Is Team Obama telling the Truth about Whether Romney would have Killed Bin Laden

Obama gave the command to kill Bin Laden. I think that was the right choice. I think he deserves credit for it. Now this ad is still decieving at best. Below Mitt Romney makes it clear what he would have done. 

 

The ad put together by team Obama is not bad, it is well put together, and likely affective.  The problem is that it is mendacious.  The president does not want to talk about his dismal record, so he has to focus the conversation of things that do not make a difference.  Honestly, does anybody really believe John McCain would not have sent in Seal team Six to take Bin Laden out, or at least blew the building up?

Obama and his team are trying to focus on what Romney had said in 2007, noting that he stated:

What Obama should Run in his Election Ad's

I seen this on you tube and thought I should share it. If the president wanted to run a truthful ad this cycle, it would be something like this, not fictional statements said by Mitt Romney.  

Too Ron Paul Supporters

Hello, Paul supporters, I just wanted to take a moment to talk for a second.  You know that Paul will not be the nominee, right.  Yea, I know, the convention is in August, and you really still believe that Paul still has a chance to get delegates to come over and make him the nominee. I do not blame you, I did not really want Romney to be the nominee either.  But, he is going to be the nominee. I get it, the corporate media wanted this to be a Romney and Obama election.  I get it, it ticks me off too, but this is not a biggest problem we have in this country right now. President Obama is going to come unhinged if he is reelected.  We cannot afford another four more years of this president.

The people in the video above said Romney and Obama are the same, and they should know better. These two people are running on a different agenda, and a President Romney is not going to go against a Republican controlled Congress to start passing the left wing agenda. Lets just get real for a moment.

You have a choice to make, when it comes time to vote this November, you can do one of four things.

Vote for Obama - which is just silly if you are a Paul supporter.

Stay Home - which is your right, and is better than voting for Obama.

You could vote for Paul as a write in, which is about the same as staying home, you would be casting that vote to make yourself feel better, not to elect Paul, he will not be president come 2013.

You can vote for Romney - which will help him win. He is not Paul, but do not buy the garbage people are selling, he is not Obama either. He will get you closer to where you want to go than Obama will with his central government run everything.

This is your choice, and I respect you making the one you feel is right, but at least think about what it means for the country.  Paul will not be the nominee.

Fehrnstrom, the Street Fighter is Ready to Rumble

Yesterday over at GQ Magazine online, Jason Zengerle has a piece about Mitt Romney’s  “spokesman" or a " strategist" depending on who you ask, Eric Fehrnstrom, and I can tell you two things about the piece, it is long, and it is informative.  I cannot tell you if the piece is fair, because I know very little about Fehrnstrom, but two paragraphs really interested me. 

Fehrnstrom, 50, is both the wise man and the hothead. He wears the uniform of the modern political consultant—iPad tucked in the crook of his arm, open-collared shirt, rectangular-framed glasses—but his fleshy face and thick New England accent betray a rougher core.  And far from reining in Romney, he performs the opposite service for his client: Fehrnstrom toughens him up.  "Eric gives Mitt a capability that Mitt doesn't have," says Ben Coes, Romney's campaign manager in 2002.  "It's a streetwise savvy; it's an on-the-ground Boston-smarts mentality; it's a back-alley-politics, survival-of-the-fittest point of view.  Mitt is not a knife fighter.  Eric is a knife fighter."  The best political operatives are the ones who provide their clients with a tangible quality the candidate himself lacks.  If Karl Rove was Bush's brain, then Fehrnstrom is Romney's balls.  (Emphasis is mine)

In the above video you can get a taste of what Zengerle is talking about, in fact he does mention this video in his piece.

With Race Issues Flaring up, where are All the Leaders in this Country

 Second video with the update provided by Glenn Beck.

 

A Man was beaten by multiple people" armed with chairs, pipes and paint cans after asking kids to stop playing basketball at 8:30.  His name is Mathew Owens, and it appeared that he just wanted to get some sleep before he had to work the next day.  If you watch the above video of Glenn Beck explaining what happened, you may get a sick feeling in your stomach.  

The worst part about the whole thing is I have not seen one story in the media about this yet, and when you type Mathew Owens into the Google search engine, you will only find one story from a local news source on the front page.  “That’s justice for Trayvon” was uttered by one of those who were doing the beating.

There are some various reports on what happened that night, but some of the things that are not in dispute are that the man was beat by a mob of people, and one of them screamed that this was justice for Trayvon.  The people involved are claiming that Owens had chased their kids away with a butcher knife, but either way, that should not warrant being put into ICU.

One of the mothers who live on the street said this:

“Every single day it's a problem with Mr. Owens concerning our kids," Lemica Whisenhunt.  "All these kids do is shoot basketball. We keep 'em in the yard.  They don't bother anybody.  We'd rather them play basketball than to be around here vandalizing, breaking into people's homes. We try to bring our kids up the right way and show people that all black kids are not bad."

I am not sure if she gets the irony of her statement, because I am not sure mobbing up and beating someone half to death is the right way to raise your kids.

