Recall the President? This time it's not just some zany idea from one
of those Tea Party conservatives in the House; it's coming from a huge
constituency that was responsible for his election.
Barack Obama was swept into office in 2008 and again in 2012 in large
part because of overwhelming support from "millennials." He carried the
youth vote with overwhelming margins of 66 percent in 2008 and 60
percent in 2012. However, results of a new public opinion survey
conducted by Harvard University's Institute of Politics suggest that
the marriage the White House thought would last forever may be on the
rocks.
"A majority of America's youngest adults would vote to recall the president."
And, it goes on to explain:
When asked if they would want to recall various elected officials,
45 percent of millennials said they would oust their member of Congress;
52 percent replied "all members of Congress" should go; and 47 percent
said they would recall Obama. The recall-Obama figure was even higher
among the youngest millennials, ages 18 to 24, at 52 percent. While there is no provision for a public recall of U.S. presidents,
the poll question revealed just how far Obama has fallen in the eyes of
young Americans. IOP (Harvard University's Institute of Politics) director
Trey Grayson called the results a "sea change" attributable to the
generation's outsized and unmet expectations for Obama, as well as their
concerns about the economy, Obamacare and government surveillance.
Unsurprisingly, the President's signature legislation gets a similar
thumbs-down rating from young adults – the ones that were supposed to be
duped into paying a whole lot more for health insurance just because
"He" said it was for the "greater good."
Again, from the National Journal report of the Harvard IOP findings:
According to the poll, 57 percent of millennials disapprove of
Obamacare, with 40 percent saying it will worsen their quality of care
and a majority believing it will drive up costs. Only 18 percent say
Obamacare will improve their care. Among 18-to-29-year-olds currently
without health insurance, less than one-third say they're likely to
enroll in the Obamacare exchanges.
If that holds true, the financial house of cards that ObamaCare was
built on will collapse. Not only will young Americans be disgusted and
disillusioned, but every taxpayer is going to get stuck with the bill,
which means even more angry voters.
Somebody is going to have to fix this mess, and that’s what November 2014 and 2016 will be for. Stay tuned.
While Washington engaged in faux drama of shutdown-and-defund in
October, one Boca Raton doctor did more than any D.C. politician to
challenge Obama’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also
known as Obamacare.
Dr. Larry Kawa, an orthodontist who lives in South Florida, filed suit
“against the U.S. Department of Treasury, Secretary of Treasury Jack
Lew, the Internal Revenue Service and IRS Acting Director Daniel Werfel
challenging the Obama administration’s decision to delay the enactment
of the so-called ‘employer mandate’ provision of the Affordable
Healthcare Act,” said Judicial Watch in a press release.
Judicial Watch, a legal watchdog that investigates charges of public corruption, is litigating on behalf of Kawa.
“In the ACA,” says Kawa, “it says in no uncertain terms the effective
date of the employers mandate shall be January 1st 2014 and somehow the
president, on the first day of an eight day long trip to Africa, decides
that he is going to…waive the employer mandate apart from the will of
Congress, which of course he has no legal authority to do.”
One of the difficulties thus far in suing the administration over
Obamacare has been the lack of judicial “standing.” “Standing” is when a
party can prove that it has been affected by legislation in a way that
translates into economic damages. But the “standing” issue however seems
to have been addressed now: The good doctor isn’t just a healthcare
provider. He’s also a businessman who has spent considerable money
preparing to implement the “employer mandate” in his own business, for
his own employees.
And it’s as a businessman that he seeking injunctive relief from the
courts, asking them to force the implementation of all provisions of
Obamacare, just as Congress directed under the Act.
According to Judicial Watch, Kawa says that he “expended substantial
time and resources, including money spent on legal fees and other costs,
in preparation for the ‘employer mandate’ taking effect on January 1,
2014.”
“The president wants to avoid the consequences of his own law, but
there are ways to do that legally,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton
said.
“We don’t believe there is any discretion for the president to [delay
the implementation of the employer mandate] and we’re asking for the
courts to intervene and uphold the rule of law,” continued Fitton. “And
to paraphrase Ulysses S. Grant, the best way to ensure the repeal of a
bad law is to enforce it vigorously.”
The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the one-year delay in
implementing the employer mandate will cost the federal government $12
billion in federal revenues and other additional expenses. Even the
rosiest scenarios from the administration estimated that Obamacare would
only save about $100 billion dollars to the federal budget over ten
years. The effect therefore of the one-year delay is to scrap more than
one years of savings.
To put these figures in perspective, it currently costs about $10
billion per day to keep the federal government open and operating.
During the 16-day shutdown of the federal government only 17% of the
government was affected, at my estimate of $9.4 billion savings to U.S.
taxpayers for the entire shutdown. Of course, much of that savings was
remediated when Congress paid federal workers for the 16-day vacation.
By liberal math, however, $12 billion in lost tax revenues to the
federal government by delaying the employer mandate is no big deal,
while $ 9.4 billion in savings to taxpayers—less if you add in
remediated wages—is a crime of the worst order, costing the economy
“billions” in economic growth.
Most of the research regarding the delay in Obamacare, however, only
speaks to costs in government revenue. And many analysts ignore
entirely—or trivialize—the cost to business of the delay in the mandate.
