http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/manchuriancandidate/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:33:02 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417399/posts President Obama created by executive order Tuesday a National Declassification Center to oversee efforts to make once-secret government documents public. The order comes as part of Obama's promise to push government to err on the side of disclosure as it tackles the need to keep certain information from the public. In a post on the White House blog, William H. Leary, the senior director of records and access management at the National Security Council, writes that the effort is aimed at shifting the burden of defending secrecy to the government. Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417399/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:33:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2384383/posts Recently on ABC television news, one of their videos showed a U.S. Marine hunkered down in Afghanistan complaining on camera that he was not allowed to shoot back when under fire. This situation resulted from Obama’s new rules of engagement from his new Afghanistan commander. General McChrystal explained it to BBC news that they are now advising troops to break off from firefights with the Taliban, "If you are in a situation where you are under fire from the enemy... if there is any chance of creating civilian casualties or if you don't know whether you will create civilian casualties,... Backpacker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2384383/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:52:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369994/posts Obama declares swine flu emergency 9 mins ago WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama has declared swine flu a "national emergency," the White House said Saturday, as the United States reels from millions of cases of infection and over 1,000 deaths. AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369994/posts#comment Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:38:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361346/posts All the diplomatic pillow talk about “cooperation” and “encouragement” is cover for Obama’s Russia gambit’s having gone down in flames. Smiling through failure is becoming the default occupation of the Obama State Department, and no one seems more enthused to be at the center of the wreckage than Hillary Clinton. She is pure spin, no success... Commentary Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361346/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:01:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360350/posts This morning, in an interview with CNN's State of the Union, Sen. John McCain (RINO-Ariz.) apparently used some rather choice language to describe the fairly evident future political aspirations of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Ak.): "Will Sarah and I - did we always agree on everything in the past? Will we in the future? No. But let's let a thousand flowers bloom. Let's come up with a winning combination next time."—http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2360310/posts With only a cursory glance, it appears from McCain's language that he is merely asking for a second chance -- in 2012? -- with Palin. [And, at first... FR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360350/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:06:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344048/posts Although terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers claims not to have met Barack Obama until the mid-1990s, there is reason to believe that he not only knew Obama much earlier, but that he helped get him into Harvard Law School. The evidence, substantial if speculative, can be found in an unlikely source, Barack Obama's 2006 bestseller, Audacity of Hope, and it may have been provided by Ayers himself. In the way of background, I have made the argument on these pages that Bill Ayers wrote the better part of Obama's acclaimed 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father. The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344048/posts#comment Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:44:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342157/posts President Barack Obama essentially handed Russia a gift on Thursday with his decision to roll back a planned U.S. missile defense in eastern Europe. The Russian government had loudly protested U.S. plans begun by Obama's predecessor, Republican George W. Bush, to deploy an anti-missile system in eastern Europe that the United States insisted had been aimed at defending against a potential missile attack from Iran. Obama's...move drew praise from fellow Democrats and some arms control advocates who saw the Bush plan as aimed at a Iranian missile threat that did not yet exist... But Republicans and missile-defense advocates called the... Reuters Analysis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342157/posts#comment Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:16:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336669/posts (snip) SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Well, I thought the president is eloquent. I thought he had a lot of passion. (snip) MCCAIN: I hope he gets a bill. I hope we can sit down together and do the things that all of us agree on. And there are a number of things that are -- that we can agree on. And I think the American people, obviously, want that. I don't know what the administration and the Democrats will insist on. Facts are stubborn things. The bills so far have had no bipartisanship associated with it. They were drawn... CNN / Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336669/posts#comment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:39:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329278/posts Back in October of 2008, when the subject of Obama's Constitutional eligibility to be president of the United States was just a blip on the radar screen of public awareness, I wrote an article about how easy it was to find my then -92-year-old mother's birth certificate. Frankly, I didn't think finding my mother's birth certificate was possible, given the fact that she had been born in a farmhouse in Storrs, CT, along with nine of her 10 siblings, to parents who didn't speak English. Despairing that she would never be "qualified" to receive