The second story Beck tells you about of a few young men who had decided to take their frustration over the killing of Trayvon Martin out on some innocent man.  I wonder if this was Justice for Trayvon, or just an excuse to beat the heck out of some white people.

Beck also talks about the young white man that was set on fire by a couple of young black males. The Huffington Post reported that the young men said:

"One of them poured the gasoline, then flicked the [lighter], and said, 'This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy.”

Authorities in that case said this:

“ the two suspects are about 16 years old with facial hair. One was wearing a black hooded-sweatshirt and dark sunglasses.  The other wore a blue jacket, a blue winter hat and blue-green Nike Air Jordan sneakers.”

All this is a problem, and it shows that racism comes from all angles.  The kid that was set on fire happened before the Trayvon Martin thing hit the news cycles, so it is doubtful that it had anything to do with this case.

How the Republican Reign of Terror is Saving Tax Payers Money

Toby over at www.tobytoons.com is killing it with his cartoons. If you have not been there yet, do yourself a favor go now. The toons are always good for a good laugh.  I opened this one yesterday and simply loved.     You cannot tell me this does not hit the proverbial nail right on the head.  Democrats are really good fodder for these toons, and I do not think many do it better than this. I hope you all enjoy this. 

I was going to write a post to explain what was in the cartoon in more detail, but like always, there really does not need to be anything added to this, the cartoon says it all.  I am so thankful for the helmet. Now hopefully we can take the ball from the Democrats, we really should get this done, they have continued to fumble the thing.

Should we be Worried about the Future of Combat, coming to a Game Console near you

The word is that this little weapon in the above video may be in the next Call of Duty video game that will be announced during the NBA playoffs in may. That is cool, but not as cool as our soldiers having something this capable in combat now.  The military is no doubt going to be moving to more and more drones in order to keep people safe.  The only problem with this is that apparently we are not the only ones who like this stuff. The guy in the above video is Russian, and I am sure they are working just as diligently as us on perfecting the future of warfare.  The big difference being that our government does not sell these weapons to terrorist who are bent on destroying the United States and Israel.


One has to wonder, with all these games using real military men in their games, as well as real fighting techniques, should we be worried that we are giving to much information to the enemy. Or can we safely assume that if the military is green lighting these projects that we have additional tech, and this is what we want our enemies to think we have.  I play these game all the time, and I love them. However, they are becoming closer and closer to looking like the real think every year.  One has to wonder, at some point, are our enemies bound to pick up these games and gather ideas.  Imagine terrorist with flying drones ready to attack targets from a distance.       

Ted Cruz: Fighting for Our Future

Magna Carta is any fundamental constitution or law guaranteeing the rights and liberties for the people.  This is what these words mean now, but in 1215, England, the Magna Carta (also known as the Magna Charta or the Great Charter) was created to check the power of King John.  This document makes up part of the ancestry to our own constitution.  Magna Carta was the first document compelled onto an English King by a group of his subjects.  Our founders understood the power of kings should never again reach the America they had just fought so bravely for.

 Freedom, liberty, and justice.  We have very few people in elected office/ or running for office, that have fought as hard for these principles as Ted Cruz from Texas.  

    

Time is running out, if you have yet to drop the fake (Dewhurst), and join the real (Cruz), you still have time.  The more I read about Dewhurst, the more I cannot understand how he managed so stay in power in Texas for as long as he has.  I cannot stress enough that we need Ted Cruz in the U.S. Senate.

Recently Cruz has slammed Dewhurst for presiding over new spending between legislative sessions.  He brought to light the fact that state budget writers had started to use accounting tricks at an increased rate.  The two-year budget shortfall was closed by underfunding Medicare, which they will just have to come back a plug with an emergency spending bill.  

  

Team Cruz is doing a good job pointing at these budget gimmicks as reason not to send more of the same to Washington.

Team Cruz is rightfully pointing out that Dewhurst appointed 32 Democrat committee chairs and worked with liberals to kill conservative legislation. The San Antonio Express-News made the point that Dewhurst could have silenced Texas Senate Democrats by refusing to recognize them, but that is not what he did.  Let us remember, U.S. Senators get to confirm judges, do we want someone who is known to appoint liberals, or someone we are confident will appoint conservative constitutionalist judges.

Team Cruz is quick to point out that Dewhurst has proceeded to help those same people he appointed to increase spending by $72 billion.  Now everyone has a record, and sometimes we just have to elect people we do not want to, however this is not one of those times.  In this race, people have a choice.  They can elect someone who is known to balk at budget cutting, or someone we know fights for conservative principles.

Just take a look at the below video, which led to this quote at the Weekly Standard “I don’t know why GOP candidates haven’t made more out of the ongoing investigation into the Fast and Furious scandal, but it looks like Ted Cruz, who’s running for a Senate seat in Texas, is looking to make an issue out of it:” This really is a fight for our country, and I surely cannot understand why anyone would not be excited to have Ted Cruz in this fight.

The constitution is and always will be the one document that leads this country to greatness.  Having proven protectors of the constitution in the Senate should be 1# priority for conservatives all over this country.  To move forward in this country we need the White House, but to stop Obama we need the Senate. 

