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Can Obama Grow Up?

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President Obama needs to grow up into the national and international leader that the USA needs.  So far the President has played the blame Bush game.  A game which is childish at the core and essentially a cry baby approach to government.  Connected with this has been the victim game.  The President is always crying that it ain’t his fault.  It’s those nasty other guys.  All too often the Obama scolds America about a wide range of things, essentially saying that America is not worthy of him.  If he isn’t scolding us he is apologizing for us to the world.  He started this apologizing even before he was elected and has continued it as he bowed to the feudal Saudi king and the Japanese Emperor.  Now instead of wagging his finger at us, he is lecturing us about being adult as we face the trillions of dollars of debt he has foisted upon us.  Of course, it could not be his fault, he inherited all of the problems! Well fine, if you want to accept his excuse, but all he is doing is making matters worse.  Like war in Libya.  It is very disturbing to see the USA join with imperialist England (look at their so-called British empire!) and colonialist France, their colonial period was even uglier, and also with Belgium, whose King Leopold was the butcher of the Congo, killing hundreds of thousands of Africans and enslaving the rest. Together with these NATO allies we attack and decimate a north Africa Arab Muslim nation of only 5.5 million.  Our rockets, bombs, and Gattling gunned A-10 anti-personnel planes  (capable of killing about 1000 people a minute) are viciously arrayed against the army of the government of Libya.  I guess that since they soldiers are pro Gaddafi it’s okay to slaughter them.  Oh, and by the way, for a nation to wage war against another nation without a declaration of war is considered by the Law of War to be criminal aggression.  That applies as well to Iraq and Afghanistan.  But you say, the UN okayed it with that cowardly phrase that the USA could use all means necessary (who defines necessary?) to protect civilians.  Yes, but siding with the rebels against the government and assisting them in their war against the government makes us Partisans.  Did you know that the Law of War allows Partisans to be summarily executed if captured?  Gaddafi sent the President a letter which it seems is treated as a joke by Obama.  However, we have dealt with Gaddafi as a legal head of State as late as two months ago.  The letter was delivered through diplomatic channels and was accepted by the USA government at the hands of an embassy from Gaddafi.  These actions translate into continued recognition of the Gaddafi Government as the legal representatives of Libya.  The mature, adult, and internationally recognized response to accepting such a missive is for the head of State who read the letter to respond in exactly the same manner, namely a diplomatic letter responding to Gaddafi and delivered through diplomatic channels by an embassy to Libya.  Hey, those are the rules for responsible adult citizenship in the world of international diplomacy, (I don’t make the rules) and it is infantile for the Obama Government to embarrass the nation by acting cavalier in this matter.  If you give no respect then you get no respect.  And it does us no good to dismiss an Arab leader, no matter how we dislike him.  Such a dismissal can rightly be understood as an arrogant disrespect for Arab Muslim leaders in general.  So grow up President Obama, get with internationally recognized norms and become the adult leader that the people of the USA need for times such as these.

Libyans Have the Right of Free Speech.

The rebels are in retreat again.  Take away foreign intervention and the so-called popular uprising is easily defeated.  Where are the five million civilians who are supposed to be rebels?  Obviously, if even a majority of the people wanted Gaddafi out, they would shelter, feed, fund and join the rebels.  But the people do not!  Is it possible that this is actually a minor rebellion of radical former military people who are themselves, like Gaddafi ,  seeking to seize control of Libya?  And the so-called leadership of the rebellion.  USA acknowledges it knows next to nothing about them, and our Sec. State has meetings with well dressed, expatriats who fled to France and lived in luxury while ordinary Libyans slogged through their daily life under the regime.  Do we remember Chalabi in Iraq?  He was a cheat and a phony expatriate who we thought was the answer to Iraq’s problems.  Yesterday I read news that the people in Gaddafi’s hometown were bombed, strafed and obviously, killed.  They are civilians but of his tribe.  So, it seems that the people who are civilians but who support Gaddafi are not allowed have free speech, free politics and freedom of assembly.  Why?  because a foreign President of the USA ( The land of the free and the home of the brave) tells them they are not allowed that freedom.  The need to believe as he does and as do French and British colonial imperialists.  I really do not agree with most of what Louis Farrakhan says, but he is right to ask President Obama who the hell he thinks he is?  Indeed as President of the USA he is one of the most important world leaders.  But he is not President of the world?   And Lindsey Graham made the association of the Minutemen with the Libyan rebels.  Please Senator, do not liken the Libyan rebels to the citizen soldiers of Bunker hill and Concord, and Valley Forge.  Last word for this post.  Did any of us realize that we had such war mongers in the Congress.  Amazing to hear Senator Mc Cain and Liebermann endorse foreign interventionism.  America is not the policeman nor the savior of the world.  And for those who will quote Gaddafi about “…showing no mercy..”  Arabs are noted for exaggeration.  Remember Saddam with his Mother of all Battles speech?

