We were quiet simply sold a bill of goods. The World Governments, the American people and especially the Democratic Party were sold a hollow, ineffective leader that has taken the most respected and revered job in the world, President of the United States and turned our country into an embarrassment.

By and large throughout recent history America has commanded respect throughout the world and very few governments would ever say no to a reasonable request from our leader. I am afraid that is no longer true. At every turn one country after another has been saying NO to the United States. While there are always those that have an opposing view of our decisions and have respectively voiced them, there have never been so many countries at one time saying no to our leader or criticizing his decisions.

He has made so many bad decisions regarding our foreign policies that America has become an embarrassment to many Americans that are so proud of this country, among our friends in the global community. He is seen as an ineffective leader and as the image of our leader is often used to represent the image of America, we are seen as an ineffective power that once dominated the balance of power.

While our friends on the other side of the isle may not agree with my assessment of our President, it is my belief that they too are embarrassed by their choice of a Democrat to hold the office in the White House. And therein lays the truth of what I have said. President Obama isn’t using the office as a tool for effective leadership; he is merely a placeholder in that office until the time comes for us to correct our mistake in 2012.

Great stuff…….

Glenn also discussed the Conyers mess with Rus. Great stuff….

And now my 2 cents

While this may have been the most expensive inauguration in history, it was attended by a large group of “low class, no count” thugs. I mean that in every sense of the word. Even the ultra Obama smoozer of all time, Chris Mathews, could be heard saying, “Bad form here, bad form.”

Many may not have agreed with GWB and his policies (even here at RedState) he was STILL the President of the United States, and is a good, honorable and decent man. To be treated like this during such a monumental historical event says just one thing, and it’s some thing many of us have said for a long time. “The majority of Democrats are thugs”, and it couldn’t have been more apparent today.

As the current POTUS was being announced, this crowd of hoodlums on the Mall began to boo President George W. Bush. Hoodlums, thugs, punks, no class low life’s, no counts… I am too mad right now to think of other adjectives to describe this crowd.

To be fair, there were many honorable people in attendance and IMHO none more honorable the the Tuskegee Airman and to tarnish their honor, there service to our country, to belittle George W. Bushes service to us all in a time of crisis is absolutely, positively unforgivable.

This whole affair is getting a bit over done. Thomas Jefferson simply walked from his boarding house, over to Capital Hill, was sworn in and started working. It should be just that simple.

I will remember this day for ever, not as one where the first African American was installed as the President of the United States, but as the most distasteful act of public humility I have ever witnessed, it it will forever taint my view of President Obama.

Good video from the RNC.

From WCBS News:

In an e-mail to supporters, Christie says a formal announcement will come in the first week in February.

The filing allows Christie to start raising money for the 2009 race.

The 46-year-old Republican with a reputation as a corruption-busting prosecutor has been flirting with a gubernatorial bid since resigning as U.S. Attorney Dec. 1.

Christie faces a primary challenge from state Assemblyman Rick Merkt and former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine plans to seek re-election.

In addition, the Newark Star Ledger confirms that report.

Troops, lets get behind this, Christie is a hard working, good man, a corruption fighting prosecutor and an excellent choice for Govenor.

A statement made today by this leader of the most powerful nation in the world has only confirmed my suspicions about is utter and complete lack of understanding of what is going on in the world.

It became exceedingly clear to me that we are NOT heading down a different road, that we are not going to see prosperity anytime soon and we are just going to get more of the same old thing. I never thought for a moment that he would change and make the right decisions regarding our economy and restoring this country to the economic powerhouse it was and still can be.

It became exceedingly clear when I saw this photo posted on the Drudge Report with the caption so eloquently stated, and I present that portrait to you now as a shining example of a “Failed President.” What is unique about this failure, is that this man has yet to assume the role of our leader, yet he has clearly failed as a leader.

Jennifer Loven, White House Correspondent for the Associated Press filed this story, and should have titled it as Matt Drudge did.

Some excerpts from this article:

Since his November election, Obama has deferred to President George W. Bush on foreign policy matters such as the Middle East. But, with the worsening of the economic situation, Obama has waded deeply into domestic issues as he works to generate support for his plan to create jobs and jolt the economy into recovery.

In the speech at George Mason University outside Washington, Obama asked Congress to work with him “day and night, on weekends if necessary” to pass a revival plan within the next few weeks so that it can be ready for his signature shortly after he takes office on Jan. 20.

He wants to be a hero on day 1 of his Presidency and yet he has no idea of the consequences of his idea.

Spend Our Way Out of This

That is his idea of ending the recession that grips this nation, and seemingly deepens daily. How do we pay for all this spending? Print more money, so what little we have now is worth even less?

