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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
liar-nObama's transparent presidency
by Caroline B. Glick
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 Sandbagging Trump With 'Dirt' 
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The story of Russian hacking of Democrat email systems has now added yet another chapter with the latest claims of Moscow having obtained dirt on Donald Trump as well. Last week, both Barack liar-nObama and Trump were briefed by the intelligence community with a classified report that included unsubstantiated allegations that Russian intelligence had obtained compromising material on both liar-Hillary Clinton and Trump. The narrative now being developed by the Leftmedia is that this "kompromat" — a Russian espionage term for blackmail material — could be used to coerce whoever occupies the White House, namely Trump.
          Perpetuating the story, CNN reported that Trump's campaign had apparently colluded with Russia based upon an unsubstantiated dossier. This was followed by BuzzFeed releasing the dubious 35-page dossier, which it claimed contained the damning information on the Russian-Trump relationship. Russia denied the allegations, stating that the report was an "absolute fabrication" designed to damage U.S.-Russian relations. And Trump tweeted last night, "FAKE NEWS — A TOTAL POLITICAL WITCH HUNT!"
          So what's going on here? Well, it's clear that the Democrats would like nothing more than to delegitimize Trump for their own political gain. It also aids Democrats in their quest to sink Rex Tillerson's secretary of state confirmation due to his business ties with Russia. And like Pavlovian dogs, the mainstream media has responded to the call from the Left to attack Trump, hence the unsubstantiated allegations now being passed off as legitimate journalism.
          In the end, what may be most troubling is the manner in which U.S. intelligence agencies have handled these highly political allegations. Leaked information about unsubstantiated allegations to the media from unnamed sources within the intelligence community smells like a dangerous politicization of government agencies. Those agencies, for the sake of the public's trust and the nation's security, need to maintain an uncompromising standard of commitment to abstaining from any form of political pandering.  ~The Patriot Post
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 A New Era of Small Business Optimism 
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The frustration that has disincentivized entrepreneurs is finally fading away. Citing statistics gathered by the National Federation of Independent Business, Bloomberg reports, "Optimism among America's small businesses soared in December by the most since 1980 as expectations about the economy's prospects improved dramatically in the aftermath of the presidential election." NFIB president Juanita Duggan believes that "[s]mall business is ready for a breakout, and that can only mean very good things for the U.S. economy. Business owners are feeling better about taking risks and making investments."
          That's what eight years of socialist economic policies will do. It would be premature to assume job creation will experience eye-popping gains under Donald Trump. But what we can surmise with a high degree of certainty is that it can't be any worse than the last eight years. Creating a company is risky in any environment, but over the last few decades entrepreneurs were accustomed to having a decent shot at starting and growing a competitive business. That changed under Barack liar-nObama — not only has starting a business been next to impossible, but industries as a whole have suffered. What's needed is less regulation. That's a principle career politicians like Bernie Sanders fundamentally don't understand.
          For example, this week the Socialist senator was challenged by a small business owner who explained, "We keep getting kicked in the teeth by this administration. It's regulation after regulation and tax after tax." He then asked, "Why is this administration so against the business owner?" According to Sanders, "I don't think this administration, the liar-nObama administration you're referring to, is so against the business."
          He then launched into a diatribe against wealthy businessmen and corporations, whose supposedly lenient tax rates are really what stifle economic growth, along with a defense of onerous regulations on things like air and water that have nothing to do with the actual business of most companies. The small business owner put it best when he shot back, "You haven't lived until you've put a payroll on your credit card. This is the reality of the backbone of this country." Let's hope the optimism of Trump's presidency ushers in an era of new risk-takers who understand this distinction and learn from it ~The Patriot Post
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Clarke – Another Cop Murdered, Sooner
liar-nObama Gone The Better
