Archive for the ‘Obama’ Category
Obama Disses the Boy Scouts
Have you ever been stood up? Worse still, have you ever been stood up for a really important date, say the most important event of your life? Now it’s one thing if your date is sick or is the victim of some unforeseen cataclysmic event. It’s quite another to run into him at the local soda shop with another chick or . . . four other chicks.
That is, in effect, what happened to the Boy Scouts of America. This week, the nation’s most popular values-based youth organization was stood up by its honorary chairman, the president of the United States, for its most important event in 100 years –the Boy Scout Jamboree which commemorates its centennial anniversary. It’s not like Barack Obama didn’t know this was coming. Normally, the Jamboree is held every four years, but this one was delayed a year to mark this important occasion. Read the rest of this entry »
Obama finds A– to Kick
Earlier this month, in an interview with Matt Lauer, Barack Obama, lowered the standard for the nation’s chief of state when he used a vulgarity in an interview for the “Today Show.” Consumed with frustration over his inability to turn back the tide on the Gulf Coast, Barack Almighty delivered the now infamous line, “I want to know whose a - - to kick.” On Tuesday, he found one. No! He found two – the American people and the American economy.
In his Oval Office address to the nation, Obama was a cross between a slick politician and a bully.
Who is getting bullied? We are. Read the rest of this entry »
Obama’s kinder, gentler “Death Panels”
Truth is in short supply in Washington.
That is why recent statements made by Donald Berwick, President Obama’s Nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, are both refreshing and chilling.
Here’s what Dr. Berwick had to say in a 2009 interview with Biotechnology Healthcare:
“The decision is not whether or not we will ration care – the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open.” Read the rest of this entry »
Protect Your Military
Have you taken the time to thank a soldier, sailor, airman or Marine for their service to our country lately?
We owe so much to our all-volunteer force. There is no other job that requires this kind of selfless dedication and courage. We need the military and now the men and women on active duty need us to do something for them they cannot do for themselves. Read the rest of this entry »
The real State of the Union
The national debt, now stands at $12,300,000,000,000 and change, and it’s growing by the second. That’s about $40,000 for every American. More important, it represents $113,000 for each and every taxpayer.
The federal deficit in 2009, the amount we added to the nation’s credit card, was a record $1.4 trillion, which was our largest, as a share of our Gross Domestic Product, since the end of World War II. Read the rest of this entry »
