Saturday, October 18, 2008
Obama vs First Amendment Rights
Are We Becoming an Obama Police State?
Notice that the public prosecutor states that Missouri officials will be joining Obamas Truth Squad to remind Missourians that Barack Obama is a "Christian." Does that mean that Missouri police will threaten and possibly arrest anyone who questions Obamas religion? If Missouri public officials are SO concerned about truth-in-advertising, why dont they open a non-partisan Truth Squad to review ALL ads?
ALSO, be aware that the Obama campaign has sicced its legal team on stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio, urging them to refuse to broadcast NRA ads attacking Obamas anti-gun positions. Id like to see the results of Obamas efforts thus far to intimidate media outlets; have any refused the ads? Public officials running for elected office are fair game when it comes to speech, the normal definition of libel does not apply. The Obama campaign knows that they have no legal basis to challenge critical speech and they dont care; their actions are designed to get results via intimidation. The Missouri officials should be fired.
A critique of President George W. Bush
The Barack backlash
"While holding to his pledge for a pullout of combat brigades from Iraq in 16 months, he has talked of 'refining' his position and of a residual U.S. force to train the Iraqi army and deal with al-Qaida.
"On Afghanistan, he has called for 10,000 more troops and U.S. strikes in Pakistan to kill bin Laden, even without prior notice or the permission of the Pakistani government. (Where are the protests? says the veteran antiwar protester, me -- Ed.)
"Since securing the nomination, Obama has adopted the Scalia position on the death penalty for child rape and the right to keep a handgun in the home. He voted to give the telecoms immunity from prosecution for colluding in Bush wiretaps. This onetime sympathizer of the Palestinians now does a passable imitation of Ariel Sharon."
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"Obama has chosen another course. Though he comes out of the McGovern-Jesse Jackson left, he has shed past positions like support for partial-birth abortion as fast as he has shed past associations, from William Ayers to ACORN, from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright to his fellow parishioners at Trinity United.
"One question remains: Will a President Obama, with his party in absolute control of both Houses, revert to the politics and policies of the left that brought him the nomination, or resist his ex-comrades' demands that he seize the hour and impose the agenda ACORN, Ayers, Jesse and Wright have long dreamed of?
"Whichever way he decides, he will be at war with them, or at war with us. If Barack wins, a backlash is coming."
Barack Obama vows to 'change the world'
"There was a carnival atmosphere among the crowd of some 4,000, who almost drowned Mr Obama out as he reached his crescendo and said: 'I promise you. We won't just win New Hampshire. We will win this election and, you and I together, we're going to change the country and change the world.'"
Beware of a socialist wanting to change the world.
Is Obama a socialist? (Need we ask?)
I actually met this woman....
"An FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl, who successfully penetrated the organization from the late summer of 1969 until April 1970, later testified to a U.S. Senate subcommittee that Ayers, then a high-ranking leader of the organization and a member of its Central Committee (but not then Dohrn's husband), told him Dohrn constructed and planted the bomb."
College associate editor says 'Obama is my Jesus'
-- Perry White, Managing Editor, The Daily Planet
"'Obama is my homeboy. And I'm not saying that because he's black – I'm saying that in reference to those Urban Outfitters T-shirts from a couple years ago that said, "Jesus is my homeboy." Yes, I just said it. Obama is my Jesus,' wrote Maggie Mertens in the Smithsophian's commentary section recently under the headline: 'I Will Follow Him: Obama As My Personal Jesus.'"
God help us if Obama raises the dead or walks on water.
"While you may be overtly religious and find this to be idol-worshipping, or may be overtly politically correct and just know that everything in that sentence could be found offensive, I'm afraid it's true anyway," she wrote....'I've officially been saved, and soon, whether they like it or not, the rest of the country will be too. I will follow him, all the way to the White House, and I'll be standing there in our nation's capital in January 2009, when Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States of America. In the name of Obama, Amen.'"
Idolatry or satire, this is not funny at all. Christians and Antichrist watchers, take note."Democrats, including party strategist Donna Brazile and Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., earlier made nearly identical biblical comparisons of the characters in this presidential election, which Limbaugh traced back to a Sept. 4 posting on a Washington blog.
"'Barack Obama was a community organizer like Jesus,' Cohen said during a one-minute speech on the floor of the U.S. House. 'Pontius Pilate was a governor.'"
