by: Lawrence Sellin

There  are many things obvious to ordinary Americans that cannot be mentioned publicly  in the polite political company of the Republican and Democratic establishments  or among their press agents in the mainstream media, who obligingly pirouette  around the truth.

For  example, both the Republican and Democratic establishments are composed of  hopelessly corrupt, procrastinating control freaks, who seek fame and fortune  through over-spending money they didn’t earn and enthusiastically crushing any  spontaneous outbreaks of democracy among U.S. citizens, for example, the Tea  Party.

Thomas  Jefferson warned us of the danger of “elective despotism:”

“They  should look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when a corruption in  this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the  heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when  they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price. Human  nature is the same on every side of the Atlantic, and will be alike influenced  by the same causes. The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before  they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the  fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have  entered.”

Unfortunately,  the wolf is already in the fold.

Taking  the rhetoric up a notch from Jefferson, Israeli historian J. L. Talmon coined  the term “totalitarian democracy,” a political system in which lawfully elected  representatives rule a nation state whose citizens, although granted the right  to vote, have little or no participation in the decision-making process of  government.

If  you do not think the United States has become an elective despotism, think  again.

One  of the most honest and courageous members of Congress in decades, Rep. Allen  West (R-FL), is about to become a sacrificial lamb of the collusion between the  Republican and Democratic establishments in the state of  Florida.

And  what is West’s crime? He is an independent thinker and a rising star of the Tea  Party movement.

The  Republican establishment hates the Tea Party because it has the audacity to  suggest that American citizens should have a voice in their  government.

Led  by Mitt Romney’s spokesman, Representative Will Weatherford, the Republican  legislature in Florida is about to push through a re-districting plan, which would redraw the boundaries of Allen West’s  22nd Congressional District to include far more registered Democrats and put  West at an even larger disadvantage than he was previously.

Under  elective despotism, the government is transformed from one based on traditional  values, articles of faith and the support of individual liberty into one in  which social utility and political expediency take absolute  precedence.

Having  no allegiance to the principles upon which America was founded, Barack Obama,  aided and abetted by the political establishments and the mainstream media, is  in the process of dismantling our Constitution and fulfilling his promise to  radically transform the country.

In  his State of the Union address, President Obama did not present a plan for  restoring America, he left a suicide note.  Obama, the Democrats and their  allies in the mainstream media are in the final stages of a self-destruct  sequence, while the Republican establishment passively sits by America’s  deathbed watching President Kevorkian deliver the poison.

Mitt  Romney, the chosen one intended to bring balance to the Republican Force, touts  his business experience as a credential for the presidency. Unfortunately,  political, not business decisions are made in Washington, D.C., and those  decisions are no longer constrained by the Constitution and the rule of  law.

It  is corruption of our political system, not just financial corruption that is the  single, most important issue of the 2012 election.

The  arrogance of political establishment has only gotten more brazen since 1993,  when Lewis H. Lapham (“A Wish for Kings”) wrote:

“The  politicians dress up the deals in the language of law or policy, but they’re in  the business of brokering the tax  revenue, and what keeps them in office is not their talent for oratory but their  skill at redistributing the national income in a way that rewards their clients,  patrons, friends and campaign contributors.”

Examples  of the corrupt status quo:

-  More than 50 percent of the members of the U.S. Congress are  millionaires.

-  The median wealth of a U.S. Senator in 2009 was 2.38 million  dollars.

-  Insider trading is legal for members of the U.S. Congress — and they refuse to  pass a law that would change that.

-  The percentage of millionaires in Congress is more than 50 times higher than the  percentage of millionaires in the general population.

Regarding  the crisis of our current national debt, put simply, unconstrained spending by  the government is the product of unconstrained corruption in the  government.

Here  is another political heresy: the emperor has no college  records.

Yes,  I have the temerity to believe that Barack Hussein Obama should be thoroughly  vetted before the 2012 election.

We  know far more details about Gingrich’s marriages, Romney’s mutual funds, Paul’s prehistoric newsletters and the voting  block made up of Santorum’s children than a bare minimum of facts that we need  to know about the current Occupier of the Oval Office.

