Herman Cain: Barack Obama Is Not a Patriot
Presidential candidate Herman Cain is unafraid to speak his mind, and did so on May 23:
Throughout a Monday interview with Hotline On Call, Cain bashed Obama and his policies. When asked about Obama as a man, he complimented his family life. But when asked whether the president was a patriot, Cain hesitated. After asking for a definition (a man who is working to do what he sees as right for his country), he simply said “no.”
Cain is a reasonable man, and made a reasonable assertion based on the available evidence.
Rush Limbaugh didn’t intend to do so, but that same day, he essentially recited a nearly comprehensive list of the ways Barack Obama has not acted as a patriot during his two-plus years in office:
So where are we? Bottom line: Obama chose Palestinians over Israelis. Obama is essentially demanding that Israel commit suicide. Netanyahu says I’m not gonna commit suicide. People say Netanyahu was rude when he refuses to commit suicide. Obama chose Palestinians over Israelis. He did it after learning that Hamas became a part of the Palestinian ruling class, the terrorist group.
Obama chose the Muslim Brotherhood over freedom when he invited them to his Cairo speech and when he endorsed the misnamed Arab Spring without reservations or conditions. We know now what’s happening in Egypt.
Obama chose lawlessness and open borders over protecting innocent citizens when he sued Arizona.
My friends, there’s a pattern here. Obama chose voter intimidation over civil rights when he chose not to prosecute the New Black Panthers in Philadelphia.
Obama chose the public sector over the private sector with his stimulus slush fund.
Obama chose socialism over the private sector when he took over two US car companies.
Obama chose a path to socialized medicine over free market solutions to health care when he signed Obamacare into law.
Obama chose true cowboyism over Congress when fighting a war on Khadafy and Libya, ignoring the War Powers Act by saying, well, we’re not really all in.
Obama chose czars over cabinet members.
He chose class warfare over prosperity when he demagogued taxing the rich over cutting out-of-control spending.
He chose politics over solutions when he failed to produce a budget or demand one from Congress.
It’s clear who Obama is. He’s the sum of his choices. We all are.
Let’s now run through exactly why Herman Cain’s claim is on such solid ground.
The left will simply state that whether Obama’s actions were good or bad for the nation are subjective.
To the left, the Israeli’s have ALWAYS been the bad guys in this affair so to them, Israel is NOT a victim, but an oppressor. It deserves to be punished somehow.
At the time of his speech, Obama had no idea how this “Arab spring” would come about. At the time, it looked like everything was going to come up roses and the Muslim Brotherhood was helping to move things in the right direction, why doesn’t really matter.
As to Arizona, Obama is a believer in the motto carved beneath one of our great monuments, the Statue of Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. The people of Mexico, Central and South America are those tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free, for that reason, keeping the borders open IS the right thing to do.
We’ve all heard the latest and greatest about the Black Panther case, the Bush Administration chose to drop those charges. That happened before Obama took office.
Haven’t you watched the network news? The Stimulus was needed to jump start the economy. The only reason it didn’t work is because the Republicans didn’t give enough.
Obama did not TAKE OVER two American car companies, he saved them. They were “too big to fail” and thousands would have been out of work if the two companies had failed.
Obamacare is out there to protect us all and will save money in the long run.
Why is it so wrong for Obama to attack Libya, Bush attacked Iraq without Congressional approval. (Remember, the left has a knack for forgetting uncomfortable pieces of history, such as voting for the war in Iraq.)
Every president since FDR has had Czars, it’s nothing new. As for the number, the world has gotten more complicated, so more czars are needed to make sure the president is able to be fully informed before making a decision.
We have to tax the rich. If you cut social security, medicaid or medicare, you’re killing grandma!
As for the budget, that’s the Republicans fault because they’re all partisans who don’t understand that elections have consequences. Obama is the president. We should all do what he says. That’s patriotism!
Or, that’s what the left would say. Anyone who doesn’t agree, is a racist, of course.
“As to Arizona, Obama is a believer in the motto carved beneath one of our great monuments…”
It is not a motto. It is a couple of lines from a poem a nice and sentimental lady once wrote in another time. And it sure doesn’t say ” …and let them in regardless, criminals, drunks, rapists, let all of them come without stint or letup…” Am I right or wrong?
Ignore the troll
I believe Jefferson was being sarcastic.
Maybe Jeff was, Bob, but printed statements have a way of sticking, even if untrue. For example, Jeff repeated the falsehood, ironically or not he got it from someplace.
Read the post.
It might be a good idea for you to follow your own advice. It was an attempt at sarcasm, unfortunately not the best execution. Also, leftists actually do believe the poem on the base of the Statue of Liberty IS this country’s motto. At the same time they reject the notion from our national anthem, “and this be our motto, in God is our trust!”
Those huddled masses are less concerned with breathing free than they are with getting free stuff.
nail on the head!!!
you have that right…..as long as someone feeds, house, school your kids…
why should they care what you think about them? give thanks to our government?
Numb nut troll. Get a life. Our country is falling apart…it’s the president’fault.
This, of course, is your opinion, Jefferson. That is allowable, but is it Obama’s Opinion. You don’t know and neither do I. In reading Exodus through Joshua we see that there was a lot of unbelief which continued long after Joshua was gone. This unbelief caused actions by the unbeliever which they believed wholeheartedly to be in their best interests. This also seems to apply to Obama but is not supported by our true history. Therefore we should not be following his lead. Why he has chosen to do what he does is really not that important. The important thing is why we should choose to follow and support such a destructive agenda.
