America Already Less Safe Under President Obama: Terrorist detention center in Guantanamo Bay to close
by Francisco Gonzalez
On his third day in office, President Barack Obama signed executive orders to close the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within one year. “Gitmo” has become a source of controversy for how the United States holds and treats terrorists caught on the battlefield. In addition to this, Obama’s other executive orders shuts down secret overseas CIA prisons, review military war crimes trials and bans the harshest interrogation methods.
While President Obama is fulfilling a campaign promise and is trying to freshen up the United States’ image to the rest of the world, his actions on his third day in office are putting the lives of all Americans at risk. It is now clear that no terrorists captured on the battlefield will enter the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay and within a year, the 245 plus terrorists currently there will have to depart. But questions remain: where will they go? how will they be prosecuted? If they come to the United States, will they get a team of ACLU lawyers and have full Constitutional rights given to American citizens? What happens if we catch Osama Bin Laden? Where will he go?
There may be much to question about the Presidency of George W. Bush, but the fact remains that since September 11, 2001 there have been no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Did Bush’s policies succeed in preventing further attacks? If a terrorist attack happens on Obama’s watch, his reversal of Bush’s policy on the detention and interrogation of captured terrorists may come to haunt him. More than 60 of the terrorists that were previously captured, detained at Guantamo, and subsequently released (during the Bush Administration), were captured again - on the battlefield.
Zogby poll: Obama voters knew little about him
by Francisco Gonzalez ~ November 19, 2008
And this is why we put our book out. I only wish we had put it out earlier and received more press coverage. Perhaps we could have informed more Americans about who the real Barack Obama is. Maybe the mainstream media didn’t do their job. But then, it seems those same voters knew a lot more about John McCain and Sarah Palin. Maybe the mainstream media did their job all too well.
Ninety-four percent of Obama voters correctly identified Palin as the candidate with a pregnant teenage daughter, 86% correctly identified Palin as the candidate associated with a $150,000 wardrobe purchased by her political party, and 81% chose McCain as the candidate who was unable to identify the number of houses he owned. When asked which candidate said they could “see Russia from their house,” 87% chose Palin, although the quote actually is attributed to Saturday Night Live’s Tina Fey during her portrayal of Palin during the campaign. An answer of “none” or “Palin” was counted as a correct answer on the test, given that the statement was associated with a characterization of Palin.
Obama voters did not fare nearly as well overall when asked to answer questions about statements or stories associated with Obama or Biden — 83% failed to correctly answer that Obama had won his first election by getting all of his opponents removed from the ballot, and 88% did not correctly associate Obama with his statement that his energy policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry. Most (56%) were also not able to correctly answer that Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground.
Nearly three quarters (72%) of Obama voters did not correctly identify Biden as the candidate who had to quit a previous campaign for President because he was found to have plagiarized a speech, and nearly half (47%) did not know that Biden was the one who predicted Obama would be tested by a generated international crisis during his first six months as President.
In addition to questions regarding statements and scandals associated with the campaigns, the 12-question, multiple-choice survey also included a question asking which political party controlled both houses of Congress leading up to the election — 57% of Obama voters were unable to correctly answer that Democrats controlled both the House and the Senate.
How Obama Got Elected
by Francisco Gonzalez ~ November 18, 2008
John Zeigler put together an excellent documentary film, “How Obama Got Elected,” which can be viewed on the corresponding website: http://www.HowObamaGotElected.com/
Are you one of the millions of Americans that were shocked that a man of Barack Obama’s limited experience, extreme liberal positions and radical political alliances could be elected President of the United States? As we have documented in our book and on this blog for the past several months, the mainstream media, completely enamored with Obama, simply refused to do their job.
Zeigler interviewed twelve Obama voters on Election Day, right after they voted, to learn how the news media impacted their knowledge of what occurred during the campaign. These voters were chosen for their apparent intelligence/verbal abilities and willingness to express their opinions to a large audience. The rather shocking documentary provides some insight into which information broke through the news media clutter and which did not.
Obama Daughters to Attend Private School in DC
by Francisco Gonzalez ~ November 11, 2008
Liberal politicians who tells poor and middle class citizens that they can’t have vouchers to attend private schools typically put their own children in private schools. And that’s the case with the Obamas. As reported in the New York Post, Michelle Obama went into DC ahead of her husband to look for a new school for daughters Sasha and Malia.
She has visited three elite private schools: She headed first to the tony Georgetown Day School, an ultra-progressive prep school where students and their teachers are on a first-name basis. If Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, are enrolled at Georgetown Day, Michelle will bump into plenty of friends at Parent Association meetings. The school, which is pre-K through 12th grade, is brimming with the offspring of several key Obama aides, and a rumored future attorney general, Eric Holder, is a trustee. (Surprise, surprise)
The Obamas are widely believed to be deciding among three schools - and the contest has Washington’s prep-school parents riveted. The other two contenders are Sidwell Friends and Maret.
Now don’t get me wrong. If I were in the position of the Obamas, I would certainly be looking to put my children in the best schools available. However, where the Obamas and I disagree, is that I believe that all parents should have the right to choose which school their children go to. This should not simply be a privilege of the wealthy elite. As this article demonstrates, many of the liberal elite in Washington, D.C. put their children in such schools, but then consistently vote against school choice options.
To learn more about school choice, and to get a free “School Choice Works” bumper sticker, visit: http://www.letparentschoose.org
Obama Can Move Mountains - or at least be honored with one
by Francisco Gonzalez ~ November 11, 2008
Ok, this is getting ridiculous.
The Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda paid lofty tribute to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama by renaming the volcanic mountain previously known as “Boggy Peak.”
