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The Obama Watch
The Governor, the President, and the Race Card
Smirking seems to be Barack Obama’s default response to criticism.
Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona has people talking about racism. An imaginary conversation that I’ve had with one progressive friend inevitably starts with “Racism? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Arizona Senate Bill 1070, set to take effect July 29, genuinely scares this man. “Next time I’m in Phoenix on business, will I be handcuffed and thrown in jail without any recourse, for six months, because I am dark-skinned?” he asked, before concluding that this was “a very distinct possibility.”
That’s foolishness. “Distinct” is not the adjective wanted here, because the possibility of my friend’s being arrested for “walking while brown” in Phoenix is more theoretical than “distinct.” He is, after all, a law-abiding citizen. Moreover, the bill in question explicitly forbids racial profiling, choosing instead to place emphasis where it should be, on criminal profiling.
But paranoia strikes deep, and Governor Brewer continues to show either political courage or obliviousness to “white privilege,” depending on your point of view. On May 11, she signed a bill targeting an ethnic studies program that preaches ethnic solidarity and promotes racial strife. The governor had no intention of carpet-bombing all ethnic studies programs, but every intention of firing a shot across the bow of a school district in Tucson that has carried more water for ideologues in MEChA (“Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán”) than Gunga Din ever hauled across the Khyber Pass. Brewer apparently signed the bill because she disagrees with incendiary progressive definitions of “empowerment.”
“The governor believes that public school students should be taught to treat and value each other as individuals,” her spokesman explained, rather than being “taught to resent or hate other races or classes of people.”
That reasoning makes sense to me, and presumably also to my Uncle Baudilio and my late grandfather Clemente, whom I like to think plays pinochle in heaven with San Juan de la Cruz and Santa Teresa de Avila, but it will not earn Brewer any kudos from people with investments in racial animosity.
Unfortunately, more than a few progressives are learning to fear whatever the president decides to smirk about, and smirking seems to be Barack Obama’s default response to criticism. His monologue at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner had at least one fellow Democrat describing the president’s humor as “a work in progress.” Not content to threaten a popular ‘tween singing group with a missile strike from a Predator drone, the president also offered a zinger for Governor Brewer: “We all know what happens in Arizona when you don’t have I.D.,” he said in his sonorous schoolmarm tone: “Adiós, amigos!”
Laugh riot, that guy. Too bad he did not read the 16-page text of the state legislation he was trying to lampoon. And would it be churlish to observe that President Obama did not peruse the 2,600-page health care reform bill that he supported, either? Somebody in the White House must work hard at writing hermetically-sealed legislative summaries in terms that appeal exclusively to Huffington Post columnists.
The people who actually read Arizona’s controversial legislation tend to be more sanguine about it than those who don’t or won’t, as witness the elegant and sensible Gabriela Salcedo, whose impassioned defense of SB 1070 during the public comment section of a city council meeting in Tucson became a YouTube sensation for all the right reasons.
The problem that progressives have is that they’re all alone at the end of the evening, when the bright lights have faded to blue. Their standard-bearer isn’t the leading man they thought he was going to be. Sure, Barack Obama can tilt a fedora rakishly over one eye for a dinner theater production of Guys and Dolls, but when somebody like Governor Brewer starts stealing their scenes together, he either crumbles or glares.
Whether the president’s limited range is product of upbringing or ideology would be hard to say, but it means that even B-list politicians eat his lunch. They — and we — deserve better.
The point is made vividly clear in cinematic terms. Think of Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn goading each other to greatness in The African Queen. Closer to our time, Michael Mann’s 1999 movie about what it took to blow the whistle on Big Tobacco provides another sterling example of teamwork in acting. There were big names (Crowe, Pacino, Plummer) in The Insider, but the most memorable scene in a movie full of them may have been Bruce McGill’s turn as lawyer Ron Motley at the moment when Motley refuses to let his star witness be bullied into silence by opposing counsel.
You may remember that a corporate lawyer threatens a former tobacco executive during a deposition: “Dr. Wigand, I am instructing you not to answer that question in accordance to the terms of the contractual obligations undertaken by you not to disclose any information about your work at the Brown and Williamson tobacco company, and in accordance with the force and effect of the temporary restraining order that has been entered against you by the court in the state of Kentucky. That means you don’t talk!”
