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Old Trooper 2
13 years ago
It’s about time we got some damn Air Support here!
That one is wearing RAF roundels but it is always welcome. Thanks Curt!
If We still have a Defense Budget by then, my Daughter wants to fly F-22s in a couple of years.
USAFA Class of 2013.
Quote my Daring Daughter at the age of 10, “Daddy, only Fools jump out of perfectly good airplanes”. She lurks here at FA and sent me the Raptor link. American technology that we don’t have the budget to build but Obama is willing to sell A/C to the highest Foreign bidders.
Anyone else miss Ronald Reagan tonight?
minuteman26
13 years ago
Nice, but there aint nothing like a Huey or going into a hot LZ listening to Jesus Christ Superstar on AFVN.
Old Trooper 2
13 years ago
Fair Trade…
Last Tuesday President Obama got off the helicopter in front of
The White House – carrying a baby piglet under each arm.
The squared-away Marine guard snapped to attention, saluted and said:
“Nice pigs, sir.” The President replied: “These are not pigs. These are
authentic Arkansas Razorback Hogs. I got one for Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, and I got one for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.”
The squared-away Marine again snapped to attention, salutes and said,
“Excellent trade, sir.”
Nan G
13 years ago
Jerusalem:
The Muslim Waqf had asked the court to force the Jerusalem Municipality to stop actions it has taken to remove the false graves that had been planted in the area, in an attempt to add property to the cemetery..
The graves had been dug in the Mamilla Cemetery, an ancient Muslim cemetery which is located on the outskirts of Jerusalem’s Independence Park.
The cemetery had been in a state of severe disrepair for more than a century, despite being under the supervision of the Muslim Waqf.
Dozens of these faux-graves were being created on the eastern end of the park.
A visit to the cemetery by an Arutz7 reporter found approximately 100 such tombstones.
It was speculated that the false graves were part of a plan to have the Muslim Waqf submit a demand for the additional land to be placed under Muslim ownership.
Later it was reported that the same phenomenon was occurring in the area of the Eastern Wall in Jerusalem, with the Arabs simply ignoring a law that deems the area a national park.
The Arab press are inciting their readers by telling them that hundreds of their ancestors’ graves are being destroyed.
This outright lie, that Israel is targeting Muslim graves, started in August. It was even believed by the president of the UN’s General Assembly, who happily repeated the lie.
FYI, just noticed some liberal ads in that google ad box below the Flopping Aces gear ad. If anyone else notices one, click on it and copy the web address it sends you too. Then send that address to me to me so I can block it. I would appreciate it.
Nan G
13 years ago
The Obama administration is crediting its anti-recession stimulus plan with creating up to 50,000 jobs on dozens of wind farms, even though many of those wind farms were built before the stimulus money began to flow or even before President Barack Obama was inaugurated.
@ Nan G, Graves? Most likely munitions buried and not bodies. 😉
Gregory_Dittman
13 years ago
Speaking of Hueys, here is a story that would make Eisenhower worried. The idea of a flying Humvee has made it to the top tier of government. Everyone that knows an ounce of physics and anything about government pricing knows that any concept of a flying Humvee will have the near stats (size, weight, speed and cost (+R&D and start up cost)) of the Huey. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/20/business/la-fi-flying-humvee-20101020
On the other hand, the idea of supply drones looks promising. One could take a predator drone, give it vertical and short take off and landing capabilities and it could carry 450lbs of supplies to front line troops and faster speeds than land vehicles and cheaper than a helicopter (especially if it’s during fierce fighting where it could be a one way trip for the drone).
plainjane31
13 years ago
BO’s theme song:It’s Hard to Be Humble
Randy
13 years ago
NPR and The Juan Williams firing. Juan gets nervious when a Muslem gets on his plane. Fr that, he gets fired while even Bob Bechel agrees with Jaun. NPR has become so far left oriented, that they have lost credability with most people. Can you name 5 of your friends who listen to NPR.
The crime here is that we, the tax payers pay for the slanted “news”. Maybe, NPR needs to be one of the first casualities of the 2010 election.
All of likely think differently when we board a plane with a Moslem in traditional dress. I always board as early as possible and watch everyone who boards after me. My time in Iraq has schooled me in identifying inconsistencies in human behavior. I watch everyone, not just Muslems. You can never tell who has a surprise in his underwear! I also have located some sort of defensive weapon and have formulated a plan in the event there is a problem. I guess I will need to add additional thoughts in the future, “what would OT2 do?”
DaNang67
13 years ago
The Big Zero is awfully fond of his “car in a ditch” comedy routine. Also, the Dems have created a new logo with a “D” in a circle which kinda looks like they’re trying to mimic the “drive, not reverse” automotive analogy they’re fond of using.
IMHO, we should join them in the enthusiastic use of their gearshift metaphor:
Remember the furor that erupted when Barbara Boxer equated serving in the Senate to serving in the military? Jim Moran won’t have any of that. In an appearance two weeks ago, the Congressman from Virginia’s 8th CD told an audience of his followers that his Republican opponent, Patrick Murray, was a “typical,” “stealth” candidate with no record of political action, and no record of public service, unlike himself, who has served almost 20 years in Congress. Of course, Colonel Patrick Murray spent 24 years in the US Army, including combat tours in four different conflicts, as Barbara Hollingsworth points out in the Washington Examiner:
OT2:
When Tea Party members get angry at the incumbents, this is part of why. Elitism and arrogance in government-” the people are not capable of knowing what is best for them. Only we know attitude” is driving th Tea Party efforts. It is not a Republican effort, but a true grass roots effort to remove the Royalty from office! Check the link to Hot AIr for the video.
Hickenlooper: I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We have some of the same, you know, backwards thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.
Lane: We’re neighbors.
Hickenlooper: Right. And in a sense we’re all a community. And, at the same time, Denver has, I think, one of the more robust, politically active gay and lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities, really in the United States.
So a significant number of voters in rural areas suffer from “backwards thinking,” and Denver is the height of enlightenment? The voters in the “rural Western” areas of Hickenlooper’s state may find that rather surprising. They also may not appreciate a candidate for governor associating them with the hatred that resulted in the murder of Shepard. Not only is that in itself a form of bigotry, but it’s nonsensical, since the murder didn’t take place in Colorado at all.
Still, it’s good to finally know what Hickenlooper thinks of Coloradans who live outside the borders of Denver now, rather than discover it after the election.
Another quote by our Democratic candidate for Governor in Colorado. This “backwards thinking” by we hicks from the rural parts of the US are likely the same people who do not do public service by working in the military for 30+ years. After all, as John Kerry said, we only joined the army because we were too dumb to get into college.
Old Trooper 2
13 years ago
@ Randy, What do you think of this guy?
Republican congressional candidate says violent overthrow of government is ‘on the table’
I don’t think that he is representative of the Tea Party Folks but he makes a few good points aside from advocating open rebellion. I’m a ballot box kinda guy and that type of “enthusiasm” is not helping.
Boxer is a National embarrassment and her reprimand of Colonel Patrick Murray was out of line and unwarranted. I’ll take a Soldier addressing her as Maam before I would accept any lip from Boxer who personifies my use of the phrase Parliament of Whores. Self Service does not = Military Service by any stretch of the imagination.
Obama can’t let go of what Vice President Mondale calls “idiot cards.”
So India will have to overturn all of its history to accommodate his teleprompters!
A teleprompter will be in use for the first time ever in the Central Hall of Parliament when US President Barack Obama addresses MPs on November eight.
Hasn’t Obama ever heard of speaking from the heart?
Old Trooper 2
13 years ago
@ Anna Puma, Thanks!
Randy
13 years ago
You have to view this video. Call Me Madam Joe
OT2 you better get down from your horse or you may injure yourself laughing!
minuteman26
13 years ago
Ref 14 – Change via the ballot box is always preferable to other alternatives. However the founders of this nation left the door open for government overthrow should we end up with a tyranical government. That is also why we have the 2nd Ammendment. With Obama/Soros you never know what might be coming our way.
Old Trooper 2
13 years ago
@ Randy, that clip was nothing short of hilarious! Thanks Pardner!
Maam indeed…I know a Gal that runs a Sporting House in Butte that is proud of her Profession and has no illusions about where her money comes from and although I am not a customer, she contributes more to charity than most of the Citizenry there and I respectfully call her Madame.
Boxer is just a middle aged Politician that needs to go out to pasture before she does any further harm to the Nation. Maam indeed! Hopefully Former Senator and good riddance.
Politics is the Second Oldest Profession and Career Politicians are a lot like the neighbors dog that comes around for a handout, craps on the lawn and tries to spook my horses. The price of a .22 snakeshot round is worthy of the result. Boxer, on the other hand is only worth the time to find a tall tree and a 30Ft coil of 12 strand oiled hemp rope. Some assembly required…any Montana Boy Scout can tie that knot…
Nan G
13 years ago
Randy, #18.
Thanks, I just sent it to a few others.
Isn’t that Ron Howard’s brother as the other senator?
Nan G
13 years ago
53 miles of ”virtual fence” on our border at a cost of over $1 BILLION.
One budget cut Obama is willing to make: he is going to quit the virtual fence program and also freeze the budget for any ”real” fence.
Their senate passed the bill raising the retirement age to 62. The unions are taking it up the backside as well they should.
Missy
13 years ago
This union man was fired off the job of erecting a platform for an Obama event for wearing a USS George H. W. Bush cap and sweatshirt he got when he attended Family Day, his son is stationed on the ship.
