Dinesh begins by setting forth arguments made by radicals against America and then proceeds to answer their charges. Very worthwhile film and what is happening to this country is right out of Saul Alinsky's play book and Obama is the one carrying it out to the letter.
It so happens, I invited Bob Johnson to join us and he, in turn, invited two of his staffers to come along. After the movie, Bob stood on the corner and handed out some brochures and chatted with those who attended the movie and most all were supporters of his.
The ad by Buddy Carter is backfiring a little bit because some people I have talked with were offended by the depths to which Buddy went to castigate Bob by alluding to Bob's election as an embarrassment.
As I have repeated, Bob blundered and recognized it and apologized but Carter published only part of what Bob said. That is politics but it is also disingenuous and speaks to the character of Sen. Carter, in my humble opinion.
In any event, I urge all Americans to see "America." Then decide how you feel about what is going on in the name of 'change.'(See 1 and 1a below.)
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As you know, from previous memos, I have great affection for former Sen. Sam Nunn.
Sam sent an e mail out on behalf of his daughter, Michelle, who is running for the Senate seat vacated by Sen, Chambliss, bemoaning the lack of cooperation among those in Congress.
I responded to Sam that the genesis of this discord began when Liberals went overboard in "Borking" Judge Bork, who was imminently qualified to serve on The Supreme Court.
I reminded Sam, I sent him a memo entitled: "Bork and The Liberal Stork" in which I suggested the overboard Liberal attack would come back to haunt our nation and so it has I believe.
I happened to be in D.C. and was with Sam before he voted and he said he would be voting against Bork because, were he to vote for Bork, it would send a terrible message to Black Georgians.
I told Sam I understood the politics of his decision but disagreed and to this day still do.
Judge Bork had a brilliant mind and was a true student of our Constitution. Perhaps had Bork shaved it might have made a difference but probably not because Liberals were so enraged at the prospect of Bork being on The Court they went nuts and attacked him as they do anyone who threatens their views.
They went so far that Webster now has made Borking a word!
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Has Kerry's dream turned into a nightmare? (See 2 below.)
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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1a) Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 - June 12, 1972) was an American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing. He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals.
How To Create a Social StateBy Saul Alinsky
There are 8 levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state. The first is the most important.1) Healthcare - Control healthcare and you control the people.
2) Poverty - Increase the Poverty level as high as possible, poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
3) Debt - Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control - Remove the ability to defend themselves from the Government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfaare - Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing and Income).
6) Education - Take control of what people read and listen to (TV, Radio, Books, News Papers, etc. - take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion - Remove the belief in God from the government and schools.
8) Class Warfare - Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent and it will be easier to take (Tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
Any of this sound familiar ?
1a) The Obama Presidency Unravels
By Peter Wehner
The Obama presidency has unraveled. The man who liberal political commentators once said was the rhetorical match of Lincoln is now considered by one-third of Americans to be the worst president since World War II, according to a new Quinnipiac University National Poll. (The span covers 69 years of American history and 12 presidencies.) The same poll found that 45 percent of Americans say the nation would be better off if Mitt Romney had won the 2012 presidential election, while only 38 percent say the country would be worse off.
Another poll–this one from the Gallup organization–finds that in his sixth year of office, the level of confidence in Mr. Obama’s presidency is 29 percent. That’s lower than at a comparable point for any of his predecessors.
But the president’s problem isn’t polling data; it’s objective conditions. While recent job reports have been somewhat encouraging, the deeper trends of the economy remain quite troubling. In the first quarter of this year, for example, the economy contracted by nearly 3 percent (the largest contraction in a non-recession in more than 40 years). Illegal immigrants are surging across the border, with more than 52,000 unaccompanied children detained since October.
The Supreme Court just handed the president a series of battering setbacks. “This has been an awful ten days,” the liberal but independent-minded law professor Jonathan Turley said. “[The Obama administration was] previously found to be in violation of the Fourth Amendment and privacy. Then they were found to be in violation of the separation of powers. And now they have been found to be in violation of the First Amendment and the religion clauses. I mean, you just don’t want to get out of bed after a week like that.”
This all came after IRS Commissioner John Koskinen not only failed to contain the damage from the growing IRS scandal; he made things worse. Even prominent Democrats conceded Mr. Koskinen’s hearings on Capitol Hill were disastrous. An overwhelming majority of Americans (76 percent) believe the IRS deliberately destroyed emails; nearly as many (74 percent) want Congress to continue to investigate the scandal. The IRS scandal shouldn’t be confused with the scandal plaguing the VA, which I’ve written about elsewhere. And the president’s signature domestic achievement, the Affordable Care Act, is, and is widely considered to be, a failure.
Let’s now shift our focus to events overseas.
