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This guy is worse than Carter. He can't make a tough decision to save his life. Afghanistan in particular. Iran in particular. Sit back and wait. that way you can't be criticized by anyone, he hasn't made a decision yet. Obama's ego is such that he must be loved by everyone. He cannot handle anyone who doesn't. He's got ALL the mainstream media in print and tv and cable for him. The MSM gives him daily Lewinskis but the two things he constantly bitches about like a little girl are Fox News Channel and conservative talk radio. God help this...

WASHINGTON -- In her maiden Supreme Court appearance last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a provocative comment that probed the foundations of corporate law. During arguments in a campaign-finance case, the court's majority conservatives seemed persuaded that corporations have broad First Amendment rights and that recent precedents upholding limits on corporate political spending should be overruled. But Justice Sotomayor suggested the majority might have it all wrong -- and that instead the court should reconsider the 19th century rulings that first afforded corporations the same rights flesh-and-blood people have. Judges "created corporations as persons, gave birth to corporations as persons,"...

U.S. President Barack Obama listens to questions during a news conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, June 23, 2009.

What’s more fuel-efficient, a Ford Model T or a modern-day sport utility vehicle? President Barack Obama says the Model T, but his comparison is a stretch. Advertisement Obama, touring a California electric car plant on Thursday, said, “The 1908 Model T — think about this — the 1908 Model T earned better gas mileage than the typical SUV in 2008.” “Think about that: 100 years later, and we’re getting worse gas mileage, not better, on SUVs,” Obama said. Ford’s own Web site says the Model T’s mileage ranged from 13 to 21 miles per gallon. Some Tin Lizzie enthusiasts who...

Obama got to know Geithner "during the final weeks of the campaign," said the senior Obama aide, and the two hit it off immediately. Like Obama, Geithner had partly grown up abroad, and this gave the two an immediate connection. It led to "an ease in conversation," and the two discovered they "also share a common temperament," including a calm demeanor and a curiosity about the thinking of others. "When Obama emerged from the first meeting, he was very effusive," said the senior aide. "He said, 'I feel good about him as a person; he inspires confidence.' " Geithner did...

In the realm of foreign affairs, the first ten days of Barack Obama's administration were a disaster. It's hard to believe that even a foreign policy neophyte like Obama could blunder so badly, on so many fronts, in such a short time. We spent the better part of an hour of today's radio show talking about Obama's serial missteps, which I wrote about here, here and here. If I get time, I'll try to podcast that hour. Among other things, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the mullahs are beating Obama like a drum. Obama's misguided criticisms of America's policies toward Muslim...

Someone is lying. According to Obama's Kenyan (paternal) grandmother, as well as his half-brother and half-sister, Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya, not in Hawaii as the Democratic candidate for president claims. His grandmother bragged that her grandson is about to be President of the United States and is so proud because she was present DURING HIS BIRTH IN KENYA, in the delivery room. -This, according to several news sites and Pennsylvania attorney Philip J. Berg (see video below) who is, surprisingly, a life long democrat himself. Berg is the former Deputy Attorney General of Pennsylvania, and he has...

Barack Obama attended Occidental College from fall 1979 through spring 1981 and then transferred to Columbia University in New York. He is not a graduate of Occidental, however, the Occidental College bylaws state that anyone who completes at least eight courses of undergraduate work (or a year of graduate studies) is eligible for alumni status. Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) regulations protect the privacy of student education records. We, therefore, cannot disclose students’ classes, grade point averages, majors or other such information.   Neither Obama’s image nor name appear in any Occidental yearbooks or weekly student newspaper for the...

How anyone can seriously consider this exasperatingly unqualified Candidate Obama for President of the United States has confounded me.  Until now.  Now I get it.  And now I know why he scares the wits out of me.  The reason is a little nuanced - small but powerful, in the way a tiny rudder can control a supertanker. Candidate Barack Obama is not an executive, by profession, but a facilitator. And therefore, he is not fit to be Commander-in-Chief. We must insist our Presidents be executives, not facilitators.  The differences between the two are subtle, yet profound. I know of which I...

"Get this done - Democrats, Republicans, step up to the plate and get it done," Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Monday shortly after the House of Representatives defeated a $700 billion bank bailout bill. "Understand that even as you stabilize the markets, we have to make sure that Main St. gets what Wall St. is getting," Obama said. The Illinois senator was speaking at a campaign event in Colorado.

