The Death of Bin Laden and Obama’s Re-Election Prospects
We are a bit less than 18 months out from the 2012 presidential election, and the GOP field has no front-runner. A few of the GOP’s announced contenders or possible candidates have national name recognition (Romney, Gingrich, Trump, Huckabee, Palin, Paul), but others (Pawlenty, Daniels, Cain, Bachmann, Santorum) do not. As a result, the best indicator of how the president is doing in his re-election bid is to look at his approval ratings and how he fares against a generic (unnamed) Republican opponent.
The Obama campaign, aiming to raise a billion dollars or more, has gotten off to a fast start, with a national fundraising swing to attract contributions from wealthy Democrats in New York, California, Illinois, and Texas, among other states.
Then on May 1 came the announcement of the killing of Osama bin Laden.
A barrage of instant polls conducted on one day or over two days seemed to show the president got a big boost in his approval rating (Quinnipiac, CBS/New York Times, Washington Post/SRBI), moving from the high 40s to levels in the 50s. Then came an Associated Press-GfKpoll that showed the president at 60% approval, a level not reached since early in his term in 2009. The Associated Press poll was criticized for oversampling Democrats (46% versus 29% for Republicans).
Meanwhile, the two polling groups which conduct surveys every day (or almost every day) — Rasmussen and Gallup — showed more modest gains for the president. Both of these surveys revealed the president’s approval ratings rising even before the announcement of bin Laden’s death. This was likely due to the release of President Obama’s long-form birth certificate, which seemed to take the air out of that issue and the Trump campaign.
Gallup had the Obama approval level rising to 52%, and tailing off slightly since (50% on May 13); Rasmussen showed a bump to 51%, now back down to 47%. The 47% approval rating for Obama in the latest three-day Rasmussen survey released on May 13 is a point below the level recorded on Election Day in 2010, a day that was a serious setback for congressional Democrats. In addition, both of the daily pollsters showed Obama with small leads (2-3%) over a generic Republican nominee, with the Obama re-elect number only in the low 40s, even after the boost from the raid.
Democratic pollster Mark Mellman, anticipating that the bump in Obama’s approval rating would be transitory, wrote that the short-term bump was expected, given the history of polling results after significant foreign policy developments in the past, and that a gradual fallback to lower levels was to be expected, especially given the state of the economy.
Mellman predicted that “President Obama would get a single-digit bump”:
• It would come disproportionately from Republicans and independents.
• It would be greater if there was unanimous praise for the president’s action and less if press and congressional commentary revealed divisions.
• Given the economic situation, the gains were likely to be transitory.
Mellman also pointed out the biggest change in Obama’s approval numbers was in his handling of the war on terror, the war in Afghanistan, and foreign policy in general. Opinion on Obama’s management of the economy remained decidedly negative.
Mellman’s analysis points to one critical way in which the bin Laden death will help the president. Prior to the event, the president was being criticized for, at times, incoherent and inconsistent foreign policy. This culminated in Ryan Lizza’s quote from one Administration official in a New Yorker article that the president wanted “to lead from behind.” The Libya mission began while the president was toasting Brazil for its offshore oil and gas exploration, and the president’s talk to the nation upon his return did everything possible to suggest that we were part of a group of nations (NATO command) acting with UN approval and that the U.S did not have a major role in the fighting.
Bring in the Porn, and Other Osama/Obama News
There are no reports that Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن, the Butcher of 9/11 recently killed by Barack bin Obama with some assistance from U.S. Navy SEALs, also enjoyed lap dances but we now know he was a porn aficionado as well as a mayhem maven.
Our government is being as mum about OBL’s stash of pornography on his computer(s) as it is about his final candid photographs as shot (pun) by our SEALs but we’re as sure as shooting (another pun) that he had an “extensive” collection of dirty pictures and who knows what else on those computers which, not incidentally, are an invention of those Western devils he used to despise.
Roger Simon argues that Obama and Company can keep the bloody pictures, that is, Osama’s head shots, if they really believe they would be disturbing to Americans and to already-disturbed Muslims.
