Is Obama The Last Black American President? ... J. D. Longstreet

Is Obama The Last Black American President?
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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Obama is, in fact, America's first black President, but he may well be America's LAST black President.

Why?

Racism.

No, I don't mean the practice of racism, I mean, instead, the CLAIM of racism.

We've had 5 years of abject failure by the Obama Administration and a refusal by the democrats to take responsibility for the crashing and burning of their progressive agenda.  They continually blame racism for Obama's failure. 

If one even disagrees with Obama's direction, he/she is promptly called a racist. 

Well, we are sick of it.  We have had it up the the gunwales and then some.  So, we're not going there again, for a very long time, if ever.

Look.  We gave it a chance.  In fact, America bent over backwards to accommodate a black president.  Many of us think, myself included, we bent way too far. 

Obama's Administration was to have been a "feel good" presidency for the political left.  They could point to a black man in the White House with vest busting pride and stroke each other over their open-mindedness and their diversity and all the leftist hogwash they regularly spew through the left wing propagandists in the mainstream media.

On inauguration day, 2009, they immediately circled the wagons around Obama with the intention of defending him ... no matter what.

Well, it has now been five very long years of "no matter what."  Yes, they are  STILL defending him, but they have grown weary, and their jobs are now endangered as a result of their unquestioning loyalty to an obvious Marxist president.  The jobs of the press corp are not so much endangered as are the jobs of the democratic legislators in the Congress. 

The press can bleed readers and subscribers for a fairly long time before having to cut their losses.  Politicians can't bleed voters in like manner.  In the past couple of weeks the democrats have been hemorrhaging voters.  Thus their throat constricting fear.

As Election 2014 hoists itself over the horizon, panic has seized the hearts of many, if not most, of the democrats in the US Senate and the House. With good reason.

Americans are fed up. 

It takes a lot to stoke the spark of rebelliousness in Americans.  We put up with Great Britain a long while before rising up and throwing off the king's yoke.  Once the American passion for freedom has been fanned into a flame it soon grows into a firestorm.

The democrats are staring down the barrel of a fiery maelstrom straight out of Hell itself ... and they know it!

Those on the right -- AND the left -- no longer feel constrained and are speaking boldly against America's first black President's lies and broken promises, promises not made in good faith to the American people.

In the past few days as I watched and listened to the democrats railing against their very own Obamacare law, William Shakespeare's words as spoken by Hamlet's mother, Queen Gertrude, rolled through my consciousness: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." (Hamlet, act III, scene II)  The democrats words sound hollow and insincere as did the words of the Player Queen to whom Hamlet's mother was referring.

One must wonder how all this sniping and back-biting -- and a few flat-out frontal attacks by those who have spent the greater part of the past five years defending him must feel to our deeply narcissistic leader.  Obama's skin may be black, but it is seriously and legendarily thin. 

Obama and his supporters would do well to remember that no matter what they may call it, this is NOT racism.  It is POLITICS and it is a bruising, bitter, blood sport when played in the American political arena.

Black politicians, especially those interested in running for the highest office in the land, should learn that as long as they have coattails their fellow politicians (of the same political persuasion) will happily ride them to acclaim and even victory.  BUT -- stumble so that it reflects badly upon them and they will happily hang you with those very same coattails and leave you swinging to and fro in the wind.  Mr. Obama has to be feeling the falling away of the many layers of protective insulation he has enjoyed for five years now.  It cannot be a pleasurable feeling.

So, our advice to any black politician considering running for President of the United States:  insist that your followers, your supporters, your entourage, never allow the word racism to pass their lips.  Americans having endured eight years of that lame excuse will not even allow the shadow of that politician to fall upon them.

As I said above -- we've had it with being slammed by accusations of racism when it is noting more than good ole American politics.

J. D. Longstreet

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Obama says no more healthcare...no more choice ... Sher Zieve

Obama says no more healthcare...no more choice

By Sher Zieve

It has been an out in the open "secret" for years. Except for the now-reported disclosures of the inveigling lies issuing forth from the deceitful mouth of Barack Hussein Obama, it might never have been apparent to those who have worshiped this patent usurper. But, now more and more who believed in and voted for Dictator-in-Chief Obama are finally experiencing a harsh awakening to truth. He has lied to them, all along, and continues his lies today. Along with the destruction of the USA, lies are perhaps the only other things Obama actually does well. Americans have now lost and are – every day – continuing to lose their health care entirely. Despite the smiling and persuasive visage of the man who has assumed the role of president of the United States telling us all "If you like your healthcare program you can keep it...period! If you like your doctor you can keep him or her...period!" nothing was further from the truth. Tragically, all too many missed another part of his anatomy while he continued to spread his falsehoods...his cold dead eyes.

