Dissecting Leftism
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There were Democrats who voted for Obama at the tea party I went to.
One lady cried at her mistake, she had no idea what he was really about.
Now, even Israel is going to find out.
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The Obama flip-flops you don't know about
Since winning the election, Obama has famously flip-flopped on many of the major issues that he championed on the campaign trail. But did you know he’s also flip-flopped on a myriad of less publicized issues? This much everybody knows: Even before taking office, Obama broke his promise to not appoint lobbyists to his administration. Since then, he’s abandoned his promises to pay for every dollar of new government spending and bring home all combat troops from Iraq within 18 months. And in recent days, he’s outraged his political base by reversing his earlier commitments to eliminate military tribunals and release photos depicting prisoner abuse. All those well-publicized reversals have overshadowed the administration’s flip-flops on a host of additional positions. Here are just some of the biggest flip-flops that you may not have noticed:
Osama bin Laden: During the presidential debates last year, Obama declared that capturing or killing Osama bin Laden “has to be our biggest national security priority.” In his first TV interview after winning the election, he said the terrorist leader was “not just a symbol. He’s also the operational leader of an organization that is planning attacks against U.S. targets,” and that the additional troops being sent to Afghanistan would hunt him down because “capturing or killing bin Laden is a critical aspect of stamping out Al Qaeda.” Bin Laden’s significance to Obama dissipated during the transition. By the time Obama gave another interview in early January, he said killing or capturing bin Laden was not necessary to “meet our goal of protecting America.” A few months later, when he announced his Afghanistan troop surge, he made no reference to the hunt for bin Laden.
On human space exploration: Early in his presidential campaign, Obama had great reservations about the costs and risks of human space flight. He said he would delay NASA’s plans to send humans to the moon and, eventually, Mars and, instead, spend that money on education. But, as Florida, Ohio and Texas became more politically important, Obama began to walk back his proposed NASA cuts, promising to fund unmanned space exploration and some other scientific missions. Now that he’s in office, Obama’s reversal is complete: The White House budget, released earlier this month, provides a healthy increase in NASA funding and explicitly endorses the “goal of returning Americans to the moon and exploring other destinations.”
On the Armenian genocide: In the U.S. Senate and on the campaign trail, Obama firmly declared that the death of 1.5 million Armenians during World War I was “genocide” — a touchy topic between Turks and Armenians and a political priority for Armenian-Americans — and promised that “as president, I will recognize the Armenian genocide. Nonetheless, during his recent trip to Turkey as president, Obama broke his promise. Instead, he tried to muddy the waters, announcing that “my views are on the record and I have not changed views” but refusing to state what those views actually are.
On business tax cuts: Even though he unapologetically promised to raise taxes on entrepreneurs (and everybody else) making more than $250,000 per year, Obama offered small businesses some solace by promising several specific tax cuts. One, which became a cornerstone of his campaign’s jobs plan, would eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses. Another, which he proposed as the economy crashed in the waning days of the campaign, would offer businesses a $3,000 tax credit for every employee they hired. The economy has not improved since Obama’s election, but he nevertheless shelved both proposals: His budget puts off the capital gains tax cut until after his term in office ends and makes no mention of his new-job tax credit.
These four examples only scratch the surface of Obama’s reversals since taking office. Other flip-flops include everything from federally funding needle-exchange programs (which he supported in the campaign but his budget does not), allowing five days of public review before bill signings (he broke the promise with his first bill signing) and ordering the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, recently told POLITICO that “Obama’s governing is completely consistent with the way he campaigned.” A cursory comparison between his campaign promises and administration policies shows that’s not true.
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The polls were negative. Dick Morris says that every week, that the Obama people review polls in a meeting.
That isn't leadership - it's manipulation/being manipulated at the same time.
I think we're headed for big trouble in this country. Obama isn't much of a stand up guy
on any issue, because he wants the votes of all sides.
That is really going to catch up with him in the not so distant future.
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The polls were negative. Dick Morris says that every week, that the Obama people review polls in a meeting.
