Americans Are Too Stupid To Understand Obama

I’m glad that the New York Times cleared this up for me.
Here I’ve been thinking that health care reform, cap and trade and stimulus packages were just bad ideas.

No Tree Huggers Were Harmed In The Taking Of This Survey

A recent poll shows that global warming ranks dead last as a concern for the majority of Americans.

The economy, deficit spending, the size of the federal deficit and terrorism all ranked higher.

So how will this affect Al Gore?

Where will he find the money for all of the cheeseburgers he is stuffing down his throat?

Well, he can always count on his book sales.

As Barack Obama begins his second year in office, the public’s priorities for the president and Congress remain much as they were one year ago. Strengthening the nation’s economy and improving the job situation continue to top the list. And, in the wake of the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound airliner, defending the country from future terrorist attacks also remains a top priority.

At the same time, the public has shifted the emphasis it assigns to two major policy issues: dealing with the nation’s energy problem and reducing the budget deficit.
About half (49%) say that dealing with the nation’s energy problem should be a top priority, down from 60% a year ago.
At the same time, there has been a modest rise in the percentage saying that reducing the budget deficit should be a top priority, from 53% to 60%.

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Copenhagen Trip Cost U.S. Taxpayers Over One Million Dollars

Just one more example of how the Obama administration plans to keep wasteful federal spending under control.
And why in the hell did we need to send 106 people?
And Henry Waxman, at a global warming conference, was complaining that it was cold.

 

Thanks to recently filed Congressional expense reports there’s new light shed on the Copenhagen Climate Summit in Denmark and how much it cost taxpayers.

CBS News Investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports official filings and our own investigation show at least 106 people from the House and Senate attended – spouses, a doctor, a protocol expert and even a photographer.

For 15 Democratic and 6 Republican Congressmen, food and rooms for two nights cost $4,406 tax dollars each. That’s $2,200 a day – more than most Americans spend on their monthly mortgage payment.

CBS News asked members of Congress and staff about whether they’re mindful that it’s public tax dollars they’re spending. Many said they had never even seen the bills or the expense reports.

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A Year-End Wrap Up Of The Obama Presidency

It’s pretty amazing when you take a look at all that has taken place since Barack Obama has become President.

The man who promised America Hope and Change has really delivered on that promise.

Which may explain why his popularity numbers are dropping like a stone.

Victor Hanson at Pajamas Media sums it up for us:

The China Presidency

I have an heirloom china pitcher on my mantle that has dozens of glued cracks—so much so that it is now purely ornamental and will not hold water. When I was a boy I’d ask my mother when, and under what circumstances, did the china crack apart.

She would provide stories about each fissure and mend, many of the break narratives handed down to her from her own grandparents in the house. There wasn’t one single accident, but instead dozens that rendered a once useful pitcher into an non-functional art object.

Something of the same is happening with our President. He is experiencing the sharpest popularity decline in the history of first-year administrations. The problem is not just that he inherited a bad economy; Reagan did too. Or that the war in Afghanistan heats up, since it is not nearly as bad as the mess Nixon inherited in Vietnam.

Instead, after 11 months there has emerged a series of bothersome incidents that the public has come to associate with Obama, both the man and his philosophies. Some are major policy issues; others trivial acts of no cosmic importance. None in themselves matter all that much. Each gaffe or mistake was contextualized and mended, or attended to by Robert Gibbs. Some are Obama’s fault; others the work of associates. Sometimes mere chance is the culprit.

I know Bush had his own list of catastrophes; other Presidents did as well. Again, my point is not trying to adjudicate relative culpability, but rather just to remind us all how and why Obama dived over 20 points in the polls in just 11 months—and his speeches transformed from inspirational to caricatures.

In short,  taken together, after nearly a year, these fissures have nearly ruined the once pretty texture of the Obama administration, and almost rendered it incapable of effective governance.

Here is a random selection. I provide no chronology or theme. Nor do I judge the relative importance of any one incident. The point, again, is only that each was a fissure, some small, some major—all were glued over. The result is that now the public understands that its china presidency is fragile and held together by mere glue.

Here it goes:

Constant apologies abroad for everything from slavery to Hiroshima

Bows to Saudi royalty, the Japanese emperor, and Chinese autocrats

The on-again/off-again Guantanamo shut-down mess

The fight with the former CIA directors

The public show trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed

The reach out to Ahmadinejad Castro, Chavez, and assorted thugs

The Honduras fiasco

Czars everywhere

The serial “Bush did it”/reset whine abroad

The Queen of England/I-pod fiasco

Gordon Brown gets snookered in his gift-giving

Unceremoniously shipping back the Churchill bust

The end of the special relationship with the UK

The New York on-the-town presidential splurge

Anita Dunn and her Mao worship

Timothy Geithner/Tom Daschle/Hilda Solis and their taxes

What ever happened to Gov. Richardson?

