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More Than 80 Reasons to Elect a New President Worthy of a Great Nation: Not the Abomination of an Obama Nation
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78. Manipulating legislation by forcing votes on massive documents. Racing massive thousand-page legislation packages through Congress without allowing Congress or the American People time to read, comprehend, and absorb the bill -- and thus breaking a major campaign promise.
79. The Credit Rating downgrade. Presiding over the first credit-rating downgrade in American history. . . .
Stop It Already: He's Not So Smart [published in The American Thinker 06-01-11]
[Excerpt from full Commentary] We would be more impressed if our transparent President would allow us to see his transcript from Columbia University and share with us how he managed to finance his education there. Or if he would allow us to read his senior thesis. Or allow us to see his transcript from Harvard Law School. Yes, we know he rose to be the president of Law Review, but there is a question that nags on that one, too: [¶] I was Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review and later had the honor of clerking for the Hon. Danny Julian Boggs of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, one of the nation's most brilliant jurists, who later rose to become Chief Judge of the Sixth Circuit. To be selected as Chief Articles Editor, I had to research and write the Law Review Comment of a lifetime. In time, it was published and deemed good enough that I was named law review chief articles editor. In the years that followed, that Law Review Comment has been cited by federal courts in at least seven published judicial opinions, and in several other unpublished opinions. It has been cited and quoted often in other people's legal scholarship. [¶] And that is "how it works." To be a law review editor-in-chief, a Chief Articles Editor, a Chief Comments Editor of a law review, it is a sine qua non that you publish something fabulous, a real scholarly piece of work. Many dozens of America's finest law students do exactly that every year. Those articles later become part of a vast searchable electronic library of legal scholarship. [¶] The thing is, I cannot find Barack Obama's great piece of work, the scholarship one would presume he researched, drafted, crafted, and honed, that earned him the presidency of the Harvard Law Review. The name "Obama" is the kind of search term that should do the job. But I cannot find any scholarship published by him that reveals the exceptional brilliance that paved the way to his achievement. So there is no published scholarship that refutes the increasing sense so many of us share that we Americans elected a President who maybe is not so smart as the media's campaign hype suggested. Perhaps even a rube. Just as we have been chastened by the Mississippi floods and the Midwestern tornadoes that challenge his power as a "god" to declare the moment when "the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal." [¶] Think back to his press conference when, recklessly venturing beyond range of a teleprompter, he described his campaign efforts through the 57 states. If Dan Quayle had said that, people would have thrown potatoes at him. With Obama, though, we are told it was a slip of the tongue. When he could not properly pronounce the military term "corpsman," pronouncing it instead as one would describe a cadaver, the late-night comics did not perceive humor. . . .
Always the Jews -- Not: Give the Maniac Some Credit [published in Jewish World Review 01-11-11]
[Excerpt from full Commentary] In the aftermath of the tragic and evil shooting of United States Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona, American Jewish news sources have entered the conversation by noting that Rep. Giffords is Jewish and that her attacker, Jared Lee Loughner, has associated with extremist hate groups. The suggestion: her tragedy is an act of anti-Semitism. I respectfully beg to differ. [¶] Jared Lee Loughner is a nut. He has earned by dint of his own merit the privilege of being deemed a 100% crackpot. Yes, he may have had an interface with a hate group whose name I choose not to publicize further, possibly because that group hates Latinos or African Americans or perhaps even people from a distant planet where Loughner perhaps thinks he once lived. (For that matter, perhaps his anger stems from a perception that he has friends living on Pluto, which has been stripped of its planet identity without its input.) Regardless, the search for truth and understanding is not helped by searching endlessly for a Jewish angle in every cockamamie and outlier news event.
[Excerpt from full Commentary] 14 points to consider in assessing the fallacy of Obama's and Pelosi's claims -- Reid is irrelevant because he is on the way out and soon will be waiting tables at Las Vegas casinos -- that a Government-run healthcare option is not disastrous.