Up to that point, all we have heard is a mailed fist of coercion wrapped in the velvet glove of legal jargon. But the same lawyer then makes the mistake of saying “Mr. Motley, we have rights here,” and it’s all the opening Motley needs to administer a whipping for the ages. “Boy,” he explodes, “You got rights… and lefts. Ups and downs and middles. So what? You don’t get to instruct anything around here! This is not North Carolina, not South Carolina, nor Kentucky! This is the sovereign state of Mississippi’s proceedings. Wipe that smirk off your face! Dr. Wigand’s deposition will be part of this record! And I’m gonna take my witness’s testimony whether the hell you like it or not!”
Note, please, that there is nothing pedantic in that script. Characters spar with each other rather than with straw men, and while there is bad faith enough to go around, nobody imputes racism, blows smoke by saying “let me be clear,” or sugarcoats his own rage by suggesting from behind the Presidential Seal that arguments other than his own “don’t always rank all that high on the truth meter.” There are lessons there for politicians who want to learn them, and they’re part of a class that Jan Brewer has already passed.
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Robbins Mitchell| 5.14.10 @ 6:39AM
Well,at least Barokeydoke is giving us the 'transparency' on this issue that he promised during the campaign...he is transparently racist....inferring from his statements about the new AZ law that people in this country illegally should be given a pass on obeying the law if they happen to be brown....which goes a long way toward explaining the congenital cowardice he has shown on so many other issues...evidently he learned a lot in 20 yrs attending the Trinity United Church of Hating on Whitey.
Paul Stone | 5.14.10 @ 12:32PM
I agree, Obama is racist. He continually profiles whites. The Cambridge Police Dept acted "stupidly", Arizona police will hassle you at the ice cream parlor, etc., etc., ad nauseum....
Alan Brooks| 5.15.10 @ 11:47PM
"But paranoia strikes deep [snip]"
Paranoia? as in Palin having thought Rahm was alluding to real "retards"-- including Trig!
Even Rainman wouldn't be so sensitive.
FTM| 5.17.10 @ 3:16AM
Geez Brooks, take a break, you don't have to be a jerk all the time.
Richard Baker| 5.14.10 @ 7:14AM
I guess a smirk is all that the Kenyan has.
Alan Brooks| 5.16.10 @ 12:38AM
I don't care about Obama's politics, I just don't want another Bush.
It would be worth giving Obama a second term merely to
keep GOP hacks in the baseball or oil business.
Retired_CSI| 5.16.10 @ 2:18PM
You don't have a clue what's coming down the pike with Obama's left-wing, radical, socialist agenda! World History is full of Obamas....and everyone of them eventually went down the tubes......in disgrace!
danfromatlanta| 5.17.10 @ 9:55AM
Too bad you are part of the sad minority that does not care about the obamanation's politics! He's a socialist, and if you don't care about that, I invite you to emmigrate to the socialist country of your choice, and look forward to hearing how much better you like it than living in the US! On that subject, I would ask you to consider the fact that people in communist/socialist countries, when they have the opportunity, will always try, sometimes at the risk of their lives and safety, to come here rather than continue in their "worker's paradise". Ever wonder why? No, I didn't think so.
Carol| 5.14.10 @ 7:27AM
I love Jan Brewer. That woman has more cajones than all the Democrats in power have combined. She is so courageous as she goes about doing the work the Federal Government should be doing.
The Idiot-in-Chief likes to act the tough guy with words but he doesn't know anything about what Jan Brewer has signed into law. And that Idiot AG Holder admits he hasn't read the few pages of law that he was anxious to attack as soon as asked about it.
And for Jan Brewer to ban an ethnic studies panel whose soul mission is to destroy the U.S.A. (DID OBAMA INVENT THAT CLASS?) is the topping on the cake. La Raza must be flipping out and that makes me flip for joy!
Stephie| 5.14.10 @ 1:32PM
Careful Carol. You know that other frump obama put on the Supreme Court is a member of La Raza.
She may get her big panties in a knot and reverse the decision on that ethnic studies class.
As I've said many times here, I wake up some mornings and think I have landed in a parallel universe. WTF!