“It’s been uttered by every opponent of health care reform: Obamacare
will kill small businesses,” CNN/Money’s Jose Pagliery wrote before the
decision to delay the company mandate. “But the new law’s rules don’t
apply to the vast majority of small businesses. The employer mandate,
which forces firms to start providing insurance in 2014, pertains only
to companies with at least 50 full-time workers. That’s a tiny fraction
of small businesses.”
Maybe, but a billion here, and billion there and we begin to start talking about real money.
According to Pagliery, there are 5.7 million small business employers
of which about 3% or 171,000 have 50 employees or fewer. Kawa claims
that his costs for gearing up for the employer mandate in 2014 were
$5,000. Assuming that similar companies have similar costs, it amounts
to $855 million dollars in lost expenses in 2014, most of which Kawa
contends he’ll have to re-expense for the 2015 Big Company mandate
re-rollout.
That comes out to about 17,000 mean paying jobs for firms who struggle
to be able to afford to make new hires. And where do liberals think big
companies come from?
The big company fairy?
Big and medium sized companies start from smaller companies who scrap
and struggle. The idea is to make it easier, not harder, for them to
hire and grow.
Of course, the Obama administration treats jobs like they are so many
brain cells at a rock concert, to be disposed of, because, hey, there’s
more where they came from.
But there aren’t really. There are barely enough jobs to keep up with population growth.
If we don’t treat small business better, jobs creation will continue to struggle.
“About a year and half ago I decided I had had enough and became a
strong conservative. Before that I was more of a watcher than a doer,”
says Kawa explaining his decision to sue the government. “The activist
is not the one who says the river is dirty, he’s the one who cleans up
the river. And I realized it was time for me to clean up the river.”
Confiscate: New York City Coming For Guns That Hold More Than 5 Rounds
New York City is sending notices to gun-owning residents —
who already must register their weapons and obtain city-specific
ownership permits — telling them they must turn in, dispose of or modify
any rifles or shotguns equipped to fire more than five rounds of
ammunition.
The NYPD is stepping up enforcement of a local gun law that’s been in
place for three years, sending out letters to lawful gun owners giving
them one of the three options.
This is one of those stories that best unfolds by letting the subject
do the talking. Here’s what the letter actually says, with a hat tip to
The Truth About Guns blog for posting its contents (the boldface from the original letter is preserved):
It appears that you are in possession of a Rifle and/or
Shotgun (listed below) that has an ammunition feeding device capable of
holding more than five (5) rounds of ammunition.
Rifles and Shotguns capable of holding more than five (5) rounds
of ammunition are unlawful to possess in New York City, as per NYC
Administrative Code 10-306 (b).
You have the following options:
1. Immediately
surrender your Rifle and/or Shotgun to your local police precinct, and
notify this office of the invoice number. The firearm may be sold or
permanently removed from the City of New York thereafter.
2. Permanently remove your Rifle and/or Shotgun from New York City and provide the following:
Disposition Report/Registration Certificate (PD Form 641-121)
Notarized statement of permanent removal and statement of where the firearm will be stored outside the City of New York
Utility bill or other proof of residency regarding the address where the firearm will be stored outside the City of New York
3. You may call to
discuss the matter if you believe your firearm is in compliance, or you
may request the option to bring your firearm to a licensed gunsmith for a
permanent modification and certification proving that it is permanently
modified and is in compliance. If you are granted the option of seeking
a permanent modification, you must provide proof that the firearm is in
the possession of a licensed gunsmith in a timely manner.
The letter goes on to list whichever offending firearms the resident may be guilty of owning.
The administrative code and ordinances governing New York City gun
ownership is more restrictive than even that of New York State, which
adopted the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act while
the shock of the Newtown, Conn., mass shooting was still fresh. The
city’s confiscation letter pertains not to the SAFE Act, but to city
code.
But the NYPD’s approach could have what New York State Assemblyman James Tedisco described to FOX News as an emboldening effect on local police forces statewide to step up hands-on enforcement of the SAFE Act.
“These letters appear to be another example of the Nanny State,”
Tedisco said. “Hypothetically, it can start with a letter, and then that
can lead to someone knocking on your door saying, ‘I want to see your
gun.’”
Well, isn’t that special? Now that the Obamacare website has
been “fixed” (more on that travesty in a moment), the Administration of
President Barack Obama has announced it will ramp up efforts to build
support for its takeover of the American healthcare system. I can hardly
wait.
TheNew York Timesreported
the Administration is preparing “a daily barrage of more positive
messages about the health care law during the next several weeks — some
to be delivered by Mr. Obama personally.” And it quoted one anonymous
official as promising: “Every day, there will be something coming out of
the White House.”
The new propaganda effort kicked off two days ago, with a speech by
the President to a White House Youth Summit meeting. Interestingly
enough, that was the same day a new poll was released, showing that the
President and his signature healthcare measure have become strikingly
unpopular with a group that used to be his most fervid supporters: the
so-called millennials.
A new poll
from Harvard University’s Institute of Politics confirms just how much
support Obama and his signature healthcare legislation have lost among
young people between the ages of 18 and 29.
