o'socialist - Proof: Obama joined socialist party in 1996

related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Party_(United_States)

From: Washington Times247  Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 Subject: Proof: Obama joined socialist party in 1996

Obama joined socialist 'New Party', new docs show

National Review Online

In January 1996, while Mitt Romney was in the final years of his run as the head of Bain Capital, Barack Obama formally joined the New Party, which was deeply hostile to the mainstream of the Democratic Party and even to American capitalism.  In 2008, candidate Obama deceived the American public about his potentially damaging tie to this third party.

Read & Comment: http://times247.com/articles/obama-was-member-of-socialist-new-party-docs-prove

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Obama's Third-Party History

New documents shed new light on his ties to a leftist party in the 1990s

By Stanley Kurtz, National Review Online, June 7, 2012

article source: http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/302031 

     On the evening of January 11, 1996, while Mitt Romney was in the final years of his run as the head of Bain Capital, Barack Obama formally joined the New Party, which was deeply hostile to the mainstream of the Democratic party and even to American capitalism. In 2008, candidate Obama deceived the American public about his potentially damaging tie to this third party. The issue remains as fresh as today's headlines, as Romney argues that Obama is trying to move the United States toward European-style social democracy, which was precisely the New Party's goal.

     In late October 2008, when I wrote here at National Review Online that Obama had been a member of the New Party, his campaign sharply denied it, calling my claim a "crackpot smear." Fight the Smears, an official Obama-campaign website, staunchly maintained that "Barack has been a member of only one political party, the Democratic Party." I rebutted this, but the debate was never taken up by the mainstream press.
Recently obtained evidence from the updated records of Illinois ACORN at the Wisconsin Historical Society now definitively establishes that Obama was a member of the New Party. He also signed a "contract" promising to publicly support and associate himself with the New Party while in office.
     Minutes of the meeting on January 11, 1996, of the New Party's Chicago chapter read as follows:

Barack Obama, candidate for State Senate in the 13th Legislative District, gave a statement to the membership and answered questions.  He signed the New Party "Candidate Contract" and requested an endorsement from the New Party.  He also joined the New Party.

     Consistent with this, a roster of the Chicago chapter of the New Party from early 1997 lists Obama as a member, with January 11, 1996, indicated as the date he joined.
     Knowing that Obama disguised his New Party membership helps make sense of his questionable handling of the 2008 controversy over his ties to ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). During his third debate with John McCain, Obama said that the "only" involvement he'd had with ACORN was to represent the group in a lawsuit seeking to compel Illinois to implement the National Voter Registration Act, or motor-voter law. The records of Illinois ACORN and its associated union clearly contradict that assertion, as I show in my political biography of the president, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism.
     Why did Obama deny his ties to ACORN? The group was notorious in 2008 for thug tactics, fraudulent voter registrations, and its role in popularizing risky subprime lending. Admitting that he had helped to fund ACORN's voter-registration efforts and train some of their organizers would doubtless have been an embarrassment but not likely a crippling blow to his campaign. So why not simply confess the tie and make light of it? The problem for Obama was ACORN's political arm, the New Party.
     The revelation in 2008 that Obama had joined an ACORN-controlled, leftist third party could have been damaging indeed, and coming clean about his broader work with ACORN might easily have exposed these New Party ties. Because the work of ACORN and the New Party often intersected with Obama's other alliances, honesty about his ties to either could have laid bare the entire network of his leftist political partnerships.
     Although Obama is ultimately responsible for deceiving the American people in 2008 about his political background, he got help from his old associates. Each of the two former political allies who helped him to deny his New Party membership during campaign '08 was in a position to know better.
     The Fight the Smears website quoted Carol Harwell, who managed Obama's 1996 campaign for the Illinois senate: "Barack did not solicit or seek the New Party endorsement for state senator in 1995." Drawing on her testimony, Fight the Smears conceded that the New Party did support Obama in 1996 but denied that Obama had ever joined, adding that "he was the only candidate on the ballot in his race and never solicited the endorsement."
     We've seen that this is false. Obama formally requested New Party endorsement, signed the candidate contract, and joined the party. Is it conceivable that Obama's own campaign manager could have been unaware of this? The notion is implausible. And the documents make Harwell's assertion more remarkable still.
     The New Party had a front group called Progressive Chicago, whose job was to identify candidates that the New Party and its sympathizers might support. Nearly four years before Obama was endorsed by the New Party, both he and Harwell joined Progressive Chicago and began signing public letters that regularly reported on the group's meetings. By prominently taking part in Progressive Chicago activities, Obama was effectively soliciting New Party support for his future political career (as was Harwell, on Obama's behalf). So Harwell's testimony is doubly false.
     When the New Party controversy broke out, just about the only mainstream journalist to cover it was Politico's Ben Smith, whose evident purpose was to dismiss it out of hand. He contacted Obama's official spokesman Ben LaBolt, who claimed that his candidate "was never a member" of the New Party. And New Party co-founder and leader Joel Rogers told Smith, "We didn't really have members." But a line in the New Party's official newsletter explicitly identified Obama as a party member. Rogers dismissed that as mere reference to "the fact that the party had endorsed him."
     This is nonsense. I exposed the falsity of Rogers's absurd claim, and Smith's credulity in accepting it, in 2008 (here and here). And in Radical-in-Chief I took on Rogers's continuing attempts to justify it. The recently uncovered New Party records reveal how dramatically far from the truth Rogers's statement has been all along.
     In a memo dated January 29, 1996, Rogers, writing as head of the New Party Interim Executive Council, addressed "standing concerns regarding existing chapter development and activity, the need for visibility as well as new members." So less than three weeks after Obama joined the New Party, Rogers was fretting about the need for new members. How, then, could Rogers assert in 2008 that his party "didn't really have members"? Internal documents show that the entire leadership of the New Party, both nationally and in Chicago, was practically obsessed with signing up new members, from its founding moments until it dissolved in the late 1990s.
     In 2008, after I called Rogers out on his ridiculous claim that his party had no members, he explained to Ben Smith that "we did have regular supporters whom many called 'members,' but it just meant contributing regularly, not getting voting rights or other formal power in NP governance." This is also flatly contradicted by the newly uncovered records.
     At just about the time Obama joined the New Party, the Chicago chapter was embroiled in a bitter internal dispute. A party-membership list is attached to a memo in which the leaders of one faction consider a scheme to disqualify potential voting members from a competing faction, on the grounds that those voters had not renewed their memberships. The factional leaders worried that their opponents would legitimately object to this tactic, since a mailing that called for members to renew hadn't been properly sent out. At any rate, the memo clearly demonstrates that, contrary to Rogers's explanation, membership in the New Party entailed the right to vote on matters of party governance. In fact, Obama's own New Party endorsement, being controversial, was thrown open to a members' vote on the day he joined the party.
     Were Harwell and Rogers deliberately lying in order to protect Obama and deceive the public? Readers can decide for themselves. Yet it is clear that Obama, through his official spokesman, Ben LaBolt, and the Fight the Smears website, was bent on deceiving the American public about a matter whose truth he well knew.
     The documents reveal that the New Party's central aim was to move the United States steadily closer to European social democracy, a goal that Mitt Romney has also attributed to Obama. New Party leaders disdained mainstream Democrats, considering them tools of business, and promised instead to create a partnership between elected officials and local community organizations, with the goal of socializing the American economy to an unprecedented degree.
     The party's official "statement of principles," which candidates seeking endorsement from the Chicago chapter were asked to support, called for a "peaceful revolution" and included redistributive proposals substantially to the left of the Democratic party.
     To get a sense of the ideology at play, consider that the meeting at which Obama joined the party opened with the announcement of a forthcoming event featuring the prominent socialist activist Frances Fox Piven. The Chicago New Party sponsored a luncheon with Michael Moore that same year.
     I have more to say on the New Party's ideology and program, Obama's ties to the party, and the relevance of all this to the president's campaign for reelection. See the forthcoming issue of National Review.
In the meantime, let us see whether a press that let candidate Obama off the hook in 2008 — and that in 2012 is obsessed with the president's youthful love letters  — will now refuse to report that President Obama once joined a leftist third party, and that he hid that truth from the American people in order to win the presidency.

 - Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. A longer version of this article appears in the forthcoming June 25 issue of National Review.

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2012 - o'masterdebater afraid of Newt's challenge: 7 three hour debates

"..unlike the president, I've studied 'American History.'", Newt Gingrich.
Epic Debates Challenge:  7 three hour debates in the Lincoln-Douglas tradition

Speaker Newt Gingrich throws down the debate gauntlet to the President.

video source: http://youtu.be/q7c-E_t0BAE

Uploaded by aimaccuracy on Dec 8, 2011 from the Republican Jewish Coalition Convention, 7Dec11

Tags: Newt Gingrich, debate, debates, President Obama, Lincoln-Douglas

     Quote from 8Dec11 article by Dr. Tim Stanley, U.K.: "Best of all was his ribbing of Barack Obama as an intellectual lightweight ("I'm a student of history.  Unlike the President, I've studied American history.")  "Newt repeated his offer to hold several [seven] three hour debates with Obama.  ("And I will let him use a teleprompter.")  If the President doesn't accede, Gingrich threatens to spend the fall campaign stalking him across the country, giving instant rebuttals to his scripted speeches: "Wherever the President goes, I will show up four hours later."  It's classic Gingrich: blunt, clever, grand, Cavalier."

     Quotes from 21Dec11 article by Eric Golub, Washington Times:  "He has proposed seven debates with President Obama.  Each one would be three hours long with a timekeeper and no moderator.  Mr. Gingrich made once concession to give Mr. Obama a fair chance. "He can use a teleprompter.  If you had to defend Obamacare, wouldn't you want to use a teleprompter?" [..] Speaker Gingrich kept hammering.  "Unlike the president, I've studied American history."  [..] If Barack Obama tried to run and hide, Mr. Gingrich would use the White House as his scheduler.   Anywhere President Obama goes, Mr. Gingrich promised to be there four hours later.  (also see: The Lincoln-Douglas debates)

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o'amnesty - o'pander's Illegal Immigrants' healthcare

Left-wingnuts often make the claim that o'scamcare doesn't "mandate" that illegal aliens are to receive medical care ... typical '1984 Orwellian' "Newspeak." -- rfh

From: Minuteman PAC  Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 Subject: Stop ObamaCare for Illegal Immigrants

Joe Wilson was right... ObamaCare DOES cover illegal immigrants!      Earlier this week, we let you know about the $8.5 million in ObamaCare funding directed by the Department of Health and Human Services solely to provide free or reduced healthcare to migrant workers and their families - in other words, illegal immigrants!      Remember all the flak Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina took from the Obama-loving leftwing media back in September 2009 when he yelled "You lie!" when Obama promised the nation that ObamaCare would not cover illegal immigrants?      Now, we have our answer.  Wilson was right and Obama continues to be a liar...

