Vetting Barack Obama

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Story #1 gives you the conclusions of the first two vetting Obama stories.  #2 talks about how Obama appears to be helpless to help out the little guy at the gas pump, but he can still pump the hands of the 1% for money for his campaign.  It seems he had 5 fund raisers on the March 16.  #3 relates how Obama is not doing well with his knowledge of history.  #4 gives you an excellent analogy of how global warming fanatics are steering us to destruction. 

1.  The Vetting of Barack H. Obama

Breitbart’s Big Government is running a series vetting Barack Obama.  The first two go back to his time as a Constitutional lecturer.  Here’s what they concluded in the first installment…

Here’s what we learn from this answer: Obama’s an extreme legal leftist. He thinks that banning infertility treatment for unwed couples is akin to sterilizing them. He thinks that there is no connection between childbearing and childrearing and the integral value of marriage. He thinks that arguments about “tradition” are troubling. And he believes that all judges rule according to their experiences – which goes a long way toward explaining his love for Sonia Sotomayor, whose “wise Latina” experiences may shape her judicial reasoning, according to her own admission.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/14/Obama-Con-Law-1996-I



And here is part two’s conclusion:

So here’s what we’ve learned today. Lecturer Obama believed deeply in Critical Race Theory – so much so that he advocated creative legal strategies to argue Critical Race Theory into law. He thought that facially neutral statutes were discriminatory thanks to the racism of the system. He even argued that the people of the states be stripped of their power to change local law, if such changes cut against narrow minority interests.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/15/Obama-con-law-II

I’ll keep the summaries coming with links to the entire article. 

2.  Obama may not be able to do anything about gas prices but he can raise money

President Barack Obama is embarking on a concentrated one-day fundraising trip, with a stop in his hometown of Chicago and another in Atlanta for a big-draw event with film producer Tyler Perry and performer Cee Lo Green.

Obama has been increasing his fundraising pace in preparation for his showdown with a Republican presidential nominee.

Obama will attend two fundraisers in Chicago and three in Atlanta. In Atlanta, his campaign's African American Leadership Council is holding a gala at Perry's studio featuring Green's performance. General admission tickets are $500. VIP tickets range from $2,500 to $10,000. A dinner later at Perry's home will raise $35,800 per guest.

http://townhall.com/news/politicselections/2012/03/16/obama_strings_5_fundraisers_in_2_cities_in_1_day

There will be a lot of irony in the Obama campaign that plans on portraying Mitt Romney as someone who is out of touch with the common man.  We know that because Joe Biden said so at a $38,000 a plate fundraiser. 

3.  Obama needs to brush up on his history

President Obama got a laugh out of a Maryland audience on Thursday when he mocked the Republican Party in a speech, comparing their skepticism of alternative energy to the “Flat Earth Society” in Christopher Columbus’ day and President Rutherford B. Hayes’ apparent dismissal of the telephone. But while Obama thinks the GOP is in need of a science lesson, he may need to bone up on history himself.

In mocking the GOP, Obama cited an anecdote about Hayes in which, upon using the telephone for the first time, he said, “It’s a great invention, but who would ever want to use one?”

“That’s why he’s not on Mount Rushmore,” Obama said. “He’s explaining why we can’t do something instead of why we can do something.”

But Nan Card, curator of manuscripts at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Ohio, told TPM that the nation’s 19th president was being unfairly tagged as a Luddite….

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/03/obama-mangles-us-world-history-in-energy-speech.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

It’s funny that when Sarah Palin told a story about Paul Revere that was historically correct she was attacked to the left as a fool, but when President Obama tells two stories that are historically incorrect, you have to search to see any mention of it. 

4.  Global Warming and National Suicide

Beginning in 1856, the Xhosa tribe in today's South Africa destroyed its own economy. They killed an estimated half-million of their own cattle (which they ordinarily treated with great care and respect), ceased planting crops, and destroyed their grain stores. By the end of 1857, between thirty and fifty thousand Xhosa had starved to death -- a third to a half of the population. The British herded survivors of the once-powerful tribe into labor camps, and white settlers took much of their land, as reported by Richard Landes in Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience.

