As the sun rose over America yesterday, a Monthly Jobs Report was issued that cast a shadow across our blessed land.

It was reported that only 18,000 jobs were added in the month of June, raising the reported Unemployment figure to 9.2 %.  Most economists had predicted that 100,000 jobs would be added.

This horrendous report arrived a day after Obama’s Senior Political Adviser, David Plouffe, said that

…people won’t vote in 2012 based on the unemployment rate.

Skippy, you and your boss, Scooter,  sure as all get out better hope that we don’t.

And , by the way, that’s easy for you to say, pinhead.  You have a job.

This report also arrives in the midst of a war between Obama and Congress over the raising the Debt Ceiling.  Obama has now decreed the arbitrary date of August 2nd for Congress to bow down to his wishes and raise the Debt Ceiling, so that he can put our nation further in debt.

Seeing his re-election campaign rapidly swirling down the toilet, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) went on national television yesterday morning, arriving 30 minutes late to a press conference where he did not answer any questions, but, instead, made the same economic response speech that he’s made over and over again, sounding like an automated campaign telephone call, as his economic policies continue to fail and Americans continue to suffer:

Good morning, everybody. Obviously, over the last couple of days, the debate here in Washington has been dominated by issues of debt limit, but what matters most to Americans, and what matters most to me as President, in the wake of the worst downturn in our lifetimes, is getting our economy on a sounder footing more broadly so the American people can have the security they deserve.

That’s funny.  Americans thought that what matters most to you is tee time.  Fore!

And that means getting back to a place where businesses consistently grow and are hiring, where new jobs and new opportunity are within reach, where middle-class families once again know the security and peace of mind they’ve felt slipping away for years now. And today’s job report confirms what most Americans already know: We still have a long way to go and a lot of work to do to give people the security and opportunity that they deserve.

Well, genius.  here’s an idea:  Drop the corporate tax rate and encourage companies to remain in America and provide jobs for Americans, not East Indians in a Call Center on the Bay of Bengal.

We’ve added more than 2 million new private sector jobs over the past 16 months, but the recession cost us more than 8 million. And that means that we still have a big hole to fill. Each new job that was created last month is good news for the people who are back at work, and for the families that they take care of, and for the communities that they’re a part of. But our economy as a whole just isn’t producing nearly enough jobs for everybody who’s looking.

It’s your economy, Scooter.  YOU OWN IT.

We’ve always known that we’d have ups and downs on our way back from this recession. And over the past few months, the economy has experienced some tough headwinds — from natural disasters, to spikes in gas prices, to state and local budget cuts that have cost tens of thousands of cops and firefighters and teachers their jobs. The problems in Greece and in Europe, along with uncertainty over whether the debt limit here in the United States will be raised, have also made businesses hesitant to invest more aggressively.

Not to mention the fact that we have an anti-American Business President in the White House.  How’s Mr. Soros doing, Scooter?

The economic challenges that we face weren’t created overnight, and they’re not going to be solved overnight. But the American people expect us to act on every single good idea that’s out there. I read letter after letter from folks hit hard by this economy. None of them ask for much. Some of them pour their guts out in these letters. And they want me to know that what they’re looking for is that we have done everything we can to make sure that they are rewarded when they’re living up to their responsibilities, when they’re doing right by their communities, when they’re playing by the rules. That’s what they’re looking for, and they feel like the rules have changed. They feel that leaders on Wall Street and in Washington –- and believe me, no party is exempt –- have let them down. And they wonder if their efforts will ever be reciprocated by their leaders.

Not as long as you’re staying at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  But, don’t worry, Scooter, the America people plan to have the moving van on the Front Lawn in January of 2013.

They also make sure to point out how much pride and faith they have in this country; that as hard as things might be today, they are positive that things can get better. And I believe that we can make things better. How we respond is up to us. There are a few things that we can and should do, right now, to redouble our efforts on behalf of the American people.

If you would have been doing something positive in the last 2 1/2 years, instead of destroying this country, we wouldn’t be in this situation.

Let me give you some examples. Right now, there are over a million construction workers out of work after the housing boom went bust, just as a lot of America needs rebuilding. We connect the two by investing in rebuilding our roads and our bridges and our railways and our infrastructure. And we could put back to work right now some of those construction workers that lost their jobs when the housing market went bust. Right now, we can give our entrepreneurs the chance to let their job-creating ideas move to market faster by streamlining our patent process. That’s pending before Congress right now. That should pass.

You already tried to put people in nice houses that couldn’t afford it.  That’s what led to the Housing Bust in the first place.  If you have any questions, ask Barney Frank.

Today, Congress can advance trade agreements that will help businesses sell more American-made goods and services to Asia and South America, supporting thousands of jobs here at home. That could be done right now. Right now, there are a lot of middle-class families who sure could use the security of knowing that the tax cut that I signed in December to help boost the economy and put a thousand dollars in the pockets of American families, that that’s still going to be around next year. That’s a change that we could make right now.

Tax cut?  I thought you wanted to end the Bush Tax Cuts?  [Vinne Barbarino impression] I’m so confused.

There are bills and trade agreements before Congress right now that could get all these ideas moving. All of them have bipartisan support. All of them could pass immediately. And I urge Congress not to wait. The American people need us to do everything we can to help strengthen this economy and make sure that we are producing more jobs.

Then, get out of the way and let the American people work.

Also to put our economy on a stronger and sounder footing for the future, we’ve got to rein in our deficits and get the government to live within its means, while still making the investments that help put people to work right now and make us more competitive in the future. As I mentioned, we’ve had some good meetings. We had a good meeting here yesterday with leaders of both parties in Congress. And while real differences remain, we agreed to work through the weekend and meet back here on Sunday.

Speaker John Boehner:  “This is a Rubik’s cube that we have not worked out yet.” He stretched his arms wide to illustrate the gulf separating the two sides.

The sooner we get this done, the sooner that the markets know that the debt limit ceiling will have been raised and that we have a serious plan to deal with our debt and deficit, the sooner that we give our businesses the certainty that they will need in order to make additional investments to grow and hire and will provide more confidence to the rest of the world as well, so that they are committed to investing in America.

