Bush is the sole American chief executive -- perhaps the sole leader in world history -- to have had a personality disorder named after him, the immortal Bush Derangement Syndrome. Few at this point recall that this was an actual psychological effort at diagnosing the president's effect on the tender psyches of this country's leftists. Was there a Hitler syndrome? A Stalin syndrome? The very existence of BDS says more about the left in general than it does about Bush.Excerpt from Bush and The Bush-Haters
What were the reasons for this hatred and the campaign that grew out of it? We can ask that question as often as we like, but we'll get no rational answer. All that we can be sure of is that Bush's actual policies and personality had little to do with it. Al Gore's egomaniacal attempt to defy this country's constitutional rules of succession merely acted as a trigger, giving the left a pretext to open up the attack. The same can be said about lingering bitterness over Bill Clinton's impeachment. While certainly a factor, it by no means accounts for a complete explanation. After all, did the GOP of the 70s go overboard in avenging Richard Nixon's forced resignation by working over Jimmy Carter? The best course was actually that which they followed, to allow Mr. Peanut to destroy himself.
As in all such cases, Bush hatred involves a number of factors that will be debated by historians for decades to come. But one component that cannot be overlooked is ideology, specifically the ideologization of American politics. It is no accident that the three most hated recent presidents are all Republican. These campaigns are yet another symptom of the American left's collapse into an ideological stupor characterized by pseudo-religious impulses, division of the world into black and white entities, and the unleashing of emotions beyond any means of rational control. The demonization of Bush -- and Reagan, and Nixon -- is the flip-side of the messianic response to Barack Obama.
There's nothing new about any of this. It's present in Orwell's 1984 in the "Five-Minute Hate" against the imaginary Emmanuel Goldstein, himself based on Leon Trotsky. The sole novel factor is its adaptation as a conscious tactic in democratic politics. That is unprecedented, and a serious cause for concern.
Anyone who follows the media has probably heard many times that the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer, and incomes of the population in general are stagnating.Media Choose Data That Fit Their Notions
Moreover, those who say such things can produce many statistics, including data from the Census Bureau, which seem to indicate that.
On the other hand, income tax data recently released by the Internal Revenue Service seem to show the exact opposite: People in the bottom fifth of income-tax filers in 1996 had their incomes increase by 91% by 2005.
The top 1% — "the rich" who are supposed to be monopolizing the money, according to the left — saw their incomes decline by a whopping 26%.
Meanwhile, the average taxpayers' real income rose by 24% between 1996 and 2005.
How can all this be? How can official statistics from different agencies of the same government — the Census Bureau and the IRS — lead to such radically different conclusions?
TUESDAY may be regarded by future historians as the beginning of the end for the United States of America.Read the rest here
It is the first credible date that may become iconic as the moment when the federation that came into existence in 1776 and rose to global hegemony in the 20th century joined Macedonia, Rome and Britain in the catacombs of fallen empires. Barack Obama is America's nemesis.
This presidency has the very real potential to impoverish America on a scale that could demote it irreversibly from its economic superpower status.
If one were to look at the activity on Capital Hill during the campaign, there would be no question in their minds that both McCain and Obama were sweating the “natural born citizen” issue.FEBRUARY, 2008:
How do we arrive at that conclusion? We take McCain’s ingrained, glib advice and “Look at the record, my friends“.
Bill S. 2678 attempted to change article II, section 1, clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States with reference to the requirements of being a “natural born citizen” and hence; the entitlement to run for President of the United States.APRIL, 2008:
Within only five short weeks after Senate Bill 2678 faded from the floor, we find Sen. Claire McCaskill back again, making another attempt with Senate Resolution 511.While Senate Resolution 511 was passed on April 30, 2008 only as a non-binding resolution, in the meantime, and not coincidentally, we barely avoided what is known as a "con con."