DT| 5.16.10 @ 6:44PM
Parallel? More like obtuse but I know the feeling
Average Infidel| 5.14.10 @ 7:29AM
Usually I have found people in general, who have a limited understanding of an issue or give you their rendition of the lie, to use smirks, slander, nose raising and the sort as a means to show others of their own ignorance. It seems that the so-called dear leader, as well as his AG, have not only not read the bill, but use the same stupid look on their faces when caught.
Don't expect the lib's to go away from this issue with anything nice or factual. I personaly don't care what color you are, you are either an American citizen, or you are an illegal invader to our borders. And as such be thankful that I am not in charge. You break into my house and you meet the business end of a 12-gage tell no more lies truth holder with a pissed-off Patriot behind it. End of story.
FakeEagle| 5.14.10 @ 7:38AM
Interesting "Princess Bride" reference. Indeed, Obama is much like Vizzini. He's purportedly the brains of the crew, yet when push comes to shove, he strides around the deck of his ship yelling, "Move the THING, and.... raise that OTHER THING!"
Dean from Ohio| 5.16.10 @ 7:55PM
Nice observation! Watch for someone to say to President Obama, in complete deadpan, "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect!"
Tim*| 5.14.10 @ 7:43AM
Obama is a serial race baiter and an angry divisive provocateur . He's neither a Statesman nor Presidential.
He swaggers and trash talks , as the immature punk ,that he apparently is .
Spike| 5.14.10 @ 11:04AM
Rules for Radicals (Alinsky) is a textbook on how to tear down "the system." It works great for those out of power, to tear down, but it does not instruct on what to do, once in power and authority.
This is glaringly obvious, as we watch this President [attempt] to govern.
FTM| 5.17.10 @ 3:21AM
Have you actually read "Rules for radicals?" I have. The lastest part of the book Alinsky laments that when the previous agitators end up in the position of control and authority that they themselves end up as the targets of a new generation of agitators. Just as President Obama has.
Nancy| 5.14.10 @ 1:46PM
I absolutely agree. Obama is the most "unpresidential" president we have ever had. He smirks and disparages those of us who dare agree with his road to socialism agenda, and sucks up to every toady in the Arab world. He is dead set on destroying this country, and marshalling in the dictatorship he so desires. We must work diligently to get him gone.
Nancy| 5.14.10 @ 1:47PM
should have said "DISAGREE"
mark| 5.14.10 @ 5:10PM
Tim, you've nailed it.
"immature punk" is right (or should I say "left")
gearjammer| 5.14.10 @ 8:40AM
It is " the audacity of audacity " attitude. Basically. he and his pals are all punks. The democrats are a pack of punks. Derbin-punk, Pelosi-punk-Markey, Waxman, Boxer all punks. Aided and abetted by media punks.
aware| 5.14.10 @ 3:17PM
And there can be no doubt that back in school they were punk wannabes, nerds, teacher's pets, Glee/Booster Club members, tattletales, hall monitors, and general busy body suck-ups, but for sure NOT cool, fun, or likable.
I would only add they are criminal punks running the biggest crime syndicate ever known.
Steve A| 5.14.10 @ 8:51AM
Isin't it curious how the Obama Feds are holding the time Square terror plot suspects on "Immigration Violation" charges (nothing more) while simultaneously criticizing Arizona's new law that mirrors the Fed law?? These guys are so transparent it's a joke.
Mark In West Virginia| 5.14.10 @ 9:13AM
Number one, Jan Brewer has more guts than John McCain has shown on such matters, and secondly, when I moved back to WV from Florida in 2006, I had to produce a birth certificate at the DMV. I had to produce my "papers" in lil' ole West Virginia, which, being a native, I can safely vouch that we do not, nor never had, a significant Nazi population. (In fact, many proudly fought the Nazis, the comparison is crass, Mr. President). If equality means anything, that we all be treated the same, then we ALL should have to produce a legal ID. I did, so should everyone. Deal with it, President Obama.
Appleby| 5.15.10 @ 7:20AM
I am an American living legally in Canada, and starting a new job on Monday. I have been instructed to bring my *papers* with me and be prepared to show them to the boss of bosses. I have these papers and carry them with me, and have no problem at all showing them, as he has a perfect right to ask for them. I truly cannot see the problem here at all.
