Someone asked me recently to describe Barack Obama's Agenda. The question caught me off guard, because if you think about it, he's been running as the "change candidate" and yet no one I know understands what change he is aiming for. His Agenda remains shrouded in mystery. For instance, gasoline prices are at historic highs and yet he hasn't articulated a plan of action to help American families.
What we do know about Barack Obama's agenda, is that he favors higher taxes, supports abortion, believes the federal government should be bigger and has embraced a foreign policy that would make Jane Fonda proud. We also know he was rated by National Journal as the most liberal Senator because of his voting record. According to their ranking, even Bernie Sanders, Vermont's Socialist Senator, isn't as liberal as Barack Obama. No kidding.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
All Hail Nominee In Chief
Like a conquering hero, Sen. Barack Obama swept through war-torn Afghanistan and Iraq with legions of media throwing rose petals at his feet. His recent “fact finding” mission to Afghanistan and Iraq was more like a foreign affairs summer camp for the freshman senator from Illinois – a senator who has spent only 143 working days as a member of this august legislative body.
In a much media-hailed foreign policy speech, Sen. Obama laid out a strategy for exiting Iraq and building forces in Afghanistan – all before he had visited the region, or consulted with any military leadership on the ground. Talk about audacity! He obviously formulates his strategy on military and foreign affairs exclusively by reading the New York Times. He hasn’t been in the Senate long enough to hear the complete analysis of the State Department and intelligence community on what’s happening in Southwest Asia and the Middle East.
The much-anticipated foreign trip by the presumed Democrat presidential nominee was covered extensively by all three broadcast media news anchors, something usually done only when a president travels on an extraordinary mission to consult with world leaders. But when you consider how the mainstream media views Sen. Obama as a messiah, Katie Couric, Brian Williams and Charles Gibson didn’t want to miss witnessing him restoring a blind man’s sight, changing water into wine during a formal state dinner in Kabul or parting the Euphrates River.
I’m convinced the 38 hours he spent on the ground in Afghanistan solidified his short-sighted war policy. Has anyone told Sen. Obama that the surge has worked in reducing violence in Iraq? His opinion that the surge would create more violence against American troops was dead wrong, and he ought to be man enough to admit it, and learn from it. He should realize that blunt, sustained military force works every time it’s tried. Once the enemy is defeated, then, and only then, do you consider reducing troop strength in the theater of operations.
Granted, there is a resurgence of Taliban attacks in Afghanistan, and it would be great to have more troops there, as Sen. Obama has called for, but you have to have troops to send. They just don’t materialize because you wish it, even if you’re the messiah. Did someone there tell him that the war in Afghanistan is not just a U.S. effort but part of a larger NATO mission? Victory in Iraq will free up much needed manpower for redeployment to Afghanistan – defeat or retreat, as Sen. Obama has advocated, won’t.
While you enjoyed the news coverage of Sen. Obama consulting with the presidents of Afghanistan and Iraq, Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee (remember him?) couldn’t even get an op-ed piece published in the newspaper of record, The New York Times. Following an op-ed piece written by Sen. Obama titled, “My plan for Iraq,” published in the paper a week prior, the rejection slip Sen. McCain received from the former Clinton speechwriter who is now the Times’ op-ed editor read, “It would be terrific to have an article from Sen. McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece.” The Times obviously publishes opinion pieces so long as they are the same as the newspaper’s editorial staff. I wish Sen. Obama’s opinions mirrored Sen. McCain’s – that way I’d sleep better at night. This was an opinion piece, not two college students on the same debate team. The Times’ rejection of Sen. McCain’s op-ed column further illustrates the media bias against him. It’s tough to get equal time when you’re running against the messiah.
Sen. Obama doesn’t have five minutes of military experience, unlike his rival, Sen. John McCain, who by any measure would make a superb commander-in-chief. The stakes are too high to trust national security to a liberal novice like Sen. Obama who flip-flops on vital issues.
Fortunately for Sen. McCain, the voters haven’t focused yet on the November election. They’re more concerned about how to pay for the gas to drive to their favorite summer vacation spots.
When they take the time to weigh one candidate’s experience in military and foreign affairs against the other, Sen. McCain is the clear choice. Without national security, nothing else matters.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Gregory D. Lee is a retired DEA Supervisory Special Agent. In 2001, as an army reserve officer, he served at the Pentagon's Army Operation's Center's Anti-Terrorism Operations Intelligence Cell. He writes a weekly syndicated column for North Star Writers Group and can be reached through his website: www.gregorydlee.com.
In a much media-hailed foreign policy speech, Sen. Obama laid out a strategy for exiting Iraq and building forces in Afghanistan – all before he had visited the region, or consulted with any military leadership on the ground. Talk about audacity! He obviously formulates his strategy on military and foreign affairs exclusively by reading the New York Times. He hasn’t been in the Senate long enough to hear the complete analysis of the State Department and intelligence community on what’s happening in Southwest Asia and the Middle East.
