Quiet Anger

It has been far too long since I have been active on this site but the the time is drawing near again. This time, it isn't really about elections. Although that will certainly be a large part of it, the is something bigger brewing in America right now.
I have realized that my silence can be intepreted as acceptance and I am so far from acceptance it ain't even funny.
I feel as though there was a large part of the country, last year, that was swimming at the surface like a shark, showing our dorsal fin in hopes that it would scare the enemy away. Unfortunately, did not.
Since then, I believe that shark has gone underwater and needs to remain underwater and wait for the right time to attack.
They will claim victory and claim that the shark is gone because they no longer see the fin.
That will be the right time...

Report: Journalists From Three Newspapers Booted From Obama's Plane

Report: Journalists From Three Newspapers Booted From Obama's Plane - FOXNews.com Elections

Journalists from three major newspapers that endorsed John McCain have reportedly been booted from Barack Obama's campaign plane for the final leg of the presidential race.

The Washington Times reported Friday that it was notified of the Obama campaign's decision Thursday evening -- even though the paper has covered Obama from the start.

Executive Editor John Solomon told FOXNews.com that the Obama campaign said it didn't have enough seats on the plane, but "I don't think the explanation makes sense to us."

"We've been traveling since 2007 with him. ... We're a relevant newspaper -- every day we break news," Solomon said. "And to suddenly be kicked off the plane for people who haven't covered it as aggressively or thoroughly as we are ... it sort of feels unfair."

He said the newspaper protested but was turned down again by the campaign.

"I can only hope that the candidate who describes himself as wanting to unite the nation doesn't have some sort of litmus test for who he decides gets to cover the campaign," Solomon said, noting that the Obama campaign's decision came just two days after the paper endorsed McCain.

The New York Post and Dallas Morning News also have been kicked off Obama's plane...

hmm...is this the "chill wind" that Tim Robbins spoke of??

About Obama’s Mother And Medical Bills | Sweetness & Light

Very interesting discussion of Obama's claims surrounding his mother's passing. This has nothing to do with his mother but everything to do with Obama not being able to tell the truth and constantly put his political aspirations above all else. Note the timeline of events at the bottom. "She died on November 7th 1995, before he could get there." More like "after he didn't bother to go see her because he was too busy pushing his book and starting his political career with William Ayers"

Apparently Mr. Obama touched upon his mother’s death and lack of health insurance in his infomercial last night.

A little more than a year ago Mr. Obama ran an ad featuring his mother’s death from cancer.

From the Obama campaign and the Chicago Tribune:

Obama’s mother in new ad

by John McCormick

Posted September 20, 2007

Sen. Barack Obama is using an image of his deceased mother in a new campaign ad that seeks to make the case that he is the best qualified to bring change in the way the nation delivers health care.

Called “Mother,” the 30-second ad briefly shows a picture of Stanley Ann Dunham, who died of cancer in 1995. The image includes a very young Obama in her arms….

It’s an anecdote Obama has been recently field testing on the campaign trail. This is how he told the story of his mother’s illness during a recent campaign stop in Santa Barbara, Calif.:

“I remember my mother. She was 53 years old when she died of ovarian cancer, and you know what she was thinking about in the last months of her life? She wasn’t thinking about getting well. She wasn’t thinking about coming to terms with her own mortality. She had been diagnosed just as she was transitioning between jobs.

And she wasn’t sure whether insurance was going to cover the medical expenses because they might consider this a preexisting condition.

I remember just being heartbroken, seeing her struggle through the paperwork and the medical bills and the insurance forms. So, I have seen what it’s like when somebody you love is suffering because of a broken health care system. And it’s wrong. It’s not who we are as a people.” …

Like most of Mr. Obama’s life, the details about his mother’s death are sketchy and often contradictory.

But just going on the few details we have been permitted, some questions arise.

From the Washington Post:

Though Obama Had to Leave to Find Himself, It Is Hawaii That Made His Rise Possible

Sunday, August 24, 2008; Page A22

… But now [Obama] was drawn back to Hawaii to say goodbye to his mother. Too late, as it turned out. She died on Nov. 7, 1995, before he could get there.

Ann had returned to Honolulu early that year, a few months before “Dreams From My Father” was published. She was weakened from a cancer that had been misdiagnosed in Indonesia as indigestion. American doctors first thought it was ovarian cancer, but an examination at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York determined that it was uterine cancer that had spread to her ovaries.

