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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Barack Obama</title>
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		<title>Obama: America &#8220;Less Racially Divided&#8221; Under My Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2014 15:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy is doing great. And we're going to the moon. ]]></description>
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<p>America is<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/26/obama-america-has-become-less-racially-divided-under-my-presidency/"> less racially divided than ever.</a> The economy is doing great. Unemployment is over. And we&#8217;re going to the moon. Any day now.</p>
<blockquote><p>NPR released quote excerpts of an interview set to air on “Morning Edition” starting Monday, including one in which host Steve Inskeep asked if the country is more racially divided now compared to when Obama took office six years ago.</p>
<p>“No,” the president answered. “I actually think that it’s probably in its day-to-day interactions less racially divided.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Polls show otherwise, but Obama trumps facts, polls and even the laws of physicists. Anyone who disagree is racist.</p>
<p>But Obama does face a paradox. His protectors have to blame racism for all the disagreement and criticism. But then Obama can&#8217;t actually concede that the country now polls more racially divided, so he instead has to claim that despite all the racism, it&#8217;s less racist than ever.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s kind of like how the Communists always insisted that things were getting and worse at the same time.</p>
<p>Obama whipped up racism for voter turnout. His administration has spent more time race baiting than doing just about anything else. It&#8217;s why the country polls as so racially divided. His Attorney General mocks Americans as a nation of cowards on race. But Obama has to avoid taking the blame by claiming that things are getting better while hedging on daily interactions so that his DOJ is still free to run its racist witch hunts.</p>
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		<title>Obama Can&#8217;t Decide What Kind of War Authorization He Wants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama refuses to accept any level of Congressional oversight or limits to his authority]]></description>
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<p>Even by the standards of Obama Inc, its approach to the Authorization for the Use of Military Force and ISIS has been completely incoherent.</p>
<p>At one point his people actually asked Congress to kill the Iraq War AUMF and then later suggested that they were relying on it. Obama has refused to offer an AUMF even though he could get a virtual blank check for anything he would put in there.</p>
<p>Kerry has told the Senate what Obama doesn&#8217;t want in an AUMF, which appears to be anything specific whatsoever, and would just rather keep on fighting it based on whatever.</p>
<p>Kerry could have legitimately argued that the fight against ISIS is covered by the 9/11 AUMF, but he chose not do that either.</p>
<p>The whole mess is another reminder that&#8230;</p>
<p>A. Obama refuses to accept any level of Congressional oversight or limits to his authority</p>
<p>B. Obama is also incapable of making up his mind about a war leading to a constant state of indecisiveness</p>
<p>This is a problem because not only do you have someone who wants absolute authority, but you have someone too indecisive to know what he wants on any issues that he isn&#8217;t politically comfortable with.</p>
<p>Then add on that&#8230;</p>
<p>1. His White House staffers are inexperienced and incompetent when it comes to practical governance.</p>
<p>2. Wars are really run through his cronies who fight out the agenda among themselves</p>
<p>3. Neither Obama nor his people care about the law</p>
<p>So we end up with banana republic stuff. This is how Napoleon III or Fidel Castro did things.</p>
<p>Obama can&#8217;t decide what to do. He also doesn&#8217;t want input from anyone outside his charmed circle as to what to do. And he isn&#8217;t interested in talking to Congress about what he wants to do.</p>
<p>So there is no AUMF. If Congress takes the lead, he&#8217;ll just ignore it and his people will tell the media that Congress is obstructing the war against ISIS, not because it&#8217;s true, but because he&#8217;s a liar who tells the same lies whenever it comes to protecting his power.</p>
<p>Obama didn&#8217;t want to bomb ISIS. He&#8217;s stuck doing what he doesn&#8217;t want to do. The execution is poor and the professionals are being hampered by a guy who doesn&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s doing when it comes to this, but knows that he doesn&#8217;t want to work with anyone else.</p>
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		<title>Obama to Stop Ebola Entering the US with Flyers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2014 01:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If only someone could convince him that Ebola was a Republican.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=50998">That&#8217;s bound to work</a>. Either that or we&#8217;ll all die. Or something.</p>
<blockquote><p>All people traveling to the United States from countries with Ebola are being warned as of Wednesday about the potentially deadly virus’ symptoms, and how it is spread.</p>
<p>The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol will hand out a flyer with information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to all U.S.-bound travelers from those countries.</p>
<p>That flyer also contains a card that any passenger who starts showing symptoms in the following days can hand their doctors, to alert them of the risk.</p></blockquote>
<p>I think they already know. They don&#8217;t need a flyer about Ebola while coming to the United States.</p>
<p>So we get a few Ebolaites who have taken Advil to bypass screenings being stopped by&#8230; flyers that tell them to contact their doctors if they get sick.</p>
<p>Obama has taken a page from his handbook for fighting illegal immigration (let them all in and legalize them) for fighting ISIS (let them back in and ask no questions) for fighting Ebola.</p>
<p>If only someone could convince him that Ebola was a Republican.</p>
