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Obama Weakness Lead to Chicago Massacres, Group Says
Floyd Brown, a longtime conservative strategist who heads the conservative National Campaign Fund, said he is target="_blank">launching an ad to expose Obama’s weakness on gang violence. See it here.
Chicago is a war zone with 32 Shot, 2 Stabbed, and 6 Dead – last weekend. One incident involved a man with an AK-47 semi-automatic assault rifle in a shootout with police. Friday night two teens were gunned down in front of a church. Police helicopters routinely patrol so-called “hot zones” where gang infestation is worst. The greatest of the mostly ethnic gang provoked and inflamed by hate mongering and is largely on Chicago’s south side exceeding anything experienced during the mob violence of the Al Capone era. It is a St. Valentine’s Day massacre every weekend.target="_blank">
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Loading …More States Take Cutting Gasoline Tax Idea.
Forty-six percent (46%) of America’s Likely Voters favor a federal gas tax holiday this summer. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 42% are opposed and 12% are not sure. Most voters who earn more than $75,000 a year oppose the gas tax holiday. Most who make less than $60,000 a year favor that policy change. Among those make less than $20,000 a year, 62% favor the gas tax holiday while only 11% are opposed
OPEC may decide to increase production taking pressure off of prices and feightening speculators who account for 20-40% of crude oil costs. Analyst say there is an even change crude will fall below $100 a barrel if OpPEC increases production.
Houston, we have a problem in Obama’s own words…
“Houston, we have a problem.’ In Barack Obama’s own published words.
From Dreams of My Father: ‘I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.’From Dreams of My Father: ‘I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother’s race.’
From Dreams of My Father: ‘There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.’
From Dreams of My Father: ; ‘It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.’From Dreams of My Father: ‘I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela.’
From Audacity of Hope: ‘I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.’
Exaplaination please. No demanded…
It’s not about the party. It’s about the people.
Ah, it’s the political season and the hypocrisy is running rampant. I’ve been hearing for weeks now about how Hillary Clinton has to get out of the race. This recommendation has come from a number of different sources, from the talking heads that deliver the news to George McGovern, a former Clinton supporter who recently turned tail and defected to Obama. But, hey, don’t worry. They’re making this recommendation because it’s good for the party. Continuing the race is not good for the party. I really hate to be the one to point this out to those so much more politically astute than myself, but it isn’t about the party, stupid. It’s about the people. In the end, the process of electing the president belongs to the people and that is exactly what our forefathers intended.
What we know is that there’s still a race. According to the latest CNN estimates, Obama has 1,845 delegates, to Clinton’s 1,686. That’s a difference of 159 delegates. Neither Obama nor Clinton will win the 2,025 delegates needed to take the nomination. * To me that says there is no clear mandate and absolutely no reason for Hillary Clinton to quit. Every single vote should count, and there are still people who want to support Hillary Clinton. The supporters I am referring to are not the not-so-super superdelegates, nor the out-to-pasture former Democratic demagogues, like George McGovern. I am referring to the people who take the time out from their day to visit the polls and cast their votes. Even Nancy Pelosi weighed in on the subject Thursday saying, “The people should all have the opportunity to speak as long as two candidates wish to compete in those primaries and caucuses.”
The use of superdelegates makes a sham of the election process because it allows Democratic Party ‘elitists’ to unduly influence and control the outcome of the election. It takes the power away from the people and that is definitely not what our forefathers intended.
Hillary Clinton is not the first Democrat to take her case all the way to the convention. Gene McCarthy (1968), Ted Kennedy (1980), Gary Hart (1984), and Jesse Jackson (1988) came before her. Let’s allow the political process to play itself out the way it should. The election should not be hijacked by a bunch of political insiders.
*Obama can win the 2,025 with the superdelegates included.
Less Affluent Favor Gas Tax Holiday.
According to a rasmussen Poll released Thursday forty-six percent (46%) of America’s Likely Voters favor a federal gas tax holiday this summer. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 42% are opposed and 12% are not sure. Most voters who earn more than $75,000 a year oppose the gas tax holiday. Most who make less than $60,000 a year favor that policy change. Among those make less than $20,000 a year, 62% favor the gas tax holiday while only 11% are opposed.