The  time has come for the American people to commit political blasphemy by showing a  healthy irreverence towards the political establishment and the status  quo.

“Cowardice  asks the question ‘Is it safe?’  Expediency asks the question ‘Is it  politic?’  But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’  And there  comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic,  nor popular, but because conscience tells one it is right.”-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/our_elective_despotism.html#ixzz1lApppke8

February 2nd is fast approaching for Attorney General Eric Holder, who is set to appear before the House Oversight Committee for questioning on Fast and Furious. This will put him in the hot seat in front of Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and other congressional members like Paul Gosar (R-AZ), who have been steady on Holder’s trail since details of Fast and Furious became public.

Holder’s last appearance before a congressional committee was on December 8, when Issa made it clear how irritated he was over the changing timeline, Holder’s perceived arrogance, and the ongoing refusal to turn over subpoenaed DOJ documents. In one of the best exchanges on Dec 8, Issa looked at Holder and asked, “Have you no shame?” That was also the hearing in which Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), expressed his outrage over the fact that Holder’s DOJ had submitted inaccurate testimony then withdrawn it in an attempt to avoid being charged with providing false testimony.

But a lot has changed since that early December hearing. Most recently, the last minute release of subpoenaed documents which show that Holder learned about Border Agent Brian Terry’s death on the day it happened: a point Holder has heretofore denied. (Emails between Dennis Burke, former U.S. Attorney for Arizona, and Holder’s then-deputy chief of staff prove this.) Additionally, other emails in the recently released DOJ documents show that the head of DOJ’s “criminal division, Lanny Breuer, suggested letting some illicit ‘straw’ weapons buyers in the U.S. [to] transport their guns across the border into Mexico where they could be arrested.”

Then there’s Patrick J. Cunningham, Chief of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona, who was subpoenaed to appear for testimony on January 24, but pleaded the 5th in order to avoid being “compelled to be a witness against himself.” As a result, a determined Congressman Issa has demanded that Cunningham’s underling, Michael Morrissey, Assistant United States Attorney, “speak with Committee investigators about his role in and knowledge of Operation Fast and Furious.”

All this to say, as I watch the hearings this Thursday I hope to see the committee place Holder under oath and then ask tough, pointed questions about these and other recently revealed matters. For example, in light of the emails, Holder needs to give a clear and binding answer regarding when he found out about Terry’s death. He needs to explain how the DOJ can claim ignorance regarding “gun running” while their own man, Lanny Breuer, was pushing it as a means making arrests. He needs to explain what, if any, interaction he or other DOJ officials/affiliates had with Patrick J. Cunningham between the time Cunningham was subpoenaed and the time his attorney announced he would plead the fifth. And he needs to describe what, if any, interaction he or other DOJ officials/affiliates have had with Michael Morrissey at this time regarding the testimony Morrissey is expected to give when he speaks with investigators.

One more thing: The question on Breuer’s push for gun running could easily be tied to Holder’s April 2, 2009 speech in Mexico wherein he bragged about the implementation of “Project Gunrunner.” Perhaps Issa can ask Holder if he and Breuer worked out the details of that speech together?

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(Yahoo! News) — A controversy is brewing over three reputable Christian organizations, which are based in North America, whose efforts have ousted the words “Father” and “Son” from new Bibles. Wycliffe Bible Translators, Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and Frontiers are under fire for “producing Bibles that remove “Father,” “Son” and “Son of God” because these terms are offensive to Muslims.”

Concerned Christian missionaries, Bible translators, pastors, and national church leaders have come together with a public petition to stop these organizations. They claim a public petition is their last recourse because meetings with these organizations’ leaders, staff resignations over this issue and criticism and appeals from native national Christians concerned about the translations “have failed to persuade these agencies to retain “Father” and “Son” in the text of all their translations.”

Biblical Missiology, a ministry of Boulder, Colorado-based Horizon International, is sponsoring the petition.

The main issues of this controversy surround new Arabic and Turkish translations. Here are three examples native speakers give:

First, Wycliffe and SIL have produced Stories of the Prophets, an Arabic Bible that uses an Arabic equivalent of “Lord” instead of “Father” and “Messiah” instead of “Son.”

