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"Barack Obama is Beginning to Look Out of His Depth"


The Daily Telegraph (UK) just did this piece on how Barack Obama appears comprehensively unqualified for US President, Commander-in-Chief, and leader of the free world...as his numerous failures have already made glaringly apparent:


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It is lovely to feature in other people's dreams. The problem comes when they wake up. Barack Obama is an eloquent, brainy and likeable man with a fascinating biography. He is not George Bush. Those are great qualities. But they are not enough to lead America, let alone the world.
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Regimes in Moscow, Pyongyang and Tehran simply pocket his concessions and carry on as before. The picture emerging from the White House is a disturbing one, of timidity, clumsiness and short-term calculation. Some say he is the weakest president since Jimmy Carter.
Read more -here-

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A GOP Who Can Say "No"


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I often find myself in sharp disagreement with Mr Buchanan (i.e. Israel and Iran/free-trade in particular)- when he gets it right, he's an entertaining read with a unique take on most events... and an astute observer who knows his history, as he was this weekend:


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Reports of the death of the Republican Party appear to have been premature...
Suddenly, in national politics, the momentum has shifted.
The Republican Party is stirring. Its poll numbers are rising, as support for Obama has fallen to 50 percent in the Quinnipiac Poll, support for his handling of the economy and deficit has fallen into the 40s, and support for his health insurance scheme has plunged to 39.
Of his big initiatives, the stimulus bill is looking like a loser, cap-and-trade may not survive the Senate, and national health insurance may have to be pared back -- or be killed by nervous Blue Dogs.
In both big races three months off, the Virginia and New Jersey governors' contests, Republicans are running 14 points ahead.
As they say in the press box, "Fans, we have a brand-new ball game."
Follow the rest of the story here...


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Michelle Malkin ROCKS on Fox




Fresh off a masterful dicing-and-slicing of the Obamapologist yentas on The View, Michelle told Hannity why the DNC/Team Obama's bizarre allegation -that the RNC was deploying "K-Street funded mobs" to disrupt town hall meetings and other events- is the epitome of hypocrisy... and why there is likely soon to be a huge public backlash against this mother-of-all-smear-campaigns.

Team Obama's latest Alinskyite political assault comes as some on the left have taken to labeling even nuanced opposition to the misguided Obamacare proposal as "disinformation", "far-right-wing", even "hate radio" [h/t: Stop Socialism Now].

Partisan bully-boy-ballerina Rahm Emanuel was called-out publicly by Rep Darryl Issa (R-Ca) for knocking Capital Hill heads together in a desperate effort to harvest political souls. Meanwhile, President Obama and the DNC were deploying an unsettling Orwellian campaign asking people to turn-in to a White House website any "fishy" emails or blogposts that dare to challenge the Dear Leader's omnipotence. [h/t: Maggie's Farm] The administration's desperation as Obamania implodes is palpable.

And it seems as though the hypocrites of the Democratic Party are merely projecting: you'd have to have been living in a cave in North Korea for the last year to have not noticed where the real paid-mobs are coming from... both on the ground, and on the internet. Team Obama's appalling Soros-seeded astroturf programs are a lot of things... but subtle isn't one of them. These faux-grassroots efforts -such as door-to-door Obamacare canvassing and battalions of internet trolls- have been largely ineffective in the face of growing popular resentment of The One's taking a sledgehammer to this society.

Hope-n-Change brownshirts of ACORN are now getting close to actual physical confrontation [h/t: Moonbattery] with what are just normal American citizens involved in healthy participatory democracy. You have to wonder how anyone could still believe Barack Obama as he purports to be "post-partisan", "bi-partisan", and "interested in listening to opposing views" -please. Rather, he's here to ram a heavily-seasoned crap sandwich down our throats as fast as we can swallow... while lying about most anything that suits his purposes and aggressively attacking opponents Chicago hardball style. Many are figuring this out as the ether finally wears off- and they come to realize that it's un-American the way the Obama-Pelosi-Reid triumvirate operates.



Ultra-liberal pedal-to-the-metal Obama has unecessarily aroused a largely silent opposition with his power grabs... betraying poor judgement and political instinct. We've got our new Patrick Henry's in Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, et. al.- and they're bringing the truth The Left try so hard to depress, deflect, and obsfucate. Those who felt resigned to their fate under an Obama Administration are starting to speak up- and as we see now, exposing themselves to the wrath of the disingenuous Obama machine. It wasn't enough apparently, simply attacking and painting with a broad brush right-leaning Obama critics in the media such as Hannity and Limbaugh- Obama has now turned the DNC character-assasination guns on the American electorate.... and it's not going to win him any new friends in this country.


This shameful episode should make clear to anyone still giving Obama the benefit of the doubt just what this far-left elitist thinks of your opinion. Note that whenever Obama, Emanuel, or Gibbs are asked about why polls show so many people oppose the Cap-n-Trade and Obamacare proposals, they always segue right-into "we need to educate the public...".