 ObamaCare NOT about Healthcare

ObamaCare is not and never has been about health care. Many of us have been warning about this for years. It is, instead, about control of humans, their bodies, their property, their ability to come and go as they please, the diminishing or end of their religious practices (if they do not subscribe to Islam), their liberty in general (including the Bill of Rights which has been summarily stripped and destroyed by the Obama regime), the ability to keep their homes and their earned money. Remember healthcare comprises 1/6 of the US economy. Obama and the Marxist Dems (and RINOs) want complete control over it. They have been intensely salivating over the thought of having additional $Trillions so that they can exponentially increase their own wealth and power over us, give some to their supporters and cronies and pass on to the still-stupid-for-Obama (after the very recent disclosures that Obama and his gang knew years ago that tens of millions of Americans would lose their healthcare programs and that ObamaCare would often quadruple the cost of what they had been paying they are no longer 'ignorant') a few of the left-over crumbs from the Obama syndicate's table. This is a table that has been amply stocked by the-blood and sweat of working Americans. And, as millions of Americans have now finally realized, ObamaCare represents Obama's overthrow of healthcare in America and its demise by force. It also places the final straw on the backs of Americans, in order to end the US Republic for all time.

Marxist filmmaker Michael Moore should be ecstatic, as the USA's healthcare system will soon mirror that of Cuba.

Perhaps those who had previously been asleep (or maybe only groggy) might finally be ready for a bit more of the actual facts about ObamaCare. However, with all of the false mystique surrounding it and its thousands of pages, there is way too much to cover here. Besides, there have already been myriad books written about it. Therefore, I'll list only a few additional items.

Just a few reminders of the ObamaCare Horrors

ObamaCare adds many new taxes – non-healthcare related – to Americans' dwindling wealth, including a 3.8% new tax each time you sell a home. Hmmm. We assume these new taxes will be made payable to Obama...personally. ObamaCare forces Christians and Jews (People of the Book) to go against their pro-life religious beliefs and fund Obama's demands for abortions...which, by the way, includes 'partial birth' abortions. ObamaCare, out of the mouths of both Obama and the fully Marxist Senate leader Harry Reid, was never meant to work well...if at all. It was merely planned as the final step toward an ObamaGov-run single-payer system; a system that is meant – by its very nature – to bleed We-the-Humans dry of all of our money and keep us at the mercy of the Obama syndicate. You really didn't think its members planned to give up their power, wealth built on the backs of Americans and their control over you...did you?

ObamaCare to End US Healthcare

ObamaCare is meant to drive health insurance companies from the US marketplace and end them...permanently. The reason? Obama and his government want ALL of the money you pay for healthcare and the US healthcare system contains 1/6 of it. Obama believes it belongs to him...not to you and me who still actually work or previously worked for it. However, Dictator-in-Chief Obama is now blaming the insurance companies (he always finds someone else – including you and me – to blame for his actions) for canceling the policies that Obama forced them to end under his horror ObamaCare. Do you really believe insurance companies are working to put themselves out of business by denying their customers health insurance policies? Really? If so, you're already way too far imbedded within the bowels of the inane Obama faux Utopia and I'm amazed you were able to read to this point! Again, ObamaCare was never meant to work. The below videos of Obama and Harry Reid talking about it confirm this essential fact and truth.

Solution to ending ObamaCare?

Folks, if you really and truly want your lives back and have finally reached the point where you want to end this destruction of your country...and you personally...there is a way to begin doing it and it requires no action – NO action at all. As my colleague and friend Dr. Laurie Roth wrote last month in her column "The beast is dying now let's help it die": "I call on all Americans to make a real and lasting statement. Don't march on Washington or drive trucks around in protest. Let us all agree to do the ultimate civil disobedience in the face of this incompetent, UN constitutional, health killing, illegal and forced Obamacare. Let us all NOT sign up for any exchange." At least it will help us keep our powder dry for a little while longer.

