Buh-Bye Bin Laden: Campaign Stop at Ground Zero

President Barack Hussein Obama  (mm mmm mmmm) will participate in a wreath-laying ceremony and visit with 9/11 families and first responders during his visit today to New York City.

The president will lay the wreath during a ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial located near Ground Zero, the former site of the World Trade Center twin towers destroyed during 9/11.

At least, that’s what his Administration has announced as being the details of Obama’s previously announced trip to New York City following a U.S. raid on Sunday that killed Osama bin Laden, the Muslim Monster responsible for masterminding the work Islamic Terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil.

The President has not been to Ground Zero since 2008.

On September 11th, 2009,  per nytimes.com:

Mr. Obama and his wife Michelle began the day of commemoration on the White House South Lawn, where they and some 200 members of the White House staff observed a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., the moment the first plane struck the north tower of the World Trade Center.

…Mr. Obama then traveled across the Potomac River to speak briefly at the Pentagon, where American Airlines Flight 77, hijacked by five terrorists after taking off from Dulles International Airport bound for Los Angeles, crashed at 9:37 a.m.

On September 11th, 2010, per csmonitor.com, Obama chose not to go to Ground Zero again:

In a somber 9/11 ceremony at the Pentagon Saturday morning, President Obama urged Americans to honor the fallen by keeping alive the nation’s shared virtues and values.

“The highest honor we can pay those we lost, indeed our greatest weapon in this ongoing war, is to do what our adversaries fear the most – to stay true to who we are, as Americans; to renew our sense of common purpose; to say that we define the character of our country, and we will not let the acts of some small band of murderers who slaughter the innocent and cower in caves distort who we are,” he said.

Obama sounded a similar theme in his weekly radio/Internet address, in which he noted that September 11 has been designated a National Day of Service and Remembrance.

Obama invited Former President George W. Bush to come with him today, but he declined, citing a wish to stay out of the spotlight.

Obama then invited Former President Bill Clinton, but he was unable to attend because of scheduling conflicts.

Do you see a pattern here?

September 19th, 2001, then-Illinois State Senator Barack Hussein Obama issued the following statement to his local newspaper in Hyde Park, Illinois about the Islamic Terrorist Attack on Septemer 11th, 2001.

Even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved families, I must also hope that we as a nation draw some measure of wisdom from this tragedy. Certain immediate lessons are clear, and we must act upon those lessons decisively. We need to step up security at our airports. We must reexamine the effectiveness of our intelligence networks. And we must be resolute in identifying the perpetrators of these heinous acts and dismantling their organizations of destruction.

We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness. The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers: an inability to imagine, or connect with, the humanity and suffering of others. Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent, is not innate; nor, history tells us, is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity. It may find expression in a particular brand of violence, and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics. Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness and despair.

We will have to make sure, despite our rage, that any U.S. military action takes into account the lives of innocent civilians abroad. We will have to be unwavering in opposing bigotry or discrimination directed against neighbors and friends of Middle Eastern descent. Finally, we will have to devote far more attention to the monumental task of raising the hopes and prospects of embittered children across the globe-children not just in the Middle East, but also in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and within our own shores.

In August of 2009, the Obama Administration decided to change the meaning of the yearly remembrance of 9/11/2001, per spectator.org:

On Aug. 4, the White House offered a glimpse into its plans to desecrate 9/11 for political advantage. [Van] Jones appeared in a largely ignored 33-minute video posted on the official blog of the White House to discuss the administration’s plan to flush 9/11 down the memory hole just as it has tried to do by rechristening the Global War on Terror the “Overseas Contingency Operations.”

Of this National Day of Service, Jones says little except that it will be a great opportunity “for people to connect, to find other people in your peer group who are also passionate about repowering America but also greening up America and cleaning up America.”

On the same day, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, and Department of Energy Under Secretary Kristina Johnson and activists held a low-key press conference. At it, Yearwood [Obama ally Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus] said the National Day of Service will be “the first milestone” of a larger effort called Green the Block that is attempting to convince Americans that the utopian fantasy of a so-called green economy is possible without turning the U.S. into a Third World country.

“From policy creation to community implementation, the Green the Block campaign wants to see access and opportunity created for all Americans, to build prosperity and a healthier planet for future generations,” Yearwood said.

At no time does anyone explain why this National Day of Service has to be held — of all the 365 days in a year — on Sept. 11.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced at yesterday’s daily press briefing that Obama would not  be making a speech at today’s ceremony. What would President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) say today, if he did?

If he made today’s wreath-laying ceremony all about himself and his self-proclaimed magnificence, or, if he emphasized community service, or, if he turned what should be a somber, humble acknowledgement of the sacrifices made by Americans into a personal opportunity to reach out to the Muslim World, Obama would doom his re-election campaign in its infancy.

If, as planned, he solemnly lays a wreath at the sight of the largest massacre by Islamic Terrorists in American History, then that will be appropriate…and long overdue.

Buh-Bye, Bin Laden: Of Burial and Remembrance

As United States President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) deals with the aftermath of the death of the world’s most famous Islamic Terrorist, he and his administration are trying to decide whether of not to release a photograph of Osama bin Laden, taken after our American Special Forces team assisted him in achieving room temperature.

The White House describes the photograph of a dead Osama bin Laden as “gruesome” and worries “it could be inflammatory” if released.

According to White House press secretary Jay Carney, the White House is trying to decide whether to make the photo public. Obama and his administration are concerned about the “sensitivity” of doing so. Carney admitted at yesterday’s daily press briefing that there is a discussion internally about the best to handle it but “there is not some roiling debate here about this.”

Monday, John Brennan, President Barack Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser and well-known Muslim sympathizer, speaking on National Public Radio, said:

What we don’t want to do is to release anything that might be either misunderstood or that would cause other problems.

It’s way too late for that, Skippy.

