Barack Obama -- June 24, 2009

June 24, 2009

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Barack Hussein Obama

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WND Drops The Eligibility Ball	Leo Donofrio believes that World Net Daily White House Correspondent Les Kinsolving recently had the chance to ask Obama’s Press Secretary Gibbs a question about the eligibility issue and he fumbled at the golden goal. Whether they know it or not, WND is causing massive distraction by feeding the birth certificate smokescreen more and more fire while consistently failing to concentrate national focus on the core legal issue -- Obama admits to being a British citizen at birth and therefore could not have been a "natural born citizen" of the United States as is required by the Constitution. Phil at Right Side of Life has the most in depth coverage and actual video footage of the WND-White House Experience. Fox News and the London Times also covered the eligibility issue and Phil has all of that at the link above. I am very concerned that the amount of serious media attention the birth certificate issue is currently generating is NOT due to some mass awakening of citizens but rather a calculated device put in place by the powers that be as a set up for crushing the eligibility movement once and for all. One of these days the Obama administration might serve up for your culinary consumption the most perfect long form birth certificate you could ever imagine. Hawaii officials will vouch for its authenticity under oath if need be. And numerous forensic experts will substantiate its veracity. Then the POTUS eligibility movement is going to look like a vast nutjob right wing conspiracy. And the ineligible one will be so much stronger and more powerful for it. The BC thing is a side dish, not the main course. Any discussion of the BC issue should be subordinate to the dual nationality issue. Continue reading here . . .
The Adolescent Angst Of Obama	Michael Barone says there is a tendency for newly installed presidents, like adolescents suddenly liberated from adult supervision, to do the exact opposite of what their predecessors did. Presidents of both parties indulge in this behavior, though Democrats who campaign as candidates of hope and change are more likely to do so. Some of this is a legitimate response to the political process: Voters tend to elect presidents who seem to possess qualities and views they thought lacking in their predecessors. But some of it, and especially in the case of Barack Obama, seems to come from an adolescent-like confidence that everything done by those who came before is (insert your own generation’s expletive here). We have seen this spectacularly in the dozen days since the June 12 Iranian election. Back in July 2007, Obama said that he would meet with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and other tyrants without preconditions. Grown-up squares like George W. Bush wouldn’t talk to these guys, so as the avatar of the generation of hope and change, Obama would. Obama figured he was cool enough to get the mullahs to agree to renounce nuclear weapons and all that hate stuff. Obama has held to this ever since. Continue reading here . . .
Obama’s Claim Of 46 Million Uninsured Americans	An Arizona orthopedic surgeon testified in Congress on Tuesday that Obama's claim that 46 million Americans don’t have health insurance is not accurate because it does not reflect exactly who those people are and why they are "uninsured." Dr. Eric Novack testified before the House Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Health about the Obama administration’s proposed health care legislation. Afterward, he told CNSNews.com that the Obama administration's claim that there are 46 million uninsured people in America includes people with different health care scenarios and that combining them together in one number is misleading. "If we start breaking down those numbers a bit -- and again these will be round numbers -- but about 9 to 10 million of those people are in the country illegally," Novack said. Another 15 million are what he called "chronically uninsured," because of pre-existing health problems or other mitigating factors "We have young people between 18 and 30, probably about another 10 million or so, they’d rather buy applications for their iPhone than buy health insurance," Novack said. He said some of the approximately 46 million Americans referred to by Obama and members of the subcommittee include others who may be eligible for existing government health care programs, such as S-Chip and Medicaid, but don’t sign up. Novack said Congress should consider the numbers he claimed will be more useful when crafting health care legislation. "The solution that we should be seeking out is not to change the health care of the other 97 percent of Americans," Novack said. "Let’s seek solutions the best we can to make things better, make health care more accessible, and more affordable for the (other) three percent." Watch this related video.
He Thinks You're Stupid	Powerline blog's John Hinderaker reports that in his press conference today, Obama talked about the cap-and-trade energy tax that the Democrats are trying to ram through Congress. Obama's nose grew a couple of inches as he uttered this howler: "At a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air we breathe." The idea that the energy tax will come to rest with "polluters" -- that is to say, power companies, manufacturers, agribusinesses, and so on -- is absurd. The cost will be passed on to consumers, as Obama himself admitted during a moment of candor during the campaign, when he said that electricity costs would "skyrocket" under his cap-and-trade proposal. Obama isn't dumb enough to believe that the many billions of dollars in costs that his proposal will impose on energy companies, etc., will somehow disappear thereafter. But he thinks you are. Meanwhile, others are putting out information, rather than disinformation, on the disaster that is Waxman-Markey. Like the National Mining Association, which produced this map showing, state by state, how many millions of dollars in costs will be imposed on each state annually under the bill's allowance allocation formula. Click to enlarge: Here in Minnesota, we can look forward to an additional $100 million+ in costs to be paid for annually by taxpayers and energy consumers. Go here to learn much more. Waxman-Markey would be a very stupid bill even if it were true that 1) the earth is getting warmer, 2) human activity is mostly responsible for climate changes, and 3) a warmer earth would be a bad thing. Given that all three of these premises are false -- we cannot, in fact, control the weather -- Waxman-Markey is a suicidal monument to human folly. Scott adds: And enacting Obamacare is mandatory in order to save money. As I stated here, the Obama administratoin's operative political theory is that the American people are incredibly dumb.
New Protections for Transgender Federal Workers	Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees, officials said Tuesday. The guidelines will be in an updated federal handbook for managers and supervisors to be distributed and posted online in the next couple of months, and they could also be included in other materials for managers. They will list transgender people -- those who identify their gender differently from the information on their birth certificates -- as among several groups protected by antidiscrimination laws. Though transgender men and women are not believed to make up more than a fraction of a percent of the federal work force, their inclusion in the discrimination guidelines is seen as a breakthrough by transgender and gay rights advocates. "The president is making a very clear statement that transgender people won’t be discriminated against," said Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, a group that has been talking with the White House about the new provisions. Continue reading here . . . Obama keeps his priorities in order -- he ignores Iran, he ignores North Korea and he ignores the Somali pirates, but he's on top of the transgender agenda.