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Obama Win Will Be Difficult In 2012

Michael Redbourn — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:26:13 +0000

Shaw's Blog: Gallup Poll–Battleground State Nightmare for Obama

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fox nation Today, Gallup released their aggregate state approvals for President Obama over the entirety of 2011. His drop relative to his 2009 standing is especially stark in battleground states. Here are some of the …

Webutante: Battleground States Show Sharp Decline For Obama

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Battleground States Show Sharp Decline For Obama. AS MITT ROMNEY MOPS UP IN FLORIDA TONIGHT, many of my fellow conservative commenters diss and whine about Romney's conservative qualifications, his …

The following data is from all of 2011, and 2012 is not looking any better.

The Good News For Obama

His political standing is in reasonable but not good shape in traditionally Democratic Midwestern battlegrounds such as Wisconsin and Michigan and the more Republican heartland state of Iowa where his rating is 46 approval/46 disapproval.

And his numbers in Virginia are better than those in other battleground states 45% approve, 49% disapprove.

His numbers in North Carolina 44/49 approve/disapprove and Florida 44/48 approve/disapprove and even in Georgia 45/48 approve/disapprove aren’t good, but given his overall numbers, they aren’t that bad either.

The Bad News For Obama

His job approval ratings in the other battleground states are solidly underwater however, and in many states, they are much worse than publicly perceived, mostly because of White House spin.

In Colorado, which is seen as a gateway to aggressively contesting the Southwest, Obama scored a net -12 job approval 40/52 throughout the year.

In Nevada, also seen as a major bellwether, Obama has a 41% approval rating, with 50% of respondents disapproving.

In the critical battleground state of Ohio, 50% of voters disapprove of his performance, with only 42% approving.

And in the must-win state of Pennsylvania, Obam’s job approval is underwater, with 45% approving and 48% disapproving.

More Bad News

New Mexico is seen as a Democratic-leaning state because of its voting history and its significant Hispanic population.

But Obama’s performance there, 42% favorable, 51% unfavorable, isn’t much different than his weak standing in the other Southwestern battlegrounds.

The Obama campaign argues that it has an outside shot at contesting Arizona, but his approval rating is at 40%, with 52% disapproving.

In New Hampshire, a state that John Kerry carried in 2004, Obama’s job approval is at 39%, with 54% disapproving, and it’s a state that with Romney heading the GOP ticket, is starting to look more and more out of reach.

So What Does Obama Have To Do To Win?

Based on the above numbers, the most plausible path for the president’s re-election runs through Virginia, Florida and Iowa, which isn’t a scenario that Team Obama drew up in its spin sessions, but if the polls are to be believed, then it’s likely the only way to go.

Did Liberals Lose Their Self-Survival Instinct?

Michael Redbourn — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:31:02 +0000

Occupy: the sad reality and the mad fantasies | Sean Collins | spiked

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Occupy: the sad reality and the mad fantasies. Far from being clear-eyed, … Many liberals, especially liberal pundits in the major media outlets, present an idealized account of the Occupy protesters. Their vision of what the …

Commentarama: Liberals to Obama: “Quit!”

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That right there is why liberals lose wars, folks. ….. A liberal friend of mine posted a letter to Obama about how he was sad that there wasn’t more done and how he was joining a moderate independent party instead. November …

Many people told me over the years that many Liberals are mentally sick people, and I always thought that it was way over the top.

But having watched Mika Brzezinski fall apart on MSNBC when Gingrich suggested that the "OWS demonstrators get a job after taking a bath"; and now having seen this Karen Finney video.

I have come to the conclusion that many Liberals are definitely very sick people!

Man’s (or woman’s) most basic instinct is most likely survival, but they just don’t have it.

It seems that they lack something that every other animal on the planet has.

Gingrich wasn’t talking about “young kids”, but about the wasted money that goes to Universities that make money out of students striving for a degree that they will never use.

And about the time that those students waste, when they could otherwise be contributing to society.

In the foreseeable future, there will always be a need for people to do menial jobs; so why should these self-same people spend time and money at a University when they could be working.

And that was Gingrich’s point, but perhaps it was to difficult for Karen Finney to grasp.

ClimateGate 2 – The New Global Warming Scandal!

Michael Redbourn — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:21:57 +0000

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Climategate 2: The Scandal Continues. New Emails Reveal Scientific Conspiracy and Cover-up. By Nicole Ciandella. November 22, 2011. Print · Email. Washington, DC, November 22, 2011 – The 2009 Climategate scandal was re-ignited …

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AP on Climategate 2. November 22, 2011 by Don Surber. Readers know that Climategate showed what a bunch of lying frauds the climatologists are. They lied. Science died. If their theory held water, they would not have to lie about it. …

A new batch of around 5,000 emails were released anonymously yesterday, and they clearly show how a great number of scientists continue to try and mislead the public, and they make clear their desire to politicize the whole "global warming" issue.

You can download the new ClimateGate emails, but it’s a relatively big file, 173mb.

