Tag: President

Rand Paul is Correct about the Today’s Rules for Speaking

http://news.yahoo.com/paul-seeks-dismiss-criticism-plagiarism-120740932.html

 

Senator Rand Paul is correct in asserting that speeches do not carry the same rules of attribution as written material.  If speeches followed the same rules then the speaker would never get past the first sentences.  Much of what is thought has also been thought by someone else.  When written material such as books, journals and the like were the main sources of information, we were trained to cite the source title, date, place of publication and author or editors etc.  However, in the age of cinema and Wikipedia, and Internet, the possibility is very high that someone somewhere has written the same thoughts as you have, (like I am doing now). If the item to be spoken is exactly literal, it may be a good idea to mention the person.  But just because The Rev.Dr. Martin Luther King said, “I have a Dream” does not mean that no one can ever use those four words again.  Although if the reference is to Rev. Dr. King and to the civil rights movement it may be a good idea to mention him and his speech.  Yet, even here a case can be made for the use of allusion in speech whereby we evoke the image of the other person and their words while intentionally not mentioning them by name.  This is a valid technique to tease the mind of the listener to make the needed connection.  Rachel Maddox knows this.  She is a college grad.  She is a published writer.  She is a public speaker.  Her comments about Senator Paul should be taken in the context of her need for publicity and her need to attract audiences for her shows and her book.  This is not to dismiss her questions or demean her objections but it is to place her comments in a wider and interesting context concerning the rules for writing and public speaking today.

Only Obama Can Cause Default

http://visiontoamerica.com/16051/house-republicans-schedule-obama-impeachment-hearings/

Marc Levin broadcast Monday Oct 14th that only Obama can cause a default.  According to Levin, the US Constitution charges the President with the responsibility to pay all the debts of the USA.  It seems that Congress has the power of the purse but the President is the actual writer of the check.  Levin stated that under Article One of the USA Constitution the President is required to prioritize the accounts payable to assure that the government does not default.  Therefore, Levin stated, it is President Obama and Obama alone who decides whether the USA defaults.  Furthermore, Levin said that there is enough money presently in the USA checking account with billions coming in daily plus the end of year payments which can easily fund payments to our creditors.

The President, however, is constantly stating that it is the House of Representatives who will cause the USA to default.  Obama has broadcast again and again that Congress, namely, the House of Representatives, that is causing default and should be held responsible.  Levin, however, said that the Congress is powerless over default because the Constitution specifically states that the payment of our accounts payable is solely the duty of the President.  If the President refuses to pay the debts of the USA he is not carrying out his legal responsibilities, and he is not keeping his oath to support and defend the Constitution of the USA.

Levin made one power filled comment during his three hour program, namely, that the only job of the President of the USA is to uphold and defend the Constitution of the USA against its enemies, both foreign and domestic.  That is it.  Nothing else, at least in this matter of the credit of the USA, matters!

Marc Levin went on to say that he believes the Obama government is trying to usurp the power of the House of Representatives by insisting on seizing for the President the power of the purse and of passing laws and of raising taxes.  These explicitly enumerated powers are given exclusively to the Congress by the Constitution.  If the President tries to seize these powers for himself, he is acting against the Constitution and his oath of office and should be indicted by the House of Representatives by articles of impeachment.

Levin’s comments are very informative.  Unlike the above citied news article which accuses Obama of all sorts of egregious behavior, the Levin argument is based solely on the Constitution and the potential accusation that the President is not upholding, defending and protecting the Constitution.

Additionally, the present actions of Obama put him in the position of antagonist and enemy of the House of Representatives and by his many statements that the House is hostage to the so-called Tea Party adherents, who Obama claims are to be rejected, the President positions himself to illegally seize the powers of the House for himself, thereby abolishing the House and becoming a ruler.  This kind of ruler would not be checked or balanced by the House of Representative and would be ruling by presidential directive also called a dictate.  Obama would then be a dictator.

