That empty chair just won't go away, will it?

Father of fallen Marine upset by president's letter

Father of fallen Marine upset by president's letter

"Local 2 Investigates examined two other letters sent by Obama to families of soldiers killed in action. The one-page typed condolence letters were identical other than names, ranks and service branches. ...."Different presidents have approached the task in ways that are unique with their personalities and their priorities," University of Houston Professor and Historian Nancy Beck Young said.Young examined the letter written to Tom Logan, which arrived by UPS truck four months after his son's death."I would agree, this is a personal sacrifice and an impersonal condolence," Young said.Young said that it appears Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush, wrote more personal, individualized, sometimes hand-written notes to the families of soldiers.

Obama Honored Fallen SEALs By Sending Their Parents a Form Letter Signed By Electric Pen   "It was signed by an electric pen.  That’s not all.

Karen Vaughn reached out to the parents of the other SEALs killed in that crash.
Their letters were all the same.
Form letters – signed by an electric pen.  

Report: Bush Spent Hundreds of Hours Comforting Families of Fallen Soldiers  "According to The Washington Times, the self-described "comforter in chief" said it's his duty as president to try to help as "best as I humanly can a loved one who is in anguish."

"The Times notes that people familiar with Bush's routine say he has written letters personally to every one of the families of the more than 4,000 troops who have died in Afghanistan and Iraq. The task has taken a toll, and Bush has relied on his wife, Laura, for emotional support, he said."

This 2003 Democratic Underground post sees things differently, as they still choose to do today. Naturally the source this post refers to is, wait for it...MSNBC. 

Big Bird gets his feathers ruffled over Obama’s new attack ad   "Barack Obama is using Big Bird in his latest attack ad against Romney, but it looks like the big yellow bird got his feathers a little bit ruffled for being used in such a petty way! According to Breitbart, Sesame Street is revolting and tells Obama to take down the ad!"

Charles Krauthammer, Kirsten Powers rip ‘trivial,’ ‘out of touch’ Obama Big Bird ad
On Tuesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer said that the Obama campaign’s “Big Bird” commercial is so bad that it will actually hurt President Barack Obama in November. “I hope they run it until the end of time,” Krauthammer said. “This could be the worst ad I’ve ever seen.”
....“It’s a truly terrible ad,” Powers said. “When you watch it, it’s sort of shocking that they’re doing this, and it suggests a campaign that’s completely out of touch with what’s going on right now, not just because it’s trivial and there are serious things going on, but also because it’s just this out of nowhere messaging. What does Wall Street have to do with anything? That’s not what anybody is talking about. You know, and suddenly now, in trying to suggest that Mitt Romney is somehow like Bernie Madoff? I mean, I have a very low bar in terms of my expectations of politicians. But this is, this is especially low.”
I respect and trust Kirsten Powers enormously. She is a liberal, but truly even-handed in her opinions and can be brutally frank when discussing Democrats. She is far superior to the political hack that Alan Colmes is.

The House and Senate races are important too

Diane Sori   "This is of major importance because on the outside chance that Barack HUSSEIN Obama manages to usurp the office of the presidency again, if we control the House and the Senate he is rendered for all intents and purposes...impotent.  And that’s crucial because we now have three Supreme Court Justices that could retire over the next year, and if Obama is re-elected president the Court would then indisputably become under liberal control, and that will signal a very dangerous precedent for us all.

 "Therefore, we cannot turn a blind eye to the House and Senate races because any Supreme Court appointments must be confirmed by Congress, and we need good conservative representatives to uphold strong conservative values and ideals NOT liberals who function with a free for all mentality and will push through whomever Obama wants."

Hat tip to Rick Bulow at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

Godfather Politics long ago corroborated this critical fact  Thus he main reason that an incredibly stupid act by a Republican candidate can change the course of history.

"The current status of the US Supreme Court is a narrow 5 – 4 conservative slant.  "There are at least two justices that may well be retiring during the next several years.  Having a GOP controlled Senate should insure their replacements with conservative judges by blocking any liberal appointees.  Since the Supreme Court has taken on the role of redefining the US Constitution, and deciding what is and is not constitutional, the makeup of the court is extremely important." 

Lets hope this is a genuine poll and not one skewed to help warn Democrats to get  more serious.

Thomas Sowell – Race Riots If Obama Loses

WESTERN JOURNALISM   "KABC talk show host Larry Elder interviews one of America’s greatest living thinkers, Thomas Sowell, who predicts race riots if Obama loses."
Main message: Not only must Romney win but both houses of Congress must be Republican, or the win will be for naught.

Hat tip to Christy Waters, at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

Etch-A-Sketch! Hardy-har-har!

Walt Handelsman

Alan Caruba; Can Obama's Foreign Policies Suck Any Worse?

Warning Signs  "There’s an independent watchdog organization called Freedom House that performs a valuable service by surveying the nations of the world to identify those where freedom is still struggling to emerge. In its recent report, “Countries at the Crossroads 2012” it spells out where the trouble spots are and, without intending to, it is also a global map of Obama’s pathetic foreign affairs policies."
....
"I have never lived in an America that was not a world leader and, following WWII, a superpower. For more than four decades the U.S. faced off against the former Soviet Union until its collapse. The U.S. Navy has kept the sea lanes of the world open. The U.S. has gone to war when it was deemed the only option. "Obama has been the first President since George Washington to assert that “any world order that elevates one nation or group over another will inevitably fail.” A world that looks to the U.S. for leadership has witnessed the failure of Obama’s foreign policy."  (U.S. SOLDIERS URGED NOT TO SHOOT TALIBAN AT NIGHT SO LOCALS CAN SLEEP)

http://www.gopusa.com/cartoons/2012/09/20/obama-foreign-policy/

Obama’s foreign initiatives have been failures   ...."In his first year Obama dispatched two letters to Khamenei while keeping his distance from the revolutionary Green movement. He shook hands with Hugo Chavez. He launched a “reset” of relations with Russia’s Vladi­mir Putin and dispatched envoys to reason with Bashar al-Assad in Damascus. He delivered a sweeping address to the Muslim world from Cairo.