McCain proposed suspending the 18 cents a gallon federal tax and Hillary supports it. Obama opposes it.
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
There’s no news like good news. Sadly, there is no good news in today’s Ten Post Round-Up:
1: A serious drug ring was busted up at San Diego State University….
2: Whites and Blacks use drugs at the same rate, yet Blacks are far more likely to be arrested for drug offenses…
3: The offices and home of Special Counsel, Scott J. Bloch, who oversees protection for federal whistleblowers, have been raided…
FBI Searches Office of Special Counsel Building–Crooks and Liars
4: The “Robbins” half of Baskin-Robbins, has passed away (the other half - Baskin, died awhile back). Both left behind more than 1000 flavors enjoyed by ice cream lovers the world over…
5: They saved the school and were served with pink slips…
CENSUS BOONDOOGLE RAISES COSTS TO $14 BILLION
UPS can put thousands of delivery-drivers on the streets everyday each carrying a hand held gadget to track millions of packages but the U. S. Census Bureau failure to build an effective hand-held computer will cost taxpayers an extra for $1.3 billion – no, you are not seeing things that’s a $1,300,000,000,000 boondoogle.
So, it is turning instead to 600,000 temporary workers to do a paper and pencil census in 2010 just like 1910. Another massive federal bureaucracy run amuck. The $1.3 billion hi-tech gadget glitch will add $2.2 to $3 billion to the 2010 census costs that are now expected to total a mind numbing $13.7 to $14.5 billion.
Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up
Put on your thinking caps. You will definitely find today’s Ten Post Round-Up educational:
1: Why does it seem that people who have a problem with women having abortions seem to have no problem with war?….
2: Gas is almost up to $4.00…
3: 4,327 Florida 10th graders can’t read…
4: Do we really want four more years of GWBs policies?…
John McCain didn’t vote for George Bush in 2000: Has adopted his platform for 2008–Crooks and Liars
5: The woman who helped overturn the law that banned interracial marriage, has passed away (Dizzy and her husband are thankful for that)…
Obama’s Judgement Flawed by Oprah Disclosures
Newsweek’s Allison Samuels writes in the May 11 Issue of NEWSWEEK that Oprah Winfrey joined Barack Obama’s Church to be with Chicago’s movers and shakers and left it in part because Rev Jeremiah Wright ‘incendiary’ rhetoric made her uncomfortable and that could hurt her professionally and because of her disquiet with organized religion. Oprah, says Samuels, was “blindsided” by Wright’s assault on Obama because she says Wright was a father figure. to Obama.
The article describes Obama as a man in search of his identity as a Black-American, and more importantly as a Black-American man. Samuels contends Wright and other men in the church helped him understand the Black-American experience.
Winfrey says Samuels had been around black churches all her life and was used to anger-filled messages. But, she decided her mainstream audience and doing anything to offend them ( including being around Wright) wouldn’t be smart.
Samuels’ article begs the question : If staying around Wright wouldn’t be smart in the judgment of an entertainer why would it be otherwise judged by a man desiring to be President with the greatest audience of all to answer to - the entire American people?
Obama’s Trade For Teamsters Support
The Wall Street journal said Monday Sen. Barack Obama won the endorsement of the Teamsters earlier this year after privately telling the union he supported ending the strict federal oversight imposed to root out corruption. The WSJ contend its conclusion is reached “according to officials from the union and the Obama campaign.”
It’s an unusual stance for a presidential candidate. Policy makers have largely treated monitoring of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters as a legal matter left to the Justice Department since an independent review board was set up in 1992 to eliminate mob influence in the union. Obama is reported to have said he thinks the ongoing effort has runs it course.
The ongoing probe has been a burr under the Teamster’s saddle blanket. Most observers think mob influence over the union has diminished in recent times. The Teamsters if the largest Union in the United States with about 1.4 million members with 32% in the Central state anchored in Obama’s hometown of Chicago; 26% in the West; 28% in the East, and 7% in the South. About 2% are in Canada.
