MY ASSESSMENT OF OBAMA IS BASED ON HIS RECORD OF FAILURE. Obama has been cut throat, calculating, aloof, arrogant and divisive "from day one". He and his liberal political elites think they know what's best for the people and the bigger the government the better. He has routinely ignored the will of the people (debt, health care, borders), and while his most noticeable feature are his big ears, he lacks the common sense to use them.
For most Americans, Obama means 13 trillion dollars in debt and rising to 17-19 trillion before he is through. Debt service of up to $ 1 trillion a year. A permanent reduction in the lifestyle of all of our descendants. The end of American exceptionalism and the gross reduction of American power. Double digit unemployment. An ever smaller number of productive people supporting an ever growing number of government workers. Massive inflation. Abandoning the dollar as the world's reserve currency. And the laughter of China, Russia and every two bit dictator in the middle east, Asia and South America. And his scorn for Israel in favor of his beloved Muslims is putting the country in grave danger as he emboldens the terrorists in their jihad against Israel and us.
Every day I turn on TV and there is more thing evidence of what the Obama administration and the Democrats are doing to take over the country and destroy our freedoms. Obama is chronically detached from the central and immediate concerns of "The People" he was hired to serve, instead, he is dragging America into the alternate universe of his Socialistic ideology. He thrives in the ether of platitudes, having no interest in or ability to perform actual leadership. We are now experiencing the effects and may well be in for a very rough ride these next 2 years.
As Lou Holtz says, “Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” The issue is how Obama and his bumbling, finger-pointing, evasive group of academic administrators fully and completely bungle their jobs demonstrating daily their inability to handle almost anything.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
OBAMA: A STRANGER IN OUR MIDST
I found a opinion piece that is important enough to include here.
A Stranger in Our Midst
By Robert Weissberg,
Professor of Political Science - Emeritus at the University of Illinois , Urbana
As the Obama administration enters its second year, I -- and undoubtedly millions of others -- have struggled to develop a shorthand term that captures our emotional unease. Defining this discomfort is tricky. I reject nearly the entire Obama agenda, but the term "being opposed" lacks an emotional punch. Nor do terms like "worried" or "anxious" apply. I was more worried about America 's future during the Johnson or Carter years, so it's not that dictionary, either. Nor, for that matter, is this about backroom odious deal-making and pork, which are endemic in American politics. After auditioning countless political terms, I finally realized that the Obama administration and its congressional collaborators almost resemble a foreign occupying force, a coterie of politically and culturally non-indigenous leaders whose rule contravenes local values rooted in our national tradition. It is as if the United States has been occupied by a foreign power, and this transcends policy objections. It is not about Obama's birthplace. It is not about race, either; millions of white Americans have had black mayors and black governors, and this unease about out-of-sync values never surfaced. The term I settled on is "alien rule" -- based on outsider values, regardless of policy benefits -- that generates agitation.
This is what bloody anti-colonial strife was all about. No doubt, millions of Indians and Africans probably grasped that expelling the British guaranteed economic ruin and even worse governance, but at least the mess would be their mess. Awareness began with Obama's odd pre-presidency associations, decades of being oblivious to Rev. Wright's anti-American ranting, his enduring friendship with the terrorist guy-in-the-neighborhood Bill Ayers, and the Saul Alinsky-flavored anti-capitalist community activism. Further add a hazy personal background -- an Indonesian childhood, shifting official names, and a paperless-trail climb through elite educational institutions. None of this disqualified Obama from the presidency; rather, this background just doesn't fit with the conventional political résumé. It is just the "outsider" quality that alarms.
For all the yammering about George W. Bush's privileged background, his made-in-the-USA persona was absolutely indisputable. John McCain might be embarrassed about his Naval Academy class rank and iffy combat performance, but there was never any doubt of his authenticity. Countless conservatives despised Bill Clinton, but nobody ever, ever doubted his good-old-boy American bonafides. The suspicion that Obama is an outsider, a figure who really doesn't "get" America , grew clearer from his initial appointments.
