Obamaland

Please visit my "other" blog today and read the article by Maureen Scott.  It's outstanding.  Dishin' It Out.

"NEWSWEEK ON OBAMA" ... FINALLY !

Despite being an author and warned that I should avoid posting my political views to avoid suffering book sales, I am first and foremost an American concerned with the direction our country is headed.  I think the following article says what needs to be said, and Americans need to get their heads out of their butts and listen.  The problem is, people think talking about their viewpoints if politically incorrect and we certainly wouldn't want to make someone stop and think.  I'm begging you...stop and think after you read this and decide if there is one word that isn't true.  :)

Better late than never 

  

Finally, Matt Patterson and Newsweek speak out about Obama. This is timely and tough. As many of you know, Newsweek has a reputation for being extremely liberal. The fact that their editor saw fit to print the following article about Obama and the one that appears in the latest Newsweek,  makes this a truly amazing event, and a news story in and of itself. At last, the truth about our President and his agenda are starting to trickle through the “protective wall” built around him by the liberal media.

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I Too Have Become Disillusioned.

By Matt Patterson (columnist – opinion writer)

Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy, direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most consequential job?

Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential life: ushered into and through the Ivy League, despite unremarkable grades and test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community organizer;" a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote "present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.

He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such a man elected president?

Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers, would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom to have hung out with protesters against various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass - held to a lower standard - because of the color of his skin.

Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to rest?

Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse of the Obama phenomenon - affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.

Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the racist policy that is affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely because of the color of his skin - that's affirmative action in a nutshell,and if that isn't racism, then nothing is.

And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois; he was told he was good enough to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary.

What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on display every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills, intellect, and cool character. Those people – conservatives included - ought now to be deeply embarrassed.

The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and that's when he has his Teleprompters in front of him; when the prompter is absent he can barely think or speak at all. Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth - it's all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that  has failed over and over again for 100 years.(An example is his 2012 campaign speeches which are almost word for word his 2008 speeches)

And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming anything and everything else for his troubles.Bush did it; it was bad luck; I inherited this mess. Remember, he wanted the job, campaigned for the task. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. (The other day he actually came out and said no one could have done anything to get our economy and country back on track.) But really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything, so how do we expect him to act responsibly?

In short: our president is a small-minded man, with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a man in the Oval Office. 

Something stinks, and it's not rotten fruit...

Taken from "Wake Up America," the following is an eye opener.  For those who don't know who George Soros is, you can find quite a bit of information on this interesting "extremly rich" man at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros

Another tidbit of information since the release of the  Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report, confirming that the IRS targeted conservative groups such as "Tea Party, Patriot and 9/12" groups, among others, delaying their applications in some cases for over two years, asking highly "inappropriate" questions and delaying their approval process, leaving them in limbo as they fast tracked liberal applications..

Liberal billionaire George Soros has reported given $6.1 million to groups and organizations that pressured IRS to target conservatives non-profits.

Via CNS News:

While the first reported instances of extra IRS scrutiny for conservative groups began in Cincinnati in March of 2010, the attacks began to gain momentum on a national level soon after Soros-funded groups began firing off letters to the IRS in October of that year - following the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.

The talking points of these groups then bounced around a carefully created progressive "echo chamber," until they eventually made their way into established media outlets. Key IRS policy changes about how it investigated conservative groups took place soon after it received three separate letters sent by Soros-funded liberal organizations.

Several Soros-funded groups including the Campaign Legal Center, Democracy 21, the Center for Public Integrity, Mother Jones and Alternet have worked to pressure the IRS to target conservative nonprofit groups. The subsequent IRS investigation flagged more than 100 tea party-related applications for higher scrutiny, including applications that included the words "Tea Party" and "patriot."

The IRS scandal can be traced back to a series of letters that the liberal groups Campaign Legal Center (CLC) and Democracy 21 sent to the IRS back in 2010 and 2011. Both groups were funded by George's Soros's Open Society Foundations. The CLC received $677,000 and Democracy 21 got $365,000 from the Soros-backed foundation, according to the Foundation's 990 tax forms.