LOL- sorry Barack, Constitutionally-aware
patriots don't take lectures from Marxists.

And just keep digging- Americans have had just about enough of your wack-pack cabinet, dubious tactics, and habitual dishonesty... and after the failure of the Porkulus bill to stimulate anything but inflation, IMO the Democrats will be decimated in midterms 15 mos. from now. In short, you blew it... and are only making things worse by smearing good-faith opposition. Even Bill Clinton had the sense to hire Dick Morris and moderate his policies in 1994, working the the GOP in a way that got him re-elected easily... but not this crew- apparently it's Revolution-or-Death this time.

Barack and Rahm like to think of themselves as sharp-elbowed, street-smart operators always on the offensive- but this hubristic pair of Chi-Town hustlers don't handle the pressure so well now that they're on the other-end-of-the-hose. With the unprecedented goodwill he came to DC with, all Obama had to do was be mediocre really, smile alot, and play to the narrative that he's doing his best to fix "Bush's" mess. Instead, he has stepped-in-it big-time, his political momentum promptly evaporating... a monumental wasted opportunity for this myopic would-be revolutionary.



Culture of Corruption... debut @ #1 on the NYT Best Seller's list.

Congratulations Michelle- keep up the good fight!


Hump-Day Humor

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The Obamapologists

Obviously, with the MSM so in-the-tank for Team Obama, and having bet all their chips on blue some time ago- they will now be finding it difficult to extricate themselves from the role of knee-jerk apologists for a president who's popularity is in steep decline. 


Surely many have been caught by surprise by Obama's collapsing support, and will rapidly formulating a Plan B they didn't think they'd be needing for awhile... if ever. For people with a business to run, their blind support of the Dear Leader seems to have been a reckless gamble... perhaps fueled by liberal hubris and delusions of their own power.


But many of those who have painted themselves into this corner will not be able to reverse course, and their residual credibilty will evaporate. They are actually complicitous in covering-up Obama's shady past and dubious credentials, and in the process saddled us with the most radical and anti-American of presidents. 


These media figures -the Courics, the Gibsons, Williams', MSNBC- will likely go down with the USS Obamamania, while those who put a little more effort into seeking the actual truth -like ABC's Jake Tapper- will be recognized for fulfilling their duties as more principled journalists.
The entire American media scene might be shaken to the core, and in the wake a new landscape with the traditional MSM in smoldering little bits- and new media emerging as the most likely victors. 


Obvious exceptions would be Obama pumpers at Daily Kos, HuffPo, and other online toadies who will be recognized as the propaganda organs that they actually are. It will also be interesting to note just how many people will still be reading these rags when Americans wince at the mere mention of the name Obama- and George Soros' son Jonathan isn't putting them on the top of the Google Blog Search results any more.


There are supposedly free-thinking American citizens still be deep in the ether, cheerleading as Obama re-arranges the deck chairs on the Titanic. Many seem oblivious to the fact that this administration is far more focused on quickly and irreversibly inflicting a radical liberal agenda upon this country than any practical management of our actual priorities. Monotonous drones appear on political forums and blog comments, and continue to be accomplices with MSM- willing to put a substantial, sustained effort into creating excuses for Obama's habitual dishonesty, hidden past/agenda/asscociates... as well as serial incompetence and shocking ignorance for a man with degrees from Columbia and Harvard... one purported to be "the smartest president ever" (hat tip: American Thinker).

But these poeple who are enabling this Bolshevik con-artist are doing a terrible disservice to this country, as he is doing everything possible to bring us down. His otherwise inexplicable disregard for things the rest of us hold dear -while lying to our faces about his true intent- appears to be part of a plan to gain from an orchestrated crisis- per the Cloward-Piven strategy.


This is a man who hates America because he had a bad childhood and was raised by far-left freaks... and unsettlingly appears to be a clinical narcissist in the mold of Hitler, Stalin, Kim Jong Il, Idi Amin, and Pol Pot. Yet there are those who still never tire of telling us how great, kind, wise, and cool he is... while doing their level-best to keep a contrasting focus on the "disaster" of the Bush Administration... just so we all realize just how good we've got it now.


Back in reality, it has become apparent to most that Obama is not only completely unqualified and incompetent, but he's little more than a racist, arrogant, self-absorbed Chicago Machine hack. His divisive comments on the Gates arrest -and nomination of a La Raza member to the SCOTUS- shows you just how far he will be setting back race relations in the country... for decades.

Many wishful-thinking or guilt-tripped voters are finally waking up to all this... although conservatives have been warning them for over a year. And Obama's disowned Chicago allies -felons Blagojevich and Rezko- haven't even started talking yet. Yet still we have those unwilling to see, many of them perhaps liberal one-issue voters who see no home for them in the GOP... and/or are directly involved with the DNC.

