Is Obama Smart?

Truth, Justice, or the Obama Way

The Justice Department is forced to investigate itself.

It is about to get harder for both the Obama administration and the
mainstream media to downplay the New Black Panther party
scandal.

The mainstream media did their best to ignore this blatant case of
voter intimidation by two New Black Panther party members at a Philadelphia
polling place on Election Day 2008. Though the threatening behavior was captured
on videotape, Obama political appointees dismissed the case on the eve of a
default judgment. When in early June a key trial team member, Justice Department attorney J. Christian Adams, resigned and then testified before the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights, the media grudgingly reported on his
testimony.

But, despite Adams’s testimony that the case was indicative of a
widespread aversion in the Voting Section to colorblind enforcement of the civil
rights laws, the media framed the story as an isolated case unworthy of
continuing coverage. After all, just one witness was claiming that this was the
mindset in the Justice Department. And besides, the head of the Civil Rights
Division, Thomas Perez, had testified before both Congress and the commission
that the case was legally and factually defective.

In fact, there is ample evidence, including Justice Department
emails obtained by The Weekly Standard, that Perez testified untruthfully. There
is every reason to believe, moreover, that if allowed to testify, several other
Justice Department attorneys would substantiate Adams’s allegations and
contradict Perez’s sworn testimony. Not to mention that the department itself
acknowledged last week that the matter of biased enforcement of voting laws
requires investigation.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/truth-justice-or-obama-way

This is why the left hates Fox News

White House Insider on Obama: “the President is Losing It.

There are many questions about President Obama. People really didn't know who he was before the election and are scratching their heads after it even more? Is he a brilliant scholar? Is he an ideologue pushing through his agenda? Is he confident and outgoing? Or is he reclusive? Is he a hard worker staying up nights to serve our country? Here's some of the answers from an recent interview with a senior White House staffer who has left the administration.

But after Obama was sworn in, things began to change? Almost
immediately. Obama loved to campaign. He clearly didn’t like the work of being President though, and that attitude was felt by the entire
White House staff within weeks after the inauguration. Obama the
tireless, hard working candidate became a very tepid personality to us.
And the few news stories that did come out against him were the only things he
seemed to care about. He absolutely obsesses
over Fox News. For being so successful, Barack Obama is
incredibly thin-skinned. He takes everything very personally.

Here are some other insights from this article:

Obama is scared to death of Hillary. He doesn’t trust her – obsesses over her almost as much as he does Fox News.

I hear he plays a lot of golf, and watches a lot of television:
ESPN mainly. I’ll tell you this – if you want to see President Obama get
excited about a conversation, turn it to sports. That
gets him interested

No – I am not going to call him stupid. He just doesn’t strike me as particularly smart. Bill Clinton is a smart guy – he would run
intellectual circles around Barack Obama. And Bill Clinton loved the politics of being president. Obama seems to think he shouldn’t have to be bothered, which has created a considerable amount of conflict among his staff.

I mean to say that he is losing whatever spark he had during the
campaign. When you take away the crowds, Obama gets noticeably
smaller. He shrinks up inside of himself. He just doesn’t seem to have the confidence to do the job of President, and it’s getting worse and worse

But would another four years of an Obama presidency be the best
thing for America? (Long pause) Now that is a much more
interesting question right there, and a question I think more and more Democrat
Party insiders are asking themselves these days, myself included. I am going to come right out and say it – No. Obama is not up to the job of being president.
He simply doesn’t seem to care about the work involved. You want to
know what? Obama is lazy. He really is. And it is getting worse and worse.

http://newsflavor.com/opinions/white-house-insider-on-obama-the-president-is-losing-it/#ixzz0zt5iFyxE


Proof Obama is not a Muslim

On Friday evening, when President Obama addressed the Congressional Hispanic
Caucus Institute, he quoted that passage as follows : “We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal [pause], endowed with
certain unalienable rights: life and liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness.” In Obama’s version, there is no “Creator.”

No creator, no God, no Muslim faith.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/does-president-obama-think-our-rights-come-our-creator

Right vs Left—who’s to blame?

