Can't say it any better than theRightScoop: "HOLY CRAP!" And I'm not even a birther...
Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”
The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.
It also promotes Obama’s anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White–which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.
Obama’s biography in the booklet is as follows (image and text below):
Somebody got some splainin' to do. Of course, if this was Bush, this would be flashed across every news medium out there...with expletives in tow!
ScaredMonkey: How come the MSM is not talking about this bi-partisanship?
THUD!!! What was that sound? Barack Obama’s budget crashing to the ground with a 99-0 vote against. That’s correct, not one single Democrat Senate vote. This is hardly a ringing endorsement for Obama and Obamanomics. These Democrat Senators are going to have a difficult time justifying their vote against the Obama budget, their misgivings on voting for Obamacare and the $787 billion stimulus and campaigning for or with Barack Obama in 2012. Just a reminder from the Lonely Conservative, the US Senate is controlled by Democrats.
Boom! Across the establishment bow, as another of their members loses to a tea party backed conservative candidate.
CBSNews: Nebraska state Senator Deb Fischer pulled off a surprise upset victory against
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning in the state's Republican Senate primary
Tuesday, marking the second contest in two weeks in which an establishment
favorite was upended by a dark horse candidate in a Senate primary.
Fischer, a rural rancher from the state's 43rd legislative district, eked out
a 5-point victory over Bruning, winning 41 percent to the Attorney General's 36
percent with nearly all the votes counted.
As of just a few weeks ago, Bruning was widely considered the favorite in the race, and was expected to handily defeat Fischer...to face off against Democratic candidate Bob Kerrey in November. In recent days, however, some signs suggested the tides might be turning in Fischer's favor...
Fischer secured the endorsements of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and former presidential candidate Herman Cain, and she also got a boost from Joe Ricketts, the owner of the Chicago Cubs and founder of TD Ameritrade, who over the weekend injected $200,000 into the race for advertisements blasting Bruning and touting Fischer...
Another establishment Republican bites the dust. Come on, Texas, we gotta send conservative Ted Cruz, also endorsed by Palin among MANY others, to the U.S. Senate! Conservatism will be the ONLY way to reclaim that anesthetized body.
If you haven't figured out by now how mainstream American media outlets have turned into a collective propaganda machine for the Left, then you've been living under a rock for quite sometime now. No, it didn't happen with the incarnation of one Barack Hussein Obama; it's been building to its current fever pitch for decades. However, their most fawning moment in modern times came on November of 2008 with the election of their Dear Leader. There have been many kinks in the propagandists' pristine portrayal of Obama, particularly when the public perception of a President -- who for all intents and purposes seems to lack an appreciation of heritage, tradition, and who Americans are, trading these notions to 'remake' America, while possessing no qualms about insulting the Country and its People, and insisting on attacking our industrious nature with constant infusions of governmental dictates within every facet of our lives -- becomes as tarnished as this one despite, and in spite of, the MSM's slobbering love affair.
So now as we're in the throes of an election year, the latest placations of the floundering One have again enlisted an all-too anxious (and obnoxious) liberal media aiding his beckoned call. However, the saturation is not going off without notice this time. A recent piece by Eric Randall in the Atlantic Wire incapsulates the administration's current portrayal of the Democratic icon with the label, "Barack Obama: Our First Gay-Female-Hispanic-Asian-Jewish President."
Newsweek's cover this week declares that Barack Obama is the "First Gay President," playing on the reader's knowledge that Obama isn't himself gay, but his support for same-sex marriage earns him an honorary rainbow halo. The headline obviously calls back to 1998, when Toni Morrison declared Bill Clinton the first black presidentin The New Yorker, which at the time was edited by current Newsweek editor Tina Brown.
Similar to the Atlantic Wire piece, let's take a stroll down the pandering line, shall we...
This year's most prolonged placation has to be the so-called war on women, kicking off with Obama's contraceptives mandate forced on religious institutions, his uncompromising compromise, and christened in February, with the aid of Pelosi, by the testimony of Georgetown co-ed Sandra Fluke. Just google or youtube 'war on women' to view any number of participating media outlets and leftist PACs conveniently foisting this on the right in an election year. The Obama administration has kept this one going over several months, with a White House forum on women and the economy in early April...
...nevermind that the White House pays female employees 18% less than men (oops). Though this topic has begun to die down in the face of more facts like the prior, you'll continue to hear this one brought up from time to time.
Next, after that didn't work as well as had been anticipated, the administration used a local (not federal) incident surrounding the fatal shooting of a black teen to turn, once again, to an old standard: racial division. Targeting the black vote, the President said, "If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon."
Immediately following that failed pandering attempt once more details were revealed that the victim may not have been as innocent as the media initially portrayed, Obama launched a rapid succession of placation throughout April and into May. First, targeting the hispanic vote (both legal and illegal of course) at a Cinco de Mayo reception held on the White House grounds...
