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.

Julian Assange and his collection of fellow weasels over at Wikileaks have done it again. This time, they’ve released over 700 classified military documents containing never-before-seen detailed accounts of the men who are locked up at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba.

These new leaked documents study the history of the dentainees and also explore the uneasy relationships between the Islamic Terrorists and their jailers.

The “evidence” provided by these new documents is sure to provide a false sense of  hope and leverage to the Far Left in their crusade to encourage their ideological brother, the President of the United States, to close down Gitmo.

The documents contain everything from a detailed account to what the terrorists to an account of their personal illnesses, ranging from hepatitus to depression. They even contain years of the detained enemies of America’s comments about one another.

One thing that most of the 172 remaining prisoners have in common is the fact that they been rated as a “high risk” of posing a threat to the United States and its allies if released without adequate rehabilitation and supervision.

However, unfortunately for President Barack Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) and his Far Left base, the records also document how an even larger number of the prisoners who have left Gitmo, about a third of the 600 already transferred to other countries, were also labeled “high risk”…and then, they were freed or passed to the custody of other governments.

The other problem for the Wackadoodle Left is the fact that there are no gratuitous stories of torture, that can be used by them (and Obama) as leverage for closing Gitmo. Several of the imprisoned terrorists, though, are cited as lying about being subjected to abuse.

I’m shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

Per newyorktimes.com:

The military analysts’ files provide new details about the most infamous of their prisoners, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the planner of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Sometime around March 2002, he ordered a former Baltimore resident to don a suicide bomb vest and carry out a “martyrdom” attack against Pervez Musharraf, then Pakistan’s president, according to the documents. But when the man, Majid Khan, got to the Pakistani mosque that he had been told Mr. Musharraf would visit, the assignment turned out to be just a test of his “willingness to die for the cause.”

Obama and his administration all condemned the publication of the classified documents, which were released by Julian Assange and his pack of weasels last year.

According to the White House, an administration task force set up in January 2009 reviewed the prisoner assessments released in these documents, and in some cases came to different conclusions. Because of this, the White House says that the documents published by The Times may not represent the government’s current view of detainees at Guantánamo.

There were three Top Secret Assessment Documents released in this bunch.  The first, Assessment of Afghanistan Travels and Islamic Duties as they Pertain to Interrogation, begins by stating:

Islamic religious leaders used their influence to encourage men to travel to Afghanistan to train and fight. To prevent interrogators and analysts from obtaining incriminating information from him, the detainee uses a variety of counter-interrogation techniques, some supported by his religious indoctrination. Detainees that claim a religious motivation for traveling to Afghanistan are often providing an accurate, but incomplete account of their recruitment. Mujahideen that traveled to Afghanistan following the attacks of 11 September 2001 did so with the knowledge that Usama Bin Laden and Al-Qaida were the likely perpetrators of the attack.

The other two documents are Threat Matrixes.  The Executive Summary of these two documents states:

Below are indicators used in JTF-GTMO detainee assessments to determine a detainee”s capabilities and intentions to pose a terrorist threat if the detainee were given the opportunity. The indicators are not all-inclusive and are written primarily with the JTF-GTMO detainee in mind, though they can be tailored to other theaters. These indicators are used in assessments in concert with each other, and need to be read in the context in which they are placed within an assessment. While some individual indicators may be sufficient alone to provide an accurate assessment of the detainee”s threat, others may require additional indicators or multiple occurrences of the same indicator for reliability and confidence. In all, the indicators are designed to point to the threat a detainee would pose if he were to be released from custody, and the intelligence that a detainee potentially possesses, not as evidence to prove a detainee’s guilt or innocence.

Remember this? From thehill.com, posted 1/22/08:

President Obama signed executive orders this morning reversing Bush administration detainee interrogation practices and requiring the prison at Guantanamo Bay to be closed one year from now.

As expected, Obama ordered a review process for Guantanamo detainees, with the goal of releasing, transferring to other nations, or prosecuting the 245 detainees currently held at the facility. Obama largely left the question of how to prosecute detainees unanswered, though recommended that federal courts or regular military courts would be preferable. Military tribunals with revised authority could also be used.

The CIA will also close its network of secret prisons under Obama’s order. Obama prohibited the agency from operating detention facilities in the future.

The president effectively banned torture, requiring the military and CIA to adhere to the Army Field Manual, abide by the Geneva Convention, and allow the Red Cross access to detainees. He also sweepingly nullified all memos and legal opinions on interrogation from the Bush Justice Department issued after Sept. 11, 2001, some of which caused outcry among opponents of torture when they were uncovered.

