The Scariest Part of the SOTU Speech

I will admit to being one of those who could not stomach watching Obama’s SOTU speech. I have had my fill of his lies and his constant projecting of himself as a savior. I was not going to watch and add a number to his viewing polls, but I did watch the speech later online.

Most of his lies were fairly transparent and I fail to understand how 45% to 47% of the American public can still have any confidence or faith in this master manipulator. He has been a failure at anything resembling leadership. He and his minions have only made marginal successes via intimidation, bullying, and bribery.

One part of his speech did send chills down my spine and although mentioned by the MSM it seems that it was glossed over. Obama has portrayed himself as a Constitutional Scholar yet believes the Constitution is flawed and should be changed. His lack of knowledge about the history and civics of America has been very evident from his speeches. His bias against American ideals and mores punctuates his every photo and teleprompter opportunity.

This is the part of the speech that scares me:

With all due deference to separation of powers*,  Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that’s why I’m urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong.

*This phrase was omitted from the printed transcript.

The SCOTUS case and ruling dealt with a point of law from the 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, and the case dealt with free speech and the right of ALL citizens to participate in the election process. The mission of the Supreme Court is to determine the Constitutionality of a law. They determined that McCain-Feingold was Constitutionally flawed. It is not their fault that the Congress of the United States is passing bad law.

During this past session of Congress we have seen multiple instances of bad law. We are seeing attempts by the Obama Administration to subjugate America under the auspices of the UN in contravention to the Constitution. We have seen them trample on the Constitution and state that they want the Court to “break free” of the constraints placed on it by the Constitution. Obama says the Constitution is flawed because it mostly “says what the states can’t do to you … what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.”

We have seen Obama skirt the law by appointing “Czars” and shutting out the Legislature now he wants to control or minimize the SCOTUS. He is establishing a base of power without any checks or balances within the Executive Branch. This is very scary!

Obama railed against possible foreign contributors to campaigns yet his own campaign benefited by at least $63 million from foreign sources. There does not seem to be any investigation by the Federal Elections Commission into the discrepancies in Obama’s campaign monies. Also Obama’s education at Harvard seems to have been assisted by an advisor, Khalid al Mansour, to one of the Saudi Princes.

Obama and his administration have proved over and over that they know how to game the system. They will continue to ignore the people and push forward with their idea of a socialist utopia that exists only in drug induced dreams. It is time for all patriotic Americans to raise their voices and loudly reject any attempt by any elected official to ignore their oath of office and the Constitution.

Supreme Court Rules that Constitution Means What it Says

“Congress Shall Make No Law … Abridging the Freedom of Speech.”

Today, the United States Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Citizens United v. FCC, voting 5-4 to stand by the Constitution and protect our First Amendment right to free speech. Justice Kennedy, writing for the Court, said, “We find no basis for the proposition that, in the context of political speech, the Government may impose restrictions on certain disfavored speakers.”

Penny Young Nance, Concerned Women for America’s (CWA) Chief Executive Officer, said, “The Court correctly concluded that judges should stop playing semantics with our Constitution and read the text as it is written. The government should not be limiting political speech because someone is rich or poor, or because they disagree with a particular point of view. Americans are the real winners today. Further, I recall upon the passage of the legislation that Members of Congress openly admitted voting in favor of the McCain-Feingold knowing it was unconstitutional. Those days have to end.”

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Larry King, John McCain, Rasheed Khalidi, and the Barack Obama Shamwow Infomercial

Somebody told me that a baseball game was played last night. I don’t care. Baseball is boring.

That concludes the sports report. Now on to politics.

Barack Obama ran a 30 minute infomercial last night. I would sooner watch a “Sham wow” commercial than one more clip of this nonsense.

This is not about conservatism vs liberalism. It is about substance vs style. I was expecting the equivalent of a fireside chat. Instead, it truly was just an elongated campaign commercial that was ultra light on specifics and ultra heavy on Obama’s love for himself. Our souls are broken, to quote his wife Michelle, and only he can fix them.