Message to Dona Brazile and Steve Cohen: Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, both Democrats, were governors too. As a matter of fact, Woodrow Wilson, another Democrat, was governor of New Jersey, and he segregated the Federal Government after he took office as President.
Why does not the DNC website talk about that?
Will Michelle Obama tape 'change political atmosphere in America'?
"'A number of Americans who are die-hard Obama followers have tried their best to intimidate API using all kinds of threatening methods when they call in and when they e-mail us," the API statement said. "They are implying that API is planning to destroy Obama's chances to become the next U.S. president. API does not have a direct interest in the U.S. presidential elections and we want Obama supporters to understand that. However, when someone who may become the next first lady makes such comments as in the story we have published, the public have the right to know. Intimidation directed to the publishers of the story is not the answer...."
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"'API is not out to convince the American public of anything. We do not want to influence the outcome of the U.S. presidential elections. API got a true story and published it. The fact that the story has caused a stir was unexpected, but that does not mean API must rush in a manner that will cause problems to itself, just to satisfy those who want the audio tapes so badly,' the statement said. 'When the legal concerns are cleared, which is happening in a short while, API will make public all the recordings available. This will also include comments, not yet published, which will most certainly put the Obama campaign spokesperson who had dismissed the story off balance.'"
"Americans ought to be able to ask Senator Obama tough questions without being smeared and targeted with political attacks."
(Antichrist Alert? -- Ed.)
"Obama Action Wire alerts have been disseminated in order to intimidate radio stations that dare air the views of Obama critics.
and
"As I noted earlier this week, there's a deliberate effort on the part of the Obama campaign and the press to silence and marginalize Obama critics -- a troubling precedent, should Barack win. Will we then be 'dissuaded' from criticizing the President?
(I ain't shuttin' up -- Ed.)
"It's ironic that, after spending eight years screaming about the supposed 'suppression of dissent' by the Bush administration, the left's own behavior is what really bears the whiff of totalitarianism.
"Any 'civil rights' that were supposedly jeopardized by the Bush Administration (critics still haven't provided specifics) were in the service of protecting us from a murderous terrorist enemy. The left's effort at speech suppression is in service of a political candidate. It's a telling difference."
What is good for the goose is good for the Democrats.
By the way, I ain't shuttin' up.
Thinking About Obama
The audiences hunger for his affection? That is dangerous. That is the mentality of cult members or groupies.
and
"It could be that Obama will be an observer, not a leader. Rather than throwing himself passionately into his causes, he will stand back. Congressional leaders, put off by his supposed intellectual superiority, will just go their own way. Lost in his own nuance, he will be passive and ineffectual. Lack of passion will produce lack of courage. The Obama greatness will give way to the Obama anti-climax."
We will see.
Obama and the Second Amendment
CHICAGO, Oct 15, 2008 /PRNewswire- USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The following is the text of an open letter to the nation's hunters and sportsmen issued today by Illinois State Rifle Association Executive Director Richard Pearson:
Hello, my name is Rich Pearson and I have been active in the firearm rights movement forover 40 years. For the past 15 years, I have served in the Illinois state capitol as the chief lobbyist for the Illinois State Rifle Association. I lobbied Barack Obama extensively while he was an Illinois State Senator. As a result of that experience, I know Obama's attitudes toward guns and gun owners better than anyone. The truth be told, in all my years in the Capitol I have never met a legislator who harbors more contempt for the law-abiding firearm owner than does Barack Obama.
Although Obama claims to be an advocate for the 2nd Amendment, his voting record in
the Illinois Senate paints a very different picture. While a state senator, Obama voted for abill that would ban nearly every hunting rifle, shotgun and target rifle owned by Illinois citizens. That same bill would authorize the state police to raid homes of gun owners to forcibly confiscate banned guns. Obama supported a bill that would shut down law-abiding firearm manufacturers including Springfield Armory, Armalite Rock River Armsand Les Baer. Obama also voted for a bill that would prohibit law-abiding citizens from purchasing more than one gun per month.
In closing, I'd like to remind you that I'm a guy who has actually gone nose to nose with Obama on gun rights issues. The Obama I know cannot even begin to identify with this nation's outdoor traditions. The Obama I know sees you, the law abiding gun owner, as nothing but a low-class lummox who is easily swayed by the flash of a smile and a ration of rosy rhetoric. The Obama I know is a stony-faced liar who has honed his skill at getting what he wants - so long as people are willing to give it to him. That's the Barack Obama I know.(Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel about Obama -- Ed.)