And then, you’re going to tax the stew out of them.  Brilliant.

Now, the American people sent us here to do the right thing not for party, but for country. So we’re going to work together to get things done on their behalf. That’s the least that they should expect of us, not the most that they should expect of us. I’m ready to roll up my sleeves over the next several weeks and next several months. I know that people in both parties are ready to do that as well. And we will keep you updated on the progress that we’re making on these debt limit talks over the next several days. Thank you.

No, thank you, Mr. President.  Americans needed a laugh after that horrendous Jobs Report…right before they cried.

Pass the Tylenol.

If you read the popularity polls, and/or listen to all of the “smart people” (i.e., the self-proclaimed and MSM-nominated political pundits) and the Elite of both political parties, Mitt Romney is the man to beat for the Republican Nomination for President of the United States.

Romney is presently in first place in fund-raising in all the polls which the MSM chooses to print.

Republican strategist Doug Heye is certainly singing his praises:

Certainly that is where Mitt Romney is now. He’s running really a strategy as a front-runner. He’s not engaging the other candidates. He’s focusing his attacks on Barack Obama. I think that’s smart

Smoke and Mirrors.

Americans in the Heartland do not like Romney. They don’t trust him.

Unfortunately for the guy in the white dress shirt, driving the pick-up truck, the Republican party is not just made up of Fiscal Conservatives (i.e., Moderates).

In order for Romney to grab the brass ring, he will have to earn the trust and admiration of Christian Conservatives and the Tea Party movement.

According to Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, a Tea Party organization:

My prediction would be is that somebody is going to fill that vacuum, the true fiscal conservative in the race.

Kibbe said that Tea Party activists are not just staring out their windows, waiting on the perfect candidate:

We’re not waiting. We’re shopping.

Last month, FreedomWorks held a planning session where 150 participants were asked to choose a candidate to run for president in 2012. Only one Tea Party activist at the meeting chose Romney.

How come? Simple. Americans know the successor to Bob Dole and John McCain when they see him.

Conservatives will never embrace the socialized state medical plan known as RomneyCare. And, instead of distancing himself from it, Romney has defended it, over and over again.

Per Kibbe:

If anything, he has doubled down (on health care).

Now, if you listen to some Republicans, who identify themselves as Evangelical, they’re still in mourning that Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is not running:

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, proclaimed:

No question Mitt Romney benefited from Huckabee not running. That left a huge vacuum.

Perkins says that while Romney is appealing to many social conservatives, there are still concerns over the contradictions (flip-flops) in his political history.

It’s fair to say there are those who see his record when he was governor of Massachusetts as not consistent with the platform that he ran on four years ago.

A lot of Reagan Conservatives throughout America’s Heartland are coming down with a case of deja vu:

It seems to be 2008…all over again.

Romney leads the field with 35% of the vote, in the latest WMUR poll in New Hampshire.

If you go back to a poll conducted by WMUR in July 2007, Romney was way out in front with 34%.

That is why, to average, God-revering, freedom-loving Americans, here in the Heartland, it appears to us that the Grand Old Party is trying to pull a fast one…again.

The overwhelming majority of Americans want a Reagan Conservative in the White House…period.  The want a president who is strong in all three areas which define a Reagan Conservative:  Fiscal Conservatism, Social Conservatism, and National Defense.

Lately, on the Internet and around the water cooler, there seems to be a push by a vocal (and, at times, an I’m-smarter-that-you-Christianists) minority, who are claiming that all the perfect presidential candidate for the GOP needs to be is a Fiscal Conservative (i.e., Moderate/Libertarian/or just downright Liberal).

The future existence of the United States of America cannot sit on a one-legged stool.

President Ronald Reagan spoke eloquently about what has to be done, and what it will take to make it happen, at his first Inauguration on January 20, 1981:

We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow. And let there be no misunderstanding–we are going to begin to act, beginning today.

The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we, as Americans, have the capacity now, as we have had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem.

From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price.

We hear much of special interest groups. Our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and our factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we are sick–professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, “We the people,” this breed called Americans.

…Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today’s world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors.

I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day, and for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each Inauguration Day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.

…Directly in front of me, the monument to a monumental man: George Washington, father of our country. A man of humility who came to greatness reluctantly. He led America out of revolutionary victory into infant nationhood. Off to one side, the stately memorial to Thomas Jefferson. The Declaration of Independence flames with his eloquence.

And then beyond the Reflecting Pool the dignified columns of the Lincoln Memorial. Whoever would understand in his heart the meaning of America will find it in the life of Abraham Lincoln.

Beyond those monuments to heroism is the Potomac River, and on the far shore the sloping hills of Arlington National Cemetery with its row on row of simple white markers bearing crosses or Stars of David. They add up to only a tiny fraction of the price that has been paid for our freedom.

Each one of those markers is a monument to the kinds of hero I spoke of earlier. Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam.

Under one such marker lies a young man–Martin Treptow–who left his job in a small town barbershop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division. There, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire.

We are told that on his body was found a diary. On the flyleaf under the heading, “My Pledge,” he had written these words: “America must win this war. Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone.”

The crisis we are facing today does not require of us the kind of sacrifice that Martin Treptow and so many thousands of others were called upon to make. It does require, however, our best effort, and our willingness to believe in ourselves and to believe in our capacity to perform great deeds; to believe that together, with God’s help, we can and will resolve the problems which now confront us.

And, after all, why shouldn’t we believe that? We are Americans. God bless you, and thank you.

No.  Thank you, Mr. President.

Yesterday, President Barack Hussein Obama, (You remember him, the guy was supposed to make the oceans rise and fall if he got elected ?) held a Twitter Town Hall, using the White House’s Twitter account.

Of course, this was nothing more than an effort by the rapidly failing POTUS to use the 96 character format in an effort to reach out to the young and impressionable and show them that he is still cool and how he just looooves using the new social media.

