LEE RODGERSOBAMA'S AMERICA: A CULTURE OF
FREELOADERS ...
OBAMA'S MONEY IN THE ... BAIN-K ...
"COVERAGE" IS NOT CARE
OBAMA'S MONEY IN THE ... BAIN-K ...
"COVERAGE" IS NOT CARE
Make no mistake: Barack Obama is cultivating a parasite culture in the United States with the clear intention of ensuring that he gets the votes of society's leeches -- people who would rather freeload than earn a living for themselves.
John Stossel's report on Fox was vivid. Able-bodied people walking right past shops with signs in the windows saying, "Help wanted, no experience necessary" as they lined up to sign forms to get welfare checks at a New York office. Black business owners explaining that they had all-white staffs because no blacks would apply, even in a predominantly black neighborhood.
And atop all this, Obama undermining the welfare reform laws that were passed during Bill Clinton's presidency. The obvious purpose: buying the votes of leeches with taxpayer dollars.
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Another sign of Obamanomics in action: Notice the plethora of reverse-mortgage commercials on TV? Clear evidence that a lot of Americans who've worked hard in order to own their homes are now having to resort to this tactic out of necessity.
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Breitbart news peels back the layer of lies concealing Obama's own contributions from ... BAIN CAPITAL! ...
"Barack Obama’s campaign has been quick to rip Mitt Romney for his association with Bain Capital, which outsourced certain jobs during restructuring of companies. There’s only one problem: many of the very executives who were running Bain Capital during the 1999-2002 period now under media scrutiny donated to Obama’s presidential campaign. And Obama was more than happy to cash the checks.
"The same SEC form from February 2001 that lists Mitt Romney as “sole shareholder, sole director, Chief Executive Officer and President of Bain Capital … the controlling person of Bain Capital” also lists over a dozen other managing directors of Bain Capital, Inc. -- all of whom were undoubtedly more active than Romney was during this period. And President Obama took money from many of them.
"Take Joshua Bekenstein. Bekenstein has been a managing director of Bain Capital since 1986. In 2008, he signed Barack Obama a $4,600 check. In 2004, he gave a $50,000 donation to the Democratic National Committee. That’s outsourcing money, plain and simple. And Obama was happy to take it.
"Or how about Stephen Pagliuca? Last year, he cut a $35,800 check to Barack Obama’s Victory Fund. Then he cut another $30,800 check to the DNC. And another $30,800 check to the DCCC. Jonathan Lavine and Mark Nunnelly have both maxed out to Obama already, as well as to the DNC. Lavin was a bundler for Obama, and raised over $100,000 for him. Michael Krupka gave Obama $4,600 in 2008."
Liar ... hypocrite ... demagogue ... In which file do we place Barack Obama?
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Let me be clear. If Obama is re-elected, any American in a position to do so should immediately begin exploring opportunities to emigrate, because a country with a majority voting population stupid enough to choose another four years of this destructiveness has NO future.
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Advocates of Obamacare apparently are incapable of distinguishing between "health coverage" and "health care." Just because you have a piece of paper that says your medical needs are "covered" doesn't necessarily mean that there's going to be a doctor who'll actually deliver the care. It also doesn't mean you're immune from the judgment of a faraway bureaucrat deciding that the recommended procedure or drugs are "inappropriate," meaning the treatment you need is too expensive ... you're not worth it, so go away and die quietly.
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Rich Lowry of National Review Online reviews the lamentable gullbility of the young and dumb ...
"The cadres of college students and recent graduates who swooned and fainted for Barack Obama four years ago will long be remembered for one of the most ill-considered fliers in the annals of self-defeating enthusiasms. In the cold light of day, the youthful idealists, believers and activists of 2008 look like the lamentable saps, patsies and suckers of 2012.
"(Now) half of them are unemployed or underemployed. More of them are carrying debt from college, more than 60 percent, than have full-time employment.
"Crumbs from the president's giveaways -- like low-interest Stafford college loans -- can't possibly compensate for this larger picture. For all that, the president is still performing well among voters under 30. They were fooled once, and will be fooled again. They are Obama's dupes."