Spend Our Way Out of This

Faced with a possible $1.2 Trillion Dollar deficit from the current budget year, how can the taxpayers of this country afford his spending spree? He proposes a tax-cut, yet wants to spend more. I am not as educated in finance as many of our esteemed team members here at Red State. I am a rather simple man with a small business and when times are slow, I don’t tell my wife to go out and spend our way back to prosperity.

The president-elect cast blame on “an era of profound irresponsibility that stretched from corporate boardrooms to the halls of power in Washington.” But he added, “The very fact that this crisis is largely of our own making means that it is not beyond our ability to solve.”

Mr. Soon-To-Be President, that “era of profound irresponsibility” is exactly the same tactic you now propose to rescue our economy.

Still, his remarks shed no new light on the details of his plan that could cost as much as $775 billion over two years in tax cuts and spending. And, he said little about the unprecedented red ink and rising debt confronting the government, even after spending days reassuring the public and Congress that he is committed to tackling long-term deficits after the economy rebounds.

Spend Our Way Out of This

Ms. Loven, that last paragraph I just quoted shows that your not paying attention. Rather, the answer is in bold print just above this sentence. He is going to Spend Our Way Out of This,

Why, oh why Mr. Soon-To-Be President, haven’t you learned from the great financial minds of our past and present. The way out of this is so clear to most of us, why is it clouded from your mind. You profess to be a man of change, then change your manta from Spend Our Way Out of This to Let the Free Market Show Us the Way Out of This.

I am all for your tax-cuts, keep them coming. THAT is what will show us the way out of this. Your proposal will only bleed us dry, and your tax-cuts will be meaningless, because they will be followed by a round of very sharp tax increases.

Mr. Soon-To-Be President, you have failed before you have even begun.

An excerpt from the article:

My job will be to remind journalists that Hamas, not Israel, conquered Gaza and cut it off from the West Bank;

I had completely forgotten this little tid-bit of fact, or rather is was blurred in my aging memory. It is a point not often brought up by anyone in the media, although vauge references are made to the fact that Hamas governs Gaza, while they pity the citizens of that land.

Another great statement in that article:

Last night, while packing my kitbag, I listened as foreign correspondents spoke of Israel’s plan to “divide and conquer” the West Bank and Gaza Arabs, that Israel had “starved” and “strangled” Gazans and forced them to lash out with missiles, and that Gaza is “the world’s most densely populated area.”

Soon, the entire world will be quoting that mis-statement “Gazans are forced to lash out with missiles” that has been made by many correspondents, but we are reminded by Professor Oren that it is the reverse that is the truth.

Oh, those brutal Israelis, how I love them so!

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Professor Igor Panarin said in an interview with the respected daily IZVESTIA published on Monday: “The dollar is not secured by anything. The country’s foreign debt has grown like an avalanche, even though in the early 1980s there was no debt. By 1998, when I first made my prediction, it had exceeded $2 trillion. Now it is more than 11 trillion. This is a pyramid that can only collapse.”

He predicted that the U.S. will break up into six parts - the Pacific coast, with its growing Chinese population; the South, with its Hispanics; Texas, where independence movements are on the rise; the Atlantic coast, with its distinct and separate mentality; five of the poorer central states with their large Native American populations; and the northern states, where the influence from Canada is strong.

It’s worth noting that Professor Panarin is a leading Russian political analyst, not a financial analyst.

If you begin to look around the world, you’ll see the old Russia re-emerging from it’s ashes like a Phoenix.

Russian Warships In Venezuela

Medvedev Bringing Out the Old Party Rhetoric

These are but a few examples of old mother Russia beginning to return to the cold war days. Add Iran and that nut-ball Ahmadinejad to the soup and I think the US of A will be just fine.

Obama proposes massive spending by the Government to boost the economy, and he may be exactly right. We will need to spend huge amounts of cash to return our military to it’s former self, and the threat of a new Cold War could be just the chum to stir up a feeding frenzy of military spending, which I fully support.

Give GM, Ford and Chrysler military funds to build new vehicles, we’re going to need them!

It’s been a great 3 years here, I have gotten mad about 345 times, sad a few, aggravated several dozen times, make that a lot, but I always come back because, this is where the future of our democracy lies.

I firmly believe that everyone here will have a chance to change destiny, and keep this country from sliding into the abyss of the left.

I have seen no better debate, anywhere on the Internet, that is intelligent debate with meaningful results.

Keep up the great work Erick and the rest of the directors.