Back in 2008, Obama’s campaign was at the forefront of the new technology, through his use of the Internet as a campaign tool in the presidential election, and was lauded and envied by politicians and pundits from both sides of the aisle for its digital strategy. The campaign used Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube before campaigns made the social networking sites an integral part of their campaign strategy.

The Obama Braintrust used text messaging to reach millions of supporters to organize rallies and to raise money (Including all those anonymous donations from overseas…but I digress.). The campaign even started its own social network, through its website, Organizing for America, that allowed people to join the idol worship and commune with other simple, err, like-minded Obama supporters.

The Republicans eventually jumped on the Social Network Bandwagon. All of the major major presidential candidates are very active on all the social networks.

Even old fossil Newt Gingrich has joined up on Google+, which was only released last week and is still not open to the general public.

According to the “so-called” Social Networking Experts, our boy Scooter barely scratched the surface of the Tweeting possibilities yesterday.

Make no mistake. This was a political event. Among the eight “curators” selected by the boss of Twitter (a huge Obama supporter) to help find questions to ask the president, one was from Iowa and one was from New Hampshire.

In other words, all of the questions were screened by Liberals.

When a tweet of House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio did not display correctly on the screen, Obama took a moment to poke fun at him, saying:

John obviously needs to work on his typing skills.

Of course, Scooter’s Henny Youngman impression, provoked spontaneous laughter from the live audience.

White House officials said that the point of yesterday’s event, was to give people in all corners of the country a chance to ask the president a question. The problem was with 169,395 tweets that included the #AskObama hashtag, you were more likely to have your questions answered by attending one of Obama’s staged pep rallies, err, town halls and raising your hand to ask a question..

The White House does not seem to understand why “Tweeting” is so popular. Their effort yesterday went against the basic principles of Twitter. It was uni-directional. Twitter is omni-directional, which is the point of the whole silly thing.

Scooter cheated. Not only did the President not type in his answers, they were much longer than the 140 characters Twitterers use to communicate.

While the president is making a big show out of using the new technologies, he’s not using them correctly.

He’s cheating, in order to get around the rules.

What is it about Liberals and cheating?

Have you heard about the cheating parties in Atlanta, GA Public Schools System?

Per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Across Atlanta Public Schools, staff worked feverishly in secret to transform testing failures into successes.

Teachers and principals erased and corrected mistakes on students’ answer sheets.

Area superintendents silenced whistle-blowers and rewarded subordinates who met academic goals by any means possible.

Superintendent Beverly Hall and her top aides ignored, buried, destroyed or altered complaints about misconduct, claimed ignorance of wrongdoing and accused naysayers of failing to believe in poor children’s ability to learn.

For years — as long as a decade — this was how the Atlanta school district produced gains on state curriculum tests. The scores soared so dramatically they brought national acclaim to Hall and the district, according to an investigative report released Tuesday by Gov. Nathan Deal.

In the report, the governor’s special investigators describe an enterprise where unethical — and potentially illegal — behavior pierced every level of the bureaucracy, allowing district staff to reap praise and sometimes bonuses by misleading the children, parents and community they served.

The report accuses top district officials of wrongdoing that could lead to criminal charges in some cases.

The decision whether to prosecute lies with three district attorneys — in Fulton, DeKalb and Douglas counties — who will consider potential offenses in their jurisdictions.

Back in February of 2009, the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) named Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall the 2009 National Superintendent of the Year, the top professional honor for a K-12 school administrator.

Also in 2009, Dr. Hall was  named Georgia Superintendent of the Year in December by the Georgia School Superintendents Association and one of the 100 most influential Georgians by Georgia Trend magazine.

AASA Executive Director Dan Domenech proclaimed, in announcing the award:

Beverly Hall is an outstanding superintendent whose leadership has turned Atlanta into a model of urban school reform. Throughout her long and successful tenure in Atlanta, Hall has accomplished significant gains in student achievement. She has demonstrated a commitment to setting high standards for students and school personnel, working collaboratively with the school board, and meeting the needs of the local community. AASA is proud to bestow this national honor on Hall.

Hall was the first Georgia superintendent to be named National Superintendent of the Year.

I wonder if they’ll rescind her awards due to this scandal?  I doubt it. 

Liberals avoid taking responsibility for their actions like Lindsey Lohan avoids sobriety.

What is it about Liberals and cheating?

They know that they can get by with it…at least in the short run.

 

 

 

 

 

America’s favorite flip-flopper, Republican Mitt Romney, campaigning for the nomination as presidential candidate for his political party, has led all the other declared candidates in raising campaign funds during the Second Quarter of 2011.

Romney’s campaign has reported that he raised $15 million to $20 million through June 30, an amount which is athree times as much as other Republican candidates said they have collected.

What is very interesting about this, is the fact that Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin is sitting in second place in popularity, and she has not even declared…yet.

Among the other candidates, perennial also-ran, U.S. Representative Ron Paul of Texas, has reported on his website that he had hauled in more than $4.5 million from the faithful.

The spokesman for Mr. Excitement, Tim Pawlenty, Alex Conant, said the former Minnesota governor raised around $4.2 million.

And the Main Stream Media and Obama Campaign’s favorite Republican (?), former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman’s campaign has reported a haul of $4.1 million, including money from the candidate. The campaign would not disclose the amount, but did say that it was less than half of the total.

Huntsman served as U.S. ambassador to China under President Barack Obama until he quit that post earlier this year.

Candidates who did not provide donation totals after the second-quarter fundraising period, which ended June 30, include Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia and former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania.

Bachmann reported $2.9 million in her congressional campaign account as of March 31st, available to be used for a presidential run.

Gingrich’s two top fundraising aides got the heck out of Dodge on June 21 amid reports that the campaign was in debt. They joined more than a dozen campaign staff members who had resigned earlier last month.

Detailed disclosures from the campaigns have to be in to the Federal Election Commission by July 15.

Per opensecrets.org:

Fund-raising by presidential primary campaigns through the second quarter is expected to be far below totals from the same time last election cycle, the Washington Post reported.

