Obama says public tired of hearing about his former pastor

[Lord Obama]

Lord Obama is quite distressed because you peasants have not been sending in your mandatory tithes to the campaign. We are falling behind in gouging you for contributions to keep Lord Obama in the manner he is accustomed to. Immediately send in your mandatory tithes or risk the rath of Lord Obama. May the farce be with you peasants!

[Jim Says]

The second study of Reagan that I promised.

Reagan Foreign Policy Success:

Reagan dealt with foreign terrorists and usurpers quickly and decisively. Warned of a possible Cuban takeover of the little Caribbean nation of Grenada in 1983, he ordered in troops to thwart Castro’s invasion. When a terrorist bombing in 1986 of a West German disco frequented by American GI’s was linked to the radical Islamic state of Libya and its unpredictable dictator Muammar al Qaddafi, Reagan authorized the bombing of the terrorist camps. American aircraft also struck Qaddafi’s home, but the colonel was not home when the bombs fell. Nevertheless, he got the message, and Libya dropped off the international terrorist radar screen for the remainder of the decade. World terrorism fell sharply alongside the declining power of the Soviet Union, to the point where the number of reported incidents by 1987 was about half that of 1970.

Only in one foreign policy situation - removal of the communist government in Nicaragua - was Reagan unable to make the progress he had hoped for. The communist regime in Nicaragua under Daniel Ortega, funded and equipped by Castro, not only gave the Soviets a foothold on the Central American mainland, but it also provided a staging area for terrorist activities against neighbors, such as El Salvador and Honduras. Reagan was committed to evicting Ortega’s regime by supporting the pro-American rebels in his country, the contras. Congressional democrats had continually thwarted any assistance to the contras, raising fears again and again of another Vietnam. Despite Reagan’s concerns that Nicaragua could become a second Cuba, the democrats turned back several aid packages. Frustration over this festering problem mounted within the administration.

[Jim Says]

Later, in his dealings with the USSR, Reagan added yet one more strategic objective, known as the Reagan doctrine. Rather than contain the Soviet Union, the United States should actively attempt to roll it back. Freedom, he observed,“is not the sole prerogative of a lucky few, but the inalienable and universal right of all human beings.” He predicted that “Marxism-Leninism would be tossed on the ash heap of history like all other forms of tyranny that precede it.” I wonder what he would think to see someone so close to the presidency who seems to embrace that very thinking?

It was all that point that the new computer information sector converged with Reagan’s steadfast goal of defeating Soviet communism to produce one of the most amazing wonder weapons of all time. Perhaps the most amazing thing about it - the weapon was a space based defense shield called Star Wars - was that it was not built and still not been truly deployed, other than a test on a falling satellite.

Computer technologies played a critical role in ending the cold war but only when they were placed in the policy “hands” of a leader who had the insight to use them to the fullest advantage. That leader was Ronald Reagan. In his first press conference, the president announced his opposition to the SALT II treaty, which the Senate had not passed in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Announcing his intention to rectify the imbalance in forces between the United States and the USSR, Reagan signaled to the communist leadership that he would never allow the Soviet Union to attain military superiority. It was a message that terrified the entrenched Soviet leadership. In one of a Yuri Andropov’s final decrees before stepping down from his fifteen year term as chairman of the KGB, he stated that the most pressing objective of all Soviet spies, whatever their rank or specialty, was to ensure that Reagan was not reelected, according to Andrew and Mitrokhin in “Sword and the Shield.”. Soviet resistance only convinced Reagan all the more. In short order, Reagan had authorized the construction of one hundred B-1 bombers, continued funding of the controversial B-2 Stealth bomber, commissioned a speedy review of the MX missile to determine the most survivable deployment disposition, and ordered the armed forces to deploy cruise missiles on all available platforms. At the same time that he ditched SALT II, Reagan offered genuine reductions under the new Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), but movement from the Soviet side occurred only after the Reagan build up. Moreover, the powerful Trident submarines went on station under Reagan’s watch, and so, in a heartbeat of time, the window of vulnerability America found her self in under Carter slammed shut.

[Jim Says]

Speaking to the American Association of Evangelicals, Reagan gave it another twist when he told the audience that “appeasement is folly” and that they could not ignore the “aggressive impulses of an evil empire.” Intellectuals and the media were angered and dumbfounded by the speech, which was received quite differently behind the Iron Curtain. Two former Soviet historians later reminded westerners,“The Soviet Union finds life giving energy only in expansionism and an aggressive foreign policy.”

The “evil empire” speech paved the way for one of the most momentous events of the post WWII era. On March 23rd, 83, in a television address, after revealing previously classified photographs of new Soviet weapons and installations in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Grenada, and reviewing the Soviet advantage in heavy missiles, Reagan surprised even many of his supporters by calling for a massive national commitment to build a defense against ballistic missiles. He urged scientists and engineers to use any and all new technologies, including, but not limited to, laser-beam weapons in space.

