Military Drills Obama at Fort Lee

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. . . "For the military, the townhall was a unique opportunity to get some things off their chests. The real shame, however, is that the president didn’t start listening to his troops sooner. If there’s one thing we can all agree on: the next president is inheriting a huge mess on military readiness and national defense. FRC’s Lt. General Jerry Boykin (U.S. Army-Ret.) spent 36 years in the military and says, “Morale is lower than I have ever seen it due to the social experiments and the assault on religious liberty. Good people are leaving and quality young men and women are discouraged from entering the services as they see what our armed forces have become and how they would be treated.” For these reasons, he writes, “I have very grave concerns about Hillary Clinton as the next commander-in-chief.”

Tony Perkins is president of the Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council. He is a former member of the Louisiana legislature where he served for eight years, and he is recognized as a legislative pioneer for authoring measures like the nation’s first Covenant Marriage law. 

Emphasis added, TD

Hillary Clinton and Alicia Machado: Sisterhood of the travelling getaway car

"But I think I know why Hillary may feel a common bond with this gangster bimbo.  Alicia, you see, was accused of driving a getaway car for her gangster boyfriend in a killing in Venezuela but escaped prosecution for lack of witnesses.  Don’t you think Hillary must admire Alicia for that?  After all, in a symbolic sense, isn’t that what Hillary Clinton has always done for Bill in all his extensive history of sexual predation: drive his getaway car?" 

Russ Vaughn  "Democrats have been high-fiving and deliriously jiving since their candidate introduced the voluptuous Venezuelan vigilante upon Donald Trump during Monday night’s debate.  The Dems would have you believe that this luscious Latina was used and abused by that cruel capitalist in a manner that should totally disqualify him from ever serving as president.  Apparently as her boss, a business owner who hired her and signed her to a contract that required her to maintain her lovely person in a physical state so as to be able to gracefully and gorgeously represent the public persona of Miss Universe, her mean old plantation master castigated the poor, pretty thing for ignoring those specific terms of her contract and becoming a very non-contractual fatty." . . .

Obama's Peres eulogy: It's all about him

Rick Moran  "President Obama spoke at the funeral of Shimon Peres, calling him a "dear friend" and, as usual, made the great occassion all about himself.

"You have to wonder what the assembled guests thought of a speech that placed Obama on the same historical plane as Ghandi, Lincoln, and Nelson Mandela.

“I could somehow see myself in his story and he could see himself in mine,” Obama said, delivering the final eulogy for Peres Friday morning in Jerusalem, calling the former Israeli prime minister and president in Hebrew “dear friend,” and lingering for a moment with his hand on the coffin as he left the stage. Peres died Wednesday at the age of 93.

"As Carrie Hart notes in her report on the funeral, President Obama said some nice things about Peres and Israel.  But then there was his effort to portray himself as a Peres intimate:

"It was so surprising to see the two of us, where we had started, talking together in the White House, meeting here in Israel," he said. "I think both of us understood that we were here only because in some way we reflected the magnificent story of our nations."

"I sincerely doubt that Peres thought of himself in any way as Obama's "equal" or that the president occupied the same historical space as Peres.  But Obama sees himself as a world-historical figure like Mandela, Peres, and even Queen Elizabeth despite the leaders that really matter in the world – Netanyahu, Putin, Merkel, Xi – holding him in contempt.

"Once a narcissist, always a narcissist."

It is a pattern, you know:

"Egomaniac President Thinks Americans Are “Not Inspired” To Vote This Year Because “Barack and Michelle Are Not On The Ballot This Time”…"

"Barack Obama Marks Death Of Golfing Legend Arnold Palmer With A Picture Of . . . Barack Obama…"

U Of Michigan’s ‘Pronoun Committee’ Instructs You In ‘Designated Pronouns’…

Legal Insurrection: U. Michigan Profs Told to Use Students’ Preferred Pronouns  "The absurdity of gender neutral pronouns has reached the campus of the University of Michigan and professors are being told to comply.

