Obama's Slave Ship (Updated)

Robin of Berkeley  "One must wonder: by Obama's choosing Trinity, a church where his own mother wouldn't have been welcome, was he trying to exorcise the evil white spirit in him? And by joining that church, did he finally leave his repugnant white side behind at Trinity's door?"
A frequent American Thinker contributor, Robin is a recovering liberal and a psychotherapist in Berkeley. 

Obama's international strikeout  "The president again casually confirmed his belief in the decline of America's "outsized" influence in world affairs, noting, "We are now seeing a situation where a whole host of other countries are doing well and coming into their own and naturally they're going to be more assertive." The president thinks this greater assertiveness is "a healthy thing" but did not elaborate for whom it was healthy - certainly not the United States. For some inexplicable reason, Mr. Obama welcomes the decline of America's role on the international stage. It is his most notable accomplishment."

The Trip About Nothing  "Unfortunately for the U.S., our friends and foes have gotten yet another close look at President Obama and cannot possibly have been impressed. They know the only thing that is unprecedented about him is his weakness.
"To paraphrase Winston Churchill, “An empty plane arrived in Asia and when the door was opened, Mr. Obama got out.”"

Why President Obama is right about India

"Which is why Obama's dramatic call for India to be elevated to permanent membership on the U.N. Security Council was so important. However useless and obsolete the United Nations, a Security Council seat carries totemic significance. It elevates India, while helping bind it to us as our most strategic and organic Third World ally. "

"China is no enemy, but it remains troublingly adversarial. Which is why India must be the center of our Asian diplomacy. And why Obama's trip - coconuts and all - was worth every penny. "

Scarborough: Top Dems in Senate Have All Told Me That “Obama Has No Idea What He’s Doing” (Video) "“I wish I could give their names because democrats in Washington have been horrified with this president’s handling of things for a year and a half now. Just look at the chart. The top democrats in the United States Senate have all told me he has no idea what he’s doing… That is what the top Democratic senators are saying”"

The Incredible Shrinking President  "Foreign leaders have taken the measure of Barack Obama, and found him a lightweight, a head of state whose proposals can be dismissed as substance-free fantasies, unworthy of serious consideration. American voters should take note of this, for nobody understands a national leader better than his or her peers. Foreign leaders are also immune to the blather of the American propaganda media.
"We have a serious problem when the leader of the free world carries no weight. America has two more dangerous years with this poseur, this dabbler of an ideologue at the helm."

George W. Bush Opens Up on Iran and Obama

Stephen F. Hayes "As president, he contemplated Iran policy by thinking about two clocks – one measured the time it would take for Iran to get nuclear weapons and the other kept track of the time it would take for internal change to take root in Iran. Bush writes that his plan was to accelerate the latter and retard the former."

George W Bush: I’m comfortable about my place in history  "He thinks that it is wrong to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (the self-described mastermind behind the September 11 terrorist attacks) on American soil, “where he’ll have all the rights of a common bank robber”, including access to the evidence — in this case extremely sensitive intelligence material — that led to his arrest.

"“He’d have had a perfectly fair trial in front of a military tribunal,” he says, “without national security being compromised.” "  UK Telegraph via Lucianne

Stay Worried

Victor Davis Hanson "Apparently, the president is unaware that after some 2,500 years of both experience with and abstract thought about Western national economies, we know that a free, private sector increases the general wealth of a nation, while a statist redistributive state results in a general impoverishment of the population."

SEIU’s Shady Political Cash

Big Government  "If the SEIU is getting the millions of dollars it is spending on Democrats from foreign sources, this should put a major dent in the alarmist claims that Obama has been making about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce supposedly getting its money from outside the country — a charge that was resoundingly refuted. After all, if one of Obama’s biggest left-wing campaign supporters is suffused with foreign cash, why should it be such a big deal if anyone else is?
"Sadly, the Old Media will never play up this aspect of Obama’s hypocrisy, but that is another subject."

Deficit report favors 'do-nothing Congress'

Washington Times  "The report's scariest deficit scenario relies on a Congressional Budget Office projection that under what it calls "current policy," the U.S. government's debt will soar from the current 60 percent of GDP to 100 percent of GDP by 2023 and to twice the country's annual economic output by the year 2035."This would lock in Obamacare if it is carried out.

Gary Varvel, World Magazine

The Contract from America

The Contract from America  "We, the undersigned, call upon those seeking to represent us in public office to sign the Contract from America and by doing so commit to support each of its agenda items, work to bring each agenda item to a vote during the first year, and pledge to advocate on behalf of individual liberty, limited government, and economic freedom."