Stan had died a few years earlier, and Madelyn still lived in the apartment on Beretania. Ann took an apartment on the same floor, and underwent chemotherapy treatments while keeping up with her work as best she could. “She took it in stride,” said Alice Dewey, chair of the University of Hawaii anthropology department, where Ann did her doctoral dissertation. “She never complained. Never said, ‘Why me?’”

As the article notes, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetero developed cancer in 1994 while in Indonesia (it was mis-diagnosed). She then moved to Hawaii where she died in 1995.

According to the article she was treated at the best cancer treatment center in the world, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. So so much for her lack of care.

Moreover, Sloan-Kettering often offers National Institute Of Health “protocols” where one gets treatment for free (even transportation is paid).

Did she try to get into one of these protocols. If not, why not? If so, what medical expenses did she have?

Apparently, Mrs. Soetero later received chemotherapy at the Straub Clinic in Hawaii. Straub claims to be Hawaii’s best health care organization, and may have also offered NIH protocols at the time, or have been part of the Sloan-Kettering protocol.

Obama has also at times claimed his mother was on food stamps at the time of her death. If that’s true, why wouldn’t she have been also eligible for Medicaid as well?

Also, according to the Washington Post article, Mrs. Soetero was “between jobs.” But also it states that she worked up to the time of her death.

If that is so, given that her daughter was being taken care of by her mother and Obama had long since left home, why did she need food stamps at all?

Furthermore, if Mrs. Soetero was having issues with insurance while she was dying, why didn’t Obama, a Harvard Law graduate, try to assist her instead of letting her deal with it by herself?

Also, one wonders why Mr. Obama didn’t get a better paying job to help his mother with her medical expenses — if only temporarily. He has often bragged that he could have taken jobs that would have given him outlandish figures.

And then there is the claim about Mr. Obama not being able to get to his mother before she died:

But now [Obama] was drawn back to Hawaii to say goodbye to his mother. Too late, as it turned out. She died on Nov. 7, 1995, before he could get there.

As the article notes, Mrs. Soetero died on November 7th, 1995. From all reports, such as those about his grandmother’s recent illness, Obama never went to Hawaii to see his mother in the several months before her death.

What was he doing instead?

In 1995 Barack was preparing for his Illinois State Senate race. In late summer he took time off to go around the country on a book tour for his “Dreams From My Father.”

On September 19th he launched his campaign in Chicago. In October he went on the “Million Man March.”

Where was Mr. Obama’s compassion then?

And if Mr. Obama will lie about his dying mother, is there anything he won’t lie about?

About Obama’s Mother And Medical Bills Sweetness & Light

Al Qaeda Wants GOP, Bush ‘Humiliated’

Al Qaeda Wants GOP, Bush ‘Humiliated’ Sweetness & Light

From Al Qaeda’s mouthpiece, Reuters:

Qaeda wants Republicans, Bush “humiliated”: Web video

DUBAI (Reuters) – An al Qaeda leader has called for President George W. Bush and the Republicans to be “humiliated,” without endorsing any party in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, according to a video posted on the Internet.

“O God, humiliate Bush and his party, O Lord of the Worlds, degrade and defy him,” Abu Yahya al-Libi said at the end of sermon marking the Muslim feast of Eid al-Fitr, in a video posted on the Internet.

Libi, one of the top al Qaeda commanders believed to be living in Afghanistan or Pakistan, called for God’s wrath to be brought against Bush equating him with past tyrants in history.

The remarks were the first comments from a leading al Qaeda figure referring, albeit indirectly, to the U.S. elections. Muslim clerics often end sermons by calling on God to guide and support Muslims and help defeat their enemies…

Isn’t it odd how closely Al Qaeda’s talking points and those of the Democrat Party align?

Speaking of the DNC, somehow this video has yet to make an appearance on Google’s YouTube.

Instead, a YouTube search for Al Qaeda returns “Al Qaeda Endorses McCain” as the top hit.

Why is that, do you think?

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Obama's prime-time ad skips over budget realities

Obama's prime-time ad skips over budget realities

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was less than upfront in his half-hour commercial Wednesday night about the costs of his programs and the crushing budget pressures he would face in office.