Aelfgyva| 5.14.10 @ 9:25AM
It's becoming painfully clear that this administration's transparency shows us, quite simply, 'Now, Whitey pays.'
quantumfoam| 5.14.10 @ 9:29AM
A man will be known by the company he keeps. J. Wright, Tony Rezko,Bill Ayers,L. Farrakhan,Saul Alinsky,& etc..Please don't misunderstand me on this. Even though they did associate with Obama I will not condemn them solely on that basis.
Gr0w1er| 5.14.10 @ 12:48PM
Well, there's no accounting for taste...
Pete| 5.14.10 @ 9:49AM
This is all they know, all they have been taught their entire lives. Like a child who holds his breath in order to get his way, these entitled elitist radicals are used to getting their way when they level racism charges. But like the child, they look so ridiculous doing it that sometimes all you can do is laugh.
John| 5.14.10 @ 9:55AM
What seems to be the problem is that Barack H. Obama/Soetero will not be able to visit Arizona with a false Social Security Number without an explanation.
loulou| 5.14.10 @ 4:01PM
Explain why Barack Hussein's SS# is a Connecticut number. He's never lived in CT. Anyone, anyone...
davelnaf| 5.14.10 @ 10:01AM
For conservatives the Arizona law is turning out to be a win-win situation. On the one hand it is the first attempt to deal realistically with the illegal situation, however limited this law's scope may be. On the other hand it has caused the Left to over react to a sensible measure, revealing their willingness to use just about any argument or prop, no matter how specious, in support of illegal immigration. The debate about illegal immigration may not be setlled and done with yet, but the Left knows that it has lost an important battle in this war.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 5.14.10 @ 10:15AM
All I can say is, Obama better hope the rest of the 57 states do not move against him.
Gr0w1er| 5.14.10 @ 12:50PM
That was cold! Hilarious, but cold!
LQQKY| 5.14.10 @ 10:29AM
Has anyone bothered to publish/read MEXICO's immigratation policy? Illegals to Mexico get jailed and worse while our erstwhile [not!] lamestream media completely ignores the reverse side of the coin. The Spectator could do us all a favor by researching and publishing MEXICO's IMMIGRATION POLICY! It might open some eyes.
Pete| 5.14.10 @ 10:43AM
Try Canada too. You can't even visit there legally for 5 years if you have a DUI much less sneak in and suckle off the gov teat indefinitely. Talk about papers. I suspect the mainstream media gives Mexico a pass because their people have brown skin (and you wouldn't want to be called a racist for writing the truth), but how about Canada? Perhaps the French heritage prevents them from reporting the truth there?
Appleby| 5.15.10 @ 7:25AM
Oh, yes you can. All you have to do is claim refugee status. You get a free ticket on the Gravy Train and released into the general population with a finger-wagging instruction to appear before the tribunal in 10 years or so to have your case ajudicated. There are hundreds of thousands of *refugees* in Canada that cannot be located, and even the ones whose claims are denied are hardly ever deported -- and lots of them are right back in Canada within weeks, anyway.
Sam Vaughn| 5.14.10 @ 11:57AM
We need more straight shooters like Go.v Brewer. I like how Gov. Christie put this reporter in his place - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsdqfVA3fqk
RAMIII| 5.14.10 @ 1:26PM
Great point -- straight up -- Just like the governor says: "Honest and Refreshing"
darcy| 5.15.10 @ 7:26AM
"Honest and Refreshing," a great campaign slogan for the times -- and Christie, the man to carry it.
Joe| 5.14.10 @ 12:02PM
It seems to me that RACIST means advocating for open borders with Mexico while denying Asian, Africans, Europeans, Indians, and Australians entry by hiding behind (and failing to fix) a failed Federal law. I can't undersatnad how trying to hold one group of people to the same standard as the entire rest of the world is discriminatory.
Len| 5.14.10 @ 12:26PM
The smaller the system the less it can be worked. Government is put in place not to be our provider, but to be that agent between the people that enables them to interact with each other with certain assurances, thus a legal system recognized by all parties as the last resort for conflicts, and a force aspect of the government to monitor the public arena when we are off our own property.
If Governor Brewer really wants to solve problems in Arizona she would be best served in such a pursuit by working to diminish her own role and that of the government by stripping it down to only that which involves that which has to with public safety or where people interact with each other in business matters. Leave it to localities to decide if they want socio-economic programs, so that if local voting goes one way, those disagreeing with such decisions can make another vote with their feet.