The Xhosa had acted on the prophecy of a fifteen-year-old girl who promised that if they destroyed all they had and purified themselves of "witchcraft" (including evil inclinations and selfishness), the world before the white invaders came would be restored. The British oppressors would flee, and the Xhosa ancestors would return, bringing with them an even greater abundance of cattle and grain.

Do you feel a mixture of pity and contempt for these strange people who ruined themselves on the basis of an outlandish vision? If so, the feeling is misplaced. Just as the basis for the Xhosa economy was cattle, the lifeblood of our economy is energy. And we are strangling our own energy supply on the basis of an apocalyptic prophecy that has no more validity than the one that sent the Xhosa into self-immolation.

The apocalyptic vision to which we subscribe has a superficial scientific gloss -- "climate change" -- but at bottom, both visions prescribe economic suicide, and both promise that self-sacrifice will bring about a golden age. In the case of the Xhosa, that golden age was the time before the British invaded. In our own, to quote famed environmentalist David Brower (director of the Sierra Club and then of Friends of the Earth), it's "back there about a century when, at the start of the Industrial Revolution we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart."…

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/global_warming_and_national_suicide.html#ixzz1pH8TxCbO

This is a great analogy and certainly explains why a lot of skeptics speak out.  Warmists like to claim that it is because they are in the pay of the big oil companies, but that is simply nonsense.  In fact it is the skeptics who are out funded by the warmists by a ratio of about 1000 to 1. 

Reagan up, Obama down

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Our #1 story shows that much to the left’s chagrin, Reagan is considered the best president since World War II beating FDR and Second in history only to Lincoln.  #2 looks at the dogma of the left and reveals what the most important thing is for the left (hint it’s a lack of moral scrutiny for X).  #3 is one of those telling signs that the press won’t mention.  It appears that Obama is not on his way to a $1 billion campaign.  In fact, he probably won’t come near what he raised in 2008. 

1.  Reagan Voted Best President Since World War II

In advance of Presidents' Day, Ronald Reagan gets America’s vote as the best chief executive since World War II, according to a new poll, while George W. Bush finds himself being ranked as the worst.

Twenty-five percent of Americans rank Reagan as the best president in a survey conducted by The Harris Poll. Franklin Roosevelt was ranked second-best with 19 percent of the vote.

On the flip-side, George W. Bush and Barack Obama were neck-and-neck for the "Worst president since World War II" title. Twenty-seven percent of respondents said Bush was at the bottom of the pack, followed closely by Barack Obama with 22 percent of the vote.

Richard Nixon was ranked as the worst president since WWII with 10 percent.

One-third of respondents say Abraham Lincoln is the best president in U.S. history. Lincoln was followed by Reagan and George Washington.

Here are the complete survey results, including percentages. Totals may not add up to 100 percent because of rounding.

Best President Since World War Two:

* Ronald Reagan, 25 percent
* Franklin Roosevelt, 19 percent
* John Kennedy, 15 percent
* Bill Clinton, 12 percent
* Dwight Eisenhower, 4 percent
* Harry Truman, 4 percent
* Barack Obama, 4 percent
* George W. Bush, 2 percent
* Jimmy Carter, 2 percent
* Lyndon Johnson, 1 percent
* George H.W. Bush, 1 percent
* Richard Nixon, 1 percent
* Gerald Ford, 1 percent
* Not Sure, 10 percent….

http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/news/national-news/24339-poll-ronald-reagan-named-best-president-since-world-war-ii

This certainly won’t make an liberals day.

2.  Sacred Dogma of the Left

…But what is it that motivates those on the left? Why do they care so deeply about the kind of insurance coverage Catholic employers provide? It’s not as if NARAL and Planned Parenthood devotees are heavily represented in the workforce of Catholic institutions. And you don’t see petitions from leftwing pressure groups calling on the church to provide better dental and vision coverage, or mental health benefits. Which would, as a pragmatic matter, be much more helpful for more of the workforce than the contraceptive mandate. No, for the left, the fight isn’t about social justice or the proper scope of the state. It’s about the contraceptives. It’s about sex.