A hostile press immediately disparaged the program, calling it Star Wars, but unwittingly the media and critics had only underscored the moral superiority of the system. In the movie Star Wars everyone knew that Luke was the good guy and the evil empire was a decrepit and corrupt dictator, much like the Soviet tyrants. Reagan’s concept baffled reporters and Washington liberal elites who secretly viewed it as lacking sufficient intellectual weight. Stu Spencer, a political strategist, explained why Reagan was at once so popular with the public and so despised by the chattering classes: Reagan’s solutions to problems were always the same as the guy in the bar.”

[Jim Says]

The Gipper had always viewed MAD as an insane policy. He told Lou Cannon,“It’s like you and me sitting here in a discussion where we are each pointing a loaded gun at each other, and if you say anything wrong, or I say something wrong, we’re both going to pull the trigger.” As early as 1967 he had been asking scientists and engineers about the technology of defeating ICBMs with antimissiles. He found support from Admiral James Watkins, the chief of naval operations, a devout Catholic who hated MAD and was outraged by a pastoral letter from the U.S. Catholic bishops condemning the nuclear arms race without ever implicating the USSR as its cause. Watkins and army General John Vessey were encouraged to get beyond MAD thinking that had shackled the USA for 20 years.

Kremlin insiders were terrified about the proposed program, largely because they knew it would work. Since the early 70s, Soviet scientists and engineers had conducted a dedicated program of testing for ruby quartz lasers and charged particle beam weapons. When confronted by the massive cost of such weapons the Soviet Union gave up on lasers in favor of blunt instruments like the single warhead silo buster missiles. The SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) or Star Wars intended use was to render obsolete, once and for all, much of the USSR’s advantage in nuclear missiles.

Reagan and national security advisor, Robert McFarlane, both despised the MAD strategy, believing it was both immoral and destabilizing. It locked the country into a position of barely staying even with the Soviets instead of permitting opportunities to seek superiority. Once he and McFarlane agreed on SDI, it took only a year to flesh out and propose in a national policy initiative. Star Wars was an example of Reagan’s ability to grasp a big new idea, simplify it, and sell it to the American people with consummate skill. He wanted reductions, not limitations, but he knew that the Soviets would never negotiate while they held all the cards. Star Wars changed all that, literally in the space of an hour.

[Jim Says]

In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the new general secretary of the Soviet Union, and was immediately celebrated in the western media as a new type of communist who, journalist contended, understood incentives. He was lauded as a sophisticated and sensible reformer; however, he differed little from his three predecessors. He did admit that the Soviet Union was in trouble. A dedicated Marxist-Leninist, married to a teacher of Marxism-Leninism, Gorbachev had no intention of abandoning the dream of victory over the West. When Gorbachev ascended to power, he intuitively concluded that the last hope of Soviet communism lay at “Euro missiles,” and Soviet propagandists mounted a massive campaign to intimidate the Europeans into demanding the removal of the NATO weapons. Soviet spy Vaili Mitrokhin reported that the KGB was confident it “possessed a nerve hold on Western public opinion when it came to European attitudes toward the United States and NATO.

Still attempting to shape American public opinion, the Soviet supported and funded the nuclear freeze movement, which sought to freeze all new construction or deployment of nuclear weapons, leaving the Soviets with a huge strategic advantage. This included a status quo ante, that would return Europe to its condition before the missiles were installed. Virtually the entire European left mobilized, using massive parades and demonstrations to intimidate the NATO governments.

Reagan appreciated Gorbachev’s position, and he sensed in him a Russian leader who could actually be approached on a personal level. In 85 at a Geneva meeting, Reagan managed to get Gorbachev away from his advisers, just the two men and their interpreters and he spoke plainly face to face. Reagan told Gorbachev bluntly,“You can’t win in an arms race”, then he offered the olive branch by inviting the Russian to America. Gorbachev accepted, and then insisted Reagan come to Moscow. Meeting privately the leaders of the two superpowers had accomplished far more than their advisers ever thought possible.

[Jim Says]

Not since 1972 had a starker contrast been put before the American electorate than in the election of 84. Reagan’s conservatism had ridden a wave of triumph since 1980. The tax cuts had produced a tremendous boom, the stock market had taken off, and the armed forces were resupplied and rearmed. More important the nation had shaken off much of the self doubt that had lingered since Vietnam and deepened under Carter. Reagan crushed Mondale, winning every state but Mondale’s home state of Minnesota, and nearly won there as well.

The phenomenal expansion put in place by the tax cuts in 81 had produced astonishing growth. Contrary to Reagan’s critics, who claim the “rich got rich and the poor got poorer,” the blessings reached across the entire racial and class strata of American life. From 82 to 88; per capita income for whites rose 14% and for blacks 18% compared to the Carter years of 2.4% for whites and 1% for blacks. Black unemployment was cut in half under Reagan, with 2.6 million African Americans joining the labor force, and the number of black families in the highest income bracket 50k and over rose by 86%.

