On MSNBC, snakes and lizards poured almost visibly from Olbermann's mouth when he said Scott Brown spoke "out of his bare bottom," and called the Massachusetts father of two "an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude-model tea-bagging supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees." Olbermann has apologized; Scott Brown is on his way to Washington.—Meghan Cox Gurdon
Come on Meghan, Keith Olbermann didn’t apologize (see video non-apology below) you couldn’t possibly be that void of understanding—could you?
Just because someone says the word apologize doesn’t mean that they’ve actually apologized. But I digress back to the point. (see article)
Barry Hussein Soetoro owes his presidency to George W. Bush. If Bush had not run against him in 2008 then… oh snap wait a minute Bush didn’t run in 2008 so what was all that talking about Bush in the 2008 elections.
That’s right –that’s right, it’s all coming back to me now, it was Democrat strategy to use the country’s general dissatisfaction and focus it on President Bush thereby (wrongly) putting a face on everything that was wrong with our country. Democrat’s strategy was simple, whomever the Republican put up for their nominee don’t run against the nominee run against BUSH!
And boy did that strategy work. Dissatisfaction so used served to sweep Democrats into office. After 8 years of unrelenting and reckless President bashing, George W. Bush became not only unpopular but hated among left-wing radicals and Democrats alike.
It didn’t help Bush’s cause that he complied with Democrat attacks due to the fact that he don’t understand the strategy being used against him so he rarely if ever defended himself against their many vociferous and vicious attacks. That lack of understanding made it bad for Bush, the country and made it bad for the Republican Party.
Well as planned the deed was done. Bush was vanquished in 2008 and Democrats turned to the spoils of governing with super majorities in both houses of Congress and a Democrat perched atop the pinnacle of world power.
But instead of allowing the vanquished Bush to be buried in the obscurity of political defeat Democrats virtually took the beaten body of Bush impaled him on a pole of blame and struck and slapped at him every political opportunity that presented itself until there was hardly anything left to hit.
President Soetoro still strikes at the impaled body of Bush every time he speaks. I’m sure he’ll do it in upcoming State of the Union address. Oh he’ll do it in what he thinks are obscure and opaque terms but we’ll all know that, “what he inherited,” or “when he got here he was faced with…” will be swipes at the impaled political body of Bush.
Even so there are some Democrats who now see that they have worn this strategy down to its bare bones. Savvy Democrats realize that they are losing traction with this technique. This presents the problem of what to do if a strategy that worked so well for you for eight years has become blatantly predictable and grating on political allies and adversaries alike.
So attempting to cast about for another political weapon Democrats though it might work if they forego the nuance and go straight for the jugular, as they reasoned Bush was just a figurehead for who Democrats were attacking in reality. That's right, when Democrats were attacking Bush, they were actually attacking Conservatives, the Conservative ideology and people who believe in Conservative principles.
So why not go after Teabaggers, Nazis, Smelly Tourist, Astro Turf, racist, homophobes, bitter clingers and citizens who are Christian, Veterans and right-wing extremists.
So that’s exactly what Democrats did. Democrats not having Bush to kick around went after everyday American citizens with the same ferocity and maliciousness which they used against Bush, suddenly the American people where the true enemy of the Democrat Party.
In other words, Pelosi, Reid, Soetoro and their Rush Limbaugh media “wanna be”, Keith Olbermann all straight-out attacked the American people. (see examples)
REID: SMELLY TOURIST AT THE CAPITAL (see 16sec. video)
PELOSI: BUSH BASH AND ASTROTURF CITIZENS(See 1min. video)
PELOSI CALLS CITIZENS ASTROTURF AND NAZIS (See 16sec. video)
KEITH OLBERMANN’S VENOMOUS NON-APOLOGY (see 1:40min video)
But the TV talker's epithets are worth remembering, if only as a perfect distillation of the coruscating contempt, disdain, and false characterization that liberals have heaped upon millions of their countrymen since President Obama started running for the White House. American voters who do not support Obama's scheme to "remake" America have been disparaged for a year. They've been slandered, called the worst names: Nazis, astroturfers, right-wing nut cases, "tea baggers."—Meghan Cox Gurdon
Hit with major loses in Virginia, New Jersey and now Massachusetts Democrats might want to rethink attacking the American people with pejoratives and invectives that they heretofore reserved only for George W. Bush.
Vilifying your opponents and disrespecting the people who vote you into office is no way to win elections and influence people Democrats. And now that we all know the ugliness of the Democrat soul perhaps the Boxers, Pelosis and Reids can be voted out of office. I’m sure Keith Olbermann needs writers for the “two minute hate” speech featured on his show.
Notwithstanding that, Democrats seem to be lost and losing without their old standard of having Bush to kick around.
Without the negative invectives and the blame game Democrats have very little else.
president Obama campaigned Sunday January 17,2010 for losing Martha Coakley in Massachusetts
Because what you’ve taught me here at the campaign…is that when the American people decide it’s time to bring about change, change happens…
So take heart… of the change that we’ve already brought. But I want you to know Los Angeles you haven’t seen nothing yet!—president Barry Hussein Soetoro
Fast forward exactly one year on the anniversary eve of Barry Hussein Soetoro’s inauguration. The American people have sent a message to president Soetoro and it went a little something like this, Dear president Soetoro about that hope and change agenda that you where promoting in Los Angeles. We, the American people, are not convinced that what you consider hope and change is what is best for America.
Please Mr. Soetoro, consider our idea of what hope and change is. We are sending Scott Brown to the senate as a representative of the state of Massachusetts primarily because Mr. Brown said that he would oppose your health care reform.
Do you think he got the message? You do remember earlier this year the president at a Los Angeles fundraiser where he recounted all the efforts that he, Democrats and his administration are taking in his personal crusade to change America (see 2:51min video)
Wow! What a difference twelve months make. After a full out blitz of Left-wing socialist agenda foisted on the America people by Soetoro and Democrats one of the most Liberal states in the union, Massachusetts, of which Democrats and Independents out number Conservatives by what 10 to 1, has totally rejected the Barry Hussein Soetoro administration’s agenda for government run health care.
Why? Because Massachusetts already has the government run health care model which they run at the state level. The same one that Soetoro, Pelosi and Reid are attempting to establish nationwide and boy does it suck. It sucks so much that Liberals, Moderates and Independents voted for a Republican who promised to go to Washington to fight against the Democrat president and Democrat Congress’ attempt to launch this health care monstrosity on the rest of the country. Now that’s irony!
Independent voters—typically centrist, white and working-class—backed President Barack Obama and the Democrats in 2008. But Massachusetts is now the third Obama-won state in the past three months where independents have swung decisively Republican.
Polls in the days leading up to the vote suggested the lead for Republican Scott Brown came about largely because of his advantage among independents over Democrat Martha Coakley.—Peter Wallsten (see source)
Make no mistake about it Massachusetts Democrats and Independents elected Republican Scott Brown as their Senator January 19th thereby saying no to the president and no to an out of touch group of Washington elitist Democrats. Conservatives aren’t in control of Massachusetts politics, Mr. Obama, Liberal Democrats are and have been for almost fifty years. This is officially a voter backlash against the Barry Hussein Soetoro agenda of hope and change.
