Hillary Campaign Conspicuously Emerges

Washington Whispers   "In an E-mail, the Hillary Clinton for President campaign revived speculation that she is still interested in the Oval Office despite new denials that President Obama is considering replacing Vice President Joe Biden with his secretary of state. ..."The E-mail comes as a new Washington Whispers poll finds that Clinton is the runaway favorite of those seeking a third party candidate. In our poll, 39 percent picked Clinton as their choice to head a third party. Mike Huckabee is next at 20 percent and Donald Trump dead last at 12 percent."

A Democrat third party sounds great, but only Republicans are scatter-brained enough to have those. Do you think Hillary would be a factor without Ross Perot?

Obama as the other Roosevelt

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Obama's class warfare speech



Obama at Osawatomie

The Last Incarnation of Barack Obama  "If there was any doubt where President Barack Obama’s ideological heart lies, yesterday he let it be known loud and clear in a wide-ranging speech in Osawatomie, Kansas. President Obama is at his core a dyed-in-the-wool progressive who sees the federal government as the answer to all of America’s problems. And he is charging full steam ahead on this far-left course toward Election Day 2012, despite the total failure of his big-government policies and an American people who have flatly rejected the message he is trying to sell.

"True to form, President Obama yesterday did what he does best: He delivered a flowery speech and flexed his rhetorical muscles. It’s a talent that won him the presidency, but unfortunately it hasn’t won the future for the American people. And that’s because the President’s underlying philosophy is terribly flawed."

'Pay no attention to that man behind the teleprompter'  "President Obama's class-warfare strategy is designed to divide Americans while keeping him hidden behind the teleprompter long enough to impose his socialist agenda. "

Warning Signs

TPM  "Obama has taken a lot of heat from the left over the years for failing to articulate an aggressive message against Republicans that directly targets their overarching small government message. Tuesday’s speech, however, went straight at Republicans core philosophy, moving Obama’s rhetoric much closer to their goal right as his re-election campaign heats up."  Obama Swings Left, Signals Occupy Movement: I’m With You

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Obama's speech ... Fair Fair Fair  "The problem here is that the current occupant of the White House knows nothing about how to restore or promote economic growth. His goal is to push America toward a European-style socialist welfare state. Economic growth comes from a strong and vibrant free market economy. No other economic model in the history of the world has brought more people out of poverty than has capitalism. Obama simply does not like capitalism. He despises it. Hence his focus on balance and fairness."

Obama: demagogue  "And then we have this complete fallacy of millionaires paying at lower tax rates than millions in the middle-class.  You know the trickery Obama is pulling on you here.  He is referring to millionaires paying capital gains taxes versus middle class Americans who pay income taxes.  When you dig deep into the numbers, you will realize that the effective tax burden on millionaires is, on average, much higher than middle class tax payers."

And after many weeks of rolling out bite-sized initiatives, Obama’s grander ambitions were on full display.   "Are we on the verge of witnessing one of the greatest political events of modern times: the admission by Democrats that they are, in fact, socialists? " Comment

Obama Promises to Save the Middle Class by Enslaving It     "Nothing says middle-class triumph like more regulation, unionism, cronyism and endless spending."

Surely, that won't do. If not, what are you talking about exactly, Mr. President? Give us the big plan. What program have you devised that offers middle-class Americans more opportunity, not just more dependency? How have you expanded the fortunes of the bitter, occasionally clingy bourgeois in the past three years—by adding $4 trillion to their offspring's tab?

William A. Jacobson in Legal Insurrection:  Obama grows shorter   "I have posted numerous times before about Obama’s penchant for creating false choices in his speeches, invariably some non-existent supposedly conservative position versus his position. This enables Obama to knock down the conservative straw man * and make his own position seem reasonable by contrast. He’s a classic shorter.
"It’s a cheap rhetorical trick, but he can’t seem to shake the habit."
*The Straw Man fallacy is committed when a person simply ignores a person's actual position and substitutes a distorted, exaggerated or misrepresented version of that position.

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Big Statism in Osawatomie  "Today, too much power is concentrated in Washington and on Wall Street, and the two concentrations reinforce one another. Wall Street helps fund the campaigns of politicians in both parties, and in exchange the politicians give Wall Street regulation that insulates the biggest banks from competition by subsidizing their failures. The remedy here, too, is not more state control, but more competition and more free, unsubsidized enterprise."

Pearl Harbor attack, 70 years ago, still fresh in the memories of old sailors

San Jose Mercury News  "The survivors of those doomed ships -- many from the Bay Area -- are mostly hard of hearing now, but the buzz and the boom of the bombs from that day still ring in the ears of John Tait of Concord, Ed Silveira of Hayward and Dempson Arellano of Antioch. Gordon Van Hauser, who lived in San Carlos until his death in 2008, often spoke of his service not in terms of fighting for his own life, but for the life of his country."