Obama can get away with this because he is rolling in money.

I want to make it clear that I have no objection to Obama raising tons of money. I think all politicians should have the opportunity to raise this money. The irony is that it will be John McCain and that horrible campaign finance reform law of McCain-Feingold that has McCain starving for cash at the 11th hour.

I am voting for John McCain, but he has only himself to blame for this. He agreed to spending limits if Obama would as well. Obama said he would. He lied. There is no other way of sugarcoating this.

More importantly, I am almost glad he lied. For one, it will prove that there are absolutely no consequences for being against campaign finance reform. It is inside baseball. The American people don’t care. The media love campaign finance reform because it gives them more power, heaven forbid anybody else have influence. Ordinary people are not bothered by Obama raising tons of cash. As a republican, I support his right to do so.

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Obama Glow Fading?

www.nikitas3.com

In late June, Newsweek magazine announced poll results that showed Barack Obama with a 51-36 lead over John McCain. At the time, Nikitas3.com editorialized:
 
Meanwhile, a new Newsweek poll shows Obama with a 51-36 lead over McCain. While this is intended to stimulate the chattering classes and frighten conservatives, we can take comfort in the fact that Newsweek has morphed into a far-left publication that can and will conveniently skew the polls any way it wants.

For instance pollsters know that phone surveys conducted at certain times of the day or week will produce results biased one way or another. Or people in certain demographic zones will tilt one way or the other. And that the polls can be rigged by the questions asked, or even by their sequence. Read more

Untouchable Obama

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“But I will tell you: The hottest ring in hell is reserved for those in politics who attack their opponents’ families,” said Democrat US Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois about public criticisms of Barack Obama’s wife Michelle.

New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said that questions about Mrs. Obama are the latest edition of the political game “kill the witch”.

Never mind decades of ferocious and scurrilous media attacks on anyone with ‘Republican’ after their name like Dan Quayle, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, George Bush, Trent Lott, Bob Packwood, Tom DeLay, Dennis Hastert, Katherine Harris…

And welcome to campaign 2008, in which one camp – Obama and his supporters — have decided that their candidate is beyond not only question and reproach, but even mere inquiry. Obama cannot be criticized and his wife cannot be scrutinized even for her negative comments about America. Thus the vicious media treatment dished out to President Bush since before he even had entered the 2000 presidential race (remember the book about his alleged cocaine use published when he still was Texas governor?) not only will not be tolerated for Obama, but even Obama’s actual quotes and associations are being buried by the press and subliminally marked as off limits. How convenient.

Pastor Wright? Forget it. Obama has quit the church.

Wright’s mentorship of Obama? Naaah, they were just friends. Forget that the Audacity of Hope title came from Wright.

Tony Rezko? That was just some guy whom Obama did a little real estate deal with. No problem. He’s going to jail. So what.

Jim Johnson, the former head of Fannie Mae who also headed up Obama’s VP search team, who got questionable loans from Countrywide, the dark prince of subprime lending? Hey, you can’t know everything! Johnson is fired!

Obama’s subtle jabs at Hillary’s feminism? What jabs? Read more

Does McCain Want to Win?

After McCain won enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination, the general wisdom was that he would have to work hard to bring the conservative core of the Republican Party over to his side. For a while it appeared that he was actually trying to do that. But the honeymoon is over.

Today is Cinco de Mayo and McCain chose this date to unveil his Spanish languish web site. I have my reservations about a Spanish languish site considering American citizens, the only one’s who can vote, should be able to read an English language site. But the site itself isn’t the big problem. What is a problem is McCain’s return to language reminiscent of the McCain-Kennedy debate.

McCain is now saying that Republicans have hurt themselves by opposing McCain-Kennedy and he wants to turn that around. He’ll do so basically by implementing McCain-Kennedy once elected! It makes one wonder how sincere McCain was when he said he was a conservative and wanted to work with conservatives. Clearly he doesn’t think he needs to worry about us too much now. Read more

Did John McCain Violate Campaign Finance Reform Laws?

