Since taking office one year ago today, Obama and America's liberal establishment have bent over backwards in their attempts to maintain their political correctness.
Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton echoed the administrations new refrain that this is not a War on Terror, but rather a war against al Qaeda. Terrorist attacks are no longer called such, now they are "man-made disasters".
Man-made disasters? That's akin to calling the sun an alternative heat source.
The Obama team refuses to acknowledge the fact that these extremists have declared Jihad against the western countries. It is not limited to al Qaeda. They no longer mention Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood, or Hezbollah as enemies of the west.
They ignore the fact that these organizations have been involved in this struggle against the west.
They are not fighting the west because we are in the Middle East. They are waging war against our lifestyle, religions, and democratic institutions. Their stated goal is the Islamization of the west. In Europe this transformation is much further along and received a boost recently with the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty.
This treaty opens the European borders to northern African countries. Movement between countries will be free and easy. Work permits will be extended to all who qualify under these provisions.
The treaty also makes it impossible for an individual European country to pass a law for self-preservation. All laws must fully comply with the E.U. laws and mandates.
The overwhelming majority of Muslim people do not support the extremists and are no more a threat than you or I.
Under the direction of the Commander-in-chief, the Pentagon has issued a report that studied the terrorist attack on Fort Hood, Texas.
Nowhere in the report is any mention of Nidal Hasan's belief in radical Islam. Nowhere does it mention "man-made disasters", terrorism or terrorists.
Now Congress opens two days of hearings today into the Pentagon probe of the Nov. 5 attack that left 13 dead, lawmakers want explanations for that omission.
The Pentagon report's silence on Islamic extremism "shows you how deeply entrenched the values of political correctness have become," he told TIME on Tuesday. "It's definitely getting worse, and is now so ingrained that people no longer smirk when it happens."
Yet the leaders of the two-month Pentagon review, former Army Secretary Togo West and the Navy's onetime top admiral, Vernon Clark, told reporters last week that they didn't drill down into Hasan's motives. "Our concern is with actions and effects, not necessarily with motivations," West said. Added Clark: "We certainly do not cite a particular group."
"The report demonstrates that we are unwilling to identify and confront the real enemy of political Islam," says a former military colleague of Hasan, speaking privately because he was ordered not to talk about the case. "Political correctness has brainwashed us to the point that we no longer understand our heritage and cannot admit who, or what, the enemy stands for."
The Congressman whose district includes Fort Hood agrees. "The report ignores the elephant in the room — radical Islamic terrorism is the enemy," says Republican Representative John Carter. "We should be able to speak honestly about good and bad without feeling like you've done something offensive to society."
The report lumps in radical Islam with other fundamentalist religious beliefs, saying that "religious fundamentalism alone is not a risk factor" and that "religious-based violence is not confined to members of fundamentalist groups." But to some, that sounds as if the lessons of 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq, where jihadist extremism has driven deadly violence against Americans, are being not merely overlooked but studiously ignored.
Voters in the Massachusetts special election cited national security as a concern, as well as jobs and the overall economy.
It is a shame our President and Congressional leaders do not see the errors in their assessment of what we are facing as a nation.
For them to place "political correctness" ahead of national security is alarming and dangerous.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
85,000 MORE JOBS LOST; Obama's priorities & Judgement called into question
Leading up to the release of the December unemployment numbers the administration said they expected to lose 8,000 jobs, despite retailers adding Christmas help.
The US usually experiences an uptick in employment during the busy holiday season.
Obama actually lost 10 X their estimate for a loss of 85,000 jobs.
Unemployment did remain at 10%, a full 2% higher than Obama promised after receiving his “stimulus”.
The reason the unemployment percent did not go up was because more people lost their benefits during December and are no longer included in the unemployment figures. Those no longer being counted are still just as unemployed, but now have no income.
How can this White House be so wrong on so many issues affecting American voters such as jobs and national security?
Why did Obama sit back & watch unemployment rise for nearly a year before holding a “jobs summit” in December?
Instead of focusing on jobs & national security, Obama chose to address health care & global warming.
Folks, we had a terrorist shoot our military recruiters in Little Rock, Arkansas, another terrorist went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, and yet another attempted to blow up a planeload of people flying into Detroit on Christmas Day.
The liberals claim Obama is a “certified intellectual”. I am not sure of their criteria for such a dubious claim, but they may want to revise their standards. For those who have no job or rely on the administration to protect them as they fly; they may have a different evaluation of his intellectual prowess.
Many are justified in questioning Obama’s judgement & priorities.
How does a president come to the conclusion that the country needs him to address health care & global warming, while he sits back and ignores unemployment & national security?
I heard the liberals state that Obama was following Bush’s national security policies and therefore it was Bush’s fault.
Excuse me, but if this guy is so smart, and Bush was believed to be so dumb, why didn’t he review the Bush policies and update them when he came into office?
If you think you are a “certified intellectual”, why would you follow the same policies of someone you think is not as smart as you?
Obama is simply not as smart as advertised.
Folks, to put it another way: ‘the Emperor has no clothes’!!
The US usually experiences an uptick in employment during the busy holiday season.
Obama actually lost 10 X their estimate for a loss of 85,000 jobs.
Unemployment did remain at 10%, a full 2% higher than Obama promised after receiving his “stimulus”.