The much-anticipated foreign trip by the presumed Democrat presidential nominee was covered extensively by all three broadcast media news anchors, something usually done only when a president travels on an extraordinary mission to consult with world leaders. But when you consider how the mainstream media views Sen. Obama as a messiah, Katie Couric, Brian Williams and Charles Gibson didn’t want to miss witnessing him restoring a blind man’s sight, changing water into wine during a formal state dinner in Kabul or parting the Euphrates River.
I’m convinced the 38 hours he spent on the ground in Afghanistan solidified his short-sighted war policy. Has anyone told Sen. Obama that the surge has worked in reducing violence in Iraq? His opinion that the surge would create more violence against American troops was dead wrong, and he ought to be man enough to admit it, and learn from it. He should realize that blunt, sustained military force works every time it’s tried. Once the enemy is defeated, then, and only then, do you consider reducing troop strength in the theater of operations.
Granted, there is a resurgence of Taliban attacks in Afghanistan, and it would be great to have more troops there, as Sen. Obama has called for, but you have to have troops to send. They just don’t materialize because you wish it, even if you’re the messiah. Did someone there tell him that the war in Afghanistan is not just a U.S. effort but part of a larger NATO mission? Victory in Iraq will free up much needed manpower for redeployment to Afghanistan – defeat or retreat, as Sen. Obama has advocated, won’t.
While you enjoyed the news coverage of Sen. Obama consulting with the presidents of Afghanistan and Iraq, Sen. John McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee (remember him?) couldn’t even get an op-ed piece published in the newspaper of record, The New York Times. Following an op-ed piece written by Sen. Obama titled, “My plan for Iraq,” published in the paper a week prior, the rejection slip Sen. McCain received from the former Clinton speechwriter who is now the Times’ op-ed editor read, “It would be terrific to have an article from Sen. McCain that mirrors Senator Obama's piece.” The Times obviously publishes opinion pieces so long as they are the same as the newspaper’s editorial staff. I wish Sen. Obama’s opinions mirrored Sen. McCain’s – that way I’d sleep better at night. This was an opinion piece, not two college students on the same debate team. The Times’ rejection of Sen. McCain’s op-ed column further illustrates the media bias against him. It’s tough to get equal time when you’re running against the messiah.
Sen. Obama doesn’t have five minutes of military experience, unlike his rival, Sen. John McCain, who by any measure would make a superb commander-in-chief. The stakes are too high to trust national security to a liberal novice like Sen. Obama who flip-flops on vital issues.
Fortunately for Sen. McCain, the voters haven’t focused yet on the November election. They’re more concerned about how to pay for the gas to drive to their favorite summer vacation spots.
When they take the time to weigh one candidate’s experience in military and foreign affairs against the other, Sen. McCain is the clear choice. Without national security, nothing else matters.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Gregory D. Lee is a retired DEA Supervisory Special Agent. In 2001, as an army reserve officer, he served at the Pentagon's Army Operation's Center's Anti-Terrorism Operations Intelligence Cell. He writes a weekly syndicated column for North Star Writers Group and can be reached through his website: www.gregorydlee.com.
Tim Michael Case writes that Barack Obama and the religion of socialism he embraces is getting the kid gloves treatment from the mainstream media
Sen. Barack Obama is portrayed as the savior of the world by the national media.
Journalistic bias has run amuck. For every one minute of press coverage Sen. John McCain receives on ABC, CBS and NBC, Obama gets 2½ minutes. They give Obama a pass on every contradiction. They won’t even investigate the facts behind Obama, his wife and their associates.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is one of the nation’s biggest bigots. He has preached hatred and bigotry from the pulpit for 20 years. Obama claims he wasn’t there when these divisive sermons were preached. I guess Obama can’t read. The literature in the church store reads like a black KKK. Obama must also be blind. He never saw the videos of Wright, which are practically given away at the store.
Obama saw fit to have his children baptized by this bigot. They attended Wright’s services for more than 20 years. When the flap started over Obama’s connection to Wright, he said, "I can no more disassociate myself from the Rev. Wright than I can from my own grandmother."
A few weeks later, after Wright spoke to the National Press Club, Obama almost trampled people to get to a podium to tell America he would no longer have anything to do with Wright. He dropped him faster than a burning coal.
William C. Ayers hosted Obama’s first campaign fundraiser. Ayers was the leader of the Weatherman terrorist group in the ’70s. He was on the FBI Most Wanted List for years. Once again, the national media gives Obama a pass. They haven’t reported this association, let alone investigate the facts. Obama and Ayers are still good friends.
The "real" Barack Hussein and Michelle Obama were on display recently when Obama told a group of fellow limousine liberals that small-town folks tend to "cling to guns and their religion" when someone comes along who is not like them.
Another media pass followed. Michelle Obama displayed her real self by stating, "For the first time I am finally proud to be an American," after Obama cinched the nomination. Michelle spent weeks double-talking her way out of that one. The press believed her every word.
Obama has changed his stand on so many issues, he makes Bill and Hillary Clinton look like novices. He’s doing this to win the centrist vote. After infuriating his fellow socialists, he claimed he had never changed his original position. He talked like a man who had no idea what he was talking about. When questioned about his numerous flip flops, he says nothing that makes sense. He is never asked to clarify his position.