[As I reported earlier] People close to Republican candidate Mitt Romney say the campaign won’t likely be reporting more than $20 million in contributions this quarter, despite a reported $10 million haul in a single day. In comparison, Romney, who also ran for president last election, had already raised about $23 million by the end of the first quarter in 2007, then reported more than $44 million by the end of the second quarter. The 2008 primary campaign, however, hit its stride much earlier.

Earlier this year, the Romney campaign cited $50 million as a potential fund-raising goal through the end of the second quarter.

A lag in fund-raising could be the cause of multiple factors, chief among them being an unsettled Republican field that now includes 10 candidates and counting.

Many of the candidates do not have fund-raising data filed for the first quarter, as they entered the race after the first quarter filing deadline. The second quarter fund-raising period ended Thursday, and candidates must file a new round of reports with the Federal Election Commission by July 15. The data will be available on OpenSecrets.org then, too.

For now, OpenSecrets Blog takes a look at where the major presidential candidates were at following the second quarter of 2007:

Then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) raised $60 million through the second quarter of 2007. He has set the same goal for this election cycle;

Then-Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) topped Obama at $63 million;

Ex-Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) lagged behind his Democratic competitors at $23 million;

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani sat behind Romney at $35.6 million;

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had raised more than $25 million

Why are the Republican candidates’ fund-raising totals down from candidates in years past?  Like me, you can probably think of  a couple of reasons right off the bat.

First, most Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck.  Those Americans who could give to political campaigns in the past, are unable to right now, thanks to President Barack Hussein Obama’s economy.

Secondly, American’s are scared that the Republicans, in all of their Elitist glory, are going to rig the nomination, so that we’re stuck with another Bob Dole or Juan (McAmnesty) McLame.

Americans want the Republican nominee to be a Reagan Conservative. 

Americans want somebody who does not question whether the Constitution is relevant or not.

Americans want a candidate who cares more about America’s safety than about negotiating with those who want to murder us, or about placating the United Nations.

They want a candidate who actually gives a hoot ‘n holler that 20% of Americans are unemployed or have just given up…someone who cares that one-sixth of our nation has to rely on the Federal Government to feed their families.

Americans want a candidate who is not ashamed to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance…incluing the words One Nation UNDER GOD…Indivisible.

They want a candidate who loves and honors, as much as we do, our fighting men and women, who make our freedom possible.

Americans want a candidate who will fight for the rights of every American…including the unborn.

And, finally, Americans want a candidate who loves this country, and will not apologize for it to every two-bit, tinhorn despot on God’s green planet.

Perhaps, that’s why the Arctic Fox is sitting in second place, and she has not even declared her candidacy.

Time will tell.

Note from KJ:  As was correctly pointed out to me, there have been no numbers given out on Gov. Palin’s campaign, yet.  Mainly, because she has not declared…yet.

As I was contemplating what to write about on this 4th of July, I came upon an article titled, Down on the Fourth of July:  The United States of Gloom,  on the London Daily Telegraph’s website, written by Tony Harnden, their U.S. Editor.  Mr. Harnden presents a synopsis of the state of our country and comes to the following conclusion:

On this day in 1776 a group of 13 colonies broke away to found a new nation free to govern itself as it saw fit, pledging that each citizen would have the unalienable right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. A nation, as Americans are apt to declare without equivocation, which became the greatest on the face of the earth.

That’s the good news. On the flip side, however, a country whose hallmark has always been a sense of irrepressible optimism is in the grip of unprecedented uncertainty and self-doubt.

With the United States mired in three foreign wars, beaten down by an economy that shows few signs of emerging from deep recession and deeply disillusioned with President Barack Obama, his Republican challengers and Congress, the mood is dark.

The last comparable Fourth of July was probably in 1980, when there was a recession, skyrocketing petrol prices and an Iranian hostage crisis, with 53 Americans being held in Tehran.

…The 2010 mid-term elections showed that the Tea Party movement, drawing its small-government, low-tax inspiration from the revolutionaries who overthrew the British, was a phenomenon that could turn American politics upside down.

Previous elections had been about choosing the lesser of two evils but 2010 was about throwing the bums out. Luntz, a Republican, predicts that 2012 will be a “none of the above” contest. What is needed above all is optimism: it is a prerequisite for the risk-taking needed to invest and start new businesses. Its absence could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy as belief in American decline helps ensure that the halcyon years are indeed in the past.

The 1980 election was won by Ronald Reagan with his “Morning in America” message. Today, a 10ft bronze statue of Reagan will be unveiled outside the US Embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square, which, in another sign of the times, is due to move to Battersea next year because of concerns about its vulnerability to terrorists. Thus far, there is no sign of a new Reagan emerging.

More worryingly, the optimism he embraced and came to personify is all but absent in America this Fourth of July.

Pretty depressing, huh?

Mr. Harden does have a point.

Yes,  America’s populace is struggling through the worst economic situation our country has seen since the Great Depression.  Approximately 20% of our countrymen are unemployed, underemployed, or have just plain given up.  One-sixth of our nation has to rely on assistance from our government just to have food on the table, while remaining under the governance of a president who worships a Far Left political ideology steeped in the redistribution of wealth teachings of Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky.

Americans have watched, feeling helpless, as he and his self-centered minions in Congress took our tax dollars and spent all of it and then some, as if there was no tomorrow, leaving our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren with a debt that this shining city on a hill may never recover from.

We’ve watched, with our mouths hanging wide open, as the President of the United States and his State Department, have reached out to embrace the very barbarians that want to murder each and every one of us, while at the same time, criticizing and alienating our closest allies.

And, on this 4th of July, in the year of our Lord 2011, America’s Best and Brightest are involved in not one, but three Theaters of War:  Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and they are carrying out drone attacks in Yemen.

However, I do not subscribe to Mr. Harnden’s assessment of gloom and doom.  Rather, I stand with this man who embodied the American Spirit that is beginning to awaken across this blessed land.

