Floyd Brown On O’Reilly Factor

From: ExposeObamaWho is the mysterious Frank in Obama’s life? Floyd Brown discusses this and other issues on the O’Reilly Factor

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Obama’s Plan For Your Family: Drill Nothing, Tax Everything!

“Senator Obama opposes new drilling. He has said it will not ’solve our problem’ and that ‘it’s not real.’ He’s wrong, and the American people know it.” – Senator John McCain

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi recently gushed at a San Francisco fundraiser that B. Hussein Obama was “a leader God has blessed us with.”

The liberal media would have you believe that he is a “messiah.” (Please note, that we spell it with a small “m” although, dare I say, there are probably some folks in the liberal media who wouldn’t…)

So, what does this “messiah“ say to struggling Americans who are barely surviving because gasoline still costs too much at the pump?

What does this “messiah” say to those of us who are having a difficult time feeding our families because transportation costs have driven prices through the roof at the grocery store?

What “real“ solution does this “messiah“ offer?  What does this “messiah“ advocate to “solve“ the problems of all of us “bitter people“ who “cling to guns and religion?”

B. Hussein Obama tells us to “inflate our tires.“ He tells us “we can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times,“ lest third-world tyrants who already hate our guts anyway, won’t like us for it.

And then, to add insult to injury, this “messiah“ tells us that drilling for more oil is “not real” and won’t “solve our problems.“

You already know that inflating your tires, sweating like a pig in the summer or freezing in the winter isn’t going to drive the cost of gasoline down or put food into the mouth of a hungry child.

You already know that demand for oil is worldwide and that no amount of depravation (that’s liberal-speak for conservation; Conservatives understand the true meaning of the word) is going to stop the rapidly increasing demand for oil that is coming from developing countries such as China and India.

And you already know that if this “messiah” –B. Hussein Obama — has his way, we would use LESS OIL, demand would STAY SKY-HIGH, PRICES WOULD continue to RISE and Americans would just have to GET USED TO LIVING WITH LESS!

But there IS something you can do to stop liberals like Pelosi and B. Hussein Obama from spreading the misery across America.

Two weeks ago, patriotic ExposeObama.com readers and activist like YOU, FLOODED Capital Hill with over 25,000 FAXES demanding that  our political leaders stop the obstruction, stalls and evasions.

And they got them message loud and clear.

That’s why, liberals in Congress have switched gears and moved on to DECEPTION!

Make no mistake. They are desperate!

And that’s why we need to bombard Capital Hill with FAXES and phones calls YET AGAIN and send a clear message to Obama and Pelosi and their left-wing cronies that the American people are wise to their political games and that DECEPTION simply WON’T WORK!

We must strike while we have the advantage and the iron is hot!

Use this hyperlink or the button below to send your 41 FAXES to President George W. Bush, Senator Barack Hussein Obama, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi  and EACH and EVERY one of the remaining Members of the Leadership of  the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate.

Tell them that if  they are really SERIOUS about solving this energy problem, they need to STOP THE DECEPTIONS, call Congress back into session TODAY and lift the ban on offshore drilling.

If the button does not work, click here.

If At First You Don’t Deceive, Try, Try Again!

“They want to pretend to be for drilling just enough to win the election but not do anything to actually produce more oil and gas.”

Those are the words of former-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich in an e-mail published on Wednesday which he titled; “New Left Wing Anti-Energy Strategy: Drill Nothing, Tax Everything.”

Commenting on recent statements from Pelosi and Obama that they are now “open” to drilling — or at least discussing the matter, provided certain vague and unspecified conditions are met — Gingrich also said:

“The New Left Wing Anti-Energy Strategy: Deceive, Deceive, Deceive…”

“But when you read beyond the headline of Speaker Pelosi’s statement and get to the details, it is clear she is trying to maneuver to block the Republicans from having a straight up or down vote on a powerful energy bill.

“Since the original anti-energy Democratic strategy of ‘no, no, no’ has collapsed they have moved to a new strategy of ‘deceive, deceive, deceive.’

“Their goal is to sound pro-energy just long enough to avoid defeat in the November elections while making sure that any legislation is hopelessly weak…” [Emphasis Mine]

The Republican Senate Candidate, Bob Schaffer, said it even better in reference to the recent so-called compromise advanced by the “Gang of Ten.”

“I’d call it 40% tax increase, 10% energy and 50% snake oil.”

But you don’t have to take this deception lying down.  The election is less than 90 days away. Politicians have a tendency to become accommodating when an election is just around the corner.

If they can fool you… or deceive you… or trick you… they’ll do it.

Updates and the Cost of Corruption in PA

Bonus Scandal Update

Campaigning for re-election in Indiana County, Attorney General Tom Corbett affirmed, as a matter of policy, that he will make no announcements about the Bonus Scandal between October 1 and Election Day, November 4. The stated reason is not to influence the elections. Click here for the story in the Indiana Gazette.

This is a difficult problem. No one wants an attorney general to play politics with prosecutions. But neither should we want voters to find themselves electing a candidate on November 4 only to learn soon thereafter that he or she is being charged with a crime. Nor should we want candidates who may be innocent to be disadvantaged by charges that later cannot be proven.

Questions:
Whose interest is it more important to serve? The prosecutor, who is not disinterested when he is up for election himself? The candidate who may lose election unfairly because of unproven allegations? Or the citizens who need information so that they can make their own judgments about timing and the likelihood of a prosecutor proving a case?

Special Session Update

As of today, 11 senators and 42 representatives have signed the petition that would require Gov. Ed Rendell to convene a Special Session on Public Integrity. That’s up one senator and 16 representatives from our last update but still short of the Constitution’s requirement of 26 senators and 102 representatives.

Although it is unlikely that a special session could occur this year, support for it is an important measure of lawmakers’ commitment to reform. That’s because a special session could occur when the new legislature convenes on January 6.

In a recent poll, 76% of PA voters wanted Rendell to convene a special session this summer. Both he and legislative leaders refused to call lawmakers back from their two-and-a-half-month summer recess.

