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How's Hope & Change Working For You: Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics

     The Obama Administration & Democrats Engage In Lies:
No Way Around It & Rushing the US to Financial Ruin

     Hope and Change, remember that? Remember the promise that President Obama was going to be a different kind of politician? He was singlehandedly going to change Washington D.C....who knew that just about everything that he promised was a stretch. I am being generous here, as I believe that President Obama said exactly what he needed to in order to get elected. He pulled the wool over a lot of eyes, least of which was not the MSM, liberal elites and the ever loyal Hollywood 'lap dogs.'

     George Soros, Saul Alinsky (if he were alive), George Clooney et al, the American Socialist Society1 are all dancing in the aisles. They are ecstatic; they have just the man and team in place to move America toward the socialist utopia they have ever sought. And, all we had to do was truly understand the true man, the true Barrack Hussein Obama. The writing was truly 'on the wall.'

     You know the Obama Administration is in trouble when even All Barrack Company News (ABC) has the following headline:

ABC:  $160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That 'Calculator Abuse'

Brian Schmidt, director of planning and programming for the commission said that his staff originally reported to the Obama administration that the stimulus money saved 250 jobs. Then, realizing they had mistakenly double credited, they later changed that to 125 jobs. Tuesday, they updated it again to 74 jobs.

Cost Per Jobs Created By Stimulus Dollars/Cost High-Jobs Created Low (Very Low)
     The Stimulus (and any and all spending) saved 74 jobs, hey maybe as many as 250 jobs. I've heard that the cost per job saved could have been as high as$55,000. Anyway, something is fishy about the numbers and those behind them, and guess what there's more! Oh, and not to be left out here's CBS: Admin's Trillion-Dollar Stimulus Claims "Hard to Believe" The CBS "Evening News" aired a report Thursday night on the jobs claims. 
 

‘Jobs Created or Saved’ Is White House Fantasy: Caroline Baum

Commentary by Caroline Baum

Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Heresy, thy name is Christina Romer.

Last week, the chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers -- a position that carried the title “chief economist” until Larry Summers took up residence in the White House -- testified to the Joint Economic Committee on the economic crisis and the efficacy of the policy response.

Joe Biden Agrees: Biden: Job Stats "Not 100 Percent Accurate"
 
     The massaging of numbers related to jobs isn't the only lie perpetrated by this administration. Yesterday, the GDP number was released. President Obama got on the teleprompter and boasted that this number is the best in the last 2 years. The teleprompter operator may well have been one of those jobs saved and/or created; even this number is under question. A key fact is that the stock market dove today, oops. I don't trust anything coming from the left side of the aisle. Barron's carries the following article on the GDP increase that isn't there:

"Risk Trade" Returns, at Least for a Day

By RANDALL W. FORSYTH   | MORE ARTICLES BY AUTHOR

There's less to the third-quarter GDP numbers than meets the bulls' eyes

...

What's clear is there was a lot less to the GDP number than what lit up the bulls' eyes.

Declarations of the end of the recession may be premature. All recessions in the past four decades have had at least one positive quarter for GDP, followed by a renewed downturn, points out John Williams, who produces the Shadow Government Statistics (www.shadowstats.com) for his subscribers, who suspect there may be more (or less) to the numbers the government churns out.

Indeed, he writes, some 92% of the third quarter's GDP growth came from non-recurring factors and thus are not sustainable. (Funny how the stock market will ignore non-recurring factors in corporate earnings reports but took those in the GDP report at face value.)

"The estimate of 3.5% annualized real growth for third-quarter GDP included a 1.7% gain from auto sales, a 0.6% gain from new residential construction, and a 0.9% gain from a largely-involuntary inventory buildup, which appears to be understated," Williams writes in subscriber note.

We Control the Media (Anita Dunn)    
      I, of course, love this little tidbit:
Anita Dunn: We Control the Media
YouTube is a wonderful thing.
ANITA DUNN, White House Communications Director: Thanks to YouTube, anything you, we tell people, anything you say you should expect to see on YouTube. Dunn brags that the Obama campaign controlled the media rather than allowing the press to determine the narrative.

