Newsweek on Why Obama's critics are dumb

From the liberal Politico: Right blogs take on Newsweek cover  

[Andrew] "Sullivan, a self-described “unabashed supporter of Obama from early 2007 on,” writes in the cover story that attacks against the president are not only out of bounds but “simply — empirically — wrong.” "


Big Government: Why Is Andrew Sullivan So Dumb?  "Aside from the war on Al Qaeda, Obama squandered every diplomatic and military success bequeathed to him by Bush. He destroyed missile defense in Europe, and wasted hard-won gains in Iraq by withdrawing troops against the advice of the military. While appeasing Iran and gutting the future of our defense, Obama alienated and undermined U.S allies. Sullivan, who detests Israel, even applauds Obama’s pointless confrontation with Benjamin Netanyahu–hardly a way to sell a second Obama term."


 I thought only in North Korea did they write puff pieces such as Sullivan's about their Dear Leader. This may make it on the always-watchable-unless-Alan-Colmes-is-on-the-panel Fox News Watch this next Saturday evening.


Newsbusters asks: "Is there anything the mainstream media won't do to get Obama reelected?"

Ethel Fenig in American Thinker wonders: Why are Newsweek's supporters so dumb?  "Want more titillation?  Next to Obama's left ear, in still smaller, bold caps we can learn of MRS. SANTORUM'S SURPRISING PAST.
"Brown's short term desperation to punch up newsstand sales, to set off a short term buzz just might backfire, turning off the remaining middle of the road subscribers without adding new Obama lovers.
"If so, it couldn't happen to a more deserving magazine and its editor."


Neal Boortz has his always-interesting perspective:  "The accompany article is by Obama sycophant Andrew Sullivan, and it signals the beginning of an age-old Democrat theme in presidential elections:  Conservatives are stupid, liberals are smart.  Gerald Ford; clumsy and dumb.  Ronald Reagan: dumb.  George H.W. Bush, affable, but dumb.  George W. Bush, dumb.  Now if you are a critic of Barack Obama, you’re just dumb.  What a surprise.

Look … there are going to be three constant themes during the campaign

1. Republicans and conservatives are ignorant.
2. Republicans and conservatives are racists.
3. Republicans are only for the rich.  

Nile Gardiner from the UK wonders Why are Barack Obama’s critics so smart?  "In response to Sullivan’s provocative article, which has stirred up a good deal of debate in America, here are five reasons why President Obama’sconservative critics are significantly smarter in their approach and thinking than his failing Left-wing administration in Washington:"  Read on as each of the points below are discussed...
1. Obama’s critics have a far better understanding of the concerns of the American people and the mood of the country
2. Obama’s critics reject big government and the ludicrous idea that bureaucrats know best
3. Obama’s critics reject appeasement of America’s enemies, support America’s allies and don’t believe in apologising for their country
4. Obama’s critics believe that a presidency should behave with decorum, and show respect for opposing views
5. Obama’s critics know a gaffe-prone, embarrassing administration when they see one

Obama: Incompetent or Evil?   "The most acute division on the right — the one that will give Mitt Romney the most trouble — is not between moderates and hard-core right-wingers, between electability-minded pragmatists and ideologues, or between the Tea Party and the Republican establishment. It is between those Republicans who disagree with Barack Obama, believing his policies to be mistaken, and those who hate Barack Obama, believing him to be wicked."


How the Network Morning Shows Are Trashing Republicans and Trumpeting Barack Obama in Campaign 2012   "- By a 4-to-1 margin, ABC, CBS and NBC morning show hosts have employed an adversarial liberal agenda when questioning this year’s Republican candidates. But those same hosts’ questions for President Obama leaned in his direction, with mostly liberal-themed questions.  
"- Four years ago, questions for the Democratic candidates tilted by more than two-to-one to the left, a friendly agenda."
The foregoing was a summary of this 19-page report from the Media Research Center.  Here is a pdf of the full report

The odyssey of Vince Offer, the ShamWow guy

Here is the commercial that made him famous

After that he did the Slap Chop commercial. But then Offer ran afoul of the law by punching out a...well, lady of the night... er, working girl. 

Wikipedia gives us this: "On February 7, 2009, Offer was arrested in Miami Beach, Florida on a charge of felony battery after an altercation with a 26-year-old prostitute. Offer contended that he struck the prostitute when she "bit his tongue and would not let go." Prosecutors later declined to file formal charges against either individual."



But now Vince is back in this Schticky commercial. (I love a guy who makes fun of himself. Attaboy, Schticky).  Here's a brief bio of the Israel-born Offer Schlomi.  
Yes, that's his real name, Offer.

Obama’s One-Man Rule; Is Obama thumbing his nose at the Constitution? Read and decide.

Michael Barone via Neal Boortz:   [Obama's] "scorn for the Constitution is something else. 

That scorn has been expressed most recently in his “recess” appointments of members of the National Labor Relations Board and the chairmanship of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The quotation marks are appropriate because when he made the appointments the Senate was not in recess as the Constitution requires."