the care [in a nursing home}... Right Side News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329278/posts#comment Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:51:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326393/posts America reneges on missile defense for New Europe The United States is poised to dump a critical missile-defense agreement with two of its most dependable NATO allies. The Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported yesterday that the Obama administration is going to scrap the "third site" anti-missile system scheduled to be deployed in Poland and the Czech Republic. Missile interceptors in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic were scheduled to be deployed by 2013. Now the plan appears to have been shot down. This move sends the wrong signal to our allies in Eastern Europe. The former Soviet... THE WASHINGTON TIMES http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326393/posts#comment Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:06:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281804/posts There's a joke about a man who tells a psychiatrist, "Everybody hates me," to which the psychiatrist responds, "That's ridiculous - everyone doesn't know you, yet." Which brings me to Barack Obama: one of the best-informed people in the American security establishment told me the other day that the president is a "Manchurian Candidate". That can't be true - Manchuria isn't in the business of brainwashing prospective presidential candidates any more. There's no one left to betray America to. Obama is creating a strategic void in which no major power will dominate, and every minor power must fend for itself.... Asia Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281804/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:42:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264351/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) — Republican Senator John McCain on Wednesday joined his former rival President Barack Obama in calling for a nuclear-free world, a goal previously formulated by former president Ronald Reagan. During a lengthy speech on the Senate floor marking the unveiling of a statue of Reagan in the Capitol, the veteran Arizona lawmaker recalled how his "personal hero" had dreamed of a world free of nuclear weapons. "That is my dream too," McCain said. "This is a distant and difficult goal. And we must proceed toward it prudently and pragmatically, and with a focused concern for our security and... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264351/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 03:22:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249437/posts Here’s a curious development for you: Brian Rogers, spokesperson for John McCain’s presidential campaign last year, is now working for Al Gore. Rogers sent an email dispatch on Friday announcing his new job as research director for Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection. In the email, Rogers said he will be “working on the Repower America campaign to pass comprehensive energy and climate change legislation.” On the campaign trail last year, Rogers’ shining moments included attacking Barack Obama for opposing increased domestic oil and gas production, arguing that Obama lived in “a frickin’ mansion” that was “bought in a shady deal... Grist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249437/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 19:05:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239154/posts Paul's Guests For Monday April 27th. IS BARACK OBAMA A COMMUNIST (MARXIST)? Konstantin Preobrazhensky. Former KGB officer, an intelligence expert and author of several books and numerous articles about Russian secret police organizations. He is known for his publications about KGB operations in Japan, recruitment of Russian emigrants by Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, and infiltration of Russian Orthodox Church by the KGB/FSB. Tom Fife Mr. Fife has a degree in Physics and has worked extensively in advanced design in aerospace for the DoD. He also has a solid grounding in financial systems and has developed sophisticated software for banks. He... The Schiffer Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239154/posts#comment Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:42:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236546/posts (CNN) — John McCain’s general election campaign began as “the strategic equivalent of throwing a football through a tire at 50 yards” – and was doomed weeks before Election Day, his former chief strategist said Thursday. “We were running a campaign under extra difficult circumstances — the state of the Republican Party, the president’s unpopularity, the economy — a lot of issues that were not John McCain’s fault, but were John McCain’s problem in this race,” Schmidt told an audience at the University of Delaware, according to Politico. “When Lehman Brothers collapsed in the fall I knew pretty much right... CNN - Political Ticker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236546/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:43:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2228909/posts I cannot figure out how to find an old post relating to an purported email from a man who said he was having dinner in Russia and the gist of it was that the wife of one of the attendees said Obama was selected by the communist party to run our country long before we ever heard of him. It ran on here about a month or so ago, and I cannot find it. My mother would like me to send it to her, so if anyone with more knowledge/access to previous posts, or the original poster could repost or... