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The Obama Watch
From Osama Back to Obama
Next year’s election will not be about Osama bin Laden.
(Page 2 of 2)
Perhaps more important than this headline number is the internal data in the poll: There was zero increase in job approval among Democrats, nine points among independents, and 12 points among Republicans. The gain among Republicans will be extremely short lived, as will much of the gain among independents — who have been tracking very closely to Republicans on most political poll topics in the past year. The job approval gain Republicans will result in zero additional votes for President Obama in next November’s election. The lack of gain among Democrats will thus not translate into additional Obama volunteers or campaign contributions. And the lasting political impact of bin Laden’s death on independents will, by their nature, be somewhere in between, which is to say also of very little benefit to Obama.
Barack Obama and his supporters may be hoping that the killing of Osama bin Laden will boost his slumping re-election chances. That’s why they’re sweating the media’s and public’s reaction to questions about whether bin Laden was or wasn’t shielded by his wife, or whether they should release a picture of bin Laden in which he would have an odd number of eyes (though without seeing the image I can’t tell you whether it’s one or three.)
At the end of the day, however, all that matters is high unemployment and crushingly high gasoline prices and the understanding by the public, which comes around sooner or later, that Obama-ism is bad for our economic health. So even with Obama’s re-election odds back down to 60%, I’m still selling.
About the Author
Ross Kaminsky is a self-employed trader and investor and is a senior fellow of the Heartland Institute. He is the host of The Ross Kaminsky Show on Denver’s NewsRadio 850 KOA at 11 AM on most Sundays. You can reach Ross by e-mail at rossputin(at)rossputin(dot)com.
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Timothy L. Pennell| 5.9.11 @ 7:02AM
It's very simple, really. There isn't ANYONE, in this Administration, who is capable of telling the Truth. Why tell the truth, when a LIE will do, just fine?
The Fish rots, from the head, down, and Hussein has never told the Truth in his life. In fact, his entire life IS a Lie. And that is why it's kept under Lock and Key.
This White House is as close to being an Organized crime Family, as there has ever been.
I just hope that, one of these days, someone in the Secret Service is gonna recognize this Indonesian Muslim Boy, for what he is. The DOMESTIC ENEMY that his OATH compels him to confront.
RCV| 5.9.11 @ 10:47AM
Your last sentence is absolutely despicable.
Doctor Right| 5.9.11 @ 12:26PM
So is yours.
RCV| 5.9.11 @ 12:37PM
Hoping that the secret service takes out the President is not something that any American who cares about this country would ever wish for.
SugartownSuper| 5.9.11 @ 2:08PM
No matter how much I may disagree with his politics, policies, and views, I absolutely do NOT want to see him made a martyr. Even the suggestion that someone in the Secret Service would assassinate him should be repugnant to any American. I have the honor to be acquainted with 2 members of the US Secret Service, one of whom was on the other side of the car when Hinckley shot President Reagan. These men are honest, loyal, dedicated Americans who believe in our Constitution and the rule of law with an almost visible passion. It is up to US to vote Obama and ALL his people out of there: humiliation at the polls and political oblivion is what they deserve and what we will, with God's help, give them.
Bob Grant| 5.9.11 @ 3:33PM
I agree completely. The last thing I want to see is Barak the Martyr's image and name plastered on every other library, elementary school, airport, and large inner city roads. I would prefer the One-and-Done Obama more.
Drunken Sailor| 5.9.11 @ 2:11PM
Your right. But is not like the Liberal side hasn't voiced similar thoughts.
"So when does Seal Unit 6, or whatever it’s called, drop in on George Bush? Bush was responsible for a lot more death, innocent death, than bin Laden. "
Mike Malloy
We should not want any past or current President assassinated, no matter how we view that person. Assassination of that office simply hurts the country.
Doctor Right| 5.9.11 @ 2:14PM
Cry me a river.
Idiot Liberals (is that redundant) made movies about George W. Bush being assassinated. Did you whine about that? Of course not.
Steve A| 5.9.11 @ 2:27PM
Anyone who pulls to see Obama done harm is sick. Mentally, spiritually, politically & ethically. Our goal should be to display the folly of his agenda through political defeat & replacement with a qualified conservative candidate and a true conservative game plan.
You people are no different than the wackos who wished Bush harm. No different at all.
John Navratil| 5.9.11 @ 2:30PM
Except, "we people" generally do not wish Obama harm. You paint with a broad brush.
Steve A| 5.9.11 @ 2:49PM
John, Come on man. I am clearly referring to those, above, who fall in that category. (those who wish him harm)
Doctor Right| 5.9.11 @ 3:38PM
Aren't you getting a tad carried away, Steve?
Bob Grant| 5.9.11 @ 5:28PM
Get off your high horse!!! No one here has encouraged violence against the president. It's only mentioned to the extent at how REAL violence was encouraged against Bush for the purpose of comparison.
So again, take it somewhere else.
Jose Luis Stecca| 5.9.11 @ 6:51PM
Ok, Steve.. I don't want Barack Hussein Obama, by far the worst president America has ever suffered through, become a victim of violence...
However, if Barack Hussein Obama were to suffer
a massive heart attack tonight and be dead by tomorrow morning, I certainly wouldn't see that as a bad thing... Matter of fact, I think the world would be a better place without him..
RCV| 5.10.11 @ 12:00AM
This is what the conservative movement, once led by people such as William Buckley and Ronald Reagan, has degenerated into. Pretty sad.
Occam's Tool| 5.9.11 @ 4:51PM
True.
Nor is applauding a snuff film about ex-President Bush. I know you didn't, but it is what we have to live with. Personally, I place his reelection chances quite low, since I expect gas to go above $5.00 in 2012. I have my reasoning, which I can explain, RCV, but it may scare you off our bet.
RCV| 5.9.11 @ 5:51PM
Not only did I not, but I publicly condemned it, which precious few of TAS readers (steveA hA to his credit excepted) seem willing to do. I'm more confident than ever about my bet.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 5.9.11 @ 5:18PM
I don't bother with silly virtually continuous oppression of each and every American's liberties to enjoy social, political, and economic rights through the words and actions of one single solitary sole individual who took an oath before God and each and every American to preserve, protect, and defend these liberties when preserving, protecting, and defending this one single solitary sole individual who actively supports no life, no liberty, and no pursuit of happiness of over fifty three million, repeat fifty three million, even when breathing air outside the womb, on this one single solitary sole individual being in fact not patriotic but being in fact tyrannical with respect to refreshing the tree of liberty matters.
RCV| 5.9.11 @ 5:52PM
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........
Rancorous Calumny Vituperation| 5.10.11 @ 3:45PM
I don't bother with silly bored to the point of peaceful slumber on abortion of over 53,000,000 while sanctimoniously expressing the compassion of real Christian love on being a pathetic despicable douchebag matters.
RCV| 5.10.11 @ 5:41PM
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.....
Sylvester The Cat| 5.9.11 @ 7:14PM
Dithpicable !
Pat Spooner| 5.9.11 @ 7:28AM
While we can pray and hope that Obama fails in his reelection bid, we the workers and taxpayers have to work hard to identify and support a candidate for President that voters can rally around. Someone who can articulate their plan for revitalizing the economy, for significantly cutting government spending and federal taxes, for providing a positive image of this great country versus Obama's habit of talking down to and scolding us.
btims| 5.9.11 @ 7:29AM
Take it from someone who has lived his whole life with Muslims in Dearbornistan, Michigan.
Most muslims don't want to blow us up (although a large percentage do agree with much of OBL's views). Most muslims want to see Sharia Law introduced/implemented in our law and culture, politics, school systems. Most muslims believe Israel should be pushed into the sea. Most muslims believe honor killings are not great but "understandable" and ok at times. Most muslims believe second class citizenship for women is fine and proper.
These are the results of the mass importation of Islam into our country. Thanks Wash DC elite!
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 5.9.11 @ 8:40AM
btims: "Dearbornistan", and the other Cities in America that are like that, are the Islands of Blue, living under the Crescent Flag, but they're all floating within a vast Ocean of Red across America. So they're not really a big deal at all (they're really just small potatoes, about 2%), because if you drive out of town a few miles they're completely invisible again. So we've got to keep them contained exactly where they are now, and stop "all" immigration from Muslim Nations, unless we all want to be praying to Mecca five times a day. As for me, I don't want to pray to Mecca, I've got bad knees, and praying on my knees five times a day, fuggedaboutit!! Islam and Freedom, don't mix!! Therefore, Muslims and America don't mix!! Containment!!