So much for multi-culturalism. The Aussies are regretting it, and don’t think the Swedes aren’t.
atti
13 years ago
How dare he! Wearing a Bush T-shirt is a direct insult to Barney Frank, whathisname Reid, noncy Pelosi, and all the inane stupid freeking democrats, including those who post here. Indeed, he should be stripped of his citizenship, the very same one that OBigturd doesn’t have. What’s wrong with this country anyhow.
Nan G
13 years ago
About that great video at #18 from David Zucker…..
‘Call Me Senator’: Let This Video Be My Apology for Once Supporting Sen. Boxer
by David Zucker
I’d like to thank Right Change (who sponsored and are planning an ad campaign to support the spot) and all the wonderful actors and crew who volunteered for the “Call Me Madam” video.
I was motivated to do something on this after I saw the video of Barbara Boxer interrogating the General.
I remember immediately feeling embarrassed that a member of Congress would treat an officer of the U.S. military like that.
And doubly embarrassed that back in the early 90’s I had contributed to Barbara Boxer’s campaign.
I was so outraged at the pure arrogance of that moment, that I sat down to write the spot, highlighting the pure absurdity of our California Senator dressing down a General for calling her “Ma’am.”
No Naked Gun or Scary Movie ever had an opportunity as good as that one for pure ridicule.
Never mind that the military are instructed to call their superiors including members of congress ‘Sir’ or ‘Ma’am’, including specifically, Members of Congress!
The just released Newsweek poll numbers are startling (54% approval; 40% disapproval; 6% don’t know): not just the actual numbers but the jump in Obama’s approval, since their previous poll in September. The Newsweek poll samples not just land lines but also mobile telephones (data in above link). This is a real wild card. Obama may have given the Democratic Party a gift, in delivering the millennial generation to their fold. I think that there’s been a huge diminution of the venerable land line, as a viable communications medium, especially among that generation. The contrast between the Newsweek results and the Gallup/Rasmussen results are jaw-droppingly stark. David Brooks on Friday (on the PBS Newshour) pegged the “over/under” for GOP pickups in the House as being 51 seats. At this point, I think I’d be inclined to bet the “under.”
Just for fun, does anyone else want to vote? Will GOP pickups be “over” 51 seats or “under?”
– Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA
Missy
13 years ago
Cha-ching!
Barack and Michelle’s Mumbai darshan plans
To ensure fool-proof security, the President’s team has booked the entire the Taj Mahal Hotel, including 570 rooms, all banquets and restaurants. Since his security contingent and staff will comprise a huge number, 125 rooms at Taj President have also been booked, apart from 80 to 90 rooms each in Grand Hyatt and The Oberoi hotels. The NCPA, where the President is expected to meet representatives from the business community, has also been entirely booked.
The officer said, “Obama’s contingent is huge. There are two jumbo jets coming along with Air Force One, which will be flanked by security jets. There will be 30 to 40 secret service agents, who will arrive before him. The President’s convoy has 45 cars, including the Lincoln Continental in which the President travels.”
Since Obama will stay in a hotel that is on sea front, elaborate coastal security arrangements have been made by the US Navy in consonance with the Indian Navy and the Coast Guard. “There will be US naval ships, along with Indian vessels , patrolling the sea till about 330-km from the shore. This is to negate the possibility of a missile being fired from a distance,” the officer said.
The President will be accompanied by his chefs, not because he would not like to savour Indian cuisine, but to ensure his food is not spiked.
Out of Newsweek’s 1005 polled only 773 were even likely voters.
Some were not even registered.
So, it was a popularity contest.
I do appreciate how they balanced the ages ~ accurately.
Obama always wins popularity contest-type polls.
atti
13 years ago
@openid: I just spoke this morning to someone who is well connected to the millionaires/billionaires on the barrier island in Vero Beach. The consensus there is that, tragically, Obama will be a 2 term POS.
not just the actual numbers but the jump in Obama’s approval, since their previous poll in September.
Basically, 48 /46 (approve/disapperove) then; 54/40 now. Using the same polling methodology. Comparing apples to apples and not apples to oranges.
The problem with polling in this election is this: what is a “likely” voter? There’s all this talk about the GOP being “energized,” but the so-called enthusiasm gap is based on the same polls of the same censored and pre-qualified “likely” voters. It turns out that, in the early voting numbers, Democrats are turning out in greater numbers than in the last off year elections (2006), which was a big pick up year for the Dems. So much for the enthusiasm gap. Of course, the real electorate block which decides elections are the independents who are, almost by definition, the least “energized” of the electorate. I think that there’s little doubt that these independents will majority-break for the GOP, but the issue is how many of these non-energized independents will actually make it to the polls? And then there’s the greatly increased percentage of uncounted cell phone-dependent voters. Are they more likely to be/vote GOP or to be/vote Dem?
I just think that this particular election is harder than average to handicap.
So, Nan G and Atti, how about it? If the over/under is 51 pick-ups for the GOP, what do you think? Will the GOP pick up more than 51 seats, or less than 51? As I wrote, I’m going with the under.
– Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA
Old Trooper 2
13 years ago
Wealth Creation in under 10 minutes
Skookum 2
13 years ago
Randy @18: Outstanding! We should fix it so she doesn’t need to work so hard, ever again!
Give Boxer the Bum’s Rush on Nov. 2.
Skookum 2
13 years ago
Nice video OT, I will send that one around to family and friends.
Dr. John Drew was a classmate of President Obama’s at Occidental College. He was interviewed last week by Paul Kengor on The Glen Meakem Show, and I took time to transcribe most of the podcast because of its importance.
Q: I interviewed you for my book Dupes a year ago and you had contact me a couple of years ago because you read a piece that I wrote for American Thinker and it was called “Dreams from Frank Marshall Davis” and it was on Obama’s background and youth. Frank Marshall Davis was an actual Party member and that’s something, John, I spent two or three years on investigating, but there’s no question about it… the documentation is there, a 1957 Senate report called him “and identified member of the Communist Party”, there’s an FBI file that’s 600 pages, and I took ten or twelve pages from that report and put it in the appendix of my book. It even lists Davis’ Communist Party card number, which was 47544, so very clear. Why is all of this relevant? Well, I think it explains, at least to some degree, that — if he’s not a Communist, he’s at least very far to the left — and has some very left-oriented views. But you met Obama when he left Frank Marshall Davis in 1980 coming from Hawaii and went to Occidental College. So tell us about when Obama got there and when you met.
A: I see myself as Barack Obama’s missing link from his exposure to Communism through Frank Marshall Davis and his later exposure to Bill Ayers and Alice Palmer in Chicago. So, as far as I can tell, I’m the only one of Obama’s extended circle of friends who’s spoken out and verified that he was a Marxist-Leninist in his sophomore year of college, from 1980 to 1981.
I met him because I graduated from Occidental College in 1979 and I was back at Occidental visiting a girlfriend. I met him because of the relationship which I’d started my senior year at Occidental —
Q: By the way, tell us where Occidental is. We’re way out here in Western Pennsylvania.
A: Sure, Occidental College is in the Eastern Los Angeles area. It’s a very prestigious, very beautiful, sort of very garden, rose-garden sort of college, with three- or four-thousand students —
Q: And pretty competitive, I mean Obama would have had to have good grades and been a good student to get accepted there.
A: Yeah, my sense is because of affirmative action, guys like me were going to Occidental instead of even better schools and guys like Obama were going to Occidental instead of, uh, less challenging schools. A lot of very successful people were there, were part of Obama’s social circle at the time.
Q: Now, was Occidental known for radical left politics? Would that have been an attraction for Obama?
A: Yeah, I’m certain that it was. It was considered sort of the “Moscow” of southern California. There were a lot of Marxist professors, many of whom I got to know pretty well, not just there but also at Williams College in Massachusetts. Two of the same Marxist-Socialist professors were on the staff with me at Williams.
Q: So, that might have been an attraction for him? I’m trying to think, what would have made him go to Hawaii to Occidental? Do you think Frank Marshall Davis could somehow have been an influence in having him choose Occidental?
A: I don’t have any evidence of that…
Q: Because they won’t release his records, I called them —
A: Yeah, I think that’s odd. I don’t know, I got straight A’s my first year, it sounds weird, but I don’t talk about it, Paul, you’d think that if Obama did well he’d release those transcripts.
Q: Now, this is speculation, but do you think those files might hold a letter of recommendation from Frank Marshall Davis? Right? Why not?
A: Wow.
Q: Davis was a mentor. Davis writes about him in Dreams From My Father very warmly, in fact Obama writes that Davis gave him advice on women, on race, on life, on college. So, he must have recommended Occidental, but it’s sad we have to speculate. If they’d just release these records…
A: Well, this is what I know for sure, and this is why I’d sought you out, to be helpful to the historic record, is to verify that Barack Obama was definitely a Marxist and that, it was very unusual for a sophomore to be as radical, or as ideologically attuned as young Barack Obama was. I think people like David Remnick [a biographer], they make it sound like Frank Marshall Davis had no impact on Obama and that his friend Mohammed Shandu somehow converted him to Marxism at Occidental. And my impression is that Obama was the leader of that group and Obama was already very ardent and committed to Marxism. And Shandu struck me as somewhat more passive. So it doesn’t fit the story that I read in Remnick’s story The Bridge.
Q: And Remnick did not contact you, did he?
A: No! No! …Well, Remnick interviewed my girfriend, Carolyn Bosch — she’s on three or four pages — and they interviewed a guy named Gary Chapman, a guy who was very active in the Democrat Student [Socialists’] Alliance.
Q: I like David Remnick. I use his book in my Compartive Studies class at Grove City College.
A: He’s a sharp guy. And he’s got some good facts in there, but he didn’t want to hear from little Dr. Drew…
Q: …You said that Obama was introduced to you at Occidental as a Marxist because you were one at that point.