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Sheriff David Clarke joined Lou Dobbs to discuss the mess that Hussein liar-nObama is leaving behind, not the least of which is the sorry state of the relationships between communities and police departments across the nation... The murder of an Orlando Police Officer by a suspect wanted for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend has Sheriff Clarke angered about what happened and the environment that liar-nObama created that promotes it. An Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy also died from injuries sustained when on his motorcycle when a car turned into his path while searching for the murderous assailant. Sheriff Clarke says, “I’ve read a lot about this situation during the course of the day, here is what I’m not reading. That this scumbag black man shot and killed a law enforcement officer, a mother of two, for heaven’s sakes. Alright, but if a law enforcement officer shoots a black guy that’s one of the first things that’s mentioned in any narrative, so, you know, of course my heart, thoughts and prayers go out to the city of Orlando, the Orlando Police Department, but sometimes that’s not enough.”...
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The UN and liar-nObama's Act of Aggression
by Maria Polizoidou
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ If US President Barack liar-nObama were uneducated, if his staff consisted of people who had never been taught history at school, if the government consisted of savages who have just emerged from the Amazon jungle... we could somehow "justify" their ignorance about the history of the Mediterranean and the Middle Eastern people. But that is not what is going on. This ambush against Israel in UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which considers the Jewish people "occupiers" in their own ancient capital and the holiest part of it, is an act of jihad and an act of political violence – perpetrated by governments to achieve political goals. This resolution did not randomly emerge from a historical moment, or as the result of political choices based on reasonable criteria to provide peace and stability in the region. It does not help either the Arabs living in the disputed territories -- Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip - or the Israelis in any peace process...
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Democratic Party’s Israel Support Plunges
by Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ According to Pew Research, Democratic Party support of Israel has fallen off a cliff (43% to 33%). The gap in support of Israel between political parties is now the widest in Pew Research history... A little more than half of all Americans sympathize most with Israel (vs 19% for both or neither and the same percentage for the Palestinians). However when you look at the sympathy by political party (self-identified), 74% of Republicans sympathize more than Israel while only a third of Democrats feel the same way. This margin of 41% is the largest since Pew started tracking the numbers. The growth in sympathy may be a result of the eight years of liar-nObama Administration venom directed at Israel. The drop in support for Israel may be directly tied to the Democratic Party primary season where the surprising showing of Bernie Sanders and liar-Hillary Clinton’s corresponding pivot to the left ceded party control to the most extreme liberal wing of the party, which has always shown an aversion to the Jewish State...  http://lidblog.com/democratic-party-israel-support-plunge/
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Michelle Malkin Goes OFF on
Mainstream Media ‘Do Your Jobs!’
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{conservativevideos.com} ~ As seen FIRST on Fox News: Michelle Malkin joined Sean Hannity tonight to contrast how the mainstream media has treated President-elect Donald Trump with how they covered President liar-nObama for the past eight years.
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Rep Lewis Represents Pitiable Left,
Out Energy, Ideas And Time
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts to share “on the utterly despicable efforts by the left to subvert Donald Trump’s presidency. I’ve been warning about the left’s campaign of subversion for weeks now, from almost the day Donald Trump won the White House... The President-elect is set to take the oath of office just one week from today. And the left is continuing to do all it can to undermine his presidency.” Dobbs observes, “Democrat Congressman John Lewis even went so far as to say he does not see Trump as a “legitimate” president. He’s not alone and frankly, all of them saying things like that, they don’t mean it, they know better, but it works for them for now. Unfortunately, Lewis also testified against Senator Sessions, in so doing attacked him in the most unreasonable, unfactual, unfair manner.” Mr. Dobbs believes “Lewis should be ashamed, but of course he was simply practicing the sordid politics of destruction, of delegitimization that is at work now in Washington DC on the part of the left. But such is the left of 2017, with dwindling support and rising contempt for our political system, our values, our institutions of government.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-rep-lewis-represents-pitiable-left-energy-ideas-time/
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liar-nObama's transparent presidency
by Caroline B. Glick
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ President Barack liar-nObama promised that his would be the most transparent administration in US history.

