Why the Outrage at Rudy?

Thomas Sowell   . . . "Anyone who simply looks at the factual evidence as to whether Obama loves America, or does not, will find remarkably little to suggest love and a large amount of evidence, over a long period of years, showing his constant close association with people fiercely hostile to this country. Jeremiah Wright was just one in a long series of such people. 

"Barack Obama’s campaign promise to “fundamentally change the United States of America” hardly suggests love. Nor did his international speaking tour in 2009, telling foreign audiences that America was to blame for problems on the world stage. President Obama’s record in the White House has been more of the same. 

"Among his earliest acts were offending our oldest and closest allies, Britain and Israel, and betraying the country’s previous commitments to provide anti-missile defenses to Poland and the Czech Republic. Obama’s refusal to let Ukraine have weapons with which to defend itself from Russian invasion was consistent with this pattern, and consistent with his whispered statement — picked up by a microphone that was still on — to tell “Vladimir” that, after the 2012 election was over, he would be able to “have more ‘flexibility.’”

Garner’s daughter on Sharpton: ‘He’s all about the money’

NY Post via Drudge:  "Al Sharpton is all about the Benjamins, a daughter of police chokehold victim Eric Garner claims in a bombshell videotape.

"Erica Snipes tees off on the reverend as interested primarily in money during a conversation secretly recorded by controversial conservative activist James O’Keefe’s group, Project Veritas.

"One of O’Keefe’s investigators with a hidden camera posed as a Garner supporter during a protest last month at the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island." . . .

Jobs for Jihadis; Obama's key to peace

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The Media’s Embarrassing Scott Walker Spectacle

The farcical game of the one-sided “gotcha” question  "On Saturday afternoon, two of the Washington Post’s crack political correspondents accosted Governor Scott Walker in the lobby of a JW Marriott hotel and asked him whether he believed that President Obama is “a Christian.” As is always the way with silly questions, this inquiry elicited a silly answer. And, as it was foretold, that silly answer provoked a maelstrom inside the bubble. 

"Had Walker been asked, “To which religion does President Obama claim he adheres?” he might well have responded without making headlines. But he wasn’t. Instead, he was prompted to weigh in on a question that he could not possibly answer: namely, whether the president is, in any meaningful sense, what he claims to be. “Told that Obama has frequently spoken publicly about his Christian faith,” Dan Balz and Robert Costa wrote excitedly, “Walker maintained that he was not aware of the president’s religion.” And the critics screamed bloody murder."
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" . . . Rather, they wanted a specific response, and they were determined to crucify their man if he didn’t give it to them. That, I’m afraid, is not journalism; it’s entertainment. Their goal wasn’t “asking questions”; it was enforcing a catechism. "

http://1984arkansasmotheroftheyear.blogspot.com/2014_02_01_archive.html

The ‘Gotcha’ Game, Fair and Square

"Halperin attributed the positive coverage in part to the historic nature of Obama’s candidacy. But he also noted that only a few hands had gone up in the crowded room when the audience had been asked how many had voted for George W. Bush. “I find it curious that far more time and media energy has been spent on Sarah Palin’s time in Wasilla, Alaska’s, city government in the last eight weeks than in looking at Barack Obama’s dozen years in Chicago politics and government over the last 18 months of his candidacy,” he noted dryly. And Ms. Palin was only running for vice president. 

"And we all know how free Chicago’s government is from corruption and juicy stories."

MSM, forget about Scott Walker's refusal to comment on Guliani's remarks. Instead ask the Democrats these questions:

First the context:   Walker fundraises off 'gotcha' questions  . . . "Over the weekend, Walker drew further scrutiny when he refused to say whether he thought Obama was a Christian. He also decided to punt on questions about evolution during a recent trip to London.

"Walker is considering a run for the White House in 2016. 

"Some are questioning whether Walker's moves have been beneficial — but his campaign is looking to frame it as a moral stand."

