Europe's Terrorist War at Home

COMMENTARY

By Frances Rice

 

 

The appalling speech by President Obama after the horrendous terrorist attacks in Paris has been universally condemned as reflected in the below comments by RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and links to news articles on the subject.

 

We need a strong president in our country, a leader who will take the war declared against us by radical Muslims serious, as is being recommended for Europe in the article further below.

 

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“With his excuse-laden and defensive press conference, President Obama removed any and all doubt that he lacks the resolve or a strategy to defeat and destroy ISIS. Never before have I seen an American president project such weakness on the global stage, let alone at a time when the world is in such desperate need of the leadership that only we can provide,” said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus.

 

“The resurgence of Islamic extremism is a direct consequence of the failed foreign policy Hillary Clinton helped fashion as President Obama’s secretary of state. She supported President Obama’s hasty withdrawal from the Middle East that contributed to the rise of ISIS, and the Libya intervention she spearheaded created a terrorist breeding ground in North Africa. A Clinton presidency would only mean more of the same.”

 

What They Are Saying: Press Conference Went “Very Badly” For Obama

 

CNN’s Elise Labott: “Press Conference Going Very Badly For POTUS.” Labott Tweet: “press conference going very badly for POTUS. World looking for POTUS determined to fight #ISIS global reach, not defensiveness.” (Twitter.com, 11/16/15)

 

ABC News’ Jonathan Karl: “The Bottom Line From The President -- We Have The Right Strategy Against ISIS And It Is Working. That's A Tough Case To Make After Paris.” (Twitter.com, 11/16/15)

 

Fox News’ Bill Hemmer: “If You Were Waiting To Hear A US President Say, ‘I Feel Your Pain’ Or If You Were Waiting To Hear a US President Say, ‘It’s Them Or Us,’ That Is Not What You Just Heard.” (Fox News, 11/16/15)

 

Bloomberg’s Eli Lake: “President Obama Has A Talent For Speaking As If He Is Just An Observer Or Analyst Of Foreign Affairs.” (Twitter.com, 11/16/15)

 

Weekly Standard Headline: “Reporter to Obama: 'Why Can't We Take Out These Bastards?'” (Weekly Standard, 11/16/15)

 

Business Insider Headline: “French Reporter To Obama: Isn't It Time To Change Your ISIS Strategy?” (Business Insider, 11/16/15)

 

CBS News Headline: “Obama Faces Questions On ISIS Strategy After Paris Attacks” (CBS News, 11/16/15)

 

Politico Headline: “Obama Rejects Calls For Change In Anti-ISIL Strategy” (Politico, 11/16/15)

 

Reuters Matt Spetalnick: “Obama On Monday Ruled Out A Shift In Strategy In The Fight Against The Islamic State Despite The Deadly Attacks In Paris Last Week…” “U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday ruled out a shift in strategy in the fight against the Islamic State despite the deadly attacks in Paris last week, saying putting U.S. troops on the ground to combat the group ‘would be a mistake.’” (Reuters, 11/16/15)

 

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The Wall Street Journal

 

Europe’s Terrorist War at Home
Learn from Israel, end the open-borders policy, and dig in for a long war of ideas against Islamists.

 

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali

 

French President François Hollande declared the Nov. 13 terrorist attack in Paris an “act of war” by Islamic State, and he was right, if belated, in recognizing that the jihadists have been at war with the West for years. Islamic State, or ISIS, is vowing more attacks in Europe, and so Europe itself—not just France—must get on a war footing, uniting to do whatever it takes militarily to destroy ISIS and its so-called caliphate in Syria and Iraq. Not “contain,” not “degrade”—destroy, period.

 

But even if ISIS is completely destroyed, Islamic extremism itself will not go away. If anything, the destruction of ISIS would increase the religious fervor of those within Europe who long for a caliphate.

 

European leaders must make some major political decisions, and perhaps France can lead the way. A shift in mentality is needed to avoid more terror attacks on an even bigger scale and the resulting civil strife. Islamic extremists will never succeed in turning Europe into a Muslim continent. What they may well do is provoke a civil war so that parts of Europe end up looking like the Balkans in the early 1990s.

 

Here are three steps that European leaders could take to eradicate the cancer of Islamic extremism from their midst.

 

First, learn from Israel, which has been dealing with Islamist terror from the day it was born and dealing with much more frequent threats to its citizens’ security. True, Islamic extremists inside Israel today resort to using knives and cars as their weapons of choice, but that is because attacks like those in Paris last week are now simply impossible for the terrorists to organize. Instead of demonizing Israel, bring their experienced, trained experts to Europe to develop a coherent counterterror strategy.

 

Second, dig in for a long battle of ideas. European leaders will have to address the infrastructure of indoctrination: mosques, Muslim schools, websites, publishing houses and proselytizing material (pamphlets, books, treatises, sermons) that serve as conveyor belts to violence. Islamic extremists target Muslim populations through dawa (persuasion), convincing them that their ends are legitimate before turning to the question of means.

