Hillary favorability: Drip, drip, drip …

Legal Insurrection     "Cumulative effect of years of scandals, down to 39% overall and falling among Dems."

"Long ago and far away I predicted that the effect on Hillary’s presidential campaign of the multiple scandals would be cumulative.
"Since a large portion of the electorate, the younger generation, didn’t know the real Hillary of the 1990s, Hillary’s vulnerability was that the manufactured “nice grandma” and glass-ceiling breaker image of her would be supplanted by the controlling, paranoid figure of the 1990s.
"There is increasing evidence that the scandals, particularly the email scandal, is having an effect.
You can see from the HuffPo Pollster chart that Hillary has been on a horrible favorability trajectory for the past two years:

 

"There is more evidence today, in an AP-Gfk Poll that shows Hillary’s favorability dropping to 39% among all voters, and even dropped among Democrats (though still high):" . . .

We interviewed the Obama voter at right who said he was all for Hillary. 
"Count me among the 39% ", he proclaimed.
 At least we think that was what he said.

Daniel Pipes: The Left is the Biggest Threat to the United States

What does Daniel Pipes, President of the Middle East Forum, consider the biggest threat to the U.S.?    Via Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

Thanks to Edward W Wagner, Massachusetts

Holding Hillary up

thefederalistpapers.org.  Hat tip to Jim Couch

NAACP man wants Stone Mountain carving destroyed. (UPDATED)

Pretty much as ISIS is destroying antiquities in the Middle East. And to hear them all explain their reasons, it will sound reasonable to pliable ears; "skulls full of mush" if I may quote Rush Limbaugh.

 

They have already destroyed many archaeological relics, deeming them pagan

Now, on to this line of reasoning in a more civilized culture: ours:

ABC News"The president of the Atlanta NAACP says the group wants Confederate symbols — including a giant carving at Stone Mountain Park — removed from all government-owned property and plans to pursue making those changes during the next legislative session.

. .  .

"Dylann Storm Roof, a white man who was photographed with the flag several times, is charged in the shooting deaths and authorities are investigating the killings as a hate crime.

Stone Mountain — roughly 15 miles east of downtown Atlanta — features a large carving of Jefferson Davis, who was president of the Confederacy, and generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. The Ku Klux Klan also once held notorious cross-burnings and organizational meetings there." . . .

Why Does the Left Treat Islamic Terrorism with More Nuance Than the Confederate Flag?  . . . "Claude Berube, director of the Naval Academy Museum, recently compared the rush to dig up Confederate graves and tear down statues in the U.S. to Islamic iconoclasm. The Taliban blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas on the grounds that they violate Islamic law. The terrorist group Islamic State is ransacking historic monuments for both God and mammon." . . .

Is the display of the ISIS flag considered a "hate crime"?

Atlanta NAACP Advocates Destroying Stone Mountain Confederate Monument 
. . . "At the heart of these actions is the insistence that offensive memories of history will be erased and a pure ideological creed established. Civilization will be purified from the sins of the past, and a new day will dawn. The destruction is all futile, of course, as human nature and human history will remain unchanged. History will go on much as it always has -- a mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly, be it South or North.

"But if you think those who wish to destroy history will stop with destroying monuments and statues; that their lust for purification will be assuaged once the Stone Mountain monument is blown up, you would be terribly wrong." . . .

 Erasing History. Democrats try and attach their evil past to republicans via the confederate flag . Cartoon by A.F.Branco

The compassionate heart of Barack Obama

http://legalinsurrection.com/

Obama Writes Personal Letters to 46 Felons; No Contact with Kathryn Steinle’s Family
. . . " Like the 46 felons to whom Obama wrote, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez had served time for non-violent offenses, some of them drug-related. After his arrest, Lopez-Sanchez, who had been deported five times to Mexico, confessed to shooting Steinle as she walked with her family at the popular tourist spot."  . . .

And he wants them to vote!  He actually said so.

Obama sweeps history toward the Mullahs

 Obama spikes Iran Nuke football; "Obama runs to Thomas Friedman at NY Times for softball interview. "

Legal Insurrection

 

"I can’t recall an event since I started this website in 2008 that has been as historically consequential as the nuclear deal the United States and five other countries just struck with Iran.

"It is the sweep of history.

"The deal is Obama’s deal. He drove it, he crafted it with John Kerry as the scrivener, and he pulled the other powers along with it.

"The defects in the Iran nuclear deal are being exposed in great detail. Those problems are serious and real.

"But what has troubled me the most as I read through the varied technical analyses is the same thing that has bothered me since June 2009, when the Iranian people rose up against the Mullah regime after fraudulent elections.

"Obama was silent for weeks in the face of brutal regime oppression and repression, and then structured a response designed to keep the Mullahs in power." . . .