Inside Today's Bulletin Barack Obama: Idol Of Crowds By Thomas Sowell 09/19/2008 A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to an idea, to an affirmation rather than to proof, to the repetition of a phrase rather than to arguments, to prestige rather than to competence." Jean-Francois Revel was not referring to the United States when he wrote those words, nor to his own France, but to human beings in general. He was certainly not referring to Barack Obama, whom he probably never heard...

Anybody who doesn't think John McCain can defeat Barack Obama by focusing on real issues is somebody who hasn't seen Citizens United's latest documentary tour de force, "Hype: The Obama Effect." On the heels of successful documentaries a) answering Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 451," b) criticizing the United Nations, c) exploring with Newt Gingrich this nation's history of acknowledging God in the public square, and d) taking the fight to Hillary Clinton, CU's David Bossie now has produced a superlative, fact-heavy analysis of Barack Obama's record, rhetoric, ideology and inclinations. Granted, "Hype" includes no interviews with anybody left of the political...

Obama Admits He's Unqualified to be President http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/09/06/flashback-2004-obama-

After his 2004 election as Illinois Senator Barack Obama clearly stated he was not qualified to run on a national ticket in 2008. Reporter: Why have you ruled that out - running nationally? Obama: I am a firm believer is knowing what you’re doing when you apply for a job. And, I think that if I were to seriously consider running on a national ticket, I would essentially have to start now, before having served a day in the senate. Now there are some people who are comfortable doing that. I’m not one of those people. Perhaps Obama can share...

Barack Obama without a teleprompter is an accident waiting to happen. Sometimes he reveals his ignorance of history, sometimes he stumbles incoherently, and sometimes he blurts out what he really believes. That's what happened today when Obama tried to talk about Georgia, a topic that has embarrassed him more than once already, beginning when, in the first hours after the invasion, he parroted the Russian line. Today Obama equated Russia's invasion of Georgia with our toppling of Saddam Hussein: Democrat Barack Obama scolded Russia again on Wednesday for invading another country’s sovereign territory while adding a new twist: the United...

Independent analysts, working separately, have discovered that the original Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth used in the fabrication of the Barack Obama "birth certificate" belongs to the Presidential candidate's younger half-sister, Maya. Examining the high resolution image originally posted by the "Daily Kos" left-wing blog and subsequently claimed as authentic by the campaign, and posted in lower resolution on the campaign official "Fight the Smears" website, at least two analysts have been able to independently discern the name "Maya Kassandra Soetoro" from artifacts left behind in the process of forging a new fake document for Barack from an image of...

WASHINGTON, (AP) -- A leader of Democrat Barack Obama's vice presidential research team has resigned amid criticism over his personal loan deals. Obama announced in a statement Wednesday that Jim Johnson was stepping aside to avoid distracting

One day into his "presumptive nominee" status, and Barack Obama is already showing how incredibly relevant and dangerous his inexperience will be should he be elected. Trying to outdo John McCain during an AIPAC speech, Barack said that Jerusalem should remain the undivided capital of Israel. American foreign policy on this matter has long been that the two parties should settle the dispute themselves. Ed Morrisey at Hot Air explains: The US has no official position on the status of Jerusalem other than to insist that the two parties work it out between themselves. It is considered one of the...

And fix things they did. Today, white Democrats like Harriet Christian are angry as she (and many others) believes an unqualified black man is being shoved down their throats, while a more qualified white woman (with more popular votes) is being kicked to the curb. Others believe whites have it in for their black candidate who is winning the delegate count. Knowing Democrats (and the Clintons) as we do, this will not be fixed in a way that will end in a Kumbaya moment. The Denver Fire Department will surely be on alert during the Democrat National Convention. "And they...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary and Bill Clinton are again teaming up on Barack Obama -- this time saying the first-term U.S. lawmaker, whom they have derided as inexperienced, would be a strong running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket headed by the former first lady. In talking up a joint ticket, the Clintons may be seeking the upper hand, attempting to put her in consideration for the top of the ticket when she so far has failed to win the votes necessary to assure that she would face Republican presidential candidate John McCain in the November election. The maneuver may...