"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing" – John 15:5

Obama Officials In 2010: 93 Million Americans Will Be Unable To Keep Their Health Plans Under Obamacare:

New 3.8% tax on home sales:

http://www.realtor.org/small_business_health_coverage.nsf/docfiles/government_affairs_invest_inc_tax_broch.pdf/$FILE/government_affairs_invest_inc_tax_broch.pdf

Yes, taxpayers, you will pay for abortions under Obamacare:

http://www.reviewjournal.com/columns-blogs/sherman-frederick/yes-taxpayers-you-will-pay-abortions-under-obamacare

Obama on single payer health insurance (video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpAyan1fXCE

Harry Reid Says ObamaCare Just A Step Toward Single-Payer (video):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXgSKwYMnWo

The beast is dying now let's help it die:

http://therothshow.com/2013/10/the-beast-is-dying-now-lets-help-it-die/

© Sher Zieve

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Sher Zieve is an author and political commentator. Zieve’s op-ed columns are widely carried by multiple internet journals and sites, and she also writes hard news. Her columns have also appeared in The Oregon Herald, Dallas Times, Sacramento Sun, in international news publications, and on multiple university websites. Sher is also a guest on multiple national radio shows.

Sher can be reached at sherzieve@bajabb.com

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The Palestinians Have Always Avoided Statehood ... Alan Caruba

The Palestinians Have Always Avoided Statehood

By Alan Caruba

The former Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir, once said, “We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” That day has not yet arrived.

There is a widely quoted Bedouin saying, “I against my brother and my brother against our cousin, my brother and our cousin against the neighbors, all of us against the foreigner.” It takes various forms depending on the source, but it aptly captures the mindset, the attitude of Arabs and reveals why, neither as individuals nor as nations, they trust one another or anyone else. The Israelis learned long ago the impossibility of negotiating an agreement.

As Jonathan Schanzer chronicles in his new book, “State of Failure”, “In the aftermath of the 1967 war, eight Arab leaders met in Khartoum, Sudan, and declared that there would be ‘no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it.’ It became known as the ‘Three No’s’”

On September 26, 1947, Britain announced that it would be withdrawing from the territory that the Versailles Treaty of 1919 had designated as Palestine. It had been assigned the mandate to administer it. “Two months later, on November 29, 1947, the United Nations approved a partition plan, which divided the territory up to into three contiguous Arab swaths and three contiguous Jewish swaths, with Jerusalem slated for permanent trusteeship…The Arab states, for their part, rejected the partition plan outright, which did little to help the Palestinian cause as the world deliberated.”

“It was not lost on the world that the Arabs called for outright war against some 400,000 Jews living in Palestine just three years after six million Jews had been slaughtered in Europe.” Eleven minutes after David Ben-Gurion’s declaration of Israeli independence in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948, President Harry Truman announced the U.S. recognition of the new state.

There was no Palestinian state then and there is none today. There has been, however, a constant state of war against Israel for the last sixty-five years. Israel was immediately attacked by its Arab neighbors who were defeated then and have been defeated in subsequent wars. The one in 1967 vastly expanded Israel’s territory to include the Golan Heights, the West Bank, and Gaza, plus control of the entire city of Jerusalem, its ancient capitol.

It must be very tiresome to be an Arab and worse by a factor of ten or more to be a Palestinian.

I was reminded of this in the wake of Israel’s decision to release 26 Palestinians serving life sentences for murdering Israelis in what is surely just one more vain effort to secure any accommodation from the Palestine Liberation Organization, Fatah, the Palestinian Authority or whatever they are calling themselves these days. It is a matter of record that a large number of jailed terrorists reverted to violence after being released in earlier deals.

They are led by Mahmoud Abbas who has overstayed his term as its president by several years by simply not holding elections. Moreover, the Palestinians are divided between the PLO and Hamas, an even more militant group headquartered in Gaza. They are in Gaza because it was ceded to the Palestinians in another hopeless effort to bring them to the negotiation table for a permanent peace. Hamas is designated by the U.S. as a terrorist organization and lives up to that by rocketing and attacking Israelis.

The Palestinians are said to be “occupied” by Israel and, indeed, in the wake of two terrorist campaigns, “intifadas”, the Israelis concluded that only a very big, tall wall between them plus considerable military oversight was the only way to avoid further campaigns. Defending one’s citizens is the first duty of any nation.

We are being treated to the absurd diplomatic efforts of the current Secretary of State, John Kerry, as he flies about the Middle East trying to maintain or restore any trust they might have in the United States at this point. Whole books will be written about the way Barack Hussein Obama has sabotaged U.S. relations with the region and has left Israel isolated against the very real potential of a nuclear-armed Iran.

Shanzer’s book provides the answer to why, decades after Israel’s independence, the Palestinians have refused to take the road to their own state. “Not only are the Palestinian territories (West Bank and Gaza Strip) divided between two warring factions (Fatah and Hamas), it is also undeniable that both cantons have failed to function as governments.”

“The Palestinian Authority and its antecedents have been beset by bad governance.” That is a major understatement and the pattern was set by the late, unlamented Yassir Arafat who spurned then-President Clinton’s offer of a Palestinian state on some 95% of the West Bank and 100% of Gaza.