The president whose foreign-policy doctrine is “we don’t do stupid s***” looks to have done plenty of it. America is now essentially a bystander while the richest and arguably most dangerous terrorist organization in the world is establishing control over large parts of Iraq and Syria. Iraq itself is breaking apart, thanks in good measure to Mr. Obama’s complete withdrawal of American troops in 2011. Syria is being consumed by a devastating civil war. (Mr. Obama, having previously mocked those who several years ago wanted to support opposition forces in Syria, is now doing just that, though by now the aid may be too little too late.) Jordan, having absorbed some 600,000 refugees from Syria, fears destabilization. The Egyptian government is conducting a brutal crackdown. Iran and Russia are extending their influence in the region. The Obama administration’s second-term effort to produce a final peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians (within nine months!) was folly from the start. The situation is actually getting worse, with violent clashes escalating. Our allies in the Middle East are not only unnerved; they have given up confidence that the president is at all reliable.
But let’s not stop there. The situation in Afghanistan is worsening. Libya, rapidly deteriorating, is becoming a terrorist haven. In Asia, according to the New York Times, “China and its growing military are mounting a serious challenge to the regional dominance of the United States and its allies.” Violence is resurging in Ukraine, with Vladimir Putin warning earlier this week that he reserves the right to use force to defend Russian-speaking citizens there, an argument he used before he annexed Crimea. (The Obama administration has refused Ukraine’s request for military aid and intelligence to defend itself. We have, however, supplied the Ukrainian armed forces with ready-to-eat meals, in case they get hungry battling the Russian military.)
The president has varying degrees of complicity in what has gone wrong in the world. In some cases he bears considerable responsibility; in other cases not. But it was Mr. Obama, not his critics, who pledged to “remake the world” and to “heal the planet”; who promised to usher in a “new beginning” based on “mutual respect” with the Arab and Islamic world that would “help answer the call for a new dawn in the Middle East.” It’s certainly reasonable to hold the president accountable to the standards he set and to the promises he made. As Obama himself said in the 2008 campaign, “words mean something.”
All of this presents a rather fascinating psychological case study. In the face of challenges and failure, some of us get better and some of us get worse. In this instance, the president’s worst tendencies are being amplified.
Among other things, he’s becoming increasingly petty and petulant. In recent days he’s complained that Republicans “don’t do anything except block me. And call me names.” He’s taken to deriding the Speaker of the House by saying, “So sue me.” Instead of self-reflection, then, we are getting self-pity.
The president also appears to be growing more insular and isolated, exasperated that his greatness isn’t fully recognized by the rest of us. He’s increasingly disappointed that this nation and the world doesn’t conform to his wishes and ways. Frustrated by our constitutional system of checks and balances, Mr. Obama, the good progressive that he is, has decided he’ll simply ignore them. He wants what he wants.
The unraveling of his presidency is something Mr. Obama is having a great deal of difficulty processing. We have as president a man who is dogmatic, arrogant, vexed, increasingly embittered and feeling under siege.
This won’t end well.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2) John Kerry’s nightmare dream job
I’VE NEVER had many charitable things to say about John Kerry, but now it’s worse; I feel sorry for him.
Kerry certainly isn’t an evil fellow, merely a run-of-the-mill narcissistic opportunist who has risen to the top of the political heap. I admire his service in Vietnam; many children of privilege — did someone mention George W. Bush? — found ways to avoid the war. If he had any stellar accomplishments during his 28 years in the Senate, they are not etched in my memory. He proved to be an inept presidential candidate in 2004.
But now, the spin goes, he is serving in his dream job, secretary of state. Kerry’s father was a Foreign Service officer, and one of his son’s first trips as secretary included a sentimental journey to Berlin, where his father worked in the US Embassy
Shortly thereafter, Kerry uncorked perhaps the boldest diplomatic initiative of the Obama administration: a full-on restart of the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. (One thinks of his predecessor’s ill-fated “re-set” of US-Russian relations.) In July 2013, Kerry announced his ambitious objective “to achieve a final status agreement over the course of the next nine months.”
His praiseworthy goal was to see “two states living side by side in peace and security.” That didn’t work out. In the wake of this week’s discovery of the bodies of three slain Israeli teenagers, peace negotiations seem like a distant memory.
In September of 2013, Kerry offhandedly suggested that Syrian president BasharAssad could avoid military intervention in his country’s civil war if he would“turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community.”Kerry added: “It can’t be done, obviously.”
It turned out it could be done, but not by John Kerry. International rogue actor Vladimir Putin pulled America’s chestnuts out of the fire by convincing Syria to eliminate its chemical arsenal.
Certainly Kerry’s era has been good for Putin. The Russian leader has astutely perceived a power vacuum on the international stage and realized that no one would oppose him if he decided to, say, annex the Crimea region of Ukraine. So, under the guise of a Soviet-style plebiscite, he did just that. Now he’s supporting armed, pro-Russian irregulars in Eastern Ukraine and elsewhere. According to National Journal, the ultimatum-enamored Kerry ordered Putin & Co. to back offtheir most recent Ukrainian adventure in a matter of “hours.”
That was last week.Let’s just say Putin didn’t get the message. He was too busyrushing military assistance to Iraq, where American influence is rapidly dwindling.
