Foreign Affairs and Obama

I guess that means Obama’s statue is coming down

Shouting ”Allahu Akbar” and ”F— America,” the mob, many of whom were masked, marched on the embassy and began to attack. 

This occurred in Jakarta, Indonesia, where Obama gained his international experience that he touted in his 2008 run for the presidency.

Mother Jones catches Romney telling the truth

“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what…who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what…These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax…And so my job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” Mitt Romney

Here’s the worst part, it’s true. 

Deregulation:  The Democrat lie

Here’s Dr. Thomas Sowell’s column on how the Democrats like to blame deregulation for things they actually caused.  The biggest lie is about what caused the economic meltdown (hint: it wasn’t the failed policies of Bush, but the failed policies of a number of Democratic Presidents and the Democrats in congress).

Calls for Resignation?

"Under your leadership there have been numerous errors in judgment that have led us to where we are.… We hear a lot of happy talk and rosy scenarios, but because of the administration's strategic blunders -- and frankly the record of incompetence in executing -- you are presiding over a failed policy."  Hillary Clinton August 2006

Should Hillary now take her own advice and resign as Secretary of State?  Doesn’t this fit what she charged Rumsfeld with six years ago? 

Prof forces student to pledge to vote for Obama

Early last week Professor Sharon Sweet at Brevard Community College (BCC) allegedly told students to sign a pledge that reads: “I pledge to vote for President Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket.”

University administrators said they learned about the incident late Thursday afternoon and launched an investigation, after they received a phone call from a concerned parent.

This person should not be teaching.  She’s too dumb to be doing that.  Anyone who thinks they could get away with this is dumber than dirt.

Justice Department Teams up with Media Matters

The HolderJustice Department has been shown in email obtained through the Freedom of Information Act to have collaborated with Media Matters in an attempt to quell news stories about scandals at Justice.  What a surprise!

Obama loses Key Democrats for Tax Hike

It seems the there are enough sane Democrats in the Senate to possibly avoid the fiscal cliff we are coming to.  If nothing is done there will be automatic spending cuts and Obama has threatened to let all of the Bush Tax Cuts expire and everyone in the country would have higher taxes.  

“Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois is floating a six-month extension of current rates combined with budget cuts so lawmakers have time to reach a grand bargain deal early next year.”

With the release of Bob Woodward’s new book The Price of Politics, Obama has been exposed as the cause of the failure of the last grand bargain.   I don’t think the Democrats want to risk being blamed for another one. 

Is this what you get for being more respected?

Cairo has issued international arrest warrants for eight Americans—seven of them Coptic Christians from Egypt—who are allegedly involved with the anti-Mohammad video everyone’s rioting over. The prosecutor’s office also issued a warrant for Terry Jones, the Koran-burning nutjob in Florida, just because, and says if convicted the defendants may get the death penalty.  

I think Obama’s foreign policy is starting to look like his domestic policy.  Neither is working.

Foreign affairs turns ugly for Obama

Obama’s greatest achievement “Restoring a Sense of Respect for America around the World”

This one is similar to all of us being better off than we were 4 years ago, that is to say, only in the minds of zealots or the President is it true.

It’s only blowback when a Republican is President

Back when Bush was president, riots in the Arab street were called blowback.  They were blowback for Iraq, Gitmo, etc.  So what’s the cause of the current riots?

The Day the Roof Fell In

In Libya, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three colleagues were murdered Tuesday. Earlier that day, protesters in Egypt stormed the U.S. Embassy and tore down the American flag.

It was "the day the roof fell in," proclaimed blogger and historian Walter Russell Mead. Barack Obama's "efforts to reconcile the U.S. and moderate Islamism -- in part by distancing the U.S. from Israel -- have angered Israel without reducing Islamist bitterness against the United States."

Why the MSM is hitting Romney so hard about Cairo

Defense against foreign enemies is the primary job of the president of the United States. The rationale for the office’s creation is national defense — not green venture capitalism, not rationing medical care, not improving the self-image of the “Muslim world,” not leaving no child behind, not blowing out the Treasury’s credit line. Yet, though we are entering the late innings, foreign policy and national defense have not been factors in the 2012 campaign.