In the preceding video, an Imam from the al-Asqa Mosque in Jersalem proclaims:

The western dogs are rejoicing after killing one of our Islamic lions. From Al-Aqsa Mosque, where the future caliphate will originate with the help of God, we say to them – the dogs will not rejoice too much for killing the lions. The dogs will remain dogs and the lion, even if he is dead, will remain a lion.

Speaking to Obama, he then says:

You personally instructed to kill Muslims. You should know that soon you’ll hang together with Bush Junior.

We are a nation of billions, a good nation. We’ll teach you about politics and military ways very soon, with god’s help.

Evidently, the Imam is not impressed by the full Muslim funeral that our forces gave bin Laden, just before they consigned him to Davy Jones’ Locker.

Per dailymail.uk.co:

Some Muslims yesterday disputed the U.S. claim that Bin Laden’s burial at sea was in accordance with Islamic tradition.

A U.S. government spokesman said it had been decided it would be difficult to find a country prepared to accept the body and then bury it within 24 hours of death as dictated by Islamic custom. But he said it had been instead respectfully interred in the waves of the Indian Ocean off Pakistan from the U.S. aircraft carrier the Carl Vinson.

Muslim scholars said that while sea burials have long been an occasional accepted necessity, there was no such need in this case.

The head of Egypt’s prestigious seat of Sunni Muslim learning, al-Azhar, said the sea burial ‘contradicts all the religious values and human norms’.

…Muslim clerics are predicting revenge attacks against American targets because of the way the government decided to dispose of the leader’s body.

A wide range of Islamic scholars interpreted it as a humiliating disregard for the standard Muslim practice of placing the body in a grave with the head pointed toward the holy city of Mecca.

Sea burials can be allowed, they said, but only in special cases where the death occurred aboard a ship far from the coast.

Mohammed al-Qubaisi, Dubai’s grand mufti, said about Bin Laden’s burial:

They can say they buried him at sea, but they cannot say they did it according to Islam. If the family does not want him, it’s really simple in Islam: You dig up a grave anywhere, even on a remote island, you say the prayers and that’s it.

Sea burials are permissible for Muslims in extraordinary circumstances. This is not one of them.

Other scholars said that even those who are criminals and murderers are given the Islamic rite of burial.

As the Muslim World reacts to the outcome of the mission known by the code name Geronimo, Obama prepares for a photo op…err…presidential excursion to Ground Zero this Thursday…alone.

Former President George W. Bush yesterday turned down President Barack Obama’s invitation to join him at ground zero, citing his desire to avoid the spotlight.

Bush spokesman David Sherzer told politico.com in an email Tuesday night:

President Bush appreciated the invite, but has chosen in his post-presidency to remain largely out of the spotlight.He continues to celebrate with all Americans this important victory in the war on terror.

Uh huh. It’s a little strange that the same guy who blasted Booosh! for going to Iraq, instead of going after bin Laden, now wants him to appear arm-in-arm with him at Ground Zero.

Obama has not been to Ground Zero, the site of the largest Islamic Terrorist ever on American soil, since 2008. The past two years, he has sent Vice-President Joe Biden to the memorial Services there on September 11th, instead of making the trip himself.

He is supposed to meet with family members of some of the victims, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and other local officials.

I’m pretty sure that Obama, whose announcement of the killing of bin Laden last Sunday night reminded of the old song, The Night has a Thousand Eyes (I’s),will be taking a victory lap this Thursday in New York City.

What I’m afraid of is, that, perhaps, he’ll also use the opportunity to reach out, as the son of a Muslim, to the Muslim World, and turn this moment of American justice into a second University of Cairo Speech.

And that would be inappropriate.




Buh-Bye, Bin Laden: The Muslim World Reacts

After some of America’s Best and Brightest, United States Seal Team 6, completed with extreme prejudice their mission against the Muslim Monster, Osama bin Laden, I was wondering what the Muslim World thought about the mission, its results, and the President of the United States who ordered it, Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him).

Some Arabs are mourning the mass murderer as a holy warrior and martyr, while others rightfully judge bin Laden as “pillar of evil” whose Holy Jihad against The Great Satan brought about a firestorm of hard feelings against Muslims throughout the world.

The death of the world’s best known Islamic Terrorist has illuminated the deep divide between subjects and rulers, radicals and moderates throughout the Muslim World.

The Palestinian Authority, embraced by Obama’s Administration, said that bin Laden’s killing was “good for the cause of peace.” Hamas, long known to be an Islamic beehive of Terrorist activity, is literally up in arms over the assassination of bin Laden.

Ismail Haniyeh, leader of the Hamas administration in Gaza, proclaimed:

We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood.

Believe it or not,  Hamas is currently being challenged by al Qaeda-inspired groups that consider it too moderate.

The Muslims who believed bin Laden was a prophet of Allah, are having problems dealing with the fact that he’s gone. Other Muslims feel that he had it coming.

There are others who are claiming that the Islamic Revolution going on in the Mid-East is far more important that the killing of bin Laden in a raid by U.S. forces in Pakistan.

Nadim Houry of Human Rights Watch in Beirut does not seem too torn up by the whole thing:

Bin Laden is just a bad memory. The region has moved way beyond that, with massive broad-based upheavals that are game-changers.

There are those Muslims who think that bin Laden and al Qaeda brought catastrophe on the Muslim world with the attack on the Uniteds States as the U.S. hit back with two wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the word “Islam” became forever intertwined with “terrorism.”

Mahmoud Sabbagh, a Saudi, on Twitter:

The damage bin Laden had caused Islam is beyond appalling and a collective shame.

Ahmed Saleh, a 58-year-old retired Palestinian, said:

The world is better without bin Laden. It has removed a pillar of evil from the world. His heinous actions were exploited to allow hostile policies toward the Arabs and Muslims.

Other Muslims think that Osama was justified in his murder of 3,000 innocents on September 11th, 2001.

