24 posts tagged “elections”
My job, (the one I actually get paid to do) is to determine if pre-established standards are being met and complied with. I do that by looking at empirical data, and judging the current conditions based on that data. We establish baselines through research and trials, testing and evaluating, using pre-established methods to insure the continuity of research and validation of results. Empirical data are historical results, established by years of use, that appear to meet the current requirements.
Obama has no pre-existing data. There is no empirical data to suggest he is qualified to meet and comply with the pre-established standards of the Presidency.
His trial runs so far have been miserable failures. He has changed, altered, obscured, and inveigled every attempt to determine if he is compliant. He has failed to comply with the established research procedures necessary to even set up a trial batch.
He is not qualified to run the country, based on existing data. Whether he is eligible is an entirely different matter, which may or may not be settled before 4 November 2008.
On 5 November 2008, we will wake to a new leader. Before that happens, you'd better make damn sure the one you wake up with, will meet, or exceed, the established standards for leadership.
Sign the petition to encourage the RNC to allow LtCol Allen West to speak at the RNC Convention.
LtCol West is an OEF Veteran and is the military version of Ken Blackwell or Michael Steele.
To: John McCain, Florida Governor Charlie Crist, McCain '08 Campaign Team and Republican Delegates
We, the undersigned supporters of Allen West for Congress, from all across America, request that Lieutenant Colonel Allen B. West (US Army, Ret) speak at the Republican National Convention, September 1-4, 2008 in St. Paul Minnesota.
We believe he represents our voices, our core values, and our hopes for the future of the Republican Party. LTC West is challenging the one-term Democrat Rep. Ron Klein in the 22nd Congressional District in Florida. This is a good opportunity for Republicans to regain a Congressional seat lost to the Democrats in 2006. We are impressed by LTC West’s distinguished 22-year service to our country in the United States Army, his proven leadership and communication skills, and his towering intellect with a B.S. and M.S. in political science and his vision for America.
Now it’s time for Republicans and the voters throughout America to hear LTC Allen West, a great American war hero saluting John McCain, our future commander-in-chief at the RNC!
GO WEST!
But it brings up an interesting theory. How has this newcomer, this no-name third rate Senator from Illinois managed to amass such a large war-chest from online donations?
Pam Geller, at Atlas Shrugs, the genuis who had Obama's birth certificate verified as a complete forgery, has done some more good work towards exposing the threat of foreign money in US elections.
She has some good information here, here, and here.
This link will take you to a full page of other links with enough information about questionable activities by the Obama campaign to make you wonder how he got so far so fast. The answer of course, is a complicit media whose agenda is decidely socialist in nature.
This is serious business, folks. Not since envelopes full of cash and cashier's checks were passed out in the White House during the klintoon comedy festival, has the threat to this country's most sacred institution and the right of Americans to decide our own fate, been more serious. The internet has provided us a way to share information and disseminate news on an unprecedented scale. However, it has also provided the means to accumulate large chunks of cash virtually untraceable.
NO ONE who is NOT an American citizen has the right to contribute to an election campiagn, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or other. All contrbutions must and should be accounted for and documented.
Unlimited donations with full and immediate disclosure.
July 20, 2007 – The Obama campaign launched a campaign to capture the conservative Christian vote. The campaign is called the “Joshua Generation Project,” named after Moses’ successor who led the Israelites into Canaan after they had wandered in the Sinai for forty years.
CBN’s David Brody has resurrected the substance of a 2004 You Tube speech by Obama in which he said, “Whatever we once were, we're no longer a Christian nation. At least not just. We are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”
Obama criticized the “Christian Right” for hijacking religion and using it to divide the nation. He said, “Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked. Part of it is because of the so-called leaders of the Christian Right, who’ve been all too eager to exploit what divides us.”
