When Presidents Cry "Hostage!"
President Obama has used the word "hostage" in at least sixteen speeches, interviews and statements this year.
(Credit: JEWEL SAMAD) To listen to President Obama, you'd think we were in the grip of a never-ending hostage crisis.
In sixteen speeches, statements and interviews this year, including his State of the Union address, he has decried the hostage-taking of one issue or another:
- AID TO SMALL BUSINESS: "Simply put, holding this bill hostage is directly detrimental to our economic growth." Statement on the Economy. -The Rose Garden. 8/30/10
- VETERANS PROGRAMS: "...to sign advanced appropriations into law so that veterans health care will never again be held hostage to the budget battles of Washington." -Address to Disabled Veterans of America, Atlanta, 8/2/10
- UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS: "While a majority of Senators support taking these steps to help the American people, some are playing the same old Washington games and using their power to hold this relief hostage - a move that only ends up holding back our recovery. It doesn't make sense." -Weekly Address, 7/3/10
- Read the rest here.
- From the UK:
John Boehner: the second of 12 kids from Ohio who is Barack Obama's elitist target
The White House is attempting to cling on to Democratic control of Washington by portraying an Ohio congressman who grew up in near poverty as an elitist country club Republican controlled by wealthy lobbyists.
President Barack Obama is doing his best to turn Representative John Boehner, the House minority leader, into Public Enemy Number One. If Republicans win back the House of Representatives in November, as polls indicate, he will replace Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House.In a recent speech, Mr Obama mentioned Mr Boehner by name nine times. A fundraising email sent out from BarackObama.com this week stated that corporate interests and lobbyists “have put all their chips on one man: Congressman John Boehner”.
Yet Mr Boehner's life story is the type of classic up-by-the-bootstraps tale of the American Dream that can put a tear in a voter's eye. As his story becomes better known, the Democrats could even be drawing favourable attention upon him. Right now, most Americans have never heard of Mr Boehner, and fewer still can pronounce his name, which rhymes with Rayner. The alleged elitist country club Republican is an Ohio Congressman who grew up in near poverty.
Mr Boehner, 61, is the second of 12 who grew up in a German-Irish family in Reading, Ohio, just outside Cincinnati. All but two of them still live within a few miles of each other. Two are unemployed and most of the others have blue-collar jobs.
The future Congressman started work as a janitor and took seven years to get his degree – the first in the family to do so – because he had several jobs to pay his way. He joined a plastics and packaging company, rising to president before entering local politics by being elected to the town board.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8009943/John-Boehner-the-second-of-12-kids-from-Ohio-who-is-Barack-Obamas-elitist-target.htmlRead the rest here.
Kliphnote: 'Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It.' - Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals.
Saul Alinsky’s son: “Obama learned his lesson well”
By Judi McLeod Tuesday, September 2, 2008In Artful Dodger style, Barack
Obama , plays down his mentorship with Communist author Saul Alinsky. But Alinsky’s son, L. David Alinsky, credits Obama for “learning his lesson well” from the Communist guru.*
Indeed, Alinsky Jr. who credits his late father for the success of last week’s Democratic National Convention, may have done something that Obama’s detractors couldn’t: blown the cover on the presidential hopeful’s communist leanings.No one can blame Alinsky for the pretentiousness of the Ancient Greek Temple from which Obama addressed plebes, or for the tacky neon colours on display at the Pepsi Centre, but it was Alinsky who wrote Rules for Radicals, the bible of the far left. Read the rest here
This is not your humble blogger saying this, this from canadafreepress
*His critics counter that while he may not have ever joined the Communist Party his 'the ends justify the means' philosophy that he laid out in his Rules for Radicals puts him in the same league as Leon Trotsky. Alinsky devotes an entire chapter to the problem of “Means and Ends” — of how a radical can justify breaking the moral order to achieve radical ends.[6] http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Saul_Alinsky#Communist_ConnectionsAndrew Breitbart is harassed by the crowd- called a homo.
So, what exactly does he mean by that? That “fully black” men kick ass? That “fully black” men are more aggressive?
Hello, Al Sharpton?… Are you in?
Are you going to let this racist slide Jesse Jackson?
NewsBusters reported:
Transcript via NewsBusters:
BILL MAHER, HOST: Isn’t Obama’s big problem is that he does everything half-assed? Maybe it’s because he’s only half black. You know? It’s that, if he was a, if this, if he was fully black, I’m telling you, he would be a better president. There’s a white man in him holding him back because everything is half-assed. The stimulus was half-assed, healthcare is half-assed, let’s talk about Afghanistan.
It’s a good thing he’s a racist lib. If he was a conservative they would have already announced his replacement.
The double standard in our society is completely outrageous.
Harry Reid’s illegal alien student bailout
The open-borders lobby is out in full force, launching a week-long campaign yesterday to pass another illegal alien amnesty-by-another-name. DREAM Act activists and Hispanic lawmakers strategized with President Obama at the White House. The “undocumented students action and resource network” has been activated. How about you?
Keep track of where your lawmakers stand at NumbersUSA. As I noted the other day, several open-borders Republicans have supported the DREAM Act illegal alien student bailout in the past. Make sure they know where you stand.
Related: Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle roasts Reid’s illegal immigration lies.
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, September 18, 2010, 7:28 AMWow! Conservative Christine O’Donnell has raised $1,763,871 since her upset win against uber-RINO Mike Castle on Tuesday.
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