Problem-Solvers and Butt-Kickers: Americans Elected Unknowns Without Executive Skills to Lead the Free World [published in The American Thinker 06-14-10]
[Excerpt from full Commentary] Political analysts may divide the world into liberals and conservatives, while theologians may distinguish religionists from non-believers. As the coarseness of our president's recent public rhetorical flourish continues to resonate, sociologists might also want to individuate two types of leadership models: the Problem-Solver and the "Butt-Kicker" (hereafter, the "Solver" and the "Blamer"). Tragically, America now has a team of Blamers sitting in the Oval Office at an epoch when our nation needs -- more than we have needed for a century -- Solvers. [¶] The Solver does not focus on affixing blame in a crisis, even though she may have to demand a resignation. Rather, she seeks to fix mistakes productively and to propel her universe forward constructively. President Barack Obama came to us as an Unknown. We the American people elected him to be our chief executive, effectively the senior executive of the free world. During the presidential campaign, we heard Mr. Obama blame, but we inferred that insurgent campaign puffery necessarily entails casting aspersions against the incumbent class. Indeed, Hillary Clinton sought to leverage public unease when she ran her much-lampooned television commercial depicting a White House telephone ringing in the presidential bedroom past midnight. We still did not enjoy a tangible sense of how Mr. Obama handles crises.
Never Letting a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: Will Obama Exploit the BP Oil Fiasco to Further His Environmentalist Agenda?[published Frontpagemag.com 06-03-10]
[Excerpt from full Commentary] White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel gained notoriety for declaring his credo: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” In other words, when there is tragedy and suffering, intense human pain and disaster, a political expert enjoys a unique opportunity to push the least popular parts of his agenda past a distracted electorate. [¶] No sooner had President Barack Obama entered the White House than the Emanuel Doctrine was put into motion with the 1,073-page $787 billion “stimulus bill” that had to be rushed through Congress, seemingly overnight. As Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) said: “We have not had a single hearing on anything in front of us….We’ve been told that even one hearing would be one too many, and that we have a single day to approve these five complex propositions that will affect the lives of millions.” [¶] Faced in January 2009 with a looming national financial catastrophe, as a crash in the residential real estate market prompted a grave Wall Street crisis, the Obama White House detected cover to raid the public till and reward staunch Democrat loyalists under the rubric of a “stimulus bill.” Beneath the public radar and buried within the bill’s 1,073 pages, the “stimulus” allocated inter alia $50 million to the National Endowment for the Arts, nearly half a billion dollars for people interested in researching “global warming,” even at least $18 million for the website that reports how the “stimulus” funds are allocated. Overturning a prime achievement of the Clinton Administration, the “stimulus” restored key elements of the welfare practices that America had abandoned. Over time, the “stimulus” has trickled down to fund $233,825 for explaining voting patterns in Africa and $363,760 for two jobs “[d]evelop[ing] ‘real life’ st[or]ies that underscore job and infrastructure related to [the Stimulus Bill] research findings.” [¶] In sum, there was crisis – thus opportunity. The sweaty-palms sense of crisis that demanded virtually overnight passage before Congressional representatives could read its encyclopedic contents has long since proven exaggerated. The vast majority of the bill’s funds still have not stimulated anything. Much of it still has not been infused into the economy. [¶] This is the Emanuel Doctrine: never let a crisis go to waste. . . .
[Excerpt from full Commentary] He has won a Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing and for not being George W. Bush. Maybe that is why he never touches a bannister. But even with nose stuck up high, the arrogant eventually are humbled.
Obama's "Wonderful Young Pastor":
[Excerpt from full Commentary]To know a person by his acquaintances is not a perfect way to gauge one's soul. But this man has some tendency to pick 'em. Reverend Wright. Bill Ayres. Tony Rezko. Van Jones. ACORN. And the White House Communications Director who turns to Mao's Little Red Book to understand the world.
Anita Hill and Ginny Thomas: Learning to "Let Go" and to Leave Justice to the True Judge, Judgment to the True Justice [published in Jewish World Review 10-20-10]
[Excerpt from full Commentary] If we fail to let go, we emerge with an embarrassing dogfight or catfight between people who have attained prominent positions of achievement in our society. If we fail to let go, we cannot reach the zenith of our potential. We cannot perfect our souls to their apex. Warm and loving people around us shy away, while we attract bitter and vengeful friends who listen patiently to our bitterness in exchange for enjoying our audience to hear them rant about theirs. No one enjoys the stereotypically curmudgeonly man or bitter woman. [¶] By contrast, as we let go — yes, remembering and knowing what was done to us and who did it; but moving on with love, warmth, and humor — we attract the kinds of people we most would cherish as friends: people who victories and joys we celebrate, even as they rejoice in our achievements and great moments. And we leave it to G-d Almighty to reckon accounts with a Perfect Justice that only He can mete.