The upheaval of the 1960s was a many-splendored thing, but it produced one permanent orthodoxy for liberalism: an absolute commitment to sexual liberation. As it aged, the left compromised on every other counter-cultural idea from that period—from pacifism to socialism to anti-materialism. The hippies stopped dropping acid and got high-paying jobs in the tech sector. They got married and stopped questioning authority and sent their kids to good schools. They enjoyed lower tax rates and spent their money at the Apple Store and Le Pain Quotidien. But to this day “the central dogma of the baby boomers,” as David Frum once wrote in these pages, is “the belief that sex, so long as it’s consensual, ought never to be subject to moral scrutiny at all.”…

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/sacred-dogma-left_630047.html

This makes sense.  It explains the support of gay marriage, Bill Clinton’s Monica Lewinsky tryst, Planned Parenthood, etc. and it’s fundamental hatred toward Christianity as it actually has morals that interfere with this belief of theirs.

3.  Obama fundraising down

President Obama’s campaign raised far less money in January than it did during the same month four years ago, suggesting that it may have an increasingly difficult time matching his record-shattering financial numbers from 2008.

Obama raised $29.1 million in January for his reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee, according to disclosures filed Friday.

That number is notably lower than the $36.8 million he raised for his primary campaign in January 2008, even without any help from the national party. Obama’s campaign itself raised $11.8 million last month, disclosures show.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obamas-fundraising-tally-shows-downturn/2012/02/17/gIQAshmeKR_story.html

It appears that the $1 billion campaign the Obama campaign was talking about was a pipe dream and this help explains why he suddenly isn’t only accepting Super Pac money, but he is sending his surrogates to help out in the fundraising for them. 

Should the Democrats panic?

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Story #1 talks of a desperation in Obama’s fund raising pitch.  #2 talks about the decrease in the unemployment rate.  #3 is the case for Newt Gingrich and what he brings to the presidency.  #4 tells the story the Democrats don’t want told about Fannie, Freddie and Chris and Barney.  #5 takes us to the Occupy movement and the false story about Lech Walesa supposedly endorsing the movement.  #6 gives us the six signs that the Occupy Movement is now politically dead. 

1.  Obama Sounds Desperate

Suddenly, President OBAMA IS INSERTING A STARK NEW TONE OF DRAMA AND URGENCY INTO HIS CAMPAIGN SPEECHES TO LOYALISTS AT POLITICAL FUNDRAISERS.

After talking up his payroll tax cut in Pennsylvania Wednesday afternoon, Obama flew Air Force One to New York City for not one, not two, but three money gatherings from Gotham liberals….

…."EVERY SINGLE THING THAT WE CARE ABOUT IS AT STAKE IN THE NEXT ELECTION," he told one donor group. "The very core of what this country stands for is on the line."

So, the future of the entire country is now inextricably tied to Obama's own reelection?

SUCH HYPERBOLIC, HUBRISTIC CLAIMS ARE USUALLY RESERVED FOR A CAMPAIGN'S CLOSING HOURS TO PROMPT A LAST-MINUTE SPURT OF POLITICAL ADRENALIN AMONG SUPPORTERS. Not 341 days out. Not 10 months before even early voting opens. This couldn't possibly be desperation! Already?

Here are several other points made by Obama to a possibly puzzled crowd assembled at the Gotham Bar and Grille:

"I've got to win in 2012."

"In order to finish the job, I'm going to have to have a second term."

"I need a couple more years to finish the job."

"I'm going to need another term to finish the job."…

http://news.investors.com/Article/593351/201112010754/obama-fundraiser-speech-needs-more-time.htm?src=IBDDAE

He is right when he said the core of what this country stands for is at stake. However, that reminder probably works more against his election than for it. 

     2. Jobs: Mixed Results for Obama

U.S. employers, continuing a pattern of modest hiring, ADDED 120,000 NEW JOBS IN NOVEMBER, the Labor Department said Friday.