According to Egyptian Abdullah Ali, a Salafist taxi driver in his 60s:

Bin Laden defended the dignity of Muslims and now the U.S. and the West will answer for their occupation.

Abdel-Qader Abu Shaaban, a 53-year-old Palestinian from Gaza, described bin Laden’s killing as “a very criminal act.”

Tareq al-Zumar of Egypt’s Islamist group al-Gama’a al-Islamiya, which took up arms against the state in the 1990s said:

Bin Laden will become a symbol of resistance to occupation… The U.S. killing of bin Laden will undoubtedly galvanize reaction and retaliation attempts.

Many Muslims in Saudi Arabia are grieving bin Laden. One man taking a cigarette break outside his office in Riyadh, said:

He would be a loss to all Muslims because he had good qualities. He portrayed Muslims in a good and strong way… He is the person that left the worldly riches for jihad.

No doubt these Muslims remember their joyous celebration upon hearing the news of the attack on September 11th, 2001:

So, what does the Muslim World think about their “son”,  President Barack Hussein Obama, who addressed them on June 4, 2009, at the University of Cairo, where he said:

As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam — at places like Al-Azhar — that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities — (applause) — it was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed. Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality. (Applause.)

I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story. The first nation to recognize my country was Morocco. In signing the Treaty of Tripoli in 1796, our second President, John Adams, wrote, “The United States has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.” And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States. They have fought in our wars, they have served in our government, they have stood for civil rights, they have started businesses, they have taught at our universities, they’ve excelled in our sports arenas, they’ve won Nobel Prizes, built our tallest building, and lit the Olympic Torch. And when the first Muslim American was recently elected to Congress, he took the oath to defend our Constitution using the same Holy Koran that one of our Founding Fathers — Thomas Jefferson — kept in his personal library. (Applause.)

So far, the silence is deafening.

Buh-Bye, Bin Laden

The mastermind of the largest Islamic Terrorist Attack of United States soil has received his just reward.

Osama bin Laden, the monster behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was killed in a firefight with American Special Forces last night, then quickly buried at sea.

Instead of hiding in the mountains of Pakistan, as had so long been thought, the Islamic Terrorist Mastermind was located in a mansion on the outskirts of Islamabad, 100 yards from a community built specifically for retired Pakistani military and 35 miles from the capital of Pakistan.

If anyone thinks that the Pakistani Government did not know that he was living there, I have a bridge over the Mississippi River to sell ya.

Shortly before 11:00 p.m. Central last night, President Barack Hussein Obama, after making the nation wait for 90 minutes, and, effectively obscuring the finale of Donald Trump’s television series, Celebrity Apprentice, made the following announcement:

Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.

Justice has been done.

This precise operation took about as long as getting a haircut.

U.S. Strike Force Helicopters set counter-terrorism troops down in the compound which the CIA had identified as the monster’s lair. Our Best and Brightest took care of business in less than 40 minutes. They shot bin Laden in the head after he and his bodyguards opened fired on them.

Also killed in the operation were three adult males among them, one of bin Laden’s sons, unnamed by U.S. officials. One of bin Laden’s sons, Hamza, happens to be is a senior member of al-Qaida. One woman was killed during the firefight, when one of those brave Islamic Terrorists, used her as a shield. Two other women were injured.

An American official who disclosed the burial at sea said it would have been difficult to find a country willing to accept the remains. According to Obama,bin Laden’s body had been handled in accordance with Islamic custom, which requires speedy burial.

Why couldn’t Obama have admitted that we buried him at sea, so that the Islamafascists would not try to steal the body from us and make him a martyr?

Who was this Muslim Monster?  Per biography.com:

Osama bin Laden, [born] 1957[ in] Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,[was the] mastermind of numerous terrorist attacks against the United States and other Western powers, including the 1993 bombing of New York City’s World Trade Center, the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden, and the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon near Washington, D.C. ( September 11 attacks).

Bin Laden was one of more than 50 children of one of Saudi Arabia’s wealthiest families. He attended King Abdul Aziz University, where he received a degree in civil engineering. Shortly after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, bin Laden, like thousands of other Muslims from throughout the world, joined the Afghan resistance, viewing it as his Muslim duty to repel the occupation. After the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, bin Laden returned home as a hero, but he was quickly disappointed with what he perceived as the corruption of the Saudi government and of his own family. His objection to the presence of U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War led to a growing rift with his country’s leaders. By 1993 he had purportedly formed a network known as al-Qaeda (Arabic: “the Base”), which consisted largely of militant Muslims bin Laden had met in Afghanistan. The group funded and organized several attacks worldwide, including detonating truck bombs against American targets in Saudi Arabia (1996), killing tourists in Egypt (1997), and simultaneously bombing the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (1998), which altogether killed nearly 300 people. In 1994 the Saudi government confiscated his passport after accusing him of subversion, and he fled to The Sudan, where he organized camps that trained militants in terrorist methods, and from where he was eventually expelled in 1996. He later returned to Afghanistan, where he received protection from its ruling Taliban militia.

In 1996–98 bin Laden, a self-styled scholar, issued a series of fatws (Arabic: “religious opinions”) declaring a holy war against the United States, which he accused, among other things, of looting the natural resources of the Muslim world and aiding and abetting the enemies of Islam. Bin Laden’s apparent goal was to draw the United States into a large-scale war in the Muslim world that would overthrow moderate Muslim governments and reestablish the Caliphate (i.e., a single Islamic state). To this end, al-Qaeda, aided by bin Laden’s considerable wealth, trained militants and funded terrorist attacks. It had thousands of followers worldwide, in places as diverse as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Libya, Bosnia, Chechnya, and the Philippines. Following the September 11 attacks, the United States led a coalition in late 2001 that overthrew the Taliban and sent bin Laden into hiding. Nearly three years passed, during which time U.S. forces hunted bin Laden along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Bin Laden emerged in a videotaped message in October 2004, less than a week before that year’s U.S. presidential election, in which he claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks.