What "native" would appoint Kevin Jennings, a militant gay activist, to oversee school safety? Or permit a Marxist rabble-rouser to be a "green jobs czar"? How about an Attorney General who began by accusing Americans of cowardice when it comes to discussing race? And who can forget Obama's weird defense of his pal Louis Henry Gates from "racist" Cambridge , Massachusetts cops? If the American Revolution had never occurred and the Queen had appointed Obama Royal Governor (after his distinguished service in Kenya ), a trusted locally attuned aide would have first whispered in his ear, "Mr. Governor General, here in America , we do not automatically assume that the police were at fault," and the day would have been saved. And then there's the "we are sorry, we'll never be arrogant again" rhetoric seemingly designed for a future President of the World election campaign.
What made Obama's Cairo utterances so distressing was how they grated on American cultural sensibilities. And he just doesn't notice, perhaps akin to never hearing Rev. Wright anti-American diatribes. An American president does not pander to third-world audiences by lying about the Muslim contribution to America. Imagine Ronald Reagan, or any past American president, trying to win friends by apologizing. This appeal contravenes our national character and far exceeds a momentary embarrassment about garbled syntax or poor delivery. Then there's Obama's bizarre, totally unnecessary deep bowing to foreign potentates. Americans look foreign leaders squarely in the eye and firmly shake hands; we don't bow.
But far worse is Obama's tone-deafness about American government. How can any ordinary American, even a traditional liberal, believe that jamming through unpopular, debt-expanding legislation that consumes one-sixth of our GDP, sometimes with sly side-payments and with a thin majority, will eventually be judged legitimate? This is Third-World, maximum-leader-style politics. That the legislation was barely understood even by its defenders and vehemently championed by a representative of that typical American city, San Francisco , only exacerbates the strangeness.
And now President Obama sides with illegal aliens over the State of Arizona , which seeks to enforce the federal immigration law to protect American citizens from marauding drug gangs and other miscreants streaming in across the Mexican border. Reciprocal public disengagement from President Obama is strongly suggested by recent poll data on public trust in government. According to a recent Pew report, only 22% of those asked trust the government always or most of the time, among the lowest figures in half a century. And while pro-government support has been slipping for decades, the Obama presidency has sharply exacerbated this drop. To be sure, many factors (in particular the economic downturn) contribute to this decline, but remember that Obama was recently elected by an often wildly enthusiastic popular majority.
The collapse of trust undoubtedly transcends policy quibbles or a sluggish economy -- it is far more consistent with a deeper alienation. Perhaps the clearest evidence for this "foreigner in our midst" mentality is the name given our resistance -- tea parties, an image that instantly invokes the American struggle against George III, a clueless foreign ruler from central casting. This history-laden label was hardly predetermined, but it instantly stuck (as did the election of Sen. Scott Brown as "the shot heard around the world" and tea partiers dressing up in colonial-era costumes).
Perhaps subconsciously, Obama does remind Americans of when the U.S. was really occupied by a foreign power. A Declaration of Independence passage may still resonate: "HE [George III] has erected a Multitude of new Offices [Czars], and sent hither Swarms of Officers [recently hired IRS agents] to harass our People, and eat out the Substance."
What's next?
A Stranger in Our Midst
By Robert Weissberg,
Professor of Political Science - Emeritus at the University of Illinois , Urbana
As the Obama administration enters its second year, I -- and undoubtedly millions of others -- have struggled to develop a shorthand term that captures our emotional unease. Defining this discomfort is tricky. I reject nearly the entire Obama agenda, but the term "being opposed" lacks an emotional punch. Nor do terms like "worried" or "anxious" apply. I was more worried about America 's future during the Johnson or Carter years, so it's not that dictionary, either. Nor, for that matter, is this about backroom odious deal-making and pork, which are endemic in American politics. After auditioning countless political terms, I finally realized that the Obama administration and its congressional collaborators almost resemble a foreign occupying force, a coterie of politically and culturally non-indigenous leaders whose rule contravenes local values rooted in our national tradition. It is as if the United States has been occupied by a foreign power, and this transcends policy objections. It is not about Obama's birthplace. It is not about race, either; millions of white Americans have had black mayors and black governors, and this unease about out-of-sync values never surfaced. The term I settled on is "alien rule" -- based on outsider values, regardless of policy benefits -- that generates agitation.
