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links for 2009-09-18
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Yes, First Lady Michelle Obama is now aggressively crusading for her husband’s health care takeover under the guise of championing woman who have been “crushed†by the system.
One woman Mrs. Obama won’t be spotlighting?
The mother of Dontae Adams.
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Since their election disaster, the right has used new media to gather strength, culminating in last weekend's huge protest.
Erik Telford remembers all too vividly the dark cloud hanging over him on 5 November 2008, the day after Barack Obama was elected president. For the internet strategist at the rightwing campaign group Americans for Prosperity, election night was a double disaster. Not only had Obama won the votes, he had outwitted his Republican opponents in his use of new media tricks such as email recruiting and social networking."The left was far ahead of us. The efforts that Obama put into internet campaigning and what he accomplished were extraordinary," Telford says.
That cloud hung over the conservative movement for many weeks. A sense of crisis set in, he recalls, with bloggers, strategists and Republican politicians scrambling in different directions.
"There was a real lack of leadership, a lot of confusion."
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Unemployment rose in 27 U.S. states in August, with California and Nevada reaching record levels of joblessness.
Rhode Island rounded out the list of states with the highest level of unemployment since data began in 1976, the Labor Department reported today in Washington. California’s unemployment rate reached 12.2 percent and Nevada’s climbed to 13.2 percent. -
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has raised the stakes against Israel by describing the Holocaust as a lie, just as world powers are trying to decide how to deal with the nuclear ambitions of an Iran in political turmoil.
"The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false … It is a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim," he told worshippers at Tehran University at the end of an annual anti-Israel "Qods (Jerusalem) Day" rally.
"Confronting the Zionist regime is a national and religious duty."
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President Obama said this week that his health care plan won't cover illegal immigrants, but argued that's all the more reason to legalize them and ensure they eventually do get coverage.
He also staked out a position that anyone in the country legally should be covered – a major break with the 1996 welfare reform bill, which limited most federal public assistance programs only to citizens and longtime immigrants.
"Even though I do not believe we can extend coverage to those who are here illegally, I also don't simply believe we can simply ignore the fact that our immigration system is broken," Mr. Obama said Wednesday evening in a speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. "That's why I strongly support making sure folks who are here legally have access to affordable, quality health insurance under this plan, just like everybody else.
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Obamacare: Michelle Obama Says Women are Crushed by Health Care System
Yes, Michelle Obama said it – oh yes she did.First lady Michelle Obama sought support for the administration’s health-care plans from family advocacy groups and health-care professionals, saying the treatment of women under the current system is “unacceptable.â€
As President Barack Obama campaigns to generate backing from voters for his health-care overhaul proposal, the first lady joined the effort today with a more focused pitch.
Michelle Obama said women are being “crushed by the current structure of our health care†because they often are responsible for taking care of family illnesses, arranging checkups and monitoring follow-up care.
“Women are the ones to do it,†she said to an audience of 140 people, including representatives from groups such as the Women’s Chamber of Commerce and the National Council of Negro Women. “Mothers are the ones that do it. And many women find themselves doing the same thing for their spouses.â€
Women also are more disproportionately affected by the lack of insurance options because they are more likely to work part-time or at small businesses that don’t provide coverage.
“It’s not surprising that so many millions of women are simply going without insurance at all,†Obama said.
Flap asked Mrs. Flap if she felt crushed by the health care system? Having had a pap smear today at her private gynecologist, she uttered a brief response: No.
Interesting that Mrs. Flap’s cadillac insurance plan which she receives from her employer will be more heavily taxed to provide “FREE” care for illegal aliens and people that don’t or won’t work. For that, Mrs. Flap feels “CRUSHED.”
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Irving Kristol, 1920 – 2009
Irving Kristol, widely considered the founder of American neoconservatism, writer, editor and social philosopher has passed away at the age of 89.May he rest in peace.
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Obamacare: Disapproval of Obama’s Health Care Reform Hits New High – 56 Per Cent
Not good news for the White House says the latest Rasmussen Poll.Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide now oppose the health care reform proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the highest level of opposition yet measured and includes 44% who are Strongly Opposed.
Just 43% now favor the proposal, including 24% who Strongly Favor it.
But the overall picture remains one of stability. While the numbers have bounced a bit following nationally televised appearances by the president to promote the plan, opposition has generally stayed above 50% since early July. Support has been in the low to mid 40s.
The number who Strongly Oppose the plan has remained above 40% and the Strongly Favor totals have been in the mid-20s. This suggests public opinion is hardening when it comes to the plan that is currently working its way through Congress.
The LEFT and RIGHT are galvanized in their health care reform positions while the American people continue to be skeptical.
Obama’s plan will NOT be passed in its current form – no matter what the President and his teleprompter say.
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Obama Missile Defense Shift a Betrayal Say Poles and Czechs – Lech Walesa Blasts Obama
Betrayal to the Russians is what the Poles and Czechs are saying.Poles and Czechs voiced deep concern Friday at President Barack Obama’s decision to scrap a Bush-era missile defense shield planned for their countries.
“Betrayal! The U.S. sold us to Russia and stabbed us in the back,” the Polish tabloid Fakt declared on its front page.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski said he was concerned that Obama’s new strategy leaves Poland in a dangerous “gray zone” between Western Europe and the old Soviet sphere.
Recent events in the region have rattled nerves throughout central and eastern Europe, a region controlled by Moscow during the Cold War, including the war last summer between Russia and Georgia and ongoing efforts by Russia to regain influence in Ukraine. A Russian cutoff of gas to Ukraine last winter left many Europeans without heat.
The Bush administration’s plan would have been “a major step in preventing various disturbing trends in our region of the world,” Kaczynski said in a guest editorial in the daily Fakt and also carried on his presidential Web site.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said he still sees a chance for Poles and Czechs to participate in the redesigned missile defense system. But that did not appear to calm nerves in Warsaw or Prague.
And, Nobel Prize winner Lech Walesa blasted President Obama.
“Americans have always cared only about their interests, and all other [countries] have been used for their purposes. This is another example,†Mr Wałęsa told TVN24. “[Poles] need to review our view of America, we must first of all take care of our business,†he added.
“I could tell from what I saw, what kind of policies President Obama cultivates,†the former president added. “I simply don’t like this policy, not because this shield was required [in Poland], but [because of] the way we were treated,†he concluded.
Flap thought Obama wanted to work WITH America’s allies? Isn’t that what he said was lacking in the Bush Administration years?
Looks like Obama’s RESET with the Russians is SELLING OUT our allies.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir September 18, 2009 – Rogue’s Gallery
The danger of “Big Brother” type of government from the LEFT, the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats will give American voters pause. Examples: ACORN and the NEA.Now, we know why Americans prefer a divided government – with no one political party in overwhelming control as the Democrats NOW possess.
There WILL be an electoral correction in 2010.
The only question will be how much?
Remember just a few months ago how the LEFT was boasting that the GOP was only a regional minority party?
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