Didn’t happen, did it?  Neither did the  proposed New York City Federal Court  Dog ‘n Pony Show Trial of Khalid Shaikh Muhammed.

Remember, Obama knew about these documents last year.

Sunlight is a great disinfectant.

Even if it comes from a bunch of weasels.

Yesterday, President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm) held a Re-election Campaign Rally, err, Townhall Meeting on the campus of Northern Virgina Community College in Annandale, Virginia.

He spoke to the young skulls full of mush (Thank you, Rush) about several things, including, of course, his crusade for Clean (Green) Energy:

Some folks in Washington also want to close the deficit by gutting our investments in things like clean energy or medical research or basic science. That’s not a viable choice. America has always been the world’s engine of innovation and discovery. That’s who we are. That’s how we’ve prospered. I don’t want other countries to lead in the industries of tomorrow. I want new technologies invented here in the United States. I want new solar panels and wind turbines and fuel-efficient cars and advanced batteries all to be made right here in the United States of America. I want us to invent them right here. (Applause.)

I mean, let’s just take energy as an example. Folks are out there dealing with gas at four bucks a gallon. It’s just another hardship, another burden, at a time when we’re just coming out of a recession and things are already pretty tight for folks. Now, whenever this happens, just like clockwork, you see politicians going in front of the cameras and they’ll say they’ve got a three-point plan for two-buck-a-gallon gas. (Laughter.) The truth is, the only real solution to helping families at the pump in the medium and the long term is clean energy. That’s how we’ll save families money. That’s how we’ll reduce our dependence on foreign oil. We’ve got to develop new technologies to lessen our reliance on a fuel that is finite and that we’ve got to import from other countries, including some very unstable parts of the world. And that’s why I think that cutting clean energy investments by 70 percent — 70 percent, which has been proposed by some in Congress -– would be such a mistake.

Have you ever wondered why the president pushes clean energy so hard?

Is it because he loves the planet so much?

No.

Is it because he’s powerless to do anything about high gas prices?

No.

This fellow has a lot to do with it.

Jeffrey R. Immelt is the ninth chairman of GE, a post he has held since September 7, 2001.

Mr. Immelt has held several global leadership positions since coming to GE in 1982, including roles in GE’s Plastics, Appliance, and Medical businesses. In 1989 he became an officer of GE and joined the GE Capital Board in 1997. A couple years later, in 2000, Mr. Immelt was appointed president and chairman-elect.

Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO of General Electric, is one of Obama’s closest advisers.

Per ge.com:

Mr. Immelt has been named one of the “World’s Best CEOs” three times by Barron’s, and since he began serving as chief executive officer, GE has been named “America’s Most Admired Company” in a poll conducted by Fortune magazine and one of “The World’s Most Respected Companies” in polls by Barron’s and the Financial Times.

Mr. Immelt earned a B.A. degree in applied mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1978 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1982. He and his wife have one daughter.

Mr. Immelt is also a member of The Business Council, and he is on the board of the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

On January 21, 2011, Obama named Immelt as the Head of his Economic Advisory Panel.

Under Immelt’s leadership, General Electric has invested very heavily in the rapidly-expanding business of Clean Energy:

For example, from forbes.com, posted 4/7/11:

GE announced Thursday that it’s planning to go big in solar panel manufacturing and will build the largest solar panel factory in the U.S., with an annual capacity of 400 megawatts of production of thin-film solar when it is up and running in 2013. GE will spend $600 million on the project.

It’s a head on challenge to First Solar (FSLR), the largest maker of solar panels made from thin layers of cadmium telluride. GE is going to manufacture the panels with the same composition of materials.

“Over the last decade, through technology investment, GE has become one of the world’s major wind turbine manufacturers, and our investment in high-tech solar products will help us continue to grow our position in the renewable energy industry,” Victor Abate, vice president of GE’s renewable energy business, said in a press release.

To jump start its efforts, GE completed its acquisition of PrimeStar Solar of Arvada, Colo. The purchase price was not disclosed, but is included in the overall $600 million figure, Abate explained in a phone interview from Colorado. GE has held an equity stake in PrimeStar since 2007, and a majority stake since 2008. The two companies have been working to boost the efficiency of the cad-tel solar panels.

