"A Conservative Capitalist Offers: Eleven Lessons and a Bonus Lesson for Raising America's Youth Born and Yet To Be Born"
By Dick Berkowitz - Non Expert
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More grist for the mill or just more noise? Time will tell. (See 1 and 1a below)
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Sowell: Obama vs Obama part 3. (See 2 below.)
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A friend and fellow memo reader made this observation which was discussed by Dana Perino: "
Good morning Dick. some thoughts from last night's tossing and turning. While I am ignoring all of those media associated polls, when Gallup and Rasmusen indicate a slight Obama lead or even, it begs the following question for me. The swing states all have Republican governors. Their unemployment rates are lower than the country averages and their budgets are all balanced. Why is this? Simply because they have reduced costs, reduced burdensome regulations and taxes. These are all of the programs Romney wants to implement and 180 degrees opposite Obama's plan to increase taxes and spend more.
Obviously those states have the winning combination as evidenced by Obama wanting to take part of the credit for their success. In your opinion, why isn't that message resonating with those swing state voters? Is it because Romney is not making that point on the stump? Obviously, since we are not hearing his speeches we do not know what he is saying. Do you hear anything about this type of strategy difference from your connected friends?
If logic doesn't work for those states how about the shock treatment " A nation that is failing intuitively will mean that those states will also ultimately fail" Bottom line, the swing states better think about the nation as a whole not just about themselves on election day."
My response: "Your point is well taken.It is perverse but the swing states have improved economies because their Republican governors are doing what Romney would do for the nation and thus the voters in those states seem not to be connecting the dots.
My connected friends tell me the Romney Campaign is not going to listen to others. They have their plan and believe it is a winning one and that the debate will reverse the momentum in his favor. That remains to be seen.
Meanwhile the committed are early voting and that does have an impact because subsequent events cannot change their vote.
My own personal view is that the polls are not as bad as they imply but no doubt Obama has the momentum and the money and Romney campaign funds have been hurt by those who are buying into the belief that Obama has already won."
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Let the good times roll. (See 3 below.)
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Russian perspective o America's survival. (See 4 below.)
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It is an eye-opener. Share it with others.
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| Your daily PM briefing from the Slatest (@slatest), your trusty news companion. |
By Josh Voorhees (@JoshVoorhees)
THE RACE TO 270: With 41 days left until the general election, President Obama holds a significant lead in most national polls. But as Al Gore learned the hard way, the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue don't go to the man who wins the popular vote in November. So here's a look at where things stand in the all-important Electoral College in the eyes of
Real Clear Politics, which keeps running tabs on all the major polls.
Solid Obama (142): The president appears to have secured himself a meaty base of at least 142 electoral votes, via: California (55), New York (29), Illinois (20), Massachusetts (11), Maryland (10), Rhode Island (4), Hawaii (4), Delaware (3), Vermont (3) and the District of Columbia (3).
Likely Obama (37): He should also be feeling pretty confident of another 37 courtesy of: New Jersey (14), Washington (12), Connecticut (7) and Maine (4). Solid + Likely = 179.
Leans Obama (86): Things are a little dicier in seven other states that Obama will likely need this fall: Pennsylvania (20), Ohio (18), Michigan (16), Minnesota (10), Wisconsin (10), Oregon (7) and New Mexico (5). Solid + Likely + Lean = 265, or five votes shy of the total he'll need for reelection.
Solid Romney (76): The GOP challenger, meanwhile, can more or less bank the electoral vote of more than a dozen conservative states: Alabama (9) Louisiana (8), Kentucky (8), Oklahoma (7), Mississippi (6), Arkansas (6), Kansas (6), Utah (6), Nebraska (5), West Virginia (5), Idaho (4), Alaska (3) and Wyoming (3).
Likely Romney (74): It's also looking good for the former governor in Texas (38), Georgia (16), Tennessee (11), Montana (3), North Dakota (3) and South Dakota (3). Solid + Likely = 150.