Speaking of backlash Victor Davis Hanson’s, Why the Great and Growing Backlash outlines the reasons for the buyer’s remorse that is breaking out all across the country among voters who voted for the first openly Socialist president:
• Voters are sick and tired of a terrible year of big spending and big deficits — especially the sight of Obama and his congressional allies almost daily talking breezily about spending what we do not have. • Bush’s $500 billion deficit spending in 8 years. But Obama has out spent Bush four times over in under a year. • Obama’s promising favored constituencies a hundred billion here, a hundred billion there as if it were all paper money. • Pie-in-the-sky talk of massive new health-care entitlements, cap-and-trade taxes and regulation, more stimulus, and more takeovers of private enterprise. • The country is broke and the people want to pay off, not incur more, crushing debt. • Obama’s deception and prevarication, i.e. serial promises about airing the health-care debate on C-SPAN, his new-transparency/no-lobbyist vows, and his monotonous boasts to close down Guantanamo within a year. • A liberal cesspool of corruption: Democrat Sen. Chris Dodd lectures Wall Street while he gets sweetheart loans and vacation-home deals, Democrat House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel, a tax dodger, the nation’s top tax enforcer, Democrat Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, is an even more egregious tax dodger, Democratic Senate leadership started buying health-care votes at $300 million, and Obama nominating Democrat Tom Daschle as his Health Secretary — the liberal populist who skips out of thousands of dollars in taxes on his free corporate limousine service • Obama still blames George W. Bush ad nauseam. • Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s government 200 seat mega-jet at a cost of 480,000 per month and that is an annual cost to the taxpayers of $5,760,000. • Obama’s various overseas junkets or the big Wall Street money that went into his near billion-dollar campaign coffers. • Obama has constantly demonize the entrepreneurial classes, promise to raise income, payroll, health-care, and inheritance taxes on them, and expand government regulations • Obama appointed radicals Van Jones and Anita Dunn • Obama has bowed to the Saudis and Japanese and promulgated new and undiscovered great moments in Islamic history, and reaching out to Ahmadinejad as Ahmadinejad rounded up and beat down reformers in the streets of Tehran. • Obama accused Bush of shredding the Constitution, and then adopted Bush’s anti-terrorism protocols like tribunals, renditions, Predators, intercepts, and wiretaps. • Obama has given Kalid Sheikh Mohammed, architect of 9/11 a show trial a few blocks from ground zero, the former World Trade Center in New York City. (source)
No matter what Democrats do to shift to a populist message talking about the economy and bashing Wall Street it is all political manipulation. Democrats plan to blame Republicans for the economy and align GOP candidates with their unpopular national leadership.
"The message needs to be on jobs, fiscal responsibility, and reminding people that if you turn back the clock, you're going to get the same policies that got us into this mess in the first place," – Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.), chairman of the Democrats' House campaign committee.
Only one thing wrong that that idea Congressman Van Hollen. It was Democrats Rep. Barney Frank and Democrat Sen. Christopher Dodd among other Democrats that helped get us into this mess with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and they are still Democrats and they are still working in the same capacities that got us into this mess in the first place. Not only that, I don’t know if you’ve noticed but your best messenger Mr. Barry Hussein Soetoro is having trouble with believability. He Lies!
Now that the people of the state of Massachusetts has shown the rest of the country the way to hold Barry Hussein Soetoro and Democrats responsible for their deceptions and prevarications—Mr. president and Democrats you haven’t seen nothing yet!
Senator-elect Scott Brown, has shaken the very foundation of the Socialist Democrat party.
Overnight, the smug and arrogant attitude of the far-left wing of the Democratic party has been forced to face reality. What a shock for the ever prosaic Nancy Pelosi, who has been forced to eat her own words......"the tea partys are not grass roots, but astro-turf". Well, Nancy.... I guess that the grass roots have grown!
With great thanks to the independent voters of Massachusetts, we can maybe breathe a sigh of relief, that this country still lives.
It took the "Commonwealth" to launch yet a second revolution against the tyranny and oppression of the "Obama regime"! Way back during the presidential campaign, it was people like "Joe the plumber" who awakened in many the feeling that we were going down the wrong path. Unfortunately, the bulk of the Democratic party which included 100% of the far left, 95% of the black vote and a sizable majority of the Hispanic vote, capped off by the wishful thinking of the independents and the moderate Republicans....... swept this relatively unknown senator into the White House. Too many of the above mentioned have lived to regret that decision.
I heard President Obama state that the reason the Democrats lost Massachusetts, was because people have been fed-up for the last 8 years. Come on Mr.President..............how long is it going to take for you and your administration to stop blaming the Bush administration?
We had some very good years under President Bush. Admittedly, the housing market crashed under his watch, but no Democrat will mention that it was because of people like Barney Frank and Senator Dodd, who assured everyone that both Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac were sound. That, in spite of the warnings from numerous Republican Senators and the Bush White House. The Heads of those two entities had the protection of the Democrats, and while tens of thousands of people lost their homes, those directors walked away with millions.
So now Mr. Obama.......... this fiasco is entirely on your watch. Cease passing the blame back to the past. I doubt that George Washington would be willing to take the blame for you losing the Massachusetts Senate Seat.
The report read: "Glaciers in the Himalaya are receding faster than in any other part of the world and, if the present rate continues, the likelihood of them disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high if the Earth keeps warming at the current rate." –Jonathan Leake and Chris Hastings
Two years ago the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a benchmark report that claimed the world's glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035. (see article)
Based on what—Global warming science? No based on now admitted misinformation and speculation.
For what purpose you ask? It was the continual Global warming scare that the United Nations and it’s made up consensus of scientists were promoting in order to force their “green agenda” on the world. But more importantly to move the world economies towards a cap and trade trading market which would produce new revenue streams and taxes for the United Nations.
The Glacial melt deception was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal. The New Scientist story was based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.
In the past few days the scientists behind the warning have admitted that it was based on a news story in the New Scientist, a popular science journal, published eight years before the IPCC's 2007 report.
It has also emerged that the New Scientist report was itself based on a short telephone interview with Syed Hasnain, a little-known Indian scientist then based at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi.--Jonathan Leake and Chris Hastings
According to Jonathan Leake and Chris Hastings reporting for the Timesonline, Hasnain has since admitted that the claim that the Himalayas could melt by 2035 due to Global warming was "speculation" and was not supported by any formal research.
And now finally, The U.N. IPCC has admitted that they were totally wrong on the Himalayas claim. (see story)
The vice-chairman of the UN's climate science panel has admitted it made a mistake in asserting that Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035.–Richard Black
So to summarize, in 1999 the once reputable science journal, New Scientist, published a story which was a telephone interview with a little-known Indian scientist.
In 2007 the United Nations lifted this story as evidence for their claims of Climate Change and Global warming. The story was not verified and was not based on science.
It was purely one man’s speculation used to prop up other men’s propaganda. Propaganda used to promote a global agenda to create wealth for a few by creating a world-wide carbon tax to be paid by tax payers regardless of national affiliation. And now the UN IPCC admits that they were completely wrong about the Himalayan glaciers melt.
In other words this was a first step to create a global revenue stream to be used by internationalist in the United Nations and so—called global leaders that are independent from the voting public.
Bottom line is the great Himalayas melt is based on misinformation and speculation and the claim has been retracted as an error.