The President did a good job on this one, by giving the Seals a GO, but I don't think his Osama-bump will last even a month, before he pisses us all off again, and starts falling in the polls again.
btims| 5.9.11 @ 9:10AM
You really think there is a vast ocean of Red" across America? How then did Moooslim Boy get elected? I know, the moooslim population is small but it used to be nearly non-existant. It is growing rapidly.
BTW, you also really think Barry did a good job giving the Seals a go? I mean, I just don't think presidents (any president) desearves any credit (or blame) for such operations. They are out of his hands, the armed forces and the CIA plan and implement such things. The president's job is to make a speech announcing success or failure.
Lawrence Boccardi| 5.9.11 @ 9:32AM
The muslim boy got elected, by a dumbed-down electorate, comprised of American Idol watchers, unions, and guilt-ridden whites, afraid to vote against a half-black man. The biggest reason that he gave "the order" is that too many people were aware of the progress in locating OBL, and if Hussein Obama had not acted, no chance of re-election!
btims| 5.9.11 @ 9:35AM
You're exactly right on all points. Kudos.
SpiralArchitect| 5.9.11 @ 12:37PM
Become an ACORN member and review their newsletter to see how many dead people voted for B.O. - a lot more than voted for any other candidate I assure you.
John Navratil| 5.9.11 @ 10:07AM
Obama was elected decisively, but not by a landslide, by an electorate tired of war, at a time when the Republicans had held to White House for two terms (only after Reagan did the W/H hold), in a campaign run against an unpopular incumbent (as if he were on the ballot), against the poorest excuse for a Republican candidate since Bob "Where's the outrage" Dole with the media in the tank for him.
If the golden boy with no discernible baggage (think Carter and Clinton - and don't think Tony Rezko) couldn't get elected, the White House would have been left vacant. That is, unless I had run my dog.
Mike| 5.9.11 @ 11:23AM
btims
Please remember the burden of command. A good leader will share credit when things go well and take the blame when things go bad. For a weak leader with no convictions (that he will share) to send in the SEALS was a good thing.
The decision to commit troops to battle is ultimately a political one and the president made the right call. I just wish he understood the share the credit part a little better. I am certain that he would have deflected the blame had things not gone the way they did.
Mike Johnston
SFC USA (RET)
John Navratil| 5.9.11 @ 11:44AM
Mike,
This "I, me, my" President doesn't know how to share the credit. I find little to support in him but, like you, I think he made the right call. He also needs to be given credit for the political courage it took for him to do so. If this hadn't gone well (success is never guaranteed) he would have "yanked the chain" on his own Presidency. I don't think any efforts to deflect blame would have come to much.
Mike| 5.9.11 @ 5:10PM
John
I think the I, Me, My of this president irritates me more than the fact that he is the polar opposite of me. I have served under such leadership and it was never pretty.
Mike Johnston
SFC USA(RET)
btims| 5.9.11 @ 11:56AM
Mike - my pointn is Hussein bin Obama made the ONLY call ANYONE in the White House would have made, when the DOD and CIA came to him, saying they are 99.99% sure they have OBL located. What other choice did Barry have realistically? You want me to applaud that?
Did FDR get credit for the D-Day Invasion? Military decisions are made the military, intelligence agencies, etc. They then go to the Prez and tell him their findings. Puh-leeze, Barry the Ego is a joke.
Kishego| 5.9.11 @ 3:33PM
Let's not forget. It took him 16 HOURS to decide, while these brave men stood by, at the ready for a "go". This is not the hallmark of a great leader. It is the MO of a COWARD.
Mike| 5.9.11 @ 5:08PM
btims
I am with you brother. I find very little in this president to applaud. I am not sure I am applauding his decision to send in the SEALS as much as I am saying it was the correct decision.
I do have to disagree with you with the concept it was the only decision he could have made. He could have decided not to go. He could have decided the political risk to his backside was too great. With him having the bully pulpit and setting the agenda he would control what the news knew. In addition, the military and intelligence folks being consummate professionals, he was pretty much assured that they would not have leaked that he turned them down. Not in a timely enough manner to be meaningful anyway. I believe the calculus was if the SEALS are successful then I am golden and if they fail it will not be known or I can spin it to my advantage.
It has been reported that he took sixteen hours to make this decision. By my calculation that is the amount of time needed to determine if he had met all the CYA requirements of approving the go. I believe that we found bin Laden in spite of Obama not because of him and that the president just lucked into being in the right place at the right time. A true leader would not have taken sixteen hours to contemplate the obvious. He would have asked a few pertinent questions and then said go or no based on the information he received. The president’s “leadership” style leaves a lot to be desired.
Mike Johnston
SFC USA (RET)
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 5.9.11 @ 11:56AM
btims: Then how did he get elected? Ummm, he spoke well, and had a good smile? Is that about right? Because it certainly wasn't his resume!! And in America's culture today, that's about all you need to advance to the most powerful Office in the World (sad but true). It's the American Idol Generation now don't you know?
About our Presidents taking credit, or blame, well that just goes with the Office. Take Clinton for example, he's been taking credit for balancing the budget since the 1990's (like he wanted to balance the budget?). He didn't!! He wanted to spend those extra funds, but Newt tied his hands, so instead of spending the money, he took credit for balancing the budget instead. Brilliant!!
I'm only saying the President did a good job on this one, because he could've said No, but he didn't. And with the Democrats today, that's a real stunning achievement. He wanted to say No (I'm sure), but somebody talked him into doing it, so now he's taking credit for it, and I'll give him credit for it, Bin Laden is dead after all!!
SpiralArchitect| 5.9.11 @ 12:39PM
Clinton = excellent politician & a pos too.
martin j smith| 5.9.11 @ 7:37AM
The 2012 election will be largely about the ECONOMY9
INLFATION ON FUEL AND FOOD AND CLOTHING ET AL. 80 PERCENT ) AND 20 PERCENT ON NATIONAL SECURITY: UNLESS WE ARE ATTACKED--Then it depends on how big and of course Obama's response if any.
Occam's Tool| 5.9.11 @ 4:12PM
As I have pointed out to RCV before, gas will be above $5.00/gallon in 2012, because Obama's policies on production are fundamentally stupid.
1) AGW is crap, as most science questions answered with "smarter people than you know" are crap. Show me the evidence? What? You're evidence was made up? Figures.
2) The total real unemployment rate will still be in the high double digits, because threatening investors is a moronic way to get them to invest. Let me use an example from Gary Johnson, champion shite-head NM governor on this issue: (and no, this isn't foreign policy, and yes, I am actually an authority on what I'm about to relate:)
Gary Johnson signed the allow half trained psychologists the right to prescribe potentially lethal medication law in New Mexico, pissing everyone with an MD in the state off. Then the next Governor, Clueless Bill Richardson, had his office send a message to the Medical Directors in the State (I was one, at the time) asking us why it was hard to recruit psychiatrists to the State of New Mexico. (Only 5 psychologists at the time had passed their psychopharm tests in NM at the time, and the law had been present for years. This was 2006---the need for Mental Health experts in the Southwest was desperate---by the way, they pay quite poorly.)
I called the lady in charge of the recruiting effort up and told her I had the answer for her, and I also had a way for her to independently validate it, but she wasn't going to like it. She told me she wanted the truth. I gave it to her: (I was out of NM within the year)
"If you want someone to like you and want to work with you, you don't kick him in the balls as hard as you can with steel toed boots."
That's Obama's problem with getting the economy re-started. That's why he's going to lose.
Incidentally, folks, lose the other scary crap. We will win or lose on the issues and his record. Obama is an idiot, and he has no where to hide.
Incidentally, the above should also tell you why I think Gary Johnson is as dangerous to your medical care as Obama is.
Occam's Tool| 5.9.11 @ 4:14PM
Sorry, "nowhere." By the way, the method of independent verification would have been a two question survey to the APA (MDs)---1) Are you aware of the NM law? 2) Does it make you more or less likely to practice in NM?