     Sadly, providing illegal immigrants with free healthcare subsidized using YOUR tax dollars is nothing new.
     In 2007, we learned about Mexico's Ventanillas de Salud (Health Windows) program that directs MEXICAN citizens who illegally live in the U.S. to use taxpayer funded clinics in a dozen cities which have Mexican consulates.
     In Los Angeles County alone, illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $440 million in health services annually and whopping $1.1 billion statewide.
     The Mexican consul in Los Angeles proudly announced that nearly 300,000 illegal immigrants hailing from Mexico and living in the area benefited from the referral program.

     To really rub salt in the wound, the whole referral operation promises to assess "consulate clients" (illegal immigrants) for eligibility to government-funded (that's U.S.-funded) health insurance and other primary care services and offers free legal assistance to those who are denied coverage.
     That must be nice.
     One of the most memorable quotes during the process of passing ObamaCare was Nancy Pelosi's "We need to pass Obamacare so that the public can find out what's in it."  One of the more memorable results of ObamaCare thus far was all of the friends and loyal lobbyists in the Obama Club who have received ObamaCare waivers.
     Now, with healthcare funding and services for illegal immigrants and cuts for the care of U.S. Citizens, we have one more reason to add to our laundry list for defeating Barack Obama in 2012.
     Thanks to Americans like you, who care about the safety and future of our country, there is mounting pressure to stop Obama from transforming America into a socialist state jam-packed with illegal immigrants benefiting from our tax dollars.  But it will take the lead of an emboldened House and Senate to turn up the pressure.  THEY MUST HEAR LOUDLY FROM PATRIOTS LIKE YOU!      Our mission is clear: Help elect candidates who carry out their constitutional duty to defend our borders and oust those who do not.
      Everyday Washington tells us we can no longer afford to care for our own citizens in need, so why are we caring for Mexico's?
For America, Minuteman PAC

          P.S.  As you well know, Minuteman PAC is an independent Political Action Committee of the Minuteman civilian border security movement, supported by many volunteers of the nation's oldest, largest and most-effective citizen's border vigilance group, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.  ... If you can afford it, please generously give a contribution of $20, $30, $50, $100 or more to Minuteman PAC to get this word out to your fellow Americans!  We will need funds above and beyond $250,000 to help make our case on radio, TV, in newspapers and on the Internet to in order to secure our border with Mexico, crush Obama's plans to grant mass-Amnesty, and nix ObamaCare for illegal immigrants.

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bcc'd "red diaper babies" & RINOs

email Congress & W.H.: http://capwiz.com/congressorgfb/issues/alert/?alertid=41045506

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2nd Amendment - Attacks on Our Rights: Operation Fast and Furious (video)

From:  2ndamendmenttv.com  Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 Subject: Attacks on Our Rights: Operation Fast and Furious

     Whatever their reasons for doing so, the actions of the ATF project Gunrunner have been used to demonize the Second Amendment, American gun dealers, and American gun laws. Months ago we found out that the ATF was allowing, and even encouraging, large gun sales to individuals for the purpose of taking them across the border to arm Mexican drug cartels. Taking their cue from the Obama administration, news outlets have been citing the 'failure of American gun laws' for arming these killers in Mexico, but as more and more comes out about Operation Fast and Furious we learn now that American gun laws would have stopped these transactions had not the ATF and the FBI deliberately subverted (read BROKE) the law and allowed these sales on purpose. 

Video:  http://www.2ndamendmenttv.com/page/4508.html

"Feds Silent on How Convicted Felons Bought Guns"

Goodman Green,  2ndAmendmentTV.com

"I believe that a person's moral compass can be determined by how he references free men the right to defend themselves." --Ted Nugent 
 P.S.  Please forward our links or share on Facebook to help us grow.  2nd Amendment TV, 2380 California St., San Francisco, CA 94115

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o'tax'n spend - Obama's Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Tax

During Obama's January 2008 talk with the San Francisco Chronicle, he said:  

"Under my plan" electricity [energy] rates would necessarily "skyrocket."

related: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kerry-picket/2008/11/02/obama-energy-prices-will-skyrocket

From: CDFE Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 Subject: Obama's Mileage Tax

article source: http://www.cdfe.org/

THE TAX-YOUR-DRIVING IDEA MAY BE LOOKING BETTER TO OBAMA - A MILEAGE TOLL.

      Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) is still trying to figure out a way for the government to make money off of U.S. drivers as if they were a distinct breed of citizens disassociated with the term "taxpayer." For the fourth time in half as many years, he raised the issue of a Vehicle Mileage Traveled (VMT) in a March, 2011 Congressional Budget Office report. Things are tough everywhere. And government's pockets are hurting as badly as the taxpayers'.
     Add to the shrinking tax base 1,500,000 more unemployed Americans than we had when Barack Obama started passing out stimulus money like penny candy to the needy, and it's easy to see why the Obama Administration is fishing for new ways to generate tax revenue without calling their new ideas taxation. After all, on Sept. 12, 2008, Candidate Barack Hussein Obama said: "Under my plan, no family making less than $250 thousand a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax. Not your payroll tax. Not your capital gains taxes. Not any of your taxes."
     Bad ideas have a perpetual life in Washington. This bad idea began as a way to sell drivers on buying hybrid vehicles. While it was bantered about during both Bush administrations, it was seriously proposed by Congressman James Oberstar [D-MN] in 2009. The idea? A tax for every mile you drive. The people of Minnesota liked the idea so much they replaced Oberstar with a Republican, Chip Cravaack, in 2010. The second person to suggest it was Obama Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (before the 2010 election). Obama shot the idea down. That's a good way to lose seats.
     That was then. This is now. Like I said, bad ideas have perpetual life inside the beltway. They never die. Politicians simply put them in a new set of clothes and trot them out every time they get desperate for increased tax revenues - and Washington hasn't been this desperate since the Great Depression.
     The month of May was a different story. That bad idea was looking better to someone, because a draft transportation authorization bill was floated on May 2. Section 2218 of that bill would create, within the Federal Highway Administration, a Surface Transportation Revenue Alternatives Office that would be tasked with creating a sturdy framework that defines the functionality of a mileage-based user fee system. Obama was floating a trial balloon.
     How will the tax work? At this point, it doesn't matter. What matters is that the Obama Administration, which has said, four times, it is not considering a VMT (mileage tax on travelers), is considering a mileage tax. How they plan to implement it isn't as important as how much it's going to cost YOU for them to track how many miles you drive. And, of course, how and when you are expected to pay to travel over America's highways that your tax dollars built.
     On every level, this is a nightmare the American people will flatly reject. Remind Congress that if they vote to tax the miles we drive, there's going to be a lot of former Congressmen and Senators riding the bus in January, 2013.
     The idea of taxing motorists for the miles they drive, known as a Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) Tax has been discussed in Washington for several years. One such dialogue took place during the Bush-43 years. The Obama Administration has not officially signed on to the idea, but Obama requested $20 million in 2012 budget to establish the Surface Transportation Revenue Alternative Office. When questioned about the VMT Tax (or Toll as it will likely be called) Department of Transportation spokeswoman Jill Zuckerman said that the proposed Office is being charged with analyzing a range of alternatives, not just one, thus the DOT has not proposed any new revenue model at this time.
     The fact remains that while Obama has not used his bully pulpit to advocate a VMT Tax, by taking the step toward creating this office, and doing the exploratory work on how to achieve this goal - particularly since the VMT tax is the preferred policy option of several transportation experts - expect its covert implementation to happen. When they unveil it, as a "toll" and not a tax, Obama will sign it into law.
     The VMT Tax will not just be a public relations bad green dream, it will be a political nightmare on every imaginable policy level. The United States of America already has an effective taxing system that is based on how much you earn. We don't need one that's based on how far you drive. Today, as Obama ponders a VMT tax, his car company - General Motors - has suggested that Congress slap a $1 per gallon environmental surcharge tax on gasoline to put the United States more in line with what Europeans pay for gasoline. In GM's mind, that would help bolster sales of GM's albatross, the electric GM Volt.
     Is this merely a push to get people to buy hybrid cars? I don't think so. I think this is a tax revenue-hungry government looking for a new food source. Here's the reality. U.S. citizens should not be charged a travel tax to take their kids to school, go to and from work, see a doctor, go grocery shopping, take their spouse or date out to dinner and a movie, or just take a leisurely weekend drive in the country. While it is now starting to not look much like the America I grew up it, I believe this is still America.
      Is this merely an environmentalist devise, through taxation, to make more people use public transit? The Federal Highway Administration website offered an explanation. The FHA said that the proposed office will phase in research and demonstration efforts to analyze a range of revenue generation alternatives with the potential to replace the petroleum-based system currently used to fund surface transportation programs.
     During the Bush-43 years, a 2006 report commission by the Dept. of Transportation called the mileage tax the most promising technique for directly assessing users for the costs of individual trips within a comprehensive fee scheme that will generate revenue to cover the costs of highway programs.
     Politicians who think differently than the rest of us seem to think the mileage tax is more equitable than a gasoline tax. Senator Kent Conrad dismissed that myth in the Senate's March, 2011 report in which the conclusion reached was that highway financing was best accomplished through a combination of BOTH gasoline taxes and mileage taxes. It's not one or the other. It's both.
      On page 91 of the 2009 National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission Study (created by the Democratically-controlled House and Senate), the report concluded that the most viable approach [for financing highways] is based directly on miles driven (commonly referred to as a Vehicle Miles Traveled [VMT] fee system. The report added that a 3.3 cents per mile charge could raise $1 billion annually. For a car that travels 15,000 miles a year, the cost would be $495 a year. That report suggested Congress was considering replacing gasoline taxes will a mileage tax.
     How much would your Vehicle Mileage Traveled tax be? How many miles did you drive last year? Multiply those miles by 3.3 cents. That's likely what you will be paying after the politicians get through posturing. If you are the government, and you have a penchant - and a need - for a new revenue stream, you don't spend millions of dollars to figure out how to assess and collect a new form of taxation, and not collect it.
      On May 5, The Hill reported that White House spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki rebutted The Hill's query about Obama supporting a VMT tax saying a plan to tax automobile drivers by the mile isn't an option under consideration. On May 9, she modified her statement admitting that the VMT tax scheme was a draft memo for legislation, but that it was not "formally" circulated in the White House.
     With all the back and forth bantering by the White House that Barack Obama is not considering a VMT tax, logic says he is. The Obama Administration and what the public increasingly calls Government Motors have made a commitment to electric cars. While the current models are hybrids that rely more on gasoline than electricity, clearly the auto industry expects that each year the vehicles produced will rely less on gasoline and more electricity.
     As the motor vehicles we use consume less gasoline, the government will receive fewer gasoline tax dollars. Since the government, and the auto industry which is now - thanks to Obama - partially owned by the nation's labor unions, believe electric cars will be the dominant personal transportation of the future, they need to find a way to tax the fuel they consume sufficiently enough to replace the gasoline tax revenues they expect to lose. Thus, Conrad was correct in his assessment that highway financing requires both gasoline taxes and a VMT tax - a tax today for the future.
     The proposal the Obama Administration includes what the DOT calls "other options." Options which include converting bridges and highways into revenue-generating toll roads although VMT is viewed by most as the best choice because it is considered to be the most reliable funding source.
     The United States has an effective way to generate revenues to keep up America's highway system. It's called a gas tax. While Americans don't like paying 36 cents in taxes for every gallon of gas they pump into their gas-powered vehicles, they are going to be even more unhappy about paying a Vehicle Miles Traveled tax.
     Eliminating wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars should be this Administration's first priority rather than spending millions of dollars devising new ways to tax the American people.
     Sincerely, Ron Arnold, Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Action Fund -- www.cdfe.org/cdfe-action-fund
    SEND your donation to: Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Action Fund, Dept Code - 6464, 12500 NE 10th Place, Bellevue, WA 98005 -- The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise Action Fund is a non-partisan education and advocacy organization that lobbies to influence legislation and mobilizes grassroots support for legislation that defends free enterprise. Contributions to the Action Fund are not tax deductible.