This writer is not putting this before you because I have any desire impeach Obama.  However, if Marc Levin’s interpretations are correct, and if future days play out a scenario such as he envisions, I also would strongly state that the House is required by the Constitution to present articles of impeachment against such a seizure of power by the President.

Health Care Law should be Separate

I note the inherent prejudice of the report, namely, that the reporter states that the Republicans refused to fund the government and then the reporter modifies the statement that “does not also repeal or delay the implementation of President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare reform bill,…”  the reporter also notes that the House majority is Republican while he does not note that the Senate majority is Democrat.  Words are inportant and the word order used in a sentence influences the perceptions of the reader.  The reporter does not state the fact that the House has passed four funding resolutions that will keep workers working and keep government open.  All of house funding bills were rejected by the Senate.  As the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid said, “…the bills passed in the House which do not fund Obamacare are dead on arrival (DOA) in the Senate.”  Harry Reid is a Democrat.  Yesterday, the House passed another funding bill which would keep open all agencies closed by the shutdown.  However, because the house bill did not fund Obamacare, the Senate rejected it.  The House is repeatedly funding the government and keeping it open. The Senate is repeatedly defunding the government and closing it.  Hey, Obamacare is not functional yet.  It is planned to go into effect but the15 thousand pages of regulations need review and modifications.  History shows that taxes once inplemented and collected are never repealed.  Let’s take more time with the health care overhaul.   Let’s fund the government while we realistically approach this problem.  Please remember that it took a lot of bribery in the Senate such as the Nebraska bribe, the Louisiana bribe and the threats against incumbent Representative to get the health care law passed.  It also took Chief Justice John Robert’s extraordinary expansion, even rewrite of the law, to declare it constitutional.  We the people should demand that we separate from the current budget the health care law with it’s massive taxes, fees, fines and exemptions.  The health care law is too massive and too important to be lumped into normal congressional business.  It needs to be treated bipartisan .

USA Needs to Stay out of Syria

http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-civilians-killed-nato-airstrike-114608612.html

This article is a prime and potent example of why we should not attack Syria.  A missile, bomb or drone does not know the difference between the innocent and the guilty.  The bomb does not stop halfway to the target because it senses that there are innocent children there.  It just keeps on dropping until it blows up the target including the innocents who happen to be there.  The USA cannot lower itself to the level of the terrorists.

Congress must not support the Obama administration and an over zealous navy.  Sure, the Navy had a very small role in Afghanistan but they do not need to prove their value by attacking Syria from their ships.  Americans value their Navy and no amount of brazen aggression by the USA administration is needed to make us value them more.

To Mc Cain, Linsey Graham, Nancy Pelosi and congressman Ted Cruz:  Please stop your inane and insane posturing and calls for the USA military to participate in the wholesale killing , (can we say murder) of Syrians.  I heard our congressional representatives saying that they know for sure that the government of Syria used Chemical weapons.  Based on what?  They based it upon the CIA intel presented to them by the Obama administration.  This same administration came out today and said that it is an absolutely logical conclusion to assume that the government of Syria is responsible.  So?  Are we to bomb and kill Syrians based on assumptions  and logical conclusions.  Friends, we are talking about killing people!

I am embarrassed to refer my readers to the interview by V. Putin of Russia.  He called for conclusive proof that 1. The government of Syria ordered the gas attack.  2. That the regular army of Syria actually released the chemicals.  That is to me more democratic and reasonable.  Can it be that a former communist and KGB official is more democratic than the President of the USA.

President Obama.  Sir:  you said “no “to your cabinet officials who counseled immediate and devastating attacks on Syria.  You said “no” to those who advised you to go to war without Congressional approval.  Now, Sir, please say “no” to the assumption that the government of Syria is responsible and stand down the navy.  Withdraw our ships and stop CIA money payments and USA arms shipments to the Islamic rebels.  And at the same time, put the full diplomatic weight of the USA behind an effort to convince our friends in Russia and China that we are believable and willing to cooperate and collaborate with them to end the violence in Syria without demanding the ouster of the President of that sovereign nation.