....

"The Framers of the Constitution saw it a different way. When the Senate refuses to confirm a presidential appointee, that person does not take office. When the Senate is not in recess, the president cannot make a recess appointment.
"The Framers thought it more important to limit power than for government to act quickly. Barack Obama disagrees."


Naturally the legal cover was provided by Obama's Justice Department headed by Eric Holder, whose department also refused to enforce immigration laws and to declare Black Panther voter intimidation illegal. As the above article points out:

The White House has belatedly trotted out an opinion from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (headed by a political appointee) saying that the president was justified in considering the Senate in recess, because the sessions it was holding every three days were just pro forma or, in the words of Obama defenders, “gimmicks.”

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/01/16/95481

Question of the Day

Neal Boortz asks:  "If Bain Capital had taken a look at Solyndra, would they have invested $500 million in that mess?"


Bain Capital and the Little Steel Mill That Could  "Romney’s firm is behind one of American steel's few recent success stories."
"For every tragic story of a company that  fails at the expense of its workers and investors, there are stupendous successes such as that of Steel Dynamics, and they would not happen without the capital and expertise of firms such as Bain." 

Workers World Party on the Occupy Wall Street Movement

NoisyRoom.net  "The pro-North Korea/Cuba, Workers World Party is heavily involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
" “Defend Occupy Wall Street,” Larry Holmes, WWP First Secretary, speaking at the Workers World Forum in New York City, Nov. 18, 2011."

Marines show the Taliban who is number one. (Updated)

Michael Ledeen: Pissing on the Enemy  "To the media pack, the “pissing story” was a welcome present, because they can unleash their full primal scream of righteous indignation against the Marines, whom they resent because the Marines are so very good at what they do.  DIGRESSION:  As an institution, the military, at least temporarily, is the best we’ve got, and the Marines are the best of the lot, both because they’re relatively small, and because they are well led."
....
"If I were advising the secretaries of state and defense I’d say:

1.  Treat it as a routine matter.  “Boys will be boys.  Especially in war.  Stuff happens.  We enforce our rules.”
2.  Don’t pass judgment, even hypothetically.  Just say, it’s been referred to the investigators.  When we find out what happened, we’ll get back to you.
3.  If Karzai delivers more moral lectures, have the president of the United States give a speech about Afghan sexual culture, including the treatment of young boys by older men, and the treatment of women by all Afghan men.  And then suggest, ever so sweetly, that Karzai is not really in a strong position to lecture us.

 General Patton urinates into the Rhine river in Germany  ""I drove to the Rhine River and went across on the pontoon bridge. I stopped in the middle to take a piss and then picked up some dirt on the far side in emulation of William the Conqueror." General George S. Patton, March 1945"

Blackfive: THE NATURE OF WARRIORS.... "The nature of warriors is something that only warriors will ever know.  Those that have never experienced this will never know why these men felt the need to do what they did.  But if our military is going to be effective in the long run, our enemies must fear us.  They must believe that we are capable of unspeakable evil and every now and then, we have to pull back the curtain a little and let them see a smidgen of what we are holding the lid on while we bomb them further into the stone age.  That fear of what those warriors are capable of will save lives."


Update from Hot Air:  Rep. Allen West on the reaction to the Marines incident: “Shut your mouth; war is hell” "Words of support for the troops are needed now as always, but they’re hardly forthcoming. The Republican presidential candidates, for example, have made no statements of support for the predominantly well-behaved troops as a buttress against the effects on public opinion of the administration’s eager denouncement of the few. William Kristol highlights their silence:"


Taliban atrocities show what real war crimes are  "If the photos of the U.S. troops become an issue, the United States should show pictures of Taliban members standing around, while masked, watching their leader behead a helpless captive."


Maybe this guy in black is one of those our Marines were doing the number one over. Picture from a video at BareNakedIslam; find it yourself; the sight is too disturbing to link to. 
Sorry if this photo is offensive, but I wanted you to remember just who the bad guys were in that photo of the Marines. TD

Life-Changing Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Heritage  "The greatest tribute to the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., is not to name a street in his honor or celebrate a national holiday. It is to recognize and support those who are working to carry out his vision, those who empower those facing the greatest obstacles through personal relationships that restore the fabric of civil society—without the need for federal government intervention.
....
"Among those ranks of individuals who are carrying out Dr. King’s vision are three young men—Curtis Monroe, Michael Toland, and Roger Marshall—who give their time, talents, and earnings from their day jobs serving as coaches and mentors of at-risk youths in the Benning Terrace public housing development in Washington, D.C.....
"Their investment is truly a powerful, living, and longlasting tribute to the vision and sacrifice of Dr. King."

Personal opinion posted at http://olbroad.com/:   "If Dr King saw the poverty pimps (examples: Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Charles Rangel, and yes, even Barack Obama), making their living off of keeping others from success, I honestly believe he would be appalled!"  One of the Tunnel Wall's all-time favorite posts is this Martin Luther King, Jr. post from Jan 17, 2011. That post also sends you to this reflection of Dr. King and his political descendants. 