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o'regulator - You won’t believe this! Number of new laws! (video 1m23s)

From: burd Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 Subject:  You won't believe this!

One minute clip--you won't believe it.  No matter what you think about Glenn Beck, watch this.  He is just the messenger here.  There is no commentary.  Its only one minute long.  And we wonder why OUR government is out of control?!  If you cherish what freedom you have left, then watch this.  STOP and THINK about it.

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
"The acid test of intelligence is its ability to deal with stupidity".

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o'who? - Trust But Verify (ATLAH)

video source:  http://atlahmedianetwork.org/?p=14658

Hon. James David Manning, PhD gives a response to the White House releasing Barack Hussein “The Long Legged Mack Daddy” Obama’s long form birth certificate. Recorded on 27 April 2011.

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o'illegal - USBP: o'Pander's 'no-arrest' ILLEGAL Aliens' Vote Tactic

U.S. Border Agents Confirm Orders Not to Arrest Illegal Immigrants

sources:  http://www.FoxNews.com & http://PatriotPost.us

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o'who?'s 2012 Election Chances (Cagle Post)

From: newsletter@caglepost.com  Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 Subject: Cagle Post | Obama's 2012 Election Chances
Doctrine 'toon source: http://patriotupdate.com/cartoons/the-obama-doctrine

Cartoon by Bob Englehart, Hartford Courant (View more cartoons by Englehart)

Barack Obama's 2012 Election Chances by Joe Gandelman

Independent's Eye by Joe Gandelman

article source: http://blog.cagle.com/2011/04/obama's-2012-election-chances/

    President Barack Obama in the biggest "Duh!" this side of Charlie Sheen announced he's going to run for re-election. The conventional wisdom: he's in better shape going into 2011 than the Republicans. Is the conventional wisdom correct? Is it wrong?
     If you consider where Barack Obama is politically, and where he could be given his overflowing plate of problems, the conclusion is: as of April 2011 it looks like Barack Obama will be re-elected since the Republicans are gravitas-candidate challenged. But beware: there are as many "on the other hands" in this political picture as hands on the Hindu Goddess Kali.
    In just one day you can read that: a)a sitting President is almost never defeated unless he faces a challenge for the Presidential nomination from within his own party b)Franklin Roosevelt and Bill Clinton were the only Democratic Presidents in the past 90 years who were re-elected. History suggests Obama's chances look good. Wait! History suggests Obama's chances look BAD.
Here's a thumbnail guide of "yes he's ahead" and "no he can lose." Hold onto it going into election year.
Seven factors that put Obama in a good position for re-election:
1. Independent Voters: Polls now show Obama gaining back some lost independent voter support as he takes some stands upsetting his party's liberal base. Reports suggest he is consciously playing to the middle. It worked for Bill Clinton.
2. By Default His Coalition Stands Behind Him: He'll likely again get support from the increasingly growing block of Hispanic voters, plus African-Americans, young voters and seniors.
3. The New Republican Party: The National Journal's Charlie Cook writes that "talking with Republican pollsters, strategists and veteran campaign professionals recently, I now hear sounds of concern that haven't been heard in almost two years." Cook echoes what I've often noted: there is a big gap between the GOP base's attitudes and demands and independent voters.
4. A Rebounding Economy: Job numbers are (for now) going up.
5. No Serious Democratic Challenger: Sorry, liberals. Dennis Kucinch would NOT qualify.
6. Organized Labor's Rebirth: Republican Governors have done more to revitalize the American labor movement than the American labor movement. 2012 will be labor payback time.
7. The GOP's Seniors Problem: Fine tuning Medicare is courageous but with no tax increases or sacrifices for the rich trying to touch it would be a gift to Democrats.
    But Barack Obama and the Democrats shouldn't start planning his post-election party yet..
    Conservative talk hosts continue to have enormous influence in motivating listeners to vote and pressuring Republicans in Congress. Fox News and the Internet give wide publicity to often inaccurate anti-Obama narratives which are picked up by the mainstream media — then covered more by Fox News and the Internet.
     The Obama team is a reactive-mode political "B team" that hasn't produced a Karl Rove or a James Carville.   And Obama? This legendary orator often comes across as boring and operates in defensive mode. Obama's political foes don't fear him. And then there's the economy, the economy and…the economy. The website 270toWin finds13 scenarios for a 2011 electoral vote tie.
    CNN's John Avlon points to an overlooked Obama flaw. "The fact that Obama has so far failed to build on his 2008 coalition is a significant hurdle to clear on his way to re-election. Reagan-Democrats carried the Gipper to a landslide re-election in 1984 — there are few, if any, Obama-Republicans today."
     Is Obama poised for re-election? Or will be become yet one more Democratic President who goes down in history as someone who ironically cleared the way for policies he and his followers mistakenly assumed would be impossible on that giddy night seemingly a lifetime ago when he was first elected President?
—–  Copyright 2011 Joe Gandelman
Joe Gandelman is a veteran journalist who wrote for newspapers overseas and in the United States. He has appeared on cable news show political panels and is Editor-in-Chief of The Moderate Voice, an Internet hub for independents, centrists and moderates. CNN's John Avlon named him as one of the top 25 Centrists Columnists and Commentators. He can be reached at jgandelman@themoderatevoice.com and can be booked to speak at your event atwww.mavenproductions.com.  Follow Joe Gandelman on Twitter @joegandelman.

