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Interesting article from USA Today regarding the appointments Obama has made for various positions and how many of them gave him some serious coin while he was a candidate. I thought Barry was stoping this Washington as usual stuff? Sounded good at the time:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-10-28-bundlers_N.htm

I am consistently in awe of how horrible the unemployment rate is and how off this current administration has been in their ability to do anything about it. Why is there not a huge uproar about this. Remember President-elect Obama’s confidence regarding this issue:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/us/politics/11radio.html

How about the reality now 10 months later?

http://www.nrcc.org/news/read.aspx?id=987

A note about the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC). In order to Free The Elephant in 2012 we have to awaken America starting on a local level and I mean by starting small. For the first time in my life I became involved in school board elections and town board elections. How was I involved? I went to one coffee get together and put a sign in my yard and asked some of my neighbors who they were voting for and why? I engaged them. No big commitment, but if we can eliminate the Libs from these positions of power it can become a domino effect. These local candidates were not running as Republicans or Dems, but they had a core set of values and common sense that reflect many of my conservative beliefs. Now, the NRCC is certainly focusing on bigger races than school boards, but I think you get my point.

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Cash for Clunkers has become the 3 Billion (think Dr. Evil) Dollar test of how a government run health care system would run.Here are some highlights:
-It has deprived parts dealers or salvage yards of millions of dollars by not allowing them to touch the clunkers after they have been traded in, causing the price of parts to soon rise by as much as 15%.
-It has basically allowed for new debt to be created by tempting people with no car payment to trade in their vehicle so they can be a new owner of a $500/month car payment that they can barely afford.
-It has really helped Honda, Toyota and Kia!
-It has not helped GM or Chrysler nearly as much as the media reports. Remember, these companies were bankrupt! You can’t get much lower than that folks…Of COURSE they have increased production and seen a spike in sales. If I were broke, had no job and sold a couple pints of blood for $100 I too would be making more money than I did yesterday.
-It has displayed the perfect characteristics of a Liberal idea…Good intentions, horrible game plan. Exhibit A is the fact that dealerships are not getting paid and telling the government to screw off:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A63RC81&show_article=1

If the government cannot handle issuing the checks to the auto dealers how fast do you think you will get your reimbursement check for your health care procedure?

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If you watched the Obama Campaign Commercial Major League Baseball All Star Game last night you saw the traditional first pitch thrown out by Barry, or did you? Where the heck was it? Where did it end up? How come they did not show it? Weirdest thing I have seen in a long time. Camera is on him, he winds up, releases the ball, we hear a cheer but no camera showing where it went?
Why? Why does this bother me so much? Got my mind to thinking……Perhaps Obama’s people wanted to make sure that the end result could not be seen in case his pitch ended up 50 feet short, wide or high? Or maybe Obama is so fast that he pitched it and ran and caught it also and a simple camera could never catch that speed and ability? Maybe he throws like my 11 year old daughter 7 year old son? What do you think?

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So, have you seen some of the ideas being presented lately by Barry and his team? Look, much of the problems of the economy in the last two years reside in the lack of regulation. I get it. However, this does not mean that a complete opposite approach is needed to make everything better. I mean come on, way to take a bad situation and make it into a rallying cry for liberal ideology. Is that leadership?
The article below which I read in The Triangle Business Journal, scares me a bit. The who article can be viewed here:

http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/06/15/daily56.html

But I wanted to highlight the crux of it with this letter to the president from National Venture Capital Association. If you believe that VC’s had anything to do with the current economic crises, please move to Canada. They should continue doing what they are doing and should not be touched:

“The National Venture Capital Association understands the need for these important reforms for investment managers that could pose significant systemic risk to the stability of our financial system.

The current regulatory disclosure requirements are sufficient and have worked effectively for decades. We look forward to working with Members of Congress and the Administration on preserving an appropriate environment for venture activity as this process moves forward.”

What do you think?

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It is pretty darn obvious that the price of gas has gone way up in the last 6 months. I am back to the days of putting no more than $40 in my gas guzzler every week as I refuse to fill ‘er up. Still staying back in those days, it has caused me to reflect a bit on all of the W blaming regarding this topic the last time we saw a spike. Remember those? My favorite was that Bush was conspiring with all of his oil buddies to pad their pockets. A really believable theory if you have no idea of how the pricing system for fuel works and you have a screw loose. Here are two polls during this time to remind people of who the American public blamed:

http://blogs.consumerreports.org/cars/2008/06/high-gas-prices.html

http://www.dailyfueleconomytip.com/miscellaneous/who-do-we-blame-for-high-gasoline-prices/

Well, what do you think now? I think this will be a non-issue as far as the media is concerned until we get above $3.50. Then someone at NBC or ABC will show some matrix that exhibits oil prices always going up every 20 years and that the rise since Obama’s inauguration is actually BELOW that average and somehow W is still to blame. How am I doing?