Plus Obama says Pluto isn’t a planet – he’s clearly some sort of heretic or moron.
My ideal cabinet would be headed by Bolton Sec. of State, Netanyahu Sec. of Defense, Cain Sec. of Treasury, Bachmann Attorney General, …
Now, who could we hire to make it so?
Leftists claim that everything is subjective, and the feelings and opinions of leftists are the only ones that count.
I’ll bet you think that O.J. was innocent, too, huh?
Obama and those who support him could care less if Herman Cain, or anyone else considers him a patriot. To Obama and his ilk, patriotism is a cornball nuisance that gets in their way. Things like singing our National Anthem, saluting the Flag, remembering fallen heroes, living each day with honor and worshiping God annoy and irritate them.
First a Muslim, converted to Black Liberation Theology, Obama has spent his entire life dedicated to the hatred of America, Caucasians and Jews.
Obama is especially passionate about spreading the intense hatreds of Islam and the bastardized interpretations of Christianity that make up Black Liberation Theology to the members of the black race.
What an atrocious injustice the man as President has done here; where those were people with so many earnest dreams and hopes for their future destroyed and vaporized by one of their own.
Now out of confused loyalties and disillusions, just beneath the surface there exists racial turmoils unlike anything our nation has ever faced, so much so that even Herman Cain won’t address it!
Compared to any man or woman that has ever served our country in any fashion, manner or way, Obama is small and inconsequential. He has earned no respect from his fellowman. He will never be a patriot.
Let’s not forget the photo of Obama, during a flag ceremony and the Star Spangled Banner, standing at ease, with his arms at his sides, and his hands cupping his balls.
http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18725.xml?media=print
You mean, “with his hands covering the area where his balls would be if he was a man.” But that bozo will become a man right after his mama does.
I feel sorry for black people in America. The election of a black man to the presidency is historic, but what a sad day it was when THIS black man was elected. He is not a cultural American. He didn’t grow up going to 4th of July parades or learning about Washington and Jefferson in school. He has no childhood roots of being American. In regard to black people in America, he has the same attitude of “keep ‘em down on the farm” as do Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the Black Congressional Caucus, and every other democrat for the last one hundred years. He is a narcissist with an enormous ego who, at age 49, is still NOT comfortable in his own skin. People say he is a great orator. This is bunk. He stutters and stammers when speaking extemporaneously. He is not even a good teleprompter reader. Listen to him. He puts unnatural pauses in his sentences as he moves his eyes between the teleprompter screens on his right and left. He exhibits an ignorance of history that is astounding. Couple that ignorance with the seeming inability to anticipate the effects of his policy decisions, both domestically and internationally, and what we end up with is a disaster. Some may say he is incompetent. I say that he has an agenda to destroy America, and he’s very competent in this regard. Just think what a feather in his cap it will be to know that he was the one to bring America down. Again, I’m sorry for the blacks that they voted for a man who is a traitor to them personally and a traitor to the United States of America and everything it was founded upon. We have 17 months till election day 2012. God help America if we don’t get rid of this man.
Yep. Excellent. Too bad Herman Cain wasn’t running in 2008. I guess a bit late is better than never…
Excellent analysis and characterization. However, unlike you, I do not feel sorry for the blacks who voted for him. One of the main reasons, if not THE reason, they voted for him was because Obama was black. Recently, Harry Alford, the president and CEO of the Black Chamber of Commerce, admitted to Laura Ingraham during her talkshow that despite not agreeing with Obama’s policies towards business, Alford voted for Obama because Obama was black.
Now, imagine if a white man admitted to voting for a candidate only because the candidate was white. I applaud Mr. Alford for admitting what we all basically knew to be true, but could never get anyone to admit it or openly state it. I know blacks who swear up and down that they supported and voted for Obama because they agreed with his policies, when they’re actually conservative people who would never vote for a white person who espoused and proposed Obama’s policies and had his ambiguous, dysfunctional, radical-leaning background. I, myself, am an Asian-American, but I’m not going to vote for someone just because he
or she is of Asian descent. That’s not only crazy and reckless, in light of today’s multiple world and domestic problems, that’s also idiotic.
I forgot to add at the end there, “it’s also idiotic, PHONY AND HYPOCRITICAL.”
Blacks vote for Democrats – but you knew that, right? Gore got 90% of the black vote in 2000, Kerry 88% in 2004, and Obama 96%. A slight rise over the white candidates, but it’s hardly the case for arguing that, in general, blacks voted for Obama because of his race.
Black folks vote Dem because of racial concerns, same difference. If they didn’t they’d be split like white folks. Who in the world believes black Americans go along with Dem platforms to the tune of 88-95%? Coincidence?
