Our whiny, prissy man-child of a President is getting all bent out of shape once again. You will recall this incident with Gov. Jindal:
I was expecting words of concern about the oil spill, worry about the pending ecological disaster, and words of confidence about how the federal government was here to help. Or perhaps he was going to vent about BP’s slow response. But no, the president was upset about something else. And he wanted to talk about, well, food stamps. Actually, he wanted to talk about a letter that my administration had sent to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack a day earlier.
The letter was rudimentary, bureaucratic, and ordinary. . . . We were simply asking the federal government to authorize food stamps for those who were now unemployed because of the oil spill. Governors regularly make these sorts of requests to the federal government when facing disaster.
But somehow, for some reason, President Obama had personalized this. And he was upset.
There was not a word about the oil spill. He was concerned about looking bad because of the letter. “Careful,” he said to me, “this is going to get bad for everyone.”
Yeah, why try to accomplish something positive when you can just whine about the treatment you receive from those who dare disagree with you.
That wasn’t the first time this little kid got upset, just today he got pissy with Gov. Brewer:
“He was a little disturbed about my book, Scorpions for Breakfast. I said to him that I have all the respect in the world for the office of the president. The book is what the book is. I asked him if he read the book. He said he read the excerpt. So.”
Asked what aspect of the book disturbed him, Brewer said: “That he didn’t feel that I had treated him cordially. I said I was sorry he felt that way but I didn’t get my sentence finished. Anyway, we’re glad he’s here. I’ll regroup.”…
She said the president brought up the book.
“I thought we probably would’ve talked about the things that were important to him and important to me, helping one another. Our country is upside down. Arizona was upside down. But we have turned it around. I know again that he loves this country and I love this country.”…
He appeared to walk away from her while they were still talking, and she confirmed that by saying she didn’t finish her sentence.
“It was though President Obama thought he could lecture me, and I would learn at his knee,” the governor wrote, calling his tone “patronizing.”
“He thinks he can humor me and then get rid of me,” Brewer wrote.
Questioned about the different description, the governor said she did not lie.
“I mean, we weren’t yelling at one another, screaming at one another,” she said.
“But it was a pretty one-sided conversation,” Brewer said. “He was, I believe, condescending. And he was lecturing me about what we were going to do and how we were going to do it.”
Yeah, no one believes that Obama would do something like that do they?
Brewer:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n4ULbAbvW4[/youtube]
And will go out of his way to diss those he believes dissed him….except those who wish to do us REAL harm:
The New York Times, citing U.S. government officials, wrote on January 12 that the Obama administration had sent a message to Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei warning that closing the Strait of Hormuz is a “red line” that would provoke a response by the United States.
…MP Ali Motahhari said on Wednesday, “In the letter, it has been stated that ‘closing the Strait of Hormuz is our red line’ and they have requested direct negotiations.”
…“In the letter, Obama has mentioned cooperation and negotiation based on the interests of the two countries,” Ebrahimi, who is the deputy chairman of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, told the Nasimonline news website.
“He has stated in the letter that they will not take any hostile action against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he added.
I’m pretty sure Ahmedanutjob has dissed Obama pretty thoroughly….but no need to get pissy then. Only when it’s those who Govern our states.
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@ilovebeeswarzone: #206
It’s too late for me, but several years ago I read where the average millionaire is a millionaire because they lived a simple life and put there money away, lived in a simple house, drove the same car for years, etc. Look at all of the legal foreigners who come over hear and become wealthy the same way.
Back on my soapbox here folks sorry again about the length, but this has to be said over and over!
As we argue about racism, the MSM and so forth, I would like to return to something much more important and that is the complete lack of the “informed voter” or as I like to call it, “The Mind Dead Electorate”. As I have said more than once, the real problem in this country is in fact the electorate. When all is said and done, it is “We the People” who are responsible. As I said earlier in this thread, I do not completely blame our woeful excuse for a President. The facts about this moron were there for all to see if they had wished to look for them. Unfortunately, seeing the importance of an educated and informed electorate is not even deemed important by our educational system, much less the political establishment, we are now faced with the fact that our great country is on a precipice and whether folks like to hear it or not, we are in fact facing third world Socialist doom. That is fact, pure and simple!
Party affiliation doesn’t matter. One only has to look at our boy Romney as an example. How one can remotely call him a conservative is beyond me. yet the establishment entrenched Republicans and their shills are pushing this bozo, policies and record. WHY?
The facts are evident for all to see. more than half the electorate that is eligible to vote doesn’t. Yet, we have an administration that is willing to allow illegals and ineligibles to vote. Of those that do vote, they vote for the person that promises the world. They vote with their hands out. they vote for anything for which they do not have to be responsible for. The entitlement society is real and it is fostered by the entrenched scum politicians of both parties, but especially the left. i know there are folks that don’t like it when one calls a politician scum or whatever, but fact is fact. As power is all that matters, the scum in D.C. as well as the states have done everything possible to Dumb Down the American public, both in the schools and in day to day life. And a co-opted Mass Media has willfully put out the most vile propaganda to the public.