. . ."J Street": Why Israel Cannot Abide Jewish Morons Whose "Friendship" Is More Off
[Excerpt from full Commentary] In "J Street," we have yet another gang of Jewish idiots who are more-off, yet moron, in their fulminations against the Jewish State of Israel, a polity they claim to like.
Hollywood Isn't Fair to Jews Either
[Excerpt from full Commentary] There is not a more anti-Jewish industry of publicly traded corporations than the companies who produce Hollywood's entertainment. They mock Judaism, hold our people and religion to ridicule, and find fault in Israel and everything else we hold dear. But they get away with it . . . because they are Jews. Well, it's good for a laugh.
President Obama's Grand Pyramid Scheme:
The "Two-State Solution" as Final Solution
[Excerpt from full Commentary] The Two-State Solution is indeed the most immoral suggestion of them all. It is a lie built on lies. And, with it now having been sanctified in the President's Cairo Speech in Egypt, it can be termed The Grand Pyramid Scheme. . . .[The Commentary consists of ten sections:] (1) The Bigotry of Banning Jews from Living in a Region . . . (2) "Palestine" Is Another Name for Israel, and That Entirety Is the Land that "Palestinian Arabs" Want for Their "Palestine" Country -- Not a "West Bank" Without a Name . . . (3) "Palestinian Refugee Camps" and Logo Images Now Worn by Their Terror Groups Remind That the Goal Remains Now As When the "P.L.O. -- Palestine Liberation Organization" was founded in 1964: to "Liberate Palestine" by Conquering and Destroying Israel . . . (4) Zionism Humanely Avoided the Moral Failings of America -- the Greatest Beacon of Freedom Ever Created -- by Seeking to Build Fraternally Alongside Landed Neighbors Rather than to Force-and-Death-March Them into "Reservations" of Internal Exile . . . (5) Only One Jewish Homeland: Passionately Loved Without Interruption and Yearned-for Through 2,000 Years of Exile . . . (6) In an Era of Mass Population Exchanges, the Arab World Hatefully Drove out 700,000 Jews and Confiscated All Their Property and Assets, Even as Israelis Pleaded with Their Arab Neighbors to Remain and Build a New Western Democracy Together . . . (7) The Cynicism of the Fabricated "Palestinian Refugee Problem" . . . (8) . . . And the Cynicism of Imposing on Israel a "Two State Solution" Proffered by Three Ambitious Politicians Who Would Abandon America's Long-Term Commitments to a Time-Tested Friend and Ally in Order to Advance Their Own Short-Term Career Goals . . . (9) Pressuring Israel to Abandon Her Security While Turning a Blind Eye, Deaf Ear, and Silent Tongue Towards a Concerted Vitriolic Hate Campaign Against Jews That Has Poisoned Children's Minds and Adults' Hearts Through the Next Generation, Even as the Hate Campaign Materially Has Breached and Thus Has Rendered Void and Nugatory Every Israel-Arab Treaty . . . (10) The Facts on the Ground: Every Israeli Retreat Has Invited Anti-West Arab Terrorists to Arm and Militarize, Rain Unprecedented Destruction, and Launch New Deadly Battle Fronts of Rocket Fire at Israeli Cities That Previously Had Been Secure . . .
Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, Billy Mays: Counting the Stars and Numbering the Days
Michael Jackson’s death set off a veritable panic. It took one of my family members, who works near UCLA, three extra hours to get home because the crowds outside UCLA Medical Center, where Jackson died, were so massive. On the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame, throngs placed wreaths and wept at Michael Jackson’s star on the cement – not realizing that they were mourning at the star of the wrong Michael Jackson, a radio talk show host. [¶] And so, as each element of our media-driven society – the cable news and celebrity-gossip programs in particular – endeavor to keep the stories running, it is worthwhile pausing to ask whether there is anything for us to learn from it all. [¶] There is. [¶] Life is short. So terribly short. [¶] Tomorrow is not another day. Tomorrow is a noun that means that today is lost forever. Yesterday, too. There is no tomorrow for even the greatest of celebrities whose time comes. Nor is there a today for those of us who would consume it watching and reading all about them. Our moments to realize our own dreams and hopes are today. . . .