George Zimmerman

http://news.yahoo.com/rallies-large-small-zimmerman-verdict-231947267.html

This is the USA.  We are a land of law.  The man was accused, faced his accusers and the jury heard the testimony.  They found him not guilty.  That’s the law.  Get used to it.  We do not try our people by the mobs of New York who are out for a spree on a hot Sunday afternoon.    Secondly, I seem to remember a man named OJ Simpson.  I was convinced and still am convinced that he murdered two people.  One was his wife whose throat he brutally slashed.  The other was Ron who was merely an innocent bystander who fought his attacker and was brutally stabbed to death in an epic fight for survival.  The murderer, who was covered in blood, got into his car and lead a police chase lasting hours.  The trial of OJ was also very public and many people were upset with the verdict.  However, they did not become mobs protesting in major cities.  Like me, they accepted the law as the law and the verdict of the jury as the final result.  However, personally, many of them still consider O J Simpson guilty of a double murder.  Like I said, this is America.  We are a land of law and the black people and the white people in the streets of our cities undermine that law and weaken our nation when they refuse to accept the voice of that law, namely the voices of the people on the jury.

One more comment, the lead article on the Internet tonight was, “Obama walks a tight rope as he responds to the Zimmerman case.”  Why do the so-called journalists write like that? The President is a federal official.  He is not supposed to comment on local murder cases, no matter if he thinks that Trayvon Martin looked like the son he and Michelle never had!  Also, it is not a tight rope because the duty of the President is to uphold the law.  Of course, maybe, President Obama does not like the law.  He constantly talks about circumventing the Congress and doing things by presidential directive and without the consent of the Congress.  He has even said that the constitution is an outdated document that often gets in the way of justice and progress.  Yet, he also swore his Presidential oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the US.  That oath is a sacred obligation and not merely words repeated for the camera.  So, no tightrope here.  President Obama is obligated to respect the law and encourage the people to respect the law.

How many people were murdered during the past several months?  How many were white?  How many were black?  How many had the case followed by the national media?  How many did Diane Sawyer present to her audience?  How many did Obama know about, comment upon, or even care about?  Yes, this case was sad.  Yes, we all wish it had never happened?  Yes, it was preventable.  But let’s get some perspective here.  Last week on a 700 mile drive on our Interstate highway system, I passed at least a dozen markers where young people died in car accidents?  Many were under the age of twenty-five.  The main cause was not drugs, or alcohol.  The main cause was texting and over tiredness. Does any body care.  Do the protestors in Times Square care?  I think not.  Deaths on our highways are routine and many people are suggesting the markers be taken down because they upset us.

How many soldiers died during the last year in Iraq and Afghanistan?  Do the protestors in NYC care?  Do they even know?  Does the New York Times ever report the statistics or the photos of the flag drapped coffins arriving at Dover Air Force Base?  Does President Obama ever comment on those deaths?  Does he know?  Does he care?

One wonders if America is worthy of itself!  One wonders why our police, firefighters and first responders even try to help a nation that seems on a course for self-destruction!  One wonders why soldiers should continue to carry out national military policy when the nation does not care and the President does not care!  Maybe America is not worthy of itself?

From this writers viewpoint, if America is torn apart by hate mongers, it only has itself to blame. If we don’t know better, we should.

