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And if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, always remember: We do not struggle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places (Eph. 6:12). If you do not believe in Jesus Christ, let me encourage you to do so: Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no man comes to the Father but through Me.” “Believe in Me and you will have eternal life. Believe not, and the wrath of God will abide on you.” (John 14:6 3:16).

CR was on vacation last week; so a few events and quotations go back as far as two weeks.

JP Morgan-Chase lost $2 billion; some politicians believe that it is their duty to fix this.

Sometimes the President gets it right. Chinese political activist Chen Guangcheng, who had been at the center of a diplomatic dispute between the U.S. and Chinese governments, arrived in New York City this weekend after a flight from Beijing with his wife and two children.

In West Virginia, of out-of-state incarcerated felon Keith Judd got roughly 40% of the vote against President Obama in the recent Democratic primary.

President Obama will also face a non-incarcerated Democratic challenger in the Arkansas and Texas primaries, Tennessee attorney John Wolfe. Right now, the president is up, 45–38 in Arkansas.

Several things have come to light about the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case: there is clear evidence as well as eyewitness reports of a fight between the two, including Zimmerman sustaining a number of injuries; and that the gun was fired at a very close range of perhaps inches, which would be consistent with Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense. There is also a claim that Zimmerman has a black relative, which would suggest that this was not racially motivated.

President Obama blames the media for reporting too much on the bad news, and this is keeping real change from occurring. Add this to “I Blame Everyone.”

The president has done quite a number of very noteworthy things curing his presidency; but recently broke new ground by going after those people who financially support Mitt Romney. This is a new low in politics.

It has come to light that illegal immigrants are getting $4.2 billion from the IRS for child credits.

According to the book, The Amateur, David Axelrod thought or said that President Obama had a messiah-complex.

More things come to light this week: Reverend Jeremiah Wright was allegedly offered money from a high-up Obama aide to keep his mouth shut during the Obama 2008 campaign. Obama used cocaine, marijuana in high school (and college?); drove drunk; and preferred to hang out with Marxists. Although this was in his book, little was said about this during the campaign.

On the White House site, there are short bios of the previous presidents. The White House has conveniently added links and remarks about Obama in several cases. Story included in this edition.

A Democratic congressman is trying to give the federal government the power to regulate pizza in public school lunches, following a failed attempt last year. The legislation proposed by Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., would end pizza being counted as a vegetable in school lunches and allow the government to set nutritional standards.

The Congressional Black Caucus held a meeting to denigrate people with a pro-life position, despite the fact that a disproportionate number of aborted babies are Black.

Filipino boxing champ Manny Pacquiao is banned from LA mall, the Grove, by owner Rick Caruso, after coming out against gay marriage.

1/32^nd Indian Elizabeth Warren appears to have plagiarized her "Indian" recipes in "Pow Wow Chow" cookbook, taking them from an ultra-expensive French restaurant.

This is news from the distant past, but when the NY Times was going to do an interview with President Bill Clinton, they submitted their questions in advance without being asked; and Dick Morris, Bill Clinton’s long-time aide, suggested a few questions of his own, which were apparently used.

Capitalizing on Michelle Obama’s strong popularity and the pop culture, she has been appearing on show after show after show on prime time. The idea is to present Mrs. Obama, who is probably more radical than her husband, as just a very hip and cool first lady. She wants to be seen as likeable so that she can sell her husband as likeable as well.

Things are heating up in Wisconsin, as campaign signs for Gov. Scott Walker reportedly have been burned in two towns. At least eight signs for the Republican governor, who faces a recall election on June 8 against Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, were set on fire.

The Obama campaign is poised to launch a new online voting rights portal Gotta Vote that aims to help voters overcome new ID and polling requirements across the country. Does anyone else wince when we hear a high profile politician use the words gotta, gonna, ain’t, etc.?

50 years ago, Mitt Romney, as a teenager, cut the hair of a long-haired kid. Furthermore, there are people out there who believe that this is a legitimate 2012 campaign issue.

Medical insurance companies will be mandated to send our checks to people who did not use all of their insurance dollars. Obamacare requires that insurance companies be only allowed so much profit; and it they exceed that, it must go back to the insured. Rebates from $1 on up to $500 will be sent out with a note indicating that it was Obamacare responsible for cutting you this check. It is unlikely that there will be the caveat, “Obamacare also required us to increase our insurance premiums this year by 20%.” (Or whatever). This has been done on many occasions before: politicians will figure out some way to sent out a rebate or a stimulus check; and it just happens to go out during an election year.

Maine Governor Paul LePage has signed a state budget into law that de-funds the abortion business that also funds Planned Parenthood.

Millions of dollars worth of TSA security equipment is “rotting away” in warehouses.

Income tax child credit payments of about $4.2 billion have been paid to illegal immigrants in 2010. To put this in perspective: this is how much our debt increases each day and this is how much money we would get each year from taxing the rich a little bit more.

Government tyranny: Illinois Department of Agriculture secretly destroys beekeeper's bees and 15 years of research proving Monsanto's Roundup kills bees

The Franciscan University of Steubenville, a small but well-known Catholic college in eastern Ohio, has its own answer to Obamacare. It is cancelling its student health insurance policy in order to avoid complications from the Obama administration's mandate to cover contraception, sterilizations, and abortifacient drugs.

The NAACP's board of directors just passed a resolution expressing support for same-sex marriage equality.

A portion of the defense authorization bill protects military chaplains from performing gay marriages if it goes against their conscience (which would be true of any person who believes in the Bible). Both the White House and Nancy Pelosi have come out against that provision. When it comes to religious freedom, they apparently believe that it ought to be subservient to government control. This is completely consistent with the position of the White House and many democrats that believe that free stuff for women (under the guise of healthcare) ought to trump religious institutions (e.g., a Catholic college which does not want to provide the morning after pill for those using its healthcare product).

Both the Obama campaign and Rev. Al Sharpton have come out and said that any attempt to involve Rev. Jeremiah Wright in the 2012 campaign would be racist.

It appears as though House Democrats have met to plan strategies as to how to make race and issue in 2012. This would include taking quotes of Republicans out of context and speaking of coded racism found in their words.

We are in a tight spot, according to the 2012 World Wildlife Fund's "Living Planet Report" released this month. We humans are living beyond our means, depleting natural resources like forests, air and water 50% faster than the planet can renew, according to this report. They assert that, if the trends aren't reversed, by 2030 we'd need more than two Planet Earths to sustain human activity. It is officially now time to cower.

There is a war of billboards going on in Chicago; first an organization named Heartland Institute ran a billboard featuring unabomber Theodore J. Kaczynski, with the red-lettered words: "I still believe in climate change. Do you?" Forecast the Facts, which believes in man-made global warming, is running billboards against them. However, the thrust of their organization is to go after those organizations which sponsor Heartland and then to go after weathermen who do not tow the global warming line (which is now over 50%). They admit on their website that they are monitoring these errant meteorologists.

Three men arrested in Chicago based upon allegations that they tried to make Molotov cocktails ahead of the NATO summit. They also had plans to firebomb Obama's campaign HQ, Rahm Emanuel's Home, and to shoot up police stations. Let’s say these were TEA party people; do you think you might have heard about this story? The Washington Post waited 3 paragraphs before mentioning that these men were part of the Occupy movement.

18 young men, all wearing hooded jackets and obscuring their faces with scarves and other coverings, stormed into a Chicago area restaurant in the middle of the lunch rush Saturday. This appears to be a targeted attack, and these young men wielded metal batons and hammers. Ten diners were hurt in the attack, and three of those were hospitalized.

The United Nations Human Rights Council has just issued a report condemning Canada for its unacceptable "rates of food insecurity," and has called on the federal government in Ottawa to adopt "a national right to food strategy." This would be hilarious, if we weren’t paying for it.

When a country goes into decline, people begin to withdraw their money from their banks. This is occurring in Greece right now, with nearly $1 billion being taken out of Greek banks. All European banks are experiencing some sort of a similar run on their banks. Many conservatives see this as the future of our financial system if our government does not get its act together.

Ahead of the G8 summit in Camp David on Friday, a group of United Nations human rights "experts" are throwing their weight behind a longstanding campaign for a so-called "Robin Hood tax" on international financial transactions. This money would be sent to smaller nations (actually, it would go to the dictators of these smaller and poorer nations).

In an escalation of America's clandestine war in Yemen, a small contingent of U.S. troops is providing targeting data for Yemeni airstrikes as government forces battle to dislodge Al Qaeda militants and other insurgents in the country's restive south, U.S. and Yemeni officials said.

A mob of about 300 Islamic hard-liners threw stones and bags of urine at a congreagation of the Batak Christian Protestant Church in Bekasi, on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, one of the moderate Muslim countries.

Saad El-Katatni speaker of the new People's Assembly in Egypt referred to the economics committee the issue of Chinese-made children's toys that "humiliate Islam and its figures."

The United States has been apparently released some terrorists over the past few years from Guantanamo Bay. It is okay, because they are made to promise to give up violence.

