What Obama said
Bensblurb # 571 9/22/10
Obama’s daddy--Followup
A while back, one of my blurbs carried stuff questioning Obama’s earlier claim in his presidential campaign that his dad was in WWII. Then the other day I repeated that material in a response on HuffPo, a few of whose loyal readers reacted with umbrage, let us say. One reactor provided the youtube reference of a Snopes rebuttal ("http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/service.asp").
Even so, Obama actually said it on camera: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv4jnlkxOaw").
I rest my case.
Another blogger, on DocZero, had this to contribute about President Obama’s assertions:
Let me put this bluntly: virtually no one in America gives a damn what Barack Obama says about anything at this point. What could be more predictable, and less interesting, than Obama's opinion on any given subject? Who wants to contemplate the economic wisdom of a guy who looted the Treasury for a trillion dollars, with less benefit than we could have achieved by stuffing hundred dollar bills into random cereal boxes?...Who wants a lecture on ethical business practices from the titular head of the party that gave us Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters? What use is another hollow foreign-policy speech from a man who sees no global adversary to rival the menace of Arizona? Even Obama's supporters don't hear anything he says any more. There's nothing left to hear.
More blather about immigration “enforcement"
“Washington's elites are once again having it their way. On Aug. 20, Immigrant and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary John Morton wrote a memo to the agency's head of removal operations, telling him that being in the U.S. illegally is no longer grounds for deportation. Only illegals who pose a security threat or have violent records need now be deported. The memo represents Barack Obama's announcement of open borders to a waiting world.,,,The agency now has also begun an ‘outreach’ program to illegals closest to eligibility for permanent status. It's coaching illegals on how to obtain the proper credentials to vote. ICE even sent a form letter to one illegal who had admitted to voting in a previous election, a felony. But ICE's priority is to get him his U.S. citizenship, not to enforce the law.
ICE workers themselves are so angry about Obama's dereliction of his duty that their union issued a membership consensus of "no confidence" in the agency's leaders...But the drug cartels, whose aim is to turn Mexico into a narco-state on our southern border, are thrilled with the new policy and have already stepped up the terrorizing of residents in Northern Mexico.”--The Patriot
Also in The Patriot:
“Speaking of the auto industry and the government, the Cash for Clunkers program has had an entirely predictable result -- prices for used cars have jumped 10 percent over last year. When people traded in their used cars on the new cars they likely would have bought anyway under the Clunkers program, the government ordered those assets destroyed rather than resold. That contraction of supply has caused price increases for those who can least afford it.” As blogger Hot Air put it, "In other words, the White House spent $3 billion to make used cars more expensive for working-class families. Nice work."
Columnist Kathleen Parker, for a change, remembers Reagan:
A new ad, produced by Citizens for the Republic, a group of organizers who identify themselves as friends and fans of Reagan..."There's mourning in America. Today, 15 million men and women won't have the opportunity to go to work. Businesses shuttered. Twenty-nine hundred families will have their homes foreclosed by nightfall. This afternoon, 6,000 men and women will be married, each of their children to be born with a $30,000 share of the runaway national debt."
To end on a positive note...
“[T]he Tea Party has moved the Democrats to the right and the Republicans even more so, and President Obama’s agenda is dead. . . . What debuted in nationwide protests on April 15, 2009, has taken less than 18 months to become the current driving force in American politics.”--The Hill
--Ben Blankenship
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Obama’s daddy--Followup
A while back, one of my blurbs carried stuff questioning Obama’s earlier claim in his presidential campaign that his dad was in WWII. Then the other day I repeated that material in a response on HuffPo, a few of whose loyal readers reacted with umbrage, let us say. One reactor provided the youtube reference of a Snopes rebuttal ("http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/service.asp").
Even so, Obama actually said it on camera: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv4jnlkxOaw").
I rest my case.
Another blogger, on DocZero, had this to contribute about President Obama’s assertions:
Let me put this bluntly: virtually no one in America gives a damn what Barack Obama says about anything at this point. What could be more predictable, and less interesting, than Obama's opinion on any given subject? Who wants to contemplate the economic wisdom of a guy who looted the Treasury for a trillion dollars, with less benefit than we could have achieved by stuffing hundred dollar bills into random cereal boxes?...Who wants a lecture on ethical business practices from the titular head of the party that gave us Charlie Rangel and Maxine Waters? What use is another hollow foreign-policy speech from a man who sees no global adversary to rival the menace of Arizona? Even Obama's supporters don't hear anything he says any more. There's nothing left to hear.
More blather about immigration “enforcement"
“Washington's elites are once again having it their way. On Aug. 20, Immigrant and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary John Morton wrote a memo to the agency's head of removal operations, telling him that being in the U.S. illegally is no longer grounds for deportation. Only illegals who pose a security threat or have violent records need now be deported. The memo represents Barack Obama's announcement of open borders to a waiting world.,,,The agency now has also begun an ‘outreach’ program to illegals closest to eligibility for permanent status. It's coaching illegals on how to obtain the proper credentials to vote. ICE even sent a form letter to one illegal who had admitted to voting in a previous election, a felony. But ICE's priority is to get him his U.S. citizenship, not to enforce the law.
ICE workers themselves are so angry about Obama's dereliction of his duty that their union issued a membership consensus of "no confidence" in the agency's leaders...But the drug cartels, whose aim is to turn Mexico into a narco-state on our southern border, are thrilled with the new policy and have already stepped up the terrorizing of residents in Northern Mexico.”--The Patriot
Also in The Patriot:
“Speaking of the auto industry and the government, the Cash for Clunkers program has had an entirely predictable result -- prices for used cars have jumped 10 percent over last year. When people traded in their used cars on the new cars they likely would have bought anyway under the Clunkers program, the government ordered those assets destroyed rather than resold. That contraction of supply has caused price increases for those who can least afford it.” As blogger Hot Air put it, "In other words, the White House spent $3 billion to make used cars more expensive for working-class families. Nice work."
Columnist Kathleen Parker, for a change, remembers Reagan:
A new ad, produced by Citizens for the Republic, a group of organizers who identify themselves as friends and fans of Reagan..."There's mourning in America. Today, 15 million men and women won't have the opportunity to go to work. Businesses shuttered. Twenty-nine hundred families will have their homes foreclosed by nightfall. This afternoon, 6,000 men and women will be married, each of their children to be born with a $30,000 share of the runaway national debt."
To end on a positive note...
“[T]he Tea Party has moved the Democrats to the right and the Republicans even more so, and President Obama’s agenda is dead. . . . What debuted in nationwide protests on April 15, 2009, has taken less than 18 months to become the current driving force in American politics.”--The Hill
--Ben Blankenship
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