Former President George W. Bush issued a gracious, congratulatory statement, per abcnews.com:

…Bush called the operation a “momentous achievement” that “marks a victory for America, for people who seek peace around the world, and for all those who lost loved ones on September 11, 2001.”

“I congratulated him and the men and women of our military and intelligence communities who devoted their lives to this mission. They have our everlasting gratitude,” the former president said in a statement. “The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done.”

Indeed.  God bless America.




The White House Correspondents Dinner: These are Jokes?

The annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner was last night.

The association began in 1914 as go-between serving the press and the president. Every president since Calvin Coolidge has attended the dinner. Some of the proceeds from the dinner pay for journalism scholarships for college students.

Instead of making jokes about himself, such as  previous humble presidents, like George W. Bush have, Obama used the banquet in the same manner in which he used the State of the Union Address 2 years ago, as a vehicle in which to attack a defenseless enemy.

Here is part of an article featured on associatedcontent.com, posted on 1/29/10, starting with an excerpt of the 2010 SOTU Address:

With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people. And I’d urge Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to correct some of these problems.

Justice Samuel Alito could be seen on camera shaking his head “no” and mouthing the words “that’s not true”, right around the part where Obama claimed that our interests could be dictated by “foreign entities”.

It is rumored that even Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the liberal judges nominated by Obama and who likely voted against the measure, rolled her eyes at the comment, though this isn’t confirmed.

That night, in 2010, Obama’s defenseless enemy was the Supreme Court. Last night, it was billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump.

Obama’s moment in the spotlight last night started after the wrestler Hulk Hogan’s patriotic anthem, “Real American,” played. Images of Americana from Mount Rushmore to Uncle Sam were shown on the screen, alongside his birth certificate. And then he offered to show his live birth video, which turned out to be a clip from the Disney film, “The Lion King.”

Obama, reading from poorly written remarks, joked that the billionaire businessman would bring change to the White House, transforming it from a stately mansion into a tacky casino with a whirlpool in the garden.

This, coming from the guy who had the Oval Office remade to resemble a 1980s Holiday Inn.

As Trump sat there, boiling with rage, Obama used the annual dinner as a one-sided Presidential Debate, attacking the defenselessreality TV star.  The President of the United States attacked the private businessman, ridiculing him for  firing Gary Busey on a recent episode of “Celebrity Apprentice” and for focusing so much time on conspiracy theories about Obama’s birthplace.

Gloating in his release of a PDF of his long-form Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth, Obama dismissed Trump, saying the billionaire could now focus on the serious issues, from whether the moon landing actually happened to “where are Biggie and Tupac?”

Obama mocked Trump’s own words. saying:

No one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than ‘the Donald’.

Making fun of Trump’s decision to fire actor Busey instead of rock singer Meat Loaf from his TV show earlier this month, Obama said:

These are the types of decisions that would keep me up at night. Well handled, sir.

In a grand finale to his Trump put-down, Obama presented his vision of how Trump could bring change to the White House. “Trump” was displayed in glittery letters and girls could be seen with cocktails on a Jacuzzi-augmented front lawn.

Scooter making fun of “The Donald’s arrogance?  Pot meet kettle.

The guest list included Rev. Al Sharpton, Paula Abdul, and performer Cee Lo Green, actors Kate Hudson, Sean Penn; Bristol Palin, the daughter of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen; and White House Chief of Staff William Daley.

Saturday Night Live comedian (and I use the term loosely) Seth Myers continued where Obama left off, as Trump glared.

Among Myers’ remarks:

Donald Trump often talks about running as a Republican, which is surprising. I just assumed he was running as a joke.

Aimed at Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., whose own remarks about Planned Parenthood and abortion sparked a Twitter campaign fueled by Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert, Myers said:

Jon Kyl told me that 90 percent of what [the WHCA does] is abortions.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s face looked ashen at that one.

And rightfully so.  Joking about abortion? Puhleeze.

Meyers also referred to recent comments Trump made on the radio in which he said he got along well with “the blacks.”

Donald Trump recently said he has a great relationship with the blacks. Unless the blacks are a white family, he was mistaken.

These were jokes?  My, how far we have fallen from Bob Hope.

Is this the most classless White House in Modern History? 

There were a lot of jokes sent around as e-mails after the election of Bill “Bubba” Clinton, as to how his ascension to the White House was akin to Jed Clampett and family moving to Beverly Hills.

After two years of having to watch and listen to this smug jerk occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, I ‘d rather have Granny Clampett making lye soap over an open fire on the South Lawn.


The New Politburo

The year is 1903, The Russian Social Democratic Party is meeting in London. All the intellectuals in their party have been arguing since the end of the 1800’s as to the direction the party should take. One year earlier, in 1902, a man named Lenin, living in exile, wrote a paper entitled, “What Is To Be Done”.

The work was smuggled into Russia and spelled out his views regarding what the Social Democrats should be doing as a party. Lenin attacked party members who “were content to wait while history took its predetermined course.” Rather than wait, Lenin wanted to kick-start the issue he believed in to get things done rather than wait on intellectuals sitting around refuting each other’s ideas. The meeting resulted in a Party split creating the Mentsheviks and the Bolsheviks. The two factions reunited under Lenin in April 1905. Lenin went on to organize the November 1917 Russian Revolution on the Promise of “peace. bread, and land”. Isn’t that like “sharing the wealth”?

Anyway, once the revolution was over, the Central Committee of the Communist Party established the Politburo.  According to merriam-webster.com:

Politburo  – (noun) : the principal policy-making and executive committee of a Communist party

Origin: Russian politbyuro, from politicheskoe byuro political bureau

First Known Use: 1925

Yesterday, I reported on some White House Censorship of the Press:

…the Obama Administration  exiled the San Francisco Chronicle’s Carla Marinuccifrom being a part of the press pool, [ever] again.

