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OUR SOCIALIST PRESIDENTS

Posted on April 27, 2011 | 14 comments

Wilson, Roosevelt and Johnson were socialistic presidents. All three believed in America but sought to make it an even greater nation. Barack Obama is the first truly Socialist, not just socialistic, president. Obama seeks to transform America into a Marxist Socialist nation. He believes the United States is a deeply flawed arrogant oppressor nation that needs to be brought to its knees. John Bolton expressed it well when he said “Barack Obama is the first post-American president.”

Wilson’s socialistic efforts were unsuccessful. His presidency ran from 1913 to 1921. It was a period of growing prosperity in America. The people wanted no part of his socialistic ideas. Roosevelt (FDR) was elected in the midst of a recession that was the bust after the boom of the roaring twenties. The people turned to government for help. The economic circumstances could be compared to the bust that George Bush inherited following the dot com boom. Whereas, Bush turned the recession into recovery, Roosevelt turned his recession into the ‘Great Depression’. But his intentions were as good as his policies were bad.

Johnson’s contribution was the nanny state with his ‘War on Poverty’. Great welfare programs supported both the misfortunately indigent as well as the slovenly. President Johnson was a politician who built a huge populist power base for the Democratic Party but he was not a Socialist.

Wilson, Roosevelt and Johnson were Democrats who guided the United States in a socialist direction. President Obama is a Socialist who is presiding over the culmination of their work. He must be stopped. The 2012 election is a fork in the road and the road to the left is a one way route. There hasn’t been an election as critical to the future of the nation since Lincoln won the White House.

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“TAX EXPENDITURES” IS THE ADMINISTRATIONS LATEST PROPAGANDIC AND IT’S A DOOZEY

Posted on April 18, 2011 | Leave a comment

Given the current debt ceiling debate I thought it timely to bring this post forward. You should know that “reducing tax expenditures” is DC Speak for raising taxes. This post was originally published in April 2011.

From the New York Times

Mr. Obama described what he called a “debt fail-safe”: “If, by 2014, our debt is not projected to fall as a share of the economy — if we haven’t hit our targets, if Congress has failed to act — then my plan will require us to come together and make up the additional savings with more spending cuts and more spending reductions in the tax code.”

“Spending reductions in the tax code” to bring down the deficit sounds appealing… unless you understand it. Exactly what are “spending reductions in the tax code”? The Browns explain it in their post at Townhall.com.

If you assume that all money belongs to the government [ ] then all money doled out to the pockets of Americans must be expenditures.

It works like this. You buy a home and pay lots of interest to the bank in the form of a mortgage. When at the end of the year we add up your income, you are allowed to deduct the interest you paid to the bank from that income. This lowers your overall income tax bill.

Republicans believe that the lower tax bill is your total tax bill. Obama believes that your tax bill was actually higher, and the government was giving you money to help pay the mortgage. Hence, when he takes away your mortgage deduction, he is actually cutting a government “tax expenditure.”

In the mindset  of Barack Obama the portion of your income that you’re allowed to keep is a government expense. Any change in the tax code that increases the amount you can keep (reduces your taxes) is a government expense. By this convoluted reasoning, taking away a traditional deduction is a reduction in “tax expenditures”.

Read that clip from the New York Times again. You will see that Obama’s “debt fail-safe” plan calls for automatic tax increases if the government overspends. Calling a tax increase a “reduction in expenditures” is not only the ultimate propagandic, it is intensely dishonest. And Obama and the Democrats are not the only ones that do it.

UPDATED 7/17/2011

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OBAMA’S BUDGET SPEECH –VIDEO AND OPINION

Posted on April 14, 2011 | Leave a comment

You can watch the entire speech here, courtesy of the Washington Post.

Charles Krauthammer called the speech “a disgrace”. He said he rarely heard a presidential speech so shallow, hyper-partisan and so intellectually dishonest. “It was quite remarkable for the extent of demagoguery” contained in the speech. The video of his comments are here.

The Wall Street Journal had equal praise for the President’s remarks. “with its blistering partisanship and multiple distortions it was the kind Presidents usually outsource to some junior lieutenant. Mr. Obama’s fundamentally political document would have been unusual even for a Vice President in the fervor of a campaign.” “Mr. Obama then packaged his poison in the rhetoric of bipartisanship—which ‘starts,’ he said, ‘by being honest about what’s causing our deficit.’ The speech he chose to deliver was dishonest even by modern political standards.”

Here at Random Thots, we noticed some oddities as well. The first thing we caught was the President’s statement that “everybody pays taxes”. Actually, it’s something like 30% that pay no taxes at all. Later he said we lost our way in the 90’s by overspending. A few sentences later he said we need to get back to the fiscal responsibility we showed in the 90’s. I know, that’s nitpicking, but it was a prepared speech and I do expect better from the President of the United States.

He was biting his lip at the end of his sentences. His demeanor appeared like that of someone who could hardly hold his contempt. Obama doesn’t do well with numbers. Paul Ryan is more than his match.

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ZERO CHANCE FOR TRUMP ?

Posted on April 11, 2011 | Leave a comment

David Plouffe, senior advisor to President Obama said in a television interview yesterday, “There is zero chance that Donald Trump would ever be hired by the American people to do this job.”

We hired a black liberationist community organizer who launched his political career with support, and from the home of a pair of anti-American terrorists, didn’t we? Why doesn’t a pompous overbearing humorless arrogant real estate developer who believes in America have a chance?

