Is Trump obsessed with wrecking Obama's legacy or simply keeping his promises?

How can the disliked-by-the-press Trump succeed against a celebrity president with a personal hagiographic press following like Obama? TD

American Thinker  . . . "Charles Blow at nytimes.com expands on Axelrod's theme, contending that "Trump's consuming obsession with undoing everything Obama did" is because it is "cold and miserable standing in the shadow of someone greater and smarter, more loved and more admired."

"Blow adds: "There is a thing present in Obama and absent from Trump that no amount of money or power can alter: a sense of elegant intellectualism and taste."

While I regard this petulant, vindictive - I won't say "narcissist" because that word, though unarguably accurate - has been overworked as much as Obama's use of personal pronouns (I. me, my, mine). I still see Obama gloating at his State of the Union, saying, "I won both of them!" 

He loved to say, "my military" as we all watched Iranian vessels swooping in on US Navy ships with neither fear nor respect, adversary Russian planes roaring just feet away from "Obama's warships" and that humiliating video of Iranians forcing Obama's sailors to their knees with hands on their heads, one weeping. TD

. . . "Howard Fineman at huffingtonpost.com says the "conventional wisdom about President Donald Trump is clear enough: He's an infantile, ignorant moron," adding that "Democrats hope against hope that he will be impeached over Russia."

Hanson replies: "Thinking (or hoping) that President Trump will implode, quit, be jailed, sicken, die, or be impeached is not an agenda."

Fineman further observes that "if Trump is a moron, he is a moron on a mission – and with more method to his madness than his enemies understand or want to

consider."  "The tweets are a useful distraction – a kind of air cover for his carpet bombing of federal policy and programs." . . .

. . . 

"Buckley adds that the Iran deal "was a treaty that should never have been adopted without two-thirds approval in the Senate, as required by the Constitution":

From 2013 to 2017 we experienced a period of monarchical government under good King Obama and his executive diktats. Under Trump we're seeing a return to constitutional government. Sometimes that means that things don't happen, and don't get passed. But if so, it's as the Framers intended.

"Roger Kimball, writing at amgreatness.com, concludes that "on the ground, in the real world, Trump is methodically pushing ahead with the agenda he campaigned on."  "In all of these areas, Trump is proceeding not as a wrecking ball but as a deliberate, if often voluble and sometimes exasperating, agent of change."

" 'Either way," Hanson adds, "the Trump presidency is moving at a speed likely unmatched by his predecessors, and he is getting somewhere fast.' ".

The Free Speech Tax at UNC-Gomorrah

Mike Adams

"The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) has long been a cesspool of moral rot and corruption. My longtime readers will recall that the first speech I ever gave on a college campus was at UNCG in 2004. The university had just spent $3,000 the night before to fund a speech by a porn star that referred to herself as the “Queen of Anal Sex” (I promise I am not making this up). But they refused to fund my speech on the First Amendment because it was “too offensive.” To cap it off, UNCG told the College Republicans (CRs) that “political” groups were not eligible for funding. This classification violated a Supreme Court case decided back in 2000.

"It is now 2017, and UNCG is still violating the Constitution in an effort to deter organizations from bringing in conservative speakers. In fact, it has gotten worse as their administrators are now violating their own classification policies in order to implement viewpoint discrimination. This time, they are doing it by unlawfully assessing a fee for the venue where Dinesh D'Souza will speak on November 2 nd .

"The controversy began when conservative UNCG students invited Dinesh D'Souza to speak on their campus through Young America's Foundation's (YAF) nationwide campus lecture program. Students requested funding for the lecture. When they later booked a venue for the lecture, UNCG administrators requested a copy of the speaker contract. As soon as they saw YAF on the contract, administrators disregarded their own rules and reclassified the event, requiring a venue fee not charged to students or recognized student groups that host events on campus." . . .

Jane Fonda apologized for her anti-American visit to North Vietnam. Recently she turns on our troops again.

Jane Fonda apologized for her anti-American visit to North Vietnam. Recently she turns on our troops again.

Update: Video- Jane Fonda Apologizes Again for 1972 Vietnam Trip "Jane Fonda says she doesn't regret her trip to Vietnam in 1972, even though veterans are still angry over her actions."   

Update: What Did Jane Fonda Really Do Over in Hanoi?  . . . "Chris Appy, a historian who has written about Vietnam, told HNN he once asked POW Porter Halyburton about the claims made against Fonda. Halyburton told him that the POW's had tried to debunk them even though they regarded Fonda as an unsympathetic figure." . . .