Obama Should Stop Using Air Force One

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-cutting-own-pay-solidarity-federal-workers-033436986–business.html

More empty symbolism from Obama.  He gives back five percent of four hundred thousand, or twenty thousand dollars.  Good.  But if he used Air force one 10% less, he would save the government $179,000 each time.  So ten times equals 1 million 700 thousand which could be used to pay peoples salary.  The President doesn’t pay for anything, not food, or shelter, heat, light, water, lawn, repairs, phone, TV, travel.  All are 100 % paid for by the taxes of the same workers he is claiming to favor.  Even Obama’s lavish White House parties and hollywood studed extravaganzas are paid for by the taxes of the people.  Stop the lavish parties, I don’t mean State dinners which are a requirement of the office of President.  I mean the very expensive lavish and extravangant weekly private parties for his friends and political supporters.  Then cut all use of Air force one when used for political speeches and political Democrat fund raising and campaigning.  I guess, that would probably save tens of millions, all of which could be directed to funding the salaries of the federal workers he so publically supports.  But then, it seems, Americans and the media are more impressed with Obama’s drama instead of his actual accomplishments.  Its all style over substance.

Let’s Honor our murdered dead

http://news.yahoo.com/no-purple-hearts-fort-hood-victims-pentagon-says-152503982–abc-news-topstories.html

Please write your congress person to insist that these great American citizens who were wantonly murdered on their way to deployment should not only get a purple heart, but the increased benefits to their families that is required of our nation.  That is, if are willing to be honest and insist that our dead, (they are dead brothers and sisters, and their children are without them!!). These American soldiers volunteered to serve the military mission of our nation.  They were American service personnel.  They would not have been brutally murdered if they were not on their way to carry out the commands of the American government.  Yes, that means the orders of President Obama. (look folks, those are merely the facts and not anti Obama statements.) So let’s not be small-minded and childish in our treatment of these heroes.  Yes, they did not die in combat, they were murdered.  They were brutally and wantonly murdered by a fellow soldiers who was himself a secret terrorist.  So they were killed by terrorists and we must demand that our military do the right thing and the right thing is NOT to allow Attorney General Holder’s insistence that this was “workplace violence”.  Shame on us if we do not honor these service members with a purple heart and decent benefits to their spouses and children.

Leave Afghanistan Now

http://news.yahoo.com/afghan-teenager-fatally-stabs-us-soldier-105007454.html

 

We must leave Afghanistan now, today, pronto, to hell with their damn country, Muslim fanaticism, and terrorist people.  Let them kill themselves, as they always have, and let them do it until they are satisified with their human sacrifices to their terrorist fanaticism, and then they will stop.

Leave Afghanistan Now

http://news.yahoo.com/us-commandos-hand-over-troubled-area-afghans-085617778.html

President Obama said that this was the war that absolutely must be won.  NOT.  America is in fast retreat from this hell hole.

Secretary of State Kerry, as a Senator, said that the Afghanistan war is the true war for freedom and democracy.  Now he is making deals with the Taliban.

President George W Bush thought this was a significant place to fight against terrorism, ignorance and Muslim bigotry.  NOT.

Is it any wonder that the USA under the Obama administration is in full retreat from Afghanistan?

The writer of this blog does not agree with the idea that because we have already spent the lives of thousands of Ameria’s best patriots, therefore, we need to stay and spend the lives of thousands more.

Rather, I believe that the entire Afghanistan venture was a total and complete waste of time and effort.  That our young men’s lives were tragically wasted. And that Bush, Mrs. Clinton, Obama and Kerry are responsible for the carnage inflicted upon American families during this twelve year long stupidity.

Therefore, the USA should immediately and completely withdraw from Afghanistan.  We shoud not consult with, seek the approval of. nor worry about, the silly Karzai government.  We should just order our troops to destroy all USA equipment in Afghanistan.  We should order the total destruction of all USA installations in Afghanistan.  And this is to be done by a few dozen volunteers who will remain after we unilaterally and immediately withdraw 100 % of the the USA forces from that nation State.  As to the contractors?  They got there by our USA government and USA military machinations. Therefore, give the USA government and military a “secret date certain” for the 100 % withdrawal and get the very highly paid volunteer civilains out,However, only after we are certain that our volunteer military forces are safe to leave.

Let Afghanistan have Afghanistan.  And Allah bless them as they build their nation upon the principles of Islam.