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Streetcar Line
His Abominations Accelerate
Obama’s the man leading the Occupy the Oval Office movement.
The Republican presidential campaign thus far has been so bizarre and, frankly, depressing, that some of us have failed to adequately cover worrisome developments on a number of other important fronts. By ineptness and, worse, by deliberate design, Barack Obama daily makes this nation weaker abroad, less free (and more authoritarian) at home, economically more feeble, and in the civic realm more bitterly divided than ever. Meanwhile, ominous developments crowd the world stage. In short, we’re in a big heap of trouble.
The recent litany of Obama’s odiousness begins with his growing, unambiguous war against traditional Christianity. He has now left no room for any pretense otherwise to be believed. Right on the heels of a unanimous Supreme Court, including his own two appointees, smacking down his administration’s attempt to kill the “ministerial exemption” for employment practices of faith-based institutions, an unchastened Obama has decided that even faith-based organizations must provide insurance that covers contraception — even including abortifacients.
This is not just a narrow policy disagreement; it is, as Bishop David A. Zubik of Pittsburgh wrote, the president’s way of saying “To Hell With You” to people of faith — “To hell with your religious beliefs. To hell with your religious liberty. To hell with your freedom of conscience.” Zubik continued: “This is government by fiat that attacks the rights of everyone — not only Catholics; not only people of all religion. At no other time in memory or history has there been such a governmental intrusion on freedom not only with regard to religion, but even across-the-board with all citizens.”
Obama’s broadsides, plural, against religious liberty are only a part of his radical transgressions against the U.S. Constitution. Conservatives are rightly up in arms about Obama’s illegal recess appointments. Obamacare, of course, contains several anti-Constitutional abominations, including the “individual mandate” and the Independent Payment Advisory Board. Meanwhile, his administration is flagrantly violating precedent by trying to force explicit hiring quotas on the Fire Department of New York, in a case in which a key amicus brief was filed on January 24 at the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
And so on.
Abroad, this man leading the Occupy the Oval Office movement is even worse. He threw away a clear victory in Iraq and may be doing the same in Afghanistan. His fecklessness regarding Iran, perfectly in line with his long record of favoring Shia interests, is now leading to a crisis of the first order. His strange mishandling of the Egyptian revolution has left the United States with very little leverage in a country that for more than three decades was a major American ally, and has left Coptic Christians scared to death. He long ago insulted allies such as Israel and Great Britain, repeatedly and with malice aforethought. He seems to have no real relationship of any positive nature with any allied foreign leader, perhaps with the exception of those in Brazil, whose oil exploration he subsidizes while blocking tens of thousands of jobs that would come from domestic energy production he has snuffed out. And he seems hell-bent on a mission to starve the American armed forces to dangerous thinness.
Killing the private college-loan industry. Hobbling private for-profit colleges. Illegally seizing auto companies. Whoring for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Turning public policy over to thuggish union bosses and destroying jobs in South Carolina to do so. Turning the Justice Department into a thoroughly corrupt, lawless, racialist, hyper-politicized, gun-running, vote-fraud-enabling, bullying arm of the left wing of the Democratic Party. Regulating the life out of almost every aspect of the economy. Buying political support by funneling taxpayer money to failing private alternative-energy companies. Lying with the Supreme Court sitting in front of him about what they decided in the Citizens United case. Lying about so many things that one loses count. Roiling racial tensions every chance he gets.
This is a man who has no interest in serving the United States that most of us know and love. Instead, he’s a man who, by hook and definitely by crook, serves the despicable vision of the utterly foreign America he wants to impose on us.
Four more years of this guy in power, and we are doomed. He is a menace, and, by every legal means possible, he must be stopped — and his maladministration reversed and thoroughly buried.
About the Author
Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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Brian Mc| 2.3.12 @ 6:38AM
Ignorance empowers. Your shopping list of abhorrant attacks against the Republic would get a "ho, hum" from over fifty per-cent of the voting block. Let the requiem commence with the "Lacrymosa".
Or, we can push back. We are the ones in the corner through attempts to placate the beast that has put us there.
Thank you, Quin. I never envisioned a day when I would feel helpless and terrified of my own government. The alien has made it so.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.3.12 @ 9:39AM
The "Alien".
Indeed.
Dear Quin: Where have you been, lo these many years? "By ineptness and, worse, by deliberate design, Barack Obama daily makes us weaker abroad, less Free (more Authoritarian) at home, economically more feeble, and more bitterly divided than ever."
Not bad, except for the 2nd word. "Ineptness". Please explain what you mean by "Ineptness"? Cause, from where I'm standing, this is the Greatest Military Campaign since Alexander.
He has done to this Country, in 3 Years, what the Soviets were unable to do in 50. He has done in 3 Years, what the Arab World has been unable to do in Millennium. He is bringing them all together, under one Banner, for a Single Purpose. The Destruction of Israel.
Ineptness? He's been like a Maestro, the way he conducts his Allies in the Main Stream Media, Big Business, and the Big Wall Street Firms.
Like a Magician, he's always pulling the Impossible, out of his hat. He has a Treasury Secretary - Timothy Geithner - who doesn't Pay his Taxes.
He has a Jobs Commission guy - Jeffery Immelt - who only creates jobs in CHINA, by closing up his Factories here, and Re-opening them again, over there.
He has the Richest Man in America, lamenting the fact that he doesn't pay enough in taxes, while he has teams of Lawyers fighting the IRS, over the $2 MILLION that he OWES.
And, of course, he spends most of his time, these days, Vilifying the RICH, yet he keeps hanging out with them at the Golf Course, the White House, and in their Homes, when he goes on Vacation.
Like Hitler, he seeks to divide us by Wealth. He attacks the Rich Bankers and Hedge Fund Operators (JEWS) as he pretends to Defend the Great Unwashed.
Like Lenin, he attacks the Bourgeoisie. Like Mao and Castro, he attacks Capitalism.
Like Muhammad Ali, in his prime, he Jabs his pitiably weak Republican Opposition at will, against the ropes, until the time that he can Knock them out.
Like a Chess Master, he moves his Players (CZARS) around the Board. Always thinking 6 moves ahead. Like a Japanese Puppet Show, he only shows us, what he wants us to see. We never see the ones Controlling all of the movements. (CZARS)
I want you to go back and Re-Read what you have written. And, then I want you to look in the Mirror and ask yourself: "What the fck was I thinking about when I wrote this Stupid POS?"
You sound like you just woke up from a Freakin Coma! Stop getting Facials and having your nails done. We The People are living the things that this MFER is doing, every day.
How is it that you're OBLIVIOUS to what this MFer is doing? It's in his Books! It's what he ran on, ithe Election. Everything he's doing, is what HE TOLD US he would do.
Go to the Dictionary, and look up the word EVIL. And if that's not good enough? Look up Marxist. Look up Communist. Look up Maoist. Look up Narcissist, Nihilist, and Sociopath.
When you're finished, get back in front of that Mirror, and take a good, hard look.
1ConservativeUSA| 2.3.12 @ 10:39AM
Well done, Mr. Pennell.
Oldefarte| 2.3.12 @ 11:28AM
I hope that your intelligent commentary above was strictly sarcasm/facetious, because if you're honestly attempting to suggest that Hillyer has not previously and thoroughly discussed/editorialized this situation/subject, then it is you [not Quin] who has been '....Where have you been, lo these many years?...' and perhaps needs to '....When you're finished, get back in front of that Mirror, and take a good, hard look....'!!!!!!
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.3.12 @ 11:53AM
Maybe he has been talking it up, but Obviously, like YOU, he doesn't get it. He's still using the "Inexperienced" line. The "Inept" line. The "He doesn't understand the ramifications of his Actions" line.
BULLSH*T!
What part of that don't you understand? He does, what he does, ON PURPOSE.
He threw Mubarak under the Bus, because he WANTS the Islamists in Charge of Egypt.
He got rid of Khaddafi because he WANTS the Islamists in charge of Libya.
He does NOTHING in Iran or Syria because he DOESN'T want to. The Islamists are already in charge in those Countries.
CAPICHE?
He was Running Guns to the mexican Drug Cartels because he WANTED as many people as possible, to be KILLED by those guns. Why? Because he WANTS to be able to use the DEAD, as props for more GUN CONTROL. (Read what CBS has written about this.)
He put a Drilling Moratorium in place, in direct defiance of a Federal Judge's Orders. He is in Contempt of Court, as we speak. He cancelled the Canadian Pipeline. He is doing everything in his power to KILL THIS COUNTRY.
Is it because he's so STUPID?
Or, is that his PLAN?
THINK!
Oldefarte| 2.3.12 @ 12:17PM
'....Maybe he has been talking it up, but Obviously, like YOU, he doesn't get it....' I DON'T GET IT? Son, don't get too full of your self-described BEING A LEGEND IN YOUR OWN MIND STATUS, okay? I am 66 and have been GETTING IT way before you ever became a gleem in your old man's eyeballs, okay? As to Quin, do your research and re-read his historical editorials on this SOB going back to 2008; and if then you still feel that he too does not 'get it', then there is nothing further anyone can attempt to tell you!!!!!!!!!!
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.3.12 @ 12:43PM
Did it ever occur to you, that you might just be an OLD FOOL? I don't need to look back on what he's written, before. I read what he wrote, TODAY.
Don't Patronize me. You're not qualified.
And, being molested by your friend's Father, back in 1950, doesn't count as "GETTING IT", Jack*ss.
Teaghan| 2.3.12 @ 1:42PM
Tim, come on now. Take a deep breath, I love ya but let's not chew each other up. We're on the same side here.
Peace, out.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.3.12 @ 5:11PM
I just calls'em like I sees'em.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.4.12 @ 9:43AM
You're right.
I guess, by Friday, I become overwhelmed .
I gotta reign it in.
I apologize.
Oldefarte| 2.3.12 @ 2:26PM
STICK IT WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE AND TWIST IT SIDEWAYS, snot-nose! Obviously you don't GET IT since if you did so, you'd be too busy making a financial living/earning money/making money [like these writers are doing from their COMPENSATED editorials] INSTEAD OF CONSTANTLY BEING ON YOUR COMPUTER BLOGGING YOUR SELF-CENTERED BULLEXCREMENT, and would not have the time/energy to propagandize your NON-PUBLISHED editorials 24-7. Genius, if you think you know so much and are the only one that GETS IT, WHY AREN'T YOUR EDITORIALS BEING PAID FOR/COMPENSATED [like these writers that you're critisizing]??????? Answer: because you're a typical worthless little snot-nosed punk with a computer pretending to be a computerized Hemmingway [WHICH YOU AIN'T AND NEVER WILL BE]. Enjoy your poverty generated intelligensia and fifteen minutes of computerized fame while it lasts, and then go get a GD job, get off the computer and stop blowing your smoking manure here daily. As to your '....Don't Patronize me. You're not qualified....', yeah you damned right I'm qualified, since I EARNED THAT RIGHT OF QUALIFICATION from 35 constant 24-7 years of working/making money [like many my age], and am now able financially and have the time to blog on a computer [which you obviously have not], so until your reach a similar stage in life don't lecture others about GETTING IT ''''''STUPIDLY''''''!!!!!!
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.3.12 @ 5:37PM
You're an Idiot. You don't know anything about me. You just shoot your fat, stupid mouth off, to make up for your lack of brains.
I can be on the Computer, because I have a SEASONAL JOB, dumb*ss. I take care of my KIDS in the Winter, dumb*ss.
And you're NOT QUALIFIED to patronize me.
You're far too STUPID for that.
But, you already know that, don't you.
That's what makes you so mad.
Quartermaster| 2.3.12 @ 6:28PM
Pennell, you are one of the people that has been turning this place into a fever swamp and you either need to get some kind of hold on yourself, or be banned.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.4.12 @ 9:57AM
I wasn't aware that this was a Mutual Appreciation Club.
It's a Political Forum.
It's SUPPOSED to be a Fever Swamp, by definition.
I don't think I should be banned, I just think I should Chill a bit. Extremists BAN things.
What's that old Prayer about "Worrying over things that I cannot Change"? The Serenity Prayer?
That sounds like something I should keep near the Computer, from now on.
I had a bad day. If you've seen that Fantasy Football Commercial, with that song in the background? I'm every one of those people in the Commercial. Right now, I feel like those people look.
I can do better.
Simon Templar| 2.7.12 @ 11:29AM
I read the start of this thread and felt compelled to write something about it and hope it is not too late to be heard.
Quin does not deserve a defense as he sanctimonously moans about Obama and the damage he has done to this country while at the same time he has done everything with his poison pen to destroy the alternatives. Quin you are part of the problem. You misleed, you sabotage, and you undermine conservativism.
Timothy was correct in his objection to the percieved tone and underlying attitude of Quins's article and moaning about Obama. All too often we have heard so many pundits feign shock and disappointment about this presidency and that which has ocurred under it. Incompetence has been the key word and the distraction from the actual truth of the matter here. Obama is not incompetent, he is deliberate, conniving, and has an agenda.
Why does it matter? It matter because if you intend to ever effectively fight him and the Left you better wake up to this fact as you will never craft an effective counter response not recognizing this reality. Nor will you convince others that he is a real and present danger. Incomptence is in the eye of the beholder. People can live with it and give someone a second chance if they see improvement and learning on the job.
Quin's conclusions are dangerously stupid and simple minded. Timothy was justified in getting angry and frustrated with this line of thinking.
In fact, he is expressing the same outrage that many of us hold and is seeking that passion that Gingrich has shown that got so much positive reception.
This fear and uncomfortability with intense emotion and anger is a trait of many Americans today particularly that of the older generations. Conservatives themselves have been guilty of this for a long time and have a tradition of trying to be nice, mannered, and lacking passion. Romney is the classic example of the Republican. George Will is another. Their time is done. The Left know this well and has used it against conservatives.