At the federal level tell the federal government to $^*# off, in those areas where they have violated the restraints of the US constitution. Do not allow the IRS to practice payroll deductions as this enables us to be taxed for unconstitutional purposes. Do not allow any federal agents or offices in Arizona that exist in defiance of the 9th and 10th amendments which prohibit the federal government from exercising powers not delegated to it.
Pass a state law making all transactions with the federal government to be in specie (gold or silver). This will help to undermine the unconstitutional fiat money being printed by an unconstitutional entity, the federal reserve. If the federal government can no longer just print money to "finance" it's socio-economic programs and empire building it will be weakened to where it can no longer bully the states.
Len| 5.14.10 @ 12:45PM
Correction..above should be "transactions with the state government", not the federal government.
darcy| 5.15.10 @ 7:30AM
The states must re-exert themselves against the usurpation of power by the federal government -- beginning yesterday.
It's our only hope of regaining ground lost to the Left over the past 100+ years.
FeralCat| 5.14.10 @ 12:57PM
The Race Card is the most rapid-fire all purpose ad hominem and vapid weapon of smear, mass deception AND DIVERSION ever conceived by man. It is a weapon under which weak minds are servilely crouched and can be fired with the greatest of ease by even the most intellectually and integrity challenged, and in fact, was designed especially for use by them. It is void of justice. It is void of liberty. It needs no footing in rationality. It is, in plain and clear fact, similar to a lynching. It has no expiration date. It doesn’t even appear to have a half life. There are those who theorize that it may continue to exist indefinitely in some form even after time itself has come to an end.
FeralCat| 5.14.10 @ 1:04PM
All this siding with foreigners illegally in the U.S.A (and their serf master employers) against Arizonians by Emperor in his own mind Obama, and by proxy against most Americans, as according to polls most Americans support Arizona, will, if anything, only fuel resentment of illegals. If Obama does not realize this then he is a moron. If he does realize this then he is a psychopath..
It is hard to believe that Barack Hussein Obama is that much of a moron so the presumptive diagnosis must be that he is a psychopath. More specifically his pathology is that of a pyromaniac.
Obama is a President who will live in infamy. He is a warped man at war with his own country. Siding with a foreign nation, Mexico, and it's invading nationals, against his own nation which he swore an oath to.
Len| 5.14.10 @ 1:08PM
Feral, resentment is what is desired. By creating or widening existing divisions between people they will fight each other and that fighting is done through their proxies. Those proxies are elected officials, who in turn are the agents of monied interests who are using the government for plunder.
RAMIII| 5.14.10 @ 1:33PM
Not only that, but the advancement of their own power. How does the saying go? Divide and Conquer. However I would say that the "monied interests" are the elected officials themselves. Don't many of them become lobbyists after they are voted out or "retire" from political office.
Len| 5.14.10 @ 2:17PM
Who's paying the lobbyists? Those are the monied interests.
TroyFla| 5.15.10 @ 1:46AM
Although he does exhibit a sociopathic bent. He is a meglamaniac. Which doesn't bode well, as if we haven't already realized that.
DW| 5.14.10 @ 1:32PM
Think about this. If California and other states boycott Arizona hotels/tourist locations, which group will most be affected? Illegal immigrants. Meaning that they will migrate to other states - like California, which is already a basket case. Pretty good strategy. Maybe Arizona could give them bus tickets to San Francisco instead of deporting them. That way everyone will be happy.
GMM| 5.17.10 @ 10:23AM
How about the Spectator or someone compile a list of all the organizations that are threatening to boycott AZ? Then we can start a Buy Arizona campaign and boycott the likes of Calfifornia and LA. Whenever you're purchasing something, check first to see if the business if from LA. If so, politely tell them you will not buy from them until this Boycott AZ nonsense stops.
albert constantine, jr.| 5.14.10 @ 2:06PM
It should not pass unremarked upon that the above article speaks well on the performance of Bruce McGill. While he may garner accolades for that performance, it does not seem likely that he will ever surpass his role as Daniel Simpson Day, (Whereabouts Unknown). And, to tie it all together, with respect to the upcoming November election, I shout "RAMMING SPEED!!!"