Three Obvious Themes Stand Out

Prominent scientists central to the global warming debate are taking measures to conceal rather than disseminate underlying data and discussions.

These scientists view global warming as a political "cause" rather than a balanced scientific inquiry.

Many of the scientists frankly admit to each other that much of the science is weak and dependent on deliberate manipulation of facts and data.

Abuse Of Scientific Transparency

A defining characteristic of science is the open sharing of scientific data, theories and procedures so that independent parties, and especially skeptics of a particular theory or hypothesis, can replicate and validate asserted experiments or observations.

But the email exchanges between Climategate scientists show a concerted effort to hide rather than to disseminate underlying evidence and procedures.

Phil Jones, who is a scientist working with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), wrote in one newly released email.

"I’ve been told that IPCC is above national FOI (Freedom of Information) Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 would be to delete all emails at the end of the process".

And in another email.

"Any work we have done in the past is done on the back of the research grants we get and has to be well hidden, I’ve discussed this with the main funder (U.S. Dept of Energy) in the past and they are happy about not releasing the original station data".

ClimateGate 1.0

The original ClimateGate emails contained similar evidence of destroying information and data that the public would naturally assume would be available according to freedom of information principles.

Jones wrote to Penn State University scientist Michael Mann in an email released in Climategate 1.0

"Mike, can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith [Briffa] re AR4 (UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment)?".

"Keith will do likewise. We will be getting Caspar Ammann to do likewise. I see that CA (the Climate Audit Web site) claim they discovered the 1945 problem in the Nature paper!!"

The Politicization

The new emails also reveal the scientists’ attempts to politicize the debate and advance the predetermined outcomes.

Jonathan Overpeck, the coordinating lead author for the IPCC’s most recent climate assessment wrote.

"The trick may be to decide on the main message and use that to guide what’s included and what is left out of IPCC reports".

And Michael Mann wrote in another email.

"I gave up on (Georgia Institute of Technology climate professor) Judith Curry a while ago. I don’t know what she thinks she’s doing, but its not helping the cause".

and very damning,

"I have been talking w/ folks in the states about finding an investigative journalist to investigate and expose skeptical scientist Steve McIntyre".

ClimateGate 2 Highlights The Lack Of Scientific Evidence

Peter Thorne of the UK Met Office wrote.

"Observations do not show rising temperatures throughout the tropical troposphere unless you accept one single study and approach and discount a wealth of others. This is just downright dangerous. We need to communicate the uncertainty and be honest. Phil, hopefully we can find time to discuss these further if necessary. I also think the science is being manipulated to put a political spin on it which for all our sakes might not be too clever in the long run".

An Even Greater Furore Is Needed

There are certain to be a far greater number of revelations released as more and more emails are read, and the scandal will grow, but it needs to grow into something huge.

The offending scientists need to be fired, and if not fired, they need to forced to return their research grants,.

They were paid in good faith but failed to respond in kind.

A Related Issue

Students Co-Authored Key Global Warming Reports!

A harshly critical new expose on the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change claims that reports were often written by graduate students with either little, or no experience in the field.

Will MSNBC Soon Be Gone?

Michael Redbourn — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:28:50 +0000

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Monday afternoon, during his United States of Anger segment, Martin Bashir led Karen Finney and William Cohen in a heated hammering of Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich, set off by his telling Occupy protesters to …

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MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski is so pathetic and unprofessional here that for a few moments I thought I was watching Saturday Night Live.

And what’s more grotesque is that the other members of the panel come across as supporting cartoon characters.

"Go get a job after you take a bath!".

Gingrich said to raucous applause at the Thanksgiving Family Forum in Des Moines, Iowa.

The Ratings

Take a look at how MSNBC news network fared Thursday, November 17, 2011

As you can see from the numbers published by TVNewser Friday, CNN beat MSNBC every hour throughout Thursday’s extended prime time, with the only exception being Lawrence O’Donnell at 8PM.

And closer inspection reveals that even that ray of light in the darkness slipped below Olbermann’s typical average of roughly one million viewers.

Rachel Maddow’s numbers in the following hour are also well off her normal million, and Ed Shultz at 10PM is almost embarrassing.

A Major Loss Of Revenue

A major concern for MSNBC executives should be the network’s loss to CNN of all of the hours in the crucial demographic of those aged 25 to 54, because that is a big determinant of advertising rates.

And viewed in that light the numbers were a disaster!

So What’s Went Wrong?

Perhaps the worst news, or at least the most embarrassing for MSNBC was Cenk Uygur’s 6PM show.

Not only is he getting easily beaten by CNN’s Situation Room, but he’s close to getting quadrupled by Fox’s Special Report.

Both Maddow, O’Donnell, and Schultz had passable audiences in their previous time slots, for MSNBC, that is!

But by moving Schultz to 10 and O’Donnell to 8, the momentum was effectively lost.

Cenk against Bret Baier?!

Pitting Cenk against Bret Baier was foolish because he’s clearly not a man that’s ready for prime time.