"I wrote about it at the time, Negotiations Preconditioned On Mullah Rule:

During the [2008] campaign and after assuming the presidency, Barack Obama repeatedly stated his willingness to engage in negotiations with Iran without any preconditions. But that was and is not true.

The events of the past two weeks [of June 2009], including the revelation that Obama sent a letter in May to “Supreme Leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, reveal that there is one precondition to negotiations which Obama willingly embraces: United States acceptance of Mullah rule in Iran in perpetuity. . . .

More.

Obama had to choose between war and dishonor. He chose.

Obama Chose Dishonor and War    "President Obama had to choose between dishonor and war, and he chose dishonor. Now we will have a war. In order to establish a legacy for his failed foreign policy, he has dishonored U.S. allies in the Middle East, including Israel and the Persian Gulf states, by deliberately abandoning their security concerns by paving the way for Iran to develop a nuclear weapon.

"These words are those of Churchill after the Munich Agreement was signed, when Britain and France believed that handing Czechoslovakia to Hitler was the only way to save the world from another war. It is regarded as the shameful culmination of the Allied refusal to confront Nazi aggression and gave Hitler what he wanted in exchange for his verbal promise of “peace in our time” as Neville Chamberlain called it." . . . Read more

. . . Now each one of us, Jews and non- Jews alike, have a responsibility to exert pressure on the U.S. Congress to prevent it from signing off on the deal. A two-thirds majority in both houses is needed to bypass a probable presidential veto. The Congress must stop the bad deal with Iran and U.S. Jews must choose Israel’s survival over Obama’s legacy.


"Otherwise, future generations will ask what you did to save the Jewish State when President Obama, the modern-day Chamberlain, gave Jihadist Iran a nuclear weapon."

Mark Steyn continues in the Munich vein here: Far Worse Than Munich

. . . But I thought that comparison was unfair to Chamberlain. He was an honorable man who loved his country and just happened to get the greatest issue of the day wrong. You can't say the same of Obama: . . .

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NRO Editorial: Don’t Try Trusting Iran   . . . "The Obama administration risibly maintains that the only alternative to the agreement would be war. The alternative would have been tightening the screws on Iran until it came to the table willing to sign a reasonable deal and forswear its terrorist activities across the globe. Other powers may be itching to undo the sanctions regime now, but the Bush and Obama administrations had managed to get them on board, pushing Iran close to economic collapse in 2013 — before President Obama let the mullahs off the hook with an interim deal."

Could the Iran Deal Be the Worst International Accord of All Time?

Want Him to Enforce Laws That Would Have Kept Kate Steinle Alive? Governor Jerry Brown Thinks You’re a ‘Troglodyte’

Victor Davis Hanson

 

"In California, if one assumes that the law as written should be followed, one is dubbed either a cave-dweller or an apostate. Meanwhile, sophisticated non-troglodytes in San Francisco have a sheriff — with a criminal record of his own — release a repeat felon and often-deported illegal alien, and that act is proof of his enlightenment.

"Did Ms. Steinle rate any editorialization from the president or his administration in the manner of Trayvon Martin or Michael Brown? In all these cases, the allegation is that the state was culpable for the death of an innocent. But Ms. Steinle had no prior criminal record or brushes with the law, and was walking and not in a fight or in the process of being arrested, so therefore her death did not rise to the level of a Ferguson or Baltimore “teachable moment.”

"Last week in Canada, the governor next turned his wrath on supposed “climate change deniers.” (Note the cheap moral equivalence between skepticism of man-made global warming and denial of the Holocaust.) He included them again in his growing categories of pre-civilized cave-dwellers. Brown scoffed to his more sophisticated Canadian audience:

We have a lot of troglodytes south of the [Canadian] border.

. . . 

Iran Nuclear Deal Is The Worst Accord America Has Ever Made*

IBD Editorial " . . . Now that the long-feared leap of faith with terrorist Iran has arrived, a tragic fact is exposed: The Iranian deceptiveness we can count on is already matched by our president's own deceitful announcement.
As expected, President Obama has already begun to bully Congress. "I will veto any legislation that prevents the successful implementation of this deal," he promised in his announcement of the pact he claims will stop Iran from obtaining nuclear arms.
"I welcome a robust debate in Congress on this issue, and I welcome scrutiny of the details of this agreement" — that is, as long as afterward you agree to this badder-than-bad deal." . . .   Full article here.

*Well, except maybe for some we made with Stalin at the end of WW2

To show you what America is dealing with, here is one liberal's response to this article:

trueblues Pericles • 6 hours ago

Only Israel and the republicans are telling the truth? go away, you war mongers. This is a very good deal with Iran and Iran will be a better ally than Israel.

