The price of an Obama White House

Age And Experience: Carter’s Catastrophes

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=305938528597493

“Hardest-hit by the mortgage foreclosures have been the citizens that Democrats always claim to help most — inner-city residents who fell victim to low or no down payment schemes, unexpected adjustable rates, deceptive loan applications and commission-hungry salespeople.  Now we’re having to bail out at huge cost Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the very agencies that were supposed to stabilize the system. In time, this should improve the situation. But the party of Carter and Clinton that midwifed our mortgage mess now wants to be trusted to take over and have the government run our entire system of health care!”

Obama wants to “spread the wealth around . . . “

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/13/obama-plumber-plan-spread-wealth/

TRUTH IN ADVERTISING!   How does one spread the wealth around?  Tax Small Business, and give it to ACORN, Fannie Mae, entitlements, and radical reformers who want to use the federal government to “moderize” America.

“ACORN paid me cash and cigs”

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10102008/news/politics/1_voter__72_registrations_132965.htm

Commenting:  Tony Perkins, Family Research Council

“The excitement over the spike in voter registrations has quickly turned to suspicion as officials in almost a dozen states have launched investigations to determine whether these nine million Americans are actually eligible. In the weeks leading up to November 4, the New York Post found dozens of people who have different names but share the same story. Most of the accounts, like Christopher Barkley’s, are from swing states and involve ACORN, the “community activist group” submitting the bulk of the new voter applications. Barkley says he was “hounded” to register by ACORN workers in Ohio, a crown jewel of the presidential race. “I kept getting approached by folks who asked me to register. They’d ask me if I was registered. I’d say yes, and they’d ask me to do it again.” Ohio voter Lateala Goins told a Post reporter, “You can tell them you’re registered as many times as you want; they do not care. They will follow you to the buses, they will follow you home…” Another man in Cleveland says he “was given cash and cigarettes” by ACORN representatives for registering a whopping 72 times in the last year and a half. The fraud gets even worse in Texas, where one county found that 4,000 of its registered voters were dead-but even that didn’t stop many of them from voting! In Florida, a state that President Bush won by less than 600 ballots in 2000, the Sun-Sentinel learned that more than 30,000 felons are still on the rolls, despite the law rendering them ineligible. Although 11 states are investigating ACORN’s role in widespread election fraud, time is short. With the nation on edge and Americans sharply divided as to who can lead us back, democracy cannot become corruption’s next victim. Regardless of who wins, we all have a stake in an honest process.”

 

Question of the Day: Does Obama enjoy woman battering?

McCain has told people at his rallies they should respect Sen. Obama and engage reasonable debate. 

Question:  Has Sen. Obama ever told the legions of Sarah Palin critics they should stop their vicious assaults?  Has he ever said a word about the way she is being treated?  Has Sen. Biden objected to hate speech, other than what he perceives coming from Republicans?

The only thing we can find is Obama saying Palin’s family is off limits, so we suppose he agrees with Madonna and others who engage in verbal violence almost daily, even threating to harm Gov. Palin physically?

If not, why doesn’t he say so?  Can it be there is political advantage to remaining silent, voting “present”?

Can it be Sen. Obama is enjoying the trashing of Sarah Palin, even nodding approval, secretly?  Afterall, the vicious assaults and insults directed at Gov. Palin come from Obama supporters, routinely.

Pletka buries Maher and Affleck

This was aired in October 2006.  

 

Danielle Pletka absolutely kicks butt debating both Maher and Affleck, and she is in fact so articulate, and so in command of the facts, even Dobbs hushes up most of the time. 

 

Very entertaining. 

 

Affleck is revealed a moron, saying Bush made N. Korea and Iran “more evil” by calling them evil.  He says anyone who points out that terrorists are terrorists encourages terrorism.  Derf wad.  Then, because Pletka presses a rational point, that we should take people seriously when they say they want to kill us, Affleck says she is encouraging terrorism.  Then, he says “we have to be smart about this.”  Ben, Ben—you are a dunderhead of the highest order.  