And placing him on the brink of television’s most-trafficked hours is way beyond his present talent and experience at this point in his career.

The Upshot

MSNBC is almost giving this hour to Fox and CNN whilst destroying any momentum that the network used to get from Schultz.

What’s more, the time is probably ripe for MSNBC to reconsider, "Hardball" at 5 and 7.

With Uygur’s lousy numbers sandwiched between Matthews’, MSNBC is basically forfeiting three straight hours leading up to the supposed heavy hitters in their lineup.

Has MSNBC Saved CNN?

Just two short months ago it looked like CNN was fast becoming irrelevant.

*CNN became irrelevant to me during the first Gulf War.

But MSNBC trailed CNN in average total viewers throughout last Thursday and it was tripled in this stat by Fox.

A Mouthpiece For The White House

But with this new pathetic lineup, and performances similar to Mika Brzezinski’s, it’s likely, and apt, that MSNBC will become irrelevant instead.

And MSNBC should go because as Newt Gingrich said, "MSNBC Essentially Acts As The Obama Re-Election Team", and that isn’t how it ought to be!

More Than Eighty Reasons Why Obama Shouldn’t Be Reelected!

Michael Redbourn — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:51:35 +0000

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In the past two days I have received emails from Joe Biden and Jim Messina of the Obama re-election committee asking me to contribute and become active in the re-election effort. I support President Obama (in 2008 and will …

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More Than 80 Reasons to Elect a New President Worthy of a Great Nation: Not the Abomination of an Obama Nation

With very rare exceptions, everything on this site was written by me; but this one was too good not to promote.

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(Based on an Idea and Initiative, and Built off a List, Launched by KRLA Radio Talk Show Host and Constitutional Law Professor Hugh Hewitt)

1. Obamacare – Attempting to federalize local state rights, extending federal control over massive components of the national bourse, extending federal control over individuals’ lives in violation of the Constitution’s Commerce Clause. Cynically lining up supporters in white doctors’ robes, while refusing to consult with much more prominent and predominant medical groups who oppose. Lying about the program’s cost and tax burden by subterfuging it with exorbitant taxes that begin several years into its anticipated roll-out. Robbing $500 billion from Medicare that will destroy access for seniors, while lying about the Ryan proposal that would not affect people over 55.

2. The catastrophic $850 billion stimulus. $700,000 to develop a robot that tells jokes. $3.4 million for an underground tunnel for turtles to cross the road in Florida. $1 million to help smokers kick the habit by giving them Blackberry "smartphones." $2.6 million for Chinese prostitutes in China to drink responsibly. Lying to Americans by claiming the money was going to "shovel-ready jobs" — and then joking about the falsehood. Lying by hiding the amounts transferred to favored liberal projects unrelated to job growth or economic stimulation.

3. Chronically high, persistent unemployment – His own staff said that he would bring it under 8% ; yet it remains over 9% thirty months into his one term, with real unemployment actually exceeding 15% as huge numbers of unemployed Americans withdraw from searching hopelessly for jobs. Lying about a Summer of Recovery (2010).

4. Gas prices – Now exceeding $4.50 a gallon in California, while he bars exploration in ANWR, restricts licenses to explore along the Atlantic coast or in the Gulf, but exports American dollars to help Brazil explore for oil in the Gulf even as Obama promises that America then will buy that oil from Brazil. (See also #82.)

5. Failure to pass a budget. The abject failure by the Chief Executive to get any kind of budget adopted for 2010.

6. Multi-trillion debt free-fall. Turning the disastrous Bush deficits into a multi-trillion-dollar economic free-fall, now leaving the nation with a debt exceeding $14.3 trillion . . . and pressing for authorization to increase the free-fall. His own latest mad deficit proposal was demolished in a House vote 97-318, as his own Democrats abandoned him in droves.

7. The seizure of GM and Chrysler. The illegal transfer of bondholder wealth to unions, imposing his views on parts of the American auto industry, artificially trying to jump-start his favored companies with "Cash for Clunkers," only to find that American tax dollars were used instead by people buying preferred Japanese cars to acquire them cheaper while being forced to destroy throughly sound used cars.

8. Dodd-Frank.

9. Unremitting hostility to Israel. Destroying the Mideast process by imposing unilateral burdens on Israel, forcing Israel to cease construction of Jewish homes, even in Jerusalem, thus compelling Abbas to harden several positions, all while publicly snubbing Prime Minister Netanyahu in the basement of the White House (the first visit) and trying to snub him on the second visit with a horrible policy speech as Netanyahu was flying en route to America.

10. Failure to support Iran‘s Green Revolution. A complete silence and abandonment of leadership when Iranians risked their lives for freedom, while backing the Moslem Brotherhood uprising in Egypt.

11. Failure to support the Syrian people’s revolution against Assad. Utter failure to lead until it was impossible to overlook the massacres by a dictator who actively finances and supports Iran and Hezbollah, America’s sworn enemies in Iraq and South Lebanon.