Two-thirds of Teamsters members work in one of five divisions: Warehouse, Parcel, Freight, Public Employees and Industrial Trades. The Public Employees sector is the union’s fastest-growing division, and organizing more Federal employees is a lucative segment for the union, and some say a friendly person in the White House who would block Federal oversight would be pehaps the biggest coup possible for the union at this juncture
Hypocrisy of Pelosi, Reid, Conyers
In November 2008, after years of failed policies and what many of us think are illegal actions of the Bush/Cheney crowd, we helped transfer power in Congress back to the Democrats.
History was made when Nancy Pelosi became the first female Speaker of the House and we were all delighted whenever Bush gave major addresses to Congress, to be able to look beyond him and see Nancy sitting there, and not standing when Bush pushed Republican buttons.
We thought Bush would have had to begin the end of the Iraq war by now and would have been prevented from so many actions civil libertarians think have, at best, crossed the line.
Complete disappointment has set in for the Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party and we think the rest of the Party had better wake up. We would like to oust Nancy Pelosi in the Democratic Congressional Primary in San Francisco District 8 and replace her with Shirley Golub.
Deb Della Pina has recently interviewed Shirley and it is a must read for all Progressives and for all Democrats who want to maintain their majority.
Pelosi has been joined in her hypocrisy, promising action, then preventing it from happening, by John Conyers and Harry Reid. They are keeping Impeachment off the table and are aggressively funding the Iraq war.
GM CEO Predicts Bankruptcy
In a letter to shareholders General Motors’ Chairman and CEO Porter Stansberry says he sees light at the end of the tunnel but it is a GM bankruptcy and that a company cannot suffer 40 years of bad decisions, bad ideas, and bad debts and expect to compete with the rest of the world’s automakers.
He says, “what’s killing us is a legacy of debts and obligations we cannot possibly repay.” Stansberry says, “nor do we have any pleasant way to repudiate our promises. The only answer is bankruptcy.” He likens it to promises made under Social Security saying, “we cannot make enough money selling cars to afford the service on our $33 billion debt load, ” and “or the $11 billion we owe in cash pensions. These debts are killing us.” He thinks, “we’ve finally entered the end stage – the death spiral.”
“Given our current burn rate, I estimate we will declare bankruptcy in a little more than three quarters, “he predicted.
Toyota pays workers $43 an hour to make cars in the U. S. but the United Auto Workers demand $67 an hour from GM, Ford and Chrysler. Plus, they make cars that consumers judge to be inferior. Turn out the lights the party is over in Detroit, and Dearborn.
DAYS OF INFAMY - book review
The book is typical of Gingrich in its detailed research and his ability to bring historic events alive and make them interesting. For everyone with interest in contemporary history and all those who listened to parents, Grandparents, aunts and uncles spin their yarns about World War II this book is worth your money and your time to read,
Liar, Liar Pants On Fire - Obama’s Self-Immolation
Just 30% of the nation’s Likely Voters believe Barack Obama denounced his former Pastor, Jeremiah Wright, because he was outraged. Most—58%–say he denounced the Pastor for political convenience according to a Rasmussen Poll released Friday. Only 33% of voters believe that Obama was surprised by the views Wright expressed at Monday’s press conference. Fifty-two percent (52%) say he was not surprised.
Fifty-six percent (56%) say it’s at least somewhat likely that Obama “shares some of Pastor Wright’s controversial views about the United States.” Just 7% of the nation’s voters agree with Wright’s views of the United States. African-American voters, by a 64% to 12% margin, disagree with Wright. Seventy-four percent (74%) of Republicans believe it’s somewhat or very likely that Obama shares some of Wright’s views. That assessment is shared by 48% of Democrats and 49% of those not affiliated with either major party.
In Indiana Clinton attracts 46% of the Democrat votes while Obama earns 41%. With just a week to go before Election Day, 13% remain undecided. Clintonleads by nineteen percentage points among White voters. Obama leads 90% to 4% among African-Americans.
In North Carolina Barack Obama leads Hillary Clinton 49% to 40%. Earlier this week, Obama led by fourteen, 51% to 37%. A month ago, Obama led by twenty-three percentage points. Clintonleads by twenty-three points among White voters while Obama leads 74% to 10% among African-Americans. Clintonleads among senior citizens, the candidates split those in the 50-64 age range, and Obama leads among younger voters.