The nation's UNEMPLOYMENT RATE, HOWEVER, FELL SHARPLY TO 8.6% FROM 9% IN OCTOBER. There was an unusually big drop in the number of people who reported being out of work. Many jobless people may have quit looking for jobs, and thus wouldn't have been counted as officially unemployed. Analysts expect the jobless figure to climb back up next month.

Strong HOLIDAY HIRING BOOSTED THE NEW JOB TALLY LAST MONTH. RETAILERS ADDED ALMOST 50,000 JOBS, the second strongest November hiring by stores in a decade. TWO OTHER LOWER-PAYING SECTORS, TEMPORARY-HELP AND LEISURE BUSINESSES, ACCOUNTED FOR MUCH OF THE REST OF THE JOB GAINS. Manufacturing payrolls were flat, and government continued to slash workers….

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-fiw-jobs-20111203,0,1092997.story

Kind of reminds me of the old joke, “I have good news and bad news for you, which do you want first.”  “Give me the bad news.”  “Okay, we’re out of food and the only thing we have to eat is grass.”  “What’s the good news?” “There isn’t enough of that to go around.”  I’ll give you the good news first.  We gained 120,000 jobs last month.  Now the bad most of them were temporary or low paying. 

3.   The Case for Gingrich

…Nevertheless, THERE IS A COMPELLING CASE FOR GINGRICH AS THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE. He is both glib and brilliant. In this respect Gingrich resembles much more the parliamentary pugilist Winston Churchill, who also had very heavy baggage, than Ronald Reagan, who gave "The Speech" ten thousand times. Like Churchill, who mastered much more than just politics, Gingrich is an historian, a fiction writer, and a dozen other things.

HE WILL NOT BE STUMPED BY THE MEDIA. IN FACT, GINGRICH WILL HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE TO ACTUALLY EMBARRASS THE AUTOMATONS WHO READ TELEPROMPTER QUESTIONS. More pointedly, Gingrich has the best chance of any Republican to display Obama before America in a "deer in the headlights" moment. OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT IS A PROFOUNDLY IGNORANT MAN WHOSE IGNORANCE IS MASKED BY EQUALLY IGNORANT AND WHOLLY PROGRAMMED MEDIA.

Yet what Obama doesn't know can hurt us, and a single slip in the debates could cost him -- and perhaps his party -- five percentage points in the general election. That could not only seal the presidential election, but also swing dozens of House and Senate races and turn a presidential victory into a presidential landslide. People are scared now, and a man who obviously grasps the present crisis can be a valuable electoral asset.

GINGRICH ALSO UNDERSTANDS CONGRESS. He was House minority whip and then speaker of the House, the most important office in Congress. Gingrich would understand how to move legislation through Congress, and so A CONSERVATIVE AGENDA SUPPORTED BY HIM WOULD HAVE A MUCH GREATER LIKELIHOOD OF ACTUALLY BECOMING LAW than it would with some more ardent, but less experienced, conservatives.

An analogy might be made between LBJ and Gingrich. President Johnson was not nearly as liberal as most Democrat nominees in the last fifty years, yet he transformed America (for the worse, but still dramatically) with his "Great Society" agenda. Johnson, who had been Senate majority leader before he was vice president, knew just how Congress worked. Since Johnson, America has moved progressively to the left, because Johnson was able to get enacted what seemed like a modestly leftist agenda.

Moreover, GINGRICH AS A NOVICE SPEAKER LEARNED THE HARD WAY WHAT WORKS AND WHAT DOESN'T IN HIGH-PROFILE NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE DEBATES. It is easy to underestimate what he accomplished with a modest House majority and a Senate in which Republicans could not even end debate on a bill, much less, in either house, override a presidential veto.

His personal scandals of the past would actually come as a strength in the general election. Gingrich as speaker was smeared and attacked so relentlessly that ALL THE "BAD NEWS" HAS BEEN HEARD LONG BEFORE. Rather like with Clinton, who had even more scandals, no one much cares about an older man whose life has been scrutinized and used by his enemies…

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/the_case_for_gingrich.html#ixzz1fNCNUjQI

This is a very good summary of the case for Newt. 