WEB SITE: http://www.isra.org
SOURCE Illinois State Rifle Association
http://www.isra.org
A Look at Obama's Chicago Past
The World According to Obama
"Obama freely admits he has 'not come to a firm resolution on' whether life begins at conception or not. He admits this in questionnaires he’s answered and at settings such at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, where he said the determination of when life begins was above his pay grade. It should trouble us beyond measure that, in Obama’s world, if you’re not sure the baby is a baby, it is okay to kill it. I much preferred Ronald Reagan’s position, when he said that, in such a situation, we should always give life the benefit of the doubt."
Oxymorons for Obama
Or it is a pathetic attempt at comedy.
Lives Depend on Your Vote: Obama and the culture of death.
The end of ‘We the People’
There Are Two Irreconcilable Americas
"The left wants America not only to have a secular government, but to have a secular society. The left feels if people want to be religious, they should do so at home and in their houses of prayer, but never try to inject their religious values into society. The right wants America to continue to be what it has always been - a Judeo-Christian society with a largely secular government (that is not indifferent to religion). These opposing visions explain, for example, their opposite views concerning nondenominational prayer in school.
"The left prefers to identify as citizens of the world. The left fears nationalism in general (this has been true for the European left since World War I), and since the 1960s, the American left has come to fear American nationalism in particular. On the other side, the right identifies first as citizens of America.
"The left therefore regards the notion of American exceptionalism as chauvinism; the United Nations and world opinion are regarded as better arbiters of what is good than is America. The right has a low opinion of the U.N.'s moral compass and of world opinion, both of which it sees as having a much poorer record of stopping genocide and other evils than America has.
"The left is ambivalent about, and often hostile to, overt displays of American patriotism.
That is why, for example, one is far more likely to find American flags displayed in Orange County, Calif., on national holidays than in liberal neighborhoods in West Los Angeles, Manhattan or San Francisco.
"The left subscribes to the French Revolution, whose guiding principles were 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.' (Dissent was not tolerated -- Ed.) The right subscribes to the American formula, 'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.' The French/European notion of equality is not mentioned. The right rejects the French Revolution and does not hold Western Europe as a model. The left does. That alone makes right and left irreconcilable.
"The left envisions an egalitarian society. The right does not. The left values equality above other values because it yearns for an America in which all people have similar amounts of material possessions. This is what propels the left to advocate laws that would force employers to pay women the same wages they pay men not only for the same job but for 'comparable' jobs (as if that is objectively ascertainable). The right values equality in opportunity and strongly believes that all people are created equal, but the right values liberty, a man-woman based family and other values above equality.
"The left wants a world - and therefore an America - devoid of nuclear weapons. The right wants America to have the best nuclear weapons. The right trusts American might more than universal disarmament.
"The left wants to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples for the first time in history. The right wants gays to have equal rights, but to keep marriage defined as man-woman. This, too, constitutes an irreconcilable divide."
Obama Distorts His Abortion Record in Third Debate
WASHINGTON, October 16 /Christian Newswire/ -- "On partial-birth abortion and on the rights of infants who survive abortions, Barack Obama's answers in the third presidential debate were highly misleading," commented Douglas Johnson, longtime legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the nation's largest pro-life organization.
-- The Illinois Born-Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA) was a simple three-sentence bill to establish that every baby who achieved "complete expulsion or extraction" from the mother, and who showed defined signs of life, was to enjoy the legal protections of a "person." As a state senator, Obama led the opposition to this bill in 2001, 2002, and 2003. On March 13, 2003, Obama killed the bill at a committee meeting over which he presided as chairman. In the October 15 debate, Obama said, "The fact is that there was already a law on the books in Illinois that required providing lifesaving treatment." This claim is highly misleading. The law "on the books," 720 ILCS 510.6, on its face, applies only where an abortionist declares before the abortion that there was "a reasonable likelihood of sustained survival of the fetus outside the womb." But humans are often born alive a month or more before they reach the point where such "sustained survival" - that is, long-term survival - is likely or possible (which is often called the point of "viability"). When Obama spoke against the BAIPA on the Illinois Senate floor in 2001 -- the only senator to do so -- he didn't even claim that the BAIPA was duplicative of existing law. Rather, he objected to defining what he called a "previable fetus" as a legal "person" -- even though the bill clearly applied only to fully born infants. These events are detailed in an August 28, 2008 NRLC White Paper titled "Barack Obama's Actions and Shifting Claims on the Protection of Born-Alive Aborted Infants -- and What They Tell Us About His Thinking on Abortion," which contains numerous hyperlinks to primary sources.
