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JOHN FUND: OBAMA IS IN TROUBLE WITH HIS BASE?

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/302328

Providence, R.I. — If elections are won partly on the enthusiasm of a candidate’s base, Barack Obama is in trouble. Netroots Nation, the annual left-wing conference for bloggers and activists, held its seventh annual rally here this weekend. The skies were sunny outside, but there was clearly a cloud hanging over attendees inside the cavernous Rhode Island Convention Center.

It wasn’t only last Tuesday’s jarring defeat of public-sector unions in Wisconsin, or President Obama’s refusal to campaign in person against Governor Scott Walker — or unease that the Supreme Court may be only weeks away from sweeping much or all of Obamacare onto the ash heap of history. On Friday, in the middle of the conference, President Obama famously declared that “the private sector is doing fine,” calling into question his campaign’s basic competence in getting out a coherent message.

Indeed, enthusiasm for Obama was decidedly absent from this year’s gathering. Administration officials weren’t invited to attend (Valerie Jarrett and others have appeared in the past), and President Obama limited his role to an unpublicized surprise video shown to delegates late on Saturday, when many people had already left. “Change is hard, but we’ve seen that it’s possible, as long as you’re willing to keep up that fight, I’ll be right there with you,” Obama offered. Not exactly a stirring call to arms, and the tepid applause his video garnered can’t have pleased Team Obama.

Van Jones — the former Obama administration “green jobs” czar who was forced to resign from the White House after his radical past was exposed — did his best to follow the Obama video with some fiery rhetoric. “We do not have the right to sit here and feel sorry for ourselves and let these people destroy our country,” he yelled.

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Allen West: Lightning rod for liberal activists West never disappoints…..must be re-elected
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Occupy Wall Street obit written by originator Just delicious!!!
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Obama profited from 1995 class-action housing suit
Daily Caller
Monday, June 11, 2012
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Barack Obama profited from work in a 1995 housing-discrimination class action lawsuit that provided him with legal fees, greased his political donations and boosted his role in Chicago politics while the lead client went bankrupt. Read more…

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Burma declares emergency to stem religious riots…..The long tentacles of Islam…..
Bloomberg
Sunday, June 10, 2012
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Burma declared a state of emergency in an eastern border region to prevent clashes between Muslims and Buddhists from spreading or threatening the country’s democratic transition. Read more…

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ALEX JOFFE: THE JEWISH LEFT….BETWEEN HISTORY AND REVELATION….(AND TERMINAL SELF-HATRED RSK)

http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/content/module/2012/6/11/main-feature/1/the-jewish-left-between-history-and-revelation/e The association of Jews with leftist ideas and movements has been a fixture of Western politics for the past 150 years. But is the relationship logical and necessary, or is it historical and contingent? Do Jewish values dictate leftist values, or is this assertion merely a post hoc rationalization? A recent conference at the […]

ROBIN SHEPHERD: IS THE GUARDIAN THE MOST BIGOTED PAPER IN BRITAIN? ****

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1293/is_the_guardian_the_most_bigoted_newspaper_in_britain_

The decision to give a platform to a leader of Jew-hating Hamas shows the Guardian is now wallowing in and drinking from the sewer of history. Read and be shocked

Which of these propositions do you think is correct; and can you identify a moral distinction between them?

The Guardian newspaper has just run an article by someone advocating that black people be returned to the status of slaves.

The Guardian newspaper has just run an article suggesting that landlords be allowed to put up notices saying that Irish people and dogs need not apply for housing.

The Guardian newspaper has just run an article by a political leader whose foundational charter advocates the murder of Jews and promotes conspiracy theories that would not have looked out of place in Nazi Germany.

No prizes for guessing that the third of those propositions is correct on a factual basis. The morality? It’s a race to the bottom.

But given that anti-Semitism gave rise to the greatest single crime in human history, and that the Holocaust was the culmination of a series of horrific crimes that shame every civilisation that has been a party to it… well, you make up your own mind.

On Friday, the Guardian ran a piece in its opinion section by none other than Ismail Haniyeh, leader of Hamas in Gaza and now, it appears, a perfectly acceptable room-mate for the leading voice in Britain’s Liberal-Left.

