The Right Scoop
Mr Krauthammer is an American born Jew. He won't come out and say it, but he basically wants Americans to throw down their lives to save Israel from Iran. I say NO and Americans should Unite: "We ain't dying for their Zion". Telling a liberal to go to h&%% is a typical response for a war monger
His speech and gestures are the same old rigamarole, lousy phony-baloney. I went off to sleep after several minutes. When I woke up I just shut if off. Poor Barry can't stand on his own.
I finally figured out what seemed so strange watching the DNC convention. There was a sense of desperation in the interviews and pictures of the convention. I now know where I have seen this and heard this before.
In the book, "The Longest Day", Cornelius Ryan describes several scenes on board the troop transports the night before the invasion of Normandy. In the soldiers behavior, there was a sense of desperation to live their last moments in life talking, gambling, laughing, or just resting, but all with a tenseness that betrayed their own private fears of failure and dieing. I have seen this repeated, the night before an insertion into the western Iraqi desert hunting SCUDs during GW1, this same behavior came out in the British and American Spec Ops working out of our FOB. The DNC convention had this same tenseness. Their was a feeling of desperation, everything said was funnier, more poignant, more sincere, more "factual", more emotional, but without ever actually having discussed the true problems facing the US. No mention of debt, or deficit, nor 8%+ unemployment, nor how to deal with uncontrolled entitlement spending. Just as the soldiers would never discuss failure, or death, the Democrats never discussed the true nature of what the US faces.
Once again an empty speech full of lies and deception. This guy can't do the job. He likes the perks, but he can't do the job. Why should we keep paying a president that is totally useless? Why would Americans never see through this crap? Aren't we above this?
Why would anyone expect more? The guy is a street thug, a bum, the head of the party of the stupid and lost. He's a cult leader, just like Jim Jones. People like him, prey on those who have no life, no direction, lost souls. I could never listen to this Jim Jones. It's really a sick in the head bunch.
The following is taken from a post made on the UKs Daily Telegraph blog by a poster called 'bickers' (giving credit where its due):
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In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse over loose fiscal policy, (which is) always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
From bondage to spiritual faith;
From spiritual faith to great courage;
From courage to liberty;
From liberty to abundance;
From abundance to complacency;
From complacency to apathy;
From apathy to dependence;
From dependence back into bondage."
The Obituary of the USA will be as follows: US Independence: born 1776, Died 2012
It doesn't hurt to read this several times. Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the last Presidential election:
Number of States won by:
Obama: 19
McCain: 29
Square miles of land won by:
Obama: 580,000
McCain: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by:
Obama: 127 million
McCain: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
Obama: 13.2
McCain: 2.1
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory McCain won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Obama territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in low income tenements and living off various forms of government welfare...".
Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase. If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million illegal immigrants - and they vote - then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.
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It's pretty clear that Obama's speech could have been just these few words ''One more push guys, one more win and we are irremovable.''
Big thanks Marky. De Tocqueville said the same thing IIRC.
But wow, that breakdown by Prof. Olsen is astounding and needs to be seen by all Americans.
Actually - apologies - it turns out this was one of those hoax emails that did the rounds and doesn't stand up to investigation. That said, there's not much doubt that the sentiment is true even if the details are BS - here in the UK we have demonstrations and false outrage at the current governments policy to limit welfare payments to just above the national average wage (yep, you read that right) and its already clear that the party of big welfare, lollipops for all, is going to stroll back into power in 2015 and we will be going back to the IMF by 2016.
hehe... Tebbit, Hannan and Delingpole... just about the only telegraph blogs worth a read (well, Warner and Pritchard for the economics stuff as well) - we have probably chatted on there as well at some point! You are dead right about Education - my middle child is going through high school now. The whole experience is light on education heavy on left wing political indoctrination. Makes me want to vomit.
Regarding the Cons - well, UKIP member and activist (minor tbh) here and I don't hold much hope of the UK shifting to the right. The Beeb have managed to convince the sheeple that voting to the right is akin to aligning yourself with satan and Hollande is described in glowing terms as the second coming of Obama... hence why I find myself on here. I see the US as the last great hope for western freedom. Sad, but true.
Thanks for the udate, Marky. No worries - De Tocqueville and the founders still got it right about democracy versus a Republic! The prof.'s stuff originated in a newsweek poll after the Bush/Gore election, according to some reports. Your post has inspired me to see whether there are such data as Olsen's somewhere, so thanks.
As for the UK, having been born and raised there, now a Canadian, it's heartbreaking to see what's happened on my frequent family visits - Blair gave away our country just as zero is doing in the US. The behemoth EU rules via unelected creatures born into socialism. Do you remember when the Labour Party was taken over by Trotskyites? Maybe you're too young. They'd been active since the 20's but came to the fore in the 80s and 90s. Eventually they got rid of at least the appearance of the commies and then put up Blair as a white washed version of Conservative 'lite'. He then proceeded to 'remake' the UK. Sound familiar? The US commies will do the same thing after a few more election cycles, unless the lessons of the last 4 years aren't learned and acted upon. Education is the key, I've always thought that - a return to classical education is the most important imperative, and with that goes eliminiation of teaching and public sector unions.