"FOX News reports:

University of Michigan professors instructed to stick to ‘preferred pronouns’

Weasel Zippers

Obama operatives stripped Judical Watch of ‘media’ status, overcharged for FOIA requests

"The regime continues its sleazy tactics. Thank God for Judicial Watch and the yeoman’s work they do to expose them."  Weasel Zippers

All photos added by TD

Washington Times 
Waiting for the outcry from the press...Still waiting...any minute now.

"Political operatives within the Obama administration wrongly punished conservative legal group Judicial Watch, stripping it of “media” status and trying to force it to pay higher fees for its open records requests, the General Services Administration inspector general said in a letter released Thursday.

"The GSA botched several high-profile open records requests, delaying them for months while political appointees got involved, Inspector General Carol F. Ochoa said. The findings were released while the administration was facing charges of slow-walking open records requests for Hillary Clinton’s emails, as well as other requests.

"In the case of Judicial Watch, the order to strip it of media status came from political operatives with long ties to Democratic causes — and even from theWhite House.

"The inspector general said the decision came at the behest of Gregory Mecher, a former Democratic campaign fundraiser who at the time was liaison to theWhite House. He is married to Jen Psaki, a longtime spokeswoman with the Obama administration and its election campaigns." . . .

When facts, logic and history don’t matter

"Indeed, one of the more remarkable features of this campaign is how brazenly candidates deny having said things that have been captured on tape, such as Clinton denying she ever said the Trans-Pacific Partnership was the gold standard of trade deals."The only thing more amazing is how easily they get away with it."

Charles Krauthammer

"And now, less than six weeks from the election, what is the main event of the day? A fight between the GOP presidential nominee and a former Miss Universe, whom he had 20 years ago called Miss Piggy and other choice pejoratives. Just a few weeks earlier, we were seized by a transient hysteria over a minor Hillary Clinton lung infection hyped to near-mortal status. The latest curiosity is Donald Trump’s 37 sniffles during the first presidential debate. (People count this sort of thing.) Dr. Howard Dean has suggested a possible cocaine addiction.

"In a man who doesn’t even drink coffee? This campaign is sinking to somewhere between zany and totally insane. Is there a bottom?

"Take the most striking — and overlooked — moment of Trump’s GOP convention speech. He actually promised that under him, “the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon — and I mean very soon — come to an end.”

"Not “be reduced.” End." . . .

Juanita Broaddrick fears for her life: ‘I don’t feel safe anymore’

The American Mirror  via Drudge:

“ 'I have my home up for sale now because I live alone in a huge home on 23 acres. It’s just an absolutely gorgeous place,” Broaddrick says.

“ 'I’ve loved it all these years but I just don’t feel safe anymore.”

"Broaddrick says she will be building a home on her son’s property.

"She adds she will fear for her life even more if Hillary Clinton becomes president.

“ 'Especially if she does become president, I’ll fear even more the retribution I might suffer,” Broaddrick said.

"She has been vocal during the presidential campaign and has been speaking out about the role Hillary played in silencing her.

"According to Broaddrick, her first encounter with Hillary was in 1978, shortly after the alleged rape, she told The American Mirror in March." . . ..

. .  . “ 'And so I just tried to relax as she came over to me but after she changed her tone and grabbed my hand, I just wanted to get out of there. It scared the heck out of me.

“ 'All she did was let me know she knew and I better stay quiet. That’s the essence of what I got out of that.”

"And she says it affected her life because “I kept quiet, up until 1998,” when she met with attorneys for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr."

The U.S. government’s predatory-lending program

Discuss "predatory lending"  " . . .an audit report on predatory lending from the office of inspector general of the FDIC broadly defines predatory lending as "imposing unfair and abusive loan terms on borrowers.' "

Politico   "Most parents will do just about anything for their children, especially when it comes to education. Predictably, at a time when college costs are exploding and students are staggering under more than $1 trillion in debt, one opportunistic lender is making huge profits on loans to their doting moms and dads.

"Less predictably, that lender is the United States government.

"The fast-growing federal program known as Parent PLUS now serves 3.2 million borrowers, who have racked up $65 billion in debt helping their kids go to school. The loans have much in common with the regular student loans that have created a national debt crisis and a 2016 campaign issue, but PLUS has much higher interest rates and fees, and far fewer opportunities for loan forgiveness or reductions.