Noel Sheppard actually presents some facts here:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/06/06/price-oil-doubled-inauguration-will-media-blame-obama

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I have written over and over again that the amount of promises made by Obama while he was campaigning were going to be very hard to keep while in office. Part of my mission when starting this site was to expose the fact that his urge to appeal to every sector of America will eventually expose him as the fraud that he is. The question is, will anyone in the Republican Party remind him of these failed promises and most importantly his embracing of many of W’s policies after he was elected when he decides to run again for another term? That is up to the Republican Party, the candidates running against him and anyone who considers themselves a Republican.

In the meantime, I point these issues out. From Time/CNN regarding the a recent decision regarding the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy and the United States Military:

James Pietrangelo II, the former Army infantryman and lawyer whose case the high court declined to review, reserved most of his ire for President Obama instead of the court. “He’s a coward, a bigot and a pathological liar,” Pietrangelo said in an interview with TIME shortly after the high court declined to hear his appeal. “This is a guy who spent more time picking out his dog, Bo, and playing with him on the White House lawn than he has working for equality for gay people,” he added. “If there were millions of black people as second-class citizens, or millions of Jews or Irish, he would have acted immediately” upon taking office to begin working to lift “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” Pietrangelo fought in Iraq in 1991 as an infantryman, and returned as a JAG officer for the second Iraq War, before being booted out in 2004 for declaring he was gay as he was readying for a third combat tour. He was representing himself before the high court.

His words, not mine.

It gets better: The endorsement of “Don’t ask, don’t tell” by the Administration marks the latest rightward tack by Obama. The President denounced many of George W. Bush’s national-security policies during the campaign, but in office has adopted more conservative positions, including endorsing military commissions to try purported terrorists, and declining to release a second batch of photographs depicting alleged U.S. maltreatment of Iraqi detainees. His stance on “Don’t ask, don’t tell” may be more surprising, because Obama aides have made clear the President wants the ban lifted eventually.

Pietrangelo doesn’t buy the line from Obama aides — and the Pentagon — that they’re too busy grappling with a faltering economy and two wars to handle the gay ban right away. “It’s a complete lie that he has too much stuff on his plate — this is the guy who criticized Bush for not being able to multitask,” Pietrangelo says. “We have an old saying in the military — the maximum effective range of an excuse is zero meters.”

Pietrangelo may not buy the line from the administration that it has more pressing matters, I do and I do appreciate the fact that Obama did not bring this issue to the forefront in this time of crises. However, you cannot control the courts and when cases are presented and Obama’s DOJ had the opportunity to keep a campaign promise and help support its base and it failed them. Will they remember?

Whole article here: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1903545,00.html?iid=tsmodule

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So, man running for President runs on everything anti-current President because majority of Americans polled think he is a bad man.
Man running for President selects issues which come across well as media sound bites because he knows a vast majority of Americans attain their news from these methods.
Man running for President makes sure he runs on issues that make him out to be a great man and man who is a compassionate and completely contrary to horrible human being who occupied the office of the presidency for the last 8 years.
Man running for President is very aware he will never be asked facts during run for the Presidency because he is a God and you do not question God.
Man has no plan of action for ideas. Man gets elected President. Man is exposed as fraud.

So, there you go. This is what is happening with Gitmo and will continue to happen, next story.

This article written a couple of weeks ago is excellent:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124165410800493933.html

Here is your change sir

If there is a Liberal out there who and is honestly still backing their man based on the simple phrase that I recall hearing throughout the election: “I believe that Barack Obama will do excatly what he says”, I would like to invite you to a session of hypnotism anonymous. Wow! Are the events of the last month exactly what I have been thinking and saying would happen? Simply put (and we are only five months into this) Obama is starting to go against everything that he stood for in the campaign. He is getting hit hard with reality. You see, liberals love ideas, in fact; they absolutely embrace ideas. Ideas are safe. Ideas make you feel really good. It is putting these ideas into action that scares the heck out of them. Here are some ideas followed by reality.

Close all of Gitmo! Where are you going to put the people who are in Gitmo?
Prosecute all people involved in waterboarding! You mean Dems knew about this? Nancy? Oops!
Release pictures of all terrorists who were “tortured” by American troops! You mean that may cause problems with our troops and make me look like a doofus?
The public will have 5 days to view any policy I introduce! It is called transparency! Does that count if I have dial up?
It will be impossible for any pork barrel projects to be put in any bill that I pass! Uh….

This is an amazing realization to anyone who bought into the crap which was his candidacy. If you know someone who fell for these ideas will you take some time out of your busy day and ask them what they think? Has anyone you work with or live by taken any of those “hope” or “change” stickers off of their car and replaced them with a “Free The Elephant 2012″ magnet?

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Really looking forward to the speech tonight.  How much do you want to make a bet that the doom and gloom Obama of the last month will be replaced with the campaign style Obama of the past 3 years?  National stage, all major networks and cable outlets, and an above average disapproval rate:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/02/obama-bush.html