-- Because 720 ILCS 510.6 gives complete discretion to the abortionist himself, and because a 1993 consent decree issued by a federal court nullified key provisions (such as the definition of "born alive"), the law was so riddled with loopholes as to be virtually unenforceable even with respect to babies who had clearly achieved the capacity for long-term survival. During Obama's time in the state Senate there were bills (other than the BAIPA) to close some of these loopholes in order to provide more effective protections for post-viable abortion survivors. Obama opposed those bills, too. On April 4, 2002, Obama opposed a bill (SB 1663) that would have more strictly defined the circumstances under which the presence of a second physician (to care for a live-born baby) would be required during a post-viability abortion; Obama argued that this would "burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion . . . [I]t's important to understand that this issue ultimately is about abortion and not live births."
-- In the debate, Obama said that the state BAIPA "would have helped to undermine Roe v. Wade." To evaluate this claim, one must examine the actual language of the BAIPAs. The original 2001 bill was only three sentences long; the third sentence was as follows: "(c) A live child born as a result of an abortion shall be fully recognized as a human person and accorded immediate protection under the law." As recently as August 19, 2008, the Obama campaign issued a memo in which it singled out that sentence as "Language Clearly Threatening Roe." This claim is consistent with Obama's 2001 argument that a "previable fetus" should not be regarded as a person, even when born alive.
-- At the March 13, 2003 committee meeting over which Obama presided, the "immediate protection" clause was removed and replaced with the "neutrality clause" copied from the federal BAIPA, which said explicitly that the bill had no bearing on the legal status of any human "prior to being being born alive." Obama then led the committee Democrats in voting down the bill, anyway. For years afterwards, Obama claimed that the state BAIPA had lacked the "neutrality clause," and on August 16, 2008, Obama said that NRLC was "lying" when we said otherwise. This dispute was reviewed by both FactCheck.org and Politifact.org, both of which came down on NRLC's side. To read the original 2001 Illinois BAIPA side-by-side with the amended 2003 version -- both of which Obama voted against -- click here.
-- In the presidential debate, Senator John McCain accurately noted that Obama had opposed Illinois legislation to ban partial-birth abortions. This is true -- indeed, during his primary contest with Hillary Clinton, Obama's supporters presented detailed accounts lauding his leadership in opposing legislation to ban partial-birth abortion, afford legal protection to born-alive babies, and require parental notification for abortion. (Under Article IV, Section 8 of the Illinois Constitution, the effect of voting "present" on the Illinois Senate floor is exactly the same as voting "no.") In his response to McCain in the debate, Obama said, "I am completely supportive of a ban on late-term abortions, partial-birth or otherwise, as long as there's an exception for the mother's health and life, and this did not contain that exception." Here, Obama packed two distortions into a single sentence. First, Obama is using the phrase "late term" to refer to the third trimester of pregnancy. It has long been established that the great majority of partial-birth abortions are performed in the fifth and sixth months; these are babies developed enough to be born alive (hence the term "partial birth"), but are not "late term" in the sense that the phrase is used by pro-abortion advocates. Secondly, the Supreme Court has defined the term "health" to include, in the abortion context, "all factors -- physical, emotional, psychological, familial and the woman's age -- relevant to the well-being of the patient."
-- Obama is a cosponsor of the so-called "Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA) (S. 1173), which would nullify all state and federal laws that "interfere with" access to abortion before "viability" (as defined by the abortionist). The bill would also nullify all state and federal laws that "interfere with" access to abortion after viability if deemed to enhance "health." Because the term "health" is not qualified in the bill, no state would be allowed to exclude any "health" justification whatever for post-viability abortions, because to do so would impermissibly narrow a federally guaranteed right. In short, the FOCA would establish a federal "abortion right" broader than Roe v. Wade and, in the words of the National Organization for Women, "sweep away hundreds of anti-abortion laws [and] policies." The chief sponsors and advocacy groups backing the legislation have acknowledged that it would make partial-birth abortion legal again, nullify state parental notification laws, and require the state and federal governments to fund abortions.
-- Speaking to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund on July 17, 2007, Obama said, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. That's the first thing that I'd do."
