The NFL has put on a fine display of New Age leadership in the era of Obama. Truth is irrelevant; the new great moral standard is whether facts are “divisive.” Rush offered a compelling analysis of human relations and motives. Rather than addressing the issues he presented, the NFL dropped out of the debate. Nations, businesses, religions, and individuals that willingly choose to ignore problems because doing so will understandably create discomfort are destined to fail.

By the NFL’s own explicit admission, Rush was barred admission into their club not because his ideas were not grounded in facts, but because his ideas were revolutionary and “divisive.” Excellence in broadcasting and life comes from a willingness to make needed changes. The opt-out version, however, does no one any favors as eventually the day of reckoning comes.

The former community organizer continues to vote present rather than lead. During the campaign Obama and his liberal friends (minus Cindy Sheehan) proclaimed Afghanistan as the “good war.” A full year after Senator Obama was named chairman of the subcommittee on Europe, then-Senator and now-Secretary of State Clinton saw right through Obama’s opaqueness. Minus his binky, Obama proceeded to stumble into an explicit admission he was guilty as charged.

Senator Clinton: …I have heard Senator Obama refer continually to Afghanistan, and he references being on the Foreign Relations Committee. He chairs the Subcommittee on Europe. It has jurisdiction over NATO. NATO is critical to our mission in Afghanistan. He’s held not one substantive hearing to do oversight, to figure out what we can do to actually have a stronger presence with NATO in Afghanistan…

Senator Obama: Well, first of all, I became chairman of this committee at the beginning of this campaign, at the beginning of 2007. So it is true that we haven’t had oversight hearings on Afghanistan.

I have been very clear in talking to the American people about what I would do with respect to Afghanistan.

-Democratic debate, Feb. 26, 2008

As Senator: Chaired zero substantive subcommittee meetings regarding Afghanistan.

As Senator (July 2008): Promises that as President the fight against “Al Qaeda and the Taliban” will be a top priority.

As Senator (During the first Presidential debate): Touted his relentless call for more troops in Afghanistan.

As President (March 2009): Introduced a new strategy for success in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

As President (August 2009): Speaking with a teleprompter before the Veterans of Foreign Wars conference, Obama asserted that Afghanistan was a “war of necessity”. 

As President (Pre 60 Minutes revelations): One meeting with General McChrystal in 70 days.

As President (Post 60 Minutes/Pre Olympic Flameout): One hastily arranged 25 minute meeting on the Tarmac aboard Air Force One.

As President (Post Posturing): Introduced his latest strategy for Afghanistan.

Conclusion: Cindy Sheehan has more credibility and leadership skills than our President and the U.N. combined. Obama needs to step it up if he wants to be just like Cindy, Hugo Chavez, and Fidel Castro. As it is, he’s just like Carter. Any claim by Obama that he’s actively gathering information and merely engaged in a listening tour is an insincere lie, as the generals on the ground have already communicated what it will take for America to win in Afghanistan.  

Thank you to our troops serving in Afghanistan and around the world. Our thoughts and prayers, and (hopefully) Commander-in-Chief and Congress are with you.

To enraged Obama supporters and liberal politicians who respond to Sarah Palin and other fishy e-mailers by screaming: “But that’s not in the bill! That’s not in the bill!” let me grant your argument for the time being. Your disgust with Sarah Palin’s comments indicates that you actually agree with her.

Like many (such as Bob Beckle) who blow a gasket when defending Obama against emphatic assertions that the President supports infanticide, you seem to be saying but hey, if Sarah Palin’s description of the health care bill is accurate and/or if pro-lifers’ characterization of Obama supporting infanticide is accurate, then of course the labeling of these policies as evil would indeed be justified.

If the proposed health care bill is based on a subjective (or objective) judgment of an individual’s “level of productivity in society,” and senior citizens, a fetus, or a baby with Down Syndrome would have to stand in front of a “death panel” of bureaucrats, that policy would indeed be evil. Likewise, if Obama did vote against a bill that would outlaw infanticide, that individual who voted against such a bill would indeed be evil.

At my town hall meeting, I plan to ask my member of Congress: “I understand you believe end of life issues will rest solely with the patient and not with an appointed Czar. Hypothetically, if you should learn this is in fact not the case, would you then vote “no” on this bill?”

P.S., By the way, Sarah Palin is of course correct. These abominable provisions are in HR 3200. However, I’d only point this out to my member of Congress the day after the town hall meeting if he responds in the affirmative to my question. Otherwise, it’s obvious the truth or falseness of Sarah Palin’s statement is irrelevant to them.

http://www.bdfund.org/obamacare.asp

By the way, Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren certainly has no qualms about HR 3200.

H/T to Caleb’s most recent post, in which he coined a new word — literally!

No doubt out of fear of being seen as a “sell-out” by his kostituency, Olbermann…

In honor of Caleb, we need to further define what a “kostituency” consists of.

The stupid dictionary seems to be the ideal vehicle for doing so.

http://stupidictionary.com/kostituency

“The report, I believe, will be concluded at some point this week. We’ll release its findings and release a photo,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said during his daily press briefing.

So the generous one will now let us see “a” (i.e., one) photo of the New York City flyover? I wonder what it will show?

Meanwhile, more Abu Ghraib photos will be released, along with selective interrogation memos hand-picked by the Obama administration.

What’s transparent is that something’s going on the White House doesn’t want us to know about. Why not release all the photos? Releasing only one photo is worse than not releasing any. Do they think we’re that stupid?

When I saw this headline I thought it was an Onion-type April Fool’s Day story. Unfortunately, after clicking on the link I learned it’s not.

The “one” is a joke.

Historic? Absolutely! For the first time in our Republic’s history, the American people have elected a president who is not just a fetus killer, but a live baby killer as well. (And a Marxist on top of that.)

I can tolerate inept tax policies and even wanting to pull out of Iraq, but Obama’s disrespect for life is beyond the pale. That audio Erick posted of Obama arguing the indefensible was chilling. To me, Obama will always be known as the infanticide president. Here’s a “congratulatory letter” from today’s Washington Post Inauguration edition:

The Times They Are a Changin’

Our Dear Leader-Welcome home.
Please know the miraculous feat
and pride your presidency brings to
us deserves the highest recognition.
Thanks to eloquent leadership and
because of the values you hold dear,
hands of the old tremble with joy and
newborn babes are tossed proudly in
the air, dressed in the most exquisite
linen. Closets, which were locked
because of necessity, proudly open
without shame. We call this infant I
adore America. Equal, free, side by
side. May God bless her ever more.

Talitha Christiansen