The loss by the once-favored Democrat Martha Coakley in the Democratic stronghold was a stunning embarrassment for the White House after Obama rushed to Boston on Sunday to try to save the foundering candidate.--GLEN JOHNSON and LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press
In a repudiation of President Barry Hussein Soetoro’s Liberal Democrat agenda of tax, spend and unaffordable government programs the state of Massachusetts filled the “people’s seat” of the United States Senate with an historic candidate—a Republican. The people have reclaimed their seat!(see related article)
Senator-elect Scott Brown will carry this message to Washington D.C. to the President and the Democrat controlled Congress, You didn’t listen to the people this past summer in the town hall meetings across the country when we told you that we did not want your Health Care reform… CAN YOU HEAR US NOW?
Even now Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi defiantly has threatened the American people with vows that she will make sure that the Democrat’s Health Care legislation will be passed whether the American people like it or not.
Addressing an exuberant victory celebration Tuesday night, Brown declared he was "ready to go to Washington without delay" as the crowd chanted, "Seat him now."
Democrats indicated they would, deflating a budding controversy over whether they would try to block Brown long enough to complete congressional passage of the health care plan he has promised to oppose—GLEN JOHNSON and LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press
Well this is an election year Congresswoman Pelosi. If you or any other politicians pass this train wreck of a bill you will have to face the “Astro turf” (as you once referred to the America people) at the polls. And might I remind you Congresswoman the only other state more liberal than your state, California, is the state of Massachusetts. And Massachusetts just elected a Republican to the Senate seat that has been held by the Kennedys for fifty years.
Let Scott Brown’s election to the Senate be a warning to Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Charles Schumer, Olympia Snowe and president Barry Hussein Soetoro. The people just came to their senses and we now know the truth.
Every seat,the 435 seats in the House and the 100 seats in the Senate are the people’s seats.
Oh, and by the way Mr. Soetoro the seat in the White house is the people’s seat too! This November the people are going to do some house cleaning and reclaim those seats. And in 2012 more house cleaning is going to happen in the White house. As Hillary Clinton said:
We have ta reform our government. The abuses that have gone on in the last six years — I don’ think we know the half of it yet.
You know, when I walk into the Oval Office in January of 2009, I’m afraid I’m gonna lift up the rug and I’m goin’ to see so much stuff uh-nder thar. . . . You know, what is it about us always havin’ to clean up after people? . . . But this is not just going to be pickin’ up socks off the floor. This is going to be cleanin’ up the government…Us always havin’ to clean up after people—Hillary Clinton
Well it hasn’t been six years of Barry Hussein Soetoro,thank God, but lifting up the rug in the Oval Office January 2013 after Democrats have occupied the White house and to have to clean-up after the Barry Hussein Soetoro administration will be a major undertaking for the next Conservative president!
And boy will the next Conservative president need to clean up after what Democrats are doing to our country!
One lone voice that was obviously in the minority at this Barry Hussein Soetoro rally for Senate hopeful Martha Coakley on Sunday January 17, 2010 takes the president off of his script before the vocal protester was thrown out of the rally. (see 34sec. video)
Equally today voters of Massachusetts can take the president and Democrats off of their script which is to take the country over a radical far Left-wing cliff. Massachusettsans can help to stop the secret Health Care bill that was written by Health Care lobbyist and negotiated behind closed doors by Democrats by voting for Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown who has Massachusetts’ and the United States Government’s best interest at heart.
See the president speak against the very political tactics, the deals cut in secret by Democrats and Insurance Companies, which he and Democrats are now employing to advance Health Care reform. (see 1:29mins video)
In order to continue this travesty Soetoro needs Martha Coakley. Please Massachusetts vote Scott Brown today!
President Barry Hussein Soetoro is backing Martha Coakley’s run for Senator for the state of Massachusetts. (see article)
Ironically, that is one fundamental reason Massachusetts voters shouldn’t vote for Martha Coakley tomorrow if voters want real hope and change. That’s right real “hope and change.” Voters are tired of politicians playing them for suckers promising utopian dreams that are built on political legalese and deceptively worded nuanced promises only to find what was promised was only “get me elected speak.”
The Democrat Party is filled with such politicians, and their best—Barry Hussein Soetoro!
Martha Coakley is backed by such a politician. That politician, president Soetoro hasn’t kept his promises to Progressives or any other American that elected him. And now he is attempting to enlist Coakley as an ally in his continuing Orwellian disinformation war against America.
What should be coming clear to even the most ardent of Barry Hussein Soetoro backers is that president Soetoro is playing the same old Washington insider game of “promise it all and deliver on little or nothing.”
"Really? There are a number of things he was for on the campaign trail!"--Nancy Pelosi,Democrat Speaker of the House
When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was asked about president Soetoro’s campaign promises regarding transparent Health Care negotiations she responded with a mocking quip and a tell-tell knowing laugh like an inside joke had been told. (see 1:05min video)
Meaning what? As if to say, “You believed that Obama hope and change spiel? Come on it’s what we Democrats do in Washington to get what we want!” If this is what Pelosi is intimating then clearly we have some more changing to do. Change starting with preventing the election of Martha Coakley. And then we must begin to turn back the great damage that Democrats and Soetoro are inflicting on our country with this Orwellian deception.
President Soetoro promised change but where is it?
Nobody is blocking him from fulfilling his promise to end the Iraq war but he hasn’t. He promised to end lobbying in Washington D.C. but he’s enlisted lobbyist in his administration. (see article)
"It's clear now that the outcome of these and other fights will probably rest on one vote in the U.S. Senate"—president Barry Hussein Obama
He promised not to raise taxes on the middle class, to curb earmarks or pork spending and to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba by the end of his first year. And he’s done none of it. Yet he is asking for more Democrats to help promote his unpopular socialist agenda. (see 2:05min video)
Why—why hasn’t Soetoro kept his promises? It couldn’t possibly be George W. Bush’s fault, Bush has been in hiding since he left office a year ago. Besides they’re Soetoro’s promises. Bush has nothing to do with the promises that Soetoro made.
In addition to that Washington D.C. Republicans are too few in number to stop anything that Soetoro and Democrats wish to do so why hasn’t he kept promises of an open and transparent government and the most ethical government in the history of the United States of America? Why is Health Care being stalled if Democrats control everything?
I’ll tell you why. As Nancy Pelosi said there are many things said on the campaign trail that are only meant to get someone elected and nothing more.
Only one vote could be the difference between whether or not Democrats are allowed to deconstruct this country’s government and remake it in the likeness of a Socialist European failed state.
One vote could stop the deception and stop the spending. That one vote could be any Massachusetts voter. It could be you. You can change Massachusetts politics as usual by voting for a Republican and breaking with the Democrat tradition of deception and Orwellian messaging. One vote your vote for change in Massachusetts.
Vote Tuesday for change in Massachusetts vote for Republican Scott Brown!
CNN David Gergen questions candidates: Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Martha Coakley
Well with all due respect it’s not the Kennedys' seat, and it’s not the Democrats' seat, it's the people's seat.
And they have the chance to send somebody down there who is an independent voter, and an independent thinker and going to look out for the best interests of the people of Massachusetts.
And the way that this bill is configured, I'd like to send it back to the drawing board because I believe people should have insurance. Not just this particular bill because it's not good for the entire country.—Scott Brown Massachusetts Senate candidate
CNN’s David Gergen asked one of the most politically skewed debate questions in recent campaign history. Everything about the question was to put Republican candidate Scott Brown in the worst light possible. (see related article)
Mr. Brown, let me ask you this question, it's on a lot of people's minds. You said you're for health care reform, just not this bill. We know from the Clinton experience that if this bill fails, it could well be another 15 years before we see health care reform efforts in Washington. Are you willing under those circumstances to say, 'I'm going to be the person. I'm going to sit in Teddy Kennedy's seat and I'm going to be the person who's going to block it for another 15 years'?