The reason the unemployment percent did not go up was because more people lost their benefits during December and are no longer included in the unemployment figures. Those no longer being counted are still just as unemployed, but now have no income.
How can this White House be so wrong on so many issues affecting American voters such as jobs and national security?
Why did Obama sit back & watch unemployment rise for nearly a year before holding a “jobs summit” in December?
Instead of focusing on jobs & national security, Obama chose to address health care & global warming.
Folks, we had a terrorist shoot our military recruiters in Little Rock, Arkansas, another terrorist went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, and yet another attempted to blow up a planeload of people flying into Detroit on Christmas Day.
The liberals claim Obama is a “certified intellectual”. I am not sure of their criteria for such a dubious claim, but they may want to revise their standards. For those who have no job or rely on the administration to protect them as they fly; they may have a different evaluation of his intellectual prowess.
Many are justified in questioning Obama’s judgement & priorities.
How does a president come to the conclusion that the country needs him to address health care & global warming, while he sits back and ignores unemployment & national security?
I heard the liberals state that Obama was following Bush’s national security policies and therefore it was Bush’s fault.
Excuse me, but if this guy is so smart, and Bush was believed to be so dumb, why didn’t he review the Bush policies and update them when he came into office?
If you think you are a “certified intellectual”, why would you follow the same policies of someone you think is not as smart as you?
Obama is simply not as smart as advertised.
Folks, to put it another way: ‘the Emperor has no clothes’!!
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Obama: Terrible Consequences For America
Taxes
Obama campaigned on giving a tax break for those earning less that $250,000. During Obama’s infomercial he set the number at $200,000.
VP. Candidate Biden set the total at $150,000. The next day ardent Obama supporter and surrogate, Gov. Bill Richardson admitted the amount is $120,000 for an increase.
Obama says his expanded socialism is virtuous. He states that people wanting to keep the money they earn are "selfish". Well call me selfish, but most people go to work to provide for their families and expect to keep it. They pay their taxes and resent being forced to give it to the 40% of people who do not pay taxes. Biden calls paying taxes "patriotic", and this is a view shared by many............in Europe! There is a trend here and it does not favor the American public.
Obama wants to end the pre-tax provision on our 401K’s & IRA’s. This means we will have we will have less take-home-pay on our pay checks. This will drive down any savings incentives for Americans, leaving them vulnerable in retirement or making retirement impossible.
Obama wants to make the corporations pay more taxes. This sounds good to most Americans. Until we look at the consequences of this poor judgement. Corporations do not pay their taxes. People buying their goods & services will.
American’s will pay for it just the same as if this tax increase was placed directly on each of us. We will have to pay it with higher prices for groceries, gas, clothing, utilities, etc. That $1,000 check Obama is promising will not offset these price increases.
When prices rise we have inflation. The Federal Reserve will raise the interest rates to slow the resulting inflation. Companies will lay off workers or leave the country. That will raise our unemployment.
So we will have high inflation. High unemployment. High interest rates.
This is not a recipe for economic recovery. It is a second term for Jimmy Carter.
National Security
The Democrats and Obama want to slash our military budget by 25%. They are not going to apply these savings to the deficit. They are going to spend it on expanded socialist programs.
The scope of his planned defense cuts, combined with his angry tone, is breathtaking. He sounds as if the military is the enemy, not the bad guys it's fighting.
"Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending. I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems.
"I will institute an independent defense priorities board to ensure that the Quadrennial Review is not used to justify unnecessary defense spending.
"Third, I will set a goal for a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal."
On the chopping block: the F-22 Raptor, the V-22 Osprey, the Virginia-class sub, the DDG-1,000 destroyer and the Army's Future Combat System.
Cutting allegedly "unproven" missile defense systems is music to Kim Jong Il's and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ears, let alone all the PLA generals wishing our destruction.
Proposing "deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal" amounts to unilateral disarmament, and it's suicidal given China's and now Russia's aggressive military buildup.
This makes about as much sense as taking all weapons away from your local police department and expecting the bad guys to no longer do bad things.
“It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. Who do you want answering the phone?” Clinton “red phone” ad, February 2008.
I believe that Obama and the Democrats are either dangerously naive or are relying
on the 'good will' of those who have the stated purpose to annihilate the US and our allies. Do Americans want to wake up and find ourselves ‘nuclear free’, while Russia, China, N. Korea and Iran build up their nuclear arsenals? It is blind naivety or inexperience that leads to his poor judgement. Obama’s judgement does pose a danger to our survival.
Character & Judgement
Many Americans still value character and judgement. Obama lacks the experience that would have resulted in the needed judgement. We only need to take a glimpse of the people Obama has surrounded himself with over the years, and his behavior.
Questionable ‘Friends’
Obama had communist Frank Davis as a mentor during his formative years. Mr. Davis plied Obama with drugs and alcohol, while infusing the communist ideology into Obama.
Obama served on the Woods Fund and Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Obama used these organizations to direct monies to help fund the radical educational ideals of Domestic Terrorist, Bill Ayers. In return, Ayers held a function in his home to launch the first campaign of Obama.
Once in the Illinois State Senate, Obama directed funds to his friend Tony Rezko. Rezko was a slumlord that was given millions of Illinois tax dollars to maintain the slums within Obamas state senate district.