Barack Obama: "No wonder that faith in our institutions has never been lower, particularly when good news doesn't get the same kind of ratings as bad news anymore. Every day you receive a steady stream of sensationalism and scandal and stories with a message that suggest change isn't possible; that you can't make a difference; that you won't be able to close that gap between life as it is and life as you want it to be." Yes, because I recall, as a youth, how often good news was reported on.

Barack Obama tweet: “See how President Obama fares when quizzed on his superhero knowledge: OFA.BO/D42u1X”

President Obama: "It was a house of cards and it collapsed in the most destructive, worst crisis that we've seen since the Great Depression. And sometimes people forget the magnitude of it...Sometimes I forget."

President Barack Obama: "economic growth can't just be for the lucky few at the top, it's got to be broad-based, for everybody. I've spoken before about relatives I have in Kenya, who live in villages where hunger is sometimes a reality - despite the fact that African farmers can be some of the hardest-working people on Earth." The Obama’s are millionaires and they have apparently done nothing about Obama’s family in Kenya.

Vice President Joe Biden, in anger: "Well I get tired of being called `middle class Joe' like that's somehow I'm just good ole Joe and I don't dream."

President Obama, who once called Solyndra a good bet: “For the past three and a half years, we've been fighting our way back from an historic economic crisis - one caused by breathtaking irresponsibility on the part of some on Wall Street who treated our financial system like a casino.”

Joe Biden, screaming: "We're not out there saying that we can go out there and rescue the economy with no pain? We inherited a god-awful situation! The worst recession in the history of America short of a depression. No one is sugar-coating this."

Forecast the Facts, concerning the fact that fewer than 50% of meteorologists believe in man-made global warming: “...we're tracking meteorologists' attitudes toward climate change across the country.” They are also going after the sponsors of an organization which does not believe in man-made global warming.

John Romm, of ThinkProgress, a progressive group closely associated with President Obama, on the idea of PBS giving any time to those who deny man-made global warming: “Seriously PBS? Would you give air time to someone who says the Earth is flat or cigarettes don't cause cancer and simply follow those falsehoods by ‘These are views challenged by scientific evidence.’ Would PBS go so far as to give air time to an even more extreme kind of disinformer, a Holocaust denier? Where do they draw the line?”

Vice President Joe Biden on gay marriage: "We didn't make it an issue, we were asked a question; I was asked how I feel about it, and I said I feel comfortable."

Joe Biden, yelling and searching for a coherent thought: "I resent when they talk about families like mine that I grew up in. I resent the fact that they think we're talking about envy: it's job envy, it's wealthy envy; that we don't dream," an impassioned Biden told a crowd of manufacturing workers. My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, that I could be, I could be vice president! My mother and father believed that if my brother or sister wanted to be a millionaire, they could be a millionaire! My mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams! They don't get us! They don't get who we are!"

Joe Biden, when asked about incarcerated felon getting about 40% of the vote in West Virginia against Barack Obama: "Look, I come from a household where whenever there's a recession, somebody around my grand-pop or my dad's table lost a job. A brother, a sister a friend, a neighbor. When you're out of work, man, it's a depression. And a lot of people are still hurting because of this god-awful recession we inherited that cost 8.4 million jobs before we could really get going. And so I don't blame people, they're frustrated, they're angry."

Parenthood President Cecile Richards: “Frankly, the Republican party leadership who seems to want to take away the right [of women to make decisions]...the fact that we are actually having a fight in this country about whether women should have access to birth control is extraordinary...Romney...literally wants to take women back to the 1950s." Are there any women who actually believe that these are Romney’s positions?

Newsweek columnist Michelle Goldberg of Ann Romney's Mothers' Day holiday column: "In a lot ways, the column was totally anodyne, right? She's, you know, yes, motherhood is beautiful. I found that phrase, `the crown of motherhood' really kind of creepy. Not just because of it's somewhat - you know, it's kind of really authoritarian societies that give out like a Cross of Motherhood. They give out awards for big families. You know, Stalin did it, Hitler did it."

New York Times economic columnist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman of Republican leaders: "Sometimes you do wonder if these guys are moles -Manchurian Candidates - for I don't know who...their real job [seems to be]...to bring down America, because they really are doing the best they can."

When asked by Bashir if House Majority Leader Rep. John Boehner was working to "further undermine America's standing" in his efforts to insist that the debt ceiling not be raised again without accompanying spending cuts, Krugman agreed and said "Sometimes you do wonder if these guys are moles - Manchurian Candidates - for I don't know who."

From the White House Pool Report, of Obama in Hollywood: "[George] Clooney listened intently to Potus throughout, his hands folded as if in prayer and his chin resting on them."

CNN’s Don Lemon, after playing a clip of George Wallace calling for segregation forever: “Honestly, can you imagine having uttered those words in front of television cameras or being one of those people in the crowd cheering on Alabama's governor George Wallace? That wasn't so long ago. It was the 1960s. Now think about how far we have come, and think about what this might sound like a few decades from now.” And then he plays this video clip:

Mitt Romney: “Marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman.” Which was exactly the President’s stand until very recently.

David Letterman: “I was talking to Mitt Romney earlier today, and he and his family got a big two day weekend planned. They're going to hike to the top of his money.” David Letterman is worth about $400 million; Romney is worth about $230 million.

Bill Maher, about the new information that Trayvon Martin had marijuana in his system: “...turns out he probably did beat the dogs__t out of that guy...if I had a son he would not look like Trayvon Martin, but I hope he would act like him.”

"Sex and the City" star Sarah Jessica Parker: "As a woman, a mother, and an entrepreneur, I need to believe our country can be a place where everyone has a fair shot at success. This November's election will determine whether we get to keep moving forward, or if we're forced to go back to policies that ask people like my middle-class family in Ohio to carry the burden - while people like me, who don't need tax breaks, get extra help."

Sean Penn in Canne at a lavish dinner party on giving to a Haiti relief fund: “Tell the man next to you, ‘I'm not going to f*** you tonight unless you pay the f*** up.’ ”

Chicago marchers chanting: "No justice no peace, f*ck the police," and "From Chicago to Greece, f*ck the police," and "Cops, pigs, murderers."

Chicago marchers chanting: “F__K you, NATO, more war, hell no....s__ts f__ked up and bull__t...f__k you, Congress, we want progress...J.P. Morgan sucks and f__k Monsanto.”

Leftist protestor while Scott Walker is speaking at a ceremony honoring fallen police officers: “Scott Walker, you suck.”

Occupy Berkeley protesters to police: "You wanna suck my ___, Faggots?" Liberals can make all of the gay slurs that they want.

Francis Fox Piven: "What I really want to talk about is, what is my, the love of my life now: Occupy. I want to try to explain why Occupy is becoming one of those great, national movements that has changed American history- But amazingly, very, very few people can locate Occupy in American history, and that's what I want to try to do....[In 1776] the ideas of radical democracy were sweeping the country at the time. And if you pay attention the philosophy of radical democracy that animated the dirt farmers, and the artisans and the laborers- that doctrine was really a little like Occupy. They believed government should never be far from where they were, and that they should be able to watch what it did. There should only be a legislature- it should be unicameral, one House, no House based on property- and they believed also that they should be able to un-elect these characters every year."

President Obama in 2011 on giving $½ billion to Solyndra: "Hindsight is always 20/20. It went through the regular review process and people felt this was a good bet."

1998 Democratic political ad: “When you don't vote, you let another church explode. When you don't vote, you allow another cross to burn. When you don't vote, you let another assault wound a brother or sister. When you don't vote, you let the Republicans continue to cut school lunches and Head Start.”

Rev. Al Sharpton 1994: “White folks was in the cave when we were building empires. We learned to admire them, but they knew to admire us. We built pyramids...We talked philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”

Senior Obama advisor David Axelrod: "We're also going to be prepared - and I want to be clear - to respond to the attacks that we expect to continue not just from the Romney campaign but the [Karl] Rove and Koch brothers contract killers over there in super PAC land who are going to continue to pound away on behalf of governor Romney."

Former Obama official Betsey Stevenson: “And then there's this other issue, which is portraying him as a guy who has no empathy for people. And that really resonates, because he comes across as a guy who has no empathy for people, in many different dimensions. You know, you've got the gay-bashing thing when he was in high school. You've got his wife saying I don't feel rich, even though I'm richer than 99.99% of Americans. I mean, they come across as really having no empathy for people.”

Liberal radio personality Randi Rhodes on conservative Mark Levin: “You think that he could live in his bedroom the way he does and broadcast his show from there, never leave the house and he's not a pothead? Are you kidding me, he's not a stoner? Right! Yeah, uh-huh, I'm down with you, Mark Levin, oh yes, oh yes baby! I get - yeah, oh I believe you have never smoked the pot you will never smoke the pot - this is why you have what, social anxiety disorder, to the point where you have like agoraphobia - you can't go out of the house - it's paranoia, honey.”