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o'mam - Pssst...don't tell anyone. It's a secret!

article source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/30/us-libya-usa-order-idUSTRE72T6H220110330
Obama authorizes secret help for Libya rebels

By Mark Hosenball (Reuters)

WASHINGTON | Wed Mar 30, 2011
     President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing covert U.S. government support for rebel forces seeking to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, government officials told Reuters on Wednesday.  Obama signed the order, known as a presidential "finding", within the last two or three weeks, according to government sources familiar with the matter.
Read the full article at http://www.reuters.com/assets/print?aid=USTRE72T6H220110330

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o'nero - "..while Rome burns." (2 articles)

Dithering Obama Fiddles While Rome Burns

By Kali Gula at http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/world/2684-dithering-obama-fiddles-while-rome-burns.html

 
Ab asino lanam quaeris
[ τίς εἰς τοῦ λήθης πεδίον, τίς εἰς ὄνου πόκας ]

WASHINGTON DC - USA - When Americans voted for 'Change' even they did not think that they would be duped to the level that is now apparent with Barack Obama.

     "People are dying in Libya and Japan while Obama is sitting on his ass dithering like a ninny.  This guy couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag, this guy is so yella that I bet he leaves streaks on the floor when he walks.   This guy makes Jimmy Carter look like Attila the .. ' Hun!" a disgruntled White House official revealed on Wednesday.
Too little Too late
     Let us face it, the Daily Squib knew from the beginning that Obama was a wet fart and was not going to amount to anything, but amongst the brainwashing sessions from the White House during the election campaign, people thought that the sun shone out of his arse at the beginning of his presidency.
     "I just wish Americans would wake the .. up.   I mean, we've been duped with this lame duck guy who needs his autocue and hundreds of spin doctors, and even then he can't make a single .. decision.  He's about as decisive as a two headed donkey tethered to a pole.  Not only that, he's lazy as well.  He just doesn't want to know.  He doesn't know how the world works, or Washington or the country.  Hillary has got way more balls than Obama, she should have been president," a former democrat supporter told CBS news.
     A discontented Washington resident said on Tuesday: "One has to wonder what Obama has done since winning the election?  It seems that his socialist agenda has been successful in one thing, and that's pouring trillions of American taxpayer dollars into a black hole to be chewed up and never seen again.  Someone give this guy some .. balls."

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article source: http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/print-friendly/34547

By Ron Ewart  Thursday, March 17, 2011 “When the earth shudders, puny man can only get out of its way if he hopes to survive.  If he builds where the earth moves, or spits lava from its fiery orifices, or he plants his footprint where the ocean rises and falls, he can only expect to be swallowed up, burned alive, or drowned en masse.  We have much more to fear from an unstable earth than we do from man-caused global warming.” — Ron Ewart
    The mark of a true leader is one who makes rapid decisions when events are unfolding for which there was no plan.  It is more than evident that Obama is out of his element and is incapable of making the necessary decisions to protect American interests, much less foster an agenda that is in keeping with American sovereignty and values of individual freedom and liberty.  While Rome burns, Obama is giving speeches, predicting basketball scores and golfing.  The words that come to mind are “apathetic”, “detached” and “pathetic”.  If anyone was truly looking, his poll numbers should be falling like a rock if it wasn’t for a news media that no longer prints the truth.
     But enough of the town clown, there are dynamic, unfolding global issues of major impact to the entire human population of the planet.  The Middle East and North Africa or unraveling into chaos, anarchy and maybe even genocide.  The implications of this Islamic meltdown maybe even more catastrophic than what is happening in Japan with the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactors that are rapidly approaching the meltdown phase.
     And then there is the rise of radical Islam that would do in the western world if they ever find us weak and discover a chink in our armor.  Radical Islam will be with us for decades, if not centuries and may ultimately prevail, if we let down our guard for one moment.  In response to this threat, Obama apologizes for America and tells the Islamic world that we are a Muslim nation.  The fact is, a “bully” will only back down when confronted with a force greater than his.  We ignore that fact at our own peril.
     The economy of most countries depend on the life-giving energy that pours out of the Middle East in the form of black gold.  Any major disruptions to the supply could send the world-wide economy into a financial black hole and America won’t be spared.  Because of the insane, if not treasonous policies by environmentalists and the government of no drilling for our own oil over the last 30 years, we are now left vulnerable to a major supply interruption.  In response, Obama talks about opening up the strategic oil reserves, as if that will do anything.
     Libya is turning into a blood bath while Obama and the rest of the world’s leaders are arguing at that irrational rabble of dictators called the United Nations, over a resolution to “do something”.  While the world dithers, people are dying at an increasing rate, while calling out for the world’s help and not getting it.  Meanwhile, 2% of the world’s oil supply isn’t getting into the markets.  Obama gives a speech about women.
     Europe has spent itself into oblivion and is essentially broke, based on the always-failing socialist model.  Austerity measures by the individual EU governments and their broken promises they couldn’t keep because they ran out of other people’s money, have entered Europe into a new phase of violent unrest.  Obama golf’s.
America’s economy lies lethargic with several broken bones and casts all over its body.  Because of government’s attempts to manage everything including money, markets and people’s lives, when they can’t even manage themselves, has left a once vibrant capitalistic economy hovering on the brink of extinction and threatens to make America a third-world country, while China and Russia are scrambling to gobble up the Earth’s resources.  Obama holds state dinners in the Whitehouse for our enemies.
     Japan, the third largest economy in the world, is in grave danger of collapsing all together.  The triple whammy of a massive earthquake and continuing aftershocks, a monster tsunami destroying entire cities and now several nuclear reactors on the path to the China Syndrome, could send Japan reeling into the dark ages, without massive international assistance.  The nuclear story is still unfolding and may have world-wide impact from deadly radiation releases.  Obama delivers another of his rousing campaign speeches.
     America is without direction and a buffoon has his hands on the wheel and the nuclear and internet trigger.  He teeters on the edge of delivering a major decision any moment to ......... ?  Who was that he voted for in March madness?
     So ladies and gentlemen, it is up to the people to grab the wheel and rest control from the leaders who would send us into the mouth of a belching volcano and incinerate the only country that rose out of the bowels of revolution to form a country of people steeped in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights of life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness.  If we follow these leaders into the abyss, we are enablers of our own destruction.
     Many have whispered under their breaths about the 3% solution and what they mean is, revolution.  We submit that there is a peaceful 3% solution and the power of that solution lies in the hands of millions of freedom-loving Americans who decide that playing follow-the-leader is suicidal and instead are now determined to direct the leaders, using the unstoppable power of the many.  They but only need to focus that power on one problem at a time, rather than taking on all of America’s problems as a whole.  We have briefly described the 3% peaceful solution in a short YouTube video entitled “The 3% Solution”.
     Obama is idling in reverse gear while the congress is deadlocked over budgets and opposing ideologies.  Decisions on important matters lie in the hands of the fickle gods of the Democrats and Republicans.  If the logical, objective and intelligent people of America don’t take back the reins of power from the inmates of the asylum and pretty damn quick, the last vestige of individual liberty will decay into the dust of history.  The 3% peaceful solution is one way in which we can stop this decay.  We’ve tried everything else and it hasn’t worked so far, but if just 10,000,000 like-minded Americans (3%) would focus all of their energy on one problem and resolve it, the other problems would begin to fall like dominos.  What have we got to lose by trying?