The Debt/ Deficit Commission

Co-Chairmen of Obama’s Fiscal Commission Unveil Real Tax Increases and Fake Spending CutsI have many pet peeves, but one that causes me endless frustration is the Washington "spending cut" scam .This happens when politicians increase spending, but claim that they’re cutting spending because they previously had planned to make government even bigger. Dan Mitchell

The Debt Commission Report "Yes, the plan ends the deficit. It does so with lots and lots of spending cuts across the board. There are actually some good suggestions in the plan, but there is one inescapable fact — the proposal has buried in it one trillion dollars in tax increases."  RedState.com

Deficit Commission wants federal travel budget slashed, announces it while Obama on expensive foreign trip  "President Obama's deficit commission announced today that it wants the federal government to slash its official travel budget as part of the effort to close the federal deficit.
"Meanwhile, Obama is winging his way across Asia on a 12-day official trip that arrived earlier today in Seoul, South Korea. Apparently the president's commission failed to coordinate its announcement today with the president because here is recommendation six:"...

LET THE GAMES BEGIN  "Alright, down to the meat. Here are some of the various proposals from [Simpson] and Bowles. Needless to say, many of these are not going to make people feel all warm and fuzzy .. especially for the moocher class and the wealth redistributionists." Neal Boortz

Don't Be Taken In by the Deficit Commission  "Our astronomical deficits are the result not of low taxes, but of profligate spending. So why do we accept the premise that the starting point for deficit and debt reduction discussions must be various tax hikes, tolerating unacceptably high levels of spending, and seeming to take off the table the eradication of programs the government was never intended or constitutionally authorized to establish in the first place?"  David Limbaugh, brother of radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, is an expert in law and politics and author of new book Crimes Against Liberty, the definitive chronicle of Barack Obama's devastating term in office so far.

Lisa Benson, Townhall

Repeal the 26th Amendment!

Ann Coulter " It would almost be tolerable if everyone under the age of 30 just admitted they voted for Obama because someone said to them, "C'mon, it's really cool! Everyone's doing it!"
"We trusted them, and now we know it was a mistake.
"True, Reagan tied with Carter for the youth vote in 1980 and stole younger voters from Mondale in 1984, but other than that, young voters have consistently embarrassed themselves. Of course, back when Reagan was running for president, young voters consisted of the one slice of the population completely uninfected by the Worst Generation. Today's youth are the infantilized, pampered, bicycle-helmeted children of the Worst Generation. "

Department of Justice: Racial Spoils in Obama's America.

Thanks, Karl Rove, for the tip  "Eric Holder has been a disaster as Attorney General. His testimony in front of the Senate regarding Miranda rights and terrorists was embarrassing. ...But his malpractice goes beyond ignorance of the law. He has turned his Department into a political tool to empower Democrats, running roughshod over the principles of color-blind justice so as to shield from the law blocks that are reliably Democratic.  Ed Lasky

Racial Spoils in Obama's America "Is racism stoked when critics of Barack Obama or his policies are called "racists," or when Congressman Charles Rangel says that opposition to health care reform is a "bias, a prejudice, an emotional feeling"?
"After a while, this type of name-calling exacerbates racism. We have seen that race card played too often by Obama's allies and satraps. Barack Obama, a poker player, should realize that it has become a type of tell that someone's interests are being sacrificed on behalf of someone else's agenda.
"Does this administration promise to be, as Victor Davis Hanson writes, "the most polarizing administration we have seen in matters of race since the 1920s"? "

Veterans Day, 2010

American Thinker  "Today we have almost 17.5 million living American veterans of wartime service, about 5.5% of our total population.
"So if you know someone who has served in any branch of the service, wartime or peacetime, or both, this is the day to shake his or her hand and to say "Thank you for what you did for us. We are grateful for your devotion to duty and to our country.""
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What Can Republicans Do About Obamacare?

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE "This move will probably be blocked in the Democrat-controlled Senate, however; and failing that, the president will use his veto pen to save the Democrats’ crown-jewel policy achievement.

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"Then what? Having health care as an issue may actually be a blessing for the GOP. Obamacare has been a gift to the Republican party. It was the single most important reason for their historic gains in last week’s election. Better still, it’s a gift that can keep on giving, if appropriately managed."

Back to the Future with Jerry Brown at the Helm in California

Pajamas Media  "He didn't do a good enough job ruining the state the last time he was in office, so giving him another crack at it apparently made sense to a majority of California voters."
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