FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS OVAL OFFICE WATCH

Posted By on November 21st, 2009

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Exclusive: Oval Office Watch – Saturday, November 21

Obama says ‘Stimulus’ data errors are a “side issue!” CLICK HERE.

Honest Liberals on Mob-O-Care SEE HERE.
 
Obama Has a “Boundaries” Problem
Austin Hill, Townhall.com
 
Does President Obama have “boundary” problems?
 
That’s a fair question, because of his apparent unwillingness – or perhaps it’s an inability – to confront the deadly threat posed by many self-described Muslims.
 
I say “many self-described Muslims,” because I’m not interested in debating who is a “real Muslim,” or whether or not “all Muslims” pose threats to civilized society. I simply want to pinpoint a serious problem facing our President, and our nation, and in so doing I am taking people at their word. There are self-described Muslims in our midst who want to destroy America, and the President should not pretend otherwise.
 
President George W. Bush repeatedly asserted that Muslims are “peace-loving” people, and President Obama has made this idea a central theme of his presidency. Yet Bush was also willing to confront what he called a “radical ideology with an unalterable objective, to enslave whole nations and intimidate the whole world” (those were Bush’s words, not mine), and it just so happens that this “radical ideology” emanates from people who identify themselves as Muslims. Call it “militant Islam,” call it “Islamo-fascism,” call it what you will – it is dangerous and deadly. And thus far, President Obama seems committed to ignoring it. Read article.
 
For the Dems, What a Difference a Year Makes
Rich Baehr, Pajamas Media.com
 
The Democrats have more political power than they have had at any time since the presidency of LBJ. They control the presidency, have a filibuster-proof 60 seats in the Senate (counting independents Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders, who caucus with them), and have an 81-seat margin in the House.
 
The Democrats have the power to advance their agenda without a single Republican vote in Congress. But in a remarkably rapid political freefall, the Democrats, but one year after their great triumph in November 2008, are now facing an angry, pessimistic electorate. There is a strong anti-incumbent mood, and the list of endangered Democratic-held seats in the House and Senate grows each week.
 
The president’s approval numbers have dropped 20 points in nine months and only a third of the electorate think the country is now headed in the right direction. The Obama “hope and change message,” rapturously conveyed by an adoring lapdog media during the campaign and in the first few months of his presidency, looks as if it has the staying power of a one-night stand with the electorate. Unemployment, the single most important concern of Americans in nearly every survey, now exceeds 10%, despite assurances from the president and leaders in Congress that the $787 billion stimulus package would keep the unemployment rate from going higher than 8%.
 
As the unemployment rate rises and the number of unemployed grows (now over 15 million), the administration trots out the president and his spokespeople each month to provide ever higher and less believable numbers of jobs saved or created by the stimulus package.
 
A tiny portion of the stimulus money was directed at infrastructure spending, but it did not address the areas of the economy where unemployment was highest. In China, almost all the stimulus spending was on infrastructure investments, and their economy is booming again. The Obama stimulus included large dollops of cash directed to reward the left-wing special interest groups that had helped elect the Democrats. Much of that federal largess also went to support bloated state and local governments whose costs have been driven up by the municipal unions who control them and, significantly, are a key to electing Democrats.
 
It is not coincidental that Andy Stern (head of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), an aggressive labor group that provided manpower and $60 million to the 2008 campaign) has had over 20 visits to the White House in nine months. Stern’s often raucously behaved troops [6] are needed to do the community organizing for health care reform and other parts of the “progressive” agenda. Read article.
 
Pushing Health Reform When Job Losses Are Rising
Michael Barone, Rasmussen Reports.com
 
Barack Obama told the House Democratic Caucus before the roll call vote on health care on Nov. 7 that they would be better off politically if they passed the bill than if they let it fail. Bill Clinton speaking to the Senate Democrats’ lunch on Nov. 10 cited his party’s big losses in 1994 after Congress failed to pass his health care legislation as evidence that Democrats would suffer more from failure to pass a bill than from disaffection with a bill that was signed into law.
 
These were closed meetings, but we can safely assume that the two Democratic presidents also assured their fellow partisans that health care legislation would do all sorts of good things for the American people. We know Obama did say that Democrats should “answer the call of history,” even though America has gotten along pretty well without government-run health insurance for some 220 years.
 
But political calculations are always on politicians’ minds. The two presidents were urging passage of legislation that has become increasingly unpopular as its provisions become more widely known. Read article.
 
Global Warming: Exposing the Far Left’s Lies
NewsRealBlog.com
 
Groucho Marx once said,
 
”Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
 
I doubt that sentiment has ever more true than it is today. The entire Global Warming movement and all the idiocy that goes with it such as Cap & Trade, has become 100% political. There’s literally ZERO scientific evidence that validates the ridiculous CO2 theory that it’s based on.
 
Lord Monckton, in his inimitable way, explained exactly what’s really behind this entire scam to Americans quite succinctly when he displayed his “Traffic Light Tendency” during his recent presentation in Minnesota. Read article.
 
Indecision as a Virtue
Peek In The Well.net
 
Andrew Sullivan Finally Has A President – Now What About The Rest Of Us?
 