Mc Cain Libermann Warmongering?

The drums of war beat loud and fast for some leaders.  It is amazing to hear Senators Libermann and Mc Cain in full support of the illegal bombing of Libya.  Today I read that Nato, ( that means American) fighters bombs Gadhafi’s home town.  Now aren’t these people innocent of any crime?  The article said that the bombs were dropped on his home town because the people there supported him.  That is just plain immoral.  The people there are free to have their political opinions.  If they want to back Gadhafi that is their “constitutional” right.  I mean, let’s be honest, we say we are for freedom of speech and freedom of political opinion but we bomb Libyan people BECAUSE they exercise their freedom to support whomever political leader they want to support.  But it is not the leader that Obama says they are allowed to support.  So, we are bombing them.  Likewise, I read that we strafed and bombed Gadhafi’s troops, tanks and armored personnel for the purpose of allowing the rebels to gain control of a city and to regain control of another.  A few days ago the President and his spokespeople  said that it was unfair for Gadhafi to have tanks and troops and armored personnel carriers and we were going to ” level the playing field.”  But now the rebels have our planes and bombs in limitless supply while we force Gadhafi forces to have no planes and we wantonly destroy his tanks and helicopters.  So now, I ask, who has the unfair advantage and that unfair advantage is not even Libyan it is foreign. And even worse, it is the colonialist imperialist forces of France and England and shamefully, American. Now, on Meet the Press we even hear a Senator  say that we should support the internal unrest in Syria, seek to over throw the Syrian government and if needed bomb Syria and put boots on the ground in both Syria and Libya.  This writer wants to know if the good Senator thinks we should pour down bombs upon Mecca in Saudi Arabia, a tyranical monarchy and and should we also bomb Palestine a home to Hamas and while we are at it, maybe a few cruise missiles should be shot at Lebanon and Hezbollah? The warmongering of President Obama is amazingly brazen.  These are American planes paid for with American dollars and American pilots on the US military payroll and Congress which is the ONLY part of the US government under the Constitution which is allowed to declare war is not even consulted!!  Instead the warmongers consult NATO in Brussels, (the new world order headquarters) and the Arab league, (who the hell are they?) and the United Nations, (the historic new world order headquarters.)  And what did we seek from them?  We asked their permission.  And once the US President got their permission our overly aggressive President told us lie and lie as he pursued a bellicose war path of wanton destruction upon the five million people of Libya, all the while denying an attempt to kill Gadahfi and declaring that our effort is humanitarian.  Well, what is humanitarian about a war waged against the sovereign state of Libya?  Should the USA be cavorting with the ugly colonialist imperialist regimes of England and France against an Arab  nation?  Well, enough said on that.  Now to the outflanking of the Congress as the President takes to the public broadcasting system to force the Congress to approve his constitutionally illegal action by appealing directly to the public.  I hope the people will reject the President’s facile manipulation of his power to dictate another war and one which is plainly raw aggression.