CAIR-NY head Zead Ramadan, one of those moderate Muslims, in an interview Monday with Iranian state-controlled Press TV, describing the treatment of Muslims in the United States: "In Nazi Germany, they targeted the minority, the Jewish minority. I don't think we will ever get there, but I don't think we should allow the road to continue to be built towards that direction because the comments that are being made against Muslims are very eerily echoing the comments that were being made against Jews by Nazis...[W]henever you think that America, the land of the free, is going to grow up and go beyond it [racism], more intolerant, extremist voices come out. And the easiest target, the minority, the easiest target has been the Muslim people.”

Imam Abdel Malik Ali at UC Irvine: "The current financial crisis and collapse, the architects of it are Zionists."

Ali: "There's no such thing as al-Qaida...that's another deception. There is no such thing as al-Qaida. Like no such thing as al-Qaida. No, no such thing at all." I am guessing that is the invention of zionists?

Former President Bill Clinton: "I think this budget issue should become front and center in this election."

Former CNN anchorette Campbell Brown: “When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.”

Present-day Obama aide Alan Krueger, in 2008: “...across the 50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits”

Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Cutter: "I have to say also there are also disadvantages to being an incumbent. The economy, you know, will continue to be a challenge as we continue to fight out this race over the next six months." Well, she can’t exactly say, “We’ve got problems because the economy sucks.”

Michael Ahearn, the chairman of First Solar, a company that received approximately $3.1 billion in federal loan guarantees under President Obama's green energy initiative: "In sheer numbers, most of our full-time employees are outside the U.S."

Philippines Congressman and boxer Manny Pacquiao, answer ing a question: "God's words first. . . obey God's law first before considering the laws of man. God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married. It should not be of the same sex, so as to adulterate the altar of matrimony, like in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah."

Dave in Denver on his blog: “Anyone who thinks the Fed is serious about not printing any more money is either cluelessly naive or hopelessly ignorant. The apathy and nonchalance about what is happening in this country is beyond appalling. And now Charles Schumer, a supposed Democrat, wants to prevent anyone giving up their U.S. citizenship from re-entering the U.S. ever again. Dare I remind Herr Schumer that is exactly the kind of law the Nazis imposed on Schumer's relatives (my relatives too) in the 1930's?”

Obama Deputy campaign manager Stephan Cutter: “The goal of Romney economics has always been about wealth creation, but job creation. It’s wealth creation for a handful of investors like Mitt Romney, not about the creation of jobs for everybody else.”

Chris Wallace: “Mr. Goolsby, can you name a single CEO who does not see their job as creating wealth for their investors rather than creating jobs?” [quoted from memory]

FoxNews Shepherd Smith: “The President of the United States, now in the twenty-first century. And what I'm most curious about is whether it's your belief that in this time of rising debts and medical issues and all the rest, if Republicans would go out on a limb and try to make this a campaign issue while sitting very firmly, without much question, on the wrong side of history on it.”

FoxNews’ Brett Baier: “I don't know about that. You point to the Gallup poll, 50-48; it's very close. And, you're right, there has been an evolution on people's thinking. But you still look at 32 states, when put to a vote, a referendum in those states, and the most recent, of course, last night in North Carolina, 32 states voted to ban same-sex marriage. So those are voters going to the polls, even in California, making that choice. So I don't know if you can say because of this Gallup poll that electorally it is a perfect position for a candidate to run on.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.: "To toss this [spending must be reduced in order to raise the debt ceiling] into the mix right now -- saying we have to have cuts that exceed even the extent to which we lift the debt ceiling is really immature, irresponsible. This is not a wholesome debate. It already can be damaging just the fact that it's brought up. I think we should snuff it out, immediately."

House majority leader John Boehner: "It's the debt! $1.3 trillion more this year. $16 trillion already."

Nina Totenberg, NPR: “Reverend Wright's biggest sin was talking about 9/11 as if somehow, you know, the United States government was involved, and it was a reprehensible speech in many ways. But, you know, Barack Obama killed, ordered the killing of Osama bin Laden. How is this relevant?”

Newsbusters’ Noel Shepard: “Actually, I think Totenberg has a great point. Maybe everything - the economy, the debt, gas prices, and Obama's entire record as president - is irrelevant because bin Laden's dead.”

Todd: The president himself last night raising money at a hedge fund, the home of a hedge fund president whose hedge fund is twice the size of Bain seemed to also praise the idea of risk taking and this or that. So what are you attacking there, why are you attacking this one failure essentially of Bain Capital out of others. Why are you singling this one out?

Newsman Jake Tapper: "The president has been making a very strong case against Mitt Romney's form of capitalism as he practiced at Bain Capital. Does the president believe Bain Capital and the private equity measures that were taken there are significantly different from the ones take at the Blackstone Group?"

Tapper: "I get that, it's just that the campaign has been very critical of some members of the Blackstone group for quote betting against America, being quote less than reputable, and also obviously against Bain Capital but the president and correct me if I'm wrong went to a fundraiser at the home of the president of the Blackstone Group, Hamilton Tony James. And I guess my question is as an American, as a citizen, I don't understand which ones you're criticizing and which ones you're not. It seems like the ones you're criticizing are the ones that belong to people supporting Mitt Romney or are affiliated with Mitt Romney but the same exact types of organizations or in the case of Blackstone, the same exact organization if they support President Obama then they're totally kosher."

Ashleigh Banfield: Alright Ben, I want to take you to task on this one because it was real heart wrenching to listen to those steelworkers in your ad that was ripping Mitt Romney for being at the helm of Bain when, in fact, he wasn't at the helm when that company went bankrupt. So was that fair or was that dirty?

Banfield: That is prior to him -- come on, you're mincing dates and you're cheating here. He left to Salt Lake City. You know as well as I do this is a way you can twist things to be a good campaign ad. Is it fair and is it clean?

Banfield: Let me read something to you from the Washington Post which, by the way, gave your ad one Pinnochio, which is a big fat lie and they were going to give you two Pinnochios but held back because of some gray areas that could be read either way. This is what they said about Pinnochio. The biggest problem with this ad is it takes a single data point - Bain's investments to GS Industries and then it tries to draw larger conclusions about Romney's business practices and his values because Ben, come on, you and I also know he had plenty of success as the Washington Post has outlined. Many successes the Wall Street Journal has outlined. Many successes Bain Capital has had in creating jobs and saving companies from going under. And also there are other steel companies like steel dynamics did incredibly well under their leadership.

Banfield: You know that business is complex and it can't be boiled down to a simple black and white, that easily. You know that, I know that, Americans know that. Don't you think it's a little unfair to take one plant that was already failing, that many analysts have said had Bain not come in, it probably would have failed sooner and that the steel industry was at its worst at this particular time. and then extrapolate this guy is a job killer or a vulture capitalist.

Jodi Miller: “The Obama justice department is suing Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio for his efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. Cracking down on illegal immigration, or, as Democrats call it, vote tampering.”

Senator Marco Rubio: “These ideas that sounded so good in the classrooms of Harvard and Yale haven’t worked out well in the real world...we have not seen such a divisive figures in modern American history as we have in the last three and a half years. Sadly, because he cannot win on his record, the president has decided that he must divide us in order to win; that he must pit Americans against one another.”

Speaker of the House John Boehner: “It’s not like our debt problem is going away. When the president told me yesterday that he wanted a clean increase in the debt limit, it almost took my breath away. We had this debate last year; we put that idea on the floor of the House and it got about 20 votes and over 400 members against it. The problem is the debt; the problem is the spending. Washington keeps kicking this can down the road.”

Paula Priesse: “The chances of a recent college graduate now finding full-time work is about 50%. Commencement speakers always talk about how to succeed. Be nice to see just one telling graduates how to fail: 1) View life in America as hopelessly "unfair" 2) Identify yourself as an aggrieved victim of a special interest group, never responsible for your life choices 3) Place your faith in politicians to achieve happiness & success 4) Rather than learn from them, be angry and bitter at others who are successful 5) Consider yourself highly skilled thus above any entry level position 6) View the debt crisis as irrelevant to your future and 7) Keep believing in slogans like "Forward" and "Hope & Change"”

John Boehner: “Just so we’re all clear: I’m talking about real cuts and real reforms—not these tricks and gimmicks that have given Washington a pass on grappling with its spending problem...it would be more irresponsible to not raise the debt ceiling without taking dramatic steps to reduce spending and reform the budget process. Now we shouldn’t dread the debt limit—as a matter of fact, I think we should welcome it. It’s an action-forcing event in a town which has become infamous for inaction...I will again insist on my simple principle of cuts and reforms greater than the debt limit increase. This is the only avenue I see at this time to force our elected leadership of this country to solve our structural fiscal imbalance."

Mitt Romney: “Today America faces a financial crisis of debt and spending that threatens what it means to be an American. Here in the heartland you know in your hearts that it's wrong. We can't spend another four years talking about solving a problem that we only make worse every day...A prairie fire of debt is sweeping across Iowa and our nation and every day we fail to act we feed that fire with our own lack of resolve. This is not a Democratic or Republican problem. That fire could care less if you have a donkey or an elephant in your front lawn, it's still coming for your house.”

Maine Gov. Paul LePage: "Maine's welfare program is cannibalizing the rest of state government. To all you able-bodied people out there get off the couch and get yourself a job."