Hang on, Marky - you never know, maybe real Conservatives or UKIP will become a louder voice next go round, rather than the UK doing as the French have just done. Whence comes this dogged belief that other people's money will always be there, even as they revile and destroy the means of its production?
PS Do you read Norman Tebbit's Telegraph blog? I do - for a little sanity...and James Delingpole, natch.
Only 96,000 jobs added in Aug....Unemployment slips from 8.3 to 8.1 but the drop is due to LOWEST WORFORCE PARTICIPATION in 30 YEARS....63.5 percent. In other words, the rate dropped because more people gave up looking and dropped off the work rolls!! A DISGRACE!! Expectations had been 125,000 jobs....only 96,000....people keep dropping off the rolls...that is the way the BLS is getting the number to 8.1 percent. Even CNBC, puts in their story...DROPS DUE TO LOWEST WORKFORCE PARTICIPATION IN 30 YEAR"
Stocks down and not good....Obama thinks he can show a drop by just continually showing people just dropping off the radar...Sorry Obama those people are still there in America and STILL JOBLESS!!!
Whenever good ideas are envisioned and can be incorporated into our system of government, for the people for which it was intended, hopefully, still America...and Americans...then, I believe it to be both strong and encouraging. However, if given the tools to complete a task, yet void of the ways by which they should be done, nothing is applied, nothing has been changed or altered and absolutely nothing has been accomplished. Intelligence to me, is more than a fancy speech of promises we can't and won't keep, rather it is one of understanding and commitment towards a better quality of life for all. Gather together the tools, separate the parts, and after understanding how they are to be built, begin applying them with extreme passion and love. We are tired...I am tired of dreams never more than dreams.
Dick Morris said the same thing on his tweets...that Obama failed to aritculate a reason for himself. That he was basing it on Hope and that will not work. Joe Trippi also said Biden was better than Obama. Charles agreed....his speech was flat, all emotion and offered nothing to give him 4 more years. When you have nothing to say....YOU ARE AN EMPTY SUIT!!
The problem with the whole DNC was what I call Magic....They want the last 4 years to disappear and thorugh Hocus Pocus make all of us act like to suffer for Obama is our lot in life. The Great Messiah can only do so much and we need to give him more time. BS!! His record is an ABJECT DISGRACE and that is what all of them tried to make disappear!
The thing that irks me so much is this notion HE CARES!! That is the Biggest Bunch of Horse..well you know!! while he if off playing golf, flying around to fundraisers, taking vacations and shooting basketball with NBA players we are suppose to think HE CARES!! And his wife that big butt phony does that same....spends millions on expensive clothes, eats whatever she wants and has a staff twice the size of Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton combined..she tells us what WE SHOULD EAT, TO SACRIFICE FOR THEM and HOW TO BRING UP OUR KIDS! It is pathetic. She belongs shopping at Target or Wal-mart and set and example....BUT NO MICHELLE live off the taxpayers in a luxury lifestyle you have not earned!!
Whenever good ideas are envisioned and can be incorporated into our system of government, for the people for which it was intended, hopefully, still America...and Americans...then, I believe it to be both strong and encouraging. However, if given the tools to complete a task, yet void of the ways by which they should be done, nothing is applied, nothing has been changed or altered and absolutely nothing has been accomplished. Intelligence to me, is more than a fancy speech of promises we can't and won't keep, rather it is one of understanding and commitment towards a better quality of life for all. Gather together the tools, separate the parts, and after understanding how they are to be built, begin applying them with extreme passion and love. We are tired...I am tired of dreams never more than dreams.
I watched the speech live- thank you for the stream, Scoop- and I couldn't help thinking that it was another speech talking about things that nobody in that arena believes. It felt cold and impersonal. It was also loaded with typical socialist phraseology. I thought he delivered it well, but I can completely see where Krauthammer is coming from. I didn't see Biden's speech, so I don't know about that, but I could assume it's a correct analysis. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end of Obummer's campaign.
When several Democrats tell you Biden's Speech was better than you know that is bad!! Charles is right!! It was empty!!
I finally agree with Obama on something: there is a clear choice.
You can Place our public trust with the guy that promises reform and spending cuts under a large debt clock display, or you can place that trust with a pandering liar who clearly believes that our national credit card still has room to pay for all his pet project toys that will somehow make the problem go away. Yes, we are in debt up to our eyeballs, so let's go get a second mortgage so we can spend more. Wait.....
Wow, it's a shame I didn't watch the speech. Maybe I should have. If I did, it would have put me to sleep a lot faster than just going to bed! Thanks Charles! You've got to love that guy.
After watching PARTS of the DNC convention I know one thing for sure--
There are Reptilians in the govt and they don't like to be questioned.
I didn't see the speech because seeing and/or listening to his poor excuse of skin and bone literally turns my stomach. However, I've read "reviews" on a number of sites and it seems like independents and some Dems are now totally turned off to this character. There are the usually swooning Dems who are, naturally, singing his praises, but most of what I've read is negative. Personally, I can't imagine him being able to give a speech with any amount of substance because he has no substance to speak about.