Jason| 5.9.11 @ 7:45AM
I am like the US. Lost in a foggy miasma of statistics, left wing propaganda that would make Goebbels proud, and the utter lack of any rallying - point opposition candidate to "The Most Wondrous One."
I greatly fear that he will win a second term by default and then Cuba will have been given a viable live birth in our once great nation. We will have become fully engaged in what our President's friend in Venezuela calls "the Bolivaran Revolution."
Intelligent Design| 5.9.11 @ 7:59AM
I'd like to see an honest, statistical poll conducted which asks something like: What do you do when you see or hear Obama on TV? 1) Turn off the TV or mute the sound; 2) Listen intently; or 3) Leave it on, but don't really listen.
TomKP| 5.9.11 @ 8:12AM
Truth be told, I have never listened to a speech given by our Moooslim Boy in Chief. Never.
A) his voice/speaking manner irritates me
B) does it matter what he says? He bad-mouthed our nation for years and now he's playing the "super patriot" role. He'll say anything to get elected/re-elected. It just doesn't matter. And with the media cheerleading him on, he'll likely be re-elected.
John Navratil| 5.9.11 @ 10:13AM
TomKP,
The only difference between you and me is that I DID read his speeches. At least then I didn't have to put up with his staccato delivery, odd cadences and sentences trailing off.
In addition to agreeing with you on A) and B), let me add...
C) His speeches always being with an unassailable true, then a straw man and, after the first paragraph, a bunch of aspirational clap-trap while dancing around the straw man and his ceremonial destruction. In the end, every one comes away with the notion that he os for truth, justice and the American way. He is the essential snake-oil salesman... "For I can make the dumb to walk, the lame to see, the blind to talk".
Wayne | 5.9.11 @ 11:13AM
Don't discount that staccato. It is the drum beat of the power of suggestion. It has succeeded in getting even otherwise intelligent commentators like Krauthammer to call Obama bright and well-spoken.
John Navratil| 5.9.11 @ 11:49AM
While we cannot do ANYTHING...
about...
that staccato d'l'vry
...
...
what we CAN do is...
vote...
the bounder out.
Kishego| 5.9.11 @ 3:36PM
Trump was wrong. Obama was a good student... of Saul Alynski.
Occam's Tool| 5.9.11 @ 4:15PM
Dear John,
actually, after one subtracts shout outs and rhetorical devices, Obama's speeches are a semantic null.
Mimi| 5.9.11 @ 8:12AM
If...last Thursday's S.C. debate, showing a pretty darn " SCRAPPY" crew is any indication of the results of the 2012 election...things are looking good ! Most of these guys showed they "GET-IT " better than those in charge in the Republican House of Rep.
We all have to get involved and excited in the primary race...Watch the debates, discuss with neighbors, family, and friends. But IMHO I believe the ELECTION results will depend on our work, effort and willingness to go DEEP into the CITIES of this nation to fight and win over the MANY voters there who yearn to here the message of LIBERTY, PATH to PROSPERTY and PATRIOTISM we Conservatives can bless them with! I am OPTIMISTIC for 2012!
Louis Jenkins| 5.9.11 @ 8:18AM
"It's the economy, stupid!" So the Slick Mister said. I have seen and heard nothing but how heroically Obama was with the killing of Osama. How he lead Seal Team Six into the fray, shooting and stabbing, it would make Chuch Norris green with envey. Enough already! Be honest Obama, you gave the word, albeit after you slept on it, and the SEALs did the job. Truth of the matter I bet a lot those leaders he bowed to wonder when their turn is coming. We should not trust the man or his shadow. When gasoline gets down to $2.50 a gallon then we can debate his relection potential, until then Obama is jousting with windmills.
Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 5.9.11 @ 8:36AM
Anything coming out the White House is akin to flushing a toilet.
Winterhawk| 5.9.11 @ 8:45AM
The watercarriers at pmsnbc are now claiming that the filed obama is now the best commander in chief this country has ever had. Had to puke twice watching that and now have to puke again writing it.
PolishKnight| 5.9.11 @ 9:06AM
There's a delightful element of reactionary doublethink in that claim, Winterhawk (that Obama is the best commander in chief because he took out Osama.)
The left ran into the arms of radical Islam out of sheer hatred of GW Bush and white guilt in addition to anti-Americanism overall. "We're at war with EastAsia. We've always been at war with EastAsia." This includes even feminists who used to compare the right to the Taliban. (Now Hillary and the rest are looking to put on burkas and run into mosques to show how liberating Islam is for them. Amazing!)
"Rabbit season"
"Duck season!"
"Rabbit season!"
"Rabbit season!"
"Duck season! Shoot the duck!"
OK, maybe it will work but this is really testing the limits of doublethink. When do these true believers start to question their cherished dogma? What does it take?
Anthony| 5.9.11 @ 8:59AM
Obozo and his cadre milked the entire week as Obozo used Osama precisely as the "trophy" the Marxist Muslim liar- in- chief said Osama was not.
It took 16 hours of dithering for one Muslim to decide to sacrifice another, something these 7th century fanatics have been doing, well, since the 7th century.
But as Mort Zuckerman of US News & World Report, and a member in good standing of the Order of Lewinsky,(LSM) noted, unemployment is really 18-20% and gas is close to $5.00 a gal, something the LSM would have been harping on if this had been Bush who had gotten Osama.
As Mimi noted, the Rs appeared to have grown a pair during the first R debate, with the big guns still silent. And if Mitch Daniels doesn't feel up to debating Obozo on foreign policy, no problem Mitch, sit down and shut up. We don't need another RINO.
Obozo can milk Osama all he wants, with his dribs and draps of info release to keep the "kill" fresh in American's minds, but it will not matter.
Maybe Obozo will have Holder stop his criminal investigations of military interrogators, naw, won't happen. This guy is a master of talking out of both sides of his Marxist mouth.
I can see 2012 from my house!!!
SpiralArchitect| 5.9.11 @ 12:50PM
Please, keep in mind. Unemployment numbers are listing only those that have claims. The people whos claims have ended, never allowed nor applied for benefits are not included in the UI figures used by the Gov./media.
UI at 8% or 9% are likely double (national) or higher (more than x2) in local (state) markets.
Again, 15% UI in state xyz is likely well over 22%.
It is my job to know these things...
Occam's Tool| 5.9.11 @ 4:43PM
I believe you, sir (Spiral). I work in rural Minnesota.
George True| 5.9.11 @ 4:51PM
"It is my job to know these things."
Could you elaborate? I am not doubting your figures, I suspect they are reasonably accurate. But what job do you have that compels you to know these things, and what indices and other data should be included to arrive at the real unemployment rate?
Cleophis FlyJucie | 5.9.11 @ 9:06AM
I would like to point out something that the lap dog media wouldn't dare. And that is, what an amateurish publicity wh*re Obama is with NO regard to his true duty... Protecting the American people.
A REAL President would have captured UBL and dumped him in a hole in Gitmo and NOT TOLD A SOUL that "we got'em".
A REAL President would have exhausted ALL of the "treasure trove" of intel first before patting himself on the back like a teenager in high school who scored his first touchdown.
After Obama made his victory lap, any terrorist that had connection to UBL has been notified by the narcissist in chief that it's time to burn the cel, burn the credit cards, switch IDs and of course switch location.
Thank you "President" Obama for making useless ALL of UBLs intel that just possibly could have thwarted the next Bali, Madrid, London or even the next 9-11... Just because your poll numbers were sagging and you want people to forget raising gas and food prices as well as the disaster of your "stimulus".
"Never forget" is what you said at your shameless photo op at ground zero...
WE WILL NEVER FORGET the day you chose to try to save your floundering presidency over the opportunity to stop the next terrorist attack.
Maxwell| 5.9.11 @ 9:26AM
We have a winner with what you said
SpiralArchitect| 5.9.11 @ 12:52PM
By design not by accident.
B.O. is playing his cards well, all according to (his) plan.
Harry Flashman| 5.9.11 @ 9:34AM
The presidential election of 2012 will effectively be a national referendum on the policies, actions and personality of Barack Obama.