A: Yeah, that’s embarrassing, but I had studied Marxist Economics at Sussex College in England. I had a junior year scholarship over there, and did my senior honor’s thesis on Marxist Economics when I was at Occidental College. And I actually founded the Democrat Student Socialists’ Alliance, under a different name, in 1976… it was as Marxist as you could get, but they come up with a more general name while I was away in England.
Q: …John, you had told me before, and I’m reading from my book, that “Obama was already an ardent Marxist in the fall of 1980 when I met him. I know it’s incendiary to say this, but although he said in Dreams From My Father that he’d ‘hung out with Marxist professors’, he did not explain in that book or clarify is that he was 100% in total agreement with those professors.
A: Yeah, you’ve got that exactly right. Obama believed, at the time I met him, this was probably around Christmas time in 1980. I’d flown out on Christmas break from Corness, where I was in grad school. And Obama was looking forward to an imminent social revolution, literally a movement where the working classes would overthrow the ruling class and institute a kind of socialist Utopia in the United States. I mean, that’s how extreme his views were his sophomore year of college.
…I was a comrade, but I was more… the Frankfort School of Marxism at the time. I was, I felt like I was doing him a favor by pointing out that the Marxist revolution that he and Caroline and Shandu were hoping for was really kind of a pipe-dream. And that there was nothing in European history, or the history of developed nations, that would make that sort of fantasy, that Frank Marshall Davis fantasy of revolution, come true.
Q: So you had a realistic sense that, even though you liked these ideas, that you knew they wouldn’t really work?
A: Right… [There were some] who were puzzled why they didn’t see Marx’s predictions come true, and weren’t interested in the role of psychology or false consciousness in preventing a revolution from happening. I was a card-carrying Marxist, but I was more of an east coast, Cornell University Marxist at that time.
Q: But Obama thought it was practical. He thought it could happen in America?
A: Oh, yeah! He thought I was a little reactionary… or insensitive to the coming needs of the revolution! He was full-bore, 100% into that very, kind of simple-minded Marxist revolutionary framework.
Q: And, also at this time, this is 1981, Jimmy Carter was President [?] and Ronald Reagan was yet to call the Soviet Union ‘the Evil Empire’ when he becomes President. Did you have talk about the election, about Reagan. I mean, that must have really upset Obama?
A: You know, it’s so long ago. My clearest recollection was that we were more concerned with more U.S. intervention in Latin America and the repression of Communist and Socialist forces like the Sandanistas and things like that… this sound weird, but there was part of me at the time that was ready to go off and fight with the Sandanistas against the Contras. I was pretty crazy, Paul…
Q: Now this gets to a critical point and I know Obama supporters want me to ask this… to be fair, look where you were then and where you are today…
A: Oh, yeah. Now I’m a Ronald Reagan, church-going, Baptist conservative, so…
Q: So, what about Obama. That’s the… trillion dollar question? …We have to know this stuff about our Presidents, you can’t leave this about biographies…
A: Well, I think that he, I’ve challenged President Obama to explain how he evolved this Marxist-Leninist viewpoint he had in his sophomore year of college. And he’s just never articulated how he changed. In fact, he’s buried and, I think, lied about his ideological convictions of his youth. And we can trace it all the way to Alice Palmer, I think, in 1995 [the Illinois state senator who he replaced]… who attended the Communist Party “Politburo” event. Or she was part of a big international Communist convention in Moscow!
Q: …And Palmer was with Obama in the living room of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn when — and The New York Times even wrote about this — there was sort of a political blessing, where Palmer identified Obama as his chosen successor…
A: …Well, I think I can knock down some doors here but stating that he had a very consistent ideology, I think, probably from the time he was in [Hawaii] to the time he was with Palmer and Ayers in Chicago. I think his current behavior demonstrates that he still has some ideological convictions. When ever he talks about taxing the richest two-percent? I think he knows that will harm the economy. To him, the redistribution of wealth is extremely important. And he never took economics or science like I did. He went straight to law school, never had any business experience, never had a payroll to meet. And I think he’s locked in a very dangerous mindset, where if he didn’t fight to redistribute the wealth that he’d be violating [his] ideology.
…You see people like Van Jones, who’s an admitted Communist, you see Anita Dunn, who’s praising Mao Tse-Tung, to me, it’s like Obama’s Marxist-Socialist ideology is hiding in plain sight! It’s frustrating to me. It seems to me like people should be up in arms about this!
…I think whenever he talks about people clinging to their guns and religions due to economic stress, that’s just the standard Marxist argument… he’s still using the standard Marxist architecture, the way he talks about things. I think he’s surrounded by people who share that mental architecture!
Ronald Reagan was a Democrat and strong FDR supporter at the time he was of college age and served 5 terms as a labor union President. There’s an old saying: beware a man who’s a conservative when young or a liberal when old.
There is so much blather about Obama (who is in the middle, age-wise and also in the middle, politics-wise) being a Marxist.
So tell me this:
Name the top three Marxist positions taken by Obama or supported by Obama since he began campaigning for President or serving as President. I’d like to have the chance to discuss whatever anyone can come up with as examples of Obama’s “Marxist” policies, since his election.
Rather than judging Presidents by their personal journeys during college, let’s judge them by the things they’ve done on the job.
The USA is not an authoritarian government. There are many checks and balances, including national elections every other year, in case this hasn’t been noticed. The one thing that a President can do on his own to create a whole lot of trouble is to decide to start a war. I’d rate the chances of Obama starting a war we shouldn’t fight as being lower than average.
So chill. If I survived 8 years of George W Bush, you can survive another two years of Barack Obama. And it he gets re-elected, it won’t be on the basis of Marxist ideology and policy.
– Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA
Greg
13 years ago
What we’re looking at in the photo up top, btw, is an EF2000 Eurofigher Typhoon.
An interesting video clip:
Note that sudden change of direction at minute 1:24. It would be an astonishingly agile aircraft to tangle with. An opponent would probably witness such a turn only once.
Hard Right
13 years ago
Delusional Larry strikes again. He buys into a Newsweek poll rigged to show people suddenly like obama again. To do that he has to play the definition of “is” game with “likely voters.”
He then tries again to convince us of the lie that obama is a moderate. Larry, just because you desperately want to believe he is a moderate and you weren’t wrong to buy into his lies, doesn’t mean we will deliberately ignore proof to the contrary.
I have proven you wrong repeatedly about him being a moderate and yet you insist on coming back over and over and claiming he’s something he clearly isn’t. You prove librealism truly is a mental illness.
Hard Right
13 years ago
A couple more things Larry, per the polls the only way many dems win is if they have a higher turnout than 2008. That is extremely unlikely. As for the 2006 votes, that too was a midterm and it doesn’t take much to exceed what is usually anemic voter turnout. Plus many Republicans and Conservatives sat out those elections in disgust with their spending policies. It should also be mentioned that the claim dems were trurning out in greater numbers in MD was wrong seeing as how their elections hadn’t started at the time of the report.
So tell yourself it won’t be a landslide all you want. It isn’t going to be pretty for your kind.
I would think that the AMERICANS wont allow MARXIST views reign too long in THIS COUNTRY,
LIKE we hear ,that cannot be denied lightly, and the blindfolded will not admit the danger
where AMERICA is heading, imagining what the next year will bring in policies to put THE UNITED STATES on his knees, with confrontations, and expanses to pursues an MARXIST hidden agenda.
AMERICANS are noticing the signs, when top credible persons we believe all the time to be thrutfull give the warning; ONLY FOOLS WOOD DISCARD WITH ANOTHER DEMAND OF PROOF. OR FOLLOWERS
My Favorite Flopping Aces contributor strikes again, saying that “It [meaning the upcoming election] isn’t going to be pretty for your [meaning my] kind.”
The only way I can interpret the above statement is that Hard Right must be a Democrat, as I am voting for Carly Fiorina (for US Senate, State of California) and Dana Rohrabacher (for US Congress, 46th Congressional District). Both, by the way, are Republicans. True enough, I am voting for Jerry Brown (a Democrat) for Governor, and I’m voting against suspension of California’s tough controls on CO2 emissions. On the other hand, I previously voted against Proposition 8 (the pro-same gender marriage initiative, now working its way through the courts). And I’m a very strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment. I did vote for Obama in 2008, but I’d strongly consider voting for David Petraeus in 2012, were he to run as either a Republican or Democrat. Otherwise, I don’t know of any plausible GOP candidate, from among the current people under speculation, whom I’d vote for over Obama.
I love divided government — it worked wonderfully in the 1990s, until the GOP lost its head and became more transfixed with sniffing the President’s underwear, rather than taking care of the nation’s business. I was glad that the Dems swept in 2008, because it brought us the first tentative steps toward comprehensive health care reform, which is my single most important issue, after only protection against nuclear terrorism. Now that this has been accomplished, I’ll be very happy to see non-veto proof GOP majorities in House and Senate.
Nicolle Wallace was the Communications Director for Jeb Bush in the Florida governorship, Communications Director in the Bush/Cheney White House, and again for the McCain/Palin campaign. She said (on Bill Maher’s “Real Time” this Friday) that if the GOP sweeps Congress, Obama’s approval ratings will shortly go up “10 to 15 points.” That’s pretty much what happened to Clinton. The best thing for the GOP, politics-wise, would be a one vote minority in both Senate and House. This might give them a shot at a Trifecta in 2012.
With regard to Obama being a Marxist, I’m waiting for my three (or two or one) examples of Marxist legislative initiatives initiated by or promoted by the Obama White House.