“No lobbyists” = gads of them

The Podestas’ insider influence-peddling empire

Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” chauvinism

The Special Olympics silly quip

Trashing Nancy Reagan

The Skip Gates/police acting “stupidly” mess

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Climategate Protestors Ejected, Al Gore Goes Into Hiding

Circumstances are really turning up the heat on global warming guru Al Gore.

One of America’s biggest hypocrites has just cancelled a speaking engagement at a climate change conference in Copenhagen.

Gore was supposed to be the speaker at a $1,200 per person meet and greet, but suddenly bowed out, citing a “scheduling conflict.” More details on Gore being a no-show and the event being scrubbed from the VisitCopenhagen website can be found here.

It’s just possible that Al “big carbon footprint” Gore was afraid he may have to face the same sort of questions that were posed to him at a recent book signing, as is shown in this video.
(Let it run for a minute or so, it takes a moment to get to the good part.)

He might have been worried that someone questioning his credibility might not be forcibly removed from the event, seeing as how they would have paid twelve hundred dollars to be there.

I wish the questioners has focused more on trying to get some honest answers from Gore, rather than shout out things about the “new world order”, but it is sort of a moot point; when has Gore ever been honest about this global warming farce?

Be sure to take note of the vehicle Gore makes his escape in.

That isn’t a Prius or some other earth-friendly hybrid.

Al Gore Is Tired Of Waiting, Takes Matters Into His Own Hands

It seems that the entire focus of President Obama and Congress is on passing a health care reform bill.
Sure, the “cap and trade” measure is still on the table, but it isn’t getting nearly the attention.
This lack of focus on climate change, while the earth is in the balance, is particulary troubling to global warming guru Al Gore.
Mr. Gore fears that the end is coming soon, and rather than see the family name die out, decided to take measures into his own hands.

Former vice president Al Gore—who for the past three decades has unsuccessfully attempted to warn humanity of the coming destruction of our planet, only to be mocked and derided by the very people he has tried to save—launched his infant son into space Monday in the faint hope that his only child would reach the safety of another world.

“I tried to warn them, but the Elders of this planet would not listen,” said Gore, who in 2000 was nearly banished to a featureless realm of nonexistence for promoting his unpopular message. “They called me foolish and laughed at my predictions. Yet even now, the Midwest is flooded, the ice caps are melting, and the cities are rocked with tremors, just as I foretold. Fools! Why didn’t they heed me before it was too late?”

Al Gore—or, as he is known in his own language, Gore-Al—placed his son, Kal-Al, gently in the one-passenger rocket ship, his brow furrowed by the great weight he carried in preserving the sole survivor of humanity’s hubristic folly.

“There is nothing left now but to ensure that my infant son does not meet the same fate as the rest of my doomed race,” Gore said. “I will send him to a new planet, where he will, I hope, be raised by simple but kindly country folk and grow up to be a hero and protector to his adopted home.”

As the rocket soared through the Gore estate’s retractable solar-paneled roof—installed three years ago to save energy and provide emergency rocket-launch capability in the event that Gore’s campaign to save Earth was unsuccessful—the onetime presidential candidate and his wife, Tipper, stood arm-in-arm, nobly facing their end while gazing up in stoic dignity at the receding rocket, the ecosystem already beginning to collapse around them.

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Have We Seen Enough Yet?

When Ronald Reagan said “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet”, he was talking about what he had done, and things that he would do.

When Obama says “you ain’t seen nothin’ yet”, he means we haven’t seen anything.

And aren’t likely to.

“You ain’t seen nothin’ yet” was Ronald Reagan’s standard rally-ending line during his 1984 re-election campaign. He won 49 states, losing only his opponent’s home state, Minnesota, 49.7 percent to 49.5 percent.

Obama could use the same “ain’t seen nothin’ yet” line, except Reagan was referring to more jobs, smaller government and more individual freedom. Obama is pushing a job-killing agenda that promises to expand an already bloated government while simultaneously shrinking individual freedom.

Last week, more than seven months after Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill was rushed through Congress, the Labor Department reported that 263,000 more jobs were lost in September, increasing the unemployment rate to 9.8 percent and bringing the total number of unemployed to 15.1 million.

That doesn’t count the so-called “discouraged” workers who’ve quit looking for work and aren’t considered part of the labor force. By the Labor Department’s count, the U.S. work force is 615,000 workers smaller than it was a year ago, even though the working-age population is expanding.

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The Nobel Prize Committee Could Be Racists

What the heck were the nitwits in Norway thinking?

Don’t they realize how much they have disrespected the President Of The United States?

There has been a worldwide backlash against this, and it is the Committee’s own fault.

They pulled a massive blunder, and they gave Obama the wrong prize!

Was there an element of racism involved here?

After all, millions of Americans have been labeled as racists simply because they disagree with the President’s policies.
And they tend to ignore, or take him to task, for his accomplishments.

So what does the Nobel Prize Committee do?
They do pretty much the same thing, ignoring his accomplishments, yet they give Obama an award!
But they didn’t give him the right award.

They gave President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.
When by all rights he should have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics.

Let’s take a look at what Obama has done to earn the award he was given.