Gergen’s question was constructed and designed to alert Massachusetts voters that Senate candidate Scott Brown was attempting to take something from them that was rightfully theirs by heritage. (see 1:26min video)
However Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown isn’t one to be trifled with. With the good looks of JFK, the political aplomb of Bill Clinton and the wherewithal of Ronald Reagan, Brown simply and elegantly lobbed back to Gergen an answer to Gergen’s Liberally phrased political roadside bomb.
But it wasn’t just an answer. It was the answer. It was the answer that could be the signature answer that defines the 2010 elections. Democrats consider themselves the rightful owners of our government.
We are but the inconvenient truth that Democrats must face intermittently between forcing through their $787 billion dollars stimulus package, their Democrat health care reform, their Global warming legislation and their second Stimulus package because the first was not designed to create jobs.
Whether we like it or not Democrats are forcing all of this through because they believe that this is their government just like they believe that Massachusetts is the Kennedy’s seat.
With perhaps the most political astute answer that we have heard this side of Ronald Wilson Reagan Scott Brown has just distinguished himself as the answer that the Republicans are looking for.
Barry Hussein Soetoro came out of nowhere to claim the highest political office in America. The same is possible for someone who actually has America’s best interest at heart.
I believe Scott Brown is that person. On January 19th 2010 the people of Massachusetts can make history. Massachusetts voters can begin to correct the wrong direction which Democrats are taking this country.
Because after all the Massachusetts Senate seat is not the Kennedys' seat and America’s taxpayers aren’t Democrat’s personal own piggybank.
All those “Republican ploys” were “broadcast on C-SPAN for all to see”—and the transparency didn’t work! Instead the public fell for the ploys and turned against health care reform and its Democratic sponsors.
The hearings, the briefings, the speeches—all that patient explaining. . . . Nothing but wasted breath. So the hell with transparency. It’s time for Plan B.-- Andrew Ferguson
Democrats to president Soetoro: Transparently doesn’t work! That’s the reason that Democrat secret Health Care negotiations will not be broadcasted on C-Span Mr. president and American people.
Andrew Ferguson’s, Lamb’s Slaughter, article in the WeeklyStandard.com discusses Brian Lamb’s request to president Soetoro to keep his multiple campaign promises to broadcast all of the health care negotiations on C-Span. Lamb is a Presidential Medal of Freedom winner and the founder and CEO of C-SPAN. (see article)
However there’s just one small problem—Democrats already used C-Span to buffet their political enemies with at the beginning of the health care debate only it didn’t work out like they wished. They used the C-Span network in hopes that the public would become outraged that Republicans would have the nerve to oppose their precious Health Care reform.
Those attempts blew up in Democrat’s faces. And now gun shy Democrats feel that those C-Span broadcasts helped initiate the tea party movement so they are not in the least interested in the “transparency thing,” especially when they know that the public is not buying the Democrat message on Health care.
After all transparently as used by Democrats is used only to expose all Republican wrong doing not their own. Transparency was never meant to show the machinations of Democrat Partisan politics.
The Health Care negotiations and process will not be shown on C-Span as president Soetoro promised on his campaign trail because Democrats don’t believe in transparency really. No they only use transparency as a ploy in attempts to expose their political foes.
Lamb has other great gifts, notably as an interviewer who with a single, simple, apparently artless question can bring down a guest’s most meticulously constructed edifice of baloney.
He did it again on December 30, when he addressed a letter to congressional leaders noting that they had “all talked about the value of transparent discussions on reforming the health care system.” He therefore asked—politely, always politely—that they open the final negotiations of the bill to broadcast. One question, and the walls of baloney came tumbling down.-- Andrew Ferguson
All this talk of transparency was just talk, just words to get Soetoro elected president.
The proof of that is you wouldn’t be seeing any C-Span televised programming of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi working on the Health Care bill, it’ll all be done behind closed doors. And if all of Democrat’s wishes come true a new Health Care Reform bill signed by the president will be sprung on the American people at Barry Hussein Soetoro’s upcoming State of the Union address.
That is not what president Soetoro campaigned on and that is not what he promised. Instead of the disinfectant of sunlight being shown on this bill as the president promised; Barry Soetoro, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are using the same backroom corrupted politics that have always infected Washington D.C. to get their partisan agenda on health care firmly ensconced into law.
What’s in this bill is so appalling that Pelosi, Reid and Soetoro are attempting to hide it for as long as they can. Though they’d love nothing better than to be able to announce that they've passed Health care law at Soetoro’s second State of the Union Address.
If they are able to accomplish this and if the president notes that they (Democrats) were able to pass Health Care and sign it into law in the State of the Union Address. At that moment every person sitting in that Congressional chamber who is listening to the president’s address and as well every person around the United States of America who is watch the president’s address should rise to their collective feet and shout back at the president in unison, “You lie, about putting Health Care negotiations on C-Span!”
Yes another lie from the most open and honest politicians and political Party ever to govern in the United States of America.
"Last month, however, we slipped back, losing more jobs than we gained, though the overall trend of job loss is still pointing in the right direction."—president Barry Hussein Soetoro
American employers eliminated 4.2 million jobs in 2009 and sent unemployment soaring into double digits for the first time in more than a quarter century.
Since the fall of last year, the official jobless rate has been over ten percent, while the unofficial rate (taking in the severely underemployed and those who have given up looking) has been over 17 percent.
And, despite the ridiculous "green-shoots" speculation of the Obama administration and overblown "recovery" fantasies of the financial media that has blown every major economic story of recent years, the situation is getting worse—John Nichols,the Nation (see source)
Barry Hussein Soetoro believes in redefining the world to fit his own fancy.
That singular attribute will be his legacy. And that my fellow Americans is the essence behind the “Change” of the Hope and Change slogan. Because of that; Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, the Constitution of the United States of America or the rule of law doesn’t apply to president Soetoro in his own mind. For that matter no reasonable debate or arguement is valid unless of course the redefinition lexicon of Barry Hussein Obama is applied thoroughly. (see previous post for example)
Not since Michael Jackson’s redefinition of the word “Bad” in the 1980’s have we seen such an attempt to defy logic as we’ve seen with the Barry Hussein Soetoro’s administration’s attempts to put a positive spin on a failing economy and dying jobs market.
Come on, in Michael Jackson’s case did you really think that the word bad really meant good? And did you think that the eyeliner, the Jeri curled hair, the black leather Dominatrix outfit and the knee-high black silver tipped boots made Michael Jackson “Bad” or “Good” or whatever expression that he was attempting to pull off in the most campy video this side of the super campy 1960’s TV series “Batman.” Bam! Pow!
Michael Jackson was “Bad” like Adam West was the Batman like president Soetoro’s job numbers are “pointing in the right direction.” (see 21sec video)
Right direction? The only thing going in the positive direction is the bank bailouts that a Democrat control Congress and Barry Hussein Soetoro manipulatively put in place at taxpayer’s expense. We were warned by the Democrats that if we didn’t just shut-up, bend over and take it the financial markets would suffer their own cataclysmic global warming event. Remember that?