 

European governments must do their own proselytizing in Muslim communities, promoting the superiority of liberal ideas. This means directly challenging the Islamic theology that is used by the Islamist predators to turn the heads and hearts of Muslims with the intent of converting them into enemies of their host countries.

 

Third, Europeans must design a new immigration policy that admits immigrants only if they are committed to adopt European values and to reject precisely the Islamist politics that makes them vulnerable to the siren song of the caliphate.

 

There are distinct weaknesses in Europe’s current immigration policy: It is too easy to gain citizenship without necessarily being loyal to national constitutions; it is too easy for outsiders to get into European Union countries with or without credible claims for asylum; and, thanks to the open-borders policy known as Schengen, it is too easy for foreigners, once they are in the EU, to travel freely from country to country. This state of affairs has been revealed as unsustainable by this year’s migrant flood into Europe.

 

Does this amount to “Fortress Europe,” with a new Iron Curtain to the east and a naval cordon sanitaire in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic? Yes. For no other strategy makes sense, given a threat like the one posed to Europe by Islamic extremism. And if Europe’s leaders persist, like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in making a virtue of the openness of their borders, they will soon be chased out of office by populists better attuned to public feeling.

 

The trouble is that such people generally bring to the table other ideas beyond immigration control—not least the kind of fervent, illiberal nationalism that has torn Europe apart in the past.

 

To achieve all this, Europe would need to overhaul treaties, laws and policies—in other words, take steps that before the atrocities in Paris on Friday couldn’t even be discussed. Maybe this will be the watershed moment for Europe to rethink the path it has been traveling.

 

Ms. Hirsi Ali, a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of “Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation” (HarperCollins, 2015).

Two men linked to Paris attacks registered as migrants in Greece

COMMENTARY

BY Frances Rice

 

Syrian "refugees" are mainly young, Muslim men who have not been vetted

 

Our feckless Commander-in-Chief, Barack Obama, is fiddling with his "Climate Change" instrument while Muslim terrorists wage World War III against us.  Below is an article with details and further below are links to other stories about the horrendous terrorist attack in Paris.  That type of carnage by Muslim terrorists is headed to America, since President Obama is determined to bring more Syrian "refugees" into our country.

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Two men linked to Paris attacks registered as migrants in Greece: police

 

http://news.yahoo.com/two-men-linked-paris-attacks-registered-migrants-greece-195255102.html

 

Security cordon off the area close to Rue Bichat following several attacks in the French capital Paris, on November 13

 

Athens (AFP) - Two men who French police are seeking to trace in connection with the Paris attacks registered as refugees with Greek authorities earlier this year, the Greek police confirmed on Saturday.

 

French authorities had asked their Greek counterparts to check a passport and fingerprints of one man and the fingerprints of another who were thought to have registered in Greece, which is the main entry point into Europe for Syrian refugees.

 

At least one Syrian passport was found at the scene of the Stade de France attack.

Greek minister for citizen protection, Nikos Toskas, said in a statement that one of the men had been registered on the Greek island of Leros in October.

"We confirm that the (Syrian) passport holder came through the Greek island of Leros on October 3 where he was registered under EU rules," said a statement issued by Toskas.

French police said the passport was found "near the body of one of the attackers" in the investigation into the main attack of Friday's carnage, at the Bataclan concert hall, where 82 people were killed.

The authenticity of the passport was being checked, but its discovery indicates a possible Syrian connection which has been a working hypothesis for investigators after assailants hit six separate locations in Paris.

A Greek police source said the second man had also registered in Greece, with TV station Mega adding this was also on Leros in August.

European security officials had long feared that jihadists could take advantage of the mass migration influx, mainly from war-torn Syria, that Europe has been experiencing since the beginning of the year.

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PARIS TERRORISTS 'REFUGEES'

 

MUSLIM RAMPAGE: 129 DEAD; 352 HURT...
High level of sophistication...
Suicide bomber had ticket into stadium...
'FIRST OF THE STORM'...
LE PEN: France must 'annihilate' Islamist radicals...
FRESH MIGRANT FEARS IN EUROPE...
Anxiety grows over ISIS recruits in USA... 

Three teams of attackers...

Obama's Ties to Socialism, Marxism and Communism Ignored By Media

COMMENTARY

By Frances Rice 

In the face of the liberal media hounds continued assault on Dr. Ben Carson to destroy him, it is instructive to compare how those same journalists ignored Barack Obama’s multiple lies and Marxist ties while he was seeking the presidency.  Below are details.

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In a December 2011 article “Our Marxist Wizard of Oz,” Peter Ferrara wrote the following:

 

“Obama's not in Kansas anymore.