I just read Andrew Sullivan’s take how President Obama is handling his Afghanistan decision…
 
“What we are seeing here, I suspect, is what we see everywhere with Obama: a relentless empiricism in pursuit of a particular objective and a willingness to let the process take its time. The very process itself can reveal – not just to Obama, but to everyone – what exactly the precise options are. Instead of engaging in adolescent tests of whether a president is “tough” or “weak”, we actually have an adult prepared to allow the various choices in front of us be fully explored. He is, moreover, not taking the decision process outside the public arena. He is allowing it to unfold within the public arena.”
 
NOW he takes his time? We’re to view his deer-in-headlights vaporlock on Afghanistan as wisdom and engaging the public? Damn shame this wasn’t how he handled TARP… or the Stimuless… Or Healthcare Reform… With FOUR proposals available to him, he rejects each with no strategy of his own to put forth, and Sullivan seems to think he should be commended for his indecision?! Name ONE other time this President let any other “process take its time”.
 
Again — I see enormous harm being done to civilization, by a destructive force that is allowed to endure because it does not have a name. Read article.
 
Obama’s Gift to Osama
Peter Lemiska, NMJ.us
 
Whoever suggested that Barack Obama is not a Christian? Obama’s decision to try those Gitmo prisoners in New York is the perfect gift for Osama bin Laden and just in time for Christmas. We can only imagine those non-alcoholic champagne corks popping in some remote cave in Afghanistan.
 
While al Qaeda and the far left celebrate the Obama-Holder decision, it has shocked and outraged most Americans. They are outraged because these men were captured in a war on terror; and should be treated as enemy combatants. And because prosecuting them in a civilian court rather than by military tribunal will undoubtedly reveal classified information and investigative techniques that will help our enemies; and because it will require extraordinary security measures at an astronomical cost to taxpayers; and because it will likely increase the risk of another terrorist attack in New York. They also know that, due to the magnitude of these cases, witnesses and the jury pool could become targets of intimidation or worse, and that the defendants will do their best during the trial to create a circus atmosphere and exploit their public platform for propaganda purposes.
 
But the left refuses to consider any of that, arguing that our justice system is the best in the world, and will certainly prevail against these common thugs. Their newfound respect for anything American is refreshing, given their propensity to condemn this country. They call us arrogant and imperialistic, and compare our soldiers to Nazis. They denounce our capitalist economy and our health care system, pointing with envy to socialist Europe. Obama, himself, spent the first six months of his presidency apologizing for the country he was elected to lead, and his own wife admitted during his campaign that she had never before been proud of America.
 
So now they’ve found something they like about America. Read article.
 
How Does it Demonstrate the Moral Superiority of American Justice to Give the 9/11 Mastermind a Show Trial?
Michael Rulle, NewsRealBlog.com
 
Political hacks are dullards whose primary utility is obeying any order with gusto. Eric Holder is the quintessential political hack.
 
In the last days of the Clintons’ empire of sleaze, then Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder proactively assisted Clinton in getting Marc Rich his “cash for pardon” deal done. Even Democrats feigned outrage. We are supposed to believe Holder is “acting on his own” when he decided to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in a civilian court. Admittedly, Obama is so self-obsessed it is believable he is not involved. But that’s why Rahm Emanuel exists. A hack like Holder does not make decisions of this magnitude on his own.
 
Fox Special Report panelist and Weekly Standard writer Stephen Hayes believes this trial inevitably will reopen the entire “water boarding as torture” discussions. Given the utter horror and “shock, shock” apparently experienced by Democrats over Bush’s water boarding policies, one could almost believe there were hundreds of these cases. Of the thousands of detainees captured by the US, only 3 were water boarded. One of them was Mohammed, who has confessed to planning the 9/11 attacks. Read article.
 
Courtroom Jihad!
Jules Crittenden.com
 
This KSM trial thing looks to be endlessly fascinating. Everyone has questions about it. Maguire noted the difficulty of seating an impartial jury. How about seating a jury of their peers? My 13-year-old came up with that one. How are you going to find 12 cave-dwelling Islamic extremists good and true in New York? No cab driver jokes please. Those guys work hard for a living. They don’t have time to sit around in caves plotting mass murder. OK, most of them don’t. 
 
Empaneling should be a blast. Once you get past ”Do you know anyone who died in the Twin Towers” or ”Were you in New York, or in the United States of America, or on Planet Earth on Sept. 11, 2001″ and “Do you believe al-Qaeda poses a threat to western civilization or just to innocent commuters,” that kind of thing, then you get some other tricky particulars. Muslims, thumbs up or thumbs down? Jews and Christians, OK or not OK? Never mind the dhimmi, what about atheists? Very haram. I’m guessing anyone who ever saw any vid of Nick Berg or Daniel Pearl getting their heads sawn off is immediately disqualified. Highly prejudicial. Ditto the jets-hitting-buildings, people-dropping, buildings-collapse footage. They’ll have to go pretty far into the hills to find someone who didn’t see any of that, though maybe they could pull together an impartial jury pool from under Gotham’s bridges. Read article.
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