  This is why elected conservatives in the Senate are so important; they can drive the agenda once we do have a Republican President or stop the agenda of a liberal president.  The Senate has not passed a budget in over three years; it is due for a change in power.  When that budget is someday passed, it would be better to have Cruz there fighting than to have Dewhurst there making deals with liberals. 
     

Can Mitt Romney Win?

Those who said Romney could not beat Obama may have been wrong.

It is hard for people who have spent the last year saying, “If Mitt Romney wins the nomination, Obama will be reelected,” to say that the former governor now seems to have a legitimate chance at winning the presidency.  That is what this blogger said on more than one occasion.  It is one thing to be wrong in the past, but it is another to be wrong about the same thing twice.

It is not as people who thought Romney could not possibly beat Obama should now feel that they no longer have a right to speak about the election, without compunction, they should continue trying to give honest assessments.  The ineluctable feeling many have at  Romney being the Republican standard-bearer is an inescapable side effect of a long, drawn-out, hard fought primary.

With Democrats preparing to prevaricate rather than address their role in the country’s economic conditions, and Republicans starting to amalgamate around Romney as the nominee, the polls have begun to shift towards showing a competitive race.

Erick Erickson put it this way:

“In fact, it is a concerted effort on the part of the Democrats to hide the economy from people’s attention.  Like the Great Oz, the Democrats prefer no one pay attention to the economic disaster behind the curtains.  I have run a great many campaigns.  Each has a real narrative focus. The goal of the campaign is to try to stay on that narrative focus and not get distracted by the team worried about losing.  The Democrats’ antics reveal they are deeply worried about losing.  They cannot fight on the issue that is singularly at play in this election — Barack Obama’s bungling of the economy, so they must try to force Mitt Romney to play elsewhere.”

This is a correct assessment of the state of the race as it sits now.

Reuters recently summed up the race like this:

“The 2012 presidential election is more than six months away, but here is what we know so far: It is going to be close, it is going to be nasty, and the outcome could turn on a series of unpredictable events.”

However, Bill Kristol over at the Weekly Standard has a different view of what is going to happen this cycle:

Krauthammer Predicts Romney/Rubio Ticket

This is a prediction made a while ago, I am not really sure exactly how long ago, but I think it is interesting anyways. It seems to have been posted on You Tube in Jan. 2012, so at least a few months ago. I think he makes a solid pick. I am still wondering if Rubio would except. But as Krauthammer stated the yesterday on "Inside Washington" that: ""If Rubio passes the vetting process, assuming he does, I think he's the obvious choice. And if he says he doesn’t want the office, he'll find a horse's head in his bed. The next day he will accept," and I tend to think he may be right.

Because I am Busy Doing Homework, Here is a Laugh

I really am knee deep into a research paper, so instead of a rant that is poorly constructed, I decided to just post a video of a guy who will hopefully make you laugh, it did for me. He does make a point about what the Secret Service does on their own time.  If they are not putting the president in danger, should they get in trouble if they hire hookers. I guess that depends if they were told they are not supposed to hire hookers.

Race issues in America are not Black and White (Race in America Part 2)

Yesterday on this blog, as well as Red State.com, I posted a video with a young female college student blaming the institutions that taught her to fear black men as the reason for the killing of Trayvon Martin.  The point of her post was to say that white middle class activist could never know what it is like to be Trayvon Martin or Troy Davis.  I took notice of this video because of the word “institution” which she never identifies in her video.

Now she does say that because of her privileged up bringing that she cannot understand what it is like to be black and poor. There is truth is this statement.  However, she likely does not know what it is like to be white and poor, Chinese and poor, and Mexican and poor.  What she blamed, I felt was the wrong problem.

I came across the above video today when attempting to do some follow up work on this issue.   In the above video is a man who goes by the name Willie “PDUB” Moore JR and he is what is called a Christian Rap Artist, or what some would call Gospel Rap artist. He is obviously a very talented artist.  You can learn more about him and his music here.

The music is great, and it has a positive message, which much of it aims at teaching people how to live right.

In the above video, Mr. Moore is explaining why the there are many people who fear the “black man.”  

Unlike the video yesterday, this video helps to point to what causes this fear.  Moore does come very close to what I think causes this.  He says that the only image that is ever portrayed about a black male in the media, radio, social media, or the newspaper, is a pictures of black men painted as “thugs, gangsters, killers,” and “dogs”;  and this is what is constantly fed to people, causing them to fear black men.   Mr. Moore likens this to a pit bull.  The media has portrayed these dogs as mean; so many people see one and instantly think it is a mean dog.  In fact, Pitt Bulls are often not mean dogs.  (It may be safer to ask the owner if the dog is mean, because pit bulls can really harm you), but the point is well made. People can see something in somebody just by the way they look.

What Moore does not say is some of the other influences that permeate this view.  Movies all the time have gangsters in them that wear a certain type of cloths.  There is a lot of rap music these days that portrays black males as vicious killers.  This was the point I was making yesterday.  I would argue, this is where the so called institution picks these habits up.