Second, Frontiers and SIL have produced Meaning of the Gospel of Christ , an Arabic translation which removes “Father” in reference to God and replaces it with “Allah,” and removes or redefines “Son.” For example, the verse which Christians use to justify going all over the world to make disciples, thus fulfilling the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19) reads, “Cleanse them by water in the name of Allah, his Messiahand his Holy Spirit” instead of “baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” Rev. Bassam Madany, an Arab American who runs Middle East Resources, terms these organization’s efforts as “a western imperialistic attempt that’s inspired by cultural anthropology, and not by biblical theology.”

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Listed below are 10 direct quotes.

You have to guess which American politician said it.

Your four choices are:

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin

Former VP Dan Quayle

President Barack Obama

Former President George W. Bush

Ready? Here we go! ..

1)”Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel”.

A. Barack Obama

B. Dan Quayle

C. Sarah Palin

D. George W. Bush

2) “I’ve now been in 57 states I think one left to go.”

A. Barack Obama

B. Dan Quayle

C. Sarah Palin

D. George W. Bush

3) “On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience here today.”

A. Barack Obama

B. Dan Quayle

C. Sarah Palin

D. George W. Bush

4) “What they’ll say is, ‘Well it costs too much money,’ but you know what? It would cost, about. It it it would cost about the same as what we would spend. It. Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us. (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We’re going to. It. It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about hold on one second. I can’t hear myself. But I’m glad you’re fired up, though. I’m glad.”

A. Barack Obama

B. Dan Quayle

C. Sarah Palin

D. George W. Bush

5) “The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system.”

6) “I bowled a 129. It’s like – it was like the Special Olympics, or something.”

A. Barack Obama

B. Dan Quayle

C. Sarah Palin

D. George W. Bush

7) “Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by our Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential than selecting a Supreme Court justice. The members of our highest court are granted life tenure, often serving long after the presidents who appointed them. And they are charged with the vital task of applying principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to some of the most difficult questions of our time.”

A. Barack Obama

B. Dan Quayle

C. Sarah Palin

D. George W. Bush

8) “Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a, a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer. I haven’t had much sleep in the last 48 hours.”

A. Barack Obama

B. Dan Quayle

C. Sarah Palin

D. George W. Bush

9) “It was interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There’s a lot of, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing.”

A.. Barack Obama

B. Dan Quayle

C. Sarah Palin

D. George W. Bush

10) “I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.”

A. Barack Obama

B. Dan Quayle

C. Sarah Palin

D. George W. Bush

Sorry. This was a trick quiz. All of the correct answers are the same person. Each of these quotes are directly from President Barack Obama. And now you know why he brings his teleprompter with him everywhere he goes ….even when talking to a 6th grade class.

And some members of the media continue to insist he is

“The smartest man ever elected to the Presidency”.

Yea Right!!!

Hat Tips: Mike  via e-mail

Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley accused President Obama of dictatorial  behavior in a floor statement Thursday, saying that his recess appointments were not the first acts he has  taken to circumvent the constitutional system of checks and balances.

“President Obama’s decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent  of the Senate is not an isolated incident,” Grassley said, according to prepared remarks. “It is merely the latest escalation in a  pattern of contempt for the elected representatives of the American people and  the constitutional separation of powers.”

Obama appointed Richard Cordray as the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while the Senate was in recess, after the  Senate indicated that they would not confirm his nomination.

Grassley accused the president of “usurping legislative powers” by overriding  and working around Congress when possible. This, Grassley argues, is in  violation of the Constitution.

“Having had their rights violated by a king, our Founding Fathers  intentionally put the power to make laws in the branch of government that is  most directly accountable to the citizens,” the Iowa senator said.

Grassley pointed to Obama’s appointment of “czars” in issue areas, whom he  said tread on the role of Congress, Obama’s “unilateral pursuit of climate  change” and his use of the “Race to the Top” program, which Grassley said  allowed him to impose the federal government’s rules on the states.

“On the other hand, when Congress has passed legislation the President  doesn’t entirely agree with, he has announced, while signing them into law, that  he won’t implement the parts he doesn’t like,” Grassley said. For example, Obama  instructed the Department of Justice to not appeal court rulings against certain  portions of the Defense of Marriage Act.