The millennials supported Obama in his two Presidential elections by a
huge margin. The poll asked, “If you could re-cast your 2012 vote for
President today, for whom would you vote?” Seventeen percent of the
young Obama voters would not support him.
Boy, how they’ve changed today. To paraphrase an old adage, you can
fool some young people all of the time, and all young people some of the
time. But you can’t fool all of the young people all of the time.
According to the IOP poll, Obama’s overall job approval rating has
plunged 11 percentage points since April and now sits at just 41
percent. A majority of 54 percent now disapprove of his performance. On
many specific issues, Obama’s approval is even lower. For example, only
28 percent approve of his handling of the Federal budget deficit.
(Frankly, I’m surprised that even one out of four young people think
he’s doing a good job here. How bad would it have to get before they
said “enough”?)
It should come as no surprise that the issue that has hurt the
President the most among young people is Obamacare. It seems that a
majority of them have finally figured out that they will be the
financial victims in this scheme.
Only 38 percent of the young people surveyed said they approved of
the program. A plurality told the pollsters that they expected Obamacare
to reduce the quality of their healthcare, while an outright majority
said that they expected it to lead to higher costs for them. They got
that right!
Here’s a statistic that should scare the bejabbers out of the
defenders of Obamacare. Just 22 percent of the young people surveyed
said they expected to sign up for health insurance under Obamacare.
More
than twice as many said they were unlikely to do so. If these numbers
are confirmed by actual results in the coming year, it will be a huge
problem for the redistributionist scheme known as the Affordable Care
Act.
One of the key assumptions behind the plan was that a large number of
healthy young Americans would pay more in premiums than they cost the
system. If this doesn’t happen, there goes Obama’s promise that
Obamacare “won’t add a dime” to the Federal deficit. No, it won’t be a
dime; it will be tens of billions of dollars.
The millennials surveyed are so disgusted with politics today that a
majority of them, some 52 percent, said that they would recall every
member of Congress if it were possible to do so.
But it isn’t just the members of the House and Senate who would feel
their wrath. Almost as many would like to remove Obama from the White
House. Some 47 percent said they would like to recall him, while 46
percent said they would not. Since the margin of error in the poll was
2.1 percent, you can call this one a toss-up.
Those are some pretty grim numbers for Obama supporters. But
according to former President Bill Clinton, in a few more months it will
all be different. “I believe that if the computer problems are all
fixed, and it’s up and running by — and healthy in the next several
weeks,” he told Fusion’s Jorje Ramos. “I think that the damage will be minimal.”
Clinton has certainly benefited more than most people from the
public’s short memory of misdeeds. So it comes as no surprise that he
hopes “within four or five months people will be talking about something
entirely differently.”
Of course all of that optimistic outpouring is predicted on one
dangerous assumption: that the problems with the Obamacare website are
all fixed. That is hardly the case. The best its defenders can say is
that it’s “less prone to errors” than it was. But the system still crashed when CNN tried to use it during a live news broadcast.
Head honcho Kathleen Sebelius offered this helpful piece of advice
to potential enrollees: Go the site during “off-peak hours.” Yeah,
that’s the ticket. Set your alarm clock for 3 o’clock in the morning,
and maybe — just maybe — you’ll be able to get through.
But even then, the process won’t be complete. TheNew York Times offered
up a particularly misleading piece of reporting last Sunday, when it
wrote that the back-end systems “that are supposed to deliver consumer
information to insurers still have not been fixed.”
Of course they haven’t been fixed; they haven’t been built yet!
Remember, it was just more than two weeks ago (on Nov. 19, to be exact)
when Henry Chao, the Administration official in charge of overseeing the
Healthcare.gov website, told a Congressional committee that “the
accounting systems, the payment systems, they still need to be” created.
How can you “fix” something that doesn’t even exist?
Meanwhile, the Administration is gloating that about 100,000 people signed up
for health insurance through the online Federal exchange in November.
To be sure, that’s a substantial increase from the 27,000 people who, in
October, managed to navigate the website and actually select an
insurance plan.
But even the number of enrollees is another example of how the Obama
Administration plays fast and loose with the truth. They count as
“enrolled” anyone who has put a healthcare plan in an online shopping cart.
But to be fully enrolled, a consumer not only has to select a plan,
he must also receive confirmation from an insurance company that they’ve
been accepted. And then he must make his first premium payment. No one
will say how many people have completed the whole process.
Originally, the Administration said it hoped to have 800,000 people
fully enrolled in Obamacare by the end of November. That’s just a
fraction of the millions of Americans who’ve been notified that their
existing health insurance will be canceled at the end of the year. Even so, they are not one-fifth of the way to enrolling 800,000 people.
Yes, the Obamacare story has been one of billions, blunders and
baloney. Expect to see a lot more of all three in the coming weeks and
months.
Until next time, keep some powder dry.
ALL IN THE FAMILY
White House caught in lie about Obama's past
Now admits president's link to illegal-alien relative
The
Obamacare lies have been all over the news lately. Particularly the one
about “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care
plan” that millions of American have learned was a falsehood through
cancellation notices.