"The results have been meager. Khamenei spurned the U.S. outreach. Relations with Putin warmed for a time but now have grown cold again. In Egypt and across the Middle East, the president’s popularity is lower today than when he gave the Cairo address."....

An Incriminating Timeline: Obama Administration and Libya

Heritage: "On October 10, the committee will hold a hearing on events in Libya and seek answers from the State Department. Also on October 10, The Heritage Foundation will host a public panel discussion on the events in Libya titled, “Intelligence and Security Failure: Attacks in Benghazi and Across the Middle East Reveal Ongoing Threat of Terrorism.”

"To help our readers follow the path to tragedy on September 11 and its aftermath, below is a chronology of key events:"....Read more...

Yes,The Obama Phone Program is No Joke

The Obama Phone Program   

"Click Here to learn how to qualify. If you have further questions about the Obama Phone, visit our Obama Phone FAQ."

http://terrellaftermath.com/

We the people...

This video is attributed to Oklahoma State University, but they have disavowed it here:
Dear Forum Moderator, 
Regarding the “We the People” video on your website, please remove the reference to Oklahoma State University. The video was not endorsed or sanctioned by Oklahoma State University. Someone has forwarded the video and attached Oklahoma State’s name to their email. As a state-funded institution, it is not appropriate for Oklahoma State University to endorse such a message. If you have questions about this, please call or email me. Thank you for your immediate attention to this matter.

Megan Horton
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Related, if you think about it: Fr. George Welzbacher; Are we witnessing the establishment of a “state religion”?

"It would seem that, for the first time in the history of our republic, we are witnessing here in the U.S.A. the establishment of a state religion, a religion so crafted as to delight the heart of a secularist, a religion with clearly defined dogmas, compliance with whose demands is to be enforced with all of the coercive powers at the disposal of the federal government. Here are the dogmas of this new faith."...Read more...

Something important is happening in Massachusetts

American Thinker  "The Senate race between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren is being shaped by the efforts of a blogger, Professor William Jacobson, of Legal Insurrection. This very high profile race reveals how important the internet has become to political discourse.  Once upon a time, only newspapers could launch inquiries and crusades that determined the fate of powerful politicians, but now a single, intelligent, skilled, and determined individual like Jacobson can take on the might of the liberal establishment in Massachusetts...
....
"Thanks to the internet, unlike 1992, we can push back on the feints intended to bury stories. And thanks to the tenacious and skilful research of William Jacobson, those implicated in the media manipulation face some accountability, if only public shame, and possibly more.

"The times, they are a changin'."

I also enjoy the bumper stickers Mr. Jacobsen regularly features in his blog:

And his Tony Branco cartoons:

Surprise, Surprise, Hugo Chavez Wins

politics.gather.com  "While the result was closer than in the past, the reelection of Hugo Chavez shouldn't surprise to anyone. After all through his manipulation of the Venezuelan Constitution and the fact he controls all the wealth in the country he is pretty hard to beat. The question arises is if this could happen here in the United States?

"Could the United States be ruled by a "President for Life" if Barack Obama gets re-elected? It could be possible. After all Obama has made a habit of skirting the United States Constitution through executive orders and illegal appointments, why couldn't he do the same with election laws?

"One of the reasons cited in the Time article on the election is:

They'll claim that Chávez's socialist crusade has made so many jobs dependent on el comandante that most Venezuelans felt fearful of employer retribution if they didn't vote for him.    Read more...

 Hat tip to Paul Roy at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

Obama-Jay Carney congratulates socialist Hugo Chavez on his win in Venezuela Election

Let's look back to when a new, amateur President Obama first ventured into the world of foreign policy with these articles:

What did that 2009 Chavez-Obama handshake say to the world?
"But to some of his critics, the handshake was a sign of American weakness."
Dick Cheney  "accused Obama of taking an apologetic tone about past U.S. policy on his trips to Europe and Latin America."

Obama wins Hugo Chavez endorsement: 'I’d vote for Obama'  This speaks volumes. Let me repeat that once more in red letters:

Benneton ad: popcrunch.com/Benneton

Obama wins Hugo Chavez endorsement: 'I’d vote for Obama'

" "Chavez also said that if Obama could, he'd return the favor. 

  "Obama is a good guy ... I think that if Obama was from Barlovento or some Caracas neighborhood, he'd vote for Chavez."   That he just might do.

Good question: Why does President Obama ham it up with the likes of Hugo Chavez and yet seems afraid to talk to Fox News?

MsUnderestimated just posted this 2009 Ramirez cartoon

More recently, Marco Rubio calls Obama 'ALARMINGLY NAIVE' ON CHAVEZ'

Nevertheless, the populace endorsed once again ------- stated aim of converting -------- into a socialist state.  Fill in your choice of words.