  Ron Ewart Bio & Ron Ewart's Most recent columns.  Ron Ewart, President, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL LANDOWNERS.  An organization dedicated to re-establish, preserve, protect and defend property rights.  Ron can be reached at: r.ewart@comcast.net

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related, "Obama 'While Rome Burns" at http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1AVSA_enUS423US423&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=obama+%22while+rome+burns%22

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2010 - Names of Senators who voted to give illegals Social Security & English isn't American! Remember in November!

From: gg Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010


It will soon be payback time - forward this list to everyone you know.  

Don't forget. November 2 is "Take out the trash day."

Let's get rid of them, Democrat or  Republican!
 

The following senators voted against making English the official language of America

Akaka (D-HI) 

Bayh (D-IN) 

Biden (D-DE) 

Bingaman (D-NM) 

Boxer (D-CA) 

Cantwell (D-WA) 

Clinton (D-NY) 

Dayton (D-MN) 

Dodd (D-CT) 

Domenici (R-NM) 

Durbin (D-IL) 

Feingold (D-WI) 

Feinstein (D-CA) 

Harkin (D-IA) 

Inouye (D-HI) 

Jeffords (I-VT) 

Kennedy (D-MA) 

Kerry (D-MA) 

Kohl (D-WI) 

Lautenberg (D-NJ) 

Leahy (D-VT) 

Levin (D-MI) 

Lieberman (D-CT)

Menendez (D-NJ) 

Mikulski (D-MD) 

Murray (D-WA) 

Obama (D-IL) 

Reed (D-RI) 

Reid (D-NV) 

Salazar (D-CO) 

Sarbanes (D-MD) 

Schumer (D-NY) 

Stabenow (D-MI) 

Wyden (D-OR) 

Now, the following are the senators who voted to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits. They are grouped by home state.

If a state is not listed, there was no voting representative. 

 MOST OF THESE ARE NORTHERN REPRESENTATIVES.............

Alaska : Stevens (R) 

Arizona : McCain (R) 

Arkansas : Lincoln (D) Pryor (D)

California : Boxer (D) Feinstein (D) 

Colorado : Salazar (D) 

Connecticut : Dodd (D) Lieberman (D) 

Delaware : Biden (D) Carper (D) 

Florida : Martinez (R) 

Hawaii : Akaka (D) Inouye (D) 

Illinois : Durbin (D) Obama (D) 

Indiana: Bayh (D) Lugar (R) 

Iowa: Harkin (D)

Kansas: Brownback (R) 

Louisiana: Landrieu (D) 

Maryland: Mikulski (D) Sarbanes (D) 

Massachusetts: Kennedy (D) Kerry (D) 

Montana: Baucus (D) 

Nebraska: Hagel (R) 

Nevada: Reid (D) 

New Jersey: Lautenberg (D) Menendez (D) 

New Mexico: Bingaman (D) 

New York: Clinton (D) Schumer (D) 

North Dakota : Dorgan (D) 

Ohio : DeWine (R) Voinovich(R) 

Oregon : Wyden (D) 

Pennsylvania : Specter (D) 

Rhode Island : Chafee (R) Reed (D) 

South Carolina : Graham (R)    I will not ever vote for him again!! (not my words)

South Dakota : Johnson (D) 

Vermont : Jeffords (I) Leahy (D) 

Washington : Cantwell (D) Murray (D) 

West Virginia : Rockefeller (D), by Not Voting 

Wisconsin : Feingold (D) Kohl (D) 

THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES NEEDS TO KNOW THIS INFORMATION.....UNLESS THEY DON'T MIND SHARING THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY WITH FOREIGN WORKERS WHO DIDN'T PAY A DIME INTO IT. 