The primary focus of those who desire a change of administration on January 20, 2013, must be to illuminate the negative effects that this man has on the well-being of the United States, and the dangers inherent in his securing a second term.
There is a vast array of evidence that must be carefully presented for maximum effect.
A secondary, and perhaps equally important strategy of attack, must be to use the issue of transparency, a basic value that resonates well with American voters of all political persuasions.
Opinion polling invariably finds that authenticity is the character trait that is most important to American voters in electing and trusting their leaders and legislators. That a candidate or elected official really is who they say they are, and truly believes in what they claim are their beliefs, and are not a phony or a fraud or a hypocrite or a liar.
American voters can recall the Obama 2008 campaign repeatedly promising that their administration would place a particular emphasis on the practice of transparency.
A vast majority of these voters believe that the process of running for President of the United States should be the toughest public job interview on the planet.
The sad fact remains that the current president, according to longstanding government clearance protocols, could not be hired as a janitor in a federal building with the amount of personal background information that he has provided.
Quite apart from the issue of any sort of birth certificates, real or imagined, genuine or forged, is the fact that Barack Obama's school records, SAT and LSAT scores, college and law school admission records and scholarship paperwork and grade transcripts and thesis papers, medical records, passport history, Illinois state senate tenure records, complete White House visitor logs and many other relevant records and documents have all never been released or allowed to be subjected to any sort of scrutiny, despite several years of repeated requests for disclosure by numerous individuals and non-traditional media organizations.
The Obama 2008 campaign and subsequent administration have to date spent a substantial sum on legal fees, estimated in the millions of dollars, to fight Freedom of Information Act filings and other motions and requests to examine some of this material. The powerful international law firm Perkins Coie, the counsel of record to the Democratic National Committee, has been their primary provider of these services and continues in that role.
It had become customary in postwar modern times for presidential candidates to allow for the release and scrutiny of the substantive body of their personal records and credentials, indeed up until 2008 largely because of a strong interest from the mainstream media.
The appearance of the man of mystery known as Barack Hussein Obama changed that tradition, and he was given an astonishing special exception from this important unofficial practice that American voters had come to expect.
In their eagerness to "make history" by helping to elect the first black president, the mainstream media failed in their essential national responsibility to report with thorough impartial objectivity. They ignored their duty to search for the truth and should be regarded with disdain by all people who value information in a free society.
It is certainly true that there have been a few occasions when a modern presidential candidate was evasive or deceptive in providing the desired honest accounting of their past.
The medical records of JFK were allegedly sanitized to delete his diagnosis of Addison's disease and history of treatments for STD related maladies. The financial records of LBJ were allegedly altered to conceal the extent of his business ownerships and investment holdings. The air national guard service records of W were allegedly missing or incomplete regarding his attendance and compliance with certain standard regulations.
All of these instances pale in comparison with the unprecedented totality of secrecy that has always guarded virtually the entire paper trail of Barack Obama's existence.
Practically every personal record and document from Obama's past continues to remain deeply hidden away.
Democratic incumbents at all levels of government, as well as rank and file voters, might well demand to know exactly how Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and the rest of their party leadership allowed a person who was clearly given only the most cursory sort of vetting to become their presidential nominee.
Barack Obama was presented in 2008 as a brilliant intellectual with stellar Ivy League credentials whose cool low key style would transform the culture of Washington, leading America into a new harmonious postracial era with an administration of great transparency, all while achieving miracles of bipartisan cooperation.
It has become quite obvious to rational people of all political persuasions how that ridiculously naive wishful fantasy has really played out.
There exists a widespread and fast growing international speculation that an objective examination of Barack Obama's extensive hidden paper trail would clearly reveal that his meteoric rise up the educational and career ladders was largely the result of multiple affirmative action preferences and an adoring uncritical mainstream media, and that his vaunted intellect was greatly exaggerated.
In short, Barack Obama is just another left-posing big city machine politician, with more than a touch of narcissism and a proven record of ruthless self-serving dealmaking and deception, who has amply demonstrated his allegiance to international corporate and financial interests.
Obama and his handlers were able to hide his past and explain away and minimize his relationships with highly controversial individuals and groups during their 2008 campaign.
Will they be able to effectively repeat this deception between now and 6 November 2012?
Only if you let them.
SpiralArchitect| 5.9.11 @ 12:53PM
Bet he gets re-elected with union and crap groups like ACORN assistance - the fix is in...
CK| 5.9.11 @ 1:13PM
Does this guy above actually think anybody read that long diatribe.?. Please.
If these comments reflect what the American Spectator claims to be "Young Conservatives" I don't think Obama and the Dems have anything to worry about in the near future. Racist and ill informed bigots don't usually win in national elections and there seems to be plenty around here. The biggest problem for the GOP are their candidates and how pathetic that class of clowns is compared to Obama.
Drunken Sailor| 5.9.11 @ 2:17PM
So in other words you can't refute his statements so its back to the old "Pull the racist, bigot" card huh? On the positive side, your post was short.
Doctor Right| 5.9.11 @ 3:41PM
I'll have you know, Sir, that we are VERY well-informed bigots!
Kishego| 5.9.11 @ 3:53PM
O.K., please explain which potential candidate from last weeks Republican debate fits in the "racist and ill informed bigots" category. Was it Herman Caine ? Was it Rick Santorum ? Maybe Ron Paul, do tell.
Occam's Tool| 5.9.11 @ 4:17PM
I have a friend who graduated from HLS the year before Obama started. He stated that over 60% of his class graduated with honors.
Trinacria| 5.9.11 @ 7:20PM
I sprained my goddam finger scrolling through this post - take a breath, brother!
Mimi| 5.9.11 @ 10:07AM
We are going to see possibly over 10 Republican Primary Campaigns doin a heck of a lot of SNOOPING around and I doubt the "O" will get away with it! That is why I POST once and awile that he MAY- RESIGN before 2012 and that another DEM may PRIMARY him!!!
John Navratil| 5.9.11 @ 10:19AM
Mimi,
Do you really think Barack "I, me, my" Obama could, in your wildest dreams, resign. I think not.
Just to pour water on such a sweet thought remember that, should he resign, Biden becomes President and eligible to run twice again. Would Biden be easier to defeat in 2012? When the country has recovered by 2016, would he be denied a second term? The best that could be said is that Hillary would be permanently side-lined.
Mimi| 5.9.11 @ 7:59PM
John...How could he possibly RUN again and expect that NO-ONE will ask some of the background stuff he didn't put out the first time ?
Believe me ... we have not lost our minds and will never stand for him ...to pull off "SECRETS" and get away with it! Think Positive , we have some good people running and plenty of Monies will flow in...He has stepped on a lot of toes of the RICH and FAMOUS. Their staffs will all be top tier....The facts he's hiding WILL come out!!!
John Navratil| 5.9.11 @ 9:22PM
Mimi,
Precisely. Which is why I think his resignation would be bad for us (and good for the Dems).
russel| 5.9.11 @ 10:50AM
It has been cold here in the Rockies and another winter is coming all too soon . We use natural gas and propane here , but this winter really sucked the wallet dry . I can only imagine those eaterners and their heating oil bill . This time next year they will be as hot they wish their home could have been . Making it worse , there's no jobs . No amount of good usable crisis' can save our incompetent one unless these are solved and we have some money once again .
RCV| 5.9.11 @ 11:00AM
When I was in law school at Stanford in 1972, I was absolutely convinced that McGovern would beat Nixon in the election. Although the polls showed the contrary, everyone in Palo Alto whom I talked to -- and I mean everyone, from grocery clerks to professors, cops to students -- hated Nixon, thought he was corrupt and a terrible President and a liar to boot. Boy was I shocked on election day to find that my perspective had been distorted because the people I lived with and talked with happen to think exactly like me.
TAS readers, I dare say, are in a similar bubble and will have a similar revelation on election day 2012. If you don't believe me, go over to RealPolitics.com and look at their non-partisan summary of all the Presidential polls. Here's the latest data: Obama easily beats every possible Republican contender, almost all of them by double digits, and some (like Palin and Trump) by more than twenty points. This was true even before the Bin Laden news, which has fundamentally changed independents' perception of Obama. And this is with the economy at its worst and gas prices at their highest. The gas price bubble is about to pop, and twelve months from now the economy will be on a decided upswing. You are all, my friends, in for a rude awakening.