Today, the White House changed yet another story in a move Fox News
described as “at best a misrepresentation” and “at worst a big lie.”
It surfaced when Obama’s illegal-alien uncle, who came to the
attention of authorities when he was arrested for allegedly driving
drunk, appeared in court this week. A judge eventually granted Omar
Onyango Obama permission to stay in the U.S. because he had been in the
country so long.
The uncle testified during the hearing that his famous nephew had
stayed at his Cambridge apartment for about three weeks. At the time,
Onyango Obama was in the U.S. illegally and fighting deportation.
He’s the second sibling of the president’s father to face deportation to Kenya since he took office.
Zeituni Onyango, the president’s aunt, won asylum in 2010 after a
federal official disclosed days before Barack Obama’s historic election
in 2008 that she was living illegally in Boston public housing.
President Obama had written in his memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” that he had met Zeituni Onyango.
But his relationship with his uncle, nicknamed Omar, was less clear.
In November 2011, a White House spokesman said he had no record of
the two ever meeting. The Washington Post had also reported that
scholars believed the two had never met.
But the story changed Thursday.
A White House official said the press office had not fully researched
the relationship between the president and his uncle before telling the
Boston Globe it had no record of the two meeting. This time, the press
office claims to have asked the president directly, which it said it had
not done in 2011.
“The president first met Omar Obama when he moved to Cambridge for
law school,” said White House spokesman Eric Schultz. “The president did
stay with him for a brief period of time until his apartment was ready.
After that, they saw each other once every few months, but after law
school they fell out of touch. The president has not seen him in 20
years, has not spoken with him in 10.”
The White House said Obama’s immigration case was handled “without any interference from the president or the White House.”
Commented Peter Kirsanow at at the National Review blog “The Corner”:
“The White House never attempted to correct the record until now,
claiming that in 2011 the press office hadn’t actually asked the
president himself whether he’d lived with Uncle Onyango.”
Kirsanow quipped: “Before “‘misspeaking’ (to use the New York Times
stylebook) about the president’s relationships, it might be a lot easier
if the White House Press Office simply confirmed them with his
composite girlfriends.”
The media found various ways to describe the falsehood in headlines.
“WH admits Obama briefly stayed with uncle,” said The Hill.
“After denial, White House now says Obama lived with uncle,” said the Washington Post.
“President Obama acknowledges having lived with his uncle,” said a Boston report.
“White House makes big admission about Obama’s uncle,” said The Blaze.
“White House changes story on Obama’s uncle,” said USA Today.
And the Globe said, “In reversal, Obama says he lived with uncle.”
Regarding Obamacare, besides the Obama’s lie about Americans being able to keep their coverage and their doctors, WND reported
a Gallup poll showed the entire premise for Obamacare was false,
documenting that most Americans were happy with their health-care and
their insurance and didn’t believe the system was broken and unfixable
would be that the health-care system in the U.S. was disintegrating and needed to be rebuilt by Obama.
on Gallup Politics
that showed Americans “remain generally positive about the quality of
health care they personally receive, their health-care coverage and what
they pay for health care.”
That means, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh explained, that the stated
reason for Obamacare – the claim that the whole health-care system is
broken and unfixable – was wrong.
“Everybody’s been sold a bill of goods,” he said. “Most people are
and have been very happy with the current health-care system.”
Limbaugh said there was “not a massive national problem with health care in America.”
“Seventy percent of the American people were happy with the American health-care system,” he noted.
He said the false information was spread – and repeated – because the
administration “wanted to control it, take it over and reform it.”
If such circumstances had developed among private enterprise, he said, it would constitute “fraud.” WND previously reported on Obama’s uncle, who was arrested in Framingham, Mass., after allegedly driving under the influence and nearly slamming his SUV into a police car.
According to the MetroWest Daily News, Onyango Obama failed a sobriety test after the crash, registering a blood-alcohol level of .14, while the state limit it .08
Onyango had “red and glassy eyes,” was wobbly legged and was “slurring” his speech, according to police reports.
He was ordered held without bail on a federal immigration warrant after his arraignment.
The arrest revealed Onyango’s outstanding deportation orders and his relationship to the president.
Shortly after his arrest, he told an officer, “I think I will call the White House.”
The
Obamacare lies have been all over the news lately. Particularly the one
about “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care
plan” that millions of American have learned was a falsehood through
cancellation notices.
Today, the White House changed yet another story in a move Fox News
described as “at best a misrepresentation” and “at worst a big lie.”
It surfaced when Obama’s illegal-alien uncle, who came to the
attention of authorities when he was arrested for allegedly driving
drunk, appeared in court this week. A judge eventually granted Omar
Onyango Obama permission to stay in the U.S. because he had been in the
country so long.
The uncle testified during the hearing that his famous nephew had
stayed at his Cambridge apartment for about three weeks. At the time,
Onyango Obama was in the U.S. illegally and fighting deportation.
He’s the second sibling of the president’s father to face deportation to Kenya since he took office.
Zeituni Onyango, the president’s aunt, won asylum in 2010 after a
federal official disclosed days before Barack Obama’s historic election
in 2008 that she was living illegally in Boston public housing.
President Obama had written in his memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” that he had met Zeituni Onyango.