So many of us are getting it finally and are starving for the kind of passion our founding fathers had about the very principles that we supposedly espouse. We are looking for leadership that will take no prisoners and will meet the Left head on with passion, truth, and spine.
Keep that passion Timothy and keep telling the truth. Do not water it down or temper it. The Left is counting on you to do otherwise.
David| 2.3.12 @ 5:13PM
Timothy, I like a lot of what you have to say.......and yes, Bam Bam told us what he would do........but do show a little respect to people on the same side.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.4.12 @ 9:31AM
You're right. I lost it.
Watching my Coiuntry go Third World is taking a toll. No doubt about it.
I apologize.
MikeG| 2.3.12 @ 11:30PM
What's wrong with you Pennell? Nobody allowed to disagree with your rants so you have to accuse someone of being molested. Sick, sick.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.4.12 @ 9:37AM
I agree with you about the first part.
The "Molesting" thing?
He deserved it.
Joe Gause| 2.4.12 @ 5:55AM
Timothy: You're getting too emotional here. I generally like your comments; but here today, you are going off the deep end. Let's keep it civil amongst us conservatives.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.4.12 @ 9:34AM
Everything you said is correct. I was way outta line, and I feel pretty foolish, right now.
Eating quite the serving of Crow, this morning.
But, I deserve it.
RCV| 2.3.12 @ 4:52PM
Timothy Pennell, Old Farte, is an insufferable, foul-mouthed cokehead who thinks its really manly and clever to yell obscenities and pretend that he has more than the fifth-grade education he displays. He isn't worth responding to.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.3.12 @ 6:09PM
Wow. We DO have something in common.
Who da thunk it?
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 2.3.12 @ 8:16PM
I don't cleverly contemplate silly the worth of responses as to what is insufferable - that is, what is unacceptable or outrageous or intolerable or dreadful or detestable - nor do I cleverly contemplate silly the worth of responses as to what is obscene - that is, indecent or offensive or abhorrent or repugnant or repulsive - on standing by every word I've stated - that is, I belong to a party that cares about human beings, at least, AFTER they're born, that is, as a devout churchgoing Christian and as a lifelong biblical scholar and as a lifelong constitutional scholar, that is, who abhors tea party conservatism that is wholly lacking in intelligence and in real Christian love and in real Christian compassion - that is, on clever contemplations of silly the worth of responses that are worth responding to, not to mention clever contemplations of the worth of responses that are sanctimonious and hypocritical, that is, as I insufferably and obscenely spout vomitus as a charlatan and a reprobate, that is, matters.
RCV| 2.3.12 @ 9:00PM
Zzzzzzzzzzzz........
Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 2.3.12 @ 9:30PM
I don't cleverly contemplate silly the worth of responding to insufferable responses consisting of a bunch of 'z's - with or without an obscenity - matters.
RCV| 2.5.12 @ 12:13AM
Z...zz...zzz...z...
gatorgirl| 2.3.12 @ 3:17PM
Timothy, you are right of course on the facts that all of this is by design by the Imposter in the Oval Office...but to attack Quinn, who is bringing it to light to those who just don't get it, don't want to admit it or are just waking up, I think Quinn did a far more aggressive job of stating it like it is than most reporters who still are afraid to say too much or to say it like it is.
I am grateful for him for taking the stance. I have been saying the same things you have about Obama (sometimes with or without the expletives) and for the same reasons, but people don't want to hear it from me...just a woman who has never been politically active before...what do I know...except...I do know!!
It is fearless articles from fearess reporters that will help give us out here in "conspiracy land" validity. We are all on the same side here and we need each other.
R. Nixon| 2.3.12 @ 3:29PM
Well said!!!
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.3.12 @ 5:27PM
No. Not well said.
Until people like Quin, get it through their heads that this guy is PURPOSEFULLY destroying this Country, nothing's gonna get fixed.
Giving him the Benefit of the Doubt ("He's just Ill informed." "He's Inexperienced." "He just doesn't realize what he's doing.") is a buncha BULLSH*T!
He knows EXACTLY what he's doing. It's in his DNA.
Everybody on the RIGHT, wants to pretend otherwise, because to do Speak The Truth about this man, is to invite the RACE CARD.
If Quin Hillyer is too afraid to tell it like it is, than he'd be better off just keeping his mouth shut.
He is, what he is, and he's never gonna change.
He's a Muslim and a Marxist and a Communist, by BIRTH. It's in his DNA. He hates this Country. He has nothing but CONTEMPT for everything that has made this Country Great. He won't rest until we are a Third World Economic Basket Case, and his Brothers in the Middle East have Killed every Jew on the Planet.
If you people can't come to grips with that?
That's your F-ing problem.
Not Mine.
R. Nixon| 2.3.12 @ 8:06PM
Grow up friend!!!!
Save your fury and venom for those on the other side.
Your are impressing no one!!!
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.4.12 @ 9:27AM
You're right. Seeing how the Media was Manipulating the Employment numbers, once again, to prop this POS up, was just too much to take.
I'm Human. I make mistakes.
I made a Mistake.
I apologize to everyone, except.............You know who you are.
JazzyJeff| 2.4.12 @ 4:30AM
Your a trip dude! Would anyone's essay please you
at this point? Relax man.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.4.12 @ 9:21AM
You're right.
You're absolutely right.
I need to relax.
Gatorgirl: I apologize.
Oldefarte: I do not.
JenB| 2.4.12 @ 1:47PM
I want to add...
We are watching this great country of ours being destroyed. We all are going to get emotional about it. I think we should cut each other some slack when our emotions get the better of us. It is understandable. This isn't something insignigicant, like a foot ball game or something else we may disagree on.
I think we need to be supportive of each other, even when our emotions get the better of us.
R. Nixon| 2.4.12 @ 10:39AM
Thank you for this Timothy, it takes courage to admit to mistakes that we all make. Unfortunately few of us are prepared to admit to them and apologize, so again I tip my hat to you.
Obviously, if we are ever to prevail in this never ending struggle against the "left" and their statist tyranny we need to stick together.
Take care, have a great day, and I look forward to your future posts.
JenB| 2.4.12 @ 1:42PM
I understand your frustration completely.
There is a huge difference in an inept president and on who is deliberatly destroying this country. This notion that Obama is merely over his head is niave.
The reality is, Obama is PURPOSELY destroying this country. That needs to be drilled into everyone. This simply isn't a case of Obama not knowing what he is doing. It is FAR FAR WORSE.
Until that is recognized fully, we cannot stop him. People must understand that everything Obama does has a purpose.
I get very frustrated when people say his is stupid or doesn't know what he is doing. Oh he knows exactly what he is doing. I also notice an arrogance with those who just say he is in over his head. Like it is impossible for someone to be doing these things deliberately. It is infuriating.
Joe Gause| 2.4.12 @ 6:02AM
I second you gatorgirl. I'm joe, but sometimes I call myself gatorjoe. You are either a gator, or you are gatorbait!
whirlwinder| 2.4.12 @ 12:24PM
You are right on the money. Our Socialist-in-Chief may not know what he is doing but his handlers certainly do and destroying America is definately on the agenda.
bluemount| 2.5.12 @ 12:10PM
It has been on purpose. Anyone who has been following BHO's agenda since before his election, certainly sees it is obvious. He's not stupid, but he is extremely Narcissistic and arrogant, to the point of being dangerous. He thinks we are stupid. Just do not listen to his words but look to BHO's actions.
Doctor Right| 2.3.12 @ 6:09PM
"He has done to this Country, in 3 Years, what the Soviets were unable to do in 50."
Rubbish.
Assigning Obama the status of global master-manipulator responsible for the decline of the USA makes about as much sense as appointing a house-plant to the position of poet-laureate. In short, it's absurd.
Obama is only a symptom, he is NOT the disease. He is the inevitable RESULT of 50+ years of leftist philosophies and policies, NOT the cause.
Skin-color aside, this clown could NEVER have been elected 50, 40, 30, or even 10 years ago. His election was brought about due to the left's continual, unrelenting assaults on our nation's character and institutions, assaults that have made us as a people too timid to stand-up and speak-out for the truth. And let's not forget the power of the ever-expanding welfare state either, to continually attract new voters by continually handing out more and more goodies. If you're going to overlook that as a contributing factor in Obama's election, then you don't see the forest for the trees.
I know how Obama acquired his reputation as a man of serious intellect - the media created it for him - but I don't know why anyone on our side believes it. All you have to do is watch him - the man is a complete and utter empty suit. He's a stumble-bum and an intellectual lightweight. He's never actually achieved anything of substance his entire life that wasn't given to him or prepared for him by others. As Rush Limbaugh liked to say, he's the "least qualified man in any room he walks into."
Obama is, in my humble opinion, a DUMB guy. His first term is a disaster. He's absolute, low-hanging fruit. Other than the union toadies, the welfare queens, and the sheep-like African-American population (sorry, but it's true; when >90% of any group continually supports one Party, it's a bad idea), I don't see him winning over any new converts, even with his supposed "Svengali"-type genius that you ascribe to him.
I've seen your posts before. They're long on verbiage, but short on insight. In other words, you're a long-winded Master of the Obvious. Unlike others on this board, I'm not impressed.
Next time you're going to make people suffer through another "magnum opus" (sarcasm intended), do us all a favor, Tim, and have a point.
Stan Redmond| 2.3.12 @ 8:44PM
I disagree. It is precisely Obama's half skin color why he is in office. No other reason.
MikeG| 2.3.12 @ 11:31PM
Nice job, Dr. Right.
Occam's Tool| 2.5.12 @ 5:04AM
I thought he was a traitor in 2008. I also, in my Medscape commentary, predicted the impending fall of Europe in 2008, and the continued rise of Islam.
We are in a world of demographic pain, folks. Planned parenthood is incredibly evil, as is the Democratic party.
NoMoBO| 2.3.12 @ 1:32PM
"I never envisioned a day when I would feel helpless and terrified of my own government."
Same here. And, I'm positive we're not alone.
Teaghan| 2.3.12 @ 1:42PM
Absolutely.
Dlei| 2.3.12 @ 2:49PM
No you are not alone. I have felt that this president probably despises me, since my success in life was through hard work, entrepreneurship, and personal effort ... and none of it on the government's dime.
markenoff| 2.3.12 @ 4:41PM
I'm a bitter clinger myself.
Obama Diorama| 2.3.12 @ 4:44PM
Stocks are up!
Employment is down!
Dollar gains in value!
Today, February 3, 2012, stocks are up more than one percent in midday trading on news that the jobless rate dropped to 8.3 percent -- the lowest level in three years. World markets also rallied in light of the forecast-busting report.
Leading the Dow is Bank of America, which was up more than 5 percent.
The dollar is rising against most major currencies.
The stock market is off to its fastest start in 15 years as more investors start to believe that the economy is on the right path.
ECONOMY IS ON RIGHT PATH!
Deborah D| 2.3.12 @ 5:26PM
Yes, as former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan might say -- your post is "irrational exuberance." The country is on a path of destruction designed by the policies of Barack Hussein Obama. Nothing will work well until this man is history. I don't care who is elected as long as it is an American who loves the country enough to end Obama's "eve of destruction." This man hates the country -- and either you do too or you are clueless and ignorant. Either way, you're comment isn't worth reading.
skip| 2.3.12 @ 8:22PM
Today, February 3, 2012, as of this posted comment,
U.S. unfunded liabilities: $117.448350000000
U.S. unfunded liabilities per citizen taxpayer: $1,039,555
That is over a million dollars owed per taxpayer.
Idiot.
Stan Redmond| 2.3.12 @ 8:50PM
Euro is losing value the dollar is not rising (see commodity prices and inflation).
1.2 million people mysteriously vanish in to thin air bring the unemployment rate to 8.3%
Sell while it's high and the hype is believed will raise stocks.
Smoke and mirrors.
Occam's Tool| 2.8.12 @ 12:32AM
8.3% is not accurate, as people have dropped out of the job market...Obama's policies made this recession the closest thing to a depression in over 30 years---and, if re-elected, unemployment will go through the ceiling even higher. You are absolutely right in saying "Employment is down." You meant the reverse, but your unconscious makes no mistake.
Shakes Pear| 2.3.12 @ 5:03PM
"What fools ye posters be."
Shakes Pier NOT Pear| 2.3.12 @ 5:05PM
How 'bout Shakes Pier, jackass.
Alan Brooks| 2.3.12 @ 11:41PM
But thank whatever Swine God you all worship that Obama's predecessor is out of office;
no one misses ex-president Karl Rove and his chief assistant Dick Cheney.
Joe Gause| 2.4.12 @ 6:17AM
Alan: I was beginning to despair that our chronic Obama apologist was not to make an appearance. Go tilt your bent spear in the direction of your a*s.!
Mickeybutane| 2.6.12 @ 9:16AM
Allen - get off your mother and go clean your basement urine - I can smell you from here...
alabama yankee| 2.13.12 @ 12:50PM
Ah, I see Alan has rediscovered the door from his basement. Welcome back, sir, but next time please remember to zip-up your fly before emerging!
John786| 2.3.12 @ 6:54AM
More wars please. This will solve all our problems. Not.
c. j. acworth| 2.3.12 @ 7:24AM
Don't laugh. What sort of "kinetic military action" is Obama planning for October?
numbatdog| 2.3.12 @ 7:45AM
Iran. AFTER they have a nuke. They don't want it touched until then which is why they're so against an Israeli preemptive strike. Sounds weird but a war against a dangerous enemy is the only way Obama can now stay in power. Until Iran has a nuke, it will not be considered a real threat to the USA.