And, according to cnet.com, in a post dated 7/24/10:

General Electric announced Thursday plans to invest $10 billion over the next five years in Ecomagination, the green-focused research and development program it began in 2005.

Since Ecomagination began, GE has invested a total of $5 billion in its research and development as of the end of 2009. The technology and products to come out of that program have generated $70 billion in revenue over the past five years, according to GE statistics released Thursday.

In view of that revenue success, GE has decided to double investment for the program between now and 2015. The announcement is not entirely surprising, as GE has said since 2007 that its Ecomagination initiative has been making it a healthy profit.

Dropping the price of a gallon of gas at the pump, so that Americans will not suffer so badly economically, seems to be a very low priority for President Obama.

Evidently, the word ” Green” in Green Energy is simply slang for money.

Welcome to Tax Day 2011.

I can literally hear your excitement.

I think the Beatles made an eloquent statement about paying taxes:

According to the Internal Revenue Service, the average income for the tax returns with the 400 highest adjusted gross incomes in 2007, was nearly $345 million. Their average federal income tax rate was 17 percent, down from 26 percent in 1992.

However, over the same period, the average federal income tax rate for all taxpayers also declined to 9.3 percent from 9.9 percent.

The nation’s tax laws are packed with breaks for people at every income level. There are breaks for having children, paying a mortgage, going to college, and even for paying other taxes.

Plus, the top rate on capital gains is only 15 percent.

Per the Tax Policy Center, only 45 percent of U.S. households will pay no federal income tax for 2010.

Both sides of the aisle in Congress want the Tax Code to be changed, because of all the breaks available to the American Taxpayer.

Republicans in the House of Representatives have a plan to eliminate breaks to pay for lower overall rates, reducing the top tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent. While Republicans are against raising taxes, they argue that a more efficient tax code would increase economic activity, generating additional tax revenue.

President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm, while basically attacking America’s wealthy, said last week he wants to abolish tax breaks to lower the rates and to reduce government borrowing.

Notice that he did not say that he wants to reduce government spending.

According to an analysis by the National Taxpayer Advocate, an independent watchdog within the IRS, our nation’s tax code is filled with a total of $1.1 trillion in credits, deductions and exemptions, an average of about $8,000 per taxpayer.

Speaking of wealthy people, on 5/17/2008. latimes.com reported that:

Obama is the least wealthy of the three major presidential candidates. But with advances and royalties from two bestselling books, Obama’s assets were worth between $2.02 million and $7.35 million at the end of 2007, according to a public financial disclosure report filed with the Federal Election Commission.

On 4/16/2008, washingtontimes.com reported:

Mr. Obama and first lady Michelle Obama reported a taxable income in 2008 of $2,656,902, paying $855,323 in federal taxes and $77,883 in their home state of Illinois.

The Obamas paid a tax rate of 32 percent, which is below the 35 percent top tax rate for incomes above $357,700.

…The president’s two best-selling books, “Dreams From My Father” and “The Audacity of Hope”, brought him $2.6 million, compared with $3.9 million in profits the previous year.

For 2007, the Obamas reported a significantly larger taxable income of $4,139,965.

They also contributed less to charity in 2008 than they did in 2007, giving away $172,050 of their own money compared with $240,370 the previous year.

The two biggest recipients of the Obamas’ giving were the United Negro College Fund and CARE, a nonprofit that targets global poverty.

Mr. Obama did not give any money to his former church, Trinity United Church of Christ, after donating $26,270 in 2007. He and the church’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., had a falling-out after incendiary sermons by the pastor surfaced during the presidential campaign.

The Obamas also paid $47,488 in tuition for their two daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, to attend the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

On 4/15/2010, whitehouse.gov reported:

Today, the President released his 2009 federal income and gift tax returns. He and the First Lady filed their income tax return jointly and reported an adjusted gross income of $ 5,505,409. The vast majority of the family’s 2009 income is the proceeds from the sale of the President’s books. The Obamas paid $1,792,414 in federal income tax. The President and First Lady also reported donating $329,100 to 40 different charities. The largest reported gifts to charity were $50,000 contributions to CARE and the United Negro College Fund. In addition, the President donated his $1.4 million Nobel Prize funds to 10 charities. The President and First Lady also released their Illinois income tax return and reported paying $163,303 in state income taxes.

So, while Americans were scrambling to finish their tax returns ,what was the Leader of the Free World doing?  Working on getting 1/6th of our fellow Americans off of Food Stamps?  Trying to reduce our pain at the gas pump?  Working on getting our Best and Brightest out of harm’s way in 3 different theaters of war?

