be legitimizing his attempts to tear down our country to rebuild it as the next France. Why? Why do we want to morph into another country? What is wrong with America?

Please, President Obama, tell us what you like about our country, other than the fact you got elected. As for being a traitor or just an incompetent leader, the jury is still out. Either way, as I've stated before, 2012 cannot get here fast enough.

Never in our nation's history has America had such an anti-American president as Obama -- bowing down to kings, apologizing and "sucking up" to our enemies and those who wish to see America harmed and defeated, bankrupting our nation with his out-of-control spending, cutting and undermining our defense, and freely giving away highly classified and secret information which will aid our enemies while demeaning and tarnishing America's image throughout the world!

All patriotic Americans should be working hard to vote Obama, his Liberal Democrats, and his Socialist-Communist agenda out of office -- the sooner the better!

The Communists in the former Soviet Union would have been proud and honored to have Obama working for them!

AAR

Deadly New Flu Outbreak

Reuters is reporting the outbreak of a new strain of "swine" flu described as a "never-before-seen mixture of viruses typical among pigs, birds and humans."

April 24, 2009:

GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) voiced concern on Friday at a confirmed outbreak of swine flu in the United States and what it called more than 800 human "influenza-like" cases in Mexico, including about 60 deaths.

The United Nations agency said it had activated its Strategic Health Operations Center (SHOC) -- its command and control center for acute public health events -- but could not say whether it was considering issuing a travel advisory.

Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordoba said that it was cancelling classes for millions of children in the heart of the country on Friday after influenza killed around 20 people in recent weeks. Mexico's flu season had extended for longer this year.

April 24, 2009:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Seven people have been diagnosed with a new kind of swine flu in California and Texas, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday.

"Symptoms from those seriously ill in Mexico include high fever, headache, eye pain, shortness of breath and extreme fatigue with rapid progression of symptoms to severe respiratory distress in about five days," the British Columbia Center for Disease Control said in a statement.

In the United States, the CDC reported the new strain of swine flu on Tuesday in a boy and a girl from California's two southernmost counties.

Now, five more cases have been found via normal surveillance for seasonal influenza. None of the patients, whose symptoms closely resembled seasonal flu, had any direct contact with pigs.

Canadian officials have asked doctors to keep an eye out for cases of respiratory illness among travelers from Mexico.

What happens if this flu spreads to millions of people around the world? If the death rate in Mexico is any indication, a death rate of 60 people among the 800 cases would equate to 75,000 deaths for each one million people affected.

Consider the fact that millions of people in the U.S. and many hundreds of millions around the world get the flu each year!

And where could a "never-before-seen mixture of viruses typical among pigs, birds and humans" come from?

There are several possibilities...

AAR

Obama wrong, Bush right on North Korea.

Hey Obama, Bush was right!

President Bush was right, and all the Liberals (Democrats) like Obama were wrong. You can not appease, placate, and play "nice" with your enemies. Now we have, or very soon will have, North Korea with nuclear weapons and missiles -- and Iran soon to follow!

World news sources are reporting North Korea is now a nuclear power!

The world’s intelligence agencies and defense experts are quietly acknowledging that North Korea has become a fully fledged nuclear power with the capacity to wipe out entire cities in Japan and South Korea, the Times of London reported.

The new reality has emerged in off-hand remarks and in single sentences buried in lengthy reports. Increasing numbers of authoritative experts — from the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to the U.S. Defense Secretary — are admitting that North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warheads to the extent that they can be launched on medium-range missiles, according to intelligence briefings.

This puts it ahead of Iran in the race for nuclear attack capability and seriously alters the balance of power between North Korea’s large but poorly equipped military and the South Korean and U.S. forces ranged against it. “North Korea has nuclear weapons, which is a matter of fact,” the head of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, said this week. “I don’t like to accept any country as a nuclear weapon state we have to face reality.”

North Korea with nuclear missiles that can wipe out South Korean and Japanese cities killing tens of millions of people. Iran likely will have nuclear weapons and missiles very soon -- perhaps even supplied by North Korea -- with the desire and ability to strike Israel and Europe's major cities. Pakistan is moving even closer toward control by the Taliban, giving them, Osama bin Laden, and his supporters access to numerous nuclear missiles capable of destroying who knows what.

Obama says it will be years before any of those countries can strike the U.S., but he forgets and ignores what a few nuclear bombs dropped on Tokyo, Seoul, Israel, Europe, and India (who will retaliate against Pakistan) will do to the U.S. and world economies -- except that this time there will be no bailout or economic stimulus because Obama has blown all of America's reserves and credit on his liberal agenda and socialism -- which most Americans are too blinded to see or understand.

Obama forgets, however, that a nuclear missile or missiles can be launched from ships or barges located in international waters far off America's coast, with the possibility of wiping out cities like New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, New Orleans, Boston, and many others!

President Bush wanted to do take aggressive action to stop North Korea and Iran from developing or acquiring nuclear weapons and the missile to deliver them, but the Liberal Democrats blocked those efforts. Now, the world is faced with the reality of one more rogue state with nuclear weapons and the ability to blackmail nations, annihilate cities, and kill tens of millions!

And what is Obama's answer? Talk, apologize, and blame America, while cutting America's defenses... including the very missile defense system that might well save U.S. cities and those of our allies from destruction and annihilation!

Maybe Obama can make a personal trip to North Korea, give Kim Jong Il a great big hug, and apologize for America's past actions and hard feelings toward North Korea and Kim.

Have no fear, Obama is here, with a big grin, sugary words, and snake oil to save the day -- NOT!

Art

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