12. The Libyan Fiasco. Entering Libya while failing to consult Congress. No sense of whether we are supporting people just as bad as Qaddafi. Remaining in the war more than 90 days without obtaining Congressional approval. Lying about violating the War Powers Act by claiming there are no "hostilities" in Libya.

13. The Gulf oil disaster. Bumbling in handling the Gulf oil disaster – refusing aid from countries with oil-cleaning vessels, failing to accept offers of boom to corral the spill, bringing in underwater filmmaker James Cameron as an expert.

14. Closing down oil exploration. The unnecessary moritorium on permitting oil exploration in the aftermath of the Gulf oil disaster, contributing to a massive explosion of oil prices, even leading a federal court to overturn him.

15. EPA interference. The shutdown of Shell’s Arctic oil exploration by EPA

16. Cap-and-Trade Fiasco. The push in Congress for a disastrous "cap-and-trade" plan that would stymie the coal, electric, and natural gas industries, while enormously raising Americans’ home fuel prices, leading even his own party’s U.S. Senator from West Virginia to film a TV promise to voters that he will shoot the proposal full of holes.

17. Use of federal agencies to bypass Congressional oversight. The attempt, after Congress refused to adopt his cap-and-trade nonsense, to bypass Congressional opposition and impose cap-and-trade undemocratically via the EPA.

18. Use of FCC initially to restrict free speech. The push for unconstitutional restrictions on free speech on his political enemies on Talk Radio while assuring protections for unions to spend money on campaigns via The Disclose Act.

19. The Disclose Act and cherry-picking. The attempt to unconstitutionally impose The Disclose Act on his political opponents but not unions via Executive Order.

20. Czars to bypass Congressional oversight. The use of unaccountable "czars" who effectively run huge segments of the American Government without being accountable to Congress and who are protected from Congressional subpoena power.

21. Boorish shaming of Supreme Court justices. The embarrassing and arrogant verbal assault on the Supreme Court while Court Justices courteously attended the first State of the Unionaddress, sitting in front of him, leading most to boycott the subsequent State of Union addresses.

22. Boorish attempt to shame Paul Ryan. The similarly embarrassing and arrogant verbal assault on Rep. Paul Ryan when addressing the federal budget, with Ryan having been invited personally by Obama to attend the speech and sit in front of him.

23. Boorish attempt to shame John McCain. The insulting, embarrassing, and arrogant gloating at John McCain during the televised sham negotiation over Obamacare, when he responded to McCain not substantively but by saying that Obama had won and McCain had lost the election — so there!

24. Refusal to prosecute Black Panthers for Voter Intimidation. Obama’s and Attorney-General Eric Holder’s politicization of the Department of Justice, including refusing to prosecute the Black Panther voter-intimidation case in Philadelphia.

25. Marriage Act. Obama’s and Holder’s refusal to defend the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, an act of Congress.

26. Lies, Lies, Lies. The regular use of straw-man demonizations to try winning support for his unpopular legislation, like accusing doctors of performing unnecessary surgery so that they can enrich themselves by imposing misery on their patients.

27. Throwing his grandmother under the bus. Using his grandmother as a foil to win points, calling her a racist like "typical white people."

28. Bowing to the Saudi King and the Japanese emperor. Literally.

29. Treating our British alliance contemptuously. Shamefully returning to Great Britain the bust of Winston Churchill that they had given us and that had reposed in the White House, while insulting the Queen and the Prime Minister with inane gifts like DVDs. The subsequent fiasco while toasting the Queen, continuing to talk during the playing of the British National Anthem.

30. Violating and abrogating long-standing promises to our allies. Removing the missile shield from Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Putin.

31. Standing with the aspiring Honduran dictator. Backing the would-be dictator of Honduras when that nation’s duly convoked Supreme Court had removed him from office in careful compliance with law.

32. FTAs with allies. Failure to push for quick ratification of free trade agreements with Columbia, Panama and South Korea.

33. Amateurish handling of Afghanistan military effort. The painfully over-extended indecision, for months, whether to authorize a military surge into Afghanistan, then exacerbating the indecision by announcing to our enemies a date-certain withdrawal timeline — a time coordinated with his reelection bid.

34. Incoherence on how to handle the anti-Mubarak uprising in Egypt. Having Frank Wisner despatched as his emissary, and then rejecting Wizner’s advice.

35. Radicalizing the NLRB outside Congressional purview. Appointing [Harold] Craig Becker, a radical unionist, to the NLRB through a recess appointment that otherwise never would have passed Congress.

36. Radicalizing FCC outside Congressional purview. Appointing FCC commissioners who are pursuing "net neutrality" without Congressional authorization.

37. Ecology gone wild in California. Wiping out much of the agricultural economy of California’s Central Valley by restricting full water deliveries to protect a small Delta Smelt fish

38. Gitmo debacles. Promising to close the Guantanamo Bay facility that interns terrorists, trying to close it, failing to close it, refusing to concede his error or assure that "Gitmo" will remain open.