Teaghan| 2.3.12 @ 1:44PM
Perhaps Bibi Netenyahu will help us out and bomb the hell out of Iran before obama can use it as his reelection tactik.
Al Adab| 2.3.12 @ 3:26PM
We shouldn't have to rely on a more vulnerable ally to do our dirtywork. Think thermobaric. There are many ways to skin this particular cat, as we should have done several years ago. Same goes for NK which we could have intercepted back in the 90's except the administration then just bought them off with additional reactors. How smart was that.
Christopher C| 2.3.12 @ 5:41PM
Possibly what the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs was lobbying to prevent Mr Netanyahu doing on the Chairman's recent visit to Israel?
inst.| 2.3.12 @ 12:59PM
Yeah,
Lib, show us how entitled and intelligent you are! Because that is all Conservatives, in your myopic little mind!
Occam's Tool| 2.8.12 @ 12:32AM
Yes, but remove Israel from the Middle East and all will be roses. Not.
Appleby| 2.3.12 @ 6:56AM
Many of us said from the beginning that this man was either the Antichrist or his puppet. In Hopey-Changey Land we were jeered and mocked and brushed aside. Now the emperor stands forth in his nakedness and even left-wing Democrats are standing up and saying, "Nowjustadamnedminutehere!" The First Brat has overreached itself and will reap the whirlwind.
As for Mitt Romney, keep in mind that this man is not a Christian, regardless of what he tries to say. He may be a good fellow with malice toward none and charity for all, but he's probably not going to stand with us when Armageddon comes. Mormons do not baptize in the name of the Trinity. That shuts the door between them and Christianity. I was a Mormon once. So were lots of people that are Christians now...or again. He won't be focusing on these things; his thing is money. You cannot serve God and Mammon. Even Clint Eastwood knew that.
PCP Smoker| 2.3.12 @ 7:56AM
They believed in some dude named Smith. Imagine that, a religion based on some dude named "Smith." Could they have not come up with something more exotic?
RICHARD| 2.3.12 @ 12:08PM
Hmm, maybe because it is true--or at least they believe that it is true and accept it on faith that it is true. How more bizarre is that than any other religion. Mohammed was transported to Jerusalem in a vision, or a God is born of a virgin, or a sea opened to allow a slave population escape and then closed to drown their pursuers. KNOW THYSELF--who said that?
Tony| 2.3.12 @ 3:07PM
Actually, a scientist recently demonstrated that certain winds of sufficient strength could cause a ford over the water that the Israelites crossed. Mohammed and Joseph Smith were cribbing; somebody once said that if you omitted "it came to pass," you'd cut the length of the Book of Mormon in half. But the incarnation of Christ is unexampled in previous Jewish or pagan lore. You'd have to address the theology here, and I'm suspecting you have no interest in doing so. The Incarnation is, in itself, no more outlandish but also no more startling than saying, as the evangelist John does, that "God is love." If you understand the one, you understand the other.
Todd S| 2.3.12 @ 4:16PM
Somebody once told you? That is some really compelling evidence Tony, that is a ludicrous claim that anyone who knew anything about it would know is bunk.
Doctor Right| 2.3.12 @ 6:19PM
"Actually, a scientist recently demonstrated that certain winds of sufficient strength could cause a ford over the water that the Israelites crossed. "
LOL!!!!
People will believe ANYTHING if it helps them to not believe in God!
But let's assume that this "scientist" is true...he's not, but let's go along with it:
1. How did Moses and the Israelites know these "winds" we're coming???? Did they just risk it? Because if you read the Book of Exodus, you'd realize that they specifically went the way that would take them TO the Red Sea. Now WHY would they do that, when they could have gone around it?
Hmmmmmm????
2. This scientist's theory accounts for exactly 1 of the miracles of the Bible. What about the rest???
Tick-Tock....
Doctor Right| 2.3.12 @ 6:13PM
One word - Apologetics.
Learn it.
Understand it.
Then you'll know that all religions are not the same.
Kingsfold| 2.3.12 @ 1:13PM
Why is "Smith" any less worthy a surname for a founder of a religion than "Luther" (Lutheranism) or "Tudor" (Anglicanism) or "Knox" (Presbyteriansim) or "Smyth" (Baptistism-- hey, wait!) or "Wesley" (Methodism). What a silly argument.
Todd S| 2.3.12 @ 2:27PM
Better than being in a religion that was formed because a King wanted to divorce and who was a tyrant and a whore-monger. Luther was a vicious anti-Semite and had his part in inspiring the Holocaust in Germany. The history of the Catholic Church oppression speaks for itself. If those are the real "Christians", count me out.
Tony| 2.3.12 @ 3:19PM
People don't really know much history. Everywhere in the world where we find human beings, we find avarice, lust for glory, tyrannies, theft, dissipation, homicide, and war. The greatest sins that are attributed to the Catholic Church in her two thousand years are a barefoot walk in the park compared with the sins of a single typical secular state in a single century: say, Japan, Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Cambodia, Albania, and Rumania in the twentieth; Prussia, Napoleonic France, the British Empire, and the American South in the nineteenth; etc.
It's as if we blame the Catholic Vikings for still squabbling amongst themselves and then being persuaded to impoverish themselves by defending the Byzantine Empire against the Turks -- and waging wars out in the east -- while not noticing that before they adopted Christianity, they were marauding up and down all the coasts of Europe.
But hey, half the time we Catholics are derided for being effeminate and pacifist, with our Marian devotions and our wealth of female saints, and the other half of the time we are scorned for being too warlike. Half the time we're made fun of for being earthy and drunken and too soft on the pleasures of the flesh, and the other half of the time we're accused of hating the body, as the Puritans are accused (wrongly) of having done. Half the time we're suspected for our automatic allegiance to the Pope, and the other half of the time the Pope is criticized for not waving some magic wand and making the whole world all better.
We'll take on the criticism, but we do wish you all would decide once and for all what you are criticizing. And by the way, don't even talk to me about intellectual tyranny. I am a conservative in secular academe. Enough said.
Todd S| 2.3.12 @ 4:25PM
Don't throw stones in a glass house Tony. Arguing that the Catholic Church was better than the barbarians and the Muslim hordes may be valid but is far from proving the Pope is God's true messenger. I will give them credit for preserving much of the Bible's writings to allow the King James version to be printed in due time, that is a real contribution. Of course it took a reformation and much bloodshed to allow that version of the Bible to get into the common mans hands. I don't have much of an issue with the Catholic Church today but to deny it has a dark past and many corrupt Pope's is to put your head in the sand.
Doctor Right| 2.3.12 @ 6:21PM
The Pope is NOT God's "true messenger."
Once you understand that, the rest will fall in place.
MikeG| 2.3.12 @ 11:33PM
So what are you Todd?
PCP Smoker| 2.3.12 @ 8:18PM
At least the protestants had a rational basis for their actions. You forgot Calvin. To compare them to Smith of the Mormom "faith", with Jesus walking around the American Southwest, and the polygamy, and the Jesus and the Devil are brothers is enough not only to make me puke, but NOT vote for Flip Flopper.
PCP Smoker| 2.3.12 @ 9:01PM
They are Christians moron. Mormons, like you, are NOT. Don't pretend. Don't fool yourself.
A.H.| 2.3.12 @ 2:06PM
Go back to your PCP, you need it...
PCP Smoker| 2.3.12 @ 8:21PM
Go back to your group marriage and incest
Appleby| 2.3.12 @ 9:32PM
It worked for Heinlein.
Jared| 2.3.12 @ 9:58AM
Incorrect. Mormon's baptisimal prayers are done in the name of "the father, the son, and the holy ghost". This is verbatim.
PCP Smoker| 2.3.12 @ 8:23PM
Don't they have a "god" named Ron L Hubbard too? Kindly stay in Utah. We would not want to infect the gene pool of America
Todd S| 2.3.12 @ 8:48PM
Definitely smoking something weird, Ron Hubbard is Scientology you dumbass clown. Put the crack pipe down
PCP Smoker| 2.3.12 @ 8:59PM
Scientologist is a credible as that shit called Mormonism.
Todd S| 2.3.12 @ 10:14PM
Whats with those Mormons with all their clean living and being the most reliable conservative voting block around? What a hellhole Utah is as well hosting the most successful Winter Games in history and having one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country, just an awful place. Must be the restriction on using illegal drugs in the Mormon Church that really irks you, if you can't get high what is the point right?
RICHARD| 2.3.12 @ 12:04PM
Appleby, for Heaven's sake, you DON'T get to decide who is or who is not a Christian. Your religion, or any religion, has aspects that seem bizarre and ridiculous to others. "Baptizing" in the name of the"trinity". THAT sounds damn bizarre to many
Appleby| 2.3.12 @ 9:32PM
Baptism in the name of the Holy Trinity is the bedrock of Christianity. What's bizarre about that?
Todd S| 2.3.12 @ 10:05PM
Why misrepresent how Mormons are baptized? Is your point is because we don't believe the Nicene Creed version of the Trinity? Who was Jesus praying to? Why does he constantly refer to his Father and that he is his Son? I have never heard an explanation about that from you Nicene Creed followers that makes any sense at all.
Kingsfold| 2.3.12 @ 1:08PM
"Having been commissioned of Jesus Christ, I baptize you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." This is the Mormon baptismal prayer.
If your definition of Christians only includes those that believe in the Nicene or Athanasian Creeds, which established the doctrine of the Trinity; then under this definition, not even Christ and His Apostles would be considered Christians.
Christ Himself established who his followers are in John 13:35, when he said, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye shall have love one to another." Further, in Luke 9:49, Christ rebuked his apostles for trying to prevent some not of his flock from doing good works, saying, "Forbid him not, for he that is not against us is for us." FURTHER, Matthew 7:20-23 (again, Christ's words...) should clarify all confusion regarding the principle that it was more important to Christ what we DO than what we SAY.
You can say that Mormons aren't Christians... "according to Creedal Christianity," and I won't argue with you (although I think it's disingenuous to define Christianity so narrowly). My only request is for you to take Christ at his word in the Bible that you believe in.
markenoff| 2.3.12 @ 4:45PM
With 30,000 different churches all calling themselves Christian we can spend the next millenium trying to sort them out.
Todd S| 2.3.12 @ 2:21PM
Thought better of you than this Appleby. I do not know what you are talking about not baptizing in the name of the Trinity, completely untrue. Says right in the prayer in the name of the Father, of the Son and the Holy Ghost. If you want to believe the Trinity as defined by the corrupt Nicene Creed is some kind of indivisible mass, go right on ahead but no need to spread lies.
So he made some money, so damn what? He didn't do anything dishonest to make it and always lead an exemplary family life. Fine if you want to bring up his flawed political record but this is all about your personal prejudices. Perhaps you prefer a "Christian" like Newt?
Skippy| 2.3.12 @ 4:47PM
WTF?
You guys are upset that a Mormon is running?
A Mormon?!
As long as Mitt didn't spend 20 years in Rev. Wright's church, I don't give a rat's ass where Mitt sat.
What a bunch of intolerant jerks.
Olive| 2.3.12 @ 5:08PM
WTF means What The Fuck!
Please don't use this kind of language. It makes us all look stupid and adolescent.
PCP Smoker| 2.3.12 @ 8:25PM
At least in Wright's mind, Jesus was not a brother of the Devil. The last thing this country need is mormonism and the church of scientologist. Perhaps Ron Hubbad and Joe Smith can..., well, let's no go there.
MikeG| 2.3.12 @ 11:36PM
I have no problem with Mitt being a Mormon. Who cares. Harry Reid is a Mormon and nobody evert questioned his religon.
Jaime Balandros| 2.3.12 @ 4:47PM
"Mormons do not baptize in the name of the Trinity. That shuts the door between them and Christianity. I was a Mormon once."
Oh, my. Cannot let this pass. They baptize in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Now to you the Trinity means something else, but we can leave that argument for the theologians. Readers here deserve at least the basic facts.
Doctor Right| 2.3.12 @ 6:29PM
Tell us about some other interesting Mormon beliefs!
Who is God?
Where did He come from?
Can we, as humans, become "Gods"??
Explain Joseph Smith's importance juxtaposed to Christ?
What is the Umin and the Thurmin?
Where is Joseph Smith's magic hat and stones?
Where are the Golden Plates?
Who were the Lamanites? Where did they come from?
How come only white people could become Mormons until...1973?!?!
Why does the D&C have so many "upgraded" versions? And why aren't the out-dated ones available to the public?
Mormons - nice people.
But to claim that Mormonism is just another Christian denomination is untrue. Mormonism contains key points of doctrine that are in direct contradiction to the Bible, and not on minor points, either.
PCP Smoker| 2.3.12 @ 8:27PM
You just hit a home run. One correction, on the outside, "mormons are nice people."
Todd S| 2.3.12 @ 9:30PM
Name me those key points of doctrine Doctor Right? Romans 8:17 - And if children, then heirs: heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be glorified together.
This scripture makes it apparent that God and Christ are separate and that Christ is literally the Son of God and that we can become joint-heirs with Christ. We don't become God but we can achieve the same exaltation through his
atonement. Or is Paul just talking nonsense and you rather believe the Nicene creed of the 4th century?
About only white people only be allowed to become Mormon until 1973, that is untrue. It is true that blacks were not allowed to hold the Preisthood until 1973 but they could be baptized and attend Church. You might consider God has had restrictions on who can hold the Priesthood throughout history, see Moses. If you want to call us racist because of it, go ahead but it has nothing to do with it. I won't bother with the other questions because I know it would be a waste of time with you, you got your anti-Mormon talking points and you are sticking with it. PCP smoker is with you though.