I'm really not that interested in the Birthers' crusade- for purely pragmatic reasons, as Biden is even worse. And you can bet that Obama planned it that way, since narcissists need to be surrounded by obsequious sycophants to confirm their omnipotence.... as-well as provide political security as an upalatable alternative. 


But as the Obamapologists aggressively try to bury the birth-certificate issue, one has to wonder why they show such energetic concern... as with Sarah Palin, if she's so silly and irrelevant... why the obsession? Is the president again hiding something? He's already been proven to be a shameless liar... perhaps even a compulsive one. I'd like to see any such issue resolved in a comprehensive manner- I'm sure not going to take Obama's word for anything, after the 12 mos of his habitual dishonesty, his credibility is already non-existent.

And the numbers don't add up here: you have a guy that is supposedly so smart... yet he will spend over a million dollars to have a bunch of lawyers fight these kind of cases in court... rather than just cough-up 20 bucks and be done with it? And why seal all his records?


And the reality that they are attempting to obfuscate is that Barack Obama has not only scrapped myriad campaign promises, is not bipartisan, and is not post-racial... but that he has actually accomplished precious little in his first six months except spend trillion$ that we don't have, reach out to the scum of the earth only for them to spit in his "extended hand"... while creating new, deep divisions in this country financially, politically, and racially. All of this is in direct conflict with his past pledges and "soaring rhetoric", of course.

Why will some people defend Obama regardless of his failures and lack of moral clarity? Is this the remnants of the Totalist Cult mentality that many of us saw developing last summer? One of the most common traits of cult members is that they don't realize it's all a scam until it's too late. This is indeed a luxury that we can't afford in this country as a whole.



If these relentless Energizer-Bunny Obamapologists aren't paid by David Plouffe's "Organizing for America", they must be willingly ignorant, and/or they really need this one to work out... bad. That, or they're as naive as an 8-year-old Girl Scout. A lot of dopey wishful thinkers voted for Obama, a terribly irresponsible act without doing their DD on his past- especially since the MSM covered it all up... while only vetting the Republicans. 


But with America's admirable tendancy for self-correction, a lot of these voters are now realizing their mistake, or at least starting to ask the questions they should have last year. This fact is made clear by Obama's plummeting support among the independent voters.But why would anybody still making wall-to-wall excuses for this guy still at this point? The preponderance of evidence would make any thinking person re-evaluate their support of Obama, you would think... or at least adopt a more nuanced position of support.

Myopic, delusional, or DNC volunteers/posters paid by David Plouffe... what else could they possibly be thinking?

Sunday LOL Funnies


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http://www.therightreasons.net

Obama Below 50% in Rassmussen Poll


Back in March I did a piece Countdown to 49%, analyzing President Obama's already-slipping poll numbers.

Included was a reader's poll asking when the approval rating would fall below half- and congratulations to my readers, I'm proud to say they guessed it dead-on. July 2009 was 44% of The Reaganite Republican readers' choice, far and away the favorite pick. And I think I learned something from all of you... the next time I run a predictions-poll here... I'm running out to Vegas and putting $1000 on the result!

Besides the fact that Obama's now at the symbolic 49% point, the Rasmussen differential between those who "strongly approve" and "strongly dissapprove" of his overall job performance is also at an all time low... a negative eight. Hopefully this continuing shift in public opinion will embolden the GOP to filibuster both Cap-n-Tax and Obamacare right into the ground if either of these seriously flawed pieces of far-left legislation hobble their way on to the Senate.

And it's surely in the nations' interest that this arrogant montebank be knocked-down a peg or two... it's becoming more than obvious that Team Obama's radical agenda and ludicrous spending is not only completely out-of-control. This ideological binge comes at a time that calls for pragmatic management- and isn't what a lot of independents and moderate Democrats voted for last fall either... not by a long shot-
And that's not all from the 2008 election's most accurate pollster Rasmussen Reports... other interesting numbers out today:
Fifty-three percent (53%) now oppose the Congressional health care reformpackage. That’s up eight points over the past month. Just 20% now see healthcare as the most important of the President’s priorities. Nearly twice as many, 37%, say deficit reduction is most important.
Fifty-five percent (55%) of California voters oppose the budget agreementreached by the state’s political leaders. Sixty-four percent (64%) believe thatillegal immigrants create a major strain on the state’s budget.
Nationwide, 72% don’t want the federal government determining what type of light bulbs they should purchase.
Forty-six percent (46%) say that network television news is more reliable than the internet. Thirty-five percent (35%) disagree.
Thirty-one percent (31%) now say the U.S. is heading in the right direction. That’s down nine points from the 2009 peak. Republicans continue to enjoy a slight edge on the Generic Congressional Ballot.
A pitiful 25% believe that the economic stimulus package has helped the economy...
See recent demographic highlights from the Presidential Tracking Poll. For more measures of the President’s performance, see Obama By the Numbers.



UPDATE Sat July 25th: Obama slips in Rasmussen Poll differential to -9%... a new all-time low for this administration. Looks like a lot of people sympathized with Officer Crowley...