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Non-Citizens Voting, Dead Offered Ballots, NC Officials Embrace Voter Fraud

Another great video from Project Veritas. They report:

In North Carolina we find people who are listed as non-citizens according to Jury refusal forms and who are also registered to vote. We get their comment and are offered their ballots. We are offered a ballot in the name of a dead man, and interview an election Judge who says he only wants to uphold parts of the state constitution. We also interview the following officials at UNC who seemingly embrace voter fraud:
Terri Phoenix — Director – UNC LGBTQ Center
Dean Blackburn UNC Assistant Dean of Students
Adam Limehouse – Director for the Coalition to Protect All NC Families.

2004 Kenyan Newspaper Article Calls Obama ‘Kenyan Born,’ Exposes Corruption In Senate Campaign

Obama went from obscurity to a household name on July 27, 2004 when he gave the keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention, giving his fledgling U.S. Senate campaign a big boost, sending his forgotten Dreams From My Father memoir into the bestseller list, and all but assuring him a victory over his Republican rival, Jack Ryan. But for Chicago-machine Obama, fighting fair ain’t part of the game plan.  David Axelrod oiled the gears of the Chicago Machine and had his minions over at the Chicago Tribune file a lawsuit to unseal Ryan’s divorce records over the objections of both Ryan and his ex-wife Jeri, both of whom didn’t want the information to reach their children’s ears. But what’s a couple of damaged adolescent psyches when it comes to politics? All’s fair in love and war, right?

Now if only we can have Axelrod get Columbia University to unseal Obama’s records so we can find out what we already know—that Obama was enrolled as a foreign student. Maybe we can also find out whether Bill Ayers, living two blocks away from Obama in 1984 (and his girlfriend Genevieve Cook as a classmate of Ayers at Bank Street College) was just a coincidence or whether Obama was playing “pin the tail on the communist.”

Oh, and I guess the Associated Press got it wrong when they called Obama ‘Kenyan born.’ Funny how Obama didn’t dispatch the 2004 version of the ‘Truth Team/Attack Watch’ to correct the right-wing lies about him being Kenyan-born.

 

Holding Eric Holder Accountable For Operation Fast And Furious

It is embarassing to see Rep. Issa out talking to the media about Fast and Furious while the Republican leadership hasn’t the courage to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. It is time the Republicans found some backbone. John Boehner should schedule a vote to hold this administration and Holder accountable.

Obama Campaigning In ’04: Deficit Is “An Enormous Problem”

Obama is the liar in chief. For years he said we need to cut the deficit, and now he doesn’t care. Where has this campaigning Obama gone? Or was he just blowing smoke back then?

Boehner Is Stalling Holder Contempt Citation On Fast And Furious

John Boehner SC 300x225 Boehner Is Stalling Holder Contempt Citation on Fast and Furious

If Darrell Issa has any thoughts of the full House voting on his Oversight Committee’s citation of contempt against Eric Holder, he will first have to clear the idea with the Attorney General’s staunchest allies and political defenders—Republican Speaker John Boehner, Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor and Republican Majority Whip, Kevin McCarthy.

Upon the Speaker’s office being provided a draft of the citation last week, a spokesman for the Republican leadership said “While there are very legitimate arguments to be made in favor of such an action, no decision has been made to move forward with one by the Speaker or by House Republican leaders.” (1)

But now it appears these stalwart souls have finally made that decision. They will “…slow [Issa’s] drive to hold the attorney general in contempt over the controversial Fast and Furious program…” for a period of “a month or even longer…” Apparently a year’s worth of testimony and documentation linking Obama Regime operatives to hundreds of deaths and the walking of some 2000 weapons across the Mexican border just haven’t been sufficient to convince Speaker Boehner that something is amiss. (2)

Republican leaders “…still don’t think the case is ‘rock solid…’ ” said an aide to Representative Issa. Of course, the fact that Attorney General Holder has refused to honor subpoenas demanding he turn over an estimated 8000 pages of Fast and Furious documentation might have something to do with Mr. Boehner’s feelings of uncertainty about adequate proof. (2)