Bernie Who Madoff with Fifty Billion
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It was said of Lev Bronstein, a revolutionary in post-Czarist Russia who changed his name to Leon Trotsky: “It’s the Trotskys who make the revolutions, and the Bronsteins who pay the bill.” [¶] We Jews are such a profoundly ethical and honest community. How many prisoners in the federal prisons really ask for kosher meals? Five? Eight? Nine? [¶] Yet, there comes a point where it no longer seems or feels like only three out of 500,000 -- because this is the area of stereotype. It plays and feeds into stereotype. And therein lies the profound sensitivity.[¶] [W]e need to do something as a community akin to what Jews in America did 100 years ago to separate ourselves in the popular imagination from the likes of Arnold Rothstein and Bugsy Siegel and Legs Diamond and Meyer Lansky. And we did. To spit them out.[Excerpt from full Commentary] In his latest ad hominem-based syndicated article, the resident radical-Left opinion writer at the Los Angeles Times, Robert Scheer, mocked the intelligence of Attorney General John Ashcroft. In a vertical screed, Scheer wrote the following: Ashcroft is "not the sharpest [tool] in the shed." He "managed to lose a Senate race to a dead man." He "was not picked for his smarts." He is a "Keystone Kop in charge of law enforcement." And, in the most telling comment, "Perhaps it is just too difficult for a stern, God-fearing fundamentalist like the attorney general to fully anticipate the dark side of religion's wrath.". . . [¶] Scheer's writing reflects the polemic arrogance monopolized by a Left that is convinced its ranks are just too smart for conservatives to fathom and that conservatives are just too troglodytic to be liberal. . . . . . .
Time to Pardon Jonathan Pollard
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1. Pollard did a terrible, terrible thing.
2. A terrible thing. Just terrible.
3. Horrible. And he messed up the position and status of Jews in
American government. He fed into anti-Semites’ worst diatribes about
Jews being of diverted loyalty to foreign powers. He had no right to
imperil the Jewish position in this country and, thereby, to lend
credence to haters elsewhere in the world who wonder about Jews and our
loyalties in those countries. . . .
[¶]
19. A final word: I cannot emphasize
enough that Pollard did terrible, terrible stuff. I am not impressed
with some people's arguments that he needed to do what he did, that he
gave Israel documents that America was obligated to share with Israel
anyway, that he had to do it to save lives. But, for G-d’s sake, after
23 years in prison, his continued incarceration no longer is about him.
It is about us -- it is about Jews.
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England has a TV show comparable to "American Idol” – you may even
recognize one of the panelists . . . – called “Britain’s Got Talent.”
One or two years ago they had a plain-looking middle-aged cell-phone
salesman on, and everyone in the audience got ready for a good laugh,
the lesser side of the societal bell curve. And then he sang.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEo5bjnJViA
[¶]
There is nothing in the world that holds any of us back from being
great, from making a difference in the lives of people around us, from
making a difference in the world. We have talents and gifts – each
of us – and we are surrounded by people who will support and
encourage us to succeed, to believe in ourselves. Hashem puts them in
our lives. [¶] Yet we also are surrounded by the
mediocrities, the nay-sayers, the negativists, the people who hear us
sing . . . or play a musical instrument . . . or who read a poem we have
penned . . . or taste a recipe we have cooked . . . and tell us to give
up. “You are too old.” “You are too young.” "You just are not that
good." "What makes you think that you are better qualified than others?"
“What’s the use? What’s the point?” “What are you trying to prove?”
Hashem puts them in our lives, too. [¶]
And if you find yourself surrounded by nay-sayers who would take away
that dream, that confidence – well, who has compelled you to surround
yourself that way? Find new friends, friends who see your greatness and
who encourage you to be great. Take a moment and think back to Paul
Potts and Susan Boyle. And then go-ahead and be great. . . .