Obama has already done everything on his agenda except for global warming. He wants to throw more money into failing solar and battery companies. He wants to create a massive number of government jobs. He wants more stimulus (for unions). He wants more regulations and less oil.
Every last one of these things is the wrong way to go and have failed. Yeah, sign me up for four more years of this incompetent boob. Not happening.
"Yes, our path is harder - but it leads to a better place (roadmap towards fiscal cliff with more government spending on Affordable Health Care Act Obamacare, more schools and teacher unions). Yes our road is longer but we travel it together (forward onto collective economic destruction, and yes, we all belong to the government).
Our Esteemed Ruler wants to double, triple, or quadruple down on everything he promised in 2008. He had no road map on how we were going pay for all of the great things he mentioned or how to even get there. The Dems and their lefty clowns claim that Romney has no plan? Where was El Presidente's plan? All during the speech, the mind-numbed, zombie-like Obamatons were cheering and clapping. Typical. All he had were more platitudes, slogans, bumper stickers, and empty promises. Pathetic.
Why did the Democrats get to go last? They were able to take swipes at everything that was said at the Republican convention. They were able to to add in anything the Republicans forgot.
Karl Rove made the point two weeks ago the country is most interested in the first couple of nights and then grows weary. DNC went last as they are the incumbent. Rove said they would have been better served going weeks from now instead of right after. It was 1-2-3-4-5-6 nights of politics and who would have thought it would all lead up to night 6 and Obama laying an egg. I'm absolutely ecstatic. Daily Beast and Mother Jones, two ultra-lib sites, are shocked how their hero "phoned it in".
Wow thanks for the info.
I attempted to read some articles at Rolling Stone, but when I commented I was nearly riden out of town.
A C grade means he must have written it himself.
It did sound like he was calling it in too - my exact thought. A very flippant delivery all the way through - what cadence there was, was phoney sounding in the extreme, simply because he has done the opposite of what he tried to preach tonight. Can't sell what you don't believe in - that's why the 'you didn't build that' meme came to him so easily.
To me, the whole thing proved he has no idea what America is, or what its place in the world is. You have to love America to know that.
p m, "Can't sell what you don't believe in..."
It's been said that the difference between a salesman and a con man is the salesman believes in what he is selling.
"To me, the whole thing proved he has no idea what America is, or what its place in the world is. You have to love America to know that.
Very well said.
Thanks AibC - I posted a reply to toongoon somewhere else tonight - been saving it for the next time we spoke - it's an excellent prescription for the kind of education your boy is getting from you. Can't express how much I admire you guys for home-schooling - you'll be the saving grace for America.Hope you enjoy it:
You are the one we thank for raising a true American, in every sense. He's one lucky young man! No question learning is much more enjoyable when not done at a school - especially by loving parents. No greater gift IMO.
Wow. That's a great article p m. I know more folks are realizing it, but don't understand that the public education system has been following a european socialistic plan for nearly a century.
I wanted to homeschool for a few different reasons, the main being, I loved learning, but I hated school and wished there was some way I could learn without having to go. When I became a Christian, I wanted to teach my child from a Biblical perspective. The longer I have lived in America, the more I wanted to teach my child true American History... which I know is not taught in so many public schools. I hope I teach him well, and I pray there will be more and more who, for whatever reasons, will join what is becoming a huge education movement.
Thanks for your encouragement p m, and your kind words!!
After this week the DNC is the Demonic National Cult and full tilt commie. Hideous display of evil that paraded through that arena for all to see.
I was waiting at the border after a trip Stateside. Guy in front wasn't being waived on, meanwhile everyone and his dog in all the other lanes were being waved through. This would usually set me on a slow boil BUT this was when Liar's speech was on a local Bellingham station that also carries Rush, Beck, Hannity.
When we finally got to the customs booth, we were grinning all over our faces and the guy asked what was so funny - we told him we'd just heard Liar's speech - he rolled his eyes and smiled too.
It was HOLLOW - he sounded hollow, his words were hollow, hell, they weren't even his - they took all the good things from the RNC speeches, including R&R's, and recycled them for commie consumption. Between looks of astonishment and shouts of LIAR, we had a pretty jolly time - knowing that this was the worst political speech we had ever heard. First zero speech too for me - makes you wonder how he cajoled so many last time. One of several memorable lies:
"After a decade of decline..." well, didn't hear the rest - he came along, I guess. What decade of decline?? And did you know the numbers and independent analysts say everything is going great in the US, thanks to him? Thank you RS for not posting his drivel.
LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR LIAR
(Pardon the shouting please.)
For the first time ever I'm actually getting the urge to go watch one of his speeches....which happens to be his worst one ever.
I guess the "hope and change" bullcrap isn't going to work this time around. He has been more corrupt than any President that I can recall. He sold a steak dinner and delivered baloney sandwiches.
I didn't watch the speech, but after watching this clip I couldn't help but wonder if the giant Lady Liberty on stage was rolling her eyes while Obumbles was speechifying.
It would be a hoot if someone could photo shop it and have her doing the Scoop double facepalm.
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