That is worth bearing in mind when we hear the laugh-out-loud narrative of Obama as foreign-affairs chess master. The president badly wants to win reelection. If there were anything to his alleged prowess, we’d not have heard the end of it. What we’ve heard, instead, is a bumper-sticker: “Obama killed Osama.” The Left hoped to paste it over the president’s generally dreary record. Even with the Obamedia in coordinated overdrive, the plan can work only if Mitt Romney lets it work — and, thankfully, it looks like he won’t.

The intensity of the attacks on Romney in foreign affairs is a sign of how vulnerable the left realize they are here. 

A quick test for empathy

People who feel the urge to barf when witnessing another person throw up are both compassionate and highly evolved, say two medical experts on the stomach-turning topic.

I qualify as being empathetic but I also feel the urge to barf when I see an Obama commercial.

Obama trade blood for oil

But not the way you think.  The new fuel efficiency standards will save oil but cost lives. 

The DNA of a Blue Blooded voter 

Here’s the humorous look at what the left wing voters believe.

They oppose charter schools for the poor but send their own kids to private schools.

They believe you should be able to buy booze with your EBT cards, but not 32-ounce sodas.

They want the government out of their bedroom, but into your kitchen.

And many more. 

Happy Father's Day

What’s New Today

Story #1 is my take on what’s going on with Obama and his latest Unconstitutional move on immigration.  The answer to the question “is Obama trying to get Impeached?” is probably yes.  #2 gives us another example of Obama evolving.  He’s said he can’t do what he did this week just a few months ago.  #3 is a new ad by Karl Rove that owes a debt to Charlie Brown.  #4 is more bad economic news for the Democrats.  #5 looks at what happens if Greece drops out of the Euro Zone. #6 is a story from the past.   

Today’s Thoughts

What’s wrong with the public schools?  Ask Michelle Apperson, a teacher at the Sutterville Elementary School in Sacramento who was named “teacher of the year” by the school district, and was subsequently fired because she was outranked in seniority.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg: “I have spoken on more than one occasion about the utility of dissenting opinions, noting in particular that they can reach audiences outside the court and can propel legislative or executive change,"  This is ominous if you are a supporter of Obamacare. 

1.  Is Obama trying to get Impeached?

With Obama’s executive order to halt deportations of young Mexican immigrants, we have Obama following a line of extralegal actions he has taken in violation of the Constitution.   Obama admitted that he didn’t have the power to do this since the law was the law, but it appears as the time has gotten closer to the election, he needs to pander to whoever he can.  Besides that Marco Rubio was working on a Dream Act of his own getting bi-partisan backing for this.  But Mr. Obama cannot afford bi-partisan action and certainly didn’t want a Republican who could possibly be a VP candidate to get credit for a legal solution.

But isn’t he afraid of being impeached?  He probably should be.  He violated the law with the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies, refused to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, his administration ignored a court order to allow drilling in the Gulf, and he flagrantly violated the War Powers Act by deploying US forces in a war against Libya without Congressional authorization.  He is legally in jeopardy, but politically it isn’t likely to happen.

Impeachment would rile up the Democratic base and even garner sympathy with the moderate voters.  And impeaching him for allowing illegal children to stay here in violation of the law would give him a huge boost with the Hispanic voter.  It would open the Republicans up to the charge that they are doing this to a black president and wasting the taxpayers’ money and not working on jobs. 

So Obama probably wants the right to impeach him and the right would be fools to do so.  

2.  Obama Changes his mind on Immigration (or is that evolve?)

With his announcement that he will, in effect, unilaterally enact a key feature of long-debated immigration reform, President Obama is doing something he has always wished to do: Get around a Congress that doesn't see the issue his way.

In a speech to La Raza last July, Obama said that on the question of immigration reform, "some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own."  Obama said he found the idea "very tempting" but had to reject it because "that's not how our system works."

The president was in a somewhat more combative mood last September, when he addressed the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.  "As I mentioned when I was at La Raza a few weeks back, I wish I had a magic wand and could make this all happen on my own," Obama told the group. "There are times where -- until Nancy Pelosi is speaker again -- I'd like to work my way around Congress."