There were two main excuses for this failure to heed tree-fourths of our citizens. Click here to visit the No Excuses! section of DR’s web site to see the excuses and why they are bogus.

The Costs of Corruption

Newspaper stories recently revealed once again that corruption has its costs. Federal prosecutors now estimate that taxpayers are out $3.5 million if the prosecutors prove charges of public corruption against state Sen. Vincent Fumo, D-Philadelphia.

Add to that the $3.6 million paid in bonuses to legislative staffers during the 2006 election campaigns. Then add at least another $1.8 million in legal bills to outside law firms to help the four caucuses of the legislature respond to the investigation of the Bonus Scandal. Click here to read the gory details in a column by Philadelphia Daily News columnist John Baer.

But wait! There are more costs of corruption

• If the Bonus Scandal allegations are proven, lawmakers will have spent tens of millions of dollars illegally campaigning and rigging elections at taxpayer expense.
• $750 million for discretionary grants (known as WAMs) controlled by lawmakers. Citizens are not allowed to know how lawmakers decide who gets how much money and why.
• $241 million, at least, in surplus accounts in the legislature, money that is unaudited and concealed from taxpayers. Meanwhile, programs that serve citizens go begging for funds, resulting in waiting lists for vital services.
• $7.5 million in bonuses and $2.2 million in give-away items by PHEAA, the state’s student loan agency. That was enough to provide full grants for 2,700 students at four-year colleges or 5,400 students at community colleges.
• $500,000 for polling by legislative caucuses. Only the House Democrats have released some of their polls. The others have kept theirs secret. According to Rutgers University, PA is the only state that spends tax dollars for partisan political polling.

This billion-dollar list is far from exhaustive. The cost of corruption is huge, resulting in misplaced priorities, unnecessary taxes and a lack of confidence by citizens in their government.

Questions:

• Why aren’t lawmakers falling all over themselves to prevent this waste of money from occurring in the future?
• Why aren’t lawmakers enacting the highest standards of public integrity in America and the toughest punishments for violations?

DR in the News

Last Sunday The Sentinel, Cumberland County’s daily newspaper, published a guest editorial by DR President Tim Potts. The column questioned why we do so much for lawmakers, yet they do so little for us. It also questioned what citizens have received in return when Attorney General Corbett allowed two lawmakers convicted of crimes in office to keep their pensions. Click here to read Potts’s guest editorial.

Need a speaker for your conference or local group?
DR is eager to spread the word in your community.
Contact tim@democracyrisingpa.com .

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Sarah Palin – A Remembered Theme

Sarah Palin or Theodora Roosevelt

W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

The eye-rolling disgust I felt over Barack Obama’s Nuremberg-esque lovefest in Colorado was salved only by my alma mater’s (the Univ. of South Carolina) victory over North Carolina State, airing on ESPN ten yards from my sofa where I spent most of Thursday evening.

College football is a great escape to be sure. The country may be going down the tubes – I remember considering as I switched the channel from the cult-like goings on at Denver’s Invesco Field to the action over at Williams-Brice stadium in Columbia, S.C. — but for the next four quarters I wouldn’t have to think about it.

My Carolina Gamecocks won big, 34-0, so I went to bed happy.

Then there was the great bit of news I received early Friday morning from one of my sources – hours before the official announcement – “Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was going to be McCain’s VP pick.”

The “audacity of” me to “hope” for someone as talented, exciting, experienced (in the way it matters), decisive, commonsensical, and, yes, conservative as Palin. But I did, and the woman who may well-be the female reincarnation of Theodore Roosevelt is officially on Team McCain.

Of course, the Obama camp – regardless of their leader’s lack of executive experience (and a tractor-trailer load of anti-American, even terrorist and criminal associations) and their second-in-command’s refusal to designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization – unleashed the attack dogs, though lame they were:

“It’s a girl,” read one headline from a PRObama publication. Another said, “Palin’s age, inexperience rival Obama’s.”

What? Obama is a junior senator from Illinois. Palin is the governor – the chief executive, mind you – of Alaska. Huge difference.

Here’s a bit more about Palin:

Before moving into the governor’s mansion (the first female governor and youngest-ever gov of the 49th state), Palin served as mayor of the town of Wasilla. She was a city councilmember, the chairwoman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, and has served on more state and local boards, councils, and commissions than most professional men or women twice her age, 44. I know. I know. What ambitious politician hasn’t?

But there’s more: Palin wants – and fights for – what Americans want. As mayor, she slashed property taxes. As governor, she’s gone tooth-to-eyeball with big oil, battling corruption, yet fighting to drill, and drill now.

A 21st-century female incarnation of the 20th-century’s Theodore Roosevelt (in the sense of battling corruption and being a champion of the great outdoors), Palin ice-fishes and has hunted big game (eats moose burgers and is a life-member of the National Rifle Association). She played high school basketball: was captain of her state-champion team, nicknamed “Sarah Barracuda” by her teammates, and was head of the local Fellowship of Christian Athletes. She played the flute, was a journalism major at the University of Idaho, briefly covered sports in Anchorage, was runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant, has coached youth league sports, runs distance foot-races, flies a seaplane, and is a snowmobiler (husband Todd is a snowmobile racing champion).

Palin also is a pro-life mom with five children: one, an infantry soldier bound for Iraq in a few days; the other, an infant son with Down syndrome.

As impressive as her bio (which I barely touched on), and life and professional experience seem – particularly when held up to the brief senate experience and community organizing (whatever that really means) of Obama – it is Palin’s character, judgment, and the few-if-any former friends, preachers, priests, and communist mentors she’ll have to throw under the bus for political expediency that make her so attractive.

The Weekly Standard refers to Palin as “a politician of eye-popping integrity … the most popular governor in America, with an approval rating in the 90s, and probably the most popular public official in any state. Her rise is a great (and rare) story of how adherence to principle–especially to transparency and accountability in government–can produce political success.”

She’s tough. She fights, and it’s been said, “the landscape is littered with the bodies of those who crossed her.”