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		<title>Obama: I Underestimated Al Qaeda</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2014 17:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama said ISIS was able to "attract foreign fighters who believed in their jihadist nonsense."]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-u-s-underestimated-rise-of-isis-in-iraq-and-syria/">You don&#8217;t say? Really?</a> I thought they were on the run.</p>
<blockquote><p>President Obama acknowledged that the U.S. underestimated the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, also called ISIL) and overestimated the ability of the Iraqi military to fend off the militant group in an interview that will air Sunday on 60 Minutes.</p>
<p>The president was asked by 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft about comments from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who has said the U.S. not only underestimated ISIS, it also overestimated the ability and will of the Iraqi military to fight the extremist group.</p>
<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s true,&#8221; Mr. Obama said. &#8220;That&#8217;s absolutely true.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Jim Clappper has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,&#8221; he said, blaming the instability of the Syrian civil war for giving extremists space to thrive.</p></blockquote>
<p>The buck doesn&#8217;t stop with Clapper though. There were plenty of intel warnings from the US and Iraq of what was happening. At the same time that Obama was dismissing ISIS as a JV team, they had taken Fallujah.</p>
<p>And he knew that because it was the subject of the question.</p>
<p>Obama is still trying to shift the blame onto intelligence failures when it was in fact his policy to assume that Iraq would be fixed through a US withdrawal while ignoring everything that was going on in Iraq.</p>
<blockquote><p>The group was able to &#8220;attract foreign fighters who believed in their jihadist nonsense and traveled everywhere from Europe to the United States to Australia to other parts of the Muslim world, converging on Syria,&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Really? Jihadist nonsense.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Only 27% of Whites see Obama as a &#8220;Uniter&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[78 percent of blacks see Obama as a uniter ]]></description>
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<p>At<a href="http://www.langerresearch.com/uploads/1162a1ThePresidentandtheMidterms.pdf"> least we all agree on that</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>20. Overall do you think Obama has done more to (unite the country), or has done more to (divide the country)?</p>
<p>Unite Divide No opinion<br />
9/7/14 38 55 7<br />
5/19/13 47 45 8</p>
<p>Obama’s overall job approval rating, for example, is 87 percent among blacks, 57 percent among Hispanics – and just 31 percent among whites, a single point from his career low. Differences on whether Obama has united or divided the country are at least as sharp: <strong>Seventy-eight percent of blacks see Obama</strong> as a uniter rather than a divider; that declines to 53 percent of Hispanics and just <strong>27 percent of whites</strong>.</p></blockquote>
<p>How ironic. The very idea of Obama&#8217;s unity is as divisive as it could be.</p>
<p>Goodbye Hope and Change.</p>
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		<title>Obama Apologizes for Going Golfing, Then Goes Golfing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 02:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's like he's not even bothering anymore.]]></description>
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<p>As a dog returns to its vomit, so<a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/09/obama-golfed-after-saying-shouldve-anticipated-optics-of-golf-after-foley-beheading-speech/"> Washington&#8217;s pro golfer returns to doing what he does best</a>; failing at golf as badly as he fails at everything else.</p>
<blockquote><p>Transcript via Meet the Press:</p>
<p>CHUCK TODD: I got to ask, so– so during that vacation, you made the statement on Foley. You went and golfed. Do you– do you want that back?</p>
<p>PRESIDENT OBAMA: You know, it is always a challenge when you’re supposed to be on vacation. Because you’re followed everywhere. And part of what I’d love is a vacation from—</p>
<p>CHUCK TODD: Yeah, you want to–</p>
<p>PRESIDENT OBAMA: –the– the press and– and– because–</p>
<p>CHUCK TODD: I promise you, 2 1/2 years, I think that happens.</p>
<p>PRESIDENT OBAMA: Because the possibility of a jarring contrast given the world’s news, is always– there’s always going to be some tough news somewhere– is going to be there. But there’s no doubt that– after having talked to the families, where it was hard for me to hold back tears listening to the pain that they were going through, after the statement that I made, that you know, I should’ve anticipated the optics.</p></blockquote>
<p>Oh yes. I think we all know how many tears he was holding up. We saw all of them on the golf course later. So now he followed up his latest interview on the optics of golfing in wartime&#8230; by going golfing.</p>
<blockquote><p>“You know, I actually feel energized about the opportunities that we’ve got,” Obama told the “Meet the Press” moderator in a sit-down interview taped Saturday. And after finishing, the president quickly headed to Fort Belvoir, Virginia, for an afternoon of golf in 90-degree-plus heat.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s like he&#8217;s not even bothering anymore.</p>
<p>What exactly does Obama need these constant vacations from? What does he actually do? Make viral videos? Nod off during briefings? He implies that he needs a vacation from the press. The press never stops slobbering over him for one solid minute.</p>
<p>Chuck Todd showed off his journalistic chops by rushing to make excuses for him. This is what Obama needs a vacation from? Is his ass tired of getting kissed?</p>
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		<title>Obama has a Strategy for the Things He Cares About</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 21:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama has no strategy for ISIS, but he has a strategy for shutting down every coal plant.]]></description>