In 1987, Ronald Reagan while visiting the Berlin Wall in one of history’s most memorable moments, he demanded,“Mr, Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”

[Lord Obama]

Please see my previous post. Thank You !

[Vet]

Posing the first question in a Denver town hall meeting yesterday, a Vietnam veteran challenged Sen. John McCain on his Senate voting record regarding veteran’s issues, remarking he had voted against increasing vets health funding four years in a row. Ignoring the veteran’s point, McCain testily — and repeatedly — insisted that he had “received every award from every major veteran’s organization in America”:

MCCAIN: I’ve received every award from every major veteran’s organization in America. The reason why I have a perfect voting record from organizations like the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion and all the other veteran’s service organizations is because of my support of them.

VETERAN: You do not have a perfect voting record by the DAV and the VFW. That’s where these votes were recorded. These votes were proposals by your colleagues in the Senate to increase health care of the VA in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 for troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. And you voted against those proposals.[…]

MCCAIN: I’ve been endorsed in every election by every veterans organization that do that, I’ve been supported by them, and I’ve received their highest awards from all of those organizations. So I guess they don’t know something you know.

McCain has made the exact same claim before — and it is just a false today as it was then. As ThinkProgress documented, McCain’s so-called “perfect” record has been roundly criticized by prominent veterans groups: He received a grade of D from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and a 20 percent vote rating from the Disabled Veterans of America; Vietnam Veterans of America noted McCain had “voted against us” in 15 “key votes.” FYI, Obama votes with the vets 80% of the time and he got a B+ rating.

As for the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars — with whom McCain claims to have a “perfect voting record”— both groups vigorously supported Sen. Jim Webb’s (D-VA) GI Bill that McCain tirelessly opposed. It is also important to note that when Bush signed this bill, he mentioned McCain by name when praising and thanking Congress for passing the bill. So McCain thinks he can have it both ways.

Later in the town hall, McCain admitted he does “not have a perfect voting record,” but then declared that questions about veterans issues were off limits:“I will be glad to debate a lot of things, but not that one,” McCain said.

[NateKnuckles]

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[Jim Says]

Worth watching a true resume.

http://www.johnmccain.com/videolanding/love.h...

[Fearless and Happy]

Jim Says wrote:

Worth watching a true resume.
http://www.johnmccain.com/videolanding/love.h...

Thanks Jim, sure enough says it all. I have to agree with John's mother about feeling sorry for Obama. John certainly is heads and above Barack.

[Fearless and Happy]

Stuipd Citizens wrote:

yea and that happen when obama was 8 years old, i'm sure they got advice with a kid on how they should proceed geez you folks will try anything..lol makeup sh*t whatever it takes people are damn sure going to use them against a Black politician of similar stature. What I find impressive about him is that even with all that crap out there, he's still winning (the nomination at least). Clinton is reportedly spreading the word that she should be the nominee because Obama can't win, and cites race and Wright as one of the big reasons. You see racism is kind of like a virus. It mutates and avoids new strains of resistance. In the old days you could put a face on it-George Wallace, Bull Connor, etc. Today it is systemic and has names like Katrina and sub-prime lending. But, it all has the same purpose.

Why do you continue propogating racism? Don't give me the crap about everyone being a racist because all of us are not.
Are you a former Panther, high school?

[Fearless and Happy]

Extremely well said. I don't know if quotes mean anything to anyone but for me it is an education in history and sums up what happened before and during my life.
Some of these quotes are appropriate for Obama.
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined". Patrick Henry
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death". Patrick Henry
"If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no head."-- Winston Churchill
"We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle".
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss".
Winston Churchill
"Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality".
- Winston Churchill
"Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice".
- Winston Churchill
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery".
Winston Churchill
"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terrors. Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
"Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
- Winston Churchill
"Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined". Patrick Henry
Winston Churchill
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery".
Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried".
"The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives."
- Winston Churchill

[Jim Says]

Fearless and Happy wrote:

Extremely well said. I don't know if quotes mean anything to anyone but for me it is an education in history and sums up what happened before and during my life.
Some of these quotes are appropriate for Obama.
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined". Patrick Henry
"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death". Patrick Henry
"If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no head."-- Winston Churchill
"We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle".
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss".
Winston Churchill
"Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality".
- Winston Churchill
"Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice".
- Winston Churchill
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery".
Winston Churchill
"You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terrors. Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
"Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
- Winston Churchill
"Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor."
- Prime Minister Winston Churchill
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined". Patrick Henry
Winston Churchill
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery".
Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried".
"The Americans will always do the right thing... After they've exhausted all the alternatives."
- Winston Churchill

