Obama’s Appeal to Emotion Versus Reason

Jonathan S. Tobin  "Gun control advocates lament this change and say, as the president did today, that it is a function of forgetfulness. That’s why, as Seth wrote earlier, the Michael Bloomberg-funded campaign to promote the issue is seeking to rekindle outrage over Sandy Hook with emotion-laden commercials depicting the parents of the victims. But the problem here is not a lack of concern for the memory of the slain or callousness on the part of growing numbers of Americans. It is the fact that the case for the president’s proposals relies primarily on just this sort of emotion rather than reason. The longer we have to think about it, the less sense these restrictions make to people."

I discussed my problem with guns in this previous post: Seeking an effective argument FOR gun control
 Here, two respected writers discuss the case against taking away individual firearms from Americans. Yes, it is true that if guns did not exist everywhere in this nation those little children in Sandy Hook would be living right now and I only wish that were the case. But it is not and there are violent people out there in their thousands and they are armed; willing and lusting to watch innocent people die in bunches by their hands. How, exactly do you gun-control advocates plan to remove those weapons from their blood-thirsty hands?
I will honestly look for a reasoned argument FOR gun control that contains effective means for keeping us safe from those who carry weapons illegally and are willing to do us harm. Cartoons showing crazed, wild-eyed gun owners don't wash.
As yet, I have seen only politically correct, emotional responses to the issue that have no value other than simply making a politician look as if they are doing something. TD

"Brick" Obama: The President Who Can't Shoot Straight

American Thinker  "Know what I think? He choked. After missing the first couple in front of his young audience, he became so unnerved he lost his cool and flubbed the rest away. Other than providing those of us not among his admirers with something to chuckle about it, adds to the mounting evidence that this guy is not, and never has been genuine in any way, merely a construct of the liberal media and the Democratic political machine. As we have long held, he's a lightweight in over his head and trying to perform above his limited capacity in both politics and basketball." Russ Vaughn

Limbaugh says we have bigger things to worry about in America that Obama laying bricks  "Meanwhile, folks, we're in real trouble in this country. We've got cultural rot. We've got economic decay, and this kind of coverage of the president, right there in the middle of Limbaugh Theorem.  All of these destructive things are taking place in our economy, and he's totally divorced from it, not attached to it in any way, shape, manner, or form other than the perception that he's working hard trying to fix it all."

I think only North Korea has such a cult of personality as this:
Creepy: Image of Obama Adorns White House Basketballs

"Part of the festivities today at the annual White House Easter egg roll is a basketball challenge. The balls they’re using are adorned with the image of President Obama. It’s pretty creepy if you ask me. Jake Tapper has the report, but doesn’t mention who paid for these basketballs."

• H/T White House Dossier
• Update – Linked by The Other McCain – thanks, Smitty!
• Update: Linked by Lady Liberty and TOM’s Live at Five – thanks!
• Update: Scared Monkeys linked and has video of Obama shooting and missing with his strange balls.
• Update: Linked by Say Anything – thanks!

And  I thought Bill Clinton was self-absorbed!

My week of buying only Israeli goods

Odd, that this excellent article is in an anti-Israel site, devoted to boycotting all things Israeli. Their reasons for publishing it in their site? Here is their logic:

We thought we would include this article because in a way its a vindication of our research, that even our enemies have come to rely on it. Hopefully it will encourage our friends in the pro-justice camp, be they Muslims or non-Muslims, to make use of our research in the fight for justice.

Alex Kasriel, Jewish Chronicle  "Trades union Unison recently passed a motion to boycott Israeli goods until the country withdraws to its 1967 borders. It also proposed that the UK ends trade agreements with Israel. Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre chief executive Lorna Fitzsimons argued: “The whole thrust of rebuilding Israel and a new state of Palestine is about economic engagement, economic reconstruction. The area needs investment…”
"If she is right, we should all be embracing Israeli produce. So, in a symbolic act of defiance, I have pledged to use only goods produced by the companies the boycotters would have us avoid."

Want to support Israel? This article can lead you to many Israeli products you may not have known about. You should know that Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News invests in Israeli products.

FLASHBACK: Clinton in ‘96: ‘I Have Long Opposed Governmental Recognition of Same-Gender Marriages’

toonpool

CNS News  "Former President Bill Clinton, writing in an op ed in the Washington Post last month, said that he signed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in 1996 because it would stave off efforts to amend the U.S.
Constitution to limit marriage to the union of one man and one woman."

That settles it. If Bill said it, it must be true. Depending on what "it" means, of course.

Breitbart on The Cult of Cesar Chavez

Big Government   "Time and again, the left is shocked when the freedom and prosperity-hating personalities that they idolize and the statist systems that they dream up descend into chaos, madness, and violence. As shown in the Stephen K. Bannon film Occupy Unmasked, the peace and love movement of the 1960s supported the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge, while Occupy Wall Street invariably became the Black Bloc rioters running though city streets and breaking windows.

"Given the documented trajectory of "well-meaning" leftist movements and their leaders, it should come as no surprise that the ugly truth about Cesar Chavez is just starting to seep into the public consciousness twenty years after his death."
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But catch this:
"Obviously, the biggest impact of Chavez has been on the presidency of Barack Obama. On the Huffington Post, Chavez biographer Randy Shaw said that the Chavez organizing and fundraising tactics “are an integral part of the Obama campaign.”

