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Posted on The Patriot Post-On June 15, 2012:
“The Foundation
“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth—and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. ... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.”—Patrick Henry
Government & Politics
‘Titanic II: It’ll Be Different This Time’
“The Democrats are saying something like this: ‘We found a big hole that we did not dig. ... Give us two more years. If it doesn’t work, vote us out.’” That’s what Bill Clinton said about the economy—in 2010. There’s plenty of blame to go around for that hole, of course, but it’s worth remembering that Democrats took control of both houses of Congress—and the purse strings—almost a year before the recession started. And we can’t think of a better argument for voting Democrats out than how they bound and gagged the economy for the last five years.
One of Clinton’s most trusted strategists, James “It’s the Economy, Stupid” Carville, is painfully aware that the languishing economy doesn’t bode well for Democrats in November, and he’s advising Obama to quit talking about his record—a strategy he says is “wrong” and “will fail”—and focus on the future instead. Carville wrote, along with fellow strategists Stanley Greenberg and Erica Seifert, “We will face an impossible headwind in November if we do not move to a new narrative, one that contextualizes the recovery but, more importantly, focuses on what we will do to make a better future for the middle class.” In other words, it’s like the sequel to “Titanic,” and the ship will sink all over again.
Barack Obama isn’t listening to Carville, though. He gave a 54-minute speech yesterday at an Ohio community college—ironically, the same place Clinton made his remarks two years ago—in an attempt to “reframe” the issue. “Rerun” might be a better word because there was nothing new offered, no deviation from the bigger-government-fixes-everything template, and it was full of the usual mix of self-congratulation and blame for everyone else. In fact, we think we’ve heard it 54 times before.
Obama blamed the “policies of the last decade” for the bad economy, while arguing that Mitt Romney would gut education, science and green energy programs, as well as “end [Medicare] as we know it.” Arguing that he needs four more years because of George W. Bush is less than convincing, though as he reminded us last Friday, “the private sector is doing fine.”
He then whined that Romney’s campaign will go negative: “The other side will spend over a billion dollars on ads that tell you the economy is bad, that it’s all my fault ... that I can’t fix it because I think government is always the answer or because I didn’t make a lot of money in the private sector and don’t understand it or because I’m in over my head or because I think everything and everybody is doing just fine.”
“No, I don’t believe that government is the answer to all our problems,” Obama joked—at least we assume he had to be joking—before turning around and saying of his “investments” of taxpayer money, “The private sector can’t do it alone.” In fact, he says, government investment is necessary to help “the next Thomas Edison, the next Wright brothers.” Also laughably, he hammered the Bush tax cuts and alleged deregulation in general, only to later tout his own tax cuts and supposed deregulation.
All in all, the speech was a tired refrain of Obama’s old standbys, class warfare and government solutions—so much so that even a panel at MSNBC panned the speech. But Obama did offer one bit of wisdom: “This election is your chance to break [the] stalemate” between economic visions for the country. Indeed, it’s time for a change.
The Obama Presidency in a Nutshell
“I think people are still hurting. I think the economy has not recovered, and it’s not where it needs to be.”—White House Press Secretary Jay Carney
On Cross-Examination
“Now you may have heard that President Obama is on the other side of the state and he is going to be delivering a speech on the economy. He’s doing that because he hasn’t delivered a recovery for the economy. And he’s going to be a person of eloquence as he describes his plans for making the economy better but don’t forget, he’s been president for three and a half years. And talk is cheap. Action speaks very loud. ... What he says and what he does are not always the exact same thing.”—Mitt Romney, just before Obama’s speech.
Hope ‘n’ Change: Collusion on ObamaCare
We have long known that the Obama administration pulled out all the stops, legal and otherwise, to make ObamaCare a reality, but recent evidence indicates a staggeringly high level of collusion between the White House and pharmaceutical companies in crafting the legislation. The House Energy and Commerce Committee is investigating the relationship between the Obama White House and the drug industry lobby, led by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). The committee’s recent findings are the most glaring example of crony capitalism we have yet seen from this administration.
In 2009, when ObamaCare was coming together, drug makers eagerly stepped up to join the White House effort in order to protect their own interests from too much government regulation, and because they realized that the new entitlement might bring a wave of new customers their way. Emails from the drug makers and the White House show that the White House explicitly looked to Pfizer and other drug companies to provide financial and critical support for the bill, dangling promises of looser price controls and anti-re-importation provisions in exchange. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), then chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, took everything that PhRMA offered, and then pushed re-importation anyway. As part of the well-played skit, the White House stepped in, saved the drug companies from the re-importation provision, and PhRMA wrote a $150 million check for an advertising campaign that touted the virtues of ObamaCare to an increasingly skeptical public.
Democrats pretend to be the champions of the average American, but they had no problem cozying up to drug companies in order to get their own way. The drug companies in turn had no problem getting into bed with the White House if it meant bigger potential profits for them down the road.
Meanwhile, even if the Supreme Court strikes down ObamaCare, some of its provisions may live on with various insurance companies. UnitedHealth Group and other large insurers, for example, intend to keep the provision that allows families to keep their children on their plans up to age 26, and they will also maintain certain preventive measures with no out-of-pocket charges. On the other hand, they’re unlikely to stick to the portion of the law that requires them to take all comers regardless of pre-existing conditions, and they will probably ditch the requirement that insurers spend at least 80 percent of premiums on health-related costs.
Campaign Trail: Fundraiser-in-Chief
Barack Obama hit six fundraisers Tuesday in Baltimore and Philadelphia—tying the one-day record for fundraising events by a sitting president. The previous record, by the way, was held by ... wait for it ... Barack Obama. Obama has held a total of 160 fundraising events since officially kicking off his re-election campaign. To put that into perspective, by the same point in his first term, George W. Bush held 79 events.