Wayne | 5.9.11 @ 11:07AM
That poll is meaningless right now, because these people don't even know these candidates. The same could have been said for Bush 1. Yet he lost in a 3-way race.
Most people want nothing to do with ObamaCare. They see the 9% unemployment rate and the huge national deficit and high prices. They just haven't translated that to the next election yet. Remember Obama got only 53% of the vote, and he has sacrificed much of his base (the elderly) to get his ObamaCare. The independents largely voted against Bush.
RCV| 5.9.11 @ 11:14AM
Whatever chance the GOP had of winning over the elderly has vanished with the introduction of the Ryan budget proposals, as GOP representatives learned when they went back to their districts. As for George Bush I, he had no base of his own and Ross Perot siphoned off his possible margin. A third party candidacy this time, whether Paul or Trump, will similarly take from the GOP not Obama. Obama has in tact the best organized, most devoted political organization American politics has seen in decades.
Clint| 5.9.11 @ 12:03PM
"According To A New Gallup/USA Today Poll, Senior Citizens Support The House GOP Budget Over The President’s So-Called Deficit Plan By A Margin Of 48 To 42. “A new Gallup/USA Today poll contains a counterintuitive finding: the age group most receptive to House Budget Chair Paul Ryan's plan to deal with the budget - seniors. The poll finds 48 percent of seniors (those 65 and over) support Ryan's plan over President Obama's plan, while 42 percent back the president.” (Josh Kraushaar, “Gallup: Seniors Most Favorable To Ryan Budget,” National Journal’s “Hotline On Call” Blog, 4/27/11)
Senior citizens must have realized, despite Democrats’ false claims to the contrary, that the House Republican plan is the only serious proposal that will cut spending to help grow our economy and protect and save our nation’s health and retirement security programs for future generations."
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.9.11 @ 1:00PM
RCV,
if you are correct...your kids won't go to college.
Hopefully they will merely survive. (ie; not starve literally to death).
You make me very sad, sir...for you and yours.
If 2012 cannot make a u-turn for our country, both domestically and internationally, then all your fantasies come to an end.
Lawfare against the people will no longer suffice.
RCV| 5.9.11 @ 1:07PM
I have a lot more faith and confidence in my country's future than you, Ken. And so do my kids.
Rancorous Calumny Vituperation| 5.9.11 @ 5:30PM
I don't bother with silly polls showing the dithering-idiot-liar-in-chief losing to generic unnamed republican candidates in states like Florida and Pennsylvania on silly being wrong about Nixon compared to being wrong about the dithering-idiot-liar-in-chief matters.
Wayne | 5.9.11 @ 3:06PM
The elderly are not affected by Ryan's medicare proposal, so why should their support vanish. What they are affected by is Obama's death panel. Now most do not know that right now. Explaining it is what the campaign is all about.
Doctor Right| 5.9.11 @ 4:23PM
"Whatever chance the GOP had of winning over the elderly has vanished with the introduction of the Ryan budget proposals"
Oh, is that the narrative, now?
That GOP voters are angry because the people they sent to Washington last November are doing exactly what they said they'd do??
Yeah...That makes sense. Very convincing. You must have been a great lawyer...
Bob Grant| 5.9.11 @ 5:36PM
I don't care how well run his organization is (like all things Obama, highly overrated, I'm sure). He will not be able to overcome the seething anger - and eventual wrath - of the middle class.
My friend, you are going to see a massive middle class revolt against this tyrant next year. The only question is how much of the country will be left to save!
Negro X| 5.9.11 @ 7:12PM
RCV,
Quoting another fantasy poll, I expect nothing less from a leach (sorry, lawyer). Of course you support obama, without him you would be jobless.
John Navratil| 5.9.11 @ 12:20PM
RCV,
I had the same experience with Carter in '76. Your point that being insular in thought skews your perceptions is, to me, self-evident. It takes some work to step out of one's self and challenge one's own assumptions. (I abuse myself by arguing with "the Beeb" and NPR during my afternoons in the car).
This forum was full of prognostications of this sort prior to the last election. And "while past performance is no guarantee of future returns", the probability of a one-term presidency is better that I've ever seen. Although Carter's mis-adventure in rescuing the hostages in 1980 may give him the prize in that regard.
You say "Obama beats every possible Republican contender". This is easy to say when the field is divided and the question is framed "Would you vote for Obama over " when there are many choices. A more appropriate question might be "Would you vote for Obama over the ultimate Republican candidate?". The field may change in ways which are unknown. There is, for example, no "Obama v. Christie" poll and Christie is being wooed ardently. Obama, in no way, has this in the tank although that, for may reasons, is the way to bet. Intrade has it at 60%, I may sell short (oops, that's illegal).
The bin Laden news cannot be said to have fundamentally changed the independants view of Obama. It's telling that the entirety of his bump came from independants and Republicans (No Dems). I double this will cause any (R)s to change their vote and we will see just how long the bump lasts. If it's fundamental, expect a persistent step in his approval rating. It's too early to tell, just yet.
You final point that the economy will improve is, I believe, your strongest. If the gas bubble is to pop, it had better do so "big time". Gas has doubled above its historical real value, no doubt, in part, to uncertaincies overseas, but in large measure to Obama's economic policies and in somewhat smaller measure to his energy policies. This commodity will not significantly drop in price until the dollar is stronger against world currencies (that's what happened last week).
The economy is already in recovery, but this has been the longest and deepest employment setback in history (1983 was deeper -10.8% - but was over in 24 months). The jobs are not going to rebound until we see GDP growth above 2.5%. The President's Keynesian policies are not helping. Quite the contrary they are what, I think, will keep him from re-election.
We will all wake up on Nov. 7. We will see for who it is a rude awakening.
RCV| 5.9.11 @ 12:46PM
John - Thanks for your thoughtful analysis. Obviously, anything can and will happen between now and November 2012. It should be an interesting year!
SpiralArchitect| 5.9.11 @ 1:01PM
Christie is better than B.O. only by the notion that he is not B.O. IMO
John Navratil| 5.9.11 @ 2:03PM
SpiralArchitect,
Is there anyone who is worse that B.O. because he is not B.O? I imagine only B.O. thinks so.
I take it you are not a Christie fan. That's why we have elections.
kzin| 5.9.11 @ 2:07PM
Christie is pro mass immigration and even a little pro Islam/Sharia Law. Oouch......
GOP would be better off with a team like Ryan and Palin. He has the rock solid economic know how and she has the spirit, enthusiasm and patriotism (as well as being very good on the field of energy). With $5/gallon gasoline in some parts of the country now, if the GOP can take advantage of that, they don't deserve to win.
The only way for the GOP to win is to massively turn out the white vote. Caucasians make up three-quarters of registered voters. Caucasians realize that non-whites are gaining in political power very rapidly due to unending immigration.
It's all about race boys, it just is. As it always has been and always will be......
John Navratil| 5.9.11 @ 6:09PM
kzin,
We all may wish for mass immigration when we need someone to change our bed pans and run our nuclear power plants. A growing economy requires a work force, which is not the same thing as inviting every lawn care guy up from Monterrey but seems to include telling Ph.D. graduates from India that they cannot work in America. The system is broken and the fixes are not simple. I trust Christie's sensibilities.
I have no independent recollection of Christie being pro-Sharia. If he is so, that would be a disqualification in my book, as well.
I dispute you assertion that it is all about race and give Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Clarence Thomas and Herman Cain as just a few prominent black conservatives. It's all about conservatism and limited government (a philosophy which is not alien to the long-time resident Hispanic population of Texas). Race, which may be coincident, is irrelevant.
Steve A| 5.9.11 @ 2:35PM
I wonder how Obama polled vs. hypothetical GOP nominees in May of 2007?. (can you say: not even on the radar??) The point is this: It is wayyyyy to early in the game for any of that to mean much.
He is definitely up against it. If Vegas had a line on his second term chances, it would pay more than even $$ guaranteed, if you took him. Gas & food prices are not going down. Unemployment is not going down. Not hard to campaign against.
Doctor Right| 5.9.11 @ 3:42PM
"The gas price bubble is about to pop, and twelve months from now the economy will be on a decided upswing. You are all, my friends, in for a rude awakening."