As rational people are aware, Americans have seen far more graphic photos, including pictures of people hurling themselves off the WTC to escape incineration and pictures of the 9/11 aftermath and, as already noted, Muslims are quite disturbed anyway and hardly require pics to disturb them more. However, there’s no excuse, even government obtuseness, not to publicize OBL’s porn penchant which is a whole other story.
Simon says, “The kind of pornography a man looks at it gives us a certain insight into him. I can’t even begin to guess what excited bin Laden’s twisted brain. It could be something quite banal or something, shall we say, rather outré. I leave that to your imagination . . . Besides that, the promulgation of bin Laden’s porn choices would reduce this holy man further and continue to mock him as a pathetic old man:” http://bit.ly/jI1ygu
So, release the porn and let the riyal chips fall where they may!
In related news, the Washington Post, a subsidiary of the Obama administration along with the vast majority of the MSM, went off the plantation in reporting that Obama’s Pentagon is considering permitting families of captured OBL fanatics at GITMO to visit their imprisoned loved ones.
At the instigation of the International Committee of the Red Cross, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4452)
“But the second time around, the president will be judged by his record, not the promise of what is to come.”
Would that this be true would be nice. It isn’t.
With or without the death of Osama bin Laden, the sad, sorry, sick and terrible truth is that the Democrats; those everyday nice people at work, family folks and gossipy neighbors that elected Obama to begin with will vote for him again.
Four dollar a gallon gasoline, five dollars, six dollars won’t matter a bit on election day because these people do not choke on anything no matter how severely it punishes them.
This is not the America of Jimmy Carter’s time and 95% of the Democrat voting base do not know what or care who Tyrone Willingham or Frank Robinson are.
I keep hearing about how intelligent that today’s voters are; particularly the average black person who now earns and ranks as part of our nation’s upper middle class. I hear the same thing about the (prospective) Latino voters, a huge percentage of our society’s school teachers and let us not forget those ever important independents and moderates.
That is flat out not true. If it was true then Obama would have never seen the light of day as a Senator, much less been elected president.
Republicans best get their house in order quick. That yet unnamed opponent will be running against a very vicious man who has never been judged by his accomplishments or merit and never will be!
all so very true time.there are so many IDIOTS giving him credit for osamas demise it is pathetic. if obama could have had his way it never would have case in point. look at how him and his STUPIDLY IDIOTIC atorny general have been persecuting the very people who are responsible for osamas demise, if anyone besides the brave men who went in after that slimeball should get credit it is GEORGE BUSH plain and simple,
Amen, dude. Amen!
“I keep hearing about how intelligent that today’s voters are…”
Intelligent, but willfully ignorant.
Boy…ya got that right!
I’d vote for Osama Bin Laden’s dead, sunken carcass before I cast a vote for chairman Obie. Our “front-runner” republicans are turning out to be socialists in republican clothing. I’m not impressed.
Lets consider Obama’s case what is he, well he is a Anchor Baby born to an Undesirable mooching Alien Polygamist and an underage Trollop. The Lame Stream EneMedia the moonbats and the RINO’s appear to think this is perfectly OK. So does this then mean that the ONLY qualification necessary to be considered as a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN is to be born in the USA and who cares who the parents are ? It would seems so if the Lame Stream EneMedia’s and RINO’s total disinterest is to be believed. Moonbats of course are just too stupid to even THINK. So you can look forward to having President Awalaki born on arrival to Palestinian illegal immigrants and unable to even speak English America. You know it makes sense.
So basically he’s saying we really can’t tell how this affects his chances. What will affect his chances are the vast resources lining up to support him.
1. The Unions will be out in full force this season now that they know Obama will give them whatever they want and they aren’t finished with their Christmas list.
2. ACORN and numerous other voter fraud organizations will be working hard to register everyone and everything to vote multiple times.
3. Soros and foreign money. This is dirty little secret that the polite pundits are afraid to talk about. The International Left is heavily invested in Obama.
