Obama's Death Panels, In His Own Words

Well, since he brought it up, it's worth reminding people that Barack Hussein Obama himself has advocated rationing healthcare to the elderly.



So, who should make these decisions? A panel of experts, according to Obama.

A New York Times interviewer asked Barack Hussein Obama how we should decide who gets health care and who doesn't.

"I think that there is going to have to be a conversation that is guided by doctors, scientists, ethicists. And then there is going to have to be a very difficult democratic conversation that takes place. It is very difficult to imagine the country making those decisions just through the normal political channels. And that’s part of why you have to have some independent group that can give you guidance."

And Obama makes it clear here where he sees potential savings in health care.

“That’s where I think you just get into some very difficult moral issues,” he said in the April 14 interview. “The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health- care bill out here.”

Barack Obama Plots Knife Control

This used to be a joke.

On May 21, U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP) proposed the revocation of four previous Ruling Letters; the effect would be a drastic expansion of the definition of non-importable knives. The organization KnifeRights warns that revocations would outlaw approximately 80 percent of the current market in knives

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So Much For That Spine of Steel

This is intolerable! Somebody else do something!

"North Korea broke the rules, once again, by testing a rocket that could be used for long-range missiles," Obama said in Prague. "It creates instability in their region, around the world. This provocation underscores the need for action, not just this afternoon in the U.N. Security Council, but in our determination to prevent the spread of these weapons."

AIG And The Democrats' Cheap Populism

I fear that Americans are about to learn to their sorrow that moral exhibitionism and cheap populism make a miserable brew. In its permanent campaign, Team Obama picks a villain of the week and initiates a campaign of outrage and vilification against that target of opportunity, hoping to create the illusion of Obama as a dragon slayer defending ordinary Americans against some domestic evil doer. Last week it was Rush Limbaugh. This week it’s AIG. But these brouhahas are pure smokescreen.

The bonuses that provoked so much chest pounding were announced more than a year ago, long before AIG took a cent of bailout money. The man who wrote the legislation granting AIG its no-strings-attached bailout was Timothy Geithner, the tax cheat whom Obama judged as so indispensible to his Treasury Department that Geithner’s tax evasion was overlooked. One of the outraged is Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Waitress Sandwich), who inserted an amendment into Obama’s porkulus bill that explicitly exempted bonuses from limitations on executive pay. Dodd was the only senator to attract more Wall Street campaign contributions than Barack Obama. And Dodd has been rewarded with extra special low interest rate mortgages from the scandal-ridden Countrywide Financial. He also traded his influence for a sweet deal on an Irish vacation home.

Unfortunately, populist demagoguery sells. And when it’s combined with moral vanity, it traps its users. Honest men would have admitted that those bonuses were AIG’s inescapable contractual obligation. But morally vain men who leap to the podium and run their mouths before informing their grandstanding cannot admit error. And this moral vanity is actually hobbling our government.

During the campaign, Barack Obama harvested a great deal of populist hay by bashing lobbyists. (Disclosure: I have actually been a lobbyist.) Lobbyists are often the only people who actually read the laws and are smart enough to interpret the gibberish for those who vote. Excluding lobbyists from executive appointments deprives government of the most talented and informed candidates.

According to insiders, including Barney Frank (D-Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, Obama’s Treasury Department is terribly understaffed due to the inability of the administration to find even minimally qualified candidates who have paid their taxes for fear that the media will actually report these ethical lapses.

“I think it's a problem, although I will say this - for the media to blame that entirely on the Senate seems to me a little bit self serving,” Frank said. “I mean, the media is the problem here, in part. It is the over-focus on part of people in the media to relatively minor infractions that causes this. I guarantee you my colleagues would not, on their own, be doing this. So I do think we are in a culture now where a lack of perfection exacts too strong a toll, but that's the politicians reacting to the media.”

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, actually agreed that the media were to blame. “I take your point, Mr. Frank, Mr. Chairman,” she said. "You're right and we plead guilty because this is, this culture right now of ‘gotcha’ has gotten completely out of control.”