 

“His mother was an unabashed hippie from 1960s central casting. His father was an openly avowed Communist from Kenya. While his father wasn't around much, his devoutly progressive grandparents arranged for him to be mentored during his adolescent years by a dues paying member of the U.S. Communist Party, Frank Marshall Davis.

 

“When he went to college, he was attracted to the Marxist professors and student activists, according to his own published memoirs. When he graduated, he moved to Chicago and became an instructor for the left-wing extremist organization ACORN in the social manipulation methods of radical Marxist agitator Saul Alinsky.

 

“He attended for close to two decades the Trinity United Church of Christ, which practiced neo-Marxist Black Liberation Theology. That church was headed during those years by the openly socialist Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who declared that the 9/11 terrorist attack on America was "America's chickens coming home to roost." He also famously preached from his pulpit, "Not God bless America, God damn America…."

 

“He launched his political career in the living room of the home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, co-founders and former leaders of the openly Communist domestic terrorist organization, the Weather Underground. That organization conducted several bombings in America and engaged in other violence that resulted in several injuries and even deaths.

 

“All of this is documented in the public record. This is the man the Democrat party took off the streets of Chicago, then pursuing a career as a Marxist street agitator, and launched into the White House, favoring him over Hillary Clinton because she was too moderate for the party. They did that because he best reflects the heart and soul of today's radical-left, Che Guevara Democratic Party. It is in this context that we should understand and analyze Obama's Hugo Chavez speech given last week at Osawatomie High School in Kansas.”

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http://www.ijreview.com/2015/11/465980-false-things-obama-said-about-his-bio-that-didnt-cause-the-media-to-go-into-full-meltdown/  9 False Things Obama Said About His Bio That Didn’t Cause a Media Feeding Frenzy

By Kyle Becker

 

Ben Carson has seen an intense week of media scrutiny, particularly over a false, now partially corrected story from Politico asserting the Republican candidate’s presidential campaign had admitted to “fabricating” a story regarding an offer of a “full scholarship” to go to the military academy West Point.

 

There are other stories regarding the famed neurosurgeon’s life that have drawn heavy fire from the news media. Some of these stories can be found in his 1990 best-selling, ghostwritten biography Gifted Hands.

 

One of them regards Carson’s account of being deemed the “most honest” student in a class at Yale referred to in his book as Perceptions 301, which was not offered at the time he attended the Ivy League school.

 

Another story under the microscope is his account of a “stabbing attempt” made on a person referred to in Gifted Hands as “Bob,” but whom Carson later clarified as a “close relative” whose identity he is protecting to prevent invasion of privacy.

After a week of intense vetting for the Republican primary candidate, Carson unleashed a heated rebuke of the news media for what he later characterized as a “smear campaign.”

Carson said at the press conference:

 

“I do not remember this level of scrutiny for one president Barack Obama when he was running. In fact, I remember just the opposite.”

 

This brings up an interesting point: What are cases in the past when President Obama misstated points about his biography, but the media did not cause a national firestorm or characterize him as a pathological liar?

 

Here are nine cases.

 

1. “Obama’s Staff Corrects WWII Story” (New York Times)

In response to a question at a Memorial Day appearance in New Mexico, Mr. Obama said an uncle helped liberate the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during World War II. The problem? That story didn’t track with history, considering Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet forces.

 

2. Selma Birth Connection (Independent Journal)

“[W]hen the president spoke before an audience in Selma back in 2007, Obama credited the civil rights march as the inspiration for his conception. The only problem with that, as conservative pundit Michelle Malkin points out, is that the president was already three years old when the march occurred in 1965.”

 

3. “Obama Overstates Kennedys’ Role in Helping His Father” (Washington Post)

Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Ala., a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama traced his “very existence” to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother.

The Camelot connection has become part of the mythology surrounding Obama’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. […]

It is a touching story — but the key details are either untrue or grossly oversimplified.

 

4. “Tale of British brutality toward Barack Obama’s grandfather probably untrue, book claims” (The Telegraph)

It is a harrowing tale of torture in a colonial prison in Kenya that is said to explain the President’s coolness towards Britain and even his removal of Winston Churchill’s bust from the Oval Office.

 

David Maraniss, the author of Mr Obama’s most comprehensive biography so far, said five associates of Hussein Onyango Obama doubt he was even jailed. One told him: “People make up stories”. […]

 

… Maraniss claims that while “incidents of that sort certainly happened”, it “seems unlikely” that Mr Obama’s grandfather was one such victim. “Five people who had close connections to Hussein Onyango said they doubted the story or were certain it did not happen,” he wrote in Barack Obama – The Making of the Man.

 

5. The heroic story of Obama’s step-grandfather dying while fighting the Dutch is untrue (New York Times)

Mr. Maraniss attributes some of the differences to the kind of family lore that is often exaggerated. He notes that the story about the death of Mr. Obama’s step-grandfather — allegedly killed while fighting Dutch troops in Indonesia — was “a concocted myth in almost all respects.” Mr. Maraniss writes that he died trying to hang drapes.