This is what bloody anti-colonial strife was all about. No doubt, millions of Indians and Africans probably grasped that expelling the British guaranteed economic ruin and even worse governance, but at least the mess would be their mess. Awareness began with Obama's odd pre-presidency associations, decades of being oblivious to Rev. Wright's anti-American ranting, his enduring friendship with the terrorist guy-in-the-neighborhood Bill Ayers, and the Saul Alinsky-flavored anti-capitalist community activism. Further add a hazy personal background -- an Indonesian childhood, shifting official names, and a paperless-trail climb through elite educational institutions. None of this disqualified Obama from the presidency; rather, this background just doesn't fit with the conventional political résumé. It is just the "outsider" quality that alarms.
For all the yammering about George W. Bush's privileged background, his made-in-the-USA persona was absolutely indisputable. John McCain might be embarrassed about his Naval Academy class rank and iffy combat performance, but there was never any doubt of his authenticity. Countless conservatives despised Bill Clinton, but nobody ever, ever doubted his good-old-boy American bonafides. The suspicion that Obama is an outsider, a figure who really doesn't "get" America , grew clearer from his initial appointments.
What "native" would appoint Kevin Jennings, a militant gay activist, to oversee school safety? Or permit a Marxist rabble-rouser to be a "green jobs czar"? How about an Attorney General who began by accusing Americans of cowardice when it comes to discussing race? And who can forget Obama's weird defense of his pal Louis Henry Gates from "racist" Cambridge , Massachusetts cops? If the American Revolution had never occurred and the Queen had appointed Obama Royal Governor (after his distinguished service in Kenya ), a trusted locally attuned aide would have first whispered in his ear, "Mr. Governor General, here in America , we do not automatically assume that the police were at fault," and the day would have been saved. And then there's the "we are sorry, we'll never be arrogant again" rhetoric seemingly designed for a future President of the World election campaign.
What made Obama's Cairo utterances so distressing was how they grated on American cultural sensibilities. And he just doesn't notice, perhaps akin to never hearing Rev. Wright anti-American diatribes. An American president does not pander to third-world audiences by lying about the Muslim contribution to America. Imagine Ronald Reagan, or any past American president, trying to win friends by apologizing. This appeal contravenes our national character and far exceeds a momentary embarrassment about garbled syntax or poor delivery. Then there's Obama's bizarre, totally unnecessary deep bowing to foreign potentates. Americans look foreign leaders squarely in the eye and firmly shake hands; we don't bow.
But far worse is Obama's tone-deafness about American government. How can any ordinary American, even a traditional liberal, believe that jamming through unpopular, debt-expanding legislation that consumes one-sixth of our GDP, sometimes with sly side-payments and with a thin majority, will eventually be judged legitimate? This is Third-World, maximum-leader-style politics. That the legislation was barely understood even by its defenders and vehemently championed by a representative of that typical American city, San Francisco , only exacerbates the strangeness.
And now President Obama sides with illegal aliens over the State of Arizona , which seeks to enforce the federal immigration law to protect American citizens from marauding drug gangs and other miscreants streaming in across the Mexican border. Reciprocal public disengagement from President Obama is strongly suggested by recent poll data on public trust in government. According to a recent Pew report, only 22% of those asked trust the government always or most of the time, among the lowest figures in half a century. And while pro-government support has been slipping for decades, the Obama presidency has sharply exacerbated this drop. To be sure, many factors (in particular the economic downturn) contribute to this decline, but remember that Obama was recently elected by an often wildly enthusiastic popular majority.
