Thomas
Peterffy, a billionaire Hungarian immigrant, plans to spend between $5 and $10 million
to reverse what he says is America’s slide toward socialism by airing this
video on networks including CNN and CNBC.
Peterffy
believes voters in November could unwittingly decide the sort of social system
that defines the country for decades to come.
“I grew up in
a socialist country, and I have seen what that does to people. There is no
hope, no freedom, no pride in achievement. The nation became poorer and poorer.
And that’s what I see happening here.”
Citing his
childhood in Hungary and similar scenarios that he maintains have played out in
other Eastern European countries and in Cuba, he warns that America risks its
freedom to succeed.
Politics is
not a playground, it’s a battlefield. Here are a few links from
conservative bloggers who are waging a war of words against the misanthropy,
priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism of the
mainstream media bobble-head dolls and groupthink poodles of the press corps.
It’s not easy
for a guy who worked for ACORN to hit new lows, but Obama managed it by
conspiring with the infamously slimy lawyer Gloria Allred on a last minute
smear job against Romney. The results were less
than impressive.
The President
lied to the nation. Anyone working in our government who knew anything about
that night lied to the nation. And
the press cowered and simpered, like a well-dressed Wormtongue,
covering and twisting the narrative to help their Master.
The optimism
that Obama’s supporters project is
unfounded in hard data and historical precedent.
After Obama
had denounced Youssef in every forum from 60 Minutes to the United Nations to
Pakistani TV, he was arrested, not to protect the Innocence of Muslims, but to
protect the Innocence of Obama.
If the America
of now is one in which unemployment is high, people give up on the jobs market
in despair, food stamp usage is at a record high, the government has control of
our health care, earning power is down, GDP is low, and the government can do
whatever the hell it wants, regardless of the Constitution, I’ll
take the America I knew, even if you call that racist.
Because
we care, we present the unintentionally amusing Campaign Ad of the Day.
Finally,
an American citizen stands up to the International House of Rape and Corruption
known as the UN.
A Special
Operations force went from central Europe to Naval Air Station Sigonella in
southern Italy, just 480 miles from Benghazi. F-16s and Apache helicopters
remained parked and unused at Aviano Air Base in northern Italy. Two Navy
destroyers already in the Mediterranean Sea were moved off the coast of Libya
on the day of the attack but were
never used.
It was
organized abandonment. Shameful.
I hope the
ghosts of Ambassador Stevens, the personal representative of the Chicago
Messiah, former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty and Information
Management Officer Sean Smith who were left to die, haunt him all the days of
his sorry, arrogant life.
Someone needs
to bring the blood-encrusted machine gun that Woods and Doherty were firing
when they were killed by a mortar shell and toss it on the Resolute Desk right
in front of this cowardly president.
Horses
were used by the military during the Iraq invasion. The Chicago Messiah doesn’t know the
difference between a ship and a boat and someone needs to hit him over the head
with a clue bat: Submarines are
boats not ships.
Politics is
not a playground, it’s a battlefield. Here are a few links from
conservative bloggers who are waging a war of words against the misanthropy,
priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism of the
mainstream media bobble-head dolls and groupthink poodles of the press corps.
The first
freedom in the days of the American Revolution was freedom from British rule.
The first freedom in 1941 was freedom from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. The
first freedom during the Cold War was freedom from Communism. The
first freedom in our own time is freedom from Islam.
That flushing sound you hear is
another $50 million taxpayer dollars going down the shitter of Teh Won’s Green
Energy policy.
If we give The
Crapsack™ POTUS the heave-ho on November 6th, there's an
additional bonus to this: the lobster-sucking, $5,000-sneaker-wearing WIDE
LOAD FLOTUS—Moochelle—gets her fat ass run out of town as well.
One of the
loopier phrases coined by progressives is "smart power". At its essence, it seeks to counter violent
aggression with the consensus-based
woolgathering of the European Union. A post written back in August of 2011 seems
eerily prescient in light of our non-response to the 9/11 attack in
Benghazi, Libya.