As Sen. Barack Obama competes to be commander-in-chief, he might want to get a quick tutorial on military nomenclature. At the Iowa State Fair last week, he asked two soldiers in battle dress uniforms, or BDUs, who waited to greet him what their "squad" was. "What squad are you guys with?" was his exact question. The soldiers were respectful and answered the question Obama was trying to ask. You hear one of the soldier's say "We're with the 103rd out of Ft. Des Moines." What Obama should've asked the soldiers for was their "unit," not squad. A squad is among...

ANYONE SUPPORTING SENATOR BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT IS RACIST!Pardon me for being the skunk at your garden party, but am I the only one this planet who feels that the only reason that anyone who supports Barack Hussein Obama is because the Freshman Senator is black? Certainly it is not based on any actual accomplishment of his 700 odd days in the Senate. He has not authored, let alone shepparded to passage, one single bill. Zero accomplishments. Therefore, it is racist to judge a person based on his race or ethnicity, be it pro or con. This man's campaign...

Obama criticizes war in Iraq during Ames visit By Charlotte Eby, Journal Des Moines Bureau AMES, Iowa -- A day after jumping into the presidential race, Democrat Barack Obama began the courting of Iowa party activists Sunday with a blistering critique of the war in Iraq. More than 6,000 people who came to hear him at the Iowa State University campus saved their biggest cheers for his criticism of the war. "We ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized, and should have never been waged, and to which we now have spent $400 billion and have...

..... a new poll shows Sen Hillary Clinton running at the back of the pack.....running last among the top four contenders - former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack. Edwards leads, with 25% of support among likely Iowa caucus-goers, according to the survey by Strategic Vision. Obama had 17%, Vilsack 16%, and Clinton 15%. Clinton has trailed in Iowa polls for several months.....A KCCI-TV poll last month showed Edwards and Obama tied at 23%t, with Vilsack getting 12 % and Clinton 10%. Obama moved to crush a so-called smear percolating...

NEW YORK (AFP) - By a 67-47 percent margin, New Yorkers think senator and former first lady Hillary Clinton would do a better job as US president than their former mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a Quinnipiac University poll found. Of the two, only Republican Giuliani, 62, has set up a committee to explore a possible run in the 2008 presidential election. Speculation is rampant, however, that Clinton will run as well after she was reelected the US Senate from New York on November 7. In the poll, 33 percent of New Yorkers said Giuliani would make "a bad president" and 24...

A judge on Tuesday ruled that votes for Jerry Brown for attorney general should be counted, delivering a blow to a long-shot bid by Republican officials to have the Democratic Oakland mayor declared ineligible for the office. Brown, the front-runner in the race against state Sen. Chuck Poochigian, R-Fresno, hailed the decision as proof that the Republican lawsuit was a political stunt. It's an "incompetent effort to sabotage the democratic process and the judge summarily threw it out by saying come in after the election," he said in a phone interview. But the five Republican officials suing promised to press...

The California secretary of state, the attorney general, and the state Democratic Party are seeking to intervene in a lawsuit filed by state Republican Party leaders challenging Democratic candidate Jerry Brown’s eligibility to run for state attorney general, Brown’s attorneys said yesterday. Zachary Wasserman of Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean in Oakland, representing Brown, told the MetNews that it’s his understanding that attorneys representing plaintiffs Thomas G. Del Beccaro, Contra Costa County Republican Party chairman; Adam C. Abrahms, head of the Los Angeles chapter of the California Republican Lawyers Association; and others, have stipulated that Secretary of State Bruce McPherson...

Thousands of Connecticut teachers, including some award-winning educators, could face new job reviews because they do not meet U.S. government standards as "highly qualified teachers," federal officials say. The U.S. Department of Education has issued a new monitoring report that throws into question the qualifications of more than 13,000 teachers, about 30 percent of the state's public school teaching force, state officials say. State education officials have vowed to challenge the report's conclusion that many teachers - especially older elementary teachers and those teaching social studies and special education classes - do not meet the criteria established under the federal...

Uncle Sam might not want youOf the 32 million Americans in its prime recruiting age group of 17 to 24, the Army deems most unqualified to serve. BY PAULINE JELINEK Associated Press Posted on Mon, Mar. 13, 2006 WASHINGTON - Uncle Sam wants YOU, that famous Army recruiting poster says. But does he really? Not if you're a Ritalin-taking, overweight, Generation Y couch potato -- or some combination of the above. As for that fashionable "body art" that the military still calls a tattoo, having one is grounds for rejection, too. With U.S. casualties rising in wars overseas and more...