And the truth is, it was. At least in relation to his policies toward the Muslim world, liar-nObama told us precisely what he intended to do and then he did it.

A mere week remains of liar-nObama’s tenure in office.

But liar-nObama remains intent on carrying on as if he will never leave power. He has pledged to continue to implement his goals for the next week and then to serve as the most outspoken ex-president in US history.

In all of liar-nObama’s recent appearances, his message is one of vindication. I came. I succeeded. I will continue to succeed. I represent the good people, the people of tomorrow. My opponents represent the Manichean, backward past. We will fight them forever and we will prevail.

Tuesday liar-nObama gave his final interview to the Israeli media to Ilana Dayan from Channel 2’s Uvda news magazine. Dayan usually tries to come off as an intellectual. On Tuesday’s show, she cast aside professionalism however, and succumbed to her inner teenybopper. Among her other questions, she asked liar-nObama the secret to his preternatural ability to touch people’s souls.

The only significant exchange in their conversation came when Dayan asked liar-nObama about the speech he gave on June 4, 2009, in Cairo. Does he still stand by all the things he said in that speech? Would he give that speech again today, given all that has since happened in the region, she asked.

Absolutely, liar-nObama responded.

The speech, he insisted was “aspirational” rather than programmatic. And the aspirations that he expressed in that address were correct.

If Dayan had been able to put aside her hero worship for a moment, she would have stopped liar-nObama right then and there. His claim was preposterous.

But, given her decision to expose herself as a slobbering groupie, Dayan let it slide.

To salvage the good name of the journalism, and more important, to understand liar-nObama’s actual record and its consequences, it is critical however to return to that speech.

liar-nObama’s speech at Cairo University was the most important speech of his presidency. In it he laid out both his “aspirational” vision of relations between the West and the Islamic world and his plans for implementing his vision. The fundamentally transformed world he will leave President-elect Donald Trump to contend with next Friday was transformed on the basis of that speech.

liar-nObama’s address that day at Cairo University lasted for nearly an hour. In the first half he set out his framework for understanding the nature of the US’s relations with the Muslim world and the relationship between the Western world and Islam more generally. He also expressed his vision for how that relationship should change.

The US-led West he explained had sinned against the Muslim world through colonialism and racism.

It needed to make amends for its past and make Muslims feel comfortable and respected, particularly female Muslims, covered from head to toe.

As for the Muslims, well, September 11 was wrong but didn’t reflect the truth of Islam, which is extraordinary. liar-nObama thrice praised “the Holy Koran.” He quoted it admiringly. He waxed poetic in his appreciation for all the great contributions Islamic civilization has made to the world – he even made up a few. And he insisted falsely that Islam has always been a significant part of the American experience.

In his dichotomy between two human paths – the West’s and Islam’s – although he faulted the records of both, liar-nObama judged the US and the West more harshly than Islam.

In the second half of his address, liar-nObama detailed his plans for changing the West’s relations with Islam in a manner that reflected the true natures of both.

In hindsight, it is clear that during the seven and a half years of his presidency that followed that speech, all of liar-nObama’s actions involved implementing the policy blueprint he laid out in Cairo.

He never deviated from the course he spelled out.

liar-nObama promised to withdraw US forces from Iraq regardless of the consequences. And he did.

He promised he would keep US forces in Afghanistan but gave them no clear mission other than being nice to everyone and giving Afghans a lot of money. And those have been his orders ever since.

Then he turned his attention to Israel and the Palestinians. liar-nObama opened this section by presenting his ideological framework for understanding the conflict. Israel he insisted was not established out of respect of the Jews’ national rights to their historic homeland. It was established as a consolation prize to the Jews after the Holocaust.

That is, Israel is a product of European colonialism, just as Iran and Hamas claim.

In contrast, the Palestinians are the indigenous people of the land. They have been the primary victims of the colonial West’s post-Holocaust guilty conscience. Their suffering is real and legitimate.

Hamas’s opposition to Israel is legitimate, he indicated. Through omission, liar-nObama made clear that he has no ideological problem with Hamas – only with its chosen means of achieving its goal.

Rather than fire missiles at Israel, he said, Hamas should learn from its fellow victims of white European colonialist racists in South Africa, in India, and among the African-American community.

Like them Hamas should use nonviolent means to achieve its just aims.

liar-nObama’s decision attack Israel at the UN Security Council last month, his attempts to force Israel to accept Hamas’s cease-fire demands during Operation Protective Edge in 2014, his consistent demand that Israel renounce Jewish civil and property rights in united Jerusalem, in Judea and Samaria, his current refusal to rule out the possibility of enabling another anti-Israel resolution to pass at the Security Council next week, and his contempt for the Israeli Right all are explained, envisioned and justified explicitly or implicitly in his Cairo speech.
 