Just finished a book last week that you would like. I would recommend it most highly to anyone, "My Grandfather's Son," by Clarence Thomas. I didn't have a strong opinion one way or the other of Thomas before, I knew that since the liberals hated him so, he must be doing something right. I have agreed with most of his decisions on the Court, but didn't know all that much about him personally.
However, his story is a true American success story, coming from abject poverty, then being blessed with being given to his grandparents to raise, and that strong independent, disciplined, hard working, American grandfather taught him well, even if it strained their relationship for years.
Thomas was a 60's radical, Marxist, anti-American, as either of the Obamas are now, then slowly starting seeing the incongruities to what he was taught by his grandfather and evolved to someone that all of America can and should be proud.

[Truth]

The Iraqi government is to award a series of key oil contracts to British and US companies later today, fuelling criticism that the Iraq war was largely about oil.

The successful companies are expected to include Shell, BP, Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Total.

Non-Western companies, notably those in Russia, are expected to lose out.

The technical support contracts will give the companies access to Iraq's vast untapped oil fields. Oil production in Iraq is at its highest level since the invasion in 2003. The Iraqi government wants to increase production by 20%, as the country has an estimated 115bn barrels of crude reserves.

The US state department was involved in drawing up the contracts, the New York Times reported today.

It provided template contracts and suggestions on drafting but were not involved in the decisions, US officials said.

Democratic senators last week lobbied that the awarding of the contracts should be delayed until after the Iraqi parliament passes laws on the distribution of oil revenues.

Frederick Barton, senior adviser at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, told the paper: "We pretend it [oil] is not a centerpiece of our motivation, yet we keep confirming that it is."
Last year Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve said: "Everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil."

[Achmed the Terrorist]

..........Remembering......... .

..........R.I.P. Tony Snow..........

[Truth]

Quote:
The American leader, Bush, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter."

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.

Mr Bush, whose second and final term as President ends at the end of the year, then left the meeting at the Windsor Hotel in Hokkaido where the leaders of the world's richest nations had been discussing new targets to cut carbon emissions.

One official who witnessed the extraordinary scene said afterwards: "Everyone was very surprised that he was making a joke about America's record on pollution."

Mr Bush also faced criticism at the summit after Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian Prime Minister, was described in the White House press pack given to journalists as one of the "most controversial leaders in the history of a country known for government corruption and vice".

The White House apologised for what it called "sloppy work" and said an official had simply lifted the characterisation from the internet without reading it.

Concluding the three-day event, leaders from the G8 and developing countries proclaimed a "shared vision" on climate change. However, they failed to bridge differences between rich and emerging nations on curbing emissions.

*What an idiot! Can you believe he's been running our country for the last 8 years? It's time for a change, and McCain is just another Bush clone-God Help Us All..........

[KAFUR]

1 min ago

Many Americans are aware of the countless
examples of contempt towards whites and the
united states expressed by Obama's wife in her
Princeton dissertation - and spread to young
blacks by Obama's countless hate-filled
acquaintances' and "reverends." But few
Americans are aware of the video of eight
politicians pledging their allegiance to
the united states by holding their hands to
their hearts - actually 7 of the 8. Take an
educated guess at the single politician not
holding his hand to his heart. Rare
coincidence or an extension of twenty plus
years of brainwashing - by "reverends" such
as Wright and Obama's wife - about the evil
and mean united states?(not only was the
above-mentioned video difficult to locate,
I've yet to hear it mentioned even once on
forums, so feel free to copy any part of
this message and spread it through the web,
in view of all the hatred for whites and
the U.S. coming from those surrounding
Obama - especially his wife - that, I
believe the STARK video of Obama
recorded expressing a subtle, but clear,
contempt for the racist U.S. government
- the product of 20 plus years of Wright
hateship.
---
Below are the above mentioned links to videos
of the sole politician refusing to pay
respect to the "U.S. Of KKK that spread AIDS
and drugs to blacks." Click on
http://Abcnews.Go.Com/video/
playerindex?Id=3759803 or
---
http://Rawstory.Com/news/2007/
obama_doesnt_put_hand_over_hea rt_1022.Html
or
---
http://Isagoodone.Blogspot.Com/2007/11/
barack-hussein-obama-oh-what-e vil-man.Html
---
and view the video as it pans the EIGHT
politicians during playing of the National
Anthem. Note the sole politician,
coincidentally, refusing to pay
respect to our nation's flag - clue: The
politician is the same one who made the
Freudian slip of having just visited 57 states
(the same number of Arab members of the
Organization of the Islamic Conference) during
a recent campaign speech.

Click on the link below to view a video of
the U.S. government overseeing the spread of AIDS
to blacks at a government sponsored activity.
http://www.breitbart.tv/ ...

[Odinga]

Black Racist Change we CAN'T Believe In
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