4.  Frank, Fannie and Freddie

…IN THE MYTHMAKING OF THE REACTIONARY LEFT, PRIVATE BANKS CREATED RISKY FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS PREDICATED ON THE U.S. MORTGAGE INDUSTRY THAT WERE SO INTRINSICALLY CORRUPT THAT IT LED TO AN INEVITABLE COLLAPSE IN THE HOUSING MARKET IN 2008. Private banks that were bailed out in TARP were collectively engaged in negligence and fraud that led to our present economic demise. The staggering loss of $6 trillion in housing values damaged the entire global economy.

NOTICEABLY ABSENT FROM THIS COMMENTARY AND STORYTELLING IS A SENSE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S KEY ROLE IN CREATING THE CRISIS. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the largest financiers of mortgages in the United States. Preceding the crisis, congressional regulator FRANKLIN RAINES MADE PUBLIC STATEMENTS THAT THERE "WAS NO RISK" TO INVESTING IN AMERICAN MORTGAGES. The deregulated view of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac combined with the regulator's statements that there was no risk in this area of financial investment was the equivalent of telling chronic gamblers that the casino will cover all bets. Not only did congressional regulators such as Barney Frank fail to constrain the federal agencies inflating the housing bubble, but THEY ACTIVELY CRITICIZED IN PUBLIC THOSE TRYING TO PREVENT A CRISIS THROUGH INCREASED REGULATION, and they worked to inculcate the view that there were no undue risks in the American housing market.

Congressman Frank provides his own convoluted review of this crisis on his congressional homepage. IN HIS ACCOUNT, THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TOOK THE INEXPLICABLE VIEW OF OPPOSING REGULATION FROM 2001 TO 2007 AND THEN ENDORSED REGULATION IN 2007, WHEN FRANK TOOK LEADERSHIP OF THE IMPORTANT HOUSING ISSUES RELATING TO FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC. According to Frank, the regulations passed in 2007 by himself and President Bush were "too late." Outside the reactionary left's mythmaking offered by Congressman Frank, the BUSH ADMINISTRATION REPEATEDLY CALLED FOR HEIGHTENED CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT AND REGULATION OF FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC THROUGHOUT BOTH TERMS OF THE BUSH PRESIDENCIES. In reality, the Bush proposals to treat GSEs like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the same as private banks in the regulatory world, were termed "inane" in 2005 by Congressman Frank. The reforms passed by Frank came in 2008 -- after the industry had collapsed -- despite Frank's 2005 assurance that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were "fundamentally sound." The GSEs purchased considerable political sway in fall of 2006 to prevent the regulatory leveling sought by the Bush administration. Democratic senators such as Chris Dodd and Barack Obama received considerable financial support from the GSEs in a landslide sweep for Democrats in Congress that functionally guaranteed that the GSEs would fend off future regulatory reforms pushed by the president….

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/12/the_fall_of_the_house_of_frank.html#ixzz1fN8mXRRH

This is the Achilles’ heel of the left in the financial crisis.  They pooh pooh the idea that Fannie and Freddie were the root cause of the crisis, because it doesn’t fit their narrative.

5.   Lech Walesa and the OWS

It was about six weeks ago that the press was abuzz with news that legendary labor activist Lech Walesa, the man who, more than anyone else, was responsible for bringing down communism in Poland, was planning a visit to the Occupy Wall Street protesters. The left-wing blogosphere erupted in paroxysms of joy; BRENT BUDOWSKY AT THE HILL SUMMED IT UP BEST: "ONE OF HISTORY'S GREAT LEADERS FOR JOBS, WORKERS AND FREEDOM IS NOW SUPPORTING THE OCCUPY WALL STREET PROTEST. Lech Walesa has now weighed in, big time, for the good guys."