American Agression in Libya

American is an aggressor nation which has attacked another  country .  The President  hooked up with two colonial powers to attack the sovereign state of Libya.  All of this is illegal, no matter what the United Nations says and it indicates that the United States is now willing to invade and continue to invade another nation in order to destroy the forty-year old functional government and replace it with something else.  The United States is the aggressor because Libya did not attack the USA nor did Libya attack citizens of the USA , nor the embassy of the USA.  Instead, the USA bombed Libya with aircraft bombs and missiles.  This unprovoked attack of three nations of advanced military power against one small Arab nation is an action of aggression pure and simple.  Libya was not and is not a threat to the peace, stability or sovereignty of the USA or its citizens.  Yet, the USA  attacks not only the army, but the nation of Libya itself.  What else do you call bombing airfields, attacking administration building, destroying government centers and political party buildings, the compound of the dictatorial ruler and strafing  tanks, shooting down heliocopters and preventing its government from quelling an armed rebellion.  Last time I thought of it, I remember that armed rebellion against the USA is illegal and considered an act of treason punishable by death.  Now some would argue that he is a dictator and therefore not worthy of respect.  Did he not address the UN in the USA a few years ago?  Did we arrest this man and throw him into prison?  Did he not sign legally binding contracts with international companies and a PR firm in the USA?  How did he get the weapons that he has?  He bought them and the vendors, including many national governments,  accepted his money as being the legal tender of the ruler of Libya.  The position of many commentators in the USA is to be rejected.  Sean Hannity, Bill O Reilly and the boys at CNN and MSNBC are cheering this new WAR.  If it is a righteous war, where is the declaration of war from the Congress of the USA?  No, this is unprovoked aggression and the criminal is the USA and stop harping that the UN said it was okay to bomb Libya in order to destroy the Libyan government, kill that government’s soldiers and the like…I cannot list all the crimes because it is sickening.  And let’s not be two faced about our intentions. We say we want to defend the people but on the news we see that the rebels are not the people but a small band of former libyan soldiers and political activists and organizers who themselves say that they do not have enough fighers to defeat the government of Libya.  And the spokeman for the USA State Deptment said Thursday March 24 that our government is in constant daily contact with the rebels for the purpose of finding out who they are, what they stand for, and what they intend to do if we help them to win.  So we are fighting a war of aggression against the internationally recognized dictatorship of Libya in favor of a group of somebodies about whom we know nothing.  Imagine that our CIA and military intelligence knows nothing about the leaders of this rebel group nor about its goals and aims!  ABSURD.  We should get out of Libya immediately and unilaterally.  Forget this Coalition bull.  The nations attacking are merely former imperialist colonial tyrants who seem to want to reclaim some kind of lost military glory.  Shame.

Wisconsin Governor Does His Job

In Wisconsin, Republican Governor Scott Walker championed a bill that would make public workers bargain for wages alone and require them to pay 5.6 percent of their pension costs; they pay nothing now. They would have to foot 12 percent of their healthy care premiums, up from 6 percent. Police and firefighters wouldn’t be covered by the measure, which Republican legislative leaders had hoped to pass by the weekend. Yesterday, University of Wisconsin-Madison students walked out of classes at the urging of student government and campus newspapers and marched to the Capitol. There, they joined protesters who filled the rotunda to chant, bang drums and sing, and spilled outside.Two things stand out about this article.  First is the very modest scope of the proposed law.  It contains what the rest of the non union citizens of the nation are required to do.  All of the people who are non union make contributions to their health care! (or they have modest health plans instead.)  Do the Unions want the special treatment that because they do not work for private companies they don’t need to pay what everybody else pays.  And PENSIONS. Come on, who hears anything about pensions anymore.  The vast majority of people do not have free employer paid pensions.  They need to pay into a 401 K with their (pretax) salary and if they are very lucky they get a match of 5% from the company.  The unions get 100% tax payer supported pensions.  THOSE DAYS ARE OVER for the rest of the nation so the public employees had better (as 78 Year Old Richard Luger said) GET REAL.  Oh yes, there is a third item.  The students who were urged by their student government.  Is that a State supported tax payer funded public university?  Are the teachers and other employees salaried and tenured by the Tax Payers?  Are we supposed to actually believe that it wasn’t the teachers themselves who encouraged the students to be absent and join the protest?  This calls for an investigation of the teachers.  And I am sure when the investigation starts there will be cries of “Academic freedom” and all the liberal socialist communist shouting about the conservatives and of course the new bogey man, the tea party movement.  Let the investigation begin because the taxpayers are not paying the State University teachers to foment and incite public demonstrations against their employer.  And if the teachers are found to be at  fault let there be an administration reprimand and the threat of removal of tenure.  After all, tenure itself should be removed, it is a reward for the indolent and promotes slackers. By the way, there are millions of people out of work.  I hear it is cold in Wisconsin but the property values are way down.  So if the walkouts are followed by strikes and organized work stoppages, FIRE THEM.  There are millions waiting to take their public tax paid jobs.  The base line is this:  If we are going to get out of the mess we have put ourselves in, then it requires that we all work together.  If each special interest group is going to tenaciously hold on their privileges and insist that the “other guy/gal” take the hit, well it ain’t gonna work and we are all going down the crapper.  This reform is very modest and very reasonable and instead of forcing the Wisconsin government to lay off 6600 workers, the unions should cooperate.  And for those who say, let “them” lay us off we will just get public paid unemployment dollars instead.  Beware! that pot of free gold is quickly disappearing.  Last point, and for those who think the Chinese are going to come here to become our bosses think again they have their own billions of workers to employ.  Oh, they HAVE ALREADY come.  What do you think the Chinese leader was doing here last month?  He visited his chief manager Obama.  Then he talked to his area managers the Geithners and the Hilarys. And as he left he took a tour of his land holdings, farms, cities, factories and he encouraged the “workers” to work harder.  Obama said we needed to change, well this is a big part of that change.  It’s called REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH.  Ask Him.