In spite of what Obama might think, America IS a Christian nation. It was founded by Christians, it was populated by Christians, and it has been governed from the beginning by Christian values. The Founding Fathers were concerned that the United States not become a theocracy so they added language to our Constitution prohibiting Congress from establishing an official state religion, but that was in no way a denial of our Christian roots.
If we are a “Muslim nation,” as Obama suggests, then how should Christians react to the notion that, in matters of marriage, the Prophet Muhammad is the model that Muslims follow. Muslims claim that Muhammad took a girl named 'Aisha to be his wife when she was 6, but he didn’t start having sex with her until she was 9. Obama might want to explain to us exactly how we can square that idea with Christian values.
He might also want to reread some of the sermons he heard during the nearly twenty years he sat in the pews of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, and then explain to us how his and Rev Wright’s brand of “G_ _ damn America” Christianity brings us together.
June 13, 2008 – Obama rejected John McCain’s proposal for 10 joint town hall meetings, offering instead to have just one on July 4.
The Obama campaign said that their candidate offered to meet McCain in five joint appearances between now and November 4, but only one of those would be a town hall meeting, three would be traditional debates with questions selected and posed by Obama-friendly mainstream media figures, and one would be an in-depth debate on foreign policy.
It’s not surprising that Obama, who recently said he would meet John McCain “anywhere, anytime,” would reject the idea of appearing side-by-side with McCain in ten town hall meetings. In recent weeks we’ve been witness to incidents where Obama was called upon to speak extemporaneously. In several instances he simply dissolved into a sputtering mass of “ahs” and “uhs,” incapable of uttering a simple declaratory sentence.
In one such episode, he came to a complete standstill in the middle of a stage, surrounded on all sides by his fawning supporters, pressed a finger against his earpiece… which had suddenly stopped transmitting the words he was supposed to repeat… and said, “Wait a minute, wait a minute, uh, wait a minute, uh, I can’t hear myself.”
Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary defines a “puppet” as a “small image in the human form… often with hinged limbs, moved by the hand or by strings… as in a mock drama. One acting as another wills; a fool.” It makes one wonder if we might one day find a picture of Obama next to that definition.
June 25, 2008 – The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana, struck down a Louisiana law allowing capital punishment for people convicted of raping children under the age of 12, saying it violates the Constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The ruling spares two Louisiana men convicted of raping girls 5 and 8.
In a two-sentence, seven-waffle reaction, Obama said, “I have said repeatedly that I think that the death penalty should be applied in very narrow circumstances for the most egregious of crimes… I think that the rape of a small child, 6 or 8 years old, is a heinous crime, and if a state makes a decision that under narrow, limited, well-defined circumstances the death penalty is at least potentially applicable, that that does not violate our Constitution.”
But where does Obama really stand? In 1999, while serving in the Illinois Senate, Obama was faced with a decision to support a bill that would have allowed juveniles who had gang-raped girls under the age of twelve, or who had murdered 8 and 10-year-olds in random drive-by shootings, to be tried as adults.
In that instance, Obama was running for reelection in an African American district in South Chicago, so he sidestepped the issue and voted “present.”
Clearly, Obama’s position on any issue depends on whether or not votes are at stake in the next election. He has yet to show where, in his fourteen years in public life, he has ever taken a stand on an issue that might have a negative impact on his own personal ambitions. Barack Obama is not only naïve and inexperienced… he is also a coward.
Once again, the folks at Family Security Matters have nailed it.
As an extreme liberal, Mr. Obama's priority is to weaken national security, not strengthen it. He wants face-to-face meetings with America's enemies but won't meet with Chris Wallace on the Fox News Network. He has pledged to withdraw troops fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq and would allow homosexuals in the military. That's his idea of enhancing national security.
Barack Obama and his supporters are fond of citing his opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq as an example of his superior judgment over his rival John McCain. To me, it's just the opposite, and illustrates how poorly Mr. Obama, as commander-in-chief, would handle national security matters.