Of course, nobody’s perfect, and there’ll no doubt be more about McCain’s gutsy choice over the coming days and weeks.

But frankly – based on everything we know right now – what’s not to like about Palin? And if nothing else, it’s a great feeling when both of your teams – in my case the Gamecocks and any team that goes up against the national security nightmare of a Team Obama – score big wins within a few hours of each other.

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TonyfromOz adds …..

The heading may (or even may not) have been unintentional, because there was a real life Theodora Roosevelt. She was the daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt’s son Archie, so she was the President’s grand daughter. Theodora Roosevelt was an author. She wrote under the name Theodora Keogh. She sadly passed away in January of this year agad 88.

However, I watched Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech after Senator McCain introduced her as his running mate. She didn’t need a script, or the need to read from an autocue. She spoke confidently, and she spoke from the heart in front of a podium emblazoned with ‘Country First’.

As Thomas Smith writes above, she evoked memories of that great President, Theodore Roosevelt. The similarities do have a common theme, and I feel sure that somewhere, right about now, a broad and highly recognisable smile is spreading across the beaming face, as he looks down and says, “I approve”.

Shenandoah Protest a Huge Success

by Wendi Medashefski

The rally at the Babe Ruth field in Shenandoah was yet another successful, peaceful rally hosted by Voice of the People USA. More than 600 people attended, and they were quite vocal!

The speakers began with Dan Smeriglio leading the crowd in the pledge of allegiance, and then a brief moment of silence. Ruth Miller of Illegal Protest talked about the effects of illegal immigration and how the media basically ignores stories about Americans being killed by illegal aliens. Dan Amato of Diggers Realm was very impassioned while talking about the Balogna family that was gunned down in San Francisco by an illegal alien gang banger.

Next up was my husband, Ed Medashefski, of Voice of the People USA. He talked about the 287(g) program that allows local law enforcement to determine immigration status and initiate deportation proceedings.

Dan Smeriglio, founder and president of VOPUSA, started to tell his personal story about 9/11, how he was in NY that day and lost a cousin and two uncles. This speech was interrupted by none other than Crystal Dillman, the alleged fiancee of Luis Ramirez. Dillman and a few of her friends were holding a Mexican flag and had been standing in the back for some time. They got NO attention from anyone, so they moved into the crowd of patriots, flashing the middle finger along the way.

The crowd got upset, and started to swarm towards her. Smeriglio kept talking, even saying “I guess they don’t care about 9/11″ referring to Dillman and her co-traitors. The audience eventually came back to listen, but not until the police made her leave (giving the middle finger from the parking area).

Smeriglio introduced me, and the crowd cheered. I told them about the Criminal Alien Program (CAP) and briefly described its function. I went on to tell them that their mayor had been invited repeatedly to address them , but no reply was ever received. I had been told earlier that the mayor had gone to the “counter protest” in the church kitchen across town, but I guess we’ll have to wait to see if that’s true. I told everyone to remember his actions when election time rolls around.

Someone in the crowd shouted to me to run for mayor! I laughed and reminded them that I don’t live in Shenandoah. Then I asked, “Should I move in?” and the crowd roared.

All in all , the rally was a great success, and we are so very proud of everyone who was brave enough to attend. One very special person who came is an agoraphobic. This amazing woman managed to stay through the whole event, even talking to me afterwards. She has a beautiful daughter and a friendly husband, and I suspect she is going to be very helpful in bringing about some real changes in the area.

I will provide a more in-depth analysis of the Shenandoah protest as soon as I get some sleep. Dan Amato and Ruth Miller are trying to get the videos of the speeches up by this weekend, and I will provide links to them as soon as they are available. We also have video of the happenings in the crowd, including Dillman’s antics, and that should be available within a few days as well.

To the 600+ patriots we met tonight, God bless you, and we’ll be seeing you again soon!

McCain-Palin Rally in Dayton, Ohio

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) announces Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate.

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Good Versus Evil (Part 2)

In yesterday’s Post I mentioned that the results of an independent inquiry found that Australian Commando’s have no case to answer for allegedly mistreating some Taliban fighters captured after an intense and long battle against a numerically larger force.

At the online Australian ABC News website in today’s news, there is yet another report calling for another inquiry into something that happened during one of the battles also in the Southern Provinces of Afghanistan.

There are many problems inherent with conflicts like this, and they are complex by nature.
In this post I will discuss some of the things with reference to Afghanistan, and in tomorrow’s Post, I will attempt to discuss some of the problems with respect to the situation in Iraq.

What has happened here is a clash of cultures. The Taliban saw it as an opportunity to gain power and introduce a draconian lifestyle on the people of Afghanistan. Their way is to deny people freedom of choice about the way they choose to go about their everyday life and they must do everything the way they tell them to.
A Country run along the rule of a religion, and here I mean any religion at all, is not a democracy.

When real democracy fails and a draconian rule of law dictated by a Theocracy is imposed, everybody suffers. When this happens, the outside World, as a whole acts to try and bring back that level of democracy, and what is happening in Afghanistan is the end result of that.

The United Nations as a body is probably the ideal vehicle to deal with something like this. The UN is a collective of all the World’s countries, and in that forum, those collected Countries can, as one voice, tell the offending Country that they must restore democracy. One Country alone has no voice, but if the offending Country has all the others saying the same thing, then there is general consensus of opinion. If they choose to ignore it, then the UN has to impose other measures in an effort to restore that democracy ………. back to the people, and not just a tiny ruling clique.
In the case of Afghanistan, they rejected the UN and then the UN’s hands were tied. They had to act, and that then brought up one of the inherent problems with the UN.
They are a diplomatic body.
The UN, per se, has no army that it can send in to places like this in an effort to restore democracy. What they have to do is ask member Countries to supply a force that in total will add up to an army. They then send this force in to that hot spot to work at restoring democracy.
Hence the ‘Blue Caps’ of the collected UN forces, units from the Armies of different Countries.