TheComicalConservative

"Three states celebrate Cesar Chavez Day as an official holiday. In 2011, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation declaring March 31st “Cesar Chavez Day.” Let’s hope that people begin to learn the truth about Cesar Chavez, the false god that Google chose to celebrate on Easter Sunday." 

Not an April Fools’ joke: Obama announces National Financial Capability Month

The TEA Party

By Jim Treacher at the Daily Caller  Is this irony, hubris or just plain obtuseness?

CNS News:

President Barack Obama, who has increased the national debt by $53,377 per household, has proclaimed April “National Financial Capability Month,” during which his administration will do things such as teach young people “how to budget responsibly.”
“I call upon all Americans to observe this month with programs and activities to improve their understanding of financial principles and practices,” Obama said in an official proclamation released Friday…
The president is required by law to submit a budget proposal for the next fiscal year by the first Monday in February.

Here is the video that I expect to go viral as a symbol of the entire Obama administration:

President Barack Obama, the greatest man in the history of the world

While millions of Americans celebrated Easter and Passover, Obama took time out of his “busy” day to celebrate Barack Obama.

"Chris Matthews called Obama “the perfect man,” but at some point some serious questions must be asked of the man who the media still thinks created God in Obama’s image.

"Forget perfect. Is Barack Obama even good?  Read more:

Here is a related video from the 2009 grooveyard of Obama tributes which we offer up to him, er, Him as an offering to His Magnificence.
 
All sources we tried had the commercial at the end. Sorry.

Obama Image Machine Whirs as Press Access Narrows

NY Times  "A photo of the Obamas hugging that was released on Election Day 2012 has become the world's most popular tweet on Twitter. A dressed-up version of Barack Obama's State of the Union speech, packed with charts and graphs, is huge on YouTube. A playful picture of the president cavorting with a 3-year-old in a Spiderman costume is a favorite online. 

     

"It's all courtesy of the Obama image machine, serving up a stream of words, images and videos that invariably cast the president as commanding, compassionate and on the ball. In this world, Obama's family is always photogenic, first dog Bo is always well-behaved and the vegetables in the South Lawn kitchen garden always seem succulent.

"You'll have to look elsewhere for bloopers, bobbles or contrary points of view"

Via Weasel Zippers

Foolin’ Around

http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/04/branco-cartoon-foolin-around/

ObamaCare; the worlds worst blind date

 

White libs more racist than white supremacists

Mychal Massie  ...."They publicly resent women who do not ascribe to the mentality of the feminist agenda. When have you heard a white liberal speak praisingly of a woman who is pro-family, anti-abortion and who openly advocates that wives treat their husbands with biblical respect?

"White liberals are driven by grievances both real and imagined. Their solutions to problems they identify as injustices to blacks and inequality for women is to blame the historically white male establishment. Their solutions are reparations based, i.e., even if there were, in fact, one person injured as they define same, for them that is empirical evidence of a systemic racism and/or gender bias. Ergo, all persons of color and women are entitled to special dispensations based on a pandemic of social injustice.

"I am prepared to argue that the only reason white liberals bow before Obama is because he is half-Kenyan with a Muslim name who harbors the deepest of resentment for traditional America. I would further argue that the only reason they embrace his wife is because she behaves in a way that is commensurate with their low opinions of blacks."

White House won’t condemn Easter sermon charging ‘religious right’ with racism

Washington Examiner "White House Press Secretary Jay Carney walked a line between refusing to criticize the pastor who charged the “religious right” with racism while distancing President Obama from the remarks by emphasizing that the Obama family only attended  the church service due to tradition.
" “I wasn’t there and I have not spoken with the president,” Carney told reporters. “I know that he enjoys going to easter(sic) services with his family. “In keeping with the tradition that dates back many presidencies, he went right across the park here to St. John’s Episcopal Church and attended services there.”
"During the Easter service, the Rev. Dr. Luis Leon said that  “It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back … for blacks to be back in the back of the bus … for women to be back in the kitchen … for immigrants to be back on their side of the border,” according to the pool report."

Rush Limbaugh weighed in on this today as well.

"The president of the United States chose a preacher whose sermon was devoted to claiming that Republicans want to force blacks to ride at the back of the bus again, a preacher who, in his sermon, said Republican want to make women go back to the kitchen, and the Obamas were probably flashing back to the old Reverend Wright days and thinking, "Man, it's good to be home."  Jesus' resurrection and Easter. Now, that's for The Bible TV show on Sunday night.  When you go to an Obama church service, all you're gonna get is Republicans being blasted."

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".... the president inspires it, inspires racism.  It may well be the case.  I'm sure that the "person" there -- the Episcopalian person, Luis Leon -- knew that Obama was coming in advance. You know he'd have to for security and all that. So he probably said, "All right, I'm gonna really rev it up now."  So Obama's presence inspires this guy to go all divisive, all racist and start jamming on the Republicans for wanting blacks in the back of the bus and women in the back of the kitchen, when he can't name a single person who does. But the president of the United States, you may be right, may have inspired that in this preacher, and then sat there and listened to it -- and, by definition, approvingly so, by not getting up and leaving it, and by not criticizing it when he walks out.  Which does not surprise me.  I know that this president's not interested in unifying people.  But a lot of people think he is."

Obama has brought out the worst of this nation and caused divisions that will be a long time healing.