But a far more credible reason for the Speaker’s nervous stomach is “…fear [of] negative political fallout from citing the U.S. attorney general with contempt of Congress in an election year.” Boehner, Cantor and McCarthy are “…worried about both the legal and political implications of the move, especially six months before what is already expected to be a razor-close election.” (2)

In fact, that’s the reason GOP leaders are now pressing Congressman Issa to bring Democrat House members on board. Boehner and the others believe it will reduce the political risk to Republicans if a number of Holder’s own party members are willing to make the contempt citation a bipartisan effort. And no doubt to Issa’s chagrin, that now appears to have become a prerequisite “…before [Republican leaders] let it come to the floor for a vote.” (2)

In short, John Boehner is demanding that Democrat members of the House exhibit more courage in betraying their own Party than he and other Republican leaders are themselves willing to display by holding a corrupt attorney general responsible for disobeying the law!

And why should Democrats join Republicans, either in the contempt process or in a call for Eric Holder to honor House subpoenas? After all, GOP leaders have shown no stomach for pressing the issue beyond the occasional committee hearing or threatening letter to the Department of Justice.

For 3 months, Coach is Right has warned readers about a disgraceful lack of courage on the part of John Boehner to honor his oath of office to defend the Constitution by bringing criminal charges against Eric Holder. Many have accused us of being unfair to the Speaker by inventing unsubstantiated tales of his unwillingness to take a stand.

To read more use these links:

(1) http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57423017-503544/republicans-prepare-contempt-citation-against-eric-holder-over-fast-and-furious/

(2) http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76135.html

 

Photo Credit: Medill DC (Creative Commons)

Truth: Obama Is Probably Even Losing In Oregon

Barack Obama speech hand 2 SC 300x198 Truth: Obama Is Probably Even Losing In Oregon

In 2008 Barack Obama won Oregon by 17 points but a new SurveyUSA poll shows he is leading by just 4 points. If that was all the bad news out of The Beaver State it would be bad enough for Obama, but the news gets worse when more realistic standards of voter sentiment are applied to data as presented.

In response to this news, the Oregonian (one of the foulest of the Democrats’ mouth piece news outlets) points to the difference between the numbers of registered Democrats/Republicans/Independents who voted in Oregon’s 2010 elections and the breakdown SurveyUSA used to put its report together.

By that measurement there are 5.6% more Democrats .05% more Republicans BUT 6.1% fewer Independents in the State, and herein lies a serious flaw in the Oregonian’s “happy face” analysis.

While Oregon was not one of the states caught up in the TEA party revolution in 2010, much has happened since then. For Oregon to have moved 13 points to the Right since 2008 something must be happening there. Arguing that 2010 Party breakdown numbers hold true today offers little comfort to those rooting for Obama because the national Party breakdown is 35 R 33D and 32 I as reported by Rasmussen. Since SurveyUSA uses only “registered” voters instead of “Likely” voters as Rasmussen does, Obama’s fans must choose which set of numbers they want to follow: Rasmussen which says Obama is down 7 points nationally or SurveyUSA which has him up in Oregon by 4 points and surveys a less reliable sampling group.

Then there is voter enthusiasm. The latest national survey of enthusiasm levels among both Democrats and Republicans done by Gallup shows that by 53/45 Republicans are more enthusiastic to vote. Those who doubt the enthusiasm gap is this large have to explain the numbers from West Virginia North Carolina and Wisconsin we saw last Tuesday. If Oregon is SO Democrat that it is immune to these national trends as the Oregonian would have us believe why has Obama lost 13 points since 2008?

To read more use these links:

   http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2012/05/surveyusa_says_obama_leads_by.html

 http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/partisan_trends

 

New Obama Ad Calls Romney A Vampire

Just as we predicted. This campaign is already getting nasty. In a vicious ad Barack Obama’s campaign begins the targeting of Bain Capital style capitalism calling Mitt Romney a Vampire.

This ad is so shameless even Obama Auto Czar Steve Rattner says it goes too far.

USA Today reported about the Obama ad:

President Obama’s campaign is out with a two-minute TV ad and a six-minute web video blasting Mitt Romney’s career at Bain Capital.