Leans Romney (41): He also has small but significant leads in Arizona (11), Indiana (11), Missouri (10), and South Carolina (9). Solid + Likely + Lean = 191.
TOSS-UPS: Which brings us to the seven all-important swing states that are still considered to be largely in play: Florida (29), North Carolina (15), Virginia (13), Colorado (9), Iowa (6), Nevada (6), and New Hampshire (4). If the current projections hold—an all-caps IF if ever there was one—Romney would need to sweep all of the current toss-ups, with the lone exception of the Granite State and its relatively meager four electoral votes.
DEEPER STILL: That looks like an uphill battle for the Romney-Ryan ticket because the president currently holds narrow leads in all seven of those swing states based on the RCP statewide averages, including Florida, where he's out in front by a slim 3.1 points.
THE "UNSKEWED" DEFENSE: Team Romney and its allies have been increasingly vocal about the fact they don't think the current polling is correct. The reason? They contend that pollsters are using overly optimistic turnout models for Democrats. If those models were tweaked to be more in line with those used by Rasmussen, instead of trailing Obama by a handful of points nationally, Romney would be on track for a somewhat historic win, they say. Dave Weigel took a look at Unskewed Polls and the man behind them on Monday.
SOMETHING SMELLS FUNNY: Politico's chief political columnist Roger Simon had a little fun with his column last night, writing that Paul Ryan had taken to calling Romney "Stench" in reference to what the Wisconsin Republican would have to wash off of himself if he hopes to one day run his own presidential campaign. The less-than-flattering nickname was quickly picked up by MSNBC, the New York Times' Paul Krugman and a number of others, and reported as fact. The only problem, of course, is that the column was a satire. How do we know? (Other than by reading it in full.) We asked Simon. Full story here.
COLD WATER: Obama and Romney will square off next week for the first of three presidential debates. Just in case Democrats, already buoyed by the recent polling numbers, are getting a little too excited about the possibility of a dominate performance by the president, Team Obama is trying to keep expectations in check. How can aides go about doing that? For starters, by voicing concerns their boss will be underprepared when he takes the stage in Denver.
NAME-DROPPING AL-QAIDA: NYT: "Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton indicated for the first time on Wednesday that there was an explicit link between the Qaeda franchise in North Africa and the attack at the American diplomatic mission in Libya that killed four Americans, including the ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens."
1a)Election Could Mirror 1980 Race There was only one presidential debate in 1980 between challenger Ronald Reagan and President Jimmy Carter. Just two days before the Oct. 28 debate, Carter was eight points ahead in the Gallup poll. A week after the debate, he lost to Reagan by nearly ten percentage points.
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2)S Obama Versus Obama: Part III
Obama himself is well aware of the nature and importance of his image. In his own words, "I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views." An 18th century philosopher put the matter bluntly: "When I speak, I put on a mask. When I act, I am forced to take it off."
Many of Barack Obama's actions as President of the United States reflect neither political expediency nor an attempt to promote the best interests of the American people. Take, for example, his bowing low from the waist to foreign leaders.
No President of the United States had ever done that before. It gained Obama nothing with the voters, nor was there any reason to think that he expected it to. Why then did he do it?
What did it accomplish? It brought the United States down a peg, in the eyes of the world, something that he has sought to do in many other ways.
These bows were perfectly consistent with his view of a maldistribution of power and prestige internationally, just as his domestic agenda reflects a felt need for a redistribution of wealth and power within American society.
It is not just the United States, but the Western world in general, including Israel, that needs to be brought down a peg, from the standpoint of the ideology prevalent among the people with whom Barack Obama has allied himself consistently for decades.
Against that background, it is not at all puzzling that President Obama has clamped down on offshore oil drilling by Americans in the Gulf of Mexico, but has actually encouraged and subsidized offshore oil drilling by Brazil with our tax dollars.
Nor is it surprising that he imposes draconian restrictions on industrial activities in the United States, in the name of fighting "global warming," while accepting the fact that Third World nations that are beginning to industrialize will generate far more pollution than any restrictions in America can possibly offset.