 MARTIN LUTHER KING, ECONOMIC EQUALITY AND THE 2012 ELECTION  "The Obama administration could help ameliorate some of the pain minorities are feeling in the jobs sector, but its focus on white-collar information jobs, academia and the green economy has done little to help this already underserved community.

"But will these failures have political consequences in 2012? It’s hard to say."  Trust me, this is no pro-Republican article.

Open Thread: Martin Luther King Jr.  "Black conservatives of national stature, such as Clarence Thomas, Ward Connerly, Michael Steele, Jesse Lee Peterson, Alan Keyes, Don Scoggins, Alvin Williams, Ken Blackwell, Thomas Sowell, Star Parker and Walter Williams are routinely castigated by the Black Supremacists, as "Uncle Toms" and "puppets." Yet these are the men and women who really understand King's central message about character."

Barack's Toy Box

When he isn't out playing with Air Force One, that is.

http://terrellaftermath.com/ 

Forget The Doctor Fix, We Need A Medicare Fix

Insideronline  "Despite the constant deferment of pay cuts, many physicians still find it challenging to see people covered by Medicare. They receive substantially less from the government to treat Medicare patients — just 81 percent of the private insurance rate.

"As a result, some physicians have abandoned the program altogether. A 2010 Houston Chronicle report revealed that more than 300 doctors in Texas stopped participating in Medicare between 2008 and 2010.

"The American Medical Association states that nearly a third of primary care docs limit the number of Medicare patients they’ll see. And the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) reports that the number of doctors refusing to take part in Medicare has doubled since 2004."

Alan Caruba: Obama Weakens the Military

Warning Signs  

"President Obama’s claim that “the tide of war is receding” is likely to rank with British PM Neville Chamberlains claim of “peace in our time” after a visit with Hitler.....

What is not in doubt is that this is the wrong time to reduce our military strength and capabilities. We did that after World War One and paid a price for it. President Obama’s policies put us in the same peril."

http://www.claybennett.com/pages2/war.html

The Price of Obama's Peace Dividend Is an Increased Risk of War (Quoted in the above article)  "You can be sure that the foreign offices of such nations are already drafting the diplomatic communiqués that will advise these smaller nations to remember that Uncle Sam will no longer be able to protect them.  Strip away all the diplomatic verbal gymnastics, and the message would be in about the same tone as one delivered by Tony Soprano to a small neighbor store: "Nice little country you have here.  Be a shame if anything happened to it, now wouldn't it?" "  Jim Yardley

Max Boot: Slashing America's Defense: A Suicidal Trajectory  "Some might argue (and have argued, and will continue to argue) that there is nothing wrong or damaging to the United States in this, that we always downsize our military after the conclusion of hostilities. But it is beyond bizarre that we are rushing to spend the peace dividend at a time when we are not actually at peace. Hostilities have not yet ended, as our troops are still in combat every day in Afghanistan and continue to conduct military operations against Somali pirates and al-Qaeda terrorists that put them in harm's way on a regular basis. But leave that aside, and simply consider the consequences of past drawdowns."  ....
"...[1950] was the year that Kim Il-sung chose to launch an invasion of South Korea, confident that the American armed forces would not stand in his way. He was almost right."     More...


Don't worry, be happy in the knowledge that our national security is being guaranteed by the likes of the Occupy Movement-endorsed national leaders, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Joe Biden, Maxine Waters and disciples of  Bill Ayres.
Sleep well.

SC Republicans Boo Newt Gingrich Over Romney Attacks

ABC News  "The booing came when Gingrich mentioned Romney’s name. I am told Gingrich was gently reprimanded by Huckabee who reminded him that the ground rules for the forum stipulated that the candidate were not allowed to attack each other.

"Every candidate except for Ron Paul took part in the forum, each of them appearing separately."

Illustration from donkeyhotey

David Axelrod Tries to Re-Wright History; Jeremiah Wright spewed for 1,000 weeks, not "ninety seconds," and Obama knew.

PJ Media  "President Barack Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, wants America to take the two-decade relationship between Obama, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and the Trinity United Church of Christ ... on Chicago’s south side off the electoral issues table in the 2012 presidential election campaign.

"Axelrod said as much in a speech delivered on January 10 as part of the Distinguished Speaker Series of Southern California. There is apparently no evidence that he expressed a similar desire relative to Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, Newt Gingrich’s and Rick Santorum’s Catholicism, or Rick Perry’s evangelical Christianity. What a surprise."

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Click on this below to see a page from the Trinity United "Pastor's Pages" of 2007 when this space was given to a known Hamas terrorist:

Click here.  

"Getting to the details is a column for another time, but the fact is that despite his departure from TUCC, Barack Obama took much of Jeremiah Wright’s mindset into the Oval Office, where it has contributed in both overt and subtle ways to the horrible havoc his administration has wrought.

"Sorry David Axelrod. There is no way you should get your way on this one — and hopefully you won’t."