As the health care debate has moved forward for the last year or so the public has figured out that the current system, while far from perfect (as if there is such a thing), is way better then what Obama and company have planned:
Forty-nine percent (49%) of voters nationwide now rate the U.S. health care system as good or excellent. That marks a steady increase from 44% at the beginning of October, 35% in May and 29% a year-and-a-half ago.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 27% now say the U.S. health care system is poor.
It is interesting to note that confidence in the system has improved as the debate over health care reform has moved to center stage. The latest polling shows that only 38% favor the health care legislation currently working its way through Congress.
Confidence has improved by 20 points to be exact in the past 18 months.
62% of those polled said that cost was the biggest problem while only 18% said it was a lack of universal coverage. Read the rest of this entry »
Before you swear and look for a cyber rock to throw, read and contemplate the wisdom of nursery rhymes that have withstood the test of time. Now the can be applied to the Obama administration in frightful clarity.
Obama’s Election:
Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner
Eating a Christmas Pie;
He put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plum,
And said, What a good boy am I
Little Barack Obama
Cursed by his mama’s drama
Given the Affirmative Action pie
He admired himself and learned to lie
He won the election plum
I can win, no matter how dumb
Glenn Beck on the resignation of Van Jones in which he rightly asks why the only thing that brought down Van Jones was his 9/11 truther background. Why didn’t his past as a “rowdy black nationalist” who founded the group “Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement” raise any alarms? Hell, in STORM’s manifesto they declare their commitment to the “fundamental ideas of Marxism-Leninism.”
When Beck started taking the fight against these loons in the Obama administration the MSM yawned. When news came out that Van Jones was a truther, the MSM yawned….until the citizen journalists did their job for them and wouldn’t let go. Read the rest of this entry »
“Author and Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago.” is how they describe this terrorist.
Imagine the outrage if a conservative rag gave space to say a abortion clinic bomber. Oh boy, the skies would of been lit up. But hey, throw up a Weather Underground member who once spoke about bringing this country to its knees via terrorism and its no problem.
Looking at the piece you read how the terrorist rails against Bush for daring to institute some kind of testing of school qualification. My favorite part has to be when he muses on who he would pick for cabinet positions in a Obama Presidency:
So I would have picked Darling-Hammond, but then again I would have picked Noam Chomsky for state, Naomi Klein for defense, Bernardine Dohrn for Attorney General, Bill Fletcher for commerce, James Thindwa for labor, Barbara Ransby for human services, Paul Krugman for treasury, and Amy Goodman for press secretary. So what do I know?
Real winner eh?
It’s basically the same old tired screed of needing more taxpayers money, grades are bad, and tests are evil:
Educators, students, and citizens must press now for an education worthy of a democracy, including an end to sorting people into winners and losers through expensive standardized tests which act as pseudo-scientific forms of surveillance; an end to starving schools of needed resources and then blaming teachers and their unions for dismal outcomes; and an end to the rapidly accumulating “educational debt,” the resources due to communities historically segregated, under-funded and under-served. All children and youth in a democracy, regardless of economic circumstance, deserve full access to richly-resourced classrooms led by caring, qualified and generously compensated teachers.
Well, I guess we can welcome in the era of Obama where terrorists have influence in the White House and society formally recognizes and legitimizes them enough to accept media coverage and commentary from them.
You got to love aging terrorists who want to become mainstream when their pal becomes President. Here is Bill Ayers first denying that he dedicated Prairie Fire to Sirhan Sirhan, and then saying he regretted the dedication and would rather have dedicated to the thousands of “political prisoners” around the world: (h/t Michelle Malkin)
Anyone want to guess who these prisoners might be? I’m thinking cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal would be one of them. Killing cops seems to have been his cup of tea anyways. Of course only when the press isn’t hounding him, then he calls the cops for help.
Ah…..the sweet smell of moral equivalence in the morning. Here is William Ayers being interviewed on Good Morning America (Hot Air has the video) telling us why the things he did along with his group were a-ok:
“What you call the violent past, that was a time when thousands of people were being murdered every month by our own government.