Timeline Shows Influence of Soros-Funded Groups

• Sept. 16, 2010: TIME article "The New GOP Money Stampede" quotes Wertheimer;
• Sept. 23, 2010: DISCLOSE act, a campaign finance disclosure act specifically targeting a Tea Party group, in the writing of which the CLC participated, fails in the Senate;
• Sept. 28, 2010: Democrat Senator Max Baucus writes a letter to the IRS, citing the TIME article;
• Oct. 5, 2010: Democracy 21 and Campaign Legal Center petition IRS, Wertheimer writes HuffPo article;
• Oct. 7, 2010: Legal brief from HoltzmanVogel PLLC against the Democracy 21 petition;
• Oct. 14, 2010: Dick Durbin asks IRS to investigate American Crossroads, HuffPo coverage;
• June 27, 2011: Second petition to the IRS by CLC and Democracy 21;
• June 29, 2011: IRS senior agency official Lois Lerner briefed on efforts to target groups which "criticize how the country is being run";
• Sept. 28, 2011: CLC and Democracy 21 petition IRS again, this time about four conservative groups;
• Oct. 31, 2011: CPI "investigation";
• Nov. 18, 2011: Mother Jones article;
• Nov. 21, 2011: Alternet repost of Mother Jones Article;
• Dec. 29, 2011: New York Times oped;
• Jan. 15, 2012: IRS targeted groups focusing on limiting government or educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights;
• February 2012: First articles promoting this issue appear in New York Times, Washington Post and LA Times

$6.1 Million in Soros Funding Since 2000

Center for Public Integrity: $2,716,328

Campaign Legal Center: $677,000

Media Consortium: $675,000

Mother Jones: $485,000

Democracy 21: $365,000

ProPublica: $300,000

Alternet: $285,000

Human Rights Campaign: $600,000

There was a concentrated effort on the part of liberals to deliberately target conservative groups, Romney donors, pro-Israel groups and others and with each new revelation, the scandal becomes much bigger and far worse.

Sharing a Recent Post from my other Blog

I took a risk and put this on my 'author's' blog.  Usually when I mention anything political, I lose readers, but in this case, I didn't.  Strange...a few years back, a woman I considered a very close friend wrote me off because I said something negative about Obama when he was first running for office.  She saw him as the second coming of Lord, I suppose.  A true friend wouldn't care if we didn't agree on everything, so I guess I didn't really lose anything, did I?

Ginger is Wearing a Different Hat Today!

I'm an author, but today I'm stepping away from the world of fiction writing where I can sweep myself away to a different era, civilization, and a place where everything has a happily-ever-after and addressing what has happened to the population's voice when it comes to government.  I want changes, but I have no idea how to initiate them.  I wonder why so many take the time to write scathing reviews about fictional works on Amazon, but when it comes to what's really important in life, no one seems to find the time or a way to speak out.

Rumors of siphoning money from Medicare trust to pay for Obamacare ran rampant during the campaign between the President and Romney.  Who knows if that's true, but it made me wonder why Bernie Madoff went to prison for Ponzie scheming people out of millions when, if the rumor is true, what makes a difference between Bernie's actions and the Government infringing on money we've paid for through our jobs all these years?  Even more, I wonder if government officials would be so quick to initiate Obamacare if they had to "endure" it. Aren't they Americans?  Why are they exempt from something they can vote into our futures?  My insurance increased this year, my coverage decreased, and my drug costs went up, too.  When I asked my doctor about the future of the medical profession, he wasn't able to offer any assurance that things would improve...in fact doctors are leaving the profession and a shortage is sure to occur. I honestly don't want the government determining my health care needs.

