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At a small fundraiser in Massachusetts Saturday, President Obama stated the following:

“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument do not seem to be winning the day all the time, is because we’re hard-wired not to always think clearly when we’re scared.  And the country is scared.”

So help me understand.  The Democrats are taking a beating in the polls and appear ready to suffer a massive defeat in the mid-term elections because the American public is not thinking clearly.  If we were, we would see the “facts and science and argument” and understand that the direction this president is leading us is clearly the correct way.

This is arrogance of the highest order!  Our President is so full of himself that he believes he knows better than the American public what is good for us and what is not.  Apparently, he thinks that government control of health care and other major segments of the economy, deficits as far as the eye can see, unemployment stuck at just under 10%, a minimal to no-growth economy, etc. are just what we need.  What hubris!

I heard Ken Blackwell say this on Dennis Miller the other day.  He is the former Ohio Secretary of State, and co-author of “The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency.”

“We have become a culture where making money doesn’t entitle you to it, but wanting money does.”

Sad, but true.  Pitiful.

You have to to love this from the Citizens for the Republic:

I like the Ronald Reagan version better.  For that matter, I like Ronald Reagan’s successful presidency much better than that which I have seen from Barack Obama.

So some wacky pastor in Florida has the idea he wants to “remember 9/11 victims and take a stand against Islam”.  He intends to do this by holding an “International Burn a Quran Day” this Saturday.

This falls in the same category as building a mosque at Ground Zero –  within his right to do it, but not the right thing to do.  All this will do is inflame passions and tensions even more and make our overseas service personnel even more vulnerable as Al Jazeera and other news outlets of their ilk spread this story to the Arab street.

What a wacko!!

ps – didn’t it used to be the Koran?  When did it become the Quran?

On Friday night, President Obama made the following statement regarding the proposed Ground Zero mosque to attendees at the Iftar dinner honoring the start of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of prayer and fasting:

“As a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country. And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America. And our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable.”

Given the makeup of the audience and the applause this statement generated, it was interpreted he clearly supported placing the mosque at Ground Zero.  If you run a Google search on obama mosque ground zero you will find most of the links indicate his support for the mosque at Ground Zero.

However, on Saturday, perhaps realizing he had “stepped in it”, President Obama “clarified” these comments as follows:

“In this country, we treat everybody equally and in accordance with the law, regardless of race, regardless of religion. I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there,”

Either President Obama thinks we are so stupid that we need to be re-educated on religious groups’ constitutional right to build a house of worship on private property or he realized he made a political miscalculation regarding the vehemence of opposition to the Ground Zero mosque so he tempered his message.  I think it is more of the latter and causes me to question whether this president isn’t a double minded man.

P.S.  My perspective is that just because someone has a right to do something, doesn’t mean that is the right thing to do.  Building a mosque (named after the great mosque built after the Muslim conquest of Spain) within spitting distance of Ground Zero, where parts of United Airlines Flight 175 landed in the attack, is clearly the WRONG thing to do.

1. Seal the border – with a fence or a wall.  Then add all the electronic stuff then add the Border Patrol then add the troops.  If we are serious about shutting down the border and keeping our sovereignty as a nation, we can and must do this.
2. People who are here illegally can apply to stay as a Legal Resident.  They have 6 months to register and must provide proof they have been here at least 1 year, that they currently have a job, and that they are currently paying taxes.
3. After 6 months, Legal Residents must carry and be willing to provide their “papers” to any law enforcement person who requests such “papers”.  Anyone detained without “papers” will be incarcerated immediately until they are sent home, wherever that is.
4. Legal Resident can NEVER, EVER, EVER, EVER vote in an election in the U.S.  Legal Residents are guests within this country and have no say in how the country, state, county, city, school board, HOA, etc. is run.  Anyone here illegally who wants to be able to vote should go home and apply to enter the U.S. legally and follow the proscribed steps to obtaining citizenship.

There are obviously lots of details that would be necessary with this plan – eminent domain for the fence (which I would support), fraud in the system, could the federal gov’t actually manage a program like this, anchor babies, social security eligibility, etc., but this is a start.  The important thing is that it takes the political prize of votes bought by offering amnesty to millions of illegals off the table.

Those are my thoughts – where do you stand on this issue?

The WaPo is reporting that the Obama Administration’s next target of reform is Housing Finance.  My first thought was here comes another big government program to provide everyone and their dog a new house with a gov’t subsidized mortgage.

Surprisingly, it appears that is not the case.  It appears that the Obama Administration has recognized a common sense fact – not everyone should be a homeowner.

There is a lot to be concerned about in this article, including “a new housing finance system” and “make more workable rental housing programs”, but the realization that not everyone should be a homeowner is a very good start.

Hurray for them!

During the health care debate, President Obama stridently stated that the individual mandate is not a tax.  As originally reported by the WSJ and as reported by the NYT:

“For us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase,” the president said last September, in a spirited exchange with George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News program “This Week.”

When Mr. Stephanopoulos said the penalty appeared to fit the dictionary definition of a tax, Mr. Obama replied, “I absolutely reject that notion.”

Now that the constitutionality of this penalty is being challenged, the Obama Justice Dept. is now claiming that the penalty is a tax.

Do you think that President Obama and his team had not thought this through at the time he made the statement above.  Either do I.  He has know this is a tax all along.

My guess is that there a good number of folks who make less than $250K who’s going to have to pay this tax.  Looks like a couple of lies to me.

Politico.com is reporting that the White House has begun a new campaign to convince America that President Obama and his administration are not anti-business.

Is this the same President Obama who said that this is not the time for Wall Street to make profits?

Here is a newsflash for you Mr. President:  Companies exist to make profits.  The more profit they make, the more money they have to reinvest in the company (thereby creating jobs), or distribute to their shareholders, or God forbid, pay bonuses to executives, who can then spend the money and juice the economy.

You do not need a campaign to convince us that you are not anti-business Mr. President.  You need to hire a few senior folks in your administration who have actually run a company, worried about making payroll, etc. who can help you understand the way business and the free market economy work and keep you from saying such stupid things.