Doctor Right| 2.4.12 @ 7:07AM
Nice dodge. But evasion isn't an answer.
Tell us how Jesus and Satan are brothers!
Todd S| 2.4.12 @ 12:49PM
You ever hear of the war in heaven? Jesus had a plan and Lucifer had a plan and of course Jesus's plan was selected and Lucifer and the one third rebelled and were cast out. It is as simple as that, you work for Huckabee's campaign in 08?
MikeG| 2.3.12 @ 11:38PM
What is the point of all this nonsense? Are you guys going to vote for Obama instead of Romney becaue Romney is a Mormon? If you are you are a fool and have nothing to add here.
Conserdude| 2.3.12 @ 7:00AM
Like Jimmy Carter at this point in his term, Obama should be doomed for reelection except that he's bought so many votes by expanding welfare like food stamps, I'm not sure he will lose. Romney better get schooled in how to respond properly to questions since he keeps giving too much fodder to Obama.
Teaghan| 2.3.12 @ 1:48PM
And giving it to him on a silver platter.
Petronius| 2.3.12 @ 7:22AM
Don't expect the Republicans to make even as feeble attempt. They care about two things this election, controlling the spending and making the A list with the beltway social set.
Nemo| 2.3.12 @ 7:37AM
Don't forget destroying the space programme.
Prester John| 2.3.12 @ 7:44AM
Don't hold back Quinn, tell us what you really think!
Well done.
VonMisesJr| 2.3.12 @ 8:06AM
The liberal drones epitomized by the OWS movement have made a horrible miscalculation. Their greed and ignorance has led them to embrace the likes of Obama, Pelosi and Reid that were only out for themselves. Mochelle is buying $600 girdles and flying off to Spain and Martha's Vineyard in several thousand dollar dresses and $500 sneakers. Pelosi has, I think, doubled her already enormous wealth while in congress. Reid sounds like a wimp, but he is very aggressive in making land deals in Nevada that have made him a very wealthy man.
When I was a child, the Newark riots burned down entire neighborhoods. Last time I was in that area (by neccessity with my car doors locked) several years ago, the buildings were still boarded up and stores had not returned. The lefties such as the infamous three mentioned could give a flying hoot about those people. They live in mansions.
When there is a financial collapse, the middle classs will lose some more of their wealth. But it will reset and their belongings will leave them in a reasonable financial position. They also made the money once, and their familes can do it again. But when the wealfare state collapses, the entitlement society is SOL!!!
But Obama, Pelosi and Reid could care less. They have enough stolen wealth to hire small armies to guard their mansions. They won't be visiting Newark or Detroit!
Indy| 2.3.12 @ 8:26AM
Finally, too much of the media is nothing but 24 / 7 coverage of the GOP primary, what are we missing? We must watch the other hand. There are more regulations and Executive Orders to come. Oil prices will shoot up much higher and not just because of instability in the Middle East.
The OWS crowd is stating publically, they will escalate their efforts, calling for 1968 style activism in Chicago at the G8, the media fails to report this, why?
The media continues to provide air cover for this Administration, why else is Holder still in Office? same with Secretary Chu...
The Fed continues to prop up the economy, the bubble will burst, they know it but are holding it up until after the election.
Jeremiah Smirking| 2.3.12 @ 8:40AM
And who's the one to stop him, Quin? Romney? Hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahah...haahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
SUBVET| 2.3.12 @ 11:26AM
GEORGE SOROS-------"We think either Obama or Romney's fine but Gingrich, he would change things."
R. Nixon| 2.3.12 @ 9:45PM
Don't be fooled by what sly old GS has to say. The bad guys would love nothing better than to be up against Gingrich. As the saying goes, he would be "the gift that keeps on giving".
Anthony| 2.3.12 @ 9:06AM
As much as I dislike Romney, the whores in the MSM spent the entire day yesterday on Romney's inartful comment about the poor.
These same whores have spent an equal amount of time in a concerted blackout on "Fast & Furious".
If Romney is our nominee, I will vote for him, and any R or conservative who's thinking about sitting this election out due to misguided principle, had better get their heads out of their ass.
If Obozo gets a second term, Obozo and his lefty allies will engage in the total destruction of our culture.
If you still want to hang on your principles, be prepared to eat them, because that is all you will have left.
CrackerHound| 2.3.12 @ 2:00PM
Anthony, I agree with you, especially concerning the destruction that will come. In fact I personally believe it is too late considering what the opposition to Obama has become...there is none basically. Come on, one of our major players is Trump. Need I say more? To people like Trump and Palin, this is all their own personal little game where they get to sell books, TV shows and documentaries while pretending like they care. We are surrounded by self serving narcissists in all corners while the people who could have really made difference are sitting on the sidelines.
But what really shocks me is how the majority of Americans do not see the trouble we are in. How we are quickly losing the liberty guaranteed in the Constitution. No one seems to believe that we are headed for a Soviet style collapse but the odds are it won't be non-violent. Our economy is not in "decline", it has been destroyed and is being perilously propped up for appearances sake. We are one event away from it becoming obvious to everyone. The facade is weak and all will be revealed soon. The divide we have in this nation will serve to pit American against American when chaos reigns. When our currency becomes worthless and the majority have nothing left to lose...that's when the real trouble begins. It has happened before and it can happen here.
Sorry for the rant and NO I don't stand on the corner with a "the end is near" sandwich board.
tsd| 2.3.12 @ 2:16PM
Isn't it too bad... vote for Mitt or you could get worse, That does not seem possible until you consider Obama. Is this world worth trying to save ???
ounceoflogic| 2.3.12 @ 9:08AM
If O'bama were to respond he would say " Yeah... and whatcha gonna do about it?"
O'bama does not care about constitutionality, legality, honor, morality or any of those things that make us Americans. O'bama cares only about O'bama. He is "making his mark".
Ned| 2.3.12 @ 12:41PM
When the dog "makes his mark" I smack him with a rolled up newspaper. In this case, I think something bigger and heavier is called for.
BTW, we've been getting a lot of survey calls lately, here in the People's Republic of Seattle... asking about voting intentions... I tell them I'm an independent (is no such thing around here), that I vote a mix of D and R (almost never D)... but that due to their behavior over the last six years I will never, ever vote for another D (for Demonic Dumbsh*t) again... I don't suppose it really changes anything, but the more I can bait them, the better I feel about it.
Now, where can I get one of those bumper stickers that says "I Love My Country. It's the government I hate."
CrackerHound| 2.3.12 @ 2:03PM
Here in Texas you see bumper stickers with the Texas flag and the word "secede" in the middle literally everywhere (mostly on pick-up trucks).
I think I'll get one.
RCV| 2.3.12 @ 9:06PM
You'll get the same response and the same result as last time.
boogalie| 2.3.12 @ 9:15AM
Good assessment of our predicament! POTUS has to go, he is definitively a demagogue with interests othet than that of our (ALL of us) country. I must emphasize one item you brought up...his lies are endless. The voting populace has a responsibility to critically 'think' about this election. Sad, but the failure of the Department of (dolling out dollars) Education and its' minions is obvious. I am praying for our beloved Nation. Semper Fi.
boogalie| 2.3.12 @ 9:15AM
Good assessment of our predicament! POTUS has to go, he is definitively a demagogue with interests othet than that of our (ALL of us) country. I must emphasize one item you brought up...his lies are endless. The voting populace has a responsibility to critically 'think' about this election. Sad, but the failure of the Department of (dolling out dollars) Education and its' minions is obvious. I am praying for our beloved Nation. Semper Fi.
Indiana Alex| 2.3.12 @ 9:19AM
Given Obama's low popularity numbers, and his striking small list of popular accomplishments (taking credit for increased domestic oil production?, really?), he is most certainly beatable.
The problem is with the oxymorons known as "Republican Strategists".
Axelrod needs to grasp at straws for reasons to re-elect The Great Deceiver. That can be overcome relatively simply, but I have very little confidence in the oxymorons running the show for the GOP.
redmanrt| 2.3.12 @ 9:31AM
"he must be stopped"
If it were only a matter of the one man or whatever Obama is, the problem would be simple. However, he is a completely pliable front-man for a group of ruthless power the like of which we have seen before, say in Petrograd in 1917.
Ned| 2.3.12 @ 12:47PM
I don't have the entire quote, but an Eastern European newspaper publish an editorial a couple of years ago that said, if I may paraphrase... "The problem is not Obama. He is, after all, merely the Prince of Fools. The problem is a nation of Fools who would elect such a person as their leader..."
The Fraud did it once, and he can do it again... especially given the candidates he will have to face.
Silver Bullet| 2.3.12 @ 9:42AM
I think it's time for General Petraeus to return to Washington to arrest the criminal-in-chief, and all his hench-people.
A.H.| 2.3.12 @ 1:45PM
As per our Constitution...To oust anyone, pres, congress, senate, who are not for the people and working in the best interests of this Country...AMERICA...
ZackBauer| 2.3.12 @ 9:45AM
You teatards crack me up. I can't wait to hear your pathetic mewlings when Obama crushes Romney like the plastic bug he is.
joanne| 2.3.12 @ 9:53AM
You are completely out of your mind. This wanna be KING is deliberately killing our country. Wake up!!!! This guy(who I will never address as President) is DANGEROUS!!!!!
VonMisesJr| 2.3.12 @ 10:03AM
joanne, some people like Zack need a master. They were born to lick the boots of a benevolent leader who will pat them on the head!
Phil| 2.3.12 @ 11:12AM
Remember how you racists complained about Dems and anti war activists deriding President Bush? Sooo because you don't like a black President you think your subtle racism is OK?
A.H.| 2.3.12 @ 1:50PM
Who said anything about him being black? Only the racists (including obama) are the ones bringing this card into play....for Christ's sake he was voted in for pres, was he white then? has his color changed to black since then? This is your pitiful answer to anything that is said....Can obama answer any question without playing this card? NO
Teaghan| 2.3.12 @ 1:54PM
Eat dog dung Phil. Your accusations and cries of RAAAAAAAACISM has grown old and tiresome. Yawn.......
Dlei| 2.3.12 @ 2:55PM
Racism in the country is dead. You killed it by gross mis-use and over-use.
Nobody even flinches anymore when a liberal screams "racist."
Yawn.
Skippy| 2.3.12 @ 5:10PM
Racism is not a problem in America, it is an industry.
markenoff| 2.3.12 @ 4:48PM
I have no problem with Obama's black half. It's his communist white half I don't trust.
VonMisesJr| 2.4.12 @ 8:35AM
I think his black half is also communist. Frank Marshall Davis (probably his real father) was just as much a commie as Alinsky, and Rev. Wright as much as Ayers.
Phil is just a unthinking drone, and programmed robot. I have more books from Thomas Sowell than anyone by far. I admire and respect that black man, I just don't like the black man in the White House regardless of his color.
Darin| 2.3.12 @ 10:15AM
Sadly, I think Obama might win. Not because he's done a good job (he hasn't), not because he has a good plan (he doesn't). It's because the vast majority of voters are clueless (which is why he got elected in the first place). Ask an Obama supporter why, specifically, they support him and you'll get an incoherent answer. Some do support his "take from those who earn and give to those who don't" policies, but these are those who are on the receiving end (the 50% who don't pay taxes will vote for Obama). Blacks will support him because he's a Democrat and most blacks don't realize the Democratic party supported slavery, the KKK, and still supports the killing of unborn black babies (Obama even supports the horrific practice of partial-birth abortion). Obama is spending our children and grandchildren into oblivion (check what's happening today in Greece for a preview), and voters will still support him because they are clueless.
Phil| 2.3.12 @ 11:13AM
Please read your history correctly and it is President Obama to you...
Darin| 2.3.12 @ 12:16PM
History. Like increasing the nation debt $5 trillion? Like overturning laws to allow taxpayer dollars to fund international abortions? Like ignoring the state of Georgia when they had the recent hearing regarding Obama's not being eligible to be on the ballot because he is not a natural born citizen as defined by Supreme Court precident?
Or history like the Democratic party filibustering civil rights legislation? Like Democratic Senator Byrd being a grand wizard? Like Democratic policies contained in the "great society" have destroyed the black family (illegitimacy went from 10% to 70%, crime and murder rates increased likewise)?
That kind of history?
It is not President Obama to me because he is not a legitimate president as defined in the Constitution of the United States. His father was a British national, and thus Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States.
Clint| 2.3.12 @ 1:02PM
This sort of demonstration of ignorance makes me laugh. Folks born on American soil are natural born citizens, despite where their parents are from and whether or not they are citizens.
Let me but this in Tea Party terms for you:
You know those gosh darn anchor babies? The reason it works is because Mexican citizens (see: foreign nationals) come here and have a baby which is then deemed a natural born citizen.
PLEASE EDUCATE YOURSELF PRIOR TO SPEAKING.
Teaghan| 2.3.12 @ 1:56PM
Was he born on American soil Clint?
Clint| 2.3.12 @ 2:56PM
Ah, thanks for revealing yourself as a birther. Yes, he was born in American soil. He has all the same documentation as I do. Or...oh no! Maybe I am not a citizen either! Maybe you aren't! Maybe none of us are!
Cpl. Punishment| 2.3.12 @ 4:36PM
There is way more to it than that. You must also not be sovereign to any other nation. A Diplomat who has a child born here does not have a US citizen in his family. The Anchor Baby thing is a prime example. Under the precedent in play in Georgia None of the "anchor babies" are legitimate US citizens and neither is Obama. That is why the judge did not dismiss this.
Hopefully the GA AG will refuse to but Obama's name on the ballot and issue a capius warrant.
