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Our community organizer is taking us into an “unwar” against an enemy of “non-Islamists”

In the hours leading up to any major presidential address, the media starts their countdown – we’re just six hours, five hours, four hours … from President Obama’s speech on the ISIS threat. It’s followed by the question posed to some member of Congress – what does the president have to say tonight?  Last night was no different.

The president missed his opportunity again, but I wasn’t disappointed because after six years of his presidency I no longer expect him to say the right thing.

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President Obama again missed an opportunity to exhibit his understanding of the ISIS threat during his address to the nation. (pool photo, Getty images)

He started his speech with the usual “we took out Osama bin Laden” and reminded us of his mistake in bringing Americans home from Iraq and his plan to do the same win Afghanistan. Most military leaders say that a contingent of troops left in Iraq could have prevented the ISIS push across the Syrian border.

Some blame Obama’s failure to get a status of forces agreement in Iraq, but he didn’t really try to get one, because he didn’t want one. He sold his base on getting out of Iraq beginning in 2007 and has never wavered from that agenda. Continue reading →

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GOP addresses women’s concerns; Dems fear strong female Republican candidates in mid-terms

 It’s your body.  They want to take away your birth control.  They will repeal Roe v Wade.  They oppose equal pay for women.

They’re at it again.  Democrats, NOW, NARAL and other feminist groups. They’re following their belief that if you tell a lie enough times it eventually is believed to be the truth.  Their playbook, Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, says, “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”

I’m not a woman, but if I was, this would be an outright insult to my intelligence.

A friend recently brought to my attention his concern that the GOP was ignoring the belief among women that Republicans were oblivious to issues of concern to women.  He cited an article about a study conducted by two Republican groups that painted a dismal picture of Republicans among women.

imagesT8YBR0JNThese groups, American Crossroads and the American Action Network,  well aware of how women voted in 2012, aanconducted the study not only to see if two more years under Obama changed their position, but to develop a strategy for addressing their concerns.  While married women clearly supported Mitt Romney, single women overwhelmingly supported the President in 2012.  The mere fact that Republicans undertook this study should tell skeptics that the party is aware of this shortcoming and should tell women, “yes we hear you.”

I’m confident that Republicans will be presenting ideas that could interest women to at least give the GOP a “fresh look.”  At the same time, however, it will be incumbent upon Republican candidates to neuter those claims quoted at the top of this post. Continue reading →

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Chuck Todd’s naive remark

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Chuck Todd, the new host of NBC’s Meet the Press, hopes to improve the show’s ratings. He is shown here during Sundays exclusive interview with President Obama. (mrc.org photo)

“I’m as pissed off as anyone watching D.C. not work.  We’re in this horrible period when no one wants to practice politics,” said Chuck Todd, the new host of NBC’s Meet the Press.  I couldn’t help but note this pullout quote from Roger Yu’s piece on Todd in USA Today.

I am reminded of an old one-liner about a patient who read a bio about his doctor entering the practice of medicine. He later told the doctor he was uncomfortable having a doctor who is still practicing.

I found Todd’s quote to be a somewhat naïve observation for someone who has covered the White House for some time.  Surely he has seen how President Obama considers the political ramifications of everything he says and does.   In his book, Defense Secretary Robert Gates recounted the conversation of Hillary Clinton telling Obama she made a political decision during the 2008 campaign to be anti-war because of his position. Continue reading →

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Surprise! Senate subcommittee whitewashes IRS scandal; claims “no political bias”

“The majority report (Democrat) asserts that there was no political bias in the way the IRS selected groups for additional scrutiny and that conservative groups and liberal (progressive) groups were treated equally,” was the finding of the Senate subcommittee led by Michigan’s outgoing Sen. Carl Levin.  As usual, the report was released late Friday to avoid major news coverage.… read more

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Kerry, Clinton rank climate change #1 threat

Two former secretaries of state, John Kerry and Hillary Clinton took to microphones this past week to push their belief that climate change is a bigger threat than radical Muslim extremists, despite the fact that Americans disagree.

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John Kerry turns to the Bible for guidance to push the threat of global climate change. (thefederalistpapers.org)

For Kerry, it was his second attempt to convince us.  On Feb. 16, 2014, speaking primarily to an audience of students in Jakarta, Kerry said “climate change can now be considered another weapon of mass destruction, perhaps the world’s most fearsome weapon of mass destruction.”  He went on to say that when he thinks of global threats – terrorism, epidemics, poverty, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction – the reality is that climate change ranks right up there with every single one of them.”

In Hawaii last month, Kerry called climate change “the biggest challenge of all that we face right now.”

On Sept. 2, 2014, at a ceremony to promote Shaarik Zafar, a Texas attorney, to be a special representative of the Muslim Communities, he said, “confronting climate change is, in the long run, one of the greatest challenges that we face, and you can see this duty or responsibility laid down the scriptures, clearly, beginning in Genesis.” Kerry believes our respect for God’s creation translates into a duty to protect and sustain His first creation, Earth.  Why did Kerry choose this venue to make this pronouncement?  He believes “Muslim-majority countries are among the most vulnerable” when it comes to the impact of climate change.”