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We were on the right side,” he told “GMA.”
The co-founder of the Weather Underground was, as McCain has claimed, unrepentant about the the bombings his group committed during the 1960s.
“The content of the Vietnam protest is that there were despicable acts going on, but the despicable acts were being done by our government. … I never hurt or killed anyone,” Ayers said.
“Frankly, I don’t think we did enough, just as today I don’t think we’ve done enough to stop these wars,” he said.
He’ll [Ayers] appear Friday on “Good Morning America” to promote the re-issue of his book this week. The Tribune obtained a copy of the updated material.
In it, Ayers — who did not respond to requests for comment — summarized his relationship with Obama: “[W]e had served together on the board of a foundation, knew one another as neighbors and family friends, held an initial fund-raiser at my house, where I’d made a small donation to his earliest political campaign.”
On the campaign trail, Obama dismissed Ayers as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” and “somebody who worked on education issues in Chicago that I know.” Among “family friends”, one would think being dismissed as so casual would cut one to the quick. But not Ayers, who “laments” his friendship with Obama being an issue.
It is ironical that the white horse signified in the Revelation and characterized in the 13th chapter is white, as most evangelicals would never have dreamed that a black man would be elevated to the position where he could actually evolve into the Antichrist. The fact is, evangelists have for years now preached on how we are in the end times prophesied in the Bible and that the world is heading to dire and more dire judgments as those set forth in Revelation. Now, now, now, this is Not today’s sermon, just a few (since they are not politically correct) personal ramblings from a guy who has been one of those evil fundamentalists all his life and knows a little about Bible prophesy.
It is certain that all sorts of stories are popping up on the web about the evil Omaba represented during his campaign and the cult personality that has evolved into the fawning hundreds of thousands in the streets on election night to celebrate his victory. The MSM are having some doubts now that they have elected Obama, but just wait until he is finished with them. Kudos to Mikes America who has been relentless in his denunciations as to why the questions being asked now by the MSM were not asked Before the election. It’s really absurd isn’t it, but the MSM are now beginning to admit that with all the vetting (ha, ha) they had done on Obama, they still don’t have a clue as to who he is! Incredible? Not! There was no vetting done. It was like the MSM, like the Obama cult, were the victims of mass hysteria and could no more put out a criticism of Obama than they could apply towards themselves.
One thing I believe that everyone can agree upon is that human beings cannot look towards the future and foretell what the world will be like a year from now, and so forth. We can look at tomorrow and based upon current events divine with some accuracy what will happen tomorrow, and maybe even next week, but beyond that it’s a toss-up. We can, however, look back and see what has happened, see the indicators of what has happened today and lament that we were just too blind to see the warnings and too lazy to take action because we didn’t really believe what we were seeing. Read the rest of this entry »
The LA Times is refusing to release a videotape that shows Barack Obama attending a dinner in honor of Rashid Khalidi. It is no wonder that he doesn’t want it released. The comments he made while toasting Rashid Khalidi during the event are inflamatory and embarrassing to say the least! He said:
“My friend Rashid is a hero among our Palestinian brothers along the West Bank, and with his continued effort, and our continued support, we can guarantee the removal of the Jewish invaders from our promised land! Without a doubt, a united Palestinian front can banish the racist Israeli state back to the four corners of the world and cleanse the holy land of their stain! Then, we will use the example of Palestinian liberation to usher forth a new age in America! An America where heroes like my good friends Bill Ayers, Reverend Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, and Malik Zulu Shabazz will bring and end to the tyranny of capitalism, democracy, and white christianity! We will take the wealth of the American economic elite, and use it to buy the votes of the American poor! Then, when we have control of the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, the United States Supreme Court, and of course, the White House, we will show the American people what real governance is! We will redistribute the wealth! We will bring down the corporations, and eliminate the small busenessmen! We will put them on the path to socialism, and get this nation ready for the next step toward Marxist Communism! We will give them change!”