Her horrendous crime? 

She pulled out a small video camera last week and shot some protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser at the St. Regis Hotel.

Now, Phil Bronstein of the Chronicle reports the following:

In a pants-on-fire moment, the White House press office today denied anyone there had issued threats to remove Carla Marinucci and possibly other Hearst reporters from the press pool covering the President in the Bay Area.

Chronicle editor Ward Bushee called the press office on its fib:

Sadly, we expected the White House to respond in this manner based on our experiences yesterday. It is not a truthful response. It follows a day of off-the-record exchanges with key people in the White House communications office who told us they would remove our reporter, then threatened retaliation to Chronicle and Hearst reporters if we reported on the ban, and then recanted to say our reporter might not be removed after all.

The Chronicle’s report is accurate.

If the White House has indeed decided not to ban our reporter, we would like an on-the-record notice that she will remain the San Francisco print pool reporter.

I was on some of those calls and can confirm Ward’s statement.

Messy ball now firmly in White House court.

Interesting.  Evidently, that’s what the Chronicle gets for not following along with the diktat of our modern Politburo.

One thing that the Russian Politburo was good at was taking care of their propaganda arm.  Our new Politburo is no different.

…as Washington prepares to celebrate, well, itself at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where media organizations try to out-do each other by planting celebrities at their $2,500 tables, taxpayer-subsidized and donor-supported NPR is no exception. Joining NPR staff will be Ambassador Susan Rice as well as three All Songs Considered favorites, Annie Clark, who records under the nom de plume St. Vincent, Talking Heads founder David Byrne, and R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe.

Which raises the question: In a time when, NPR’s budget is under scrutiny, is hosting rock stars at a swank dinner the sign NPR officials want to send? And, is promoting new recordings of musical artists–be they starving or sated–something the government should even subsidize in the first place?

Those of the Main Stream Media who realize that their role is the spreading of the New Politburo’s Propaganda are rewarded.  Others, such as Fox News, and this young lady from the Chronicle, are punished.

Please allow me to leave you with some quotes from Vladimir Lenin.  Their relevancy is amazing.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

It is true that liberty is precious; so precious that it must be carefully rationed.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.

Sometimes – history needs a push.The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

The goal of socialism is communism.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.

Of Obama and Superman

I love my country. I make no bones about it. I was born American by God’s grace.

However, there are a bunch of idiots out there who do not feel that way. They take the privilege of being born in the greatest country on Earth as a liability, not a blessing.

For example, the Liberal pinheads who are currently publishing the adventures of an American Icon, who has always stood for truth, justice, and the American Way.

That’s right. These snotty-nosed punks are having the Man of Steel renounce his American citizenship.

This unpatriotic bone-headed move takes place in “The Incident,” a short story in Action Comics #900 written by David S. Goyer with art by Miguel Sepulveda. In it, Superman meets with the President’s national security advisor, who is hot about the fact that  Superman appeared in Tehran to non-violently support the protesters demonstrating against the Iranian regime, no doubt an analogue for the recent real-life protests in the Middle East.

What in the world?

…Since Superman is viewed as an American icon in the DC Universe as well as our own, the Iranian government has construed his actions as the will of the American President, and indeed, an act of war.

Superman replies that it was foolish to think that his actions would not reflect politically on the American government, and that he therefore plans to renounce his American citizenship at the United Nations the next day — and to continue working as a superhero from a more global than national perspective. From a “realistic” standpoint it makes sense; it would indeed be impossible for a nigh-omnipotent being ideologically aligned with America to intercede against injustice beyond American borders without creating enormous political fallout for the U.S. government.

What in the name of Krypto the Superdog is going on here?

It’s bad enough that we have to live with the Liberals’ intentional distruction of our American Way of Life, but do they have to corrupt our comic book icons as well?

What next…is Batman going to come out of the closet and change his cape and cowl to pink?

The next thing you’re going to tell me is that the President of the United States doesn’t like our country.

Oh, wait…

On americanthinker.com, in an excellent article posted on 11/1/2009, a writer named bookworm posted the following list of Obama’s anti-liberty goals:

  • He wants to deny individuals access to the marketplace –where they can make their own decisions about their own health care — and instead put the government entirely in charge.   [Since this list was published, Obamacare got passed.]
  • He’s willing to give government control over American businesses (e.g., the bank takeovers and Government Motors).
  • His administration, while on record as opposing the Fairness Doctrine, is aggressively exploring a backdoor regulatory scheme that would have precisely the same practical effect as the Fairness Doctrine: it would impose government restrictions on content, rather than allowing the market (that means us, the consumers) to control content.
  • His FCC wants to control the internet, a humming beehive of free speech (much of it critical of Obama).
  • As his loud battles with Rush Limbaugh and Fox News illustrate, he desires a single-party press, not a free one.
  • He believes that now that he is in power, the opposition should shut up and “get out of the way,” a notion that runs directly counter to the First Amendment.
  • Although he’s mostly erased the record that once existed in cyberspace, his dream is to create a civilian national security force, subordinate to the administration, which would be larger than the American military. The military, please note, is controlled by the Constitution and has traditionally existed separate from, but subordinate to, the rest of the American government.
  • He wants to take away the right to bear arms. He’ll pay lip service to supporting the Second Amendment, but his fundamental goal is to use government to remove arms from individuals.
  • In a stunning blow to the freedom of born alive infants, he is one of a handful of politicians nationwide who believes it is appropriate to leave such infants to die alone and untended. With few exceptions, even those whose politics are entirely colored by a pro-choice viewpoint couldn’t swallow this approach.
  • Without money, people have no choices. The more money the government siphons to itself, the fewer choices we as individuals have. Although he dresses it as fairness (it’s “fair” for the “lucky” to pay substantially more), Obama believes that it’s government’s role to “spread the wealth.” That may be “fair,” but it’s not consistent with liberty, hard work, and individual choices.