Obama's assertion that "I've offered spending cuts above and beyond" the expense of his promises is accepted only by his partisans. His vow to save money by "eliminating programs that don't work" masks his failure throughout the campaign to specify what those programs are—beyond the withdrawal of troops from Iraq...

Rasmussen Reports™: Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

Rasmussen Reports™: The most comprehensive public opinion coverage ever provided for a presidential election.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows Barack Obama attracting 50% of the vote nationwide while John McCain earns 47%. This is the first time McCain has been within three points of Obama in more than a month and the first time his support has topped 46% since September 24...

Folks, I follow Rasmussen EVERY day and this is MAJOR shift toward McCain. Less than a week ago, they had Obama up by eight and they've had him at 7 or 8 for two weeks straight.

Now if you recall from my earlier post here, I don't believe this is a shift is actual voter preference (although there is some of that going on). I believe this is the beginning of the "reputable" polling organizations like Rasmussen and Zogby shifting their own polling so they can say they were more "accurate" with the final results.

If you notice, the media is beginning to bang the drum a little more for McCain these days - not everywhere - but in small doses.

This race is NOT over and YOU will make a difference. If you can vote early - DO IT! and then take Obama's unofficial national holiday and help get out the vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Don't let ANYONE tell you this race is over!

DRUDGE REPORT 2008®

STRESS BY GALLUP: OBAMA +2

LA Times Refuses to Release Tape of Obama Praising Controversial Activist

LA Times Refuses to Release Tape of Obama Praising Controversial Activist - FOXNews.com Elections

The Los Angeles Times is refusing to release a videotape that it says shows Barack Obama praising a Chicago professor who was an alleged mouthpiece for the Palestine Liberation Organization while it was a designated terrorist group in the 1970s and '80s.

According an LA Times article written by Peter Wallsten in April, Obama was a "friend and frequent dinner companion" of Rashid Khalidi, who from 1976 to1982 was reportedly a director of the official Palestinian press agency, WAFA, which was operating in exile from Beirut with the PLO.

Click here to read the original LA Times story: 'Palestinians See a Friend in Barack Obama.'

In the article -- based on the videotape obtained by the Times -- Wallsten said Obama addressed an audience during a 2003 farewell dinner for Khalidi, who was Obama's colleague at the University of Chicago, before his departure for Columbia University in New York. Obama said his many talks with Khalidi and his wife Mona stood as "consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases."...

Let's keep it moving, folks. Nothing to see here. Just a guy I worked with at the college. Heck, I was only in my twenties or thirties when this guy was the spokesman for a terrorist organization. How was I supposed to know what he stands...err...uh... stood for way back then?

Redistribution...

I didn't make this up but thought it was appropriate...

Today on my way to lunch I passed a homeless guy with a sign that read 'Vote Obama, I need the money.' I laughed.

Once in the restaurant my server had on a 'Obama 08' tie. Again I laughed as he had given away his political preference--just imagine the coincidence.

When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him that I was exploring the Obama redistribution of wealth concept.

He stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to redistribute his tip to someone who I deemed more in need--the homeless guy outside.

The server angrily stormed from my sight. I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the server inside as I've decided he could use the money more.

The homeless guy was grateful.

At the end of my rather unscientific redistribution experiment I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the money he did earn even though the actual recipient deserved money more.

I guess redistribution of wealth is an easier thing to swallow in concept than in practical application.

Obama Affinity to Marxists Dates Back to College Days

Obama Affinity to Marxists Dates Back to College Days - FOXNews.com Elections

Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism.

But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34.

Obama's affinity for Marxists began when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully," the Democratic presidential candidate wrote in his memoir, "Dreams From My Father." "The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."...

German philosopher Karl Marx, author of "The Communist Manifesto,"

advocated redistributing wealth in order to achieve a classless society. (AP Photo)

Shame, Cubed

Shame, Cubed by Bill Whittle on National Review Online

Three separate reasons to be appalled, each more disgusting than the last.

DUBIOUS DONATIONS

DUBIOUS DONATIONS - New York Post

Barack Obama has proved the greatest fund-raiser of all time by a long shot. His campaign has raised more than $600 million - $150 million in September alone. But the campaign has also failed to adopt standard protections against fraudulent giving.

...

Last Thursday, he decided to conduct an experiment.

He went to the Obama campaign Web site and made a donation under the name "John Galt" (the hero of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged"). He provided the equally fictitious address "1957 Ayn Rand Lane, Galts Gulch, CO 99999."