The collapse of trust undoubtedly transcends policy quibbles or a sluggish economy -- it is far more consistent with a deeper alienation. Perhaps the clearest evidence for this "foreigner in our midst" mentality is the name given our resistance -- tea parties, an image that instantly invokes the American struggle against George III, a clueless foreign ruler from central casting. This history-laden label was hardly predetermined, but it instantly stuck (as did the election of Sen. Scott Brown as "the shot heard around the world" and tea partiers dressing up in colonial-era costumes).
Perhaps subconsciously, Obama does remind Americans of when the U.S. was really occupied by a foreign power. A Declaration of Independence passage may still resonate: "HE [George III] has erected a Multitude of new Offices [Czars], and sent hither Swarms of Officers [recently hired IRS agents] to harass our People, and eat out the Substance."
What's next?
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
MY MOST IMPORTANT POST: THE IMMINENT DANGER OF MUSLIMS
This is my most important post on this blog. I start with an article sent to me by a Rabbi who disagrees with what the Swiss have done. I responded to the rabbi and also sent him a note sent to me by Mike Evans, founder of the Jerusalem Prayer Team.
Can we blame the Swiss?
By TAWFIK HAMID
On Sunday, Swiss voters supported a referendum proposal to ban the building of minarets in their country. Official results show more than 57 percent of voters and 22 out of 26 cantons - or provinces - voted in favor of the ban. Building more minarets - in addition to the four existing ones - was seen by many Swiss as a sign of Islamization of their free country. The government opposed the ban, saying it would harm Switzerland's image, particularly in the Muslim world.
In this part of the article was a poster showing a woman wearing a burka against a background of a Swiss flag with minarets resembling missiles.
Several points must be raised in relation to this issue:
1.Can Muslims blame the Swiss people for being afraid of Islamization in their country? No, especially while the entire world sees the inhumane applications of Islamic law (Shari'a) wherever it is implemented. It should come as no surprise that the Swiss people don't want a system that even today practices discrimination against women, gays and minorities in the name of religion. The vivid images of stoning women and hanging gays in the Muslim world should make any sane individual inclined not to allow such an intolerant system to grow in his country under the banner of freedom of religion.
2. The Swiss people who rejected building minarets may be sending a message that their tolerance did not change the Muslim world and is not reciprocated. For several decades Muslims have been allowed to build mosques in Europe, wear their traditional symbols such as the hijab, and preach Islam to non-Muslims. Despite such high levels of tolerance in the West, non-Muslims are not permitted to practice similar rights in several parts of the Islamic world. Preaching Christianity is criminalized in a number of Muslim countries. Furthermore, non-Muslims are not permitted to have their holy books or to build their religious temples in many Shari'a-controlled areas. This lack of reciprocity of Western tolerance will naturally make many Westerners feel that showing tolerance to Muslims is not effective.
3. It seems strange that Muslims would insist on building minarets for mosques in Switzerland while thousands of mosques exist inside the Muslim world without minarets. The minarets are seen by many as representing the superiority of Islam, especially when they are taller than the churches; this sheds some light on the hidden intentions of Muslims who insist on building minarets in the heart of Europe. It is important that Muslims in Switzerland explain why they insist on using such historical symbols of Muslim superiority when it is neither mentioned in the Koran nor considered vital to building a mosque.
4. It seems too hypocritical that Muslims demand minarets in Europe while many non-Muslims in the Muslim world are denied basic and fundamental religious rights.
The more important problem Muslims in Switzerland should address is the lack of basic religious rights for non-Muslim minorities, not these unnecessary minarets.
The writer is an Islamic thinker and reformer, and one-time Islamic extremist from Egypt. He was a member of a terrorist Islamic organization JI with Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri, who later became the second in command of al-Qaida. He is currently a senior fellow and chairman of the study of Islamic radicalism at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.