The problem within Afghanistan is that they are a relatively poor Country, and have no real army, so to speak. What they do then is what started from the numerous conflicts in South East Asia. The small real army does the thing that real armies do. Fight the big engagements. For the rest, they co opt the civilians and arm them with cheap and nasty Kalashnikov AK 47’s and tell them they are on their own.
So when a real army comes in to restore democracy at the behest of the UN, they are not fighting a real army in the traditional way. They are fighting a poorly equipped, poorly led bunch of civilians who don’t wear traditional uniforms, so they have no real idea just who it is they are fighting. To this end then, everyone is a potential enemy, and the real task is to try and differentiate the enemy from the ordinary people.
Therein lies the a big part of the problem. If hindsight proves that the people killed in an action were really civilians, then the media that accompanies the so called ‘good guys’ at every step can latch onto that and create a news story when just a normal military operation might not seem as newsworthy if you see the point there.

Now, one of the things about the US is something that they have steadfastly stuck by in all conflicts. That is that US military personnel will only come under the control of US senior officers. The US military is controlled by the US military. If they do appear under the UN umbrella, then it is the whole US force and not bits and pieces from numerous Countries.

So then, that throws up another problem. In conflicts of this nature, the UN needs a large force. In Afghanistan, they do not have the backing of a large well equipped, well supplied fighting force. The US is a highly industrialised Nation, and supplies its fighting forces with the best state of the art equipment to engage in conflict, not to beat the enemy to a pulp, but to actually see that their own people are kept as safe as possible in situations like this. They are well trained for the same reason, so they operate as a unit, and not as a collection of untrained civilians armed with Kalashnikovs.

“McCain Takes Risk With Palin” a NewsPulper Headline – What Risk?

The Harrisburg Patriot News Nonsense

By Grumpy Old Man

Harrisburg, PA’s own Left-Tard Newspaper run by &$%#*%X)^#@ * Imbecilic Morons – The Harrisburg Patriot Nonsense , Oops, er I mean News, published today’s Headlines “McCain Takes Risk With Palin“ (The PennLive Website uses the word “on”)

As I see it the only risk McCain takes is that instead of just whopping Obama, He’ll thrash him so badly, it’ll be a such a Total Landslide, that Barrack Hussein Obama will be so ashamed to show his face, that he’ll stay in his Rat Hole for the next Decade!

That’s the way I see it. That’s the “Big Risk” McCain takes. It’ll be the Biggest Landslide in History!

And all the Lib-Tard, Leftist, Communistic, America Hating, Democracy Bashing, Major News Media knows it. They are Afraid – VERY AFRAID!!!

On the front page of this NewsPulper, under the Sub-Heading Analysis is an article by Steven Thomma of McClatchy Newspapers. In the 2nd paragraph states that she will either help him win or doom his chances. What a unbeatable “prediction”! HaHa. Just like saying it’s going to rain or it isn’t!  Or perhaps it’s a cleverly known LeftMedia tactic to plant a seed of doubt in the reader’s mind!

He then seems to start to praise her, almost, before he bashes her for her “relative inexperience in office” ” undercuts McCain’s charge that Obama is too inexperienced to be president.” Hah, Her 12 years experience of  accomplishments trumps Obama’s few years of doing nothing, at least legally. In two (2) short years as Governor she has pushed new ethics legislation and cut state spending! Obama Nada! Voted for out of the womb Abortions.

Oh and voters will be sooo anxious because “put a novice a heartbeat away from the presidency, and they could have doubts about her ability to handle foreign affairs or a military crisis.” Her a Novice? Ha, compared to her BO is still in his smelly diapers!

And then his final paragraph Coup de grâce brings up an unproven accusation against her. What a Snow Job under the guise of “Analysis”

The Leftist Media are starting to pull out all stops to try and Trash McCain’s and Palin’s Campaign.
Will the American People allow this or will they stand up to the Defunct TV and Newspaper Phony “News” and Phonier “Analysis”?  Their actions during this Campaign could be the final nail in the Coffin of the current Fiasco that is passed off as News Reporting. Today’s Traditional type News is passé. It is being replaced by Hard Hitting, Investigative, Blogs and Web News Sites.

In the interest of Fair Play, I have a suggestion to help get the MSM back on track before they are all Flushed down the Toilet. Have them eat Prunes for every meal and drink only Prune Juice, for a week. That should flush all that Sh** out of them so they can start reporting the Objective News instead of feeding us all their Crap!!!

With All this Stupidity going on, no wonder I’m a Grumpy Old Man.
After all this Putrid  Nonsense I’m reading, seeing and hearing, I think I’m going to rinse my eyes and ears out with Prune Juice. —Al

* [After reading this the Administrator of this Blog told me to write a little kinder so I blanked out a couple words.  ---Al]   ;-)

I’m sorry This took so long. I started this around 8 AM but with my arthritis it so painful and difficult to type. Plus I was trying to find information on the Internet.

Barack “The Silencer” Obama’s Gangland Assault on Free Speech

Michelle Malkin

Where are all the free speech absolutists when you need them? Over the past month, left-wing partisans and Democratic lawyers have waged a brass-knuckled intimidation campaign against GOP donors, TV and radio stations, and even an investigative journalist because they have all dared to question the radical cult of Barack Obama. A chill wind blows, but where the valiant protectors of political dissent are, nobody knows.

On August 11, I called the American Civil Liberties Union national headquarters in New York for comment about the Chicago gangland tactics of one of these groups — a nonprofit called “Accountable America” that is spearheaded by a former operative of the Obama-endorsing MoveOn outfit.

“Accountable America” is trolling campaign finance databases and targeting conservative donors with “warning” letters in a thuggish attempt to depress Republican fundraising. (You’ll be interested to know that the official registered agent of Accountable America is Laurence Gold, a high-powered attorney for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) who has testified before the Senate complaining about the use of campaign finance laws to stifle the speech of union workers — a pet cause of the ACLU.)