Weasel Zippers

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/video/jane-fonda-apologizes-1972-vietnam-trip-28380629
Jane Fonda: ‘I Don’t Regret Going to Vietnam’ — ‘I’m Proud That I Went
. . . “ 'I don’t regret going to Vietnam,” she said. “The United States was bombing the dikes in North Vietnam — earthen dikes in the Red River Delta. If the dikes had given way, according to Henry Kissinger, somewhere around 2 million people could have died of famine and drowning. And we were bombing, and it wasn’t being talked about. And I thought, ‘I’m a celebrity. Maybe if I go, and I bring back evidence.’ And it did stop two months after I got back, so I’m proud that I went. It changed my life all for the good.”

"The part she said she had regretted was appearing with the anti-aircraft and looking that she was against American soldiers and “siding with the enemy,” which she said wasn’t the case.

“ 'The thing that I regret is that on my last day there, I made the mistake of going to a ceremony at an anti-aircraft gun,” she added. “It wasn’t being used. There were no airplanes or anything like that. There was a ceremony. I was asked to sing and people were laughing and so forth and I was led, and I sat down. And then I got up and as I walked away, I realized, ‘Oh my gosh. It’s going to look like I am against my own country’s soldiers and siding with the enemy, which is the last thing in the world that was true.' ” . . .

The First Lady & Hanoi Jane - Michelle Obama Praises Jane Fonda In Interview

Below: Her association with another member of the Obama administration.

You know; the administration which named navy ships after gay activists; the one whose President promised the Russians more flexibility after the next election; the one which turned on America's allies and made romantic gestures toward our enemies who called for the death of America.

Hillary Offers Up Absurd Story As to How She Wound Up in a Walking Boot

"As William Safire famously said over 20 years ago, she’s a congenital liar, and has never changed."

Truth Revolt

Jammie Wearing Fools   "Since the media never presses this ridiculous woman on her outlandish stories, we may as well do their work for them. So Grandma is over in Europe pimping her latest unreadable ghostwritten book, and then she mysteriously showed up on a program in a walking boot, claiming to have a broken toe.
"Let’s examine this tale:

Hillary Clinton canceled several media appearances Monday while on her book tour in London after she fell down the stairs and broke her toe.

“I was running down the stairs in heels with a cup of coffee in hand, I was talking over my shoulder and my heel caught and I fell backwards,” Clinton told “The Graham Nortion Show.”

“I tried to get up and it really hurt. I’ve broken my toe. I’ve received excellent care from your excellent health service.”

"First of all, this woman can barely climb stairs, let alone run down them. If you’re really wearing heels, would you not be extra precautious “running down” stairs? How many women have you seen, let alone a 70-year-old, who “run down” stairs in heels?

"Now, if you had a cup of coffee in your hand, would you run down stairs while wearing heels? It’s just not plausible. In fact, do a search and see if you can even find a single photo of her carrying a cup of coffee, ever.   . . . 

. . . "Now, if you’re running down stairs in heels carrying a cup of coffee, would you be talking over your shoulder or concentrating on the running down the stairs while not spilling your coffee?

"Again, this woman lies when there’s no need to, as always. She’s so gifted at it she can pack multiple lies into a single sentence." . . .

Fans boo kneeling New Orleans Saints players during tribute to fallen NOPD officer

The Times-Picayune

"Fans booed New Orleans Saints players who knelt before the presentation of the American flag and the singing of the national anthem Sunday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. 

"The boos rang down during a moment of silence for fallen NOPD officer Marcus McNeil, who was killed in the line of duty Friday.

"The fans cheered when the players stood before the anthem, which was performed by former Saintsation Deri Tucker.

"Sunday's game vs. the Lions was the Saints' first at the Dome since President Trump weighed in on protesting NFL players during a campaign rally in Alabama last month. 

"On Monday, Saints coach Sean Payton said the scene was a 'misunderstanding.' "

Pictured: Officer Marcus McNeil, 29, was slain while on duty Oct. 13, 2017.

Unearthed Letter From Jewish Inmate At Auschwitz Details Untold Horrors

The Yeshiva World

The crematorium at Auschwitz-Birkenau

"A couple of months before Auschwitz was liberated in January 1945, a Jewish prisoner secretly wrote a letter outlining the horrors he had witnessed there. He placed it in a thermos, the thermos in a leather pouch, and he buried it.

"Now, for the first time, Marcel Nadjari’s words have been published in full.

"Historian Pavel Polian told Deutsche Welle the letter is one of nine buried documents found at the concentration camp. He described them as “the most central documents of the Holocaust.”

"The documents were written by Nadjari and four fellow members of the

“Sonderkommando” unit, which was tasked with moving bodies from the gas chamber to the crematorium.