And this is our foreign policy negotiator. Continue reading →

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Brief news items you may have missed

 

A prophetic statement by a president who was a leader

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In 2007, a prescient President Bush told the world what would happen if we left Iraq before commanders agreed. (topnews.in)

“I know some in Washington would like us to start leaving Iraq now.  To begin withdrawing before our commanders tell us we are ready would be dangerous for Iraq, for the region, and for the United States.  It would mean surrendering the future of Iraq to al Qaeda.  It would mean that we’d be risking mass killings on a horrific scale.  It would mean we would allow the terrorists to establish a safe haven in Iraq to replace the one they lost in Afghanistan.  It would mean increasing the probability that American troops would have to return at some later date to confront an enemy that is even more dangerous.” – President George W. Bush, July 12, 2007

For the liberal media to provide coverage of this statement would reflect poorly on President Obama, who was only interested in fulfilling his campaign promise of getting out of Iraq. Now he doesn’t know what to do.  Feckless.

                                     NBC continues to carry water for President Obama

Most of us are outraged by the lack of leadership being exhibited by President Obama in the face of the ISIS threat in Syria and Iraq with his “I don’t have a strategy” admission. But then he sends a mixed message saying, on one hand, that the U.S. would “degrade and destroy” ISIS, but follows with the unbelievable claim that it was “a manageable problem.”

Brian Williams and the NBC Nightly News, Sept. 2, 2014, saw it quite differently as you might expect. “For all those who may be wondering if the U.S. is going to rise up, take the bait and get into the fight to root them out,” he said, “the answer today from both the president and vice president appeared to be clear and unambiguous.” Continue reading →

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Our leaderless, rudderless nation

“The day I am inaugurated, not only the country looks at itself differently, but the world looks at America differently … If I’m reaching out to the Muslim world they understand that I’ve lived in a Muslim country and I may be Christian, but I also understand their point of view.  And so, I’m intimately concerned with what happens in these countries and the cultures and perspective these folks have … I think the world will have confidence that I am listening to them and that our future and our security is tied up with ability to work with other countries in the world that will ultimately make us safer.”  –  Barack Obama, Nov. 21, 2007

 

Fast forward through five and a half years of the Barack Obama presidency and we see the Muslim world on fire. The newest threat, the barbarous Muslim terrorist organization of ISIS, freely moved across Syria and into much of Iraq.  The president dithered for months before deciding to send  F-18’s and drones to hit a few targets, including vehicles we left behind after our abandonment of Iraq .

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(Editorial cartoons courtesy Steve Benson)

Most recently ISIS beheaded two Americans while chiding our commander-in-chief. After the first, James Foley, Obama was on the golf course within minutes of his condemnation statement.  And, while most of us learned of ISIS’s  latest victim, Steven Sotloff, during the morning hours Sept. 2,  we are led to believe the president didn’t learn about it until he was boarding the plane for Estonia late in the afternoon.

According to reports, the president hesitated for some 30 days before giving the go-ahead to rescue the American hostages on July 4, probably contributing to the mission’s failure.  He is said to have called off the Bin Laden raid several times. Continue reading →

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Voter apathy backfires on blacks in Ferguson

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Robert P. McCulloch has been asked to recuse himself should the killing of Michael Brown go to trial. He has won four terms as prosecuting attorney. (stlouscopa.com)

Perhaps you’ve heard that supporters in Michael Brown’s defense in Ferguson want County Prosecutor Robert P. McCulloch to recuse himself should the grand jury order a trial.

What’s the problem?  Ferguson is 67 per cent black and McCulloch easily won election four times, including a primary victory with 71 percent of the vote over his black opponent on Aug. 5, 2014.  There apparently wasn’t an effort to replace him. The problem is blacks do not register and vote.

While turnout by race is not collected in municipal elections there, just 12.3 per cent of eligible voters cast a ballot.  And, as a rule a low turnout favors white conservatives.

Leslie Broadnax, who was defeated by McCulloch, believes there is a “huge distrust in the system,” adding that “(voting) is not going to matter anyway, so my one vote doesn’t count.”

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Leslie Broadnax was defeated by Robert McCulloch by a 30-point margin in the Aug. 5, 2014 Democrat primary. (stlamerican.com)

“Well, if you get an entire community to individually feel that way,” she said, “collectively we’ve already lost.”

A caring black community in Ferguson could have easily defeated McCulloch, if they didn’t approve of the job he was doing, and put Broadnax in office.

“Voter apathy is very typical of the communities,” said David Kimball, a political science professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, who has studied the pattern of non-voting blacks in the inner-ring suburbs around St. Louis.  I’m surprised Attorney General Eric Holder hasn’t charged Republicans with voter suppression. Continue reading →