The ACLU press office failed to respond to my initial call. On August 13, I followed up through e-mail:

“I called on Monday requesting a statement from the ACLU about Accountable America’s intimidation campaign against GOP donors. What is the ACLU’s position with regard to such efforts? Waiting for your statement…”

ACLU press officer Pamela Bradshaw e-mailed back:

“Michelle, My apologies that I cannot be of more assistance, but we don’t have anyone available. Thanks, Pam.”

My reply: “Pam — Does this mean you don’t have anyone available today, this week, or for the foreseeable future?”

On August 20, after a week of silence, I forwarded the message again to the ACLU press office. No response.

So, I won’t bother asking the ACLU’s opinion of the latest wave of speech-squelching moves by the Obama campaign:

On Monday, Obama demanded that the Justice Department stop TV stations from airing a documented, accurate independent ad spotlighting Obama’s longtime working relationship with unrepentant Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Obama summoned his followers to bombard stations, many of them owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Communications, with 93,000 e-mails to squelch the commercial.

On Tuesday, the Obama campaign sent another letter to the Justice Department demanding investigation and prosecution of American Issues Project, the group that produced the Ayers ad, as well as Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, who funded it.

And on Wednesday, Obama exhorted his followers to sabotage the WGN radio show of veteran Chicago host and University of Chicago Professor Milt Rosenberg. Why? Because he invited National Review writer Stanley Kurtz to discuss his investigative findings about Obama’s ties to Ayers and the underwhelming results of their collaboration on a left-wing educational project sponsored by the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The “Obama Action Wire” supplied Rosenberg’s call-in line and talking points like this:

“Tell WGN that by providing Kurtz with airtime, they are legitimizing baseless attacks from a smear-merchant and lowering the standards of political discourse. … It is absolutely unacceptable that WGN would give a slimy character assassin like Kurtz time for his divisive, destructive ranting on our public airwaves.”

Behind the glowing, peaceful facade lies Barack “The Silencer” Obama and his silent enablers on the left. While mainstream journalists schmoozed with liberal celebrities in Denver, practiced yoga with left-wing bloggers and received massages at the Google convention tent near touchy-feely Barackopolis, Team Obama was on an ugly, aggressive warpath sanctioned by Mr. Civility. While compassionate Obama prepared to stand before thousands of worshipers at Invesco Field, purporting to give voice to the voiceless, his Chicago-schooled campaign machine was working overtime to muzzle conservative critics. “We want it to stop,” ordered one pro-Obama caller to WGN.

Welcome to the future: the politics of Hope and Change enforced by the missionaries of Search and Destroy.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Michelle Malkin is the author of “Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild. Feedback: editorialdirector@familysecuritymatters.org.

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A Rebirth Of The Republican Party

For more years than I care to remember, the Republican party in Luzerne County Pennsylvania has, to put it mildly, been ineffective.
There was a lack of leadership, poor communication, and no central planning.

All of that changed last night.

And it’s not because Nancy Pelosi repeatedly stuck her foot in her mouth at the Democrat convention.

The new county party chairman, Terry Casey, had promised to take the party in a new direction, and make the Republican party in Luzerne County a viable factor once again.

He made good on the first part of that pledge with the grand opening of a 4000 square foot headquarters on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre. This facility will serve as the nerve center of party activity until early next year when the offices in Wilkes-Barre’s Intermodal Center will be ready for occupancy.

It was an outstanding turnout. Among the speakers were State Senator Lisa Baker, Pennsylvania party chairman Robert Gleason, who made mention of the fact that if John McCain can win Pennsylvania, it could mean enough of a swing in electoral votes for him to win the Presidency. He also mentioned that Northeastern Pennsylvania was unique in that to his knowledge, it was the only area in the United States where two neighboring counties (Luzerne and Lackawanna) had Republican candidates running against incumbent Democrats.

11th Congressional District candidate Lou Barletta was unable to attend due to a prior commitment to serve as a guest waiter at a dinner for the Luzerne County Association For The Blind.

10th District challenger Chris Hackett gave a stirring speech, outlining some of his vision of the future to an enthusiastic reaction from the crowd.

For myself, one of the highlights of the evening was when a woman in the audience asked Mr. Casey if she might say a few words.

When she took the podium, she identified herself and the folks with her as members of a group called Democrats for McCain.

She stated that the members of her group were former Clinton supporters.
As she spoke, she made it clear that these were not people who were seeking revenge because Hillary did not receive the nomination. I can’t recall her exact words, but in effect she said that once Obama was picked to be the Democrat standard bearer, they sat back and considered who would best lead the country.

And they came to the conclusion that comparing the qualifications and experience of Barack Obama against those of John McCain, the choice was obvious.

That sort of dissension in the Democrat ranks does not bode well for Obama.

As a 3-time elected Luzerne County Republican Committeeman,I am proud of the job that Terry Casey is doing, and how much he has accomplished in such a short amount of time.

And if this sort of local-level leadership can be implemented across the country, the Republican party will be in good hands.

“Change” The Channel

No Obamanation

PATRIOT PERSPECTIVE

“Change” the channel!

By Mark Alexander

At the opening ceremonies of the Olympics in Beijing, I found a small Chinese flag had been placed on my seat, and on 90,999 other seats in the Bird’s Nest stadium. Needless to say, I did not wave that flag-we smuggled in our own 3×5 foot American flags, which we displayed with honor. But there was a sea of little Red flags around us.

Apparently, the organizers of the big Demo confab in Denver took a cue from the Chinese and supplied small American flags on every delegate’s seat, which the cadre of Obamaphiles waved obediently and incessantly. (I suspect those flags were made in China.)

No small irony here that the subject of all this fervor, Barack Hussein Obama, refused until recently to wear that flag on his lapel, much less recite a pledge to it.

Of course, all the flag waving played well for the TV audiences, but liberal protagonists have always been about appearances, appealing to feeling, style over substance.