4. The death of bin Laden is a big deal. It’s a really big deal. In the debates Obama will play the Osama card often and will benefit from it.
Unless the GOP gets a real rock star in the race, we are looking at an Obama re-election and America will not survive 8 years of Obama.
Yes Nick. I am afraid you are so right. there are far too many IDIOTS and freeloaders looking for something for nothing and obama is prommising them that so they will vote for him again. it doesn’t matter to them if he is dumber than a brick. they wont have to worry about buying gas cause obama gone take care of ME, he is as PHONEY
Agree. 100%. So very sad.
This seems to be the big picture these days.. http://typobounty.com/Funny/Obama_2.htm
why bother with writing an answer or for that matter any thing if it’s not going to be posted???
Obama’s solid record of authorizing an unprecedented number of drones over Pakistan has resulted in huge numbers of Taliban and Al-Qaeda losses. More top leaders have been killed during the past two years, topped by the death of Osama bin Laden.
While the Republican party seems to be coming apart witnessed by the majority of polled Republicans want a third party. This is the formula for another Democratic victory in 2012.
Republicans do NOT want a third party (that’s wishful thinking in leftist circles). True Republicans want (and need) the RINOs out of the party. We do NOT need another Bush or McCain who act as if the left actually might have good ideas. When Bush let the radical leftist Kennedy write an education bill, it was proof that the RINO pathology had infected G.W.
The country club republicans are as much an enemy of the USA as the radical socialists who are in the WH now and who control the senate.
DavidMac…There is NO such thing as a “RHINO” in the GOP. There is however, a signficant division among the three components of the GOP which leaves the party severly fractured and essentially disfunction without any cohesive GOP platform. That is not a good thing for the GOP and the people of the nation who are registered GOP voters. The ONLY componenet of the GOP that is grounded with a fundamental platform are those very, very few in either congressional house, who align with the strict federalist Libertarians who underlying ideology is anarchism.
All this ‘labeling’ is silliness and not constructive to fixing the GOP. The center-right GOP has no platform of substance and the religious-right and Tea Party certainly have nothing more than vascilating rhetoric for the populist issues of the moment. Neither of the latter are founded in the constitution though their selective rhetoric portrays them to be on some issues.
The three major components of the GOP today, are without a mast and rudder….except for the few strict Libertarians!
The problem is NOT the government! The problem is the national ideological divide of people who install the government and the center-right, religious-right and whatever the Tea Party really represents, they are not within the ‘majority’ of the voting population. Thats the reality whether we like it or not! Add to this, the fact that when the rubber meets the road on the issues of the third-rail of government, the GOP is going to be futher divided and GOP votes further diluted.
@ Edward A…
You are not as bright as you think you are. Have you ever even so much as READ a presidential ballot in the United States? There are TONS of parties, and while only two tickets on the presidential ballot are substantial enough contenders to win, Barack Obama only RAN on the Democratic ticket — he’s truly a Socialist. We also had a Socialist President during part of the Great Depression, FDR. THESE GUYS DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD, ALWAYS.
“While the Republican party seems to be coming apart witnessed by the majority of polled Republicans want a third party. This is the formula for another Democratic victory in 2012.”
The problem is, our electorate have been taught to seek appearance as the number one criteria for who they vote for. It makes no difference if you are right on the money on all issues, the Rock Star will probably win nevertheless.
This, I think, is the issue with the current Republican pack. Many of them have damned good ideas and solid experience, but not a one of them are of a “slick, glib, sleek” caliber. Such subjective means for choosing one’s political leaders is how we got Obama – A lot of BS, little substance, but damn! he can
Bulltalk the skin off of an Eel.The bump in the poll for Osama bin Laden’s death won’t last that long. George H.W. Bush had a 90% approval rating after winning the first Gulf War, and he still lost in 1992 because of a bad economy. Also, when all those people in the press keep whining about there being no great Republican front runner, always remember that George H.W. Bush was beaten in 1992 by a nobody governor from Arkansas named Bill Clinton.