Three Questions All Democrats Must Answer
"Joe Biden touching women, Elizabeth Warren being Native American and Bill Clinton hanging out with a pedophile"

"If you think the mainstream media is not out to elect Hillary Clinton in 2016 every bit as much as it was for Obama in 2008 and 2012, then you need your head examined.

"The multi-day and ongoing demand that Scott Walker verify that Obama is Christian and loves America is a good example.

"Why is it that Republican candidates and politicians are required to verify the bona fides of Democrats?

"Here are three questions I have yet to hear Obama or any Democrat asked:

1. Should Joe Biden stop touching women without consent?

2. Is Elizabeth Warren Native American?  

3. Is it okay that Bill Clinton participated in vacations with a pedophile?

Sean Davis @seanmdav

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Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein flew Bill Clinton to his private sex island b/c he owed Bill "a favor." Nobody asks Hillary about that.

What's the brouhaha over Obama flashing a "Muslim gang sign"?

Obama and the Muslim Gang Sign  "Is President Obama a Muslim?  A lot has been written about this, but if photographs speak louder than words, then a photo taken at last August’s U.S.-African Leaders’ Summit in Washington D.C. might shed considerable light.

"It shows Barack Hussein Obama flashing the one-finger affirmation of Islamic faith to dozens of African delegates.

. . . "The reaction of Togo president Faure Gnassingbe, at the top row second to the left, is less approving.  Through his face you can read the mind of this Sorbonne- and George Washington University educated leader. His mind is screaming, “You gotta be kidding!”

. . . "Maybe it was Obama’s idea of a joke, but that is unlikely.  The finger in the air was a position statement brazenly stated.  His entire administration has been a promotion of Islam at home and abroad, and just cataloging the evidence would fill a book.  He has made this country cozy for Islam, from ordering NASA to make Muslims feel good about themselves to calling ISIS beheading victim Peter Kassig by the Muslim name that he had adopted in the vain hope of saving his life." . . .

"Here's a one-finger sign for you too. America"

Snopes.com's dishonest attempt at debunking 'Obama and the Muslim Gang Sign'
"Snopes.com has attempted to debunk the article “Obama and the Muslim Gang Sign,” by F.W. Burleigh, with a dishonest entry.  It makes two points, both of which are refuted by evidence in the article it purports to debunk. "


What does this president advocate?  . . . "He gives the previously aborted thumbs-up sign and says something that is indistinct, but you don't have to have the training that deaf people are given to be able to read Obama’s lips.  As he flashes his upright thumb, his lips say, “Allahu Akbar.” 
. . . "The African delegates who saw his reaction to the cry of Allahu Akbar understood what he was communicating through his finger gesture, and many were clearly disturbed.  Americans should be disturbed, too, because, perhaps more clearly than ever, Obama has revealed his allegiance to a dangerous cult – dangerous because it was the creation of an extremely dangerous man."

I do not think Obama is a Muslim but do think he fears them. I see him as the terrified schoolboy who gives his lunch money to the campus bully so he will be left alone. Much the same as Obama gave away Eastern Europe defense armaments to console the Russians. TD

On Obama's opinion of America

Noisy Room

A Question of Personality

Because charismatic leadership has some drawbacks.  The most obvious being that since power flows from the person himself then when Rudy Giuliani publicly questioned Obama’s patriotism he was attacking the wellsprings of the administration.

" . . . Giuliani’s question about “loving America” is another way of asking if you know who you are working for.  Past presidents did not delude themselves into thinking they graced America.  They understood they were but weak human vessels who bore the burning, almost incandescent glory of a great nation, were given their moment in history to shine — and like the organizer Obama didn’t want to be — the time to fade away. "

Serious vs. clueless: dissecting the Giuliani flap  " 'Look," the former mayor told the Daily News, "this man was brought up basically in a white family, so whatever he learned or didn't learn, I attribute this more to the influence of communism and socialism" than to his race.

" '[Furthermore] I don't [see] this President as being particularly a product of African-American society or something like that. He isn't" the form.