“I shall take immediate measures for Antigua and Barbuda’s highest mountain peak to be dedicated in your honor and renamed ‘Mount Obama,’” Prime Minister W. Baldwin Spencer wrote in a congratulatory note to the victorious U.S. presidential candidate on Wednesday.
The 1,327-foot (402-metre) volcanic peak rises over southwestern Antigua in the former British colony whose 85,000 residents are mostly descended from African slaves brought in to harvest the sugar cane fields in the 1700s.
“Your message of change will ignite hope and action in people of many countries who might still be passive in the face of inadequacies and injustice,” Spencer wrote to Obama, who will be the first black U.S. president. “Your election will not only transform America, it can transform the world.”
Maybe he is the messiah?
“Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one”
by Francisco Gonzalez ~ November 10, 2008
NewsBusters just wrote the following about what Obama’s Transition Team co-chair, Valerie Jarrett, stated on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program with Tom Brokaw this past Sunday, November 9:
The co-chair of Barack Obama’s Transition Team, Valerie Jarrett, appeared on Meet the Press this weekend and used, shall we say, an interesting word to described what she thinks Barack Obama will be doing in January when he’s officially sworn into office. She told Tom Brokaw that Obama will be ready to “rule” on day one. It’s a word that reflects the worst fears that people have for Obama the “arrogant,” the “messiah,” that imagines he’s here to “rule” instead of govern.
Jarret told Brokaw that “given the daunting challenges that we face, it’s important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.”
To see the full video, view the NewsBusters website.
Yes We Can … Ban Guns. Here we go…
by Francisco Gonzalez ~ November 10, 2008
The National Rifle Association issued this press release on Friday to let Americans know that the Obama administration is already on the move to ban guns and infringe on Americans right to keep and bear arms, as stipulated in the Second Amendement of the U.S. Constitution:
Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign slogan, “the audacity of hope,” should have instead been “the audacity of deceit.” After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby–four initiatives designed to ban guns and drive law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers out of business:
“Making the expired federal assault weapons ban permanent.” Perhaps no other firearm issue has been more dishonestly portrayed by gun prohibitionists. Notwithstanding their predictions that the ban’s expiration in 2004 would bring about the end of civilization, for the last four years the nation’s murder rate has been lower than anytime since the mid-1960s. Studies for Congress, the Congressional Research Service, the National Institute of Justice, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found no evidence that gun prohibition or gun control reduces crime. Guns that were affected by the ban are used in only a tiny fraction of violent crime-about 35 times as many people are murdered without any sort of firearm (knives, bare hands, etc.), as with “assault weapons.” Obama says that “assault weapons” are machine guns that “belong on foreign battlefields,” but that is a lie; the guns are only semi-automatic, and they are not used by a military force anywhere on the planet.
“Repeal the Tiahrt Amendment.” The amendment–endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police–prohibits the release of federal firearm tracing information to anyone other than a law enforcement agency conducting a bona fide criminal investigation. Anti-gun activists oppose the restriction, because it prevents them from obtaining tracing information and using it in frivolous lawsuits against law-abiding firearm manufacturers. Their lawsuits seek to obtain huge financial judgments against firearm manufacturers when a criminal uses a gun to inflict harm, even though the manufacturers have complied with all applicable laws.
“Closing the gun show loophole.” There is no “loophole.” Under federal law, a firearm dealer must conduct a background check on anyone to whom he sells a gun, regardless of where the sale takes place. A person who is not a dealer may sell a gun from his personal collection without conducting a check. Gun prohibitionists claim that many criminals obtain guns from gun shows, though the most recent federal survey of convicted felons put the figure at only 0.7 percent. They also claim that non-dealers should be required to conduct checks when selling guns at shows, but the legislation they support goes far beyond imposing that lone requirement. In fact, anti-gun members of Congress voted against that limited measure, holding out for a broader bill intended to drive shows out of business.
“Making guns in this country childproof.” “Childproof” is a codeword for a variety of schemes designed to prevent the sale of firearms by imposing impossible or highly expensive design requirements, such as biometric shooter-identification systems. While no one opposes keeping children safe, the fact is that accidental firearm-related deaths among children have decreased 86 percent since 1975, even as the numbers of children and guns have risen dramatically. Today, the chances of a child being killed in a firearm accident are less than one in a million.
Chicago Politics and Hollywood Values Coming to White House
by Francisco Gonzalez ~ November 8, 2008
Years ago, when Obama began running for President (ok 20 months ago), he promised us he would bring “Change” to Washington. His first move? He selected Washington insider, Rahm Emanuel to be his Chief of Staff. So much for change you can believe in.
It is also clear that Obama used the Chicago political machine (you know, the dirtiest politics known to mankind) to get him elected, with David Axelrod serving as his top political advisor. Yes, we exchanged the so-called “dirty” politics of Karl Rove for a guy who used to be a political strategist for Chicago’s Mayor Daley. Talk about dirty.
And it is also clear the Obama campaign was well-funded by many Americans, but most significanlty by left-wing Hollywood celebrities, left-wing academia, and left-wing journalists. The celebrities and journalists probably did the most to help him. On top of making personal donations, they were able to shape the news most favorably for Obama and celebrities were able to help the kids think Obama was “cool.”
And the selection of Rahm Emanuel should please all crowds. There is a great piece in the Washingtonian about Rahm Emanuel’s background, including his highly successful brothers. You’ll notice his longtime political connections from Chicago, to the inner workings of the Clinton White House. He’s an inside the Beltway type - with ties to Hollywood as well. In fact, a character on the West Wing is reported to be modeled on Emanuel. Hollywood is in love with Obama - and he knows they helped get him there. Is this change we can believe in? So far, it’s the typical liberal crowd with another one of their own in the White House.
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