Also remember that Gerald Ford was beaten in 1976 by a no-name Governor from Georgia, Jimmy Carter. Ford was also crippled by a bad economy, one that was made a hundred times worse by Carter. I think this is the glide path Obama is going to follow since our economy is a shambles and doesn’t look like it’s going to get much better before the elections.
I love how the main stream media wants to destroy Republican chances by saying there are “no frontrunner candidates” when we haven’t even had a single primary yet. Many of the big-name Republicans have not even decided if they are going to run for president yet. There is still plenty of time for a candidate to show up. And we have to pick the right one, because whoever he or she is, they are going to be attacked mercilessly by not only Obama but also the main stream media (not to mention their toadies on the late-night comedy shows). So don’t worry, there is still plenty of time for a great candidate to come up. And when that person does step to the plate, they will crush that man/boy fraud in the White House in 2012.
There is a fundamental difference: Saddam didn’t kill 3,000 Americans on Ameican soil so many Americans told “Removing Saddam, big deal, now about the economy”
No, not much of a difference. The United States has been hunting bin Laden for almost 10 years. If Obama didn’t get him, somebody else would have. There was no way bin Laden would have gotten away forever.
Having said that, you also have to remember we could still lose in Afghanistan, Iraq is far from totally secure (especially with Libya trying to destabilize it), and Libya could go on for God knows how long. Add all that to a really lousy economy where the new norm now seems to be 9% unemployment, and the memory of getting bin Laden will fade fast, espcially if something else blows up in the Middle East.
Just a friendly reminder that UBL was in fact being hunted by the ‘careers’ during the Clinton Administration and Clinton turned his back when UBL was offered up….
Just didn’t want folks to think UBL has been hunted for only 10 years.
All what you say is right but as I said Americans didn’t have the same emotional link with Sadam than they have with bin Laden. Just like in 1942 (in 1942 nobody knew about Final Solution) and possibly later American servicemen weren’t eager about killing Germans, they were and highly about killing Japanese: breaking a lot of treaties, invading a lot of countries and declaring war on America was seen as minor sins in comparison to treacherosu attack on Pearl Harbor. (An American serviceman: “I am not specially happy about having to kill some good German father but Japs I would wipe them to a man”.)
“Iraq is far from totally secure (especially with Libya trying to destabilize it)…”
Sorry, I ment to say “especially with IRAN trying to destabilize it. My mistake.
Obama’s solid record is a tyrannous display of lies, backroom deals, and personal fiat (Presidential orders). It is surrounding himself with “czars” and radical activists intent on imposing their personal views on society, in disregard for the “inalienable rights” of the individual to live his/her own life, rather than function for the “good of the state” (I don’t even believe in insurance as it is set up, funneling money into the coffers of the few while doling out little to its clients, much like a lottery makes a few millionaires while bleeding everyone else who plays the game — now Obama says you HAVE to play the game. What garbage.) Society is divided (whites, blacks, latinos, etc.) and Obama merely plays on those divisions, he does nothing to heal them. He will not be re-elected, because the black and latino vote will not be enough to offset his rejection by independent voters, who now see through him, and will be the saving grace of the voting public. Nor will they vote for Republicans identified with the failed recent past (like Newt Gingrich), so Republicans need only put forward a new man (or woman), not a recycled one. Will they do even that much? is the question.
WOW, YOU SURE SAID IT! You GO, man!
It’s time for the American People to exact a penalty on Obama for “excessive celebration”.
OBAMA’S 7 MONTHS OF INDECISION TO KILL BIN LADEN TURNED INTO GUTSY PRESIDENTIAL HEROISM BY MSM AND WHITE HOUSE SPIN
Click ApolloSpeaks and read my widely linked, eye opening Townhall piece: Why Obama Delayed the Mission to Kill Bin Laden and the Bogus B-2 Bombing Story.