This is the
intellectual dead end liberalism brings us to. Fortunately, reality
does not conform to their fevered nightmares. There is always a way, and
innovation powered by free-market capitalism is the signpost.
Just this past
Friday, in a remarkably brazen move, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,
thrown under the bus, simply
refused to answer questions about the attack. “That’s the very way that I’m
answering your question today,” she said after not answering. “And I think I’ll
leave it at that.”
“Mrs.
Secretary, if you could, the question was,” the reporter said.
“I know, but
I’m going to leave it at that.”
In a stunning
revelation Monday night while in Peru, Clinton
told CNN, “What I want to avoid is some kind of political gotcha or blame
game. I know that we are very close to
an election.”
That’s some
president we’ve got here folks. He’s
hiding behind a double-wide pantsuit skirt. Word to the wise: The Scorpion and
the Frog.
To put a fine
point on this whole debacle, I defer to the great Mark
Steyn:
Given that
Obama and Secretary Clinton refer to Stevens pneumatically as “Chris,” as if
they’ve known him since third grade, why would they dishonor the sacrifice of
their close personal friend by peddling an utterly false narrative as to why he
died? You want “politicization”? Secretary Clinton linked the YouTube video to
the murder of her colleagues even as the four caskets lay alongside her at
Andrews Air Force Base—even though she had known for days that it had nothing
to do with it. It’s weird enough that politicians now give campaign speeches to
returning coffins. But to conscript your “friend’s corpse as a straight man for
some third-rate electoral opportunism is surely as shriveled and worthless as
“politicization” gets.
[SNIP]
In the days
before the attack Joe Biden had been peddling his Obama campaign slogan that
“bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.” The first successful terrorist
attack on U.S. sovereign territory since 9/11, and on the very anniversary and
by al-Qaeda-linked killers, was not helpful to the Obama team. And so the
nature of the event had to be “politicized”: Look, over there—an Islamophobic
movie! “Greater love hath no man than
this,” quoth the president at Chris Stevens’ coffin, “that a man lay down his
life for his friends.” Smaller love hath no man than Obama’s, than to lay down
his “friend” for a couple of points in Ohio.
Meanwhile,
back at the West Wing, Obama, Axelrod, Jarrett and Carney are patting
themselves on the back saying, “Our bullshit is awesome!”
UPDATE via John
Batchelor: Was this an ambush by
HRC to make OFA look spiteful and fearful of the Benghazi question in the
debate this week and next? The Clintons! There has to be a part in
here for Bill Clinton. Is this revenge for the "3 A.M. Call" of 2008 that
HRC didn't get to take? Did Axelrod call Candidate Obama after HRC
made the "I take responsibility," line, and say, "She did it,
that (blank), stabbed us in the back at 9 pm!"
Specter died
Sunday morning at his home in Philadelphia from complications of non-Hodgkin’s
lymphoma, his son Shanin told the Associated Press.
Reviled by the
right, mistrusted by the left and ever unpredictable, was nonetheless a major
force in the U.S. Senate for three decades, casting what were often crucial
votes on everything from judicial nominations to economic policy.
As a member of
the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, it was in 1987 that Specter helped to
defeat confirmation of President Ronald Reagan’s Supreme Court nomination,
Robert Bork. Four years later, his aggressive questioning of Anita Hill’s allegations of sexual harassment during
Clarence Thomas’ nomination hearing, helped him ascend to the nation’s highest
court.
In February
2009, he voted for the Democrats’ economic stimulus package, inflaming GOP
sentiment against him.
Specter
announced on April 28, 2009 that he was changing party affiliation from
Republican to Democrat. The party
switch, which Vice President Biden helped to engineer behind the scenes,
temporarily gave Democrats the 60th vote they needed to overcome Republican
filibusters against President Obama's health care overhaul.
Later in 2009,
Specter got a dose of the growing Tea Party rebellion when he appeared at a
town hall meeting in Philadelphia alongside Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius.
The raucous scene that followed, aired on newscasts and posted on YouTube, would shake
Democrats, embolden Republicans and force the White House to accelerate its
health care strategy. It nearly succeeded in upending Obama's initiative. It was this same meeting where a young woman blasted the senator telling him, "You have awakened a sleeping giant."