39. Civil trials for terrorists debacles. Promising to move terrorist trials to civilian courts, then trying to prosecute Khalid Sheik Mohammed in Downtown New York, only to be opposed even by the two ultra-liberal Democrat U.S. Senators of New York, then pressing to try another terrorist, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, in civilian court, resulting in the terrorist being acquitted on 284 of 285 counts.

40. Napolitano out of touch. The shameful failure of Obama’s Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano, to appreciate the Obama Administration’s security failures in the face of the near-catastrophe of the "underwear bomber" in the skies over Detroit, as she insisted "the system worked."

41. Student loans. Government takeover of the student loan program

42. Border security. Cancellation of the "virtual border fence" project with no replacement, while deploying National Guard troops to do paper work at desk jobs and provide office assistance rather than stand armed along the border.

43. The "Beer Summit." In the aftermath of wrongly castigating and erroneously pre-judging fault regarding the Cambridge Police Department, tying up the country with a foolish spectacle on the White House lawn.

44. Immigration and Arizona. The Department of Justice’s attack on Arizona for that state’s exercise of its sovereign legislative authority on the issue of citizen identification rules. Failure of his own federal government to execute the law on immigration.

45. The attack on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Attacking the Wisconsin governor and his state legislature for exercising their sovereign legislative authority on public employment issues, while Obama failed to acknowledge that the new Wisconsin rules are comparable to those that always have applied to federal employees.

46. Lying to McCain on their deal over campaign fundraising. Violating his pledge to John McCain to abide by McCain-Feingold limits for funding his Presidential campaign.

47. Downplaying American exceptionalism. Apology tours.

48. Implying that the Minnesota bridge collapse was the result of lack of infrastructure funding

49. Chicago Olympics fiasco. Shamefully inserting himself into a botched campaign to bring Olympic Games to Chicago, thereby exposing the Presidency of the United States to ridicule and formal rejection, and demonstrating early-on his overconfident sense of himself and his unpreparedness for the seriousness of his office.

50. Hypocritical attack on D.C. public school voucher effort. The attack on a voucher program for Washington, D.C. schools, even as his own children are protected from the educational failures that curse the Washington populace.

51. Associating with the murky. Associations with convicted unrepentant domestic terrorists and eccentric haters of America: the Reverend Wright, William Ayres, Van Jones.

52. Anita Dunn. Her war against Fox News and her boastfulness that the Obama White House has the "courage to speak truth to Power" — when it is the White House, not a cable TV station, that is "Power"; and her speech to schoolchildren, as a White House representative, sharing with the young and impressionable her idolization and admiration of mass-murderer Mao Tse-Tung.

53. ACORN.

54. SEIU. Having Andrew Stern, President of SEIU, as the man who has visited the White House more than any other person during the Obama term.

55. Teleprompters / White House for Dummies. A reliance on teleprompters to protect him from stumbling and bumbling speeches when, without scripting, he has spoken of his visits to America’s "57 states," has denigrated the handicapped, could not pronounce "corpsman," moronically said that Austrians speak "Austrian," referred to deceased war heroes adding that many were in the audience he was addressing, and has made more gaffes than Dan Quayle.

56. Arrogance and Haughtiness. An extreme level of personal nose-in-the-air arrogance and lack of graciousness, from physical comportment to the way he addresses others. The Roman columns. The arrogant temerity to tell Americans, God-like, that history will record his coronation as the moment that the rivers stopped rising and the planet healed.

57. Chicago Corruption. The house he corruptly acquired through Tony Rezko.

58. The artificial shifting dialects. Affecting an artificial accent when speaking to unions, and to others with whom he allies in his "class wars," that belies his having grown up in Hawaii, reared by a Caucasian grandmother, his having spent years being schooled in Indonesia, and later attending school at Occidental College in California, Columbia University, and Harvard Law School.

59. Lack of transparency. Refusing to share his academic records or the sources through which he paid for private college and law school, despite his pre-election calls for transparency.

60. Failure to lead on immigration. Not confronting the immigration issue when he dominantly controlled both the House and a filibuster-proof Senate, then mocking the GOP on immigration, saying they would not be happy with "alligators and moats" — when all they want is secure borders.

61. Fiscal irresponsibility on foreign relations with Egypt. Forgiving billions of dollars in Egyptian and related Mideast debt when we are past the 14.3 trillion debt line.

62. Wasting billions on corrupt "Palestine" agencies. Pumping billions more into the discredited United Nations Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) and the Palestinian Authority that merged with the terrorist Hamas.

63. Radical judicial appointments. Nominating a radical leftist, Professor Goodwin Liu, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit despite Liu’s contempt for constitutional imperatives towards limited government.

64. Acceding to political bribery by cherry-picking waivers to Obamacare for favored donors. Forcing Obamacare down the throats of small businesses across America that cannot afford it . . . then approving politically correct and electoral pay-off waivers for his friends, donors, and rich boutique businesses. Granting 20% of all the country’s Obamacare waivers in Pelosi’s San Francisco district. Buying off votes from Ben Nelson of Nebraska (the Cornhusker Deal), Mary Landrieu (the Louisiana Purchase) to pass Obamacare.