To Rabbi Jeff Salkin,
Thank you for sending the link to the above article. Maybe I'm confused about the content of this article on the minarets, but it doesn't translate to a different point of view for me...it is my point of view.
Jeff, as a rabbi, you may see Islam as a religion and therefore entitled to every privilege accorded other religions, but I cannot view it that way because:
1. Islam promotes and condones the worst kind of violence against "infidels" and against their own kind who fail to live up to their rigid precepts--women particularly.
2. It is more than a religion--it is a political movement aimed at taking over the world, and doing so by whatever means necessary--with nuclear weapons at worst, with overpopulation and intimidation at best.
3. Islam endangers western civilization as we know it and wants to bring us back to a 7th century world. And that isn't confined to what you refer to as radical Islam. It is all of Islam. It's part of their religious obligation to convert the world to Islam by whatever means necessary.
4. Passive reactions in Europe are proving to be its undoing. Now anti-Semitism is peaking once again while Europeans are fearfully appeasing the Muslim hatred for Jews. Why now? Because Europeans are living in fear among a vast Muslim population that is driving them out of their own cities.
5. I know how much you disdain the Nazi metaphor, but it fits. Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away. It festers and grows until it can send innocent people to their deaths in gas chambers without objection. And even those who know its wrong no longer have power to stop it.
6. I believe we're on the verge of massive terrorist acts in our country, and this time it will come from our own home grown Muslims who will carry out their religious mandate--to kill us. Wherever large groups congregate, they will be at risk of a bomb in a bag or a suitcase. Subways, sports events, shopping malls during Christmas....how easily they can carry it out. And we can't profile because that is politically incorrect. Political correctness will be our undoing. Where do I get this notion? From Aviv Juval, the very same Israeli who warned the White House that we will be hit by planes going into high buildings, and that warning was made one month before 9-11. He recently predicted the London subway bombings. Israel plays to win, to survive. We could learn a lot from them but our intelligence gathering is so hampered by pollyannas and political correctness.
Grim, isn't it? But it's the way I see it. I wish more people had seen this scourge earlier and not allowed the massive Muslim infiltration in Europe, and now here. It's too late for Europe, but we still have time. So--I feel compelled to speak for the safety of a country I love more than political correctness.
Every religion does not deserve the same respect. The cults: David Koresh, Jim Jones, etc. were clearly driven by religious fanaticism. Islam is even worse.
Now, I made the statement that Islam is even worse. Read the letter I received from Mike Evans as follows:
JERUSALEM REPORT
From Mike Evans the founder of the Jerusalem Prayer Team
Dear Barbara,
In defiance of efforts by America and most of the civilized world, the government of Iran has announced that not only will it continue its nuclear program--it is going to expand it. The public statement that Iran will build an additional ten uranium enrichment plants is a grave threat to the future survival of Israel...and America as well.
Rather than placing this enriched uranium in traditional nuclear missiles, which can easily be traced back to their source, Iran is likely to distribute this material through the terrorist networks it sponsors--Hamas and Hezbollah--and urge them to use it as so-called "dirty bombs" against civilian populations in Israel and America.
To the radical Islamic extremists running Iran, the death of hundreds of thousands of innocents is a small price to pay for uniting the world under sharia law and Islamic rule. There is no question that they will use their nuclear program for military purposes. I have been briefed by top Israeli and American intelligence and military experts on this subject, and I can tell you today that they are very worried by this threat.
That means we must do more than ever to speak out and warn of this threat, as well as doing all that we can to help the Jewish people who are directly in the line of fire.
Think of what the world is facing. We must be vigilant and cannot allow our president who seems to favorable to the Muslims to lull us into the pollyanna mentality that can surely destroy us.
Thank you for reading this post. It is one of my most important messages to you.
Can we blame the Swiss?
By TAWFIK HAMID
On Sunday, Swiss voters supported a referendum proposal to ban the building of minarets in their country. Official results show more than 57 percent of voters and 22 out of 26 cantons - or provinces - voted in favor of the ban. Building more minarets - in addition to the four existing ones - was seen by many Swiss as a sign of Islamization of their free country. The government opposed the ban, saying it would harm Switzerland's image, particularly in the Muslim world.