That was around the time that Kerry sternly warned Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi not to throw three Al Jazeera journalists in jail, ostensibly for “spreading false news” in Egypt. Shortly after Kerry’s jet departed Egyptian air space, the trio were sentenced to years in prison.
There was a time when Egyptian dictators cleaved more closely to the American party line. That time is past. Kerry speaks; no one listens.
None of this is really John Kerry’s fault, which is why I pity him. This just isn’t a propitious moment to represent American interests in the world. The Obama administration has largely accomplished its goal of disengaging from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that cost more than 5,000 American lives. Our national appetite for foreign entanglements may be at an all-time low.
It’s true that Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine are in flames, but there’s not much we can do about it. It doesn’t help that Kerry’s boss is a lame-duck president with a weather eye focused on his party’s fortunes in this year’s mid-term elections. The world is an intractable place, peopled mainly by friendly rivals and outright enemies.
Welcome to your dream job, Secretary Kerry.
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3) Wesley PRUDEN: Hillary Clinton’s air of ‘inevitability’ evaporating
Stumbling on road to White House
Hillary Clinton needs a conscience transplant, and she needs it now. Her book tour is in a shambles, the fate of her $14 million advance from her publisher is marooned somewhere in limbo. She’s under 50 percent approval for the first time in the presidential polling for 2016, and, scariest of all, she’s having to call on Bubba for help. She knows better than to become merely “a wife of,” but 2014 is beginning to smell like 2008, and she’s Miss Inevitability once more. This is dj vu all over again.
Some of the learned pundits, who only yesterday were writing about “the five reasons why Hillary is a lock for the White House,” are writing now about “five reasons why Hillary won’t run.” The budding consensus is that (1) she’s just not very good at politics; (2) there’s no “fire in the tummy”; (3) who wants to clean up after Barack Obama, any way; (4) the country wants real change; and (5) another round of “Clinton, Bush, Clinton” with children of both families waiting in the wings, is thrilling nobody.
The pollsters, consultants and campaign wizards who are paid to know all the answers are puzzled by Hillary’s flopping around like a hen suddenly beheaded by events she was expected to control. “Even more than her dwindling leads over Republican contenders is that while she is pretty much running against herself, in a very high-profile book tour, she is losing ground,” says pollster John Zogby. “Her biggest problem is the inevitably factor. It helped do her in in 2007-2008, and right now it looks to be her major nemesis. She has this whole playing field to herself and is declining in the polls.” That’s definitely not good.
A poll taken in 2014 is gossamer, as substantial as a cloud in a summer sky, and isn’t worth much as a projection of who can actually win an election in 2016. It can tell a lot about the strengths and weaknesses of a prospective campaigner. Since every voter already knows what he thinks of her, Mr. Zogby tells columnist Paul Bedard, there isn’t much she can do, even with Bubba at her side, to broaden her support. Her numbers should be going up, and they’re definitely going down.
The Clintons, him and her, are revealed as money grubbers, looking for cash in all the easy places, and Hillary imagines nobody will notice the greed if she poses as the selfless philanthropist, Lady Bountiful giving away her $250,000 speaker’s fees to the Clinton family foundation. The public, however, is on to the foundation scam, which looks like a tax dodge. The Clintons control their foundation, and the public suspects that the chief beneficiaries of the foundation “charity” are named Bill, Hillary and Chelsea
Conscience transplants are beyond the skill of modern medicine, and short of a miracle from Obamacare, maybe she should look for something useful from the funny papers.
Joanie Phonie was a character in the heyday of Al Capp’s “Li’l Abner,” believed to have been loosely modeled on folk singer Joan Baez, who, like Hillary, was bereft of the common touch. When Joanie ran across a child who had fallen, lying helpless and bruised in the street, she imagined that the way to help was to step on him. That gave the kid an incentive to get up and give her a smack.
Then Joanie heard that the orphanage had run out of heat, light and groceries, and the children were starving. So she, with the heart as big as all outdoors, donated $10,000 to the orphanage — not in mere cash, but in Vietnam War protest songs
Miss Baez, with the liberal’s usual disdain for somebody else’s free speech, demanded that Mr. Capp eliminate the character, threatening to sue and to do all manner of ugly things to make him stop. Mr. Capp was puzzled. “Joanie Phoanie is a repulsive, egomaniacal, un-American, nontaxpaying horror,” said he. “I see no resemblance to Joan Baez whatsoever, but if Miss Baez wants to prove there is, let her.” Miss Baez shut up, and Miss Phonie lived out her days in Dogpatch.
There are hundreds of thousands of young people, some of them in orphanages and some of them on campus, and a lot of grownups who live such barren lives they have never heard a $250,000 speech. They have never heard Hillary’s rollicking jokes and funny stories, her warmth and wit, the timing that put Bob Hope in the shade, her ability to keep an audience screaming for more.
Hillary could treat them all to one of her famous speeches, proof that what she’s selling is not access to a president to be named later
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