With regard to what is actually going to happen in the elections next week, I’m still waiting to see if anyone disagrees with me that the Dems will do better than the currently projected “over/under” of 51 GOP pickups in the House.
With regard to whether Obama has presided as a “moderate Democrat” or not (the term used by David Brooks to describe him and demonstrably true), it’s impossible to make that case to someone who calls himself “Hard Right.” Such people are a small sector of the electorate, if not exactly lonely here on good ole’ F/A.
@openid.aol.com/runnswim: Name the top three Marxist positions taken by Obama or supported by Obama since he began campaigning for President or serving as President. I’d like to have the chance to discuss whatever anyone can come up with as examples of Obama’s “Marxist” policies, since his election.
Rather than judging Presidents by their personal journeys during college, let’s judge them by the things they’ve done on the job.
I believe that is what the midterms is all about, Larry. The judgment by the voting constituents on job performance. I wouldn’t take your bet since I’m not at all sure what kind of America will awaken on Nov 3rd. I look at this as a test to see just how embedded the desire for massive social welfare programs run by expanding government is. If there is some semblence of our founding principles left, Obama and his Dem majorities will be delivered a serious slap.
If decades of re’eduation to social and economic “justice” have taken hold, the Dem losses may be minimal, or not at all. In which case it’s just a matter of time before we go the way of the fiscally floundering Euro nations.
INRE your challenge of Obama’s evidence of socialism and Marxist tendencies, I’m happy to comply. I’ll toss the likely candidates out there, but not apt to be around for the next week much to follow up.
1: Naturally, we will start with your favorite and most contentious subject, healthcare. First, there is no doubt that Obama’s quest is for single payer healthcare, but realizes it will take perhaps a decade to get there…. because he said so.
Single-payer is a term used to describe a type of financing system. It refers to one entity acting as administrator, or “payer”. In the case of health care, a single-payer system would be setup such that one entity – a government run organization – would collect all health care fees, and pay out all health care costs.
Single payer… Obama’s desired and undoubted socialist/marxist quest… had step one put in place with O’healthcare, just as he planned.
2: GM bailout/government takeover. I know you didn’t support the bailouts anymore than I did, Larry, but Obama and his czars took it several steps further than Bush’s $13 bil of TARP to them at the end of 2008 when they… as government and now owners… fired and replaced a CEO, and turned bankruptcy laws upside down when they screwed the bondholders and moved unions/pensions into first place for ownership and payback. This was done using coercive and thug WH tactics. This was necessary as you can’t usurp existing law without written contractual agreement by both parties. So the power of hte office was applied to accomplish that. Additionally, they (i.e. Obama/government) assumed the unfunded pension debt on the backs of the nation’s taxpayers for GM.
Now Billy Bob attempted to argue that Obama’s seizure of GM was quite Constitutional under the “general welfare” phrasing. Problem is, Billy Bob’s interpretation goes far wider than SCOTUS defines as national “welfare”, while seizing ownership of an auto industry is inarguably local welfare, and not applicable to the nation at large… save by a very broad interpretation. (i.e. when unemployment for auto workers goes up, the nation at large suffers…). To embark on that path as the guiding rule of thumb, there are few businesses and industries the feds couldn’t justify seizing for “general welfare”.
Seizing businesses and/or industries “for the general welfare” is at the heart of socialist/marxist beliefs. Only the future will reveal what this GM seizing has wrought in the terms of future seizures.
3: Burdening the entire nation with public debt via ARRA/stimulus to pay for local government payrolls. According to a New York Post article, that was $220 billion, or approx 1/3 of the entire stimulus allocated. And not all states received, or needed, help meeting their payrolls. Instead of forcing the states to embark on overdue austerity measures, and cut their spending for wasteful welfare programs, the nation bailed out overspending states like California.
Why is the nation at large paying the payroll for local governments, Larry? Again, this is extremely socialist/marxist in nature.
4: Obama’s feds have repeatedly infringed on States’ 10th Amendment rights… both in healthcare/mandates and in AZ’s immigration. Obama had only been in office five weeks when 11 states introduced resolutions, re’asserting their sovereign states rights to remind him that “…his reckless government expansion” and “…that federal laws and regulations implemented in violation of the 10th Amendment can be nullified by the states.” Since then, the list of states signing on to battle O’healthcare mandates, and immigration laws, has grown.
Again, exerting unConstitutional federal central governing authority over the states is another mark of a socialist/marxist’s concept of power.
6: Part of the reconciliation O’healthcare passage was the seizure of student loans, and directing them thru the government. Prior to the passage, only about 30% of fed guarantee student loans went thru Sallie Mae, and private lenders had the balance. This, of course, will severely slash the private sector, if not totally eliminate it. Obama had been advocating this from the start, and slid it thru O’healthcare to get it thru.
That figure was actually 20%, according to a Sept 2009 WSJ article. The money started drying up after the Pelosi/Reid majority Congress 2007 legislated a return so low that no private lenders could no longer stay afloat, holding these assets. To keep the money flowing to student borrowers, the government began buying the loans from private in 2008. But this federal intervention was intended to be temporary, with an expiration date this past summer.
Well, O’healthcare fixed that, and make the feds a permanent, and likely to end up, being the only student loan lender…. with the taxpayers as the bank, of course.
7: The housing tax credits x 2, and the sundry HAFA type programs. Why is the nation’s taxpayer subsidizing the purchase of homes by individuals? And the HAFA “bailouts”, which was an abject failure, BTW, was another way that the taxpayers were subsidizing what was tantamount to irresponsible borrowers, punishing those that were responsible.
Socialist/marxist much?
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There there is Obama’s documented ideology itself… from his blatantly marxist statement/rewrite that “…”we have to spread the wealth around, we have to redistribute the wealth of this country through taxation,” to Dr. John Drew’s observation of Obama’s marxist beliefs while at Occidental.
Larry, the way our government is structured, you can’t completely demolish our Republic and capitalist society overnight. But the progressives are patient, and tenacious. It’s been steadily and slowly on the move since FDR, and the public education system has been changing curriculum indoctrination to support the new speak of “social” and “economic” justice. This admin, however, has stepped up the pace with ample help from an unbalanced power in Congress.
As you pointed out INRE the old saying, “… beware a man who’s a conservative when young or a liberal when old. It might be driven home even more strongly when you consider a man who went from being decidedly socialist/marxist to progressive (at least in appearance)… and then rising to the most powerful political position in the world… ruling unfettered by a progressive Congress and conservatives who have no voice in power. As you pointed out, we are supposed to have checks and balances. In the case of legislative and administrative branches, there have been no checks and balances politically since late Jan, 2009.
Now, we wait to see the results of midterms. Will it be a resounding “no”, this ain’t the path we want, from the voters? We’ll soon be finding out.
Openid: Hard Right is a well like member of the group, here at FA, we appreciate his views,
in his comments all the time. YOU could not KNOW that, because you dont come too often.
bye
DaNang67
13 years ago
Larry, it’s good to see you here again. I hope all is going well for you lately. I’m especially happy to see your choices of Fiorina and Rohrabacher in the coming elections! But I thought you were old enough to remember the days of “Governor Moonbeam”. I find it difficult to believe any sane person would repeat that experience and I know you’re sane.
As to Reagan’s Democrat history, the party has moved very, very far to the left since those days. Both parties have changed, as has Hollywood and the legacy media… academia too. Reagan would never have tolerated the lionization of Che or Hugo Chavez in any environment.
As to Barack Obama’s love of Marxist ideology, I doubt that it was ever left behind him. But there are a lot of modern collectivists who know that the American people will only buy into their centrally controlled economy ideas if they’re in a pretty package with a label that claims it’s something else.
The theft of a huge public corporation from its legal owners and its gift to Obama’s cash donors was carried out without the legacy media ever mentioning Marx or Engels. Remember that the Fabian logo contained a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
I won’t predict any numbers of House or Senate seats. But I will predict that you’ll see the folly in collectivism Larry. If you live the long life I hope for you, you’ll come to realize that the ones who advocate loudly for the Balkanization of America, in reality, seek only their own power. You’ll figure out that the poor aren’t poor because the rich are rich. Many are poor because they get too much “help” from the ones who get power from exploiting their weaknesses.
DaNango67: thank you for being here on the right time. bye
Hard Right
13 years ago
Thanks for proving my point. You are wrong about obama being a moderate and even you know it. Quoting discredited David Brooks as support again? For the second time, that shows how desperate you are to believe that obama is something he is not. In fact Mata shows he is not a moderate. So while you don’t want believe me, I’d say her POV carrys more weight with you. Then again, maybe not. The nature of the pathological denial you display tends to become even deeper as time goes on. In other words, you will insist until your dying days he was a moderate.
Others here have highlighted the radical picks for govt. positions obama has made. In fact, radicals are the majority of his picks. That is clearly proof of his own radical beliefs. Again, you are no longer capable of seeing that.
I also find it amusing you think you aren’t a liberal.
Applied in the United States, that would mean a $4.9 billion hit to the Department of Agriculture; a $5.6 billion hit to the Department of Justice; a $5.4 billion hit to the Department of Energy; and a whopping $11.5 billion hit to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Britain’s military got away with just an 8 percent reduction — but for the U.S. Department of the Defense, that would translate to more than $56 billion from its proposed 2011 budget.
To put the potential backlash to such a move in context, look at how Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ latest spending cut proposal was received. Gates in August called for Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Va. — a $240 million-a-year operation — to be eliminated and was met with bipartisan backlash from regional lawmakers. Gates nevertheless says he wants to find $100 billion in savings over five years.