Per military.com:

Gen. Anthony Clement McAuliffe is best remembered for uttering a single word — no mean feat, considering that even the shortest Bible verse has two. Commanding the U.S. Army’s beleaguered and surrounded 101st Airborne Division during World War II’s Battle of the Bulge, McAuliffe received a German surrender ultimatum. “Nuts!” he replied, and became a lasting symbol of American courage and determination under fire.

A 1918 West Point graduate, McAuliffe held various field artillery positions before World War II. On the eve of D-Day, McAuliffe jumped with the first wave as a commander of division artillery, although he had never received formal parachute training.

In December 1944, during the siege of Bastogne, Belgium, McAuliffe was acting commander of the 101st in Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor’s absence. The Americans had been holding the Belgian town “at all costs,” and on Dec. 22, Gen. McAuliffe received the encouraging news that the 4th Armored Division was beginning its drive north to relieve the 101st. Later that morning, members of the division’s glider regiment saw four Germans coming up the road carrying a white flag. Everyone hoped they were offering surrender. Instead, they presented two pages demanding the Americans’ surrender: “To the USA Commander of the encircled town of Bastogne. . .There is only one possibility. . .the honorable surrender of the encircled town.”

McAuliffe glanced at the message and said, “Aw, nuts!” When he told his commanders he didn’t know what answer to send, Lt. Col. Harry Kinnard said ‘That first crack you made would be hard to beat, General.” Everyone laughed as a sergeant typed up the succinct response: “To the German Commander: Nuts! The American Commander.”

Between this stoic reply, Patton’s troops from the south, and a change in the weather that allowed air reinforcement the following day, the 101st was able to hold Bastogne. Their victory resulted in the first full-Division Presidential Distinguished Unit Citation.

McAuliffe’s actions at Bastogne helped assure the final defeat of the Germans. Gen. McAuliffe continued to serve on active duty, including assignments as Head of the Army Chemical Corps, Commander, 7th Army, and Commander-In-Chief of the U.S. Army, Europe, until his 1956 retirement. He died in Washington, D.C. in 1975 and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

In the opinion of this 52-year-old, sitting in the Northwest corner of the Magnolia State in America’s Heartland, Mr. Harden has underestimated the American Spirit, just as King George and the British Aristocracy did, so many years ago.

As our enemies have discovered since the birth of our nation, Americans will fight for our freedom.  And we shall prove it again, in November of 2012.

God Bless America.

This 4th of July Weekend, as our nation celebrates its freedom, there seems to be a spirit of revolution in the air.

It’s becoming more and more noticeable. Americans are fed up and just not going to take it anymore.

For an example, look at this weekend’s box office receipts:

Larry Crowne, a romantic comedy starring Tom Hanks and Julie Roberts is bombing bigger than Hiroshima. The stinker, produced, directed, and co-written by Hanks, as reported by deadline.com…

…finished a dismal #4 with just a $13.5M three-day weekend and $16.7M four-day holiday from a wide release into 2,972 theaters. That’s a very disappointing start for two stars who individually should be able to open a new pic to at least $20M of North American grosses for a three-day weekend and presumably more when paired. (Their last film together, 2007’s Charlie Wilson’s War, also bombed.) Their latest pic received a ‘B’ Cinemascore, but just ‘C+’ from audience members under age 35. Good thing Universal was only distributing, and good thing the film’s negative cost was only $30M fully financed by Vendome Pictures. But the marketing cost was at least another $30M high with a heavy rotation of expensive TV ads. This is the third movie with major stars to disappoint at the box office this summer following Ryan Reynolds in Green Lantern and Jim Carrey in Mr. Popper’s Penguins.

…Even though the two stars did any and all publicity for it, this is a bigger repudiation for Hanks who went on a rare 5-city personal appearance tour, his first since promoting Saving Private Ryan, and met with regional press in every one of those cities. He and Roberts appeared on one of Oprah’s final shows together in early May, which re-aired this week, but Hanks also personally co-hosted Oprah’s final two blowout shows personally.

…Right now total U.S. and Canadian moviegoing for the holiday looks like $230M, which is trailing last year’s $250M but still the 2nd biggest Fourth Of July long weekend ever.

Why is this movie bombing so spectacularly? Why are Americans staying away from the movies?

Well, the first reason is, thanks to Obama’s Economy, no one can afford to go.

Secondly, why should hard-working Americans support a bunch of Hollywood Liberal Elitists who think we’re all ignorant?

For example, from foxnews.com, 1/16/2009:

Tom Hanks, an Executive Producer for HBO’s controversial polygamist series “Big Love,” made his feelings toward the Mormon Church’s involvement in California’s Prop 8 (which prohibits gay marriage) very clear at the show’s premiere party on Wednesday night.

“The truth is this takes place in Utah, the truth is these people are some bizarre offshoot of the Mormon Church, and the truth is a lot of Mormons gave a lot of money to the church to make Prop-8 happen,” he told Tarts. “There are a lot of people who feel that is un-American, and I am one of them. I do not like to see any discrimination codified on any piece of paper, any of the 50 states in America, but here’s what happens now. A little bit of light can be shed, and people can see who’s responsible, and that can motivate the next go around of our self correcting Constitution, and hopefully we can move forward instead of backwards. So let’s have faith in not only the American, but Californian, constitutional process.”

When informed of the “Forrest Gump” star’s comments, Kim Farah, a spokesperson for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, told Tarts, “Expressing an opinion in a free and democratic society is as American as it gets.”

Bill McKeever, a rep for the Mormonism Research Ministry, added, “Personally, I find it un-American to tell people that they shouldn’t vote their conscience. Hanks said he doesn’t ‘like to see any discrimination codified on any piece of paper.’ Considering that just about every law discriminates in some form or another, makes this comment ridiculous. Hanks’ comment shows that he very much believes in discriminating against people with whom he disagrees. I may not agree with Mormon theology, but I certainly defend their right to express their opinion.”

