Barack Obama -- April 8, 2009

April 8, 2009

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Obama once dressed as
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Obama Flunks	With more than 1.8 million responses to a MSNBC poll, Obama has earned a grade of "F" for his performance in office. He received a failing mark in anMSNBC online survey after having spent less than three months in the White House. In its "Give President Obama a Grade" survey, MSNBC asked nearly 2 million respondents, "If you were grading Barack Obama on his performance as president, what would he get?" The largest number of respondents -- or 43 percent -- gave Obama an "F" -- a failing grad. Approximately 31 percent said the president has earned an "A," while 6.5 percent gave him a "B," 5.3 percent answered a "C" and 14 percent said he has earned a "D." What's really remarkable about this poll is that MSNBC's viewers are drawn to this rabidly liberal news outlet by wing-nuts such as Keith Olbermann, Chris "Tingles" Matthews and the boys and girls of "Today."
A Radical at State	Kathy Shaidle and John Perazzo, writing at FrontPageMagazine.com say that if President Obama had hoped to avoid the controversy that has stalked some of his previous appointments, his selection of jurist and self-described "activist" Harold Koh to become the State Department’s top legal advisor must be judged a disappointment. Until recently, Koh served as the head of Yale Law School. In that prominent and influential position, he offered opinions reflecting his staunch "transnationalist" views -- that is, Koh believes that distinctions between U.S. law and international law should be eliminated -- inevitably in favor of the latter’s latest anti-American whims. According to his writings, Harold Koh thinks it is "appropriate for the Supreme Court to construe our Constitution in light of foreign and international law" when "American legal rules seem to parallel those of other nations;" when "foreign courts have applied standards roughly comparable to our own constitutional standards in roughly comparable circumstances;" and "when a U.S. constitutional concept, by its own terms, implicitly refers to a community standard." Koh’s legal premises are highly controversial. The Center for Security Policy’s Frank Gaffney Jr. observes that, in effect, Koh "favors U.S. submission to the International Criminal Court." According to Gaffney, Koh "has been an unalloyed enthusiast" for the "lawfare" being practiced abroad by provocateurs like Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, who wants to prosecute former Bush advisors for allegedly permitting "torture" at Guantanamo Bay prison. Indeed, Koh himself has promised to dismantle many of the national security policies put in place by the Bush administration as part of the ongoing War on Terror. Lamenting America’s "obsessive focus on the War on Terror," Koh proposes to replace it with what he calls a "global human rights policy." According to Koh, this means that "[W]e need to stop pushing for double standards in human rights. If we believe that human rights are universal, we must respect them, even for suspected terrorists.... And as a matter of universal principle, we must give all detainees basic humane treatment, however heinous they may be." As these views suggest, Koh views terrorism not as a form of warfare that warrants a military response, but rather as a legal matter to be addressed in a courtroom. He maintains that even if the actual perpetrators of 9/11 were to have been somehow captured alive, insisting that "the United States must try, not lynch, them to promote four legal values higher than vengeance: holding them accountable for their crimes against humanity; telling the world the truth about those crimes; reaffirming that such acts violate all norms of civilized society; and demonstrating that law-abiding societies, unlike terrorists, respect human rights by channeling retribution into criminal punishment for even the most heinous outlaws." In keeping with his view that terrorists deserve every legal privilege, Koh argues that they must be tried in civilian courts rather than military tribunals. Tellingly, Koh believes that the great virtue of civilian trials is that they stand a better chance of winning the approval of the international community. "The strongest argument against military commissions is not legal, but political," he has written. "Military commissions create the impression of kangaroo courts, not legitimate accountability mechanisms.… To truly win a global war against terrorism, the U.S. must not only apply, but also be universally seen to be applying, credible justice. Credible justice for international crimes demands tribunals that are fair and impartial both in fact and in appearance. By their very nature, military tribunals fail this test." Continues here . . .