Saddam Hussein ignored 16 United Nations resolutions demanding UN inspectors' unfettered access of his facilities to locate and dismantle weapons of mass destruction. After a protracted cat-and-mouse game, Saddam finally kicked inspectors out and thumbed his nose at the world. How many more resolutions would Mr. Obama like to have seen before forcing Saddam's compliance? If you don't comply with our next resolution and let our inspectors back in the country, we're going to be really, really mad. We mean it this time, Mr. Saddam. At what point does the UN finally protect its credibility and enforce the provisions of its resolutions? Is Mr. Obama suggesting that finally enforcing the resolutions is an example of poor judgment.
And don't tell me President Bush manipulated intelligence and lied to Congress and the American people to justify military action because that is simply ludicrous. Such a lie would have required the complicity and cover up of the entire intelligence communities of the U.S., Great Britain, White House staffers and the U.S. military. Doesn't it stand to reason that at least one person from those organizations would have the integrity and moral fiber to blow the whistle on such a conspiracy?
U.S. and European intelligence agencies concluded that Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction and that he was most likely conducting covert operations to acquire nuclear weapons. That's pretty scary, especially in a post-9/11 world, since Saddam had a history of attacking his neighbors and using chemical weapons against his own people in northern Iraq. There was every reason to believe he had WMDs at his disposal and would use them against his enemies, namely the United States. President Bush's decisive action was required to not only protect the nation, but also maintain the U.N.'s flimsy credibility.
Ben Hayden
Iowa State Captain, VFF
As America moves closer to November, we need to be informed on the issues. One issue that is very misunderstood is the war in Iraq. A number of Americans are basing their decision in the 08’ elections on this topic, which makes it extremely important to be well educated on the issue. It is also important because America has invested so much into Iraq, both financially and physically.
Typically, when we have to make an educated decision we don’t do so based on feelings alone. We do so with the aid of research and knowledge on the topic. When making an important medical decision we don’t turn to our mechanic, we turn to our doctor, and vice versa. So why, when making an important decision about whether or not to stay the course in Iraq, would we listen to someone other than the experts? Why would we make such an important decision, a decision that carries with it so many lives and so much money, without listening to the men and women that have been there? The Hero’s that have given so much, yet asked for so little in return.
Some say that we have failed in Iraq. This is detrimental to the moral of our troops. Say what you want about the President and his Administration, but don’t tell our troops that they have failed, because they haven’t. They have achieved success and are continuing to achieve more and more. In November, Iraq will hold its first provincial elections. This proves success. Iraq now has an Air Force and an Army, with their security forces numbering over 540,000 people. Over the past year they have seen enormous economic gains and will continue to grow economically in the months to come. They are now outspending the U.S. ten to one on major reconstructive projects.
As a Marine Veteran that served two tours of duty in Iraq, I know how important success there is. I know how important it is that America knows the truths about Iraq. I can assure you that the experts, the men and women that have been there fighting, know the importance of success and want our help in winning the war on terror. Help them, help us.
H/T to my good friend Chris at Modern Conservative.
Barack Obama made it clear yesterday that he is not running for president, he is running to be our great National Leader.
When the Obama logo and presidential seal collide
The seal includes the same bald eagle as the actual presidential seal clutching an olive branch and arrows in its talons, but instead of a shield covering the center of the eagle’s body, the Obama version displays the campaign’s trademark “O.” Unlike the Presidential seal, which includes the words “Seal of the President of the United States” around the circumference, “Obama for America” and “www.barackobama.com” grace the top and bottom of Obama's.
Finally, just above the eagle, in Latin, are the words – “vero possumus” – which translates to “yes we can,” the oft-heard chant at Obama rallies.
They call it his "trademark 'O'," but what it is is his socialist realism "O." Changing the slogan adds insult to injury. And the use of the seal imagery itself is arrogant and irreverent...at best.
The whole thing screams CULT OF PERSONALITY.
It's really creepy.
