Sen. Barack Obama talks a good game. There's talk about hope and change, and hope and change, and even more hope and change. What exactly is he hoping to change? No one really knows, but one thing is clear: the more we get to know him, the more we realize that his actions are quite different than his "hope and change" rhetoric.
As an example, take his recent speech about pay discrimination between men and women. Obama told the audience in Albuquerque, NM that he supports "a Senate bill to make it easier to sue an employer for pay discrimination." Yet, upon a review of Obama's payroll, we learn that women are paid less than men. Keep talking Sen. Obama.
It’s one of the most hated Supreme Court decisions in decades, and it happened just three years ago. I’m talking about Kelo vs. New London, where a bare majority of the justices decided that it was OK for local governments looking to increase tax revenue to take land from their citizens and give it to a developer.
Amid the air kissing and chilly hugs between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in an attempt to show Democratic Party "unity" stands a formidable obstacle -- Bill Clinton.
At a much ballyhooed Washington meeting with Hillary fundraisers, the former First Lady asked her funders to pony up for Obama. But make no mistake about it -- it was with a wink and a nod. The REAL message came from Bill Clinton and his actions, or rather, "inaction" as he issued a one-line tepid endorsement of Obama through a spokesman. Bill Clinton has been unreachable by phone as Obama has been trying to talk to him for days and days (gives us a whole new meaning to the term cell phone "dead zone") and has largely stayed tersely silent in the days since Obama wrestled the nomination from Hillary.
The Bill Clinton message to the Hillary funders? "Hang back, and hold out." And they won't make a move until he says it's a go. Afterall, the millions these folks can raise is a lot of power -- power that can be wielded in any number of different ways by Bill Clinton. Why would he just hand that over to the young upstart from Chicago? Bill and Hillary could point those folks to Governors races, House and Senate Races and any number of places where they can shore up their ranks for Hillary's next run.
And don't expect to see Bill Clinton on stage with Obama any time soon. The stature gap and gravitas gap between Obama with his experience that can be counted in days and months, and the two-term President and governor would make him appear to be what, in fact, he is -- An inexperienced empty shell, a blank slate on which so many Americans are drawing thier hopes and dreams, only to be dissappointed.
There’s something a lot of Republicans need to learn, especially this year: Many voters don’t vote with their heads, but with their hearts. The person they select on their ballot isn’t always a logical choice, but an emotional one. So Republicans who can and do come to the absolutely logical conclusion that the November election is a choice between John McCain and Barack Obama need to understand that for a lot of conservative voters that logic simply isn’t enough.
As Newt Gingrich might say, that’s not a problem, it’s a reality.
ThreatsWatch.org, a web resource devoted to providing information on threats to our national security, put up an interesting post this morning. In "The Clock Ticks for the President," Steve Schippert takes issue with an article from The Times (UK) that portrays increased efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden as nothing more than "a self-serving effort to ensure he [President Bush] can include the killing or capture of Usama bin Laden on his watch." This is absurd, of course, and Schippert does an excellent job of analyzing the real motivation behind our stepped up efforts in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.
The critical factor driving more aggressive operations, rightly noted by Schippert, is the changing situation not in Washington, but in Pakistan.
Candidate Obama had the "audacity" to appear at an official event with governors in Chicago with a mocked up version of the official Presidential seal. The Obama version had his campaign slogan in Latin "Vero Possumus" (translation: Yes, we can) in place of the “E pluribus unum” — “Out of many, one" that graces the official presidential seal, his web site and other symbols of his campaign boldly emblazoned in this sad attempt to enhance his credibility as a potential Commander-In-Chief.
From election cycle to election cycle, it's hard to predict what issues will rise to the top and really drive the electorate. In prior decades, no politician would talk about illegal immigration. In the last election cycle, it was one of the main issues on voters' minds. Now, the soaring price of a barrel of oil has led to steep increases in the price of gasoline. The price has reached the boiling point to where voters aren't just grumbling, they are demanding action, and the action they are demanding is different from the recent past.
It was easy for Democrats to blame the "big" oil companies. They would bring oil executives before Congress, lambast them, and feel good about themselves. However, public opinion is changing. The American people are seeing through the left-wing effort to cloud the issue. The price of gasoline is driven by supply and demand. The proper approach is to address both aspects. We should conserve and look for energy alternatives to hit the "demand" side. We should also look at the "supply" side and see how ridiculous it is to leave the fate of America in the hands of unstable Middle-Eastern countries when we have huge supplies of untapped domestic oil. Americans want to drill at home, and Sen. McCain has a golden opportunity to seize upon this issue. Is he listening?
I realize that Democrats want government to rule our lives -- to be in every aspect of our daily routine -- at the expense of our hard-earned tax dollars. They believe that "government" is some sort of separate being that should "care" for us, but they forget that government has no money of its own. Nothing is free, and when the government does something to "help," that money is coming from our pockets.
Now, ultra liberal Barack Obama wants the government to pay fathers for being fathers. That's right, instead of expecting fathers to have common sense to do the right thing in raising families, Obama wants the government to give the father a payment. As the father of two, and the son of a single parent, I find this proposal to be outrageous. People need to take responsibility for their own actions. I have no desire whatsoever to pay even more taxes just to get some 18-year-old punk to act like a father.
Video of BAMN harassing petition signature collecters in Arizona
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An initiative to ban racial and gender preferences, the Civil Rights Initiative, is being circulated in Arizona. It is similar to California's Prop. 109 which was spearheaded by Ward Connerly of the American Civil Rights Institute. It was also being circulated in Missouri and Oklahoma, but due to tactics by the opposition group BAMN (By Any Means Necessary), it failed to collect enough signatures to be placed on the ballot. Now, BAMN has flown its members to Arizona to stop the initiative there. They are attempting to block petition signature collecters from getting signatures in every method possible. Their methods are listed here and Sonoran Alliance has documented specific outrageous activity, including stealing candy from a blind vendor, interrupting and stopping public meetings, overturning furniture, lying to innercity African-Americans in order to trick them into coming by the busload to their protests, pelting Asians with soy sauce, and showing a knife threateningly to an initiative supporter. Read the rest of this entry »
When discussing the problems massive illegal immigration has caused for the American taxpayer, many are at a loss when it comes to what to do with the millions of illegals who are already here. The majority of Americans want tougher border controls (are you listening up there in Washington?). People want immigration laws enforced, they want employers to be responsible for hiring legal workers, and they don't want to reward law-breaking with amnesty. What Congress and many Americans don't realize is that by doing the basics to stop the hiring of illegal aliens, deportation will take care of itself. It's the basics of supply and demand.
As Rachel Alexander noted in a recent posting in The Loft, "Since Arizona's local law enforcement began enforcing illegal immigration laws and an employer sanctions law went into effect, illegal immigrants have been fleeing the state in large numbers."
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