But his relationship with his uncle, nicknamed Omar, was less clear.
In November 2011, a White House spokesman said he had no record of
the two ever meeting. The Washington Post had also reported that
scholars believed the two had never met.
But the story changed Thursday.
A White House official said the press office had not fully researched
the relationship between the president and his uncle before telling the
Boston Globe it had no record of the two meeting. This time, the press
office claims to have asked the president directly, which it said it had
not done in 2011.
“The president first met Omar Obama when he moved to Cambridge for
law school,” said White House spokesman Eric Schultz. “The president did
stay with him for a brief period of time until his apartment was ready.
After that, they saw each other once every few months, but after law
school they fell out of touch. The president has not seen him in 20
years, has not spoken with him in 10.”
The White House said Obama’s immigration case was handled “without any interference from the president or the White House.”
Commented Peter Kirsanow at at the National Review blog “The Corner”:
“The White House never attempted to correct the record until now,
claiming that in 2011 the press office hadn’t actually asked the
president himself whether he’d lived with Uncle Onyango.”
Kirsanow quipped: “Before “‘misspeaking’ (to use the New York Times
stylebook) about the president’s relationships, it might be a lot easier
if the White House Press Office simply confirmed them with his
composite girlfriends.”
The media found various ways to describe the falsehood in headlines.
“WH admits Obama briefly stayed with uncle,” said The Hill.
“After denial, White House now says Obama lived with uncle,” said the Washington Post.
“President Obama acknowledges having lived with his uncle,” said a Boston report.
“White House makes big admission about Obama’s uncle,” said The Blaze.
“White House changes story on Obama’s uncle,” said USA Today.
And the Globe said, “In reversal, Obama says he lived with uncle.”
Regarding Obamacare, besides the Obama’s lie about Americans being able to keep their coverage and their doctors, WND reported
a Gallup poll showed the entire premise for Obamacare was false,
documenting that most Americans were happy with their health-care and
their insurance and didn’t believe the system was broken and unfixable
would be that the health-care system in the U.S. was disintegrating and needed to be rebuilt by Obama.
on Gallup Politics
that showed Americans “remain generally positive about the quality of
health care they personally receive, their health-care coverage and what
they pay for health care.”
That means, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh explained, that the stated
reason for Obamacare – the claim that the whole health-care system is
broken and unfixable – was wrong.
“Everybody’s been sold a bill of goods,” he said. “Most people are
and have been very happy with the current health-care system.”
Limbaugh said there was “not a massive national problem with health care in America.”
“Seventy percent of the American people were happy with the American health-care system,” he noted.
He said the false information was spread – and repeated – because the
administration “wanted to control it, take it over and reform it.”
If such circumstances had developed among private enterprise, he said, it would constitute “fraud.” WND previously reported on Obama’s uncle, who was arrested in Framingham, Mass., after allegedly driving under the influence and nearly slamming his SUV into a police car.
According to the MetroWest Daily News, Onyango Obama failed a sobriety test after the crash, registering a blood-alcohol level of .14, while the state limit it .08
Onyango had “red and glassy eyes,” was wobbly legged and was “slurring” his speech, according to police reports.
He was ordered held without bail on a federal immigration warrant after his arraignment.
The arrest revealed Onyango’s outstanding deportation orders and his relationship to the president.
Shortly after his arrest, he told an officer, “I think I will call the White House.”
The
Obamacare lies have been all over the news lately. Particularly the one
about “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care
plan” that millions of American have learned was a falsehood through
cancellation notices.
Today, the White House changed yet another story in a move Fox News
described as “at best a misrepresentation” and “at worst a big lie.”
It surfaced when Obama’s illegal-alien uncle, who came to the
attention of authorities when he was arrested for allegedly driving
drunk, appeared in court this week. A judge eventually granted Omar
Onyango Obama permission to stay in the U.S. because he had been in the
country so long.
The uncle testified during the hearing that his famous nephew had
stayed at his Cambridge apartment for about three weeks. At the time,
Onyango Obama was in the U.S. illegally and fighting deportation.
He’s the second sibling of the president’s father to face deportation to Kenya since he took office.
Zeituni Onyango, the president’s aunt, won asylum in 2010 after a
federal official disclosed days before Barack Obama’s historic election
in 2008 that she was living illegally in Boston public housing.
President Obama had written in his memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” that he had met Zeituni Onyango.
But his relationship with his uncle, nicknamed Omar, was less clear.
In November 2011, a White House spokesman said he had no record of
the two ever meeting. The Washington Post had also reported that
scholars believed the two had never met.
But the story changed Thursday.
A White House official said the press office had not fully researched
the relationship between the president and his uncle before telling the
Boston Globe it had no record of the two meeting. This time, the press
office claims to have asked the president directly, which it said it had
not done in 2011.
“The president first met Omar Obama when he moved to Cambridge for
law school,” said White House spokesman Eric Schultz. “The president did
stay with him for a brief period of time until his apartment was ready.
After that, they saw each other once every few months, but after law
school they fell out of touch. The president has not seen him in 20
years, has not spoken with him in 10.”
The White House said Obama’s immigration case was handled “without any interference from the president or the White House.”