Calling a constitutional convention has been a hot-button issue for over three decades. Although it is one of two methods Article V of the Constitution provides for amendment, it has never been used. The danger in holding a con con, according to most legal scholars, is that once the delegates are assembled there is no way to limit debate to one topic, and it is possible that an entirely new Constitution could be introduced and ratified.Sen. Claire McCaskill decided to endorse Obama in January, 2008......I can't do it justice from this point on. Please read the rest of this story which should scare the f-ing shit out of you:
Remember Barack Obama's famous attack on John McCain, that McCain wasn't willing to go to the cave where Osama bin Laden was hiding: "John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives." Or during the October 7, 2008 debate: "We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority."Didn't you always really know, in your heart, that Obama was a phoney? The Backtracker
...despite being informed of his tax responsibilities and given an employee tax manual and annual tax allowance request forms, Geithner still failed to pay years of self-employment and FICA taxes.Update: The Senate Finance Committee posted the documents related to Geithner’s “mistakes”
After the months of put downs, fabrications, waffling, misrepresentations of progress, attacks, etc...The far left cut-&-runner has decided to stick with the Bush Iraq Plan after all. It figures.Read more...unless you're a Democrat, in which case you'll want to pretend you didn't see this.
Obama’s top terrorism and intelligence adviser, John O. Brennan, heads a firm that was cited in March for breaching sensitive files in the State Department’s passport office, according to a State Department Inspector General’s report released this past July.The target:
During a State Department briefing on March 21, 2008, McCormack confirmed that the contractor had accessed the passport files of presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and John McCain, and that the inspector general had launched an investigation.The birth certificate:
Sources who tracked the investigation tell Newsmax that the main target of the breach was the Obama passport file, and that the contractor accessed the file in order to “cauterize” the records of potentially embarrassing information.
“They looked at the McCain and Clinton files as well to create confusion,” one knowledgeable source told Newsmax. “But this was basically an attempt to cauterize the Obama file.”
At the time of the breach, Brennan was working as an unpaid adviser to the Obama campaign.
The passport files include “personally identifiable information such as the applicant’s name, gender, social security number, date and place of birth, and passport number,” according to the inspector general report.Re: Biden/Passport Office
The files may contain additional information including “original copies of the associated documents,” the report added. Such documents include birth certificates, naturalization certificates, or oaths of allegiance for U.S.-born persons who adopted the citizenship of a foreign country as minors.
Following the breach, State Department managers met with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, whose committee has oversight over the Foreign Service and the passport office. Biden will be sworn in as Obama’s vice president on Jan. 20.Re: IRAN
Following the breach, State Department managers met with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, whose committee has oversight over the Foreign Service and the passport office. Biden will be sworn in as Obama’s vice president on Jan. 20.
The State Department Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a 104-page report on the breach last July. Although it is stamped “Sensitive but Unclassified,” the report was heavily redacted in the version released to the public, with page after page blacked out entirely.
The problems posed by the breach were so serious that the inspector general recommended that the State Department conduct “vulnerability and risk assessments of all passport systems” to identify security weaknesses and suggest “a timetable for implementing corrective actions.”
Acting Assistant secretary for administration William H. Moser sent a six-page reply concurring with the recommendation, all but one paragraph of which was blacked out because of the sensitivity of the information it contained.
Had Brennan been appointed CIA director, as rumored in the Obama campaign shortly after the election, senators also would have questioned him about an article he wrote in an obscure foreign policy magazine over the summer.Something very bad is going on here. Truth to power.
The article, entitled “The Conundrum of Iran: Strengthening Moderates without Acquiescing to Belligerence,” appeared in the July issue of "The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science."
Among other recommendations, it argued that the next U.S. administration should grant political legitimacy to the terrorist organizations Hezbollah and Hamas, and should exercise “strategic patience” with Iran rather than engaging in “bellicose” rhetoric and coercive diplomacy.
