Giving Obama the benefit of the doubt on health care
Maybe we are all giving Obama too much of a hard time about the upcoming health care bill(or BarryCare, ObamaCare, or OCare or O-Who-Cares). It turns out that he might not know enough about it!
As Heritage first broke, Obama seems to have missed a major provision in the bill, and one that has been perhaps the most criticized by those on both sides of the aisle. The “option” part of “public option” is looking more and more like a “choice” like in “pro-choice” in that it could be deadly. Continue Reading »
Obama’s crappy pitch a hit with shoddy reporters
Call it sour grapes, but President Barack Obama threw a crappy pitch last night at the 80th Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Not only did Obama fail to make it across home plate, but St. Louis’ beloved first baseman Albert Pujols had to reach out several feet to actually catch the president’s pitch. The Fox Sports’ cameras were situated in such a way that the ball’s progression could not be seen clearly. Only in a brief moment of footage at MLB.com is the camera angle fit to see how the ball missed the mark.
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Obama’s pre-Vatican overtures are a smokescreen
Descending in Italy today for the July 8-10 G8 Summit, President Barack Obama will move onto the Vatican for his first audience with the Pope on Friday. In advance of that meeting, Obama hosted a roundtable meeting with Catholic 
reporters and The Washington Post on July 2nd.
In that conversation, Obama asserted that he supported a “robust” conscience clause for hospitals and health care providers. The conscience clause would afford doctors, pharmacists and other medical professionals protection against forced participation in abortion procedures or the subscription of abortifacient drugs.
On the Lighter Side of Things…Putin Whoops Obama’s Ass
Obammy recently visited Russia to hammer out his so-called “reset” agenda. Foreign policy aside, I couldn’t help but notice the oozing euphemism from the New York Times regarding Obama’s dismissive gestures toward the Russians.
“The decision to brush off the Russians on one of his two nights here miffed some in the Moscow government who did not understand why he would not devote the scarce time to his hosts. Mr. Obama had dinner with President Dmitri A. Medvedev on Monday and lunch with him on Tuesday. But with the second dinner slot unavailable, he ended up having breakfast Tuesday with Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, a known night owl Continue Reading »
Obama education secretary: unions should reconsider tenure, incorporate student acheivement in teacher evaluations and pay
Something that kind of went under the media’s radar last week was Arne Duncan’s July 2nd speech before the National Education Association convention. The annual gathering of the nation’s largest union was held from July 1-6 in San Diego, California. The Secretary’s address received some coverage from wire news services and California newspapers, but for what Mr. Duncan was saying, major newspaper coverage (i.e. NYT and WashPo) was noticeably absent. Continue Reading »
Write off 2012?
When Mark Sanford was caught going to Argentina to visit his mistress, the media widely reported the downfall of a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate. That got me thinking–why bother focusing so much on the 2012 presidential election since the Republicans are almost certain to lose?
Despite Congress’s best efforts to derail the Democratic Party, the media is still in infatuated with Obama. It’s pretty much going to take the President being caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy for this to change. Continue Reading »
Happy Canada Day! Let them keep universal healthcare for themselves
In honor of Canada Day, I propose that we let the Canadians keep their beloved health system to themselves, because that’s something America can do without.
Socialized medicine, known by the popular euphemism “universal healthcare,” is the new Obama plan/flavor of the week. Unfortunately, this gimmick is the worst one yet. Continue Reading »
Possibly the stupidest bumper sticker that I’ve ever seen
Driving home from the gym today, I was behind a car that had a bumper sticker that read “No More World Drama, Vote Obama”.
I know it’s meant to be hyperbole and I understand that Obama has higher approval ratings in foreign countries than George W. Bush did or John McCain probably would have had, but has Obama saved us from world drama? I don’t think folks in Iran, North Korea, Iraq or Honduras would agree (and that’s just in the past month).
Until Obama finds a way to bring democracy to Iran (and dismantling their nuclear weapons program), stop North Korea from developing nuclear arms, quell violence in Iraq and allow Honduras to have a government that is not authoritarian, then I’ll believe that Obama can actually stop world drama.
This is not a coup in Honduras
The alleged coup in Honduras is actually a defense of democracy and of the Right.
President Obama has come out against both, puzzling freedom-loving Americans. Does Obama oppose term limits on presidents? That is the issue in Honduras - the ousted president intended to extend his term, Chavez-style.
While Obama was “giving some rub” to Hugo Chavez at the Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, perhaps a bit of that desire for term limit abolishment rubbed off on him.
One has to wonder why an American president would oppose the democratic interests of a majority of the people of Honduras. Perhaps Obama wants to abolish term limits here as well…
The Dems target tobacco - where does that leave liberal smokers?
You know, liberals’ nanny-state antics often come back to bite them in the ass.
When Obama signed the recent tobacco legislation into law, the liberal tobacco users I know were crying over their sore hineys. When Gov. Tim Kaine of Virginia signed a ban on smoking tobacco in restaurants and bars, my liberal pals were nursing their tooshies. Continue Reading »