 
    
     There are lies, damned lies and statistics! one can make their numbers fit the story, and it seems Team Obama is great at "controlling its message.'

      All of this is well and great, but the biggest whopper of the week goes to Madame Speaker 'San Fran Nan' Pelosi's  1900

page 'Health Care Reform' Legislation. There is something like 25 (at last count) tax increases (sorry, that's competition) and the 'public option.' The greatest lie, and I will outright use the word as there is no other way to describe the lies about its cost and who will pay for this. Pelosi insists the cost would be below $830 Billion, while the CBO and others have begun scoring it at above $1 Trillion!!!

     Watch the gimmicks, too. The sly trickery that happens on Halloween isn't only from adolescents trying to prank their friends, but Democrats trying to prank the citizen's of the United States. It is absolutely amazing that Democrats can get away with these falsehoods. If Ronald Reagan and/or Bush Co. tried to pull the wool over the eyes of the electorate in this manner they would be flayed by the MSM. Not only would that but the Democrats be calling for Special Prosecutors in addition to Impeachment proceedings. Double standards, you betcha.

     Systematically, this Administration and the Democrats are trying to accomplish the very thing our enemies are attempting: the destruction of the greatest nation on God's green Earth. Economically, with Cap and Tax, TARP, the Stimulus, Health Care Reform, deficit spending that has quadrupled in the last year are leading us to financial ruin. The purpose behind Bin Laden's and al-Qaeda's 9/11 was the very same thing. The Soviet Union ('memba Nikita Khrushchev pounding his shoe at the UN?) tried the same thing, to bury the US economically. The Democrats and Obama are attempting to run the US into financial doom in order to continue the path toward Socialism (with liberal elites controlling wealth and our lives).

     Hope and Change.

Hope and Change.

      Hope and Change.

                                       Hope and Change...

Courage...

    One thing can be said as of October 30, 2009. America is the closest she has ever been to being a socialist country, we stand on the precipice of economic and political oblivion. These are strong words, words that I am hesitant to write, but the time for silence is over. Edmund Burke has one of the greatest quotes ever and they are more poignant today than ever:

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)1

 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness...

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Footnotes:

1Edmund Burke, friend to the Founding Fathers, supporter of the American Revolution, defender of lady Liberty (not the statue, rather the God given, unalienable rights- one of which is NOT healthcare).
2I have no idea which socialist party to list, I guess that one could just simply call it the New Democratic Party (Pelosi/Reid/Hoyer/et al).

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Patriot Post: Founding Father Quote, James Wilson on Natural Rights of Individuals

 

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"The most important consequence of marriage is, that the husband and the wife become in law only one person... Upon this principle of union, almost all the other legal consequences of marriage depend. This principle, sublime and refined, deserves to be viewed and examined on every side." --James Wilson, Of the Natural Rights of Individuals, 1792

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Patrot Post: Founding Father Quote James Wilson

 

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"It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness."
~~James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791
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Deficit Schmeficit, Obama's Budget Deficit Projected $13 Trillion

     It never ceases to amaze me what  this administration and the Democratic Congress are able to get away with. The absolute height of the hypocrisy is outright corruption: those responsible for writing the law regarding taxes and the enforcer get away with not paying thousands of dollars in taxes (Rangel, D-NY and Sec. Geithner). That al pales in comparison with what they get away with regarding spending. My goodness, this president and Congress have run up spending to lengths never seen. And, they are not finished; HealthCare Reform is going to be costly, no matter how you slice it. The Budget as presented by President Obama was projected to be a whopping $9.0 Trillion. That, however, may have been too low:
President Obama's budget office recently caused a stir when it projected
that his tax-and-spend agenda would leave more than $9 trillion in new
budget deficits over the next decade - doubling the national debt. Now,
it appears even that figure was too low.

A careful reading of the president's budget reveals that it would actually
add $13 trillion in budget deficits over the next decade. That extra
$4 trillion alone represents more debt than President George W. Bush
accumulated during his entire term of office.
 