Commented Peter Kirsanow at at the National Review blog “The Corner”:
“The White House never attempted to correct the record until now,
claiming that in 2011 the press office hadn’t actually asked the
president himself whether he’d lived with Uncle Onyango.”
Kirsanow quipped: “Before “‘misspeaking’ (to use the New York Times
stylebook) about the president’s relationships, it might be a lot easier
if the White House Press Office simply confirmed them with his
composite girlfriends.”
The media found various ways to describe the falsehood in headlines.
“WH admits Obama briefly stayed with uncle,” said The Hill.
“After denial, White House now says Obama lived with uncle,” said the Washington Post.
“President Obama acknowledges having lived with his uncle,” said a Boston report.
“White House makes big admission about Obama’s uncle,” said The Blaze.
“White House changes story on Obama’s uncle,” said USA Today.
And the Globe said, “In reversal, Obama says he lived with uncle.”
Regarding Obamacare, besides the Obama’s lie about Americans being able to keep their coverage and their doctors, WND reported
a Gallup poll showed the entire premise for Obamacare was false,
documenting that most Americans were happy with their health-care and
their insurance and didn’t believe the system was broken and unfixable
would be that the health-care system in the U.S. was disintegrating and needed to be rebuilt by Obama.
on Gallup Politics
that showed Americans “remain generally positive about the quality of
health care they personally receive, their health-care coverage and what
they pay for health care.”
That means, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh explained, that the stated
reason for Obamacare – the claim that the whole health-care system is
broken and unfixable – was wrong.
“Everybody’s been sold a bill of goods,” he said. “Most people are
and have been very happy with the current health-care system.”
Limbaugh said there was “not a massive national problem with health care in America.”
“Seventy percent of the American people were happy with the American health-care system,” he noted.
He said the false information was spread – and repeated – because the
administration “wanted to control it, take it over and reform it.”
If such circumstances had developed among private enterprise, he said, it would constitute “fraud.” WND previously reported on Obama’s uncle, who was arrested in Framingham, Mass., after allegedly driving under the influence and nearly slamming his SUV into a police car.
According to the MetroWest Daily News, Onyango Obama failed a sobriety test after the crash, registering a blood-alcohol level of .14, while the state limit it .08
Onyango had “red and glassy eyes,” was wobbly legged and was “slurring” his speech, according to police reports.
He was ordered held without bail on a federal immigration warrant after his arraignment.
The arrest revealed Onyango’s outstanding deportation orders and his relationship to the president.
Shortly after his arrest, he told an officer, “I think I will call the White House.”
The
Obamacare lies have been all over the news lately. Particularly the one
about “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care
plan” that millions of American have learned was a falsehood through
cancellation notices.
Today, the White House changed yet another story in a move Fox News
described as “at best a misrepresentation” and “at worst a big lie.”
It surfaced when Obama’s illegal-alien uncle, who came to the
attention of authorities when he was arrested for allegedly driving
drunk, appeared in court this week. A judge eventually granted Omar
Onyango Obama permission to stay in the U.S. because he had been in the
country so long.
The uncle testified during the hearing that his famous nephew had
stayed at his Cambridge apartment for about three weeks. At the time,
Onyango Obama was in the U.S. illegally and fighting deportation.
He’s the second sibling of the president’s father to face deportation to Kenya since he took office.
Zeituni Onyango, the president’s aunt, won asylum in 2010 after a
federal official disclosed days before Barack Obama’s historic election
in 2008 that she was living illegally in Boston public housing.
President Obama had written in his memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” that he had met Zeituni Onyango.
But his relationship with his uncle, nicknamed Omar, was less clear.
In November 2011, a White House spokesman said he had no record of
the two ever meeting. The Washington Post had also reported that
scholars believed the two had never met.
But the story changed Thursday.
A White House official said the press office had not fully researched
the relationship between the president and his uncle before telling the
Boston Globe it had no record of the two meeting. This time, the press
office claims to have asked the president directly, which it said it had
not done in 2011.
“The president first met Omar Obama when he moved to Cambridge for
law school,” said White House spokesman Eric Schultz. “The president did
stay with him for a brief period of time until his apartment was ready.
After that, they saw each other once every few months, but after law
school they fell out of touch. The president has not seen him in 20
years, has not spoken with him in 10.”
The White House said Obama’s immigration case was handled “without any interference from the president or the White House.”
Commented Peter Kirsanow at at the National Review blog “The Corner”:
“The White House never attempted to correct the record until now,
claiming that in 2011 the press office hadn’t actually asked the
president himself whether he’d lived with Uncle Onyango.”
Kirsanow quipped: “Before “‘misspeaking’ (to use the New York Times
stylebook) about the president’s relationships, it might be a lot easier
if the White House Press Office simply confirmed them with his
composite girlfriends.”
The media found various ways to describe the falsehood in headlines.
“WH admits Obama briefly stayed with uncle,” said The Hill.
“After denial, White House now says Obama lived with uncle,” said the Washington Post.
“President Obama acknowledges having lived with his uncle,” said a Boston report.
“White House makes big admission about Obama’s uncle,” said The Blaze.