John Tamni, FoxNews commentator: “Unless you’re Paul Krugman, you understand the government spending does not drive growth.”

Pat Buchanan: “... our president is talking about interest on student loans. These kids need jobs. That's what they need. Let's create jobs in this country. That's where he has failed so miserably.”

Speaker of the House John Boehner: "It is hard to keep 218 frogs in a wheelbarrow long enough to get a bill passed"

Dr. Charles Krauthammer on Joe Biden: "I have no idea what the hell he's talking about. . . I think he needs an adjustment in his medications...I’m not sure he even knows what he is saying."

Rush Limbaugh: "Fiscal responsibility, there is no pretense of that. There was some journalist wringing his hands over the fact that Obama hasn't yet proposed anything on entitlement reform. He's never going to! Entitlement reform, what the heck do you people think Obamacare is? It's a brand-new one. There's no reform of entitlements proposed on the Democrat side."

Rush Limbaugh: "Social Security is in heap big trouble. Little Elizabeth Warren lingo there. Heap big trouble. And it has been for a long time."

Rush Limbaugh: "Obama has $500,000 to a million dollars invested in Chase, not General Motors. Did you know that? Got maybe a million dollars invested. He loves Jamie Dimon."

Rush Limbaugh: "You know what the real crisis is in this country? You know what the real catastrophe is in this country? It's not global warming. It's not that we're gonna need two earths in 18 years. It's none of this crap. The real crisis in this country is out-of-control spending that is destroying the United States private sector, because the solution to the world's problems is the United States of America continuing to lead the world as a bastion of freedom."

Rush Limbaugh: "Obama has inserted himself into the biographies to show how he has capitalized and moved forward all of these great achievements of past presidents. So Obama is 'slow-jamming' history is essentially what he's doing. He's inserting himself in it. It's laughable. It's an indication of an out-of-control ego, narcissism, you name it."

Rush Limbaugh: "What we have to do is get rid of liberals and socialists from positions of power who want to dictate their way of life to everyone else. That's the catastrophe. That's the crisis. That's the biggest problem the world faces, is the end of the United States of America as the lone outpost of freedom, guidance for greatness, pursuit of excellence, and happiness."

Rush Limbaugh: "Everything Biden said about job creation after the stimulus bill, not one thing has come true. Eight hundred thousand, 500,000 jobs a month. Not even close."

Rush Limbaugh: "The only thing in short supply in the world is capitalism. We have an unequal, unfair distribution of capitalism. There simply isn't enough of it. There's way too much socialism in the world. There's way too much Marxism. There's way too much communism. There is way too much dictatorship, which, by the way, is the way humanity, for the most part, has lived since we first began walking the earth."

Matthew Sheffield of Newsbusters: “Among the shocking examples of how gay rights extremists are using hate speech laws to silence conservatives is a ruling by a Canadian official that Christian parents who home-school their children can not teach their children that homosexuality is a sin."

Banned from YouTube. Did you know that YouTube bans some videos from its site? Here is one on homosexuality which was pulled from YouTube within two hours of being posted. This is simply a recitation of a variety of laws which have been passed and lawsuits which have been filed in Canada since gay marriage has been made legal. Do you know how many Muslims hate it when you quote them verbatim or report on things which Muslims actually do? Same deal.

Day One of Romney’s presidency. Unfortunately, Romney appears as if he will interfere in the medical insurance business, just not as much as Obama.

John Stossel did an excellent show called “Bad Speech” for FoxBusiness which was later replayed on FoxNews. However, I cannot find any links to it.

Bill O’Reilly on how the network news all but ignored Kerry’s wealth; but make this point quite often today.

Liberals in Occupy Berkeley with a litany of gay slurs directed toward the police.

I posted this before, but in case you didn’t get it, “I Blamed Everyone.” Get up and dance.

1) Someone made the excellent analogy that, if McDonald’s tried out a new sandwich and it failed miserably, and they lost millions on it, would government want to step in and regulate McDonald’s? But, they want to regulate financial institutions when they lose money. They seem to be either oblivious to the fact that, under free enterprise, there are losses from time to time; or, they simply want to use this excuse to have more power.

2) Just in case there is a misunderstanding here, any gay couple in virtually any city can get “married” in a church (many churches will do this) and have some, most or even all of their friends and family recognize their union as special. They have essentially all the legal rights of any heterosexual couple (except, they won’t have to pay the marriage penalty tax when there is one). What gays want, and this is very important, is to be LEGALLY recognized as a married couple. Socially and religiously, gays could always get married.

Legal recognition is step #1, not step #last in the gay political movement. It is the legal recognition that will change everything. One of the steps which will follow will make it illegal to say that homosexual relations are a sin (this will be called hate speech).

3) I have no idea whether this is true or not. In Obama's bio by his literary agency used to read: "BARACK OBAMA is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and was raised in Indonesia, Hawaii, and Chicago. His first book, DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE, has been a long time New York Times bestseller." When he decided to run for president, that part about being born in Kenya was cut out. No idea if that is true; and that certainly does not mean that he was born in Kenya. But this is quite an interesting story.

There has been a $12,984 increase in debt per household since the first 2011 bipartisan spending deal.

Home ownership in the U.S. fell to its lowest rate in 15 years (65.4%) during the first quarter of this year as more delinquent borrowers lost their homes to foreclosure, forcing many to rent. This is after politicians made it possible for a much larger share of the people in the United States to have access to home loans, which is what drove the United States almost to the brink of insolvency. This is one of the reasons I am a conservative: whatever government attempts to do, we can just about depend upon the exact opposite occurring.

The President did submit a budget for this year, but it was voted down 99 to 0 in the Democratic controlled Senate. His budget was rejected in the House in March 414 to 0. My guess is, this has to be a record for any president.

Liberal commencement speakers outnumber conservatives by a 7-1 ratio, an all-time high.

GM still owes the taxpayers $28 billion (some have said $35 billion) and they get to operate tax free for about 10 years? How can a company not survive given those conditions?

The first Social Security recipient was Ida Fuller, who paid a total of $24 into social security and took out $20,000 by the time that she passed on in her 90's. A sound financial enterprise from the beginning.

The Congressional Research Service issued a report which indicates, among other things, that the federal government, from fiscal years 2008 through 2012, spent $68.4 billion to combat climate change.

In North Carolina, a swing state: Romney 51%, Obama 43%. Recall that this is the state where gay marriage went down to a resounding defeat and the day or two later, Obama came out in favor of gay marriage.

Forecast the Facts, a pro-Global Warming agenda group, admit that over 50% of television meteorologists deny man-made climate change.

The President stooped to a new low; he is going after those people who give to Mitt Romney; attacking private citizens. Where has this been reported in the Obama Media Complex?

John Kerry and Mitt Romney are worth about the same amount. Yet, on the big 3 networks, Kerry’s wealth was mentioned a total of 3 times. Mitt’s Wealth has been mentioned 27 times on the big 3.

Terrorists are being quietly released from Club Gitmo by this Administration as long the terrorists promise not to resume a life of violence. This would seem to be a story that some newsmen might find interesting. Now, find out how many mainstream news sources have done any investigative work on this story. If it is bunk, then there ought to be some stories on

that...but there are no stories out there Now, there were lots of stories on Mitt Romney being a bully 50 years ago; but, somehow, this is less interesting to the media.

The Washington Post: Mitt Romney's prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents

ABC: Former Romney Classmate Describes `Bullying Supreme' - A `Pack of Dogs' Who Targeted `Different' Boy

The Huffington Post: Mitt Romney Bullying: Classmate Says High-School Behavior Was Like 'Lord Of The Flies'

Gather News: Mitt Romney Bully: Allegedly Hacks Off Hair of Presumed Gay Classmate

Above is a Seattle reporter, showing what it would be like to be Mitt Romney’s dog. Will she do a similar stunt about Obama eating dog?

Last week, I wrote [SNL] skewered the FoxNews morning show, and the key to their humor: everyone on the Fox show is really, really stupid and conservative.

How easy it would be to replay the 50 times President Obama used the word I when talking about the killing of Osama bin Laden. “The Navy SEALS? Well, sure, they helped; but I’m the real reason Osama is dead.”

President Obama: “Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to be at home this year, as I had to fly to Afghanistan, to remind President Karzai that, exactly one year ago, we killed Osama bin Laden, and that the decision to do so was a gutsy one. And was mine.”

The Obama character continues on and on about commemorating the killing, then says, “Now tonight, I want to talk to you about the economy. But first, a little more about the killing of Osama bin Laden.”

The character continues rambling on and on about the killing, not mentioning the economy until the end when he says, “Well, I’m afraid that’s all I have time for tonight. The economy, by the way, is looking fantastic.”

But, instead, they decided to go with the FoxNews-is-stupid-and-all-of-their-anchors-are-stupid skit. No bias here.

Obviously, Obama needs to keep the discussion off the economy, debt and lack of jobs, and keep it on anything else (JP Morgan-Chase, Gay Marriage, the War on Women, etc.). The news media will help.