     Spending is good when you are a Democrat, and deficits mean nothing when the spending expands bureaucracy (big government). Spending to ensure the freedom, liberty and democracy are very, very bad. Spending on the military is additionally evil. The Democrats railed against Bush for his spending and deficits. Now they are in charge the word deficit hardly passes their lips. Remarkable.
     The stimulus plan was a bust. The world has survived the weakening of the financial sector. In fact, the market responded to the fact that Big Banks are going to do better, in spite of the massive bailouts (most of the largest banks would have preferred not to have taken TARP Funds, many have paid back the funds in order to get out from under the thumb of Uncle Sam). The Markets ralied on news that Goldman Sachs upgraded their outlooks.
     I believe that Congress and the president need to sign a new Contract with America and pledge that ultimately their jobs begin with the mantra that first and foremost their actions "should do no harm." I could go on for hours here, but won't. These deficits loom on the horizon for ever; our children, their Grandchildren and their Grandchildren are going to be paying for another failed experiment in putting faith in that "changey thingy." Are you any better off today? Can you say part time legislators and executive branch?
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Remember The President's Promise: HealthCare Reform Will Not Add To Deficit

      I seem to recall the president promising in his address to a joint session of Congress that the HealthCare reform he would sign will not add to the deficit. Now comes word that the Baucus inspired legistation being presented as the "HealthCare Reform" will have a cost in excess of $820 Billion over ten years, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO, AP report):
WASHINGTON – Health care legislation drafted by a key Senate committee would expand coverage to 94 percent of all eligible Americans at a 10-year cost of $829 billion, congressional budget experts said Wednesday, a preliminary estimate trumpeted by the White House and likely to power the measure past a major hurdle within days.
 
     The CBO is giddy in its assessment by further stating that the bill would be paid for by cuts, waste and fraud reductions, etc. There is, however, a caveat:
 It’s worth nothing that Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf describes this as a “preliminary analysis” because the bill “has not yet been embodied in legislative language.”
 
     For those of us who are simpletons that means that the final cost can't be evaluated as the legislation is not finalized. So, do you truly believe that the cost will be lower? Ha! I am kickin' it now trying to digest my Rib Eye and trying not to regirgitate based upon the indigestion caused by the laughable analysis above...
 
     Then there's this little tidbit:
Jeff Emanuel also reminds us: “They also said Medicare would cost $12 billion by 1990. It ended up being $107 billion – eight times the government estimate. (Hattip: Michelle Malkin)
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Pew Poll Iran: Majority Americans Support Military Option

 

     While becoming an inevitability that the Iranians will or have the capability to manufacture a nuclear bomb, the American people become more accustomed to potential military. A recent Pew Poll shows fully 61% would support a military option:

A majority of Americans are skeptical that diplomacy with Iran will succeed and say the United States should use military action if necessary to prevent the Iranian government from developing a nuclear weapon.
A Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey found 61 percent of Americans would support a military strike.

Twenty-four percent said it is more important to avoid conflict even if that means Iran will end up building nuclear arms.

     The race to a nuclear option in the Middle East has opened Pandora's box. The most radical and fanatical Islamofascist state is now using its nuclear knowledge to the advantage of another dangerous enemy: Venezuela. The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez when not shutting down the free press, is globetrotting signing deals with the Russians and the Iraninans. The gasoline starved nation of Iran, awash in crude oil, has penned a deal with the petty dictator to exchange gasoline for nuclear secrets. To the tune of 20,000 barrels per day (effective sanctions: shut down gas supply lines). So, not only is there now a rush amongst Arab nations wanting the bomb (i.e.: Saudi Arabia) we now see Brazil desiring the technology.

     Our southern border, long free of even the notion of nuclear means, could be destabilized by the Iranians. Oh what a mess...I know let's all blame Bush. I believe that the Missile Shield cancelled by the president looks even more necessary than less. Deploying and protecting our allies in Eastern Europe would have been a first step in an umbrella of protection. With success at shooting missiles out of the sky, one says it could hit a bullet with a bullet, we may find the shield necessary in Texas and California, as Alaska already has a piece of the shield.

