No bias in the so-called mainstream press?
Did you see ABC News’ Jonathan Karl question White House spokesman Eric Schultz on how he can state the Obama administration doesn’t make deals with terrorists when they traded five Taliban prisoners in exchange for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl?
If you were watching ABC News, you wouldn’t have seen it. … read more
In an unusual photo op, President Obama walks to the Rose Garden with his arm around the waist of Jani Bergdahl, mother of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. (dailymail.co.uk)
A casually dressed President Obama was all smiles as he left the Oval Office with his arm around Jani Bergdahl as they headed for a Rose Garden photo op to announce that United States had secured the release of her son, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, in exchange for five terrorists being held at Guantanamo.
I have witnessed a number of such walks to the Rose Garden, with staff appointments, judicial nominees and special guests, but never has the president taken them arm and arm let alone with his arm around their waist. It was truly unusual.
Who thought this photo op was something he should do? Obama himself? Yes, he was prisoner of war being released, but what about the murky circumstances of the case? Clearly, he deserted his post in Afghanistan five years earlier. Continue reading
It’s unconscionable that President Obama is more concerned about keeping a campaign promise, and preserving some sort of legacy with his base, than he is in protecting our national security. Yet it’s happening before our eyes.
The faces of the five detainees (below) released in exchange for the release of Army Sgt.… read more
During a family discussion on the silence of President Obama about the subject of the recent execution-style killing of two NYPD officers, we recalled how he weighed-in when the victims were black.
Where is the president when the nation needs a civil response to the blue on black controversy? (biostate.blogspot.com)
Remember how he said the Cambridge, MA police “acted stupidly” in the Louis Gates arrest, and how if he had a son, he would have looked like Trayvon Martin? Following the shooting of Michael Brown, he said “too many young men of color feel targeted by law enforcement,” while directing AG Eric Holder to conduct an investigation.
Most recently he commented on the grand jury decision in the Eric Garner death in New York, saying, “minority communities feel that law enforcement is not working with them and dealing with them in a fair way.” During that same appearance – unbelievably – he said, “My tradition is not to remark on cases where there still may be an investigation …” Continue reading
Senator Dianne Feinstein has placed an unfair spotlight on the CIA. (harvardnsj.org.)
As predicted in Is Sen. Feinstein today’s Frank Church?, my Dec. 12 post, the liberal California senator followed through with her vendetta against the CIA and released the 500-page executive summary of the agency’s detention and interrogation program investigation.
Never mind that the CIA actions took place a decade ago, and that the agency’s practices have long been stopped. I recall just last year when White House Press Secretary Jay Carney responded to a question, ”Benghazi happened a long time ago.” I wonder where he would place the CIA interrogations in time.
Sane persons have been asking, “Why release this report now?” Others, on both sides of the question, have acknowledged it makes no sense to resurface what is essentially a closed case. Even Secretary of State John Kerry asked Feinstein to reconsider her plan to release the report at this time.
The president, who never passes up a chance to zing President Bush, tried to be coy, appearing to want the report delayed while agreeing it was important to release. Surely, he could have asked Feinstein to not release the document. Continue reading
“Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems. They’ll warn that tyranny is just around the corner. You should reject these voices.”
Speaking to the 2013 graduating class of The Ohio State University, President Obama joked about those who warned that tyranny was just around the corner. (msnbc.com)
Those were the words of President Obama, speaking to the 2013 graduation class of The Ohio State University on May 5, 2013.
I was incredulous when I first heard the president give this speech. First, because it wasn’t the uplifting message to leave with graduates, but more so because he used the venue as an opportunity to answer his critics who have challenged his go-it-alone presidency.
In my long career in public affairs, I have learned that every word in a speech given by a president is carefully woven into the message the administration wants to impart on the public. This speech was devoid of the lofty plans and hopes facing students as he sought to reject those who dislike his policies. Continue reading
In my last series of posts, I told you about eight days (Nov. 3 – 11) of events that were clear evidence of the failure of President Obama’s big government scheme.
I posted the first four pieces on those events, beginning on Nov. 3, with the election eve Fast & Furious document dump. The repudiation of Obama’s policies in the Nov. 4, mid-terms, and the Gallup poll in which voters said they wanted Republicans, by a 17-point margin, to lead the nation.
On Nov. 5, an arrogant president was in denial over the meaning of the election and touted a flourishing economy. Then, on Nov. 10 and 11, tapes of how big government Democrats deceived Americans with ObamaCare, its radical health insurance plan, referring to the “stupidity” of voters.
In this post are the remaining news events of the eight-day period to further point to the failure of Obama’s transformation of America. Continue reading
You may be shocked by the current revelations of security screw ups by the Secret Service, but you shouldn’t be surprised, because it can easily be traced back to the culture in the White House.
Evidence of a culture of “whatever” in the Obama White House continues to mount. (abcnews.go.com)
We have a president who regularly flouts the rule-of-law. He has made changes and waivers to existing law; he was found guilty by the Supreme Court for making illegal recess appointments; he traded five Guantanamo prisoners for Sergeant Bergdahl without Congressional approval; and he’s set to implement a broad amnesty on his own following the mid-terms.
On the morally unethical side, President Obama flew to a fundraiser in Las Vegas after our ambassador and three other Americans were killed in the Benghazi attack and, he was on the golf course just minutes after “grieving” with the parents of James Foley, who was beheaded by ISIS.
What kind of respect can government employees in our various departments and agencies have for a president who laughs off inefficiencies and in some cases criminal activities, as “phony scandals.” Continue reading
On Jan. 2, 2012, my op-ed piece, It’s time for AG Holder to go, appeared on the editorial pages of the San Antonio Express-News. And this week, we finally learned that Attorney General Eric Holder has decided to resign.
Finally, Attorney General Eric Holder decided to resign. (csmonitor.com)
Clearly, it was good news, but oh my, the damage he has done to the rule of law in our country. Holder’s outrageous actions make the oft-criticized decisions of John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, and even Janet Reno, seem so insignificant.
While most Americans likely believe the disapproval of Holder is centered in the Republican Party, not so. Just 15 percent of Americans have a positive or very positive view (6 percent) of Holder, according to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Thirty-two percent have a negative view of Holder while four times as may have a very negative view (22 percent). Continue reading