Anyone who would vote for barack obama in 2012,were gonna vote for him a osama bin ladens demise is itselfnyway,or just looking for any excuse to justify their ignorance for believing him the first time.To claim their voting for him because ofarack obama osama bin ladens demise is a lie with-in itself.Bis flockm,and harack obama,believes america,and our founders principles,are the reason for all the problems in the world.him,and his flock of legions.see those like osama bin laden,as the freedom fighter,for social justice,and our country,and military,as the oppressors,and terrorist.But barack obama,and his legions,couldn’t afford,the outrage that would take place,if he passed up the opportunity,to take,osama bin laden out once we had him dead-on in our sites.As bill clinton did,on more than one occasion.He stalled for over 16 hours.I bet hoping we would lose that opportunity.As the muslim brotherhood,and c.a.i.r.,hamas,and hezbollah,his pals are not very happy about taking out their hero.Which is probably who demanded he get an honorable muslim,islamic burial.And demanded barack obama not do an autopsy on his body,or release his picture to devalue the legend christ like profile,that was given to osama bin laden.Rather than the truth.He was a coward,who hid behind womens skirts,and was a pervert,and self-idolizing maggot.As well why barack obama is leaking information to our enemies,that we have found their battle plans to warn them.Barack obama,had no choice but call for the asassination,of osama bin laden.to not would have been political suicide for him.and his polls were looking pathetic.Even being manipulated,in his favor by the drive-by media.and he knew even though he would recieve anger from his islamic gihadist pals.If osama bin laden was taken out that the obama media will give all the credit to him,and use it for the 2012 election,as the real foreign policy president.Even though,If barack obama,and his legions had their way.Osama bin laden would have a statue built,of osama bin laden right where the statue of liberty is now.Just as they are trying to build a shrine to the 9’11 hijackers,at ground zero now.But one thing is consistant with barack obama.He is more than willing to throw one of his own under the bus,for his own political advantage,or self-preservation.Which is a consistancy with islamic gihadist,and liberals alike.Example;He threw his mother,and grandmother under the bus,to satisfy,white racist,liberal miltant blacks!And we can’t forget how easy it was to proudly endorse his 20 year relationship,pastor,and godfather to his children.Black liberation theology,anti-american,white racist,and christian blasphemer,false prophet,marxist communist,and islamic gihadist alliance doctrine.JEREMIAH WRIGHT!Then the next day deny him,like peter did jesus christ 3 times,before the rooster crowed.Threw jeremiah wright under the bus,as well for his(barack obama’s)own self-preservation!But like peter became a solid prophet,and believer in jesus christ,and his doctrine,afterwards.Never doubt so is barack obama’s beliefs in the doctrines,and beliefs of jerimiah wright!Never doubt for one minute,that barack obama,and his legions,already have a back-up plan,in place,in case he doesn’t win the presidency.to firse declare the election was stolen,with media’s support.And when,or if they can’t make that argument stick.they will incite,and start a race war,with the back-up of Union thugs,mexican cartels.(The real reason for obstructing justice,on illegal immigration,by members of both parties,in search of the addict,and pedophile vote,for a new world order)Beware patriotic americans.Especially biblically principaled,and rule of law driven americans.You are in for a bumpy ride!!!Jimmy Joe “The Liarfryer”
Didn’t someone in your grammar school teach you what paragraphs are?
Try it again WITH paragraphs and make it more readable!
and your point is ….?
His point is obvious. If one is serious about having their commentary read by a healthy number of people, one needs to utilize paragraphs. A space between sentences helps too. Personally, I did not read his post. Simply too much eyestrain……
Leave this silver tongued orator alone. You might not agree with how he says stuff, but the message is loud and clear. Keep it up!
Fortunately for Obama, Americans are “stupid”. They will vote for obama, not on what he has done, but on all his so called “promises”. If the voters inspected his so called accomplishments, his appointments to various positions, his many unkept promises, his racially and class diviseness statements, they would see what his dismal record actually is.