65. Using the White House to crush political opposition. Trying to force donors to his political opponents to reveal their contributions. Using the White House official website asking supporters to report to the Government instances of people criticizing Government policies.

66. Attempting to crush media opposition. Punishing a Boston newspaper whose editorial attacked him, having his White House conduct a war against Fox News, claiming they are an entertainment, not a news organization, and then boycotting Fox until that strategy backfired.

67. Encouraging cultural decline. Inviting "Common," a "poet" with disgusting lyrics of hate, to entertain at the White House

68. The Louis XVI Factor. Vacations and high-profile golf during the Gulf oil crisis, prompting even Democrat strategist and Presidential advisor James Carville to erupt in fury. More high-profile golf at Cape Cod while the country was losing its AAA credit rating for the first time.

69. The Marie Antoinette Factor. Michelle high-profile huge trips abroad, a la Eva Peron, with family friends and their children partying on the public payroll, at 5-star hotels in places like Spain.

70. Al Sharpton. Launching his national presidential reelection campaign with a speech to Al Sharpton’s base.

71. Secrecy in Legislation. Failing to honor his pledge to conduct transparent governance, crafting Obamacare with Democrats behind closed doors barred to Republicans, leaving Obamacare as a massive document so convoluted that Nancy Pelosi had to tell the media: "But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it."

72. A philosophy of redistributing other people’s money. Trying to persuade "Joe the Plumber" that it is a beneficial national economic goal to "redistribute the wealth."

73. Cynically blaming Republicans and Talk Radio for the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Blaming their rhetoric, while failing to address Democrat use of vile and violent language to describe Republicans and the Tea Party.

74. Lying about a family connection to the Holocaust. Lying and falsely telling Americans that his grandfather was among those who liberated Auschwitz when, in fact, no American troops liberated Auschwitz.

75. Failing to grasp the Israel narrative. Describing Israel’s right to exist as premised on the Holocaust, thus missing the entire point of a Jewish country built on the land where Jews have lived since Biblical times.

76. Lying about a family connection to the Civil Rights movement. Telling Americans that his birth happened because his parents became amorous as a result of the 1965 Selma Civil Rights March — even though he was born in 1961.

77. Collapse of the housing market. American housing prices lowest since 2002.

78. Manipulating legislation by forcing votes on massive documents. Racing massive thousand-page legislation packages through Congress without allowing Congress or the American People time to read, comprehend, and absorb the bill — and thus breaking a major campaign promise.

79. The Credit Rating downgrade. Presiding over the first credit-rating downgrade in American history.

80. Timing military campaigns to coincide with election campaigns. Manipulating and sacrificing the lives of American soldiers, basing a withdrawal from Afghanistan not on strategic national security considerations but timed instead to coincide with the start of the 2012 Democrat Presidential Convention.

81. NLRB. Stacking the National Labor Relations Board with left-focused political hacks who are attempting to prevent America’s leading exporter, Boeing, from building a $1 billion manufacturing plant in South Carolina because that state permits employment of non-union labor.

82. Cynically manipulating the national Strategic Oil Reserve. Releasing 30 million barrels of oil from the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to obtain the temporary political goal of lowering gasoline prices that have skyrocketed in the face of his severe restrictions on permitting exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, along the Atlantic coast, and in Alaska in his obsessive pursuit of "green jobs."

83. "Operation Fast and Furious" debacle. Allowing Mexican drug lords to access illegal firearms, then losing track of the firearms while the drug cartels used the illegal firearms for crime including murdering Americans.

84. Lying, lying, and more lying to voters. Trying to create class warfare by telling people that Republicans’ refusal to raise taxes will cause youngsters to be unable to finance their college educations, while causing seniors to lose health care and social security payments. Failing to admit honestly that Congress extended the Bush tax cuts and refused to increase taxes even when Democrats had a filibuster-proof Senate and veto-proof control of both Congressional chambers.

85. Investigating CIA patriots. The Holder investigation into CIA operatives’ interrogations of suspected Al Qaeda terrorists and their use of methods that had been approved in advance by the Justice Department.

If there’s anything that you believe should be added to the list, then please post a response.

And please post why you think any sane person would vote to have Obama reelected.

An Example Of Obama’s Failed Leadership

Michael Redbourn — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:23:14 +0000

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Is the tea party's enthusiasm waning? [VIDEO] | Tea Party Patriots organizer answers.

Colin Powell | Christiane Amanpour | Tea Party | Mediaite

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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has no faith in the Tea Party's ability to produce a president. This he noted today in a discussion with Christiane Amanpour on This Week, where he lamented the very tense tone …

Blaming the Tea Party Is Like Blaming The Firemen Who Came To Put Out The Fire!

Sen. Ron Paul

"A lot of us were elected to put out the fire, handle the debt. That’s why we went to Washington. That’s why we ran for office. Now they are going to blame the debt on us, when we came to try to fix the mess?"