Law, eh?
Figures.
They obviously weren't teaching you economics.
Rancid Contemptible Virulence| 5.9.11 @ 5:36PM
I don't bother with silly economic matters when not bothering with silly social, political, historical, not to mention silly constitutional and real Christian love matters.
RCV| 5.10.11 @ 12:02AM
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......
Rancorous Calumny Vituperation| 5.10.11 @ 4:01PM
I don't bother with silly trivialities like showing what an asswipe I am on explaining what uneducated rubes the tea partiers are who don't even recognize the dithering-idiot-liar-in-chief has stimulated the economy for over two years on their behalf already and don't even know how lucky they are for it much less show proper gratitude matters.
RCV| 5.10.11 @ 6:39PM
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
Anthony| 5.9.11 @ 3:44PM
Pauline Kael said the same thing, when as a movie critic for The New Yorker, she knew nobody on the Upper West Side who voted for Nixon.
There are way too many pockets of bubble worlds out there.
Occam's Tool| 5.9.11 @ 4:21PM
Dear RCV,
Gotta disagree, for the reasons I noted above. Ummm, the best way to have a Ruth's Chris steak is with extra butter---and always their Ribeye.
Yumm, yumm.
I work in a State hospital with State Union employees. They're not to keen on O. The economy has hurt them a lot.
Occam's Tool| 5.9.11 @ 4:22PM
Sorry. Not "too" keen on O. No sleep last night, on call.
You are a good guy for a Lib, RCV. But the pendulum is swinging back. Should the Repubs nominate Cain or West, it's over, Rover.
RCV| 5.9.11 @ 5:59PM
Ocaam, if you think either Cain or West could get the nomination, let alone be elected, you're living in a more isolated bubble than I ever imagined. Seriously. And I agree with you on the butter.
John Navratil| 5.9.11 @ 6:12PM
RCV,
Cain is a dark horse (pun unavoidable) and could be a real surprise. I have to say I was less than inspired by his performance in the first debate. Yet, you have to admit that there would be a little sizzle (back to steaks) in a Cain/West ticket.
John Navratil| 5.9.11 @ 6:23PM
Occam's Tool,
Love the rib-eye. Try dry-aging a roast in the fridge for three weeks and put it whole on the grill. When the center is 115, rest it. No crust, but it WILL make you "slap yo' momma".
John Navratil| 5.9.11 @ 6:23PM
Occam's Tool,
Love the rib-eye. Try dry-aging a roast in the fridge for three weeks and put it whole on the grill. When the center is 115, rest it. No crust, but it WILL make you "slap yo' momma".
George S| 5.9.11 @ 5:52PM
Polls are whatever you want them to be. Back in 1980, Carter and Reagan were withing 3 points in the major polls (CBS, Gallup, ABC/Harris, NBC/AP, WaPo), Reagan up on one, Carter up in another. Nearly all had Anderson at 10 percent. Only a couple of n0-name pollsters had Reagan at over 10 points ahead of Carter, which turned out to be the right call.
During the 1972 campaign, the makeup of the person to vote for McGovern was, according to Gallup: non-white; grade school educated; Catholic; manual laborer; under 30 years old; registered Democrat; labor union family; and lives in the East. White men were 3:1 for Nixon. And that still holds today -- white males are the deciding factor.
It is not a bubble that we are operating out of -- we see what is going on. If Obama is a lock for reelection, then why does he not flaunt ObamaCare, stimulus and GM as glorious achievements? Why not promise more of the same? Instead, we hear about waivers for ObamaCare and talk of reducing spending. We do not hear of tax increases, we hear about fighting terror and bin Laden's death. We do not hear about climate change, card check or Muslims in Space anymore. In short, Obama is not the picture of reelection confidence.
Oh, and millions of Americans spontaneously organizing into a Tea Party and sweeping out over a thousand Democrats in federal, state and local governments last November -- all inspired out of fear of Obama and the Democrats... what has changed? Have things gotten better? Is there a mood of recovery out there? Only if you live in a Democrat media induced bubble would you believe that. The media is SILENT on the plight of millions of Americans. Just because you don't hear about it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
2010 was just a warm up of things to come.
russel| 5.9.11 @ 7:44PM
Hardly RC , because Zero CANNOT change his colors . He is a statist with a mission . Every reputable economist has pointed out and written in stone what it takes to get our economy back on track , only to be rebuffed and forgotten as nothing more than another publicty stunt . We have a publicity stunt incompetent statist in the oval office and his war on the energy sector is really going to change your mind next January . Save your NYT's because that extra heat may be a necessity .
Wayne | 5.9.11 @ 11:02AM
If this attack on the compound failed, we would NEVER have heard a word about it. Unless you have a need to know and a top secret clearance, you will never know the truth. Facts are just fed to us like pablum.
It was foolish for the right to try to pick fights on this, thus keeping the story alive all week. That week is what cognitive psychologists will tell you is required to move the event form short term memory to long term memory. Now come next fall, when some GOP candidate foolishly brings up the picture he will break down and release it. It will have the same effect of a post-hypnotic suggestion. "See, I keep you save from the evil terrorist." And the right just played right into his cynical game.
martin j smith| 5.9.11 @ 11:25AM
No this incident of the kill of OBL will only re-appear IF and only IF we are attacked again and in a very big way. If that G-D forbid should come to pass it will at least partly depend on what BHO does in response. My gut tells me if that did happen before 2012 the killing of OBL would mean zero and unless BHO took some extremely serious retaliatory measures ( of course that would kill his foreign policy of appeasement, his ties to his base and his charade of trying to be nice to Muslims ) his election prospects would be zero or below and they might be even if he did retaliate big time. My guess is he would NOT retaliate
Lawrence Boccardi| 5.9.11 @ 12:02PM
All good, Mr. Smith. However, they do something we never do. No matter if The One drops bombs on the Vatican, he will not alienate his base. Where else can they go? He has sucked in some of us oldsters, filling the Medicare donot hole, others by covering their kids until they're 45, or something like that. Add in the union get-out the vote machine, poll corruption and intimidation, the lackluster field of opponents, and we are screwed.
fmg| 5.9.11 @ 12:01PM
Barry Soetoro will likely be re-elected for one main reason: with 24/7 media cheerleading him that's why.
Most Americans are against Obamacare. 9% unemployment. Most Americans are against mass immigration and amnesty for illegals. The govt class get what they want.
It doesn't matter though. Whomever the media support, that person is likely to be elected/re-elected. Throw in govt. employees, unions and BHO strolls to re-election.
Drunken Sailor| 5.9.11 @ 2:23PM
That theory didn't work for Kerry or Gore now did it? The media wasn't quite down on their knees for them like Obama but they sure were looking for a comfortable spot to kneel.
SpiralArchitect| 5.9.11 @ 12:32PM
The truth often hurts.
fmg| 5.9.11 @ 12:45PM
Just ask yourself this: Why do we all know Sarah Palin's elementary school records but we don't know Obama's law school grades, writings, etc.?
Why is it never mentioned that Obama's father was a muslim and a communist/marxist? That his white mother from Kansas (huh!) was a hard core Marxist/anarchist, along with her parents (who mostly raised Barry). They were nearly all commuists and subversives and malcontents.
Yet we know every grade Palin got in school. This is not an endorsement of Palin (although I quite like her), my bigger point is the MSM treat politicians from the two parties VERY differently.
When you have 24/7 news and entertainment media (ever see Entertainment Tonight lately? Obama-ganda on it now. Plus Oprah, The View, Letterman, SNL, yadda, yadda...) throwing your bouquets of flowers, the way they do to Obama, he will be hard to beat.
RCV| 5.9.11 @ 1:02PM
"Never mentioned" that Obama's father was a Muslim? What universe have you been living in? And I've never read anything about Palin's grades anywhere, other than that she went to several undisinquished colleges and took six years to graduate.
fmg| 5.9.11 @ 1:22PM
It's a crime to take six years to finish a bachelor's degree? Since when? Perhaps she didn't have scholarships garnered by listing one's self as an Indonesian and thus getting a scholarship for foreigners. Perhaps she had to work unlike the effeminate lawyer, Barry, who very mysterioulsy, attended very expensive private schools, with no visible means of support from his family. Curious.