I really expected Hillary Clinton to run against Obama this time around. Apparently, that sort of a plot was in the works in the Clinton household.

One of the unusual predictions that I made was, Michelle Obama wanted to run for the presidency. No proof of that yet, but there are reports that there is a stealth co-presidency occurring at this time.

Obama inserts himself into numerous presidential biographies on White House Site

Military chaplains may have to void parts of the Bible to satisfy the federal government

The Obama White House is drawing ridicule for appending the official online biographies of nearly every president over the last century in order to link President Obama's accomplishments to the former commanders in chief.

The Obama team went into the pages of U.S. presidents dating back to Calvin Coolidge to add friendly looking "Did you know?" fact boxes to the end of their bios. Those additions were used to plug a host of Obama administration initiatives, ranging from the health care overhaul to the so-called "Buffett Rule" to his green-energy policies.

The White House is coming under heavy criticism from conservatives for the changes, and not just to Reagan's page.

Late Tuesday, the White House defended itself, claiming the staff was merely adding links to other pages.

"No biographies have been altered," a White House official told Fox News. "We simply added links at the bottom of each page to related whitehouse.gov content, which is a commonly used best practice to encourage people to browse more pages on a site."

The additions do include links, but they're more than that. Each one finds a way to tout an Obama administration policy or practice in the process.

There's this at the bottom of the Franklin D. Roosevelt biography, for instance:

And this, at the end of President Lyndon Johnson's, drawing a link between his signing of Medicare and Obama's signing of the health care overhaul:

The changes also link Harry Truman's call for civil rights to the Obama administration's push to repeal "don't ask, don't tell." And they link Jimmy Carter's creation of the Department of Energy to Obama's push for an "all of the above" energy approach today.

On the bio of John F. Kennedy, the Obama staff cited the current president's decision to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps with a "presidential proclamation," as a way to link the current administration to Kennedy's -- which launched the Peace Corps.

The only post-Coolidge president whose page is so far untouched is that of Gerald Ford.

Conservative blogs and publications ripped the White House Tuesday for the move, even starting a Twitter hashtag #ObamaInHistory to mock him. The Republican National Committee launched a tumblr page called: "Obama in History -- World Changing Events You Didn't Know Obama Played A Part In."

The page goes on to show pictures of Obama standing with historical figures ranging from Einstein to Elvis to The Beatles. It also shows Obama at the Berlin Wall and Stonehenge.

First a Romney supporter was named on an Obama campaign website. That was followed by the slimy trolling into a citizen's private life.

Here's what happens when the president of the United States publicly targets a private citizen for the crime of supporting his opponent.

Frank VanderSloot is the CEO of Melaleuca Inc. The 63-year-old has run that wellness-products company for 26 years out of tiny Idaho Falls, Idaho. Last August, Mr. VanderSloot gave $1 million to Restore Our Future, the Super PAC that supports Mitt Romney.

Three weeks ago, an Obama campaign website, "Keeping GOP Honest," took the extraordinary step of publicly naming and assailing eight private citizens backing Mr. Romney. Titled "Behind the curtain: a brief history of Romney's donors," the post accused the eight of being "wealthy individuals with less-than-reputable records." Mr. VanderSloot was one of the eight, smeared particularly as being "litigious, combative and a bitter foe of the gay rights movement."

About a week after that post, a man named Michael Wolf contacted the Bonneville County Courthouse in Idaho Falls in search of court records regarding Mr. VanderSloot. Specifically, Mr. Wolf wanted all the documents dealing with Mr. VanderSloot's divorces, as well as a case involving a dispute with a former Melaleuca employee.

Mr. Wolf sent a fax to the clerk's office-which I have obtained-listing four cases he was after. He would later send a second fax, asking for three further court cases dealing with either Melaleuca or Mr. VanderSloot. Mr. Wolf listed only his name and a private cellphone number.

Some digging revealed that Mr. Wolf was, until a few months ago, a law clerk on the Democratic side of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He's found new work. The ID written out at the top of his faxes identified them as coming from "Glenn Simpson." That's the name of a former Wall Street Journal reporter who in 2009 founded a D.C. company that performs private investigative work.

The website for that company, Fusion GPS, describes itself as providing "strategic intelligence," with expertise in areas like "politics." That's a polite way of saying "opposition research."

When I called Fusion's main number and asked to speak to Michael Wolf, a man said Mr. Wolf wasn't in the office that day but he'd be in this coming Monday. When I reached Mr. Wolf on his private cell, he confirmed he had until recently worked at the Senate.

When I asked what his interest was in Mr. VanderSloot's divorce records, he hesitated, then said he didn't want to talk about that. When I asked what his relationship was with Fusion, he hesitated again and said he had "no comment." "It's a legal thing," he added.

Fusion dodged my calls, so I couldn't ask who was paying it to troll through Mr. VanderSloot's divorce records. Mr. Simpson finally sent an email stating: "Frank VanderSloot is a figure of interest in the debate over civil rights for gay Americans. As his own record on gay issues amply demonstrates, he is a legitimate subject of public records research into his lengthy history of legal disputes."

A look through Federal Election Commission records did not show any payments to Fusion or Mr. Wolf from political players, such as the Democratic National Committee, the Obama campaign, or liberal Super PACs. Then again, when political groups want to hire researchers, it is not uncommon to hire a less controversial third party, which then hires the researchers.

This is not the first attack on Mr. VanderSloot. While the executive has been a force in Idaho politics and has helped Mr. Romney raise money, he's not what most would consider a national political power player. Through 2011, nearly every mention of Mr. VanderSloot appeared in Idaho or Washington state newspapers, often in reference to his business.

That changed in January, with the first Super PAC disclosures. Liberal bloggers and media have since dug into his past, dredging up long-ago Idaho controversies that touched on gay issues. His detractors have spiraled these into accusations that Mr. VanderSloot is a "gay bashing thug." He's become a national political focus of attention, aided by the likes of partisan Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. Bloggers have harassed his children, visiting their social media accounts and asking for interviews and information.

Mr. VanderSloot has said his attackers have misconstrued facts and made false allegations. In February he wrote a long reply, publicly stating that he has "many gay friends whom I love and respect" who should "have the same freedoms and rights as any other individual." The Obama campaign's response, in April, was to single out Mr. VanderSloot and repeat the slurs.

Political donations don't come with a right to privacy, and Mr. VanderSloot might have expected a spotlight. Then again, President Obama, in the wake of the Gabby Giffords shooting, gave a national address calling for "civility" in politics. Yet rather than condemn those demeaning his opponent's donors, Mr. Obama-the nation's most powerful man-instead publicly named individuals, egging on the attacks. What has followed is the slimy trolling into a citizen's private life.

Mr. VanderSloot acknowledges that "when I first learned that President Obama's campaign had singled me out on his 'enemies list,' I knew it was like taping a target on my back." But the more he's thought it through, "the public beatings and false accusations that followed are no deterrent. These tactics will not work in America." He's even "contemplating a second donation."

Still. If details about Mr. VanderSloot's life become public, and if this hurts his business or those who work for him, Mr. Obama will bear responsibility. This is what happens when the president makes a list.

Try this thought experiment: You decide to donate money to Mitt Romney. You want change in the Oval Office, so you engage in your democratic right to send a check.

Several days later, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man on the planet, singles you out by name. His campaign brands you a Romney donor, shames you for "betting against America," and accuses you of having a "less-than-reputable" record. The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money.

Richard Nixon's "enemies list" appalled the country for the simple reason that presidents hold a unique trust. Unlike senators or congressmen, presidents alone represent all Americans. Their powers-to jail, to fine, to bankrupt-are also so vast as to require restraint. Any president who targets a private citizen for his politics is de facto engaged in government intimidation and threats. This is why presidents since Nixon have carefully avoided the practice.

Save Mr. Obama, who acknowledges no rules. This past week, one of his campaign websites posted an item entitled "Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney's donors." In the post, the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private citizens who had donated to his opponent. Describing the givers as all having "less-than-reputable records," the post went on to make the extraordinary accusations that "quite a few" have also been "on the wrong side of the law" and profiting at "the expense of so many Americans."

These are people like Paul Schorr and Sam and Jeffrey Fox, investors who the site outed for the crime of having "outsourced" jobs. T. Martin Fiorentino is scored for his work for a firm that forecloses on homes. Louis Bacon (a hedge-fund manager), Kent Burton (a "lobbyist") and Thomas O'Malley (an energy CEO) stand accused of profiting from oil. Frank VanderSloot, the CEO of a home-products firm, is slimed as a "bitter foe of the gay rights movement."

These are wealthy individuals, to be sure, but private citizens nonetheless. Not one holds elected office. Not one is a criminal. Not one has the barest fraction of the position or the power of the U.S. leader who is publicly assaulting them.

"We don't tolerate presidents or people of high power to do these things," says Theodore Olson, the former U.S. solicitor general. "When you have the power of the presidency-the power of the IRS, the INS, the Justice Department, the DEA, the SEC-what you have effectively done is put these guys' names up on 'Wanted' posters in government offices." Mr. Olson knows these tactics, having demanded that the 44th president cease publicly targeting Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries, which he represents. He's been ignored.