Pennsylvanians
helped Joe Sestak to defeat Specter in that state’s Democratic Party primary on
May 18, 2010.
The former
senator announced on August 28, 2012 that he was battling cancer again
proclaiming it was “another battle I intend to win.”
Miami,
Florida, 22 October 1962: A Cuban
refugee listens to President Kennedy's television address in which the
president explained the United States' position on the Cuban situation to the
American people and the world. Photo
courtesy: Bettmann/CORBIS
President
Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered
the missiles. He met in secret with his advisors for several days to discuss
the problem.
After many
long and difficult meetings, Kennedy
decided to place a naval blockade, or a ring of ships, around Cuba. The aim
of this "quarantine," as he called it, was to prevent the Soviets from
bringing in more military supplies. He demanded the removal of the missiles
already there and the destruction of the sites. On October 22, President
Kennedy spoke to the nation about the crisis in a televised address.
No one was
sure how
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev would respond to the naval blockade and U.S.
demands. But the leaders of both superpowers recognized the devastating
possibility of a nuclear war and publicly agreed to a deal in which the Soviets
would dismantle the weapon sites in exchange for a pledge from the United
States not to invade Cuba. In a separate deal, which remained secret for more
than twenty-five years, the United States also agreed to remove its nuclear
missiles from Turkey. Although the Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba,
they escalated the building of their military arsenal; the missile crisis was
over, the arms race was not.
Another modern
standoff is over Iran, which the West accuses of pursuing a nuclear weapons program.
In a recent U.N. speech, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew a red
line on a cartoon bomb to illustrate that a nuclear Tehran would not be
tolerated.
"This
same process is looming on the current trajectory, inexorably, toward a
confrontation at which an American president is going to have to choose between
attacking Iran to prevent it becoming a nuclear weapons state or acquiescing
and then confronting a nuclear weapons state," Allison said.
"Kennedy's
idea would be, 'Don't let this reach the point of confrontation,'" he
added. "The risks of catastrophe are too great."
Of all the
lies told by the current regime, those told about the Iranian nuclear weapons
program and the savage murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens are among the
most shocking and reprehensible.
The Benghazi slaughterhouse
is the sickening result of an administration’s failure to heed the pleas and
the warnings of ambassador Chris Stevens. Stevens and three other Americans
died on September 11, 2012 and the administration lies to this day.
If you think we’re
not being played, try this on for size. Congresswoman
Donna Edwards (D-MD), while appearing on CNN said, "It's an evolving
security situation. One can expect one thing true in the beginning is different
in the end. I think we have to take the politics out of this. What
voters care about, they may not care about Benghazi, but they care about Bin
Laden."
Ms. Edwards’
impudence is, at once, both ghastly and frightening. It has been 17 months since the death of bin
Laden and despite having pledged not to use his death as a trophy, Obama and
his minions continue to trot out his corpse in order to bolster his foreign
policy chops and play on Americans’ fear.
If we travel
through the Wayback Machine to the 2008 presidential primaries, the Obama team
accused the Clinton team of “the
politics of fear”. One of the most
effective attack ads Clinton launched was the White
House phone ringing at 3 a.m. The
narrator informs the viewer that something is happening in the world and asks “Who
do you want answering that phone?”
The hour is 5 p.m., Sept. 11, Washington
time, and the scene is an Oval Office meeting among President Obama, the
secretary of defense, the national security adviser and the chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. The U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi has been under
assault for roughly 90 minutes. Some 30 U.S. citizens are at mortal risk. The
whereabouts of Ambassador Stevens are unknown.
Was Ambassador
Steven’s brutally sodomized, his body dragged through the streets of
Benghazi, songs of victory being chanted over his body before being taken to a
local hospital?
We may never
know the unvarnished truth. To know with
certainty would incense us all.
Barack Obama,
meanwhile, was jetting off to Las Vegas for a fundraiser.
The stunning
Benghazi fallout is a failure of policy stemming from a flawed president’s
flawed worldview and the political needs of an election season.