Rezko failed to deliver and most of the buildings fell into such disrepair that the Federal government had to step in and raze the buildings.
Rezko did manage to give over $150,000 to Obama campaigns. For many observers it was simple ‘money laundering’. Qui Pro Quo.
While in the State Senate, Obama voted “present” over 100 times, not wanting to take a position. That is not leadership.
Obama did vote “no” to legislation that would have required medical treatment for children who survived ‘late-term abortions’. Obama felt it would undermine Roe v. Wade.
Obama’s belief in Black Liberation Theology
Obama spent 20+ years sitting in the pews of the racist Trinity Church of Christ. We have all seen Rev. Wright’s racial diatribes on television. This is a church that follows the tenants of ‘Black Liberation Theology’.
Black Liberation Theology, as N. American founder James Cone describes it:
“Either God must do what we want him to do, or we must reject him”, Cone maintains:
”Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love. In the black liberation theology taught by Wright, Cone and Hopkins, Jesus Christ is not for all men, but only for the oppressed:
In the New Testament, Jesus is not for all, but for the oppressed, the poor and unwanted of society, and against oppressors ... Either God is for black people in their fight for liberation and against the white oppressors, or he is not” [Cone].
Another professor, actively teaching this theology in Trinity Church of Christ’s outreach program is Dr. Dwight Hopkins. He also has written extensively about this racist theology.
Obama chose to attend this church and only quit this past spring when the media called him out on its teachings. Obama quit for political expediency not a change of heart. Oprah Winfrey used to attend, but quit long ago when it became obvious to her what was the beliefs of this church.
Hillary Clinton speaking on Obama’s personal relationship with Rev. Wright:
“He would not have been my pastor. You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.” — Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, March 25, 2008.
This link will provide more information on ‘Black Liberation Theology. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JC18Aa01.html
Driver Licenses For Illegals
Obama has stated the he favors giving Drivers Licenses to Illegal Aliens. He knows they can register to vote when getting their license. Obama is willing to cast our country's safety aside for electoral gain. He believes additional voters are worth the risk of American lives. Obama's lack of experience is the only plausible reason that could lead to such fallible judgement.
“I think that it is the right idea,” Obama declared.
Socialism
Winning at any cost is one of Obama’s core beliefs. He does not welcome compromise as demonstrated by his voting record. Or by his campaigns reactions to questions that are not part of his neatly choreographed script.
“Joe the plumber” was in his own yard when Obama came upon Joe during a campaign stop in Toledo, Ohio’s suburbs. Joe commented that he thought Obama’s tax plans would “punish” small businesses with an unfair tax burden. Obama stated his expanded socialism belief that he did not want to punish, but that is better to “spread the wealth”.
Well as we all know the media is in the tank for the Obama campaign and they set out to destroy ‘Joe’ for exposing Obama for what he is: a Socialist. Socialism, as never before seen in America.
Obama does not just want to redistribute our wealth here in America. Being a believer in globalization, Obama wants to even out the global playing field worldwide. Americans will largely bear the economic burden of this redistribution.
Obama has sponsored the ‘Global Poverty Act’. It is in conjunction with the United Nations ‘Millennium Project’. It has the lofty goal of eradicating poverty worldwide by 2015. Many critics have suggested it will require a ‘global tax’ payable to the UN. Many of its supporters will argue it commits no funding and will only cost $1 million to implement. Their wording is laughable. They are careful to talk only about “implementing”, but carefully omit any mention of the needed “funding”.
Here is a link where you can learn more about this legislation setting America on the path to participation in “One World” government. http://www.elliscountypress.com/news/132/ARTICLE/1756/2008-05-05.html
ACORN
After college Obama was brought into the Chicago chapter of ACORN. At ACORN Obama trained the leadership team on ‘tactics’. Later he was brought in as an attorney to help them sue banks. The goal was to force banks to make loans to people who had questionable credit.
Each election cycle ACORN gets called out for their questionable voter registration tactics. 2008 is not the first time they have been in trouble for this. It is the first time we have heard much about it in the media.
ACORN is being investigated in over a dozen states for violating voter registration laws. In Seattle ACORN turned in over 1,800 new registrations. Upon investigation, workers admitted to making up registrations at Seattle’s downtown library. Of the 1,800, only ‘6’ were found to be legitimate.
In Las Vegas, ACORN’s offices were raided by the FBI after they registered the names of the Dallas Cowboys players. In Ohio they registered one guy 72 times. When questioned he said he was just “trying to help”!!
Obama’s campaign donated $832,000 to ACORN’s voter registration drive. Not wanting the media to discover this, the campaign did not include it in their filed report as required by law. When questioned about it, the campaign blamed the omission on a ‘clerical error’.
The terrible consequences of an Obama administration are overwhelming. We will not recognize our country after Obama finishes with it. His brand of ‘change’ is not for the better!! And ‘Hope’ is not a ‘plan’!!
http://washingtonroundup.blogspot.com/
Obama campaigned on giving a tax break for those earning less that $250,000. During Obama’s infomercial he set the number at $200,000.
VP. Candidate Biden set the total at $150,000. The next day ardent Obama supporter and surrogate, Gov. Bill Richardson admitted the amount is $120,000 for an increase.