On another campaign stop for barbecue, the president and his four guests left without paying the $55.58 bill. The White House did settle the tab before the end of the day, but the episode reminded us of a particular attack Obama made on Republicans. Rebutting their criticism of his deficit spending, he said it’s “like somebody goes to the restaurant, orders a big steak dinner, martini, all that stuff and then just as you’re sitting down, they leave and accuse you of running up the tab.” Just as with his budgets, he ordered something he didn’t pay for.
News From the Swamp: Federal Reserve Debt Holdings Skyrocket
Newly released numbers show that the Federal Reserve under Obama has become the largest shareholder in U.S. government debt. The Fed owned $302 billion in U.S. Treasury securities in January 2009. That portion rose an incredible 452 percent by April 2012, with the Fed now holding $1.67 trillion. In roughly the same time frame, China’s share of U.S. government debt rose from $740 billion to $1.17 trillion, and Japan’s share shot from $635 billion to just over $1 trillion. Together, these three entities possess 49 percent of all the new debt generated during Obama’s term, in which total debt rose 50 percent from $10 trillion to $15 trillion.”
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We The People!-Posted on YouTube.com-By nospopulus-On February 10, 2010:
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America cannot survive another four years of obama-soetoro - -we shouldn't have had to suffer through the first four; it was not "just" big pharma that helped him get obamacare bulldozed through Congress - -AARP had more than a little to do with the "propaganda" behind it. After being a dues paying member, for twenty years, I told them exactly "what" they could do with my membership and "why"! They stand to make a "ton of money" (billions) unless SCOTUS rules it unconstitutional - -and it IS!
Arland, i did not mean to hurt your feelings, and I only responded back to you for two reasons, one of course was that you accused me of having a muddled head, and the other was that I am just telling you based upon my last eleven years of research of historical and political events, as well as my conferences with political stratagists, what I see happening. We can agree to disagree, and I will leave it at that. Thanks for the reply!
I have read everyones comments and I hope for the sake of this country Obama looses But if each of us get one, just one person to register to vote and take them to the polls, we can do this. JUST ONE
Rene- A person who disagrees with you is clueless? now you have something in common with Barack. You say he will be reelected. I say he won't. Let's agree to disagree and leave this little discourse at that.
Well Andrew..in response to who is on that "assassin" list..you know all of us are..because we have already been labeled by this admin as "terrorists"..so what..I still choose God, my country and our Constitution! I intend on honoring our Founders! Just like Patrick Henry..no matter the cost!
@Arland Green, Yes we do all know our kids future is at stake, but not everone understands that the two Party Process is really a One Party Propaganda and Control Machine, it is obvious you are one of the clueless, or you would know better than the statement you have made. There is no Collective American Voting Wisdom that is on the same page, that understands what is behind the tyranny.
Watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qviEAcwRWo&feature=relmfu
This is from a commentor on this video, and I concurr, not just because this is what I think, but what I know based upon the research done by independent journalists, journalists that can be trusted to do accurate reporting, not the ones controlled by the Globalist organizations.
Published on Jun 6, 2012 by Taz James
This shows how far these monsters will go. Creating a false flag by slaughtering women and children to get us involved with Syria. The two top reasons for a war 1. Syria has their own currency. The central banking thugs do not like this. 2. Obama's Islamic Muslim brotherhood will take over. The people responsible for this slaughter are the CIA or Al-CIAda. Divide and conquer. Al-qadia was formed by the CIA to fight the Russians in Afghanistan years ago. Create a problem and come up with the solution. These strategy's come from Obama and Hilary's bible 'Rules for radicals' by Saul Alinsky Both Obama and Hillary are know to have written paper's praising this communist Alinsky.
Please watch (Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve) on youtube.
Rene Stover- You need to get some air and clear your muddled head. Obama will not win because the collective American voting wisdom will not allow it. All know our kids futures are at stake, and most know the terrrors of socialist governments and their penchant for murdering the opposition. the Emporer has no clothes- Barack is proof that unqualified narcissists make failed one term leaders.
Obama will most likely win, and America will loose, but either way, unless Americans wake up, America will loose. The difference is how fast America will go down the tubes. Both Obama and Romney are a trip to the basement, and probably a bloody revolution, but the difference is that Obama, being just one link in the destruction of our Constitution, and Romney the other, the process will be a little bit slower, and a little more deceptive with Romney. Congress is the real problem now, the American people have shown we will allow the government to do what ever they want, and most of Congress has been bought off by the Globalist, International Corporations, and controlled by an unconstitutional Central Banking System that has been running up our debt and stealing the future of our Great, Great Grand Kids, because the American People have listened to the Washington Liars, and the MSM, and are ignorant of what has been going on.
If obama wins, America loses. And she may lose forever due to his win.
The Republican party has become as much the "War Party", as they used to say the Democrat Party was, this should make one think! I have been a Republican all of my life, because I did not know that the two parties are owned and controlled by the same organizations. To say that the Republican Party has respect for human life, is to show a lack of understanding of what really goes on. Look at all of the Wars that both parties have been involving us in, the only ones that have respect for human life lie outside of the Two Party System. It is hard for me to believe one has true respect for human life when one stands behind a party, or parties that are getting our smartest people killed in these unconstitutional wars, and sending our troups into other countries to kill hundreds of thousands of people, based on the lie that we have a terrorist hiding behind every blade of grass. Give me a break, it is all for the proffit of the Military Industrial Complex, that General Eisenhower warned us about! I don't understand the continued gullability of the American People in general, it looks like they would have awakened by now, and realize that we have been lied to.
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