That isn't leadership - it's manipulation/being manipulated at the same time.
I think we're headed for big trouble in this country. Obama isn't much of a stand up guy
on any issue, because he wants the votes of all sides.
That is really going to catch up with him in the not so distant future.
The polls were negative. Dick Morris says that every week, that the Obama people review polls in a meeting.
That isn't leadership - it's manipulation/being manipulated at the same time.
I think we're headed for big trouble in this country. Obama isn't much of a stand up guy
on any issue, because he wants the votes of all sides.
That is really going to catch up with him in the not so distant future.
They have to use manipulation, they dont have one creative thought that hasn't been tried by Cuba, Russia NK or China first.
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Carbon capture and burial — a stupid answer to a silly question : To extract the 2.6 tonnes of CO2 from every 9 tonnes of exhaust gases, compress it, pump it hundreds of kilometres in specially constructed pipelines and then bury it in carbon cemeteries is environmental and economic lunacy. It would break the economy. Nevertheless, this is what some of our politicians are proposing
The Obama revolution: Liberals have been working to replace our democracy with a dictatorship, and our free-market economy with a command economy controlled by the government. The liberals couldn't say this aloud, because if they did the American people would have tossed them out of office on their ears. So liberals worked covertly, feigning support for democracy and for the free market while working diligently to undermine both
The Big Lie of the late 20th century was that Nazism was Rightist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin's Communism. The very word "Nazi" is a German abbreviation for "National Socialist" (Nationalsozialist) and the full name of Hitler's political party (translated) was "The National Socialist German Workers' Party" (In German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei)
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Yet more government regulation coming: "The Internal Revenue Service is considering for the first time requiring income tax preparers to be licensed by the federal government as a way to root out fraud and raise compliance with increasingly complex tax law. IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman revealed the seismic shift in congressional testimony Thursday. He said erroneous tax returns were such a large problem that the United States could shrink the so-called tax gap - the difference between what the government receives and what it should collect - by making sure the nation's tax preparers do their job correctly.
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"Dear Lord, I can't take any more."
British Prime Minister makes Major Slip during ceremony Calls it "OBAMA BEACH" instead of "OMAHA BEACH"!!!
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"Dear Lord, I can't take any more."
British Prime Minister makes Major Slip during ceremony Calls it "OBAMA BEACH" instead of "OMAHA BEACH"!!!
"Dear Lord, I can't take any more."
British Prime Minister makes Major Slip during ceremony Calls it "OBAMA BEACH" instead of "OMAHA BEACH"!!!
Ya, I was watching when it happened. I guess they named the beach after him? I thought the French President gave the best speech of all the leaders. It was an emotional day for all the old timers who fought there I'm sure.
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The research shows clearly that one's Left/Right stance is strongly genetically inherited but nobody knows just what specifically is inherited. What is inherited that makes people Leftist or Rightist? There is any amount of evidence that personality traits are strongly genetically inherited so my proposal would be that hard-core Leftists are people who tend to let their emotions run away with them and who are much more in need of praise from others -- two attributes that are probably related to one another. Such Leftists may be an evolutionary leftover from a more primitive past.
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Life, liberty, and property are inseparable: “Life, liberty, and property were the central, inalienable rights
that formed the foundation of the great experiment in self government called the
United States of America. The founders of our country never broke apart this sacred triumvirate,
because each one of these rights is inextricably bound to the other. No one of these three can exist
without the other. Moreover, when all three are secured, it is almost impossible for injustice to exist.
Wherever one does find injustice, one invariably finds a violation of one of these three basic rights at its root.”
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No matter how gently you pet a snake,
it's not going to love you back. And fanatics
always show their fangs in the end.
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Translation:
Leftists will always come back to bite you in the ass after you vote for them,
or ignore them, or try to "negotiate" with them.
Say, not one lib commented on this entire thread. They hid instead.
But Dan showed up, to change the subject to your avatar, T.
Yep, the diversion tactic rears it's marxist head again.
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