Obama says he is the candidate of change. He claims a "new" brand of politics. Yet his stump speeches are the same old class warfare and class hatred lines that Democrats of yesteryear delivered. The socialists and their blind followers, who revel in hatred and class envy, continue to eat it up. He goes after the rich and evil corporations. Democrats have decried these same groups for 70 years. Absolutely nothing is "new." No "change" is offered. He is just another Democrat "retread."
If America did what Obama advocated in his 160 working days in the Senate, we would have an Iraq bathed in genocide. The terrorists would be in complete control of Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama would be coddling the terrorists with all his "policy of pacifism" glory.
Can we really afford another Jimmy Carter in this time of terrorism run rampant?
Can we really afford Democrats in control, taking control of our lives by telling us what we can and can’t do?
This "religion" of socialism will only grow under Obama. This religion seeks to stifle the free speech of those who oppose the socialists’ thinking. It will start with the passing of the so-called Fairness Doctrine. What will be next after Obama signs that into law?
This religion of socialism forces us to accept as normal the abnormal lifestyles of the "do it if it feels good" mentality. It is shoved down our children’s throats daily in the public schools under the name "diversity training."
This religion advocates changing the law by the judicial branch of government with its fellow parishioners legislating from the bench in complete disregard for the purpose of the three branches of government as defined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Obama will never "change" this.
The sad fact is, this religion of socialism proceeds forward with the presidency of Obama. What more will he do to disable American rights during his presidency?
Journalistic bias has run amuck. For every one minute of press coverage Sen. John McCain receives on ABC, CBS and NBC, Obama gets 2½ minutes. They give Obama a pass on every contradiction. They won’t even investigate the facts behind Obama, his wife and their associates.
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright is one of the nation’s biggest bigots. He has preached hatred and bigotry from the pulpit for 20 years. Obama claims he wasn’t there when these divisive sermons were preached. I guess Obama can’t read. The literature in the church store reads like a black KKK. Obama must also be blind. He never saw the videos of Wright, which are practically given away at the store.
Obama saw fit to have his children baptized by this bigot. They attended Wright’s services for more than 20 years. When the flap started over Obama’s connection to Wright, he said, "I can no more disassociate myself from the Rev. Wright than I can from my own grandmother."
A few weeks later, after Wright spoke to the National Press Club, Obama almost trampled people to get to a podium to tell America he would no longer have anything to do with Wright. He dropped him faster than a burning coal.
William C. Ayers hosted Obama’s first campaign fundraiser. Ayers was the leader of the Weatherman terrorist group in the ’70s. He was on the FBI Most Wanted List for years. Once again, the national media gives Obama a pass. They haven’t reported this association, let alone investigate the facts. Obama and Ayers are still good friends.
The "real" Barack Hussein and Michelle Obama were on display recently when Obama told a group of fellow limousine liberals that small-town folks tend to "cling to guns and their religion" when someone comes along who is not like them.
Another media pass followed. Michelle Obama displayed her real self by stating, "For the first time I am finally proud to be an American," after Obama cinched the nomination. Michelle spent weeks double-talking her way out of that one. The press believed her every word.
Obama has changed his stand on so many issues, he makes Bill and Hillary Clinton look like novices. He’s doing this to win the centrist vote. After infuriating his fellow socialists, he claimed he had never changed his original position. He talked like a man who had no idea what he was talking about. When questioned about his numerous flip flops, he says nothing that makes sense. He is never asked to clarify his position.
Obama says he is the candidate of change. He claims a "new" brand of politics. Yet his stump speeches are the same old class warfare and class hatred lines that Democrats of yesteryear delivered. The socialists and their blind followers, who revel in hatred and class envy, continue to eat it up. He goes after the rich and evil corporations. Democrats have decried these same groups for 70 years. Absolutely nothing is "new." No "change" is offered. He is just another Democrat "retread."
If America did what Obama advocated in his 160 working days in the Senate, we would have an Iraq bathed in genocide. The terrorists would be in complete control of Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama would be coddling the terrorists with all his "policy of pacifism" glory.
Can we really afford another Jimmy Carter in this time of terrorism run rampant?
Can we really afford Democrats in control, taking control of our lives by telling us what we can and can’t do?
This "religion" of socialism will only grow under Obama. This religion seeks to stifle the free speech of those who oppose the socialists’ thinking. It will start with the passing of the so-called Fairness Doctrine. What will be next after Obama signs that into law?
This religion of socialism forces us to accept as normal the abnormal lifestyles of the "do it if it feels good" mentality. It is shoved down our children’s throats daily in the public schools under the name "diversity training."
This religion advocates changing the law by the judicial branch of government with its fellow parishioners legislating from the bench in complete disregard for the purpose of the three branches of government as defined in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Obama will never "change" this.
The sad fact is, this religion of socialism proceeds forward with the presidency of Obama. What more will he do to disable American rights during his presidency?
The Anointed One (according to the media)
This is a powerful video by Gerard Baker!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzvyDyv_WYE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzvyDyv_WYE
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