     The Iranians have shown the capability to launch a satellite into orbit, a step not far from including a bomb delivery system. Ever closer, ever closer. Feel safer tonight? With the NorKs and Iranians having the missile capability and the nuclear know how the world has probably come closer to a nuclear nightmare than anytime in history. There is nothing to hold back the petty dictators from selling nuclear materials to some rogue terror group bent on destruction; that destruction will occur in one of two places: Israel or the US. The mere thought of Hugo Chavez having his finger on the nuclear trigger is scary enough, now throw in Osama bin Laden and it is a hellish nightmare!

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Docs & Smocks: White House Photo Ops

     You've got to hand it to the White House as they pull out all the stops! President Obama trotted out a bunch of doctors for a speech and photo op (NY Post via Michelle Malkin):
 
President Obama yesterday rolled out the red carpet — and handed out doctors’ white coats as well, just so nobody missed his hard-sell health-care message.

In a heavy-handed attempt at reviving support for health-care reform, the White House orchestrated a massive photo op to buttress its claim that front-line physicians support Obama.

A sea of 150 white-coated doctors, all enthusiastically supportive of the president and representing all 50 states, looked as if they were at a costume party as they posed in the Rose Garden before hearing Obama’s pitch for the Democratic overhaul bills moving through Congress.

The physicians, all invited guests, were told to bring their white lab coats to make sure that TV cameras captured the image.

But some docs apparently forgot, failing to meet the White House dress code by showing up in business suits or dresses.

So the White House rustled up white coats for them and handed them to the suited physicians who had taken seats in the sun-splashed lawn area.

All this to provide a visual counter to complaints from other doctors that pending legislation is bad news for the medical profession.
     The doctors were invited and asked to bring their lab coats. Most of the doctors felt that they might get to speak with the president, not so. All were represented as supporting the president's HealthCare Reform. While many did, as they are part of Dr's America, some were not, but they didn't get the chance to either speak to the pres. or express their opposition. Heavy Handed, indeed. The WH is never one to shrink from a manufactured photo op. A staged photo opportunity does not reflect the true nature of the debate between doctors regarding HealthCare Reform. I imagine for every doctor that the White House chooses for support there are four more opposed. The vast majority of doctors when polled don't care for the current legislation, while agreeing that there is a need for reform (see Investor's Business Daily series).
     Doctors, in vast numbers, do not wish to see a layer of bureaucracy between them and patients. Many favor tort reform as the best opportunity to reform the system, as malpractice insurance is an enormous burden that is ultimately passed on to patients. Tort reform also puts the practice of "conservative medicine" as many must perform unhelpful or wasteful tests, therapies and x-rays and/or mri.s that are costly as well. Personally, I would agree. I would also suggest that prior to any procedure that doctors must disclose costs ahead of time. If a Dr. tells me that it will costs $1000 for a superfluous x-ray, I would forgo it, saving the patient's and insurance costs.
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Congress: Stop! Stop Spending, Stop Taxing Us, Stop HealthCare Reform