Obama says his expanded socialism is virtuous. He states that people wanting to keep the money they earn are "selfish". Well call me selfish, but most people go to work to provide for their families and expect to keep it. They pay their taxes and resent being forced to give it to the 40% of people who do not pay taxes. Biden calls paying taxes "patriotic", and this is a view shared by many............in Europe! There is a trend here and it does not favor the American public.
Obama wants to end the pre-tax provision on our 401K’s & IRA’s. This means we will have we will have less take-home-pay on our pay checks. This will drive down any savings incentives for Americans, leaving them vulnerable in retirement or making retirement impossible.
Obama wants to make the corporations pay more taxes. This sounds good to most Americans. Until we look at the consequences of this poor judgement. Corporations do not pay their taxes. People buying their goods & services will.
American’s will pay for it just the same as if this tax increase was placed directly on each of us. We will have to pay it with higher prices for groceries, gas, clothing, utilities, etc. That $1,000 check Obama is promising will not offset these price increases.
When prices rise we have inflation. The Federal Reserve will raise the interest rates to slow the resulting inflation. Companies will lay off workers or leave the country. That will raise our unemployment.
So we will have high inflation. High unemployment. High interest rates.
This is not a recipe for economic recovery. It is a second term for Jimmy Carter.
National Security
The Democrats and Obama want to slash our military budget by 25%. They are not going to apply these savings to the deficit. They are going to spend it on expanded socialist programs.
The scope of his planned defense cuts, combined with his angry tone, is breathtaking. He sounds as if the military is the enemy, not the bad guys it's fighting.
"Second, I will cut tens of billions of dollars in wasteful spending. I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems. I will not weaponize space. I will slow our development of future combat systems.
"I will institute an independent defense priorities board to ensure that the Quadrennial Review is not used to justify unnecessary defense spending.
"Third, I will set a goal for a world without nuclear weapons. To seek that goal, I will not develop nuclear weapons; I will seek a global ban on the production of fissile material; and I will negotiate with Russia to take our ICBMs off hair-trigger alert, and to achieve deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal."
On the chopping block: the F-22 Raptor, the V-22 Osprey, the Virginia-class sub, the DDG-1,000 destroyer and the Army's Future Combat System.
Cutting allegedly "unproven" missile defense systems is music to Kim Jong Il's and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ears, let alone all the PLA generals wishing our destruction.
Proposing "deep cuts in our nuclear arsenal" amounts to unilateral disarmament, and it's suicidal given China's and now Russia's aggressive military buildup.
This makes about as much sense as taking all weapons away from your local police department and expecting the bad guys to no longer do bad things.
“It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. Who do you want answering the phone?” Clinton “red phone” ad, February 2008.
I believe that Obama and the Democrats are either dangerously naive or are relying
on the 'good will' of those who have the stated purpose to annihilate the US and our allies. Do Americans want to wake up and find ourselves ‘nuclear free’, while Russia, China, N. Korea and Iran build up their nuclear arsenals? It is blind naivety or inexperience that leads to his poor judgement. Obama’s judgement does pose a danger to our survival.
Character & Judgement
Many Americans still value character and judgement. Obama lacks the experience that would have resulted in the needed judgement. We only need to take a glimpse of the people Obama has surrounded himself with over the years, and his behavior.
Questionable ‘Friends’
Obama had communist Frank Davis as a mentor during his formative years. Mr. Davis plied Obama with drugs and alcohol, while infusing the communist ideology into Obama.
Obama served on the Woods Fund and Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Obama used these organizations to direct monies to help fund the radical educational ideals of Domestic Terrorist, Bill Ayers. In return, Ayers held a function in his home to launch the first campaign of Obama.
Once in the Illinois State Senate, Obama directed funds to his friend Tony Rezko. Rezko was a slumlord that was given millions of Illinois tax dollars to maintain the slums within Obamas state senate district.
Rezko failed to deliver and most of the buildings fell into such disrepair that the Federal government had to step in and raze the buildings.
Rezko did manage to give over $150,000 to Obama campaigns. For many observers it was simple ‘money laundering’. Qui Pro Quo.
While in the State Senate, Obama voted “present” over 100 times, not wanting to take a position. That is not leadership.
Obama did vote “no” to legislation that would have required medical treatment for children who survived ‘late-term abortions’. Obama felt it would undermine Roe v. Wade.
Obama’s belief in Black Liberation Theology
Obama spent 20+ years sitting in the pews of the racist Trinity Church of Christ. We have all seen Rev. Wright’s racial diatribes on television. This is a church that follows the tenants of ‘Black Liberation Theology’.
Black Liberation Theology, as N. American founder James Cone describes it:
“Either God must do what we want him to do, or we must reject him”, Cone maintains:
”Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love. In the black liberation theology taught by Wright, Cone and Hopkins, Jesus Christ is not for all men, but only for the oppressed:
In the New Testament, Jesus is not for all, but for the oppressed, the poor and unwanted of society, and against oppressors ... Either God is for black people in their fight for liberation and against the white oppressors, or he is not” [Cone].
Another professor, actively teaching this theology in Trinity Church of Christ’s outreach program is Dr. Dwight Hopkins. He also has written extensively about this racist theology.
Obama chose to attend this church and only quit this past spring when the media called him out on its teachings. Obama quit for political expediency not a change of heart. Oprah Winfrey used to attend, but quit long ago when it became obvious to her what was the beliefs of this church.