However, most are more content with ignoring the tragedy that he is projecting on America and be swayed by his articulate, teleprompter speeches….
A large number of Americans are, in fact, stupid. Many women voted for Slick Willie because he was “cute”. Well over 90% of blacks voted for Obama because he had the same skin color as they did.
However, most (well, over half, anyway) Americans are NOT stupid. It is the ignorant Americans who need to be educated regarding the economy, the Obama fraud and the international socialist movement that finances democrats.
When these ignorant folks are educated and see that Obama’s vision for the USA is destruction of the capitalist/free enterprise system, they should vote for a Republican.
It doesn’t really matter whether the voters are dumb or intelligent, educated or pedagogically stunted; the problem is that most voters will understand by now that, if they vote for BO, they won’t have to worry about the budget cuts and diminished lifestyles inherent in a GOP victory.
We may not like the French, but we sure like their thinking: Après moi, le déluge!
That’s why I think Obama will “rule” a second term. Some legacy though, isn’t it? Elected once by an anti-Bush vote and a second time because my fellow Americans are not ready for a real change.
So I don’t know what you people are saying. Is it time to give up?
What Presidential policies are in place today that will ameliorate:
9% unemployment
$4 a gallon gasoline
food inflation
the lowest percentage of labor force participation since 1982
estimated 2011 GDP increase of 2%
over $1 trillion in annual deficits for the next 3 years
Ronald Reagan was re-elected in 1984 on the strength of “It’s Morning in America”. In spite of 7.2% unemployment. Why? Because the voters could see, in their own lives, that things were turning from bad to better.
All the tops in the world can not spin fast enough to obscure the objective economic conditions we live in today.
To paraphrase Napoleon, Reality has a quality all its own.
It’s looney to think the the OBL assassination won’t help Spike. I don’t care what the polls do or don’t say. We all know they are manipulated anyway.
There is no question Spike is going to be playing this record around the clock for the next 18 months, with the full-throated chorus of the make believe media. There won’t be a single day from now until November 2012 without a story about the hero of heros.
It’s going to help the criminal, no question.
All of the republican candidates better stay on the message that the entire operation was 100% based on dubyas policies that the criminal crapped on for years. Every time they give Spike any credit at all, he will pick up votes.
I am having a hard time even discussing this azzhole as a qualified candidate, as his father was not a citizen of these United States, which makes him in-eligible for the position of the Presidency. Number two it has been written that he is a dual citizen which makes him in-eligible. where the hell are the lawmakers in this country that have the balls to tell Holder and the rest of the criminals in the Federal Government, on the hill, that if they pursue this sham, they too will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Boehner, where the hell are you and if you haven’t got the guts to tackle this clown, move over and give it to someone that will
Yes, the average I.Q. is 100 so at least 50% of the folks are an easy mark for the left–we will take care of you. But the real problem is the group of smart folks who are idealogical and those who are bent looking for power. The republicans seem to be shy and the democrats whores when it comes to getting votes. The best slogan for the republicans is “How is that hope and change working for you”? This used to be a free country but now the government has the right to make you eat broccoli or so the democrats say.
You misunderstand IQ ratings, because you misunderstand the word average.
Average means the numerical middle. You could have a whole bunch of just-above-average folks, but a few really stupid ones will bring down the average dramatically. We use the term average person, but average does not mean what folks think. The proper word is typical or ordinary, not average.
IQ tests are designed so that the average is 100. It is also the median, the most common result. Most folks fall into the 90-110 range, which is considered “average”. Again, the proper word should be ordinary, not average. 90-110 is where the majority (majority means more than 50%) of folks are. It is not an over-under thing. It is a very tight grouping of ordinary folks. The resulting bell-curve has a sharp drop-off for the stupid and the smart.
Most folks are not stupid. They are, however, ignorant. A stupid person is basically almost ineducable. An ignorant person is not (unless he is willfully ignorant). I could call your post stupid, but it is not. It was ignorant. That word has a negative connotation, because people think it means stupid. It does not. We are all ignorant, just ignorant about different things. No man can know everything. Learn the difference between those words, and you will quit thinking so poorly of your fellow man. Most are NOT stupid, but ignorant. Most ARE educable, despite being ignorant.