The real crime of the men, as the website tacitly acknowledges, is that they have given money to Mr. Romney. This fundraiser of a president has shown an acute appreciation for the power of money to win elections, and a cutthroat approach to intimidating those who might give to his opponents.

He's targeted insurers, oil firms and Wall Street-letting it be known that those who oppose his policies might face political or legislative retribution. He lectured the Supreme Court for giving companies more free speech and (falsely) accused the Chamber of Commerce of using foreign money to bankroll U.S. elections. The White House even ginned up an executive order (yet to be released) to require companies to list political donations as a condition of bidding for government contracts. Companies could bid but lose out for donating to Republicans. Or they could quit donating to the GOP-Mr. Obama's real aim.

The White House has couched its attacks in the language of "disclosure" and the argument that corporations should not have the same speech rights as individuals. But now, says Rory Cooper of the Heritage Foundation, "he's doing the same at the individual level, for anyone who opposes his policies." Any giver, at any level, risks reprisal from the president of the United States.

It's getting worse because the money game is not going as Team Obama wants. Super PACs are helping the GOP to level the playing field against Democratic super-spenders. Prominent financial players are backing Mr. Romney. The White House's new strategy is thus to delegitimize Mr. Romney (by attacking his donors) as it seeks to frighten others out of giving.

The Obama campaign has justified any action on the grounds that it has a right to "hold the eventual Republican nominee accountable," but this is a dodge. Politics is rough, but a president has obligations that transcend those of a candidate. He swore an oath to protect and defend a Constitution that gives every American the right to partake in democracy, free of fear of government intimidation or disfavored treatment. If Mr. Obama isn't going to act like a president, he bolsters the argument that he doesn't deserve to be one.

President Barack Obama insists that he didn't announce his support for gay marriage out of political considerations. He's right. He did it out of self-regard.

How it must have eaten away at him to be the first African-American president, yet not associate himself with what has been deemed the foremost civil-rights issue of the age. To be a progressive in favor of all things "forward," but retrograde on marriage. To know that his stance was a transparent charade and see it treated as such by the lefty opinion makers he respects most. To watch his sloppy, unserious second-in-command get all the credit for moral courage by forthrightly endorsing gay marriage on Meet the Press while he clung to his artful dodge.

As an act of personal catharsis, the president's statement of support was in an appropriately first-person key: I, me, and my. He had favored gay marriage back in 1996 when it was out on the fringe. He was one of the few people on the planet who flipped into opposition as gay marriage became more mainstream. For a while he invoked his faith in justifying his opposition, then he said he was "evolving," which everyone understood to mean he would embrace gay marriage as soon as he wasn't running for reelection anymore. The Obama team likes to say Mitt Romney's flip-flops show he lacks a core. Obama's long spell of deception on gay marriage shows he has a core, but one that he has devoted much of his national political career to obscuring.

The president's willingness finally to say what he believes increased the sense among gay-marriage supporters that final victory is inevitable. History with a capital "H" is on their side. The 21st century itself is practically synonymous with gay marriage. Although this smug confidence will envelop President Obama as he campaigns in such lucrative precincts as George Clooney's living room, it badly overstates gay marriage's prospects.

History is littered with the wreckage of causes pronounced inevitable by all right-thinking people. The failed Equal Rights Amendment looked inevitable when it passed Congress in 1972 and immediately 30 states ratified it. Opposition to abortion that was supposed to inevitably wither away is as robust as ever. The forces favoring gun control seemed unstoppably on the march when Congress passed the Brady Bill and the assault-weapons ban in the 1990s, but there are more protections for gun rights now than two decades ago.

Gay marriage's inevitability hasn't been evident to the voters in 31 states who have written into their constitutions that marriage is between a man and a woman. The latest is North Carolina, where 61 percent of voters embraced the traditional definition of marriage in a referendum. North Carolina isn't Mississippi. President Obama won North Carolina in 2008, and Democrats are holding their convention there. Nation-wide, no referendum simply upholding traditional marriage has ever lost, and even in Maine, voters in 2009 reversed a gay-marriage law passed by the legislature.

These state constitutional provisions constitute irreducible facts on the ground. Reversing them by democratic means will be the work of a generation. For the foreseeable future, the country will be largely traditional on marriage, with enclaves of same-sex unions as boutique blue-state institutions lacking full legitimacy. Rather than waiting for the tide of history to do its inexorable work, advocates of gay marriage really want the Supreme Court to impose their new definition of marriage. Inevitability's full name is Anthony McLeod Kennedy, the swing-vote justice who is perfectly capable of remaking marriage by judicial fiat.

There's no doubt that supporters of gay marriage have made progress, but they shouldn't congratulate themselves yet. Their cause is still subject to events, such as President Obama's fate this fall. If the president's newly frank support for gay marriage costs him crucial swing states, his coming-out party will be seen - inevitably - as more a setback to the cause than a watershed.

When you look at a presidential candidate you are faced with the sobering fact that if elected they will be the most powerful person on earth for the next four years, having power over not only weapons of mass destruction, but the economy, foreign policy, social and civil rights issues and the quality of your life.

New candidates have to run on a limited record of public service, their character, their personality and believability. If the person is an incumbent, that person should stand on past achievements and the accomplishments or lack thereof in the last four years.

Being a good president requires much more than being a nice and charismatic guy, a good public speaker and looking good for the television cameras.

A president is supposed to be a leader, a pacesetter, a father figure, a pursuer of justice, a champion of the American way of life, defending it around the world verbally and militarily if necessary.

A good president is a good administrator who realizes that he can't possibly be everywhere at the same time, that he needs capable assistants to take care of the details and strong competent men and women who have the experience and ability to run departments of government, leaving him free to tackle the big problems and oversee the work the people under him are doing.

The president represents the face of America to the rest of the world and every word that comes out of his mouth is diced, dissected and analyzed by foreign leaders around the world and have to be carefully chosen so as not to show weakness or vulnerability.

A president can't be a crybaby or petulant or petty and should, above all, take responsibility for his actions good or bad. Harry Truman said it best, "The buck stops here".

When we examine the question which is the most essential in deciding whether or not to elect an incumbent it should not be just, am I better off than I was four years ago, but, is the country better off than it was four years ago.

I do not openly support political candidates and admit that I don't know as much about Mitt Romney as I intend to learn in the next few months, but from what I've seen so far he seems to be a capable administrator who has had extensive experience in running government and business.

He seems to me to be moral and honest and anybody who has risen as high in politics and business simply has to be a good administrator, capable of surrounding himself with the best, the brightest and the most motivated and delegating authority to the most capable ones.

One of the first things Obama did was to tour the world, apologizing for America's greatness and bowed to a Muslim king who is one of the worst human rights violators on earth.

Do you feel better about America's place in the world than you did four years ago?

He surrounds himself with incompetence and inexperience. Eric Holder alone is enough of a testament to Obama's weakness when it comes to appointing capable personel.

Holder's tenure has been an unmitigated and unparalleled disaster. In the hands of Holder, justice is not blind and certainly not colorblind.

His refusal to turn over pertinent documents pertaining to the Fast and Furious debacle, in my opinion, means that he's got something to hide. There is no way possible that a gun running operation that crosses international borders could possibly have happened without the approval of the head of the department, if not approval at an even higher level.

Holder is not Attorney General material. The man seems to think the constitution is a list of suggestions. He is dangerous.

Tim Geithner's understanding of the street level economics is either non-existent or well hidden. He looks and acts like a lost child.

Have you flown lately? If you have, you probably got a taste of Janet Napolitano's style of Homeland Security, it seems that the TSA just goes from one blunder to another and there's simply no telling how many terrorists have crossed our border with Mexico unimpeded.

Obama has had more Czars that the entire history of the Russian Monarchy and in most cases we don't even know what they do.

Obama has shown his contempt for the constitution on several occasions. He has also shown his contempt for the will of the people with his sneaky midnight legislation and further corrupting of the already corrupt houses of Congress to get his socialist agenda passed over the will and behind the back of We The People.

Do you feel that your government represents your interests better than it did four years ago?

His whispered conversation with Russian President, Medvedev when he thought the mics were off, not only bespeaks what a second Obama term would be and his tell Vladimir "after my election I'll have more flexibility"is a harbinger of some dealings with the Russians he wants to hide from the American voting public.

His secretly recorded, "guns and religion"statement seems to pretty much sum up how he feels and talks about Middle America when he thinks they can't hear him.

A net two million jobs have disappeared under Obama, the national debt has grown to sixteen trillion dollars and getting bigger every day,

Obama has been the most socially divisive president in my lifetime. He fans the flames of racial and class envy any time he thinks it will benefit him politically.

Obama talks about all the jobs he saved by bailing out General Motors, but many of those jobs are overseas and don't benefit the American economy or tax base at all.

His chosen head of the White House's "Jobs Council", Jeffrey Immelt - the head man at General Electric - moved the manufacturing of GE light bulbs to China.