Well, at least I’m pretty sure that’s what he said. Well, actually, I have no idea what he said, I’m just guessing. But, if the LA Time refuses to release the video so we can know for sure, I’m just going to have to assume that I guessed right!
“The notion that people don’t know who I am is a little hard to swallow. I’ve been running for president for the last two years. I’ve campaigned in 49 states. Millions of people have heard me speak at length on every topic under the sun. I’ve been involved now in 25 debates, going on my 26th. And I’ve written two books which any — everybody who reads them will say are about as honest a set of reflections by, at least, a politician as are out there.”
-Senator Obama in an interview with Charles Gibson
Supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama hold up a cardboard cutout of Obama at a campaign event at the Palm Beach Community College in Lake Worth, Florida October 21, 2008.
REUTERS/Jim Young
We know John McCain. We don’t know Barack Obama.
Peter Nicholas, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, wrote an interesting piece in yesterday’s Times on trying to get to know the man behind the image, spending 18 hour days on the campaign trail with the Illinois Senator. What comes across to him, is how well-disciplined Senator Obama is, making every word and action deliberate and calculated, with few instances of spontaneity. The mask is constantly kept on. Nicholas concludes: Read the rest of this entry »
Andy McCarthy reminds us of a great interview done by Hugh Hewitt of Stanley Kurtz a few weeks ago that is an excellent primer on the Obama/Ayers association. It also highlights an association that isn’t talked about much. Ayers/Khalidi ties.
Here is the interview, lasts a little over 16 minutes but well worth the time to listen to the whole thing:
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How ironic that a unrepentant terrorist would tell a reporter to respect his property rights (which he would not have in the Communist society he so wants) and then calls the “pigs” for help (even tho he hated the cops bad enough a few decades ago that he conspired to kill some).
Wearing a red star and all.
Oh, btw, you want your own Red Start t-shirt? The meaning behind it:
The Red Star t-shirt shows a red star. (The five-pointed red star is a symbol of communism as well as broader socialism in general.) Color: red on black.
You would think that the lies told by Obama would be reported on, dug deeper into, and criticized by the media that loves to bring up Watergate as their shining moment. Instead they ignore the story.
That story is Ayers and what Obama knew and when did he know it.
How can you trust him to do what he says on taxes, education, health care?
Obama is LYING about Ayers!
Charlie Gibson held an interview with Barack Obama on Wednesday. Readers will recall Charlie Gibson’s gotcha question for Sarah Palin on the “Bush Doctrine.” Did Gibson press Obama on his association with Ayers? Nope! The report on the ABC News web site reads more like a press release from the Obama campaign:
Obama: McCain Scoring ‘Cheap Political Points’ Democratic Contender Discusses Economy in Post-Debate Exclusive With Charlie Gibson ABC News Oct. 8, 2008
Sen. Barack Obama says the personal attacks levied against him by the campaign of his presidential rival, Sen. John McCain, particularly references to his association with 1960s anti-war radical Bill Ayers, are an attempt to “score cheap political points.”
“Why don’t we just clear it up right now,” Obama told ABC News’ Charlie Gibson in an exclusive interview for World News. “I’ll repeat again what I’ve said many times. This is a guy who engaged in some despicable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old. By the time I met him, 10 or 15 years ago, he was a college professor of education at the University of Illinois . . . And the notion that somehow he has been involved in my campaign, that he is an adviser of mine, that . . . I’ve ‘palled around with a terrorist’, all these statements are made simply to try to score cheap political points.”
Obama went on to suggest that these questions about his character were a distraction from the real issues facing Americans in this campaign.
But Obama LIED about Ayers. The two have a relationship that goes back many years during which Ayers continued to express his profoundly anti-American views. Ayers helped launch Obama’s political career and has been at his side throughout Obama’s early career. (see here and the short video Curt posted here).
No snide followups from good old Charlie Gibson on all that… No surprise there!