Mostly, people are ignorant, because they do not know what words mean. Because they do not, they can be bamboozled by the hucksters. Let us clear up the lies by first clearing up the meanings of words.
“Mostly, people are ignorant, because they do not know what words mean. Because they do not, they can be bamboozled by the hucksters.”
So true, mostly because of a widespread disdain for reading in our society. Couple that with the deplorable quality of public education in this country, & one has an excellent recipe for the disastrous choices most voters make at each & every national election.
I do not understand why the GOP is so deeply unable to fight.
This president is trying to prosecute the CIA Agents who have allowed us to find Bin Laden.
This should be on TV ads and on billboards all over the country.
The list of terrible “mistakes” and wrong policies carried on by this administration is pages long…but the GOP doesn’t campaign at all, waiting for a magical candidate …and waiting…and waiting…
The GOP seems to have forgotten that there is only one winning strategy:
attack ! attack ! attack !
What is the story on Herman Cain? Is he viable?
The assassination of bin Laden will shortly be viewed only as an attempt by the President to gain votes. There are serious moral issues which for the moment have been in the background. They will move to the fore well before the 2012 election. In the meantime, The President remains a Marxist and will continue with his Marxist agenda.
I don’t think that Obama getting Osama will have any lasting effect, most people that care know that Obama and nearly all democrats are anti-military. For what’s it worth, ALL of the people I have encountered since the hit were glad Osama was gone but not single person mentioned Obama or gave him credit. I’ll concede that I live in fly over country and I don’t run across a lot of Obamaphiles.
We’re barely past Obama’s midpoint in his first and only term and the world is a much more scary place since he took the throne. Our sunk economy will sink his presidency. Good riddance.
Texas Togetherness, Obama-Style
In “Grease,” Danny and Sandy memorably sang, “We go together like rama lama lama ke ding a de dinga a dong remembered for ever like shoo bop shoo wadda wadda yipitty boom de boom.”
Rama lamas, ke dings, shoo bops, and boom de booms aside, our president has a radically different view of what most Americans believe “going together” and “togetherness” mean. His view is that they mean going and being together on the surface until the next election and in the interim he’s into anything but true inclusiveness.
Central to the prospects of four more years of Obamian divisiveness, race-baiting, economic stagflation, socializing health care, et al. is the administration’s linkage of those groups he must cajole and pay off. All others can go to hell.
His prime constituencies, misguided whites who will again vote for Obama in repentance for white guilt, naive blacks who would vote for him en masse even if he were to profess membership in Al-qaeda, gays who have gotten virtually all they have demanded and want even more, and the millions of hispanics who especially like him because he hates us gringos as much as they do.
Nowhere has Obama’s obsequious catering to the hispanic vote been more blatant than in his southern border policy, or lack thereof.
Janet Napolitano’s TSA got a temporary Texan comeuppance to its insane airport security pat-down policies which this week incorporated a diaper wrinkle as TSA agents literally sniffed into an infant’s nappy in search of a bomb. Late Thursday, the Texas House passed a bill that would make “inappropriate” touching of a traveller’s “anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast,” including through clothing, a criminal act. No mention was made of diapers.
No mention to any of that touching is necessary with regard to America’s borders which Big Bro Obama and Big Sis Napolitano contend are as secure as the White House grounds. well, maybe not that secure but certainly as secure as New York City, well, maybe not that secure either but very secure, really.
Our president has more on his mind than borders, anyway. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4454)
To Give Us Direction:
No, Herman Cain(great man) is not viable, neither is Donald Trump (not so great man) or any businessman. Steve Forbes wasn’t electable either.
America basically elects current politicians, former politicians, or generals.
Why is Cain not viable? Medical history?
For the majority of rationale American’s across all party lines, Obama will be given credit for having gotten the ‘kill’ of UBL on his watch.