The latest snark among conservatives opposed to the Miers nomination has been generated by this paragraph this story in the Washington Post: In an initial chat with Miers, according to several people with knowledge of the exchange, Leahy asked her to name her favorite Supreme Court justices. Miers responded with "Warren" — which led Leahy to ask her whether she meant former Chief Justice Earl Warren, a liberal icon, or former Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative who voted for Roe v. Wade . Miers said she meant Warren Burger, the sources said. Here's what Polipundit was told happened: "Miers...

More on Immigration Choice September 28, 2005 More on Immigration ChoiceThe Palm Beach Post has weighed in on the White House nomination of an "unqualified" candidate -- Julie Myers, 36 -- to head Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Part of the Department of Homeland Security, ICE has 20,000 employees and a $4 billion budget. I wrote about this last week. Myers is also DHS Chief Chertoff’s chief of staff’s daughter-in-law. The head of ICE is required by statute to have at least five years of experience in both law enforcement and management. She has no management experience. The San Francisco...

THE OLYMPIC HILDABEAST FLOPShillary stupidly invokes clinton utter failure: 9/11 FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME! Mia T, 7.06.05 In arguments before the committee, the former first lady even invoked the specter of the 9/11 attacks: "We're standing here a little less than four years from the time when we were attacked and we're telling you that New York City is the place to bring the 2012 Olympics because people of New York are resilient," she insisted. "They're extraordinary in their capacity to pull together and plan for the future." Hillary Clinton's Olympic...

Controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill says he does not advocate "fragging" U.S. military officers in spite of how recent comments he made have been portrayed. Churchill, speaking at an anti- military forum in Portland, Ore., military remarks "Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray," he said. "Fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect." His remarks were posted Sunday on the Pirate Ballerina blog site, which carries mostly anti- Churchill content. On Wednesday, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly played a tape of the remarks. Reached at his home in Boulder County on...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

THK: My Hubby's Unqualified "Teresa Heinz Kerry, America's would-be First Lady, reinforced her reputation for blunt speaking yesterday by admitting that her husband was not qualified to hold the office," reports the Times of London: "I think nobody is truly qualified to be President of the United States," she said, displaying the plain speaking that has become her trademark, a possible liability for John Kerry's campaign. "I mean, are you qualified to run the world . . . not run it, but have that influence? No, nobody is," she said in the latest edition of Reader's Digest. . . ....

New Jersey Governor James McGreevey's resignation statement was brilliant.Threatened with a sexual harassment lawsuit by his alleged male lover, having appointed him, a thoroughly unqualified man, as homeland security advisor at a time when America, in particular, the New York metropolitan area, is threatened with horrific terror and with any number of other instances of corruption already revealed and more likely to come out, Governor McGreevey saw the future and realized he had to resign from office.But the way he did it was a masterstroke. He turned opprobrium into compassion.He did it with one sentence. "I am a gay American."On...

Does anyone have a link to Kerry's statement during the primary campaign that Edwards is unqualified to be President?

<p>An Episcopalian friend of mine, reacting to the elevation of an openly homosexual priest to the office of bishop, said to me, "If you're a heterosexual clergyman and you're having sex outside marriage, you can be expelled. But if you're a homosexual clergyman having sex outside marriage, they rejoice." Most denominations that call themselves Christian take the Bible as their text for spiritual and relational instruction. Some in the Episcopal Church take a liberal view of the Bible, just as some do of the U.S. Constitution - it must be constantly updated to suit cultural trends. This view lends itself to constant misinterpretation and confusion. Eventually, it leads to religious or political heresy.</p>

  Why bill "it was the TERRORISM, stupid" clinton would have been an utter failure even if he weren't a corrupt, cowardly, vacuous, self-serving, balkanizing, opportunistic RapistThug And why the missus deserves no less than half the credit by Mia T. 5.28.03 Achieving leadership in any area demands the ability to reach good decisions promptly. What is the essence of success on the battlefield? It is to make instant decisions on the basis of best available information, then act on that decision. And be right about that decision, because lives are on the line and will be lost if you...