Obama; our demagogue-in-chief

How much damage will this man do to America's institutions and way of life if given another four years?
 Roger Kimball; Barracking Your Way to the Top  "It is one of the curiosities of language that the transitive verb “barrack” (chiefly British, origin unknown) means to “shout or jeer at.” For that is precisely what our Barack, the one now occupying the White House, has descended to in his campaign against Mitt Romney."


PowerLine; Can a Candidate Lie His Way to the Presidency?   "The Obama campaign’s current Bain Capital smear, which many media outlets have taken up, ranks with Quemoy, Matsu and Checkers as absurd campaign “issues.” But it is all that a flailing, out-of-ammo campaign has to offer. Michael Ramirez comments:"

Channeling Elizabeth Warren: Heritage; Obama Tells Entrepreneurs “You Didn’t Build” Your Business  "It is this view of successful businesses—essentially, “You owe us”—that drives Obama’s continued attacks on the country’s job creators in the form of tax hikes and regulations."  This is the logical outcome of Obama's philosophy


American Thinker symposium; 'Somebody else made that happen' - a symposium (updated)  "In chiding and insulting the rich, telling them that they "didn't get there on (their) own," the President has moved the economic debate as framed by his campaign and his Presidency to a new kindergarten intellectual low.  It really takes talent to shoehorn this much ignorance and hate and misplaced anger into such few words.  And yet he did."


Boortz: Obummer's Class Warfare Continues  "A few questions for Dear Ruler ..

• When was the last time you went to a poor person to get a job?

• How does the government “spend” money on tax cuts unless it believes that the money belongs to the government and not the people who earn it?

• Who said anything about gutting education?  Just because education isn’t administered by the government doesn’t mean that you are against education.

• Please explain to me how you “raise middle-class taxes” by wanting all the current tax rates to be extended?  Only ObamaLogic could make sense of that one.

 Why the Democrats Want to Turn Bain Capital into Bane Capital  "CNN answers the question partway, in its debunking of the Big Bain Lie. It’s worth noting that most of CNN’s sources in this piece are Democrats from Bain. They’re very familiar with the timeline, and they all say that the Obama campaign is full of bovine waste."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/07/14/101023

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Ron Paul gets 'smoked' in Nebraska

Politico  "It looks like Ron Paul isn’t going to be officially nominated for the presidency in Tampa.

His backers failed to win a plurality of delegate slots at the Nebraska GOP convention Saturday, leaving the Texas congressman short of the support necessary to have his name placed into contention at the national convention.

"According to national party rules, a candidate needs a plurality of the delegates in at least five states to have his name presented for the nomination – by falling short in Nebraska, the last state to hold its convention, Paul came up one state short."

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With his foreign policy, he could run as a Democrat or even with the Peace and Freedom Party.

Updated! Egyptian Protesters Have Some Surprisingly Good Advice For Obama During Clinton’s Visit With Islamist President…

Weasel Zippers
The story: Hillary Clinton Meets With Egypt’s New Muslim Brotherhood President…
And that led to this:  Clinton to urge Egypt leaders to complete transition  "Egypt's peace treaty with Israel has been a cornerstone of regional security for a generation and ushered in an era of extensive US foreign aid to Egypt, now running at about $1.55 billion a year."
And Clinton expects the Islamists to continue this?

"People hold signs as they protest the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton outside the Four Season Hotel, on July 14, 2012, in Cairo, Egypt. Clinton is visiting Egypt to meet with the nation’s newly elected president and other government and civil leaders to speak about the relationship between the United States and the new democracy. (AFP PHOTO/BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI)"


Obama would much rather anger Conservatives and Fox News than to stand up to enemies who might cause him trouble. Obama is the Ensign Pulver of this world. TD




Update! Egyptians pelt Clinton motorcade with tomatoes  "Protesters chanted: "Monica, Monica", a reference to Former President Bill Clinton's extra-marital affair. Some chanted: "leave, Clinton", Egyptian security officials said.

"It was not clear who the protesters were or what political affiliations they had. Protesters outside Clinton's hotel on Saturday night chanted anti-Islamist slogans, accusing the United States of backing the Muslim Brotherhood's rise to power."

The Obamites don't seem to get along too well with the Middle-Eastern John Q. Publics, do they?

Illegal Immigrants

Why Illegal Immigrants Killing People Is Especially Galling: An Observation  "But when an illegal immigrant enters this country, and then does something wrong — like, say, killing somebody — the argument from illegal immigration supporters is always the same. They will ask: “Are illegal immigrants more likely than citizens to kill people?”