And how about Tom Vilsack's Agriculture Department wanting to tell farm families what age their children could operate machinery. Mr. Vilsack is evidently out of his depths and knows very little about the family farm.

Do you feel better about raising your family without government interference than you did four years ago?

Kathleen Sibelius should be called the secretary of health, welfare and abortion because she has at least as much interest in terminating the unborn as she does health and welfare.

RUSH: You know, this Reverend Wright stuff with Barack Obama, it's back in the news again. Something is happening. It's anecdotal, but I happen to think that this might be applicable in a statistical way to the nation at large. We played the audio sound bite from Obama reading from one of his books a couple of weeks ago, in which he admitted bullying a young girl, in which he admitted trying cocaine, admitted that he drank a lot, basically just lollygagged around. I know we've got new listeners to this program. It's been documented by the official ratings companies that monitor such things.

There are tons and tons of new listeners, but even at that, I'm overwhelmed by the number of people -- we're three-and-a-half years into his regime, and I'm getting e-mails from people that the first time they'd heard he'd done cocaine was in the past two, three weeks. The first time they'd heard that he had bullied a young girl. They didn't know his college transcripts hadn't been released. They just assumed all that had happened and they missed it. They didn't know any of this.

Now, we know Obama wasn't vetted. We know the mainstream media has done everything they can to protect him. But the Reverend Wright stuff was out there. I'm even getting e-mail from people who had not heard all the Reverend Wright stuff. New listeners, not people who listen to this program regularly. New listeners say they're hearing this for the first time. I'm getting e-mails from people like we got when we were in the first year or first two years of the program. "My gosh, I found you the other day driving around. I couldn't get anything else on the radio, and I'm hooked now." Similar comments from customers at Two If By Tea who are finding the program for the first time and learning stuff about Obama that we've all known for four years. They're just now hearing about it.

It's driving home the fact that the Drive-Bys didn't vet this guy at all. We know it, but I'm sitting here, I assume everybody knows that Obama did cocaine, and this is the mistake we make. We know it, so we assume everybody else knows it because of word-of-mouth and this kind of thing. Some of the Reverend Wright stuff surfaced again because there's some new aspects to the Reverend Wright case. For example, in Ed Klein's book, The Amateur -- and Klein's got this on tape -- a friend of Obama's offered Wright 150 grand, a bribe, to stop preaching during the 2008 campaign. Yeah, it was just 150. That's probably why Wright didn't take it.

But there was another story in the Ed Klein book that Obama was talking to Wright one day, Reverend Wright, and said, "You know, Reverend, your problem is you have to tell the truth. As a politician, I don't. I don't have to tell the truth. I can make the truth whatever I want it to be." It's not on tape, but Klein claims that Obama said that to Wright. So there's all kinds of new stuff that's surfacing about Reverend Wright, in addition to the old stuff being recycled that people are hearing for the first time. It literally is amazing. The Wright stuff was all over talk radio. It was all over Fox News. But in one way this is encouraging because it is a great indication of just how many additional people are finding their way to conservative media now.

So I thought, okay, maybe we'll go back in time. I want to play the Charlie Rose, Tom Brokaw bit here again. The reason is that it is, by itself, amazingly explanatory. By itself, it explains the Drive-By Media in all kinds of ways. Now, I don't think it's gonna humiliate the media. In fact, I don't think humiliating the media will change anything. I think they're beyond being humiliated. I think they're insulted from that. But the Charlie Rose, Tom Brokaw clip that we've been playing off and on for three-and-a-half years now, here you have two liberal Democrat icons who didn't know, who don't care to know the first darn thing about Barack Obama, a community organizer who had a ton of secrets, and still does. His grade transcripts, his relationship with Bill Ayers, and it's happening all over again. We're not supposed to talk about Reverend Wright, but we can go back and the Washington Post can do a 50-year-old story about Mitt Romney at a prestigious prep school.

Romney's not gonna go there, and I predicted this. I predicted that whoever the Republican nominee is, they would not go after Obama the way they're going after each other. I predicted it back in January. I'll have that audio sound bite coming up for you. But his college transcripts, the relationship he had with Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, Rashid Khalidi, Frank Marshall Davis, his ties to ACORN, what his role was in the Million Man March, scholarships, loans, how did he become such a fantastic writer, having written nothing before Dreams From My Father. And the stuff that he had written was no great shakes. Where did he learn to write? They don't care what goes on in the White House, the media, they don't care what goes in the White House when it's Obama's. They don't care what goes on in the attorney general's office. They don't care what's going on in the Energy Department, the Labor Department, they don't care, and they don't want people to know what a rat's nest every quarter of this regime is.

There is a decent amount of corruption in this regime, and people are just now coming to that hearing about this for the first time in their lives. So the media essentially worked for Senator Obama and helped him run right over Hillary Clinton. By the way, I wouldn't be surprised -- I don't know, I'm just speculating -- I wouldn't be surprised some of this stuff that we're now learning about Obama, may be the Clintons are behind it. Bill said he wants to go back to the White House. Bill said he thinks Hillary ought to be in there. Bill went out there again and undercut Obama this week on taxes, said the middle class is gonna have to pay more taxes. And Obama's out there trying to convince the middle class they're never gonna pay another dime, that it's only the rich. In fact, Obama is out there complaining about the rich in this country because there are people starving in Kenya. His relatives are still in the huts over in Kenya. His relatives are still starving.

originalHe's got a brother. You may not know this, folks, if you are new to the program. Obama has a brother, Onyango Bongo Obama, or something like that, lives in a six-square-foot hut. I am not kidding. Maybe six by nine. He lives in a hut! A brother, half-brother or something like that. Lives in a hut. I know they think I'm joking 'cause I'm a naturally funny guy. And you say something like this, "Yeah, really funny, Rush." It's true, folks. In fact, there's only one house in Obama's brother's village that's got running water and electricity, it's his grandmother, or something like that. And that was just in the last two or three years.

But this kid, this brother, lives on a dollar a day, essentially, and it was pointed out that 20 dollars would change this guy's life, like if somebody gave you $50,000. Obama hasn't coughed up a dime for his brother, but he uses him. He went to some agriculture symposium yesterday to talk about how there's more farmland in Africa than anywhere in the world, but the people at the top are not sharing. So, once again we are not doing enough to feed the world. The lucky few at the top are the reason why Obama's brother still lives in a hut. He hasn't even sent him a sign that says "Hut, Sweet Hut" inside. Most people have a "Home, Sweet Home." Not even a "Hut, Sweet Hut."

Here's the Brokaw and Rose clip. Now, I want to set this up for you. This is October 31st, 2008. This is less than a week before the election of 2008. Who's Tom Brokaw? Tom Brokaw, NBC Nightly News. He's the anchor. He was the anchor of the NBC Nightly News for, I don't know, years, decades. He's in the Dan Rather, Peter Jennings era. He's covered conventions left and right. He's been everywhere. He's sat down, broken bread with Gorbachev over at the Kremlin. He's been everywhere. He is a journalist. What do journalists do? They tell us what we don't know. They're out there and they're looking at things and they see stuff and then they tell us, they report whatever they see that we don't see, they tell us. Journalists, by definition, are supposed to be incurably curious. That's what's supposed to drive journalists, their curiosity, their insatiable desire for information and news and their desire to be first with it when they learn it.

Who is Charlie Rose? Well, Charlie Rose used to work at CBS News. Now he's back at CBS News, the morning show. He used to do an overnight CBS show or something on network television. He's been at PBS doing the Charlie Rose Show at 11 o'clock at night interviewing everybody that's alive for the last 20 years. Charlie Rose knows everybody, talks to everybody, reads the New York Times every day. So does Brokaw. And they got together on Charlie's show, the 11 p.m. show on PBS, less than a week before the 2008 elections. Less than a week. Both of them staunch, unalterably supporting Obama. Listen to this sound bite, less than a week, one of the premiere, elite journalists in our country talking to one of our premiere, elite interviewers in our country.

BROKAW: We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.

ROSE: I don't really know. And do we know anything about the people who are advising him?

ROSE: He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational (sic) speeches.

RUSH: Less than a week before the election, and these two guys are two of the biggest Obama supporters there can be. They're journalists, they have to be, there's no other candidate they would support. Certainly not George W. Bush. They're in the tank for Obama, and they don't know him, and they are journalists, and they're the guys that have a constitutional duty to tell us who he is. They are supposed to hold people who have power or who seek power, they are to hold those people accountable. When I first heard that sound bite, I was incredulous. That's grounds for being fired.

If I'm the CEO at NBC and I'm listening to my number one anchor say, "I don't know who the Democrat presidential nominee is," a week before the election, why am I paying you a dime? You're not even doing your job. You don't know who he is? And likewise, if I'm at PBS and I listen to my number one interview guy, 11 o'clock at night, "I don't know, I don't know what books he's read, I don't know." I have to be asking myself, why am I paying these guys? They are at the top of the ladder in journalism, and they admit they don't know who he is. And that's why you've never heard until this year that Obama did cocaine or bullied a girl or whatever 'cause these guys who were supposed to tell you didn't know. Now, the question is did they really not know, or did they know who Obama is, just didn't want to tell anybody? I tell you, there are none so blind as a journalist who does not want to see.