Democrats Look to Divide the Country to Stay in Power

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This Election is about Real Issues, but Democrats want it to be about Fictional Wars.  As you can see in the above cartoon from tobytoons.com, the Democrats do not want this election to be about issues that matter, they want it to be about issues that are not even real on the national level.  There is not war on hoodies, dogs, or contraception.  If the Democrats felt that a wealthy man could not be president, then why did they nominate FDR, JFK, or any number of other wealthy politicians.  It would be nice to see a honest debate about the future of this country, but that can never happen when one of the parties is losing power.  A politician will stoop to unimaginable lows on the way out.


Despite what the pundits want to say, President Obama is not in a strong political position right now.  It was not long ago that liberal talking heads were declaring the Republican Party dead for years, maybe even 20 years.  Now that has not happened as we all know, 2010 was proof of that. So now instead of the huge step forward that those same pundits claimed the country took with the election of President Obama, the new narrative they are pushing is one were any disagreement with them means the other side is at war with a certain group of people.


Black and White (that is why you heard "White Hispanic"), the Rich and the Poor, Men and Woman, and even the war on cloths.  You can not have an honest assessment if bigotry is claimed every time someone says that maybe hoodies can cause violent crime. As ridiculous as the notion is, there is no harm in discussing the hard things.  Problems that we face are hard, if they were not, then they would not be problems.  It is important to identify racism when we see it, but it is equally important to show restraint when we are not sure it is present.


If the Democrats continue to use these tactics, they will only further divide the nation along lines of wealth, race, gender, and sexually identity. This seem like it would be a step back four years after the country arguably took the largest leap forward in decades.  I have to wonder, how can anyone believe that power is worth the price that it will cost.

Race in America (Part 1) Have the Southern Democrats Come Back?

On Race, or country has come a long way, but some are acting as the Dixie Democrats are still in power. There is racism in this country, and it comes from all races, not just one. 

I often wonder how people come to the collusion the girl in the above video has.  In what society does she live in?  Who is teaching her "male black bodies are an immediate threat to her and society has a whole?"  Wonderful, by the grace of God, education, and wonderful parenting, she overcame what she was taught to learn the truth.  What truth is the real question here?

What she calls societal norms really means institutional racism.  The same institution that just elected its first black president now is out teaching people to fear blacks, to see them as sub-human, and to hate blacks: that is if you are to believe the girl in this video.

I say this girl has it all wrong; she is identifying the wrong institution that is to blame.

Race is not the reason people tend to profile when they see people of another skin color.  Other things do cause people to profile.  Do you suspect that a person who looks at a young black man walking down the street wearing baggie pants, a Bulls jersey, and tattoos may cause someone to profile them? (For the record, I wear all these things, and I am often profiled)  Now say that same young man walks down the street. This time instead of wearing the items, I stated above, he has on a Full Business Suit, and in his hand is a suitcase.  I suspect that this same man would not be profiled.

Now to be fair, I am not saying that racism does not exist, because it does, and in all races. However, is there something to be said of the situation I just brought up?  Is it surprising after listening to some of the hip hop music there is out there (bitch this, hoe that), that some woman may look at a black man dressed up as what some would call (gangster) and start to get worried.

Trayvon was not dressed as a gangster, not in the sense of bandanas and a certain color.  His hoody does not make him guilty of any crime.  Nor does Zimmerman ever say in his 911 call that Trayvon skin color is the reason he thought he was doing something.  In fact, he did not bring up race until prompted.  What he did say was that he was watching a “man walking around and looking about.”

So What if Romney was Poor, Would Obama Say that Makes him Unable to Understand the Economy

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The above video is full of more drivel that is random coming from our esteemed president.  It is hard to listen to a full speech without wondering if the man even believes what is being said. 

If you take the ideological arguments out of Obama’s speech, everything sounds great.  He is fond of talking about how much he loves this country and how great it is. At first glance, this comment seems to point to a man proud of the country that allowed him to grow up and become president.

"Somebody gave me an education.  I wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth.  Michelle wasn't.  But somebody gave us a chance. Just like these folks up here are looking for a chance," Said Obama

If not for the not so subtle dig at Mitt Romney’s wealth, this would have been a solid argument.  Why the Obama administration is bent of dividing people between the rich and the poor is beyond me.  

First off, it is irresponsible; Romney’s wealth has nothing to do with anything.  It is valid (not right) to argue that the rich should pay more in the form of tax dollars, but to suggest that somehow Romney’s wealth makes him a bad choice for president is silly at best.

This is about an agenda for this nation.  If Romney were poor and championed the same agenda, it would not make that agenda suddenly more plausible.  In fact, President Obama is rich himself, and that does not make his agenda less plausible.

Here are a few details this statement does not allude too: 

• ·     Romney has paid $6.2 million in taxes on a total of $42.5 million in income covering the years 2010 and 2011.
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• ·     Romney has given $7 million in charity over the two years.

President Obama and his advisors are trying to argue that somehow Romney is getting off by not paying his fair share because on his income, he has only paid a 13.9 percent tax rate in 2010, and they expect to pay a 15.4 percent rate in 2011.  What this argument fails to recognize is what Avik Roy has said, “is a canard.”