In this part of the article was a poster showing a woman wearing a burka against a background of a Swiss flag with minarets resembling missiles.
Several points must be raised in relation to this issue:
1.Can Muslims blame the Swiss people for being afraid of Islamization in their country? No, especially while the entire world sees the inhumane applications of Islamic law (Shari'a) wherever it is implemented. It should come as no surprise that the Swiss people don't want a system that even today practices discrimination against women, gays and minorities in the name of religion. The vivid images of stoning women and hanging gays in the Muslim world should make any sane individual inclined not to allow such an intolerant system to grow in his country under the banner of freedom of religion.
2. The Swiss people who rejected building minarets may be sending a message that their tolerance did not change the Muslim world and is not reciprocated. For several decades Muslims have been allowed to build mosques in Europe, wear their traditional symbols such as the hijab, and preach Islam to non-Muslims. Despite such high levels of tolerance in the West, non-Muslims are not permitted to practice similar rights in several parts of the Islamic world. Preaching Christianity is criminalized in a number of Muslim countries. Furthermore, non-Muslims are not permitted to have their holy books or to build their religious temples in many Shari'a-controlled areas. This lack of reciprocity of Western tolerance will naturally make many Westerners feel that showing tolerance to Muslims is not effective.
3. It seems strange that Muslims would insist on building minarets for mosques in Switzerland while thousands of mosques exist inside the Muslim world without minarets. The minarets are seen by many as representing the superiority of Islam, especially when they are taller than the churches; this sheds some light on the hidden intentions of Muslims who insist on building minarets in the heart of Europe. It is important that Muslims in Switzerland explain why they insist on using such historical symbols of Muslim superiority when it is neither mentioned in the Koran nor considered vital to building a mosque.
4. It seems too hypocritical that Muslims demand minarets in Europe while many non-Muslims in the Muslim world are denied basic and fundamental religious rights.
The more important problem Muslims in Switzerland should address is the lack of basic religious rights for non-Muslim minorities, not these unnecessary minarets.
The writer is an Islamic thinker and reformer, and one-time Islamic extremist from Egypt. He was a member of a terrorist Islamic organization JI with Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri, who later became the second in command of al-Qaida. He is currently a senior fellow and chairman of the study of Islamic radicalism at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies.
To Rabbi Jeff Salkin,
Thank you for sending the link to the above article. Maybe I'm confused about the content of this article on the minarets, but it doesn't translate to a different point of view for me...it is my point of view.
Jeff, as a rabbi, you may see Islam as a religion and therefore entitled to every privilege accorded other religions, but I cannot view it that way because:
1. Islam promotes and condones the worst kind of violence against "infidels" and against their own kind who fail to live up to their rigid precepts--women particularly.
2. It is more than a religion--it is a political movement aimed at taking over the world, and doing so by whatever means necessary--with nuclear weapons at worst, with overpopulation and intimidation at best.
3. Islam endangers western civilization as we know it and wants to bring us back to a 7th century world. And that isn't confined to what you refer to as radical Islam. It is all of Islam. It's part of their religious obligation to convert the world to Islam by whatever means necessary.
4. Passive reactions in Europe are proving to be its undoing. Now anti-Semitism is peaking once again while Europeans are fearfully appeasing the Muslim hatred for Jews. Why now? Because Europeans are living in fear among a vast Muslim population that is driving them out of their own cities.
5. I know how much you disdain the Nazi metaphor, but it fits. Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away. It festers and grows until it can send innocent people to their deaths in gas chambers without objection. And even those who know its wrong no longer have power to stop it.