Completing the
circle, according to proprietary reporting from Ed
Klein, Bill Clinton is concerned that Barack Obama is about to throw
Hillary Clinton under the bus.
On CNBC’s The Kudlow Report, Klein said that
President Clinton is reaching out to friends in the legal profession trying to
figure out what his wife should do if she’s subpoenaed—called in to testify
about events in Libya.
Our four dead
Americans had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
Mr. Obama must
remember that it was the “machine” that chose him and it is the “machine” that
uses him and will throw him away when it is done with him. Hopefully, November 6, 2012 will hasten that
day and he too, will have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
May the blood
on his hands haunt his every waking hour.
UPDATE:
Watch as one of Obama’s propaganda ministers tries to filibuster on the
issue of Libya and then is forced to squirm when pressed about the matter.
Politics is
not a playground, it’s a battlefield. Here are a few links from
conservative bloggers who are waging a war of words against the misanthropy,
priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism of the
mainstream media bobble-head dolls and groupthink poodles of the press corps.
And with each
battle, freedom has been lost as a new layer of privilege and the regulations
that protect that privilege have been added. We have long ago lost the
presumption of innocence, now everyone is guilty of something and the
power to wield that guilt like a whip is the ultimate privilege.
[T]his story
isn’t going away. And part of the story consists of what many believe is a
coverup. Biden’s statements during the debate can be viewed as a continuation
of the coverup. As such, they
take on special importance.
Obama sends
billions to Pakistan, but refused
to give Benghazi any Marines.
In fact, it
was Biden himself who broke into the Kennedy wardrobe to try on some of Bobby
Kennedy's lines in his infamous 1988 Democratic primary debate plagiarism
incident, and Biden's
problems with plagiarism didn't end there. Nor did Biden's problems with
plagiarism begin there.
“Bill is
working on a number of strategies about what Hillary ought to do. He’s even
gone so far as to play with various doomsday scenarios including up to the idea
that Hillary
would consider resigning over the issue if the Obama team tries to use her
as a scapegoat.”
It strains
even the most robust sense of credulity to expect voters to believe that Obama
personally approves kill orders on suspected terrorists and closely supervised
the Bin Laden kill, but mysteriously
hasn't a clue what's going in Libya.
That the vice
president of the United States could put together a performance that was just
one step short of Nikita Khrushchev pounding his shoe on a desk at the United
Nations should
be deeply disturbing to average Americans.
Tonight, the Vice
Presidential Debate between Joe Biden and Paul Ryan will be broadcast across
the all networks, cable news channels and will be streamed live on YouTube™ and
other internet sites.
The topics will be foreign
and domestic policy. This debate is of
profound interest both nationally and internationally.
Marc A.
Thiessen, a fellow with the American Enterprise Institute and former
speechwriter for President George W. Bush, broke
the news on September 10, 2012 that “during his first 1,225 days in office,
Obama attended his PDB [presidential daily briefing] just 536 times—or 43.8
percent of the time.”
Three days
ago, Thiessen clearly defined a weapon for Ryan to use against the Vice
President in tonight’s debate: “Biden is
fond of pointing out Romney and Paul Ryan’s lack of foreign policy experience.
And it’s true, Biden does have a lot more experience than the GOP nominees—experience
at being wrong.”
“Yet today it
is Biden—the lone opponent of immediate action to kill bin Laden—who is
painting Romney as unfit for office because he allegedly would have opposed it.
There is, of course, no evidence that Romney would not have ordered the bin
Laden raid. But we now know for certain that, were it up to Biden, the raid
would not have gone forward.”
“Of course,
Biden’s opposition to the bin Laden operation is not surprising. The fact is
Biden has a near-perfect record of being wrong about almost every major foreign
policy question that the United States has faced in the past three decades. He
supported the nuclear freeze in the 1980s, opposed ballistic missile defense
and warned of a new arms race if the United States withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty (we did, and no arms race ensued). He opposed aiding the Nicaraguan
democratic resistance that helped roll back communism in our hemisphere, the
Reagan defense buildup that bankrupted the Soviet Union, the first Gulf War
that liberated Kuwait, and the 2007 surge that turned back the insurgency and
defeated al-Qaeda in Iraq. With this record, it is no shock that Biden opposed
the killing of bin Laden as well. But it takes chutzpah for Biden to publicly
castigate Romney for his imaginary opposition to the bin Laden operation, when
Biden actually opposed the bin Laden operation.”