Sorry to nitpick, but the motto referred to says “…yearning to BE free…” NOT ‘Breathe free”. If you’re going to quote it, get it right. I appreciate your sarcasm, however. It’s subtle enough you almost fool people into thinking you’re sincere. Bush may have started the ball rolling on stimulus, etc., but he never intended it to become a multi-year policy. He was very reluctant to enact the legislature, but took the advice of his, well, advisors, and did what seemed best. He assumed once the next President took office (if that person were competent or even listened to his or her advisors) there would be new policies to keep the economy on the move, and no more ‘stimulus’ would be needed. As to war without Congressional approval, I’d have to look up the details to be sure, but I believe Bush did get approval. Besides, the powers of the President as Commander in Chief allow him(or her) to enact military action…provided they get congressional approval after a set number of days. If the Congress does NOT approve at that time, there is no funding for the ‘war’ or ‘action’ or whatever you want to call it, and therefore it cannot be pursued further. That’s how it’s laid out in the Constitution and its ammendments, and that’s how every president BEFORE Obama has operated. Obama is breaking every rule he possibly can, and the people seem to be too scared, or defeated, or busy with their own concerns to even start Impeachment proceedings. Of course, Clinton was impeached, but no criminal charges were pursued, so he remained in office. At least the American people sent a message to the world that we did not support the actions that were the basis of the impeachment. In Obama’s case, it would reduce his power and hopefully restore respect we have lost so much of, if impeachment proceedings were brought to Obama before re-election. Unfortunately, Congress is too divided to even consider such action. If Obama is re-elected, it will prove, in my mind at least, that our country truly has become so apathetic that we deserve to be thrown to the wolves. We MUST re-establish our place as a world leader, attempt to repair the damage done to relationships that have lasted for decades, or even centuries, and show the world that we still deserve to be a ‘super power’. Russia, China, North Korea, most of the Arab middle east, and probably half or more of Europe see us as a laughing stock at this point, and that is very dangerous to us, because as history has shown, when we become isolationist, when we ‘downsize’ our military, when we have a weak, indecisive president, that is when our enemies see their chance and attack. It has happened many times in the history of our nation alone. Other great nations, empires, alliances, etc. have been brought down by the same faults. We cannot allow one weak man and many anti-American politicians and lobbyists to bring our country to its knees. No one will be laughing then, least of all us.
Aimee, I’m afraid you are the one who is mistaken. I cut and pasted the quote right from Wikipedia and, I have looked in, at least, three other sites to confirm that I’m right.
You can check Wikipedia, Answers.Com and Statueofliberty.net… all three say “breathe free.” The one at Statueofliberty.net even shows a picture of the plaque. If you look close, you read where it says “breathe free.’
Aimee, paragraphs, please!
Aimee, we need to consider the environment surrounding Bush and Obama. It was the same for these two men as it was for Joshua and Caleb when they were chosen to go spy out the land of Caanan before crossing into it. They brought back one report and the other ten brought back a different report. Bush and Obama are both surrounded by the ten spies with the negative opinion. I have never felt that George W. Bush was really comfortable with the way things were going but lacked the convictions to criticize those opinions. Barak Obama agrees with the ten spies. Because of unbelief the children of Israel wandered forty years in the wilderness. I don’t see that much time for us to wander so the change will likely be much faster.
Aimee – sorry to nitpik, please learn how to use the return button when writing.
He CHOSE to go to Jeremiah Wright’s HATE Church. He CHOSE to “seek out the Marxist Professors” when he got to College. He CHOSE to befriend Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. He CHOSE to start his Political Career in the living room of these two Unrepentant DOMESTIC TERRORISTS. He CHOSE to go to Louis Farrakhan’s Rallies. He chose to teach SAUL ALINSKY Workshops. CHOSE to represent ACORN. Chose to befriend PLO TERRORIST RECRUITER – Khalid Rashidi. CHOSE to go to his Going Away Party. Just as the L.A. TIMES has CHOSEN to REFUSE releasing the VIDEO of Obama at that Party. (Apparently, the People DON’T have the right to know) He CHOSE the RACIST – Eric “My People” Holder – for his “BLACKS ONLY” Justice Department. He CHOSE to fill his Administration with Marxists, Socialists, Communists, and Maoists. And he CHOSE to run around the world, APOLOGIZING to the SCUM OF THE EARTH, for this Country.
It’s time for US to choose.
Yes, I think it is safe to say that the DOTUS is not a patriot.
“However, if the person repeatedly lies, is repeatedly advised that they are lying, and doesn’t change their behavior, you ultimately and reluctantly have to conclude that the person doesn’t merely lie a lot. You’re forced to conclude that the person actually is a liar.”
Or a socialist. Socialists have to lie because they know that their policies don’t work, at least in the long run. Europe is finding that out right now and are about to go bankrupt. But do you hear any, ANY, of the socialists in Europe now admit that what they did over all these decades was wrong? Did you hear any of the socialists in Europe say that it was their social-welfare policies that drove them to bankruptcy, especially in Southern European countries like Greece, Portugal, and Spain? Nope, not a word, let alone an admission of guilt. So the Socialists have to lie and keep on lying to the people so that they can keep funding their massive programs even though they are all faced, in the end, with bankruptcy.
So is Obama a patriot? Probably in his mind, he is. He probably does think that what he is doing is best for the country. All Socialists think that, regardless of the economic consequences. But we all now definitely know what Obama really is. He is a rank European-style socialist who is bent on creating the most massive government bureaucracy possible, regardless of what the economic costs to this country are. It is also evident that he has total contempt for the Constitution.
And, like all Socialists, you’ll never, ever, get him to admit it.
When someone can’t admit who he really is (socialist) and what his real agenda is (overthrow a capitalist country), it actually proves that he is socialist.
Even Lenin knew that a capitalist country would not collapse under its own unsustainable policies (as Marx and Engels claimed it would). Lenin understood that a violent revolution was needed to overturn capitalism. He could see the empirical evidence that capitalism and personal freedom and free enterprise were viable and successful.
Obama must also understand that. He isn’t a complete idiot, although he certainly isn’t the intellectual that he wants us to think he is. Obama has built a house of cards. As Europe slowly realizes that socialism is an abject failure, so, too, will the USA.
Remember that it took Europe about a century to understand that Marxist economic theory was fatally flawed. Hopefully, the USA will get it by November 2012.