Hillary Clinton speaking on Obama’s personal relationship with Rev. Wright:
“He would not have been my pastor. You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.” — Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, March 25, 2008.
This link will provide more information on ‘Black Liberation Theology. http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JC18Aa01.html
Driver Licenses For Illegals
Obama has stated the he favors giving Drivers Licenses to Illegal Aliens. He knows they can register to vote when getting their license. Obama is willing to cast our country's safety aside for electoral gain. He believes additional voters are worth the risk of American lives. Obama's lack of experience is the only plausible reason that could lead to such fallible judgement.
“I think that it is the right idea,” Obama declared.
Socialism
Winning at any cost is one of Obama’s core beliefs. He does not welcome compromise as demonstrated by his voting record. Or by his campaigns reactions to questions that are not part of his neatly choreographed script.
“Joe the plumber” was in his own yard when Obama came upon Joe during a campaign stop in Toledo, Ohio’s suburbs. Joe commented that he thought Obama’s tax plans would “punish” small businesses with an unfair tax burden. Obama stated his expanded socialism belief that he did not want to punish, but that is better to “spread the wealth”.
Well as we all know the media is in the tank for the Obama campaign and they set out to destroy ‘Joe’ for exposing Obama for what he is: a Socialist. Socialism, as never before seen in America.
Obama does not just want to redistribute our wealth here in America. Being a believer in globalization, Obama wants to even out the global playing field worldwide. Americans will largely bear the economic burden of this redistribution.
Obama has sponsored the ‘Global Poverty Act’. It is in conjunction with the United Nations ‘Millennium Project’. It has the lofty goal of eradicating poverty worldwide by 2015. Many critics have suggested it will require a ‘global tax’ payable to the UN. Many of its supporters will argue it commits no funding and will only cost $1 million to implement. Their wording is laughable. They are careful to talk only about “implementing”, but carefully omit any mention of the needed “funding”.
Here is a link where you can learn more about this legislation setting America on the path to participation in “One World” government. http://www.elliscountypress.com/news/132/ARTICLE/1756/2008-05-05.html
ACORN
After college Obama was brought into the Chicago chapter of ACORN. At ACORN Obama trained the leadership team on ‘tactics’. Later he was brought in as an attorney to help them sue banks. The goal was to force banks to make loans to people who had questionable credit.
Each election cycle ACORN gets called out for their questionable voter registration tactics. 2008 is not the first time they have been in trouble for this. It is the first time we have heard much about it in the media.
ACORN is being investigated in over a dozen states for violating voter registration laws. In Seattle ACORN turned in over 1,800 new registrations. Upon investigation, workers admitted to making up registrations at Seattle’s downtown library. Of the 1,800, only ‘6’ were found to be legitimate.
In Las Vegas, ACORN’s offices were raided by the FBI after they registered the names of the Dallas Cowboys players. In Ohio they registered one guy 72 times. When questioned he said he was just “trying to help”!!
Obama’s campaign donated $832,000 to ACORN’s voter registration drive. Not wanting the media to discover this, the campaign did not include it in their filed report as required by law. When questioned about it, the campaign blamed the omission on a ‘clerical error’.
The terrible consequences of an Obama administration are overwhelming. We will not recognize our country after Obama finishes with it. His brand of ‘change’ is not for the better!! And ‘Hope’ is not a ‘plan’!!
http://washingtonroundup.blogspot.com/
Thursday, October 30, 2008
John McCain On National Security
A Strong Military in a Dangerous World
In a dangerous world, protecting America's national security requires a strong military. Today, America has the most capable, best-trained and best-led military force in the world. But much needs to be done to maintain our military leadership, retain our technological advantage, and ensure that America has a modern, agile military force able to meet the diverse security challenges of the 21st century.
John McCain is committed to ensuring that the men and women of our military remain the best, most capable fighting force on Earth - and that our nation honors its promises to them for their service.
The global war on terrorism, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, threats from rogue states like Iran and North Korea, and the rise of potential strategic competitors like China and Russia mean that America requires a larger and more capable military to protect our country's vital interests and deter challenges to our security. America confronts a range of serious security challenges: Protecting our homeland in an age of global terrorism and Islamist extremism; working with friends and partners overseas, from Africa to Southeast Asia, to help them combat terrorism and violent insurgencies in their own countries; defending against missile and nuclear attack; maintaining the credibility of our defense commitments to our allies; and waging difficult counterinsurgency campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq.
John McCain understands national security and the threats facing our nation. He recognizes the dangers posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, violent Islamist extremists and their terrorist tactics, and the ever present threat of regional conflict that can spill into broader wars that endanger allies and destabilize areas of the world vital to American security. He knows that to protect our homeland, our interests, and our values - and to keep the peace - America must have the best-manned, best-equipped, and best-supported military in the world.
John McCain has been a tireless advocate of our military and ensuring that our forces are properly postured, funded, and ready to meet the nation's obligations both at home and abroad. He has fought to modernize our forces, to ensure that America maintains and expands its technological edge against any potential adversary, and to see that our forces are capable and ready to undertake the variety of missions necessary to meet national security objectives.
As President, John McCain will strengthen the military, shore up our alliances, and ensure that the nation is capable of protecting the homeland, deterring potential military challenges, responding to any crisis that endangers American security, and prevailing in any conflict we are forced to fight.