Flee| 5.14.10 @ 3:27PM
I will boycott any pro sports league that even suggests boycotting AZ for taking these brave stands in the face of torrential outcries from a screeching minority. If a town, city or state uncovered a huge tax cheat or fraud in their midst and failed to report it to the Feds, do you think the Pres would be okay with that? What criminal behavior is proper to report and which isn't? Law enforcement officials should be allowed to do their jobs or we can let anarch reign. Well, that may be what the Pres would prefer with his socialist leanings.
Scott| 5.15.10 @ 1:46AM
You probably shouldn't have used the example of a tax cheat here. Obama hired one to be the Secretary of the Treasury, who is also the nominal head of the IRS. As to fraud, there's every reason to believe the POTUS himself was involved in one as it relates to the purchase of his home in Chicago. So I'd say he would be on board for ignoring those crimes jiust as much as he is willing to ignore the lawlessness of illegal aliens trespassing on US soil.
martin j smith| 5.14.10 @ 3:44PM
eric holder did not read the Arizona law and makes blanket charges about it. He alludes to a law suite against a law he did not read. This says it all. Eric Holder ( aka BHO ) does not care about the truth ( no news here ) the main thing is to rile people up sgainst each other and that must be exposed more. Eric holder cannot say that Islamic extremists have some influence in terrorism. His for former law firm is still defending these same guys. ( This is BHO ). The only good news in this is that mo0re these jerks talk i say: lets here more. What other genious remarks to you have to say ?
( now this is for any trolls of influence ): Attention trolls: Your side could be wiped out and the reason for that is your side is led by folks who have big mouths and small brains. But that is ok with me --free speech don't you know. So I encourage BHO,erick holder and all other folks in the Democrat Party to continue doing what you are doing--=( or should I say saying ) because the more idiotic you look is ok with me.
Ronald Howard| 5.14.10 @ 5:19PM
Jan Brewer has become a leader in this state. Most Americans have no idea what is going on in Arizona. The people in the southern part of the state are in a war zone. Many of them live in rual areas, a lot ranches and small isolated homes. They are in many cases in fear of their saftey. The coyotes and narcos are using those areas as highways. What I see and hear on the media is, almost without exception, many Hispanic American commentators, no matter how they parse their comments, are really open border people. The inane comments on a fifty foot wall and a fifty one foot ladder can only be made by people who have no idea of what they are are talking about or someone with a room temperature IQ. They claim that walls don't work well tell that to the Israel's. Since they built their wall I haven't heard about too many suicide bombers blowing up pizza parlors. The border wall is just a component, a part of comprehensive border security architecture. That is only hard to understand by people who have another agenda. The people in Arizona and most Amercians realize no country in today's sorry world and especially the United States (aka The Great Satan) can have 12 to 20 million illegal undocumented people wandering around, many unaccounted for, who's primary allegiance is not to the United States. That is insane! The same criminal coyotes that smuggle illegal's in are going to do the same for anyone who has the money to pay. Can say TERROIST'S. Some of the open bordrs commentators I hear on the subject are letting their ethnicity overcome their common sense and in some cases their patriotism.
Marc Jeric| 5.14.10 @ 6:12PM
In view of these facts:
1) 100% of jihadi murderers are Muslims, and most of these are Arabs 18-30 years of agel
2) 3% 0f population, i.e. black males 18-30 years of age, commit 70% of all murders or some 14,000/year, with 90% of the victims being other blacks;
3) 95% of illegal aliens living here are Mexican Indians and mestizos;
then it follows logically that not to profile constitutes a crimeof conspiracy to commit crimes. Political correctness as practiced here is actually a crime.
WAKE UP| 5.14.10 @ 7:13PM
Isn't it interesting how race "problems" have intensified since Obama took office?
TaterSalad| 5.14.10 @ 7:51PM
TeaParty.org
A message to all members of TeaParty.org
What a unique way to look at things!
THANK GOD FOR THE PRESIDENT?
Written by a 82 year old very wise lady. She gives us a whole new slant on the job Obama is doing:
That is right - I will say it "(THANK GOD FOR THE PRESIDENT)."
1. He destroyed the Clinton Political Machine - Driving a stake thru the heart of Hillary's Presidential aspirations -something that no Republican was never able to do. Remember when a Hillary Presidency scared the daylights out of you!