When I try to picture any reporter confessing to overzealous scrutiny of a Republican administration, somehow, I can’t. I just lack the imagination.

The same Barack Obama who had pundits swooning for admitting he screwed up with his appointment of Tom Daschle as Secretary of Health and Human Services, now cannot bring himself to confess that his populist campaign proscription against lobbyists left him with too small a talent pool to allow him to staff his administration. An ignorant compulsion for moral exhibitionism drove his demagoguery and now his vanity prevents him from admitting his error and making a correction that would greatly increase the talent pool he can draw on. He might even be able to find someone who pays his taxes.

Democrats invested a great deal into their demonization of the firm Dick Cheney presided over before returning to public service. The oil services giant Halliburton eventually took the hint that it was not welcome in the United States and moved its operations to Dubai. Dubai has made it clear that it would like to become the world’s financial capital. If The One adheres to his populist agenda of limiting Wall Street pay, that talent will take their skills to where they are rewarded.

If A Republican Said Something This Stupid, He'd Be Vice President By Now

No! Wait!

More here.

The first appearance by a sitting president on "The Tonight Show" may well end up being the last.

President Obama, in his taping with Jay Leno Thursday afternoon, attempted to yuk it up with the funnyman, and ended up insulting the disabled.

Towards the end of his approximately 40-minute appearance, the president talked about how he's gotten better at bowling and has been practicing in the White House bowling alley.

He bowled a 129, the president said.

"That's very good, Mr. President," Leno said sarcastically.

It's "like the Special Olympics or something," the president said.

He's just not such a great communicator without his teleprompter telling him what to say.

Obama Really Could Save Millions of Jobs

Barack Obama boasts that his economic programs will create or save 4 million jobs. He could accomplish that by simply dropping one item off his agenda - card check.

Card check would allow union thugs to intimidate workers and force them to join trade unions. According to this study, if unions get their way, millions of jobs will be lost.

America’s unemployment rate could top 10 percent under the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), if it boosts union membership as much as some supporters have predicted, according to a new economic study.

Every three percentage point gain in union membership would be accompanied by a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate the following year, said Dr. Anne Layne-Farrar , who conducted the study.

She is an economist with LECG, a non-partisan Chicago-based economic consulting group.

Proponents of EFCA say union membership would grow by 1.5 million members every year over the next 10 to 15 years under EFCA.

But EFCA opponents point to the new study to back their argument that EFCA will hurt the economy.

“Job losses attributable to the passage of the employee free choice act in that respect would be equal to the entire population of the city of Boston,” said Phil Miscamarra, a legal counsel with the Alliance to Save Main Street Jobs.

A 1.5 million member increase would “lead to the loss of 600,000 jobs by the end of the following year,” he said.

Where In The World Is Christine Gregoire?

Yesterday, her whereabouts were unknown, with speculation simmering that she was about to accept an appointment with the Obama Administration, possibly at the Commerce Department where the disgraced Bill Richardson had to withdraw his nomination.

Gov. Chris Gregoire is out of state and has practically disappeared, but her office won't say where she is.

She has scheduled one-on-one interviews with local media Tuesday, but won't say what the announcement is.

Gregoire was set to be the keynote speaker Tuesday at a pre-legislative session forum sponsored by The Associated Press, but her office canceled Monday afternoon. Legislative director Marty Brown will stand in for Gregoire at the forum.

Today we learn that she is in Washington DC.

If she resigns as governor to reignite her insatiable political ambition, then who would be governor. It's too bad that it can't be Dino Rossi. After all, after the votes were counted, she submitted his budget to the legislature.

Jerrold Nadler Says Obama Is Spineless

Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), otherwise known as Jabba the Hut's stunt double, tells his audience that Barack Hussein Obama does not have that steel in his spine after all.



So, perhaps this is why Jabba the Hut is advocating that we surrender Georgia to Russia's imperial ambitions. The critical exchange begins at about 3:50.



I'm pretty certain that few Americans will consider surrendering Georgia's sovereignty (along with Ukraine, etc) the proper course of actions.

Obama's Energy Plan: Skyrocketing Electric Bills

You're not paying nearly enough to light and heat your home.