I forgot all about this until just yesterday, when I learned that WALESA NEVER DID MAKE THAT VISIT--a fact apparently overlooked by the mainstream press, although it was big news in the conservative blogosphere. WALESA EXPRESSED HIS VIEWS MORE OPENLY IN MID-NOVEMBER IN AN EDITORIAL CRITICAL OF THE OWS MOVEMENT IN THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE:

I have lived under the heavy hand of communism, where the state controls virtually everything, and I've lived under freedom. While today's protesters have many legitimate concerns, let me assure them that instead of either cronyism or greater government control, IT IS DIALOGUE AND SOLIDARITY LEADING TO FREEDOM THAT WE SHOULD ALL STRIVE FOR…

http://nlt.ashbrook.org/2011/11/lech-walesa-and-the-ows.php

With the anti-capitalist tone of the OWS movement, it was naïve for the proponents and the occupiers to think an anti-Communist leader would embrace their movement.  It appears Walesa realizes that freedom is one of the first things leftists are willing to sacrifice.

6.  Six Signs the Occupy Movement is Politically Dead

…..here are six undeniable signs that the same media and leftist elites who promised you air cover in the revolution that would finally fulfill your frustrated dreams have just left you swinging in the wind, fully exposed and more than a little humiliated with nowhere to go:

1. MSM IS NO LONGER INFATUATED WITH OCCUPY: Other than the big stories surrounding Occupy evictions, the mainstream media’s all but stopped covering the Occupy movement. 12 to 14 hours a day the cable nets are on in my office, and even leftist CNN and far-left MSNBC have ceased trying to use the Occupiers as a way to jump-start Obama-friendly narratives about taxing the rich and how Wall Street is to blame for Obama’s failed economy….

….2. JON STEWART GUTS OCCUPY: On November 17, “The Daily Show” took the “cool” out of Occupy with a devastating report (see above) that exposed the movement for the Orwellian Animal Farm these kinds of movements always become (which of course was Orwell’s point). No one in media understood better how useful this movement could’ve been to Barack Obama than Jon Stewart, but HE’S ALSO SMART ENOUGH TO KNOW WHEN IT’S TIME TO FIRE OFF A FLARE WARNING OBAMA TO STAY AWAY — AND THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THIS SEGMENT WAS MEANT TO DO, AND DID.

3. AP PRETENDS DEMOCRATS NEVER SUPPORTED OCCUPY: On November 18, the Associated Press laughably and transparently attempted to memory-hole the Democrats’ very public and energetic embrace of all things Occupy.

Gee, I wonder why?

4. SLATE FREAKS OVER AD CONNECTING HIGH-PROFILE DEMOCRAT TO OCCUPY: Slate’s Libby Copeland was so panicked over a political ad that truthfully and effectively laid out Elizabeth Warren’s once-proud connection to the Occupy movement that she made a public fool of herself labeling the ad as “sexist.”

That’s desperate. And more than a little funny.

5. NEW YORKER BARES OCCUPY’S ASTRO-TURF FOR THE WORLD TO SEE: Even though Big Government exposed all this over a month ago, the fact that the New Yorker would, IN A MAJOR FEATURE PIECE,  FINALLY PUT TO BED THE LIE THAT OCCUPY WAS JUST SOME SORT OF ORGANIC, GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATION LIKE THE TEA PARTY, is the final nail in the movement’s coffin.

After all, someone has to take the blame for this.

6. LIBERAL CITIES EVICT OCCUPY: Mayors of some of the most liberal cities in America (Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia) ARE PLAYING BULL CONNOR TO ALL THOSE WONDERFUL LITTLE HIPPIES WHO ONLY WANT “SOCIAL JUSTICE.” Furthermore, in their latest reports, the MSM has even stopped trying to make the cops look bad during these evictions. The coverage can best be described as obligatory.

Democratic mayors of big, urban liberal cities don’t evict popular movements, do they? They wouldn’t even evict a movement popular with the Obama’s base….

http://bigjournalism.com/jjmnolte/2011/12/01/dead-movement-walking-top-six-signs-the-left-and-the-msm-have-hung-occupy-out-to-dry/

A very nice summation of why the OWS movement is now the living dead.  Another sign is the fact that many are saying the Occupy movement has already won as it has put the spotlight on greed.  That isn’t winning.  That’s declaring victory and retreating.