2. He killed off the Kennedy Dynasty - No more Kennedy's trolling Washington looking for booze and women wanting rides home. American women and Freedom are safer tonight!
3. He is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes!
Dennis Moore had never lost a race - quit
Evan Bayh had never lost a race - quit
Byron Dorgan had never lost a race - quit
Harry Reid - soon to be GONE
These are just a handful of the Democrats whose political careers Obama has destroyed! By the end of 2010 dozens more will be gone.
In December of 2008 the Democrats were on the rise. In the last two election cycles they had picked up 14 senate seats and 52 house seats. The press was touting the death of the Conservative Movement and the Republican Party. In just one year, Obama put a stop to all of this and will probably give the house, if not the senate back to the Republicans.
4. He has completely exposed liberals and progressives for what they are. Every Generation seems to need to relearnthe lesson on why they should never actually put liberals in charge. He is bringing home the lesson very well.
Liberals tax, borrow and spend - check
Liberals won't bring themselves to protect America - check
Liberals want to take over the economy - check
Liberals think they know what is best for everyone - check
Liberals aren't happy till they are running YOUR life - check
5. He has brought more Americans back to conservatism than anyone since Reagan. In one year he has rejuvenated the Conservative movement and brought out to the streets millions of Freedom Loving Americans.
Name me one other time in your life that you saw your friends and neighbors this interested in taking back America!
6. His leadership has sparked the greatest period of sales of firearms and ammunition this country has seen. Law abiding citizens have rallied and have provided a "stimulus" to the sporting goods field while other industries have failed, faded or moved offshore.
7. In all honesty one year ago I was more afraid than I have been in my life. Not of the economy but of the direction our country was going. I thought Americans had forgotten what this country was all about. My neighbors, friends and strangers proved to me that my lack of confidence of the Greatness and Wisdom of the American people was flat wrong.
8. When the American People wake up no smooth talking teleprompter reader can fool them!
Barack Obama woke up these Great Americans! Again I want to say Thank You Barack Obama! This is exactly the kind of hope and change we desperately needed.
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loulou| 5.14.10 @ 9:45PM
I know Eric Holder isn't stupid because he was admitted to Stuyvesant High School in NYC and Stuyvesant never had affirmative action.
Sooo, the question is, why does he appear to be an idiot? He appears to be on drugs--no interest in his job, no preparation for the hearing, dopey looking, etc. What gives?
Brian| 5.14.10 @ 9:55PM
I know that you are supose to respect the office of the President of the US but there's nothing to say that you have to respect the holder of that office.
Obama doesn't respect the office himself as he's shown many times, the sooner he's booted out the better.
Old Goat| 5.14.10 @ 10:46PM
The commies are scared of this law for one simple reason-it's going to work. Then, one by one, other states will follow. Face it, it's tough to win elections when the only votes you get are from union thugs, dead people and pets.
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dan greene| 5.15.10 @ 9:38AM
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Yosemeti Sam| 5.15.10 @ 12:17PM
Um - that White House Correspondents' Dinner.
A perfect venue for a show of BHOs' favorite finger
for discourse and respect.
WAKE UP| 5.15.10 @ 9:16PM
loulou: Holder is scared to death of his boss and the religion behind him. That's his problem. (Serves him right - you dance with the Devil, you get your arse burnt).
AS| 5.16.10 @ 4:49AM
As I recalled, George W. Bush, McCaim and a Republican controlled congress also failed to secure our borders. It was under Bush, that patriotic ICE agents were jailed for trying to stop violent illegals from entering illegally. It was Bush, Rick Perry, and their corporate masters that the Mexican help wanted signs were placed at the border. Because of Bush, the GOP and their corporatist allies, by maintaining a policy of open borders, also gave us the September 11, 2001 terror bombings. So blame can go all around.
Eric(OfConservativeMind)| 5.17.10 @ 4:46AM
Indeed. Of course, the last many Presidents save Reagan(and he wasn't much better) were/are Statist hacks, all in the game for more power. Both parties have abused "open borders" in order to attempt to get more votes.
martin j smith| 5.16.10 @ 8:30AM
GWB and BHO an interesting combination don't you think AS ?