"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers."

Just A Reminder: Barack Obama Is A Liar

Obama Attempts To Bribe The Media

Strangely enough, the only press that Obama has failed to seduce is the African Press International. API claims to have a very unflattering tape of Michelle Obama's ranting. Barack Obama does not want this tape revealed and has offered a $3 million bribe to API to suppress the tape.

Six hours after the release of information by API on the planned broadcast by Fox News Network of the Michelle Obama tape, in accordance with an agreement that has been reached between API and Fox News Network, API was contacted by Obama’s Campaign Manager.

Those who are close to the democratic presidential candidate must be desperate to win the elections no matter what, otherwise they would not have taken such bold step to contact API with an offer of a bribe in order to stop the airing of the tape.

Obama’s campaign manager contacted API by telephone and email offering 3 million US dollars followed with a request to API to cancel the deal with Fox News Network.

Ten days ago API received the first request to accept 2 million US dollars by Mr Ed Hale, President of Plains Radio, Texas - USA, in an effort to suppress the information from reaching the public before the coming US Presidential elections.

API has now taken a decision to contact the American Embassy in Oslo, Norway as soon as possible in order to report the matter and hand over the evidence for investigative purposes.

API’s Canadian lawyer is expected to fly to Oslo shortly in order to assist in the legal matters that arise from the bribery attempt.

API’s Chief editor is expected to travel to New York, together with the Canadian lawyer, where he will appear live in one of the shows that will air the Michelle Obama tape.

Obama Spokeman: Fox Wrong For Playing Obama's Words

If only Megyn Kelly were the model of all the media.

CBS: Barack Obama Buying The Election With Dirty Cash

Now they tell us.




Actually, now they tell you. The blogosphere has know this for a long time. Thanks mainstream media.

The Constitution Was Meant To Protect Us From Democrats

Barack Obama laments that the US Supreme Court has failed to force wealth redistribution of wealth.

Another Good Reason To Hope Obama Loses

Jesse Jackson Jr is expected to replace Obama in the Senate.

Illinois political insiders say Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who defended Barack Obama after his father famously threatened to castrate him, is the favorite to replace the Democratic nominee in the Senate.

Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) scolded his father, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, publicly after his comments were caught unexpectedly on tape before an interview with Fox News this summer.

Barack Obama: Just A Guy In My Neighborhood

Who wants to murder 25 million Americans.

What Was Joe Biden Thinking?

Like many of you, my interest was piqued when Joe Biden essentially promised his Seattle audience last week that Barack Obama would be challenged by foreign enemies, sometime during the first six months of his administration. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy.” As a young and callow politician with no record of resolve, Biden expects that America’s enemies will start probing for weakness as soon as Obama is inaugurated.

As one pundit noted, Biden may have been trying to put lipstick on the Bay of Pigs. The Bay of Pigs was a catastrophic failure of President John F. Kennedy’s resolve that nearly led to nuclear war when the Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev judged the young American president spineless and deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba.

Biden, who during the same speech modestly boasted that he has forgotten more about foreign affairs that anybody else has ever known, indicated that Obama’s youth and inexperience would invite a similar test.

But perhaps even more disturbingly, Biden promised that Obama’s response would not go over well with the American public: “[H]e's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right.”

Note that he’s asking Americans to stand with Obama even if he follows an unpopular course, which is precisely the opposite of how Democrats have behaved toward the Bush administration.

In that same speech, Biden identified himself as the foreign policy expert to whom Obama would turn for expertise. So, it’s worth examining Joe Biden’s record so that we might have some idea what this unpopular response to a crisis might be.

Perhaps we should have a look at Joe’s response to the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist attacks for guidance. Biden’s initial instinct was to show some gesture of conciliation toward Arab countries: “Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.”

That’s what you get from the man considered his party’s brightest light in foreign affairs – someone who doesn’t know that Iran is not an Arab country. But of course, he’ll fit right into an Obama administration. Until relatively recently, Barack Obama believed that Afghanistan was an Arab country too.