Indeed, as I previously summarized in an essay entitled, “Why the Left can’t get it Right,” ask liberals about some manifestation of their worldview-for example, why they support a charlatan like Obama-and their response will be predicated by, “Because I feel…”

On the other hand, ask conservatives about what they believe, or why they do or don’t support John McCain, and their response will be predicated by, “Because I think…”

At Obama’s crowning, we witnessed a stadium full of feelers-sensitive, emotional, sentimental types, bursting with tearful glee at the prospect of one of their kind becoming the next president of the United States.

Now, I don’t mean to suggest that there is something wrong with strong feelings; had I not contained my own on occasion, there’d be fewer Leftists on our planet. It’s just that we need to set our feelings aside when making serious decisions, such as who will be our next commander in chief.

All this notwithstanding, here are a few “feeling” moments from the past week.

Nancy Pelosi felt proud: “I am very proud of the Democrats in Congress,” the House Speaker told delegates. Proud of what, that the Democrat-controlled Congress now has an approval rating of 9 percent? Or are they proud of all the feel-good resolutions coming from Pelosi’s colleagues in the House-more than 1,900 of them-a congressional record?

John Kerry felt the need for change: “We need a leader who understands all our security challenges, not just bombs and guns, but global warming, global terror and global AIDS.” That assertion left me wondering why anyone would vote for Hussein instead of McCain. Of course, I had to think about it.

Since Jesse Jackson had already let us know how he feels about Obama, Bill Clinton took his place at the podium, lip quivering as he felt our pain. And Hillary was just radiant, feeling that all the stars were aligning for her campaign in 2012.

Michelle Obama felt good about herself. “I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities.” I suppose the best part of that feeling is the $275,000 annual salary she draws from a privately owned hospital whilst “working to empower young people.”

And Michelle no doubt felt good about hubby Barack, who she says will “bring us together and remind us how much we share and how alike we really are.” Can’t you just feel it?

Capping the DNC love fest, The One himself, whom I fully expected to walk onto his Greek temple set in a toga and gold laurel leaf crown, appeared before thousands of delirious, glossy-eyed sycophants who were chanting his mantra. Obama, a master propagandist whom running mate Joe Biden described as “the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” albeit “naive,” offered his own slate of feel-good sentiments about a “country I believe in.” (How about that American flag lapel pin on his $1,600 suit!)

In short, Obama constructed his ruse around a few themes.

He insisted that he is our savior, the embodiment of a “promise that has always set this country apart-that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams but still come together as one American family.”

He promised to reverse the “failed policies of George W. Bush,” and a “third” Bush term, as he frames McCain’s policies.

He proclaimed that, “Ours is a promise that says government… should do that which we cannot do for ourselves” and proceeded to outline the same worn socialist policies his “useful idiot” predecessors have promoted for the last half century.

In his final appeal to the faithful, Obama promised a presidency “that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.”

At least he was able to correctly identify the city he was in this time.

I am sure it comes as no surprise to genuine American Patriots, those who recognize a kindred spirit in the Patriot character of presidential candidate John McCain, that at the conclusion of Obama’s coronation in Denver, thousands of those little flags ended up in trash bags with other delegate refuse.

Vote For Barack Or You’re Racist

Ahh, the sweet smell of identity politics. Vote for the black man or you’re a racist, you sheet wearing, negro lynching, affirmative action hating, black hating, white man.

I’d love to vote for a black man, or a black woman, or any kind of person. Hell, I’d vote for someone whose parents were from Mars, providing they could make the citizenship requirements for President. There is only one catch…

I have to like your policies.

I find the whole idea of voting for someone simply because they are black, or a woman, or a minority of some sort; to be, well… ignorant. The idea that simply because someone is not a member of the Caucasian crowd makes them any more, or less, qualified for a job is beyond stupid. It’s racist in the extreme.

I don’t vote for someone because he is simply a white man. I don’t vote for someone who is simply a member of a political party. I don’t vote for someone who doesn’t espouse or at least pretend to espouse policies that I agree with.

I have policy differences with the Oba-messiah, and that is the reason I will not vote for him. It has nothing to do with race. It has nothing to do with where he is from, who his parents are, or what he looks like. It has everything to do with how he thinks, and what he promises.

Good Versus Evil (Part 1)

This story appeared on the Australian ABC News website yesterday.
It deals with the results of an inquiry into allegations that suspected Taliban detainees were mistreated during their detention.

A small number of Australian soldiers have been killed in that field of action in The War On Terror. 17 weeks ago, a young Australian Commando was killed in an action against known Taliban fighters in the Southern province of Uruzgan, this Southern area of Afghanistan being where the heaviest fighting in that conflict is taking place.
A small Australian group of soldiers in a deliberate and planned assault took on a vastly numerically superior group of Taliban militants. The Australian group ‘cleaned out’ the militants, but in the process, lost one soldier and another four were wounded.
A number of Taliban prisoners were taken, and that is where the allegations stemmed from.
One of the prisoners alleged that he was mistreated while being detained.
As Australians, allegations like these are taken very seriously, and as an example, I’d like to do a small comparison here.
Because this situation in Afghanistan, and also in Iraq, is so comprehensively reported upon by the Western media, then situations like this make good copy, so they are blown out of all proportion, as the Media demands that action be taken.
On the other hand, if the shoe was on the other foot, then the situation hardly rates a mention.
I mean how often have you heard Al Jazeera, or any other media reports from the other side reporting on mistreatment of any US prisoners. No, they would prefer to not to report on anything like that.
Hence, when any report surfaces of ‘Allied’ treatment of detainees being a little less than average, then that story is blown so far out of proportion and there are calls for inquiries.
Why?
Because it actually makes headlines, so the media gives the probable ‘worst case scenario’ because that makes bigger headlines.

Such was the case with this Australian case. Allegations were made and there was an full blown inquiry. That inquiry has taken nearly 3 months, and remember this happened 17 weeks ago. So, if there is any reporting from the other side at all, then it’s a case of, ‘well, they are soldiers, so they need to expect that sort of thing. Next story.’

In Western Society with full media coverage, any investigation runs for 3 months, and in some cases much longer, and each step of the way on each day is reported at length, again concentrating on the sensationalist aspects of that inquiry.