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2228909/posts#comment Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:17:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224829/posts Via TheObamaFile, Al Jazeera originally reported the actual phrase when the President was speaking to the Turkish parliament. The original story, now scrubbed, can be seen here (as stored on TheObamaFile’s site) with the following original verbiage: Al Jazeera’s Anita McNaught, reporting from Istanbul, said: “This was the address we had all been waiting for, it hit all the right notes. “He talked about the contribution of the Islamic faith in the life of American Muslims and then he personalised that message by saying ‘I know because I am one of them‘. It was a message that reached out to... The Right Side of Life http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224829/posts#comment Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:12:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218069/posts What if an American President campaigned as a pragmatic centrist, promised tax cuts to 95% of the American people and pledged himself to a new era of government honesty, openness and bipartisanship, but never had any of those intentions? The result might be a cabinet full of tax cheats, political cronies and lobbyists, and a president peddling an overstuffed budget of liberal dream-schemes at a time when the American economy can least afford an extra nickel for folderol or fiddling. Meanwhile Rome is burning. President Obama rolls the dice and grabs a can of kerosene. This president's budget, plus the... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218069/posts#comment Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:45:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206449/posts The liberal media isn’t going to spell out exactly how it goes about smearing conservatives, so Bill O’Reilly helpfully explained it last night on “The O’Reilly Factor.” Boiled down it goes like this: George Soros (and others) fund one of the left’s most prominent noise machines, Media Matters for America, which distorts statements made by conservatives and then urges reporters to provide saturation coverage of such statements as proof conservatives are hypocritical and sinister. In his “talking points” segment, O’Reilly references the Obama administration’s strategy of attempting to marginalize its most vocal opponent, radio talk show giant Rush Limbaugh: Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2206449/posts#comment Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:37:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205878/posts O n 29 December 2008 the Wall Street Journal ran a piece about Igor Panarin, dean of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s diplomatic academy. A former KGB officer, Panarin made a splash by predicting that America will probably come under martial law by the end of 2009, and may fracture into several states by 2011. When this happens, says Panarin, Russia and China will become the mainstays of a new global order. Financial Sense http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205878/posts#comment Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:39:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205183/posts Blackstone Group LP CEO Stephen Schwarzman said up to 45% of the world's wealth has been destroyed by the global credit crisis in little less than a year and a half," he told the Japan Society. "This is absolutely unprecedented in our lifetime." ......He put part of the blame on credit rating agencies. Rating companies have been the focus of intense criticism for granting top "AAA" ratings for complex bonds that later plummeted in value, resulting in subsequent rating cuts, in many cases to junk status. "Once you bought into ... the Triple A paper and it turned out was... © Thomson Reuters 2009 All rights reserved http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205183/posts#comment Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:10:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203636/posts Chuck Todd at First Read flags up some fascinating comments from Vice-President Biden on his visit to Nato: “5 percent of the Taliban is incorrigible, not susceptible to anything other than being defeated. Another 25 percent or so are not quite sure, in my view, the intensity of their commitment to the insurgency. And roughly 70 percent are involved because of the money, because of them being -- getting paid.” Biden goes onto say that the “idea of what concessions would be made is well beyond the scope of my being able to answer, except to say that whatever is... The London Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203636/posts#comment Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:09:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203569/posts Amongst the several revenue-raising proposals in President Obama’s $3.9-trillion budget proposal is a carbon tax that will impact all American families. His budget aims to raise $646 billion through a cap-and-trade tax on energy. Last year, Peter Orszag, who was then Director of the Congressional Budget Office and is now President Obama’s Director for the Office of Management and Budget, testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on a similar proposal. Speaking about a cap-and-trade proposal to cut carbon emissions by 15%, he said it would cost the average household about $1,300 a year through higher energy costs. He... email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203569/posts#comment Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:47:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196330/posts President Obama on Saturday struck back aggressively at critics of his $3.6 trillion budget proposal, casting himself as a populist crusader whose "sweeping change" has angered Washington's entrenched special interests, and promised to fight them. "I realize that passing this budget won't be easy. Because it represents real and dramatic change, it also represents a threat to the status quo in Washington," Mr. Obama said in his weekly video and radio address. Mr. Obama's language was combative and confrontational, as he promised to fight for "American families." "I know these steps won't sit well with the special interests and lobbyists... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196330/posts#comment Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:04:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194914/posts President Barack Obama's first budget includes $15 billion a year for renewable energy programs and an ambitious plan to raise $646 billion from a carbon reduction proposal. "Because our future depends on our ability to break free from oil that's controlled by foreign dictators, we need to make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy," Mr. Obama said Thursday morning. "That's why we'll be working with Congress on legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy." The plan uses money from a cap-and-trade program — which would allow companies to... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2194914/posts#comment Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:52:16 GMT