Then, in March of 2010, Hanks made some decidedly anti-American remarks that got him in hot water with our WWII veterans and patriotic Americans everywhere:

Per cbsnews.com:

In an interview with Time magazine, Hanks, who starred in the World War II drama “Saving Private Ryan” and produced both “Band of Brothers” and the current HBO series “The Pacific” with Stephen Spielberg, compared the Japanese conflict to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods,” he told the magazine. “They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different. Does that sound familiar, by any chance, to what’s going on today?”

Hanks brought up the comparison again while promoting “The Pacific” during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

“‘The Pacific’ is coming out now, where it represents a war that was of racism and terror. And where it seemed as though the only way to complete one of these battles on one of these small specks of rock in the middle of nowhere was to – I’m sorry – kill them all. And, um, does that sound familiar to what we might be going through today? So it’s– is there anything new under the sun? It seems as if history keeps repeating itself.”

Well, Tom Hanks got one thing right.  History is repeating itself.  A Revolution is brewing…a Conservative one.

The administration of United States President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) has formally re-established diplomatic ties with the horde of barbarians known as Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.

An anonymous senior government official told Reuters News that:

The political landscape in Egypt has changed, and is changing … it is in our interests to engage with all of the parties that are competing for parliament or the presidency.

The Muslim Brotherhood has been rising in power in Egypt since the departure of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Evidently, Obama and his State Department have decided that a relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood would be in the U.S. government’s best interest.

According to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, speaking in a press conference on Thursday morning, the U.S. has had “limited contact” with the Muslim Brotherhood:

We believe, given the changing political landscape in Egypt, that it is in the interests of the United States to engage with all parties that are peaceful and committed to nonviolence that intend to compete for the parliament and the presidency.

The Obama administration attempted to explain their position further in an e-mail to Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi of The Israel Project, per the website, jewishjournal.com:

It’s important to remember that the Muslim Brotherhood is neither a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization nor designated under various counterterrorism executive orders or proclamations,” Danielle Borrin, the White House liaison to Jewish groups, wrote Thursday to Mizrahi, the founder of The Israel Project. “There is no legal bar for such meetings. The State Department is continuing the approach of limited contact with the Muslim Brotherhood that has existed since 2006.”

Mizrahi had e-mailed Borrin earlier in the day asking about administration contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood, which is affiliated with Hamas, the terrorist group controlling the Gaza Strip, and opposes the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace accords.

The Israel Project was among a number of Jewish groups and Republicans in Congress who had pressed the Obama administration to cut off the Muslim Brotherhood in the aftermath of the revolution that in January swept from power Egypt’s pro-American dictatorship.

Borrin said such engagement was consistent with a policy of reaching out to all parties participating in the effort to launch a democracy in Egypt.

“The political landscape in Egypt is continuing to change, and it is in our interests to engage with all of the parties that are competing for parliament or the presidency,” she wrote to Mizrahi.

So, just who is this “politically conservative” (according to the WH) group that our government is courting?

Per David Horowitz’s discoverthenetworks.org:

Founded in 1928 by the Egyptian schoolteacher/activist Hasan al-Banna (a devout admirer of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis), the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) — a Sunni entity — is one of the oldest, largest and most influential Islamist organizations in the world. While Egypt historically has been the center of the Brotherhood’s operations, the group today is active in more than 70 countries (some estimates range as high as 100+). Islam expert Robert Spencer has called MB “the parent organization of Hamas and al Qaeda.” In 2003, Richard Clarke – the chief counterterrorism advisor on the U.S. National Security Council during both the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations – told a Senate committee that Hamas, al Qaeda, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad were all “descendants of the membership and ideology of the Muslim Brothers.”

MB was established in accordance with al-Banna’s proclamation that Islam should be “given hegemony over all matters of life.” Toward that end, the Brotherhood seeks to establish an Islamic caliphate, or kingdom — first spanning all of the present-day Muslim world, and eventually the entire globe. The organization further aspires to dismantle all non-Islamic governments wherever they currently exist, and to make Islamic Law (Shari’a) the sole basis of jurisprudence everywhere on earth. This purpose is encapsulated in the Brotherhood’s militant credo: “God is our objective, the Koran is our Constitution, the Prophet is our leader, struggle [jihad] is our way, and death for the sake of God is the highest of our aspirations.”

Consistent with the foregoing credo, MB since its founding has supported the use of armed struggle, or jihad, against non-Muslim “infidels.” As al-Banna himself wrote: “Jihad is an obligation from Allah on every Muslim and cannot be ignored nor evaded.” Added al-Banna: “It is the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.”

…In January 2011, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s hold on power was threatened by massive swarms of protesters rioting in the streets of Cairo and Alexandria to express their opposition to his government. There was much speculation that the Muslim Brotherhood stood a strong chance of filling the power vacuum that Mubarak would leave behind if he were to step down from the presidency. In a television interview, MB deputy leader Rashad al-Bayoumi declared:

“After President Mubarak steps down and a provisional government is formed, there is a need to dissolve the [1979] peace treaty with Israel.”

In early February, Muhammad Ghannem, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, told the Iranian news network Al-Alam that “the people [of Egypt] should be prepared for war against Israel,” emphasizing that “the Egyptian people are prepared for anything to get rid of this regime.” That objective was entirely consistent with former MB Supreme Guide Muhammad Mahdi Othman Akef’s 2007 assertion that his organization had never recognized Israel and never would: “Our lexicon does not include anything called ‘Israel.’ The [only thing] we acknowledge is the existence of Zionist gangs that have occupied Arab lands and deported the residents. If they want to live among us, it will have to be as [residents of] Palestine.”

And our nation’s leadership is trying to cozy up to these thugs? 

To borrow from the vocabulary of America’s greatest ally, whom our own government in now turning against: 

What a bunch of schmucks.

 

Everyone remembers the story of the vainglorious ruler who was conned into buying a set of invisible robes from a conman posing as a tailor, right?

The Emperor proudly paraded down the main street of his kingdom, awash in his own glory and righteousness, until a little boy innocently announced what everybody else was afraid to say:

The Emperor has no clothes!

Well, yesterday, that fairy tale come to life before the eyes of the limited audience of the cable news channel, MSNBC, the darling of Liberals and the present administration.

