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MICHAEL JOHNSON: CHOKING ON OBAMASPAM

http://spectator.org/archives/2011/10/03/choking-on-obamaspam

Yet one more way he’s polluting our politics.

I have no idea how Barack Obama got my email address but a few weeks ago there it was in my inbox — a message from the President. I decided to break my lifelong rule of zapping all emails from strangers and so, out of curiosity, I opened it up. I got a lot more than an email.

Under the spell of the wizard in the White House, I then clicked on “I’m in,” opening a floodgate of junk email that now seems unstoppable. A new message from the fundraising team arrives almost daily, sometimes twice a day.

After a few weeks of reading these solicitations, I have to conclude that Obamaspam is indiscriminate in its distribution and offensive in its false bonhomie, its tricky come-ons, its crackerbarrel language (“folks” and “pitch in” recur annoyingly) and its presumption of friendship.

I don’t like being addressed as “Friend'” by people I have never met. I even got one from his wife, signed simply “Michelle.” Fortunately, my wife never saw that one. It was pretty chummy.

The most frequent messages are the ones that insult my intelligence. The series began with the subject line “Sometime soon can we meet for dinner?” Click on that and you get a real downer. You are invited to be among almost a million or so people who are gambling that they will be one of the lucky four selected for his next face-to-face feed with his “Friends.” But if you want to play — another downer — you have to pay. The next click tells you to contribute money if you want to be in the draw.

ELI HERTZ: THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A SOVEREIGN ARAB STATE IN PALESTINE- BETWEEN THE JORDAN RIVER AND THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

There Has Never Been a Sovereign Arab State in Palestine – The Area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea http://www.mythsandfacts.com/ A Palestinian state now has a good chance of becoming a rogue state – the kind of polity the United States is currently grappling with in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran and elsewhere. The […]

YOEL MELTZER: KADIMA PARTY IN ISRAEL IS A MAJOR FAILURE AND SHOULD FOLD

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4130761,00.html

The end of Kadima Op-ed: Kadima party a collection of opportunists who stand for absolutely nothing

Yoel Meltzer
Published: 10.04.11, 00:17 / Israel Opinion

Following the election of Shelly Yachimovich as the new head of the Labor Party most polls show Kadima dropping significantly in the next elections. If so, one can only hope that this spells the beginning of the end for Kadima, a party that epitomizes many of the things that are wrong in Israel.

For starters, its current leader Tzipi Livni has spent most of the last two and a half years doing nothing other than attacking Prime Minister Netanyahu. It doesn’t matter what the subject is or what the stakes are for Israel, Livni simply cannot show any public support for Netanyahu. However, for someone who aspires to be the head of the country, her unrelenting attacks, even during times when it is clear that her temporary backing would be for the good of the country, clearly demonstrates the irresponsible behavior of this party and its leader.

SHOCK PHOTOS: CANDIDATE OBAMA APPEARED AND MARCHED WITH NEW BLACK PANTHRR PARTY IN 2007

Shock Photos: Candidate Obama Appeared And Marched With New Black Panther Party in 2007 by Andrew Breitbart http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2011/10/03/shock-photos-barack-obama-with-new-black-panther-party-on-campaign-trail-in-2007/ New photographs obtained exclusively by BigGovernment.com reveal that Barack Obama appeared and marched with members of the New Black Panther Party as he campaigned for president in Selma, Alabama in March 2007. The photographs, captured from a […]

OBAMA AND THE ENVIROS: “DRILL, CASTRO, DRILL”: HUMBERTO FONTOVA

Obama & Environmentalists: ‘Drill, Castro, Drill!’ Posted By Humberto Fontova URL to article: http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/03/obama-environmentalists-drill-castro-drill/   In half a heartbeat, the Obama team could put the kibosh on the most dangerous offshore oil drilling ever proposed near U.S. shores, scheduled to begin in December by a Spanish/Cuban corporation. By fighting this drilling, his “environmentalist” allies could […]

AL QAEDA TO AHMADINEJAD: “IT’S OUR 9/11″….P.DAVID HORNIK

Al-Qaeda to Ahmadinejad: It’s Our 9/11! Posted By P. David Hornik http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/03/al-qaeda-to-ahmadinejad-it%e2%80%99s-our-911/   The Guardian reports on a spat within the ranks of the global jihad. It seems Al-Qaeda has sent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a nasty message, fearful that the Iranian president is denying them credit for what they see as “the greatest special operation of […]

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: THE COMING POST OBAMA RENAISSANCE

The Coming Post-Obama Renaissance Posted By Victor Davis Hanson URL to article: http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-post-obama-renaissance/ The Parting of the Clouds In every literary, historical or cinematic masterpiece, times must grow darkest before the sunrise and deliverance. Tolkien worked that classical theme to great effect. A sense of fatalism overtook a seemingly doomed Gondor — right before the […]

DEROY MURDOCK: OBAMA PROUDLY DECLARES CLASS WAR BUT THE RICH ARE ALREADY GETTING SOAKED

Obama Proudly Declares Class War http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/278930 But the rich are already getting soaked. It’s official: America is engaged in a class war, and Pres. Barack Obama proudly leads the charge against this country’s wealthy. “If asking a millionaire to pay the same tax rate as a plumber makes me a class warrior — a warrior […]

BASHING ISRAEL AGAIN: HEAR THIS ED KOCH NOW THAT YOU ARE BACK ON THE OBAMA EXPRESS?

http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/opinion/editorials/bashing_israel_again_2R1oVFVvOW13eURyTrbIOO O: Bashing Israel, again Ed Koch says President Obama got his message about White House hostility toward Israel, so the ex-mayor is now back aboard the “Obama Re-election Express.” You may be jumping the gun, Ed. Just days after Palestinians thumbed their nose at peace talks and instead went directly to the UN Security […]

EILENN F. TOPLANSKY: SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF PASTOR YOUSEF NADARKHANI

http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/../2011/10/pastor_yousef_nadarkhani.html It is my moral obligation as a Jew to speak out on behalf of an Iranian Christian whom I have never met. Imprisoned since October 2009, Yousef Nadarkhani was first accused of apostasy against Islam by the Islamic Republic of Iran.  In 2010 he was found guilty “and sentenced to death … for abandoning […]