So let me stop insulting you, dear reader, and pose a question to which we do not have any obvious answer. Why is Sen. Clinton, the spouse of the great influence-peddler, being nominated in the first place? In exchange for giving the painful impression that our State Department will be an attractive destination for lobbyists and donors, what exactly are we getting? George Marshall? Dean Acheson? Even Madeleine Albright? No, we are getting a notoriously ambitious woman who made a fool of herself over Bosnia, at the time and during the recent campaign, and who otherwise has no command of foreign affairs except what she's picked up second-hand from an impeached ex-president, a disbarred lawyer, and a renter of the Lincoln Bedroom. If the Senate waves this through, it will have reinforced its recent image as the rubber-stamp chamber of a bankrupt banana republic. Not an especially good start to the brave new era.All of it
Evidence of Browner's association with Socialist International has been largely scrubbed from the group's Web site. Someone in the incoming administration — Browner herself? — must have felt it wouldn't be wise for people to know about it.Investor's Business Daily reports
This we can understand. What we can't understand is why those ties didn't disqualify her for the job.
Leon Panetta is not the best choice for heading the CIA. There are serious reservations in Washington about his qualifications for such an important position. Of course, Panetta can in no way be associated with hostile foreign intelligence services. But his previous support for a dubious think thank like the Institute of Policy Studies – an outspoken anti-CIA lobby group, manipulated in the past by former Soviet intelligence services is anything but a recommendation for a job like CIA chief. Such a display of naivete should become him ill.Read more
The sun is currently near minimum on its 11-year activity cycle, the report explains, but is expected to produce solar storms that will increase in intensity and frequency as it approaches peak activity levels in 2012.Shhh, don't tell Barack, he'll be sad
The NASA report warns that if the sun's activity over the next few years flares to the level of the May 1921 "superstorm" or the so-called Carrington event of 1859, a "perfect storm" that Space.com called "the most powerful onslaught of solar energy in recorded history," the U.S. may not be equipped to handle the damages.
"The impacts of severe space weather events," the report states, "can go beyond disruption of existing technical systems and lead to short-term, as well as to long-term collateral socioeconomic disruptions."
The report listed possible cascading effects of a major solar storm as "disruption of the transportation, communication, banking and finance systems, and government services; the breakdown of the distribution of potable water owing to pump failure, and the loss of perishable foods and medications because of a lack of refrigeration."
In addition, the researchers warn, "Emergency services would be strained, and command and control might be lost."
Joan Baez was one of the very few, maybe only, "artists" who supported the Communists during the war but called for protests against them afterwards.Watch the video!
Sending out nice, fat checks from the U.S. Treasury is an idea that goes back at least to the failed presidential campaign of George McGovern in 1972. But for a tax cut to have any real stimulative effect on productivity, it must serve to reward that productivity: the more you produce (i.e., earn), the bigger your tax cut.Investor's Business Daily
JANUARY 7--In a remarkable screw-up, a Department of Justice official today accidentally distributed to the media a document containing the names of nearly 20 confidential witnesses interviewed during a federal probe targeting the operators of a fraudulent investment scheme. In announcing felony charges against two men for their roles in an alleged $15 million Ponziesque swindle, the spokesman for Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (he of Rod Blagojevich- and Scooter Libby-prosecuting fame) e-mailed reporters a 62-page U.S. District Court complaint filed against John Walsh and Charles Martin, principals of the now-defunct One World Capital Group.The Smoking Gun tells all
Just as he has done on foreign policy, Obama has embraced the most right-wing economic policies in order to defend the interests of America's financial elite. This will produce shock and disappointment, and ultimately anger and opposition, among working people who voted to end these reactionary policies.Obama stimulus plan to include major corporate tax cuts
Putin has engineered a serious energy threat to hit NATO allies while the Hope-Change crowd’s still hung over from the most expensive, lavish, and decadent Inauguration ever produced. When people like Leon Panetta, who has no intelligence experience, are nominated by Obama to lead the CIA and other experience-requiring arms of our geopolitical team…and when people like Samantha Power, the most naively dangerous woman in the world, lurk somewhere in the shadows encouraging the “let’s hug it out” approach to dealing with Russia that Obama displayed in August when Russia invaded Georgia (don’t worry, the World of Coke is fine).Putin's gas trap enters second phase...
