The ACLU scores the entire Senate and House every year based on the
issues they think most important. Obama didn’t beat his VP pick
Joe Biden’s 91%, but he didn’t do bad for a first term Senator with an
82% lifetime score. If he would have actually vote more than just
"present" his score would be higher. The only issue he voted
against that the ACLU wanted him to vote for was the FISA Amendments Act
of 2008 in which he had to do some pandering.
My Comrade
At an Apollo Theater fundraiser, Obama was introduced by the
radical Marxist professor and self-styled rapper, Cornell West, as "my
comrade."
What does this tell you about Obama, when he chooses to be introduced by
one of the most radical Marxists in America as, "my comrade?"
Watch this video
-- Cornell doesn't trust Obama -- Why the change in attitude?
What promises did Obama make to cause this 180◦?
New America
Welcome to "New America," where Obama
doesn't want to produce his bona fides to prove he's
Constitutionally eligible for the office of POTUS, but
wants a new Declaration of Independence.
In Dayton, Ohio,
Mason school officials
want to suspend the 1st Amendment, saying they will not tolerate
"inappropriate comments that may make other students, staff or families
feel unwelcome or uncomfortable."
A New York congressman
wants to repeal the 22nd Amendment, ending presidential term limits.
An Illinois congressman
wants
all handguns be registered with and licensed by the Attorney General of
the United States, along with a database containing the owner's address, photo, thumb print, mental heath
records and records of every handgun sale or transfer.
A California
congresswoman
wants to prosecute Bush Administration officials for actions
approved by Congress.
Waterboarding
Gateway Pundit
reports that a former intelligence agent says the waterboarding of
Abu Zubaydah got him to talk in less than 35 seconds. The technique,
which critics say is torture, probably disrupted "dozens" of planned
al-Qaida attacks and saved hundreds and thousands of lives.
Waterboarding works.
But, Barack Obama said today on ABC's "This
Week" program that waterboarding is torture and that he is not ruling
out prosecution of Bush officials for interrogation crimes.
In
the interview, Obama criticized Vice President Dick Cheney for his
public defense of "extraordinary" interrogation methods used against top
terrorism suspects, including simulated drowning known as waterboarding.
"Vice President Cheney, I think, continues to defend what he
calls extraordinary measures or procedures when it comes to
interrogations and from my view waterboarding is torture," Obama said.
"I have said that under my administration we will not torture."
Many special operations units
in all branches of the U.S. military employ the use of waterboarding as
part of survival school (SERE) training. Will Obama end this
training too?
Man Attacks Obama From The Grave
Jon Bershad
says, no. That headline isn’t a snide joke about voters’ ages
(you know what they say, when you’re young and poor you’re a Democrat
and when you’re rich and a dead person…), the deceased are actually
coming after Democrats; rising from their graves and advancing on
Washington while growling "SMALL GOVERNMENT! SMALL
GOOOOOVERNMENT!" through their rigor mortis-afflicted mouths. Ok,
not exactly, but their obituaries are sure leaning right. A few
months ago, a Nevada woman’s obituary called out Harry Reid, and now, a
recently departed man from Georgia is borrowing the tactic to attack
President Obama from beyond the grave.
The National Review
Online’s Jonah Goldberg scanned in this treat from the obituary of the
late Donald Charles Unsworth:
"The family respectfully asked in lieu of
flowers that memorial contributions be made to the American Cancer
Society, or to the campaign of whoever is running against President
Barack Obama in 2012."
When the Reid story hit last July, many people
complained about the family using the memory of their loved one for
political purposes. I’m not sure I agree with that. For all
we know, these people actually used their last available strength to ask
their family members to help turn their entire life into a quirky,
quickly dated cable news anecdote. Still though, if this was the
family’s doing in this case, it’s even more disturbing. It’s one
thing to exploit a loved one for politics. It’s quite another to
exploit a loved one for politics, and do so in a wholly unoriginal
fashion.