And interesting way to look at the right vs the left in how they handle defeat.

This is yet another confirmation that the right and left
look at America – and Americans – quite differently. The leftists view
their countrymen as in dire need of supervision — by elites like them, of
course. Americans are not competent to make decisions on their own, and left to
their own devices, will run amok. Wall Streeters are greedy, New Yorkers
are xenophobes, and the rest of us are Bible- and gun-huggers. And here we go
again — acting out and acting up. Obama, the poor dear, just can’t talk sense to
us.

When things go wrong for the left, it blames the people; when things go wrong for the right, it blames the governing elites. It is not in the
nature of conservatives to demean and attack fellow citizens. To the contrary,
conservatives’ vision is grounded in the belief that Americans are competent,
decent, and hardworking, and it is the heavy hand of government that threatens
to squelch American virtues.

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/359476

Odds and Ends with the emphasis on the Odd

Colorado polls from RealClear Politics:

Colorado: Rasmussen shows former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton holding consistent leads over her potential Democratic opponents of about six or seven points. That's not awe-inspiring, but it's statistically significant at about 85% confidence. A near-majority of the state strongly disapproves of the job Barack Obama is doing, and 60% favor repealing the health care bill. Neither Democrat -- Bennett nor Romanoff -- has ever polled above 42% in Rasmussen, which isn't a particularly good sign for the fall. Norton leads Bennett by two in the RCP Average.

Where does the Justice Department get it's news.

According to the LA Times, Justice gets it news in the secure confines of the briefing room of Holder's own Justice Department in Washington from Fox News. The briefing room's main TV's are tuned to the top-rated cable news channel. At least we know something that is fair and balanced in the Obama Justice Department.

Does it strike you odd?

It strikes me odd that after all the warnings about the TEA Party protests and the violence that could ensue, the only violence at any TEA Party demonstration has come from Union thugs. In the meantime, every terror act is first spun by the MSM as "possibly being" from some right wing fanatic. We even had on MSNBC correspondent expressing chagrin that the Times Square bomber was a Muslim.

After a year of TEA Party protests not a single TEA Partier has been arrested (not so for anti-war demonstrators in the USA) and we see just how peaceful the left can be by the "demonstrations" in Greece. It appears the left doesn't do well with if you tell them no or even worse you can't afford it. Here we have the EU bailing out the Greek people for their overspending but putting strings on the bailout and the leftists there act like homicidal little children throwing a temper tantrum.

From James Lileks:

The MS in MSNBC stands for Morally Superior, I guess. That explains this:

“I get frustrated…” said Contessa Brewer. “There was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country. … There are a lot of people who want to use terrorist intent to justify writing off people who believe in a certain way or come from certain countries or whose skin color is a certain way. I mean they use it as justification for really outdated bigotry.”

This begs the question: what kind of bigotry isn't outdated? Against conservatives I suppose.

And speaking of bigotry

On Cinco de Mayo five Live Oak High School students were asked to leave school because they donned American flag T-shirts. Assistant Principal Miguel Rodriguez did not want any fights to break out among Mexican-American students and those wearing American flags.

At the same time you had students showing their pride in Mexico. Pictured above you have freshman Laura Ponce showing off her Mexican pride as she wears a Mexican flag over her shoulders and wears facepaint Wednesday as she waits for school to get out at Live Oak.

So it seems that wearing clothing in America with an American flag on it is "incendiary" but wearing a Mexican flag and facepaint is just showing pride.


Last Navy Seal acquitted

All the Navy Seals who were accused of roughing up a terror suspect have now been acquitted of all charges. Having only the testimony of the suspected terrorist and a single sailor who admitted to dereliction of duty for not reporting what he testified to in the trial. His testimony was considered unreliable.

Navy SEALs involved secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

The three enlisted men involved refused non-judicial punishment — called a captain's mast — and requested a trial by court-martial. This probably wasn't the response the convening officer was looking for. A captain's mast with a minor punishment would have allowed the military to look tough while not seriously affecting the seamen involved careers.

Instead the Navy now looks foolish and very political. Actual misconduct should never be permitted, but this should never have gone to trial.