Ya think?!?!?!
and this from Bret Prelutsky via Chris:
His fans insist that it’s unfair to question his qualifications or judge him by his associations. That makes sense because if I were a fan of his, I sure wouldn’t want anyone scratching beneath the surface of a pleasant smile and a soothing voice. And, believe me, if he were auditioning for a job as a TV announcer, I’d hire him.
The Obamans insist that mentioning any of the man’s disreputable friends and religious mentors is a no-no that smacks of McCarthyism. This is an odd complaint because, one, McCarthy was right when he pointed out that the folks who associated with other people at Communist cell meetings were in fact Communists, and, two, every child is told that he’s going to be judged by the company he keeps. So, let’s face facts -- John Dillinger ran with a nicer crowd than this guy.
If Barack Obama wins in 2008, by 2010 or 2012 the voters might realize what a dismal mistake they've made. But that might be too late. It gives the radical Left between two and eight years of unrestrained power, plus two or three Supreme Court Justices. Look at what socialists have done with their untrammeled power in Great Britain, which is now dying as a country. You can see where we could end up. Do you want Eurosuicide for America? That would be bad news for the whole civilized world, not just America.True conservatives must be activists. (Yes, this means you!). If you're not helping, you're just dead weight on the dog sled. Mobilize your conservative friends. Set up a blog. Give money. Walk precincts. Make phone calls. If you have a favorite candidate, ask them what they need.Senator Barack Obama is obsessed with race, class and gender. Deep down, he is not a healer, but a divider. Obama will make permanent the racial spoils system using "affirmative action," by appointing three Supreme Court justices. The pro-abortion crowd will then be in the saddle for decades. Obama will spread his 2,700 radical appointees throughout the Federal goverment, to entrench political correctness in our military, our foreign policy, our tax structure, our daily lives.
Like Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama will try his best to dismantle our defenses; he will cut our nuclear deterrent, according to his advisor Joseph Cirincioni, leaving us at the mercy of a militant China, Russia, and rising rogue states. Saudi money will reign supreme in Washington --- even more than it does today. With a Democrat Congress, Obama will put his pro-Islamist advisors in positions of power --- for one little indication, David Bonior just joined his campaign. People are policy, and Obama's people are radical Leftist, pro-Islamist, race-and-gender spoils hacks.
Obama wants to retreat from Iraq just as that country is beginning to stabilize, giving Iran's terror master free sway in the Middle East. He will have the US economy bow down to the global warming fraud and its eager little host of bureaucrats. He will drive jobs abroad. He has already promised to tax and tax in order to spend and spend --- on the racial spoils system, on nationalizing one-seventh of the economy for healthcare, on a thousand little things we don't need. Obama intends to install HillaryCare without Hillary; call it MichelleCare. But Michelle is a racial Commissar, an enforcer for the racial spoils system. All that vast power will be used to promote their private political ambitions. That's why all the Leftie and Islamist organizations are going wild for Obama.
It's high time for the conservative American giant to understand that it is a giant and act like it.
The Left will try to demoralize us through the media, day after day. Don't let them. Do something active every single day for the next six months --- that's 180 days. This may be the most important thing you do this year - or any year.
If you feel down in the dumps about our chances, just keep in mind Thomas Paine in 1776:
These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. http://www.ushistory.org/PAINE/crisis/c-01.htm
This is not the first big challenge in American history. But it's ours, and we owe it to the past and the future of this country to win this one.
Now go and do something constructive.There are many good conservatives running. Use your own best judgment. See who they are, who their opponents are. See what you can afford in time, energy, making phone calls, money. We can save the US Senate. We can save our growing farm team in the House. We can win local elections. And we can win the presidency --- not for perfection, but to stave off the worst assault on American values since 1948.
TO: John McCain and the RNC,
Your latest solicitation for our money has a lot of "I want…" statements in it. Merely saying "I want…" does NOT impress me and won't get the job done!
I would like to hear some "I WILL…" AND MEAN IT !