(1) This 15% Romney tax rate issue is a canard.  Romney paid both 15% and corporate income taxes (usually 30%+) on his investments, as all do.

(2) Companies that Bain invested in paid income taxes that are thereby not passed through as profits to partnership.

Corporate tax rates are not 15%, they are closer to 45% once corporate profits are counted.  This is before state and local taxes are applied to the total tax rate, which by then exceeds 50% of ones income.

If you look at the overall picture, you will see a man that has not only paid his fair share, but he is paying much more than his fair share.

Over at TownHall.com online, where I got most of these numbers, there is a quick summation from the work Jen Rubin, Phil Klein, and Jim Pethokoukis did on the issue of Romney’s taxes.

UPDATE - Jen Rubin, Phil Klein, and Jim Pethokoukis put these numbers into perspective. A few highlights:

President Obama: Government cannot Solve every Problem

I thought since I have posted a few videos in the last few days that showed the chain of thought coming out of the RNC, and other Republican related entities.  I thought it only fair that I give the other side a chance to air their ideas.  This video from Team Obama is probably going to be effective, for those who are already planning to vote for the President that is.

Let us look at a few things that are covered in the ad:

Mitt Romney: "The President has pledged to "transform America," and he has spent the last four years laying the foundation for a new Government-Centered Society."

President Obama: "I have never been somebody who believes that government can or should try to solve every problem."

That is probably true, but it is also vague.  Limited government does not insinuate no government.  I have never heard anyone claim that President Obama is an anarchist.

Mitt Romney: "He saw free enterprise as the villain and not the solution."

President Obama: "I believe deeply that the free market is the greatest force for economic progress in human history."

This is easy to say, but this remark is not supported by the rhetoric that President Obama uses elsewhere in the same speech.

President Obama: "In this country broad based prosperity has never trickled down from the success of a wealthy few.  It has always come from the success of a strong and growing middle class."

The key words here is “trickle Down.”  The President does not believe that prosperity trickles down form the successful, or “the successful few.”  Here is why this does not make any sense.  For one, there are a whole lot more than a "successful few" in this country.  Members from every race, gender, nationality, or ethnic group has found success in the country.   From these peoples success, we do see a trickledown effect: jobs being the greatest of these, but also charity.

Ted Cruz "Mojave": Fighting for those who Fight for us

Cruz's fought to represent over three million veterans, successfully defending the constitutionality of a cross erected to honor fallen World War I heroes.  That alone should give you enough reason to vote for Ted Cruz.  

This is another great ad from team Cruz.  Please send to everyone you know that cares about this countries fighting men. We owe it to them to fight, and we do that by sending fighters to Washington who are willing to stand up to the secular forces that often look down on religious folk.  Military men should never suffer because of politics; they have every right that everyone else has.  Ted Cruz understands this, and that is why sending him to the senate is one of the top priorities for conservatives all over the country.   

President Obama Abandons Hope and Change, its now time to "Scare Voters"

I love this ad, because it gets right down to what we are going to see from team Obama:.

In 2008, Candidate Obama promised "hope" and "change."  Now President Obama has no record to run on, he has resorted to using the same negative scare tactics he once claimed to be against; and they have started doing it right out of the gate. 6.6 million Later, are you better off now than you were 4 years earlier?  That is what this election will be about, but it will be fun watching the Democrats attempt to try to change the subject. The only question is, will Republicans get involved in the silly season the Democrats want them to, or will they stay on message.

If Romney is not mixed up in debates about his dog and elevators, he will find himself in a solid position come October.  If Obama continues to try to convince the country Republicans are the root of all that is evil, he will constantly see his former statements used against him.  The most effective being the one where he points out that those who have nothing good to run on, will try to scare people into believing that the other side is dangerous (not verbatim). 

He said "Because if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare voters."

To all those who have grown tired of seeing our most fundamental institutions attacked by those who wish to usurp them, remember what Ronald Reagan said:

"The future of our country, the direction that we go as people, whether we move ahead to meet the challenges of the future or slide back into the irresponsible policies of the past, will be determined by those who get involved." --Ronald Reagan (From the RNC website)        

Why Mitt Romney has a Real Shot at Beating President Obama

People who pay close attention to politics often like the aspect of it that is a competition.  Americans love sports and whether you are liberal, conservative, or somewhere in between, there is a certain aspect of the whole thing that is like a sport.  Everyone wants to win.

Whether you hate Karl Rove or not, an objective observer should have noticed that, the man is a political genus.  After all, he played a vital role in electing George W. Bush president. 

Karl Rove was spot on the other day in his Wall Street Journal opinion piece about the race between Mitt Romney and President Obama.

The Obama administration will “distort beyond recognition his opponent's arguments” and he hit the nail right on the head when he said, “No honest differences are possible with Mr. Obama.”

But that is the game right?

Well it has been for years, and it will be for years.  Both Parties are guilty of it.  The Democrats voted for the war in Iraq by overwhelming numbers, and they had the same intelligence that the Republicans had.  Bill Clinton spent years saying the same things that Bush said about Saddam Hussein. But when the war went south, the Democrats were quick to use it for political gain. 