Survivors of Axis nations have their own, harrowing stories and tales of Allied attacks. We will leave those to PBS,academia, Alan Alda type celebrities and left-wing history writers -there are far more than enough of them and we don't need more-to bring out today. 

Here, we will focus only on stories of America and Americans' reactions to the threat on this nation. 

Pearl Harbor Day 2011: three enduring mysteries    "On Pearl Harbor Day, historians continue to debate the mysteries of Pearl Harbor. The Japanese attack created some of the great unanswered questions of military history."  Also here.

Aboard the USS Arizona   "Marine Corporal E.C. Nightingale was aboard the Arizona that fateful Sunday morning:"

Has Obama Set the Stage for Pearl Harbor All Over Again?  "Federal stimulus programs have piled up debt but haven’t brought back jobs for most Americans. Critics charge that the stimulus funds have mostly gone to friends of the President. At the same time, the defense budget has been cut to the bone, and America’s troops have neither the weapons nor the personnel to carry out their assignments.

"Sound familiar? Actually, we are describing the U.S. on Dec. 7, 1941—the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and dragged the U.S. into World War II. What can we learn from the Pearl Harbor disaster?"


How God caught up with the man who led Japan's surprise attack.  "America's latest blockbuster, Pearl Harbor, has already been blamed for dwelling on a shallow love triangle, ignoring the sacrifices of Japanese Americans, downplaying the Japanese empire's aggression, and generally Disney-fying the "date which will live in infamy." No surprises there; as director Michael Bay told Reuters, "It's not a history lesson." But it's far too easy to shoot holes in Hollywood history. Instead, I'm going to fault the movie for missing a poignant and inspiring Christian story: the saga of Mitsuo Fuchida."

From Pearl Harbor to Calvary  by Mitsuo Fuchida. 

In the ensuing weeks, I read this book eagerly. I came to the climactic drama -- the Crucifixion. I read in Luke 23:34 the prayer of Jesus Christ at His death: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." I was impressed that I was certainly one of those for whom He had prayed. The many men I had killed had been slaughtered in the name of patriotism, for I did not understand the love which Christ wishes to implant within every heart.

The story of the man who introduced Fuchida to Jesus Christ: "During the next forty long months in confinement, DeShazer was cruelly treated. He recalls that his violent hatred for the maltreating Japanese guards almost drove him insane at one point. But after twenty-five months there in Nanking, China, the U.S. prisoners were given a Bible to read. DeShazer, not being an officer, had to let the others use it first. Finally, it came his turn -- for three weeks. There in the Japanese P.O.W. camp, he read and read and eventually came to understand that the book was more than an historical classic. Its message became relevant to him right there in his cell."

For you Christmas shoppers: Dave Barry’s Gift Guide

Miami Herald  Unique presents for 2011 include a toad purse, a wearable wine ‘rack’ and a stocking full of knives
"Here in America, the most popular [Christmas] tradition, observed by millions, is to celebrate the birth of Jesus by going to a Walmart at 4 a.m. on the day after Thanksgiving and getting into fistfights over steeply discounted TV sets. ....
"That is why we are able to offer you our Holiday Gift Guide Pledge of Guaranteed Quality Assurance Warranty, as follows: If you purchase one of these items, and you are not completely satisfied with it, simply give it to somebody else, and maybe that person will be completely satisfied with it. Although quite frankly, we would be surprised.
"But enough with the legal disclaimers. Let’s get to the items that "made the cut" for this year’s Gift Guide"...

Each item listed below has its own link in this site:

Wine Rack

Candwich — Sandwich in a Can (pictured at right)
Dear Leader Tongue Scraper*
Wrap-a-Nap
Morphsuit
Toad Purse
The 'Phubby' Wrist Phone Cubby
Game On Glove
Christmas Stocking Full of Knives
Cow and Horse Droppings
Girlfriend Pillow
Martha Stewart Animated Snake Wreath

Right: the Candwich

*This is the first tongue scraper we are aware of that harnesses the glamour and “star power” of Kim Jong-Il, the supreme ruler of North Korea, often called “Dear Leader” by North Koreans in recognition of the fact that any time he wants, he can have them executed.
"The Dear Leader Tongue Scraper comes packaged on a cardboard display card featuring an image of a sprightly and smiling Kim Jong-Il running on a beach, holding a tongue scraper in his hand and being pursued by three young women in bathing suits, their arms open wide and their faces expressing the message: “We want you carnally, Dear Leader, because your tongue is devoid of crud!”"