     From the rooftop: 'Congress, Stop spending like drunken soldiers (that, my friends is an insult to drunk soldiers, at least they will stop when they throw up!), stop looking for ways to raise taxes- on individuals and corporations, we can't take anymore-, and my Gosh, stop the HealthCare reform, now!
     The spending craze that has engulfed Congress is nothing short of incredible. There were complaints, from the left, of spending too much money on the War in Iraq and the Global War on Terror in general. Now the Democrats have had nearly a year with the purse strings. We are headed to deficits never seen, let alone dreamed of. We've seen the Democrats throw money at every problem, TARP was to save us from the edge of oblivion. We were on the brink of disaster- remember the president telling us that the TARP had to passed, now, or the economy was going to continue in its freefall.
     Now, they want more? The president and his advisors promised that the Unemployment rate would not exceed 8-8.5%. Now we are facing 10% or more, the current rate is 9.8%, and headed higher. 40% of TARP has been spent (or promised for current fiscal year). The Congress is now bandying about a second TARP round. I look forward to the next election, the election to take back the majority!
     Stop taxing us- the president promised that he would not raise taxes on the middle class. I laughed then, and I laugh again. When one considers the profligate spending and the gargantuan HealthCare Reform one can't get over the fact, yes FACT, that there is no way for the reform to pass without raising taxes. Those taxes will hurt the middle class and the poor on a disproportionate scale. When small business is saddled with a 40% tax for not supplying Health Insurance (oh, sorry its no longer a tax, it's a fee, no an excise tax, not a real tax) they will either choose to go out of business and/or lay off workers. 9.8% unemployment grows, underemployment grows to double digit rates (I've seen it well over 15%). This administration and Congressional Democrats cannot continue their spending ways and not raise taxes substantially. They can call it something else but ultimately that is what they will do, raise taxes across the board. BTW: corporate taxes are not  by corporations, they are paid by consumers through higher prices. Let's not forge that if you choose not to buy health insurance then you are levied a huge penalty of up to, if I am not mistaken, $1800! I thought the idea was to give those whodon't have insurance now coverage. Seems illogical to me, but hey no one asked me!
     HealthCare Reform is another power grab by Democrats. The reform is not about making our healthcare system more efficient and available to all. It is simply to further entrench the bureaucratic, unelected officials, layer. Another layer between you, your healthcare provider and the government. Don't kid yourself.
    My friends, if Congress were serious about reform they would begin immediately! If there is so much waste, fraud and abuse in MediCare to the tune of hundreds of millions, why not eliminate them now? Another immediate reform that would lower healthcare costs is tort reform. Abusing the court system adds thousands of dollars to your healthcare premiums. Doctors must perform defensive medicine, ordering tests, x-rays, physical therapy and MRIs (some call that conservative medicine, I call it waste) and more to protect them from lawsuits. Their premiums for medical liability insurance have skyrocketed. When tort reform is enacted, costs go down. See Texas as one such state that has enacted reform.
     Don't buy into the lie.
 
Ask for Real reform, real tangible results...give up your freedoms, give up your liberty and get more government bureaucracy and waste, fraud and abuse.
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Danger Will Robinson, Danger: Iran Test's Missile, Could Reach Europe

Danger Will Robinson, Danger: Iran Test's Missile, Could Reach Europe

     The most dangerous regime in the world has not only revealed that it now has a second facility capable of enriching weapons grade uranium, oh yes, there's more:

Iran Tests Long Distance Missile Capable of Reaching Europe [Weapons]
By Jesus Diaz on Shahab-3


You know it's going to be one of those Mondays when Iranian nutters claim that they successfully tested the Shahab-3—their first multi-stage missile, capable of reaching Europe. Even worse: The multi-stage opens the door for Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles.

At least, that's what the theory is. Iran says that the missile can reach 2000km, which is enough to hit Israel, NATO-member Turkey, India, China, and some parts of Greece and the former Yugoslavia. According to Western military experts, however, the Shahab-3's range may be only 1300km. The same experts also say that there may be a 2500km range version, which could easily reach many countries in Europe.

The worrying part about all this is that the Iranians have now a working, solid-state, multi-stage missile. This means that even longer-range variants of the Shahab-3 are only a matter of time. Eventually, it will become a full Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles capable of hitting anywhere in the world. [BBC News]

     So, I want to thank the president for his utterly fantastic timing in deciding to leave our allies in Eastern Europe hanging out to dry. The most dangerous decision this president has made was the decision to eliminate the Missile Shield that President Bush had promised the Poles and the Czech Republic. Thank you Mr. President, in one fell swoop you have made the world a more dangerous place. In the cancellation of the proven missile shield you have emboldened our enemies, Russia is giddy, China is relieved, and Iran is laughing in our diplomatic corps' face!

     Yeah, I know, let's simply kick the can down the road, as it is more likely now that the Israelis will take care of the problem. The Netenyahu government is not likely to sit back and allow the Holocaust denier, Ahmadiniwhackjob, have his nuclear bomb. After all, our president is too busy to deal with a real threat, he worked hard at ensuring that Chicago receives the Olympics...oh wait, that failed, he was unable to talk the IOC into coming to his side- in fact they gave the Obama's the back of their hand (see earlier post).