CNN reports on bloggers like DailyKOS filing complaint with the FEC over John McCain’s campaign finance irregularities. John McCain was the author of finance campaign reform laws.

(Also see the FHK McCain-Feingold archive here.)

Irony: McCain Accused of Violating McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Laws

The Democrats have called for a special investigation into the campaign finances of Senator John McCain. The dispute is over whether McCain’s non-receipt of public funds for his campaign allows him to continue spending money on his campaign for the remainder of the primary election season. The New York Sun is reporting:

Mr. McCain, the likely Republican nominee, has tried to withdraw from the public financing system, but the FEC chairman has initially refused to grant his request. Read more

George Soros Masterminded McCain-Feingold?

WorldNetDaily recently broke the story that George Soros is funding both sides of the 2008 presidential election. It’s not a surprise that he’s supporting Hillary and Obama, but many are surprised to learn that he’s also funding Republican John McCain’s campaign via the Reform Institute. Read more

Did McCain-Feingold Pave the Way for McCain to be the Republican Nominee?

Ann Coulter’s column this week gives some very interesting perspective on the recent tragedy loosely-termed Republican Primaries. The entire article is here…following is an excerpt:

Inasmuch as the current presidential election has come down to a choice among hemlock, self-immolation or the traditional gun in the mouth, now is the time for patriotic Americans to review what went wrong and to start planning for 2012.

How did we end up with the mainstream media picking the Republican candidate for president?

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George Soros is Funding both Sides of the 2008 Election

Ft. Hard Knox authors have written extensively about George Soros’ control of the Democrat Party, the liberal media, the Democrat-controlled Congress…he’s so evil, that Tex even managed to draw a comparison between Soros and the Antichrist, and 1389 published a “how-to” guide on how to fight him.

What could be scarier than this man controlling our liberal elite? How about Soros funding both sides of the 2008 Elections! Read more

Conservatives Lost In The Wilderness

With the advent of Juan McAmnesty looming it is becoming increasingly certain that the conservative branch of the Republican Party is being taken for granted.

The message given by McCain at the Conservative Political Action Conference, which quickly was supported by the GOP establishment, was for conservatives to calm down and get back in line. You won’t find the DNC ever sending such a message to the blacks, Gay Rights groups, or women in their party.

Ann Coulter reminds us in her February 6 article of who this man that we are being told to support really is. . .

“McCain is a liberal.

– He excoriated Samuel Alito as too “conservative.”
– He promoted amnesty for 20 million illegal immigrants.
– He abridged citizens’ free speech (in favor of the media) with McCain-Feingold. — He hysterically opposes waterboarding terrorists and wants to shut down Guantanamo.
– He denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
– He opposes ANWR and supports the global warming cult, even posturing with fellow mountebank Arnold Schwarzenegger in front of solar panels.

The only site that would have been more appropriate for Schwarzenegger in endorsing McCain would have been in front of an abortion clinic.

Although McCain has the minimum pro-life record demanded by the voters of Arizona, in 2006, McCain voted in favor of using taxpayer funds to harvest stem cells from human embryos. He opposes a constitutional amendment to protect human life. And he frets that if Roe v. Wade were overruled, women’s lives would be “endangered.” This is the same John McCain who chides Mitt Romney today for “flip-flopping” on abortion. At least Romney flips and stays there. ”

While so-called conservative pundits agonize on a new course of action as pro-John pundits are feverishly ignoring the fact that John McCain has been funded by George Soros since 2001, there is one that very few consider. Currently there is a push on to scare republicans into voting for republicans. The idea is to make us believe that Hillary Clinton is a worse choice than Juan, and more liberal than our country can stand, but the truth is that the Clinton’s have a history of meeting people who support them more than half way.

With Hillary having problems with securing her party’s nomination now would be the time for conservatives to rally behind her. By doing this it would keep conservatives relevant to the political process, buy us some badly needed gravitas, and get us a chance of being able to influence future policy decisions in Washington. All McCain offers us conservatives are his demands, his lies and a curse.