Errr…no.

It was beautiful yesterday afternoon in Washington, DC. Perfect golfing weather: Sunshine and 64 degrees. So, of course, you know where the President of the United States was:  Fore!

He and his buds:  Energy Department staffer David Katz, White House trip director Marvin Nicholson, and Marvin’s brother Walter, hit the links.

This was Obama’s 64th golf outing as president.

President Bush played golf 24 times in office.  He stopped after the Iraq war began, out of respect for those parents whose young men and women were giving their lives for this country in a foreign land.

President Bush was only fighting one war.  Obama has 3 wars in progress.

This was Obama’s third golf outing in the last three weeks, and his sixth time out this year…and it’s just April.

Excuse me, Mr. President.  Do you have any Grey Poupon?

Something very rare in contemporary American politics happened yesterday.  A leader stood up and addressed the concerns of the American people.

It wasn’t President Barack Hussein Obama (mm mmm mmmm).  And it wasn’t either of the announced Republican Candidates for President, Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty (zzzzzzzz).

Standing in the snow in Madison, Wisconsin, addressing a crowd of 7,000 – 15,ooo, depending on whom you talk to, Sarah Palin gave a stemwinder of a speech, leaving no doubt as to where she stands on the issues that are on the lips of Americans.

Here is the speech, divided into two parts:

During the speech, Palin said:

If you stand by your platform, if you stand by your pledges, we will stand with you, we will fight with you, GOP, we will have your back.

What we need is for you to stand up, GOP, and fight. GOP leaders need to learn how to fight like a girl.

I’m in Madison because this is where real courage and real solidarity can be found.

You saw these violent rent-a-mobs trash your capital and vandalize businesses. You held your ground. Your governor did the same thing. And you won.

Referring to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s union-limiting legislation, she gave her support, because “he understands that states must be solvent to keep their promises” and “a pension is a promise that must be kept.”

She went on to nail GOP leaders for promising to cut $100 billion in federal spending but compromising at $38 billion in the recent bipartisan budget agreement. According to Palin:

 That’s not courage, that is capitulation.

She also gave a shout out to President Obama, blasting him for getting the country into a “third war” it can’t afford, cutting off oil development and “misrepresenting” deficit spending.

 You ignored us in 2010. But you cannot ignore us in 2012.

She then praised the crowd in Madison, saying:

When the history of the Tea Party is written, what you accomplished here will not be forgotten. And the 2012 election begins here.

In what is sure to be the subject of all the talking head shows this morning and a million t-shirts, Palin recalled the Green Bay Packers’ 2011 Super Bowl win, saying:

What better place to call out the liberal left and let them know, Mr. President, game on!

The detractors’ reaction to her speech was predictable.  The Progressive minions in the Main Stream Media labelled the speech “fiesty” and anti-establishment”.

Speaking of the Establishment, they’re spreading the story that she’s trying to get her name out there for a possible presidential candancy announcement.

Whit Ayres, president of Ayres, McHenry & Associates, which provides research and advice for Republican candidates, said:

 In the past couple of months Michele Bachmann has sucked up much of the Sarah Palin oxygen in the Republican Party.

This seems to be a way to keep her name out there and the venue appears to be designed to give her maximum exposure.

And then you had the self-identifying fiscal Conservatives, on internet Conservative sites, wanting to know why she didn’t address policy issues in a speech given at a Tea Party Rally.

What part of the word “rally” don’t you geniuses understand?

While Palin was addressing the massive rally in Wisconsin, announced Republican candidate Tim Pawlenty, and unannounced potential candidate Herman Cain addressed a Tea Party Rally in Iowa.

According to Reuters.com:

One of the organizers of Saturday’s Tea Party gathering described it as an “iced tea” rally as temperatures hovered around 40 degrees, with whipping winds making the wind chill feel more like 30 degress.

Also speaking at the outdoor rally, which drew more than 300 supporters, was former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain, who said he was “weeks away” from making a final decision about a run for the White House.

“In January I had put my toe in the water, but I’ll just give you a little hint,” Cain said. “It’s now all the way up to my chin,” Cain said, to cheers from the crowd.

Cain told the crowd about his battle with cancer in 2006, saying he’s been “totally cancer free” for the past five years.

“You want to know why? God said, ‘Not yet Herman,'” Cain told the crowd. “God said, ‘Not yet. I’ve got something else for you to do.’ And it might be to become the president of the United States of America.”