 

6. “Obama Lied About Mother’s Health Insurance Problem” (Commentary)

During the 2008 campaign and throughout the subsequent debate over his health care legislation, President Obama used his mother’s experience as a cancer patient fighting to get coverage to pay for treatment for what her insurer said was a pre-existing condition as an emotional argument to sway skeptics. However, a new book by New York Times reporter Janny Scott has revealed this story appears to be a fabrication.

 

The Times reports today (in a story buried on page 14 rather than on the front page) that during the course of researching her book, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother, Scott uncovered correspondence showing “the 1995 dispute concerned a Cigna disability insurance policy and that her actual health insurer had apparently reimbursed most of her medical expenses without argument.” In response to inquiries, “a White House spokesman chose not to dispute either Ms. Scott’s account or Mr. Obama’s memory, while arguing that Mr. Obama’s broader point remained salient.”

 

7. Obama makes white Occidental College classmate “Regina” into African-American aka “composite girlfriend” (Washington Times)

“During an interview in the Oval Office, Obama acknowledged that, while Genevieve was his New York girlfriend, the description in his memoir was a ‘compression’ of girlfriends, including one who followed Genevieve [Cook] when he lived in Chicago,” Mr. Maraniss wrote in the new biography.

 

“In ‘Dreams from My Father,’ Obama chose to emphasize a racial chasm that unavoidably separated him from the woman he described as his New York girlfriend,” wrote the author, who interviewed the woman. “None of this happened with Genevieve. She remembered going to the theater only once with Barack, and it was not to see a work by a black playwright.”

 

Mr. Maraniss said the president acknowledged this scene did not happen with Ms. Cook.

 

8. President Obama’s “improbable love” narrative (Jack Cashill)

In all the talk about David Maraniss’ new book, “Barack Obama: The Story,” the chattering classes seem to have overlooked the most significant of Maraniss’ revelations, namely that the story on which Obama based his 2008 candidacy is “received myth, not the truth.”

 

“My parents shared not only an improbable love,” said Obama famously in his 2004 Democratic Convention keynote, “they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation.” This concept of multicultural romance shaped his persona and his campaigns. […]

As Maraniss concedes, these two young people shared very close to nothing. “In the college life of Barack Obama in 1961 and 1962,” writes Maraniss, “as recounted by his friends and acquaintances in Honolulu, there was no Ann; there was no baby.”

 

Although Maraniss talked to many of Obama Sr.’s friends, none of the credible ones ever so much as saw him with Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham.

 

9. Obama and his mother not “abandoned” by father in 1963 (Buzzfeed)

It’s in that context that Maraniss corrects a central element of Obama’s own biography, debunking a story that Obama’s mother may well have invented: That she and her son were abandoned in Hawaii in 1963.

 

“It was his mother who left Hawaii first, a year earlier than his father,” Maraniss writes, confirming a story that had first surfaced in the conservative blogosphere. He suggests that “spousal abuse” prompted her flight back to Seattle.

 

Obama’s own fairy-tales, meanwhile, run toward Amercan [sic] racial cliché.

At least 38 false accounts of President Obama’s life story were documented in just the Maraniss biography, as counted by Buzzfeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith.

Additional falsehoods have been detected in Obama’s biographies, many of them apparently designed to further a narrative of overcoming racial adversity and an underprivileged life.

 

Yet the president has somehow weathered the furious storm of media outrage that attacked him as a “pathological liar.”

 

Oh, wait. That would be Dr. Ben Carson.

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Obama's Ties to Socialism, Marxism and Communism

NBRA News Report

 

Obama's Parents Met in a Russian Class Back then it was the Communist USSR

 

"His mother, Stanley Ann Dunham (her father always wanted a son), was white and just 18 when they met in a Russian class."

Source: Sharon Cohen, “St Louis Times

 

Obama's Father Wrote About Socialism

 

His father wrote a paper called "Problems With Our Socialism" that advocates 100% taxation of the rich, communal ownership of land and the forced confiscation of privately controlled land.

Source: Greg Ransom, PrestoPundit

 

Obama's Mother Was a "Communist Sympathizer"

 

Friends describe her as a “fellow traveler”, that is, a communist sympathizer, from her youth, according to a March 27, 2007, Chicago Tribune report.

Source: Spengler, “Asia Times”

 

"The values she taught me continue to be my touchstone when it comes to how I go about the world of politics” - Barack Obama.

Source: Tim Jones, “Chicago Tribune”

 

Obama's Teen Mentor was Frank Marshall Davis (a known CPUSA member)

 

Through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone who was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA).

 

The record shows that Obama was in Hawaii from 1971-1979, where, at some point in time, he developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis, listening to his poetry and getting advice on his career path.

Source: Jim Corsi, based on “Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection” (Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein)

 

Obama, in his book, “Dreams From My Father,” refers to Frank Marshall Davis repeatedly as just Frank."