And, just yesterday, the Obama Administration  exiled the San Francisco Chronicle’s Carla Marinucci from being a part of the press pool again.

Her horrendous crime? 

She pulled out a small video camera last week and shot some protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser at the St. Regis Hotel.

Censorship of the press.  My…how Marxist.

Why is it that those who claim to be the most tolerant of anybody in this nation, are actually the least?

And the very country that permits them to practice their misguided ideology is the very nation that they hold in such great disdain?

A Matter of Americanism

President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm), 3 years into his reign…err…presidency, released a PDF of a long-form Certificate of Live Birth yesterday.

Whoop-te-do.

In finally releasing a PDF of the document, Obama was desperately trying to derail speculation by average Americans on his undocumented past, recently fueled by Entrepreneur and professional spotlight-hogger Donald Trump. While making his grand announcement about doing something he should have done before he took office, the snobbish son of a Kenyan, whom I affectionately call Scooter, proclaimed that questions about the authenticity of the document were a distraction from bigger issues by “sideshows and carnival barkers.”

Sideshow? That’s appropriate, coming from a guy whose presidency has resembled a House of Horrors.

The Leader of the Regime then proclaimed:

We do not have time for this kind of silliness.

We’ve got better stuff to do. I’ve got better stuff to do. We’ve got big problems to solve, and I’m confident we can solve them, but we’re going to have to focus on them, not on this.

Then, he hopped aboard Air Force One, with us paying for the ride, and headed out to appear with his homegirl, Oprah, so that she and her studio audience could worship and adore him. Then last night, he spoke at a Democratic Fundraiser in New York City, to an adoring crowd.

He joked about the birth certificate controversy at both appearances.

I’m sooo glad that the “silly stuff” is over with. Aren’t you?

Meanwhile, Scooter has the following serious stuff to worry about:

  • Gasoline prices that are over $4 a gallon in some parts of the United States
  • Sell his plan to cut tax breaks for oil and gas companies
  • Convince Congress to raise the debt ceiling before the U.S. hits its limit, likely in mid-May
  • Shake-up his national security advisers
  • Juggle wars and ongoing protests in the Middle East
  • Negotiate a 2012 budget that both creates jobs and cuts spending
  • 1/6th of America being on Food Stamps
  • Continuing massive unemployment
  • Run for re-election

The culturally elite Progressives, and squishy Moderates on both sides of the aisle, remain flabbergasted at how the Birth Certificate Controversy could have gotten this far.

It’s very simple, Poindexters.  Obama does not act like any natural-born American that the majority of Americans have ever been around.

Lets look at some things about Obama that have freaked Americans out about him:

  • His parents were radicals.  His grandparents were communists.
  • As a kid in Hawaii, he lived next door and was “buds” with the Chicago Communist Pedophile, Frank Marshall Davis.
  • He attended Occidental College in Los Angeles for two years before transferring to Columbia in 1981.  No one remembers him.
  • He was appointed Editor of the Harvard Law Review.  Nobody knows how he afforded Harvard.  The name Khalid al-Monsour is mentioned in the mystery.
  • Barack Hussein Obama graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School.  We don’t know anything about his actual courses or grades.   The records have been sealed at all three universities.
  • The Los Angeles Times has reported that Obama studied, while at Columbia, under the late Edward Said, an Arafat devotee.  A photo that made the Internet rounds before the election shows Obama talking to the professor at a 1998 Arab American community dinner in Chicago, where the Obamas and Saids were seated together.
  •  Bomber Bill Ayers was the head of the Chicago group that, with$49.2 million in hand,   formed the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.  The launch party in 1995 was attended by the governor of Illinois and the mayor of Chicago, as well as anybody was influential among the Chicago Political Elite.   Guess who the  first chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was?  You guessed.   Obama held the post until 1999.
  • In 2004, Illinois State Senator Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) decided to run for The United States Senate.  It is now very well-known that George Soros, evil genius, major Democratic Party donor and anti-Israel crusader, has been a generous contributor to Barack Obama. However, not too many people know that a loophole in McCain-Feingold allowed Soros and his family members to be extremely generous in their support of Obama’s 2004 Senatorial campaign.
  • Besides garnering unlimited campaign funds, as the campaigns entered their closing rounds, the news ”happened to be” leaked to media outlets that both Hull and Ryan had “personal scandals” in their past. The timely release of this news wiped out both of their campaigns, leading to an easy victory for Obama in the primary and then in the general election.
  • Barack Hussein Obama (Peace be upon him.) won the Senatorial election and went on to “serve” as a United States Senator from Illinois from 2005 – 2008.
  • Obama sponsored 121 bills as a senator, of which 115 never made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted.   He co-sponsored 506 bills during the same time period.
  • Barack Obama missed 314 (24%) of 1,300 roll call votes.  He did not have the option of voting “Present” as he did 130 times in the Illinois State Senate.

Additionally, in his first 100 days as president, Obama:

  • Passed the Porkulous Bill
  • Announced the closing of Guantanamo Gay (Heh.  Didn’t happen.)
  • Dropped the Term ‘Enemy Combatant’ in favor of man-caused disaster
  • Proposed first President Budget – $3.55 trillion
  • Floated a National Health Insurance Plan
  • Blasted US Food Safety and Took Action and appointed a brand new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner
  • Began the End of the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Facility
  • Took Over Coordination of Urban Policy issuing an executive order creating the White House Office of Urban Affairs.
  • Reversed the “Mexico City” Anti-abortion Policy
  • On his second day in office, Obama overturned the “Mexico City Policy” that prohibited the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from contributing money to international family planning agencies that offered abortions or abortion counseling.
  • Asked for More Money for Afghanistan and Iraq Wars
  • Eased Some Restrictions on Cuba

And, later on, he burdened Americans with his most famous creation, Obamacare.