I will not vote for Juan McShamnesty, but I will support any action that flushes John. I do so in the hopes of making the Republican Party strong and proud again. I invite you to join me in giving Hillary, or any candidate not Juan your support.

Be a real Mavrick.

Not Everyone at CPAC is Buying McCain (Ann Coulter Weighs In)

Well, unless something very unexpected happens very soon, John McCain will be the Republican candidate for President of the United States in November.

But not everyone at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington D.C. is on board. These demonstrators, for example, were in the lobby of the Omni Shoreham Hotel during the McCain speech on Thursday.

And we learned last week that Ann Coulter would rather vote for Hillary than McCain. Read more

Soros Channeling Big Money to Clinton and Obama

Accuracy in Media is reporting that George Soros is pouring millions into the Democratic party through hedge funds that channel it to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

It is apparent that both of these candidates are "corporate Democrats" with substantial ties to the business community. But haven’t we been told by the media that the Republicans are the party of Big Business?

In fact, a review of the public record for the 2008 election cycle shows that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in the top five of all politicians, on the presidential and congressional levels, in receiving financial contributions from the controversial, mysterious and secretive hedge fund industry. Overall, data from the Center for Responsive Politics shows that hedge funds prefer Democrats over Republicans by a margin of 79-21 percent. Democrats have received $4.2 million and Republicans $1.1 million from hedge funds. What the hedge fund operators want from the politicians is what all of us desire-less taxation, regulation and oversight. But they have the money to get their way, even though they can hold the fate of entire nations and their economies in their hands.

It is significant that one of the richest men in the world, billionaire George Soros, is a hedge fund operator and convicted inside trader who pours millions of dollars into the Democratic Party, its front groups and candidates. He has put money into the coffers of both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. He will be able to pull the strings if either is elected president.

Also see:

• FHK – George Soros Masterminded McCain Feingold?
• George Soros is funding both sides of the 2008 Election

Why Do Conservatives Hate McCain?

John McCain, despite spouting his conservative credentials, is not well liked or respected among many conservatives. McCain has been a pain in the side of conservatives on key legislation, often siding with the likes of Ted Kennedy and other liberal Democrats. Basically, he slapped the conservative face over and over again. Here are six issues we still have not forgotten.

1. McCain-Feingold campaign reform. That “reform” was a joke. It was intended to stop the flow of money into political campaigns but it never stopped it. It also hurt Republican fund raising and free speech more then it did Democrats.
2. The Gang of Fourteen. During that time, he stopped the nuclear option of Republicans trying to end the repeated filibusters of conservative judges by Democrats. He stood with moderate Republicans and Democrats and took control of the senate. As a result, Democrats can still filibuster conservative judges.
3. McCain’s environmental tree hugging. He admitted that we needed to seriously address the environmental issue siding with the most liberal of Democrats. This put a stop to drilling in Anwar and, therefore, made us dependent on foreign oil and higher gas prices.
4. The McCain-Kennedy bill on comprehensive immigration reform. It is bad enough he sided with Kennedy but it is worse that he promoted this Amnesty bill. It was another in-your-face middle finger to conservatives.
5. He voted against the Bush tax-cut bill. Enough said! He again sided with the liberals in wanting to keep our money with the government instead of giving it back to us.
6. He sided with terrorists over security. In denouncing waterboarding and Abu Ghraib as torture, he showed more respect for terrorists then the security of his own fellow countrymen.

Yes, many of us conservatives can’t stand John McCain. He still has not reached out to us except for the usual lip service. However, actions speak louder then words. This conservative, for one, can not stand John McCain.

UPDATE, also see:

• Crooked Timber: Prediction Markets in Republican Spin
• National Review Online: It’s All Over
• Michelle Malkin: John McCain vs. the Right – No Easy Peace
• FHK: The NYT Endorses McCain…

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