The broadside will air in five key swing states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Iowa and Colorado.

The ad tells the Obama campaign’s version of events at GST Steel, a shuttered Kansas City plant that Bain Capital took over before it went into bankruptcy. The closing cost hundreds their jobs and jeopardized their pensions, according to Obama for America.

The story, Obama’s campaign says, exemplifies Romney’s business philosophy “and what it would mean for the American economy.” Viewers who want to know more can go to RomneyEconomics.com, a new Obama campaign web site that examines other Bain case studies…

Exclusive: The Enigma That Is Barack Hussein Obama, Part Three 2009 Conclusion

Obama Autograph SC 199x300 Exclusive: The Enigma That Is Barack Hussein Obama, Part Three 2009 Conclusion

Photo credit: Barack Obama (Creative Commons)


Slightly after or concurrent to the Stimulus initiative in late February or early March of 2009 of our timeline was the Auto Bailouts.  During the discussions with Congress and GM & Chrysler, numerous irregularities were noted the most egregious was during Steve Rattner’s appointment as Auto Czar.  He personally forced the placement of bondholders subordinate to the United Auto Workers (UAW) during the pending Bankruptcy proceedings even though the UAW did not have any claim on any assets of GM.

The Bondholders are considered “secured creditors” in the legal process and held a first payout provision in bankruptcy law after vendors as creditors.

When all is said and done the UAW ended up with a huge stake in GM, which is in deference to federal antitrust laws. Chrysler faired better as they had an outside Suitor, FIAT purchased their assets, although the UAW ended up with a 55% stake in Chrysler.  The GM bondholders only ended up with 29 cents on the dollar, even though they were secured creditors, which shows the coercion Obama and his henchmen will go to protect their union allies.

Another nexus in this sad and tired refrain equal to a Greek tragedy on human frailty we have the inexplicable actions of Eric Holder and the DOJ dropping charges against the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation committed during the elections in 2008.  DOJ had a default finding and Judgment by the Court and only needed to complete the case to bring justice for the flagrant intimidation of voters outside a polling station in Philadelphia.

This action by the DOJ was also met with internal resistance with numerous long time attorneys resigning in protest.

We also have the remarks made by Holder that he would see to it that minorities would be treated differently now that he was Attorney General. He is also called our Nation a “Nation of Cowards” in a remark in February 2009 during Black History Month on civil rights and racial matters.  What else can we expect from Barry and company?

In June of 2009, we have the disputed election results in Iran where the people of this Nation rose up to protest the presidential election of Ajad and their oppressive government of Shiite Muslims.  Shiites believe in the succession of the Twelve Imams and that the Sunni majority are illegitimate in their following the teachings of Muhammad, they are simply a more radical form of Islam.

Their sect of Islam is only practiced by 20% of Muslims worldwide.

They refer to our Nation as the “Great Satan” and continually advocate the destruction of our Republic.  Barry being the ardent defender of freedom and democracy for our nation did not lift one finger or make any statements to assist the People of Iran that were willing to throw off the shackles of oppression from their Muslim theocracy.  Barry and the State Department simply sat on their hands, folded as if cheap lawn chairs, and refused to discuss the matter with a troubled world or this nation’s people.

We have heard the rumors and statements from Barry and others regarding his Muslim roots and leave all of us to wonder, is he a Shiite?  This is in contrast to Barry’s immediate response to the Arab Spring in the Sunni world of Islam was swift and deliberate which leads me to believe that he is indeed a Shiite.  Barry’s foreign policy has been to let them continue their efforts to produce nuclear weapons, they have already shown their capability in the delivery system(s) with short and medium range tactical missiles, are ICBM‘s far behind?  His support of lackluster sanctions has been blatantly ineffectual and leads me to believe he is tacitly supporting their efforts to become a nuclear power.

June was another busy month for Barry and Holder as they are now reading “Miranda Rights” to illegal combatants (terrorists) captured on foreign soil.  This naive gesture can only hurt our war effort and endanger the lives of our brave men & women who serve on the front lines in the war on terror.  The question must be asked why Barry through the DOJ would go to these extraordinary means to accord jihadists constitutional rights?