And, that, is why Americans have serious doubts about his authenticity.

Is he from Hawaii? Heck, most of the time, he acts like he’s from Mars.

We’re All RAAACIIISTS Now

Progressives, on both sides of the aisle, are beginning to get worried about the outcome of the National Elections of 2012. Their hedge of protection, provided by their sycophants in the MSM, is beginning to be torn asunder.

In their desperation, they are recycling every dirty trick they know…and no one is falling for them.

Last night, Republican Congressman from Florida, and great American, Lt. Col. Allen West, held a Townhall Event in Fort Lauderdale. Immediately after he took the stage, several Progressive plants, stationed throughout the crowd began to jeer and interrupt the Congressman. West was forced to pause several times and then continue once the crowd calmed down. Eventually, police Police removed one of the hecklers from the event. When the paid operatives continued to disrupt the eventh, Lt. Col. West looked them right in the eyes and told them matter-of-factly:

You’re not going to intimidate me.

Guess who the Progressive plant was that police hauled out of there?  Per yahoo.com and dailycaller.com:

Local police arrested a woman who appears to be former liberal radio network Air America host Nicole Sandler while she was disrupting Rep. Allen West’s Tuesday town hall event in Fort Lauderdale and harassing the Congressman’s wife. According to video obtained by Florida blogger Javier Manjarres, known better online as The Shark Tank, police charged Sandler, who revealed her name on camera, with trespassing after they removed her from the event and she “continued her tirade and used an expletive to address a police officer.”

With Air America now defunct, Sandler hosts a self-described “progressive talk radio” show at RadioOrNot.com.

Evidently, Progressives are RAAACIIIST.

I say that, because that happens to be the latest dirty trick resurrected by Progressives in defense of President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm).  According to Progressives:

If you complain about his lousy performance as POTUS, you’re a Racist.

If you ask about his undocumented past, you’re a Racist.

If you bring up the fact that he’s gone golfing 70 times, so far, as POTUS, you’re a Racist.

To quote the late, great Yul Brenner:

Etcetera…etcetera…etcetera.

Man.  That’s getting old.

In a Progressive-leaning article posted yesterday on usatoday.com, the following surprising fact came out:

Still, in the USA TODAY (/Gallup) poll, only 38% of Americans say Obama definitely was born in the USA, and 18% say he probably was. Fifteen percent say he probably was born in another country, and 9% say he definitely was born elsewhere.

Views already are polarized about President Obama and some major Republican candidates for 2012.

Source: USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of 1,013 adults. April 20-23. Margin of error +/-4 percentage points.

Republicans are inclined to say the president was born abroad by 43%-35%.

That’s a whole lot of RAAACIIISTS.

Rushing to Scooter’s defense, CNN proclaims that there’s nothing to the “Birther” controversy:

A new CNN investigation reveals what most analysts have been saying since the “birther” controversy erupted during the 2008 presidential campaign: Obama was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961. Period.

Now.  Doesn’t that make you feel better to have a Progressive-run Cable News Channel, who are completely in the tank for Obama, tell you that ‘s nothing to see here?

Who led the investigation?  Lt. Frank Drebin?

This is all becoming very entertaining.  Pat Buchanan, token Conservative on MSNBC, is skeptical about Obama’s past:

I’ll tell you what. He went to Occidental College then suddenly he ends up at one of the best schools in the country, Columbia. He vaults from there to Harvard Law School. Suddenly he’s on the Harvard Law Review. Suddenly he’s the editor of Harvard Law Review. We’ve never seen any grades of the guy. These are legitimate questions.

Then Buchanan blasted Obama sycophant Chris Matthews by telling him:

You’re supposed to be a journalist.

And MSNBC is supposed to be a Cable News Channel, instead of a White House Propaganda Machine.

Obama’s new Press Stooge, err, Secretary, Jay Carney,  says that the questions about the President’s missing long-form Birth Certificate and undocumented background are a distraction:

It’s an unfortunate distraction from the issues that I think most Americans care about. Anybody who is watching this exchange, the West Wing of the White House would be appalled, or most Americans would be appalled.

PBS Host Tavis Smiley, who just happens to be black,joined the Progressive chorus, saying to MSNBC program host and Obama sycophant, Lawrence O’Donnell:

I said over a year ago that this was going to be, this presidential race, Lawrence, was going to be the ugliest, the nastiest, the most divisive, and the most racist in the history of this Republic.

After all, Obama is supposed to be our first Post-racial President, isn’t he?

Yeah, right.  From Glenn Beck’s theblaze.com:

The media stood and applauded yesterday when President Obama and his family went to church for Easter. Yesterday’s visit to Shiloh Baptist Church in D.C. shows again that Obama really is a man of faith, the reports seem to suggest.

But while the media rushed to report on the first family’s attendance of the predominately black congregation (and the family’s outfits), what it failed to mention are the views held by the church’s pastor. And while those views have not been delivered in the same fiery manner as Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, they sound eerily familiar.

What views are those? How about him saying in 2010 that the country is still racist, that racists get programs on Fox News, and that Rush Limbaugh is the new KKK.

James Parker at WRNO-FM in New Orleans did some digging yesterday about Shiloh Baptist’s pastor, Dr. Wallace Charles Smith. Not only did he find that Smith loves to preach on race, but he noticed Smith even infused race into yesterday’s Easter sermon:

One has to dig into the blog notes from various reporters to piece together the content from the sermon. Aside from the First Couple being honored guests, Pastor Wallace Charles Smith also announces that his 4 week old grandson is attending church for the first time, and a pool reporter noted an interesting perspective on the infant:

“[Pastor Smith] talked about how his baby grandson’s gurgling is actually “talking” because he is saying ‘I am here … they tried to write me off as 3/5 a person in the Constitution, but I am here right now … and is saying I am not going to let anybody from stopping me from being what God wants me to be.’”

Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone.




Ron Paul to Announce…Again.

Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, perennial winner of the CPAC Straw Poll,thanks to a stuffed ballot box, is scheduled to announce  his third Presidential Campaign today.

According to those around him, the 12-term Congressman will announce the formation of an exploratory presidential committee and a campaign leadership team.

His press conference takes in Iowa, a significant move due to the fact that it will be the first state to hold caucuses next year.

The 75-year-old Paul Paul, was the Libertarian Party candidate in 198, where he garnered less than one half a percent of the vote. He ran again in 2008, when he became known as the only Republican candidate calling for the end to the war in Iraq and for his “money bomb” fundraising strategy, which brought in millions of dollars from online donors in single-day pushes.

The Liberatarian received 10 percent of the vote in the Iowa caucuses and 8 percent in New Hampshire’s primary. He received 14 percent of the vote in the Nevada caucuses, finishing second, and eventually finished fourth in the Republican nominating process with 5.6 percent of the total vote.

Paul’s campaign book, The Revolution: A Manifesto reached No. 1 on The New York Times best-seller list in 2008.

Dr. Paul has some good ideas, and is actually pretty sharp about the money issues, such as the Fed.  But, on other issues, he appears removed for the thoughts and wishes of average Americans.

Here is an  excerpt from a speech given at a fundraiser in May 2007 in Austin, TX:

Today, the conventional wisdom is that we have to have a President to “run things” [crowd boos]. What I’d like to be is a president that doesn’t even have a goal of running your life, running the economy, or running the world. [load applause] I want to use all my strength and my conviction and my effort to restrain anybody who uses force illegally, that people not be allowed to try to run other people’s lives. And that will take a lot of doing, because a lot of people have become dependent on the government.

Another issue that I deal with; and now this is the real-world politics, because we might in a group like this agree, you know, “We don’t need the welfare, we don’t need this, leave us alone, and it would all be better,” and quite frankly I think it would be but we live in the real world, where we have taught generations after generations to be totally dependent on the government. So realistically, you can’t just shut off every government health program and whatever for the elderly.

But, there’s a very practical answer for this. Overseas, now, to run the American Empire, if you add up the DOD budget, if you add up the State Department budget, if you add up what it would cost to bring the military, to take care of the veterans, and on and on, do you know that it is nearing trillion dollars a year to operate overseas, while ignoring our borders? [crowd boos]

So why not we do this? If it’s at one trillion dollars, lets say that we could have a true national defense for, say, 700 billion dollars, I mean, save 700, spend 300 on defense, save 700, put a lot of that to the deficit, bring it home, deal with our borders, and make sure that the people that are very dependent, take care of them until we can wean them off. [applause]

I believe that almost every single problem that we’re facing today has come about because we haven’t been a stickler for the rule of law. We haven’t followed the Constitution, and that’s where we ought to begin. And the fact that the problems have been created by the lack of respect for the Constitution, the answers can be found there. They can be found there on foreign policy, on economic policy, property rights, personal liberties, all these things, monetary policy. Can you imagine how great a nation we’d have, if we didn’t have the Federal Reserve system printing all this money? [applause]

And, it goes without saying that when we have the proper sized government, and governments function in the proper manner, we certainly wouldn’t need the IRS or the 16th Amendment. [applause] Government has a role to play, but it should be minimal. The sole purpose of political activity, as far as I’m concerned, should be protection of individual liberty. [applause]

I think what’s happened in this country is we’ve lost respect for the rule of law, that we’ve lost respect and confidence in how liberty works. We’re always frightened that if the government doesn’t provide this safety net, there’s gonna be more poverty, no housing, and all the things that happened over the last several decades. But this is not necessary. It is so unnecessary. Freedom works! We’ve lost that confidence where we know and understand that it will work. But there is one admonition that John Adams gave, and he said, “For freedom really to work, you have to have a moral society.”

Except for the Paul’s isolationism streck voiced in that clip, there was some pretty good stuff in there, right?

Well,then there’s this speech, given on the floor of the house on January 9, 2009:

Statement on H Res 34, “Recognizing Israel’s right to defend itself against attacks from Gaza, Reaffirming the United States strong support for Israel, and supporting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process”

Madame Speaker, I strongly oppose H. Res. 34, which was rushed to the floor with almost no prior notice and without consideration by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The resolution clearly takes one side in a conflict that has nothing to do with the United States or US interests. I am concerned that the weapons currently being used by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza are made in America and paid for by American taxpayers. What will adopting this resolution do to the perception of the United States in the Muslim and Arab world? What kind of blowback might we see from this? What moral responsibility do we have for the violence in Israel and Gaza after having provided so much military support to one side?

As an opponent of all violence, I am appalled by the practice of lobbing homemade rockets into Israel from Gaza. I am only grateful that, because of the primitive nature of these weapons, there have been so few casualties among innocent Israelis. But I am also appalled by the longstanding Israeli blockade of Gaza — a cruel act of war — and the tremendous loss of life that has resulted from the latest Israeli attack that started last month.

There are now an estimated 700 dead Palestinians, most of whom are civilians. Many innocent children are among the dead. While the shooting of rockets into Israel is inexcusable, the violent actions of some people in Gaza does not justify killing Palestinians on this scale. Such collective punishment is immoral. At the very least, the US Congress should not be loudly proclaiming its support for the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza.

Madame Speaker, this resolution will do nothing to reduce the fighting and bloodshed in the Middle East. The resolution in fact will lead the US to become further involved in this conflict, promising “vigorous support and unwavering commitment to the welfare, security, and survival of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.” Is it really in the interest of the United States to guarantee the survival of any foreign country?

Only if you believe Genesis 12: 1-3, Dr. Paul, who, as someone who attends church, I know you’ve heard.