Source: Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in the Media

 

Kathryn Takara of the University of Hawaii who wrote a dissertation on the life of Frank Marshall Davis confirmed that Davis was a significant influence on Obama when he attended Punahou prep school in Hawaii from 1975 to 1979.

Source: Jim Corsi, based on “Communism in Hawaii and the Obama Connection” (Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein)

 

Obama's Brother Roy and Cousin Odinga are Marxists

 

Barack Obama's older brother, Abongo "Roy" Obama is a Luo activist, militant Muslim and a Marxist who reportedly has made a pact with a hardline Islamic group in Kenya to establish Shariah courts throughout the country.

Source: Invenstor's Business Daily

 

“The person who made me proudest of all was Roy.” – Barack Obama.

Source: Bill Sammon, “The Examiner.”

 

Photo:  An Anti-war Rally at Cooper Union

 

Obama Attended Cooper Union Socialist Conferences.

 

He went to socialist conferences at Cooper Union, attended African cultural fairs in Brooklyn and started lecturing his relatives until they worried he'd become "one of those freaks you see on the streets around here."

Source: H Kennedy, “NY Daily News

 

 

Obama Smoked Pot and Sought Out Marxists in College

 

While in college, Obama smoked marijuana and sought out Marxist students and professors.

Source: "Obama and His Pot-Smoking ‘Choom Gang’" by Jonathan Karl and “Dreams From My Father” by Barack Obama

 

Obama Hand Picked by Alice Palmer to Succeed Her in the Illinois State Senate

 

Alice Palmer picked Obama to be her successor in 1995. She was the only African-American journalist to travel to the Soviet Union to attend the 27th Congress of the Communist Party and wrote an article in 1986 for the CPUSA newspaper, “People's Daily World.”

Source: Jim Corsi based on “Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection” (Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein)

 

Obama's Run for Illinois State Senate Launched by a Fundraiser Organized by Alice Palmer at the Ayers' Chicago Home

 

Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn (his wife) are former terrorists from the Weather Underground whose SDS organization received financial contributions from the CPUSA.

Source: Jim Corsi based on “Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection” (Cliff Kincaid and Herbert Romerstein)

 

Obama had a Close Relationship with the "Anti- Capitalist" Group ACORN

 

Obama had an intimate and long- term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Acorn played a major role in Obama’s political advance. Acorn’s radical agenda embraced “undisguised authoritarian socialism.”

Source: Stanley Kurtz, “National Review”

 

Obama’s Supporters Honored Che Guevara

 

In 1961, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, head of Cuba’s Foreign Liberation Department, said: "The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination.”

 

In 1962, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI discovered that Guevara’s bombast had substance.  They cracked a plot that targeted Macy’s, Gimbel’s, Bloomindales and Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT set to go off the day after Thanksgiving. Guevara raved: "The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims."

Source:  "Che Guevara and the Obama Campaign" by Humberto Fontova

 

Lord Obama

By Victor Davis Hanson 

 

If we were living in normal times, the following scandals and failures — without going into foreign policy — would have ruined a presidency to the point of reducing it to Nixon, Bush, or Truman poll ratings.

 

Think of the following: the Fast and Furious scandal, the VA mess, the tapping of the communications of the Associated Press reporters, the NSA monitoring, Benghazi in all of its manifestations, the serial lies about Obamacare, the failed stimuli, the chronic zero interest/print money policies, the serial high unemployment, the borrowing of $7 trillion to no stimulatory effect, the spiraling national debt, the customary violations of the Hatch Act by Obama cabinet officials, the alter ego/fake identity of EPA head Lisa Jackson, the sudden departure of Hilda Solis after receiving union freebies, the mendacity of Kathleen Sebelius, the strange atmospherics surrounding the Petraeus resignation, the customary presidential neglect of enforcing the laws from immigration statutes to his own health care rules, the presidential divisiveness (“punish our enemies,” “you didn’t build that,” Trayvon as the son that Obama never had, etc.), and on and on.

 

So why is there not much public reaction or media investigatory outrage?

 

In one sense there is: an iconic, landmark president was ushered into office with a supermajority in the Senate and a solidly Democratic House, at a time the public felt angry over the Iraq war and the 2008 financial meltdown. Six years later, Obama’s poll ratings bottomed out at about 43%. He lost the House in 2010, and saw the Senate gone in 2014. But that said, amid such failure Obama will never descend to 30% approval ratings, and that again bring to mind the question: why?

 

Obvious answers:

 

1) His record support among minorities will not change since 70-90% of various hyphenated groups see the Obama tenure as long-overdue representation of their own interests — economic, ethnic, and symbolic. It does no good to cite rising unemployment rates among African-Americans or a deterioration in household income among Latinos. The point is that Obama feels their pain, even if his policies helped cause it. In this view, expecting blacks, to take one example, to defect from Obama would be as if right-wing rural Texans would have abandoned Bush in 2006, or the Malibu set would have given up on Clinton during Monicagate. In short — unlikely.

