“President Obama’s aides have officially launched their campaign against  Romney’s business experience, but Romney’s team pushed back quickly and the Obama campaign has curbed its criticism to avoid offending other business executives that are sitting on the political fence.” says a recent Washington Post article.

“Romney’s business experience at Bain Capital is “the central premise of his campaign for president … [but] he cares about making money for himself and his partners, no matter the cost,” said Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s deputy campaign manager.”

The Obama campaign, however, tempered its criticism of Romney with repeated claims that their criticism is aimed at his qualifications to become president, not at other wealthy investors who work with American private equity firms.

Now with that in mind I must ask, what planet do you think Team Obama’s Stephanie Cutter was born on? She stands, straight-faced, accusing Romney of having less qualifications that Obama, a man who has never really held a job albeit his run with ACORN as a ‘Community Organizer.” Is it me? Or, is there something in the water there at Obama HQ?

“No one is questioning the private equity industry as whole. … This is about about whether Romney’s business experience qualified him to become president,” Cutter said. Yes, please read that line 2-3 more times until the disbelief wears off your face.

His goal at Bain, she said, was to ensure that “a handful of investors can make a fortune [but] a president like that would be a disaster.” This is, of course, while Ms. Cutter fails to mention the more than 100,000 people who lost their jobs when Obama pandered to the Auto Workers and also displaced 1 in 10 auto dealers nationwide.

i think Ms. Cutter needs a few lessons in math and history.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/14/amid-romney-attack-obama-camp-not-questioning-the-private-equity-industry/#ixzz1uwx2I7DT

Only a Left-wing Liberal with their start-eyed gaze would listen to the likes of Joe Biden and actually believe he ‘gaffed’ then apologized to the Prez about the ‘early release of the gay news stance. Oh please!

Mr. Obama, please stop with the distractions and get back to the important business – 8.8 million people who are jobless in the US, 25% more people on welfare than when you took office and 144,000 more federal employees on the payroll all looking like they work at the DMV – i.e., doing a whole lotta nuthin’!

I was asked by so many friends and colleagues alike what my plans were on ‘Cinco de Mayo’ – truly a non-holiday here in America unless, of course, you are a beer manufacturer. They asked me this question with the same zeal as “What are you doing on Superbowl Sunday?” – Hmmm … not quite the same.

So with my brain in a twirl and my blood in a boil I coined a new response, “I’ll celebrate Cinco de Mayo when we can exit about 4-5 Illegal Immigrant Mexicans from my country, tell Lowes and Home Depot it’s OK to put aisle signs back into English-only and inform hundreds of product manufacturers from food companies to diaper makers that they can now get Spanish off the label.”

When all that is behind me then, and only then, will I start to dance the dance and raise my glass and although that glass might be a Pacifico or a Margarita, I’ll be singing in English, the land I love that has been stolen away by the Illegals and the Liberals who seem to just adore them

In a Fox News report today it was reported that the US has been secretly releasing captured Taliban fighters from a detention center in Afghanistan as a way to strengthen its position in peace talks with the group. The “strategic release” program of high-level detainees is designed to give the US  bargaining leverage in some areas of Afghanistan where international forces struggle to gain any significant control, the report said.

Under the risky program – an understatement by any measure – the hardened fighters must promise to give up violence and are threatened with further punishment, but there is nothing to stop them resuming attacks against Afghan and American troops. ”Everyone agrees they are guilty of what they have done and should remain in detention. Everyone agrees that these are bad guys. But the benefits outweigh the risks,” a US official told the Post.

In a visit to Afghanistan last week, President Barack Obama confirmed that the US was pursuing peace talks with the Taliban.