What bothers me more is that I cannot figure out why we continue to re-elect the same stale politicians when what we want is hope and CHANGE.  We at least have the good sense to allow two terms for the Commander-In-Chief, yet we continue to send back old-timers who are more interested in taking a side than considering the issues at hand.  That line dividing our country (GOP/DEM) is killing us.  Why don't we have term limits instead of electing people to a career position where they continue to pad their pockets and vote themselves raises.  Did you know they recently received one?  Did you?  Only one member, and he happened to be a Republican, refused a raise during a time when most Americans are struggling to get by day-to-day.  Now that's what I call noble.  It's time to do away with party lines and become ONE NATION, indivisible, under GOD with liberty and justice for all!

Here's a list I got from the Internet that lists how long people have been in Office.  I got it from Wikipedia, so I can only assume it's accurate although somewhat dated since I know some of the people listed have since died.  No doubt, had they not passed, they would still be serving.  I recall seeing Strom Thurmond carried in on a stretcher in order to cast a vote.

HOUSE AND SENATE TIME

Total tenure rank	Uninterrupted rank	Name	Party affiliation	Total tenure time	Uninterrupted time
1	1	Robert Byrd(H,S)	Democratic Party	57 years, 176 days	57 years, 176 days
2	2	John Dingell(H)	Democratic Party	57 years, 22 days	57 years, 22 days
3	3	Carl Hayden(H,S)	Democratic Party	56 years, 319 days	56 years, 319 days
4	4	Daniel Inouye(H,S)	Democratic Party	53 years, 118 days	53 years, 118 days
5	5	Jamie L. Whitten (H)	Democratic Party	53 years, 60 days	53 years, 60 days
6	6	Carl Vinson(H)	Democratic Party	50 years, 61 days	50 years, 61 days
7	7	Emanuel Celler (H)	Democratic Party	49 years, 305 days	49 years, 305 days
8	8	Sam Rayburn(H)	Democratic Party	48 years, 257 days	48 years, 257 days
9	9	John Conyers(H)	Democratic Party	48 years, 1 day	48 years, 1 day
10		Sidney R. Yates (H,I)	Democratic Party	48 years, 0 days	n/a
11	12	Strom Thurmond(S,I)	Republican Party	47 years, 159 days	46 years, 57 days
12	10	Wright Patman(H)	Democratic Party	47 years, 3 days	47 years, 3 days
13	11	Ted Kennedy(S)	Democratic Party	46 years, 292 days	46 years, 292 days
14		Joseph Gurney Cannon (H,I)	Republican Party	46 years, 0 days	n/a
15	13	Adolph J. Sabath (H)	Democratic Party	45 years, 247 days	45 years, 247 days
16	14	J. Lister Hill(H,S)	Democratic Party	45 years, 142 days	45 years, 142 days
17	15	George H. Mahon (H)	Democratic Party	44 years, 0 days	44 years, 0 days
18	16	Warren Magnuson(H,S)	Democratic Party	44 years, 0 days	44 years, 0 days
19	17	Charles Edward Bennett (H)	Democratic Party	44 years, 0 days	44 years, 0 days
20	18	Justin Smith Morrill (H,S)	Republican Party	43 years, 299 days	43 years, 299 days
21		William B. Allison (H,S,I)	Republican Party	43 years, 152 days	n/a
22	19	Charles Melvin Price(H)	Democratic Party	43 years, 110 days	43 years, 110 days
23	20	Henry M. Jackson (H,S)	Democratic Party	42 years, 241 days	42 years, 241 days
24		Carter Glass(H,S,I)	Democratic Party	42 years, 157 days	n/a
25	21	John William McCormack(H)	Democratic Party	42 years, 58 days	42 years, 58 days
26	22	Charles B. Rangel (H)	Democratic Party	42 years, 1 day	42 years, 1 day
27	23	Bill Young (H)	Republican Party	42 years, 1 day	42 years, 1 day
28	24	John Sparkman(H,S)	Democratic Party	42 years, 0 days	42 years, 0 days
29	25	William R. Poage (H)	Democratic Party	42 years, 0 days	42 years, 0 days
30	26	Jack Brooks(H)	Democratic Party	42 years, 0 days	42 years, 0 days
31	27	Robert L. Doughton (H)	Democratic Party	41 years, 305 days	41 years, 305 days
32	28	Joseph William Martin, Jr. (H)	Republican Party	41 years, 305 days	41 years, 305 days
33	29	Dave Obey(H)	Democratic Party	41 years, 276 days	41 years, 276 days
34	30	Clarence Cannon (H)	Democratic Party	41 years, 69 days	41 years, 69 days
35	31	John C. Stennis (S)	Democratic Party	41 years, 59 days	41 years, 59 days
36	32	Kenneth McKellar (H,S)	Democratic Party	41 years, 30 days	41 years, 30 days
37	33	William Huston Natcher (H)	Democratic Party	40 years, 240 days	40 years, 240 days
38		Claude Pepper (H,S,I)	Democratic Party	40 years, 207 days	n/a
39	34	William P. Frye (H,S)	Republican Party	40 years, 157 days	40 years, 157 days
40	35	Ted Stevens(S)	Republican Party	40 years, 10 days	40 years, 10 days
41	36	Thad Cochran(H,S)	Republican Party	40 years, 1 day	40 years, 1 day
42	37	Carl Curtis(H,S)	Republican Party	40 years, 0 days	40 years, 0 days