Yet, when all is said and done, the blatant racism being fostered by the left (and I am sick and tired of the “code word” argument form those clowns!), the open hostility to basic American principles and the hard core leftist Socialist propaganda that is promoting open class warfare is more than I can stand. And let’s not forget the open hostility towards not only the Jews (its blatant and hostile if one just looks) but to all religions other than Islam, where it is at the point if one says “Radical Islamic Terrorist” as in the case of the Fort Hood shooter for example, it is a hate crime. Of course, this administration, its corrupt justice department and others won’t even say the word terrorist. After all, that would be the truth and that is certainly something that is not allowed in the cesspool known as Government.
Truth is power and it is there for one to find, but one has to look for it As it is well known that there are far to many people who do not even know of or understand our history and that same history is being rewritten and bastardized by the leftist scum educating our children, it is up to the people to look past the lies and deceit and make the informed choice when going to the polls.
I lifted the following from the Political Pistachio site, but is hits the nail on the head:
James Madison and the Importance of Informed Voters:
“If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it.” –James Madison, Federalist No. 57, 1788
With those words, I rest my case. This country is in grave danger! It is up to the voter, We the People to rescue us from the scrap heap of history, something we are diving headlong into! As I said earlier. My beliefs come from education, an ability to look at and analyze all facets of a subject, and hopefully make an informed decision. That is my responsibility as a voter! It is a sacred right to vote and it is sad to realize that the vast majority doesn’t give a damn for anything other than what is in it for them as long as they do not have to earn it. Yes, it is a sad commentary of the state of this country, but it is fact! And the entrench clowns in office, especially the Anti-American idealist (that is my opinion!) President along with “we the People” are hastening our demise! Someone wake up before it is to late! We don’t have a lot more time left!
@joetote: Bravo. Well spoken. I don’t know what to do about it, but you have accurately described the primary problem. It’s hard for me to avoid the conclusion that America is going to have to undergo total collapse before people wake up.
joetote
yes as always, you outdo yourself on a critical issue, in the happening as we see it unfold,
very well done indeed,thank you for the info.
bye
did you read? they want to regulate SUGAR? that will drive the price of sugar way up,
and everything with sugar in it; jam sweets anything, icecream juices, so on , so on. indefinitly,
intrusion of GOVERNMENT AGAIN.
@joetote, I don’t think you’ll get any disagreement that most of us believe an ill-informed voter lies at the heart of our problems. You might even extend that “education” problem to the now inbred entitlement culture of our young.
I’m not sure what the solution is, and I don’t see any offered up in your soapbox. That’s not a criticism, rather just expounds on the difficulty of the whole scene.
Fact is, “education”, at least for learning issues and voting, has never been easier with the Internet at our fingertips. What more can one do but provide the trough filled with water for a thirsy burro? Because you sure as heck can’t force them to drink.
But I think you are taking the dark side of the voters, and underestimating the power and will of the “establishment” leadership (and respective media) of both political parties.
Take the conservative voters, for instance. You have to admire their persistence in sending the same message over and over… that not even half of the voters want another McCain compromise candidate. While they can’t rally around one in particular fully, they are sending the message of any one but the granddaddy of O’healthcare.
Another good sign is that, whether you agree with Newt or not, the man has singled handedly absorbed the big guns of negative ads, and still the 2nd front runner. This suggests that the conservative voters are, indeed, doing their homework and the negative ads that skew the truth (putting it mildly) are not affecting them in a full swell swoop fashion.
That’s good news.
As to the lib/prog base, even the 2008 contentious primary between Obama and Hillary also lends some credit to them doing their own research. Their beliefs and view of what they want America to be – i.e. a Euro-socialist state – doesn’t really play into the education aspect when it comes to voting. That’s just a political belief that separates the two major parties. But you can say much of that entitlement culture can be laid at the feet of public education for the past 4-5 decades.
So in some ways, voters are indeed “educating” themselves more than they are credited for. Unfortunately their “teachers” and library are the media… who themselves have a problem with accurate history and journalistic ethics.
@joetote: #208
You reminded me of the, “Declaration of Independence from King Obama.” Somebody spent a lot of time writing it. I copy and pasted it and sent it to King Obama. I’m going to send it to my Federal reps too. I suggest you all do the same. Pass it on to others to send to their reps. FA comments doesn’t accept color text, or I don’t know how to do it, so you will have to copy and paste it into your word processor and change the colors. PLEASE DO THIS BEFORE YOU READ IT.
Save the version I am sending. If you send it to your reps through their web email, the text will be in black only. I suggest putting the below note with the declaration:
The below text is in black because your system doesn’t accept color text. BEFORE READING THE BELOW DOCUMENT, please go through and change the text to the appropriate colors.
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>>>>GREEN>>>> Means to change the color on the right to that color.
<<<<GREEN<<<< Means that is where that color ends.