Because of what Democrats and Soetoro did with tax payer’s money Goldman Sachs is set to have one of its most profitable years in its 141-year history (in the middle of a recession) and is expected to pay its employees bonuses on average of about $595,000 apiece for 2009. While you and I face 10 percent unemployment (much closer to 17 percent) and talk of a second stimulus plan because obviously the first $787 billion dollars was not spent on job creation as Democrats promised. Oops another Democrat promise that wasn’t true.
At least Soetoro didn’t promise to broadcast daily job updates on C-Span, although the president does have that nifty jobs website with all of the made up (made up means "falsified" check Merriam) job numbers and the made up congressional districts in which the made up jobs occurred. (see here and here
Despite calls for restraint from Washington and a chafed public, resurgent banks are preparing to pay out bonuses that rival those of the boom years. The haul, in cash and stock, will run into many billions of dollars.
Goldman Sachs is expected to pay its employees an average of about $595,000 apiece for 2009, one of the most profitable years in its 141-year history. Workers in the investment bank of JPMorgan Chase stand to collect about $463,000 on average.—LOUISE STORY and ERIC DASH, the New York Times (see source)
So far president Soetoro has lied all along and told us that if his policies were implemented bad would remarkably be turned into good by the reduction in unemployment, new investments in infrastructure, good green jobs initiatives and creating smarter incentives for hiring and retaining workers. Only thing is, $787 billion dollars later and much later than promised nothing that was promised has happened.
According to John Nichols, present unemployment is real and is a devastating social reality for those experiencing it. Nichols says, unemployment is a frightening economic reality for those who still have jobs but who wonder whether their jobs are threatened – and who constrain their spending and lifestyle choices accordingly.
President Soetoro says that the overall trend of job loss is still pointing in the right direction so I suppose that, that’s good? Or is that bad?
Wow! President Soetoro just did a verbal moonwalk with his rhetoric on jobs! That was BAD man! Really, really bad.
President Truman with ‘the buck stops here’ sign on desk
I read something hilarious. An article entitled, President Obama: 'The buck stops with me' by JOSH GERSTEIN & LAURA ROZEN published on line Politico. (see article)
I thought how funny, president Soetoro and his sycophants are betting that he can get away with feigning “Presidential” responsibility for the near tragedy where nearly 300 America citizens could have been murdered. This instead of president Soetoro assuming personal responsibility for this almost tragedy.
What arrogance to assume that he only has to take official responsibility thinking that no one would ascribe to him the actual blame that he deserves.
It's commonly accepted that one takes official responsibility when those under your authority are guilty of something wrong. One isn't personally responsible only officially so. That is because someone in authority is typically considered technically responsible for those under his or her command.
Not so with Soetoro he is personally responsible because it was his philosophies, his policies and his changing of the Bush terrorism procedures that had direct bearing on Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's ability to get on Northwest flight 253.
Aides to Obama signaled that he was consciously seeking to be the anti-Bush, airing the administration’s dirty laundry and stepping up to take his share of the responsibility. – JOSH GERSTEIN & LAURA ROZEN
It is because of the direct actions of president Barry Hussein Soetoro that this so called Christmas Bomber was able to successfully evade security protocols because Soetoro weakened those protocols in his attempts to be “anti-Bush.” (see previous post)
That’s right the buck actually starts with president Soetoro who fought against the Bush administration’s efforts to keep the America people safe from terrorism. And as soon as he got into office he began to dismantle many of those policies.
That combined with a complete philosophical change from the Bush administration’s execution of the War on Terror the Soetoro administration has left America open and unprotected to terrorist attempts on American lives.
Gerstein and Rozen in their sycophantic efforts attempted to make Soetoro’s Mea culpa seem noble. It wasn’t. As they reported this was but Soetoro’s conscious effort to be anti-Bush. Another swipe at Bush, plesse give it a rest Barry!
The only thing is after 9/11 president Bush’s efforts allowed zero terrorist acts on American soil conversely there have been at least two terrorist acts on U.S. soil since the Soetoro inauguration.
It is reported that Soetoro has ordered an explanation of the failures of our intelligence and security agencies. Wouldn't it be ironic if returned with the report are recommendations to put back in place the Bush Cheney policies that Soetoro stripped out of our national security policy. The very same policies that were taken out in Soetoro's attempt to be anti-Bush. Now that would be classic!
If that happens Soetoro will be shown to be not only “presidentially responsible” but personally responsible for weakening America’s security against terrorism. Then we will know that the buck not only stops with him but the buck actually started with him!
Wouldn’t it be refreshingly honest of the president to say to America, “ I’m sure you all are aware of the several recent Terrorist attacks against America. Let me say this about that, ‘The buck starts with me!’
In other words all of my policies and all of my philosophies are the reason terrorists are attacking America anew. I thought that I could placate Muslims with speeches and affirmations of their religion. I thought I could dismantle what president Bush did before me in his efforts to keep America safe and I was terribly wrong. These attacks are entirely my fault personally. I am personally responsible for endangering the lives of almost 300 of our fellow citizens.
That would be closer to the truth than hiding behind the image of U.S. president Harry S. Truman who had a sign with the inscription on his desk ‘the buck stops here.’ The sign was meant to indicate that he didn't 'pass the buck' to anyone else but accepted personal responsibility for the way the country was governed. Not so with Soetoro who greatest attribute is finger pointing.
Soetoro on the other hand has blamed our intelligence agencies for the failure to detect and prevent the Christmas bombing attempt. And in the very act of “taking responsibility” president Soetoro is in fact taking a swipe at former President Bush by his aides’ own admission.
So much for Soetoro’s rendering of the Harry Truman like statement. Barry Hussein Soetoro is no Harry Truman!
It is now so undeniable that Barry Hussein Soetoro is a liar that even the Liberal Elite Media called the first Socialist president of the United States just that—a liar. Did you hear that Congressman Joe Wilson you are justified as CNN’s Jack McCafferty joins all reality based people and calls Barry Hussein Soetoro a liar straight-out!
President Obama hasn't even made a token effort to keep his campaign promises of more openness and transparency in government. It was all just another lie that was told in order to get elected. –Jack McCafferty, CNN (see 1:39min video)
Just another lie? Yes in fact Soetoro has all but said, Read my Lips—Health Care will be on C-Span. And he repeated this lie at least eight separate times which were captured on video promising that Health Care negotiations will be open and broadcasted on C-Span.
But the reality of it is Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are writing a Health Care bill after both houses of Congress voted on it. So in effect Congress gave themselves a blank check and are voting on a bill that was not complete and they are filling in that check behind closed doors.
This is one time that I agree with McCafferty when he said, “Here's hoping the voters remember some of this crap when the midterm elections roll around later this year.”
Democrats are depending that voters won’t remember. However their acts are so egregious that some Democrats are jumping ship before the 2010 elections to avoid facing the electorate much like Arlen Specter did by jumping Parties.
If voters do remember that president Soetoro and the entire Democrat Party’s various agendas are all based on lies, Democrat's majorities will be affected.
Mother Alaphiah loves Barry Hussein Soetoro she voted for him. The only politicians that she adores more than the Soetoro’s are Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Luckily I didn’t get all of my values from dear old mother Alaphiah. One value that I did get from mother, she used to constantly moralize how she, “hates a liar.”