He has talked about how he will reach out to America’s enemies.

He has talked about how Iran must halt it’s nuclear program.

He has talked about the U.S. role in Afghanistan.

He has talked about getting tough with North Korea over their missile program.

He has talked about a ban on nuclear weapons.

Yes, the President has talked about a lot of things.

He hasn’t gotten any of them done, but that’s another story.

However, when it comes to economics, he has accomplished quite a bit.

A 787 billion dollar “stimulus” package.
(Just because it has failed to stimulate the economy, well, only you Tea Party people would hold that against him.)

He hasn’t called for the resignation of the man in charge of America’s income tax code, Charles Rangel.
(By letting a tax cheat keep his job, he is helping to keep the revenue pouring into the IRS.)

He has, for all intents and purposes, taken over control of the American financial system.
(It’s better to have government bureaucrats in charge than to let free market economics decide things.)

He is hard at work, not talking about, but working on, the largest tax increase in world history.
(Cap And Trade may bankrupt many Americans, but bankruptcy is an economic theory, right?)

He siezed control of General Motors and Chrysler.
(And when that didn’t seem to do the trick, he instituted Cash For Clunkers, which was great for the Asian economy.)

He continues to promote his call for health care reform.
(Turning over one-sixth of the U.S. economy to the sort of people that work at the DMV should be prize-worthy.)

So how do the numbskulls from Norway explain this?

They recognize Obama for things that he hasn’t done.

And they totally ignored his accomplishments.

What in the world were they thinking?

Nobel Or Not, Obama Will Still Be Seen As A Failure

Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) — U.S. President Barack Obama faces “more than an embarrassment” should his nation fail to lead international negotiations to complete a new climate-protection treaty by December, a senior European climate negotiator said.

Obama’s scope is limited because the U.S. Congress may not approve a domestic law to control emissions before the December deadline for signing an international climate accord in Copenhagen, Karl Falkenberg, director-general for environment at the European Union’s executive body, said in an interview.

“Obama and his administration are very committed, and it will be more than an embarrassment for them if at Copenhagen they would have to admit they are not ready,” Falkenberg said late last night in Bangkok, where more than 180 nations are meeting for talks. “We can just help, but helping them also means directly telling them that the world has an expectation.”

Delegates wrap up two weeks of talks in Thailand tomorrow in an effort to replace or extend the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, whose emission limits for industrialized nations expire in 2012. Kyoto requires reductions of about 5 percent in greenhouse gases from 1990 levels, with no limits for developing nations.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation, and a companion bill has yet to be considered in the Senate. Failure to have a new law in time for Copenhagen’s final round of negotiations would raise question marks over what commitments the U.S. can make, Falkenberg said.

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The Lighter Side Of Cap And Trade

The citizens of the United States are in danger of being saddled with the biggest tax increase in human history.

That will be the result if the “Cap and Trade” bill recently passed by the House and now on it’s way to the Senate becomes law.

The costs associated with this boondoggle will effect each and every citizen of America, due to the fact that it will apply a tax to all energy consumption.

And hardest-hit by what should be named the “Global Warming Panic Plan’ will be those least able to afford it, folks that are on the lower rung of the economic ladder, who already spend a disproportionate percentage of their income on such things as home heating, gasoline, etc.

Someone as cynical as myself views this as simply a way for Congress to vote for a massive tax increase without calling it a tax increase.

Perhaps that is only part of the case.

We all know that Congress doesn’t bother to read a bill to see what is in it before they vote on it, so perhaps our legislators are casting their votes based upon having read this book:

Regardless of whether this is Congress’ latest method of emptying our pockets, or if it is meant to placate the fears of the global warming fanatics and their High Priest and supreme leader, Al “boy it’s hot in here” Gore, there has to be an easier and cheaper method.

Fear not, gentle reader, there is an easier and much cheaper way.

One that would just as effective, while having the added benefit of being much less taxing.

In our relentless support of Truth, Justice, and the American Way, we here at The Freedom Medium have come up with an alternative to Cap and Trade.

We call our proposal International Breathe On A Tree Day.

We use the word International because if global warming is indeed a global problem, then everyone needs to get involved.

Here’s how it works:

“Climate Change” advocates claim that global warming occurs due primarily to rising CO2 levels.

And we humans exhale carbon dioxide each time we breathe.

Now if we were all to spend (not everyone all at once of course, after all, someone has to work on health care reform) one day a week breathing on a tree, our CO2 emissions problems would be solved.

See, plants absorb carbon dioxide, whish they then use to produce chlorophyll.
They then release oxygen because they don’t need the oxygen that is created when the sunlight breaks down water molecules in the chlorophyll.

More oxygen, less carbon dioxide, problem solved!

Of course, the one drawback to this proposal is that we probably couldn’s get China to sign off on it, hell, those SOB’s still burn coal.

Of course, some of you will call this plan the ravings of a group of lunatics.

But if you think about it honestly, it is no more ludicrous than the Cap and Trade bill now working it’s way through the halls of Congress.