6. I believe we're on the verge of massive terrorist acts in our country, and this time it will come from our own home grown Muslims who will carry out their religious mandate--to kill us. Wherever large groups congregate, they will be at risk of a bomb in a bag or a suitcase. Subways, sports events, shopping malls during Christmas....how easily they can carry it out. And we can't profile because that is politically incorrect. Political correctness will be our undoing. Where do I get this notion? From Aviv Juval, the very same Israeli who warned the White House that we will be hit by planes going into high buildings, and that warning was made one month before 9-11. He recently predicted the London subway bombings. Israel plays to win, to survive. We could learn a lot from them but our intelligence gathering is so hampered by pollyannas and political correctness.
Grim, isn't it? But it's the way I see it. I wish more people had seen this scourge earlier and not allowed the massive Muslim infiltration in Europe, and now here. It's too late for Europe, but we still have time. So--I feel compelled to speak for the safety of a country I love more than political correctness.
Every religion does not deserve the same respect. The cults: David Koresh, Jim Jones, etc. were clearly driven by religious fanaticism. Islam is even worse.
Now, I made the statement that Islam is even worse. Read the letter I received from Mike Evans as follows:
JERUSALEM REPORT
From Mike Evans the founder of the Jerusalem Prayer Team
Dear Barbara,
In defiance of efforts by America and most of the civilized world, the government of Iran has announced that not only will it continue its nuclear program--it is going to expand it. The public statement that Iran will build an additional ten uranium enrichment plants is a grave threat to the future survival of Israel...and America as well.
Rather than placing this enriched uranium in traditional nuclear missiles, which can easily be traced back to their source, Iran is likely to distribute this material through the terrorist networks it sponsors--Hamas and Hezbollah--and urge them to use it as so-called "dirty bombs" against civilian populations in Israel and America.
To the radical Islamic extremists running Iran, the death of hundreds of thousands of innocents is a small price to pay for uniting the world under sharia law and Islamic rule. There is no question that they will use their nuclear program for military purposes. I have been briefed by top Israeli and American intelligence and military experts on this subject, and I can tell you today that they are very worried by this threat.
That means we must do more than ever to speak out and warn of this threat, as well as doing all that we can to help the Jewish people who are directly in the line of fire.
Think of what the world is facing. We must be vigilant and cannot allow our president who seems to favorable to the Muslims to lull us into the pollyanna mentality that can surely destroy us.
Thank you for reading this post. It is one of my most important messages to you.
Monday, November 23, 2009
MESSAGES ON A DATING SITE
Below is a message I sent to a chat friend who wanted to know my views on Obama. And if you scroll down, you'll see what I said followed by my friend's response:
Barack Obama is failing. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. He is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Obama is failing because fundamentally his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame. Personally, I don't believe he is an American in his views or his history. I see parallels to Hitler with his rise to power, his ridicule of the right, his effort to quell dissent and even having little kids singing songs about him. Scary.
Obama has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect with us. He doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony, knows nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and woefully small minded for the size of the task--all contributory of course. It's that he's not one of us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout. Moreover, he doesn't command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don't add up. His descriptions of the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with our experience.
HI peach,
I could not have expressed my views any better than you did. I do not think bama even cares about the American people. I would just like to see his birth certificate. Well, if he does not destroy our country or run us into bankruptcy we only have 3 more years. I really feel he is a Muslim with a Marcist agenda.
Have a great Thanksgiving what ever you are doing.
Bill
Barack Obama is failing. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them. He is failing because he has lost control of his message, and is overexposed. Obama is failing because fundamentally his intellectual dishonesty is conspicuous by its audacity and lack of shame. Personally, I don't believe he is an American in his views or his history. I see parallels to Hitler with his rise to power, his ridicule of the right, his effort to quell dissent and even having little kids singing songs about him. Scary.