I remember during the ’08 campaign some Leftist troll posting, “Patriotism is over-rated.” So, I investigated some Leftist sites, and I saw this same thing.
It’s all about power, really. If patriotism will get them power, then they will advocate it; but since the Right has a lock on patriotism, they do not care. Words have no meaning for them. They are mere tools to be perverted and used against those who do value the meanings of words.
There is only power. All else is transitory. Only power is permanent and has meaning. Reminds me of Stalin. “How many divisions has the Pope?”
well i will not write another article in reply but it strikes me funny that all this information about bho was available before he was voted into office. So
what happened? I mean I knew who he was so I did not vote for him. Him being president is the fault of the American People. Take it as a lesson learned and get information on your candidate and get out and vote. Please that is the answer. Talking about bho is a waste of time lets talk about who we choose to send him walking…
John, the simple fact is that a large number of Americans do want socialism in the USA. They do want redistribution of wealth and collectivism. Those dummies see only what they could personally gain from overthrowing a capitalist system, not what occurs when a hegemonic federal government restricts THEIR freedoms and economic opportunities.
As Ellis Washington wrote, “Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince.”
I’ve posted this before so please excuse me if you’ve read it. On a trip to Vietnam last March, my guide told me, “After reunification in 1975, we were socialist. You know what socialism is? It’s where if one man works hard and another man doesn’t, they get the same things. So no one worked hard. In 1995, the government changed things. If you work hard, you get more. Things are much better now.”
Socialism has a strong appeal to two groups:
1. Those who think they’ll be calling the shots such as academic and political elites.
2. Those who think they’ll get something for nothing.
If there was any justice, those who advocate socialism and Marxism would be social pariahs just like Holocaust deniers and Nazi (national socialism) sympathizers. After all, communism, Marxism and socialism resulted in the deaths of even more people than Nazism, perhaps 10 times as many.
I get so infuriated when I see a Che Geuvara shirt or poster. They might as well be wearing a Himmler shirt.
John I also knew that Obama was
Socialist and we did have leaders and always have had leaders but we lack followers. Our leaders have been rejected because their way is just too rugged. Just because you do not have a following does not prevent you from being a leader. A leader is able to break trail and he does not need someone pointing out the way because he can read the signs and know what is the right path to follow.
We do that all the time as we travel our highways and, when we properly read the signs can always end up at the right address. If we miss a sign we have to backtrack of choose a path that takes us back to our chosen course.
Politics are no different. We just use our unbelief to follow what looks promising without ever checking the promises.
“But when asked whether the president was a patriot, Cain hesitated. After asking for a definition (a man who is working to do what he sees as right for his country), he simply said “no.”
Hesitated? Asked for a definition?
If I were asked that same question by the same reporter, I would not have waited until the question was complete. However rude it would have been to do so, I would have immediately shot back – not with “no”, but with “HELL NO!”
While I agree with your position, a word of caution may be in order. When speaking to a reporter one should probably consider themselves speaking to a leftist, where even the word “is” may have exotic meanings. Better to have them define, up front, what the meaning of the word “is” is! Or any other word for that matter.
Right on, Robert. My thoughts exactly. There can be many reason for a question besides the right answer and I think that would have been the case here.
It is just a single statement, but I will go out on a limb and say that you ARE a patriot.
@9. Turfmantroll
Your feeble attempt to make Cain look stupid makes you look stupid!
I don’t know exactly what Cain asked, it should have been:
“You define patriotism [tell me what YOU consider the word to mean, to you]
and I’ll tell you my stand on that.”
If you asked a million Americans or Canadians: “What is patriotism?” you would get maybe 1,000 different answers (clustered around one or more concepts) – the English language is rich in alternatives. There might be some surprises in those answers too.
If you asked the same people, “What is your definition of patriotism?”, you might get a significant difference in response.
Cain was 100% right; when dealing with news reporters, who are wont to be news makers, get THEIR definition, then reply. No crossed wires.
I once attended a left loon meeting to hear what patriotic/unpatriotic things they might say. They rambled on and on and on about government and Israeli ‘propaganda’. At question time, I asked: “Can you please define ‘propaganda’?”. The moderator said: “Moving on to the next question.”
That’s the loony left for you, and their troll wannabes.
Words of wisdom, Tim. That wisdom should also work when a rubber stamp leaves an opinion on these comments.
It has facillitated the Obama agenda that his relationship to his media is like a pimp’s to his stable of whores; the mentalities are the same. The media does all the dirty work and the rewards all go to Obama. When the subject was unsealing ‘sealed’ divorce court records the media claimed that the people have the right to know, but when the subject is Obama’s birth certificate, or who paid his college tuition, or what were his grades, or can we peruse his masters thesis, or how does he come to have a conneticut SSN, well then the people don’t have any right to know those things.
Mr. Blumer,
Your first sentence
Presidential candidate Herman Cain is unafraid to speak his mind, and did so on May 23
is contradicted by your second sentence:
Throughout a Monday interview with Hotline On Call, Cain bashed Obama and his policies. When asked about Obama as a man, he complimented his family life. But when asked whether the president was a patriot, Cain hesitated. After asking for a definition (a man who is working to do what he sees as right for his country), he simply said “no.”
Herman Cain is a good man with many fine qualities, however the fact that he does no know what is meant by the Palestinian claim to a right of return means he is uninformed about an important matter that anyone paying even scant attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would know. It raises serious questions about him. What else doesn’t he know?
The Republican nominee should be someone who will not hesitate when asked if Obama is a patriot. She should also be able to repeat Rush’s list- and add to it. She will.