...then quickly moving on to the college crowd the next day, manipulating them with promises that he cannot deliver: the best college education that money can buy on the taxpayer's dime...and oh yeah, the taxpayers can pick up the tab for your student loans after you're done as well.
Then of course, we find ourselve still immersed in the same spot that Joe Biden setup for Obama last week: pandering to the LGBT community (or in English, 'the gay vote'). Again, like the rest, this is all about politics, not principle.
I skipped the Asian & Jewish placations, but you can read the Atlantic Wire piece for those, among other aspects that I've already mentioned. Anyway, I think you get the point!
Also, you'll notice that within each of these instances -- whether composed of one-on-one interviews with media lapdogs, 'breaking news' events behind a podium on the White House lawn to a small audience of both admirers and paparazzi, or supposedly scheduled speeches before an enthusiastic Obama crowd -- the President not only placates to specific voting demographics, but all of these moments seem to conveniently (and by that, I mean intentionally) morph into taxpayer-financed reelection campaign rallies initiated by Obama & Co., for the purposes of permeation through an extremely willing media. But if there's one fortunate thing to take away from this oversaturation of pandering, it's that the real ailments of our nation (i.e., the economy and the debt...stupid) continue to overshadow the placation, allowing the citizenry to see these for exactly what they are: distractions.
Oh! I have failed to mention one demographic that the Obama administration has taken aim at since waltzing into office, predating all of the above: the rich. Of course, that excludes the super-rich & rabidly-liberal celebrities, the Democratic-supporting mega-business elite, and the like...just those wealthy Americans (over $250K a year) who would question the motives and policies of this President, his party, and the ruling class. However, a new Gallup poll shows that this line of illogic is failing Obama as well.
Despite the recent political emphasis on wealth inequality and the call for higher taxes on the rich, more than six in 10 Americans think the United States benefits from having a class of rich people, unchanged from 22 years ago.
Although the poll shows that an alarming amount of Democrats believe that the wealthy do not benefit the United States (46%), the vast majority of Republicans and Independents acknowledge the overwhelming benefits of wealth creation in America (80% and 59%, respectively). So for now, the American intuition still envisions a shining city on a hill. And that's incentive enough to end the slobbering love affair with Barack Obama.
From the results of last week's vote, perhaps an impassioned plea from Rep. Jason Chaffetz has finally shaken loose some compassion, along with accountability, for House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's investigation into the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal being stonewalled by the not-so-accountable Attorney General Eric Holder.
Townhall: [Wednesday] night the House of Representatives passed the Fast and Furious Accountability Amendment as part of the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Act. The amendment passed by a vote of 381 to 41 and was sponsored by Republican Reps. Jason Chaffetz, Paul Gosar and Blake Farenthold. Rep. Trey Gowdy wasn't a co-sponsor, but offered strong support for the amendment which prohibits the Department of justice from spending money to cover-up the Fast and Furious scandal. "Covering up" includes making materially false statements, or crafting documents that contain false or fraudulent information.
During debate on the amendment, Chaffetz called on Democrats to step up and hold the Justice Department accountable and to demand documents requested from DOJ about Fast and Furious be provided to Congress.
The bottom line: Brian Terry is dead, Jaime Zapata is dead, hundreds if not thousands of Mexicans are dead as a result of Fast and Furious. We need answers.
ADDENDUM: Greta asks some hard hitting questions of Darrell Issa the other night when he went On the Record...
And his evolution is complete...well, at least on this one (for now). Desperate times call for desperate measures, as Obama casts his faith aside to endorse the fallacious nomenclature of 'gay marriage', all for the LGBT community...and coincidentally, right after a fundamental conservative defeat on several issues across several states on Tuesday (same-sex marriage among them on the NC ballot). How unexpected...via ABCNews:
Big Media's pretty expedient these days when it comes to saving Dear Leader's hide, huh? He's playing the LGBT community for suckers.
ADDENDUM: For more context on this evolution, check out his stance prior to his election, via WeaselZippers.
ADDENDUM II: Check out Big Media's push for more soft tyranny in their wannabe dictator, via the anonymous NewYorkTimes editors...
We have one major point of disagreement with Mr. Obama: his support for the concept of states deciding this issue on their own. That position effectively restricts the right to marry to the 20 states that have not adopted the kind of constitutional prohibitions North Carolina voters approved on Tuesday.
A federal judge in California, supported by an appellate court panel, has ruled that a ban on same-sex marriage violates the 14th Amendment right to equal protection. That decision will probably reach the Supreme Court, and, when it does, we expect Mr. Obama, if he is still president, will take the final step in his evolutionary process and direct the Justice Department to support that ruling and urge the court to uphold equality in every state.
So much for 'shutting up' on social issues, you know, those things that conservatives are always being targeted by Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) over. The Left are such hypocrites when it comes to developing distractions to protect their floundering leader.