The right of self-defense is the basis of all individual and national freedoms, because if you can't protect yourself, all other rights and freedoms become meaningless. Yet the right of self-defense has been increasingly diminished by liberalism, in favor of "grievance based violence".
It is widely known that Obama's Selective Service Registration appears to be fake when examined closely by experts, and has many suspicious characteristics. It exhibits several inconsistencies.Here's the truth!
Easily one of the most important stories of 2008 has been all the evidence suggesting that this may be looked back on as the year when there was a turning point in the great worldwide panic over man-made global warming. Just when politicians in Europe and America have been adopting the most costly and damaging measures politicians have ever proposed, to combat this supposed menace, the tide has turned in three significant respects.First,
all over the world, temperatures have been dropping in a way wholly unpredicted by all those computer models which have been used as the main drivers of the scare.Secondly,
2008 was the year when any pretence that there was a "scientific consensus" in favour of man-made global warming collapsed.Thirdly,
as banks collapsed and the global economy plunged into its worst recession for decades, harsh reality at last began to break in on those self-deluding dreams which have for so long possessed almost every politician in the western world. As we saw in this month's Poznan conference, when 10,000 politicians, officials and "environmentalists" gathered to plan next year's "son of Kyoto" treaty in Copenhagen, panicking politicians are waking up to the fact that the world can no longer afford all those quixotic schemes for "combating climate change" with which they were so happy to indulge themselves in more comfortable times.Read the whole thing!
What's the Secret?
written by Tiza, December 24, 2008
Whatever BO is hiding is truly a secret and will shock everyone! I was reading an article from Atlas Shrugs where Pamela Geller was talking about a discussion that she had with Joseph Farah from WND and that he knows the true story of BO's birth, however, he will reveal it at a time that he chooses. I think for those who know it they are hoping that BO will reveal it himself, give himself a chance to come clean.
There is another person who confirms this, so I'll quote it for you. This person calls BO, "Zero."
On his To The Point News website, Jack Wheeler has divulged that he knows "the true story" about Obama's birth situation, and it is "wild," but he - and the contact person who also runs a major news site and told him the facts - are apparently not yet prepared to reveal this shocker to the public. Wheeler said he will let the source of the information reveal it in his own time. "...The details of what he told me is for him to reveal when he chooses, not me. I can tell you it is OMG wild."
ARDC is the agency of the Supreme Court of Illinois which registers attorneys and investigates complaints of misconduct filed against attorneys holding a license to practice law in Illinois...WHAT DID SHE DO THAT in 1993 -- AFTER only 4 YEARS -- HER LICENSE to PRACTICE LAW WAS REVIEWED AND PUT ON INACTIVE by a DISCIPLINARY AGENCY?...and what happened in the Rose Garden?
The VA rule only allows Bibles and crosses to sit on the floor next to the altar.From Gateway Pundit
The report comes out late in the day on Tuesday, Dec. 23. They know that most folks like yourself are going to be off the air on Wed, or they are going to have holiday themed shows. Thurs, is obviously not a news day, and Fri is likely going to be the same. Next you have the dead week between Christmas and New Years.From an Assistant United States Attorney
Obama is in Hawaii until Jan. 2 with no public events planned where he might be asked questions. Emanuel is in Africa where he is out of contact on a long planned family vacation.
Consider that again -- the incoming WH Chief of Staff, in a "change of parties" transition from one Presidency to the next which is less than 4 weeks away -- and he's in Africa??????
And they want the press to have nothing on this story other than their self-serving exoneration of all key staffers.
From 1997 to 2004, while Obama served in the state Senate, eleven of Rezko's thirty properties were located in Obama's district. And during that same time, Rezko continued to be Obama's main source of campaign contributions.
In 2003, Rezko held a fundraiser for Obama's run for US Senate seat in his Chicago mansion, in which reportedly 100-130 guests attended. Several days following, Obama reported contributions from 3 of Rezko's associates.
"The donor list included six people involved in the two federal indictments of Rezko.