"Nadjari’s letter, found in 1980, was written in his native Greek and is mostly illegible. A yearlong project using multispectral image analysis helped reveal all but about 10 percent of its content.

"Gizmodo describes the Sonderkommando’s unthinkable tasks: remove the teeth from the dead, shave their heads, and ultimately dispose of their ashes into rivers. “We carried the corpses of these innocent women and children to the elevator, which brought them into the room with the ovens, and they put them in the furnaces, where they were burnt without the use of fuel, because of the fat they have,” he wrote.

“ 'When you read what work I did, you will say, how could he … burn his fellow believers,” he wrote. “Many times I thought of coming in with them [into the gas chambers] to finish, but I have always kept my revenge: I wanted to live to avenge the death of Papa and Mama, and that of my beloved little sister, Nelli.”

"Nadjari didn’t get his revenge, but he did survive Auchswitz. He died in New York in 1971."

Also here:  Reconstructed Auschwitz Letter Reveals Horrors Endured by Forced Laborer   . . . "In 1947, Nadjari published a memoir about his Holocaust experience. But he does not appear to have told anyone about the letter that he wrote and carefully interred at Auschwitz, a secret testament to the horrors he saw there." 

Smithsonian.com

BREAKING: O’Keefe Drops Third NY Times Undercover Video – Takes Down Homepage Editor Des Shoe

In a video announcement released on September 18th, Project Veritas founder and guerrilla journalist James O’Keefe warned his organization was currently operating one of the biggest ever investigations into the mainstream media’s ‘holy grail,’ promising media people will likely lose their jobs over the imminent exposé.

Gateway Pundit

"Project Veritas has released a video of the New York Times Homepage Editor Des Shoe, who was caught on hidden-camera admitting that the Times has a liberal bias and attacking President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. This is part three of their American Pravda NYT investigation.

"When confronted with the notion that during the election, The Times‘ front page, for which she is responsible, was completely focused around Trump. She tells the undercover journalist that NYT reporters tried to influence the election with their reporting:

“I think one of the things that maybe journalists were thinking about is like…Oh, if we write about him, about how insanely crazy he is and how ludicrous his policies are, then maybe people will read it and be like, oh wow, we shouldn’t vote for him.”

"She admits that the New York Times has a clearly defined liberal-leaning bias: “The New York Times is not…I mean, it’s widely understood to be liberal-leaning. But, American newspapers are not supposed to claim a bias, they’re supposed to be objective.”

"Des Shoe calls Trump “oblivious idiot” and Pence “fuc*ing horrible” because of his religious views.

"Shoe blames the business model for the New York Times‘ lack of fact-based reporting:

“This is what I was trying to say is like the last couple years it’s changed for the bad…

“I think the business model itself is just… there’s so much panic about what to do that, you know, what else is a company supposed to do?

The best reason yet for boycotting the NFL

So if any of you need additional resolve in turning your back on the NFL and its gutless owners, remember that Hillary is in full support of those players kneeling while our national anthem is played. . . . Hillary has made decision-making easier for me.

Russ Vaughn

"Well, I think it's deeply troubling that the president would be attacking black athletes for expressing their opinions peacefully," [Hillary] Clinton told Sirius XM host Zerlina Maxwell. "Protest is a part of the American way of life and it's something that I'm very proud of whether I agree or disagree peaceful protest is part of what has helped us make progress, learn more, be a better country over time."

"I just couldn't help thinking that he has attacked these black athletes for peacefully protesting, but he doesn't really attack white supremacists, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klanners, or Vladimir Putin, who interfered in our election and I think it's all part of his political calculation and I really think it's bad for the country. He wants to set people against each other, he wants to divide us," she added. 

Yep, that Clinton, hateful Hillary, the despised doyenne of defeat, the lame, lying lioness of losing, that selfsame, swamp-side elitist who last year looked me square in the eye through my television screen and contemptuously sneered that I, me, a poor kid, combat veteran, college graduate on the G.I. Bill with a successful career and retirement, an American success story, am a deplorable human being, has just given her blessing to this Democrat-induced racial cancer growing within the bowels of the NFL." . . .