In addition to the enemies on its borders, the other center of opposition to Israel has always been the United Nations which, to this day, maintains an agency devoted exclusively to the so-called Palestinian refugees. On November 29, the UN celebrates an annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people.

The Palestinians have endured kleptomaniacs who have plundered the wealth donated to their cause, as literally billions disappeared into secret bank accounts of Arafat and his cronies, and now Abbas and his. The PA has been a rat-hole of corruption and still is.

Literally nothing the Israelis offer, from land to freed murderers, has changed ground for any accommodation with a Palestinian state because those in charge do not want a state and have demonstrated no ability to govern one.

What has changed, however, is the loss of the American government as an ally. Successive American administrations have tried to broker better relations, only to learn that it is a fool’s errand. Regrettably, the Obama administration has become so hostile to Israel that it has altered the diplomatic landscape. It is embracing Israel’s enemies and that is a very bad thing for Israel, the Middle East, and the world.

© Alan Caruba, 2013

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Lies and Deceit ... J. D. Longstreet

Lies and Deceit
A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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I'm tired of writing about Obama and Obamacare.  I'm tired of writing about the idiots in Washington who have driven our country into the ground and "reformed" us into a third world banana republic akin to so many of the socialist dung heaps staining the southern hemisphere of the globe.

Just days ago, I was reclining betwixt the white sheets of a hospital bed with tubes attached to my veins dumping -- Lord only knows -- what into my fairly used-up body.

Suffice to say that, as of this writing, I remain on the sunny side of the grass and am able, to some extent, to continue my campaign of aggravating the living daylights out of my political opponents on the left.

Yes, it IS cathartic, and does SEEM to aid in the healing process.  But with the nation's attention totally drawn to the most recent assault on the middle class, by way of a socialized medicine scam perpetrated by the Democratic Party,  I have become BORED writing about all the things we warned America would happen if the democrats passed Obamacare into law.

See, NONE of the shortcomings of Obamacare are surprising to this old scribe.  I saw it coming, and said so -- publicly -- and became something of a Jeremiah-like prophetic voice sans a sackcloth garment and ashes dripping from my unkempt hair and beard.

It seems I had become quite used to being "out there," along with  a handful of other like minded conservative "boat-rockers" and "cage-rattlers."  Now, however,  Americans who have suddenly had their lives touched by -- and thrown into confusion by -- Obamacare victims  are flooding into our once lonely space. 

You'd think I'd be happy that so many Americans have come over to my side, right? 
OK, I suppose I am.  But I must, in all honesty,  admit to a bit of annoyance(?) that, suddenly, the truth that I (and my conservative brethren and sisteren) have been imparting for years now seems to have come as such a surprise to so many. 

Everything we warned of, has either already happened, or is about to happen, and NONE of it HAD TO HAPPEN.

We live, dear reader, in an atmosphere of lies and deceit.

Look.  The whole MESS in Washington, DC is the result of apathy and ignorance on the part of everyday working Americans, the middle class, if you will, who just could not find the time to pay a few minutes attention each day to what the so-called leadership in our national legislature was doing.

As I observe the heads of agitated and frightened Americans popping up and screaming bloody murder when accosted by Obamacare it reminds me of the old expression "submarine Christians."  Yeah, submarine Christians are the so-called Christians you never hear from until they are in trouble.  Like a submarine they surface when in trouble.  Submarine Americans are popping to the surface all over the place today.

Problem is -- it may already be too late.

WE have a REAL national crisis on our hands -- one which must be handled decidedly and decisively -- if we wish to have a constitutional republic left for our children and grand children.

Now that we have your attention, at least for a short while, please understand that even if we are able to repeal this godawful law and save what's left of our country, we can never disengage from the job , no -- the DUTY -- of keeping a tight rein on the people who we have selected to govern us.

The current crop, for the most part, are drunk on power.  They have become addicted to the power and perks of public office in America.  Forcing them to go "cold turkey" is going to inflict much pain on them and they are bound to lash out, even at those who placed them in office by their sacred vote.

It is my opinion that we need to purge the Congress a year from now to the extent allowable under law and then finish the job in 2016. 

There is a certain group of US Senators and Congresspersons who should, every single one, be targets of campaigns to replace them in Congress.  See, It was DEMOCRATS WHO BROUGHT AMERICA OBAMACARE. Remember, not a single Republican cast a vote in favor of Obamacare in either house of the Congress.  No Republican voted in favor of Obamacare -- not one.