The Associated Press claims that the 10 warmest years on record have occurred since Bill Clinton's second inaugural. But after it was discovered that NASA's James Hansen, Gore's chief scientific ally, had been fudging the numbers, the agency was forced to correct its data. The 10 warmest years turn out to be, in descending order: 1934, 1998, 1921, 2006, 1931, 1999, 1953, 1990, 1938 and 1939.Wanna know the truth? Al Gore is stupid and/or simply dishonest:
Speaking of rising sea levels, is Al Gore smarter than a fourth-grader? James O'Brien, emeritus professor at Florida State University who studies climate variability and the oceans, thinks not. "When the Arctic Ocean ice melts, it never raises sea level because floating ice is floating ice, because it's displacing water," he points out.
"When the ice melts, sea level actually goes down. I call it a fourth-grade science experiment: Take a glass, put some ice in it, put water in it, mark level where water is. . . . After the ice melts, the sea level didn't go up in your glass of water. It's called the Archimedes principle."
Did the AP forget how to do research? The warmest years on record mostly occurred before Clinton became President — and before Clinton was born.regurgitate Here!
Connor's complaint charges Mutual Bank removed from the file an inconvenient appraisal he conducted of fraudulent appraisals submitted to permit the Rezkos and the Obamas to conclude working in collusion with one another.Read more
The complaint argues the initial fraudulent appraisal over-valued the property to permit the bank to loan the Rezkos the maximum possible to complete their side of the transaction.
A former INS official who attended meetings with Rahm Emanuel when Emanuel was a White House aide says the hard-charging Democrat relaxed rules to naturalize even criminal immigrants and secure their votes for President Clinton ahead of the 1996 presidential election.Read more
President-elect Barack Obama, who has chosen Emanuel to run White House operations as his chief of staff, has promised to sign legislation that loosens immigration and puts even illegal aliens on a fast track to citizenship.
Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It's a historic statement - and nobody has yet grasped its significance.Read more
I began learning about Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich early in 2008 and wrote my first article mentioning Blagojevich in April. Why did I begin scrutinizing Rod Blagojevich? I was reading the transcripts from the Tony Rezko trial and investigation and the names of Rezko, Obama and Blagojevich were intertwined in a web of corruption and deception. On December 12, 2008, the Citizen Wells blog presented an article about corruption in the IL Health Planning Facilities Board. The article revealed the ties to Rezko, Levine and Weinstein in their indictments and Blagojevich in criminal charges placed against him. The article also requests that Federal Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indict and/or arrest Barack Obama for his role in rigging the board when Obama was in the IL Senate. Article that was published and faxed to Fitzgerald.Read more
Patrick Fitzgerald and the investigators working with him have obviously been aware of Obama’s ties to crime and corruption in Chicago and IL for many months. They have been proceeding in a logical and methodical manner. Sentencing of Tony Rezko was delayed and obviously he has been talking. Anyone following this story all year knows much about Obama’s ties to corruption and Fitzgerald knows much more. Obama is the next logical target of indictment and/or arrest.
Did you know?GATEWAY PUNDIT ROCKS!!!
** That if Pres. George W. Bush really WERE Hitler, most of his political opponents would be dead by now?
** That if politicians could run things like the auto industry successfully, the Soviet Union WOULDN'T have collapsed?
** That the national media's fantasy that Barack Obama and Chicago's political culture have little to do with each other is less statistically probable than being struck by lightning or winning the lottery?
Dr. Vieira is a consummate constitutional authority. He says that if just one member of the House and one member of the Senate were to challenge Hussein’s eligibility to serve as President in writing when the Electoral College’s votes arrive in the Senate, the Congress would have to conduct a full investigation, complete with witnesses, testimony and documents. Dr. Vieira urges you to get in touch with your Congressmen and Senators for the purpose.Remember, you are not asking them to deny the presidency to Hussein. You are merely asking them to require him to prove his eligibility.•••.
...why would a judge extend the period before sentencing when the convicted prisoner expressed a desire to get on with prison? Without a new briefs deadline, the expedited Jan. 6 sentencing could now be pushed back further.Ho Ho Ho!