Fighting Against Violent Islamic Extremists and Terrorist Tactics
The attacks on September 11th represented more than a failure of intelligence. The tragedy highlighted a failure of national policy to respond to the development of a global terror network hostile to the American people and our values. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the 2000 bombing of the USS COLE indicated a growing global terrorist threat before the attacks on New York and Washington. On the morning of September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden's declaration of war against the United States hit home with unmistakable clarity.
America faces a dedicated, focused, and intelligent foe in the war on terrorism. This enemy will probe to find America's weaknesses and strike against them. The United States cannot afford to be complacent about the threat, naive about terrorist intentions, unrealistic about their capabilities, or ignorant to our national vulnerabilities.
In the aftermath of 9/11 John McCain fought for the creation of an independent 9/11 Commission to identify how to best address the terrorist threat and decrease our domestic vulnerability. He fought for the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and the creation of the U.S. Northern Command with the specific responsibility of protecting the U.S. homeland.
As President, John McCain will ensure that America has the quality intelligence necessary to uncover plots before they take root, the resources to protect critical infrastructure and our borders against attack, and the capability to respond and recover from a terrorist incident swiftly.
He will ensure that the war against terrorists is fought intelligently, with patience and resolve, using all instruments of national power. Moreover, he will lead this fight with the understanding that to impinge on the rights of our own citizens or restrict the freedoms for which our nation stands would be to give terrorists the victory they seek.
John McCain believes that just as America must be prepared to meet and prevail against any adversary on the field of battle, we must engage and prevail against them on the battleground of ideas. In so doing, we can and must deprive terrorists of the converts they seek and counter their teaching of the doctrine of hatred and despair.
As President, John McCain will take it as his most sacred responsibility to keep America free, safe, and strong - an abiding beacon of freedom and hope to the world.
Effective Missile Defense
John McCain strongly supports the development and deployment of theater and national missile defenses. Effective missile defenses are critical to protect America from rogue regimes like North Korea that possess the capability to target America with intercontinental ballistic missiles, from outlaw states like Iran that threaten American forces and American allies with ballistic missiles, and to hedge against potential threats from possible strategic competitors like Russia and China. Effective missile defenses are also necessary to allow American military forces to operate overseas without being deterred by the threat of missile attack from a regional adversary.
John McCain is committed to deploying effective missile defenses to reduce the possibility of strategic blackmail by rogue regimes and to secure our homeland from the very real prospect of missile attack by present or future adversaries. America should never again have to live in the shadow of missile and nuclear attack. As President, John McCain will not trust in the "balance of terror" to protect America, but will work to deploy effective missile defenses to safeguard our people and our homeland.
Increasing the Size of the American Military
The most important weapons in the U.S. arsenal are the men and women of American armed forces. John McCain believes we must enlarge the size of our armed forces to meet new challenges to our security. For too long, we have asked too much of too few - with the result that many service personnel are on their second, third and even fourth tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq. There can be no higher defense priority than the proper compensation, training, and equipping of our troops.
Our existing force is overstretched by the combination of military operations in the broader Middle East and the need to maintain our security commitments in Europe and Asia. Recruitment and retention suffer from extended overseas deployments that keep service personnel away from their homes and families for long periods of time.
John McCain believes that the answer to these challenges is not to roll back our overseas commitments. The size and composition of our armed forces must be matched to our nation's defense requirements. As requirements expand in the global war on terrorism so must our Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard be reconfigured to meet these new challenges. John McCain thinks it is especially important to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps to defend against the threats we face today.
John McCain knows that the most difficult and solemn decision a president must make is sending young Americans into harm's way. Having experienced firsthand the brutality of war, as president, John McCain would never make the decision to use force lightly, only when the cause is just, and our nation's values and interests absolutely demand it.
Modernizing the Armed Services
Modernizing American armed forces involves procuring advanced weapons systems that will help rapidly and decisively defeat any adversary and protect American lives. It also requires addressing force protection needs to make sure that America's combat personnel have the best safety and survivability equipment available.
Modernizing the armed forces also means adapting our doctrine, training, and tactics for the kind of conflicts we are most likely to face. Today, American forces are engaged in dangerous operations throughout the world. From Iraq and Afghanistan to Somalia and the Philippines, American forces are fighting the battles of the 21st century against terrorists and insurgents. These asymmetric conflicts require a very different force structure than the one we used to fight and win the Cold War.
The missions of the 21st century will not center on traditional territorial defense or mass armor engagements. Instead, the men and women of the U.S. armed forces will be engaged in, among other things, counter insurgency, counter terrorism, missile defense, counter proliferation and information warfare. This calls not just for a larger and more capable military, but for a new mix of military forces, including civil affairs, special operations, and highly mobile forces capable of fighting and prevailing in the conflicts America faces.
Smarter Defense Spending
John McCain has worked aggressively to reform the defense budgeting process to ensure that America enjoys the best military at the best cost. This includes reforming defense procurement to ensure the faithful and efficient expenditure of taxpayer dollars that are made available for defense acquisition. Too often, parochial interests - rather than the national interest - have guided our spending decisions. John McCain supports significant reform in our defense acquisition process to ensure that dollars spent actually contribute to U.S. security.