One of the more notable but less discussed aspects of liar-nObama’s assertion that the Palestinians are in the right and Israel is in the wrong in the speech, was his embrace of Hamas. liar-nObama made no mention of the PLO or the Palestinian Authority or Fatah in his speech. He mentioned only Hamas – the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which shares the Brotherhood’s commitment to annihilating Israel and wiping out the Jewish people worldwide.

Sitting in the audience that day in Cairo were members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.

Then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak rightly viewed liar-nObama’s insistence that the brothers be invited to his address as a hostile act. Due to this assessment, Mubarak boycotted the speech and refused to greet liar-nObama at the Cairo airport.

Two years later, liar-nObama supported Mubarak’s overthrow and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood to replace him.

Back to the speech.

Having embraced the Muslim Brotherhood and its Palestinian branch, branded Israel a colonial implant and discredited the US’s moral claim to world leadership, liar-nObama turned his attention to Iran.

liar-nObama made clear that his intention as president was to appease the ayatollahs. America he explained had earned their hatred because in 1953 the CIA overthrew the pro-Soviet regime in Iran and installed the pro-American shah in its place.

True, since then the Iranians have done all sorts of mean things to America. But America’s original sin of intervening in 1953 justified Iran’s aggression.

liar-nObama indicated that he intended to appease Iran by enabling its illicit nuclear program to progress.

Ignoring the fact that Iran’s illegal nuclear program placed it in material breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, liar-nObama argued that as an NPT signatory, Iran had a right to a peaceful nuclear program. As for the US and the rest of the members of the nuclear club, liar-nObama intended to convince everyone to destroy their nuclear arsenals.

And in the succeeding years, he took a hacksaw to America’s nuclear force.

After liar-nObama’s speech in Cairo, no one had any cause for surprise at the reports this week that he approved the transfer of 116 tons of uranium to Iran. Likewise, no one should have been surprised by his nuclear deal or by his willingness to see Iran take over Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen. No one should be surprised by his cash payoffs to the regime or his passivity in the face of repeated Iranian acts of aggression against US naval vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.

Everything that liar-nObama has done since he gave that speech was alluded to or spelled out that day.

Certainly, nothing he has done was inconsistent with what he said.

The consequences of liar-nObama’s worldview and the policies he laid out in Cairo have been an unmitigated disaster for everyone. The Islamic world is in turmoil. The rising forces are those that liar-nObama favored that day: The jihadists.

ISIS, which liar-nObama allowed to develop and grow, has become the ideological guide not only of jihadists in the Middle East but of Muslims in the West as well. Consequently it has destabilized not only Iraq and Syria but Europe as well. As the victims of the Islamist massacres in San Bernardino, Boston, Ft. Hood, Orlando and beyond can attest, American citizens are also paying the price for liar-nObama’s program.

Thanks to liar-nObama, the Iranian regime survived the Green Revolution. Due to his policies, Iran is both the master of its nuclear fate and the rising regional hegemon.

Together with its Russian partners, whose return to regional power after a 30-year absence liar-nObama enabled, Iran has overseen the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Sunnis in Syria and paved the way for the refugee crisis that threatens the future of the European Union.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s Islamist leader, was a principle beneficiary of liar-nObama’s admiration of Islamism. Erdogan rode liar-nObama’s wave to destroy the last vestiges of the secular Turkish Republic.

Now he is poised to leave NATO in favor of an alliance with Russia.

liar-nObama and his followers see none of this. Faithful only to their ideology, liar-nObama and his followers in the US and around the world refuse to see the connection between the policies borne of that ideology and their destructive consequences. They refuse to recognize that the hatred for Western civilization and in particular of the Jewish state liar-nObama gave voice to in Cairo, and his parallel expression of admiration for radical Islamic enemies of the West, have had and will continue to have horrific consequences for the US and for the world as a whole.

Cairo is liar-nObama’s legacy. His followers’ refusal to acknowledge this truth means that it falls to those liar-nObama reviles to recognize the wages of the most transparent presidency in history. It is their responsibility to undo the ideological and concrete damage to humanity the program he first unveiled in that address and assiduously implemented ever since has wrought.
 
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