43	38	Peter W. Rodino (H)	Democratic Party	40 years, 0 days	40 years, 0 days
44	39	Pete Stark (H)	Democratic Party	40 years, 0 days	40 years, 0 days
45		Jennings Randolph(H,S,I)	Democratic Party	39 years, 364 days	n/a
46		Eugene Hale(H,S,I)	Republican Party	39 years, 363 days	n/a
47	40	Leslie C. Arends (H)	Republican Party	39 years, 362 days	39 years, 362 days
48	41	Daniel A. Reed (H)	Republican Party	39 years, 352 days	39 years, 352 days
49	42	George William Norris(H,S)	Republican Party	39 years, 305 days	39 years, 305 days
50	43	John Taber(H)	Republican Party	39 years, 305 days	39 years, 305 days
51	44	William M. Colmer (H)	Democratic Party	39 years, 305 days	39 years, 305 days
52	45	Don Young(H)	Republican Party	39 years, 304 days	39 years, 304 days
53		Samuel Smith(H,S,I)	Democratic Party	39 years, 9 days	n/a
54		John Little McClellan(H,S,I)	Democratic Party	38 years, 329 days	n/a
55	46	Morris Sheppard(H,S)	Democratic Party	38 years, 145 days	38 years, 145 days
56	47	Ernest Hollings (S)	Democratic Party	38 years, 55 days	38 years, 55 days
57	48	Richard Russell, Jr.(S)	Democratic Party	38 years, 9 days	38 years, 9 days
58		John Sherman(H,S,I)	Republican Party	38 years, 4 days	n/a
59	49	Russell B. Long (S)	Democratic Party	38 years, 3 days	38 years, 3 days
60	50	Patrick Leahy(S)	Democratic Party	38 years, 1 day	38 years, 1 day
61	51	Max Baucus(H,S)	Democratic Party	38 years, 1 day	38 years, 1 day
62	52	Chuck Grassley(H,S)	Republican Party	38 years, 1 day	38 years, 1 day
63	53	Tom Harkin(H,S)	Democratic Party	38 years, 1 day	38 years, 1 day
64	54	George Miller(H)	Democratic Party	38 years, 1 day	38 years, 1 day
65	55	Henry Waxman (H)	Democratic Party	38 years, 1 day	38 years, 1 day
66	56	Frederick H. Gillett (H,S)	Republican Party	38 years, 0 days	38 years, 0 days
67	57	Wilbur Mills(H)	Democratic Party	38 years, 0 days	38 years, 0 days
68	58	Dante Fascell(H)	Democratic Party	38 years, 0 days	38 years, 0 days
69	59	Robert H. Michel (H)	Republican Party	38 years, 0 days	38 years, 0 days
70		Robert Crosser (H,I)	Democratic Party	37 years, 305 days	n/a
71		Robert L. F. Sikes (H,I)	Democratic Party	37 years, 290 days	n/a
72	60	Nathaniel Macon (H,S)	Democratic-Republican Party	37 years, 255 days	37 years, 255 days
73	61	Henry Cabot Lodge (H,S)	Republican Party	37 years, 250 days	37 years, 250 days
74		Alben W. Barkley(H,S,I)	Democratic Party	37 years, 74 days	n/a
75	62	Henry B. Gonzalez (H)	Democratic Party	37 years, 60 days	37 years, 60 days
76		Francis E. Warren (S,I)	Republican Party	37 years, 6 days	n/a
77		James Eastland (S,I)	Democratic Party	36 years, 83 days	n/a
78	63	Ed Markey (H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 63 days	36 years, 63 days
79	64	Joe Biden (S)	Democratic Party	36 years, 12 days	36 years, 12 days
80	65	John Murtha(H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 3 days	36 years, 3 days
81	66	Orrin Hatch(S)	Republican Party	36 years, 1 day	36 years, 1 day
82	67	Barbara Mikulski (H,S)	Democratic Party	36 years, 1 day	36 years, 1 day
83	68	Nick Rahall(H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 1 day	36 years, 1 day
84	69	Henry L. Dawes (H,S)	Republican Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
85	70	Felix Edward Hébert (H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
86	71	Edward Boland (H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
87	72	William Broomfield (H)	Republican Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
88	73	Dan Rostenkowski(H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
89	74	Neal Edward Smith (H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
90	75	Claiborne Pell(S)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
91	76	Joseph McDade (H)	Republican Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
92	77	Paul Sarbanes(H,S)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
93	78	Pete Domenici(S)	Republican Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
94	79	Ralph Regula(H)	Republican Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
95	80	Christopher Dodd (H,S)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
96	81	James Oberstar (H)	Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
97	79	Richard Lugar(S)	Republican Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
98	80	Daniel Akaka(H,S)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
99	81	Norman D. Dicks (H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
100	82	Dale Kildee(H)	Democratic Party	36 years, 0 days	36 years, 0 days
101		Shelby M. Cullom (H,S,I)	Republican Party	36 years, 0 days	n/a
102		Henry A. Cooper (H,I)