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….same absolute rule into these <<<<BLUE<<<>>>RED>>>> States: <<<<RED<<<>>>RED>>>> RED <<<<RED<<<>>>GREEN>>>> GREEN <<<<GREEN<<<>>>BLUE>>>> BLUE <<<<BLUE<<<>>>GREEN>>>> That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these <<<<GREEN <<<>>>RED>>>> 50 states <<<<RED<<<>>>GREEN>>>>; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. <<<<GREEN<<<>>>BLUE>>>> The history of the present <<<<BLUE<<<>>>RED>>>> Obama <<<<RED<<<>>>BLUE>>>> is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. <<<<BLUE<<<>>>BLUE>>>> He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. <<<<BLUE<<<>>>BLUE>>>> He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone <<<<BLUE<<<>>>BLUE>>>> He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. <<<<BLUE<<<>>>BLUE>>>> He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: <<<<BLUE<<<>>>BLUE>>>> For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: <<<<BLUE<<<>>>BLUE>>>> For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these <<<<BLUE<<<>>>RED>>>> States: <<<<RED<<<>>>BLUE>>>> For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. <<<<BLUE<<<>>>GREEN>>>> In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A <<<<GREEN<<<>>>RED>>>> politician <<<<RED<<<>>>GREEN>>>> whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our <<<<GREEN<<<>>>RED>>>> Politicians <<<<RED<<<>>>GREEN>>>> We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. <<<<GREEN<<<>>>BLUE>>>> They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. <<<<BLUE<<<>>>GREEN>>>> We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. <<<<GREEN<<<>>>RED States <<<<RED<<<>>>BLUE>>>> That these United <<<<BLUE<<<>>>RED>>>> States <<<<RED<<<>>>BLUE>>>> are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the <<<<BLUE<<<>>>RED>>>> Obama <<<<RED<<<>>>BLUE>>>> Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of <<<<BLUE<<<>>>RED>>>> King Obama, <<<<RED<<<>>>BLUE>>>> is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. <<<<BLUE<<<<
SCARRY, ISN’T IT!
@ilovebeeswarzone: #211
The sugar industry researched this and found the problem. The sugar industry isn’t donating enough to King Obama. They are in the process of raising enough money so that King Obama will declare there product a safe product. If they can raise enough, sugar will be declared a HEALTHY product and bowls of it will be places on every school lunchroom table.
Smorgasbord
this is quite a text from far down the origins of this AMERICA,
SO VERY IMPORTANT AS THE DOOR ARE WIDE OPEN FOR THE DANGEROUS ONE TO COME IN,
and be welcome by the leaders,
thank you for giving it to us to learn of what solution is there,
bye
@ilovebeeswarzone: #215
I sat back most of my life and let the politicians do what they have done to my country. I am trying to make up for it by being involved in the Tea Party movement, letting my politicians who how I feel about issues, and either trying to come up with ways to help the country, or pass on ideas others have.
Thanks for the comments.
Mata,
I realize I didn’t present solutions per say, but i hope i identified what i feel is one of the main problems today. I guess off the top of my head the main solution would be for “We the People” to retake control of our government, our schools and take responsibility for everything our founding fathers gave us. So many people have given their all and look how badly we are treating it.
Bees,
as always, thanks for your great support. We must all speak and practice the obvious and hopefully we’ll make some headway.
Smorgasboard,
love that! Thanks!
John Cooper,
We are on the edge of that collapse as is well evidenced by everything one sees, again, that is provided one looks for the facts. as Mata said and I have opined more than once. The information is there, especially in this day of the internet. One only has to look. but we better be quick about it because my gut says this administration and the powers that be would love nothing better than to censure and/or withhold that very information from the electorate. Information is power and they know it, thus the lies and propaganda.
Finally all and again a little longer than I planned. In this thread I have tried to remind everyone of why I believe and how the founding fathers, faith, education and so on have formed those beliefs. I fervently am thankful for the founding fathers and what they gave us1 Yet as we have all said, there are folks in power who are more than willing to sacrifice everything this nation stands for and in fact are openly hostile to our basic principles and ideas. Below are some quotes from Justice Ruth Ginsberg she made in a speech to a group in Egypt. Talk about a far left, Anti-American agenda and in fact something that I for one feel is on the edge of open disdain for our founders and our ideas? Read the below! I pulled this from the Right Wing news site, William Teach, but its all over the news (again, if one looks because I sure as hell haven’t seen it in the MSM!)
“I can’t speak about what the Egyptian experience should be, because I’m operating under a rather old constitution. The United States, in comparison to Egypt, is a very new nation, and yet we have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world.”
And the big pull, around the 2:27 mark
“You should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone one since the end of World War II. I would not look to the US constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary… It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done. Much more recent than the US constitution – Canada has a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It dates from 1982. You would almost certainly look at the European Convention on Human Rights. Yes, why not take advantage of what there is elsewhere in the world?”
Once again, open disdain for our Constitution and this from a Justice of the Supreme Court! And do not think for one moment that this President, most on the left and more than a few on the right do not agree with this! They are in fact marching lockstep with her in their open disdain for our founding principles. And it is “We the People” that pay the price for their and for that matter our own follies!