The Presidential Sickness: Overpromise, Underperform

Is it a disease? Running presidential candidates talk ideals and dreams and make promises they can’t possibly keep. Do they do it out of naiveté or drive to win at all costs and think they’ll fix every lie later?

The first George Bush killed his chances at winning more than one term by pouring out of his lips, “watch my lips. no new taxes!.” Then what? Tax Tax Tax of course.

Barack Obama, the anti-war candidate now has three wars going, one past the limits of the war powers act, making it unconstitutional, even according to his own lawyers. So when his lawyers say something he doesn’t agree with, he invokes his law degree and looks for support from other lawyers. Continue reading

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Lies About The Alleged Budget Deal

Man, he’s smart… as a politician. Which means he’s the kind of guy that’s lying if he opens his mouth. That’s Obama, of course. Any opportunity to get his lap-dog press out to capture His Celebrities’ every move.

So he traipses up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to mingle with the tourists and tell them the really really important stuff: that they couldn’t be there enjoying the monument and His Celebrity if the silly budget deal hadn’t been made. Right at the last hour, as planned, His Celebrity has saved the people again! Speaker Boner (AKA John Boehner)? He had nothing to do with it. Continue reading

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White House moving to repair troubled relationship with Cabinet

Barack Obama, elected on promises of bringing government together, stopping the bickering and helping each side of the aisle work with the other to bring harmony, apparently can’t work with his own cabinet. According to his friends at the Washington Post…

“News this week of the first departure of a Cabinet secretary from the Obama administration comes amid a wide-ranging effort under the new chief of staff, William M. Daley, to repair badly frayed relations between the White House and the Cabinet.”

In another quote, Daley said he’s heard Cabinet members’ complaints. “You hear the same thing: ‘I don’t think we’re used well. I don’t think we’re consulted enough,’ ”

So it keeps stacking up. He’s a go-it-alone president, do his own thing dictator president. One who decides without the help of the Supreme Court what’s constitutional and what’s not, as in deciding not to enforce the defense of marriage act. And we’re talking about a law passed by Congress and signed by Democrat Bill Clinton.

The would-be-dictator president rolls on until the steam roller hits a wall, then backs off – briefly – until he figures a way around it.

No wonder Patriots have always realized that government is the problem. And not only the problem, but in many ways the worst enemy the American people have.

As Thomas Paine put it, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil” –The Rights of Man (1792)

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Republicans Endorse Obama

The current crop of Republican presidential hopefuls couldn’t be better friends of Barack Obama if they just came out and openly endorsed him.

Huckabee, Romney, Palin, Gingrich, Pawlenty, etc, all bouncing around in a very hollow box will debate, preach, yak, posture, whatever it takes to totally lose support because… because not one of them, nor all of them together, has the charisma of Obama. And the winner is, always was, and always will be the best actor. The guy (get a grip–the term includes girls, just like your waiter/waitress says) who wins is the one that comes across as the best TV actor. The shiniest celebrity on the tube. Before TV pictures took over and killed tons of ugly politicians, it was the best stage and radio actor. Continue reading

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Cairo and Madison Uprisings. Is Washington Next?

…a system knit together by patronage, greased by bribes and guided by the principle that the governing party knows best…

What country does that sound like? Could it be the U.S.? The line is taken from a NY times article on Egypt. But it could just as well apply to today’s America.  Politicians – those already elected wouldn’t agree. They’d object to the patronage and bribes part. But that stuff by any other names, such as outlandish contributions, pet local projects that cost billions and government contracts for things we don’t need? What else are they? Continue reading

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Mubarak or Muslim Brotherhood not Egypt’s only choice: Experts – Faith & Reason

With talk of “an orderly transition” in Egypt, USA Today blogger Cathy Lynn Grossman posts an interesting piece on how a succession might go:

Will the next government that emerges from the tumult in Egypt be Islamic or Islamist? There’s a critical difference, say experts, who caution against knee-jerk fears that Mubarak might be replaced by Islamists — Muslim political extremists.

Inevitably, the government — Hosni Mubarak or anyone else — will be Muslim, as it is now, because Egypt is one of the largest Muslim-majority nations in the world.

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Barack Obama: Closet Atheist or Closet Preacher?

The Internet is strewn with words hanging the term closet atheist on Barack Obama. But he’s really more like the closet preacher. We’ve referred to his speeches as preaching many times. And never has his preaching been more like what the best preachers do than at his Tucson appearance to comfort the berieved and inspire everyone who’ll listen to do better. Isn’t that what a good “preacher of the gospel” does?

At first notice, when he spoke at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and then when he started his campaign speeches, we couldn’t help but notice a great similarity to Martin Luther King, Jr. Has nothing to do with race or what Obama says, but how he says it. The pace, the cadence, the repeating of certain phrases for emphasis all say preacher. Because that’s exactly what a good preacher does. And MLK was that. Continue reading

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Giffords shot because she’s Jewish?

Could Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords have been targeted by a gunman because she’s Jewish?

The alleged shooter, Jared Loughner, included Hitler’s Mein Kampf on his reading list. In a piece of YouTube junk he writes, yes writes (don’t expect any weird video–It’s just text), “No! I don’t trust in God.” His other rambling thoughts aren’t much different than what anybody dealing with a large segment of the public comes across. But not every rambling results in a shooting spree.

Like in one of our Nashville businesses we deal with aspiring songwriters all over the world. Most of them work at jobs like everybody else and have dreams they’re trying to do something about with their writing. But some have far-out dreams. Continue reading

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Haley Barbour President? Who’s Nuts Enough To Even Bring It Up?

President Haley Barber? Who are these people who are dumb enough to be serious about that? And his problem isn’t about smarts. Or remarks about White Citizen’s Councils. He’s just ugly. And Americans don’t want no UGLY president. Especially one that can’t act. Besides the best actor always wins. Barbour may be good at acting the part of a Mississippi governor, but president? No way! Continue reading

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Profiting from Divorce: Is It One of the Legal Crimes?

Is it a service, or is it legal crime? Betting on the outcome of a divorce… and helping, for a share of the spoils, one side of the conflict. The New York Times reports on it:

With some in the financial world willing to bet on almost anything, it should be no surprise that a few would see the potential to profit from the often contentious and emotional process of ending a marriage.

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