Obama Invites The OIC To The White House	Since taking office Obama has focused on three things -- the transformation of our capitalistic economy to a form of socialist statist fascism, the abdication of American sovereignty to a trans-nationalism and the advancement of the worldwide domination of Islam, the ultimate goal of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). There is conspiracy theory and conspiracy fact -- the global jihad is conspiracy fact. And the OIC is behind it. The Secretary General of the OIC, Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, had the occasion yesterday on the sidelines of the 2nd Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations (AoC), to have a brief encounter with Obama. The encounter took place during the official reception given by Turkish Prime Minister, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, where Obama reiterated to the Secretary General the willingness and readiness of the U. S. Administration to explore areas of cooperation with the OIC. To this end, Obama extended an invitation to Prof. Ihsanoglu to visit the White House in Washington D.C. Bat Ye'or, the world's leading scholar on Islam, has this to say about the OIC: The OIC is one of the largest intergovernmental organizations in the world. It encompasses 56 Muslim states plus the Palestinian Authority. Spread over four continents, it claims to speak in the name of the ummah (the universal Muslim community), which numbers about 1.3 billion. The OIC’s mission is to unite all Muslims worldwide by rooting them in the Koran and the Sunnah -- the core of traditional Islamic civilization and values. It aims at strengthening solidarity and cooperation among all its members, in order to protect the interests of Muslims everywhere and to galvanize the ummah into a unified body. The OIC is a unique organization -- one that has no equivalent in the world. It unites the religious, economic, military, and political strength of 56 states. By contrast, the European Union represents half as many states and is a secular body only, and the Vatican -- which speaks for the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics -- is devoid of any political or military power. Many Muslims in the West resist the OIC’s tutelage and oppose its efforts to supplant Western law with sharia. But the OIC’s resources are formidable. The organization has numerous subsidiary institutions collaborating at the highest levels with international organizations in order to implement its political objectives worldwide. Its main working bodies are the Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), which seeks to impose on the West the Islamic perception of history and civilization; the Observatory of Islamophobia, which puts pressure on Western governments and international bodies to adopt laws punishing "Islamophobia" and blasphemy; and the newly created Islamic International Court of Justice. As stated in its 1990 Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, the OIC is strictly tied to the principles of the Koran, the Sunnah, and the sharia. In a word, the OIC seeks to become the reincarnation of the Caliphate. The OIC regularly reiterates its commitments to protecting the political, historical, religious, and human rights of Muslims in non-OIC states, especially Muslims who form the majority in specific regions of non-Muslim countries -- such as the southern Philippines, southern Thailand, and western Thrace in Greece -- as well as Muslims in places like the Balkans, the Caucasus, Myanmar, India, and China. The OIC supports Hamas and the Palestinians in their struggle to destroy Israel, as well as the Muslim fight for "legitimate self-determination" in "Indian-occupied Jammu and Kashmir." It has condemned the "continual Armenian aggression against Azerbaijan," and it expresses its full solidarity with "the just cause of the Muslim Turkish people of Cyprus" and with Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, whom many hold responsible for encouraging the massacres in Darfur. The seat of the OIC is in Jeddah, but the organization regards that location as temporary: Its headquarters will be transferred to al-Kods (Islamized Jerusalem) when that city has been "liberated" from Israeli control. In its efforts to defend the "true image" of Islam and combat its defamation, the organization has requested the UN and the Western countries to punish "Islamophobia" and blasphemy. Among the manifestations of Islamophobia, in the OIC’s view, are European opposition to illegal immigration, anti-terrorist measures, criticism of multiculturalism, and indeed any efforts to defend Western cultural and national identities. The OIC has massive funding from oil sources, which it lavishly spends on the Western media and academia and in countless "dialogues." It influences Western policy, laws, and even textbooks through pressures brought by Muslim immigrants and by the Western nations' own leftist parties. Hence, we have seen Kristallnacht-like incitements of hate and murder against European Jews and Israel conducted with impunity in the cities of Europe -- where respect for human rights is supposed to be one of the highest values. More at Atlas Shrugs . . .
Lefties Plan To Disrupt Tea Parties	Acts of protest tend to be synonymous with the left and are usually considered unsurprising on the right. However, when conservatives demonstrate -- liberals take notice in a big way. On Fox News Channel's April 7 "Your World," host Neil Cavuto reported that the Tax Day tea party protests on April 15 will be "infiltrated" by their political opponents and led by left-wing activist organizations. He specifically named Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). "Only eight days before a nationwide tea party, some over-caffeinated crashers aiming to lay waste to it," Cavuto said. "Reports of very well-organized infiltrators trying to mix in and rain on this parade. Talk about taxing." The Huffington Post has even set up a Web site for so-called citizen journalists to infiltrate the protests. "The Huffington Post wants to have citizen journalists at as many of these events as possible," Arthur Delaney wrote for The Huffington Post on April 7. "If you think you'd be interested in attending one of the Tea Parties and reporting back to us with dispatches, photos, or video, click here to sign up. We'll contact you shortly with further instructions." If you sign-up, you receive an automated message from Matthew Palevsky, the Huffington Post's associate editor of citizen journalism. "Thanks for becoming a Tea Party Reporter," the e-mail from Palevsky says. "This e-mail is just a quick confirmation that we have received your contact info and will email you our plans during the coming week. In the meantime, we'd love to hear your thoughts. Whether they be questions, suggestions or story ideas, share them with us at submissions+ideas@ huffingtonpost.com."