And just so we are clear … our President has authorized the release of the same guys who are killing our troops, Afghan troops and will likely go back out and do so again? Mr. President, you may really have a winning strategy here – no, really! Perhaps Mr. Obama believes that in November he can use US C 130s to ship these same bad here to vote. Sounds like a strategy the Democrats could really get their arms around.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/07/us-secretly-releasing-taliban-fighters-report-says/#ixzz1uBGdp3XK

The headline on Fox News tonight read - CIA drone strike kills Al Qaeda leader wanted in USS Cole bombing, US officials say

Many Americans, like me, remain confused as to why the Obama White House (I get nauseous when I call it ‘his’ WH) detests the CIA, is offended by interrogation yet are OK with drone strikes intended to assassinate Al Qaeda leaders. You don’t need to be a rocket scents or expert on intelligence – military or otherwise – to figure this one out; Al Qaeda elders are better resources to our alive rather than dead.

Just what is Mr. Obama’s strategy here? Silence the ‘terrorists’ (But remember, the ‘terrorist threat is over)? Appease the Left with a ‘cleaner’ way of cleaning up this war mess?  Avoid bringing this whole mess to our shores? What?

Mr. Obama should learn from his mistakes and lack of experience – captive prisoners of war are a valuable asset. Period. Clean up the mess an dander to your base later.

Oh, one last thing – this is what’s happens when a ‘Community Activist’ is allowed to play with the big boys and girls – a mess is sure to follow.

See Fox News link below for complete story.

 
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/06/airstrike-kills-al-qaeda-leader-wanted-in-uss-cole-bombing-yemeni-officials-say/#ixzz1u8sQ0OA3

While millions in America are without jobs, millions more are losing their homes in foreclosure, the best our Reps can come up with is a bill banning the use of welfare money for alcohol, strip clubs & casinos?

When I see stories like these (See Fox News story below) I move rather quickly into the “Re-elect No One” mode and I get there fast!

Our Reps in DC need to be focusing on three things and three things only:

1. Creating Jobs – millions of them and not the jobs  that are Fed-funded or, jobs that simply add to the Fed payroll

2. Getting our economy in general out of this funk by lowering taxes, pressuring banks to make good loans and getting homeowners back on track and,

3. Getting Obama out of the White House. Remember, he is only a tenant and his lease expires in November of this year. The guy has gotta go!

See this Fox News story to see details of the shame that is our DC representation

The House passed legislation Wednesday that would prevent welfare recipients from spending money on adult entertainment, alcohol or gambling. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Charles Boustany, (R-LA), said that the measure was in response to reports that people had used welfare funds inappropriately.

The Welfare Integrity Now for Children and Families Act of 2011 is part of a package of measures that Republicans want to include in an upcoming agreement to extend the payroll tax cut over the next year. Democrats supported the measure but criticized Republicans for not focusing on larger national problems, such as job creation.

The vote was 395 to 26.

Fox News’ Chad Pergram contributed to this report.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/02/01/house-passes-bill-to-ban-use-welfare-funds-for-strip-clubs-casinos-and-alcohol/#ixzz1lEBRSRlM

Martin Luther King was, as seen through the eyes of my youth, a “bigger-than-life” figure who I was taught to admire and I guess, to a great degree, I still do. I’ve been asked one hundred times or more in my lifetime to name my heros and King always seemed to make it to the top.

As I have aged, matured and become much more conservative in my outlook, lifestyle and political views,the status I have bestowed on King for a lifetime now fall into question. Why? Even in my youth I always questioned why American Black Muslims always surrounded him. Even in his famous “I Have  Dream” speech from our nation’s capital standing before hundreds of thousands of Americans there they were, an omni-presence in the background – protective? Foreboding? I was never quite sure. Although King preached constantly of “unity”, “tolerance” and “peace” here were these radical anti-white’s by his side.

As I further examine his “record” he was, by all measures, a liberal, a Socialist and if he were alive today I ask; would he be at the forefront of the “radical left” – Obama, Pelosi. Shumer, Reid et al – “leading the charge” for ObamaCare (an oxymoron of a term if there ever was one), welfare, “immigration reform” etc.? I think the answer is “yes”.