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<p>Obama has no strategy for ISIS, but he does have a strategy for shutting down every coal plant in America.</p>
<p>Obama has no strategy for dealing with Putin&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, but he does have a strategy for mass illegal alien amnesty.</p>
<p>Obama has no strategy for defeating Islamic terrorism, he does however have a strategy for defeating the Republicans in the midterm elections.</p>
<p>Obama has no strategy for protecting the United States from Ebola, he does have a strategy for exploiting racial tensions in Ferguson.</p>
<p>Obama has no strategy for rescuing Christians women from ISIS rape prisons, he does have a strategy for convincing single women that Christian organizations should be paying for their birth control.</p>
<p>Obama has no strategy for stopping Iran from getting the bomb, but he does have a strategy for stopping anyone from making YouTube videos mocking Mohammed. (Send them to prison.)</p>
<p>Obama has no strategy for protecting the United States, but he has a strategy for maximizing his time golfing, fundraising and partying.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not that Obama doesn&#8217;t have a strategy or isn&#8217;t capable of forming one. It&#8217;s that he reserves those strategies for the things that he truly cares about.</p>
<p>Stopping ISIS or Putin isn&#8217;t one of them.</p>
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		<title>Obama Pressured Israel to Stop Demanding Demilitarization of Hamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2014 18:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The war was won on the battlefield and lost at the negotiating table.]]></description>
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<p>The ceasefire agreement didn&#8217;t give Hamas everything it wanted, but it gave Israel nothing at all.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s insistence on demilitarizing Gaza fell by the wayside.</p>
<p>Why? <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/shaath-us-pressured-israel-to-drop-demilitarization-demand/2014/08/28/">Here&#8217;s one answer</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Nabil Shaath, a senior PLO official and confidante of PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas, said that Israel dropped the demand that Hamas be demilitarized, due to American pressure, in an interview with the Arabic Ma’an News Agency.</p></blockquote>
<p>As usual the war was won on the battlefield and lost at the negotiating table. Which means it will have to be repeated in a year or two with a stronger Hamas.</p>
<p>Without demilitarizing Gaza, the entire war made no sense. Obama&#8217;s pressure on Israel and Netanyahu&#8217;s surrender made the purpose of the conflict into a temporary lull with lower level fighting.</p>
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		<title>White House Still Struggling to Explain Obama&#8217;s JV ISIS Crack</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the days when Obama's people didn't have to explain the stupid things he said? ]]></description>
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<p>Remember the days when Obama&#8217;s people didn&#8217;t have to explain the stupid things he said? When he could claim that there were 57 states or that Austrian was a language and still be hailed as the smartest man who ever lived?</p>
<p>Not anymore.</p>
<p>Instead Obama&#8217;s people are struggling to explain his JV crack about ISIS. They  can&#8217;t deny that he said it or that it was stupid. So <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-didnt-dismiss-isis-white-house-says-jayvee-team-2014-8">Josh Earnest just flails around</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s important that we don&#8217;t sort of shorthand the analogy the president was trying to draw here,&#8221; Earnest said.</p>
<p>When asked about the interview, Earnest produced a copy of the president&#8217;s comments, which he then read in full. Earnest said he expected he would get a question about the &#8220;jayvee team&#8221; remark.</p></blockquote>
<p>Sure, let&#8217;s not shorthand the flip shorthand analogy. So what does that get us?</p>
<blockquote><p>I pointed out that the flag of Al Qaeda is now flying in Fallujah, in Iraq, and among various rebel factions in Syria; Al Qaeda has asserted a presence in parts of Africa, too.</p>
<p>&#8220;The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;I think there is a distinction between the capacity and reach of a bin Laden and a network that is actively planning major terrorist plots against the homeland versus jihadists who are engaged in various local power struggles and disputes, often sectarian.&#8221;</p>
<p>Earnest stressed that Obama was talking about multiple groups including Islamic State. He also said the president was trying to highlight the &#8220;different capability&#8221; of these groups and Al Qaeda under Osama Bin Laden, which Earnest described as having been &#8220;decimated&#8221; by the Obama administration.</p></blockquote>
<p>Al Qaeda in Afghanistan had been decimated long before Obama got on the scene, but the media just keeps unthinkingly repeating that lie.</p>
<p>Still let&#8217;s skip to Earnest&#8217;s defense. He admits that Obama was talking about ISIS, but claims he was also talking about different groups. Except that Obama was specifically asked about ISIS declaring an Islamic State in Fallujah. At no point in his remarks did he differentiate it.</p>
<p>All Earnest can really do is vomit up a slightly varied version of the same old talking points that fails to actually concede that Obama was ignoring how dangerous ISIS had become.</p>
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		<title>GAO says Taliban Release Violated Law, So Where is Obama&#8217;s Mugshot?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 02:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gov. Rick Perry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's funny how abuse of power only cuts one way. ]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s funny how abuse of power only cuts one way. Rick Perry got his mugshot taken for vetoing funding. Obama has abused his power in countless ways, from locking up a man who made an offensive YouTube video to smuggling weapons to Mexico, to launching a unilateral amnesty, to refusing to enforce laws <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/21/audit-finds-obama-wh-broke-law-bergdahl-exchange/">he didn&#8217;t like to&#8230; the Taliban deal</a>.</p>