“White House changes story on Obama’s uncle,” said USA Today.
And the Globe said, “In reversal, Obama says he lived with uncle.”
Regarding Obamacare, besides the Obama’s lie about Americans being able to keep their coverage and their doctors, WND reported
a Gallup poll showed the entire premise for Obamacare was false,
documenting that most Americans were happy with their health-care and
their insurance and didn’t believe the system was broken and unfixable
would be that the health-care system in the U.S. was disintegrating and needed to be rebuilt by Obama.
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that showed Americans “remain generally positive about the quality of
health care they personally receive, their health-care coverage and what
they pay for health care.”
That means, talk radio host Rush Limbaugh explained, that the stated
reason for Obamacare – the claim that the whole health-care system is
broken and unfixable – was wrong.
“Everybody’s been sold a bill of goods,” he said. “Most people are
and have been very happy with the current health-care system.”
Limbaugh said there was “not a massive national problem with health care in America.”
“Seventy percent of the American people were happy with the American health-care system,” he noted.
He said the false information was spread – and repeated – because the
administration “wanted to control it, take it over and reform it.”
If such circumstances had developed among private enterprise, he said, it would constitute “fraud.” WND previously reported on Obama’s uncle, who was arrested in Framingham, Mass., after allegedly driving under the influence and nearly slamming his SUV into a police car.
According to the MetroWest Daily News, Onyango Obama failed a sobriety test after the crash, registering a blood-alcohol level of .14, while the state limit it .08
Onyango had “red and glassy eyes,” was wobbly legged and was “slurring” his speech, according to police reports.
He was ordered held without bail on a federal immigration warrant after his arraignment.
The arrest revealed Onyango’s outstanding deportation orders and his relationship to the president.
Shortly after his arrest, he told an officer, “I think I will call the White House.”
Not all world leaders are also heroes. Nelson Mandela, however, was both.
President Mandela left the world stage today, but he will remain a model
for those who lead and seek to promote the ideals of human dignity,
freedom and democratic values.
I never met Mandela, though I got close. Two years ago, I joined former
President Clinton in his visit to see Mandela in South Africa as part of
his Clinton Foundation mission to the continent. Even at that time
Mandela was ailing.
But in my visit to South Africa, I saw his handiwork and how one man can
make a difference for the betterment of his country and for mankind.
I recall visiting the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg. Much like our
Holocaust Museum and Yad Vashem, it seeks to reveal the horrors of human
barbarity, in this case, South Africa’s system of racial segregation.
Yet this museum did more than that, it told the story of apartheid through the life and eyes of Nelson Mandela.
During his almost three decades of incarceration, Mandela was derided by
the ruling white Afrikaners as a Marxist revolutionary. The Cold War,
for many in the West, seemed to excuse the inexcusable.
It was clear visiting the Apartheid Museum that if Mandela was a
Marxist, it was only because he felt there was little alternative for
him to fight for his people.
Our museum guide explained that Mandela himself had played an important
role in shaping the museum, which helped me understand his thinking.
Exhibits detailed Mandela’s long admiration for Great Britain, its
parliamentary system, and his hope that South Africa would emulate not
only its institutions, but its sense of fair play and justice.
One exhibit that made an impression was a video of then President
Mandela in his office, dressed in a business suit, greeting the
8-year-old son of a member of his cabinet.
Mandela talked to the boy in a fatherly way about his aspirations,
encouraging the child to do well in school and do the best he could in
life. It was just like an American dad encouraging his son to capture
the American dream. These were not the words or thoughts of a Marxist
revolutionary.
Indeed, Mandela, upon release from prison, rejected the Marxist model of
Fidel Castro and the dictatorship that Robert Mugabe chose for a
liberated Zimbabwe. Instead, he chose to have his nation walk the path
of Martin Luther King Jr and Gandhi, embracing the ideals of non
violence and forgiveness. Apartheid was an evil and brutal system, but
Mandela believed that a focus on the past would not solve the problems
of the present and future.
Later on the trip our delegation visited Robben Island, the penal colony
near Cape Town. It was there that Mandela and his imprisoned ANC
members suffered harshly. Our guide for the prison tour was a fellow
ANC inmate who shared his experiences with Mandela.
What struck me was how happy our guide seemed. He, like Mandela, had discovered true freedom through their suffering.
The tiny cell in which Mandela spent most of his time, a room as large
as a small bathroom or a walk-in closet, had a mat on the concrete floor
for him to sleep on. The large window was barred. After a brief period
in a common room for meals, a room that did not afford the prisoners
chairs or tables, Mandela and his fellow inmates spent most of the day
in a prison courtyard physically breaking rocks under the heat of the
sun.
The obvious question I had was how he could survive this for 27 years?
Mandela spent 18 years on Robben Island! How did he not avoid going
stark raving mad?
He not only survived, but became an incredibly balanced man, one whose
virtue and leadership propelled him to not only become the father of
country, but an iconic leader for hundreds of millions around the world.
I do not have the full answers as to how Mandela overcame this oppression.
But I do believe that Mandela discovered a power deep within the human
spirit, one that Solzhenitsyn wrote about from his own Gulag
experiences, and detailed in his fictional "One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich," that no one person, no system of government can ever really
steal one’s God given freedom.