In a recent National Review online blog they did bring forth one interesting, and disturbing quote from King that was a part of his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech – Johnson had just defeated Goldwater (Johnson, had just, by the way, “snubbed” King by not congratulating him on the Nobel Prize so as to not anger “southern whites” so close to the election) and here is what King had to say:

“One passage, however, I regard as beneath him — and beneath the occasion of the speech. Johnson had beaten Goldwater the month before, in a landslide. And, in Oslo, King said,

“Another indication that progress is being made was found in the recent presidential election in the United States. The American people revealed great maturity by overwhelmingly rejecting a presidential candidate who had become identified with extremism, racism, and retrogression. The voters of our nation rendered a telling blow to the radical right. They defeated those elements in our society which seek to pit white against Negro and lead the nation down a dangerous Fascist path.”

An older MLK might well have been ashamed of that rhetoric, National Review went on to say, or at least regretted it. For one thing, Goldwater’s view of government and economics was the opposite of fascist: was the classical-liberal view.

So on this day to honor King I have to wonder how would he have viewed Conservatives of today …?

Can anyone see the irony here? A Federal Judge just upheld a Justice Department request that any gun stores making multi-gun sales to buyers report those buys.

The irony – The failed Fast & Furious debacle actually drove just such sales with a more nefarious intention – to force multiple buys knowing the guns were going straight into the hands of criminals. The gun store owners and legal buyers are the victims of this law. Those who died at the hands of the criminals who bought and used the guns in crimes are victims of Holders and Obamas failed policy of which neither of them will be accountable for.

They have now gone so low as to play the race card rather than face the music of their own law breaking ways. See this Fox News.com article for a full story:

A federal judge has dismissed a firearms industry association’s lawsuit seeking to block the Obama administration from requiring gun store owners in Southwest border states to report when customers buy multiple high-powered rifles.

U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives properly limited its requirement to purchasers of two or more semi-automatic rifles greater than .22 caliber within five days in the states of California, Arizona, New Mexico or Texas. “Congress has effected a delicate balance between ATF’s regulation of firearms and the right to privacy held by lawful firearms owners,” Collyer wrote. The ATF’s reporting requirement “did not disturb that balance.”

Gun dealers opposed the requirements, arguing they would effectively require a national registration of gun sales, which they said the ATF did not have the authorization to do. Additionally, the gun industry saw the rules as being a burden to law-abiding retailers and would not have any significant effect on clamping down on the flow of weapons to Mexican drug cartels.

The requirement was imposed after ATF acknowledged during congressional hearings it made mistakes in Operation Fast and Furious, a Phoenix-area investigation designed to catch weapons-trafficking kingpins. Agents lost track of many weapons they were trying to track to smuggling ringleaders, and some guns ended up at crime scenes in Mexico and the U.S.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/13/federal-judge-upholds-reporting-requirement-for-gun-stores/#ixzz1jRGUID7J

Now here’s some real ‘Occupy’ genius – boycott America’s Top 100 Retailers at Christmas (Black Friday). These stores, in case the Occupy Genuis’ didn’t realize, employee hundreds of thousands of American workers – many of whom have that seasonal job to make ends meet. Further, this ‘capitalist engine’ drives the economy. Sure, let’s shut it all down until the lights go off. Now there’s some real, deep thinkig

‘Occupy’-Inspired Campaign Urges Boycott of Black Friday
By Judson Berger
Published November 24, 2011

Occupy Wall Street-inspired protesters are eyeing a new target — Target. And dozens of other companies.

A campaign under the name “Occupy Black Friday” is trying to enlist supporters to boycott just about every major retailer, and quite a few mid-sized ones, the day after Thanksgiving. The protesters are casting a wide net, urging people to demonstrate against the top 100 publicly traded retail stores — a list that includes everything from Wal-Mart to Target to Dick’s Sporting Goods to Dollar Tree.
“The idea is simple, hit the corporations that corrupt and control American politics where it hurts, their profits,” the group’s Facebook page reads, describing Black Friday as the “one day where the mega-corporations blatantly dictate our actions.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/11/24/occupy-inspired-campaign-urges-boycott-black-friday/#ixzz1edE8Jjfr

Oh Lord I wish I made this one up!

Osama Bin Laden’s Last FaceBook Post – “BRB – Someone’s At The Door”