If Biden dares
to repeat his now famous line, “GM is alive, and Bin Laden is dead,” Ryan can
simply answer, “Bin Laden wouldn't be dead if you had your way, Joe.”
The owners of
the children's show "Sesame Street" have
asked the Obama campaign to pull down an ad released Tuesday that shows an
image of Big Bird and mocks Republican nominee Mitt Romney for holding up the
popular children's character as a symbol of unnecessary government spending.
"We have
approved no campaign ads and, as is our general practice, have requested that
both campaigns remove Sesame Street characters and trademarks from their
campaign materials," said Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational
organization that produces and owns the show, in a statement.
The Obama
campaign is reviewing Sesame Workshop’s request.
A reporter
traveling with the Obama camp asked Jen Psaki aboard Air Force One, “Thinking
back to the last campaign of ‘08 and this time, too, the President has bemoaned
at times the focus on trivial things. And even though you made the point
about cutting the deficit, a lot of people will read about it, hear about this
ad—we‘re a month away from the election and we’re talking about Big Bird.
Is this the kind of focus that the campaign should have? And from the Left:
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney gave his much anticipated
foreign policy speech today at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington,
VA. He began by citing its contributions
to the nation both in war and in peace by the students’ “transformation into
citizens and warriors and leaders.”
Romney continued, “Of all the VMI graduates, none is
more distinguished than George Marshall—the Chief of Staff of the Army who
became Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense, who helped to vanquish
fascism and then planned Europe’s rescue from despair. His commitment to peace
was born of his direct knowledge of the awful costs and consequences of war.
General Marshall once said, ‘The only way human beings can win a war is to
prevent it.’ Those words were true in his time—and they still echo in
ours.”
Romney then began in earnest to demolish
the president’s foreign policy by raising the issue of Benghazi. “As the dust
settles, as the murdered are buried, Americans are asking how this happened,
how the threats we face have grown so much worse, and what this calls on
America to do. These are the right questions. And I have come here
today to offer a larger perspective on these tragic recent events—and to share
with you, and all Americans, my vision for a freer, more prosperous, and more
peaceful world.”
“The attacks
on America last month should not be seen as random acts. They are
expressions of a larger struggle that is playing out across the broader Middle
East—a region that is now in the midst of the most profound upheaval in a
century. And the fault lines of this struggle can be seen clearly in
Benghazi itself.”
“The attack on
our Consulate in Benghazi on September 11th, 2012 was likely the work of forces
affiliated with those that attacked our homeland on September 11th, 2001. This
latest assault cannot be blamed on a reprehensible video insulting Islam,
despite the Administration’s attempts to convince us of that for so long.
No, as the Administration has finally conceded, these attacks were the
deliberate work of terrorists who use violence to impose their dark ideology on
others, especially women and girls; who are fighting to control much of the
Middle East today; and who seek to wage perpetual war on the West.”
Lara Logan, CBS correspondent told
60 Minutes in a passionate plea, “that our government is downplaying the
strength of our enemies in Afghanistan and Pakistan as a rationale of getting
us out of the longest war. We have been
lulled into believing that the perils are in the past: ‘You’re not listening to what the people who
are fighting you say about this fight.
In your arrogance, you think you write the script. Our enemies are writing the story and there’s
no happy ending for us.’”
Romney
emphatically said it is the “responsibility of our President to use America’s
great power to shape history—not to lead from behind, leaving our destiny at
the mercy of events. Unfortunately, that
is exactly where we find ourselves in the Middle East under President Obama.”
The
world is in the throes of a crisis and this president has grabbed at baubles
and glitter, made endless speeches, attended fundraisers and played at least 100 rounds
of golf.