A.H.| 2.3.12 @ 1:10PM
Well done, Darin...I said from the moment Obama (not President) stepped onto the scene, he is the antichrist....if he is reelected you can assure this will be fact..He is not a natural born citizen of the U.S. How many people did be blindfold and or payoff for this to be slipped under the carpet..If anyone thinks Obama is a good president, deserves what will happen if he is reelected...He will bring down the most powerful nation in the world....and we will have to sit back and watch...he has too many puppets for anyone to get near him..He is like a 5 yr. old, taking what he wants without thinking of the other persons thoughts or feelings...If he is re-elected (God forbid or possibly God foretold) Someone will attempt to take him out...This will be the sign...God have mercy on all of us....God Bless America!!!!
A.H.| 2.3.12 @ 1:54PM
Blacks will support him because he is black..They are clueless about everything else. (here I mean the ones mentioned above, those who are standing there with their hands out, and not paying taxes) and I don't mean just blacks..
Clint| 2.3.12 @ 2:57PM
Ah, I'm glad you clarified. I thought for sure by "blacks" you meant "blacks." Turns out you meant white people, who are the majority users of welfare programs.
oLDEFARTE| 2.3.12 @ 3:17PM
WHAT????????????????? I don't know what you're drinking, but it's apparently intoxicating!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clint| 2.3.12 @ 3:20PM
Did you have a point to make?
RCV| 2.3.12 @ 6:55PM
The majority of folks on welfare are, indeed, white, as are the majority of people who receive food stamps.
Clint| 2.3.12 @ 7:50PM
We can't expect folks to temper their hate with facts though, can we? ;)
MikeG| 2.3.12 @ 11:40PM
That is a misleading fact because whites outnumber blacks at least 7 to 1. What is the percentage of blacks out of the black population compared to the same for other groups.
tsd| 2.4.12 @ 10:09AM
Hey all you dumb ass's, our problems have nothing to do with color! Stupid has no color, it is all about being stupid... so try not to increase our problems with more of it!!!
John Navratil| 2.4.12 @ 10:28AM
RCV,
The majority of fold NOT on welfare are, indeed, white, as are the majority of people who DO NOT receive food stamps.
(Won't be for long, though).
There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
Butch| 2.3.12 @ 5:24PM
Sorry Sir, your race card is maxed out.
Vandergrift| 2.3.12 @ 9:51AM
Ya know, People blast Mormon's all the time for what they believe, or for not being "Christain" enough... but I've read their book, and this part of our history sounds almost exactly their part in the Book of Mormon about the Gadianton Robbers... Do some reading and see if maybe they weren't right about knowing what's coming because it's happened before.
trekie70| 2.3.12 @ 9:53AM
Quinn, this list of supposed infractions by Obama is impressive but largely false.
-he saved the auto industry thru his efforts
-he has made progress on reviving the housing sector
-his recess appts were necessary and constitutional, as the Senate was in recess according to their own session records
-health care reform was desperately needed and he got it done
-stocks are up and unemployment is steadily dropping-now the lowest in 3 years according to MSNBC and CNN-my own Roth ROI for just the last 3 years is close to 40%
If these are "abominations" in your eyes, then I want to experience all of them that I can and more.
Nemo| 2.3.12 @ 10:10AM
Googling will tell you unmployment in the US is the highest in the English-speaking world, in spite of the US having the largest economy. Obama is a disaster.
Dagny Taggert| 2.3.12 @ 10:26AM
Trekie:
-Saved the auto indistry? I guess you weren't a holder of GM's bonds then.
-Progress on housing? It's getting worse: http://www.standardandpoors.co.....013118.pdf
-Health care reform? Nothing was "reformed" competition (the only thing that pushes prices down) took a backseat to expensive mandates
-Stocks up? Sure, from the lows, but flat from 3 1/2 years ago
-Unemployment down? Sure, with workforce participation rates the lowest they've been in 30 years--but still not down to the 8% that 2009's ARRA was supposed to ever keep from happening.
Get informed, tool.
Phil| 2.3.12 @ 11:14AM
8.3% as of today. Most jobs created in 3 years. Crying in your oatmeal yet, that the country is actually recovering?
Dagny Taggert| 2.3.12 @ 11:56AM
Phil, you're obviously out of your league here. The labor force participation dropped by 1.2mm jobs in one month last month--an unheard of number in one month. So,basic math here, as the numerator gets smaller the employment % goes up. Maybe if we shrink the labor force another 1.2mm this month the employment rate goes up even farther! That's the ticket--keep shrinking the number of people considered in the labor pool (retirement, stopped looking for work) as a way to shore up the economy.
Teaghan| 2.3.12 @ 1:58PM
And you believe these numbers? Really?
Ned| 2.3.12 @ 12:55PM
your Roth is up because stock values reflect the intentional destruction of the value of the dollar, and the so-far hidden 9% annual inflation rate by adjusting upward... your account may now be worth $1000 more than it was six months ago, but if your money will now only buy 80% of what it did in 2008, are you actually doing better?
A.H.| 2.3.12 @ 1:17PM
None is so blind, as they that will not see...The Bible...remember that book? The one our nation was founded on? Not A Muslim book...I can say one thing for him, he has brought out the Christians and added quite a few, but only because we SEE what is coming.
RDC| 2.3.12 @ 9:56AM
WHAT R U TALKING ABOUT? THAT'S SAD ,THE ONLY COMMENTS I SEE ARE ONE-SIDED. U WROTE IT, U ONLY READ IT, OBVIOUSLY AGREED WITH IT. IT'S A WONDERFUL WORLD. BUT LET'S ME SAY THIS: THE LEFT HAD SAID WORSE ABOUT BUSH. THAT IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD HILLYER.
Teaghan| 2.3.12 @ 1:59PM
Stop screaming please.
Gene| 2.3.12 @ 9:57AM
Thank G*D for the Internet and the FREE flow of information. Otherwise we would be back in the day where the ONLY thing we heard was how The Best and the Brightest of Camelot were on the job showing great leadership, when in actuallity they was stepping on their wienies and bringing us to the brink of Nuclear War.
BTW This business about Romney and Mormonism? Pres. Taft was a Unitarian and we did just fine. The erronious assumption on the people who object is that they seem to believe that JFK, LBJ, Nixon, etc. was Christians? They may have been raised in the faith, but you have to doubt seriously in any of our current elected officials are Christian. Do people honestly believe that Pre. Obama is a Christian? Reality check - people. Big time!
Buck Ofama| 2.3.12 @ 10:03AM
we must be rid of this dirty commie c0cksucker at any cost.
Rob| 2.3.12 @ 10:21AM
Excellent column! If Obama "must be stopped" "by every legal means possible," then why not support efforts like those of a recent hearing in GA to require Obama as a presidential candidate to demonstrate his eligibility to be on the ballot? The burden of proof should be on any candidate to demonstrate his eligibility for public office, and Obama refused to respond to subpoenas of a court in GA for both his own testimony and various documents relating to whether or not he may be constitutionally eligible to be on the ballot. In Illinois, Obama successfully challenged other candidates for state senate, and now his own right to be on state ballots is being challenged. This effort seems to be overlooked in the conservative media, but within days a default judgment against Obama is expected in GA, an outcome greatly to be desired.
Teaghan| 2.3.12 @ 2:00PM
Not hearing anything on the tv about this case.
Martijn| 2.3.12 @ 10:30AM
"Threw away a clear victory in Iraq"...Hold on, I thought we achieved that in 2003 already, Bush said so? Hmm..must have missed something.
R. Nixon| 2.3.12 @ 11:09AM
The only thing you apparently missed was the consistent effort by people like Harry ("the war is lost") Reid and other Dems to undermine the war effort in Iraq and in the process throw their own country under the bus.
It's still going on today with what many believe is a premature U.S. withdrawl.
JmsA| 2.4.12 @ 7:46PM
Is that you, Tricky? Well said!
JacintoKid| 2.3.12 @ 11:24AM
Hmm...I bet you miss lots of somethings. The baathist regime in Iraq was militarily defeated in 3 weeks. The decision was then made to try to civilize a bunch of savages. That was a tragic mistake but, the surge (which your hero Obama was against) brought stability to Iraq until Obama's election prospects got in the way.
Martijn| 2.3.12 @ 11:53AM
Stability? I worked in Iraq in 2009, and then, as it was now, is hell on earth. I'll leave it at that because clearly you have nothing to contribute but rants.
JacintoKid| 2.3.12 @ 12:13PM
You were there and didn't notice the dramatic decrease in sectarian violence post surge?
Martijn| 2.3.12 @ 12:41PM
Notice it??? Do you seriously think that after the surge, Bhagdad was a place where you could walk out to a park and eat an ice cream with the kids, or something?
You call 650,000 or so deaths "a mistake". Well, you're right about that. A pretty unbelievably big mistake. And Obama ended it.
JmsA| 2.4.12 @ 8:11PM
I think I know what's going here. Once upon a time, not too long ago, the New York Times ran and buried the following byline: 'Al-Qaeda's back broken in Mesopotamia.' I also remember the One was then a senator from Illinois, who vehemently, if not histrionically opposed any and all efforts by Bush in Iraq, including the surge, which ultimately made victory possible. So, you either didn't get the news or you don't know where Mesopotamia is, Martinj. By the way, in case you haven't figured it out, either, Bush was the one that ordered the surge, and took Saddam out, thanks to the great efforts and sacrifices by our selfless and valiant armed forces, etc. Your idol, the One, is just taking credit for someone else's work. That's all.
Martijn| 2.3.12 @ 10:32AM
And conveniently you leave out minor achievements like killing OBL. But please, don't let such inconvenient truths get in the way of your story.
R. Nixon| 2.3.12 @ 10:58AM
You make it sound like he was personally there leading the raid/pulling the trigger??
He simply gave the final OK to go ahead and do what most U.S. Presidents would have done in the same circumstances.
If that's all you can find to sing about, you might as well save your breath!!!
Martijn| 2.3.12 @ 11:55AM
Yeah. And had it gone wrong, I'm sure you'd have had something to "comment" about it, right?
R. Nixon| 2.3.12 @ 1:13PM
WRONG!!!!..........I would have given him full marks for trying to do the right thing, not the political thing as he most always does!!!
Butch| 2.3.12 @ 5:33PM
Killing OBL was also the political thing to do. Had it not been so, he wouldn't have done it. Rest assured of that.
Citizen Jerry| 2.3.12 @ 10:53AM
You're right, Quin. Four more years of this guy in power, and we are doomed. I hate to be pessimistic, but that's just what we'll get unless we come up with a better candidate than the two stooges currently running in front for the nomination.
Fred Whissel| 2.3.12 @ 11:06AM
You get what youvote for -- unless you have been deceived into voting for someone who has a philosophy and agenda that is entirely different from what we were lead to believe. Excellent summary of his endless assaults on traditional America, the Constitution, and the many freedoms that we have enjoyed. But Obama is not yet done, and unless he is mercilously defeated in November, our nation will be done for.
Fred Whissel| 2.3.12 @ 11:07AM
Typed too fast. Obviously need space after the first "you" and spelling of "lead" is wrong.
Phil| 2.3.12 @ 11:10AM
That is President Obama to you Sir. I know you think he is a Kenyan, but he is our PRESIDENT!!!
JacintoKid| 2.3.12 @ 11:39AM
Did your respect for the office of the presidency allow you to criticize the left when PRESIDENT Bush was being called every name in the book including Hitler? When there were movies and plays gleefully depicting his assasination? If so, I'm impressed. If not, your a typical leftist.
A.H.| 2.3.12 @ 1:29PM
You're an IDIOT...
A.H.| 2.3.12 @ 1:30PM
Former comment was for Phil....
Al Adab| 2.3.12 @ 3:32PM
Quit wasting time on Phil. After all he saw his shadow yesterday, remember.
"Don't waste time bantering words with idiots or barbarians" Marcus Aurelius
Teaghan| 2.3.12 @ 2:09PM
He does NOT represent me. He has made that perfectly clear as has his DOJ and unless you are black, he doesn't represent you either as you are not "one of his people". Or did you miss that one. obama referred to me and others who don't agree with him as the 'enemy". You want to believe him and his anti American rhetoric and go along with his destruction of America, go on. I suppose it's easier than fighting for what's right.
Beppo| 2.3.12 @ 11:12AM
Hillyer is deranged. This sort of stuff might cut it with the lunatic fringe but in wider America amongst reasonable people who are right of center? Really? This kind of rhetoric is going to doom us to permanent minority status.
Phil| 2.3.12 @ 11:17AM
Many in the center would consider supporting some conservative ideas. But after what has been done by the lunatic fringe, I can never vote for a R again.
JacintoKid| 2.3.12 @ 11:45AM
Yet you seem to be OK voting for the left after their collective treatment of President Bush, which was some of the most despicable commentary ever leveled against an American president. Much worse than what Obama is having to deal with. Besides, your comment is a joke. You would vote against your beliefs because you're offended by the right wing of the party? keep voting straight D. We don't want you
George S| 2.3.12 @ 12:09PM
Can you state some of the conservative ideas that you would possibly maybe sort of support?
tsd| 2.3.12 @ 2:20PM
Obviously your idea of center is 90% to the left. Instead of changing us why not move to Cuba or Chavezland and you can have what you want today.... please don't wait for our benefit!!!
Oldefarte| 2.3.12 @ 11:33AM
Bravo, outstanding, perfecto! You hit the bulls-eye on this one. This description far surpassed yours on Grover Klemmer previously. Congratulations. Again......IT'S THE DEMOCRATS, STUPIDS!!!!!!
rolloverandwetyourself| 2.3.12 @ 11:44AM
Forget Newt's moon colony, you conservatives are already living there.