Obama has a self-narrative, much of it fabricated, cleverly disguised or written by someone else. But this self-narrative is isolated and doesn't connect with us. He doesn't have an American narrative that draws upon the rest of us. All successful presidents have a narrative about the American character that intersects with their own where they display a command of history and reveal an authenticity at the core of their personality that resonates in a positive endearing way with the majority of Americans. But not this president. It's not so much that he's a phony, knows nothing about economics, and is historically illiterate and woefully small minded for the size of the task--all contributory of course. It's that he's not one of us. And whatever he is, his profile is fuzzy and devoid of content, like a cardboard cutout. Moreover, he doesn't command our respect and is unable to appeal to our own common sense. His notions of right and wrong are repugnant and how things work just don't add up. His descriptions of the world we live in don't make sense and don't correspond with our experience.
HI peach,
I could not have expressed my views any better than you did. I do not think bama even cares about the American people. I would just like to see his birth certificate. Well, if he does not destroy our country or run us into bankruptcy we only have 3 more years. I really feel he is a Muslim with a Marcist agenda.
Have a great Thanksgiving what ever you are doing.
Bill
Sunday, November 1, 2009
WHERE ARE WE HEADED?
I've been posting on the current political climate for the past several months. Whether or not its had much of an effect remains an unanswered question. I've been so disheartened with the Obama administration and the ferocity with which they've moved to expand the federal government and take over our country: private enterprise, the environment, and especially health care.
Presently, there are three important races: the race for Governor in Virginia, the race for Governor in New Jersey, and the race for Congress in New York state. As of today, it looks as if two of those three races will go Republican, and the NJ race is now in a dead heat. People are waking up. They now know Obama told them a lot of lies during his campaign to be President. If you have any doubts about his lies, you need to watch this video:
http://www.theospark.net/2009/09/video-7-lies-in-under-2-minutes.html
He is moving rapidly to the extreme left, a place where only 20% of the population are in their ideology. I predict Obama will not serve a second term if he continues in this direction.
I am hopeful that our country will be able to overcome the damage when Obama is no longer in office, assuming we can also get rid of Nancy Pelosi,Harry Reid, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.
In that regard, the Republicans have to make certain commitments:
1. They have to enlarge their tent to make room for moderates, and that includes so many young people and women who are pro-choice.
2. They have to choose candidates who have a real presence and can attract the younger generation who are becoming increasingly active.
3. They have to stop all the voter fraud that has now become so widespread because of ACORN and SEIU, the union, two groups that employ the same thug tactics as were shown during the Caucuses of the Obama primary.
4. There has to be strong enforcement of our immigration laws, something George W. Bush failed to do.
For the next several months I will be writing my novel: HE'S NOT TOO YOUNG FOR YOU.
I've decided to post on more varied topics (other than politics) for a while, so stay tuned and see what I have to say.
Presently, there are three important races: the race for Governor in Virginia, the race for Governor in New Jersey, and the race for Congress in New York state. As of today, it looks as if two of those three races will go Republican, and the NJ race is now in a dead heat. People are waking up. They now know Obama told them a lot of lies during his campaign to be President. If you have any doubts about his lies, you need to watch this video:
http://www.theospark.net/2009/09/video-7-lies-in-under-2-minutes.html
He is moving rapidly to the extreme left, a place where only 20% of the population are in their ideology. I predict Obama will not serve a second term if he continues in this direction.
I am hopeful that our country will be able to overcome the damage when Obama is no longer in office, assuming we can also get rid of Nancy Pelosi,Harry Reid, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.
In that regard, the Republicans have to make certain commitments:
1. They have to enlarge their tent to make room for moderates, and that includes so many young people and women who are pro-choice.
2. They have to choose candidates who have a real presence and can attract the younger generation who are becoming increasingly active.
3. They have to stop all the voter fraud that has now become so widespread because of ACORN and SEIU, the union, two groups that employ the same thug tactics as were shown during the Caucuses of the Obama primary.
4. There has to be strong enforcement of our immigration laws, something George W. Bush failed to do.
For the next several months I will be writing my novel: HE'S NOT TOO YOUNG FOR YOU.
I've decided to post on more varied topics (other than politics) for a while, so stay tuned and see what I have to say.
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