Catch that? " Iran will be a better ally than Israel."  True, I have become sick of those "Death to America" rallies in Tel Aviv.
Those not uneducated will recall that Churchill was called a warmonger by the British left when he wanted to prepare for war with Hitler in the late 1930s. TD

Iran isn't laughing AT us; they're laughing WITH us

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Dealing from the Bottom

 

. . . " In return for all this impressive promising, Obama's tough deal has given the Iranians very, very little. All we have to do is remove all economic sanctions from Iran, immediately ship them tens of billions of dollars, allow them to keep feverishly spinning and enriching nuclear materials in their cyclotrons, supply them with additional and more sophisticated cyclotrons, and allow them to continue development of ballistic missiles and weapons systems." . . .

. . .  In response, Obama has assured Israel that "if you like your existence on the map, you can keep it. Period. Case closed!" . . .

Meanwhile the Obama administration can go on to more important things it cares about:

 Photo edited for, um, family reasons. TD

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hopenchangecartoons

Meanwhile over at Investors Business Daily,"trueblues" has many comments like this:

trueblues Pericles • 6 hours ago

Only Israel and the republicans are telling the truth? go away, you war mongers. This is a very good deal with Iran and Iran will be a better ally than Israel.

Should Christians reinterpret the Bible to accept same-sex marriage?

" With that kind of forecast, it is no wonder that many Christians are scratching their heads and mumbling under their breaths, "well, maybe there is some semi-plausible though non-obvious way to rediscover the Bible as friendly to gay marriage!"

 Culture Witness

 

"Post-Obergefell, the war for the heart and soul of Christianity has begun in earnest. Less than a week after Emperor Anthony Kennedy issued his fiat of 'love conquers the Constitution', the Episcopal Church rushed to rescue their dinner party invitations. They quickly voted themselves into the new era, approving same-sex weddings and replacing the outdated and homophobic words "man and woman" with "couple" in their marriage canons.

"Whew, that was close, but Episcopalians now appear to be safe from the presumption of hatred, intolerance and bigotry that will plague the rest of the followers of Christ.

"Meanwhile, other Christians are waking up to the reality that they might as well wear T-shirts emblazoned with "Ku Klux Klan", because that is precisely how they are perceived - and how they will be treated - by America's new masters of the universe." . . .
Hat tip to  Lea Singh at  Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

Obama's legacy

 U.S. Will Teach Iran to Thwart Nuke Threats  " The United States and other world powers will help to teach Iran how to thwart and detect threats to its nuclear program, according to the parameters of a deal reached Tuesday to rein in Iran’s contested nuclear program." . . .

"This will include “training courses and workshops to strengthen Iran’s ability to prevent, protect and respond to nuclear security threats to nuclear facilities and systems as well as to enable effective and sustainable nuclear security and physical protection systems,” according to the text.

"Additional “training and workshops” would work to “strengthen Iran’s ability to protect against, and respond to nuclear security threats, including sabotage, as well as to enable effective and sustainable nuclear security and physical protection systems,” the text states." . . .
How very shameful; If this is all true, we have become the Vichy French of today.*

 

 Vichy France:

*. . . As soon as it had been established, Pétain's government took measures against the so-called “undesirables”: Jews, métèques (immigrants), Freemasons, Communists — inspired by Charles Maurras' conception of the “Anti-France”, or “internal foreigners”, which Maurras defined as the “four confederate states of Protestants, Jews, Freemasons and foreigners” — but also Gypsies, homosexuals, and, in a general way, any left-wing activist. Vichy imitated the racial policies of the Third Reich and also engaged in natalist policies aimed at reviving the “French race”, although these policies never went as far as the eugenics program implemented by the Nazis." . . .

Iran's Supreme Leader Posts Photo of Himself Trampling Israeli Flag: 'The Zionist Regime Is Doomed'. . . "Commenting on the decision to post the photo and caption at this time, Rubin wrote on the AEI blog, “So much for peace and so much for ‘Dialogue of Civilizations.’”

“ 'But why should Israel worry?” he continued. “After all, President Obama has made Israel’s security a red-line, and when are Obama’s red-lines not to be believed? (Full-disclosure: I tried to ask some Ukrainians this, but the Russians occupying their country had cut the phone lines, and all the Syrians I sought to contact had been displaced by Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons use).' ” . . .

"Obama Kerry Iran deal appears as though it’s more out of desperation than necessity. ".
More A.F.Branco Cartoons at Net Right Daily.

Satellite Images of Iranian Site Barred to Nuclear Inspectors May Point to Cover-Up

 Iran airs Obama speech after nuclear deal

Iran Nuclear Deal: the World Reacts

 "Obama “exceeded expectations,” and still managed to make a mess."

"As NBC News senior political editor Mark Murray points out, the fact that Obama and Hillary have discussed the deal, and come out in full-throated support of it, means that it’s almost outside the scope of possibility that there will be enough congressional democrats ready to turn their coats and derail the thing.

"Of note: Clinton’s initial reaction hedged against full-throated support…"