Friday, August 10, 2012
Krauthammer: The case against reelection (with a Rush Limbaugh update)
Rush Limbaugh; Hosanna! Krauthammer Gets It! Ideology!
"It was before it really got ginned up, and I'm not going to mention any names because it won't matter. Virtually every one of them that I spoke to said, "We gotta go after Obama's policies, Rush! We can't go after him. We have to go after his policies," and that's what Romney is doing. We're going after his policies (as Krauthammer says, his "stewardship"), because -- you're, right, Snerdley -- they were afraid (and still are) to go after Obama as what he really is."Charles Krauthammer "There are two ways to run against Barack Obama: stewardship or ideology. You can run against his record or you can run against his ideas.
"The stewardship case is pretty straightforward: the worst recovery in U.S. history, 42 consecutive months of 8-plus percent unemployment, declining economic growth — all achieved at a price of an additional $5 trillion of accumulated debt."
Krauthammer then moves on to the prospect of running against Obama's ideas: "If Republicans want to win, Obama’s deeply revealing, teleprompter-free you-didn’t-build-that confession of faith needs to be hung around his neck until Election Day. The third consecutive summer-of-recovery-that-never-came is attributable not just to Obama being in over his head but, even more important, to what’s in his head: a government-centered vision of the economy and society, and the policies that flow from it. (emphasis added)
"Four years of that and this is what you get.
"Make the case and you win the White House."
The Onion imagines Obama’s next attack ad: Did Romney kill JonBenet?
Hot Air “I think this is a fair ad, and I think Mitt Romney owes an explanation to the American people as to why he murdered JonBenét Ramsey,” said Obama campaign manager Jim Messina, who called the commercial’s black-and-white reenactment of Mitt Romney carrying a kicking and screaming child to her death “accurate.” “Ultimately, voters need to know who they’re getting with Mitt Romney: a job- and child-killing businessman who is so deceitful he won’t release his tax returns or admit to a senseless murder that shook the nation to its core.”…
"Added Morris, “This ad very effectively reminds us that no child murderer has ever been elected into the White House.” "
Thursday, August 9, 2012
The Romney Foreign Policy Team
William Kristol; "Here's an intelligent if speculative piece by Foreign Policy's Josh Rogin about what a Romney administration foreign policy team could look like. Full disclosure: Yes, I was one of those with whom Josh spoke for this article. (Unlike everyone else, apparently, I didn't insist on speaking off the record—I suppose Josh didn't want to embarrass all the other shrinking violets by quoting only me by name, and that's of course fine.)
Despite Team Obama's bluster, Romney’s foreign trip won’t show up In attack adsFormer senator Jim Talent is widely regarded as the top choice for defense secretary in a potential Romney administration. …For secretary of state, most advisors interviewed for this article said that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) is under serious consideration at the top levels of the campaign. An "independent Democrat," Lieberman, who hasn't endorsed any presidential candidate this cycle, was almost chosen by Sen. John McCain to run as vice president on his 2008 ticket. …
Wartime tasks split: US to smash Iran’s missiles, Israel tackle Syria, Hizballah
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| Iran's Fateh-110 missile |
"In any case, it is hard to believe that Iran would empty its entire ballistic missile arsenal in a single blazing assault at the start of war. “They are too canny to leave themselves without some Shehabs in reserve for crises even more acute than the outbreak of war,” said the US military source."
"Some reports claimed that the Fateh-110 A missile might have been based on the Chinese DF-11A missile, which had a range of 186 to 248 miles and was capable of carrying nuclear warheads." Via Alan Caruba, Facebook.
A Fitting Answer to the IOC’s Snub
A winning day for U.S. gymnast Alexandra Raisman
Here is the video of Aly's gold-winning routine, danced to the strains of Hava Nagila, a joyful wedding song.
That Joe Soptic ad: Obama would never say it if it weren't true!
"That’s not quite accurate either. CNN reported that, from speaking with Soptic, it had learned that his wife had continued to have her own insurance after the plant was shut down. She later lost the coverage in 2002 or 2003 when she left her own job because of an injury."
PJ Tatler; New Obama PAC Ad: Mitt Romney Killed My Wife! (Updated: Mitt Romney, Time Traveler?) "Sen. Obama once promised to fire staff who engaged in this sort of attack politics. He went on to play the race card against the Clintons. Now, he is openly embracing and launching the most disgusting attacks since the NAACP accused George W. Bush of murdering James Byrd."
By Doug Powers via Michelle Malkin; Obama campaign denies knowing story of man in Super PAC cancer ad but hosted May conference call during which he told them the same story "It appears Mr. Soptic will be encouraged to be “unavailable for comment” for quite some time — possibly at least until November 7th:"....
POLITICO CATCHES OBAMA CAMPAIGN IN LIE… AND BURIES IT "Well, if you’re the corrupt Politico, you dutifully report but bury what is very big news that could affect Your Precious One's credibility.
"As of right now, you have a so-called objective news outlet obsessed with politics catching a sitting president's campaign in a bald-faced lie, and this is the headline of the piece:
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Liberals' Secret Weapon: Republicans Who Don't Read
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| Judge McCarthy in June, 1942, shortly before he took a leave of absence from his judicial post and joined the U. S. Marine Corps as a First Lieutenant |
"The claims of Will and Krauthammer are as true as liberal slanders about Karl Rove outing a CIA agent, tea partiers calling a black congressman the N-word and Duke lacrosse players raping a stripper. Even at the time, liberals had to back down from their lies about McCarthy saying he had a list of "205" communists. But liberals write the history and conservatives don't read."
"You Built That Business"
Posted at American Thinker
""You built that business but Barack says nooo!" This theme still has legs and will creatively stalk Obama from now through election day...
"Parody of "We Built this City" by Starship with an Obama twist.
Never, never try this in the Pacific Northwest. Source: Victoria Taft
August 8th, 1940: Hitler begins the Battle of Britain (Updated, including a Facebook link))
History Learning Site "The Battle of Britain took place between August and September 1940. After the success of Blitzkrieg, the evacuation of Dunkirk and the surrender of France, Britain was by herself. The Battle of Britain remains one of the most famous battles of World War Two."Battle of Britain Historical Society "Today, the website is still the most sought after website on the Battle of Britain and will continue to do in the years ahead".
Many links to historical material in this site as well as this one: The great victory that they fought for MUST NEVER BE FORGOTTEN
“Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him all Europe may be free, and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands; but if we fail, then the whole world will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: ‘This was their finest hour.’ ”
"Churchill flatly refused to discuss anything with Hitler or any Nazi representative." Winston Churchill, 1940
WW2 Battle of Britain rare footage
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Video:The star of the Battle of Britain, the Spitfire; gun camera views
Below: US War Department WW2 film on the Battle of Britain
Below: London in 1940
Anderson shelters were designed to accommodate up to six people. The main principle of protection was based on curved and straight galvanised corrugated steel panels. Read more:
Shelters being distributed to British residents, then restored, seventy years later.
"This video documents the restoration process from the initial collection of the shelter, to its eventual installation in the ground. It is hoped that the Anderson shelter will survive for many years to come, and provide the children at Elburton with a stimulating learning resource, giving them first-hand experience of what residents went through during the air raids that destroyed the City of Plymouth during WWII."
Reply: Mystery solved - it is in fact a WWII anti-aircraft site which is now subject to a preservation order since its one of the only large London Orbital gun batteries left.
Updated, 13 October Facebook; Battle of Britain 1940
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