DANIEL GREENFIELD: REPUBLICAN PARTY AS A LIBERATION MOVEMENT

http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ The real lesson of Wisconsin is that the Republican Party is at its strongest and greatest when it acts as a revolutionary liberation movement, breaking apart the power relationships of the Democratic Party that stifle people’s personal, economic and religious lives. The Democratic Party has made it its mandate to politicize and collectivize the […]

ROBERT SPENCER: THE MEDIA’S DOUBLE STANDARD FOR MUSLIMS

http://pjmedia.com/blog/the-medias-double-standard-for-muslims/ The mainstream media claims to be multicultural, respecting all cultures equally, but actually holds Muslims and the Islamic world to a standard so low that it would have brought a furious blush to the cheeks of the most dyed-in-the-wool White Man’s Burden-carrier in the old British Raj. Case in point: have you heard about […]

YONI DAYAN: VIRUS ATTACKING IRAN HAS A “SELF-DESTRUCT”ORDER AND LEAVES NO TRACE BEHIND

Virus attacking Iran given ‘self destruct’ order
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=273411

Symantec anti-virus company says directive sent by C&C servers to infected computers will “leave no traces” of malware behind.

The Flame computer virus that has been attacking Middle Eastern energy facilities, primarily in Iran, has been ordered to self destruct, Symantec anti-virus company stated Sunday.

The origin of the Flame virus has been the subject of wide speculation. A number of Israeli computer experts told The Jerusalem Post that the complexity of the Flame bears the hallmarks of a program engineered by a state.

Related:

* · Stuxnet may have destroyed 1,000 centrifuges at Natanz
* · Suspected cyber attack hits Iran oil industry

In an official blog post, Symantec revealed that the virus, which it termed “Flamer,” had been sent an updated directive from its command-and-control (C&C) servers designed to completely remove itself from compromised computers.

According to the post, the command would “leave no traces of the (Flame) infection behind.”

THOMAS LIFSON: THE CLINTONS’ COVERT WAR ON OBAMA….SEE NOTE PLEASE

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/06/the_clintons_covert_war_on_obama.html

WELCOME IF IT SINKS OBAMA’S RE-ELECTION BUT IT IS ONLY CLINTON SELF INTEREST NOT FOR THE GOOD OF THE NATION….. OH TO BE IN A WORLD WHERE ALL THE CLINTONS, THE KENNEDYS AND THE BUSHES ARE PERMANENTLY OUT OF POLITICS…..RSK

Panic is setting in among the people who ran the Democratic Party prior to the miraculous arrival on the scene of Barack Hussein Obama and the perfect storm of events that propelled him into the White House.

These people, starting with Bill Clinton, the master Democratic politician of our era, can read the tea leaves, and the following factors alarm them:

1. Obama has energized his opposition. Despite throwing everything they could into the game, the turnout effort in Wisconsin was handily beaten by those Tea Party nobodies and an RNC head who is actually up to the job.

2. Obama has alienated hugely important constituencies. Labor unions, utterly essentially to the ground game in November, feel betrayed, and are starting to focus more on their own survival than the success of the Obama re-election campaign. The antiwar left feels betrayed over Gitmo, drones, rendition, domestic surveillance, and a host of other issues. They turned out in San Francisco picketing his fundraisers, and spoke of not voting. His Bain Capital attacks are verging into a repudiation of capitalism, so Wall Street and the finance sector are getting alarmed, and the essential flow of political contributions to Democrats from them is drying up.

3. The economy is a disaster, and Obama is doing all the wrong things. The administration is reduced to making implausible claims of spending moderation based on an internet post. The public is fed up with Obama’s performance, and his personal popularity is declining and will tank further as he goes increasingly negative on Romney. Swing voters are almost as negative about Obama as are Romney voters.

4. Obama is out for himself, and himself only. He has even thrown national security under the bus, allowing the leaking of critical information to the press about intelligence operations and cyber-warfare, and feigning outrage in Friday’s presser over the idea that he would do such a thing. Never mind what they say publicly; the insiders know that we are at cyber-war with Iran and China, among others, right now. Following the prosecutorial lynching of Scooter Libby, it is politically impossible to sweep this leak, which actually is causing our allies to shun information-sharing with us, under the rug. Unlike the Valerie Plame case, people have died, and intelligence operations have been seriously harmed.