John McCain also feels strongly that our nation's military spending, except in time of genuine emergency, must be funded by the regular appropriations process, not by "emergency" supplementals that allow defense to be funded outside the normal budget cycle. This process gives Congressional committees less ability to closely scrutinize defense budget requests to ensure military funding is being budgeted wisely. It makes possible Congressional pork-barrel spending that diverts scarce defense resources to parochial home-state interests. And it allows the administration to add spending above that set by budget caps, bloating the federal deficit. Budgeting annually through emergency supplemental appropriation bills encourages pork barrel spending. The American taxpayer has a right to expect us to get the most out of each and every defense dollar, especially at a time when those dollars are so critical. Throughout his career, John McCain has fought pork-barrel defense spending that diverts scarce defense resources to parochial, home-state projects rather than addressing the needs of service personnel. He believes that unauthorized earmarks drain our precious defense resources and adversely affect our national security. John McCain will continue to fight pork-barrel spending to ensure that military funds are spent where they are needed most - in support of our military personnel and our national defense.
Taking Care of Our Military Personnel and their Families
Our military personnel and their families deserve the nation's unfailing gratitude, respect, and support. As a former naval officer with a distinguished record of military service, John McCain understands the profound sacrifices made by our men and women who serve in the uniform of our country and their families.
He believes one of America's most solemn obligations is to treat our military personnel with the same sense of devotion and duty as they demonstrate in rendering their service to the nation. John McCain has fought for improved military pay and benefits, and an improved quality of life for military families.
America's deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan rely heavily on Reserve and National Guard forces. John McCain has worked hard to ensure that benefits for deployed Reservists and National Guardsmen are brought in line with our active-duty military forces.
As president, he will make sure that just as we are always proud of our military personnel for what they do for the country, the country can be proud of what we do for them.
In a dangerous world, protecting America's national security requires a strong military. Today, America has the most capable, best-trained and best-led military force in the world. But much needs to be done to maintain our military leadership, retain our technological advantage, and ensure that America has a modern, agile military force able to meet the diverse security challenges of the 21st century.
John McCain is committed to ensuring that the men and women of our military remain the best, most capable fighting force on Earth - and that our nation honors its promises to them for their service.
The global war on terrorism, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, threats from rogue states like Iran and North Korea, and the rise of potential strategic competitors like China and Russia mean that America requires a larger and more capable military to protect our country's vital interests and deter challenges to our security. America confronts a range of serious security challenges: Protecting our homeland in an age of global terrorism and Islamist extremism; working with friends and partners overseas, from Africa to Southeast Asia, to help them combat terrorism and violent insurgencies in their own countries; defending against missile and nuclear attack; maintaining the credibility of our defense commitments to our allies; and waging difficult counterinsurgency campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq.
John McCain understands national security and the threats facing our nation. He recognizes the dangers posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, violent Islamist extremists and their terrorist tactics, and the ever present threat of regional conflict that can spill into broader wars that endanger allies and destabilize areas of the world vital to American security. He knows that to protect our homeland, our interests, and our values - and to keep the peace - America must have the best-manned, best-equipped, and best-supported military in the world.
John McCain has been a tireless advocate of our military and ensuring that our forces are properly postured, funded, and ready to meet the nation's obligations both at home and abroad. He has fought to modernize our forces, to ensure that America maintains and expands its technological edge against any potential adversary, and to see that our forces are capable and ready to undertake the variety of missions necessary to meet national security objectives.
As President, John McCain will strengthen the military, shore up our alliances, and ensure that the nation is capable of protecting the homeland, deterring potential military challenges, responding to any crisis that endangers American security, and prevailing in any conflict we are forced to fight.
Fighting Against Violent Islamic Extremists and Terrorist Tactics
The attacks on September 11th represented more than a failure of intelligence. The tragedy highlighted a failure of national policy to respond to the development of a global terror network hostile to the American people and our values. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1998 attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and the 2000 bombing of the USS COLE indicated a growing global terrorist threat before the attacks on New York and Washington. On the morning of September 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden's declaration of war against the United States hit home with unmistakable clarity.
America faces a dedicated, focused, and intelligent foe in the war on terrorism. This enemy will probe to find America's weaknesses and strike against them. The United States cannot afford to be complacent about the threat, naive about terrorist intentions, unrealistic about their capabilities, or ignorant to our national vulnerabilities.
In the aftermath of 9/11 John McCain fought for the creation of an independent 9/11 Commission to identify how to best address the terrorist threat and decrease our domestic vulnerability. He fought for the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security and the creation of the U.S. Northern Command with the specific responsibility of protecting the U.S. homeland.
As President, John McCain will ensure that America has the quality intelligence necessary to uncover plots before they take root, the resources to protect critical infrastructure and our borders against attack, and the capability to respond and recover from a terrorist incident swiftly.
He will ensure that the war against terrorists is fought intelligently, with patience and resolve, using all instruments of national power. Moreover, he will lead this fight with the understanding that to impinge on the rights of our own citizens or restrict the freedoms for which our nation stands would be to give terrorists the victory they seek.
John McCain believes that just as America must be prepared to meet and prevail against any adversary on the field of battle, we must engage and prevail against them on the battleground of ideas. In so doing, we can and must deprive terrorists of the converts they seek and counter their teaching of the doctrine of hatred and despair.