Congress, Grassley said, needed to stop the president’s usurpation before it  was too late.

“The more President Obama has gotten away with these little power grabs, the bolder he has become. Congress has  not been effective in fighting this executive encroachment because Congress is  not of one mind,” Grassley said. “Members of the President’s party are  understandably reluctant to oppose him publicly. However, with this latest  escalation, the time has come for Congress, on a bipartisan basis, to say ‘Enough is enough.’”

“I would ask my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to think hard about  the precedent being set for the next Republican president,” Grassley warned. “Once the genie is  out of the bottle, you are not likely to be able to get it back in.”

Read more:  http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/30/grassley-says-obama-is-behaving-dictatorially-usurping-legislative-powers/#ixzz1l07A8nSN

When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank (Frank Marshall Davis), an avowed Communist, people said it didn’t matter.

When it was discovered that his grandparents were strong socialist, sent Obama’s mother to a socialist school and introduced Frank Marshall Davis to young Obama, people said it didn’t matter.

When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and step father were both Muslims, people said it didn’t matter.

When he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction,” people said it didn’t matter..

When in his book Obama admittedly said he chose Marxist friends and professors in college, people said it didn’t matter.

When he traveled to Pakistan after college on an unknown national passport, people said it didn’t matter.

When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist party in 1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate, people said it didn’t matter.

When Obama sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology, people said it didn’t matter.

When an independent Washington organization, that tracks senate voting records gave him the distinctive title as the “most liberal senator”, people said it didn’t matter.

When the Palestinians in Gaza set up a fund raising telethon to raise money for his election campaign, people said it didn’t matter.

When his voting record supported gun control, people said it didn’t matter.

When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign as other candidates had done people said it didn’t matter.

When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan and Moammar Kadafi and Hugo Chavez, people said it didn’t matter.

When it was pointed out that he was a total newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, people said it didn’t matter.

When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, people said it didn’t matter..

When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, people said it didn’t matter.

When he refused to wear a flag lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, people said it didn’t matter.

When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, people said it didn’t matter.

When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn’t matter.

When he surrounded himself in the White house with advisors who were pro gun control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, people said it didn’t matter.

When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other issues, people said it didn’t matter.

When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn’t matter.

When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, people said it didn’t matter.

When the place of his birth was called into question and he refused to produce a birth certificate, people said it didn’t matter.

When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezko, a man of questionable character who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home, people said it didn’t matter.

When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn’t matter.

When he started appointing czars who are radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist/Communist, people said it didn’t matter.

When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to “fundamentally transform this nation” into something else, people said it didn’t matter.

When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed a cabinet members and several advisers who were tax cheats and socialist, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed a science czar John Holdren who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar and he believes in “Explicit Consent” harvesting human organs with out family consent and to allow animals to be represented in court while banning all hunting, people said it didn’t matter..

When he appointed Kevin Jennings a homosexual,and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight, Education network as safe school czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar and he believed in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and admires Hugo Chavez, people said it didn’t matter.

When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama’s senior White House adviser and she is an avowed Socialist, people said it didn’t matter.

When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Carol Browner as global warming czar, and she is a well known socialist working on Cap and Trade as the nations largest tax, people said it doesn’t matter.

When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as green energy czar who was forced to resign when Jones history was made known, people said it didn’t matter.

When Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary, could not be confirmed because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn’t matter.

When as a counterfiet president of the United States Obma bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, people said it didn’t matter.

When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, people said it didn’t matter.

When his actions concerning the Middle East seemed to support the Palestinians over America’s long time friend Israel, people said it doesn’t matter.

When he took American tax dollars to  resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States, people said it doesn’t matter.

When he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians, people said it doesn’t matter.

When Obama played politics in Afghanistan by  not sending our troops what field commanders said we needed to win, people said it didn’t matter.

When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, people said it didn’t matter.

When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected, people said it didn’t matter.

When he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks and other financial institutions, people said it didn’t matter.

When he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the government, people said it didn’t matter.