Terry, it seems to me that you are right 99.5% of the time. But it does not surprise me that an energetic and action-oriented man like Cain would not be instantly familiar with a phrase used to describe one aspect of the Israeli/”Palestinian” issue. This isn’t a really wild and crazy lapse like “57 states.” The main thing is whose side Cain is on. Cain would be running against a man on the wrong side of the issue. Let’s keep that in mind.
Terry G:
It’s not a sign of being afraid to speak your mind to ask your questioner what he/she means by “patriot,” given that it’s a loaded word and could be abused if Cain had just said “no” without asking for a definition. Once he had the definition, he spoke his mind.
As to the right of return, I addressed that in a BizzyBlog post a few days ago. Cain got to the right place when he said it’s up ultimately up to Israel.
Regarding the “right of return”, I didn’t know what the reporter meant either and I am a well informed and interested in all politics, especially anything Israel. Reporters, yes even Mike Wallace, as Couric and others did to Palin, just love to throw out terms out of context at conservatives. I bet that the majority of American voters haven’t a clue about the term.
As for patriotism, as someone already said, it is a loaded word and means different things to different people. Herr Hitler surely considered himself a patriot. The welfare of Germany was his particular thing, however, as we all know, it excluded a large number of German citizens.
You’re running a fever and don’t feel good so you go to your doctor. Of course he doesn’t know what treatment you need but he knows how to find out.
I understand Herman Cain doesn’t know everything and neither do you and I. But in lots of cases we know how to find out what we need to know and that is the way I understand the Herman Cain answer. The questioner is not seeking information but something that can be made into an issue. This is standard operating procedure for this spirit. Jesus was confronted time and again by that same strategy and he never gave a direct answer. Neither should Herman Cain or any of the conservatives. Make the questioner define his question or, if he won’t, then he don’t get an answer from you, either.
Ahem – you state that you are ‘well informed’ about politics and ‘especially anything Israel’ (quote). Not knowing what the ‘right of return’ issue means one is NOT well infored about Israel, about Palestinian issues, or about the Middle East as a whole. It did not reflect well on Cain, knowlege-wise – he did not come across as being well-prepared. And for you to say that you are well-informed on ‘anything Israel’, and not know what the right of return issue is about, does not reflect well on your knowlege level either.
As long as they have a receipt I don’t see what the problem is or why he should be thought of as running for the President of Self-Absorption.
Here are ten reasons that we do not want President Obama re-elected and some of them should make us question Obama’s patriotism. One being his repeated praise of Communist China:
1. Expect a non-Socialist Socialist agenda to be advanced.
2. Expect the solutions to our problems to be more bureaucracies.
3. Expect Marxist propositions to be frequently employed while being couched in terms of justice, fairness, equality in order to redistribute what you have to others.
4. Expect unions to play an ever increasing role in forcing us to acquiesce to the Totalitarian agenda of the Democrats.
5. Expect more praise of Communist China and how America should seek to model the Communist country.
6. Expect a Liberal media, that is philosophically in line with President Obama’s vision of the world, to obediently and dutifully help advance Obama’s policies while attacking his political opponents.
7. Expect Obama’s war against the middle class to continue.
8. Expect Obama to continue to push a pro-abortion agenda that will increase abortions in this country despite concerns about lowing the numbers.
9. Expect the gay rights agenda to be further pushed on the America people, even to the point to where there are consequences for resisting it.
10. Expect Obama, who professes to be a “Christian”, to peruse policies that will lead to the persecution of Christians in America.
http://www.bluecollarphilosophy.com/2011/04/obama-to-kick-off-his-re-election-campaign-today-god-help-us.html
At this point in time if one is not seeing these things coming there has to be either blindness or complicity.
Here are the Top Ten reasons Obama should not be re-elected:
1. No one wants to see his hair go completely white.
2. I can’t afford it.
3. I don’t want us to annex Mexico by Presidential Decree.
4. A Muslim Brotherhood vice-president would be an imperfect fit.
5. I’d like to put off America being officially declared a Third World country for just a few more years.
6. His wife’s next vacation will put the U.S. into receivership.
7. Trinity Church needs a new Reverend.
8. I don’t want NASA taken over by muslims.
9. I’m worn out with being a racist.
10. He’d be President.
What a bunch of idiots!
A cogent and convincing rebuttal, Me. Just like a regular lib.
Well, you sure convinced me!
I’ll go right down to the courthouse and change my voter registration to Socialist!
After all, I don’t wanna be called an idiot by someone on a blog comment section!
/sarc off
A fitting alias.
You have to understand the nature of the mental illness of modern liberalism. An irrational belief in one’s own omnipotence leads to denial.
Based upon this denial, any instance of conflict is immediately blamed upon the other party. Unable to acknowledge that one is not omnipotent, any inner conflict where rational thought begins intruding upon the denial system must be immediately, vehemently rejected. This is also known as projection. Combining denial with projection, you end up with the reactionary response of “you’re an idiot.”
Howard, maybe all insanity is not due to an inner conflict but I have had a little experience with their need to be clean. The spot is on the heart rather than the body yet they want to wash the body to remove that inner spot which can’t be done so they blow a fuse and thereby disconnect that spot with denial. The problem with Socialism is spiritual because it cannot be reconciled with nature. To reject its corruption that corruption must be denied. That happened in the case I am referring to. My friend around his early teens did something that he felt was sinful and, though it was dealt with in a fashion, did not satisfy his conscience and about middle age he blew a fuse with emphasis on cleanliness, such as we are having with our environmentalists, as was no longer rational.