And another thing genius, my point is Barry's father being a moooooslim was BARELY MENTIONED anywhere and his sperm donor pappy was a communist official with the govt of Kenya, back in the 1960s. We here at this site are very political but the AVERAGE VOTER, genius, did not know his parental lineage, as well as Frank Marshall Davis and similar.
RCV| 5.9.11 @ 1:41PM
The average voter has a lot more common sense than people who spout nonsense like yours.
btims| 5.9.11 @ 2:00PM
Spoke like a limp-wristed lawyer boy.......lol.
If an "educated" limp-wrist like you doesn't think personal and family history matters, what does pray tell? Oh please do tell, I say, to the chin stroking "academic"?
Chin stroking academic?
Doctor Right| 5.9.11 @ 3:46PM
More like chin-wiping...
Doctor Right| 5.9.11 @ 3:45PM
Apparently not.
A lot of "average voters" pulled the lever for King Barry Hussain I in 2008; to me, that automatically disqualifies them from having much "common sense".
And what's your excuse, Mr. Stanford Law? Let me guess...Are you a trial lawyer-parasite?
RCV| 5.9.11 @ 6:02PM
No, Dr. Right, in fact I was a partner in a large corporate law firm and litigated against plaintiffs' trial lawyers my whole career.
Nick| 5.10.11 @ 1:07AM
I knew there was a reason I liked you, RCV!
Good for you, sticking it to those stinking ambulance chasers and defending Big
fill-in-the-blank business.
Did you ever have to defend against any of those mesothelioma vampires?
RCV| 5.10.11 @ 1:16AM
To me, there are few classes of human beings lower than plaintiff's class action attorneys: they prey on real victims, increase the cost of doing business and therefore the cost of living for everyone. The "class action" was a legal vehicle that sounded intellectually plausible on paper, but has proven a nightmare in practice. It should be taken out back and shot.
I defended scores of securites "fraud" suits -- i.e., millions lost some money on a company they invested in, so why shouldn't I the lawyer get millions too -- and a number of toxic tort class actions. I always had to shower twice after dealing with plaintiffs' counsel.
W| 5.10.11 @ 2:32PM
rcv: you do know that the plaintiff trial lawyers, especially the class action bar, are some of the biggest contributors to obama, and the democrat party. remember john edwards. if you have this opinion of the trial lawyers, then how can you have a favorable opinion of obama, clinton, etc who are supported by those lawyers you detest. you know that the lawyers support the democrats because the dems support legislation to help the lawyers, such as no caps on pain and suffering awrds. why do you then support the politicians who take money from the people that cause you to shower more frequently than you need?
RCV| 5.10.11 @ 5:40PM
I make up my own independent mind about issues and don't follow party lines. I disagree strongly with most of my fellow liberals on tort reform, caps on punitive damages, and a number of other issues that I have had a chance to see and work on first hand. I always detested John Edwards because I saw in him the same phony smarmy plaintiffs' lawyer I'd run into a million times. But those are not the only, or even the most important, issues to me.
Occam's Tool| 5.9.11 @ 4:24PM
Remember, RCV, I do like you, but you live on the Coast, and not in the heartland. We expect to lose Cali and win.
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 5.9.11 @ 5:57PM
I don't bother with silly spouting nonsense like RCV spouting nonsense on 10.23.10 at 9:30 pm quoting nonsense spouted verbatim "I abhor sanctimonious conservatism of the tea party brand, an ideology wholly lacking in intelligence or a shred of real Christian love and compassion. Every policy it espouses is dangerous, damaging, and detrimental to our country and it's future. It will have a lifespan much like its intellectual forebearer, Know-Nothingism" when spouting nonsense like RCV spouting nonsense on 12.7.10 at 6:27 pm quoting nonsense spouted verbatim "At least, skippie, I belong to a party that cares about human beings AFTER they're born" spouting nonsense nonsensically spouted spoutatively nonsensical spouting nonsense matters.
RCV| 5.9.11 @ 6:02PM
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......
CK| 5.9.11 @ 1:18PM
"Why is it never mentioned that Obama's father was a muslim and a communist/marxist? "
Hey crazy!. Because nobody cares about his parents.
"Yet we know every grade Palin got in school. "
No, actually we don't. Just that she went to 6 schools, and not in a good way.
"my bigger point is the MSM treat politicians from the two parties VERY differently.When you have 24/7 news and entertainment media ..."
You do. You have FOXNews. They are MSM and they treat both parties VERY differently.
fmg| 5.9.11 @ 1:25PM
I for one, do care about a person's background and upbringing, genius. Why? Because that influences who a person is. Duh. Fools like you put a man with a life long history of radical associations and zero experience into the White House. Do you think his philosophy and policies came out of the blue? They come from his background, his personal and family history.
Do I really need to teach you kids this?
Alice Wonderland| 5.9.11 @ 1:00PM
May 09, 2011
Is Obama a Serial Liar?
By Nancy Morgan
http://is.gd/fEZzJk
Accusing someone of lying is a serious matter. Especially when that someone is the President of the United States. Charges of that nature should be leveled based only on absolute proof of a deliberate statement, intentionally made, whose sole purpose is to deceive. Based on this criterion, President Obama is a liar. Demonstrably so. And a disturbing pattern is emerging that allows for the possibility that our president is a serial liar. Consider:
In just the last month, Obama has made several statements that are just not so. Statements made to the American public that were in direct conflict with known facts.
In April, Obama flatly stated that implementing ObamaCare will reduce the deficit by $1 trillion. A day later, the Congressional Budget Office reported that statement was 'incorrect,' pegging the "deficit savings" at $210 billion over 10 years.
In the same April 15 speech, Obama stated that the tax burden on the wealthy is the lowest it has been in 50 years. A simple fact-check proves him wrong. Obama did not correct his false statement and the media didn't either.
In January of 2009, Obama stated that it was no longer necessary to kill Osama bin Laden to win the war against al-Qaeda. On May 1, 2011, after the successful raid by Navy Seals that killed bin Laden, Obama told the nation that he made the capture or killing of Osama bin Laden a "top priority," and had instructed CIA Chief Leon Panetta to make this job number one. Which statement is correct?
Last week, several of my friends asked me if I believed that bin Laden was really dead. The questions weren't surprising, considering the mass of misinformation and conflicting accounts of bin Laden's death now emanating from the White House. It appears the question of bin Laden's demise was only settled after al Qaeda issued a statement confirming it.
What does it say about Obama's credibility when the pro-Arab al Jazeera media reports are given more credibility than our own president? Maybe that's why Columbia School of Journalism just awarded al Jazeera a journalism prize.
Giving Obama the benefit of the doubt, I'll allow for the possibility that he underwent a drastic change of heart and altered his position on bin Laden. It happens. But when added to the increasing number of statements Obama continues to make that defy reality, the facts, and common sense, I'm more inclined to believe Obama's "mis-statements" are a deliberate effort to deceive the American people.
For example: Obama told the American people that not spending money is "mortgaging America's future." Who knows, it's possible Obama actually believes this, but anyone with an ounce of common sense knows we can't spend our way out of bankruptcy.
Another blooper: Obama stated that increased drilling will not solve our energy problems. Huh? Again, the media let this statement go unchallenged. (At least Sen. Vitter called him on it.)
Obama would have us believe that the big bad oil companies are to blame for our skyrocketing gas prices, despite the fact that every energy decision made by Obama, from with holding drilling permits to increased regulatory burdens being placed on big oil, has directly resulted in raising the cost of gasoline.
Obama would like us to ignore the fact that his Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, stated in 2008 that he wants to "figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." Since then, gas prices have doubled. Mission accomplished.
Despite the pain at the pump, Obama's energy dis-information campaign has been quite successful, with a new poll showing that only 9% of Americans believe that Obama is responsible for rising gas prices.
Tailoring the facts to reflect the most favorable interpretation is an accepted prerogative of the bully pulpit. Every president will of course, spin the news to a certain extent. This is not new. But under Obama, there appears to be a deliberate campaign by the White House and many segments of the government to blatantly deceive the American people. Consider our Department of Homeland Security:
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told Congress last week that the Obama administration is trying to come up with a new yardstick to better reflect the improvements it says it has made. The Washington Times correctly noted that, unable to meet its border goals, the DHS merely moved the goals.