Hummm, Foreign, Illegal whatever, many have paid in!  Many will never see a benefit from those payments.  There are also many that never paid a dime in and should NOT see a dime of benefits! GG

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o'cap'n tax - Secret Cap & Trade Bill passed

reposted on Harrold's blog at http://harrolds.blogspot.com

From: ConservativeActionAlerts Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 Subject: Secret Cap & Trade Bill passed

"Washington Passes Secret Energy Tax" ALERT: It looks like the climate bill debate has already been decided by Washington and voters didn't even have a chance to say "NO!" A staggering $65 billion dollars has been transferred from the private sector to fund the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI.) RGGI is government created entity that is choking companies in the northeast with huge tax increases in the name of the environment. Our tax dollars are funding this secret climate initiative. Soon RGGI will expand to every state and stick you with astronomical energy prices. RGGI is the nation's first mandatory greenhouse gas cap and trade regulating entity. This waste of tax dollars is responsible for "making an impact on climate change" in 10 Northeast states. Never mind that GLOBAL WARMING ISN'T EVEN REAL! The only impact RGGI has made so far is they have raised energy prices and created a slush fund for each member state. What exactly that money is being used for is unclear. Each state is capped on their carbon emissions and taxed if they use them up. RGGI added a 0.9% increase in energy prices in New England. WASHINGTON CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO SECRETLY TAX ENERGY UNDER THE GUISE OF CLIMATE CHANGE! The Beltway sense of entitlement is mind boggling. While everyday Americans struggle to pay the bills and live through the stress of the Recession, RGGI is rolling in the dough. RGGI Chief, Jonathan Schrag is living a life most of us could only dream of. In June, Schrag and his wife Kristen purchased a $2.2 million dollar loft in Manhattan. Schrag's posh condo is 2,000 square feet and has three bedrooms and two bathrooms with a nice view of the Manhattan skyline. Schrag's luxurious residence is only a five block walk to the RGGI headquarters. I guess he didn't want to risk creating a carbon foot print by driving to work. OUR TAX DOLLARS ARE FUNDING LUXURIOUS LIFESTYLES FOR CROOKS Schrag is paid to keep secrets. He has refused to disclose how much money he makes and the salaries of his employees. Schrag told New Jersey Watch Dog to get lost when they asked him to disclose RGGI's records. In the most recent public disclosure requests from the IRS Schrag declined to reveal how much everyone is paid in the organization. Most companies have to reveal to the IRS the salaries of their employees. RGGI is given special treatment because our government is backing their scheme. The corruptocrats in Washington are completely responsible for this gigantic waste of tax dollars. Everyday Americans work hard to earn money and provide for their families while Washington fat cats get paid to accomplish nothing! The crooks behind RGGI must be exposed and help accountable! THIS IS A FIGHT WE CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE. YOUR FUTURE IS AT STAKE AND ALSO THE FUTURE OF YOUR FAMILY. 1. Select Below to Tell Congress They Investigate RGGI NOW! FAX All Congressmen STOP Washington's Secret Energy Tax! 2. Send this Alert to EVERYONE you know every like-minded friend on your personal email list who wants stop RGGI from making energy prices skyrocket! We need to get HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of faxes delivered to EACH AND EVERY Senator and Congressmen. Since Congress is taking another vacation all faxes will be SENT TO THEIR HOMES! It will be pretty hard for them to ignore their constituents with faxes flooding their machines! 3. Keep calling your Senators today, toll free numbers include 1-877-851-6437 and 1-866-220-0044, or call toll 1-202-225-3121 AND REGISTER YOUR OUTRAGE Demand an Investigation into the Secret Cap & Tax entity! 4. CALL President Obama, 202-456-1111 and 202-456-1414 expressing your disdain and ABSOLUTE REJECTION of blowing through our tax dollars to fund a bogus organization and pad the pocketbooks of his buddies. 5. Print this copy and pass it around where normal working class Americans gather. Polling data reveals that Americans do not want more taxes! DO NOT BE SILENCED - MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD! NOTE: We need TENS OF THOUSANDS of faxes and PHONE CALLS and EMAILS delivered to ALL Congressmen right away! Your voice can be heard - we need your urgent help at AmeriPAC.  Even smaller donations are going to help. Any amount - $1000, $500, $250, or even $100 will help us fight the battle to preserve our Constitution. It's time we stood up and said enough is enough! Please join us with your Ameripac donation TODAY. Thank you. DONATE NOW. Say - "I Am Mad As Hell And I Am Not Going To Take This Anymore!" For more information, visit www.ameripac.org Defend America, Alan Gottlieb, AmeriPAC, President and Founder www.AmeriPAC.org Please make checks payable to AmeriPAC: American Political Action Committee (AmeriPAC), PO Box 1682, Dept Code 4555, Bellevue, WA 98009-1682 Paid for by AmeriPAC, a federally-authorized and qualified multicandidate political action committee. Contributions to AmeriPAC will be used in connection with federal elections. Maximum contribution per individual per calendar year is $5,000. Contributions from foreign nationals and corporations are prohibited. Contributions are not deductible for federal income tax purposes. Approximately 48% of the populace pays no income tax! Guess who o'who?'s talking about when he says "energy prices will necessarily skyrocket."

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