<p>But the grinning Obama <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/08/21/pentagon-violated-law-with-bergdahl-prisoner-swap-government-watchdog-says/">mugshot isn&#8217;t coming</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Obama administration officials broke federal law when they exchanged five Taliban warriors for ArmySgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the government’s top investigative office said Thursday in a report that marks the latest finding of legal overreach by President Obama.</p>
<p>Officials neglected to give Congress a 30-day notification and illegally switched money from one account to another to conduct the swap, the Government Accountability Office said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Speaking of Bergdahl, despite a consensus inside the military and even on the left, that he was a deserter, there&#8217;s little doubt that the lie will be rubber stamped because the alternative means exposing Obama&#8217;s noxious Rose Garden moment in which he killed two birds with one stone, distracting from the VA scandal and releasing terrorists.</p>
<blockquote><p>The GAO said the law in this case is &#8220;clear and unambiguous.&#8221; The agency said that while the Defense Department defended the legality of the controversial swap, &#8220;in our view, DOD has dismissed the significance of the express language&#8221; in the law.</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s typical for Obama Inc.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Department of Defense violated section 8111 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2014 when it transferred five individuals detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the nation of Qatar without providing at least 30-days notice to certain congressional committees,&#8221; the Government Accountability Office said in response to a letter from Republican lawmakers, including Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, the minority leader, and Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby.</p>
<p>The department also violated another law that prohibits federal employees from spending money not authorized by Congress. &#8220;DOD should report its Antideficiency Act violation as required by law,&#8221; the GAO said.</p></blockquote>
<p>There are a broken law reports that aren&#8217;t being filed.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Egypt Trolls Obama, Urges Restraint in Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama has made America so weak that Egypt is openly mocking us]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s bad enough when Russia acts this way, but Obama has made America so weak that Egypt, a client state<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/egypt-urges-us-restraint-over-missouri-unrest-2014-8">, is openly mocking the US</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Egypt on Tuesday urged U.S. authorities to exercise restraint in dealing with racially charged demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri &#8211; echoing language Washington used to caution Egypt as it cracked down on Islamist protesters last year.</p>
<p>It is unusual for Egypt to criticize such a major donor, and it was not immediately clear why the government would have taken such a step.</p></blockquote>
<p>It took the step because Obama is weak and impotent.</p>
<p>Because Egypt resents Obama&#8217;s backing for the Muslim Brotherhood takeover of the country and the constant lecturing of the military for suppressing Muslim Brotherhood violence.</p>
<p>And finally, Egypt is pissed all over again because Obama sided with Qatar, Turkey and Hamas over it.</p>
<blockquote><p>Egypt has backed the United Nation’s call for the United States authorities to deal with protests in Ferguson, Missouri “according to the American and international standards”.</p></blockquote>
<p>Note the emphasis on American standards.</p>
<p>This is straight up trolling and Obama is weak and pathetic enough to have put America in a place where even our client states are mocking us.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Idea Factory Chooses Hillary Over Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2014 13:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's official. The duck is lame.]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s official.<a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/on-iraq-cap-chooses-hillary-over-obama/"> The duck is lame</a>.</p>
<p>The Center for American Progress was Obama&#8217;s idea factory. Its people filled his administration. His bad ideas, particularly on foreign policy, came from CAP. Whether it was cutting health care for vets or playing up to the Muslim Brotherhood, there was a CAP stamp on it.</p>
<p>But now CAP is dumping Obama for Hillary.</p>
<blockquote><p>Neera Tanden, President of the Center for American Progress, revealed in an interview that the Center supports Hillary Clinton’s views on the handling of Iraq over President Obama’s.</p>
<p>Tanden appeared on RealClearPolitics’ Carl Cannon’s show, “Changing Lanes,” during which she made the admission.</p>
<p>“…It seems to me an independent voter could say… ‘Invading Iraq was a mistake, but leaving Iraq was a mistake.’ They could say both things,” Cannon told Tanden.</p></blockquote>
<p>Possibly we shouldn&#8217;t be getting into wars based on what an independent voter might think, but this is how the pros think. It&#8217;s why Obama decided to bomb ISIS. And why Hillary is suddenly talking like the Bride of Rambo.</p>
<p>If there were any real pushback against Hillary, it would be coming from CAP. But the big lefty money is still behind Hillary.</p>
<p>The Clintons have also been playing up to CAP. <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/bill-clinton-to-fundraise-for-center-for-american-progress/">Bill Clinton was fundraising</a> for it in the spring. Hillary Clinton made her appearances there.</p>
<p>While progs claim that the Tea Party is owned by the Koch Brothers and that they&#8217;re genuinely grass roots, in fact they&#8217;re owned lock, stock and barrel by the big money boys and girls. And while some of them rejected Hillary in 2008, they&#8217;ve accepted that it&#8217;s her moment now.</p>
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		<title>WSJ: Obama Punishing Israel by Holding Up Weapons Transfers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US had suspended a shipment of Hellfire missiles to Israel]]></description>