Needless to say lying was not welcomed around the Alaphiah household. Oh I wasn’t perfect but let’s say if mother ever caught me in a lie she taught me how to regret it. Because of my mother’s conviction I never developed the aptitude, dishonestly or taste for lying.
So I’m wondering how people like my mother who love Soetoro but who have some sort of standards are able to reconcile the Soetoro multiple campaign promises to hold open hearings on health care against the closed door sessions that are happening now. (see 2:23mins video)
Or the following Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi mockery of the truth when the question of Soetoro’s campaign promises regard broadcasting the Health Care process on C-Span where raised with her. Most open process ever, indeed! (see 1:05min video)
And how is anyone with scruples able to stomach Soetoro’s press secretary Robert Gibb’s pathetic performance when faced with questions from the media regarding Soetoro’s promises to have Health Care debates and processes broadcasted on C-Span. (see 1:34min video)
This process of voting on a bill and virtually writing it after the vote by a series of closed door session and an unorthodox Congressional procedure called ping ponging is simply outrageous. With all of the deception, obstruction and out and out lying I have one question for my dear old mom.
Hey mom how-you-liking Soetoro, the liar now?
Can anyone tell me where is Joe Wilson when you need him?
“But when a suspected terrorist is able to board a plane with explosives on Christmas Day the system has failed in a potentially disastrous way. And it's my responsibility to find out why, and to correct that failure so that we can prevent such attacks in the future.”—president Barry Hussein Soetoro, January 5, 2010 Security Council press debriefing
Well, well, well in the words of president Soetoro’s former pastor of over twenty years, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, “The chickens have come home to roost. Well almost. If the terrorist chicken, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had not laid an egg or a Christmas day dud instead of a bomb in this case, 290 people would have been slaughtered in a merciless act of terrorism.
President Soetoro finger pointed at the American intelligence community for this recent failure of security and vowed to get to the bottom of this terrorist breech of the American people’s safety.
But sometimes one simply must look at the man in the mirror for answers. For instance, Barry Soetoro and Democrats have been talking down the Bush terrorism policies since the 2008 presidential campaign. Policies incidentally that have kept us safe from another terrorist attack. Yet in spite of the Bush’s terrorist policies success, as soon as Soetoro took office he began to dismantle some of those policies according to former Vice President Dick Cheney.
The terrorist surveillance program is important. We were challenged in very fundamental ways after 9/11. The nation was threatened; we lost 3,000 people that day.
The biggest task we had as an administration was to make certain that that never happened again, and do everything we could to prevent those kinds of attacks. We put in place certain policies to do that.
The Obama administration campaigned against those policies. And they're now in the process of dismantling some of them.—Former Vice President Dick Cheney (see source)
And then there is the complete departure from Bush terrorism philosophy. The war on Terror became an “overseas contingency operation” and acts of terrorism were renamed "man-caused disasters" by the Soetoro administration. Add all of the above to the world-wide apology tour and Soetoro’s constant and continual playing down of the terrorism threat, the person who is ultimately responsible for this Christmas day attempted act of terrorism is beginning to come into focus.
"This was a screw up that could have been disastrous. We dodged a bullet but just barely. It was averted by brave individuals not because the system worked and that is not acceptable. While there will be a tendency for finger pointing, I will not tolerate it."—president Barry Hussein Soetoro, as reported by Reuters
So if president Soetoro wishes to know where the breakdown which allowed terrorist, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to attempt to explode his drawers over Detroit Michigan on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 occurred he has to look no further than the man in the mirror.
When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been...a systemic failure has occurred, and I consider that totally unacceptable.—president Barry Hussein Soetoro
But you wouldn’t expect a finger pointer to take responsibility for something that he did would you?
I didn’t think so.
In spite of all of his feigned outrage and his cover his backside bellicose directives instructing intelligence officials to investigate the near tragedy in which a known and watched terrorist boarded an American Airplane to attempt to blow it up, we already know what went wrong.
Everything that Soetoro has done to minimize the threat of terrorism in the United States since he’s become president has created a pre-9/11 culture in the whole government. The fact that Soetoro used the very term, that intelligence agencies didn’t “connect the dots” with respect to terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is exactly the language used to explain why American Intelligence Agencies originally didn’t or couldn’t prevent the 9/11 terrorists attacks. No matter what he says now and no matter who he points the finger at he is the president and he is responsible as well as at fault for the Christmas day bomber. (see 8:54min video)
Soetoro is wrong and has been wrong about terrorism all along. Funny thing about finger pointing; when you point a finger there are three fingers pointing back at you.
Dismantling the Bush terrorism policies, downplaying terrorism and Islam’s role in terrorism and attempting to redefine terrorism out of existence are the three fingers pointing back at Barry Hussein Soetoro.
If the intelligence community had any moxie they would report back to the president that he is just as responsible for the Christmas attack as anyone else.
And they’d be telling the truth!
(Following a transcript of the January 5, 2010 Christmas bomber intelligence presser)
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. I just concluded a meeting with members of my national security team, including those from our intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement agencies involved in the security reviews that I ordered after the failed attack on Christmas Day.
I called these leaders to the White House because we face a challenge of the utmost urgency. As we saw on Christmas, al Qaeda and its extremist allies will stop at nothing in their efforts to kill Americans. And we are determined not only to thwart those plans, but to disrupt, dismantle and defeat their networks once and for all.
Indeed, over the past year, we've taken the fight to al Qaeda and its allies wherever they plot and train, be it in Afghanistan and Pakistan, in Yemen and Somalia, or in other countries around the world.
Here at home, our intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement agencies have worked together with considerable success: gathering intelligence, stitching it together, and making arrests -- from Denver to Texas, from Illinois to New York -- disrupting plots and saving American lives. And these successes have not come without a price, as we saw last week in the loss of our courageous CIA officers in Afghanistan.
But when a suspected terrorist is able to board a plane with explosives on Christmas Day the system has failed in a potentially disastrous way. And it's my responsibility to find out why, and to correct that failure so that we can prevent such attacks in the future.
And that's why, shortly after the attempted bombing over Detroit, I ordered two reviews. I directed Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to review aviation screening, technology and procedures. She briefed me on her initial findings today, and I'm pleased that this review is drawing on the best science and technology, including the expertise of Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and his department.
I also directed my counterterrorism and homeland security advisor John Brennan to lead a thorough review into our terrorist watch-listing system so we can fix what went wrong. As we discussed today, this ongoing review continues to reveal more about the human and systemic failures that almost cost nearly 300 lives. We will make a summary of this preliminary report public within the next few days, but let me share some of what we know so far.
As I described over the weekend, elements of our intelligence community knew that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had traveled to Yemen and joined up with extremists there. It now turns out that our intelligence community knew of other red flags -- that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula sought to strike not only American targets in Yemen, but the United States itself. And we had information that this group was working with an individual who was known -- who we now know was in fact the individual involved in the Christmas attack.
The bottom line is this: The U.S. government had sufficient information to have uncovered this plot and potentially disrupt the Christmas Day attack. But our intelligence community failed to connect those dots, which would have placed the suspect on the "no fly" list.
In other words, this was not a failure to collect intelligence; it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had. The information was there. Agencies and analysts who needed it had access to it. And our professionals were trained to look for it and to bring it all together.
Now, I will accept that intelligence, by its nature, is imperfect, but it is increasingly clear that intelligence was not fully analyzed or fully leveraged. That's not acceptable, and I will not tolerate it. Time and again, we've learned that quickly piecing together information and taking swift action is critical to staying one step ahead of a nimble adversary.