The Arch Holocaust Denier -- and the Encouragement He Offers
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K’vod HaBishop Richard Williamson
speaks of his perception that (i) no Jews died in gas chambers, and (ii)
“only” 200-300,000 Jews died in concentration camps. [¶] I never before
actually have heard someone discuss this thinking. I do not shiver or
quake or get shocked by most anything, so my default reaction to this
kind of thing is pure fascination. I am struck with fascination by the
interview because the guy is so well spoken, so ostensibly
knowledgeable. A very nice accent, sounds and looks a bit like
Commissioner Gordon on the old "Batman" TV series. Ya just gotta trust
Commissioner Gordon. [¶] I have written about this in the
not-too-distant past:
http://www.rabbidov.com/Major%20Sermons/denyingpassoverandholocaust.htm
My thesis is that I believe it more anti-Semitic – more an act of
Jew-hatred – to deny Y’tzi’at Mitzrayim and Ma’amad Har
Sinai than to deny that six million died or that Jews died in gas
chambers. When you take away from me Y’tzi’at Mitzrayim and
Ma’amad Har Sinai, you are taking away from me everything that Jews
ever had to live for: the Torah, our unique relationship with HaKadosh
Barukh Hu, our role as a Mamlechet Kohanim and an Am
S’gulah, our essence. . . .
[¶]
The Holocaust is
not our essence. Ma’amad Har Sinai
is our essence.
On Obama, Democrats, Republicans, and
the Futility of Knowing Who Are Friends
[Excerpt from full Commentary] I did not vote for Obama, instead choosing to vote as the exit polls told us that most Jews in Orthodox circles did. Still, I view Obama's election with fascination and a touch of wonder.[¶] . By the natural course of events, Obama should never have been elected or, frankly, even nominated. Historians will not understand it. Nevertheless, he now is the President-elect, and we will recite the same blessing in Shul for his welfare and that of his Government as we have recited for his predecessors. [¶] I am long past predicting who among the princes of flesh-and-blood is good for Israel and who bad. I vote based on commonsense natural analyses, but I know I can be wrong because good politicians can fool you, and so can bad ones. I know that all we can do is vote based on what we reasonably expect. But, in the end, it is all in Hashem's hands. Politicians often surprise.[¶] Our parents' generation bullet-voted for FDR, whom they regarded as the best American friend that Jews ever had in the White House. Turns out he and his State Department were not our best friends. Rather, they hated us and in some real measure were accessories to the mass murder of six million of us.[¶] Democrats-Republicans. We don't know. Nixon rushed weapons to Israel in an full-blast urgent airlift. Bill Clinton gave us Oslo and Arafat.[¶] Shalom Chaver.
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A week has passed since a Ninth Circuit panel held that the Bill of Rights bars the government from requiring children to pledge their allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under G-d, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all (4 U.S.C. § 4). As the intense public reaction to the panel's decision in Newdow v. U.S. Congress begins to settle, it is important to focus on the deeper crisis in our federal appeals courts arising from the Senate Democrats' campaign to obstruct President Bush from empanelling new appeals-court judges. . . .[Excerpt from full Commentary]
As our nation compromises aspects of our financial and political independence, by standing on line for overpriced Saudi oil, in deference to the caribou, too many among us know preciously nothing about why we risk aspects of our security and financial independence. Ask your neighbor whether “caribou” is animal, vegetable, or mineral. Yet, by passively delimiting exploratory access to our expansive domestic oil sources without concomitantly reducing our energy demand to accommodate Tom Daschle’s concern for the caribou, we partly finance the economy of a country like Saudi Arabia that breeds in its children a deadly hatred against our civilization of freedom. . . .[Excerpt from full Commentary]
Unexpectedly, I found myself traveling on the freeways most of last Wednesday, when the Michael Jackson story erupted into a media feeding frenzy. No matter the talk station, the conversation was salacious, incendiary, and vicious. . . . [¶] So I do not know whether Michael Jackson dunnit. And, on a much deeper level, I do not care. I do not associate with Michael Jackson; odds are I will never meet him. The chances that he would invite my pre-adolescent son to spend a night at his ranch are less-than-nil. And — most important here — the chances that, if invited, my son actually would spend a night at Neverland were, are, and always will be, never. . . . [¶] And that's the discussion the media should be having about the Michael Jackson issue. What parents would allow their child, in the aftermath of prior scandalous allegations and a mega-million-dollar out-of-court settlement, to spend private time with Michael Jackson? . . .