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<p>Usually the White House runs these &#8220;The Israelis are evil bastards&#8221; stories through the New York Times. This <a href="http://honestreporting.com/idns-08142014-arms-sales/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+honestreportingRSS+(Honest+Reporting)">time it decided to run the story through</a> the Wall Street Journal.</p>
<p>There are lots of anonymous quotes about how awful Israel is, but no one actually willing to go on the record which tells you that&#8230;</p>
<p>1. Obama Inc are cowards</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>2. The reporter is making things up</p>
<blockquote><p>Today, many administration officials say the Gaza conflict—the third between Israel and Hamas in under six years—has persuaded them that Mr. Netanyahu and his national security team are both reckless and untrustworthy.</p></blockquote>
<p>Right.</p>
<p>The focus of &#8220;Israel Outflanks White House in Pressing Gaza Strategy&#8221; is the claim that Netanyahu is somehow using Congress and the Pentagon to &#8220;outflank&#8221; Obama&#8230; even though Obama controls the Pentagon and Congress can&#8217;t do anything on foreign policy without Obama&#8217;s approval.</p>
<p>Jeff Dunetz <a href="http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2014/08/front-page-wall-street-journal-story.html">disproves the opening thesis</a> of the article that Israel somehow illegitimately extracted US weapons from the Pentagon, but even the actual article walks back that same claim several times, stating that &#8220;the military-to-military side was operating normally.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the thesis is spin to justify Obama&#8217;s blocking of these military-to-military weapons transfers. By spinning it as a reaction to Israeli wrongdoing, it puts the onus on Israel instead of Obama.</p>
<blockquote><p>The White House and State Department have sought to regain greater control over US-Israeli policy. Instead of being handled as a military-to-military matter, each case is now subject to review.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>The Pentagon&#8217;s Defense Security Cooperation Agency, or DSCA, was about to release an initial batch of the Hellfires, according to Israeli and congressional officials.</p>
<p>It was immediately put on hold by the Pentagon, and top officials at the White House instructed the DSCA, the U.S. military&#8217;s European Command and other agencies to consult with policy makers at the White House and the State Department before approving any additional requests.</p>
<p>A senior Obama administration official said the weapons transfers shouldn&#8217;t have been a routine &#8220;check-the-box approval&#8221; process, given the context. The official said the decision to scrutinize future transfers at the highest levels amounted to the United States saying &#8216;The buck stops here. Wait a second…It&#8217;s not OK anymore.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>Except it&#8217;s not the United States saying it. It&#8217;s Obama saying it. And the bottom line is that Obama Inc. is now making it clear that it will use weapons transfers to blackmail Israel and that it&#8217;s blaming Israel for this policy.</p>
<p>The Times of Israel<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-official-confirms-us-nixed-missile-sale-pm-blamed-for-soured-ties/"> reports confirmation of suspensions</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A senior Israeli official confirmed to Israeli media that the US had suspended a shipment of Hellfire missiles to Israel amid worsening ties over fighting in Gaza</p>
<p>The decision to hold off on the transfer was most likely on grounds of increased diplomatic tension, the official said, corroborating a Wall Street Journal report earlier in the day that claimed the White House and State Department had been angered by a transfer of arms to Israel and had ordered greater oversight into future sales.</p></blockquote>
<p>David Horovitz at the<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-livid-with-israel-hamas-cant-believe-its-luck/"> Times of Israel comments further</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>After the abandonment of Israel by the UK, with its promise to limit arms sales to Israel if Hamas restarts its attacks on our civilians, we now learn that the US is already restricting arms sales to Israel, having halted a planned supply of the Hellfire precision missiles that enable Israel to strike at the rocket launchers set up by Hamas in the heart of Gaza’s residential areas.</p>
<p>It is frankly astounding to the overwhelming majority of Israelis that Israel is being blamed for and pressured to end a war it manifestly sought to avoid — against a terrorist-government sworn to its destruction that repeatedly breaches the ceasefire efforts Israel consistently accepts.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Bush&#8217;s Fault that Obama Pulled Out of Iraq</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama spent years boasting about how he ended the Iraq War. Apparently Bush did that.]]></description>
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<p>One point I missed in my first look at Obama&#8217;s rambling response to whether he had any second thoughts about pulling out of Iraq was this&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Q Mr. President, do you have any second thoughts about pulling all ground troops out of Iraq? And does it give you pause as the U.S. &#8212; is it doing the same thing in Afghanistan?</p>
<p>THE PRESIDENT: What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision. <strong>Under the previous administration</strong>, we had turned over the country to a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government.</p></blockquote>
<p>So it&#8217;s Bush fault that Obama pulled out of Iraq.</p>
<p>Obama had spent years boasting about how he ended the Iraq War. But now apparently Bush ended the Iraq War.</p>
<p>The funny thing is that for the first time ever, Obama is almost telling the truth. He did make the final pullout on the Bush timetable. But that&#8217;s something that he and his people tried hard to obfuscate, first with a fake premature announcement that the war was over. Then the war &#8220;ended&#8221; a second time with the final pullout.</p>