Therefore, politics can sometimes be a vicious thing.  Rove is one of the best at this. We can expect President Obama and his team in Chicago to implement a different strategy in this election than the hope and change strategy that was used in 2008.  To understand why they will not use the same strategy that was so successful last time, one only has to understand that no candidate can win offering mea culpa.

President Obama cannot run on his record alone, because he understands that most people have not deemed his presidency a success.

Mitt Romney can fight the attacks from Chicago.  Jay Cost over at the Weekly Standard has already identified how to do it.  Just use what Ronald Reagan said in his closing statement in the October 1980 debate:

"Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls; you'll stand there in the polling place and make a decision.  I think when you make that decision, it might be well if you would ask yourself, are you better off than you were 4 years ago?  Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was 4 years ago?  Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was 4 years ago?  Is America as respected throughout the world as it was?  Do you feel that our security is as safe, that we're as strong as we were 4 years ago?  And if you answer all of those questions yes, why then, I think your choice is very obvious as to who you'll vote for. If you don't agree, if you don't think that this course that we've been on for the last 4 years is what you would like to see us follow for the next 4, then I could suggest another choice that you have."

This is why team Obama is trying to use Reagan against the Republican nominee, because they are fully aware of the power of Reagan's 1980 argument. 

This is exactly why we will not see much hope coming from the current occupant of the White House.  For the last two years, we have listened to the White House set up its reelection campaign.  The Obama administration hopes to point the voter’s malcontent with their government at the Republican Nominee. 

Harvard Prof. Alan Dershowitz: Zimmerman Arrest Affidavit is ‘Irresponsible And Unethical’

Harvard Prof. Alan Dershowitz contends on MSNBC that the Arrest Affidavit that was filed against George Zimmerman is “Irresponsible and Unethical” because “everything in the affidavit is completely consistent with a defense of self-defense. Everything.”

He went on to make it very clear, that any objective observer should see that (Which excludes the vast majority of the mainstream media), this was political, not a sound common law decision by the  prosecutor Angela Corey , who just so happens to be up for reelection this year.  She kicked off her reelection campaign last December.

The heightened charge filed by Corey, murder two, has many legal analyst saying that no judge is going to let this pass on the evidence presented.

Richard Hornsby, who is a defense attorney in Florida, contends, “There's a "high likelihood it could be dismissed by the judge even before the jury gets to hear the case," and Karin Moore, who is one of the assistant professors of law at Florida A&M University, says that the law "puts a tremendous burden on the state to prove that it wasn't self-defense."  From the evidence that we have seen in the public, this is going to be next to impossible to do.

Even though Corey started off the news conference by trying to iterate that hey office does not make decisions based on politics or public pressure, if you listen to the speech she gave at the announcement of the charge, it sounded a lot like a campaign speech.  Whether or not she had meant to do this or not, no justice can be served when people are using the Martin family to advance a political agenda.

Prof. Alan Dershowitz commented on this very thing:

 “I think what you have here is an elected public official who made a campaign speech last night for reelection when she gave her presentation and overcharged. This case will not – if the evidence is no stronger than what appears in the probable cause affidavit – this case will result in an acquittal.”

One would hope that the prosecutor would not have charged Zimmerman with the full knowledge that the case would just be denied by the judge. But the media has not given the justice system the room is should have to decide whether charges should have been brought or not.  

Having said that, Prof. Dershowitz is right about including information that would have been favorable to the defendant in the affidavit “It’s irresponsible and unethical in not including material that favors the defendant” and “This affidavit does not even make it to probable cause.”

The whole situation has brought out the worst in some people.  We have members of the media who failed to ratiocinate in a way that would have avoided such a rush to judgment.  We are not yet sure of what other evidence the prosecution has that could possible refute what the evidence already points to, but judging by the constricted nature of the affidavit, one has to wonder if they really have anything but what has been advanced by those with the agenda.

Dwayne Wade & Ray Allen: We should be paid to Rep the U.S. at the Olympic Games

Miami Heat star basketball play Dwayne Wade and Ray Allen have suggested that NBA players should be paid to play in the Olympic games.

Ray Allen had this to say:

"You talk about the patriotism that guys should want to play for, but you (need to) find a way to entice the guys," Allen said. "It's not the easiest thing in the world if you play deep in the playoffs and then you get two, three weeks off and then you start training again to play more basketball where it requires you to be away from home and in another country. It's fun, but your body does need a break.

"Everybody says, 'Play for your country.' But (NBA players are) commodities, your businesses.  You think about it, you do camps in the summer, you have various opportunities to make money.  When you go overseas and play basketball, you lose those opportunities, what you may make… If I'm an accountant and I get outsourced by my firm, I'm going to make some money somewhere else."

Here are is what Wade said adding to what Allen said:

“It’s a lot of things you do for the Olympics — a lot of jerseys you sell,” Wade said after the Heat’s practice on Wednesday in advance of Thursday’s game against Chicago. “We play the whole summer.  I do think guys should be compensated.  Just like I think college players should be compensated as well.  Unfortunately, it’s not there. But I think it should be something, you know, there for it.”