Mark Halperin of Time magazine was the unwitting truth-teller in this present-day adaption of the classic fairy tale.

Per politico.com:

The incident took place during the “Morning Joe” show, when host Joe Scarborough asked Halperin what he thought of Obama’s press conference and Halperin questioned whether the seven-second delay was in effect so he could give his real opinion — apparently thinking it would be bleeped out before hitting the air. Scarborough told Halperin to go for it because they would use the delay to prevent whatever he said from being broadcast. “You fall down, I’m going to catch you,” Scarborough told Halperin.

At that point, Halperin said he thought Obama had been “kind of a dick.” Scarborough then expressed amazement that Halperin had actually said that and told him he had only been joking about using the seven-second delay.

“Delay that. Delay that. What are you doing? I can’t believe … don’t do that. Did we delay that?” Scarborough said.

“I was just joking,” Scarborough said to Halperin.

“Catch me now, I’m falling,” Halperin responded.

Just minutes later, Halperin quickly apologized on the air to the president and viewers for his choice of words. “Joking aside, this is an absolute apology. I shouldn’t have said it. I apologize to the president and the viewers who heard me say that,” Halperin said.

“We’re going to have a meeting after the show,” Scarborough said.

According to Scarborough, there had been a mishap with the seven-second delay button — a new executive producer apparently didn’t know how it worked. “You are supposed to know how to do the job,” Scarborough said of his producer. “I would tell you what I think of him, but he doesn’t know what button to push.”

Later in the show, Halperin again apologized, saying, “I can’t explain why I did it. It’s inappropriate, disrespectful. I’ve already apologized, and I will again to the president. I’m sorry, I’m sorry to the viewers …It is disrespectful, what I said was disrespectful to the president and the office, but it also lowers our discourse

The administration immediately called their loyal propaganda warriors at MSNBC, angry that they had strayed from the Reservation.

Later yesterday, in his daily briefing, White House press secretary Jay Carney announced that he had been to one to call Mark Halperin’s bosses at MSNBC:

The comment that was made was inappropriate. It would be inappropriate to say that about either president of either party.

Carney claimed that he didn’t have a comment on what action the network took against Halperin. However, he told reporters that

on behalf of the White House, I expressed that sentiment to executives at the network.

A couple of hours after Carney’s daily press briefing, MSNBC issued the following statement:

Mark Halperin’s comments this morning were completely inappropriate and unacceptable. We apologize to the president, the White House and all of our viewers. We strive for a high level of discourse, and comments like these have no place on our air. Therefore, Mark will be suspended indefinitely from his role as an analyst.

Halperin also issued a statement to go along with that of MSNBC, saying:

I completely agree with everything in MSNBC’s statement about my remark. I believe that the step they are taking in response is totally appropriate. Again, I want to offer a heartfelt and profound apology to the president, to my MSNBC colleagues and to the viewers. My remark was unacceptable, and I deeply regret it.

And, to put a cherry of top of this cake of apologies to the Emperor…err..I mean the president…Time issued a statement later Thursday, labeling Halperin’s comments inappropriate and in no way reflective of Time’s views.

Time magazine did not suspend Halperin but, instead announced:

We have issued a warning to him that such behavior is unacceptable” and noted that he had “appropriately” apologized.

Here’s the video, presented so that you might decided for yourselves if a suspension was warranted.

Halperin’s suspension from MSNBC is the third in the last year for the news channel.  He joins the recently fired Keith Olbermann and present, unwatched program host Ed Schultz on their Wall of Shame.

Granted, the playground epithet that Halperin used to described Obama was rude and unseemly, however accurate it was.  And the reaction of MSNBC and Time would be appropriate, if it wasn’t so hypocritical.

You see, they had no problem during the two terms of President George W. Bush, calling the former president everything but a child of God.  And now they’re going to demand a suspension and apology from Halperin for doing the same thing to their president?

All of this angst and apoplexy only serves to point out the biggest, and most important difference in the actions of Halperin and MSNBC, and the little boy in the original story, so many years ago:

He never apologized.

Hypocricy…thy name is Liberal.

 

 

 

 

Rule Number 12 in the Progressives’ Bible, Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky, states:

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

Yesterday, during a rare morning press conference, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) did just that. Continuing his administration’s ongoing domestic strategy of Class Warfare, he said America’s economoic problems all come down to the battle between taking care of America’s children and flying corporate jets.

Huh?

You read correctly.

Obama had to come up with something to try to win the ongoing battle with Congress concerning raising the Debt Ceiling. Evidently, this was the best that he and his staff could come up with.

You see, Obama, in pandering to his base, tried to make his argument as simplistic as possible, i.e.:

Democrats love kids – Republicans love corporate jets.

Democrats good – Republicans eeeevil.

This was a very obvious and somewhat pitiful attempt by Obama and his party to put the Republicans on the defensive after they have portrayed Obama as a tax-raiser and Big-Government Power Broker.

In reality, it appeared that the president was the one playing defense yesterday, and with good reason, per rasmussenreports.com:

A generic Republican candidate now holds a four-point lead over President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 election matchup. It’s the fifth week in a row that the GOP candidate has been ahead and the widest gap between the candidates to date.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds a generic Republican candidate earns support from 46% of Likely U.S. Voters, while the president picks up 42% of the vote. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and nine percent (9%) are undecided.

Last week, the Republican held a 45% to 43% advantage. In weekly surveys since the beginning of May, support for Obama has ranged from 42% to 45%, while the Republican has earned 43% to 46% of the vote.

During the press conference, Obama, in a pedantic tone,  brought up the death of Osama bin Laden, in order to poke at Congress to get back to work:

I’ve been doing Afghanistan, bin Laden and the Greek crisis. You stay here. Let’s get it done.

Yeah, boys, git ‘er done.  Meanwhile, Scooter, Moochelle, and the kids will be on vay-cay, per boston.com:

For the first family, their Vineyard haven is taking on the flavor of a summer White House. President Obama, for the third straight year, is planning to return to Martha’s Vineyard for vacation this summer, according to a White House official.