I don’t think anybody can isolate the death of UBL as an independent weight for any outcome of upcoming election. Theres just to many varibles on the minds of most Americans at the moment and going forward to the election.
Where’s your faith in our communist media?
They will focus for you.
What happens if the 2012 election does NOT kick out the Prince of Lies, and/or does NOT have Repubs gaining control of the Senate? Many here seem to be assuming business-as-usual, and then pinning all their hopes on this one election. However reality says that it is not going to go well, either because of outright fraud or because of the utter stupidity of most of the American electorate.
An approach grounded in sanity and reality requires that all of us had better start thinking about ‘Plan B’, the sooner the better.
Plan A: Ballot box
Plan B: Ammo box
“When in the course of human events….” Keep your powder dry.
I, personally, have everything to lose… and everything to gain.
You know why people say keep your powder dry? If you don’t it will spoil your make up.
“An approach grounded in sanity and reality requires that all of us had better start thinking about ‘Plan B’, the sooner the better.”
Oh great. This is all we need, for our country’s future to be forever shrouded beneath O’s status as a martyr. Rather, let’s hope that the GOP can cough up a Reaganesque dark horse who isn’t afraid to go after O a la Trump, even beating him over the head with the Jeremiah Wright thing AWA the Common incident.
I note you responded to me, and not to Mr. Malone. Your misreading of what may or may not constitute my ‘Plan B’ is instructive, albeit more about you than me. There are certainly an infinity of options other than what you imply, which BTW to me is reprehensible. Your underlying assumptions are certainly cause to make me question your motives, and do nothing to make me or any other traditionalist want you as an ally.
I strongly suggest that you start thinkink outside the box. If your Reaganesque dark horse never materializes, then what will you do? (Hint: the answer does NOT involve martyrs). Either get a grip, or be seen as a troll.
Hssein has been overheard saying, “for me to be re-elected, someone must die”. It looks like his wishcame true.
The Republican nominee should emphasize that bin Laden lived pathetically because he was he was an Islamic Fundamentalist. And it also needs to be emphasized that PEW Research polls demonstrated that he was very popular in the Islamic world until he sent his jihadist volunteers into Iraq and they attempted to defeat America by killing Iraqis.
The attempt to establish a Caliphate and drive America out by trying to start a civil war in Iraq failed because of the resolve of George Bush.
Bin Laden’s effectiveness was destroyed by his strategy of killing innocent Muslims in Iraq. All that remained when Bush was finished with him was for Obama-Holder to order that he be killed, even if unarmed, rather than be taken to Gitmo where, with a little aquatic encouragement, knowledge of what remains of his organization could have been milked from him before a military tribunal sentenced him to death.
It was in Iraq that bin Laden suffered a humiliating defeat and the al Qaeda brand name lost its luster. Of course, if the media weren’t such traitors and the Bush Administration so communications -challenged this would be common knowledge
You people are repulsive. Can’t wait to read your racist whining and complaining for another fours years after Barack Husain Obama wins again. Gotta have my weekly chuckle.
Whenever a rabid progressive (a redundant adjective) screams “racist”, it means two things:
1) He has already lost the argument, since he can’t debate the issue on its merits.
2) It is prelude to the inevitable shakedown by whatever minority du jour on the rest of society, using either affirmative action, reparations, welfare, or some other kind of victimization/entitlement program.
BTW, do policies from the Prince of Lies constitute “black policies”? If so, it’s a surprise to me and all other traditionalists.
BTW, how many times every day do you bow down to your shrine of the semihemidemigod Prince of Lies?
In response to your mindless progressive tropes, it is all I can do to remain civil. Regarding you and your ilk, I will therefore quote from a film, whose theme was good against a seemingly overpowering evil:
“Send these foul beasts into the abyss.”
I stood toe to toe with an Arab who was demonstrating today, until the police separated us. All I have to think about is who let this s.o.b into this country. That’s all I need to remind me who to vote for.