When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, people said it didn’t matter.

When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United States through Cap and Trade, people said it didn’t matter.

When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State people finally woke up……… but it was too late.

Any one of these things, in and of themselves does not really matter.  But when you add them up one by one you get a phenomenal score that points to the fact that our Obama is determined to make America over into a Marxist/Socialist society.  All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place.  All can be documented very easily.  Before you disavow this do an internet search.  The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone.  You and I will write that paragraph.

Will it read as above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America?  Personally, I like happy endings.

If you are an Obama supporter please do not be angry with me because I think your president is a socialist but there are too many facts supporting this.

If you seek the truth you will be richer for it.

Don’t just belittle the opposition.

Search for the truth. I did.

Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalist, Libertarians and what have you, we all need to pull together.  We all must pull together or watch the demise of a society that we all love and cherish.

If you are a religious person, pray for our nation.

Never before in the history of America have we been confronted with problems so huge that the very existence of our country is in jeopardy.

Don’t rely on most television news and what you read in the newspapers for the truth.  Search the Internet.

Yes, there is a lot of bad information, lies and distortions there too but you are smart enough to spot the fallacies.

Newspapers are a dying breed.  They are currently seeking a bailout from the government.  Do you really think they are about to print the truth?

Obama praises all the television news networks except Fox who he has waged war against.  There must be a reason…  He does not call them down on any specifics, just a general battle against them.  If they lie, he should call them out on it but he doesn’t.

Please find the truth. It will set you free.

Our biggest enemy is not China , Russia , Iran. No, our biggest enemy is a contingent of politicians in Washington DC .

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Last  week, I noted that Obama turned his back not just on Arizona’s Governor Jan  Brewer, but also on the laws of the State of Georgia.  I closed my column,  “Georgia Ballot Challenge: Obama Walks on  By,” with the observation: “And most of the media has  followed along right behind him.”

At  the time, I had just witnessed an historic hearing that actually discussed the  eligibility of the sitting president of the United States to run for a second  term.  The president had been subpoenaed to appear, and instead of his attorney respectfully following protocol  to have that subpoena recalled, both Obama and his attorney, Michael Jablonski,  simply failed to show up at all or offer any defense  whatsoever.

Isn’t  there a headline in there somewhere?

The  hearing proceeded as planned, even though the table for the defense was  empty.  Attorneys Van Irion and J. Mark Hatfield presented their cases  first and offered compelling arguments — not regarding Obama’s birthplace, but  rather that the non-U.S. citizenship of Obama’s father precluded Obama’s  “natural born” eligibility under the Constitution and existing Supreme Court  precedent.  Attorney Orly Taitz, however, did present interesting evidence  that questioned the validity of Obama’s birth certificate and questions  surrounding his Social Security number.

When  the hearing ended, the media in attendance almost literally pounced on  Taitz.  Irion and Hatfield and their clients had left the premises earlier,  while Taitz was still presenting her case; however, Irion asserted to me that  not one member of the press stopped them on their way out.  Doubtless the  media did not want to discuss the law — they’d rather write their usual stories  on the birth certificate and interview the one they’ve dubbed the “birther  queen.”

Attorney  Taitz handled herself well, even though the press taunted her with rudeness and  leading questions she has doubtless experienced many times.  After the  reporters finished letting Taitz feel the full extent of their contempt for both  her and the entire morning’s event, they packed up to leave.

I  walked up to one particular reporter from one of the prominent mainstream  entities, noting that he seemed frustrated that he didn’t get a clear answer  from Taitz to one of his questions, and I informed him that I did know the exact  answer, if he’d like to hear more about it.  He said no, he didn’t.  I  asked then, wasn’t he a reporter, and why did he ask the question if he didn’t  want the answer?  And as I was speaking, he turned and walked away from  me.

The  same thing happened with another reporter from another major network.  He  had asked Taitz why no one cared that there were past presidents who had fathers  not born in the country.  I explained to him that it was not the place of  birth of the presidents’ fathers that was the issue, but rather the status of  their citizenship at the time of their sons’ births.  The reporter scoffed  and told me that that was just my opinion, but when I attempted to inform him  that it was also the opinion of the Supreme Court, he turned and walked away from  me while I was in mid-sentence.