RUSH: Here's the Obama sound bite. This is from this morning in Washington at the symposium on global agriculture and food security. Yes, we have new terms now, food security and food insecurity. And here is Obama again implying that the United States of America is not doing enough to feed the world because of the lucky few at the top and their selfishness.

OBAMA: I've spoken before about relatives I have in Kenya who live in villages where hunger is sometimes a reality. Despite the fact that African farmers can be some of the hardest working people on earth, most of the world's unused arable land is in Africa. That's why we're here. In Africa and around the world, progress isn't coming fast enough. And economic growth can't just be for the lucky few at the top. It's gotta be broad-based for everybody, and a good place to start is in the agricultural sector.

RUSH: Economic growth can't just be for the lucky few at the top. So here goes the class envy. Remember, Joe Biden all week, (imitating Biden) "For God sake's, man, we're not against capitalism, we love capitalism." Here's Obama once again vilifying the lucky few at the top. Biden's out there, "Yeah, we want you to dream to be a millionaire. Hell, I dream to be a millionaire, still a dream, but I'm still dreaming and I want to be a millionaire, you can be a millionaire." Not in this country. You can dream about it, but you become a millionaire, you become a target. You become a member of the lucky few not doing enough for everybody else. And Obama admits he's got hungry relatives in Africa. Send 'em a sandwich. Send 'em a care package, for crying out loud, instead of making a speech at an agriculture symposium. It's your family, man.

Obama Inserts Himself into White House Website Biographies of Previous Presidents

RUSH: Elizabeth Warren, folks, I've been thinking about this. Why should she have to prove her heritage? Now, remember, she's a liberal. And she's asserted there's no documentation for this. There's no evidence that she is one-thirty-second Cherokee, and she makes the assertion throughout her career because somebody in her family told her that somebody in her family way-back-when was Cherokee. So her ratio is one-thirty-second Cherokee, and the proof is in the cheekbones. Remember that? I got to thinking, she's a liberal. Why should she have to provide proof of heritage. Liberals don't believe in documentation of anything. Birth certificates, ID at the voting booth. (laughing) Sorry, couldn't help that. They don't. They don't believe in any kind of documentation whatsoever.

So here we have Elizabeth "Low Cheekbones" Warren, and she's a perfect liberal. She wants membership without paying the dues. Paying dues, that's for suckers. Paying for anything, that's for suckers. Only suckers actually use their own money to buy stuff. So Elizabeth "Low Cheekbones" Warren has inserted herself into the Cherokee tribe like Obama inserted himself in the biographies of former presidents. Did you see that? I had this in the stack yesterday; I didn't get to it. At the White House website there are presidential biographies, and Obama has inserted himself in them, in a lot of them. Every one but Gerald Ford. He ties what FDR did to what he's doing today.

So the RNC put some pictures out. Obama was there when we landed on the moon. Obama was there when MacArthur got the Japanese to sign the treaty aboard the USS Missouri. Obama was everywhere. Even Bob Beckel at Fox is a little nervous about this. A lot of people on the Democrat side are nervous about it, because, A, it indicates a profound insecurity. Number two, it's an out-of-control ego. Number three, it's not true. Grab audio sound bite 25. It's the last one here in the Stack. This was last night on The Five at Five on the Fox News Channel. The co-host and schoolmarm Dana Perino. And I say that affectionately. Schoolmarm, she's gotta control the class, the roundtable of hosts, guests, and whatever else on The Five.

She's speaking with Beckel about changes to the White House's website biographies of past presidents to include blurbs about how Obama has capitalized on the efforts of those presidents. Whatever a former president is known for or did, Obama has inserted himself into the biographies to show how he has capitalized and moved forward all of these great achievements of past presidents. So Obama is "slow-jamming" history is essentially what he's doing. He's inserting himself in it. It's laughable. It's an indication of an out-of-control ego, narcissism, you name it. So Dana Perino said to Beckel, "On a serious note, somebody at the White House has too much time on their hands. This is taxpayer money that pays for the salaries of people actually going back and doing this type of thing, inserting Obama into these biographies. Bob, what about this?"

BECKEL: Another serious note, it is -- Obama does enjoy a great deal of -- of people have a positive image of him. He's very close here, this arrogance thing, to grabbing hold. And you gotta -- you've got to think through this right now that what Republicans are going to push is this line about him being arrogant. And you don't feed the beast.

RUSH: By that Beckel means don't act arrogant. Republicans are gonna call you arrogant, and Beckel, you can hear it in his voice, he knows the American people think Obama is arrogant and pompous, and he knows that this feeds into it. And I wouldn't be surprised if it was Obama himself who inserted himself in the biographies, and if he didn't actually go online and do it, nobody can convince me that he wasn't involved somehow. This wasn't the act of some eager beaver staffer wanting to impress. You know, all things start from the top and either somebody got the idea for this because of what they heard Obama say, or because they know him well and know that this would please him, or because he ordered it done. It's one of those three things. And it is arrogance on parade.

Let me give you an example of a typical Obama insertion. "President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law in 1965 -- providing millions of elderly healthcare stability. President Obama's historic healthcare reform law, the Affordable Care Act, strengthens Medicare, offers eligible seniors a range of preventive services with no cost-sharing, and provides discounts on drugs --" So the reference to Obama is longer than it is to LBJ, who invented Medicare. And, by the way, that's nothing to write home about. Wanting credit for inventing Medicare is not a good thing.

Here's another insertion: "On August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. Today the Obama Administration continues to protect seniors and ensure," they are protected by Social Security by cutting the payroll tax for employees, which is the only funding source for Social Security. So Obama is inserting himself in all of these places. I know it's beyond shame, but he does it for every president. We'll find George W. Bush. I don't have it right in front of me. I've got the pictures that the RNC doctored up. Obama with George Washington crossing the Delaware. Obama was there. He's in the boat. I mean the pictures are fabulous and everybody is having fun laughing at it.

So people are now laughing at the president of the United States because of what he's doing and because of what he's saying, and our old buddy Bob Beckel is warning Obama not to feed the beast. People think that he's arrogant. (interruption) "Amateur", the book? Well, I don't know. Snerdley's asking me if I think the stuff in the book, "The Amateur", is starting -- (interruption) what do you mean, all gel together? Hm-hm. Hm-hm. Well, I don't know if the image of Obama is turning with the mass of the public yet. According to the polling data, he's still remarkably loved. Liked. Popularity is in the sixties, his personal popularity. His job approval below 50, at 45.

RUSH: I didn't finish my thought here on Elizabeth "Low Cheekbones" Warren. I wanted to close the circle on this. She has inserted herself into the Cherokee tribe just on the basis of something her mother or grandmother told her, but it's no different than Obama inserting himself in these presidential biographies. It's the same exact thing. You know why Elizabeth Warren should be admitted to the Cherokee tribe? Because they don't have any non-Cherokee members, that's why. (laughing) Why should they allow women into Augusta National? Because they don't have any. Well, isn't that the liberal way of doing things?

The Cherokees are discriminating. They ought to let Elizabeth Warren in because they don't have any non-Cherokees. It's gonna be affirmative action for the cheekbone-challenged. Let her in there. She wants to be in the tribe. The tribe doesn't have any non-Cherokees. Who are they to say she can't join? Just say you're eligible to vote, just say you're a minority, just say you're one of the four greatest presidents in American history. Just lie about it. That's liberalism. She's just acting to type. What's strange here?

RUSH: You want to hear the Obama insertion into the George W. Bush biography? Here you go: "In 2002, President George W. Bush's State of the Union was the first to be live broadcast on the Internet. In 2011 and 2012, President Obama's State of the Union speeches were available in an enhanced live stream version that featured infographics, charts and data side-by-side in real time with the President's speech." That's Obama inserting himself into the White House biography of George W. Bush.

Here is Obama's insertion into Jimmy Carter: "In 1977, President Jimmy Carter created the Department of Energy; today the DOE works with the Obama Administration to drive towards innovation in energy and reducing reliance on foreign oil with an 'all of the above' approach," which actually is very modest because Obama coulda just said that his administration is the second term of Jimmy Carter. But they wanted to rein it in. They didn't want to brag. Carter creates the DOE, but Obama is the guy making it sing. George W. Bush, first State of the Union live broadcast on the Internet. Obama did it better ten years later. This is the kind of stuff.

Here's the insertion for George H. W. Bush: "President Barack Obama awarded George H.W. Bush the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, for his commitment to service and ability to inspire volunteerism throughout the country, encouraging citizens to be 'a thousand points of light.' The administration continues to promote service and civic engagement, honoring heroes of local communities as 'Champions of Change' and fostering civic participation." I mean it literally is ego out of control.

Since there are some links you may want to go back to from time-to-time, I am going to begin a list of them here. This will be a list to which I will add links each week.

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Issue #227	Kukis Digests and Opines on this Week’s News and Views	May 13, 2012