Instead of rejecting the idea out of hand, though, Obama told the lawmakers that he had the power, as president, to aggressively enforce, or not aggressively enforce, laws Congress has passed.  "We've got laws on the books that have to be upheld," Obama said.  But "you know as well as anyone that…how we enforce those laws is also important."

At the time, Obama conceded only that really big changes require the approval of Congress. "We live in a democracy, and at the end of the day, I can't do this all by myself under our democratic system," he said. "If we're going to do big things -- whether it’s passing this jobs bill, or the DREAM Act, or comprehensive immigration reform -- we're going to have to get Congress to act."…

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/immigration-obama-wanted-bypass-congress/600961

Obama has shown that he cannot govern, but he is doing his best to “rule.”  That is unacceptable for a president of the USA.  We got rid of King George III with our revolution.  We will get rid of King Barack I with our election in November.

3.  Good Grief, Barack Obama

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/immigration-obama-wanted-bypass-congress/600961

A new ad by Karl Rove not so subtly evoking Charlie Brown and Obama’s tired old excuses. 

4.  More Bad News for the Democrats

Factory output contracted in May for the second time in three months, the Federal Reserve said on Friday, and families took a dimmer view of their economic prospects in early June, signs that the economy’s recovery is on shaky ground.

The new data was the latest in a series of reports portraying a weak economy that have led analysts to cut growth forecasts while raising expectations that the Federal Reserve will offer new stimulus measures.

Until recently, manufacturing had been a buttress for the nation’s economy, helping it resist headwinds from Europe’s snowballing debt crisis.  

But in May, factory output shrank 0.4 percent, with plants producing fewer cars and less machinery, Federal Reserve data showed. 

“It’s more convincing evidence that the economy is stuck in low gear,” said Joe Manimbo, a market analyst at Travelex Global Business Payments….

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/business/economy/dip-in-manufacturing-could-suggest-stalled-economy.html?_r=1

Here’s why you want to pay attention.  The Obama administration is running out of time for something to turn around and mean anything.  We only have 5 more reports of economic activity before the election and you need about three months to  make a case that the momentum is there. 

5. What happens if Greece Leaves the Euro Zone?

… They think the path of a full-blown crisis would start in Greece, quickly move to the rest of Europe and then hit the U.S. Stocks and oil would plunge, the euro would sink against the U.S. dollar, and big banks would suffer losses on complex trades.

ACT I

What would Greece's exit look like? In the worst case, it starts off messy.

The government resurrects the drachma, the currency Greece used before the euro, and says each drachma equals one euro. But currency markets would treat it differently. Banks' foreign-exchange experts expect the drachma would plunge to half the value of the euro soon after its debut.

For Greeks, that would likely mean surging inflation _ 35 percent in the first year, according to some estimates. The country is a net importer and would have to pay more for oil, medical equipment and anything else it imports.

Greece's government and banks currently survive on international loans, and if it dropped the euro, the country would probably be locked out of lending markets, says Athanasios Vamvakidis, foreign-exchange strategist at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch in London. So the Greek central bank would need to print more drachmas to make up for what it could no longer borrow from abroad.

That's one reason analysts say the switch to a drachma would lead the country to default on its government debt, possibly triggering losses for the European Central Bank and other international lenders.

Most assume foreign banks would have to write off loans to Greek businesses, too. Why would Greeks pay off foreign debts that effectively double when the drachma drops by half?

Say a small shop owner in Athens has a (EURO)50,000 business loan from a French bank. She also has (EURO)50,000 in savings in a Greek bank. The Greek government turns her savings into 50,000 drachma.

If the new currency fell by 50 percent to the euro as expected, her savings would suddenly be worth (EURO)25,000. But she would still owe (EURO)50,000 to the French bank.

European banks would take a direct blow. They've managed to shed much of their Greek debt but still held $65 billion, mainly in loans to Greek corporations, at the end of last year, according to an analysis by Nomura, a financial services company. French banks have the most to lose….

http://townhall.com/news/finance/2012/06/16/how_shock_waves_will_hit_us_if_greece_drops_euro

Keep reading because this is a big deal. 

6.  Is Obama being treated more disrespectfully by Reporters that white Presidents?

Apparently, not really.