"It is ludicrous on the face of it. I think it is an example of the failure of leadership that he will not accept responsibility. I think we are getting to the point where he’s going to have a failed presidency". Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)

"He got the budgets he wanted. He had both houses of congress. He got the stimulus and health-care that he wanted. This is his economy his record debt. Four times the worst year President Bush had" – Sean Hannity

A prescient article, Obama And The Missing Paper Trail that was written back in October 1978 stated:

Would Barack Obama be likely to fulfill his campaign promises of hope and change if he were elected President?

Judged by his previous achievements the answer would have to be a resounding ‘No’.

When faced with past failures he has always tried to obscure them, and if or when that was not possible he has blamed others.

The many “successes” that he has claimed in campaign speeches were often due to the work of others, but he always took, but never gave credit for them.

S&P Downgraded US Credit Rating Because Of Huge Deficits

Michael Redbourn — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 11:55:56 +0000

Did S&P Downgrade Your Bank? | The Daily Capitalist

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Did S&P Downgrade Your Bank? By Jeff Harding, on November 29th, 2011. S&P issued new ratings for the world's 37 largest banks. Was your bank upgraded or downgraded? As a public service, I have included the entire list. Standard …

S&P: No U.S. Credit Rating Downgrade Despite Supercommittee Fail

www.huffingtonpost.com11/22/11

WASHINGTON — Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's says it will not downgrade the U.S. government's credit rating because a Congressional committee failed to come up with a plan to trim deficits by at least $1.2 trillion …

As you most likely already know, the U.S. had its AAA credit rating downgraded for the first time by S&P, which slammed the nation’s political process and said lawmakers failed to cut spending enough to reduce record deficits.

If you already know the bad news, but don’t know exactly the reasons for the downgrading then maybe watch the vid!

Aug 5, 2011 David Beers, the London-based managing director of sovereign credit ratings at Standard & Poor’s, talks with Bloomberg’s Tom Keene about S&P’s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating.

It’s a pity that David Beers stammers and says so many “ahs”, but it’s perhaps understandable because he’d never been in such a hot-seat before.

Just imagine the heat that he’s getting!

Sen. Marco Rubio’s Debt Ceiling Address

Michael Redbourn — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:36:09 +0000

Marco Rubio | Debt | Weak economy, high debt require immediate …

dailycaller.com6/21/11

If we don't act now, our children and grandchildren will never forgive us.

Marco Rubio's Debt-Ridden Plan.

prospect.org7/15/10

Like most Republicans, Florida Senate hopeful Marco Rubio has taken to attacking President Obama on debt and deficits. Rubio hit Obama on the deficit in a June interview with Newsmax, and on the "Cutting Government …

Senator Rubio is certainly impressive, and I can quite easily imagine him being asked to be a running mate by either Perry or Romney if one of them wins the primaries.

The video below has been edited down and hopefully contains the highlights of Sen Rubio’s address to the Senate.

The full text of Sen. Rubio’s speech is available for download.

Palin’s Emails And The Egg On Liberal Media Faces

Michael Redbourn — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:09:52 +0000

Palin Emails: 14 of the Juiciest Bits from the Trove – The Daily Beast

www.thedailybeast.com6/13/11

The state of Alaska has released 24199 printed pages of emails from Sarah Palin's tenure as governor, ranging from her 2006 inauguration to the 2008 presidential campaign. And for the most part, the media and the public …

MANNx TEDx and all that | Watts Up With That?

wattsupwiththat.com12/7/11

It is most “interesting” that he quotes Sarah Palin (regarding her own emails released in Alaska) to endorse the idea that FOI released emails must not be read “out of context” — because any thinking person should then notice …

Have you noticed how much the left-wing media are downplaying Palin’s emails after going into a feeding frenzy just last week?

This ABC News video will give you a pretty good idea of their predicament.

"The emails show a very engaged Governor Sarah Palin being the CEO of her state. Everyone should read them!". A Palin Aide

The NYT, The Guardian, Mother Jones and others who were frothing at the mouth to get their hands on the emails are really embarrassed now, because they did Palin a big favor and will doubtless increase her popularity.

Mother Jones requested Palin’s gubernatorial emails during the 2008 election:

"Almost three years later, the wait is over".

The Guardian

"Like any other research materials, the emails provide depth and detail more than they make truly shocking revelations – although the extent of Palin’s efforts to build ties with BP, revealed today by the Observer, are among several aspects of her governorship which merit further scrutiny".

LA Times

"The messages include many adoring missives from supporters around the country who, even before she joined the 2008 presidential ticket, saw her as a rising star".

Charles Mahtesian, national politics editor for Politico, said he was sympathetic to critics who said the news media went into unnecessary overdrive on anything Palin-related.

“I think there’s some truth in what the critics on the right say about a double standard for Sarah Palin", he said. “Having said that, she is an incredibly compelling character. And anything she says or does will have a bearing on the 2012 presidential election cycle. So it’s a pretty easy call as a news story".