Arizona Sheriff Larry Deaver pretty much confirmed the Washington Time's report, testifying before Congress that the U.S. Border Patrol has told its agents to stop arresting illegal aliens crossing the border from Mexico to keep the illegal immigration numbers down. In other words, deceive the American people by peddling perception as reality.
Obama and his administration are masters in getting Americans to think with their hearts instead of their brains. After all, emotions are easier to manipulate than facts. And many truths are easier to ignore than acknowledge. But not acknowledging reality, doesn't change the reality. And we ignore reality at our own peril, as we are now finding out on a daily basis.
Though not specified in our Constitution, I believe Americans should have the right to enough information to make informed decisions. Instead, we are being fed a steady stream of outright lies and deliberate misstatements. And when we the people fail to challenge our elected representatives when they lie, we not only enable them, we become complicit. We also forfeit the right to complain when reality hits us in the pocketbook while America continues its slide to the level of a third world country.
SpiralArchitect| 5.9.11 @ 1:11PM
Compare any (just the) states gas tax with the 2-4% oil company profits and tell me where the increased cost of fuel comes from.
Spending our way away from bankruptcy - great title for a book... feel the pain!
CK| 5.9.11 @ 1:14PM
If these comments reflect what the American Spectator claims to be "Young Conservatives" I don't think Obama and the Dems have anything to worry about in the near future. Racist and ill informed bigots don't usually win in national elections and there seems to be plenty around here. The biggest problem for the GOP are their candidates and how pathetic that class of clowns is compared to Obama.
fmg| 5.9.11 @ 1:26PM
There's a reason why we have the expression "young and dumb". It's because of limp-wrists like you.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 5.9.11 @ 1:49PM
CK says (from above): "Does this guy above actually think anybody read that long diatribe.?"
Yes we do, and that's why we know what's going on, and you sound like a complete idiot!! Democrats and Liberals are lazy in general (and everybody knows that-except for them!!), and that's why they always need handouts, and Union protection!!
Lazy, and Stupid, a dangerous combination!!
Drunken Sailor| 5.9.11 @ 2:25PM
Seriously, you cut and paste your own post? Are you just to lazy to think, type or both?
Al Adab| 5.9.11 @ 4:05PM
I suppose the qualitative comparison depends on what your criteria are. I'll use, low taxes, non-redistribution, no earmarks, free markets, strong military and limited government as mine. How does the President stand on those issues?
Occam's Tool| 5.9.11 @ 4:25PM
Al Adab,
WHY don't you run?
Occam's Tool| 5.9.11 @ 4:26PM
Note the emphasis was on the plaintive why, not the "you."
Al Adab| 5.9.11 @ 6:38PM
OT:
Thanks for the vote of confidence. I appreciate your sentiment. Autobiography NOT coming.
John Navratil| 5.9.11 @ 6:25PM
CK,
Stick around for a while and you will see that all manner of fools drop by.
Al Adab| 5.9.11 @ 2:09PM
Come the summer of 2012, the big blockbuster movie of the year will be "Neptunes' Trident" undoubtedly showing an American President of fabulous charisma and decisivness ordering our troops to eliminate OBL. The Steven Speilburg production will portray Courage in war room scenes and hot action on the battlefield while a decisive President overcomes the doubts of his cabinet and advisors. Count on it as part of the re-election cam,paign.
Steve A| 5.9.11 @ 2:39PM
Al Adab, Just take it in as a comedy. It always cracks me up to see hard left liberals break out the Rambo gear when it suits them. It is a comedy show.
One minute it is "Bush lied, people died." Human shield volunteers, calling the troops war criminals. 20 minutes later, when they get their shot they turn into Audie Murphy.
RCV| 5.10.11 @ 12:04AM
I, for one, ALWAYS loved Audie Murphy.
Oldefarte| 5.9.11 @ 3:08PM
This killing of UBL is only significant to the greatness of our military [Navy Seal Team 6 members], and has nothing otherwise to do with the survival of this country. I just watched the pathetic video of UBL sitting in front of an anchient TV watching himself on the news, and that is IMO reflective of this country's image at present. This country is pathetic, delapidated, old and insignificant due to the political policies of the current administration and its Democrat inablers. Radically extreme and liberal Democrats are destroying this country and its people, all due to the stupidity and imbicilic despair of our voters in allowing this inept, ineffective nobody from the streets of Chicago to become the president in November of 2008. This occurred because the voters were worn wary of a long middle eastern military conflict that has resulted in far too many of our nation's young people coming back from same either dead or severly wounded [the same thing occurred as a result of the Viet Nam War, even worse]. Sadly, our nation's youth was/is being sacrificed in fighting an enemy with no ID'ing uniforms, that hides in caves and behind women and children cowardly, while planting roadside bombs that kill/maime thousands of our military members and also innocents in these foreign countries. This war was a rataliation for 9/11/01, when this country's military should have instead been unleached in the form of numerous stealth bombers loaded to the max with atomic bombs to be unloaded within the deserts of these countries as a warning to never ever again attack us as they did on 9/11/01. As a result of this war weariness, the voters of this country allowed themselves to be brainwashed, propagandized, duped into voting for a unknown Chicago senator of dubious qualifications and intent. This country has been paying for its then stuidity immencely, and we must correct our previous mistake in November of next year. There is no other choice, if we are to survive!!!!!!!!!!!
kzin| 5.9.11 @ 3:21PM
You're right but the main problem as I see it is this: since 9/11, we're afraid to say who the enemy is. It is Islam of course.
While not all muslims want to set off bombs among we infidels, a large percentage of muslims do quietly agree with many of OBL's views. The just can't say it publically.
Rick| 5.9.11 @ 4:33PM
Your a rasist!
Mike| 5.9.11 @ 6:06PM
Rick
Who, exactly, is a racist and what did they say to make you hurl that accusation? I tend to dismiss those who lead with the attitude you have displayed.
Mike Johnston
SFC USA (RET)
Negro X| 5.9.11 @ 7:14PM
Rick, And you are a retard.
Mike Gabel| 5.9.11 @ 4:54PM
Barack the broken clock. Though, it would a mircale if he were right twice a day.
W| 5.9.11 @ 5:46PM
this is supposed to be an intelligent convservative to libertarian site. we do not need these crazy rants wishing harm to obama, or any other of our politicians. there are enough of those far left sites where they still obsess with bush and cheney. we are better than them, and those hollywood types wishing harm for bush, cheney, justice thomas, such as whoopi goldberg, bill maher, michael moore, and many others.
Dee See| 5.9.11 @ 11:11PM
Great article!
MEANWHILE, still another explosion at the
Fukishima plant, and still NO coverage of the greeatest
world nuclear disaster in history.
REMEMBER, the first 'unprecedented' quake
in 2005, occurred on MAO's Birthday.
These last two in Japan on 11 days.
The telltale signs of HAARP discharges are
all over these events.
The radiation IS covering the northern hemisphere and set to continue spewing for the next 10 months ---AT LEAST.
MASSIVE and RAPID depopulation IS the
core, publicly stated goal of
David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Bill Gates
et al. That's by any and all means.
Look at your kids right now. Take a good long look.
WHAT ABOUT THIS SITUATION ARE YOU
NOT GETTING?
HUAC meets NUREMBERG with all possible
speed-------------------------------------------------
RCV| 5.10.11 @ 1:17AM
Question for Occam: Are computers now accessible by patients in institutions?
Replica | 5.9.11 @ 11:13PM
Idiot Liberals (is that redundant) made movies about George W. Bush being assassinated.
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mark l.| 5.10.11 @ 2:40AM
the only two candidates that matter...
obama 2008 v. obama 2012.
independents, knowing obama for four years, are really going to support him, again?
when the deficit clears 1.8 trillion for 2011, and and at least 1.6 trillion in 2012, it will just punctuate one of the worst presidents in US history.
RCV| 5.10.11 @ 10:46AM
You'd like to wish it so, but the fact is people choose between two candidates. If that were not the case, Nixon could never been reelected in 1972. There's no one yet on the GOP horizon who could win.