The end result of this Australian inquiry was that none of the allegations were proven to have even happened at all, and the unnamed soldiers, (and thankfully they remained unnamed) were exonerated of any poor treatment of armed Taliban terrorists who were actually trying to kill them.

However, having painted the above picture, here’s what I draw issue with.

One of the allegations was that Australian soldiers pulled down the pants of one of the Taliban militant fighters.

So let me get this right then.
It’s not okay to allegedly pull down the pants of a Taliban murderer, and yet, Taliban murderers can hold kidnapped civilians who are non combatants and actually innocent of anything at all. They can then publically, and in front of a camera, broadcasting live onto the internet, slice that innocent person’s throat, cutting off their head and then holding it up for all to see. In their eyes that is okay, yet allegedy pulling down the pant of one of them is a violation of their civil rights that warrants a three month inquiry at huge expense.

That’s the difference between us and them, and I absolutely detest using that term for any situation, not just for this, but for anything at all.

National Media Can’t Find Me

by Wendi Medashefski

I got a call from my husband’s brother earlier tonight. He got his wife on the phone, who was very upset with me. Through her yells, I gathered that reporters had called their house at least eight times, and at least one reporter had shown up at their house.

The only thing I can figure is that the MSM didn’t do a very good job in trying to find me, much like they didn’t do a very good job in trying to find the facts about the Ramirez case. Being the calm, cool, rational person that I am, I asked my husband to accompany me to Hazleton. We drove passed his brother’s house, but no media was around. Then we went to the Blue Comet Diner and had a cup of coffee, thinking if any of the national media had done their homework, they would know to find us there. (My husband and I met at the Comet, so it’s a special place for us). We waited about an hour in the diner, talked to some friends, and decided that none of these media outlets had the first clue what we look like or where we could be found. LOL!!

So, we left the Blue Comet and started driving north on Route 309. We got to the light at Church St and Diamond Ave, and there’s a WNEP 16 van sitting at the light on Diamond Ave. We wanted to let them know they were kind of on the right track, so my husband started honking the horn, and we were both waving out the car windows, laughing our butts off!

We kept heading north, and the news van was a few cars behind us. We turned off on Route 940 to see if whoever was driving had figured it out. I guess not, because he went straight.

We got some gas ($3.55/gallon), and came home (whichever direction that might be from Hazleton).

And we think it’s hysterical that our MSM is trying to act like the Paparazzi to get an interview or picture, or whatever their goal is.

I am still laughing about this!

Quote for today: “Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.” ~George Bernard Shaw, 1931

John McCain – My Choice: Governor Sarah Palin

My Friends,

I am honored to announce that I have chosen Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as my choice for the Republican nominee for Vice President. As a father with three daughters, I can’t express how proud I am to choose the first female Republican Vice-Presidential nominee.

Sarah Palin is a trailblazer and a reformer. As the first female governor of Alaska, she challenged a corrupt system and has been a tireless advocate for reform – passing a landmark bill on ethics reform. She has taken on the old politics in Alaska and reformed the state’s energy industry. She rejects wasteful pork barrel spending. She’s fearless – exactly the type of leader I want at my side and the type of leadership we will bring to Washington.

My friends, together Sarah Palin and I make the strongest presidential ticket and I know that she joins me in asking for your support as we head into our Convention week in Minnesota. We’re shaking things up in this campaign – and Governor Palin and I are ready to bring real reform to Washington.

The polls indicate this will be a tight race as we head into the fall campaign against Senators Obama and Biden. I expect the polls to remain close all the way up to Election Day and that is why any help you can give today will go a long way to make history on November 4th.

You may already know that I have decided to accept federal matching funds for the final months of this campaign- keeping a campaign promise I made. But that means that August 31st marks the last day I can accept your primary contribution.

Will you make an immediate donation of whatever you can give- whether it’s $50 or $500 to ensure Governor Palin and I win in November?

You can be assured that as President and Vice President, Governor Palin and I will always put country before all else. We are ready to lead and I ask that you join our campaign today. Your support is deeply appreciated.

Sincerely,

John McCain

P.S. I have chosen Governor Sarah Palin as my running mate and today we will hold a joint campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio. Please tune in to any of the cable news stations to watch this rally at noon eastern time. After watching the rally, I hope you’ll visit my website to financially support our ticket as we head into next week’s Republican Convention.
Thank you.

A Pubic Service Announcement

Sarah Palin: An Introduction

By vlogbrothers In which John talks about Sarah Palin, John McCain’s surprise pick for the Republican Vice President slot. (Republican nerdfighters always complain I don’t talk about Republican politics, so I am! Hopefully I did so even-handedly.)

more about “Sarah Palin: An Introduction“, posted with vodpod

Our Blessed Savior Comes!

Denver – On the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech, last night Barack Hussein Obama accepted his party’s nomination for President of the United States.

My sources tell me Hussein drew heavily upon King’s speech, among other things, substituting “I have been to the mountaintop” with “I have been to the Rocky Mountains.”

Probably the most dramatic moment of the evening will be a four minute video introduction to be shown on the stadium’s giant screens. This multi-million dollar Steven Spielberg production depicts Obama as a slave working on a plantation owned by a cruel master (who very closely resembles George Bush), and his sadistic son “John Kane.” After showing Obama being horribly mistreated by his owners, he escapes the plantation, travels the underground railroad with his protector and guide (Joe Biden), and at the end is shown running for sanctuary, depicted as a large temple in Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium.

At this point Obama will make his triumphant entrance onto the temple stage clad in shackles and filthy rags. As the music hits a crescendo and “CHANGE” flashes behind him on the giant screen, Obama will raise his fists to the heavens, and with a flash of lightning, the shackles and rags will fall away leaving Barack Hussein poised in a spectacular red satin suit and copious amounts of bling. Martin Luther King’s voice will then boom through the massive sound system, “You are my chosen one. With you I am well pleased.” Mass fainting and uncontrolled urination should follow!

This is either going to look like a well-tanned Jesus with gigantic ears arriving to save us, or the Antichrist himself. Stay tuned!

