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Aug 13, 2012 17:03:41 GMT -5
Post by gunsey2u on Aug 13, 2012 17:03:41 GMT -5
I really don't think matters or issues will be better under the R/R combination. The current leadership, if you can call it that, needs to go on out and that only leaves us with the R's. No one is challenging Obama from the left. I have serious misgivings about a president and his co-horts that flat out refused to discuss his plans for healthcare and we still don't know the gravity of its impact yet. Everything is wait-and-see from the left like if we know beforehand we won't like it. Yet, the left is demanding transparency fromthe right. absolutely crazy. There is too much serious business on their plates to be playing their little silly games.
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Aug 13, 2012 18:16:59 GMT -5
Post by Jack Frost on Aug 13, 2012 18:16:59 GMT -5
I agree with you, the left is wacko. But, so are the mainstream Republicans (bought and paid for by giant international globalist corporations with absolutely NO loyalty to ANY country). Bush pushed through the unconstitutional "Patriot" Act, and their leadership didn't even allow the congressmen to read it. Then the hypocrites point fingers at Obama and Democratic leaders for doing the exact same thing. And warrentless wiretapping of United States citizens!! We're talking all three branches were controlled by the Republicans, and they did more to throw away constitutional rights than any administration since Lincoln! And "Executive Orders" are NOT found in the Constitution, I don't care which Party has the power!
I'm not defending Obama, I'm just an equal-opportunity critic.
On purely economic matters (if that is all that matters), Romney will probably do better than Obama of creating the short term illusion of prosperity and "recovery." But as an avowed agrarian, I wholeheartedly believe industrial based prosperity is only an illusion, and is not sustainable over the long term. On constitutional matters, I believe it makes no difference which of the nominees wins the POTUS seat - they are both anti-constitutional.
I don't like being pessimistic, but it seems to come naturally these days.
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Aug 13, 2012 18:34:42 GMT -5
Post by Jack Frost on Aug 13, 2012 18:34:42 GMT -5
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Aug 14, 2012 2:06:40 GMT -5
Post by gunsey2u on Aug 14, 2012 2:06:40 GMT -5
The major qualification to be President or Vice President, in my opinion, is whether or not the person will uphold the Constitution of the United States, as they swear to do. The first thing on my list (he supported the "Patriot" Act), tells me that Paul Ryan does NOT uphold the Constitution. Neither do 99% of the other fools "representing" us. Sad but true. The lessor of two evils is still evil. I truly am afraid that we live in a nation of idiots, who would give up freedom for security. I agree with you on keeping Constitutional rights ever before us as it's a certain kind of security that keeps us in check if we are paying attention to them. Time must be getting short before the great demise of our world as we know it for some of the events that have come to pass. I may sound pregudiced but I can't accept this society's version of "inclusiveness" for all people. I am talking about the muslim community and their Sharia Law. They are unlike any other people that I can name as far as their idealogy and the fact that they are aggressive and want to dominate all of the world with their beliefs which are anti-God. I try to be a Christian and I know that they are enemies of God, yet our government is pushing us towards them and too freely accept their premise of being a peace-loving people. Heck, they all read the Koran, you can bet your sweet potuttie on that and the Koran is what they all abide by. There are other social concepts that I don't agree with which make me even more seemingly pregudiced but so be it. You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything. On some of these issues I'll just have to stand accused and still be on the right side.
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Aug 16, 2012 19:26:47 GMT -5
Post by elephant on Aug 16, 2012 19:26:47 GMT -5
Interesting article - www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/16/how-became-george-obama-brother/How I became George Obama's 'brother'
By Dinesh D'SouzaPublished August 16, 2012
A few days ago I received a call from a man I recently met named George. He was a bit flustered, and soon informed me that his young son was sick with a chest condition. He pleaded with me to send him $1,000 to cover the medical bills. Since George was at the hospital I asked him to let me speak to a nurse, and she confirmed that George’s son was indeed ill. So I agreed to send George the money through Western Union. He was profusely grateful. But before I hung up I asked George, “Why are you coming to me?” He said, “I have no one else to ask.” Then he said something that astounded me, “Dinesh, you are like a brother to me.”