Oldefarte| 2.3.12 @ 12:22PM
Nah we conservatives are instead living in HADES since 11/3/08 when that worthless bunch of domestic terrorists known as DEMOCRATS began sending us THERE!!!!!
A.H.| 2.3.12 @ 1:36PM
AMEN!!!!!
JmsA| 2.4.12 @ 8:14PM
An extraordinarily eloquent point of fact. Well done, Sir!
tsd| 2.3.12 @ 2:32PM
Another left goof ball hoping to make everyone live in the utopia of Socialism/ Marxism that they dream of. Stopping dreaming and go where this is already a reality before they have nothing left for you to steal!
How stupid are you people who think it is OK to steal another mans property... no society ever has or ever will survive if anyone is allowed to steal.
Danram| 2.3.12 @ 11:47AM
It's raving, foaming-at-the-mouth, intolerant, uber-right wing loons like this writer that give the Republican Party a bad name and scare away moderate voters.
I'm no great fan of Barack Obama, but please. "A war against traditional Christianity"? Gimme a break.
Teaghan| 2.3.12 @ 2:13PM
Did you see his honor at the Prayer Breakfast yesterday using the word of God to justify his "spreading the wealth around" ? How about his telling Catholic hospitals they have to go against their religious doctrine and concience in paying for contraception and abortion? You don't consider this a war against traditional christianity? What would do it for you Danram?
mjs_pa| 2.3.12 @ 11:53AM
Amen!
Marc Jeric| 2.3.12 @ 11:59AM
Mullah Obama, or as I prefer to call that marxist Muslim from Kenya Abu Hussein al-Mombassa, will finish communizing America in his second term, after beating another RINO Romney to a bloody pulp. In this endeavor he will be assisted 1) by his Agit-Prop Office consisting of ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, NY Times, Wash. Post, LA Times, NPR, PBS, ...and
2) by his system of local soviets (that's community organizations in Russian) - ACORN, SEIU, AFL-CIO, AFSCME, NEA, AFT, Steel and Auto workers, Teamsters thugs...
3) by a massive vote fraude supervised by his commie-racist AG Holder.
Nationalizations started in his first term - automobile companies, banks, mortgage companies, insurance companies, hospitals, doctors offices, etc. will continue by nationalizing oil & gas companies, coal mines, electricity companies, big banks,...
Forget USA - we will become the United Soviet Socialist States of America; the huge depression will give our Mullah Obama the pretext for declaring himself a dictator for life - just like Kim of N Korea, Chavez of Venezuela, Castro of Cuba...
A.H.| 2.3.12 @ 1:39PM
Damn scary, but RIGHT...
Al Adab| 2.3.12 @ 1:47PM
The President is beginning to act as though he expects to lose the election and is forcing through his entire statist agenda prior to leaving office. This should be a warning to us of how a second term might end (assuming it would end) in a deluge of executive and agenciy orders. Rule by fiat is so handy.
MikeG| 2.3.12 @ 11:41PM
Good point. He is an idealogue.
Bob S| 2.3.12 @ 12:26PM
A good article in some respects, but it leaves off at the end.
As in Geo. W. Obama came from somewhere and he had his predecessors. Hmmm. Wonder who that could have been?
Besides the obvious, Holder is an incompetent racist, but maybe, just maybe Ashcroft was a sincere incompetent.
And over at Natl. Review, Mr. Torture, John Yoo is advertised on the same page as VD Hanson's fine article on GWObama's racial politics.
IOW Obie preaches a particularly obnoxious racist version of big govt. but so what? That again, is the distraction for the left and the right. After all our good friend Herr Obama signed the NDAA on New Years Eve generally unopposed by the Repuglicans.
Racism is wrong whether practiced by the left or the right, black or white.
But so is big govt./totalitarianism.
That the neo-cons haven't figured out yet, if not that it is the essence of the same.
rfb| 2.3.12 @ 12:43PM
You may have heard this before:
Its the economy, stupid!
The more conservatives like you rant about condoms (of all things) and small wars in far away places the easier an Obama victory becomes.
Teaghan| 2.3.12 @ 2:16PM
Yeah, we'll rant about condoms when obama's Occupoopers gather to throw them at Catholic school girls. Sickening. Or do you consider this "their right to free speech"?
instr| 2.3.12 @ 12:51PM
Right on, could not have said it better myself. HIS POLICIES MUST BE REVERSED!!
Clint| 2.3.12 @ 12:51PM
Wow, this article is so ridiculous that as I am writing this I feel ashamed for doing so. I cannot believe RealClearPolitics would link to such a vitriolic article with such scant rationality and reasonableness. Anyone who reads this article and agrees with it needs to go to the library, then possibly go to church.
John LeMoine | 2.3.12 @ 6:23PM
Right on, Clint!
john| 2.3.12 @ 12:58PM
Fmr Republican President George Bush was the champion of unsustainable home ownership. We left Iraq in December because they refused to grant our troops immunity. We bailed out the auto & banking industry because our economy was on the verge of collapse, primarily because both parties supported the removal of Glass-Steagal. And soft on terrorism? Secret Muslim? Why did he sign the kill order for the terrorists below? You all hate Obamacare, but this was the private industry alternative to a single-payer system. And I LIKE Romney, way to pick the most moderate candidate Republicans.
1. Muammar Qaddafi in Libya
2. Osama bin Laden, killed in May 2011.
3. Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Anwar al-Awlaki.
4. Al Qaeda’s chief of Pakistan operations, Abu Hafs al-Shahri, was killed in Waziristan, Pakistan.
5. In August, ‘Atiyah ‘Abd al-Rahman, the deputy leader of al Qaeda was killed.
6. In June, one of al Qaeda’s most dangerous commanders, Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in Pakistan.
7. In Yemen that same month, three AQAP senior operatives Ammar al-Wa’ili, Abu Ali al-Harithi, and Ali Saleh Farhan were killed.
8. In Somalia, Al-Qa’ida in East Africa (AQEA) senior leader Harun Fazul was killed.
9. Administration officials also herald the recent U.S./Pakistani joint arrest of Younis al-Mauritani in Quetta.
10. Going back to August 2009, Tehrik e-Taliban Pakistan leader Baitullah Mahsud was killed in Pakistan.
11. In September 2009, Jemayah Islamiya operational planner Noordin Muhammad Top was killed in Indonesia
12. In September 2009 AQEA planner Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan was killed in Somalia.
13. In December 2009 in Pakistan, al Qaeda operational commanders Saleh al-Somali and ‘Abdallah Sa’id were killed.
14. In February 2010, in Pakistan, Taliban deputy and military commander Abdul Ghani Beradar was captured;
15. In February 2010, Haqqani network commander Muhammad Haqqani was killed
16. In February 2010, Lashkar-e Jhangvi leader Qari Zafar was killed.
17. In March 2010, al Qaeda operative Hussein al-Yemeni was killed in Pakistan
18. In March 2010, senior Jemayah Islamiya operative Dulmatin - accused of being the mastermind behind the 2002 Bali bombings – was killed during a raid in Indonesia.
19. In April 2010, al Qaeda in Iraq leaders Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi were killed.
20. In May, al Qaeda’s number three commander, Sheik Saeed al-Masri was killed.
21. In June 2010 in Pakistan, al Qaeda commander Hamza al-Jawfi was killed.
David| 2.3.12 @ 1:03PM
Santorum will provide the greatest contrast with Bam Bam.
Remember, Newt, Mitt, and Barack all hold the following positions.
They believe in man-caused global warming baloney, and the regulations and restrictions that have resulted from such thinking. Santorum does not.
They supported the Wall Street bailouts. Santorum did not.
They support and/or supported individual mandates for health insurance. Santorum never has.
They all criticized Paul Ryan's plan to get our fiscal house in order. Santorum embraced it.
Santorum is of the opinion that ILLEGAL immigrants have not broken ONE law (by crossing the border) as many claim, but that they have continually been breaking America's laws by working here, driving here, etc.
Santorum cannot be accused of being a flip-flopper.
Santorum cannot be accused of telling people what they want to hear.
Santorum cannot be accused of stating his positions based on the particular audience in front of him at the time.
It is clear that Santorum has been the adult in this race. His criticisms have been on the other candidates' records and he does not distort or misrepresent their records as they do to one another.
It is also clear that he has been the true, principled, consistent conservative his entire politcal career.
Clint| 2.3.12 @ 1:13PM
I respect Santorum and Paul as being consistent on the issues, but that doesn't make their positions reasonable. Santorum wants to ban birth control. No thanks. While espousing christian values he tells a young kid asking him for help to pay for his medicine that the markets will take care of it and he should just suck it up and pay because otherwise the gracious drug companies wouldn't create the medicine for him. And besides, he said, why do people complain about the high cost of drugs when a ipad costs $900? Basically to sum up what I'm saying is yes, Santorum is consistent. he is consistently idiotic.
shipley130| 2.3.12 @ 1:10PM
What are we supposed to do when we have morons in Nevada reelecting the likes of Harry Reid? I expect stupidity from San Francisco, but Nevada?
Ben| 2.3.12 @ 2:15PM
What does that even mean? Tell me why? Oh, most likely you can't argue (with logic, reason and facts, not empty emotions or Fox News one-liners) that you disagree with Harry Reid. Explain why supporting Reid indicates stupidity. It's a shame that you equate disagreement with your narrow view of the world with lack of intelligence. Time to look in a mirror?
Ben| 2.3.12 @ 3:08PM
I haven't looked in a mirror for years, because the mirror would crack at the sight an empty-headed Reid-supporting parasite like me.
Dr. X| 2.3.12 @ 1:34PM
Hillyer writes:
"Four more years of this guy in power, and we are doomed. He is a menace, and, by every legal means possible, he must be stopped..."
The second sentence does not logically follow the first. If we are indeed "doomed," and everything that Obama does is illegal -- as Hillyer says in his enumeration of grievances -- then why must only "legal means" be employed? The logical corollary is that if "legal means" fail, we must accept our "doom" at the hands of the "menace."
Words have -- or should have -- meanings. It's easy to blog away about our impending "doom" without thinking about the logical repercussions of the statement.
I'm not saying that Hillyer isn't correct... I AM saying that Jefferson, Washington and Hamilton performed illegal acts, and were considered traitors and criminals...
alabama yankee| 2.13.12 @ 1:28PM
...as was Lincoln, and look what happened to him!
mary guercio| 2.3.12 @ 1:40PM
You want thoughtful and relevant? So do I. Think more deeply, please, before you write!
John| 2.3.12 @ 1:41PM
I honestly can't believe nobody has shot obohitler yet. If this were a republican there would have been multiple attempts on his life by now
Ben| 2.3.12 @ 2:17PM
Exactly. Because Democrats are the ones with guns and morality from the Medieval Era...
Ben| 2.3.12 @ 3:06PM
No, correction: Democrats are gun-grabbing fascists with the "morality" of the Stalinist Era.
Kerwin| 2.3.12 @ 2:27PM
Nobody tried on Bush. And you jackasses voeted for him twice. At the end of his term you all ran from him like he was nuclear waste.
Now in this next term, maybe the Republicans will come back to work and actually legislate rather spend so much time trying to make sure Obama doesn't get re-elected or have any victories! No one is enthusiastic about Mitt, not even you trolls!
Oboma/Biden 2012
Dr. X| 2.3.12 @ 3:02PM
Well, I didn't necessarily say he should be shot. Of course that's one option, but I'm certainly not recommending it at the moment.
There are many other illegal means -- riots, strikes, bombings, etc. And I'm not necessarily recommending those, either. (I'm not so stupid to think that the government won't be reading this.)
What I AM saying is that government itself is violence. Government controls violence. And government decides which violence it will deem acceptable, and which is unacceptable. Conservatives consistently and stupidly fail to realize this. Let's take an example:
Suppose that someone believed that Roe v. Wade was an unconstitutional usurpation, and he bombed an abortion clinic. First of all, he would be denounced by conservatives as a nut. Second, he would be thrown in prison for forty years by the Federal government.
Now suppose that someone believed that the military was evil, and the "pigs" were capitalist and racist, so he joined the Weather Underground and bombed NYPD and the Pentagon. Forty years later he wouldn't be in prison, he would be a tenured professor named Bill Ayers, and a personal friend of the President. His wife Bernadine Dohrn would be a co-worker of the president and the First Lady. His fellow radicals would have been be pardoned by Clinton.
You see? The Left is in the position of power that it currently enjoys because it used violence and illegal means. How many times did blacks riot? How many crimes did the Black Panthers commit? Now blacks get (unconstitutional) preferential treatment over whites. How many Mexicans are here illegally? Obama won't deport them or even allow Arizona to ask them for ID. (In fact, Obama himself has two relatives who are illegals, doesn't he?) How many student sit-ins, riots, and "Occupy" protests have been treated with kid gloves, despite being illegal? Now we have government subsidies of students. How many riots and marches have the gays had? Now they're married, and in the Marine Corps. For how long has the Left (including the President) used illegal drugs as a kind of secular holy communion? Now we have legalized pot under the sham of "medical marijuana." How many illegal acts of union violence and intimidation have there been? Now unions are given a favorable seat at the table and get Federal laws written in their favor.
Don't kid yourselves, conservatives. The Left didn't get to where it is today by using "legal means."
Simon Templar| 2.7.12 @ 8:49PM
That was absolutely stunningly perceptive. Wow.
qwilly| 2.3.12 @ 1:53PM
Question: Is this leader of the free world a great example,( to government and other agencies who
support affirmatiive action) of whats wrong, and needs to be fixed..?
Ben| 2.3.12 @ 2:16PM
Question: Are you a great example of a racist troll?
Ben| 2.3.12 @ 3:03PM
Answer: no, but I sure am.