Just in case you're interested, you might want to check out this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_living_United_States_Senator and note which are still serving.

Here's proof that some people just never go away:

http://www.mynews3.com/content/news/local/story/Reids-tenure-in-Congress-now-states-longest/Ih-qKmcvWECLZ_mpsePcjA.cspx?rss=3269

California and Nevada are two of the most financially devastated states and when it came time to vote, they put the same politicians right back into office.  Does that make sense to anyone?  I am neither Democrat or Republican....I chose candidates personally, not by a party affiliation.  It's time to speak out, and this is my opportunity to do so and I took it.

Remember, the content reflects my opinions, and according to the constitution, at least for now, I'm still entitled to have a few.  I'm putting away my soapbox and getting back to doing what I enjoy most...writing novels.  There I can forget reality.

IF ONLY...

If we could amass a crowd like those waiting for the announcement of a new Pope, maybe we could do something about the mess in Washington.  I'm not comparing the importance of the Pope to the Catholic people to our President, but since I don't share their faith, I was more focused on the thousands waiting in the rain to see white smoke.

I guess the after-life is more important to some than the here-and-now.  God gave us brains so we could handle somethings ourselves and not drop everything in his lap.  Why can't we amass a crowd like this to protest the undermining of our constitution?  If only we could.

On second thought....I think President Obama anticipates something given the government's purchase of 1.6 billions rounds of ammunition and armored vehicles for use here in the US.

I Think We've Found Obama's Voters

Honestly...these people are entitled to vote and they are totally clueless.  Maybe we should have a minor exam prior to heading for the voting machines.  This is total BS.

Can't Stop Myself...