For well over a century, the Geneva Convention has codified the waging of war and treatment of enemy combatants among the worlds nations that are signatories to this treaty.  Anyone caught in the act of belligerence on a battlefield must comport to certain qualifications under this international agreement to receive the protections that are required under this agreement.  Captured terrorists have not met these criteria and are declared illegal combatants why Barry and the DOJ wish to accord them the extraordinary windfall of Constitutional rights is baffling and unsettling as it may have complications in any future war(s).

The next occurrence is almost too strange to contemplate and occurred in July of 2009 and was an off hand remark by Barry on how Police were “acting stupidly” about the arrest by Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge Massachusetts PD who arrested professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. an alleged friend of Barry.

The facts of the case were bizarre to say the least and ended with a “Beer Summit” between Barry, Biden, Professor Gates and Sgt. Crowley.  It was a telling and defining moment  for Barry marching out to the Rose Garden leaving Sgt. Crowley and Professor Gates far behind.  Prudence dictates that I leave it up to each of you to judge the matter for yourself, however a picture is worth a thousand words please see for yourself how George Bush conducted himself in such matters, GWB is pictured at the end of the article!

As we slide, further down this slippery slope that we have come to know as Barry and his entourage comes in September of 2009 where we come face to face with Van Jones Barry’s Green Jobs Czar.  Valerie Jarrett another long time advisor to Barry waxes poetically about Mr. Jones after he was announced to fill this Czar’s role and if memory serves “we have had our eye on him for quite a while“ the “we“ is telling and implies others had a hand in his appointment.

While Valerie and Barry were singing his praises, Glenn Beck did the Nation a great service, checked into the background of this latest darling of theirs, and found that this man was a self-avowed and shameless Communist that advocated the violent overthrow of our Government.  The Paparazzi after going to bed on a Friday night when the presses are silent and most of Washington has retired for the weekend quietly announced the resignation of none other than Mr. Van Jones.  The real question that needs to be answered is how did this man ever get past a security background check and receive security clearance to work in the White House?

Before we are finished with 2009 we need to look at two other issues that will round out the picture of our first tapestry, the first is comments made by Anita Dunn as the interim White House Communications Director in a Speech to High School Students in June of 2009.  Wherein she states that, she admires the Philosophy of Mao Tse Sung as a “primary source of inspiration.”

(Note: Mao is personally responsible for the destruction of at least 40 million upwards of 80 million oxygen absorbing and carbon dioxide expelling biological units, we know them more commonly as humans!)

I used the previous description to break down the nature of these leftist, Statist, Marxists that infest the environs of power in the White House and Washington with this ludicrous description of humans is in keeping with lefts belief that some humans are more valuable than others are.  As they are, constantly advocating policies that are in stark contrast to Christian values and our founding principles to curtail our progress, economy and population with their rabid belief in abortion (infanticide) as just one example and their destructive economic policies as another.

To finish 2009 as we progress along this timeline we are faced with what appears to be stark evidence that the White House Christmas Tree was adorned with a Mao Tse Sung ornament, this of course seems trivial when compared against the size of the tree that adorns this ornament. This should leave one to ponder that statements made by Barry and his associates and assistants is contrary to just what they appear to be!  Many if not all of them must be supporters of Socialist, Marxist agendas and beliefs; their protesting otherwise has nothing but a Hollow Ring of hypocrisy and obfuscation.

Barry cannot hide from these facts as if Van Jones was an anomaly of poor judgment, and Anita Dunn with her admiration of Mao statements must be included in the ’we” statement of Valerie Jarrett if not Barry himself.  Nor does it dispel any myths to the contrary of their true political beliefs and ideological spectrum of socialist origins as their core beliefs and ideology.

Conclusions for the Election to 2009

We were first introduced to Barry as a starving college student that was traveling and lodging in places he could ill afford by his own description.  We are then shown that the Russian Government thought Barry to be a British spy while on an official visit, what follows next is when Barry is indifferent to our National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance.  His Certificate of Live Birth discussion and the sequestering of his bon-fides follow this, though he has proven himself ineligible to hold the presidency.   He is forever shaped by his refusal to share these important documents with a puzzled nation and augments the fait-accompli of his ascent to power.  Followed by the inexplicable death by a thousand paper cuts on the tampering of Supreme Court cases for Minor v. Happersett prior to the Election in 2008 by person(s) unknown.