That is another example of international redistribution -- and payback for perceived past oppressions or exploitation of the West against the non-West. So is replacing pro-Western governments in the Middle East with Islamic extremist governments.
Some people may have gotten focused on the issue of Barack Obama's birth certificate because so much of what he has done seems foreign to American ideals, traditions and interests. But birth tells us nothing about loyalty. One-time American Communist leader Earl Browder was descended from the Pilgrims.
Those who have questioned whether Barack Obama is really a citizen of the United States have missed the larger question: Whether he considers himself a citizen of the world. Think about this remarkable statement by Obama during the 2008 campaign: "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that every other country is going to say, 'OK.'"
Are Americans supposed to let foreigners tell them how to live their lives? The implied answer is clearly "Yes!" When President Obama went to the United Nations for authority to take military action and ignored the Congress of the United States, that was all consistent with his vision of the way the world should be.
How has Obama gotten away with so many things that are foreign to American beliefs and traditions? Partly it is because of a quiescent media, sharing many of his ideological views and/or focused on the symbolism of his being "the first black President." But part of his success must be credited -- if that is the word -- to his own rhetorical talents and his ability to project an image that many people accept and welcome.
The role of a confidence man is not to convince skeptics, but to help the gullible believe what they want to believe. Most of what Barack Obama says sounds very persuasive if you don't know the facts -- and often sounds like sheer nonsense if you do. But he is not trying to convince skeptics, nor worried about looking ridiculous to informed people who won't vote for him anyway.
This is a source of much polarization between those who see and accept Obama 1 and those who see through that facade to Obama 2.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3) UN PREVIEW: ISLAMIC STATES WILL PUSH FOR US FREE SPEECH RESTRICTION By ELIZABETH SHELDOn Wednesday at the UN General Assembly, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will seek to criminalize free speech and institute international blasphemy laws. The Organization of the Islamic Conference is a 56-state group (56 sovereign states and the Palestinian Authority) and functions as the voice for the collective Muslim World.
At first glance, the OIC seems to be reacting to the recent Middle Eastern violence, murder and rioting resulting from an amateur film published on the internet that was unfavorable to Islam. However, a closer examination shows the OIC has been working to persuade the United States to subvert our first amendment to an agenda more inline with principles of Islam.
The current administration has taken several actions in the last four years, that indicate a sympathy for the OIC agenda. In 2009, the Obama administration co-sponsored the UN's free speech code:
It may seem hard to believe that our constitutional right to free speech is in any real jeopardy. However, just this past June, Thomas Perez, who runs the DOJ civil rights office,refused to state that the the DOJ would never advance laws in the US that criminalize speech against a religion:
“Will you tell us… that this administration’s Department of Justice will never entertain or advance a proposal that criminalizes speech against any religion?” [Rep. Trent] Frank asked four times.
At the behest of OIC-backed Muslim groups, the FBI has already removed language in FBI training manuals that was deemed "offensive." The OIC letter was sent to John Brennan, chief counterrorism adviser to President Obama. It was also sent to Attorney General Eric Holder, Department of Homeland Security Sec. Janet Napolitano, Sec. of Defense Leon Panetta, FBI Director Robert Mueller, National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, and Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough.
The FBI training manual changed. Nearly 900 pages of training that was considered offensive were deleted. Members like Congressman Allen West, Florida Republican, and Congressman Louie Gohmert, Texas Republican, were critical of the purge.
At the same time OIC is pushing for speech restraints, the World Council of Churches has "urged Pakistan to abolish its blasphemy law, which carries a possible death penalty."
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4)American Capitalism Gone With A Whimper
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed, against the backdrop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists. Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters. First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas than the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a Burger King burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish. Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America. The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Weimar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe. These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, losses, and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more then ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them? These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties, and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more than a whimper to their masters. Then came Barack Obama's command that GM's (General Motors) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self-given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions. So it should be no surprise that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, and so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride. Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "free man" whimper. So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance, and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Frank, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive. The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left. The proud American will go down into his slavery without a fight, beating his chest, and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.
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