 

This woman slams both Maher and Affleck singlehandedly: the power of rational thought armed with factual material articulated aggressively!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqRjYwyk9Bk

 

More from Pletka:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUH_giNZIwE

Arianna Huffington: War Profiteer

Huffing Arianna’s Seething Slander

Even the deceased cannot escape her heartless denunciations

 

By Allan Erickson

10.13.08

 

Why is Arianna Huffington attacking her friends in the mainstream media?  Can it be the MSM is about to report on matters she finds offensive, and thus, she employs a kind of Bush pre-emptive strike with this incredible scrawl?

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/the-self-loathing-liberal_b_98419.html 

Concerning Tony Snow, may he rest in peace, she writes he lied to us, consistently, saying he promoted “ . . .  some pre-packaged PR pitch cooked up in the White House to keep us in the dark. This was always Snow’s specialty — along with a glib dismissiveness that made him the poster child for the Bush administration’s brand of Callous Conservatism.”

Now there’s credibility, Arianna style.

Well, read on, because it has been made Kristol clear by Arianna Huffington: American politics is not, and cannot be, an exercise in reasoned debate engaged by contending patriotic parties working to acquire legitimate majorities.

 

No. Those who disagree with Arianna & Friends (Soros, MoveOn, Obama) are the “enemies of . . . reality.”  Of course to embrace this lunacy one must agree only Arianna has a grip on reality, which is, needless to say, beyond nuts. 

 

Arianna readily admits, as far as the Left is concerned, politics is war: the Right is the enemy, an enemy to be destroyed, not debated. 

 

She celebrates this kind of warfare on her propagandist blog, ignoring her own hyper-partisanship, at the same time accusing the MSM (the MSM!) of bias Rightward.  Yes, we all know how the massive media only serves the interests of conservative Christians and Republicans! 

 

The author of “Pigs at the Trough,” appears totally uninterested in the pigs at Fannie and Freddie, seeking our vote on confidence with a book entitled:

 

“Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe.” 

 

Presumably the ‘lunatic fringe’ encompasses the 51% of Americans who put GWB in the White House, twice, but let’s not quibble.  Arianna has already demonstrated a chronic aversion to facts.  (And, don’t the facts have something to do with honesty, truth, and . . . reality?)

 

Arianna declares:  ” . . . make no mistake, (Karl) Rove, (Bill) Kristol, and (Tony) Snow are the enemies — of honesty, truth, facts, reality, and the public’s right to know. Anything.”  Arianna on Huffington today, an April reposting.  Good thing we have Huffington Post or we’d know nothing!

 

Certainly, Americans are a contentious lot.  We’ve been buttin’ heads since 1776.  However, for Arianna, a once-devoted conservative, to insist politics is warfare belies her ignorance concerning values we once held dear, values that have tended to bind us together, rather than rip us apart.  Obviously she prefers ripping.

 

And if binding together in these perilous times provides the tipping point to survival, Arianna’s world view tends to hand our future to our real enemies.  In other words, demonizing Americans who disagree with her is not only sophomoric, it actively works against the greatest good for the greatest number.

 

The Founders set up a system of government where competing points of view could be heard, debated and evaluated, such that compromise and consensus might yield positive decision-making.   All this, it was expected, would be conducted in the context of honor, fair play and mutual respect, the assumption being everyone at the table sought what was best for the country.

 

Arianna’s opinion and attitude demonstrates we have drifted far from any notion of fair play, mutual respect and a general focus on the greatest good for the greatest number. 

 

Arianna and like-minded people prefer we divide into warring camps.  They prefer savage politics and reject the politics of good will.  While she points the boney finger of accusation—denigrating good men by going so low as calling them the enemies of truth—-she simultaneously ignores serial crimes in her own camp, and excoriates a massive media sympathetic to her cause.  If her goal is to alienate everyone, she appears right on track, or should one say, Left.

 

If she is not the personification of a loose cannon, then perhaps Arianna is simply taking a slight back seat to the likes of Joe Biden or John Murtha, two individuals chronically incapable of holding their tongues, uninterested in building bridges or embracing policy consistency, indeed, like Arianna, two people who demonstrate their net contribution has been making enemies of their own countrymen and ripping America apart from within.   