The Democratic Party is running sacred today, in a deep panic, as they understand the chickens are about to come home to roost.  They brought this upon themselves, they deserve what they are about to receive at the polls.

Over the next year we will experience every kind of witch's brew the alchemy of the Democrats can formulate to save their collective behinds.  And, unfortunately,  some of it will work.

If we want America to survive, if we want America to come back in all her greatness, we will work tirelessly to thwart the machinations of Obama and his minions to fulfill his promise to "fundamentally change" America.

Obamacare is but a taste, a bad taste,  of the socialist America Obama and his cohort of socialists, Marxists, progressives, and 21st century liberals will create here in what was once this "goodly land."

J. D. Longstreet
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If At First You Don't Succeed ... ... J. D. Longstreet

If At First You Don't Succeed ...

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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The old saw about "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again" may seem apprapo to the democrats dilemma with Obamacare, but, it isn't.

I would be laughing my bippy off -- rolling on the floor, holding my sides in uproarious laughter, save for one thing:  the Obamacare mess is so darned serious!

This scribe, along with a few thousand others, warned for years,  years mind you, that all these problems WOULD occur if Obamacare became law. 

We were laughed at, hooted down, made the punch line of off-color jokes, and generally derided for our temerity to even question the superior intellect of Obama and his coterie of brainy brats and computer models and their exclusive circle of leftist whiz kids all with the common purpose of saving us --  the lowly peons of the proletariat  -- from ourselves.

Well, they failed... failed miserably.  And we have God to thank for it. 

As my family gathers round the Thanksgiving table in a few days, I intend to offer thanks to God for all the blessings of the past year -- among them His interference in the machinations of the wicked political left as they have so forcefully attempted to curtail and deny Americans the rights granted us by God, Himself, through the entanglement of a law spawned in the deepest, darkest, bowels of Hell, itself, Obamacare.

And NO.  I am not kidding.  I feel THAT strongly about the dangers to myself, my family, and my country presented by Obamacare.

Have you wondered just WHY the government is having so much trouble setting up Obamacare and getting it running?   There is a very good reason why they are failing so miserably.

See, the government of the United States was NEVER intended to do such a thing. It was not devised by the minds of the Founding Fathers to run the lives of its people.

When America was founded, the LAST THING Americans wanted was a strong central government. They fought a revolution to rid themselves of just such a government.

America was never intended as a nation of people who were wards of the government.  That's one reason our laws were centered on individual freedoms. 

The Founding Fathers -- and all early Americans -- simply understood that Americans were responsible for themselves.  They knew there was no such thing as a "right" to healthcare.  Had one raised the question one would have been laughed down as a complete idiot back then.

Yes, Americans have rights.  They are  the rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. And that's it!

The people who founded this country knew there was a demarcation line, a conceptual separation, if you will,  between governing and meddling in the lives of their citizens.  They also knew that government meddling would end in reduced freedoms for the citizens of the country.  So,  they deliberately stayed their hand to leave us the most free people on the globe.

At first that list of guaranteed rights for American may seem short.  Ask yourself why ONLY those rights were codified in our laws.  Then consider this:  "Why only THESE? Observe that all legitimate rights have one thing in common: they are rights to action, not to rewards from other people. The American rights impose no obligations on other people, merely the negative obligation to leave you alone. The system guarantees you the chance to work for what you want—not to be given it without effort by somebody else." (Emphasis mine)   SOURCE:  http://www.aynrand.org/site/News2?id=13873

Am I saying that they (the early Americans) were smarter than modern Americans?  Yes, in fact, I am. They were certainly better educated and far more intelligent than most of our intelligentsia today.   And as smart politicians go, they were light years ahead of the Washington brain trusts in our government today.

America's government was never supposed to do what the ACA (Affordable Care Act -- aka-- Obamacare) calls for it to do today. 

Americans were intended to be FREE!  The ACA slaps a ball and chain on EVERY American -- effectively stripping Americans of the right to think for themselves, fend for themselves, and be responsible human beings and good citizens.

Not even completely out of the starting chute yet and already Obamacare is a massive failure.  It will only get worse.

Now the political left is offering up every possible explanation as to why it isn't working and offering all sorts of "fixes" for it. 

Now they want to "reform" it.  BEWARE!  Reforming Obamacare will only make it worse. 

Obamacare MUST be REPEALED, not reformed. If Americans wish to save their country, they must repeal Obamacare -- and forget any sort of socialized medicine for America.

Look.  Let me make it as plain as I know how:  We can have either America or socialized medicine.  WE CANNOT HAVE BOTH.

J. D. Longstreet
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