Wade said he hasn’t thought about how much players should be paid for their time.  But he said there is a demanding schedule that comes with a commitment to the national team.  This summer, NBA players whose teams advance deep into the playoffs could have only a couple of weeks of downtime before the start of Team USA’s training camp in late July.

… “The biggest thing is now you get no rest,” Wade said.  “So you go to the end of the season, [Team USA] training camp is two weeks later.  You are giving up a lot to do it.  It’s something you want to do. But it’s taxing on your body. You are not playing for the dollar.  But it would be nice if you would get compensated.”

This is just more stuff coming from the babies down in South Florida.  I cannot believe that having a chance to play for your country in one of the oldest games in history is not payment enough for these guys. 

Zimmerman Demanded Punishment in 2010 race-related beating by a Police Officers Son

It seems that if George Zimmerman had committed a hate crime the night he shot and killed Trayvon Martin, he was not always a racist.  Many people are claiming that Zimmerman is a racist, but the evidence that is trickling out shows another story.

The Daily Caller’s Matthew Boyle, is reporting that before Zimmerman was the racist monster the media has attempted to make him into, he was a crusader for racial justice himself.

In December of 2010, a homeless man who goes by the name of Sherman Ware was attacked by an assailant who turned out to be the son of a police officer.  He was never arrested, but it was not for the lack of evidence in the case. Below is the video that caught the attack. (Sorry about the Language)   

Why didn’t the Sanford Police Department hold its officers?     

Zimmerman in response to this incident printed and distributed copies of what is being called “fliers on bright fluorescent-colored paper” that demanded that the community hold officers responsible for the misconduct.

In the flier, Zimmerman reportedly said that “Chief of Police Tooley blatantly lied.  He attempted to appease the masses by stating that he was “blindsided” by the Medias release of this monsters attack on an innocent, homeless and peacekeeping bystander.”

“I challenge you reading this to stand together and not “simply go away” as Chief Tooley and his corrupt subordinates wish, but to have our voices heard and to hold accountable those whom let this atrocious attack pass unpunished until the media revealed it.  This animal could have attacked anyone of us, our children or loved ones in his alcohol fueled rage.”

[you can read the whole flier here]

Two of the police officers questioned in this case went on to investigate the shooting involving Zimmerman and Martin.

49 former NASA Scientists Commit Scientific Apostasy by Questioning Climate Change

A group of 49 former NASA scientists issued a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolton, suggesting that the administration refrain from including what it calls “unproven and unsupported remarks” about climate science in its communications.  This was sparked after Jim Hansen, who heads NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, linked man-made global warming to “Slavery” calling it a “great moral issue.”

According the” The Blaze” web site, the letter was sent last month and included signatures from former scientists, astronauts and two former directors of NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The two directors said they believe climate science is “not settled.”  The two men urged NASA to look at all available scientific data before conjecturing about carbon dioxide’s “catastrophic impact”.

You can find the full letter posted on the called “Watts Up With That” and also urged people to look at empirical evidence.  Science is supposed to follow the evidence rather than pushing claims by people who may have an agenda.

We should expect a quick truculent attack by the progressive academia, because they do not often invite debate on issues they like to use to wedge the American public.  I suspect that we will soon here that denying climate change in unconstitutional.  OK, I am trying to germinate an idea for the left; they would never claim that inaction by the government would in fact be unconstitutional.

This sure does not sound like a letter written by a bunch of uneducated Tea Party extremist.  An the last I knew, those were the only ones who would question the scientific communities handling of this issue.

Rev. Wright & the MSM's Double Standard on Race

I am not one who likes to rant and rave about Obama’s former Pastor Rev. Wright and his racist rants being somehow linked to who President Obama is.  To be honest, if you were to judge me by everyone I have listened to spew vile racist nonsense (White, Black, and Mexican), I would be on Keith Olbermann worst persons list that night.  Well, that is if Olbermann still had a show.  Every race has racist members; some are just inherently racist, because their parents were that way.  Some people are so filled with hate that they cannot see past the color of another person’s skin. They fail to notice that they know people of their own race that do the very thing they say they hate when a member of another race does it.

What is important is for good people to say something when they hear it.  When someone says something harmful to another person, whether it is at church, work, in school, or on the bus ride home, it is the responsibility of every citizen to confront it, as long as your safety is not jeopardized in the process.

Parent need to talk to their children about race, so they do not learn how to deal with this issue from a friend who may or may not understand the correct decorum when it comes to racial issues.

This last week Rev. Wright said, “The ignorance and arrogance of white supremacy have the shapers and movers of world policy living in a different world from people of color altogether.  And the sooner you realize that, the better of you’re going to be.”

A list of other things he said over the last week.

• Wright said Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas believes in “some other God” which is not “Allah and Yahweh” who he claims are the same thing. (The last part makes sense considering the relationship between the world’s three major religions.
• He called Thomas Jefferson “a pedophile.”  (Nothing new, he insults the countries founders all the time).
• He thinks “white supremacy” is driving “world policy.”  (Somebody forgot to tell him the most powerful man in the world is only half-white.)  
• On the U.S. Military, “fighting for peace is like raping for virginity.”  (So the Rev thinks that the commander and chief of the U.S. is a warmonger, except he forgets to tell the audience that the leader of this is not a white man. The point being that his politics is one thing, to blame a race is another.