Obama has said he wants to halve the federal budget deficit by the end of his first term, a move that would likely mean hundreds of billions of dollars in savings from somewhere. But he’s still awaiting a report from his debt and deficit commission on how best to accomplish those goals. One of Obama’s first fiscal exercises as president was to call for $100 million in cuts from his Cabinet secretaries.
The prebuttal has already begun, lest Washington consider going the route of the British government.
The New York Times called the proposal an “austerity overdose” in its Saturday editorial. Liberal economist Paul Krugman wrote that such measures would further “depress” the economy by slashing the federal workforce when there’s not enough room in the private sector to absorb those employees. He equated the cutback to a 3-million-person mass layoff in the United States.
While the federal workforce in the United States is actually less than 3 million, even an 8 percent cutback — the size of Britain’s personnel squeeze — would amount to about 200,000 fewer U.S. federal workers, among the best-paid employees in the country.
Britain also wants to cap long-term jobless benefits at 12 months; in the United States, that would cut the current extension of 99 weeks in half.
But if the United States wanted to tackle its debt and deficit with the same kind of vigor as Britain, it might end up dealing with even steeper cuts. The latest Treasury Department report showed the U.S. deficit was nearly $1.3 trillion in 2010. And while Britain’s national debt is a paltry trillion, the United States owes $13.6 trillion.
As some economists warn that Britain’s approach could backfire during an uncertain time for economic growth, one British official suggested the upcoming election in the U.S. could take the pulse of whether America is ready to try something similar.
“We have made our choice,” Mark Hoban, financial secretary to the Treasury in Britain, told The Washington Post. “I have to leave it to the Americans to decide in the midterm elections whether (the Obama administration’s) policy is right.”
It’s about time we got some damn Air Support here!
That one is wearing RAF roundels but it is always welcome. Thanks Curt!
If We still have a Defense Budget by then, my Daughter wants to fly F-22s in a couple of years.
USAFA Class of 2013.
Quote my Daring Daughter at the age of 10, “Daddy, only Fools jump out of perfectly good airplanes”. She lurks here at FA and sent me the Raptor link. American technology that we don’t have the budget to build but Obama is willing to sell A/C to the highest Foreign bidders.
Anyone else miss Ronald Reagan tonight?
Nice, but there aint nothing like a Huey or going into a hot LZ listening to Jesus Christ Superstar on AFVN.
Fair Trade…
Jerusalem:
The Muslim Waqf had asked the court to force the Jerusalem Municipality to stop actions it has taken to remove the false graves that had been planted in the area, in an attempt to add property to the cemetery..
The graves had been dug in the Mamilla Cemetery, an ancient Muslim cemetery which is located on the outskirts of Jerusalem’s Independence Park.
The cemetery had been in a state of severe disrepair for more than a century, despite being under the supervision of the Muslim Waqf.
Recently, however, trucks, tractors and other heavy machines were spotted in action as they dumped building materials which workers then shaped into Muslim-style tombstones with no one buried beneath them.
Dozens of these faux-graves were being created on the eastern end of the park.
A visit to the cemetery by an Arutz7 reporter found approximately 100 such tombstones.
It was speculated that the false graves were part of a plan to have the Muslim Waqf submit a demand for the additional land to be placed under Muslim ownership.
Later it was reported that the same phenomenon was occurring in the area of the Eastern Wall in Jerusalem, with the Arabs simply ignoring a law that deems the area a national park.
The Arab press are inciting their readers by telling them that hundreds of their ancestors’ graves are being destroyed.
This outright lie, that Israel is targeting Muslim graves, started in August. It was even believed by the president of the UN’s General Assembly, who happily repeated the lie.
FYI, just noticed some liberal ads in that google ad box below the Flopping Aces gear ad. If anyone else notices one, click on it and copy the web address it sends you too. Then send that address to me to me so I can block it. I would appreciate it.
The Obama administration is crediting its anti-recession stimulus plan with creating up to 50,000 jobs on dozens of wind farms, even though many of those wind farms were built before the stimulus money began to flow or even before President Barack Obama was inaugurated.
MSNBC
@ Nan G, Graves? Most likely munitions buried and not bodies. 😉
Speaking of Hueys, here is a story that would make Eisenhower worried. The idea of a flying Humvee has made it to the top tier of government. Everyone that knows an ounce of physics and anything about government pricing knows that any concept of a flying Humvee will have the near stats (size, weight, speed and cost (+R&D and start up cost)) of the Huey.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/20/business/la-fi-flying-humvee-20101020
On the other hand, the idea of supply drones looks promising. One could take a predator drone, give it vertical and short take off and landing capabilities and it could carry 450lbs of supplies to front line troops and faster speeds than land vehicles and cheaper than a helicopter (especially if it’s during fierce fighting where it could be a one way trip for the drone).
BO’s theme song:It’s Hard to Be Humble
NPR and The Juan Williams firing. Juan gets nervious when a Muslem gets on his plane. Fr that, he gets fired while even Bob Bechel agrees with Jaun. NPR has become so far left oriented, that they have lost credability with most people. Can you name 5 of your friends who listen to NPR.
The crime here is that we, the tax payers pay for the slanted “news”. Maybe, NPR needs to be one of the first casualities of the 2010 election.
All of likely think differently when we board a plane with a Moslem in traditional dress. I always board as early as possible and watch everyone who boards after me. My time in Iraq has schooled me in identifying inconsistencies in human behavior. I watch everyone, not just Muslems. You can never tell who has a surprise in his underwear! I also have located some sort of defensive weapon and have formulated a plan in the event there is a problem. I guess I will need to add additional thoughts in the future, “what would OT2 do?”
The Big Zero is awfully fond of his “car in a ditch” comedy routine. Also, the Dems have created a new logo with a “D” in a circle which kinda looks like they’re trying to mimic the “drive, not reverse” automotive analogy they’re fond of using.
IMHO, we should join them in the enthusiastic use of their gearshift metaphor:
REVERSE the government health care takeover!
REVERSE the stimulus waste!
REVERSE the tax increases!
REVERSE the use of voter fraud!
REVERSE the creep of socialism in America!
before they drive us off the cliff.
Dem Congressman: 24 years in military not public service
by Ed Morrissey
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/22/dem-congressman-24-years-in-military-not-public-service/
Remember the furor that erupted when Barbara Boxer equated serving in the Senate to serving in the military? Jim Moran won’t have any of that. In an appearance two weeks ago, the Congressman from Virginia’s 8th CD told an audience of his followers that his Republican opponent, Patrick Murray, was a “typical,” “stealth” candidate with no record of political action, and no record of public service, unlike himself, who has served almost 20 years in Congress. Of course, Colonel Patrick Murray spent 24 years in the US Army, including combat tours in four different conflicts, as Barbara Hollingsworth points out in the Washington Examiner:
OT2:
When Tea Party members get angry at the incumbents, this is part of why. Elitism and arrogance in government-” the people are not capable of knowing what is best for them. Only we know attitude” is driving th Tea Party efforts. It is not a Republican effort, but a true grass roots effort to remove the Royalty from office! Check the link to Hot AIr for the video.
Video: Hickenlooper accuses rural Coloradans of “backward thinking”, ties them to Shepard murder by Ed Morrissey
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/22/video-hickenlooper-accuses-rural-coloradans-of-backward-thinking/
Hickenlooper: I think a couple things, I mean, you know, the tragic death of Matthew Shepard occurred in Wyoming. Colorado and Wyoming are very similar. We have some of the same, you know, backwards thinking in the kind of rural Western areas you see in, you know, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico.
Lane: We’re neighbors.
Hickenlooper: Right. And in a sense we’re all a community. And, at the same time, Denver has, I think, one of the more robust, politically active gay and lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities, really in the United States.
So a significant number of voters in rural areas suffer from “backwards thinking,” and Denver is the height of enlightenment? The voters in the “rural Western” areas of Hickenlooper’s state may find that rather surprising. They also may not appreciate a candidate for governor associating them with the hatred that resulted in the murder of Shepard. Not only is that in itself a form of bigotry, but it’s nonsensical, since the murder didn’t take place in Colorado at all.
Still, it’s good to finally know what Hickenlooper thinks of Coloradans who live outside the borders of Denver now, rather than discover it after the election.
Another quote by our Democratic candidate for Governor in Colorado. This “backwards thinking” by we hicks from the rural parts of the US are likely the same people who do not do public service by working in the military for 30+ years. After all, as John Kerry said, we only joined the army because we were too dumb to get into college.
@ Randy, What do you think of this guy?
Republican congressional candidate says violent overthrow of government is ‘on the table’
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-broden_22tex.ART0.State.Edition1.33278a9.html
I don’t think that he is representative of the Tea Party Folks but he makes a few good points aside from advocating open rebellion. I’m a ballot box kinda guy and that type of “enthusiasm” is not helping.
Boxer is a National embarrassment and her reprimand of Colonel Patrick Murray was out of line and unwarranted. I’ll take a Soldier addressing her as Maam before I would accept any lip from Boxer who personifies my use of the phrase Parliament of Whores. Self Service does not = Military Service by any stretch of the imagination.
Actually Old Trooper 2, that is an Armee de l’Air Rafael from France.
http://www.neptunuslex.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/rafael.jpg
This is an RAF Typhoon – http://www.fast-air.co.uk/images/080508-LFA7/RAF-Eurofighter-Typhoon-T1-ZJ815-photo-1.jpg
Obama can’t let go of what Vice President Mondale calls “idiot cards.”
So India will have to overturn all of its history to accommodate his teleprompters!
A teleprompter will be in use for the first time ever in the Central Hall of Parliament when US President Barack Obama addresses MPs on November eight.
Daily News and Analysis India
How pathetic!