First Tea Party in USA and then Protests In Egypt

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We had our leftist terrorist riots and burnings and bombings in 1970’s.  Defeated, they went “establishment” and like Ayers they also went Academic.  But the rest of us stayed calm and organized.  President Obama may be their man, a community organizer, who organized to bring the radical left into control of the government.  But this IS America and there are fifty sovereign States, with fifty Governors and fifty legislatures.  So, the rest of us stayed calm, and now we have organized behind the movement of ” Tea Party” activists who can pack the Mall in Washington, D.C. and can organize the voters in Primaries and the General Election.  Let ALL elected officials beware, the police will not baton us, the Army will not quell us, because we will not riot, but we will organize, recruit and we definitely will vote.  So, Senator Lugar is wrong to tell the citizens to “get real”.  Who’s reality is he talking about?  Obviously, at 78 years old, he thinks that his opinion and mode of operation is “real’! In fact, he thinks it is the only reality.  Well, let’s prove to him that he needs to retire, as does Olympia Snow and Scott Brown, and Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid, and of course, NANCY and all the rest of the elected officials who put themselves and their personal opinions before the intent and directions of the people.  We may not pitch our tents in the square before the White House, but we sure know how to get out the vote.

Can we Long Wait for a New Election? Maybe not!

America is a democratic republic and we are people of law.  We act in an orderly fashion because of our constitutional government.  But the wait for correction of an errant government, especially of a President who does not like the people he “rules”- well the wait is onerous and burdensome.  Yes, we threw off the yoke of Nancy Pelosi but she is still there.  And Harry Reid is still carping his brand of power politics (the people be damned) in the Senate.  Now, we have this so called “budget” which increases taxes, increases spending and doubles the size of government.  All of this while the President claims that the budget is austere, a downsizing and fiscally responsible!  But the facts remain: There are fifteen tax hikes in the bill.  All of this in spite of a projection that the national debt now equals the national income.  That means that every dollar we produce is immediately paid to our creditors, namely the Chinese and I think the French and the Germans are in there too, salivating over our demise and the day when they will own us and we will work for them.  Maybe there is a lesson from Egypt.  Maybe we do not need to wait.  Maybe we need to take to the streets and peacefully protest against our President and his Senate Democrat cronies.  Hey!  it only took them 20 days.  Do you think we too can do it?  It may just be worth the inconvenience?!

Why Is the Obama Admin. refusing to work with the Republicans?

Regarding the judgement by a federal judge in Florida! Is the full decision of the judge available on the Internet? It seems like the media is trying to sway opinion by using one analogy concerning food and thereby highlighting only one of many examples used by the Judge. Although I think the coverage is relatively fair, it’s bias is to cast the ruling as something lighthearted, light weight and not to be taken seriously. However, Mark Levin read quotes from the last ten pages of the ruling that cast it as a very weighty ruling that declares the law to be IN FACT unconstitutional and therefore, by the internal logic of the ruling the government is told to stop the implementation of the law until the Supreme Court decides. However, the article says that the Obama Justice Department tells the government and orders(?) the States to proceed with the full inmplementation of the law. So, we need clarity and more thorough reporting of WHAT the Federal judge actually said and not just the Brocoli illustration and we need to know why the Obama Administration holds the Court in contempt by going full speed ahead and ordering the States to do the same. Politics aside, the law has already been repealed by one house of the Congress and predictably ignored by the Senate on a procedure vote. It was found unconstitutional by two Federal judges and okayed by another two. What’s the rush to implementation? I thought we were a nation of laws and that the Feds had to obey the court’s in questions of contitutionality? When the States disobeyed the courts in the Civil rights era the Feds called out the troops, as they should have. Now when things go against Obama, he chooses to ignore the court, hold it in contempt and go full speed ahead. Wait, let the congress and the Supreme Court decide before we march straight into a situation of health care chaos. Really, the best, easiest and most effecective way is to repeal this very flawed law, NOW and to work seriously and in a truly bi partisan way to enact the needed reforms. Must the democrats continue to be the party of self reighteousness and refuse to work with the Republicans? The only losers are the people.