So, if we’re attacked in 2009, will vice president Joe Biden recommend that we cut our enemies a big check? I’m pretty confident that it will not be immediately apparent to most Americans that paying tribute is the right course of action.

But frankly, it would not be out of character. Joe Biden has a lengthy history of coddling Iran. For more than a decade, Biden’s insistence upon “engagement” with Iran has consistently undermined US efforts to pressure Iran into more civilized behavior. Joe Biden’s opposition to diplomatic sanctions has enabled Iran’s nuclear ambitions and has certainly given Teheran cause to root for an Obama victory.

This is quite a different fellow from the Biden whom Obama described as a man who has “stared down dictators.” His cold war history is that of a man who shrank from Soviet expansionism and opposed aid to allies. I’m half expecting Barack Obama to declare that, “that is not the Joe Biden I knew.”

But, hasn’t Barack Obama has already had his Bay of Pigs moment? Surely his spineless response to Russia’s invasion of the Georgian Republic already has the world’s despots, terrorists and dictators salivating. In fact, just this week the speaker of the Iranian parliament made it clear that, “We are leaning more in favor of Barack Obama...” Obama treated Russia’s aggression and Georgia’s self defense are morally equivalent: “I strongly condemn the outbreak of violence in Georgia, and urge an immediate end to armed conflict. Now is the time for Georgia and Russia to show restraint and to avoid an escalation to full-scale war.”

He next proposed that we invite the United Nations Security Council to straighten things out, forgetting (if he ever knew) that Russia is a permanent member of the Security Council and wields veto power over any Security Council action.

If, as Joe Biden assures us, Obama “has steel in his spine,” it must be spring steel. Are these really the guys we want answering 3 AM phone calls?

Are We Really About to Elect A Marxist?

Are your people really paying attention?

Fact Checking Obama - A Full Time Job

He's the most accomplished liar since Bill Clinton. Actually, he may be better. He's certainly more brazen. Clinton actually telegraphed his lies with body language, suggesting that he actually did have a conscience. Obama on the other hand appears quite comfortable with his lies. How many flat out egregious lies did he tell during the debate last night? Quite a few. And not once did he flinch. Here are a couple his greatest hits.

How about this one?

MCCAIN: Well, again, while you were on the board of the Woods Foundation, you and Mr. Ayers, together, you sent $230,000 to ACORN. So — and you launched your political campaign in Mr. Ayers’ living room.

OBAMA: That’s absolutely not true.

MCCAIN: And the facts are facts and records are records.

OBAMA: And that’s not the facts.

And this one...

There was a bill that was put forward before the Illinois Senate that said you have to provide lifesaving treatment and that would have helped to undermine Roe v. Wade. The fact is that there was already a law on the books in Illinois that required providing lifesaving treatment, which is why not only myself but pro-choice Republicans and Democrats voted against it.

Palling Around With Terrorists - An Obama Tradition

It isn't just William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn who stain Obama's past and present. He's closer than anyone should be to Islamic terrorists as well.

Obama's been specifically courting the Muslim vote in the United States. He courts that vote by sending his Muslim outreach director, Minha Husaini, to meet with allies of Hamas and Hezbollah.

One meeting attendee was Mahdi Bray of the Muslim American Society, several of the participants said. The MAS website describes Bray as an imam and “long time civil and human rights activist.” Bray’s critics say he has a history of defending terrorists. They point to a video of Bray at a rally in 2000, for example, in which he can be seen pumping his fist in the air in support of the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. In a 2004 interview, he called the Israeli assassination of a Hamas spiritual leader an “unlawful, cowardly and dangerous act of state-sponsored terrorism.” Bray did not return a call requesting comment.

Also attending the meeting was Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. CAIR is a Muslim-American civil rights group that has, as its website states, “consistently and persistently condemned terrorism and the killing of innocent civilians.” Nonetheless, the group has many critics, especially in law-enforcement circles, and is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism financing case.

In an interview on Thursday, CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said that the group has filed a legal brief seeking to have its name removed from the list of unindicted co-conspirators in the federal terror case. “Obviously we see it as politically motivated and a cheap way to stigmatize” CAIR and other Muslim groups, Hooper said.