Ben| 2.3.12 @ 2:14PM
Really? Relax. What you consider a war on Christianity, is just a war on secularism. Why should a college athlete at Notre Dame be denied proper medical treatment because of someone else's belief system. What you want is to deny freedom to individuals while empowering restrictive, ambiguous and outdated religious doctrine. Obama is not a pastor. He is in charge of a government that is not supposed to govern based on religion. Not everyone believes what you do. Hence Obama's decision provides more freedom, not less. Your freedom is not more important than time.
Ben| 2.3.12 @ 3:02PM
Up is down, left is right, freedom is slavery, murder is choice, treason is loyalty, government is God, and the Kenyan usurper with the Connecticut Social Security number is the American President.
Ben| 2.3.12 @ 3:21PM
I'm relax. I consider a war on Christianity to be a very good thing. Why should anyone be denied the right to murder babies because of some silly outdated Hippocratic nonsense? What I want is to deny freedom to individuals while empowering restrictive, self-contradictory, and obsolete bureaucratic totalitarians to take control of every last aspect of our lives. Nerobama is my Messiah. He is in charge of a government that is supposed to govern based on fear and hatred of all things Christian and conservative. No one should even be allowed to consider believing what you do. Hence Nerobama is trying to kill freedom, not increase it. Your freedom of religion must be suppressed to promote the greater glory of the Moloch State.
David| 2.3.12 @ 2:42PM
CLint, you are a moron. Santorum does NOT want to ban birth control. I have heard him answer the question over and over and over because idiots like you keep asking him about it.
Clint| 2.3.12 @ 3:01PM
DAvid, you got me. He hasn't technically said that he wants to ban birth control. He has only said that he is against birth control, and that states have the right to ban it. Oh, and he is clearly against the ninth amendment.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....81291.html
Thanks for correction. Good day sir.
bobbcat| 2.3.12 @ 3:02PM
Well said with the notable exception of your theory that ineptitude has anything to do with this administration's policies.
Everything has been done according to plan. Obama is not inept (albeit he is not all that bright); he & the people who put him into his current position of power are diabolical. It is absolutely stunning to see him get away with all these things. Adherence to principles of AA probably largely account for this.
Ben| 2.3.12 @ 3:11PM
Like Nerobama, I pray to Satan, the Lord & God of our People's Democratic Republic of Eternal Darkness, every day.
Controse| 2.3.12 @ 3:17PM
Mr. Hillyer what a stirring call to action. Show us all how determined you are by throwing what I take to be your considerable reputation behind the ballot qualification effort taking place in Georgia. This is Obama's, or whoever he is, Achilles Heal. He can't get re-elected if he is not on the ballot. Please help us repeat the challenge to all 50 states.
James G. Long | 2.3.12 @ 3:17PM
Obama has many characteristics of a psychopath. The distinguishing signs of psychopaths is that they have no moral bearing and no regard for others. This may take the form of John Wayne Gacy or Ted Bundy, but psychologist are just beginning to realize that there are Corporate Psychopaths and Political Psychopaths, some of them being quite intelligent but whose only objectives are personal power and money. The well-being of the Republic and of the citizens is immaterial to them.
http://www.americanthinker.com.....party.html
Clive Body is an Australian psychologist and he has written a convincing article that the 2008 financial meltdown was the result of Corporate Psychopaths seizing control of financial institutions.
http://www.springerlink.com/co.....443675517/
See also mandynamerica.com.
dan wiswell| 2.3.12 @ 3:43PM
To paraphase, "first they came for the Jews, then the Catholics, etc,and when there was no one to care they came for me". This was the government of Germany. Jack boots, lighting bolt insignia and disappearing citizens with trial or hearing or any basic rights.
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Remember the famous quotation by all who said "that can't happen here or to me." Yet we placed ourown citizens in concentration camps in World War II. Can't be or won't be done. Then just ask Americans of Japanese ancestory of what happened in 1942 onthe West Coast due to hysteria.
Pat| 2.3.12 @ 3:52PM
Yeah, but didn’t Obama warn us about Red State voters being myopically wedded to their guns and bibles during his presidential campaign? Liberals in their East Coast gated communities got a good chuckle out of that pithy accusation – those red neck hillbillies were certainly put in their rightful place.
And, after his election, Obama put your money where his mouth is. Guns and bibles had to go, so first we sold firearms to Mexican drug dealers to prove a point and satisfy a campaign promise – killing innocent Mexicans and the odd American citizen or two with illegal firearms charged to Eric Holder’s Government MasterCard did eventually misfire however - but Obama voters understood he was only trying to prove a point; namely: Too many redneck hillbillies own guns.
Congress stumbled into this latest scandal but promptly took Holder’s official “not under oath” statement that even though us hillbillies and guns are a bad mixture, the DOJ’s Fast and Furious Gun Sale didn’t target anyone to be killed. As he explained to Congress, some unidentified local agents of the ATF or FBI or Border Patrol or possibly IRS auditors took it upon themselves to launch this stupid operation in the hopes our gun laws would be increased from 30,000 to 55,000 firearm regulations. And Holder and Obama want everyone to know they didn’t sanction this operation, or know anything about it and, even if they did know a teensy bit about it, they certainly didn’t encourage it. Congress took them at their word as was expected.
The next DOJ operation on the planning table is to go after unauthorized bibles – along with guns, too many of us hillbillies own bibles. Christians – prepare to turn your other cheek.
ronlsb | 2.3.12 @ 4:19PM
Amen and amen!!!
markenoff| 2.3.12 @ 4:38PM
Cut Obama some slack. At least he's visited all 57 states. Bush never did that. And I hear he's learning Austrian.
rulierose| 2.3.12 @ 10:06PM
yeah, and a corpse-man is teaching it to him.
davelnaf| 2.3.12 @ 5:08PM
Obama was the stealth candidate from the get-go and then he became President Stealth. Did he and the left really believe they were going to get away with “fundamentally chang[ing]” the US?
Once he’s voted out this year Republicans will—with some dem help—undo everything he has done and will do. Because he has larded up the bureaucracies with cronies and fellow travelers they will have to be cleaned out, too. It will be an interesting spectacle. Not the least of which will be the way the Bamster handles rejection. He was rejected back in November 2010, but didn’t accept the verdict as offered. He won’t accept it the second time around—it will be fun.
Mike W| 2.3.12 @ 6:06PM
"Threw away victory in Iraq"????!! What complete and total horse crap. Bush signed the agreement to have our forces out by the end of 2011.
Iraq was a loser well before Obama took over.
Caroline| 2.3.12 @ 6:09PM
Zero can't murder Christians outright like his friends in the Middle East are doing, so he has to do it this way. He speaks of Jesus, the same way, Satan spoke like Damien's mother in the Exorcist. He is no Christian. He hates Christians.
http://youtu.be/J34R_Y1byJc
Caroline| 2.3.12 @ 6:10PM
Hitler attacked the Church also. Zero is like Hitler.
Buck Ofama| 2.3.12 @ 7:02PM
this G0DDAMNED NIGGERCOCKSUCKER must GO.
David| 2.3.12 @ 7:15PM
Santorum will provide the greatest contrast with Bam Bam.
Remember, Newt, Mitt, and Barack all hold the following positions.
They believe in man-caused global warming baloney, and the regulations and restrictions that have resulted from such thinking. Santorum does not.
They supported the Wall Street bailouts. Santorum did not.
They support and/or supported individual mandates for health insurance. Santorum never has.
They all criticized Paul Ryan's plan to get our fiscal house in order. Santorum embraced it.
Santorum is of the opinion that ILLEGAL immigrants have not broken ONE law (by crossing the border) as many claim, but that they have continually been breaking America's laws by working here, driving here, etc.
Santorum cannot be accused of being a flip-flopper.
Santorum cannot be accused of telling people what they want to hear.
Santorum cannot be accused of stating his positions based on the particular audience in front of him at the time.
It is clear that Santorum has been the adult in this race. His criticisms have been on the other candidates' records and he does not distort or misrepresent their records as they do to one another.
It is also clear that he has been the true, principled, consistent conservative his entire politcal career.
Garfield| 2.3.12 @ 7:21PM
David, while I agree with you on Romney, the "facts" you mention on Gingrich aren't the whole truth putting it mildly.
I know that for a fact, because I actually watched Gingrich's testimony on cap & trade, which didn't go as you are claiming and that's putting it mildly. Gingrich ripped the Democrats a new one, pretty much humiliating them.
elephant4life| 2.3.12 @ 7:55PM
"He is a menace, and, by every legal means possible, he must be stopped -- and his maladministration reversed and thoroughly buried. "
Agreed. And after he is stopped, he needs to be locked away for the rest of his life, because he will not hesitate to take the rest of the secrets - those he hasn't already spilled - and sell them to whoever will promise to reward him most and cause the United States the greatest harm. Out of office will not mean harmless. And from November to January, do we really think he will not embark on a scorched earth policy? I'm wondering when the Secret Service is going to remember that the other part of their job is to protect US from the likes of him.
PCP Smoker| 2.3.12 @ 8:29PM
After pissing on your readers with all that anti-Gingrich and pro=Romney crap, this is a welcome relief. Also, stop defending that OLD HAG AND CUNT Jennifer Rubin.
Steven| 2.3.12 @ 8:48PM
blah, blah, blah. This article is basically designed to enrange religious people against Obama with misinformation. The exemption for the religious portions of these organizations has NOT changed. The only thing he was doing was upholding previous law. If a religious based organization wants to run a hospital and accepts government funds they have to treat all the employees equally and with respect. They can't shove their narrow religious views down the throats of employees who are of different religious or even of the same religion of the organization. If they want to break the law and descriminate against their employees, then they can suffer the consequences.
My mother used to work for a Catholic Hospital and I can tell you that the majority of the doctors, nurses, and support staff were NOT Catholic. If they think they can get by with hiring AND accepting patients who are Catholic AND who agree wth their anti-contraception beliefs, good luck.
rulierose| 2.3.12 @ 10:18PM
that's ridiculous. there is no constitutional right to free contraception or abortion! that's what this is about. it's a straw man argument to talk about loss of personal freedom: the only loss is that you might have to pay for your birth control pills yourself. that's hardly a case to rock the Republic, unless of course you're a Democrat and this crap is your only hope in November.
POST American| 2.3.12 @ 9:00PM
--------------------FINAL WORD------------------------
'BAR--Rockefeller' OBAMA's abominations
are purely second hand off shoots.
The CORE abomination is SURELY
psychopathic, unaccountable, capstone
-------------------USURY--------------------.
From their TAX FREE lurking places
within the sleazy foundations and EUGENICS
NGOs ----------THEY ARE THE POISON.
-------------------------------WORD IS OUT!
peterrr73| 2.3.12 @ 9:57PM
When I read this, I worried about Mr Hillyer's state of mind. He was obviously so agitated that he needed to lie down in a dark room with a wet towel on his head, or have a nice cup of tea to cheer him up. But now I have read some of the comments: I see that Mr Hillyer is really a model of sanity and sense. And my, what rudeness you all show to each other, in your fervor to be the most passionate Obama hater of all.
Wet towels and nice cups of tea all around, then. And now you can enjoy yourselves by attacking me as well (clearly I am an ignorant no-good welfare-sponging liberal bilabilabila).
Caroline| 2.3.12 @ 10:09PM
Here's more.
Outrage!… US Military Tells Catholic Chaplains What They Can and Can’t Say About Obama Administration’s Assault on Religion
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, February 3, 2012, 7:36 PM
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/
He can't murder Christians like his friends in the Middle East are doing, so he has to do it this way. Are there still any who doubt he is a Muslim?
Rebecca| 2.3.12 @ 10:40PM
Obama who?
We still do not know who this man is, and how evil I believe he truly is.
When I think of Obama, the title president does not come to mind.
He is on his way to completing his plans to set up his dictatorship.
Should he secure a second term--it will be a disaster for America.
Americans are tired of him. We are tired of his arrogance, we are tired of his lies.We are tired of his spending, we are tired of his Alinsky radical rules, his manipulations, and his allegiance to evil.
We cannot allow him to be elected for another term.
Anyone who thinks this article is not a feasible description of this man and what he is doing...is either in denial, unable to grasp how bad it is, or has not been watching or listening.
He, in my opinion, is ever so much as dangerous for America, as Hitler was for Germany.
I remember. I was a child, but I remember.
America will rue the day he was elected.
MH| 2.4.12 @ 1:33AM
Thank you for your article! You put into words what I have been thinking. God bless the USA!!!
John Ranahan| 2.4.12 @ 1:44AM
I read this incredulously. How can Obama be doing all this nefarious activity? Openly? He got elected? I know now why I will support his reelection. This piece was just plain foolish.
nola_man| 2.4.12 @ 2:29AM
Ummm...this is the definition of propaganda. Hugo Chavez, Vlad Putin, etc. would be proud. Next time, let's try to tone down the hyperbole JUST a tad.
lee| 2.4.12 @ 2:39AM
This might be the most insane thing I've read linked from a reputable news source. I'm a conservative, but anyone who calls Afghanistan a discarded easy victory should at least Wikipedia the last couple hundred years of her history. Also some of the most obtuse uses of twentieth century history in the comments. a Nordic style social welfare state is not the same as the perpetrators of maoist genocide, and even then here we have neither. One of the more embarrassing reads of the year.
Resist We Much! | 2.4.12 @ 6:20AM
He Ain't St. Levi, He's His Brother's Tax Collector ... What Jesus Really Thought About Taxes
http://predicthistunpredictpas.....s-tax.html
Betty Roccograndi | 2.4.12 @ 9:27AM
WOW! Send your column to whomever becomes
the Republican nominee, except if it's Newt, because he, like you, could eloquently present all the reasons Obama, under no circumstances, can be given another four years in office.