Hasn’t Obama ever heard of speaking from the heart?
@ Anna Puma, Thanks!
You have to view this video. Call Me Madam Joe
OT2 you better get down from your horse or you may injure yourself laughing!
Ref 14 – Change via the ballot box is always preferable to other alternatives. However the founders of this nation left the door open for government overthrow should we end up with a tyranical government. That is also why we have the 2nd Ammendment. With Obama/Soros you never know what might be coming our way.
@ Randy, that clip was nothing short of hilarious! Thanks Pardner!
Maam indeed…I know a Gal that runs a Sporting House in Butte that is proud of her Profession and has no illusions about where her money comes from and although I am not a customer, she contributes more to charity than most of the Citizenry there and I respectfully call her Madame.
Boxer is just a middle aged Politician that needs to go out to pasture before she does any further harm to the Nation. Maam indeed! Hopefully Former Senator and good riddance.
Politics is the Second Oldest Profession and Career Politicians are a lot like the neighbors dog that comes around for a handout, craps on the lawn and tries to spook my horses. The price of a .22 snakeshot round is worthy of the result. Boxer, on the other hand is only worth the time to find a tall tree and a 30Ft coil of 12 strand oiled hemp rope. Some assembly required…any Montana Boy Scout can tie that knot…
Randy, #18.
Thanks, I just sent it to a few others.
Isn’t that Ron Howard’s brother as the other senator?
53 miles of ”virtual fence” on our border at a cost of over $1 BILLION.
One budget cut Obama is willing to make: he is going to quit the virtual fence program and also freeze the budget for any ”real” fence.
See stories about this here.
PELOSI – “I WAS FIGHTING A WAR IN IRAQ”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac_oTbglg5c
SEN BOND SETS PELOSI STRAIGHT AND CALLES HER OUT
Pelosi adjourns Congress to screw us
Vive la france!
Their senate passed the bill raising the retirement age to 62. The unions are taking it up the backside as well they should.
This union man was fired off the job of erecting a platform for an Obama event for wearing a USS George H. W. Bush cap and sweatshirt he got when he attended Family Day, his son is stationed on the ship.
http://blogs.ktla.com/news_custom_eric/2010/10/man-fired-for-wearing-bush-sweatshirt-at-obama-rally.html
Well, well, well, whaddya know. The ‘look-down-your-nose-at-the-Americans-and-how-they-treat-the-latinos Swedes are having a little problem:
http://www.thelocal.se/29758/20101022/
So much for multi-culturalism. The Aussies are regretting it, and don’t think the Swedes aren’t.
How dare he! Wearing a Bush T-shirt is a direct insult to Barney Frank, whathisname Reid, noncy Pelosi, and all the inane stupid freeking democrats, including those who post here. Indeed, he should be stripped of his citizenship, the very same one that OBigturd doesn’t have. What’s wrong with this country anyhow.
About that great video at #18 from David Zucker…..
‘Call Me Senator’: Let This Video Be My Apology for Once Supporting Sen. Boxer
by David Zucker
MORE here.
Newsweek Poll
The just released Newsweek poll numbers are startling (54% approval; 40% disapproval; 6% don’t know): not just the actual numbers but the jump in Obama’s approval, since their previous poll in September. The Newsweek poll samples not just land lines but also mobile telephones (data in above link). This is a real wild card. Obama may have given the Democratic Party a gift, in delivering the millennial generation to their fold. I think that there’s been a huge diminution of the venerable land line, as a viable communications medium, especially among that generation. The contrast between the Newsweek results and the Gallup/Rasmussen results are jaw-droppingly stark. David Brooks on Friday (on the PBS Newshour) pegged the “over/under” for GOP pickups in the House as being 51 seats. At this point, I think I’d be inclined to bet the “under.”
Just for fun, does anyone else want to vote? Will GOP pickups be “over” 51 seats or “under?”
– Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA
Cha-ching!
Barack and Michelle’s Mumbai darshan plans
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Barack-and-Michelles-Mumbai-darshan-plans/articleshow/6797379.cms
Out of Newsweek’s 1005 polled only 773 were even likely voters.
Some were not even registered.
So, it was a popularity contest.
I do appreciate how they balanced the ages ~ accurately.
Obama always wins popularity contest-type polls.
@openid: I just spoke this morning to someone who is well connected to the millionaires/billionaires on the barrier island in Vero Beach. The consensus there is that, tragically, Obama will be a 2 term POS.
@Nan: As I wrote (#29)
Basically, 48 /46 (approve/disapperove) then; 54/40 now. Using the same polling methodology. Comparing apples to apples and not apples to oranges.
The problem with polling in this election is this: what is a “likely” voter? There’s all this talk about the GOP being “energized,” but the so-called enthusiasm gap is based on the same polls of the same censored and pre-qualified “likely” voters. It turns out that, in the early voting numbers, Democrats are turning out in greater numbers than in the last off year elections (2006), which was a big pick up year for the Dems. So much for the enthusiasm gap. Of course, the real electorate block which decides elections are the independents who are, almost by definition, the least “energized” of the electorate. I think that there’s little doubt that these independents will majority-break for the GOP, but the issue is how many of these non-energized independents will actually make it to the polls? And then there’s the greatly increased percentage of uncounted cell phone-dependent voters. Are they more likely to be/vote GOP or to be/vote Dem?
I just think that this particular election is harder than average to handicap.
So, Nan G and Atti, how about it? If the over/under is 51 pick-ups for the GOP, what do you think? Will the GOP pick up more than 51 seats, or less than 51? As I wrote, I’m going with the under.
– Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA
Wealth Creation in under 10 minutes
Randy @18: Outstanding! We should fix it so she doesn’t need to work so hard, ever again!
Give Boxer the Bum’s Rush on Nov. 2.
Nice video OT, I will send that one around to family and friends.
An Interview
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/10/exclusive-transcript-obama-at.html
Dr. John Drew was a classmate of President Obama’s at Occidental College. He was interviewed last week by Paul Kengor on The Glen Meakem Show, and I took time to transcribe most of the podcast because of its importance.
Q: I interviewed you for my book Dupes a year ago and you had contact me a couple of years ago because you read a piece that I wrote for American Thinker and it was called “Dreams from Frank Marshall Davis” and it was on Obama’s background and youth. Frank Marshall Davis was an actual Party member and that’s something, John, I spent two or three years on investigating, but there’s no question about it… the documentation is there, a 1957 Senate report called him “and identified member of the Communist Party”, there’s an FBI file that’s 600 pages, and I took ten or twelve pages from that report and put it in the appendix of my book. It even lists Davis’ Communist Party card number, which was 47544, so very clear. Why is all of this relevant? Well, I think it explains, at least to some degree, that — if he’s not a Communist, he’s at least very far to the left — and has some very left-oriented views. But you met Obama when he left Frank Marshall Davis in 1980 coming from Hawaii and went to Occidental College. So tell us about when Obama got there and when you met.
A: I see myself as Barack Obama’s missing link from his exposure to Communism through Frank Marshall Davis and his later exposure to Bill Ayers and Alice Palmer in Chicago. So, as far as I can tell, I’m the only one of Obama’s extended circle of friends who’s spoken out and verified that he was a Marxist-Leninist in his sophomore year of college, from 1980 to 1981.
I met him because I graduated from Occidental College in 1979 and I was back at Occidental visiting a girlfriend. I met him because of the relationship which I’d started my senior year at Occidental —
Q: By the way, tell us where Occidental is. We’re way out here in Western Pennsylvania.
A: Sure, Occidental College is in the Eastern Los Angeles area. It’s a very prestigious, very beautiful, sort of very garden, rose-garden sort of college, with three- or four-thousand students —
Q: And pretty competitive, I mean Obama would have had to have good grades and been a good student to get accepted there.
A: Yeah, my sense is because of affirmative action, guys like me were going to Occidental instead of even better schools and guys like Obama were going to Occidental instead of, uh, less challenging schools. A lot of very successful people were there, were part of Obama’s social circle at the time.
Q: Now, was Occidental known for radical left politics? Would that have been an attraction for Obama?
A: Yeah, I’m certain that it was. It was considered sort of the “Moscow” of southern California. There were a lot of Marxist professors, many of whom I got to know pretty well, not just there but also at Williams College in Massachusetts. Two of the same Marxist-Socialist professors were on the staff with me at Williams.
Q: So, that might have been an attraction for him? I’m trying to think, what would have made him go to Hawaii to Occidental? Do you think Frank Marshall Davis could somehow have been an influence in having him choose Occidental?
A: I don’t have any evidence of that…
Q: Because they won’t release his records, I called them —
A: Yeah, I think that’s odd. I don’t know, I got straight A’s my first year, it sounds weird, but I don’t talk about it, Paul, you’d think that if Obama did well he’d release those transcripts.
Q: Now, this is speculation, but do you think those files might hold a letter of recommendation from Frank Marshall Davis? Right? Why not?
A: Wow.
Q: Davis was a mentor. Davis writes about him in Dreams From My Father very warmly, in fact Obama writes that Davis gave him advice on women, on race, on life, on college. So, he must have recommended Occidental, but it’s sad we have to speculate. If they’d just release these records…
A: Well, this is what I know for sure, and this is why I’d sought you out, to be helpful to the historic record, is to verify that Barack Obama was definitely a Marxist and that, it was very unusual for a sophomore to be as radical, or as ideologically attuned as young Barack Obama was. I think people like David Remnick [a biographer], they make it sound like Frank Marshall Davis had no impact on Obama and that his friend Mohammed Shandu somehow converted him to Marxism at Occidental. And my impression is that Obama was the leader of that group and Obama was already very ardent and committed to Marxism. And Shandu struck me as somewhat more passive. So it doesn’t fit the story that I read in Remnick’s story The Bridge.