<p>So Obama ended the Iraq War twice while repeatedly taking credit for ending the war on the Bush timeline as if it were some sort of brilliant Obama accomplishment.</p>
<p>Now after spending years taking credit for ending the war, Obama claims Republicans are wrongly blaming him for ending the war.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s strange since ending the war was 60% of Obama&#8217;s foreign policy platform and foreign policy accomplishments, aside from killing Bin Laden. Throughout the 2012 campaign, you constantly heard Obama boasting that he ended the war and killed Bin Laden.</p>
<p>Now that the war thing has gotten complicated, his biggest foreign policy accomplishment is suddenly Bush&#8217;s fault.</p>
<p>Obama campaigned twice on ending the Iraq War. But now he had no choice because Bush made him do it.</p>
<p>Leadership.</p>
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		<title>Guy Who Ran for President Promising to Pull Out of Iraq, Now Says It Wasn&#8217;t His Decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2014 02:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When withdrawal was popular, it was his decision. Now it's Iraq's decision.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_238096" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/obama-iraq.jpg"><img class="wp-image-238096 size-medium" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/obama-iraq-450x301.jpg" alt="obama-iraq" width="450" height="301" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Iraqis made that sign</p></div>
<p>If somehow Obama bin Laden&#8217;s death backfired, after exploiting it for all this time, Obama would suddenly claim he had nothing to do with it.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the quality of leadership we&#8217;re dealing with. Obama is quick to take credit for everything that benefits him and quicker to run away from responsibility for anything.</p>
<p>For years Obama took credit for ending the Iraq War. He campaigned on a platform of pulling all the troops out in 16 months. His dovish position on Iraq is a big part of the reason why he became the Democratic nominee.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had enough of a misguided war in Iraq that never should have been fought &#8212; a war that needs to end,&#8221; Obama said in 2007.</p>
<p>Now <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/obama-pulling-all-us-troops-out-iraq-was-not-my-decision">Obama wants to disavow the only reason</a> why he&#8217;s in the White House because his position has backfired.</p>
<blockquote><p>Today, on the South Lawn of the White House, after Obama explained why he had ordered the U.S. military to renew airstrikes in Iraq, a reporter asked Obama about his decision to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq.</p>
<p>“Mr. President, do you have any second thoughts about pulling all ground troops out of Iraq?” the reporter asked. “And does it give you pause as the U.S.-is it doing the same thing in Afghanistan?”</p>
<p>“What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision,” Obama said, indicating that he does not believe it was his decision as commander in chief of U.S. troops in a congressional authorized action in Iraq  to decide whether the troops should stay or leave.</p>
<p>“Under the previous administration, we had turned over the country to a sovereign, democratically elected Iraqi government,” Obama said. “In order for us to maintain troops in Iraq, we needed the invitation of the Iraqi government and we needed assurances that our personnel would be immune from prosecution if, for example, they were protecting themselves and ended up getting in a firefight with Iraqis, that they wouldn’t be hauled before an Iraqi judicial system.</p>
<p>“And the Iraqi government, based on its political considerations, in part because Iraqis were tired of a U.S. occupation, declined to provide us those assurances,” Obama said. “And on that basis, we left. We had offered to leave additional troops. So when you hear people say, do you regret, Mr. President, not leaving more troops, that presupposes that I would have overridden this sovereign government that we had turned the keys back over to and said, you know what, you’re democratic, you’re sovereign, except if I decide that it’s good for you to keep 10,000 or 15,000 or 25,000 Marines in your country, you don’t have a choice, which would have kind of run contrary to the entire argument we were making about turning over the country back to Iraqis, an argument not just made by me, but made by the previous administration.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama&#8217;s dishonesty and hypocrisy here are mindboggling.</p>
<p>First of all, whatever you think of the withdrawal, Obama deliberately chose not to seriously work toward an agreement keeping troops there.</p>
<p>Second of all, Obama is blaming Iraq as the reason for the withdrawal and yet he completely ignored repeated pleas for air strikes by Iraq in recent months.</p>
<p>Air strikes that would have stopped ISIS in its tracks.</p>
<p>So if you believe Obama, he was only doing what Iraq wanted when he withdrew, yet ignored what Iraq wanted when ISIS was on the march.</p>
<p>Third of all, Obama completely ignores his history of arguing loudly for the withdrawal and claiming credit for the withdrawal.</p>
<p>When withdrawal was popular, it was his decision. When it became unpopular, then it&#8217;s Iraq&#8217;s decision.</p>
<p>Truly this man is JFK, Reagan and George Washington wrapped in one bundle.</p>
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		<title>Iraq Crisis Worsens, Obama Deploys &#8220;Super-Serious&#8221; Situation Room Photo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2014 23:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can tell how bad a crisis is based on the staged photos that Obama&#8217;s official propaganda photog deploys for action.</p>
<p>On August 2nd, the situation was only mildly severe, so Pete Souza gave us this photo of Obama leaning back in the White House while chatting with Susan Rice and an NSA guy.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/BuCGfIdCUAAN3T1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-238099" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/BuCGfIdCUAAN3T1-450x299.jpg" alt="BuCGfIdCUAAN3T1" width="450" height="299" /></a></p>