Man, I just love this place…

Is Sarah Palin ovulating? It’s a personal question, but we need to know. Last year, a highly-publicized study of strippers found that dancing girls always earned more during the time of the month when they were most fertile. Simply put, men were more attracted to them for reasons they were not aware of and could not control. With that in mind, ovulation may be part of the reason that Palin charmed a certain segment of American during the debates last night. I mean, check this out:

• Rollins gave 10 points to Palin on CNN.
• “Sarah Palin was sensational tonight… she wiped the floor with Joe Biden.” -Pat Buchanan on MSNBC
• “Palin too projects through the screen like crazy. I’m sure I’m not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, “Hey, I think she just winked at me.” And her smile. By the end, when she clearly knew she was doing well, it was so sparkling it was almost mesmerizing. It sent little starbursts through the screen and ricocheting around the living rooms of America.” -Richard Lowry, pundit on National Review’s The Corner blog.
• “She delivered big-time… It was the best 90 minutes this campaign has had in two weeks… Whatever expectations there were, she blew them away.” -Tom Rath, New Hampshire-based GOP strategist.

I thought I’d heard all the excuses, but I hadn’t heard this one!

Let’s take that $85,000,000,000.00 and spread it around. Take a look at this formula, it’s noteworthy and it really makes sense.

First some simple math:

Let us assume there are 200,000,000 bon-a-fide U.S. Citizens 18+. That number is probably high.

Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and
child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..

So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billon that equals
$425,000.00 per adult.

Give $425,000 to every person 18+ as an American Dividend.

Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let’s assume a tax rate of 30%.

Every individual 18+ has to pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to the Tresuary.

But it means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $850,000.00 and their tax share would be less then $255,000.00 that would be double the single tax rate, but still a significant number.

What would you do with six figures in your family budget?

• Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved.

• Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads

• Put away money for college - it’ll be there

• Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs

• Buy a new car - create jobs

• Invest in the market - capital drives growth

• Pay for your parent’s medical insurance - health care improves

Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.

If we’re going to re-distribute wealth let’s really do it…instead of trickling out a puny $1,000.00 ( “vote buy” ) economic incentive that isbeing proposed by one of our candidates for President.

If we’re going to do an $85 billion bailout, let’s bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+!

As for AIG - liquidate it.
Sell off its parts.
Let American General go back to being American General.
Sell off the real estate.
Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.

We deserve it and AIG doesn’t.

Behind all that beauty is a brain that can match anyones wit and her charm makes her all the more dangerous to the adversary.

The morning I went to visit Palin’s office, CNN was interviewing the governor on the subject. “Has Alaska become a joke?” the reporter asked, referring to the way lawmakers seemed to revel in their venality, even having caps printed with the initials CBC, for “Corrupt Bastards Club.”

Palin grimaced. “It breaks my heart to hear that we are being ridiculed like that, but it just solidifies my commitment to clean things up,” she answered. Since taking office in December 2006, she has enacted legislation mandating a one-year waiting period for politicians between leaving office and working for the energy industry. She also put the Westwind jet her predecessor had bought up for sale on eBay. He had argued he needed the plane to fly around the state, but the small native villages that dot the interior of the state have gravel runways. Westwind jets can land only on asphalt.

The story is a great pre-McCain endorsement and one that I find fascinating.

Behind all that beauty is a brain that can match anyones wit and her charm makes her all the more dangerous to the adversary.

The morning I went to visit Palin’s office, CNN was interviewing the governor on the subject. “Has Alaska become a joke?” the reporter asked, referring to the way lawmakers seemed to revel in their venality, even having caps printed with the initials CBC, for “Corrupt Bastards Club.”

Palin grimaced. “It breaks my heart to hear that we are being ridiculed like that, but it just solidifies my commitment to clean things up,” she answered. Since taking office in December 2006, she has enacted legislation mandating a one-year waiting period for politicians between leaving office and working for the energy industry. She also put the Westwind jet her predecessor had bought up for sale on eBay. He had argued he needed the plane to fly around the state, but the small native villages that dot the interior of the state have gravel runways. Westwind jets can land only on asphalt.

The story is a great pre-McCain endorsement and one that I find fascinating.

The JP is reporting that the AIVD (Dutch Intelligence) has called off an operation aimed at infiltrating and sabotaging Iran’s weapons industry due to an assessment that a US attack on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program is imminent.

The report claimed that the Dutch operation had been “extremely successful,” and had been stopped because the US military was planning to hit targets that were “connected with the Dutch espionage action.”

The impending air-strike on Iran was to be carried out by unmanned aircraft “within weeks,” the report claimed, quoting “well placed” sources.

Our new technology was able to tap his webcam and capture his expression as he hit the Save button on his very first diary.

It will take a moment to load, it must be feteched from the data base.

Hold on, it’s coming…..

They will no doubt feel emboldened and there is sure to be a surge if Obama wins, however it won’t be a US Military surge, it’ll be a Jihad surge of the utmost importance.

Remember this little ditty, this showed up around the world when it became clear that Obama was a front runner in the primary.

And then there was this little fellow stating how Hamas would love to see Mr. Obama in the White House. Ahmed Yousef, if you need to be reminded, is the poliltical policy maker for Hamas…

It’s time to bring this back out of the closet and shout about it some more.