FINALLY! In these days of bleak trajectories for our nation's future, Conservatives have something to smile about after last night's victories. Not only was entrenched establishment RINO Dick Lugar defeated by tea party conservative Richard Mourdock, but as Ed Morrissey stated, "Looks like Tuesday was a bad day for Barack Obama, Democrats in general, and particularly the unions."
Three states held primaries, and in each, voters rejected positions and/or candidates associated with all three, in embarrassing vote totals.
the Democratic presidential primary in West Virginia, where an inmate in federal prison ran a novelty primary challenge to Barack Obama — and came within a 20 points of winning.
the traditional marriage amendment that Obama publicly opposed in North Carolina passed by a wide margin. (more on that from theRightScoop)
By far the worst news for the Left came in Wisconsin, where primaries were held for the recall elections next month. Tom Barrett won a contentious fight against Kathleen Falk, the candidate of Big Labor who got a ton of union help for her campaign but lost badly by 24 points, 58/34. The real story, though, was Scott Walker, who got more votes than both combined despite facing only token opposition in the Republican primary.
Here's Rush from this morning commenting on the state-by-state wins: "Americans, ladies and gentlemen, are taking their country back, and they're doing it one election at a time."
Congratulations, Indiana! You've just delivered the first knock out of the 2012 elections! And again, I couldn't have said it any better than Weasel Zippers, "Obama's favorite Republican -- Dick Lugar -- is history, and the Tea Party lives."
IndyStar: Sen. Richard Lugar’s 36-year Senate career is now history.
The Associated Press called the race for Mourdock about 7:45 p.m.
Lugar was defeated in today’s Republican primary election by Treasurer Richard Mourdock, ending his bid for a seventh term in the U.S. Senate.
Mourdock will face Democrat U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly and Libertarian Andy Horning in the November election.
"Hoosier Republicans want to see the Republicans inside the United States Senate take a more conservative track, and we're looking forward to helping them do that... To those people who are conservatives, who for the first time in their lives perhaps in the last 2 or 3 years, decided to step out of their comfort zone and start working, some under the umbrella of the tea party, other names apply, other conservative groups, those people around this country are wondering if they can do the impossible. My friends, tonight you've demostrated it is possible!"
"What I've said about 'compromise' and 'bipartisanship' is that I hope to build a conservative majority in the United States Senate so that bipartisanship becomes Democrats joining Republicans to roll back the size of government, reduce the bureaucracy, lower taxes, and get America moving again. ...I’m bipartisan in the sense I want to confront the big spenders who are both Republicans and Democrats. I want to confront those who would protect the bureaucracy rather than the Republicans or Democrats. That’s the kind of confrontation we need to address the real issues that will get this country going again."
EXCELLENT ANSWERS that left a typical lib like O'Brien baffled. And apparently, Obama and some Dems are pretty broken up about Lugar's defeat...and if that doesn't tell you enough about the incestuous relationships going on in Washington politics (in particular, that of the Republican establishment and its resentment of conservatism), then certainly his parting comments will. Lugar was just another part of the problems in Washington, not the solution.
Cinco de Marxo? Of the Obama administration's Marxist-inspired "Forward" theme, Weasel Zippers has this next tidbit spot on: "One hell of a coincidence."
The Freedom Post: Obama will officially launch his 2012 re-election campain, and no I'm not kidding, on Karl Marx's birthday, May 5th! First, we learn that Earth Day was started on the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, the Communist butcher and founder of the USSR, now we learn that Barack Obama, America's first Marxist president, is launching his campaign on the father of communism's birthday? Come on, now. This is just too appropriate! How fitting!
Coincidence? Stupid oversight? Or, an intentional middle-finger in the face of the American people?
How long are they gonna keep these sham figures of an 'official' unemployment rate going? Well, it looks like the AP has finally wised up, and the mystery has been revealed about the Obama administration's bogus calculations, as if you already didn't know. Oh, and speaking of things you already know, the answer to the initial question is through the election.
Associated Press: U.S. employers pulled back on hiring in April for the second straight month, a sobering reminder that the economy remains weak. The unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent, but only because more people gave up looking for work.
The Labor Department said Friday that the economy added just 115,000 jobs in April. That's below March's upwardly revised 154,000 jobs and far fewer than the pace from earlier this year.
The unemployment rate has fallen a full percentage point since August to a three-year low. But last month's decline was not due to job growth. The government only counts people as unemployed if they are actively looking for work.
In April, the percentage of adults working or looking for work fell to the lowest level in more than 30 years.
A revised report stated it even more starkly: "Obama is likely to face voters in November with the highest unemployment rate of any U.S. president since World War II." Add this to high gas prices, home ownership at a decade-low , anemic GDP growth, higher taxes down the pike, while government dependence continues to grow...what a recovery. Leave it to Levin to clue Romney in to this.