So we have to do better -- and we will do better. And we have to do it quickly. American lives are on the line. So I made it clear today to my team: I want our initial reviews completed this week. I want specific recommendations for corrective actions to fix what went wrong. I want those reforms implemented immediately, so that this doesn't happen again and so we can prevent future attacks. And I know that every member of my team that I met with today understands the urgency of getting this right. And I appreciate that each of them took responsibility for the shortfalls within their own agencies.
Immediately after the attack, I ordered concrete steps to protect the American people: new screening and security for all flights, domestic and international; more explosive detection teams at airports; more air marshals on flights; and deepening cooperation with international partners.
In recent days, we've taken additional steps to improve security. Counterterrorism officials have reviewed and updated our terrorist watch list system, including adding more individuals to the "no fly" list. And while our review has found that our watch-listing system is not broken, the failure to add Abdulmutallab to the "no fly" list shows that this system needs to be strengthened.
The State Department is now requiring embassies and consulates to include current visa information in their warning on individuals with terrorist or suspected terrorist connections. As of yesterday, the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, is requiring enhanced screening for passengers flying into the United States from, or flying through, nations on our list of state sponsors of terrorism, or other countries of interest. And in the days ahead, I will announce further steps to disrupt attacks, including better integration of information and enhanced passenger screening for air travel.
Finally, some have suggested that the events on Christmas Day should cause us to revisit the decision to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. So let me be clear. It was always our intent to transfer detainees to other countries only under conditions that provide assurances that our security is being protected.
With respect to Yemen in particular, there's an ongoing security situation which we have been confronting for some time, along with our Yemeni partner. Given the unsettled situation, I've spoken to the Attorney General and we've agreed that we will not be transferring additional detainees back to Yemen at this time.
But make no mistake: We will close Guantanamo prison, which has damaged our national security interests and become a tremendous recruiting tool for al Qaeda. In fact, that was an explicit rationale for the formation of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. And, as I've always said, we will do so -- we will close the prison in a manner that keeps the American people safe and secure.
Our reviews -- and the steps that we've taken and will continue to take -- go to the heart of the kind of intelligence and homeland security we need in the 21st century. Just as al Qaeda and its allies are constantly evolving and adapting their efforts to strike us, we have to constantly adapt and evolve to defeat them, because as we saw on Christmas, the margin for error is slim and the consequences of failure can be catastrophic.
As these violent extremists pursue new havens, we intend to target al Qaeda wherever they take root, forging new partnerships to deny them sanctuary, as we are doing currently with the government in Yemen. As our adversaries seek new recruits, we'll constantly review and rapidly update our intelligence and our institutions. As they refine our tactics, we'll enhance our defenses, including smarter screening and security at airports, and investing in the technologies that might have detected the kind of explosives used on Christmas.
In short, we need our intelligence, homeland security and law enforcement systems -- and the people in them -- to be accountable and to work as intended: collecting, sharing, integrating, analyzing, and acting on intelligence as quickly and effectively as possible to save innocent lives -- not just most of the time, but all the time. That's what the American people deserve. As President, that's exactly what I will demand.
"He's said to be a Buddhist. I don't think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. ... Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery."—Brit Hume, FOX News
At the pinnacle of his success he had it all, unparalleled professional acclaim, a billion dollar income, a beautiful family and all that wealth and fame could offer.
But after he returned from a knee injury something wasn’t quite right. He was losing. His legendary focus and concentration were clearly not the same. And there was something else. It seemed like over night he had developed the body of a Greek god. I heard a commentator question whether this new muscular physique was somehow affecting his golf game.
And then out of nowhere an early morning automobile accident, wife with a golf club, or wife helping an out-of-sorts husband from a wrecked car depending on which report you believed.
And then the slow water-torture like drip of damning infidelity charges. First there was one mistress then another and then others. Upwards, upwards, upwards to thirteen…thirteen women tied to Woods. Our minds were reeling. What number was he attempting to reach 72?
It was reported via Wood’s own website that his professional golf touring is being put indefinitely on hold. He would be concentrating on family matters. Then prenab rewrites and rumors of Elin Nordegren Woods leaving.
At one point it was reported that Tiger was hold-up in his mansion eating cold cereal and watching cartoons. I wondered, what brand cereal? And whether or not he was sleeping in the fetal position? And then I wondered, how could someone with so much be reduced to a cold bowl of cereal with milk and watching cartoons in his mansion?
I realized that Tiger’s story is one that any of us could be living only he has the wealth with which to do it and many of us don’t.
The bible presents a story of a son who demanded of his father the part of the inheritance that was his. His father gave it. The son departed to be on his own and he quickly spent his inheritance on what the bible describes as riotess living.
In like fashion, Tiger’s story is that he bought into the hype—the illusion. After all he was Tiger Woods and he could have anything that he wanted. Isn’t that the way that it works? With money and power you’re supposed to be able to live like Hugh Heffner or at least like Bill Maher or Brittney Spears.
Shouldn’t the world just accept Tiger’s personal hedonism just like it accepts homosexuality or alcoholism? After all he is just being who he is. And after all narcissism is a disease.
Woods’ marital woes are well chronicled on Supermarket Tabloids and Tabloid TV alike but only for the exploitive sense of cutting Tiger down to size. The World giveth fame and fortune and the World can taketh it away. After creating a monstrous Tiger with all of the appetites that the allurements and privileges of great wealth will produce it seems to me that the world was all too happy to destroy the image that it created. Revealing that behind the image of golfing perfection lurked a narcissist hedonic orgyist who wore a wedding ring for no apparent reason.
I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.—Tiger Woods
In the biblical account of the son who spent his life’s inheritance on pleasuring himself the young man reached a point in this life that a bowl of cold cereal would have been better than what he had. At the lowest point of this young man’s life the bible indicates that the young man reasoned to himself that the decadent lifestyle that he had spent his resources on was not worth his life so he simply when home.
The bible speaks to the perils of seeking the pleasures of the world over and above righteousness it says:
And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.—Roms 12:2 BBE
The example of Tiger Woods is a lesson of attaining the riches of the world at the expense of forsaking one’s values thus causing one to even lose one’s soul. What we learn is that even a billion dollar superstar athlete who has everything that we all are attempting to achieve; wealth, security and acceptance can choose to live by the false standards of the world and by doing so he can lose all that is important.
O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.—James 4:4 BBE
Fox News’ Brit Hume I think was correct saying that Eldrick Tont “Tiger” Woods will recover as a golfer but no other religious faith besides Christianity offers reconciliation for the whole person. Tiger would do well by heeding Mr. Hume’s advice and to turn to the Christian faith. (see 31sec. video)
Like the son who decided to go home after spending all of his inheritance on hedonistic living, God is willing to forgive Tiger too and accept him as his own son. That is true for any of us who are living with misguided priorities and decide that God’s ways are better than living to our own destruction.