Because Rezko, in the hopes of reducing his sentence, is singing in his cell about Blagojevich and maybe others. He's not done with his song repertoire and the feds haven't fully checked out his information to determine how grateful to be in sentence-seeking.
UPDATE #2: Here's why they pulled it but there’s still no explanation for why they reported on November 8th that the meeting had taken place!This is bad news for Obama since he got his Senior Advisor David Axelrod to say he "misspoke" when he was on Fox News November 23rd saying that Obama talked to Blagojevich about who should fill his Senate seat.During this election, the media completely ignored Tony Rezko, Illinois political corruption, and Obama’s involvement in all of this…because they wanted Obama to be elected.Obama could become the first president ever taken into custody.
If the media took a bad land deal in Arkansas and turned it into the parade of Whitewater manufactured scandals, we shudder to think of what they could do with everything in Obama’s closet.
Governor Blagojevich has one Hell of a singing voice.
If special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has enough on him, through leaning on Tony Rezko and others here in Illinois, Fitzgerald will now lean on Blagojevich to give up Obama.
Everything from Obama’s land deal with Tony Rezko to the $10,000 bribe he took from Yesse Yehudah to divert state grants to “charities” Yehudah controlled could be brought up — in addition to whatever else Blagojevich knows.
Obama could become the first president ever taken into custody.
During this election, the media completely ignored Tony Rezko, Illinois political corruption, and Obama’s involvement in all of this…because they wanted Obama to be elected.
If the media took a bad land deal in Arkansas and turned it into the parade of Whitewater manufactured scandals, we shudder to think of what they could do with everything in Obama’s closet.
Governor Blagojevich has one Hell of a singing voice.
If special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has enough on him, through leaning on Tony Rezko and others here in Illinois, Fitzgerald will now lean on Blagojevich to give up Obama.
Everything from Obama’s land deal with Tony Rezko to the $10,000 bribe he took from Yesse Yehudah to divert state grants to “charities” Yehudah controlled could be brought up — in addition to whatever else Blagojevich knows.
December 3, 2008, Dr. Orly Taitz, DDS Esq filed a second lawsuit in the Supreme Court of California; Lightfoot v. Bowen, docket number S168690. This is a "Petition for Extraordinary Writ of Mandamus for Stay".If you are an attorney and would like to assist Dr. Orly Taitz, or if you are a citizen who wants to help!
No record of Obama holding an American passport prior to the one he received once becoming a U.S. senator has been found. If he traveled to Pakistan with an American passport, he wouldn't have been allowed in – since Pakistan was in turmoil in 1981 and under martial law. It was also on the State Department's travel ban list for U.S. citizens," she wrote.Read more
"If he couldn't get into Pakistan with a U.S. passport, perhaps he went there with an Indonesian passport. But the only way you can get one of those is if you are an Indonesian citizen..."
Many put the blame for the attack on years of Indian-Pakistani hostility and tension. In fact, relations between the two countries have never been warmer...Read more
This is precisely what the terrorists don’t want, of course. It’s the fact that tensions over Kashmir are diminishing that prompted them to attack on the November 28 — just as al-Qaeda blew up Samarra’s Golden Mosque in Iraq back in 2006 in order to keep Shias and Sunnis hating and killing each other. The illusion that formal agreements between peoples and governments — whether between India and Pakistan or Israel and the Palestinian Authority — can somehow defuse the terrorist problem was the among the first casualties in Mumbai. Terrorists see it the other way around: the relaxation of tensions is a problem requiring bloodshed.
Islamic terrorists don’t want justice or respect for their beliefs, or restoration of some imaginary homeland. They want violence and death. The duty of every government is to make sure that terrorists get them before they can deal them out. Pakistanis will never know peace, or peace with their neighbors in Afghanistan and India, until they finally and ruthlessly root out the terrorists in their midst.
The same goes for India. That was the second illusion that died in Mumbai: that democratic nations can somehow opt out of the war on terror.
Alias Barack Obama: a lie is born: The greatest identity fraud in history Paperback – July 10, 2012