Romney said he
would support Israel, the nation most obviously at risk if Iran acquired
nuclear weapons, and charged that Obama’s poor relationship with Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has helped embolden Iran and other adversaries.
“I will
reaffirm our historic ties to Israel and our abiding commitment to its
security,” Romney said. “The world must never see any daylight between our two
nations.”
He
closed his speech with optimism, “The 21st century can and must be an American
century. It began with terror, war, and economic calamity. It is our duty to
steer it onto the path of freedom, peace, and prosperity.”
“The torch
America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America’s torch alone.
But it is America’s duty—and honor—to hold it high enough that all the world
can see its light.”
Bing
West echoes my sentiment about Romney’s speech today: “In summary, Mr. Romney has presented a
foreign-policy view akin to that of President Reagan, asserting faith in
American leadership—while equating Mr. Obama’s leadership to that of the timid
President Jimmy Carter.”
New evidence
shows there were security threats in Libya in the months prior to the deadly
September 11 attack that killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three
other Americans. Despite these threats, the State Department left its personnel
there to fend for themselves.
Jim Geraghty notes, “A
presidential reelection campaign needs three key elements: a defense of the
incumbent’s record, a successful effort to define the opposition and a
compelling vision of a second term.”
This regime’s campaign
has distinct problems with all three elements.
Geraghty continues,
“His defense of his record is exceptionally weak, his effort to define Mitt
Romney is nearly exhausted, and his vision for the next four years—perhaps the
most important—has been largely missing from his effort this year.”
Appearing on CBS’
Face the Nation, Senior Strategist
David Axelrod was asked by host Bob Schieffer about the Chicago Messiah’s
debate performance, "Do you think he was ill prepared? Some are saying it
was the people that prepared him. You were in the room most of the time.”
Axelrod answered,
"I was one of the people who prepared him. I'm happy to take whatever
responsibility people want to assign to me.”
Axelrod helped
with #OccupyResoluteDesk’s debate prep you say.
My, my, my. The Weekly Standard
is reporting that Vice President Biden is taking a little vacay from the
campaign trail to cram for his debate with Romney running mate Paul Ryan with
Axe and “other campaign advisers”.
I suspect that
when the morning after photographs of the Vice Presidential Debate are
released, if we look closely, we’ll see Axelrod’s hand up Biden’s ass pulling
the strings and controlling every word Crazy Uncle Joe utters. Then, when the VP debate turns into a
bloodbath, “heartbroken“
Chris Matthews will know exactly how and why it happened.
Politics is
not a playground, it’s a battlefield. Here are a few links from
conservative bloggers who are waging a war of words against the misanthropy,
priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism of the
mainstream media bobble-head dolls and groupthink poodles of the press corps.
I don’t think
this is any kind of game changer. Only political junkies will ever see these
clips, and everybody—even the folks who are going to vote for him—know he’s a phony, race-baiting jack hole by
now.
The
expectations were high and remained high until the Chicago Messiah began to
speak. And
then there was nothing.
It is tempting,
for example, to imagine recent history and the state of America had President
Barack Obama never existed— if, say, Stanley Ann Dunham had decided to try out
for the Dallas Cheerleaders, or pursued a degree in physics, instead of trying
to prove her "tolerance" with a sham marriage with a Kenyan Muslim
and making whoopee in Hawaii with a black Communist on the FBI's watch list
while pursuing degrees in anthropology and micro-financing—and so have never
been born and sparing the country of his brand of super-sized community
organizing. But,
that would be too easy.
Godless
Commies in academia and the media are crapflooding the public discourse. [SNIP]
It’s
time for a great awakening in this country, where we kick Commies
curb-ward, and re-assert liberty and mutual respect. Let these Commies return
to hell, and take their lies, Affirmative Action, and Equal Opportunity
Officers with them.
The
first question, which has been asked many a time without an answer, is why
the Obama admin[istration] would send the US Ambassador to the UN out on to the
political show circuit in the first place, and with those talking points. The
second question is what the administration thinks they will accomplish by
throwing the intelligence community under the bus.