<p>But then major newspapers (the kind his donors read) started talking about genocide in Iraq and Obama&#8217;s inaction. So after signing off on some aid drops, after a whole bunch of non-Muslim Yazidi kids had died of thirst, this photo was deployed for action.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/obama-serious.png"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-238100" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/obama-serious-450x307.png" alt="obama serious" width="450" height="307" /></a></p>
<p>The photo was retweeted by White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, w<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/in-2007-obama-vowed-not-to-stop-genocide-in-iraq/">ho had just gotten through explaining </a>that Obama deals with genocide on a case-by-case basis.</p>
<p>The White House also uploaded it to its Flickr page and it&#8217;s probably on Instagram and projected above the White House with a laser on the sky.</p>
<p>This situation room photo is serious. It means business. Susan Rice has changed out of her PJs and into her power suit like she&#8217;s ready to go on morning shows at any minute and blame a YouTube video for the whole thing.</p>
<p>Obama is the only one in focus, and despite having one leg on top of another, has posed looking like he&#8217;s explaining something to a military man. This indicates that he is serious and in charge.</p>
<p>&#8220;I got this. No big deal. We&#8217;ll drop some food. Then do a hashtag or something.&#8221;</p>
<p>Good show.</p>
<p>If things get even worse, check out this Souza Ukraine plane crash masterpiece photo.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Bs3gjuMCUAAg-ZG.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-238101" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Bs3gjuMCUAAg-ZG-450x299.jpg" alt="Bs3gjuMCUAAg-ZG" width="450" height="299" /></a></p>
<p>Podesta just looks like someone ran over his dog. If the whole &#8220;Lobbyist Sleazebag&#8221; thing doesn&#8217;t work out, he can do soaps. McDonough just looks confused. As if someone told him that the Koch Brothers are really behind the Center for American Progress. Josh Earnest is practicing his best earnest expression.</p>
<p>Meanwhile Obama is posing as the sort of take charge guy who reads the prepared statements that are prepared for him.</p>
<p>And if things get really, really bad, they&#8217;ll all crowd by the window to check out ISIS forces attacking the White House.</p>
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		<title>Obama Complains That Those at the Top Have No Right to Complain</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 17:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ "The folks who don’t have a right to complain are the folks at the top.”]]></description>
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<p>The guy at the very top who never stops complaining thinks that people at the top, who aren&#8217;t him, <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2014/08/04/obama-tells-americas-ceos-to-quit-complaining-about-those-stifling-regulations/">have no right to complain</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>In a recent interview with The Economist, President Barack Obama addressed the concerns of American corporate officers and others in a compelling and comprehensive fashion when he told them, essentially, to shut up.</p>
<p>“If you look at what’s happened over the last four or five years, the folks who don’t have a right to complain are the folks at the top,” Obama said.</p>
<p>“Oftentimes, you’ll hear some hedge-fund manager say, ‘Oh, he’s just trying to stir class resentment’. No. Feel free to keep your house in the Hamptons and your corporate jet, etcetera. I’m not concerned about how you’re living,” Obama said.</p>
<p>“I am concerned about making sure that we have a system in which the ordinary person who is working hard and is being responsible can get ahead,” he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama will obviously keep his own lifestyle, which includes non-stop parties and vacations. And he&#8217;s done plenty of favors for his big donors which make it hard for the ordinary person to get ahead.</p>
<p>Just <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/coal-miners-arrested-protesting-obamas-epa/">ask those coal miners being arrested</a>. Or the working class people about to lose their jobs to his illegal alien amenstiers.</p>
<p>He plays on class resentment, but the targets of that resentment are second-hand lefty yuppies who like his version of regulatory class warfare because it brings in the consulting gigs for them.</p>
<p>But in the midst of all this, Obama whines more than the whiniest hedge fund managers. His speeches consist of passive aggressive complaining. And he is at the very top of it.</p>
<p>I have trouble thinking of a speech in which the most powerful man in the world isn&#8217;t complaining about how hard he has it.</p>
<p>If Obama insists on abusing power and making life hard for ordinary people for the profit of his eco-donors, he could at least stop whining.</p>
<p>Also if he could stop talking about the &#8220;folks&#8221; to cover up his elitism, that would be appreciated.</p>
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		<title>Barney Frank Admits Obama Lied About ObamaCare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2014 14:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Don't lie to people, because you're gonna get caught up in it"]]></description>
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<p>This is confusing. You&#8217;ve got one lying liar criticizing another lying liar for being a lying liar. Maybe Frank feels frankly that Obama should have stuck to vaguely plausible lies that<a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/kevinglass/2014/08/03/former-rep-barney-frank-appalled-by-obama-you-shouldnt-lie-to-people-n1874056?utm_source=BreakingOnTownhallWidget_4&amp;utm_medium=story&amp;utm_campaign=BreakingOnTownhall"> wouldn&#8217;t blow up in his face a short while later</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The rollout was so bad, and I was appalled &#8212; I don&#8217;t understand how the president could have sat there and not been checking on that on a weekly basis,&#8221; Frank told HuffPost during a July interview. &#8220;But frankly, he should never have said as much as he did, that if you like your current health care plan, you can keep it. That wasn&#8217;t true. And you shouldn&#8217;t lie to people. And they just lied to people.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Any smart political adviser would have said, &#8216;Don&#8217;t lie to people, because you&#8217;re gonna get caught up in it and it&#8217;s gonna have this tsunami that you now have,&#8217;&#8221; Frank told HuffPost. &#8220;My political motto, very simple. I have always told the truth, and nothing but the truth. But I don&#8217;t volunteer the whole truth in every situation.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Says the guy whose boyfriend ran a whorehouse out of his apartment. He sure didn&#8217;t volunteer that one.</p>