Investors.com

‘Journalism’: The New York Times and Washington Post have asked their readers’ help in scouring 24,000 emails from Sarah Palin’s governorship, released Friday. They hate her — really hate her.

Imagine a newspaper in 2008 asking readers’ help in perusing Barack Obama’s emails as U.S. senator and Illinois state senator. Or for that matter, help in unearthing his college records. The howls from "mainstream" journalists and Democratic politicians would have been deafening.

A charismatic female leader and mother who is conservative across the board — whose opposition to abortion is backed up by the presence of a special-needs son — spells trouble for the social revolution unleashed in the ’60s.

And what monumental disclosures came in the first hours after the emails’ release? The daughter of the former Alaska governor wanted her mother to pull a state lawmaker’s hair, Palin refers to journalists as the "lame-stream" media and the 2008 GOP vice-presidential nominee wanted a tanning bed.

If lame-stream reporters subjected President Obama to similar probing, we’d bet Americans would find the results a lot more unsettling.

What has so far been found in the emails?

Palin really cared about Alaska and worked endlessly to do her best for it citizens.

She stood up to the big guys to get things done for Alaska.

And she rightfully chastised the MSM.

And we only found out about all that because of the left-wing media’s insistence.

I can well imagine Palin calling the NYT, The Guardian, Mother Jones and other like minded Palin fearers and saying, "Thank you for setting the record straight and for helping raise my popularity".

FCC Is Coordinating Net Neutrality With Free Press

Michael Redbourn — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 12:24:55 +0000

Senate rejects attempt to overturn FCC's net neutrality rules …

latimesblogs.latimes.com11/10/11

The Senate on Thursday voted to keep in place the Federal Communications Commission's controversial rules aimed at preserving open Internet access.

FCC | net neutrality | Internet regulation | The Daily Caller

dailycaller.com11/21/11

FCC net neutrality rules take effect, experts doubt longevity | Free market tech experts: 'It's going to be quite clear to the court that they don't have existing authority'

Is the Obama administration trying once again to get more control over the Internet?

According to e-mails released by Judicial Watch on Thursday (June 2, 2011), the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) would appear to be coordinating its public message regarding ‘net neutrality" with Free Press, which is a left wing non-profit organization partially funded by George Soros, and one of whose aim is to reform the Internet.

Free Press and its supporters believe equal access to the Internet is a civil right, and that service providers should be prohibited from charging certain prices for certain speeds.

They argue that when providers have this kind of control, that customers in weaker coverage areas get slower service.

The thrust of their argument seems to be that either people living in high coverage areas should subsidize those in low coverage areas, or that everybody should get lower bandwidth, neither of which makes any sense, or rings true.

Opponents of net neutrality fear that if service is regulated in this way that content will soon be regulated as well!

The FCC

In spite of a federal appeals court ruling in April 2010, that the FCC did not have any authority to regulate the Internet in this way, the FCC voted to move forward with its ‘net neutrality’ program in December.

On its website, the Federal Communications Commission lists among its goals:

Promoting competition.
Innovation.
Investment in broadband services and facilities.

All of which would be impossible under ‘net neutrality’ rules.

Free Press

Free Press openly advocates for ‘net neutrality’ on its website, and describes Internet’s service providers this way:

They want to become the internet’s gatekeepers, deciding which sites go fast or slow and which won’t load at all-based on who pays them the most.

Furthermore, the group has released statements to the press in 2011 with titles such as:

Congress Should Improve, Not Dismantle, Net Neutrality Rules.

Boehner’s Attack on Net Neutrality Not Based in Reality.

Free Press Action Fund: Vote to Eliminate Net Neutrality is a Dangerous Overreach.

Judicial Watch

E-mails obtained by conservative nonprofit group Judicial Watch highlight the communications between the government and Free Press.

One message from Free Press to the FCC dated November 2, 2010 is a request for the FCC Commissioner’s chief of staff to ask his boss to write an op-ed for the Albuquerque Journal ahead of a November 16 hearing about Internet’s access.

"It’s a great way to get the word out and to spark conversations in advance of the event",

Free Press Associate Outreach Director Misty Perez Truedson wrote to the FCC’s John Giusti.

And Giusti complied, responding one week later,

"We’re working on the op ed".

Another document obtained by Judicial Watch via its Freedom of Information Act request includes the summary of a phone conversation between FCC Commissioner Michael Copps and former Free Press President John Silver, which reads in part:

"Silver emphasized that a strong net neutrality rule is critical to preserving the Internet as a vibrant forum for speech, commerce, innovation, and cultural expression",

And a few days later, the FCC voted to continue it’s net neutrality program in spite of the federal appeals court ruling.

Along with the documents, Judicial Watch released a statement explaining its concern with everything it found along with this statement by its President Tom Fitton.

"The American people should be deeply troubled by the fact that the Obama administration, on issue after issue, seems to be run by shadowy leftist organizations. Our government is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people’, not ‘of the Left, by the Left, and for the Left",

Maybe check out another article, relating to the Obama administration’s attempts to get more control over such companies as Apple, Microsoft and Google.