He checked the box next to $15 and entered his actual credit-card number and expiration date. He was then taken to the next page and notified that his donation had been processed.

He then tried the same experiment on the McCain site, which rejected the transaction. He returned to the Obama site and made three more donations using the names Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and Bill Ayers, all with different addresses but the same credit card. The transactions all went through. By Saturday, he'd reported that the transactions had all posted to his credit-card account.

Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered

Obama's campaign staff pull their fraudulent Ohio ballots

BAM STAFFERS PULL THEIR BOGUS OHIO BALLOTS - New York Post

Thirteen campaign workers for Barack Obama yesterday yanked their voter registrations and ballots in Ohio after being warned by a prosecutor that temporary residents can't vote in the battleground state.

A dozen staffers - including Obama Ohio spokeswoman Olivia Alair and James Cadogan, who recently joined Team Obama - signed a form letter asking the Franklin County elections board to pull their names from the rolls...

move on folks, nothing to see here, these are just guys and gals Obama knows from the neighborhood...

Isn't this "precious"

This is what Obama’s website has for advice for the young ones when it comes to helping out the One…
(all added emphasis mine)


http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/stateupdates/gGglJ4


Please note: this is the advice given by Democratic U.S. Congresswoman Jan Shakowsky of Illinois.






This message is exclusively for Obama supporters who: 1) Have grandparents who are planning to vote for John McCain or are undecided about their choice for President and 2) Know someone whose grandparents are voting for John McCain or are undecided about their choice for President.
...I have been overwhelmed and inspired by the passion and commitment of young Obama volunteers and supporters everywhere I have traveled as one of the national co-chairs of Barack's campaign. Harnessing that energy for the purpose of moving older voters toward Barack Obama seemed like a natural.
The one thing most grandparents have in common is that they have the most wonderful grandchildren in the world - so clever, so handsome, so pretty, ever so precious. Even if you are still unsure of your path in life, and even if your parents and friends occasionally wonder about you, your grandma and grandpa love you and have faith in you.
That is your weapon! "Precious" needs to get on the phone and say, "Grandpa, Grandma, I am asking you to vote for Barack Obama. This is really important to me. It's about my future. It's about the world I will be living in. It's about the world I want for my future children. (They will love that one!) Please! Do it for me!"


Isn’t it cute that the Democrats are teaching our “precious” children to manipulate their grandparents to get what they want.

New Party: Where's the Press?

The Corner on National Review Online

...With all its lengthy background pieces, has the New York Times ever noted that Barack Obama was endorsed by, and was a member of, the New Party? What about the Washington Post? Has any major television network, any national news magazine, or any major daily newspaper ever mentioned that Barack Obama was endorsed by, or was a member of, the New Party? If any such outlet has ever mentioned that fact, have they ever gone on to explain in any depth exactly what the New Party was? For example, have they laid out the extremely close ties between the New Party in Chicago and ACORN? Especially with issue of Obama’s ties to ACORN so much in the news, isn’t this a major story right now?

Obama's Amazing Fannie Contributions

Obama's Amazing Fannie Contributions - WSJ.com

...Mr. Waxman has apparently decided it's safe to hold a hearing after those inconveniently partisan things called elections are over. He will call several ex-CEOs of the mortgage lenders, including Mr. Raines. Republicans are already making a list of all of the inconvenient facts that won't be aired until it's too late to influence voters at the ballot box. For one, who knew that Senator Barack Obama was the largest single recipient of Fannie Mae campaign contributions over the last 20 years, save for Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd? More amazing still, Mr. Obama pulled off this feat even though he had only been in the Senate for four of those 20 years.

I love this!!

Obama's Job Fetish: Beware any politician who promises to create new jobs

Obama's Job Fetish: Beware any politician who promises to create new jobs - Reason Magazine

Despite all the facile comparisons between the current economic situation and the conditions that preceded the Great Depression, the most recent figures show GDP continuing to grow, with unemployment at a historically modest 6.1 percent. But if, as widely expected, Barack Obama faces a recession when he takes office in January, many Americans will expect him to deliver on his promise to "create jobs."

They probably will be disappointed, because Obama seems to view job creation not only as something the government does with taxpayers' money but as an end in itself. That's a recipe for wasteful spending that will divert resources from more productive uses and ultimately result in lower employment than would otherwise occur.