As the bible says:
What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?—Mark 8:36 BBE
Would be Christmas Day Bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab
Charles Krauthammer’s article, Obama’s Hollow Words on Terrorism, brilliantly captures the Barry Hussein Soetoro administration’s dilemma of attempting to use words to create false perceptions in the American psyche. Words intended to be in complete opposition of the reality of terrorism in this case. (see article)
What actually happened on Christmas day 2009 was a bombing was attempted that possibly could have killed 288 passengers and crewmembers aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Only the Nigerian bomber’s incompetence prevented an al Qaeda backed terrorist tragedy—that is the reality. But according to the Soetoro administration’s Janet Napolitano, an incompetent bomber equals the system is working. (see 2min video)
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab a Nigerian with Al Qaeda links attempted a terrorist act on Christmas day one of the most holy and revered days in the western world. But because Barry Hussein Soetoro has been attempting to change the way that we think about those who intend to cause us harm by acts of terrorism the Soetoro administration has banned the term "war on terror" and renamed terrorism "man-caused disasters." And while the Soetoro administration is busy with these word games al Qaeda is still plotting ways to attack American innocents with hopes of another devastating hit like 9/11.
What is totally insufferable is that but only by the grace of God, the Liberal biased media is not reporting 288 passengers murdered by suicide bomber because the Soetoro administration has resumed a pre 9/11 attitude concerning terrorism, which is the attempt to criminalize acts of war instead of recognizing terrorism and acts of war as such.
Not since the Garelick wall, which according to former Attorney General John Ashcroft is the single greatest structural cause for September 11 because it was that wall that segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents under the Clinton administration, have Americans been so close to suffering another mass murder of hundreds of innocent citizens on U.S. soil than what we were spared on Christmas Day 2009.
Furthermore it was Attorney General Ashcroft’s opinion that Jaime Gorelick’s authored March 1995 memo prevented governmental interagency information sharing. A practice that seems to be the same kind of lack of information sharing that has resurfaced under the Soetoro administration and which allowed for this near fatal massacre of hundreds of people, this would have been the second most devastating terrorist act to have occurred on U. S. soil since 9/11.
All of the warning signs where there and missed because the appropriate agencies did not connect the dots; British officials had denied Abdulmutallab's request for a renewed student visa and placed him on a watch list. In November, his father contacted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria because he was alarmed by his son's radical views and didn't know where he was. U.S. authorities added his name to a database of people suspected of having ties to terrorists. But somehow all that information didn't get to the people who should have put Abdulmutallab's name on a no-fly list.
He paid cash for his ticket, checked no bags and strolled through the security checkpoints unchallenged. He was nonetheless allowed to fly, and would have killed 288 people in the air alone, save for a faulty detonator and quick actions by a few passengers.
It is time for the Soetoro administration to stop its politicizing of the war on terror and to begin again to treat al Qaeda and Jihadists like the anti-American haters that they are. Haters who have declared war on this country. Next time we may not be so lucky as to have a faulty detonator to save a faulty administration’s faulty terrorist policies.
Or another way to look at it is the God of Jesus Christ would not allow Allah be praised by the deaths of 288 people on the day that celebrates His Son’s birth. Not bad for a nation that is no longer a Christian nation. And that is something that each of us should be extremely thankful to God for.
Oh yeah, and God if you’re listening my prayer for the new year is that any and all who are elected officials in America who believe that this is no longer a Christian nation, may they have as short a tenure in office as possible. And while in office may they have just as much success as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and Abdulmutallab’s failed Christmas bomb.
What exactly has one year of the Barry Hussein Soetoro presidency done to America? And what affect will his presidency have on the New Year or the New Decade for that matter? Well, the Soetoro administration—as promised—is on its way to correcting the fundamental flaws of this country.
Oh, you mean the last eight years of the Bush administration, right? No much bigger than that. The Barry Hussein Soetoro administration is in the process of fundamentally changing the Constitution of the United States of America and the traditions of our founding fathers.
In addition president Soetoro is in the process of redistributing people’s wealth in this country. Not to other Americans as one might think but to the global citizens of an international government yet to be fully disclosed. This, by the way, explains Soetoro’s continual playing to the “people of the world.”
I think that we can say that the Constitution reflected an enormous blind spot in this culture that is carried on until this day and the framers had that same blind spot.
And I don’t think that the two views are contradictory to say that it was a remarkable political document that paved the way for where we are now and to say that it also reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues until this day. –Barack Hussein Obama (listen to 1:29min recording)
Remember the street radicals of the ‘60s whose mantra was, “Burn, baby burn!” Whose philosophical conviction was to burn or bomb everything in America down to start all over again? Well the radicals have come of age and are no longer shouting from the streets, now they now speak in modulated tunes from inside the house—the White house to be specific and the mantra has evolved from that of “Burn, baby burn” to that of “Fundamental Change!” And a more cumbersome sounding “Redistributive Change, baby. Redistributive change!”
What we are witnessing is the radical ideology of the ‘60s coming home to roost in America. Change has finally come and the “Man” and the “Establishment” has been replaced by the sons and daughters of Woodstock. Those skinny ties and black suits have been banned, man. And now if you’re down with it or even if you’re not, you’d better be pimpin’ some mad love for the Progressive ideology, ‘cause it ain’t about Christianity and Conservatism no mo’ in America. It about fundamentally changing this mutha!
That’s right! It’s about coming new. We ain’t America no mo’ baby! In the decade of 2010 it’s out with the old and in with the new. Even the past American appetite for “Sex, Drugs and Rock-n-Roll” has been upgraded to “Sex, Drugs, Tats, Piercings and Rap.”
From politics to religion, from health care to the global management of this planet, a change has already come. Most of you though that you were electing the first Black man to the presidency of the United States of America. But you were deceived into focusing on the unimportant thing. What you elected, and Barry Hussein Soetoro will be the first to tell you this himself, was a fundamental change in the traditions and the operations of America.
So no, it ain’t about America “no mo’ man” it’s about changing the fundamental flaws of this country’s constitution, its laws, and it’s social and economy structure. Barry Hussein Soetoro promised that if he were elected president he would fundamentally change America. And he meant it!
One year in and he is burning down the house that, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Franklin et al built and is replacing it with one that for the first time in her life, even Michele Obama can be proud of.
Yes Michele, for the first time in the life of America; Stalin, Lenin, Trotsky, Mao, Marx and Hugo Chavez can be proud of America too! And we owe it all to your husband who applied the balm of Chicago politics and Alinsky’s rules for radicals to the eyes of the America people.
Yes before Soetoro we were blinded by the blind spots of the Constitution, the Founding fathers, Christianity, Traditionalism, and Capitalism. But now we clearly see that laying aside those restrictions that so easy defined us as the land of the free and prosperous were all wrong so we now acknowledge that we should apologize to the world’s Despots and Fascists for living as free men and free women.
Ironically, the fundamental flaw that Barry Hussein Soetoro has set out to change about America is the flaw that allowed him to become president, which is the freedom to choose for ourselves. In other words, that’s freedom from an over authoritarian government telling us how to live every aspect of our lives.
To the contrary, Soetoro’s government takeovers, czarships and his redistributive agenda will not restore sight to the blind, feed the hungry nor teach men and women how to fish for themselves, in order to do these things we must relearn the lessons of the great men that designed this country. What exactly are the lessons that made this country great and what are the lessons that will make us great again if allowed to do so? Belief in the God of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, small government and belief that only a good and righteous people will fight and maintain freedoms for all people.
Unfortunately Barry Hussein Obama sees the just mentioned concepts as the fundamental flaws that he intends to fix by his presidency of hope and change.
Whether Soetoro is successful or not will be the determinant to America having a Happy New Year and a more prosperous New Decade starting in 2010.