Actually, George has a real life brother who just happens to be the president of the United States. (George Obama is the youngest of eight children sired by Barack Obama Sr.) George’s brother is a multimillionaire and the most powerful man in the world. Moreover, George’s brother has framed his re-election campaign around the “fair share” theme that we owe obligations to those who are less fortunate.
One of Obama’s favorite phrases comes right out of the Bible: “We are our brother’s keeper.” Yet he has not contributed a penny to help his own brother. And evidently George does not believe, even in times of emergency, that he can turn to his brother in the White House for help.
So much for spreading the wealth around.
Obama’s refusal to help George is especially surprising because George doesn’t just live in American-style poverty but rather in Third World poverty. He lives in a shanty in the Huruma slum in Nairobi. He gets by on a few dollars a month. Obama also has an aunt named Hawa Auma, his father’s sister, who ekes out a living selling coal on the streets of a small village in Kenya. She says she would like to have her teeth fixed, but she cannot afford it. Obama hasn’t offered to help her either.
What’s going on here? Why is President Obama so hesitant to help family members in need?
A couple of years ago, George teamed up with a British journalist Damien Lewis and the two of them published George’s story in a book called "Homeland." Yet according to Lewis, shortly before the book’s publication in America, the publisher Simon & Schuster decided to shred the entire print run, more than 20,000 copies. Lewis tried unsuccessfully to get an explanation from Simon & Schuster but to no avail. He now suspects that the White House convinced Simon & Schuster that George’s story might prove embarrassing to the president.
In 2010, George also applied for a visa to come to the United States and was refused. While George confesses that in his younger years he was a delinquent, he has never been convicted of any crime. Moreover, he has a very good reason to visit the United States: his mother Jael Otieno lives in Atlanta. So why would the U. S. embassy in Nairobi refuse a tourist visa to the brother of the president who just wants to spend time with his mother?
In the past few days, an article has been circulating on the web that depicts George as a social undesirable. First published in the London Daily Mail, the article portrays George as a habitual drunk and philanderer. I spent a day with George this past February while interviewing him for my documentary film 2016: Obama’s America. I can attest that George is not an innocent. If he had been, he would not have survived life in the Huruma slum. Yes, George is street smart and cunning and I did smell alcohol on his breath.
But so what? George may be a drinker and a skirt-chaser but, as becomes clear from his book, he is also a survivor. He has overcome his past as a gang-member and petty thief and now works as the organizer of a slum soccer league. He is trying to uplift himself, and he is trying to help slum kids aspire to a better life. On balance, Lewis assures me, “George is not a bad guy. He is on the side of the angels.”
But even if Lewis is wrong, and George exhibits some harmful cultural pathologies, the liberal argument—one that Obama himself makes in his book "The Audacity of Hope" — is that the cultural pathologies of the poor are themselves the product of social disadvantage.
Barack Obama Jr. first met George in 1987, when George was five years old. He met George again in 2006 when he visited Kenya as a U.S. Senator from Illinois; George was then in his early twenties. Had Obama helped George along the way, perhaps this young man would not have ended up dirt-poor and living such a degraded life.
So what’s the real story here? Where’s George Obama’s “fair share”? George’s tragic situation exposes President Obama as a hypocrite. Here is a man who demands that others pay higher taxes to help the poor—even poor people who are not related to them—while Obama himself refuses to help a close relative like George.
Yet I believe there is a deeper explanation that goes beyond hypocrisy for why Obama wants nothing to do with George. After all, it would cost Obama so little to raise George out of poverty, and yet he won’t do it. This isn’t mere negligence; it suggests an active animus. The reason for that animus emerges in George’s book and also in my interview with George in the film 2016. In that interview, George rejects the anti-colonial philosophy that was espoused by Barack Obama Sr. This is the “dream from my father” that President Obama celebrates in his own autobiography.
From the record of their lives and writings, it’s clear that Barack Obama Sr. and Barack Obama Jr. both share the anti-colonial view that blames Western colonial exploitation for the poverty and suffering of the Third World. Yet George doesn’t buy it. He observes that at the time of its independence in the early 1960s “Kenya was on an economic par with Malaysia or Singapore. Look where we are now, and where they are. They’re practically developed and industrialized, while Kenya is still a basket case.” George believes that poor countries should take responsibility for their own situation. “What’s our excuse for failure? We don’t have one. We’ve only got ourselves to blame.”