God bless everyone who braved the cold weather at those rallies.

The talking heads on television are desperately trying to convince Americans  that the era of the Tea Party is over with.  Don’t believe them.  Just wait until things start heating up this summer.

If our elected representatives actually started listening to their constituents, as they promised they would after the Mid-term Elections, the Tea Party Rallies would not be necessary.

Unfortunately, the majority of America’s politicians, on both sides of the aisle, are presently demonstrating a very short memory.

I make no attempt to hide it. I am a Christian American Conservative, a Reagan Conservative, or what the cool people up in the Northeast Corridor call a SoCon, or Social Conservative. That means that I actually believe in God, and, such irrelevant, according to our president, concepts of right and wrong.

In what he thought was a private chat with campaign donors Thursday evening, President Barack Hussein Obama offered the most revealing behind-the-scenes account to date of his budget negotiations with GOP leaders last week.

In the video, you’ll note that Obama speaks about last week’s Budget negotiations with House Speaker Boehner:

I said, ‘You want to repeal health care? Go at it. We’ll have that debate. You’re not going to be able to do that by nickel-and-diming me in the budget. You think we’re stupid?’

Mr. President, may I answer that?

In your little speech to donors on Thursday, when you thought the microphones were off, you showed your true character, or actually, the lack thereof.

Scooter, you’ve been counting all along, in your presidency, that the majority of Americans are just like you.  That they could care less about the innocent lives, abruptly ended in the womb, during a procedure performed by a private company, paid for by our tax dollars.

And, for some reason or another, even though the poll numbers are proving you false, you seem to think that we unwashed masses, in awe of your benevolent leadership, are ecstatically embracing the coming of the nightmarish bureaucratic monster you invented, known as Obamacare.

Mr. President, were you asleep on the night of November 2nd, 2010, or has the medication kicked in?

I think it’s the medication.

This week, in the middle of the Budget Battle, you filed for re-election.  Then, you told a sycophantic interviewer with the Associated Press that:

I think I can make that case, and I think that, in the debates that take place over the next 18 months, the American people will feel that I deserve a second term.

You also went on television, on Wednesday afternoon, after the vote on last year’s budget, turning what was supposed to be a speech about the passing of those measures that will keep the government running into a campaign speech, pontificating about medicare, medicaid, ending the evil Booosh tax cuts, and taxing any capitalists, err…I mean American families making over 200,000 a year.

And ,also, during the week,  you whined about not having a cool phone in the Oval Office, and also about Donald Trump daring to bring up the subject of your super-secret long-form birth certificate that you have paid a bunch of money to keep hidden, along with your college transcripts.

The laser-like focus which you demonstrated this week has been bragged upon by your people during your term, as your management style, along with an unprecedented transparency, seemingly belied by the video seen earlier in this post.

Speaking of transparency, there seems to be a little problem with the White House Visitor Logs, per politico.com:

[T]he logs are missing the names of thousands of other visitors to the White House, including lobbyists, government employees, campaign donors, policy experts and friends of the first family, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity.

The White House website proudly boasts of making available “over 1,000,000 records of everyone who’s come through the doors of the White House” via a searchable database.

Yet the Center’s analysis shows that the logs routinely omit or cloud key details about the identity of visitors, whom they met with and the nature of their visits. The logs even include the names of people who never showed up. These are critical gaps that raise doubts about the records’ historical accuracy and utility in helping the public understand White House operations, from social events to meetings on key policy debates.

Additionally:

Another practice calling into question the veracity of the logs: Junior White House staff members routinely list themselves as the “visitee,” or person being visited, when in fact the visitor has arrived to see someone higher up the chain of command.

The practice appears to apply to the commander in chief in some instances.

Reggie Love is recorded as receiving nearly 300 visits in the West Wing of the White House. Love is Obama’s personal assistant, the young aide who is constantly at the president’s side. Celebrities like NBA star Kobe Bryant and some Obama friends are listed as visitors to Love.

In addition, nearly two dozen campaign fundraisers and their family members are listed as visiting Love. The records give no hint as to who else they saw once they entered the White House or the purpose of their meetings. Among them was Hildy Kuryk, a New York fundraiser for Obama who now is deputy national finance director of the Democratic National Committee.

While Emanuel is listed as having fewer than 500 visitors, the logs show health care czar Nancy Ann DeParle had three times as many visitors. But three young aides who scheduled meetings for Emanuel — Katherine Kochman, Amanda Anderson and Benjamin Milakofsky — collectively had more than 2,600 visits in their names.