The Obamas are scheduled to spend seven to 10 days on the island in mid- to late August, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns.

Arrangements for White House staff members and Secret Service personnel who travel with the Obamas have been made.

But, I digress…

Continuing his theme of attacking republicans as eeeevil Corporate Fat Cats yesterday, Obama proclaimed:

If we do not have revenues, that means there are a bunch of kids out there who do not have college scholarships. [It] might compromise the National Weather Services. It means we might not be funding critical medical research. It means food inspection might be compromised. I’ve said to Republican leaders, You go talk to your constituents and ask them, ‘Are you willing to compromise your kids’ safety so some corporate-jet owner can get a tax break?’

Obama used the corporate jet attack at least 4 times before he even took a second question.

That’s pretty funny, considering this excerpt from the Associated Press from 2009:

Just a few months after lawmakers scolded auto executives for flying to Washington in private jets, Congress approved a tax break in the stimulus package to help businesses buy their own planes.

The incentive — first used to help plane makers recover from the 2001 terror attacks — sharply reduces the up front tax bill for companies who buy assets like business planes

Evidently, like Obama’s promises, the stimulus bill had an expiration date, also.

Obama’s rhetoric during yesterday’s presser was noticably sharper than it has been.

Normally, the former collegiate Constitutional Law Guest Lecturer and his handlers have been very careful to portray Obama as a amicable, middle-of-the-road leader, who just happens to be smarter than you and me.

For instance, when asked about New York’s new gay marriage law yesterday, he replied that it was a states-rights issue, saying:

Each community is going to be different. Each state is going to be different.

Regarding the ongoing budget and debt ceiling battle going on in Congress, Obama remarked:

The question now is, are we going to step up and get this done?

Call me naive. but my expectation is leaders are going to lead.

Obama’s problem, as a sitting president going into this campaign cycle, is one brought about by the following harsh reality: He has been president since January 2009. He owns this economy.

He knows it. His handlers know it. His political party knows it.

However, the American people are having to live with it.

Yesterday, President Barack Hussein Obama spoke at Alco Davenport Works, an aluminum factory in Bettendorf, Iowa. Before a captive crowd of factory workers, after years of apologizing for America’s mistakes to anybody who would listen, he’s turned into a nephew of Uncle Sam, during his re-election bid.

The Iowa visit was meant as a distraction from the recent surge in unemployment, which brought the jobless rate back up to 9.1 percent. The new numbers will be released on July 8th.

In his speech , Obama told the workers that innovation and adaptation will help the manufacturing sector and the entire U.S. economy rebound with more gusto. He also scolded a divided Washington to stop bickering and rally together like a team.

Pot…meet kettle.

Iowa being the home of the first presidential caucuses, Obama was sure to make an allusion to his re-election bid. Reminiscing about his win here in 2008, Obama said:

We’ve got some history together. And together we’re going to make some more history for years to come.

Make no mistake, Obama is under fire from all corners because of his horrible economic policy. Hope is diminishing and people don’t even have any change anymore.

The strategy of Obama and his advisers is to focus attention on American manufacturing as an example of American business making a comeback. That’s why he chose the setting of Alcoa Davenport Works. The aluminum for the wings of the presidential jet Air Force One.

According to the president, the plant has re-hired the workers it laid off during the recent recession and is eying an expansion ,and is an example of American resilience. Obama told the workers:

You had to up your game. And that’s what we’ve got to do as a country as a whole. I want the cars and planes and wind turbines of the future to bear the proud stamp that says ‘Made in America.’

The president said that the country has the workers, companies and industries to mount a stronger economic recovery:

We are still the United States of America.

The White House believes that an upsurge in the U.S. manufacturing industry will create jobs and keep America competitive in the global marketplace. So, Last week, Obama unveiled a $500 million joint effort by industry, universities and the federal government in an effort reposition the United States as a leader in cutting-edge manufacturing.

When Obama referred to a divided Washington, he was alluding to the fight he and his party is waging with the Republicans over raising America’s debt limit. According to Obama and his administration, the debt limit must be raised by Aug. 2 or the government will face a catastrophic default on its obligations.

The president did not specifically bring up the debt limit battle, but instead called on the country and its leaders to start

…thinking like a team, instead of turning on each other.

I promise you. if you we continue to adapt and we continue to innovate and we work together to compete around the world, America will come back stronger than before.

Of course, Obama’s appearance in Iowa just happens to be coinciding with the visits of Republicans seeking their party’s presidential nomination and criticizing his economic leadership.

According to Matt Strawn, the chairman of the Iowa Republican Party, that’s not a surprise:

There’s a famous political saying that ‘no politician comes to Iowa by accident.’ I’m sure part of this is a political calculation.

A few miles away from the site of the president’s speech, in the small town of Pella,Iowa,  former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin attended the premiere of the Roger Bannon Documentary about her, The Undefeated.

On Fox News last night, during the Greta Van Susteren show, On the Record, reporter Griff Jenkins interviewed Gov. Palin . Here is an excerpt:

JENKINS: I spoke to a veteran, and he told me that he needs you to get into the presidential race. Will you answer his request?

PALIN: I appreciate his request and encouragement. I know what he’s talking about. He’s talking about someone who encapsulates American values and is understanding of the need to protect our constitution and the people like our veterans.

It is a tough decision, a big decision to decide whether to run for office or not. I’m still contemplating. I can’t say enough about a veteran and somebody who poses a question like that coming from a veteran.

JENKINS: Your daughter Bristol said you made a decision. Can you tell us what it is?

PALIN: I texted her and said, “Honey what did you say this morning on a news program?” She said mom you have to watch. You know how they make everything out of context. I said you remember: “What we say on the fishing boat stays on the fishing boat.”

JENKINS: She said you definitely made a decision.

PALIN: I’m still thinking about the decision. A lot goes into such a life changing decision. So I’m still thinking about it.

So, “no politician comes to Iowa by accident”?  Hmmmm.