"More precisely, Giuliani says of Obama, "Think of his background.... The ideas that are troubling to me are those [coming from] communists with whom he was associated with through family connections." . . .

Darrell Issa Defends Giuliani: Obama ‘Views America Differently’  “ 'I don’t think Rudy is ever going to get the dust from Ground Zero out of his lungs,” Issa said. “He was there during the fall of those towers. So for him to take personally a president whose policies have left Israel hanging, have left our Arab allies not trusting us, have let ISIL… go from being a JV team as they took on more territory expansively.' ”

Who is allowed to insult the candidate's patriotism and love of country?

. . . "On July 3, 2008 -- the day before Independence Day -- Barack Obama said that adding $4 trillion in debt was irresponsible and "unpatriotic."

Obama: "The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents - #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back -- $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic."

It Doesn’t Matter One Bit What Obama Thinks ‘True Islam’ Is

Andrew C. McCarthy

There may well be a civil war going on within Islam, but it will be Muslims, not American politicians, who settle it.

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

"In Egypt, the president is Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a pious Muslim. Having grown up in the world’s center of sharia scholarship and closely studied the subject, he has courageously proclaimed that Islam desperately needs a “religious revolution.” 

"In the United States, the president is Barack Obama, a non-Muslim. His childhood experience of Islam, which ended when he was just ten, occurred in Indonesia — the world’s most populous Muslim country, but a non-Arabic one where the teaching and practice of Islam is very different from what it is in the Middle East. 

"While Sisi sees a dangerous flaw in Islam, Obama believes America needs to be “fundamentally transformed” but Islam is fine as is. You see the problem, no?" . . .Read more . . .

Despite Summit, World Still Plagued by ‘‘Random Angry Unknown Folks’’

NRO

Duh Progressive

"After a highly publicized White House summit on “radical extremism” Wednesday, President Obama concluded that the rash of seemingly endless murderous attacks by “random angry unknown folks” throughout the West and in the Middle East is an immediate threat that must be stopped at all costs.

     "The world has been rocked almost daily throughout the past few years by shootings, stabbings, bombings, and other atrocities throughout Western societies and the Middle East by what the White House has come to be officially call “Random Angry Unknown Folks” (RAUFs), and the Obama administration will “quadruple” on its efforts to stop these seemingly motiveless random angry people who have been plaguing the world with their seemingly “senseless, pointless, motivation-lacking non-descript acts aimed at apparently no one in particular”, according to State Department Spokesperson Jennifer Psaki." . . .

You Will Be Made To Care Chronicles: Religious speech in the crosshairs

RedState.com

"Erick has written extensively on the subject of “you will be made to care.” The idea is simple. You no longer have the ability to ignore sexual perversion and cultural rot. That is not good enough. For social pathologies, like “transgender rights” and “homosexual marriage” (bestiality, incest, and pedophilia along with abortion and euthanasia are being supported by the same people who have succeeded in mainstreaming homosexuality) to succeed it isn’t sufficient that you avert your eyes, no, you must cheer them on. You must bake their cakes, make their floral arrangements, and document their immorality for eternity on pain of your financial destruction." . . .  Keep reading

. Giuliani Getting Death Threats Over Obama Comments. .

CNN  Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said his office has received death threats since his controversial comments accusing President Barack Obama of not loving America.
" 'My secretary has received some death threats,   Via Weasel Zippers

Charles Krauthammer on how Obama is Missing the Big Picture

"The president’s foreign policy is defined by a total absence of strategic thinking."

NRO"Leave it to Barack Obama’s own former secretary of state to acknowledge the fatal flaw of his foreign policy: a total absence of strategic thinking. Mind you, Obama does deploy grand words proclaiming grand ideas: the “new beginning” with Islam declared in Cairo, the reset with Russia announced in Geneva, global nuclear disarmament proclaimed in Prague (and playacted in a Washington summit). Untethered from reality, they all disappeared without a trace.