"Here’s my answer.
"I don’t care.
"They’re not supposed to be here in the first place." More here.  Patterico


Daily Beast; Supreme Court Immigration Ruling in Arizona v. U.S. Got It Backward  "The real states’-rights issue in immigration policy is whether local governments can protect their residents from harsh and overreaching federal enforcement, writes Robert Morgenthau."


National Disgrace: Illegal Aliens in Good American Jobs!  "The notion that all illegals are in jobs that Americans simply will not do is self-serving rubbish, promulgated by reckless Democrats and RINOs who could care less about the suffering of citizens, and whom look to imported illegals as a resource for growing the Democrat voter base.
"Illegal aliens who are in jobs that would be coveted by unemployed Americans, are guilty of not only violating our borders and established immigration laws, but are also equally guilty of stealing from American families."

Bing

Examiner.com: Is Obama aiding illegal aliens to vote for him?  "It's apparent that President Obama considers Americans, who want to enforce illegal immigration laws in America, to be the enemy. Even more revealing is the fact that with so much riding on the 2012 elections, Obama decided to take the time to speak to people who shouldn't be voting — legal and illegal immigrants.

"But the dirty little secret is there exists an enormous amount of proof that non-citizens are being registered to vote and they're being registered as Democrats. And our political leaders know it."

‘Joe Biden: VP of Comedy Tour’

Newsbusters  "Joe Biden has started a new tour, a “VP of Comedy Tour,” FNC’s Bret Baier noticed Thursday night in ending his show by playing a compilation put together by ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Kimmel’s announcer promised Biden’s “every laugh” and “every gaffe.”

"That would be impossible to contain to a short montage – or really one of any length -- but this is an entertaining packaging of Biden at his most-embarrassing."

Here is a bonus for you: Jay Leno and his Joe Biden jokes  Here are two:

As you know, John McCain is an older white haired man who has been in the Senate over 20 years, voted for the Iraq war, and said Barack Obama did not have the experience to be president. I'm sorry, that’s our intro for next week when Joe Biden is on. I’m sorry, I got confused.  

And out on the campaign trail this week, once again, John McCain spoke about the nightmare of being stuck in a tiny 8 x 10 room, thinking he might go crazy. Not in Vietnam; when he got stuck in the Capitol elevator with Joe Biden and he wouldn't shut up.

Joe Biden Plastic Surgery from Plastic Celebrity

Thanks Barack… Obamacare Will Add 3.8% Medicare Tax on Sales of Homes, Condos, Townhouses and Rentals

Gateway Pundit  Remember how Bush 41 caught the bejeebers over his 'read my lips" pledge?

“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”

"The GOP Conference Blog reported:

"This new ObamaCare tax is the first time the government will apply a 3.8 percent tax on unearned income. This new tax on home sales and unearned income and other Medicare taxes raise taxes more than $210 billion to pay for ObamaCare. The National Association of Realtors called this new Medicare tax on unearned income “destructive” and “ill-advised” and warned it would hurt job creation."

President Obama wants lower rates for GE and J.P. Morgan than for small business.

Wall Street Journal  "So the 2013 tax cliff is a big enough economic problem that President Obama now wants to postpone it for some taxpayers. But it isn't so big that he's willing to curb his desire to raise taxes on tens of thousands of job-creating businesses.

"That's the essence of Mr. Obama's announcement Monday that he wants Congress to extend current tax rates for a year, but only for those making less than $200,000 a year. This is a political gambit designed to protect Democrats who are starting to feel queasy about opposing GOP plans to extend all of the Bush rates as the economy weakens again. The ploy could help Democrats if Republicans fall for it, but it won't reduce the economic damage to the country."

"They can also put Senate Democrats on the spot by forcing them to choose between extending rates for everyone and accepting Mr. Obama's tax increase. Republicans can win this debate by stressing growth over fairness and jobs over income redistribution."

Hat tip to Patriot Post

The Islamist ascendancy

Charles Krauthammer  "Genuinely democratic rule may yet come to Arab lands. Radical Islam is the answer to nothing, as demonstrated by the repression, social backwardness and civil strife of Taliban Afghanistan, Islamist Sudan and clerical Iran.
"As for moderate Islamism, if it eventually radicalizes, it too will fail and bring on yet another future Arab Spring where democracy might actually be the answer (as it likely would have been in Iran, had the mullahs not savagely crushed the Green Revolution). Or it might adapt to modernity, accept the alternation of power with secularists and thus achieve by evolution an authentic Arab-Islamic democratic norm."