     Ladies and gentlemen, moms and dads, sit back and relax. There's nothing to worry about. Our leader has the Iranians right where he wants them, in the negotiating table. The old adage speak 'softly and carry a big stick' has been replaced with 'speak softly and carry a big fat wet noodle.'

     We (the US government) will sit across the table and make the empty threat that we will retaliate against the Iranians with, ooh scary, UN sanctions...the Ayatollahs are quaking in their robes! There will be no strong measures taken against the rogue regime, besides the Russians and Chinese will likely soften any substantial sanctions and/or veto them. Any real light sanctions will be subverted anyway. The Iranian government is close to collapse, all we really need to do is a real blockade, with nations blocking all but humanitarian needs, and the one area that will really hit hard- a gasoline blockade. Iran is awash in black gold but can't refine enough, quick enough to satisfy their ravenous need.

     Well, nobody has asked me from the Administration, so I will sit back and relax...while wondering when a missile of some sort will be launched from a container ship near the San Diego coast...yep, I am enjoying that 'changey thingy.' We are safer today. Now, don't get me started on stimulus spending or healthcare or cap-and-tax scheme or some other government takeover...change is good for you.

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Heh, Live On One's Ego, Die By One's Ego: Obama's Crash & Burn On Olympics

     I heard the news this morning that the Obama's flew off to Copenhagen to ensure that their hometown of Chicago won the coveted Summer Olympics for 2016. On Thursday the Obama's got out of Dodge, leaving Washington D.C. making the trip to lend support to Chicago's bid for securing the Olympics. First Lady Michelle Obama gave an impassioned plea, then the president also spoke about the desire to show the world and his daughters the awe of the pageantry of the Olympics saying:
"After your visit, once you discover the Chicago that I know — the city that I made my home, the city where my wife grew up, the city where we raised our daughters just blocks from where these games will be held — I am confident you will discover that you're already in the perfect host city..."
 
     'While Nero Fiddles Rome Burns'
 
     Amazing. The world is going to heck in a hand basket. Afghanistan is near a turning point. Are we going to put in place a strategy to win, to lead NATO forces to victory. Victory over the Taliban and al Qaeda. Yeah, I know what Obamamaniacs say, the president can chew gum and walk at the same time. Well, to that I say, baloney! There is nothing more disappointing than to have our men and women give of their blood, sweat and tears, and the nation give of her treasures watch the Commander in Chief waltz off to Copenhagen to schmooze with the IOC. Our enemies must be sitting back and laughing. Mullah Omar is chomping at the bit to march into Kabul, head held high and declare his victory. Unemployment is at 9.8%, Iran and North Korea are threatening to destabilize the world with nuclear bombs. China is flexing her muscles, economically and militarily. But hey, let's all to Denmark!
     Osama bin Laden, in his cave somewhere near Tora Bora (sp?) or Waziristan listening in on his satellite radio, roasting, what a goat? His minions gathered around while the Sheikh laughs at the failure of the United States to simply secure the Olympics. What were the Obama's there for? Was it political payback for the Chicago politicians' support and for his political ground troops' success at seeing him elected?
     Whatever their motivation was, they got slapped down (as Rush put it they "got bit@hed slapped!" Chicago didn't even make the first cut. What? The first vote taken eliminated Chicago and Tokyo while Rio de Janeiro cruised to the head of the class. Essentially, the president gambled. He threw the dice and lost. One would have thought before he made the trip (I have no problem with the First Lady having made the trip, she is a kind of ambassador, so why not?) he would have made sure that Chicago's bid was secure, in the pocket, so to speak.
    What is surprising is that this president is the one to ensure that Iran gives up their nuclear ambitions merely by "talking to them." Well, his talk failed to sway the Olympic Committee. His ego got in the way. basically, his though must have been that if he made the trip, backed up the Mrs., there would be no way for them to say no. What he didn't count on was that the European Elites disdain for America far exceeds their like of him. President Obama figured that the IOC would certainly have said no to the Cowboy President, W., but they wouldn't say no to the one president who is trying very hard to remake America into the image of socialist Europe.
 
 
Food for thought my friends...
    
    
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