Does  this behavior seem familiar?

Even  though I saw reporters from every major network on the scene, the actual  reporting of the event was scant — primarily only in blogs or local news.   Google “Georgia Ballot Challenge“  and note the non-mainstream coverage of the event.

Rachel  Maddow must not have gotten the memo, though, because she dedicated a full 8  minutes  of her January 26 show to telling her viewers why they should “feel almost  duty-bound as a patriot to ignore” the hearing and not to “dignify this nonsense  or elevate it by paying it any attention.”  Not only were none of the legal points addressed in the hearings brought up by  Maddow, but Maddow excused the extraordinary fact that Obama and his counsel,  instead of respecting the law, had simply snubbed it, calling the case  “ridiculous.”

As  Sunny of Sunny TV points out in this hilarious but uncomfortably true video, “Tyranny is as Tyranny Does”; “[l]et’s just hope  the next President is just as benevolent as Obama because they could really use  that power for bad.”  At the end of the clip, as Sunny pretends she is  Obama, issuing orders right and left, she points to her crown and says: “This  makes me in charge.”  As Teri O’Brien noted in her interview discussing Obama’s penchant for walking away from  those with whom he disagrees, “[g]ods don’t debate.  They issue  decrees.”

Attorney  Irion, in this follow-up letter from his Liberty Legal Foundation,  pointed out: “Yesterday President Obama completely ignored a court subpoena, and  the world shrugged.”

Yes,  Obama shrugged, and the media has shrugged along.  Irion further  noted:

Obama’s  behavior yesterday is even more disturbing than Nixon’s. Nixon at least  respected the judicial branch enough to have his attorneys show up in court and  follow procedure[.] … Nixon acknowledged the authority of the judicial branch  even while he fought it. Obama, on the other hand, essentially said yesterday  that the judicial branch has no power over him. He ordered his attorneys to stay  away from the hearing. He didn’t petition a higher court in a legitimate attempt  to stay the hearing[.] … Rather than respecting the legal process, Obama went  around the courts and tried to put political pressure directly on the Georgia  Secretary of State. When that failed, he simply ignored the judicial branch  completely.

It  is disconcerting to see that the president, whose primary duty is to preserve,  protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, has turned his back  on the rule of law of one of those states.  Especially, as Sunny  uncomfortably reminded us, since this is the same president who routinely  sidesteps the law or places himself above it.

Even  more troubling is the fact that the mainstream media not only seems to approve  — but they fail to report it at all.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/media_blackout_in_obama_georgia_ballot_eligibility_case.html#ixzz1kziixTPr

Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression. Obama is the first president ever to lose 1,000,000 jobs during a recovery. The housing market just experienced its worst year ever in 2011 during the so-called recovery. Today over 46,000,000 million Americans are on food stamps (another Obama record!) more than ever before and the number is still climbing. (More Obama statistics here)

But facts be damned… And country be damned. The media is ready to mislead Americans in order to get Barack Obama reelected.

Despite his atrocious record and failed leadership AFP cheerleader Stephen Collinson sees favorable political winds for Obama.

For once, Barack Obama is behaving like a president with the wind at his back, rather than one taking the full force of a political gale in the face.

Rising poll numbers, favorable economic data and a Republican primary race that has torn holes in the electability argument of his most likely Republican foe Mitt Romney, have combined to put a new spring in Obama’s step.

And a daring raid by Navy SEALS to rescue an American aid worker and a Danish colleague from Somali pirates last week further enhanced the commander-in-chief resume on which he will run hard in November.

“Four more years” chanted a supporter at a raucous rally in Michigan on Friday. “Ok,” Obama replied in a brash show of confidence.

Asked last week by an ABC News anchor how much he wanted to win reelection after a crisis-strewn three years in power, the ultra-competitive president replied “badly.”

And showing new disdain for his political foes, Obama publicly ticked off Arizona Republican Governor Jan Brewer on an airport taxiway last week — in full view of the press.

My word, they’re even praising Obama for threatening Governor Jan Brewer on the Phoenix tarmac. They aren’t even hiding their bias anymore.

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