 

2) The media is not just overwhelmingly hard left, but hard left with a chip on its shoulder that its own views are neither accepted by the majority nor usually implemented by government.

 

All the above scandals and embarrassments would have ruined a Bush, given that such mishaps would have been headlined daily  in the New York Times (e.g., “VA, Benghazi, AP, NSA, IRS overwhelm sinking Bush administration”) or Washington Post (“Bush Cabinet Paralyzed by Scandal”).

 

For the media, Obama is not Jimmy Carter or even Bill Clinton whom they overwhelmingly supported. He is quite different — the first gold-plated liberal president since FDR, and probably the last for a while, intent on fundamentally transforming the United States, by redistributing income and accumulated wealth, and recalibrating the American profile abroad.

 

The media believes that both are socially just and long overdue. Why then nitpick a president on details, when his intentions are noble? Extraordinary ends sometimes require tawdry means. Note here: when Obama leaves office, and should he be replaced by a Republican president, then we will see a press playing catch-up, intent on restoring its shattered image by exposing cabinet members who violate the Hatch Act and the insidious revolving door between Wall Street/ banking and White House billets. But for now, the media is invested in seeing Obama as a once-in-a-lifetime emissary of its own politics.

 

3) The well-off are indifferent to the Obama record, interested only in its symbolic resonance. Doctrinaire liberalism resonates mostly with the very wealthy. We see that by the voting patterns of our bluest counties, or the contributions of the very affluent. In contrast, Republicanism is mostly embedded within the middle class and upper middle class, while liberalism is a coalition of the affluent and the poor.

 

The result is that the Kerrys, Gores, and Pelosis are dittoed by millions of the affluent in Malibu, Silicon Valley, the Upper West Side, the university towns, Chicago, academia, the arts, highest finance, corporate America, foundations, the media, etc. Their income and accumulated wealth exempt them from worries about economic slowdowns, too much regulation, higher taxes, or the price of gas, electricity, or food. That under Obama gasoline has gone from $1.80 a gallon to $4.10 is as irrelevant as it is relevant that he has so far not built the Keystone Pipeline. That the price of meat has skyrocketed or that power bills are way up means little if global warming is at last addressed by more government.

 

For the liberal grandee, there is a margin of safety to ensure that the California legislature takes up questions like prohibiting the sale of Confederate insignia or ensuring restrooms for the transgendered or shutting down irrigated acreage to please the delta smelt. In their view, Obama represents their utopian dreams where an anointed technocracy, exempt from the messy ramifications of its own ideology, directs from on high a socially just society — diverse, green, non-judgmental, neutral abroad, tribal at home — in which an equality of result is ensured, albeit with proper exemptions for the better educated and more sophisticated, whose perks are necessary to give them proper downtime for their exhausting work on our behalf.

 

But one objects that these one-percenters — the Steyer brothers, the Sean Penns, the George Soroses, the Paul Krugmans, the Al Gores, etc. — are very few. Yes, but these few million are enormously influential, given that their money and ideologies are manifested not just in nice homes, vacations, and perks, but in public venues, movies, universities, newspaper editorials, NPR, PBS, the major networks, foundations, PACs, political donations, etc.

 

I leave you with one final paradox. Is one reason that Obama resonates so well with the very wealthy his assurance to them that the muscular successful classes will not be following them into the elite?

 

Whom does the liberal elite detest? Not the very poor. Not the middle class. Not the conservative wealthy of like class. Mostly it is the Sarah-Palin-type grasping want-to-be’s (thus the vicious David Letterman jokes or Katie Couric animus or Bill Maher venom).

 

Those of the entrepreneurial class who own small businesses (‘you didn’t build that’), who send their kids to San Diego State rather than Stanford, who waste their ill-gotten gains on jet skis rather than skis and on Winnebagos rather than mountain climbing equipment, who employ 10 rather than 10,000, and who vacation at Pismo Beach rather than Carmel. The cool of Obama says to the very wealthy, “I’m one of you. See you again next summer on the Vineyard.”

 

Obama signals to the elite that he too is bothered by those non-arugula-eating greedy losers who are xenophobic and angry that the world left them behind, who are without tastes and culture, who are materialistic to the core, and who are greedy in their emphases on the individual — the tea-baggers, the clingers, the Cliven Bundy Neanderthals, the Palins in their Alaska haunts, and the Duck Dynasty freaks. These are not the sort of successful people that we want to the world to associate with America, not when we have suitably green, suitably diverse zillionaires who know where to eat in Paris.