And yet, despite your two-faced nature, your behind-the-scenes machinations and all the Elitist, immature, condescending garbage that you’ve pulled on the American people during your time as president, you expect to be re-elected?

Do you think we’re stupid?  Evidently.

For the last month, millionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump has made it his mission in life to shout from the mountaintop that something shady is going on concerning President Barack Hussein Obama’s long-form birth  certificate, or lack thereof.

He’s appeared on all the talk shows, including the one featuring that band of shreiking harpies, known as The View:

This morning, a video has hit the scene, showing a Bush-hating, Obama-supporting Donald Trump.

In an interview with Dominic Carter on NY1, New York’s Internet News Station, originally released November 11th, 2008,  The Donald said:

McCain, really, that was almost an impossible situation. Bush has been so bad, maybe the worst president in the history of this country. He has been so incompetent, so bad, so evil that I don’t think any Republican could have won.

On President George Bush’s foreign policies:

You know, you can be enemies with people, whether it’s Iran, Iraq, or anyplace else and you can still have dialogue. These people wouldn’t even talk with him. It’s terrible.

At the time, however, he absolutely loooved President-elect Barack Obama:

I think he has a chance to go down as a great president. Now, if he’s not a great president, this country is in serious trouble.

I think [Obama’s] going to lead through consensus. It’s not going to be just a bull run like Bush did. He just did whatever the hell he wanted. He’d go into a country, attack Iraq, which had nothing to do with the World Trade Center and just do it because he wanted to do it.

Carter asked Trump if he ever thought he would see an African-American president in his lifetime:

They always said 100 years before a black man or woman could be elected president. And the 100 years turned out to be, like, one year. He’s done an amazing job.

An Associated Press GFK poll released at that time, showed that a majority of people shared Trump’s then-approval of Obama.

A total of 72 percent of those surveyed were confident the president-elect will do what it takes to revive the economy, while 68 percent predicted that Obama would be able to carry out his campaign promises.

Strengthening the economy was a top priority for 61 percent of those surveyed.

As of April 13th, 2011, per rasmussenreports.com:

Twenty-three percent (23%) of Likely U.S. Voters say the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey taken the week ending Sunday, April 10. That’s down one point from last week.

And, 45% are worried that the federal government will do too much in reacting to the nation’s economic problems. But 41% are more worried the federal government will not do enough responding to those issues. Another 14% are undecided.

Trump, as a real estate mogul, has made his living by riding the wave of market trends, know when to jump on and jump off.

As of yesterday, 23% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -15. Overall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president’s performance. Fifty percent (50%) disapprove.

The Donald has ridden into prominence once again, on a wave of national discontent.  Even over-the-top Liberals like Chris Matthews of MSNBC are calling for Obama to release his birth certificate.  Several polls have Trump in second place among Republicans (of which we’re not even sure he is one), behind the GOP Legacy Candidate, Mitt Romney.

Jeffrey T. Kuhner, in an article posted on washingtontimes.com, makes a great point:

The reality is that until Mr. Obama shows his proper, documented long-form birth certificate, the issue will not go away – nor should it. Many in Kenya’s political and media class say he was born there before being brought to the United States. His Kenyan family members make the same claim, while others in Hawaii insist he was born in Honolulu. There is only one way to end the controversy: Show us the birth certificate.

…The president’s supporters, however, cannot answer one simple question. If the controversy is so preposterous, then why has Mr. Obama’s legal team spent campaign money to prevent the birth certificate from being unsealed?

The answer: He is hiding something. It may be the stated religious affiliation, the possible identity of his true father, the location of his birth – no one will know until the records are revealed. But protecting Mr. Obama’s privacy is not a plausible reason and certainly not a justification for spending millions.

Any Liberal or so-called “fiscal” Conservative (a pseudonym for an incognito Libertarian or socially-Liberal Moderate ) acts like you’ve run over puppies or your family tree doesn’t fork, when you try to broach this subject with them.  So, perhaps, The Donald, in all of his egotistical flamboyance, is actually performing a service for our nation by pushing the issue of Obama’s missing birth certificate into the national spotlight once again.

That being said, I don’t trust Donald Trump anymore than I believe that he has a full head of hair under that comb-over.

However, I am enjoying watching the Liberals and fiscal Conservatives squirm.

Pass the popcorn.