<p>But Frank is still old school. And old school means that you stick to vaguely plausible lies. Obama however is of the Clinton school and lies compulsively with no self-control on the assumption that his voters are either too stupid or too fanatical to catch him out on that.</p>
<p>And so far he&#8217;s been proven right.</p>
<p>Yes his approval ratings are underwater, but a lot of his political attacks still have traction mainly because of media support. When the media echoes what you&#8217;re saying, then you have a propaganda setup much like the old USSR did, and people may turn against you, but you can maintain control of the discourse.</p>
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		<title>80% Off: Price of Lobbying Obama Cut to $5K</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2014 18:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary is picking up the huge piles of money now. ]]></description>
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<p>Hey bargain hunters. Do you happen to own a wind or solar company? Maybe you help design environmentally friendly doorknobs. Or run a health care company?</p>
<p>The economy is tough on everyone and you wish you could lobby Obama, but you just can&#8217;t afford to drop $25K to listen to him talk about the books he pretended to read? How about a $5K all-inclusive package. You pay $5K and maybe your company will get a line in Obama&#8217;s next budget or a nice little DOE grant. Or just a little tweak in the ObamaCare regs?</p>
<p><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2014/07/24/dem-donors-demand-discount-for-obama-dinners/">How can you pass this up</a>?</p>
<p>There was no listed price for tickets for Obama’s morning appearance at a roundtable in San Francisco for the House Majority PAC – the type of intimate gathering for which admission is usually $32,400 per person, the legal maximum. Some donors said tickets had been offered for a deep discount.</p>
<p>Democratic donors who were invited to the San Francisco event, at the Four Seasons Hotel on Market Street, said they had initially been asked to donate as much as $25,000 to sit down with Obama. One who balked at the price said organizers had offered a cut-rate deal of as little as $5,000.</p>
<p>While this is being put down to donor fatigue, the practical angle is that Obama is a lame duck and sees likely to lose the Senate.</p>
<p>Once that happens, his dollar and cents value to his backers (and despite their leftism, they are in it for the money, just ask Warren Buffett, Tom Steyer or George Soros) drops through the floor.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/clintons-demand-1-million-to-allow-donors-kids-at-benefit-dinner/">Hillary is picking up the huge piles of money now</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A Chinese businessman paid $500,000 to have dinner with Bill and Hillary Clinton. But when he asked if his kids could join, the former first couple demanded another half-million</p></blockquote>
<p>Nobody is paying $500K for dinner with Obama. They&#8217;re paying $5K. That&#8217;s 1 percent.</p>
<p>Donors are trying to get in on Clintonworld and hoping for two terms of glorious theft, just like they got with Obama. Hillary is the exciting new corrupt thing and Obama is the corrupt old thing.</p>
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		<title>White House: Barack Obama Not Responsible for what Barack Obama Tweets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2014 15:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was the other Barack Obama who was doing all that stuff.]]></description>
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<p>You can&#8217;t hold Barack Obama responsible for what Barack Obama says. Or maybe there is no Barack Obama and Nixon&#8217;s fourth term is <a href="http://redalertpolitics.com/2014/07/07/white-house-obama-might-know-hes-tweeting/">really going better than expected</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>During Monday’s White House press briefing, spokesman Josh Earnest explained that he is unaware of whether or not President Obama reads the tweets that are posted from his verified Twitter account.</p>
<p>“The @BarackObama Twitter handle is maintained by OFA [Organizing For Action], that is the political organization that was the offshoot of the campaign,” Earnest told Jonathan Karl of ABC News, who asked whether the president reads or approves his tweets. “And that is a Twitter handle that is maintained independent of the White House.”</p></blockquote>
<p>So no, Barack Obama has no idea what @BarackObama is tweeting and he may or may not agree with it because it supposedly runs independently, even though it&#8217;s his campaign. Or rather a SuperPAC funded by wealthy donors and spun off from his campaign.</p>
<p>So there&#8217;s Barack Obama, the White House occupant.</p>
<p>And there&#8217;s also Barack Obama, the brand, who is owned by OFA, which is just the Obama campaign.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s not always clear which Obama is Obamaing it up, especially when he&#8217;s flying to fundraise using Air Force One, but we shouldn&#8217;t ask about that because then @BarackObama might call us racist, which Barack Obama might or might not disagree with&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230; because he has no idea what his Twitter account is doing.</p>
<p>Also he has no idea what happened with the VA, Benghazi or ObamaCare. That was the other Barack Obama who was doing all that stuff.</p>
<p>The Obama who sneaks in at night, ruins ObamaCare, takes gobs of money from dubious donors, bails out their companies and unilaterally starts wars&#8230; before the &#8216;good&#8221; Obama who knows nothing about it wakes up.</p>
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