There is good reason to be clean but we do not need to be sterile in our daily living. Our immune system takes care of that so we do live in a hostile environment. It the hospital operation room being sterile is important but not in daily living. The Socialist, because of their corruption, try to make our external environment sterile and that does not work.
The problem was exposed and dealt with so that he could again be rational. Our Socialist are irrational due to their unbelief or acceptance of things as they are. They live in a fantasy world and are no longer rational because they cannot reconcile what they do with what is right.
Let us not forget that The One sat by ideally, quite, not giving a single word of support to the brave people of Iran who rose up against their insane religious oligarchy. The leader of the free world, and he couldn’t give two words of moral support!
Yet when little, impoverished Honduras acted swiftly and legally to toss out an admitted Marxist from circumventing the Honduran constitution and establsihing a Hugo Chavez-type rule, The One went bonkers, vocally throwing his support behind the Marxist, threatening to sanction Honduras, calling for UN intervention. Amazing, simply amazing…..
Yet The One still enjoys a 43-44% approval rating. I’m told that is lousy rating, but how can at least 43% of us think this guy is doing a swell job? The problem is not The One……it’s us!
Ummm… more like 52-53%
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
Don’t believe the polls, especially media polls they always weight heavy for the Democrats.
there is another aspect, the polls refer to daily approval. I even approved of Obama when he OKd the hit on Bin Laden. The question that should be asked is more scuttle, do you think Obama loves America?
Indeed.
Here’s a story about the most absurdly weighted of the polls used to create that “average”
Hence, I tend to trust polls somewhat less than I trust the guy on the street corner that wants to sell me a brand new full-size Mercedes for $12.50 plus tax.
Lil barry didn’t ok the hit on obl, Panetta did. bho went along for the ride, as usual, to give himself plausible deniability. After all, it is election season.
The reason Obama’s approval numbers are so high is that a large number of Americans believe that socialism is a viable economic theory. These Americans (to use the word loosely) want the federal government to give them free stuff (i.e., stuff paid for by others), to give them job security (i.e., protect them from being fired), to make sure that they have “affordable housing” (i.e., someone else pays the rent) and health care (paid for by someone else).
These people refuse to call themselves socialists; they prefer “progressives” or even “liberals”. They are liars, not only to their fellow Americans but to themselves. And Obama panders to them every day.
DavidMac,
You hit right on the nail.
Obama’s goal was not to be leader of the free world. His goal is to be leader of the New World Order. I read that Kissinger is pushing for that Order and found some of his comments that back that up. In a 2009 interview, Kissinger was talking upheaval in many parts of the world and said “His (Obama’s) task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period when, really, a new world order can be created. It’s a great opportunity, it isn’t just a crisis.” Kissinger also said Obama can give new impetus to American foreign policy partly because the reception of him is so extraordinary around the world.
I have asked many Obama supporters and non-supporters if they ever heard about the New World Order movement. Not one of them has. The fuel for this movement is chaos and unrest which is going on right now. Obama including us in the unrest in Libya has to be part of the strategy Kissinger mentioned. People need to see where Obama has been told to take our country and put a stop to that movement. He is doing what he is told because he plans to be one of the leaders. Remember when he campaigned and said he will change the world? He is using our country as his stepping stone to his ultimate goal.
Check out the “Obama Deception”…..two hours concerning The New World Order….
The author of this statement, while trying to be Politically Correct (PC), is in error. “Finally, when you see a president take an action that is clearly against the best interests of his country and its people for the first time, the proper response is to say, “He is not acting patriotically.” You do not say, “He is not a patriot.” You would be wrong make that assertion, as he is from all appearances engaging in atypical behavior.” Benedict Arnold tried only once to turn West Point over to the British! From his previous conduct this was “atypical!”
Circumventing the Constitution of the United States by one that gave an oath to support and defend said document, is much more than “unpatriotic” and that takes ONLY once! The “Czars” are in place to circumvent the Constitution’s checks and balances. There is a word that starts with “T” for that!
obama is not a patriot.
his words and actions prove it on a daily basis.
anyone who would dismiss a majority of the citizens as extremist can hardly be patriotic.
Herman Cain’s campaign announcement had some glaring mistakes indicating he does not know the difference between the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. His ignorance of the nation’s founding documents makes him ill-suited to compete in a GOP presidential primary
Could you cite specific instances, complete with accreditation?
Ed, a link would be sincerely appreciated.
And I bet Cain hasn’t been to all 57 States yet either…
Obama is not a patriot, has never claimed to be a patriot, and never will claim to be a patriot. He aspires to be the agent of “change”- from capitalism to socialism. BHO is largely an empty suit who has the gift of leading the sheep to the slaughter with a grin on his face and his nose in the air. Certainly the real problem is the American people who voted for him and will likely do so again in 2012. Let us put the blame squarely where it belongs – on the passive Americans who choose not to vote at all. 50% pay no tax, over 50% get some form of money from the government, and one in six are on food stamps. Do not count on these dependent deadbeats to change the status quo. Is Herman Cain the guy to turn this thing around ? I doubt it. I suspect that most 18 year olds don’t know what socialism is and wouldn’t object if they did. Things can and likely will get worse as Obama gets his second term.
The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the presidency. It will be easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to an electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president. – Author Unknown
It would be a tall stretch to call Obama a Patriot. He does not have the values of a patriot I say this for several reasons. His grand parents didn’t love this country, his mother was not a patiot, his father most assuredly not a Partriot, his mentor that his grand father had him hang around was a devote communist (Frank Marshall) don’t think that constitutes being a Patriot, and his associations with Wright and Ayers. I truly don’t think these are qualifications that you love this country or that he is a Patriot. I suggest he is just the opposite. Like he said “he is a blank slate or screen.” No guessing here.