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MAKING SOME THINGS UNANIMOUSLY CLEAR

Posted on March 31, 2011 | Leave a comment

Hillary Clinton held a press conference today were she sought to re-confirm once more again the various positions the Obama administration holds on Libya. “Let me be clear,” she said “we are not seeking regime change in Libya. We just want Qadafi (sic) to step down and let the rebels run the country so we can find out who they are.” The Secretary added “I also want to assure you that Barack and I are more or less in complete agreement on that. I want to refudiate the contrary insinuendo that’s coming from the right wing conservative conspiracists, before it becomes a rumor.”

In other news, the Senate, Obama and all the czars have agreed to accept the Republican budget proposal, subject to UN approval, of course. Russia and China indicate they will vote in favor of the measure, saying it will help set America on the path to austerity. However, the Ambassador from England said “NO” to the U.S. request, “Not after the way you returned our bust! We aren’t too happy with the way Michelle patted our Queen on the rump, either.”

Later in the day, the President went to the White House gym to dribble, and shoot a few hoops. He winked and said “It relieves the stress, you know.”

For more photoshop images, visit FreakingNews.com

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OBAMA DOES AS OBAMA IS

Posted on March 30, 2011 | Leave a comment

Thomas Sowell had this to say about Barack Obama:

Many people in various parts of the political spectrum are expressing a sense of disappointment with Obama. But I have not felt the least bit disappointed.

Once in office, President Obama has done exactly what his whole history would lead you to expect him to do– such as cutting the military budget and vastly expanding the welfare state.

He has by-passed the Constitution by appointing power-wielding “czars” who don’t have to be confirmed by the Senate like Cabinet members, and now he has by-passed Congress by taking military actions based on authorization by the United Nations and the Arab League.

Those who expected his election to mark a new “post-racial” era may be the most disappointed. He has appointed people with a track record of race resentment promotion and bias, like Attorney General Eric Holder and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Disappointing? No. Disgusting? Yes. The only disappointment is with voters who voted their hopes and ignored his realities.

You can read the whole article here.

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COMPARE THIS

Posted on March 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

OBAMA, MARCH 19, 2011 ‘Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are answering the calls of a threatened people. And we are acting in the interests of the United States and the world’…

BUSH, MARCH 19, 2003 ‘American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger’… (By way of the Drudge Report)

HILLARY IN THE MIDDLE

Friday’s online Africa edition of the New York Times led with this headline, “Obama Takes Hard Line With Libya After Shift by Clinton”. (emphasis ours). The attack on Libya is being dubbed “Hillary’s War”.

Coincidentally, anti-war protests were held in several cities yesterday, including one at the White House where some were arrested. We say coincidentally because they were protesting the Iraq war, not the decision to launch an attack on Libya. Then it occurred to me why it is being framed as Hillary’s War. It’s the 2012 election, stupid!

The Make-Love-Not-War protesters are an important component of Obama’s core constituency. Anti-war, any war, voters are by no means limited to the radical element either. By deferring to the United Nations and the will of Europe, then allowing himself to be boxed in by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama can claim the decision was taken away from him; that he had no choice but to authorize military action.

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RANDOM THOTS, Mar 20, 2011

Posted on March 20, 2011 | Leave a comment

Headline from the Washington Times
DOJ to white male bullying victims: Tough luck
Obama’s Department of Justice has pledged to protect black students from bullying at school by whites under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but claims lack of authority to protect whites from bullying by blacks. The Civil Rights Act was not designed to protect whites from minorities.

Headline from Foreign Policy Magazine
European governments “completely puzzled” about U.S. position on Libya
On the No Fly Zone issue, Russia and Germany voted No, France and Great Britain voted Yes. The United States voted “present”. One begins to wonder if we have any president at all.

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THE GREAT UNDECIDER

Posted on March 10, 2011 | Leave a comment

President Bush’s policy for the Mid-East was opposed by a lot of people. No one is opposed to Obama’s Mid-East policy because no one knows what it is. Now if John Kerry were president, we would know what America’s Mid-East policy would be. It would be exactly whatever the United Nations said it should be.

And on Libya, John Kerry again shows his leadership skill. Unlike Obama, who is still waiting for advice from his advisors, Kerry already has a plan. Kerry’s plan is to prepare to do something, but not to do it now. He says we must be ready to act, ready to do something in case Qaddafi does something really bad.

And then, there is Mrs. Clinton, our Secretary of State. She speaks as the voice of the most powerful nation on earth. Her stern message to all parties in the dispute is – ‘Stop It’! Nothing could be clearer than that. To show the U.S. really means it, rest assured the Secretary will continue to command all parties to Stop It, until the violence is finally over, however long that may take.

Meanwhile, the Saudi’s are getting over $100 for every barrel of oil pumped from under the sand. At least someone is benefitting from America’s foreign policy.

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OUR ONE PARTY SYSTEM

Posted on February 27, 2011 | 2 comments

It is becoming increasingly apparent that there is just one political party that represents the American people. The Republican Party is the only party of, by and for the people. The Democratic Party is the party of the government. The Wisconsin issue, and the President’s response to it, is but confirmation of the fact. Writing for the Washington Post, George Will said:

[T]he Democratic Party is the party of government, not only because of its extravagant sense of government’s competence and proper scope, but also because the party’s base is government employees. Second, government employees have an increasingly adversarial relationship with the governed.

What George Will did not point out is how this President has taken the union between the Democratic Party and the corpus of government to a new level by explicit support of government employee labor unions over the will of the majority of Wisconsin’s citizens. Random polls show the public supports the governor’s action by a two to one margin. Random polls include government workers, of course. The ratio would certainly be even higher if civil servants themselves were not included in the polls.

Civil servants, now there’s a misnomer, unless you consider this example civil.

Random Thots will have more to say on the symbiotic relationship between labor unions and government. Stay tuned for future posts.

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