-- In the presidential debate, Obama said, "But there surely is some common ground when both those who believe in choice and those who are opposed to abortion can come together" -- for example, by "helping single mothers if they want to choose to keep the baby." Yet, Obama advocates cutting off all federal aid to crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs). Across the nation, CPCs provide all manner of assistance to women who are experiencing crisis pregnancies, and they save the lives of many children. There is a very modest amount of federal funding going to such centers in some states. Pro-life lawmakers have pushed legislation to greatly expand such funding, but it has been blocked by lawmakers allied with the abortion lobby. Late in 2007, RHrealitycheck.org, a prominent pro-abortion advocacy website (representing the side hostile to such funding), submitted in writing the following question to the Obama campaign: "Does Sen. Obama support continuing federal funding for crisis pregnancy centers?" The Obama campaign's written response was short, but it spoke volumes: "No."
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For further information or documentation, contact NRLC at 202-626-8820, send e-mail to Legfederal@aol.com, or visit the NRLC website at www.nrlc.org
For additional information on Obama's sweeping pro-abortion agenda, read "Efforts to Sell Obama to Pro-Life Americans_Collide With His Support for Sweeping Pro-abortion Policy Changes," by NRLC's Douglas Johnson (from National Review Online) and "Obama's Abortion Extremism" by Robert P. George, professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University (from Public Discourse).
The Left Declares War on Joe the Plumber Hang him!
"The left’s political plumbers are attacking the messenger, rummaging through his personal life and predictably wielding the race card once again. It’s standard operating procedure for the Obama thug machine."
Yes, Joe is probably an alien from other world and secret member of the Aryan Nations too
Spreading the Wealth Around
A lovely way to buy your vote.
Socialism! There, I've Said It
National Socialism and Marxism are the same -- total control of you and me.
Obama campaign begins systematic destruction of Joe the Plumber
NO DISSENSION WILL BE TOLERATED OR ALLOWED!
"Believing their candidate was caught off-guard and somehow 'forced' by Wurzelbacher to tell the truth, Joe is now — ala Sarah Palin — being skewered, drawn and quartered by the press. Like a pack of mad dogs — or idiotic children — members of the elite liberal media have gleefully searched into his background to find any dirt they could and have blasted Joe with 'his name's not even Joe!', 'he doesn't have a license and he's not even a plumber,' 'he owes back taxes!' Note: His middle name is Joe, he IS a plumber but, works under his boss' license (a business he is hoping to buy) and there are many in America who still owe taxes. Perhaps this is why he asked the question in the first place? In order to further destroy his credibility for having the audacity — or unmitigated gall — to ask Obama the question, the mainstream media is even checking into Wurzelbacher's divorce! Even Obama and his running mate Biden are now maligning the man.'
"For all of us who can see this entity for what he is and those who still have their eyes closed due to the dazzling visage of their fake worldly redeemer, we can only pray that eyes and ears have been opened. Obama is now shouting at us as to what his presidency will be. We already know it will be built on Marxist 'principles.' But, with this recent example of Joe the Plumber clearly in our minds, we have now been told in the clearest of all possible terms — there are no more doubts — that it will, indeed, be implemented in the ways of Joseph Stalin. No dissension will be tolerated or allowed.
"Is the end to liberty and freedom truly what you want? Or, are you still willing to fight for your country — if not your lives?"
Video: Obama says Banking “my committee”, not on it
"Once again, Obama wants to claim credit for efforts on which he served no role. Either that, or Obama is such a dilettante that he has no idea on which committees he actually belongs. It could even be both. Neither gives any confidence that Obama has any grasp at all of his own job, let alone the one for which he’s campaigning. Maybe he needed a lot more than three years to get acclimated to national politics."
We got a disaster on our hands.
Obama's committee of the hole
Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don't have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, which is my committee, a bill to call for divestment from Iran, as a way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don't obtain a nuclear weapon.
"As John notes below, however, Obama is not a member of the Senate Banking Committee. Obama claimed membership on the committee so that he could count the committee's action as one of 'my deeds.'"
and
"Barack Obama has proved himself an extraordinarily cynical politician. He doesn't believe in much, but he certainly believes in his own power to make voters believe whatever he says, even when what he says today contradicts what he said yesterday, and even when it constitutes a bald fiction, such as his claim that the Senate Banking Committee is '[his] committee.'"