5. A wave election is shaping up. Democrats could be swept out of office in Congress, and on down to statehouses, city halls, and dog pounds. With the left flank threatening to stay home, union funds and enthusiasm depleted, and Obama offering nothing but negativity, while Tea Partiers mobilize nationally as never before seen on the GOP side, the electorate will skew so far right that the GOP could end up as dominant in 2013 as the Democrats were in 2009.

HILLARY CLINTON’S CRAVEN APOLOGY FOR US COUNTER TERROR TO GROUP THAT SNUBS ISRAEL

http://fresnozionism.org/2012/06/hillary-clinton-snubs-israel-apologizes-for-us-counterterrorism/

Hillary Clinton snubs Israel, apologizes for US counterterrorism
Secretary of State Clinton apologizes on behalf of US at Global Counterterrorism Forum in Istanbul – Photo

News item:The United States blocked Israel’s participation in the Global Counterterrorism Forum’s (GCTF) first meeting in Istanbul on Friday, despite Israel’s having one of the most extensive counterterrorism experiences in the world.

Israel was excluded from the meeting due to fierce objections by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a Washington-based source told Globes news…
Twenty-nine countries are participating in the GCTF, ten of which are Arab and/or Muslim countries.
The GCTF was created (and is undoubtedly mostly funded by) the US. According to the State Department,

The U.S. proposed the creation of the GCTF to address the evolving terrorist threat in a way that would bring enduring benefits by helping frontline countries and affected regions acquire the means to deal with threats they face. It is based on a recognition that the U.S. alone cannot eliminate every terrorist or terrorist organization. Rather, the international community must come together to assist countries as they work to confront the terrorist threat.

Given that the most ‘frontline’ country facing terrorist threats is Israel, which has been subjected to terrorism on an almost daily basis since its birth, one would expect that Israel would be among the founding members of the GCTF.

Nope. Israel was not included among the membership, and as we see from the above, is not even permitted to attend its meetings as a non-member.
Do we begin to sense the stench of hypocrisy here, as our State Department happily acquiesces in maintaining Israel’s pariah status for the benefit of the ‘enlightened’ members of this forum like Turkey, Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia?
The smell gets even stronger as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, representing the Obama Administration, crawls on her belly to apologize for the behavior of the US:

PAUL SCICCHITANO: GRETA HAWKINS, NY PRINCIPAL PULLS PATRIOTIC “PROUD TO BE AMERICAN”SONG TO AVOID OFFENDING “OTHER CULTURES”….SEE NOTE PLEASE

PLEASE READ BOTH COLUMNS
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/school_silences_patriotic_song_xdunXcLPbE8S2rAEcZoUiP

http://www.newsmax.com/US/US-Patriotism-Hawkins-Greenwood/2012/06/10/id/441788?s=al&promo_code=F24A-1

AND ALSO READ: http://www.vosizneias.com/63413/2010/09/01/coney-island-ny-principal-ps-90-is-only-used-to-white-jewish-principals/ from 2010
NY Principal Pulls Patriotic Song, Wants to Avoid Offending Other Cultures
Admonishing teachers that she did not want to “offend other cultures,” Coney Island principal Greta Hawkins reportedly is refusing to allow students to sing “God Bless the USA” at a school moving-up ceremony later this month.The New York Post reported on Sunday that Hawkins had no problem, however, with Justin Bieber’s “Baby” for her school’s June 20 commencement.

The more patriotic song, also known as “Proud to be an American,” was to be sung by pupils waving American Flags at PS 90.

But after five classes spent months learning the song, Hawkins reportedly ordered a CD playing the Lee Greenwood hit to be shut off, the Post reported.

“A lot of people fought to move to America to live freely, so that song should be sung with a whole lot of pride,” Luz Lozada, whose son, Daniel, is in kindergarten, told the Post.

The Department of Education reportedly supports the principal’s decision, with spokeswoman Jessica Scaperotti saying that Hawkins found the lyrics “too grown up” for children.

“The lyrics are not age-appropriate,” she said of the song, which gained popularity after the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq invasion.