In this brief segment, the controversial pastor insults the countries first African American President and the first African American Supreme Court justice.  I always respected Obama for coming out against this man’s racist rants: whether it was politics or not.  That probably was not an easy thing to do.  Many people have friends or family members who say or do something that we would never condone.  That does not mean everyone who does know somebody such as this is a bad person.   

That is why this post is not directed at the president.  I am in the camp that believes the Rev. was never an issue the media should have harped on for so long. This election is about the presidents record now, any time spent trying to make this about who he knows is time wasted.  However, that does not mean we should let this very public figure spew this nonsense without calling him out on it.

In the above video, Rev Wright simulates smoking a ganja joint and even spends time grabbing his crotch while explaining the difference between music he would listen to and the music we see many of the young people listen to today. The sermon would have been more at home in a stand-up comedy tour, but it was not something I am used to seeing pastors do. 

Romney needs to keep Focus on the Economic Growth

The presidential election as begun, and so has the need for us to start talking about the issues that will soon become part of the campaign.  The Bush Institute is convening a conference on tax policy and economic growth called “Tax Policies for 4% Growth: Evidence from the States, American History, Markets and Nations."  This is an important conference, and worth paying attention too. 

At 4% growth, the nation would see the unemployment rate drop, debt reduced, which can bring opportunity and prosperity for more Americans.  Our country is not seeing the recovery that Obama and the Democrats are trying to say it has. Who can really blame them for trying, they cannot run on the actual numbers, so they are going to use deceptive statistics to try to make themselves look better that their records would indicate.  

In the above video, you hear how the United States is number one at many things such as the largest economy, the most gold medals, the most educated adults, but we also have the most crime, the largest percentage of our population being obese, and the highest corporate tax rate.

Our corporate tax rate is at 35%, 40%  if you add state taxes, which is what the businesses around this country do, they have to pay the tax after all. Ireland pays 12.5% and Poland has a 19% flat tax.  While the world average corporate tax rate of other industrialized nations are around 25%, even Canada, Britain, and Japan cut their corporate taxes this year.

While Obama is running on raising taxes on millionaires, other countries are looking to capitalize on our tax systems failure to promote a business friendly environment.  Our economy has made small improvements this year, but this is not happening because of President Obama's policies, it is happening despite of him.

Vote Ted Cruz, and leave the "Dewbious" Career Politicians Alone

Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate seems to know how to release an affective ad. This is talent we could use in Washington, as well as working for cosnervative causes. I would not call it an attack ad considering it is telling the truth.  The new video compliments the new web site launched by the Senate campaign.  Like all things they do over there this ad shows strength and ingenuity.  The site, www.dewbious.com, is well put together and very informative.  I hope you will come check it out. Send the link to everyone you know, and then get on board.  Frankly, all the cool people are doing it.

On a more serious not, Dewhurst is not right for Texas, and he is not right for the U.S. Senate.  Not out of Texas, were we expect to see reliable conservatives winning elections.  Dewhurst would likely play better in New York, or California.  The Wall Street Journal contends that Dewhurst proposed a wage tax that was “a fancy disguise for a personal income tax.”

 “They don’t want Washington-style spending in Texas, they want a strong conservative fighter in Washington. This new website will make sure voters have the facts and the video is just a preview… the truth is coming” Bernsen said.

As I said, all the cool people have gotten behind Ted Cruz, and when I say cool, what I really mean is conservative.  A short list includes Senators Jim DeMint, Tom Coburn, Pat Toomey, and Mike Lee.  Mark Levin, Erik Erickson, and many others have gotten behind Cruz as well.  There is nothing lame about these men, so do not be lame and join with us by signing up to the site, spread the word, and be part of something big.

Ted Cruz is obviously ready for prime time.  He has managed to take on a well-funded opponent who likely felt this race would have been over already.  Dewhurst is hoping beyond hope that people will not notice his dishonest attacks levied at Cruz.  This is a real grass roots campaign for a conservative champion. 

Romney vs. Obama: The Practice of Artifice

Now that the general election is upon us, we should look at something from the past elections that may make you smile.  If may come down to a situation such as you will see in the above video.  I know if you are like me, you love watching old Ronald Reagan videos.  In the top video, you see Mondale and Reagan, and in the bottom video, you will see Clinton use an argument we are sure to here from President Obama this time around.

Below was the very moment some say George H.W. Bush lost his chance at a second term, which really means the day he signed the taxes into law he promised he would is the day he lost the chance to be a two term president.  Watching this videos reminds me how the candidates may change, but the arguments do not change all the much.  Obama vs. Romney, this could be one for the ages, or it could be Reagan Mondale.  Those telling you they know who is going to win this election are not a very reliable student of history.  Both of these candidates this year have been dishonest in their attacks on each other, and it is only going to get worse with the Super PAC’s having unlimited room for spending.

Romney is not going to shy away from attacking Obama, and the same goes for team Chicago.  That is why we have the election.  This is probably going to be an ugly election.