 

Finally, Obama has “cool.” Or what his wife calls “swag.” The very wealthy are with him also because he instructs them how to indulge, to ignore the problems of others, to be narcissistic and self-absorbed with a veneer of hipster cool. Golf, shoot hoops, wear shades, hang with Jay-Z and Beyonce, talk about your rap menu on your iPhone, fluctuate your cadences, do you Final Four predictions — all that means you can be cool and very rich and very self-absorbed while fooling hoi polloi and feeling great about your privilege at the same time. If you are a jean- and T-shirt wearing Silicon magnifico, Obama is your guy. The palatial estate, the imported cars, the indulgent hobbies — they are not really one-percenter excesses (try water skiing for that), but the swag that assures others that outsourcing, offshoring, tax-avoiding, lobbying, and insider cronyism are just part of the hip deal.

 

Before we reach November of 2016, we will see unimaginable things under this administration, but one of them will not be a defection of his constituencies.

 

http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/lord-obama/

 

Team Carson: 'Politico Story Is An Outright LIE'

COMMENTARY

By Frances Rice

 

Despicable is an apt description of what white liberals in the main stream media are doing to Dr. Ben Carson. It’s the worst kind of racist, high-tech, electronic lynching of a black man by white liberals. See the below article with details.

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Team Carson: ‘Politico Story Is An Outright LIE’

By Rachel Stoltzfoos

 

 

“The campaign never ‘admitted to anything,'” a spokesman for Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson told The Daily Caller News Foundation in response to a hit by Politico claiming his campaign admitted to “fabricating” a key point about his West Point story.

 

The Politico story is an outright Lie,” Doug Watts told TheDCNF

 

Politico published a piece Friday claiming Carson’s campaign “admits fabricating” the fact that he applied and was admitted to West Point.

 

“Ben Carson’s campaign on Friday admitted, in a response to an inquiry from POLITICO, that a central point in his inspirational personal story was fabricated: his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point,” Kyle Cheney writes in the lede.

 

He was introduced to folks from West Point by his ROTC Supervisors. They told him they could help him get an appointment based on his grades and performance in ROTC. He considered it but in the end did not seek admission. There are “Service Connected” nominations for stellar High School ROTC appointments. Again he was the top ROTC student in Detroit. I would argue strongly that an Appointment is indeed an amazing full scholarship. Having ran several Congressional Offices I am very familiar with the Nomination process.

 

Again though his Senior Commander was in touch with West Point and told Dr. Carson he could get in, Dr Carson did not seek admission.

 

The Politico story is an outright Lie. Dr. Carson as the leading ROTC student in Detroit was told by his Commanders that he could get an Appointment to the Academy. He never said he was admitted or even applied.

 

The campaign never “admitted to anything.”

 

This is what we have come to expect from Politico.”

 

Politico reporter Kyle Cheney, who has the byline on the Carson story, did not immediately respond to multiple requests for comment.

 

http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/06/team-carson-politico-story-is-an-outright-lie/

Conventional Wisdom Proves Ignorance in the Presidential Race

by Victor Davis Hanson

The current presidential campaign is blowing up lots of political myths.

For years, the conventional lament was that the "wrong" Bush had run for president in 2000. George W. Bush was supposedly tongue-tied. He was said to be polarizing. He was derided as too much the twangy, conservative Texas Christian.

If only his younger, softer-spoken brother, then-Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, had run instead!

So the myth went.

Jeb was said to be far more bipartisan and judicious. Jeb, not W., was deemed by many to be the more likable and more competent descendent of their father, former President George H.W. Bush.

The 2015 debates now remind us how false that comparison was. W. may have been more controversial, but he was decisive, unshakeable, charismatic and connected with crowds in a way the bookish, distracted and "low-energy" Jeb has not been so far.

For four months, pundits wrote off the flamboyant Donald Trump for his brash name-calling, political inexperience, bombast, over-the-top narcissism -- and even his wild, dyed, combed-over hair. But the wheeler-dealer Trump only rose in the polls each time pundits wrote his epitaph.

Why? Trump's candidacy was largely created by underestimated popular outrage over the federal government's politically motivated refusal to enforce immigration law. That issue divides elites, who are not so much affected by their own open-borders advocacy, from the middle classes, who certainly are.

Trump saw that angry divide and so far has brilliantly capitalized on it. Illegal immigration sent the Trump candidacy from nowhere to front-runner status -- in much the same way that uncontrolled borders have all but imploded the once-popular German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

After Barack Obama's two successful presidential elections, liberal and supposedly far more inclusive Democrats declared themselves the only party that looks like the new multiracial America. Republicans, in contrast, were written off as mostly old white fogies -- has-beens bitterly clinging to their fading prior privilege.

The campaign has exploded that myth too. The Republican field is far more diverse, although the candidates see their ethnicity as incidental rather than essential, in bumper-sticker fashion, to their personas. The candidates include the young (44-year-old Ted Cruz, Bobby Jindal and Marco Rubio), the ethnically diverse (Cruz, Jindal Rubio and Ben Carson), and successful outsiders who do not have political backgrounds (Carson, Trump, Carly Fiorina).