 

In war, all that matters is winning.  Some people fight according to the rules.  Others decide that winning is so important, the rules don’t matter.  This is what Saul Alinsky taught Barack Obama, and this is what Arianna embraces. 

 

So, in war, without rules, ACORN, Ayers, Rezko, Annenberg, Jeremiah Wright and Farrakhan are of no concern to Arianna and her allies.  These are mere distractions, unless the MSM picks up the scent.

 

Dick Morris, writing today, indicates those associations will be of interest to most Americans, if the markets stabilize and financial chaos no longer occupies the front page.

 

“As ACORN gets raided by the FBI, it will hurt Obama. He was general counsel to its Illinois affiliate, and Obama channeled millions to the radical group when he got control over the money William Ayers got from the Annenberg Foundation.  All of these ties are damning for Obama and will reinforce the doubts that Wright first put in our minds. They will lead people to question Obama’s values and his fitness for the presidency.  A man whose spiritual adviser is Wright, whose financial backer is Tony Rezko, and whose first major employer was William Ayers might not be a good choice for president. But for these associations to loom large enough in our consciousness to impact our vote, the market has to settle down so we can hear the campaign over its din.”

 

Will voters turn and consider the glaring warning lights on Obama’s dashboard?

 

Not if Arianna and her cohorts have their way.  

 

Dominating media, education, entertainment and politics for 50 years, the Left has learned how to manipulate, confuse and distract the public.  And the Left knows if you appeal to selfishness, you have an advantage right out of the gate.  Most people are motivated by selfishness, and so, the Left preys upon that destructive impulse.  Hence, the pervasive cries are heard:

 

>My healthcare: healthcare is a ‘right’

>A college education is a ‘right’

>My body, my self: it’s my right to kill my unborn child due to an ‘inconvenient’ pregnancy so I can benefit economically and not be called upon to sacrifice

>My ‘right’ to marry my same sex partner and redefine traditional marriage

>Me, me, me, me, me . . .

 

Arianna, leading the Obama charge, will have you believe it is their ‘right’ to rule this country because anyone who disagrees with them is the enemy of ” honesty, truth, facts, reality, and the public’s right to know.”  Is it not selfish to claim exclusive ‘right’ to truth and power, even infantile?

 

You will notice the Right acknowledges selfishness, as did the Founders, but encourages people to move beyond it in their politics, to focus on the greatest good for the greatest number, a focus which has always seen greater measures of success when we embrace democracy and economic freedom.

 

Historically, trending otherwise, toward government control, Leftist domination, and socialism, always translates into tyranny, always. 

 

Thus, Arianna and Friends trend tyrannical, unwittingly, waging war against our fundamental strengths: mutual respect, fairness, love of country, and a tradition of preferring patriotism to ideology. 

 

Fueled by an almost hysterical devotion to ideology bordering on psychosis, Arianna cannot even extend mercy to the deceased, slandering Tony Snow, by all accounts, one of the most decent, honest and respected figures ever to grace American public life. 

 

Misinformation accomplished Arianna.  Your blog is a bludgeon in the war you obviously relish, and profit from.

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PS:  Karl and Bill are good guys too.  Contrary to Arianna, they proceed according to what they truly believe is best for the country. 

 

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BACKROOM CONNECTIONS:

 

FYI— Surprise, surprise.

 

“The Huffington Post has raised a modest sum of close to $11 million in two rounds of funding. Backers include the venture-capital firms Softbank Ventures and Greycroft Partners, and co-founder Lerer. Small investments also came from his friend former AOL president Robert Pittman, and writer Nora Ephron, a friend of Huffington’s. As editor-in-chief, Huffington is paid a salary and also has a minority equity stake (she says she doesn’t know exactly how much she owns) in what increasingly appears to be a more mainstream business. In September, the Huffington Post hired Betsy Morgan, who was general manager of CBSnews.com, to be its first full-time CEO. Willow Bay, the former TV anchor and producer, recently joined as editor-at-large.”

http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/26/magazines/fortune/huffington.fortune/

 

Chuck Norris Cleans Arianna’s Clock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Rb4W54JnI

 

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/09/13/chuck-norris-smacks-down-arianna-huffington