The NFL will never have 'unity' until it does this

Sharyl Attkisson Pulls Back the Curtain

American Thinker  "Sharyl Attkisson’s The Smear gives insight to how news is made today. It goes a long way in convincing readers that they should believe only a small portion of what is released by the government and reported by the press. This leads to a very cynical view of the news and confirms Otto von Bismarck’s claim that "Nothing is proven until it is officially denied." Attkinsson gives an account of how massive the smear industry is. My only criticism of the book is her contention that, “the organized political smear entered the contemporary marketplace circe 1987.”  Some of these smear techniques can probably be found in a study of politics in the ancient Sumerian city of Ur. The “scientific" smear might be traced back to George Creel’s World War I Committee on Public Information or Edward Bernays 1920s book Propaganda. She also appears to attribute the advice “Admit nothing” to the CIA. This is a classic Communist technique. Dozens of Communist spies had denied their connection to the Communist party and have been believed by the gullible for decades. She mentions the “infamous senator Joseph McCarthy.” who was the victim of an extremely effective smear campaign. She might benefit from reading M. Stanton Evans’ Blacklisted by History. Few people could survive the scrutiny and smear campaign Senator McCarthy was subjected to.

"Her account of Larry Flynt’s reward for information on Congressional extramarital affairs was revealing." . . .

Sharyl Attkisson is an American author and host of the weekly Sunday public affairs program Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson, which airs on television stations operated by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. She was formerly an investigative correspondent in the Washington bureau for CBS News. She had also substituted as anchor for the CBS Evening News. She resigned from CBS News on March 10, 2014, after 21 years with the network. 

John Dietrich is a freelance writer and the author of The Morgenthau Plan: Soviet Influence on American Postwar Policy (Algora Publishing). He has a Master of Arts Degree in International Relations from St. Mary’s University. He is retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency and the Department of Homeland Security.

A New Front in the War on Free Speech

Bernard Goldberg

"Call me a bad person, but it's fun to watch the left devour its own."

"Hothouse flowers threw another hissy fit on a college campus recently. But this time it was different. This time the target in their progressive crosshairs wasn't some conservative bogeyman whose views were deemed unacceptable and so had to be shouted down.

"This time left-wing students, at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, went after the ACLU, an organization that champions all sorts of liberal causes and no one is calling right-wing.

"'Call me a bad person, but it's fun to watch the left devour its own. And here's something else to giggle about: The ACLU speaker who was silenced by the progressive mob was on campus to speak about ... free speech on campus.

 'You can't make this stuff up.

 'This time the speech police were students affiliated with Black Lives Matter and were angry with the ACLU for defending white supremacist rights to rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. So instead of letting the woman from the ACLU speak, they chanted things like, "liberalism is white supremacy" and "Your free speech hides beneath white sheets" -- reportedly for a full hour.

"It was bound to happen. Why would left-wing students be content with simply shouting down conservatives? Why wouldn't they shout down any views they don't like? That's what authoritarians do. Stalinists aren't happy until everybody thinks the way they do, until all unacceptable ideas are crushed." . . .

The Method to Trump’s ‘Madness’

Victor Davis Hanson

"The Democratic Party, as it did after Hubert Humphrey’s close loss in 1968, seems still to be misdiagnosing its 2016 defeat.

"Democrats see too little identity politics rather than too much as their trouble, and thus are redoubling on what has been slowly shrinking the party into coastal enclaves.Promoting Black Lives Matter and open borders, promising free tuition and tax hikes, opposing fracking and pipeline construction, pushing single-payer health care and an ever-expanding transgender agenda as well as abortion—these are not majority positions. Neither will embracing Hollywood, the media, or the NFL protests win over voters. Thinking (or hoping) that President Trump will implode, quit, be jailed, sicken, die, or be impeached is not an agenda.

"Trump Compared to What?"When Trump promises to restore Christmas nomenclature, to build a border wall, or to bark back against the NFL, he bets that 51 percent of the voting public is likely on his side. Trump’s tweets may be cul de sacs. And they may diminish the traditional stature of the presidency, but they are rarely on the wrong side of public opinion.

"The same holds true when in suicidal fashion he alienates those of his own party, many of them seemingly essential to his legislative agenda. Yet what is the logic of temporizing Republican senators who recently got reelected by blasting the Iran Deal, open borders, and Obamacare—apparently on the premise that their posturing votes would never really matter, given the likelihood of a liberal vetoing president? So far a Bob Corker, Jeff Flake or John McCain has not proven that he is more popular in his own state than is Donald Trump." . . .

Photo added by TD

Satanic Looking Drag Queen with Horns Reads to Little Kids at Michelle Obama Public Library in Long Beach

Gateway Pundit  "The Michelle Obama Public Library in Long Beach, California hosted a satanic looking drag queen on Saturday who read books to young children as part of the library’s celebration LGBTQ History Month.

"The shocking photo of a man dressed as a female demon with giant horns on his head reading to little children at a public library was posted to Twitter and Facebook by the Long Beach Library but taken down after a huge outpouring of critical replies, including from GOP Congressional candidate Omar Navarro. It also got the approval of the Church of Satan." . . .