"In fact, the PLUS program, which includes similar loans to graduate students, is the most profitable of the 120 or so federal lending programs. That sounds like a good thing, until you remember the government’s profit comes from its own citizens, often citizens of modest means." . . .

The Weekly Standard: The Largest Predatory Lender in America

Mainstream Media Covers Kids who Pillage & Plunder; But not Kids who Pray

Todd Starnes

"When you dropped your kids off at school today - you probably saw a bunch of students gathered around the flag pole.

"Those kids were part of See You at the Pole - a national prayer gathering.

"Some two million young people woke up before sunrise to pray with their classmates. Many of you posted photos on my Facebook page of students praying in your hometowns - from Staten Island, New York to Stinking Creek, Kentucky.

"There were first graders and freshmen holding hands on this cool Autumn day to pray for our nation -- to cry out - as the Psalmist said so many centuries ago.

"This year's theme is "We Cry Out - A Generation Seeking Him!"

"Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation. This is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face."

"See You at the Pole is a yearly tradition that started in 1990 in Burleson, Texas. What began as a small group of teenagers turned into a global movement. And today -- some two million students in all 50 states will petition the Almighty.

"Lord knows we need it, folks. 

"As inspirational as this story may be, It's unlikely you will see these young people on the evening news.

"It seems that kids who pillage and plunder generate more ratings than kids who pray.

"But truth be told - the only prayer our nation has may be as a result of those kids." 

Bill Clinton 'is a sexual predator' : Clinton rape accuser resurfaces

deathtothemedia

T. Becket Adams:  "A woman who claims she was raped by Bill Clinton repeated the charge Wednesday as she responded to the family's attempts this week to downplay the former president's many sex scandals.

" '[Y]ou said you don't remember a time in your life that your parents weren't being attacked, " Juanita Broaddrick said in a series of tweets addressed to Chelsea Clinton.

" 'There's a very good reason for this — your parents are not good people, " she said.

"Broaddrick, who maintains Clinton raped her in a hotel room in 1978, went on the offensive against the Clintons in response to fallout from the first presidential debate Monday.

"Donald Trump's team have patted him on the back for not going after the Democratic nominee during the debate with remarks about her husband's past infidelities.

"In response to the Trump camp praising the GOP nominee's supposed discipline, Chelsea Clinton said in an interview that the whole storyline is a "distraction.' " . . .

The Next President Unbound

"There is reason to worry about both candidates abusing power as president, because Obama and the press normalized executive overreach."

Victor Davis Hanson . . . "Part of the frenzy over 2016 as a make-or-break election is because a closely divided Senate’s future may hinge on the coattails of the presidential winner. An aging Supreme Court may also translate into perhaps three to four court picks for the next president. 

"Yet such considerations only partly explain the current election frenzy. 

"The model of the imperial Obama presidency is the greater fear. Over the last eight years, Obama has transformed the powers of presidency in a way not seen in decades.

"Congress talks grandly of “comprehensive immigration reform,” but Obama, as he promised with his pen and phone, bypassed the House and Senate to virtually open the border with Mexico. He largely ceased deportations of undocumented immigrants. He issued executive-order amnesties. And he allowed entire cities to be exempt from federal immigration law.

"The press said nothing about this extraordinary overreach of presidential power, mainly because these largely illegal means were used to achieve the progressive ends favored by many journalists." . . .

Egomaniac President Thinks Americans Are “Not Inspired” To Vote This Year Because “Barack and Michelle Are Not On The Ballot This Time”…

Weasel Zippers  "Oddly enough, I don’t recall Michelle Obama’s name on the ballot.

"Via Politico:

President Barack Obama on Wednesday warned Americans against staying at home on Election Day, saying such a move would be a boon for Donald Trump.

“If you don’t vote, that’s a vote for Trump,” Obama said during an interview on “The Steve Harvey Morning Show” broadcast Wednesday. “If you vote for a third-party candidate who’s got no chance to win, that’s a vote for Trump. So the notion somehow that, ‘Well, you know, I’m not as inspired because Barack and Michelle, they’re not on the ballot this time, and, you know, maybe we kinda take it easy’ — my legacy’s on the ballot. You know, all the work we’ve done over the last eight years is on the ballot.”