Read More Satire from Scooter’s Report with Hilarious Comments

The Next President Of The United States

Obama and McCain will now fight each other tooth and nail to win the presidency. And the winner will then have the job of facing the Iranian threat, the Putin’s Russia, China, Oil Dependency, and the U.S. Economy.

And if the “Clinton/Bush family” years are any indication, the American public will not unite behind their newly elected leader. The guy who gets the job will be constantly attacked, delegitimized, and derided by the half of the public that didn’t want or support him.

So Convention speeches aside, what do you think is the real motive behind their ambition to be President? What do you think is really driving these two guys?

Nu? So what’s your opinion?

Read More Dry Bones by Yaakov Kirschen

Chris Hackett, A True Man Of The People

In Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District, a key battle is shaping up. Republican Chris Hackett has mounted a challenge to incumbent Chris Carney.
Now before you begin to bemoan the fact that an incumbent can be tough to defeat, allow me to give you a little background.
The man Hackett is going up against, Chris Carney, was only elected to the office due to the misdeeds of his predecessor.
That is too long of a story to go into here, but suffice it to say that the Democrats could have run a tree stump against Don Sherwood and still have won the election. And there are those that think that is exactly what they did.
To say that Carney’s record during his first term has been lackluster at best is putting it mildly. You don’t see any ads touting Carney’s record because frankly, he doesn’t really have one.
He has spent most of his time in office being a lapdog for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. And the voters of the 10th District know it.
Going by his voting record, Carney is more liberal than 49% of his colleagues in the House. And the voters in the district, hard working middle-class folks, don’t like it.

Hackett, on the other hand, is like a breath of fresh air.
As someone who came from a working-class background, he put himself through college, started his own business which taught him, among other things, the value of fiscal responsibility.
There is a multitude of things he has pledged he will accomplish as a member of Congress, among them:

Ban Earmark Spending
Putting an end to raids on Social Security funds
Cut taxes
Secure our borders
Make America energy independent

I would urge anyone who honors traditional values to support Chris Hackett. To learn more, please visit his website at:

Chris Hackett For Congress

Counter-protesters Scared Enough to Lie

by Wendi Medashefski

While Voice of the People USA is busy organizing yet another successful, peaceful assembly, this one in Shenandoah, PA, a two-woman show is planning a counter-protest and telling lies to the media.

Lou Ann Pleva, who left Shenandoah a few decades ago for the south, came back to the area apparently to stir up trouble for us Lawful Citizens.

Ann Van Dyke, of the Human Relations Commission, called by Shen Mayor Thomas O’Neill’s son, is joining Lou Ann’s Mean-Spirited, Deceitful PR campaign. The HRC is supposed to be preventing and responding to social tension, not creating it. I think someone needs to be fired.

So what are they lying about you ask?

They sent an email out to John Moser of the Morning Call (and probably countless other news reporters). This is the text of that email:

“Although they claim not to be a white supremacist group, they have a very strong following of neo-Nazis, skinheads, white supremacists, and other such hate groups who will be here with them. This is already drawing national press attention whether we want it or not, and our image to world will be unfairly associated with a swastika. VOP makes speeches that are meant to stir up fears, create hostility between neighbors and divide us, at a time when we are trying to come to terms with the tragedies that have struck at our hearts. They attract violent and hateful people.”

Well, oddly enough, I can PROVE that these are lies. I don’t know any Nazis (and I am, in fact, part Jewish by blood – am willing to provide DNA as evidence). I don’t think I even know any skinheads, unless you count my husband’s slightly-receding hairline. (Shh don’t tell him I said that!) Some of our supporters are bloggers, who maintain videos of our speeches and events on their sites. One such blogger, Dan Amato, will be joining us at the protest as an honored speaker. He has quite a few videos of our past speeches. I will provide some direct links at the end of this piece, so anyone can see for themselves the so-called “hate and division” we promote.

And really, we attract American citizens who support the rule of law. These two “women” attract brown supremacy groups like the Somos Latinas, who showed their true colors by offering a Hitler salute to an illegal alien’s ex-girlfriend. Nice. There are Nazis around, but I think these ladies should check their own back yard for racism before barking at Voice of the People. The only reason these communists would try to negate our protest of American citizens, is because they have no real argument. The only way they could have a shot at us not getting hundreds of people into that park is by lying about our group’s associations. (Just so everyone knows, one of the leaders of that pitiful demonstration outside the Schuylkill County courthouse last week was Emma Lozano. In case you don’t know who she is, let me share. Emma Lozano and her husband run the church in Chicago where Elvira Arellano hid out from her deportation orders for a year .. until ICE caught up to Arellano in Los Angeles and sent her packing back home. Talk about bad associations!)

Would you believe that some of our allies were too chicken to assist with this event? Some even went so far as to demand we not promote them at all during the event. Well that’s okay. Guess what? We’re still coming. We’re still going to set up a crime watch. We’re still going to give Shenandoah residents their own voice. Not all activist groups can stand strong and proud in the face of such contempt. We’re still right on this one.

One more thing, if we’re such a racist group of jerks, why isn’t Voice of the People USA listed as a hate group on the Southern Poverty Lie Center’s site? Man, that’s just odd.

For anyone who might be off-put by the fabrications these two anti-American hate-mongering race-baiters have sold the media, check it out for yourselves:

May 1, 2008 counter protest against the “Day Without an Immigrant” rallies across the country

Nov. 5, 2007 protest in Wilkes-Barre, PA against Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico

August 26, 2007 anti-illegal immigration protest, Freeland, PA (guest speaker – Freeland Mayor Tim Martin)

There are others available, but these three will get you started in seeing what kinds things our speakers say.

As for the “Scared” part of this title, they are afraid that more and more Americans will finally have had enough of the pandering, enough of the handouts, enough of America being sold out. They don’t want us to publicly join together, because then the truth starts to seep out about a lot of things going on in our country, and they will lose money, sanity, and supporters.

Quote for the day: “We can’t all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.” ~Charles F. Browne