In contrast, the Democrat candidates appear far older, are all white, and are all political has-beens. Multimillionaire Hillary Clinton alone boasts of her female status (in a way her Republican counterpart, Fiorina, does not). But Hillary is neither young nor a fresh outsider. She represents half of a tired Clinton dynasty, whose old-boy network of Wall Street/Washington insider, big-money politics goes back well into the last century.

President Obama polls poorly, especially among conservatives. His team often hints that racism is the culprit. But the meteoric candidacy of Carson, an arch-conservative African-American who in some states is outpolling front-runner Trump, illustrates that Obama's divisive left-wing agendas, along with his failed economic and foreign policies, are what finally turned off over half the country -- not his race.

Media bias is usually dismissed as the whine of conservative crybabies. But anyone who saw last week's CNBC debate noticed the embarrassing difference between the interviewers' treatment of Republicans and how CNN had conducted its Democratic debate earlier last month.

Suddenly, an emboldened media gave up all pretense of objectivity in a brash way not seen since 2012, when presidential debate moderator Candy Crawley jumped in to help Obama's floundering defense after Romney had criticized the administration's handling of the Benghazi attack.

Hostile CNBC moderators grilled Republicans with "gotcha" questions along the lines of, "How long have you been beating your wife?" In contrast, CNN moderators in the Democratic debate created a love fest between front-runners Clinton and Bernie Sanders -- and mostly ignored the back-of-the-pack candidates.

Usually an impartial media is not so crude in its liberal bias. But this time, the prejudices were so flagrant that they finally boomeranged on a discredited CNBC, whose moderators limped home from the debate licking their self-inflicted wounds.

Conventional wisdom also stated that governors make far better candidates -- and presidents -- than do senators. Supposedly, they are not Washington insiders, have executive experience and actually ran something.

But so far there is not a single former or sitting governor among the front-runners of either party. In fact, the most successful past or present governors -- Bush, Jindal, Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, George Pataki, Rick Perry, Scott Walker and Martin O'Malley -- struggle in the polls or have already quit the race.

Perhaps give-and-take governors have to make compromises and sound namby-pamby in the debates and on the stump. Senators and outsiders do and talk as they please, and seem more savvy about the media -- and about raising big money.

The campaign has just started, and already past wisdom is proving to be ignorance -- with more debunking to come.

http://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2015/11/05/conventional-wisdom-proves-ignorance-in-the-presidential-race-n2075735?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad

Listen to Ben Carson's New Rap Ad Aimed at African-American Voters

By Katherine Faulders 

 

To add to Ben Carson’s unconventional and unorthodox campaign style, his campaign is launching a bit of a different advertising strategy.

 

Rapping.

 

[Click Here To Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/abcpolitics/ben-carson-radio-ad ]

 

Yes, Dr. Carson is launching a new 60-second urban radio advertisement scheduled to air Friday in eight markets.

 

His new $150,000 radio ad buy, called “Freedom,” will air for two weeks in Miami, Atlanta, Houston, Detroit, Birmingham, Alabama, Jackson, Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee and Little Rock, Arkansas.

 

The ad, specifically targeting young black voters, uses rapper Aspiring Mogul and is interspersed with portions of Carson’s stump speech throughout the 60-second ad.

 

"America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians but because it was flooded with people who understood the value of personal responsibility, hard work, innovation and that’s what will get us on the right track now,” Carson says between Mogul’s rap.

 

“I’m very hopeful that I'm not the only one that’s willing to pick up the baton to freedom,” Carson continues. "Because freedom is not free and we must fight for it every day. Every one of us must fight for us because we are fighting for our children and the next generation."

 

The Carson campaign is convinced that if he gets 20 percent of the black vote, Hillary Clinton would not win if they are head to head in the general election.

 

The purpose of the new ad is to awaken, appeal to and motivate the urban market, specifically catering to younger black voters.

 

“Reaching them on a level they appreciate and follow and see if we can attract their consciousness about the election,” Carson campaign spokesman Doug Watts told ABC News. “They need to get involved and express their voice through their vote.”

 

It’s a break from Carson’s typically broad campaign advertisements, catering to Christians, younger families and women older than 40.

 

This advertising appeal is an "expressed articulation to another market, a non-traditional voting market for Republicans,” Watts said.

 

Most importantly, this new form of advertising allows the African-American retired neurosurgeon, 64, to communicate with these targeted black voters in what the campaign believes is their preferred style.

 

The campaign says “reaching out and talking to them in a language that they prefer and in a language that, and in a cultural format that they appreciate” is a way of broadening its appeal to the younger African-American vote.

 

“This happens to be a group that we feel pretty strongly is ready and prepared to start working for Ben Carson,” Watts said.

 

The campaign says it will pursue this medium and particularly this demographic aggressively, especially through the March primaries.

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/listen-ben-carsons-rap-ad-aimed-african-american/story?id=34988082