When the decision is reached to send the Churchill bust back to Britain only reinforces the other nexus points about Britain through his Fathers citizenship and the Russians holding him as a British spy.  Next up is the callous treatment of the Families that lost loved ones on the USS Cole and we only shake our heads and wonder what he really meant to accomplish  We have Barry being constantly on the nations airwaves with his pronouncements for the stimulus and our dire economic straits.

We are then shown the derision of the Tea Party movement and his intolerance for opposing viewpoints.  Then we have the bankruptcies of GM & Chrysler where Barry coerced the GM Bond holders to relinquish their secured position and received only 29 cents on the dollar.  We are then shown that Justice is not equal by Barry and his cohort Holder with dropping charges against the New Black Panthers Party for Voter Intimidation after already winning the case with a default conviction.

In June of 2009 we have Barry sitting on his hands while the people of Iran are being murdered in the streets without even one word being spoken on their behalf, the silence was deafening.  In July, we have the laughable Beer Summit, which was just a media cover for Barry’s callous and wanton premature remarks on race relations before knowing any relevant facts.  This path becomes a quagmire when Barry decides to accord constitutional rights to terrorists whom are illegal combatants as defined by the Geneva Convention and have limited rights under International Law.

We are then shown Van Jones to be an avowed Communist and the apple of Barry and his Staff’s eye as an avowed communist that advocated the violent overthrow of our form of Government.

We are then introduced to another Marxist Anita Dunn the White House Communications Director and her favorite philosopher Mao Tse Sung.  Then we close the year with celebration of Christmas with a Mao Tse Sung ornament gracing the White House Christmas Tree, no doubt being placed in a position of great Honor.  This tapestry is frenetic and disjointed though a central theme connects all the threads that Barry is a Man with something to hide. What is he hiding is still unknown; however, there is a confluence of actions that we have never seen in a president that is destructive to our very way of life and our constitutional founding on self-rule and the rule of law.

The nation cannot stand another four years of this assault on our freedom and way of life and wholesale lawlessness and the assault on the rule of law that Barry has brought to the table.  It is imperative that he be shown the door in November, if we are to continue as a Constitutional Republic.

Part One
Part Two

 

Obama Empty Promises: Debt & Deficits

The GOP counter attack is weak. Obama puts our a wrenching ad talking about the destruction of individual lives in steel country and the GOP can muster is an ad that re hashes what we all know. Obama miss spends our money. The GOP and Romney are going to have to roll up their sleeves and attack him with something that hurts if they want to win.

America’s Homosexual Evolution

newsweek Gay cover America’s Homosexual Evolution
President Obama has certainly made his mark on the history of the United States.  Our children will one day read about him in American History books as the first black president, the first foreign born president and the first president to play 150 rounds of golf in one term.  Now, after the completion of Obama’s ‘evolution’, he has become the first president to support homosexual marriage.  But even those in the homosexual community are questioning his motives.  They realize that his support on this issue, just like every other issue in the life of the Narcissist in Chief, centers on himself.

Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post epitomized the pressure from the left for Obama to step out of the closet regarding the homosexual issue.  Marcus proceeded to pummel the president with a series of punches:  “Same-sex marriage is turning into a test of character and leadership for President Obama,” she wrote. “Does he favor it, or doesn’t he? In the wake of Vice President Biden’s remarks supportive of marriage equality, the continued presidential equivocation makes Obama look weak and evasive”.

The greatest fear of this president is that his façade of strength will be melted away by the heated disapproval of his own supporters to reveal just how weak he really is.  Marcus’ uppercut was followed by this gut punch, “The longer Obama waits, the worse he looks. The President’s first stall tactic, that he is ‘evolving’ on the issue, doesn’t cut it anymore.”  She finally throws the knock-out punch:  “…doesn’t evolution imply change? And if you think perhaps he’s still conflicted — well, that’s hardly an advertisement to be leader of the free world. At this point, Obama’s reticence is looking cowardly.”  Being criticized by Fox News is one thing, being pummeled by fellow liberals is more than the president can endure.  It’s like learning your wife is seeing another man.