Q: And Remnick did not contact you, did he?
A: No! No! …Well, Remnick interviewed my girfriend, Carolyn Bosch — she’s on three or four pages — and they interviewed a guy named Gary Chapman, a guy who was very active in the Democrat Student [Socialists’] Alliance.
Q: I like David Remnick. I use his book in my Compartive Studies class at Grove City College.
A: He’s a sharp guy. And he’s got some good facts in there, but he didn’t want to hear from little Dr. Drew…
Q: …You said that Obama was introduced to you at Occidental as a Marxist because you were one at that point.
A: Yeah, that’s embarrassing, but I had studied Marxist Economics at Sussex College in England. I had a junior year scholarship over there, and did my senior honor’s thesis on Marxist Economics when I was at Occidental College. And I actually founded the Democrat Student Socialists’ Alliance, under a different name, in 1976… it was as Marxist as you could get, but they come up with a more general name while I was away in England.
Q: …John, you had told me before, and I’m reading from my book, that “Obama was already an ardent Marxist in the fall of 1980 when I met him. I know it’s incendiary to say this, but although he said in Dreams From My Father that he’d ‘hung out with Marxist professors’, he did not explain in that book or clarify is that he was 100% in total agreement with those professors.
A: Yeah, you’ve got that exactly right. Obama believed, at the time I met him, this was probably around Christmas time in 1980. I’d flown out on Christmas break from Corness, where I was in grad school. And Obama was looking forward to an imminent social revolution, literally a movement where the working classes would overthrow the ruling class and institute a kind of socialist Utopia in the United States. I mean, that’s how extreme his views were his sophomore year of college.
…I was a comrade, but I was more… the Frankfort School of Marxism at the time. I was, I felt like I was doing him a favor by pointing out that the Marxist revolution that he and Caroline and Shandu were hoping for was really kind of a pipe-dream. And that there was nothing in European history, or the history of developed nations, that would make that sort of fantasy, that Frank Marshall Davis fantasy of revolution, come true.
Q: So you had a realistic sense that, even though you liked these ideas, that you knew they wouldn’t really work?
A: Right… [There were some] who were puzzled why they didn’t see Marx’s predictions come true, and weren’t interested in the role of psychology or false consciousness in preventing a revolution from happening. I was a card-carrying Marxist, but I was more of an east coast, Cornell University Marxist at that time.
Q: But Obama thought it was practical. He thought it could happen in America?
A: Oh, yeah! He thought I was a little reactionary… or insensitive to the coming needs of the revolution! He was full-bore, 100% into that very, kind of simple-minded Marxist revolutionary framework.
Q: And, also at this time, this is 1981, Jimmy Carter was President [?] and Ronald Reagan was yet to call the Soviet Union ‘the Evil Empire’ when he becomes President. Did you have talk about the election, about Reagan. I mean, that must have really upset Obama?
A: You know, it’s so long ago. My clearest recollection was that we were more concerned with more U.S. intervention in Latin America and the repression of Communist and Socialist forces like the Sandanistas and things like that… this sound weird, but there was part of me at the time that was ready to go off and fight with the Sandanistas against the Contras. I was pretty crazy, Paul…
Q: Now this gets to a critical point and I know Obama supporters want me to ask this… to be fair, look where you were then and where you are today…
A: Oh, yeah. Now I’m a Ronald Reagan, church-going, Baptist conservative, so…
Q: So, what about Obama. That’s the… trillion dollar question? …We have to know this stuff about our Presidents, you can’t leave this about biographies…
A: Well, I think that he, I’ve challenged President Obama to explain how he evolved this Marxist-Leninist viewpoint he had in his sophomore year of college. And he’s just never articulated how he changed. In fact, he’s buried and, I think, lied about his ideological convictions of his youth. And we can trace it all the way to Alice Palmer, I think, in 1995 [the Illinois state senator who he replaced]… who attended the Communist Party “Politburo” event. Or she was part of a big international Communist convention in Moscow!
Q: …And Palmer was with Obama in the living room of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn when — and The New York Times even wrote about this — there was sort of a political blessing, where Palmer identified Obama as his chosen successor…
A: …Well, I think I can knock down some doors here but stating that he had a very consistent ideology, I think, probably from the time he was in [Hawaii] to the time he was with Palmer and Ayers in Chicago. I think his current behavior demonstrates that he still has some ideological convictions. When ever he talks about taxing the richest two-percent? I think he knows that will harm the economy. To him, the redistribution of wealth is extremely important. And he never took economics or science like I did. He went straight to law school, never had any business experience, never had a payroll to meet. And I think he’s locked in a very dangerous mindset, where if he didn’t fight to redistribute the wealth that he’d be violating [his] ideology.
…You see people like Van Jones, who’s an admitted Communist, you see Anita Dunn, who’s praising Mao Tse-Tung, to me, it’s like Obama’s Marxist-Socialist ideology is hiding in plain sight! It’s frustrating to me. It seems to me like people should be up in arms about this!
…I think whenever he talks about people clinging to their guns and religions due to economic stress, that’s just the standard Marxist argument… he’s still using the standard Marxist architecture, the way he talks about things. I think he’s surrounded by people who share that mental architecture!
…I feel like our nation’s life is at stake.
Yes. It is. The time for action grows near.
Ronald Reagan was a Democrat and strong FDR supporter at the time he was of college age and served 5 terms as a labor union President. There’s an old saying: beware a man who’s a conservative when young or a liberal when old.
There is so much blather about Obama (who is in the middle, age-wise and also in the middle, politics-wise) being a Marxist.
So tell me this:
Name the top three Marxist positions taken by Obama or supported by Obama since he began campaigning for President or serving as President. I’d like to have the chance to discuss whatever anyone can come up with as examples of Obama’s “Marxist” policies, since his election.
Rather than judging Presidents by their personal journeys during college, let’s judge them by the things they’ve done on the job.
The USA is not an authoritarian government. There are many checks and balances, including national elections every other year, in case this hasn’t been noticed. The one thing that a President can do on his own to create a whole lot of trouble is to decide to start a war. I’d rate the chances of Obama starting a war we shouldn’t fight as being lower than average.
So chill. If I survived 8 years of George W Bush, you can survive another two years of Barack Obama. And it he gets re-elected, it won’t be on the basis of Marxist ideology and policy.
– Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA
What we’re looking at in the photo up top, btw, is an EF2000 Eurofigher Typhoon.
An interesting video clip:
Note that sudden change of direction at minute 1:24. It would be an astonishingly agile aircraft to tangle with. An opponent would probably witness such a turn only once.
Delusional Larry strikes again. He buys into a Newsweek poll rigged to show people suddenly like obama again. To do that he has to play the definition of “is” game with “likely voters.”
He then tries again to convince us of the lie that obama is a moderate. Larry, just because you desperately want to believe he is a moderate and you weren’t wrong to buy into his lies, doesn’t mean we will deliberately ignore proof to the contrary.
I have proven you wrong repeatedly about him being a moderate and yet you insist on coming back over and over and claiming he’s something he clearly isn’t. You prove librealism truly is a mental illness.
A couple more things Larry, per the polls the only way many dems win is if they have a higher turnout than 2008. That is extremely unlikely. As for the 2006 votes, that too was a midterm and it doesn’t take much to exceed what is usually anemic voter turnout. Plus many Republicans and Conservatives sat out those elections in disgust with their spending policies. It should also be mentioned that the claim dems were trurning out in greater numbers in MD was wrong seeing as how their elections hadn’t started at the time of the report.
So tell yourself it won’t be a landslide all you want. It isn’t going to be pretty for your kind.
I would think that the AMERICANS wont allow MARXIST views reign too long in THIS COUNTRY,
LIKE we hear ,that cannot be denied lightly, and the blindfolded will not admit the danger
where AMERICA is heading, imagining what the next year will bring in policies to put THE UNITED STATES on his knees, with confrontations, and expanses to pursues an MARXIST hidden agenda.
AMERICANS are noticing the signs, when top credible persons we believe all the time to be thrutfull give the warning; ONLY FOOLS WOOD DISCARD WITH ANOTHER DEMAND OF PROOF. OR FOLLOWERS
My Favorite Flopping Aces contributor strikes again, saying that “It [meaning the upcoming election] isn’t going to be pretty for your [meaning my] kind.”
The only way I can interpret the above statement is that Hard Right must be a Democrat, as I am voting for Carly Fiorina (for US Senate, State of California) and Dana Rohrabacher (for US Congress, 46th Congressional District). Both, by the way, are Republicans. True enough, I am voting for Jerry Brown (a Democrat) for Governor, and I’m voting against suspension of California’s tough controls on CO2 emissions. On the other hand, I previously voted against Proposition 8 (the pro-same gender marriage initiative, now working its way through the courts). And I’m a very strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment. I did vote for Obama in 2008, but I’d strongly consider voting for David Petraeus in 2012, were he to run as either a Republican or Democrat. Otherwise, I don’t know of any plausible GOP candidate, from among the current people under speculation, whom I’d vote for over Obama.
I love divided government — it worked wonderfully in the 1990s, until the GOP lost its head and became more transfixed with sniffing the President’s underwear, rather than taking care of the nation’s business. I was glad that the Dems swept in 2008, because it brought us the first tentative steps toward comprehensive health care reform, which is my single most important issue, after only protection against nuclear terrorism. Now that this has been accomplished, I’ll be very happy to see non-veto proof GOP majorities in House and Senate.
