Lee Rodgers - Friday, September 28, 2012

September 28 --

OBAMA'S FORMULA: FAILURE & FEAR ...
LIBYA UNLIKELY TO BE GAME-CHANGER ...
GENERAL PETRAEUS, POLITICAL PET

In the face of a disastrous economy and endless bungling of foreign policy, a rational person might ask, "What keeps Obama's chances of re-election alive?"
     Most likely explanation: There's so much fear of the future -- especially employment prospects and the overall economic outlook -- that many frightened folk look to Obama to protect them against circumstances THAT HE'S EITHER CREATED OR WORSENED, depending on your level of tolerance for the worst president in history (by any realistic measure).
     It's the tactic used by every demagogue politician in history: "I will protect you from the disastrous outcome of my policies!"
     In the 20th century it worked for the Big Four of evil ... Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini and Mao. It's Page One in The Demagogue's Playbook.

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Who said that?
   First, re the "inflammatory" anti-Muslim video few have seen: "What took place was ugly; offending the Holy Prophet is quite ugly."
   Then ... "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam."
#1-Mahmoud Ahmadinjad of Iran at the UN.
#2-Barack Obama at the UN.
     "Step right up and getcha program, folks! You can't tell the players without a program!"

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George Neumayr (The American Spectator) on Obama's fatuous speech to the UN ...

"He emphasized that the terrorists represent only a minor 'strain' in Islam. This is a lie, and not even a particularly flattering or useful one, as it invites the question: Is the U.S. really so weak that a tiny fringe can kill its diplomats and storm its embassies? For some reason Obama thinks the humiliation is lessened by arguing that the culprit was not a giant but a pipsqueak."

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Once again, just as in Al Gore's 2000 campaign in Florida, Democrats have been caught trying to block voting by our military. This time it's in closely-contested Ohio.

Let us hope that folk in the Pentagon are quietly taking note of this and filing it away for future reference.

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Getting to the bottom line ...

The long-term survival of America as we know it, as opposed to Obama's promised "fundamentally transformed" nation, may very well come down to the makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court. There is a strong likelihood that Obama in a second term would have the opportunity to turn the balance of the court far to the left with the result that the constitution would become meaningless. A "living document" as liberals like to define it, meaning "subject to the whim of the moment."

All of which means that, if Romney loses, Republican control of the Senate would be the last-ditch defense. That means not only a majority labelled "R"; it means Republicans with backbone instead of the "go along to get along" attitude. It's a quality often absent in Eastern-establishment types, especially. And sell-outs like John McCain.

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Survey says ...
43% expect the economy to get better if Romney wins, while only 34% expect improvement under another Obama term. -- (Rasmussen)
I leave it to you to figure out if -- or how -- that is in accord with polls showing Obama ahead, some indicating him to be considerably ahead.

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I suspect that many Romney supporters have unrealistic expectations about the positive impact Obama's bungling of the Libya debacle on the campaign. I believe it to be a dismaying fact that most Americans care next-to-nothing about overseas events until an exploding crisis somehow affects them in ways that cannot be ignored.
Most folk in this nation are, after all, products of one of the sorriest education systems in the advanced world, directed by people who are largely hostile to American values or interests. The radical '60's generation did win control of American education, and the results are evident in the election of a Barack Obama.

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By now, anyone paying attention should be accustomed to the routine. Bad economic news is released by the Obama administration at the end of the week when less notice is likely to be taken. Then, the following week, the bad news is superseded by revised numbers that are even worse.

Thus we now get word that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which refers to the value of all goods and services created by the nation's economy, is doing even worse than previously announced. This largest measure of the country's economic health has quietly been revised downward from the previously announced growth rate of 1.7% to a pathetic 1.3%.

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Must-see video ... on YouTube ... just enter "Obama voter free phone."
A perfect example of Obama/liberal politics in action -- with your tax money.

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Wes Pruden (Wash. Times) on the release of Mitt Romney's tax returns ...
"Mr. Romney had actually paid more than his fair share of taxes and that he gave away nearly 30 percent of his earnings to charity.

"This compares to President Obama's 21 percent for charity -- and only 1.5 percent from Joe Biden, the miserly old uncle in the attic. Joe's talent for squeezing every penny until Abe squeals recalls Bill Clinton's taking deductions for old underwear he gave to charity. (To be fair, Bubba's skivvies were little worn, since most of the time they were around his ankles.)"

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Jim Eason's observation ...

"Americans got furious, fast, about the NFL replacement officials' bad call, and got action within three days.

"The ragheads destroyed our embassy, killed several Americans - including the person who represented our country in their desolate land - and who's furious? And, not when, but will there be any action?"

No.

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From the Thomas Sowell series of articles on "Obama vs. Obama," vital reading and easily found on the internet ...

"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.

"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."

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Democrat liars dep't. ...
Joltin' Joe Biden, court jester of the Obama menagerie, told an Ohio crowd he'd been a football player for the University of Delaware. A Blue Hen (that's their sports nickname. Rich Gannon, who quarterbacked the Raiders in their last Super Bowl was a Blue Hen.)
IT ... IS ... another ... LIE.

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Democrat politics in action: The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) hired demonstrators to protest at a Romney rally in Ohio, chanting "Romney Go Home." The pay -- $11 per hour. To carry signs and howl like hyenas.

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Obama's schedule for yesterday had him arriving back at the White House at 2:10PM, with nothing on the agenda for the rest of the day.
And he still had no time to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu over the boiling cauldron in the middle-east.
Thus went the day for our sick joke of a president, who fears offending his Muslim friends. After all, what's the murder of a U.S. ambassador among friends?

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The luster is off Gen. David Petraeus, now head of the CIA. Members of Congress who were in the room during his closed-door briefing on the Al Qaeda attack in Libya in which our ambassador was killed say the evidence was clear that it was a planned action. So what did Petraeus do? Went out and lied to the public to help the Obama administration push the bogus story that it was a "protest" against that video that just "got out of hand."
Sounds as if Obama got himself another tame, politicized general.

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From Breitbart News ...
"Army Lt. General (ret.) William Boykin claims that individuals with connections to the Muslim Brotherhood hold security clearances in both the Pentagon and Department of Defense.
"Boykin says politicians on both sides of the aisle are scared to pursue the truth on this, for fear of being branded 'intolerant,' and the result of their inaction is continued infiltration by the radical Islamic organization.

"He claims that people with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood hold important positions 'in every major federal agency.'

"Boykin was one of the original members of the Army's Delta Force, served in clandestine operations for the CIA, and was formerly a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence."

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Serious food for thought ...
"No people will tamely surrender their liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the contrary, when people are universally ignorant, and debauched in their manners, they will sink under their own weight without the aid of foreign invaders." --Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775 -- From Founder's Quote Daily via Dan Sorkin

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Count one more believer in the fundamentalist drivers' belief that, "If you can't drive a stick-shift, you can't drive." That would be the thief in Newark, N. J., who's now in jail because after stealing a Porsche Turbo 911, he couldn't drive it away because he'd never driven anything but an automatic.

Similarly, we pilots who learned the basics still look down on any airplane driver who can't handle a back-course ADF instrument approach, even though in most of the world it's obsolete. We know how ... and you don't ... so there!

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Madonna promises to strip naked in public if Obama wins. Or is that more like a threat?

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Conan O'Brien --
"TLC has ordered more episodes of 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo' - just as the Mayans predicted."