Asking whether Spike is a patriot is a trick. It’s like asking whether he is a socialist. The trick is that although the obvious answers are no and yes, if the responent replies in that manner, then the answer will be demagogued and used by the trickster to convince the uninformed that the respondent is the problem, not Spike. The uninformed will automatially assume the POTUS must be patriotic and not a socialist.
So there is no way to win when by answering the question directly.
Shrewder politicians deflect that question with references to his unpatriotic and socialis actions. “I assume our President’s are patriotic, but I stongly disagree with Obama’s insulting behavior towards our closest allies, Israel and England”. “It would be shocking if a President was a socialist, but I strongly disagree with Obamacare taking over health care in our country, which is 20% of our economy, and the auto companies which are another 5%.”
Why does everyone forget that Obama tried to replace a pro-American democracy in Honduras with an anti-American pro-communist dictatorship? It was here above and beyond any other instance that he revealed his true freedom hating identity. Could there be a better example of his hatred of everything American stands for as well as stabbing in the back all those Americans who fought and died for freedom, and especially those 100,000 who died fighting communism? Yet this event is overlooked.
If his behavior towards Honduras isn’t grounds for impeachment, or at the very least investigation, then what is?
I have one question. I have been thinking about for awhile. A simple question, likely to be misunderstood by many. I think the answer to which may say something about U.S. What was the last year a new large chain grocery story was built in the urban core of, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Harlem, SFO, Houston, New Orleans etc. and by whom?
Any business that does not build or run a store in those areas, plus other areas in our country have a very good reason. You have to make a profit in your store and being robbed and intimidated all the time with law suits and bodily harm, you can not run a profitable store. It always goes back to the money!
I think Herman Cain is a very good man. I hope anyone reading my comments over the years would see clearly that I would qualify as a patriot.
And, I believe, had I been asked the question “Is Obama a Patriot” would have responded as follows:
1)My definition or his?
2) I seem to recall that Mr. Obama believed that there was a “wrong” kind of patriotism. Please first go ask him to explain, since he clearly has already formed in his mind what defines “correct patriotism” and “wrong kind of patriotism”…and let me know what he says. I will be glad to respond when you do that…for the first time in nearly three years.
3)I will, however, give you some rough guidelines for what I see as “acts of patriotism”.
a)When it comes to defending this country’s honor, does he leap to its defense at every chance or deride it and apologize for it at every chance?
b)How does he treat our allies and how does he treat our enemies? Is he protective of one and aggressive toward the other? In which direction?
c)If he has a voting pattern on military matters, what does it look like? Does he have a history of calling our military vile names?
d)Who are his closest friends and associates, his constituency and his base of political operation. While you can’t choose your family in most instances, you can choose your friends and those with whom you form your closest associations. Are they patriots? Do they shout God Bless America…or God Damn America?
e)Your personal history, does it involve open displays of patriotism and love of country? Or does it involve denouncing the country and criticizing it at every turn?
f)Do you have a visceral reaction when the U.N. propounds vicious resolutions against Israel or do you have a much milder reaction when a close ally is being abused?
g)Do you see terrorism by foreign mass murderers as an attack on this land of ours, or do you see it merely as a police matter…just some upset people committing a crime?
h)Who do you view as your “enemies” when you are speaking…either to Spanish or English speakers?
i)Which term are you more reluctant to use because it would cause offense…terrorist or teabagger?
j)When you want to build an outreach program for NASA to embrace, which of the following groups would you select, Middle Americans, Christians, Jews, Muslims? Have you ever built an outreach program to any but one of those groups?
k)Would you befriend someone who was “guilty as hell, free as a bird” in plotting to kill military young men and their dates with nail bombs? Why?
l)Is your first instinct to believe that law enforcement people act stupidly?
m)Is the American flag a source of pride for you, or do you feel awkward and clumsy displaying it?
n)Are you more comfortable in the company of Michael Moore, George Soros, Sean Penn, Richard Trumka and Van Jones…or Drew Carey, Charles Koch, Gary Sinise, Sam Walton and Robert Gates?
o)Do you believe the New York Times is the “paper of record”?
p)Is the LA Times holding hostage any tapes of you that they are terrified to disclose?
q)When you speak of Israel, do we seem to always find you Three-peating yourself? First you give the speech, then you give the Un-speech when talking to Jewish groups, then you give the re-speech that clarifies the un-speech?
Being patriotic is not a thing, it’s a process over time. There is a pattern for those who are truly strongly in love with this land of ours. And…there is a pattern for those who are not. I guess the first question I would ask is this…have you ever gotten the following question wrong?
How many states are there? If you said any number other than 50, you probably are not deeply into being patriotic.
Cfbleachers, excellent comments. However, has Cain proven HIS patriotism? I must admit I need to study him more, but my visceral reaction to him is that he is a successful businessman who knows how to whip up a crowd. Readers, please read all of the next several sentences before labeling me a racist:
Cain appears to me to be riding a wave of conservatives’ fear of being labeled racists when they emphatically reject Comrade Obama’s Presidency.
If we are at a juncture in our history at which we feel compelled to run a Black candidate against a Black incumbent, I am enthusiastically committed to Allen West. He has a proven record of being a patriot. He has risked–and ended–his military career by making hard fast decisions and then personally taking the resulting hard fast action to save American lives. He has shown a thorough, realistic, and history-based understanding of Muslim terrorists. What else do we need to know, really?