So, just what is it that Obama supports?  Homosexuality is an act of immorality.  It is immoral by the standard of natural law, “men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another”,  (Romans 1:27) and it violates God’s moral law.  The Apostle Paul lists the offenses that will earn eternal separation from God.  “Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders.”  (1 Cor. 6:9) If the leader of the free world will step out and support the immoral behavior of homosexuality, is he also willing to support adultery, fornication, and polygamy?

These forms of immorality will eventually destroy a family, a church and finally a nation.  Any president who would promote that which would destroy us has no right to be the leader.  This utterly contradicts the intent of our founding fathers who founded this country on Christian principles.  We’ve had many presidents who participated in immoral behavior, from lying to staining a blue dress, but we have had none to blatantly verbalize that such immoral behavior should be accepted as the norm.  The president’s evolution on the immoral practice of homosexuality simply mirrors the evolution in our society toward sexual depravity.  We must ask ourselves the question:  Does the president’s evolution toward the acceptance of homosexuality indicate that our society’s evolutionary slide to Gomorrah is complete?

Why does God condemn adultery?  Why does he condemn homosexuality?  Why did the original marriage plan of God include one man and one woman, one husband and one wife?  It is because the institution of marriage is sacred.  The primary purpose of the marriage relationship is to portray the relationship Christ has to the church.  “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.”  (Eph. 5:25)  God provides us with the wonderful opportunity to have a personal relationship with him but there are conditions we must meet.  He demands fidelity, just as any decent husband would demand of his wife or any wife her husband.  When we pursue other gods, when we worship other idols, our relationship with Christ becomes unsustainable.  The marriage relationship between a man and a woman is an earthly reflection of a spiritual relationship that can become eternal.

The effort to destroy marriage, to muck up the pure waters of something so sacred, is satanic.  How better to besmirch the purity and sacredness of marriage than to assault the institution with pornography, with adultery, with infidelity and most definitely, with homosexuality.  These sins cannot be participated in without consequences.  The sexual revolution of the last fifty years has reaped fatherless children, orphans, broken homes, innumerable divorces, rampant diseases, depression and suicides.

God’s primary purpose for sexual relations between a man and a woman was to procreate.  God was so pleased and blessed to see his creation expand that he determined to make the experience of procreating extremely pleasurable as a demonstration of his favor.  Procreation has now become something to avoid like a plague.   The pleasure of sexual relations has been so dulled by our willingness to overindulge that we have stepped out of what God originally intended into that which is twisted and unnatural in a vain attempt to overcome our desensitization to pleasure.

There is a horrible plague of blindness that now pervades throughout American society.  In an attempt to find and experience freedom it was proclaimed loud and clear that ‘anything goes’, all sexual restraints were lifted to try to satisfy the deep emptiness of godless souls.  We became a society of moral zombies, proclaiming that all was well, while we pretended a lie to our friends and neighbors that we had finally found the secret to happiness.  But the freedom we proclaimed was not real, it was a fatal fantasy.  The smile on our faces was a failed attempt to hide the frown in our souls.

We put up a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign to keep God from intruding in our society.  In our churches we replaced him with a cotton-candy prosperity gospel that was too anemic to save and too empty to satisfy the needs of the hungry.  So, they have fled from the church in search of another savior.  The blinded sexual libertarian cannot see that sexual depravity is not freedom, it is bondage.  It does not lead to happiness, it leads to emptiness.  It does not build relationships, it destroys them.  Discovering why they think they are free when they are actually slaves to the bondage of sexual immorality is a mystery for the ages.

We are living among “a rebellious people.  They have eyes to see but do not see and ears to hear but they do not hear, for they are a rebellious people.”  (Ezekiel 12:2)  It is most troubling that we are now assured that the one who leads us is blinded as well.  It is fearful to think of what our destiny will be when the blind is indeed, leading the blind.