Incredible though it seems, George Obama is, within the context of his own society, a conservative. He doesn’t worship at the shrine of Barack Obama Sr. and he espouses an ideology diametrically opposed to that of his father and his famous brother. George has experienced first-hand the empty rhetoric of the two Baracks, and he rejects it based on his actual experience of Third World poverty.
No wonder President Obama despises George, doesn’t want him around, doesn’t care to hear George’s views circulated in America, and won’t lift a finger to help him even when George’s son is in the hospital.
So that’s why George Obama felt he had to call me. He had no one else to call. He reached out to me in his time of need because he felt he couldn’t call on his real life sibling living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
That’s how I got to be, if only metaphorically and for a short time, George Obama’s “brother.”
Dinesh D’Souza, narrator and co-director of the film "2016 - Obama's America," is also the author of the new book "Obama’s America," published this week by Regnery.
Read more: www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/16/how-became-george-obama-brother/#ixzz23l5fA28y
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Aug 22, 2012 22:49:10 GMT -5
Post by gunsey2u on Aug 22, 2012 22:49:10 GMT -5
Ele, We saw the movie 2016 in Greenville last Saturday. This brother was interviewed and excerpts were in the movie about him. Great documentary if you find time to go see it. it will be on DVD in late October. Everyone should watch it. A good read is the bokk entitled "The Amateur"...Describes, just like the movie 2106, the dream Obama had about his father who supposedly came to him in a dream and this has influenced him in his decision making. Well, e all know what flavor his decisions have been. He and his father were alike in their world view and political views. both are anti-colonial,meaning they don't like the very rich and want to make all people everywhere to be even as far as their lives are lived, their jobs, their pay. Yet he won't help his own brother.
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Aug 25, 2012 14:39:25 GMT -5
Post by elephant on Aug 25, 2012 14:39:25 GMT -5
Guns - my 15 year old & I went to see the movie today - just got back. Really glad I saw it in the theater instead of waiting to rent as I am sure I would not have sat through more than 15 minutes of it.
I kpet wondering what my daughter thought of it - it really started slow - wish he'd had more of the later and less of the earlier - oh well. I think she enjoyed it/found it more interesting than I did - and it was interesting that she sort of assumed things like Bill Ayers weren't really true - "how could such a person not be in jail" She was also shocked by the kids singing the Obama song at the end - guess since she was 11 at the time of the last election she didn't remember this - interesting.
I'd say it was worth seeing - but I didn't learn a lot - but I guess I am pretty well informed. I am not one who generally watches documentaries so I can't compare to those.
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Aug 26, 2012 22:46:02 GMT -5
Post by gunsey2u on Aug 26, 2012 22:46:02 GMT -5
The only thing I was least informed on was the story about his brother. If anyone ever reads forums and some news sources, it's a pretty good indicator that most of what we have heard thru these sources is typical of the "OBama Magic". LOL That book, "The Amateur" is about the same as to its content. The most difficult thing that i have a problem about is the interviews with people like Caroline Kennedy and Oprah. Both were to have said that they were both insulted by the Obama clan but were STILL going to support him (Straight party ticket). Now that's just plain stupid.
My take on the movie is that some people, mainly older people rely on news from our biased news sources and sadly will vote due to what the news has to say about the candidates. This movie and several books by highly creditable sources at least gives people with limited knowlege and access to the most comprehensive sources a choice so that they can be better informed when they make their choices in Nov.
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Aug 30, 2012 13:43:56 GMT -5
Post by Jack Frost on Aug 30, 2012 13:43:56 GMT -5
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Oct 1, 2012 18:14:34 GMT -5
Post by Jack Frost on Oct 1, 2012 18:14:34 GMT -5
The countdown to the election has begun, and I must confess, I'm so sickened by the nominees that I'm not even keeping up with the news this time. I do know (from reading Drudge Report) that the polls have Obama slightly ahead for the most part.
It's almost like having to either choose between Rapist A or Rapist B, Rapist B being the better looking of the two...
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