Jerusalem Post

What’s to become of the British Army?

DoD Buzz  "The British Army defeated Napoleon, the Kaiser 
and Hitler, but it was no match for David Cameron."
....
"And even though the British Army of 2020 will be about 41 percent the size of the British Expeditionary Force evacuated from Dunkirk in 1940 — our math, not the MoD’s — the official view is that for its size, it shall be the best damn army in the world."
....
"At most it may kick in a few brigades to join another U.N. or NATO crusade somewhere down the line, but only as a supporting power. The painful lessons of Iraq, Afghanistan and to a lesser extent, Libya, will probably stay with European and American leaders for a long time."

Wikigallery: Tribute To The British Army. This painting is not for commercial use, but since I do the Tunnel Wall for

 absolutely nothing,  I trust we're all on safe ground here. The Tunnel Dweller.

God bless the British, who stood alone against the Axis in WW2 for years, desperately needing help from her allies, which was a long time coming. Just as the pacifists in the UK prevented the British Army from preparing for the coming war, so too did Roosevelt face some similar obstacles. 

There will be fewer troops in the British Army than there were on this beach at Dunkirk:

Imbedded reporter and blogger Michael Yon posted this report on the British Army in Afghanistan;  "The soldiers are living like animals at a little rat’s nest called FOB Gibraltar. They call it “Gib.” Named after the lynchpin of British naval dominance in the Mediterranean, this cluster of mud huts in the middle of hostile territory is more like Fort Apache, Afghanistan. The British soldiers from C-Company 2 Para live in ugly conditions, fight just about every day, and morale is the best I have seen probably anywhere." more...
Who is Michael Yon?


Please know, Brits, that here in the colonies there is so much more respect for Winston Churchill throughout the land than has been exhibited by the current occupant of our White House.
If you plan to have your troops try burning Washington again any time soon, we'll make sandwiches for them.( I offered tea once, but one Brit said our tea was pretty bad and that he preferred we just serve coffee.) The Tunnel Dweller

Some observations on advertising

Neal Boortz   "Also .. in the arena of racially politically correct advertising … you do know that there is some sort of an unwritten law that you can only have so many white people in a TV spot without adding in a minority.  One of the most absurd examples is a commercial – I have no idea what they’re advertising – featuring two adults in the front of a car and a bunch of kids in the back.  The kids suddenly erupt into their cover version of some song.  I guess the critical white mass was reached in the back of that car, because one of the kids is black.  The viewer is left wondering whether or not he might have been abducted.

"Now wasn’t all of that deliciously insensitive? 
"I really love this stuff … and I can keep this up even after my show is over!"
I'm, like, so gonna, like, miss Mr. Boortz when he is off the air. 

Obama guts welfare reform

Nice Deb; Saturday Movie Matinee: Obama Flips on Welfare Reform   "As we ponder Obama’s latest unilateral move to gut welfare reform, let us remember what he told the gullible Pastor Rick Warrren of the Saddleback Church just four short years ago: “We have to have work as a centerpiece of any social policy”."
NiceDeb then links us to this column and video by Greg Hengler 
Obama's Flip-Flop-Flip on Welfare Reform  "A little something I threw together to highlight this guy's latest move giving states an option out of the welfare reforms passed under Bill Clinton (read: Newt Gingrich) in 1996. The food stamp "voting block" has doubled since Obama's election--do you think this "special interest" group is being pandered to?"

Bing

NRO; Obama Ends Welfare Reform As We Know It  "In the past, state bureaucrats have attempted to define activities such as hula dancing, attending Weight Watchers, and bed rest as “work.” Welfare reform instituted work standards to block these dodges. Now that the Obama administration has abolished those standards, we can expect “work” in the TANF program to mean anything but work.

" "Obama’s new welfare decree guts sound anti-poverty policy. The administration tramples on the actual legislation passed by Congress and seeks to impose its own policy choices — a pattern that has become all too common in this administration." "

Barack Obama is proving an embarrassing amateur in confronting the Russian bear

Even our erstwhile allies overseas recognize it now; The United Kingdom Telegraph notes that...   "Resolve, not reset, should be America’s approach to the Russian regime. As Ronald Reagan demonstrated, the world is a far safer place with robust US leadership, with a firm willingness to stand up to the enemies of freedom. This is a message seemingly lost on the current president, for whom deference and decline have become the order of the day."