It is curious that GWB as the lame duck appeared in my view to be more and more of a prelude to what we have now. Crony capitalism was crucial to both GWB and especially BHO. Thus, the People are tired of being treated like dirt and want out of this type of politician ( see Lindsey G ) ) and then there was John MaC who was running a losing race--purposely ? or just incompetent. More and more I think the former.
People a seeing more clearly just how currupt our system is and they want to get rid of those whop will destroy our nation. I am with thgejm all the way. We need more Chris Christies to lay it on the line fire back at the left.
Achilles Toejam | 5.16.10 @ 2:59PM
Martin Smith, I agree with you man! I try to point this out to my Republican friends and there's always a few dyed in the wool Republicans who would be quick to castigate a Clinton or Obama for running down the socialist road but when I point out the fact that the things that Bush did were just as bad they don't want to hear it, blinded by partisanship and the old hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil rears its ugly head.
I don't know that much about Christies but what I have heard I like but I think it's going to take someone like a Ron Paul to get this country back on the constitutional republic track. There are too many Republicans who are just like the Democrats they vote the party line and to hell with what the candidate really is as long as it's not the other guy that and the constitutional and historical ignorance and apathy of the American people is what has brought us here.
Cpm| 5.21.10 @ 2:12PM
Nice try to change the subject. "But Bush did it too" Tired, just tired. Give it a rest.
Oldefarte| 5.16.10 @ 2:34PM
'Adios amigos' is WHAT will happen to many Democrats and a few Republicans in November. As to Arizona's new laws, it is almost identical to the federal immigration laws that our government refuses to enforce for POLITICAL CORRECTNESS ISSUES; and my/our tax dollars should not be spent upon public school courses/policies that promote [spanish or other] RACISM!!!!
My Girl Friday| 5.16.10 @ 4:33PM
When Obama acts childish, and churlish as he often does when he does not get his way, we perhaps should entreat his disdane of us with a little groveling.
Maybe Governor Brewer could write a letter (post this letter on their Government website) apologizing for not making it clear to him of Arizona's new legislation, and outlining exactly the intent of their new law, and how it will work. She then could offer to meet with the President personally to address his concerns or his Eric Holder. It would also be helpful to make a video which shows the economic, and human suffering that her states citizens have experienced, and why the legislation had to be written. She also needs to bring to the President's attention that he himself has asked American's to make sacrifices during these difficult economic times (will he ask "illegal aliens" to do the same...the writer wonders), and then show the sacrafices that Arizonians have been making, and for how long.
Obama has intentionally made the Governor and the citizens of Arizona out as racists, by making the illegal aliens in Arizona as the victims and in doing so, he has now put the fear in other states who may be pondering the same type of legislation. Those other states now have cause to fear the same economic retribution that is being flung on Arizona.
There also needs to be an educational outreach video made and posted on Arizona's official state site, one that explains the legislation, and the facts that led up to the legislation. It can also be posted on "Visitors Guide to Arizona" and could be titled the "Misconceptions of Arizona's immigration policy, etc." When Obama and Ms. Brewer's foes wag their fingers at her, her administration, and Arizona citizens can politely point them to the true facts of the matter on their states Gov. website.
The Governor must fight fire with fire, by using her pulpit with facts not straw men as Obama does. Governor Brewer needs to take control of the "spin" now.
Answers1| 5.16.10 @ 9:02PM
Racist-in-Chief Obama.
Marc Jeric| 5.16.10 @ 10:27PM
Political correctness is a crime of conspiracy to commit crimes. When 100% of jihadi terrorists are Muslims, then not to profile them is a crime.
As for those racist/communist enclaves in the bankrupt California, i.e., Los Angeles and San Francisco, which declared boycott of Arizona - I will do the following: we shall visit the Grand Canyon again, and then dine in several very good restaurants in Phoenix. Then I will hope that all illegal Mexican Indians and Mestizos will leave Arizona to go to Los Angeles and San Francisco to enroll there in their ample welfare rolls. That of course will disturb mightily Abu Hussein al-Nairobi and his AG Holder (who used to be Castro's lawyer in the Elian Gonzalez case and the pardoner of the Puertorican terrorists/murderers).
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Bill | 8.2.10 @ 8:03PM
There is no racial profiling when everone is required to show citizenship! Just like showing insurance it should be required!!
Argument over illegals out!