And Mandela also understood that our freedom is inexplicably linked to others.
As Mandela wrote, “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's
chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of
others.”
Amazing Deer
Stare at the antlers for awhile. There is a message there….. Blessings, ME
After
a minute or two of staring through my scope, I dropped my rifle in the
grass,
fell to my knees, and prayed for this blessed creature.
May he
live forever....
Op-ed:
‘Moderate’ muslims…a non-existent politically correct fabricationof the left By: Diane Sori
The sharia…soft jihad against the West stealthily creeping its way
into the fabric of our American society with its repressive laws and
lack of freedoms. The sharia…the antithesis of everything our
Constitution and Bill of Rights expounds. The sharia brings to the
forefront the question...are there really any moderate muslims?
My answer to that question is a simple NO.
Islam…the supposed ‘religion of peace' is anything but for if one is a
follower of islam one takes the words of the qur’an to heart as the
words of god (little ‘g’ for allah is a false god and NOT the one true living God of we
Christians and Jews), and lives those words as allah commands. And as
allah commands means at least 109 verses that tell the followers of
islam…the muslims…in NO uncertain terms to kill the infidels…meaning
us…with few words...few verses that tolerate or accept non-believers.
The concepts of humiliation and denigration runs rampant within the
qur’an’s verses leaving non-believers to either convert or die…it really
does all boil down to that. So if one truly follows islam and the words
of the qur’an one simply cannot be a ‘moderate’ muslim for moderate
views do NOT call for the death of those who do NOT follow their ways.
The qur’an can be summed up in this one verse, Sura 9.5: “So when the
sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you
find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for
them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the
poor-rate, leave their way free to them.”
In other words, convert or die…NOT moderation by any means.
And while some muslims in this country claim to be ‘secular’ or ‘moderate’ that
concept is really non-existent for one cannot be secular and embrace
Western culture and be a muslim embracing the qur’an's words to kill the
infidels at the same time. Western culture separates organized religion
from matters of state, while islam is all about control over every
aspect of one’s life…from how one conducts oneself in terms of one’s
religious life to how one is adjudicated punishment if one breaks the
law. And here is where the sharia comes in as more and more supposed
‘moderate' muslim communities across the US are embracing said sharia as
their governance of choice.
And how can ‘moderate’ muslims truly exist in any form when on 9/11
so-called ‘moderates’ were celebrating the deaths of 3000 Americans by
dancing in the streets all across America. And those who did NOT
outwardly celebrate remained silent in their condemnation of those that
did. Silence can and does speak louder than words and in the so-called
'moderate's' silence then…and their continuing silence now…that silence
speaks of condoning for if one does NOT vocally condemn one does indeed
condone. And even today when an act of jihad does occur those supposed
‘moderate’ voices still remain silent. The silence of ‘moderate’
voices over Benghazi and the Boston Marathon Bombing are but two cases
in point,
as it sadly seems that the only thing keeping those who call themselves
‘moderates’ from outwardly supporting the jihadis is fear, and the fact
that they
are but a small minority of the American populace.
And that mindset must be changed above all else for silence against
the jihadis will forever cast those who call themselves ‘moderates’ as
outsiders…and rightly so.
The muslim countries, specifically those in the Middle East, show NO
signs of secularism nor any signs of moderation…as islam continues to
wrap its tentacles around every miniscule detail of its followers lives
until it figuratively and sometimes literally squeezes the very life out of
one’s body.
Here in America the outward signs might NOT be so obvious
to the casual observer as muslims might work alongside us…send their
children to our schools…go shopping in our stores...dress somewhat like us
(the hajib 'head bag' and burqa 'garbage bag' do rear their ugly head on
more and more occasions it seems) yet even those who call themselves
‘moderates’ want special allowances made for them just to call attention
to themselves. Using attention seeking as a way to promote islam…as in
do every and anything including lying and living falsely (taqiyya) to promote and
integrate islam into our society…to take over our society…the
so-called ‘moderates’ are actually following the commands set down in
the qur’an and therefore are NOT ‘moderates’ at all.
In muslim society, even muslim society here in America’s muslim
communities, individual freedoms continue to get lost amongst both the
arbitrarily adjudicated rules of the sharia and the strict commands of
the qur’an, while the traditions and worship practices that define
religiousness will continue to keep muslims living here from ever
becoming true ‘moderates’ in any sense of the word that we view moderate
anything as being.
American society…both culturally, religiously, and politically…must
NEVER accept the false concept of a ‘moderate’ muslim let alone a
‘moderate’ muslim society until those who call themselves ‘moderates’
stand up en-masse and shout in loud and clear voices their condemnation
of the jihadis…of the extremists…of the mullahs and imams who spread
hate and perpetrate violence…and who then must shout in those same loud and
clear voices their love for and allegiance to America…to our
Constitution…and to America’s rules of law alone.
And so while Barack HUSSEIN Obama (I will NOT call him president)
continues to claim that “the United States is a Muslim nation” we know
the truth in that lie as well as we know the truth that a ‘moderate’
muslim is a non-existent, politically correct fabrication of the left and probably
will always remain so.