Nicolle Wallace was the Communications Director for Jeb Bush in the Florida governorship, Communications Director in the Bush/Cheney White House, and again for the McCain/Palin campaign. She said (on Bill Maher’s “Real Time” this Friday) that if the GOP sweeps Congress, Obama’s approval ratings will shortly go up “10 to 15 points.” That’s pretty much what happened to Clinton. The best thing for the GOP, politics-wise, would be a one vote minority in both Senate and House. This might give them a shot at a Trifecta in 2012.
With regard to Obama being a Marxist, I’m waiting for my three (or two or one) examples of Marxist legislative initiatives initiated by or promoted by the Obama White House.
With regard to what is actually going to happen in the elections next week, I’m still waiting to see if anyone disagrees with me that the Dems will do better than the currently projected “over/under” of 51 GOP pickups in the House.
With regard to whether Obama has presided as a “moderate Democrat” or not (the term used by David Brooks to describe him and demonstrably true), it’s impossible to make that case to someone who calls himself “Hard Right.” Such people are a small sector of the electorate, if not exactly lonely here on good ole’ F/A.
– Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA
I believe that is what the midterms is all about, Larry. The judgment by the voting constituents on job performance. I wouldn’t take your bet since I’m not at all sure what kind of America will awaken on Nov 3rd. I look at this as a test to see just how embedded the desire for massive social welfare programs run by expanding government is. If there is some semblence of our founding principles left, Obama and his Dem majorities will be delivered a serious slap.
If decades of re’eduation to social and economic “justice” have taken hold, the Dem losses may be minimal, or not at all. In which case it’s just a matter of time before we go the way of the fiscally floundering Euro nations.
INRE your challenge of Obama’s evidence of socialism and Marxist tendencies, I’m happy to comply. I’ll toss the likely candidates out there, but not apt to be around for the next week much to follow up.
1: Naturally, we will start with your favorite and most contentious subject, healthcare. First, there is no doubt that Obama’s quest is for single payer healthcare, but realizes it will take perhaps a decade to get there…. because he said so.
Secondly, since I know you’ll go to battle about single payer being socialist/marxist in construction, I went over this with Rich Wheeler back in Feb 2010. And to demonstrate, I used the description of single payer Physicians for a National Health Plan.
Single payer… Obama’s desired and undoubted socialist/marxist quest… had step one put in place with O’healthcare, just as he planned.
2: GM bailout/government takeover. I know you didn’t support the bailouts anymore than I did, Larry, but Obama and his czars took it several steps further than Bush’s $13 bil of TARP to them at the end of 2008 when they… as government and now owners… fired and replaced a CEO, and turned bankruptcy laws upside down when they screwed the bondholders and moved unions/pensions into first place for ownership and payback. This was done using coercive and thug WH tactics. This was necessary as you can’t usurp existing law without written contractual agreement by both parties. So the power of hte office was applied to accomplish that. Additionally, they (i.e. Obama/government) assumed the unfunded pension debt on the backs of the nation’s taxpayers for GM.
Now Billy Bob attempted to argue that Obama’s seizure of GM was quite Constitutional under the “general welfare” phrasing. Problem is, Billy Bob’s interpretation goes far wider than SCOTUS defines as national “welfare”, while seizing ownership of an auto industry is inarguably local welfare, and not applicable to the nation at large… save by a very broad interpretation. (i.e. when unemployment for auto workers goes up, the nation at large suffers…). To embark on that path as the guiding rule of thumb, there are few businesses and industries the feds couldn’t justify seizing for “general welfare”.
Seizing businesses and/or industries “for the general welfare” is at the heart of socialist/marxist beliefs. Only the future will reveal what this GM seizing has wrought in the terms of future seizures.
3: Burdening the entire nation with public debt via ARRA/stimulus to pay for local government payrolls. According to a New York Post article, that was $220 billion, or approx 1/3 of the entire stimulus allocated. And not all states received, or needed, help meeting their payrolls. Instead of forcing the states to embark on overdue austerity measures, and cut their spending for wasteful welfare programs, the nation bailed out overspending states like California.
Why is the nation at large paying the payroll for local governments, Larry? Again, this is extremely socialist/marxist in nature.
4: Obama’s feds have repeatedly infringed on States’ 10th Amendment rights… both in healthcare/mandates and in AZ’s immigration. Obama had only been in office five weeks when 11 states introduced resolutions, re’asserting their sovereign states rights to remind him that “…his reckless government expansion” and “…that federal laws and regulations implemented in violation of the 10th Amendment can be nullified by the states.” Since then, the list of states signing on to battle O’healthcare mandates, and immigration laws, has grown.
Again, exerting unConstitutional federal central governing authority over the states is another mark of a socialist/marxist’s concept of power.
5: Then there is his early on stated desire to convert the nation’s preferred stocks to common stocks. This, of course, puts control of all of the currently publicly traded major banks and financial institutions in the feds hands, and whips it out of the hands of individual shareholders.
Socialist/marxist much?
6: Part of the reconciliation O’healthcare passage was the seizure of student loans, and directing them thru the government. Prior to the passage, only about 30% of fed guarantee student loans went thru Sallie Mae, and private lenders had the balance. This, of course, will severely slash the private sector, if not totally eliminate it. Obama had been advocating this from the start, and slid it thru O’healthcare to get it thru.
That figure was actually 20%, according to a Sept 2009 WSJ article. The money started drying up after the Pelosi/Reid majority Congress 2007 legislated a return so low that no private lenders could no longer stay afloat, holding these assets. To keep the money flowing to student borrowers, the government began buying the loans from private in 2008. But this federal intervention was intended to be temporary, with an expiration date this past summer.
Well, O’healthcare fixed that, and make the feds a permanent, and likely to end up, being the only student loan lender…. with the taxpayers as the bank, of course.
7: The housing tax credits x 2, and the sundry HAFA type programs. Why is the nation’s taxpayer subsidizing the purchase of homes by individuals? And the HAFA “bailouts”, which was an abject failure, BTW, was another way that the taxpayers were subsidizing what was tantamount to irresponsible borrowers, punishing those that were responsible.
Socialist/marxist much?
There there is Obama’s documented ideology itself… from his blatantly marxist statement/rewrite that “…”we have to spread the wealth around, we have to redistribute the wealth of this country through taxation,” to Dr. John Drew’s observation of Obama’s marxist beliefs while at Occidental.
Larry, the way our government is structured, you can’t completely demolish our Republic and capitalist society overnight. But the progressives are patient, and tenacious. It’s been steadily and slowly on the move since FDR, and the public education system has been changing curriculum indoctrination to support the new speak of “social” and “economic” justice. This admin, however, has stepped up the pace with ample help from an unbalanced power in Congress.
As you pointed out INRE the old saying, “… beware a man who’s a conservative when young or a liberal when old. It might be driven home even more strongly when you consider a man who went from being decidedly socialist/marxist to progressive (at least in appearance)… and then rising to the most powerful political position in the world… ruling unfettered by a progressive Congress and conservatives who have no voice in power. As you pointed out, we are supposed to have checks and balances. In the case of legislative and administrative branches, there have been no checks and balances politically since late Jan, 2009.
Now, we wait to see the results of midterms. Will it be a resounding “no”, this ain’t the path we want, from the voters? We’ll soon be finding out.
Openid: Hard Right is a well like member of the group, here at FA, we appreciate his views,
in his comments all the time. YOU could not KNOW that, because you dont come too often.
bye
Larry, it’s good to see you here again. I hope all is going well for you lately. I’m especially happy to see your choices of Fiorina and Rohrabacher in the coming elections! But I thought you were old enough to remember the days of “Governor Moonbeam”. I find it difficult to believe any sane person would repeat that experience and I know you’re sane.
As to Reagan’s Democrat history, the party has moved very, very far to the left since those days. Both parties have changed, as has Hollywood and the legacy media… academia too. Reagan would never have tolerated the lionization of Che or Hugo Chavez in any environment.
As to Barack Obama’s love of Marxist ideology, I doubt that it was ever left behind him. But there are a lot of modern collectivists who know that the American people will only buy into their centrally controlled economy ideas if they’re in a pretty package with a label that claims it’s something else.
The theft of a huge public corporation from its legal owners and its gift to Obama’s cash donors was carried out without the legacy media ever mentioning Marx or Engels. Remember that the Fabian logo contained a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
I won’t predict any numbers of House or Senate seats. But I will predict that you’ll see the folly in collectivism Larry. If you live the long life I hope for you, you’ll come to realize that the ones who advocate loudly for the Balkanization of America, in reality, seek only their own power. You’ll figure out that the poor aren’t poor because the rich are rich. Many are poor because they get too much “help” from the ones who get power from exploiting their weaknesses.
DaNango67: thank you for being here on the right time. bye
Thanks for proving my point. You are wrong about obama being a moderate and even you know it. Quoting discredited David Brooks as support again? For the second time, that shows how desperate you are to believe that obama is something he is not. In fact Mata shows he is not a moderate. So while you don’t want believe me, I’d say her POV carrys more weight with you. Then again, maybe not. The nature of the pathological denial you display tends to become even deeper as time goes on. In other words, you will insist until your dying days he was a moderate.
Others here have highlighted the radical picks for govt. positions obama has made. In fact, radicals are the majority of his picks. That is clearly proof of his own radical beliefs. Again, you are no longer capable of seeing that.
I also find it amusing you think you aren’t a liberal.
Oh and Larry, about that dem turnout-
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/24/ap-poll-shows-more-momentum-for-the-gop/
British-Style Spending Cuts Would Shock U.S. Budget — But Could It Work?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/10/24/britains-spending-cuts-shock-budget-work/