As President, John McCain will take it as his most sacred responsibility to keep America free, safe, and strong - an abiding beacon of freedom and hope to the world.
Effective Missile Defense
John McCain strongly supports the development and deployment of theater and national missile defenses. Effective missile defenses are critical to protect America from rogue regimes like North Korea that possess the capability to target America with intercontinental ballistic missiles, from outlaw states like Iran that threaten American forces and American allies with ballistic missiles, and to hedge against potential threats from possible strategic competitors like Russia and China. Effective missile defenses are also necessary to allow American military forces to operate overseas without being deterred by the threat of missile attack from a regional adversary.
John McCain is committed to deploying effective missile defenses to reduce the possibility of strategic blackmail by rogue regimes and to secure our homeland from the very real prospect of missile attack by present or future adversaries. America should never again have to live in the shadow of missile and nuclear attack. As President, John McCain will not trust in the "balance of terror" to protect America, but will work to deploy effective missile defenses to safeguard our people and our homeland.
Increasing the Size of the American Military
The most important weapons in the U.S. arsenal are the men and women of American armed forces. John McCain believes we must enlarge the size of our armed forces to meet new challenges to our security. For too long, we have asked too much of too few - with the result that many service personnel are on their second, third and even fourth tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq. There can be no higher defense priority than the proper compensation, training, and equipping of our troops.
Our existing force is overstretched by the combination of military operations in the broader Middle East and the need to maintain our security commitments in Europe and Asia. Recruitment and retention suffer from extended overseas deployments that keep service personnel away from their homes and families for long periods of time.
John McCain believes that the answer to these challenges is not to roll back our overseas commitments. The size and composition of our armed forces must be matched to our nation's defense requirements. As requirements expand in the global war on terrorism so must our Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard be reconfigured to meet these new challenges. John McCain thinks it is especially important to increase the size of the Army and Marine Corps to defend against the threats we face today.
John McCain knows that the most difficult and solemn decision a president must make is sending young Americans into harm's way. Having experienced firsthand the brutality of war, as president, John McCain would never make the decision to use force lightly, only when the cause is just, and our nation's values and interests absolutely demand it.
Modernizing the Armed Services
Modernizing American armed forces involves procuring advanced weapons systems that will help rapidly and decisively defeat any adversary and protect American lives. It also requires addressing force protection needs to make sure that America's combat personnel have the best safety and survivability equipment available.
Modernizing the armed forces also means adapting our doctrine, training, and tactics for the kind of conflicts we are most likely to face. Today, American forces are engaged in dangerous operations throughout the world. From Iraq and Afghanistan to Somalia and the Philippines, American forces are fighting the battles of the 21st century against terrorists and insurgents. These asymmetric conflicts require a very different force structure than the one we used to fight and win the Cold War.
The missions of the 21st century will not center on traditional territorial defense or mass armor engagements. Instead, the men and women of the U.S. armed forces will be engaged in, among other things, counter insurgency, counter terrorism, missile defense, counter proliferation and information warfare. This calls not just for a larger and more capable military, but for a new mix of military forces, including civil affairs, special operations, and highly mobile forces capable of fighting and prevailing in the conflicts America faces.
Smarter Defense Spending
John McCain has worked aggressively to reform the defense budgeting process to ensure that America enjoys the best military at the best cost. This includes reforming defense procurement to ensure the faithful and efficient expenditure of taxpayer dollars that are made available for defense acquisition. Too often, parochial interests - rather than the national interest - have guided our spending decisions. John McCain supports significant reform in our defense acquisition process to ensure that dollars spent actually contribute to U.S. security.
John McCain also feels strongly that our nation's military spending, except in time of genuine emergency, must be funded by the regular appropriations process, not by "emergency" supplementals that allow defense to be funded outside the normal budget cycle. This process gives Congressional committees less ability to closely scrutinize defense budget requests to ensure military funding is being budgeted wisely. It makes possible Congressional pork-barrel spending that diverts scarce defense resources to parochial home-state interests. And it allows the administration to add spending above that set by budget caps, bloating the federal deficit. Budgeting annually through emergency supplemental appropriation bills encourages pork barrel spending. The American taxpayer has a right to expect us to get the most out of each and every defense dollar, especially at a time when those dollars are so critical. Throughout his career, John McCain has fought pork-barrel defense spending that diverts scarce defense resources to parochial, home-state projects rather than addressing the needs of service personnel. He believes that unauthorized earmarks drain our precious defense resources and adversely affect our national security. John McCain will continue to fight pork-barrel spending to ensure that military funds are spent where they are needed most - in support of our military personnel and our national defense.
Taking Care of Our Military Personnel and their Families
Our military personnel and their families deserve the nation's unfailing gratitude, respect, and support. As a former naval officer with a distinguished record of military service, John McCain understands the profound sacrifices made by our men and women who serve in the uniform of our country and their families.
He believes one of America's most solemn obligations is to treat our military personnel with the same sense of devotion and duty as they demonstrate in rendering their service to the nation. John McCain has fought for improved military pay and benefits, and an improved quality of life for military families.
America's deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan rely heavily on Reserve and National Guard forces. John McCain has worked hard to ensure that benefits for deployed Reservists and National Guardsmen are brought in line with our active-duty military forces.
As president, he will make sure that just as we are always proud of our military personnel for what they do for the country, the country can be proud of what we do for them.
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