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Condi Rice has many admirable qualities. She also holds some views anathema to conservatives, and her long association with Bush is likely to be a turn-off for many vital independent voters. Besides, only the delusional could believe that Condi Rice as VP candidate would pry away race-based votes for Obama. Why would such a voter support a Republican #2 on the ticket when he has the choice of Obama as #1?
So ... Condi for VP? No. Let's hope she eventually gets the job she really wants: NFL Commissioner.
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“If you can't beat your opponent's ideas, you distort those ideas and maybe make some up." -- Barack Obama, 2008 interview in the Chicago Sun Times.
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So Jesse Jackson, Jr., who's been absent from his seat in the House because of a "mood disorder," has been -- according to his mother -- suffering from "enormous disappointment" because he failed in his effort to buy Barack Obama's former Senate seat from imprisoned crooked former governor Rod Blagojevich, who'd put the appointment up for auction?
That apple didn't fall far from the tree, did it?
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We can only wonder which -- and how many -- of the Republican politicians who were regarded as recently as a year ago as being real presidential prospects, declined, and now look at the race in which a failed president is still competitive in the polls and think, "I could've clobbered the guy by now."
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Caroline Glick with a revealing look at what passes for "foreign policy" under our Marxist-in-Chief ...
"Two weeks ago, in an unofficial inauguration ceremony at Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt's new Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi took off his mask of moderation. Before a crowd of scores of thousands, Morsi pledged to work for the release from US federal prison of Sheikh Omar al Rahman.
"Rahman was the mastermind of the jihadist cell in New Jersey that perpetrated the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. His cell also murdered Rabbi Meir Kahane in New York in 1990. They plotted the assassination of then president Hosni Mubarak. They intended to bomb New York landmarks including the Lincoln and Holland tunnels and the UN headquarters.
"By calling for Rahman's release, Morsi has aligned himself and his government with the US's worst enemies. And in response to Morsi's supreme act of unfriendliness, US President Barack Obama invited Morsi to visit him at the White House."
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We should reflect often upon this likelihood: If Jimmy Carter had had the cojones of your average gerbil and kicked the hell out of the Iranian Muslim crazies about 24 hours after they seized the U.S. embassy in 1979, we wouldn't be worried about the murderous SOBs today. But modern-day Democrats can't seem to learn that appeasement is a dead-end street.
With a Muslim-sympathizing president today, don't expect any serious action to stop Iran's nuclear weapons program. Unless, of course, Obama decides a war would enhance his re-election chances. He does have priorities; re-election is clearly #1.
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Burt Prelutsky takes a jaundiced view of today's pop-culture headliners ...
"One thing that I have become aware of is that the female icons of today are not as attractive as they used to be, and I don’t attribute that to my age, but to their lack of faces and figures. For instance, Angelina Jolie has the pencil legs of a 90-year-old and lips that are larger than her arms; Lady Gaga looks like something the cat dragged in; and Sarah Jessica Parker looks like the homely girl that pretty girls hung out with in high school so they’d look even prettier by comparison.
"When you compare them to the likes of Rhonda Fleming, Rita Hayworth and Doris Day, you’d think you were comparing different species from different planets."
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Inventive ingenuity at work. A broadcast engineer of long standing devised a lifesaver for radio disc-jockeys who played records typically averaging about 2 1/2 minutes in length. Those short songs presented a real problem if the jock had to make an emergency bathroom run. The solution: He rigged up a system whereby the next recording (then on a tape cartridge) could be started remotely from the bathroom by using a redesigned garage-door opener.
By such creativity did America thrive in its golden age.
Of course, talk-show hosts had/have no such emergency back-up provision. Grin-and-bear-it is still their only option.
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Here's a word corruption that's worked its way into the vocabulary of many: ORIENTATED.
The proper word is ORIENTED. As in, "I went through the orientation process, and am now oriented."
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Jay Leno --
"At a Democratic fundraiser in Seattle, Vice President Biden said that Romney's economic policies were 'George Bush on steroids' — as opposed to Obama's policies, which are 'Jimmy Carter on Ambien.'”
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From Sheila ...
Two blonds were sipping their Starbucks when a truck went past loaded up with rolls of sod.
"I'm going to do that when I win the lottery," announced Blond #1.
"Do what?" asked Blond #2.
"Send my lawn out to be mowed."
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."