If you want our money, and our vote, then "WE WANT" some ACTION from the RNC and John McCain!
GET YOU HEAD OUT AND PAY ATTENTION…. WE ARE SERIOUS AMERICAN CITIZENS THAT VOTE!
We WANT an absolute, unequivocal, commitment that we WILL DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW, AND PAY LESS! The stupidity of sitting on trillions of cubic feet of our own natural gas and billions of barrels of our own oil while begging Arabs for more is beyond insanity! We want refineries, clean safe nuclear power, and STOP BURNING OUR FOOD FOR FUEL!
We WANT an absolute, unequivocal, commitment that the borders WILL be closed and NO illegals will get ANY amnesty or special consideration ahead of those waiting to enter legally!
We WANT an absolute, unequivocal, commitment that employers of illegals will be prosecuted. The illegals will go home on their own… and real wages for real Americans will rise!
We WANT an absolute, unequivocal, commitment that federal funding will be withdrawn from "sanctuary cities"…. immediately! I obey the federal laws… so should city officials… or defund and prosecute them.
We WANT an absolute, unequivocal, commitment that ONLY strict constructionist federal and Supreme Court judges will be nominated, AND that they will be supported, in hearings! Abiding by our Constitution has worked to get us here... it will work for our future!
We WANT an absolute, unequivocal, commitment that NO new taxes bills will be signed!
We WANT an absolute, unequivocal, commitment that there will be NO carbon tax schemes and NO so called "global warming" or "climate change" agreements catering to the fear mongers claiming "man-made" climate change. The world climate has ALWAYS changed and puny mankind cannot control it! The facts, evidence, and tens of thousands of scientists, say it is a pure hoax, a lie, and a grab for money and power and it MUST be stopped before it destroys our economy!
We WANT an absolute, unequivocal, commitment that ALL earmarks will be vetoed!
We WANT an absolute, unequivocal, commitment that Social Security will be reformed and made solvent to end the illegal Ponzi scheme that will devastate the retirement of so many!
When John McCain, and the RNC, make these strong commitments, we will again support Republicans with OUR money and our vote!
But, NOT UNTIL THEN... IT IS TOO IMPORTANT!!!
DO YOU HEAR US…. OR ARE YOU NOW DEAF TO REAL AMERICAN VALUES?
"We don't have enough troooops"
"NATO is mad at us."
"We don't have enough translators"
BAWWWWAAHAHAHAHHAAAAAA!!!!!!!!
Well,as a matter of published record, the Army has reported that it has met its' recruiting goals, and the Marine Corps reported yesterday that they had met their recruiting goals, FOR THE YEAR!!!!
We have plenty of troops. They may not be in the right place right now, but we ain't hurting for dedicated men and women willing to make the hard choice and give a portion of their life in defense of their country. In all the whining you never hear B.Hussein Muhammed Obama say how appreciative he is for the men and women we do have serving; and for the love of Pete, will you make up your mind about the flag pin. You don't wear it while (obstenibly) doing the country's business for fear of offending your butt buddies in Congress, but you slap it on when you visit the middle of America because you know damn well if you don't, someone will notice. Well, guess what? We noticed. So is it symbolic patriotism, or is it jingoism, or..... hell, I give up.
NATO has troops in Iraq and Aghanistan. Spain doesn't cause they have no balls and folded when AQ set off some bombs and influenced elections. France doesn't because they have no balls, although Sarkozy is looking more and more like DeGaulle lately, so there still may be hope. I doubt they will ever put troops in Iraq or Afghanistan. NATO is pissed, but it ain't at us.
Translators. Don't know, but for the love of Mike, if thats what you think, stop whining and fix it. Offer some incentives to students to becoame translators. Take the ones you do have and put them where they'll do the most good. You're a sitting Senator, you can write a bill.
Yes America, by all means elect this elitist, whining, Muslim with the jingoistic, elitist, seperationist wife to be CIC and the leader of the free world. You deserve it.