Fiscal| 2.4.12 @ 11:50AM
The problem with Quin's column and most of your remarks is that they lack a factual basis. Without going into a lot of detail, there have been several recent analyses of the current deficit/debt issue that has show that the great bulk of it was the result of W's tax cuts that didn't work and his Medicare drug plan. Economies go through cycles and those people who really don't understand economics think that governments have more power than they do. Economics, is the most part, the purview of private enterprise. The political parties are more alike than different. Blaming Obama, or Bush for that matter, for having the level of supreme control that Quin believes, is pure junk analysis.
We also live in a country that is truly not for religious freedom. Those of you here on the extreme right want your Christian beliefs codified in the law, and those on the extreme left want you to believe their humanist point of view. Personally, I'd like a country where all of you left religious bigotry out of the public square. It not only creates animosity, but takes away our personal liberties and makes government larger, not smaller.
Let's face it, Obama is a lousy President -- not for the reasons Quin states, but because he is a grossly ineffective executive. The same is true of Bush, of course. It's not a function of their beliefs, it is a function of their incompetence.
We need to live in a country where we don't get our (lack of ) information from Fox News and MSNBC -- or Rush Limbaugh who has a very limited understanding of analysis and economics. Anyone who believes that the undeclared wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will change anything has never fought in those types of conflicts. You can't change the hearts, minds, or educational levels of a people through military endeavors. If we've learned anything over time, it is that the presence of our military just creates more animosity towards the U.S.
Rather than rhetoric, we need to pay attention to the detail in the numbers. The more we ask government to regulate, whether it is on the left with the overregulation of business or on the right with wanting to govern our personal lives, the more we ask government to spend and grow for enforcement and staffs. When we try to outlaw something like abortion, we then must have enforcement mechanisms and court cases to enable those laws to be effective -- a perfect case for unnecessary federal growth.
While Romney is far from perfect, he does have the executive competence that Obama lacks. My big fear is that Romney doesn't have a strong core and is like Obama in that he will do anything to make something work.
David| 2.4.12 @ 12:29PM
Santorum will provide the greatest contrast with Bam Bam.
Remember, Newt, Mitt, and Barack all hold the following positions.
They believe in man-caused global warming baloney, and the regulations and restrictions that have resulted from such thinking. Santorum does not.
They supported the Wall Street bailouts. Santorum did not.
They support and/or supported individual mandates for health insurance. Santorum never has.
They all criticized Paul Ryan's plan to get our fiscal house in order. Santorum embraced it.
Santorum is of the opinion that ILLEGAL immigrants have not broken ONE law (by crossing the border) as many claim, but that they have continually been breaking America's laws by working here, driving here, etc., and should be rewarded for doing so.
Santorum cannot be accused of being a flip-flopper.
Santorum cannot be accused of telling people what they want to hear.
Santorum cannot be accused of stating his positions based on the particular audience in front of him at the time.
It is clear that Santorum has been the adult in this race. His criticisms have been on the other candidates' records and he does not distort or misrepresent their records as they do to one another.
It is also clear that he has been the true, principled, consistent conservative his entire politcal career.
marcia wright| 2.4.12 @ 1:00PM
President O. has fulfilled his campaign promise. He said we would have change. He is correct, I only have change and no dollar bills.
john johnson| 2.4.12 @ 3:14PM
THAT IS AWESOME!! WELL SAID!!
Marc Jeric| 2.4.12 @ 6:35PM
Mullah Obama is finally showing his true colors - and it is Red! Another 4 years and the massive nationalizations will continue with oil & gas companies, coal mines, electric companies, transportation, companies - via that globaloney warming hoax. The tremendous depression that he will cause will require for him to assume dictatorial powers formally, and then declare himself as dictator-for-life; you know - in order to "save the country".
POST American| 2.4.12 @ 9:32PM
"--Unaccountable, psychopathic,
fractional reserve, capstone USURY--"
------and EUGENICS.
All ye need to know----------------------
Rockerbabe| 2.5.12 @ 12:23AM
This isn't freedom of conscience; this is about women receiving parity with men. Men are not forbidden anything much in terms of medical care or insurance. Women and their needs have been subject to the war mongering of the right for the last three years.
To grant religious exemption, other than the narrowly defined exemption, is to legitimize the church's discrimination against women and their healthcare needs. The religious entities have centuries old histories of murder, rape, torture, theft, mistreatment, etc against women. Now that women can fight back, the church insist on its "right" to discriminate in the workplace with regard to benefits.
The government is responsible to its citizens; women are citizens. The "church" is not a citizen. To grant such a broad exemption to the church would violate the legal, constitutional rights of women and a notion of fairness. As a taxpayer, I strongly object to being asked to pay for this type of discrimination.
The church can do want it want; but not with government money [secular money]; everyone knows that accepting government resources comes with strings that demand the recipient abide by the laws of the land. So if the church wants to continue to discriminate against women, then they will have to do this discrimination with PRIVATE money.
J. Conner| 2.5.12 @ 1:21AM
Amen to everything you said in this article! Thanks for speaking the truth with such passion!
Mike M| 2.5.12 @ 1:42PM
Must reading for every "Young skull full of mush."
Felix G| 2.5.12 @ 3:09PM
There are 6 MILLION fewer jobs than when the recession started. 2 MILLION fewer people are self employed. He has strengthened our enemies and weakened our own country. We are witnessing the Obamanation that causes desolation.
Marc Jeric| 2.5.12 @ 4:42PM
Four more years of our eco-nazi/communist regime and the US will be finished. Poor Romney is just another RINO ready and willing to work with the enemy; he has no chance with the MSM unanimously in favor of our Mullah Obama who thinks seriously that he is the 12th Immam.
Lynn| 2.5.12 @ 8:32PM
I haven't read such a pile of rubbish in ages.
Ted R.| 2.5.12 @ 8:46PM
Well SAID, RockerB. Unfortunately, a knee-jerk sexism is writ into the DNA of conservative types - its so inveterate a trait that most of them don't even realize it.
This article is just laughably pathetic. THIS is the best you can do, to dredge up a list of "Obamaminations"? Complaining about rescuing GM? Defending a Citizens United court decision which is turning the United States from an informal to a formal oligarchy? Banging on about this Justice Department (led by a black man, of course) - when you did not make a WHISPER of protest when the PREVIOUS Justice Dept. justified torture!??
The fact is, this administration has done its best to mop up the foreign policy MESS which YOU are complicit in creating! How ludicrous that you complain about his 'relationships with foreign leaders,' YOU who championed George W. who gave the finger to the international community. Oh, wait, I forgot - he saw into Putin's "soul." I guess being in league with a leader the likes of Putin is good foreign policy for you Cons - who are all authoritarians at heart.
Never mind that Obama helped take out bin Laden and Khaddafi (or wait, are you guys defending the dictator, now? I can't keep up with your hypocrisy) in the same year. What you are also blind to, is that the Arab Spring is not being stamped with anti-Americanism (which is a serious risk considering all our meddling in the region and support of local autocrats). Obama is extricating us, intelligently and carefully, from our the military quagmires which YOU brought on us.
Unlike YOU, we don't make stupid demigods out of our leaders; Obama isn't perfect, but he's by a damn sight a better president than YOU deserve.
Fact is, I sympathize. I felt about W., EXACTLY as you feel about Obama. I, too, though the world was going to end when he got re-elected. Now, it's YOUR turn.
Jon Lindsay| 2.5.12 @ 11:14PM
You, sir, are an idiot fucking clown.
Ted R.| 2.6.12 @ 1:33AM
Eloquent rebuttal. Perfect example of the conservative psyche, which consists of little besides irritable mental gestures. You got the 'sir,' part right, though.
Simon Templar| 2.7.12 @ 2:08PM
Here is a rebuttal, Ted the Red. Let's deconstruct your false premises, lies, and distortions.
"Well SAID, RockerB. Unfortunately, a knee-jerk sexism is writ into the DNA of conservative types - its so inveterate a trait that most of them don't even realize it."
-The issue of the catholic church's objections have nothing to do with sexism but rather the forced mandate on INDIVIDUAL CATHOLICS running hospitals and such to be forced to act in discordance with their religious beliefs that are protected by the first ammendment. The church is not demanding that contraceptions be made illegal or be not available to other citizens.
This article is just laughably pathetic. THIS is the best you can do, to dredge up a list of "Obamaminations"? Complaining about rescuing GM? Defending a Citizens United court decision which is turning the United States from an informal to a formal oligarchy? Banging on about this Justice Department (led by a black man, of course) - when you did not make a WHISPER of protest when the PREVIOUS Justice Dept. justified torture!??
-Obama has kept the exact policys of Bush and has changed nothing including the Guatanamo base. Your messiah wants to reserve the same authority and powers that Bush exercised. Hypocrits, you wrote the book on it.
"The fact is, this administration has done its best to mop up the foreign policy MESS which YOU are complicit in creating! How ludicrous that you complain about his 'relationships with foreign leaders,' YOU who championed George W. who gave the finger to the international community. Oh, wait, I forgot - he saw into Putin's "soul." I guess being in league with a leader the likes of Putin is good foreign policy for you Cons - who are all authoritarians at heart."
-Ah, yes, another false premise and historical revisionism. Bush did not give the international community the finger but rather worked with dozens of intelligence agencies, built a coalition of dozens of nations, and waited nearly a year before acting so as to gather both democratic and republican support. Clinton was in favor of an Iraq invasion and overthrow of Sadaam. Oh, yes, cleaning up the mess by starting two more wars that have led to the formation of a caliphate and radical Islamist taking over all of the middleast. Good job. Failing to negotiate a withdrwal from Iraq that even upset democrats as well as republicans. Bowing to foreign leaders? China thinks he is a lightwieght and an idiot. Do have I have to keep going?
"Never mind that Obama helped take out bin Laden and Khaddafi (or wait, are you guys defending the dictator, now? "
-The navy seals and the military with Bush policy took out bin laden. Kadafi was overthrown by his own people. The whole affair was mishandled and policy positions changed every week where by even the press did not know how to cover for your idiot.
"I can't keep up with your hypocrisy) in the same year. What you are also blind to, is that the Arab Spring is not being stamped with anti-Americanism (which is a serious risk considering all our meddling in the region and support of local autocrats). Obama is extricating us, intelligently and carefully, from our the military quagmires which YOU brought on us."
- That is such poppycock, I do not know where to start. What scares me the most is you actually believe that bullshit. The withdrawal and surge success was planned well before Obama showed up. You and your ilk did everything you could to stifle success for 8 years via declaring failure, stopping funding, abetting the enemy, and undermining the military. Forget that?
"Unlike YOU, we don't make stupid demigods out of our leaders; Obama isn't perfect, but he's by a damn sight a better president than YOU deserve."
-LOL. Greek columns, promises to lower the sea levels, specially designed symbols, songs written about him, pictures of him as Roosevelt, media slobbering about him as a messiah......
Typical liberal projection.
"Fact is, I sympathize. I felt about W., EXACTLY as you feel about Obama. I, too, though the world was going to end when he got re-elected. Now, it's YOUR turn."
It is our turn?
We do not think the world will end but rather a constitutionall based Reublican form of government where the state is not supreme over the individual will end. It is not over yet Red, I think you will be surprised when November rolls around.
Simon Templar| 2.7.12 @ 11:27AM
Timothy L. Pennell has nothing to apologize for or explain.
I read the start of this thread and felt compelled to write something about it and hope it is not too late to be heard.
Quin does not deserve a defense as he sanctimonously moans about Obama and the damage he has done to this country while at the same time he has done everything with his poison pen to destroy the alternatives. Quin you are part of the problem. You misleed, you sabotage, and you undermine conservativism.
Timothy was correct in his objection to the percieved tone and underlying attitude of Quins's article and moaning about Obama. All too often we have heard so many pundits feign shock and disappointment about this presidency and that which has ocurred under it. Incompetence has been the key word and the distraction from the actual truth of the matter here. Obama is not incompetent, he is deliberate, conniving, and has an agenda.
Why does it matter? It matter because if you intend to ever effectively fight him and the Left you better wake up to this fact as you will never craft an effective counter response not recognizing this reality. Nor will you convince others that he is a real and present danger. Incomptence is in the eye of the beholder. People can live with it and give someone a second chance if they see improvement and learning on the job.
Quin's conclusions are dangerously stupid and simple minded. Timothy was justified in getting angry and frustrated with this line of thinking.
In fact, he is expressing the same outrage that many of us hold and is seeking that passion that Gingrich has shown that got so much positive reception.
This fear and uncomfortability with intense emotion and anger is a trait of many Americans today particularly that of the older generations. Conservatives themselves have been guilty of this for a long time and have a tradition of trying to be nice, mannered, and lacking passion. Romney is the classic example of the Republican. George Will is another. Their time is done. The Left know this well and has used it against conservatives.
So many of us are getting it finally and are starving for the kind of passion our founding fathers had about the very principles that we supposedly espouse. We are looking for leadership that will take no prisoners and will meet the Left head on with passion, truth, and spine.
Keep that passion Timothy and keep telling the truth. Do not water it down or temper it. The Left is counting on you to do otherwise.
Marc Jeric| 2.7.12 @ 2:43PM
What did you expect Mullah Obama to do? Or - as I prefer to call that marxist Muslim from Kenya - Abu Hussein al-Mombassa.
BeefMac| 2.12.12 @ 1:04PM
Obama is a puppet. People give this pc of shit more credit than he deserves. Yes, he believes in all of it, but face it, the guy is over his head. He's never run a lemonade stand. The Soros' and union thugs are pulling his strings. No doubt he needs to be defeated, but Mitt Romney? Please! It's John McCain in sheep's clothing.