Cain is an unknown. West is a proven.
Thank you for saying it, I had the same impression about the Cain run.
Anon, being interested in Cain is not a dismissal of West, Palin, or any other conservative candidate. One wants to hear more from all of them before deciding.
Is Obama a Patriot? No, he’s a Pinhead.
Anyone who hopes to fundamentally change America is a self-declared non-patriot. ’nuff said.
*blink*
Wow! this non sense is still here!
Yep, you’re most definitely still here.
High five, CW.
Isn’t the largest question:
How on earth were enough voters snookered into electing him President?, and the second part of our lesson should be:….. not to even think of considering “charisma” as a needed characteristic of our President in this coming or any other November election cycle.
I used to think that the American Voter mostly exercised/exhibited basic good sense or gut feelings….but no longer.
Well, Charlie, there were at least three types of voters that elected BHO.
One group was no longer blreathing.
One group was mercenary
And the largest group were no longer thinking
One other factor, the rest of us had little to choose from. Heads I win and tales you loose is not a good choice. The system was controlling the odds. This time we need a real choice between conservatism and Socialism.
We’ve been fundamentally changed.
Prsident Obama is a disaster. He replaces Carter as the “worst President”. He sees the presidency as a way to destroy our constitutional form of government. And he is doing his best to bring that about. With him what he says and what he does are two different things. The picture of him standing with clenched fist, when others are saluting the flag, needs to be seen more often; many time more often!
Just look at who obama hangs with, who he has put in the White House as advisers, that can circumvent congress, his health care bill and his destroying of free enterprise in America. It does not take a rocket scientist to know this kid obama is in way over his head and has not a clue of what to do.
So when do Impeachment proceedings begin on Traitor Barry? He’s been lying from the beginning. He was lying when he took the Presidential Oath swearing to uphold the Constitution and protect this Nation from all enemies foriegn and domestic. The actions of this administration for the last two and one half years bear that out. He is not just unpatriotic, he is a totally dishonorable, opportunistic, lying bum. Why isn’t he being dealt with accordingly by the “Powers that Be”? He makes Nixon look like a Boy Scout counselor. I believe that Obama is the enemy in our midst.
Impeachment proceedings against Barry begin when the Dept. of Justice begins legal action against the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation or recommends fast-tracking to the Supreme Court the case against the Constitutionality of Obamacare–never.
Imagine. Barry, Francois Kerry, Al Gore in a foxhole together.
I would rather have three French whores next to me in a foxhole.
Cain is absolutely right! I do think so many wonderful black Americans voted for Obama because he was black and so many have said they did because of that. Cain tells the truth about Obama not being a patroit. I cringe, I really do cringe at so many things Obama has done. West would be great or Cain and it is just a shame that Cain or West was not our first black president!
Martin Luther King must be spinning in his grave. The first black president of the US: only elected because he was judged by the color of his skin, and not by the content of his character.
Cain/West 2012 Buhbye, lil barry!
Both Cain and Limbaugh have one patriotic characteristic in common–like most conservatives of their age–they seem to have avoided the draft at the time of the Vietnam War.
So typically leftist to attempt to discredit truth by pointing out a truthteller’s personal weakness. As if that itself alters or changes truth. By such standards, that Judas fellow’s bad behavior is proof that Jesus wasn’t God?
It is unfortunate that HC didn’t point out Obama’s most aggregious assualt upon America -the unfettered unleashing of the slaughter of innocent life, even after being born.
It is also unfortunate that he didn’t do what a white candidate can not -pointing out the left’s devestating assualt upon black America – both in disproportionate abortions and in corrupting their true freedom- continuing the victim syndrome – keeping their families fractured, their young daughters pregnant and their sons in prisons – in order that they stay dependent upon nanny state and vote for the Democratic Party.
Here are the Top Ten reasons Obama will be re-elected:
1. No one will run against him.
2. His wife has the Force.
3. He’ll make it a Presidential Decree
4. The Supreme Court will rule whites only have 3/5 of a vote.
5. Justin Bieber will campaign for him.
6. Louis Farrakhan will tell everyone not to.
7. He’ll promise to give up golf.
8. People with cars won’t be able to afford driving to the polls.
9. ACORN 2.0 will register every graveyard.
10. Having Oprah on the ticket makes him unbeatable.
I again ask the question and add: –: What was the last year a new LARGE CHAIN GROCERY STORE was built in the urban core of, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Harlem, SFO, Houston, New Orleans etc. and by whom? —
Mr Skip Gainer replies- Any business that does not build or run a store in those areas, plus other areas in our country have a very good reason. You have to make a profit in your store and being robbed and intimidated all the time with law suits and bodily harm, you can not run a profitable store. It always goes back to the money!
MR. GAINERS ANSWER, ALTHOUGH OBVIOUS AND PARTLY CORRECT — is to simple and direct. WHO COULD BUILD SUCH A STORE AND WHY WOULD THEY? I am not being intentionally obtuse, I am not playing around with the topic. Also I am not saying Mr. Cain is wrong, and I am certainly not saying anything positive about BHO. Its a question thats more than a simple question,
LAST; IF YOU (CORPORATIONS?) CAN’T BUILD THAT GROCERY STORE, WHEN OR WHAT DATE DID THAT FACT BECOME A REALITY? WHY? Anyone?
I don’t think Herman Cain will get the Republican nomination (although I’ve been wrong about these things plenty of times before), but if he does, I will vote for him because he is a patriot… unlike our Community-Organizer-in-Chief.